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Matt Welch

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The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Just a few weeks ago, actual astronauts who got stranded in space for months floating around in weightless condition, not in this luxury vehicle, were rescued by another rocket and brought back to Earth, and it hardly made a splash on the media. These people have already gotten 50 times the publicity that those heroes and the person who rescued them got.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Jeff Bezos basically put his girlfriend and her pals into a giant vibrator, shot them into orbit for 10 minutes, and they came back telling all about the thrill. We've got everything upside down. And if women get any more empowerment of this sort, they're going to be denied the right to vote.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Jeff Bezos basically put his girlfriend and her pals into a giant vibrator, shot them into orbit for 10 minutes, and they came back telling all about the thrill. We've got everything upside down. And if women get any more empowerment of this sort, they're going to be denied the right to vote.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Jeff Bezos basically put his girlfriend and her pals into a giant vibrator, shot them into orbit for 10 minutes, and they came back telling all about the thrill. We've got everything upside down. And if women get any more empowerment of this sort, they're going to be denied the right to vote.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

That's the sexual part.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

That's the sexual part.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

That's the sexual part.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Well, maybe I don't understand security clearances, but I thought the deal was you get one and then you get to look at stuff that you're not allowed to talk about. This guy may not have talked about classified information, but he did open his mouth very loudly and against his commander in chief at the time or his executive.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Well, maybe I don't understand security clearances, but I thought the deal was you get one and then you get to look at stuff that you're not allowed to talk about. This guy may not have talked about classified information, but he did open his mouth very loudly and against his commander in chief at the time or his executive.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Well, maybe I don't understand security clearances, but I thought the deal was you get one and then you get to look at stuff that you're not allowed to talk about. This guy may not have talked about classified information, but he did open his mouth very loudly and against his commander in chief at the time or his executive.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

and why he would expect that he would not become a target once he's outed. The reason he was anonymous is that he was afraid of what he was doing. Then he got de-anonymized, and they're looking into him. That makes him a victim of some kind? Why do you keep these clearances for life? I don't understand that at all. I don't get it either. They walk around with them.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

and why he would expect that he would not become a target once he's outed. The reason he was anonymous is that he was afraid of what he was doing. Then he got de-anonymized, and they're looking into him. That makes him a victim of some kind? Why do you keep these clearances for life? I don't understand that at all. I don't get it either. They walk around with them.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

and why he would expect that he would not become a target once he's outed. The reason he was anonymous is that he was afraid of what he was doing. Then he got de-anonymized, and they're looking into him. That makes him a victim of some kind? Why do you keep these clearances for life? I don't understand that at all. I don't get it either. They walk around with them.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Apparently, they're a great way to earn money. They're a subsidy. Yeah, they're a subsidy to people. It's sort of like an honorary badge that you can use for the rest of your life. And people who want you to look at classified things, I guess, can have you do that. But I think they should probably expire and not need to be taken away.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Apparently, they're a great way to earn money. They're a subsidy. Yeah, they're a subsidy to people. It's sort of like an honorary badge that you can use for the rest of your life. And people who want you to look at classified things, I guess, can have you do that. But I think they should probably expire and not need to be taken away.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Apparently, they're a great way to earn money. They're a subsidy. Yeah, they're a subsidy to people. It's sort of like an honorary badge that you can use for the rest of your life. And people who want you to look at classified things, I guess, can have you do that. But I think they should probably expire and not need to be taken away.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Well, Matt is a gentleman, as testified by the fact he's only suing her for $10 million. I mean, we live in the day of billion-dollar lawsuits. I think Trump just went after CBS for billions. Alex Jones coughed up. Fox coughed up to Dominion.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Well, Matt is a gentleman, as testified by the fact he's only suing her for $10 million. I mean, we live in the day of billion-dollar lawsuits. I think Trump just went after CBS for billions. Alex Jones coughed up. Fox coughed up to Dominion.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Well, Matt is a gentleman, as testified by the fact he's only suing her for $10 million. I mean, we live in the day of billion-dollar lawsuits. I think Trump just went after CBS for billions. Alex Jones coughed up. Fox coughed up to Dominion.

The Megyn Kelly Show
Horrifying CNN Celebration of Luigi, Sanchez in Space, and Maher's White House Trip, with Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi | Ep. 1048

Uh, but the damage to Matt, his family, his children, you know, and so on from that charge, which was completely unfounded is worth, I think a lot more than that. So he's really, he's really being a boy scout by asking for so little. Uh, when I heard it, uh, you know, I have a lot of friends who, you know, watch our podcast and they started texting me saying, I can't watch this.