S12 EP42: Hour 3 - The Press Discredits Itself in Mississippi
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 876 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour 3. |
| 0:12.1 | Hello there. Welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Across the nation, the phone number 8779773-745, should you wish to be on the program. |
| 0:23.6 | Glad to have you with me. |
| 0:25.6 | I want to talk about a story that is a very hyper-local story, but nowhere near me. |
| 0:32.6 | I sometimes get accused of spitting too much time talking about Georgia stuff. |
| 0:36.6 | I want to talk about something |
| 0:38.9 | in Mississippi. I do not have, I've got a lot of listeners in Mississippi. I don't have any |
| 0:45.9 | affiliates yet in Mississippi. A lot of people listen online. And I was struck by a story |
| 0:52.4 | in the Associated Press that I will get to. |
| 0:56.1 | But I have to back up first and just explain this to you. |
| 1:01.0 | The city of Jackson, Mississippi is a city of dysfunction. |
| 1:06.8 | It is a city that has decided to elect a highly, highly progressive far-left mayor. |
| 1:18.2 | It is a city that has run its infrastructure into the ground. |
| 1:23.9 | And it is a city that whenever anyone tries to help the city get on its feet, they get accused of being racist. |
| 1:34.3 | Everything is about racism. |
| 1:38.3 | Everything is about racism. Everything screams racism. You do anything to help Jackson, Mississippi, you're going to get attacked as a racist. |
| 1:50.0 | Jackson, Mississippi's water infrastructure, they stopped actually making people pay for their water bills, their water and sewage. |
| 1:59.0 | They just didn't collect the bills. |
| 2:05.3 | And the thing went financially in the hole. They didn't have the money to fix the water system in Jackson, Mississippi. And when the state refused to intervene because it was local |
| 2:10.4 | government incompetence, it's racism. That's why the state did intervene. Never mind local |
| 2:16.5 | city mismanagement, never mind the government was given away a service to its citizens without asking them to pay for it. Never mind all of the fiscal mismanagement. Never mind all the corruption. Never mind all the waste, all the fraud, all the abuse. Never mind all the problems. It was all racism all the time when the state said, |
| 2:34.7 | we're not going to help you fix this problem unless you change the way you're doing business. |
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