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The Erick Erickson Show

S12 EP22: Hour 1 - Where Have All the Chicken Eggs Gone?

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

If you follow me on Instagram - which you should - you will see that I am getting lit on fire right now by conservatives for debunking Newsmax’s claim that DirecTV dropped them over their conservative values. This claim is simply not true. Newsmax wanted DirecTV to pay them and DirecTV said they did not have enough subscribers to warrant it. Despite DirecTV currently having Fox News and The First, Newsmax fabricated a conspiracy of censorship and plenty of conservatives are buying it.

Similarly, there is a national egg shortage that has no shortage of theories explaining it. Some popular conservative commentators are claiming COVID vaccines are responsible while others say a government conspiracy is afoot to starve the population.

I am lately perpetually disappointed in a conservative movement that claims to value truth while buying into conspiracies aimed at flaming their preconceived notions. If truth still matters, it should matter all the time. Here's what I mean...

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0:00.0

Hello America. It is Eric Erickson here across the nation. The phone number is 877-97-9-373-7-4-25 if you would like to be on the program, although we're missing our call screener who should be here momentarily.

0:19.9

Charlie is on vacation. So Philip,

0:23.6

you better be tuned in. Now, you know, the other day, we were in the office and Phillips wall

0:29.9

is on the other side of the studio, so he couldn't quite hear me, but he could still hear

0:35.1

nonetheless.

0:41.9

But now I'm in the actual studio,

0:47.4

and I need to record something here.

0:49.0

I told him to send something out,

0:51.7

and now I'm going to tell him not to send that out, but send this out. Because the time has come, I need to do a special broadcast, which means I don't have fancy cameras or lights.

1:04.2

I'm not in studio.

1:05.1

I'm, well, in the studio that has the TV equipment, I'm a laptop camera.

1:10.0

But we got to have this conversation,

1:12.0

Conservatives, and I need to push this out to everyone. And so, Philip, you can use what I

1:18.2

said to push out today, tomorrow, and this I'm recording it, and you can push this out because

1:24.4

it needs to be done. This is important. We must talk about chickens.

1:29.8

But to talk about chickens, we have to talk about Newsmax.

1:34.5

And to talk about Newsmax, we have to talk about Gordon, James Gordon Meek.

1:42.7

This is important.

1:44.9

In October of 2022,

1:50.6

the FBI showed up and raided the home of ABC News producer James Gordon Meek.

2:02.8

James Gordon Meek had published reports at ABC and oversaw news that was critical of Joe Biden.

2:14.3

And there were some who maintained he had conservative sensibilities.

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