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00:02:51.000Well, the Washington Post says Nunberg was an early member of Trump's political team when the mogul's potential candidacy was seen mostly as a stunt.
00:02:58.000In 2014, as Trump continued a long-running flirtation with higher office, Nunberg was at his side.
00:03:03.000BuzzFeed says, quote, he comes on a bit strong, as you know, according to Roger Stone, right?
00:03:07.000Roger Stone is one of the more disgusting political operatives in the business.
00:03:10.000He says, I mean, within a week of my meeting him, he was going around telling people I was his mentor.
00:03:15.000Well, Nunberg is 36 years old, and he picked up a law degree from Touro College in 2009.
00:03:21.000Apparently, according to BuzzFeed, his first foray into presidential campaigning came in 2007 when he worked as a volunteer for the Romney campaign while attending law school.
00:03:29.000And he was put in charge of organizing turnout for the New York City GOP straw poll, and he helped pull up an upset win for Romney.
00:03:36.000He then went to work for the American Center for Law and Justice, which is a Christian conservative legal foundation run by Jay Sekulow, who works for Trump right now.
00:03:44.000And of course, he has made the rounds in the media.
00:03:47.000He was ousted in the middle of the last campaign by the Trump campaign.
00:03:51.000The campaign apparently thought that he was a destructive person.
00:03:56.000Hope Hicks said, quote, he's a highly self-destructive individual who makes routine calls begging for his job back.
00:04:01.000This is the interview of a desperate person who is trying to hang on and stay relevant.
00:04:05.000The Trump campaign downgraded him to low-level part-time consultant at the time of his firing.
00:04:08.000His first meeting with Trump, apparently, is on tape.
00:04:11.000This is from when he was a kid, and apparently he met Trump at a WWE event, which is perfectly fitting.
00:04:45.000So there is Sam Nunberg, very young Trump political advisor, and apparently he was sued during the last election cycle.
00:04:51.000Trump sued him for like $10 million, claiming he broke a confidentiality agreement or at least threatened to sue him.
00:04:56.000So, you know, Sam Nunberg is a colorful character to say the least.
00:04:59.000He's now being investigated by the Mueller investigation because the Mueller investigation is talking to every single person ever, including, they haven't talked to me, but I think I may be the only person in America they've left to talk to.
00:06:56.000But, you know, I'm a different breed of cat.
00:06:59.000Jake Tapper just puzzled by life right here.
00:07:01.000And then Sandenberg calls into another show and he explains that President Trump really didn't go far enough during the campaign that President Trump should have had Bill Clinton's alleged illegitimate black child at the debate.
00:07:13.000This is him calling into MSNBC and talking with Katie Tur.
00:07:16.000It wasn't some smart idea that we had for us to be fired and then we were going to get the emails from Russia.
00:07:24.000If Roger and me were there, Katie, we would have had the Benghazi parents there at the first debate.
00:07:32.000We would have had Bill Clinton's illegitimate black child there at the second debate.
00:07:39.000Okay, so he was just going wild on TV yesterday.
00:07:42.000He calls Sarah Huckabee Sanders a fat slob.
00:07:45.000He suggests that there's something there to the Trump-Russia investigation.
00:07:48.000He says he's not going to talk to Mueller, but he thinks that there's something going on with the Trump-Russia investigation.
00:07:52.000He thinks that Trump probably colluded with Russia.
00:07:54.000Here's Nunberg yesterday saying that Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro and Sean Hannity are going to be very embarrassed when all of the Trump-Russia stuff comes out.
00:08:02.000You're going to be fine when it comes out what he did, but people like Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro, they're going to be very embarrassed when it comes out.
00:08:13.000So the big question here was, is Sam Nunberg a crazy person?
00:08:16.000That's what everybody who's watching yesterday was watching this go on, and they were thinking, is this person a crazy person?
00:08:21.000And if he is a crazy person, is it moral to put a crazy person on TV just to get President Trump?
00:08:27.000And you can see that members of the media themselves, people who are interviewing him, are suggesting that he's either drunk or high or crazy on TV yesterday.
00:08:33.000Ari Melber over at MSNBC actually asked Sam Nunberg if he's feeling stressed out because he says people are worried about you, Sam.
00:08:41.000You and I have both been around these types of situations, these types of probes.
00:08:45.000They can be very stressful, even for people who are completely innocent, did nothing wrong.
00:09:54.000Nunberg doesn't have anything useful to say.
00:09:56.000So the question becomes, why are the media having him on?
00:09:58.000And there's really a larger question, which is, do the media have a responsibility not to put people on TV who are humiliating themselves and making reality TV shows spectacles of themselves?
00:10:08.000And this is a real open question, because is Nunberg—is it their job to actually not put him on the air if he's drunk or if he's crazy?
00:10:15.000So I would say that Erin Burnett does the worst job here, because she actually apparently thinks he's drunk.
00:10:19.000Presumably, if an Obama official walked in completely drunk off his butt and walked into the CNN studios, security would be called.
00:10:27.000So if Aaron Burnett actually thought that Sam Nunberg was drunk or crazy or off his rocker, why put him on the air?
00:10:33.000And the answer is because all these people in the media think that Sam Nunberg is going to suddenly drop the bomb about President Trump or because they think that it's humiliating to the Trump administration to have once had somebody like Sam Nunberg
00:10:44.000So, on the one hand, you have to say that the media, their bias, their attempts to get Trump, have gone too far.
00:10:50.000That there are a lot of members of the media who are so interested in getting Trump or humiliating Trump that they're willing to violate their own journalistic standards.
00:10:56.000Over at Axios, the journalist there, Jim VandeHei, particularly, is ripping into other members of the media, saying that this is just spectacle, that there is no news value to this whatsoever.
00:11:04.000You're putting on somebody who's clearly having a mental breakdown on national TV, and you're doing so for the ratings and because you hate President Trump.
00:11:38.000The question, is this a desperate ploy to get out of jail?
00:12:02.000Or as her friend claims, is this young woman truly in danger because she knows too much?
00:12:07.000So CNN has hyped everything that is possible to hype about Trump and Russia, obviously, and that's pretty damning stuff when it comes to why they're having people like Sam Nunberg on TV.
00:12:18.000I don't know that that's the whole story, though, and I want to be fair to CNN, I want to be fair to MSNBC, and I'll explain in just a second.
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00:13:45.000Obviously, the media have an agenda with regard to President Trump, and that agenda is pretty obvious.
00:13:51.000Now, with that said, is there something to be said for the media not actually being supremely responsible for what Sam Nunberg did here?
00:13:59.000So, at The Atlantic, McKay Coppins, who has been following Sam Nunberg for a long time, he's a reporter over at The Atlantic, used to be at BuzzFeed, he has a long piece here about what Sam Nunberg did was actually on purpose.
00:15:05.000Apparently, the mystery of his motivations had hovered over the day's astonishing events.
00:15:09.000Theories attempting to explain his bizarre behavior proliferated quickly, according to Coppins.
00:15:13.000Some believed he was responding to being caught in a genuine conspiracy, auditioning for immunity, perhaps, or covering up crimes committed by allies in the president's orbit.
00:15:24.000After being ordered to hand over his past private correspondence with several former Trump advisors, he was sorting through his inbox Monday morning and determined that complying with the subpoena would be an intolerable hassle.
00:15:38.000Okay, let's assume that Sam Nunberg is borderline nuts.
00:15:40.000Let's say that the guy is a kook, which apparently he is.
00:15:44.000What's the media's obligation not to put kooks on TV?
00:15:46.000What's the media's obligation not to put crazy people on TV?
00:15:49.000Because half the people in politics are totally crazy.
00:15:51.000Let's say that I had told you back in circa like 2012 that there was some guy who was wandering around saying things like, the president of the United States was born in Kenya.
00:16:01.000Let's say that he was wandering around commenting on Robert Pattinson's relationship with Kirsten Stewart.
00:16:07.000Let's say that he was wandering around saying weird things about reality TV and also weird things about politics and just sort of generally mouthing off in somewhat crazy fashion.
00:16:18.000The answer is maybe you'd put him on TV because now he's the President of the United States.
00:16:21.000In other words, we've had some pretty crazy people in politics for a while, so while I'm ripping on the media, I'm not sure that it's fully justified to rip on the media for putting this guy on TV.
00:16:30.000I will say I'm not sure the treatment would have been the same if you were an Obama official versus being a Trump official.
00:16:34.000I also think that there's a difference between people like Jake Tapper or even Ari Melber putting him on TV and people like Aaron Burnett.
00:16:41.000If Aaron Burnett actually thought that he was drunk, if Aaron Burnett actually thought
00:16:45.000That Sam Nunberg was a loose cannon off his rocker, then that is irresponsible journalism.
00:16:52.000But it does raise the question of what kind of journalistic ethics the media have been using recently, and the answer is not very good.
00:16:58.000You have a lot of partisan hacks on both sides of the aisle who are either willing to cover for the president or willing to slander the president with anything that they can get their hands on.
00:17:05.000And if they think that Sam Nunberg is going to come out of the woodwork,
00:17:08.000And ramble on incessantly about crazy things that will put him on the air just for the sake of putting him on the air, which is not a good look.
00:17:16.000It's really not a good look for the media.
00:17:18.000And it's and, you know, they should be a little bit more careful.
00:17:21.000Apparently, he was booked for like The Today Show this morning.
00:17:24.000It's easy if you're Omarosa, apparently.
00:17:27.000But look, some of the responsibility here also falls on the Trump campaign.
00:17:30.000They really have to stop hiring top men from the end of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.
00:17:36.000Their top men are not top men, and Sam Nunberg is just more proof of that.
00:17:39.000Okay, so, meanwhile, intersectionality continues to make people on the left insanely stupid.
00:17:44.000So overnight, literally over a 24-hour period,
00:17:48.000There were a bevy of anti-right-wing disruptions on campus.
00:17:54.000So, Christina Hoff Summer is a friend of mine, the Factual Feminist.
00:18:08.000OK, so this was happening at Lewis and Clark Law School, which is one of the better schools in the country.
00:18:12.000And a coalition of student groups had demanded that what they called known fascist Kristina Hoff Sommers be no platform, meaning that they shouldn't allow her to speak.
00:18:20.000And they put out—the Portland National Lawyers Guild put out a statement saying,
00:18:30.000The National Lawyers Guild, Lewis and Clark Chappers, joined with the Minority Law Students Association, Black Law Students Association, Women's Law Caucus, Immigration Student Group, Jewish Law Society, Latino Law Society, Outlaw, and Lewis and Clark Young Democratic Socialists of America to ask the Federalist Society to rescind their invitation.
00:19:09.000Christina Hoff Summer's coming and speaking about the lies of the feminist movement, or the people who are suggesting that they should actually be able to shut down her lecture by use of force?
00:19:17.000That seems a little more fascist to me.
00:19:19.000So here's a little bit of the video when Christina started trying to start her lecture last night at Lewis and Clark Law School.
00:19:28.000Liars have repeatedly delegitimized the suffering of women worldwide.
00:19:39.000But we believe our siblings and our comrades, women are not liars with victim mentalities.
00:19:58.000OK, nothing quite says bucking trends like repeating verbatim, word for word, what people are telling you to say.
00:20:03.000Nothing really says that you're thinking for yourself quite like repeating in North Korean fashion exactly what your dictator tells you to say.
00:20:10.000I love that the woman who's walking around here with a jacket saying, stay woke, is just standing at the front and shouting at people.
00:20:16.000And then, according to Christina, what happened is that the diversity officer from the university came up to her and asked her to cut short her lecture and go directly to Q&A instead of finishing her lecture.
00:20:26.000Just absolute class shown by the university over at Lewis and Clark.
00:21:48.000Why is security not removing those people?
00:21:50.000Why is security not preventing those people from disrupting lecture?
00:21:52.000The answer is because security allows people to do all this sort of stuff because they don't want to be seen as repressive of the actual repressive forces.
00:21:59.000It's the same reason I get shuttled to satellite campuses at University of Minnesota.
00:22:03.000It's the reason they shut my lectures to the public at University of Connecticut and University of California Los Angeles and University of California Berkeley.
00:22:09.000It's the reason why we have trouble at every campus because the administrators are too chicken bleep
00:22:18.000There was another case of this last night as well, and I will tell you about that case, and I will tell you more about the intersectional failures of the left in just a second.
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00:24:46.000According to the Examiner—this is the London Examiner, I believe—the violent protests also broke out outside after around 200 students were turned away when King's College decided to prevent non-students from attending the event.
00:24:58.000Again, King's College did exactly what so many colleges have done to me.
00:25:01.000They've suggested that people should not be allowed to attend from the outside world.
00:26:05.000You are not a person with individual viewpoints.
00:26:08.000And if you're a black guy, your viewpoint should be of the left, because otherwise you're not truly black.
00:26:12.000If you're a Jewish person, you must be of the left, because as we all know, Jews vote Democrat, and that means that if you're Jewish and you're not of the Democratic left, then you must not be a good representative of Judaism, you must not be a good Jew, and therefore we rip away your intersectional identity.
00:26:27.000The foolishness of this, obviously, is pretty obvious and pretty astonishing.
00:26:31.000But unfortunately, it has infused the entire left.
00:26:34.000It really has infused a large portion of the left.
00:26:36.000Identity politics predominating over meaningful discourse.
00:26:42.000And it's not just these idiotic students, these Antifa members attempting to shut down debate on college campuses.
00:26:47.000The most obvious example happened, actually, last night.
00:26:51.000So, my good friend Bethany Mandel, who used to write over at Commentary Magazine, she writes for The Federalist on occasion, and Bethany does a podcast as well.
00:26:59.000So, Bethany had one of the worst childhood experiences ever, right?
00:27:03.000So, Bethany grew up dirt poor in a trailer park.
00:27:39.000And somebody legitimately—they were living, I guess, in an apartment on the second story.
00:27:44.000Some robber put a ladder to her window and attempted to climb in her window when she was a kid.
00:27:49.000And her mom walked in with a gun that she had, with a rifle that she had, and pointed it at the window and said to Bethany, move aside or you're going to get brains honey, basically.
00:27:58.000And when the guy showed up at the top of the window, she said to him, you better run or I'm going to shoot you.
00:29:14.000She actually tweeted out a bunch of nastiness about Bethany.
00:29:18.000She suggested that Bethany was actually a racist.
00:29:21.000Shannon Watts actually suggested that Bethany was a racist for wanting to protect herself from neo-Nazis, which is just all class.
00:29:28.000And again, all this comes down to is that intersectional politics.
00:29:32.000All this comes down to is a nasty intersectional politics because, again,
00:29:38.000You know, Bethany's story has nothing to do with her color, but according to Shannon White, Shannon Watts, that is all that matters.
00:29:45.000She says that the problem with America right now is that people are making gun laws based on emotion, not data.
00:29:50.000And Bethany replied, I'm sorry, have you not been promoting the Parkland students' emotions for the last two weeks, or are we only allowed to base decisions on certain emotions?
00:29:58.000And Shannon Watts suggested, quote, your privilege in feeling that a gun will make you safer is in part because you are white.
00:30:04.000CDC data actually shows the opposite about gun ownership.
00:30:08.000So, Bethany says, a guy tried to climb in my bedroom and kill me when I was a kid, and my mom scared him off with a gun.
00:30:14.000And Shannon Watts' reply was, you only care about this because you are white.
00:30:17.000And then, Bethany said, I took my mom off life support at 16, had my father hang himself when I was 19, and grew up in a single wide trailer in Northrop's Trailer Park in upstate New York.
00:30:26.000Besides that, I've been truly hashtag blessed, right?
00:30:28.000Shannon Watts replied, quote, again, your white skin makes you less likely to be at risk as a gun owner, regardless of your hardscrabble background.
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00:32:32.000All righty, so speaking of intersectionality, making people insanely stupid.
00:32:35.000So, as I've been tracing over the course of the last few weeks, Louis Farrakhan is one of the more disgusting characters in American public life.
00:32:44.000He is the head of the Nation of Islam.
00:33:37.000Tribalism on the right suggested that when the Trump campaign was making common cause with the alt-right, that was totally okay because Hillary Clinton had to be taken down.
00:33:45.000It's not only counterproductive politically, it's immoral.
00:33:48.000You can't make light of the alt-right.
00:33:49.000You can't pretend these are nice people.
00:33:51.000You can't pretend that the actual anti-Semites out there are people who ought to be brought into the fold because you share a common cause with them.
00:33:57.000That's intersectionality identity politics of the right, and it's gross.
00:34:00.000I was one of the lead advocates on that score.
00:34:02.000On the left, however, the same people who were saying that the alt-right was gross and Trump had to throw them off, which is correct, are now saying that the Women's March is totally fine, they have no problem with anti-Semitism, even though top leaders of the Women's March are now obviously in league with open anti-Semites.
00:34:18.000There's an article over at theforward.com talking about this unfortunate tendency, which has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, by the way.
00:34:28.000Jake Tapper at CNN being the lone exception.
00:34:30.000So there's a woman named Sophie Elman Golan.
00:34:52.000But what's amazing is how people on the left have responded to that.
00:34:55.000What's amazing is how people on the left have responded to the fact that Tamika Mallory, who is a member of the Women's March, a top member of the Women's March, has repeatedly praised and associated with Farrakhan, participated in a rally with him last week at which he maligned Jews as the spawn of Satan.
00:35:10.000She's a former executive director of Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network.
00:35:13.000Al Sharpton, again, another notorious anti-Semite, who is again featured in mainstream media on a repeat basis.
00:35:19.000Farrakhan is the leading anti-Semite in the United States.
00:35:21.000He has claimed that Adolf Hitler was a very great man.
00:36:08.000There's a difference between Muslims and Jews, certainly on politics, so long as they all claim common cause in tearing down the structure.
00:36:14.000They are all members of the same group.
00:36:16.000So this is why people are constantly asking the question, why is it that folks on the left seem so tolerant of radical Muslims when radical Muslims are totally anti-gay, they're totally anti-women's rights, they're totally anti-liberalism.
00:36:27.000Why is it that so many members of the left, like you'll see LGBT groups marching arm in arm with people who support Hamas.
00:36:34.000And the answer is, because as member of identity groups, they don't actually have solidarity within identity groups against other identity groups.
00:36:41.000The purpose of the identity group is to band together in this great cohesive unit of the so-called dispossessed to fight against the broader spectrum.
00:36:50.000So, radical Muslims don't have anything in common with the LGBT crowd, but they do have common cause in tearing down what they see as America's terrible
00:36:58.000Terrible superstructure of racism and oppression.
00:37:00.000And so they will overlook the evils of the other in order so that they can tear down—they're allies of convenience and allies of identity.
00:37:11.000There have been a call for human rights.
00:37:12.000Rabbi Jill Jacobs, who knows less about Judaism than my four-year-old daughter.
00:37:16.000She says, what Louis Farrakhan said is disgusting and inexcusable.
00:37:19.000I don't think one can dismiss the entire movement and certainly not the entire progressive world because of a statement by one person or two people.
00:37:26.000OK, imagine that this were said about David Duke and the alt-right.
00:37:28.000Let's say that there are a bunch of members of the alt-right associated with David Duke, which they have.
00:37:32.000And let's say that somebody said, listen, David Duke is just deplorable.
00:38:29.000And Linda Sarsour, by the way, is not only being cheered inside the Women's March, Linda Sarsour is being cheered over at UConn.
00:38:35.000So it turns out that she's supposed to speak at University of Connecticut.
00:38:39.000And when she speaks at University of Connecticut, she is not going to have to have tremendous security, nor are the students being offered preliminary counseling.
00:38:48.000So you'll recall that when I spoke at University of Connecticut,
00:38:53.000You'll also recall that the administration sent out a full letter to the student body suggesting that if they needed preliminary counseling, because I was going to say something so terrible, that that would be available.
00:39:03.000Linda Sarsour has said Zionists cannot be feminists.
00:39:05.000Linda Sarsour has repeatedly supported terrorists.
00:39:08.000Linda Sarsour is one of the worst people in American politics.
00:39:13.000And yet she is being treated as royalty at UConn, while I was treated as basically a David Duke type, which is precisely the opposite of the truth when it comes to me versus Linda Sarsour.
00:39:24.000But again, all that matters is the identity politics.
00:39:27.000And it's infused the entire Democratic Party.
00:39:29.000It's one of the reasons they're looking at candidates like Kamala Harris.
00:39:32.000It's the reason they're looking at Cory Booker.
00:39:33.000It's the reason they're looking at Julian Castro, as opposed to looking at Joe Biden.
00:39:37.000The good news for Republicans is that the more the Democrats engage in this broader identity politics movement, the more they engage in intersectionality, which was mentioned, by the way, at the Oscars by Ashley Judd, talking about intersectionality.
00:39:49.000The more the left tries to suggest that they are a coalition of the dispossessed fighting the great power structure, the more Americans think, I don't want any part of these people.
00:39:57.000I don't want anything to do with these people.
00:39:59.000The left is alienating more people with its identity politics than it's drawing in now.
00:40:27.000I think you can also get it on Netflix.
00:40:40.000I don't even know what channel it's on because I cut the cord a long time ago, but The Good Place has a joke in it where they're talking about people who get into heaven, and the people who get into heaven are apparently the people who do not watch The Bachelor.
00:40:53.000Like, this is one of the actual criterias, that if you watch The Bachelor, you have emotional investment in The Bachelor, it makes you a bad person.
00:40:59.000Well, I think that that's probably true.
00:41:02.000I'm sure there are good people who watch The Bachelor, but they are wasting their time and their life force.
00:41:06.000So, last night on The Bachelor, you wonder why our country got so stupid.
00:41:09.000You wonder why our country has turned into an emotional basket case.
00:41:12.000Maybe it's because we watch reality TV and we think it's actual reality, and then we invest obviously fictionalized stories with the power of true human emotions.
00:41:21.000So, The Bachelor, apparently, I didn't watch one minute of The Bachelor this season, so forgive me if I slightly botched this story.
00:41:45.000If a guy throws you over for another girl, and then he leaves that other girl back for you, have you no sense of self-worth that you would go with that guy?
00:41:54.000But here's what it looked like on The Bachelor.
00:41:56.000And of course, this is exploitative television in every way.
00:41:58.000These people signed up for it, so it's hard to feel terrible for them.
00:42:00.000But it really is kind of yucky that so many people find meaning in what is obviously stagecraft.
00:42:07.000Do you want a few minutes to yourself or do you want me just to go?
00:44:17.000But it just demonstrates once and for all that there are a lot of people who are finding value in relationship stuff that has nothing to do with relationships.
00:44:27.000At a college, I think it was at University of Minnesota, about whether a leftist should date a conservative.
00:44:32.000Now what I said is if you're dating for marriage, which is supposedly what the bachelor or the bachelorette are about, if you're dating for those things, the first thing you should be talking about is values.
00:44:40.000Has there ever been an episode of the bachelor or the bachelorette where people actually talked about values?
00:44:44.000Where they actually talked about what they wanted their lives to look like?
00:44:47.000Or is it more just, we'll jet set off to the most romantic location, and then we will hang out together until we fall in love.
00:44:54.000And we'll wear really sexy outfits and go in the jacuzzi together.
00:44:58.000None of it is built for relationships, but this is what relationships have become.
00:45:01.000And then we're surprised when people imitate what they see on TV and ignore values in relationships.
00:45:06.000No wonder people are not sticking together.
00:45:08.000They're not sticking together because we have a stupid idea of how adult relationships are supposed to work, largely promulgated by the media.
00:46:42.000Okay, so the movie is actually quite moving, and it really works.
00:46:44.000One of the things about Robin Williams as an actor is you can see that the man was a truly troubled individual, and you can always see there's a sort of pain behind his eyes, and in this movie it really works for him.
00:46:53.000So check out what dreams may come worth while watching.
00:47:44.000This is one of the best things about the Trump administration.
00:47:46.000It's one area where they've bucked foreign policy conventional wisdom, and they've done really well with it.
00:47:50.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:47:56.000Okay, so apparently the hatred of guns is so strong now that the dating app Bumble has announced that it will ban profile photos with guns in them in response to the shooting at Parkland.
00:48:05.000A statement on the Bumble website said the company will now moderate all photos for the presence of guns, excluding users who are in military or law enforcement uniforms,
00:48:31.000But so much of corporate culture has now become virtue signaling that it's actually really troubling.
00:48:36.000It's one of the reasons, by the way, that you are seeing a change in the actual way that news is done, the way that the news industry is done.
00:48:42.000So if you look at Facebook, Facebook is now changing its algorithm.
00:48:45.000YouTube has been changing its algorithm.
00:48:46.000They're downgrading anything that has mildly controversial content.
00:48:49.000They're attempting to weed out stuff that gets people excited or gets people irritated or
00:48:54.000Confronts them with news they don't want to see because advertisers are getting blowback from people on this supposedly or at least advertisers don't want to be associated with controversial opinions.
00:49:05.000The reason this is a real problem is because what this does it actually ensures that people are going to go to their own bubbles.
00:49:12.000Because the way that the model works on places like Facebook or YouTube is their ad-supported model.
00:49:16.000So, you know, if you get our show on YouTube, for example, then YouTube may play an ad beforehand, or they may demonetize one of our videos.
00:49:25.000Well, if they do that to people who are totally reliant on ad support, if they do it to Dave Rubin, for example,
00:49:31.000Then that forces people to give money to Rubin, to subscribe to Rubin in order to get that content.
00:49:36.000And what that means is that Dave Rubin's crowd of people from whom he is drawing money is going to be smaller than it normally would be.
00:49:41.000So would ours be, so would Steven Crowder's be, so would Joe Rogan's be.
00:49:44.000Anybody who gets demonetized on a regular basis is going to have to align a subscription model.
00:49:48.000Well, subscription models are by nature opt-in models.
00:49:51.000That means that people who are not familiar with the content are not going to subscribe.
00:49:55.000And that means that if you're familiar with the New York Times, you're never going to see an opposing viewpoint.
00:49:58.000If you're familiar with Daily Wire, you're never going to see an opposing viewpoint.
00:50:01.000It actually ensures that the bubbles are strengthened.
00:50:03.000So corporate weakness in these areas is really bad for the country.
00:50:06.000And it's one of the reasons why Media Matters has done such awful work in trying to go after advertisers simply for advertising on sites that carry messages that they may not like.
00:50:15.000I think it's a really dangerous business in which they are engaging.
00:50:50.000The state should have to pay whatever it is that people are willing to take, but this is why unions that actually get together and band together and then have people walk out in order to deprive the taxpayers of services that we are owed for the tax money that we are paying are really, really bad.
00:51:04.000Now, do I blame the teachers who are members of the unions?
00:51:06.000No, but I do blame the union itself and the state for engaging in this sort of negotiation.
00:51:13.000They should have filed a legal case, an injunction against the union on this, and they should have gone back to what West Virginia's law is, which is right to work.
00:51:21.000They should have just gone to individual teachers and hired the individual teachers back at prices that they are willing to pay and prices that the teachers are willing to work for.
00:51:28.000OK, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.