D.C. Protesters Cause a Stir - Part 2

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Okay, we're talking about Benjamin Nittanya who speech to Congress to protest outside. In the way in which the three major networks covered those protests. I will do this in the next few weeks just to check. But ABC and CBS did a very feir balanced report. If you were watching NBC News with Lester Holt, you never saw any of the flag, the American flag being burned, You never saw the American flag being pulled down. You never saw the intensity of the protests those protesters. It looked to

Hey, Dan, I was so happy that you talked about this tonight. I was just shamed at our two centers for not at least being in the audience and listening. I know that to the far left, but they should have been there. And we're gonna reelect one of them. I'm not, of course, but the state's gonna probably re elect Elizabeth Warren. And you know she doesn't go to something as important as that.

I wouldn't make that assumption because I think that elections are important. And let's see what happens with the Republican candidates. There are three of them running for the US Senate nomination, and let's see how how they do. Look, Elizabeth Warren did very badly here in Massachusetts in the twenty twenty presidential primary.

Remember that.

I think she finished third or fourth, And I don't think that vote was to say, oh, we love Elizabeth Warren so much, we want to keep her here in the Senate.

We don't want How many House members did not attend, I don't know the.

Time to get that. I think that Anna Pressley did not attend. I believe Jim McGovern did not attend, which doesn't surprise me.

There are two of the more.

Radical members I would be I would assume that Steve Lynch attended, but I don't know that for sure. I believe that they said that Jake Arkham Cross attend. I would assume Seth Molten attended. Again, these are our assumptions I'm making, but I can't I can't be sure. I would be surprised that Bill Keating did not attend, but again I'm I'm shooting. I would hope that the Globe in or the Herald, because they have a staff of dozens of people, they can call their offices pretty easily.

The thing that bothers me the most is that Hama started this thing October seventh, yep, and you know what he is gonna has to feel safe yep. And they can't if they know that there are many many hamoskus still running under tunnels and everything in Gaza.

Well, there are not as many today as I know that. Yeah, but I will try to get that information for you. I don't know if anyone it's funny. I mean, Massachusetts, the reason we're one party state is that the Globe doesn't do its work, doesn't do its job, and the Herald tries their best. But obviously the Globe is the dominant newspaper, and I mean that should be front page news. I mean, obviously it's easy to say the both Marky and Warren didn't go, and fine, but what about the

Not all I've been on in a while. But you know, I I finally retired from my job, so you might hear me more often.

Well, I hope, I do because it's important to have different voices. Okay, whatever your point of view is, okay, yep, Mark appreciate it very much. Thank you very much.

Welcome, I'm okay.

Have a great night, Rob. Have you checked out my next caller? Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty triple eight nine to nine ten thirty, Well a right numbers. Feel free to join the conversation. Let me go to a Mike and Beverly. Mike, you are next on Nightside. How are you, sir?

Hey Grenadian Ada and Mike and Beverly Hawaiia doing great?

What's on your mind tonight? Mike?

The whole Israel thing, I support Bend one hundred percent. I don't understand the whole Democratic Party mostly did not attend the uh the Israel showing up the other day, and the whole flag burning thing, and then you know, twenty four hours later we get a statement from the from Kamala Harris, like you know, and there's no I don't know. I think the whole situation is terrible. I know, speak of Mike Johnson and a bunch of Republicans went afterwards and put a new flag up on the fight phone.

Yeah.

Uh, I knew that the whole system. And then we're trying to tell another country how to dictate their war, and we're trying to tell them how a two party two parties stayed and like, I don't understand it all. Uh, some money came in and killed thousands of people and was trying to dictate how they did with killers that don't give it give a crap, well human life. I don't understand that.

Yeah. But by the way, Mike, I just want to update the information. We had the eight senators who did not attend yesterday, both senators from Amon, Pat Leahy, and Bernie Sanders. I want to make sure that this is the Lay. He's no longer a senator, so this may be a dated story here. This is a I'm sure this is this is this is no no, this this is a dated story. My mistake on that. I'm trying desperately as I talked to you to find this information.

Box had a list that's a lot of them that didn't show up. I know that Ladiana, one of those states that had the Palestinians, showed up. But she had a sign that Jenna prime Minister's of genocide. Like yeah, that was that was.

The UH to leave. The congresswoman from.

Michigan, yeah her.

Yeah, so she's got a sign that says war criminal. I didn't see her, say, have a sign that said UH, war war criminals?

For it was some small sign in a hand.

But but you didn't have a sign that said hamas war criminals?

Did she?

No?

I don't that.

You're trying to deal with something me kill people, and then we're trying to tell them how to dictate things, and I don't understand it all, you know what I mean. It's like crazy, you know. And then Tomala comes up with a statement statement twenty four hours later, it's like

What our routes.

You know what I mean.

Yes, I got it. I totally got it. And by the way, I do finally have a list of uh the members who who who who skipped here? Uh and I will go through this list uh and and give you uh the information. There were a bunch of uh yeah, and I don't see Markey's name on the list here, so I'm.

Not sure both those from Masters you should be tossed out of seat anyway.

But I don't see and yeah, and uh, I don't think that Marky's I don't think Marky skipped according to this the I'm just going through the senators and what I'm trying to do also is find out the members of our congressional delegation who skipped.

Uh yeah, at home, John, I hope John Keaton gets in. The Republicans from the Western Master here, ip you it's in. It takes Warren's job because she's I can't stand her.

Yeah, she hasn't done a great job, There's no doubt it. Ale all right, Mike, I gotta let you go because about my breakup.

Aprecition, I appreciate you very much.

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All right, I'm still looking for names here taking names, but about half of the Democrats in the Senate and half in the Democrats in the House skipped but will maybe the global will have done the work they work today. But Rob, we're going next to Eric in Attleborough. I see that you checked with him. Let's go to Eric and Addleborough. Hey, Eric, thanks for hanging in here. You're next on Nightside.

Yeah, thank you, Dan Living listening to your show for on and off for at least a dozen years that I've been in the Boston area. Always enjoy your show. So I wanted to just call just to point out a couple of things. Number One, you know, by all means, I can understand people's discontent when they you know, see, our elected officials do not show up for Benjamin Yeah,

But again, why are we concerned about what Israeli conscription is? I don't get. I don't get what our concern is there. That's that's just an internal issue in their country, right.

Well, because not every single person that's been conscripted to the military is meant to be a warrior or a soldier.

Well, they also, I think they do. I think that they do have you know, public service. You know, we have conscience. When we had a draft we haven't had a draft since nineteen seventy two. I believe we had conscientious objectors. But what is it of our interest as to how Israel If if Israel as a democracy, through their Kanesset and their prime ministers, they happen to have a draft, they're in a very conscription, as you would call it. They're in a very different situation politically than

Eric right, Yes, yes, I don't my My My point was, I visited Israel when I'm Jewish. Actually, so I visited. You know, Judaism is a faith where it's a relationship with the Creator and Zionism. It's a political ideology which kind of contorts Judaism. And I'll just leave it at that. But what I wanted to say is I was there here two thousand. I was also there the two thousand and nine. So what I'm trying to say is that when you know, when things get hot like they did

Okay, so you're somebody who's Jewish and you do not support the Netanyahu government, that's pretty clear to me.

Okay, No, no, no, I do believe ultimately in the right of like just things as they go.

You know, since you're a student of Israel, how many times has Israel been attacked by its Arab neighbors?

Well, I mean.

I hear Israel attacked in nineteen forty eight. Well, actually the answer to that is yes, was was Israel attack in nineteen sixty eight? Of course that is also yes, right, But was Israel attack in nineteen seventy three?

It was?

But do people understand what the Hagana was and how is how the Zionist elements prior to the you know, to the carrying out of the ballifour decoration being implemented in nineteen forty eight.

So yeah, so again America, I really don't want to argue because I think you and I see it differently. You tell me you're Jewish. Okay, I'll accept.

That based upon and first like, but I care about my country first, you should.

You should, But I also care about my country in the Middle East? Is Does the United States have a better friend in the Israel in the Middle East than Israel that you can think of?

I asked people to ponder, what has your greatest ally ever done for you?

Fair Enough, We'll let it go with that. I'm having a tough time believing you're actually Jewish, but you've told me you are, and I'm going to accept that as a fact.

I am no I believe you say.

You say it, and I guess there are there are people like you who happen to be Jewish who see Israel differently. I I disagree with him. We could we could spend hours talking about the Balfour Declaration. We could talk hours about I thought that, Yeah, we could talk hours about it. Okay, you've been to Israel. I've never been Israel. I've been Outschwitz. I saw what happened in Auschwitz firsthand. You know, I don't think i'll convince you,

Okay, Thank you, David, and you have a great light. God bless you.

Right back at you. Thank you. Let me go to Jeff and Waltham. Jeff, I suspect you of you is going to be a little different.

It is.

I think that last caller is a in.

Full no attacking, last no attacking other cars.

An attack. But I really think that it was off base. Okay, Israel is defending itself and everybody has the right of self defense, every nation and every individual. But I wanted to address myself to your comment on the news coverage that you found efficient of the protest outside the capital, and I think this was that was a model. It was a hallmark of that kind of the textualizing as

It was.

Unprofessional to leave out the context that But you see, UH decontextualizing has been a hallmark of prejudicial UH reporting generally in the Mid East and UH and elsewhere, and UH, I think this is just an example of it.

I would agree with I would agree with you, Jeff. You know you and I normally see this situation UH the same. The problem with the Mitchell piece is she told half the story. It's a simple as that she told half the story. She she never mentioned the American flag being pulled down by these Palestinian Hamas supporters. She never showed the story of the American flag then being burned. She never showed the story of the Palestinian flag being raised.

It's unethical because when you leave things out, you are putting forth prejudicial reporting.

Yeah, it's it's biased by definition. I mean, just showed her bias. It's very clear to me at this point.

Absolutely, I'm sure what she says in the news it's acceptable. You know, it's almost like saying that, well, you know the American Revolution, you're talking about the given account of the American Revolution. Who are these rustic farmers are creating such a commotion in the colonies without mentioning the British abuses controversial decades before. I mean, it's it's the same principle. So any kind of professional reporting cancer includes the right and the relevant context.

You've got it. Thanks, Jeff, appreciate your callers always. Thank you so much.

Okay, thank you, Dan, thirty.

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Okay, so here's the best I can do for you on the doing a little research here myself. Both Senators Warren and Marky skipped the net who speech yesterday to Congress, as did Jim McGovern from Worcester, Ayanna Presley from Boston. Steve Lynch from the South Shore, kind of a surprise to me, skipped, as did Lori Trehan, a Merrimack Valley

Yeah, thank you very much.

And to get to the woman that didn't do a whole report, I mean I'm not a report, correct, Thank you?

Who?

What?

Where?

One?

Why? And me is the other one?

I don't know? Why not?

Is you're gonna tell a story, tell the whole story. Nothing about the story. The big part of the big.

Part of the story, clearly a big part of the story, in my opinion, was the fact that these demonstrators were there more to protest, to protest Danielle. But they wanted to pick down an American flag and burn the And they did burn the American flag. Uh, and there should be burnt with this, yeah. And then they raised the Palestinian flag. I mean you do that in my country. Let me tell you that that that is what that me and I want my audience to know about it.

What's the other flag?

Say, don't tread on me, you know what I mean. I mean, you know it is what it is.

It's a shame.

But uh yeah, I mean a lot of people don't realize. You know Hamas.

You know it was people being killed. And like you said that, I think anything on the head at the beginning with the trust.

I mean, the base of any good relationship is built on trust and honesty is to be you know, it's like a foundation.

You know, once you stray from that, I mean that's it's sound as a white wives and this and half. I mean, you know sometimes another you your goal, you're I mean, you get along, you get gone.

But you just like you said, I mean it's all about you know, you know your allies and you know people being killed, decapitate people.

Well that's it. I mean, Israel has never engaged in that. Israel's gone into Hamas. They have tried as best they can to avoid so called collateral damage, but Hamas has has had tunnels and their barracks underneath hospitals and schools. They have used children, innocent Palestinian children as shields. That's absolutely men and women as shields. You know, I mean,

So well said, and I hope we've had one don a kid my soy golf?

Well, good, bless all right.

Next up is Bob in California, Bob you and next on Nightsiger, right.

Ahead, Yes, Dan, good evening. I just want to pop from California. Obviously, throw a couple of points out there. And I don't really have an explanation how these sacks will relate to Andrew Mitchell's I hear with you irresponsible reporting, but the irony is Andrew Mitchell is Jewish.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what her religion is.

I think.

Google it.

It's very clear she's Shureish. She's Mary Callen Greenspan. She is Jewish. Brian roberts who runs Comcast NBC, right, their family is Jewish. To his credit, Obviously he's letting the network. You know, their hands off with the network, Brian Robertson who owns it, like they're letting NBC obviously have I don't want to say objective reporting, because you're right she I think she should be fired, okay, but clearly maybe she doesn't like net yaou Yeah, well, I think.

That came that came through She's using the words controversial, defiant, and how that according to her. You know, Israel uh walked away from the peace talks. Well, if you're negotiating with with terrorists and at some point you think that they're just you know, jerking you along, you are going to walk away. You have no you have no responsibility other than to other than to walk away. The other thing, too, is that I looked at both the ABC Evening News

Absolutely, yeah, yeah, And again she's entitled her opinions about net and Yahoo. But you're right, there should be objective reporting. I think to chase there and where I've called obviously before, the enemy here is Iran. And I hope if Trump gets back in, he can cut a deal with Putin, Okay, and say, let me let us take out Iran. We have to take Iran out for this, you know terror.

Well, well, Trump Trump had choked off their their financial supply by preventing them from selling oil and holding back funds. The you know, President Biden, Biden Harris have gave them Iran, as did President Obama billions of dollars. Now, maybe their attitude is if we're good to them, we can rule them over to the side. We're not going to pull over this theocracy for the side which has been our fierce enemy for forty years. I have a greater sense that we could work a deal with Kim Jong Moon

Yeah, that's that's why again we have to take them out. I mean, we need to stop, excuse the term, pussy footing around. Okay, and when Trump gets in, I think the next step is take Iran out.

Okay.

Well, I think you don't have to necessarily take them out militarily. I just think you have to be prepared to. But I think you take them out economically, is what I'm trying to say. And at that point, hopefully people in around who want freedom. You know, people in Iron who who might be gay and don't want to be

Okay, Okay, thank you.

Thank you, Bob, appreciate very much. Next Doreen in Chelsea, Dorian, you're next on Nieaca right ahead, Hi.

Dan on my hot break so much when I see.

My flag being burned, yep, I don't.

Like it at all.

I'm sorry.

The whole thing is they better, They better get down to real tactics when it comes to foreign policy. Now it is so terrible. It's a disgrace.

That's all I have to say.

Well said Doreen direct and to the point, I love your calls. I feel your your anger and your frustration, and I share it with you. Thank you, thank you so much. I'll give you much more time next time.

Okay, thanks dry, good night, good night.

All right. Let me see here we're coming up. Let me get I get one more in here. One more in quickly. Let me go back to California. Lola in San Diego, Lola next on nightside.

Hi Dan, I'm in Watertown right now.

Okay, Yeah, So.

I don't know how that flag was able to get burned and taken down and the other one wasted up. Who was watching these protests?

Well, I think what happened was there were a lot of protesters and we had Capitol police out there doing their best.

It looked very reminiscent of the Capital Capitol Police.

Where was with.

Where's our government with the where's the FBI and the CIA when it's being done like that?

Well, I don't think you need the Capitol I don't think you need the FBI and the CIA. I think what you need is national Guard there. They should have anticipated.

Them whatever, Yeah, Washing Washington police.

I think that the Capitol police had all they could do to hold the line and they could not probably have gotten through the crowd to defend that flagpole. To be honest with you, that's the video that I saw.

Well I don't I don't like it. They should have been there ahead of time. They should have been there ahead of time. They should have known something was going on. They monitor all kinds.

Of I know that I think they knew there was a demonstration coming.

But again I don't think no, no, no excuse, I'm sorry.

Okay, that's okay, I'm with you know, and all.

These Democrats they're not showing up when there's an event going on. Shame on them. They should be fired.

That's up to the voters in November.

Well, the voting you know here here, we're going down that road again. Vote all, vote all you want, vote away, and it never gets changed. Now yeah, well let.

Me say wait, wait. Jamal Bowman, who was a member of the Squad, just lost his Democratic primary in New York to a moderate Democrat. He was the guy that pulled the fire alarm in the Capitol and escaped being penalized for that. So there's a possibility that some that some of the you know, members of Congress in the Squad would would be turned away. This was a moderate Democrat who beat Jamal Bowman. He was actually older, he's

You know, you.

Got to continue to believe in the system, because.

That's all we have right now, right well, you know when they took the Pledge of Legiance out of schools, that was the beginning of the end of life as we know.

With you, it's a matter I don't disagree with that life as we knew it back then. I'm with you on that, Lola. I got to run. I got you in before the break, so I got to scoop now.

But talk to you soon, Okay, got to you soon, Dan take here, Thank you, good night.

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Now, back to Dan Ray live from the window World, Nice Side Studios. I'm WBZ News Radio.

We've got three calls, going to try to get them all in, starting with David in Baltimore. David, you were next on Nightside. Welcome. Yeah, Dan, I'm here, David. I'm listening ahead.

Okay.

I wanted to say, you know, they're old saying that you know that the devil is in the details. The gentleman that called who said he was Jewish, you know, he's a kind of Jewish person that you know. I think all of us should be willing to fight a wrong side when because he's very interested in the truth. But of course, the strategy of the Middle East is when when there's a fight in the family, you know, the Arabs and people are both called femis. I don't know half of half of what and half of what

Talking about Benjamin and who's brother David yep.

Okay, so you know, and for him to be in power this song who knows where? You know, he can be like a little baby brother who's throwing a rett type of tantrum. But it is sad that in fact, you know that you know, there's there's there's a problem there now the.

People who well, I assume he's been in power because he's been elected in in a democracy by the Israeli people. Correct.

Uh, you know it's very often you can you can you can go and say let's make pression pressure great again, and everyone would write side side for the side with you, even though you okay, because I don't understand.

That David whatsoever. I really don't. So give me your point here because I got two other calls behind you. We're talking about the Andrea Mitchell's report and NBC uh not acknowledging that the American flag was taken down, a Palestinian was taken Palestinian flag taken up, and the American flag was burned.

That is that is very bad because first of all, if you want to submotize things Palastinian is to in America is to low at the American flag, burn it and raise the POLICI fag that's a client. Okay, you shouldn't do that. And if I'm wanted to submitize things Palistinian, that's what I would do. So I don't know who. I don't know who did who did that?

Well, it's very it's very counter productive. These are these are radicals who who do not are not as sophisticated, probably as as you are. And I mean that as a compliment. It's very counterproductive for what they did. David, you haven't called in a while, but I gotta let you run because I got two behind you and I'm going to get him in.

Okay, if you cover both both.

Things, Thank you much appreciate it. Let me go to Laurie and Idaho. Laurie, welcome back. How are you.

I'm doing pretty well?

You well, I'm good, except I am tied on time. That's the one commodity I'm losing right now. But I love to know what you think.

Well.

I actually we had the privilege actually to watch or to listen to Manuel Who's speech live and I was rapid the whole thing.

What an orator? Oh my goodness.

So I can't imagine being a member of anybody that would sit out on that, whatever my beliefs were. But and yes, my favorite line was the yeah the idiots.

Yes, useful idiots, useful idiots.

Yeah.

Oh that that's a phrase that goes back a few years. But that is true. That is very very true. And we played a lot of his sound bites in the in the ten o'clock hour from ten to ten thirty. That's how good I thought the speech was. If you didn't hear those, did you.

Picked my four favorites?

Oh?

Good? Okay, great, okay, well there are a lot of favorites. Let me tell you there were a lot of favorites, Laurio.

It was a fantastic speech.

Oh my goodness.

I thought it was great. He's very fervent.

She is who he is.

But wow, what yeah, well, you know he's very merchanized and yeah, and he's a he's a leader. You know where he stands, and you know when he says something, he means that. Did you, uh, what did you think of did you happen to see the Andrea Mitchell report on NBC, which ignored the fact that now I no.

Never to me, never news to me has gone kind of soft right now. And if I had seen it, I would have been appalled. And it's not reporting, it's not news. It's an opinion piece.

And she's exactly, it's an op ed piece disguised as a news piece. You're so correct, Yeah, so correct. And I'll tell you it's disgraceful because there's millions of people whatever whatever they get, five million, six million people. They're looking at it. They're doing well, the poor Palestinians. But they don't realize those protesters were doing the same thing as the so called rioters or insurrectionists. They were fighting

That's what happened.

It was a tougher fight than then January sixth.

In my opinion, and I no, I agree, And I don't know why they just why do you decide to do that kind of bias? Does the network think they're going to get an audience that maybe the other networks aren't getting. I don't understand why you know that.

Audience starting an MSNBC audience. I think that the very service to their viewers, and I hope that people who listen and who listen to NBC realize that maybe it should be now called MSNBC. Laurie, I got a screwed. Tomorrow night, we're going to do another poll on the new constituted presidential race eleven o'clock.

Please, I want to have your vote. Okay, thanks tonight.

Thanks for taking my car, Thanks very much.

How much time I got left here? Rob? What do I got mint and a half? Okay, I lean, I got you in. I can give you au Oh my lost her? I guess did we lose her? Okay, that's fine. Okay. We tried to sneak in, I lean in, but it didn't quite work, so that's okay. Wish we could have given her thirty seconds. Okay. Done for the night. I want to thank very active Wednesday night on the Thursday Night one of my themes I cause I was off last night. We're back tomorrow night. I promise you that