10-month-old Charlie Gard is a terminally ill baby who has now been sentenced to death by the European Court on Human Rights, an Orwellian organization if ever there has been one, which determined that, while his parents wanted to take him to the U.S. for a long-shot, potentially life-saving treatment, they couldn t. Instead, the court ruled that the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children would withdraw all life support, killing Charlie. What was the court s justification? Charlie had to die with dignity. That s the new dignity: to live with pain. That s a far cry from the Hippocratic Oath, which says, "I will neither poison, nor do I do so to anybody when asked to do so." So in Europe, euthanasia is now available to people who aren t even terminal. People who suffer from depression or anorexia. That's a better way to die than to die with pain, right? That's the math: Better to die, than to live in dignity. And why shouldn't it be devalued? Why should it be a fundamental hallmark of Western civilization that life ought to be preserved in spite of suffering? But that notion has been stripped away in favor of a secularist standard of healthy living, which is not a solution to suffering? But that's a poison? Why not? by Tufts University, which teaches us that death is a poison. when it comes to living with dignity and so we can be free of pain not a poison a poison to do a better life or a better than we can do better than that by a better thing that s a better to die so that we can live with a better day better than a better world than we do better . And why not to do better in life than we should be better than the other in which we should do better, better than is better than I do better? that's the new ? What do you think about it? , not better than this I ll tell you what the difference between a poison, right than a poison that I ve been taught by Tuft and a poison in the original Hippocratic oath what s a poison I ve learned in class do I think you ll do better to do ?
00:00:00.000You've probably never heard of Charlie Gard.
00:00:02.000He's a terminally ill, 10-month-old baby who has now been sentenced to death by the European Court on Human Rights, an Orwellian organization if ever there has been one, which determined that while his parents wanted to take him to the United States for a long-shot, potentially life-saving treatment, they couldn't.
00:00:16.000Instead, the court ruled, the great Ormond Street Hospital for Children would withdraw all life support, killing Charlie.
00:00:38.000But the hospital argued that the treatment wouldn't help Charlie and would prolong his suffering, and that they knew better than the parents who had to suffer through his illness and care for him every single day.
00:00:47.000Thus, the hospital argued that it would be in Charlie's best interest to die.
00:00:52.000The guards then appealed to the EU, and now the court has ruled against them, with the ECHR, that's the European Commission on Human Rights, stating, quote,
00:01:08.000The hospital issued its own perverse statement.
00:01:10.000They said, quote, Despite the hospital's statement that it would not immediately change the standard of care, his parents now report that the hospital will withdraw life support tomorrow.
00:01:36.000We begged them to give us the weekend.
00:01:37.000Friends and family wanted to come and see Charlie for the last time, but now there isn't even time for that.
00:01:42.000Doctors said they would not rush to turn off his ventilator, but we are being rushed.
00:01:45.000Not only are we not allowed to take our son to an expert hospital to save his life, we also can't choose how or when our son dies.
00:01:51.000There are several levels to the perversity here.
00:01:53.000First, for all the talk of the evils of the American system of health care, at least we promote freedom of choice and give as many options to people for their care as they can afford.
00:02:02.000As the doctor who offered experimental treatment said in court, if Charlie had been ill at any institution in the United States, they would immediately have begun the treatment.
00:02:10.000But in the UK, a socialized medicine country where individual needs come second to the preservation of the system, there is less concern with parental rights.
00:02:17.000In the US, we are so interested in the freedom to obtain care that we insist on releasing a legally brain-dead girl to her mother so long as her mother wishes to keep her hooked up to a ventilator.
00:02:26.000In the UK, they are insistent on withdrawing the opportunity for life-saving care because it is better to kill the child than keep it alive.
00:02:34.000Well, this case became a court proceeding.
00:02:35.000Every single day, the National Health Service, the NHS, makes decisions about how to ration care.
00:02:40.000Bernie Sanders tweets about how nobody should be denied care because they can't afford it, but that's what happens all the time under socialized medicine.
00:02:47.000The difference being, it's not about you not being able to afford it, it's about the government not being able to afford it.
00:02:51.000And you do not even have the capacity to raise the money to fund the care yourself.
00:02:55.000Second, a government-run system breeds a shift in control.
00:02:58.000In the US, the case of Charlie Gard is a major scandal.
00:03:01.000In the EU, it's apparently no big deal.
00:03:03.000That's because we in the United States like to think that we control our lives and that as parents, our priorities matter than those of random doctors who don't raise our kids.
00:03:11.000But once you give up control of your life and death decisions to an impersonal government, it is nearly impossible
00:03:26.000It always has the final say under the NHS system.
00:03:29.000Third, allowing the government to control the value of life means devaluing life.
00:03:33.000It has been a fundamental hallmark of Western civilization that life ought to be preserved, in spite of pain, in spite of suffering, that death is not a solution to suffering.
00:03:41.000But that notion has now been stripped away in favor of a secularist standard of healthy living, and so in Europe, euthanasia is now available to people who aren't even terminal.
00:03:49.000People who suffer from depression or anorexia.
00:03:51.000Better to die with dignity than live with pain.
00:03:54.000That's a far cry from the original Hippocratic Oath, which overtly stated, neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course.
00:04:02.000Or even the Tufts Medical School version, which is usually used in the United States, which states, quote, above all, I must not play at God.
00:04:08.000Those who value life want to keep choices about their life in their hands, rather than turning such control over to an impersonal government bureaucracy that guarantees you coverage it chooses for you.
00:04:19.000Charlie Gard's story isn't just a travesty of justice and an insult to decency.
00:04:23.000It's a warning for people who think that bureaucracies are as interested in preserving your health care as you are.
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00:06:15.000Okay, well, the life issue is near and dear to my heart, as you know, if you've watched the program at all or seen any of my videos on YouTube.
00:06:22.000I'm actually in Wisconsin right now, broadcasting from the road, because I was the keynote speaker at the National Rights to Life Convention, and there is a sickness that has taken hold on the left.
00:06:47.000Just because somebody is suffering does not mean that their life is meaningless or valueless.
00:06:51.000This becomes particularly an issue when the person can't speak for themselves, as with this kid.
00:06:56.000As a sort of libertarian person, I morally don't believe in assisted suicide, but as a libertarian, I sort of understand the position, at least.
00:07:05.000The notion that if you are terminally ill and you're going to die anyway, that you may want to pull the plug.
00:07:11.000It's not something I agree with morally, and I don't think that the government should be involved in sponsoring it, but I certainly don't agree with the idea here, which is that if this baby was not going to have quality of life that you like, and you I mean the court, if you don't like that quality of life, but the parents want to preserve the life,
00:07:26.000I don't see how you are able to trump their capacity to attempt to save their own child.
00:07:32.000And you can hear the suffering of the parents.
00:07:33.000Here's what the parents had to say just a couple of months ago about the government attempting to stop them from bringing... This is not even a matter of them asking the, the NHS to cover the cost.
00:07:41.000They're saying, we'll cover the cost ourselves.
00:07:42.000Just give us back our kids so we can leave.
00:07:56.000Just waiting to find out in where we can.
00:07:59.000Is there a time scale that you have to adhere to to make that appeal?
00:08:05.000Yeah, it was three weeks, but it's now kind of a week's pass since two weeks today.
00:08:09.000That must be very difficult, Chris, to get your head around doing anything like that when you must be feeling so devastated about what happened at the end of that court case.
00:08:19.000I still haven't got my head around it.
00:08:20.000It was a week ago and I'm still, you know, I can't sleep, I can't eat.
00:08:24.000I still can't get my head around why we're not allowed to take our boy for treatment he so desperately needs.
00:08:32.000And just to get clear, Chris, you've raised money, you have funds, you could pay for the transportation to the United States, yeah?
00:08:44.000The reason that the judges decided that that should not be the case is that the medical opinion is that this would be too stressful and too painful for your son.
00:09:26.000Okay, this is what is truly incredible about all of this, and this is why, again, there is a basic rift when it comes to the quote-unquote right to health care.
00:09:34.000People on the right say you have the right to obtain health care for which you are willing to pay, and that gives you the ability to make choices about your own health care.
00:09:41.000The left says you have the right to obtain health care regardless of ability to pay, but then says, okay, well, the people who are actually gonna pay for you get to make the decisions.
00:09:50.000Whoever controls the dollars makes the call.
00:09:53.000Okay, when it comes to your own health care, if you control the dollars, you make the call.
00:09:56.000And if the government controls the dollars, the government makes the call.
00:09:59.000And so in this particular case, you know, there have been situations like this in the United States, like Terri Schiavo, but even that was a little bit different because Schiavo was an adult and they were trying to figure out what her wishes would have been as an adult.
00:10:11.000In the United States, it was not a matter of willingness to pay or the people who obviously have control over the situation, the parents, making a case.
00:10:20.000What the guards are going through may be specific to their child, but socialized medicine is all about somebody else making a decision for you, how long you ought to wait in line for a surgery, what sort of treatment you ought to get, what sort of treatment is best for you.
00:10:31.000In the United States, we don't do that.
00:10:33.000So when people say you spend a lot of money, yeah, we spend a lot of money because we choose to spend a lot of that money, and that's okay.
00:10:39.000We do a big ideas section at the end of the show now, and at the end of the show today, I'm going to talk about supply and demand in healthcare, because I think people need to understand how this works.
00:10:46.000We'll get to that in a little bit, but before we do that,
00:10:49.000The other big news of the day, because everything is stupid, is President Trump decides that it is imperative that he go off on Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough.
00:10:57.000So, as I mentioned yesterday, the only people who benefit
00:11:01.000From the media fight with Trump are the media and Trump.
00:11:03.000The American people don't benefit from this in any way.
00:11:06.000And because there's such a reactionary feeling on both sides, because Trump supporters are not, well at least a lot, a lot of Trump supporters are not even interested in forwarding his policy goals.
00:11:16.000They're more interested in him slapping the left.
00:11:19.000Whatever he does that slaps the left is seen as an ultimate good, even if it's actually counterproductive to pushing his agenda.
00:11:26.000They're so interested in seeing the media slap Trump that it doesn't matter if it undermines their own credibility, at least they're slapping Trump and Trump is mean and bad.
00:11:33.000So, Mika Brzezinski was on with Joe Scarborough this morning and she said something about Trump's tiny hands.
00:11:38.000She made some crack about Trump's tiny hands.
00:11:40.000Now, he's the most powerful man on planet Earth.
00:11:42.000He's one of the richest men on planet Earth.
00:11:44.000You would think that President Trump could handle, you know, somebody being mildly insulting or very insulting.
00:11:52.000But President Trump then took to Twitter, and he tweeted out, quote, and this is a direct quote from his Twitter, this is the President of the United States, not Donald Trump candidate, not Donald Trump reality star, the most powerful man on planet Earth, and a job that used to, you know, we on the right used to say, why isn't Barack Obama wearing his jacket in the Oval Office?
00:12:09.000Why is he putting his shoes on the desk in the Oval Office?
00:12:11.000Hey, this is the guy in the Oval Office now.
00:12:31.000Okay, first of all, terrible story, dude.
00:12:33.000I mean, like, that's a really crappy story, but... So there are a bunch of people on the right who find this just absolutely hysterically funny, because it's funny anytime anybody on the left gets slapped, even if this is just the Three Stooges, and it's Larry, Curly, and Mo pulling each other's hair and poking each other in the eyes.
00:12:59.000Short, you know, like he has this, it's like 11 insults and he just rotates them.
00:13:05.000But in any case, people were going after Trump and they're very upset with Trump because Trump was talking about her bleeding from her facelift, which is utterly irrelevant to any of this stuff.
00:13:14.000And now to be fair, to be fair, as I say,
00:13:20.000It is true that the media have been targeting Trump.
00:13:26.000It is fair that it is true that Mika Brzezinski was going after President Trump on his appearance, on his hands.
00:13:32.000And so it's not totally unfair for him to strike back, except for the fact that she's a news commentator and he's the President of the United States.
00:13:38.000Now, on the right, I think people on the left have to understand why people on the right respond to Trump by basically pooh-poohing some of this stuff.
00:13:45.000Not because it's right, because it isn't right, okay?
00:13:46.000I don't think this should be pooh-poohed.
00:14:44.000Sending it back to the states, capping its growth rate.
00:14:48.000We've been dreaming of this since I've been around.
00:14:50.000Since you and I were drinking at a keg.
00:14:54.000I've been thinking about this for a long time.
00:14:59.000Oh yeah, while most college guys in the 90s were fantasizing about Pamela Anderson, Paul Ryan was jerking it to thoughts of poor people losing healthcare to pay for tax credit.
00:15:33.000It is plainly rather immoral for the President of the United States to be tweeting about people's bloody facelift in order to humiliate them because they don't like him in the media.
00:16:27.000Look, I don't think that the president's ever been someone who gets attacked and doesn't push back.
00:16:34.000There have been an outrageous number of personal attacks, not just to him, but to, frankly, everyone around him.
00:16:41.000People on that show have personally attacked me many times.
00:16:43.000This is a president who fights fire with fire and certainly will not be allowed to be bullied by liberal media and the liberal elites within the media or Hollywood or anywhere else.
00:17:20.000I am a big fan of evidence-based insults, okay?
00:17:23.000So if you're gonna insult someone, you have to have some evidence to back it up, and the evidence has to go to the issue at hand, okay?
00:17:29.000Like, if you're having an argument about politics and then you just say about somebody, well, you're fat, this is not helpful and it doesn't forward your agenda in any way.
00:17:36.000It just looks petty and silly and ridiculous, and that's why the media is going nuts and they're having fun with this whole thing today and calling him a sexist.
00:17:44.000The right is saying, yeah, Trump was mean to Brzezinski.
00:17:46.000Who the hell cares about Mika Brzezinski except for Donald Trump?
00:18:11.000Now, again, on the left side of the aisle, they're trying to use this to give themselves the moral high ground, and they don't deserve the moral high ground, because they're slapping Trump every chance they get in exactly the same way.
00:18:19.000They're just going out and using the stupidest possible
00:18:24.000Reasons to slap Trump and making things up.
00:19:35.000So while they're busy doing all of this useless crap and then proclaiming themselves the most important people on earth for checking the president of the United States, and then Trump slaps them back with crap about facelifts, all of this is stupid.
00:19:59.000But first, let me explain how one of the biggest anti-Trump networks has lost all their credibility and can no longer be trusted by you, the American people.
00:20:10.000Now, at this point, we should put CNN, six feet, you see right there, underground for repeatedly spreading lies, propaganda, black helicopter, tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, and for viciously trying to take down this president.
00:20:25.000Now, let's just look at some of the network's many controversies and scandals.
00:20:36.000When Sean does this routine where he acts as though CNN only became biased in the last five minutes, only now have they destroyed their credibility.
00:20:42.000They've been destroying their credibility for years.
00:20:44.000Again, you can find tape of me on YouTube saying that they were basically a propaganda ally for Hamas during the Gaza war three years ago.
00:20:51.000I mean, this has been happening my entire adult life at the very least, but there's a sort of opportunism where Sean is saying, okay, let's use this opportunity to put CNN underground and we'll just, and we'll just throw away whatever news they report at the same time.
00:21:05.000Again, is any of this designed toward getting at the truth?
00:21:08.000Or is this more designed at partisan bickering and let's take out our political opposition?
00:21:13.000That matters because if it's designed to get at the truth, then it's worthwhile.
00:21:16.000You know, debunking media bias is useful if you're attempting to get at the truth.
00:21:20.000Debunking the entire media outlet because you hate them and want them to lose, that's a slightly different thing.
00:21:27.000Well, I want to talk a little bit more about that, and I want to talk about the media's insane response to all of this.
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00:22:35.000Okay, so the media have responded to, CNN has responded to Trump being anti-media and to Hannity being anti-media by doing what they do best, playing the victim.
00:22:46.000So one of the most irritating facts about the way that Trump and the media play off each other is the media claim they're the victim, so we're justified in slapping Trump.
00:22:54.000And then Trump and Sarah Huckabee Sanders say Trump is the victim, and so they're justified in slapping Mika across her facelifted head or whatever.
00:23:01.000So Brian Stelter yesterday on CNN, he said that anti-journalist rhetoric is on the rise and people are going to die.
00:23:07.000I told you a week and a half ago, two weeks ago, okay, when there was that shooting in Virginia by Bernie Sanders supporting loon bag who hated Donald Trump, I said, be very careful that you don't start labeling all rhetoric you don't like potentially violence provoking because the left will use that logic.
00:23:22.000Maybe they will anyway, but you can at least argue honestly against it if you don't use it yourself.
00:23:27.000Don't use the logic that rhetoric causes violence unless there's an open call for violence, because otherwise you are just basically trying to rule out all rhetoric.
00:23:35.000Whatever I think about Trump's stupid tweets, I don't think that they are causing violence against journalists, but that's not what Stalter is saying.
00:23:40.000He says, people on the left, right, and in-between who are pro-journalism recognize that most journalists try to be fair and right.
00:23:46.000And then he continues, but there's an alternative view.
00:23:48.000Popular and partisan websites and social media that is straight-up anti-journalism.
00:23:52.000These activists and commentators don't promote accountability, they promote resentment.
00:24:06.000I think most of the people who comment on media bias are not attempting to stamp out the media altogether.
00:24:11.000But there is a grain of truth to the idea that if you spend time promoting the Seth Rich conspiracy and then you turn around and you say CNN has to be put six feet under because they are all fake news,
00:24:21.000Are you a truth teller or are you just somebody who's attempting to play a partisan game?
00:24:26.000Now, the left uses that kernel of truth.
00:24:27.000There are some people on the right who are more anti, just anti all journalistic outlets that ever say anything bad about Trump.
00:24:33.000They're trying to use that grain of truth and turn that into, there's a real threat to us.
00:24:37.000Okay, there is no real threat to the press.
00:24:41.000This is not to say there couldn't be a nut job out there who is inflamed and goes and shoots a journalist, but this is true in political rhetoric all the time.
00:24:48.000I mean, there's a reason I travel with security.
00:24:51.000But what the left is trying to do is they're trying to say, we are on the verge because we covered Trump badly.
00:25:19.000Amazon is now, however, collecting state sales tax nationwide.
00:25:24.000But President Trump's tweet goes beyond attacking The Washington Post as fake news, something he did as recently as yesterday.
00:25:29.000The president is very explicitly linking a complaint about a media entity to a threat, or at least implied threat, against the corporation associated with it.
00:25:37.000He did this as a candidate, too, during an October speech.
00:25:40.000He followed up a string of complaints about the media with this.
00:25:45.000Amazon, which, through its ownership, controls the Washington Post, should be paying massive taxes.
00:25:53.000Okay, so we talked about this yesterday, and we talked about how silly this was, but Trump is not actually quashing the press.
00:26:10.000But this idea that the First Amendment is under siege, that the press are all at threat of some sort of grand government crackdown, haven't seen one shred of that.
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