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00:02:10.000That means that Republicans are not gonna turn out in quite as great numbers as they turned out in 2016, and Democrats are gonna turn out maybe in greater numbers than they turned out in 2016.
00:02:23.000And his closing argument is going to be the same as his argument was in 2016, and that is immigration and Democrats not taking the safety of the country seriously enough.
00:02:30.000Now, there are a lot of folks on the left who are saying, well, why doesn't the president of the United States just focus on the economy?
00:02:35.000Why doesn't he just point out that the economy is great?
00:02:38.000And if you want the economy to keep being great, then you ought to vote for his party.
00:02:41.000And the answer is because the dirty little secret of American politics is that people don't actually vote based on the economy unless there is a massive catastrophic downturn.
00:02:51.000Who they actually think is a good person.
00:02:53.000What policies they like in terms of safety and security.
00:02:58.000Economy, like healthcare, is not really an issue that drives voters to the polls.
00:03:01.000The issues that drive voters to the polls are the ones that trigger the amygdala, that trigger the fear part of your brain.
00:03:07.000The hope part of your brain is a secondary activation of the fear part of your brain when it comes to politics.
00:03:12.000And President Trump knows that better than anybody.
00:03:14.000So when people say that President Trump is engaged in the politics of fear, yes, so has every other politician in the history of mankind who has been even remotely successful.
00:04:31.000And in some cases, it's a criminal problem.
00:04:33.000And if the two polls that Americans have to choose from are illegal immigration is a non-problem and illegal immigration is a crisis, people are automatically going to resonate to illegal immigration is a crisis because they can tell that it's not a non-problem.
00:04:47.000If you have to pick between the two, and you know it's not a non-problem, that means there's only one option left on the ballot.
00:04:53.000President Trump knows this, and the left makes a mistake when they downplay the problems with illegal immigration.
00:04:58.000What they should do instead is they should say, yes, you're right, illegal immigration is a problem.
00:05:08.000The left doesn't want to do that because they believe that they can win this election based on a sort of opposite fear-mongering, where if you are anti-illegal immigration, this means that you are a racist, this means that you are a bigot, this means that you don't care about people who are in dire need of asylum.
00:05:22.000So instead what you have is the two sides that sort of staked out their turf.
00:05:24.000President Trump saying this whole thing is a crisis, and the left saying not only is it not a crisis, President Trump is only fear-mongering in order to achieve a certain desired political result on the back of brown people.
00:05:35.000Those are the two positions that have now been staked out.
00:05:36.000Now, is either of those positions really reflective of reality?
00:06:07.000And as I've said for my entire career, the actual solution on illegal immigration is actually fairly simple and everyone basically agrees on it.
00:06:14.000The actual solution is you shut the border,
00:06:16.000You make sure that people aren't illegally immigrating.
00:06:19.000You ensure that people who would make good Americans can legally immigrate.
00:06:22.000And then you go through on a one-to-one basis and you see whether illegal immigrants who are in the country, people who are in the country illegally, whether those people are of benefit or of detriment to the United States.
00:06:31.000And if they are of benefit, then they go to the back of the immigration line.
00:06:34.000And if they are a detriment to the United States, they are deported and they can't come back.
00:06:52.000On the other side, you have folks saying, well, the Republicans are evil, terrible, horrible racists for even caring about this issue.
00:06:58.000And obviously, we can't trust them with power.
00:07:00.000So that's how this election has broken down.
00:07:02.000President Trump has decided to make his closing pitch the caravan.
00:07:06.000So the caravan, again, to just be straight about what the caravan is, this is
00:07:09.000An annual thing, every year, there are thousands of migrants who go into Mexico from Central and Latin America, and they move up through Mexico toward the United States border.
00:07:18.000In past years, they've approached generally ports of entry.
00:07:20.000There are some of them, apparently, who have not approached ports of entry.
00:07:23.000If they go to a port of entry and they claim asylum, well then, the United States processes them through normal means.
00:07:30.000Now, herein lies a problem, and there's a problem with the United States and our immigration system.
00:07:35.000We have a policy of catch and release, which suggests that we release a lot of folks on their own recognizance.
00:08:07.000That doesn't mean we have to let them in, but it's also an exaggeration to suggest that it's a serious, serious border crisis when you're talking about people arriving at a port of entry.
00:08:17.000If you need the military in order to ensure people are not breaking into the United States between ports of entry, that's fine.
00:08:23.000But if the suggestion is that we need sort of a Berlin Wall on the southern border with regard to all of this because we have to shoot people who approach the border or something, I don't think anyone's suggesting that, nor should anybody suggest that.
00:08:36.000He wants to portray the caravan as a serious threat to American security because it ties into his broader argument that illegal immigration must be checked and that folks on the other side are not taking this seriously.
00:08:45.000So here's President Trump going off on the caravans.
00:08:48.000We have to have a wall of people, very highly trained people, terrific, dedicated patriots, that's what they are.
00:08:55.000You have caravans coming up that look a lot larger than it's reported, actually.
00:08:59.000I mean, I'm pretty good at estimating crowd size, and I will tell you, they look a lot bigger than people would think.
00:09:06.000Okay, well, the truth is the president, unfortunately, is not all that great at estimating crowd size by his record.
00:09:13.000I mean, number one, we all remember the controversy over the inaugural crowd size.
00:09:17.000He routinely tweets out crowd sizes that are not really in keeping with the actual crowd size.
00:09:21.000But in any case, the problem with the president doing this, you know, just from an objective truth point of view, is that if you stick to the facts, you don't actually have to make overbroad
00:09:32.000Inflammatory arguments, you can still win on the facts, but the president understands that people take him seriously, not literally.
00:09:39.000And that means that they take his overall point, which is that a bunch of people are trying to come into the country illegally, and he's not in favor of that.
00:09:46.000And then President Trump doubles down on another theory.
00:09:48.000And this is where, again, I don't like the president's rhetoric on this.
00:09:52.000I think that when the president suggests that
00:09:55.000George Soros is behind the caravan without any evidence.
00:09:57.000That's conspiratorial thinking and it's not pleasant and it's unnecessary and he shouldn't do it.
00:10:15.000And now this trolls Democrats and the media into saying, well, the president is crazy on illegal immigration.
00:10:20.000Again, the president's game here, if there's a strategy to it, then the president's game is to, as Scott Adams likes to say, sell beyond the sale.
00:10:28.000So he will say, okay, George Soros is behind this.
00:10:30.000And the Democrats will say, you have no evidence George Soros is behind it.
00:10:33.000And the American public go, wait, is somebody behind the caravan?
00:10:38.000Trump has now shifted the window of the conversation.
00:10:40.000The same argument can be made about the caravan itself and the size of it when President Trump says, there are a bajillion people in the caravan, not 7,000, not 10,000, one bajillion people.
00:10:49.000And then the media say, that's not true.
00:13:39.000And then there are pictures directly of the caravan, people breaking through the borders at the Mexican border, people walking through Mexico toward the United States.
00:13:46.000And then it shows migrants attempting again to break through the borders, some wearing masks.
00:13:58.000It says, who else would Democrats let in?
00:14:01.000And then a picture again of Luis Bracamonte says, President Donald J. Trump and Republicans are making America safe again.
00:14:07.000So it's a very inflammatory ad, obviously.
00:14:10.000Inflammatory is also a quote for effective, okay?
00:14:13.000Effective ads are hard-hitting, they are memorable, and they make you think about issues that you would normally be ignoring.
00:14:19.000So a lot of folks are comparing this to the Willie Horton ad.
00:14:21.000For folks who don't remember the Willie Horton ad, back in 1988, George H.W.
00:14:24.000Bush was running against Michael Dukakis.
00:14:26.000Michael Dukakis was a soft on-crime governor of the state of Massachusetts.
00:14:29.000He was in favor of weekend furloughs for inmates.
00:14:32.000So there was one inmate whose name was William Horton, and William Horton was a black man who was, I believe, in prison for rape.
00:14:39.000He, on his weekend furlough, went out and raped and murdered somebody.
00:14:42.000And George W. Bush's allies, I think it was Lee Atwater, released this ad.
00:15:21.000Okay, well, the way that you read that as racially charged is if you actually think that weekend furloughs are not bad, and if you think that Republicans are racist by necessity.
00:15:28.000So people are using the same logic with regard to President Trump's ad.
00:15:32.000And in just one second, we'll see how the media are treating this.
00:15:35.000So CNN actually ran a story, and the story at CNN is Trump shocks with racist new ad days before midterm.
00:15:44.000Okay, that's supposedly objective journalism from CNN.
00:15:47.000They put that in their analysis section.
00:15:49.000He shocks with racist new ad days before midterms.
00:15:52.000Okay, and Chris Cuomo then goes on the network and he says this is Willie Horton Redux.
00:15:56.000It's obviously ugly and it's racist as well.
00:15:59.000Did you see the video the President of the United States just released?
00:16:08.000In fact, much of the footage in this video that we're going to show you comes from Fox, the place started by the man who came up with the Willie Horton ad, Roger Ailes.
00:16:16.000Both were grossly distortive, bigoted, but also effective.
00:16:23.000So let's talk about the Bracamontes ad in a little bit more specificity.
00:16:28.000In order to suggest that the ad is racist, you have to suggest that the only common nexus between the story of Luis Bracamontes and the migrant caravan is ethnicity.
00:16:36.000That basically what Trump is doing is he's saying, here's a dangerous Hispanic man, and here's a bunch of people you don't know who are Hispanic.
00:16:44.000That is the way to interpret President Trump's ad in a racist way.
00:16:48.000It's to say that you should be afraid of Hispanic people.
00:16:51.000President Trump will protect you from these evil Hispanic people.
00:16:53.000Look, here's a picture of an evil Hispanic person.
00:16:56.000That's the way to read it in the racist way.
00:16:58.000There's another way to read the ad, however, and the way to read that ad is that Trump is saying, here is an illegal immigrant who crossed the southern border illegally multiple times.
00:17:30.000But for folks who assume that illegal immigration, number one, is not a problem at all, and number two, assume that President Trump is racist, and number three, assume that President Trump's supporters are racist,
00:17:39.000Well, they're making the argument that this is a racist ad.
00:17:42.000Now, here's the evidence that I think that this ad is really about illegal immigration.
00:17:45.000I mean, first of all, it says that it is, but what is the evidence that this is really about illegal immigration?
00:17:50.000Well, the reason that I think that is because back in 2014, the New York Times, the left-leaning New York Times, did a complete story on Braco Montes' case.
00:18:00.000And the New York Times' story was actually titled, US Immigration Laws Face New Scrutiny After Killings.
00:18:08.000Right, that was the title of the New York Times piece.
00:18:21.000It would seem to be a worst case that opponents of the Obama administration on immigration had long forecast.
00:18:26.000An illegal immigrant, one who had been deported twice yet returned to the country each time, is accused of killing two Northern California sheriff's officers in a six-hour shooting rampage on Friday.
00:18:37.000They're talking about the problems with illegal immigration and they are linking the problems with illegal immigration over America's southern border with Luis Bracamontes.
00:18:45.000Just because the images that the Trump ad uses are inflammatory and effective does not mean that they are necessarily racist.
00:18:53.000Now, here is the case that Trump is exaggerating in the ad.
00:18:57.000The case that Trump is exaggerating in the ad, because we want to be as straight about the facts as we possibly can,
00:19:02.000is that when Trump's ad says the Democrats allowed Bracamontes into the country and they allowed him to stay, that's an exaggeration of the case.
00:19:09.000Bracamontes entered the country illegally in the early to mid-1990s.
00:19:13.000He was deported by the Clinton administration in 1997.
00:19:17.000He was then deported under President Bush in 2001.
00:19:19.000He then re-entered again, and he remained in the country all the way until he committed murders despite committing 10 misdemeanor violations between 2003 and 2009.
00:19:27.000So in reality, it is a bipartisan failure of immigration policy under both Democrat and Republican presidents that allowed Luis Bracamontes to stay in power, or at least to stay in the country.
00:19:38.000But when President Trump draws the broader narrative, again, every ad is a blunderbuss, right?
00:20:18.000I don't think that either, because I actually do think that illegal immigration is a problem, regardless of the source of that illegal immigration.
00:20:24.000So in just a second, we're going to talk about the continuing hubbub over Pittsburgh, a kind of fascinating story in the New York Times about anti-Semitism, and all the rest of the news of the day.
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00:21:46.000In all the hubbub over President Trump and his divisiveness, there's a new poll out that's kind of telling about where Americans stand in the Trump-media divide.
00:21:54.000So first of all, I'd like to note something.
00:21:56.000I'm about to say a sentence that I have rarely said before.
00:22:12.000Here is the comedian, the left-leaning comedian who hates President Trump, basically chiding the media for their willingness to jump in the kiddie pool with President Trump, which is exactly where he wants them to be.
00:23:00.000There's a new political morning consult poll.
00:23:03.000It's been conducted over the past fractious violent week.
00:23:05.000And what it shows is that a majority of voters think President Trump has done more to divide the country than unite it since he took office last year.
00:23:12.000But the same poll finds that the national news media are even worse.
00:23:15.000See, this is what folks fail to recognize about President Trump.
00:23:18.000It was true when he was a candidate, and it's true in his everyday politics as well.
00:23:22.000President Trump doesn't need to outrun the public relations bear.
00:23:26.000He doesn't need to outrun the public opinion polling bear.
00:23:53.000And therefore, he is more than happy to go to battle with the media every day, even though the media are out there screaming bloody murder every time he does it.
00:24:01.000And President Trump, when he's in battle, man, that dude has no rules.
00:24:04.000That is a dude who will bite and eye gouge.
00:26:00.000President Trump is correct, and everybody in America knows he's correct by polling data.
00:26:06.000After this day of unity and togetherness, I came home and sadly turned on the news and watched as the far-left media once again used tragedy to sow anger and division.
00:26:23.000And the media are like, ah, no, he's the one sowing anger and division.
00:26:26.000That's what he does, because he's the worst, because white men are the threats.
00:26:29.000Here's Don Lemon on CNN doubling down on his white men are the true threats in the United States routine last night, but he's uniting the country.
00:26:35.000Remember, the media, according to the media, are great uniters.
00:26:38.000Nobody believes this for half a second.
00:26:40.000Their analysis shows that for every eight deadly attacks by right-wing extremists, there were one by left-wing extremists.
00:27:05.000Okay, so he doubles down on his white men are the real threats in America.
00:27:09.000You know, again, Don Lemon is not going to talk about the murder rate in the black community because he believes that it would be racist to do so, but he's happy to talk about the terrorism rate in the white community, which is significantly lower.
00:27:21.000Again, I don't think that it is relevant to talk about the murder rates in any community other than to talk about the arrest rates in those communities.
00:27:28.000But if we are going to start grouping people together, things get really ugly really quickly, and the media know that, but they don't care.
00:27:33.000I mean, Alison Camerota on CNN, she suggested yesterday that President Trump uses the same language as the shooter used.
00:27:39.000So therefore, he must be exactly like the shooter.
00:27:42.000So he seems to be zeroing in on the two pillars of the media, continuing his vitriolic attacks against the media, and migrants continuing to, in fact, ratchet up the language about them.
00:27:57.000And frankly, I mean, I have to say it, using some of the same language that the mass murderer at the synagogue used in terms of invaders and invasion.
00:28:08.000Well, I have said many times, I don't think President Trump is doing a good job of uniting the country, but he's certainly uniting the country against the media.
00:28:14.000That seems like the only thing where we all agree, and the media are doing a great job of smacking themselves in the face with a club every five seconds.
00:28:22.000They're like Sideshow Bob with the rakes.
00:28:24.000They're just walking into every rake in sight, and then they proclaim, well, there's no rake that's hit.
00:28:28.000I haven't been hit by rakes as they walk around sporting a bevy of welts across their pate.
00:28:43.000She says every Trump voter is a white nationalist, basically.
00:28:46.000I can't disagree with that, unfortunately, sad as it is, but I'm not willing to let white voters off the hook.
00:28:52.000I think that they, like the rest of us, should be treated as adults, and I think that there are a large number, I would say a majority, of white Americans in this country who are not just Democrats, but who are people of conscience, who are good Americans, and I believe that they need to move from saying, well, I don't like his tweets, but, you know, the economy's doing okay.
00:29:12.000They need to move from there to reality.
00:29:20.000But then the idea is that if you vote for him or any Republican, then you are part of the dividing of America and the destruction of America.
00:29:33.000So it's a constant source of astonishment that the media don't recognize the hole they're digging for themselves, but they continue to dig it deeper and deeper every single day.
00:29:42.000Well, in just a second, I'm going to get to Hollywood's response to everything and how Hollywood continues to polarize the country and
00:29:51.000Plus, we'll talk about Halloween and a fascinating study in the New York Times about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks in the city of New York.
00:29:58.000We'll get to all of that in just a second.
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00:31:29.000All right, so let's talk a little bit about how Hollywood is playing into all of this.
00:31:32.000Again, you know, President Trump understands that the nature of politics right now is completely binary.
00:31:36.000Hollywood does not seem to understand that.
00:31:38.000They seem to believe that by clubbing President Trump over the head and clubbing everybody associated with President Trump over the head, that they're helping themselves in some way.
00:31:46.000And by reading President Trump's comments in the worst possible light,
00:31:52.000That if they can demonize President Trump and everything that he stands for, and demonize his supporters, his people who are okay with all of that stuff, that somehow this is going to win them admirers.
00:32:00.000That's sort of the logic with this immigration ad, for example.
00:32:03.000So the idea is, the Democrats think that that ad is racist.
00:32:06.000They think that ad is racist because they don't think illegal immigration is an actual serious issue.
00:32:10.000They think Trump is just playing it up for racial purposes.
00:32:13.000Most of the people watching that ad are not seeing that ad as having anything to do with race.
00:32:17.000They're seeing it as having to do with illegal immigration.
00:32:20.000But Democrats, by saying that the ad is racist, and then turning to a bunch of people who see the ad completely differently and saying, if you don't see the ad the same way that I do, i.e.
00:32:28.000that it's racist, that means you're a racist too, you're alienating an awful lot of folks.
00:32:33.000This is why when Democrats say things like, Trump is dog whistling to his crowd, the implication is that he's dog whistling, that anybody who resonates to Trump is listening to the dog whistle, right?
00:32:43.000Because if he's dog whistling, then who are the dogs?
00:32:45.000Presumably the dogs are his supporters.
00:32:47.000This is the problem with dog whistle language.
00:32:49.000If you want to say that you believe President Trump is a racist, and you believe that people are voting for President Trump in spite of that racism, that's one argument.
00:32:57.000But that's not actually the argument a lot of folks on the left are making these days.
00:33:00.000One of the arguments a lot of folks on the left are making is that Trump is dog whistling to his supporters, that he's sending coded language their way that is designed to elicit racist responses in them.
00:33:12.000So the implication is that if you respond to Trump's illegal immigration ad by saying, yeah, illegal immigration is bad, we need someone who can protect our border, that means that you're actually a racist who's responding to his dog whistle.
00:33:23.000Samantha Bee did this routine on her awful, unfunny, terrible, no good, very bad, non-comedic show on TBS.
00:33:32.000I mean, I've said for a while that by a mile, Samantha Bee is the least funny person on planet Earth.
00:33:36.000It used to be a running gun battle between like her and Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer and Trevor Noah.
00:33:40.000And she is just, I mean, the woman's secretariat.
00:34:09.000Okay, Samantha, tell me all about anti-Semitism, won't you?
00:34:13.000Mainstream conservatives would never say anything negative about Jewish people outright, but there are other words they use, like coastal elites, globalists, Hollywood liberals, or John Leibowitz.
00:34:24.000And currently, the biggest, loudest dog whistle is George Soros.
00:34:29.000Okay, so let's go through those for just one second.
00:34:32.000So, coastal elite is not a term for Jew.
00:34:36.000Coastal elite is a term for Samantha Bee.
00:35:08.000In fact, all of the Hollywood liberals who happen to be Jewish I've never seen at my shul because they don't go to shul because they don't actually have anything to do with Judaism.
00:35:17.000So, all of these terms, again, the implication is that
00:35:20.000If anybody uses these terms, then this is somehow an indicator that you are secretly an anti-Semite who's resonating to secret anti-Semitic messages.
00:35:28.000You've taken out your Red Rider decoder ring, and you're sitting there, and you're decoding all of President Trump's EU messages.
00:35:34.000Okay, so, she's used coastal elites and Hollywood liberals.
00:35:42.000It has a relatively checkered history.
00:35:43.000So back in the 1920s and 1930s, there were anti-Semites who suggested that there was a global Zionist conspiracy.
00:35:49.000And the global Zionist conspiracy was globalist, right?
00:35:52.000That was a term that was used by anti-Semites.
00:35:54.000However, the modern use of the word globalist really does not date back to the 1930s.
00:35:58.000It dates back to the 1999 WTO, the World Trade Organization riots that happened in Seattle, when people were implying that if you were in favor of free trade, this made you a globalist.
00:36:08.000That also happens to be precisely the same sort of terminology President Trump uses.
00:36:11.000When President Trump says globalist, typically he's talking about people who are for open immigration and open trade.
00:36:17.000That doesn't really have anything to do with Jews.
00:37:24.000One of the things, one of the things, many things that it's polarizing the country right now.
00:37:28.000Okay, now let's talk a little bit about anti-Semitic attacks.
00:37:31.000So there's been a lot of talk in the media about where anti-Semitic attacks are coming from.
00:37:36.000And the statement by Don Lemon is that anti-Semitism is largely coming from white supremacists across the country.
00:37:43.000As somebody who speaks on campuses on a regular basis, and I speak with Jews a lot more frequently than Don Lemon does, then I can tell you that Jews on campus are not feeling the heat from white supremacists.
00:37:53.000Jews on campus are feeling the heat from mainstream leftists and their allies in the Muslim Student Association, for example.
00:37:59.000That's where they are actually feeling the heat.
00:38:01.000And there's a fascinating report in the New York Times today that's actually rather telling.
00:38:07.000It's called, Is it safe to be Jewish in New York?
00:38:09.000New York, obviously, is very heavily Jewish, has over a million Jewish folks living there.
00:38:26.000The student, it seemed, was attacked because he was overheard speaking Hebrew on his cell phone.
00:38:30.000His two assailants were indicted on assault and hate crime charges.
00:38:33.000No other American city is more closely associated with Jewish identity than New York.
00:38:37.000And yet, at the same time, New York has become an increasingly unsettling place to be Jewish.
00:38:41.000The first inkling of this emerged several days after the 2016 presidential election, when swastikas and the phrase, Go Trump, showed up on playground equipment in the Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn Heights.
00:38:51.000But in fact, antisemitism was already quietly on the rise.
00:38:54.000For several years now, expressions of anti-Jewish sentiments have made up the preponderance of hate crime complaints in the city.
00:39:00.000And here's the interesting part, okay?
00:39:03.000Contrary to what are surely the prevailing assumptions, anti-Semitic incidents have constituted half of all hate crimes in New York this year, according to the police department.
00:39:15.000To put that figure in context, there have been four times as many crimes motivated by bias against Jews, 142 in all, as there have been against blacks.
00:39:22.000Hate crimes against Jews have outnumbered hate crimes targeted at transgender people by a factor of 20.
00:39:27.000This is all stuff that the leftists at the New York Times are only discovering now that Jews just got shot.
00:39:32.000Those of us in the Jewish community have known this for a little while, but it was uncomfortable for the left to talk about anti-Semitism because Jews don't rank high enough on the intersectional hierarchy.
00:39:40.000They're not victimized enough in the United States to be treated as actual victims.
00:39:45.000But here's where it gets even more interesting.
00:39:49.000If anti-Semitism bypasses consideration as a serious problem in New York, it is to some extent because it refuses to conform to an easy narrative with a single ideological enemy.
00:39:59.000During the past 22 months, not one person, not one, caught or identified as the aggressor in an anti-Semitic hate crime has been associated with a far right-wing group.
00:40:09.000Mark Molinari, commanding officer of the police department's hate crimes task force told me.
00:40:13.000He says, I almost wish it was sometimes more clear cut.
00:40:16.000It's every identity targeting every identity.
00:40:19.000He says, of course not everyone is caught, and obviously white supremacists are driving anti-semitic rhetoric online, but it is the varied backgrounds of people who commit hate crimes in the city that make combating and talking about anti-semitism in New York much harder.
00:40:32.000It's not that it's hard to talk about.
00:40:33.000It's that the New York Times doesn't have a solid anti-right-wing narrative that they can pin anti-semitism on, so they haven't been talking about hate crimes against Jews in their own city for years upon years.
00:40:42.000And again, those of us who have deep friendships inside the New York Jewish community have known about this for years and years and years and years.
00:40:51.000It was not all that long ago when Al Sharpton was involved in helping to incite riots against Orthodox Jews in Crown Heights.
00:40:59.000The reason that folks don't want to talk about anti-Semitism until a white supremacist does it is because it doesn't fit the narrative.
00:41:04.000A lot of anti-Semitic hate crimes are committed by people who are not right-wing, who are not even white supremacists, and are committed by people who are openly left-wing or are members of minority groups.
00:41:15.000And nobody on the left wants to talk about that because it's uncomfortable.
00:41:18.000So when folks on the left say, you know, President Trump won't talk about anti-Semitism, where was the New York Times for years reporting on this?
00:41:25.000I love that they even make that, I mean, it's reported in the article.
00:41:29.000They say if anti-Semitism bypasses consideration as a serious problem in New York, it is to some extent because it refuses to conform to an easy narrative.
00:41:37.000That is the New York Times admitting to you that the narrative was more important than the reporting.
00:41:40.000That is the New York Times admitting to you openly that the only thing that mattered to them was reporting on a particular kind of people attacking a particular kind of people.
00:41:52.000Few are extended toward religious fundamentalists of any kind who reach the radar of the urbane Podsafe America class only when stories appear confirming existing impressions of backwardness.
00:42:01.000The hordes of children delivered into the world whom families refuse to vaccinate and keep semi-literate.
00:42:05.000The Anti-Defamation League maintains its own statistics.
00:42:08.000And last year, it reported that nine of the 12 physical assaults against Jews categorized as hate crimes in New York State were committed in Brooklyn and involved victims who were easily marked as members of traditionally Orthodox communities.
00:42:19.000So, in other words, Pod Save America crowd doesn't actually care about any of this stuff because it doesn't fit the narrative.
00:42:27.000Only when it fits the narrative is anti-Semitism a thing.
00:42:30.000And when it's a Muslim shooting up LAX at the El Al counter and killing a member of my community, then it's not a big thing.
00:42:36.000When it's people being targeted for hate crimes by folks of minority bent, then it's not a big thing.
00:42:43.000When it's a white supremacist, then it's a big thing because we can link that to Republicans and try and proclaim that this is the big problem across the country.
00:42:48.000Now, again, I have never underestimated the impact of white supremacists to anti-Semitism.
00:44:27.000Okay, so what that means is, our father, our king, favor us and answer us, for we have no accomplishments, deal with us charitably and kindly, deal with us charitably and kindly, and save us.
00:44:44.000We sing it, as I say, on all of those aforementioned days.
00:44:48.000You know, somebody should actually put together a nice recording of all the different Negunim, because there really are a lot of beautiful Jewish tunes that nobody knows unless you go to Shul.
00:45:43.000When people, you know, don quote-unquote Asian eyes in order to mock Asian people, that's obviously racist.
00:45:49.000But when somebody wears a funny Mexican hat because they're wearing a funny Mexican hat, and it's not designed to mock Mexican people, then I don't think that just a white person wearing a sombrero means that you're mocking Mexican people.
00:46:11.000There were people who dressed up as me for Halloween.
00:46:12.000I don't know why in God's name you would do that, but there were some people who did that.
00:46:15.000I don't think that that makes you an anti-Semite because you dressed up as me for Halloween and you put on a kippah because I wear a kippah every day, right?
00:46:21.000But there's all this talk always about how many people are deeply worried about Halloween costumes.
00:46:27.000Now, again, I'm not against people being offended by Halloween costumes that mock you, but it seems to me that people are always on edge.
00:46:33.000The number of articles about this means that people are a lot more touchy about it than they used to be when I was a kid.
00:46:55.00065% of college students think they should be able to discuss offensive costumes without administrator involvement, though they were sharply divided when the data were broken down by race.
00:47:03.00071% of white students said students should be allowed to discuss and resolve on their own.
00:47:08.00043% of African American students responded in the same way.
00:47:12.000The Atlantic says if student conversations alone could solve the issue, a fresh crop of offensive costumes would not likely make headlines every October.
00:47:21.000I mean, I think that they would make headlines every October because the media has an interest in stupid topics.
00:47:26.000This came up last night in my speech in University of British Columbia.
00:47:29.000Somebody asked, you know, as a country, we seem to be focused on more and more minor issues.
00:47:33.000And I said, right, because we're wealthy and bored.
00:47:35.000And I think there's some truth to that.
00:47:37.000I think that we are wealthy and bored.
00:47:39.000And so we are willing to get upset about nearly anything.
00:47:44.000Again, Megyn Kelly just lost her job based on a discussion of these issues, for which she apologized.
00:47:50.000So, I'm annoyed with a culture that seems determined to reinforce all of our frailties as opposed to a culture that takes our complaints seriously and then also tries to think about whether we ought to get some thicker skin.
00:48:40.000Our president blamed Saturday's killing spree on the synagogue.
00:48:42.000He said if they had an armed guard, it would have been fine.
00:48:44.000Do you have an armed guard where you pray God should be safe to convene with you, right?
00:48:48.000God should be safe to convene with, right?
00:48:49.000A lot of people were upset, angry, and scared on the plane when they saw your hat.
00:48:53.000For you, I want to assume it's about politics, economics, and support of a charismatic man.
00:48:56.000I wonder if you mean to scare black people, Jews, and immigrants.
00:48:59.000To us, your hat sanctions our death, our murder, our evisceration, because your hat supports a man who does little to help us and so much to fuel hatred, violence, and cruelty.