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He's here. He's here. Now broadcasting from the underground command post deep in the

bowels of a hidden bunker somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-distrib building.

We've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Love them.

Hello America, Mark Lovevann, our numbers 877-3813811, 877-3813811.

Leading up to the program as I watch an individual has to be like 28 years old telling us about the

president and Pence and Washington in the future of the nation, somebody with about 14 minutes of experience.

It reminds me as I do research about a brilliant man by the name Richard M. Weaver, who almost none of you have ever heard of.

Everybody's heard of Marks and so, but they're great thinkers who would reject Marks.

He wrote a book ideas have consequences, and the Fords by our good friend Roger Kimball.

And among other things, he writes this before I jump in with both feet.

The more firmly an utterance is stereotyped, the more likely it is to win credit.

It is assumed that engines as expensive and as powerful as the modern printing press will naturally be placed in the hands of men of knowledge.

Faith in the printed word has raised journalists to the rank of oracles.

It could there be better descriptions of them than these lines from authorities.

They will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing.

They will be tiresome, having the reputation of knowledge without the reality.

If the realization of truth is the product of a meeting of minds, we may be skeptical of the physical ability of the mechanism to propagate it, as long as the propagation is limited to the printing in distribution of stories which give one unvering answer, quote unquote.

And this circumstance brings up at once the question of the intention of the rulers of the press.

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