The Erick Erickson Show

The media spun Joe Biden's really bad week saying he was just dealt a bad hand and not that it was a direct result of his own decisions and policies plus the real reason behind the media fascination with Gabby Petito. A deeper dive into the GOP infighting over the best candidates to run for various positions to retake the House and the Senate plus the Emmy's was the perfect encapsulation of how th...

The left thinks they found justification for Biden's OSHA vaccine mandate but they clearly didn't read the decision and today is the California recall of Gavin Newsom. It's becoming obvious that the government and the elites have no appetite for the people, school boards are refusing to meet with parents and we are no longer able to speak actual truths. Democrats need Trump on the ballot to genera...

Biden's covid speech was full of a lot, mostly pending court challenges, but it did allow him to pretend to be tough with a plan and blame regular Americans for making him overreach. Plus reporter Robyn Walensky joins the program to talk about reporting from ground zero on 911. On the 20th anniversary of 911 we remember what happened, what we lost, what we've gained and also try to remember the le...

Racist attack on Larry Elder gets zero media attention and as covid reaction becomes more and more political and the left screams about people who distrust government, far worse outcomes happen when the government distrusts its own citizens. The political lay of the land heading into the midterms and presidential elections have some very interesting story lines and because of our buddy Stephen Gut...

AOC takes a huge loss in her battle with Joe Manchin over the bloated infrastructure bill plus some new data is out about break thru cases of vaccinated people. Woke school boards around the country are in a knock down drag out fight with not only the GOP but democrat parents as well over CRT, the CIA tries a little image rehab via social media and WAY to many people are trying to find personal re...

There is a media driven national freakout over everything lately from college football crowds, to ivermectin, to the Texas abortion law, to the economic numbers, to unemployment ending, to the unvaccinated and it all has one thing in common...liberal narrative building. As the pandemic has changed American life in significant ways democrats are struggling on how to market the price-tag on their in...

The media has made a hard pivot to the Texas abortion law and climate change in order to avoid talking about Biden's handling of the Afghan withdrawal. Joe Biden lies yet again about something he claims he did and Martin Dugard, co-author of the the Killing series with Bill O'Riley, stops by to talk about his new book Taking Paris. The fallacy of putting faith in fact checkers and college academic...

SCOTUS allows the Texas abortion law to go into effect with the usual suspects lighting their hair on fire without fully understanding why, as of right now, they aren't ruling on it. There is cause for concern about the intelligence communities tendency to leak so much information to the press in order to insulate themselves plus the administration continues to hide Kamala. As the left screams abo...

With the amount of death and devastation Biden has left behind in Afghanistan still to be determined there are still Americans stuck with no way out, White House staffers are throwing Biden under the bus and nations are scrambling for new intelligence avenues in the region. Plus just like that Stacey Abrams comes out of hiding to remind the world she wants to be President. As the Texas abortion la...

As Americans and our Afghan allies who were left behind hide in fear of being murdered by the Taliban, Biden tries to take a victory lap as he prepares to spend the rest of his presidency doing what no administration did before, negotiate with terrorists as good faith actors. Josh Youssef of Help the Persecuted stops by to tell us everything his organization is doing to help get the men and women...

As Biden naps in front of cameras, his Afghanistan surrender leaves American and Afghan allies stranded to deal with the Taliban on their own but he was able to drone an Afghan family while claiming to take out ISIS suicide bombers. Many continue to ignore the science as covid becomes completely political and the demonization of any therapeutic that isn't the vaccine. As Ida hits the mainland did...

News Of The Day

News of the day!!

Herschel Walker throws his hat into the ring for Senate and it comes with some questions plus in order to force vaccinations Delta decides to change an absurd $200 a month extra for healthcare coverage. Biden sends Harris to Vietnam in an optics blunder that results in China flexing its muscles and the economy has some serious, long lasting cracks that won't be fixed with the current labor shortag...

The politics around the California recall are becoming insane and the international press is savaging Biden by painting a far darker picture of what is happening in Afghanistan. As Biden abandons Americans in Afghanistan, Americans are abandoning Biden here at home with his approval rating taking a ten point hit plus the pros and cons of a Herschel Walker run for the Senate. If you read between th...

Both sides being to play their political games as the Biden administration continues to fall flat on its face in Afghanistan. As crisis after crisis mounts, inflation and a lagging economy may really be what brings the Biden administration down. Democrats are having a harder time than expected getting infrastructure done and Joe Biden gives another speech without taking questions.

There is a good case to be made for Biden resigning the office plus the media is already trying to shift the conversation away from Afghanistan. Texas can now round up democrats, the narrative around Biden and Sean Spicer stops by the show. Healthcare workers are starting to revolt over vaccine mandates and a history lesson as to why Ron DeSantis is the likely front runner for 2024.

The media attacks Governor Abbott after he contracted covid, they write an absurd hit piece on Governor DeSantis about his push for Regeneron and leaders around the world are starting to rightfully hammer President Biden's Afghan blunder. Schools have decided that the American flag is too political and can't be wore on a t-shirt in class and the US is rightly getting drug by the Brits as they step...

Biden showed his diminished faculties in a pathetic speech where he simultaneously took responsibility for his disastrous Afghan withdrawal decision and then blamed everyone he could possibly think of besides himself for the outcome. As the avoidable disaster unfolds in Afghanistan the democrat spin machine limps in to try and help Biden as the media is finally forced to be reasonably critical. At...

Saigon II: The Fall of Afghanistan - Commissioner John King who served in Afghanistan in 2010 weighs in on Biden's Afghanistan disaster.

In a massive failure of leadership, foreign policy and vision Joe Biden has abandon Afghanistan and allowed the Taliban steamroll it's way through the country almost unopposed. Democrats fooled themselves into believing that demography was destiny but the new census data is showing that isn't remotely the case. China pressured the WHO in order to suppress the lab leak story and Nancy Pelosi has a...

As we as a country struggle to find common ground and move forward with any kind of compromise it's becoming obvious our biggest hurdle is our contrarianism toward one another. Oregon decides that education is racist and passes a law to ensure that minority kids graduate without knowing how to read or write......seriously. Plus should corporations, even though they can, be forcing their employees...

Andrew Cuomo finally does the right thing and resigns in disgrace but not for two weeks plus it's time to deal with covid like adults instead of scared children. As infrastructure see's the light of day, a looming fight over spending and the debt ceiling is next where republicans should be ready to fight plus some news around the latest spike in covid cases. Marijuana is looking like it's here to...

No one should care that Obama tried to throw a birthday party but pretty much everyone had a problem with it plus Erick got kicked off twitter for speaking biological truths. Some very interesting data has come out of a study looking at 50 years worth of education and school stats plus the left can't seem to get their head around the realities of paying people to sit at home. The democrats go for...

Internal polling from the parties is starting to show that hard core progressive politics is hurting democrats worse than Trump is hurting republicans. This isn't going to help democrats going into a midterm year. The left loses their mind over Tucker Carlson going to Hungry and like usual they make connections and draw conclusions that a reasonable person wouldn't make. Plus Apple comes out with...