The Ben Shapiro Show - May 26, 2021


One Year Since George Floyd’s Death, BLM Has Made Everything Worse | Ep. 1263


Episode Stats

Length

57 minutes

Words per Minute

211.19096

Word Count

12,147

Sentence Count

755

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

25


Summary

On the one year anniversary of George Floyd's death, more black people are dying, and not at the hands of the cops. The broader racial reckoning continues with propagandistic efforts to tear down America's institutions. And the New York Times notices that Democrats aren't very loud about the border anymore. Ben Shapiro's new book, "How to Destroy America" is available for pre-order now! It's available in Kindle, iBook, Paperback, Hardcover, and Audio Book format. If you don't have a Kindle device, you can get a free eReader app from Amazon so you can read my book on any laptop, desktop, smartphone, or tablet device, free of charge. I'm working on getting a second eReader device, too, but I need to wait until I can get my first one in order before I can buy a second one. I'll be shipping them out in mid-August, but they'll take a few weeks to get them over the mail and be able to tell me what they're good enough for me to use them for my Kindle Fire or iBook reader device. I'll tell you when they're available, and you'll get a signed copy of How To Destroy America in 3 Easy Steps: In Three Easy Steps, signed by me and a free copy of my book. It'll be available on Kindle $99.99 and iBook 99.99, which is also available in Paperback $99, hardcover 4999, or hardcover 9999, and Audible 4999 for 9999.00.00, or Audible 9999 for $9999, plus shipping on Audible.9999 for Audible, Audible 3999, Caff or Caff, or any other third-party provider. .99 centimeterimeter hardcover edition, and shipping on amazon, $4999, $2499, shipping on Amazon Prime, or an Audible 4GBR, $995, or $994, and $993, and a limited edition Audible membership, I'll get it for free.99 cent, and I'll have access to all three copies of the book, plus Audible Prime membership & Audible for free! I'm giving you a free shipping, shipping included in the Audible course, shipping only $9949.99 for a year, plus I'll send you an ad-free version of the course, and an additional $5 discount when you buy my book is available.


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00:00:00.000 On the one year commemoration of George Floyd's death, more black people are dying and not at the hands of the cops.
00:00:05.000 The broader racial reckoning continues with propagandistic efforts to tear down America's institutions.
00:00:10.000 And the New York Times notices that Democrats aren't very loud about the border anymore.
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00:01:45.000 Alrighty, so this week marks the one year commemoration of the death and now legally adjudicated murder of George Floyd.
00:01:53.000 And the media are awash in self-referential glory.
00:01:58.000 They keep talking about how wonderful they are, how they have made the world a better place through their attention on the racial reckoning.
00:02:04.000 Now, there's only one problem.
00:02:05.000 Nothing has gotten better in the last gen race.
00:02:07.000 Zero things.
00:02:08.000 In fact, Black Lives Matter has done an awful lot of harm to the black community, to the United States at large, Now, with regard to what's going on in the Middle East, international politics, the Black Lives Matter movement has been a terrible thing for the United States.
00:02:21.000 Not because of attention paid to police malfeasance and misconduct and brutality.
00:02:26.000 All of that's fine.
00:02:27.000 But because the broader Black Lives Matter agenda has very little to do with protecting black lives and a lot to do with the structures of the United States and the structures of the West and tearing those down.
00:02:38.000 And the practical ramifications of tearing down those structures means more dead black people.
00:02:42.000 That is just the way that reality works, unfortunately, in the real world.
00:02:46.000 Okay, so the New York Times commemorates the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's death with an article titled, On the Ashes of Tragedy, Mixed Emotions on Anniversary of George Floyd's Death.
00:02:58.000 The crowds that gathered in Minneapolis and elsewhere reflected on what has changed and what has not in America since Mr. Floyd was murdered by a police officer.
00:03:05.000 It was a day of reflection, of remembrance, a time to lay flowers and say prayers, to celebrate black culture with art and music and food, and to recall the life of a man whose death one year ago shook the country and forced it to confront its painful legacy of racism and police brutality.
00:03:17.000 Now, what's amazing about that, of course, is that there was not a single iota of evidence that was ever brought to show that Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd based on racial resentment.
00:03:26.000 Not an iota.
00:03:27.000 It was never even claimed in court.
00:03:29.000 And yet it became the cause of this broader re-examination of just how terrible and racist America is.
00:03:35.000 And when the New York Times says that they examined the life of George Floyd, well, they really didn't, because if you examine the life of George Floyd, it might lead you to some opposite conclusions about the value of policing.
00:03:43.000 After all, George Floyd, before his tragic and untimely death, had committed a bevy of crimes for which he was correctly arrested.
00:03:50.000 In Minneapolis on Tuesday, as people gathered to mark the anniversary of the police killing of George Floyd, there was space for it all.
00:03:55.000 The trauma and the grief, says the New York Times.
00:03:57.000 Some celebration over a murder conviction of a police officer and a measure of hope, too, that in death, Mr. Floyd, a black man, had nudged America toward more racial equality.
00:04:04.000 Now, here's the thing.
00:04:06.000 Nope.
00:04:07.000 The reality is that more black people died this year as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement completely cudgeling the police into not doing their jobs.
00:04:15.000 The Black Lives Matter movement, which has fought very hard against the systematic institutions of the United States declaring them all racist at root, has made racial polarization in the country significantly worse.
00:04:27.000 New poll out today.
00:04:29.000 from The Economist shows that only 11% of Americans believe that relations between minorities and police since George Floyd's death are better.
00:04:36.000 1 in 10.
00:04:38.000 Fully 38% of Americans believe that relations between minorities and the police since Floyd's death are worse.
00:04:43.000 Okay, so four times as many Americans believe that things got worse than got better with regard to relations between the cops and the black community in the United States.
00:04:52.000 But the media are going to continue to celebrate this stuff, even though the ramifications of what Black Lives Matter did.
00:04:56.000 I know we're supposed to just ignore the $2 billion in property damage and the skyrocketing murder rate in all of America's major cities.
00:05:02.000 I know we're supposed to ignore all of that because we're supposed to pretend that if you yell at the cops enough, then magically all inequality is erased.
00:05:09.000 But that is not the way things work.
00:05:11.000 In fact, you have exacerbated many of the underlying conditions that lead to less investment in high crime areas, in low income areas.
00:05:18.000 You have exacerbated many of the conditions that lead to bad relationships between the police and local populations.
00:05:25.000 Nonetheless, the media are just, they're cheering themselves because they spent the last year investing in the narrative that George Floyd's death was a referendum on what the United States means more broadly and that George Floyd's death, because it was racist without actually being racist, that is America as a whole.
00:05:42.000 Even as all eyes were on Minneapolis, says the New York Times, where the governor issued a proclamation for a moment of silence lasting nine minutes and 29 seconds, the amount of time a white officer's knee remained on Mr. Floyd's neck, people gathered in remembrance all across the country to honor not just the life of Mr. Floyd, but to reflect on what has changed and what has not in America.
00:05:56.000 Again, this was not honoring the life of Floyd.
00:05:58.000 I mean, it was really honoring the death of Floyd, to be fair, in his commemoration of his death, not anything that he did during his life.
00:06:04.000 And that is an important distinction, because if you believe that Floyd's death was a transformative moment, that's because you believe that the real problem in America Again, not a shred of evidence was provided for the idea that Derek Chauvin, the cop in the George Floyd murder, was actually a racist or did this out of racial animus.
00:06:23.000 Nonetheless, the New York Times says demonstrators marched in downtown Los Angeles, Philadelphia officials planned a citywide prayer vigil, protesters in Chicago gathered to call for police reform, and Mr. Floyd's daughter Gianna was invited to appear at an Atlanta rally titled, My Daddy Changed the World.
00:06:37.000 All this was happening as members of the Floyd family met privately with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House.
00:06:42.000 Afterward, the White House issued a statement in which Biden said that while it has been a year since Mr. Floyd's death, the first year can still feel like they got the news a few seconds ago.
00:06:50.000 Okay, so, number one, important to note that when the governor of Minneapolis, or Minnesota rather, is calling for a moment of silence lasting for nine minutes and 29 seconds, I've noticed zero moments of silence for the vast bevy of black people who have been murdered over the last year, not by cops.
00:07:08.000 I've noticed that.
00:07:09.000 And that, by the way, is statistically significantly more indicative of how many black people are being murdered in the United States than the Derek Chauvin case, which is a statistical anomaly.
00:07:19.000 It was an act of brutality and also a statistical anomaly.
00:07:23.000 But the media, again, they have to push forward this myth that the Black Lives Matter movement has been good for America, that there's been this quote-unquote racial reckoning.
00:07:28.000 And you see that word everywhere, a reckoning.
00:07:30.000 Reckoning for whom?
00:07:31.000 For whom?
00:07:32.000 Like what is the reckoning designed to do?
00:07:35.000 BLM knows what it's designed to do.
00:07:36.000 Tear down the institutions.
00:07:37.000 But the media just keeps saying racial reckoning and what they mean by this is the entire left-wing agenda must be adopted wholesale because we have used George Floyd's death as a lever to pry open all of those institutions and then gut them.
00:07:51.000 The word reckoning suggests that somebody has to be reckoned with.
00:07:53.000 What has to be reckoned with?
00:07:55.000 If we're saying that American history has to be looked at and that we have to see the impact of American history on the present, I agree.
00:08:01.000 We should always do that.
00:08:02.000 But then you have to look at inequality today.
00:08:04.000 How much of that is caused by history and how much of that is caused by personal decision making?
00:08:08.000 If you're really going to fix people's problems, you can talk about history as much as you want.
00:08:12.000 But if you're talking about problems like the crime rate in black communities or the murder rate in black communities, and you say, well, that's the legacy of slavery or Jim Crow, even if you grant that premise, which is dubious, even if you grant that premise, You'd have to say the only way to stop that is for people to stop killing people.
00:08:27.000 Talking about slavery and Jim Crow doesn't stop people from killing each other.
00:08:31.000 The same thing is true of the single motherhood rate in the black community.
00:08:33.000 If you actually want to solve the problem and create greater equality of outcome, you need people to take different actions.
00:08:39.000 Talking about the racist history of the United States doesn't cause a man to now stick around after knocking up a woman.
00:08:47.000 Personal decision-making has to change if you actually wish to effectuate different outcomes, but BLM is not interested in individual actions.
00:08:52.000 They explicitly say this.
00:08:54.000 The entire BLM movement is predicated on the idea that you don't have individual agency, that you can't make your life better, that black Americans aren't capable of making their lives better.
00:09:01.000 Strangely, there's a pretty hardcore bigotry of low expectations here, a bigotry of no expectations here with regard to the left.
00:09:09.000 You can't expect black Americans to act individually in good citizen fashion because of the legacy of racism.
00:09:15.000 But we here, we white liberals, we can correct all of the ills of American society because we are responsible and we do have unbelievable levels of agency.
00:09:23.000 It's the arrogance of the sort of Rob and D'Angelo white fragility model in which white liberals are responsible for A utopian fixing of the United States.
00:09:31.000 And black Americans have no responsibility whatsoever in their individual lives to take actions that better their lives, because to even imply that would suggest that the systems in which we live ought to stand.
00:09:39.000 And we'll get to what the actual impact of all this has been in the United States.
00:09:44.000 And the answer is, nothing good for black Americans.
00:09:47.000 Again, where's the positive outcome?
00:09:48.000 I'm waiting for it.
00:09:49.000 I haven't seen any of it.
00:09:51.000 Really, for black Americans, what is better now, today, than it was one year ago?
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00:11:05.000 Okay, so the propaganda efforts that are put out by the media here, that all of America's institutions need to be completely overthrown, just in line with what Democrats have always wanted to do, apparently.
00:11:14.000 This propaganda effort is being put forward with a special sort of fervor this week.
00:11:19.000 So Al Sharpton and Bill de Blasio knelt for George Floyd yesterday.
00:11:23.000 Al Sharpton, the idea that you're going to make race relations in America better by going to Al Sharpton, one of the great racial conflagrationists of the last half century, is utterly insane.
00:11:32.000 It's bizarre.
00:11:33.000 This is a guy who was involved in the incitement of at least two racial riots.
00:11:38.000 and a liar on a wide variety of other issues, including the Tijuana rally case.
00:11:42.000 And yet there he is with the mayor of New York, kneeling for George Floyd, presumably to make race relations better in some way.
00:11:47.000 This from the same mayor who hamstrung the police while people ran around Manhattan, breaking into stores last summer.
00:11:53.000 George Floyd's murder energized and ignited a movement all over the globe.
00:12:08.000 We want to see the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act passed by the Congress.
00:12:15.000 When we saw a movement like this in the 60s, it led to the Civil Rights Act of 64.
00:12:23.000 Okay, so this is what they're looking for.
00:12:26.000 What they're looking for is a complete overthrow of certain legislative areas of American life.
00:12:31.000 So important to note that the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which did a lot of very good things, also completely shifted the relationship between the government and the individual.
00:12:38.000 For example, it completely did away with freedom of association.
00:12:42.000 It actually extended into the private sphere in some pretty negative ways with long-term externalities.
00:12:46.000 Christopher Caldwell discusses this in his book, The Age of Entitlement.
00:12:50.000 It was really a ground shift in how America saw the role of government.
00:12:58.000 Well, this is what Democrats are seeking now, is another ground shift in the role of government.
00:13:02.000 So the Floyd family met with the Biden team at the White House yesterday and then emerged to say that we need more laws protecting black Americans, which is weird because we do have laws protecting black Americans.
00:13:12.000 They're called the laws.
00:13:15.000 We're just thankful for what's going on, and we just won't discharge for a policing act to be passed in the future.
00:13:21.000 Is there a message you want the American people to know?
00:13:25.000 No, because this is the thing.
00:13:27.000 If you can make federal laws to protect the bird, which is the bald eagle, you can make federal laws to protect people of color.
00:13:36.000 Okay, there are federal laws protecting people of color.
00:13:38.000 It's called the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
00:13:40.000 It's also a bevy of other pieces of legislation that protect black people in the United States, which is why the number of black people who are killed unarmed by the cops every year is usually fewer than 20.
00:13:48.000 Okay, not only that, we've had ground shifts in the treatment of discrimination in American life, like on a private level.
00:13:56.000 Discrimination against black people is considered the worst thing that you can do in America.
00:14:00.000 And I think in many ways, properly so.
00:14:03.000 There's broad agreement on this, and yet none of that apparently makes a difference.
00:14:06.000 It's the exact same thing as it was in 1960, when we were emerging from actual legally mandated discrimination in the South.
00:14:06.000 We are back in the 60s.
00:14:13.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden was being all weird, so he met with George Floyd's daughter, and he got strange, because this is what our dottered president does.
00:14:21.000 First thing she did when she ran in was throw her arms around me, give me a big hug.
00:14:25.000 And, uh, we wanted to sit on my lap and, uh, we spent, uh, she also, uh, loved the idea that, she said, I'm really hungry.
00:14:35.000 And so, she said, you have any snacks?
00:14:40.000 What is he even rambling about?
00:14:42.000 He's rambling about how George Floyd's daughter wanted snacks or something?
00:14:45.000 OK, so what is the Biden administration doing?
00:14:47.000 Well, according to Fox News dot com, the Department of State under President Biden issued guidance to all diplomatic and consular posts and encouraging officials of support, official displays of support for Black Lives Matter.
00:14:58.000 On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder on May 25th and beyond, according to a leaked memo from an anonymous State Department source, the department wrote that it, quote, supports the use of the term Black Lives Matter in messaging content as well as in speeches and foreign diplomatic engagements on May 25th and beyond.
00:15:12.000 The memo allows U.S.
00:15:13.000 diplomats to fly the Black Lives Matter flag outside of embassies.
00:15:16.000 Okay, so first of all, this crap has to stop.
00:15:19.000 Okay, the only flag that ought to be flying outside the American embassy is the American flag.
00:15:24.000 That is the only flag that we all agree on in the United States.
00:15:26.000 The Black Lives Matter flag, which is a very polarizing flag, not because...
00:15:33.000 Again, black lives don't matter.
00:15:34.000 The term black lives matter is a semantically overloaded term as I've explained many times before.
00:15:38.000 Of course black lives matter on a pure level.
00:15:40.000 Black lives matter the same as every other life in the United States matter.
00:15:44.000 It's black, white, or green.
00:15:45.000 We all agree with that.
00:15:46.000 But black lives matter is semantically overloaded because of course what people really mean when they say black lives matter is that black people are specifically targeted in the United States by the authorities.
00:15:53.000 That is not true.
00:15:54.000 And then there is the argument that all inequality is the result of discrimination, which is similarly untrue.
00:16:00.000 So when you fly the Black Lives Matter flag, what you're really doing is imbibing that message and then saying that that is the message of America, which of course it is not.
00:16:06.000 In fact, it runs directly counter to the messages of the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence.
00:16:11.000 We've seen the use of flags that are not the American flag at embassies, and I object to all of them.
00:16:17.000 We should not be flying gay pride flags or transgender pride flags or BLM flags or Christian flags outside the American embassy.
00:16:23.000 We have a flag, it's called the American flag, that's the only one that should be flying outside of American embassies.
00:16:28.000 In any case, the memo acts as an authorization for agency higher-ups to display the BLM flag on the external-facing flagpole to any chiefs of mission who determine such a display is appropriate in light of local conditions.
00:16:40.000 Antony Blinken has also previously authorized embassies to fly the LGBTQ pride flag from May 17th through the end of June in recognition of Pride Month celebrations.
00:16:48.000 Again, the overt politicization of what should be apolitical things in American life, like the American flag, is pretty incredible.
00:16:54.000 Okay, so what has been the actual impact of BLM?
00:16:56.000 Has there been a grand impact to BLM?
00:16:58.000 Has the racial reckoning been good for black Americans or all Americans?
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00:18:18.000 The answer, of course, is no.
00:18:19.000 They've gotten significantly worse.
00:18:21.000 At the end of 2020, Chicago police reported more than 750 murders, a jump of more than 50%.
00:18:24.000 By mid-December, L.A.
00:18:25.000 saw a 30% increase over the previous year with 322 homicides.
00:18:27.000 December, L.A. saw a 30 percent increase over the previous year with 322 homicides.
00:18:31.000 There were 437 homicides in New York City by December 20th, nearly 40 percent more than the previous year.
00:18:37.000 So, yes, things are getting worse.
00:18:40.000 They're getting significantly worse.
00:18:42.000 I mean, just back in late March, the New York Times ran a piece.
00:18:46.000 Remember, today, the New York Times runs a piece about the wonderful events that are taking place all across America to commemorate the death of George Floyd and America's racial reckoning and all of this.
00:18:54.000 Well, you know what's happening at George Floyd Square?
00:18:56.000 People getting shot at George Floyd Square.
00:18:57.000 Like, literally yesterday.
00:18:59.000 Literally yesterday.
00:19:00.000 Okay, here is tape of an AP reporter reporting from outside the George Memorial at this square in Minneapolis where George Floyd died.
00:19:08.000 And gunfire breaks out.
00:19:09.000 Yesterday.
00:19:11.000 So, how about that racial reckoning game?
00:19:15.000 Is this making lives better for anybody?
00:19:16.000 Here we go.
00:19:18.000 This bill of comprehensive police reform to be... Just gotta be careful here with some gunshots.
00:19:25.000 Excuse us, excuse us.
00:19:26.000 Oh, excuse us, sorry.
00:19:28.000 Just some gunfire breaking out here at George Floyd Memorial and in the George Floyd Square.
00:19:31.000 I mean, no biggie.
00:19:33.000 And of course, the answer is it is no biggie because this happens like every weekend at the George Floyd Square.
00:19:39.000 We're okay, we're okay, we're okay.
00:19:42.000 How many shots are being fired here?
00:19:44.000 It's like a war zone over here.
00:19:46.000 And where are the cops?
00:19:48.000 The cops, of course, have been blocked off from this area, is the answer.
00:19:51.000 This place has become utterly lawless.
00:19:53.000 According to NPR, at least one person was shot Tuesday near the Minneapolis intersection where George Floyd was murdered by police one year ago, an event that set off international protests over racial justice.
00:20:01.000 Minneapolis police said they responded just after 10 a.m.
00:20:04.000 to reports of shots fired near Elliott Avenue, which is part of an area known as George Floyd Square.
00:20:08.000 A short time later, a person showed up at Abbott Northwestern Hospital suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, according to authorities.
00:20:16.000 And by the way, this is not uncommon.
00:20:18.000 March 28th.
00:20:20.000 New York Times.
00:20:21.000 The Sacred Intersection.
00:20:22.000 Right?
00:20:22.000 Sacred.
00:20:23.000 Sacred.
00:20:23.000 It's now a holy site.
00:20:24.000 It's a site of pilgrimage and ritual.
00:20:26.000 Sacred Intersection.
00:20:29.000 The secular religion that is leftism requires martyrs, and it requires acts of fealty, and it requires acts of faith.
00:20:37.000 And those acts of fealty and faith include the sainting of victims in American society and the blaming of the entire system at large.
00:20:44.000 I mean, you saw this with Nancy Pelosi literally thanking George Floyd for dying after the conviction of Derek Chauvin, which is an unbelievable thing.
00:20:52.000 I mean, that equivalent to sort of the Christian thought that Jesus died for your sins, Nancy Pelosi suggested that George Floyd died for America's sins, then thanked him for his death.
00:21:01.000 I mean, this sort of thinking is so perverse in the United States, it's beyond reckoning.
00:21:07.000 The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New York Times says, The New Ten months ago, Minneapolis and the country seemed to coalesce around the belief that policing needed an overhaul.
00:21:36.000 Now, with the murder trial of the officer who knelt on Floyd's neck scheduled to begin on Monday, remember this was written a couple of months ago, the struggle over what to overhaul has left Minneapolis at war with itself.
00:21:46.000 The square itself has turned into a powder keg, according to the New York Times.
00:21:52.000 Hone in on the four neighborhoods surrounding the George Floyd Square.
00:21:55.000 The story is bleak and deadly.
00:21:57.000 In those areas, Powderhorn Park, Central, Bryant, and Bancroft, violent crime shot up by 66% last year, according to stats from the police department.
00:22:04.000 This year, so far, little has changed.
00:22:06.000 The area has become something of an autonomous zone, with barriers and signs calling it the Free State of George Floyd.
00:22:10.000 Well, if this is the Free State of George Floyd, it looks a lot more like a place for gang warfare.
00:22:15.000 It looks like a hellscape if this is the free state of George Floyd.
00:22:19.000 People are literally firing shots at George Floyd's memorial on the one-year commemoration of his death.
00:22:24.000 And this is the Black Lives Matter movement that was supposed to make America much, much better?
00:22:27.000 Okay, again, show me the evidence that America has gotten better in some way over the course of the last year.
00:22:33.000 And when you say awareness has been raised, awareness of what exactly?
00:22:38.000 Really, truly, awareness of what?
00:22:39.000 That some police officers have committed acts of brutality?
00:22:42.000 I think we all acknowledge this.
00:22:45.000 What the media really want you to be aware of is a false story about what the United States is and what the United States should be.
00:22:51.000 When they say that America has gotten better, they don't mean that conditions on the ground have gotten better for anybody.
00:22:54.000 They don't care that conditions have gotten significantly worse for black Americans on the ground in America's major cities in the highest crime areas.
00:23:00.000 They don't care about that.
00:23:01.000 What they mean when they say that America has gotten better is they mean it is easier for them to foment an agenda that tears down America's institutions.
00:23:08.000 They mean that they believe that they have made political headway in tearing away the systems of the United States and constitutional systems and baseline individual liberties.
00:23:19.000 Things like due process and equality of rights before law.
00:23:22.000 When they say things have gotten better, what they mean is that they've been able to forward their agenda.
00:23:27.000 Not that things have actually gotten better for black Americans.
00:23:30.000 Because they pretty obviously and statistically have not.
00:23:33.000 Okay, in just one second, we're gonna get to exactly what I mean.
00:23:38.000 And again, they're using this to foment exactly, right, it's George, it's the anniversary of George Floyd's death, and therefore, you can't do anything the left doesn't want you to do today, right?
00:23:46.000 It's a magic day.
00:23:47.000 Perfect example.
00:23:48.000 A piece by Dana Milbank in the Washington Post.
00:23:50.000 Republicans spent the anniversary of George Floyd's murder trying to vote down a black woman.
00:23:56.000 Oh, what now?
00:23:58.000 So, the idea here is that because George Floyd was murdered by a police officer, we are not allowed to vote against any black person for a government office, no matter how ridiculously unqualified, like Kristen Clark.
00:24:11.000 Here's Dana Milbank from the Washington Post.
00:24:11.000 I mean, this is insane.
00:24:13.000 Republicans chose a special way of observing the anniversary of George Floyd's murder.
00:24:17.000 They tried to vote down a highly qualified black woman who has been nominated to run the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
00:24:21.000 From I can't breathe to I won't confirm.
00:24:24.000 So he is now equating the death of George Floyd to a government nominee by the Biden administration who not only is utterly unqualified, but is a garbage nominee being voted against by Republicans.
00:24:35.000 These are the same thing.
00:24:36.000 If you vote against a black person for a high position of power in the United States government because her qualifications are crap, then according to Dana Milbank, this is the equivalent of you kneeling on the neck of a black person until they die.
00:24:48.000 According to the Washington Post, President Biden had set a deadline of Tuesday for Congress to enact legislation to counter police brutality.
00:24:54.000 But while the House passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act almost three months ago, Republican objections have bottled up negotiations in the Senate.
00:25:01.000 Chuck, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's office said the timing of Tuesday's vote was a coincidence.
00:25:05.000 Still, Democrats were happy to point out the convergence.
00:25:07.000 It wasn't a coincidence, I'm sure.
00:25:09.000 The Floyd murder by a Minneapolis police officer set off a fight for justice, Schumer said on the Senate floor.
00:25:13.000 And here in the Senate, we will continue that fight when we vote to confirm the first black woman ever to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
00:25:21.000 Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, Majority Whip, also cited the Floyd anniversary and urging his colleagues to consider the historic importance of this moment.
00:25:26.000 Again, this is now a club.
00:25:27.000 It's a political club.
00:25:28.000 It's not about making life better for black people.
00:25:30.000 It's a political club for Democrats, period.
00:25:34.000 Which is why Democrats went so soft on the BLM rioters.
00:25:37.000 Because these were just people, of course, who were overzealous, and simply too committed, and maybe a little too enraged.
00:25:42.000 But they had the right idea, and that idea was to create running room for Democrats to push whatever agenda items they wished to pursue.
00:25:49.000 But according to Dana Milbank, it's just racism.
00:25:51.000 Republicans considered, and then all but one, Susan Collins of Maine, voted not even to allow Clark a confirmation vote, and when that failed, voted by an identical tally against confirming Clark.
00:25:59.000 Not a single Republican spoke against Clark on the floor Tuesday, not even when Zurbin yielded them for a final summation.
00:26:07.000 Okay, so what exactly are Kristen Clark's qualifications?
00:26:12.000 David Harsanyi has written about this repeatedly for National Review.
00:26:15.000 Let me explain why Kristen Clark did not deserve a vote.
00:26:18.000 This is David Harsanyi.
00:26:20.000 Kristen Clarke, Joe Biden's nominee for Assistant Attorney General of the United States, once promoted racist pseudoscientific quackery, arguing that the human brain was structured in a way that makes black people superior to white people and that human mental processes in the brain have chemicals that imbue one race with superior physical and mental abilities and spiritual abilities.
00:26:37.000 Rather than owning up to a youthful relationship with radicalism, Clarke, who made these comments in the Harvard Crimson as a 19-year-old, claims her racist diatribe was merely a parody, mocking the controversial book, The Bell Curve.
00:26:48.000 What I was seeking to do is hold up a mirror, she says.
00:26:50.000 Purely by chance, Clark also happened to invite a Holocaust-denying fraud named Anthony Martin, then a professor at Wellesley College, whose primary assigned textbook was called The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, which blamed Jews for the slave trade, and who wrote The Jewish Onslaught, published by Louis Farrakhan.
00:27:04.000 She invited that guy to speak at Harvard.
00:27:06.000 At the same time Clark was writing about black supremacy, she was calling Martin an intelligent well-versed black intellectual who bases his information on indisputable fact.
00:27:14.000 Then last year, she wrote a piece for Newsweek titled, I prosecuted police killings.
00:27:17.000 Defund the police, but be strategic.
00:27:20.000 Okay, not only that, she suggested that Jussie Smollett, when the police asked for Jussie Smollett's phone and asked for evidence, that they were being racist.
00:27:30.000 Okay, this person is not qualified to lead the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.
00:27:35.000 But according to the media, remember, because of the racial reckoning, to vote against her would be an act of racism.
00:27:41.000 And this is really why people on the left think that the world's gotten better over the course of the last year, when by all available evidence, for black Americans, it has not.
00:27:48.000 The answer is because they think that the agenda that they are pushing is going to be fomented by the Black Lives Matter movement, even if it means that more black people are going to die in cities, and even if it means that education gets worse, and even if it means that racial polarization gets worse.
00:28:02.000 None of that matters to them.
00:28:03.000 It's all about the agenda.
00:28:05.000 Agenda, agenda.
00:28:06.000 That's all that matters to them.
00:28:08.000 Which is why they've been using this quote-unquote racial reckoning to push forward things like the 1619 project.
00:28:12.000 It's why they've been using this quote-unquote racial reckoning to push forward critical race theory in schools.
00:28:18.000 And the media are fully invested in this.
00:28:19.000 The reason the media are in full celebration mode one year after George Floyd's death, when things have gotten markedly worse for black Americans living in high-crime areas, is because they believe that they have found the lever for change.
00:28:29.000 So Politico, for example.
00:28:30.000 Listen to the way that the media skews stories.
00:28:33.000 Politico has a report today about Oklahoma passing a bill that bans critical race theory teaching in schools.
00:28:39.000 Okay, here's how they headline this.
00:28:41.000 Anti-racism teaching ban divides Oklahoma ahead of Tulsa massacre centennial.
00:28:45.000 If you just read that headline, what you would assume is a bunch of racists in Oklahoma want to make sure that no one ever learns about racism in Oklahoma right about the same time as the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa-Oklahoma massacre.
00:28:57.000 Okay, that's not what's going on at all.
00:28:59.000 Oklahoma just pushed forward a bill that said that you can't educate kids to feel, quote, discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress solely due to race or gender.
00:29:11.000 That doesn't mean you can't teach American history.
00:29:12.000 It means you're not allowed to say that kids are beneficiaries of white supremacy and therefore should feel guilty about their own race.
00:29:19.000 Because that's what critical race theory effectively argues, is that all white people, no matter who you are, are beneficiaries of evil systems in the United States, and therefore ought to feel guilty about their race.
00:29:29.000 It is a hallmark of critical race theory, which of course argues that racism is not abnormal.
00:29:35.000 It's not an abnormality.
00:29:36.000 It is natural.
00:29:37.000 It is ingrained in white populations, and that every white person is a secret, both psychological and material beneficiary of white privilege.
00:29:46.000 But according to Politico, it's very bad to say this.
00:29:49.000 Senator Kevin Matthews said, quote, The biggest problem is we would pass legislation that says we wouldn't be able to teach diversity, equity and inclusion in schools.
00:29:49.000 No, that's not what it says.
00:29:56.000 It generally says something like that.
00:29:58.000 No, that's not what it says.
00:29:59.000 What it says is that you are not allowed to teach racial discrimination on the basis of race.
00:30:03.000 As educators have sought to explore U.S.
00:30:07.000 history with lessons increasingly informed by slavery, Dred Scott, and Jim Crow, particularly after George Floyd's killing by police last year, there is the obligatory political reference, conservatives have moved to block political interpretations of critical race theory from classrooms.
00:30:20.000 Many Republicans across the country and in Washington have blasted it as racist, liberal indoctrination.
00:30:24.000 Well, that's because that is what it is.
00:30:27.000 And nonetheless, Politico says the reason they're doing this is because of the Tulsa race massacre.
00:30:31.000 Of course, that's not true.
00:30:33.000 It takes a long time for these legislative proposals to finally reach the light of day.
00:30:38.000 But the goal here is that if you can link this to George Floyd, which everybody agrees is bad, then that means that you're racist to oppose what Democrats want to do.
00:30:46.000 This is why you see Ta-Nehisi Coates, for example, suggesting that it is racism.
00:30:50.000 Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of the great race grifters in American life.
00:30:53.000 He's a purple writer who is extremely vague in his thinking, which is why he can never peg down exactly what it is that he is saying, and instead reverts to very Very evocative phraseology.
00:31:06.000 Things like the impact on black bodies, which he uses, it's a phraseology he uses frequently, or when he talks about the systemic racism that has wrought its legacy on black Americans.
00:31:18.000 Ta-Nehisi Coates' favorite routine in his writing is that he takes a bad thing that happened in 1880 and then he fast-forwards directly to 2021 and says that nothing has changed, which of course is a lie.
00:31:27.000 In any case, here's Ta-Nehisi Coates defending critical race theory on the basis that somehow this is gonna make the country a better place.
00:31:33.000 No matter how discomforting an idea is, no matter how an idea makes you feel or whatever, when you see the state using policy to remove those notions from the public square, you've got a problem of a different order.
00:31:50.000 Again, I just want to be really, really clear.
00:31:52.000 You don't have to agree with Nicole.
00:31:53.000 You don't have to agree with me.
00:31:54.000 You don't have to agree with anybody.
00:31:56.000 But when you see the President of the United States directing an executive order Okay, directing an executive order to a journalistic project?
00:32:06.000 No, he put together an executive order, putting together what he called the 1776 Commission.
00:32:09.000 He's talking about Trump there.
00:32:11.000 The 1776 Commission thoroughly debunks the 1619 Project, which is garbage pseudo-history.
00:32:17.000 The 1619 Project is filled with lies and prevarications, as everyone who has studied it knows.
00:32:22.000 Anyone who has spent any amount of time knows that it is filled with conjecture and foolishness.
00:32:26.000 And none of that is to deny the evils of slavery or the impact that history has on the present.
00:32:31.000 The 1619 Project, however, is rife with historical inaccuracy and full-scale lies about the founding of the United States and American ideals.
00:32:39.000 But to oppose that apparently means that you are in league with George Floyd's murderers or something.
00:32:45.000 That is why the left believes that things have gotten better over the past year when there is no evidence that things have gotten better over the past year.
00:32:50.000 By the way, this is being crammed down on your kids.
00:32:52.000 According to Daily Wire, an Oregon school board updated a policy to mandate that each classroom in the school district display a Black Lives Matter and progressive pride flag or poster.
00:33:00.000 On May 6th, the Gresham Barlow School Board in Gresham, Oregon updated the district's flag displays and salutes policy to reflect the progressive values of the board.
00:33:08.000 The proposal would require the school board to provide an American flag, pride flag, and BLM flag for each classroom, because if we are talking about messages that every American has to be forced to embrace, we are now talking about the radical LGBTQ plus agenda, the BLM agenda, and the American flag are all interchangeable, according to the left, which is complete crap, considering that the documents of the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence are marked rebukes to many elements of that agenda.
00:33:35.000 According to the policy, the district shall obtain and display a U.S.
00:33:38.000 flag, a progressive pride flag or poster, and a Black Lives Matter flag or poster of an appropriate size for each classroom.
00:33:45.000 This is with taxpayer dollars.
00:33:47.000 Nuts.
00:33:48.000 Nuts.
00:33:50.000 Apparently, other members of the school board suggested that students recite Land Acknowledgement once a week.
00:34:00.000 And recite the Black National Anthem as well.
00:34:01.000 All of this is divisive and makes the country worse, but of course, the goal is to divide the country further so that you can then cram down a policy from above.
00:34:08.000 A policy that rectifies all racial imbalances.
00:34:11.000 It's just nasty, nasty stuff here from the radical left.
00:34:17.000 Again, using George Floyd's death as an opportunity, not to make life better for Americans, but to tear down institutions that, by the way, have made Black Americans the richest Black people on the face of the earth.
00:34:27.000 I mean, in economic terms.
00:34:28.000 There is no country in which black Americans are freer, and there is no country in which black Americans are richer.
00:34:33.000 That does not deny the evil history of the United States with regard to slavery or Jim Crow.
00:34:37.000 That is a recognition of facts on the ground today.
00:34:40.000 There is, in fact, a giant and thriving black middle class in the country.
00:34:42.000 I know the media want you to believe that the only black people in America are people who are either extremely wealthy or extremely poor, but that is not true in the slightest.
00:34:51.000 And it's a slander on the very many black Americans who have made tremendous economic progress in the United States.
00:34:57.000 It's also a slander on the system which allows people to make economic progress regardless of race.
00:35:02.000 In fact, if race were the great indicator here, then there would be no reason why Nigerian Americans, for example, are better educated than the general population and have a higher household income.
00:35:11.000 In any case, the media continue to push the idea that things have gotten better over the past year because, again, it's not about whether things got better.
00:35:18.000 It's about whether they can push forward the agenda they want to push forward.
00:35:21.000 Alrighty, in just a second.
00:35:22.000 We'll get to more insane media malfeasance because there's a headline from the New York Times that is just beyond.
00:35:28.000 It's just beyond.
00:35:29.000 We'll get to that in one second.
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00:38:02.000 All righty, so the media, as always, they have one agenda and that is to push whatever the Democratic Party wants.
00:38:13.000 This headline from the New York Times is just... This is a stellar headline from the New York Times, really.
00:38:18.000 Full credit to the New York Times, full point.
00:38:19.000 Here's the headline.
00:38:21.000 Democrats, once outraged, take a quieter approach to migrant children.
00:38:24.000 Yeah, that's a real headline from the New York Times.
00:38:27.000 So you may have been wondering, you, American citizen, why it was that AOC was going down to the border and putting on a spontaneous white outfit and standing spontaneously in front of a chain-link fence, spontaneously in front of a giant empty plaza, spontaneously in front of a child-holding facility, and why a photographer was spontaneously there taking spontaneous pictures of AOC spontaneously crying spontaneously while looking spontaneously into camera.
00:38:52.000 You may have been wondering why she was doing that, but She's got nothing to say.
00:38:57.000 Like, she's not down at the border right now, and there's a multiple of the number of children being held in detention facilities by the Biden administration amidst a COVID pandemic that is still hitting all the people who are migrating over the border.
00:39:08.000 You may have wondered, well, the New York Times has her answer.
00:39:11.000 They're just taking a quieter approach, you see.
00:39:14.000 They're still mad, you see, but they're quieter about it.
00:39:16.000 They're just quieter.
00:39:17.000 Now, why are they quieter?
00:39:19.000 Who knows?
00:39:20.000 Who knows?
00:39:20.000 Could be maybe they got laryngitis.
00:39:23.000 You never know.
00:39:24.000 Maybe it's just that their hands were paralyzed so they couldn't type or something.
00:39:27.000 You just don't know.
00:39:28.000 But they're quieter.
00:39:29.000 According to Eileen Sullivan at the New York Times.
00:39:32.000 House Democrats, who led an angry charge against the Trump administration's treatment of migrant children, have taken a much quieter tack since concerns began emerging about conditions at some of the emergency shelters set up by the Biden administration to deal with minors at the southern border.
00:39:44.000 Where once only Twitter assaults and dressings down at House hearings would suffice, Democratic lawmakers are voicing worries privately to administration officials and the small staff at DHHS, which oversees the care.
00:39:55.000 If problems persist, the lawmakers say they call again.
00:39:59.000 Oh, is that why?
00:40:11.000 Oh, it's because you like the people in the White House.
00:40:13.000 I mean, we can boil that one down, right?
00:40:14.000 That's what they mean.
00:40:15.000 We like the people in the White House.
00:40:16.000 Therefore, they're good people.
00:40:17.000 We don't have to yell at them.
00:40:18.000 We just address it.
00:40:19.000 We do a little back massage, and maybe we try and give Joe a can of Ensure, and maybe he'll do what we want.
00:40:24.000 By the way, Number of migrant children has not decreased since Joe Biden took office.
00:40:28.000 That was in January.
00:40:29.000 It is now nearly the end of May.
00:40:31.000 According to Joaquin Castro, a Democrat of Texas, the difference is you have an administration who wants to solve a lot of these challenges, and their heart is in a much better— Oh, their heart is in a better place!
00:40:40.000 It's like in a jar on the shelf.
00:40:42.000 Their heart, it's in a better place.
00:40:44.000 Representative Veronica Escobar, Democrat of Texas, said she has so far been impressed with the administration officials working on the issue.
00:40:50.000 They have a solid vision and a heart of gold.
00:40:52.000 They're whores with a heart of gold, and they seem to want to do the right thing, which is different from what I experienced during the Trump administration, said Escobar.
00:40:58.000 During the Trump administration, it was all excuses or, sorry, this is the way it is.
00:41:03.000 Oh, so, oh, I see.
00:41:05.000 I see what's happening here.
00:41:07.000 So now they just went quiet, but the good, you know what?
00:41:09.000 They went quiet for a reason.
00:41:10.000 It's because Democrats have a heart of gold.
00:41:13.000 By the way, what is the Biden administration actually doing?
00:41:15.000 They're incentivizing massive illegal immigration across the border.
00:41:18.000 Today, Washington Post, at the detention centers and county jails that the Trump administration once filled with immigrants facing deportations, thousands of beds are now empty.
00:41:26.000 The immigration and customs enforcement officers that President Donald Trump lavished with praise have far less to do on the streets of the U.S.
00:41:32.000 Under the new Biden administration rules curtailing immigration enforcement, ICE carried out fewer than 3,000 deportations last month, the lowest levels on record.
00:41:32.000 these days.
00:41:41.000 The agency's 6,000 officers currently average one arrest every two months.
00:41:46.000 ICE under President Biden is an agency on probation.
00:41:49.000 The new administration has rejected calls from some Democrats to eliminate the agency, but Biden has placed ICE deportation officers on a leash so tight, some say their work is being functionally abolished.
00:41:58.000 Immigration advocacy groups and lawyers who wield significant influence in the Biden White House are pushing to eliminate more detention facilities and reduce deportations even further, despite a 20-year high in legal border crossings.
00:42:08.000 So you know why Democrats aren't worried about all these children being held in migrant facilities?
00:42:12.000 Because they're very much in favor of the open border policy being pursued by the Biden administration.
00:42:16.000 Once the Biden administration says to ICE, you cannot deport people who are crossing the border illegally, they're de facto issuing a come on in announcement.
00:42:27.000 Free cupcakes.
00:42:29.000 Cross the border and then we're all supposed to be surprised when children swamp the border?
00:42:34.000 Why should we be surprised about that?
00:42:35.000 You have fully incentivized this.
00:42:36.000 Just like defund the police causes crime, we will not deport anyone causes illegal immigration.
00:42:42.000 Democrats know this, and they don't care.
00:42:44.000 They're happy about it.
00:42:45.000 That's why they're quote-unquote quieter, because they like the broader agenda.
00:42:47.000 They don't care that kids are being held in inhumane conditions on the border, because the broader agenda, which is to get more illegal immigrants into the country, is something that Democrats support.
00:42:55.000 As always, real-time suffering means nothing to Democrats.
00:42:57.000 It's the long-term utopian vision that means everything to Democrats.
00:43:02.000 The Biden administration is preparing to release its first Department of Homeland Security budget request this week.
00:43:06.000 Immigrant advocates want deep cuts to ICE.
00:43:09.000 Deep cuts to ICE in the middle of a vast upswell in illegal immigration cut the agency responsible for deportations.
00:43:16.000 DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced plans last week to shutter two ICE detention centers.
00:43:21.000 But he says he wants to reorient ICE, not shrink it.
00:43:23.000 He said, I really am focused on it becoming a premier national security and law enforcement agency.
00:43:27.000 I really want to elevate all of the other work ICE does and also ensure that its civil immigration work is well-focused in the service of the national security and public safety mission.
00:43:35.000 So what exactly does that mean?
00:43:37.000 Under Biden's new rules, deportation officers must seek written authorization from senior level supervisors to arrest anyone who is not a recent border crosser, a national security threat, or an aggravated felon.
00:43:49.000 So if you've committed a misdemeanor, You're fine.
00:43:52.000 If you commit a felony, but you're not considered an aggravated felon, you're still fine.
00:43:56.000 So long as you came here a little while ago.
00:43:58.000 Before placing a detainer on an immigrant in a jail or a prison, so these are people who have already been arrested, essentially asking another law enforcement agency to hold that person until ICE can assume custody, officers must also seek approval from one of the agency's most senior regional directors.
00:44:12.000 So it used to be that automatically, if somebody was arrested and they were an illegal immigrant, ICE would put an automatic detainer request in with local law enforcement to say we can deport these people as opposed to keeping them in American jails.
00:44:23.000 Now, Biden wants you to have to go to your supervisor to allow this, which effectively means a lot of people who are felons, people who have committed crimes in the United States, will not be deported.
00:44:33.000 ICE officials, frustrated with the changes, describe a workplace environment where officers spend time doing paperwork, idling or working out, more fearful of facing reprimand for making an arrest than not making one.
00:44:41.000 So basically, they're doing to ICE what they have done to the cops, and the predictable result is more crime.
00:44:46.000 This is not a shock in any way, shape, or form, but don't worry, things are getting better, guys.
00:44:49.000 According to the New York Times, Democrats are quiet because everybody in the administration has a heart of gold.
00:44:54.000 So much golden-heartedness going on.
00:44:57.000 By the way, a little bit of disparate treatment of crime?
00:44:59.000 You notice there's a big story out right now about how a grand jury has convened in New York with regard to President Trump, and how Letitia James, the Attorney General of the state of New York, came into office pledging to go after Trump.
00:45:09.000 She didn't say what crime he'd committed, but she was pledged to go after him, basically admitting that it was a political prosecution from the very beginning.
00:45:17.000 The media are over the moon about law enforcement with regard to Trump, when we don't even know what crimes he supposedly has committed here.
00:45:23.000 But when it comes to actual people committing actual crimes, the answer is defund the police, Make sure that Kristen Clarke, who's a radical with regards to the cops, is in charge of investigating the police and ensuring civil rights at the DOJ and defund ICE.
00:45:38.000 Remember that time when this was supposed to be a moderate administration?
00:45:41.000 Yeah, I don't either.
00:45:42.000 Because it was never going to be a moderate administration.
00:45:43.000 That was always a lie that people were just telling you.
00:45:47.000 End of story.
00:45:48.000 It was all about that.
00:45:49.000 And the media are playing the game, man.
00:45:51.000 Whatever they can do to distract from the failures of this administration.
00:45:55.000 There are multiple crises.
00:45:57.000 They are administration created.
00:45:58.000 There is a crime crisis.
00:45:59.000 It is created by this administration and by the Democrats and by the media.
00:46:03.000 There is a racial polarization crisis in the country fomented by the media.
00:46:06.000 There's an illegal immigration crisis fomented by the media, fomented by this administration.
00:46:10.000 But you know, it is the one year anniversary of George Floyd, so I guess we're not supposed to talk about any of that.
00:46:14.000 All right, meanwhile, when we speak of media misdirection.
00:46:18.000 Gonna talk a little bit about Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:46:20.000 So, Marjorie Taylor Greene made a couple of statements over the past 48 hours.
00:46:25.000 So, one of them was a statement on Twitter, and the other one of them was a statement that she made on David Brody's show on Real America's Voice.
00:46:34.000 I commented yesterday on the radio show about the Real America's Voice statement.
00:46:37.000 Her tweet on Twitter was basically just doubling down on those particular comments.
00:46:42.000 Hey, so here was Marjorie Taylor Greene on David Brody's show yesterday, making a Holocaust comparison and reference with regard to masking that makes no sense and is kind of insane.
00:46:52.000 This woman is mentally ill.
00:46:53.000 You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany.
00:47:08.000 And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.
00:47:12.000 Okay, no, that's not precisely the kind of stuff that Nancy Pelosi is talking about, as I noted yesterday. And then, of course, she doubled down on this on Twitter because everybody doubles down on everything on Twitter. This is the new strategy on Twitter. Right?
00:47:24.000 She suggested on Twitter that basically the same thing, that the that that vaccine passports are equivalent to the the gold star. It's a yellow star. But she called it the gold star and that that this is like what Nazis did.
00:47:42.000 And so I talked about this on Twitter.
00:47:43.000 I said, this is a bad idea, right?
00:47:45.000 That this is crazy, what she's saying right here.
00:47:48.000 And naturally, the Republican Party came out and they said, this is crazy talk, right?
00:47:52.000 I mean, comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust or suggesting that Nancy Pelosi's House policy on masking on the floor is equivalent to sending Jews on trains to gas chambers, or it's leading to sending Jews on trains to gas chambers.
00:48:06.000 It's wild stuff.
00:48:07.000 And Marjorie Taylor Greene says wild stuff, right?
00:48:09.000 I've said before, when she deserves praise, she deserves praise.
00:48:11.000 There have been times where I've praised her on this show.
00:48:13.000 She's a broken clock who's right twice a day.
00:48:15.000 And when she's right, she's right.
00:48:16.000 When she's wrong, she's wrong.
00:48:17.000 This is one where she's wrong.
00:48:17.000 Mitch McConnell kind of slapped her on it yesterday.
00:48:19.000 Here was the Senate minority leader saying that this sort of language was inappropriate.
00:48:24.000 And then I'll talk about the ramifications for broader American politics, because this is where things get kind of interesting.
00:48:30.000 Well, she doesn't serve in the Senate, but this is one of the frequent outbursts that are absolutely outrageous and reprehensible.
00:48:42.000 But any punishment, I assume, would have to be administered by the House.
00:48:46.000 Okay, so first of all, the voters can administer whatever punishment to Marjorie Taylor Greene they wish to do.
00:48:51.000 She's an elected official.
00:48:52.000 They can do that if they want.
00:48:55.000 Second of all, if we're talking about Holocaust comparisons that are bad, these, of course, are not restricted to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:49:01.000 Democrats called Trump Hitler for four years.
00:49:03.000 The number of Holocaust references being put forward by Democrats in the last four years, there's a plethora of them.
00:49:08.000 I've condemned a lot of them.
00:49:09.000 I've talked about a lot of them.
00:49:11.000 And then beyond that, put aside the Holocaust references, Democrats, including the President of the United States, suggested, for example, that Georgia voting law was Jim Crow, which is, again, an overt historical lie that demeans Jim Crow and presents Jim Crow as something that apparently is not that serious.
00:49:27.000 If it's just like the Georgia voting law, it's ridiculous, right?
00:49:29.000 It downplays Jim Crow.
00:49:30.000 So these sorts of bad historical comparisons happen all the time for members of Congress, and they suck.
00:49:34.000 They're bad.
00:49:34.000 But let's be real about this.
00:49:36.000 The reason that the media are paying outsized attention To Marjorie Taylor Greene's comments is because they don't want to talk about the overt anti-Semitism of the Democratic Party at this point.
00:49:44.000 That is why they are doing this.
00:49:46.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene's comments on masking and the Holocaust are going to get precisely zero Jews beaten in the streets of New York.
00:49:52.000 Ilhan Omar's comments and AOC's comments and Ayanna Pressley's comments And the comments of members of the media who are overtly pushing pro-Hamas talking points.
00:50:00.000 That does get Jews beaten in the streets of New York.
00:50:03.000 It does get Jews threatened on the streets of Miami.
00:50:06.000 It does get a rabbi in my community threatened by a guy wearing a Hamas headband.
00:50:11.000 Okay, so, but the media are, it's amazing to watch the media jump on the Marjorie Taylor Greene thing because she provided them the opening, right?
00:50:17.000 She said this, and so they're like, ah, we can condemn anti-Semitism.
00:50:20.000 First of all, I'm not sure that her comment, this one, right, the Jew laser thing is anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
00:50:26.000 Bad Holocaust comparisons are absurd and deranged, but they are not de facto anti-Semitic, right?
00:50:32.000 People make bad historical comparisons all the time, it happens routinely.
00:50:35.000 But, The reason the media are focusing on this is that they can say that they don't like anti-semitism while completely letting the squad off scot-free.
00:50:43.000 The squad has participated in blood libels here.
00:50:45.000 They've suggested that Israel is targeting Palestinian children.
00:50:47.000 That is a lie.
00:50:48.000 It is an overt, disgusting lie.
00:50:50.000 It is a blood libel against the Jewish state.
00:50:53.000 They've suggested that because Israel has an imbalance in military power, Israel's citizens should be living under the threat of random rocket fire.
00:51:00.000 They've suggested sympathy for a Hamas terror group that explicitly calls for the abolition of the State of Israel and running the Jews into the sea.
00:51:08.000 This is what the Democrats have done.
00:51:10.000 And the Democrats will not condemn the other Democrats for doing this.
00:51:13.000 They'll condemn anti-Semitism more broadly, maybe.
00:51:16.000 Many Democrats were like, well, we condemn anti-Semitism and also Islamophobia.
00:51:20.000 There's no uptick in Islamophobic attacks in the United States, none.
00:51:23.000 There's no data to suggest that.
00:51:24.000 But the reason that the Democrats keep pairing anti-Semitism with Islamophobia is to justify the anti-Semitism.
00:51:30.000 Their claim is that if you are pro-Israel, this means that you are by nature Islamophobic, And therefore, if you're Islamophobic, an attack on you is really not anti-Semitism.
00:51:38.000 It's really just a form of defending Muslims.
00:51:41.000 That is the perverse logic that is being put forward by Democrats on the radical left today.
00:51:46.000 The media refused to pay attention to this.
00:51:48.000 The New York Times, as far as I'm aware, has run precisely zero stories on the radical uptick in anti-Semitism in their news section in the United States.
00:51:55.000 Instead, they printed, literally today, the New York Times, a map of Israel that is so factually incorrect that when MSNBC put it out there in 2015, the same map, they had to apologize for saying it was factually incorrect.
00:52:09.000 There's a map that showed all of Israel as Palestine and then it's shrinking down Palestine into these little dots.
00:52:14.000 It's just a, it's a lie, it's not true.
00:52:16.000 The New York Times pressed it forward anyway.
00:52:18.000 They're printing pieces by actual spokespeople for terrorist organizations like the Palestine Liberation Organization.
00:52:26.000 The media have nothing to say about this because the media are in favor of it.
00:52:28.000 Okay, so let me give you an example.
00:52:31.000 Last night, Dana Bash and Wolf Blitzer did a full segment on Marjorie Taylor Greene's comments, which were condemned, by the way, by Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, and by the Senate Minority Leader.
00:52:40.000 I've yet to see a single Democrat come out and actually condemn by name Ilhan Omar and her radically anti-Semitic comments, or Rashida Tlaib and her radically anti-Semitic comments, Or the apartheid state nonsense of Ayanna Pressley?
00:52:51.000 Not a single Democrat.
00:52:52.000 Not a single major Democrat.
00:52:53.000 But here are Dana Bash and Wolf Blitzer getting very teary-eyed and emotional over Marjorie Taylor Greene's comments.
00:52:57.000 Meanwhile, it's, honest to God, it's absurd.
00:52:59.000 It's ridiculous on the highest level.
00:53:02.000 Hey, I also don't think that Marjorie Taylor Greene's comments are good.
00:53:05.000 I also don't like those comments.
00:53:06.000 I think that they are ill-advised.
00:53:08.000 I think that they are bizarre.
00:53:09.000 I think they're crazy.
00:53:10.000 I don't think that they are fomenting anti-Semitism in the United States that results in Jews being beaten on the streets of New York.
00:53:16.000 I know Jews who are being beaten on the streets of New York today.
00:53:19.000 They are being beaten by pro-Palestinian activists.
00:53:22.000 Who believe the same things that the editorial board of the New York Times believes, apparently.
00:53:26.000 But CNN, they're very upset about what they perceive to be light treatment of anti-Semitism when it's Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:53:33.000 Again, it ain't masking advocate, anti-masking advocates who are beating Jews today.
00:53:36.000 But here's Wolf Blitzer getting very teary-eyed while simultaneously providing coverage for a network that does cover for Hamas all the damn time.
00:53:44.000 After the third time she was given a chance to either recant or retract or clarify, she tripled down on these repulsive comments, Wolf.
00:53:55.000 Yeah, I mean, it's really sick when you think about it.
00:53:57.000 For you and me, it's not just political.
00:53:59.000 It's not just the story we're covering.
00:54:01.000 This is a very personal issue, given the fact that both of us, we lost family during the Holocaust.
00:54:08.000 Being gassed, which is what my great-grandparents were, is a whole different thing.
00:54:12.000 And to compare that to the notion of public health...
00:54:16.000 And wearing a mask is just beyond the pale.
00:54:19.000 Okay, so they're very, very upset about what Marjorie Taylor Greene... How about what Hamas says?
00:54:25.000 Seriously, Wolf Blitzer covers this conflict regularly on his program.
00:54:28.000 Does he ever talk about how upset he is that he had relatives who died in the Holocaust, and that his parents were Holocaust survivors?
00:54:34.000 Does he talk about the fact that Hamas explicitly calls for genocide against Jews?
00:54:40.000 Does he talk about that and how upsetting that must be as the child of Holocaust?
00:54:44.000 Does he ever talk about Democratic Party members providing de facto support for Hamas?
00:54:48.000 Literally trying to cut off funding for Iron Dome in the middle of the war?
00:54:52.000 Does he talk about people in the Democratic Party overtly lying about what the Jews are doing in Israel?
00:55:00.000 About how the Jews are participating in an apartheid state and attempting to target Palestinian children?
00:55:04.000 No, of course not.
00:55:05.000 There's nothing to say about that.
00:55:06.000 Because the routine is this.
00:55:08.000 When it comes to the media, first priority, protect the Democratic Party.
00:55:10.000 So anti-Semitism is only worth noting, even if it isn't, even if it's just crazy and not anti-Semitic, that taking the Holocaust lightly is worthy of note when it is Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:55:22.000 But when it is entire marches taking place in the streets across the world in which Israel is being compared to Hitler, nothing.
00:55:30.000 Nada.
00:55:31.000 Then the media are completely silent.
00:55:33.000 So, are they really concerned about anti-Semitism?
00:55:36.000 Not in the slightest.
00:55:37.000 They are only concerned about misdirecting away from the people they want to protect.
00:55:41.000 Namely, anti-Semites in the Democratic Party are perfectly fine with watching the State of Israel be wiped off the map.
00:55:47.000 I mean, there are members of Congress right now in the Democratic Party who call the establishment of the State of Israel a Nakba, right?
00:55:51.000 A disaster.
00:55:52.000 That's about the establishment of the State of Israel.
00:55:55.000 It's truly an amazing, amazing sight.
00:55:58.000 And so they have no credibility to speak on these issues whatsoever.
00:56:01.000 None.
00:56:02.000 Their agenda is perfectly clear all the way through.
00:56:04.000 Two things, as always, can be true at once.
00:56:06.000 I can say that I don't like Marjorie Taylor Greene's comments.
00:56:08.000 I can say that I think that they are demented crazy.
00:56:11.000 And I can also say that the true threat to America's Jews is not coming from Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:56:15.000 The true threat to America's Jews, based on stats, based on evidence, based on what's going on today, are anti-Semites who agree with the Democratic Party's radical left position on Israel.
00:56:27.000 Being fomented by members of the media who overtly push propaganda on behalf of genocidal anti-Jewish terrorists.
00:56:34.000 Alrighty.
00:56:35.000 Well, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.
00:56:37.000 In the meantime, go check out the Michael Moll's show where he discusses George Will's kind of crazy comments from the other day comparing 1-6 to 9-11.
00:56:43.000 He says we should remember January 6th like 9-11, which is nuts.
00:56:48.000 You can hear more details about this story over on Michael's show that is available right now.
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