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00:00:00.000Andrew Cuomo runs into the MeToo buzzsaw, Trump returns at CPAC, and the next Superman reboot will be written by a guy who thinks America is systemically racist.
00:00:22.000All right, we'll get to all the news in just one moment.
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00:01:40.000If it had not been for Donald Trump losing the election, Andrew Cuomo would still be riding high in New York.
00:01:46.000Because the media decided for months and months and months they were not going to cover any bad allegations about Andrew Cuomo.
00:01:51.000We knew as early as May of last year that Andrew Cuomo was covering up nursing home deaths.
00:01:55.000And all of the people who are now coming forward and suggesting that Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed them or sexually assaulted them in some way, All of those people knew what they knew last year.
00:02:05.000Now, I don't know whether them coming out is political.
00:02:07.000What I do know is that the media's interest in these sorts of stories only started to crop up, bizarrely, around the time of the election.
00:02:14.000It was really only after the inauguration.
00:02:16.000Then it was like the media, they said, oh, you know, we don't need this Cuomo guy anymore, right?
00:02:20.000Before we needed this Cuomo guy because he was going to be kept in contrast with the Trumpy, horrible Republicans.
00:02:25.000And this is why they always drew this sort of Good angel, bad angel on your shoulder routine.
00:02:29.000Or the good angel, for some odd reason, was Andrew Cuomo, and the evil angel was Ron DeSantis, saying things like, freedom and go back to school.
00:02:36.000And you have Andrew Cuomo being like, no, we should never go back to school.
00:02:39.000And it was like, no, you should 100% go back to school.
00:02:56.000And he's still a tool, but a different kind of tool now.
00:02:59.000So here is the latest from the UK sun.
00:03:03.000New York Governor Andrew Cuomo brands it as a monster, as Democrats demand inquiry after sex pest allegations by second staffer.
00:03:10.000According to the UK Sun, other leading Democrat women have turned on the New York governor and demanded an inquiry into the abhorrent and heartbreaking allegations.
00:03:18.000Cuomo, who denies wrongdoing, said he had asked Clinton-appointed federal judge Barbara Jones to examine claims by two ex-staffers.
00:03:24.000Originally, he said, you know what, why don't we have like an internal investigation?
00:03:29.000I will have some of my friends do an investigation." And people are like, no, that's not going to work.
00:03:33.000And he released a statement saying, these things, you know, I deny them, but we should have an investigation.
00:03:38.000Then he released a second statement that was the chain of events over the course of the weekend.
00:03:43.000Last night, Charlotte Bennett, 25, claims her 63-year-old boss quizzed her about her sex life after she went to him for help as a survivor of sexual assault.
00:04:06.000How many scandals have you seen where guys will send pictures of their genitals to women in the somehow mistaken belief that this is attractive to women?
00:04:23.000It's just the guy from Airplane asking young boys whether they like Gladiator movies.
00:04:29.000Apparently she said, I understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me and felt horribly uncomfortable and scared and was wondering how I was going to get out of it and assumed it was the end of my job.
00:04:36.000Charlotte's claims came three days after another ex-aide, Lindsey Boylan, claimed Cuomo kissed her on the lips and suggested that they play strip poker.
00:04:44.000Senior New York Democrats remained tight-lipped after the first round of allegations on Wednesday.
00:04:47.000Last night, Cuomo was dealt a crushing blow when his own deputy and other members of his party appeared to turn their backs on him, which you knew was coming, right?
00:05:16.000Kathy Hochul called for an independent review into the allegations, saying, quote, Remember that lady who alleged that Joe Biden had sexually assaulted her?
00:05:31.000I guarantee you that if Joe Biden had lost the election, those allegations would be coming back up right now.
00:05:37.000Senate leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins called the new allegations deeply disturbing and concerning.
00:05:41.000She said the behavior has no place in the workplace.
00:05:44.000She also echoed calls by Republicans for the AG to take over the probe.
00:05:47.000This is, of course, Letitia James, who has decided to unleash the beast on Andrew Cuomo.
00:05:51.000She's the person who came out earlier this year and said, hey, by the way, weren't you covering up those nursing home numbers?
00:05:57.000Letitia James, it'd be hard for me to imagine she does not have her eye on the New York governor's spot, because the New York AG very often has their eye on the New York governor's spot.
00:06:06.000New York City mayoral candidate Maya Wiley said, I'm disgusted, I believe Charlotte Bennett.
00:06:10.000It's always fun when Democrats are held to account by their own standards.
00:06:15.000When they say, believe all women, and then a woman comes forward alleging something about a Democrat, then they have to either pretend the woman doesn't exist, or they have to believe all women.
00:06:22.000Now, if the person's useful, they pretend the woman doesn't exist.
00:06:56.000Because his father was a very, very popular guy in New York, Mario, he's able to live off the back of that, but nobody actually likes Andrew Cuomo.
00:07:04.000If you talk to any politician, Democrat or Republican in New York, they think he's a bully and a braggart and a jackass.
00:07:09.000Everyone in New York thinks this, if you're in New York politics.
00:07:11.000So now, they finally have their shot, and they're gonna take it.
00:07:23.000You bring evidence of these allegations, whatever evidence you have to back them up, and then we have to adjudicate whether we think that these events actually happened as stated or not.
00:07:33.000But Andrew Cuomo didn't hold that standard.
00:07:35.000He said that there was enough evidence that Brett Kavanaugh had done something wrong, that his name should be withdrawn from Supreme Court nomination.
00:07:40.000So he doesn't get to claim due process at this point.
00:07:44.000And whatever standard you hold, that is what's going to come right around on you through the power of Scheidenfreude.
00:07:50.000Okay, so the first statement from Governor Andrew Cuomo we'll get to in just one second.
00:07:52.000said this pattern of behavior requires a swift and immediate independent investigation, the leader of which must be empowered to access all of the evidence.
00:08:00.000Ms. Biagi is chair of the Ethics and Governance Committee.
00:08:02.000She said she was speaking out as a New Yorker and a survivor of sexual abuse.
00:08:06.000And she added, I commend the courage of Ms. Bennett and Lindsay Boylan for coming forward.
00:08:10.000Okay, so the first statement from Governor Andrew Cuomo we'll get to in just one second.
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00:09:37.000When she came to me and opened up about being a sexual assault survivor and how it shaped her and her ongoing efforts to create an organization that empowered her voice to help other survivors, I tried to be supportive and helpful.
00:11:05.000You've seen me do it at briefings hundreds of times.
00:11:07.000I've teased people about their personal lives, their relationships, about getting married or not getting married.
00:11:10.000I mean no offense and only attempt to add some levity and banter to what is a very serious business.
00:11:15.000I now understand that my interactions may have been insensitive or too personal, and that some of my comments, given my position, made others feel in ways I never intended.
00:11:22.000I acknowledge some of the things I have said have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation.
00:11:26.000To the extent anyone felt that way, I am truly sorry about that.
00:11:29.000To be clear, I never inappropriately touched anybody, and I never propositioned anybody, and I never intended to make anybody feel uncomfortable, but these are allegations New Yorkers deserve answers to.
00:11:38.000That is why I've asked for outside, independent review that looks at these allegations, Separately, my office has heard anecdotally that some people have reached out to Ms.
00:11:44.000Bennett to express displeasure about her coming forward.
00:11:46.000My message to anyone doing that is you have misjudged what matters to me and my administration.
00:12:24.000And there should be an independent review looking into these allegations.
00:12:29.000And that's certainly something he supports and we believe should move forward as quickly as possible.
00:12:33.000And meanwhile, the New York Attorney General, Letitia James, says, well, you know, the kind of independent investigation that Cuomo's talking about is not going to be good enough.
00:12:39.000She says, allegations of sexual harassment should always be taken seriously.
00:12:42.000There must be a truly independent investigation to thoroughly review these troubling allegations against the governor.
00:12:47.000I stand ready to oversee that investigation and make any appointments necessary.
00:12:50.000So, Letitia James with her eye on that gubernatorial seat.
00:12:53.000Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi, she's now boxed in.
00:12:55.000But the good news for her is that Andrew Cuomo is no longer useful.
00:12:58.000So she put out a statement saying, the women who have come forward with serious and credible charges against Governor Cuomo deserve to be heard and to be treated with dignity.
00:13:04.000The independence investigation must have due process and respect for everyone involved.
00:13:07.000Funny, because due process and respect for everybody involved, weirdly, that did not happen with Brett Kavanaugh.
00:13:12.000I'm old enough to remember that because I'm more than three years old.
00:13:15.000Also, I will say that I don't remember these statements about the necessity for due process and a clear investigation and everybody ought to be treated with respect, again, when it came to Joe Biden.
00:13:27.000By the way, where's Kamala Harris in all this?
00:13:29.000Remember when Kamala Harris, the current vice president of the United States, said about Joe Biden that he might want to think about dropping out of the race because of the terror redelegations?
00:13:36.000And then she was like, oh, I don't talk about that anymore because I'm his vice president.
00:13:40.000This is why, just on a general level, when politicians try to sell you on the idea that they are honest, They're self-interested.
00:13:48.000Sometimes they're honest, because it's in their self-interest to be.
00:13:52.000And some politicians are more honest than others.
00:13:54.000They say things that are not in their own self-interest.
00:13:56.000The vast majority of politicians, like everybody else on earth, are self-interested people who bend the truth.
00:14:01.000This is why when politicians say they have a harsh standard with regard to X, Y, or Z, first you should check to see whether they actually hold themselves to that standard or who they hold to that standard, because usually the answer is no, there is just a double standard.
00:14:13.000They want a harsh standard for everybody else and no standard for themselves.
00:14:17.000So it'll be interesting to see whether the Democratic Party decides that Andrew Cuomo's worth it.
00:14:21.000Remember, for a year, they upheld him as the pinnacle of gubernatorial leadership while he was apparently doing this stuff, or allegedly doing this stuff.
00:14:30.000They held him up as the greatest governor in America.
00:14:33.000It's amazing who they've held up as the greatest governor in America.
00:14:35.000In California, where the death rate per million is about the same as in Florida, except that California is a garbage heap that's been closed for an entire year, and Florida has been wide open for months.
00:14:43.000Gavin Newsom, another governor being held up by the press and the left as a wonderful governor.
00:14:49.000By the way, California now leads the nation in deaths from COVID.
00:14:53.000Um, it turns out that Gavin Newsom was dining inside over the weekend in an area where you are not allowed to dine inside.
00:15:40.000rule is bad. If the rule is bad, then charges of hypocrisy points out the stupidity of the That's what hypocrisy charges are designed to do.
00:15:47.000What people on the left like to do is they will say things like, look at this religious person who went out and sinned.
00:15:56.000But if the standard is bad, like restaurants should be closed, or the standard is bad, like quote unquote, believe all women, which is silly because you should not believe all of any group.
00:16:06.000Some are telling the truth, some are not.
00:16:08.000Okay, then hypocrisy charges are perfectly valuable.
00:16:11.000Another excellent example of this over the weekend.
00:16:14.000Apparently, the Berkeley Unified Union president, a guy named Matt Mayer, who's according to Reopen California Schools, he's been leading efforts to keep Berkeley schools closed for nearly a year because it's unsafe.
00:16:24.000He drops his kid off at a private school for private in-person tutoring, for private in-person schooling.
00:16:50.000And yet here he was calling out the other specials.
00:16:52.000It was one of the reasons for his popularity.
00:16:53.000Because when you have somebody who has all of these When you have somebody who is respected by the coterie of the elite, and then he doesn't look down at other Americans, this really was the pitch for Donald Trump in 2016 and in 2020.
00:17:04.000He got in his own way a lot, but at heart, that really was his pitch all the way through.
00:17:09.000It is the reason for the maintaining popularity of Donald Trump, because the other story of the day is that Donald Trump was speaking at CPAC over the weekend.
00:17:24.000Very often, Ron Paul would show up very high in these straw polls, even though he really didn't in the main polling, but I'll tell you something.
00:17:31.000And the level of enthusiasm for Trump is still very high.
00:17:33.000And as I've been saying for a while, it is not that people are in love with everything Trump, right?
00:17:39.000This is something the left likes to say, is that if you are supportive of Trump in any way, or have been supportive of Trump in any way, it's because you buy into all of his excesses, or all of the things he said that are not true, or you like all of his behavior.
00:18:03.000Now, there are some people who say, you know what, it's not worth it for me to vote for that guy because, you know, the screw you isn't important enough.
00:18:09.000But there are a lot of people for whom the screw you is very important because they look at the way that politics is currently run and they say, Donald Trump pisses you guys off.
00:18:15.000We like anything that pisses you guys off because you have created this little bubble for yourselves in which all of the elite gets to talk to each other and cover for each other and decide who the rules apply to and who the rules do not apply to.
00:18:26.000And here's a guy the rules didn't didn't apply to in nearly any way.
00:18:32.000Donald Trump's enduring popularity, it really is not because many Republicans think, or all Republicans think, that Donald Trump would win the third time around.
00:18:41.000It's not because people think that Donald Trump is necessarily the best Republican candidate.
00:18:44.000In fact, the CPAC straw poll showed only 68% of people at CPAC, which is a very Trumpy place, want Trump to run again.
00:18:50.000The reason for Trump's enduring support is because people see Trump as a giant middle finger and because they see him as a shield who is kind of out there shielding them from the blows.
00:19:00.000Or at least a magnet for the blows that were originally aimed at them.
00:19:04.000Or at least an avatar for them in the fact that he was being attacked because really the people they wanted to attack were the people standing behind Trump.
00:19:10.000All of the conservatives in society, those are the people that they wanted to attack.
00:19:13.000Okay, so Trump shows up at CPAC over the weekend.
00:19:17.000And he gave, honestly, what I thought was a fairly good speech.
00:19:20.000His speech contained a lot of things that were good.
00:19:24.000It contained one particular jibe that, of course, the media went nuts over.
00:19:45.000And by the way, I think that it would behoove Republicans.
00:19:48.000It would behoove Republicans to take a note from Trump's playbook when it comes to fighting Biden's priorities.
00:19:52.000I know that they're focused on apparently other things, but the reality is the stuff that actually matters in American life, I know a lot of Republicans right now are focused in on the $1.9 trillion stimulus package.
00:20:03.000The $1.9 trillion stimulus package is a joke.
00:20:07.000Only a small percentage of that money actually goes to Americans, even though I think, frankly, a lot of that is even unnecessary given the fact that there are a lot of states that are wide open right now.
00:20:17.000Even of the $1.9 trillion package, if you think that a lot of that should go to Americans, most of it is not.
00:20:22.000But the focus for Republicans right now should really not be on the taxing and spending.
00:20:26.000It should be on the overall move by the Joe Biden administration to enshrine the idea that America is systemically racist, is systemically sexist, is systemically evil, and needs to be remolded from the inside.
00:20:38.000And Donald Trump speaks out about that in a way that many other Republicans seem afraid to, particularly mainstream Republicans.
00:20:45.000The real political battle of our time is not a battle over spending.
00:21:02.000Anytime the other party's in power, you care about the national debt.
00:21:04.000Anytime your own party's in power, you just ignore the national debt.
00:21:07.000Some of us are consistent and don't like the national debt being increased under any president.
00:21:10.000But the real battle that people feel in their bones right now is the culture war that is going on in which half the country has declared the other half of the country deplorable and evil and wrongheaded and fascistic.
00:21:21.000And Donald Trump is speaking up for a lot of those Americans in a way that other Republicans are not.
00:21:27.000Where are the other Republicans filling that vacuum?
00:21:28.000Until somebody else on the right fills that vacuum, it's going to be very difficult for Donald Trump to go away.
00:21:34.000Even if you like Trump, and you want to see him just move off to the side and continue to wage his political battles, but you don't want to see him run again.
00:21:41.000Or you'd like to see a new face, maybe a less damaged face for a lot of that agenda.
00:21:46.000Somebody is going to have to step up and fill that role as the person who goes to battle in the culture wars.
00:21:50.000That means you can't ignore the culture war issues.
00:21:53.000The irony, of course, is that Donald Trump is the most oddly placed person to fight these culture war issues, considering the guy is kind of socially liberal on a lot of things except for abortion.
00:22:01.000And yet it's Donald Trump who has stood up repeatedly and said commonsensical stuff about this sort of thing.
00:23:02.000I know that the media have tried to make Joe Biden into a genial older fellow who's filled with empathy.
00:23:07.000His policies, as we've been pointing out every day on the show, are extraordinarily radical.
00:23:10.000More radical than the Obama administration's policies.
00:23:12.000His take on the world that has been promulgated via his administration, which is that equity, meaning anti-racism, Ibram X. Kendi nonsense, is at the center of all of his policies.
00:24:38.000Because the redefinition of basic biological sex matters.
00:24:42.000Pretending that everybody is exactly the same in all respects, and thus, all outcomes ought to be exactly the same, because everybody, of course, is exactly the same, is a recipe for top-down control.
00:25:02.000It ends with children being taken out of homes if parents refuse to go along with the prevailing views at their public school that their kid should have a sex change.
00:25:09.000Okay, that's where this is going to end eventually.
00:25:11.000You already see this kind of stuff happening in certain parts of Canada, by the way.
00:25:14.000You've already seen threats to parental conservatorship based on refusal to acknowledge that your child is actually a member of the gender that they say they are a member of, rather than their actual biological sex.
00:25:38.000Okay, so the left likes to make this all about Trump and people love Trump because Trump says all these terrible things and all of these tweets that a lot of people don't like, and because Trump was telling lies after the election about the... That is not why people like Trump.
00:25:52.000The answer, if you ask conservatives, if you ask Republicans why they are still warm to Trump, the answer is they would rather have the guy who's punching back, even if he is punching back in dirty and wrong ways, than the person who sits there and just takes it.
00:26:05.000This is why you get the why he but he fights stuff from conservatives.
00:26:08.000Now, I've always made the case with Trump that but he fights has to come with an asterisk, which is if you keep punching yourself in your own face, that's not a good way of fighting.
00:26:17.000It's also bad that he fought in such a way that he lost to an actual corpse in Joe Biden.
00:26:22.000There is a way to fight in which you win.
00:26:25.000But if you ask Republicans, which would I prefer, the one who fights or the one who doesn't fight?
00:26:29.000Because both are not going to win victory, but I'd rather have the one who fights.
00:26:32.000That is what you're going to end up with.
00:26:34.000Okay, Trump also went after Biden on the teacher's unions.
00:26:37.000Again, this happens to be correct stuff.
00:26:40.000There's no reason whatsoever why the vast majority of young Americans should not be back in school immediately.
00:26:48.000The only reason that most parents do not have that choice is because Joe Biden sold out America's children to the teacher's unions.
00:26:57.000His position is morally inexcusable, you know that.
00:27:01.000Joe Biden has shamefully betrayed America's youth, and he is cruelly keeping our children locked in their homes, no reason for it whatsoever.
00:27:29.000Even the New York Times has a piece today titled, as school closures near first anniversary, a diverse parent movement demands action.
00:27:35.000Now, normally the way they push this is Democratic policies on school closings push Republican kickback.
00:27:42.000Right, the Republicans pounce on school closings.
00:27:44.000Okay, but even the New York Times is being forced to recognize that these school closings have no basis in reality, that schools being closed are not a good answer to what has been happening with COVID, particularly as the vaccines get rolled out faster and faster.
00:27:56.000They have a long piece in the New York Times today all about a diverse body of people in Philadelphia, of all places, who are saying we need to reopen these schools.
00:28:05.000A Queen Tyler, a mother and hairstylist in North Philadelphia, has been disappointed in her neighborhood's public schools for many years.
00:28:11.000Now, her 9-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter have been learning online for nearly a year, even as mass children gather boisterously at local private schools.
00:28:18.000Tyler is planning a radical change, moving her family to Florida, where the Republican-controlled state government has mandated that all districts provide in-person learning five days a week, and each there is attending traditional public school in Sarasota complete with sports, art, and music.
00:28:49.000Again, Trump's pushback here, there is such a base for Republican victory here.
00:28:54.000People are writing off the Republican Party because of what happened on January 6th, which was truly an awful, egregious, and evil incident by a fringe group of people who broke off even from a bigger rally.
00:29:02.000There are people who are writing off the Republican Party because of supposed conflict inside the corridors of the Republican Party.
00:29:08.000When there is a point of pushback that unifies the Republican Party, they could easily win back the House.
00:29:19.000If you had said to people in 1976, after Gerald Ford lost to Jimmy Carter, in the aftermath of Watergate, how long it would take for Republicans to get back into power, people probably would have said about 15, 20 years.
00:29:32.000Things turned real fast, because bad policy has consequences.
00:29:36.000In just a second, we're gonna get to more of bad policy here, and we'll talk about Trump's trollish comment that he's gonna run for a third time.
00:29:52.000Why would you want to stand in line, and then, you get to the front of the line, and then the person asks you for a specific part, you have no idea, finally you figure it out, they order it online.
00:29:59.000Or you could just stay at home, and order it online, and then it would come to your door, and you wouldn't have to wait in line.
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00:30:13.000Why would you spend up to twice as much for the same parts?
00:30:15.000Like, let's say, hypothetically, you happen to need a Delphi FG-1456 fuel pump assembly for a 2005-2010 Honda Odyssey.
00:30:22.000That'll cost you like $354 at a big chain store.
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00:30:54.000Okay, in just one second, we're going to get to The future of Trump personally inside the Republican Party and, again, another example of the left over its skis when it comes to trying to cancel folks.
00:31:06.000First, there's so many narratives around hot topic issues, it's hard to keep track of all the newest controversies the left decides to be offended by on any given day.
00:31:13.000Like, for example, now they're trying to cancel Dr. Seuss.
00:32:55.000If everybody is special, nobody is special.
00:32:56.000If everybody is canceled, nobody is canceled.
00:32:58.000If you don't actually go after people who you think deserve to be canceled on the basis of very specific behavior, you just go after everyone, you start to get ignored.
00:33:33.000They'll just label everybody a white supremacist or a neo-Nazi.
00:33:36.000And this of course is what has driven so many Republicans to support for people like President Trump because he is the loudest and he is the most out there and he is the person who's taken the most hits.
00:33:45.000And so people on the right now associate takes the most hits with the person who tells the truth the most.
00:33:49.000Because those two things tend to be pretty highly correlated where the left is concerned.
00:33:53.000If you see the people the left likes to attack the most, very often it's the people who are saying the most things.
00:33:57.000Now the problem is sometimes it's not.
00:33:58.000Sometimes the left is attacking Marjorie Taylor... Great example.
00:34:02.000Sometimes the left is attacking Marjorie Taylor Greene for Jewish space lasers.
00:34:05.000Seems like a pretty good reason to go after somebody.
00:34:07.000They believe the Jewish space lasers started a California wildfire.
00:34:12.000But the exact same level of outrage met Marjorie Taylor Greene saying that there are two genders, which is true, as her saying that there are Jewish space lasers, which is crazy.
00:34:23.000So at a certain point, the right just says, we don't trust anything you people have to say.
00:34:26.000We don't trust anything you people have to say.
00:34:28.000It's why there is so much skepticism of the institutional media.
00:34:31.000It's why there's so much skepticism of the left when they make claims.
00:34:33.000People are not evaluating claim by claim whether the left is telling the truth.
00:34:37.000Instead, they're just ignoring the left wholesale.
00:35:40.000But these people, like, Alyssa Milano, who dressed up in like a Handmaid's Tale outfit to go to the Justice Kavanaugh hearings, like, that person is considered a serious human on the left.
00:35:49.000People are considered serious for calling on the Hyatt to be boycotted because they hosted CPAC.
00:35:58.000This, by the way, should be the response of every single corporation in America when the wokes come for them.
00:36:04.000According to Fox26 Houston, Hyatt Hotels defended its decision to host the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference at a time when the political climate has become increasingly volatile, citing its belief that individuals and organizations should be able to peacefully gather and express their own views.
00:36:19.000The three-day event is being held at the Hyatt Regency Orlando in Florida, featuring a slew of prominent Republican speakers from lawmakers and former administration officials to President Trump.
00:36:29.000The spokesperson for Hyatt said, quote, we take pride in operating a highly inclusive environment.
00:36:34.000We believe that the facilitation of gatherings is a central element of what we do as a hospitality company.
00:36:38.000We believe in the right of individuals and organizations to peacefully express their views, independent of the degree to which the perspectives of those hosting meetings and events at our hotels align with ours.
00:36:47.000Our own values support a culture that is characterized by empathy, respect, and diversity of opinions and backgrounds.
00:36:51.000We strive to bring this to light through what we do and how we engage with those in our care.
00:36:55.000And this of course prompted boycott Hyatt to trend on social media.
00:37:05.000This is how the right is going to continue pushing into the culture wars.
00:37:09.000The harder you push, the harder the backlash is going to be.
00:37:11.000And by the way, they are pushing unbelievably hard.
00:37:14.000The scariest story of the last couple of weeks is Amazon coming after books.
00:37:18.000I mean, digital book burnings are now a real thing.
00:37:21.000According to the Daily Wire, Amanda Presti-Giacomo reporting, As noted by Daily Wire, Amazon has ramped up its censorship on conservative views in recent weeks.
00:37:38.000For example, a popular documentary on U.S.
00:37:40.000Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was banned from their streaming service this past week.
00:37:44.000Before that move, the company deplatformed conservative Ryan Anderson's book, Critical of Gender Theory, when Harry became Sally.
00:37:50.000When just the news reached out to Amazon over a ban on Anderson's book.
00:37:54.000The outlet directed them to a page outlining their content guidelines for books.
00:37:59.000Under a section labeled offensive content, Amazon now states, they quote, don't sell certain content, including content we determine is hate speech, promotes the abuse or sexual exploitation of children.
00:38:07.000Okay, so I'm just gonna point out that you literally have books promoting the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.
00:38:13.000When you are telling five-year-olds that they can be members of the opposite sex, and that they might wanna get puberty blockers, that is the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.
00:38:22.000They say they don't sell certain content involving content they determine as hate speech.
00:38:26.000So if you say that that's bad, by the way, that's hate speech.
00:38:28.000Contains pornography, glorifies rape or pedophilia, advocates terrorism, or other material we deem inappropriate or offensive.
00:38:35.000The report says a review of those policies suggests that sometime in the last few months, Amazon made a major change to the ways in which it moderates book content on its servers, imposing a much stricter standard on books than it had previously done.
00:38:46.000It appears the company recently added so-called hate speech to their guidelines on book platforming and is amping up their censorship of the quote-unquote offensive.
00:38:53.000This is going to lead to the complete cancellation and banning of conservative books entirely.
00:38:58.000We already saw them try to do this with Abigail Schreier's book.
00:39:02.000Abigail Schreier points out, when a company controls over 83% of the market for books, it begins the process of deleting ideas from a society.
00:39:10.000If Marxist books wants to only sell books that conform to its ideology, okay, that has integrity.
00:39:14.000But this is the world's largest bookseller.
00:39:16.000Amazon can basically make books disappear for all readers, and does so on a blatantly dishonest basis.
00:39:23.000My understanding, by the way, is that even if you bought these books, they may have erased them from your Kindle.
00:39:30.000So it doesn't matter if you already bought the book.
00:39:31.000Like if you have When Harry Became Sally on Amazon, like you bought it on the Kindle version, I believe they've disappeared it from the Kindle.
00:40:00.000Well, because they are afraid that the people who are doing well on the test are too white and too Asian.
00:40:05.000And Asians, of course, are not a minority when they perform well, then they're just white people.
00:40:08.000According to Ash Scowl, new 5th and 6th graders will not be accepted into advanced classes in Boston, the entire city, for the next year.
00:40:14.000The entry test was suspended due to the pandemic, while at the same time, the school district has raised concerns about racial equity problems, noting that a vast majority of students in those classes are white or Asian.
00:40:25.000GBH News reported the selective program called Advanced Work Classes will suspend enrollment because of the pandemic, but also they cited concerns about equity because more than 70% of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though 80% of Boston public school students are Hispanic and black.
00:40:39.000Superintendent Brenda Casillia said, there's been a lot of inequities that have been brought to light in the pandemic.
00:40:44.000There's a lot of work we have to do to be anti-racist.
00:40:46.000There it is, your code word, anti-racist.
00:40:48.000It's the infusion of this bull crap throughout all of American culture.
00:40:52.000And you will be canceled if you disagree.
00:40:54.000And your children will be denied opportunity if you disagree.
00:40:56.000And then, when you flee to a private school, they will follow you there.
00:41:00.000There are no places where you get to live your life.
00:41:03.000The left has determined that all of society is to be their safe space.
00:41:07.000It'd be one thing for them to say, okay, we just want our safe space, even in this little domain on campus.
00:41:11.000Then they declared all of campus is our safe space.
00:41:14.000Then they declared all of corporate America is our safe space.
00:41:16.000Then they declared your church is our safe space.
00:41:18.000They will soon declare that your home must also be their safe space.
00:41:22.000All of society must be their safe space, because in order for them to live their most fulfilled, expressive lives, as we talked about last week, you have to acknowledge and cheer them.
00:41:31.000It is not enough for you to just say, live your life and leave me alone.
00:42:16.000As of now, the project is shrouded in mystery with no information provided on whether the movie will be a sequel to Man of Steel or a complete reboot without Henry Cavill.
00:42:26.000There's no director attached, no plot details available.
00:42:29.000Code said to be invited into the DC extended universe by Warner Brothers, DC Films and Bad Robot is an honor. I look forward to meaningfully adding to the legacy of America's most iconic mythic hero. He's listed in the thank you credits of Avengers Infinity War Endgame and Black Panther, of course, because he penned some Black Panther and Captain America comic books in which Captain America gets woke. Toby Emmerich, the Warner Brothers chairman, said his bestselling novel Between the World and Me, it's a nonfiction book, lends itself to a new and exciting way of viewing The man of steel.
00:42:58.000If by new and exciting, you mean that the guy who used to be iconic for saying truth, justice, and the American way will now be systemic racism, evil, and the American way.
00:43:06.000I mean, this is what's going to happen, right?
00:43:10.000You've taken a superhero whose literal pitch is that America is good, and he is defending American values.
00:43:16.000You're taking that and you're handing that over to a guy who literally said that he was watching 9-11 happen from the top of an apartment building while smoking marijuana.
00:43:37.000But they are wrecking a piece of intellectual property that was designed to be pro-America by handing it to a person who really does not like the foundational ideals of this country.
00:43:45.000Ta-Nehisi Coates is not a fan of the foundational ideals of the country.
00:43:48.000He, like Nikole Hannah-Jones, believes they were a lie when written.
00:43:51.000He believes they have never been truly acted out.
00:43:53.000And he believes that the fundamental ideals of the country have to fundamentally shift.
00:43:58.000Ta-Nehisi Coates is a slightly more soft-spoken Ibram X. Kendi in terms of his actual politics.
00:44:48.000He's been replaced temporarily, right?
00:44:50.000And he was replaced because he had the temerity to say that a contestant who was originally defended by the first Black Bachelor because he was dating her as not racist, Harrison said, maybe we should give her some grace.
00:45:00.000And now he's been canceled from a show on which he is an executive producer.
00:45:03.000Well, now, now he has been replaced in the final, on the Beyond the Rose episode, whatever the hell that is, by a person named Emmanuel Akko, who hosts a YouTube series about confronting racism for the Bachelor after the final rose.
00:45:18.000Akko, the host of the YouTube series Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, announced on Saturday he would host the one-hour special for the 25th season and Akko will address the situation head-on during the special.
00:45:27.000Because clearly, a dating show requires a person who is a specialist in confronting racism on YouTube.
00:45:35.000Apparently, the show has placed a disclaimer on scenes filmed before Harrison stepped aside.
00:45:40.000The Wrap reports that last week's episode, which featured footage of Harrison competing on a celebrity edition of Wheel of Fortune, noted the scenes were filmed in December.
00:45:47.000We have to make sure that everybody knows that Chris Harrison has been cancelled and any appearance by Chris Harrison is an appearance from the past.
00:45:54.000Every institution, every institution will be militarized on behalf of the woke left.
00:45:59.000And you're either a tool or an obstacle to them, unless you push back.
00:46:02.000Hence the enduring popularity of Donald Trump, who is more of an obstacle to the left than anybody else, apparently, right?
00:46:09.000This is the way that the left views it.
00:46:11.000Alrighty, we'll have another hour of the program a little bit later today.
00:46:14.000In the meantime, go check out the Michael Knowles Show.
00:46:16.000Michael will be talking about Trump at CPAC.