Elitist Maddow Smears MSNBC Bosses, and Culture Shift on Biological Reality, with Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Marcellus and Annemarie Wiley | Ep. 1013
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1 hour and 53 minutes
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176.20988
Summary
Rachel Maddow delivers a monologue aimed directly at her former boss, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. Megyn Kelly calls her out for being self-righteous and sanctimonious, and calls out the network for firing Joy Reid.
Transcript
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
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The fallout from Joy Reid's firing at MSNBC continues.
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She signed off from the show for the last time last night.
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I mean, you know, we are going to miss her in our own special way.
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And her now former colleague, Rachel Maddow, never one to not be the center of attention
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if she can find a way of injecting herself into a story, decided to deliver a monologue aimed directly at her bosses.
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I looked it up today just so I would know the actual definition.
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Merriam-Webster, sanctimony, affected or hypocritical holiness.
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Wikipedia describes sanctimony as a feeling or display of moral superiority.
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A certainty, especially an unfounded one, that one is totally correct or morally superior.
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In all of the jobs I have had, in all of the years I have been alive,
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there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid.
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I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC.
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And personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door.
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I will tell you, it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two,
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both of our non-white hosts in primetime are losing their shows,
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And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them.
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That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.
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maybe she's the most annoying people on television.
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She took her boss's faces and rubbed them in shit last night.
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I, you, the guy who oversees, she's got two bosses now, right?
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I've got to look up her name because I don't remember her name.
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Who answers to a different boss who's above Rebecca Cutler.
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His current title is prospective chief executive officer of Spinco.
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That's Comcast plan spinoff of MSNBC, basically.
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Well, Rebecca and Mark, do you have any spines whatsoever?
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Are you actually going to let an employee, that's what she is, Rachel Maddow,
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talk about you, your company, and your decision-making this way?
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Do you have any testicular fortitude to stand up for yourself as a professional and executive,
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never mind a man, and tell this woman, you're fired too.
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You're fired for insubordination and for disparaging the network publicly in front of our four viewers.
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We're very upset about what they must now think.
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If one of my employees ever did this to me, let's say, you know, we start an MK network
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and we have MK employees who go from being my producers to going out there and offering commentary.
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Um, and they did this, I would fire them so fast and I would not be, um,
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you couldn't get me to back down with claims of, oh, you're, you're, you know,
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I'm going to give you my airwaves so you can go out there and rip on me.
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And look, it's one thing if you're in the middle of a whistleblower scandal.
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You know, I actually thought it was to her credit when she called them out at NBC, at
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NBC, when they were lying about not having the Harvey Weinstein story knocked down, that
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was one thing, but just getting on to randomly disagree with their decisions and accuse them
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of racism because you would have come to a different conclusion.
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They won't fire her because I don't say the P word, but they are a bunch of peas and they,
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she's the only one who comes close to putting numbers on the board.
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It's all relative, trust me, but you know, thinnest kid at fat camp and all.
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And, um, so they're not going to fire her, but what she got away with on the air last night
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was absolutely disrespectful and it was insubordinate.
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And it is just evidence of how she is affected.
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She, she is, she is somebody who evinces an affected or hypocritical holiness, a feeling
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You really have to watch the whole five minute bit, but I'm going to take you through it.
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Before we have our guests come, um, she starts off by saying, I'm going to take a little
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point of personal privilege here for just a moment.
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If it is okay with you, well, we're your prisoners, Rachel.
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You may have already heard about these changes announced today, Miss NBC, the new president
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This woman just took over on February 12th, by the way, it's not her.
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It's not her doing this definitely came from all the way up.
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Rumor has it that he couldn't stay on Jory Reed, which makes sense because she hates white
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And that's why, you know, as long as MSNBC was doing well, he kind of let the machine go,
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And so you start to take aim at the most annoying and weak actors first.
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And that sadly joy is where you fell on both counts.
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So it's not this woman, Rebecca's fault, but Rachel Maddow would like to go out there
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and pillory all of them, including the new president who made it official today.
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Some of the shows are moving, blah, blah, blah.
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Then she wants everyone to be assured that she, she is, uh, here, she's going to be here five
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days a week for the first hundred days of Trump's, Trump's presidency as planned.
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But as planned, I'm going back to just Mondays after I'm hell.
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No, I'm not working five days a week on an ongoing basis.
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Just so you know, I am here five days a week for the first hundred days of Trump's presidency
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as planned and as planned, I will go back to just Mondays after that.
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I'm not working full time for my first 30 million and now $25 million a year.
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You see, maybe you've had to take a pay cut at your job recently, given the economy.
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Did you go from 30 to 25 million and then act like you took one for the team?
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Oh, little smallest violin from poor Rachel Maddow down to 25 million meager bucks a year.
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I, I agreed to do first hundred days, five nights in the anchor chair, but I'm not agreeing
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to come back full time because I'm Rachel Maddow and I run this network.
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I run you, Brian, and I run you, Mark Lazarus, and I run you, Rebecca.
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And if you don't like it, you can kiss my lesbian, white, fat ass.
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And they will, they will because they have so far and they've let her get away with hell.
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She points out that Alex Wagner is not coming back at nine.
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Jen Psaki will take over doing the other four hours of Rachel Maddow's 9 PM.
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She talks about Joy, who is not taking a different job at the network.
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And I have had so many different kinds of jobs.
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You wouldn't believe me if I told you, oh, are you just a woman of the people?
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Because now with your $30 million a year and your multiple homes for doing no work,
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Miss, what was it, Stanford and Oxford Road Scholar.
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It's possible you lost your tether to the normal people of the world, even if you want
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us to believe you that you've had so many different kinds of jobs.
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We wouldn't believe you because you've become such an out-of-touch elitist snob that nobody
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would understand if you had any sort of a working class experience in your background.
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Uh, okay, she goes on, but in, I'll get to that in a second, Deb, but in all the jobs
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I've had, in all the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more
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This is over the top and I'm going to put it on the table.
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I think she is saying this in, in the way people say some of my best friends are black.
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It's, it's like, see how much I love my black colleague.
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There is no colleague for whom I have more affection or more respect than Joy Reid.
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Let me make sure I put myself in this subservient position to Joy Reid, because that is what
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we do in the Robin DiAngelo field of being an anti-racist, the Ibram X. Kendi field of
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We just put on our listening ears, remember the girl and the white women for Kamala, and
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And God forbid we feel the need to correct a person of color.
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We stop and take a beat because people of color can't be wrong and they can't be fired
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either unless they are, in which case then everybody on the left side has to yell racism.
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And also that they were my best friend and I greatly respected them more than anybody.
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And I learned so much of them and I have more to learn.
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It's a form of self-flagellation and it's pretty obvious.
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This is not how normal people talk about their colleagues.
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I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC.
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And personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door.
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By the way, think of what like a fuck you, this is really to her network, which is paying
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You go and you knock on it and you talk to your bosses directly.
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If you disagree with the decision that they have made, you're not, this is not the Pentagon
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This is not calling them out on their lies about Harvey Weinstein, which she did.
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Well, if you really think that, then you should not be working there.
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Why don't you take your 25 million and walk sister, put your money where your mouth is.
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You already have enough money to get you through the rest of your life.
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If you're really so disgusted with a racism over there, and I'll get to more of her accusations
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Why do you want to work for a bunch of racists, Rachel?
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It's going to be that you have a tinge of racism inside of you as well, which is why you
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feel the need to make such a big deal out of your friendship with the black co-host who
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you respect more than anybody you've ever worked with ever.
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I will tell you, it is also unnerving, and you heard this up top, to see that on a network
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where we have two, and she does the fingers, two, two, count them, two, non-white hosts
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in primetime, both of our non-white hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie
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And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them.
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That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.
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So we have two non-white hosts in the primetime.
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I mean, not for nothing, but 7 p.m. is not primetime, where Joy Reid was.
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The people in that slot like to say it is, but it's not.
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Primetime is 8, 9, 10, and the people who have 11, they try to glom on to.
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So that's the one, Joy Reid, the non-white host losing her spot.
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And the other one is Alex Wagner, who I actually didn't know what her ethnicity was exactly.
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Her father's white, and her mother is from Burma, from Burma, now Myanmar.
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So she's half Southeast Asian, and she's upset about Katie Fang, who is also Asian American.
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Of course, because it is the white liberals like Rachel Maddow, who have been making the
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arguments that Asians don't count on the oppression scale, just ask the kids who had to bring that
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affirmative action case against Harvard, saying, we're getting perfect grades, we're getting
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perfect SATs and ACTs, we're getting tons of extracurriculars on our resumes, and none
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of us can get into these schools because you discriminate against Asians.
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And then we were told, well, you're not on the oppression roster, so that's why.
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But now, now that one half Southeast Asian, and Katie Fang is Asian American, are getting
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not fired, but just not allowed to sit in their anchor desk chair anymore, now that's
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When Rachel needs to make a point, you're back on the list.
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You are back in the running toward the overly oppressed.
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This is where, now this, we kind of talked about her white guilt.
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But there's just one other piece of it that you should know.
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From your side of the TV screen, you low-life surfs out there, you will mostly see changes
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in terms of who's in the anchor chair, the vaunted anchor chair.
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Don't forget, remember the way they talked about themselves when they fired Ronna McDaniel?
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This is how they actually feel about where they work.
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And actually, everybody who's going to be in the anchor chairs from here on out, they're
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You're not going to be disappointed at all in who's on our air and who you're seeing.
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Oh, and by the way, we never covered the fact that, yes, two of the four hosts in, you
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know, her version of primetime are women of color who are getting ousted.
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Joy Reid's being replaced by three people of color.
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So it's like Alex Wagner, half Southeast Asian, she's gone.
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Well, a Latina's coming into the primetime who wasn't there before.
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Well, two black people are taking over her spot with that Latina.
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Now, so, I mean, if we're really just going to go by the numbers, Rachel, I think you've
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Let's call in Rachel, um, or whatever her name is, Robin.
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But one thing you cannot necessarily see, you people at home, is that the people who
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get our show on the air, they're really, they're being put through the ringer.
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Dozens, dozens of producers and staffers, including some who are among the most experienced and
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most talented and most specialist producers in the building.
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She's absolutely disgusted that now they are quote being invited to reapply for new jobs,
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but that this has never happened at this scale in this way before when it comes to programming
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changes, presumably because it's not the right way to treat people and it's inefficient and
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it's unnecessary and it kind of drops the bottom out of whether or not people feel like this is a
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But in the meantime, being put in this kind of limbo, the anxiety and the discombobulation
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So here she is trying to be like the person I, I feel for the little guy.
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I'm the one who's not, I don't really care mostly about joy.
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I care about joy's staff because they're the good people who are now wondering what's going
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And indeed they were told that they're laid off reportedly that they could reapply for a
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But obviously NBC news had had it with the messaging coming off of that show at seven.
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And they're a hundred percent right that not only did joy read need to go, but the whole
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Obviously what kind of a lunatic would stay working for joy read if they did not believe
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I mean, as I said, not long ago, the woman tried to start a race war multiple times,
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There's just, yes, I'm sorry, but you all have to go.
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You all have the stank of her racist viewpoints and hatred of America all over you.
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Maybe you'll find one at MSNBC, but Maddow's not wrong.
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She's so upset about the fact that there are layoffs.
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Because of you, Rachel Maddow, because of you and your colleagues who completely destroyed
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Yes, joy read is a racist race baiter who hates the country, but you are the biggest conspiracy
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You're the one who pushed Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia for years, trying
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to make it sound like you had special insights you could let us in on that only the great Rachel
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And night after night, trying to drive up your numbers with a bunch of made up bullshit.
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And the reason we know it was made up and it wasn't a good faith error, which can happen,
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but didn't hear, is because you never owned it and you never apologized and you never corrected
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Your network is imploding because you have lost the credibility of even your far left viewers.
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They know you hate the United States, that you've been misleading them serially for years
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So I'm glad you feel sad that some staffers are getting laid off.
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But if you're looking for someone to blame, look in the mirror, sister.
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It's actually not the fault of the new woman, Rebecca, who took over two minutes ago.
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And it's absolutely Joy Reid's fault and Lawrence O'Donnell and Chris Hayes.
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If we're going to play by your rules, why isn't somebody answering at MSNBC over the fact
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that the two white guys and the white woman, Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow got to keep their jobs
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and Jen Psaki, another white woman, got elevated into the primetime?
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DNC, they've got to count how many non-binaries are running for the top position.
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MSNBC, you've got to account for every white man you leave in his role.
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And if Rachel Maddow feels so bad about the numbers of whites in their primetime lineup,
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She can ride her, whatever bike she rides, right off set and go home to one of her mansions.
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Make room for a white person to leave the stage and open it up for a black anchor or a
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Someone, someone, dare I say, Rachel, maybe as good as you, maybe even better than you.
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Maybe somebody you could respect even more than a Joy Reid.
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She's not an elitist snob because she's mentioning the little people who are being laid off as she
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I was cross from Rachel Maddow for years in the prime time of cable news at 9 p.m.
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But I know what it takes to put one of those shows on the air.
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And you can do it with 11 or 12 people, 11 or 12 producers.
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And that would cost Rachel Maddow or MSNBC maybe $4 million, maybe $4 million if you're
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She's been making that 30, 25, you know, just took the pay cut, but $25 million a year.
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She's been making that for at least eight years, I think, by my back of the envelope calculation.
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After taxes, you know, New York City, you cut it in half.
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So it's, what, 12 and a half for rounded up to 10 years on this 120, over $120 million in
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If you care so much, leave your post, open it up for a person of color, and why don't
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you pay some of those salaries who MSNBC can no longer afford because of you, because of
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your enormous salary, which is totally outsized to the numbers and results you produce.
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Spare me your sanctimony and self-righteousness when you're not willing to actually do anything
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about it other than go out there and virtue signal and try to act like a better person
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than the lowly Rebecca and Mark Lazarus and Brian Roberts of Comcast, all the racists who
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This is about how hard it is to be a member of the press right now.
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They're already having a difficult time enough in the wake of the Trump presidency.
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Being put in this kind of limbo, the anxiety and the discombobulation is off the charts at
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a time when this job already is extra stressful and difficult.
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It is not news for me to tell you that the press and freedom of the press are under attack
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in a way that is really, um, it's a big deal for our country.
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So it's a very difficult time, very difficult time.
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And the job is already stressful and difficult.
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That's she's, they're storming the beaches right now.
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They're firing from the cliff above and she's there in the boats coming up to the shores
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That's how these other leftist so-called journalists see themselves.
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We've got a tyrant dictator autocrat in the white house and press freedoms are being eroded
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Did you, oh, that wasn't, that wasn't stressful.
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So we had four years of fake Russiagate claims.
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Then we had a sleep at the switch and people at your network telling us that it was the best
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Joe Biden ever, ever in March of 2024 saying that then Trump won and it's Normandy.
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I'm sure it's very difficult for you, Rachel, with your ability to have a masseuse waiting
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for you at home every night before you go to bed, to have a bed full of gold bars awaiting
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I'm sure it's really stressful for you journalists over at MSNBC.
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And then she says, okay, what pains me, what pains us here the most is not what happens
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It's what happens to our coworkers on whom we depend and who you don't necessarily know,
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but we respect and love them and depend on them.
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Don't go to page six with nasty stories about me.
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I love you, even though I can buy and sell you.
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Again, she throws in, this is a difficult time in the news business, but it does not need
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We welcome new voices to this place and some familiar voices to new hours.
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Okay, and then she finishes up with, look, I believe, and I bet you believe that the way
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to get there, like to get to growing the audience and to staying here forever on MSNBC is by treating
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people well, finding good people, good colleagues, doing good work with them and having their back.
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Should we have the back of racists on television?
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Should we have the back of the Joy Reads of the Tiffany Crosses?
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They've offended large swaths of the black community, nevermind the white community.
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Or they're black and they're fired and that's a problem for you.
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And she says here, so I believe we could find these good people, good colleagues, and do
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good work with them and have their back and that we could do a lot better, a lot better.
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I wonder how Ronna McDaniel feels about Rachel Maddow having her back.
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Did she stand up for a Republican who, in the most mild and milquetoast ways, got behind some
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of Trump's election questions, but it was a bridge too far to wear the vaunted NBC News badge?
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And Rachel Maddow trying to say what pains us the most is not what happens to us is a lie to.
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The reason she won't give the $4 million or the $2 million to save any of those jobs,
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and she doesn't have to cut him a check, she could actually just take it out of her current
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She could just reduce her salary from $25 to $23.
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Like, seriously, if you went in there, why don't you do the Tom Brady, right?
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I don't know anything about sports, as you know, but I believe he went in there at one
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point and said, I'll take a cut so that I can save my offensive line.
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That's what you actually do if you care about your supporting teammates, as she claims she
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Because she's got bills to pay and her lifestyle is too important to her.
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Rachel Maddow currently, according to my calculation, and I'm sure it's much more, has a $10
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million penthouse, penthouse, I say, on the Upper East Side, where her neighbors are Jodie
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It's got, according to its listing that she owns, breathtaking views of Central Park and
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It's got not one, but two private terraces, including one right off of her master bedroom,
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And that's the right term, because she can go out there as master and say, oh, let them
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I, oh, Bitterman, bring the car around, please.
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Then on the weekends, she jets off to Western Massachusetts to what is described as a pre-Civil
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War farmhouse, which has both a main house and a decked out bathhouse, complete with spa.
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This is the bathhouse, spa and beds and other accoutrements.
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It got its own spread in New York Magazine, built in 1869, and her small, this is just
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This is not the main house you're looking at, which she didn't put on camera.
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Maybe you could have a little retreat where they get to ride their bicycles around your 12
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Maybe you could let them come and enjoy some cocktails, some farewell cocktails on your
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double terraces, and then look at them and say, but at least I feel bad about it.
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Now for the free press, which is a great move out of the disgusting Newsweek week, which did
00:32:38.480
the most vile piece I've seen in recent history on this mass murder of a family in Connecticut.
00:32:47.020
Before I bring Batya on, I just want to tell you this.
00:32:49.240
It was the Pettit family, and this father and mother and their two daughters were attacked
00:32:57.840
They followed the mother and the daughter, saw them grocery shopping, then laid in wait,
00:33:02.260
went into the house and tied them up, got the mother in the morning to go to a bank, got
00:33:08.740
The mother said, while in the bank, I'm being kidnapped.
00:33:12.080
The bank teller did wind up calling the police, but by the time the cops got there, within
00:33:16.820
38 minutes, I think it was, the mother had been killed.
00:33:19.920
The father managed to escape last minute, and both daughters, 17 and 11, had been killed.
00:33:26.620
They were burned alive after they raped the 11-year-old.
00:33:30.920
And Newsweek took the opportunity, within the last 30 days, to do a sympathetic piece
00:33:37.480
on one of the two killers facing, he's in jail for the rest of his life, and how he
00:33:42.080
is now a she, and how he is going to be suing for his gender-affirming care to be paid for.
00:33:51.240
It was an extra that we released sometimes on the show.
00:33:54.520
And I said to the team when it was over, we can't release it.
00:33:59.040
And I said, because I was too angry, and it was too dark.
00:34:03.200
It was so dark, going through the details of that horrific crime.
00:34:07.300
And I call out the writer by name, and I call out Newsweek by name.
00:34:11.840
And I didn't, it's not Batia's fault, but I said, I can't believe they have somebody as
00:34:15.260
good as Batia working at this disgusting publication that did this.
00:34:19.480
And I didn't, I just never released it, because it was so dark.
00:34:24.880
I actually would love to get your thoughts on whether that's something you even want
00:34:32.780
But in any event, I'm thrilled that Batia has gone over to the free press, which has absolutely
00:34:42.300
Batia's the author of the book, Second Class, and she's back with me today.
00:34:47.540
Thank you so much for having me, Megan, and for all those kind words.
00:34:51.440
I saw you at CPAC, and I have never seen a crowd that in tune with a speaker.
00:35:02.620
And honestly, I mean, I know you had some good times at Newsweek, and not everything they
00:35:14.460
Um, okay, so your thoughts on Rachel Maddow, the, on the beaches of Normandy, also on her
00:35:23.820
two terraces on Central Park, looking out at her city and her park views.
00:35:28.800
But it's a very difficult time to be a journalist.
00:35:31.900
I think it's so important that you called out the economic aspect here, because this is
00:35:42.440
really what the Democratic Party has become, which is, you know, Rachel Maddows and AOCs
00:35:50.060
and other elites making themselves the main story when the American people are hurting,
00:35:58.060
and the American people are desperate for some kind of representation, desperate for
00:36:02.360
service, and are constantly asked instead to extend empathy to, in people like Rachel
00:36:12.200
And the point I would make, Megan, is that the fact that she's so rich and the race baiting
00:36:19.980
are not actually independent of each other, but they're really two sides of the same coin.
00:36:27.180
And this is what my first book, Bad News, was about, which is that the wokeness, this idea
00:36:33.000
that somehow, you know, gender or race are determinative of value instead of right versus
00:36:43.600
This woke ideology is itself a smokescreen for the fact that the Democrats created an
00:36:52.520
economy, which is an upward transfer of wealth from hardworking, working class Americans into
00:37:00.520
the pockets of the elites, not just billionaires and millionaires like Rachel Maddow, but, you
00:37:06.640
know, the top 20%, that over-credentialed college elite, who now have a lock on over 50% of the
00:37:14.320
GDP and are the only ones in America who are really guaranteed the American dream.
00:37:20.220
Well, for 50 years, the Democrats implemented economic policy, which was wage theft of working
00:37:30.060
There is a great article in the New York Times that really, really, really portrays this well
00:37:34.940
about how the Hamptons is in an uproar that their slave caste is going to be deported.
00:37:42.920
And these people with absolute seriousness are like, who is going to cut our grass?
00:37:53.340
And they don't realize that what they're saying is, my God, we might have to pay an American
00:38:03.220
So how do they hide this from the American people, that they are rich and they want indentured
00:38:09.220
servants to clean their homes so they don't have to pay Americans a living wage to do it?
00:38:14.600
They latched onto this woke ideology of race and gender where they said, oh, we don't want
00:38:27.880
We want open borders and you guys are racists if you oppose it.
00:38:33.820
We are the compassionate ones and you are the racist ones.
00:38:49.120
They used the woke ideology to portray themselves as the good guys while they were robbing their
00:38:57.900
neighbors blind and calling them racist and sexist to hide their crimes.
00:39:07.400
And what we're seeing now with the firing of these people, and obviously, you know, Rachel
00:39:14.180
That whole speech last night, all the only thing people should take away from it is that
00:39:18.080
she refused to actually resign in protest, right?
00:39:21.380
Like that's the thing that happened there, right?
00:39:23.860
What we're seeing now is if the wokeness took a worldview that Americans used to have based
00:39:29.900
on the difference between right versus wrong and replaced it with a worldview based on powerful
00:39:36.040
versus powerless, race, white versus black, straight versus gay, right?
00:39:41.720
And whoever is a person of color or gay is inherently virtuous because they have less power.
00:39:46.380
And whoever is white is inherently evil because they are the oppressor.
00:39:50.320
We are now seeing with the firing of these people a return on the part of the American
00:39:56.280
people to a worldview based on right versus wrong and common sense, which has been ushered
00:40:02.900
in by the mass support for President Trump from minorities and from working class people
00:40:10.420
We're entering a new unified moment of average Americans reclaiming what they know is their
00:40:18.560
right to a worldview based on right versus wrong, their right to define who they are as
00:40:24.060
good people and just the absolute silencing of this garbage from the woke elites who are
00:40:36.520
I want to play the Jane Fonda soundbite from the SAG Awards the other night, which encapsulates
00:40:42.520
But I've got to spend a minute on that New York Times article.
00:40:45.120
We read this as a team over the weekend and we were all like, thank God Bacia is here on
00:40:53.560
So the headline is in the New York Times, they helped make the Hamptons the Hamptons and now
00:41:02.940
Sub headline, Latino immigrants care for some of America's most lavish beachside mansions.
00:41:09.380
Their disappearance would affect the wealthy too.
00:41:12.680
By Dion Searcy, reporter who writes about wealth and power and Anna Lay, who covers mass
00:41:22.680
Wealthy residents of the Hamptons demand perfection.
00:41:25.720
Now, many of the people who make it so, Latino immigrants, some of them undocumented,
00:41:29.620
are panicking about President Trump's deportation orders.
00:41:33.240
The fear is on display outside a convenience store where day laborers sprint into a nearby
00:41:39.260
It is present in the nervous apologizing of a longtime housekeeper when she interacts
00:41:47.240
And it courses through a small encampment in the woods where a landscaper is awaiting warmer
00:41:51.520
weather so he can start cutting grass again to send money home to his family in Mexico.
00:41:57.280
In the Hamptons, with miles of privet hedges and luxury homes, Latino immigrants make up
00:42:01.840
the bulk of the workforce, logging 12-hour days, flipping mattresses, scrubbing toilets
00:42:07.280
And in the summer, tending vineyards and assembling patio furniture under the hot sun.
00:42:11.360
Some arrived illegally, crossing the U.S. border after grueling desert or jungle treks.
00:42:15.980
Some have legal working papers but are worried they could be swept up in raids or that their
00:42:21.940
Some believe Trump is going after criminals, others aren't sure.
00:42:26.120
In the town of East Hampton, which encompasses many of the villages at the East End, Latinos
00:42:34.640
Some of the wealthy are quietly beginning to make calculations about what it would mean
00:42:44.080
Everyone relies on housekeepers and carpenters and tree cutters and grass cutters, said Merit
00:42:48.680
Mullen, founder and executive director of Hamptons Community Outreach.
00:42:52.020
People come to the Hamptons to enjoy their houses.
00:43:02.060
And the piece explores how a lot of these people, a lot of the illegal immigrants, are
00:43:09.200
Because, of course, they can't afford a home or even to rent on the Hamptons.
00:43:13.080
Their indentured servants are literally homeless.
00:43:19.420
And they are fighting to keep their slaves as if they are walking across the Edmund Pettus
00:43:32.780
Everyone has to read this article because they just have zero sense of, you know, no awareness
00:43:39.620
of how this would come across to an average American.
00:43:45.680
There is not a single industry in America that is a majority illegal immigrant.
00:43:55.520
Which means that every time a Democrat says they're doing the jobs an American doesn't want,
00:44:01.780
they are insulting millions and millions and millions of Americans who get a lot of dignity
00:44:09.860
from cleaning toilets or doing farm work or any of the other number of mowing the lawn
00:44:16.900
that these rich Democrats would rather kill themselves than do.
00:44:22.840
I mean, it's hilarious and it's infuriating that they call people racist who call them out
00:44:28.280
But at the end of the day, the Democrats' version of the economy is they want everybody
00:44:33.580
who they care about, all of their, you know, college-educated, professional managerial elites
00:44:41.980
They want all manufacturing shipped overseas to China and all of the service industry jobs
00:44:47.520
to be done by slaves who are brought here by cartels.
00:44:52.900
They're going to pay off working class people to stay home.
00:44:55.020
The people who live in the woods who mow their lawns and scrub their toilets, they don't
00:45:04.940
They're all paid cash under the table so that these people don't have to pay any sort of employer
00:45:11.440
worker insurance and so that they can pay them this lower wage that the immigrant takes
00:45:17.580
the full balance of, that that person doesn't have to pay taxes on it.
00:45:21.240
So both parties understand they're going to have to pay less.
00:45:23.420
Believe me, I had lots of people who suggested to me when I was younger and needing nannies,
00:45:29.200
you know, when my kids were little, oh, here's this woman, but she wants to get paid under
00:45:39.480
I mean, I'll never fail an audit because all of anybody who's ever helped me has gotten
00:45:45.260
And yes, you then have to pay a little more because you want somebody who's great and you
00:45:49.840
want their net salary to be competitive for them, to be a living wage that they can actually
00:45:55.140
enjoy life with or they will find somebody else to work for.
00:45:59.260
I could have gotten lots of folks who were undocumented to work for me for a cheaper
00:46:04.940
But these people in the Hamptons who have more money than I do, way more money than I
00:46:08.620
do, there's a home out there worth four hundred and fifty million dollars.
00:46:12.960
I'm not talking about this particular owner, but I'm saying people like that who are in
00:46:15.940
this article don't want to have to pay their they're scrimping and saving every last dime
00:46:21.740
and they don't want to pay it to an American who, yes, might cost a little more, especially
00:46:31.420
And you will be surprised to know who the last Democrat to admit this was.
00:46:35.060
It was Bernie Sanders in 2015 when Ezra Klein asked him in an interview, he said, you care
00:46:48.500
And Megan, I'm going to do my Bernie Sanders impression only for you.
00:46:58.860
He went on to say the Koch brothers would love that.
00:47:02.080
Have an open border, pay people two, three dollars an hour.
00:47:10.340
And the point I would make about this is Lori DeRiemer, the President Trump's labor secretary
00:47:21.300
She made this point that an open border hurts the working class.
00:47:27.680
And now watch as every every Democrat, including Senator Sanders, are going to vote against
00:47:33.040
Tulsi Gabbard was raked over the coals for opposing war and opposing spying on Americans.
00:47:44.500
And so every single Democrat voted against her again and again with these picks.
00:47:50.300
You see Donald Trump pushing views, great views, sensible views, views that represent where
00:47:58.640
And because he's pushing them, the Democrats have turned on them.
00:48:02.900
There is not a single principle that the Democrats would not abandon if they thought Trump liked
00:48:08.660
And it is just such an amazing moment to see the gap between the elites in that party and
00:48:14.700
the unity of the American working class supporting this agenda.
00:48:18.060
I give you Jane Fonda the other night at the SAG Awards, where she was given a Lifetime
00:48:29.560
And by the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people.
00:48:32.960
Any of you ever watched a documentary of one of the great social movements like apartheid
00:48:39.600
or our civil rights movement or Stonewall and asked yourself, would you have been brave enough
00:48:48.620
Would you have been able to take the hoses and the batons and the dogs?
00:48:54.840
We don't have to wonder anymore because we are in our documentary moment.
00:49:12.980
This is a good time for a little Norma Ray or Karen Silkwood or Tom Joad.
00:49:19.020
We must find ways to project an inspiring vision of the future.
00:49:30.580
And this we're basically in the middle of the civil rights movement again, thanks to Trump.
00:49:34.620
These people are so disgusting because we are in a new civil rights era.
00:49:40.640
We are in a new era in which minorities are going to flourish and women are going to flourish.
00:49:46.100
But it's the MAGA movement and they just can't see it because they are high on their own
00:49:55.480
This is all hatred of the American working class.
00:49:59.260
And she's I mean, not only is she rich in her own race, a fonda and a successful actress,
00:50:04.220
She was married to Ted Turner for many years, I think for a decade.
00:50:10.060
More with Batya on the opposite side of this break.
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That my show had value and that, I'm sorry, that what I was doing had value, had value.
00:51:37.920
Where I land is that the moment of guilt that I felt that I went hard on so many issues,
00:51:45.060
whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues of a young baby or a mom or a dad that was
00:51:51.980
killed, went hard for immigrants who've done nothing but come to this country like my parents
00:51:56.600
did, or whether we've talked about what the president is doing that is subversive to the
00:52:02.280
Constitution, defending books that people find inconvenient.
00:52:07.160
And yes, whether it's talking about Gaza and where I come down on that is I'm not sorry.
00:52:13.060
I am not sorry that I stood up for those things because those things are of God.
00:52:25.760
Joy Reid wants you to believe that she's Mother Teresa.
00:52:28.460
She's Mother Teresa slash Rosa Parks, a combination of both.
00:52:32.800
We are back now with Free Press columnist Batya Angarsargan.
00:52:35.860
There she was on Saturday having learned her show was about to be canceled with a group of
00:52:40.100
online supporters talking about herself, again, like she was saintly.
00:52:45.700
Here's the reality and an actual taste of what Joy Reid's show looked and sounded like the
00:52:51.800
following mashup put together by Tom Elliott of Grabian.
00:52:54.800
Donald Trump wants to never let Black and brown folk up off the mat.
00:53:05.060
If you are Black plus anything else, you are Black.
00:53:07.500
Violent white nationalism that today threatens our national security.
00:53:11.620
We do have a fascist groundswell in parts of this country, mainly among white men.
00:53:21.100
Similarities to what happened in Germany and what's happening now in America are just undeniable.
00:53:26.200
Donald Trump is acting like a Nazi, talking like a Nazi, and now posting like a Nazi.
00:53:30.540
Like, right winners were saying, get in the oven anytime you made any benign comment on Twitter.
00:53:37.220
He shuffles when he walks and, like, forgets names and makes gaffes.
00:53:43.680
Kamala Harris has passed the audition flawlessly.
00:53:46.120
This has been, in many ways, a perfect campaign.
00:53:48.460
I got into Harvard and, okay, Yale, Vassar, and the University of Denver, too, because I had a really high GPA and fantastic SAT scores.
00:53:58.120
I got into Harvard only because of affirmative action.
00:54:05.340
You heard her mention tears, white tears, male tears.
00:54:13.400
Most normal people watching her cry at the beginning of that soundbite, you know, what we did matter, might feel a pang of sympathy for her, empathy.
00:54:21.940
And then you remember who she actually was on the air and clips like this one, which I mentioned yesterday, reacting to the Kyle Rittenhouse trial in 2021, SAT 6.
00:54:33.520
There's a thing about both white vigilantism and white tears, particularly male white tears, really white tears in general, because that's what carrots are, right?
00:54:47.780
They carrot out, and then as soon as they get caught, it's like, green waterworks.
00:54:55.500
Kyle Rittenhouse, 18-year-old, put on trial for murder, called a white supremacist unfoundedly by the running next president of the United States.
00:55:09.480
And to the point where she found them so fun, she would mock them.
00:55:21.920
I'm going to put them on my nightside table in my glass, and I will drink them gleefully, cry, go.
00:55:34.320
I mean, the white tears meme comes from the Robin DiAngelo book, How to Be an Anti-Racist, where she says when white people are accused of racism,
00:55:45.800
they cry, and their tears are a weapon they use against black people.
00:55:51.680
And it's like, no, they're crying because to be racist is to be evil, and they know they are not evil.
00:56:01.960
Like, they took a thing that is a good thing about Americans, that we would rather do many unpleasant, horrible things than be accused of racism because we are not racist because we are good.
00:56:14.760
And they use that as a sign of somehow being bad, which makes people question themselves.
00:56:22.640
And that is ultimately what they wanted with this meme, was when you as a white person feel upset that you've been falsely accused of racism, you then need to question your most basic godly instincts.
00:56:38.500
You can never trust your sense of right versus wrong.
00:56:41.780
Only they can tell you who is right and who is wrong, who is good and who is evil.
00:56:48.040
This is the most horrific, heinous thing to do.
00:56:51.640
They tried to re-racialize American life at a time when we have finally overcome the sins of our past.
00:56:58.800
They tried to create a new standard of anti-racism to give themselves power and to make a lot of money.
00:57:07.740
And I am so unbelievably grateful to God and also grateful to President Trump that we are coming to a moment as Americans where this just does not work anymore, Megan.
00:57:21.680
I saw in the news yesterday Don Lemon was out there upset that I'm enjoying the Joy Reid termination.
00:57:30.500
And really what's happening here is when one cannot generate light on oneself by oneself, they may find it fine just to bathe in the reflective light of someone else who actually is successful.
00:57:48.320
He has not been able to make it in the cable news world where he was repeatedly demoted and then fired.
00:57:54.040
He was fired two minutes after getting hired by Elon, which should have been a lifeline to him, but he was too stupid to actually take advantage of it.
00:58:01.220
And now he's too stupid to actually make it in the digital lane.
00:58:04.320
So he did the one thing that he could think of to do, which was get into the press by attacking me.
00:58:09.540
And now he's gotten more ink than he's gotten in the past four years.
00:58:13.040
But he's a sad, pathetic little man who actually cannot make it in business on his own.
00:58:17.880
And really, at this point, thoughts and prayers, Don, hang in there.
00:58:22.860
He, Joy Reid, all these race essentialists are failing because the jig is up.
00:58:30.940
The great awokening happened with Trump's reelection and the fever has broken.
00:58:36.140
That's why, yes, Joy Reid got fired because, Bacha, I asked my team to go pull the numbers.
00:58:40.800
OK, in January, MSNBC's demo was the lowest in prime time it has ever been, ever.
00:58:49.620
In February, it was a 28 percent decline in the overall numbers.
00:58:56.560
So they're down 30 percent in February versus 2024.
00:59:05.900
It's a little worse than her colleagues, but it's not that much worse.
00:59:12.900
I absolutely believe that Brian Roberts had enough because she is being replaced by two
00:59:25.680
I think she's gotten a little woker and more annoying over the years as she's her star has
00:59:30.260
But Michael Steele, while he's a never Trump Republican, you know, he's not in Joy Reid's
00:59:38.640
I'm not excusing the stuff he says, but he's not.
00:59:45.240
So they're definitely making a move slightly closer to normal.
00:59:50.760
I don't want to say center, but slightly closer to like the bounds of normal conversation by
00:59:55.520
axing her because they know the country's over it.
00:59:59.620
Yeah, I don't think it's going to be enough for them because I mean, the truth is because
01:00:07.420
Democrats, if you're a Democrat, right, you want to understand the moment you want to
01:00:14.980
You want to understand why so many of your fellow Americans voted for a person that you
01:00:19.540
may be, let's say, believe even because you were told by the media is literally Hitler,
01:00:24.720
No conservatives have to wonder how Democrats see things, right?
01:00:33.320
And so I think for a lot of Democrats who, you know, maybe don't like Trump, but love
01:00:38.460
this country, I'm talking about Democratic voters, they are turning now to Fox News, to
01:00:44.260
the Megyn Kelly show, to a host of conservative media outlets because they want to understand
01:00:49.960
what happened and they know they are not going to get that from the people who spent 10 years
01:00:57.520
And so honestly, the only thing I think that could save MSNBC right now or CNN is for them
01:01:03.800
to seriously invest in bringing on conservatives, because I think that is what Americans want
01:01:13.600
They're sick of people getting rich off of trying to get us to hate our neighbors.
01:01:17.800
They want to hear how the other side thinks so they can make an informed decision.
01:01:22.260
They want the temperature brought down and they want to see people having civil debates.
01:01:28.000
Well, it's going to be interesting to see what happens with some of the contributors
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who are on Joy's show, like the racist man, Ellie Mistal.
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I mean, he's truly, he and Joy were the two most racist people on TV, in my opinion.
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He just dropped a new column in The Nation saying as follows.
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Pointing out the white hosts at the network remain, as of now, unaffected.
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Well, you should get up in their grill about that because that's their, them's their rules.
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Cable news has never been truly comfortable with authentic black voices.
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White executives tend to treat black folks as interchangeable.
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And having dispensed with her, cable TV news is left with a gaping hole.
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The black mentor class is being fired, not just on TV, but throughout America.
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That's why people like Joy are being cast aside.
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White viewers might think of the cable network.
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They might think they just went after her because she is black and outspoken.
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She is showing other black people how to be and act and complain a lot.
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And shutting her up by bounce passing her out of that post was intentional by the old white
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You know, the only people of color that the extreme progressive white elites let in are the
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ones who are race baiters because it's the perfect smokescreen for class, right?
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Like when you're out in the Hamptons, right, and you're only willing to employ illegals who live,
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you know, in the woods behind your home, you don't want to see like people of color saying,
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hey, we also are not really comfortable with all of these illegal immigrants, right?
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What you want is a person up there being like it's racist to oppose an open border.
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The power structures that be of progressive white rich leftists, they do only let a certain
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You're not going to get someone like Lawrence Jones or Charles Payne, brilliant, brilliant
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black men who are conservatives to actually show up and talk in the way that people in
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their community actually sound like and actually talk like.
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He's just got the wrong groups that are being allowed permission and entry versus the ones who
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And by the way, just just for those of you playing at home, here's a throwback to Ellie
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So you can see why he's so upset that this platform is being canceled.
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At a basic level, if you want rights in this country under this conservative Supreme Court,
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you better be a cis hetero white man or an Uzi, because those are the two things that this
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It's amazing why their their numbers are so low, Bajia.
01:04:22.920
Now, wait, in the time we have left, I'm dying to ask you, because the one thing I've seen
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a ton from you over the past month or so is you are not a fan of Elon Musk.
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And he's I think maybe I overstated it, but I don't think you are.
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And he's been all over the news running Doge and sending out the email to people saying,
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Then Trump stood by him and said, that was a great email.
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And I actually do think you need to fill that out or you could be fired.
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Be specific about what it is Elon is or has been doing that turns you off so much.
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Thank you so much for asking me about this, Megan.
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I hope your listeners are aware of this, but obviously you allow voices on here that you
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And that's very rare, unfortunately, in the media.
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His entire supply chain is in China and he is unbelievably close with the CCP.
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Xi Jinping asked him to build a showroom for Tesla in Xinjiang, which is where the Uyghurs
01:05:32.540
So he has this unbelievably obsequious relationship with China, who I believe is our greatest adversary.
01:05:37.760
I don't see how you can truly be an American patriot when you have to bend the knee to China
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and have proven willing to bend the knee to China over and over again.
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He's such a maverick on Twitter when it comes to American politics, but he has never once
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said a negative word about the CCP, which, of course, engages in tons and tons of human
01:05:56.280
rights violations, the genocide of the Uyghurs, and, of course, undermines America at every
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So on that front, I'm very uncomfortable with him being this close to power.
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The way that he related to American workers over the H-1B visa squabble over Christmas
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when he literally endorsed a tweet calling Americans retarded, I really, really, really
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I don't think he has the same values as the MAGA movement.
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He thinks that Americans are going to be, you know, people are going to become computerized
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and that intelligence is going to be machine made.
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All of this stuff for me really puts him at odds with the values of the MAGA movement.
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Now, that said, I really trust President Trump's judgment.
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He has a very clear idea of what the mandate is.
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I think there's a little bit of good cop, bad cop going on with him and Elon, so I appreciate
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Obviously, I love getting rid of government waste.
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I think it's amazing that they just axed all of that.
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I was like, wow, Elon Musk is kind of the Karen in chief, right?
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So, but honestly, I don't think that Trump has, you know, I don't think he's compromised
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To me, I think he sees Elon as someone he likes hanging out with.
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And Elon Musk, as the richest man in the world, is his peer.
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And I think that he also kind of feels like, look, the guy gave me a quarter of a billion
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I'm going to give him this thing to play around with.
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You know, he'll get bored in four months and he'll move on.
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I don't think Donald Trump expected this to take over, especially when his achievements
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I mean, Israel, Palestine, Ukraine, immigration.
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I mean, Scott Bessette is doing an amazing job in treasury.
01:07:57.140
This rare minerals deal in Ukraine, we're going to get some of our money back.
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I don't think for a second he thought that the media was going to take, you know, orange
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And I also think that, you know, the media, of course, is criticizing him for all the wrong
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Well, that's interesting because I've been seeing, I respect and appreciate your judgment
01:08:29.900
You know, we had the All In guys on last Friday.
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They are very much fans of Elon and what he's doing.
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I think he's, you know, he's a very unique figure.
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And the transhumanist thing was the one that stood out at me because, you know, he's doing
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Like, that actually could, that could solve paralysis at some point.
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So there's some upsides to the way he sees the human machine possibilities, too.
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But we've never had a figure like him, not in modern day America.
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And I would say the other thing is maybe Trump did see how much heat Elon would be taking.
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And he's enjoying it because it's given him some cover for, I mean, truly, if Trump wraps
01:09:06.560
up Ukraine in the next two weeks, as he is saying they might and finishes off this peace deal in
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the Middle East and with the return of the hostages, he should get the Nobel Peace Prize.
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I mean, there would be no question that Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize.
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And that's within the first two months of taking office.
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It's like maybe you want the big, you know, different distraction, who I will say also
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calls himself retarded, whatever, over here, you know, while you're focused on things that
01:09:41.300
I do think he might actually get the Nobel Peace Prize.
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I mean, he deserves it already for what he achieved with the Abraham Accords in the first
01:09:49.700
I was talking to Sebastian Gorka, who's one of Trump's advisors on counterterrorism at
01:09:54.340
CPAC, and he said that he had been at Yale and he had this feeling that these people on
01:10:00.260
the panel with him who had spent 10 years calling him a Nazi were just capitulating.
01:10:04.340
Like there's just been this mass capitulation of the elites who used to smear Trump endlessly.
01:10:12.220
And, you know, God willing, he has amazing things in the pipeline coming with Saudi Arabia,
01:10:20.620
And, you know, Megan, after that horrific scene with the caskets of the strangled and
01:10:26.920
mangled and mutilated babies' bodies in Gaza, when thousands of Gazan civilians showed up
01:10:33.260
to cheer with their own children, I mean, this just like utterly depraved, godless scene.
01:10:39.580
I think a lot of people are having this feeling of like, we need to break everything.
01:10:46.620
And Donald Trump is just the right man in the right moment.
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And he has a good heart for this stuff and a good head for how to do this stuff.
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I will say the other thing about Elon Musk is this 13 kids with four women.
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Like, it's so what we criticize about leftist culture.
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You know, the sort of, I don't know, like the, yeah, we want kids, but don't we want
01:11:19.440
And he's made such a, you know, a virtue out of this.
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And I think that it's, it's kind of a, there's a lot of people I think are an odd fit for the
01:11:30.080
MAGA movement, but who I think are bringing really good things into it.
01:11:33.640
And this as a role model for young men, I just don't like it.
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I mean, look, we've talked about a lot in the show, the personal life of a few of the
01:11:45.080
nominees who have gone up, not ideal, but, but we have to depend on them because no one's
01:11:51.200
I mean, like even Christy Noem, who I, I I'm just, I complete, she's lost me as a fan with
01:11:55.880
the shooting the dog in the face, poor little cricket.
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And then the Corey Lewandowski, but I have to say, notwithstanding, I'm totally rooting
01:12:04.100
She's got a very big, important job, one that like we really need her to succeed at.
01:12:08.700
So I'm, I'm just, personally, I view it through such a different lens than I used to just,
01:12:14.280
Cause it's like, we have a country, a world to save.
01:12:27.320
It's, that has been the most horrific thing I've seen in a long time in the news.
01:12:30.640
And it is a reminder that evil exists and we need strong leaders on the side of the
01:12:37.980
Thank you so much for everything you do, Megan.
01:12:41.700
All right, coming up, we're going to have this.
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I've actually been looking forward to meeting her.
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Now, her husband is a superstar, former NFL player.
01:12:51.340
She was on The Real Housewives and she'll be here along with the husband in just a bit.
01:13:00.460
The stance that President Trump has been championing about keeping biological men out of women's
01:13:10.500
sports continues to connect with people all across this country.
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That includes one former cast member of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Anna Marie
01:13:20.940
Anna Marie is married to former NFL great and digital host, Marcellus Wiley, who's been
01:13:27.240
on this show multiple times and will be here to join his wife soon.
01:13:40.260
So I confess that while I love The Real Housewives franchise, I only catch it like here and there.
01:14:01.900
It was something that, you know, kind of fell into my lap out of nowhere.
01:14:14.400
And then one of the cast members reached out to me.
01:14:18.480
I had met her randomly at a party at her home a few months prior.
01:14:23.420
And she reached out to me on social media and said, hey, you know, we just started filming
01:14:29.280
season 13 of The Housewives and production's looking for a new housewife.
01:14:35.640
And, you know, I talked to my husband about it.
01:14:37.880
Again, because, you know, I was very happy being a private person, you know, letting
01:14:42.720
my husband be the person in the spotlight, being a wife, a mother, a professional, a nurse
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anesthetist, you know, just taking care of my family and my home.
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And I'd never really wanted or craved to be, you know, in the spotlight.
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I think this would be a really great platform for you.
01:15:05.080
And I thought it would be a really great opportunity for me to, you know, showcase a nuclear
01:15:13.400
black family, because I think that that is something that is missing from mainstream programming
01:15:20.660
And also a good opportunity just to showcase a different kind of housewife.
01:15:26.840
You know, like I, yes, I come from a very varied background.
01:15:34.160
I was born to a Dutch mother, a Nigerian father.
01:15:40.800
And then at two weeks old, I was adopted by a Dutch Indonesian family.
01:15:48.600
I grew up in a very small rural town, about an hour and a half outside of Vancouver, raised
01:15:57.560
I had two sisters, one of whom was also adopted.
01:16:01.140
And, you know, very humble, very humble beginnings.
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Um, I started running track when I was five years old.
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I played all through high school and, um, college.
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And that was really how I was able to, you know, afford to go to school and get my education,
01:16:28.120
Um, you know, and, and then six months after that, I moved here as a travel nurse.
01:16:35.860
I started grad school and then I, I met my husband, you know, this big NFL player.
01:16:40.980
So, you know, I kind of have, and Marcellus does too.
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We have this kind of rags to riches, adversity to affluent sort of stories.
01:16:49.260
And those were things that I wanted to be able to share with the viewers.
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Um, you know, someone that, so, but Bravo, I guess had different ideas, all of your diverse
01:17:01.680
And I, I mean, I know you just got back from the Trump white house where you guys were
01:17:05.800
invited there to celebrate black history month.
01:17:08.940
If that had happened prior to the real housewives thing, they would not have cast you, but
01:17:12.920
I'm going to guess that you maybe weren't saying exactly the right things to please the Bravo
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Cause I don't remember the season that had anybody who wasn't an established progressive
01:17:27.900
I mean, I've listened to that cast out there, talk about the me too movement, like believe
01:17:33.040
all women and women would never make up these stories and they hate Trump.
01:17:37.420
So it's like, I wondered, do you think that played any role in your short stint there?
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See, it was very interesting because when it was first announced that I was going to be
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filming for the season, the, the narrative was so positive and everyone was so excited.
01:18:00.180
She's a professional, you know, they're, they're going to be a wonderful addition to the show.
01:18:06.740
And then someone went and, you know, dug up stuff as the media likes to do.
01:18:13.040
And they found this clip of Marcellus, I think years prior saying that he would not be in
01:18:22.220
favor of our daughters, um, playing sports, um, against transgender females.
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So he's, you know, saying he would protect our daughters.
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And immediately the narrative completely shifted.
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Um, we and I were completely vilified, labeled transphobic.
01:18:44.440
Um, they're, you know, they went so far as to even say, you know, they're like, she, she
01:18:59.800
I do think she's brilliant, but I've never met her, but, you know, saying I was best friends
01:19:05.040
And so, like I said, it just, the narrative completely changed from this, this, she's going
01:19:18.840
And, you know, then I was essentially, the media essentially canceled me.
01:19:26.060
And it was very interesting though, because when I look at that whole Candace Owens piece,
01:19:31.840
The reason that I started following Candace Owens, um, because I was never into politics
01:19:38.780
prior to any of this, I was, you know, I was actually a, a lifelong Democrat, you know,
01:19:45.760
I was very in favor of very strong social systems.
01:19:50.140
Um, but I was a lifelong Democrat and it was during, remember in 2000, I think it was
01:19:55.900
2021 when Balenciaga put out that campaign, the pedophilia campaign, I was outraged.
01:20:04.660
I was absolutely outraged as a mother with four children, I was outraged and I did not
01:20:11.380
understand Megan, why so many people were so quiet on the issue and on social media.
01:20:18.260
Some of the people that I did notice talking about it, were you Tucker Carlson, who I also
01:20:24.860
And Candace Owens, who, again, I didn't know who she was at the time, but I started following
01:20:29.780
And so when, when that was weaponized against me, you know, saying, well, she's best friend
01:20:36.880
with Candace Owens because I was opposed to pedophilia, it was really disturbing.
01:20:48.080
She, she too is opposed to pedophilia and will fight out against to speak out unabashedly
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And meanwhile, Kim Kardashian still backed the brand, even in the midst of all that wouldn't
01:21:00.740
Her own access to designer wear, no matter the consequences, one of the many reasons
01:21:07.780
So, so then you leave the Real Housewives and you and Marcellus do this very brave thing,
01:21:17.300
It's not like going to the Biden White House or the Obama White House or, you know, a Clinton
01:21:32.700
Um, for me, it wasn't even a deterrent that it is a Trump White House.
01:21:45.080
I will tell you that, um, we were surrounded by so many open-minded, inspiring and welcoming
01:21:57.440
Um, his, his address to all of us there was, was incredible.
01:22:02.200
He honored, um, so many, um, wonderful Black Americans and he really instilled so much hope
01:22:15.080
Now, am I correct that Marcellus doesn't like Black History Month?
01:22:20.120
You know what, ask him that question because he, he will answer those kinds of things in
01:22:27.740
Because what are the two of you sitting there like, and he, and he's like, eh, and you're
01:22:32.720
You know, not, that's the other thing is people always think that a married couple has to agree
01:22:38.680
And we, we do not, we do not agree on everything all the time.
01:22:44.660
Again, going back to, um, you know, when we were labeled as transphobic, we had a lot of
01:22:50.260
things that we disagreed on and I was never someone that spoke publicly about that.
01:22:56.020
And, and he was, and it was because he did and because of his views that it was assumed
01:23:04.560
But, you know, I had never, I had never been asked if I was a Republican or Democrat, as
01:23:11.680
I told you, I, I was a lifelong Democrat until this election cycle.
01:23:17.580
Um, and in terms of the transphobia issue, um, you know, I was a lifelong athlete.
01:23:25.500
I actually need bilateral knee replacements now, um, because of what I gave to my sport.
01:23:31.140
And it's just very interesting how that was something that Marcella said so many years
01:23:37.800
And now there are so many people that are coming out.
01:23:41.100
It's almost like it is acceptable to say that like Stephen A said it recently, right?
01:23:46.500
Someone who works for ESPN, he said it recently.
01:23:49.300
And so that really points to, okay, well, I think we have that actually, Anna Maria, let
01:23:54.480
me play that just so people know what you're talking about.
01:24:02.800
But when transgender athletes, men are transitioning to women and they're competing in female sports,
01:24:09.520
That's not, that's not just about LGBTQ rights.
01:24:12.480
That's about prying on the rights of females out there everywhere who were born female and
01:24:23.160
And again, that is something that 80% of the country is in alignment with, you know,
01:24:28.280
and you have, there are certain things that you just cannot, you cannot overlook, right?
01:24:32.260
Heart size, um, lung capacity, VO2 max, oxygen carrying capacity.
01:24:37.860
Um, you know, those are just things that are undeniable and they're not about hatred.
01:24:44.740
They're just, they're just science and it's fairness and safety.
01:24:51.880
So we just went on, um, Saturday night, we went to Madison square garden and we watched
01:24:55.820
Duke play Illinois, um, you know, as college teams, but they, they make the trip to like
01:25:00.740
one of the bigger arenas every once in a while.
01:25:03.160
And I mean, that Duke team is like a dream team.
01:25:10.720
It reminded me of back when I just graduated law school and I saw the dream team, uh, the
01:25:15.060
Chicago bulls with Jordan and Pippen and all those guys play where it was just like a
01:25:18.960
Like you're, it's almost like a dance more than a sport almost.
01:25:23.160
Where it's just like, there's a flow where you're like, wow.
01:25:25.080
And I don't know anything about sports, but that's how I felt watching it.
01:25:27.640
But the thought of any one of those guys going over and playing against the women, you know,
01:25:34.380
any one of them would be a total game changer, a literal game changer in every game in which
01:25:43.580
Like my husband played in the NFL for 10 years.
01:25:46.240
I would, and he didn't play basketball and he could still be me.
01:25:48.540
I would never in a million years want to play against him.
01:25:51.600
My nine-year-old son could probably beat me now.
01:25:53.960
And another interesting thing is there's a clip of Serena Williams, like years ago on
01:26:00.800
And she was talking about, I think it was Andy Roddick had asked her if she would play
01:26:06.340
And she said, no, she said, no, you would beat me six zero.
01:26:12.820
So she, she really addressed this a long time ago before this was a, you know, hot button,
01:26:22.400
But because it was before this, it flew under the radar, but really she addressed this and
01:26:27.660
Well, it's incredible because that sort of camel's nose under the tent of like, well, let's just
01:26:32.640
be fair and let these so-called trans kids play in sports, you know, and forget what it does to
01:26:37.300
the girls has now the full camels under the tent where they're really erasing women.
01:26:44.440
Thank God Trump is fighting back against it, but the left is not letting go of this easily.
01:26:48.620
The trans activists are the most rabid of all activists.
01:26:54.200
And the latest nonsense comes out of Washington state where, I know, forgive me.
01:27:00.220
There is something in Washington state, but this one's from Wisconsin where the governor,
01:27:04.020
Tony Evers has decided to refer to, um, the people who would benefit from his IVF law, you know,
01:27:11.920
protecting IVF procedures as inseminated persons.
01:27:17.140
That's instead of mothers, here he is defending the decision, SOT 34.
01:27:24.860
Um, what was behind that, that, uh, decision and you stand by it?
01:27:29.760
It's, it's absolutely, you know, what the Republicans say is a lie, you know?
01:27:37.540
So I didn't know that I, that, uh, Republicans were against IVF, but apparently they are.
01:27:46.540
And, uh, what we want is legal certainty that, that, uh, we're able to, uh, have, that moms
01:27:59.740
His decision to refer to mothers as inseminated persons.
01:28:04.020
No man can be an inseminated person carrying a baby.
01:28:07.960
Yeah, I, I think this is really one of the reasons why I say that I didn't leave the Democratic
01:28:16.960
I can't think of any woman that is okay with being referred to as an inseminated person.
01:28:23.520
It just goes so far away from, um, valuing mothers and, you know, really paying homage
01:28:31.760
to what, what we go through, um, to be given that blessing.
01:28:39.020
And by the way, not for nothing, but I've done IVF.
01:28:42.960
I used it for my kids and you're not technically an inseminated person.
01:28:46.120
When you do IVF, you're, you're, you're having something implanted in you.
01:28:50.020
An embryo is the semen happens outside of the body.
01:28:53.360
When you do use IVF governor Evers, if you really want to get technical, but truly think
01:29:00.740
You, you say mother and you think of a soft place to fall, a fierce mama bear who protects
01:29:09.740
You think about somebody who is both loving and caring and nurturing and strong, providing
01:29:17.020
And when you say inseminated person, I'm sorry, all I picture is a penis ejaculating inside
01:29:30.800
That's all motherhood now is it's so offensive.
01:29:37.520
And you know, it's happening in the name of, um, inclusion.
01:29:41.740
And I think that's where a lot of people also get lost because you're using terms, um, like,
01:29:52.060
you know, if you don't agree with this, then you're not being inclusive or you're being
01:29:57.340
And you're really doing it in a way to, um, to silence people and force hate their way for
01:30:06.900
And, you know, all we're saying here is no, we're women.
01:30:10.820
We want to be respected as such and appreciated as such, and not just, you know, relegated down
01:30:19.240
to, to labels that don't value us as who we are.
01:30:25.180
So we talked on the show yesterday about the loony Maine governor, Janet Mills, who's trying
01:30:32.300
to make a name for herself by not, uh, not enforcing the Trump federal EOs on gender and,
01:30:40.240
She's going to lose, but that one's playing out in the courts.
01:30:42.620
And then I mentioned, mentioned Washington state.
01:30:45.020
Now we have the education chief defending so-called trans athletes claiming it is inaccurate
01:31:01.040
It is quite simply inaccurate to say biologically that there are only boys and there are only
01:31:13.900
There are children whose chromosomes and their hormones aren't consistent with their sex at
01:31:19.120
Our state laws make clear that students get to identify and participate in activities
01:31:29.900
It's such a mind bending alteration of reality.
01:31:36.220
And I do appreciate that there are some gray areas, right?
01:31:39.920
There are some situations where I do feel like the, the situation needs to be looked at
01:31:46.680
But I think when it's something that is just very clear cut of the XX versus XY, you know,
01:31:55.380
I think we just need to go back to the basics and understand that there, you know, once someone
01:32:01.340
who was assigned male at birth goes through puberty, there are undeniable physical differences
01:32:08.060
that exist that, that hormone replacement or, you know, blockers and things like that.
01:32:15.920
They can't, they can't account for that difference.
01:32:18.840
And it does become an issue of safety and it does become an issue of fairness.
01:32:22.320
And it's not about trying to exclude anyone from participation.
01:32:27.240
If you look at it the other way, when you have, um, trans male athletes, they're, they're
01:32:34.640
still competing with the females, but it's only becomes an issue when you have the trans
01:32:43.460
Can I ask you a question, Anna Maria, because, because you said assigned male at birth, which
01:32:53.480
I know it's the leftist language, but I see the cross around your neck and I know you don't
01:33:03.060
It's not assigned anything by a man or a woman who happens to be an MD.
01:33:12.080
I do that in, in only the vein of not, um, not offending anyone.
01:33:18.720
I think, you know, I have no problem with anyone wanting to, to live their life the way that
01:33:28.640
Um, I think it only becomes an issue when there are other people that are being affected by
01:33:35.180
And, you know, if someone doesn't want to use that language, you know, you can't force
01:33:40.440
If someone, you know, once you become, once you come into spaces where women don't feel
01:33:47.320
comfortable, that's when it needs to be respected.
01:33:49.340
So really I'm just offering respect that I would hope that we would get back as women.
01:34:00.520
I, I think I would love for you to consider just speaking truthfully as opposed to what
01:34:07.400
Cause I really think that the slow by the, the bit by bit erasure of women, and I wasn't
01:34:13.260
My audience knows this, but I'm firmly here now.
01:34:15.160
It begins with the manipulation of the language.
01:34:17.220
There are realities, biological realities, you know, anyway, stand by because I have to
01:34:21.880
take a quick break and we're going to come back with Marcellus and we can pick it up there.
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Back with me now is Anna Marie Wiley, as well as her husband, Marcellus Wiley, host of Hydration
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So when we left off, I was just, yeah, lecturing.
01:35:54.100
It wasn't right, but I had to do it, Anna Marie, about saying assigned male at birth or assigned
01:35:59.640
female at birth as opposed to like just born a boy or born a girl.
01:36:08.300
I mean, your wife is probably nicer than the two of us.
01:36:15.620
It feels like I got to a party so early that the DJ wasn't set up.
01:36:23.320
I've been saying this for so long and now everyone's like on board and I'm like, all
01:36:27.300
right, I'm glad we can all dance together now because the truth has always been there.
01:36:31.860
And it's just unfortunate so many people want to read the temperature and gauge the
01:36:37.280
winds and see when is it the best time to tell the truth instead of all the time.
01:36:42.860
I think we will be much more unified if we just live by that truth instead of how we're
01:36:48.440
feeling and some of the pandering that comes along with it.
01:36:51.500
So I love the fact that my wife is speaking out and speaking the truth.
01:36:56.520
There was a time where that headwind was strong in her world and all of us have been
01:37:02.640
I was just born with a disposition and raised in a condition where I didn't give a damn
01:37:09.060
And I'm glad to see more people are doing the same.
01:37:13.040
Honestly, it's a, it's a journey for a lot of people.
01:37:15.100
And I think girls in particular are raised to be nice, quote, nice.
01:37:18.420
And so, you know, they don't want to do anything that would just be unnecessarily offensive to
01:37:25.860
I submit that it's been taken advantage of by not well-meaning activists who are exploiting
01:37:34.380
And so we, as adult women need to say, no, no, we're done.
01:37:40.060
I want to talk to you about where we are on the sports thing, Marcellus, because we have
01:37:45.560
I think Elon's buying X was instrumental in getting us all to be able to talk about what's
01:37:52.020
But now it got to the point where this was the deciding thing in the last election.
01:37:56.240
This was at least one of the, I think it was the, in the swing states, but at least one
01:38:02.320
And so I wondered now, like in four years, whether you think there's any chance this pendulum
01:38:07.840
swings back the other way, if God forbid, we have a Kamala Harris presidency, by the way,
01:38:14.920
that she's already talking about running again.
01:38:19.240
And I've seen, uh, she, she dressed in the park now she's, uh, she's stepping up the
01:38:31.100
You know, I think, look, there's an overcorrection all the time in societies.
01:38:35.640
If you just study world history, you know, that there's always a swing of the tides and
01:38:40.860
then they will go in excess and other way just to find that happy medium.
01:38:45.300
I don't think on this issue, when you're talking about sports and if we're talking about transgender
01:38:49.320
rights, um, that this issue will swing back in a different direction.
01:38:53.880
Uh, this issue was already misplaced from hello based off of the.
01:38:59.880
Uh, social elements, not the biological elements.
01:39:03.420
So that conflation had a lot of people confused.
01:39:06.540
And look, I understand the power dynamics in our country.
01:39:10.300
Um, I know when that headwind is in front of you and is facing you, you're saying, do I
01:39:17.360
And a lot of people felt like they couldn't, but there was this brewing silent majority
01:39:23.500
that happened not only in politics, but in sports that was saying, man, if somebody doesn't step out
01:39:31.980
And finally, that first domino fell, whoever that may have been, wherever they may have
01:39:37.180
be, they may be, but it all adds up to now you have that strength.
01:39:45.860
And I don't think it moves back in the other direction.
01:39:48.520
The Democrats aren't able to let it go, uh, which has gotten them a lot of criticism, even
01:39:53.280
from their side, because smart people realize this is a loser of an issue.
01:39:58.260
Here was Charlamagne Tha God talking about it just the other day on his show, SOT 31.
01:40:05.580
Why are folks still talking about trans athletes?
01:40:10.980
And they keep making a micro or macro with that conversation.
01:40:13.940
It impacts such a small, small group of people, but it makes a whole lot of people think folks
01:40:21.660
And I can't believe it's states that still want to die on that hill.
01:40:24.760
Like none of these states have a high percentage of trans athletes.
01:40:32.300
Anna Maria, Anna Maria, let me ask you, because it's, I think it's mostly Democrats doing that.
01:40:37.100
The Republicans have said how they feel and Trump won.
01:40:40.660
But the Democrats, if you turn into CNN or MSNBC, they're still very obsessed with this.
01:40:47.040
They're still putting on men posing as women, trying to claim that they can't have their
01:40:51.000
so-called rights shut down by Trump executive orders.
01:40:53.200
Yeah, you know, I'm asked all the time, because I'm very vocal about this on my social media
01:41:02.160
People are like, it affects such a small percentage of people.
01:41:08.080
And I think really the issue surrounding it is, it's kind of like, it's turning up the
01:41:13.700
temperature little bits at a time to see what we as a society will tolerate.
01:41:19.280
And so I think people that can foresee the bigger issue that this becomes, if you are
01:41:25.400
allowing, you know, someone born male to compete against women and, you know, you're essentially
01:41:31.580
erasing what it means to be female biologically, then what is going to happen next?
01:41:39.240
Like things will just, dominoes will keep falling.
01:41:41.860
And, you know, I don't want my girls to look up 10, 20 years from now and be like, where
01:41:50.240
Oh, I think what you mean is you're for future inseminated persons.
01:41:58.260
And, you know, they're going to say, where did this come from?
01:42:00.240
And I can't live with myself, you know, knowing that I didn't say anything about it at the
01:42:05.820
time, about how, how ludicrous this issue actually is.
01:42:09.600
And the fact that people, you know, won't speak out against it.
01:42:13.200
Women who label themselves feminists won't speak out against it.
01:42:18.240
And I did mention this on my social media, you know, there's a reason why people are always
01:42:23.660
silent on this issue, because if you say something about it, if you speak out against
01:42:29.240
trans athletes competing in women's sports, that's when you get labeled.
01:42:33.120
Like these words are, you call you a bigot, you call you a bigot.
01:42:38.440
These use, these words are used as weapons in order to scare people into silence.
01:42:46.580
They don't want to lose contracts, but that is what I've, you know, we've been at events
01:42:51.120
where we've seen female athletes speaking on panels.
01:42:54.240
And then when they were, you know, when they're telling us quietly, like, oh, it's crazy.
01:42:59.720
But then when you, when they're asked by the moderator, that exact question, they will
01:43:10.820
If you were competing against a biological male in your sport, you wouldn't be who you
01:43:22.620
So for someone to, you know, people are so afraid to speak up about this because they're
01:43:34.560
And this is what's irritating about our political climate right now and how I try to even invade
01:43:41.940
There are two genders and anyone else has anything else to say about that.
01:43:46.060
I'm going to judge you outwardly and tell you that I don't think it's highly of you as
01:43:52.580
Now, from that point on, you can look at the truth any way you want, but there's an absolute
01:43:59.280
Now, if you want to carve that up any way you want to and say, well, there's a little truth,
01:44:04.600
well, then that's when we start to get into where we are currently, which is I'm going
01:44:09.920
to say things and pandering to make sure that I keep my safe position wherever I am on the
01:44:18.640
It's so obvious that when you talk about the issue biologically, that there's a difference
01:44:27.000
Like there's no like advantage, disadvantage if you want to add it all up.
01:44:39.220
Like people don't look at the whole perspective of this stuff like, oh, I'm trying to beat a
01:44:46.800
No, this is a conversation that should be based off of the truth, which is a man and a woman
01:44:56.660
And it's been respected for many years in sports.
01:45:00.020
And then it got invaded by a lot of these political and social issues.
01:45:08.720
I think about my kids, so they, uh, my boys now are, uh, 15 and 11 and, uh, my 15 year
01:45:17.320
Now they have to play a sport in seventh grade for school.
01:45:21.660
And so a lot of them, most of them play football in the fall season, but they play seventh and
01:45:27.440
And some of the schools have seven, eight, nine together.
01:45:29.540
And you know, a boy in ninth grade versus a boy at the beginning of seventh grade, that
01:45:39.520
It looks like a man versus this little scrawny, skinny, right?
01:45:45.960
And that is the same thing as a woman trying to play male football or putting a woman into
01:45:55.240
We moms on the sideline would be like, Oh my God.
01:46:01.580
And the thought of it being a girl who's not even going to touch the levels of testosterone
01:46:11.820
You know, it's like, we would never look at NFL football and say, where are all the
01:46:20.640
And look, people thought I was being like, like just extreme or I was crazy.
01:46:25.920
I was like, my daughters are not competing against a transgender male.
01:46:30.960
Anybody who comes out there and plays against my daughters and I have three daughters, they're
01:46:36.620
going to have to be of the same biology because I went to me a few years ago before it was
01:46:43.160
And it wasn't, and please judge me if you want, but I am not what you're saying.
01:46:54.960
And I'm a washed up athlete who could still go out there with the best women, give them
01:47:00.020
some run for their business because I still have that testosterone.
01:47:04.560
I am a person who went through puberty as a male and it's a whole different animal.
01:47:09.260
Now, speaking of football, you have to, you have to, you have to walk through me with
01:47:13.580
the controversy that I got involved in this week.
01:47:18.360
But the sun, uh, newspaper had a report that the Eagles were not going to go to the white
01:47:28.980
Oh, and this, this was bad because it wasn't true.
01:47:34.540
As it turns out, it was, the sun was fake news and they hadn't even been asked to go
01:47:42.000
Now the sun was reporting that they had spoke with somebody on the, they had spoken with
01:47:46.940
And that person had said zero chance we're going to go.
01:47:49.460
And they did refuse to go when they won the Superbowl in 2018.
01:47:53.800
But now in the wake of all this, people who are connected to the Eagles are reporting and,
01:48:00.200
uh, the white house is confirming that they have not yet been asked, but that the Eagles
01:48:03.580
will go if asked, which would, I think, induce Trump to ask them.
01:48:14.400
Do you think that makes it even a question mark that the Eagles wouldn't go in 2018 and
01:48:19.780
at least somebody connected to the ownership told the sun there's hell.
01:48:24.100
No, we are definitely not going to go if we win this game.
01:48:28.380
And it's sad to see the seesaw effect happen where, oh, don't ask us.
01:48:32.740
And then it's like the white house saying, well, we don't want to be embarrassed by asking
01:48:37.080
So both sides are sitting there playing this little cat mouse game when you should obviously
01:48:41.900
not only be honored to go see whoever the president is, but the opportunity to go to the white
01:48:51.020
Um, this is so ass backwards when you talk about why do people reject their opportunity
01:48:59.080
Well, I can tell you from my perspective, I see the Philadelphia Eagles, maybe some of their
01:49:04.560
players, if they reject that opportunity, like they did in the past, it's based on, they
01:49:12.360
Now, I've been called a sellout so many times that I'm like, well, uh, rather that label
01:49:17.960
than being someone who's not living their truth, not living the truth, not respecting and honoring
01:49:25.120
When we all live in this country, we pay our taxes.
01:49:28.140
We have a huge amount of trust for him as he runs this country.
01:49:31.620
But at the same time, you don't want that opportunity.
01:49:35.520
But the reason that it's not fine is because they're caring about the label that will be
01:49:47.040
Uh, yeah, well, for me, it will be a black person who doesn't speak for the black cultures,
01:49:54.160
not thinking about all black people, which is crazy because we are not a monolith.
01:49:58.920
But now I'm supposed to act a certain way, speak a certain way, and define my actions a
01:50:11.760
There's not a single group out there, white, black, tall, short, that you could say all
01:50:22.740
But sellout is, from the black perspective, oh, man, you're just doing what white people
01:50:27.160
want you to do, or you're not thinking for black people.
01:50:30.480
And that is a old mindset that needs to be discarded if you really want to go forward.
01:50:37.640
I hope you're right, because Trump definitely reached out to all communities when he was
01:50:43.280
You know, no president's ever gone to the big game before.
01:50:50.860
I think it's a unifying moment for the country when that happens.
01:50:53.800
Yeah, it's what's wild, Megan, is the fact that I met Donald Trump twice.
01:51:00.900
And, you know, I judged the Miss Universe pageant back in 2003.
01:51:12.400
I have a friend who was a member at Trump in New Jersey.
01:51:16.060
When we're out there and he's just on the putting green.
01:51:19.400
Next thing you know, we're having breakfast together.
01:51:26.100
Why would you ever want to golf with Donald Trump?
01:51:30.740
So a lot of times they want to say, well, the policies.
01:51:33.760
I was like, yeah, he's canceling Black history, but he's inviting hundreds of Black people to the White House for Black History Month to celebrate it.
01:51:49.280
So I asked your beautiful wife about this, and she said for me to ask you, but is it true you don't believe in Black History Month?
01:51:59.680
Like, first of all, it's the shortest month, so stop it.
01:52:01.660
But no, too, like, there's no White History Month, and I understand we have different history, but I don't need anyone to single out one time where we're going to talk and really lean into all the things that are Black.
01:52:13.600
Like, if you're not going to do it all the time, don't do it any time, and I'm going to do it the rest of the time.
01:52:17.480
You know, like, I hate when people, like, give you this little handicap sticker in lane and say, all right, it's your turn.
01:52:25.640
It's almost like when you're coaching a kid that you know is not good, and everyone knows we're winning by, like, 90 points.
01:52:32.860
And that's what it feels like, Black History Month.
01:52:41.120
So why do I need this country to single it out?
01:52:44.700
I don't like any of the identity politics when it comes to holidays, any of them.
01:52:49.540
And especially when you have to identify them, it feels like BET, and BET is now white-owned.
01:52:56.080
But even when it was Black-owned, I was like, I don't need to see BET because I would hate to see wet, white entertainment television.
01:53:04.020
And then people are saying, oh, no, that's every channel.
01:53:06.280
And I'm like, look, whatever it is, don't single me out, pander to me, pet me on the head, and coddle me.
01:53:17.460
I feel the same thing about Women's History Month.
01:53:20.140
It's like, of course, the kids, every other month they're going into another one of these things.
01:53:24.820
And I have to say, my son, he asked a really good question.
01:53:27.480
He's like, it just seems like our priorities are really screwed up when we have like a Pride Month and a Veterans Day.
01:53:39.600
It's wonderful to see you both, Marcellus, Anna Marie.
01:53:42.940
And thanks to all of you guys for joining us today.
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We'll see you tomorrow, and we will see you tomorrow morning for AM Update.