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Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. Lou Rockwell joins me today. We're going to talk about the media

and the regime and what the relationship is. Lou, as virtually all of you know, is the founder of

the Mezes Institute, which you should visit at meases.org, M-I-S-E-S-D-org. He is formerly chief of

staff to Ron Paul. He is editor and publisher of Lou Rockwell.com, and in general, a great

benefactor of mine and of the human race, as a matter of fact.

So we're going to have a fun conversation. Lou, welcome back.

Tom, great to be with you.

I thought this was an opportune moment to think a little bit about the media and the U.S. regime and what the relationship is,

because it's gotten a bit cloudy under Trump, because the opposition

is so unrelenting that it gives the impression that the media is, in fact, an opposition force.

But I wonder how true that is. I wonder if that's misleading, if that's just because not only

do we have a Republican president in office,

which can complicate things, but we have a totally unique Republican president, maybe

unrepeatable, in Trump. So let's maybe start there. Well, for example, Trump just had these

fake news awards, right, where he awarded the 10 most

ridiculous lies that were made up about him over the course of the year, which is, which was a

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