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00:01:52.000Okay, so we'll get to everything election 2020 related in just a moment, plus everything COVID related, but I'd be remiss if I did not note the big stupid controversy of the weekend.
00:02:01.000So the big stupid controversy of the weekend is there was an article that I found highly amusing.
00:03:15.000I guarantee you, the person dying would have been very, very disappointed to learn that it was a doctorate in musicology.
00:03:21.000If you're ever on a plane, this happened before because, as everyone knows, my wife is an actual doctor, meaning a medical doctor, meaning somebody who can take care of you if you have a medical issue.
00:03:29.000If you're ever on a plane, and the pilot says, do we have a doctor on board?
00:03:32.000If you raise your hand because you're a doctor of gender studies, you're an asshat.
00:03:55.000But the suggestion that somebody is Dr. Jill Biden and that she has no capacity.
00:04:00.000By the way, her doctorate is in education, which not to crap on the field of education.
00:04:05.000But to crap a little bit on the field of education, if you got like your doctorate in education, I'm sorry, that is not even in the same ballpark as even like a JD, let alone an MD or a PhD in maths and hard sciences.
00:04:21.000I'm a liberal arts guy, which means my degrees, it means so much less than anybody who's in mathematics or physics, let alone medicine, where you actually take care of people and try to make sure that they are okay physically.
00:04:32.000Hey, the reason that this comes up is, again, because people get confused about Dr. Jill Biden because everybody insists in the media on calling her Dr. Jill because, wow, she has a she has a graduate degree.
00:04:57.000But I'm sorry, if you got a doctorate in education because you wrote a paper called, I'm not kidding you, this is Dr. Jill Biden's dissertation at the University of Delaware.
00:05:06.000Okay, it is called, Student Retention at the Community College Level, Meeting Students' Needs.
00:05:15.000Groundbreaking content analysis of student college needs at community colleges.
00:05:23.000And you insist that everybody call you a doctor?
00:05:25.000This is no less irritating than when Barbara Boxer was grilling somebody from the military and he called her Mrs. Boxer or something and she said, it's Senator.
00:05:34.000If you insist on your, first of all, you've never met a medical doctor who does that.
00:05:37.000If you have to insist on your honorific, it's because you're being a douchebag.
00:05:40.000I don't care whether you're a man, whether you're a woman, that's the way it works.
00:05:42.000If you insist on your honorific because you're insulted that nobody calls you by your honorific, Okay, I've met, at this point, hundreds, probably thousands of doctors.
00:05:52.000Okay, not one of them has ever, if we're introduced, not one of them, if I say Mr. X, has ever said, no, it's doctor.
00:05:59.000It's only some schmuck who has a degree in classics who's like, no, no, no, it's doctor.
00:06:04.000Okay, because they want you to respect and agree.
00:06:08.000Anyway, so this guy Joseph Epstein, he writes a piece saying that Dr. Jill Biden should stop calling herself Dr. Jill Biden because it's giving people the impression that she actually knows things about medicine, which of course she does not.
00:06:17.000By the way, if you think that that's a fictitious thing, Whoopi Goldberg suggested that Joe Biden make her Surgeon General.
00:06:36.000So yes, it is deliberately confusing when, again, it's a normal thing in America that if somebody says they're a doctor, we assume that they're a medical doctor.
00:06:44.000And if you want to be pedantic and contentious about this, then yes, you can call somebody a doctor if they got their degree in queer dance theory.
00:06:52.000And everybody knows it's not the same thing.
00:06:54.000And all this really is, okay, everybody's response to this, which we'll get to in a second, everybody's response to this is basically a way For them just to claim that you're a misogynist if you don't want to call Dr. Jill Biden a doctor, even though I would not call a man with a degree in education a doctor.
00:07:15.000I am not impressed by any of that stuff.
00:07:17.000I'm impressed by what you do for a living.
00:07:19.000I'm impressed by the fact that doctors Especially in this time, it's so funny that this has become such an issue now, because, just gonna point out, in this time when we should be appreciating medical doctors more than perhaps any time in American history, when medical doctors are on the front lines, trying to save lives in the middle of a global pandemic, for people to be like, yes, and we should also call doctor this person who wrote a dissertation about the need for better funding at your local JUCO, is like, All right, guys.
00:07:44.000I get the feeling that this might be a setup.
00:07:45.000We'll get to more of this in just one second because the original article is funny and then people lose their minds because everyone is stupid.
00:07:51.000We'll get to that in just one moment first.
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00:09:00.000Okay, so here is what this editorial said, this op-ed said by Joseph Epstein.
00:09:04.000It said, Madam First Lady, Mrs. Biden, Jill, kiddo, A bit of advice on what may seem like a small, but I think is not, unimportant matter.
00:09:12.000Any chance you might drop the doctor before your name?
00:09:14.000Dr. Jill Biden sounds and feels fraudulent not to say a touch comic.
00:09:17.000Your degree is, I believe, in EDD, a doctor of education earned at the University of Delaware through a dissertation with the unpromising title...
00:09:24.000Okay, so people are mad because he's sneering, sneering at Joe Biden.
00:09:26.000If she insists on being called Dr. Joe Biden, I join in the sneering.
00:09:28.000that no one should call himself doctor unless he has delivered a child.
00:09:31.000Think about it, Dr. Jill. And forthwith, drop the doc.
00:09:33.000OK, so people are mad because he's sneering, sneering at Joe Biden.
00:09:37.000If she insists on being called Dr. Joe Biden, I join in the sneering.
00:09:41.000If you insist on being called doctor because you got a doctorate in divinity.
00:09:45.000I'm with I'm with them, OK? And I get you know.
00:09:56.000I understand that everything on the left has to be massaged into some sort of charge of sexism, racism, bigotry, or homophobia.
00:10:02.000But I'm sorry, telling a white lady in her late 60s that she should stop calling herself doctor because she is not an actual medical doctor, that is not sexist.
00:10:16.000Just because she happens to... First of all, I don't even know that the charge sexism makes sense anymore from the left, considering that they believe a man can be a woman, or a woman can be a man.
00:10:23.000But even if you were to assume that it makes sense now, I'm just wondering exactly why it would be sexist to say that anybody, anybody at all, should not be called a doctor unless they are an actual medical doctor.
00:10:32.000By the way, this came up when I was at Harvard Law.
00:10:33.000There was a... And I'll keep dropping that reference, because if you're not impressed by Harvard Law, then you certainly should not be impressed by a degree from University of Delaware in education.
00:10:42.000In any case, I remember when I was at Harvard Law, an actual prestigious law school, okay?
00:10:47.000And I'm not impressed by it, you shouldn't be impressed by it either.
00:10:50.000A professor one day was in the class, and a student raised, it was a woman, she raised her hand, and she was called upon, and the professor did not mention her honorific.
00:11:01.000Okay, it turned out that she had a doctorate in some classics field or something.
00:11:06.000And one of the other students said, you should call her doctor.
00:11:08.000And the professor immediately responded, if I have a heart attack, can she help?
00:11:17.000According to this columnist, I taught at Northwestern University for 30 years without a doctorate or any advanced degree.
00:11:23.000I have only a BA in absentia from the University of Chicago, an absentia because I took my examination on a pool table at headquarters company Fort Hood, Texas while serving in the peacetime army in the late 50s.
00:11:31.000I do have an honorary doctorate, but I have to report the president of the school that awarded it was fired the year after I received it, not, I hope, for allowing my honorary doctorate.
00:11:38.000During my years as a university teacher, I was sometimes addressed usually on the phone as Dr. Epstein.
00:11:42.000On such occasions, it was all I could do not to reply, read two chapters of Henry James and get into bed, I'll be right over.
00:11:48.000I was also often addressed as Dr. during the years I was editor of the American Scholar, the quarterly magazine of Phi Beta Kappa.
00:11:53.000Let me quickly insert, I am also not a member of Phi Beta Kappa, except by marriage.
00:11:57.000Many of those who so addressed me, I noted, were scientists.
00:11:59.000I also received a fair amount of correspondence from people who appended the letters PHD to their names atop their letterheads, and have twice seen PHD on vanity license plates, which struck me as pathetic.
00:12:08.000In contemporary university, in the social sciences and humanities, calling oneself doctor is thought bush league.
00:12:13.000Okay, then he talks about how we've kind of watered down the degree and honorary doctorates are also watering down the degrees.
00:12:19.000He points out that honorary degree recipients and commencement speakers have included people like Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers.
00:12:25.000He says political correctness has paid to any true honor an honorary doctorate may once have possessed.
00:12:31.000If you are ever looking for a simile to denote rarity, try rarer-than-a-contemporary-university-honorary-degree-list-not-containing-an-African-American-woman.
00:12:38.000Then there are all those honorary degrees bestowed on Bill Cosby, Charlie Rose, and others who, owing to their proven or alleged sexual predations, have had to be rescinded.
00:12:45.000Okay, so it's supposed to be a funny little piece, right?
00:12:47.000This thing blows up and people lose their minds because HOW DARE YOU!
00:12:49.000for now, forget the small thrill of being Dr. Joe and settle for the larger thrill of living for the next four years in the best public housing in the world as First Lady Joe Biden.
00:12:57.000Okay, so it's supposed to be a funny little piece, right?
00:13:00.000This thing blows up and people lose their minds because how dare you?
00:13:32.000You shouldn't call yourself doctor, man, woman, or frog, whether you happen to have, unless you happen to have an actual degree in medical science.
00:14:16.000And as somebody who watched my wife go through and helped her through like a million years of school and residency and leaving home at odd hours so that she could go to the hospital and treat patients, let me just say that anyone who equates a doctorate in education to a medical doctorate is an idiot, a fool, and a moron.
00:14:33.000In any case, her handle is at Dr. Biden.
00:14:38.000Okay, and here's what Michael La Rosa tweets.
00:14:43.000At James Toronto, who is the editor of the Wall Street Journal op-ed page.
00:14:47.000You and the Wall Street Journal should be embarrassed to print the disgusting, sexist attack on Dr. Biden running in the Wall Street Journal opinion page.
00:14:54.000If you had any respect for women at all, you would remove this repugnant display of chauvinism from your paper and apologize to her.
00:15:02.000Okay, so just a note, that is the spokesperson for the supposed incoming First Lady of the United States who is openly calling for an op-ed page to retract an op-ed.
00:15:13.000You know, normally, As the editor of a, or editor emeritus of a major publication, let me just point out, normally when you retract something, it's because of factual errors.
00:15:22.000I'm amazed, amazed, that the same people who are fine with the New York Times running full-on op-eds from Chinese propaganda outlets, running full-on op-eds about the glories of sex under socialism in Eastern Germany, which is something the New York Times did not all that long ago.
00:15:36.000That these same people are like, you said Dr. Jill Biden should stop calling herself doctor?
00:15:48.000Because our media, they love the First Amendment, and they are really upset with attacks on the press.
00:15:53.000Unless, of course, the attacks on the press are being made by Democrats, in which case they're over in the corner going... Like Tom Holson Amadeus.
00:16:01.000Doug Emhoff, who is the husband of Kamala Harris.
00:16:05.000He wrote, Dr. Biden earned her degrees through hard work and pure grit.
00:16:25.000Like, did she work herself up from the slums to get an education degree at the University of Delaware?
00:16:31.000Wow, what a rags to riches story that is.
00:16:34.000I mean, that's like those tales of people back in the 1800s who would, like, get on their covered wagons, make their way out West, build log cabins with their own hands.
00:17:44.000Who's, again, this liberal activist who very often can be found in the op-ed pages of these major newspapers writing in light of that WSJ op-ed on Dr. Joe Biden.
00:17:51.000What a stunning coincidence that comparatively uncredentialed white men only seem to get up their hackles about PhDs being referred to as doctors when it's a woman and or person of color using that honorific.
00:18:04.000And yet, what also a depressing irony when so many women and or physicians have related having their MD credentials doubted or assumed to be less than credentials in medicals.
00:18:14.000The social justice crap that just spills from the mouths of these people is unreal.
00:18:28.000So Northwestern University then condemns Epstein.
00:18:33.000So just going to point out that people with doctorates, who the New York Times doesn't refer to by their actual honorifics, here's just a list.
00:18:41.000This is put out by Sonny McSonnyface, Sonny right over at Twitter, and this happens to be correct.
00:18:47.000Newt Gingrich, Tammy Duckworth, Madeline Albright, David Petraeus, H.R.
00:18:50.000McMaster, Ben Sasse, Kirsten Sinema, Sebastian Gorka, Henry Kissinger, Alan Greenspan, Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, James Schlesinger, Ash Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ben Bernanke, Tony Evers, Gina Raimondo, William Perry, Shaq also has an honorary degree, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Norman Borlaug.
00:19:06.000They've even called Dr. Ben Carson just Ben Carson.
00:19:19.000Not with the usual rolling of eyes that would be sort of normal over all of this. But instead, people react like, they're right. Make the Wall Street Journal and Joseph Epstein pay. This is the part where it becomes sort of an important issue.
00:19:34.000Like the rest of this is just sort of dumb, but it becomes an important issue when all of a sudden you start seeing the cancel culture coming for people who say something as, as frankly, plain to see as the only people who should generally be called doctors in American lives are people who can take care of you if you break your leg.
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00:21:08.000So it's not just the people get on Epstein's case, which you know, you want to get on his case to free country, the Northwestern University where he taught for like 30 years, they put out a condemnation, a condemnation of him.
00:21:21.000Now I can imagine other Northwestern University grads having done worse things than saying that a person calling themselves doctor for a doctorate in education is stupid.
00:21:30.000But Northwestern University reserves their ire for Joseph Epstein.
00:21:34.000According to the campus editor at Daily Northwestern, Northwestern condemned the opinions expressed by former English lecturer Joseph Epstein in a viral Wall Street Journal piece on Joe Biden's doctor title.
00:21:46.000And you, while supporting academic freedom and freedom of expression, wrote in a Saturday statement and does not agree with Epstein's opinions laid out in the op-ed.
00:21:53.000The university emphasized a doctoral designation is well-deserved by any individual who has earned a Ph.D., M.D., or in Biden's case, an E.D.D.
00:22:01.000Northwestern is firmly committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion, and strongly disagrees with Mr. Epstein's misogynistic views.
00:22:09.000Seriously, somebody has yet to explain why it's misogynistic.
00:22:13.000I understand Joe Biden's a woman or self-identifies as such, which is the way Democrats do this thing these days, but I do not understand what is misogynistic about that view.
00:22:24.000If a doctor of whatever random liberal arts, a doctor of film, insisted on calling himself doctor, we would all laugh at him, and rightly so.
00:22:34.000Well, I mean, if that's your standard, that I can't mock anybody's degree, well, then I think your standard is stupid.
00:22:39.000By the way, worth noting, apparently Northwestern University actually removed Epstein from their website.
00:22:43.000They actually, like, took down his profile from their website.
00:22:46.000Well, I mean, if that's your standard, that I can't mock anybody's degree, well, then I think your standard is stupid.
00:22:51.000By the way, worth noting, apparently Northwestern University actually removed Epstein from their website.
00:22:56.000They actually like took down his profile from their website.
00:22:59.000So they weren't just, they weren't canceling him, but they were a little canceling him.
00:23:03.000Meanwhile, the Washington Post ran a piece by Monica Hess, one of their columnists, titled, I kid you not, the Wall Street Journal column about Joe Biden is worse than you thought.
00:23:36.000If it's even worse than that, What will we do?
00:23:41.000Here's how Monica Hess opens her idiotic piece of the Washington Post.
00:23:45.000In one of my favorite episodes of the West Wing, Abigail Bartlett, a trained surgeon and fictional first lady, speaks with a White House attorney about a looming scandal.
00:23:54.000The lawyer addresses her as Mrs. Bartlett, to which she responds with the iciest correction, Dr. Bartlett.
00:24:01.000Okay, so first of all, just a quick note.
00:24:02.000If you start your Washington Post article by quoting the West Wing for your source of expertise, I'm not going to listen to you anymore because you're stupid.
00:24:43.000Okay, and finally, the Wall Street Journal responds to this.
00:24:47.000So the Wall Street Journal puts out a piece by Paul Gigault.
00:24:51.000Paul Gigot is the journal's editorial page editor.
00:24:54.000And he says, Joe Biden says it is time to heal America's divisions after the Trump presidency, and the Wall Street Journal has praised him for saying so.
00:25:01.000Presumably, he intends less rancor with the press as part of this mandate.
00:25:03.000On that score, my run-in with the Biden team this weekend was very Trumpian.
00:25:07.000The catalyst was our Saturday op-ed by Joseph Epstein.
00:25:10.000This has triggered a flood of media and Twitter criticism, including demands I retract this piece, apologize personally to Mrs. Biden, ban Mr. Epstein for all time, and resign and think upon my sins.
00:25:18.000The complaints began as a trickle but became a torrent after the Biden media team elevated Mr. Epstein's work in what was clearly a political strategy.
00:25:26.000Elizabeth Alexander, the soon-to-be First Lady's communications director, said, Okay, so first of all, anytime somebody says, be better, kiss my ass.
00:25:36.000That should always be the immediate response.
00:25:38.000If somebody says, be better, stick it where the sun don't shine, sideways.
00:25:43.000Mrs. Alexander, Miss Alexander, called me after her tweet to register her disapproval personally, which is fine.
00:25:49.000Part of my job is to listen to complaints.
00:25:51.000We had a frank exchange of views, as the diplomats say.
00:25:53.000I invited her to send in a letter for publication.
00:25:55.000Meanwhile, Team Biden continued to push the sexist theme.
00:25:57.000Doug Emhoff, husband of Kamala Harris, tweeted, Dr. Biden earned her degrees through hard work and pure grit.
00:26:02.000Pete Buttigieg's husband, Jason Buttigieg, tweeted, the author could have used fewer words to just say, you know, in my day, we didn't have to respect women.
00:26:18.000Why go to such length to highlight a single op-ed on a relatively minor issue?
00:26:22.000My guess is that the Biden team concluded it was a chance to use the big gun of identity politics to send a message to critics as it prepares to take power.
00:26:28.000There's nothing like playing the race or gender card to stifle criticism.
00:26:31.000It's the left's version of Donald Trump's enemy of the people tweets, says the Wall Street Journal op-ed editor.
00:26:35.000The difference is that when Mr. Trump rants against the press, the press mobilizes in opposition.
00:26:39.000In this case, the Biden team was able to mobilize almost all of the press to join in denouncing Mr. Epstein in the journal.
00:26:44.000Nearly every publication wrote about the Biden's response, reinforcing the Biden New York Times line.
00:26:49.000An opinion writer argued Jill Biden should drop the doctor.
00:27:07.000The outrage is overwrought because whether you agree or disagree, Epstein's piece was fair comment, the issue of Joe Biden's educational honorific isn't new.
00:27:13.000As long ago as 2009, the LA Times devoted a story to the subject from a piece by Robin Abakarian.
00:27:19.000Joe Biden on the campaign trail explained his wife's desire for the highest degree was in response to what she perceived as her second class status on their mail.
00:27:25.000She said, I was so sick of the mail coming to Senator and Mrs. Biden, I wanted to get mail addressed to Doctor and Senator Biden.
00:27:30.000That's the real reason she got her doctorate, he said.
00:27:32.000First of all, if that's the real reason you got your doctorate, that's the douchiest reason I've ever heard.
00:27:40.000My wife did not get a medical degree so that it would say Mr. and Dr. Shapiro on the mail.
00:27:47.000Okay, and as somebody who's quite proud of the fact that my wife got her degree, like, I'll wear around the UCLA medicine— Like, she's never worn a Harvard Law gear thing.
00:27:54.000I wear around UCLA medical gear, like, all the time, because I'm proud of my wife for doing what she has done.
00:27:59.000Okay, she didn't become a doctor so that she could put it on the mail.
00:28:02.000In fact, I asked her about this last night, and my doctor wife immediately said, I don't care about that.
00:28:07.000If somebody called me Mrs. Shapiro as opposed to doctor, you think I care?
00:28:13.000I mean, she also added, first of all, my first identity is actually not as my job.
00:28:18.000My first identity is as a mother and a wife.
00:28:20.000But beyond that, like, why would I care about that?
00:28:22.000If you're so insecure that you need everybody to call you doctor when you don't actually, you're not even a medical doctor, then I don't know what to tell you.
00:29:05.000Lynne Cheney, wife of Dick Cheney, is Mrs. Cheney despite her PhD.
00:29:09.000If you disagree with Epstein, fair enough.
00:29:11.000Write a letter or shout your objections on Twitter.
00:29:13.000The pages aren't gonna stop publishing provocative essays merely because they offend the new administration or the political censors in the media and academia.
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00:31:04.000Okay, so this ties into a broader conversation about the media's attempts to quash other members of the media.
00:31:10.000There's a long article in Buzzfeed over the weekend talking about how people at Facebook are very upset.
00:32:00.000According to BuzzFeed, on Wednesday, a Facebook data scientist departed the social networking company after a two-year stint, leaving a farewell note for their colleagues to ponder.
00:32:08.000As part of the team focused on violence and incitement, they dealt with some of the worst content on Facebook and they were proud of their work at the company.
00:32:13.000Despite this, they said, Facebook was simply not doing enough.
00:32:19.000With so many internal forces propping up the production of hateful and violent content, the task of stopping hate and violence on Facebook starts to feel even more Sisyphean than it already is, the employee wrote in their badge post, a traditional farewell note for any departing Facebook employee.
00:32:31.000It also makes it embarrassing to work here.
00:32:40.000They're very, very angry that there are a bunch of conservative websites that are getting traffic.
00:32:45.000Using data from a Facebook tool called the Hate Bait Dashboard, which can track content from groups and pages that leads to hateful interactions, the data scientists listed the 10 US pages with the largest concentrated volume of likely violating hate speech comments in the past 14 days.
00:32:58.000So, they're not actually saying that the content from these websites is hateful.
00:33:01.000They're saying that people might post hateful contents under the content.
00:33:08.000All pages were associated with conservative outlets or personalities, including Breitbart News, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Donald Trump's campaign and main accounts, and Ben Shapiro.
00:33:16.000They also shared a sample of the hateful comments posted on a recent Breitbart News post about Nancy Pelosi's support for transgender athletes.
00:33:23.000Wow, those are, that's driving the hate speech.
00:33:25.000You see, if you put up stories that people are not covering in the mainstream media, and then people comment in nasty ways, that's the fault of people putting up stories that we just didn't want to hear.
00:33:35.000So, the media have been openly stumping for the shutdown of free speech.
00:33:39.000There's another article from The Guardian over the weekend, a woman named Ariel Bogle.
00:33:44.000Could be a man, I'm not sure actually.
00:33:46.000Ariel can be both a male and female name.
00:33:49.000In any case, Ariel Bogle writes, sinister sounds, podcasts are becoming a new medium of disinformation.
00:33:55.000See, any, any alternative source of information will come under fire.
00:34:02.000And all you have to do, the sin does not have to be grave.
00:34:04.000All the sin has to be is saying something like Dr. Jill Biden is not an actual medical doctor.
00:34:08.000Or that men exist and women exist and they are separate entities.
00:34:11.000That mammalian species are sexually dichotomous.
00:34:16.000To say such things brings the ire of the woke upon you.
00:34:19.000And all methods of distribution unapproved by the establishment legacy media must be shut down.
00:34:24.000So we've got BuzzFeed trying to push Facebook to shut down publications like Daily Wire or Daily Caller or Breitbart or any place else on the right.
00:34:31.000And now they're coming after podcasts.
00:34:33.000So you have this entire article in The Guardian that is very, very angry.
00:34:37.000They're angry because Joe Rogan exists.
00:34:40.000Apps such as Apple and Google Podcasts are significant gatekeepers of what kind of audio content reaches our ears, says Evelyn Dueck, a lecturer at Harvard Law School, although they function more as directories for organizing and discovering shows than as social networking platforms and have varying degrees of oversight and control.
00:34:55.000Podcasts can serve as an entry point and a point of legitimation for unfounded claims, says Dr. Sarah Roberts, an associate professor at UCLA and a moderation expert.
00:35:03.000The net effect is not only to put fake, bogus, and debunked claims into the larger public conversation, but to shift the needle entirely on the public's attention in areas of concern.
00:35:12.000Most podcast platforms already have content policies.
00:35:15.000Apple prohibits the promotion of violence.
00:35:16.000Spotify bans content that incites hatred based on race or gender identity, among other things.
00:35:21.000But the adequacy of these policies, not to mention if or how they're enforced, remains opaque, especially if the problematic content is espoused by a program guest rather than the host.
00:35:30.000And this is a problem because it's a pedestal.
00:35:32.000It can be a pedestal for bad views, guys.
00:35:35.000And so we need to stop all of this podcasting.
00:35:37.000We need to stop all of this internetting.
00:35:39.000We need to stop freedom of information.
00:35:51.000You're a threat to the freedom of the press, freedom to distribution of information and content you don't like.
00:35:55.000You will attack podcasts if you think that podcasting becomes a popular source of alternative information.
00:36:00.000You will attack Facebook for even allowing the distribution of alternative sources of information.
00:36:05.000This is ideological fascism In effect.
00:36:10.000This is not saying fascism as a top-down government system, but the culture of free speech requires more than a legal commitment to free speech.
00:36:18.000It requires a cultural commitment to free speech.
00:36:20.000I've never called for Pod Save America to come down from these podcasting platforms.
00:36:23.000I guarantee you, folks on the left, within minutes, we'll be calling for this podcast to come down from podcasting platforms.
00:36:30.000I've never called for Huffington Post to be restricted in its reach at Facebook.
00:36:35.000But the New York Times has an entire column, several columnists, dedicated to the proposition that Daily Wire should be restricted in its reach on Facebook, ranging from Charlie Warzel to Kevin Roos to Kara Swisher.
00:36:46.000The kind of push in the media for everybody in the media to mirror the perspectives of the left is pretty damned obvious.
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00:37:45.000Let's say you have an employee who is so annoying and so bad that you've been trying to fire him for years.
00:37:50.000In fact, let's say you moved a 100-person company out of the town where he lived just to avoid him, and then he followed you like a lost dog from Homeward Bound.
00:37:57.000And let's say that you just want to get rid of this person.
00:37:59.000Let's say that this person had the bizarre perspective until the last five minutes that doctor is an honorific that should be applied to pretty much everybody who earns a doctorate as opposed to just medical doctors.
00:38:31.000On Monday, December 21st, the historical docu-series Apollo 11, What We Saw, will soon be available exclusively at DailyWire.com.
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00:39:22.000Yes, that is a thing that is happening.
00:39:24.000That's dailywire.com slash subscribe to get 20% off your membership with code WATCH and access to all Okay, so again, the purpose here of restricting alternative sources of information is not only to create a market monopoly in which you can only view one side of the aisle, it's to reestablish the idea that if you are a leftist, you're actually objective.
00:39:50.000Because if there's no other side of the aisle, then you can promote yourself as objective.
00:39:53.000This is what members of the establishment media did for literally decades.
00:39:56.000And Walter Cronkite, a motivated leftist, and Sam Donaldson, a motivated leftist, and Dan Rather, a motivated leftist, and these were your news anchors, the people you were supposed to believe.
00:40:05.000And because there was no real alternative source of information in real time, it meant that they could get away with as much political bias as they wanted to ladle into their programming.
00:40:13.000And this is how you have idiots like Chris Cuomo who end up being perceived as somehow, somehow objective journalists.
00:40:47.000We need to remember the retrumplicans at their worst and strive to hold all those in power to a much, much, much higher standard lest we wind up here again.
00:40:57.000That's something that Chris Cuomo does on a regular basis while making jokes about his brother's nostril size as tens of thousands of people die in his brother's state.
00:41:06.000That's a dude who speaks truth to power.
00:41:07.000I really look forward to Chris Cuomo's interview with Andrew Cuomo about the latest sexual harassment allegations against his brother.
00:41:14.000Yeah, I have a feeling that's not going to come up.
00:41:16.000Ryan Saavedra reporting over the weekend.
00:41:18.000Sexual misconduct allegations were alleged against New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday, a development that comes alongside news that Joe Biden reportedly considered Cuomo to be Attorney General.
00:41:27.000The allegations against Cuomo were made by one of his former advisors, progressive activist Lindsey Boylan.
00:41:32.000Boylan made the allegation on Twitter in a series of tweets on her experience with sexual harassment.
00:41:37.000She tweeted, Yes, Governor Cuomo sexually harassed me for years.
00:41:55.000I'm angry to be put in this situation of all.
00:41:57.000That because I am a woman, I can work hard my whole life to better myself and help others, and yet still fall victim as countless women over generations have, mostly silently.
00:42:04.000I hate that some men, like Governor Cuomo, abuse their power.
00:42:08.000This was as Joe Biden was apparently considering Cuomo for Attorney General.
00:42:14.000I look forward to the media reporting in detail on these allegations, just as they did with Brett Kavanaugh, with no evidence other than Christine Blasey Ford saying things that could not be verified in any way, shape, or form.
00:42:38.000So when somebody accuses Brett Kavanaugh of gang rape, then you're like, oh, you know, we should probably do, you know, like put her on the cover of magazines with her face made up of words like that on the cover of Time.
00:43:00.000I look forward to Chris Cuomo grilling his powerful brother and speaking truth to power.
00:43:06.000I also look forward to the media really covering in detail The fact that one of their favorite Senate candidates, Raphael Warnock in Georgia, who is an anti-Semite, right?
00:43:14.000I mean, he's done speeches defending Jeremiah Wright over and over again.
00:43:18.000He did a speech in which he suggested that Jews were just shooting down Palestinians like, quote-unquote, birds of prey is what he called the Israelis.
00:43:27.000So, just to fight that anti-Semitism, he's bringing down to campaign with him Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Linda Sarsour.
00:43:34.000That's a solid way of fighting antisemitism, is to bring in the three most well-known antisemites in America outside of Richard Spencer to campaign with you.
00:43:41.000Really subtle right there, what he's doing, Raphael Warnock.
00:43:44.000And I'm seeing the blanket coverage on this, right?
00:43:46.000Like, I'm looking right now, I'm searching.
00:43:49.000Okay, let's search the news and let's see how many people are covering the fact that Raphael Warnock is bringing down to campaign with him a bunch of people who are radical antisemites.
00:43:59.000Oh, well, I see that the Jewish Journal covered it, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency covered it, and the Washington Times covered it, and that would be it.
00:45:00.000Senator's note, the headline on the story was updated at 8.45pm to reflect that Senator Loeffler condemned Chester Dole's white supremacist who posted a photo with the senator.
00:45:07.000An earlier version of the story included incorrect information.
00:45:10.000An earlier version of the story had a headline with incorrect information.
00:45:15.000In the story it said that Loeffler condemned the white supremacist and said, I take pictures of lots of people, which happens to be true, right?
00:45:20.000As a quasi-celeb, I can tell you I take lots of pictures of lots of people.
00:45:24.000I'm sure there are lots of pictures of people who are unsavory because I've probably taken, at this point, producer Colton can tell you because he's traveled with me, I've probably taken easily 20,000 pictures of people over the course of the last couple of years.
00:45:36.000Okay, and I assume there's some of those people who will go on to do terrible things or who have done terrible things in the past.
00:45:42.000Okay, so Loeffler cracked back against it, and The Hill reported that she had not, because that is how your wonderful media work.
00:45:49.000And then you wonder why people don't trust the media.
00:45:50.000Like, understand that all of the systemic distrust issues that we are having right now over election 2020 spur directly from gigantic mistrust of the media.
00:46:00.000So when President Trump says that nobody trusts the media, when he says that you guys didn't even follow up on the Hunter Biden stuff when it was reported at the end of the election, he happens to be correct about that.
00:47:02.000There are a lot of people who say the election was rigged because of voter fraud and voter irregularity.
00:47:05.000I haven't seen the evidence to back that up.
00:47:07.000What I have seen is the clear evidence that the media rigged the election by refusing to cover any relevant information about Joe Biden while suggesting that Donald Trump was responsible for hundreds of thousands of dead people thanks to COVID and that Donald Trump was a white supremacist who was in hock to Russia.
00:48:52.000And meanwhile, they will ignore actual breaking developments until it's a little more convenient to cover them.
00:48:57.000Speaking of which, some breaking news on the Hunter Biden story.
00:49:00.000So according to Michael Balsamo and Eric Tucker, reporting for NBC Philadelphia, a subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Burisma, according to a person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation of President-elect Joe Biden's son.
00:49:18.000The breadth of the subpoena, issued Tuesday, underscores the wide-angle lens prosecutors are taking as they examine the younger Biden's finances and international business ventures.
00:49:26.000Hunter Biden's ties to Burisma in particular have long dogged the policy work and political aspirations of his father, Joe Biden, now the president-elect of the United States.
00:49:34.000It's unclear whether Hunter's work at the Ukrainian company is a central part of the federal investigation or whether prosecutors are simply seeking information about all his sources of income in recent years.
00:49:44.000A lawyer for the younger Biden, George Messires, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment for the story.
00:49:49.000A spokesman for the Biden transition team declined to comment.
00:49:53.000Hunter Biden said he only learned of the investigation last Tuesday, but of course that's number one.
00:49:58.000It may be true, but that investigation was launched apparently in 2018.
00:50:02.000By the way, I share Trump's ire that the DOJ didn't announce this investigation was going on.
00:50:06.000I understand there's such a thing as a covert versus an overt investigation, but the difference between a covert and an overt investigation is mainly public knowledge of the investigation going on.
00:50:15.000Now, there were reports back in October that Hunter was under investigation.
00:50:18.000It would have been very easy for the DOJ to confirm or deny that story.
00:50:23.000Instead, they held out until past the election, saying that it fulfilled their mandate not to interfere in an election.
00:50:28.000Well, if it's already public knowledge that an investigation is going on, and then you just keep it quiet until after the election, that is, in fact, election interference.
00:50:35.000The younger Biden joined the Board of Burisma in 2014, around the time his daddy, then VP, was helping conduct the Obama administration's foreign policy with Ukraine.
00:50:45.000President Trump and his allies have long argued without evidence that Hunter Biden's work in Ukraine influenced the Obama administration's policies toward the Eastern European nation.
00:50:53.000They also argued that Hunter was clearly taking advantage of Daddy's name in order to get the job, and that Joe almost certainly knew about that.
00:50:59.000Okay, that is a lot harder to argue against.
00:51:03.000In announcing the process in February with regard to collecting information on Ukraine, William Barr, the AG, cautioned the department had to be careful about any information coming from Ukraine, of course, but it is true that the federal investigation had been ongoing.
00:51:17.000We also now know, according to the Washington Examiner, that a former business partner of Hunter Biden reportedly said in an email Biden didn't disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in income on his tax returns.
00:51:26.000Eric Schwerin, former president of Rosemont Seneca Partners, sent an email to Biden in 2017 saying he needed to amend his 2014 tax returns to include about 400 grand in income he made as a member of BRISMA.
00:51:37.000The email says, in 2014, you joined the Burisma board.
00:51:40.000We still need to amend your 2014 returns to reflect the unreported Burisma income.
00:51:44.000That was according to an email dated January 16th, 2017.
00:51:47.000The email reportedly notes that Biden, the son of Joe, made 1.2 million bucks in income when factoring in the 400 grand he made as board member of Burisma.
00:51:57.000NBC noted it didn't have access to the hard drive.
00:51:59.000Apparently this email was provided by Rudy Giuliani's attorney, Robert Costello, who had gotten the 100 hard drive from that computer repair store.
00:52:11.000But, you wonder why people don't trust the system?
00:52:13.000It's because the media, to so many people, are the system.
00:52:17.000The media are the glasses with which you view the information.
00:52:19.000And if it turns out those glasses are broken, people aren't going to trust the information behind the glasses.
00:52:23.000Just like in poker, very often you see players wearing sunglasses so you can't read their eyes.
00:52:28.000Well, if the media are sunglasses for the Democratic Party agenda, How can you trust what's behind the sunglasses?
00:52:33.000There's no way to trust what is behind the sunglasses.
00:52:37.000Okay, speaking of which, over the weekend, there was some dust up in Washington D.C.
00:52:42.000in which four people were stabbed, 33 people arrested.
00:52:45.000There was a violent clash between pro-Trump activists and suspected members of Antifa in Washington D.C.
00:52:49.000on Saturday night following a rally for the president's supporters.
00:52:52.000This is according to Emily Zanotti reporting for Daily Wire.
00:52:55.000Thousands attended the rally on Saturday, according to local media, calling for a halt to certifying some states' presidential election results pending investigations into what some believe to be widespread voter fraud efforts aimed at helping Biden.
00:53:05.000A suspected barroom brawl between pro-Trump demonstrators and anti-Trump activists, which took place following the march, turned into a violent conflict between the two factions, per Fox News.
00:53:14.000The outlet noted chaos erupted in Washington, D.C.
00:53:17.000Hours after two pro-Trump rallies ended, groups of Proud Boys and Antifa activists clashed under cover of darkness, with police repeatedly forcing them apart amid reports of brawls and stabbings.
00:53:26.000At least four stabbings occurred near a bar that served as a gathering spot for the Proud Boys.
00:53:30.000The victims were hospitalized, possibly with life-threatening injuries, a D.C.
00:53:33.000Fire Department spokesperson told the newspaper.
00:53:37.000So, that is where things currently stand.
00:53:42.000It is fair to say that everywhere Antifa goes, there is violence.
00:53:45.000There have been a number of incidents with the Proud Boys as well, obviously.
00:53:49.000The two groups apparently were lobbying fireworks at each other before engaging in close-quarters combat, and the police ultimately deployed pepper spray to control both sides of the altercation.
00:53:55.000So, ugly stuff on all sides there, obviously.
00:53:59.000Okay, meanwhile, Today is the day that the Electoral College is supposed to vote.
00:54:14.000Apparently, it's going to be broadcast and livestreamed.
00:54:17.000Now, according to the Constitution, electors meet by law.
00:54:20.000They meet by law on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December.
00:54:23.000That's supposed to give you enough time to resolve any disputes regarding the November 3rd election.
00:54:27.000The electors then meet in places across the country, very often in the state legislatures.
00:54:32.000And then each of the 538 electors cast a vote for president and one for vice president as well.
00:54:38.000There are laws in 32 states and the District of Columbia that require electors to vote for the candidate who won the popular vote in their state.
00:54:43.000There are 17 states that allow so-called faithless electors to vote for their choice.
00:54:49.000But that is extremely, extremely rare.
00:54:52.000The electoral votes are then counted by the House and Senate on January 6th.
00:54:54.000That is when the House and Senate certify the vote.
00:54:57.000It is highly unlikely it will be stopped in Congress once all the Electoral College votes have actually been sent in.
00:55:01.000And that is particularly true because the Supreme Court knocked down that big Texas case that was pending last week.
00:55:08.000We talked in length about it on Friday.
00:55:10.000I thought there were serious problems, legally speaking, with the Texas case.
00:55:12.000If you were going to overturn results of the elections, you actually have to show voter fraud and voter irregularity.
00:55:16.000You can't merely suggest that the process itself is flawed, and certainly you have to have standing to sue.
00:55:21.000In other words, you have to be a party inside the state.
00:55:23.000You cannot simply allege that another party inside a state that is not your own is performing some sort of sin.
00:55:29.000That opens the door wide to serious violations of federalism principles.
00:55:33.000You can see California suing Texas based on Texas's abortion law, saying you're throwing people to California to have abortions that causes taxpayer resources to be used out here, and therefore we're going to sue Texas for its implementation of Roe versus Wade, for example.
00:55:46.000That is not a principle you want to see applied, broadly speaking.
00:55:50.000The court killed any chance that that lawsuit would move forward.
00:55:55.000The order rejected Texas's attempt to nullify the results in four other states.
00:56:03.000The so Thomas and Alito voted issued a statement that that point that that suggested that states should have an unfair right to sue each other directly at the Supreme Court.
00:56:14.000They said they would have at least let Texas file the suit.
00:56:17.000But saying that they would have let Texas file the suit doesn't mean they would have let Texas win the suit.
00:56:21.000So that is more of a legal issue as far as original jurisdiction.
00:56:24.000So there's a question in the Constitution, if a state sues another state in federal court, does the Supreme Court have to hear it?
00:56:29.000Because original jurisdiction now goes directly to the Supreme Court.
00:56:32.000They don't have to work their way up the chain.
00:56:35.000Does the Supreme Court have to take the case?
00:56:36.000Alito and Thomas basically said, yeah, we think the Supreme Court has to take the case.
00:56:40.000Seven of the other justices said, no, they don't have to take the case.
00:56:43.000But that is an ancillary question to how that case would have done at the Supreme Court.
00:56:48.000Thomas and Alito also said they would reject Texas's request to stop the four pivotal states from casting their votes for Biden.
00:56:54.000No justice said that he or she would have blocked those votes.
00:56:58.000It was a pretty straightforward decision in the same way that that Pennsylvania case was a straightforward 9-0 decision.
00:57:05.000When you have 9-0 decisions, it's usually a pretty clear-cut decision, legally speaking.
00:57:10.000Beyond that, there was a Wisconsin case that was pending, and it turns out that Team Trump was just not making the sort of allegations that are likely to result in the change to the election.
00:57:17.000I know these are uncomfortable facts, but uncomfortable facts they may be, they're still facts.
00:57:21.000Andy McCarthy points out, over at National Review, that there was a federal district court rejection of another Trump campaign lawsuit on Saturday.
00:57:28.000It was the sort of last lawsuit that was pending.
00:57:33.000Number one, the rejecting was done by a Trump-appointed judge.
00:57:38.000One of the passages in the decision, according to Annie McCarthy, is worthy of note.
00:57:41.000He says with the electoral college meeting just days away, the court declined to address the issues in piecemeal fashion and instead provided plaintiff with an expedited hearing on the merits of the claim. On the morning of the hearing, the parties reached agreement on a stipulated set of facts and then presented arguments to the court.
00:57:55.000Okay, so normally, what that means is that the court was saying to Team Trump, okay, show me all your evidence of voter fraud and voter irregularity.
00:58:03.000Give me your, so they got their chance to put it in court.
00:58:06.000Instead, Team Trump stipulated that they agreed that there was no widespread voter fraud or voter irregularity evidence.
00:58:14.000And they stipulated and agreed to that in court.
00:58:17.000As Andy McCarthy points out, a stipulated set of facts in this context is an agreement between the lawyers for the adversary parties about what testimony witnesses would give and or what facts would be established if the parties went through the process of calling witnesses and offering tangible evidence at a hearing or trial.
00:58:31.000In a real controversy in which one or both of the parties are making hotly disputed factual claims, there are almost no stipulations.
00:58:37.000For example, a defendant who vehemently denies that he committed stock fraud may be willing to stipulate that 20,000 shares of a common stock were sold, but other than that, the defendant will demand adversary call fact witnesses who claim he defrauded them so he can cross-examine them.
00:58:49.000But here, the Trump campaign has been claiming extensive voter fraud and lawbreaking, and then they stipulated an agreement to the basic facts with Democrats.
00:58:59.000So, what did they say the case was really about if it wasn't about voter fraud and voter irregularity?
00:59:03.000Three differences over the manner in which the election was administered.
00:59:08.000To all of which, as the judge pointed out, the campaign could have objected before the election if the matters had actually been of great moment.
00:59:14.000So it turns out that the legal strategy in Wisconsin was deeply flawed as well.
00:59:21.000So that means that the Electoral College is going to move forward with its vote today.
00:59:26.000Worth noting here that all of the members of the media who've been screaming and crying about the violation of critical voting protocol should note that the process worked here, okay?
00:59:47.000And that Georgia case, I believe, is still pending with regard to voter fraud and voter irregularity.
00:59:50.000That's the only serious case still on the docket.
00:59:54.000We'll see whether they have the proof to push that through.
00:59:57.000Meanwhile, the same people are promoting the idea that it is deeply undemocratic to file lawsuits or wonder about voter fraud and voter irregularity.
01:00:05.000are completely ignoring the fact that Democrats have now been requested by a Democrat to overturn the results of an election in Iowa.
01:00:11.000According to the Des Moines Register, in Iowa's second congressional district, Rita Hart, the loser by six votes to Marianne Miller-Meeks, has picked a path that will inflame.
01:00:18.000Her team skipped the appeal process available through Iowa's courts and instead elected to petition the U.S.
01:00:23.000House of Representatives panel directly to oversee a recount before the full House decides the outcome.
01:00:29.000So basically, she's asking the Democrats in Congress to overturn the results of the election through their procedures, and then take the seat back.
01:00:36.000Okay, that's just as undemocratic as anything the Democrats are accusing Republicans of.
01:00:39.000It's just not getting any of the same sort of media coverage, number one, because it's a congressional race, but number two, because it is a Democrat, which is always worthy of note.
01:00:47.000Okay, meanwhile, in some actual good news, the COVID vaccine is going out en masse today.
01:00:54.000Tons of doses going out today, which is excellent, excellent news, of course.
01:00:59.000And the BioNTech head, he's worked on the vaccine.
01:01:04.000He says that we should be getting back to normal by the end of next summer because at that point, all the vaccines are out there and life is what life is.
01:01:10.000We know that we have a solution and we know that we can produce many doses of vaccines and we know that there will be also other vaccines which have shown efficacy.
01:01:21.000And therefore, we should be confident that we will be able to control this disease and the pandemic.
01:01:32.000That is Dr. Ugar Sahin, who is one of the heads of BioNTech, which worked with Pfizer to develop the vaccine.
01:01:39.0002.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine are beginning to arrive.
01:01:43.000A lot of those are going to the most populous places in the country.
01:01:46.000So first in line are 17 million healthcare workers and 3.7 million nursing home residents.
01:01:50.000And then you get essential workers, teachers, first responders, and then you get 89 million people with pre-existing conditions.
01:01:58.000I think that probably we should actually be working on people with pre-existing conditions first.
01:02:01.000If you're an essential worker, but you're 25 years old and healthy, you really should not be in line before somebody who is 65 years old and has serious pre-existing conditions.
01:02:08.000So the tranching doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.
01:02:12.000Nonetheless, this is the way that the distribution is going to go.
01:02:16.000And the number of doses varies fairly widely by state in the early going.
01:02:21.000California is about to get 330,000 doses.
01:02:24.000Colorado is going to get 47,000 doses.
01:02:26.000But smaller states are going to get far fewer.
01:02:32.000So, the vaccines have begun to roll out.
01:02:35.000That is a massive win for the Trump administration.
01:02:38.000The media, however, are suggesting that it is the Trump administration's fault that people are skeptical about the vaccine, because there's a lot of questions about who wants to take the vaccine.
01:02:46.000And let me be clear, the vaccine, in terms of the studies, has been proved to be effective.
01:02:51.000Does that mean that children should be getting it?
01:02:56.000Number one because they are at least risk of this thing and number two because they are the least likely to transmit this thing or have intergenerational contact with people who are elderly.
01:03:04.000As I say we should be trenching this thing out and you know people should be able to assess their own level of risk when it comes to getting the thing versus not getting the thing or damage if you do get the thing as opposed to not getting the thing.
01:03:16.000If you're 17 years old and you are Not only unlikely to die of this thing, it's less likely to kill you than the flu.
01:03:22.000You may be like, well, not sure I'm into it.
01:03:38.000They were blaming Trump for blue state vaccine skepticism.
01:03:42.000Yes, and unfortunately this happened because of just the horrible precedent that got set by the president and members of the Trump administration to politicize a number of treatments and even some of the efforts leading to a vaccine to this point.
01:03:58.000That is Dr. Kavita Patel, a former Obama official, obviously.
01:04:03.000Never mind the fact that everybody in the process says the process was never politicized.
01:04:07.000In fact, the United States lagged behind two other countries, the UK and Canada.
01:04:10.000We were the third country to actually approve the distribution of the vaccine.
01:04:13.000Here's the FDA chief, in fact, saying external pressure was not the issue in us deciding to greenlight this thing.
01:04:19.000Jake, we have been very clear, and I'll say it again here, that nothing guided our decision.
01:04:25.000No external comments, no external pressure, other than the science and data guided our decision-making.
01:04:32.000If you look at the timetable here, immediately after the Vaccine Advisory Committee, Our team spent that night, we decided to go forward, and you know by early morning, before 7am, we issued a statement saying that we were moving forward working with Pfizer to get the authorization out.
01:04:48.000And then we worked throughout the day to do that.
01:04:50.000Our timeline, how we approached this, was based upon our thorough review of the science and data.
01:04:57.000That's the promise we made to the American people, the transparency around that, and that's what we did.
01:05:01.000So we're just going to whitewash completely the fact that Andrew Cuomo and Kamala Harris and a bunch of Democrats were casting absolute doubt on the efficacy of the vaccine developed under the Trump administration.
01:05:10.000Instead, we're going to pretend that it was Trump putting pressure on the FDA.
01:05:13.000I mean, the media's malfeasance with regard to COVID is the reason that people have serious COVID trust issues with regard to solving this thing.
01:05:19.000Another reason is because there are so many people who seem to be in the media eager to shut this thing down.
01:05:24.000I mean, just super eager to shut down the economy, like really eager to talk about how bad things are going to be for years on end.
01:05:32.000So Bill Gates, who has given a lot of money to the development of vaccines like this one, Bill Gates went on national TV with Jake Tapper where he explained that life would not return to normal through 2022.
01:05:44.0002022, and that we should not open bars and restaurants for four to six months.
01:06:20.000Certainly by the summer, we'll be way closer to normal than we are now.
01:06:27.000But even through early 2022, unless we help other countries get rid of this disease and we get high vaccination rates in our country, The risk of reintroduction will be there, and of course the global economy will be slowed down, which hurts America economically in a pretty dramatic way.
01:06:49.000So we'll have, starting in the summer, about nine months where a few things like big public gatherings will still be restricted.
01:06:58.000But, you know, we can see now that somewhere between 12 to 18 months, And we have a chance if we manage it well to get back to normal.
01:07:50.000We'll be discussing United Airlines kicking a family off their flight because their two-year-old wouldn't wear a mask.
01:07:55.000By the way, quick note on that story, two-year-olds are not gonna wear masks and you should not be kicked off a flight because your two-year-old won't wear a mask.
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