Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 10/21/2025
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9:06
Show Open:
- Over the weekend the networks went gaga over the No Kings protests -- giving them 18X more coverage than the conservative March for Life gatherings!
- Massive Disparity in Coverage for Liberal vs. Conservative Protests: Major networks (CBS, NBC, PBS, and NPR) dedicated 17 minutes and 51 seconds to the "No Kings" protests against President Trump. In stark contrast, these same networks provided only 50 seconds of total coverage to the annual March for Life, a key conservative demonstration against abortion. This represents the liberal-leaning protest receiving 18 times the airtime.
- Networks Refused to Use Ideological Labels for Leftist Protesters: Despite signs calling for impeachment and the movement's theme of "democracy versus dictatorship," the networks failed to apply ideological descriptors like "liberal," "leftist," or "progressive" to the "No Kings" demonstrators. Simultaneously, the networks provided "gushing propaganda coverage" and touted organizers' claims about the protest's scale. (MRC)
Soft Coverage for Anti-Trump Protests vs. "Throwaway" Coverage for Pro-Life March: Network coverage of the "No Kings" event included long segments, live reports from multiple cities, and "softball" interviews with figures from leftist groups like Public Citizen. Conversely, the March for Life coverage was minimal, often just a "throwaway" mention, suggesting a significant difference in how the media framed and prioritized the two events.
Panelist:
Dan Schneider, Executive Editor, Newsbusters (a division of the Media Research Center
9:20
Segment Topic:
- Jorge Bonilla reports that CBS's Weijia Jiang whines about the White House ballroom and echoes Dem shutdown talking points.
- Steve Malzberg Frederika Whitfield's guest for the segment was Evelyn Farkas, current Executive Director of The McCain Institute, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia and Ukraine under Barack Obama, and that obviously isn't a helpful resume item.
- Jorge Bonilla reports that Colombia's President Petro wraps his Univision interview by saying that if Trump won't change, the solution is to "get rid of Trump"
Kamala was the most-qualified to run for president?
Panelist:
Dan Schneider, Executive Editor, Newsbusters (a division of the Media Research Center
9:35
Monologue:
10:08
Segment Topic:
- The return of Karine John Pierre!
- Karine John Pierre in her own words as WH Press Secretary
- KJP defends Biden and his cognitive ability.
- She has written a book. Who will buy it?
Panelist:
DIAL Producers | Callers
10:20
Segment Topic:
Harry Enten (CNN Pollster) says that Trump is not being hurt in his 2nd term by government shutdown.
It is clear by the numbers, that those who did not vote for him; those who would never support him blame him.
Trump is continuing to govern and provide visuals that the Executive Branch is functioning and not being held hostage by the Dem-Com’s.
Panelist:
DIAL Producers | Callers
10:35
Segment Topic:
- Americans want low costs and patient-centered care. Obamacare has failed Americans. Excessive regulations and mandates ignore the needs of patients and drive up costs. To hide how unaffordable these bad policies are, the government gives Obamacare subsidies directly to insurance companies.
- The Biden COVID Credits made the problem worse. The result? Insurance companies profit at the expense of the American taxpayer.
- Why are ending these subsidies worth fighting for?
- The subsidies were supposed to be temporary. The Dem-Com’s agreed that they were a temporary COVID subsidy and would sunset. Why are they going back on their prior commitment?
- Is it possible to finally end Obamacare and replace it with something which does not fleece U.S. taxpayers?
Panelist:
Brittany Madni, Executive, Vice President, Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC)
11:05
Segment Topic:
- Major Amazon Web Services Outage Disrupts the Globe, Exposes Fragile Dependence on Cloud Giants:
- A worldwide disruption of Amazon Web Services on Monday could carry a staggering financial toll reaching into the hundreds of billions of dollars, according to experts cited by CNN. (Newsmax)
- Amazon Web Services’ largest and most critical region—US-East-1 in Northern Virginia—experienced a significant, hours-long outage, disrupting major consumer platforms and enterprise-level services across the United States and abroad.
- The incident triggered widespread downtime for apps such as Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo, Ring, Canva, and others, while also affecting portions of Amazon’s own services, according to multiple reports from The Verge, AP News, and AWS’ own status dashboard.
- While AWS has since mitigated the root issue, the event highlights a growing national vulnerability: a single point of failure inside the world’s most-used cloud platform can cause cascading disruption across communications, finance, commerce, and public digital services.
- Early reporting and AWS status notes indicate the failure involved elevated error rates and latency across multiple core services in US-East-1, including possible DNS-level issues and DynamoDB endpoint failures. Because US-East-1 is the most heavily-relied-upon region in the AWS global network, outages there tend to ripple outward—causing massive downstream effects across apps, APIs, and authentication systems, even for companies not hosted in that region.
- How did this outage differ from an attack?
- Did this outage yesterday indicate a failure to focus on system redundancy, such as parallel fiber connectivity and backup satellite transponder frequencies?
- What lessons were learned by AWS from this outage?
Panelist:
Chris Hoar is an official spokesperson for SAT123 a leading provider of satellite communication and emergency preparedness solutions. With decades of experience in telecom, technology, and business development, Chris brings a unique combination of technical expertise, entrepreneurial vision, and real-world insight to the evolving landscape of secure, off-grid connectivity.
11:33
Segment Topic:
- Perhaps USAID was just the tip of the iceberg!
- The Homelessness Industrial Complex: Exposing the Darkness That Profits from Despair.
- In Washington, D.C., a bombshell investigation has just dropped: the Infiltrated report showing how radical organizations have embedded themselves within homelessness advocacy groups - sharing infrastructure, donors, ideology and tactics.
- Released amid news that homelessness has climbed to its highest level in U.S. history, even after a tripling of public spending, it reveals that the Homelessness Industrial Complex (HIC) - a bloated network of nonprofits and activists - have hijacked our nation's homeless system.
- They've built an empire of corruption wrapped in "evidence-based" slogans that shield political agendas and bloated paychecks at the expense of the people it was purportedly helping. The Infiltrated report confirms that the HIC postures itself as defenders of compassion but are, in truth, the greatest exploiters of America's homeless. It exposes how it seized power, who is bankrolling it, and its dependence on suffering to further entrench power.
Panelist:
Michele Steeb, Discovery Institute's Fix Homelessness Initiative
11:50 Salute the Troops
Colonel Robert Wilburn Hill (Bob) February 18, 1928 - October 18, 2021
While serving in combat as a Rifle Platoon Leader in Korea in 1950-1951, he was twice wounded in action (both head-wounds), receiving two Purple Heart medals in addition to a Silver Star medal and a Bronze Star (with "V" device) for valor.
With Joyce by his side, Bob survived three wars and enjoyed a very productive, rewarding career in the U.S. Army. Their assignments in over thirty years of service were at various military posts around the world, with fourteen years abroad.
Bob proudly served as an Airborne Rifle Company Commander in the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division; as a staff officer in the Foreign Liaison Directorate of Army Intelligence in the Pentagon; as the Aide-de-Camp to the Army Chief of Staff; as Commander of 1st Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment in Korea; as a member of the NATO Military Committee in Brussels, Belgium; as Deputy Brigade Commander of the Berlin Brigade in West Germany; as Commander of the Special Operations Group (SOG) in Vietnam; and as Executive Officer to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Army, Europe. His final assignment brought Bob and Joyce back home to Texas concluding a remarkable Army career, serving as Chief of Staff of the III U.S. Army Corps and Ft. Hood for two years.
Robert W. Hill always cherished his time in service to our nation. He always carried this quote from General Matthew Ridgeway in his wallet: "I cannot conceive that God has granted any man a richer, fuller, more satisfying life than mine, for it was spent in service with, and for, that finest product of our civilization THE AMERICAN SOLDIER." As a soldier, Bob embraced a key principle of military discipline (selfless sacrifice) that was so evident in the life of Jesus, our duty is not to be served, but to serve.
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