The Network Protecting the Biden Family
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Guests: Mollie Hemingway & Miranda Devine
Host Scot Bertram talks with Mollie Hemingway, senior journalism fellow at Hillsdale College and editor-in-chief at The Federalist, about a recent report that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is rethinking his involvement in politics. We also discuss the media’s role thus far in the 2024 presidential campaign. And Miranda Devine, columnist at the New York Post and a contributor at Fox News, lays out the network of government organizations that help protect the reputation of the Biden family as described in her new book The Big Guy: How a President and His Son Sold Out America.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.4 | Joe Biden was a very useful, I guess, puppet of these people, particularly of what you call the blob, what the Obama administration called a blob, which is really the CIA and the State Department, the Pentagon. |
| 0:38.2 | This is your host, Scott Bertram. |
| 0:40.2 | Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:46.4 | That was Miranda Devine, author of the brand new book, The Big Guy, How a President at his |
| 0:52.0 | son sold out America. |
| 0:53.7 | We'll take an in-depth look inside that book with Miranda in just a little bit. |
| 0:58.5 | First, we're joined by Molly Hemingway. |
| 1:00.8 | She is Senior Journalism Fellow at Hillsdale College, |
| 1:03.7 | editor-in-chief at the Federalist and Fox News contributor. |
| 1:07.3 | Molly, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:08.6 | It's great to be here with you. |
| 1:09.6 | A very interesting |
| 1:11.4 | article in the New York Times this week on Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, subject of your previous |
| 1:19.0 | book, rigged. Mark Zuckerberg, according to the New York Times, is complaining to people |
| 1:25.4 | about the blowback to Meta from his politically touchy aspects of his |
| 1:30.2 | philanthropic efforts. He regrets hiring employees who try to push him further to the left. |
| 1:35.6 | His preference now is to wash his hands of all of it. You know his activities, Mark Zuckerberg's |
| 1:42.3 | activities in the political world better than almost anyone. |
| 1:46.0 | What do you make of the fact that this not only could be true, but also is now showing up in the New York Times? |
| 1:52.0 | Right. A few weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg sent a letter to Congress that had three interesting things. |
| 1:58.0 | And everyone kind of paid attention to the first two. That's where he said |
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