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The Ben Ferguson Podcast

Burning Blame: How Newsom Fanned California's Wildfires

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:00.0

There is a narrative that is happening right now, and that is that you and the people in California, specifically, those that are affected by these wildfires should not be talking about politics.

0:12.9

Should not be talking about holding politicians accountable because there's just too much suffering going on.

0:19.6

Should not be looking at the facts of what actually happened with these wildfires, why they

0:24.2

happened, and was there government mismanagement?

0:27.5

Because if you do that, well, you're not a very nice person.

0:31.8

The media, by the way, is not asking questions.

0:34.6

And I tweeted out something earlier today that a lot of people got angry over

0:38.7

on the left. And I'm going to read you the tweet right now because I think it's actually an

0:43.9

important one. And what I said was, as I said, if Ron DeSantis were the governor and just one

0:50.3

fire hydrant ran out of water during a massive fire.

0:59.0

The media would call it hydrant gate and demand a congressional investigation.

1:00.5

That's the truth.

1:09.6

They would also be blaming DeSantis or Trump or anybody else in this situation if they were in charge in California with people's deaths.

1:11.6

And they would be saying people are dying and they would be demanding that they resign. But what is the media doing right now? The media is doing

1:18.5

everything they can to not have that conversation. I'll give you a great example. Justin Trudeau,

1:26.2

who has nothing to do with California.

1:28.9

He is not a American leader.

1:32.4

Was on Jake Tapper's show, and this just shows you how much Jake Tapper sucks at his job.

1:37.4

Like, why in the hell would you have him on to talk about the wildfires?

1:41.0

This is literally a leader who just resigned in another country.

1:45.8

And as there are five major wildfires that are zero percent contained in Los Angeles,

1:52.1

and this is massive, like, looks like a nuclear destruction of this beautiful place,

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