Dems' Admit Truth on Redistricting, Trump Declares DC Emergency, The Attention Extraction Tax
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
First, they dismantle the blatant hypocrisy of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker as they refuse to acknowledge their own aggressive gerrymandering. Scot and Greg also highlight former Rep. Beto O’Rourke openly admitting the fight is about raw political power, and former Attorney General Eric Holder urging Democrats to weaponize redistricting in blue states, seizing power under the guise of “saving democracy” before supposedly ending the practice altogether.
Next, they react to President Trump placing the Washington, D.C, police under federal control, citing a state of emergency over crime. Greg is torn over this because he does not like the idea of the federal government taking more control over things but he also admits the DC government has been both unable and unwilling to get serious about fighting crime. Scot says people have said for decades that something needs to be done about crime in D.C. and Trump is finally doing something about it.
Finally, they laugh at a Boston Globe column bemoaning the end of taxpayer funding for PBS and NPR and calling for a new online entity that people can go to for factual information about prominent political and policy issues. In short, it's just another avenue for the left to regain the power to shape news narratives. And this would all be paid for by the Orwellian "Attention Extraction Tax."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.8 | Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.4 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.1 | Hey, welcome to the Monday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:16.0 | We're really glad you're here. |
| 0:17.1 | Grab a stool, a lot to talk about today. |
| 0:19.5 | Jim will be back on Wednesday. Here in his place once |
| 0:22.4 | again is Scott Bertram. He's the general manager of WRFH, Radio Free Hillsdale, 101.7 FM on the campus |
| 0:29.0 | of Hillsdale College, where he also directs the Hillsdale College Podcast Network hosts the Radio Free |
| 0:34.2 | Hillsdale Hour, among several other podcasts, and he's in his spare time because somehow there is some. |
| 0:39.6 | He is the co-host of Wasn't That Special, 50 years of Saturday Night Live. |
| 0:43.7 | And Scott, always good to have you with us again. |
| 0:45.3 | Greg, good Monday to you. |
| 0:47.0 | We're going to be talking about President Trump federalizing the D.C. police force, because crime is out of control, as is frequently the case in the nation's |
| 0:55.9 | capital. But is federalization of local authorities a good thing? We'll talk about that a little bit. |
| 1:01.7 | We'll also be talking about how after the defunding of PBS and NPR, they're bringing out new |
| 1:08.7 | terminology now to basically create the very same idea, |
| 1:12.8 | and they're going to tax big tech to try and do it. At least that's the theory. They haven't |
| 1:17.1 | done it yet. But we're also going to be talking a lot, especially right after the break here, |
| 1:21.2 | about redistricting. And it's just a murderous row, Scott, of Democrat hypocrisy, giving the game away. So much fun as the Democrats |
| 1:32.0 | keep doing these interviews and don't help themselves. Sunday morning TV now just looks like |
| 1:36.6 | an episode of Stephen Colbert show. It's amazing. All the most interesting Democratic guests are on. |
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