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Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone
No Country for Old Media: The Shameful Blackout on Arctic Frost
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Hi, this is Free Thinking through the fourth Turning. My name is Sacha Stone and this is a short take. No country for Old Media, the shameful blackout on Arctic Frost. When the hilarious clips of Katie Porter losing her temper went viral, I thought, what a great skit that would make on Saturday Night Live. Would they dare? The answer came the following Saturday. Of course not. Why not? Because on the left, they protect their own. The alignment of culture, media and the Democrats has been a deadly one for them in all ways. It has caused a mass exodus of people like me fleeing the bubble for more honest and truthful alternative media. It has led to empty theaters across America and a ratings free fall in cable and network news. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Which is why CBS News hired Bari Weiss and why we're just starting to see Hollywood attempt to pull away from the monoculture. But it might be too late. As the lines go in. No country for old men. Well, it's a mess, ain't it, Sheriff?
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If it ain't, it'll do till the mess gets here.
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Welcome to no country for Old Media, where a story as big as Arctic Frost meets deafening silence Inside the bubble, where once again, Axios stands alone. Podcast listeners, a story from Axios. January 6th probe potentially investigated over 150 Republicans and all the other headlines from right leaning outlets like the New York Post and Fox News. Lucky for me, I listen to the Real Clear Politics podcast every day, which is where I first heard about the story. If these guys are alarmed about it, I know it's more than just partisan politics. Carl Cannon, Tom Bevin and Andrew Walworth are straight shooters.
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Guys, we're learning more about Arctic Frost. That's the FBI investigation into election interference and the 2020 election. According to the House Judiciary Committee, FBI agents actually targeted more than 160 Republican operatives and lawmakers in what the committee is calling an aggressive effort to, quote, take down President Trump and his supporters. So Tom, this investigator started under Chris Wray when he was FBI director, was taking over special Counsel Jack Smith. This is a wider net than was previously reported. What have we learned about the investigation so far and how is the Trump administration responding to this?
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Look, this is when we first learned sort of the tip of the iceberg here, that eight Republican senators were spied on. And people say, oh, they weren't spied. I was. People were just looking at their metadata on their phones to see who they were talking to. They weren't actually listening in on them. That's a, that's a distinction almost without a difference. But now, now we've learned that it was much deeper, wider, broader, and that this included all organizations, including the RNC and Turning Point USA and others. I mean, basically anybody who was, who was in Trump's orbit and one of Trump's, you know, had any sort of political influence. This, this investigation was opened in April of 2022. Merrick Garland was the Attorney General. So for, for all of the people who, who have been losing their minds over Trump, quote, unquote, weaponizing the Justice Department and the FBI to go after his enemies once again, there's, there's evidence that before, you know, say what you want about Trump, but, but he didn't start this. Joe Biden actually started it, and Joe Biden's administration started it. And it's astonishing, and I'm sure there's more to this story and we're going to learn it, but, man, it is really. It's unsettling.
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Yeah. I mean, Carl, people said when we learned about the eight senators that this was worse than Watergate. Someone on the Hill said that 160 Republican operatives and politicians, including the Vice President, I guess, were part of this investigation. Is this starting to look like a serious abuse of power, in your view?
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Well, yeah, it is. And, you know, Tom said it started in Biden's administration. Well, using the FBI for nefarious political purposes began in the 30s with J. Edgar Hoover. This is, this is in the FBI's DNA. And they have to figure out a way to change that culture. I don't know that Cash Patel can accomplish it in a few months. This is the, this is, is the organization that spied on Martin Luther King and, and had actually had a campaign going to try and get him to commit suicide or to blackmail him. And so, you know, the, these abuses go back. There was a, you, you remember this, Andy? There was the Church Commission that looked at the CIA and the FBI and there were these rules put in, in effect. And I, if the FBI is looking for foreign influence in an election, which is the, you know, know, if, if that's the proximate cause if that, that turns out to be a fig leaf and they were really just spying on Republicans, well, that's not legal. That's, that's not allowed under the FBI charter. If they were, if they were really serious about looking and trying to determine whether there was Russian influence or, or Chinese or Iranian influence, and it, even if, even if you give them the most charitable view of it, it looks like it, it went too far afield. So I, I think I, I this is a hell of a story. I don't want to compare it to Watergate yet. But we should, we should not just talk about it once. We should pay attention to this and, and, and stay on this and see where this goes.
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It is a sign of how fast new media is growing that they've just announced they'll be joining the Megyn Kelly channel on Sirius xm. Is it worse than Watergate? I think so. But you have to look at the big picture, not just one story. The Democrats ten year war to prevent Trump from representing those who voted for him and to deny half the country their right to representation remains one of the biggest scandals in American history. We've never had an administration refuse to step aside because they didn't like the winner and decide for the American people that their votes didn't matter because one side had all the power. It was never Trump who refused to leave. It was Barack Obama and the America he believed he had forever shaped. And since the Democrats have complete control of the legacy media, they decide what matters. They've manufactured nearly every major crisis where Trump is concerned. So much so that they've inadvertently manifested a boy who cried wolf scenario for themselves, which is why they're so dangerous now. They're willing to do and say anything to win a war they've already lost. This press conference was ignored by the legacy press, but it's worth listening to. It lays out in shocking detail just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
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Arctic Frost is Joe Biden's Watergate. Merrick Garland was a fundamentally corrupt Attorney General. Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning. 197 subpoenas for 430 Republican entities and individuals. That is an absolute and egregious abuse of power. The Biden Justice Department signed off on issuing subpoenas for the phone records of at least nine US senators. 20% of the Republicans in the United States Senate were the target of this fishing expedition. They did so in complete contravention of the Constitution of separation of powers, of the speech and debate clause, of free speech, of basic rights of privacy. This is an executive who believes it is justified spying on their opponents in the legislature.
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So here's what I'm thinking about. If Trump had not run in 2024, would any of this happened? So what I want to explain to the people of the country is that within several days of him announcing I'm going to seek the White House again, an avalanche began to form. And I really do believe that none of this would have been happening if Trump had set out the 2024 cycle. But once he announced, I'll have my own chart one day. We'll show you what happened and when it happened. Within about eight months of announcing, he had 91 felony charges against him and Georgia and New York and other places.
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I think what happens sometimes in this town is that we have multiple news cycles in one day and big events can sort of get lost in all the things that are happening in the news of the day. But I think that in this instance, I can't think of a bigger political scandal in the last hundred years. So if you want to compare it to Watergate, this is 100 times worse than Watergate. And here's why. To sort of amplify the point that Senator Graham was making. Three days after President Trump announced he was running for president, this system was weaponized against him. Jack Smith, who is notorious in prosecutor world as being a Stalin, like, show me the man, I'll show you the crime. Prosecutor. That's the guy you appoint when you want to get your political opponent. He's a dirtbag. A dirtbag. And I hope he comes before this committee. He's got a lot to answer to. He not only went after President Trump, he went after sitting senators. At the time, I was the chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association. Ashley Moody was also on the executive board. He came after us and also hundreds of other people who happened to be Republicans in the United States of America. What else happened? The number two prosecutor in Atlanta, a state prosecution of President Trump, which was ridiculous to begin with, somehow meets with the White House. The number three person at the Department of Justice leaves the number three job at the Department of Justice to go work for Alvin Bragg, a state prosecutor. Why is that? This was an effort to go after political opponents in America like we have never seen before. It can never happen again. And let me pull a couple people out. Outside of Jack Smith, Judge Boasberg. Judge Boasberg gave a speech about how he was going to thwart the Trump agenda before he got those cases. He was not the assignment judge. The D.C. courts have a daily assignment judge. He wasn't the assignment judge. He's on vacation, somehow gets these cases at one in the morning. Was he tipped off? Did somebody tell him these cases against President Trump and his agenda now were coming? I don't know. We should find that out. But Judge Boasberg, that what he did to Pres. Or what he did to Senator Cruz and maybe other senators. Absolutely. And I don't say this lightly, absolutely is worthy of impeachment proceedings. There has to be accountability. The American people have heard a lot about this and you're going to hear more. We should have Watergate style hearings on this for months. If we're ever going to root this out, we have to be serious about it and consequences have to follow. Resignations, firings, criminal prosecutions. You simply can't in this country use the justice system to throw people in jail because they have a red jersey on or a blue jersey on. It's completely unacceptable. But they never forgave President Trump for coming down the escalator in the first place.
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It's no country for old media because they can't cover a story like this no matter how big it gets. They don't chase the story anymore. Just as Tommy Lee Jones in the movie is always a day late and a dollar short, chasing the bad guys and can't save the hero, our old media is too afraid to tell the truth and doesn't get there until much later, if they get there at all. How long did it take them to talk about Joe Biden's cognitive decline? After Nixon thoroughly humiliated the Democrats in 1972, winning every state except Massachusetts, his approval numbers were at an all time high. Taking down a guy that popular was compelling news for the American people who watched his approval numbers crash and then watched him resign over it. Podcast listeners A poll from Gallup showing Nixon's approval at 60% in 1973, all the way down to 24% in 1974. A crash like that isn't something you see every day, and it's certainly not the case with Trump. His approvals have been steady because they've been attacking him non stop. But the legacy media is MIA on all of it. Why? Because they're part of was the massive alignment of power that I could finally see in 2020, which is why I left the Democratic Party. I believed they had too much power and that the election was anything but free and fair. And I was a Biden voter, but I assumed we'd be on a level playing field. We weren't. 2020 was a pivotal year for me and many others. I had been Joe Biden's number one best gal until the summer and when the violence began and the legacy media covered it up. It radicalized me, you might say, for the truth. I could see that Trump was gaining ground over that summer with his five rallies a day and how insane the left had become. He won Iowa, Ohio and Florida, which meant that without the way they changed the laws for ballot collecting and counting. He probably would have won. But the election was already over long before Election Day. That isn't how our elections are supposed to go. Candidates make their case to the people, and the people vote. But the Democrats collected the majority of their ballots before campaigning was even over, which required keeping the public in the dark about many things like Biden's age. They hid him as they did Kamala Harris. Incompetence. And then there was the rising fanaticism on the left and the violence over the summer that kept it all hidden from view, just like they're doing now. And what I saw was not so much a rigged election as a rigged system. The secret bipartisan campaign in Time magazine lays out exactly how widespread this effort was to subvert American democracy. They all believed it was their right to do so, but it never was. They manufactured an illusion to fool the public, and it was the legacy media's job to expose those lies. They never did. Not then, not now. And Trump might have been unable to lose. His inability to accept the loss might not have been what we want in our leaders. But as a Biden voter who was now horrified and disillusioned with my party and all of American society they controlled, I was grateful Trump took them on. I also knew January 6th was a much too convenient tool to dismiss everything the Democrats did to drag old Joe over the finish line. Even now, they can't confront their own corruption or even the plain facts about what Joe Biden did to elbow out competition in 2024. What George Clooney did, what Obama did, and how undemocratic it was to put Kamala Harris in without the voices of the people whose votes should matter more. They don't have to confront it or even talk about it, because the legacy media, like Hollywood, like so much of our society, has their backs. It was never about Trump at all. It was about their refusal to step aside and allow America to change. Arctic Frost is an opportunity for them to come clean and admit everything they did to stay in power. And how badly that has hurt them as a party and a movement. How badly it has hurt America, our trust in our institutions and our ability to coexist as a country. Even if the Democrats have destroyed themselves by becoming too corrupt to function, it is how the press became their willing puppets. That is the real tragedy here. We don't need more propaganda. We need more truth in our news. Getting there months or years later is not good enough. Things are moving too fast. This country is changing. Technology is changing. It's adapt or die. This is no country for old media and it's time to leave them behind. To quote another line from no country for Old Men what you got ain't.
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Nothing new this country's hard on people.
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You can't stop what's coming it ain't all waitin on you that's vanity can't stop what's coming it ain't all waiting on you that's vanity thank you for listening to my short take sashastone.com Hopefully I'll have another surprise for you waiting by the end of today. If you've been reading the scy for a while, you might know what that is. And if you like my work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber or leaving a tip. The tip jar is on the main page, but if you don't hear from me, have a happy Halloween and a great weekend. And remember to thine own self be true.
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Sam Same old I used to use before I said hey well what am I supposed to do I didn't know what I was getting into so you had a little trouble in town say you keeping some people down Stop dragging my stop dragging my Stop stop dragging my heart it's hard to think about what you wanted it's hard to think about what you got this doesn't have to be the big get even this doesn't have to be anything at all I know you really want to tell me goodbye I know you really wanna be your own girl maybe you could never offend me now you buckle with the weight of the world Stop dragging my stop dragging my Stop stop dragging my heart Sam Ain't got nothing better to do Ooh they make o'mira some bright eyed girls Ooh you need someone to look after you I know you really wanna tell me goodbye I know you really wanna be your own girl maybe you could never look me in the eyes yeah you fucking with the weight of Stop dragging my Stop dragging my Stop dragging my heart around me Stop dragging my heart Stop dragging my heart around Won't you stop dragging my heart around Stop dragging my heart around S.A. sam.