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00:00:20.000So the theme of today's show is that the culture wars are obviously more important to Americans than actual news, because there's some actual huge news today.
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00:02:16.000Okay, so everybody wants to talk today about President Trump making this phone call to this widow and why this is a huge news story and whether President Trump has no sympathy for widows of war heroes and all of that.
00:02:28.000And we'll get to that in just a second.
00:02:29.000But I'd like to suggest that one of the reasons the media are focusing on that is because there were three very big stories that came out back to back to back yesterday, all of them good for Trump, all of them very bad for the left.
00:02:40.000The first story is the story with regard to ISIS.
00:02:44.000So, we now know that U.S.-backed forces have now taken Raqqa.
00:02:47.000Okay, Raqqa is ISIS's last urban stronghold.
00:02:51.000It was the place that was the headquarters for ISIS in Syria, and U.S.-backed forces say they have now taken it, and they've cleared the entire place, and basically ISIS has been
00:03:01.000Restricted to this small portion of area in the Euphrates River Valley.
00:03:05.000One of the things that you should know about ISIS, and we've played their propaganda videos in the past, is that one of the ways that they have drawn such attraction to so many people is by claiming they have broad territorial holdings.
00:03:16.000So if you actually look back at the ISIS propaganda videos, they would say things like, we have territory that is greater than all of the United Kingdom.
00:03:23.000You know, UK's a pretty small country, but still.
00:03:26.000They would claim that their territorial holdings were justification.
00:03:29.000They show that Allah was on their side.
00:03:31.000Well, now their territory has basically been shrunk to the size of a dime.
00:03:35.000And that is thanks to the bravery of America's troops and American allies.
00:03:59.000American-backed forces said on Tuesday that they had seized the northern Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State, a major blow to the militant group, which had long used the city as the de facto capital of its self-declared caliphate.
00:04:09.000Celebrations erupted in Raqqa, where residents had lived under the repressive rule of militants who beheaded people for offenses as minor as smoking.
00:04:16.000Fighters could be seen cheering and firing celebratory gunfire in the streets, according to residents reached by phone and text message.
00:04:22.000CENTCOM stopped short of declaring victory, saying more than 90% of Raqqa was in SDF control.
00:04:27.000That'd be the Syrian Democratic Forces.
00:04:29.000That's an American-backed militia made up of Kurds and Arabs.
00:04:32.000Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the U.S.
00:04:34.000military in Baghdad, said Tuesday Raqqa was on the verge of being liberated, said there were still pockets of the city controlled by ISIS, but ISIS is absolutely in retreat, and now basically ISIS is a cleanup operation.
00:04:46.000At its height, in 2014, ISIS controlled both Mosul and Raqqa, and now they control neither of them.
00:04:52.000And that is a testament, again, to the bravery of America's armed forces, as well as our allies, and is a tribute to the Trump administration.
00:05:00.000I guarantee you that if Barack Obama had been in office when all of this happened, this would be front-page news in every paper in the United States, because it is a major thing.
00:05:12.000Okay, it's pretty incredible what we were able to do in a pretty short period of time here since ISIS really gained prominence and credibility in 2013-2014.
00:05:27.000The FBI posted a document revealing that James Comey, former FBI director, had drafted a letter in July 2016 not recommending charges against Hillary Clinton.
00:05:37.000Okay, as you know, as you know, that was way before he was supposed to interview Hillary Clinton.
00:05:42.000That was way before he had all the information.
00:05:45.000And so this demonstrates that the fix was basically in here, that James Comey knew that he wasn't going to indict Hillary Clinton, and he was drafting documents to that effect literally weeks and months before he bothered to do all the rest of his research.
00:05:58.000FBI official, this is according to The Hill, FBI official James Rybecki in mid-May requested in an unclassified email that officials, quote, send any comments on this statement so we may roll it into a master doc for discussion with the director at a future date.
00:06:11.000Two months later, Comey would make his announcement criticizing Clinton, but that was two months after he had already written his ruling in the case, demonstrating once again that something deeply corrupt was going on here.
00:06:22.000James Comey has a lot of questions he's going to need to answer on that particular matter.
00:06:26.000So that is story number two, and that one, again, does not help the left wing, does not help the Democratic Party, and it doesn't help the media, which have proclaimed from the beginning that Hillary was innocent, innocent, innocent, innocent.
00:06:52.000He has his own nonprofit based down in Florida in which he investigates.
00:06:57.000It's basically an investigative journalism center.
00:06:59.000But Schweitzer had uncovered this story about how Rosatom, which is the Russian nuclear agency, had gained control of one-fifth of America's uranium supply, and they had also given massive donations to the Clinton Foundation.
00:07:12.000And it was cleared by the State Department when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State.
00:07:16.000And President Trump used to talk about this on the campaign trail all the time.
00:07:19.000Hillary Clinton denied there was any wrongdoing.
00:07:21.000She said that the State Department, that part of the State Department was not under her charge.
00:07:25.000She never knew about it and all the rest.
00:07:27.000And there were claims that the Russians never did anything illegal anyway, so who cares?
00:07:37.000So, according to the New York Post today, the Obama administration knew Russia had used bribery, kickbacks, and extortion to get a stake in the U.S.
00:07:45.000atomic energy industry, but cut deals giving Moscow control of a large chunk of the U.S.
00:07:49.000uranium supply anyway, according to a report on Tuesday.
00:07:55.000witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather records, make secret recordings, and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed the Kremlin had compromised an American uranium trucking company.
00:08:06.000Executives at the company Transport Logistics International kicked back about $2 million to the Russians in exchange for lucrative no-bid contracts, a scheme that violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
00:08:18.000That Russian nuclear officials had gotten millions of dollars into the U.S.
00:08:21.000designed to benefit the Clinton Foundation at the same time then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government committee that signed off on the deals, sources told The Hill.
00:08:30.000The racketeering operation was conducted, quote, with the consent of higher-level officials in Russia who shared the proceeds from the kickbacks an agent later stated in an affidavit.
00:08:38.000The DOJ, under Attorney General Eric Holder, did not bring charges in the case prior to the deals being cut.
00:08:44.000At the time, Obama and the Clinton State Department were trying to quote-unquote, reset relations between the two nuclear rivals.
00:08:50.000The first deal was wrapped up in October 2010, when the State Department and the Committee on Foreign Investment agreed to sell part of Uranium One, a Toronto-based mining giant, with operations in Wyoming, Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan, South Africa, and elsewhere, to Rosatom, which is the Russian nuclear company, giving Russia control over about 20% of the American uranium supply.
00:09:11.000Her spokesman said that she was not involved.
00:09:13.000Hillary's spokesman said she was not involved in this.
00:09:15.000And, of course, the Obama administration said there was nothing wrong with the deal anyway.
00:09:19.000Except, of course, for how there was something wrong with the deal and the Obama administration knew it.
00:09:23.000So now here's what we know about the Obama DOJ.
00:09:25.000We always knew that Eric Holder was corrupt.
00:09:27.000We always knew the Obama DOJ was corrupt.
00:09:30.000But now we know that Loretta Lynch at the DOJ had no intention of indicting Hillary Clinton for misuse of classified material.
00:09:39.000Now we know her predecessor, Eric Holder, was basically signing off on deals that were designed to benefit the Clinton Foundation at the same time that the DOJ knew that Russia was attempting to wield influence in a corrupt manner, violating the law in the United States.
00:10:23.000The news cycle for him is actually pretty good this week.
00:10:26.000But he made the mistake on Monday of giving a press conference in which, as I talked about yesterday, he has a tendency to go out over his skis.
00:10:35.000And the president of the United States came out and he said that he likes to call all the soldiers.
00:10:40.000And then he suggested not only that he liked to call all the soldiers, but that prior presidents like President Obama and President Bush did not like to call all the soldiers.
00:10:46.000I want to tell you about this controversy and where I think it stands and what actually is going on here, because I think it's overblown, at least based on the evidence we've seen so far.
00:10:56.000So, when you were a kid, you wore a helmet before you started riding a bike, correct?
00:11:04.000Well, when disaster strikes, you need a food supply in your house.
00:11:08.000The fact is, natural disasters happen.
00:11:10.000The fact is, terrorist attacks happen.
00:11:11.000The fact is, there may be some time in the future when you are going to have to break into whatever food you got in your house, and if you don't happen to have much in your house,
00:11:19.000You could be screwed because the grocery stores could be empty.
00:12:20.000The controversy began a couple of days ago when President Trump, again, always a guy who has a tendency to speak out of turn, suggested that prior presidents had not done enough to reach out to the families of slain troops.
00:12:35.000Here's what Trump had to say at a press conference a couple of days ago.
00:12:38.000The traditional way, if you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls, a lot of them didn't make calls.
00:12:47.000I like to call when it's appropriate, when I think I'm able to do it.
00:12:52.000Okay, so he says he likes to call when he's able to do it, but other presidents haven't always called.
00:12:56.000And this, of course, drove a huge firestorm, because the suggestion seemed to be that Trump was saying he is better at calling the families of slain soldiers than other presidents have been, which is not true.
00:13:09.000As I said yesterday, the response of the media was not, Trump is saying evidenceless things.
00:13:13.000The response of the media was Trump doesn't care about the soldiers himself.
00:13:17.000The media couldn't just restrict themselves to the narrative that Trump was speaking off the top of his head again and saying terrible things again.
00:13:24.000Instead, they had to go to Trump is the one who really doesn't care about the troops.
00:13:31.000President Trump, the reason he was talking about this is because he was asked about some soldiers who were killed in Niger during one of his missions, and he hadn't tweeted in 12 days about it, and had apparently not called these people yet, but he was going to call them.
00:13:44.000So, all this happens, and then he calls the family of one of the slain soldiers.
00:13:50.000The slain soldier was Sergeant LeDavid Thompson.
00:16:04.000First of all, number one, most soldiers don't go into battle thinking they're going to die.
00:16:09.000The ratio, as someone on Twitter was saying this, and I think this is correct, the ratio of American soldiers who served in Iraq versus American soldiers who died in Iraq is 1 to 5,000.
00:16:17.000So that means that the vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of soldiers who serve, of service members who serve, are not expecting to die in the line of fire.
00:16:47.000The idea is they're signing up to defend the country.
00:16:49.000I think that virtually all soldiers that I've spoken to agree with the basic General Patton presumption, which is that the idea is not to die for your country, it's to make the other fellow die for his.
00:17:17.000That's what Matt Lewis over at the Daily Beast has suggested, and that is a plausible read.
00:17:21.000We don't know because we weren't there in the conversation.
00:17:23.000Now, is it entirely possible that Trump said something out of bounds and said something nasty or unconsciously cruel?
00:17:32.000Sure, that's always a possibility, but we just don't know.
00:17:35.000And we have to take into account the biases of the actors.
00:17:37.000So a lot of people are saying, well, Trump isn't credible on these issues because Trump constantly says he doesn't do things wrong and he's constantly fibbing about it.
00:17:45.000It is also true that Frederica Wilson is a radical left Democrat who has been saying for months that Donald Trump is crazy and that he should be impeached.
00:17:52.000I mean, she's literally been saying he should be impeached for months.
00:17:55.000So we're supposed to take her word at face value?
00:17:57.000This is the same woman who suggested that George Zimmerman should have been locked up without evidence in the Trayvon Martin case.
00:18:02.000She said that he should have gone to jail, he should have been in prison, and then she said he should be put in prison for his own safety.
00:18:08.000All right, so Frederica Wilson is not exactly the most credible source.
00:18:10.000Now, the follow-up on this is that the mother of the widow, Myesha Johnson's mother, sorry if I pronounced this correctly, I think it's Myesha Johnson's mother, her mother came out and said that the conversation basically went down the same way that Frederica Wilson said.
00:18:30.000She told the Washington Post on Wednesday she was in the car during the call from the White House and quote,
00:18:34.000President Trump did disrespect my son and my daughter and also me and my husband.
00:18:38.000She said, asked whether Wilson's account of the conversation between Trump and the family was accurate.
00:18:52.000The White House apparently has no interest in revealing the contents of the conversation.
00:18:56.000A White House official released a statement saying, the president's conversations with the families of American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice are private.
00:19:03.000Well, then Trump probably shouldn't have tweeted about how he had proof of it.
00:19:08.000The point is that everyone likes to jump to conclusions based on lack of evidence.
00:19:12.000If you're just gonna stack up the evidence at this point, did Trump say something rude or not in a call to a widow, the evidence would have to be on the side of yes.
00:19:22.000We just don't know at this point because we don't have a recording of the call, we don't have text of the call, we haven't even heard from the widow herself.
00:19:28.000We've heard from her mother, and we have heard from the, and we have heard from
00:20:27.000We have so many things that need to be done, and yet we are consumed with cultural issues every day because it's easy to run to a side.
00:20:34.000It's very easy to run to a side and declare your virtuousness or the other guy's evil.
00:20:39.000That's what's happening on a consistent basis.
00:20:41.000So President Trump spoke at Heritage Foundation yesterday, and in speaking at Heritage Foundation, he spent an awful lot of time talking about these cultural issues, because Trump knows better than anyone else that he was elected on the basis of culture, not on the basis of policy.
00:20:54.000All of the talk about Trump being a typical Republican president on policy, that's not actually why he was elected.
00:20:59.000He was not elected as a Republican on policy.
00:21:01.000He was elected because he likes fighting culture wars, and there are a lot of people who are angry at the prevailing state of American culture.
00:21:07.000So, over at the Heritage Foundation, he dropped some Republican conservative red meat.
00:21:12.000He started off by saying that freedom is a gift from God, not from government.
00:21:15.000The most important truth our founders understood was this.
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00:23:44.000As an Orthodox Jew, I can say that I say Merry Christmas to Christians all the time on Christmas.
00:23:49.000The idea that you shouldn't is ridiculous.
00:23:51.000However, the idea that this is a thing that Trump is going to accomplish for us, that saying Merry Christmas is now going to be in vogue again because Trump is president, I think it's dumb, but it is one of the reasons why Trump won, is because people feel inundated by the culture of the left.
00:24:05.000They feel inundated by the culture of the left on a consistent basis.
00:24:09.000Constantly, and I think for good reason.
00:24:11.000And so Trump likes to focus on this, right?
00:24:14.000This is the great misnomer about Trump.
00:24:16.000Trump was not elected to get Republican policy done.
00:24:19.000He was elected because we wanted a talk show host as President of the United States who's going to talk about these issues and shift these issues, which is why I see so many conservatives who are so excited about Trump talking about kneeling in the NFL and think Trump won some sort of great victory by taking down the ratings for the NFL.
00:24:37.000I just think the culture war should be won in the culture as opposed to being won in the political sphere.
00:24:41.000Maybe that's a little bit too high-minded of me, but I'm more interested in the President of the United States actually promulgating good policy than I am in him telling people they can say Merry Christmas again.
00:24:52.000I don't think the President can't say this stuff, but this is the... if...
00:24:59.000Suffice it to say, I think, for a lot of Republican voters, if Trump gets nothing done but he says this kind of stuff, they would rather that than that he not say this kind of stuff but get a bunch of things done.
00:25:40.000He says the American flag should be treated with respect.
00:25:42.000Again, I agree with all of these basic principles that he's stating right now.
00:25:47.000The only point that I'm making is this seems to be a tremendous focus for Trump for a reason, and that is that we're not getting anything done legislatively.
00:25:53.000We believe that our great American flag
00:25:56.000Should be treated with reverence and respect, and that young Americans should be taught to love our country, honor our anthem, and proudly recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
00:26:12.000Okay, so, again, agreed with all of this, but this is the real reason why Trump won, and this is why we're going to just keep devolving into culture wars and not paying attention to the news.
00:26:36.000But it would help if President Trump didn't feel the need to engage in a culture war every five minutes, obscuring his other accomplishments.
00:26:42.000Now, Democrats have responded to all of this by suggesting, of course, that it's all Republicans' fault, that the reason we have these culture wars, it's all Republicans' fault.
00:26:49.000So, Joe Biden came out yesterday, former vice president, and said that the demise of rhetoric in America began with Newt Gingrich.
00:26:56.000We saw the beginning of the demise of the nature of the discourse when the Gingrich Revolution started to occur.
00:27:04.000When on the floor of the United States Senate, a senator would refer to a sitting president as Bubba.
00:27:10.000When someone, forget Democrat-Republican, when someone would yell at a State of the Union liar.
00:27:19.000The destruction of these norms and it's generating chaos.
00:27:24.000That was the destruction of the norms?
00:27:25.000It wasn't like Teddy Kennedy heading over to the Soviet Union in 1984 and talking with the Soviet Union about how he could help them undermine Ronald Reagan?
00:27:32.000It wasn't like Jimmy Carter in 1980 talking pretty openly about how much he despised Ronald Reagan?
00:27:39.000Like, that's when the order went away?
00:27:40.000It wasn't like the 1960s when people were rioting in the streets?
00:28:08.000They're going to put you all back in chains.
00:28:15.000I was talking to a black audience when he said that, but Joe Biden gets to stand around talking about how he is just the halcyon of civility.
00:28:21.000And then you wonder why Republicans are so mad that they want to engage in this culture war, because Democrats also want to engage in the culture war.
00:28:27.000So instead of having useful policy discussions, we'll engage in culture wars and nothing will get done.
00:28:32.000Speaking of nothing getting done, healthcare policy is stalled out again.
00:28:36.000So one of the big questions is whether President Trump is going to cut subsidies to all of the Obamacare exchanges.
00:28:43.000Congress has not approved any of the subsidies for the Obamacare exchanges and for the insurance companies.
00:28:49.000He should use that as a lever to make Congress change the law and free up those insurance companies to open up the insurance markets, right?
00:28:55.000Then you won't need the subsidies if you actually free them up to sell plans at the prices that they ought to be sold.
00:29:04.000The last 48 hours were basically a whirlwind of stupidity.
00:29:07.000First, Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray came up with a bargain that Chuck Schumer liked, where they would continue to fund the Obamacare subsidies.
00:31:02.000We're two-thirds of the way through the show and we're not talking policy because the culture wars are more important than policy in the minds of most Americans.
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00:32:15.000So I'm very eager to get to things I like and things I hate today because I have some some special things I like and things that I hate that I want to talk about So let's start with some things that I like so we begin today someone tweeted at me What is the thing that the most popular opinion you hold an opinion that lots of other people hold that you are most embarrassed of?
00:32:35.000This opinion is that Chris Farley is hilarious.
00:32:38.000I, for some reason, think Chris Farley is just the funniest thing that ever was, and his death is a tragedy.
00:32:44.000This movie that I'm about to praise, when I showed this to my parents, they looked at me like I was a crazy person.
00:32:54.000My sisters also think this movie is really funny.
00:32:56.000My dad thinks I'm a moron for liking this movie.
00:32:59.000The movie, of course, is Tommy Boy with David Spade and Chris Farley.
00:35:25.000Okay, and it's a statue, if you can't see it, it's a statue of a very smoking hot woman, hair blowing in the wind, and a dress blowing backwards, clinging to her body.
00:35:35.000Okay, and the next thing that happens is that somebody tweets,
00:35:40.000Is there an example of a female sculptor who committed herself to the same level of detail that a male does with a woman?
00:35:45.000And I've been thrown tweets back, none that come to mind.
00:35:47.000That sculpture is an act of worship before heaven, and it shows.
00:35:52.000And then they're informed by Pliny the Elder, quote, the sculptor is a Chinese woman, you dork-ass losers.
00:35:58.000And here's a picture of the sculpture and the sculptor.
00:36:02.000So it was a Chinese woman who made that tribute to the West.
00:36:05.000Again, showing that culture is significantly more important, culture and art significantly more important than the color of your skin or the place of your birth.
00:36:14.000So all of the moron white supremacists who think that great art can only be created by white men, no.
00:37:53.000Because it's hard for me to side with you without evidence.
00:37:57.000Of even who you're accusing, because there are cases we know, public cases, right?
00:38:01.000UVA, Lena Dunham, on racial matters, Bennett, Michael Bennett, the Seattle Seahawks defensive end, right?
00:38:10.000There's all sorts of cases where people make accusations that turn out not to be true, and this idea that we owe them our credibility at the beginning, our credulousness at the very beginning, I don't think is right.
00:38:23.000I think that we owe people the respect of hearing their stories,
00:38:26.000But the problem with vague stories that don't actually name names is that it's difficult for us to determine who the bad guys are and how to fight the bad guys.
00:38:32.000I mean, beyond, that's a horrible thing that you just told me about.
00:38:36.000I'm not sure what we're supposed to do about that.
00:38:38.000I have no intention of engaging in similar activity.
00:38:43.000And that's always the question, right?
00:38:44.000The question is, what can we do from here?
00:38:47.000I mean, when we're talking about these, the Harvey Weinstein scandal, when we're talking about, when we're talking about there's this, what's the name of the gymnast?
00:38:55.000There's this famous gymnast who just came out a little while ago, Michaela Maroney, sorry, who just came out and said that the doctor on the U.S.
00:39:03.000women's team had molested her for years, right?
00:39:06.000That's a case where we can see the person who did it, and we can say that person belongs in jail.
00:39:12.000This is why I suggested that stars need to come out and they need to name names, because they can afford the legal fees if somebody sues them for slander.
00:39:20.000If you're an up-and-comer, you don't have any money, their sexual harassment
00:39:26.000Statutes of limitations, I think it's a year in many states where you have time to actually file a sexual harassment claim.
00:39:32.000If you're beyond that, then you could get sued, presumably for slander.
00:39:35.000At least that's what I've been told by a reporter over at the Wall Street Journal.
00:39:38.000You know, I understand all those concerns, but if you want us to fight individual bad guys, we have to know who the individual bad guys are.
00:39:44.000And this is sort of like saying, fight Nazism.
00:39:47.000And you're like, well, I don't like Nazis.
00:40:11.000It drives me up a wall when the media, HBO just did a miniseries about Anita Hill, do this whole routine like Anita Hill unquestionably was telling the truth.
00:40:18.000Anita Hill was clearly telling the truth about being sexually harassed by Clarence Thomas.
00:40:22.000There are a number of facts that call into question her account of exactly what happened with Clarence Thomas.
00:40:27.000Okay, the fact is that Anita Hill was, was...
00:40:31.000I mean, she was not found credible by a huge percentage of the American population for a variety of reasons, including the fact that she insisted on speaking to the Senate Judiciary Committee in confidence, not publicly, right?
00:40:43.000Well, if she made a specific accusation, wouldn't Thomas know who she was anyway?
00:40:48.000So that really means that she was making accusations that were so vague they presumably could have come from anybody, right?
00:40:53.000This is what Thomas Sowell says, he says, Hill admitted under oath that although she previously denied being told something by a Democratic staffer, she actually was.
00:41:14.000There are a dozen women who came out in support of Clarence Thomas contradicting Anita Hill.
00:41:19.000Hill made numerous phone calls to Clarence Thomas long after she stopped working for him.
00:41:24.000She followed him from job to job even though she worked for the federal government where there's tremendous job security.
00:41:29.000A witness who said that she was told details about the supposed sexual harassment while the two were living in Washington didn't even live in Washington at the time.
00:41:36.000So there were serious credibility problems with Anita Hill.
00:41:39.000Nonetheless, here is CNN today, quote,
00:41:43.000We have to ask, how far have we come to equality?
00:41:46.000And they're using Anita Hill as sort of the talking point.
00:41:48.000It says, the Harvey Weinstein scandal suggests workplace conditions have not improved nearly enough for women in the 26 years since then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas was accused of workplace sexual harassment.
00:41:58.000His accuser, Anita Hill, told CNN's New Day on Wednesday.
00:42:00.000So number one, Anita Hill's credibility has been in question for years.
00:42:04.000Number two, it's kind of weird, don't you think, that CNN never runs a story saying,
00:42:09.000The Harvey Weinstein scandal suggests workplace conditions have not improved nearly enough for women since Kathleen Willey accused the President of the United States of groping her in the Oval Office.
00:42:32.000Now, Sarah Silverman bugs me for a variety of reasons.
00:42:34.000I'm not a fan of the cutesy use of the C word.
00:42:35.000You know, she does like a little child's voice and then she curses like a sailor.
00:42:53.000I don't find that particularly amusing.
00:42:55.000She's also a hardcore leftist who really looks down on red state America and Republicans in any area of American life.
00:43:02.000I mean, she campaigned for Bernie Sanders.
00:43:04.000So of course, she's the perfect person that Hollywood and Netflix are going to trot out to, I think it's Hulu actually, is going to trot out to unite Americans.
00:43:11.000I can't think of a more unifying figure than Sarah Silverman.
00:43:14.000So here's Sarah Silverman's trailer for I Love You America.
00:43:24.000I love you, America From sea to shining sea From the east coast to the west And whatever's in between I love you, America The old red, white, and blue
00:43:39.000I love you America and everyone in you.
00:45:11.000But they did vote for Donald Trump, and you can see, I mean, the whole show is designed, it's supposed to be about how much he loves people.
00:45:16.000The whole show is designed to show how she's basically like Steve Irwin in the wild interviewing a crocodile.
00:46:27.000I talk to people all across the spectrum, all around the country.
00:46:30.000And the idea that, you know, that everyone who doesn't live in her social milieu is kind of a hick, and then, but we're all the same underneath.
00:46:38.000Well, no, we have some pretty different values.
00:46:41.000And I think that what Sarah Silverman needs to learn is not that we're all humans underneath.
00:46:45.000If you don't get that by now, you're dumb.
00:46:47.000What you really need to learn is that if you have differing political viewpoints with somebody, if you have different religious viewpoints from somebody, like, that significantly differ, that maybe that's okay.
00:46:56.000And I don't think that Sarah Silverman needs to go out to Louisiana and find people with no teeth in order to do that, right?
00:47:01.000I think that she needs to go into Hollywood and talk to the conservatives that she won't deal with, that her ex-husband Jimmy Kimmel says he doesn't want to have a conversation with, and maybe have a conversation with them, and maybe have a discussion.
00:47:12.000Like, maybe she's wrong about some things.
00:47:25.000If we don't have a common vision for the country, if we don't have any values in common, then yeah, we're still human, and we have that in common, I suppose.
00:47:31.000But, that doesn't really go very far, and that's sort of why the show is bound to fail.
00:47:35.000Plus, it looks absolutely boring and terrible.
00:47:37.000Okay, so I was going to do a little bit of Bible talk, but I think that we have run out of time, so I may save that for tomorrow.
00:47:42.000I'm speaking at University of Tennessee in Knoxville tonight.
00:47:45.000My speech is going to be somewhat different than the speeches that I normally give, so I'm looking forward to trotting out something new.
00:47:51.000Ooh, interesting, fascinating, or boring.