Hour 1 - Breath of Fresh Air

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show: Hour 1 - Breath of Fresh Air Release Date: February 26, 2025

Introduction to Major Topics In the latest episode of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, hosted by Premiere Networks, Clay and Buck delve into a spectrum of pressing issues spanning media bias, political dynamics, and legislative developments. The episode, aptly titled "Breath of Fresh Air," offers listeners a comprehensive analysis of the current political landscape, underscored by sharp commentary and insightful discussions.

Media Coverage of Trump vs. Biden Clay opens the conversation by addressing the ongoing narrative surrounding former President Donald Trump, particularly focusing on the latest media attacks branding him as a dictator attempting to control the media. He counters this by presenting compelling statistics from Fox News, highlighting the disparity in media engagement between Trump and current President Joe Biden.

Clay Travis [01:59]: "Donald Trump, Buck, according to Fox News took 1009 questions from the media. In the same timeframe, Joe Biden took only 141 questions."

Buck adds to this by expressing his disdain for the White House Correspondents Association, emphasizing the deteriorating relationship between the Trump administration and the established media.

Buck Sexton [05:14]: "I love watching the White House Correspondents Association get publicly dismembered. I drink their tears."

Critique of White House Correspondents Association and Media Bias The hosts criticize the White House Correspondents Association’s dinner, likening it to a “preposterous joke” and questioning why establishment media should dictate access to the White House.

Buck Sexton [05:56]: "The whole thing was just one giant self-congratulations for what's effectively a lib journo cartel."

Clay sarcastically remarks on his lack of invitations to such events, underscoring the exclusionary practices of mainstream media.

Clay Travis [05:36]: "I’ve never been invited. I don’t think I’m cool enough to even get invited."

Discussion on Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post The conversation shifts to Jeff Bezos and his stewardship of The Washington Post. Clay critiques Bezos’s apparent shift towards right-leaning stances, suggesting a response to the publication's perceived left-wing bias.

Clay Travis [08:15]: "He now can bench press more than £225. Which, Buck, if I had to tell you one thing that you could point to, to guess how someone would vote for men who can bench press £225. How many of them do you think vote Democrat?"

Buck defends the legacy of The Washington Post, mentioning respected columnists like Thomas Krauthammer and George Will, yet acknowledges the shift towards overt bias under Bezos’s ownership.

Buck Sexton [10:57]: "They carried Krauthammer, you know, his column, George, and they didn’t carry it with disdain."

Social Media Censorship of Conservatives A significant portion of the discussion centers on the suppression of conservative voices on social media platforms like Facebook. Buck laments the loss of conservative reach and engagement due to what he describes as systematic censorship.

Buck Sexton [16:09]: "I don’t think I’ve gained, like, a person on Facebook in years. Yeah, how is that possible?"

Clay agrees, highlighting the broader trend of social media platforms marginalizing conservative content creators.

Clay Travis [16:48]: "This is such a big point in general on so much of the media evolving in real time. Evolution is very kind."

Legislative Updates: House Bill Passes Transitioning to legislative matters, Buck provides an overview of a significant bill that recently passed the House with a narrow vote of 217 to 215. The bill encompasses various tax cuts, including exemptions on overtime and Social Security, as well as corporate rate reductions.

Buck Sexton [22:33]: "Extending tax cuts, no taxes on overtime, no taxes on Social Security. Raising the salt cap deduction, no taxes on tips."

The hosts express optimism about the bill's potential impact and discuss the next steps as it moves to the Senate for reconciliation.

Criticism of CNN and MSNBC: Jake Tapper's New Book One of the episode's highlights is a scathing critique of CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who has released a new book titled Original Sin. Clay and Buck condemn Tapper's portrayal of President Biden, accusing him of perpetuating unfounded claims about Biden's cognitive abilities.

Buck Sexton [25:49]: "He was part of the lie. But notice he even goes, you're mocking someone's stutter. He went with that. That is just slander."

Clay underscores the hypocrisy of Tapper, who once ridiculed critics while now contributing to the narrative they opposed.

Clay Travis [26:13]: "I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline."

Conclusion and Teasers for Next Hour As the episode wraps up, Clay and Buck preview the second hour, which is set to feature Congressman Byron Donalds, who announced his candidacy for Florida governor with Trump’s endorsement, and Tom Homan, the Border Czar. They emphasize the importance of these discussions in the broader context of America's current challenges.

Clay Travis [43:36]: "We have an absolutely stacked second hour of the program coming up for all of you here."

Notable Quotes:

• Buck Sexton [05:14]: "I love watching the White House Correspondents Association get publicly dismembered. I drink their tears."
• Clay Travis [08:15]: "If you had to tell me one thing that you could point to, to guess how someone would vote for men who can bench press £225. How many of them do you think vote Democrat?"
• Buck Sexton [16:09]: "I don’t think I’ve gained, like, a person on Facebook in years. Yeah, how is that possible?"

Key Takeaways:

• The hosts maintain a critical stance towards established media, arguing that it perpetuates bias against conservative figures like Trump.
• There is a strong emphasis on the need for media reform and greater accountability.
• Legislative successes by Republicans are highlighted as pivotal victories in the current political climate.
• Social media platforms are under fire for their alleged suppression of conservative voices, impacting political discourse.
• The episode sets the stage for upcoming interviews with key political figures, promising deeper insights into ongoing political strategies and challenges.

Conclusion The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show continues to position itself as a counter-narrative to mainstream media, providing listeners with a platform to discuss and dissect the prevailing political and media biases. This episode, "Breath of Fresh Air," encapsulates the show's commitment to challenging established norms and advocating for a more balanced and truthful discourse.

Transcript

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome in Wednesday Edition, Clay Travis Buck Sexton show wins wins Wins. We just keep stacking wins. As I am speaking with you and as Buck is speaking with you, Elon Musk and Donald Trump are having a joint news conference in the White House. We have been rolling on that. We will have several different clips of newsworthy commentary from that media availability. We've got a loaded show for you. Let me give you a little bit of a roadmap of where we are headed during the course of the program. Next hour, Byron Donalds will Join us. Congressman from the Naples area of Florida. He announced last night on our friend Sean Hannity show that he is going to be running for governor of Florida. Donald Trump has endorsed him. He will be speaking with all of you at the top of the next hour. And I will rest assured, in addition to talking about him being potentially the next governor of Florida, hold him accountable for the Florida State Seminole collapse in football last season. Because Buck, you'll remember one of the last times Congressman Donalds was on the program, he just wanted to debate me about whether Florida State should have been in the College Football Playoff. And then since that debate, basically Florida State's wheels have come off. And so we'll have some fun with that as well. Uh, then a guy who is doing an incredible job. He's been on with us before, but he has not been on with us since he became border czar. Tom Homan is going to be on with us next hour as well. So that is where we are sitting on the guest front. But I wanted to start Buck with the newest angle of attack on Trump which I think is going to be one of the least effective attacks on Trump ever. It is Trump is a dictator and he is trying to control the media too much around him. Now I have some stats for you that were shared this morning on Fox News because I think it basically ends this argument to a large extent when you look at the number of questions. This is prior to today when Trump has been up there answering questions like crazy in his first month in office. This is January 20th to February 19th. Donald Trump, Buck, according to Fox News took 1009 questions from the media. 1009 Joe Biden in the same time frame his first month in office took 141 questions from the media. And Buck, those numbers declined precipitously for Biden as he stayed in office longer. You can criticize Trump for a lot. Not being willing to talk to the media and tell you exactly what he thinks is maybe the lowest level of criticism for Trump. But this is the latest desperation because the White House is remaking the credentialing process in real time for who is allowed to be at many different events.

[Buck Sexton]

I love watching the White House Correspondents association get publicly dismembered. I drink their tears. I. I joyride in the wreckage of their souls. I can't get enough of this and let me tell you why. Have you ever been to a White House Correspondence association dinner, Clay? I went once very early.

[Clay Travis]

I've never been invited. I don't think I'm cool enough to even get invited. I would. I'm not going to pretend that I'm cool enough to say no. I have legitimately never been invited to the White House Correspondents Dinner.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm going to tell you something, Clay. The White House Correspondents association dinner is worse than being forced to watch the new Beverly Hills Cop movie on Netflix. It is.

[Clay Travis]

That means it would be amazing.

[Buck Sexton]

It is absolutely brutal because you have all of these incredibly self important people were the ones holding up democracy. We're the ones speaking truth to power. All lies by the way, which everyone knows now more than ever. But the whole thing was a preposterous joke and I absolutely loathed it. There were some fun other like after parties. I'm not going to lie about that. But the actual event itself was just one giant self congratulations for what's effectively a lib journo cartel. Why should this continue? Why should some establishment media outlet, or rather media collective, that's really what it is, a bunch of commies. Why should they get to determine who gets access to the West Wing? Why shouldn't the administration determine who gets access? And what you've noticed is that the expectation is Republican presidents have to have access enemy regime media meeting Democrat aligned media, full access all the time. And that's just the way it is. But you know, if Barack Obama wants to, wants to just trash Fox News and say that it's an enemy of democracy and block them from interviews and everything else. Finally we've woken up. I will tell you, it took our side, look, it took Donald Trump coming along and metaphorically punching the other side in the face over and over again for us to see, hey, we don't have to put up with this anymore. And it's such a breath of fresh air. You know, my only complaint would be I still think that we give too much to the legacy media when it comes to the debates and we did even in this last cycle. But it was one debate with Trump and you know, he did great and obviously we saw what the result was. So I'm not going to, I'm not going to get too aggravated over that. But the point is this shift that Caroline Levitt as the White House press secretary and obviously on behalf of Trump, this shift that's happening right now is long overdue. And also from Jeff Bezos saying, you know, Clay, on the one hand I like that Bezos is talking about the Washington Post having to be, be pro capitalism and pro individual liberty as a mission statement. Did he not know what he was buying? He's so rich. I know that sounds crazy, but he's so rich that he may have just written the check for the Washington Post based on its reputation without actually knowing what the heck did he. He bought a communist rag of lunatics.

[Clay Travis]

All right, I'm going to try to defend Bezos on this just like you're defending Beverly Hills. I am going to defend Bezos here. I'm going to attempt to. I think that. Well, how old is Jeff Bezos? 52 or 53, something like that?

[Buck Sexton]

I mean, before or after the stack.

[Clay Travis]

If you know how. Well, yeah, he is now. You know, he's going to. I was texting with some friends and they were saying that Bezos has gone full Latimer in the program. For those of you out there who remember the great college football movie the Program, one of the guys just gets loaded up on. On steroids, is a great player but can't pass a drug test at all and just starts behaving like crazy, beating up people left and right. Bezos is the Latimer of media right now. He has suddenly gotten loaded up on testosterone. He's moved to Buckstown in Miami. There's hot chicks walking around everywhere. Miami is the best looking city in America.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm sorry, number one, it's insane. If you're just a normal person walking around here, you feel like you're in the worst shape of any human being on the planet.

[Clay Travis]

I don't. The percentage of women that just wear spandex every day in Miami is. It's off the charts. Like I would walk to Buck's Buck.

[Buck Sexton]

Studio, including the moms that have like four kids in strollers.

[Clay Travis]

That's what I'm saying. Even the moms are just walking around in spandex. Nobody's got any clothes on. Everybody's incredibly good looking. Bezos moved to Miami, he got a hot girlfriend. He gets loaded up suddenly on testosterone. He now can bench press more than £225. Which, Buck, if I had to tell you one thing that you could point to, to guess how someone would vote for men who can bench press £225. How many of them do you think vote Democrat?

[Buck Sexton]

10.

[Clay Travis]

Like if I.

[Buck Sexton]

10 to 1, Republican to Democrat, 10 to 1.

[Clay Travis]

Or you know, they just don't care about. About doing anything political. But I agree, if they actually vote, it's got to be 10 to 1, Republican to Democrat if you're a man and you can bench press £225. So I think what happened, Buck, is Bezos read the Washington Post historically, and I've talked about this on the program because I went to college in D.C. the Washington Post was left of center, there was no doubt. But Republicans in the 90s and the early 2000s respected the Washington Post.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, they carried, just to point out, they carried Krauthammer, you know, his column, George, and they didn't carry it with disdain. I mean, he was one of their featured columnists, and Charles was a great columnist. I grew up reading Krauthammer, among many other columnists. Also George Will, who, unfortunately, he could probably use some of the Bezos treatment these days, but put that aside, he could use some chalk. You know, they. There wasn't. It wasn't that they were right of center, to your point, but there also wasn't an outright undermining disdain and hatred of anybody who was put.

[Clay Travis]

Democracy dies and dies in this at the top of the newspaper.

[Buck Sexton]

I mean, they've gotten crazy, for sure.

[Clay Travis]

You could read Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon. They would make you laugh. You know, they weren't obsessed with toxic masculinity. They didn't employ people like Taylor Lorenzo and that crazy Jennifer Rubenstein or whatever her name is. It was left of center, but normal, like much of the country was. And one of the things that I think Trump is doing is we're returning to the days of the 80s, 90s and early 2000s slowly. The revolution that is occurring is just a revolution of common sense. And so, Buck, I think what happened was Bezos is super busy turning Amazon into one of the most successful businesses in the history of the world. And he recognizes that he wants to have an influence on something other than lowering the price of diapers and managing to get flip flops to you in six hours, which is something that's happened. Like I ordered flip flops from Amazon the other day.

[Buck Sexton]

It's pretty awesome. Let's respect.

[Clay Travis]

You know, I mean, the business that he built is incredible. And I think he thought, this is a part of giving back. It's a small fraction of his overall net worth. And then he started to read the paper. When he retired, he moved to Miami. He got a hot girlfriend, probably went from benching a hundred pounds to suddenly being swoles. Jeff Bezos, right? He's. He's throwing up weight everywhere. And I think, I believe they call.

[Buck Sexton]

Him Beast Mode Bezos around the Beast.

[Clay Travis]

Mos Bezos has shown up. And I think he finally decided that he was willing to stand up to the newspaper. He started to hire people. He hired a former Wall Street Journal editor, he started to fire people. And I, I, I've said this for a long time. There's no point in having F you money if occasionally you don't say F you. And if you're one of the richest men in the world and you own a media outlet and, and you think that media outlet is producing really poor journalism, which it was, and far left wing biased journalism, some of which Buck actually would cover Amazon and him. So I think the coverage of the newspaper, of him personally, he looked at and said, this is not very good. And I think he finally stood up and said, I'm going to try to drag this paper back towards some measure of decency.

[Buck Sexton]

A couple of things to throw into the mix here. One is the winds are blowing really hard in this direction right now. So I'm not about to give somebody a big old high five for their love of the Constitution and patriotism because.

[Clay Travis]

They realize the Trump certainly, yeah, the.

[Buck Sexton]

Trump juggernaut is, is going where it's going and you might as well get out of the way or hop on the, hop on the train. Right? So that's part one, part two. And I think we've seen this from a number of the Silicon Valley barons, which Bezos, yes, Amazon. But he's in a little bit of a different category than, than some of those other guys. I would, I would argue, although he's been in the game a very long time, but they didn't realize how crazy their side really was. There has been some of that. There certainly has been that with Elon. He's admitted that. And there have been others as well who were so focused on what they were doing building these online companies and these global behemoths that were worth, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars that they didn't recognize that the party that they had become, that they had long been used to voting as a part of, had just basically gone insane on a whole range of issues. I do think it was a, it was a surprise to Elon. I don't think he was the only one. I don't think Naval Ravikant would have considered himself right wing. I don't think he is right wing even now. I just think he's a sound thinker. And it became impossible to be a sound and logical thinker and still be in the good graces of the Democrat party. So for some of these guys, that's been a big, a big break with the left wing consensus.

[Clay Travis]

Look, I'm about five or six years ahead of some of these guys, so I tend to in terms of my political evolution. So I tend to be more lenient than you do. I get it. Because you and, like, frankly, me have been dealing with these guys putting up roadblocks to us being able to just argue what we believe. The Washington Post has not been very kind to me when they've written articles about me. Facebook censored both of us. So Bezos and Zuckerberg are not my bros. Like, I'm not like, hey, I want to go grab a beer with these guys.

[Buck Sexton]

I don't think. I mean, I don't really check in on Facebook. I don't think I've gained, like, a person on Facebook in years. Yeah, how is that possible? Right? It's because. Because I'm in the back end. There's some out. You know, I get slapped. By the way, conservatives, a lot of them who have done really well on Facebook, there's something going on there. I don't know what it is, but they've got some hookup or they've got. Because if you've been speaking the truth for years, you have been shut down on Facebook. No question about it. And a lot of good conservatives have just stopped using it because of that. But the people that are still, like, has spent years. If you made it through the pandemic and you still had millions of followers on Facebook and you consider yourself a conservative, you sold out somewhere. I don't know how that's possible.

[Clay Travis]

This is such a big point in general on so much of the media evolving in real time. Evolution is very kind. I think that the cost of saying, hey, I'm a Trump guy has got. Has vanished. That is the social cost. You mentioned it, Buck. Like, we're hearing from people, hey, you go to the gym in New York City, somebody's in a maga hat. You lived in New York City, you would have never seen somebody at, like, Equinox Gym.

[Buck Sexton]

Before I met my amazing wife, I had people who. Who broke. I would meet them in person, and if I asked them out on a date, they would bail on me because they were like, I cannot believe the things that you publicly say about Donald Trump. That happened a few times. You know, you're at a party. I don't know what someone's politics are necessarily. You get the phone number. I'm a single guy. Bailed on the date because I like Trump. So I paid my dues.

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

Welcome back in to Clay and Buck. A big beautiful bill on its way passed through the House 217 to 215. Kind of a close one. House Republicans put it through. We talked to Jim Jordan about this yesterday. There are some big things in this we can get into it more, but I want to just give you a quick overview. Extending tax cuts, no taxes on overtime, no taxes on Social Security. Raising the salt cap deduction, no taxes on tips. I think I said that. Lower corporate rates. So some big things, Clay making their way through on the legislative side, at least through the House and now it goes to the Senate. They got to reconcile it. But we'll be looking at these priorities and more wins getting stacked up for Trump along the way. In my journey to get in shape, my friends, lose some pounds and increase my energy. I've recommitted myself to using the energy, providing supplements available from our friends at Chalk. I've got the Chalk Daily. You can see it. I've got in my hand right now. Actually took it live on the air yesterday because Clay was talking. I can't take it right this second, but I'm going to take it in the break. I take Chalk Daily, which says right on it boosts free and total testosterone. That is absolutely essential if you're going to be getting into shape. You need the energy not just for the gym but to get in more steps to burn more energy. It is thermodynamics, my friend. Very important to get this stuff right. Chalk helps you with this. They have amazing supplements. They have helped me get down really more like 35 pounds now. And I'm still going not going to be done until I turn the dad bod into a six pack. Go to chalk.com choq.com use my name, Buck for a great discount on any subscription for life. That's chalk choq.com promo code.

[Clay Travis]

Buck welcome back in Clay. Travis, Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We are rolling through the Wednesday edition of the program. We're talking about the major cultural vibe shift and all the wins, frankly that we are stacking across the entirety of the culture right now. And I saw this story this morning and I thought there are so many stories that I see now, Buck, because the pivot is so extreme where I think for a minute, wait, is this a Babylon B headline or is this real life? And this is real life. So this is not an April Fool's joke. This is not Babylon be. Jake Tapper, CNN anchor, announced this morning that he has a new book out. The book is called Original Sin and the subtext is sub headline. President Biden's decline, its cover up and his disastrous choice to run again. It is out in May. Buck, I cannot imagine how you could have a CNN show like Jake Tapper does. And in fact, team, if you'll go scroll through my Twitter feed, we have.

[Buck Sexton]

We have cut two of him in 2020 talking.

[Clay Travis]

Oh, we do have that already included. Let's play.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, we've got to get to this, my friends. This. The guy who's writing the book about the Biden cognitive decline dementia cover up was also the guy who would mock and ridicule people on TV for bringing it up when it mattered.

[Clay Travis]

Play.

[Buck Sexton]

Cut to. First and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable.

[Clay Travis]

You are. No, that's so amazing. It's so amazing to me that.

[Buck Sexton]

And try and figure out an answer.

[Clay Travis]

A cognitive decline. Tell me that.

[Buck Sexton]

What I was suggesting was.

[Clay Travis]

I think you were mocking his stutter. I think you were mocking his stutter. And I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline. I would think that somebody in the Trump family would be more sensitive to people who do not have medical licenses. Diagnosing politicians from afar.

[Buck Sexton]

Shameful. Can I just. Not only is he covering up himself there, we all knew, Clay. I thought I said on radio before we teamed up. I'm like, there's no way Biden's going to be the nominee. The guy has dementia. Everybody knew this. The guy, you know, he's. It's scrambled eggs up top. He's too old. We all know this. And he was part of the lie. But notice he even goes, you're mocking someone's stutter. He went with that. That is just slander. I mean, that is just garbage. And he knew it was garbage and now he's going to write a book. Well, the problem is he was one of these journos who spent years and he would occasionally say something and people in the right would go, oh, look, he's honest. No, he's not. He's a propagandist who's playing you like a fiddle. And now he has no credibility at all because he went along with the big lie. He's going to write a book about the big lie. Get out of here. Get out.

[Clay Travis]

So this is crazy. I will say a little bit of fairness. There is a co author, Alex Thompson, who was actually ripped to shreds for reporting to some degree on Biden's mental cognition issues. So his co author, he can write.

[Buck Sexton]

This book or he can have a say in this book, but you don't get to tag along when you were part of the propaganda machinery, as Tapper and all of CNN was. It's not just that they disagreed, Clay. They. They tried to destroy the credit. We just heard it. That was. That was Lara Trump. They tried to destroy the credibility and the decency, at least in the eyes of the audience, of people who tried to tell the truth.

[Clay Travis]

I just, I can't believe, again, this goes with the vibe shift. But I also think maybe the most undercovered story of the start of 2025 is more Democrats now watch Fox News than watch CNN or msnbc. I don't know. I mean, some of you out there are. You just kind of had a record scratch moment because it hasn't been discussed that much. They lit their credibility on fire. CNN and MSNBC did, to such an extent, arguing that anybody who said that Biden wasn't up to the job was guilty of cheap fakes. Remember that phrase that Karine Jean Pierre tried to come out with cheap fake.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, it's lasted like, like a week.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, well, because then the debate happened on June 27th. I mean, NBC News wrote an entire article ripping me to shreds. They asked for comment for saying that Biden didn't have the mental or physical ability to be president.

[Buck Sexton]

This. It all makes sense, though, when you take a step back. The whole reason it was Biden and they moved him into this position. And remember Clyburn and the Democrat machine? Biden was getting smoked in the primary. And then all of a sudden, and then all of a sudden. And it's because the Democrat Party fundamentally had to hide from the voters in 2020 what the party had become. And Biden was around long enough and, you know, had the old grandpa thing down enough that he could be the Trojan horse for this. He could be the guy that they say, oh, the Democrats aren't radical. It's old Joe. He's been in politics for 40 years. You can trust Joe. But the whole thing was a lie because he wasn't representative of where the Democrat base was. He wasn't representative. And then he was just a puppet, a puppet of the lunatic communist machine that was actually running the Democrat Party. And that now, Clay, as we can see, ran them off a cliff. And we're watching as the flames engulf the wreckage after it crashed off the cliff.

[Clay Travis]

And what also this represents is it's now fair game to walk over and put an extra bullet into the dead Biden body. Right. Suddenly. Is that too much of a graphic analogy?

[Buck Sexton]

Metaphorically speaking.

[Clay Travis]

Metaphorically speaking, of course. But you know how they do this, like when they kill somebody, metaphorically speaking.

[Buck Sexton]

We can say bayonet the survivors. You know, let's get a historical reference.

[Clay Travis]

Or we'll do like, Caesar. The reason why everybody had to take out Caesar back in the day was they all wanted to be equally complicit in taking him down. Now, in this era that we're in, suddenly you can say Biden wasn't up to the job beforehand. Their phone would have blown up. They would have been nervous. What happens if Biden finds a way to win? We're going to be Persona no grata, non grata in the White House. We're not going to be able to do our job. Jake freaking Tapper, who had a show and could have told all of America for years, Biden's not up to the job, but here's why he wrote a book about it.

[Buck Sexton]

Here's why he's doing this. He's doing it because I think he has occupied with a couple of others, but maybe him more so than any other, the space of establishment journalists for years now. And I mean journalists in the sense of, you know, all the nonsense. I speak truth to power. I don't have a point of view. I just report the facts. And what we saw in this election cycle and the Biden lie was the big part of was. Was a huge part of this realization was that established the. The most establishment journos were leading the charge and every bit as involved in the. In the lie about Biden as anybody else, because they thought they had no choice. The machine had said, this is what must happen. So now, Clay, they have to. They have to rebuild. And they haven't done this ever in their careers, really. They've always been able to tack left or tack right a little bit to play this game still, as Democrat operatives, don't make no mistake. They've always been Democrat operatives, but they were a little better at. At, you know, throwing a little dust up into the air and make people think, oh, sometimes. Sometimes he'll speak the truthful thing. Sometimes he'll actually tell his own side the hard truths. Never when it matters, but just enough to play this game of I'm an objective truth teller, because that's more powerful as a propagandist than speaking the truth about. I'm actually biased and I have a point of view.

[Clay Travis]

Not only that I would. I would point out this is the other big part of this story. The business doesn't work anymore. I think there are a lot of guys out there Mostly men, women too, who run MSNBC or they run CNN or they run the Washington Post or the New York Times. And they may think, sometimes, man, this is. We're putting out some garbage. But then they go look at the ratings and they're like, well, this is what the people want. And you just follow the ratings train and you keep feeding that. And ultimately, if ratings go up, advertiser dollars come in, there's more money. The anti Trump universe of media doesn't work in 2025. You can't run the same playbook that you ran in 2017. And so when they lose money, suddenly they think, oh, maybe this is the wrong move. It's all directly tied to audience collapse.

[Buck Sexton]

This was the ultimate test, though, this election of everything that the Democrat media ecosystem had promised their audience for years, and they failed. The, the, the implicit promise, or maybe explicit promise of Joy Reid show and Rachel Maddow show and that lunatic Olbermann. If, you know, you don't have to just do a wellness check on him. Occasionally he does a podcast. Like some of these crazies out there. They made it very clear that what they were doing was rallying people to defeat Trump and defeat Trumpism because it was gonna destroy the country. Well, he won. It didn't destroy the country. The country's actually doing just fine. Doing great, really. Cleaning up things that everybody should agree need to be cleaned up. Hello, Doge. And so all of the promises made for years by the media and clay, it's special counsel investigations, federal prosecutions, but there were two assassination attempts against this guy. They threw the left, the machine, the forces of darkness threw everything against him and he came through. And now what do they have, you know, what, what can they offer the audience at this point? Why would you watch Joy Reid show? Not that you can anymore. Womp, womp. But you know, why, you know, why would. Did you see Greta Van Sustern, who is not somebody to, you know, mix it up and get in, get into kind of the, you know, the, the nasty back and forth with someone online. She just pointed out, she's like, I remember when you were liking tweets when I got fired from MSNBC and I had been your colleague there. She's just like, you know, she just said that. But I think that's all. Not a nice person. Joy Reach is not a nice person either. As somebody that really wanted to destroy other people's careers, I have. My sympathy for her is zero. She has earned this ignominious end to her garbage career.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, I have no sympathy. I actually have a great deal of Joy. And also, it's ironically enough also Bobby Barack has a good piece up at Outkick that I just shared on this buck. Isn't it sort of emblematic of the era we went through that msnbc, which, via Joy Reid spent years falsely accusing many different people out there of being racist, is now itself being accused of racism for firing Joy Reid. In fact, maybe a little bit later in the show, I believe we have audio of one of her former colleagues calling on black people to boycott MSNBC for being racist, which is. You want to talk about a plot twist? They're now being hoisted on their own petard, so to speak. Or guillotined as the revolutionaries of France ended up being.

[Buck Sexton]

Historical reference. Right. Everyone knows no one's pulling out a guillotine here. So we're good.

[Clay Travis]

A little bit of this.

[Buck Sexton]

Interesting. Why, why isn't it the case? Have they fired a single. I mean, not that I've, not that I'm agreeing with Rachel Maddows assessment here, but have they fired a single white PrimeTime host from MSNBC's lineup? They fired a couple of minorities, but I don't think. Have they fired a white host? Isn't it.

[Clay Travis]

Maybe you're right. Maybe they are. Well, they are. We know, actually the real racists are left wingers because they, I know.

[Buck Sexton]

Which, which is an argument. You know, this has been a thing that we, just because we've been saying it for so long. It's so true. Justice Clarence Thomas makes this case in his autobiography where he just says, conservatives don't even think in these terms. And they just like people who are good people of all colors and races and creeds. And, and it is always Democrats that have this obsession because so many of them deep down actually have what would be considered, you know, racial beliefs or racist beliefs. And so they have to, they have to overcompensate. Conservatives don't feel they need to compensate because we just look at people as people. We just look at people as human beings, equal in dignity, worth, and under the eyes of God and the law, at least in this country.

[Clay Travis]

By the way, Rachel Maddow, huge portion of her staff, fired. This also ties in with what we said yesterday. This according to the New York. A lot of the Rachel Maddow staff's been fired. She makes 25 million a year.

[Buck Sexton]

I, I said this.

[Clay Travis]

She could pay a couple of million.

[Buck Sexton]

She could keep all of them, no problem. She could keep them on staff for the next year or two while thinking they ride this period out. But libs, just look at libs when it comes to charity too. They don't act. This is. They all need to do so much work on themselves as human beings. This is why their politics are so toxic.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, we talked. I mean our friend Frank Siller said he tried look with tunnel to towers. He said, I tried to advertise on left wing programming. No one would donate.

[Buck Sexton]

No, their version of charity is taking money from all of you and giving it to do transgender operas in Mongolia. We actually believe in helping heroes and good people in this country and people who are in need in this country. The left believes in seizing your money by force and redistributing it to trans surgery for, you know, people in Guatemala who use they them pronouns.

[Clay Travis]

We won last night on prize picks. I gave out a pick on my outkick show. And those of you who are like me, football season ends and buck, I am all in on the NCAA tournament. March madness starts just in a few days. Now the conference basketball tournaments will be starting and price we're going head to.

[Buck Sexton]

Head on a bracket. Clay, I'm calling.

[Clay Travis]

You're going to fill one out.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm going to fill one out. And it's you. It's you and me and. And we're going. No, I can't actually I'll lose, so I can't bet anything, but I'm going.

[Clay Travis]

I mean, honestly, the people who win bracket challenges also often as many of you know, have no idea what they're doing because it is hard to predict what's going to happen in the brackets. But major league baseball back soon. NBA playoffs not very far away. I watched a little bit last night, believe it or not. Luca back against his old team in Dallas. I actually watched a little NBA. I was watching college basketball last night. Big win Georgia Bulldogs pull off an upset of the Florida Gators. You love sports like I do. If you do, and I know millions of you do, you need to have prize picks in your repertoire in your phone. Go to prizepix.com you can play in California, you can play in Texas. You can play in Georgia. 40 states, 13 million of you have downloaded this app. And when you play and use my name, Clay, when you play five dollars, you get $50 right into your account on your first five dollar lineup. It's awesome. Trust me, we love the prize picks crew. You will love it as well. And we'll start to give you some college basketball picks over the next few weeks as March madness is underway. Download the app. My Name Clay C. L A Y Prize Picks.com Code Clay Geek out with the guys on the Sunday Hang with Clay and Buck Podcast a new episode every Sunday. Find it on the Iheart, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. What does the future hold for business? Ask nine experts, you'll get 10 answers. A bull market, A bear market. Inflation's going up, coming down. Can someone please invent a crystal ball?

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[Buck Sexton]

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