Rush Limbaugh was a conservative radio host in the 80's and 90's. He was one of the most popular talk radio hosts of all time, and he was the first conservative talk radio host to become a household name. But he was also a racist, a misogynist, a bigoted, and a big hypocrite. And yet, the online left is celebrating his death, and the media are calling him a hero. Ben Shapiro explains why Rush's death was a sad day in American history, and why we should be grateful that he was able to serve as a voice for the voiceless and voiceless for as long as he did, because without Rush, there would have been no alternative media outlets like Rush's radio show, and without Rush's show, there wouldn't have been any alternative media at all, because there was no alternative to the mainstream media in the 1980's and early 90's, and there would not have been Rush's Rush Show without his radio show and the alternative media that grew out of Rush's efforts to create an alternative media alternative to what was available to Americans. the mainstream press and the rest of the country and what they were getting at the end of the day, Rush was the last conservative voice on the radio airwaves in America at that time, until the dawn of the internet and the rise of the rightwing media in America in the late 90's and beyond. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. - you have a right to privacy and personal data protection. Go with ExpressVPN to protect your data and keep your privacy online. Visit expressvpn.co/Itrust to get 3 months free on a 1-year plan that includes a 3-month free trial that includes 3 months of VIP membership and 2-months of the premium version of the I trust program that includes access to all of my favorite VPNs, Provenza Provencia Provenible. I trust you ll be protected from tracking your data, and you ll get access to everything you need to keep up to keep your data protected online. I trust that I trust me, not your friends and I ll protect your privacy, too! I like most of my data, I m not your data is safe, I ll keep it secure, I trust my data is protected, not yours, I can stay safe with me, too, I won t let you know who I trust, and I can keep my data protected, right?
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00:01:24.000Okay, well, big news of the day yesterday, and honestly, historic news, the death of Rush Limbaugh.
00:01:35.000So, for those of you who never listened to Rush, you missed out.
00:01:38.000Rush was the granddaddy, not only of talk radio, but of all the alternative media.
00:01:42.000Without Rush Limbaugh, there is no alternative media.
00:01:45.000You have to understand what Rush was and what he was not.
00:01:48.000So, what he was not is what the media are calling him today.
00:01:51.000A bigot, a vicious, terrible person, saying the world is better off because he is dead.
00:01:56.000This is stuff that you are seeing in mainstream media outlets.
00:01:59.000It's stuff that you're seeing certainly on Twitter, which allowed Rot in Hell to trend when Rush Limbaugh died, as well as Rest in Piss.
00:02:06.000You can tell that the left really didn't like this guy.
00:03:04.000The Fairness Doctrine was this unconstitutional, I think, doctrine that suggested that if you had a broadcast license, you had to be fair in your presentation of the issues, which was a completely subjective interpretation because there was no way that folks with broadcast licenses were being fair in their presentation of the issues.
00:03:20.000They certainly were not providing all sides of any particular issue.
00:03:23.000Well, in 1987, the FCC under Ronald Reagan got rid of the Fairness Doctrine.
00:03:28.000And in doing so, they opened the path to AM radio because they allowed people with broadcast licenses to stop worrying about government mastering them and start worrying about what the market wanted to hear.
00:03:38.000In 1989, Rush Limbaugh launches the Rush Limbaugh Show.
00:03:41.000And it immediately becomes a sensation.
00:03:43.000And it becomes a sensation because there's an entire side of the political aisle that for decades has had no daily outlet for the news.
00:03:50.000Remember, there's no major mainstream newspaper that was right-wing.
00:05:47.000Everybody on the right right now who refuses to kowtow to the woke authoritarian left line is seen as oppositional and polarizing and defiant.
00:05:54.000It doesn't matter that people like me do the Sunday special every week and many weeks it is people on the left that does not matter.
00:06:01.000None of that really makes a difference.
00:06:02.000The idea is that anybody who speaks up against the left is the cause of the polarization because the left should have complete dominance.
00:06:08.000Rush was the first person to deny this.
00:06:10.000Rush was the first person to say, listen, I exist, you exist, I hear you and you hear me, and we can communicate with each other.
00:06:17.000You, the conservative living in the middle of the country, who's been completely overlooked by the establishment media, you have a voice and you have a place you can go to hear people who agree with you.
00:06:29.000And you have arguments that you can leverage in support of your viewpoint.
00:06:33.000This is why the left was so frightened of Rush Limbaugh.
00:06:38.000It's why the left decided they were going to go after him.
00:06:40.000I think it is fair to say that if it were not for Rush, there would not be this entire left-wing apparatus designed at destroying people in right-wing media because there wouldn't be a right-wing media.
00:06:48.000Fox News would not exist without Rush Limbaugh.
00:06:52.000He was the canary in the coal mine for the suggestion that there was in fact a massive market for conservative content in the United States.
00:06:59.000Because again, the methods of dissemination just didn't exist to that point.
00:07:04.000So Rush was a deeply important figure in the history of conservatism.
00:07:08.000He also had a gift for distilling down complex arguments to something more simple.
00:07:14.000William F. Buckley was famously sesquipedalian, right?
00:07:17.000He would use words that nobody knew, right?
00:07:19.000He was extraordinarily literate, but this didn't exactly make him always the best expositor of conservative to the truck driver, to the guy who didn't go to college.
00:07:28.000Rush was the guy who talked to everyone.
00:07:32.000And listen, I'm a huge Buckley fan, but there's no question that Buckley's chief audience was college graduates.
00:07:36.000People who read National Review are not the same people who listen to talk radio.
00:07:40.000Rush was the person who brought conservatism to the common man, which is why you saw in 1994, after Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House, Rush was given an honorary congressional seat by members of the Republican Party in Congress.
00:07:53.000You know, Rush's willingness and ability to explain conservative viewpoints made him unique in the space and also made him the target of unique ire from the left.
00:08:02.000Very early on, the left identified him as a threat, and then they dedicated nearly everything in their arsenal to destroying him.
00:08:06.000A lot of the same stuff that you see today started with Rush.
00:08:09.000The attempts to deplatform, the attempts to go after his advertisers, all that started with Rush.
00:08:13.000The attempt to blame people on the right for violence with which they had nothing to do, that all started with Rush.
00:08:18.000I'm old enough to remember when the left tried to blame Rush for the Oklahoma City bombing.
00:08:22.000So, Rush was just the first guy there.
00:08:24.000And not only the first guy there, the most talented guy there.
00:08:27.000And you can sense how important Rush was by the amount that the left hates him, despises him.
00:08:32.000I mean, after he died, again, the reaction from the left, which is sometimes muted depending on who dies, was absolutely unbridled.
00:08:44.000And to pretend, by the way, that this exists equally on both sides of the aisle is very silly.
00:08:48.000When Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, there weren't people on the right who were talking about what a terrible evil person she was and the world is better off without her because it wasn't true.
00:08:57.000But with the left, the idea is that Rush Limbaugh was the font head of all evil.
00:09:00.000Especially because, of course, Donald Trump had just been elected President of the United States, and he'd been President of the United States, and Rush had been a big Trump supporter.
00:09:07.000But for those of us who listened to Rush for 30 years, long before Trump was ever even in the rearview mirror, we recognized that Rush's legacy was way more than that.
00:09:16.000It was giving people a voice, it was making people feel heard, and more importantly, it was beginning a mass movement in favor of conservatism that actually had alternative outlets.
00:09:26.000Daily Wire would not exist were it not for Rush Limbaugh.
00:09:28.000This podcast would not exist were it not for Rush Limbaugh.
00:09:31.000Certainly this radio show would not exist were it not for Rush Limbaugh.
00:09:35.000We're all sort of living in the house that Rush built.
00:09:38.000In a second we're going to talk a little bit more about Rush Limbaugh and we'll talk about the blowback that he's receiving after his death.
00:09:44.000If you can be judged by your friends, then you can be certainly judged by the people who are really pissed off at you, even after you die.
00:09:51.000And that is certainly the case with Rush Limbaugh.
00:09:53.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:11:12.000Just speaking of his life, Rush Limbaugh got started as a morning talk show host in 1983 at Kansas City's KMBZ.
00:11:19.000He went to California's KFBK in Sacramento in 1986, and in 1988, he relocated to New York and signed his syndication deal for The Rush Limbaugh Show.
00:11:27.000His daily show on New York's WABC aired on 56 networks, eventually grew into the most listened to radio program of all time.
00:11:33.000It reached more than 600 stations and an estimated audience of some 27 million listeners, according to Emily Zanotti over at Daily Wire.
00:11:42.000In 1993, Limbaugh was inducted as a member of the National Radio Hall of Fame.
00:11:46.000In many ways, he shaped the modern Republican Party, who was an early supporter of the Tea Parties in 2009, and of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016, of course.
00:11:55.000Limbaugh said several years ago, we stood for the concepts that are in our declaration of independence, right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
00:12:00.000We stood for that, we're the beacon for it.
00:12:02.000To this day, that is why the oppressed of the world still seek to come to this country.
00:12:05.000And you can, I mean, the reaction on the right is universal mourning.
00:12:11.000The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal says a familiar voice in American media and politics Rush Limbaugh, the most listened to radio host in America for 30 years, died Wednesday at age 70.
00:12:22.000We recall how bracing the Rush Limbaugh show was in its early days.
00:12:25.000For decades, the airways had been governed by the Fairness Doctrine, a federal regulation requiring stations to balance quote-unquote controversial claims with contrasting viewpoints.
00:12:33.000The rule gave incumbent candidates and mainstream news outlets a near monopoly on public discourse.
00:12:37.000Reagan scrapped the Fairness Doctrine in 1987.
00:12:40.000By the 1992 presidential campaign, the radio star's first name was known across the United States.
00:12:45.000He was invaluable to the conservative movement of the 90s.
00:12:47.000He would spend an hour explaining supply-side tax policy or making the case for irregulation.
00:12:51.000Millions of Americans had never heard a coherent argument against the welfare state or Roe vs. Wade until they tuned in to Limbaugh's show.
00:12:57.000He played an enormous role in popularizing conservative ideas and policies.
00:13:00.000His critics called him a racist and about everything else, which was always unfair.
00:13:03.000His real offense was to gain millions of weekly listeners by mocking the left's pieties.
00:13:15.000Louis radio station from Air Force One to complain about Limbaugh's criticism, not for the last time blaming scrappy radio hosts for his own political woes.
00:13:23.000In recent years, with the rise of more acerbic competitors and a general souring of public discourse, Limbaugh took on a more exasperated tone, says the Wall Street Journal.
00:13:29.000He also moved to the Trumpian right on issues like trade, immigration, and foreign policy.
00:13:32.000But unlike others on the talk radio right, he kept a sense of humor and rarely let anger drown his fundamental optimism about the United States.
00:13:38.000His great strength was never to take himself too seriously.
00:13:41.000Limbaugh knew he was an entertainer, not an intellectual or politician, he said so many times.
00:13:44.000He was popular because he was superb at his craft and represented traditional American values that the dominant culture too often demeans.
00:13:50.000And that, of course, is exactly right.
00:13:53.000Now, naturally, the left reacted to his death by doing exactly what they do with people they don't like when those people are alive.
00:13:59.000They took everything that he ever said out of context, they found his worst comments, and they strung them together to form the corpus of his life.
00:14:07.000So CNN, instead of paying tribute to one of the pioneers of an entire medium, and maybe the pioneer when it came to the establishment of an alternative media, Of course, CNN wouldn't like this because it breaks CNN's monopoly.
00:14:19.000Instead, they ran an entire montage of just Limbaugh's worst lowlights.
00:14:25.000Because to the left, that's what everybody is.
00:15:07.000Is that if you agreed with Rush on fundamental principles, this also meant that you were in cahoots with the things that he regretted having said.
00:15:15.000And so CNN, upon his death, they don't run a sort of tribute to Rush as a human being.
00:15:21.000Instead, they decide that it's important that they run a montage of a Media Matters essentially edited Compendium of all of his heresies.
00:15:31.000Fans, known as ditto heads, cheered his brazen style, while critics blasted him for racist, sexist, and other offensive speech.
00:15:40.000He accused actor Michael J. Fox of exaggerating his Parkinson's symptoms.
00:15:44.000He is moving all around and shaking, and it's purely an act.
00:16:20.000I think he apologized for both of those things, actually.
00:16:23.000What it is for the left is that if you are a conservative, you are all of the worst aspects of you.
00:16:28.000If you're a conservative, then all they want you to remember is all of that stuff.
00:16:32.000You don't have the literally thousands of hours of Rush Limbaugh talking about deep and profound issues.
00:16:38.000You don't have any clips on CNN of Rush Limbaugh at the end of his life talking about how to die with dignity, which he did talk about on his show.
00:17:47.000That's what CNN is boiling it down to.
00:17:48.000And you get the same thing from the New York Times.
00:17:50.000So the New York Times ran this headline.
00:17:53.000This is the headline that is currently up at the New York Times website.
00:17:55.000Quote, Rush Limbaugh, who built talk radio into right-wing attack machine, dies.
00:18:00.000Mr. Limbaugh, 70, who helped transform the GOP, pushed talk radio to the right with misogynistic and racist language and conspiracy theories.
00:18:08.000That is the most dismissive, disgusting, and ridiculous headline that I have read in quite a while from the New York Times.
00:18:14.000And that's saying a lot, because they do this kind of crap regularly.
00:18:17.000Rush Limbaugh's legacy to millions of Americans is that he taught them about conservatism.
00:18:22.000His legacy to millions of Americans is that he was entertaining about politics and introduced them to politics.
00:18:27.000His legacy to millions of Americans is that he gave them a way to fight back.
00:18:31.000And the New York Times boils that down to he was a racist, misogynist, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:19:21.000You know, like one of the founders of Islamic terrorism.
00:19:24.000Yasser Arafat, father and leader of Palestinian nationalism, dies at 75.
00:19:27.000So just to get this straight, of all the people I just mentioned, Mao, Castro, Khomeini, Chavez, Yasser Arafat, it's Rush Limbaugh who deserves the most rage from the New York Times.
00:19:39.000Because Rush threatened their monopoly.
00:19:41.000That's really what this is about in the end.
00:19:44.000And so the blue checks were celebrating last night, because that's what they do, because it is amazing that the people who consider themselves the most virtuous are the ones who are crapping all over a man on the day he dies.
00:19:51.000So you get Charlotte Clymer, of course, tweeting out, Rush Limbaugh was a coward and white supremacist.
00:21:02.000Let's be perfectly obvious about this.
00:21:05.000The reason they hate Rush is the same reason they hate everybody who does not agree with them.
00:21:09.000Because I promise you, the reaction to Rush Limbaugh's death, it will be the exact same reaction if, God forbid, something would happen to Sean Hannity, or something would happen to Tucker Carlson, or something would happen to Megyn Kelly, or something would happen to Glenn Beck, or something would happen to Dennis Prager, or something would happen to Mark Levin, or something would happen to me.
00:21:24.000The reaction would be exactly the same.
00:21:28.000It would just be a compendium of the quote-unquote worst things that we'd ever said, and then it would be, what a terrible person, we're glad they're dead.
00:21:35.000And the reason they feel that way is because Rush challenged the monopoly.
00:22:34.000Rush was an enemy, and therefore he was to be destroyed.
00:22:36.000But he refused to be destroyed, and in that lies a bit of inspiration for all of us, I would hope.
00:22:42.000Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to Joe Biden and his absolutely incoherent COVID strategy, because it is incoherent at this point.
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00:23:54.000By the way, quick note, final note here on the opposition to Rush.
00:23:58.000What really is happening here is this is part and parcel of a broader leftist attempt to reestablish the monopoly they had in the 70s, 80s, 60s.
00:24:06.000The idea here from the left is that the media monopoly must be reestablished at all costs.
00:24:09.000It's the reasons you are seeing them coming after Twitter and Facebook and trying to cudgel all of your social media sites into downplaying news dissemination.
00:24:17.000It is the reason they are attacking free speech itself.
00:24:19.000There's a piece in the New York Times today from Thomas Edsel whose data analysis is usually pretty good, but he has an entire piece about why democracy is weakening.
00:24:28.000And what is his theory about why democracy is weakening?
00:24:33.000Because the fact is that the freedom of the digital space is allowing people to speak who should not be allowed to speak.
00:24:39.000This is a widespread view on the left, that freedom is itself a threat to freedom.
00:24:43.000Nathaniel Persily, a law professor at Stanford, summarized the dilemma in his 2019 report, The Internet's Challenge to Democracy, Framing the Problem and Assessing Reforms.
00:24:51.000Persily says the promise of the internet has been replaced by concern that the most democratic features of the internet are, in fact, endangering democracy itself.
00:24:58.000Democracies pay a price for internet freedom under this view in the form of discrimination, disinformation, hate speech, incitement, and foreign interference in elections.
00:25:06.000Writing separately in an email, Persily argued, Twitter and Facebook allowed Trump both to get around their legacy intermediaries and to manipulate them by setting their agenda.
00:25:13.000They also provided an environment, such as Facebook groups, that have proven conducive to radicalization and mobilization.
00:25:19.000Margaret Roberts, political scientist at UC San Diego, puts it differently.
00:25:22.000Quote, the difficult part about social media is that the freedom of information online can be weaponized to undermine democracy.
00:25:27.000Okay, this is the push the left has been making.
00:25:30.000They've been making it since Rush Limbaugh first came on the scene.
00:25:32.000We need our monopoly back, otherwise it's going to destroy democracy.
00:25:36.000If you need your informational monopoly back or it's going to destroy democracy, I do not think you know what the word democracy means.
00:25:42.000I certainly don't think you know what freedom of speech means.
00:25:44.000If your great concern is that freedom of speech might allow people who disagree with you to speak.
00:25:51.000Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden's agenda, President Biden's agenda continues to be run by the radical left.
00:25:58.000He met in the Oval Office yesterday with labor leaders to discuss COVID relief and infrastructure reform.
00:26:03.000Because, obviously, the people who should be driving the bus when it comes to COVID relief are giant unions that contribute enormous quantities of capital to Democratic campaigns.
00:26:13.000By the way, the most corrupt thing that openly happens in American politics is that big labor funnels a bunch of money to Democratic candidates, particularly public sector unions.
00:26:21.000Because then they just negotiate with the people they elected, right?
00:26:23.000This is the way the public sector unions work.
00:26:26.000Teachers' unions funnel money to people like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and then they strike, and then they go to Lori Lightfoot, who they just elected, and they say, why don't we negotiate for better benefits and more taxpayer dollars?
00:26:38.000And Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's like, sounds great!
00:26:41.000It's the most corrupt open bargain in American society, and yet it is considered perfectly fine by folks on the left, even though it is people bargaining against the taxpayer with people that they have essentially gotten elected in the first place.
00:26:53.000So Joe Biden's agenda is being run by the teachers' unions when it comes to COVID, for example.
00:26:59.000And he's meeting with union leaders to discuss all of his other jobs and programs, despite the fact that private sector unionization in the United States is at an all-time low.
00:27:08.000When it comes to COVID policy, we were told that Joe Biden was going to have just the spectacular COVID policy, right?
00:28:05.000A lot of people don't know how to register.
00:28:06.000Not everybody in the community, in the Hispanic and the African American community, particularly in rural areas that are distant and or inner city districts, know how to use, know how to get online to determine how to get in line for that COVID vaccination at the Walgreens.
00:28:29.000I mean, Joe Biden is literally saying that black and Hispanic people are too stupid to use the internet to find how to get in line at Walgreens.
00:28:41.000Now, we would be remiss if we suggested that the failure of the COVID plans, particularly when it comes to school reopening from Biden, is because of his apparent incipient senility, right?
00:28:59.000It's because he is in hock to the teachers' unions, the science disagrees with the teachers' unions, and when political interest and science come into conflict, the party of ta-science tells the science to take a hike.
00:29:08.000This is why Kamala Harris, right, who is not suffering from the same effects of old age as Joe Biden, stammered her way through an interview about what COVID school reopening policy should look like.
00:29:19.000I don't think that Joe Biden's inarticulateness is infectious.
00:29:22.000I think that Kamala Harris has no good answer to this question because the administration has no good answer to this question because the answer is perfectly obvious, which is that they are serving the interests of the teachers unions and screwing the students over.
00:29:32.000So Kamala Harris was asked straight up about the Biden school reopening plan.
00:29:37.000I mean, she has no clue what to say because it is against her political interests to say the truth, which is that schools need to reopen now.
00:29:45.000We are... The issue here is not just about statistics.
00:29:53.000It's about the fact that every day our kids are missing essential, critical days in their educational development.
00:30:00.000You know, we know, we have worked on this issue for years around the fact that, you know, by the end of third grade, if a child is not at third grade reading level, they literally drop off.
00:30:09.000So each day in the life of a child is a very long time.
00:30:13.000The question was, how are you going to reopen schools?
00:30:32.000And there is no unifying principle other than, we can't give you a straight answer because the teachers unions haven't told us what to say yet.
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00:32:54.000Next week, we're having a State of the Union backstage, so we will suffer through Joe Biden mush-mouthing his way through the State of the Union address if you wish to suffer with us, or simply to gaze in horror as we all suffer together.
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00:33:20.000So the Biden administration, they have no clue what to say on the school stuff because the science conflicts with what they actually want.
00:33:31.000So we get 10 different positions on this from the same administration.
00:33:34.000So first of all, I'm getting real sick of hearing from the Biden administration that we have no idea when everybody will feel normal again.
00:33:40.000The answer is when vaccination is widespread.
00:33:49.000Because vaccination is cutting down on transmission in radical ways.
00:33:52.000It is cutting down on serious sickness in radical ways.
00:33:55.000And once you've been vaccinated, there ain't much more you can do.
00:33:58.000I'm not gonna live in terror of a virus that already had a low death rate for people in my age range, compared to certainly people above the age of 70.
00:34:06.000And then after I get a vaccine, which reduces the risk of that virus by 95%, then I'm gonna still sit in my house and never go to a ballgame again?
00:34:14.000OK, but according to the Biden administration, we have to do this forever.
00:34:17.000They have no pathway out of this because they kind of like it.
00:34:20.000It is perfectly obvious at this point that the folks who are in charge of the of the Democratic Party are kind of fine and they're kind of fond of the amount of control they've been able to leverage and exert over the course of this past year.
00:34:30.000And they are not going to let it go anytime soon.
00:34:40.000One is, even though we will have enough doses for every person in this country, as you all know because we've talked about it in here, vaccine hesitancy remains a challenge.
00:34:50.000We need to ensure that everybody who can get a dose is getting a dose.
00:34:55.000We will also need to be masking for some time.
00:35:04.000is an understandable question and I think the president wants things to return to normal as we all do. But we don't know at this point what that timeline is going to look like.
00:35:14.000But forget about the timeline, you haven't even set the standards for when we can return to normal. Forget about giving us an exact date. Tell me when the number of vaccinations handed out allows me to go to a ballgame. I mean, that seems like that should be something Tussion should be able to tell us. No?
00:35:30.000Because it's more important to simply kick the can down the road.
00:35:32.000By the way, if you want to disincentivize people from getting the vaccine at a time when a huge number of Americans are already declining to get the vaccine, continue to do this crap where you say that things are never going to go back to normal after you've had the vaccine.
00:35:43.000Why in the world would a 20-year-old go get the vaccine if you're telling them that even after they have the vaccine, they have to socially distance and wear a mask, and you're going to mask shame them if they don't wear a mask after they've had the vaccine?
00:35:53.000Absolutely asinine, ridiculous crap here from the Biden administration, but that's not the worst of it.
00:35:57.000Listen to the various views of the Biden administration on getting back to schooling.
00:36:01.000Okay, so here's Jen Psaki explaining that Joe Biden doesn't think that teachers need to be vaccinated to go back to school.
00:36:08.000Does the president believe that teachers need to be vaccinated before they go back to school?
00:36:15.000Neither the president nor the vice president believe that it is a requirement.
00:36:23.000The CDC guidelines included a range of mitigation steps, including vaccinations, as recommendations.
00:36:29.000But the mitigation steps also included steps like social distancing.
00:36:35.000If that sounds like she's not setting any standards, it's because she's not.
00:36:37.000Okay, so why don't we just head on over to the VP's office?
00:36:41.000You know, the vice presidential spokeswoman, Symone Sanders, she was on CNN, and she was asked directly whether Biden thinks the schools can open even after, or if the teachers are not vaccinated.
00:36:50.000And here's Symone Sanders just dodging the question.
00:36:53.000The president and vice president believe that teachers should be prioritized for receiving the vaccination along with other frontline workers.
00:37:05.000Well, John, I think the real question, frankly, if I can be frank here, is what you're getting to is, is it safe for kids to go back to school?
00:37:15.000And the president and vice president... Actually not.
00:37:17.000In this case, that's not the question.
00:37:18.000The question is, is it safe for teachers to go back to school?
00:37:20.000It is the administration's position, the president and vice president believe, that teachers should be prioritized for vaccinations.
00:37:27.000And in 22 states, at least, and the District of Columbia, that's exactly what is happening.
00:37:31.000You know, look, I'll try one last time.
00:37:48.000Okay, credit where credit is due to John Berman of CNN, who's just getting more and more exasperated throughout this interview, being like, this is a very easy question.
00:37:54.000Can we open the schools even if the teachers aren't vaccinated?
00:38:28.000The greatest doctor of all time outside of Dr. Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
00:38:31.000The world's greatest, most important doctor in human history.
00:38:34.000It goes, again, Hippocrates, Dr. J, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Joe Biden.
00:38:40.000I mean, this dude is such the doctoring, the level of doctoring exhibited by Anthony Fauci over the course of the last month alone should win him just a straight ticket to Dr. Heaven.
00:38:53.000So here's Dr. Fauci being asked about, you know, teachers and their level of risk.
00:38:58.000And somebody asked a pretty simple question, which is, so how many teachers have died of COVID in the United States by being infected at schools?
00:39:05.000Now, to my knowledge, the answer currently proven is zero.
00:39:10.000Seriously, I've had people send me articles.
00:39:12.000Recently, a producer, Jessica, she sent over an article in which it said a teacher had died after being at school.
00:39:19.000And then you read the article, and in paragraph 20 of the article, it says, the teacher's family said it could not be ascertained as to whether she actually got COVID at school.
00:39:26.000There were articles during the summer when school wasn't in session about teachers dying, and they were like, teachers are dying?
00:39:31.000Well, if you get infected, not in school, then how in the hell are you blaming it on the schools?
00:39:35.000Anyway, so Dr. Fauci, he says that the task force, the CDC task force, is not even tracking teacher deaths.
00:39:44.000Now, if you wanted to determine whether it's safe for teachers to go back to school, Wouldn't that be kind of an important stat?
00:39:49.000How many teachers are dying of COVID after being infected in school?
00:39:52.000In fact, wouldn't that be the only stat that matters?
00:39:53.000But don't worry, we're not tracking it.
00:39:55.000And we can count on these crappy CDC guidelines that were done with the input of the teachers' unions, according to the CDC's own head, Rochelle Walensky.
00:40:02.000Here is Dr. Fauci being just unbelievable doctoring right here.
00:40:05.000I have not seen it broken down on number of teachers who have died.
00:40:11.000I don't think that information is readily available.
00:40:14.000We do say, and we feel strongly, that we should try as best as we possibly can to vaccinate teachers.
00:40:21.000And they should be as a high priority within the area of essential personnel.
00:40:33.000And we don't need data on that because the science says we should follow these crappy guidelines that I made with the American Federation of Teachers.
00:40:59.000Also, that $1.9 trillion plan has billions of dollars earmarked, not for 2021, not for 2022 for schools, for 2023 and 2024!
00:41:09.000If you think that we're still going to be spending like this in 2023-2024 on schools to reopen them, Then, honestly, if the right can't take advantage of this by getting everybody into private school like ASAP, they are making a grave error.
00:41:21.000Now would be the best time for a homeschooling and private schooling movement in human history.
00:41:25.000Here is Jeff Zients following the science by saying things that are completely, you know, irrelevant to the science.
00:41:37.000Having the equipment and the testing available.
00:41:40.000This costs money, and that's why the passage of the American Rescue Plan, the $130 billion for schools, is so important to do.
00:41:50.000It's so much more expensive than the $130 billion to not have our kids in school in any setting that is safe and feasible in this environment.
00:43:08.000Look, there's so much of this virus that we think we understand, that we think we can predict, that's just a little bit beyond our explanation.
00:43:16.000What we do know is that the more careful people are, the more they mask and social distance, and the quicker we vaccinate, the quicker it goes away and the less it spreads.
00:43:25.000Okay, Andy Slavitt just completely ignored the question.
00:43:27.000He just ignored the question completely.
00:43:38.000The entire premise of the question is that California and Florida are doing polar opposite things and ending up with the same numbers, and Florida's a way older state.
00:43:59.000And I especially believe Democrats because they do things like get the kudos of the media, they are treated as the greatest of all time at handling things like pandemics, and then they bully the living crap out of people who dissent.
00:44:10.000Andrew Cuomo, I'm speaking your language right now.
00:44:13.000According to the Daily Wire, Ryan Saavedra, a Democrat New York State Assemblyman, claimed on Wednesday that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the greatest of all governors, guys, threatened to destroy him after the lawmaker criticized Cuomo's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as it related to the state's nursing homes.
00:44:27.000Assemblyman Ron Kim told CNN Cuomo called him last Thursday to, quote, threaten my career if I did not cover up for Melissa DeRosa and what she said.
00:45:17.000Weird, because you were commenting on it five seconds ago.
00:45:21.000If I sound a little upset, it's because these governmental experts who proclaim that you should give them more power do not know their ass from their elbow.
00:45:43.000Joe Biden was elected really for one reason and one reason only, and that is the American people thought that Donald Trump botched COVID.
00:45:50.000If you look at the polls, that is the real reason that Donald Trump lost the election beyond all of the other crazinesses and beyond all the personality foibles and all of that.
00:45:57.000If COVID doesn't arise, Biden doesn't get elected.
00:48:06.000One thing you cannot do, wind generation or solar generation, at least not in huge numbers, And yet, the media's takeaway is that solar is necessary.
00:48:15.000If your takeaway from freezing temperatures leading to an energy shortage in Texas is that we need more of the thing that failed the most during this thing, You're completely insane.
00:48:53.000The root cause of the Texas blackouts is a national and state policy that has prioritized the adoption of unreliable wind and solar energy over reliable energy.
00:49:01.000For the last decade plus policy in Texas and the United States has been focused on mandating or subsidizing as much wind and solar as possible.
00:49:09.000Texas has bragged about being the biggest wind generator in the United States.
00:49:12.000The Texas focus on wind has come above all at the expense of coal, which has the resiliency advantage, along with nuclear, of being able to storage large quantities of fuel on site.
00:49:20.000Gas mostly requires just-in-time delivery from pipelines.
00:49:24.000But they stopped developing coal, and they stopped developing nuclear, and they spent all of the money on wind and solar.
00:49:28.000And that is why you end up with energy shortages in places like Texas.
00:49:32.000Right now, Texas's plans include zero new nuclear plants, zero new coal plants, 9.4 gigawatts of wind, 11.9 gigawatts of solar and only 5 gigawatts of gas.
00:49:51.000Here's Breonna Keillor from CNN saying that AOC's Green New Deal is the solution to this, which is the dumbest thing that anyone has said about this crisis thus far.
00:50:00.000It's all the windmill's fault, Governor Greg Abbott says, not missing the chance to spin a yarn for political gain in the middle of a crisis.
00:50:07.000He blames renewable energy for the rolling power outages that have Texans seeking refuge in their cars as the temperatures in their homes drop into the 40s.
00:50:17.000Experts say that it is a garden variety of reasons.
00:50:21.000Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the architects of the climate legislation, responded, quote, the infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you don't pursue a Green New Deal.
00:50:32.000Well, I mean, if the former waitress says so, I guess that we're done here.
00:50:36.000I mean, if the bartender who has a degree in economics from Boston University, and yet somehow thinks that the solution to this is more windmills, says so, I guess we should, probably we should listen to her.
00:50:46.000If somebody knows energy policy, it's the lady who thinks that we should build high-speed rail, get rid of planes, and retrofit every building in the United States.
00:51:14.000Whenever there's a crisis, if you are seen to be having any sort of good time because our politics are incredibly stupid, this means that you're responsible for the crisis.
00:51:22.000Everything in politics is performative right now.
00:51:24.000Members of Congress don't do anything for a living.
00:51:26.000All they do is gather once every so often to spend too much of your money.
00:51:30.000And so everything becomes performative.
00:51:32.000The reason that AOC is a star is because she goes to immigration facilities and takes photo shoots outside immigration facilities being emotional in response to what is going on, apparently, inside the immigration facilities.
00:51:44.000I mean, the more performative you are in politics, the better you do these days.
00:51:47.000That is just the reality of the situation.
00:51:49.000So I get that it's bad optics for Ted Cruz to take his family on vacation to Cancun right now.
00:52:11.000This is up to the mayor of Houston, and, like, the governor of Texas, and all the people who are state-level officials.
00:52:19.000And also, I just wonder, what is Ted Cruz, like, did they expect Ted to go there with, like, a blowtorch and start defrosting all of the pipelines?
00:52:27.000He can do what Beto O'Rourke does and he can tweet out a bunch of links to people who are helping out.
00:52:33.000But the notion that the gravest of all sins is that you took your family to a place that is not Texas in the middle of a bad situation in Texas.
00:52:42.000My favorite part of this is all the journalists in their heated apartments in New York are tweeting angrily about all of this.
00:52:46.000I can't believe Ted Cruz would do something like this.
00:53:41.000This means that the reason she sprayed Gorilla Glue in her hair, I'm not kidding you, the reason she sprayed Gorilla Glue in her hair is because of systemic racism, according to the Washington Post.
00:53:54.000Which is weird, because I have not seen a massive spate of black people spraying Gorilla Glue into their hair.
00:54:31.000Remember, this is not in the op-ed section.
00:54:33.000Letitia Beacham writing, Tessica Brown no longer feels like she has red ants crawling around her scalp.
00:54:38.000Brown, 40, nicknamed Gorilla Glue Girl, captured the internet's attention with her forever ponytail after she used Gorilla Glue Spray, a very strong adhesive for heavy-duty projects to create possibly the slickest of side parts and swooped edges known to womankind.
00:54:53.000The embarrassing ordeal has left Brown with some missing baby hairs, bald patches that are expected to recover, and a much shorter hairstyle that's nowhere near the amount of inches she had with her month-long braid.
00:55:02.000Over the next six weeks, Brown can't put much else on her scalp except for a concoction created by a Beverly Hills, California-based plastic surgeon who removed the glue from her hair.
00:55:11.000At this point, I'm scared to put a relaxer on my hair, she told the Washington Post in an interview, adding she has decided to go natural and embrace the naturalness of her hair.
00:55:18.000Brown Saga, says the Washington Post, which first went viral on social media and then became national news, appealed to some black people who still shudder at the thought of a relaxer or the sizzling pain of a hot comb that got too close to skin, memories that have led many black women to sport their own kinks and curls.
00:55:32.000Plenty of people ridiculed and got their belly laughs at Brown's misfortune, but there was a sense of community among others, especially black people who sought to shield her from being a spectacle of idiocy.
00:55:42.000The extreme she went to for zero flyaways is very unusual, but the desired outcome is as old as black people's time in a country that often mocked how they look.
00:55:56.000So, you want to talk about the history of people discriminating on the basis of race, and you want to talk about the discriminatory attitude towards particular types of hair that have existed in American society?
00:56:48.000It's every problem in American society is attributable to systems of power.
00:56:52.000Those systems of power are rooted in innate white supremacy.
00:56:55.000So, if a dumb lady puts Gorilla Glue on her head, and she happens to be a black lady who put Gorilla Glue on her head, it has to be that this is a legacy of America's hierarchies of power coming all the way back to 1619.
00:57:08.000This one, at least, is in the Washington Post.
00:57:12.000Okay, first of all, that right there would be a good indicator that she is a complete moron.
00:57:22.000It's not as though she went to the store and she's like, oh, it says Gorilla Glue and it's a spray, so maybe it's a hairspray.
00:57:27.000She used it around her home to glue things, and then she put it in her hair.
00:57:32.000Okay, this is the equivalent of the lady who gave fish tank cleaner to her husband because she thought that fish tank cleaner was hydroxychloroquine.
00:57:41.000People doing dumb things are usually not outgrowth of systemic racism.
00:57:45.000They're just people doing dumb things.
00:57:47.000When she ran out of her favorite got-to-be-glued hairspray, she reached for the Gorilla Spray adhesive to save on time before leaving her home.
00:57:53.000She figured she could just spray it on her hair and wash it out once she got home that day.
00:57:56.000I don't know why you would figure that unless you're a dummy.
00:58:31.000I mean, it's not the kids' fault that mommy is not particularly bright.
00:58:34.000Brown had to keep under control the angst of possibly never running her fingers through her hair again for the sake of the children who came to her daycare, Tessa's Little Angels Learning Academy.
00:58:42.000Neil Lester said he initially thought Brown's problem was a prank, but as he continued to follow this story, he said it reminded him of all the ways black Americans have used unusual hair products to manipulate or style their hair.
00:58:52.000I thought of Malcolm X and his experience with the conch, said foundation professor of English and founding director of Project of Humanities at Arizona State University, referring to the hair straightener made of lye, eggs, and potatoes used by many black people in the earlier and middle part of the 20th century.
00:59:05.000That stringing started with enslaved people using axle wheel grease and dirty dishwasher with oil.
00:59:11.000Enslaved men used axle wheel greases and means to dye their hair or temporarily straighten it.
00:59:15.000Women would use butter, fat from bacon, or grease from geese to care for their hair, according to Hair Story, untangling the roots of black hair in America.