Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson show. Really glad to have you with me here this third hour. The phone number, if you want to be on the show, is 87797977973-7-4-25. I go to dangerous territory now.

I was going to tie several things together in the last tower with the Katie

Kirk stuff and decided, no, this, this needs to be a standalone.

And I, I got to play you a clip from John Avlon on CNN to start this.

This bloody past does not need to define us, but it cannot be wisely ignored.

Those talking about a Second Civil War are still outliers, but anyone who chooses to rationalize

or stay silent in the face of the big lie is feeding this beast.

You know, I think John is actually a pretty fair-minded guy, know him, know his wife,

nice guy, don't always agree with him. He's definitely to the left of me on stuff.

It's just striking to me how easily he uses the phrase the big lie, the media itself, the media, the giant, the, the monolithic organism of group think that controls so much of how we access to use uses the phrase the big lie.

I want to talk about the big lie.

This phrase members of the media use the big lie.

They use it about Donald Trump's claims that the election was stolen. Donald Trump's claim that the election was stolen.

Donald Trump's claim that the election was stolen, it is a big lie.

It is a lie.

It is not true that the election was stolen.

Some of you right now are rushing to your keyboards to send me hate mail for telling you the election wasn't stolen.

You will include scores of instances you say are proof that there were problems.

When I say the election wasn't stolen, I'm not saying there weren't problems. There were problems.

There were inconsistencies and there were irregularities.

And there were undoubtedly instances of fraud.

But not enough to throw out the presidential election.

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