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Upgrade to smooth high quality streaming with Intel Wi Fi 6e and maximize game performance with enhanced overclocking. Win the tech search and head to lenovo.com lenovo Lenovo broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty and now here's Armstrong and Getty President Trump announced his 2020 25% tariff on all cars not made in the United States. He says that these tariffs kick in on April 2nd and the United States will start collecting on April 3rd. So we're just a couple of days away from 25% tariffs kicking on cars that aren't made in the United States in theory. So if that happens, I have no idea what that's going to do to the car market. Neither does anybody else. Course it depends on how long it lasts too. But while that's something. Yeah. I wonder if are folks flooding to the various German car brand dealers to get in under the wire or what? Well, you, you understand this stuff better than me so. Well that, that'll make all cars more expensive, right? One, all cars can. Yeah, yeah. There are a lot of depends when you're talking about tariffs and their effect on consumer prices just because of the different nature of different products, price elasticity, you know, how much competition there is domestically. There's just a bunch of factors. But yes, it will make all cars more expensive. Well, it's cars and parts a little or a lot. And I was looking at a chart yesterday. I wish I'd have screen captured it because this is pretty interesting. Tesla is 100% every bit of it made in the United States. That's why we're setting fire to them jack, we liberals. Then next you get to Ford which is like 75% everything in the United States and a couple percentage of parts come from Mexico and Canada. Then some stuff that comes from somewhere else but then it just, it goes, goes on down the road to where you get to stuff that ain't. Ain't nothing made in the United States with the different car makers. So it varies from maker to maker. Well and a lot of the foreign, you know, makers have gigantic plants in the U. S so it's, it's tough to know just by the name or you know. Oh yeah, it's Hyundai. Korean. Yeah. But they've, I think they have a giant plant plant in Tennessee or something anyway so that'll be interesting to see unfold. It's all a bit chaotic if it's moving toward actual more reciprocal tariffs, therefore lower tariffs eventually I'd like to see that. Plus the supreme court needs to weigh in on whether Trump can actually do what he's doing, citing in a national emergency of, of fentanyl. Therefore we must put a 25% tariff on BMWs. God. I made a, I made a purchase yesterday. I just, I can't, I don't know. There's some obstinacy in me driving this. It is a Tesla brand vehicle that is like the ultimate. You go ahead and I'm gonna, and I'm picking it up this weekend and I'm gonna pull into my neighborhood where there are people who still have Harris wall signs. In their yard. Shame on you. And if your neighbor gets a Tesla. At this point, I feel like it's a deliberate message. I don't know. I just love the. I don't know. We'll see how this plays out. I have a feeling I'm gonna get keyed within a week. And my tires slashed. I better carry spare tires in the. In the bed or, you know, have your car on constant video mode. Oh, it is automatic. There's an upgrade. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, great. You know, there's no way to prove this. I'm just thinking out loud. Harris Walls was almost certainly. And I'm scanning my memory banks now, almost certainly the lowest IQ ticket in the history of American politics. Presidential politics. This guy could kick most of their ass. I could kick most of their ass. Like the right. Right cheek? Is that what you mean? Yeah. Well, yeah. And part of the left one. Yes. Most of their ass. And then. Then the word salad. Sommelier Su Kamala was at the head of the ticket. I mean, seriously, you'd have to dig deep. I mean, Buchanan was a bit of a paste eater, but anyway, speaking of the Supreme Court, as I was very. That makes me childish, though, I think. I mean, I mock this sort of thing. I like, two thirds wanted the vehicle anyway, but the extra third that got me across the line is it's just gonna annoy so many people that I don't mind. Annoying. Yeah. And I am not proud. Honestly. Honestly, though, I get what you're saying. We're all fighting back against the woke mind virus, the Neo Marxists, in ways great and small to the best of our ability. And that's a signal of defiance. No, I am not going to bow down to you in your wacky worldview. I like it. It's a little odd, but we'll see. Tip of the cap. Look at you go. Yeah, look at you. All right, so we don't just go over the news here and. And talk about it and try to bring you perspective. That's most of what we do. But this is more of a thinking thing here. The Supreme Court is going to be looking at some cases having to do with gerrymandering. Drawing of congressional districts. Gerrymandering is the old timey expression that means drawing up congressional districts intentionally, in a way, to gain political advantage, if you're not familiar with the term, which we were told in third grade is illegal. Yeah, absolutely. Unconstitutional, immoral, etc. We threw out the quote last hour from Joseph Stalin. The people who cast the votes don't decide an election the people who count the votes do. Well, you could add to old Joe's wisdom here. The people who draw the districts do. And I remember this from college when I was studying this stuff, hearing what you're about to hear. And as a wee lad of 18, 19 years old, I had exactly the same reaction to it now that I did then. I'll lay it on you. So a couple of days ago, Monday felt like Groundhog Day. Rights Legal analyst. It's the editorial board journal. Okay, there's yet another redistricting challenge. This one from Louisiana. And. And they say if the robe denied. Are tired of reviewing state maps because they're asked to over and over and over again. North Carolina was big case recently and several others. They could declare racial gerrymanders unconstitutional, full stop. Now, I have a feeling you're thinking, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You can draw congressional districts to achieve a specific racial outcome. How does that Square with title 2 or 9 or whatever, all the, you know, the Civil Rights act, all that stuff? Well, here's where it gets nutty. So Louisiana, like all the states trying to navigate this world of conflicting rules. If states weigh race too heavily, they run afoul of the Constitution's equal protection clause. But if they ignore race, they can be sued for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. And Louisiana has hit it both ways. First, you have progressives challenging the House map that the Republicans drew up after 2020 because it included only one majority minority district out of six. One out of six. That would be 17%. Right. Blacks make up 30% of Louisiana's voting age population. And the plaintiffs reasons that reason that two districts should be majority black, which would make it 34% of the districts. In essence, what Section 2 says, it doesn't establish a right to proportional representation. You don't have to demonstrate that. Hey, we got 1/5 black people in the state. One fifth of the districts are majority black, and they'll always vote for black folks. If I might depart from the facts here for a second, what is this assumption that black people have vastly different interests in electoral outcomes than white people? Where does that idea come from? Why would they, uh. I would like good schools and opportunities to have a job and a neighborhood where I'm not gonna get bashed over the head. And my, my, my stuff taken. Says like everybody anyway. But the liberal plaintiff cited the high court's terrible 1986 decision. I won't bother boring you with that test. Requires minority populations to be large, compact, and politically cohesive to constitute A majority minority district and that white votes suff as a group to defeat a minority's preferred candidate. Blah blah, blah, blah, blah. Can't we just get rid of this crap now as like simple geographic districts as possible that have the same population in them and not these snaking, weird, manipulated districts. Is there anybody who looks at that other than partisans who just want power and says nice job with that district? Yeah, I know. I, I doesn't every American look at him and say, what the hell is that? I spent most of my life like I learning in third grade that it was illegal. So I assumed they didn't do that until we, you know, I got into talk radio and started paying more attention and seeing how various districts I've lived in were drawn. And that's absolutely what happens all across the country. Yeah, and they work together, they work together to make sure they, they most the way they set this up is they want like 90% of seats to be safe and then they fight over the other 10%. That's the plan of the two major parties. That's an excellent point. Yeah. Brett Kavanaugh, God bless him, suggested during the oral arguments that one way to deal with this is to reverse that idiotic jingles case in or Gingles in 1986 and hold that Section 2 prohibits any consideration of race. Quote, the court's long said that race based remedial action must have a logical endpoint. Meaning the Supreme Court during its progressive years said, yeah, yeah, we're going to take this essentially affirmative action stuff, but you're right, it shouldn't go on forever. It's just to correct some wrong of the past and it should have an end point. And there's a chance anyway that the end point with our excellent, mostly conservative spring court is nearing. I certainly hope so. The way to get less racism is to have less racism. Go get them Supes. So Russia launched a huge drone attack on Kharkiv in Ukraine today and European leaders are having a big meeting about bolstering Ukraine's side that they're continuing to talk about European troops in Ukraine. Is there any way Putin's going to put up with that? I wouldn't think so, but anyway, they're actually talking about putting troops in Ukraine, like French and German and British. Wow. I have a strong opinion on this. I will withhold it until we were actually discussing it. 26 teams kick off the Major League baseball season today. That's most of them as it is opening day. Got some stats on that that are interesting, among other things. 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But Republicans Grilling the leader of NPR about past statements and beliefs and why they're so biased. And if you haven't heard this stuff, it's good. And just listening to this wench lie, lie and lie is amazing. You heard me. That's old timey. So Michael sent me this link from Google. Top searched ballpark food on this opening day. Oh, do we have Vince Scully ready, Michael? Oh yeah, here we go. Yeah, you'll hear anyway. 02 referenced on our show more than once. Socialism failing to work as it always does. This time in Venezuela. You talk about giving everybody something free and all of a sudden there's no food to eat. And who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela? The daughter of hugo Chavez. Hello? Anyway. Owen2 so I don't know why I would like the larger context. Why did Vin, how did Vin Scully get start on his little socialism is bad screed in between pitches? Well, it was 0 and 2. He knew the pitcher to waste a pitch. So I figured, you know, that was a good point. I wonder if it was like it was, you know, middle mid season game. Maybe the Dodgers weren't that good that year. He's a little bored. He's kind of like looking over the newspaper. Oh, freaking socialism. He decides. By the way, socialism once again being proven, it doesn't work. Guess who's the richest person in Venezuela? I loved Vin before. I heard that after. Please, I want a statue to him. Speaking of baseball, way to structure an economy. Anyway, 02 anyway. 02 love you, Vin. So Michael sent me this link. Top searched ballpark food on Google, state by state. Well, I. Okay, hang on. Why are you googling ballpark food at all? You're only going to know whether to be a Yankees fan or a Mets fan. So I'm gonna google bratwurst and see who has the better one. Or I was gonna go to my local team and watch them play. Or I'll hop on a flight because they have hot dogs with cheese in Texas. Yes, excellent nachos over there in Nevada. Yeah, I don't, I don't get what this is, Michael. Anyway, I can't imagining imagine searching on ballpark food. This is really interesting. Jared Diamond. Baseball's wealth gap has become a chasm, stretching the sport to the breaking point. The financial disparity between MLB's teams has never been greater. Right? And it's leading toward probably a long work stoppage and strike or lockout or something like that this year. Sooner or later. Here's the problem. You got the LA Dodgers who are going to lay out nearly a half a billion dollars on players salaries and luxury tax penalties this year. Half a billion. The Mets are just behind thanks to hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen, who's their new owner. So it's interesting. Number one, media market, L.A. number two, media market New York are one and two. Well yeah, and LA's got a huge lucrative local TV deal because they're a great team and a great TV market and there are a lot of Dodgers fans. And it's all about local money now because they don't share it in the same way the other leagues do. Don't have time to get into the details and you probably don't care anyway, but. So you got 4 or $500 million on the top end. Then you got the Miami Marlins, who have a $70 million payroll. Three other teams, 70 million total, the Tampa Bay Rays, Chicago White Sox and Athletics all come in under $90 million. Wow. Competing with teams spending half a billion and it just can't last. Now that's why I tend to root for those lower budget teams when they, when they get on a roll with a bunch of young players that aren't making that much money. And you got to root for them that year because if somebody stands out, they get snatched up by the Yankees match Dodgers, right? Yeah, absolutely. So the lying, lying she Wolf of Marxism was dragged before Congress yesterday. And the results. Fantastic. Stay with us. Armstrong and Getty. This is Jenny Garth from I do part two. 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Their products are free from seed oils, preservatives, toxins and artificial additives, something you can taste and feel in every packet. Go to symbiotica.com and use code iheart for 20% off and free shipping. That's symbiotica.com, code iheart. Do you think that white people should pay reparations? I have never said that, sir. Yes, you did. You said it in January of 2020. You tweeted yes, the north, yes, all of us, yes. America, yes. Our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes. Reparations? Yes. On this day. I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir. What kind of reparations was it a reference to? I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us. That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted. Okay, how much Reparations. Have you personally paid, Sir, I personally, I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations. Okay, just for everybody else, I'm not asking anyone. Seems to be what you're suggesting. Catherine Mayer of NPR again. And we featured a lot of audio of Brandon Gill, Congressman Brandon Gill, questioning her last hour. If you missed it, grab the podcast. Hour two, Armstrong and Getty on demand. Or I'm sorry, hour one, I guess. Yeah, hour one. And just remember this, Marxists like Catherine Mayer lie. They lie overtly, they lie constantly because they don't expect. Well, they expect nice people will think, well, I can't just call her a liar because that just, that seems mean and wrong. And people don't just lie to my face. Oh, yeah, she does. She lies all the time. I've never said that. I've never said that in my life. You tweeted it. Yeah, you did. Specifically and at length. In fact, you recommended a book whose whole premise was reparations. Now, I don't recall reading that book, sir. And by reparations, I didn't mean money. Okay. Anyway, our good old friend the wrestler who we made friends with there in Milwaukee, Jim Jordan, he got his chance to question her also in the hearing yesterday. Here's a little of that. Is NPR biased, Congressman? I have never seen any instance of never of political bias determining editorial decisions. Oh my God. Well, Ms. Mr. Berliner in his story a couple last year wrote I've in the D.C. area editorial positions at NPR. He said he found 87 registered Democrats, zero Republicans. Mr. Berliner, was he lying when he wrote that? I am not presuming such. I just don't have. We don't track that information about our journalists. 87 to 0. And you're not biased, Congressman, I do not believe we are politically biased. No. We are a nonpartisan organization. Nonpartisan organization. What's that one? While I get your whole Marxist lie thing, I know plenty of people who believe that she might actually believe that. I know Democrats who believe that because they're so, they're so in their side and only hang around with those people. Actually makes sense to them, I guess. Oh yeah, I, I accept that. Except for the part that she might believe that. No, she's a dedicated activist. This is the woman who said, and we played it earlier, the truth can be a distraction. We need to drop this search for the truth before we get to more. Jim Jordan, since they asked particular about bias and her saying I've seen no evidence of bias, I mean, that's hilarious. I could turn on NPR any time of day and within five minutes find obvious bias and, and usually just in their story choice. They're covering a story that only graduate student women in America are talking about. Nobody else in America is having a discussion about the thing that they spend the next six minutes on whenever I'm hammering it at length. Right. Anyway, but. So this was NPR and PBS being grilled about this yesterday. These stats came out yesterday from. Who's this from? The BA BA ba mrc, whatever they are. Media Research Council, PBS use the term last year, extreme right 162 times. They use the term extreme left six times. So extreme right comes up in the news a lot. Extreme left almost never. And then even more egregious to me, coverage of the conventions mentioned that we made friends with Jim Jordan there in Milwaukee. The coverage on PBS of the RNC was 72% negative. The coverage of the DNC in Chicago was 88% positive. I've never seen any evidence of any political bias. So 3/4 negative to recover the Republicans, 90% positive to cover the Democrats. That's just the way they see it. We're a nonpartisan organization. More. Jim Jordan, what's happening to your listeners over the last five years went up, down, or stayed the same? It has gone up and down and is now going back up. I thought five years ago was at 60 million and you said in your opening statement, I think 43 million. That's correct. So 43 million now. And it was at 60 million five years ago. I can do some math. That looks like it went down and is now going back up. It's now going back up, up. Yes, it is. How much has it went back up? It's gone up a couple of millions over the past. Oh, so you went from 60 million to 41 million now you're back up to 43 million in a year's time. I'm very proud of that. Gross, sir. Okay, you're proud of that growth. Okay. More money for less listeners. You fired the guy who pointed all this out, who said that you were so biased to the left that you lost listeners, which. Exactly happening. And you're here maintaining that, oh, you need, you need to continue to get taxpayer money, which is the root of this whole thing is, is the hearing is why do you get federal dollars? Why is everybody's tax money being pulled together to help you out when you represent, I mean, seriously, at this point, NPR represents 5% of the country's views. Maybe at the best. Yeah. I'm not sure it's a number higher than that. I don't know. I listen a lot. Maybe, maybe it's because I'm getting the, you know, the NorCal version of NPR. Oh, yeah. Versus the Kansas City version of NPR. I don't know. But I mean, the amount of coverage on, you know, trans illegals, whether or not they're getting enough money and stuff like that, it's like, who is this for? Right, right. I would say, you know, I would say their, their sweet spot is, or they're directing ideologically their, you know, their editorial decisions in that very, very narrow direction. There's a certain part of America that still thinks that stuff is good and moral and to be a good person. You're down with trans illegal immigrant rights. But anyway, not to get distracted by that point, they are wildly, wildly left and a, you know, wholly owned, at least ideologically subsidiary of one party, obviously. How about 80? We haven't heard that yet. Representative Cloud, asking a question. Now you are here managing npr, which is in part federally funded. Can we expect that you will bring the same lack of reverence for truth to your management of npr? Thank you, Congressman. First of all, I do want to say that NPR acknowledges that we were mistaken in failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner. Our current editorial leadership, Wuhan, we recognize that we were reporting at the time, but we acknowledge that the new CIA evidence is worthy of coverage and have covered it. No, no, no. The Wuhan lab link was always leak was always the, the most obvious explanation. The Brits knew it, the Germans knew it, CIA knew it. You know, I want to, we can finish up with Mike Cloud here. Then I want to play the MTG stuff, which looks pretty good. Marjorie Taylor Greene and in fact, I think that really ought to go first because she references the screed, the TED Talk that Catherine Mayer gave that said the truth is a distraction from accomplishing what we're trying to accomplish. So here's MTG in 76. In 2021, you called the First Amendment the number one challenge in American journalism because it makes it hard to crack down on bad information. You said in a TED Talk that our reverence for the truth might be a distraction. You've also expressed support for de platforming individuals you view as fascist. Who do you think should be charged with cracking down on so called bad information? Is it NPR? Is it the government? Is it you? Ms. Marr? Congressman, woman Madam Chair, thank you so much for the opportunity to address this. I know. Do you, Is it, is it, is it up to you and NPR to crack down on bad information or decide the truth. Answer the question yes or no. Ms. Marr. Absolutely not. I'm a very strong believer in free speech, and I believe that more speech, your public statements say otherwise. Ms. Mar In 2021, when speaking at an Atlantic Council event, you said that when you were CEO of Wikipedia, you took a very active approach to disinformation and misinformation during the COVID pandemic and the 2020 election. You said you censored information through conversations with government. Which governments were those? Ms. Mar? The Biden administration? Yes or no? Madam Chair? Wikipedia never censored any information. These are your public statements. Ms. Did she call the beefy mtg congressman on purpose or was that just a slip? And I think that was just a slip of the tongue. She saw the guns and thought, wow, bad built Bush body. All right, that's enough of that. I would have just, you know, you know, kudos to MTG for doing a pretty good job. I would have just laid out that TED Talk quote and the First Amendment quote and said, explain yourself. Yeah, no kidding. Well, for instance, and I'll just read this part. Representative Fallon, I don't know who that is, but ask this question. In 2020, NPR branded Hunter Biden's laptop story a waste of time. I remember that. Do you know how many times NPR interviewed Adam Schiff about the Russian collusion hoax? I don't know. She said 25 times, said Representative Fallon. How many times did NPR interview Chairman Comer about the Biden impeachment inquiry and the Biden family's illicit business dealings? I don't know. She said 0 times, 25 times for Adam Schiff, 0 times for for comer between June and November of 2023. And PBS's NewsHour used the term far up far right 162 times, far left 6 times. I mentioned that. I've never seen any examples of political bias right Congressman or woman. And after laying out the percentage of negative coverage for the GOPs versus positive cutting from Democratic conventions, she said, I believe they work hard every day, was her response, which is always a good one. If you go through her long list of public statements through the years, many of them quite detailed. I mean, it's not like she was had a bumper sticker that said sometimes the truth gets in the way. I mean, she gave a speech about it. You can come to no conclusion other than that she is a neo Marxist bent on tearing down the institutions of the United States of America and the Western world. In general. And then she lies about it shamelessly and egregiously with a smile on her pretty face. There in Congress. The idea that she is running a government supported broadcast organization is abhorrent. It's so crazy that normal people think it can't be as crazy as it feels because something that insane would never get that far. But it has. One thing I don't know about the organization. It's like the whole, you have dudes beating the hell out of women in women's and girls sports. How could something that insane be happening? I'm starting to question my own perceptions. It must not be as obscene as it seems to me. No, it is. It is that obscene. You're right. One thing I don't know about the organization, maybe you do. So, like, if you listen to NPR anywhere in the country, like a big chunk of the hour is the national. Like everybody's hearing the same thing on every station. And then there's your local version jumping in. And like the local version in San Francisco is just, is insane like you would expect it to be. But does the, does the national version have any role in that? They should, I mean, they should be able to say, hey, hey, hey, you know, you're, you're part of the NPR family. You can't go this far with your, your local segments being just completely nut job. I don't, I don't do. They are not. I don't. No. I mean, no, I don't think they feel like they should. And even if they did, it would never be for being too far left. I mean, come on, that's almost funny. Well, I gotta believe that the national view, as we're hearing from the person in charge, certainly gives cover and license to the, you know, the San Francisco's, the Seattle's, the Las of the world. Well, whatever city you're in, it's the most left news you've got anywhere on the radio. I don't care what city you're in. It's just something, I mean, and, and the fact that our, the local one I listen to is running promos right now. Their fund, their fundraiser this time of year. And all their promos are, you know, keep misinformation at bay. And then they have quotes from people saying in this splintered media universe, it's so important that we have a trusted news source. I'm like, are you freaking biased? News source? Yeah, I've heard those promos. Yeah, I mean that's, that's nuts. Yeah, you people are deranged. You've lost your grasp of reality. If you believe it, if you're lying, well, then you know you're being good at being Marxist, I guess. Any thoughts? My last thought, Ladies and gentlemen, we are, we always try to be fair. We are unquestionably, unabashedly conservative. We are trying to promote conservative values and to some extent candidates, because we think it's better for the country. All right, now your turn. Say what you're doing. Just be honest about it. If you're, if you're a flaming lefty, say I'm a flaming lefty. And then let your ideas stand up against mine. Let's get it on. Text line 415295 KFTC ARMSTRONG and GETTY this is Ashley Akadeni from the Ben and Ashley I Almost same as podcast if you could lose 10.4 pounds in one month, would you try? Well, with Future Health you can find out if weight loss meds are right for you in just 3 minutes at try fh.com that is try fh.com Try FH results may vary based on start weight and adherence to diet, exercise and program goals. Database on Independent studies sponsored by Future Health. Future Health is not a health care services provider. 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