A Slow, Gentle Pace

Published Apr 18, 2024, 4:36 PM

Hour 3 of A&G features...

  • Who gets credit for Israel's ability to defend itself...
  • The Pentagon responds to Biden's story about his uncle & cannibals...
  • The head of NPR is straight of Orwell...
  • who invited the High Five? 

From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty Show. According to the Pentagon, Biden's uncle was a passenger on a plane that was forced to ditch in the Pacific Ocean for unknown reasons, both engines failing at low altitude. Three men failed to emerge from the wreck, and Finnegan is still missing, but the US Government Service record does not attribute his death to hostile action or to cannibals, although there was in fact documented cannibalism in that region in the mid twentieth century. White House spokesman Andrew Bates did not acknowledge this discrepancy in the telling of this story. When he delivered a statement for the press, he said that Biden was making the case of honoring our armed forces, not calling them suckers and losers, again, tying everything back to truck guys.

I wanted the whole thing, demitt So that's a story yesterday from the Biden administration. Dang it, I want the whole clip. That's the only way makes sense.

I'm flustered now, yeah, yeah, well we're all flustered by cannibalism.

Jack, So what is what? What went on there? What was happening there? Joe Biden told a story yesterday.

He's trying to tell a story about his uncle who was in the Army Air Corps and how he flew single engine planes as re over horizons, yes, shut down again, and that they never found the body because well there used to be a lot of cannibals for real man in that.

PoTA and uh.

And he also mentioned that his uncle was joined the military right out of high school a couple of years ago. When he told the story, he was a star football player in college.

The the facts, the the.

Details of the tale keep changing in a Biden Esque fashion. But no, there is no record of Cannibal's eating his uncle.

So he had been had had he been telling me my uncle was eaten by Cannibal's story for the past forty years and getting away with it or is this a new one that I don't know?

I just know that in the years, the couple of years ago, as of a couple of years ago, because he's told the story a handful of times, it just keeps changing.

Coming up later this hour, if you've not heard it, it's getting a lot of attention, probably not on the left, almost certainly not on the left. On the right. What's going on at NPR. You had that guy come forward basically a whistleblower about how incredibly off the rails and biased NPR is. I know for some of you, I mean, my reaction to that was really, you know, knock me over with a feather, as they say, I listened to NPR regularly, but I roll my eyes and my mouth drops regularly too. It has for years, but it's worse now than it's ever been. This guy comes out, blows a whistle on that he's suspended, then resigns well, not coincidentally, I guess. Now we're hearing from the current CEO of NPR and her leadership and her vision for NPR is flip and frightening. So we'll get to that a little bit later this hour. Absolutely so.

So here's a quiz question for you, and this is related to Joe Biden. You remember Robert Gates's famous quote that Joe Biden has been wrong about every foreign policy question for the last fifty years. Who gets the most credit for Israel being able to fend off Iran's attack the other day The Islamic Republic of Iran. Anybody bb net now who not a bad guess? Anthony Blincoln organizing a coalition of Yeah, that that played a role too. You know who really gets credit? Ronald Reagan. As we're to reminder by Daniel Heninger in The Wall Street Journal in eighty three, President Reagan proposed in a televised address which I remember, what he called the Strategic Defense Initiative. The idea was that the US would build defense systems that could shoot down nuclear arm ballistic missiles, which we're constantly worried the Soviet Union was going to lob at us. Back in the day, Democrats and much of the defense establishment mocked the idea. Senator Ted Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate just don't date him, named it star Wars, and Senator Joe Biden summed up the opposition in nineteen eighty six speech quote star Wars represents a fundamental assault on the concepts alliances and arms control agreements that are buttressed American security for several decades, and the presidents continued adherence to it constitutes one of the most reckless and irresponsible acts in the history of modern state craft.

Yeah, I remember the whole Star Wars argument. It was certainly portrayed by mainstream media in the left just kind of a crazy, old, dangerous cowboy man with his fanciful ideas of and that's what worked on Saturday. Which the current administration, run by the guy that was bad mouthing it back in the eighties, is taking credit for right.

And it is yet another example back to Gates a statement going back to nineteen eighty six that when the choice came between doing something semi bold, semi innovative, or just not doing anything, Joe Biden opted for not doing anything. He has no spine, he has no principles, he is animated by no strong beliefs. Well, he is really is an extraordinary human.

He actually is a lawyer, and he's the worst kind of lawyer whose only thing is better, not just better, not better, not do this, better, not do that, but not doing the top half of his class three degrees. Come on, And his boss was the same way, which Goddess in the law of the situations we're in right now you're mentioning Reagan and Soviet Union reminded me. Saw over the weekend this old Russia dude died and he was in the military and the Soviet Union back in I got the notes somewhere as eighty three, I think, where for whatever reason, their defense system computers went haywire and we're showing that the United States had launched some of these ballistic missiles at Russia. This was the thing that you know, everybody was prepared for for decades, the big giant nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States. And he was in charge there, and the computers are showing their missiles coming in, the missiles coming in. The thing he was supposed to do was respond by fire and off missiles back, and for whatever reason, he thought, this can't be right. This just this not is can't be right, and he didn't respond, and we ended up giving him a medal year later when the Soviet Union fell and we found out what his name was, and he came to the United States and got something or other and has been might have saved.

More lives than any human being in human history. I never thought about that, but that's quite possibly true.

Yeah, but guaranteed, guaranteed he saved more lives than anybody in human history, because if he'd or responded, that would we would have seen that as a first strike and responded to that. So but you know, and maybe that's the exact thing you don't want out of somebody in that position. You know our guys right now, you don't want somebody saysy, this can't be right. There's no way that China's actually fired missiles at us or the rusher or whoever. This just doesn't feel right to me because I read the entire interview with him and he just he said, it's just a gut feeling. Okay, gut feeling is also could just be I really don't want this to be true, or I'm justifying the fact that I don't want to be the guy that presses the button at edge of whatever. You don't want gut feelings ruling the day on this sort of stuff, do you. Probably no. No.

But at the same time, in a world where hotels dot Com wants a two step verification process before I can reserve a room at the Motel six, I like the idea of maybe you check with somebody else. Hey, here's the computers, here's what they're saying.

What do you think. Well, he was the tech guy, so he was supposed to run it. Up the ladder to Yuri and drop Off, who was the guy in charge of Russia at the Soviet Union at the time. But he didn't because he knew that, you know, he was. If he gave them the information what was happening, they might then say, okay, we've got a respond But he didn't think it was real, so he didn't pass it along until he could figure it out. And after figured twenty minutes or something like that, he's able to figure out that they'd picked up some solar flares or something like that their computers had. But it's exactly we'll ask your brother about it.

He was.

He was in this world. You just you can't have people going with their gut feelings of I don't think this is a real attack. I mean, that's the exact opposite of what you need to do. But thank god he did. I don't know what to take from this story.

Yeah, I think part of the what's missing because you're right on both counts, but obviously they're in conflict. He was aware of the imperfections of his technology, his system, and his government. I have a feeling he grew up seeing fake tractor production numbers come out of the factory down the street to satisfy communism. People who live in communist societies are generally pretty savvy about what they live in, at least from whatever.

I'll bet you're right that it's much more likely in that system where everybody is distrustful of everything, as it would be an our military. We have a place belief that we got the best equipment out there, and then it's real and etcetera.

Well, and hierarchies or echa or meritocracy, if you will. The quest for excellence animates free markets. It's animated the United States. There's a certain Cabala folks on the left who are trying to end meritocracy, and that will do us. But I think a guy who lives in that system understands that everybody involved in that chain of command, including the computer guys, there's no incentive for excellence, or at least not much.

In a communist system.

So he was thinking, all right, the stupid computers with the stupid programming is giving me stupid information. I'm supposed to run up the flagpole to the stupid generals.

I don't know.

I would love to hear more of what he is. What he said generals Yeah, that's a very good point.

Ask ask a soldier in Ukraine, a Russian soldier in Ukraine right now about corruption in the Russian military.

He could write a book checking in on the Trump trial real quick before we take a break. There is no indication that the makeup of the jury so far has anyone that Team Trump can rely on to engineer a hung jury. Watch today it says here if you see a young blackmail or a copp or a firefighter that gets slotted on the jury, but so far, just by the kind of person that they got on there, there's no clear you're probably in Trump's camp sort of person. Noah, we're really reading Tea Leaves here. Sure, but I went through the you know, the demographics of all the jurors yesterday, and you had a lot of Upper West side lawyer reads the New York Times types that probably hate Trump as opposed to if you had a firefighter or a cop. Mm hmm. But you're right, it is Tea Leave reading, and you hope that people have the ability to h You'll put whatever it is the side and look at the rules. And one other thing is Cohen what pulse Michael Cohen has been making the rounds. He's on a media blitz right now, bad mouthing Trump and calling him a scumbag, and all these different sorts of things, as Byron York says The Washington Examiner, while Trump has a gag order and can't say anything back. In theory, that's that's not the way it's supposed to work. Even Michael Lavanati of all people, said that there is a great deal that is rotten in Denmark. We'll get to that in pr stuff later. You're gonna love to hate that, among other things. Stay here, Okay, Armstrong and Getty. Hello, James Bond.

What makes you think this is my first time? I just want to remind you that I never miss.

All movie trailers are too dramatic. Can't accuse it of being overly wordy.

That was the movie trailer for the new James Bond film starring Henry cavill Or cavill actor famous from a Witcher something, Except it's completely Ai created. The movie doesn't exist. He's not Bond. It's odd that they would give him him in an American accent for a Bond movie.

Is that a real person? Yeah, that's an actual person.

So, and they actually have Margot Robbie as a Bond girl or worked into its.

Wow, that'd be a good Bond girl. So did somebody? So did somebody just say make a James Bond movie trailer? Is that all the prompting it requires?

I don't know, honestly, It's probably a little more extensive than that. I've just looked at some of those. You can create video with the text prompts things. I've not actually used them, but yeah, so that's so, that's odd. It's been uh viewed by millions of people already, some of whom have no idea it's fake, I guess. But a couple other AI related stories that I found very interesting. We have such a conundrum in education with AI going forward, not just some of the obvious, Hey, AI, write my paper for me. But here's this gal who I think she was a University of North Georgia student. She ended up on academic probation because she used grammarly on her criminal justice essay. If you're not familiar with it, it advertises constantly on certain websites and video feeds or whatever. It provides a grammar and syntax help. It's essentially an editor to clean up your well your grammar.

So it's kind of a fancier audio correct, like a step above autocorrect. Yeah, exactly.

If it notices that your verb doesn't match your pronouns or whatever. You got a singular there and a plural there, it'll say, hey, you ought to fix that. But the problem is it' it's gotten a little more sophisticated and now makes suggestions for you. Hey, instead of phrasing it like this, you could phrase it like this.

Is it a suggestion? How about you read the book before you do this report? Does it ever have suggestions like that? Well, I think this young lady did.

In fact, she's on academic probation, but her professor accused her of quote, unintentionally cheating on her academic work because she used the program to proof read her paper.

Man, they're going to have to draw a line on this, obviously. I mean, if a program tells me you're using the wrong version of your here just because you typed it in correctly, is that cheating? Or is I supposed to catch out with my own brain? Is that important?

Well?

This journalist who's writing an article for USA Today says it reminds him a great deal of the debate over calculator use in schools in the nineteen seventies because this gal had no intention whatsoever in factor. Professor said that of like artificially generating her content, she just used it as an editor.

It's right, well not to see. I used to get so angry in school about the grading. Was so much about our your margins are correct at the top and the bottom and stuff like that. Who cares. Nobody cared about the content. It was all about the particulars of the stuff that doesn't matter in my mind. I hated that as a kid, And that's what this seems like. Yeah, I understand.

Why that exists, because they're trying to teach you a certain rigor. Its like in the military. That's why you make your bed perfectly. It's an example of discipline. I just think it got upside down when we were in school. But you know, we don't really have time to get to this. But both Elon Musk and Jamie Diamond, the famous banker from JP Morgan Chase, we're talking about AI recently, and they said all sorts of interesting things that again we don't have time for. But one quote that I thought was interesting. One thinker said AI will take on eighty percent of eighty percent of the jobs that exist today within ten.

Years, eight of eighty percent of the jobs, Yes, within ten years, Yes.

And the political and economic upheavals will be super upheavally highly crappings.

That's quite a stat. NPR has gone nuts. Stay with us strong.

NPR has a huge effect on the radio industry, which I've been into my entire life, because they get tremendous ratings, partially because they get to compete in a way that nobody else does.

They don't have any commercials, and their business model is different that they can throw a hell of a lot of money at the programming in that you can't do when you're entirely for profit. And so a lot of the reporting is really really good.

Yeah, And they have always been a lefty organization because that's what journalists tend to be. Fifteen years ago, you know, it was kind of mindly annoying from a conservative point of view, but it was good solar reporting. But as Uri Berliner made clear in his recent essay criticizing NPR, it has gone full on progressive activist. Every story is run through identity, race, gender, whatever. That's the only thing they do. At this point, he called him out for it. Name check the new CEO whose name is what the heck's her name? Uh?

Sorry, just lost it.

It's mayor Catherine mayor maher mar or something like that.

Blonde headed gal, forty one.

Year old nyu hatty, intellectual, exactly upper crust Connecticut, livesine liberal, and people have looked into her and she has a history of saying and doing things that is extraordinary. She is the absolute distillation of the woke, regressive, neo Marxist, self hating white person we need to tear down the system activist, and the things she says are mind blowing.

Do you want to go ahead and just play your little screen now?

This was a Ted talk from a while back when she was in a leadership role at Wikipedia.

Go ahead, Michael.

The hard things, the places where we are prone to disagreement, say politics and religion. Well, as it turns out, not only does Wikipedia's model work there, it actually works really well because in our normal lives, these contentious conversations tend to erupt or disagreement about what the truth actually is. But the people who write these articles, they're not focused on the truth. They're focused on something else, which is the best of what we can know right now. And after seven years of working with these brilliant folks, I've come to believe that they are onto something.

That perhaps, for our most.

Tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking to convince others of the truth might not be the right place to start. In fact, our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that's getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.

Now, that is not.

To say that the truth doesn't exist, nor is it to say that the truth isn't important. Clearly, the search for the truth has led us to do great things, to learn great things. But I think if I were to really ask you to think about this, one of the things that we could all acknowledge is that part of the reason we have such glorious chronicles to the human experience in all forms of culture is because we acknowledge there are many different truths. And so in the spirit of that, I'm certain that the truth exists for you and probably for the person sitting next to you, but this may not be the same truth. This is because the truth of the matter is very often for many people. What happens when we merge facts about the world with our beliefs about the world. So we all have different truths. They're based on things like where we come from, how we were raised, and how other people perceive us.

You could write a book on that two minutes of audio, and I suspect people were where to begin.

Yeah, Peter Bagoshin probably will write a book about this. We've had Peter on the show many times. PhD and one of the great warries against Wolcism in America said, this is an absolutely extraordinary clip delivered in a sacarine manner. It is the most toxic of screeds. It contains a blueprint for the end of every civilization Yead due to paraphrase her at one point, our reverence for the truth is a distraction, getting in the way of getting things done. Wow.

So, first of all, that was not somebody reading a passage from a villain in nineteen eighty four or Well's classic work.

That was a real human being expressing those views.

It's to say it's Orwellian is to understate how Orwellian it was. She said, Essentially, the question for the truth was fine and good, but that's over now we all have our own truth. And if we want to get things done and get along and find common ground, we need to stop worrying about the truth. The next step being, obviously, we will tell you what the truth is and which truths are permissible. It is an explanation of what ideological totalitarianism is and what conformity to that totalitarianism looks like, and how it must be with a smile, at a slow, gentle pace.

So that whistleblower that came out that is now who got suspended by NPR after twenty five years of being there and has now resigned. He was talking about some of his for instances, was how they would not cover the Hunter Biden laptop story, for instance. And so I guess that's what she's talking about when she says the truth is getting in the way of shared values or something like, she believes she gets to determine her and her type, get to determine what things should be known and what things shouldn't be known to help move us in the right direction, whatever that is. And so it's not the truth that you should hear about the Hunter Biden laptop because that would get in the way of the more important truths of Donald Trump is evil and we got to make sure he loses right to quote her directly.

A reverence for the truth might be a distraction, getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done. So the Hunter Biden laptop's a perfect example of that. Don't spend so much time worrying about the truth. Worry about what we need to get things done. To throw a couple or Well quotes around in a time of deceit, telling the truth as a revolutionary act. Who controls the past controls the future, Who controls the present controls the past. War as peace, freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength. They will tell you what you need to know. Stop trying to seek the truth.

It's exactly the same as censorship in that the reason it doesn't work is somebody's got to decide what gets censored and what doesn't. And so she is. She believes that there's, you know, there's an important truth, a truth you can choose that's best for society, and she and her friends are the ones who should choose that. Well, that is horrifying. They know what's best for you, exactly.

Departing briefly from Orwell's works of fiction, which were obviously meant to illustrate truth. This is something he wrote under his own name, not fiction. If liberty means anything at all, anybody out there kind of a fan of liberty, I know we are. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. That saccharine, sweet little presentation was presenting exactly the opposite point of view. If it does not fit the narrative, even if it's true, we don't want to hear it.

So well, here a little more from mar here in a second. But so byron Yorke was commenting. He's with the Washington Examiner. He was commenting on, you know, how is this landing at NPR? Is this making a dent? Is this making them, you know, have a little look in the mirror moment or self reflection? He said, I don't have any inside scoop, but NPR is making it pretty clear it ain't gonna change after this whole thing happen this week. Maybe even doubled down on the issues that he was complaining about. Why did he say that? Because Mary Louise Kelly, which is a name you know, if you listen to NPR a lot she tweeted out. NPR Senior Business Editor Uri Berlinner resigned this morning. Among the many things that could be said, I will say this thank you to my colleagues here in the newsroom today for your grace, collegiality, and hard work during a challenging period, and for showing up today as always to produce some damn fine journalism. In other words, we were weathering the tough storm of him leaving and like bad mouthing us or something. But we're sticking together and we're going to move forward with the same crap that we've been doing before. And as you heard, this is the new CEO, by the way, and the case we didn't make that clear. Who's saying the whole truth's getting in the way of what we want to do. She's the new CEO. She's not like past CEOs. She's in charge right.

Now right Which is why Uri berlin or the whistleblower, wrote that piece. He thought, oh I thought it was bad before, or now look at the new gal. So she I feel like she watered it down a little for her ted talk. She has some self awareness of knowing how clearly she could state these things. Here's her a little More Unfiltered from oun't know how many years ago and a video she released.

I started by talking about the idea of free and open as some of our founding principles sort of free and open source coming from me to the open source community. Well, I have come to the opinion and the perspective that free and open was a way of looking at the world that was inherently limited relative to what we were trying to achieve. Free and open has the best of intentionality, but in the end, what free and open often ended up doing, and particularly in the case of Wikipedia, was really recapitulating many of the same power structures and dynamics that exist offline prior to the advent of the Internet. And so what we ended up seeing was Wikipedia really rebuilt this idea knowledge as a whole around what the Western canon. You see the exclusion of communities of languages because of the ways in which Wikipedia is based on reliable sources. The idea of a written tradition is something that is particular to many I mean not sorry, the idea of a written tradition which is particular to some cultures and not to others. The ways in which we I ascribe notability often really comes from.

Sort of this white male there you go.

Westernized construct around who matters in societies and who is elevated and whose voices and so some of these ideas of sort of this radical openness really did not end up with the intention, really did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be.

Radical openness like the sort of thing that, like the Founding Fathers believed it was a good idea with the First Amendment, is getting in the way and helping perpetuate as you heard, their white male stuff.

Right exactly, we can't trust society, so we must reform it. This is why I and others constantly refer to these people as neo Marxists. It's a different argument for we must tear it all down and rebuild it according to our truth and which the most hilarious part of this, unintentionally is the constant you hammering of the word diversity when diversity is the last thing they want. There is one doctrine permissible at NPR, for instance, at Columbia University for instance, on the pages of the New York Times for instance, although they do throw a couple of token conservatives out there in their defense. The idea that they want diversity is hilarious. So it's not like this is new to us. Over the last couple of years, somebody's saying this sort of stuff.

The fact that she's the CEO of NPR is striking. We've got a post truth world. All decide what's true and what's not. I know, what's good for America. Person in charge of one of the most popular news outlets in the country that's funded by taxpayers. Yeah, it's almost.

Refreshing that she's willing to come out and say, Look, we don't care about the truth. The truth gets in the way. That's not what we're about. At least the mask is off. Boll You're right, that's a little true. That's troubling on its own. The fact that she believes she can get away with that and that it will be accepted because they now own the public square.

Yeah, she thinks it's so universally agreed upon, and I'm sure in her world it is. I'm sure she you know, runs in a crowd that also has graduate degrees from NYU or wherever, and they all agree. Oh, absolutely, the whole truth thing. Wow. Geez, hello, boomer a truth give me a break, and so she doesn't know how that strikes a lot of the rest of us.

So I realize I'm leaning on Orwell a bit. But he's one of the great gen uses ever to speak the English language or any other. The idea that you obliterate history, which they are trying to do, you make us forget our history and who we are as a people in a culture they are trying to You can't get Western culture taught in universities. All all you can get is this sexism of Western culture, the racism, the colonial is in Western culture.

They're erasing all of that.

They're redefining what the truth is and or openly saying the truth doesn't matter.

All that matters is the party truth is getting in the way. That is absolutely amazing. And she is running in pr currently in a.

Time of deceit. Telling the truth is a revolutionary act. I will tell it until I am in a gulag. This will animate me. I am never going to retire.

Any comment text line four one five nine five KFTC. No, I didn't invent the high five. All I did was respond to Glenn. And on the on deck circle was Glenn Burke, the excited rookie Glenn put his arm high in the air, and Dusty wasn't sure what to do, so he slacked it. But you can go anywhere around the world and people know what that is. Everyone wants that moment, and a high five made it accessible to everybody. When you look at how it's changed the world, and it's a universal symbol for all of us to share. Sometimes you don't know why you do some of the things you do, especially when you're extremely happy. You just respond to each other. ESPN with a little documentary about the invention of the high five by baseball legend Dusty Baker in nineteen seventy seven. I feel like the high five was around before seventy seven, but I can't tell you that for certain. I have no idea.

But shout out to Dusty, who lives not far from the radio ranch. Hope you're in good health, my friend.

So we were just play that thing from the CEO of NPR and her worldview and everything like that, and people who follow her, and I came across this thing I thought was really interesting, not specifically about that, but about personality types. And I think this person's onto something. I think they might have the percentages off. But listen to this. Many people are hating on this video the audio we just played, but I actually think it's a fascinating display of the two very distinct modes that exist to relate with realitymesis versus first principles. Thinking ninety five percent of people operated by mimesis. I don't know if I'm saying that word right. Did you say one minute? Okay? Truth doesn't matter to them as much as getting along. And you decide your truth based on what the people around you believe, and so you go along with that, and I think that is true for most people. Then you've got it, says five percent again. I think the percentages are wrong. But these people hold opinions that are outside the most popular. And this is the part that I thought was most interesting. The reason they do this isn't courage as much as social ineptitude. It's not that they're strong enough to fight against the grain. It's that they don't feel the grain in the same way as other people. They're sort of rude by a mission not commission. I feel that rude, whatever term you want to use. But like I've always had the most popular band, I have to like make myself, like my instant thing is to like not want to like the popular band or wear the popular clothes or whatever. And I think so. I don't know what the percentages are, like you said there, but I think it does help you with the going having your truth be determined by the crowd, because some of us are just built to hate going along with the crowd, right.

And I think Orwell would agree with me when I would suggest that a certain personality type which I may or may not hold, like to my marrow seese the dishonesty and conformism inherent in the mimetic thinking or whatever it is, and can't stand to go there. It's just it's a betrayal.

That is interesting that you either have their personality type that like. The thing you want to do the most is what's everybody saying and thinking and watching and listening to and dressing and believing I'm in That makes me feel good as opposed to I really hate to be doing what everybody else is doing.

I wish we had time to talk about the Founding Fathers and how clearly they were of the latter group.

Now all were the same silk stockings. I mean, somebody decided that was a good look, Nepotterphy flattering to the calf.

It's not conformity, it's just looks good, armstrong and getty.

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