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Why Fox News Made Epstein a Story and the David Geffen/Spielberg Pedophile Jokes

from Emergency Broadcast - Mullen / Dillon / Epstein

5 min

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After a brief tech hiccup, Tim explains how Fox News originally covered Epstein to smear the Clintons, and how liberals are now scrambling to distance Trump's Acosta connection from the broader pizzagate conspiracy without validating the same theories they mocked. He also riffs on joking that David Geffen and Steven Spielberg are pedophiles as part of internet meme culture, referencing his own stand-up bit about it.

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  • Fox News covered Epstein heavily as a way to smear the Clintons, not Trump, making the story politically useful.
  • Liberals now have to justify covering Epstein without validating the conspiracy theorists they mocked for pizzagate.
  • Epstein's underage girls being used by elites is probably true—powerful people exploit directly rather than through bureaucracy.
  • Much of pizzagate is joking—people lean into conspiracy theories because the core (Clinton flying with Epstein) is real, then add absurd details for fun.
  • Tim and his co-host make the same kind of jokes about David Geffen and Steven Spielberg being pedophiles, knowing it's probably not true but funny to say.
  • Five minutes of Tim's road act involves telling audiences Steven Spielberg is a pedophile, and crowds enjoy it.
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Jeffrey EpsteinBill ClintonDonald TrumpSteven SpielbergDavid GeffenTony Podesta

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