Clay Travis (2:55)
So that's right and it is. I purchased it. I got it today as those of us who purchased it early did. And again I would encourage all of you book is out today everywhere. Among the reviews, a harrowing, brilliant, important read. Megyn Kelly, terrifying, brilliant, essential and ex CIA Officers Unmasking of Totalitarian Mind Control. Glenn Beck, meticulously researched and exceptionally written. Manufacturing Delusion is more than a book, it's a tool to protect your mind and soul. Best selling author Jack Carr okay, those are among the reviews that you can find@Amazon.com and other locations as well. Buck, you and I are going to be in Texas in short order about two weeks from today. Because exactly two weeks from today is the very first major primary that I believe will occur in the nation when Texans will be going out and voting for their nominees in a wide variety of different races, including the one that is getting the most attention in the state. Again, we want all of you to go vote top, up and down, bottom to top in the Texas primaries. Many different important races that are going on, but the Texas Senate race is receiving the largest amount of attention both on the Democrat and the Republican side. On the Republican side there are three different candidates and President Trump has come out and said, I like all three. Which was, I thought, a great Trump question. He was asked if he was going to endorse and Trump said, no, I'm not going to endorse. Basically, I like all three. And all three are Ken Paxton, John Cornyn, the current senator, and and Wesley Wesley, whose name is immediately escaping me because I tried to name all three of them off the top of my head. He's been on the show a great number of times. He is fantastic. And Wesley Hunt, my apologies to Wesley Hunt, trying to name three right off the top of my head. All three of them are seriously contending and whoever wins that Republican primary will likely be the next Republican senator from Texas or the continuing Republican senator from Texas. So Wesley Hunt, John Cornyn, and also Ken Paxton, all running on the Republican side. Now on the Democrat side. This has turned into a bit of a story today. Buck Democrat Senate candidates Jasmine Crockett, who has given up her congressional seat and instead now running to be the senator from Texas. And James Talarico, I believe that's how you pronounce his last name. Is that correct, Buck? So far as you can tell. And he went on Stephen Colbert show. And CBS decided they would not air the interview because they were worried about conflicting with the Equal Time Doctrine. And the Equal Time doctrine basically as interpreted by our friend Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman who was on recently. He has said what I think is 100% true, which is if you're gonna have these late night talk shows and you can't fit into the exemption of, of news programming if you're only having one side on all the time, there are no right leaning guests on for instance, Stephen Colbert show. And Stephen Colbert would never have the Republican nominee on his show. And so as a result, CBS said we're worried about violating the Equal Time Doctrine. We're not going to run this, this interview. That was a decision that was made by CBS Corporate. Well, Stephen Colbert, whose show has been canceled, I believe it is scheduled to end in May, went on and teed off and, and I believe this aired on his actual CBS program. Him ripping his bosses CBS cut 26. You know who is not one of my guests tonight? That's Texas State Representative James Tallarico. He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers who called us directly that we could not have him on the broadcast. Then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on. And because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this. Let's talk about this. On January 21st of this year, a letter was released by FCC chairman and smug bowling pin Brendan Carr. In this letter, Carr said he was thinking about dropping the exception for talk shows because he said some of them were motivated by partisan purposes. Well, sir, you're chairman of the fcc, so fccu. Okay, this is I think actually more interesting than Stephen Colbert is letting on. And it's actually super interesting in general. So he was only going to have James Talarico on. Now James Talarico is on a. And in a highly competitive Senate race against Jasmine Crockett. Buck. Jasmine Crockett has a 0% chance of being elected statewide from Texas. I want to repeat this. I think even Democrats are aware of this. If Jasmine Crockett is the nominee, there is a zero percent chance that Republicans have to worry about the Democrat in that race at all. I think elite Democrat leadership is aware of that. So when I hear and see this controversy emerging, I say, my goodness, this is elite Democrat power brokers deciding to set up this James Talarico interview. If it airs, it's a huge bonus to him. But if it gets shut down under this FCC equal time doctrine, I would argue it's an even bigger bonus for him because most people would have never seen this but for the fact that Stephen Colbert went on and attacked his bosses for not letting him have on James Talarico. So I think again, the fact that this was scheduled to happen the day before the Texas primary ballots went out and people started to vote, this feels to me a bit akin to what happened to Bernie Sanders back in the day. This is the Democrat Party saying, we got a kneecap Jasmine Crockett and make sure she's not the nominee because maybe we can put this seat in play with James Talarico. Do you see that? And by the way, Brendan Carr, let's invite him on the program again because he got attacked and we want to give him equal time on the program we had him on recently. Do you read this in a similar way, Buck, or what stands out to you about this story? Again, there's no way the Republican nominee, whether it's Wesley Hunt, whether it is Ken Paxton or John Cornyn, is going to be allowed on Colbert. And this is where the significance of that letter from Commissioner Carr comes into play.