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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP123: Hour 1 - Shinzo Abe’s Death Reveals a Broken American Press

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

There is nothing good on the horizon for democrats going into the midterms and the assassination of Shinzo Abe reveals how broken the American press truly is.

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0:00.0

Oh, geez, Dad, not the car again.

0:02.6

Oh, happens all the time with old Betsy. Have you checked out Carvana yet? They have thousands of cars for under $20,000. But did those thousands of cars have personality like old Betsy? Betsy is held together by tape. And there are raccoons living in the engine. Psh, it's a family car. Uh, there are flames on the hood? A custom paint job. No, Dad. The car's on fire.

0:01.3

How many cars did you say Carvana had?

0:03.0

Visit Carvana. family car. Uh, there are flames on the hood? That custom paint job. No, dad.

0:21.3

The car's on fire.

0:22.5

How many cars did you say Carvana had? Visit Carvana.com to shop thousands of cars for under $20,000. We'll drive you happy at Carvana. Hello and welcome. It is Eric Eriksson here, the Eric Erikson show. Glad to have you with me. Phone numbers 877-9-733-7-4-25.

0:21.9

Well, we, we've got to talk about

0:43.8

Shenzhou Abe, the prime minister of Japan, being assassinated. It actually is a very big story.

0:51.1

And so it's big as well just in how the American media has chosen to cover it.

0:57.8

Just more proof of NPR needing to be defunded in what they have done. But before I get there,

1:07.2

I need to go back to a topic from yesterday. Calm some of you down.

1:13.0

The Daily Beast is reporting Herschel Walker, the U.S. Senate candidate from Georgia,

1:21.1

that essentially his campaign is in disarray.

1:23.7

His staff don't believe him.

1:24.9

He's a serial liar.

1:27.1

He can't be honest with him. He's not doing the work. The campaign is flailing. I mean, you've got staffers on the campaign saying deeply disparaging things about him, as well as outside groups. Turns out a number of donors have now walked away, pulled their money, don't want to help. think he's bad. Listen, all of that stuff is true, and you need to know it's true.

1:27.7

And I've heard this stuff from members of the staff.

1:29.6

I mean, after, way, pulled their money, don't want to help. I think he's bad. Listen, all of that stuff is true.

1:44.8

And you need to know it's true. And I've heard this stuff from members of his staff. I mean, after he didn't want to be on with me to have spent an hour on the most listened to radio station, which happens to be where 60% of his voters are coming from and answer the four simple questions of who are you, why are you running, what's your big issue,

2:01.1

and why you, not the other guys, refused to sit down.

2:04.5

One of his staffers told me they just didn't want him to do an hour freeform conversation,

2:08.3

thought it wouldn't go well.

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