THE SHOW NOTES: Biden's Classified Document Coverup
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Biden’s Classified Documents
The United States Attorney is investigating classified documents Joe Biden left in a safe after leaving office as Vice President. While we don’t know the exact number of classified documents or whether Biden certified whether or not he had classified documents, we do know that the files were discovered before the midterm election when Biden’s lawyers "were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C."
Where did this happen: The University of Pennsylvania paid former Vice President Joe Biden $900K for a relationship with the school. He did not teach a class or have a defined role with the university but retained a university office where the documents were discovered.
What this means: The Department of Justice and the FBI knew about this before the midterm election and chose to only release it now. House Republicans should investigate this.
Sports Dominates
94 of the 100 most-watched telecasts of 2022 were sports. A shocking 88 of the 94 were NFL broadcasts. College football placed 5 games in the top 100 while the Olympics placed only 2 nights of programming in the top 100. The FIFA World Cup, March Madness, and the Kentucky Derby had five collective appearances on the final list. No NBA or MLB game made the final cut. What are the takeaways?
Streaming woes: After the NFL moved Thursday night football to Amazon, not a single TNF game cracked the top 100. In 2021, six of the TNF broadcasts on Fox made the top 100.
Scripted TV: Not a single scripted show made the final 100.
Politics comes in second: Round out the non-sports entries in the top 100 were The Academy Awards, Macy’s Day Parade, President Biden’s State of the Union address, Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to congress, and two hearings from January sixth committee.
My take: Click through to read the thread.
Three-Quarters of Teenagers Have Seen Online Pornography by Age 17
Go read this story from The New York Times:
The internet has transformed pornography, making it much easier to view and share than in the days of Playboy magazine and late-night cable television.
For teenagers, that’s created a deluge of sexually explicit photos and videos that has invaded their everyday lives, according to a report released on Tuesday.
Three-quarters of teenagers have viewed pornography online by the age of 17, with the average age of first exposure at age 12, according to the report by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit child advocacy group. Teenagers are seeing the photos and videos on their smartphones, on their school devices and across social media, pornography sites and streaming sites, it said.
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The rest of the news:
House passes new rules for Congress as McCarthy clears first major test as House speaker - Fox News
Powell stresses need for Fed’s political independence while tackling inflation - CNBC
Biden administration admits it killed thousands of jobs by canceling Keystone Pipeline - Washington Examiner
House Republicans in the dark on McCarthy’s shadow document - Axios
M&M’s new all ‘female’ package sparks outrage - CNN
Russian artillery fire down nearly 75%, US officials say, in latest sign of struggles for Moscow - CNN
At 155 hours, Chicago congestion at No. 1 as traffic grows nationwide - MSN
‘Thou shalt not kill’ posters coming to DC. Can they help curb gun violence? - WTOP
The economic data is not good - First Trust
Another Setback for the Democrats’ Stolen-Election Conspiracy Theory - National Review (paywall)
Three-Quarters of Teenagers Have Seen Online Pornography by Age 17 - NYT (paywall)
Tweets that caught my eye:
Market snapshot:
• ‘Thou shalt not kill’ posters coming to DC. Why stop at one poster, put back the 10 Commandments in the public square, the home and the schools and ask every American to abide by them, then we would not need to "defund" the police because the police would not be needed.
Defund the IRS. Better yet abolish.m it and adopt the fair tax.