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The Andrew Klavan Show

Ep. 504 - The Trump Effect Hits Journalists

The Andrew Klavan Show

The Andrew Klavan Show

Society & Culture

4.822.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The press goes low and disgraces itself. Plus Michael Knowles on the Caravan at the southern border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Journalists at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night celebrated the

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First Amendment by rolling around an excrement, bearing their backsides, and insulting women

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in honor of the First Amendment. President of the White House Correspondents' Association,

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Margaret Disgraceful, told her fellow reporters, quote,

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When the founders wrote the First Amendment, they intended us for us to swing from branches

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while plucking excrement out of our rear ends and throwing it at each other to celebrate our

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freedoms, unquote. Journalists at the dinner also gave speeches in which they compared themselves

0:31.2

being criticized for distorting the facts with journalists in other countries who are jailed and

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executed for telling the truth. As one reporter put it, quote,

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We're kind of heroic, like those journalists in foreign countries, except they're telling the truth

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and we're lying, and they're getting imprisoned, and we're having dinner in tuxedos.

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Otherwise, we're just the same, unquote. Some reporters came under attack after the dinner for

0:52.6

acting like rabbit animals, wallowing in their own filth, but as one White House reporter put it,

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quote, Look at me, I'm Jim Acosta, I can take my pants off and stand on my hands because I'm Jim Acosta,

1:03.0

look at me, unquote. That reporter made the comments on condition of anonymity because he said he

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didn't want everything to be about him, Jim Acosta. Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Cleven.

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This is the Andrew Cleven show.

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All right, friends in the press had a Cleven this weekend. I'm afraid the Cleven this week is coming up.

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I have a vacation next week, so you guys should be storing up with food and they pills to make the

1:54.3

fresh water fresh and all that stuff. But you can now get the daily wire on Apple news, so that

2:00.0

should help. You can add us to your news channels and get our latest stories on the go, just like you

2:05.0

would with real people. All right, so we're going to talk about these are journalist friends and we're

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