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Sunday, May 29, 2022

Left-Wing Podcaster "Jokingly" Suggests Bombing Houston NRA Conference

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A popular left-wing podcaster called for violence against the NRA meeting in Houston on a YouTube video, but immediately laughed it off with his co-host.

The video of the H3 Podcast, titled "Ethan's great NRA meeting idea," which was taken down by YouTube, who suspended Ethan Klein for a week as a result, features the co-host Sabrina Alonso, stating that a had "no hope" and that "literally don't know what to do and I feel hopeless" following the school shooting in Evalde, Texas this past week.

Klein responded immediately with speculation about the NRA conference being held in Houston this weekend, "Do we have any insight as to what they were talking about inside that meeting today, in Texas? Someone should bomb that building."

Sabrina, immediately and laughingly insists that he "walk back" the statement, wishing they had a time machine to do so, and they continue to joke for the rest of the segment about how they should "love bomb" the attendees. Klein said, "let's fucking kill everyone in that building... with kindness."

Elijah Shaffer, host and reporter for Blaze TV, posted the video on Twitter, eliciting many negative comments.

Drew Goulet posted, "It’s honestly mind blowing this guy still has an audience."

"Ace" responded, "I'm sure he meant a mostly peaceful bombing."

CRA444 stated, "This exactly the stuff that should be taken seriously. Do we wait until it potentially happens?"

Several others simply tagged the @FBI in the comments, drawing their attention to the video.

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Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Crenshaw Seems To Question Reality Of Jesus During Podcast

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A March, 2020 podcast is coming back to haunt congressman Dan Crenshaw because of a question a young woman asked about it during a recent fundraiser.

During the podcast with John Gretton “Jocko” Willink, a fellow former Navy SEAL and officer, Crenshaw was asked about philosophy and fiction and began discussing hero archetypes in stories.

“The important thing is that we have societal hero archetypes that we look up to. Jesus is a hero archetype. Superman is a hero archetype. Real characters, too, I could name a thousand. Rosa Parks, Ronald Reagan…” he said.

A young woman (seriously identified as a 10 year old or an 18 year old on Twitter) asked Crenshaw about the quote during a fundraiser, according to a widely distributed video on Twitter. She added after quoting what he said, "I can't wrap my head around this."

Crenshaw answered, "Well, I'll help you. Put a period after Jesus and don't question my faith." He went on to say that in no part of that quote did he say that Jesus wasn't real.

(Full story HERE.)
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