“Conservative” NYT Op-Ed Columnist Compares Elon Musk to Mao & Stalin

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: 4:05pm- Bill D’Agostino—Senior Research Analyst at Media Research Center—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to breakdown some of the best (and worst) clips from corporate media: self-described “conservative” New York Times op-ed columnist compares Elon Musk to Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin, PBS attempts to indoctrinate children, and a Harvard professor says Donald Trump is a “combination of authoritarianism and ineptitude.” Plus, is Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-PA) shift from progressive to moderate an authentic alteration in political philosophy or is it a calculated maneuver? 4:40pm- On Sunday, authorities responded to an attack targeting Jewish Americans in Boulder, Colorado. The man arrested for throwing incendiary devices at people gathered to support the return of Israeli hostages has been identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman—an Egyptian man who is living in the United States illegally. FBI Director Kash Patel has labeled the attack an act of terrorism. During a press conference on Monday, authorities revealed Soliman had 14 unused Molotov cocktails in his possession at the time of his arrest. 4:50pm- Tonight, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli will hold a virtual town hall event alongside President Donald Trump. The New Jersey primary is June 10th.

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0:17.7	Great to have you with us today.
0:19.3	And great to have our buddy from the Media Research
0:21.5	Center, Bill Diagostino. He's on X at Band underscore Bill. He's had a big weekend watching
0:29.0	nonsense on the media. What's up, my man? Doing great, man. How's it going, Rich? It's going
0:35.1	great. You know, I was watching John Federman and Dave McCormick earlier today, and either Fetterman has been completely replaced
0:42.5	with a body double, or he's just one smart, smart political guy and can see that Pennsylvania
0:47.1	has completely changed. What, what's your gut?
0:51.0	Yeah, I mean, I, I see a lot of machinations behind the scenes.
0:55.3	I don't know who's exactly advising him, but just based on a lot of these
1:00.6	strategical votes that he's done, too, strategic votes rather that he's done, where, for
1:05.6	example, a vote with the Republicans isn't what's going to, you know, change, change the balance and cause, cause whatever it is that Democrats are trying to sink not to pass.
1:17.6	He'll then vote with the Republicans to appear bipartisan.
1:20.1	But on anything where it's like they need J.D. Vance to come in and cast the tie-breaking vote, he votes with the Democrats, right?
1:26.9	So he's basically acting bipartisan
1:29.5	whenever it doesn't cost him or the party anything. And that's, I mean, that takes a certain
1:35.2	degree of political understanding to do something like that. So, yeah, I think he's a pretty
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