Zuckerberg’s Free Speech Shift, GOP's Smart Legislative Start, The Insane UK Rape Scandal
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
First, Jim and Greg cautiously explore Meta Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s shift on free speech. Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook and his other platforms have been biased in censoring political content. He now promises changes, including Community Notes for controversial posts similar to X. Is this a genuine change of heart, or is Zuckerberg simply adapting to the current political climate?
Next, they applaud Republicans in the House and Senate for kicking off their legislative agenda with the Laken Riley Act, which requires the Department of Homeland Secuity to arrest (and likely deport) people in the country illegally if they commit crimes like burglary and larceny. It's also backed by Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman. And since our recording, it passed the House of Representatives.
Finally, Jim and Greg tackle the explosive story of the UK rape gang scandal. They express their outrage over how police, prosecutors, politicians, and the media in Great Britain failed to act swiftly in dealing with allegations of horrific abuse committed by mostly Muslim immigrants against British children. They explain why this issue is making headlines again and why this is a huge problem for the current government in the UK. Parental discretion advised for this topic.
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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. |
| 0:13.3 | So glad you are with us for the Tuesday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:17.7 | We have two good martinis for you today. |
| 0:19.9 | So our average is now improving a little bit as the year gets going here. Jim, we're both still live after shoveling a lot yesterday, at least by Northern Virginia standards, not so much by even more Northern standards where I'm originally from. But in the words of the immortal Toby Keith, I ain't as good as I once was. It took a lot of time |
| 0:40.2 | and I'm not feeling as good as I was yesterday morning. I could say, as you say, according to Mrs. |
| 0:44.5 | Garrity, the early snow was powdery and light. By the time I went out in the afternoon yesterday, |
| 0:49.8 | it had gotten very wet, very heavy, prime middle-aged to older man, hard attack weather. |
| 0:56.7 | Apparently shoveling snow kills more people than any other activity. |
| 1:00.0 | Skydiving, wildly safe, all that kind of stuff. |
| 1:02.6 | You think, oh, you know, okay, I can handle this stuff. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm in decent shape. |
| 1:06.0 | For those wondering, yes, I do work out. |
| 1:07.4 | I do actually have gym membership. |
| 1:08.6 | But it turns out what you're doing at the gym isn't always the same muscles as you're getting down under because the bottom part is frozen, |
| 1:16.6 | scraping it up. You know exactly which muscles you don't use. You don't exercise regularly when you |
| 1:22.9 | go out and snow shovel for a stretch. Jim, again, two good martinis. We'll be talking about speech in a number of different ways from Mark Zuckerberg at, I guess |
| 1:30.3 | it's Meta now, which oversees Facebook and Instagram. |
| 1:33.2 | And then also we're going to be diving into what you can and can't say in the UK as it relates |
| 1:38.2 | to the rape scandal and a whole bunch more. |
| 1:40.2 | Plus, in the middle, what we really like about how the Republicans are starting their |
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