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Foreign. Hello, and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. Well, the world will be essentially destroyed if Gavin Newsom becomes president. Journalists have to stop propagandizing for politicians they treat like celebrities. It's embarrassing, and, frankly, it's dangerous. Vogue and a writer named Maya Singer are being widely mocked for a profile they did on California Governor Gavin Newsom, where she starts the article saying, let's get this out of the way. He is embarrassingly handsome, his hair seasoned with silver, at ease with his own eminence as he delivers his final State of the State address. It's like this crap reads like embarrassing adolescent erotica. What is even worse about this puff piece is the writer confesses, like, I didn't have time to ask him about the Pacific Palisades fire or the homelessness or anything else of import in the state that reeks of his failure that he might project onto the entire country. But she's describing him as live and energetic, and it must drive Trump nuts. No, it drives me nuts when, if you are a writer in that position, I don't care who you write for, but it's like this kind of stuff. Like, you obviously have psychological issues in your own life if this is how you are comporting yourself as a writer in a profile piece on someone who's already the governor of California, which has some serious and, you know, fatal and issues, if you go by the, I don't know, death count in that state, but also the implications that someone who is such a bad leader might be foisted upon us by someone who is just willing to propagandize for him. And you have this creepy romantic attachment to him, and you are selling that as journalism. It's an embarrassment because Vogue, whether you like it or not, is still a very large mainstream publication that a lot of people read. And, you know, Vogue is considered to be a magazine, a news source, a fashion source that curates and creates, enhances tastes. So people look to Vogue thinking, you know, what should I like? What is something that I can incorporate into my style that will elevate it and make me better? And, you know, maybe some of those people think, well, I'm so busy worrying about how I look that, you know, I don't have a lot of time to read about politics. So what should I think about the Democrat front runner right now in 2026 for the 2028 nomination? And they read something like this that is so superficial and so juvenile and just such an embarrassing leg humping that, you know, I worry there are people who are so completely surface that they don't do the work. To look beneath a puff piece like this and it's like, to call it a puff piece is embarrassing. This is like a form of prostitution. It's almost like Gavin Newsom and his team were sitting around thinking to themselves, like, man, we, we really need something that is surface, level and high profile. Who could we have write this? And it's almost like the governor sat up and said, I've got a stalker at Vogue. Maybe she could write it. And they went, that's a great idea. And everyone else at Vogue is like, well, our subscriptions are way down and, you know, people don't read us for the articles. This will be incredible. Don't go anywhere. More Kennedy Saves the World right after this. This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52 episode podcast series the Life of Jesus. A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now@foxnewspodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. If someone had written something like this, as Emily Campagna pointed out today on Outnumbered, if someone had written this about a woman, they would have been laughed out of journalism and they would have been canceled. If someone wrote this about a Republican again, they would have been called out, there would be protesters on their front lawn and they would be canceled. I will give you an example. Like, philosophically, I align with Rand Paul more than any other US Senator or, you know, pretty much any other politician. I really do like that Thomas Massey. I think Mike Lee is great, too. So for some reason, at Utah, except for Mitt Romney, RIP and the great Commonwealth of Kentucky are producing critically thinking libertarian Republicans. And I'm fine with that. But Rand Paul, I have a great deal of respect for. I have interviewed him in the past. I made Rand Paul so mad on my former Fox Business show that he vowed to never speak to me again. That's how it should be. Even if you really like someone, even if you think that they hold the highest ideals that political humanity has to offer and you want to amplify their ideas, you should still challenge them. I don't care if you work at Ms. Now or Vogue or the New York Times or the Washington Post, if you enter into the orbit of someone who is going to influence change and possibly destroy lives, it is incumbent upon you as a journalist. And now, after Don Lemon's arrest, that distinction is way too broad. But if you are a journalist, then it is important for you to challenge these People always. Especially if it's someone like Gavin Newsom. If you don't like the divisiveness, if you don't like the fact that the rhetoric is so heated, families have been torn apart by politics, and people assume that if someone else doesn't agree with them in lockstep, that they are the enemy. If you don't like any of that, then it is important for you to challenge someone who wants to take the reins of politics and culture in this country. Because for leftists who complain that the Trump regime is authoritarian, that means that we have a system that is susceptible to authoritarianism. And just because you like the way someone talks about trans girls and boys sports, it doesn't mean that they're going to lean in any less of an authoritarian direction than someone like Donald Trump. Because politicians look at what he's doing as a roadmap for what they can do. Zoran Mamdani will do whatever he can with the power of his office as mayor of New York City to implement and effect as much change as possible. He thinks that that is his moral obligation. So. So if there are people like that and you have a chance to talk to them, you have to challenge them, not write them an embarrassing love letter that seeds so much of your power. And whatever journalistic ability you might have, rhetorical ability, you are giving all of that away, and it is an unearned victory. If people like Gavin Newsom go through this process, when journalists like that lay down and allow people like Gavin Newsom to trample all over them in pursuit of more power and his own version of authoritarianism, Maya Singer, she is an absolute hack. And this is an embarrassment. Vogue should be embarrassed. Democrats should be embarrassed. This doesn't change anyone's mind. If there are people like her who have some teenage fetish about silver foxes like Gabby in New. You're not changing their minds. They were not on the fence to begin with. But you. If you have people who are skeptical, people who are independent, they look at this and they don't turn the other way. They shut down. And you are just creating more apathy in a chaotic climate than you could have ever imagined to start with. So shame on you. Shame on the governor. He has done so much to destroy the state of California, and that is just an appetizer for him if he becomes President of the United States under my watch, he won't. But under idiots like Maya Singer. Hey, man, I guess he's your daddy now. This has been Kennedy Saves the World. I'm Kennedy. Listen. Ad free with a Fox News News Podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts and Amazon Prime. Members can listen to this show ad free on the Amazon Music app. Oh, go ahead and leave me a review while you're there. I'd love to hear what you have to say. You've been listening to Kennedy Saves the World on the Fox News Podcast Network.