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00:00:08.000Well, Trump in Britain always is going to bring the laugh, so we have a lot to laugh about today.
00:00:19.000Mostly the president doing a pretty good job over in Britain, and the Brits making clear that their brand of comedy has sunk a bit since Monty Python.
00:00:26.000We'll get to all of that in just a second.
00:00:27.000First, we're never going to agree on everything, but I think we can all agree that we can use more sleep.
00:01:44.000So we saw the Daily Beast go after a Rando who posted a video of Nancy Pelosi slurring her words because it was deeply important for us to find out that he was an African-American Trump supporter who had an itinerant work history and had a criminal conviction.
00:01:59.000And then today you had BuzzFeed go after a guy for the grand crime of properly handling a racist.
00:02:06.000According to Ash Scowl, writing over the Daily Wire, a man working the front desk at a Holiday Inn Express in Austin, Texas, became an internet hero on Monday due to the way he calmly responded to a woman who had called him an effing N-word earlier on the phone.
00:02:18.000The man filmed himself telling the woman he wouldn't let her stay at the hotel and that it's above me now.
00:02:22.000The woman apologizes for the slur she used.
00:02:43.000So this guy apparently properly handled a racist who called him an effing n-word on the phone.
00:02:48.000And then, everybody decided it was important to resurface everything he had ever written on Twitter and thus to ruin his life.
00:02:54.000BuzzFeed News wrote about his video, soon after, internet sleuths, as BuzzFeed News called them, this is what we're calling people who are jackasses now, people who decide that whenever anybody jumps into the public eye, we have to go back and look up anything they have ever said.
00:03:09.000You know, that human beings are not shaded.
00:03:10.000Either they are entirely good and heroic, or they are entirely bad and evil.
00:03:13.000And if they've done a bad or evil thing, or even a thing that has just crossed the politically correct lines drawn by our society, if they do those things, then we have to cast them out among the lepers.
00:03:24.000BuzzFeed News wrote that internet sleuths dug through the man's old tweets and found his past comments about transgender individuals.
00:03:31.000Blue check Twitter users then amplified his past tweets, many of which simply state his opinion that he doesn't agree with transgenderism and pointing out that men can't get pregnant and women can't fertilize an egg, which is basic biology.
00:03:43.000Other tweets were responding to members of the trans community criticizing his tweets.
00:03:49.000Not intersectional enough, my friends.
00:03:51.000He happens to be a biological man who believes that biological males exist.
00:03:56.000BuzzFeed took its original story, louding the guy, and then updated it to include the man's past tweets and join in on the shaming.
00:04:02.000The man initially responded, repeating what he had said on Twitter, that he was not against transgender individuals, but he's not with it, meaning the phenomenon of society approving of transgenderism as something but a mental disorder, presumably.
00:04:13.000He said, they're mad, lol, I said what I said.
00:04:28.000A guy does something that the left cheers, and then even that guy gets destroyed because he once posted a tweet that some people on the social justice warrior left do not like.
00:04:38.000This is the world in which we now live, and our mainstream media outlet's pushing this.
00:04:53.000BuzzFeed, of course, just last week, went after me with the suggestion that a guy who tried to swastika a synagogue had been inspired by my writing.
00:05:01.000Which you'd have to be insane to believe.
00:05:03.000I'm an Orthodox Jew who is the lead antagonist of the alt-right.
00:07:04.000Chris Matthews, talk about Mayor Pete Buttigieg, go!
00:07:07.000Not since Barack Obama was a candidate has someone ignited so much buzz, so fast.
00:07:14.000He's 37 years old, a graduate of Harvard, a Rhodes Scholar, a Naval Reserve officer who was deployed to Afghanistan, and the mayor of a small city in Indiana, population 100,000, Pete Buttigieg.
00:07:28.000He says his eight years leading South Bend, Indiana gives him more experience to be president than Donald Trump had.
00:07:35.000He gave me a tour of his hometown, which a decade ago was cited as one of America's 10 dying cities, the same year Buttigieg was elected mayor.
00:07:44.000And then he proceeds to go into this hagiographic description of South Bend, how everything is all about it.
00:07:49.000Crime rates in South Bend still suck, by the way.
00:07:51.000South Bend has not been healed as a city.
00:07:53.000You know, Buttigieg is a controversial mayor, to say the least.
00:07:57.000He is not this kind of wonder-kind mayor who has healed the city and made all the problems go away.
00:08:03.000There are a lot of minority folks in the city who are very angry at Pete Buttigieg.
00:08:06.000They say that he basically was bulldozing minority-owned housing for some of his public-private projects.
00:08:11.000In any case, that opener, that he's the most buzzed-about candidate since Barack Obama in 2008, Yeah, there's this guy who ran for president.
00:08:18.000I don't know if you remember his name.
00:08:21.0002015 or so, comes down an escalator and proceeds to own every piece of media coverage ever.
00:08:27.000Like, media coverage going back all the way to the time of the Romans.
00:08:31.000This guy was so buzzed about that he became president on the basis of basically being him.
00:08:37.000You may recall him because he's currently president of the United States.
00:08:39.000If we're gonna talk about candidates who have drawn buzz, Mayor Pete don't rank in like the top five.
00:08:45.000Mayor Pete has driven enough buzz to get him to about 6% in the latest polls presidentially.
00:09:15.000By the way, he is tied with Beto O'Rourke in the polls right now.
00:09:19.000But apparently, according to Chris Matthews, someone's journalized me, just journalized me all over Pete Buttigieg over here, talking about Pete Buttigieg being the most buzzed about candidate.
00:09:30.000And then my favorite part of this particular interview with Pete Buttigieg is Matthews basically trying to steer Pete Buttigieg where he wants him to go.
00:09:58.000Basically, Chris Matthews gets Pete Buttigieg on the bike.
00:10:02.000Okay, we're gonna push it down this hill a little bit, and if you fall over, we'll pick you right up.
00:10:06.000Little Pete will pick you right up, brush off your boo-boos, and then we'll talk some more about why you're so great.
00:10:11.000So here is Chris Matthews talking to Pete Buttigieg about slavery reparations, which, for the record, was not on the table for Democrats until five minutes ago.
00:10:19.000Everybody in the Democratic Party feels the necessity now to talk about slavery reparations.
00:10:26.000Slavery ended in the United States in 1865.
00:10:28.000The current year, if I am not mistaken, is 2019.
00:10:32.000That means that 154 years later, we are talking about slavery reparations to people who are the great, great, great, great, great grandchildren of slaves, for the most part.
00:10:48.000And from people who were never involved in slavery.
00:10:53.000The vast majority of white people in America were never involved in slavery.
00:10:55.000Many of them are descended from people who died to end slavery.
00:10:59.000Nonetheless, this has become kind of the rote part of the democratic Stump speech in 2020 is that slavery reparations ought to be on the table, all because everybody in the left has also decided that Ta-Nehisi Coates is a great intellect, the wildly overrated writer from the Atlantic whose expertise in purple prose.
00:11:17.000I mean, my goodness, that guy's writing is overwrought.
00:11:22.000He's like James Baldwin if somebody took an entire bucket of fuchsia paint and poured it on him.
00:11:27.000I mean, his writing is just dripping with overwrought, annoying purple silliness.
00:11:34.000And everybody on the left has embraced it because, of course, this is how they show they are woke.
00:11:37.000So here is Chris Matthews urging Pete Buttigieg to show that he's woke.
00:11:39.000Buttigieg, by the way, needs this because Buttigieg has approximately zero percent of the black vote right now because it turns out that black voters are not super into a 37-year-old mayor from South Bend, Indiana.
00:11:51.000Who has no particular connection with the black community.
00:11:55.000So now we're going to just try to go full pander.
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00:16:35.000I mean, with questions being asked like that, why?
00:16:37.000Now, listen, I know that there are a lot of people on the left right now listening and they're going, well, listen, Fox News did the same thing with President Trump.
00:16:52.000I am not very much in favor of journalists asking questions to politicians that are simply there for purposes of kiss-ass or the sort of leading them around on a leash.
00:17:02.000Here's the answer I want you to give to me and then if I get that answer I will show you how pleased I am.
00:17:07.000I don't like it when it's right or when it's left.
00:17:09.000This is why a lot of people have criticized the media for being harsh on Trump.
00:17:12.000I've never really criticized the media for being harsh to Trump.
00:17:15.000I've criticized the media for being unfair to Trump.
00:17:49.000In fact, I've been one of the few commentators on the right who has said that when President Trump says fake news, I do not like the label unless it is being applied to legitimately fake news.
00:17:58.000When he applies it to just stuff he doesn't like, that is not fake news.
00:18:01.000That's just stuff that Trump doesn't like.
00:18:02.000I'm also one of the few people on the right who has said that when Trump uses the enemy of the people routine, I don't like that either.
00:18:07.000Chris Matthews isn't an enemy of the people.
00:18:10.000He may be an enemy of intelligence, but he is not an enemy of the people.
00:18:13.000He may be an enemy of hairspray, but he is not an enemy of the people.
00:18:32.000One of the things that is highly irritating to so many people on the right That there are certain groups of professions where you assume that a certain level of baseline honesty and that honesty is supposed to extend to both sides of the aisle.
00:18:44.000I think one of the reasons that people like this show is because everybody knows I'm conservative.
00:18:48.000But I'm going to give you my honest take on what's happening in politics.
00:18:51.000This is why when President Trump does something good, I will praise it.
00:18:53.000When he does something bad, I will rip it.
00:18:55.000Because you're getting my honest take on this stuff.
00:18:57.000Well, people sort of expect the same thing from their comedians, except the comedians don't come out and state their politics openly.
00:19:03.000Instead, they pretend that they're just there for the comedy.
00:19:05.000We're just here because we are comic relief.
00:19:09.000We're just here to be the jesters, to be the high and the mighty, to mock them in the way that the jester mocks king leader.
00:19:17.000And we're just going to walk around and we're going to comment on the action.
00:19:20.000That's what comedians are there to do.
00:19:21.000And so when people on the right look at comedians and it turns out they're a bunch of leftist hacks who basically are Chris Matthews with a couple of badly written punchlines, people start to get angry.
00:19:31.000It's no wonder that the right is angry at late night TV, because this is what late night TV has become.
00:19:35.000Stephen Colbert has a long interview in the New York Times Magazine, which is the most boring magazine in the world, apparently.
00:19:41.000I mean, it's like, it's like Nunn's Life, the New York Times Magazine, in terms of magazines.
00:19:47.000In any case, Yes, that was an airplane reference.
00:19:51.000In any case, the interview with Stephen Colbert in the New York Times is pretty telling because he does state exactly where he is.
00:19:57.000And this is why everyone on the right has turned off Stephen Colbert.
00:19:59.000It's also why the left, which has decided to politicize everything, has basically made Stephen Colbert the champion of late night.
00:20:55.000And so he's been falling in the ratings because he wasn't woke enough to begin with.
00:20:59.000Well, there's only one problem with that, which is that most of the country is not particularly interested in Stephen Colbert's brand of comedy.
00:21:05.000He only has to win a very, very small segment of the audience to win Late Night.
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00:22:57.000Like when I do my Chris Matthews voice, it basically is a callback joke because it's inherently funny because it's kind of a mediocre impersonation, but it's got sort of the cadence down.
00:23:09.000Like, half of the funniness is the familiarity of it.
00:23:12.000That's not the case with the punchlines that he tells about Trump.
00:23:15.000He says sometimes there's still meat left on that chicken.
00:23:17.000Trump consumes the news cycle, and our mandate, says Stephen Colbert, as we've established for ourselves, is that I want to inform the audience of my opinion about what they've been thinking about all day.
00:23:25.000So if the news has been orange Thanos, then I'm not going to change that.
00:23:28.000I'm going to do my best to stand in the teeth of that particular bleep hurricane and make jokes about how we're all being lied to for my own heart's ease.
00:23:35.000I'm not going to pretend that Trump is not lying to me.
00:23:37.000The alternative is to stick your head in the sand.
00:23:57.000But it is worth noting that when a lot of these comedians do the clown nose on, clown nose off routine, where it's like, well, I make a joke about Trump because I'm a comedian.
00:24:20.000And people like Stephen Colbert want to pretend they're both, they really are not.
00:24:23.000The New York Times says, that thing about not wanting to let Trump get away with a lie.
00:24:27.000Is it fair to say you feel a moral imperative behind your work?
00:24:30.000Well, look at those hard-hitting questions from the New York Times.
00:24:32.000Well, when you make jokes about politicians, there's what they say and what they do.
00:24:36.000It's hard to make jokes about someone who says something and then kind of does it.
00:24:39.000But with a guy who points east with his words and west with his action, that's where all the jokes live.
00:24:43.000Now, what are the things he's lying about?
00:24:44.000If the things he's lying about have a moral component, your jokes will have a moral component.
00:24:48.000In other words, you don't choose the flavor.
00:24:49.000The flavor is chosen by politics itself.
00:24:53.000And then, the New York Times asks a more important question.
00:24:55.000They say, "There's a sort of general answer "about the default moral nature of political satire.
00:24:59.000"I was asking more specifically about whether or not "you personally feel any sense of moral obligation "about your work." He says, "No." Okay, that's obviously a lie.
00:25:07.000He obviously does feel a moral sense of obligation.
00:25:09.000He has just said in his past two answers that he feels a sense that he has to speak truth to Orange Thanos or he can't sleep at night.
00:25:15.000But now he's going to tell you about his high-minded comedying.
00:25:18.000This is what I mean by the clown is on, clown is off routine.
00:25:26.000It says I was raised in a devout Catholic home and bottle-fed Robert Boltzmann for all seasons, which is about how it's important that you not let the tide of history sweep you along if you don't actually agree with it.
00:25:35.000And William Buckley said he stands with Ward History yelling, stop.
00:25:38.000I think we with this show stand with Ward History and say, that's dumb.
00:25:50.000A fair amount of the time I'm making poop jokes.
00:25:51.000Matter of fact, Jon Stewart, when it looked like the Colbert Report had come out of the box fully assembled and was going to happen, he said to me, when your children go up to get their diplomas at whatever college they end up going to, I want you to whisper to yourself quietly as they get the sheepskin, I paid for some of this with poop jokes.
00:26:05.000Well, again, this is the part that drives people on the right up a wall.
00:27:25.000Okay, so in other words, again, he says, oh no, you know, I wasn't, you're gonna piss off, but Alabama, that's when I had to make my stand.
00:27:48.000But that means occasionally you're gonna have to tell jokes about people with whom you agree politically.
00:27:53.000It's pretty, no wonder people don't trust the media.
00:27:56.000Okay, meanwhile, President Trump is over in Britain, being greeted by some of the most mature humor that the great minds over in Britain have to offer.
00:28:07.000So, there's this story that was pumped up, no pun intended, by the Huffington Post.
00:28:12.000Uh, about a farmer who, uh, or I guess a British high school student, a cheeky British high school student, carved a giant penis into his family's spacious lawns to give Donald Trump a big resistance hello as the president flew into London on Monday.
00:28:27.000The penis paired with the words, Oi Trump!
00:28:30.000Well, I guess that, you know, according to the Constitution, Article 35, Trump is no longer the president.
00:29:25.000It's also there are protests in in London.
00:29:28.000And not only were there protests in London, the BBC, which is the state sponsored broadcast network, as I have been made aware, it's a state sponsored broadcast network.
00:30:06.000President Trump touched down in the UK for his state visit an hour ago, and he kicked things off with one of his trademark controversial tweets, describing the Mayor of London as a foolishly nasty and a stone-cold loser.
00:30:20.000Protests are planned across the UK, including in London, where a bigger version of this Trump baby balloon is due to fly over the capital.
00:30:38.000That's a state-sponsored news outlet, by the way.
00:30:41.000So when I rip the BBC, it's because the BBC absolutely deserves it, as every conservative in Britain knows, with the exception of people who are paid by the BBC.
00:32:06.000Alrighty, so in just a second we'll get to the rest of President Trump's quasi-hilarious British visit.
00:32:11.000We'll also be getting to a debate that is broken out in conservative circles that I think is kind of fascinating and I think is worthy of explication.
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00:33:16.000All righty, so Jeremy Corbyn, who is a terrorist mouthpiece, he says that President Trump, the Trump-London protest is a chance to stand in solidarity.
00:33:33.000He's the leader of the British Labour Party and a radical anti-Semite.
00:33:37.000And he joined a protest against Donald Trump because nothing says good relations quite like protesting a guy you may have to deal with if you become prime minister of the UK.
00:33:49.000He tweeted out, "Tomorrow's protest against Donald Trump's state visit is an opportunity to stand in solidarity with those he's attacked in America, around the world, and in our own country, including just this morning Sadiq Khan." Sadiq Khan, of course, is considered a victim because Sadiq Khan was ripped on by President Trump.
00:34:05.000Now, the reason that President Trump ripped on him is because on Saturday, Sadiq Khan wrote a long editorial for The Guardian, which is the far-left newspaper in Britain, called it's un-British to roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump.
00:34:18.000Now, there's something rich about Sadiq Khan talking about it being un-British to be nice to the American president.
00:34:23.000The fact is that the dude has some pretty shady connections.
00:34:27.000According to the Daily Mail, this is back in 2016, before Sadiq Khan was elected to the mayoralty of London.
00:34:35.000Sadiq Khan, who is a local Labour MP, he was at a funeral in 2016.
00:34:41.000One figure whose hand he stopped to shake stood out, convicted terrorist Babar Ahmed, a man who had been blamed for inspiring a generation of extremists, including the gang behind the London bombings of July 7th, 2005.
00:34:51.000The pair exchanged brief pleasantries before Khan moved on.
00:34:55.000The encounter took place a few months ago, around the time of Khan's nomination as Labour's mayoral candidate.
00:34:59.000Since then, riding on the crest of Jeremy Corbyn's leftist takeover of the Labour Party, Khan has left Conservative mayoral candidate Zach Goldsmith trailing in his wake.
00:35:08.000New revelations this weekend about how Khan shared a platform with Yasser El-Siri, a convicted terrorist and associate of hate preacher Abu Qatada, and Sejil Shaheed, a militant who helped to train the ringleader of the London bombings, are the most serious allegations so far.
00:35:21.000Sadiq Khan's interactions with controversial characters are not all in the past.
00:35:25.000Furthermore, it transpires that the MP for Tooting is a divisive character in his South London community with dark allegations of threats and betrayal in his own political background.
00:35:33.000So Sadiq Khan has a long history of some pretty nasty connections.
00:35:51.000So he got into a fight with President Trump.
00:35:54.000And so Jeremy Corbyn is, of course, backing him because Corbyn backed him for mayor of London in the first place.
00:35:59.000Trump arrives in the UK Monday morning for a three-day visit.
00:36:03.000Trump, not only mocked Khan, but he came out just today and he said that Jeremy Corbyn wanted to meet with him and that Trump turned him down.
00:36:09.000So whether that is true or not is anybody's guess.
00:36:11.000Trump has said this about a bevy of politicians, many of whom it's not true about.
00:36:16.000Very often when somebody rejects Trump, he goes, I rejected you first.
00:36:47.000A Sunday special about the 75th anniversary of D-Day, in which the United States sent a million people to stay over in Britain and then help liberate the European continent from Nazi evil.
00:36:59.000So, the President of the United States visiting for that, that doesn't seem like it should be wildly controversial.
00:37:05.000Nonetheless, it is because everything is stupid and controversial.
00:37:08.000Now, here is Queen Elizabeth talking to President Trump.
00:37:11.000As we face the new challenges of the 21st century, the anniversary of D-Day reminds us of all that our countries have achieved together.
00:37:23.000Of course, it is not only our security which unites us, but our strong cultural links and shared heritage.
00:37:33.000Every year, there are almost 4 million visits by Americans to the United Kingdom.
00:37:39.000With a great number claiming British descent.
00:37:44.000And with your own Scottish ancestry, Mr. President, you too have a particular connection to this country.
00:37:50.000Okay, so all of this is nice and wonderful and all of it is being treated with scorn and mockery by the mainstream media who are too busy tweeting out pictures of President Trump's too long vest.
00:38:01.000This is really what they spent the day doing yesterday.
00:38:02.000There's a picture of President Trump and he is wearing his tuxedo vest and just like his ties, he wears his tuxedo vest too.
00:38:09.000And so, it drops at least a full four feet below his actual dinner jacket.
00:38:13.000This apparently is a major scandal over in Britain.
00:38:15.000The same media that said that it was no big deal when Michelle Obama touched the personage of the Queen were going crazy because apparently Trump touched the personage of the Queen.
00:38:23.000Listen, I'm very glad we don't have royalty in this country.
00:38:26.000I really am, because those sorts of rules are so dumb.
00:38:36.000In any case, Whenever Barack Obama traveled abroad, it was stories from the media about the triumphant, the triumphant mood of President Obama abroad.
00:38:45.000Whenever Trump travels abroad, it's always about the protests.
00:38:48.000The reality is the protests were smaller than expected in London because no one really cares.
00:38:52.000And he was treated the way that he should have been treated by the vast majority of people in positions of power in London.
00:38:57.000Those will not be the headlines that you are reading today.
00:38:59.000Meanwhile, there's been this fascinating debate that I've been waiting to sort of comment on until everybody had their opinions out there.
00:39:06.000This debate was kicked off by a guy named Sourabh Amari, who I am friends with.
00:39:13.000He is the editor of the New York Post op-ed page, and he's written a really good book that I've recommended on the show about his conversion to Catholicism.
00:39:21.000He wrote a piece Basically ripping on David French, a person who I'm also friends with and who has been a guest multiple times on the show.
00:39:29.000I thought that the piece was misdirected against French.
00:39:32.000But basically, Sourabh Amari was criticizing the libertarian instincts of a lot of Republicans.
00:39:37.000What he was saying is that government needs to be involved in certain ways in order to promote virtue and family formation.
00:39:44.000Whereas David French, people like me, we have suggested that a smaller government is the best answer and that culture cannot be built by the government culture Precedes government.
00:39:54.000And so what you really need to do if you want to have a better virtuous culture, what you really need to do is change hearts and minds.
00:40:00.000And you need a government that is unable to fight those sorts of cultural movements from below.
00:40:06.000So the role of government is really the question here.
00:40:08.000Ross Dudat is a very thoughtful columnist over the New York Times, and he has a piece about this today.
00:40:12.000And I think that it's worthy of note because it does go to something that's been roiling the conservative movement for a little while.
00:40:20.000He says, basically, the best way to understand the Sorobamari-David-French split is in light of the old fusion, the old consensus, that the first things manifest to attack.
00:40:28.000So, First Things is a Catholic magazine, and they wrote a piece a while back called Against, I believe it was called, Against the Dead Consensus.
00:40:37.000And they were apparently ripping on the kind of Reagan coalition, the idea that social conservatism, government libertarianism, small government, that this could coexist.
00:40:47.000Basically, it was an argument, sort of in Tucker Carlson mode, that government needs to be more involved in promoting virtue.
00:40:56.000He says, French is a religious conservative who thinks that the pre-Trump conservative vision still makes sense.
00:41:00.000He thinks his Christian faith and his pro-life convictions have a natural home in a basically libertarian coalition, one that wants to limit the federal government's interventions in the marketplace and expects civil society to flourish once state power is removed.
00:41:11.000He thinks that believers and non-believers, secular liberals and conservative Christians can coexist under a classical liberal framework in which disputes are settled by persuasion rather than constant legal skirmishing or else are left unsettled in a healthy pluralism.
00:41:25.000Amari, on the other hand, speaks for the cultural conservatives who believe that the old conservative fusion mostly failed their part of the movement, winning victories for tax cutters and business interests while marriage rates declined, birth rates plummeted and religious affiliation waned, and appeasing social conservatives with judges who never actually got around to overturning Roe versus Wade.
00:41:42.000These conservatives believe that the current version of social liberalism has no interest in truces or pluralism and won't rest till the last evangelical baker is fined into bankruptcy, the last Catholic hospital or adoption agency is closed by an ACLU lawsuit, They think that business interests have turned into agents of cultural revolution, making them poor allies for the right, and that the free trade and globalization championed by past Republican presidents has played some role in the dissolution of conservatism's substrates, the family, the neighborhood, the local civitas.
00:42:10.000And they've warmed quickly or slowly to the politics-is-war style of the current president.
00:42:15.000But what specifically do these conservatives want besides a sense of thrill and convent that David French's style denies them?
00:42:20.000And that really is the big question because I agree with both of these characterizations, right?
00:42:24.000I actually agree with both Ahmari and French.
00:42:25.000So, I agree with David French that a small government is the best solution because I believe that government is the ring of power.
00:42:31.000If you think that you can control the ring of power and then use that ring of power for your own side, it is only a matter of time before it falls into the hands of the other side and is used against you.
00:42:39.000I think there are two dueling narratives here.
00:43:50.000So the idea would be that in order to fight the growth of government, conservatism decided to abandon government's role in promoting public virtue.
00:43:56.000And that's what led to the hollowing out of civic institutions.
00:43:59.000And so what we really need to do is grab government back and then use it to promote those social institutions again.
00:44:06.000I don't think that William F. Buckley was stumping against social conservatism.
00:44:10.000I think that William F. Buckley was basically saying, I think that conservatives for decades have basically been saying that the business of civic virtue is something that is supposed to be inculcated by a strong social network, understanding the history of Judeo-Christian values in our society.
00:44:25.000I I just wrote an entire book about this.
00:44:27.000But that you can't impose that from above, because if you do impose that from above, number one, it's not going to work.
00:44:33.000Number two, it doesn't allow for the pluralistic vision of a society that the founding was supposed to create.
00:44:41.000How do you determine when the government has gone too far in its imposition of morality, for example?
00:44:46.000Wouldn't it be better to leave this to the local level?
00:44:47.000And if you disagree with the local government, you can leave.
00:44:49.000Wouldn't it be better to leave this to informal mechanisms in society?
00:44:53.000Why are we seeing government as the great promoter of religion or of Judeo-Christian values when that really should be done in the churches and the real key should be preventing government from encroaching into those spaces?
00:45:05.000Now, listen, I understand the temptation.
00:45:07.000I understand the temptation for a lot of conservatives, which is those spaces are not going to exist if the left gets its way.
00:45:11.000The question is, can you retain those spaces by grabbing the government back?
00:45:17.000What are the prospects of grabbing government back and using it to cram down values that you believe and protect the values you believe?
00:45:23.000And what are the prospects of simply destroying the government power altogether?
00:45:26.000I am much more in favor of throwing the ring into the fire because I think that that sword can be and has been used historically by the left.
00:45:47.000The reason was not because I believe that same-sex marriage is moral.
00:45:50.000As a religious person, I not only believe that it's sinful, but on a natural law level, I don't think same-sex marriage provides the same benefits to society as traditional marriage, obviously.
00:46:00.000But, I said that the best solution for conservatives was to remove this power from government altogether because sooner or later the government was going to move to the left and then they would be cramming down their values on your churches and that's exactly what has happened.
00:46:13.000So the question is, what's the best way to promote conservative values?
00:46:34.000But I do think that it is worthwhile for libertarians to consider on a serious level what sort of social networks are necessary to fill in that gap.
00:46:42.000And I think it's necessary for social conservatives, who may want to control things at a governmental level, to consider what happens if you lose.
00:46:48.000And you've now built the machine of your own destruction because you built it to protect you, but now it can be turned against you.
00:46:53.000That's really the question going forward for conservatives.
00:46:56.000Okay, time for some things that I like and then some things that I don't.
00:47:17.000Nayer's book basically takes a meaningless late season game between the Oakland Athletics and the Houston Astros and breaks it down out by out.
00:47:25.000And it sort of had these cutaways to various discussions of issues in the game baseball, ranging from whether the ball has changed, spoiler alert, yes, the ball has changed, that's why you're getting more home runs, to the pace of play.
00:47:40.000It's kind of like listening to a really great broadcaster watching an actual baseball game.
00:47:44.000The key to a really great broadcaster when you watch a baseball game is that during the periods of dead space, when things aren't really happening on a field, can they give you more information and more stuff that you want to know?
00:47:53.000And that's sort of what Rob Nair does here.
00:47:55.000Now, he does have the obligatory SJW stuff.
00:47:59.000He has, I think, three separate sections on whether there is a gay baseball player.
00:48:04.000I don't understand why anybody cares about that.
00:48:06.000Like, really, it doesn't matter to me.
00:48:08.000If a player is gay, I don't think it matters to pretty much anyone at this point whether a player is gay, but Rob Naylor suggests that it's still massive homophobia inside the MLB, this sort of stuff.
00:48:16.000If you can get past that sort of stuff, then the baseball portion of this is really good.
00:48:21.000My one critique, the editor should have removed some of the exclamation points.
00:48:24.000He writes with a lot of exclamation points, and those should have been toned down.
00:48:32.000Okay, let's do some things that I hate.
00:48:39.000So, the fact that the left will embrace anybody who just says bad things about Trump is pretty astonishing.
00:48:45.000Charles Blow, the aptly named Charles Blow over at the New York Times, who's a terrible columnist, he has a piece called The Princess vs. the Demagogue.
00:48:55.000He says, in an interview Saturday with Rupert Murdoch's right-wing British tabloid The Sun, President Trump characterized statements by Meghan Markle before she became the Duchess of Sussex as nasty during the 2016 campaign.
00:49:05.000Of course, Trump was being led in this exchange to be precisely who we all know he is.
00:49:09.000The question itself was problematic, as it disclosed a biased characterization by the journalist, who asks Trump, I don't know if you saw that.
00:49:14.000see her because she wasn't so nice about you during the campaign.
00:49:36.000A paradox is like if an object is large and also small.
00:49:40.000It is not a paradox to say a conservative newspaper has a lot of subscribers in the UK.
00:49:44.000This is why I say not a good columnist.
00:49:47.000He says, Indeed, shortly after the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, The Sun published an ominous headline that covered nearly all of the front page.
00:49:54.000In a large white font on a black background, the paper asserted one in five Brit Muslims sympathy for jihadis.
00:50:00.000As The Independent reported, the headline was accompanied by an image of British ISIS member Mohammed M. Mwazi, also known as Jihadi John, who was hoisting a knife.
00:50:08.000There's a reference to a piece entitled, Time for Britain to Shut Door.
00:50:10.000The paper was ordered to admit that the story was significantly misleading, but you can understand why Trump would be amenable to it.
00:50:16.000How does he get to this from Trump saying that he is, that he thought that Meghan Markle was nasty?
00:50:23.000Here it says, it was simply wrong to characterize Markle's comments as nasty.
00:50:47.000You may agree with her characterization, but it isn't nice, right?
00:50:51.000I mean, I assume that half the stuff I said about 2016, President Trump wouldn't like.
00:50:56.000He's fully entitled not to like things.
00:50:59.000A better journalist, says Charles Blow, if he or she wanted to have Trump weigh in on the comments, would simply read Markle's response and ask for the president's response.
00:52:31.000The real work comes in consciously combating our bias and attempting to deprogram ourselves from blindly accepting privileges and ignoring oppressions.
00:53:41.000If any other candidate lost 7%, wouldn't that be a pretty major move?
00:53:46.000Moving from doubling up Bernie Sanders to losing 7 points that is now dispersed among the crowd, isn't that a sign that maybe Joe Biden's high point has come and gone?
00:53:58.000That maybe Joe Biden is going to start collapsing in on himself.
00:54:01.000I mean, wouldn't that be like a more interesting, at least, analysis?
00:54:55.000Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:54:58.000You know, the knuckleheads on Knucklehead Row, that's the op-ed page of the New York Times, are predicting the end of the Republican Party.