The episode also dives into the political shifts of figures such as Michael Steele and Tim Walz, where personal beliefs appear to starkly contradict public statements, begging the question of performative politics versus true conviction. As they dissect these changes, Mike and Mark confront the unsettling acceptance of a ‘political game’ that undermines real human impact.
Mike Gallagher. Every day, Mike visits with Mark Davis. Morning host on 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. Here’s today’s Eminem experience.
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This bizarre, bizarre young man, the mayor of Minneapolis. Do you remember him on his knees at George Floyd’s casket? Sobbing at the gold casket of George Floyd. Crying and wailing and sobbing while on his knees before the gold casket of George Floyd. But yesterday, he’s livid at the prospect of prayer. So you can pray for George Floyd, but not for these martyred children at Annunciation Catholic School. Mark, this is demonic. This is as bad as it gets.
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This is brilliant. Sean Davis, who writes for The Federalist, is just great. And thank you for that great example. the wonderful Paul Harvey did a thing probably in the 60s or something.
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I played it a month ago.
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Is it sort of like if I were the devil, what would I do to America? I would drive people away from churches. I would have them focus only on their own troubles. I would drive them away from you. I would fill them with entertainment that distracts them from the central importance of worship, blah, blah, blah. And that was done in It sure was. It sure was. How perfect is that? Exactly right. So along that same narrative, if indeed you think about what the enemy, what the devil would do, it would be to distract people in this moment. Say, no, no, no, don’t be praying. No, no, no, no, no. Think that you’re in control. Think that you and your members of Congress and your legislators can, by doing things to weaken the Second Amendment in America, a nation created by God with his help, that you have all the tools. Don’t go to him. Don’t go to that God, that invisible man in the sky. Nothing’s going to happen there. This is in your hands. You are in control. Focus on you. You are the king of your own destiny. You are the ruler of your own life.
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This is exactly what the enemy wants us to feel. If your first reaction to a madman murdering innocent children at a Catholic school is to attack the people who are praying, golly, you’re in a place where you talk about a lot of – there’s a lot of conversations about mental illness. But that’s one that you’ve got to look in the mirror. And from a political standpoint, I watch that disgusting Michael Steele. And he disgusts me because this is a guy who functioned for a time as the chair of the RNC.
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I had the nicest segment with him at the 2008 Democrat Convention at the Pepsi Center in Denver. And it was like, wow, you know, black guy’s the RNC chairman. Yay. You know, and I don’t care what color anybody is, but if that’s an extra checkbox, it’s like, hey, you know, we’re not just the white people’s party. That’s lovely. And he was never going to be, you know, the most conservative knife in the drawer. But that’s OK. There are lots of ways to be Republican. But in the MSNBC coven, in that cult, he has become so noxious and so hostile to things he once believed in. Have you got the sort of the paraphrase of his?
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But that’s my question, though. Did he believe them then or does he believe it now? I don’t know. I am so fascinated by the trajectory of people like Michael Steele, who now is as far left. And again, he was the RNC chairman. He called himself a Republican. Does he denounce all of his conservatism in order to get a paycheck now at MSNBC? Does he not really believe what he spews on MSNBC, but he wants the money? I don’t know how that works, but I do know there’s another great post on social media—
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The Michael Steele quote that has us animated at the moment is this. I’m tired of these thoughts and prayers.
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I’m so beyond that nonsense.
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I’m so beyond that nonsense.
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The lie of that, he called it. The lie. Prayer is a lie. Now, somebody posted a clip of him saying that and wrote, somewhere in America, there are DNC consultants watching their party call prayer nonsense and a lie, and they’re tearing their hair out. Look, from a political standpoint, and I’m sorry to even go there because we got…
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families that are burying their 8- and 10-year-old children. But it’s true. Normal people are repulsed by this. Normal Americans who called themselves Democrats are saying, no, no, no, I can’t associate with these people anymore. These people don’t represent sanity. And by the way, one more point about wondering about the trajectory of things. I had a great conversation with my buddy Joey Hudson about this yesterday. Did you see Tim Walz, that goofy governor of Minnesota, thank President Trump and express gratitude for Trump’s call of support yesterday? Now, a couple of days, Tim Walz. That’s right. I see the look on your face.
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Well, interesting day yesterday because D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, she didn’t say thank you, President Trump, but she said, you know what? Crime is better and the surge of law enforcement is why. Correct.
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But go back to Tim Walz for a moment. Tim Walz stood there and thanked, basically acknowledged that President Trump showed his support and he expressed gratitude to President Trump. For doing so. Well, good. Now, a couple days ago, Tim Walz stood up on a stage at their DNC summer camp. I know. And called Trump that thing in the White House. I know. And called him Hitler and fascist. Now, here’s my point. When he was calling Trump Hitler and fascist and that thing, but then yesterday said, I’m grateful to President Trump for his support. Which one’s a lie? Which one’s the lie? And we know what it is. They don’t think he’s a fascist. No, that’s performative. That’s performative nonsense. But that’s what I mean. And this is my whole point about politics. Politics to these people is just a big game. Lives are at stake here, and we’re talking about actual human beings and Americans, but to them, it’s all just a game. It’s all performative. None of it is real, Mark. It’s sickening. It’s sickening. Yesterday was real. You got a president calling a governor saying, we’re sorry about what happened to your state, and we’re going to give you all the resources we can, yada, yada, yada. And Tim Walz goes out there and says, oh, thank you, President Trump. But the other day, you were calling him that thing.
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I know.
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Do you really thank the thing? Do you thank Hitler? Do you have lunch with Hitler?
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I mean, it just infuriates me. After the election, after he won, and there were Democrats who sort of, they weren’t fawning in their congratulation, but they were decent and they paid some proper respect to the freshly elected president. And I remember you and I said, wait a minute, excuse me, do you even say nice things to Hitler? Do you acknowledge any attribute of the devil himself? Because that’s what you folks said he was just moments ago.
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Because we know they don’t believe it. Final note on the fury of the day, and I want to get to the Muriel Bowser thing and all that. I know we’re almost out of time. Did you see the investigative journalist Aaron Katursky on ABC News and his reporting?
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Was this about the video left by the shooter?
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The manifesto and the video.
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Right.
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And the video included, as we know, I mean, the guy was a monster, hated Trump. All right. He had killed Trump on his guns. Mm-hmm. I want you to hear how Aaron Katursky described that. He knows the manifesto had already been online. We all saw it. We all know what the shooter thought of Donald Trump. I want you to hear what a senior ABC journalist chose to do in describing that manifesto. Listen.
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23-year-old Robin Westman was able to leave what police called a video manifesto that they’re now going through to try and establish motive. We’ve also been going through it and can tell you there are crude diagrams of the church. There are also photos of the weapons, and they include all sorts of writings, the names of past mass shooters, criticism of Israel, the name of President Trump.
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The name of President Trump, which makes you… Did it just say Donald Trump? Did it say Trump on the stock or on the barrel? No, it said kill Trump, right?
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Kill Trump, but he left that out so that the viewers of his report would think that he’s a Trump supporter. Mark, that is that is scurrilous. That is repulsive. He did. And you know, he did it on purpose. The name of you think leaving out kill Donald Trump is a little key thing.
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That’ll do it for Thursday. Thanks so much for joining us. Thanks to the team, of course, Eric and Tracy and Christian and Alex. We’ll do it again tomorrow for a Friday episode. Hope you can join us then. Have a great day. Be safe and keep fighting the good fight. I’m Mike Gallagher. God bless America.
The episode also dives into the political shifts of figures such as Michael Steele and Tim Walz, where personal beliefs appear to starkly contradict public statements, begging the question of performative politics versus true conviction. As they dissect these changes, Mike and Mark confront the unsettling acceptance of a ‘political game’ that undermines real human impact.
