An Inquiring Press Used To Be Good
The Byron York Show
Radio America
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Byron York Show, the No-Chit-Chit Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | We like to get right into it, and what we're going to get into today is the subject of an |
| 0:14.4 | inquiring press. |
| 0:16.5 | In some corners of the media, it used to be a good thing, and now it's not. |
| 0:23.2 | Maybe you remember these days long, long ago, shrouded in the mists of time. |
| 0:28.1 | From 2017 to 2021, that would be last year. |
| 0:32.0 | When many members of the White House press corps took a strongly adversarial position toward |
| 0:38.0 | the administration of President Donald Trump, they confronted, they grilled White House officials, |
| 0:43.1 | and as they did that, some journalists were cheered on by late-night comedians who, at |
| 0:50.5 | the same time, seemed to compete with each other for the most creative ways to insult |
| 0:55.8 | the president. |
| 0:56.8 | And then, of course, Trump being Trump, he would hit back, and then they hit back even harder. |
| 1:01.4 | Now, you may remember specifically an incident in which Stephen Colbert, the CBS late-night |
| 1:08.4 | show host, said to Trump, quote, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir |
| 1:16.3 | Putin's cock holster. |
| 1:18.6 | I wondered whether I could really say that on a podcast, but that's what he said. |
| 1:23.1 | He really said that, and as a matter of fact, he listed it, he put it in a number of insults |
| 1:28.8 | of the president. |
| 1:29.8 | And I think we might as well. |
| 1:30.8 | Why don't we just listen right now to the whole Stephen Colbert thing? |
| 1:36.8 | Mr. Trump, your presidency, I love your presidency. |
| 1:39.8 | I call it disgrace the nation. |
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