Michael Walsh
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first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Mar
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And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
Mega media.
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Yeah.
I appreciate it.
Well, it started when I was writing a column for National Review magazine about 10 years ago, and I created a character called David Kahane, the name of which I borrowed from the movie The Player, who's the screenwriter who gets murdered by the producer. And so I wrote the character as a crazy Hollywood leftist. And for years, no one knew who actually wrote that column.
And people were speculating and saying to NRO that you've gone lefty. And who is this person? And I finally came out of the closet as myself. But I decided that since I've been writing Kahane, I was his amanuensis. And that became the origin of my Twitter handle. Got it. And so here we are. I know it's hard to remember.
I was just in Pasadena on Friday, as a matter of fact. Drew, I just came back from California. I spoke about Rage to Conquer over at the Lux Hotel at an event sponsored by David Horowitz Freedom and the American Freedom Alliance by Karen Sigmund. So we had a good crowd and it was nice to be back in L.A. I hadn't been back for a few years.
Well, let me just give you a little bit of background on myself. I started in newspapers in 1972. That was the summer of Watergate, and I was a young police reporter, cop reporter at the Rochester New York Democrat and Chronicle right out of college. And so we learned our journalism craft to report honestly what we saw.
to call it as we saw it and without injecting any opinion in the process, insofar as that is possible. But there was such a thing as objectivity. I would disagree with you slightly. I will tell you that because I've known many of these guys who are at the top of the profession and still in the news right now for 50 years, half a century, they knew exactly what was wrong with Biden.
They lied on purpose. They weren't delusional. They knew it was a problem. If you talk to them privately, as I did many, many times over the last five decades, they will tell you privately, You're right. Privately, Trump is not Hitler. Privately, Ronald Reagan wasn't a cowboy. Privately, we're not going to start World War III. But they were and are committed, committed to this cause.
And I had further experiences during the cause being what would define the cause for me. It's the leftist cause that that conservatism is Marxism.
Yeah, it's progressivism, I suppose we would call it now. But they tended to be politically liberal from the beginning. I worked at Time magazine, as you pointed out, Drew, for 16 years. And I never had a political conversation with any of my colleagues at Time. It just did not come up. But there's been a split. There's been a break.
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 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.
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
And what was official. And that is now has now come to the United States as far as our media is concerned.
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