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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Short & Ugly

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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Daily News, News, Society & Culture

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Hour 3 of A&G features our guest, Gordon Chang, on China's spy balloon. Plus, a clever teacher fools the socials with her satire. And, more A-I insanity and Joe's new role as Chat Bot Joe.

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from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington broadcast center

0:15.0

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty Show

0:21.0

You don't yet know exactly what these three objects were

0:24.0

President Biden confirmed that the three objects he ordered shot down last weekend

0:29.0

probably posed no threat to people on the ground

0:32.0

Intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies,

0:39.0

recreation or research institutions studying whether or conducting other scientific research

0:45.0

Chinese officials still deny that the massive balloon that started this whole saga was being used for spying

0:52.0

They accused the US of smearing them and escalating tensions

0:57.0

And again, I got to point out the ABC version of this story in the news last night

1:01.0

Martha Raditch, because the president talked about this for the first time yesterday,

1:04.0

Martha Raditch actually said the president did not apologize for shooting down that initial balloon from China

1:10.0

And I thought, wow, is that standing the story on its head?

1:14.0

All the criticism is, why did we let it cross the country and not shoot it down immediately?

1:19.0

Remember, former sec def Leon Panetta saying, you got to shoot that down immediately

1:24.0

So how did it get turned around to not apologizing for shooting down like he's the criticism in these two tough?

1:35.0

I don't know where that comes from.

1:37.0

The parts of this story that aren't inexplicable are indefensible.

1:43.0

So my initial response when they shot down that thing last Friday, we could go today I guess,

1:48.0

and then shot down three days in a row, we shot something, my initial response,

1:51.0

okay, well that's proof that they feel like they made a mistake because they had the show.

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