Ep. 551 - Racists, Rapists, and Murderers
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Summary
Joe Biden says if you don t know if you re going to vote for Trump or for him, then you ain t black. Is this a racist comment? Is this racist? Is Joe Biden a racist? Does this mean anything after 50 years of being abused by the political left?
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Joe Biden informs 40 million black Americans that if they support our president, they ain't black.
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Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar says she believes the woman accusing Biden of sexual assault.
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And President Trump accuses MSNBC's Joe Scarborough of murdering a staffer.
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Does the word racist even mean anything after 50 years of being totally abused by the political left?
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We will play the clip for you and then we will play all of the many, many excuses that the left is making for Joe.
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Joe Biden is on this show with the radio character Charlemagne Tha God.
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And the interview was actually going fairly well.
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And then Joe Biden made this now infamous statement that if you do not know if you're going to vote for Trump or for Joe Biden, then you ain't black.
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But I tell you, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black.
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What he's saying is actually a little bit more radical, even than what some people are suggesting.
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He's not saying that if you're a Republican and you're black, then you ain't black.
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He's not saying that if you're not going to vote for me, then you ain't black.
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What he's saying is if you even have the slightest question as to whether or not you're going to vote for me, if it even enters into your mind that it would be possible to vote for a Republican, then you ain't black.
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In order to be authentically black, according to Joe Biden, you have to be unconsciously Democratic, unconsciously left wing.
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The craziest image of all, the most absurd image of all is that Joe Biden, one of the whitest people that has ever walked the face of the earth, is now telling someone like Kanye West that he is not black.
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Telling someone like Tim Scott that he is not black.
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Telling someone like Alan West that he's not black.
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The left immediately started making excuses for him.
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Imagine what the headlines would look like if a Republican had made a similar statement.
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This is like David Duke is running for president.
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But because it was Joe Biden, he was a Democrat.
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What Biden said was outrageous, but some say so was the reaction.
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Is some is some the nickname of John Blake, CNN writer?
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It's that that seems to me very likely or not even John Blake, the writer, but whoever the editor is that wrote that headline.
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This is something that the left always does when they get a bad series of headlines and they want to counter that narrative.
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And then the some who say it are always just the left wing journalists who are writing writing the headlines.
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Do Joe Biden's you ain't black comments ultimately matter?
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If Joe were a Republican, they would matter a whole lot.
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The Vox, the Vox headline is what you would always see from the Clintons, which is that the Clintons would have some scandal and then they would just immediately tamp it down.
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The organization move on.org, the very prominent left wing organization, was founded to to get the Clintons through the impeachment.
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And then my favorite one came from the most ridiculous of all of those newspapers.
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This headline on an article by Jonathan Capehart.
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Biden's you ain't black comment was clearly a joke.
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I saw some people on social media try to say this, that Joe Biden was joking.
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And so, therefore, it's not an offensive comment.
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Look, I'm, I'm perfectly willing to give people grace if they're telling jokes.
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What is the joke that black people have to vote for Democrats?
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Is that, I guess that's the, that's what he's saying.
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The joke is black people can't think for themselves.
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The joke is black people need to vote the way that this white man tells them to vote.
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So I, if that's the joke, I get the joke, but that's what is offensive.
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I mean, a joke requires a setup and a punchline.
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Joe Biden's point was, was pretty blunt, which is that if you are black, you must vote for Democrats.
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And if you don't vote for a Democrat, you lose your blackness.
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That, then this is the kind of ideological point that they come to.
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Somehow there is a difference between being racially black and being politically black.
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And the one that actually matters more is whether you are politically black, regardless of your skin color.
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This is the precise point that was made by a New York Times writer, not just any New York Times writer, a woman who just won the Pulitzer Prize for that 1619 project, that completely anti-historical trash that the New York Times is using to try to rewrite American history.
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And she said, basically, just what I just said.
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She said, quote, there is a difference between being politically black and being racially black.
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I am not defending anyone, but we all know this and should stop pretending that we don't.
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So she is defending him, and it is a repulsive comment, what she's saying.
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This is, you know, I tried, I tried not to be too ideological on this show.
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I have a point of view, I have a vision of the world, but I try not to be ideological.
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What ideologues do is they prioritize their ideas over reality.
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So when reality comes to contradict their ideas, they don't deny their ideas, they deny the reality.
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This is something you would hear as a kind of joke about ideologues.
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They'll say, who cares if it works in practice?
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It's all about prioritizing ideas over reality.
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When the two conflict, they go with their own theories.
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And this is where we see identity politics really delve into the realm of the absurd.
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The idea here is that if you are, say, Tim Scott, right, a Republican black senator, you are not really black.
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If you're Clarence Thomas, right, you're a conservative black jurist, you're not really black.
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I mean, sure, your skin is black, but blackness is something deeper than skin color.
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It is, according to the left, a political ideology.
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And so Bill Clinton, right, very much a white guy, is the first black president in certain colloquial understandings.
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I once read, kid you not, I read a gender studies paper, a published academic gender studies paper that denied that Sarah Palin is a woman because of her ideology, because her ideology is conservative.
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Or her, I guess her philosophy is conservative, or her lack of ideology is her ideology, right?
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He's a homosexual, but he's not really a homosexual.
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You see, according to the left, he can't possibly really be a homosexual because he is more conservative.
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So leftist men can attack Phyllis Schlafly, right?
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It's actually feminist to physically attack those women because they're not really women.
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And if you attack them, then you're actually the real feminist.
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And Kanye isn't really black, according to this ridiculous idea.
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So, I don't know if you remember Sheila Jackson Lee.
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I don't believe anyone who saw that exchange would in any way suggest that anyone is blacker, blackest, or less black.
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That exchange was in jest, but on second thoughts, it could have been spoken differently.
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But I think African Americans are truly one of the most astute political groups in this nation.
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And as relates to the generational divide, if you will, or the unity of such, those who are millennials are clearly astute.
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And what I would say to you is that that was not what the vice president said in terms of those words.
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What I would say to you is that is not what the vice president said using those words.
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What I would say to you is the words that you heard Joe Biden say, those are not the words that he actually said.
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I'm pretty sure we have the video and you can replay it.
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She ends this really rambling, incoherent, non-argument at the very end with the point that she made at the beginning, which is don't believe your lion ears.
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She opens up, she goes, I don't think anybody was talking about how someone is more black or less black or not black.
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That's exactly what they were, that's exactly what Joe Biden was talking about and what he said.
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And we have the tape and he used those exact words.
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But her strategy, probably a smart strategy here, is just deny it, then say a bunch of words that don't have any meaning next to one another, and then move on.
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All right, that's the, that's the Vox.com strategy.
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You know, the, the line itself only occurred to Joe Biden because black Americans vote overwhelmingly for Democrats.
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So it's a sort of polite joke among the left, right?
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If you don't vote for Democrats, you're not really black.
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It has forged this reliable political voting block.
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It's not as though black people always voted for Democrats, not as though they always voted for Republicans before that.
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There was a time at which the black vote was, was a little more divvied up.
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Now it's pretty solidly Democratic because identity politics is pretty strong.
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If you're told what Joe Biden is telling them, which is that not only will you lose a policy or two if you don't vote with me, but you will lose your very identity.
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Then that's a pretty strong motivator to vote a certain way.
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And this comes alongside a long history of Joe Biden's stupid and offensive comments on race.
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He had not actually marched during the civil rights movement.
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I was one of those guys that sat in and marched and all that stuff.
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Now his aides went back to say, look, he was in office marching for the idea.
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Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.
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Oh, that's one of all of the Biden comments on this.
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I think the one that hits you the most is, hey, look, black kids are poor kids are just as talented as white kids.
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What does the word racist mean after the left has used it as just a synonym for people who disagree with us?
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Does Joe Biden make offensive comments about black people?
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He regularly makes offensive comments about black people.
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He said, oh, the first articulate, clean, good looking black candidate.
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You know, he makes these offensive comments a lot.
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Does Joe Biden take the black vote for granted?
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I'll leave you to decide because the word has become very ambiguous.
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Well, the left has spent the last eternity smearing everybody to the right of Hillary Clinton as a bigot.
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OK, and so I'm less interested in the Joe Biden story per se.
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I'm more interested in how we react to it, because the minute that the right does anything even close to the same,
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accuses our opponents of some kind of bigotry with a lot more evidence, by the way.
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Only the left is allowed to do that, not the right.
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Time and time again, the left is allowed to fight with every single available tactic.
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And the right is supposed to tie one hand behind our back at least.
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So now Donald Trump is just coming out swinging.
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He's encouraging claims that people are racists, rapists and even murderers.
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There was a big attack that Trump leveled over the weekend.
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I think it's not necessarily in the totally right direction, but it's pretty funny because it's going to make Joe Biden sweat.
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So I think the right should take the gloves off here, absolutely.
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But we've got to be careful not to make unforced errors and hurt ourselves.
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President Trump leveled this attack at Joe Biden over the weekend.
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Mass incarceration has put hundreds of thousands behind bars for minor offenses.
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Every major crime bill that's come out of this Congress has had the name Joe Biden on that bill.
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We do everything but hang people for jaywalking in this bill.
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Joe Biden's policies destroyed millions of black lives.
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So conservatives are against putting criminals in jail now?
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Even down to the very last part where the ad says Joe Biden may not remember, but we do because Joe Biden doesn't remember what he had for breakfast this morning.
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But the point of the ad, do we agree with that now?
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We, it's very conservative now to not throw criminals in prison.
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I, I think actually we should put more criminals in prison.
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I think we have too many criminals on the street and that's what most conservatives thought until it was politically convenient to attack Joe Biden.
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Not, not a great way to attack him, I don't think.
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I understand there are tactical considerations here, but I think it's going to hurt us in the long term.
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Okay, we, we got to be careful not to, when we're leveling these attacks and taking the gloves off, let them come back and swing around and hit us again.
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We got to make sure that these attacks are clean and they don't back us into a corner.
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The left is really good at not necessarily taking a stand.
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What the left does is it just criticizes, right?
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You always hear these kind of terms in the left wing academy.
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You just attack your opponent without taking a stand yourself.
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What I don't like about this ad is it backs us into this corner of saying we basically want to spring criminals from the clink.
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I don't want to spring criminals from the clink.
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I want to attack Joe Biden, but I don't want to put myself in a corner where I have to defend something that I, I can't defend.
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A good example of a, of a solid, wild, crazy attack with the gloves off that doesn't back you into a corner is actually another one that Trump lodged over the weekend.
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And it was against Joe Scarborough over at MSNBC.
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President Trump tweets out this comment about Joe Scarborough.
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This was in response to a tweet that said Trump calls for investigation into Joe Scarborough for the murder of a staffer in 2001.
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Trump tweets out, quote, a blow to her head, body found under his desk, left Congress suddenly, big topic of discussion in Florida.
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You madman, you are accusing your political opponent of murder, but it's a pretty clean attack.
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Actually, I'm not, I'm not saying I'm, I'm defending the attack per se, but I'm defending the tactic here because Joe Scarborough every day goes out on television, even to the three people who watch it and accuses Trump of all sorts of crazy things.
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And so now Trump is swinging back and saying, oh yeah, there's a lot of open questions about how you maybe murdered that staffer.
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I'm not saying that there's evidence that he murdered the staffer.
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This is five months into Joe Scarborough's fourth term in Congress.
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He announces all of a sudden that he's going to resign and he says that he wants to spend more time with his kids.
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You hear this a lot from politicians who are in scandals because if he wanted to spend more time with his kids, presumably he would have thought about that five months earlier.
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Then a couple months later, July 20th, 2001, one of Joe Scarborough's aides, Lori Klausutis, was found dead from a head injury in Joe Scarborough's office in Fort Walden Beach, Florida.
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Then, this is according to Joe Scarborough at the time, allegations spread all over the internet that he was involved, even though it looked as though it was an accident.
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There is no evidence that Joe Scarborough murdered his staffer.
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There were rumors at the time that they were having an affair, all sorts of stuff.
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I mean, this is according to Joe Scarborough himself.
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And Joe Scarborough even joked about this on another MSNBC show hosted by the shock jock, Don Imus.
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You know, occasionally we're going to try to help you.
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I mean, don't be afraid to be funny because you are funny.
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That was a, you know, I asked you why you weren't in Congress.
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You said you'd have sex with the intern, then you had to kill her.
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I mean, I actually like Keith Olbermann and I like Matthews.
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And the guys at NBC and women at NBC, it looks like they're going to stick with us.
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Do I think Joe, Joe Scarborough murdered his staffer?
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I think, I think the idea that Joe Scarborough murdered his staffer is at least as plausible
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as the idea that Donald Trump has secretly been a sleeper cell Manchurian candidate for
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Moscow all along, all these last 40, 50 years that we've known who he is.
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I think that the idea that Joe Scarborough is a murderer is at least as plausible as the
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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And if the left is going to reshape our politics to now primarily base itself on insane, ridiculous,
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preposterous, radical personal accusations against people, then, you know, I guess it
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sure would be a shame if some of those accusations flew back on the left, wouldn't it?
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I mean, what Trump is doing here, even though he's talking about a very serious issue, is
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actually engaging in a little bit of levity in politics, right?
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Because the left is saying with a straight face, he's a Manchurian candidate for Moscow.
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And what Donald Trump does is he goes, he goes, oh yeah.
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Hey, you guys think Joe Scarborough is a murderer?
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He's actually sort of telling a kind of political joke.
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And then the joke is getting these self-serious leftists to go even more apoplectic.
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I think that levity is okay in a time where people are way too self-serious in politics
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and where one side gets to level outrageous accusations, but then the minute the other
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side does anything even remotely resembling that, it's a national disgrace.
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And I also think that there is nothing virtuous about one side of the political aisle completely
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I don't think there's anything virtuous about the left being able to use a whole host of
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tactics and the right having to tie their hands behind their backs.
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And I, in particular, don't think that's virtuous because the left is not virtuous.
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It is vice mobilized in politics and the right, for all its many flaws, is actually attempting
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Ilhan Omar, part of the squad, you know, radical leftist freshman congresswoman.
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Ilhan Omar actually acknowledged that she believes the woman accusing Joe Biden of rape.
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Some people believe the allegations, including Ilhan Omar, who told the Sunday Times of London,
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Justice can be delayed, but should never be denied.
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She said, believing survivors is consistent with my values.
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Yes, I endorsed against Biden, and I didn't pick him as our nominee.
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With that said, in this interview I did on May 6th, we talked about that, and quotes aren't
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I think Joe Biden sexually assaulted that woman, and I will vote for him.
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That's the level of partisan commitment we're talking about.
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That's what Joe Biden's talking about when he says, if you are even slightly questioning
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whether you're going to vote for me, you're not black.
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So, there was a crazy, crazy story over the weekend, and it tied in with this kind of consent
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You've got a woman who is, who is on Joe Biden's staff, who is certainly much more credibly
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accusing Joe Biden than anybody accused Brett Kavanaugh.
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And you've got some people like Ilhan Omar saying, yeah, I believe her, but I don't care.
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This was a piece in the Associated Press trying to figure out how do we, how do we finesse
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How do we say, yeah, we believe her because we have to believe all women because that
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was the position we backed ourselves into, but also we want to keep voting for Joe Biden.
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The way they're going to do that, it's actually pretty brilliant, is now being shown on the
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What they're going to do now is imply that this woman is a victim, imply that she's a
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little bit crazy, and then conclude that she's not a victim of Joe Biden, but she's still a
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victim so we can feel sorry for her and take her seriously.
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They say, quote, Biden accusers life marred by abuse and financial hardship.
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One thing is clear in the complicated, sometimes contradictory and often chaotic story of Tara
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And then right in the middle, sometimes contradictory.
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They don't believe her, but they want you to know that they take her really seriously,
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even though her central claim, they don't believe because it's contradictory.
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They don't like her, but her life's not been easy.
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Her earliest childhood memory was of being abused by her father.
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Later, she told her former husband, a man she would later leave after saying he abused
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So she got this abuse, but now we're seeing a pattern, right?
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She was also a child of big dreams of being an Olympic skier and studying acting at Juilliard
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She was hired in 1992 for a low-level staff job for one of the nation's highest profile senators
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Less than a year later, Reed said, she was again the victim of abuse, assaulted by Biden in the
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hallway of a Senate office building, an allegation he vehemently denies.
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Story is not, what the story is suggesting is she's crazy, but she's had a tough life.
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And then finally at the end, inconsistencies in her accounts have also complicated matters.
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Defense attorneys are now reviewing whether she may have testified falsely about her education
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credentials in multiple domestic violence cases, the Monterey County Weekly and the New
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There are many fewer inconsistencies in Tara Reade's account than there were in Christine
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Christine Blasey Ford couldn't help but contradict herself.
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She contradicted herself on when the alleged assault by Brett Kavanaugh happened, where it
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happened, who was at the party where it happened.
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She contradicted herself about why she installed a door in her home, which she said was related
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to the alleged assault, though there was no evidence that that ever happened.
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She contradicted herself about her fear of flying.
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We don't even know if this woman met Brett Kavanaugh.
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And yet you never saw any articles about the inconsistencies in her story.
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You're hearing them now about Tara Reade because they, they don't want to deal with this issue.
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And this, this does tie into, in a way, an unrelated story, but the underlying sexual
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This story out of a local news channel, a girl's being interviewed about coronavirus and
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why she doesn't wear a mask when she's out at the park.
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And then out of the blue, some guy walks up and kisses her and the guy finishes kissing
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You know, she's, she's like really enjoyed this kiss and it's a funny little news story
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I feel as if masks are not a hundred percent important.
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A spontaneous kiss from someone that she doesn't know.
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Having met just minutes earlier, Jillian McAllen says she's okay with the kiss.
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We asked Jack Ring, the man who initiated the kiss, if he's aware of all the risks of kissing
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Do you worry about possibly either of you having that, contracting, passing it, anything?
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Oh, not, not if you just had it right now, but yeah, I probably do right now, but I think
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What a great, amid all this stupid political news, what a great story, which is, I guess
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these two had met when they were walking their dogs, probably flirted a little bit.
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Then she's being interviewed on camera and this guy thinks it would be kind of funny and
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flirtatious to walk up and while she's on camera, give her a kiss.
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And then it's this great moment when he pulls away, she looks like she is just floating
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She said, a woman needs a man like a fish needs a, and then just that clip, right?
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That's the, that's the old line from the feminists in Gloria Steinem.
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And then you fast, fast forward to this and this woman's like gaga over this guy kissing
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Do you know that we now live in such a clinical, sterile, humorless culture that the news channel
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that aired that segment, a segment that was so charming, I thought it was fake and staged.
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They ended up having to apologize because according to this news channel, what they just aired was
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A follow-up on a story that aired last night on CTV News at 1130.
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In a story on social distancing, we included an interview with a woman in a park.
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During the interview, a stranger came up to the woman and kissed her directly on the lips.
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Our story then focused on the dangers of kissing a stranger on the lips during a pandemic.
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The video demonstrated non-consensual behavior and downplayed the fact that what occurred was
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It does not meet CTV News editorial standards, and we apologize.
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This is exactly what we were talking about at the top of the show.
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This is, this is exactly what we're talking about on the racist, rapist, all the kind of hysterical claims.
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They have their ideas, and then there's reality.
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And when their ideas contradict reality, the ideas have to win.
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that guy raped that girl, the guy who kissed the girl on camera, he raped her?
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It ties in, you know, there's a statistic that goes around college campuses that one in five,
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or even one in four, some say, women, are raped on college campus.
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Meaning that Harvard Yard is more dangerous for women than downtown Fallujah, right?
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One of the places that that number comes from is a survey that was sent out.
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It was conducted by activist feminists to get, ascertain what happened in people's sexual lives
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and concluded that one in five or one in four women on college campuses have been raped.
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Even though the women themselves did not think that they were raped.
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So the women who this actually happened to disputed the ideologues interpretation of their situation.
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If Joe Biden actually did what he's being accused of, I'm not saying he is.
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But Ilhan Omar says she does believe this woman.
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And what this woman said is that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her.
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Even according to that description, Joe Biden can't really be a rapist.
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And therefore, Ilhan Omar could endorse him for president because Joe Biden is a Democrat.
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And look, Democrats just don't do that sort of thing.
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Left-wingers, look, that's the sort of thing that milquetoast federal judges like Brett Kavanaugh do.
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Did he make a racist comment on that show where he said, if you don't know if you're going to vote for me, then you ain't black?
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I guess, but, you know, certainly by the left standards, that would be considered racist.
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But it can't be racist if Joe Biden does it because he's a Democrat.
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If you're a black person and you vote for Donald Trump, are you still a black person?
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But not according to the ideology and for the left, when the ideology and the reality come into conflict, the ideology's got to win.
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I mean, consider, consider that famous photograph from World War II, you know, at VJ Day, Victory Over Japan Day, when the sailor comes back and they're in Times Square and he dips that nurse and they're kissing.
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This is saying, this is one of the classic photographs ever taken.
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And for at least 60 years after, probably 65 years after that photo was taken, it was considered this wonderful moment of relief, of love, of victory, right?
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But then, starting about 10 years ago, people started to reinterpret that image and say that was an image of rape, of sexual assault.
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Seriously, that's how this is discussed among the left.
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Would anybody look at the image of the sailor kissing the nurse and say that's rape?
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And so they have to deny the physical reality and go with the ideology.
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You see this not just in the realm of our sex politics.
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You see this even when it comes to something like coronavirus.
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New York Times publishes a incredibly demagogic, emotionally manipulative piece over the weekend.
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It's, it's, I mean, I guess it's a technically a news story.
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It's signed by the New York Times called An Incalculable Loss, talking about the victims of coronavirus.
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America is fast approaching a grim milestone in the coronavirus outbreak.
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Each figure here represents one of the nearly 100,000 lives lost so far, but a count only reveals so much.
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Memories gathered from obituaries across the country help us to reckon with what was lost.
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So just from the very beginning, the headline is not true, right?
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Because what the headline is saying is that the loss is incalculable, and then they immediately give you the calculation.
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They say it's about 100,000 people, and then they list all of these people in the article.
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Now, I guess the point they would say is, well, you can't possibly calculate the value of a human life.
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Yeah, of course, that's, I, I certainly agree with that.
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But then, then no calculation involving anything in the social sciences is possibly useful, right?
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Because, I guess the only calculations that you could then really calculate would be purely abstract ones like mathematics.
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But, the minute you bring a human being into it, then it's incalculable, according to the New York Times.
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Or, it's calculable, and they're just being demagogues.
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Sure, you could say, there's no way to quantify a human life.
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We still have death statistics, crime statistics, health statistics.
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But they're trying to prime you up for this emotional manipulation.
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So they'll say, auditor in Silicon Valley, Patricia Dowd, 57.
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You're just talking about people who, who died.
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Jordan Driver Haynes, 27 of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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Not a lot of 27-year-olds die from coronavirus.
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But now, in our kind of quirky calculations of this virus, where the numbers keep changing.
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Sometimes the criteria get a little bit different.
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Sometimes thousands of people who weren't even tested for the virus are just added to
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Number six on the New York Times emotional manipulation list was just murdered.
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An autopsy has ruled the death of Jordan Haynes, a homicide.
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His body was found in a vehicle in a wooded area off of I-380 on March 12.
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Details regarding the homicide aren't being released.
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The journalist who, I don't know who put this one together because it's just signed by the New York Times.
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And they just Googled COVID-19, coronavirus or something like that.
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And then because in this guy's obituary, it said that his funeral services were delayed because of COVID-19.
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I mean, in one day in New York, they added, I think, 3,700 people to the death count who never tested positive for coronavirus.
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But the people who added their names to the list don't know either.
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We were told, according to the main model that shut down the entire world, that 2.4 million Americans were going to die from coronavirus.
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But it wasn't like it was 2.4, then it was 2 million or 1.5 million or 1 million or 500,000.
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I think now we're at about, as the New York Times says, about 100,000 deaths.
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So even if it's 200,000 deaths, even if it's twice as much as we see now, which seems unlikely,
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that's still, that's an over an order of magnitude less than they initially told us.
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They've got to craft the narrative, even when it contradicts the facts.
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And they will do this on any issue, from race to rape to murder to pandemics to anything.
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That is an irrational way to conduct your politics.
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The solution to that is not going to be giving the slightly more honed in arguments.
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Oh, if we just improve our argument by 2%, then finally we'll, we'll win back the culture.
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No, we're fighting a much more difficult adversary.
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We've got to use all the tools at our disposal.
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We've just got to make sure that we don't back ourselves into a corner, even while we
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A lot, big lesson of the Trump era is to free ourselves up, use the tactics at our disposal.
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But if the only way that we're possibly going to win is if we untether ourselves and start
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to engage with the reality of the political situation.
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Because if we don't, if we continue to live in this abstract idea that we have of politics
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as it really is not, then frankly, we're doing exactly the same thing that the left does.
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