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00:00:00.000The Daily Beast tracks down the nefarious American who made a funny video about Nancy Pelosi, Democrats turn on Joe Biden, and Nancy Pelosi struggles with impeachment.
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00:01:45.000I think that it is a phrase that has Stalinist origins.
00:01:48.000Stalin himself used to use the phrase in order to make excuses for shooting people.
00:01:52.000So I don't really believe in use of the phrase, the enemy of the people, to describe the media.
00:01:56.000But if the media want to make themselves wildly unpopular, if the media seek to Spread the perception that Trump is right about them.
00:02:03.000All they have to do is keep doing this kind of stuff.
00:02:06.000So over the weekend, The Daily Beast ran a piece by one Kevin Poulsen, who himself, by the way, is a convicted felon, I believe, who wrote a piece called We Found the Guy Behind the Viral Drunk Pelosi Video.
00:02:18.000Now, this video, you remember a couple of weeks ago, it came out on the Internet and it was just The apotheosis of evil in today's modern American politics.
00:02:27.000It was Nancy Pelosi slowed down a little bit so it looked like she was drunk.
00:02:30.000Now, as somebody whose words are routinely slowed down so that it sounds like I am drunk in joke videos, all I could do was kind of laugh.
00:02:39.000This is just the way people act online.
00:02:42.000Welcome to the world of online politics, where people make funny, stupid little videos and then post them.
00:02:46.000But this was meritorious of a full-scale investigation by the Daily Beast.
00:02:51.000And it really is reminiscent of the time that Joe Wurzelbacher, the plumber who was on his driveway when Barack Obama came to visit in 2008 his neighborhood, and then he asked Barack Obama about the debt, and he asked him about spending, and then the media proceeded to uncover every single detail about Joe the and then the media proceeded to uncover every single detail about Well, this is sort of the same thing, except that at least Joe the plumber's face was on video.
00:03:14.000In this particular case, the guy who made the video was just some guy.
00:03:44.000And yet the Daily Beast not only went out there and discovered things about him and then publicized it, which means that this guy is now going to have a tough time getting a job simply for making a funny video about Nancy Pelosi.
00:03:53.000He's now going to be excoriated by the left wing media.
00:03:55.000He's now going to be made persona non grata in his industry, whatever that is.
00:04:01.000On May 22nd, a Donald Trump superfan and occasional sports blogger from the Bronx named Sean Brooks posted a video clip of Nancy Pelosi on his personal Facebook page.
00:04:09.000The clip showed Pelosi at her most excitable, stammering during a press conference as she voiced frustration over an abortive infrastructure meeting with the president.
00:04:16.000Brooks' commentary on the video was succinct.
00:04:19.000Thirteen minutes later, a Facebook official told the Daily Beast Brooks posted a very different Pelosi video to a Facebook page called Politics Watchdog, one of a series of hyper-partisan news operations Brooks runs with help, he claims.
00:04:30.000This clip had been altered to slow Pelosi down without lowering the pitch of her voice.
00:04:33.000The effect was to make it sound as though the Speaker of the House was slurring her words drunkenly while criticizing Donald Trump.
00:04:39.000Fifteen minutes after that, the same doctored video appeared on a second Facebook page Brooks Manage's All News 24-7.
00:04:44.000This clip was identical to the Politics Watchdog video in every way, except it didn't carry the Politics Watchdog branding that was superimposed over the earlier video.
00:04:52.000Whoever posted it had access to the director's cut.
00:04:54.000On both pages, the clip was accompanied by the exact same dispassionate newsy prose.
00:04:59.000House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on President Trump walking out infrastructure meeting.
00:05:04.000The video was an instant social media smash, surging through the Internet's well-worn ley lines of credulity and venom.
00:05:11.000It was shared more than 60,000 times on Facebook and accumulated 4 million page views from links.
00:05:15.000Drunk as a skunk, mused actor turned to alt-right curmudgeon James Woods, whose tweet of the video scored 17,000 retweets and 55,000 likes.
00:05:27.000They went and uncovered the guy, and then they proceeded to try to shame him online for posting a video in which he slowed down her speech slightly.
00:05:34.000Again, you know how easy it is to do that?
00:05:37.000People who listen to my podcast, many of them, listen to my podcast on twice speed or 1.5 speed.
00:05:42.000Many of them probably listen to it at 0.75 speed.
00:05:45.000If you listen to my podcast at 0.5 speed, you will get the exact same tenor of my voice, except I will now sound like I am slurring my words and I am deeply drunk.
00:05:51.000Is that an act of tremendous malicious evil?
00:05:54.000Does that merit everybody who posts video of me talking that way online, being uncovered and shamed for the public view?
00:06:01.000The Daily Beast dug up who this guy was and then proceeded to spill all of his details on the internet.
00:06:06.000He said, Brooks, a 34-year-old day laborer currently on probation after pleading guilty to domestic battery, claims that his drunk commentary on an unaltered Pelosi video had no connection to the now infamous fake clip that premiered less than 15 minutes later.
00:06:19.000I wasn't the individual who created that Pelosi video.
00:06:23.000It's conceivable that someone else actually edited the clip, but a Facebook official confirming a Daily Beast investigation said the video was first posted on Politics Watchdog directly from Brooks' personal Facebook account.
00:06:35.000Why is Facebook answering that question from the Daily Beast?
00:06:39.000If the Daily Beast goes to Facebook and says, I want the identity of whomever published this video, why is Facebook revealing that identity?
00:06:46.000The guy didn't involve himself in slander or libel.
00:06:49.000How in the world is it Facebook's job to answer questions from the Daily Beast about the source of this sort of video?
00:06:56.000And how is it not an act of tremendous nastiness and evil for the Daily Beast to report on this guy's criminal record because he committed the grave crime of making fun of Nancy Pelosi online?
00:07:09.000Brooks acknowledged he's involved in the management of both Politics Watchdog and All News 24-7, the Facebook pages that sent the bogus video on its viral tear.
00:07:16.000To the outside observer, the two pages are unconnected, but after a telltale link on one of the pages led the Daily Beast to Brooks, he admitted the ad revenue for both outlets goes directly into his personal PayPal account.
00:07:27.000In the first hint at a possible motive for the Pelosi smear, Brooks volunteered that the video brought in nearly $1,000 in shared ad revenue.
00:07:32.000So it wasn't that he disliked Pelosi, it's that he was seeking to make nefarious cash off of this doctored, altered video.
00:08:11.000Or is their motive to cover the news and they happen to be biased?
00:08:13.000It makes money for Facebook too, he growls.
00:08:16.000Brooks, except that Facebook cut off any future earnings when the company's fact check partners ruled the clip as a hoax about 36 hours after its politics watchdog debut.
00:08:23.000It makes money for Facebook too, he groused.
00:08:26.000I'm sure that's their motive for not taking it down.
00:08:28.000Over the course of an hour and a half interview, Brooks insisted repeatedly he was not the one who posted the Pelosi clip on politics watchdog.
00:08:35.000He claimed he's just one of half a dozen administrators who jointly control the page and its content.
00:08:40.000It was one of the others, he said, who debuted the doctor video.
00:08:43.000So if he's not lying, if the guy's not lying, not only did the Daily Beast out this guy with a criminal record, but then they got it wrong.
00:08:54.000I don't know how the media can justify this sort of stuff.
00:08:57.000A review of Brooks' personal fan page reveals him as an avowed conservative and a proud member of Trump's razor-thin African-American support base.
00:09:04.000Yeah, there's some solid journalism there.
00:09:47.000According to the Daily Beast, he runs other pages as well.
00:09:50.000An ardent New England Patriots fan, Brooks has a long history of online ventures around athletics, including a Facebook page called Outkick the Sports.
00:09:56.000Brooks' Spark LinkedIn profile lists him as an analyst at SportsBlogger, a long-shuttered blog platform where Brooks once blogged under his current Twitter screen name, SportsGruffser.
00:10:07.000He says, I'm in New York City, very liberal.
00:10:21.000If the Daily Beast posts all of this guy's personal details for the grave sin of having published an anonymous video, slowed down of Nancy Pelosi seeming drunk, Well, then that's not incitement in any way.
00:10:32.000That's just them covering the news, guys.
00:10:34.000That is them doing all the news that's fit to print over at the Daily Beast.
00:10:38.000Brooks said that he became a conservative after seeing firsthand the failure of liberal policies during the Obama era.
00:10:43.000He said, I've traveled around and seen too many things.
00:10:45.000I don't like the way things have been run.
00:10:47.000A key turning point came years ago, he said, when he was working in a warehouse in Queens doing forklift work, loading, unloading, and labeling.
00:10:54.000He started the job off the books, but eventually became an official hire.
00:10:57.000Then the managers began supplementing their workforce with undocumented immigrants willing to do the same work for less, he claimed.
00:11:03.000He said, I was working there four or five years and I was being paid pretty well.
00:11:07.000Then suddenly they started bringing these guys in vans through the side door.
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00:13:21.000All right, so Noah Schachtman over at the Daily Beast appeared on Reliable Sources on CNN with Brian Stelter.
00:13:27.000And Shackman defended their choice to run this several thousand word piece about the terrible, evil, horrible, forklift operator who made a video of Nancy Pelosi slightly slowed down so that she sounded drunk.
00:13:42.000There's a profit motive here, that you can put up a lot of these videos on Facebook, you can make a quick buck.
00:13:47.000Didn't this guy say he made a thousand dollars?
00:13:49.000Yeah, I mean, but look, that's not... It might have been a lot of money to him, but I don't think it was a pure profit motive.
00:13:54.000I think for him it was a matter of ideology.
00:13:57.000It was, you know, he's a big Trump supporter.
00:14:00.000And, you know, one of the most interesting things about this story to me was that, you know, you don't need some sophisticated operation in order to Wow, so important.
00:14:23.000We needed to shame him and we needed to get his mug shot and put it up there on the internet.
00:14:26.000Deeply important that we ruin his future employment history so that we can show that fake news appears.
00:14:31.000You wonder why people are angry at the media?
00:14:33.000Because the media did nothing for years while Barack Obama's administration was deeply corrupt at a variety of levels and now they are digging up personal material on private citizens who post videos on Facebook.
00:14:46.000That is why people are angry at people in the media.
00:14:48.000Now, I'm for a lot of the media scrutiny of the Trump administration.
00:14:52.000I wish they'd done it during the Obama administration, too.
00:14:54.000My critique is not that they are hard on Trump.
00:14:56.000My critique is that they were easy on Obama.
00:14:58.000But there's one thing that I really dislike, and that is the idea that if regular citizens take part in politics, that now they're going to be raked over the coals in the same way as somebody who's running for elected office.
00:15:10.000I mean, and these places do do it for clicks.
00:15:13.000It's funny, there was a website a few weeks ago that, in the midst of one of my numerous controversies, because every week seems to be a controversy now, in the midst of one of the numerous controversies surrounding me, decided to post a piece, the top five things you need to know about my wife.
00:16:21.000And that is to rip on these big tech companies and try to promote Their leftism.
00:16:26.000What we are seeing now from both right and left is an attempt to grab the means of production.
00:16:30.000So Facebook is an independent means of distribution.
00:16:33.000And people on the left are fighting mad that because so many people get their news from Facebook, They're fighting mad they can't control this, and this is why you saw Nancy Pelosi say last week that Facebook willingly, willingly promotes lies about her, which is why they willingly promoted lies about Hillary Clinton, which is why Hillary Clinton is not president.
00:16:50.000This is her way of claiming that the government, and Democrats in particular, should take control of major social media pages in order to cure the dialogue.
00:16:59.000Whenever somebody talks about curing or purifying the dialogue, get ready for your First Amendment rights to be infringed upon.
00:17:08.000Facebook says, I know this is false, but we're, it's a lie, but we're showing it anyway.
00:17:16.000I was giving them the benefit of the doubt on Russia, but clearly they, I thought it was unwitting, but clearly they wittingly were accomplices and enablers of false information to go across Facebook.
00:17:29.000Yeah, well, this is just a- I mean, she's lying.
00:17:38.000This is one of the things that I've been arguing, is that Facebook needs to stay a platform and not become a Nancy Pelosi-driven editorial board.
00:17:46.000The reason the Democrats are complaining about this stuff, the reason they're trying to uncover people, is because what they actually want to do, what many members of the media hope to do, is stop people from speaking out politically.
00:17:54.000What they hope to do is turn Facebook into just another New York Times editorial page.
00:18:24.000I believe that if people stopped using or subscribing to AT&T, they'd be forced to make big changes at CNN, which is dying in the ratings anyway.
00:18:40.000Now listen, I think CNN puts out an awful lot of misinformation or at the very least biased information.
00:18:45.000But the president of the United States suggesting that the owner AT&T should crack down on the editorial viewpoint of CNN does not seem like a good move to me.
00:18:54.000And we have seen the same thing from President Trump with regard to Amazon.
00:18:59.000So there's been this push from the Trump administration to go after Amazon for violation of antitrust.
00:19:05.000As I've said before, I don't think that Amazon is in violation of antitrust law.
00:19:10.000There are lots of other companies in the various spaces in which Amazon participates.
00:19:14.000Amazon is certainly not a monopoly from the consumer point of view.
00:19:17.000The danger of monopoly, from the consumer point of view, was, is, and always will be, that a monopoly racks up giant prices, that they gouge consumers because they're the only producers in the market.
00:19:27.000If you're the only producer of a good in the market, you're the only person producing cameras in the market, you can then charge $1 million per camera, and no one can compete with you because you've bought everybody else out, or forced them out, or crowded them out of the market, or you've participated in some form of regulatory capture that has prevented anyone else from entering the market.
00:19:46.000The fact that the Trump administration is seeking to crack down on Amazon, I can't help but believe that it has something to do with the fact that Donald Trump does not like Jeff Bezos.
00:19:54.000So in the same way that the left doesn't like Facebook because they think that Facebook led Hillary Clinton to lose, Donald Trump doesn't like Amazon because he doesn't like Jeff Bezos and Bezos also operates the Washington Post.
00:20:05.000According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Amazon could face heightened antitrust scrutiny under a new agreement between U.S.
00:20:10.000regulators that puts it under closer watch by the Federal Trade Commission, three people familiar with the matter said.
00:20:16.000The move is the result of the FTC and the Department of Justice, U.S.
00:20:19.000government's leading antitrust enforcement agencies, quietly divvying up competition oversight of two of the country's top tech companies, according to those people who spoke on condition of anonymity.
00:20:29.000The Justice Department is set to have more jurisdiction over Google, the Washington Post reported on Friday, paving the way for a potential investigation of the search and advertising giant.
00:20:38.000So they're now looking to put Google under the thumb.
00:20:41.000They're also looking to put Amazon under the thumb.
00:20:43.000Very interesting article from the Wall Street Journal today about Google explaining that while the Justice Department is now looking at Google as a monopoly, Google is losing market share.
00:20:52.000Here's what the Wall Street Journal reports today.
00:20:54.000The irony that surely won't register in Washington.
00:20:57.000The latest crackdown on Google comes just as the internet giant is demonstrating that it is far from invincible.
00:21:02.000The Justice Department is preparing a new antitrust investigation against Google parent Alphabet Inc.
00:21:07.000This comes six years after a similar probe from the Federal Trade Commission, which resulted in no significant damage to the company that powers more than 90% of the world's internet search activity.
00:21:17.000Google's dominance of internet search and related advertising business make it an easy target.
00:21:21.000The company garners more than 60% of the world's search ad market, according to eMarketer.
00:21:25.000Its total advertising business has averaged 19% growth annually over the past decade.
00:21:29.000Analysts expect advertising revenue to surpass $135 billion this year, which is almost twice the size of its nearest competitor, Facebook.
00:21:38.000Yet recent developments have demonstrated that even Google isn't invulnerable.
00:21:42.000Alphabet's most recent quarterly results showed a significant and surprising slowdown in Google's ad business.
00:21:48.000Investors found the company's clumsy explanation unsatisfactory.
00:21:52.000Amazon is emerging as a potent advertising force in its own right, as the company is now charging merchants for favorable placement on its massive online marketplace.
00:22:00.000Amazon generated $11 billion in revenue for its other category that is primarily composed of advertising for the trailing 12-month period ending in March.
00:22:09.000Analysts predict that Amazon's ad business is going to more than double in size and it will come at Google's expense.
00:22:14.000Also, Google's dominance in search has not translated to other businesses the company has entered.
00:22:19.000Its Pixel smartphone has less than 1% of the global market.
00:22:22.000Google trails both Amazon and Microsoft by a wide margin in the fast-growing market for cloud computing services.
00:22:27.000In other words, all the talk about Google being a monopoly is simply not the case.
00:22:32.000All the talk about Amazon being a monopoly is simply not the case.
00:22:37.000There are a bunch of people at the governmental level and in the media who are very much interested in controlling other folks, controlling other companies.
00:23:02.000Once the government takes control of these companies, Do you really trust that the government is going to run these in fair and impartial fashion?
00:23:09.000If you think that's the case, remember when the government was in the Fairness Doctrine business and decided that they were going to operate how much conservative content could be put on your radio.
00:23:19.000I know, for those not old enough to have a radio, this was a thing.
00:23:23.000And the fact is that the government in control of these businesses is a bad thing.
00:23:29.000If Democrats want something, you can fairly certainly predict that Republicans should not want it.
00:23:33.000The fact that both Republicans and Democrats are now vying for control over major tech companies, I think it's pretty scary and it's fairly un-American.
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00:25:27.000They are, the base is really radical, but there's this silent majority of the Democratic Party, or at least plurality of the Democratic Party, that is not nearly as radical as the base.
00:25:37.000And that gap is beginning to be felt, and I'm wondering whether the silent plurality of the Democratic base can withstand the pressure from the left wing, because now it's breaking out into the open.
00:25:47.000I said for a long time I thought that the best day for Joe Biden was going to be his first day.
00:27:11.000If he did, you know how many votes he would get inside the Democratic Party?
00:27:14.000A hell of a lot more than all of the jokers who are running to the far left of the Democratic Party.
00:27:18.000But you can see where the energy is in the Democratic Party.
00:27:21.000The easiest way to see where people think the energy is in the Democratic Party is to follow Kirsten Gillibrand, because Kirsten Gillibrand Basically, she's a pander machine.
00:27:31.000I mean, she changes her positions routinely.
00:27:34.000She's got her finger in the wind all the time.
00:27:36.000And so she's constantly taking the position she thinks will be most beneficial to her.
00:27:40.000When she first ran for Senate in New York, she was fairly pro-gun.
00:27:44.000She was somewhat pro-life and now she's switched all of her positions because that's where she believes that the money is in the Democratic Party.
00:27:51.000That's where she believes the enthusiasm is in the Democratic Party.
00:27:54.000So here she was over the weekend, Kirsten Gillibrand, the bellwether for the Democratic Party, the weathervane for the Democratic Party, explaining that she is very much in favor of third trimester abortion.
00:28:04.000Are you saying also then for late term?
00:31:22.000It is literally about greed and corruption.
00:31:26.000Okay, this is such a lie and it is also indicative of who Kirsten Gillibrand is.
00:31:30.000Letter from Kirsten Gillibrand, September 19th, 2008 to Chris Cox, Executive Director of the NRA.
00:31:35.000Dear Chris, Thank you again for meeting with me before the August recess.
00:31:39.000Even though we discussed many of my positions regarding Second Amendment issues, I wanted to provide you with a more full description of my beliefs on this issue.
00:31:45.000To begin with, I want to be very clear I always have and always will believe that the correct interpretation of the Second Amendment is that it applies to an individual's right to carry guns and does not apply generally to the National Guard or a group of individuals in a state.
00:31:58.000On the question of outright banning certain firearms for cosmetic features, bullets of a random size, or banning magazines holding an arbitrary number of cartridges, I am adamantly opposed and do not believe that laws should be based on random limits just for the sake of limiting gun ownership and usage.
00:32:11.000In addition, this development of smart guns that can be fired only by their owner is an intriguing idea, but I'm afraid that mandating such technologies will harm consumers' ability to use their guns in emergency situations.
00:32:33.000Now, of course, she's flipped on the NRA, and the NRA is deeply evil, all of which prompted Chris Wallace to say to her, Lady, you switch your positions more often than the Kama Sutra recommends.
00:32:46.000But when you were a congresswoman representing a conservative district in upstate New York, you took pretty conservative positions on guns and immigration.
00:32:57.000Once you became the senator for the entire liberal state of New York, you flipped and took much more liberal positions on guns and immigration.
00:33:15.000My mom, of course she cooked the Thanksgiving turkey, but she also shot the Thanksgiving turkey.
00:33:21.000Okay, so that is her explaining that she switched all of her positions.
00:33:23.000So, solid response there for Kirsten Gillibrand.
00:33:26.000The point here being that Gillibrand is a great indicator of where she thinks the arrows are pointing in the Democratic Party, and they are pointing in the Bernie Sanders direction, not the Joe Biden direction.
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00:34:53.000Which is that if he just goes away and hides in a hole for a year and a half, he could be president of the United States.
00:34:57.000That's basically what Joe Biden is up to.
00:34:59.000We'll get to that in just one second, plus Elizabeth Warren joining the Panda Express.
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00:36:49.000But she tweets out a video of herself in the most awkward possible way.
00:36:54.000She is just Hillary Clinton on awkward steroids.
00:36:58.000Remember Mark McGuire was a big strong guy before he started taking steroids and then he started taking steroids and he sort of exploded?
00:37:04.000Well, the same thing has happened to Elizabeth Warren.
00:37:06.000She was an awkward person before she ran for president, and now she's taking the awkward steroids and she's exploding like Mark McGuire.
00:37:12.000She's breaking Roger Maris' record in terms of awkwardness.
00:37:15.000If you can't see this video, it is her wearing a rainbow feather boa that she must have picked up at some sort of Halloween shop, and she's walking around high-fiving people with extraordinary enthusiasm that nobody else in the crowd seems to share.
00:37:30.000She tweeted out, Okay, so, quick note.
00:37:34.000Not a lot of gay folks who are not living without pride.
00:37:35.000LGBTQ plus civil rights today and every day we renew our commitment to fight until everyone can live proudly without fear I'll be right there alongside you happy hashtag pride.
00:37:43.000Okay, so quick note This is America 2019.
00:37:46.000I live in Los Angeles um Not a lot of gay folks who are not living without pride Lots of gay folks who are living quite openly as is their prerogative in a free society I don't really see what exactly she is suggesting the changes be But in any case, there she is being super awkward.
00:38:03.000She knows where the future of the Democratic Party lies.
00:38:32.000Well, maybe he's afraid that he's going to say what John Delaney said and then get booed.
00:38:36.000According to the AP, Democratic presidential hopefuls took rival Joe Biden's absence at a California state party gathering Saturday as a chance to take subtle digs at the former VP and craft themselves as better positioned to bring Democrats into the future.
00:38:48.000Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said, quote, Some say if we all just calm down, the Republicans will come to their senses.
00:38:54.000Apparently, this was a reference to Biden's comments that the GOP may have an epiphany after Trump is gone.
00:40:59.000Or is he going to stand strong against them?
00:41:01.000And if he tries to co-opt them, if he tries to move into their lane, how long before they start to chip away at him?
00:41:08.000Because after all, Elizabeth Warren is a more eloquent expositor of far leftism than Joe Biden, who is not actually on the far left in terms of most of his policies.
00:41:17.000And meanwhile, I think this is worthy of note.
00:41:20.000Not because anything Taylor Swift does is ever really worthy of note, but because it isn't.
00:41:25.000So, apparently Taylor Swift has now publicly rejected President Trump's stance on LGBTQ rights in a letter to Senator Lamar Alexander.
00:41:33.000Now, you'll remember that Taylor Swift tried to endorse a Tennessee gubernatorial candidate a couple of years ago, or last year, in the gubernatorial race, and that ended up being a giant fail for her.
00:41:43.000Nobody cared what Taylor Swift thought about politics.
00:41:47.000But here is what the Washington Post reports today.
00:41:49.000Taylor Swift's newfound political streak was on full display Saturday when she posted to Instagram a lengthy letter to Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee imploring him to protect LGBTQ rights by voting to support the Equality Act.
00:42:01.000The act, which was passed by the House last month, would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, education, jury service, and federal financing.
00:42:10.000Well, it would do a lot more than that.
00:42:11.000It would basically mandate that if you are a private person in private life, that you have to imbibe everything that the social left tells you about the malleability of gender, of sexual orientation, of all of that stuff.
00:42:23.000Swift said, There are hundreds of Tennessee faith leaders who have recently disagreed and spoken out to defend the LGBTQ community, which is not an argument.
00:42:53.000That's an argument that if you are a traditional Christian who believes in traditional values about sin and sex, that you should basically be disregarded because she found some liberal pastors who echo her viewpoint.
00:43:03.000She wrote that protecting the LGBTQ community from discrimination could bring more jobs to Tennessee, citing the fact that several corporations, including Amazon, have spoken out against the anti-LGBTQ slate of hate, referring to bills moving through the state legislature that would, according to Human Rights Campaign, allow businesses, organizations, and contractors to discriminate against LGBTQ people in employment policies.
00:43:24.000First of all, that sort of language demonstrates the overreach that people want from government.
00:43:29.000Okay, it's not about allowing businesses to discriminate.
00:43:32.000If it's a private business, the question is, does the government have a right to interfere in private business, not what will they allow businesses to do?
00:43:38.000You do not get your writ from the government.
00:43:59.000And if I don't feel like hiring somebody from the left for my business, this would be a me thing.
00:44:03.000And if I'm a religious institution that doesn't feel like violating my own religious precepts by performing a same-sex marriage, that's a me thing.
00:44:10.000And if you don't feel like accepting somebody from my synagogue into your church, that's a you thing.
00:44:14.000You know how we can all live in society together?
00:44:16.000We can lighten the F up and leave each other alone.
00:44:38.000I mean, you say you don't care about celebrity.
00:44:40.000Why does it matter to you what Taylor Swift has to say?
00:44:42.000But then they tried out all these people at the DNC because they obviously believe that these people have something to say.
00:44:47.000So here's what has happened, and it's really bad for the country.
00:44:50.000Because the cultural has now become political, because there is no element of American culture that is free from politics, or at least mildly free from politics, because every aspect of American culture has become more and more political, from Gillette ads to sports, because every movie must be replete with social justice warrior messaging, because everything from children's book to library time has become a battleground for social issues, What's happened is that the right feels like it's not in control of the culture.
00:45:38.000There's no question it is harder to come out of the closet as a conservative in Hollywood than it is to be gay in Hollywood, to take an example.
00:45:46.000And this is why I've had Hollywood people who are friends, high-placed people in the Hollywood industry, and every time I meet with them or get together with them, I will overtly explain to them that they should never reveal to the public that we have met, because they will be destroyed by their own folks.
00:46:03.000The commanding heights of the culture are run by the left, and Taylor Swift proves it.
00:46:07.000And Taylor Swift, who was silenced for years, there was a meme online, a joke online, why doesn't Taylor Swift speak out about this issue, her silence is deafening?
00:46:14.000Because basically, she was apolitical and she didn't say anything about politics.
00:46:17.000Then in the last couple of years, her SJW friends convinced her that it was time for her to speak out about politics, and now she won't shut up about politics.
00:46:24.000Well, people on the right, feeling like they're not in control of the culture, then move to the realm of government for protection.
00:46:31.000So they pour all of their energies not into culture and not into the culture war.
00:46:34.000They pour all of their energies into politics because this is something that they understand.
00:46:38.000We can put our money behind candidates.
00:46:40.000And not only that, whenever there is a cultural figure with any sort of cachet who endorses the right-wing position, people on the right freak out because like, wow, there's finally someone in the culture who doesn't disdain us and sneer at us.
00:46:54.000It's a major reason Donald Trump is president.
00:46:56.000Donald Trump was a cultural figure, not a political one.
00:46:59.000But he was a cultural figure who did not sneer at everybody who was on the right.
00:47:02.000And the right was so flattered by this that they thought, oh wow, somebody who actually is willing to fight the culture wars.
00:47:08.000The left, meanwhile, has ratcheted up the cultural battles.
00:47:11.000And so people on the right have reacted by saying, okay, well we're going to elect politicians who at least are not going to kowtow to Lena Dunham out in Los Angeles and New York.
00:47:20.000We're going to elect people who fervently wish to ignore Taylor Swift.
00:47:24.000And the left has responded by saying, OK, well, if we don't have political power, we'll ratchet up our cultural power.
00:47:28.000As the left takes over the culture and the right moves back into politics, what you are getting is this massive war where the political class on the left has merged with the cultural class and the same thing is happening on the right.
00:47:40.000So politics and culture are becoming two sides of the same coin.
00:47:44.000And it's really not good for the country.
00:47:45.000It used to be that the cultural sphere is where we all got together to chat during work breaks.
00:47:51.000And now we can't even do that anymore.
00:47:53.000And it's leading to political divides, too.
00:47:56.000Because if all of our culture is political, and all of our politics is cultural, what do we share?
00:48:02.000We didn't used to share politics, but at least we shared culture.
00:48:04.000Now we don't share politics or culture.
00:48:07.000And things, I think, are getting to a breaking point.
00:48:10.000That's why this sort of stuff from Taylor Swift or Reese Witherspoon sounding off about abortion, that's why this matters.
00:48:16.000It's only a matter of time before the United States has two separate cultures.
00:48:19.000There's no cultural space that is shared either.
00:48:22.000That's not going to be good for the country.
00:48:23.000The left is pushing it so that there will have to be two different business lines in every business.
00:48:27.000People who decide to endorse the social justice warrior left, the Gillettes of the world, and people who do not.
00:48:33.000People who endorse the Starbucks view of the world, and people who endorse the Black Rifle Coffee view of the world.
00:48:39.000That's where the politics of the country is going.
00:48:41.000I don't think it's good for the country, but it is quickly becoming a reality, and that's because the left could not leave the culture alone.
00:48:47.000They decided to ratchet up the cultural control that the left utilizes on a regular basis.
00:48:52.000Okay, time for some things I like, and then some things that I hate.
00:49:03.000I've gotten into watching some old Westerns recently.
00:49:05.000So, this happened because, you know, a couple of weeks ago I was just looking for some movie comfort food, and I came up with Tombstone, which is just fantastic.
00:49:12.000And then I thought, okay, well, what are some of the best Westerns I've never seen?
00:49:15.000Well, at the very top of the list was John Ford's My Darling Clementine.
00:49:18.000So John Ford, one of the great directors in American film history, directed At least 12 films that are actual honest-to-goodness classics.
00:49:26.000Well, one of them is My Darling Clementine, which was one of the first movies about Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp.
00:49:34.000Maybe the first major film about Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp.
00:49:37.000It stars Henry Fonda and Linda Darnell and Victor Mature.
00:50:14.000Go on, get out, go on back where you belong.
00:50:16.000I'm not leaving until she gets out of town!
00:50:19.000So, one of the things about the movie that's kind of fun, all of the, there's a bunch of movies about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.
00:50:36.000And all of the movies are basically dependent on the relationship between Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp.
00:50:42.000In this one, Victor Mature, who was considered kind of a beefcake at the time and not much of an actor, actually turns in a very good performance as Doc Holliday.
00:50:49.000And the contrast between Victor Mature and Henry Fonda In this movie is quite good.
00:51:13.000So, there is an article in the New York Times.
00:51:16.000It's so funny how folks on the left in the media don't even understand what they are writing about, and so they think they are writing the opposite of what they are writing.
00:51:23.000There's an article by Joanna Klein called Fighting the Gender Stereotypes that Warp Biomedical Research.
00:51:29.000And they say, Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston, thinks you might not.
00:51:34.000When she tells non-scientific audiences that researchers, for the most part, don't study female animals, people are blown away.
00:51:38.000a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston thinks you might not.
00:51:42.000When she tells non-scientific audiences that researchers for the most part don't study female animals, people are blown away.
00:51:47.000She added, "It seems like such an obvious thing to a normal person.
00:51:50.000What you come up in the academic and science world, it's like, oh no, females are so complicated, so we just don't study them." In 2016, the National Institutes of Health and its Canadian counterpart mandated that all preclinical research they fund must include female subjects.
00:52:03.000Now, Dr. Shansky and other scientists wondered if that requirement will do enough to improve how research is conducted.
00:52:09.000In an essay published Thursday in Science, Dr. Shansky questions whether simply adding female organisms to experiments or looking for sex differences misses the point.
00:52:16.000She warns that this is a public health problem and says scientists should design experiments better suited to both biological sexes.
00:52:22.000She says if scientists don't stop looking through a male lens, outdated gender stereotypes will continue to foster dangerous assumptions about the brain and behavior, resulting in clinical studies and eventual treatments that don't work equally for all people on the gender spectrum.
00:52:35.000She's saying we have to treat the sexes differently so that we can treat the sexes the same, is sort of where she's going.
00:52:41.000Now, what's hilarious about this, and the reason I'm pointing this out, is that It is obvious to scientists of all stripes that males and females are different.
00:52:50.000And yet we are told by our media betters that males and females are exactly the same, except for the fact that there are gender stereotypes that have been placed on males and females.
00:52:58.000Now, I am all for more scientific studies about what exactly is the biological basis for differences between males and females.
00:53:05.000But a science that fails to take into account those differences, and instead ignores those differences on behalf of crap science, like suggesting that male and female are cultural constructs, and that gender stereotypes are responsible for the vast majority of differences between men and women, it is just ascientific nonsense.
00:53:20.000And when we study the animal kingdom, we all know this.
00:53:23.000Because there are no social constructs in the animal kingdom.
00:53:25.000And yet scientists very obviously treat male and female animals differently as well they should, because they are different.
00:53:31.000The fact that the media are now recognizing that it was sexist to only perform experiments on male animals... I don't know how sexism can coexist with the idea that there is no such thing as biological sex.
00:53:45.000If there's no such thing as biological sex, and gender is really what we should be looking at, self-identification as gender, then how is sexism even an issue?
00:53:54.000It isn't, really, because what exactly is the... there's no biological basis for the quote-unquote stereotype.
00:54:00.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate.
00:54:07.000Well, one of the nice things about AOC is she is just a font of material.
00:54:10.000So the incredibly brilliant congresswoman from New York, she did a bit of bartending over the weekend to demonstrate the plight of low-income workers, and she dropped this little gem about what it must be like to be a low-income worker working at a bar.
00:54:27.000It is so real, the amount of exploitation and harassment.
00:54:31.000And labor violations that you will endure for the sake and the structure of tipped work.
00:54:40.000In the federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13 an hour.
00:54:49.000Any job that pays $2.13 an hour is not a job.
00:54:56.000It's indentured servitude. - That's right. - And then people cheer for this.
00:55:01.000Me thinks she does not understand the concept of indentured servitude, which was when a person signed a fixed contract for a long period of time and then had to work off whatever debt they had by working for the company.
00:55:12.000You working at a job that you signed up for at a wage that you signed up for is not, in fact, indentured servitude.
00:55:18.000This idea that it's exploitation to hire somebody at a wage they are willing to accept is absolute nonsense.
00:55:23.000But again, I wouldn't expect AOC to know things.
00:55:25.000I mean, that seems a little bit beyond her ken.
00:55:37.000Jews were allowed to enter the Temple Mount for Jerusalem Day.
00:55:40.000So, one of the unbelievably ridiculous things in Israel is that the Temple Mount, which is the holiest site in Judaism, long pre-existing, long pre-existing even the existence of Islam as a religion, the holiest site in Judaism has been the Temple Mount.
00:55:52.000There's not only, the reason it is called the Temple Mount is because it is where the Temple stood.
00:55:56.000It is the mount upon which the Temple Mount Jews are not generally allowed to pray on the Temple Mount.
00:56:02.000Because the state of Israel, out of its respect for Islam, decided to hand over the keys to the Temple Mount to the Islamic Waqf, which is religiously discriminatory and does not allow Jews to go up on the Temple Mount and say psalms.
00:56:14.000And if you say psalms on the Temple Mount, you could be arrested by the Israeli troops that are supposed to guard you.
00:56:20.000Because everybody is so afraid of ticking off the Muslims on the Temple Mount who will then go and riot.
00:56:24.000Well, why are they so upset about this?
00:56:26.000Because this is exactly what happens on the Temple Mount on a fairly regular basis.
00:56:29.000When people talk about religious discrimination in Israel, let me make this clear.
00:56:33.000In Israel, Muslims are allowed to worship wherever they please.
00:56:37.000Jews are not allowed to worship wherever they please.
00:56:40.000Out of some sort of deference, wrong-headed and stupid deference, to religiously intolerant bigots who control the Temple Mount.
00:56:47.000So over the weekend, here's what happened.
00:56:49.000Jews were allowed to enter the Temple Mount for Jerusalem Day.
00:56:51.000They still weren't allowed to say psalms.
00:56:53.000If you go up there and you say psalms, they will actually arrest you.
00:56:56.000Riots broke out on the Temple Mount on Sunday.
00:56:58.000The commander of the Jerusalem District, Major General Doron Yedid, ordered the police to enter the Temple Mount and take care of the rioters.
00:57:04.000As the police attempted to enter the place, Arab worshipers began throwing stones, chairs, and other objects at the forces.
00:57:09.000The forces responded with riot dispersal means.
00:57:13.000Jews are generally forbidden to enter the compound during the last days of the month of Ramadan.
00:57:18.000The police allowed the entrance of Jews, especially for Jerusalem Day, and people rioted.
00:57:24.000It's amazing to me that Israel is considered the religiously intolerant nation in the region where Muslims are allowed to pray openly, worship wherever they want, where Muslims vote, where Muslim parties sit in the Knesset.
00:57:38.000There are zero Jews living under Palestinian authority dictates.
00:57:42.000And if a Jew so much as dares to step on the Temple Mount, they risk setting off a riot.
00:57:46.000But don't worry, religious intolerance is apparently the province of the Jews, according to the mainstream media.