Haitian Migrant Crisis Drags Biden as GOP Self-Humiliates
The David Pakman Show - September 23, 2021
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Desperate Fox Reporter Tries Another Gotcha on Jen Psaki
Fox News reporter Peter Doocy has made it his life’s mission to make White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki look bad, but he invariably falls short. Yesterday, Doocy asked Psaki if “Joe Biden has ever been to the southern border.” When Psaki essentially said she didn’t know, Doocy went on to explain, “we have been looking all morning and we cannot find any record of him visiting the border as president, vice president, senator, or even as a concerned citizen. Why would that be?” This is simply put a “gotcha question” because Doocy apparently already knew the answer to it, having “researched it all morning.” His hope was to either catch Psaki in a lie or make it look as though Joe Biden doesn’t care about immigration and the situation at the Mexican border. Psaki explained that, “the president certainly relies on his experience. So whether it was the work he did to address root causes as vice president, his efforts when he was in the Senate to support comprehensive immigration reform . . . he uses all of his experiences to inform how he governs, how he approaches challenges . . . ” This question from Doocy is bogus for another reason as well, which is that there’s really not much Biden can learn about the influx of migrants from visiting there himself. That point simply gets overlooked by Doocy framing the narrative in such a way.
Steve Bannon ADMITS He Conspired with Trump to Plan Jan 6 Rally
Former Trump White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon claims to have spoken with Donald Trump ahead of the ex-president’s rally on January 6th. Washington Post reporters Robert Costa and Bob Woodward went on MSNBC to discuss their new book Peril about the final year of the Trump presidency. Costa said, “Bannon had actually been in close touch with President Trump for days before January 6th. Based on our reporting, he privately told President Trump to have a reckoning on January 6th. And he said to the president, it’s time to kill the Biden presidency in the crib.” Bannon played the clip on his Real America’s Voice show and reacted to it. The ex-Trump strategist admitted to the report being true and said “forty-two per cent of the American people think that Biden did not win the presidency legitimately . . . Just look at what this illegitimate regime is doing. It killed itself. Okay? But we told you from the very beginning, just expose it, just expose it, never back down, never give up and this thing will implode.” Given his history, it’s no shock at all that Bannon played a role in the events of January 6th. Sadly, like so many other Trump confidants, he’s unlikely to face any consequences for it.
From yesterday’s show:
COVID Cases Down 20%, What's Going On?
COVID cases are trending back downward in the United States and that is terrific to hear. Daily average new cases are down about 20% and we’re still trying to find out exactly why. Some people attribute this to increased vaccination numbers, others point to there being a possible seasonality to the virus, and some believe that there have been so many cases already in the US that the virus is simply running out of people to infect. A more cynical explanation is that cases may not actually be going down, but only appear to be going down because red states like Texas and Florida are manipulating the data. New infections in the country now average around 130,000 cases a day. Deaths tend to move like cases but on a three to four week delay and they have so far leveled off. Therefore, it is predicted that death counts will start to come down over the next few weeks. Globally, the same trend is visible with this latest Delta wave peaking at around 650,000 new cases a day and now recording around 500,000 new cases a day. If this trend keeps up, perhaps the world and the US can get to something approaching normal over the next few months, but a year and a half into this pandemic, there are plenty of reasons to remain skeptical of that.
From yesterday’s show:
Brazil's Unvaccinated President Forced to Eat Pizza on Sidewalk in NYC
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro visited New York City this week to deliver a speech to the United Nations. Since Bolsonaro is not vaccinated, he’s not allowed at many indoor establishments in the city and is expected to keep his mask on at all times. This created a hilarious situation when the Brazilian president was forced to eat a slice of pizza on an NYC sidewalk because he wasn’t able to dine indoors. It was a good idea for the city to implement such a rule, because on the trip, Brazil’s health minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for COVID-19. Bolosnaro is the only G20 leader not to be vaccinated and believes he doesn’t need to because he got the virus last year. He has said about his decision, “why take the vaccine? To have antibodies, isn’t that right? My antibody levels are way up high.” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio criticized the Brazilian president for making the trip to his city, saying during a press briefing, “we need to send a message to all the world leaders, including most notably Bolsonaro from Brazil, that if you intend to come here, you need to be vaccinated. If you don’t want to be vaccinated, don’t bother coming because everyone should be safe together.” Since Bolsonaro doesn’t want to do something as simple as getting a vaccine, he’ll have to keep eating his pizza on the sidewalk for the foreseeable future if he intends on visiting New York City.
More on the show:
--Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and author of the book "How to Talk to a Science Denier Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason," joins David to discuss how to most effectively talk to science deniers and anti-vaxxers. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3zB7T3Q
--Is President Joe Biden fumbling his response to the Haitian border situation, allowing his approval rating to drop further while giving Republicans oxygen to criticize him?
--Notable discussions from the David Pakman Show subreddit, including about Tulsi Gabbard, COVID vs the 1918 flu, and much more
--Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene makes a mockery of the House of Representatives with meme-filled speech on the floor of the House
--Former Donald Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn suggests that vaccines will be secretly put in salad dressing to get people to be vaccinated
--Voicemail caller asks whether David will interview more people from the personal financial influencer/YouTube space
--On the Bonus Show: McConnell & GOP denounce games while they play horrible games, Matthew McConaughey could be viable TX Gov candidate, McDonald's phasing out plastic toys, much more...
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