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00:01:53.000All right, so the latest breaking news is that the authorities have arrested the suspect in all of the attempted bombings of various Democrats and Democratic public figures.
00:02:02.000I'm not going to say the name of the bomber because we have a policy on the show that we don't actually say the name of mass shooters.
00:02:07.000I'm going to extend that to bombers as well, specifically because so many folks who are crazy actually like the publicity that is attached to the naming of bombers.
00:02:18.000This is also true of people who attempt to commit terror attacks.
00:02:21.000One of their goals is to assure publicity for themselves and incentivizing people to do evil things because they want publicity is not something we're going to do.
00:02:29.000I will give you the information about the guy, but I'm not going to give you his name.
00:02:47.000You know, suggesting without any evidence that this must be a false flag attack, that this must be some sort of democratic operation.
00:02:53.000The most obvious explanation for a person sending a bunch of bombs to highly public officials is that this is a crazy person.
00:02:59.000And as it turns out, the person is indeed a crazy person.
00:03:03.000Online records show that this guy has a criminal record, and he has owned companies called Native American Catering and Vending, as well as Proud Native America One Low Price Dry Cleaning.
00:03:12.000He's a bodybuilder, and he is said to have been traced by DNA and phone records, and was flagged as a suspect after making previous terror threats to judges.
00:04:32.000Now, the media immediately jump exactly where you think they would jump, which is the guy isn't crazy.
00:04:37.000He was a perfectly rational sane human being until President Trump came along.
00:04:40.000Unfortunately for them, this has been lied by all available evidence.
00:04:43.000So this person has been arrested some 10 times.
00:04:45.000He was arrested back in 2002 for an attempted bombing threat.
00:04:51.000Presumably, I guess that was President Trump's fault back when he was on The Apprentice or something.
00:04:54.000Okay, but that's the take of the media today.
00:04:57.000Law enforcement officials covered that white van.
00:04:59.000It was covered in photos, as I say, of Donald Trump and Mike Pence, and had at least one sticker referring to Hillary Clinton.
00:05:05.000Here is a little bit of tape from CBS News covering all of this.
00:05:08.000The FBI covering the van, so all of that is just delightful.
00:05:11.000They're covering up a van, it looks like, in the same location where an arrest was made, or at least there was a lot of activity.
00:05:17.000And I wonder, you know what's interesting, guys?
00:05:20.000And again, sorry Mel and sorry Anne-Marie.
00:05:21.000Look at all that stuff in the windows.
00:05:23.000Yes, I'm just noticing that the FBI, the picture that you're looking at right now is absolutely unbelievable.
00:05:30.000What they're doing is they're covering up this van, which I caught a very brief glimpse of it, without 100% certainty, but I thought I saw a picture of Hillary Clinton in it.
00:05:53.000We're going to get for now from here to the election.
00:05:55.000We're going to get President Trump's rhetoric is what caused a crazy person to be crazy.
00:05:59.000So let's just remember back one year ago, like a little bit over a year ago, a Bernie Sanders supporter went and legitimately shot, shot at dozens of Republican Congress people and nearly killed the House Majority Whip, Steve Scalise.
00:06:12.000Shot him so badly he was in critical condition.
00:06:14.000When he did, he arrived shouting that because the Republicans were killing people with their health care plan, that he was now going to kill Republican congresspeople.
00:06:22.000Bernie Sanders had spent the prior month saying that the Republican health care plans was going to actually kill people.
00:06:27.000This is something that Bernie Sanders said.
00:06:29.000Was Bernie Sanders responsible for the crazy guy?
00:06:32.000Bernie Sanders was not responsible for the crazy guy.
00:06:35.000Now, if you want to say, if somebody, let's say that a President Trump supporter went and just punched a protester, I would say, okay, a lot closer linkage between the rhetoric President Trump has used and that particular action.
00:06:45.000Just as I say, there's a lot closer linkage between Maxine Waters saying, confront people in public places, and Democrats going and confronting people in public places.
00:06:54.000Incitement to one activity is not necessarily incitement to sending bombs in the mail.
00:06:58.000Or shooting people up on a congressional baseball field.
00:07:00.000But the media have leapt to a particular conclusion.
00:07:03.000Bernie Sanders in 2017 was completely innocent of what this guy did.
00:07:19.000What the left says is the climate of polarization, the climate has gotten too nasty in this country.
00:07:24.000It's just a bad, nasty climate of polarization that we have here in the United States.
00:07:29.000And that's all President Trump's fault.
00:07:31.000So maybe we ought to censor what people on the right are saying.
00:07:34.000Maybe we ought to claim that people on the right are uniquely evil.
00:07:37.000Do they understand that that claim actually radicalizes folks?
00:07:41.000If they were two-sided about this, if they were objective about this, if what they said was, listen, everybody needs to tone down the rhetoric, Bernie Sanders needs to tone down the rhetoric, Democrats need to tone down the rhetoric, Republicans need to tone down the rhetoric, then at least they're consistent.
00:08:24.000That doesn't mean that President Trump ought to be saying what he's saying.
00:08:26.000It does mean that the Democrats in the media are absolutely radicalizing a population of people on the other side by claiming falsely that everyone on the other side is responsible for the actions of somebody who's clearly insane.
00:09:32.000There's a reporter on screen from the White House and it says underneath, CNN, Trump has no plans to claim any personal responsibility for inciting serial bomber.
00:09:40.000Why would he have plans to claim personal responsibility for inciting a serial bomber?
00:09:45.000Did Bernie Sanders claim that he had responsibility for inciting a serial shooter?
00:10:07.000Here's Maxine Waters, a person who legitimately has said in the past few months that you should get in people's face in quasi-violent ways, in public places, on politics.
00:10:15.000And now she's ripping into President Trump and saying he should take responsibility for an obviously crazy person.
00:10:20.000By the way, this is why I objected to all the false flag garbage that so many on the right were spewing right out of the gate.
00:10:26.000Because my feeling is that the obvious answer to this was it was a crazy person.
00:10:31.000You know who sends bombs to people in the mail?
00:10:40.000Yeah, but here's Maxine Waters blaming President Trump.
00:10:42.000Maxine Waters, probably the most volatile and the most violent rhetoric using Democrat in the United States Congress.
00:10:50.000Here she is blaming Trump for all of this.
00:10:52.000I think the President of the United States has been dog-whistling to his constituency, making them believe that their problems are caused by those people over there.
00:11:03.000And I think that they're acting out what they believe the President wants them to do and the way that he wants them to act.
00:13:35.000The Facebook account is almost exclusively pro-Trump content, including pictures and videos purportedly filmed at one of the president's political rallies.
00:13:42.000The Twitter feed is littered with far-right conspiracy theories or violent threats aimed at some of President Trump's most outspoken critics.
00:13:48.000He appears to have repeatedly tweeted about George Soros.
00:13:50.000At one point, he purportedly wrote, you will vanish in a tweet aimed at the billionaire.
00:13:54.000Soros is one of the people who received one of the bombs.
00:13:57.000Other tweets falsely claimed that the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting was a false flag operation orchestrated by Soros and his liberal allies.
00:14:05.000The account also posted frequently angry messages at Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
00:14:09.000Her name was listed on the return account for all of the bombs.
00:14:12.000Other prominent liberal activists, including David Hogg, who's a Parkland survivor, and Colin Kaepernick and Antifa, are targeted in other tweets.
00:14:19.000Also, this person tweeted violent death threats and pictures of death at Sarah Zhang, who's a New York Times columnist who tweeted a bunch of racist anti-white stuff a while ago.
00:14:29.000He also sent a gory image of a beheaded goat to comedian Jim Carrey.
00:14:32.000So, in other words, this is an insane person.
00:14:38.000Well, besides the fact that his van is covered in bumper stickers like a crazy person, the Florida man has a significant criminal history and was previously charged with making a bomb threat in 2002.
00:14:48.000The ruling in that case was not immediately clear on Friday.
00:14:50.000He was also convicted of theft in 2014 and 2013 and battery in 2013.
00:14:54.000In 2012, he filed for bankruptcy and declared in court filings he lived with his mother.
00:14:59.000So yeah, clearly this is President Trump's fault.
00:15:02.000Obviously, this is all President Trump.
00:15:08.000But again, the fact that he is nuts is not going to stop the Democrats from trotting out the lie that it's Republicans who caused all of this.
00:15:15.000So Joy Behar is doing this routine too.
00:15:18.000She said that the entire GOP is to blame for a crazy person who lived with his mother and was arrested for bomb threats 16 years ago and then arrested a bunch of times in the past five years
00:15:29.000Including many times before Trump was president.
00:15:31.000The entire GOP is responsible for this.
00:15:34.000And I think that it's incumbent upon the Republicans in this country to start to speak out.
00:15:39.000They did not open their mouths when they, he attacked your father.
00:15:42.000They did not open their mouths when he attacked a gold star family.
00:15:45.000Or he said he was going to grab women by their genitals.
00:15:48.000Or when he said the second amendment will take care of Hillary Clinton.
00:15:51.000They stayed silent and they are the perpetrators also.
00:15:55.000Okay, what's amazing is that when Democrats are actually reminded of violent rhetoric used by Democrats in the past, then they get very, very angry.
00:16:01.000And this is the part where the one-sidedness of the media is creating a more volatile political climate.
00:16:07.000So, let's take, for example, Katie Tuer.
00:16:09.000Katie Tuer over at MSNBC, obviously a member of the left.
00:16:12.000And Katie Tour was reminded by a guest about some of the violent rhetoric used by Democrats in recent weeks.
00:16:19.000Eric Erickson is the guy you'll hear talking about Democratic rhetoric.
00:16:22.000But MSNBC will have none of it because obviously only one side of the political aisle is bad and volatile and uses overheated rhetoric.
00:16:30.000Do we go back to the weather underground in 1960 or to McVeigh in the 1990s?
00:16:33.000Have you ever heard a politician other than Donald Trump say, I'm so proud or give a kudos to another politician who body slammed a reporter?
00:16:43.000Have you ever heard that from anybody else other than Donald Trump?
00:16:46.000Well, and Katie, the response... Eric is going to answer this question.
00:17:06.000No, it's terrible when President Trump says that stuff.
00:17:08.000Also, it is terrible when Democrats say that you should kick people, when they say that you should confront people in public places, when Bernie Sanders claims that Republicans are going to kill millions of people with their health care plan, when many, when a vast swath of the Democratic Party claim the Tea Partyers were actual terrorists.
00:17:23.000To pretend that the volatile political climate in the United States is anything new is ridiculous, but this has been a long-standing Democratic tactic for legitimately decades.
00:17:30.000I mean, after JFK was shot in 1963, Democrats tried to claim that it was right-wing rhetoric that had killed JFK, even though it turns out that it was a commie.
00:17:38.000So there's nothing new under the sun, but it's increasingly frustrating, and this actually is dangerous for the country for two reasons.
00:17:45.000Not just, and believe me, I'm going to get to what the Republicans had to say about this in just a second, including President Trump issuing an asinine tweet this morning, but
00:17:54.000What is dangerous about the media's take on this is when they suggest that rhetoric that does not incite violence is responsible for violence, they're criminalizing rhetoric.
00:18:02.000And when they do it for only one side, it appears that they only want to criminalize rhetoric on one side, which leads people to believe that they are coming for you.
00:18:12.000And to fail to acknowledge this is to fail to acknowledge what's driving a lot of our politics these days, which is a reactionary feel that the other side is threatening you.
00:18:33.000Repeatedly, I said if you think this is a false flag attack or you jump to the conclusion it's a false flag attack based on nothing but confirmation bias, you're doing it wrong.
00:18:41.000I've been saying that repeatedly over and over on this show.
00:18:47.000Okay, so I think most people on the right sort of agreed with that, but there was a substantial substratum on the right that suggested that this had to be a Democrat.
00:18:56.000It had to be somebody on the left who perpetrated this because obviously it was too convenient for Democrats in the run-up to the election.
00:19:02.000This sort of conspiracy theorizing is not good either.
00:19:05.000The reason that it is not good either is because it allows people to believe that there are no crazies on their own side, that evil is entirely relegated to people who disagree with them.
00:19:36.000But it's the least popular phrase because if you jump to a conclusion and that jump ends up being right, your side says, ha, that guy gets it.
00:19:45.000And if you're wrong, your own side says, well, his gut was right.
00:19:48.000It's just that the facts didn't fit his gut in this case, but he still knows what's what.
00:19:52.000So jumping to conclusions is being incentivized on every side right now, and it's really bad.
00:19:57.000It's particularly bad when the President of the United States does it.
00:19:59.000So legitimately, legitimately, just a couple of hours before the FBI arrested this suspect, President Trump started tweeting about the bomb stuff this morning.
00:20:25.000President Trump is correct about that one.
00:20:27.000When he says the media rip him, and they criticize him at will, and when he responds they say it's like September 11th or Oklahoma City, and he's creating that.
00:20:42.000Republicans are doing so well in early voting and at the polls and now this quote unquote bomb stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows.
00:21:06.000The problem with people sending bombs in the mail is not the impact on voting.
00:21:09.000It's people sending bombs in the mail.
00:21:10.000And the suggestion that this is all just a misdirect by the media when people send bombs in the mail to a bunch of prominent Democratic figures?
00:22:58.000Two, don't attribute crazy people to your political opponents.
00:23:02.000Attribute to your political opponents what is attributable.
00:23:05.000Do not attribute to them that which is not attributable.
00:23:07.000So, if you want to attribute mobs going and shouting Ted Cruz out of restaurants to Maxine Waters, that seems reasonable to me.
00:23:13.000If you want to accuse President Trump of incentivizing people to punch protesters, I think even that may be reasonable.
00:23:19.000But, if you're going to claim that President Trump is responsible for mail bombs, and you're going to claim that Bernie Sanders is responsible for shootings on congressional baseball fields, that is not reasonable.
00:23:29.000Fourth, if you are going to start attributing the heightened political rhetoric in this country to violence, if you're going to start saying violence is coming from that, then you're going to have to recognize that this sort of heightened political rhetoric exists on all sides.
00:23:43.000Because if you don't, then you're lying.
00:23:47.000Now, I'm not saying that it's happening equally on all sides, but I am saying that it is happening on all sides and we all need to take it down a pitch.
00:23:54.000Okay, President Trump's political rhetoric is a problem when he says that, I mean, I criticized him heavily last week on this show for praising Greg Gianforte for body slamming a reporter.
00:24:02.000If you're gonna do that, you also have to point out when Democrats use violent rhetoric, which they have been doing more and more often.
00:24:08.000Hillary Clinton said two weeks ago that civility against Republicans, civility with Republicans, was simply uncalled for at this time.
00:24:15.000If we are going to talk about heightened political rhetoric, we have to talk about it in an accurate way.
00:24:20.000We are not doing that, and the media are not doing that, and that's creating blowback against the media.
00:24:24.000Okay, finally, here's how you can, here's how you can really not suck at all of this.
00:24:31.000Start to think about whether the stuff that you say is more likely to raise the temperature or lower the temperature.
00:24:38.000And if it is raising the temperature, maybe you should think about whether it's appropriate to raise the temperature.
00:26:56.000So you can't actually apply for political asylum from the country of origin.
00:27:01.000However, President Trump's actual suggestion is that these people are not actually looking for political asylum.
00:27:06.000Instead, they're looking for economic opportunity, which means that they would be fraudulently filing papers if they were seeking political asylum when they were really looking for economic opportunity.
00:27:16.000I don't think there's anything wrong with Trump saying, go home and apply the right way.
00:27:19.000But if the idea is that it's illegal for them to approach the southern border and apply for asylum, that, of course, is not true either.
00:27:26.000What is also not true is that the United States has an obligation to take in everyone who wants to cross the border no matter what, where they come from, or what their motivation is.
00:27:42.000And he says that God, he's spoken to God.
00:27:45.000Now, as a religious person who speaks with God three times a day, God doesn't talk back to me, but I talk to God fairly often, like a lot, okay?
00:27:52.000But apparently God does talk to John Kasich.
00:27:56.000And it's funny how the left will mock Mike Pence when he says that he has to pray on things in order to make a decision.
00:28:00.000But when John Kasich is mouthing leftist platitudes in the name of God, then it's totally fine.
00:28:04.000Here's John Kasich suggesting that God doesn't want us opposing the caravan.
00:28:09.000And let's stop putting up walls around ourselves and not understanding the plight, the trouble, and the problems of others.
00:28:16.000It is not right, and the Lord doesn't want it.
00:28:19.000And our people, at their hearts, want to reach out to others.
00:29:01.000Megyn Kelly was not getting good ratings in mourning, and so they decided that they wanted to dump her, and then they found an excuse to dump her when she said on a mourning show that she didn't see what was wrong with people darkening their skin for Halloween costumes.
00:29:11.000They accused her of being pro-blackface, as we've discussed over the last couple of days.
00:29:17.000We'll talk about the media's attempt to polarize the culture on the issue of race, and NBC's attempt to do so for political gain in just one second.
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00:29:44.000The leftist here is hot or cold Tumblr.
00:30:54.000I've said many times that the lone wolf guys who pledge to ISIS or to white supremacy or to anti-abortion violence are kooks who aren't looking for a cause.
00:31:00.000They have to go find the propaganda, and when they do, they mainline it.
00:31:03.000The difference here is that really hateful stuff is coming in waves, not from foreigners or fringe groups, but from White House-sponsored rallies, from widely-cited internet sites that have zillions of followers, and from a four-hour window of hot crazy known as Fox in prime time, which is very convenient for Tom Nichols.
00:31:17.000He says, no one in politics or wind-nut media made this guy send bombs, period.
00:31:20.000What they did instead was superheat the political environment and flood crazy BS into the information space so regularly that unhinged guys like this think they're being patriots by sending bombs.
00:31:40.000Well, wouldn't the same hold true on the left when they overheat the political rhetoric?
00:31:43.000When they say, for example, that Megyn Kelly is an absolute racist.
00:31:48.000When they say that anybody who even mentions Halloween costumes is so racist that they cannot be employed.
00:31:54.000And like Kirsten Powers has a piece today about how Megyn Kelly is a racist because she is white, which is Megyn Kelly said something really racist should not be a surprising sentence to anyone.
00:32:05.000The original sin was that Kelly was hired by NBC at all.
00:32:09.000Kelly had a long track record of racial demagoguery at Fox before she ever set foot at the NBC studios.
00:32:15.000Now, again, is this heating up the political system?
00:32:19.000How about this op-ed from George Yancey, a professor of philosophy at Emory University, which obviously needs a better philosophy department.
00:32:26.000He has a piece today called, hashtag, I am sexist.
00:32:29.000He says, it's time we men take responsibility for our role in the problem of violence against women.
00:32:34.000He says that all men are guilty of violence against women.
00:32:38.000He says, I've decided not to cut corners.
00:32:40.000Join me with due diligence and civic duty and publicly proclaim I am sexist.
00:32:44.000In fact, perhaps it is time we lay claim to a movement.
00:33:21.000I was not happy, especially as she had her father's last name, which I argued contradicted her position against patriarchy.
00:33:26.000But as she argued, this is my name and it is part of my identity, I became stubborn and interpreted her decision as evidence of a lack of full commitment to me.
00:33:33.000Well, she brilliantly proposed that we both change our last names and take on a new name together, showing our commitment to each other.
00:33:39.000Yeah, so obviously this guy is a real anti-feminist.
00:33:42.000He says, if you are a woman reading this, I have failed you.
00:33:45.000I mean, this is like a Maoist forced apology.
00:34:19.000And let's point out the media's hypocrisy when it comes to these sorts of issues.
00:34:22.000When it comes to these sorts of issues, every democratic male is considered a non-sexist in reality.
00:34:27.000When it comes to the media, Megyn Kelly happens to be a person right of center.
00:34:33.000Jimmy Kimmel is a person left of center.
00:34:35.000Has anyone brought up the fact that if we're going to talk about blackface, Jimmy Kimmel in 2000 did an actual blackface routine on national television on Comedy Central.
00:34:43.000This is Jimmy Kimmel in blackface, not only
00:34:48.000He's mocking Karl Malone specifically.
00:34:49.000Mocking Karl Malone for not being able to speak English properly.
00:34:53.000This is a lot closer to insulting black people than Megyn Kelly saying, I don't mind if someone dresses up and darkens their skin as Diana Ross to honor Diana Ross.
00:35:00.000Okay, Jimmy Kimmel somehow has a show on ABC.
00:37:06.000Okay, as someone who actually knows this stuff, I will tell you exactly what the Jewish law was doing.
00:37:10.000The Jewish law was saying, this person has two separate sets of genitals.
00:37:15.000We don't know whether they're a male or a female.
00:37:17.000Therefore, we are going to be as strict as possible in every circumstance.
00:37:20.000So we will treat them as female for purposes of forbidding them from temple service, but we will treat them as male for purposes of forbidding them from shaving.
00:37:27.000In other words, we don't know, but that doesn't mean male and female don't exist.
00:37:29.000The case being made in the pages of the New York Times,
00:37:32.000And I asked my wife about this because she's a doctor, guys.
00:37:35.000And that means, and so I asked her like, is there any, like, what does this even mean?
00:37:38.000She says, no, this is a person trying to cast genetic disorders.
00:38:48.000They're emotionally manipulated to be happy, and then there are these group of primitives who sort of live out in the middle of nowhere as people used to.
00:38:54.000The question of Brave New World really is whether the Brave New World is good or whether it's bad.
00:38:57.000It's pretty obvious that it's bad for people who live in Western civilization, which means you have to ask yourself why.
00:39:02.000As far as other books along those lines, obviously the works of George Orwell are along these lines.
00:39:15.000There's a bunch of fiction, science fiction, that's sort of along the lines of Brave New World, post-apocalyptic fiction, obviously there's some of this.
00:39:23.000Actually, a book I recommended this week, Submission, is sort of along these lines, a parodic take on what is happening in Europe.
00:39:29.000I mean, the undercover story of the year is that the European Human Rights Commission ruled today, they ruled today, that it is proper to fine someone for speaking against the Prophet Muhammad.
00:39:58.000First of all, my kids don't get to date until they are of marriageable age, because I am not in favor of dating just for fun.
00:40:04.000I think that that is a temptation to sin, and I think that it is a... Like, I don't think that you get anything out of it when you're 16 years old.
00:40:12.000They can date when they're ready to get married, because dating is supposed to be for marriage.
00:40:15.000It's not supposed to be for heavy petting, or going riding in the car, or any of that stupidity.
00:40:22.000Okay, Spencer says, Well, I mean, you'd have to... Buber is the closest to an actual Jewish philosopher.
00:40:30.000I don't know the work of Levinas that well, so I'm going to leave him out.
00:40:33.000Hannah Arendt is not particularly a Jewish philosopher.
00:40:35.000She's more of a philosopher who happened to be Jewish.
00:40:38.000Her connection to Judaism is pretty strained.
00:40:50.000I don't like his anti-Zionism very much.
00:40:53.000There are a lot of candidates out there.
00:40:58.000I would be surprised if Rand Paul doesn't try to make another run.
00:41:01.000I would be surprised if Nikki Haley doesn't try to make a run in 2024.
00:41:05.000I'd be surprised if Mike Pence doesn't try to make a run in 2024.
00:41:07.000There are a bunch of Republicans out there who probably would.
00:41:15.000Well, I think that most people on the left are sincere, but I don't know that they've really thought through their own arguments, which is why I spend a lot of my time, when I talk to folks on the left, trying to get people on the left to recognize the consequences of their own arguments.
00:41:32.000What do they actually believe at root?
00:41:34.000And as far as antisemitism on the left, I've suggested that there are really three main types of antisemitism in the world right now.
00:41:40.000There's kind of the alt-right antisemitism, which is old style racial and religious antisemitism.
00:41:46.000Jews are inferior or bad or corrupt or greedy or communists because they killed Jesus and all of this kind of stuff.
00:41:54.000And that's pretty terrible and old school.
00:41:57.000Type number two is Muslim antisemitism, radical Muslim antisemitism, which sort of conflates religious antisemitism with ethnic antisemitism.
00:42:05.000And you see that throughout the world where hate crimes against Jews are rising in Europe as the radical Islamic population of Europe rises.
00:42:11.000And the third type of antisemitism is leftist antisemitism, where antisemitism arises for two reasons.
00:42:17.000One, the secular left doesn't like religion very much.
00:42:20.000And two, the secular left very often believes that basic
00:42:26.000Distribution of resources that is not even means that the person who is more prosperous somehow victimized the person who is less prosperous.
00:42:55.000Well, there are a couple who are just fantastic.
00:43:02.000So, The Joker is great, but only because The Joker is just sheer chaos.
00:43:06.000Lex Luthor is fantastic because Lex Luthor, at least in the modern iteration, under sort of Geoff Johns,
00:43:12.000Lex Luthor is taken as a character who is firmly convinced that we cannot give power to any one person or anyone being, because if we do, that person could use the power against us, which is actually the correct premise.
00:43:38.000That's why you have to believe that the only reason Superman is allowed to exist in this world, in comic book world, is because he is truth justice in the American way.
00:43:45.000Were he not, he would be a supervillain.
00:44:54.000She seemed to be a lot more pro-choice, and then as she learned more about the biology, she became more, she's probably more pro-life than I am at this point.
00:45:01.000So biology tends to be the great leveler when it comes to this particular issue.
00:45:09.000When scientists find life anywhere, cells, bacteria, on other planets or moons, and we all celebrate the greatest achievement in human history, we'll have to be consistent in their hypocrisy and declare cells not a life, but in the other breath, say, they are the party of science and recognize cells are life, making a new definition of what's life once more.
00:45:25.000Well, yeah, I mean, this is an argument that I've made.
00:45:26.000I made it on Fox News when I did my Sunday special.
00:45:28.000You know, this argument that life does not exist in single-celled organisms, as long as they're human, but they exist everywhere else, that obviously is logically untenable in every conceivable way.
00:45:41.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I like and then some things that I hate.
00:45:47.000So I decided to do some cartoons end of the week, not only because cartoons have bombs in them, but also because cartoons are hilarious and joyous and fun.
00:45:55.000And I think we've lost a lot of those things.
00:45:56.000So here is a little bit of one of the great classical music cartoons of all time.
00:46:02.000This is Bugs Bunny not being a transgender bunny.
00:46:05.000But pretending to be female for purposes of deceiving Elmer Fudd.
00:46:10.000Bugs Bunny was not actually a female bunny in a male bunny's body.
00:46:13.000Here's Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in What's... What's Opera, Doc?
00:48:53.000That's the name of the show, and that's what we do.
00:48:55.000And we're going to keep talking sports, but the fact of the matter is, politics has crept in, starting in a very significant way with Colin Kaepernick, and it's just continued.
00:49:03.000And that's not going to change, but that's not who we are or what we do.
00:49:06.000And the fact of the matter is, I said last night,
00:49:27.000Okay, other stupidity, final stupidity for the day, and then we'll leave for the week, because I gotta take a break, man.
00:49:32.000Mathematicians, this is according to Real Clear Investigations, mathematicians who want tenure at UCLA have to do more than show a facility with numbers.
00:49:39.000They have to pledge in writing a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusivity.
00:49:44.000All professors applying for tenure-track positions at UCLA must write a statement on their commitment to diversity, showing, for example, their record of success advising women and minority graduate students, according to the UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
00:49:57.000This reflects a push by college bureaucrats to ratchet up requirements to achieve a more diverse campus.
00:50:04.000So instead of the burden of proof being on somebody to show that somebody's racist, instead, the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that you are not racist by signing a forced statement under penalty of lack of tenure, showing that you are committed to diversity.
00:50:17.000Now, not diversity in thought, obviously, diversity in ethnicity.
00:50:20.000Now, what's weird about that for science and math departments is presumably you want to recruit the best candidates regardless of race.
00:50:25.000And you know who is most affected by all of the affirmative action programs at top universities?
00:50:32.000There's an entire lawsuit against Harvard University about that right now.
00:50:35.000But these universities have decided that ideology matters a hell of a lot more than actual efficacy of these departments.
00:50:41.000And that is not a call for lack of diversity.
00:50:43.000It's a call for a meritocracy, which matters a lot when you are talking particularly about merit-driven fields like math and science.
00:50:51.000But I guess that we're not going to do that anymore.
00:50:53.000We're instead going to force people to sign ridiculous Stalinist statements about leftist priorities before we allow them to teach math at a major university.