The NYT Bedbug Debacle of 2019
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2019
⏱️ 107 minutes
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The New York Times has a bedbug controversy. Is our justice system entirely rigged? Purdue Pharma opioid lawsuits.
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| 0:00.0 | You are entering the Freedom Hut. |
| 0:14.4 | Brett Stevens is very upset from the New York Times because he was called a bed bug. |
| 0:19.4 | We'll also talk about Trump's latest fights with China in the trade war. |
| 0:24.3 | The K versus Papadopolis looks like a two-tiered system of justice from the deep |
| 0:29.4 | stateers. Epstein footage has some of its unusable and also a massive |
| 0:34.8 | Purdue farm. A settlement will get to that more coming up on the Bucksexton Show. |
| 0:39.2 | This is the Bucksexton Show where the mission was mission is to decode what really matters |
| 0:45.7 | with actionable intelligence. |
| 0:53.4 | The Bucksexton Show begins. |
| 1:02.9 | Your Twitter account after a controversy that involved someone calling you a name, |
| 1:06.7 | would you like to comment on that? |
| 1:08.1 | Yeah, I'm going to be careful with my words because I know these are going to be |
| 1:12.8 | examined carefully. So I think Twitter brings out the worst in its users. It tends to bring out |
| 1:18.8 | the worst in its users. Yesterday, a professor at George Washington University |
| 1:24.0 | described me as a bed bug or a metaphorical bed bug just in the context of the New York Times |
| 1:29.3 | having a bed bug problem in our building. I think that kind of rhetoric is dehumanizing |
| 1:35.4 | and totally unacceptable no matter where it comes from. I wrote him a personal email. |
| 1:40.8 | I didn't go to Twitter. I wrote him a personal email which I think was very |
| 1:44.8 | simple saying that I did appreciate it that I would welcome him to come to my home in New York |
| 1:50.5 | meet with my family and see if he would call me a bed bug to my face because a lot of things |
| 1:56.0 | people say on social media aren't the things that are really prepared to say in one-on-one. |
| 2:00.4 | Okay, okay. Can we stop? Well, welcome everybody to the Bucksexton Show. |
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