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The Daily Beast Podcast

Too Many Dead Capitol Cops for Josh Hawley to Pretend He’s Innocent

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) just can’t understand why everyone wants him to resign. He put out a brave tweet calling for the “violence” to end after a mob he helped incite laid siege to the Capitol, and his “woke” publisher still gave in to “cancel culture” and axed his beloved book. Now people won’t stop going on about his objecting to the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the blood-soaked wake of the riot. To offer the senator a bit of clarity, co-hosts Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast talked to Pennsylvania’s truth-talking lieutenant governor, John Fetterman. Fetterman, who’s faced his own challenges from Republicans who refuse to accept the 2020 election’s outcome at home, had a few choice words for Hawley and his erstwhile political ambitions on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. Plus, New York University professor and “Pivot” co-host Scott Galloway on exactly how much credit we should give Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey for kicking Donald Trump off their platforms. “There’s blood on your hands, Josh Hawley,” Wilson says. “...You begged and pleaded to be the favorite of Donald Trump by continuing with this fucking lie, that inflamed, these conspiratorial lunatics, and they came down there.” Wilson also calls BS on appeals for political unity if there aren’t going to be any resignations first—Hawley foremost among them. “All those excuses and this false and shallow horseshit hypocritical appeal to unity and reconciliation,” he says. “Yeah. OK. Quit first, motherfucker. And then we'll talk.” Fetterman had a direct, searing message for Hawley and his fellow GOP “objectors.” “Your supporters drove you from your very chamber. And after all that trauma, people were shot and people died, you still were so hell bent on exploiting this for your own political advantage. After all that, you still got up in front and continued to tell what you know are lies,” Fetterman says. “You know, [Hawley] went to Stanford and Yale law. He knows better than anybody that this is all garbage. And this is the point. And that’s what makes him so reprehensible. You know, I don’t care what your political beliefs are. If you’re willing to damage and endanger over your ambition, your, your soul is dipped in dog shit. I don’t know how else to say it.” Then, NYU professor Scott Galloway joins for a discussion about Twitter and Facebook taking away the president’s social media accounts. “There is nothing noble. There is nothing patriotic. There was nothing civic in Zuckerberg or Dorsey kicking these people off of their platforms,” Galloway says. “This is them trying to wallpaper over their delay and obfuscation. People who get DUIs typically have driven drunk 200 times before they kill a family or they’re pulled over. Wow. And these guys have been driving drunk and all of a sudden a family got killed. And now they’re sorry… They deserve zero fucking credit for doing the right thing at the bottom of the ninth inning.” Want more? Become a Beast Inside member to enjoy a limited-run series of bonus interviews from The New Abnormal. Guests include Cory Booker, Jim Acosta, and more. Head to newabnormal.thedailybeast.com to join now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi folks, it's Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.

0:04.6

Hi, I'm Molly Zhangfast, a left-wing pundit and editor at large at the Daily Beast.

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I'm also an editor at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist, best-selling

0:14.1

author and full-time troublemaker.

0:16.2

We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,

0:19.9

politics, business and science that help make what's happening in the country and the world

0:24.9

clear.

0:25.9

Try to keep Rick to the minimum number of F-bombs and try to keep our kids, pets and other

0:32.0

wildlife sounds from invading our respective bunkers.

0:35.3

Hi Rick Wilson.

0:36.8

Hi, Molly Zhangfast.

0:38.3

How are you?

0:39.3

I'm good.

0:40.6

There was fuckery.

0:42.1

There's been so much fuckery over this weekend and I have to get this out right now, everybody.

0:46.5

Right this minute I have to get this out.

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Let's go.

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Any mother fucker who says, oh, we now need peace and harmony and unity and comedy and everything

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means to be sweetness and light and we all have to get along.

0:57.5

Fuck you.

0:58.5

Fuck you.

0:59.5

Fuck you sideways.

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