In this episode, join us as we delve deep into the nuances of current political climates and media dynamics. We discuss a viral protest video that has captivated social media, highlighting the societal responses and underlying tensions. Continuing with an analysis of immigration policies over the past decades, we scrutinize the shifting narratives and what they signify for future policies.
Well, welcome back. Have you seen the video of the guy waving the flag that gets surrounded by a bunch of anti-ice protesters?
SPEAKER 02 :
Where?
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh, Mark, it’s everywhere on X. I mean, where geographically did it happen? I don’t even know, to tell you the truth. I don’t think Minneapolis, maybe somebody can text me and tell me where it is. It’s epic. Look, I’m not pro-violence, obviously. None of us are. We’re not advocating violence. This guy’s just waving an American flag in the middle of a crowd of these, you know, filthy anti-ICE, anti-law enforcement protesters. So he gets it. He’s finally, he’s got no more blanks to give. And they’re in his face and they’re like shoving a megaphone in his face and pushing on him and spitting on. He finally just puts the flag down and he goes to town. Mark, he drops all of them one by one. One guy goes marching up to him. He pulls it. The one kid, it looks like he’s about 25 years old. He pulls off his gloves. He goes, all right, MFR, you want to go? He goes up to the guy. The guy just puts him to sleep. Just one. He is just. Now, I saw a report somewhere that he’s facing charges. No. I know, I know, but look, these protesters, what kind of person decides to go around and object to law enforcement? Have you seen the montages of all the Democrats who’ve been demanding mass deportation for the last 20 years? Oh, yeah. Oh, you’ve got to see the one. One of them with Barack Obama, Bill Clinton. Look, those administrations deported way more than the Trump administration has deported.
SPEAKER 02 :
There’s old Schumer cuts of him in the 90s talking about the need for borders and the need to have some control over who comes in. And that’s just completely all gone now. It’s gone.
SPEAKER 01 :
Out the window, because it’s Trump. And Trump got elected on that promise. Meanwhile, look around at what’s happening. Mortgage rates are finally down below 6% for the first time in years. U.S. gas prices officially fell to an average of $2.70 a gallon. This is the lowest it’s been since March of 2021. I mean, we’ve got such good things. And look, Trump is going to take on Iran. We have a colleague in South Carolina named Tara. She does the morning show on 98.9 WORD. She is smart as a whip. And she did analysis today about what we should be doing with Iran. And obviously her takeaway is we’ve got to take out the mullahs. We’ve got to end this. And she connects the dots so brilliantly between the Democrats – i.e. John Kerry, the Biden administration, and how the Democrats opened the door for Iran to do what it’s doing and be where it’s at. The billions of dollars and the pallets of cash and all the garbage moves that the Democrats made. And now the chickens have come home to roost. And so I want to play some of her commentary on my show later today so you can hear.
SPEAKER 02 :
How’s that going over? I’d love to know what’s in your head and your heart about this. Because Trump’s instinct, my instinct, I think yours, to do something. Iran? Iran? It is a country that has been under the boot of these theocratic mullah monsters since 1979. And they’ve had it. They’ve had it up to their eyeballs with this. Of course, the economy is tanking, too, which will add to the tension on the streets of Tehran and other cities where millions have taken to the streets in just the last few weeks. and they’re getting killed. There’s a guy who may be executed publicly today for taking part in some of these protests, as the Iranian regime shows, you know, flexes its muscle. We hate that. I played a little bit of Rand Paul yesterday from Meat Press, and he said, look, we should root for these people. We should hope that their reform is successful. But as soon as we start to talk about an American military intervention to bring that about, that’s where he begins to blanch. I had a couple of callers who did, too. Why am I good with this? Are you? I mean, it’s not just because, ooh, it’s Trump, so we like it. I just feel like Iran is a sufficient danger and a sufficient poison that trying to help this people’s revolution seems like a good thing.
SPEAKER 01 :
But what about you? I’m good with it, too. You know, making America great again doesn’t mean that we operate in a vacuum. We’re not the only country in the world, and it’s impossible not to make… draw a through line between uh frankly what hamas did to to israel on october the 7th iran the mullahs and according to axios president trump is leaning towards striking iran to punish the regime for killing the protesters hasn’t made a final decision yet he’s exploring um you know diplomacy uh in looking at Iranian proposals for negotiations. But look, this is the same pushback. The Rand Paul pushback is the same pushback that Trump is getting on any of the events that are happening on the world stage. And I fear that it’s an oversimplification. Look, Rand Paul… is a stone cold isolationist. I don’t say that to smear him either, because I think he makes a lot of sense. There’s a lot of merit, a lot of wisdom, but he doesn’t want us to have, he doesn’t want to spend one penny anywhere else. It’s America only, America only. America first doesn’t mean America only, Mark. And we’re going to do this at our own peril because our borders, our soil is at risk. Our people are at risk if we don’t understand the complexities of dealing with Iran, of dealing with North Korea, of dealing with China. We cannot cut ourselves off and say, well, we’re only going to worry about Russia. What we do here in America and not pay one dime or spend any resources anywhere else, I think that’s short-sighted and overly simplistic.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 02 :
And I wonder what the over-under is, not to prod you or anybody else. What’s the over-under on before Tucker Carlson comes out and says it’ll open up World War III or IV or whatever we’re on right now if Trump takes any kind of action against him?
SPEAKER 01 :
When you were off yesterday, or not off, but we didn’t do the Eminem, but I interviewed Garrett Seawright over at Barrett Media. Garrett is reporting on this riff among conservative media influencers. And, you know, when you look at it, it really happened, it really began, I think, after Charlie was killed. After Charlie was assassinated, it feels like there were all these fissures that started erupting. Now, maybe that’s an oversimplification, but that’s what it at least feels like in my…
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SPEAKER 02 :
It was a flashpoint. That’s when it just blew up, because I think those had been simmering before, and Tucker and a few other people, Candace had already started to go nuts, so there was a little bit of that. There was a little bit of self-aggrandizement, and this is my lane, which in free speech gives them the right to do, but when Charlie died, they perceived a vacuum, and they said, oh, ho, ho. There are a lot of people looking for guidance, looking for content, looking for clicks. Let me go in and fill that with either my anti-Semitism, Nick Fuentes, my weird America-only-ism, Tucker Carlson, my anti-Semitism, Candace Owens. So you’re right in identifying Charlie’s death as a moment where it spiked.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah. And it’s a good way to put it to a flashpoint. And boy, if you look at some of that and I look, my problem is I like all of them. Well, most of them anyway. I Mark Levin, Mark Levin and Megan Kelly.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, absolutely. But Fuentes is garbage. But you look at Mark. Tucker is broken.
SPEAKER 01 :
But you look at Mark Levin and Megyn Kelly, two of the heavyweights, and they are going at it like nobody’s business.
SPEAKER 02 :
Team Levin. Megyn Kelly is lost. She is lost.
SPEAKER 01 :
No, she’s not. No, she’s not. Don’t do that. Don’t. You know, this is what I mean.
SPEAKER 02 :
Kelly believes that Candace Owens is right to just ask questions about whether the Jews had Charlie Kirk killed. You’re making a mistake.
SPEAKER 01 :
Don’t take sides. Don’t take sides on this. Why not? Because you’re because you don’t have to. You don’t have to take a side because what? Because they want you to. You don’t have to take a side.
SPEAKER 02 :
It’s not binary in that Levin is always right and Megan is now of no value. I’m not saying that. In this chapter, Megan has lost her way, and she is so great on so many other things. I long for her.
SPEAKER 01 :
In what chapter? What are you talking about? In this chapter. What chapter?
SPEAKER 02 :
of the so-called, I believe, wholly invented, wholly concocted, thoroughly inside our bubble, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, between groipers and influencers and podcasters. 90% of people listening right now don’t give a damn about any of that. It is an inside-the-bubble media affectation.
SPEAKER 01 :
You’re being sort of, you’re sort of saying we got to make, we got to decide here. And this is what, this is part of the narrative on this. Well, you better be on either Team Megan or Team Mark Levin. And that’s dumb.
SPEAKER 02 :
In that debate, as they go against each other, as they go sniping each other.
SPEAKER 01 :
They’re not going meh, meh, meh. It’s DEFCON 1.
SPEAKER 02 :
As they savage each other on Team Mark Levin 100%.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, and you’re alienating probably half the audience who says, look, Mark is sort of myopic on the issue of Israel. Where did he, where, where?
SPEAKER 02 :
I could not care less whom I alienate by offering up a passionately personal view.
SPEAKER 01 :
But why do you feel like you need to alienate anybody on this?
SPEAKER 02 :
Because willful blindness to stupidity is stupidity.
SPEAKER 01 :
It’s not willful blindness. It’s not taking a side and disparaging somebody like Megyn Kelly, who frankly, she has the attitude of… Bring every voice to the table and let the audience decide.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, ignore him. Then ignore him. But what do you care if somebody interviews this guy and then you…
SPEAKER 01 :
Ignore it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Because that is a major media figure, a person who purports to be a big deal, saying to an audience, this is someone who deserves attention. And if they feel that way, they are lost. They have every right to be lost, every right to interview whomever they wish. And silly me, I have the right to consider that a bad thing to do.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, I think you just feel compelled to sort of pick sides on all of this. Yes, when it’s obvious, yes, I will. And I do feel strongly that there’s a part of our business that ought – this brings me back many, many, many years ago when I worked in Albany, New York. There was a local guy named Ernst Zundel who put Holocaust-denying propaganda on cable access locally. And I was upset about it because I thought there’s impressionable people are going to see this guy and they’re going to believe that the Holocaust didn’t exist. So I wanted to interview him. And I did. When I interviewed him, the local Jewish community like protested me. They showed up in the parking lot of the station. There were Holocaust survivors and their attitude was just what you’re saying. Don’t give this the light of day. Don’t talk to these people.
SPEAKER 02 :
But that’s completely different because did you challenge the Holocaust deniers? Of course I did. Then you did the right thing and it was a good thing for you to do. And there are a lot of people out there who do not know that Holocaust denial exists. And it does. You did a good thing that day. I, by the way, did the same thing in Washington in 1993. And it was the good and right thing to do. But we know these morons exist. We know this worldview exists that Charlie Kirk was killed by the Jews. We need to be told 475 times.
SPEAKER 01 :
So your beef with Tucker and or Megan is… It would have been okay to interview Nick Fuentes if Tucker had just pushed back.
SPEAKER 02 :
Without giving him a foot rub. Exactly right.
SPEAKER 01 :
Okay. Well, I guess that’s certainly an arguable position and a position that’s with merit.
SPEAKER 02 :
As we often do for the last couple of minutes with skill and love in the room, this is exactly where a little corner of conservative media and conservative thought… is whom to platform, whom to cast attention to when it’s time to move on past some other people. What do you do? And I totally understand and respect your thought and those who agree with you. I totally, I get it. I get it.
SPEAKER 01 :
I get it, too. Well, and let’s end with James Woods, who made a great post about Karens. Because a lot of the, look, I love the meme that says that America’s greatest enemy right now is the white liberal woman. Yeah. And incidentally, quick sidebar on the protests, the anti-ice protests. Have you noticed there aren’t any black or Hispanic protesters? What is going on? Well, I’m going to talk about that on the show today. There’s a great red state analysis about why you’re not seeing any black or Hispanic anti-ice protesters. But anyway, white liberal women, we call I call them Karen’s all the time. Every time I talk about Karen, I get some pushback from somebody named Karen.
SPEAKER 02 :
I know. I get a call from Karen in Grapevine or Karen in Rowlett. It’s like, oh, I feel so sorry, man. Dang. I’m sorry what’s happened to you.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, James Woods writes, while we’re at it, I have a cousin named Karen, one of my favorite people on earth, a remarkable person. Enough with the Karen jokes, please. And then he goes on to say, and most importantly, special needs people suffer enough. Retard is a disgraceful and cruel word. Enough already. Boy, do I agree with him. Ready to shelve completely. Absolutely. Hear, hear. All right. Glad you’re back. Boy, they’re really going to be mad when I’m off a few days next week, aren’t they? Oh, dude. I know. Look, I’m burning some days this year. I’m not taking less than half my allotted vacation days this year. I’m taking my time. Good for you. Use them or lose them. I love you, man. King Tut is going to be off for a few days next week. I love you. See you tomorrow.
SPEAKER 02 :
That is Mike Gallagher at 10 o’clock. He’s going to rock right here on 660 AM. For full shows live and on demand, it’s the Salem News Channel.
