Walter Kirn

And after a while, you're living in a world where you know way more than you are allowed to tell your audience. And that makes you part of them, in other words. That's right. You're keeping their secrets more than you're telling their secrets. And your job is to tell their secrets.

Yeah. And to Megan's point, you made a great point about Joe Biden and his condition and how well it was hidden. The AP was sitting in the damn front row. OK, they had their front row seat. They were able to see him shuffle in and shuffle out and be taken in and out by nurses and aides and so on. What good did it do the American people that the AP was in front? None.

Yeah. And to Megan's point, you made a great point about Joe Biden and his condition and how well it was hidden. The AP was sitting in the damn front row. OK, they had their front row seat. They were able to see him shuffle in and shuffle out and be taken in and out by nurses and aides and so on. What good did it do the American people that the AP was in front? None.

Yeah. And to Megan's point, you made a great point about Joe Biden and his condition and how well it was hidden. The AP was sitting in the damn front row. OK, they had their front row seat. They were able to see him shuffle in and shuffle out and be taken in and out by nurses and aides and so on. What good did it do the American people that the AP was in front? None.

Their access, in fact, was probably predicated on. on them keeping the secret. Maybe from the back row, as an outsider and a little with a chip on their shoulder, they might have told the truth. But as an insider feeling like they had the golden ticket, they kept their mouth shut just like everybody else. Now, that is a form of self-censorship in the name of currying favor with power.

Their access, in fact, was probably predicated on. on them keeping the secret. Maybe from the back row, as an outsider and a little with a chip on their shoulder, they might have told the truth. But as an insider feeling like they had the golden ticket, they kept their mouth shut just like everybody else. Now, that is a form of self-censorship in the name of currying favor with power.

Their access, in fact, was probably predicated on. on them keeping the secret. Maybe from the back row, as an outsider and a little with a chip on their shoulder, they might have told the truth. But as an insider feeling like they had the golden ticket, they kept their mouth shut just like everybody else. Now, that is a form of self-censorship in the name of currying favor with power.

They're victims of their own profligacy. They dropped a prosecution that involved President Biden because he was too old and didn't have a good memory. They they went after Trump for documents inside Mar-a-Lago. And I still don't know why. Really, do you? What were the documents and what was the urgency? We don't know. Prosecutorial discretion is recognized.

They're victims of their own profligacy. They dropped a prosecution that involved President Biden because he was too old and didn't have a good memory. They they went after Trump for documents inside Mar-a-Lago. And I still don't know why. Really, do you? What were the documents and what was the urgency? We don't know. Prosecutorial discretion is recognized.

They're victims of their own profligacy. They dropped a prosecution that involved President Biden because he was too old and didn't have a good memory. They they went after Trump for documents inside Mar-a-Lago. And I still don't know why. Really, do you? What were the documents and what was the urgency? We don't know. Prosecutorial discretion is recognized.

A recognized thing because we could probably be prosecuting half the people on Capitol Hill for something at any one time all day long, all year long. That's generous, Walter. It's more than that. Yeah, exactly. As Mark Twain said, Congress is the only Native American criminal class.

A recognized thing because we could probably be prosecuting half the people on Capitol Hill for something at any one time all day long, all year long. That's generous, Walter. It's more than that. Yeah, exactly. As Mark Twain said, Congress is the only Native American criminal class.

A recognized thing because we could probably be prosecuting half the people on Capitol Hill for something at any one time all day long, all year long. That's generous, Walter. It's more than that. Yeah, exactly. As Mark Twain said, Congress is the only Native American criminal class.

And so that he decided to not follow through on the prosecution of a mayor of New York City at a time when New York City is facing practically a crisis with migrations. And he has been grappling with that more fully maybe than any other big city mayor. I think it's completely appropriate. It's a political decision, a political risk, and he took it.

And so that he decided to not follow through on the prosecution of a mayor of New York City at a time when New York City is facing practically a crisis with migrations. And he has been grappling with that more fully maybe than any other big city mayor. I think it's completely appropriate. It's a political decision, a political risk, and he took it.

And so that he decided to not follow through on the prosecution of a mayor of New York City at a time when New York City is facing practically a crisis with migrations. And he has been grappling with that more fully maybe than any other big city mayor. I think it's completely appropriate. It's a political decision, a political risk, and he took it.

No, it's not working. And that's because trying to make America feel something for the bureaucrats who made their lives hell during COVID and paid no price themselves, who got to go home, work from home, and stayed home ever after, sometimes taking other jobs, those are not the people that in traditional left-wing politics we are out to support.

No, it's not working. And that's because trying to make America feel something for the bureaucrats who made their lives hell during COVID and paid no price themselves, who got to go home, work from home, and stayed home ever after, sometimes taking other jobs, those are not the people that in traditional left-wing politics we are out to support.

No, it's not working. And that's because trying to make America feel something for the bureaucrats who made their lives hell during COVID and paid no price themselves, who got to go home, work from home, and stayed home ever after, sometimes taking other jobs, those are not the people that in traditional left-wing politics we are out to support.

The American left was a party of the working people, not the people who work at the DMV or the IRS or the U.S. Treasury, but the people who work in factories, fields and actual jobs. And trying to make those people a victim class is just not going to work.