As the Media Research Center reported a new poll finding that less than 25 percent of survey respondents correctly identified Charlie Kirk's killer as a leftist, we talked to former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who can now can be seen on The Sean Spicer Show at night and his new morning political update The Huddle with Rachael Bade and Daniel Turrentine.
MRC President David Bozell joined me in interviewing Spicer, and he was especially disturbed by our poll finding that among students, 33 percent bought the Jimmy Kimmel line that Kirk's accused assassin Tyler Robinson was somehow a MAGA type, while only four percent correctly identified him as a leftist. Spicer told us that young people have largely abandoned traditional media and form opinions from very non-traditional platforms from TikTok on down.
We talked a bit about how the networks freaked out over President Trump trashed Rep. Ilhan Omar and her friends as "garbage," and they weren't providing the context -- that Somali immigrants in Minnesota defrauded the government of around $1 billion.
Before joining the Trump White House, Spicer worked at several levels of the Republican Party -- the RNC, National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee. So we also talked about the special election in Tennessee's Seventh Congressional District, where Democrat Aftyn Behn (dubbed "the AOC of Tennessee") lost by nine to Republican Matt Van Epps. Trump won last year in that district by about 22 points.
The networks largely avoided the race and Behn's crazy comments. She said “I hate the city” of Nashville and “I hate country music.” She tweeted that “burning down a police station is justified.” Spicer found it funny that the only piece of the district Behn won is the district's piece of the city of Nashville.
On Wednesday morning, the election drew about four sentences on NBC's Today. ABC found a “potential warning sign.” CBS quoted the Democrats saying "Republicans should be shaking in their boots." The Washington Post headline: “Surprisingly tough Tennessee election reveals House GOP has base problem.” They used the words “dire predicament”!
Enjoy the podcast below, or the audio is here.
