S12 EP88: Hour 2 - The Press Fact-Checkers Are Lying
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Of course the fact checkers are lying again, this time about book bans, plus the democrats are about to get thrown under the bus over the debt ceiling.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our 2. |
| 0:12.7 | Hello there. It is Eric Erickson here. Sorry, I clicked the wrong button as I'm starting the program. |
| 0:17.6 | The phone number is 87797-973-745, should you wish to be on the program. |
| 0:24.2 | If you missed my interview with Governor Ron DeSantis that started the program today, |
| 0:30.1 | if you text the word data to 33777, I'll send you back a link you can click and you'll be |
| 0:36.8 | able to get my interview with Governor DeSantis. |
| 0:39.5 | I did ask him about the Twitter launch. He pointed out he got over 5 million listens to the interview, |
| 0:47.1 | had 700,000 people waiting for him. And though it definitely glitched, it became the biggest |
| 0:52.9 | story in America, probably around the world, lots of headlines. |
| 0:56.4 | Okay, I got to talk to you about the lying liars that lie, and that would be the American press fact checkers. |
| 1:05.4 | Do you remember, it's only been, what, a year or so ago, that progressives demanded the cat in the hat and all Dr. |
| 1:16.1 | Seuss be banned. |
| 1:17.9 | They were adamant that Dr. Seuss books needed to be pulled out of libraries because he was a racist and cat in the hat. |
| 1:27.0 | All the books needed to stop being published. |
| 1:30.0 | These same people are accusing Republicans of book bans. |
| 1:35.9 | In fact, the biggest story comes out of Florida. |
| 1:40.1 | The Associated Press has gotten in on the act. |
| 1:43.3 | CNN has gotten in on the act and others claiming that Florida schools banned some books, |
| 1:50.7 | including a book of poems by the 22-year-old who wrote the poem for Joe Biden's inauguration, |
| 1:58.0 | that they were banned. |
| 1:59.5 | They were not banned. |
| 2:01.4 | They were moved to an age-appropriate section of the library. |
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