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00:01:32.000Alrighty, so big story of the day is that Tucker Carlson claimed, you'll recall about a week ago, that the NSA had been spying on his emails, that they had been looking into his emails and his communications, and that he had heard from somebody inside the NSA that the NSA had gotten control of these things and that they were going to leak them to the press.
00:01:53.000One, Tucker Carlson could have been caught up in some sort of surveillance sweep to target American citizens.
00:01:59.000The NSA has to essentially Catch you up in a sweep with foreign citizens.
00:02:04.000So, for example, we're monitoring some sort of spy from Russia, and that person talks with an American, and we end up picking up the American's communications because we're monitoring the spy from Russia, for example.
00:02:13.000But to specifically target an American citizen, you require a FISA surveillance warrant.
00:02:22.000That's exactly what happened with Carter Page.
00:02:24.000The Department of Justice put forward a bad FISA warrant against Carter Page and then proceeded to basically monitor all of his communications and surveil him, despite the fact that there was no real evidence that he was a Russian asset at all.
00:02:36.000What appears to have happened in this particular case with Tucker is the two simultaneous things.
00:02:40.000One, that they were monitoring foreign intelligence officers or foreign threats, supposedly, and those people were apparently speaking to Tucker.
00:03:02.000In order to catch up prominent people and then you'd have to unmask the people because typically in order to find out who the American citizen is on the other side of the line you have to go through what's called the unmasking process and this is supposed to facilitate national security.
00:03:13.000But as we saw, with regard to Susan Rice and the Obama administration in the last days of the Obama administration.
00:03:18.000They were unmasking people like Michael Flynn, specifically because they wanted to do political damage is what it looks like.
00:03:24.000So it looks like there are two separate things that could have been happening here.
00:03:27.000One, surveillance of Tucker, sort of by way of accidents is what they are going to claim, but then you have to question given their prior record, whether that is an accident.
00:03:35.000And two, the actual leaking of the material, because Tucker is suggesting, not just that the NSA caught him up in some sort of surveillance sweep, but that his emails are going to be leaked to the press.
00:03:44.000Okay, this is a deep and devastating criminal activity.
00:03:47.000When you have members of the so-called deep state, when you have members of the intelligence community, the deep state, I'm not talking about some giant conspiracy, deep state, what I'm talking about here is people who are career bureaucrats who exist inside an area of the American government where there is no effective turnover.
00:04:02.000When those people decide that they're going to abuse their power by getting access to private information and then blowing that out in public, that is a crime.
00:04:10.000And the fact that we've been unable to track down people who have been leaking classified information about their fellow American citizens to the general public just demonstrates once again why people have very little trust in our nation's institutions.
00:04:22.000All of this came to a head yesterday when Axios reported on it.
00:04:24.000Axios reports Tucker Carlson was talking to US-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before the Fox News host accused the NSA of spying on him.
00:04:33.000Sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios.
00:04:37.000government officials learned about Carlson's efforts to secure the Putin interview.
00:04:40.000Carlson learned that the government was aware of his outreach, and that's the basis of his extraordinary accusation, followed by a rare public denial by the NSA that he had been targeted.
00:04:47.000Now remember, when the NSA said he wasn't targeted, that doesn't mean they didn't catch him up in a surveillance sweep.
00:04:52.000And if they actually have people there who are leaking his personal information, that is a separate crime and a separate issue.
00:04:58.000Axios has not confirmed at this point whether any communications from Carlson have been intercepted, and if so, why?
00:05:03.000And this is a really big problem, okay?
00:05:04.000Because why exactly would Tucker be caught up in some sort of surveillance sweep with regard to attempting to broker an interview with Vladimir Putin?
00:05:13.000Vladimir Putin did a sit-down interview with NBC News like a month ago.
00:05:15.000Were the NBC News anchors caught up in the surveillance sweep?
00:05:19.000Were the NBC News producers caught up in the surveillance sweep?
00:05:42.000We saw this with the Steele dossier, for example, which was leaked out from the federal government to sources in the media, who then just blasted it out.
00:05:49.000You'll remember that BuzzFeed News just blasted out the entire Steele dossier without fact-checking any of the claims, suggesting that it was noteworthy specifically because James Comey met with President Trump and gave him a copy of the Steele dossier.
00:06:02.000This, quote-unquote, made it newsworthy and then allowed BuzzFeed to simply blast out the allegations, which became the cause of the left for essentially four years.
00:06:10.000People on the left still claiming that the Steele dossier was filled with unspoken truths, or now spoken truths.
00:06:17.000According to Axios, Carlson told his roughly 3 million viewers on June 28th that the day before, he had heard from a whistleblower within the U.S.
00:06:23.000government who reached out to warn us that the NSA is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take the show off the air.
00:06:30.000Carlson said that his source, who is in a position to know, repeated back to us information about a story we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails.
00:06:38.000Carlson said it's illegal for the NSA to spy on American citizens.
00:06:41.000Things like that should not happen in America.
00:06:42.000Unfortunately, they do happen, and in this case, they did happen.
00:06:45.000The NSA said that his allegation is untrue.
00:07:03.000A Fox News spokesperson said, We support any of our hosts pursuing interviews and stories free of government interference.
00:07:08.000Carlson said, As I've said repeatedly, because it's true, the NSA read my emails and then leaked their contents that's an outrage, as well as illegal.
00:07:16.000It's unclear why Carlson or his source has axios would think this outreach could be the basis for NSA surveillance or a motive to have his show canceled.
00:07:21.000Journalists routinely reach out to world leaders to request interviews.
00:07:25.000And numerous American journalists have interviewed Putin in recent years.
00:07:28.000Chris Wallace earned Fox News' first Emmy nomination for its 2018 Putin interview.
00:07:33.000Carlson told Mario Bartiromo his executive producer knew about the communications in question.
00:07:39.000That was the only other person, and he didn't mention anybody else, including his wife.
00:07:44.000The NSA's public statement did not deny directly that any Carlson communications had been swept up by the agency.
00:07:49.000Axios has now submitted a request for comment to the NSA on Wednesday, asking whether the agency would also be willing to categorically deny that the NSA intercepted any of Carlson's communications in the context of monitoring somebody he was talking to in his efforts to set up an interview with Putin.
00:08:02.000An NSA spokesperson declined to comment, referred Axios back to the agency's earlier carefully worded statement.
00:08:08.000In other words, the NSA is denying the targeting of Carlson, but is not denying that his communications were incidentally collected.
00:08:16.000According to Axios, the first and least likely scenario is the U.S.
00:08:19.000government submitted a request to a FISA court to monitor Carlson.
00:08:21.000A more plausible scenario is one of the people Carlson was talking to as an intermediary was under surveillance and then Carlson was caught up in that.
00:08:28.000In that scenario, Carlson's emails or text messages could have been incidentally collected as part of monitoring that person, but Carlson's identity would then have been masked.
00:08:36.000In order to know that the texts and emails were Carlson's, a U.S.
00:08:39.000government source would have to unmask Carlson, and that is only necessary if the unmasking is required to understand the intelligence.
00:08:47.000So two sources familiar with Carlson's communications said his two Kremlin intermediaries live in the U.S.
00:08:52.000The sources could not confirm whether both are American citizens or whether both were on U.S.
00:08:56.000soil at the time they communicated with Carlson, which is relevant because if one was a foreign national and on foreign soil during the communications, the U.S.
00:09:02.000government wouldn't have necessarily had to seek approval to monitor those communications.
00:09:08.000We haven't seen what exactly Tucker is suggesting is going to be leaked out here, but if there is a leak from the intelligence apparatus about Tucker Carlson's emails, that is a crime.
00:09:17.000And it would not be the only crime committed during the Biden tenure or, frankly, during the Trump tenure.
00:09:22.000The Obama administration was notoriously non-leaky.
00:09:25.000There were not a lot of leaks coming out of the Obama administration.
00:09:28.000Well, because the bureaucracy favored Obama.
00:09:31.000But there were tons of leaks during the Trump administration targeting Trump officials, targeting Trump himself.
00:09:37.000We routinely saw information that the American public really does not have a quote-unquote right to see because they are private communications.
00:09:42.000We saw all of that stuff coming out routinely during the Trump administration and post-Trump, we have seen more of that.
00:09:48.000You'll recall that just a few weeks ago, the entire media decided it would be worthwhile to blast out the ProPublica report about the tax returns of people like Jeff Bezos.
00:09:57.000Now, none of that is obtained legally.
00:09:58.000It is illegal to leak somebody's tax records from the IRS.
00:10:03.000In fact, Merrick Garland, the Attorney General of the United States last month, he said that he was going to track down who had committed those leaks.
00:10:09.000We have yet to hear any follow-up on this particular issue.
00:10:13.000To be honest, I know nothing more about this than what I read in the ProPublica piece, which I also read and was astonished.
00:10:20.000Now, what I did read in that piece was that the director of the IRS is on it.
00:10:27.000And he said that their inspectors were working on it.
00:10:33.000And I'm sure that that means it will be referred to the Justice Department.
00:10:37.000And this was on my list of things to raise after I finish preparing for this hearing.
00:10:43.000And I promise you it will be at the top of my list.
00:10:49.000You know, count me a little bit skeptical because it turns out that, again, the intelligence apparatus and the bureaucracy is leaking and they are leaking almost solely with regard to people on one side of the political aisle.
00:10:59.000When you weaponize the parts of the American government that are not subject to public approval, You can't unelect the bureaucrats, and you have to rely on people like Merrick Garland to ferret them out and fire them.
00:11:11.000Even the Trump administration was not fully able to do that.
00:11:14.000You remember that the Trump administration got itself in all sorts of trouble because they were doing leak investigations on House Democrats in the media, specifically because they were trying to find out who inside the administration, who inside the bureaucracy, was leaking information about, for example, the Mueller investigation to the media.
00:11:29.000And you remember, those leaks were constant.
00:11:32.000You saw that information coming constantly from the bureaucracy.
00:11:36.000Well, when the bureaucracy has the media on speed dial, your privacy does not count anymore.
00:11:40.000And then you wonder why people don't trust the institutions of the American government?
00:11:43.000Why they don't believe that these institutions are neutral in any particular way?
00:11:47.000The Tucker story is a good indicator of why people don't feel that those institutions are neutral.
00:11:52.000If Tucker Carlson, even if he was legally caught up in some sort of sweep, if that information is leaked out to the media, that is a massive scandal.
00:12:00.000And it should be a massive scandal because it means they can do it to you.
00:12:02.000It means that anytime they find somebody who's politically unpalatable, And they catch them up in some sort of intelligence sweep.
00:12:08.000They can unmask that person and then they can just reveal that information to a general public anytime they want, which means that you can't trust that any of your information is safe at all.
00:12:20.000It means that unless you're using some sort of VPN or unless you're using a special email service, all that information can be gathered pretty easily by the government.
00:12:27.000The government frankly can subpoena much of it.
00:12:30.000And then, members of the government can leak that information out about you.
00:12:33.000So whether you like Tucker, you know, there are a lot of folks on the show who are Tucker fans, a lot of folks who listen to the show who are not Tucker fans, whether you like or dislike Tucker is completely aside from the point.
00:12:41.000The point is that when you have a bureaucracy that is specifically able to, without any real fear, leak out private information of American citizens to harm them politically, You're living... That is an aspect of totalitarianism.
00:12:57.000It is an attempt, by the powers that be, to destroy people that they oppose at any particular time, and there is no answerability and no accountability.
00:13:05.000Alrighty, coming up in just one second.
00:13:07.000We're going to talk about the left's view that true patriotism is apparently anti-patriotism.
00:13:12.000This is their continued push for critical race theory and how they would really like to indoctrinate your children.
00:13:18.000They're becoming clearer and clearer about this and it is quite ugly.
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00:14:25.000Meanwhile, the left has increasingly ceded the notion of patriotism to the right.
00:14:31.000And they're starting to realize that this is a problem.
00:14:33.000So much of what they're indoctrinating our children into in the public schools is a notion that America is, at baseline, at root, a very, very bad place.
00:14:40.000It is, as Cori Bush says, a place built upon stolen land.
00:14:44.000And if by this she means that the United States was built on military conquest and settling, that is true for literally every civilization in the history of mankind.
00:14:53.000It's just that the United States was really good at it.
00:14:56.000Or the original inhabitants of the United States from Europe had a higher ability to occupy land and dispossess the people who were on it than other people who had previously existed on the continent.
00:15:10.000But the notion that the United States is uniquely bad in world history is, of course, belied by the reality of what the United States has been, namely a nation that sacrificed hundreds of thousands of people to end slavery, a nation that freed Europe multiple times, that defeated communism, that made itself the most racially tolerant place on planet Earth.
00:15:26.000Literally, there is no more racially tolerant place than the United States on planet Earth.
00:15:30.000And yet the notion of the left is that true patriotism is anti-patriotism.
00:15:34.000We saw this a lot during the Bush administration.
00:15:36.000Dissent is the highest form of patriotism is what you constantly heard.
00:15:39.000Well, it depends on what the nature of the dissent is.
00:15:42.000Because if you dissent from the idea that America is good, that is not in fact the highest form of patriotism.
00:15:47.000But the left seems to be ceding root baseline patriotism to the right, which is a hell of a political move.
00:15:53.000So, for example, over the weekend, CNN made the argument that flying the American flag is increasingly seen as a Republican symbol.
00:15:59.000The question is why you guys are doing that.
00:16:05.000If you look at Joe Biden's July 4th speech, it is old-style Democratic speechmaking in which he talks about the glories of America and the wonders of the flag and the greatness of July 4th.
00:16:13.000But the Democratic Party increasingly is uncomfortable.
00:16:28.000I wanted to see what you both think about an article in the New York Times that has garnered a lot of attention, titled, A Fourth of July Symbol of Unity That May No Longer Unite.
00:16:38.000This is about, of course, the American flag, and the author writes, Today, flying the flag from the back of a pickup truck or over a lawn ...is increasingly seen as a clue, albeit an imperfect one, to a person's political affiliation in a deeply divided nation.
00:16:54.000The idea here, and there are moments that are documented in this story, of people, liberals, making an assumption, seeing an American flag, that maybe the person flying it is actually a Trump supporter or is a conservative.
00:17:12.000Okay, so again, this generalized point that the American flag is bad, right, is backed up by the fact that you have players in multiple sports who are now celebrated for kneeling for the American flag or kneeling for the national anthem.
00:17:25.000But this is the move that the Democrats are increasingly making.
00:17:28.000The highest form of patriotism is to suggest that America is terrible and needs to be fundamentally changed.
00:17:32.000And the best way of fundamentally changing America is, of course, to indoctrinate your children.
00:17:36.000The best way to change the future of the United States is to take control of the education of your kids.
00:17:41.000And this has been going on, as we've been discussing at length on the show, with regard to things like race or sexual politics.
00:17:47.000It's been going on in the public schools for decades on end at this point.
00:17:50.000And now that the left is finally being exposed for what it is with regard to the public schools, their simple move is just to deny.
00:17:56.000So Nicole Wallace, for example, had on Randy Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers, who has said, the American Federation of Teachers, by the way, recently was I mean, they literally had an event in which Ibram X. Kendi appeared last night.
00:18:08.000Okay, so they're very much in favor of the quote-unquote anti-racist movement, which is an outgrowth of critical race theory.
00:18:16.000And is an outgrowth of the idea that America is inherently bad, and that America is imbued with whiteness, and that the only way to overcome that whiteness is to destroy the institutions.
00:18:23.000Here is Nicole Wallace trying to soft-pedal critical race theory, because again, our media are invested in this sort of stuff.
00:18:45.000I mean, I think it's a very scary prospect.
00:18:48.000We look to the next generation to sort of Yes, the culture war is going to damage our kids, says Nicole Wallace.
00:19:05.000It was fine when Randy Weingarten and company were indoctrinating our kids.
00:19:09.000It's when people start to push back that we've got a problem.
00:19:14.000She's denying that the American Federation of Teachers is teaching critical race theory.
00:19:18.000Meanwhile, they literally had Ibram X. Kendi, the great race grifter of the country right now, speak to an AFT conference yesterday.
00:19:27.000Yesterday, in which he said this, quote, to be anti-racist is to admit the times which were being racist.
00:19:33.000He said to be racist is to constantly, consistently deny, deny, deny, like Donald Trump.
00:19:39.000Kendi said, in studying the history of racism, even studying the history of times in which people were being racist, what I found was a consistent sort of narrative.
00:20:03.000Critical race theory lies at the root of virtually all of whiteness studies, and it lies at the root of anti-racism studies, in the same way that intersectionality started off as like a small legal article by Kimberly Crenshaw and then quickly became an ideology that spread throughout the nation.
00:20:18.000This is what happens in academia, right?
00:20:19.000They're very Sort of nuanced and complex, but radical arguments made in academia.
00:20:24.000They're simplified and they're blasted out to the entire population via a wide variety of outlets.
00:20:31.000And that's how you end up with CRT being taught to our kids.
00:20:33.000And the media want to defend this stuff.
00:20:35.000The media are interested in the idea that it is an active good to indoctrinate your kids in non-traditional modes of Americanism.
00:20:46.000Again, their constant move is, the reason that you're bucking against critical race theory in public schools, the reason that you're upset with all of this, is because you don't understand that true patriotism requires us to indoctrinate your children, and you don't understand the indoctrination.
00:20:58.000The big problem is you don't understand critical race theory.
00:21:34.000Critical race theory is an academic framework that says racial inequality is perpetuated by the racism embedded in America's laws, not by individual bigotry.
00:21:44.000But relentless propaganda from some conservatives has created a panic that white people, and especially white children, are under attack.
00:21:53.000Okay, except the critical race theory explicitly says that if you are white, you benefit from those systems.
00:21:58.000Regardless of whether you think you do, or whether you're racist, you benefit from those systems.
00:22:02.000So you have to separate from your own whiteness.
00:22:03.000Okay, this is a part of critical race theory.
00:22:06.000So, again, the goal here from the media, from much of the left, is to disassociate from traditional symbols of American unity or traditional ideas that undergird American unity and to indoctrinate kids.
00:22:19.000There's just no question that this is happening right now, unfortunately.
00:22:22.000The indoctrination of kids that is now the purview of the left, right?
00:22:25.000The left believes, again, that fundamental American principles that are taught in the home, or fundamental traditional principles about religion, or God, or traditional sexual mores, or individual rights, all that stuff has to be taught out of our kids.
00:22:38.000As you heard, right there, Nicole Wallace say, the dangerous thing is if parents would be allowed to parent their children in accordance with those old values.
00:22:45.000We have to allow the children to evolve.
00:22:57.000In California, as I mentioned yesterday on the show, it is written in law that kids kindergarten through six are now going to be taught effectively LGBTQ propaganda.
00:23:05.000And that is not being done specifically for any other reason.
00:23:10.000They say that it's about the quote-unquote safety of kids.
00:23:33.000If you have a neutral law about bullying in schools, if you have neutral rules about bullying in schools, that is good enough.
00:23:39.000And that applies to everybody, regardless of how those kids act in the classroom.
00:23:43.000But once you start teaching kids about gender fluidity, that can only be an attempt to indoctrinate them in a particular way of viewing the world and to confuse them about behavior.
00:23:53.000So there was a video that came out yesterday Or it had come out, I guess, a few days ago, and then it was taken down yesterday from the San Francisco Gay Men's Choir.
00:25:50.000Okay, the key sentence there is, So basically what you're saying is that the song is not actually a parody.
00:25:54.000to do our best to counter the message of hate by teaching young people to be tolerant and fair.
00:25:59.000So basically what you're saying is that the song is not actually a parody.
00:26:01.000What you're actually suggesting is that while the song is done in the mode of parody, the underlying message, which is that we wish to teach your children our values, that part is correct, right?
00:26:10.000We are making your kids more tolerant and fair by teaching them what we want to teach them in schools.
00:26:15.000Now, you as a parent may object to this.
00:26:17.000You as a parent may say, listen, I wish to teach my kids traditional sexual values and mores.
00:26:21.000I don't want my, forget any of that, I don't want my kids, like K through six, I don't believe that it's appropriate for kids who are five years old to have to be taught about a wide variety of gender fluidity and sexual orientation questions.
00:26:35.000It's confusing, it opposes natural law in the sort of traditional moralistic sense, but also in the logical sense.
00:26:43.000The notion of gender fluidity opposes biology itself.
00:26:47.000Like, I don't think that any of this is appropriate to be taught to children, regardless of political view.
00:26:54.000But the idea here is that we are going to change the next generation, right?
00:26:57.000This is why, for example, there's an entire article recently in IndieWire, I think, talking about how children's animated shows were now being stacked with radical LGBTQ propaganda content.
00:27:09.000Bisexual characters in children's animated shows.
00:28:06.000It holds true for all these members of government.
00:28:08.000I get to decide how I want to teach my kids.
00:28:10.000And what I would like to teach my kids, as it turns out, is a traditional sexual morality and traditional individual rights view of how the government should work with regards to both race and sex.
00:28:20.000That's what I'd like to teach my kids.
00:28:22.000And if you've got a problem with that, frankly, you can stick it.
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00:30:46.000So just a quick final note when it comes to the indoctrination of the kids.
00:30:57.000Again, there's no bones being made about this.
00:31:00.000The NEA, the single largest teachers union in the country, recently passed a resolution pledging to share and publicize information available on critical race theory while claiming that they're not teaching critical race theory.
00:31:12.000openly say that they want to provide an already created in-depth study that critiques empire white supremacy, anti-blackness, anti-indigeneity, racism patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society.
00:31:28.000When I say that they are coming to indoctrinate your kids, it is because they believe, quite correctly, that how kids are educated when they are young makes a difference in how they grow up and what values they hold.
00:31:37.000And so they are attempting, the radical left is, to grab controls of your kids' education and then never to cede them to you again.
00:31:44.000Now there are some people on the right who seem to believe that the way that you fight this is quote-unquote competition in the marketplace of ideas.
00:31:50.000When you're talking about public schools, Where the curricula are established by the NEA and the AFT in coordination with state legislators.
00:32:02.000Or is it going to be a bunch of radical left theorists who have decided that your kids are going to be tools in their attempt to evolve society toward the views they like?
00:32:13.000There's an article in the New York Times in which they suggested, and when I say they, I mean a variety of authors, including a bunch of authors that I generally like, suggested that it's un-American for state legislatures to try and ban critical race theory.
00:32:26.000They argue in the article that the educational mission is to help turn students into well-informed and discerning citizens.
00:32:33.000And they say that this is undermined by restrictions banning the teaching of critical race theory.
00:32:38.000So first of all, that ignores what critical race theory is.
00:32:52.000People don't make any bones about this.
00:32:54.000Second of all, when we say that education is designed to help turn students into well-informed and discerning citizens, the word citizen doesn't just mean people.
00:33:04.000The Aristotelian definition of a good citizen is a person who upholds the constitution of his particular polis, meaning political body.
00:33:14.000If you teach your kids to be bad citizens in the Aristotelian sense, bucking against all of the systems, bucking against all of the traditions and values of the systems, you're not teaching your kid to be a good citizen, you're teaching your kid to be a bad citizen.
00:33:28.000And you end up as a country with no future.
00:33:31.000And so, again, I think that most Americans are beginning to wake up to this, and the left is beginning to realize it, and they're running a little bit scared because of it.
00:33:38.000And so, you're suddenly seeing this upswell of articles from the New York Times, it really is amazing, in which they are openly defending the indoctrination of students into radical creeds.
00:33:47.000There's an article in the New York Times today titled, A Private School Sex Educator Defends Her Methods.
00:33:53.000After nine years at Dalton, why was Justine Angfonte suddenly being pilloried by parents?
00:34:00.000quote, sex education is a sensitive subject.
00:34:02.000But during nine years at the prestigious Dalton School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, seven of which she spent as the director of health and wellness, Justine Ng Phan seemed to be handling it with success.
00:34:12.000She developed curriculums for students from kindergarten through 12th grade, hired three other health educators and organized documentary viewings, discussions and workshops for parents.
00:34:19.000She was also a regular speaker at educational forums like the National Association of Independent Schools People of Color Conference and offered workshops and presentations at other New York City schools.
00:34:30.000One of these was Columbia Grammar and Prep School on the Upper West Side, which in May invited her to teach two Zoom sessions on pornography literacy and consent to its juniors and seniors.
00:34:40.000Bill Donahue, the head of schools there, said, quote, There may have been confusion on our part about which course we would receive.
00:34:44.000A couple of parents complained afterward, but there had been 120 students, many of whom gave her great feedback.
00:35:11.000Multiple sex educators interviewed for this article said there was nothing inappropriate about her classes there or at Columbia.
00:35:17.000It was all in line with the current national sex education standards and the WHO's international technical guidance on sexuality education.
00:35:23.000The national standards are also used in public schools in New York City, where students in grades 6 through 12 take lessons on sexuality as part of their health education.
00:35:32.000The material for first graders never used the term masturbation, Fante said recently.
00:35:36.000The lesson was about private parts being private, and included a cartoon in which two characters use anatomically correct names for their genitals and say that sometimes it feels good to touch them.
00:35:46.000Quote, it is okay to touch yourself and see how different body parts feel, but it's best to only do it in private, the narrator tells the viewers.
00:35:53.000For kids between the ages of five and eight.
00:35:55.000But, says the New York Times, the WHO is fine with this stuff.
00:35:57.000The WHO likes it, so you should like it, as a parent.
00:36:01.000Well, again, this sort of crap, it turns out parents don't like it.
00:36:05.000And so the left is reeling because on culture issues, this is the thing.
00:36:08.000Trump was elected because of culture issues.
00:36:09.000He was not elected because of economic issues.
00:36:11.000People seem to be of the opinion in the elite world, and this is true right and left, that Trump was elected because of his economic agenda, which was tariff focused or is focused on raising taxes on particular Parts of the population and was economic nationalist and was rooted in subsidies to blue collar workers and all this kind of stuff.
00:36:30.000The reason that Trump won is because the left has been declaring an open culture war on the rest of the United States since 2010, approximately.
00:36:37.000It's been accelerating radically since then, and people are pushing back against it.
00:36:41.000And now members of the left are beginning to realize that this is bad politics.
00:36:45.000They don't want to say it because, again, that would undercut their evolutionary notions of how morality ought to change over time.
00:36:53.000The way they are pushing back is chiefly with January 6th.
00:36:57.000They understand, the left does, that what they are promoting, generally speaking, is not in line with traditional motions of patriotism.
00:37:04.000Yelling about the American flag and the national anthem, suggesting that Motherhood is not a thing because after all, they're just birthing people.
00:37:12.000Suggesting that there is no such thing as a traditional sexual value to be held in the United States and that if you do, you're a bigot.
00:37:18.000Undermining religion and freedom of speech.
00:37:19.000These are not things most Americans are on board with.
00:37:22.000And so the left has to, they don't really want to seed the patriotic in the United States.
00:37:27.000Instead, they would like to redefine patriotism to apply to an agenda that is explicitly anti-traditional notions of what it meant to be American.
00:37:35.000Now rooted in individual rights, rooted in freedom, but also rooted in a certain sense of responsibility and virtue.
00:37:41.000They would like to simply redefine patriotism to not mean that.
00:37:44.000So the best tool they have to do this is to point at January 6th.
00:37:47.000Because January 6th was an incident in which people who were purportedly right-wing, and when I say purportedly right-wing, I don't mean that they were left-wing.
00:37:56.000What I mean is that they were not conservative in any traditional sense or libertarian in any traditional sense.
00:38:00.000It turns out that storming the Capitol building is neither a conservative nor a libertarian position.
00:38:05.000What the left would like to do is suggest that it is a conservative libertarian position.
00:38:08.000Therefore, the true people who hate the country, the true people who are anti-patriotic, the true people seeking to undermine America, are not people who are radically indoctrinating your children with theories that are completely foreign to the founding of the United States.
00:38:21.000The people who are really seeking to undermine America are right-wingers.
00:38:25.000This has been the goal since January 6th.
00:38:28.000January 6th was an act of evil by a bunch of idiot droogs who decided to run into the Capitol building for no discernible purpose other than to do harm to people and property and act like generalized idiots.
00:38:45.000You know what is even worse for the country than a bunch of droogs running into a government building and then them being cleared out of the government building, most of them being arrested, and government going about its business within two hours?
00:38:57.000The complete reshaping of American politics to suggest that anyone who is conservative or voted for Trump is complicit in that sort of activity and hates the country and is anti-patriotic.
00:39:06.000And that's precisely what the media are doing.
00:39:07.000So at the same time that the media are celebrating people who kneel for the flag, the media is suggesting that you, traditional conservative who likes the flag, You, traditional libertarian, who believes in individual rights, you are complicit in January 6th.
00:39:19.000By dint of association, right, you may have voted for Trump.
00:39:22.000Trump was saying stuff that wasn't true about the election.
00:39:25.000People who believe that stuff went in and did something bad on January 6th.
00:39:28.000Because of that chain of association, you are responsible.
00:40:06.000Because on that day, many who celebrated this weekend, saying they love this country, tried to destroy it.
00:40:14.000And they're going to keep focusing on January 6th, because this is the only example they can point to of people who are purportedly right-wing or Trump-associated doing something bad and violent.
00:40:34.000The part that's not true is that everybody who supported Trump was in league with this or approves of this.
00:40:39.000But again, they keep trying to broaden out January 6th because if you just treat January 6th as what it was, an isolated incident in which a bunch of idiots, several hundred morons, decided to invade a government building and the security was improper, If that's what it boils down to, as opposed to a broad-based movement to overthrow the American government, then why are we still talking about it?
00:41:00.000It turns out that a much broader movement involving violence happened last year and has now been deeply embedded in every institution of our society to the point where you have to mirror all of its priorities or you'll be ousted from public life.
00:41:11.000Namely, the Black Lives Matter movement, which was linked to at least $2 billion in insurable property damage, probably it's double that because a lot of that property wasn't insured.
00:41:20.000And linked to many deaths, by the way.
00:41:23.000But the media have to, the media must, continue to focus on this and broaden it out.
00:41:27.000Which is why you have an article called, A Horn-Wearing Shaman, A Cowboy Evangelist.
00:41:31.000For some, the capital attack was a kind of Christian revolt.
00:41:34.000Now the suggestion of that title, from Michelle Borstein, the suggestion of the very title is that Christianity is inherently intertwined with January 6th.
00:42:10.000And the maximization of January 6th has become a key A very, very key piece of the Democratic agenda.
00:42:17.000If they can distract with January 6th, if they can continue to shout about January 6th, then maybe you won't pay attention to the stuff that's actually happening at your local school board level.
00:42:23.000Maybe you'll ignore the fact that the radical left at the congressional level is attempting to rewrite the laws about how voting is done.
00:42:30.000Maybe you'll ignore the fact that Joe Biden is explicitly attempting to override notions of individual rights and equality before law in favor of a broader equity agenda that adjudicates based on racial group.
00:42:41.000Maybe you'll ignore all of that if we can just say that everyone who disagrees with Joe Biden or disagrees with the Washington Post or disagrees with the New York Times is somehow complicit in January 6th.
00:42:51.000And so every story becomes a major story.
00:42:54.000For example, the Daily Beast yesterday reported that one of the January 6th rioters, when he was arrested, the FBI seized a, quote, fully constructed US Capitol Lego set from his home.
00:43:08.000According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Robert Morris, a substitute social studies teacher, allegedly engaged in violent behavior.
00:43:13.000Video shows him near the front line of the rioters who pushed past police guarding the Capitol, organizing a shield wall in the attack on officers in the Lower West Terrace Tunnel, and then entering the building through a broken window.
00:43:23.000In court documents, apparently, the DOJ pushed for Morse to be detained until trial, and the federal government said during his arrest, law enforcement recovered some clothing and other items that appear to match those he carried with him on the 6th, including a Don't Tread On Me flag, a neck gaiter, a military utility bag, a black tourniquet, and military fatigues.
00:43:39.000Also, law enforcement recovered a fully constructed U.S.
00:43:58.000But I think you're going to have a hard time saying that it holds up in court that his beautifully constructed US Capitol Lego set was the motivating factor.
00:44:07.000Really, really, really solid stuff right there.
00:44:11.000Meanwhile, by the way, it is incredible to see how the media have completely flipped on law enforcement.
00:44:16.000They flip back and forth on law enforcement.
00:44:19.000Law enforcement ought to be transparent.
00:44:21.000People who attack law enforcement ought to go to jail.
00:44:24.000The media's perspective is it sort of depends on who you are.
00:44:26.000It sort of depends on what your political motivation is.
00:44:31.000So if you are a black person who is resisting arrest and is shot by the police, Then the police must inherently be racist and it is indicative of the entire police structure, which is structurally biased.
00:44:43.000If you're Ashley Babbitt and you're a white lady who's attempting to invade the Capitol building and you're shot to death, then anybody who wants to know the full information is bad.
00:44:53.000Anybody who wants to know the full information is a problem.
00:44:55.000We still don't know the identity of the officer who shot Ashley Babbitt, by the way.
00:44:59.000Again, I understand the safety predicate for that.
00:45:02.000We don't want the officer to be threatened.
00:45:05.000And in fact, Ashley Babbitt should not have been climbing through a window at the Capitol building in an attempt to do harm.
00:45:12.000I'm just noting the complete double standard with regard to behavior of the police and the way that the left treats the cops in these particular scenarios.
00:45:20.000All of which is to say, when it comes down to it, the left requires January 6th.
00:45:25.000But if they think that the election of 2022 or 2024 is going to be about January 6th, as opposed to the left's radical, asymmetric, it is asymmetric, political push to radicalize everything, every institution of our society, up to and including the indoctrination of small children, That's not going to work.
00:45:42.000So watch for them to continue pushing it, but it is going to be unsuccessful in the long run because it turns out too many Americans are paying attention now, which is a very good thing.
00:45:51.000All right, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.