S12 EP111: Hour 1 - The Economic Success of America
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The New York Times is baselessly attacking a Trump-appointed judge.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings conversationalists. Welcome to the most unpredictable three hours in conservative talk radio. |
| 0:06.0 | The phone number if you'd like to be on the program, 877-97-9-373-725. |
| 0:14.0 | Glad to have you with me today. I want to begin going back to a topic from yesterday because it's one of those things we had a lot going on. |
| 0:22.1 | For a slow news week, there's been a lot happening, and I didn't get to spend as much time with it. |
| 0:27.0 | I had to write a piece for World Magazine on it and want to spend a little more time with you on this. |
| 0:33.3 | As you are probably aware, you should be aware, a federal judge in New Orleans has issued an injunction against the federal government telling the feds you can't talk to technology companies about free speech issues. |
| 0:49.2 | Now, the feds are overplaying their response here. They're screaming and crying about it. |
| 0:54.7 | What's more telling is how a lot of people on the left and in the media are also |
| 0:59.2 | screaming about it and mischaracterizing the entirety of the situation. |
| 1:04.1 | That right there tells me a lot about the disingenuousness of the outrage from the left. |
| 1:10.7 | So what actually happened is the guy's name is Terry Dowell. a lot about the disingenuousness of the outrage from the left. |
| 1:15.2 | So what actually happened is the guy's name is Terry Dowdy. |
| 1:19.4 | He is a U.S. District Judge Trump appointed judge. |
| 1:21.6 | The media wants you to know from Louisiana. |
| 1:28.5 | Eric Schmidt, who is now the senator from Missouri, was Missouri's Attorney General. |
| 1:32.7 | Jeff Landry, who's running for governor in Louisiana, is the Attorney General right now in Louisiana. |
| 1:33.5 | They filed the case, and they argued that the federal government was using social media companies |
| 1:42.7 | to do what the feds could not, which is censor people, essentially using social media companies to do what the feds could not, which is censor people. |
| 1:46.5 | Essentially using social media companies as a proxy for the government to censor views they disagree with. |
| 1:54.1 | When Elon Musk took over Twitter and ran it into the ground, he released a lot of files showing exactly that, that individuals |
| 2:03.6 | from the federal government reached out to social media companies to put pressure on social |
| 2:09.5 | media companies about censoring or managing people they disagreed with. |
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