Tony Katz Today Full Show - 10/16/26 (Andrew Langer Guest Hosts)

I'm not going to shine a turd and tell you that everything is bright and rosy.

And I'm also not going to blame those dag nabbit, those just unfair polls that are out there.

Yeah, listen, we get this.

Polls are unfair.

The Democrats and their allies in the major media, they're going to do polls that make it seem like there's all kinds of doom and gloom for Republicans, and they're going to gin things, put the thumb on the scale for the Democrats.

That we know.

That being said, it can also be true that the Republicans are just not doing well.

And this is the kind of a year that historically the Republicans were not going to do well.

And we've got all kinds of unforced errors that are out there.

And so, you know, one of the bright spots in this is this issue of the Michigan Senate race, Mike Rogers versus Abdul El-Sayed.

And you just heard Kid Rock talking about these things and about what's going on up there and about the dinner that he had with the president and with Bill Maher and Stephen Smith talking about the issues of socialism.

And this is going to be the theme of the show for quite a bit of the show today.

Talking about the midterms, talking about the reality, talking about the competing visions for the way the world works, and talking about the baffle garb that is out there.

When I say baffle garb, I mean the static.

I mean the obfuscation.

You know, one of the things that drives me particularly up the wall in this is Is this the thrust, the thesis that Democratic candidates are putting out there? Now, they start with the right thing, that prices are high.

Prices are high.

Inflation ticked up about three-tenths of a percent, four-tenths of a percent in the last month.

That much we know.

And we know that gas prices are high.

Now, they're not as high as we perceive them to be, because we're making an unfair comparison with the gas prices that were happening before most of Joe Biden's inflation kicked in.

But set that aside.

You go to the pumps, and you see that gas prices are high.

So that does not spell, you know, that things are really great for Republican candidates that are out there.

But you get the Democrats who are telling you that they're going to somehow be the cure for these high prices.

I'm not going to shine a turd and tell you that everything is bright and rosy.

And I'm also not going to blame those dag nabbit, those just unfair polls that are out there.

Yeah, listen, we get this.

Polls are unfair.

The Democrats and their allies in the major media, they're going to do polls that make it seem like there's all kinds of doom and gloom for Republicans, and they're going to gin things, put the thumb on the scale for the Democrats.

That we know.

That being said, it can also be true that the Republicans are just not doing well.

And this is the kind of a year that historically the Republicans were not going to do well.

And we've got all kinds of unforced errors that are out there.

And so, you know, one of the bright spots in this is this issue of the Michigan Senate race, Mike Rogers versus Abdul El-Sayed.

And you just heard Kid Rock talking about these things and about what's going on up there and about the dinner that he had with the president and with Bill Maher and Stephen Smith talking about the issues of socialism.

And this is going to be the theme of the show for quite a bit of the show today.

Talking about the midterms, talking about the reality, talking about the competing visions for the way the world works, and talking about the baffle garb that is out there.

When I say baffle garb, I mean the static.

I mean the obfuscation.

You know, one of the things that drives me particularly up the wall in this is Is this the thrust, the thesis that Democratic candidates are putting out there? Now, they start with the right thing, that prices are high.

Prices are high.

Inflation ticked up about three-tenths of a percent, four-tenths of a percent in the last month.

That much we know.

And we know that gas prices are high.

Now, they're not as high as we perceive them to be, because we're making an unfair comparison with the gas prices that were happening before most of Joe Biden's inflation kicked in.

But set that aside.

You go to the pumps, and you see that gas prices are high.

So that does not spell, you know, that things are really great for Republican candidates that are out there.

But you get the Democrats who are telling you that they're going to somehow be the cure for these high prices.