John Ziegler on Mitch, Fauci, and Romo

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The thing is now we have AI and people are able to take the photos and then turn them into him doing handstands and rap dancing or else making it, they move around to the side and then the Mitch McConnell image is a cardboard cutout. We can do all this stuff now and you never know what's real anymore. Look, I think the photos are real, but I don't understand why it is that we can't have actual video at this day and age. Instead, we've got Scott. Jennings, you know, talking about how he's reciting the Declaration of Independence by heart. But we can't get him on video. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. I don't get it either, why there's not a piece of video, just even if it's 10 seconds. Like, remember that Vine era we went through where everybody had those quick videos? Just that's all we need. Just one fine. As you know, I am an ardent anti-conspiratorialist, and I hope Mitch McConnell is doing well. He did me no favors when I was in Louisville. He's probably a big reason why I got kicked out of Louisville. But I hope he's well. I feel a great senator, and I just don't understand what's so difficult about creating a few seconds of video. And in this day and age, people are going to question it, and they're right to question it. I get it. I heard you say on CNN the other night that you knocked heads with him a few times. Remind me. What were the issues? Do you recall? Well, Terry, you know everything about everything that happens in Louisville. But I don't know. have come to, no one cares about this all these years later, but I have come to believe through various forms of evidence and inferences that Mitch McConnell played a role in one ended up causing my demise in Louisville, in Louisville. And of course, I started it with some stupid comments. And then you may recall that it looked like I survived. I got congratulated by Kelly Carl's and told to come back in the next day and then all of a sudden something from way up above changed. the weather dramatically altered, and I think Mitch may have had something to do with that. Well, your life turned out okay anyway. You were on in Los Angeles for a while. Well, as I always say, Terry, thanks to Mitch, if it's true, I have two children today, which would not exist without Ms. McCona. final meddling in my life. See what he did for you. What a man. Okay. Now let's jump to the Anthony Fauci thing. What is the John Ziegler take on the Anthony Fauci taking the fifth and all the video coming up of him saying, you know, five years ago just saying, I don't have anything to hide. I will always testify because I tell the truth. Well, I hope people go to my social media and check out my appearance on CNN regarding this because this was somewhat historic, Terry, to have. you know, a non-celebrity conservative go live on CNN and really ripped Dr. Anthony Fauci. This was before he took the fifth to shreds. I don't know that anyone has ever done that on CNN before. I was amazed I was given the opportunity. And let's just say I took advantage of it. I did not back down. No. Because I have been saying since the very first time we ever saw Dr. Anthony Fauci.

in those infamous press conferences during the COVID panic of 2020, that this guy is a megalomaniac, and that that matters. And let's get serious. I know we're joking around, but there's a serious point to be made, and I think I made this on CNN. Of all the problems in the Anthony Fauci Diary, and there are many. I mean, he clearly lies about some very significant things that would have changed the narrative. dramatically. But to me, the ego and the obsession with celebrity is what is most important here. And it's not academic, Terry. It matters greatly because if you are Anthony Fauci and you're obsessed with celebrity and the pandemic is the greatest thing that has ever happened in your life, which it clearly was based upon his diary, why would you ever declare it to be over? You would never declare it to be over, and you are going to have your decision-making influenced by a great desire to keep that love flowing. And that love was coming from the liberal elites. And that's why he completely 180 degrees switched his position on masks and a whole bunch of other things of why my children ended up having almost two years of their lives destroyed here in California. I mean, I think that Anthony Fauci was a fraud created by the news media, and now most of the media is invested in not revisiting that narrative because they don't want to admit that they were wrong. But Donald Trump was president for the all through 2020, and so he bears responsibility as well because he's the boss. Terry, this is, I think, Trump's biggest mistake. And I'm the last conservative standing that doesn't like Donald Trump. I'm the last one that never sold out to him. And one of the reasons is I think he crapped the bed badly during this whole situation. I mean, you know, everyone's watched The Odyssey in recent weeks. Here's what happened with Anthony Fauci and COVID. Anthony Fauci was Odysseus inside the Trojan horse. And, and Troyes. Trump opened the Bill Gates and said, come on in, and the media cheered, and everyone thought this was going to be wonderful. And then out comes Anthony Fauci and Berks and others into the square in Troy, and they burned the goddamn city down. I mean, and that's why Trump didn't get reelected. And it's not because it was stolen. It's because he screwed up the most important issue by allowing Anthony Fauci. to run wild and destroy his economy. That's what happened. So I'll never, I blame, I blame Trump. I blame Anthony Fauci. I blame our governor Gavin Newsom. You know, I blame a lot of people. I blame the national football. I blame Augusta National Golf Club for rumping out that year. They had a chance to put the stop to the whole thing. There are a whole lot of... cowards in this whole equation, but Trump and Anthony Fauci are right at the top of the list. No doubt about any of that. I'm 100% with you on that. All right. Last thing for you, Tony Romo. We all know he's suspended. We think he's gone now. Do you think that's that was just the, that was just a soft way to tell America he's fired today?

I do believe he's probably fired. I don't know what he did exactly to get fired. There's a somewhat of a complex issue. You know, Terry, you're a golfer. He was coming back from a golf tournament. Four days of playing tournament golf of the sun. He's playing like crap. He shoots 35 over par on a tough golf course. He probably had a beer or two on the way out. And, you know, I think the female officer, this is my assessment, I think the female officer, when she heard he was playing golf, thought that it was like a casual round where people are, you know, chugging beers and stuff like that and presumed that he was much more drunk than he was. I just think he was tired and dehydrated. And, you know, once he refuses the breathalyzer, then she's not going to allow him to pass. He wanted to be Simone Biles to pass the sobriety test. And so I think he got really unlucky in getting a female police officer. And I think one of the weirdest things about this whole thing, I think we saw it with the Tiger Woods situation. You know, we used to live in a world where being a celebrity got you out of all sorts of stuff, which was probably not right. But now we live it in a world because of social media and body camp footage or whatever, where I think it's the exact opposite. Where I think being a celebrity actually hurts you in many situations. And I mean that's largely what happened with Tony Romo. Yeah, that probably makes her a TikTok queen, too, now that she's the one who nailed Tony. The incentive strategy, I think you've just implied it, this incentive structure when you're dealing with a celebrity and you know that the video is going to go everywhere is completely messed up. It's totally messed up. And it creates a situation where you might showboat or you might make something much bigger than it really is because do you want it to be a bigger story? or do you want it to be a smaller story? Gee, I wonder which category you're likely to fall into. Bullseye on that one, too. John Ziegler, always great talking to you. Find him on social media or you. Which website are we going to throw out here? Go on Twitter or X and check out Zig Manfred. That's my Twitter feed, and that's where you can find most of my stuff these days. But also, I do a podcast called The Death of Journalism each week. And very good. Great talking to you, John. See you soon. Take care, Terry. John Ziegler, live from California, back in a minute.

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