Michael Moynihan
speaker
842 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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They've always relied on all of their favorite people, not just Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift, but... P Diddy, remember that? Remember the voter die campaign? That one's probably coming back to bite the Democrats a little bit right now, though it's par for the course.
They would rely on the pop culture figures to drown out the voices of conservative politicians until you get a bigger pop star, even than the ones that Democrats have. And that's Trump, and he's using it. I love that he's engaging in fights with these pop stars. Some people think it's a distraction from the real serious policy.
We need to just wear all of our neckties and have white papers at the think tanks in DC. No, man, there's a there's a place for that.
But if you want to speak to a huge portion of voters who are not plugged into all that wonkery, who really do kind of just pay attention to like pop culture and the stuff that's on TV, you finally have a guy in Donald Trump who can do that, who can do it very effectively. And that golf ball just takes Bruce Springsteen right down.
There's a very bigoted view to even suggest, Megan, that pride is limited to a single month. You know, it began as a day, then it was a week, then it became a month. Now there's another month. October is also another kind of LGBT month. So we are very close to pride year. However, it's losing its corporate sponsorship. We might have reached peak pride.
Great to be with you, Megan.
He had gotten to the point, I wouldn't say of mental decline, but of decline that put him in a position of not being able to wage a vigorous campaign against Donald Trump. And there's no way you can beat Donald Trump unless you can wage a vigorous campaign. And he couldn't do it. Why wouldn't you say mental decline? Did you not see that publicly? I didn't see.
Well, look, when the first thing that I really saw, other than one visit to the White House on an immigration matter, there was about, I think, six weeks before this was when I saw his debate with Donald Trump. And I think I was the first Democrat to publicly say on on network television that we were going to lose in a landslide if he stayed at the top of the ticket.
Well, I think that, again, I I have not made a personal assessment of
What I like about you and what I feel like is your family is like teasing is your love language. Oh, for sure. Same.
Yeah, I mean, you can also say that people were, shall we say, very, very slow on this story that over the fifth column we figured out in 2021, maybe 2020. Maybe this guy's a little too old to be president. But I'll give our friend Alex Thompson some credit because when he was doing it,
you know regardless of the speech at the correspondence dinner which i didn't listen to the whole thing so i can't really comment on but he was telling us off the record then and i think on the record now that he was like being attacked pretty brutally by people within the administration for the reporting that he was doing starting and i think 2023 um about the see i'm interested in hearing that
So, so he's, he's got a lot of stories about that. Yeah. Yeah. They went after him.
Oh, my God. No, it's a made-up problem. That is, in fact, a made-up problem, Brian.
I'm sorry to point that out to you. Yeah.
Well, I love the included detail that he's known George Clooney for years. It's George Clooney. You could have known him for five minutes. It's like the guys at Ocean's Eleven. It's not like Philip Michael Thomas from Miami Vice or something. It's George Clooney. You can't recognize that. You can't run for president. It's done. It's over.
It's funny, too, by the way, is that pointing out this like B.C. and A.D. thing about the debate. I looked this morning at a bunch of stuff from after the debate. immediately after the debate, Biden calls in to Joe Scarborough, like a phone call.
Please, listeners to the Megyn Kelly show, go find these because everybody, there was David Folkenflik on NPR and they were like, Biden came back roaring. He was full of them and he was angry. And it's like, so the Teddy Ruxpin doll wasn't repeating, thanks for being here, thanks for being here. He got angry for about five minutes and they were like, I think it's done. But the best thing about this
And, you know, to Alex Thompson and Jake Taber's book, you know, to do this reporting of what's going on behind the scenes, you can't do in the way that they've done or appears the way I've done. I haven't read the books, I've read the excerpts. In real time, you do it afterwards, you do the reporting, you figure out what happened. So that is incredibly useful. But what is also useful, and I am...
maybe alone in this, is I'm happy that the press did what they did. I'm a thousand percent happy and overjoyed by it. And the reason is, is because I have eyes, I have a television set, I have ears, I have the internet, and all of us fucking knew this. It's not like they were hiding something that we couldn't see, so we saw it. So what is the result of this?
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