VET MEDIA MERGERS

“There has been a running critique at the Correspondents Center that it just shows the kind of coziness, the chumminess of Washington between reporters and the people that they cover, the people they're supposed to be holding accountable. And so a lot of people have criticized the dinner over the years. The guest of honor, a guy giving a speech, sitting up on this platform, who has undermined the press throughout his second term. That's why it's not normal.”

“I think it was the most telling moment was on day one of this whole second term, when we saw Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, all standing there with other captains of industry in the tech world, in the media world. And so, yeah, I think it's imperative to look at ownership and what is there other business before government? If you're just an independent, rich person and you own a publication news site, you might end up in a different place than a bigger media apparatus that has to worry about the broadcast license.”

“David Ellison then bought the free press for $150 million and installed Barry Weiss. I think he's given her a lot of leeway. She has a lot of latitude to make changes, and she is. I think one of the issues with her early on was she abruptly pulled a CBS 60 Minutes segment, which was extremely unusual. It was hours before it was going to broadcast. It was after it was being promoted. I think one of the questions with her is she making some of these moves for political reasons.”

“Why is Donald Trump using our tax dollars to bail out Spirit Airlines? Earlier in this season of Donald Trump Destroys America, we saw him use some of that money to bail out Latin American countries. We've seen him use our tax dollars for any number of sordid things. But my big question is, what is he getting back? The deal will be $500 million for Spirit, equity warrants for the government, because what better business to spend tax payer dollars in than airlines notoriously stable?”

“What you're seeing, I think, in Virginia, is a recognition from the electorate that that no longer serves us. It does not serve democracy. It doesn't serve the people of Virginia. And it doesn't serve people in purple states across the country. What you're seeing in Virginia is that 51% of voters there see the world we're living in, don't like it, and want to do something about it. And they're doing that in a world where there's been rampant misinformation, where the information ecosystem about what's even happening is completely broken.”

“Donald Trump has this guy, RFK Jr. He represents MAGA. He helped Donald Trump win. The anti-vax stuff, it's super unpopular. So what does Donald Trump do? He's got RFK Jr. out there doing a sort of, was I anti-vax? Maybe I wasn't anti-vax. And he's lying. These people really like to lie. But you've heard him under oath lying before. I mean, RFK Jr. has lied under oath. Pretty much that's sort of one of the central themes of this whole situation.”

“There is this man known as AL Yaakoby, who's been caught many times making pro-Israeli propaganda out of AI. So he today shared a meme that said, breaking the Islamic Republic is preparing to hang eight women. And people who are good at detecting AI are all dying laughing, saying this is the most AI that has ever AI imaged of all time. It seems that the consensus on the Internet as of now is that this was made up. And because the person who initially spread this has such a bad past, it is not seeming very likely.”

“Southern Poverty Law Center has paid informants the way the FBI does. They're called field sources. They engage in their informants, and they get paid, and they inform, and thus this organization learns about the KKK and stops them from doing crimes. Now, this administration doesn't like people to monitor the KKK. So they are going after the Southern Poverty Law Center. This is Todd Blanch trying to keep this job. This is Todd Blanch knowing that Pam Bondi got fired because she did not do the kind of witch hunts that Donald Trump wanted.”