Michael Walsh

And the old story was that if you were a political activist, you either went into the law or journalism. If you weren't smart enough to go to law school, you became a journalist. But you were still committed to the social justice cause.

And the old story was that if you were a political activist, you either went into the law or journalism. If you weren't smart enough to go to law school, you became a journalist. But you were still committed to the social justice cause.

And many of these men are my good friends, but I am appalled and ashamed, as I write against the corporate media in my own essay called A Higher Loyalty, that they chose to deliberately misrepresent the facts that were evident to all of us. And you were right about COVID, about the Russian hoax, all these things that men like you and me and our friends and colleagues called out at that moment.

And many of these men are my good friends, but I am appalled and ashamed, as I write against the corporate media in my own essay called A Higher Loyalty, that they chose to deliberately misrepresent the facts that were evident to all of us. And you were right about COVID, about the Russian hoax, all these things that men like you and me and our friends and colleagues called out at that moment.

and were derided for. They just simply did not want to admit the truth. And what will happen with Biden is, as Tapper showed yesterday with Megyn Kelly, they'll take a certain amount of a beating and say, oops, and then they will go right out and do it again. They will not learn a single thing from this.

and were derided for. They just simply did not want to admit the truth. And what will happen with Biden is, as Tapper showed yesterday with Megyn Kelly, they'll take a certain amount of a beating and say, oops, and then they will go right out and do it again. They will not learn a single thing from this.

Well, the old joke is that all journalists deep down inside want to be screenwriters. They do. And that's because the beginnings of Hollywood, they actually were journalists who went out to Hollywood and became screenwriters. One of them famously wrote back to his partner in Chicago on one of the Chicago newspapers, you got to come out here. The money is great and the competition are schmucks.

Well, the old joke is that all journalists deep down inside want to be screenwriters. They do. And that's because the beginnings of Hollywood, they actually were journalists who went out to Hollywood and became screenwriters. One of them famously wrote back to his partner in Chicago on one of the Chicago newspapers, you got to come out here. The money is great and the competition are schmucks.

And so many journalists feel they've got to frame this as a story. I'll tell you exactly when this started, Drew, and I can remember. It was the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan administration. Now, just by way of autobiography, between 1985 and 1991, I spent a great deal of time in East Germany, in East Berlin, and in Moscow, and in Leningrad, what was then Leningrad. I was...

And so many journalists feel they've got to frame this as a story. I'll tell you exactly when this started, Drew, and I can remember. It was the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan administration. Now, just by way of autobiography, between 1985 and 1991, I spent a great deal of time in East Germany, in East Berlin, and in Moscow, and in Leningrad, what was then Leningrad. I was...

in moscow and i was in leningrad when the chernobyl blew up uh i left russia just two weeks before the coup against gorbachev i was in berlin in 89 when the wall came down and i have pieces of it here in my house in in rural new england so i was already used to seeing state-run media and how the disparity had opened up in both of those societies between what was true and self-evident

in moscow and i was in leningrad when the chernobyl blew up uh i left russia just two weeks before the coup against gorbachev i was in berlin in 89 when the wall came down and i have pieces of it here in my house in in rural new england so i was already used to seeing state-run media and how the disparity had opened up in both of those societies between what was true and self-evident

And what was official. And that is now has now come to the United States as far as our media is concerned.

And what was official. And that is now has now come to the United States as far as our media is concerned.

Oh, it was Charles Corral. No, it wasn't Charles Corral.

Oh, it was Charles Corral. No, it wasn't Charles Corral.

I don't think that's the right name. Yeah, Mike Wallace was part of that. There was a whole group of very distinguished. Yeah. Yes.

I don't think that's the right name. Yeah, Mike Wallace was part of that. There was a whole group of very distinguished. Yeah. Yes.

That is absolutely correct. In my time in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union, you're generally accompanied by a translator or a babysitter, someone to watch, make sure you don't get into trouble. And in my private conversations with them, they were very frank about the true state of affairs. I like to tell people that in the Soviet Union, when I was there between 86 and 91,

That is absolutely correct. In my time in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union, you're generally accompanied by a translator or a babysitter, someone to watch, make sure you don't get into trouble. And in my private conversations with them, they were very frank about the true state of affairs. I like to tell people that in the Soviet Union, when I was there between 86 and 91,