Episode 64: Media Bias & Incompetence Hurts Everyone

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I feel like that's out there right now and it's all about water ball fashion . So okay , so we've had . Um , now my voice is going , so you're welcome for that .

I have an idea of a husband gifting his wife with a commitment of prayer . I do too , by the way . I think it's awesome . Um , my inviting fan . A great podcast . I truly enjoy all of them . It's great to hear conservative Christians , christian couples , talk about the world . Thank you so much for writing in about that .

And then , this is my personal favorite , because this was just off of our little preview because you were sick , right . Um , that we put up on a Thursday and this this gentleman , randall Sheriff , wrote me in an email to to our info at no doubt about it . Podcastcom said I love your show . I thought maybe you might want to watch JFK .

What the doctor saw it's on Parma . It goes along with what you were saying today , christy , and I believe . Thank you , I mean , I know people are like a in my conspiracy theorist . I'm not . I think you're almost a conspiracy theorist . If you don't believe , if you like , if you only believe in Oswald anyway .

The other thing we got kind of into this week , um , is watching this Bobby Kennedy documentary on Netflix . I think it was really fascinating , um , it was really well done . A ton of history in that . I mean , obviously I wasn't around during the Kennedy's heyday , right ? I mean we , I wasn't even born until 1973 .

So this was something I missed completely , um , and I just thought this showed it a good job of showing kind of their

stretch . What you and I talked about afterwards was just how chaotic the country was during this time and sometimes we think , oh my gosh , this country's so divided right now . It's such a , it's such mayhem . Well , honestly , nothing new under the sun , right ? Because really , those late sixties you have MLK shot , you have Bobby Kennedy shot .

Then I'd have to live through the sixties and I'm like I don't know , that was not my cup of tea from all of that , but anyway , great documentary .

And I think we've stepped back from that to some degree . I hope we never returned to that . But we do tend to have this moment of of of thought that it could never be worse than that . I mean , it's so you know the country is so divided and then we're seeing people like you know JFK and you know MLK and RFK , and and eventually Reagan shall all shot .

But I just think it's important to kind of remind ourselves sometimes that this country has been under chaotic situations in the past . This is not going to be the last time . While it's unfortunate and we'd all love some more unity , I do believe we will get back there eventually . I just don't know how long it's going to take us .

But my prayer and my hope for this country is that we do come back and be more united and not just filled with such like divisive hate towards somebody that disagrees with you politically , like it's just , it's infuriating and it's stupid , and I hope that we can rise above all this at some point and really come together again as a country .

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I'm like this is if I'm going to win ever , it's going to be in my lucky childhood store , right ? So I buy a ticket . We're coming down . We stay the night in Colorado Springs that night and I get four of the six numbers , including the Powerball number .

Like we come in , I come into Ritone , I'm like , hey , here , could you just check and make sure my lot of tickets a winning ticket and the guy's like this is from Colorado , ma'am , you're going to have to go back into Trinidad .

We're going to cover it . We're going to cover what kind of bills come through . Are there going to be real crime bills ? Are there going to be crime bills that actually make an effort to try to reduce

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We're going to monitor that , see what bills drop and see what happens there . Is there going to be some tax relief for New Mexicans , massive states or pluses because of oil and gas and we're going to get into that at the end of the show as well , and what oil and gas has meant to the state of New Mexico .

But but , by the way , if you go to the legislature this year , once again three and a half billion dollars in excess revenue , really solely because we have the best oil and gas industry in the world in this state and it continues to fund everything . So they're looking at massive increases in spending continuing .

Now , whether that makes sense or not depends obviously on the program , but I definitely think people need money back in their pockets , hoping that's going to happen . So we'll watch all of that stuff for you , is it ? You know , as it comes through .

We're not going to be this legislative session show that's going to bore you to tears , but we will bring at least some of that information and when it becomes interesting we'll give it to you .

But there is one thing that may happen , which was released a couple of days ago , which is it's heartbreaking to see this , but I think it makes sense when you consider how poorly things have gone with CYFD .

Epiño , who is proposing a constitutional amendment this 2024 legislative session to remove CYFD from the governor's control .

It's one of the big things we talked about during the race was that something had to change . It hasn't , and so therefore , now , just so you know , if there is a vote on this , if there is a constitutional amendment that will require your vote , and so this is what we mean when we say you take it to the legislature .

They lay out the parameters of what the amendment would look like , and then you get to vote on it and then you get to decide . So we'll see what ends up happening with that . Just one of those things that I think , when you see that issue pop back up again , it's just heartbreaking .

And so I want to start with the border , because this morning or Sunday morning , cbs came out with a new poll . Okay , and this is what the poll says . It says the situation at the US Mexico border is what ? How would you describe it ? 45% of the people say it's an absolute crisis . 30% of the people say it's very serious .

So that's 75% of Americans are like we got a real problem here . Right , okay , that number is far higher than it has been in a long , long time , right , okay .

And what struck me in all of this is how the media , in the way they've operated , has been devastating on this issue , and what I mean by that is there are certain media outlets like Fox News would have been all over this thing for years . This has been three years in the making . Three years , right .

This thing has been going on and getting worse and worse for three years . The media hasn't touched it for years , saying it's not happening , it's not a big deal . Republicans are making a big deal out of it All , everything , all the way around .

I mean , this is so out of control . It is absolutely staggering , okay . And so for how long did the media ignore this ? Now let me just make this point to you . Let's say the media had taken this seriously two years ago .

Let's say the media regularly had gone down to the border and said what we see at the border here is a real problem with , effectively , people just plowing their way on through . Would we be at the crisis point that we are at right now ? No , we would not . Why ?

Because you would have political leaders that would have to answer to a broad sector of the population that would say this isn't fair to families that you're attracting to this border to slide their way through razor wire to put themselves and their families in danger .

You have people coming in who we don't know who they are , right , right , and it's just time after time . Instead of ignoring the issue , which they did , they could have stepped in and started to do their job , but they didn't Okay , and because they haven't done their job , this has now reached epic crisis proportions .

I mean , you can just see the numbers of people just sitting there . These people have nowhere to go , we don't have enough services for them and it's not compassionate in any way , shape or form . In any way , shape or form .

But the mainstream media has not touched it until now , when they've been forced to okay because they are advocates for one side at least broadly they are they are , and so when you're advocates for one side , you absolutely not only destroy your own side , you destroy the other side too .

And so that's my issue with this , with , effectively , what we're looking at , with what happens with illegal immigration . Now , newsmax then comes out and ABC comes out with a couple of different stories that say now , nearly 1 million undocumented immigrants have access to taxpayer funded health insurance exchanges in 11 different states .

So we wonder why vulnerable people will do anything to come into a country that cannot handle all of this , and that's why Now are they being called out , are they being held to account ?

Is someone calling Gavin Newsom because , yep , he's at the forefront of this too saying what are you doing in California , trying to draw vulnerable people to an uncertain future by offering benefits that you can't even deliver for the people of your own state ? Your homeless problem is out of control .

You can't help people of your own state , and that now Newsom goes in and says , hey , we're going to give these people all the benefits they need . I'm not against benefits for people who are here legally , but you can't continually attract people , which we have proven are overwhelming the country .

It's overwhelming that we can't do it , and so this is the ultimate in cruelty . It's the ultimate in media malfeasance , because they're not addressing the issue , they're not touching it . And now they're touching it and we're going to end up with extreme policies , because it's gotten to a point where things are so bad that there's no way out of it .

But obviously the argument on the Republican side is the reason they're letting all these folks in is because they're hoping that they'll be able to vote in favor of any democratic policy and any democratic elected official or you know , get to the polls and vote for , vote for the D , that kind of thing .

The second example gets us to the defense secretary , lloyd Austin . Lloyd Austin went into intensive care on January 1st . Lloyd Austin is in charge of the largest military in the world and he didn't even tell his president he was in the hospital . This is unbelievable .

I mean , this guy goes in and he's in the hospital for , I think , three days before they even notify the White House . And in fact one of the articles in Politico says the Pentagon did not inform senior officials in the White House National Security Council of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospitalization until Thursday .

Remember New Year's Day was Monday , so they didn't get him until Thursday . Okay , three full days after he arrived at Walter Reed the news came as a shock to top staff . You know you think , oh wow , what ? Lloyd's in the hospital and he's not working out of the house . That's what they said . And so he's dealing with whatever medical complications he's got .

But if he's in the ICU , are you kidding me ? And so the point on this is we now live in a world where political leaders don't fear anybody . They don't fear anybody . Lloyd Austin doesn't care . The Defense Department doesn't think they're going to get called out , they don't think the media is going to unload on them . So they do what they want .

So they say you know , we're not going to tell Biden , let him go off to the Caribbean , let him do his thing , we'll let old Lloyd recover at Walter Reed . Meanwhile , don't forget , our Navy is under constant fire right now from the Houthis in the Red Sea . I mean we are basically on the edge of a massive expansion in the Middle East of war .

And yet we have a defense department that thinks it's okay to not mention that . The head of the DOD , or at least the head of you , know really our defense is at a commission and can't do the job . This just tells you they fear no one . They get bigger and stronger .

The media hands them all their power and says go ahead , we're not gonna call you out , you're on , we're on the same team . The media shouldn't have a team . This is why because if the media has a team , they're going to throw in with that team and that team is gonna tell the media to shut up and sit down . And that's where we are .

I don't know how much truth is in there and how much is fiction , but the takeaway from that was really , you see , queen Elizabeth as this person that never puts herself before the title , right , so the crown as she refers to it all the time , it doesn't matter what she personally wants or what she personally thinks or what her personal issues are , and I get

that . We're not . You know , we don't have a monarch . I'm not suggesting that we should have that and I get all of that . But the point is is she puts country and the title of what she before her personal situation .

At least , that's the way they portray her in the Crown , okay , so let's just take that away and put it towards our life , right , and here in the United States , I feel like people are not putting their position as what's important . So you have the defense secretary . That's a title , that is a job . It's not about the guy that's serving it .

It should be more about the title and the protection of our country . And so that to me is like it's blaring to me . Just because I'm so obsessed with the Crown , I'm actually rewatching it all and I just I feel like it's a massive difference , you know .

I mean , she gets in a fight with Winston Churchill in one scene where he gets sick and doesn't tell her , and it's like two days , and she levels him right and says this is not okay .

And I don't know if that happened or not , but still , the point is it's you are in a position of power , you owe the country information and especially the leader of the country , which is obviously the president . So anyway .

But the media a long time ago gave away that power and said no , we're not gonna call you out on this , we're not gonna call you out . So if they don't call them out , we all end up losing in a big way . This is why I say it all the time I don't care if you're a Democrat , republican , independent libertarian , whatever .

You should want a media that is hated by everybody . You should want a media that holds everybody accountable equally , just so that they stay in line . But the problem is that only goes in one direction , and one person who found that out is the third part of this little trifecta of stories is Bill Ackman .

Now Bill Ackman is a billionaire , a Harvard alum , and he sort of came to and realized how badly things are going , not only with the media but with DEI , the diversity , equity , inclusion , all that whole deal Basically trying to go out and push this in college campuses and how damaging it is , how devastating it is , and he found it in relation to the war in

Israel that he's a Harvard alum and Harvard was horrendous in the way they've handled this and the way they've said their president couldn't even go in front of Congress and say look , it turns out , you don't get to threaten Israeli students , you don't get to do that . But she didn't say that .

And then it turns out she was somebody who plagiarized at a staggering level and so they tried to protect her and Joe had that in common .

Time and time the media comes out and says , nah , this really isn't plagiarism , it's horrendous plagiarism . The lady is off the charts plagiarist . I mean , she has no business , not only not being a running Harvard , but even being a professor there . But whatever , bill Ackman comes out , realizes all of this and is like , oh my gosh , what have I done ?

I supported a university that , basically , is pushing racism and is pushing anti-Israeli policies and anti-Jewish policies , and it has turned into a disaster . So he's come out and gone full bore . Well , what happened ? Well , the empire strikes back , right . So business insider shows up and they do an article on Bill Ackman's wife , neri Aksman .

Okay , she's a accomplished woman to MIT . They now accuse her of going out and plagiarizing . So business insider complete hit piece on Bill Ackman's wife . Who's not said a word about this ? Oh , and , by the way , she happens to be Israeli . But anyway so what does Bill Ackman say about this ?

Well , first of all , he's gone out and he came out and said really , all things considered , business insider crossed the line .

Business insider , you know , took a rule that used to be hey look , if you wanna go after the protagonist in any sort of disagreement , go for it , but what you don't do and this is part of the tweet that you were just seeing there what you don't do is you don't go out and you don't target their families , and that's effectively what has happened here .

So now Bill Ackman is gonna end up going toe to toe with the business insider , with all sorts of different media that are trying to destroy him . Now , good luck with that . Everything we know about Bill Ackman is this guy . It is an absolute machine .

Like , for example , he was competing for his wife's affections before they were married with one , brad Pitt , and he won . He's married to her . Brad ain't .

Now , it's not that there aren't ever stories that go the other way , but if you look at the volume , this goes one way . And when it goes one way , you see a tipping point . And again a third example of where good media acting as an attack dog for their supposed cause of choice yeah , their agenda Devastating Right .

And you see it all over , Not only in business situations like this . You really see it in politics .

If you were a small business and are of your business owner , I took a $2,500 PPP loan . Right , it was to pay my two part-time contractors , yeah , and so that happened in 2020 . Ok , and so I was the first one to like I mean , not the first one , but as soon as they said , can you write in for the forgiveness ?

I did , to see , because I'm the one that lost some clients over the whole thing . And then you're now fast forward to the governor's race and in 2022 , there is this controversy that Biden's saying , hey , basically , let's pay off all these college loans . Right , I'm going to just have all the taxpayers pay off all these college loans .

You make a tweet about the fact that that shouldn't be on the hands of taxpayers , right , right . And the next thing we see is the Santa Fe New Mexican puts out this headline that says Ron Keddy decries student loan forgiveness , yet wife's federal loan was forgiven .

So I call the editor of this paper and I will have more respect for him than he had for me , and I will not name him here but and said are you crazy , what is this about ? And he's like well , I mean your husband's against federal loan forgiveness or against college loan forgiveness , and yet you got a $2,500 PPP .

And I'm like they're two very different things , very different things , for starters . And then I said , number two , this isn't about Mark , this is about me . Like , what are you dragging me in this ? For Plus my clients ? They listed my clients in this story . This is a horrendous thing for them to do Just a horrific attack .

And I said to him and I still stand by this you have nothing on Mark , so you try to dig up trash on what me Like . I took a $2,500 PPP . If you want to do apples to apples , why would you not talk about my college loan , which took me six years to pay off , and I did it ? That's apples to apples .

That's talking about what Mark was talking about , which was federal loan paying off college debt . I paid off my own college debt and you're bringing in a PPP which was well known before you even took the loan , that it would be forgiven , that it was for business owners during a major crisis situation . They don't even compare .

And then I said second point is why are you talking about me ? I'm the spouse of a candidate . This has nothing to do with anything . And you're bringing in my personal business and my client list , which is also none of the story . And he said well , you're a public figure , I'm a public figure .

I mean , we were doing the podcast then Nobody knew who I was . I was like I'm not a public figure . You're just trying to find trash on Mark and you can't find it , so you go after me on a PPP loan . So I said , if you're going to keep this up too , maybe you should talk to the governor's husband and see what his PPP loan was .

I mean again do the journalistic thing , don't play sides . So from that point on I was like anytime I see anything in the Santa Fe New Mexican , I read it and I have to really make sure is there slant here , is there an agenda ? And it has made me lose trust in that paper .

They also informed me I was the last loan that was forgiven at that bank , the last loan , and ironically it's just that my husband's also running for US Senate at the same time . So anyway .

. Fine , I thought what the New Mexican did was incredibly slimy and pathetic . It really was , and the person who wrote the article , daniel Chaconne , actually liked him a lot . I think he does a really good job for them , but that was , to me , a total misstep and way over the line . Way over the line .

They mix each other back and forth Some of it's biased , some of it's incompetence but the eventual result is powerful people do not feel the need to answer to them anymore .

So , in an effort to boost people that shared their own political beliefs , they've handed over all their power , and by handing over their power , they've taken people in positions of power and made them untouchable . That's where we are . And so you see it , with Lloyd Austin deciding he doesn't have to answer to anybody .

You see it with media organizations becoming attack dogs for political views . And you also see it when you look at the border and , knowing that , hadn't seen that covered for years and now it's out of control . So we've got all these issues and we've got a media that is helpless to stop exactly what they created . So OK , so that was that .

I'm sorry , I had to get a little .

But John Federman is turning into the most sage , well reasoned senator on the Democratic side in the US Senate . Federman says Harvard unrecognizable to him anymore . Federman went to Harvard , which I did not realize . And he says as an alum of Harvard look , I graduated 25 years ago and of course it's always been a little pink .

Oh , he says , but now I don't recognize it . Okay , so he goes and hits Harvard . Right , and then really , what's amazing about Federman is he has been the most solid supporter of Israel in the Democratic Party in Washington . I mean , his comments on Israel are rock solid . I mean , listen to this . This is interesting , ella .

In the region it's our strongest ally . We have a very special kind of relationship . I don't understand how anybody could vote against Iron Dome or wanna harm Israeli businesses or the nation or anything . I've never , I'll never understand that . Calling them colonizers like where does this come from ? He's exactly right . It's completely ahistorical .

By the way , calling Israeli colonizers when they've been there for thousands of years is ludicrous . Right , he's completely right . He says more and more of my colleagues are calling for a ceasefire . It's so strange . Why aren't you calling for Hamas to surrender . Exactly , if Hamas surrendered and turned over their guns , all the killing would end .

I mean he's dead on . I mean he's been . That's really good , you know . And it's just , you see him say that and you're like man , this is really good . It doesn't stop there , you know .

You got these ridiculous people in Maine and in Colorado just trying to basically , on their own , pull Trump off the ballot , right Saying , because you know , because democracy , so we're not gonna let you vote for someone because democracy what I mean ? What are you talking about ? What does Federman say ? Hamas says what are you doing ?

Yeah , you're not helping anybody . Federman says the efforts to keep Trump off state ballots are incredibly unhelpful . Now , and don't get me wrong , john Federman is by no means a conservative .

I'm sure two weeks from now we're gonna have Federman being crazy , but Him and his hoodie claiming something else .

So I just wanna read you this because you're gonna see the administration and they're already trying to take really credit for lower gas prices and the fact that we've never produced more oil and gas more cleanly and efficiently than we do right now . Like we are at the top of our game . We have the best producers in the world .

Okay , and here's what it says as of 2023 , comes to a close , the United States is producing more oil and natural gas than ever before , even in the face of efforts by government planners to force to move to other , greener sources of energy .

In fact , thanks to a major uptick in Perwell recoveries and shale well , the US is now producing more oil per day than any single nation has ever achieved . In fact , this has all been accomplished despite now here's the number this domestic rig count dropping by well over 20% during the year .

We have 20% fewer wells online and we're still producing more oil than we ever have . The outcome becomes even more remarkable when it comes amid a presidential administration whose leaders repeatedly stress their desire to end the industry as we know it , and it shows the industry's extraordinary resilience .

In a piece I wrote in March of 2021 , he noted the history of oil and gas businesses in the United States is that every time the experts all line up to declare it to be dead , they find a way to come roaring back . Okay , and there is no state where that means more than New Mexico . We've got the best oil and gas industry in the world .

We're producing more and more oil and gas with less and less of a footprint , and this is something that is incredibly positive . Now , are we gonna continue to need more energy sources outside ? Yeah , absolutely , absolutely we will . That's why we've gotta be not only the energy state , but the energy country .

And so the last point that was made in Ellis Clip 31 , the last point that was made by the head of the oil and gas administration and it's an interesting quote and I think it's an aggressive quote in one that I think you can really appreciate , and I will say it's from Tim Stewart's , from the US Oil and Gas Association .

He said American people should know the truth , which is this the Biden administration is absolutely nothing to do with record production . Stewart says it happened in spite of them , but it just shows you what energy means and where we are as a country .

When the moon and New York city this more headline , though , says when extreme confidence needs an extreme lack of talent , I mean , the lady can sing . The best that you can do Is falling . If you get caught between the moon and New York city .

Well , he goes in and he finds out there's a black bear he's not sure which one yet , because he knows them basically because they're a lot of them are tagged . It's in the crawl space of a home . So he's gonna go in with a paintball gun and have it out with a bear .

I wasn't out there with a paintball gun . I'm like let's load it up and get to a hotel .

And then , beyond that , obviously , we're going to start focusing on what happens in Iowa on the following Tuesday . By the way , that'll be next Monday show as well A lot coming up from the no Doubt About it podcast . Thanks for joining us and we'll see you back here on Thursday .