Valuetainment - December 05, 2025


＂Greatest SCANDAL Of All Time＂ - Scott Bessent BLASTS NYT Over Biden Cognitive Decline COVER-UP


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

193.71588

Word Count

970

Sentence Count

91


Summary

In this episode, we talk about Scott Besson's attack on the New York Times over its coverage of President Trump's health, and how it's a new normal for the paper of record, and why it should be embarrassed by it.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Scott Besson at a New York Times event, himself and Alex Karp from Palantir and Halle Berry.
00:00:08.560 But let's first start off with Scott Besson.
00:00:10.480 Scott Besson is being interviewed, and they're talking about a bunch of different things.
00:00:14.120 And then all of a sudden, he blasts New York Times at their own event over the coverage of Trump's health.
00:00:22.240 Go ahead, Rob.
00:00:22.840 You had what was one of the greatest scandals of all time, that the coverage of the Biden administration, Joe Biden's diminished capacity, and the cover-up.
00:00:34.960 And that's why it's probably fair to raise these questions.
00:00:37.200 Where was the New York Times?
00:00:38.480 We just had a three-hour cabinet meeting yesterday, Andrew.
00:00:41.640 For 10 months, the Biden administration did not have a cabinet meeting.
00:00:46.260 How are you going to invoke the 25th Amendment if the cabinet secretaries never see the president, which they didn't?
00:00:54.080 10 months.
00:00:54.620 And by the way, Rob, that's not even the best clip.
00:00:57.280 The clip is when he talks about, I mean, you can find another clip that he calls him out, because there's a couple clips with him in New York Times.
00:01:05.300 He just goes, boom, left, right.
00:01:07.220 And that's a fact, 10 months?
00:01:08.680 10 months.
00:01:09.240 They didn't have a freaking cabinet meeting?
00:01:11.140 Yeah.
00:01:11.300 Holy crap.
00:01:12.040 And to the point that even he doesn't have anything to say.
00:01:14.600 Tom, what was your reaction when you first saw this here with Besson?
00:01:17.640 Is this the one, Rob, that's a longer version of it?
00:01:19.480 That's a little bit of a shorter one.
00:01:21.180 Hang on.
00:01:21.680 Okay.
00:01:21.960 You keep looking at it.
00:01:23.060 I think there's one other clip there.
00:01:24.200 This is 134.
00:01:25.180 Okay.
00:01:25.780 Let's just see this one here.
00:01:27.700 Is this a new normal?
00:01:29.520 Andrew, there's no new normal.
00:01:31.200 And I can tell you that I actually don't read the New York Times anymore.
00:01:36.880 That sometimes, I do watch CNBC, but occasionally people send me articles, and there's just this fever swamp.
00:01:46.640 And you're now a pop historian with 1929.
00:01:50.240 There you go.
00:01:50.720 And in 20, 30, 40, 50 years, the New York Times is no longer the paper of record.
00:01:57.440 You can't go.
00:01:59.260 I read this article.
00:02:00.600 That's the clip.
00:02:01.160 President Trump is slowing down.
00:02:02.540 That's the clip.
00:02:03.340 President Trump's mineral capacity.
00:02:04.680 It is 100% fake.
00:02:07.100 That, like, he only called me twice at 2 in the morning last week instead of three times.
00:02:13.400 You're saying he called you?
00:02:14.100 I believe that he called you at 2 or 3 in the morning.
00:02:15.860 That whole narrative, you had what was the greatest, one of the greatest scandals.
00:02:21.000 There you go.
00:02:21.100 So we watched this here.
00:02:21.960 Tom, go ahead.
00:02:22.820 Well, what I think it just shows how prepared and the leadership of Scott Besson.
00:02:27.480 I'm just a big fan of Scott Besson.
00:02:28.700 I love him.
00:02:28.940 I am a big fan of Scott Besson.
00:02:30.520 I love his leadership.
00:02:31.260 I love the policy positions he's taken very much.
00:02:35.020 And what he does here is deal book as part of the L.A. Times, excuse me, L.A. Times, New York Times.
00:02:40.380 I've got to get my liberal fish wrap straight.
00:02:43.000 So he does this, and he tries to put these things out there, and he's just leading with his chin, unfortunately.
00:02:50.580 Andrew Ross Sorkin, in the mornings on CNBC, he's kind of the liberal voice that's there, and he gets pushed a lot on there.
00:02:56.320 But he's a knowledgeable guy and everything.
00:02:58.640 And then here he goes trying to put these common things up there in kind of not really a debate format, but in kind of a counter format.
00:03:06.340 And Scott Besson just says, you're going to throw an 80-mile-an-hour fastball at me.
00:03:10.680 There's a word for 85-mile-an-hour fastballs, souvenirs, because he's going to hit that.
00:03:15.520 And that's exactly what Scott Besson did.
00:03:16.780 And he hit it, and I very much liked it.
00:03:19.580 And it was a big day for people taking a stand and making statements that were a little embarrassing.
00:03:25.240 This was supposed to be a business conference talking about how politics and, you know, treasury policy, rates and everything, meet business.
00:03:33.180 And he had a lot of people on stage there, and it turned out that, you know, Andrew Ross Sorkin got slapped a couple times.
00:03:38.520 And by the way, I'm a fan of him.
00:03:40.700 I like him in the morning.
00:03:41.840 I think he's good at what he does, and I applaud New York Times for inviting the people that they did.
00:03:48.840 They invited Erica Kirk.
00:03:50.600 They invited Scott Besson.
00:03:52.260 They invited.
00:03:53.160 So good for them for doing that.
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