IRS Eyes Harvard, Bernie Boosts Socialist in Key Senate Race, Clooney's 'Brave' Biden Letter
3 Martini Lunch
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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First, they analyze reports that the IRS may strip Harvard of its tax-exempt status. Scot emphasizes that this issue should be treated separately from the Biden administration’s efforts to withhold federal funds over the school’s failure to meet anti-Semitism standards. The guys also mull over whether such an action by the IRS would make it easier for a future Democrat administration to take aim at conservative institutions, or whether the left will do that regardless of what the right does now.
Next, they spotlight Bernie Sanders endorsing far-left candidate Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in Michigan. El-Sayed is known for supporting government-controlled health care, taxpayer-funded college (dubbed "free" college by the left), and for his hostility toward Israel. But Scot cautions that El-Sayed is an articulate speaker, boasts a successful medical background, and could receive glowing media coverage similar to Barack Obama back in 2004.
Finally, they call out CNN’s Jake Tapper for heaping excessive praise on George Clooney’s “brave” letter to the New York Times editor urging Democrats to replace Joe Biden after last year’s debate. Scot and Greg see it as a transparent effort by the media and left-wing elites to rewrite history and pretend it was impossible to know about Biden's cognitive decline before the debate.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.0 | Very glad to have you with us for the Thursday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:17.3 | Jim Garrity is away, but you will hear him tomorrow. |
| 0:20.3 | Both of us are away for Good |
| 0:21.6 | Friday, but we still have brand new content for you. It'll be our spring cleaning special. |
| 0:26.9 | Not what we're cleaning out of our homes, but we like to clean out in terms of policy, bad |
| 0:31.1 | ideas, politicians who have overstayed their welcome, that sort of thing. So make sure you |
| 0:35.8 | tune in for that. And then Jim will be back officially on Monday. |
| 0:39.4 | Here in his place today is Scott Bertram. |
| 0:41.4 | He is the general manager of WRFH, Radio Free Hillsdale, 101.7 FM on the campus of Hillsdale College. |
| 0:48.2 | Scott also directs the Hillsdale College Podcast Network and hosts more podcasts that I'm pretty sure I'm even aware of, |
| 0:54.8 | including many Hillsdale podcasts, but also the very popular wasn't that special, |
| 1:00.0 | 50 years of Saturday Night Live. |
| 1:01.9 | So, Scott, great to have you with us again. |
| 1:03.6 | Let's not go overboard. |
| 1:04.7 | It's somewhat popular. |
| 1:07.9 | Doing all right. |
| 1:09.0 | Nonetheless. |
| 1:09.5 | Good to be here. |
| 1:10.2 | Yes, thank you. |
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