In this episode, Mike Gallagher delves into the murky waters of political identity and rhetoric. He discusses controversial statements made by Tim Walz and takes calls from listeners sharing their reactions. The conversation turns to how politicians often use code talking to sway certain demographics and the risks that come with such strategies. Join Mike as he unravels the implications of these tactics and what it means for the political landscape. The episode also features breaking news about Mike Waltz’s reported departure from his role in the White House. The discussion explores the potential reasons and rumors swarming around
He’s the happy conservative warrior. Mike Gallagher. Broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide. And seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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Sometimes I’m a dog with a bone. I can’t get over the thing that Tim Walsh said yesterday about… why he was on the ticket. I don’t want to play the Kamala Harris clip. I can’t torture you. I tortured you enough with a little bit of a bit that I did, a shtick I did about turning my mic off over disagreeable callers. We’re not going back to that. Don’t worry. I can’t do that to you or me again. So I don’t want to torture you, and I don’t want to upset you. It’s not my mission to come to work and figure out ways to aggravate you. So I’m not going to play Kamala, and it was more of the same. My goodness, we were so lucky. We dodged a bullet in such a huge way, I can’t even begin to tell you how fortunate we are that we’re not having to deal with a Kamala Harris presidency. I just shudder. I shudder at what we would be going through if Kamala Harris and Tim Walz were in the White House. But Tim Walz said something yesterday that was so ugly, and it’s not even sort of a… You can’t slough it off. You know what I mean? You can’t just shrug it off and say, you know, oh, well, so be it. That’s okay. It’s not okay. It’s not okay. The Democrats crave identity politics. The left loves… Identity politics. They’re all about it. I’m more oppressed than you are. There was an exchange last night on CNN that proved it. Ana Navarro got into a shouting match with a contributor who happens to be conservative and black, and that smug, sanctimonious Ana Navarro tried to equate illegal immigration with blacks coming over in slave ships from Africa. And the guy, the conservative, was understandably upset. She doubled down. And it was so cringy. He said, you’re going to tell me about blacks and slave ships? She goes, well, I’m Latino. I’m Latino and my people are being oppressed by Donald Trump. Look at me. I’m more oppressed than you are. It was just hideous. These people can’t help themselves. They say out loud what we’re all thinking about them. And what Tim Walsh said is so shocking. He was on a panel somewhere, and he was talking about why he was on the ticket, why he was selected to be president. Kamala Harris’s vice presidential running mate. We all know the story. We all know what really happened. The smart pick would have been Josh Shapiro. She didn’t want to offend the anti-Semites in her tribe, in her party. The AOCs and the Rashida Tlaibs would be angry if a Jewish man was her vice presidential running mate. So she went with this doofus. And the guy is a doofus. He’s just a goober. He’s kind of a clown. He’s not a serious guy. Every time you see him, you just get embarrassed for him and for Minnesota. I don’t know. Is he popular there? Do people like this guy? How can you like him after what he admitted to yesterday? I have to play this for you. Again, I don’t think there’s anything funny about it. I know people mock the flamboyance of the guy in the jazz hands and he pretended to change the carburetor and all that crap. But it was by design. Remember the video when he was trying to, you know, he was under the hood of the car or the truck? Look at what I’m doing today. I’m changing, I’m fixing my carburetor. And then he was out hunting one day. And it was just, according to hunters, it was embarrassing. He didn’t know how to load the gun, they said. But it was by design. And he admitted it yesterday. Yesterday.
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I knew I was on the ticket. I would argue because we did a lot of amazing progressive things in Minnesota that improved people’s lives. But I also was on the ticket, quite honestly, you know, because I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck, doing that, that I could put them at ease. I was the permission structure to say, look, you can do this and vote for this.
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What? You were on the ticket to talk in code? to white guys fixing their trucks? You were the permission slip to vote for this? What does he mean by this? The black lady? Oh my gosh! That absolutely takes my breath away. Am I overreacting here? Or is that as bad as I think it is? Let me ask you. Let me turn to you. 1-800-655-MIKE. Give me your reaction to what you just heard coming out of the mouth of the governor of Minnesota. I was picked so I could talk in code to white men to give them permission to vote for this. Meaning Kamala Harris. Wow. 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. I need your voice front and center here in this Thursday episode of the Mike Gallagher Show in the Relief Factor Studios. Honest to gosh, I come to work thinking nothing can shock me, nothing can surprise me about these loony leftists. But that’s about as bad as it gets. Give me your reaction to it. 800-655-MIKE. Join us.
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I knew I was on the ticket. I would argue because we did a lot of amazing progressive things in Minnesota that improved people’s lives. But I also was on the ticket, quite honestly, you know, because I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck, doing that, that I could put them at ease. I was the permission structure to say, look, you can do this and vote for this.
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That’s hard to believe. That’s just absolutely hard to believe. Let me get your reaction to all of it there, because that’s about as bad as it gets. Admitting that the ticket was all about talking in code to white men to give them permission to vote for this. I can only presume he means a black woman. Brian’s in Columbus, Ohio. We’ll start there. Hey, Brian, thanks for joining us. How are you? How are you, Mike? Good, good. What do you make of Tim Walsh’s remark yesterday?
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I think it’s a continuation of divide and conquer. I think it’s a part of the division exclude and intercept policies. And he spilled the beans. He admitted it. He basically proved that they have to talk to different groups of people, whether it’s race or background, so they can get their message across. They can’t tell you their message out front to the masses. They have to divide and conquer, and it’s just part of that.
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And they’ve got to talk in code. They’ve got to try to deceive people, I guess.
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When you have to get dumber candidates, because… Smart people won’t run on this party, and smart people won’t listen to their policies. The dumber the person, the easier it is for them to slip up and steal the beans.
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Well, and speaking of which, I think Tim Walz lacks the sophistication that’s required to try to fool people by keeping this agenda quiet. He’s just not bright enough to, you know, he once called himself a knucklehead. He’s a self-described knucklehead. And so here he is saying, I’m the token white man for the Democrat Party. Now look, it’s not that far removed from the whole decision for Kamala to be Joe Biden’s running mate in the first place. Biden admitted it. I’m going to check a box, he essentially said. I want a woman of color. I want a black woman. And that’s who he found. It doesn’t get any more identity politics driven than that, does it? Phil in Pittsburgh. Phil, hi. You’re on the Mike Gallagher Show. Hello.
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Hey, good morning, Mike. Yeah, it’s Phil with a B. No worries.
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Oh, sorry, Bill.
SPEAKER 01 :
Got Phil on the screen. No worries. No worries. It’s all good. Hey, yes, I’m calling from Pittsburgh. So, you know, I’m one of those white guys that watches football. I’m not a fanatic. I am a fan. However, you know, I look at the Democrats. They just don’t get it, Mike. They don’t get the message. You just use the word identity politics. Another thing that I’ll bring up is projectionism. You know, what they often accuse, and again, I’m a longstanding, what I’ll call hardcore conservative. I’m a conservative first, Republican second. So why say that? I’ll give due consideration to any candidate. Certainly, Josh Shapiro here in Pennsylvania has done some things that I will agree with. He’s a moderate. He is a very commonsensical politician. Sometimes he’ll obviously make decisions based upon… you know, what the wins are telling him to do. But he just seems a lot more genuine. He would have been a better pick. Do you know what I’ll suggest?
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You know what I’ll say? And we’ll never know, thank goodness. Had she picked Josh Shapiro, I think she would have won.
SPEAKER 01 :
She might have won Pennsylvania for sure. But you took the words right out of my mouth. Even if she would have picked him, A Harris presidency would have been an absolute disaster. We could talk about all those things there. But, you know, and you just mentioned with the other caller, I’ll reflect back to the debate. You know, J.D. Vance, very, very intelligent person. I just think the guy is cool, calm, collected. He has a sense of humility. You know, even during that debate, Tim Walz admits, you know, he just can’t talk himself out of a situation.
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And I’m also intrigued by the relative low profile of J.D. Vance. I’m glad you mentioned him. Thanks a bunch for the call. Have you noticed how J.D. Vance is not really front and center? And that has to be by design. And I think that’s part of the gig with Donald Trump. Nobody steals the spotlight from him. But it just seems intriguing to me that J.D. Vance has not been, I would argue, maybe not even as prominent as Mike Pence was in Trump’s first term. He’s doing the work, and he’s slugging away, and he’s doing what he needs to do. But he’s just not… Top of mind. And I find that a little bit intriguing. Nobody really seems to have pointed that out yet, but I’ve noticed it. Here’s a lot of text messages on the MyPillow text line. And incidentally, just another big thank you for our big, successful MyPillow day on Monday. We sold over $121,000 of merchandise on Monday alone to celebrate Mike Lindell and MyPillow. Portions of our show are sponsored by MyPillow. And gosh, if it’s been a while since you’ve been there… to been to the site, go to MyPillow.com. They’ve got a whole new look. If you look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square, click on that box, and with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. Pillows, slippers, the Giza Dream Sheets, great gifts. You’re sending a kid off to college in the fall. You might want to stock them up with sheets and pillows and loungewear and slippers and everything else. And even the cross. Have you seen the story in the New York Times? This is hysterical. The New York Times did a story. Oh, people are wearing crosses around their neck all of a sudden. Like that’s a new phenomenon. That the New York Times just discovered. Anyway, the cross that Mike wears, which is a beautiful cross. I was with him in person on Monday and saw it up close and personal. That cross is available as well on the site. So go to MyPillow.com. Again, find that Mike Gallagher special square. Click on the box and with anything you order, you’ve got to enter the promo code MikeG to get the huge cost savings. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me. For the best night’s sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. So speaking of the MyPillow text line, here’s Minnesota. This is Rick. Sad to say, Tim Walz has ruined the state of Minnesota. There was a day when Minnesotans’ only embarrassment was the Minnesota Vikings losing four Super Bowls. West Virginia. So Tim Walz thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room by demeaning white guys and blacks? What an arrogant idiot. And finally, from Dayton, Ohio, Mike, Tim Waltz is the sales guy who thinks his customers like him, but he has zero relationship and zero rapport. Just a total lack of awareness, total lack of self-awareness, and that’s true. Incidentally, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe my read on J.D. is a little bit off. Nevada writes, Mike, J.D. Vance is all over the place. What do you mean by that? And Georgia, J.D. made several prominent speeches four or five weeks ago. Maybe it’s just my perception, you know. And we’re all kind of in bubbles and we get our information from certain sources. And, you know, I’m paid to kind of have a good working knowledge of everything across the board. Maybe I’m all wet on that. Maybe J.D. is everywhere. That just isn’t my perception. What do you think? 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. There’s so many messages being hurled at you about how to lose weight, the medications. Do your homework on the medications. The millions and millions being spent on semaglutide. Are you kidding? You want to be addicted to a shot in the belly for the rest of your life? Take a natural approach, not connected to Big Pharma’s bottom line. You can do it with the help of PhD Weight Loss, and I’ve got a big offer for you today. The first 11 callers who mention Mike will get two free weeks added to their program. When you call their number, I’m going to give you the number in a minute. And when you fully commit to PhD weight loss, you’ll get 15% off your entire program and a free weight loss and energy supplement bundle. Your program is always backed by their get results guarantee. Some restrictions apply. Just mention the keyword Mike when you make the call. it is. 864-644-1900. If I can lose 53 pounds and keep it off, you can too. Anyone can do this. You can do it from anywhere in America. PhD Weight Loss. Schedule your consultation today by calling 864-644-1900. That’s 864-644-1900 or visit MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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Okay, we start the hour with some breaking news. Mike Waltz is reportedly out as Trump’s national security advisor. He is reportedly out, as well as his deputy, Alex Wong. I’m getting a lot of text messages and feedback, which I love. I love the real-time feedback I get. Well, not always. Yesterday was a little bumpy because I had fun doing a little bit of a bit. I did a shtick that not everybody understood or got, but I had a good time with it. Mark Davis had a good time with it. He called me. He was all jazzed about the new me turning off my mic and letting people talk after I got yelled at for interrupting too much. And incidentally, I know I interrupt too much. I work on it. I try. But it’s not easy. I’m an emotional guy. I sit here and people say things that I want to challenge and I can’t put a sock in it. I am, you know, paid to be a talk show host. It kind of is. It is my show. But I always say I try to work on it. So yesterday we had some fun because… I invited people who didn’t vote for Trump to tell me why, how you’re reacting to the news that the border is secure finally, after just 100 days. And a guy called, I know why I got in trouble, because I mixed it up with him and I kept, I did interrupt him, and he was a nice guy. He was a little lost, he didn’t really, he couldn’t make his point, and I just wanted to try to get him to stick to the point. Anyway, the bit went over very well with many of you, but not everybody liked it. There was an American Airlines employee in Chicago who hated it. You’re so rude and you lost a listener. I’ll never listen to you. I always love it when one moment makes you write me and tell me you’re never going to listen or watch ever again. And I always, I love the line I’ve seen on social media. You’re not a train station. You don’t need to announce your departure. We’ll miss you. Bye-bye. Sorry that the one thing I did with one caller enrages you enough that you’re going to write an email with the American Airlines auto signature. That was the best part. I couldn’t help it. I wrote him back. I don’t often write emails back, but I couldn’t resist. I said, are you representing the views of American Airlines or just your own? Because if you’re trying to impress me by working for American Airlines, I’m unimpressed. He didn’t like that. He goes, this is my auto signature. I’ve been here many years. Okay, knock yourself out. The people like that who have such a complete, shocking lack of self-awareness crack me up. Sometimes I want to say, you realize you’re emailing and arguing about a disembodied voice you hear on the radio or a face you see on the Salem News Channel screen. You understand that, right? I’m just a big mouth talk show host. You don’t need to get that agitated. So when I have some fun, and then I did a bit, and it was a bit. The poor guy that was trying to wish me a happy birthday, I didn’t answer him. So then the same people who were mad at me at interrupting the guy from Chicago said, Then you were mad at me for not talking. I can’t win. I cannot win. I interrupt too much or I don’t interrupt enough. I got an idea. If you’re so good at this, you come do the show. I’ll take a nice vacation. You come in and do it. Anyway, let me get back to work here. So CBS and Fox News and other news media outlets are reporting that the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be leaving their posts in the Trump White House. Now, this is coming after, of course, this infamous online chat. A lot of people don’t even know what Signal Chat means. Signal is an app that either government officials may or may not use. I don’t know. All of it kind of gave me a headache. where it was an error and somehow Jeffrey Goldberg, a lefty from a leftist publication called The Atlantic, wound up on that chat. And there were allegedly discussions disclosed about plans for a military strike on the Houthis in Yemen. And at the time… Trump seemed to be standing by Mike Waltz. Now, the rumor mill is just spinning wildly right now. There’s one rumor that Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth don’t really see eye to eye. They have competing world views. There’s a rumor that Steve Witkoff is going to replace Mike Waltz. Mark Halperin, the longtime political analyst, has a podcast called Two-Way, and he addressed it moments ago. We grabbed the clip. I want to share it with you.
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So this morning, just to take you a little bit behind the curtain, I was headed into my location to do the program, and I got a text from a very nice source who said, you want to call me. And it turns out that three different people, the original source and two others, have confirmed that the plan now by the White House is to remove the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, who was on Fox News this morning just not that long ago, and his deputy, Alex Wong, and much of the member current staff team at the National Security Council. because of unhappiness throughout the national security establishment of how they’re doing the west wing’s unhappy the state department the treasury unhappiness and of course this was around before signal gate it was widely reported that signal gate ironically may have saved waltz’s job because the president didn’t want to be seen as if he were giving in to jeffrey goldberg his new best friend um But there’s lots of levels of unhappiness. And it’s less about Signalgate than it is about, as I understand it from my sources, a general belief that it’s not being run efficiently in an organized way.
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Yikes. Well, he was right, apparently, because it sounds like Mike Waltz is out at the White House. You know, and the comments that I’m getting from people are saying the bigger problem was Alex Wong. And that guy has a little bit of a checkered history and a surprise to have such a high-ranking position in the Trump administration. But there it is. A lot of people believe that it was Alex Wong who added the journalist, and maybe, perhaps, not so innocently. I don’t know. Again, lots of rumors. Trump’s got to make sure people are around him who are loyal, who are going to do the job. Trump is very, very loyal to those who are loyal to him. And I’m a Mike Waltz fan. I think he’s fantastic. We’ve interviewed him a few times over the years. But that’s the breaking news that you get ready for. Also, get ready for this. Get ready for Anna Navarro. The CNN panel last night, I got to play the latest Abby Phillips panel meltdown as Anna Navarro tried to use identity politics and sure Michael Singleton, one of the conservatives on that panel, wasn’t having it. It got so bad that the moderator had to cut to commercial. On top of that, I’ve got Will Kane mixing it up with Congressman Dan Goldman from New York. maybe one of the dumbest members of Congress. I don’t get this guy. Trying to invoke the 25th Amendment against Trump, and Will Kane wasn’t having that either. So buckle up. We’ve also got a lot of great things to cover on this busy Breaking News Thursday in the Relief Factor studios. Welcome in.
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It is absurd after years of refusing to acknowledge the truth when it comes to Joe Biden and seemingly manufacturing a truth when it comes to Donald Trump. I hope that’s where we can agree and then move to more substantive debate.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, look, Will, I don’t know whether it’s incompetence, cognitive abilities, ignorance, or just plain flat-out lying, but Donald Trump doesn’t know that a photo he’s showing is Photoshopped. He doesn’t know that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 against him. He’s got Elon Musk in the Oval Office doing press conferences. He doesn’t understand what trade deficits are and is tanking our economy. So you can call it whatever you want, but it’s been a pretty disastrous first 100 days. Wow.
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First of all, I could debate you on each and every one of those things you just laid out, but I don’t think you can call it whatever you want. I think that’s an incorrect statement, Congressman. I think words have meaning and they matter. And I think you know that. I think we have to be careful with our words, especially if we’re not trying to inflame the public and most certainly if we’re trying to arrive at the truth. And after four years of having us gaslighted over the… The competency, the mental acuity of the previous president, it’s absurd to question, even if you disagree, Congressman, and clearly you do with much of the president, the competency of the sitting president today. I think the accuracy and truth of those words do matter.
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Well, I don’t think he’s competent, Will. I don’t know what to tell you. Whether his cognitive abilities are sufficient to get past the 25th Amendment, we don’t know that right now. But I think what is clear is that he has driven our country into a disastrous economy. He is undermining the fundamental rule of law in democracy. He is taking away benefits in order to cut taxes for the rich. I think even you, Will, would have to agree with me that this first 100 days is not at all what he promised the American people.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, I’m sorry to notify you. I do not agree with you. I think this first 100 days is exactly what he promised the American people. And more importantly, exactly what was voted on by the American people.
SPEAKER 08 :
Really? I think the American people thought that he was going to lower costs, not raise them.
SPEAKER 09 :
Congressman, first of all, he talked about bringing tariffs in for 40 years. He did lower. Inflation is down. The stock market has been on a roller coaster because of tariffs. And it has never been promised to be an overnight solution. It is a long-term play to reorganize the global economy to bring manufacturing back to America. It’s fair to you to point out that it’s going to be rocky in the beginning. That’s fair. But I would hope that I’m not the only person trying to have a fair conversation here. I have here a list of topics that I thought maybe you’d be interested in talking about. I looked at your feed. You have concerns about potential cuts to Medicare, Medicaid. You have potential concerns about cuts to FEMA. But you have chosen to come here with me today. And I’m disappointed in this. I’m being honest with you, Congressman. And talked about the 25th Amendment. There’s a difference between you and I disagreeing. And there’s a difference between you disagreeing with the president and what the minority leader in you have now just done. And you suggested to the American people, because you disagree, which you have an American right to do, that somehow all of a sudden he needs to see the 25th Amendment invoked on the president of the United States. I’m not confident we’re off to a productive conversation on potential cuts to FEMA.
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Well, look, I didn’t bring up the issue. You brought up the issue, and I said I don’t know whether or not the 25th Amendment would apply. I didn’t bring up the 25th Amendment. Well, that’s what, yes, I’m referencing the standard for cognitive competence in the presidency is the 25th Amendment. I have not spoken with him. I don’t know whether he is or he isn’t. What I’m just talking about is what has actually happened in these first hundred days. And I’m happy to have that conversation with you because it is not what he promised America. It is not what he campaigned on.
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Look, I respect that you and I, or you and the president, have different visions for America. I can respect if you want to come out here like Bernie Sanders and say that you envision Medicare for all. That’s a substantive debate that we may have. But to sit here today and question the competency of a president… because you don’t like the current policies, is exactly the kind of position that puts us in when we see, I think, Congressman, two attempts on the life of the president. For the right to question, for Republicans to question the competency of Joe Biden over the past four years is legitimate because it was the truth. But there is no truth. You have no evidence to bring up whatsoever about the mental competency of President Trump.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, look, I’m trying to focus with you right now on what he’s actually done. The tariffs that he has imposed are completely reckless. Every executive I talk to, I represent Wall Street, Will. I speak to bank executives. They have no idea what his strategy is because what he claims his strategy is. will not work. It will be three years before any manufacturing comes here. And are we trying to go back to the 1950s with manufacturing? What he is doing makes no sense. And that’s why the stock market is tanking. That’s why the economy, for the first time since COVID, shrunk in the first quarter. The GDP shrunk, we learned today. So let’s focus on what he’s actually doing, not inflame all these allegations that I frankly don’t really care about. I’m focused on how the American people are hurting right now and will hurt more if this reconciliation bill passes.
SPEAKER 09 :
I’ve let you talk because I do want to move this conversation into a substantive environment, but I also want the record to be clear and reflect the fact I’m not the one that took it to the 25th Amendment. I’m not the one looking to inflame. I’m looking for substance.
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They say that guy Dan Goldman is some kind of darling of Wall Street. If that’s the case, that doesn’t speak well of Wall Street.
