Hello America and welcome to the Sean Hannity Show. As you have already instantly guessed,

I am not Sean. Sean is enjoying the last of his much-deserved 2024 end-of-year vacation.

Getting ready to get back and as we all head into the first year of the Trump presidency.

I am Jeffrey Lord, contributing editor of the American Spectator, Newsmax TV contributor,

and columnist for NewsBusters, the Media Research Center's Media Watchdog.

So let's get right into it if we can do that.

We've got some great guests coming up.

We have Civil Liberties and former Trump Attorney Counsel David Schoen.

We have our friends Matt and Mercy Schlapp from the American Conservative Union and CPAC

and my friend and fellow

Pennsylvania Jeff Bartos, who has run for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania himself and spent

some significant time helping Dave McCormick win this Senate seat in an unbelievable race against a three-term incumbent Democrat Bob Casey,

the namesake son of his late dad, Governor Robert P. Casey.

So we've got a good show going for you here.

And I just want to start with talking a little bit about what Sean loves to talk about,

the media mob. And one of the things that has got me going here in the last few days,

I saw a, you know, I read the Washington Post so you don't have to. And one of the things I noticed was this column.

It was written, published two days before Christmas in the Post, and it was by a columnist

of theirs name Eugene Robinson, who I'm sure is a nice enough guy.

But his headline was, we cannot abide Donald Trump's wish for a compliant news media.

Fight the president-elect's attack on independent journalism with a pro-truth stance.

Now, in this stem, in this gem, rather, he begins by saying this, anyone who doubts the

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