<div id="attachment_2223" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/TheEnd.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2223" class="size-medium wp-image-2223" src="http://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/TheEnd-300x223.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="223" srcset="https://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/TheEnd-300x223.jpg 300w, https://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/TheEnd-1024x760.jpg 1024w, https://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/TheEnd-150x111.jpg 150w, https://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/TheEnd-768x570.jpg 768w, https://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/TheEnd.jpg 1164w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Good-bye</div>
It&#8217;s been a good run, but after 10 years, this show is done. I appreciate all my listeners on whatever point on the political spectrum you might be.
I have a few parting thoughts, some reminiscing, and of course some conservative commentary. But this show goes a bit over the usual 10 minutes because, hey, it is a special episode.
Mentioned links:
<a href="https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/a-parting-thought">A Parting Thought (Erick-Woods Erickson)</a>

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Show transcript
Let me start with a little reminiscing. I started this podcast because I needed a creative outlet for my interest in politics. I had previously found one as a contributor to the late and lamented Shire Network News podcast. It helped me find my voice even though my skills as a satirist were not very good. See, the creator of SNN, a journalist from, at the time, New Zealand named Bruce Hill, had been running it solo when it started, and he had a biting sense of satire all his own. Later he started adding contributors who would send in a commentary of 3 minutes more or less (and sometimes a lot more (sorry Bruce)) which he’d incorporate into the show. After listening to it for a while, I heard Bruce ask for more contributors so that people didn’t have to send one in every week. I heard my chance and sent in my “screen test” as it were. Next episode he used it, so it was clear I got the job. But like I said, my satire chops were not well developed, and sometimes my contributions didn’t have any humor in them, satire or otherwise.
Anyway, that went on for a while until Bruce had time constraints and turned over the hosting duties to one of the contributors, and Bruce continued to record the weekly interview, the main part of the episode. A while after that, this contributor was having time constraints, so I took over hosting duties. Needless to say, this gave me lots of experience with audio editing. A while after that, Bruce informed me that he could no longer be involved in the podcast at all, so I suggested we do 1 last episode as a fitting good-bye to our listeners, rather than podfade. I enjoyed putting that together, but when it was done, my creative outlet was gone. I really wanted another one, and so this show came out of that. So thanks, Bruce, for that push.
When I started doing this show in 2012, I would do it at my desk in the basement. These days, I can’t do stairs. In fact, I can’t walk, or even stand up on my own. Not to get all “woe is me” here, but a lot can change in 10 years when you have Multiple Sclerosis. I got into a lot of that story back in episode 100. You can find it on the website if you want to listen to it. In late 2021 and early 2022, though, I was hospitalized twice, and each time it left me with less mobility. So now I spend my days in a wheelchair, although it is a pretty cool electric power wheelchair which gives me a lot more independence. I can use it outdoors to go down to our community’s clubhouse to get the mail, and it goes up and down so I can get things on higher shelves or not require people to bend over to talk to me. It stinks to qualify for a chair like this, but it is a bit of fun.
I say the same thing about handicap parking spaces. Stinks to qualify for them, but…
<hr />
Just a quick note on some recent news headlines.
First, after almost half a century of working within the democratic system, pro-lifers won a huge victory when Roe v Wade was officially overturned. I think the justices got it right when they said 2 things. One, that abortion never really was a constitutional right. Instead, 7 unelected justices created it themselves. I mean, was Roe’s trimester system in the Constitution? No, it was unlawful legislation, pure and simple. So women didn’t lose any right at all; they never had it. And if you’re upset over a development where more babies will live to see the light of day, well it just seems to me that you’re not on the right side of history.
The second thing that the court said was to agree that a majority of 9 unelected justices should not be making rules as consequential as these for the entire country. So they agreed to get out of the way and let the people decide for themselves through their elected representatives; you know, the democratic way. Unlike how some on the Left are framing this, this is how the government is supposed to work. Elected representatives make laws, and judges merely decide who is right in a dispute based on those laws.
I had a lot more to say in the last episode about the leak of the Alito draft opinion. Turns out that there wasn’t much of a difference between the draft and the final opinion, so my comments still fit.
Radio host Erick Erickson had a wonderful column that he wrote about the end of the Roe-era. Link is in the show notes, and here is what he wrote.
<hr />
A Parting Thought 
By Erick-Woods Erickson 
June 24th, 2022
The strong nuclear force is the force that binds the nucleus of an atom together. The protons and neutrons, the quarks, and more are held there by that force.
For forty years, Roe v. Wade has been the strong nuclear force of the conservative movement. It has held disparate people of different walks of life together in common cause. Some have done it for the constitutional principle that abortion is not in the constitution and must be a matter for states. Some have done it for deeply religious reasons. Others have just signed on to be part of that cause.
Today at 10:20am ET, the United States Supreme Court snuffed out the strong nuclear force of the conservative movement. That movement will now fracture in many unforeseen and unpredictable ways.
Some small-government conservatives will now favor more expansive government spending for families and mothers. Some will favor and support more robust moral policies at the federal level. Some will be more libertarian than ever before. Where there had been consensus will now be, in some cases, disunity and discord. People who never cared for each other, but cared greatly about the cause, can now be disagreeable. People who’ve wanted to stake out positions to make names for themselves will be more bold. Others will work quietly.
Others will find new unity and new opportunity to work together for a greater and more expansive culture of [life]. They will agree to disagree and debate and work together for a new unity.
A new strong nuclear force will form and a new element within conservatism will take shape. A new atom with new energy will come to a movement that looks in some ways different from the old. It will take time.
For now, the cause that bound us together is gone and the parts of the movement move into new fights as the real work for a culture of life begins. It will cause disagreement, separation, and unity.
But, in the end, it is absolutely worth it. There was never a point for a Republican Party committed to ending Roe if it would not actually do so. Power for the sake of power must ultimately give way to use of that power even if by use, the power then fades. We have spent forty years persuading voters, building coalitions, changing hearts, changing minds, changing politicians, changing laws, and changing a Court — all for this one case, this one victory, this one day.
Let the power fade. Let the movement now evolve. The right decision has come.
In the end, life always finds a way.
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And so, finally, a parting thought of my own.
We were at the home of our future in-laws on one of those Sundays that was attended by a boatload of their extended family. My son had gotten to know one of the guys there who was a future son-in-law and my son had pointed him to my podcast on Spotify. (Note to future podcasters; get listed on Spotify.)
I asked him what he thought of it, and he replied with a smile, “I really enjoy it.” My wife then asked, “So are you a conservative?” After a brief pause but keeping that smile, he replied, “I really enjoy it.” We had a good laugh over that.
But here’s the thing; that guy has been my main target audience all along, and beside him I know of a few other listeners who fit that description. I consider it one measure of success that I have listeners like that; those who disagree with me but are willing to listen and consider this. Hence the name of the show. If you are one of those listeners, thank you so much for your time and consideration. I hope you’ve been given a thing or two to think about.
Now, my secondary audience has always been what the vast majority of my listeners are, and that is those who are already conservative, or at least center-right on the political spectrum. By one measure, there are around 1,000 of you out there! One thousand? As I’ve noted before, where in the world could I go every week (or so) where 1,000 people would gather to listen to anything I have to say? The only answer I know of so far is podcasting. If you are one of those listeners, I want to thank you for your time as well, and I hope I’ve given you either new ways to think about the issues, or information about issues you weren’t aware of, or a voice for your opinion via your feedback, or something to share with friends to help persuade them, or perhaps a little bit of all of those. I consider it a measure of success if I’ve done any of those things for you, or if I’ve just given you a reprieve from the liberal media for 10 minutes or less.
And so to remind you once more, that in whatever situation you find yourself, whenever, wherever, and whoever you are, always take some time to consider this.
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It's been a good run, but after 10 years, this show is done. I appreciate all my listeners on whatever point on the political spectrum you might be.  I have a few parting thoughts, some reminiscing, and of course some conservative commentary.

It's been a good run, but after 10 years, this show is done. I appreciate all my listeners on whatever point on the political spectrum you might be. 
 
I have a few parting thoughts, some reminiscing, and of course some conservative commentary. But this show goes a bit over the usual 10 minutes because, hey, it is a special episode.

Episode 326: The End

<div id="attachment_2212" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/AlitoLeak-1.jpg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2212" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-2212" src="http://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/AlitoLeak-1-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/AlitoLeak-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/AlitoLeak-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/AlitoLeak-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/AlitoLeak-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/AlitoLeak-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/AlitoLeak-1.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>The Alito leak brought abortion front and center again</div>
A leak out of the Supreme Court suddenly made abortion and Roe v Wade the main topic of outrage from the Left.
But, aside from whether or not the opinion aligns with yours, what are the reasons that the Roe and Casey decisions should be overturned? Are there reasons (that are not religious ones or regarding morality) that those decisions don&#8217;t hold up legally?
Listen in to find out. As a bonus, I&#8217;ll read the introduction to the Alito opinion after the main show so you can some of his reasoning.
Mentioned links:
<a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/05/03/roe-v-wade-supreme-court-leak-stuns-nation">Supreme Court leak stuns nation</a>
<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/abortion-draft-supreme-court-opinion-key-passages-00029470">10 key passages from Alito’s draft opinion, which would overturn Roe v. Wade</a>
<a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2022/05/03/is-roe-v-wade-about-to-be-overturned-and-if-so-what-are-the-implications-n2606662">Is Roe v. Wade About to Be Overturned? If So, What Are the Implications?</a>
<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/u-supreme-court-launches-probe-153004798.html">U.S. Supreme Court launches probe into leak of draft abortion opinion</a>
<a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21835435/scotus-initial-draft.pdf">Alito&#8217;s draft opinion</a> [PDF]

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Show transcript
A leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion is completely unprecedented, and the content of the one leaked on the evening of May 2nd is remarkable in its own right. It appears, according to the opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, that the Court is prepared to overturn Roe v Wade because it was poorly decided. That’s something that lawyers from both sides of the aisle have agreed with over the years. Inventing a constitutional right to abortion out of whole cloth is what the Court did, overriding the laws of every state and basically legislating from the bench.
Some are suggesting that overturning Roe would be “undemocratic” and would “politicize the Court”. What they fail to realize is that Roe itself was undemocratic and was itself politicizing. The idea that the “right” to abortion was somehow actually in the Constitution is dishonest from the start. Even worse was the whole trimester setup and what was allowed at each step of the way. Was that in the Constitution? No, it was plain legislating, a power that the Court should never have. We have a legislative branch of government for that, and so that politized the Court. And there is nothing less democratic than a few Justices writing rules for the entire nation, overriding the laws of every state. Overturning Roe restores democracy and gets the Court out of the political realm. Removing the issue from edicts from on high and back to the people is what democracy is all about.
Apparently, that’s the last thing Democrats want; to give the people a vote. Fine then, pass a law through Congress where something like this, that lays out when certain procedures are allowed, is supposed to be created. That, too, is the democratic way, where our representatives make the laws, not a majority of a panel of 9 Justices.
But do you see what the Democrats want to do in order to get that passed? They want to use a misuse of the judicial branch of government and turn the Court into what’s been called a “super-legislature”; rather than merely deciding cases based on the text of the Constitution, they can additionally create laws out of thin air. This is an abuse of the process. But remember; live by the sword, die by the sword. Once you create a “law” in this manner, later on, when the court changes hands by the luck of what President gets to name the justices, you can easily see new laws, or removal of old laws, just as easily. And because these Justices have lifetime appointments, those “laws” will be just as hard to change.
And if that process sounds familiar, that’s because it is very much like Congress, except the legislative branch represents the people much more accurately.
In the meantime, an investigation has begun into the identity of the leaker. This is the first time in the 233 year history of the Court that something like this has happened. Leaks coming from the other two branches of government have become common, so who could have done this to the Supreme Court is a big question in DC right now.
There are 3 categories of people who could have done this; one of the Justices, one of their clerks, and one of those employees who work in the building, people like typesetters or copiers. It’s also possible that friends or family of one of these people could have seen some work that was brought home, though I kind of dismiss that because you’d think that the air of secrecy that the Court operates under wouldn’t allow that sort of thing.
If it was a Justice, they should be impeached, regardless of who it is. If it was a clerk, they should be disbarred. If it was an employee, they should be fired and never be able to work in DC again. It’s as simple as that. If there is no tangible punishment, then this is just the first of many leaks to come, and this will subject the Court to the whims of public opinion. There is a proper place where public opinion is to be taken into consideration, and it should come as no surprise that I’ll say it’s in Congress. But the vast majority of the public are not Constitutional scholars, in spite of what your Facebook or Twitter feeds might suggest. What is or isn’t constitutional should be left to those that our nation set aside for that job. If you want a law passed, like I said, then do so in the branch of government set aside for that.
That’s why prosecuting the leaker to the fullest extent of the law is so important. Now that a potential opinion of the Court is out there, everyone’s going to sound off. Not only that, but the reaction from those on the Left has been frightening enough that Justice Alito has currently been shuffled off to an undisclosed location.
We cannot allow leaks in the judiciary. Ever.
A few final thoughts. I’ve mentioned that the process is important a few times. Each branch of government should stay in its lane. Only then do the checks and balances that are built into the system work properly. What I’ve noticed is that the Left cares more about outcome than process. It doesn’t matter whether something is in the Constitution or not, or whether the Supreme Court makes up laws that it doesn’t have the authority to make. It only matters that they get their way. I believe the Right cares more about using the proper process, and to show that, I’ll read the introduction to Alito’s opinion after the main show is over in my customary 10 minutes or less. He covers the process problems with both the Roe v Wade and the Planned Parenthood v Casey decisions. Most people defending Roe or Casey need to read this first. There’s a link in the show notes to the PDF of the entire draft opinion.
Also, please note that no moral arguments have been made, and not a single Bible has been thumped. They exist, and I believe there is morality involved, but they are not needed in order to overturn Roe.
And finally, based on a lot of the rhetoric coming from the Left, it seems like they’ve rediscovered the definition of “woman”. There must be a bunch of newly minted biology degrees out there.



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A leak out of the Supreme Court suddenly made abortion and Roe v Wade the main topic of outrage from the Left. But, aside from whether or not the opinion aligns with yours, what are the reasons that the Roe and Casey decisions should be overturned?

A leak out of the Supreme Court suddenly made abortion and Roe v Wade the main topic of outrage from the Left. 
But, aside from whether or not the opinion aligns with yours, what are the reasons that the Roe and Casey decisions should be overturned? Are there reasons (that are not religious ones or regarding morality) that those decisions don&#8217;t hold up legally? 
Listen in to find out. As a bonus, I&#8217;ll read the introduction to the Alito opinion after the main show so you can some of his reasoning. 
Mentioned links: 
<a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/05/03/roe-v-wade-supreme-court-leak-stuns-nation">Supreme Court leak stuns nation</a> 
<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/abortion-draft-supreme-court-opinion-key-passages-00029470">10 key passages from Alito’s draft opinion, which would overturn Roe v. Wade</a> 
<a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2022/05/03/is-roe-v-wade-about-to-be-overturned-and-if-so-what-are-the-implications-n2606662">Is Roe v. Wade About to Be Overturned? If So, What Are the Implications?</a> 
<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/u-supreme-court-launches-probe-153004798.html">U.S. Supreme Court launches probe into leak of draft abortion opinion</a> 
<a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21835435/scotus-initial-draft.pdf">Alito&#8217;s draft opinion</a> [PDF] 
 
 
Show transcript 
A leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion is completely unprecedented, and the content of the one leaked on the evening of May 2nd is remarkable in its own right. It appears, according to the opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, that the Court is prepared to overturn Roe v Wade because it was poorly decided. That’s something that lawyers from both sides of the aisle have agreed with over the years. Inventing a constitutional right to abortion out of whole cloth is what the Court did, overriding the laws of every state and basically legislating from the bench. 
Some are suggesting that overturning Roe would be “undemocratic” and would “politicize the Court”. What they fail to realize is that Roe itself was undemocratic and was itself politicizing. The idea that the “right” to abortion was somehow actually in the Constitution is dishonest from the start. Even worse was the whole trimester setup and what was allowed at each step of the way. Was that in the Constitution? No, it was plain legislating, a power that the Court should never have. We have a legislative branch of government for that, and so that politized the Court. And there is nothing less democratic than a few Justices writing rules for the entire nation, overriding the laws of every state. Overturning Roe restores democracy and gets the Court out of the political realm. Removing the issue from edicts from on high and back to the people is what democracy is all about. 
Apparently, that’s the last thing Democrats want; to give the people a vote. Fine then, pass a law through Congress where something like this, that lays out when certain procedures are allowed, is supposed to be created. That, too, is the democratic way, where our representatives make the laws, not a majority of a panel of 9 Justices. 
But do you see what the Democrats want to do in order to get that passed? They want to use a misuse of the judicial branch of government and turn the Court into what’s been called a “super-legislature”; rather than merely deciding cases based on the text of the Constitution, they can additionally create laws out of thin air. This is an abuse of the process. But remember; live by the sword, die by the sword. Once you create a “law” in this manner, later on, when the court changes hands by the luck of what President gets to name the justices, you can easily see new laws, or removal of old laws, just as easily. And because these Justices have lifetime appointments, those “laws” will be just as hard to change.

Episode 325: Will Alito’s Leak Mean the End of the Roe?

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One way newspapers push a particular narrative is mentioning the race of a perpetrator right up front or way in the back. Or not at all. A study was done looking at major newspaper articles going back 2 years and guess what they found. (You can probably guess, actually.)
There was quite a backlash to Elon Musk&#8217;s purchase of Twitter. Thing is, it really brought out who really is for free speech and who isn&#8217;t.
Disney dipped it toe into the political waters, but it may be a bit to hot for them.
Mentioned links:
<a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/yes-the-media-bury-the-race-of-murderers-if-theyre-not-white/">Yes, the Media Bury the Race of Murderers—If They’re Not White</a>
<a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/twitter-employees-go-absolutely-insane-after-elon-musk-buys-company">Twitter employees go &#8216;absolutely insane&#8217; after Elon Musk buys company</a>
<a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-rising-storm-disney-cant-wish-away/">The Rising Storm Disney Can’t Wish Away</a>

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One thing that conservatives have had a feeling about is that the media are selective on what they consider national news stories. If the perpetrator is white, it seems they get more press than a person of color. It seems that the narrative is pushing the news.
Well, for now we don’t have any hard data on that, but the Washington Free Beacon has done the work to determine where in a story that the race of a murderer shows up. As an example, they note that the race of Frank James, who was responsible for the subway shootings on April 12th, was not mentioned at all in the coverage by the NY Times and Reuters. The Washington Post only mentioned James&#8217;s race in relation to his condemnation of training programs for &#8220;low-income Black youths.&#8221; The charge is that if he had been white, that would have never happened; race would have been prominent from the get-go.
But now there is hard evidence for that. The Free Beacon reviewed 1,100 articles published by 6 major newspapers over 2 years and found that indeed they downplay the race of non-white offenders. They have a graph in their article, linked to in the show notes, that show in which paragraph the race of the perpetrator was first mentioned. Here’s what they found.
<blockquote>Half of articles about a white offender mention his race within the first 15 percent of the article. In articles about black offenders, by contrast, mentions come overwhelmingly toward the end of the piece. Half of the articles that mention a black offender&#8217;s race do not do so until at least 60 percent of the way through, and more than 20 percent save it until the last fifth of the article.</blockquote>
And how about where the race was omitted? Well, the Free Beacon confirmed a murderer’s race from other sources and found out how often journalists skipped it.
<blockquote>Again, the skew is startling: White offenders&#8217; race was mentioned in roughly 1 out of every 4 articles, compared with 1 in 17 articles about a black offender and 1 in 33 articles about a Hispanic offender.</blockquote>
There are more findings in the article, including how these stats changed after the death of George Floyd, which only serve to confirm the bias that conservatives have been confident existed in the media. The narrative is everything and if a news story doesn’t, as they say, confirm their priors, then it gets just the obligatory coverage and then memory-holed.
Oh, that liberal media. And yes, it is liberal.
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Employees of a tech company reacted angrily when they found out that their company was to be bought by an African-American. That’s another way of reading the actual headline of a link in the show notes, “Twitter employees go &#8216;absolutely insane&#8217; after Elon Musk buys company”. Yup, he did it, and it turns out that those employees are not all that hip on allowing speech that they disagree with.
There would still be monitoring of content so that things like promoting violence or pornography would still be moderated. As we have learned over the years, “free speech” still means that there are limits, but viewpoint discrimination is not part of that. The fact that conservatives have been blocked far more than liberals, or that President Donald Trump was banned for disseminating “misinformation” while the government of Iran goes merrily along with their insistence that everything wrong in the Middle East is the fault of Israel.
Instead, Musk wants to open up Twitter. For starters he wants to make the algorithm that removes tweets open source so anyone can see how it works. Sounds like that would make it easier to game the system but at least people would know why their tweet was removed. He also wants to do away with banning someone, thinking that a “time out” works better. He’s got the idea we’ve always heard that the antidote for bad speech is more good speech, not censoring. Transparency and free speech; this is what the Left are losing their cookies over.
Stephen Green, writing at the Instapundit blog, observed, “I don’t know if Musk can ‘save’ Twitter or even whether the platform is worth saving. But he’s certainly annoyed all the right people.” Indeed, and he has unmasked them at the same time.
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Speaking of unmasking, it looks like that’s been done to the Disney corporation. On March 11th, Disney’s CEO Bob Chapek decided to go specifically political by saying that his corporation would work to combat laws like the Parental Rights in Education Act that might be introduced in other states. The corporation also vowed to fight the Texas law that prohibits transgender surgeries on minors.
Now what’s interesting is that only 27% of Americans agree that discussion of sexuality should be legal in kindergarten through 3rd grade classes. It seems that the board at Disney got pushed into their position by a loud minority of their employees. Yes, yes, a corporation can take whatever positions it wants, even political ones, but then the political bodies of the state are allowed to take whatever positions they want.
Which they did. Florida revoked the self-governing status that Disney World has enjoyed for over half a century. That may no longer be needed now since the purpose of getting tourism to Orlando has long been realized.
But there are more issues for Disney. A letter from Reed Rubinstein, former deputy attorney general in the Trump Administration, sent on behalf of the shareholders, demanded a corporate investigation into this foray into politics, including asking why they support lessons on sexuality for 5-year-olds, and how any of this enhances the corporation’s reputation. He asks how this will appeal to its core U.S. and foreign customers, many of whom are parents. And, I would add, who’s foreign customers live in countries that jail homosexuals. In an anonymous open letter Disney employees said that they’ve had to “watch quietly as our beliefs come under attack from our own employer” and that Disney has “fostered an environment of fear that any employee who does not toe the line will be exposed and dismissed.” Wording like this often heralds lawsuits. And for shareholders who are expecting that Disney is shirking its duty to not harm the corporation’s value, lawsuits against the officers could also be warming up in the wings.
As of the writing of the article whose link is in the show notes, Disney had shed 10% of its value since it got this political.
Those are the facts. What’s my conservative commentary? The phrase is not original with me, but it certainly fits; go woke, go broke.
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When the perp is black, papers bury it. There was quite a backlash to Elon Musk buying Twitter. Disney is going woke. Will it go broke?

One way newspapers push a particular narrative is mentioning the race of a perpetrator right up front or way in the back. Or not at all. A study was done looking at major newspaper articles going back 2 years and guess what they found. (You can probably guess, actually.) 
There was quite a backlash to Elon Musk&#8217;s purchase of Twitter. Thing is, it really brought out who really is for free speech and who isn&#8217;t. 
Disney dipped it toe into the political waters, but it may be a bit to hot for them. 
Mentioned links: 
<a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/yes-the-media-bury-the-race-of-murderers-if-theyre-not-white/">Yes, the Media Bury the Race of Murderers—If They’re Not White</a> 
<a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/twitter-employees-go-absolutely-insane-after-elon-musk-buys-company">Twitter employees go &#8216;absolutely insane&#8217; after Elon Musk buys company</a> 
<a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-rising-storm-disney-cant-wish-away/">The Rising Storm Disney Can’t Wish Away</a> 
 
Show transcript 
One thing that conservatives have had a feeling about is that the media are selective on what they consider national news stories. If the perpetrator is white, it seems they get more press than a person of color. It seems that the narrative is pushing the news. 
Well, for now we don’t have any hard data on that, but the Washington Free Beacon has done the work to determine where in a story that the race of a murderer shows up. As an example, they note that the race of Frank James, who was responsible for the subway shootings on April 12th, was not mentioned at all in the coverage by the NY Times and Reuters. The Washington Post only mentioned James&#8217;s race in relation to his condemnation of training programs for &#8220;low-income Black youths.&#8221; The charge is that if he had been white, that would have never happened; race would have been prominent from the get-go. 
But now there is hard evidence for that. The Free Beacon reviewed 1,100 articles published by 6 major newspapers over 2 years and found that indeed they downplay the race of non-white offenders. They have a graph in their article, linked to in the show notes, that show in which paragraph the race of the perpetrator was first mentioned. Here’s what they found. 
Half of articles about a white offender mention his race within the first 15 percent of the article. In articles about black offenders, by contrast, mentions come overwhelmingly toward the end of the piece. Half of the articles that mention a black offender&#8217;s race do not do so until at least 60 percent of the way through, and more than 20 percent save it until the last fifth of the article. 
And how about where the race was omitted? Well, the Free Beacon confirmed a murderer’s race from other sources and found out how often journalists skipped it. 
Again, the skew is startling: White offenders&#8217; race was mentioned in roughly 1 out of every 4 articles, compared with 1 in 17 articles about a black offender and 1 in 33 articles about a Hispanic offender. 
There are more findings in the article, including how these stats changed after the death of George Floyd, which only serve to confirm the bias that conservatives have been confident existed in the media. The narrative is everything and if a news story doesn’t, as they say, confirm their priors, then it gets just the obligatory coverage and then memory-holed. 
Oh, that liberal media. And yes, it is liberal. 
 
Employees of a tech company reacted angrily when they found out that their company was to be bought by an African-American. That’s another way of reading the actual headline of a link in the show notes, “Twitter employees go &#8216;absolutely insane&#8217; after Elon Musk buys company”. Yup, he did it, and it turns out that those employees are not all that hip on allowing speech that they disagree with.

Episode 324: Papers Push a Narrative / Elon Buys Twitter / Disney Goes Political

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Well I&#8217;m finally back! We&#8217;ll see how the release schedule changes, but it&#8217;s good to get back on the saddle again.
Joe Biden was supposed to be the adult in the room when it came to being President, but it doesn&#8217;t look that way. In one of his worst gaffes, he seemed to call for regime change in Russia. That&#8217;s something the Left told us that Trump would do. (And to call it a gaffe seems to underplay it. Mispronouncing the name of a head of state is a gaffe. This was much worse.)
The NY Times finnaly admitted that the Hunter Biden laptop story was an actual story. Can the NY Post now share that 2-year-old story on Twitter without getting banned?
The Parental Rights in Education Act is now law in Florida. Its critics misnamed it, and they got the effect of the bill just as wrong. If you against this, what does that mean?
Mentioned links:
<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/01/new-york-times-finally-admit-hunters-laptop-is-real-but-only-to-protect-joe-biden/">Washington Post, New York Times finally admit Hunter’s laptop is real — but only to protect Joe Biden some more</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reckoning-wapo-admits-hunter-biden-story-teaching-media-a-lesson">‘Reckoning’: WaPo Admits Hunter Biden Story Teaching Media A&nbsp;Lesson</a>
<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/florida-house-passes-controversial-dont-gay-bill/story?id=83090590">Florida House passes controversial &#8216;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8217; bill</a>
<a href="https://www.transgendertrend.com/children-change-minds/">Desistance studies in children with Gender Dysphoria</a>

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“We’re watching newsreels of World War II in 2022.” That’s how a CNN reporter described the scenes we’ve been watching in Ukraine. C’mon people! I have a hospital stay followed by physical rehab and this happens while I’m away? Can’t y’all behave for a few months? I feel like Rip VanWinkle, but I only slept through the winter.
We’ve had that and over $4 average gas prices, truckers who shut down Ottawa to protest vaccine mandates, a Supreme Court nominee that couldn’t give a definition for the word “woman”, Elon Musk buying more share of Twitter than anyone else, and we’ve had Will Smith giving Chris Rock the Slap Heard ‘Round the World at the Oscars.
Oh, and let’s not forget remarks by Joe Biden about Vladimir Putin.
[Joe Biden, remain in power audio]
Now, say what you want about what he really meant, people in the media, his own State Department, and other world leaders took it as calling for regime change. These kinds of things are what the Left said Donald Trump was going to do. Gaffes that Trump made might get us into World War III. Well, if Putin thinks our aim is to remove him from power, a world war could very well be next. Yup, Biden was supposed to be the adult in the room, but it seems not so much.
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Two years after the NY Post broke the story, the NY Times finally got around to admitting that the Hunter Biden laptop story was, in fact, a story. And little by little, other media organizations, though just a few, started to admit the same thing.
Consider that it has been, again, over 2 years since the story broke in the NY Post. And, of course, over 2 years since Twitter punished them for breaking that story by shutting down their account until they deleted the tweet publicizing it. You see, we can’t have stories that reflect badly upon a Democrat presidential candidate, and certainly not without enough time before a presidential election for the media to agree on a cover story. Instead, get some of the largest mass communication networks on the planet to run interference for the Democrats and then bury the story until all but the political junkies even remember it.
Oh, and when you do decide to bring it up again, make sure not to apologize to those you slandered as peddling “Russian disinformation”. “But”, you might say, “50 top members of the intelligence community said it had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation!” That’s true, which means that a group like that can be very wrong or might possibly have an agenda. Consider this next time letters like this are used as reasons to censor someone.
Conservatives have had their messages shut down for quite some time by Big Tech. Yes, yes, Twitter and Facebook are private companies and can set their own rules and apply them in a tilted fashion all they want. We’re told that if conservatives don’t like it, make your own. Some people did and created a Twitter-like system called Parler. And then Big Tech shut that down as well. They can make their own rules, but if you practice viewpoint discrimination, whether you’re a social media company or a major newspaper, don’t claim that free speech is one of your values.
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They called it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Well, the critics did, and since it fit the narrative, so did the media. Instead, you almost never heard the actual title, the Parental Rights in Education bill. And their caricature of what the bill would do is about as inaccurate as their misnaming of it.
The bill would ban the discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation through 3rd grade. After that it required that those subjects be taught in an age-appropriate manner. Being against this bill, then, meant you were for teaching something that was already not taught in K-3, but you wanted to jump into the subject very early so you could indoctrinate children in your sexual orthodoxy. Somehow, though, maintaining the status quo on the discussion of sex at those early ages will now, magically, suddenly, “treat LGBTQ topics as taboo and brand our community as unfit for the classroom”, according to Amit Paley, CEO and executive director of The Trevor Project.
How is that possible? In an article in Parents magazine, it notes that only 24 states and DC have mandatory sex ed in public schools. Of those 24, it’s examples of programs in elementary school don’t suggest that kids in K-3 are getting anything like sexual orientation lessons. They have general health classes during those years, nothing sexual. So, there’s nothing that’s being taught right now that LGBTQ activists have to complain about
One video from a gay teacher said that he can’t tell his children about who he loves. Here’s a question; how many teachers told you about their love lives? I remember one teacher in middle school, and that only because her last name changed after she came back from vacation. Besides her, I couldn’t tell you anything about the love lives of my teachers. Now I’ll admit that that’s just me, and it’s been a few decades or so since I was a senior in high school, but from others I have heard talk about this I’m not alone. Again, we’re talking about subject matter that is not typical K-3 experience.
Normalizing and mainstreaming gender transition from the earliest age is the only reason I see for being against this law. Yet as soon as a child, who can’t even choose their bedtime, says they are of the opposite gender, some people want to pump them with chemicals and take scalpels to their bodies to let them have that choice. But consider this; on average, 80% of children change their minds and don’t continue as transgender going into adulthood.
No, this law lets kids be kids and waits to deal with sexual issue until they’re at least 10. Can we at least hold off until then?
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Episode 323: Ukraine War / Hunter Biden laptop / Florida Parental Rights bill

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Sorry for the sound quality this time around. I haven&#8217;t unpacked the audio equipment yet from our move.
I thought we&#8217;d have some inflation after the lockdowns were over. However, the Biden administration has not been doing much too keep that under control.
I said that when a liberal restaurant owner kicked out a prominent Republican that it was wrong. Today I&#8217;m going on the record to say that when it happens on the Right it&#8217;s just as wrong. However, this time there is a funny turn of events.
Both Republicans and Democrats have been squishy on the issue of increasing the debt limit. Neither side has been better than the other. But that&#8217;s about to change.
Mentioned links:
<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/17/biden-administrations-mishandling-of-supply-chain-crisis-feeds-inflation/">The incredible, disappearing — incompetent — Team Biden</a>
<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/14/emptyshelvesjoe-trending-amid-bidens-supply-chain-crisis/">#EmptyShelvesJoe trending on Twitter amid Biden’s supply chain crisis</a>
<a href="https://notthebee.com/article/wapo-bread-lines-arent-so-bad">WaPo: Bread Lines Aren&#8217;t So Bad, Puny Citizens</a>
<a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/florida-diner-forbids-biden-supporters-runs-out-of-food">Florida diner that forbids Biden supporters becomes so popular that it runs out of food</a>
<a href="https://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/2018/07/02/episode-218-blacklisted-by-a-red-hen-aclu-cools-to-civil-liberties-scotus-rules-against-coerced-speech/">Episode 218: Blacklisted by a Red Hen / ACLU Cools to Civil Liberties / SCOTUS Rules Against Coerced Speech</a>
<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/576032-growing-number-of-democrats-endorse-abolishing-debt-limit-altogether">Growing number of Democrats endorse abolishing debt limit altogether</a>
<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/25/braves-bring-world-series-atlanta-after-mlb-pulls-/">‘Glorious karma’: Braves bring World Series to Atlanta after MLB pulls All-Star Game</a>

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Well it’s been some time since I talked to you. Let’s see what’s been happening.
Inflation has reared its ugly head. Now I will say this; after the shutdowns and lockdowns of 2020, I figured that all that pent-up demand would lead to a buying binge that would mean prices would rise, just like your Econ 101 teacher said they would. But the Biden administration hasn’t been doing such a good job at trying to mitigate it. Getting stuff into our ports has, apparently, been such a hassle for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg that he’s been taking paternity leave since August. Ships with shipping containers of all kinds of stuff are hanging out waiting their turn to dock at ports on both coasts. This has driven inflation up more than it would have been otherwise. But I guess it doesn’t matter that the price is higher if you can’t buy it anyway. The hashtag #EmptyShelvesJoe was trending at one point complete with pictures of said shelves.
But the Washington Post, dutifully attempting to cover for a Democrat, tweeted this, “Don’t rant about short-staffed stores and supply chain woes. Try to lower expectations.” You see, we’re too used to being a first-world country. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain who’s paying people to stay at home, or whose incompetence at transportation and commerce is hitting us right in the supply chain. Just get over yourselves!
Does anyone think ideas like that would have been published in the Post if Donald Trump had been elected?
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Back in 2018 in episode 218 I talked about how a restaurant, the Red Hen, refused to serve Sarah Huckabee-Sanders. I chided the restaurant for outright refusing to serve someone based on their political affiliation. And now I’m going to be consistent in that belief.
The DeBary Diner in DeBary, Florida put up a sign on its door saying, “If you voted for and continue to support and stand behind the worthless, inept and corrupt administration currently inhabiting the White House that is complicit in the death of our servicemen and women in Afghanistan, please take your business elsewhere. God bless America, and God bless our soldiers.” This is more than what the Red Hen did. The Red Hen refused to serve a high-profile press secretary based on her politics. The DeBary Diner told all Biden voters to stay away, though it presumably would let them self-select rather than asking them on their way in. Either way, this is not the way to go about making your point.
In fact, the DeBary Diner had to close early on the same day it posted that sign. Not because it was ordered to, but because it had received too many orders. See, it got so much support from locals, plus donations from around the world for sending meals to veterans, that it ran out of food. OK, that part of the story brought a giggle to my face. But I guess, given Biden’s poll numbers, it shouldn’t have surprised me.
But otherwise, don’t do this whole political sorting thing, OK? It’s just not helpful at all. OK, but that was funny.
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You may have heard, or may not have heard, that the government is approaching the debt limit. That’s basically the credit card limit that the government is allowed to borrow up to without passing a bill to raise it even further. Unlike your own credit card, where you would have to ask the bank to give you a higher limit, Congress can just ask itself, and it always grants the request.
Each time this happens, the party in power wants it raised and the other party wants to make them sweat about it. This is true no matter who the party in power is, whether Republican or Democrat. Neither side comes out looking any better than the other; they both just want to keep expanding those purse strings.
This time however, one side is actually looking quite a bit worse. Democrats, it seems, want to get rid of the debt limit completely, or hand the authority over to someone else. Leave aside that, once again, Democrats want to centralize authority to someone on high to merely make a pronouncement about the debt and absolved them of any responsibility, what they don’t want you to know is that they could raise the debt limit tomorrow with just Democrat votes. Using what’s called the Reconciliation process, Democrats would only need a bare majority in both the House and the Senate in order to pass a bill regarding the debt limit. But you see, that would mean they would own the increased borrowing and spending, especially since they want to borrow and spend about 80 gazillion dollars in the next 10 minutes. If spending that much makes our current inflation even worse, as it almost certainly would, then they would have to own that as well. It’s not something they would enjoy having to defend right before the 2022 elections.
So while it’s true that neither side winds up smelling like a rose when it comes to controlling our nation’s debt, one side would rather not be bothered by it anymore. I wonder what that smells like?
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And finally in sports (which is not something I cover very often), my hometown boys, the Atlanta Braves, are going to the World Series. Aside from the fact that their last World Series win was in 1995 and it’s about time they did it again, let’s not forget that fellow Georgian Stacy Abrams and others lobbied Major League Baseball to move the All-Star game from Atlanta to Denver, and denied those businesses at and near the new stadium income from that. And now we’re going to get an even bigger event here in town. Yeah, the best revenge is winning.
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How's Biden handling the rampant inflation? Is it ever right to refuse service based on politics? Which side doesn't want to deal with a debt ceiling anymore?

Sorry for the sound quality this time around. I haven&#8217;t unpacked the audio equipment yet from our move. 
I thought we&#8217;d have some inflation after the lockdowns were over. However, the Biden administration has not been doing much too keep that under control. 
I said that when a liberal restaurant owner kicked out a prominent Republican that it was wrong. Today I&#8217;m going on the record to say that when it happens on the Right it&#8217;s just as wrong. However, this time there is a funny turn of events. 
Both Republicans and Democrats have been squishy on the issue of increasing the debt limit. Neither side has been better than the other. But that&#8217;s about to change. 
Mentioned links: 
<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/17/biden-administrations-mishandling-of-supply-chain-crisis-feeds-inflation/">The incredible, disappearing — incompetent — Team Biden</a> 
<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/14/emptyshelvesjoe-trending-amid-bidens-supply-chain-crisis/">#EmptyShelvesJoe trending on Twitter amid Biden’s supply chain crisis</a> 
<a href="https://notthebee.com/article/wapo-bread-lines-arent-so-bad">WaPo: Bread Lines Aren&#8217;t So Bad, Puny Citizens</a> 
<a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/florida-diner-forbids-biden-supporters-runs-out-of-food">Florida diner that forbids Biden supporters becomes so popular that it runs out of food</a> 
<a href="https://considerthis.ctpodcasting.com/2018/07/02/episode-218-blacklisted-by-a-red-hen-aclu-cools-to-civil-liberties-scotus-rules-against-coerced-speech/">Episode 218: Blacklisted by a Red Hen / ACLU Cools to Civil Liberties / SCOTUS Rules Against Coerced Speech</a> 
<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/576032-growing-number-of-democrats-endorse-abolishing-debt-limit-altogether">Growing number of Democrats endorse abolishing debt limit altogether</a> 
<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/25/braves-bring-world-series-atlanta-after-mlb-pulls-/">‘Glorious karma’: Braves bring World Series to Atlanta after MLB pulls All-Star Game</a> 
 
Show transcript 
Well it’s been some time since I talked to you. Let’s see what’s been happening. 
Inflation has reared its ugly head. Now I will say this; after the shutdowns and lockdowns of 2020, I figured that all that pent-up demand would lead to a buying binge that would mean prices would rise, just like your Econ 101 teacher said they would. But the Biden administration hasn’t been doing such a good job at trying to mitigate it. Getting stuff into our ports has, apparently, been such a hassle for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg that he’s been taking paternity leave since August. Ships with shipping containers of all kinds of stuff are hanging out waiting their turn to dock at ports on both coasts. This has driven inflation up more than it would have been otherwise. But I guess it doesn’t matter that the price is higher if you can’t buy it anyway. The hashtag #EmptyShelvesJoe was trending at one point complete with pictures of said shelves. 
But the Washington Post, dutifully attempting to cover for a Democrat, tweeted this, “Don’t rant about short-staffed stores and supply chain woes. Try to lower expectations.” You see, we’re too used to being a first-world country. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain who’s paying people to stay at home, or whose incompetence at transportation and commerce is hitting us right in the supply chain. Just get over yourselves! 
Does anyone think ideas like that would have been published in the Post if Donald Trump had been elected? 
 
Back in 2018 in episode 218 I talked about how a restaurant, the Red Hen, refused to serve Sarah Huckabee-Sanders. I chided the restaurant for outright refusing to serve someone based on their political affiliation. And now I’m going to be consistent in that belief. 
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