Nothing resembling the old-school liberal is left. Even basic values that we all used to agree with, that we hold to be unalienable truths, are under attack by the hard left. How much time do we have to save the edifice?
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00:00:37.740The nearest thing that the New York Times had to a writer hired to be a sort of kind of centrist, conservative liberal after the 2016 election,
00:00:48.440after the New York Times completely botched it, has resigned from the New York Times.
00:00:54.780But a letter from Barry Weiss, Barry Weiss writes,
00:00:58.720It is with sadness that I write to tell you I am resigning from the New York Times.
00:01:02.500The paper's failure to anticipate the outcome of the 2016 election meant that it didn't have a firm grasp of the country that it covers.
00:01:10.260So she details why and how she was hired.
00:01:14.780I'm going to skip around a little bit to just the juiciest lines.
00:01:17.960A new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper.
00:01:23.020The truth isn't a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.
00:02:54.820Nothing resembling the old school liberals is left.
00:02:59.100When I say the old school liberals, I'm talking about, you know, we call them the classical liberals or the libertarians, but I'm even talking about the old school progressive liberals.
00:03:07.500People like Barry Weiss at the New York Times, which was a liberal paper.
00:03:11.980We always knew it was a liberal paper.
00:03:13.740I never liked the New York Times, but at least the New York Times would occasionally listen to ideas that it didn't agree with.
00:03:20.740Occasionally, the New York Times would try to understand why it got things wrong.
00:03:28.280And now, when you hold those liberal ideas, those more old school progressive ideas, there's only one place for you to go, and that is to the right.
00:03:40.560There was a letter from, it's now called The Letter, from Harper's, where a bunch of old school liberals said, we've got to defend our liberal values.
00:03:47.280They want to have this middle ground between the right wing, the traditionalists, the populists, the Trump people, and the hard left.
00:04:01.260Even basic values that we all used to agree with, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
00:04:10.880That was as near to an unassailable truth within the American regime as we had, even that completely under attack.
00:04:18.760And it's not under attack, by the way, by the white supremacist, neo-Nazi Ku Klux Klan, of whom there are, what, seven people left in the country?
00:05:39.980Then when we talk about the power of melanated people, when we talk about who we really are as guys and understanding that our melanin is so power and it connects us in a way that the reason why they fear black, the reason why they fear is because they the lack that they have of it.
00:05:54.260So then when you see what, you know, Dr. Francis C.
00:05:58.040Wesleyan talked about is that fear in that that that genetic annihilation efficiency of when you have a person that has has the lack of pigment, the lack of melanin.
00:06:54.540He espouses horrifically heretical views on religion and his religion is grounded primarily in race.
00:07:03.320We've heard this kind of thing before.
00:07:04.540You remember when Nicholas Sandman, that Covington kid who was going down to the pro-life rally with his Catholic high school and he was just standing on the National Mall, minding his own business.
00:07:15.160He had a hat that said, Make America Great Again hat that is promoted by the president of the United States.
00:07:19.800And this group of kids was heckled by a group of black supremacists called the Hebrew Israelites.
00:07:25.180And they were screaming all sorts of terrible things at him.
00:07:27.360And then that crazy Native American dude walked up to him, started banging a drum in his face.
00:07:31.320The kid behaved very well and was destroyed in the press and by the press and he's won a lot of judgments against them.
00:07:38.940We've heard this sort of thing before from people we would call cultural Marxists in the academy.
00:07:45.880There was one, Professor Jeffries, this was decades ago, who had a theory of the sun people and the ice people.
00:07:53.360The sun people were black people who got, you know, all the nice warm rays of the sun and the ice people.
00:07:58.760Those were white people. They were less than, as Nick Cannon is saying.
00:08:03.540Now, I, being Sicilian, I think I get a nice little middle ground here, a little more melaninated.
00:08:08.920But this is a patently absurd theory, isn't it?
00:08:13.220And it's merely used, you know, without any basis in science or history.
00:08:18.280It is used as a way to put down a group of people on the basis of their race.
00:08:23.480We always hear about people being put down on the basis of their race if they are people of color.
00:08:27.340But what Nick Cannon is doing is putting down white people on the basis of their race.
00:08:30.660He's saying they're less than, they don't have a soul.
00:22:53.660If, if the criminal justice system were just about rehabilitation, then there's no reason to require that someone commit a crime to get into the system.
00:23:01.160We could all use a little rehabilitation.
00:23:02.880We've all got really nasty habits that we could have fixed.
00:23:05.500If the purpose were merely deterrent, same thing.
00:23:08.020You wouldn't necessarily need to commit a crime to do it.
00:23:10.420As long as we make an example of somebody, that could have a deterrent effect.
00:23:14.780The, the reason that it's the criminal justice system is you need to commit a crime to do it.
00:23:28.160Even beyond the idea that we kill a million innocent babies a year, but we, we ring our, you know, we clutch our pearls and we rend our garments when we kill one torturing psychopath murderer who kills an eight-year-old.
00:23:43.900We've just had this whole Black Lives Matter movement.
00:23:46.300We've just had this whole, remember that we're setting the cities on fire and tearing down statues and it's the most important protest in the country.
00:23:53.920And yet when innocent Black Lives are killed, BLM is nowhere to be found.
00:24:00.180And yet those same radical leftists who support organizations like BLM cry over these crazy white supremacists, ironically.
00:24:16.120If you walk up to somebody who is on their own property and you wave a gun in their face and you threaten them and you say, I'm coming for you, I'm going to get you.
00:24:27.280You're a peaceful protester as long as you have the right politics.
00:24:29.700But if you are the property owner whose life and whose family's life and whose property is being threatened and you take out a gun and you say, I'm going to use this if you try to get me, that could be a crime.
00:24:41.720The McCloskeys, I spoke to Mark McCloskey, we played part of that interview yesterday.
00:24:45.840The McCloskeys is the guy in the pink polo shirt and the white chinos who defended their lives and property in St. Louis.
00:25:00.400It seems like only a matter of time and everyone is cheering this on.
00:25:03.940Fortunately, the president of the United States can see through this absurdity, can see this injustice.
00:25:09.960He just came out and defended the McCloskeys.
00:25:12.400And when you look at St. Louis with two people that came out, they were going to be beat up badly if they were lucky.
00:25:19.380Okay, if they were lucky, they were going to be beat up badly and the house was going to be totally ransacked and probably burned down like they tried to burn down churches.
00:25:27.640And these people were standing there, never used it, and they were legal, the weapons.
00:25:32.440And now I understand somebody local, they want to prosecute these people.
00:26:00.800We talked yesterday on the show about how these seemingly trivial issues, oh, this little family in St. Louis, oh, this statue of George Washington or Christopher Columbus, who cares?
00:26:18.760And what President Trump realizes is what the character of the Queen's private secretary understands in The Crown, the TV show, which is that it's in the small things that the rot begins.
00:26:30.820It's in these seemingly trivial cultural matters, little story about a family in St. Louis, that the rot begins.
00:26:40.220And President Trump has a laser focus on that sort of stuff.
00:26:44.920And yet at the same time, as he's talking about that, the Trump administration is reversing course on what I thought was a tremendously popular policy.
00:26:54.920It was a way to pressure schools as we're trying to get the schools to reopen, which they absolutely should.
00:27:00.960The only reason the schools are going to remain shut down is for political purposes, to make it easier for Joe Biden to hide out in his basement for the next three months and then hopefully get elected president without having to put his foot in his mouth every single day on the campaign trail.
00:27:14.260That's what the Democrats are thinking.
00:27:15.820So the Trump administration trying to pressure schools, one way they were doing that is they were saying, okay, if you're here on a student visa, you're here to study at an American university, but now that university campus won't open up and you're going to do online learning, you have to go back to your country.
00:27:42.120However, the reason that they are here in the United States is to study.
00:27:46.280If they can do it online, if the left wants to push that ridiculous policy for its own political reasons, by the way, that's fine, but they have to deal with the consequences of that then.
00:27:55.860And the consequences of that are that these students that they love welcoming into the country have to go home because there's no reason for them to be in the United States.
00:28:02.600Now, if those students want to come into the United States by another means, they want to get a work visa or however else they can get here, they're free to do that.
00:28:11.560They can apply for that kind of visa, but you don't get to have your cake and eat it too.
00:28:15.300You don't get all the benefits without any of the costs that are being pushed because the left has an agenda come November.
00:28:23.040So, unfortunately, the Trump administration has backed off of this.
00:28:26.920They've withdrawn this proposed rule that would have forced the foreign students to go back home if their colleges weren't opening in the fall.
00:28:33.920I don't know who's advising Trump on this, but it's bad stuff.
00:28:40.680You can see this happening, this tug of war going on in the administration.
00:28:44.380I don't talk to that many people in the administration, so it's not like I'm telling you tales at a school here from gossip that somebody called me about.
00:28:53.400But you can just see it play out in real time because there will be an official statement from the White House on one thing, and then President Trump will undercut it in a tweet.
00:29:01.300He'll usually give the more correct view in the tweet, usually, not all the time, but more times than not.
00:29:12.160He should listen to the conservatives in the administration.
00:29:14.380Whoever is going weak, whoever is going squishy as we're getting closer to November is not giving him good advice.
00:29:21.880But it's so interesting what he'll defend, what he won't defend when it's him or when the policy has been formed by some committee of squishes who were born and bred and raised in the swampland of Washington, D.C.
00:29:33.980Because President Trump recognizes, even on issues that people, no one really wants to defend, how important the symbolism in the culture is, even on an issue so unpopular as the Confederate flag.
00:30:11.020That's the most important thing to do, so thank you very much.
00:30:14.100I very much intend to bug Drew about that.
00:30:18.180Be sure also to check out the exclusive content that we've posted on that YouTube channel with guys such as Mark McCloskey and recently Donald Trump Jr.
00:30:26.360Also, Ben Shapiro, our very own, has a new book.
00:30:30.960It's called How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:30:33.620When he wrote this book, he foresaw what is happening right now.
00:32:34.880This guy has been in the public eye since the late 1970s.
00:32:38.740He was at the top of network reality TV for 15 years.
00:32:43.060The guy knows how to communicate a message in public.
00:32:45.380I know that everyone, every armchair critic in America now thinks that they're a much better rhetorician and orator than Donald Trump, but they're not.
00:32:54.440The guy actually does know how to communicate, and he realizes that race is this incredibly touchy, divisive issue.
00:33:03.280There is great power to melanin, to quote Nick Cannon.
00:33:07.720He's right, there is a lot of, there's great power of melanin here because the left knows that if they can in any way tie in any piece of our history,
00:33:17.440any piece of our culture, with the issue of race and smear it with the idea of racism, then they can get rid of it.
00:33:26.220They'll begin with the Confederate flag because few people want to defend the Confederacy.
00:33:30.540My family, George Cobb Knowles, died at the Battle of Boynton Plank Road fighting for the Union.
00:36:05.960Could you imagine if a presidential candidate lost the race fair and square and then pretended that it was illegitimate for now going on four years?
00:36:13.920And if her supporters in the administrative government decided to launch completely fraudulent investigations of that winner of the election and spy on that winner of the election and totally hamper that winner's presidency and tried.
00:37:05.060He won't sell out to the radical left.
00:37:07.180Well, some of the most prominent radical leftist activists in the country seem to think that Joe Biden can absolutely be manipulated.
00:37:16.440I'm thinking of Angela Davis, an out and out avowed communist who exploits the issue of race, the power of melanin, to quote Nick Cannon, to push an explicitly communist agenda.
00:37:31.160She thinks Biden is easily manipulated.
00:37:33.820I don't see this election as being about choosing a candidate who will be, who will be able to lead us in the right direction.
00:37:42.780It will be about choosing a candidate who can be most effectively pressured into allowing more space for the evolving anti-racist movement.
00:37:56.820Biden is far more likely to take mass demands seriously.
00:38:04.300He's, he's much more likely to do that.
00:38:07.340So you've got to vote for Joe Biden because he's a doddering old man who is politically relatively weak and who is going to listen to what the radicals want.
00:38:15.640And if you doubt Angela Davis, because I generally doubt the things that communists tell me, though she has been prominent for many years, take it from Biden himself, who just recently quoted Chairman Mao.
00:38:28.320One of the most blood-soaked communist dictators in history, Biden quoted Mao.
00:38:35.000He thought he was quoting, quote, an old Chinese proverb.
00:38:53.800Mao Zedong said this because he wanted to make the argument that women were an important labor resource and women needed to leave the home and shouldn't be homemakers anymore.
00:39:03.800And should go out and work in the fields and work in industry and advance the cultural leftist revolution.
00:39:11.260So you've got the guy already now promoting the explicit sayings of communist dictators.
00:39:21.660Even Joe Biden, who is probably the most moderate guy left in his party, really is just an empty suit who licks his finger, puts it up in the air and figures out which way the wind blows.
00:39:30.420Joe Biden now is ceding all that ground to the radical left.
00:39:36.260And they're going to, they're going to continue to exploit it time and time again as we get closer to November.
00:39:42.280And they'll use that fault line, that power of melanin, that weak spot on race.
00:39:46.960But this is all about a radical ideology.
00:39:49.480And, and when their efforts fail, when they fade away, when the race riots ebb and the people stop caring about the lockdowns that are going to kill 2 million or 10 million people and the predictions don't, don't come true, they'll find some other crazy way to distract you.
00:40:07.440So much of this seems to be about distractions.
00:40:09.320Distractions, Burger King, Burger King is the latest company to get really woke.
00:40:14.280Their new ad campaign is not about how delicious their hamburgers are.
00:40:18.500The bigger the burger, the better the burger, the burger is bigger at Burger King.
00:40:21.140No, they're, they now, the woke culture has gotten so extreme, so absurd that their ad campaign is about how they are as a corporation reducing bovine flatulence in the atmosphere.
00:40:35.300When cows fart and burp and splatter, well an ain't no laughing matter, they're releasing methane every time they do.
00:40:46.360And that methane from the rear goes up to the atmosphere and pollutes our planet warming me and you.
00:40:55.820Guess I'm nothing that the past is a greenhouse gas that'll trap the sun's heat and change our climate too.
00:41:07.180Gee, is it hot in here or is it just me?
00:41:10.380So to change our emissions, Burger King went on a mission.
00:41:15.660Testing diets that would help reduce their farts.
00:41:45.560And by the way, presumably, they're talking about this new grass that they have that's going to reduce the amount of times that cows do that.
00:41:50.700Presumably then, that, that, that air is going to be trapped inside the cows and it's going to end up in our hamburgers, which is even more disgusting.
00:42:09.840I mean, this, this was the, this was the promise of the rise of identity politics that now we're all so obsessed with was that when you're, when you have a separation between the public and the private, the personal and the political that we require in a democratic republic, then the conservatives are going to win because we can have reasoned debate.
00:42:28.560But when you have identity politics, when you just talk, when you talk about the sun people and the ice people, and you talk about how those people are less than, they're savage, they're, they're like animals and we're like, we're civilized humans and that's it based on our race.
00:42:42.480When, when you have that, then you're, you, you're a much more reliable voting block.
00:42:46.420The personal is, everything's got to become political now, including cheap hamburgers.
00:42:51.020When I think of bovine flatulence, it occurs to me, maybe I've been wrong about this whole mask thing.
00:42:55.620Maybe I've got to start wearing face coverings.
00:42:57.040That is, by the way, the guidance now from the CDC, CDC director, Dr. Robert Redfield, insisting that people wear their face masks.
00:43:10.420It's our major defense to prevent ourselves from getting this infection.
00:43:14.160If all of us would put on a face covering now for the next four weeks to six weeks, I think we could drive this epidemic to the ground in the country.