'You're Wrong' With Mollie Hemingway And David Harsanyi, Ep. 131: So Long, Censorship?

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

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Join Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Washington Examiner Senior Writer David Harsanyi as they look back on the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, compare Facebook's pledge to ditch "fact checkers" with its egregious censorship history, and discuss President Donald Trump's quest to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal. David also shares his thoughts on "The Sticky," and Mollie discusses Nikki Glaser's opener at the Golden Globes.

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of You Were Wrong with Molly Hemingway,
0:19.1	editor-in-chief of the Federalist and David Harsani, senior writer at the Washington Examiner. Just as a reminder, if you'd like to
0:25.3	email the show, please do so at Radio at the Federalist.com. We want to hear from you. So,
0:32.6	Molly, I hope you had a very solemn January 6th commemoration day?
0:43.7	I love that January 6 has become a big holiday because for me, as a Lutheran, January 6 has always been a big holiday.
0:45.6	It's when we mark epiphany, the epiphany of our Lord, when Jesus, when we mark
0:52.2	Jesus being not just for the Jews, but for all people. And the story
0:57.2	mostly associated with it is the arrival of the Magi from the East to pay homage to the
1:04.8	king. And it is a big day in Lutheranism. We have, you know, we have church separate. Like if it doesn't fall on a Sunday,
1:12.5	we do church separately. And now everybody seems to be into it. So, but for a different way.
1:21.0	It's the epiphany of the Viking shaman. Yeah. I fasted. I fasted.
1:28.3	Did you?
1:29.3	I was surprised at how many normies in my life were wishing me a happy Patriots Day that day, which I will admit, bothers me because Epiphany is such a big day.
1:39.2	But one of my friends who did it was like we can celebrate both Patriots Day and is very
1:48.3	am I not being solemn enough about the worst moment in American history that sunny
1:52.9	Houston is that you pronounce her name Austin she said it was she compared it to World
1:59.0	War II the Holocaust and I forgot what else she did not bring up
2:05.0	9-11 which apparently doesn't rank as one of the worst days in american history listen i have to just
2:12.6	say not to be a party pooper but you know i think it was a pretty bad day in a certain way.
2:19.0	I mean, I think it was an embarrassing day for the United States. I just don't think it was
2:21.8	this event that we should, you know, that was, I don't think it was a coup. I don't think it was a
2:26.7	very, you know, important event in American history. It was just an embarrassing day because many people,
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