Cherry-Picking and Spoon-Feeding Jan. 6
The Byron York Show
Radio America
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Byron New York Show, the no-chit chat podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | We'd like to get right into it, and what we're going to get into today is the issue of |
| 0:12.1 | cherry picking and spoon feeding on the January 6th Committee. |
| 0:16.6 | Now, I understand that some people may think I'm talking too much about the January 6th Committee. |
| 0:23.0 | But the fact is, if you look at any news reporting, it's absolutely dominating news reporting. |
| 0:29.8 | Now you might say, well, all the polls show voters don't really care about it. |
| 0:34.7 | It's not connecting among the voters. |
| 0:37.7 | That's apparently true for the moment, but it is important to see what the committee |
| 0:43.9 | is saying, to understand what the committee is saying, and to understand what the committee |
| 0:48.2 | is doing. |
| 0:49.2 | So that's why I'm spending perhaps more time than you'd want on the January 6th Committee. |
| 0:54.9 | And now I want to talk about the cherry picking and spoon feeding issue. |
| 0:59.6 | Now maybe I should start with a question, is James Goldston, the showrunner of the January |
| 1:05.1 | 6th Committee, is he the most important force on the committee? |
| 1:09.9 | It really appears that might be the case that he's the former president of ABC News, |
| 1:15.3 | British originally worked for the BBC, and he is no doubt shaping the committee's presentations |
| 1:22.4 | episode by episode. |
| 1:24.6 | And the shows that he is crafting are a dramatic, in every sense of the word, a dramatic departure |
| 1:32.1 | from actual congressional hearings. |
| 1:35.0 | And actual congressional hearings are hearings in which members of both parties debate the |
| 1:38.9 | evidence. |
| 1:40.1 | They question witnesses, they argue with each other, they reveal facts. |
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