FULL Vaccine Eligibility April 19 While the Right Keeps Cancelling Things
The David Pakman Show - April 7, 2021
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WHOA: Republican Smacks Down Tucker Carlson on His Own Show
Republican Governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson went on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show yesterday to explain his decision to veto legislation that would have banned gender-affirming treatments for transgender minors in the state. While his veto was overridden by the Republican-dominated state legislature, Hutchinson was clearly on the right side of this argument and he made some compelling points about it from a conservative perspective. The new Arkansas law is called the “Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act” and it’s the first of its kind in the US, but similar bills are currently making their way through state legislatures in red states across the country.
Hutchinson explained to Carlson that it was actually his conservative principles that led him to veto the legislation, which left Tucker wearing his trademark dumbfounded expression. The governor said, “we don’t have to be involved in every issue and if you want to broaden the party, if you want to get back to the principles, then let’s at least think through in a reasoned way as to whether this is the right bill to interfere with parents’ and doctors’ decisions.” The governor is essentially arguing that this is not a matter for government to get involved in and that these decisions should be left to families and individuals rather than bureaucrats. While this is not the same approach that progressives would take on the issue, we still arrive at the same conclusion as Hutchinson, which is that gender-affirming treatments should remain available. Hutchinson also pointed out that this issue currently only affects 200 kids in his state and that these children would need to stop their treatments immediately with no grandfather clause. At the very least, the Fox News audience was presented with a different perspective on the topic from an unexpected voice.
Trump Says Baseball "Not Appropriate" in Embarrassing Interview
One-term ex-president Donald Trump went on Newsmax yesterday for an interview that was equal parts funny, sad, and infuriating. The host of the interview, Heather Childers, had a difficult time controlling the former president when he went off into tangents. Trump complained about the 2020 election being rigged, of course with zero pushback, and brought up ballot dumps, “illegal immigrants” voting, and dead people voting. The former president also complained about the Supreme Court treating him unfairly when they followed the law rather than being subservient to him.
The interview then shifted focus over to the MLB and its decision to pull the All-Star game out of Atlanta over Georgia’s recently-passed voter suppression law. Trump in recent days has joined a chorus of right-wing voices calling for a boycott of the MLB. Childers asked Trump about this and he had a peculiar response, which was to say, “I’m just not very interested in baseball for the last number of years. It’s not appropriate.” Trump went on to say that he has a tough time finding professional baseball in his programming lineup on cable TV. It’s not clear whether this was Trump being dismissive, telling a joke, or if he was just having an old man “get off my lawn” kind of moment.
From yesterday’s show:
COVID Cases AND Deaths Continue Down, Vaccination Explodes
Coronavirus cases in the United States are now ticking down again following a slight upward trend and fears about a full-blown fourth wave of infections. The new daily case count is at around 60,000 and deaths are averaging well under 1,000 per day now. This is partly because vaccinations are getting administrated at impressively high rates. Over the weekend, the United States had consecutive days with 4 million shots in people’s arms and the average overall now is 3.05 million doses administered per day. Yesterday, President Biden announced that everyone in the United States will be eligible for a vaccine no later than April 19th, moving his goal up from May 1st. There are some areas in the country where variants are taking hold and it’s still a race to defeat them, but the US is in a much better position that it was in just months ago.
--More on the show:
--President Joe Biden announces full vaccine eligibility starting on April 19, and Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asks Biden about golf
--Desperate Fox News reporter Peter Doocy tries a gotcha question about the Georgia voter suppression bill on Joe Biden's White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and it does not go well for him
--It is revealed that beleaguered Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz asked former President Donald Trump for a blanket pre-emptive pardon when Trump was still in office
--Donald Trump and his allies are abandoning Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz
--Republican Senator Rand Paul, who is against business regulation and against cancel culture, calls for a Republican boycott of Coca-Cola
--Fox News, which has been railing against so-called "cancel culture" for months, runs a long cancellation list of companies that have stated opinions about the Georgia voter suppression bill
--Voicemail caller asks about vaccine passports
--On the Bonus Show: China becomes first major economy to creates its own digital currency, calls grow to boycott Beijing's Olympics, half of all new COVID cases are in just 5 US states, much more...
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