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The David Pakman Show

4/9/24: Trump abortion backfire, Eclipse breaks more MAGA brains

The David Pakman Show

David Pakman

Politics, News

4.86.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show: -- The solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 appears to have broken the brains of many Fox News hosts, with them linking the eclipse to the US-Mexico border and generally making no sense -- Sunny Hostin, co-host of The View, wrongly links the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse to climate change -- CNN brutally fact checks Donald Trump's recent statement about abortion, but missed at least one critical aspect of it -- An element of the right wing is revolting against Donald Trump over his recent abortion video -- Rita Palma, an advisor to presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., admits in a meeting with Republicans in New York that his campaign is united with Trump supporters against Joe Biden, and even outlines ways for RFK supporters to help Trump -- Failed former President Donald Trump loses it when a judge shoots down his attempted appeal of his trial date with a single sentence filing -- Donald Trump wildly claims that President Joe Biden defecated on the Resolute Desk at the White House during his recent major fundraiser in Florida -- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson says that it was a mistake to endorse President Joe Biden in 2020 and he will not be making an endorsement this year -- A drunk Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was reportedly cut off by a bartender at a Republican gala, and security intervened as she attempted to get pictures with Donald Trump -- Christian voicemail caller is upset that David examined the claims around the supposed Resurrection of Jesus Christ -- On the Bonus Show: Producer Pat witnesses the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, Donald Trump's recent fundraiser may have broken the law, using mobile phones for payment may encourage people to spend more money than they otherwise would, much more... 🔥 Kasual App: Get 35% OFF at https://davidpakman.com/kasual 🌳 MyHeritage: Try it free for 14 days at https://davidpakman.com/myheritage 🛡️ Incogni lets you control your personal data! Get 60% off their annual plan: http://incogni.com/pakman ⚠️ Try Ground News and get 40% OFF the Vantage plan at https://ground.news/pakman -- Become a Supporter: http://www.davidpakman.com/membership -- Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/thedavidpakmanshow -- Subscribe to Pakman Live: https://www.youtube.com/pakmanlive -- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/davidpakmanshow -- Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidpakmanshow -- Leave us a message at The David Pakman Show Voicemail Line (219)-2DAVIDP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

producer Pat was at the eclipse yesterday.

0:10.0

Being at the eclipse is kind of a funny term.

0:12.2

But anyway, he was in the path of

0:13.6

totality so we're going to hear from him on the bonus show, but I want to start

0:17.2

today with some of the various ways in which the eclipse and a mere phenomenon of astronomy and physics seemingly broke the brains of so many of the

0:32.0

people over at Fox News.

0:33.7

And as I've said before, if all you've got is hammers,

0:37.2

everything will look like a nail.

0:39.4

And so many different Fox News hosts finding ways to tie the eclipse into the US

0:45.9

Mexico border political controversy to inject almost like one would bleach

0:52.2

like a cleaning to inject statements about

0:56.3

Joe Biden's handling of immigration into a discussion that really is about

1:01.6

celestial bodies where you can hit the body with a shadow and you know

1:06.8

so I was not in the path of totality I saw the eclipse somewhere around 90-ish percent.

1:15.0

And as many of you know, New York and Southern New England,

1:19.5

kind of in the 88 to 93% coverage area had friends who went north and sat in absolutely brutal

1:27.8

traffic to get to that 100%. And let me give you some examples of the sort of commentary that we heard from some on the right.

1:36.8

And then later we'll get to a weird comment from someone that I think is on the left because

1:40.7

nobody seemingly spared by this. Here is Fox News host Dana Perino. the former White House Secretary for President George W Bush saying that we have a celestial event colliding with policy failure at the southern

1:58.4

border.

2:00.0

This is really a reach and I don't know if they sort of sit around and go listen our audience

2:05.2

doesn't really care about astronomy and science as evidenced by the fact that many of them support

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