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Al Franken, the Mueller Report, and Media Hypocrisy
from Episode 158 Part 2 - Tim and Ray on the 3 Evils: Epstein, Big Tech, and Long Island
5 min
A tangent comparing how accusers are treated (Al Franken vs. Epstein's victims), skepticism of the Russia collusion narrative, and demands for evidence versus taking intelligence agencies at face value.
- Jane Mayer's article exonerating Al Franken sits in tension with the media's stated principle of not questioning women's accusations.
- Tim argues the left has campaigned for skepticism of intelligence agencies, yet accepts the Mueller Report at face value.
- Al Franken's behavior toward a sleeping woman during a sketch doesn't automatically make him a rapist, but it wasn't cool either.
- Epstein's death in jail: Tim lists journalists and investigators who ended up dead—Gary Webb, Michael Hastings, Phillip Marshall—when digging into sensitive stories.
- When young and new to this world, people think officials won't be blatant about eliminating threats, but they don't question it enough.
- Tim speculates Epstein will end up dead, attributing it less to a formal CIA cleanup team than to individual career guys protecting themselves.
- Michael Hastings' crash while investigating John Brennan was likely murder, but not necessarily ordered from official channels—just a career guy protecting his interests.
- James Angleton's quote: sitting in a room where the CIA was born, he was never certain of anything except that all those men would end up in hell.
Al FrankenJeffrey EpsteinJames AngletonMichael HastingsJane MayerGary WebbBette MidlerJohn BrennanGhislaine MaxwellPhillip MarshallJeffrey Dahmer