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00:00:16.000We're going to talk about the continuing attempt to boycott Laura Ingraham's show, the blowback that is going to be unleashed on CNN and MSNBC if this continues.
00:00:23.000We're going to talk about Trump on DACA.
00:00:25.000We're going to talk about the media wars.
00:00:27.000Apparently Sinclair Broadcasting did something so horribly egregious, the entire media is a Twitter over it.
00:00:35.000Plus, later in the show, I'm going to do an interview with the producer on the new fantastic film Chappaquiddick, which I have a lot to say, talk about a little bit later in the show.
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00:02:03.000All right, so we begin today with the update on everything that has been going on regarding Laura Ingraham and the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, which is now six weeks ago, but the media have been all over it since then, pushing the gun control agenda.
00:02:16.000I want to begin by pointing out that the media's agenda here is absolutely clear.
00:02:20.000The media is using the Parkland shooting as a crutch, as a lever, in order to push gun control and in order to attack their political opponents.
00:02:27.000And really, it's more the latter than the former.
00:02:29.000It's not even about pushing gun control so much as castigating anyone they don't like.
00:02:33.000Castigating anyone with whom they disagree as a bad human being.
00:02:48.000They would stop browbeating people like Marco Rubio, senator from Florida, who's been working with Bill Nelson, a Democrat senator from Florida, to push legislation.
00:02:55.000They would stop ripping on Republicans as uncaring, unfeeling monsters with blood on their hands.
00:02:59.000The media are interested in one thing and one thing only in the aftermath of Parkland, and that is pushing the gun control narrative specifically so they can push their more important primary narrative.
00:03:08.000The gun control narrative is secondary.
00:03:10.000The primary narrative is that you are a bad person if you like guns.
00:03:14.000You are a bad person if you're pro-Second Amendment.
00:03:25.000There's a whole group of students over at Parkland who are even further left than the group of students you've seen on TV.
00:03:30.000The Emma Gonzalez's and the David Hogg's and the Cameron Kasky's.
00:03:33.000There's a whole group of students that are even more to the left, but you never see them on TV.
00:03:37.000Why don't you see those left-wing students on TV?
00:03:39.000After all, the media is full of leftists.
00:03:41.000The answer is because these students are not serving the left-wing agenda of pushing gun control, and therefore they are not pushing the broader left-wing agenda of making those of us who are anti-gun control look like bad people.
00:03:52.000So here are some of the kids who have been talking but not being heard.
00:03:55.000There's some black students over at Stoneman Douglas who are being completely ignored by the media.
00:03:58.000You've never seen any of these folks on TV.
00:04:00.000You've never heard of any of these people.
00:04:02.000But here they were, and the agenda they're pushing is that they don't want more school safety officers in school because they're afraid that that's going to lead to more arrests of black kids.
00:04:12.000The Black Lives Matter movement has been addressing this topic since the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012.
00:04:17.000Yet we have never seen this kind of support for our cause, and we surely do not feel that the lives or voices of minorities are valued as much as those of our white counterparts.
00:04:27.000I am here today with my classmates because we have been sorely underrepresented, and in some cases, misrepresented.
00:04:35.000Okay, so you can stop it there, but these people were not heard, right?
00:04:37.000You're not hearing from any of these students, right?
00:04:39.000This appears maybe a little bit in local media, maybe for a brief second in national media, and then it goes away.
00:05:14.000That means that their opinions should be held in higher esteem than the white students like David Hogg, right?
00:05:19.000Otherwise, you're just exacerbating white privilege.
00:05:21.000But the media aren't focusing on these black students.
00:05:23.000Why aren't they focusing on these black students?
00:05:25.000Because these black students do not serve their agenda.
00:05:28.000If these black students were out there front and center calling for gun control and suggesting that everyone who didn't like gun control is a bad person, the media would have them on every single day.
00:05:36.000So this is why when people say they are intersectional leftists, what they really mean is they are leftists first and intersectional second.
00:05:42.000Intersectionality, that identity politics philosophy, that philosophy that we can judge you as an individual by your group identity and your viewpoint's value by your group identity, that's only important to the left when it serves the purpose of the left.
00:05:56.000Clarence Thomas isn't a legit black man, according to the left, because his intersectional experiences as a black man don't count because he doesn't agree with the left.
00:06:03.000Well, the same thing is true of these students.
00:06:04.000They're not forwarding the left's hardcore agenda, and that means that their black skin no longer counts in the intersectional hierarchy because they're just not that important.
00:06:13.000Which shows you that all the members of the intersectional hierarchy, all the members of this intersectional coalition, who are supposedly going to get together to rip down the system,
00:06:22.000It's really far less about mutual respect for ethnicity and much more about mobilizing to defeat the supposed patriarchy, to defeat the white privilege system.
00:06:32.000And that's why the media can safely ignore these black kids and pretend like nothing is happening with them because it doesn't serve their higher agenda.
00:06:38.000Well, what does serve their higher agenda?
00:06:40.000Right now, what serves their higher agenda is using gun control to push for boycotts against media figures they don't like.
00:06:45.000So this is a continuation of what happened last week.
00:06:48.000Laura Ingraham, the Fox News host, she was boycotted.
00:06:52.000There's an Astroturf boycott attempt by David Hogg, who's a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and he was present when the shooting happened.
00:07:00.000And he's obviously been put all over the media.
00:07:02.000You've seen him saying really vile things about people he disagrees with, saying they have blood on their hands, saying that Marco Rubio's a murderer who basically took $1.05 from the NRA for every Florida student and all the rest.
00:07:15.000He was interviewed by TMZ after visiting some colleges, and he was asked how the college admission stuff was going, and he said, Well, you know, to be honest with you, it ain't going that great.
00:07:23.000There are four colleges that didn't let me in, and I understand there are a lot of people who can fill those slots, but if the colleges want to help us out, they can help us out, and if they don't want to help us out, they don't want to help us out.
00:07:47.000But, Laura says all of this, and then, Hogg's response is not
00:07:51.000Well, Laura, that was kind of a jerky thing to say.
00:07:52.000His response is directly from the Media Matters playbook.
00:07:55.000Media Matters, if you don't know, is a left-wing group co-founded essentially by Hillary Clinton, and that group has been designed for literally a decade and a half to launch astroturfed boycotts against major right-wing media figures.
00:08:06.000People like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, and now against Laura Ingraham.
00:08:11.000And so this student, David Hogg, he immediately comes forward with a list of the advertisers on Laura Ingraham's show.
00:08:59.000You're not supposed to say anything bad about him, even about his perspective.
00:09:02.000You're not even supposed to say he says immoral things, because that would be attacking him.
00:09:06.000And this is according to the folks in the media.
00:09:08.000Brian Stelter on CNN said, he does not ask people like David Hogg questions when they say things that are absolutely unacceptable, because that would be somehow impugning their dignity or honor.
00:09:18.000I think Brian tries, but I think that was a pretty telling statement.
00:09:21.000David Hogg is being used as a shield by the media in order so they can push the sword at their political enemies, like Fox News and Laura Ingraham.
00:09:29.000So Hogg, of course, is really excited about this, and he's going to become the boycott leader of the left, and the left is happy to use him this way.
00:09:35.000He says that corporate America is standing with him.
00:09:37.000Here's him making the statement to Allison Camerata, who, by the way, last week said that what college wouldn't, what college wouldn't let someone like you in?
00:09:48.000Well, David Hogg wasn't let into some of the colleges on the West Coast because his SAT scores weren't high enough.
00:09:51.000I mean, all of his admissions were done months ago before any of this happened.
00:09:56.000And his SAT scores, apparently, according to David Hogg, are like a 1270, which is a fine SAT score, but that's 100 points below the average at UCLA, so he wouldn't expect to get into UCLA.
00:10:05.000In any case, here's Allison Camerata and David Hogg making out on national TV, or at least plastering her lips to his butt.
00:10:13.000I think it's great that corporate America is standing with me and the rest of my friends because when you come against any one of us, whether it be me or anybody else, you're coming against all of us.
00:10:21.000And I think it's important that we stand together as both corporate and civic America to take action against these people and show them that they cannot push us around, especially when all we're trying to do here is save lives.
00:10:34.000Forget all the things that he said that are terrible about people calling Dana Lash a murderer, and someone who doesn't care about her children, and saying the same thing about Marco Rubio, and Allison Kamaraj just sitting there nodding through this whole thing.
00:10:44.000Corporate America is not standing with David Hogg.
00:10:46.000Corporate America is standing with non-controversy.
00:10:48.000And this is the truth about corporate America.
00:10:50.000They don't want controversy, which is understandable.
00:10:52.000If you run a business, and you are selling a sleep aid, and you are on a show, and the show starts to become very controversial, and suddenly your sleep aid is popping up in all the ads, you're afraid of the blowback.
00:11:03.000And so maybe you pull your advertisements.
00:11:04.000The left knows this, and that's why they're pushing it.
00:11:06.000And so David Hogg decides to push this even further.
00:11:08.000He says, listen, I understand that Laura Ingraham apologized to me, and I don't accept her apology, but she shouldn't just stop there.
00:11:13.000She should also apologize again on CNN, of course, on CNN.
00:11:38.000This guy who goes around saying that you have blood on your hands if you disagree with him, this is Captain Civility now, according to the members of the mainstream media.
00:11:44.000Here he is explaining that Laura Ingraham should apologize to LeBron James, too, or something.
00:11:49.000There have been multiple instances throughout Ingram's professional career where she's tried calling out people, for example, at Dartmouth University because of their sexual orientation, and she told LeBron James to shut up and dribble.
00:11:59.000I don't see any apology for those people.
00:12:08.000Why should she apologize to David Hogg if he's not going to accept it?
00:12:11.000And then why is he calling on her to apologize to other people if he says the apologies mean nothing?
00:12:15.000None of this makes any sense, except insofar as the media are happy to watch David Hogg go out there and call for boycotts because they want Fox News boycotted, they're a competitor, and then they are firmly convinced that you cannot attack anything that David Hogg says.
00:12:30.000Again, David Hogg seems like a smart kid.
00:12:32.000David Hogg seems like a politically wily player.
00:12:35.000That doesn't mean everything that he says is moral or decent.
00:12:37.000In fact, I think a large percentage of what he says is immoral and indecent.
00:12:40.000Okay, before I go any further, I'm going to show you what CNN's real agenda here is.
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00:14:09.000Okay, so as I say, a lot of the media are very excited about the boycott against Ingram.
00:14:25.000You can see this on a CNN panel, right?
00:14:27.000So CNN says they have a panel and all of these people agree.
00:14:31.000How is it even possible that Laura Ingram has a show?
00:14:34.000How is it possible that Laura has a show?
00:14:35.000Well, she has a show because there are a lot of people who want to listen to her.
00:14:38.000But this is the real goal here, right?
00:14:39.000The real goal here is knocking Ingram off the air, just as the real goal was knocking Sean off the air, and knocking Rush off the air, and knocking all of these various folks off of Fox News.
00:14:47.000The entire goal of the left here is to pretend that something truly egregious happens, even when nothing truly egregious happens.
00:14:53.000Now sometimes, something truly egregious has happened.
00:14:56.000Sometimes there's a multi-million dollar sexual harassment settlement, for example, against a particular host.
00:15:00.000And advertisers don't want to associate with that.
00:15:02.000But that's a genuine move by advertisers.
00:15:04.000Right here what we have is an intimidation campaign by left-wing media sources propping up a Parkland survivor for political gain, and then using that kid as a club to wield against their own political opponents.
00:18:07.000We can see all of the various advertisers.
00:18:08.000Okay, their top advertisers in February 2018 were a Tesla, T-Mobile, GEICO, Progressive, Qumira, Nutrisystem, BMW, NordVPN, AT&T, and GoodRx.
00:18:19.000Okay, those were their top advertisers.
00:18:59.000He essentially acknowledged that we cannot have a functional media ecosystem if we're all going to boycott each other's advertisers based on basic political disagreements.
00:19:09.000David Zerwick, are ad boycotts the right answer here?
00:19:52.000In a free country, you as a viewer have the capacity to choose what it is you want to watch.
00:19:56.000There are very few instances when an advertiser deserves to be hit for advertising on a program.
00:20:01.000Usually, it's when something so blatantly egregious and awful is done or said that the advertiser themselves would pull out anyway, because the ratings would drop anyway.
00:20:10.000I'm not a big fan of secondary boycotts, especially because they are easily astroturfed, because advertisers are afraid of controversy, and folks who are politically motivated know that.
00:20:18.000So if the left wants to play this game, the right can play this game too, and we'll see if CNN likes it as well as MSNBC, and we'll see if both of them like it as well as Fox News, because otherwise what we are watching here is a pure political hit done by certain networks against other networks for a political purpose.
00:20:33.000That's all that's happening here, and it's pretty incredible.
00:20:36.000Meanwhile, speaking of pure political hits, there's a lot of weird talk over the weekend about something that happened on Sinclair Broadcasting.
00:20:42.000So Sinclair Broadcasting has brought up all these local affiliates all over the country.
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00:22:25.000As I say, the media, their agenda is pretty obvious in the left-wing media, and that is to destroy what they perceive as the right-wing media by any means necessary.
00:22:32.000We've talked about how that's happened via Facebook.
00:22:34.000We've talked about how that's been happening with regard to this boycott against Laura Ingraham that is being fostered and pushed on by people over at CNN and MSNBC.
00:22:42.000Well, the latest iteration of this is the push by the left against Sinclair Broadcasting.
00:23:58.000Okay, so it's a little hard to hear because the way this is cut, it's cut from Deadspin, and the way that it's cut, they're trying to show you how all of these anchors are saying the same thing.
00:24:06.000And this is supposed to be super nefarious.
00:24:08.000Ooh, all the anchors saying the same thing.
00:24:10.000This means that it's a Trumpian plot to take over the media.
00:24:34.000More alarming, some media outlets publish these same fake stories.
00:24:37.000Stories that just aren't true without checking facts first.
00:24:40.000Unfortunately, some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias and agenda to control exactly what people think.
00:24:46.000This is extremely dangerous to a democracy.
00:24:48.000At our station, it's our responsibility to pursue and report the truth.
00:24:51.000We understand truth is neither politically left nor right.
00:24:54.000Our commitment to factual reporting is the foundation of our credibility, now more than ever.
00:24:58.000So Sinclair had all of their local news anchors say this message.
00:25:09.000Was there anything in there about, you shouldn't watch CNN, you shouldn't watch MSNBC because all of it's fake news, you shouldn't get the New York Times?
00:25:17.000And now Jimmy Kimmel, of course, the late-night pope, as Guy Benson likes to call him, issued this Twitter encyclical.
00:25:23.000He said, quote, And of course, what he's mocking there is the line in the actual statement by all of these Sinclair Broadcasting hosts that all of this, that bad news is extremely dangerous to a democracy.
00:25:53.000In fact, if you had Brian Stelter of CNN or Jake Tapper or anyone else, Anderson Cooper at CNN, read that message, people on the right would assume that that message is a slap at Trump and a slap at Fox News.
00:26:04.000That message has no political orientation whatsoever.
00:26:07.000But the left is firmly convinced that because Sinclair Broadcasting is a right-wing outlet, that means that what they were doing here was shilling for Trump.
00:26:15.000And it just goes to show you how confirmation bias can really addle your brain.
00:26:19.000Because if you look at that message and you say, it's Trumpism being ladled down our throats forcibly, there's no way to avoid it.
00:26:27.000Then you're misreading the message and you're attributing views to those anchors that don't exist.
00:26:55.000And number two, that's not what's going on here.
00:26:57.000I mean, there's no evidence that was happening at Sinclair Broadcasting.
00:26:59.000Didn't stop the left from going nuts over it anyway, because the left will go nuts over anything that President Trump does.
00:27:06.000Speaking of which, the left is going nuts over President Trump because President Trump is going nuts over the fact that there is this vast cadre of illegal immigrants
00:27:16.000So, according to the Washington Examiner, Mexican officials have aided a holy week caravan of over 1,000 migrants headed to the U.S.
00:27:23.000border to demand Easter asylum, according to reports.
00:27:25.000Mostly Hondurans, they posted celebration videos on Facebook and chanted,
00:27:32.000According to an account from the Center for Immigration Studies, Mexican authorities have allowed the migrants to drive north with relative ease.
00:27:38.000Researcher Causha Luna added that the group Pueblos Sin Fronteras, which aids immigrants, bragged about speeding into Mexico.
00:27:44.000It said on Monday, Pueblos Sin Fronteras posted a video with the caption, The refugee caravan knocking down borders yesterday and Oaxacan immigration agents abandoned the post when they saw us coming.
00:27:55.000The people celebrate this first small victory.
00:27:57.000Locals have provided supplies along the way.
00:27:59.000So Trump, I think rightly, is upset with the Mexican government for fostering illegal immigration into the United States.
00:28:05.000This would be a clear case where the Mexican government is not doing its job.
00:28:08.000The Mexican government has very, very stringent border policies on its southern border, unless it thinks that you're moving right along through up to the United States.
00:28:15.000In that case, they seem to be perfectly okay with people crossing the border.
00:28:19.000The border laws in Mexico are extraordinarily harsh.
00:28:21.000Like, if you're an illegal immigrant from Mexico, they will deport you immediately or jail you.
00:28:25.000It is much harsher than the strictures in the United States.
00:28:28.000So President Trump started tweeting about this.
00:28:30.000And of course, the left thinks that he's wrong to even be outraged about this at all.
00:28:35.000You know, I think that some of what he says here is not factually correct, but he's not wrong to be outraged at Mexico for allowing this to happen.
00:28:40.000He says, Okay, so I agree with the president that
00:28:56.000These caravans have to stop, obviously.
00:29:13.000You know, what he says about the Mexican government doing very little to stop people from flowing into the United States is basically correct.
00:29:19.000And he says these big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA.
00:29:44.000So DACA really has nothing to do with this particular move by people crossing the border illegally.
00:29:50.000In fact, he already revoked that program.
00:29:52.000And when he says build the wall, the president was elected to do just that.
00:29:57.000Right now, if he wanted to, he could presumably shift funds from defense measures over to building the wall along those lines.
00:30:03.000When he says that he's going to do something about NAFTA because that is Mexico's cash cow, again, I don't really appreciate that the president's first move on all this stuff is always to tariffs.
00:30:13.000His first move is always, we need tariffs and that'll solve all of our problems.
00:30:18.000Killing NAFTA would actually be really bad for a lot of manufacturers in the United States.
00:30:21.000But where the media is wrong is when they're wrong when they suggest that Trump is being too harsh with Mexico on their facilitation of illegal immigration.
00:30:29.000They are right when they say that he's obviously not speaking in any sort of reasoned language about DACA, because again,
00:30:38.000If Trump wants to get rid of DACA, he has every ability to do so.
00:30:41.000I'm going to talk a little bit more about that in just a second, but first, I want to say thank you to our brand new sponsors, the folks over at the movie Chappaquiddick.
00:30:49.000I'm very excited that the folks who made Chappaquiddick are advertising with us, because Chappaquiddick, which opens up in theaters on April 6th, is just a fantastic movie.
00:30:59.000I've had a chance to screen it a little bit later in the show.
00:31:01.000I'm going to have on one of the producers of the film so that we can actually talk about how Chapel Critic was made, because it's sort of an astonishing thing it was made in the first place.
00:31:09.000Chapel Critic is, of course, the story of Ted Kennedy who drove a woman off a bridge and left her to drown in the car.
00:31:22.000It doesn't try to go beyond what the evidence shows.
00:31:24.000So, for example, there's nothing in the movie that suggests that that Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopetny were clearly having an affair that she was pregnant because there's no evidence to support that.
00:31:32.000But it does stick to the evidence and the evidence is damning enough.
00:31:34.000It is an amazing thing that this this film got made.
00:31:37.000And it's amazing thing that it's getting wide releases.
00:31:38.000All the performances are universally great.
00:31:41.000And Ted Kennedy does not come off well in this movie, as well he should not.
00:31:45.000It took 50 years for this movie to be made, and it is worth every minute of the film.
00:31:50.000If you're a conservative and you worry about Hollywood skewing to the left, if you're somebody who said in the last couple of weeks, I'm watching Roseanne because I want to show Hollywood that my voice counts.
00:32:17.000Again, really well written, beautifully filmed, beautifully acted, and Chappaquiddick tells the story that the left media has wanted to ignore for 50 years.
00:32:25.000Remember, after Chappaquiddick, Ted Kennedy still ran for president in 1980, and he almost defeated Jimmy Carter, the incumbent.
00:32:35.000This movie shows you why it should have ended his career, indeed.
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00:34:30.000Okay, so what President Trump had to say about the DACA deal, again, it doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.
00:34:35.000He's not wrong to be angry about the situation on the border, but this is what people elected him to stop, and he already has the authority to do it.
00:34:41.000So when Trump says that he wants to pass some sort of DACA bill, solving the DACA problem doesn't actually solve the DACA problem.
00:34:48.000Mexico has got to help us at the border.
00:34:51.000If they're not going to help us at the border.
00:35:11.000It's a very sad thing between two countries.
00:35:14.000Mexico has got to help us at the border.
00:35:17.000And a lot of people are coming in because they want to take advantage of DACA.
00:35:21.000And we're going to have to really see.
00:35:38.000OK, that doesn't make any sense with regard to DACA.
00:35:40.000But again, the president doesn't have the authority to stop this, and he's right that it has to be stopped.
00:35:44.000This could be a good moment for him to stand up for American sovereignty and say, look, just because people want to enter the country illegally does not mean that we have to let people enter the country illegally.
00:35:54.000There's a big turmoil brewing over in Israel where Palestinians sponsored by Hamas, the terrorist group, have decided to try to walk across the Israeli border or to break down the physical barrier between the Gaza Strip and Israel proper.
00:36:06.000And the media, of course, are lying about this entire situation.
00:36:09.000They're suggesting that Israel is indiscriminately firing into crowds and trying to kill random people.
00:36:19.000Okay, Israel shot into crowds of people who are throwing Molotov cocktails and rolling tires that were on fire at Israeli soldiers and throwing stones at those Israeli soldiers who are attacking Israeli soldiers.
00:36:30.000Because only 15 people have been killed and 10 of the people who have been killed in that border riot are active members of terrorist groups.
00:36:37.000If Israel were really indiscriminately firing into the crowds, then there would be hundreds of people dead, not 15 people dead.
00:36:44.000And if Israel were really attacking that entire group of people, they'd be using their F-16s to presumably strafe the tens of thousands of people who are there, not fire, in very discriminate fashion, at the people who are attempting to break down the border.
00:36:55.000Now, the left hates Israel, of course, so Bernie Sanders says he doesn't believe Israel's story because Bernie Sanders is a rabid anti-Israel extremist.
00:37:03.000I think, from what my understanding is, is you have tens and tens of thousands of people who are engaged in a non-violent protest.
00:37:13.000I believe now 15 or 20 people, Palestinians, have been killed and many, many others have been wounded.
00:37:22.000So I think it's a difficult situation, but my assessment is that Israel overreacted on that.
00:37:28.000Of course, of course that's his assessment, because there's never been an assessment by Bernie Sanders where Israel didn't overreact.
00:37:33.000When terrorists are firing rockets into the center of Israel, then Israel is still presumably not overreacting.
00:37:39.000It's still overreacting, because Israel's always in the wrong, according to Bernie Sanders, because he's a socialist first, rather than a defender of Western civilization.
00:37:47.000Here is according to the Jerusalem Post.
00:38:09.000It is also worth noting here, how much money did Hamas spend on this little demonstration?
00:38:13.000They spent $15 million on this demonstration.
00:38:18.000Right now, Hamas is in a state of complete economic collapse.
00:38:21.000The Gaza Strip is in a state of complete economic collapse.
00:38:24.000And yet Hamas is spending $15 million for this protest specifically because they want to misdirect from the fact that they are a terrorist group, like an actual State Department-sponsored terrorist group that is now sponsoring acts of additional terror against Israel.
00:38:39.000And Israel ought to be doing a better job on its PR.
00:38:42.000But again, it's demonstrative of the fact that when it comes to this particular conflict, the media only seem to care about Israelis killing Palestinians, even if the Palestinians are terrorists.
00:38:52.000Worth noting that I think in the last month, something like 25, 30 Palestinians were killed in Syria.
00:38:59.000Over the course of the Syrian conflict, almost 4,000 Palestinians living in Syria have been killed.
00:39:05.000When Muslims kill other Muslims, it's not a news story.
00:39:07.000When Jews kill Muslims, it's a news story.
00:39:09.000When Muslims kill Jews in Israel, it's not really a news story.
00:39:12.000It's amazing how that works and that's because of the soft bigotry of low expectations that the media have attached to Muslims all over the world so that when Muslims commit violent acts the media basically ignores it or pretends that it's the effect of some sort of some sort of inequality or nastiness on the part of Western civilization when in reality
00:39:30.000Muslims should be held all over the world to the same exact moral standards as Jews and as Christians, which is you don't get to kill people and get away with it unless you're killing people in self-defense, which is actually what's going on in the Gaza Strip, despite all of the rabidly anti-Israel media coverage.
00:40:54.000How Hollywood is gonna, you know, respond to this, but he said it's really good.
00:40:58.000So we read it, loved it, and we acquired it, and then set... I mean, we had no idea if we could make it.
00:41:03.000You know, you obviously gotta get a director and a star and cast, but everyone responded incredibly well.
00:41:08.000I mean, it was just such a kind of page-turning thriller that... and a history lesson as well, that's fascinating.
00:41:14.000Did you get any pushback in town on making it from different actors who turned it down?
00:41:17.000Yeah, there were a couple actors that really loved the script but just felt like maybe it was a little tricky, you know, politically.
00:41:25.000So we kind of had thought, like, maybe we'd get an Australian or a UK director or actor and, you know, Jason Clarke, he's Australian and, you know, it's a brave choice but the role is so good and he's so good in it and if you can execute what was on the page, we knew we'd have something.
00:41:40.000And there's so many great actors in the film, from Kate Mara who plays Mary Jo Kopechny and does it with just a tremendous amount of sympathy because you don't really see her as a full-fledged character until you see the film, to you have a couple of comics who are playing kind of the sidekicks to Ted Kennedy and it really is an amazing task.
00:41:54.000Yeah, John Curran who directed it, you know, with the cast, he felt like, because the movie's so serious.
00:42:00.000You know, there's a tragedy involved that he wanted to have, I wouldn't say lightness, but to the moments when you're in the war room, there's moments of levity, of kind of absurdness and where Ed Helms and Jim Gaffigan can kind of mine those.
00:42:16.000You get laughs in the movie, believe it or not.
00:42:18.000Some are uncomfortable, but some are just like absurd.
00:42:21.000And when you have that timing, it helps.
00:42:30.000And well, I think one of the reasons that the movie is going to not only do well, I think that the critics will be okay with it is because you actually stuck really as much as you could to the facts.
00:42:38.000I mean, there is no rumor mongering in this at all.
00:42:40.000So as somebody who studied this from the time that I was younger as a conservative, where this is a big thing, right?
00:43:13.000And people on both sides of the aisle.
00:43:14.000I mean, we did three screenings in Martha's Vineyard that were incredible.
00:43:18.000And people just appreciated the care we took with it.
00:43:21.000And, you know, you brought up Mary Jo Kopechny.
00:43:23.000You know someone that never had a voice through this through 50 years their family had reached out before we made the movie I'd made brief contact and didn't want to be swayed in any way of kind of putting what we had down you know into the film and
00:43:39.000So when the movie was finished, we connected again and we set up a screening for the family and they were incredibly appreciative.
00:43:46.000It was very difficult to watch, obviously, but what they loved is that she's portrayed as smart and funny and ambitious and just, you know, a real person rather than not just a picture associated with, you know, a name, Chappaquiddick.
00:43:59.000And that entire sequence of what happens to her is so heartbreaking, and it just really infuses the rest of the movie, because instead of it just being, okay, Ted Kennedy's just a lost little lamb, you know, with his family, you realize that a person died, and that keeps coming up throughout the rest of the film, obviously.
00:44:13.000That's the thing, you go back and forth with, you know, I wouldn't say there's any sympathy for Ted, but, you know, there's some understanding and emotion to all the characters in it.
00:44:26.000And so if you, you know, again, have a little nuance with the film, you know, it'll keep you going both ways.
00:44:32.000He has a chance to kind of do the right thing, and then he doesn't.
00:44:34.000Then he does something maybe that he should, and then he shouldn't.
00:44:38.000So you kind of go back and forth through the whole movie.
00:44:45.000I mean, I'm excited that the movie's even out there.
00:44:47.000It's a story that has needed to be told for half a century.
00:44:49.000I mean, I'll just say this on my own behalf.
00:44:52.000If this had happened to a Republican, this would have been a movie within 30 seconds of it actually occurring.
00:44:55.000So the fact that it took half a century for it to happen about Teddy Kennedy, one of the most famous men in the history of American politics, is pretty incredible.
00:45:01.000Well, thank you, and, you know, we'd love to have all our audiences support it, but especially conservatives.
00:45:07.000You know, they talk that Hollywood never does these kinds of movies, and we do, and it's not a partisan movie at all, and I think it's enjoyed by both sides, but certainly conservative audiences should support this.
00:45:17.000I think it's almost a moral obligation for conservative audiences to go see this.
00:45:20.000If they're going to talk about how much Hollywood is biased, they at least need to go support things that are not biased in favor of the left and that are good, solid takes on the facts like your movie Chappaquiddick.
00:45:37.000And you have an obligation as a conservative to go see movies that are not overtly left-wing and that tell the truth about folks on the left.
00:45:43.000So go out and see the movie and tell all your friends to see the movie as well.
00:45:46.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:45:53.000So we've been told that the youth shall lead us, that the youth are the greatest among us, that the youth are the wisest among us.
00:45:58.000Well, I have a story that puts the lie to this.
00:46:02.000There is something called the Teenage Snorting Condom Fad.
00:46:09.000According to the Sacramento Bee, it sounds like an April's Fools joke, but educators are warning about a condom challenge being spread online by YouTube videos and social media.
00:46:18.000Also known as the Snorting Condom Challenge, or Condom Snorting Challenge, the fad actually dates back several years, but recently has gone viral again, educators say.
00:46:25.000Now, you ask yourself, hey, listen, back when I was a teenager, it was just cocaine.
00:46:29.000But no, now they're snorting actual physical objects that have mass and size up their nose.
00:46:37.000So the challenge involves, according to the Sacramento Bee, snorting an unwrapped prophylactic up one nostril, then pulling it out from the throat
00:46:44.000Through the mouth, according to a Newsweek story.
00:46:47.000Participants then post a video of the completed challenge to YouTube.
00:46:54.000This first apparently started with YouTube star Savannah Strong in 2013.
00:46:59.000Apparently, YouTube has been moving these stories and videos for a long while.
00:47:03.000But it is not a good idea, it turns out, because you could, number one, choke on it, and also because you are putting a condom up your nose, you idiots.
00:47:12.000Okay, this is the same generation we had to just warn against eating Tide Pods, which is an actual cleaning product.
00:47:18.000Okay, so don't eat Tide Pods, and also don't put condoms up your nose.
00:47:23.000Comprehensive sex ed is just not going the way that people on the left thought it was going to go.
00:47:27.000You know, when they were breaking out the prophylactics of the bananas back in third grade, they figured that they were trying to explain one thing.
00:47:32.000It turns out that people were just trying to figure out a way that they could get the condom into facial bodily orifices.
00:47:40.000And these are the people, these are the youth shall lead them.
00:47:43.000Again, this is not to say that young people can't have some interesting things to say, but interesting sometimes means stupid, apparently.
00:47:49.000And also, when you're young, just in terms of brain development, your brain does not really stop developing.
00:47:55.000It doesn't reach its full developmental stage until you're about 25, 26 years old.
00:48:00.000When you are 17, 16, 15 years old, you are the kind of person who does dumb stuff like this because you have an amygdala, which is your emotional response center, which is doing virtually all the heavy lifting, and your prefrontal cortex is underdeveloped as compared to your amygdalas.
00:48:13.000That means you do lots of dumb crap when you're a teenager.
00:48:15.000You do a lot of dumb stuff when you're a teenager.
00:48:17.000And yet, the left is now saying, why don't we lower the votering age to 16?
00:48:21.000Why don't we suggest that 12-year-olds can get an abortion without parental consent?
00:48:24.000Why don't we say that 3-year-olds can change their gender?
00:48:28.000I mean, come on, they're the most innocent and beautiful among us.
00:48:31.000Why should we put our societal values on them?
00:48:34.000Because you're an adult, and kids are kids.
00:48:37.000And I'm speaking as someone who's a syndicated columnist at age 17.
00:48:40.000I didn't know as much stuff at 17 as I do now.
00:48:43.000My self-control was not as great at 17 as it is now, and I had pretty good self-control when I was 17, and still I've had more self-control now than then.
00:48:51.000So before we hear all about how the youth shall lead us, perhaps they should learn where particular, where particular prophylactics are designed to be used, okay?
00:49:05.000Speaking of people who appear to have snorted a condom and left it just in their brain, embedded there, Chelsea Handler tweeted something out really insane about the Second Amendment the other day.
00:49:53.000Second of all, guess who else isn't killing children?
00:49:56.000Anyone else who has a semi-automatic weapon in the United States and is not the shooter in Parkland.
00:50:02.000And so it's all fun and games for Chelsea Handler because I guess her armed guards are apparently the only people in the United States who have semi-automatic weapons who are not murdering children.
00:50:19.000It's not that there are millions of Americans who own semi-automatic weapons and use them to defend their children and not to shoot children.
00:50:24.000No, it's that Chelsea Handler's people are just the best people.
00:50:28.000And then they wonder why we don't trust them on Second Amendment issues, when they've got spokespeople like Chelsea Handler and condom-snorting teenagers.
00:50:36.000Not to suggest the kids at Parkland are doing that, but again, the youth of America, there are some questions to be asked, that's all I'm saying.
00:50:48.000Alexander Hamilton wrote Federalist No.
00:50:51.00022, and this Federalist paper continues with the flaws of the current Articles of Confederation that was replaced by the Constitution of the United States.
00:50:58.000He makes several criticisms of the Articles of Confederation in this particular Federalist paper.
00:51:36.000Under the Articles of Confederation, the way that the army was summoned was by going to particular states and requesting that they send men.
00:51:43.000This actually did not work well during the American Revolution, and he says this actually created a system of bidding where particular states, knowing they had to submit a certain number of men, would actually just put out
00:52:26.000If we don't have a judiciary that is going to interpret those laws and treaties from the federal level, then again, that allows state courts to basically stand as an obstacle to federal policy.
00:52:35.000The most important thing that happens in this Federalist paper, Federalist 22, is what he says at the very end.
00:52:39.000What he says is that the Constitution of the United States is to be approved by the people themselves.
00:52:44.000That is why we the people is the beginning of the Constitution of the United States.
00:52:47.000And the reason for that, and the reason this is important, is because one of the arguments in the Civil War was that once the federal government had violated the sovereignty of particular states, those states were signatories to the Constitution, and therefore, they no longer had to abide by it.
00:53:01.000That the contract against the states had been violated, and so states had the ability and the right to pull out.
00:53:05.000This is what they called compact theory, that the Constitution was a compact between the states.
00:53:10.000It was not actually a compact of the people.
00:53:12.000Hamilton, foreseeing this problem in 1789, is already writing about it.
00:53:23.000So this is why there were specific constitutional conventions called in each state in order to approve the Constitution.
00:53:27.000The idea here was that it was the people themselves who were going to approve the Constitution, and so the compact of the Constitution is between all of the people, not just the various states who have their various interests at play.
00:53:51.000Okay, so we'll be back here tomorrow with all of the latest news.