Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you and Senator, you and

I were chatting before the show that it's been one hell of a week for the corrupt media

and they've just been stepping in it all week long.

Well listen, it's one of the most dangerous aspects in our democracy today is that we no

longer have a free and independent media. We no longer have a media that engages in actual

journalism and I don't think that's hyperbole. You know, there was a time when people in the media

viewed their mission as reporting both sides, as reporting the facts and letting you decide.

There was a time when journalists were trained to focus on the facts, the who, what, where, when,

why and not focus on editorializing. That no longer is the mission of the corporate media. The

corporate media today, they have embraced their view as propagandists. They have embraced their

view as partisans and in fact, when it comes to partisans, I think the the corporate media

are the most vicious leftists there are. They will criticize the Democrat Party for one thing

and one thing only and that's not being leftist enough. They view their job as drive them to the

left and they also are the attack dogs and I gotta say when they're engaged in attacks,

their bigotry comes out, their ignorance comes out, their despising of anyone who is an

leftist comes out and and and it really the double standard is profound. Yeah, you look at this week

and just one of those perfect examples is what happened with Don Lemon and to be clear before we

play this, if a Republican, if a conservative would have said this on TV, I have no doubt that

they would have been fired. In fact, I can even say if I was at CNN and I was there for seven

years, if I would have said what I'm about to play for you, I would have immediately been shown

the door and yet Don Lemon gets to come back without an apology, take a listen. It's all

to talk about age makes me uncomfortable. I think that I think it's the wrong road to go down.

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