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00:00:18.000I will also have some thoughts on Black Panther.
00:00:20.000I haven't seen it yet, but I just have a feeling that it will be the greatest movie ever and that critics will love it more than any movie has ever been loved by anyone at any time at any place in history.
00:00:29.000I think it's just going to be that good.
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00:01:50.000All right, so we begin today with the firing or ousting of Andrew McCabe.
00:01:54.000So there was a lot of talk over the last year and a half about Andrew McCabe.
00:01:57.000Andrew McCabe was the deputy FBI director.
00:01:59.000He worked under FBI Director James Comey.
00:02:02.000And then for a short period of time, he was the interim FBI director before Christopher Wray was appointed to head that organization.
00:02:09.000Well, yesterday, Andrew McCabe finally stepped down from his position.
00:02:12.000It was unclear—there was a lot of talk about whether he was ousted or whether he stepped down voluntarily, whether he had been basically told that it's going to be your brains, your signature on this piece of paper, or whether he just decided, I've had enough of President Trump making fun of me, and I'm leaving.
00:02:25.000So, here is what I believe it's Guy Benson over at Town Hall writes.
00:02:56.000Possibility number two is that there's an IG report, inspector general report, on the Justice Department's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe, and that there's a bunch of stuff in there that makes Andrew McCabe look really bad.
00:03:07.000So, there's a Fox producer who tweeted, quote, breaking, McCabe out at FBI.
00:03:12.000Source familiar says that in advance of the IG report, McCabe was told to begin what is referred to as a terminal leave.
00:03:17.000So, basically, there's a bunch of bad news that was going to come out about Andrew McCabe and how corrupt he was until he got out now.
00:03:26.000And was running for a state Senate seat in Virginia.
00:03:29.000And the Clinton-connected governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, had a political action committee.
00:03:34.000And that political action committee directed something like $700,000 to McCabe's wife.
00:03:39.000So, that's a pretty good indicator of where McCabe is politically, because it's very rare that you have a political mixed marriage.
00:03:44.000And there was a lot of talk inside the FBI, as well, that McCabe should have stepped aside in the middle of the Hillary email investigation.
00:03:51.000He waited until a full week, only a week,
00:03:54.000Before this all happened, before the election happened, and then he stepped down.
00:03:57.000And so, there was talk inside the FBI.
00:03:59.000It was in texts that have now been uncovered, in which it was pretty clear that higher-ups at the FBI could not understand why McCabe had not stepped away from the Clinton investigation.
00:04:08.000OK, another possibility is that the FBI Director Christopher Wray has now read the infamous Russia memo compiled by the House Intelligence Committee of Republicans.
00:04:15.000That committee is voting—and they voted yesterday—to release the memo, so it's
00:04:33.000And there are people who have been leaking about what exactly is in this memo.
00:04:35.000President Trump—we'll discuss the memo in just a few minutes here.
00:04:38.000President Trump, it's now on his desk for consideration whether he wants to release this House Intelligence Committee memo that supposedly details all sorts of Intelligence Committee misbehavior and bad behavior.
00:04:49.000And Trump can release that, but a lot of the details have started leaking out.
00:04:53.000Well, according to Guy Benson, elements have started leaking, including that Trump-appointed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved an extension of surveillance on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, who had been suspected of malfeasance vis-a-vis the Russians.
00:05:06.000Now, it is quite possible that Carter Page was being surveilled for good reason.
00:05:09.000The guy was basically running around Russia asking for someone to pay him, allegedly.
00:05:14.000And Page was reportedly under FISA surveillance back in 2014.
00:05:17.000But, it's a possibility that McCabe was involved in the Get Carter Page routine, because Carter Page was a Trump staffer.
00:05:26.000The New York Times is reporting, by the way, that the FBI Director Christopher Wray found something concerning in the IG report, and he was going to move McCabe into another job, which was effectively a demotion.
00:05:36.000Instead, McCabe decided to leave the FBI.
00:05:38.000So, looks like it has nothing to do with the House Intelligence Memo, although we won't know until the House Intelligence Memo has actually been revealed.
00:05:44.000Bottom line is that McCabe, it sounds like, left for a good reason.
00:05:47.000It doesn't sound like this was Trump firing Andrew McCabe.
00:05:50.000Why would he bother firing Andrew McCabe a month before McCabe is going to leave anyway?
00:05:53.000Now, a lot of people on the left saying, oh, this is obstruction of justice.
00:05:55.000Oh, it's a slow-motion Saturday Night Massacre.
00:05:58.000Chris Matthews, y'all, that man's insane.
00:06:05.000He's going to stand up to Trump, Russia, collusion, Putin.
00:06:08.000I roll out of bed, come out of the show, come in here and talk about Russia.
00:06:12.000Slow motion, Saturday night masquerade, go!
00:06:14.000I said earlier today that Andrew McCabe should not be replaced with somebody who's just a presidential stooge and who's going to help kill this investigation.
00:06:25.000Because there are already plenty of people around here, quite honestly, who are just doing the bidding of the president over conducting a thorough and fair investigation.
00:06:34.000And unfortunately that's where we are now.
00:06:36.000Congressman, I mean, you're too young to have seen it, but it looks like a slow-motion Saturday Night Massacre.
00:06:42.000One by one, Comey, McCabe, and now Rosenstein in the target zone.
00:06:49.000Look, I was born shortly before the President resigned in 1974, and there are a lot of comparisons and parallels to the Nixon years, except at that time you actually had a Congress of a different party that was a kind of check on the President doing a thorough investigation.
00:07:09.000Here, there's a real question whether that's going on.
00:07:11.000OK, so that obviously is not the case.
00:07:13.000The idea that this is a Saturday Night Massacre—Saturday Night Massacre, if you recall back to 1974, is when there was a special counsel investigation into Watergate.
00:07:22.000And Richard Nixon ordered Archibald Cox, who was then the attorney general, to—he ordered—I'm sorry, Archibald Cox was the special prosecutor, and he ordered the attorney general to fire the special prosecutor.
00:07:33.000And then he fired the attorney general and the special prosecutor by appointing a new attorney general who would fire the special prosecutor.
00:07:38.000That's what the Saturday Night Massacre was.
00:08:55.000We're going to have to see the contents of this much-valued House Intelligence memo, and we're going to talk about that in just a second.
00:09:01.000The idea that James Comey has anything to say here, or that the FBI was squeaky clean during the Hillary investigation, or that Andrew McCabe shouldn't have recused himself, or that Comey gets to stand there and talk about honesty in the FBI after legitimately changing the law on the fly in order to exonerate Hillary Clinton and let Loretta Lynch, then the Attorney General of the United States, off the hook?
00:09:22.000So, before everybody starts going off on the, oh, McCabe was fired, it's the Saturday Night Massacre, no, that's not what's happening at all.
00:09:29.000Let's look at the facts, and then we can analyze.
00:09:30.000Okay, so, we're gonna get into Memo Fight 2018.
00:09:34.000It's the greatest MMA bout of the century.
00:09:36.000We'll get into that in just one second, but first...
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00:11:15.000Okay, so, just so that we're clear, Devin Nunes is the head of the House Intelligence Committee.
00:11:20.000And Devin Nunes, who's a Republican representative from California,
00:11:24.000Put together this House Intelligence Committee memo.
00:11:25.000It's a four-page memo that supposedly lays out all of the malfeasance pursued by the intelligence community in the Trump-Russia collusion case and the Hillary Clinton case.
00:11:35.000So, as you recall, there was a big movement to release the memo.
00:11:38.000So in order to release the memo to the public, they would actually have to vote in the House Intelligence Committee to release it to the public.
00:11:43.000Then the president of the United States has five days to look at it and determine whether or not to release it.
00:11:50.000So yesterday, the House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines to release the memo.
00:11:55.000They also did vote to make the Democratic memo, Adam Schiff, Democrat, came out with a second memo that was supposed to debunk the Republican memo.
00:12:03.000First, you actually have to vote to release the memo to the rest of the House.
00:12:06.000Then you have to vote to release the memo more broadly.
00:12:09.000They did vote not to release it to the public yesterday, but they voted to release it to the rest of the House so other people can read it.
00:12:15.000They really should vote to release all of this stuff at once, so that we can see as much of it as possible, in the fastest possible way.
00:12:20.000We should also see the underlying materials, as long as those underlying materials don't actually endanger national security.
00:12:26.000Adam Schiff, of course, was very angry that this House Intelligence memo was going to be released to the public.
00:12:37.000Adam Schiff is a Democrat from California.
00:12:39.000We had votes today to politicize the intelligence process, to prohibit the FBI and the Department of Justice from expressing their concerns to our committee and to the House, and to selectively release to the public only the majority's distorted memo without the full facts.
00:12:59.000A very sad day, I think, in the history of this committee.
00:13:03.000As I said to my committee colleagues during this hearing, sadly, we can fully expect that the President of the United States will not put the national interest over his own personal interest.
00:13:16.000But it is a sad day indeed when that is also true of our own committee.
00:13:20.000So basically, Democrats are making the claim that the FBI is squeaky clean and that any memo that comes out that condemns the FBI is an attack on the FBI.
00:13:29.000Now, I don't know what's in the memo yet.
00:13:30.000You don't know what's in the memo yet.
00:13:33.000I suspect that there is some stuff in there that's pretty damning of the FBI.
00:13:37.000And I also suspect that Republicans are out over their skis on this memo, that they are overplaying the memo, that they are suggesting that the memo is going to be the kill shot that takes down the Mueller investigation.
00:13:48.000I think these are two separate issues.
00:13:49.000It is quite possible that the FISA warrants on Carter Page was originally badly gotten, but that there's more to the investigation.
00:13:55.000It's also possible that the FBI was badly compromised in the Hillary Clinton investigation, but was not super compromised in the Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
00:14:02.000And one of the weird oddities about all this is we're talking about the corruption of the FBI on behalf of Hillary Clinton in the last election cycle, but it was the FBI's constant intervention.
00:14:10.000It was James Comey's intervention, then non-intervention, then intervention, then non-intervention that probably tossed the election away from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump.
00:14:16.000Meanwhile, we didn't hear anything from the FBI for months about the Trump-Russia collusion investigation that was going on.
00:14:22.000So, there's a lot of oddity about all of this.
00:14:24.000Democrats, I think, are posturing, you know, if they suggest that the FBI is completely clean, that the memo is completely made up, and it's all nonsense, and we just want to protect the FBI and national security.
00:14:35.000The Democrats have spent my entire lifetime attacking the FBI and national security, so I find this a little bit convenient politically.
00:14:42.000She says that she's deeply, deeply angry over the Devin Nunes memo.
00:14:46.000This is a very big honor that the leader gives to the ranking member, that the speaker gives to the chairman, to be deputized, to protect the intelligence.
00:14:56.000The intelligence for forced protection of our troops, for fighting terrorism and the rest of that.
00:15:05.000Chairman Nunes has acted like a stooge with the speakers.
00:15:24.000They have crossed from dangerously and recklessly dealing with intelligence to a cover-up of an investigation that they don't want the American people to see.
00:15:35.000OK, and this is where I say that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have gone off the rails.
00:16:15.000What I will say is that I think both sides are deeply overplaying this.
00:16:17.000So, the Democrats are saying the memo—like, when they act this scared, by the way, it makes it look as though the memo actually has something damaging to say.
00:16:24.000When they act as though—what the Democrats really should be saying is, I don't know why everyone's going so crazy about this memo.
00:16:29.000It's a biased political document that obviously is an attempt to overturn the Mueller investigation or to throw mud on the skirt of the Mueller investigation.
00:16:38.000But I don't know why everybody's so hot and bothered about it.
00:16:40.000It should be relatively easy to debunk if you're a Democrat.
00:16:43.000They should be able to just say, this isn't true, this isn't true, this isn't true, or you're drawing the wrong conclusions from a set of facts.
00:16:48.000So the Democrats instead are going crazy.
00:16:50.000Oh, the memo is the worst thing that ever happened.
00:16:52.000The memo is an attempt to obstruct justice.
00:16:55.000Meanwhile, on the right, you got a bunch of people who are saying the memo is the end of the story.
00:16:59.000The memo is just, this thing is just so important.
00:17:02.000This memo, which was indeed composed by a partisan group in the House Intelligence Committee, that this memo is going to be the be-all, end-all.
00:17:10.000So it's the usual suspects we're seeing.
00:17:11.000So Sean Hannity over on Fox News, he says the Nunes memo is huge.
00:18:12.000It makes Watergate look like stealing a Snickers bar.
00:18:15.000We don't know what's in the memo yet, so can we all just calm down and wait to see what's in the memo?
00:18:19.000Can we wait to see the underlying documents?
00:18:21.000The DOJ is claiming that Devin Nunes wrote this memo without actually seeing the underlying intelligence.
00:18:25.000Also, I thought that actually, rare point where I'm going to watch this.
00:18:29.000I'm going to give some credit to Slate.
00:18:30.000For all you folks who don't think that I read bipartisan sources, Slate had an article about this.
00:18:35.000They made what I thought was actually a relatively decent point.
00:18:37.000What they said was, the Republicans are fulminating over FISA warrants being issued against Carter Page, suggesting that the FISA courts are so shoddy that they issued a bad warrant against Carter Page in an attempt to get Trump.
00:18:49.000They just rubber-stamped whatever comes in front of them.
00:18:52.000And yet, the same Republicans who are suggesting that the FISA system is so deeply compromised that it was allowed to almost subvert the will of the people in an election,
00:19:01.000Those same people voted, like two weeks ago, to extend FISA authority under Section 702 for another six years, without amendment.
00:19:09.000The same people who are complaining the FISA process is too deeply compromised to allow the American people to feel safe were for extending FISA's authority.
00:19:17.000That sounds a little bit hypocritical.
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00:22:30.000So, meanwhile, Democrats continue to demonstrate just how radical they are.
00:22:35.000One of the reasons that the House races are still competitive is because despite all of the chaos surrounding the Trump administration, the Democrats still continue to push some of the most radical policies and rhetoric that I've ever seen in modern American history.
00:22:48.000Kirsten Gillibrand, for example, just makes a fool of herself yesterday.
00:22:53.000I'm still waiting for my invite, guys.
00:22:55.000I was promised that you were going to consider bringing me on The View because this would be a highlight of my life.
00:22:59.000But apparently you'll have Kirsten Gillibrand who will just go on there and lie to you openly, repeatedly.
00:23:04.000She says that chain migration on illegal immigration, chain migration is a racist slur.
00:23:08.000This is the new Democratic talking point that makes literally no sense since chain migration has nothing to do with slavery and was a term that has been used in legal circles for literally decades.
00:23:16.000Here's Kirsten Gillibrand suggesting that when you say chain migration, meaning like
00:23:20.000I come in, and then my parents come in, and then my cousins come in.
00:24:01.000And as elected leaders, I mean, the way I look at it, I'm going to fight for your child and these children as much as I'm going to fight for my own.
00:24:08.000And that is our job as elected leaders, to fight for these kids.
00:24:13.000Yesterday, the Democrats, including Kirsten Gillibrand, voted down a bill that would have prevented abortion, except in cases where the life of the mother is in danger.
00:24:20.000It would have prevented abortion after 20 weeks.
00:25:45.000Or at least the facts would if we had any moral sense whatsoever.
00:25:48.000But they're so extreme that at the same time they're talking about how chain migration is a racist term, and they're talking about how Trump wants to make America white again by admitting 1.8 million illegal immigrants and another 4 million illegal immigrants through chain migration.
00:26:00.000They're saying that they're not extreme over the issue of abortion.
00:26:04.000By the way, the headlines on this have been ridiculous.
00:26:05.000It says Senate votes down Trump proposal to ban abortion after 20 weeks.
00:27:39.000The people who are really extreme are the Republicans.
00:27:41.000James Clyburn over at the Congressional Black Caucus, he says that right now the America we're living in is like Germany circa 1934.
00:27:46.000By the way, Germany circa 1934, for the historically illiterate, was the year after Hitler took power.
00:27:53.000It was during the Night of the Long Knives when Hitler literally sent his minions out to murder all of his political oppositions and consolidated all power in 1933 under the Enabling Act, which basically made him a dictator.
00:28:04.000And James Clyburn says that's the United States right now.
00:28:07.000Which makes perfect sense, because James Clyburn right after this was stabbed to death by members of the Trump administration.
00:29:55.000And then James Clyburn says that this is like 1934 Germany.
00:29:59.000If it's like 1934 Germany, that's only in that the media are willing to overlook certain political proclivities on behalf of a particular political party.
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00:34:04.000In the lead-up to the State of the Union address, the Democrats continue to talk about sexual harassment and sexual abuse and the Me Too moment.
00:34:11.000Now, the reason they keep doing this is because they figure the longer they keep this alive—let's say that in 2018 Democrats take the House.
00:34:18.000Rodney Frelinghuysen, who is a congressman from New Jersey in a real battleground district.
00:34:23.000He's the head of the House Appropriations Committee.
00:34:25.000He said that he's not going to run for re-election.
00:34:27.000The indicators, if he had to make a bet,
00:34:29.000You'd lay a bet that the Republicans lose the House.
00:34:31.000It might be closer than you think it'll be, but that's not a terrible bet at this point.
00:34:36.000So Democrats are hoping that in 2018, they take over the House and then they initiate a series of investigations and hearings about President Trump's proclivity for sexual abuse and harassment, allegedly.
00:34:46.000That's why they're keeping this alive.
00:34:47.000Well, yesterday, Kirsten Gillibrand, who wants to run for president in 2020, and she's really just a weak, terrible version of Hillary Clinton.
00:34:54.000She's not as good politically as Hillary Clinton, which is saying a lot.
00:34:57.000She's a bad liar, which is a much worse liar than Hillary Clinton, which is saying a lot.
00:35:33.000I will say that Meghan has done a very good job on the view of representing an actual Republican position, which is something the view has been missing for a long time.
00:35:39.000Watch as Meghan McCain, with two simple questions, dismembers Kirsten Gillibrand on screen.
00:35:45.000I mean, these are not difficult questions to answer, and they're not difficult questions to ask, but she has two simple questions, and she turns Kirsten Gillibrand—she reduces Kirsten Gillibrand to a pile of rubble with two simple, straightforward questions.
00:37:05.000Clinton's campaign manager came out and she said, listen,
00:37:09.000I wanted to get rid of this guy, right?
00:37:12.000I wanted to get rid of this guy inside Hillary Clinton's campaign, who is her faith advisor, Bern Strider, who is alleged to have sexually harassed the help, right?
00:37:20.000And Hillary Clinton's campaign manager in 2008, Patti Solis Doyle, she says that she objected to this guy being on staff, Bern Strider, and Hillary personally overruled her.
00:37:30.000So a young woman made a complaint to our head of operations about sexual harassment against
00:37:37.000Yes, Jess O'Connell, who is now the CEO of the DNC.
00:37:43.000Uh, against Byrne Strider, who she reported to.
00:37:45.000Uh, the incident was brought to my attention and, um, you know, I did my due diligence.
00:37:53.000I interviewed all the parties involved.
00:37:56.000I looked at some emails that he had sent.
00:37:58.000I had looked at other documents, uh, and came to the conclusion that, uh, there was sexual harassment involved, that the young woman was very credible.
00:38:10.000And my recommendation to the senator was to fire her.
00:38:30.000Can you imagine the hubbub if somebody inside, for example, the Ted Cruz campaign, one of the people inside the Cruz campaign, had been accused of sexual harassment and Cruz had just gone,
00:38:50.000But when Hillary Clinton does it, it's totally fine.
00:38:53.000Meanwhile, the weak-kneedness of the left on these issues is pretty astonishing.
00:38:59.000So Mark Ruffalo, who is just a political leftist par excellence, he was speaking out on AM to DM, which is I guess BuzzFeed's new show, and he says that
00:40:15.000This is more about women actually seizing the space for themselves to tell their stories about how they've been sexually abused and harassed.
00:40:53.000That the President of the United States, when requested by Congress, shall give them an update on the State of the Union.
00:41:02.000What that originally was was a letter.
00:41:03.000So George Washington used to send a letter to Congress.
00:41:05.000James Madison sent a letter to Congress.
00:41:07.000Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to Congress.
00:41:08.000Abraham Lincoln sent a letter to Congress.
00:41:10.000The idea of the State of the Union as this gigantic
00:41:14.000Publicized event is actually a relatively modern invention.
00:41:17.000The idea that we need all this pomp and circumstance, we need to treat this as the Oscars of politics, it's all annoying and irritating and stupid.
00:41:26.000And now we're going to get all these celebrities who are going to show up to do a counter State of the Union address.
00:41:30.000They're going to do their own State of the Union address.
00:41:32.000The Democrats, I believe, are providing five counters to the State of the Union.
00:41:42.000Also, as I say, a bunch of celebrities are doing their own, so Michael Moore tweeted out that he was going to, that there's going to be all of these people, and this is 16, there are going to be a bunch of celebrities who show up for this event.
00:41:56.000The People's State of the Union, right?
00:41:58.000It's going to be Common, Rufus Wainwright, Mark Ruffalo, Wanda Sykes, Rosie Perez, John Leguizamo, Cynthia Nixon, Kathy Najimy, Lee Daniels and more.
00:42:06.000Because nothing says People's State of the Union like a bunch of multi-multi-millionaires who come out and talk about politics.
00:42:12.000Nothing says State of the Union like a bunch of actors who haven't been relevant in 10 years except for Mark Ruffalo, but they show up and have lots of money and talk about politics.
00:42:20.000I desperately want to hear what Wanda Sykes has to say.
00:42:22.000Kathy Najimy, I mean, I've just been wondering what the star of In Search of Dr. Seuss has to say about politics.
00:42:40.000And I think Democrats and Republicans who pretend to like the president, it's all pretend and dumb.
00:42:45.000The routine that we have now where we all bring our favorite guests and then we staff them up in the seats, in the rafters, and then we say, oh, look, they're up in the rafters.
00:43:01.000The dumbest one that I've seen about this, by the way, is apparently there is some Democratic representative who invited a local state rep to show up.
00:43:10.000And the state rep, apparently, according to Politico, is literally going to sit there.
00:44:05.000I like a lot of the things—I like his judicial picks.
00:44:07.000Mitch McConnell came out and said this has been the best year for conservatives in the last 30 years that he's been in Washington, D.C.
00:44:12.0002017 was the best year for conservatives.
00:44:17.000In the 30 years that I've been here, the best year on all fronts.
00:44:22.000And a lot of people are shocked because we didn't know what we were getting with Donald Trump.
00:44:26.000He was doing fundraisers for Chuck Schumer three or four years ago.
00:44:30.000But this has turned out to be a very solid, conservative, right-of-center, pro-business administration, and we're seeing the results of it.
00:44:59.000If it turns out that Trump's toxicity is actually a problem for the conservative agenda, then all of the victories I talked about and celebrate, all of the things that I like about President Trump, will actually redound against the agenda that I care about.
00:45:09.000Which is why I beg President Trump nearly every day to stop being the character that he is being.
00:45:14.000And there's a story yesterday that President Trump, when Andrew McCabe—when he fired James Comey, that James Comey was given a ride back on the FBI plane to D.C.
00:45:22.000And Trump called up Andrew McCabe, then the deputy FBI chief, and he said, why are you giving Comey a ride back?
00:47:18.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:47:25.000All right, so thing that I hate, number one, first of all, Beyonce wore a dress to the Grammys that was supposedly so glorious.
00:47:31.000Everything about Beyonce is just glorious.
00:47:33.000She's just the most important person that has ever been or ever was.
00:47:36.000Before the show, I was playing somebody the SNL skit, The Baygency, which is just the best skit that SNL has ever done by a long shot, in which
00:47:44.000In which Andrew Garfield plays a guy who says that he does not appreciate every piece of music that Beyonce's ever made, and then an agency literally comes to take him away.
00:50:30.000The problem with the movie is the entire premise, spoiler alert, the entire premise of the film is that this black guy has a white girlfriend.
00:50:36.000They go up and visit her white family up in some rich liberal area and they're all Obama voters, but
00:50:42.000All of these black people who are there are either staff or helpers, and they've legitimately been soul-sucked.
00:50:49.000Their life force has basically—their bodies have been taken over by white people, and they've been relegated to a small portion of their own brain.
00:50:56.000The dying white people have now been infused into these black people's bodies, and their life force has been drained from them.
00:51:08.000Traditional American culture sucks women dry and turns them into these replicants, these sort of weird android creatures.
00:51:15.000That's the entire premise of Stepford Wives.
00:51:17.000Well, Get Out is the same thing, except with black people.
00:51:19.000The idea being that black people, who associate with white people, are eventually drawn into white lifestyles, and they become stereotypical white people.
00:51:28.000That's the idea, that essentially white people want to enslave black people, and that the way that they enslave black people is by offering them nice houses and sex.
00:51:36.000Right, so Alison Williams, who plays his girlfriend, this loving girlfriend, this hot white chick, right, and they have lots of steamy sex in the film, but what she really wants out of him is to suck him dry of his blackness.
00:51:47.000And the fact that liberal critics love this is indicative of the fact that they refuse to acknowledge that there is a racist undertone to this.
00:51:56.000Now, there are people like Andrew Klobner who disagree.
00:51:58.000He says it was really just making fun of liberal white people.
00:52:00.000It is not making fun of liberal white people.
00:52:01.000The entire point of the film is that even the most liberal white people, even the ones who go out of their way to be tolerant on race, who go out of their way to say that they voted for Obama twice and would have voted a third time—it's a running joke in the movie—even those people are seriously racists who just want to suck black people dry of their culture and history.
00:52:20.000That sort of concept would reverse the races, and everybody would understand the serious problem with the racial politics in this movie.
00:52:26.000Again, doesn't mean it's not well-made.
00:52:27.000It doesn't mean it's an Oscar frontrunner, because the more left you are in the Oscars, the better off.
00:52:32.000That means this and The Shape of Water are probably the two Oscar frontrunners.
00:52:35.000Dunkirk will not win anything because it's not lefty enough.
00:52:40.000It's amazing to me that people have been willing to overlook this, so I will say what is the unsayable.
00:52:44.000I'll also let you know if Black Panther is good, by the way.
00:52:46.000The reason I bring that up is because, as I said at the beginning of the show, the critics are just over the moon about Black Panthers.
00:52:51.000Number one, I don't like Marvel movies generally, so I think they're always wrong about Marvel movies.
00:52:56.000But second of all, we'll have to see if the movie's actually good or if it's getting the Wonder Woman effect, where it's not just the Wonder Woman is good, it's the greatest movie that's ever been made.