Political narratives are often constructed through selective storytelling and strategic media timing, where actors may omit or emphasize information to shape public perception, as demonstrated by the controversy surrounding Jill Biden's account of her husband's health during a presidential debate, where her failure to immediately seek medical attention while later promoting his performance created a narrative that could be interpreted as either genuine concern or deliberate spin.
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Did Jill Biden Lie About THAT NightAdded:
She thought he was having a stroke.
Couple of quick points here. Number one, I tell you this much. If I thought my husband was having a medical emergency on stage in a presidential debate, come hell or high water, you could not keep me off that stage. I would be over there in a heartbeat. Are you joking me?
>> Secret Service wouldn't stand a shot against you.
>> Yeah. Oh, dear Lord. Nobody's quicker than me. No, I'm kidding. Um, two, she that night went out and was touting him around after the debate. So, she brought him to a rally and was like, "And Joe, you answered every question.
Look at that." They >> call it spin for a reason, right?
>> Every question. And then she brought him to a Waffle House.
>> I'm still in Dallas.
>> Yeah. No, you didn't make it out.
>> Took the backdrop with me just for fun.
>> Yeah. What a thief. Look at him. It's just like you had to have nothing to see here. There was the guy on January 6 with the uh with the podium. That was you with the with the backdrop walking on the cherry glass on >> someone had to take it. I took it, you know, and I would do it again. Damn it.
>> Oh, your own step and repeat. Well, Texas was fun. Dallas was a good time.
Thank you to everybody who came out. We had a great showing. We had >> Yeah. Yep. Thank you. Uh, you know, we had we we had, you know, prediction market man Stew. We had the Texas uh Democratic Party chair Kendall. Um Republican strategist John Thomas.
>> I look forward to Kendall's autopsy.
>> Oh brother, he didn't commit to that. Uh we had the raging cinjun join us virtually and toast with some he had his little his coke in Kentucky uh toasting away with us. That was epic. Actually, >> that was really fun. It was a great night. And hopefully we'll be doing more soon in the future.
>> Hopefully they did not cancel us already after that.
>> Maybe you cuz they're going to be like that guy's a thief. Look, he took our sign. I'm just a I'm I'm I'm protecting it. I'm a guardian. Um but it was it was it was a good night. Um and and I and you know, it's interesting because the thing that Carville said was he felt that as soon as the the the race was called for Paxton, um you know, he felt that Telerico needed to come out swinging and and I feel like the the Democrats did. You know, they immediately like were were on the pedophile protector, Ken Paxton. I mean, they they did not mince words. They they went pretty hard pretty quickly. I was actually surprised that they went that that negative that quickly.
>> Well, one, I'm I'm certainly not surprised, but also Ter Rico had to spend a lot of his first 24 hours explaining and actually starting to feel the pressure of a general election campaign. A lot of his interviews, he spent much more time explaining his thoughts and how he thought that his answers weren't, you know, didn't always hit the mark and that he was a little bit clumsy. Um, no, no, homeboy, like you were very intentional in your words and you chose to say that God is non-binary and that there are six genders and all the other things. He's starting to have to answer for that now.
So, right, they might have put out a statement, but all the clips I saw of Terico in the first 24 hours weren't him driving an anti-Paxton narrative. It was him having to start to feel the pressure of a general election campaign and having to answer for his own rhetoric and his own responses previously, which I thought to the point that James made, which was you got to be out there defining. I think we got more of that from the Paxton side than we did from the Terico side because Paxton also put out an ad with Terrio's words with it like with that throughout it. So, I think that yeah, they they dare. Terrio certainly came out swinging in some fashions, but I think he spent a lot more on defense in those first 24- 48 hours than he did on offense.
>> I would say Telerico had a good 24 hours in fundraising, raised $3 million in the first 24 hours. Um, you know, I think Paxton's got some work to do on the fundraising side. I think at the end of the day, I think both parties are going to have more than enough money to do what they're going to need to do.
>> There always seems to be more money in the banana stand. There's always more money in politics. the banana stand.
>> Yeah. Isn't that from like >> Where do you come up with this stuff?
>> That was from a show. Okay. It's from a show.
>> Okay. All right. Anyways, well, so I mean it's going to be >> hurting things.
>> Oh god. Oh dear. Speaking of banana stands.
>> So Dr. Jill Biden, who Goldberg at one point thought should be the surgeon general of the United States even though she's not a boardcertified doctor.
That's besides the point. Dr. Jill said now that she's got a memoir coming out and a book coming out that when she was watching Joe Biden on the presidential debate stage, she thought he was having a stroke. Couple of quick points here.
Number one, I tell you this much. If I thought my husband was having a medical emergency on stage in a presidential debate, come hell or high water, you could not keep me off that stage. I would be over there in a heartbeat. Are you joking me? Secret Service wouldn't stand a shot against you.
>> Yeah. Oh, dear Lord. Nobody's quicker than me. No, I'm kidding. Um, two, she that night went out and was touting him around after the debate. So, she brought him to a rally and was like, "And Joe, you answered every question.
Look, they call it spin for a reason, right?
>> Every question." And then she brought him to a Waffle House. For a woman who is either saw her husband went believing have having a medical emergency, she believed and doing obstensively nothing that we can tell or even in her own retelling of the story where she thought he was having a stroke. She didn't say like I immediately called the doctors and was like, "What's going on?" She was like, "Let that play out. If Joe goes down on the debate stage, so be it."
This woman is rewriting history. I mean, listen, if she So, she either thought her husband was having a medical emergency and was like, "Leave it be."
Or she's a big fat fat freaking liar right now, which it seems to be an attempt to try and rewrite history. What say you, Kurt?
>> Well, number one, the medical emergency was the entirety of the Democratic Party watching that debate. I can tell you all around >> five minutes into debate, and my wife could back this up. We watch it together. I was I was despondent. I was, "Oh my god, what the [ __ ] is actually happening right now?" Um, had it been a stroke, that at least would have provided me comfort of there's a reason why it's this bad. I I would have been okay. Yeah, there's a reason.
>> It's like that adds up.
>> Um, I I'm not entirely sure how you go from my god, I think he might be having a stroke to the Waffle House later on that night.
Waffle houses known the world over for uh contributing perhaps to some medical conditions, not not making them go away.
I love me a Waffle House. I have nothing bad to say against them.
>> Um >> I think if anything, this this is what's frustrating to me as a as a Democrat. Uh for months and you know, in the runup to that debate, there was a conversation on all sides of of the ideological spectrum about does Joe Biden still have it? can he capably run for president of the United States? Um, and and can he do the job as president of the United States at that time? Um, and there's a [ __ ] ton of gaslighting going on from that White House to the rest of the country. Uh, I think that anyone, I don't care which party you are. If you are over the age of 80, I have questions about you in general, juless of of party, regardless of policy. If you're over 80 having the highest stress job in the world, I got some questions about your health. I think those are fair questions to ask.
Uh I don't think that the answer is there's nothing to see here. That's just pass it just doesn't pass the smell test to me. Um and then to go see what we saw that debate night. You know, we talked about in politics how you know ne and we talked about this the other night actually how negative ads they are at their most powerful when they reinforce you know an already existing belief about a candidate. What we saw on that debate stage reinforced the narrative that had already taken hold, which is he's lost a step charitably. I'm going to put it nicely. He lost a step.
>> Lost a step.
>> I said I'm being charitable. I'm a good guy. Dang it. Like I like you, we all know what we saw that night and then to hear later on and this is my biggest pet peeve about books in general and it drives me crazy.
>> It's the reading, isn't it?
>> Well, okay. You know, we don't need to go into why I can't read, Erin. You know, education America is horrible, and I'm I'm living proof of that, damn it.
Um, I hate when people withhold important contextual information that voters, in my opinion, deserve to know and they hold it off or or rewrite history, as you called it, later on to sell a book.
>> Uh, I think that is despicable. I like you know when other people in media held off some of their we'll call it reporting until after the election to sell their books. I thought it was I I thought I thought they betrayed their profession frankly as journalists. Your job is to report the facts in real time as you know them. So in theory the electorate is armed with the facts when they go to the voting booth to make a very important decision. Uh a lot of people fall so short of that for their own personal enrichment and it drives me crazy. And in this case this is just rewrite. I do agree with you that this is a I'm going to rewrite history. I'm going to try to, you know, smooth some narratives over. And again, listen, you're you're his wife. You love you love him with all of your heart presumably. Like, you know, >> I don't know. She thought he was having a stroke and did nothing.
>> Yeah. I tough one, right? Like neither side of this coin is good for >> none of this makes any sense. And I question the wisdom of >> I think the thing I love the most about this is last week we had the autopsy drop on Thursday, right? So Dems and the 2024 cycle and the mess of that were in the headlines from last week going through the weekend into this week. And now there's another 2024 headline that's going to be in the news for a little bit longer about Joe Biden and about not only Biden but the DNC, the Democrat party, the lying, the cover.
>> This is like the other day, you know, like Hunter Biden joined X officially and I said to myself, who the [ __ ] wants to listen to this guy? Like what are you doing?
>> Exactly. That's the point, right? Like Democrats want to move on from 24. It's why they didn't want to put out the autopsy, but they keep bringing it back and doing it to themselves. Like these are self-inflicted issues >> 100% of the time. So for me, I'm like, "Oh yeah, Dr. Jill, you go girl."
>> I've always said Democrats don't even need an opposition party. They do fine just by themselves.
>> Amen.
And speaking of opposition, >> yes, >> the Great American States Fair that they're doing at the National Mall has all 50 of the states represented and there were going to be a bunch of big headline singers who and performers >> big headline singers.
>> Well, there were some. I mean, listen, it's >> they were big at one point.
>> Unless it's Britney Spears, I don't care. Okay, you leave. Other than that, any boozles.
>> Britney or Bust, she says.
>> Britney or Bust. Um, people dropped out recently because they found out that there's a difference between America 250 and freedom 250. And honestly, Kurt, I think that's might be what the issue is here. There are two entities that are doing product projects and events and products for the president and for the America's 250th birthday this year. One is Freedom 250, one is America 250. I believe freedom 250 is the entity that is the congressional one that's doing more of the like take the >> the the fre the first wave performers for the great is is the President Trump backed freedom 250.
>> Okay. All right. So I got that backwards in my head. Okay. Sorry. Um >> we can see how this is confusing by the way.
>> It is confusing. It's confusing everybody. So Freedom 250 is Trump.
America 250 is the non-Trump entity is the congressional entity. And in those two entities what probably happened was Freedom 250 put this on. people saw it and assumed it was the other one.
>> Right.
>> Right. The nonpartisan one. But honestly, like Freedom 250, they're all kind of doing the same things. They're just kind of like splitting projects and doing different things and one's got like the Trump political arm attached to it and the other one doesn't. But like Martina McBride was one of the acts and she pulled out.
>> Yeah. The pe the people who have pulled out so far in the last 24 hours this has all gone down. Morris Day, Young MC, Millie Vanilli, the Commodores, Martina McBride, and Brett Michaels.
>> So, I will say this, Martina McBride put out a statement and said like had she was, you know, misled. Had she known it was political, she wouldn't have been involved. Martina McBride has sang at the White House for previous presidents and previous administrations. The only reason this became political was because she decided to make it political. She could have easily have said, "This is about America 250. is about the the birth of our nation. This isn't like she's opening she's not like the opening act headliner who was somehow bamboozled into opening for the Trump rally. This is like 50 states of our country, the six territories, a giant state fair on the National Mall. And because Trump any is anywhere near it or associated with it, they all get freaked out and backed out. And I really my big gripe right now is that Martina McBride statement like you're saying if I had known it was political, I wouldn't have done it. that you did it like you've done it before for other people. So, don't pretend that it's >> Well, I think that I think that a couple of things have gone on here. Uh, one, I think that the booking agents who who book these artists, the way that this works is and and I'm I'm speaking from some firsthand knowledge now. Um, there's a the conversation went, "Hey, there's uh there's a gig in DC as part of the American 250 celebration on National Mall. You want to play it?"
Yeah, sure. Flash forward to the last 72 hours and hey, as it turns out, the gig is in part sponsored by paid for the Trump political arm. That's that that is different than do you want to play at the White House? And like, you know, that is different than saying do you want to play inauguration day? That is different than like the the having a an overt political entity. But that's not that's not necessarily >> it's a it's a different it would be no better if it was you know Obama super PAC is putting on something like same thing like that that's just I know so many artists who if there is political money involved they just don't want to be that needs to be that needs to be presented upfront that needs to be said by the booking by the booking agent hey this is the event here's who's putting it on here's where the money's coming from that's a different conversation um and I just I think more than anything this was a process [ __ ] that turned into a public political spectacle. Um but but but it but it air it it was a pro it was more process than political that that led to this and uh if they're smart what they'll do.
>> Politics is what is like is the frustrating part for it, right? Like that she said, "Well, if I had known it was political, I wouldn't have done it."
Okay, like come up with a better like you're making it political when you say that, right? like you could have come up with any other answer, but now people are going to say like, >> "Wow, you've got a problem here."
Instead of saying, "Wow, this is the great American, you know, state fair and I'm just happy to be a part of it."
You're like, "Whoa, I don't do political things." Well, you made it political by saying that. She should She just shouldn't have put out that statement.
You can come up. How many times do we see bad excuses all the time? Oh, scheduling conflict. Oh, yeah. Okay.
Also, who wants to go see Millie Vanilli? I mean this 19 weren't stay in trouble for lip syncing. Wasn't it like the whole story that they >> Yes, it was that that's how they came to you know I love you.
Anyways or is it the people who were actually singing? You know >> these guys won a these guys won a Grammy like that.
>> Aren't one of the other artists CNC Music Factory and they got in trouble in the late 90 or in the 90s because their music video didn't show their singer singing it.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> I mean, pop culture knowledge >> right now.
>> You're like a You're like a walking VH1 behind the music right now.
>> Truly. What's the capital of Djibouti?
Djibouti.
>> Oh my god.
>> Well, now I know if I'm ever on a game show and I need a phone a friend, you're the one I'm going to call.
>> Okay. The other big America 250 story right now is that President Trump and Secretary Vessent are looking at making a $250 bill to commemorate America 250 and put Trump on the bill. The first thing >> come on >> currently cannot put a living individual on United States >> currency >> on currency. Correct. So they would have to pass a law in Congress to allow Donald Trump to do this. I gotta tell you, especially given this last week, I don't see the Senate bringing that up for this consideration. I certainly don't see the House and right now as Congress is trying to work on that housing reform, right? There's some there actually are some big items they're trying to work on. I don't see this bad boy squeaking through. So, I think even the process of it isn't going to happen. I think this is an earned media play by the administration. One, to blow minds. Two, to put out the image of the president on money.
to see a mockup of it.
>> Yeah. You know what I mean? Three to like get people upset and get them like, you know, Brad only loves to do. He loves to poke at people, but I don't think there was really a true level of seriousness to this actually happening.
Also, $250. I I I mean, I get it. It's the birthday. It's the number.
>> What the hell you going to buy with $2 bill?
>> Dollar bill to have >> like how much change is going to be required? This is a cash register's nightmare here. Um here's my $250 bill.
Uh, please break it and give me 20s, tens, and fives. I'd be like, what the >> It's It's a silly It's just It's one of those silly season things that Trump does that people lose their mind about.
And I will say this, Trump's working really hard to leave his legacy in DC.
>> Yes.
>> To permanently leave a mark on the city.
And I was talking with somebody else today about it and they're like, "He just doesn't need to do it." I'm like, "You're right. He doesn't need to do it." But a lot of what Trump does, I believe, is because of the way he's been treated. Let's remember his first campaign. There was a weapon baby poor billionaire doesn't like to secretly spy.
>> So he has to go put himself that Democrats and the deep state have had to try and take Donald Trump out to TAKE OH, YOU AND I BOTH KNOW VIEW bureaucracy is real. We all know that there are people that work in administrations, and you know this as well as I do, that work to subvert the will of any administration, Trump or otherwise. But the way that Democrats have worked so hard and the media to not only take Trump out, but to get him impeached for the Zillinsky phone, >> hold him accountable for his phone call.
Bull, I don't want to hear that. That's not extortion. It's called fighting right now is you guys will do absolutely everything you can to destroy me, to take me out. I've won presidency twice.
You better believe there will be ways in this country that you will remember my name and what I did. And listen, a lot of people wait for that narcissist.
>> Listen, he's also getting his revenge.
His revenge is all those big beautiful bills is a bill that no one can actually plausibly use in any practical way. It will be the least circulated dollar bill on earth.
>> That's the thing like it's just more of a silly season headline that's not actually going to happen.
>> I think that I think it it just comes off as very tonedeaf. I think this is not the right time as we are grappling with higher gas prices and da da d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d insert talking point there. Uh like it's just like why are you talking about putting your face on a dollar bill right now when no one can afford anything with that dollar denomination? I just think comes off as tonedeaf. Um so I this is not the the troll that I would be doing right now at this exact time.
>> Might wait till the gas prices go back down before throwing that out there. Uh you know he he'd have a better shot going with the America $2.50 50 cent bill uh than the $250 bill in my opinion. But, you know, again, I agree it's a troll. Um I think it's a stupid troll and again it doesn't gain them anything right now and just makes them a little bit out of touch.
>> Yeah. Well, all of that to say it's Friday.
>> Thank God it's Friday as usual. You are somewhere else and and Connor is home.
>> You're home. You're actually home. Your dogs are are pissed. Your dogs are pissed that you were gone so long.
They're acting out.
>> There's a photo of my grandpa.
>> A >> Yeah, grandpa. See right there, grandpa.
Um, yeah. No, Conor's gone. I'm home. I leave again Sunday.
>> Always on the road.
>> Love it. Well, Kurt, I will see you next week for >> God willing.
>> Oh, God. God will God willing.
>> We'll see what happens between now and then. Who knows? All right, party animals. We'll see you soon.
>> Party on, party animals. Bye.
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