Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tells President Trump not to give the State of the Union address. On the heels of the Steve King debacle, Democrats try to claim that all Republicans are racist. And another razor company goes after men.
00:00:24.000You're going to have to give me a little room to run.
00:00:26.000And I do appreciate all of the nice birthday wishes from yesterday, especially you on the left, who sent me private messages wishing me a happy birthday, but would not do so publicly for fear of being called out by your leftist friends for treating me as a human.
00:01:01.000Dudes, if you want to look cool, you want to look snazzy, you want to look like you have a tailored suit, you ought to have a tailored suit, a suit made for you.
00:02:25.000with Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, who has now decided that the President should not give the State of the Union Address from Congress.
00:02:34.000If President Trump is responsible for the death of the State of the Union Address, it will be the greatest achievement in the last 100 years of the presidency.
00:02:42.000I cannot express how much I despise the State of the Union Address.
00:02:45.000In fact, about five years ago, when my daughter was born, she was born the day of the State of the Union Address.
00:02:50.000I was grateful for two things that day.
00:02:54.000Two, that her birth had obviated the need for me to cover the State of the Union address.
00:02:57.000In fact, I tweeted that out on the day of her birth.
00:03:00.000I tweeted out, thank you to my daughter for being born on the day of the State of the Union address so I don't have to cover this bleep show.
00:03:06.000I hate the State of the Union address.
00:03:07.000It is an anti-Republican, anti-Democratic, monarchical spectacle of nonsense where the president shows up and all the legislators cheer and they clap and they pretend that they like the president and then everybody smiles as though the president is the king and he's arrived for a royal visit.
00:03:21.000I hate the State of the Union no matter who the president is.
00:03:23.000So, if Donald Trump just issues a long letter the way that George Washington did for his original State of the Union address, Well, Nancy Pelosi wants the president not to show up in Congress.
00:03:33.000He does an Oval Office address, summing up the main points in like seven minutes.
00:03:38.000I would be so happy with the president, I cannot even tell you.
00:03:41.000Well, Nancy Pelosi wants the president not to show up in Congress.
00:03:44.000Now, the real reason Nancy Pelosi doesn't want the president to show up is because he will then have a captive audience for legitimately 100 million people.
00:03:52.000And he will tell them that the reason the government shutdown is still on is because the Democrats refuse to reopen the government.
00:03:58.000That's really what they are upset about.
00:03:59.000Nancy Pelosi wrote a letter to Trump today, and here is what the letter said.
00:04:03.000She said, On January 3rd, it was my privilege as Speaker to invite you to deliver the State of the Union address on January 29th.
00:04:11.000The Constitution calls for the President to, from time to time, give to Congress information of the State of the Union.
00:04:16.000Notice, by the way, that the Constitutional language never, never suggested that the President has to show up in Congress and then jabber at us for an hour, which is what the State of the Union is.
00:04:25.000During the 19th century, and up until the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, these annual State of the Union messages were delivered to Congress in writing.
00:04:31.000And since the start of the modern budgeting in fiscal year 1977, a State of the Union address has never been delivered during a government shutdown.
00:04:38.000In September 2018, Secretary Nielsen designated the State of the Union addresses as national special security events, recognizing the need for the full resources of the federal government to be brought to bear to ensure the security of these events.
00:04:50.000The extraordinary demands presented by NSSEs require weeks of detailed planning with dozens of agencies working together to prepare for the safety of all participants.
00:04:59.000Secret Service was designated as the lead federal agency responsible for coordinating, planning, exercising, and implementing security for national special security events by Public Law 106-544, December 19, 2000.
00:05:12.000Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have not been funded for 26 days now, with critical departments hamstrung by furloughs.
00:05:19.000Sadly, given the security concerns and unless government reopens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has reopened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to Congress on January 29th.
00:05:31.000Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:05:32.000So that's not actually Pelosi asking Trump not to do the State of the Union.
00:05:36.000That's her saying we're not doing the State of the Union.
00:05:38.000That is her basically saying straight out, I am uninviting you, you are not welcome to show up in Congress.
00:05:45.000One, Trump could go to Senate Majority Leader McConnell and say, listen, we're just going to do the State of the Union from the Senate floor, right?
00:06:24.000And on television, you can show images.
00:06:26.000And when you show images on television, they have more emotional impact than just a face talking at you.
00:06:32.000Which is why, if you listen to this show, you should buy a subscription so you can actually see when we show the clips and watch as I make faces at those clips.
00:06:39.000And when we actually show information, it is more telling than when we do not.
00:06:42.000The president has so many opportunities to do something unique with the State of the Union, specifically because Nancy Pelosi is doing this, and save us so much time and effort in the process, and get rid of the monarchic spectacle.
00:06:53.000So again, if President Trump Decides not to give the State of the Union.
00:06:59.000It'll just be another benefit of the government shutdown.
00:07:01.000Everybody's very concerned about all the costs of the government shutdown.
00:07:04.000And yes, the government shutdown has costs, but this would be a real benefit.
00:07:08.000Us not having to sit there for two hours and do the runway show.
00:07:12.000for the for the president of the United States and members of Congress and pretend that we all like them and and then we have the president who just shouts out to people up in the balcony and here's Bob and Bob had a hard life story and everybody cheers for Bob and then we all sit down and we stand up and sit down again.
00:07:26.000If we could do not that this year, oh man, that'd be great.
00:07:30.000Maybe the president should just, instead of the State of the Union address, he should sit in the Oval Office, and he should just rebroadcast like a football game.
00:07:37.000And the ratings would be amazing, and people would love it.
00:07:40.000Maybe he should actually, like, broadcast a WrestleMania spectacle.
00:07:43.000Where he has somebody dress up with the head of CNN.
00:07:46.000It would be like so many different options available.
00:07:49.000And I'm very excited about all of them.
00:07:51.000In the end, Trump will give a State of the Union address.
00:07:56.000But for the moment, I choose to remain optimistic about all of this.
00:08:00.000Well, that was actually the second most interesting story of the day.
00:08:04.000The most interesting story of the day was Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.
00:08:07.000Again, The reason I talk about her is because she is now an important person as deemed by the media and also because she says such dumb things on a regular basis.
00:08:19.000So she did an interview with the Washington Post and she was asked about conservative media setting her up as another bogeyman on the left.
00:08:51.000I'm six days into the term, and you already used all your ammo.
00:08:55.000So enjoy being exhausted for the next two years while we run train on the progressive agenda.
00:09:01.000Now, That's not a great phrase, run train, on the progressive agenda.
00:09:07.000For those of you who are innocents in the world, for those of you who are not familiar with urban dictionary, for those of you who may be Tony or upper class and you have no idea what the phrase run train means, it means a bunch of men Having gang sex with a woman.
00:10:17.000I know because I've been told so by so many members of the media.
00:10:21.000OK, the big story of the day overall is not any of that.
00:10:27.000It is actually that there was a major terrorist attack in Syria on a much more serious topic, obviously.
00:10:31.000The Washington Post reports the Islamic State asserted responsibility Wednesday for a suicide blast in the U.S. patrolled city of Manbij in Syria.
00:10:39.000The first such attack since President Trump said American forces would withdraw from the country because the militant group has been largely defeated.
00:10:45.000A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition battling ISIS said that U.S.
00:10:48.000service members were killed while conducting a routine patrol in the city, but did not say how many died or provide further details.
00:10:55.000Some reports were suggesting, by the way, that these U.S.
00:10:57.000soldiers were killed at a restaurant in a suicide bombing.
00:10:59.000So the height of cowardice by members of ISIS, something we've come to expect.
00:11:49.000Because ISIS obviously would be pursuing violence in any case.
00:11:53.000But it is not uncommon for terrorist groups to ramp up violence right in the immediate in the immediate forerunning to a troop withdrawal, specifically so that they can then claim to their supporters that they drove the United States out of Syria, that ISIS drove the United States out of the area.
00:12:07.000So they unleash a wave of bombings right as the United States is about to pull out.
00:12:11.000Anyway, I want to get into a little bit more of that.
00:12:13.000And then I want to talk to you about Chris Christie, who has a new book coming out.
00:12:17.000And I also want to talk to you about Steve King, because there's a lot more of the left focusing on Steve King.
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00:13:19.000And you can try ZipRecruiter for free Meanwhile, Chris Christie has a new book coming out and the media are all agog at it because this is how it works.
00:13:33.000Anybody who was once close with Trump becomes an interesting person to the media as soon as they turn on Trump.
00:13:39.000Now, the last thing I want to hear is Chris Christie whining about why Trump was mean to him.
00:13:45.000Chris Christie is probably responsible for Trump being president in some ways.
00:13:49.000Chris Christie committed the first political murder-suicide on national television in the New Hampshire primary debates when he murdered Marco Rubio and then turned the gun on himself, politically speaking, leaving the pathway open to President Trump.
00:14:00.000You remember Marco Rubio was gaining a lot of momentum after Iowa and then Chris Christie took out Rubio and then proceeded to hand over New Hampshire to Trump.
00:14:10.000He's very angry with the Trump administration because he never got a job in the Trump administration.
00:14:14.000Not even getting those burgers for the Clemson Tigers the other day.
00:14:17.000During the campaign, Chris Christie was the designated fast food run guy.
00:14:21.000But Chris Christie couldn't even get that job apparently.
00:14:24.000He was briefly considered for chief of staff a few weeks ago, and then he was blocked in that effort by other folks in Trump's immediate orbit, and you can tell who is trying to block him from who Chris Christie is angry at.
00:14:35.000So according to Axios, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie settles scores in Let Me Finish, a memoir out January 29th from Hachette, writing that President Trump trusts people he shouldn't, including some of the people who are closest to him.
00:14:47.000First of all, that's a terrible name for a memoir.
00:14:51.000I mean, honest to goodness, that's an awful name for a memoir.
00:14:55.000It sounds like a sports memoir, actually.
00:14:58.000It sounds like a guy on sports talk radio.
00:14:59.000It's like Stephen A. Smith's Let Me Finish, but instead it's Chris Christie in Let Me Finish.
00:15:05.000And second, I'm going to explain what exactly is in this book that's got the media so aghast.
00:15:09.000So Christy asserts that Trump has, quote, a revolving door of deeply flawed individuals, amateurs, grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons, who are hustled into jobs they were never suited for, sometimes seemingly without so much as a background check via Google or Wikipedia.
00:15:23.000Now, I think there's some truth to this in the early stages of the Trump White House.
00:15:27.000There were a lot of grifters in the Trump White House very early on because Trump had surrounded himself with a lot of people who would work with him.
00:15:34.000A lot of the more mainstream kind of Republicans would not work with him during the campaign or early on in his administration.
00:15:39.000And as his administration has progressed, the administration has actually gotten better, not worse.
00:15:44.000So Rex Tillerson has been replaced with Mike Pompeo.
00:16:23.000He says, I did everything I could to make sure my friend Donald reached the White House fully prepared to serve.
00:16:27.000But a handful of selfish individuals sidetracked our very best efforts.
00:16:31.000This is the point at which a mirror slowly raises in front of Chris Christie to awaken him to the fact that he may have been one of the selfish individuals in Trump's orbit.
00:16:40.000So they set loose toxic forces that have made Trump's presidency far less effective than it would otherwise have been.
00:16:45.000If this tragedy is ever going to be reversed, it is vital that everyone know exactly how it occurred.
00:16:50.000Once Steve Bannon started unburdening himself in his Trump Tower office, he couldn't seem to stop.
00:16:55.000The kid's been taking an axe to your head with the boss ever since I got here, he blurted out.
00:17:01.000This is Christy whining about Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, who's been very effective and also very loud in terms of policy inside the White House.
00:17:11.000In Bannon's speak, the kid is only one person.
00:17:13.000Not Donald Jr., not younger son Eric, not Ivanka or Tiffany.
00:17:16.000The kid is Jared Kushner, the husband of Ivanka Trump and the son of the real estate developer Charles Kushner, a man I once sent to prison.
00:17:25.000Christy then says he doesn't understand Trump's endgame, and he goes after Trump personally.
00:17:30.000I do love that all these people who really, really wish that they were involved with the Trump administration write these books about how terrible everyone in the Trump administration is, and what they say is, he's just surrounded by bad people.
00:17:41.000Trump himself has never made a bad decision.
00:17:43.000It's just that he's surrounded by bad people.
00:17:50.000Anybody who knows President Trump, anybody who knows the people who talk to President Trump, this guy has a mind of his own.
00:17:56.000If you could control President Trump, do you think his advisors would be letting him tweet asinine things every five seconds?
00:18:02.000Do you truly think that his advisors would be in favor of him going on Twitter and then just unleashing a Syrian withdrawal?
00:18:08.000Do you think that his advisors would be super happy with him going on Twitter and then ripping into Elizabeth Warren by mentioning wounded knee?
00:18:19.000And yet there is this mythos that's been built up around Trump by people who want to kiss his butt that says every mistake that you've made, it's because of bad advice.
00:18:26.000It's because the people around you have badly advised you.
00:18:29.000Well, you know who one of those people was during the campaign?
00:18:31.000Chris Christie, who was there virtually the whole time.
00:18:35.000We all remember the videos of Chris Christie looking like a wounded dog as President Trump spoke.
00:18:39.000And Christie's off on the side, looking like deep down inside his soul, he wants to crawl into a hole, cover himself up and die.
00:18:46.000So Christie going after other members of the Trump administration now that he's no longer there, and now that he's not been involved, is pretty scurrilous.
00:18:54.000But I would expect nothing less from Chris Christie, who is one of the most egregiously egotistical politicians in the history of Republican politics.
00:19:03.000So the media, of course, are very excited over all of this, and they hope that this will be the kill shot.
00:19:07.000They're constantly hoping that something will be the kill shot with regard to the Trump presidency.
00:19:11.000The truth is, the only thing that's going to end the Trump presidency, if anything does, is going to be him being defeated in 2020.
00:19:18.000And we'll talk about the 2020 candidates in just a minute.
00:19:21.000First, I want to talk a little bit About an ad that was put out by Harry's Razor.
00:19:27.000So we talked about Gillette a couple of days ago.
00:19:31.000Gillette put out an ad about masculinity, about how masculinity was really bad, right?
00:20:28.000If you say man up, that's bad, because if you say man up, you're implying that somebody should be a man, and you know, make sacrifices, take responsibility, stop whining, in the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
00:20:38.000They say it's time for a new definition of masculinity.
00:20:43.000Again, they say that if you say grow a pair to somebody, that this is really bad.
00:20:46.000If you say that being a man has anything to do with, you know, not being a wimp and not being a loser and taking responsibility for your own life, that's really bad.
00:20:54.000So they say it's time for a new definition of masculinity.
00:20:56.000Now, I don't know why all these razor companies have suddenly decided to cut themselves off at the knees with their entire base, right, which are men, as it turns out.
00:21:05.000But it has something to do with the draw of social media to folks on the left.
00:21:10.000One of the most amusing things about folks on the online left is that the same folks who despise capitalism, think capitalism is terrible, hate major corporations, they will happily retweet Harry's Razor and Gillette and Nike.
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00:24:01.000We can't do that to the same media who hate Melania Trump so much that they've never put her on the cover of a single fashion magazine I can think of, while they're falling over themselves to put Michelle Obama on fashion magazines.
00:24:13.000And just on an objective level, like Melania Trump was a model, she was like an actual model, and they won't put her on fashion magazines.
00:24:18.000Now they're saying it is beneath Melania Trump to make a salad.
00:26:13.000So the left has decided now that Steve King is the most important person in America.
00:26:18.000That's because Steve King last week said something racist.
00:26:20.000He just did a New York Times interview.
00:26:22.000And in the Times interview, he suggested that the phrases white nationalism and white supremacy were unobjectionable or should be unobjectionable.
00:26:29.000Now, King's defense to this is he says that the New York Times took him out of context.
00:26:33.000And what he actually was talking about is that the left conflates and uses all of these phrases routinely to slander kind of normal ideas like Western civilization.
00:26:41.000Whatever it is, Steve King has walked that line many, many times.
00:26:45.000And I have given him the benefit of the doubt in cases past.
00:26:48.000And I think now, in retrospect, unjustifiably so.
00:26:52.000At a certain point, you can't give somebody the benefit of the doubt anymore.
00:26:57.000Steve King says something that is overtly bad.
00:26:58.000Now, he said something overtly bad was caught on tape by the Weekly Standard last year, and many people on the right, including me, condemned him for that at the time.
00:27:05.000So when that happened, then there wasn't that much press about it.
00:27:09.000There wasn't a huge amount of press about it.
00:27:11.000The right has decided to disown Steve King because he said something so egregious that there's just no way to walk back from it.
00:27:44.000Just like they worked to get rid of a bunch of Republicans in the past in the John Birch Society in times past.
00:27:53.000Just like they worked to kind of fringe out Pat Buchanan and his ilk.
00:27:57.000The Republican Party has tried to do this before.
00:27:59.000But every time the Republican Party tries to do the right thing with somebody like Steve King, they immediately get whomped on the head by the left.
00:28:06.000They say, well, why didn't you do this before?
00:28:09.000You know, the fact that you even want to get rid of Steve King is demonstrative of the fact that you are a racist.
00:28:13.000So the way this works is if you don't get rid of Steve King, you're a racist.
00:28:16.000If you do get rid of Steve King, you are also a racist because you didn't get rid of Steve King before.
00:28:20.000Instead of, well, I'm glad that you finally came around on Steve King, It's, well, I'm glad you finally came around on Steve King, but not really.
00:28:27.000I'm not really that glad you came around on Steve King.
00:28:29.000In fact, you're an idiot for having apologized or for having come around on Steve King in the first place.
00:28:34.000You wonder why so many Republicans, so many people on the right, are willing to double down in defense of people who should not be defended?
00:28:39.000It's because if you actually come out and condemn bad behavior on your own side, you don't get credit for it from the left.
00:28:45.000Instead, the left suggests that you are part of a broader racist movement.
00:28:50.000And it's that that has allowed people on the right, and given impetus to people on the right, to give benefit of the doubt in cases where maybe they shouldn't have given benefit of the doubt.
00:28:58.000If you call everything racist, people on the right are immediately going to say, well, you called Mitt Romney a racist, so why would I take you seriously when you call this other person a racist?
00:29:08.000Maybe you're just deliberately misinterpreting them too.
00:29:11.000The left refuses to acknowledge that it has ever mislabeled anyone racist.
00:29:16.000Folks on the left believe that every time they label something racist, it is racist.
00:29:20.000And there is no problem of over-broadly applying the label racist because everything is racist in their view.
00:29:26.000Now, if everything is racist, then that's going to lead to a reactionary response that goes overboard in which people assume that nothing is racist, which of course is also not true.
00:29:35.000But watch the reaction of folks on the left to the right condemning Steve King.
00:29:38.000Like, literally every major Republican I've spoken to or who has commented publicly has condemned Steve King His base of support has been completely undercut.
00:29:47.000And yet Bill Maher, Bill Maher, who's used the n-word on his own show, I should mention.
00:29:53.000Bill Maher goes on MSNBC, talking to Chris Matthews, and he suggests that Republicans are so racist that we're supposed to cheer them for denouncing white supremacy?
00:30:37.000Okay, why do we always ask that question after the right doesn't put up with something?
00:30:42.000Again, the right sacrificed a Senate seat in Alabama to not put up with Roy Moore.
00:30:46.000The right has sacrificed... I mean, the right basically sacrificed a Senate seat in Virginia because Corey Stewart was vaguely on that racist fringe, right?
00:30:55.000He had neoconfederates in his campaign and such.
00:30:57.000So the right has sacrificed two Senate seats, basically, to the proposition that there are certain people who should not be part of the Republican caucus.
00:31:03.000But for the left, that means that the right is racist and bad.
00:31:07.000Because again, the left conflates everything that is conservatism with racism.
00:31:10.000So what they do is they say, well, obviously you guys are motivated by racism.
00:31:13.000Your desire for the wall is coming from the same place as Steve King's desire for a wall, even if you don't like Steve King, even if you think that his comments are ridiculous.
00:31:22.000I'm going to get to more of this in just one second.
00:31:25.000But first, we need to talk about how you're going to maintain your energy level today.
00:31:28.000Do you struggle to get started every day and then you have bursts of productivity and then you crash again in the mid-afternoon and you kind of limp across that 5 p.m.
00:32:35.000Well, I'm going to get to the response of Meghan McCain yesterday to all the allegations that the Republicans are widely racist in the aftermath of them excising someone who said a racist thing.
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00:34:09.000All righty, so Jane Koston, who I've talked up her work before, she has a piece over at Vox.com that's pretty interesting called Why Republicans Took So Long to Call Out Steve King's Racism And her basic thesis is that Republicans ignored it because they don't take racism all that seriously.
00:34:28.000I mean, that really is her essential thesis.
00:34:30.000She says that the right has defined racism down to If you say something clearly white supremacist, then we excise you.
00:34:38.000But that obviously is untrue because there are a bunch of people on the right who have been excised for saying things that are borderline before.
00:34:44.000Folks like me were very critical of President Trump in the aftermath of Charlottesville, for example.
00:34:54.000According to the left, the right just doesn't get racism because racism is far broader than just people being white supremacists.
00:35:01.000Jane, Jane basically, she quotes Peter Beinart, who is an awful, awful columnist, who wrote in 2017, conservatives feel their cultural vulnerability acutely.
00:35:10.000In 2011, researchers at Tufts University observed that conservatives consume more outrage-based political radio and television than liberals do.
00:35:17.000One reason they suggested in a follow-up paper is that conservatives are more fearful than liberals of discussing politics with people with whom they disagree because they dread being called a bigot.
00:35:25.000Liberals express no comparable fear, at least in the As a result, they felt less need to take refuge in the safe political environments provided by outrage-based programming.
00:35:34.000Well, the reason that the right fears being called a bigot is because the left will call you a bigot for legitimately anything.
00:35:42.000Name a Republican who has not been called a bigot.
00:35:45.000One, can you name a Republican who has not been called a racist or a bigot?
00:35:48.000Now, folks on the left answer by saying that's because all Republicans are racists and bigots.
00:35:52.000And that's what drives the right to not take seriously certain allegations from the left of bigotry.
00:35:59.000And that's why, and I've said this before, that's what's led me in the past to grant the benefit of the doubt to people like Steve King.
00:36:07.000I said, I went back and I updated an article that I wrote in 2017 in which he said something that could be interpreted one of two ways.
00:36:12.000I talked about this on the show last week.
00:36:14.000He said something about we can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.
00:36:18.000And I said that this could be interpreted a couple of different ways.
00:36:21.000One is the racist way that black and brown babies can't become members of Western civilization.
00:36:26.000And the other way is suggesting that people who are raised in a different culture are going to have a bad impact on our civilization if that culture runs counter to the culture of our civilization.
00:36:37.000And King went on TV, and he sort of clarified it in the second way, and I said, well, you need to grant him the benefit of the doubt.
00:36:42.000Well, maybe I shouldn't have granted him the benefit of the doubt, but the idea is that everything King has been saying for 15 years is inherently racist, and what the left does, and this is how they get themselves in trouble, is what drives a reactionary response from the right, is they take a bunch of comments that King said that are borderline and dicey and bad, and then they lump them together with a bunch of normal conservative commentary and say, well, obviously all of these comments are racist.
00:37:04.000So, for example, when he ripped into multiculturalism a while back, this was considered racist by the New York Times.
00:37:13.000But when he said stuff about how there were a bunch of people who were crossing the border with calves like cantaloupes, that was a lot closer to racism and maybe outright racist.
00:37:22.000According to the left, if you make any such distinction, then you are not taking racism seriously enough.
00:37:29.000I think there can be honest disagreement about whether a comment is racist or not.
00:37:33.000And maybe it's easy to err on the side of giving the benefit of the doubt to people you don't give the benefit of the doubt, or you shouldn't.
00:37:40.000But on the left, they give no benefit of the doubt to anyone on the right, but complete benefit of the doubt to everyone on the left.
00:37:47.000And so, for example, you got Chuck Todd, right?
00:37:49.000So Chuck Todd of NBC, he says, you know, Republicans are happy to condemn Steve King's racism, but they won't condemn President Trump's racism.
00:37:56.000I'm wondering what world he's living in, honestly.
00:38:01.000Could it be that Republicans feel that they can be tougher on racism on Steve King after the midterm wiped out in the suburbs?
00:38:09.000Could it be that they feel that they can't criticize a president who's very popular among their own primary voters?
00:38:15.000Could it be they fear President Trump would punish them by supporting a primary challenger?
00:38:19.000Well, you know the answers to all of those questions.
00:38:22.000Okay, or maybe it is that a lot of Republicans did criticize Trump in the aftermath of Charlottesville.
00:38:28.000Maybe it is that a lot of Republicans were very critical of Trump during the 2016 race.
00:38:31.000Maybe it is that you can't get rid of Trump the same way that you can get rid of Steve King, right, by primarying him in a congressional race.
00:38:38.000And maybe it is that Trump didn't actually come out and just say white nationalism and white supremacy, okay, right?
00:38:44.000But according to Chuck Todd, it always comes down to the same thing.
00:38:47.000So Meghan McCain, I think rightly went after folks on The View, because folks on The View began conflating support for a border wall with Steve King-like racism.
00:38:55.000And here was Meghan McCain aptly taking down this argument.
00:38:59.00042% of this country that support the wall, are they all racist?
00:39:05.000There are a lot of people that support that wall, and I think when you blanket, I think this is the problem with identity politics in the country, which is something we sort of touched on yesterday, is when you broad stroke everyone, all black people think one thing, all Hispanic people think one thing, all Republicans think one thing, that's how we got ourselves into this mess.
00:39:19.000Do you think 42% of Americans are racist?
00:39:22.000Well you did just call 42% of the country, there was an implication that they could be racist.
00:39:26.000Okay, and the folks on the left, this is a very convenient argument for them, is that if you support a particular policy, this means that you are inherently racist.
00:39:33.000And people on the left say, where's the evidence that you're not racist?
00:39:36.000You know, there's an interesting question of burden of proof here.
00:39:40.000And burden of proof in the law is the question of whether you're accused of a crime.
00:39:44.000Is the burden of proof on the police to prove that you committed the crime, or is the burden on you to prove that you are innocent?
00:39:48.000According to the left, we can automatically assume you are guilty of the crime of racism based on your political positions, and then it is up to you to prove that you are not in fact a racist.
00:39:57.000And every attempt to prove you're not a racist proves more that you're a racist because you didn't do something else the left wanted you to do.
00:40:03.000Hey, so if you are for a wall, we can assume you're a racist.
00:40:05.000And then if you say, well, I'm not a racist, they say, prove it.
00:40:07.000And you say, well, you know, like Steve King said this thing the other day, and I condemn that.
00:40:10.000So why don't you condemn every other comment that Steve King ever made?
00:40:15.000Well, maybe you're being intellectually dishonest and what you actually want to do is just apply the racist label as broadly as possible because it is politically beneficial and allows you to pat yourself on the back.
00:40:24.000Meanwhile, being fine with racism in your own ranks.
00:40:28.000The Democratic Party, obviously okay with anti-Semitism in their own ranks.
00:40:33.000By disassociating from the Women's March after it became completely obvious from Tamika Mallory and others they would not disassociate from Louis Farrakhan, never mind the fact that 21 different members of the Democratic caucus have taken pictures and hung out with Louis Farrakhan, none of whom have ever condemned Louis Farrakhan in any way.
00:40:50.000And you have folks in the Democratic caucus like Rashida Tlaib, who is a fresh face because she's a Muslim congressperson.
00:40:57.000Now, you can be a Muslim congressperson and not be an anti-Semite, obviously.
00:41:00.000Rashida Tlaib, however, is an anti-Semite.
00:41:28.000Now, I can ask the same questions about Democratic willingness to accept anti-Semitism that the left asks about right-wing willingness to accept racism.
00:41:38.000The difference is that nobody in the Democratic Party has condemned Rashida Tlaib once.
00:41:44.000The Democratic Party gets mild credit for having withdrawn from the Women's March, but they don't get full credit simply because they still have members in their caucus who are saying things like Rashida Tlaib, and they don't care.
00:42:08.000People are willing to overlook bad stuff on their own side.
00:42:10.000They would not be willing to overlook on somebody else's side.
00:42:13.000And we all have to fight that instinct.
00:42:15.000But to pretend that that instinct is inevitably tied to some deep-rooted discriminatory belief system, Is ridiculous.
00:42:23.000Again, I think that you can make a better case that the Democratic Party has embraced anti-Semitism considering that they booed Jerusalem in the DNC in 2012, considering the fact that they en masse voted against a proposition Okay.
00:42:36.000Meanwhile, in other news, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has announced she is running for president because we need 1,000 candidates who are all the same.
00:42:42.000for years then you can make the case that the entire republican party is racist because they just got rid of steve king i think that's a that's a bigger it's a much bigger stretch okay meanwhile in other news kirsten jillibrand of new york has announced she is running for president because we need 1 000 candidates who are all the same so kirsten jillibrand is going to run for president on the exact same platform as beto o'rourke or kamala harris or any other of the the democratic candidates But she's running for president on a really unique platform.
00:43:12.000Unlike 50% of the population, she in fact is a woman.
00:43:15.000She announced that she was running for president and was given time to do so by Stephen Colbert, who has become basically just a bullhorn for Democratic presidential politics.
00:43:23.000Here is the uncharming, utterly malleable Kirsten Gillibrand.
00:43:26.000You remember when she first ran for Congress?
00:43:29.000She ran as a quasi-pro-life, pro-gun Democrat.
00:44:29.000So, flashback to, like, a minute ago when Kirsten Gillibrand said that she would serve her full term in the Senate without running for president.
00:44:36.000Yeah, she was lying, just like she has about every other policy position she's ever taken.
00:45:41.000So Kamala Harris, We'll do much better than Kirsten Gillibrand because she's not just a woman.
00:45:46.000She's a black woman, which means even more victimized in American society, even though, by the way, the evidence does not show that.
00:45:52.000The evidence doesn't show that black women, based on when you remove all other factors, are deeply victimized by American society.
00:45:58.000In fact, black women growing up in high income households tend to out earn white women, according to a recent study from Stanford University.
00:46:06.000In any case, Kamala Harris has been given the patina of intersectional advantage by the left.
00:46:12.000So she has an advantage over Kirsten Gillibrand.
00:46:14.000Also, it means that she gets better media coverage.
00:46:16.000The media coverage battle also concerns people like Beto O'Rourke or Bob O'Rourke and Bobo.
00:46:23.000Apparently is going to get really great media coverage as well.
00:46:28.000Elizabeth Warren doesn't have the same pizzazz as Kamala Harris.
00:46:32.000She's trying to go for that Bernie Sanders crowd.
00:46:34.000She might get some of them, but she'll split that vote.
00:46:37.000Right now, if you had to handicap the Democratic race, I would say that the chances of a Kamala Harris beta O'Rourke ticket are really good.
00:46:43.000I'd say that's probably the most likely ticket at this point.
00:46:47.000Not sure whether it's O'Rourke or whether it's Harris on the top of that ticket, but Harris obviously going to be given a big boost by the folks on the left, who are super not racist, but also will tell you that Kamala Harris is qualified for president specifically because of her race.
00:47:00.000But they're super not, they don't think in terms of race.
00:47:02.000Only you think in terms of race, because you think it's bad when someone uses the term white supremacist or white nationalist without condemning it.
00:47:08.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:47:21.000You know, it's not any great shakes, but I will say that the new, the guy who plays Spider-Man now is much better than Tobey Maguire.
00:47:29.000Now, so if I, I mean, let's be real about this.
00:47:31.000It's hard to be worse than Tobey Maguire was in the old Spider-Man series.
00:47:35.000And we relaunch Spider-Man, you know, every couple of years here at this point, but the movie is fun.
00:47:41.000It really portrays Peter Parker the way that he is in the comics as like an actual teenager, as opposed to Tobey Maguire, who was 50 when he was playing Spider-Man.
00:48:23.000It's mostly okay because Robert Downey Jr.
00:48:25.000is in it, and it's kind of a, you know, it's a typical Marvel movie in the sense that it's enjoyable cotton candy.
00:48:31.000Now there's a new preview out for the new Spider-Man movie, which just shows you that you are all suckers.
00:48:38.000Okay, you remember I got very angry at Avengers Infinity War.
00:48:41.000If you go back on the program, View the old episodes, what you'll see is that people were very mad at me because I was mad at Avengers Infinity War.
00:48:54.000Of course, at the end of Avengers Infinity War, when Thanos snaps his fingers and half the population disappears, and Robert Downey Jr., Iron Man watches as Spider-Man disappears.
00:49:05.000They're going to kill off these billion-dollar characters just to finish the Infinity War movie.
00:49:10.000So I'm not going to... Here's the deal.
00:49:12.000I'm not going to cry over Spider-Man being killed at the end of Avengers Infinity War or Black Panther, which literally made a billion dollars at the box office.
00:49:19.000I don't think they actually killed Black Panther.
00:49:21.000In fact, I remember watching the ending sequence in Avengers Infinity War and they killed off some of the fringe characters.
00:49:25.000I'm like, wow, that's kind of, that's kind of interesting.
00:49:27.000And then they killed off Black Panther.
00:49:53.000So if you cried when it was obvious that these characters were not dying, I would say that your suspension of disbelief has gone too far.
00:49:58.000Now I know, I'm gonna get a bunch of flack for saying this because, hey, it's a fictional movie and you've made fun of fictional movies before.
00:50:04.000Right, but you have to have enough respect for the audience that there has to be at least some logical consistency within the universe that you've created.
00:50:11.000If every fictional movie ended with a giant Godzilla foot stomping all the characters out of existence, I think it would be fair to criticize the movie for failing to move within the universe it had created.
00:50:21.000So, you can't expect me to be emotional within the Avengers universe when you're killing off characters who I know are not dead in the slightest.
00:50:27.000Now it would be fair to cry at the next Avengers movie when they kill off In my prediction, Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor.
00:50:33.000All three of whom will be taken out because they're too expensive for Marvel.
00:50:36.000Which is the real reason they'll be taken out.
00:50:38.000And, you know, then I guess it's okay to get emotional.
00:50:41.000But if you got emotional over Spider-Man disappearing, then you're just stupid.
00:50:53.000So Karen Pence is the wife of the Vice President, and she has taken a job, according to Mediaite, with a private school that discriminates against gay people and members of the LGBT community at large.
00:51:02.000What exactly is this terrible, horrible school?
00:51:04.000She's taken a gig as an art teacher for Emanuel Christian School in Northern Virginia.
00:51:08.000The school's application form requires teachers and staff to uphold traditional Christian norms and values, including against a pledge against sexual immorality, which includes homosexual conduct.
00:51:24.000How dare she teach at a religious school?
00:51:29.000If you are one of these intolerant jackasses who thinks that it's very bad for a Christian to teach at a Christian school because the Christian school upholds Christian principles, get out more.
00:51:40.000Deal with some people who don't necessarily agree with your secular humanist worldview.
00:51:45.000Deal with some folks who may, in fact, be religious and who treat you well in normal life and believe that certain things are sins that you don't believe are sins.
00:51:54.000You want to live in a diverse society, you might have to start by recognizing that our diverse society has people of religious belief inside of it.
00:52:01.000The Washington Post is very angry at this, however.
00:52:03.000They say that the form includes a section that says moral misconduct, which violates the bona fide occupational qualifications for employees includes, but is not limited to such behaviors as the following heterosexual activity outside of marriage.
00:52:15.000Now, I noticed that the media story is not very upset about this one.
00:52:19.000That the school condemns heterosexual activity outside of marriage.
00:52:21.000They're not upset about that one because they think that it's not necessarily that immoral to tell straight people not to have sex outside of marriage.
00:52:29.000They think it's super duper terrible to say that if you engage in homosexual activity then that is a sin in the Christian view.
00:52:38.000Although all of these are sins in the Christian view.
00:52:40.000Premarital sex, cohabitation, extramarital sex, homosexual or lesbian sexual activity, polygamy, transgender identity, any other violation of the unique rules of male and female sexual harassment, use or viewing of pornographic materials or website.
00:52:51.000So basically, schools can have social standards so long as those social standards are approved by the left.
00:52:56.000And if those social standards are not approved by the left, you cannot associate with that school or with that synagogue or with that church.
00:53:05.000If you're gonna try and tell me where I can send my kids to school because you think you know better for my kids than I do, or because you think that your secular worldview is somehow morally better innately than my religious worldview, you can go to hell.
00:53:16.000I'm really not interested in your opinion on this.
00:53:17.000And I don't think Karen Pence is either.
00:53:18.000And I think she has every right to tell these people to take a long walk off a short pier.
00:54:59.000Sometimes the people make dumb decisions.
00:55:00.000Sometimes this kind of worship for popular sovereignty is really ridiculous.
00:55:05.000Now, I'm a fan of popular sovereignty because, as Winston Churchill put it, it's the best system, it's the worst system aside from all the others.
00:56:13.000You've got Beto O'Rourke, who doesn't hold a position, but rides a skateboard, guys, and has long bangs that he can flick back romantically in the sunlight way.
00:56:23.000And you've got Kirsten Gillibrand, who's a shapeshifter, who will take any position that is necessary for her to take, so long as it also allows her to say that she's doing it as a woman.
00:56:34.000Great, great gang you brought here, guys.
00:56:36.000Now, if any of these people win in 2020, we got a problem.
00:56:39.000Now, that's not to suggest that President Trump is perfect in any way, but it does show the threat of the left, because my goodness gracious, that's some bad stuff.
00:56:46.000By the way, Beto O'Rourke finished his interview by saying, That we may not be able to govern under the Constitution.
00:56:52.000He says maybe we can't be managed by the same principles that were set down 230 plus years ago.
00:56:58.000That should be frightening to anyone, but I guess that we don't get frightened by people saying they want to overthrow the Constitution unless those people are of the Trumpian persuasion.
00:57:06.000OK, well, we will be back here tomorrow with much, much more.
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