Tonight on the readout.

I think you should take a cognitive test like I did. I took a cognitive test and I a

ace it. a

cognitive test and I aaster Dr. Ronnie Johnson.

Does everyone know Ronnie Johnson congressman from Texas.

He was the White House doctor.

A swing and a miss at the very moment that he was questioning President Biden's mental acuity.

Donald Trump forgets his own former doctor's name.

It's Jackson, not Johnson Donald.

Donald.

Just the latest example of the proverbial cheese sliding off Trump's

cognitive cracker.

Plus President Biden's stark warning about Trump's ability to alter the

courts for decades if he's allowed back into the White House. But we begin tonight with manufacturing consent, a concept introduced by Edward

as Herman and Nome Chomsky in their 1988 book on the political economy of the

mass media.

Here's a clip from the 1992 documentary of the same name. But when the state loses the bludgeon,

when you can't control people by force,

and when the voice of the people can be heard,

you have this problem,

it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don't have

the humility to submit to a civil rule and therefore you have to control what people think. In short, it is the job of the media, our job, to not just tell you what happened, but to give you some context

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