Mark Simone, Host of the Morning Show in NY on WOR and Joe Concha, Fox News Contributor and columnist for The Hill, hit all the latest media news from this week, and some of the best highlights from 2021.
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All right news, rounded up information overload hour eight hundred nine for one, Shawn our number. You want to be a part of the program. You know, it's interesting, the media, the mob. It doesn't matter how wrong they are, how often they're wrong. You know, more recently, you know, look at they're wrong in the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, the Jessie Smolette case. They're wrong in Ferguson, Missouri. They're wrong in Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman's case. They're wrong with Richard Jewel, gone back many years ago. They're wrong with Freddy Gray and Baltimore. They're wrong with UVA Cambridge police. Duke Lacrosse. Doesn't matter for four years peddling a hoax, a lie that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians. And by the way, I guess I gotta give a little credit to the Washington Post. Everything we were reported on the Steel dossier, it was total bs. We're all the networks, the three networks, We're the cable channels that spent every single minute, hour of every day lying to their audience, and all the evidence was there available to them, but yet they ignored it all. No apologies, no retractions, nothing, and then they just move on to the next lie. And now they right now, the last thing they want to talk about is Joe Biden's horrific records. So let's talk about January sixth, every second, every minute of every day, not the fact that build back better, New Green Deal socialism is dead. And according to Christen Cinema, so as their attempted powergrap to pack the courts and getting rid of the filibuster, we have some of the media's craziest moments of twenty twenty. Listen state after Fox News and Republicans concerns have whipped up a rural panic about so called critical race theory. This is just the latest outraged device over at Fox. Is it not in a bad faith effort by Republicans to make critical race theory a wedge issue? Violent looking, angry, spewing parents outside of these schools, individuals intent on creating chaos for the sake of creating chaos. These actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terror. This becomes a security crisis in the sense for the nations. It is dangerous to our children when the parents themselves are the school bullies that acting job of the cry I can't even look at it. That is one of the worst acting I've ever said. He committed a murder or two murders and attempted to murder someone else. When written, hell's got emotional, it may have come across the jury as a genuine expression of remorse, or on the other hand, maybe it was crocodile to your designed to elicit sympathy. This is by privilege on steroids. Ivermectin is something more often used to horses. Telling his thirteen million Instagram followers that he was treated with several drugs, and he included ivermectin on the list, a drug used for livestock, Rogan said the word ivermectin. Yes, that's the de worming medicine made to kill parasites and farm animals. So things are clearly bad, but they're being made even worse by people who have refused to take the vaccine and instead are swallowing horse paste. We all knew it was violent, we knew it was wrong, we knew it was undemocratic, Unamerican. Well so did the hosts at the Fox Propaganda Network. This is the really stunning part because they pretend like it This isn't a big Deal. Now, Oh my gosh, there was a tourist, Todd Bifle, one of them. Shocked. The Fox News host was saying stuff in private different to what they say in public. Shocked. They were lying. They knew instinctively in real time that this was a desperate moment that the capital was being attacked. They were pleading to the president, showing that they weren't really functioning as political functionaries, nothing resembling journalists in that administration. No matter how they try to downplay or blame Antifa or the left or provocateurs or whatever. Their texts tell the truth. Only Donald Trump could call off the insurrectionist because they were his insurrectionist, all right. Joining us now a way in on the mob and the media. Mark Simone, the host of the top rated morning show in New York on Wall Are, our affiliate in New York, and Joe Concho, Fox News contributor Columness for The Hill, I think twenty twenty two would be a great year to start his own media show. Welcome both of you, our final show of the year. As I head out on my long vacation, I'm grateful mar Simone that build back better, New Green Deal socialism is dead because that increased the odds dramatically that I'd be called back from vacation. Dad. It's going great. Look everywhere I look, I see build back Better hats. People are wearing the everywhere build back Better. But you know Biden, they got to rebuild Biden is probably more appropriate. You gotta get Biden credit, though. He's gonna be in the Gooddest Book of World Records for buyer's remorse. I mean, it is a faster and he used to be pretty good at lying, but he can't even think of anything. They tell you a buildback better five trillion dollars, but it won't cost anything, and we're supposed to believe that's not going to cost anything. He is unbelievable. The media set all kinds of new records. You know, if you ever somebody should meet somebody they went to Harvard, you feel a little intimidated. Just remember Joy Reid went to Harvard. Don't ever be intimidated by it again. You don't have to be that break to go there. You know this is your business. Joe Concha, I don't know how you do your job every day because they would drive me nuts following them. But you know you had some real whoppers this year. Oh yeah, I'm gonna go through this Olympic style in honor of the Winter Olympics coming up in all places, China. All right, bronze medal, Sean, here's the bronze medal. All right, I'm quoting here. Those lights that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial along the reflecting pool, it's almost extensions of Joe Biden's arms embracing America. It was a moment where the new president came to town and sort of convene the country in this moment of embrace, aft stretching his arms. That's CNN's police chief Political editor David Shallahan is saying that, I mean, you might as well set it to an Adam you know Sorkin music them. I mean for to say something like that. And again that's like the straight news guy silver Medal for Media malfe. Since Jenski's claim that and this is how she said it, Actually Republicans are actually the ones who advocate defunding the police. She said this with a straight face and didn't even say she heard about it a band camp. Thank you. I appreciate that. The good live audience you have there Sean and I'd offer more examples from the White House Press secretary, but this is only a three hour program. But the gold medal, I mean, this is secretariat running away with the type of gold medal. Dana Milbank Washington Post actually claiming that Biden is getting worse media coverage and treatment than Donald Trump did. I mean, because we see Bretari and Hitler tudo. Right, you can't make it up. And look look at the look at the studies here, right, I mean from Harvard not exactly a bashion of conservative sentiment. They found that Trump at his first one hundred days ninety three percent negative coverage, NBC ninety three percent negative coverage, New York Times eighty nine percent negative coverage. Joe Biden is not getting ninety three and eighty nine percent negative coverage because you can't spend in a positive way, thank you, Inflation at a forty year high, you can't possibly spend gas prices at a decade high, you can't spend filing crime smashing grabs being a nightly event in this country, while the administration blames COVID, I could go down the line. But our media is trying to cover for Joe Biden. But Americans see right through because they feel inflation, they feel violent crime, and they see people passing over this border institute of two million Sean thanks, unbelievable. You know the thing is is they get away with lion every time? How do they get away with it? And then they never have to? You know, correct the record, mar Simone, because you know, I like Jensucky. She's a good example. Every pressecer tries to charm you, they try to sell you the story. She just lies. Here's the lie. Write it down. Doesn't even bother or try to convince you of anything. They just do it. They just know they can get away with it. It's a it's a couple all of corrupt media. They all do it. I'm watching Lester Whole the other night opened the news with Mark Meadows and this is Americas. The hell is Mark Meadows? How does why is this a lead story? They look how hard they try to defend Cuomo. You notice he's gone, so yeah, I would notice that he is absolutely gone. You know, I find Jensaki though it is getting more sarcastic all the time. Oh, the tradity of the treadmill now lashing out at me providers as being price gouging. Um, I mean she makes what we don't need to test illegal immigrants because they're not going to be here long anyway. I mean, she seems to be getting away with pretty much anything she wants to say, whether it's true or not true. No, No, she said the CBO score was a fake score. It wasn't a fake score. Yeah, and she just scowls at it, gives you a dirty look. You know, it's like one of these bad civil servants that when you stand in the window, they're just glaring at you. Clear they don't care about you. They're not there to help you. And she gets away with it, Kamala Harris. And you can't even find her to gop somewhere giggling, not doing anything, giggling always look at this. No, but you know what, give her credit. She did a really good job with those acts, those child actors in that pr attempt to boost her image or it was a great moment for her. You know, the supply chain crisis. The media doesn't go after. This is the simplest problem in history. It's just taking crates off a ship. They can't even figure out how to do this. It's just loading crates into a truck and drive. That's all it is. And you can't get enough trucks. Quick break, We'll come back eight hundred nine sean our number. We'll get to your calls after the half hour more with Joe Concha and our friend Mark Simone on the other side. All right, we continue our analysis of how corrupt the media is and politicians are. Mark Simona and Joe Concha are with us, you know, and a forty year high with inflation. Joe Concha, who's that hurting the most? The poor in the middle loss, Yeah, exactly because they can't absorb that cost, right, They have to now make choices in terms of the food they buy or heating costs. Do you think Biden's polls are bad? Now, wait till after this winner, because heating costs are supposed to go fifty percent and they have people deciding between do I heat my home or let's see, do I fill my my car up of gas when that's incredibly expensive were what food do I buy? People are gonna have to make some very difficult choices on that level. But this is why, you know, we say the media gets away with it. They do, but the people they're covering for in this case, Democrats, the Biden administration. They're not getting away with it because you see Biden, for example, there's one poll out this week that showed that twenty two percent of likely voters want to see him run again for a second twenty two percent. And then you say, are a lot of Democrats think they fully back him? Right? Like ninety five percent of Republicans back to a Conservatives back Trump during his era because you know, the loyalty was overwhelming. Only a third of Democrats want Biden to run again. You know who they want to run more? This person named somebody else, literally that's what they picked. More almost like, give me anybody but Biden. And then the choices are Kamala, which we just talked about, probably not good, Buddha Jad's supply chain crisis that's on his resume, that's not good. Andrew Cuomo not available, Gavin Newsom may be recalled or at least a recall election facing him again. Oh, I don't know. Marian Williamson, Corey Booker, Elizabeth Warren Berney, I mean, who do you got? So? I wrote a column really lights up a stage. Maybe she's the next candidate that's true. But I wrote a column yesterday and I said that Hillary very easily could run back in get back in here, not because she's a great candidate either, because the competition is so poor that she probably sees an opportunity like, Yeah, if that's who I have to go up against, I think I may jump back in. And I think that's why you're hearing from her a lot more now. She sees herself as a viable candidate for twenty twenty four. Believe it or not, I think you're right. I believe that too, Mark Simone, you know, with the Clintons better than anybody. Well, you gotta remember the first time Hillary runs for president, she loses to a rookie, but Barack Obama one hundred and forty eight days in the sense he takes the animation from her. Second time she runs for president, a guy who's not even in polite, he's never run for any in his life, Pizza Donald Trump. So she's got no shots. She's just the biggest loser ever. Honestly, she has a shot. Mark, I'm saying that that she thinks that she talks about stolen elections all the time, and apparently that's a Okay, so she thinks that she was robbed and now that this is her mantle finally to do grab it. I'm not saying that she will win. I'm saying that she at least thinks she can get the nomination then go from there. So it's like the Old Lady and Sunset Boulevard, you know, the one hundred years old thinks she's going to be in movies again. That's Hillary Clinton, and that's rough. That is cold. That is cold. All right, So what are the predictions for next year? Because look, if I don't see the capacity in the Democratic Party is it's currently configured, I see no capacity to change. He got the progressive radical Democrats that run the show. I don't know if Joe knows what day it is or not. And now you've got Mansion. Mansion is standing up for energy, and he's standing up again and spilled back better New Green Deal socialism. He got Kristen Cinema toward petering the Democratics new priority, passing voting rights legislation and ending the filibuster. She said no, I'm not ending the filibuster. So they're being stymied. But it also then puts a lot of pressure on Republicans. They got to take control of at least one of the two houses, hopefully both of them in November. Where is it headed? Joe easily the House, right, because you only have to flip five seats. And just to put an historical perspective, Barack Obama lost sixty three seats in his first term, and that's after he passed Obamacare. And at least with Obama, you felt like you were getting somebody who was tohering and was at least trying to do a good job. You could just agree with them, but you never thought, boy, this person really shouldn't be present because you're not quite all there. And he still lost sixty three seats. So just to put that in perspective, given he lost eight or nine Senate seats too, yeah he did, he did. So I was just about to get to that that, Yeah, they're gonna win. They're gonna take back the House quite easily. That means Nancy Pelosi's retired for good. Think about that benefit. And then the Senate, all you have to do is have a net flip of one seat one and what are Democrats going to run on? What is the bumper sticker? Sean I don't know, because it can't be the economy, and it can't be the border, and it can't be education. Look at the states that are up for grabs in the Senate in twenty twenty two. It's Florida, It's Georgia, it's North Carolina, South Carolina. It's New Hampshire, Pennsylvania. It's Wisconsin, Ohio, it's Arizona, it's Nevada, it's Missouri. I mean every bell Weather state mark. How does it end. Well, Republicans should win fifty at least in the House and twenty in the Senate. But I saw this Biden speech yesterday which obviously the committee roade for him, and the old speech was Republicans ll stand for anything. We don't know what they stand for, so they'll try that, which is not true. Of course. I don't think that's gonna work. I think they're hoping that Roe v. Wade gets over turned. They'll run on that. That's my prediction. Yeah, they'll try they stand for nothing, which means Republicans got to have a NEWT Gingridge type contract for America. They're got to be really agreed. Thank you. I'm not the only one saying it. Thank you. Very much. All right, Joe Concha and Mark Simone, we appreciate you both being with us. When we get back, we'll hit the phones quick break right back, all right, twenty five nouns to the top of the hour. We have Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel. I hope you'll tune in. Wrap it up the show for the year, Linda, this has been every post presidential election year is usually a tougher year. This for some reason was not. Why do you think that is? Why do I think it was a harder year following the election? No? Well, no, it's always like the hardest year, you know, because it's a program that delves deeply into politics every day. But this is a year that it just was different. We just instantly went into okay, we've got to save our country mode, and we pointed out and aggressively pointed out that which the media mob would never point out. And you know, we started a year and most Americans wouldn't say or didn't see, but now they do see that Joe Biden is a mess and his policies are a disaster. I mean, I think it took a lot of you know, a lot of this came from us just staying on at hard all day and by the way, and many others that do what we do. You know, I think essentially what happened in the last year, if I'm really going to sort of take high level, I felt like I couldn't keep up, you know, and I felt like true our audience and us we did our best, and it just felt like every single day we were just gulping water. Like every day it was, you know, a new thing on the COVID front, a new thing on what was happening internationally, you know, what we were doing to our troops, what was happening here at home, And suddenly all of these things that in four years we had no trouble with, we have had all of them in the past year. And anybody who is unwilling to admit that is truly just watching CNN and NBC all day. Because if you just open your eyes and go outside and use some common sense, you don't need anybody to tell you what's happening. You can see it. I can see it, My son can see it. If people ever doubted conservatism works, we were able to show in one year the disaster that is socialism, and now everybody sees it sees what we see. You know, everything that I warned about I tried to warn about last year in twenty twenty. That's why I wrote Live, Pary or Die America in the world on the brink. This is we're at the on the brink point. But I feel a sense of hope and optimism as I go on vacation. This is my one long vacation every year, and because I really believe that now never underestimate Republicans' abilities to screw up a great opportunity. And I mean that. But with that said, I think America now understands they love me. Put it this way, they would take mean tweeting and competence over the disastrous policies of Joe Biden, and he's not capable of putting out a tweet. I think they would choose very differently now out. And I think there's a lot of buyer's remorse in this country. And they really see Joe Biden the way we saw him early on, and we were ahead of the curve, saying things that nobody else dared would dare say, and everything is proven to be true. I wish I was wrong. We weren't wrong and when not, I don't think we're going to be wrong about America making a course correction in November of next year. Here's my fear. And you and I have talked about this many times and have been talking about it for over a decade now, and they know we don't agree on this, but I really feel very strongly that the Republicans are no different from the Democrats. They're all in bed together. There's a few standouts that are different, you know, Jim Banks, whether it's you know Jim Banks or Jim Jordan, or that we put on our program, I mean, people we put on. If I'm telling you I'm biased, I'm being honest because I am. I'm very biased to people who actually say things and then do the things that they say they're going to do right. And there are so many rhinos and so many liars, and so my fear is a lot of people will say, well, I'd rather vote for a Republican than put a Democrat in, where I'm kind of the opinion like, if the Republican is just as bad as the Democrat, then put the Democrat in, you know what, because the last thing we need is another rhino given us a bad name see, and so I just you know that changed Sposophically, I have to disagree that because if you do that, then you're gonna end up with court packing. If you do that, then you're going to end up with Alma. But they're not standing in the way anyway. The same guy with with with the Republicans, we have, as weak as they are, they never we're winning those battles barely. Now, if the Democrats got more Senate seats, it would be an unmitigated disaster. There's gonna be some tough senate racist that I'm warning everybody about. Now, I agree with you on that. Look, but I'm not a Republican either. I mean, the greatest example of Republican weakness to confirm what you're saying is true is, you know, we had sixty five votes since o'bama mccare was passed in two thousand and nine and ten to repeal and replace Obamacare, and then when the moment came that they could actually do it in twenty seventeen, they didn't. You know, in twenty seventeen, the exact bill with the exact same Republican senators that would do a straight repeal of Obamacare when it mattered, seven Republican senators bailed on its great example, McConnell and company helping Biden twice by extending the debt ceiling. I mean, those are all examples of what you're saying. I'm not putting my faith hope in them, but I'm putting my faith in hope in the conservatives that will stop them. Collins fun We all know their names. We know, you know, we talked about it all the time. I know that I really listen to me. They get biggest Loser rewards for twenty twenty one. You know, Joe Biden gets Biggest Loser award for every year for the forty seven years that he was in you know, in office, and nowty eight is literally the worst ever. I think twenty twenty two is going to be a real shake up. So I have a plan I will announce when I get back to prevent them from being able to be weak. And you might say, what is that plan? What is that plan? In January, let's say hi to Rhonda Indiana. Rhonda, how are you glad you called hi? Sean? I am wondering if you're seeing the same thing just among the American people that I am seeing here in flyover Country, and that is a lot of hopelessness in fear. Do you see that. I hear that. Yeah, Well, give me more specifics because the fear of what the state of the country, the state of the world both both. Actually I feel a lot. There are things to fear. I mean, look, I'm going to be very honest about it. Um, we we're in the middle of now another COVID wave. I know because I spent all day on the phone helping people, So that's real. We have an economy that is teetering on the brink with a forty year inflation high, and now we're going to get higher interest rates and it's going to impact the economy dramatically. Then you got a week president and you see Russia on the border with Ukraine. I'm worried about that. I'm worried about the Mullahs in Iran. They think that they're emboldened and they might have their opportunity to attack Israel. I fear that. I fear that next year, after the Olympics in twenty twenty two in China, that China is gonna follow through on their territorial ambitions and try and take over Taiwan and they will do it successfully and Joe won't stop them. And I know I'm not talking about militarily. So yeah, all of these things. You know, the borders a mess. I see a Democratic Party that wants to grab power like I've never seen in my life, an agenda that is so radical. I've never seen that in my life, that there are things to be concerned about. At some point a week from now, ideas will be to percolate and I write them all down. And my idea is, my thoughts, my plans. I know where I'm heading, and that is, you know, to get this Republic on better footing. And it's going to start November of next year, but it really starts in January. We've got to lay to the foundation. We've got to get good candidates. We got to get these candidates on board to support the right policies so they can't be weak, as Linda rightly points out they often are. And I think there's a way to do it, and I'll outline that when I get back. So I want I don't want your heart to be troubled. Now, with all that said, at the end of the day, you know what God's in charge, and you know I put my faith there too as well. That's a really good summary. I can't top at. I just want to tell you this next week, for the first time in three years, the oldest of our four sons is coming home for Christmas. And the reason that is so miraculous is after the last ten to twelve years we watched his descent into the world of drugs, it will be the first time in many years that he will be in our home with his three brothers, and he will be clean and sober, and he's on the path to redemption. How long has he been sober. He's been clean and sober for just over a year. And it was just over a year that my husband, his father, went down to the homeless encampments where we knew he was, and he combed through the hell that is the homeless encampments in Texas. He stepped over feces, used drug needles, he saw sights that traumatized him, and he knew that somewhere in one of those camps was our son. He did not find him. He came home and he sobbed when I toocked him up, and he said, I have failed, And I said, no, no, no, you haven't failed. It will do the work it's meant to do. And a week later we got a phone call that he had been arrested, and it saved his life. It saved his life. He was able to detox, he was able to get into a good, solid rehab program. His mind is clear. The Christmas card that he just hand hand painted and handwrote testifies to the work of God in his life. And that's why, Sean. I go through these days in light of everything that you just listed, but I carry such a hope. I carry such a light and I want to share it with the people around me who are feeling all those feelings of fear that you rightly named. This is what you're describing is a miracle. You know, you know what the odds are that this happens to somebody like your son. It's under fifteen percent. It's very low, and you know, very low. But you know what, you know you never gave up on him, and you stayed in the fight, and you fought for him, and your husband fought for him. And now you get to welcome him back to your home this Christmas and he gets to be with his family and get his life back, and you know, we'll be praying that he stays on, you know, stays on the wagon, then the straight and narrow, and you know, hopefully he can find something that a purpose in his life that energizes him. Sounds like he's artistic and smart. I don't know what that means, maybe graphic design or design of some kind. He sounds you know, he sounds like he has special gifts. Yeah, and I'm very happy for you. You know, it isn't about the example of Christmas sewn the father, heavenly Father who went send his son into a dark and awful world, just like my husband went into the world of drugs. You know, I thought there's still better picture of what happened at Christmas than that. And if an earthly father can be that good and that passionate about the pursuit of his sign, it is but a dim reflection of the heavenly Father's pursuit of each one of us. It's the Christmas story in a little nutshell. It's a beautiful story, you know. I mean, the hope that you can always take in the end, as bad as things are down here, is that if the very hairs of our head are counted, I mean, it's kind of hard for the human mind, I think to comprehend and I don't think it. We're meant to comprehend the majesty and the mystery that is God, and I just know it's real. You know. For those that are atheist and say, well, the Big Bang happened, I'm like, Okay, well where did all that energy come from? And you really believe that all that energy came up? You believe something came from nothing, that it wasn't a creator, and that it banged together and you have universes within universes and the perfect scientific creation just happened randomly. No, there is something greater than us. We refer to that as God. I believe it with all my heart, mind and soul. Yeah, I don't think I would be the person I am without God in my life and acknowledging we've all sinned and fallen short. But I you know, I this is a country that believes in those principles where we are endowed by our creator. This is the intersection of politics and religion and that rights are natural rights, they're God given rights. They're not they're not given by politicians and governments. They're given by God. Life liberty, pursuit of happiness, God given rights. The natural state doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean equal results. Your son, now, with your guidance and your love and his family's love, is hopefully going to take his life to where it should have been when he was born. You know a lot of people, all of us, at some point get off track. I know I got off track of points of my life and I've got to go back to the basics. That's what I try to do on this long vacation. I'm going back to basics. And when I do that, I find it's it's good for my mental, spiritual and physical health. Um. God bless you and your family, Rundo. That's a beautiful story, and I wish you and your family the best A very merry Christmas. God bless you all. Wow, Linda, what did you think of that amazing, amazing story? Right? We know so many people that suffer, don't we It's unbelievable. We do eight hundred nine shot as a number will continue, all right. I told you yesterday they are planning three rate hikes next year. The FED announced inflation is dominated in the country at levels that we have not seen in the nineteen eighty two. The cost of everything is going up. You've got to be proactive, pragmatic and prepared. If you're a homeowner, you've got to consider now while there is still time refinancing your mortgage. It could save you tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your loan. It'll save you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars every month. 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I wish you and your family a great holiday, Merry Christmas, great new Year. I'm coming back ready for a political battle of all battles. The entire Republic is in jeopardy, and we got to win this next election. Anyway. That's it. We'll see it tonight though on Hannity ninetiestern on the Fox News Channel, all last show there for the year, Ryan's previous Scott Brown, Joe Consa, Miranda Divine, Larry Elder, Clay Travis, Kaylee, Mcinanny, Congressman Mike Waltz. Thank you for making this show possible. You give me this microphone every day. You give our team this microphone every day. We can't thank you enough. Love you all, have a safe holiday. We'll see you back here after the New Year.