2/10/23 Patrick MacFarlane on the Balloon Panic

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Scott is joined by Patrick MacFarlane to talk about the alleged Chinese balloon that captured the American news cycle a week ago. MacFarlane wrote a piece for the Libertarian Institute digging into the details and arguing against the fearmongering that has predictably resulted. Scott and MacFarlane talk about this story as well as the broader Cold War with China. Discussed on the show: “An Overblown Balloon Headline Inflates False Narrative on China” (Libertarian Institute) “Who Blew Up the Nord Stream Pipelines? "Russia, Russia, Russia!" (Racket [formerly TK News]) “Rep. McCaul Plans Taiwan Visit This Spring, McCarthy Later” (Antiwar.com) Wilson’s War by Jim Powell Patrick MacFarlane is the Justin Raimondo Fellow at the Libertarian Institute where he advocates a noninterventionist foreign policy. He is a Wisconsin attorney in private practice. His work has appeared on antiwar.com and Zerohedge. Follow him on Twitter @patmacfarlane_ This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
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0:46.0	All right you guys, introducing Patrick McFarland,
0:50.0	the Justin Raimondo fellow at the Libertarian Institute.
0:53.0	How do you like that?
0:54.6	An overblown balloon headline inflates false narrative on China.
0:59.5	Is his great piece from the other day. Welcome to show how you doing man. Doing good
1:04.9	Scott thanks. Good happy to have you here. So how afraid of the balloon were you
1:11.4	and are you now?
1:13.0	Well, not very. I hate to break it to people.
1:17.0	That would be fun to be afraid of a balloon though. I can see like, oh no, a balloon! Let's be afraid of it together new gengerich said it might be
1:25.3	practiced for an EMP attack yeah I did see that I saw other people saying
1:30.4	there might be chemical or biological agents.
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