The Ben Shapiro Show - RIP Rush Limbaugh | Ep. 1198

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00:01:24.000 Okay, well, big news of the day yesterday, and honestly, historic news, the death of Rush Limbaugh.

00:01:35.000 So, for those of you who never listened to Rush, you missed out.

00:01:38.000 Rush was the granddaddy, not only of talk radio, but of all the alternative media.

00:01:42.000 Without Rush Limbaugh, there is no alternative media.

00:01:45.000 You have to understand what Rush was and what he was not.

00:01:48.000 So, what he was not is what the media are calling him today. 0.72

00:01:51.000 A bigot, a vicious, terrible person, saying the world is better off because he is dead.

00:01:56.000 This is stuff that you are seeing in mainstream media outlets. 0.92

00:01:59.000 It's stuff that you're seeing certainly on Twitter, which allowed Rot in Hell to trend when Rush Limbaugh died, as well as Rest in Piss.

00:02:06.000 You can tell that the left really didn't like this guy.

00:02:08.000 Here's the thing.

00:02:09.000 The reason they didn't like Rush is because they kept trying to cancel him and they kept failing.

00:02:12.000 The reason they didn't like Rush is because Rush provided an alternative.

00:02:16.000 Until there was Rush, there was a media monopoly in this country on the left.

00:02:20.000 Rush was the first point of pushback to that.

00:02:23.000 Now, there had been conservatives who'd been on mainstream television before.

00:02:26.000 Milton Friedman's Free to Choose aired on PBS, and William F. Buckley's Firing Line was also on PBS.

00:02:31.000 But that was basically conservatives existing at the sufferance of liberal overlords in the media.

00:02:37.000 The reality is that at the very beginning, there were just three networks, ABC, NBC, CBS.

00:02:42.000 All of them leaned to the left.

00:02:43.000 Virtually every major newspaper in the United States leaned to the left.

00:02:47.000 And when it came to radio, radio was basically a dead medium.

00:02:50.000 Certainly the AM band was a dead medium.

00:02:52.000 It was really hard to listen to.

00:02:54.000 The quality was really staticky.

00:02:56.000 It was a bad place for music, right?

00:02:57.000 All of the music had migrated over to FM.

00:03:01.000 So AM radio was basically dead.

00:03:03.000 And the Fairness Doctrine ruled.

00:03:04.000 The Fairness Doctrine was this unconstitutional, I think, doctrine that suggested that if you had a broadcast license, you had to be fair in your presentation of the issues, which was a completely subjective interpretation because there was no way that folks with broadcast licenses were being fair in their presentation of the issues.

00:03:20.000 They certainly were not providing all sides of any particular issue.

00:03:23.000 Well, in 1987, the FCC under Ronald Reagan got rid of the Fairness Doctrine.

00:03:28.000 And in doing so, they opened the path to AM radio because they allowed people with broadcast licenses to stop worrying about government mastering them and start worrying about what the market wanted to hear.

00:03:38.000 In 1989, Rush Limbaugh launches the Rush Limbaugh Show.

00:03:41.000 And it immediately becomes a sensation.

00:03:43.000 And it becomes a sensation because there's an entire side of the political aisle that for decades has had no daily outlet for the news.

00:03:50.000 Remember, there's no major mainstream newspaper that was right-wing.

00:03:53.000 There was no television state.

00:03:54.000 Fox News did not exist.

00:03:56.000 None of this infrastructure existed.

00:03:58.000 And when it came to Daily News, there was no internet.

00:04:00.000 So that meant that all the news that you ever got was Daily News from the left.

00:04:05.000 And even those shows that I mentioned before, a special like Milton Friedman, that happened once in a blue moon.

00:04:09.000 And William F. Buckley, that might happen once a week, but it certainly wasn't every day.

00:04:13.000 It certainly wasn't a commentary on the narrative as it was being spun out by the left in real time.

00:04:18.000 So Rush comes along and Rush is maybe the most talented person ever to enter the radio medium.

00:04:24.000 I think probably without question, he's the most talented person ever to enter the radio medium.

00:04:28.000 He single-handedly makes the AM band a thing, because suddenly, here is a person who is funny.

00:04:33.000 This is what drives the left absolutely up a wall, is the fact that Rush was a funny person.

00:04:37.000 Rush was entertaining, and Rush saw himself as an entertainer.

00:04:40.000 He called himself a lovable little fuzzball.

00:04:42.000 He talked about how he was gonna fight the left with one half of his brain tied behind his back.

00:04:46.000 Talent's on loan from God, and all this is all tongue-in-cheek kind of stuff.

00:04:49.000 And Rush approached the issues with humor.

00:04:52.000 And this made him entertaining, and subversive, and the left could not handle it.

00:04:55.000 And if you talk to any conservative born after 1960, Rush was a seminal figure in their life.

00:05:00.000 People of my age range, we listen to Rush because my dad was listening to Rush in the car.

00:05:05.000 And on the way to UCLA, when he was driving me to UCLA some days, it would be Rush Limbaugh on in the car.

00:05:10.000 And then when I was driving myself in my 1986 Honda Civic with no air conditioner, it was listening to Rush on my way in the car.

00:05:16.000 And Rush was defiant in his resistance of liberal narratives.

00:05:21.000 Rush was willing to say things that were true, but that might not please the people on the left.

00:05:26.000 And this gave a lot of people courage.

00:05:27.000 It gave me courage when I was in class.

00:05:30.000 It gave me weapons to argue my position when I was at UCLA.

00:05:35.000 Now the left today will tell you that Rush was a polarizing figure, super oppositional, super terrible.

00:05:38.000 Here's the reality.

00:05:40.000 The left had a monopoly.

00:05:41.000 Anybody who breaks a monopoly is seen by the monopolists as defiant and oppositional.

00:05:45.000 That's the way this works.

00:05:47.000 Everybody on the right right now who refuses to kowtow to the woke authoritarian left line is seen as oppositional and polarizing and defiant.

00:05:54.000 It doesn't matter that people like me do the Sunday special every week and many weeks it is people on the left that does not matter.

00:06:01.000 None of that really makes a difference.

00:06:02.000 The idea is that anybody who speaks up against the left is the cause of the polarization because the left should have complete dominance.

00:06:08.000 Rush was the first person to deny this.

00:06:10.000 Rush was the first person to say, listen, I exist, you exist, I hear you and you hear me, and we can communicate with each other.

00:06:17.000 You, the conservative living in the middle of the country, who's been completely overlooked by the establishment media, you have a voice and you have a place you can go to hear people who agree with you.

00:06:29.000 And you have arguments that you can leverage in support of your viewpoint.

00:06:33.000 This is why the left was so frightened of Rush Limbaugh.

00:06:35.000 Because Rush was entertaining.

00:06:36.000 Because Rush did have a big crowd.

00:06:38.000 It's why the left decided they were going to go after him.

00:06:40.000 I think it is fair to say that if it were not for Rush, there would not be this entire left-wing apparatus designed at destroying people in right-wing media because there wouldn't be a right-wing media.

00:06:48.000 Fox News would not exist without Rush Limbaugh.

00:06:50.000 Rush Limbaugh was the test case.

00:06:52.000 He was the canary in the coal mine for the suggestion that there was in fact a massive market for conservative content in the United States.

00:06:59.000 Because again, the methods of dissemination just didn't exist to that point.

00:07:04.000 So Rush was a deeply important figure in the history of conservatism.

00:07:08.000 He also had a gift for distilling down complex arguments to something more simple.

00:07:14.000 William F. Buckley was famously sesquipedalian, right?

00:07:17.000 He would use words that nobody knew, right?

00:07:19.000 He was extraordinarily literate, but this didn't exactly make him always the best expositor of conservative to the truck driver, to the guy who didn't go to college.

00:07:28.000 Rush was the guy who talked to everyone.

00:07:30.000 Rush never talked down to anyone.

00:07:32.000 And listen, I'm a huge Buckley fan, but there's no question that Buckley's chief audience was college graduates.

00:07:36.000 People who read National Review are not the same people who listen to talk radio.

00:07:40.000 Rush was the person who brought conservatism to the common man, which is why you saw in 1994, after Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House, Rush was given an honorary congressional seat by members of the Republican Party in Congress.

00:07:53.000 You know, Rush's willingness and ability to explain conservative viewpoints made him unique in the space and also made him the target of unique ire from the left.

00:08:02.000 Very early on, the left identified him as a threat, and then they dedicated nearly everything in their arsenal to destroying him.

00:08:06.000 A lot of the same stuff that you see today started with Rush.

00:08:09.000 The attempts to deplatform, the attempts to go after his advertisers, all that started with Rush.

00:08:13.000 The attempt to blame people on the right for violence with which they had nothing to do, that all started with Rush.

00:08:18.000 I'm old enough to remember when the left tried to blame Rush for the Oklahoma City bombing.

00:08:22.000 So, Rush was just the first guy there.

00:08:24.000 And not only the first guy there, the most talented guy there.

00:08:27.000 And you can sense how important Rush was by the amount that the left hates him, despises him.

00:08:32.000 I mean, after he died, again, the reaction from the left, which is sometimes muted depending on who dies, was absolutely unbridled.

00:08:42.000 Absolutely unbridled. 0.85

00:08:44.000 And to pretend, by the way, that this exists equally on both sides of the aisle is very silly.

00:08:48.000 When Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, there weren't people on the right who were talking about what a terrible evil person she was and the world is better off without her because it wasn't true.

00:08:57.000 But with the left, the idea is that Rush Limbaugh was the font head of all evil.

00:09:00.000 Especially because, of course, Donald Trump had just been elected President of the United States, and he'd been President of the United States, and Rush had been a big Trump supporter.

00:09:07.000 But for those of us who listened to Rush for 30 years, long before Trump was ever even in the rearview mirror, we recognized that Rush's legacy was way more than that.

00:09:16.000 It was giving people a voice, it was making people feel heard, and more importantly, it was beginning a mass movement in favor of conservatism that actually had alternative outlets.

00:09:26.000 Daily Wire would not exist were it not for Rush Limbaugh.

00:09:28.000 This podcast would not exist were it not for Rush Limbaugh.

00:09:31.000 Certainly this radio show would not exist were it not for Rush Limbaugh.

00:09:34.000 Rush built this.

00:09:35.000 We're all sort of living in the house that Rush built.

00:09:38.000 In a second we're going to talk a little bit more about Rush Limbaugh and we'll talk about the blowback that he's receiving after his death.

00:09:44.000 If you can be judged by your friends, then you can be certainly judged by the people who are really pissed off at you, even after you die.

00:09:51.000 And that is certainly the case with Rush Limbaugh.

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00:11:00.000 And so, Rush Limbaugh's wife, Catherine, made an announcement on his show Wednesday morning.

00:11:04.000 She said losing a loved one is terribly difficult, even more so when that loved one is larger than life.

00:11:08.000 Rush will forever be the greatest of all time.

00:11:10.000 And that, of course, is true.

00:11:12.000 Just speaking of his life, Rush Limbaugh got started as a morning talk show host in 1983 at Kansas City's KMBZ.

00:11:19.000 He went to California's KFBK in Sacramento in 1986, and in 1988, he relocated to New York and signed his syndication deal for The Rush Limbaugh Show.

00:11:27.000 His daily show on New York's WABC aired on 56 networks, eventually grew into the most listened to radio program of all time.

00:11:33.000 It reached more than 600 stations and an estimated audience of some 27 million listeners, according to Emily Zanotti over at Daily Wire.

00:11:42.000 In 1993, Limbaugh was inducted as a member of the National Radio Hall of Fame.

00:11:46.000 In many ways, he shaped the modern Republican Party, who was an early supporter of the Tea Parties in 2009, and of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016, of course.

00:11:55.000 Limbaugh said several years ago, we stood for the concepts that are in our declaration of independence, right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.

00:12:00.000 We stood for that, we're the beacon for it.

00:12:02.000 To this day, that is why the oppressed of the world still seek to come to this country. 1.00

00:12:05.000 And you can, I mean, the reaction on the right is universal mourning.

00:12:11.000 The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal says a familiar voice in American media and politics Rush Limbaugh, the most listened to radio host in America for 30 years, died Wednesday at age 70.

00:12:22.000 We recall how bracing the Rush Limbaugh show was in its early days.

00:12:25.000 For decades, the airways had been governed by the Fairness Doctrine, a federal regulation requiring stations to balance quote-unquote controversial claims with contrasting viewpoints.

00:12:33.000 The rule gave incumbent candidates and mainstream news outlets a near monopoly on public discourse.

00:12:37.000 Reagan scrapped the Fairness Doctrine in 1987.

00:12:40.000 By the 1992 presidential campaign, the radio star's first name was known across the United States.

00:12:45.000 He was invaluable to the conservative movement of the 90s.

00:12:47.000 He would spend an hour explaining supply-side tax policy or making the case for irregulation.

00:12:51.000 Millions of Americans had never heard a coherent argument against the welfare state or Roe vs. Wade until they tuned in to Limbaugh's show.

00:12:57.000 He played an enormous role in popularizing conservative ideas and policies.

00:13:00.000 His critics called him a racist and about everything else, which was always unfair.

00:13:03.000 His real offense was to gain millions of weekly listeners by mocking the left's pieties.

00:13:07.000 He dissected environmental scare campaigns.

00:13:09.000 He ridiculed the news media for finding epidemics of homelessness only during Republican administrations.

00:13:13.000 In 1994, Bill Clinton called the St.

00:13:15.000 Louis radio station from Air Force One to complain about Limbaugh's criticism, not for the last time blaming scrappy radio hosts for his own political woes.

00:13:23.000 In recent years, with the rise of more acerbic competitors and a general souring of public discourse, Limbaugh took on a more exasperated tone, says the Wall Street Journal.

00:13:29.000 He also moved to the Trumpian right on issues like trade, immigration, and foreign policy.

00:13:32.000 But unlike others on the talk radio right, he kept a sense of humor and rarely let anger drown his fundamental optimism about the United States.

00:13:38.000 His great strength was never to take himself too seriously.

00:13:41.000 Limbaugh knew he was an entertainer, not an intellectual or politician, he said so many times.

00:13:44.000 He was popular because he was superb at his craft and represented traditional American values that the dominant culture too often demeans.

00:13:50.000 And that, of course, is exactly right.

00:13:53.000 Now, naturally, the left reacted to his death by doing exactly what they do with people they don't like when those people are alive.

00:13:59.000 They took everything that he ever said out of context, they found his worst comments, and they strung them together to form the corpus of his life.

00:14:05.000 This is what CNN did.

00:14:07.000 So CNN, instead of paying tribute to one of the pioneers of an entire medium, and maybe the pioneer when it came to the establishment of an alternative media, Of course, CNN wouldn't like this because it breaks CNN's monopoly.

00:14:19.000 Instead, they ran an entire montage of just Limbaugh's worst lowlights.

00:14:25.000 Because to the left, that's what everybody is.

00:14:26.000 You are just a companion.

00:14:28.000 Imagine if your life at your funeral, your life were just all of your worst moments strung together.

00:14:32.000 Here's the thing about Rush Limbaugh.

00:14:34.000 Rush Limbaugh was on air live three hours a day for 30 years.

00:14:38.000 For 30 years.

00:14:39.000 It is impossible to speak for three hours a day for 30 years and never say anything that you don't regret.

00:14:47.000 That is just a fundamental reality of life.

00:14:50.000 But for the left, it's the things that he said that offended people or the things that he said that he then apologized for.

00:14:55.000 That is the compendium of what Rush Limbaugh stood for for his listeners.

00:14:58.000 In the same way, That all of the worst things about Donald Trump, that's the stuff you embrace.

00:15:03.000 Because the idea here is that Rush was popular because he was bad, right?

00:15:06.000 That's the idea.

00:15:07.000 Is that if you agreed with Rush on fundamental principles, this also meant that you were in cahoots with the things that he regretted having said.

00:15:15.000 And so CNN, upon his death, they don't run a sort of tribute to Rush as a human being.

00:15:21.000 Instead, they decide that it's important that they run a montage of a Media Matters essentially edited Compendium of all of his heresies.

00:15:31.000 Fans, known as ditto heads, cheered his brazen style, while critics blasted him for racist, sexist, and other offensive speech.

00:15:40.000 He accused actor Michael J. Fox of exaggerating his Parkinson's symptoms.

00:15:44.000 He is moving all around and shaking, and it's purely an act.

00:15:49.000 Women must decide their fate! 1.00

00:15:52.000 And he insulted a college student who advocated for access to birth control.

00:15:56.000 A conservative media icon whose legacy will always symbolize division.

00:16:01.000 I mean, from Brian Stelter, Russia's legacy will always symbolize division?

00:16:05.000 CNN!

00:16:06.000 Proceeded rush.

00:16:07.000 CNN is maybe the most divisive force in the American media right now.

00:16:11.000 Because they pretend to be objective, and they clearly are not.

00:16:13.000 But this is what they boil down all conservatism to.

00:16:15.000 See, it's not about what he said about Sandra Fluck.

00:16:17.000 And it's not about what he said about Michael J. Fox.

00:16:19.000 I'm sure he regretted both of those.

00:16:20.000 I think he apologized for both of those things, actually.

00:16:23.000 What it is for the left is that if you are a conservative, you are all of the worst aspects of you.

00:16:28.000 If you're a conservative, then all they want you to remember is all of that stuff.

00:16:32.000 You don't have the literally thousands of hours of Rush Limbaugh talking about deep and profound issues.

00:16:38.000 You don't have any clips on CNN of Rush Limbaugh at the end of his life talking about how to die with dignity, which he did talk about on his show. 0.99

00:16:44.000 Instead, what you get is that crap. 0.99

00:16:47.000 Because this is what the left thinks of you. 1.00

00:16:49.000 What the left thinks of you is that you are that.

00:16:50.000 And they think Rush was that.

00:16:52.000 Rush was, by all accounts, one of the kindest people that people had met.

00:16:52.000 Rush was not that.

00:16:55.000 Tammy Bruce, who was a former left-wing radio host and ended up becoming right-wing, has a beautiful tribute to him today.

00:17:02.000 Eric Erickson, who was always right-wing, has a beautiful tribute to him today.

00:17:05.000 I only had the pleasure of meeting Rush in person once and over the phone once.

00:17:09.000 I spoke with him over the phone, actually twice.

00:17:11.000 I spoke with him over the phone because I was in his Limbaugh letter a couple of times.

00:17:14.000 Just an absolute gentleman, very kind, extraordinarily generous.

00:17:18.000 When I met him in person, Rush was shockingly retiring.

00:17:22.000 He was not the sort of bombastic figure that you hear on the air.

00:17:26.000 Rush was somebody who has been described by Eric Erickson, I think correctly, as having a quiet soul.

00:17:30.000 That's who Rush was.

00:17:32.000 People talk about the fact that he would give these enormous tips, these five, $10,000 tips at a dinner.

00:17:37.000 There are people on both sides of the aisle who talk about his inflinching politeness when you would talk with him.

00:17:43.000 And yet all CNN can boil that down to is he was a bad person.

00:17:46.000 Right?

00:17:47.000 That's what CNN is boiling it down to.

00:17:48.000 And you get the same thing from the New York Times.

00:17:50.000 So the New York Times ran this headline.

00:17:53.000 This is the headline that is currently up at the New York Times website.

00:17:55.000 Quote, Rush Limbaugh, who built talk radio into right-wing attack machine, dies.

00:18:00.000 Mr. Limbaugh, 70, who helped transform the GOP, pushed talk radio to the right with misogynistic and racist language and conspiracy theories. 0.86

00:18:08.000 That is the most dismissive, disgusting, and ridiculous headline that I have read in quite a while from the New York Times. 0.99

00:18:14.000 And that's saying a lot, because they do this kind of crap regularly. 0.99

00:18:17.000 Rush Limbaugh's legacy to millions of Americans is that he taught them about conservatism. 0.98

00:18:22.000 His legacy to millions of Americans is that he was entertaining about politics and introduced them to politics.

00:18:27.000 His legacy to millions of Americans is that he gave them a way to fight back.

00:18:31.000 And the New York Times boils that down to he was a racist, misogynist, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:18:34.000 That's what they boil it down to.

00:18:35.000 By the way, I should just note some of the other New York Times obituaries that they've run for public figures.

00:18:41.000 This was run just a few years ago.

00:18:43.000 Mao Zedong died on this year in 1976.

00:18:45.000 The Times said he began as an obscure peasant and died one of history's greatest revolutionary figures.

00:18:50.000 Or maybe Fidel Castro.

00:18:52.000 Here was their obit when Fidel Castro, you know, the brutal and repressive Cuban dictator, died.

00:18:57.000 Here was their headline.

00:18:59.000 Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary who defied U.S., dies at 90. 0.83

00:19:03.000 How about Ayatollah Khomeini, you know, the radical, anti-Semitic, genocidal, anti-Jew dictator of Iran.

00:19:10.000 Ayatollah Khomeini, 89, the unwavering Iranian spiritual leader.

00:19:15.000 Or how about this for Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan dictator, a polarizing figure who led a movement.

00:19:20.000 How about Yasser Arafat?

00:19:21.000 You know, like one of the founders of Islamic terrorism. 0.99

00:19:24.000 Yasser Arafat, father and leader of Palestinian nationalism, dies at 75.

00:19:27.000 So just to get this straight, of all the people I just mentioned, Mao, Castro, Khomeini, Chavez, Yasser Arafat, it's Rush Limbaugh who deserves the most rage from the New York Times.

00:19:39.000 Because Rush threatened their monopoly.

00:19:39.000 Why?

00:19:41.000 That's really what this is about in the end.

00:19:44.000 And so the blue checks were celebrating last night, because that's what they do, because it is amazing that the people who consider themselves the most virtuous are the ones who are crapping all over a man on the day he dies. 0.99

00:19:51.000 So you get Charlotte Clymer, of course, tweeting out, Rush Limbaugh was a coward and white supremacist. 0.99

00:19:57.000 White supremacist. 1.00

00:19:58.000 He aggressively and cynically exploited divisions in our country by weaponizing hatred and bigotry for his own personal gain. 0.99

00:20:03.000 He was in service to his own greed, prejudice, and hypocrisy, and that is how history will remember him.

00:20:08.000 Just delightful.

00:20:10.000 Delightful, these folks.

00:20:17.000 Beautiful stuff here from the left.

00:20:19.000 Don't worry, it's Rush who is the polarizing figure you see.

00:20:21.000 These people are all for unity.

00:20:23.000 The execrable Cenk Uygur says, Uygur says, the idea that you say artificially nice things about people after they die is weird.

00:20:29.000 I've never understood the logic of it.

00:20:31.000 Rush Limbaugh was a terrible person while he was alive.

00:20:33.000 He made a living by attacking the powerless.

00:20:35.000 His death does not in any way change or redeem that.

00:20:38.000 Says Cenk Uygur, who spends his days abusing travel staff at the airlines.

00:20:44.000 And this stuff is just, I'm sorry, it's just, it's just gross.

00:20:47.000 There's no reason to even dwell on it because all it does is give attention to people who are desperately seeking it.

00:20:52.000 But the point is broader.

00:20:54.000 And that is, the reason that the left hated Rush is because Rush was representative of the fact that there is dissent.

00:21:00.000 Because Rush did not back down.

00:21:01.000 Because Rush spoke clearly.

00:21:02.000 Let's be perfectly obvious about this.

00:21:05.000 The reason they hate Rush is the same reason they hate everybody who does not agree with them.

00:21:09.000 Because I promise you, the reaction to Rush Limbaugh's death, it will be the exact same reaction if, God forbid, something would happen to Sean Hannity, or something would happen to Tucker Carlson, or something would happen to Megyn Kelly, or something would happen to Glenn Beck, or something would happen to Dennis Prager, or something would happen to Mark Levin, or something would happen to me.

00:21:24.000 The reaction would be exactly the same.

00:21:27.000 Exactly the same. 0.99

00:21:28.000 It would just be a compendium of the quote-unquote worst things that we'd ever said, and then it would be, what a terrible person, we're glad they're dead.

00:21:35.000 And the reason they feel that way is because Rush challenged the monopoly.

00:21:38.000 Rush changed the paradigm.

00:21:39.000 The left doesn't like that the paradigm changed.

00:21:41.000 The left doesn't decry polarization because they hate polarization in and of itself.

00:21:45.000 If they did, maybe they'd want to have discussions with people on the right occasionally, as opposed to trying to silence them.

00:21:50.000 No, the left believes that Rush was polarizing because the left does not like the idea that there even is dissent.

00:21:59.000 The left does not want there to be another side of the aisle.

00:22:03.000 Everybody knows that they would treat any person on the right who is not serving as their unique tool at a particular time this way. 0.93

00:22:10.000 If John McCain had passed away in 2008 while running against Barack Obama, you would have heard the exact same crap about John McCain.

00:22:16.000 If Mitt Romney had passed away in 2012 while running against Barack Obama, you would have heard exactly the same thing.

00:22:21.000 Because John McCain died after having sided with Democrats on healthcare and after having gone up against Trump, then he was a hero.

00:22:28.000 Same thing with Mitt Romney right now.

00:22:30.000 All that matters for the left is whether you're a tool for them.

00:22:32.000 If you are not, you are an enemy.

00:22:34.000 Rush was an enemy, and therefore he was to be destroyed.

00:22:36.000 But he refused to be destroyed, and in that lies a bit of inspiration for all of us, I would hope.

00:22:42.000 Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to Joe Biden and his absolutely incoherent COVID strategy, because it is incoherent at this point.

00:22:48.000 Perfectly obviously incoherent.

00:22:50.000 First, let us talk about a way that people can steal your assets.

00:22:53.000 So, what is your most valuable asset?

00:22:55.000 Well, clearly your home title, right?

00:22:56.000 Your home title is the most valuable asset.

00:22:57.000 Now, nobody is actually going to be able to go over with a truck and pick up your home and drive away with it, because it's very, very, very heavy.

00:23:02.000 But what they can do is they can hack into your home title.

00:23:05.000 You never thought that COVID could cost you your home, but it could, because cybercrime is up by 75%.

00:23:11.000 By far the most serious cybercrime to worry about is home title theft.

00:23:13.000 That is correct.

00:23:14.000 Cybercriminals, foreign and domestic, are now after our homes.

00:23:17.000 It is easier than you'd think.

00:23:18.000 The title documents to our homes are online now.

00:23:20.000 The thief finds your home title and then forges your signature on a quitclaim deed stating you sold your home to him and then takes out loans on your home and leaves you in debt.

00:23:27.000 You're not going to know until late payment or eviction notices arrive.

00:23:30.000 Insurance doesn't cover you.

00:23:31.000 Neither do common identity theft programs.

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00:23:54.000 By the way, quick note, final note here on the opposition to Rush.

00:23:58.000 What really is happening here is this is part and parcel of a broader leftist attempt to reestablish the monopoly they had in the 70s, 80s, 60s.

00:24:06.000 The idea here from the left is that the media monopoly must be reestablished at all costs.

00:24:09.000 It's the reasons you are seeing them coming after Twitter and Facebook and trying to cudgel all of your social media sites into downplaying news dissemination.

00:24:17.000 It is the reason they are attacking free speech itself.

00:24:19.000 There's a piece in the New York Times today from Thomas Edsel whose data analysis is usually pretty good, but he has an entire piece about why democracy is weakening.

00:24:28.000 And what is his theory about why democracy is weakening?

00:24:31.000 It's because of digital technology.

00:24:33.000 Because the fact is that the freedom of the digital space is allowing people to speak who should not be allowed to speak.

00:24:39.000 This is a widespread view on the left, that freedom is itself a threat to freedom.

00:24:43.000 Nathaniel Persily, a law professor at Stanford, summarized the dilemma in his 2019 report, The Internet's Challenge to Democracy, Framing the Problem and Assessing Reforms.

00:24:51.000 Persily says the promise of the internet has been replaced by concern that the most democratic features of the internet are, in fact, endangering democracy itself.

00:24:58.000 Democracies pay a price for internet freedom under this view in the form of discrimination, disinformation, hate speech, incitement, and foreign interference in elections.

00:25:06.000 Writing separately in an email, Persily argued, Twitter and Facebook allowed Trump both to get around their legacy intermediaries and to manipulate them by setting their agenda.

00:25:13.000 They also provided an environment, such as Facebook groups, that have proven conducive to radicalization and mobilization.

00:25:19.000 Margaret Roberts, political scientist at UC San Diego, puts it differently.

00:25:22.000 Quote, the difficult part about social media is that the freedom of information online can be weaponized to undermine democracy.

00:25:27.000 Okay, this is the push the left has been making.

00:25:30.000 They've been making it since Rush Limbaugh first came on the scene.

00:25:32.000 We need our monopoly back, otherwise it's going to destroy democracy.

00:25:36.000 If you need your informational monopoly back or it's going to destroy democracy, I do not think you know what the word democracy means.

00:25:42.000 I certainly don't think you know what freedom of speech means.

00:25:44.000 If your great concern is that freedom of speech might allow people who disagree with you to speak.

00:25:48.000 But that is really the agenda here.

00:25:51.000 Okay, meanwhile, Joe Biden's agenda, President Biden's agenda continues to be run by the radical left.

00:25:58.000 He met in the Oval Office yesterday with labor leaders to discuss COVID relief and infrastructure reform.

00:26:03.000 Because, obviously, the people who should be driving the bus when it comes to COVID relief are giant unions that contribute enormous quantities of capital to Democratic campaigns.

00:26:13.000 By the way, the most corrupt thing that openly happens in American politics is that big labor funnels a bunch of money to Democratic candidates, particularly public sector unions.

00:26:21.000 Because then they just negotiate with the people they elected, right?

00:26:23.000 This is the way the public sector unions work.

00:26:25.000 The teachers' unions, for example.

00:26:26.000 Teachers' unions funnel money to people like Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and then they strike, and then they go to Lori Lightfoot, who they just elected, and they say, why don't we negotiate for better benefits and more taxpayer dollars?

00:26:38.000 And Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's like, sounds great!

00:26:41.000 It's the most corrupt open bargain in American society, and yet it is considered perfectly fine by folks on the left, even though it is people bargaining against the taxpayer with people that they have essentially gotten elected in the first place.

00:26:52.000 It's really amazing.

00:26:53.000 So Joe Biden's agenda is being run by the teachers' unions when it comes to COVID, for example.

00:26:59.000 And he's meeting with union leaders to discuss all of his other jobs and programs, despite the fact that private sector unionization in the United States is at an all-time low.

00:27:08.000 When it comes to COVID policy, we were told that Joe Biden was going to have just the spectacular COVID policy, right?

00:27:12.000 He was going to come into office.

00:27:13.000 It was going to be all hunky-dory, right?

00:27:15.000 He wasn't going to end the economy or hurt the economy.

00:27:18.000 He was going to end the virus.

00:27:19.000 That's what he was going to do.

00:27:21.000 Well, here's the problem.

00:27:23.000 Number one, Joe Biden is not with it.

00:27:25.000 I know that this is supposed to be impolitic to say anyone with a functioning prefrontal cortex can see this.

00:27:30.000 Anyone.

00:27:31.000 This is not the guy he was even 30 years ago, and he wasn't much to speak about 30 years ago.

00:27:36.000 I mean, it's amazing to me the stuff that Joe Biden is able to get away with just because he's a Democrat.

00:27:40.000 So, for example, he had the CNN town hall the other night, and he literally said that minorities don't know how to go online.

00:27:46.000 I mean, can you imagine if a Republican said that? 0.68

00:27:48.000 If a conservative said, people who are black and Hispanic don't know how to go online? 0.91

00:27:52.000 The blowback would be immediate and intense. 1.00

00:27:54.000 Joe Biden says it, and we're all just like, oh, Grandpa, you're so silly sometimes. 0.94

00:27:58.000 And then we shuttle him to the back, feed him some cream of wheat while he plays Mario Kart. 0.95

00:28:02.000 Here's President Biden.

00:28:05.000 A lot of people don't know how to register.

00:28:06.000 Not everybody in the community, in the Hispanic and the African American community, particularly in rural areas that are distant and or inner city districts, know how to use, know how to get online to determine how to get in line for that COVID vaccination at the Walgreens. 0.99

00:28:29.000 I mean, Joe Biden is literally saying that black and Hispanic people are too stupid to use the internet to find how to get in line at Walgreens. 0.99

00:28:34.000 I'm pretty sure that's not true. 1.00

00:28:36.000 You know how I know it's not true?

00:28:37.000 Because it's not true and kind of racist, Joe.

00:28:40.000 But apparently that's totally fine.

00:28:41.000 Now, we would be remiss if we suggested that the failure of the COVID plans, particularly when it comes to school reopening from Biden, is because of his apparent incipient senility, right?

00:28:52.000 That would be remiss, okay?

00:28:54.000 It is not really because of Joe Biden personally.

00:28:57.000 It's really because he has no plan.

00:28:59.000 It's because he is in hock to the teachers' unions, the science disagrees with the teachers' unions, and when political interest and science come into conflict, the party of ta-science tells the science to take a hike.

00:29:08.000 This is why Kamala Harris, right, who is not suffering from the same effects of old age as Joe Biden, stammered her way through an interview about what COVID school reopening policy should look like.

00:29:19.000 I don't think that Joe Biden's inarticulateness is infectious.

00:29:22.000 I think that Kamala Harris has no good answer to this question because the administration has no good answer to this question because the answer is perfectly obvious, which is that they are serving the interests of the teachers unions and screwing the students over. 0.99

00:29:32.000 So Kamala Harris was asked straight up about the Biden school reopening plan.

00:29:36.000 And listen to this lady. 1.00

00:29:37.000 I mean, she has no clue what to say because it is against her political interests to say the truth, which is that schools need to reopen now.

00:29:45.000 We are... The issue here is not just about statistics.

00:29:50.000 It's about our kids.

00:29:52.000 It's about their parents.

00:29:53.000 It's about the fact that every day our kids are missing essential, critical days in their educational development.

00:30:00.000 You know, we know, we have worked on this issue for years around the fact that, you know, by the end of third grade, if a child is not at third grade reading level, they literally drop off.

00:30:09.000 So each day in the life of a child is a very long time.

00:30:13.000 The question was, how are you going to reopen schools?

00:30:15.000 That was the question.

00:30:17.000 And she can't get through an answer.

00:30:18.000 Instead, she has to just go to, schools are good.

00:30:20.000 Yeah, we know.

00:30:21.000 That's why we want them reopened.

00:30:22.000 And we're going to get to the complete incoherence of this policy in just one second, because it is completely incoherent.

00:30:27.000 You are hearing a different message from different members of the administration every 30 seconds.

00:30:31.000 They all conflict with each other.

00:30:32.000 And there is no unifying principle other than, we can't give you a straight answer because the teachers unions haven't told us what to say yet.

00:30:38.000 Okay, we're gonna get to more of this in just one second.

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00:30:57.000 The jobs market is going to tick up, is what pretty much all of financial forecasts say.

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00:33:20.000 So the Biden administration, they have no clue what to say on the school stuff because the science conflicts with what they actually want.

00:33:31.000 So we get 10 different positions on this from the same administration.

00:33:34.000 So first of all, I'm getting real sick of hearing from the Biden administration that we have no idea when everybody will feel normal again.

00:33:40.000 The answer is when vaccination is widespread.

00:33:42.000 End of story.

00:33:43.000 Okay, because guess what?

00:33:45.000 When vaccination is widespread, I'm going back to my regular life.

00:33:48.000 And I think you are too.

00:33:49.000 Because vaccination is cutting down on transmission in radical ways.

00:33:52.000 It is cutting down on serious sickness in radical ways.

00:33:55.000 And once you've been vaccinated, there ain't much more you can do.

00:33:58.000 I'm not gonna live in terror of a virus that already had a low death rate for people in my age range, compared to certainly people above the age of 70.

00:34:06.000 And then after I get a vaccine, which reduces the risk of that virus by 95%, then I'm gonna still sit in my house and never go to a ballgame again?

00:34:13.000 Forget it.

00:34:13.000 Not gonna happen.

00:34:14.000 OK, but according to the Biden administration, we have to do this forever.

00:34:17.000 They have no pathway out of this because they kind of like it.

00:34:20.000 It is perfectly obvious at this point that the folks who are in charge of the of the Democratic Party are kind of fine and they're kind of fond of the amount of control they've been able to leverage and exert over the course of this past year.

00:34:30.000 And they are not going to let it go anytime soon.

00:34:32.000 Here is Jen Psaki. 1.00

00:34:34.000 We are not in a place where we can predict exactly when everybody will feel normal again.

00:34:38.000 And it has a number of reasons.

00:34:40.000 One is, even though we will have enough doses for every person in this country, as you all know because we've talked about it in here, vaccine hesitancy remains a challenge.

00:34:50.000 We need to ensure that everybody who can get a dose is getting a dose.

00:34:55.000 We will also need to be masking for some time.

00:34:58.000 Forget about the timeline.

00:34:59.000 You haven't even set the standards for when we can return to normal.

00:35:02.000 Forget about giving us an exact date.

00:35:04.000 is an understandable question and I think the president wants things to return to normal as we all do. But we don't know at this point what that timeline is going to look like.

00:35:14.000 But forget about the timeline, you haven't even set the standards for when we can return to normal. Forget about giving us an exact date. Tell me when the number of vaccinations handed out allows me to go to a ballgame. I mean, that seems like that should be something Tussion should be able to tell us. No?

00:35:29.000 But apparently not.

00:35:30.000 Because it's more important to simply kick the can down the road.

00:35:32.000 By the way, if you want to disincentivize people from getting the vaccine at a time when a huge number of Americans are already declining to get the vaccine, continue to do this crap where you say that things are never going to go back to normal after you've had the vaccine.

00:35:43.000 Why in the world would a 20-year-old go get the vaccine if you're telling them that even after they have the vaccine, they have to socially distance and wear a mask, and you're going to mask shame them if they don't wear a mask after they've had the vaccine? 0.99

00:35:53.000 Absolutely asinine, ridiculous crap here from the Biden administration, but that's not the worst of it. 0.98

00:35:57.000 Listen to the various views of the Biden administration on getting back to schooling. 0.99

00:36:01.000 Okay, so here's Jen Psaki explaining that Joe Biden doesn't think that teachers need to be vaccinated to go back to school.

00:36:08.000 Does the president believe that teachers need to be vaccinated before they go back to school?

00:36:15.000 Neither the president nor the vice president believe that it is a requirement.

00:36:23.000 The CDC guidelines included a range of mitigation steps, including vaccinations, as recommendations.

00:36:29.000 But the mitigation steps also included steps like social distancing.

00:36:35.000 If that sounds like she's not setting any standards, it's because she's not.

00:36:37.000 Okay, so why don't we just head on over to the VP's office?

00:36:39.000 And she mentioned the VP right there.

00:36:41.000 You know, the vice presidential spokeswoman, Symone Sanders, she was on CNN, and she was asked directly whether Biden thinks the schools can open even after, or if the teachers are not vaccinated.

00:36:50.000 And here's Symone Sanders just dodging the question.

00:36:53.000 The president and vice president believe that teachers should be prioritized for receiving the vaccination along with other frontline workers.

00:37:00.000 Is it necessary, though?

00:37:02.000 That's the question.

00:37:03.000 It really is a yes-no question.

00:37:05.000 Well, John, I think the real question, frankly, if I can be frank here, is what you're getting to is, is it safe for kids to go back to school?

00:37:15.000 And the president and vice president... Actually not.

00:37:17.000 In this case, that's not the question.

00:37:18.000 The question is, is it safe for teachers to go back to school?

00:37:20.000 It is the administration's position, the president and vice president believe, that teachers should be prioritized for vaccinations.

00:37:27.000 And in 22 states, at least, and the District of Columbia, that's exactly what is happening.

00:37:31.000 You know, look, I'll try one last time.

00:37:34.000 I'll try one last time.

00:37:35.000 Does the president feel that teachers have to be vaccinated in order for schools to open safely?

00:37:42.000 Yes or no?

00:37:43.000 The president believes that teachers should be prioritized for vaccination.

00:37:47.000 His wife.

00:37:48.000 Okay, credit where credit is due to John Berman of CNN, who's just getting more and more exasperated throughout this interview, being like, this is a very easy question.

00:37:54.000 Can we open the schools even if the teachers aren't vaccinated?

00:37:57.000 And she's like, I like vaccines.

00:37:58.000 Like, that's not, what are you talking about right now?

00:38:01.000 I don't understand.

00:38:01.000 I asked you a simple question.

00:38:03.000 Can kids go back to school if the teachers are not fully vaccinated?

00:38:06.000 And she's like, I also like the movie Toy Story.

00:38:08.000 And he's like, what are you talking about right now?

00:38:10.000 I don't know what you're saying.

00:38:11.000 This administration has no coherent through line.

00:38:14.000 It's amazing.

00:38:15.000 For a year, they yelled at Trump for not having a coherent through line.

00:38:18.000 And there was truth to that.

00:38:20.000 But then, they get in office, and they're even more discombobulated than Trump ever was.

00:38:24.000 I mean, it's unreal.

00:38:25.000 And you know who's contributing to this sense of discombobulation?

00:38:25.000 It's unreal.

00:38:28.000 The greatest doctor of all time outside of Dr. Joe Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

00:38:31.000 The world's greatest, most important doctor in human history.

00:38:34.000 It goes, again, Hippocrates, Dr. J, Dr. Fauci, Dr. Joe Biden.

00:38:40.000 I mean, this dude is such the doctoring, the level of doctoring exhibited by Anthony Fauci over the course of the last month alone should win him just a straight ticket to Dr. Heaven.

00:38:50.000 It's incredible stuff.

00:38:51.000 He's just amazing.

00:38:52.000 Amazing.

00:38:53.000 So here's Dr. Fauci being asked about, you know, teachers and their level of risk.

00:38:58.000 And somebody asked a pretty simple question, which is, so how many teachers have died of COVID in the United States by being infected at schools?

00:39:05.000 Now, to my knowledge, the answer currently proven is zero.

00:39:10.000 Seriously, I've had people send me articles.

00:39:12.000 Recently, a producer, Jessica, she sent over an article in which it said a teacher had died after being at school.

00:39:19.000 And then you read the article, and in paragraph 20 of the article, it says, the teacher's family said it could not be ascertained as to whether she actually got COVID at school.

00:39:26.000 There were articles during the summer when school wasn't in session about teachers dying, and they were like, teachers are dying?

00:39:31.000 Well, if you get infected, not in school, then how in the hell are you blaming it on the schools?

00:39:35.000 Anyway, so Dr. Fauci, he says that the task force, the CDC task force, is not even tracking teacher deaths.

00:39:44.000 Now, if you wanted to determine whether it's safe for teachers to go back to school, Wouldn't that be kind of an important stat?

00:39:49.000 How many teachers are dying of COVID after being infected in school?

00:39:52.000 In fact, wouldn't that be the only stat that matters?

00:39:53.000 But don't worry, we're not tracking it.

00:39:55.000 And we can count on these crappy CDC guidelines that were done with the input of the teachers' unions, according to the CDC's own head, Rochelle Walensky.

00:40:02.000 Here is Dr. Fauci being just unbelievable doctoring right here.

00:40:05.000 I have not seen it broken down on number of teachers who have died.

00:40:11.000 I don't think that information is readily available.

00:40:14.000 We do say, and we feel strongly, that we should try as best as we possibly can to vaccinate teachers.

00:40:21.000 And they should be as a high priority within the area of essential personnel.

00:40:30.000 I mean, come on, come on.

00:40:31.000 So I don't have any data on that.

00:40:33.000 And we don't need data on that because the science says we should follow these crappy guidelines that I made with the American Federation of Teachers.

00:40:38.000 Well done.

00:40:39.000 By the way, it's all not political, right?

00:40:40.000 It's super not political.

00:40:41.000 In fact, it's so not political that Biden's COVID czar, got him Jeff Zients, he came out yesterday and he said, you know what?

00:40:46.000 The only way we can reopen schools is if we get another $130 billion from the COVID package.

00:40:51.000 I mean, there's only one problem.

00:40:52.000 We have hundreds of millions of unspent dollars for schools.

00:40:54.000 The schools aren't open right now.

00:40:56.000 The hell are you talking about? 0.93

00:40:57.000 The hell are you saying?

00:40:59.000 Also, that $1.9 trillion plan has billions of dollars earmarked, not for 2021, not for 2022 for schools, for 2023 and 2024!

00:41:09.000 If you think that we're still going to be spending like this in 2023-2024 on schools to reopen them, Then, honestly, if the right can't take advantage of this by getting everybody into private school like ASAP, they are making a grave error.

00:41:21.000 Now would be the best time for a homeschooling and private schooling movement in human history.

00:41:25.000 Here is Jeff Zients following the science by saying things that are completely, you know, irrelevant to the science.

00:41:31.000 Doing this.

00:41:33.000 Smaller class sizes.

00:41:35.000 Ensuring there are more school buses.

00:41:37.000 Having the equipment and the testing available.

00:41:40.000 This costs money, and that's why the passage of the American Rescue Plan, the $130 billion for schools, is so important to do.

00:41:50.000 It's so much more expensive than the $130 billion to not have our kids in school in any setting that is safe and feasible in this environment.

00:42:00.000 That's the answer, more money.

00:42:00.000 More money!

00:42:01.000 Okay, but then when the more money comes, what if the kids, what if the teachers aren't vaccinated?

00:42:05.000 Well, then we'll, you know, we like vaccines and Toy Story, so I guess it's all good.

00:42:09.000 This is the pros.

00:42:11.000 We were told by the media, the pros are in, man.

00:42:13.000 The amateurs are gone.

00:42:14.000 The pros are back.

00:42:15.000 There's only one problem. 0.99

00:42:17.000 The pros suck at this. 1.00

00:42:18.000 They suck at this. 1.00

00:42:19.000 How bad do they suck at this? 1.00

00:42:20.000 They have no good answers to anything. 0.99

00:42:23.000 They're getting owned by the liberals over on MSNBC about their lack of a COVID policy.

00:42:27.000 When MSNBC is looking cross-eyed at the Biden administration for their lack of a COVID policy, you know things are kind of bad.

00:42:33.000 Here's MSNBC's Stephanie. 0.74

00:42:34.000 I mean, they're getting owned by anchors at CNN and MSNBC.

00:42:37.000 That's how bad this is for the Democrats.

00:42:38.000 Stephanie Ruhle at MSNBC confronted a Biden spokesperson and asked a very simple question.

00:42:43.000 It's weird.

00:42:43.000 You guys keep pushing lockdown.

00:42:44.000 But it seems to me like California is in lockdown and Florida is not.

00:42:48.000 And their death per million stats are very, very similar.

00:42:50.000 And Florida is the second oldest state in America.

00:42:52.000 And California is the fifth youngest state in America.

00:42:54.000 So what gives?

00:42:57.000 Contrast states like Florida and California basically in lockdown, and their numbers aren't that different from Florida.

00:43:06.000 Well, good morning, Stephanie.

00:43:08.000 Look, there's so much of this virus that we think we understand, that we think we can predict, that's just a little bit beyond our explanation.

00:43:16.000 What we do know is that the more careful people are, the more they mask and social distance, and the quicker we vaccinate, the quicker it goes away and the less it spreads.

00:43:25.000 Okay, Andy Slavitt just completely ignored the question.

00:43:27.000 He just ignored the question completely.

00:43:29.000 She's like, Florida's wide open.

00:43:31.000 California's completely closed.

00:43:32.000 Their numbers are the same.

00:43:33.000 He's like, there's one thing that we know about this virus, and that that's California's right.

00:43:35.000 It's like, what in the world?

00:43:38.000 The entire premise of the question is that California and Florida are doing polar opposite things and ending up with the same numbers, and Florida's a way older state.

00:43:45.000 And he's like, here's the thing.

00:43:46.000 We don't know anything. 1.00

00:43:47.000 We're incredibly stupid and ignorant. 1.00

00:43:49.000 But there is one thing we know, and that is that we are right. 1.00

00:43:54.000 Okay, guys, you sound like you're in control.

00:43:57.000 I believe you.

00:43:58.000 I believe you.

00:43:59.000 And I especially believe Democrats because they do things like get the kudos of the media, they are treated as the greatest of all time at handling things like pandemics, and then they bully the living crap out of people who dissent.

00:44:10.000 Andrew Cuomo, I'm speaking your language right now.

00:44:13.000 According to the Daily Wire, Ryan Saavedra, a Democrat New York State Assemblyman, claimed on Wednesday that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the greatest of all governors, guys, threatened to destroy him after the lawmaker criticized Cuomo's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as it related to the state's nursing homes.

00:44:27.000 Assemblyman Ron Kim told CNN Cuomo called him last Thursday to, quote, threaten my career if I did not cover up for Melissa DeRosa and what she said.

00:44:35.000 They're all... It's amazing.

00:44:35.000 Trump was a bad guy for saying stuff like this all the time.

00:44:36.000 very traumatizing experience.

00:44:38.000 Apparently, Cuomo also allegedly told him, quote, we're in this business together.

00:44:41.000 We don't cross certain lines.

00:44:43.000 And he said, I hadn't seen his wrath and that he can destroy me.

00:44:45.000 They're all, it's amazing.

00:44:50.000 Trump was a bad guy for saying stuff like this all the time. 1.00

00:44:52.000 Democrats say this kind of crap all the time. 1.00

00:44:55.000 Andrew Cuomo is a bully. 1.00

00:44:56.000 He is a thug. 1.00

00:44:57.000 Everybody in politics has known this in New York for years. 1.00

00:45:00.000 Even Bill de Blasio thinks that Andrew Cuomo is garbage. 0.99

00:45:03.000 I mean, it's unbelievable. 0.99

00:45:05.000 And they treated this guy as like the king of COVID.

00:45:09.000 Anthony Fauci was like, that governor's amazing.

00:45:10.000 And then Anthony Fauci's asked about the fact that he's covering up data.

00:45:13.000 And Anthony Fauci's like, well, I won't comment on that.

00:45:15.000 I can't comment on that.

00:45:16.000 Oh, really?

00:45:17.000 Weird, because you were commenting on it five seconds ago. 0.99

00:45:21.000 If I sound a little upset, it's because these governmental experts who proclaim that you should give them more power do not know their ass from their elbow. 0.99

00:45:28.000 They don't know anything. 0.90

00:45:29.000 And then, when you dissent, then they say things like, oh, well, you're a COVID denier.

00:45:35.000 It's all about quashing the ability of people to speak freely.

00:45:38.000 It is all about denying the science in many cases.

00:45:40.000 And it is all about false narratives.

00:45:43.000 Joe Biden was elected really for one reason and one reason only, and that is the American people thought that Donald Trump botched COVID.

00:45:50.000 If you look at the polls, that is the real reason that Donald Trump lost the election beyond all of the other crazinesses and beyond all the personality foibles and all of that.

00:45:57.000 If COVID doesn't arise, Biden doesn't get elected.

00:46:00.000 It's pretty simple.

00:46:02.000 But he was elected on the promise he was gonna know what he's doing, and they don't know what they're doing.

00:46:06.000 And the media are now, now that the election's over, now they can actually ask these questions.

00:46:10.000 Remember, some of us were asking these questions during the campaign.

00:46:13.000 Is this guy in favor of lockdown?

00:46:14.000 How will he open schools?

00:46:15.000 What exactly is his plan?

00:46:16.000 And the media were like, you're asking about his plan.

00:46:19.000 Trump's the president.

00:46:20.000 It's like, right, but he wants to be the president.

00:46:22.000 You should probably ask him about, you know, his plans.

00:46:25.000 And the media are like, no, no, no, no.

00:46:28.000 We're not gonna ask about his plans.

00:46:28.000 Cuomo's amazing.

00:46:30.000 Don't be so, and then he gets elected.

00:46:31.000 It's like, So, your plan.

00:46:33.000 And mine's like, TRUMP RELIGION!

00:46:34.000 And you're like, well, that doesn't make any sense.

00:46:37.000 Right, and it didn't make any sense in November either.

00:46:40.000 It didn't make any sense in October or September.

00:46:42.000 But you guys were too busy drooling all over the guy. 1.00

00:46:45.000 Unreal.

00:46:46.000 Okay, meanwhile, speaking of our mainstream media botching the science, it is amusing to watch the media attempt to cover for wind power.

00:46:54.000 Okay, so here's the thing.

00:46:56.000 If there's one thing that we should have learned from what just happened in Texas, there are a few things.

00:46:59.000 One, you gotta harden your electrical grid.

00:47:01.000 You gotta make sure that you have the warming capacity necessary.

00:47:04.000 You gotta build more nuclear power plants.

00:47:06.000 If there's one thing that we know for sure, though, it is that more windmills would not have helped.

00:47:09.000 More windmills would have been a very bad idea in Texas.

00:47:12.000 In fact, here is a chart.

00:47:13.000 This is from Alex Epstein.

00:47:16.000 Alex Epstein put out this chart about solar energy and wind energy and how they performed in Texas in the middle of this freeze.

00:47:24.000 Alex is the co-founder of Thoughtful.community, and he's author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.

00:47:28.000 Here is what the Texas electrical grid looked like.

00:47:31.000 The red line is the amount of demand for electricity.

00:47:36.000 The blue in this chart is the amount of wind-generated power.

00:47:40.000 The yellow is the amount of solar-generated power.

00:47:43.000 You will see.

00:47:44.000 On February 4th, there was a fair amount of wind and solar-generated power.

00:47:48.000 And then, as the storm hit, look what happened.

00:47:51.000 Why, it's almost as though wind and solar generation completely failed.

00:47:54.000 They were unreliable sources of energy.

00:47:56.000 See, here's the thing.

00:47:57.000 You can do gas production in the middle of freezing temperatures.

00:48:00.000 It happens in Alaska and Norway all the time, as the media is fond of pointing out.

00:48:04.000 You can do nuclear.

00:48:06.000 One thing you cannot do, wind generation or solar generation, at least not in huge numbers, And yet, the media's takeaway is that solar is necessary.

00:48:14.000 We need more solar and more wind. 0.95

00:48:15.000 If your takeaway from freezing temperatures leading to an energy shortage in Texas is that we need more of the thing that failed the most during this thing, You're completely insane. 0.98

00:48:25.000 It's nuts.

00:48:26.000 And yet, these are amazing journalism experts.

00:48:29.000 They're saying that what this means is that we need a Green New Deal.

00:48:32.000 I mean, it's amazing.

00:48:33.000 Like, when things are good for oil and gas, we need a Green New Deal.

00:48:37.000 Because we don't want people using oil and gas.

00:48:39.000 Then when things are bad for oil and gas, we need a Green New Deal.

00:48:41.000 Almost as though all you give a crap about is building alternative sources of energy that are significantly, significantly too expensive.

00:48:48.000 Epstein has a threat about this. 0.87

00:48:49.000 He says, there's a lot of conflicting information about the Texas blackouts.

00:48:52.000 Here's the bottom line.

00:48:53.000 The root cause of the Texas blackouts is a national and state policy that has prioritized the adoption of unreliable wind and solar energy over reliable energy.

00:49:01.000 For the last decade plus policy in Texas and the United States has been focused on mandating or subsidizing as much wind and solar as possible.

00:49:09.000 Texas has bragged about being the biggest wind generator in the United States.

00:49:12.000 The Texas focus on wind has come above all at the expense of coal, which has the resiliency advantage, along with nuclear, of being able to storage large quantities of fuel on site.

00:49:20.000 Gas mostly requires just-in-time delivery from pipelines.

00:49:24.000 But they stopped developing coal, and they stopped developing nuclear, and they spent all of the money on wind and solar.

00:49:28.000 And that is why you end up with energy shortages in places like Texas.

00:49:32.000 Right now, Texas's plans include zero new nuclear plants, zero new coal plants, 9.4 gigawatts of wind, 11.9 gigawatts of solar and only 5 gigawatts of gas.

00:49:44.000 Those are bad plans.

00:49:45.000 The media, by contrast, they're like, you know what?

00:49:48.000 AOC.

00:49:49.000 Let's talk to AOC about this.

00:49:51.000 Here's Breonna Keillor from CNN saying that AOC's Green New Deal is the solution to this, which is the dumbest thing that anyone has said about this crisis thus far.

00:50:00.000 It's all the windmill's fault, Governor Greg Abbott says, not missing the chance to spin a yarn for political gain in the middle of a crisis.

00:50:07.000 He blames renewable energy for the rolling power outages that have Texans seeking refuge in their cars as the temperatures in their homes drop into the 40s.

00:50:16.000 But he's wrong.

00:50:17.000 Experts say that it is a garden variety of reasons.

00:50:21.000 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the architects of the climate legislation, responded, quote, the infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you don't pursue a Green New Deal.

00:50:32.000 Well, I mean, if the former waitress says so, I guess that we're done here.

00:50:36.000 I mean, if the bartender who has a degree in economics from Boston University, and yet somehow thinks that the solution to this is more windmills, says so, I guess we should, probably we should listen to her.

00:50:46.000 If somebody knows energy policy, it's the lady who thinks that we should build high-speed rail, get rid of planes, and retrofit every building in the United States. 1.00

00:50:53.000 And also stop eating meat.

00:50:55.000 Probably she is the, obviously she's the expert.

00:50:57.000 I'm so glad that Breonna Keillor of CNN could really put her finger on the pulse of the nation.

00:51:02.000 Texas freezes, go to AOC.

00:51:05.000 At her bistro in Brooklyn.

00:51:07.000 And meanwhile, the media are going nuts today because Ted Cruz apparently is in Cancun.

00:51:11.000 Now, I will admit that this is bad optics.

00:51:13.000 Of course it's bad optics. 0.99

00:51:14.000 Whenever there's a crisis, if you are seen to be having any sort of good time because our politics are incredibly stupid, this means that you're responsible for the crisis. 0.99

00:51:22.000 Everything in politics is performative right now. 0.98

00:51:24.000 Members of Congress don't do anything for a living.

00:51:26.000 All they do is gather once every so often to spend too much of your money.

00:51:30.000 And so everything becomes performative.

00:51:32.000 The reason that AOC is a star is because she goes to immigration facilities and takes photo shoots outside immigration facilities being emotional in response to what is going on, apparently, inside the immigration facilities.

00:51:44.000 I mean, the more performative you are in politics, the better you do these days.

00:51:47.000 That is just the reality of the situation.

00:51:49.000 So I get that it's bad optics for Ted Cruz to take his family on vacation to Cancun right now.

00:51:53.000 It even sounds bad.

00:51:55.000 But let's be real about this for just one second. 1.00

00:51:57.000 This is one of the stupidest aspects of our politics. 0.99

00:51:59.000 Like, what exactly? 0.99

00:52:00.000 It's not a real-time crisis that Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas, can do anything about.

00:52:05.000 Because the senator from Texas is, in fact, in the United States Senate.

00:52:08.000 He's a federal officer, right?

00:52:09.000 He's a federal elected official.

00:52:11.000 This is up to the mayor of Houston, and, like, the governor of Texas, and all the people who are state-level officials.

00:52:19.000 And also, I just wonder, what is Ted Cruz, like, did they expect Ted to go there with, like, a blowtorch and start defrosting all of the pipelines?

00:52:27.000 He can do what Beto O'Rourke does and he can tweet out a bunch of links to people who are helping out.

00:52:31.000 I'm sure Ted's already done that.

00:52:33.000 But the notion that the gravest of all sins is that you took your family to a place that is not Texas in the middle of a bad situation in Texas.

00:52:42.000 My favorite part of this is all the journalists in their heated apartments in New York are tweeting angrily about all of this.

00:52:46.000 I can't believe Ted Cruz would do something like this.

00:52:48.000 Oh, yeah.

00:52:49.000 I see you there on the ground handing out food.

00:52:51.000 Really, well done there.

00:52:52.000 Really, really well done. 0.99

00:52:53.000 Okay, meanwhile, I'd be remiss if I did not get to what is easily the stupidest story of the day. 1.00

00:52:58.000 This is the stupidest story of the day. 1.00

00:53:00.000 This is from the wellness section at the Washington Post. 1.00

00:53:03.000 So, you may recall that there is a woman who is stupid enough to put a bunch of Gorilla Glue in her hair. 1.00

00:53:09.000 This is very stupid. 1.00

00:53:11.000 Gorilla Glue is glue. 1.00

00:53:13.000 As indicated by the name, Gorilla Glue.

00:53:16.000 Right?

00:53:17.000 It is super glue, essentially.

00:53:19.000 Why would you put that in your hair?

00:53:21.000 Unless you're a dum-dum. 1.00

00:53:23.000 Okay, the lady's a dum-dum. 1.00

00:53:25.000 As evidenced by the fact that she put glue in her hair. 1.00

00:53:27.000 You don't even have to go further than that.

00:53:28.000 You take Gorilla Glue and you spray it in your hair, you ain't getting into Phi Beta Kappa.

00:53:34.000 How does the Washington Post spin this? 0.94

00:53:35.000 Well, it turns out that the lady was black. 0.99

00:53:38.000 I had no idea, but apparently she is.

00:53:41.000 This means that the reason she sprayed Gorilla Glue in her hair, I'm not kidding you, the reason she sprayed Gorilla Glue in her hair is because of systemic racism, according to the Washington Post.

00:53:54.000 Which is weird, because I have not seen a massive spate of black people spraying Gorilla Glue into their hair. 1.00

00:53:58.000 Only this dumb lady. 1.00

00:53:59.000 Like, this is not a systemic problem in the black community. 1.00

00:54:02.000 People spray-painting their hair with Gorilla Glue.

00:54:05.000 Like, that's not a thing. 0.99

00:54:07.000 The reason this lady was a headline is because she did something unbelievably stupid, and then it went viral online. 1.00

00:54:12.000 And the Washington Post is like, yes, but have you considered the possibility that this is an outgrowth of 400 years of oppression? 0.98

00:54:19.000 And no, I didn't consider that possibility, because oppressed people generally don't spray Gorilla Glue in their hair.

00:54:25.000 Weird, but here is the Washington Post.

00:54:28.000 Our media.

00:54:29.000 They don't have a narrative, guys.

00:54:29.000 They are perfectly objective.

00:54:31.000 Remember, this is not in the op-ed section.

00:54:33.000 Letitia Beacham writing, Tessica Brown no longer feels like she has red ants crawling around her scalp.

00:54:38.000 Brown, 40, nicknamed Gorilla Glue Girl, captured the internet's attention with her forever ponytail after she used Gorilla Glue Spray, a very strong adhesive for heavy-duty projects to create possibly the slickest of side parts and swooped edges known to womankind. 1.00

00:54:53.000 The embarrassing ordeal has left Brown with some missing baby hairs, bald patches that are expected to recover, and a much shorter hairstyle that's nowhere near the amount of inches she had with her month-long braid.

00:55:02.000 Over the next six weeks, Brown can't put much else on her scalp except for a concoction created by a Beverly Hills, California-based plastic surgeon who removed the glue from her hair.

00:55:11.000 At this point, I'm scared to put a relaxer on my hair, she told the Washington Post in an interview, adding she has decided to go natural and embrace the naturalness of her hair.

00:55:18.000 Brown Saga, says the Washington Post, which first went viral on social media and then became national news, appealed to some black people who still shudder at the thought of a relaxer or the sizzling pain of a hot comb that got too close to skin, memories that have led many black women to sport their own kinks and curls. 0.97

00:55:32.000 Plenty of people ridiculed and got their belly laughs at Brown's misfortune, but there was a sense of community among others, especially black people who sought to shield her from being a spectacle of idiocy. 0.92

00:55:42.000 The extreme she went to for zero flyaways is very unusual, but the desired outcome is as old as black people's time in a country that often mocked how they look. 0.97

00:55:49.000 Experts say.

00:55:53.000 What now?

00:55:54.000 Huh?

00:55:56.000 So, you want to talk about the history of people discriminating on the basis of race, and you want to talk about the discriminatory attitude towards particular types of hair that have existed in American society?

00:56:05.000 Perfectly fine.

00:56:06.000 If you want to say that this lady is like a perfect example, Of discrimination on the basis of hair? 1.00

00:56:13.000 Because she used gorilla glue in her hair? 1.00

00:56:16.000 Again, can't we just say that some people are idiots and do stupid things? 1.00

00:56:19.000 Can we do that? 1.00

00:56:19.000 Is that possible? 1.00

00:56:21.000 Is that ever a possibility?

00:56:23.000 Also, note to the world.

00:56:25.000 There are a lot of very prominent black Americans who are not doing any of these things anymore.

00:56:30.000 Which is great!

00:56:31.000 People should be able to wear their hair however they feel like wearing their hair.

00:56:33.000 That's fine.

00:56:35.000 Why you would lump in people who want to wear their hair a certain way with Gorilla Glue Lady. 1.00

00:56:40.000 Or suggest that American society is to blame for a dummy putting Gorilla Glue on her head. 0.86

00:56:46.000 I mean, it's not beyond me.

00:56:47.000 I know exactly why they're doing it, right?

00:56:48.000 It's every problem in American society is attributable to systems of power.

00:56:52.000 Those systems of power are rooted in innate white supremacy. 0.97

00:56:55.000 So, if a dumb lady puts Gorilla Glue on her head, and she happens to be a black lady who put Gorilla Glue on her head, it has to be that this is a legacy of America's hierarchies of power coming all the way back to 1619. 1.00

00:57:06.000 Think peace in the New York Times. 0.99

00:57:08.000 This one, at least, is in the Washington Post. 1.00

00:57:12.000 Okay, first of all, that right there would be a good indicator that she is a complete moron. 0.99

00:57:22.000 It's not as though she went to the store and she's like, oh, it says Gorilla Glue and it's a spray, so maybe it's a hairspray. 0.98

00:57:27.000 She used it around her home to glue things, and then she put it in her hair.

00:57:32.000 Okay, this is the equivalent of the lady who gave fish tank cleaner to her husband because she thought that fish tank cleaner was hydroxychloroquine.

00:57:41.000 People doing dumb things are usually not outgrowth of systemic racism. 0.98

00:57:45.000 They're just people doing dumb things. 0.91

00:57:47.000 When she ran out of her favorite got-to-be-glued hairspray, she reached for the Gorilla Spray adhesive to save on time before leaving her home.

00:57:53.000 She figured she could just spray it on her hair and wash it out once she got home that day. 0.99

00:57:56.000 I don't know why you would figure that unless you're a dummy. 1.00

00:57:58.000 Unless you're stupid. 1.00

00:57:59.000 Days turned into a week before she shamefully admitted to her mother what she had done. 1.00

00:58:03.000 That week became a month before she went to social media to seek help, she said.

00:58:06.000 I'm sorry, the fact that she was like sitting around for a month and she's like, I, uh, my hair is glued.

00:58:12.000 Like, after two days, you weren't like, this is kind of a problem?

00:58:16.000 She said, the only reason why I took it to social media is because we ran out of things to do.

00:58:19.000 I figured somebody out there would be able to tell me what to do.

00:58:21.000 I never thought my little girl would say, Ma, your video has a million views. 0.99

00:58:25.000 She had to console one of her young daughters who said she endured taunts from other children making fun of her mother.

00:58:29.000 Now, don't make fun of the kids.

00:58:31.000 I mean, it's not the kids' fault that mommy is not particularly bright.

00:58:34.000 Brown had to keep under control the angst of possibly never running her fingers through her hair again for the sake of the children who came to her daycare, Tessa's Little Angels Learning Academy.

00:58:42.000 Neil Lester said he initially thought Brown's problem was a prank, but as he continued to follow this story, he said it reminded him of all the ways black Americans have used unusual hair products to manipulate or style their hair.

00:58:52.000 I thought of Malcolm X and his experience with the conch, said foundation professor of English and founding director of Project of Humanities at Arizona State University, referring to the hair straightener made of lye, eggs, and potatoes used by many black people in the earlier and middle part of the 20th century.

00:59:05.000 That stringing started with enslaved people using axle wheel grease and dirty dishwasher with oil. 1.00

00:59:11.000 Enslaved men used axle wheel greases and means to dye their hair or temporarily straighten it. 1.00

00:59:15.000 Women would use butter, fat from bacon, or grease from geese to care for their hair, according to Hair Story, untangling the roots of black hair in America. 0.98

00:59:24.000 Uh, yeah.

00:59:25.000 I just... Well... See... She's not enslaved. 0.71

00:59:33.000 She... 1.00

00:59:34.000 Was not attempting to, according to her, abide by white standards of beauty or anything.

00:59:40.000 There's nothing in here that says that that's what she was attempting to do.

00:59:43.000 She said she just liked her hair that way.

00:59:45.000 But it's still systemic racism.

00:59:47.000 So, as always, the root of every problem in life is systemic American racism.

00:59:51.000 The only solution? 0.98

00:59:53.000 Hire Ibram X. Kendi for $20,000 to tell you that you're a white supremacist. 0.94

00:59:56.000 Otherwise, this sort of evil will run rampant across society.

01:00:00.000 People gorilla-gluing their hair every single day as a direct outgrowth of the legacy of racism in the United States.

01:00:06.000 Oh, Washington Post.

01:00:07.000 I can't imagine why people mistrust our institutional media.

01:00:10.000 They're so good at what they do.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 18, 2021

RIP Rush Limbaugh | Ep. 1198

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