Tony Katz gets to the heart of the matter. Why would Jussie Smollett do this, the MSM asks and laments? Simple: he wanted "Reputation Capital," and he thought nothing of attacking, demeaning, lying about and dehumanizing Trump supporters to get it.

The real story is that Jussie Smollet, and those who think like him, have so dehmanized the Trump supporter and others who disagree with them that they were willing to accuse them of crimes and let them be found guilty for them when they did nothing wrong. And they did it for cultural advancement - for Reputation Capital - and for a paycheck.

Tony Katz explains how Cortez has opened herself up to an entirely new line of questioning. "Rep. Cortez has done a great job of avoiding criticism and making those who attack her look bad." says Tony. "But now, she's let all that go. She doesn't care about facts, which is exactly the argument progressives make about President Trump. And she has asked people to question whether, morally, her Socialist policies have value; people get to question her morality. I don't think she realizes what she's done here."

First Lady Melania Trump wants Deputy NSA Mira Ricardel fired because of the way Ricardel treated her staff, and potential leaks the deputy made that were disparaging to the First Lady.

Monica Lewinsky is in the news, making a docu-series about her sexual relationship with former President Bill Clinton. Are we supposed to care? Are we supposed to give Bill a pass? And the military needs serious upkeep.

Griff Jenkins of FOX News reports from Broward County, FL about the recounts underway in the Governor, Senate and Agriculture Secretary races.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responds firmly to ABC's Jon Karl and CNN's Jim Acosta and their accusation that President Trump has not said/done enough after the murder of eleven people in Pittsburgh by an anti-Semite.

And what's all this about birthright citizenship? And what's all this about a rise in anti-Semitism in the US?

(NOTE - I made reference to the Volokh Conspiracy blog, and mentioned it moved from the Washington Post to 538.com to it's home at Reason.com. It was never at 538 Blog. I take full responsibility for the error. My apologies. - Tony)

Brandon Straka got 5000 people to show up to the WalkAway march. Kanye West is working on BLEXIT; Black Exit....from the Democratic Party. Speaking of, the Indiana Democratic Party is getting very desperate, sending out mailers trying to convince Republicans to vote for the Libertarian candidate.

And a father and his 5 year-old son dressed as Hitler and an SS officer for Halloween. Yeah. We wish we were making that up, too.

And what has President Trump really given the Republican party? He taught them how to fight.

The caravan continues to head to the United States from Honduras, and President Trump is putting pressure on Mexico to prevent their entry.

And someone accused Tony of peddling "fake outrage." Yeah....that didn't sit well. Mostly because it was nonsense.

President Trump has nominated an openly gay man to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. What? Did you think he hated gay people?

ESPN may have learned their lesson about politics and programming, and a caravan of people from Honduras and other countries is allegedly making its way to the United States.

Does that strike anyone else as, well, odd?

First President Trump calls Stormy Daniels "horseface." Now, she calls him "tiny." Can 2018 get more insane? And how wrong Rep. Nancy Pelosi is on Trump and why he wants to build a wall. (And does he ever want to build a wall!)

And if James Woods and Roseanne did a sitcom, would you watch? Yeah you would. Of course you would.

Cherokee Nation is very, very pissed.

James Wolfe will hopefully do jail time for being a leaker of classified information and lying to the FBI. And maybe New York Times reporter Ali Watkins will stopping have sex with leakers like Wolfe for said classified information.

And President Trump wins a defamation case against Stormy Daniels and her lawyer, Michael Avenatti. So he took to Twitter to call her "Horseface." Tony doesn't know where the hell this comes from.

"Is she really this naive?" asks Tony. "How did she ever live in New York with this kind of pollyanna thing she's got going on in this interview?"

Former Vice-President Joe Biden, campaigning for Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly, accuses the GOP of anti-Semitism. Tony exposes the falsehoods of his statements, and the reality of his own party.

Rapper Kanye West, who emplored America to think for themselves on Saturday Night Live, now wants to get President Trump and Colin Kaepernick in the same room. A Georgetown Professor, Christine Fair, proves the leftist/violence narrative by proclaiming on Twitter that white Republican senators should be castrated....well, after they dead.

And the big story about Judge Brett Kavanaugh - that he got arrested in 1985 because he threw ice at a guy at a bar - got even stranger, when UB40 gets involved.

Oh, and don't over exaggerate. It's not a good look for Republicans or Democrats or anyone, especially when there is video proof.

Isn't everyone in America supposed to hate President Trump? One banner is not a scientific study, but maybe it's a signal that the hate is not as great as the media wants to tell us.

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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) wants the Department of Justice to look into whether former Secretary of State John Kerry broke the law by continuing to engage in conversations with the Iranians.

And Sen. Bernie Sanders (Socialist-VT) tells comic and TV host Sarah Silverman that the United States starves children and blows up buses. Yes, really. No, I don't understand it. Here, you listen to it and then tell me what you think.

A baggage handler in Spain is caught on camera stealing a speaker out of a passenger's luggage, confimring the suspicions of every traveller in the world. Amazon employees are being bribed $2,000 to change bad reviews on their site, and are selling data to Chinese users.

And The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol wants to find a candidate to run against President Trump in 2020. His dream choices right now? Sen. Ben Sasse, Sen. Jeff Flake and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Seriously.

Tony Katz covers how media and Florida Democrats claimed GOP Governor candidate Rep. Ron DeSantis is blowing racist dog whistles by saying of Democrat candidate, Mayor Andrew Gillum, that his socialist agenda is not what Florida wants, and they shouldn't “...monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state. That is not gonna work. That’s not gonna be good for Florida.”

Gillum is black. And media and the Democrats lied about what DeSantis said to try and paint him as a racist.

If that wasn't enough of a crazy, CNN's legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said that the reason Preisdent Trump is no fan of ANTIFA is because they are "predominantly black." Yeah...that's not true at all.

Defense Distributed was told by a judge that they can not post online blueprints for 3-D printed guns becuase of a lawsuit against them by numerous states. The judge declared that the security of the states "dwarfed" the free speech rights of the company.

And Pope Francis has now been brought into the child abuse scandals rocking the Catholic church with a report that he gave preferential treatment to disgraced Cardnial Theodore McCarrick.

In addition to two radio shows a day, Tony is starting a new podcast - Eat! Drink! Smoke! Tony explains what it's all about, and digs in to why he enjoys and appreciates cigars so much.

And comic David Cross creates a problem for himself at the University of Utah, like Andy Gross did at Purdue. Why are comics still bothering with doing shows on college campuses? The money must be great

A Second Amendment Success Story shows why guns should not be feared, but respected. And Tony explains the cancellation of Michelle Wolf on Netflix, and how David Letterman broke his heart.

"The press can't act like they are the ones under attack. We need, and should support reporters, who do the important work of journalism. And media should admit when they, or their people, have acted in a way that destroys America's faith in news organizations." - Tony Katz

GOP Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy joined Tony in studio to talk about the midterms, and what happens if Rep. Nancy Pelosi becomes Speaker of the House.

LeBron said Trump was dividing the nation through sports, and is unwilling to even speak to him face to face. On Twitter, President Trump called him dumb, and says Michael Jordan is better.

Let's end this: LeBron's comments were rude and arrogant. Trump's tweet was nonsense. Can we focus on the important things now?