Hollywood writes America out of the moon landing, and Nike turns Colin Kaepernick into real-life Al Bundy, and lefties learn the most important business lesson of the Trump era, Get Woke, Go Broke. Then, Steve Bannon is disinvited from the New Yorker conference, and Democrats scrape the bottom of the barrel for 2020.
00:03:03.320The first guy that's learning about this is the CEO of Nike right now.
00:03:10.220Because you might have heard Ryan Gosling angered half of the country over the weekend by writing the American flag out of the moon landing and defending that decision.
00:03:18.540So I think he thought that he had the best way to offend Americans over the weekend.
00:03:24.160And then Nike turned to him and said, Ryan, hold my Gatorade.
00:03:26.960Because they decided to make the new face of Nike, the new image that they are going to put on all of their advertising.
00:03:34.680Colin Kaepernick, the guy who disrespects and protests the American flag, the symbol of the country itself.
00:03:43.080The quote that they're using on this stupid image of Kaepernick's head says, believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.
00:11:50.960I will tell you, every time I go, specifically to the bank, but I've noticed this at other places too, but literally every single time I go to the bank, people compliment me on this watch.
00:12:01.300Other places I go to, though, at parties, at bars, I get compliments on this watch all the time.
00:13:31.240I really don't understand why the left keeps doubling down on this, or rather why businesses keep doubling down on the left.
00:13:38.420It is costing the money left and right.
00:13:40.580And this tells us something about our politics.
00:13:42.400You're going to hear Democrats and critics of the administration harping on the generic ballot.
00:13:46.980The numbers that we're seeing coming out of Nike, the numbers that we're seeing coming out of other businesses who embrace the left are telling us a lot more than the generic opinion polls from political analysts are telling us a lot more.
00:14:04.780And we can see it with this Ryan Gosling movie, The First Man, directed by Damien Chazil.
00:14:15.560And now they've done this movie called The First Man, which is about the moon landing.
00:14:20.700And in the moment where Neil Armstrong touches down, they cut out the planting of the American flag in the moon.
00:14:28.240Ryan Gosling gave his explanation of this.
00:14:29.920He said, quote, I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement, and that's how we chose to view it.
00:14:37.100I also think Neil was extremely humble, as were many of these astronauts.
00:14:41.040And time and time again, he deferred the focus from himself to the 400,000 people who made the mission possible.
00:14:47.940So Ryan Gosling here speaking for Neil Armstrong, who most certainly would have called himself an American and was a proud American.
00:14:54.260Buzz Aldrin is ripping this movie for not showing the American flag, ripping this political talking point.
00:15:02.860But I think I've actually figured out why Ryan Gosling is spouting this sort of stupidity.
00:15:09.500This was in a little-watched aspect of a Jimmy Kimmel interview.
00:15:12.740That's why nobody watched it, obviously, because it was part of a Jimmy Kimmel interview.
00:15:15.640But here, Ryan Gosling explains the only plausible explanation for his defense of not including the flag.
00:15:21.340But it's this thing that kind of sends you, like, you know, ass over tea kettle for, like, you know, like, they would only do it for maybe 20 minutes at a time or something.
00:15:31.760But in the movie, because we had to get a lot of shots, I was in it for, like, six to eight hours.
00:15:43.420Well, like, that I was, something was wrong, like, I was, I was that and getting banged around in the capsules and hitting my head that something might be wrong.
00:15:54.960Well, I knew something was wrong when I called, I went home one night and I called Ava and I was, I was just hell-bent on this idea that there were people in donut stores all around the world, you know, trying to charm their way into getting free donuts.
00:16:09.680And what did, what did Ava say to that?
00:16:15.040She was, she was so patient and listening and, you know, and then she was saying, well, you know, I think you might have, you know, drain damage.
00:16:23.260And I was like, no, no, there's, there's donut charmers everywhere and it's, and it's a problem and no one's doing anything about it.
00:17:13.640And Jeremy Boring, the God King and, you know, the sports correspondent from our sister network, Daily Wire 2, he wrote a great piece about this over the weekend where he explained that sure, it's a human achievement.
00:17:24.840All of the great achievements of the last 200 years have come from the United States.
00:17:29.740They've come from the United States because the United States itself is a magnificent human achievement.
00:17:35.240An achievement of freedom, of the body politic, of the way that free markets and free ideas and free thought and the Anglo-American inheritance of free politics has allowed unbelievable developments in science, even art, even the art that Ryan Gosling is allowed to take part in.
00:17:55.300It's a human achievement, but it's a human achievement done by particular humans in a particular time by a particular country, and that's America.
00:18:03.380But when you abstract beyond what actually happened, when you try to create this generic abstraction, you lose all of the things that actually happened.
00:19:19.920Because about half the country is going to eat this up.
00:19:21.940About half the country believes what Ryan Gosling is saying right now.
00:19:25.580And look, fortunately, probably half the country doesn't believe that.
00:19:28.400Which is why I can't imagine this movie is going to do very well.
00:19:31.440It's certainly not going to hit its expectations.
00:19:33.440There are going to be a lot of people so turned off by this that Go Woke, Go Broke is almost certainly going to affect them as well.
00:19:39.960But even then, what if their thought is, because one of the explanations for this is that they want to be able to sell it overseas.
00:19:46.420They don't want to offend the foreign markets by making this about planting an American flag.
00:19:50.400And so they're not going to put it in there.
00:19:51.960That is a good argument for nationalism.
00:19:53.820If we are so dislodged from our bonds of loyalty to our own country, this wonderful country of ours, the greatest country in the history of the world, the most prosperous, the most generous, the most charitable country in the history of the world.
00:20:07.340If we're so divorced from our bonds of loyalty to that country because we want to make a buck in China, that is a good argument for nationalism.
00:20:15.480That's actually an argument against unfettered free trade.
00:20:18.460There is something really that's lost by this.
00:20:22.420We're going to be talking to the political philosopher Yoram Hazoni, I believe, next week about his new book, The Virtues of Nationalism.
00:20:32.600We saw this in 2006 with that Superman movie when they replaced Truth, Justice, and the American Way with Truth, Justice, and all that other stuff.
00:21:02.660All of those numbers coincided with the mass censorship and denigration of conservatives, suppression of conservative ideas on those platforms.
00:21:11.760When you start picking a side, when you start alienating half of the country, you're going to lose money.
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00:22:05.940And I say, the key is not writing a book.
00:22:07.660But if you're not like me, if you can't not write a book and get into it, you need to have a lot of skills because you just need to be able to supply what the employer is demanding.
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00:25:30.880Mr. Chairman, I'd like to be recognized to ask a question before we proceed.
00:25:35.020The committee received just last night, less than 15 hours ago, 42,000 pages of documents that we have not had an opportunity to review or read or analyze.
00:27:30.980And this is what they're going to run on.
00:27:32.460I mean, the reason they did this today is because they want to get good footage for their TV commercials when they're in their own elections.
00:27:38.960And Kamala Harris, who started all of that off, wants to get good footage for her presidential commercials.
00:28:01.660People don't mind when they're out of power.
00:28:03.220As long as everyone's playing by the rules because they know there's a way for them to get back in power.
00:28:08.060But when they start breaking the rules like this, when they start trying to undercut the rules, shouting over people, having no sense of decorum, it's chaos.
00:28:20.740I hope you air this all over television.
00:28:22.440I hope you got your clips today, guys, because it really doesn't look good.
00:28:26.260Speaking of being petulant little children, Steve Bannon was invited to headline the New Yorker conference.
00:28:31.800You know that magazine that nobody's read for 30 years, the one with the cartoons that nobody understands, the cartoons that are just dry to the point of not being a joke.
00:28:41.860So he was invited to headline this conference.
00:28:45.340And then there was this massive pushback by Judd Apatow and Patton Oswalt, you know, the great minds of our generation, Judd Apatow and Patton Oswalt.
00:28:54.000They both said, we're going to pull out of this if Steve Bannon is invited to come.
00:28:58.680And, you know, I'm going to pull out of it, too.
00:28:59.800I wasn't invited, but I'm going to pull out of it, too.
00:29:01.400And they're going to pull out like petulant children.
00:29:03.680I think when finally the editor of The New Yorker said, OK, we're going to disinvite him now, OK?
00:31:12.560Well, if you're confident in your own ideas, then you'll see why the Nazi was wrong and it will shed light on how the Nazi thinks.
00:31:19.080But they don't care about any of that.
00:31:20.200Chelsea Clinton tweeted at you, she said, quote,
00:31:21.480For anyone who wonders what normalization of bigotry looks like, please look no further than Steve Bannon being invited by the Economist and the New Yorker to their respective events in New York a few weeks apart.
00:31:32.600Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill Clinton, who recently sat on stage on a dais at Aretha Franklin's funeral with Louis Farrakhan, who regularly talks about how we've got to get rid of all those satanic Jews, who regularly invades against the Jews, the head of the nation of Islam.
00:31:49.540What about that bigotry? She didn't tweet about that when her father was doing that, did she?
00:31:53.100Talk about hate. They talk about hate, hate, hate.
00:31:55.760The Democrats are always projecting, and so they're always projecting their own feelings onto someone else.
00:32:01.340They're saying, Bannon is hateful. He's hateful, and that's why we've got to get him out, and he can't speak anywhere.
00:32:05.320Who's the hateful one here? Who's the hateful one?
00:32:08.340Seems like, isn't there a little irony here?
00:32:10.400Seems like you might be the hateful one here.
00:32:12.820But it's that politics that is so, so despicable. It's so disgusting. People don't like it.
00:32:19.160There are a lot of people who legitimately are liberals, who were on the left, who voted for a lot of Democrats, who won't vote for it now, who won't vote for Democrats now, because they don't like that.
00:32:28.960We don't like this chaos. We like a little bit of order. We like a little bit of reason.
00:32:33.200We like facts, and facts don't care about your feelings.
00:32:35.860I mean, this is true of liberals, too, and those are the polls that matter.
00:32:40.580I mean, these are the things that matter in this election.
00:32:43.260We're told Trump is never, ever going to win. He can't win. Republicans are going to get totally blown out.
00:45:09.760This whole final invading against Donald Trump.
00:45:14.920The reason this was a bad idea, and again, I give Meghan a pass because her father died.
00:45:22.040But I speak a little bit from experience.
00:45:24.460Having eulogized a parent myself, the feelings in that moment are so intense.
00:45:31.040The apparent crisis, the urgency, the shock.
00:45:34.000The shock, even, you know, and obviously people knew that John McCain was going to die.
00:45:39.880But when it actually happens, the shock is so intense that it distorts your perspective.
00:45:45.020And it distorts your perspective of the significance of the moment and the importance of outside circumstances to the moment and all of those things.
00:45:53.740And you really have to be careful because you don't want to let the craziness of the moment, the shock, the hurt, the pain of the moment, cause you to say things that are a little off tone.
00:46:10.700Because John McCain's life is bigger than one presidency.
00:46:13.480I hope it's bigger than one presidency.
00:46:15.360I hope John McCain's life doesn't just boil down to a guy who was elected president in 2016.
00:47:02.220But I think we can all take something from that, which is that this guy's life, John McCain's life, is bigger than the president, than the current president.