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PODCAST: Bourbon on the Rocks, WAAM Radio Edition: Sunday October 24th, 2021

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“Bourbon on the Rocks” for Sunday, October 24th, has moi talking about all this…

*Alyssa Milano has opinions, and after she was arrested at the White House last week, voicing some of them, she chimed in on Dave Chappelle and his latest special — and hilarity ensued.

*We now have around 120 cargo ships off the coast of California, and the Biden administration has no solution to this problem.

*My hometown has an election coming up, and it will be glorious as always.

Give the show below a listen, and let me know what you think at [email protected] or contact me at one of my social media contacts by checking out my bio here.

Chris Wallace's Commentary on Jen Psaki Devolves Into Absolute Insanity

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If anyone is still under the impression that Fox News’ Chris Wallace is a fair-minded individual just calling balls and strikes, I bring evidence today that should thoroughly disabuse you of that notion.

While appearing on Sandra Smith’s daytime news show, Wallace was asked to discuss the fact that Jen Psaki doubled down on Joe Biden’s CNN town hall lie that he had visited the border in the past. As RedState reported, the president’s assertion was completely untrue. Further, the idea that him flying into El Paso, TX, in order to drive north once constitutes a visit to the border is laughable. Yet, that’s what Psaki tried to claim.

What was Wallace’s response? He brushed it off and proclaimed Psaki is “one of the best press secretaries ever.”

There are two things to note here, in my view. One, Wallace’s assertion that Psaki is one of the “best” press secretaries ever just doesn’t pass muster. She’s easily flustered, often unprepared (hence the “circle back” meme), and lies continually (see here, here, and here). Now, to be fair, is she good at lying for the president? Yes, she’s pretty good at it and has learned to mix snark and outrage in order to push false narratives to a largely compliant press corps.

But does being good at lying make one a good press secretary? I don’t think so, and I don’t think Wallace thinks so — given he’s never been so kind in the past to Republican press secretaries who are good at spin. Rather, I think he’s just a partisan hack who can find little fault with the current White House because he’s sympathetic to it.

Take Kayleigh McEnany, who served under Donald Trump as a press secretary, as an example. McEnany was objectively excellent at her job regardless of what one thought about the president. She was highly prepared, organized, and always had answers for even the most random, politically biased questions. She didn’t tell reporters over and over that she’ll “circle back.” McEnany even often had visual aids to make her points.

Did Wallace ever praise her for being good at her job? No, instead he trashed her as intellectually dishonest and hostile to the press corps. I’d quibble with that characterization, but if dishonesty and hostility were a problem for Wallace in regards to McEnany, why is it not in regards to Psaki? Instead, the Fox News Sunday host praises the latter and has rarely, if ever, mustered an ounce of criticism toward her.

That’s not a coincidence, and it leaves me asking exactly what Fox News is doing at this point. Do they want to lose their audience? Perhaps they believe they can carve out a new niche and be CNN-lite, but I have a feeling that won’t work out very well. To the extent that the network is doing well, it’s almost solely due to its primetime hosts and afternoon shows like “The Five.” The executives over there should probably recognize where their bread is buttered, because it’s not by Chris Wallace insulting everyone’s intelligence with praise of a dishonest hack like Jen Psaki.

The CDC Signals Another Major Goalpost Move on Being 'Vaccinated'

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If you bet that the goalposts would never stop moving when it comes to being “vaccinated,” you can collect your winnings at the window.

CDC Dir. Rochelle Walensky announced yesterday that they are looking to “update” the definition of what it means to be fully vaccinated. This follows a Biden administration trend of incoherence, making COVID-19 mitigation a continually moving target while promising people a return to normalcy — if they just do what they are told. There’s always another “one last thing,” though.

That follows a push to get boosters into people’s arms amid possibly waning immunity, though, there’s been precious little evidence shown that boosters are actually necessary. Instead, we continue to get studies that pronounce how effective they are, without denoting the true statistical difference between a two-dose and three-dose individual. Is a booster raising immunity from 60% to 95%? Or is it raising it from 92% to 95%? That’s an answer the American people deserve to know, so that they can make their own risk assessment.

But the administration doesn’t want you doing that. Rather, they want justification for more mandates, and by virtue, more power overall. You can bet that any definitional change in what it means to be vaccinated with be followed by a shift in how vaccine passports are handled and a fresh mandate that you must get a third dose. There’s no reason to believe they would suddenly stop the tyranny now.

The tyranny is the point, though. This pandemic is never going to truly end, as long as Democrats are in charge of the response to it. That’s why we continue to see no admission from the federal government that natural immunity exists and is effective. They see far too much opportunity in keeping people scared and beaten down. The White House has admitted as much, saying that the pandemic is a chance to remake the entire economy, and they aren’t going to let that chance dissipate until they either get their way or they are booted out of office. The American people need to make sure it’s the latter, because this doesn’t stop until you stop complying.

The Problems With the NSBA Apology for Their ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Letter

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As we previously reported, the NSBA apologized last night for a letter they had written to Joe Biden implying that parents could be “domestic terrorists.” That letter was then used by Attorney General Merrick Garland to justify a coordinated federal law enforcement effort to address “threats” against school boards, an effort which people feared was really to chill speech from parents upset about the politicized agenda being pitched to their kids in school, particularly in regard to Critical Race Theory.

The letter is astounding. I do give them some credit for putting it out there and now pulling back from the issue.

But there are a couple of other things about the NSBA apology letter that I’d like to note.

First of all, the apology isn’t to the parents that they so effectively tried to smear with that letter. The letter is written to their members – school board members. It’s a letter apologizing to school board members for leaving them out on the limb with what CEO and president said and putting those school board members in a bad position with their parents and the public.

When you specifically suggest that parents could be “domestic terrorists” based on no such actions, I’d like to see a specific apology for those words to the actual people you smeared.

Second, the reason the NSBA is doing this at this point is because of the emails that leaked about their coordination with the White House for weeks on the issue. So it wasn’t just a brief bad characterization in a letter that was the problem. The letter was itself part of a coordinated effort planned with the White House.

The emails said that the White House asked them to list threats which even with that prompt were seriously lacking in the letter. The NSBA is trying to deflect from all that. I want to know more about what was going on there. Who we should be hearing another apology from is the White House who was ultimately behind this. The “unifier,” Joe Biden, or his mouthpiece, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki should explain what was going on here and why they were improperly inserting themselves in this way to prompt action by the DOJ. Because it sure looks like they were targeting parents because the parents objected to the politicized agenda with which the White House agrees.

Third, this apology letter means that NSBA is getting a huge backlash to their actions and that’s why they wrote it, it wasn’t just because they suddenly thought better of it. That shows once again where Americans are standing on this issue and pro-tip to the White House? It’s not with you. As I noted yesterday, a significant majority of Americans who were aware of the situation opposed such actions by Merrick Garland.

Finally, if their original letter is wrong – and it most assuredly was – then the investigation kicked off by Garland based on this letter is wrong. Garland needs to stop what he’s doing, as in yesterday, and drop this political effort against parents. Garland had directed the FBI, in concert with each U.S. Attorney, to “convene meetings with federal, state, [and] local” officials “within 30 days of the issuance” of his memo to “facilitate the discussion of strategies for addressing threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff, and will open dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting, assessment, and response.”

Not only is this highly coordinated response not justified in relation to the scarcity of actual crimes/threats, what’s missing in this whole effort is why any possible threats can’t be handled by local law enforcement. There’s no need for any federal action and there never was. But once again, we see the heavy hand of the Biden team trying to control everything.

Confirmed: The Biden Administration Has Been Lying About Americans Trapped in Afghanistan

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The news out of Afghanistan has slowed to a trickle following the deadly and chaotic withdrawal in August. That’s largely by design as the Biden administration’s plan was always to flood the zone and hope that people found something else to focus on. More recently, the faltering economy, inflation, vaccine mandates, and the border crisis have dominated the news.

Still, Americans remained trapped in Afghanistan, left behind by Joe Biden and his incompetent cohorts despite a promise to make sure they all got out. The exact number has been debated since the last C-17 took off from Kabul, and while all indications pointed to hundreds, possibly thousands left behind, the administration steadfastly insisted it was “around 100.”

That has now been confirmed to be a lie.

The flippancy with which Jen Psaki, Antony Blinken, and other members of the administration spoke of the trapped Americans was always disgusting to watch. But to learn they’ve actually been lying about the number in order to cover their own tails makes this even worse.

The Biden administration is in touch with nearly 400 Americans who are stranded in Afghanistan, a figure that far exceeds the administration’s claims that about 100 Americans were left in the nation following the United States’ hurried exit from Kabul, according to a senior congressional source who was briefed Thursday by the State Department.

With Afghanistan in the administration’s rear-view mirror, U.S. officials are providing exact figures on the number of Americans who are still stranded and want to leave—although they are doing so in private, off-the-record forums—according to two senior congressional aides, who relayed the contents of the non-public call to the Washington Free Beacon.

Sen. Ben Sasse responded to the news in direct fashion, adding another point of confirmation and calling the administration’s lie an attempted cover-up of the “morally indefensible” decision to leave Americans trapped behind enemy lines.

Of further importance is that this new number only includes those the administration is in contact with. You can probably double or triple that number given how many Americans are likely stuck and too fearful to reach out. What we do know is that the “around 100” number was always a total lie. It never made any sense in the first place, and it was only a product of the news media being so biased that the White House was able to get away with such a falsehood for almost two months. Also, note that it again took a right-leaning outlet to break the big news that it was all a lie.

As to what happens now, the answer is probably nothing. Biden can barely tie his shoes, and his administration is being run by a bunch of far-left handlers. There is no stomach to go back into Afghanistan and the Taliban appear to be uncooperative despite the fact that we are paying them millions of dollars. The decision to leave without getting everyone out, compounded by a terrible strategy to withdraw that left Bagram Air Base to terrorists, was a point of no return. Biden and his cohorts own this shameful disaster, and we shouldn’t let them forget it.