Walter Kirn
Appearances
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Well, they can subpoena him and get it anyway. So what's the problem here? Why does the Trump administration have to go first? This feels like a giant advertisement for Signal to me. We find out that the CIA uses it and trusts it. Well, at least they went to Signal.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Peter Stroke, the head of counterintelligence over at the FBI, was, you know, talking to his mistress about how he was going to disrupt the Trump administration on regular text messaging apps. At least they've scaled up a little here.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Except we three and we're pretty, pretty hip people who try to follow these things. And yet we have no idea. What's strange about it is I've never accidentally added anyone to a signal chat. That hasn't happened to me.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Well, I would have thought that anyone of the other 19 might have had veto power over this and noticed it. That's what's strange.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
I have better tradecraft than Mike Waltz, I've learned from this story. Why should I here in Montana with my strange group of friends, which are similar to yours, I imagine, Megan, you know, from all over the place, take more care with who I allow to see the more sensitive parts of my communications? The truth is we actually don't know.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
And the more I think about this and the more I look at it, that the Democrats were ready to pounce on it suggests, hmm, I don't know that there might be more to it than we are hearing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
One thing that's interesting is that this is an actual war plan that everyone agreed with, except maybe J.D. Vance. I mean, Jeffrey Goldberg, it's not like they put Alex Jones on the chat. Jeffrey Goldberg, I'm sure, agrees with. Yeah, and that would have been interesting. But bombing the Houthis is not something that I think Jeffrey Goldberg disagrees with.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
I don't even think that the Senate committee disagrees with it. It's interesting that this is a policy that really there was unanimity on, except in the case of Vance. And when this first broke, it was an anti-Vance story. That was how it was being spun. You know, Vance and Trump are at odds that that didn't survive the first news cycle. But it was how they first headlined this thing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
That would be or or what does Israel want us to do? Can somebody call them up? Right. Right. We didn't see evidence of that. See, I think Trump's management style or Putin. Well, yeah, exactly. Yeah. Can somebody call Putin and find out whether he's behind this? One time I almost burnt down a gas station I worked in. It created smoke and a terrible smell. I cleaned it up as best I could.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
The next day, the boss came in and instead of punishing me, he looked around, sniffed the air and said, I feel like something went on here. Carry on. It was the greatest act of discipline I've ever received. Because to withhold punishment sometimes is to show true dominance. And I think that's what Trump has done here.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
The ability to give grace in this situation is also in its shadow form, the ability to get rid of you. And I think everybody is going to shape up from now on.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
If the Democrats could design a security leak, it would be to Jeffrey Goldberg. Why are they acting like they're unhappy with this thing? Right, they're not.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Yeah, yeah. It's 100% because of their numbers.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Well, I'm an actual novelist, unlike Harwood, so I'll give my competing image of Tom Holman. He's like a bouncer in a very big nightclub and finds some guys who've been harassing women in the women's bathroom and kicks them out the back door. And when they want to come back in the front door... Doesn't allow it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
That is just a pure cheap shot on Harwood's part to act as though this is racist, that it harks back to the Southern past and so on. Doesn't apply in any respect. It's a bad image, a bad metaphor, and it's prejudicial on its face. He can say it, but it doesn't mean much.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Listen, I grew up with Dirty Harry and Charles Bronson movies. We haven't even gotten close to that level yet. In the early and mid-70s, after the chaos of the 60s and the early 70s, we had a series of heroes. Buford Pusser, the southern sheriff, speaking of southern sheriffs, walking tall, who went around with a baseball bat, getting rid of all the scumbag. Yeah, in his small town.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
We had a decade of vigilante movies where people practically stood up and cheered. And in one of those Dirty Harry's movies, it's interesting, there was a villain who ends up kidnapping school children who is let off earlier in the movie by a judge on a technicality, even though they have him. And then does even worse things. So America's in that mood.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
And cultural cycles, you know, as Andrew Breitbart said, politics is downstream of culture. And I think in a lot of cases that's true. In terms of cultural cycles, we're in a Tom Holman cycle, not a, you know, Tom Cruise upright Boy Scout cycle.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
OK, so let's. Yeah, go ahead. I have one last point, Megan. One of the reasons that Americans in general are so exercised about this issue is that they see it in the streets at home and around them. In other words, an insulated federal judge is one thing. But when you're, you know, driving down the street and you see the.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
indigent people or what look like troublemakers, or if you go to the gym and you undress and the guy next to you has a tattoo of bloody death on his back, or if you come across these gang members in any setting, you're going to be scared. You're going to be frightened.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
It's an existential issue for everyday Americans, especially working class Americans who mix in the kind of places that these people hang out. So they have a completely different perspective on this.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
The New York Times has a hotline to the State Department. It's probably got a hotline to the CIA. It's got a hotline to every position of power. It has taken dictation for decades and decades. But the premise here is so flawed. The idea that everybody is waiting for a orders from Trump on independent media.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
The great thing about independent media now is that it's growing up from the grassroots and Trump is coming down from the presidency and they're meeting. And they're not meeting seamlessly. There's a lot of arguments. I mean, if... Conservatives, right wingers, libertarians have as many ways to argue with each other and disagree with each other as the left does.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
But they also have something that the left doesn't have right now, which is authenticity. And they're trying to claim that this is a top down phenomenon when it is absolutely the opposite. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
First of all, the reason that they can't adapt on the left is that they have an orthodox religion, which won't allow them to get over certain catechisms. Nixon, Jim Crow, etc. These have nothing to do with life in America 2025 right now. They're mourning a monopoly. They're mourning a period when there were three networks and basically three newspapers.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Now, they can't get over the fact that they've lost power, that the Internet goes from side to side, not top down, that it is indeed a net and that it's decentralized. The attempt in the last few years before Trump was elected and Elon took over Twitter was to make the Internet and social media resemble that old monopoly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
They wanted to sit on top of it and use these academic misinformation organizations and State Department-sponsored disinformation organizations to curate it in a way that was really a losing battle in the modern age. Because the internet now is like water. It can flow around you. And it's not just Trump who can get his message out. It's all kinds of
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
what characters that they would consider fringe. We've entered a new age and the New York Times can't believe it's not still 1974. And then invoking Nixon can't scare everybody from, you know, speaking up. But if you either get with it, people and Jim Rutenberg, or you're going to be left behind and you have been.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Megan, they're on a nostalgia trip. Right now on Broadway, George Clooney is playing Murrow, okay? And good night and good luck. CBS can't get over its glory days. New York Times can't get over its glory days. But they all go back to the 70s. It's like when my father insisted on playing music from 1955 when he was a high school football player. He just had to revisit it obsessively.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
And going back to Nixon and other moments when they had the power that they lack now, it's not our fault that there's no Walter Cronkite. It's theirs. If they had someone as talented and trusted and charismatic and frankly, objective seeming as Cronkite, bring him forth. I don't see it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Thank you.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
It was like a boy band or a band that had been assembled by a casting agent. They have a person who represents each part of their demographic or their constituency, and they play the role to the hilt. But the biggest difference these days between Democrats and Republicans is this. On the Republican side, people claim that they should have power because of what they've done. I'm Elon Musk.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
I shoot rockets into space. I administer Twitter. I'm Donald Trump. I built skyscrapers and developed real estate around the world. On the Democratic side, it's what was done to you that's important. You know, this is what happened to me when I was young, when I was in college. I was a victim. Now, I just think in America, claiming that victimization is an accomplishment is a period that's over.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
She's still at it, but I don't think it flies.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
It's middle class and upper middle class people pretending to be poor. And nobody wants their children to grow up and be poor. She's playing a role. And when she's relaxed, she stops playing it, as we just saw. In fact, when she's drunk, she sounds like a kid who went to private school.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Well, what I found curious is that if I were a somewhat hostile journalist and were added accidentally to a group chat that included the vice president, the secretary of defense, and a national security advisor, I would lay low for a while and not blow my cover. I would say, oh, wow, I just got an accidental pipeline into the very heart of the security state.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
Maybe I'm not going to come out the first time I get a little bit of news. So it was interesting to me that Goldberg decided to sort of blow this once in a lifetime chance to surveil the inside of the White House. He could add a four-year scoop. Oh, exactly. I'd have been writing a book. I'm waiting for the World War III war plan, not the bombing of the Houthis, which isn't all that controversial.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
No, that's a good point. As you say, I think it made Vance in particular look good. He can't be he can't be construed as a Trump toady after looking at this. You know, he had some principled differences with Donald Trump. He said this conflicts with our messaging about Ukraine, with our general anti-war stance. Also, as he as you mentioned, it seems to favor the European interests over our own.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Bizarre Group Chat Details, Media Compares Trump to Nixon, and MK Media Launch, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1034
If there were if we're going to play games with conspiracy theories and 40 chess, it's J.D. Vance, I think, who comes out looking best because it shows that he's both in the loop, independent, thoughtful and nobody's fool. At the same time, he plays with the team. All I know is that I'm Jeffrey Goldberg sitting there going, wow, I had I had a bug in the White House. Now I don't.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Well, the next time Delta Airlines refuses to upgrade me to a seat in the front of the plane, I'm going to cry censorship. Riding in the back of the plane is not being censored. Strangely enough, Matt and I, when we applied for credentials to the Democratic Convention, weren't allowed to go in at all. So they protest too much.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
The fact is that censorship has to do with your ability to say things, not the place from which you listen to things.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Where does AP think the names of bodies of water come from? God? They're political designations. You know, a lot of these places in America have had three names. They had a name when we first got here. The American Indians named it something. Then the next group of settlers named it something else. And then when the place became a state, it was named something else. Uh,
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
It is government that gives names to large features of geography. If the AP wants to dispute that and has some other policy about names and where they come from, that's fine. But the fact is they decided to have a tantrum, and they got a tantrum back, and now they're crying.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Well, I live in Montana, about as far away from the White House briefing room as you can be. But as a younger journalist, when I first went to Washington, just after Bill Clinton was elected the first time, I did a story on the New Republic magazine, which was a very inside publication, very popular publication. with the Democratic establishment at the time.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
And I hung around their offices for a few days. And everybody of note, cabinet people, top advisors of the president came through and gave off the record briefings. And as I sat there like a fly on the wall, I realized that the journalists were married to the press secretaries of the people in the administration. Everybody's kids went to school together.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
They gathered that night at parties and bars. They were, in fact, one social group, a very tight knit social group. And I completely agree with you that proximity can become a form of corruption because as a journalist, when you're socializing with people, you're constantly hearing things that you can't report.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
And after a while, you're living in a world where you know way more than you are allowed to tell your audience. And that makes you part of them, in other words. That's right. You're keeping their secrets more than you're telling their secrets. And your job is to tell their secrets.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Yeah. And to Megan's point, you made a great point about Joe Biden and his condition and how well it was hidden. The AP was sitting in the damn front row. OK, they had their front row seat. They were able to see him shuffle in and shuffle out and be taken in and out by nurses and aides and so on. What good did it do the American people that the AP was in front? None.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Their access, in fact, was probably predicated on. on them keeping the secret. Maybe from the back row, as an outsider and a little with a chip on their shoulder, they might have told the truth. But as an insider feeling like they had the golden ticket, they kept their mouth shut just like everybody else. Now, that is a form of self-censorship in the name of currying favor with power.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
They're victims of their own profligacy. They dropped a prosecution that involved President Biden because he was too old and didn't have a good memory. They they went after Trump for documents inside Mar-a-Lago. And I still don't know why. Really, do you? What were the documents and what was the urgency? We don't know. Prosecutorial discretion is recognized.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
A recognized thing because we could probably be prosecuting half the people on Capitol Hill for something at any one time all day long, all year long. That's generous, Walter. It's more than that. Yeah, exactly. As Mark Twain said, Congress is the only Native American criminal class.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
And so that he decided to not follow through on the prosecution of a mayor of New York City at a time when New York City is facing practically a crisis with migrations. And he has been grappling with that more fully maybe than any other big city mayor. I think it's completely appropriate. It's a political decision, a political risk, and he took it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
No, it's not working. And that's because trying to make America feel something for the bureaucrats who made their lives hell during COVID and paid no price themselves, who got to go home, work from home, and stayed home ever after, sometimes taking other jobs, those are not the people that in traditional left-wing politics we are out to support.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
The American left was a party of the working people, not the people who work at the DMV or the IRS or the U.S. Treasury, but the people who work in factories, fields and actual jobs. And trying to make those people a victim class is just not going to work.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
I would have said if I really wanted to drink and get away with it at the podium, I'd be drinking vodka. You know, it's nice and clear and I can have as much of it as I want. In fact, I won't be drinking as much of it, though, as Winston Churchill drank by the morning, who led us in World War Two and was absolutely wasted the whole time. He should have just thrown it back at them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Every time Donald Trump used to wipe his nose.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
in the first trump administration they said he was snorting adderall i don't know if you remember that um yeah or snorting you know everybody wipes their nose is snorting coke everybody's drink catches the light is drinking whiskey meanwhile if you really go up to capitol hill and you go to the senate you hang out a lot of them are getting wasted during the day okay
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Right, right. Just recently, yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Touch your nose.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Well, everybody in the audience was trolling her with their oohs and aahs. They didn't feel those for a second. They were putting them on. She is the queen of pseudo-prevendity. If she hears the word yes, she said, we say yes to this, but no to that. If we're for this, we're against that. She's always trying to make some sort of oratorical Ciceronian point out of absolutely nothing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
But I do think she was drunk, and I think she had a mixture of – You know, now that we're allowed to speculate and not be libelous. Sure. Pete eggs. Open the door. Yeah, she was drunk and I think she had a little bit of a stimulant on board that was giving her the confidence to talk at all. And the drunkenness was giving her the absolute mindless stupidity when she talked.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Well, if nature abhors a vacuum, now we know why she wasn't elected, because we do, too. But she's always she's always she talked about a vacancy that needs if there's a vacancy, it needs to be filled there. It's very Freudian. This concept of emptiness seems to be on her mind a lot.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Rebels and outsiders like the Trump administration and the people around Trump. have access to a vocabulary of outrage and sometimes obscenity that they have to use back to fight back against authority. But when authority starts, when the administration starts going after Animal House using the same language, It just looks ridiculous. You know, it's like the U.S.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Cavalry picking up bows and arrows because it's been shot at by, you know, the Sioux Warriors. And it says, I don't know how these things work, but they seem to be really good at killing people. Boing! You know... Learn to say dick and learn to be convincing and sound like you're in a bar room.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
But when you're doing it from the cable desk, like you say, Megan, all you're doing is lowering yourself. And they won by getting you to use the weapon of the outsider. And they did it badly.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Or maybe a blog. Maybe they should try getting a blog.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
Can I jump in, Matt? First of all, why does using a Southern accent exempt you from all the charges of stereotyping and so on? You know, he gets to use a Southern accent and it's across the board a pejorative, something we're supposed to recoil from. That's the racism, if you want to look at it. Second of all, I didn't even know that Tom Hanks would stoop to this kind of thing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
It's terrible writing. It was a terrible skit. And he was the big loser. I see people all over social media going, I don't think I'm going to be watching him again anytime soon.
The Megyn Kelly Show
CBS vs. Free Speech, Elon Baby Drama, and Shocking Plane Crash, with Michael Knowles, Matt Taibbi, and Walter Kirn | Ep. 1009
But he just he just pulled Forrest Gump down the river. He did a Forrest Gump imitation. And now he's now he's a racist. He just all that good work went away.