Podcast 497

Midnight Deck Radio. It's that time of year again. Just before the bugs, when the trees are full and the nights are cool. But, the coffee's on and the Tiki Torches are lit, time for some Midnight Deck Radio. As we wait for the planet Mercury to transit between the Earth and the Sun in the 6:00 hour Central Daylight Savings Time on Monday, May 9th, it's time to update Bob Davis Podcast Listeners for the week ahead. You wouldn't know it if you listened to talk radio or to the 24 hour cable television channels, but there isn't much to talk about in politics until the next spate of primary elections. Even then, there won't be any real fireworks until just before both mainline party conventions late this summer. That doesn't stop the media machine though, rehashing and churning away with more opinion and commentary on the same issues again and again, and again. How many times can we talk about whether or not Hillary Clinton will be indicted (um, no she won't) or how Donald Trump is the 'presumptive' nominee of the Republican party? One of the things I've learned doing the weekly 'Bob Davis Podcasts Radio Show' is how prescient the Bob Davis Podcasts can be when it comes to forecasting political events and issues ahead of the curve. The podcasts have been talking for weeks about the potential for an establishment fight over the 'presumptive' Trump nomination. Just before the weekend all the stories broke about republican establishment types concerned about the down ticket, former presidents who say they won't attend the convention, establishment donors and potential candidates refusing to endorse the 'presumptive' nominee. Which brings us to the media itself. A New York Times article last week about White House Media advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes has lots of people talking about how the White House 'controls' or thinks it controls the media. The main point of the story was Rhodes' comments about how reporters sometimes copy and reprint whole p