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3 Martini Lunch

Win if You Want Tax Dollars, AP's Embarrassing Correction, NYT's Partial COVID Confession

3 Martini Lunch

Radio America

Politics, Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg for 3 Martini Lunch as they discuss a proposed metric for sports teams seeking taxpayer funds for new stadiums, a major blunder by the Associated Press, and the media figures who finally admit the government lied to us about COVID but also portray themselves as victims of those lies.

First, they applaud a Democrat in the Illinois legislature for introducing the BEARS Act, which would require professional sports teams to win at least half their games three times in five years to qualify for taxpayer-funded stadium projects. While Jim and Greg oppose any public funding for stadiums, they argue that if it must happen, teams should have to earn it.

Next, they dissect an embarrassing correction from the Associated Press. The AP falsely reported that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin were "very good friends," when she was actually referring to Trump and India’s Narendra Modi. Greg notes how these corrections always seem to fix a story that falsely painted the right in a negative light. Jim explains the journalistic standards that should prevent such errors.

Finally, they react to the New York Times finally admitting that governments misled the public about the COVID outbreak and many pandemic-related policies. While they welcome the acknowledgment, they have no sympathy for the Times and others who spent years attacking anyone who questioned the official narrative. Jim also highlights how conservative instincts helped drive the momentum toward the truth about COVID’s origins and more.

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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.

0:10.5

Three martini's coming up.

0:13.3

Hey, so glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the three martini lunch.

0:17.5

We have good, bad, and crazy martinis for you today.

0:20.3

The first one tangentially deals with

0:22.3

sports, but trust me, there's a political angle to this that is even more significant than that.

0:27.6

We'll also take a look at our bad martini, which is not going to help the White House relationship

0:33.0

with perhaps the most prominent wire service. The AP is really stepped in it again this time.

0:39.3

And then we'll take a closer look at a story that broke over the weekend where New York

0:44.5

Times, among others, saying, I can't believe we were fooled about the origins of COVID and

0:49.9

acting like they're the victims in all of this.

0:51.8

But let's start in Illinois, where if you are a sports fan, you know that the bears are looking

0:58.7

for a new stadium and they're hoping to do so in the northern suburbs.

1:02.9

But like most teams, they want your tax dollars to do it, which if you listen to this podcast

1:09.2

regularly, you know Jim and I are not fans of that.

1:11.7

That is easily our biggest public criticism of Glenn Yonkin during his nearly four years now

1:17.2

as Governor Virginia, where he wanted to do some of that.

1:20.3

Thankfully, it didn't happen.

1:21.7

But over in Chicago, Illinois State Representative Bob Morgan, who is a Democrat, has introduced the balanced earnings and records standards and stadium oversight expectations act,

1:35.9

better known as the Bears Act, because if you can't make an acronym out of it, why even bother?

1:40.6

So the Bears Act would require professional sports teams in Illinois to have a 500

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