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The Rich Zeoli Show

Protecting Free Speech. Even Speech You Don’t Like.

The Rich Zeoli Show

Audacy

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Dan McLaughlin—Senior Writer at National Review and a Fellow at National Review Institute—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his recent editorial, “The Tiki-Torch Charges Are Prosecutorial Abuse.” McLaughlin writes, “[t]he Charlottesville racists should be denounced, but prosecuting them for peaceful protest is abusive, unfair, and probably unconstitutional.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/04/the-tiki-torch-charges-are-prosecutorial-abuse/

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0:00.0

The Ziole Hill on your schedule from talk radio 12-10 W-P-H-D in the Free Odyssey app

0:07.6

Yes indeed welcome back led you're here today on Twitter at rich Ziole that's my Twitter handle

0:12.9

But my guest Twitter handle is way cooler than that

0:15.7

Damn, McLachlan is a senior writer at national review Dan. How are you today? Thanks for joining me. I appreciate it

0:21.8

Great to be here

0:23.2

So you're you're you're still baseball crank on Twitter, right?

0:28.0

I am

0:30.0

Same logo just with one last blue check. Yeah, I like it. Well, so you are checklist and you're okay with it. You can you can survive

0:37.6

You know we'll we'll see but it's you know, it doesn't affect my image of myself

0:42.8

Let's put it that way. Okay. All right. It does not affect your image of yourself

0:46.9

In other words, you're not gonna pull the barbastry sand or or share or anybody. You're not gonna melt down and threaten to leave

0:52.9

No, you know, I'm just like everybody else just trying to decide do I need to do I need to pay the eight bucks or not

0:59.8

Well, let's see I decided to pay the eight bucks only because I I spell so many words wrong

1:04.3

I like they'd be able to edit my tweets. I

1:06.7

Don't I don't get any personal value from the blue check market doesn't do anything for my ego

1:10.5

Which is already massive, but being able to edit tweets. I like that feature. That's me though, you know

1:16.8

Everybody's got to make their choice right Dan

1:19.2

You had a piece the other day, which I wanted to chat with you about and look we all agree that these guys are are

1:25.3

Are not the most stand-up people, but that's not the point the teaky torch charges are prosecutorial abuse

1:31.8

You wrote this the other day. What what's going on with all that and who's being charged here?

1:37.1

Right, so if you remember the whole charlotte's film

1:41.5

Freakus in 2017 you had this you had this rally on Friday night

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