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“A 960 SAT Guy” - Newsom UNDER FIRE For PANDERING Speech

24 Feb 2026

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Chapter 1: What sparked the controversy around Gavin Newsom's '960 SAT guy' comment?

0.031 - 21.676 Valuetainment Host

Transition to a different story. Tom, I'm going to come to you with this one. It's going to be California. So California, by the way, the governor came out and publicly, his campaign, I think it's called 960. because he told in front of a group of African-Americans that he got an SAT score 960 and that he's not smart like everybody.

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21.716 - 35.411 Valuetainment Host

And he says if his speeches were written, he wouldn't be able to do it. And the only thing he was missing in this video is a hot sauce in his pocket to pull out and say that he carries with himself all the time, but that's somebody else's shtick. Rob, go ahead and play this clip. Go for it.

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36.112 - 36.552 Gavin Newsom

I'm not...

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Chapter 2: How do panelists interpret Newsom's speech in front of a Black audience?

36.717 - 55.696 Gavin Newsom

You know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy. And, you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940.

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55.716 - 59.019 Pat

Oh, my God.

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59.199 - 65.425 Gavin Newsom

Literally a 960 SAT guy. I cannot. You've never seen me read a speech.

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Chapter 3: What examples of political pandering are discussed during the episode?

66.029 - 73.779 Gavin Newsom

because I cannot read a speech. It may be the wrong business to be here. What is he talking?

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76.475 - 101.655 Pat

Okay, can we, in this room, everybody, whatever you're doing at your house, you're in your garage, you're making coffee, do you understand? A white man is in Georgia sitting on stage with a black man who is the mayor, Andre Dickens, and he's basically slowing down his speech and saying, like, I'm dumb like y'all. Like, I barely passed the SATs because I'm dumb like y'all. Like, and it...

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101.635 - 121.813 Pat

This is the Joe Biden. If y'all don't need to decide whether you need to vote for me or Trump, you ain't black. And I'm I'm I'm at my wits end with the black people that are out there in that room and all across the Charlemagne, the gods and all these losers. Like, when are you going to step up and say this is absolutely appalling and it's racist?

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122.233 - 142.865 Pat

And I hate to be the guy to be like if it was the other side. But if it was the other side, if a government name a Republican governor. Go ahead, Tom. Name a Republican governor. DeSantis. If DeSantis was on stage with a black mayor from Georgia and was like, man, I'm like y'all. And he's throwing in the, like he's a preacher, like a black preacher. Where's the outrage?

Chapter 4: How does the panel compare Newsom's comments to those of other politicians?

143.126 - 145.53 Pat

Where's the outrage? You don't think he was being sincere?

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145.51 - 146.371 Tom

No, this is pandering.

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146.511 - 167.222 Pat

Hold on. This is racist pandering. You don't think this is sincerity, Tom? No, but it drives me crazy. Think about it. Schumer and the Democratic Party don't think black people know how to get an ID to vote. Kathy Hochul, remember when she said black kids from the Bronx don't know what a computer is? And then with Joe Biden and now this guy. And the black community is quiet.

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167.663 - 186.921 Pat

How are you sitting on the sideline if... Pat, if I was black and I was in that crowd, I would have stood up and be like, wait, wait, what are you talking about? I would have been kicked out of that room. I would have been kicked out. But beyond pandering, Tom, he's basically saying, guys, I'm stupid too. You're stupid. I'm stupid. I don't know how to read like you guys.

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Chapter 5: What are the implications of low expectations in political messaging?

186.941 - 187.482 Pat

No, Adams.

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187.462 - 211.242 Pat

that's basically what he's saying is hold on let me do the leg fold because he his crotch is gone he's like i'm i eat mac and cheese i'm from the hood i'm stupid i'm stupid you know what i mean like y'all i don't know how to read a speech so you mean to tell me the governor of california can't read that's what he's saying if you can't read a speech you can't read anything and i'm sorry for yeah pat it drives me crazy because none of them say anything

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211.222 - 214.346 Valuetainment Host

Let me show you a clip, and then Adam, Tom, I'm going to come to you guys.

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214.366 - 214.767 Pat

Oh, my God, bro.

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214.787 - 223.377 Valuetainment Host

Rob, show the clip when the reporter is asking him about cost of living in California and how he answers. Go ahead, Rob. This is CNN.

224.539 - 241.06 Unknown

California has the highest cost of living in the nation. The state's prices are 11% higher than the national average. We were actually out to dinner here in Nashville last night. We met a couple from California. They moved out of California because they couldn't afford the rent or even to buy a home and also start a family.

241.04 - 257.368 Gavin Newsom

Yeah, we've had hundreds of thousands of people move in California. The last two, three years, we've seen population growth. As you know, we've moved from sixth to the fourth largest economy in the world. We dominate now in every key industry from AI, quantum, robotics. We dominate in ag. We dominate in forestry.

257.488 - 261.989 Pat

People are struggling to afford things like your mom was. Oh, she dropped the mom thing.

Chapter 6: How do the panelists view the reactions from the African-American community?

263.13 - 285.573 Pat

And again, professional, you have to give, he's such a good serpent in the grass. He knows exactly, by the way, I even forgot what the question was. Cuz he's like, we're dominating, I'm using my hands, look at my hands. Don't look at the lies that are coming out of my mouth. He's the future, he's the future of their party, Tom. Him and the Mamdanis and the AOCs. Tom. That's them, beware.

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286.434 - 311.582 Tom

The pandering makes me sick. The pandering has gone on from the Democrats for a long time. And when African-Americans and people go out there and express independence, You know, Stephen A. Smith is not out there screaming like a conservative, but he takes a moderate point of view and he's calling things out that he doesn't like. And there are some that do it, but suddenly they call you names.

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311.862 - 333.089 Tom

Oh, you're betraying us or you're going the other way. They're expected to stay in lockstep, in lockstep voting for people that pander to you like this, in lockstep to a guy that comes in there. You have to remember Obama did it, too. Because Obama didn't have street cred with the African Americans in America. When he would come and give speeches, he didn't have the cred.

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333.39 - 338.859 Tom

And if you look at some of these speeches, he started dropping his R's and talking with that.

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339.28 - 340.622 Adam

Don't do the hard R, Tom.

Chapter 7: What is the historical context of political pandering in the U.S.?

340.602 - 361.333 Tom

Yeah. Talking with this tone and everything. You know, I'm one of y'all and down. And it's like it's just pandering. It's absolute pandering. And they're waking up. The voters are waking up. There are African-Americans that are waking up. They're thinking for themselves that are saying, listen, I will not be automatically assumed to be your voting bloc. I'm there.

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361.393 - 385.562 Tom

And we've seen it moving election by election. And I hope that the numbers are screaming. They used to hold 92 percent of the African-American vote. It was less than that in this last election with Trump. I don't have the number handy. I wish I did. But that's exactly what you're seeing in this. This is racist and just insidious pandering here. It really makes me sick.

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385.882 - 390.707 Tom

And remember, to those who are in the African-American community, ask yourself a question.

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Chapter 8: What conclusions do the panelists draw about sincerity in political rhetoric?

391.244 - 415.766 Tom

Where has it improved? I'm going to give you this. Have you got it? I'm going to do this for you. Have you got it? As I've said before, these folks in Planned Parenthood have run a black genocide upon you through abortion. If you take a look at the number of aborted babies and you go back and you look at it, 14% of our population, proud African-American citizens. 40% of the abortions.

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415.866 - 437.913 Tom

Why is that? Because they want that. They want that. And if that hadn't happened, Would it be the size of the African-American community in America? What would be the size of that? Would they have tolerated being used at the voting booth and then given nothing at the legislative cycle to improve schools, communities, opportunities? No, they wouldn't.

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437.934 - 447.647 Tom

And Obama wouldn't have been the first African-American president. He would have been the second or third. Thurgood Marshall's son would have been the first in my view. Bingo.

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447.667 - 447.947 Valuetainment Host

Adam.

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448.703 - 463.65 Adam

Yeah, well, let's make racism great again. You know, we see in the NFL, we're going to end racism. So there's two types of racism. There's the open, overt racism, which, to be honest with you, I'm better with. Because you just come out and say it, bro. Say how you feel.

464.151 - 485.123 Adam

Then there's the other racism, which is like the low-key racism, which I believe George W. Bush called the soft bigotry of low expectations. Remember that? You know, he had a few famous quotes. You know, fool me once, can't get fooled again. The terrorist. The terrorist. But the soft bigotry of low expectations. What are the soft bigotry of low expectations? I don't expect a lot from you.

485.643 - 502.427 Adam

I have very low standards from you. So if you don't excel, if you don't have a high performance, if you don't excel and succeed, it's because it's who you are. And then it becomes a self-fulfilling cycle of, of course you're not going to do good. Of course you're not going to read. Of course you're not going to succeed.

502.487 - 502.908 Unknown

Bless you.

503.048 - 518.934 Adam

Sneeze on the truth. Bless you, Lord. Bless you. Then you're going to carry tobacco in your purse. Then you're going to say that you ain't black if you won't vote for me. So then Gavin Newsom, who's trying to appeal to the black vote, goes... I'm dumb too, y'all. I get a 960. I can't even read.

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