Lionel
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we've got a big show. Lots to talk about today. We'll get to the latest fake news controversy. How do they dream up these fake news narratives, these ridiculous controversies about nothing? We'll get to that. We'll get to the smart speaker. How much is it taken over America? We'll get to the Daily News. We'll get to Fox News. We'll get to the mayor. We'll get to Disney. We'll get to the governor. We've got lots to get to. So the biggest fake controversy right now is this ridiculous thing about revoking security clearances. This fake news thinks we're so dumb. They insult their intelligence. They say, how could he revoke their security |
| 0:38.6 | clearance? Everybody in America's going, how the hell do they have a security clearance after |
| 0:42.5 | they're fired? These are fired employees. Why would they have a security clearance? |
| 0:48.0 | Very good question, Mark. I expected you to ask that. Any organization company any company when you're fired everything |
| 0:57.5 | stops your building pass doesn't work you can't log in anymore your email is gone isn't that the |
| 1:03.8 | case everywhere you've ever been absolutely nobody what company let you keep a building pass, let alone a security clearance? |
| 1:13.5 | Well, they apparently can help the new administration. That's the thinking. You know what? |
| 1:21.4 | They're available for consultation if you'd like them. |
| 1:24.0 | I've heard that. People say that that's's not necessary they can stay in the job as much |
| 1:31.3 | as they need advice and you know the president at any time can take a civilian and give them a 30 |
| 1:37.0 | day security clearance if he needs their help if he decides he wants to bring anybody in you can do a 30 |
| 1:42.0 | or 60 dayday security clearance. |
| 1:49.7 | But the fake news is trying to whip up this controversy as if the president has done something wrong. |
| 1:52.9 | And every, they don't realize, people aren't stupid. |
| 1:58.3 | Everybody reading these stories, it just says them, what the hell were they allowed to keep their security clearance for? |
| 2:01.0 | Well, he's filing the First Amendment by doing that. |
| 2:03.9 | It's very funny. |
| 2:12.3 | And even the most prestigious publications and editorial pages and they write this as if it makes sense, but it's retaliation. |
| 2:14.8 | Retaliation, what the hell did they have security clearances for? And you look at these people. Some of them are frightening. This Clapper. Yeah. And Brennan, these are really creepy, creepy people. You know, you look at that Michael Hayden. He didn't look as bad as the rest. He seemed, maybe seemed okay. But as Lou Dobbs pointed out out maybe that made him even more dangerous uh because |
| 2:35.1 | it turns out he's been very snake like really and very swampish and doing just saying awful |
| 2:40.9 | stuff and then yeah listen obviously strok page mccabe these are really bad people lion |
| 2:46.9 | comie all these people and they're engaged in partisan activities. |
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