Author: ehoffman

The Main Event – December 21, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092.

Bipartisan Criminal Reform Bill

President Trump was handed a major legislative victory this week, with Congress approving a sweeping bipartisan criminal justice reform bill on Thursday after it passed in the Senate on Tuesday. The bill is called The First Step Act, and it’s designed to address concerns from both sides of the aisle about exploding prison populations, life sentences for non-violent drug offenses, and the overall failure of the war on drugs.

Details on The First Step Act:

  • It will give federal judges more leeway when sentencing certain drug offenders and boost prisoner rehab efforts.
  • It would reduce life sentences to 25-year sentences for many “three strikes” drug offenders (don’t forget the Three Strikes law was passed by Bill Clinton – not a heartless, evil, racist Republican).
  • It contains a provision that allows 2,600 federal prisoners sentenced for crack cocaine offenses before 2010 the opportunity to petition for a reduced penalty.
  • It incentivizes prisoners to participate in rehab programs by rewarding them with early releases (to home confinement or halfway houses.) This offer is not available to anyone convicted of violent gun crimes, sex crimes involving children, or high-level heroin and fentanyl dealing).

The bipartisan sponsors of the bill gave a press conference Wednesday: Republicans Chuck Grassley, Mike Lee, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott – and on the Democrat side, Dick Durbin of Illinois, followed by – this might hurt, but let’s give credit where credit is due – Cory Booker of New Jersey. 

Senator Durbin explained he was unsuccessful in getting any traction for this bill for years – that is, until the election of Donald Trump. Durbin’s comments about that were fascinating, especially when he specifically thanked presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner – someone the Democrats normally love to villify.

Funding the Government and the Wall

Early in the week, it was reported that President Trump was backing off his demands for $5 billion in border wall funding. But by Thursday morning, he was changing his tune. As of Friday afternoon, it looks like the Republicans just don’t have the votes for the wall funding. As for a shutdown scare, we’ll see what happens in the next few days – but as always, there’s bound to be a continuing resolution just around the corner – also known as kicking the can down the road.

Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department quietly pledged $5.8 billion in aid to Central America, and another $4.8 billion in development aid for southern Mexico, in response to the migrant caravan crisis.

According to the joint statement released by the U.S. State Department and Mexico’s Department of Foreign Relations, the aid is intended to promote better security conditions and job opportunities that will allow Central Americans and Mexicans to remain in their countries and not feel the need to emigrate.

Speaking from the Mexican capital on Wednesday, Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said the announcement came as “good news, very good news for Mexico.” And he’s right.

Alexandria’s Crazy Corner, Self-Care Edition

Some celebrity news: Soon-to-be Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (she’s a celebrity now) gave us one of her classic millennial moments as an early Christmas gift.

In this final week before the 29-year-old Democratic Socialist becomes a sitting member of Congress, Ocasio-Cortez used Instagram and Twitter to announce that she’s headed for upstate New York to “sit in the middle of nowhere” and devote her last week as a private citizen to “self-care.”

After that, Ed plays some more enlightened commentary from an actual celebrity: actor Jon Voight.

All of this and more on this week’s The Main Event! Merry Christmas, everyone!

Catch Ed Hoffman on The Main Event:

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 8 AM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

 

The Main Event – November 21, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092.

Midterm Recount Update

After two recounts, multiple lawsuits and loaded political rhetoric, the 12-day election marathon in Florida is finally drawing to a close, with Republicans coming out on top in both races.

  • This week, outgoing Republican Florida Governor Rick Scott won the recount for the junior Senate seat over incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson with a lead of 10,033 votes.
  • And in the Florida governor’s race to succeed Rick Scott, Democrat Andrew Gillum conceded Saturday night after concluding his own recount would not sufficiently close the gap with his opponent, Republican Ron DeSantis.
  • Official results showed that DeSantis defeated Gillum with a winning margin of 32,463 votes, out of more than 8 million votes cast.
  • The results showed Scott, Florida’s outgoing governor, defeating incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson by 10,033 votes.
  • The recounts were reminiscent of the 2000 presidential election, when Florida became the laughing stock of the country by taking 5 weeks to declare George W. Bush the victor over Al Gore by 537 votes.

What’s also over is the Georgia governor’s race, where Republican Brian Kemp won by 55,000 votes (just barely over 50%). Because Kemp’s lead is so narrow, Abrams – who has claimed to be a victim of “voter suppression” since election day – says she plans to bring “a major federal lawsuit against the state of Georgia for gross mismanagement of this election.” Check her out refusing to say Kemp is the legitimate governor-elect of Georgia now.

Abrams claims voter suppression in her race, but California’s election was plagued with voter fraud. Calling in to the show to talk about that is Aja Smith, who lost her race against incumbent Democrat Mark Takano in the 41st District.

Pelosi Challenged for Speaker

Although Democrats took back control of the House this midterm, the election isn’t over for one very important person: Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

  • Pelosi desperately wants to be Speaker of the House again, but is already up against 16 members of Congress who signed a letter saying they won’t support her as speaker this time around, and another 4 members who didn’t sign the letter but have publicly expressed their lack of support for her elsewhere.

  • According to the New York Times: If all 435 members of the House were present and voting, Pelosi would need a majority of 218 to be elected speaker – and although Democrats now control 232 seats, 16 defectors would be enough to deny her the speakership.
  • But President Trump wants to come to Nancy’s rescue! This week, the President said he would be willing to talk Republican members of Congress into voting for her if she wanted him to.

But before the President made his offer, Pelosi had already said she doesn’t want any help from Republicans. “I intend to win the speakership with Democratic votes,” she told reporters.

But can she?

Catch Ed Hoffman on The Main Event:

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 8 AM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

 

The Main Event – November 16, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show, with fill-in hosts Scott MacAfee and Jodi Swan.

Breakaway Caravan Reaches Border

Amid President Trump’s vow to keep the huge Central American migrant caravan from coming into the country, a “breakaway” caravan of several hundred arrived in Tijuana on Wednesday aboard nine busses.

  • Meanwhile, U.S. troops continue to deploy to our side of the border – led by Secretary of Defense James “Mad Dog” Mattis, who also arrived Wednesday.
  • According to Tijuana’s Head of Migrant Services, the group immediately went to a stretch of border fence to celebrate after exiting the busses.
  • After visiting the border fence, the migrants were taken to Tijuana shelters in groups of 30 or 40.

This week’s show has plenty of details on the caravan, including who we now know is organizing and funding it.

 Florida’s Election Saga

It’s the year 2000 all over again as Florida is once again the center of contested elections for office. Incumbent Senator Bill Nelson and Democrat party officials are looking to the courts to help them find votes to narrow the margin in Nelson’s bid for re-election against Republican challenger Governor Rick Scott.

Before the recount, Scott led Nelson by around 20,000 votes; now, it’s narrowed down to about 12,000. Meanwhile, more clearly organized efforts to alter the election outcome include:

  • In Miami-Dade County, about 108 provisional ballots were eliminated because they were from individuals who had voted twice.
  • Across the state, 93 provisional ballots and almost 3,700 mail-in ballots have been rejected by 45 counties, mostly because of mismatched signatures. When all is said and done, the total number of rejected ballots in Florida is estimated to be around 5,000.
  • The federal judge who heard Bill Nelson’s case has ruled that voters who were “belatedly notified” that their mismatched signatures disqualified their ballots have until Saturday at 5 p.m. to correct the problem, and Palm Beach county gets a 5-day extension to finish counting their ballots.
  • But as always, the biggest problem child in Florida is Broward County – where a whopping 83,000 ballots mysteriously showed up after election day, supposedly because of a misprinted date on election forms.

And here’s another detail you can’t make up: Also in Broward County, provisional ballot boxes were found in the back of an Avis rental car.

Provisional Ballots Florida

Who is primarily responsible for the debacle in Broward County? It’s their Election Supervisor, Brenda Snipes, who – among all these other problems – was also caught counting provisional ballots illegally.

But Snipes is no stranger to attempts at rigging elections – and yes, that includes letting dead people vote. Last March, a judge ruled that Snipes had implemented a “reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters, by reason of death or change of address.” The ruling came in response to a 2017 lawsuit by the American Civil Rights Union; in that case, Snipes was represented by lawyers from the groups Demos and Project Vote, both of which are funded by – who else? George Soros.

But despite all this, everyone’s favorite Floridian – Debbie Wasserman Shultz – is standing by her woman.

Maybe Debbie is defending Brenda Snipes because of what Snipes did for her in 2016 (yes, there’s more!). In another lawsuit this May, a judge ruled that Snipes had violated both state and federal law in 2016 after she destroyed ballots in the congressional primary – which just happened to help Wasserman Schultz, who won re-election by less than 7,000 votes against her challenger Tim Canova. The case also exposed that Snipes’ staff had opened ballots in private on election day 2016.

But if you ask Brenda Snipes, she’s the victim here. Unbelievable.

All of this and more in the first half of this week’s The Main Event; in the second half, a rep from Election Integrity Project calls in to give more insight. Don’t miss it!

Catch Ed Hoffman on The Main Event:

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 8 AM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

 

The Main Event 11/2/18

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Developments in the Caravan

Morale appears to be eroding inside the various migrant caravans pushing toward the United States. Some members are dropping out to return home, some opting to apply for asylum in Mexico. However, those who journey on toward the U.S. border (some toward Texas, others breaking off and moving west toward California) demanded this week that Mexico help them get here.

How? Early in the week, leaders of the caravan attempted to appeal to the Mexican government to provide them “safe and dignified transport” through the country in order to avoid wading through the water in the isthmus of Mexico and the violent city of Veracruz. The transport requested? Buses. Mexican officials ignored the request. By Thursday, Walter Cuello (one of the Honduran organizers of the first caravan) admitted to reporters, “The attempt to get the buses has failed.” Ed alert: “Why did they ignore the request? Because they don’t want to break any deals with President Trump. It’s nice to have a President who puts our interests first.” Meanwhile, Obama is using his time at Democrat campaign rallies to mock those of us who don’t want this caravan invading our border and Harry Reid is eating the words he said about birthright citizenship back in 1993.  

Some inconvenient truths about the caravan:

  • Mexican law enforcement has deported at two migrants in the first caravan, as they are reportedly fugitives wanted for triple murder.
  • Mexican officials have warned that “migrants in the caravan attacked agents with rocks, glass bottles and fireworks when they broke through a gate on the Mexican end but were pushed back…some allegedly carried guns and firebombs.”
  • One migrant traveling in the caravan admitted to a reporter that he fled his home country of Honduras after he “got in trouble” for attempted murder.

Speaking of truth and lies…

Democrats have shown they will do whatever it takes to make the blue wave happen on November 6th, no matter how low they have to stoop. What they did to Judge Kavanaugh backfired, funding the caravans backfired…and whatever you believe about the mail bomb stunt – er, threats – they also backfired (we aren’t hearing about that anymore, are we? Except for this: Coincidentally, porn-star-who-sues-Trump Stormy Daniels and bomb threat suspect Cesar Sayoc have worked at
the same strip club
in the recent past. Interesting…)

After 11 people were killed in Pittsburgh, Democrats had no problem using the tragedy to spread another lie about President Trump: that he’s anti-Semitic, even though his daughter and grandchildren are Jewish. The lies about the President are multiplying; meanwhile, the Dems’ Message of the Week in the final days before the midterms is that President Trump lies. It started on Sunday with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, who asked the President whether he always tells the truth. “When I can, I tell the truth” was only part of Trump’s reply, but the headlines generated included:

  • Washington Post: ‘When I can, I tell the truth’: Trump pushes back against his peddling of falsehoods
  • CNN: Donald Trump’s wacky approach to truth, explained in 7 words
  • Newsweek: Donald Trump Admits He Only Tells the Truth ‘When I Can’

But guess who had a very similar answer about truth back when she was running for President? Yep!

Tune in this week to hear more!

Catch Ed Hoffman on The Main Event:

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 8 AM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – October 19, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Elizabeth Warren DNA Test

On Monday, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren released the results of a DNA test that she says vindicates her long-criticized claim of Native American ancestry. In an effort to tie up a political loose end before a presidential run in 2020, Warren accompanied her announcement with a 5-minute ad on her website and YouTube called “Elizabeth Warren’s Family Story.” You may remember the reason Warren’s ancestry matters is that she is said to have gotten her tenure at Harvard Law School in 1995 by claiming to be Native American. A 1996 Harvard Crimson article refers to her as Native American, and a 1997 article from the Fordham Law Review says, “Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren, in 1995.” 

And yet, Warren’s new ad features interviews with former Harvard colleagues who claim her heritage had “nothing to do with her hiring.” If that’s the case, why did the school publicize it at the time?

And now, we know that Warren’s DNA test revealed her Native American ancestry is as many as eight to ten generations ago. Ed alert: “That’s 1/1,024th Native American…and he compared her DNA to Aztecs, not Cherokees.” Then there’s the statement from the Cherokee Nation: “It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage.”  – Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr.

Can you say “fraud?”

Stormy Daniels Suit Thrown Out

On Monday, a federal judge dismissed adult film star Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against President Trump. Daniels was also ordered to pay the President’s legal fees.

Forgot why Stormy Daniels matters? We all did. Here’s why she was suing the President.

In what appeared to be an effort to keep her case at the center of the news, Daniels’ sleazy lawyer Michael Avenatti filed a lawsuit on Daniels’ behalf in April 2018. The suit alleged that Trump attempted to tarnish her reputation and credibility by dismissing her account and description of a man who she says threatened her in a parking lot in 2011. Avenatti based the lawsuit on the President’s tweet back in April, when he called Daniels a “total con job.” 

“By calling the incident a ‘con job,’ Mr. Trump’s statement would be understood to state that Ms. Clifford was fabricating the crime and the existence of the assailant, both of which are prohibited under New York law, as well as the law of numerous other states,” Avenatti wrote in the lawsuit. Daniels was seeking damages in excess of $75,000.

Well, she didn’t get it – and now, everyone who donated to her legal fees on GoFundMe was actually donating to Trump’s legal fees. Poetic justice.

There’s more in the second half, including the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the latest on the migrant caravan headed toward the border this week. Be sure to tune in!

 

Catch Ed Hoffman on The Main Event:

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 8 AM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – October 12, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Thank You, Susan Collins

As you now know, the Senate voted to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, with Senator Susan Collins of Maine casting the final vote. Unlike Lisa Murkowski from Alaska – who tried to sit on both sides of the fence by saying Kavanaugh “is a good man but not the right man for the Supreme Court” – Collins stood for her principles last week. In a compelling 43-minute speech on the Senate floor, Collins began by saying what we’ve all been thinking for the past month: that the left had planned to oppose Trump’s nominee to the Court no matter who it was. Ed alert: “Straight from the Democrat playbook. If all else fails, accuse someone of sexual assault or being a racist.”

More highlights from Susan Collins speech on Brett Kavanaugh on this week’s show, and thoughts on the ceremonial swearing in at the White House from Monday night.

Hillary Chimes In

It’s pretty clear Hillary Clinton can’t stand not being part of our government anymore. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, she chimed in on everything – one of them, of course, being the swearing in of Brett Kavanaugh, which she called “a political rally.”

But it’s Hillary’s comments on “civility” that are making real news. “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,” Clinton said. “That’s why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and/or the Senate, that’s when civility can start again.”

But Hillary isn’t content to only show up on TV; she and Bill want you to see them in person, and they want you to pay big money to do it. The Clintons will embark on a 13-city speaking tour that kicks off November 18. Fun facts about Bill and Hillary Clinton’s speaking tour:

  • Titled “An Evening with President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,” the talks will focus on “stories and inspiring anecdotes that shaped their historic careers in public service, while also discussing issues of the day and looking toward the future.”
  • The tour is organized by Live Nation, the same promoter behind Michelle Obama’s current speaking tour.
  • Ticket prices will range from $72 to $750.

How is it that Brett Kavanaugh’s life was almost destroyed over allegations by women who couldn’t produce any witnesses or even say where they were attacked – but a predator like Bill Clinton is still able to go on speaking tours and make money in 2018?

Catch Ed Hoffman on The Main Event:

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – September 28, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

The hearing took place on Thursday and Christine Blasey Ford showed up. Here’s part of her opening statement, where she explains why she sent a letter in June to the office of her congressperson, Anna Eshoo of California’s 18th District, who then sent the letter to Diane Feinstein’s office in July.

The Dems Destroy Brett Kavanaugh

Another week goes by with Democrats using unsubstantiated accusations to destroy Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Let’s recap what happened before the hearing on Thursday:

  • A second accuser emerged: Deborah Ramirez, who claims Kavanaugh exposed himself to her during drinking game when they were freshmen at Yale 35 years ago. On the night of the alleged incident, Ramirez admits to being drunk and that she has gaps in her memory. Hmmm….
  • According to a story in The New Yorker, “she was reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh’s role in the alleged incident with certainty.” Hmmm….
  • The magazine reported that it took six days of “carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney” for Ramirez to go on record accusing Kavanaugh.” Hmmm…..
  • In case you’re wondering, Ramirez is a registered Democrat and sits on the board of a group called Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence. (In other words, she was already an activist. Not suspicious at all.)
  • The New York Times reported that Ramirez had contacted several of her former classmates to see if they remembered the incident because she could not be certain that Kavanaugh had been the perpetrator. Both the New York Times and CNN report that they have not been able to find any firsthand eyewitnesses to corroborate her story (just like all the witnesses denied knowing about Christine Blasey-Ford’s story).

Ed alert: “Why would we think it’s all lies? Gee, maybe because we caught Gloria Allred’s daughter offering to pay the mortgages on women’s houses if they made allegations against Trump…” How do we know this isn’t happening again?

And now there’s a third accuser, Julie Swetnick.

  • Two years older than Kavanaugh, Swetnick is grew up in the Washington D.C. suburbs but gives no reason for why she and Kavanaugh were at the same parties (although she claims to have attended “at least 10” parties with him back then).
  • In a statement posted on Twitter by her lawyer, Michael Avenatti (Stormy Daniels’ lawyer…that’s not suspicious!), Swetnick says she observed Kavanaugh at parties where women were abused, inappropriately touched, made “disoriented” with alcohol or drugs and “gang raped.”
  • She said she witnessed Judge Kavanaugh participating in some of the misconduct, including lining up outside a bedroom where “numerous boys” were “waiting for their ‘turn’ with a girl inside the room.” She says she was one of the girls who was raped and believed she had been drugged. Ed alert: “She was raped at one of these parties, but she went to 10 of them?” Again, this one has “fabricated Democrat smear” written all over it.

Christine Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh Hearings 

As for the first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, there are still no corroborations from the people she named in her Washington Post interview as witnesses to her alleged incident with Kavanaugh. But that didn’t stop the Democrats from babying her all morning on Thursday, and Kavanaugh’s passionate denials didn’t stop them from putting him through hell…lucky for all of us, Lindsey Graham has got his mojo back and he’s out to set them straight!

Get the hearing recap on this week’s show – and, check out Ed’s debut column this week in Townhall.

Catch Ed Hoffman on The Main Event:

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – September 21, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Kavanaugh Allegation Continues

Senate Republicans continue to support Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the fight against one woman’s suspiciously timed accusations of sexual assault from 35 years ago.

Here’s a recap of this week’s events:

  • On Monday, Christine Blasey Ford was reported to be the anonymous accuser from last week (when Dianne Feinstein sent a letter to the FBI the very day there was a confirmation vote scheduled – a letter she has had since July). Ford is now a clinical psychology professor at Palo Alto University.
  • Brett Kavanaugh’s statement: “This is a completely false allegation. I have never done anything like what the accuser describes—to her or to anyone. Because this never happened, I had no idea who was making this accusation until she identified herself yesterday. I am willing to talk to the Senate Judiciary Committee in any way the Committee deems appropriate to refute this false allegation, from 36 years ago, and defend my integrity.”
  • In an interview with the Washington Post, Ford says that at a house party when she was 15 (no recollection of what month it was or even whose house it was at), Brett Kavanaugh and a friend pushed her into a bedroom, pinned her down and sexually assaulted her after turning up the music so her protests couldn’t be heard.
  • She identified the friend as Mark Judge, who is now a journalist and filmmaker. Judge’s statement to The Weekly Standard: “It’s just absolutely nuts. I never saw Brett act that way.” CNN and other mainstream media outlets are attacking Judge’s character by pointing out that he wrote a book about partying in high school called “Wasted: Tales of a Gen X Drunk” (so of course, he must be guilty of assault).
  • Another classmate Ford identifies as being at this mysterious party, Patrick J. Smyth, sent this letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee: “I understand that I have been identified by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford as the person she remembers as ‘PJ’ who supposedly was present at the party she described in her statements to the Washington Post. I am issuing this statement today to make it clear to all involved that I have no knowledge of the party in question; nor do I have any knowledge of the allegations of improper conduct she has leveled against Brett Kavanaugh. Personally speaking, I have known Brett Kavanaugh since high school and I know him to be a person of great integrity, a great friend, and I have never witnessed any improper conduct by Brett Kavanaugh towards women.”

And now, Ed Whelan – a former law clerk for Justice Scalia who now runs the conservative think tank Ethics and Public Policy Center – has uncovered evidence that the house where the party most likely took place was hosted by a kid who looked exactly like Brett Kavanaugh. Chris Garrett, a Georgetown prep classmate and football teammate of Kavanaugh’s, could have easily been mistaken for his classmate Brett.

  • After Diane Feinstein made the allegations against Kavanaugh public (despite Ford’s supposed wishes that they remain private), the Republicans on the Committee released a letter signed by 65 women who said they knew Kavanaugh in high school and could vouch for his decency. Ed alert: I have a hard time coming up with 65 women I went to high school with.” Scott agrees, saying there would likely be multiple accusers if Kavanaugh had done this.

Democrat Hypocrisy on Assault

As it turns out, plenty of Democrats have their own similar stories from high school and one of them is Cory “Spartacus” Booker. From the Washington Post on Friday:

When he was in high school, Cory Booker, the New Jersey Democrat and possible White House contender, groped his classmate as they kissed. He reached for her breast, and when she swatted his hand away, he made another attempt…

…But the skeleton in Booker’s closet seized on by outlets such as Fox News and the Daily Caller wasn’t really in his closet. The senator himself chose years ago to air the issue, marking a notable contrast with instances in which accusations of impropriety burst forth as a result of media investigation or opposition research. (Really? A “noble contrast”?)

In 1992, Booker, then a student at Stanford University, wrote a column for his college newspaper in which he recounted the groping and used his own behavior to underscore, in starkly personal terms, how his views had shifted on gender and sexual respect. He credited his work as a peer counselor with the transformation.

“After having my hand pushed away once, I reached my ‘mark,’” he wrote. “Our groping ended soon and while no ‘relationship’ ensued, a friendship did. You see, the next week in school she told me that she was drunk that night and didn’t really know what she was doing.”
Booker’s words speak for themselves.

Catch Ed Hoffman on The Main Event:

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – September 7, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Funeral Missteps 

We’ve seen some prominent people buried over the past week, starting with Aretha Franklin. The Queen of Soul’s epic 8-hour long funeral at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit was attended by hundreds, including many celebrities. But the ceremony was not without inappropriate race baiting and Trump bashing, starting with Al Sharpton. Sharpton wasn’t the most controversial figure in attendance, though. Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan, someone Democrats are finally starting to distance themselves from because of his obsessive anti-Semitism, was given a prominent seat in the service. Although he wasn’t asked to speak, Farrakhan was seated directly beside Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and former President Bill Clinton. But since the media understands their Democrat friends don’t want to be associated with Farrakhan anymore, many news outlets chose to crop Farrakhan out of their photos. Unbelievable…

Then there’s the funeral of Senator John McCain, where it was the deceased’s own family who chose to use the occasion as a platform for bashing Trump despite the fact that he lent the family Air Force 2 to fly his body from the service in Arizona, to the Capitol Rotunda in D.C. where he lay in state, to the burial at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland.

Ed wrote some thoughts on Facebook last week. Check it out:

I just watched Megan McCain’s entire speech at her father’s funeral. While I thought it was an overall moving eulogy of her father that she obviously loved very much, I think the speech came off a little angry. Angry at that fact that her father deserved more recognition than he got more appreciation than he got, more respect than he got. Angry at Donald Trump – for what reason, I don’t know.

“We don t need to make America great again; it has always been great.” I partially agree with her, but after her father lost to Barrack Hussein Obama, there were 8 years of the start of a “fundamental transformation of this country” that turned our country about face. It taught our country that its ok to sponge off the government, that we are all owed something because we are Americans. Not that we owe it to ourselves, our families and our country to do all we can do and be all we can be, but that our country owes us – all I can say is, WTF? Where did this come from? Consequently, America had always been great until the most corrupt presidential administration in history, the Obama administration! Trump came in to turn things around and to make America great again.

I know Trump is politically incorrect in what he says and how he says things, but apparently the message he is sending is resonating with the voters – otherwise, he would not have won the White House. While Meghan McCain and others celebrated John McCain’s maverick, go-against-the-grain style and temper – and, the fact that he speak what was in his mind at any given time – none of this is afforded Donald J. Trump. Meghan continuously took shots at the President as if it was his fault that her father died. He was 3 to 4 days from his 82nd birthday, he had a long, great life, and no one killed him. He had a brain tumor, it’s no one’s fault. Let him rest in peace.

Catch Ed Hoffman on The Main Event:

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – August 24, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Backpedaling and Doubling Down

Now that we have a President who holds the media accountable for their bias, some reporters are finally asking liberals to answer for their explosive rhetoric. First, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was asked whether he stood by what he said last week: that America “was never that great.” On a conference call with reporters Monday, Cuomo backpedaled his comment. “The expression I used the other day was inartful, so I want to be very clear: Of course America is great and of course America has always been great. No one questions that,” he said.

Then there’s former CIA Director John Brennan. On Meet the Press, Chuck Todd gave Brennan the opportunity to walk back his accusation that President Trump committed treason. But Brennan doubled down and seemed proud of himself for it, calling Trump a liar (again). Ed alert: “Does Trump lie, or does he just have a different perspective than the Democrats?”

Victories for the Witch Hunt

There were two victories for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s witch hunt this week, starting with a conviction in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Now, he faces the possibility of an 80-year prison sentence – but what did Manafort actually do? Here’s an overview:

  • Manafort was indicted in October on charges involving his work in the Ukraine: money laundering, failing to register as a foreign agent, and making false statements to investigators. He was tried on 18 counts alleging that he failed to file reports for foreign bank accounts, filed false income tax returns and committed bank fraud.
  • Prosecutors said Manafort collected $65 million in foreign bank accounts from 2010 to 2014 and spent more than $15 million on luxury purchases in the same period, including high-end clothing, real estate, landscaping and other big-ticket items.
  • They also alleged that Manafort lied to banks in order to take out more than $20 million in loans after his Ukrainian political work dried up in 2015. Prosecutors also allege that Manafort received loans from the Federal Savings Bank after one of its executives sought a position in the Trump campaign and administration.
  • Along with his former associate Rick Gates, Manafort was also indicted in October on counts that included conspiracy against the U.S., conspiracy to launder money and making false statements. In February, the pair was hit with additional tax evasion and bank fraud charges; Manafort is said to have laundered an additional $30 million through offshore accounts. The charges against Manafort and Gates do not relate to allegations of misconduct during Trump’s campaign.
  • In June 2018, Mueller’s team brought additional charges of obstruction of justice against Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, an associate who was involved with Manafort on formulating “pro-Russian strategy” going back to 2006.
  • Mueller also accused Manafort of secretly paying former European politicians to lobby on behalf of the Ukraine.

Although cameras were not allowed in the courtroom throughout his trial, we know that the federal judge assigned to the case was sympathetic to Manafort’s plight. At a hearing in May, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III told Mueller’s team, “You don’t really care about Mr. Manafort. You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an impeachment, or whatever.

And in regards to the charges of campaign finance violation against Michael Cohen, don’t forget about this:

  • The Obama 2008 campaign was fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for campaign reporting violations — one of the largest fees ever levied against a presidential campaign.
  • The fine arose from an audit that revealed missing 48-hour notices for nearly 1,300 contributions totaling more than $1.8 million. The FEC requires notices on contributions of $1,000 or more to be received within the 20-day window of Election Day.
  • More than half the unreported contributions were transferred from the Obama Victory Fund, a joint committee between the campaign and the Democratic National Committee.

Ed alert: “What Manafort’s getting busted for is cheating on his taxes. I think they should do that to everybody, and then maybe that will be motivation to get rid of our tax code and implement a national sales tax. It’s only fair.”

Catch Ed Hoffman on The Main Event:

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – August 10, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Further to the Left 

By now, you’ve heard about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old who defeated Congressman Joe Crowley in New York (Crowley was considered by many the likely next Democratic speaker if the “blue wave” happens). But in order for that blue wave to come, Democrats have to go with what’s popular – and thanks to candidates like Cortez, what’s popular is to go as far left as possible.

Here are some other far left candidates popping up in time for the midterms:

  • There’s David Garcia, the Democratic frontrunner in the Arizona governor’s race
  • Cynthia Nixon in New York
  • The candidate who’s more or less Nixon’s running mate in New York, state Attorney General candidate Zephyr Teachout

You’ll hear from these candidates on this show this week, in addition to Ocasio-Cortez herself (she’s a real rocket scientist).

When Socialism Wins 

Here’s what happens when socialism wins: In Venezuela, where President Nicolas Maduro recently survived an assassination attempt by drone, inflation hit more than 40,000% in June and the country is facing severe food shortages – so severe that starving people are reportedly breaking into local zoos to slaughter and eat the animals.

Before the assassination attempt…

  • Under-fire Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro admitted his economic model has “failed” in the wake of food and medicine shortages and public service paralysis, such as Tuesday’s power failure that affected 80 percent of Caracas.
  • “The production models we’ve tried so far have failed and the responsibility is ours, mine and yours,” Maduro told his ruling PSUV party congress, as Venezuela looks to tackle chronic inflation the International Monetary Fund predicted would reach one million percent this year.
  • “Enough with the whining… we need to produce with or without (outside) aggression, with or without blockades, we need to make Venezuela an economic power,” he added late Monday, with the country grappling with a four-year long recession.

President Trump seems to think Americans are smarter than to let this happen. At his rally this week, the President predicted the blue wave is fake news. You’ll hear what he had to say on this week’s show.

Steven’s Hope for Children 

Ed has an interview with the founder of a great organization, Steven’s Hope for Children. Tony Cappelli and his wife Sandy operate a wonderful non-profit that helps the families of hospitalized children due to chronic illness or injury, and it’s located right here in the Inland Empire. Tune in to hear about the great things Steven’s Hope for Children is doing, and learn more at www.StevensHope.org.

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – July 20, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Trump and Putin Summit 

The long-anticipated Helsinki Summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin took place on Monday, leaving Democrats and the media in hysterics all week. Ed alert: “You can control where you buy his house, but you can’t control who buys the house next door. You can hate your neighbor, or try to get along. We’re the number one superpower and they’re number two. It’s probably a good idea to have some kind of relationship with them at some point.” Tune in to hear more thoughts along these lines!

You’d have to be living under a rock to miss the negative feedback on Trump’s comments on Russian election meddling. Whether the President walked back his comments on election meddling or not, we were bound to see hysterical reactions from people on the left – and not surprisingly, one of them was Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan.

 

 

 

 

Someone needs to tell Brennan that once you start calling everything treasonous, the concept of treason loses its meaning.

Tune in to hear Ed consult Siri on the definition!

What are the Democrats Up To?

In the last months before the midterm election, House Democrats have finalized their new campaign slogan: “For the People.” According to Politico, the Democrats plan to begin working “For the People” into their statements and press conferences, with a focus on three key areas: addressing health care and prescription drug costs; increasing wages through infrastructure and public works projects; and highlighting “Republican corruption” in Washington.

The slogan is supposed to summarize the economic-based messaging Democrats have been pushing since last summer…when they unveiled a different slogan, “Better Deal” — but that one didn’t catch on, and was even mocked by some Democrats in Congress.

But the Dems may have legal trouble on their hands, because “For the people” is already taken by a major personal injury law firm in Florida, and that firm owns the website domain ForThePeople.com.

During her weekly press conference on Thursday, Nancy Pelosi took it upon herself to clear up any confusion by using both the old and new slogans, and she hit it out of the park (not really).

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is up to something too. Is she trying to stay politically relevant for legacy reasons, or is she running for President again?

  • Five times in the last month alone, Hillary sent emails touting her super PAC’s role in combating President Trump. Most seized on headline events, such as the family separation issue at the southern border.
  • Under the message line “Horrific,” she wrote on June 18: “This is a moral and humanitarian crisis. Every one of us who has ever held a child in their arms, and every human being with a sense of compassion and decency should be outraged.” She then said that she warned about Trump’s immigration policies during the 2016 campaign.
  • Three days later she was back again, saying that her group Onward Together (the Super PAC she launched in 2017) raised $1 million and would split it among organizations working to change border policy, including the American Civil Liberties Union and a gaggle of immigrant, refugee, Latino and women’s groups.
  • And the day after Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, Clinton introduced yet another new resistance partner. Called “Demand Justice,” it promises to protect “reproductive rights, voting rights and access to health care” by keeping Senate Democrats united in opposing any conservative Truonmp nominee. Guess who’s running Demand Justice? Brian Fallon, her 2016 campaign press secretary. And Demand Justice is one of the organizations linked to on Clinton’s Onward Together website. Speaking of Onward Together’s website, OnwardTogether.org, the New York Post called it “a Clinton 2020 campaign vehicle in waiting.”

Ed alert: “Wait until you start getting phone calls from this organization.”

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – July 13, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh

After weeks of speculation, President Trump on Monday revealed that the second Supreme Court nominee of his presidency would be D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

  • Kavanaugh is a longtime foe of President Bill Clinton and was an aide to President George W. Bush.
  • He’s a graduate of Yale Law School, and began his career under former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, who led the investigation that ultimately resulted in Clinton’s impeachment. Kavanaugh himself was a lead author of the controversial Starr Report.
  • He has served on the D.C. Circuit Court since 2006, bringing with him a long record of conservative jurisprudence. Prior to serving on the D.C. Circuit, he clerked under Justice Kennedy (who he will be replacing).
  • Kavanaugh is much loved in conservative legal circles as an originalist in the mold of Justice Clarence Thomas and former Justice Antonin Scalia.

But as you know, Democrats have been spreading the lie that anyone Trump nominates to the court will overturn Roe vs. Wade. Kavanaugh has called Roe vs. Wade “settled law,” but he did dissent in a ruling recently that allowed an illegal immigrant minor to undergo an abortion. In his dissent, he accused the majority of devising “a new right for unlawful immigrant minors in U.S. Government detention to obtain immediate abortion on demand.”

That’s all these Democrats needed to protest his appointment, and on the show you’ll hear Cory Booker, Bernie Sanders and Kirsten Gillibrand doing that.

Peter Strzok Testifies

After hearing his name for the past year and a half, we finally got to hear former FBI agent Peter Strzok’s voice this week as he testified in open committee on Capitol Hill. Not surprisingly, Strzok forcefully defended his actions in the Hillary Clinton email and Russia investigations – including the anti-Trump text messages he sent. But the biggest takeaway from the Strzok hearing was the grandstanding that went on. You’ll hear much of it on this week’s show, plus Ed’s trademark take on everything.

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – July 6, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Supreme Court Short List

One week after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his resignation from the Supreme Court, the President has a short list of 25 potential appointees, four of which he met with on Monday. Although the White House refused to disclose the names of whom the president met with, sources have told the New York Times that Trump met one-on-one with the following four federal appeals court judges:

  • Amy Coney Barrett of the Seventh Circuit
  • Brett M. Kavanaugh of the District of Columbia Circuit
  • Raymond M. Kethledge of the 6th Circuit
  • Amul R. Thapar of the 6th Circuit

Some facts about the judges:

  • Judge Thapar as Mr. Trump’s first nominee to an appeals court in 2017. A former district court judge from Kentucky with a conservative track record, Thapar was among those the president considered as a replacement for Justice Scalia when he died in 2016
  • Judge Kavanaugh, an appointee of President George W. Bush, clerked at the Supreme Court for Justice Kennedy. He was also a prosecutor under independent counsel Ken Starr, who investigated President Bill Clinton.
  • Judge Kethledge also clerked for Justice Kennedy, and has the support of some conservative activists. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, Judge Kethledge does not have an Ivy League pedigree (and Trump has told associates he would like to see the next Justice come from the Ivy League)
  • Judge Barrett is a favorite of religious conservatives – a former law clerk for Justice Scalia, she once argued that Catholic judges should sometimes recuse themselves from sentencing in death penalty cases.

As the only woman on the short list, you would think Barrett wouldn’t face much opposition from the left; however, she is said to be the one on the list that poses the greatest threat to abortion rights. (This appears to be based solely on the fact that she’s a devout Catholic and has 7 kids.)

The efforts to keep Barrett out of federal courts started last year during her confirmation hearings for the 6th Circuit, when Dianne Feinstein told her, “The dogma lives loudly within you.” Ed alert: “My gut is that the President won’t pick her now, because she’s going to get the most push back. My guess is that Trump will have another bite at the apple later because Ruth Bader Ginsburg will retire or die during Trump’s term, and that’s when he’ll bring Judge Barrett in.”

Abolishing ICE as a Campaign Strategy

Democrats who are determined to see a “blue wave” happen in November seem to think their winning strategy is to campaign on the idea of abolishing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It seems like the Democrats who are pushing this idea all seem to be the ones considering a run for President in 2020: Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand. You’ll hear all their cries for abolishing ICE on this week’s show. Ed alert on Kamala Harris: “I want to run for President so I need to sound like I’m a new-idea-comer-upper-with, because I don’t have anything else.”

President Trump has one message for Democrats who are campaigning on abolishing ICE: Keep it up, because he thinks it will bring on a red wave in November.

#Walkaway Campaign – A Movement that Matters 

Finally, there’s a good story regarding Facebook. The #Walkaway Campaign is a public Facebook group with over 85,000 members as of Friday. It’s a movement dedicated to “sharing the stories of people who can no longer accept the current ideology of liberalism and what the Democratic Party has become.” These are people who have left the Democrat party and liberalism (some recently, some not so recently), and are now conservatives or Trump supporters. Their videos and written testimonials are compelling, and you’ll hear some of them on this week’s show. Check out this movement at facebook.com/groups/OFFICIALWalkAwayCampaign/.

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – June 29, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Border Separation Part 2

After a week of political turmoil regarding family separation at the US/Mexico border, Republicans are striving to pass comprehensive immigration legislation while Democrats are doing what they do best: obstructing Republicans and running their mouths.

The Compromise bill, which was the bill that had its vote delayed from last week, failed to pass on Wednesday.

A recap of the Compromise bill:

• It solved the family separation issue by allowing children to be detained with their parents in housing provided by the Department of Homeland Security
• It provided a path to citizenship for DACA recipients
• It had $25 billion for the wall and other border security measures
• And with Bob Goodlatte’s added proposal, it would have created a new visa program for foreign agricultural workers, plus a provision that American companies could hire 450,000 foreign workers for three years if no American workers applied for those jobs.

After Goodlatte added his 116 pages, the name of the bill was changed to “Goodlatte 2.” President Trump showed his support – but on Wednesday, the bill lost the support of every single Democrat and 112 Republicans. It failed 121-301.

Instead of passing legislation to solve the immigration crisis, Democrats like Kamala Harris would rather promote the idea of abolishing our Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is asking the Pentagon to provide 12,000 beds on military bases in order to create family detention centers – and 2,000 of those beds need to be ready in the next 45 days. Even Obama’s own DHS Secretary, Jeh Johnson, acknowledges that family detention is difficult to pull off – and, he admits that Obama deported many families who arrived here during his term.

Democrat Dog Whistles

Democrats are always accusing Republicans of using “dog whistles” (code words meant to inspire their followers to behave badly toward other groups). But this week, Democrats proved their own ability to use dog whistles – starting with the owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. Stephanie Wilkinson claims she asked Sarah Sanders to leave because her “employees were uncomfortable” serving a member of the Trump administration. According to Sarah’s father Mike Huckabee, the harassment continued after Sanders and her family left the restaurant – and even Obama advisor David Axelrod thinks the restaurant owner was out of bounds.

After this happened to Sarah Sanders, liberal activists were inspired to harass other members of the Trump administration. DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was harassed coming out of a Mexican restaurant last week – and on Monday morning, protestors gathered outside her home to scream at her and her family.

Meanwhile, Congresswoman Maxine Waters is all for members of the Trump administration getting thrown out of restaurants; in fact, she thinks they shouldn’t be allowed to go out in public at all. Yep…dog whistles!

This Week’s Testimonies

In the second half: The House Oversight and Judiciary committees are investigating the Justice Department and FBI’s conduct during the 2016 election, and this week they called several of the players to the Hill to testify. Here are the highlights you’ll hear about on this week’s show:

• FBI agent Peter Strozk, who texted about his anti-Trump bias with his mistress and FBI lawyer Lisa Page throughout 2016, testified behind closed doors on Tuesday.
• On Thursday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified in open committee. South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy reminded everyone about the FBI’s anti-Trump bias and what it means for the big picture; he, Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz were the big winners on the committee who held Rosenstein accountable.

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – June 22, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

 Another Immigration Showdown 

This week, there was national outcry over family separation at the US/Mexico border. Although this is not a new occurrence (more on that in a minute), the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that from April 19th through May 31st, there were 1,995 children separated from 1,940 adults by U.S. Border Patrol. According to DHS, these figures represent families who were separated because of illegal entry, immigration violations, possible criminal conduct by the parent, and cases where officials could not verify the family relationship.

In his weekly press conference, Speaker Paul Ryan reminded reporters that this was also going on under Obama. And in a rare moment of honesty for the media, CNN’s Brooke Baldwin pointed that out to a Democrat senator this week as well (tune in to hear it!).

On Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order to allow children to stay with parents who are caught crossing the border illegally. In short, this executive order would allow children to stay in detention with parents for an extended period of time (longer than the current 20-day limit per the Clinton-era “Flores settlement” allows). Ed alert: “We care for them at a cost of $34,000 per kid. And that’s just the $10,000 who came over during the Obama administration.”

Immigration Bills on the Table

There were two immigration bills on the table this week – but the House ditched the somewhat more conservative Goodlatte bill on Thursday. Next, they delayed the vote on the “Compromise” bill, which was crafted by White House staffers and Republican leadership, until next week.

Here’s what’s in the Compromise bill:

  • On the issue of family separation: It allows children to be detained with their parents, and mandates that DHS provides housing for families who are going through criminal proceedings for first-time border crossings (rather than turn them over to the Justice Department per current policy). It provides funding for building or expanding family detention centers, and allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain children and parents indefinitely.
  • On DACA: It allows immigrants currently facing the loss of their DACA protections to apply for legal status in the US and creates a path to citizenship for DACA recipients via a “conditional nonimmigrant” status that can be renewed after six years. The requirements for this status are largely the same as the original requirements for DACA: Applicants must have been in the US since 2007 and have to be under age 31 as of June 15, 2012. Immigrants who would have been eligible for DACA would be able to apply, even if they never actually applied or if their DACA status previously expired. It allows DACA recipients to apply for green cards based on a points system that awards points for doing well on English-language tests, having advanced degrees, and length of employment.
  • On border security: It appropriates $25 billion in advance for border security funding for the wall, access and roads, and also includes the addition of a biometric entry-exit system.
  • On asylum: It raises the bar for being allowed to pursue an asylum claim in the US, and allows the US to send asylum seekers back to Mexico if they traveled through there (currently, that had to be something that is negotiated with the other country in question).

“Mexico does nothing to help us,” the President said Thursday.

After the IG Report

It’s been one week since the Inspector General’s report was released, and now it’s time for people to start answering for the findings. This week, IG Michael Horowitz and FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before a panel on Capitol Hill this week, answering questions on the bias with which Hillary Clinton’s email investigation was conducted during the 2016 election.

Remember, the report made many references to political biases on the part of FBI employees Peter Strozk and Lisa Page, as well as other unnamed agents. And yet, Director Wray had the audacity to say in his opening statement on Monday that the IG found “no bias.” Trey Gowdy and Jim Jordan were the stars of the show, making sure everyone knows that there was indeed bias. Tune in to hear what they had to say, and how the Inspector General answered, on this week’s The Main Event!

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – June 15, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

All week, we awaited the release of the Inspector General’s report on its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. So far, the revelations are:

  1. James Comey was insubordinate by calling that press conference in July 2016 to announce that Hillary Clinton was “extremely careless” but would not be criminally charged. After viewing 1.2 million documents and interviewing over 100 witnesses, the inspector general wrote in the report: “It was extraordinary and insubordinate for Comey to conceal his intentions from his superiors, the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General, for the admitted purpose of preventing them from telling him not to make the statement, and to instruct his subordinates in the FBI to do the same. By departing so clearly and dramatically from FBI and department norms, the decisions negatively impacted the perception of the FBI and the department as fair administrators of justice.”
  2. There were “foreign actors” (AKA Russia?) who got access to emails between Hillary Clinton’s staff via her unsecured server.
  3. There is a newly discovered (and very damning) text between FBI employees Peter Strozk and Lisa Page, who are believed to be part of the FBI’s efforts to thwart Trump’s campaign. The text is from August 8, 2016.
  4. Furthermore, Strozk was charged with analyzing thousands of emails from Anthony Weiner’s computer – yet he prioritized the investigation into the Trump campaign over those Clinton emails, and the IG says that decision was most likely “not free from bias.”
  5. The report also states that text messages between three other FBI employees “included statements of hostility toward then candidate Trump and statements of support for candidate Clinton.” One of those people was an FBI attorney who later went to work on the Russia investigation under Robert Mueller (coincidence?). The IG says Strozk, Page and the three unnamed employees “brought discredit to themselves and hurt the Bureau’s reputation.”
  6. Obama’s Attorney General Loretta Lynch showed “bad judgement” by allowing Bill Clinton to come into her plane on the Phoenix tarmac in June 2016. The report says, “Lynch’s failure to recognize the appearance problem created by former President Clinton’s visit and to take action to cut the visit short was an error in judgment.”

Nothing to see here, right?

Tune in to this week’s show for more!

Catch The Main Event at…

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – May 25, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

The Trump Campaign Spy: Who is Stefan Halper? 

This week, we learned that the Obama administration under Loretta Lynch’s Department of Justice and James Comey’s FBI may have paid at least one person to infiltrate the Trump campaign. The campaign spy is reportedly Stefan Halper, a 73-year-old British professor with deep ties to American and British intelligence and a background working for the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations. (You will not hear his name on TV; they are only referring to him as “the British professor,” “the campaign spy” or “the informant.” If you haven’t heard the name Stefan Halper yet, Google it). He has a long history of being an FBI informant.

Late last week, reports in the Washington Post and New York Times named Halper as the informant who met with Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos starting in summer 2016. As you may remember, Papodopoulous has pled guilty to lying to the FBI, while Page was the subject of the FISA surveillance warrant which the same FBI and DOJ under Obama obtained using the phony Christopher Steele dossier.

Do we need any more proof the FBI spied on the Trump campaign?

If we needed any more proof that our own Department of Justice was seeking to create a way to discredit Trump in the event that Hillary Clinton lost the election, this is it. We now know that the “insurance policy” Peter Strozk and Lisa Page were texting about was an FBI operation that attempted to entrap Trump campaign aides into appearing interested in colluding with Russia – all with the goal of having a story to leak to the media right after the election that would make Trump’s win appear illegitimate. There were several members of the Trump campaign who were targeted – but as you may have guessed, their efforts were most successful with the young and impressionable George Papodopoulous.

How Stefan Halper Spied on the Trump Campaign 

Halper’s first contact with the Trump campaign was when he met Carter Page at a British symposium in July 2016. The two struck up a suspicious friendship that went on for more than a year, meeting at Halper’s Virginia farm and in Washington, D.C. in addition to exchanging emails. Carter Page, by the way, maintains that he never felt anything was odd about his friendship with Halper. Could that be a red flag about Carter Page as well? Maybe.

A month into his friendship with Carter Page, Halper then met with Trump campaign co-chair Sam Clovis in late August. According to Clovis, Halper was attempting to get on the Trump campaign staff by offering his services as a foreign policy adviser. Clovis says he didn’t think the conversation was suspicious at the time – but now, he is “unsettled” because Halper never mentioned he was also talking with Carter Page.

So when did the young, inexperienced campaign aide George Papadopoulos get involved with Halper? It was in either August or September of 2016, when Halper offered him $3,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to London “to write a paper about energy in the eastern Mediterranean region.” And Papadopoulos took him up on it.

So Papadopoulos went to London in September, ostensibly to meet with Halper about getting paid to write a foreign policy paper. During their meeting, Halper brought up the topic of the Russians being involved in the hacking of Hillary and the DNC’s emails: “George, you know about the hacking emails from Russia, right?”

Keep in mind, this is about one month after Trump made a remark on the campaign trail, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you find the 30,000 emails.” So now, we know the spies were capitalizing on Trump’s joke by dangling the hacked Hillary/DNC emails as bait for campaign aides like Papadopoulos.

Halper Brings in a Honey Pot

Also in London, Halper introduced Papadopoulos to his Turkish assistant, Azra Turk. Reportedly, Turk flirted with Papadopoulos both during the meeting and later on in email exchanges. Some reports say Halper told Papodopoulous the lie that Turk was Vladimir Putin’s niece. Other reports say that a different operative posed as Putin’s niece – more on that later.

What we know for sure is that in London, Halper and Turk offered to help Papadopoulos arrange a meeting for Trump with “the Russian leadership,” AKA Putin. Papadopoulos did not commit to such a meeting, and said his campaign supervisor told him “great work” for declining it.

By the way, sources close to Papadopoulos say that now he understands Halper was spying on the campaign while working for an intelligence agency.

Who Paid Stefan Halper to Spy on the Trump Campaign?

So far, no payments to Halper from the FBI or Department of Justice have been uncovered; however, public records show he has received two large payments from Department of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment — a “shadowy think tank” that reports directly to the Secretary of Defense (in 2016-17, the Secretary of Defense under Obama was Ash Carter). The office paid Halper $282,000 in 2016 and $129,000 in 2017. So the question is, did the FBI or DOJ funnel this payment through the DOD?

Others who Spied on the Trump Campaign 

But Stefan Halper wasn’t the only one trying to infiltrate the Trump campaign through George Papadopoulos. This kid was entrapped by up to three people.

  • March 14, 2016: Papadopoulos had the first of a series of meetings with another British professor, Joseph Mifsud. Mifsud has deep ties to the Kremlin and has been rumored to be a Russian agent for many years. Ten days later, Papadopoulos met with Mifsud and Russian lawyer Olga Polonskaya. Some reports say that it was this woman, not Stefan Halper’s assistant, who was the person introduced to Papadopoulos as Vladimir Putin’s niece. We may never know. (Google Josef Misfud’s name and you’ll see he has gone completely off the grid in the last three months, quitting his job at both of the universities he was teaching at and ignoring all interview requests from the media).
  • Like Halper, Mifsud pretended to befriend Papadopoulos. At one point, he told him that the Russians had “dirt on Hillary Clinton – thousands of emails.” So now, this is the second time a mysterious British professor has contacted George Papadopoulos, asked for a meeting, shown up with a flirtatious woman, and dangled Hillary Clinton’s emails under his nose like a carrot.
  • Not long after that, Papadopoulos was invited out to drinks with the Australian Ambassador to Great Britain, Alexander Downer, who has close ties to the Clinton Foundation and is a member of Haklyut, a private British intelligence firm that hires ex-Russian agents among other types of spies. We now know that Alexander Downer was, like Halper, acting as an FBI informant. Papadopoulos doesn’t seem to question why all these foreign diplomats are interested in meeting with him, so he has drinks with Downer – and while he’s liquored up, Papadopoulos spilled what he heard from Mifsud: that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails.

The Big Picture

Now, this is coming full circle:

      • The FBI had already sent two spies, Halper and Mifsud, to bait Papodopoulous with the idea that the Russians wanted to share Hillary’s hacked emails with the Trump campaign. For the third time, Papadopoulos was being entrapped by spies placed in the campaign by the FBI – but with Downer, the FBI hit paydirt.
      • Papadopoulos believed Downer was just the Australian ambassador, but in reality he was also an FBI informant whose goal was to get Papadopoulos drunk so he would blurt out what Halper and Mifsud told him.
      • Now, Downer could report what Papadopoulos said to his FBI handlers – which means the FBI could truthfully claim that someone in the Trump campaign (Papadopoulos) told an FBI informant that he knows the Russians have dirt on Hillary. Then, the FBI could leak the story to the media to make it look like the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to win the election.
      • And that’s exactly what they did – because just days after Trump won, CNN starts reporting about Russian interference in our election (something none of us had heard about until then). Now, we know the seeds of the story were planted all the way back in the summer of 2016, and it was initiated by Obama’s Department of Justice under Loretta Lynch and James Comey.
      • Why didn’t CNN report on it before election day? Because this whole thing was only being done as an “insurance policy” if Hillary Clinton lost. That’s what was meant by Peter Strozk and Lisa Page, two high ranking FBI employees who were having an affair, when they texted each other about an “insurance policy.”
      • And before anyone thinks Obama didn’t know about any of this, remember: Strozk and Page also texted, “POTUS (the President) wants to know everything we’re doing.”

But according to James Comey’s tweet this week, all of their spying was okay because it was “regulated” – in other words, it’s “good” spying because so many people in the government were in on it.

One more piece of evidence that this was a major conspiracy: Don’t forget that Loretta Lynch had that “totally coincidental” run-in with Bill Clinton on the tarmac in Phoenix while all of this was going on in July of 2016. Maybe now, we finally know what they were talking about.

Tune in this week to hear more!

Catch The Main Event at…

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – May 11, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Withdrawing from Iran Nuclear Deal 

The Trump administration made two major foreign policy achievements this week, starting with pulling out of the Iran nuclear agreement – the deal that the Obama administration struck with the Iranian regime in 2015. For those who have forgotten what the terms of this terrible deal were, let’s recap some of the finer details:

  • The Obama State Department under John Kerry claimed that the deal “cut off every pathway that Iran could take to develop a nuclear weapon.” But the deal allowed Iran to continue developing advanced centrifuges, and the 10-year sunset clause cleared the way for Iran to begin assembling them as weapons by the year 2025.
  • While it is true that the U.S., Russia, China, Germany, France and Great Britain would have the ability to inspect any suspicious Iranian sites, the deal required these nations to give Iran 24 days’ notice before the inspections – giving Iran plenty of time to hide anything they were developing. Ed alert: “I thought that was a misprint that was supposed to say 24 hours…24 days? What couldn’t you hide in 24 days?”
  • Rolling back sanctions was never tied to Iran complying with the deal, meaning Iran got massive amounts of economic relief without being required to prove they were adhering to the terms of the agreement. This relief was to the tune of $150 billion.
  • That relief could still be used to expand Iran’s destabilizing influence in the Middle East, including the funding of Iran’s terrorist proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, Bashar-Al Assad, and the Houthis in Yemen.
  • Even after the agreement was signed, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Iran would not change its anti-American policy.

Did you see the Iranians chanting death to America at the U.N. this week? Ed alert: “Yeah, those seem like the kind of guys I want to do business with.”

As the first half closes out, we’re talking about the release of three Americans who were detained in North Korea -something that’s undoubtedly a foreign relations victory for the President and his administration.

Confirmation of Gina Haspel 

It was finally time for the Senate confirmation of Gina Haspel, Trump’s nominee to replace Mike Pompeo as CIA Director. As predicted, Senate Democrats would try to use Haspel’s role in supervising black site interrogations of terrorists after 9/11 to block her confirmation. From Democrats like Mark Warner from Virginia and our own  illustrious Senator from California, Kamala Harris to fake Republican Susan Collins of Maine, the confirmation committee did everything they could to pigeonhole career CIA servant Haspel into calling her work for our country after 9/11 “immoral.” Ed alert: “Here’s one thing I never heard anyone ask her: ‘Ms. Haspel, can you keep us safe?’ That’s all I care about.”

Speaking of Democrats, Nancy Pelosi made a joke this week that she’ll be doing away with the Trump tax cuts if the Dems take back the house. This is why Republicans can’t stay home on June 5!

Everyone’s Mad at Jeff Sessions

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is at a point where both Democrats and Republicans are questioning his fitness. He started out the week angering Democrats with this strong statement at the U.S./Mexico border.

But on the other side of the coin, Republicans are mad at Sessions’ Department of Justice for not turning over documents related to the Clinton campaign and DNC role in creating the phony Russian dossier – and, the fact that Sessions is allowing the FBI to pass on looking at the personal phone messages between Peter Strozk and Lisa Page.

Tune in this week to hear more!

Catch The Main Event at…

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

 

The Main Event – April 27, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Travis Allen Interview | Travis Allen for Governor 

With five weeks until the June 5th primary and two weeks until voting by mail begins, the California governor’s race is heating up – and things are looking good for Republicans. In a poll by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies this week, the two major Republican candidates in the race to succeed Jerry Brown are battling for second place to make the November runoff behind the leading Democrat, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom. Both those Republicans are well ahead of Democrat and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who dropped to 9 percent in the poll. One of those two Republican candidates for governor, Travis Allen, joins Ed on this week’s show.

In order to save California from Jerry Brown’s disastrous policies, it’s key to vote in the primary on June 5th. “They have run our state into the ground,” Allen says of Brown and Gavin Newsom. “We now have the nation’s highest poverty rate. These crazy laws of the Democrats have gone too far…not in my state.”

Travis Allen Gas Tax Repeal | Travis Allen Sanctuary City Petition 

Allen was the first to propose repealing SB-1, the gasoline tax that’s costing Californians over $700 a year in addition to higher vehicle registration fees. This is a good day to have him on the show, because the petition signatures are being turned in today (Friday) – and as of Thursday, Republicans had collected at least 830,000 signatures to repeal the gas tax. That’s more than 300,000 that were needed to put the repeal on the ballot. Tune in to hear what Travis Allen has to say about that and many other issues – including how he has fought the sanctuary state law from day one – on this week’s The Main Event. Learn more about signing the petition to oppose sanctuary cities – and, more about supporting Travis Allen for Governor – at JoinTravisAllen.com, or on Travis Allen’s Facebook page.

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – April 7, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Fighting an Immigration Influx 

Over Easter weekend, a caravan of 1,200 migrants from Central America passed through Mexico toward the United States as part of an annual activist demonstration.

  • The “Stations of the Cross” caravan, organized by the group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, has been an annual Easter “tradition” intended to raise awareness of immigrants since 2010 – but the event attracted more people than organizers expected this year, many of them expressing intent to cross the U.S. border because of political unrest in Honduras.
  • At first, the Mexican government washed its hands of responsibility for where the migrants might end up. Here’s their statement on Monday: “It is not the responsibility of this government to exercise immigration decisions of the United States or any other nation – so it will be the competent authorities of the American Union that decide to authorize or not the entry into its territory the members of the caravan that request it.”
  • But by Wednesday, Mexico’s National Institute of Immigration said it would disperse the group, and deported 400 people in the group back to their home countries.

Could President Trump have something to do with that? Based on his praise of Mexico for their actions this week, it seems he may have. And as he waits for Congress to figure out how to fund the border wall, President Trump is calling for a deployment of National Guard troops to the U.S./Mexico border. By next week, we should know whether Governor Jerry Brown will get on board with the other border state governors who will authorize the National Guard’s presence – and of course, there are plenty of people who don’t want it. Ed alert: “Is there anything these people will agree with Trump on? We didn’t elect him to make changes to our lives today; we elected him to make changes that put us in the right direction.”

Covering the YouTube Shooting: Media Double Standard  

The shooting at the YouTube headquarters in Silicon Valley on Tuesday has the media struggling to figure out how they should handle an incident of gun violence that wasn’t committed by someone who fits their expected profile. This is why all week, you’ve heard reporters saying, “It’s very unusual for a female to commit a shooting like this.” Ed alert: “They just don’t know what to make of it. What they really mean is she’s not a white male, she’s not a Republican and she didn’t use an AR-15.”

Maybe the left should rethink its position on the mental health aspect of mass shootings, because it seems like that’s what Nasim Agdham was. Her four YouTube channels – which were in three different languages and were devoted to “hand art,”fitness” and “vegan life” – were full of strange content, to say the least. Ed alert: “For those of you who haven’t seen her videos, they are stupid!” In her final video, she explained that her anger toward YouTube was rooted in her page being demonetized and age restricted (sounds like a great reason to drive 500 miles and start shooting people).

Juanita Broaddrick’s Revenge 

Guess who’s continuing to whine about the fact that she’s not the President? Hillary Clinton was at The Wing this week, a professional women’s club in New York City, where she sat in a circle with a bunch of ladies and pretended she was in a group therapy session, delivering the same old lines about sexism and misogyny. It’s perfect timing for Hillary to start pretending to be a champion of women again, because one of her husband’s accusers is ready to tell the truth about her.

Juanita Broaddrick, who credibly accused Bill Clinton of raping her in an Arkansas hotel room when he was running for governor in 1978, has a new book titled You’d Better Put Some Ice on That – How I Surprised Being Raped by Bill Clinton, and she has plenty to say about why she believes Hillary never left Bill or reported his abuse toward women. “I think I know why,” Broaddrick told S.E. Cupp on HLN. “I think she wanted to do some of the things he’d done, and it was just a power thing.” Ed alert: “Because she didn’t have any charisma, charm or likability, she had to attach herself to Bill, who had some.”

Catch The Main Event at…

Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – March 23, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

The Firing of Andrew McCabe 

After weeks of speculation as to whether Andrew McCabe would be getting fired before his retirement date from the FBI, Attorney General Jeff Sessions authorized McCabe’s termination just 48 hours before his official retirement from government.

Being fired two days before he was going to retire meant that McCabe would lose part of his government pension, not all of it like you heard in the media. Ed alert: “I wish he did lose all of it, because if you take a job like that where ‘the law is the law’ and you violate that code, you shouldn’t get a pension.” Rather than being able to collect his pension immediately, McCabe now must wait until he’s 55 – but McCabe is no middle-class earner. According to the Wall Street Journal, he has an estimated net worth of $11 million dollars.

Senate Intelligence Committee Findings 

Also this week, the Senate Intelligence Committee (led by Republican Devin Nunes) released its findings on the Russia probe. Among their findings:

  • No evidence of collusion, coordination or conspiracy
  • No evidence Trump associates were involved in the DNC email leak
  • There is evidence the Trump team had ill-advised contact with Wikileaks
  • The Obama administration knew about Russian election meddling and their response was inadequate
  • The fake Steele dossier was the key to obtaining the FISA warrant to surveil members of the Trump team (including Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign as National Security Advisor)

The ranking Democrat on the committee, creepy Adam Schiff, is not too pleased about the report. Ed alert: “Is there anyone who likes Adam Schiff? You people in his district in the San Fernando Valley, what do you see in this guy? Get rid of him!”

The Omnibus Spending Bill

To avoid yet another government shutdown, Congress kicked the can down the road one more time with a $1.3 trillion spending bill. Rather than talking about what’s in the bill, it’s easier to identify what’s not in it. The bill has:

  • No funding for the wall, only a 33-mile “partial fence” that will “not be made out of concrete” and would cost $641 million.
  • No defunding of sanctuary cities – It will just be a continuation of the status quo, because Democrats threatened to torpedo the bill if it included new rules allowing the administration to block federal funding to sanctuary cities.
  • No new money for additional ICE agents or detention beds at the border
  • No defunding of Planned Parenthood – in fact, they get half a billion dollars.

Here’s what else is in it:

Gun research – This week, negotiators were finalizing a significant clarification to the Dickey amendment in order to ensure that federally-funded programs can legally research gun violence.

Gun and school safety – Two bipartisan bills, The Fix NICS Act and The Student, Teachers and Officers Preventing School Violence Act, would authorize millions of dollars in grants to help schools increase security and learn how to better identify potential threats.

Border security – The deal provides $1.57 billion for “physical barriers and technology, $641 million of which would go to levees and the see-through fence mentioned earlier (Democrats have held Republicans hostage on what the barrier can be).The vast majority — $1.3 billion — of the border security money is for technology.

Law enforcement – The F.B.I., D.E.A., U.S. Marshals and other law enforcement agencies will see a 3 to 5 percent increase in funding.

Military and defense – The bill fully funds a 2.4 percent pay raise for troops, and the military will see a surge in funding of $61 billion for fiscal year 2018. That is the largest year-to-year defense spending increase in 15 years.

Veterans – An increase of $2 billion will go to veterans’ hospital maintenance and backlogged construction projects.

The Census – For some reason, we’re throwing an additional $1.34 billion at the U.S. Census.

2018 Elections and cyberwarfare – The bill adds another $307 million on top of the president’s budget request for the F.B.I’s work to secure the 2018 U.S. elections and fight Russian cyberattacks. An additional $380 million will go to states to help them protect their voting systems.

Ed alert: “No wall? I tweeted to the President that he shouldn’t sign this. I guess he didn’t read it.”

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – March 16, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

Trump Cabinet Shakeup

It’s been another week of big shakeups to President Trump’s cabinet. After months of speculation that he and Trump have not seen eye to eye on many key issues – including the Iran nuclear deal, the new tariffs on steel and aluminum, and Trump’s willingness to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was asked to step aside. Now, the same Democrats who were horrified by Tillerson in the beginning because he does business in Russia and Putin gave him the Russian “Medal of Friendship” award are acting sad to see him go; either they have memory trouble, or Trump just can’t do anything right.

But Pompeo will have to face a Senate confirmation first, as will his own replacement at the CIA, Gina Haspel. Haspel is a career intelligence official with this impressive resume:

  • Joined the CIA in 1985
  • Chief of Station in Central Europe, Turkey, and Central Asia
  • Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service
  • Deputy Director of the National Clandestine Service for Foreign Intelligence and Covert Action
  • Chief of Staff for the Director of the National Clandestine Service
  • In 2017, Promoted to Deputy Director of the CIA by President Trump

But it’s what she did in 2002 under George W. Bush that has liberals crying about Haspel’s appointment. During that important period after 9/11, Haspel was assigned to oversee a secret CIA prison in Thailand (code-named “Cat’s Eye”) that housed suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists, including Abu Zubaydah – Osama Bin Laden’s senior lieutenant. It has been confirmed that she was present at the waterboarding of Zubaydah and other high-ranking Bin Laden associates and helped to destroy evidence of the program afterward…so naturally, weak-kneed liberals don’t want her leading the CIA. Ed alert: “They don’t want to recognize that Trump promotes women, minorities…if you’re a good worker, he gives you good opportunities.”  

Plus, Trump will be appointing economist, finance author and CNBC personality Larry Kudlow. Kudlow was chosen by Trump to replace Gary Cohn, who left his position last week as White House National Economic Council (the President’s top economic advisor).

About the media freakout over these turnovers in the Trump administration, here’s this Ed alert: “We elected this guy to do a job. I didn’t elect him to date my daughter.”

Tune in this week to hear more!

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – March 9, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

Ed Takes on an Economist 

This week, Ed is recapping the 2018 Market Forecast event in Ontario, California – but rather than real estate, the topic is trade. Tune in to hear Ed take on a Southern California economist who had some puzzling thoughts on trade, trade deficits and imports/exports – something that’s in the news lately because of the new tariffs the administration is imposing on imported steel and aluminum in order to help America recoup its losses. The economist makes claims that “the entire steel industry employs only 100,000 people” – applying that logic, Ed retorts: “Only 400 people have been killed in mass shootings since Sandy Hook – but we sure make a big stink about gun control, because there’s 400 people who lost their kids.” There is one real estate tidbit in this segment, though: Prices are going up steadily in California, having climbed slowly at five, six and seven percent per year.

DOJ Sues California

Californians: Remember a few months back, when our governor passed a law giving local governments permission to refuse cooperation with federal immigration authorities, and signed into law a bill that made it illegal for landlords to turn in their undocumented tenants? Well now, the Trump administration is doing something about these insane sanctuary state policies. In a press conference Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Department of Justice is filing a federal lawsuit against the state of California – and even though “Jeff Sessions is no Clint Eastwood” (Ed’s words), the announcement was tough enough to get the attention of Governor Jerry Brown. Tune in to hear about this, in addition to the latest on the irresponsible mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf, on The Main Event this week.

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – March 2, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

The White House Soap Opera

The White House has been a regular Peyton Place lately. Here’s a recap:

  • Last month, there were the wife beating accusations surrounding former White House secretary Rob Porter – who happened to be dating White House Communications Director Hope Hicks.
  • Now, Hicks has resigned amid controversy about her testimony in the Russia probe.
  • The rumors started Tuesday when Hicks’ closed door testimony frustrated lawmakers because she refused to answer many of their questions. She also admitted to them that she “sometimes tells white lies” for the President, which the media had a field day with.
  • Then Wednesday afternoon, the White House announced Hicks’ resignation. ABC News thought it was important enough to interrupt their daytime shows with a news break, with four people (!) giving the report – and the other networks weren’t much better, devoting hours and hours of coverage to this story that most Americans likely don’t care about.

 

Ed alert: “Have you ever noticed that every little detail of everything in the White House is so viciously dissected? We didn’t mind when Clinton was having ‘not sex’ in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky, and we didn’t mind anything Obama did because if you criticized him, you were a racist…but with Trump’s White House, it’s ‘Look at these people, they’re falling like flies’.”

But this soap opera has other players, too. The media has been in an uproar over Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s government security clearance for the past few weeks – and this week, Chief of Staff John Kelly downgraded Kushner’s interim clearance from “top secret” to “secret.” Ed alert: “You know, I think he was in a big group of people whose security clearances expired – but they’re making a big deal about this because he’s Trump’s son-in-law. It’s overly dramatized.” Meanwhile, Adam Schiff and his vindictive band of Democrat colleagues finally got their rebuttal memo out this week – only to have their story buried by all this other news, much to their dismay. Ed alert: Those of you in his district, let’s vote him out.”

Supreme Court Turns Down 2nd Amendment Case 

In the second half, Ed welcomes back Townhall.com writer Beth Baumann. She’s got a new story this week about the Supreme Court turning down a major 2nd Amendment case here in California. The Supreme Court turned down a challenge to California’s 10-day waiting period,” she explains. “It’s an example of the Court not wanting to take on any 2nd Amendment cases so they can stay out of the gun control debate.” In fact, the Court hasn’t heard any 2nd Amendment cases since 2010. “They’re trying to stay out of anything that would set precedent on what the 2nd Amendment means,” Beth explains. Tune in to hear Ed and Beth discuss the 2nd Amendment debate from a judicial standpoint first, then from a legislative standpoint as Beth explains the Toomey/Manchin “Fix NICS” bills that are currently being considered by Congress and the President as part of a gun reform action.

 

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – February 16, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

Time’s Ticking for DACA

The clock is ticking for Congress to finalize a deal on DACA. A group of Republican Senators have proposed a DACA deal that they’re calling “the best chance” of getting a bill passed before the March 5th deadline imposed by the President (a deadline that may not matter if federal judges continue to overturn it).

No matter how many times the President says he wants to work out a DACA deal, it’s never good enough for the Democrats because they refuse to agree to a deal that has funding for the wall and an end to chain migration. From Schumer to Pelosi and others, we hear Democrats saying the President refuses to make a deal when all signs point to Trump begging them for a deal and them refusing because Trump won’t agree to their demands.

Ed alert: “If you’re a childhood arrival, you could have filled out your papers five years ago when Obama created DACA and you would have a Green Card by now. But some of you didn’t want to.”

Tune in to hear what Democrats like Dianne Feinstein and Bernie Sanders said about illegal immigration in 1993 and 2007 (hint: They sound like Republicans!).

Democrats Get Caught

Speaking of Democrats, Trey Gowdy was right about them last week; they intentionally included classified information in their memo so that Trump wouldn’t release it, making it look like the President has something to hide. You’ll hear the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, saying exactly what Trey Gowdy predicted he would: “The President doesn’t want to see the underlying facts.” Ed alert: “Hey all you voters in Burbank and the San Fernando Valley, get out there and vote this guy out. He’s no substance, just clips and soundbites.”

Then, Lindsey Graham uncovered something interesting this week: Obama’s National Security Advisor Susan “Blame Benghazi on a Video” Rice sent herself an email on January 20, 2017 – the final day of the Obama administration and Trump’s inauguration day. Here’s the report.

In the email on Jan. 20, 2017 – the day of President Trump’s inauguration – Rice described a Jan. 5 meeting between Obama, herself, then-FBI Director James Comey, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and then-Vice President Joe Biden concerning the investigation into Russian election interference.

In the email, Rice wrote: “President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book.’ The president stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.”

Why did she do that? Lindsey Graham thinks he knows, and we’re playing his thoughts on this week’s show.

FBI Drops the Ball

Every time there’s new proof that Democrats conspired with Obama’s Department of Justice and the FBI to damage the Trump campaign, conservatives are reminded that we aren’t allowed to criticize “the rank and file” FBI agents who “put their lives on the line to keep us safe. But this week, there was glaring proof that plenty of “rank and file” FBI agents aren’t doing their jobs. Ed alert: “And you know who pays their job? We do.”

What’s the proof? The school shooting in the Miami suburb of Parkland, Florida, which has killed 17 high school students and teachers. As it turns out, this is another case of the FBI receiving a tip about a threatening person and not doing anything about it until after the person starts killing people. We first learned about this Thursday from Florida Senator Marco Rubio, and it has been confirmed several times since by law enforcement. In 2017, a man named Ben Bennight reported to the FBI a suspicious YouTube comment from Nikolas Cruz, who went on to become the school shooter – exactly what his comment said he planned to do. Unbelievable.

Ed closes out the second half with some words on the heroes who gave their lives to save others that day, including the two teachers, Aaron Feis and Christopher Hixon.

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – February 9, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

Another Shutdown? It Happened 

Although there was a brief government shutdown Thursday night after Rand Paul’s filibuster to protest it, the House and Senate voted to proceed with an agreement that would lock in spending for two years, which means we don’t have to hear about government shutdown threats or continuing resolutions until the year 2020. Here’s what’s in the bill:

  • $90 billion disaster relief funding for hurricane and wildfire areas in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and California.
  • An $80 billion increase for military spending in the current fiscal year and $85 billion in the next year, which begins on October 1st, and the limit on nondefense spending would increase by $63 billion this year and $68 billion next year.
  • And $131 billion extra made available for non-military spending, including health and infrastructure.

Ed alert: “I have to agree 100% with Rand Paul. He’s a libertarian, but fiscally I’m right with him. We shouldn’t be spending this money. We should have held out while they figured out how to spend the people’s money responsibly.”

Ed also talks about the stock market decline this week, which you don’t want to miss.

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – February 2, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

They Released the Memo! Here’s What’s In It 

After two weeks of media demands to the House Intelligence Committee to “release the memo,” Congress did just that. The biggest revelation from the memo is that the phony “Trump dossier” written by ex-British spy Christopher Steele was used to substantiate the application for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant granting the FBI permission to spy on members of the Trump team (most notably, Trump campaign foreign policy advisor Carter Page, who members of the left have smeared considerably and even called a “Russian spy” with no verifiable proof).

The six-page memo also has plenty of “connect the dots” information that shows the Department of Justice, then-FBI Director James Comey and others knew the fake dossier was used to obtain the warrant, which Ed elaborates on this week – and, it shows that the entire thing was bankrolled by none other than the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, all of which was also known by the Department of Justice and the FBI. Incredible! Ed alert: “The collusion is obvious; it’s so blatant. All because no one wanted this non-establishment businessman to come in and upset their world.”

State of the Union Recap 

President Trump’s first State of the Union was Tuesday night. Despite the Democrats in the room staging silent protests, the President hit a home run with uplifting and patriotic overture.

Here’s what we saw from the Dems during the State of the Union:

  • Nancy Pelosi refused to stand for any part of the speech (Ed alert: “…And it was disgusting!”)
  • The Congressional Black Caucus stared angrily at the President while wearing African kente cloth, and most of them didn’t even clap when he cited the lowest black unemployment rate ever recorded (Ed alert: “That’s how you know someone hates Trump more than they love America. They can’t even applaud something good.”)
  • Large groups of Dems didn’t stand or clap when Trump praised members of our military, the national anthem and even the American flag.
  • Several of them didn’t even stand to applaud Congressman Steve Scalise, their own colleague who was critically injured in the shooting at the Republican baseball practice last summer.

Regardless of their sour grapes, the show went on and the President had great things to say about the economy, energy and immigration. As always, there were inspiring guests in attendance at the President and First Lady’s invitation – from the North Korean defector who victoriously held up crutches, to the families of two Long Island girls tragically killed by MS-13 gang members, to the family of Otto Warmbier, to the law enforcement couple who adopted the baby of a heroin-addicted homeless woman – this was truly a parade of heroes. Don’t miss this week’s show!

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – January 19, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

This Week in DACA

Last week, the President held meetings with key Democrats to arrive at a deal on preserving DACA (which is what Democrats say they want) while achieving his own immigration and border enforcement agenda. But this week, Democrats gave no indication they would reach a deal with the President by Friday, and we heard all week that the government might shut down because of it (as of Friday morning, it actually might).

On Friday morning, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney reminded us that the previous administration was “quite cruel” about its own government shutdown threats from 2008 to 2016, and no one batted an eye at them. Ed alert: “Obama gave 10 trillion dollars away. You want to be popular? Give 10 trillion dollars away.” On Monday, the President said that if a deal on DACA dies, it’s the Democrats’ fault because they don’t actually want to negotiate. “They don’t want security at the border, they don’t want to stop drugs,” Trump said.

“S-Hole Gate” Continues 

What do they want? They want to keep the “s-hole gate” scandal alive, despite people who were in the closed-door meeting come forward to say they never heard the President say that word. Remember, it was Democrat Senator Dick Durbin who came out of the meeting claiming he heard Trump say it and then the media piled on – and Republicans like Senator Tom Cotton say Durbin is lying. But don’t tell that to Senator Cory Booker, who was clearly auditioning for a 2020 presidential run when he made a grandstanding demonstration of outrage about the whole thing this week at DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s expense. Ed alert: “Simmer down, Cory Booker. We know you’re auditioning to be the next Barack Obama, but maybe you should actually go to Haiti and let us know what you would call it.”

Also this week, the Emergency Management department in Hawaii accidentally pushed the nuclear missile warning button, leaving Hawaiians to believe they were going to die for 38 minutes. There’s news footage of people crying in the street, trying to put their children in storm drains for protection, and calling family members to say goodbye – and the media stopped reporting about it 24 hours later. They reported on “s-hole gate” for a full six days.

The President’s Physical: This Week’s Media Obsession 

Last week, the media was obsessed with President Trump’s mental fitness; this week, they’re concerned with his physical fitness despite the White House doctor saying he’s in excellent health. White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson performed Trump’s first presidential exam on January 12 and announced the results on Tuesday during the daily press briefing: He weighs 239 pounds, he doesn’t exercise much but he’s in excellent health. Case closed, right? Wrong. Reporters

When the doctor was finished, the reporters in the press room inundated him with questions like this:

  • “Did you address drug addiction?”
  • “Will he be sedated for his next colonoscopy?”
  • “Did you test him for Hep C?”
  • “Does he wear dentures?”
  • “Are you concerned about his use of Twitter?”
  • “Is he limited to one scoop of ice cream now?”

Meanwhile, CNN’s Sanjay Gupta wants to diagnose the President (whom he has never examined) with heart disease.

Ed alert: “Little people, little brains.”

Vegas News (That isn’t Fake)

This week, newly unsealed search warrants reveal how involved Stephen Paddock’s girlfriend may have been in the Las Vegas massacre on October 1st. According to the documents, Marilou Danley told investigators they would likely find her fingerprints on some of Paddock’s bullets because she “sometimes helped him load his magazines.”

The New York Times reported that in the days after the massacre, the FBI examined her email and social media accounts. She has not been charged with a crime and denies knowing about Paddock’s plan, but investigators discovered that Danley deleted her Facebook account just hours after the attack. Just a little more than two hours after the attack, Danley made her Facebook account private. Two hours later, she permanently deleted her account. Paddock’s identity as the shooter wasn’t revealed until many, many hours later.

Ed alert: “Every time I talk about this, someone calls me saying ‘leave the conspiracy theories to Alex Jones.’ But I say something is wrong here. Something doesn’t add up.”

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

 

 

The Main Event – January 12, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

Questioning the President’s Mental Fitness

For the past week, we’ve been hearing about supposed “concerns” regarding President Trump’s mental fitness to serve, and his statement that he’s a “very stable genius” in response. But how did this all start? It was because of a bill on Capitol Hill (introduced by Democrats, of course), that would require every President to be evaluated for mental fitness. These Dems went so far as to bring in a psychiatrist from Yale, Dr. Bandy Lee, who just happens to be the editor for a book called The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump that came out last year. Lee, who told Politico she met with a group of Democrats and “one unnamed Republican” on December 5th and 6th, said President Trump is “unraveling, losing his grip on reality and reverting to conspiracy theories.” Ed alert: “Well Dr. Bandy Lee, I just don’t buy your BS…and I don’t think Oprah wants to be the next President.” Ed also has some examples of so-called “conspiracy theories” espoused by the President that turned out to be the truth all along, like Trump Tower being bugged. His point: There are things the President knows that sound like “conspiracies” to people who don’t know.

The Fire and Fury Book

The other big story of the week is all the lies printed in journalist Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which is already a New York Times bestseller. Thanks to the President’s former advisor “Sloppy” Steve Bannon giving Wolff open-door access to the White House for months, Wolff was able to speak with dozens of people who supposedly told him unflattering things about the President; the problem is, most of them say his book is a work of fiction. You’ll hear from some of them on this week’s show, including CIA Director Mike Pompeo, campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney – and, you’ll hear Wolff say that those people “are all lying.” Hmm, ok.

The Dossier that Won’t Die

On January 5th, Senators Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee formally recommended a criminal investigation again Christopher Steele, the author of the “Trump dossier” that made salacious and false claims about Trump’s ties to Russia.

Here’s a recap on Christopher Steele, the dossier and the firm behind it, Fusion GPS:

  • Someone representing one of Trump’s Republican opponents in the primary was paying a (via a third party) for Fusion GPS to do opposition research on Trump.
  • Then around March 2017 (most likely when that person dropped out of the race), Fusion GPS approached attorney Mark Elias to see if he wanted to retain the firm and continue the research on behalf of his clients. Who were his clients? Both the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
  • Elias said yes, he would hire Fusion GPS to do the work – and that’s what led to former British spy Christopher Steele being hired by Fusion GPS to write the dossier, which was mysteriously released and published on the website Buzzfeed just before the inauguration (coincidence? Nope.).

This week, some new revelations came to light and one of them is downright shocking. Joshua Levy, attorney for Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, told the Senate Judiciary Committee, “Somebody’s already been killed as a result of the publication of this dossier and no harm should come to anybody related to this honest work.” Whoa! Ed alert: “Honest work? That sounds like perjury to me.” (According to reports, the best guess on who this was seems to be a former KGB operative Oleg Erovinkin, who was found dead in the back of his car on a Moscow street in December 2016.) In any case, Senator Dianne Feinstein is who we have to thank for this information and you’ll hear her say she decided to release this 312-page transcript because she’s “had a bad cold and it slowed down my mental facilities for a little bit.” Ed has a lot to say about that and much more on this week’s show!

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – January 6, 2018

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

Huma’s Emails: They’re Baaaaack!

Last Friday, the State Department released 2,800 work-related emails from Huma Abedin that were found by the FBI on the laptop of Abedin’s disgraced husband Anthony Weiner. The emails were released because of the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit the conservative group Judicial Watch filed against the State Department.

By Thursday, the number of emails that were deemed to be classified had risen to 18 (last week, the number was only 5). According to Politico, some of these emails deal with:

  • Talks between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Hamas, which the U.S. has classified as a terrorist organization
  • A phone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Conversations with the United Arab Emirates’ foreign minister

The message with the fewest redactions is from November 2010. It concerns a call to the Prince of Saudi Arabia and Hillary’s talking points about WikiLeaks’ impending release of the documents leaked by former Private Bradley Manning (AKA “Chelsea” Manning). Ed alert: “Remember, we’re such a caring society that if you’re in prison and you want gender reassignment surgery, we pay for it.”

But that’s not all!

  • Huma also forwarded State Department passwords to her personal Yahoo email account before 500 million Yahoo accounts were hacked by foreign agents.
  • What foreign agent? Russian spy Igor Suschin.
  • Who did Igor Suschin work for? Renaissance Capital.
  • What’s Renaissance Capital? A Russian investment bank that paid Bill Clinton $500,000 to give a speech in Moscow in 2010.

Ed alert: “I just follow the bouncing ball. You want to support something worthy? Donate to Judicial Watch. These guys are making sure information comes out.”

Ed’s talking about the conservative group Judicial Watch filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department to get all of Huma’s emails released. Without that lawsuit, we would not know any of this.

Who’s Running for Senate, and Why Should You Care?

The 2018 midterm elections will be enormously important. Here’s what’s up for grabs in November:

  • The entire House of Representatives
  • One-third of the Senate
  • 36 state governorships
  • Many state legislature seats

So we have to start paying attention to who’s running, and we’re already getting a couple of hints. First is Mitt Romney, who is said to be running for the seat that will soon be vacated by Utah’s Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving Senate Republican. Ed alert: “If you’re looking for a candidate with no skeletons in his closet, he’s your guy. I think they found he beat up some kid in 6th grade and that’s about it…but in 2016, they asked him to come forward to say what a loser Donald Trump was, and I didn’t appreciate that.”

But Romney’s not the only well-known Republican to consider running for Senate this year. Al Franken resigned as Senator from Minnesota this week, and one well-known Republican who is considering running for the seat is former Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann.

New California Laws in 2018

In 2017, California state lawmakers passed nearly 900 bills that Governor Jerry Brown signed into law. Most of them took effect on January 1, 2018. Here are some of the laws taking effect with the new year.

IMMIGRATION

  • Police will no longer be able to ask people about their immigration status or participate in federal immigration enforcement actions under a law, making California a sanctuary state. Ed alert: “Instead of ‘Watch for Falling Rocks Signs,’ we need to make ‘Watch for Falling Home Values’ signs.”
  • The law also allows jail officials to transfer inmates to federal immigration authorities only if they have been convicted of “certain” crimes; as far as we can tell, those crimes are only major felonies. Ed alert: “In California, ‘major felonies’ only means murder someone. I think you’re allowed to shoot cops or rape a woman and it’s not a major felony.”
  • And in a different law, immigration officials will now need a warrant to access employee records, and landlords will be barred from disclosing tenants’ citizenship. Yet another new law will prohibit university officials from cooperating with immigration officers.

CANNABIS

  • Remember voting on Prop 64 in 2016? That’s the bill that legalized the sale of recreational marijuana, and it took effect on January 1st. However, it will still be illegal to drive under the influence of marijuana – and this week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he will roll back Obama-era policy that helped legal marijuana to thrive at the state level without federal intervention.

EMPLOYMENT

  • The state minimum wage will increase to $10.50 per hour for businesses with 25 or fewer employees, and to $11 per hour for those with 26 or more employees, with the goal being to reach a $15 minimum wage by 2022. Ed alert: “I’m not sure how there should be a difference in minimum wage depending on what the size of the company is.”
  • Small businesses with between 20 and 49 people will have to offer 12 weeks of unpaid maternity and paternity leave to employees.
  • Employers can no longer ask job applicants about their past salaries. Ed alert: “What kind of bull is this? We can’t just talk to people anymore?”
  • California will become the 10th state to require both public- and private-sector employers of five or more employees to delay background checks and inquiries about job applicants’ conviction records until they have made a conditional job offer, a measure known as “ban the box.” Ed alert: “Now we’re not allowed to ask you if you’ve been convicted of a felony. But you know what? We still get to do a background check, and if it comes up that you’ve been convicted of a felony, we’re not going to hire you.”
  • Those arrested but not convicted of a crime may ask a judge to seal their records, a move advocates say will help them get hired.

CLIMATE CHANGE

  • Old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs will start disappearing from shelves because they can no longer meet energy efficiency standards under a 2007 federal law.
  • The regulations take effect nationwide in 2020, but the federal government is letting California impose the higher standards two years early, which is why they are being enforced as of January 1st.
  • The National Electrical Manufacturers Association has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy challenging the law.

EDUCATION

  • The first year of community college may be free for full-time, in-state students under a law that waives the $46 per unit fee for one academic year for first-time students. Lawmakers still must provide the money in the next budget, so technically this has not passed yet.
  • Schools in grades 7-12 must be taught about sexual abuse and human trafficking.
  • Schools will be prohibited from “lunch shaming” (that’s publicly denying lunch to students or providing a snack instead because their parents haven’t paid meal fees).
  • School superintendents can no longer allow people with permits to carry concealed guns on school grounds.

FIREARMS

  • Speaking of guns, proposition 63 took effect on January 1st. That’s the 2016 ballot initiative that says ammunition purchased in another state, online or through a catalog can’t be brought into California except through a licensed ammunition dealer.
  • It also sets a new process and deadlines for gun owners to give up their weapons if they are convicted of a felony or certain violent misdemeanors.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

  • Repeat drug offenders will no longer automatically get an additional three years added to their sentences.
  • Officials must consider paroling inmates who are over age 60 or older and have served at least 25 years – or, inmates who are age 80 or older and have served at least 10 years – would be eligible for parole, as long as they have not been sentenced to death or life without possibility of parole. This law is supposed to lead to the creation of a state Elderly Parole Program.
  • Intentionally transmitting the HIV virus is being reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor, the same punishment as transmitting other communicable diseases. REALLY?
  • But here’s some good news: Criminals who videotape or stream their crimes on social media could face longer sentences under a law that allows judges to consider the recordings as aggravating factors in sentences for certain violent crimes.

JUVENILE OFFENDERS

  • California inmates serving life sentences for crimes they committed as juveniles will get the chance to leave prison after 25 years – and another bill expands California’s “youthful parole” program to age 25. State law already required that inmates who were under 23 when they committed their crimes be considered for parole after serving at least 15 years. Sound redundant?
  • Counties will no longer be able to aggressively collect “cost of care” fees from the parents of juvenile inmates.
  • One more bill will require that records be sealed for dismissed juvenile court petitions or after a juvenile completes a diversion program, while another will let a judge seal juvenile records even for serious or violent offenses after the offender has completed the sentence.

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

 

 

The Main Event – December 29, 2017

Ed and Dawn are celebrating their anniversary and ringing in 2018, but Scott fills in with stories on…

  • The Oregon wedding cake court case
  • Obama and Prince Harry’s wedding
  • Our buttkicking UN Ambassador Nikki Haley
  • And the “Top 10 Morons of the Year”

Don’t miss it!

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – December 22, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

America First National Security Strategy

President Trump on Monday unveiled a national security strategy that enshrines his “America First” approach to U.S. policy, stressing American strength and economic security.

It has four pillars:

  1. Protecting the homeland
  2. Promoting American prosperity
  3. Peace through military strength
  4. Cyber security

It sounds simple, but let’s remember it hasn’t always been this way. Ed alert: “Quite frankly, this is how he got elected and why I support him 100%. Do you hear the media talking about the fact that we’ve almost wiped ISIS out?”

Just in Time for Christmas!

Early Wednesday morning, the Senate approved the final version of the first overhaul of the US tax code in more than 30 years. Signed into law by the President on Friday, the Tax Cut and Jobs Act:

  • Reduces the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%
  • State and local tax deductions will be capped at $10,000
  • Mortgage interest deduction will be capped at $750,000
  • NO changes to capital gains and dividend rates
  • Opening up the ANWR National Wildlife Refuge to drilling
  • And the Obamacare individual mandate has been removed!

As you know, Democrats never miss an opportunity to lie to voters about a Republican bill, and this bill was no different. Ed plays soundbites from Pelosi, Schumer and Speier outright lying to the American people about the tax bill, calling it a “disgrace” and claiming the middle class are getting their taxes raised – wrong! Ed alert: “Where is this coming from?!”

The truth on the tax bill, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, is this: In 2018, households earning $49,000 to $86,000 will see an average tax cut of $930. Households earning $86,000 to $149,000 will see an average tax cut of just over $1,800.

There’s more in this final show for 2017, so be sure to tune in as Ed celebrates the end of this 10th year on the air!

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – December 15, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!

NYC Bomber: Thanks, Chain Migration!

On Monday, would-be suicide bomber Akayed Ullah detonated a homemade pipe bomb affixed to his torso in a New York City subway station. Ullah is a 27-year-old immigrant from Bangladesh who had lived for several years in Brooklyn. He survived the attack because his crude bomb malfunctioned, and told investigators his goal was to terrorize as many people as possible. “I did it for the Islamic state,” he said.

Ullah came here in 2011 on an F-43 visa; in his case, according to National Review, this “amounts to a nephew visa – as the under-21 nephew of a naturalized citizen who sponsored his sibling (one of Ullah’s parents) for a green card. And Ullah’s uncle (or maybe aunt – we don’t know) only got here in the first place because he or she won the visa lottery.” Ed alert: “Here’s how that lottery works: We’re going to pull your name and you get to come to America. Then with chain migration, your whole family gets to come here too.”

According to a lawyer for the New York chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Ullah’s family is “outraged” by the behavior of law enforcement in the hours after the bombing, complaining that the kids in the family were taken out in the cold and/or taken out of school. Ed alert: “I have one comment: Boo freaking hoo.”

Allegations Against Trump: Is there Something Fishy Here?

Now that the Dems have won the Alabama special election for Senate and the Russia investigation is falling apart, their strategy is to relitigate the sexual misconduct of Donald Trump when he was a private citizen. Three of the women who have publicly accused Trump of sexual harassment or assault – Samantha Holvey, Jessica Leeds and Rachel Crooks – held a press conference on Monday, alongside a filmmaker named John Greenwald who says he is making a movie about them. Bill O’Reilly, himself no stranger to sexual misconduct allegations, made an intriguing revelation when he was on Glenn Beck’s show this week: That there is a tape he has seen personally that shows a woman being offered $200,000 to make these types of allegations against Trump. “I can tell you that Donald Trump knows about the tape,” O’Reilly said. “This is an industry; there are false charges and money changing hands.” Ed alert: “Someone’s offering $200,000 for this – who has that kind of money? The Democratic National Committee.”

Conflicts of Interest in the Mueller Investigation

Every week, it seems we learn about more ways that Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling is rife with conflicts of interest. This week, a senior Department of Justice official who was demoted for not disclosing meetings with Fusion GPS representatives is also married to a former employee of Fusion GPS, the firm behind the infamous Trump-Russia dossier. Bruce Ohr was the demoted DOJ official, married to Nellie H. Ohr who worked for Fusion GPS in summer/fall 2016.

Then Tuesday night, the text messages between Peter Strzok (the FBI agent who Mueller fired from the Russia probe) and his mistress, Lisa Page (also an FBI agent who was briefly part of Mueller’s team) were sent to Congress by the Justice Department. Here’s part of the story in Politico:

375 texts were handed over the night before Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein faced a prolonged grilling in front of the House Judiciary Committee. The exchanges show Page and Strzok mocking Trump as early as mid-2015.

  • Responding to a Washington Post story about Trump saying it hadn’t been proven that Russian President Vladimir Putin had killed anyone, Page wrote: “What an utter idiot.”
  • In a March 2016 message, Page exclaimed: “God trump is a loathsome human….omg he’s an idiot.”…”He’s awful,” replied Strzok.

The agents sometimes expressed respect or outright support for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

  • “God Hillary should win 100,000,000 – 0,” Strzok wrote in March 2016, calling himself a “conservative Dem.”
  • “Also did you hear [Trump] make a comment about the size of his d*ck earlier? This man cannot be president,” Page said later in the exchange.

There are hints in the messages about the concern over Russian influence on the campaign:

In July 2016, Page expressed concern that the “sandernistas” (Bernie Sanders supporters) might undercut Clinton’s campaign. “I’m not worried about them. I’m worried about the anarchist Assanges (Julian Assange) who will take fed information and disclose it to disrupt,” Strzok replied.

The following month, after exchanging more disparaging messages about Trump’s response to Gold Star father Khizr Khan, Page appears to suggest to Strzok that he needs to save the country from Trump:

  • “Maybe you’re meant to stay where you are because you’re meant to protect the country from that menace,” Page wrote.
  • “I can protect our country at many levels,” Strzok replied.

In a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Congressman Jim Jordan raked Attorney General Rod Rosenstein over the coals about Strozk’s texts. Ed alert: “He ices the cake when he connects the dots to collusion against Trump.”

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – December 8, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

Jerusalem Recognized as Israel’s Capital 

Ed alert: “Trump in effect installed some stones on the United States by taking the stand. All the Jewish people I know, including staunch Democrats, think he’s resurrected because of this.” America’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, made an incredible statement on Friday morning and you’ll hear it on this week’s show. “The United States will not be lectured by countries who are lacking when it comes to treating both Israel and Palestine fairly,” she said. Ed alert: “Do what’s right and you don’t have to apologize to anybody.”

Is Al Franken Resigning or Not?

There’s still no official resignation date, but Minnesota Senator Al Franken announced Thursday he will resign “in the coming weeks” in light of the growing number of sexual harassment accusations against him. When more women came forward earlier this week to tell about their experiences with him, 10 of Franken’s fellow Democrats (7 of them women) threw him under the bus to save their own skin. Ed alert: “They don’t want to look bad because they’re asking Roy Moore to get out with no proof of anything, while Al Franken had photographic evidence.” Some of those Senators say Franken admitted to harassing the women who accused him – but did he? When he gave his announcement on the Senate floor this week, he seemed to do the opposite, sounding quite unapologetic and maintaining the position that he is a “champion for women.” Some in the know aren’t so sure he really plans to step down. Ed alert: “He wants to have some time to get some sympathy.”

Mike Flynn Double Standard    

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about conversations with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition, becoming the first senior White House official to cut a cooperation deal in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in our election. The documents related to Flynn’s plea do not disclose what President-elect Trump knew about Mr. Flynn’s discussions.

Somebody close to Mike Flynn told Fox News that Flynn pled guilty because he was emotionally broken, financially broken, and his family said enough was enough. In other words, he did this because Robert Mueller and this investigation are ruining his family’s life. Ed alert: “He did something that a lot of people do, and I guarantee you nothing he did is going to impact anybody but him. Hillary’s top two aides, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, both lied to the FBI about whether they knew about the secret server. Both said they did not, but both of them talked about ‘Hillary’s server’ in emails released by the FBI…and what happened to them? Not a damn thing.”

The Real Collusion 

This week, it was revealed that an FBI agent named Peter Strozk Mueller frequently texted his mistress messages with a strong anti-Trump, pro-Clinton bias, often taking on a “mocking” tone of Trump. In light of this information, Strozk became such a political liability that special counsel Robert Mueller had to boot him off the Russia investigation. Most of us had never heard of Strozk before this week, but records show he was the second-highest-ranking official in the counterintelligence division of the FBI and the person who changed James Comey’s language describing Hillary’s behavior as “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless.” Ed alert: “Remember, gross negligence is a crime but extreme carelessness is not.” When the new FBI Director, Christopher Wray, testified this week, Congressman Jim Jordan asked questions about Strozk that the FBI needs to account for.

But Strozk isn’t the only one caught colluding for Hillary. We’ve also learned that one of Mueller’s deputies, Andrew Weissmann, praised outgoing acting Attorney General Sally Yates via email after she was fired by President Trump for refusing to defend his controversial travel ban.  Ed alert: “Oh my God, protecting our country? What’s that about?”

Yates’ January 2017 emails were obtained by watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained through a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, which Judicial Watch filed after its Freedom of Information Act requests were ignored. The email from Weissmann shows that on the night of Jan. 30, Weissmann wrote to Yates under the subject line, “I am so proud.”He continued, “And in awe. Thank you so much. All my deepest respects.” Unbelievable.

Vegas Shooting Unanswered Questions 

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been asking the questions that nobody seems to have the answers to about the Las Vegas shooting in October. This week, seven news organizations petitioned to have search warrants related to shooter Stephen Paddock unsealed – proving that it’s not just “conspiracy theorists” who want answers. Ed alert: “Someone on Facebook told me I sound like Alex Jones. I don’t want to sound like Alex Jones, but there are a lot of unanswered questions out there.” Such as…

  • Was Stephen Paddock known to the authorities before this attack? The lawyer for the victims who are suing MGM says she suspects the answer is probably a yes.
  • Why did the Vegas PD pull the Homicide division off the case? Why was it was reassigned to the Force Investigation Team, which normally investigates officer-involved shootings? Ed alert: “Maybe because the lower guys are asked too many questions.”
  • Why did Paddock have two shooting positions?
  • Where is Marylou Danley, the girlfriend? She was brought back from the Philippines, questioned by the FBI, and was never to be heard from again. Is she in witness protection? Was she sent back to the Philippines? Is she in seclusion somewhere in Nevada? Nobody seems to know.
  • What happened with Jesus Campos, the security guard? He was living at an MGM property on their dime until December 1. Why were they hiding him out for two months?
  • And bottom line, why is there still no motive for Paddock? This is a man who, according to everyone he knew, had no interest in politics or religion.

The unanswered questions on Las Vegas aren’t conspiracy; they’re a matter of great importance, and the facts need to come out.

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – December 1, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

The Battle for the CFPB 

There was a showdown over the leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this week, with two people showing up to fill the position of acting CFPB director on Monday. The question is whether the job should go to President Trump’s pick, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney – or Leandra English, who was named acting director by Richard Cordray when he resigned on Friday. Ed Alert: “Richard Cordray is a moron. He made it his mission in life to punish everyone who caused the mortgage meltdown.” This is a story that affects average Americans more than you may think; tune in to hear Ed explain what the CFPB is, why you need to understand what it does, and how the organization affects you as a consumer – especially if you plan to buy a home. Ed Alert: “There’s been a ton of overreach. I could talk about it all day.”

Kate Steinle Murderer Acquitted

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the Mexican citizen who was scheduled to be deported for the 6th time before he fatally shot 32-year-old Kate Steinle in 2015 in San Francisco, was acquitted by a jury on Thursday. Ed alert: “Unbelievable. He’s still in jail for weapons possession…they deport him and he comes right back over the border and goes straight to San Francisco because that’s a sanctuary city. And this lady died.” Adding insult to injury, Zarate’s defense attorney Matt Gonzales used his press conference time as an opportunity to attack President Trump and Vice President Pence. Ed alert: “If I had done that, I’d be in jail for life or the electric chair. But for some reason, in California we feel like we have to defend illegal aliens more than American citizens.”

Sexually Harassing Senators: What Now?

This week, sexually harassing Senator Al Franken returned to the Senate and Congressman John Conyers laid in the hospital while everyone around him called for him to resign. Nancy Pelosi, Conyers’ boss in the Congress, wasn’t convinced at first; she started out the week by defending Conyers on Meet the Press with that awful “icon” statement. It got so much blowback, even from liberals in the media, that by Thursday she was singing a very different tune. Referring to how everyone in the new media or entertainment who has been accused of similar behavior has been fired immediately (Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey), Ed Alert: “Why don’t people in the government do that? Conyers is 88 years old, he can barely stand up straight.”

Another Las Vegas Shooting Survivor Dies

Recently, there were two developments in the Las Vegas shooting event. The first one was tragic: Another shooting survivor has died under mysterious circumstances. This is the fourth survivor to die, after an Apple Valley woman who was organizing a reunion of survivors who are questioning the events died mysteriously at her home last month, followed by a Murrieta couple whose car careened into a gate and burst into flames. The latest to die, Nevada man Roy McClellan, was hit by a driver as he was walking along the highway. Ed Alert: I don’t know if he was active in keeping this thing (search for answers) alive, but it’s just too much coincidence for me. I don’t want people to call me Alex Jones – but I know what happens to people who cross paths with the Clintons, and look what’s happening to people who are questioning what happened in Las Vegas.”

The next event happened Tuesday, when a gunman with a hostage opened fire from the eighth floor of the Montage condominium tower in Reno onto the streets below. No injuries were reported, but sporadic shots were heard from the building for at least 20 minutes. Later, it was reported that the condo unit the gunman was firing from was owned by the late Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock until December 2016. The man died Tuesday after a SWAT team descended on him while he was barricaded at the Montage. His name has still not been released; he has been described only as “a young adult.” Ed Alert: “What question am I asking? All together now: Why aren’t they releasing his name? Maybe because they don’t want to reveal there’s an ISIS connection.”

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 10 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

 

The Main Event – November 22, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!)

This week’s show starts out with tributes to the people we’ve lost this week: Malcolm Young of AC/DC, actress/singer Della Reese, and former teen idol David Cassidy. Ed also reminds everyone that the number to call for home loans only is (855) 6402-2020; to give your opinion on the show, please call the listener hotline.

Then it’s on to the number one news item of the season, sexual harassment, for the full hour.

Accusations Against Democrats Continue

While Democrats want to pretend Republican Roy Moore in Alabama is the only one being accused, the list of Democrats who have allegations against them continues to grow. Surprise surprise…Leeann Tweeden isn’t the only woman coming forward to accuse Franken – and unlike Tweeden, this woman was touched by Franken after he became a United States Senator. Lindsay Menz reached out to CNN hours after Tweeden made her story public, saying she wanted to share an “uncomfortable” interaction with Franken in 2010 that left her feeling “gross” at the Minnesota State Fair. Ed Alert: “I think Franken has put enough evidence out there that he does this stuff.”

And there’s a new Democrat facing allegations this week: Congressman John Conyers of Michigan, who reportedly propositioned congressional aides who worked for him, one of whom he settled with for $27,000 in 2015. Since Conyers is a dinosaur who has been in Congress since 1965, that segues to a “slightly altered” clip from Jurassic Park for some comic relief. Ed Alert: “These guys want to act like they’re pillars of strength in the community, but clearly that isn’t the case. Who you are in public needs to be who you are.”

And Then There’s Charlie Rose

As you may have heard, veteran TV journalist Charlie Rose has just lost both his TV shows because of the allegations against him. You probably know Charlie Rose as the guy on PBS who does boring interviews with people in a dark room; he’s also on CBS This Morning with Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King. But for eight of the women who worked for him, Rose is their boss who walks around naked and badgers them for sex. Eight women told The Washington Post that Rose made unwanted sexual advances toward them, including lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence or groping their private areas. In Rose’s apology statement, he said “I always felt I was pursuing shared feelings.” Ed Alert: “That reminds me of a scene from Thelma and Louise” – it’s a scene where Louise tells a man attacking Thelma, “In the future, when a woman’s crying like that, she’s not having any fun.” Who was having fun, though, were the women who saw David Cassidy at a concert Ed caught a few years back. He tells the story as a tribute to the late teen idol.

What about Bill Clinton?

Finally, some of those speaking out about the sexual harassment phenomenon are bringing Bill Clinton into the conversation. This month, New York Times writer David Brooks said that if “you don’t draw lines in these big cases (like Clinton’s Lewinsky scandal 20 years ago), then you won’t draw the line in these little cases.” Ironically, Brooks said this on the Charlie Rose show!

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York and the member who now holds Hillary Clinton’s former seat, said that Bill Clinton should have resigned from the presidency after the Lewinsky scandal 20 years ago – then tried to walk it back a bit later, of course. The question the Times asked Gillibrand was only in regards to the Lewinsky scandal, and Hillary’s response to her was “This was a very difficult time in our marriage and for our country, as I’ve written about before.” Ed Alert: “I have a few questions. Which time was the difficult time in their marriage: Monica Lewinsky, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broderick, Paula Jones? I could go on and on.” Speaking of, Ed is recapping the story of Kathleen Willey. “She asked to see President Clinton to see if she could get a paid gig in the White House because she and her husband were having financial problems, and he proceeds to take her into a private part of the Oval Office and sexually assault her.”

Final thoughts: “If you’re not a good guy when nobody’s looking, you’re not a good guy.” 

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

 

The Main Event – November 17, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!) 

This week is the Thanksgiving show, and the first Ed Alert is: “Start talking about politics at the table! I always like to do it with a little bit of alcohol too; that makes it more fun.” Ed also has insight on home buying, credit and taxes; the holidays are the best time to get those things on track.

Roy Moore Controversy 

The beginning of the week was dominated by coverage of U.S. Senate candidate from Alabama, Roy Moore, who has been alleged to have pursued underage girls in his 30s and 40s. Ed Alert: “Let me start by saying, I am not defending Roy Moore. But this stuff is coming out at a very suspect time. Remember a guy named Herman Cain, who had a great tax plan, 999? And as soon as he gained in the polls, all these women came out to say he sexually harassed them – so he dropped out. And then, where did all the women go? There are certain things you don’t accuse someone of without proof.”

And Then There’s Al Franken 

Speaking of proof, there is proof of what sitting Senator Al Franken did to Leeann Tweeden, news anchor on KABC radio Los Angeles. In a blog post on the station’s website, Tweeden wrote about Franken’s behavior when the two were on a USO Tour to entertain the troops in December 2006. Remember, at this time Franken was mostly known for being a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live. He hadn’t yet run for Senate (his Senate term began in 2009). Her full blog post is located here. Ed Alert: “This wasn’t ‘he asked me out for a date’ like Roy Moore. And I don’t think this is hearsay, because there’s a picture of it.” After reading Franken’s lengthy apology, Ed Alert: “I have to take a break now so I can go throw up.”

Plus, here’s what Al Franken said to the Harvard Crimson (the student newspaper of Harvard) in 1976 when he had just been hired by Saturday Night Live: “I just don’t like homosexuals. If you ask me, they’re all homosexuals in the Pudding (Hasty Pudding Club, the thespian society at Harvard). Hey, I was glad when that Pudding homosexual got killed in Philadelphia…put that in, put that in, I’d love to see that in the Crimson.” WOW. Al Franken, everyone – a liberal who pretends to champion the rights of gays and calls you homophobic if you aren’t on board with gay marriage.

The Week in Investigations

This week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified before the House Judiciary Committee as part of their Russia investigation. Most of the hearing was Democrats trying to twist Sessions’ words from his last testimony in an attempt to call him a liar. But one member of the committee, Republican Jim Jordan of Ohio, wanted to know when Sessions plans to appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the real Russian scandal: the sale of Uranium One to the Russian government while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, and the executives of Uranium One donating millions to the Clinton Foundation after it happened. Tune in to hear what this “freakin stud” (Ed’s words) said this week, plus more news and opinion!

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

 

The Main Event – November 10, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show! (To see Ed’s comments, look for “Ed Alerts” throughout the blog post!) 

Terror in Texas, Good Guys with Guns 

This week, 26 people were killed during a Sunday morning church service in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The victims range in age from 18 months to 77 years old, with as many as 14 children among the dead. The gunman was 26-year-old Devin Kelley, who was dressed in tactical gear and armed with a Ruger AR assault-type rifle – and as you may have heard, Kelley’s record of domestic violence alone should have barred him under Texas law from purchasing the gun he used, starting with assault and battery on his wife and infant stepson when he was in the Air Force in New Mexico. The Air Force dropped the ball big time, failing to report Kelley’s court martial to civilian law enforcement so that he would have been entered into the federal database gun dealers are required to check. “Had his information been in the database, it should have prevented gun sales to Kelley,” the Air Force said in a statement. Ed Alert: “This was the Barack Insane Obama military.” Next, Ed and Scott talk about the two heroes who stopped Kelley,  55-year old Steven Willeford, and 27-year-old Johnnie Langendorff. Kelley had an AR-15 rifle. Ed Alert: “When seconds count, the cops will be there in a few minutes. The best thing to stop bad guys with guns is good guys with guns; that day was proof.”

Donna Brazile Backtracks (Kind Of)

This week, former interim DNC Chair Donna Brazile made comments while promoting her tell-all book Hacks that have her Democrat colleagues fuming. We touched on this last week: Brazile’s book talks about how the DNC forced her to go along with intentionally disadvantaging Bernie Sanders, forced her to feed questions to Hillary in debates against Sanders, prevented her from moving forward with ideas she had to help Hillary win, and that it was like working with a “cult,” particularly when her ideas differed from campaign manager Robby Mook. Keep in mind, Brazile came in because Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign in the wake of the Russians hacking the DNC server. Democrats are said to be furious over Brazile’s claims – so over the course of the week, people on the right have praised Brazile for telling her fellow Democrat critics to “go to hell.” Unfortunately, this prompted Brazile to back away from her initially bold stance. If you watched Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, you saw Brazile say she should have been “more like Michelle Obama” by “going high” when her critics “went low.” Ed Alert: “Translation: They slapped my hand, so now I better backtrack on that.”

Empowering, Not Apologizing

In response to some messages from listeners via the contact form, Ed opens the second half by making sure people know last week’s comments on sexual predators in Hollywood were not sympathetic toward the predators. Ed Alert: “I am not an apologist for these guys. Harvey Weinstein is a pig, Kevin Spacey is a pig. I see all the people in Hollywood crumbling and it makes me happy. If you’re a victim of one of these types of guys, you need to stand up and do something about it. One voice can turn the world around.”

This Week in Tax Reform

This is our third week covering the evolution of the Republican tax bill. Last week, the House GOP unveiled their framework; this week, Senate Republicans made the changes they want to see. President Trump reportedly called several Democrat Senators on the phone Wednesday night to tell them, “You’re going to like the Senate version of the bill a whole lot more.” Uh-oh!

The Senate’s changes reportedly include:

  • Delaying the proposed corporate tax cut (from 35% to 20%) until 2019 (Ed does not like!)
  • The restoration of the mortgage interest deduction – no more capping it at $500,000, as the House had proposed
  • Tax breaks for the elderly and the blind
  • Tax breaks for high out-of-pocket medical expenses
  • A tax credit for adoptive parents, which the House also added back into their version in a committee amendment Thursday afternoon (Ed Alert: “Okay, we like that!”)

So the Senate plan restores all kinds of middle class tax cuts, it delays the corporate tax cut for a full year, the President himself is telling Democrats they’re going to like it better – and yet, Nancy Pelosi did her weekly Disney villain impression when asked for her thoughts. “That’s why so much secrecy…such a short fuse…because time is their enemy.” Huh? Ed Alert: “Apparently, one of the side effects of all that plastic surgery is meaningless dribble coming out of your mouth.”

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – November 3, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

It Only Takes One

This week’s show opens with Ed’s thoughts on the allegations against actor Kevin Spacey. Not defending Spacey, Harvey Weinstein or anyone else who has been accused of sexual assault, Ed says it would have been much better if one person had spoken up years ago. “If one person jumps in, and another stands next to them, and another stands next to them…that’s a movement.” He likens it to other current events:

“President Obama decides to trade five Taliban and a trunk full of cash for Bowe Bergdahl who deserted his post and went to live with the Taliban, this week he gets off with a dishonorable discharge, and everybody involved with that got away with it. Why isn’t someone standing up? Why is it okay that Lois Lerner and the IRS misused their power against conservatives to take away their tax-exempt status? Why is it okay that Hillary Clinton has gotten away with all this stuff we’ve been talking about for weeks (Uranium One)? If something like that (sexual harassment) is going on in your life, stand up.”

Another Terror Attack – Thanks, Diversity Visa Lottery!

On Tuesday, eight people were killed in lower Manhattan when 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov mowed them down with a pickup truck he rented from a Home Depot in New Jersey. “Democrats are calling for the banning of Home Depot rental trucks, because they kill people all by themselves,” Ed says. On his 2013 marriage license, the Uzbekistan-born Saipov’s occupation is listed as “truck driver” and he drove for Uber in New Jersey. “The company says he passed their background check,” Ed says. “Don’t you feel good about taking an Uber now?”

In regards to the Diversity Lottery Program visa, Saipov’s “golden ticket” into the United States, President Trump is ready to end the program immediately. Did you know that this program enabled a chain migration effect for Saipov, leading to him bring another 23 people into the country with him? After President Trump said that this week, ABC News contacted a government official source who confirmed it – and, it was confirmed that two of those people were being monitored for terrorist activity. “The only vetting they got was ‘they’re friends,’ just like when Sayeed Farook’s wife was able to come in on the fiancé visa,” Ed says. “And 14 people in San Bernardino ended up dead.”

What Really Happened in Las Vegas? It’s Time to Tell the Truth

“Now would be a good time for them to start giving us more information,” Ed says, “because just this week, three survivors of the Las Vegas terror attack have unexpectedly died.” Survivor Kymberley Suchomel of Apple Valley, California raised serious questions about what really happened on her (now private) Facebook page, stating that she wanted to organize a reunion of other truth-seeking survivors – and the 28-year-old woman died five days later. But Suchomel isn’t the only Vegas shooting survivor to die mysteriously – in fact, she isn’t even the only one to die this week. Dennis and Lorraine Carver of Murrieta, driving out of their La Cresta community, died when their Mercedes crashed into a gate and burst into flames. “I don’t know what happened, but if it walks like a duck…” Ed says. “Kymberley tried to stand up, and someone didn’t want her to. Maybe it was the same for this couple.”

Mueller Indicts Manafort, Donna Brazille (Kind of) Stands Up

This week, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted two former members of the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. The men were charged with money laundering and making false statements; they remain on house arrest. Here’s the problem: These charges pertain to things they did in their consulting business prior to 2015. None of the charges have anything do with Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election, which is what Mueller is supposed to be investigating.

However, indicting Manafort and Gates may also be Mueller’s way of pressuring them to talk about their dealings with this guy: George Papadopoulos, who’s 30 years old and was a volunteer for the campaign (not a “senior advisor” like CNN wants you to believe). Here’s what happened with Papadopoulos. This is all according to court documents:

  • Papadopoulos knew a foreign professor who said he was in contact with well-connected people in Russia.
  • In April 2016, the professor told him Moscow had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of e-mails.
  • Papadopoulos told the Trump campaign about this, and repeatedly pressed them to backchannel with the Russians the professor told him about. One of these Russians was a woman Papadopoulos believed to be Vladimir Putin’s niece.
  • Papadopoulos emailed “a high-ranking Campaign official” in May 2016 with the subject line “Request from Russia to meet Mr. Trump.” The email said: “Russia has been eager to meet Mr. Trump for quite some time and have been reaching out to me to discuss.” The campaign official he emailed is believed to be Paul Manafort.
  • Papadopoulos’s file also states “the official forwarded this email to another campaign official” without Papadopoulos included, writing, “Let’s discuss. We need someone to communicate that DT (that’s DONALD TRUMP) is not doing these trips. It should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal.” The person that Manafort forwarded to is believed to be Richard Gates.

So that’s the real reason Manafort and Gates were indicted this week – not because of money laundering in their business, but because Mueller wants them to tell him if there was ever any contact between the campaign and these Russians. They can thank this kid George Papadopoulos for that. “I think this is a smokescreen to keep our eyes of Hillary Clinton,” Ed says, “and in Donna Brazille’s new book, she just admitted the DNC was in the tank for Hillary and she didn’t like it but didn’t want to ‘kill the patient’ – she didn’t want to stand up and say anything about it.”

The Tax Reform Ball is Rolling

In keeping with their goal to get the Tax Cut and Jobs Act to the President’s desk before Thanksgiving, House Republicans unveiled their tax reform package on Thursday. Remember, this is still a framework and it can’t go to the President’s desk until it passes the Senate – but as of this week, this is how the House bill looks:

  • It would reduce number of tax brackets from 7 to 4: 12 percent, 25 percent, 35 percent and 39.6 percent.
  • It would raise the child tax credit to $1,600 from its current maximum of $1,000. Ed: “I don’t mind this, but I don’t like when people get back more than they paid in and the rest of us have to pay everything.”
  • It would preserve popular retirement savings plans like 401(k)s and Individual Retirement Accounts (remember, last week the media stoked fears that Republicans wanted to take away your 401 k).
  • It would allow taxpayers to write off up to $10,000 in state and local property taxes.
  • But it would also cut the mortgage interest deduction in half. While it would maintain the current deduction of $1 million in mortgage debt for current homeowners, that cap would be slashed to $500,000 for newly purchased homes. “The National Association of Realtors is going crazy…people don’t buy houses because they’re getting a tax write off. People buy houses because they want to own. The tax write off is just a bonus.”

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – October 27, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

The Uranium One Investigation

This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened an investigation into the sale of 20% of America’s uranium to Russia during Obama’s presidency – remember that this is the deal that involved millions of dollars in kickbacks, much of which mysteriously made its way to the Clinton Foundation? Of course you do! Follow the bouncing ball on this story and see where it leads:

  • Uranium is a key ingredient in developing nuclear weapons. Russian president Vladimir Putin wants 20% of the uranium that’s on American soil – but that 20% is already owned by a Canadian mining company called Uranium One.
  • Uranium One wants to sell the American uranium to Russia – but because uranium is a national security product for the United States, various federal agencies have to OK the deal. One of those agencies is the U.S. State Department.
  • At that time, our State Department was led by Hillary Clinton. What does her department say to the deal? They say YES.
  • Throughout 2009 to 2013, Uranium One executives donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation – plus, Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations to the Clinton Foundation totaling $2.35 million! Is this making sense?

“People are too busy worrying about the Dodgers, so hopefully they’re listening to this,” Ed says.

Draining the RINO Swamp

After a much-publicized Twitter feud with President Trump, Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee announced that he won’t seek reelection when his term ends next year. But it’s Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona who’s getting all the attention this week; Flake made the same announcement as Corker, but in a way that was much more appealing to the media. So the media praised Flake for this all week long – but when they tried goading him into saying words like “impeachment” or “high crimes and misdemeanors,” Flake did some pretty weak backtracking.

Tax Reform isn’t Boring!

In the second half, Ed is talking to Southern California CPA Brooke Horspool about the framework of the President’s tax reform agenda. The bill isn’t ready yet, but its details are being negotiated in the House and Senate as we speak. “You’re hearing people make a lot of noise,” Ed says, and that’s why he brought in an expert to answer the questions people may have.

“I’m really encouraged by the framework so far,” Brooke says. “It mentions doubling the standard deduction, lowering tax brackets and eliminating the death and estate tax.” Additionally, it outlines lowering the corporate tax rate, which Brooke says “can be very beneficial.” Ed’s opinion: “I don’t just think it’s beneficial; I think it’s mandatory.” This week, the President said the plan includes the lowest small business tax rate since 1931 – is that true? “It is,” Brooke says, and of course Ed is excited for the job creation that will likely ensue.

This is one discussion on tax reform that makes the topic interesting (your eyes will not glaze over!). Think tax reform doesn’t apply to you? If you have a 401 (k), own a home or have a job, it does – so be sure to tune in! And if you’re interested in speaking to Southern California CPA Brooke Horspool about your taxes or other personal accounting needs, call him at (951) 684-9167.

There’s more this week, including Ed’s thoughts on the opioid crisis, the mortgage interest deduction and lots of other news!

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – October 20, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Lies from a Congresswoman 

This week, Frederica Wilson (the African-American Congresswoman from Miami who wears flashy cowboy hats) is going around claiming President Trump made an insensitive remark to the widow of Sergeant David Johnson on the phone. According to Wilson, the remark in question is: “He knew what he was getting into, but it hurts anyway, I guess.” We have yet to hear this story from the widow herself – and on this week’s show, we play audio of Rep. Wilson on ABC’s The View. Listen to her dodge all questions that mildly challenge her story – most notably, when she is asked whether they were even on speakerphone and whether Johnson’s widow plans to make her own public confirmation of Wilson’s story. Tune in and make your own decision – and be sure to listen to General John Kelly, White House Chief of Staff, as he gave the proper context we needed to fully understand the story in a press conference Thursday. “It’s just amazing to me that a Congresswoman can take an event like this and make it such a damn circus,” Ed concludes.

Dismantling the Obama Legacy

This week, the Trump administration demonstrated a solid commitment to dismantling the Obama legacy, starting with the Iran nuclear deal. Remember, one of the conditions of the deal was that Congress requires the President to re-evaluate (or “recertify”) the agreement every 90 days. The most recent deadline was this week on October 15, when the President chose not to recertify the deal. Democrats don’t like this because everything Barack Obama did was sacred to them – but the President has the support of cabinet members like National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and you’ll hear him explain why on this week’s show. “You can’t get a good deal from a bad guy,” Ed says, and that’s what people need to remember when it comes to this entire nuclear agreement. The other signature piece of the Obama legacy, Obamacare, continues to stay on the chopping block and Ed will bring you up to speed on this week’s developments in addition to a personal anecdote that underscores the need for “healthcare, not just health insurance.”

Uranium One: The Other Russia Scandal

As the show winds down, it’s on to that “other Russian scandal” that’s finally gaining ground: that time the Obama administration gave the Russian government control of 20% of America’s uranium by approving the sale of the company Uranium One, and there was an undeniable connection to Bill and Hillary because Russian nuclear officials routed millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. Remember that? If so, you must have read the book Clinton Cash. “Wait a minute,” Ed says. “Is Russia trying to influence American nuclear investments? Next, you’re going to tell me they’re trying to influence our elections.” This is a complex story that has many layers, so be sure to tune in this week to get the major points.

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

 

 

 

NFL Boycott Day – Veterans Day 2017

By popular demand, here is the essay Ed read on the 10/13/17 show regarding the call for an NFL Boycott Day this Veterans Day 2017.

How I Feel…

You graduated high school in 2011. Your teenage years were a struggle. You grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Your mother was the leader of the family and worked tirelessly to keep a roof over your head and food on your plate. Academics were a struggle for you and your grades were mediocre at best. The only thing that made you stand out is you weighed 225 pounds and could run 40 yards in 4.2 seconds while carrying a football. Your best friend was just like you, except he didn’t play football.  Instead of going to football practice after school, he went to work at McDonalds for minimum wage. You were recruited by all the big colleges and spent every weekend of your senior year making visits to universities where coaches and boosters tried to convince you their school was best. They laid out the red carpet for you. Your best friend worked double shifts at Mickey D’s.  College was not an option for him. On the day you signed with Big State University, your best friend signed paperwork with his Army recruiter. You went to summer workouts. He went to basic training.

You spent the next four years living in the athletic dorm, eating at the training table. You spent your Saturdays on the football field, cheered on by adoring fans.  Tutors attended to your every academic need. You attended class when you felt like it. Sure, you worked hard. You lifted weights, ran sprints, studied plays, and soon became one of the top football players in the country. Your best friend was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. While you were in college, he deployed to Iraq once and Afghanistan twice. He became a Sergeant and led a squad of 19-year-old soldiers who grew up just like he did. He shed his blood in Afghanistan and watched young Americans give their lives, limbs, and innocence for the USA.

You went to the NFL combine and scored off the charts. You hired an agent and waited for draft day.  You were drafted in the first round and your agent immediately went to work, ensuring that you received the most money possible. You signed for $16 million although you had never played a single down of professional football.  Your best friend re-enlisted in the Army for four more years. As a combat tested sergeant, he will be paid $32,000 per year.

  • You will drive a Ferrari on the streets of South Beach.
  • He will ride in the back of a Blackhawk helicopter with 10 other combat loaded soldiers.
  • You will sleep at the Ritz.
  • He will dig a hole in the ground and try to sleep.
  • You will “make it rain” in the club.
  • He will pray for rain as the temperature reaches 120 degrees.

On Sunday, you will run into a stadium as tens of thousands of fans cheer and yell your name.  For your best friend, there is little difference between Sunday and any other day of the week. There are no adoring fans. There are only people trying to kill him and his soldiers. Every now and then, he and his soldiers leave the front lines and “go to the rear” to rest.  He might be lucky enough to catch an NFL game on TV. When the National Anthem plays and you take a knee, he will jump to his feet and salute the television. While you protest the unfairness of life in the United States, he will give thanks to God that he has the honor of defending his great country.

To the players of the NFL:  We are the people who buy your tickets, watch you on TV, and wear your jerseys.  We anxiously wait for Sundays so we can cheer for you and marvel at your athleticism. Although we love to watch you play, we care little about your opinions until you offend us. You have the absolute right to express yourselves, but we have the absolute right to boycott you.  We have tolerated your drug use and DUIs, your domestic violence, and your vulgar displays of wealth.  We should be ashamed for putting our admiration of your physical skills before what is morally right.  But now you have gone too far. You have insulted our flag, our country, our soldiers, our police officers, and our veterans. You are living the American dream, yet you disparage our great country.  I am done with NFL football and encourage all like minded Americans to boycott the NFL as well.

National boycott of the NFL for Sunday November 12th, Veterans Day Weekend. Boycott all football telecast, all fans, all ticket holders, stay away from attending any games, let them play to empty stadiums. Pass this post along to all your friends and family. Honor our military, some of whom come home with the American flag draped over their coffin.

The Main Event – October 13, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Las Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theories

Ed returns from vacation this week, and the theme of the show is “truth.” It starts with a timeless scene from “A Few Good Men” and the classic Tom Petty song “I Need to Know.” Ed ties that in to the questions surrounding the Las Vegas shooting and the public’s justifiable demand for the truth about the incident. Thanks to the shifting timeline of the LVPD and the FBI, the secrecy surrounding the “not a suicide” note in his room, and the fact that Paddock’s home was mysteriously broken into this week, Las Vegas shooting conspiracy theories are starting to emerge (some more credible than others). You’ll hear one of them on this week’s show, and it just might blow your mind.

The Gun Control Factor

Meanwhile, this tragedy is still being treated as a gun control matter. As you may have heard, the NRA has agreed that outlawing the “bumpstock” devices Paddock used is an acceptable measure – and many gun owners are saying they’d never even heard of bumpstocks before this shooting. “I know I hadn’t,” Ed says. “And I don’t think there’s any reason for anybody to have it.”

Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood Pig

This week, Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was fired from his own movie production company amid allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault on women that has reportedly gone on for years. Ed recaps the timeline of the story on Hollywood’s “open secret” that Weinstein is a serial sexual predator. “He sounds like a guy who lived in the White House for a while,” Ed says – and speaking of the Clintons, we talk about Hillary’s hypocrisy on this mess as well. “Let’s compare this to Hillary Clinton’s husband,” Ed says. “Very similar.”

And don’t forget…

  • Weinstein was one of many celebrities who donated to Bill Clinton’s legal defense fund in the 90s during the impeachment trial. Along with Tom Hanks, Barbra Streisand, Michael Douglas, Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg, Weinstein donated $10,000 to help Bill Clinton – who was still the sitting President – pay his lawyers.
  • Weinstein held fundraisers for Hillary’s presidential campaign at his homes in Manhattan and Beverly Hills, raising millions of dollars.
  • The DNC says it will donate the $30,000 Weinstein has given them over the years to “Emily’s List,” which is not even a charity; it’s a PAC that aims to help elect pro-choice Democratic women into office. The DNCCC says it will donate its money from Weinstein to “various women’s charities” – but Hillary Clinton says there’s “no one to give the money back to” in her case(?), and that she’ll just give 10% of her income to charity like she already does. “That means her foundation,” Ed says, “which gets funneled through Teneo Holdings and goes straight in her and Bill’s pockets.”

“Follow the money,” Ed says. “You’ll find out how this country was being run before Trump.”

Healthcare Executive Order

After a summer of failed health care reform bills in Congress, the White House announced Thursday that President Trump is taking executive action in an effort to provide more alternatives to health insurance. Trump’s executive order will help people purchase insurance across state lines in order to expand access and lower costs.

The plan asks the Secretary of Labor to expand access to “association health plans” and allows consumers to go across state lines to purchase insurance that could be more affordable or tailored to a person’s needs. And for those of you who tend to side with Rand Paul on healthcare, good news: Rand Paul likes this! He was standing behind the President when this was announced. Ed has thoughts on this one – and if you’re a regular listener to the show, you know health insurance is one of his favorite topics to address.

NFL Boycott on Veterans Day?

The National Football League attempted to bring the National Anthem debate to a close this week, with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sending a letter to all 32 teams on Tuesday that urged them to “move past” this PR nightmare. We talk about the letter, the player’s reaction and Ed’s support for the NFL boycott movement on Veteran’s Day that’s being driven by the “How I Feel” essay you may have seen on social media this week. Don’t miss this week’s show!

 

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – October 6, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Las Vegas Shooting and Gun Control

Ed is still floating on the ocean and loving every minute of it, so Scott fills in for one more week. As everyone knows, 58 people were killed and another 489 injured in Las Vegas this week when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock fired hundreds of rounds on the crowd at the Route 91 Harvest music festival from the window of his Mandalay Bay hotel room. The act is being called the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in modern U.S. history. Paddock was reportedly found dead in his suite from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

“Pray for those people who are now fighting for their lives in hospital rooms,” Scott says. “Many of us knew people who were impacted by this – but what does the left do? Naturally, they want to make it about politics.” On this week’s show, you’ll hear all the late night talk show hosts who are now legislative experts: Trevor Noah from The Daily Show, Steven Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. “All this talk begs the question,” Scott says, “What is the gun law that would have made a difference in this case?”

Also in the first half, Scott has a top ten you don’t want to miss and a great clip on the NFL kneeldown.

California Gas Tax Repeal Effort, Assemblyman Travis Allen Running for Governor

In the second half, our guest is State Assemblyman Travis Allen. He’s spreading the word on the effort to repeal the costly gas tax the Democrats in Sacramento are foisting on the hard-working taxpayers of California.

“None of these taxes are going to build new freeways in the state,” Allen says. “If you hate traffic now, you’re going to hate it even more when you’re paying an extra $2.50 every time you go to the gas station.”

“It’s the only measure that’s made it this far that’s going to give us a chance to vote on repealing the gas tax,” he says. “We should have petitions out within three weeks or so. Go on www.nocagastax.com to sign up so you can help get signatures.” Allen also states that he will be running for governor of California in 2018 – breaking news!

As the show closes, Allen addresses the news this week that Governor Jerry Brown has just made California a sanctuary state. “They’re going to use your taxpayer dollars to protect people who are not here legally, and committing crimes while they’re here. This is why we’ve had double increases in violent crime in the last 10 years…and if you’re sick and tired of Jerry Brown and his cronies running us into the ground, it’s time for a new governor.”

Assemblyman Travis Allen urges everyone to throw their support behind him, because he’s running for governor of California in 2018. “Go on Facebook and like the page ‘Join Travis Allen,'” he says. “The way that we truly win is to become a household name.” Tune in to the show this week to hear more! Ed will be back next week, ready to resume the show and give it to you straight. If you missed Ed, let him know by calling The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092!

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – September 29, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed Hoffman on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Filling in for Ed Hoffman

Ed and his wife Dawn are on a two-week cruise of the Panama Canal, so filling in as always is Scott. In the second half, Scott has Troy Worden of the Berkeley College Republicans to talk about the most recent attempt to shut down Milo and other big voices on the right during the university’s Free Speech Week. But in the first half, we’re talking about…

The NFL Kneeldown Mess

As you know, the NFL has come under fire from conservatives for siding with their unpatriotic players who kneel during the National Anthem. The President has also come under fire for commenting on it this week. During Thursday night’s Packers vs. Bears game, fans were encouraged to link arms during the National Anthem as a “call to solidarity”

“What’s a ‘solidarity’ call?” asks Ed’s fill-in host Scott. “What’s their solidarity for? Just be thankful you don’t live in North Korea.” On that note, here’s some interesting info on NFL salaries:

  • Andrew Luck, the highest-paid quarterback with the Indianapolis Colts, earns a salary of $24,594,000 per season.
  • Carson Palmer, Drew Brees, Joe Flacco, and Aaron Rodgers are also among the top 5-highest paid quarterbacks, with Aaron Rodgers earning a salary of $22 million.
  • Colin Kaepernick, the guy we have to thank for all this, made $39 million before he was let go by the San Francisco 49ers.

Speaking of Colin Kaepernick, Nancy Pelosi can’t say his name correctly and it’s hilarious. You’ll hear it on this week’s show.

Trump Tax Reform

President Donald Trump announced the framework of his tax plan Wednesday afternoon, promising that it would restore the American dream for working families. Let’s look at the details of this program:

  • The president also promised that the majority of families would be allowed to file their taxes on a single piece of paper.
  • Trump promoted the idea of cutting taxes for working-class Americans, allowing the first $12,000 of earned income to remain tax-free — $24,000 for married couples.
  • He promoted three different tax rates of 12 percent, 25 percent, and 35 percent for different income brackets.
  • The president promoted pro-family policies like the expansion of the child tax credit and eliminating the marriage penalties. He also promoted a $500 tax credit for dependent adults or the elderly. His framework also included a plan to eliminate the alternative minimum tax and end the “death tax” permanently.
  • Trump said his plan aims to cap the tax rate for millions of small businesses and farms at 25 percent and allow them to write off the cost of equipment in the same year they purchased it.
  • The new tax plan, he explained, would encourage more companies to bring jobs back to the United States.
  • He proposed a corporate tax rate of 20 percent.

There’s a lot to go over, and Scott breaks it down in Ed’s absence.

Jeff Sessions Fights the Free Speech War

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced a plan to intervene in the war on free speech on college campuses. His plan includes to file a “statement of interest” in various free speech cases the Justice Department is following, and lawsuits if necessary. Although there are lefty blogs mocking him, AG Sessions is determined to make a difference – and after all, didn’t Obama’s media fans praise Eric Holder for taking up fights the left believed in?

Berkeley College Republicans Interview

Speaking of free speech: In the second half, Scott is talking to Berkeley College Republicans president Troy Worden on the issues that surrounded the school’s uphill battle to hold a Free Speech Week. “The alt-left will attempt to target you if you appear in the media,” Troy Worden says. “But it’s really not that difficult if you have a great team and support behind you.” Troy tells Scott that he’s very proud of what he has done to make a difference on the largely liberal Berkeley campus. “Things get really dangerous here,” he says of the Antifa-friendly climate at Berkeley. “They’ll put up posters with your face on it…they’ll stop at nothing to try to intimidate you. But not backing down this age of political division is the key to your success.” In addition to describing how the university’s biggest events during Free Speech Week were shut down, Troy tells his fellow conservative students: “We need you here. You didn’t make a mistake coming here; you actually did yourself a favor.” This is a great interview you don’t want to miss!

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

 

 

 

The Main Event – September 15, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Confronting a Congressman

This week, Ed starts the show by describing his confrontation with Republican Congressman Ken Calvert (watch it here!). Here’s the reason for his frustration: “We’re Republicans…we want to stay dignified, because we’re business owners…so we don’t want to raise our voices, and we don’t want to say any bad words. And that’s why we don’t get anything done.”

The rest of the first half is all about the bipartisanship and triangulation the President has demonstrated, working with Democrats on a host of issues. Here’s a recap:

  • Just days after Chuck Schumer called his old friend Donald Trump “cruel” for announcing the phase out of DACA, he was invited to meet with President Trump, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell in the Oval Office to discuss hurricane relief.
  • The meeting resulted in a deal that bundles relief for Hurricane Harvey, and a 3-month continuing resolution to keep the government funded through December 15th – in addition to a 3-month fix to raise the debt limit.
  • Then, Tuesday night: Trump had Democrats Joe Donnelly, Joe Manchin and Heidi Hidecamp, and Republicans John Thune, Orrin Hatch and Pat Toomey for dinner to talk about tax reform. Shortly after that, House Speaker Paul Ryan said the White House and congressional Republicans would release an outline of their tax overhaul plan by the end of the month. In other words, these efforts are working!

Tax Reform and Republican Nicknames

While we’re talking about tax reform, Ed says: “You want real tax reform? Don’t start at the current tax code. Let’s go back to a friend of mine, Herman Cain, who had a bold solution: ‘999.’ That’s a 9% sales tax, a 9% income tax for everybody and a 9% corporate tax. Imagine what that could do.” He has more thoughts on this, and they make way too much sense.

Ed’s also got new nicknames for the Republican leadership:

  • Mitch McConnell: “Mr. We’re Moving too Fast”
  • Paul Ryan: “Mr. Today I’m on the Team and Tomorrow I’m off the Team”

And speaking of leadership, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was caught on a hot mic this week. What he said proves he doesn’t think as badly of his old friend Donald Trump has he would like us to believe. “Moron,” Ed says. “He didn’t know he was on the mic.”

The calls have been rolling in about the annual 9/11 show! We put a link to it on the home page so you can hear it anytime.

DACA Deal and Hillary’s Book

In the second half, we hit on the deal Trump is nearing with Democrat leadership on DACA (the Dream Act). “He better not make any deal on DACA without absolute funding for the wall,” Ed says. “Like Newt Gingrich says, we can’t do any immigration reform without having the border sealed. Remember: As soon as Obama started talking about DACA, we had kids coming over here on trains because there was word they were going to get to stay.”

Then it’s time to talk about Hillary Clinton’s blame game book tour. “I could be talking about how Judicial Watch just got a bunch of Huma Abedin’s emails, but that just happened this morning,” Ed says. Since we don’t know what’s in them yet, that’s on the shelf until next week – but in the meantime, there’s Hillary’s book What Happened.

On her press tour for the book this week, Mrs. Clinton blamed the following for her loss:

  • Disgruntled white people for buying into Donald Trump’s supposedly racist campaign ideas
  • Bernie Sanders for her loss
  • Young Democrat women who didn’t vote for her because they assumed she’d win
  • Republicans who talked too much about the 2012 attack in Benghazi
  • And all in a single breath: Fox News, conservative blogs, the Russian government and Facebook (yes, really)

Finally, Hillary’s blame game tour wouldn’t be complete if she forgot to blame former FBI Director James Comey, who she called “the determining factor” in her loss. All of this led at least one person in the mainstream media to question whether Hillary wants to take any responsibility for her own loss: Matt Lauer of the Today Show. His question – and her response – are pretty amusing.

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

 

 

 

 

The Main Event – September 8, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

September 11 Tribute Show

This week is Ed’s annual September 11 tribute show. “9/11 happening, and visiting Ground Zero, are what made me who I am today,” he says. “We don’t want 9/11 to become like Pearl Harbor Day, where we all forget what day it is.” Listen to the second half of the show to hear the 9/11 tribute; it’s patriotic and uplifting.

DACA Phase-out

In the first half, it’s all about DACA. The White House announced this week that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – the Obama immigration program otherwise known as DACA or the Dream Act – would be phased out over the next two years, with no DACA permit renewals granted after October 5th. “Just so we’re all clear,” Ed says, “here are the facts about DACA.”

  • DACA was launched by Barack Obama in 2012 as one of many executive orders throughout his presidency. It was not passed into law by Congress. “Obama did an executive action, a unilateral move,” Ed reminds everyone. “It wasn’t an actual law.”
  • The program was designed to allow people who were brought to the United States illegally as children to remain in the country.
  • Applicants cannot have serious criminal histories, and must have arrived in the U.S. before 2007, when they were under the age of 16. DACA recipients can live and work legally in the U.S. for renewable two-year periods.
  • It has been open to those who were at least 15 years old, but no more than 31 years old, as of June 15, 2012. The average age of DACA recipients is 25.

As Attorney General Jeff Sessions pointed out this week, there is an undeniable connection between Obama’s announcement of DACA and the influx of unaccompanied minors that arrived in Southern California in summer of 2012. Ed reminds everyone, “Obama announced this, and these kids started streaming over the southern border. Remember, they were riding on the top of trains to get across – because they knew that if you get across, you can get deferred action. And if you’re 15, you can say you’re 14, and so on.” Furthermore, these kids are now adults.

Media’s DACA Freakout

“Here’s the media’s ‘oh my God’ reaction,” Ed says before the montage of everyone from Tom Brokaw to Don Lemon calling the DACA phase-out racism. “To call this a ‘cruel act’ really raises the question what our values are,” he says. In response to the media’s favorite example that dreamers would be unable to obtain driver’s licenses, he says, “DACA was implemented five years ago and you have six more months. If you haven’t gotten a driver’s license yet, what are you waiting for? You don’t know how to get a driver’s license, but you’re somehow getting into our colleges?”

Barack Obama Chimes In and Changed his Tune

“Barack Obama had to chime in,” Ed says, “even though no one asked him to.” We’re playing his statement on the DACA phase-out, but you’ll also hear what the former President had to say about illegal immigration when he was a young Senator. He was singing an entirely different tune then. “They say what you want to hear,” Ed says, “then they get elected and their whole tune changes.” The same goes for Senator Chuck Schumer, whose own immigration flip-flop over time will be on the show this week.

Tune in for this and the 9/11 tribute show on this week’s The Main Event!

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

The Main Event – September 1, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

Hurricane Harvey: Can the President Do Anything Right?

This week, Ed opens the show by talking about Hurricane Harvey and how the President can’t do anything right in the eyes of the media. But first, some facts* about the storm:

  • Hurricane Harvey has impacted 280 miles throughout Texas and Louisiana (by comparison, Hurricane Katrina impacted 400 miles)
  • Harvey is estimated to be the costliest natural disaster in American history; Accuweather estimates the damage at $190 billion (Hurricane Katrina damage totaled $49.8 billion)
  • It has dumped 19 trillion gallons of rain over southeast Texas and 5.5 trillion gallons of rain over Louisiana

*Source: CNN

Ed urges everyone to donate to the relief effort through Save the Children or the Red Cross.

“Trump waited a few days, but he didn’t go to Houston because he didn’t want to get in the middle of everything,” Ed says. “He met with the local leaders. What do you want him to do? You want him to have an ‘Obama moment,’ so it looks like you care.” As to the charge that the President’s throwaway remark “what a crowd, what a turnout” signaled a lack of empathy for the victims, Ed says, “Well, we found out Thursday night that he donated $1 million of his own money. What did Barack Obama do (after Hurricane Sandy)? Pay attention, folks, and make sure you point these things out to millennials, and to your neighbors and coworkers.”

Melania’s Shoes and Attacking Ted Cruz

It wasn’t only the President who was condemned during this natural disaster; somehow, people managed to attack Melania Trump this week over her shoes. And then there’s Senator Ted Cruz, who shot down an MSNBC anchor who tried to pin him into a corner over the federal relief he voted against after Hurricane Sandy. “It’s not right to turn a bill for disaster relief into your own political wish list,” Cruz said. And as the first half winds down, Ed plays a fascinating YouTube that sounds it’s about one political leader, but is really about another. It’s a perfect segue into the interview with this week’s guest, Dinesh D’Souza.

Dinesh D’Souza Interview: The Big Lie 

In this second half, Ed’s guest this week is conservative author and filmaker Dinesh D’Souza. You know him from his many books and films, including 2016: Obama’s AmericaAmerica: Imagine the World Without Her…and Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party. Now, he’s back with a book that could not be more timely. It’s called The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left; it tells the truth about who the real fascists and Nazis were historically, and how the American left is still defending Nazi doctrine today.

“In this book, I pivot from the race card to the fascism card,” Dinesh says. “The big lie is that Nazism and fascism are products of the right.” Tune in to hear Dinesh explain how liberal progressives “very cunningly moved fascism from the ‘left wing column’ into the ‘right wing column’,” and how the modern Antifa group is emblematic of that. He also explains that the left is taking a page right out of the original Mussolini fascism playbook: “Drive out people who don’t agree with your agenda,” he says. “Persecute them, turn them into piranhas. Today we call it political correctness.”

Dinesh D’Souza Interview: Was Charlottesville Orchestrated? 

Dinesh is an expert on the Democrat party’s history of keeping minority communities subservient and pulling the puppet strings of racial tension to accomplish their agendas. “Look at the inner cities of America,” Dinesh says. “We’ve put so many resources into them, and they’re in the same miserable predicaments that they were in 1968. But the Democrats don’t seem particularly alarmed about this. It’s because they have a stranglehold on these communities.”

That leads to the question: Could the violence in Charlottesville have been orchestrated? Dinesh mentions Jason Kessler, the organizer of the so-called “Unite the Right” rally that was ground zero for the violence between white supremacists and counterprotestors. “He made a video on his Twitter feed attacking me,” Dinesh says. “You listen to this guy, and you see he’s a left-winger. So the effort to portray this guy as a right-winger is a fraud. I’ve spoken at conservative rallies all over for years, and I’ve never seen any group called ‘Unite the Right’.” Dinesh D’Souza is a killer interview anytime, but this is one you definitely don’t want to miss!

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.

 

The Main Event – August 25, 2017

Connect with The Main Event on social media! Follow Ed on Twitter @EdHoffman, where he tweets about current events all week long – and, like the show on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman. You can also call the new listener hotline to leave Ed a voicemail and tell him what you think of the show! Call The Main Event listener hotline at (855) 640-2092. Here’s a preview of this week’s show!

While the left continues to act like the President’s response to the violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia is worse than the violence itself, at least one prominent person is questioning the source of the violence.

Congressman Louie Gohmert: Was Charlottesville Orchestrated?

This week, Ed and his guest Scott open the show with some eye-opening insight from Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert. Rep. Gohmert (who Ed calls “Where’s Waldo”) has appeared in a few places this week to propose a new theory: that the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia two weeks ago was orchestrated by powerful liberal interests. You’ll hear his claim on the show this week, and what his substantiation for it is, and Ed’s thoughts on it. “This government goes so deep into so much corruption that they’ll do anything to steer us away from the truth,” he says. “Does it make sense to you that these guys would have been so organized to come from all over the place and club each other at the same time – ready, set, go?” He has a hunch that Gohmert may be on to something.

Trump Speeches this Week: Afghanistan and Phoenix

Next, we’re analyzing the President’s two major speeches this week. The first was delivered at the Fort Meyer, Virginia military base before an audience of troops – and the purpose of the speech was to announce a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan, which includes an additional 4,000 troops sent to the Afghanistan and Pakistan to fight ISIS and the Taliban. You’ll hear how the President, Secretary of Defense Mattis and his military advisors arrived at their decision last week. “I’m glad that he went to Camp David and met with General Mattis and actually talked,” Ed says. “He talked to military strategists that know what’s going on and asked, ‘What does victory look like for us?’”

We’re analyzing the new plan and asking some interesting questions. Scott asks, “What happened to that poor doctor in Pakistan who led us to Bin Laden?” Ed asks, “What happened to the guy who rescued Marcus Luttrell in Afghanistan? The last administration turned their backs on these people.” Ed’s also reading some mainstream media praise for the speech, which may surprise you.

Don Lemon Meltdown and James Clapper “Disturbing”

But it was an entirely different story after the Phoenix speech on Wednesday; CNN’s Don Lemon had what many are calling a meltdown regarding the President’s remarks on Charlottesville and you’ll hear it on this week’s show. “Trump should have put a big screen behind him in Phoenix with the news footage and asked the crowd to watch,” Ed says. “That’s all he would need to do.” Then you’ll hear former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper call the speech “disturbing,” to which Ed says, “With everything he’s seen in his career, this is what he calls disturbing?” He continues, “This is one thing that happened in one city in this big country, and the media wants you to think everyone in the country is at each other’s throats.”

Steve Hilton: Who is this Guy?

Fox News has a new show on Sunday nights called The Next Revolution, and Ed has some thoughts. The host is Steve Hilton, who was an advisor to British Prime Minster and Conservative party leader David Cameron from 2010 to 2016 and a major supporter of the Brexit movement – which is why it’s strange that he spends so much time decrying tax breaks for high income Americans. “He’s agreeing with the same crap the Democrats try to feed us on tax reform,” Ed says. One point of contention is the mortgage interest tax deduction that allows vacation homes to qualify for tax deductions. Tune in to hear his thoughts!

Catch The Main Event at…
Inland Empire:

  • AM 590 The Answer (KTIE), Saturdays at 9:30 AM/ 9 PM & Sundays at 4 PM
  • 1490 Smart Talk (KMET), Sundays at 11 AM & Mondays at 3 PM

Los Angeles: 

  • AM 870 The Answer (KRLA), Sundays at 3 PM

San Diego:

  • AM 1170 The Answer (KCBQ), Sundays at 7 AM

Internet radio:

  • Red State Talk Radio’s Encore Channel, Sundays at 1 PM Pacific

You can also get on-demand podcasts of the show right here on the Podcast page, as well as on Soundcloud or iTunes.