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00:00:00.000Parkland survivor David Hogg goes after Laura Ingraham's advertisers, the media seek to bar conservatives on any grounds possible, and we check the mailbag.
00:00:14.000All right, well, we have a lot to get to.
00:00:16.000I want to talk a lot about what's been going on with Laura Ingraham and this AstroTurf boycott by Media Matters and why it has nothing to do with civility or decency and has everything to do with politics.
00:00:26.000We'll go through all of it in just one second.
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00:00:31.000So life insurance is one of those things that you really don't like thinking about.
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00:01:44.000The big story over the last 24 hours has been that many advertisers have now dropped Laura Ingraham's show on Fox News.
00:01:50.000And the reason they dropped Laura Ingraham's show is because she tweeted something out yesterday, which we discussed, in which she suggested, I'm going to quote her directly, she said, David Hogg rejected by four colleges to which he applied and whines about it.
00:02:01.000And we played the clip of David Hogg, who is the Parkland shooting survivor, who's obviously made a name for himself saying pretty vicious things on television about Second Amendment advocates, Dana Lash, GOP-ers.
00:02:10.000He's been pretty brutal to everyone who disagrees with him, and he's wanted to have it both ways, David Hogg.
00:02:17.000And again, this is not a criticism of his right to speak.
00:02:19.000Obviously, he has the right to speak, and he should speak however much he wants.
00:02:22.000And this isn't a criticism of his status as a survivor.
00:02:24.000Obviously, something awful that never should happen to anybody of decency happened to David Hogg, and that's awful and unforgivable.
00:02:31.000But he's now in the political debate, and that means that there's some slings and arrows that come with the political debate.
00:04:34.000We're all supposed to be cordial with the Parkland survivors, which we should be.
00:04:37.000We should be decent with the Parkland survivors, which we should be.
00:04:39.000I've been very focused on doing that throughout this entire, entire horrible mess that's happened in the aftermath of an even more horrible, horrible incident, obviously.
00:04:50.000Well, not right, because after Laura Ingraham apologized, David Hogg said, I want to continue to boycott Laura Ingraham, right?
00:04:56.000He said, I want to continue to boycott Laura Ingraham.
00:04:59.000So here is Hogg rejecting Laura Ingraham's apology.
00:05:03.000That they cannot push us around, especially when all we're trying to do here is save lives.
00:05:08.000And when people try to distract, like Laura's trying to do right now, from what the real issue here is, which is gun violence in America, it's not only sad, it's just wrong.
00:05:17.000From a journalistic standpoint, I would say that she needs to be more objective and needs to stand down, because I am not the issue here.
00:05:24.000The issue needs to be gun violence in America, but what she's trying to do is to distract from that.
00:05:28.000OK, well, first of all, I seriously doubt that David Hogg hates the attention.
00:05:33.000I think that, you know, when it comes to him pushing a boycott that's successfully working, I think, against Laura Ingraham's advertisers, I really doubt that David Hogg laments that.
00:05:42.000And as far as who's taking us off focus on the gun control stuff,
00:05:45.000You know, none of this has to do with gun control.
00:05:47.000Laura shouldn't have said what she said.
00:05:48.000Hogg shouldn't have made an issue out of it.
00:05:49.000It's really, like, none of this really has to do with gun control or saving lives, pretty clearly.
00:05:54.000I don't know what he means when he says that Laura should be more objective.
00:05:56.000She's obviously conservative and she says so.
00:05:57.000Even Alison Camerota jumps in at that point and says, well, she's not an objective host.
00:06:01.000That's not him just rejecting her apology.
00:06:03.000Here's, it's clip three where Hogg rejected Ingram's apology.
00:06:30.000But if we're going to pretend that this is some sort of principled non-acceptance of an apology, it is clearly not.
00:06:35.000When he says that, I mean, he's thanking, he's thanking all of the advertisers that are dropping Laura Ingraham because he likes the fact that he is wielding this sort of power against Ingraham for engaging in what is, by any sort of political standard, rather mild stuff.
00:06:47.000He's tweeting at her, hashtag shut up and be objective.
00:07:18.000This last line, it's time to love thy neighbor, not mudslinging children.
00:07:21.000Once you step out in the public debate and you start speaking publicly on issues of consequence, you no longer get to hide behind the title child.
00:07:26.000Like Kyle Cashew, who is a classmate of Hogg's in a younger class than David Hogg, right?
00:07:30.000I don't think that Kyle is, Kyle's not a senior.
00:07:36.000Kyle came out, he said, you don't get to pretend you're a child and then at the same time say that you're an adult who ought to be ruling the world with regard to these policies.
00:07:44.000And when it comes to David Hogg saying you ought to love thy neighbor and that he's standing up for civility, again, I'm not defending Laura's comment.
00:07:49.000I'm not saying she shouldn't have apologized.
00:07:50.000I am saying that David Hogg pretending to be an advocate of civility is pretty astonishing.
00:07:55.000And launching a boycott on behalf of civility as David Hogg is pretty astonishing because here are all the things that David Hogg has said just in the last two weeks about his political opponents as Clip 10.
00:08:04.000Pathetic f***ers that want to keep killing our children.
00:08:07.000They could have blood from children spattered all over their faces and they wouldn't take action because they'll still see those dollar signs.
00:08:13.000I'm gonna start off by putting this price tag right here as a reminder for you guys to know how much Marco Rubio took for every student's life in Florida.
00:10:03.000To pretend this is not political is to ignore reality, obviously.
00:10:07.000And you don't want to be in business with Laura Ingraham because of her easy and casual cruelty that she inflicts out on people on a daily basis.
00:10:17.000And again, to John Heilman's point, what you see is another example of an adult acting
00:10:58.000Here's Stelter explaining, yeah, we don't ask them real questions.
00:11:01.000We just have them come out and trot out their political point of view.
00:11:03.000And then if anybody attacks their political point of view, then we basically say those people are bad people.
00:11:07.000When I was interviewing David Hogg only 10 days after the massacre, there were a few times I wanted to jump in and say, let's correct that fact.
00:11:16.000Let's make sure we're more... And one of the times I did, and other times I did not.
00:11:19.000And, you know, there's always that balance.
00:11:21.000Yes, it's a very tricky thing because this is a victim on one hand who is entitled to his own emotional response.
00:11:29.000But at the same time, as news people, when we hear something demonstrably untrue, you want to go in and say, but that's not right.
00:11:35.000So when he called Dana Lashley, NRA CEO, interrupted and corrected that.
00:11:38.000But there are other times when I think all of us can agree.
00:11:42.000Any of these students, any of these parents, we want everybody to be as well informed as we can about the contours of this debate.
00:11:49.000Okay, but you didn't stop this kid when he was out there saying that Dana Lash ran the, that she ran Congress, right?
00:11:56.000You didn't stop, nobody, Alison Camerota didn't stop David Hogg when he went on the air and he called everybody who opposed him akin to a child murderer, right?
00:12:04.000This is what, CNN's been awful on this.
00:12:06.000I said this directly to Brian Stelter last week, right?
00:12:08.000This is nothing that I haven't said publicly on CNN to CNN.
00:12:12.000So I'm going to talk a little bit more about this in just a second, because I think the ultimate example of this was Allison Camerata this morning on CNN.
00:12:28.000He also seems like somebody who's saying things that are deeply immoral, and the media are using him as a prop in order to say those things.
00:12:33.000And I think that the media are the really problematic people here.
00:12:35.000I think it's quite disgusting what they're doing.
00:13:04.000But what you do know is what tastes good.
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00:14:05.000OK, so the worst example of media bias, obviously, is CNN.
00:14:09.000And the worst example on CNN has been Alison Camerota, who's just been awful on this.
00:14:13.000She's had on survivor after survivor all on the left.
00:14:16.000She wouldn't have on Kyle Cashew because Kyle Cashew once tweeted out that CNN was fake news.
00:14:20.000Well, speaking of fake news, here was here was Alison Camerota questioning David Hogg this morning about all of this college hubbub.
00:14:27.000So remember, this whole thing started with with him going on TMZ.
00:14:31.000And talking about being rejected by four colleges and handling it pretty decently, I thought, except at the very end, he said that if colleges don't want to help us out, well, we were still changing the world.
00:14:39.000The implication being the colleges were rejecting him for his political viewpoint, which is just asinine.
00:14:43.000OK, colleges, I promise you, the colleges that rejected David Hogg did so long before this happened.
00:14:49.000Right now, if David Hogg were to reapply, probably half the colleges that didn't let him in would let him in.
00:14:54.000Now, Hogg said, I mean, he said in the interview, I believe, that he has a 4.1 GPA and a 1270 SAT, which is a fine score.
00:15:01.000That is not the average score of the people getting into UCLA.
00:15:04.000I know that my sister didn't get into UCLA, and she had well into the 1300s and about a 4.1 GPA.
00:15:09.000So again, there are plenty of reason-neutral rationales for why Hogg didn't get into these particular colleges.
00:15:16.000And it has nothing to do with him being stupid or anything.
00:16:03.000If anybody crosses David Hogg, it's not because maybe there's a reason that they did so, like a value-neutral, they-don't-hate-David-Hogg reason.
00:16:10.000It must be because they hate David Hogg and hate his agenda.
00:16:12.000I mean, this clip from Camerata just says so many things in so little time.
00:16:31.000Okay, what kind of dumb ass colleges would reject you?
00:16:34.000How about colleges that were like just looking at his scores before any of this started?
00:16:38.000But again, treating these kids as totems is what this is all about.
00:16:40.000This is all about treating these kids as totems, and then suggesting that anyone who crosses these kids must be cast out in sackcloth and ashes, even though they're UCLA administrators who are leftists, okay?
00:16:54.000By the way, if you think that David Hogg is a victim of the colleges, forget about what happened at Parkland.
00:16:58.000If you think that a white middle class kid, upper middle class kid, from Parkland, Florida,
00:17:03.000A cis white male, right, a white privileged kid, according to, let's put it this way, if Kyle, if the shooting had not taken place in Parkland, and they were talking right now about the admissions for this guy, would they really be suggesting that the colleges had discriminated against him, or would they suggest that if he got into UCLA he'd be taking a spot that better go to an ethnic kid with a bad background?
00:18:40.000Discrimination 1 is used in the sense of people who have discriminating tastes, meaning that they are very good at comparing things and making decisions accordingly.
00:18:50.000Discrimination, too, means almost the opposite, namely that once you've identified someone's identity, then that person's individual qualities don't matter.
00:19:00.000You will treat them negatively on the basis of that.
00:19:04.000And it's discrimination, too, that anti-discrimination laws have been passed to deal with.
00:19:10.000And discrimination 1B is a different type of discrimination that you discuss as well.
00:19:14.000This would be the use of group data in order to make individual decisions in the absence of individual information.
00:20:05.000So, Professor Sowell, one of the things that's great about the book, and I think the most important thing, is that you point out that just because there are disparities between racial groups, which is, of course, the most important thing people talk about in the country, that doesn't necessarily mean that there's some sort of vicious discrimination going on.
00:20:18.000There could be an informational-based discrimination 1B going on.
00:20:21.000There could be a behavioral discrimination type 1 going on.
00:20:25.000How is it that we should approach separating out the types of discrimination that are
00:20:30.000Really insidious from the other types of discrimination when we just see a headline in the newspaper that says black folks have fewer homes than white folks or black folks are committing more crimes than white folks, for example.
00:20:40.000Well, I think that the crucial implicit assumption is that in the absence of discrimination and in the absence of any genetic differences, that people would be more or less randomly or equally spread out.
00:20:54.000And therefore, there wouldn't be these differences.
00:20:56.000And point of fact, there are innumerable differences
00:20:59.000One of the simplest ones that gets ignored all the time is that groups have different ages.
00:21:05.000That is, the Japanese Americans have a median age that is 20 years older than the median age of Mexican Americans.
00:21:13.000And so if you're talking about jobs that require, you know, either long years of education or 10 years of experience or something like that, then just the demographic differences means you have no chance from the outset, even if
00:21:27.000Japanese Americans and Mexican Americans were absolutely identical in every other aspect.
00:21:32.000And one of the things that this makes clear, your discussion of this discrimination, your book Discrimination and Disparities and the Differences Between Groups, one of the things this makes clear is that virtually all government programs that are directed at direct redistribution between groups are probably bound to fail because they're not taking into account the real reasons for the disparities in the first place.
00:22:56.000Well, in just a second, we are going to get to some other issues with regard to how the left is utilizing power in order to keep conservatives out of media.
00:23:03.000I haven't really discussed in depth the Kevin Williamson issue over at The Atlantic.
00:23:06.000I want to talk about that a little bit.
00:23:07.000Plus, I want to get to your questions in the mailbag.
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00:25:37.000If it were, then everybody would be saying, okay, Laura shouldn't have said what she said, and David Hogg should not be saying what he says.
00:25:42.000And by the way, other folks should not be saying what they say.
00:25:44.000So I want to show you some video of an actor who is attacking Laura Ingraham.
00:25:49.000This guy is... I'm trying to remember his name.
00:27:11.000He was also extraordinarily anti-Trump, like more anti-Trump than anyone else probably on the right.
00:27:16.000And the Atlantic decided to hire him away from National Review.
00:27:19.000And so what the left did is they dug through all the millions of words that he'd written, and they found something they didn't like, and they said he should not be allowed to write for our publications because that would just be terrible.
00:27:27.000There are two op-eds out today about Kevin Williamson and The Atlantic from leftists saying, here's why Kevin Williamson should not be allowed to write for us.
00:27:34.000Now, the only people that the left will accept writing for them
00:27:36.000are people who openly disagree with large planks of the Republican platform and the conservative platform at this point.
00:27:41.000First of all, if you voted for Trump, forget it.
00:27:43.000You will never work for a mainstream publication.
00:28:29.000Thus, I've occasionally read Kevin Williamson, a truly vicious but sometimes bracing writer, when he was at National Review.
00:28:34.000Where his words resonated with me, it would make me aware of hidden currents of cruelty in my own thinking.
00:28:38.000I grew up in a conservative Rust Belt suburb and hated it, and I loathe populist sanctimony that treats my stultifying hometown as more authentically American than the vibrant city I escaped to.
00:28:46.000So I feel a guilty shudder of satisfaction reading Williamson's vituperative 2016 attack on the dysfunctional small towns that supported Donald Trump.
00:28:53.000The way Williamson's contempt spoke to me made me think about how my fury over Trump's rise and my devotion to cosmopolitanism was curdling into the very elitism people like me are constantly accused of.
00:29:02.000The ability to prompt such uncomfortable self-recognition is a good quality and a polemicist.
00:29:06.000So I almost understand why the Atlantic Magazine, seeking to add a provocative right-wing voice to its roster, recently hired Williamson.
00:29:13.000Okay, so in other words, she likes Williamson because she realizes that Williamson is evil, and when she reads Williamson and agrees with him, it's because she was realizing her own evil.
00:29:21.000Great way to start a piece there, Michelle.
00:29:23.000Yeah, you're obviously very into ideological diversity at the Atlantic.
00:29:27.000And then she goes on and describes why it is that Williamson shouldn't be allowed to work for the Atlantic.
00:29:45.000And there's another piece in the Huffington Post that is called, Bad Ideas Aren't Worth Debating, with a giant picture, of course, of Kevin Williamson, and talking about how nobody who has ever had a bad idea should ever be allowed to write for an institution like the Atlantic.
00:29:58.000Now listen, if the Atlantic wants to be left-wing national review, that's fine.
00:30:01.000But the Atlantic is trying not to do that.
00:30:03.000They are purporting to be an in-house place for a variety of opinion, for various modes of debate.
00:30:12.000Listen, I'm not hiring anybody on the left over at Daily Wire, but we're very clear about that.
00:30:20.000Like, I'm not gonna hire Ta-Nehisi Coates over here at the Daily Wire, number one, because I can't afford him, but number two, because I disagree with him.
00:30:25.000But the Atlantic is saying that they want a wide variety of opinion.
00:30:29.000The folks on the left don't want a wide variety of opinion.
00:30:31.000The folks on the left want no variety of opinion.
00:30:34.000Their goal is to have no opinion variety at all.
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00:33:46.000All right, so let's jump into the mailbag.
00:33:52.000Well, I'm excited enough about my White Sox this year that I actually went out and got a subscription to MLB TV and I watched their opening day game in the background while I did my work.
00:34:16.000If everything goes wrong, then in two years they'll win the World Series, because they have a really good young core.
00:34:20.000They have a bunch of players who are coming up from the minors.
00:34:22.000Look, they're a team that's probably two years away, but teams that have been two years away have outperformed before.
00:34:27.000Look at the Houston Astros, who weren't really expected to win anything until maybe a couple of years from now, although Sports Illustrated had it right on the money.
00:34:32.000Tyler says, how do you atone for sins in Judaism?
00:36:41.000It's not your decision whether you go to court.
00:36:42.000It is your decision whether you're going to get health care, and it should be on your dime whether you get health care.
00:36:47.000Now, there is some significant argument in legal history in the United States as to whether right to counsel means that I have to provide you counsel.
00:36:55.000It probably means that I have the right to hire a counsel, right?
00:36:58.000The public expense doesn't require that we go out and hire you a counsel.
00:37:00.000But, you know, if we are going to hire you a counsel, the reason for that is because we have put you in the system, not through any willpower of your own.
00:37:07.000And that means we at least have to provide you with enough of a defense that you can defend yourself.
00:37:10.000That's not the same thing as health care, where it is up to you whether you want a doctor or not.
00:37:17.000I mean, it depends on the level of the contagion.
00:37:19.000But yes, this is why I'm in favor of mandatory vaccination.
00:37:20.000Actually, it's one of the areas where I have significant differences with some more libertarian minded folks in the Republican Party, because vaccinations do have externalities.
00:37:39.000Libertarians don't suggest that you can't regulate for externalities, by the way.
00:38:47.000Woodrow Wilson, based on the thoughts of German progressivism.
00:38:50.000I'm literally writing about Woodrow Wilson this week in my book.
00:38:52.000Woodrow Wilson thought completely differently.
00:38:54.000He thought that the Declaration was antiquated.
00:38:56.000There was no such thing as an immutable right, as an unalienable right.
00:38:59.000Instead, there were just wise men in the bureaucracy who could decide for you how to live, right?
00:39:04.000And that the president ought to be as big a man as possible.
00:39:06.000It's a direct quote from Woodrow Wilson in order to sort of
00:39:10.000Embody the general will this Rousseau in general will that unfortunately has become the way the government is done Okay, the idea of foundational limited government that protects your immutable rights that has gone by the wayside and the idea of a bureaucratic regime run by the wisest and best among us has taken hold among entirely the Democratic Party and probably large swaths of the Republican Party as well is really damaging that way also
00:39:34.000His intervention in World War I was late, or he shouldn't have done it.
00:39:39.000But in any case, there are questions about when we should have intervened in World War I. Let's put it at that.
00:39:45.000And the way that he used World War I as a club to club his political opponents into submission is pretty incredible.
00:39:51.000Go read Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg.
00:40:20.000I want to play Brahms with Condoleezza Rice.
00:40:21.000I just think this would be an amazing life experience.
00:40:23.000I'd love to interview her too, but I'd be more interested in playing Brahms because she's a really good pianist and I'm a pretty good violinist.
00:40:51.000And I think when he makes fun of me and does all of his parodies,
00:40:54.000Yeah, Crowder's really nice about this.
00:40:56.000He always lets me know that he's going to do these parodies beforehand, and gets my permission so that he's not saying anything that I would find offensive.
00:41:02.000And invariably, I would say, do whatever you want, dude.
00:42:27.000So, what we do is we clean our house of all leaven, and then we take the night before, we do kind of a final check of the house for leaven, and then we burn it the next morning to signify that we've done, we've completed the task.
00:42:39.000So this morning, my kids were very into that.
00:42:41.000We took them out into the side of the house, and we burned the oven.
00:42:45.000It was a nice big fire, and they were totally into the fire.
00:42:48.000My son is just getting to speak full sentences, and I think his first full sentence came out this morning, and it was something like,
00:43:43.000In terms of domestic policy, Reagan was much more conservative than Winston Churchill because America is much more conservative generally than Great Britain.
00:43:50.000Let's see, Dylan says, What is the legal argument for allowing certain religious groups to defy the law while disallowing it for others?
00:43:55.000I'm in favor of religious liberties, but if we allow one group to go against a law, what is stopping another group from citing that case as a reason to do whatever they want to do?
00:44:03.000I.e., the case of the Little Sisters of the Poor fighting Obamacare birth control rules, and then another group wanting to hold group marriages and or child marriages.
00:44:10.000These are just examples, maybe you have better ones for a more apt comparison.
00:44:14.000It's one of the reasons why I actually believe that religious liberty is protected by broader liberty.
00:44:19.000So, to take an example, right now there are a lot of people who are talking about the fact that you're... Here's a perfect example of what you're talking about that people are asking about.
00:44:26.000So, you say a religious bakery doesn't have to cater to a same-sex wedding or doesn't have to serve gay people or something.
00:44:45.000Religious liberty is protected not because we have to have specific carve outs, but because the government should be so small and so non intrusive that religious people should be allowed to live their lives just like secular people.
00:44:54.000I don't think that the Constitution was designed to discriminate in favor of exceptions for religious people over secular people.
00:44:59.000I think the Constitution was designed to protect against encroachments on liberty by the government against anyone, religious or secular.
00:45:06.000The smaller the government, the less the chance that the government is actually going to encroach on liberty.
00:45:09.000So what I would say is freedom of association is the issue with regard to Christian bakers, not freedom of religion.
00:45:15.000I've said this many times on the program.
00:45:17.000OK, Nathaniel says, Ben, regarding the Second Amendment, by the way, just a quick note on that.
00:45:21.000This does not mean that I think every aspect of discrimination is good.
00:45:24.000I think much discrimination is totally morally wrong.
00:45:28.000That doesn't mean the government gets to crack down on it.
00:45:29.000We all discriminate in our lives in various ways, good and bad.
00:45:32.000I'm not sure that it's the government's role to determine how I run my business with regard to my clientele, especially because the market tends to take care of me if I am too discriminatory and too awful.
00:45:41.000Nathaniel says, Ben, regarding the Second Amendment, I find it concerning that U.S.
00:45:44.000citizens aren't allowed more freedom in their choice of guns for protection.
00:45:47.000For example, how could a well-armed militia defend its nation against a tyrannical government that used weapons of mass destruction if the citizens only have AR?
00:45:53.000So this is a question that's very often asked by the left, saying, well, if you say that the purpose of the Second Amendment was to protect against government tyranny, shouldn't everybody have a tank?
00:46:03.000OK, the idea here is that you need the weaponry that is sufficient to deter government tyranny.
00:46:08.000And if it came down to it, by the way, small arms are a capable deterrent against even the most major weaponry, because if the if the if the United States government has to legitimately nuke the state of Texas, that war is never happening.
00:46:29.000But as far as private ownership of firearms,
00:46:32.000The point of private ownership of firearms is to deter potential conflicts, just like the point of having nuclear arsenals that you never have to use it.
00:46:40.000How about we look to Europe for guidance on abortion?
00:46:55.000America has significantly less restrictive abortion laws than much of Europe.
00:46:59.000Abortion is banned in the second two trimesters in virtually every European country, and it's been across the board in several European countries.
00:47:05.000So they're pretty selective about when they want to copy Europe and when they don't.
00:47:10.000I'm not a fan of copying Europe, because I think Europe has gotten it all wrong for a fair bit of time.
00:47:14.000I think that the last century and a half should show us that Europe is not worth imitating.
00:47:18.000I'd like my son to be introduced to Christianity for those reasons, and I'm considering going back to church, but I don't want to be a non-believing interloper.
00:47:39.000I think teaching your son is important.
00:47:40.000Now, I think that you should decide what you want to teach your kid.
00:47:45.000I would not teach my kid agnosticism because I think that agnosticism is the idea that you don't know whether God is there is something even religious people feel, right?
00:47:52.000Religious people wonder whether God is there and knows what he's doing.
00:47:56.000But you have to decide what you want to teach your kid.
00:49:04.000Dennis is a really profound thinker, and he's writing about the greatest document in the history of civilization, so this is well worth getting.
00:49:09.000Go pre-buy it now, and you'll get it in the middle of Passover if you're Jewish, and just after Easter if you're not.
00:49:14.000So Dennis Prager, or if you're not Christian, then you'll get it in the middle of your regular week.
00:49:19.000Dennis Prager says it's, again, the name of the book is Exodus, God, Slavery, and Freedom.
00:51:30.000I critiqued Roseanne a little bit earlier this week.
00:51:32.000But I just wanted to point out that if people really believe that the folks who make Roseanne, the folks in Hollywood, have suddenly warmed and are being nice to Trump supporters, that's a bunch of nonsense.
00:51:41.000Here's one of Roseanne's stars talking about why people voted Trump.
00:51:48.000Other than, you know, being—I think it's a couple of issues.
00:51:52.000It's being either under the thumb of your husband, or it's—for the election, it was being so offended by Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton's legacy that you turned on her, or feeling inadequate, feeling like, how can somebody be so educated?
00:52:09.000How could somebody have brought themselves up from their own experience and
00:52:15.000You know, gone to the top, educated herself, fought for, you know, for rights, civil rights and equality.
00:52:23.000And I think that's threatening to a lot of women.
00:54:26.000All right, so we'll be back here next week, and we'll be doing so.
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