Ep. 232 - The Kavanaugh Effect
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Summary
Looking toward the midterms, the GOP is bouncing back in states that Democrats were all set to pick up. It s time to toast more beers for Brett, baby. We will examine the effect taking place all over our country. Then, Hillary Clinton pontificates on how to treat sexual assault accusers. And Cocaine Mitts turns the Pablo Escobar all the way up to 11. And finally, on this day in history, the phrase Going Postal enters the American lexicon.
Transcript
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Looking toward the midterms, the GOP is bouncing back in states that Democrats were all set to pick up.
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We will examine the Kavanaugh effect taking place all over our country.
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Then, Hillary Clinton pontificates on how to treat sexual assault accusers.
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And Cocaine Mitts turns the Pablo Escobar all the way up to 11.
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Sebastian Gorka stops by to discuss why we fight.
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And finally, on this day in history, the phrase going postal enters the American lexicon.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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The Kavanaugh effect. Hip, hip, hooray! Hip, hip, hooray! Oh, how delicious.
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So we've been talking about the Kavanaugh effect now for two weeks.
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Well, we've been talking about the effect of Democrats on the Kavanaugh confirmation,
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But now we're seeing the Kavanaugh effect on the midterm elections.
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And this is hurting Democrats in races across the country.
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Not just the swing states, but races that we were pretty certain that we were going to lose
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For a reaction, we turn to Corey Spartacus Booker.
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I had tears of rage when I heard about this experience in that meeting.
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And for you not to feel that hurt and that pain.
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Could we just, one more time, before we really get into the show here,
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could you tell me, Senator Spartacus, what did you feel?
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I had tears of rage when I heard about this experience in that meeting.
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And for you not to feel that hurt and that pain.
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That's what Democrats are feeling all around the country here.
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The Kavanaugh effect is affecting a lot of races.
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Martha McSally right now in Arizona has a six-point lead over her Democrat opponent,
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We thought Arizona was probably going to flip with John McCain dying, with, you know,
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There's also in that race a Green Party candidate, Angela Green.
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She was probably like some random street person.
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I know how I can make some money for the next two months.
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She's going to pull some votes away from the Democrat, it seems.
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Because they overplayed their hand on Brett Kavanaugh.
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You know, it's very easy to separate people by race.
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It's much harder to separate people by gender because the genders are constantly unified and
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You know, women have fathers and sons and husbands and boyfriends.
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So it's much harder if you overplay your hands.
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If it seems that you're being unfair and you're assassinating the character of a guy
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just for being a guy, just because you can, that's a real problem.
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So, and we're seeing that, you know, we're seeing this play out not just in the Senate.
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Marsha Blackburn is up 18 points on Democrat Phil Bredesen in Tennessee.
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This is according to the New York Times that she's up 18 points.
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I don't really believe this before the race showed her up just, I think, six points, according
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Right now they have polls in real time on the New York Times.
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You're seeing numbers come in as they are contacting people.
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This is obviously about the entertainment aspect of elections, but I'm a little skeptical
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So even if she's really only up eight points or nine points or even six points, pretty good.
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And, and those numbers were not looking that way before.
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In Texas, remember, we were told that Beta O'Rourke, Robert Francis O'Rourke, he goes
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by Beto or Beto, but he's, he's colloquially known among Republicans as Beta.
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He's still within striking distance, but those numbers, that, that gap really widened because
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of Kavanaugh right now, Nate Silver has dropped his prediction that Democrats will take the
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So that's the, that's, this is an all time low for this midterm cycle, uh, really not looking
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The Democrats, according to Silver, have a 78% chance of taking the house, uh, which,
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you know, historically speaking, they're likely to take the house.
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They probably, as a, as a matter of trends, they should take the house, um, but their chances
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Heidi Heitkamp, ever since this Kavanaugh thing has dragged on, her numbers have been falling.
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And then she finally decided she was going to vote no on Kavanaugh.
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And, you know, Joe Manchin ended up voting yes.
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Another swing state Democrat, a Democrat in a state that voted for Trump.
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Because she's got a lot of pressure on her from the left.
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Donor, donor money, of course, also foundations, organizations that are donating to her.
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Those ground game supporters will dry up if she voted for what she thinks about, uh,
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you know, if she voted for what is just and also what probably would be politically right
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in a general election, that would have all gone away.
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So, look, the Kavanaugh thing was exposed as a total farce.
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And, uh, Heidi Heitkamp, however, now is trying to have it both ways.
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We'll talk about politicians who try to have it both ways.
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And then I went back and watched his testimony.
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With the sound turned off, what does that do for you?
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Because I think that there's so many different ways that you communicate, um, and you learn
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It's, it's a, it's an, it's an old trick that I use to really try and understand what's
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That's the, that's the, that's the old, the old trick that I try to use.
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This is the old trick that I, so when reality doesn't agree with my preconceived, ideological,
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convenient notions, this is a little trick that I use.
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I take my two fingers and I plug them into my ear and then I close my eyes really tight
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La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, I can't hear you.
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This is the worst excuse she could have possibly come up with.
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It says, you know, you heard Kavanaugh and you found his testimony compelling, right?
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No, what he said, when he said what he said, then I, I believed it.
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This is something, by the way, sometimes, sometimes at night, sweet little Elisa will, will say
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to me, I'll, I'll mention something and I'll say, you know, I talked about this on the show
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She goes, oh, Mac, I listen to your show every day on mute.
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I, every day I take it up on my iTunes and I click the mute button and I listen to the
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That's, that's Heidi Heitkamp talking about Brett Kavanaugh.
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Oh, I listen to Brett Kavanaugh all the time on mute.
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This, this obviously is an emperor has no clothes moment.
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The best she could say is, yeah, well, I listened to him and he was compelling.
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But, um, but also it, you know, it shows the difference between conviction politicians and
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And this is an important distinction because when you look throughout history, history has
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a, probably many more convenience politicians than conviction ones, but history doesn't look
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People who just go with the wind, don't stand for anything at all, just want people to like
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them, just want to aggrandize as to self aggrandize.
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You've got, uh, Lloyd George or Lloyd George Neville Chamberlain, these squishy, wishy, wishy
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And then you've got Winston Churchill who, look, Winston Churchill had major election
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He had major victories for civilization, but he was a conviction politician.
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He knew what he believed about the Soviet union, what he believed about Hitler, what he believed
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about Nazi Germany, all these other guys, squishy, wishy Neville Chamberlain, Lloyd George, history
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Uh, Dante puts, uh, the apathetic in, in the first, first circle of hell.
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When he, when Dante goes into hell, when he passes through the gates of hell, the first
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people he encounters are the apathetic, the people, the angels who didn't rebel against
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You know, there's that quote, uh, all it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to
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And this is variously attributed to Edmund Burke and, and Dante and all of these people,
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And Dante, it's the first souls that he encounters and they're damned.
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They're just, they're just in it for themselves.
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I mean, nobody, why would you put yourself through this?
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Why would you put yourself through the grueling, awful experience of running for office, sitting
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in office, going to all those spaghetti dinners, going to constituent town halls?
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Why, why would you do that if it's for nothing other than yourself?
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Uh, you know, the, the convenience politician par excellence is Bill Clinton.
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He, of course, he is the one he's back in the news now as well.
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Uh, but he, you know, Bill Clinton actually had a basically good presidency.
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He had a lot of good things come out of his presidency, not in the first couple of years,
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but only after Newt Gingrich and the Republicans won the Congress and Clinton went along with
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There was, there were many achievements of welfare reform, tax reform, uh, free trade
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There were a lot of good things that came out of the Clinton presidency.
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Um, his wife is a little less so, you know, his, his wife too goes along with the spirit
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You remember in 2008, she said abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.
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Then she came around and said, uh, abortion, you know, should be a sacrament basically when
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And she just, you know, safe, legal, and rare never made any sense.
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If abortion is just some meaningless medical procedure, why should it be rare?
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If it's tantamount to murder, why should it be legal?
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You know, just trying to be mealy mouthed, have their cake and eat it too.
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I think he was asked about the Gulf War, what he would have done with regard to sending in
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American troops in the Gulf War, the first Gulf War.
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And I, I, I'm, I'm only slightly misquoting him when he said, well, I would have, uh,
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gone along with the opinion of the majority, but I would have felt, uh, empathy with the
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And so now the Clintons are back in the news because history doesn't look kindly on those
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And, uh, the, the other problem, by the way, with people who stand for nothing is they can
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Hillary, more than her husband had leftist convictions.
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She wrote her whole college thesis on Saul Alinsky on rules for radicals.
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And the trouble is when the spirit of the age moves far left, moves in a radical direction,
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And Hillary, more than her husband, tried to push the spirit of the age in that direction
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So now they're going on this big stadium tour, uh, to do, I don't know, to do a two, two
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man show, to do a little vaudeville act, uh, probably a bad idea though, during the me
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Cause do you, uh, look, I don't know if you're a history buffs or not, but, uh, Bill Clinton
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had a few accusations thrown against him and they were much more credible than Brett Kavanaugh.
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So Christiane Amanpour, to her credit, she's a terrible journalist, but to her credit, she
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asks Hillary Clinton, what, what about the allegations against your husband?
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Obviously, you're going to be prepared to have questions about that moment in 1998,
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the impeachment, um, the allegations of sexual harassment against your own husband.
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And how do you see that similar or different from what President Trump is being accused
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Uh, and that is the intense, long lasting, partisan investigation that was conducted in
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If, um, you know, the Republicans, starting with President Trump on down, uh, want, uh, a comparison,
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they should welcome such an investigation themselves.
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Excuse me, what, you were asked about the allegations.
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And she says, oh, it's the difference is that darn monster Ken Starr.
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So, well, maybe you could talk about the allegations first.
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Also, if you want an investigation, Brett Kavanaugh just testified more than all other Supreme
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And he, uh, he also had a seventh FBI investigation into him.
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That's why for her, it always just goes back to this investigation and they wronged me and
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But she, she was singing this exact same tune in the 1990s.
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It could have been yesterday, though it was actually 20 years ago, talking to Matt Lauer
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on the Today Show about the allegations against her husband.
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First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton candidly answered questions with NBC's Matt Lauer on
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She wasted no time in slamming special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, accusing him of being behind the
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We get a politically motivated prosecutor who is allied with the right wing opponents of
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my husband, who has literally spent four years looking at every telephone.
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But looking at every telephone call we've made, every check we've ever written, scratching
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for dirt, intimidating witnesses, doing everything possible to try to make some accusation against
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If he were to be asked today, Mrs. Clinton, do you think he would admit that he again has
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The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it
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is this vast right wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the
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By the way, I had to change the clip there at the end.
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When you watch that first clip on YouTube, the audio cuts out when you get to the money
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line, when you get to the vast right wing conspiracy, I don't know.
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There might be a vast left wing conspiracy there, but that's what she said.
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Forget the allegations she was singing that same tune then.
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She doesn't learn that you can't call half the country deplorable and irredeemable.
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She's unable to see the hypocrisy too of the investigations.
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You heard there, you know, Matt Lauer chiming in.
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And now I wonder what Hillary Clinton thinks about the Mueller investigation into Trump.
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I wonder what she thinks about special counsels, independent counsels.
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And she can't see the hypocrisy because of the defining feature of the Clintons, which
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If you're very, very prideful, you can't see your own flaws and you can't feel any shame.
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So the defining feature of the Clintons, they could look you in the face and say, I did not
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Two seconds later, yeah, I think I might've had sex with that woman, but listen, you should
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All of the questions are going to be highly vetted, of course.
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They're not, no one's going to be able to get in their face with a camera or anything
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But even so, they can't see that in the Me Too era, in the era that was made possible
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because Hillary Clinton lost, they were finally, Democrats were finally able to talk about
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the sexual misconduct typified by the Clinton administration.
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In the Me Too era, maybe it's not a great idea, Hillary, for you and Bill to be out there
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And speaking of conspiracies, speaking of the vast right-wing conspiracy, I will point
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At least the vast right-wing conspiracy, not what she's talking about and not the left-wing
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conspiracy, but the actual right-wing conspiracy, you know, that we're all a part of here.
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He's turned the covfefe up to like Pablo Escobar levels.
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Here's Cocaine Mitch explaining why he's completely ready to confirm a Supreme Court justice or
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implying that he's completely ready to confirm a Supreme Court justice, even in the election
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If Donald Trump were to name somebody in the final year of his first term in 2020, are you
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saying that you would go ahead with that nomination?
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Well, I understand your question, and what I told you was what the history of the Senate
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You have to go back to the 1880 to find the last time a vacancy created in a presidential
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election year on the Supreme Court was confirmed by a Senate of a different party than the
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So if you can't answer my direct question, are you saying that if Donald Trump...
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Well, the answer to your question is we'll see whether there's a vacancy in 2020.
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Well, do you remember in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue?
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It's actually even less deceptive than that because what McConnell is saying is, yeah,
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And nobody knows how the Senate works better than Mitch McConnell.
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This guy knows how the machinery of the Senate works.
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And he's saying, yeah, of course, in an election year when the Senate is controlled by the party,
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by a different party than the White House, of course they're not going to confirm a nominee.
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He's not coming up with some sanctimonious hubbub.
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He's not dragging out women and, you know, manipulating women who may or may not have suffered
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any assaults and putting them on TV and using them as tearful human shields.
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He's saying, no, that's just the way politics works.
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And, but, you know, he doesn't quite answer the question.
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So then Chris Wallace says, well, don't you think it's hypocrite?
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And Mitch McConnell says, well, just one second, Chris, if you would excuse me for one second.
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Chuck Grassley is kind of playing games and being a little deceptive, but Mitch is being
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spot on honest about it and honestly political.
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You know, some, some sanctimonious people want to pretend that there's something unpleasant
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I don't think, I find that much more pleasant than Hillary Clinton smearing her husband's
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victims and her husband's accusers, and then talking about vast right-wing conspiracies
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and being so sanctimonious, quivering lip on, on Matt Lauer.
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Speaking of why we fight, I have got the great Sebastian Gorka coming on the show today.
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He's got a wonderful book, Why We Fight, Defeating America's Enemies with No Apologies.
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He is, he gives us a great insight, having worked in the White House with the administration,
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Dr. Gorka, we got a lot more coming up after that.
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You know, I mean, you know I'm a big fan of yours.
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I'm a big fan of everything you write and tweet and when you're on television.
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And in this moment, this Kavanaugh moment, I'm thinking not just of why we fight abroad,
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What lessons do you think conservatives can take away from this bloody Kavanaugh battle?
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Very, very simply that the Democrats have made their Faustian bargain when they want power.
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They will do whatever it takes to get the power.
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I mean, you couldn't find a more milquetoast, decent guy than Brett Kavanaugh.
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And they're prepared to accuse him of serial rape and attempted murder.
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And it also demonstrates that they've never given up.
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They lost the election, but they will grasp at anything to maintain power.
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And if that means turning the Supreme Court into a legislating radical body, then that's
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I mean, just to the whole world to say he is innocent in front of his mother, his wife,
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This is something I'm constantly surprised by is people say, oh, President Trump, he never
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I say, OK, regardless of any conjecture you might have, he is able to identify clear
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His tweet about Christopher Columbus was excellent.
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I mean, even from that, even from these issues, he really does seem to cut through the fog.
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Do we elect a president to give us epistemological discourse and ontological debate?
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Speaking of epistemological debate, we're even reading the tea leaves.
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You know, Ambassador Nikki Haley has stepped down at the UN.
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Everybody is rending their garments, gnashing their teeth.
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I think I'm the only person who, like, doesn't really care that much.
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She did a good job and now she'll do something else.
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So I'm in New York because Why We Fight came out today.
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I went on a conservative radio show that was trying to hypothesize, is she the author of
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And I said, on live radio, I said, guys, take the tinfoil hat off.
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Look at the body language of the president and Nikki in that oval.
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I mean, you know, Rex Tillerson finds out from a tweet that he's been capped, okay?
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It's, look, sometimes, and I know you like them, a cigar is just a cigar, right?
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And, you know, on the role of the UN, which I can't wait until that becomes the Donald
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Trump presidential condominiums in six more years, but before they knock it to rubble.
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Someone just tweeted to me, they should turn it into a veteran's home, a VA veteran's home
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Our veterans deserve waterfront views in Manhattan, I think.
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When you look around at the geopolitical threats, one thing I've always loved about you is you
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You don't pull your punches, and then you can back it all up.
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And I love at the end of Why We Fight, toward the end of Why We Fight, you dedicate a chapter
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And I think young conservatives don't even know who Whitaker Chambers is.
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And what should conservatives remember from our not-so-distant past?
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So I put three heroes in there who wore uniforms.
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So the book's about strategic threats, what Donald Trump's going to do about them, and
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And I thought to myself, hang on, you don't have to wear a uniform or carry a gun to be a
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And the really, I mean, I didn't plan this because the book went to the printers before
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But Whitaker Chambers speaks to what we've just witnessed over the last month.
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Because the man he accused of being a Soviet agent was a darling of the Democrat Party,
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We now have the proof, because after Chambers died, we have the Venona decrypts that Hiss was
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So, you know, Whitaker Chambers is important because he was Kavanaugh before Kavanaugh was
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And it tells you everything you need to know about the Democrats.
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And that history in particular is so important.
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I'm so glad you included Chambers in there because so much of what happened to Richard Nixon
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And I think that's just been lost, even to young conservatives.
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I know you're doing a ton of media, you know, right now, back-to-back media.
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What should we take away now, forgetting about the inner personnel fights in the administration,
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looking at the United Nations, looking around at all of our geostrategic threats?
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What should we be paying attention to, especially as we go into the midterms?
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OK, this isn't meant to be flipped, but the Donald will take care of all the international
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I mean, the guy is just his strategic, intuitive sense is spooky.
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My one message is, never give up on him and never give up on the country.
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He stood up for Kavanaugh because he's been through it.
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He's walked through the valley in the last two years, everything they've accused him of.
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So the president will never be a neoconservative.
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He's doing what he's doing for love of country.
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If you like what you've seen in the last two years, if you were shocked by what the
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Democrats did to Kavanaugh, get out and vote and get everybody you know who's going to
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sit at home to vote because the stakes, it's not an exaggeration, exaggeration.
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The stakes are more important than anything else you could do in your lifetime right now.
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And while you're going out to vote, you should also stop at a bookstore.
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I actually don't think bookstores exist anymore, but you know, at least stop in your car and
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As you're getting your subscription to the other kingdom.
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You have to, while you're on your phone, open up two windows, subscribe, another kingdom
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Dr. Gorka, always good to have you here and we'll have to have you back soon.
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I want to, if I can't do his voice, unfortunately, I'll have to work it up.
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I've finally been able to do my Mitch McConnell impression.
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So maybe I'll have to work up my Dr. Gorka voice.
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Before I do that, before we talk about Rand Paul's predictions that someone's going to
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be assassinated in this insane, hysterical leftist climate and Kanye West prompting CNN
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to do a minstrel show, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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There are tears of rage that are coming across this country.
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And if you don't have your FDA approved leftist tears vessel, you're going to drown.
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Get the pumpkin spice, Cory Booker, Spartacus spice, leftist tears tumbler, and we'll be right
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Rand Paul is predicting that this insane climate, ginned up by the left, by Democrats, I don't
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I think the people who fund the left are to blame, like George Soros and others.
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I think the hysterical elected officials of the Democratic Party, like Maxine Waters,
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who calls for violence against Republicans and Trump supporters.
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I think the leaders of the Democrat Party who encourage people to chase down Republicans
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in their restaurants and public spaces, in their homes where their children sleep.
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They're the ones who are creating this awful climate.
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And Rand Paul is suggesting that somebody might get hurt or killed from this.
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I think what people need to realize that when people like Cory Booker say, get up in their
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But what he doesn't realize is that for about every thousand person that might want to get
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up in your face, one of them is going to be unstable enough to commit violence.
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When I was at the ball field and Steve Scalise was nearly killed, the guy shooting up the ball
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field and shooting, I think five or six people were shot.
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He had a list in his pocket of conservative Republicans that he wanted to kill.
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You know, when I was attacked in my yard and had six of my ribs broken, pneumonia, lung
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We have to somehow ratchet it down and say, we're not encouraging that violence is ever
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okay, ever a reason for or a means for trying to resolve things.
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I feel that there's going to be an assassination.
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I really worry that someone is going to be killed and that those who are ratcheting up
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the conversation, those who are ratcheting up saying, get in their face, they have to
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realize that they bear some responsibility of this elevates to violence.
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And it's not, I think some people are hearing what Rand Paul is saying.
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They're saying, oh, well, that's hyperbolic rhetoric.
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I mean, this guy, talk about bad place, wrong place at the wrong time.
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This guy was at the congressional baseball shooting when that lefty tried to shoot up
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He was at, he was just mowing his lawn when his neighbor broke six of his ribs, really
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The guy's been attacked twice and his life has been threatened both times.
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You know, there, there have been assassinations in this country.
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Many presidents have been assassinated, have been shot.
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There's no reason to think that this can't happen again.
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You know, we're, we're in this complacent moment because everything is so easy and our
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culture is so decadent and everything is so convenient.
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We don't ever have to even leave our couches if we don't want to.
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You know, everything stays pretty nice until it all plummets south real fast.
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And, and people are careless with their rhetoric.
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I'm not saying that you shouldn't be strong, that you shouldn't say exactly what you think,
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I'm, I'm advocating that much more than mealy mouthed, milquetoast, uh, echo, not a voice
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politics, but you've got to know what you're talking about.
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The left wants to be imprecise in its language so that it can encourage hysterical little
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children to go out and shriek and scream in the gallery of the Senate.
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Well, Brett Kavanaugh is being confirmed to the court.
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That word hasn't even really been used to describe the left, but that's what it is.
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It's an intellectual immaturity, a political immaturity and a spiritual immaturity, a moral
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They're not educated, meaning they haven't been brought up the right way and they're not
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behaving like adults and they really should because children can be, can do really reckless
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things and I hope, I hope it doesn't come to that, but Rand Paul might have a good point.
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Before we end here, this is my favorite story of the entire day.
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And here is, look, you know, Kanye West has stated his political views.
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Uh, he, as far as, uh, pop musicians and actors and actresses go, Kanye West is one
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You know, I mean, when you listen to like, who's, who's the girl, uh, not, um, uh, no,
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And then, uh, how do you narrow it down to just one?
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Uh, Kanye West on the whole actually is in the, probably the upper 50% of the
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Kanye West is what happens when Negroes don't read.
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And now Donald Trump is going to use it and pervert it.
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And he's going to have somebody who can stand with him and take pictures.
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Listen, black folks are about to trade Kanye West in the racial draft, okay?
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They've had it with him and he's an attention whore like the president.
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He's all of a sudden now the, the, the model spokesperson.
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He's, he's the token Negro of the, of the Trump administration.
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And no one should be taking Kanye West seriously.
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This is what happens when Negroes don't read books.
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And then the other people on the panel just going right along with it.
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And what this amounts to, what CNN amounts to is a, is a modern day minstrel show.
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A minstrel show is when you go on camera, you go on stage and you perform a caricature
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of what your audience expects you to look because of your race, because of your gender,
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because of someone else's race, someone else's gender.
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And you play that caricature and you do that soft shoe.
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Well, that's what a Negro looks like when he doesn't read books.
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It's really, it's really despicable because it's so, it's so narrows what people are,
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not just as individuals, not just within their communities.
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I was in New Orleans when I was moving out from New York to Los Angeles and I stopped in
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New Orleans and I got tricked by some hustler on the street.
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And the guy says, uh, he comes up, he actually comes up to my buddy and he says, Hey man, I'll
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bet you $10 that I can tell you where you got your shoes, both city and state.
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So my buddy, I think he bought his shoes in Maine or something.
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I'll, uh, yeah, you can tell me where I got these shoes, city and state.
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He said, you got them in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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You got them on your feet right now in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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You know, and then my buddy had to pay him 10 bucks.
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So later on, we're walking through, uh, walking down Bourbon street or something.
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And some guy turns to us and he does this same shtick.
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He goes, Hey man, I'll bet you $10 that you can't tell me where you got the shoes, New
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I got them in New Orleans, Louisiana, no money.
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And it was really jarring because the line is pretty funny.
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I'm probably going to use the line myself, you know, that I tell you where you got your
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shoes, but it was the, it was the performance of it that because this guy, you know, he's
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He's in a certain place that he's got to put on a show.
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He's got a, he's got a kowtow to a certain line that we expect him to, to behave like.
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And that's exactly what CNN is demanding Kanye West.
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That's exactly, and it's not a race thing either.
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Uh, white, white Democrats are demanding this as well.
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Uh, some actress tweeted out a picture and said, make Kanye Kanye again.
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He's got to start, he's got to stop being independently minded.
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And I'm really pleased that no less a pop icon, a pop star, that word is abused, icon,
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but pop star Kanye West is, uh, is the one who's breaking out of that.
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It was Alyssa Milano who said, make Kanye Kanye again.
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We don't have time for this day in history because I got to go too bad.
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This has been a whirlwind of a week and it's only Wednesday.
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