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00:00:22.000There are a bunch of counter protests that are planned, including apparently a musical about me, which sounds more interesting, frankly, than my speech.
00:00:29.000Like I would actually attend that thing because number one, I'm deeply narcissistic.
00:00:32.000And number two, I like musicals, so I'm totally into it.
00:00:35.000We'll get to more on what's going to happen to University of Michigan tonight, a little bit later on in the show.
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00:01:50.000Okay, so, I want to get to some serious news in a second, but first, I have to apprise you of a couple of very important news items, just off the wires.
00:01:57.000So, The President of the United States has issued an official proclamation.
00:02:02.000His official proclamation concerns airplanes.
00:02:05.000So as you know, there's a terrible airplane crash from Ethiopia Airlines, killed like 150 people.
00:02:11.000It was the second Boeing model to go down, it's a new model, second Boeing model to go down in a matter of the last six months.
00:02:18.000Because President Trump, you may not have known this, President Trump is secretly an aerospace engineer.
00:02:24.000And so the president tweeted this out today in all of his wisdom, quote, airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly.
00:02:31.000Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT.
00:02:34.000I see it all the time in many products.
00:02:37.000Always seeking to go one unnecessary step further, when often old and simpler, is far better.
00:02:42.000Split-second decisions are needed, and the complexity creates danger.
00:02:46.000All of this for great cost, yet very little gain, I think.
00:02:49.000I don't know about you, but I don't want Albert Einstein to be my pilot.
00:02:53.000I want great flying professionals that are allowed to easily and quickly take control of a plane.
00:02:59.000Thank you, Mr. President, for that announcement on the engineering of airplanes.
00:03:06.000You know, not unprecedented, the fact is that Abraham Lincoln had some really deep thoughts about the mechanics of trains, actually, back in like 1862, so I guess it's not unusual for the President of the United States to tweet out about airplanes.
00:03:18.000It is worth noting that last year he did tweet out that thanks to him there had been no commercial airline fatalities that year, so...
00:03:24.000I'm not sure what that means for the president.
00:03:37.000Should he stop tweeting about Albert Einstein being the pilot of his plane?
00:03:40.000Like somewhere Elon Musk is sitting there nodding and smoking a joint.
00:03:43.000So solid stuff from President Trump right there.
00:03:46.000Meanwhile, in other stupid news, you know, because, you know, the news is too serious lately.
00:03:50.000And honestly, I would rather just cover stupid news for a moment.
00:03:53.000So in other stupid news, Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among actresses, CEOs charged in alleged college admissions scam.
00:04:01.000So this is a madlib headline from an alternative reality.
00:04:04.000Felicity Huffman, who you'll remember from Desperate Housewives and Lori Loughlin from Full House, have now been charged for utilizing a service that basically bribed people to get you into college.
00:04:15.000According to ABC News, actresses and chief executives are among 50 people arrested in the nationwide college admissions cheating scam authorities announced on Tuesday.
00:04:23.000According to charging documents, actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among those involved facing charges.
00:04:29.000The suspects allegedly paid bribes of up to $6 million to get their kids into elite colleges, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, and USC.
00:04:38.000One of those things is not like the others.
00:04:41.000So in any case, listen, my sister went to USC.
00:04:47.000In most cases, the students did not know their admission was contingent on a bribe.
00:04:51.000University athletic coaches and administrators of college entrance exams were also among those arrested.
00:04:55.000First of all, Worth noting, if you paid like $6,000,000 to get your kid into college, your kid didn't need to pay $6,000,000 to get your kid into college.
00:05:03.000First of all, you could just give some sort of donation to the school and they'd let your kid in.
00:05:14.000ABC News says the alleged scam centered around a man in California who ran a business helping students get into the college of their choice.
00:05:20.000Authorities say parents would pay him a predetermined amount with full knowledge of what they were doing.
00:05:24.000He would then steer the money to one of two places, either an SAT or ACT administrator or a college athletic coach.
00:05:30.000The coaches would allegedly arrange a fake profile that listed the prospective student as an athlete, and exam administrators would either hire proctors to take the test or correct the answers of a student.
00:05:40.000The bribes range from a few thousand dollars up to six million dollars, according to officials.
00:05:44.000And the charging documents unsealed in Boston Federal Court are more than 200 pages long.
00:05:48.000I would like to find out how these kids actually did at these colleges.
00:05:51.000Seriously, because if your kid got like an 1100 on the SATs, and then you bribed people to get them into Yale, did they fail out?
00:05:58.000If they did not fail out, Yale isn't doing its job.
00:06:00.000According to the authorities, Felicity Huffman and her husband made a purported charitable contribution of 15 grand to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter.
00:06:12.000Huffman later made arrangements to pursue a scheme for a second time for her younger daughter before deciding not to do so.
00:06:18.000Federal agents say they have recorded telephone calls with Huffman and a cooperating witness.
00:06:22.000The documents say that Laughlin and her husband agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team.
00:06:31.000Despite the fact they did not participate in crew, thereby facilitating their admission to USC.
00:06:36.000Officials say they have emails from Laughlin.
00:06:40.000Okay, first of all, if you are paying like $15,000 to get into Yale, at least I understand that.
00:06:44.000If you're paying half a million dollars to get into USC, again, not to rip on USC, but come on, gang.
00:07:21.000In real news, Nancy Pelosi is now at war with her own base.
00:07:24.000Now, this has been a long time in coming, Nancy Pelosi being at war with her base.
00:07:27.000You knew this was coming because ever since the election of 2018, there have been some fresh faces.
00:07:33.000Very fresh, as well as incredibly face.
00:07:36.000And those fresh faces have made clear that they see themselves as in control of the direction of the future Congress.
00:07:42.000And Nancy Pelosi has been playing the appeasement game.
00:07:45.000She's basically been feeding pieces of the party to these people in the hopes that they will eat her last.
00:07:51.000But they're not interested in eating her last.
00:07:53.000They're interested in using her as their meat puppet.
00:07:56.000They would prefer to use her as sort of the puppet.
00:07:59.000They put their hand behind her head and they make her voice come out, but they are saying AOC words, which means a lot of likes and ums.
00:08:06.000Well, now Speaker Pelosi has run afoul of this group of people.
00:08:10.000Listen, she was willing to go so far as to let them off the hook for blatant anti-Semitism.
00:08:14.000She was willing to water down a resolution to not include the name Ilhan Omar.
00:08:17.000She was willing to water down the resolution to not only deal with anti-Semitism.
00:08:21.000She was willing to go out of her way not to tap, even love tap, these young fresh faces so as to prove to them that she was actually in control.
00:08:38.000So, according to the New York Post, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Monday that she is against impeaching President Trump unless there's something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan.
00:08:48.000Okay, well, it's that last statement, bipartisan, that got her in trouble because everybody knows the Republicans are not going to sign on to an attempt to impeach President Trump.
00:08:58.000There weren't any Democratic votes to impeach Bill Clinton back in the day.
00:09:02.000The speaker is surely up to speed on what evidence Democrats actually have against Trump and has a fair sense of what special counsel Bob Mueller's report will say.
00:09:08.000According to the Post Editorial Board, she recognizes it's nothing that will persuade anyone who hasn't wanted Trump ousted since Election Day 2016.
00:09:14.000See, this is Nancy Pelosi being smart.
00:09:17.000Because Nancy Pelosi recognizes that if in fact it looks like a witch hunt, if in fact it looks like she's trying to impeach Trump for non-crimes, That's going to tick off an awful lot of people.
00:09:25.000A lot of people are going to say, well, this seems unfair.
00:09:27.000Trump is going to loudly proclaim that he's being targeted for unfair reasons.
00:09:32.000Moderates who are not interested in a prolonged impeachment spiel are going to get uptight with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.
00:09:38.000She knows that because she is not a dum-dum.
00:09:40.000Unfortunately, there are members of her base who in fact are dum-dums and they're very angry at her.
00:09:47.000So that means that they are going to be attacking her.
00:09:50.000Now, what's funny is that, again, the most militant people when it comes to the Mueller report, even they are looking forward to the Mueller report and saying, I don't think that what we've been saying is there is actually going to be there.
00:10:00.000One of those people is Adam Schiff, the representative from my district in California, Adam Schiff, who literally has a pup tent.
00:10:09.000Set up outside the green room at CNN so he can talk about Russia just any time of the day and call him at like one o'clock in the morning and boom, he's on a rerun of exploring the world with W. Kamel Bell.
00:10:24.000He just sort of pops in to talk about Russia for no reason at any time of the morning.
00:10:27.000It's like, oh, brief update on Russia.
00:11:12.000They're not wrong, given the rhetoric of people like Nancy Pelosi.
00:11:15.000If, in fact, Donald Trump is the most dangerous man alive, if, in fact, he's an incipient Hitler, then you have to get him out of office by any means necessary.
00:11:22.000No matter what, you must get rid of him.
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00:14:45.000There's a member of the media asking her a perfectly normal question about something that she says, and she starts sneering at them, and then she spits the answer at them as though she's angry at them.
00:14:54.000There's nothing abnormal about asking her about something she said to Politico, to a reporter.
00:16:29.000If you live inside the Washington, D.C., New York beltway bubble, and I'm not just talking about people who are members of government.
00:16:36.000I'm talking about members of the media.
00:16:37.000If you live inside that bubble, then you and everyone you know believe that President Trump is an evil man and you believe that the Russians stole the election.
00:16:45.000And this is why the coverage on CNN doesn't seem to reflect what the American people want to hear about very much.
00:16:49.000It's why the ratings aren't very good.
00:16:51.000Instead, it seems to reflect the sensibilities of people who spend all day ensconced in this stuff and deeply worried about the evils of President Trump.
00:16:59.000Well, who mirrors those worries more than Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and AOC?
00:17:31.000Nancy Pelosi is in a bubble of her own in San Francisco, but Nancy Pelosi hasn't actually been the representative from San Francisco for a long time.
00:17:38.000She's been at the head of the Democratic Party establishment in the House of Representatives.
00:18:16.000Obviously a lot can happen, but there are a lot of folks who are trying to say that Joe Biden is the guy who's going to take the nomination.
00:18:23.000I don't see Joe Biden taking the nomination.
00:18:25.000I think he'd be the one who, I think they'd be smart to nominate Joe Biden.
00:18:28.000I think if you're talking about somebody who is most likely to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, all three states, Democrats need to win.
00:18:36.000If, if I think that that Biden is the guy who's most likely to win those states.
00:18:42.000But the problem is that Biden is not the guy who's most likely to win these primaries.
00:18:46.000His best day will be the first day he declares.
00:18:48.000The day that Joe Biden declares, there'll be all sorts of media.
00:19:21.000He says, As they begin their search for a nominee, most Democrats prize electability above all else.
00:19:26.000They want a sure thing, someone who will beat President Trump.
00:19:29.000But beating Trump isn't the same as beating Trumpism.
00:19:31.000Unseating the president won't automatically undermine the white resentment and racial chauvinism that drive his movement.
00:19:37.000That will depend on the nature of the campaign against him and whether it challenges the assumptions of his ideology or affirms them in the name of electoral pragmatism.
00:19:45.000So this is Jamel Bui making the case against Joe Biden by basically saying that Biden is another Trump when it comes to issues of race.
00:19:51.000Again, Biden is going to get savaged on all sides here, guys.
00:19:54.000His association with President Obama will not save him and the chances that Obama endorses him in a primary are exceedingly low.
00:20:01.000Jamel Bui says the possibility of defeating Trump without defeating Trumpism looms over Joe Biden's possible run for the 2020 Democratic nomination.
00:20:09.000The former VP's not-yet-candidacy centers on his appeal to the white, blue-collar workers who rejected Hillary Clinton in favor of Donald Trump.
00:20:15.000He believes he could have won them in 2016, and he thinks he can win them now.
00:20:19.000This isn't just about Biden's working-class affect.
00:20:21.000As a senator from Delaware, Biden understood himself as a staunch defender of middle American interests.
00:20:26.000But those interests were racialized, which is how a younger Biden could at once be a committed liberal and an ardent opponent of busing to desegregate his state's public schools.
00:20:33.000So now Jamal Bui is making the case better to lose an election by ignoring those white blue collar folks than to pander to those white blue collar folks with anything approaching moderation.
00:20:41.000And he uses as his example of Joe Biden being a racist Biden's opposition to forced busing.
00:20:46.000Now, forced busing is a battle we haven't had in the United States for 50 years.
00:20:50.000I mean, really, this goes back to the 1960s and 1970s.
00:20:52.000In the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education and the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act, there were a series of pieces of legislation and court rulings that suggested that people would be bused from certain schools to other schools.
00:21:05.000So you wouldn't actually go to the school in your school district.
00:21:07.000If your school district was predominantly black, then maybe you would be bused out from that school district To a white school district, or if there was a white school district that seemed to be better than a black school district in terms of population, in terms of scores, for example, but I mean a black school district in terms of its population of black students, then you would have white students bust in from the suburbs to black public schools.
00:21:29.000Now there's a strong case on libertarian grounds that forcing children to go to schools where they have no local connection is actually wrong.
00:21:38.000There's also a good case on practical grounds that this actually caused white flight.
00:21:42.000That what actually happened is that white folks didn't want their kids going to worse public schools because it turned out that a lot of these schools that were worse in terms of performance also happened to be heavily minority thanks to decades of underfunding and thanks to social problems and all the rest of this.
00:21:56.000And so a lot of white folks picked up and they moved out even further to the suburbs.
00:22:02.000That it didn't actually make the education system any better.
00:22:06.000But Jamel Bui says that if you opposed forced busing then you're a racist and you were catering to white racists.
00:22:11.000So he specifically points out the fact that Joe Biden in 1975 said, I do not buy the concept popular in the 60s, which said we have suppressed the black man for 300 years and the white man is now far ahead in the race for everything our society offers.
00:22:24.000In order to even the score, we must now give the black man a head start or even hold the white man back to even the race.
00:23:36.000In essence, the notion that you oppose forced busing, therefore you are a racist, or therefore you are pandering to racial concerns, per se, it doesn't necessarily follow.
00:23:44.000But the broader point for Joe Biden is this.
00:23:49.000The base of the Democratic Party is more in line with the views of Jamal Bowie and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and Ocasio-Cortez than they are with Joe Biden.
00:23:57.000In just a second, we're going to talk about how President Trump has some of these problems of his own.
00:25:31.000Well, President Trump theoretically could have some problems from his own base.
00:25:33.000The difference is that most people who voted for President Trump voted to stop Democrats in the first place.
00:25:39.000Democrats right now are voting to forward leftist goals.
00:25:42.000Republicans are voting to stand athwart the rails of history, shouting stop at radical Democrats.
00:25:47.000And this is where President Trump has some benefit.
00:25:49.000This is why Ann Coulter's opposition is not probably going to have any significant impact on President Trump.
00:25:56.000So Ann Coulter is now ripping President Trump.
00:25:59.000The author of In Trump We Trust is very angry at him because she says that he has not fulfilled his promises on immigration.
00:26:06.000According to the Palm Beach Post, Ann Coulter said it's hard to find people she can talk to now that she's directed her scorching criticism on President Trump and his failure to build a US-Mexico border wall.
00:27:30.000But there is a contingent of people, it's very large, and I would say it's most of the Republican base, that supports Trump not because they are deeply in love with everything that President Trump does, but because they wanted to stop Hillary Clinton and now they can't stand the cognitive dissonance of he's not giving them everything they want.
00:27:45.000So a lot of folks have convinced themselves that President Trump has already built the wall, that America has already been made great again, and all of the rest.
00:27:52.000Colters, please, in other words, are falling on deaf ears.
00:27:55.000And this is one of the problems for actual conservatives.
00:27:57.000One of the problems for actual conservatives is that if you are worried about the forwarding of conservatism, the forwarding of conservatism means more than simply stopping the left.
00:28:05.000Stopping the left is a worthwhile goal.
00:28:08.000The radicalism of the left should be stopped.
00:28:10.000But if you actually want to save conservatism, if you want to promote conservatism, then you have to do more than simply not doing what the Democrats want.
00:28:18.000For example, you probably shouldn't be cheering on the president who just proposed a $4.75 trillion budget, the largest budget in American history, by a long shot.
00:28:28.000President Trump sent Congress on Monday a record $4.75 trillion budget plan that calls for increased military spending and sharp cuts to domestic programs like education and environmental protection for the 2020 fiscal year.
00:28:42.000Mr. Trump's budget, the largest in federal history, includes a nearly 5% increase in military spending, more than the Pentagon had asked for, and an additional $8.6 billion for construction of a wall along the border with Mexico.
00:28:52.000This budget, like all budgets that have been submitted for the last decade or so, is dead on arrival.
00:28:56.000Democratic Congress ain't gonna pass anything like it.
00:28:58.000It contains what the White House officials called a total of $1.9 trillion in cost savings from mandatory safety net programs like Medicaid and Medicare, the federal health care programs for the elderly and the poor.
00:29:08.000This has caused the left to cry that President Trump is trying to cut Medicaid and Medicare.
00:29:13.000He is growing Medicare and Medicaid, but at slower rates than the left would have him do.
00:29:17.000One of the tricker pieces of trickery that you will see from the mainstream media is they will say that if I was supposed to spend $200 next year and instead I spend $150 next year that I have somehow cut my spending.
00:29:29.000No, because I haven't spent any of that money yet.
00:29:31.000So I've actually increased my spending by $150 next year.
00:29:36.000Every time the media talk about savings, cost savings, by cutting future spending from expected spending, this is the same as when my wife goes to Costco, buys 8 million, 8 million paper plates.
00:29:49.000Legitimate and like has a truck come and deliver them and dump them off and spends 1 million dollars on these 8 million paper plates and then tells me that she saved me a million dollars because if she had bought the paper plate somewhere else they would have been twice as expensive.
00:30:02.000The budget is unlikely to have much effect on actual spending levels, which are controlled by Congress.
00:30:06.000Democratic leaders in both the House and Senate pronounce the budget DOA, but the blueprint is a declaration of Trump's re-election campaign priorities and the starting skirmish in the race for 2020.
00:30:14.000Frankly, I'm not even sure why President Trump bothered to try and cut future spending or make cost savings in Medicare and Medicaid.
00:30:21.000I don't even know why he bothered to do that.
00:30:23.000So long as we know the budgets aren't going to pass, he should just propose a $10 trillion budget, and then he can compete with Democrats.
00:30:28.000Then he can say, listen, I want to do all the things that you want to do, Except I'm not crazy.
00:30:48.000He did a discussion with Vice President Mike Pence and things started to go wildly wrong.
00:30:53.000There's a closed-door retreat hosted by the American Enterprise Institute in Sea Island, Georgia and Cheney respectfully but repeatedly and firmly pressed Mike Pence on a number of the president's foreign policy moves over which Cheney expressed concerns from taking a harder line toward U.S.
00:31:06.000allies in NATO to deciding to withdraw troops from Syria during what Cheney fretted was the middle of a telephone call.
00:31:12.000Cheney worried aloud to Pence, we're getting into a situation where our friends and allies around the world that we depend on are going to lack confidence in us.
00:31:18.000And then offered a blunt assessment of the current administration's response to foreign policy challenges.
00:31:23.000Cheney said, I worry that the bottom line of that kind of an approach is we have an administration that looks a lot more like Barack Obama than Ronald Reagan.
00:31:31.000Cheney's questions for Pence provided a revealing glimpse into the churning and often strained debates inside the Republican Party, where longtime GOP hawks such as Cheney have increasingly balked at Trump's engagement with autocrats and his non-interventionist approach But here is the reality.
00:31:44.000The reality is that some of those criticisms are legitimate, just as some of Ann Coulter's criticisms are legit.
00:31:48.000I know a lot of Trump supporters, because they feel like stopping the left is the top priority, are going to shrug at all of Cheney's criticisms.
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00:33:56.000OK, so Tucker Carlson has been attacked, of course, by Media Matters.
00:33:59.000They came out with a second spate of bad things Tucker Carlson said back in 2007.
00:34:03.000And when I say bad things, I don't mean to say that they are not bad things.
00:34:06.000They are indeed bad things that Tucker Carlson said back in 2007.
00:34:10.000He talked about how Iraqis were, he suggested that they were illiterate monkeys or something like that.
00:34:16.000And he was, and he dropped an F-bomb, this F-bomb, not, not the, the curse word, but the, the F-word that is a slur for gay people.
00:34:25.000He did all of this in these silly appearances on the Bubba the Love Sponge show.
00:34:30.000And as I said yesterday, two things can be true at once.
00:34:33.000One, Tucker Carlson said some stuff I don't like and I think is ugly back in 2006-2007.
00:34:38.000Stuff that I find morally reprehensible.
00:34:40.000Also, a world in which we are digging up old stuff that people said and then trying to ruin them for it is an ugly world.
00:34:46.000And many of the people who are pretending to be outraged at Tucker Carlson's comments are not in fact outraged at Tucker Carlson's comments.
00:34:52.000Many of them are actually quite excited by Tucker Carlson's comments being unearthed so they can go after his advertisers.
00:34:58.000Today, here's what a good faith discussion of Tucker Carlson's old comments would look like.
00:35:01.000Tucker Carlson, we came up with this old audio.
00:35:15.000Get over the fact that it's a shock jock radio show.
00:35:16.000Shock jock radio existed in the 2000s and the game of shock jock radio was to say the most shocking thing to the shock jock.
00:35:23.000That was the game of shock jock radio.
00:35:26.000That's just the reality of the situation.
00:35:27.000That's how a good faith conversation would go.
00:35:29.000But that's not how the conversation actually goes today.
00:35:31.000The way the conversation actually goes is that people who want Tucker Carlson off the air go and spend a hundred hours unearthing bad stuff that Tucker Carlson said that nobody remembers and that no one cared about at the time.
00:35:42.000And then they bring it back so that some people earnestly become outraged and then most people in the political space are not outraged but say that Tucker Carlson should have to pay the price for the stuff that he said 10 years ago, so his advertisers today on Fox News, who have nothing to do with those old comments, should be punished.
00:35:57.000This is the move that is being made today, and it's ugly, and it's gross, and as I have said before, I think that it is bad whether it is applied to Sarah Jeong of the New York Times, or whether it is applied to Kevin Hart, the black comedian who was ousted from the Oscars, or whether this is applied to pretty much anybody.
00:36:14.000I don't like the idea of ruining people's careers based on old stuff that they've said.
00:36:18.000Now, if you want to ask them about it and then they re-up, then we can talk about whether there should be repercussions.
00:36:23.000Or if, for example, they say something new today, like Roseanne Barr said something new.
00:36:29.000That's a new thing she said, so we get to react in real time to what she said.
00:36:32.000What we don't get to do is look for excuses to be upset about stuff that was said 20 years ago, Without considering the possibility that maybe it was said in a different context, in a society that didn't mind incendiary things being said quite as much, or the idea that perhaps this person doesn't agree with stuff that they said a while ago because people changed their minds on things.
00:36:52.000One of the more amusing aspects of this is watching these so-called objective media simply rip their masks off and go full-scale Dracula on Tucker Carlson.
00:37:00.000I mean, climb through his bedroom window and try to sink those fangs in.
00:37:03.000Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon, very objective news journalism-ing over on CNN.
00:37:07.000They say that, really, Tucker deserves this because, after all, Tucker doesn't tell the truth on a daily basis, so that means that Tucker deserves anything he gets.
00:37:16.000If we make a mistake or if we say something that's controversial and we want to stand by it, we back it up with the facts behind it, right?
00:37:31.000We're all on television live with no filter.
00:37:35.000Many times there's nothing in that camera, no words, and we all screw up and we say dumb things.
00:37:40.000But when you do, when something becomes a pattern and you don't tell the truth on a daily basis, That's a problem.
00:37:47.000Okay, but that's not what we're talking about here.
00:37:48.000We're not talking about Tucker said something in real time now and he screwed up and then he didn't apologize for it.
00:37:53.000We're talking about Tucker said something back when George W. Bush was president and he's not apologizing for it now because he understands that an apology will be taken as a sign of weakness and then people will simply use it as a way to club him over the head.
00:38:05.000Look, even Tucker realizes he said something very, very bad because the next step, as I've said repeatedly on this program, the next step is never, oh, he apologized for it, I guess we'll move on.
00:38:14.000The next step from the left is typically, Oh, he said that he apologized for it.
00:38:18.000That means he acknowledges it was bad.
00:38:20.000He never should have made the mistake in the first place.
00:38:22.000He never should have said that bad thing.
00:38:23.000Let's punish him now since he wasn't punished then.
00:38:26.000Being retroactively punishing people for stuff that they said 15 years ago that they disagree with now is pretty insane.
00:38:47.000You can be outraged, but let's not pretend that this is not mostly manufactured outrage for a political end.
00:38:53.000So I was asked today, you know, when it came to Ralph Northam, there was very little consideration of a friend of mine asked me this on the left.
00:39:01.000And she asked, okay, well, Ralph Northam, governor of Virginia, who was... an old yearbook photo of him was unearthed, in which there was a guy in blackface and a guy in a KKK outfit.
00:39:10.000It was unearthed by Big League Politics, which is a right-wing, sort of radical-right site.
00:39:15.000So, why weren't people asking about their motivations in unearthing this stuff?
00:39:19.000As opposed to this case, where we've gone hard after Media Matters.
00:39:23.000Because Media Matters is, in fact, a 501c3 organization specifically dedicated to destroying anyone on the right.
00:39:30.000There are a couple reasons why this is different.
00:39:37.000Opposition research is regularly done on elected officials.
00:39:39.000It is supposed to give more information to the voters.
00:39:41.000So we don't tend to look at the motivations of the people uncovering that stuff.
00:39:45.000We understand that oppo research is a regular part of politics.
00:39:47.000Oppo research is not the same thing when it comes to the world of media.
00:39:50.000This notion that you're going to uncover everything bad that George Stephanopoulos has ever done and then use it to destroy him is considered more of an attempt to invade a private person's business than it is anything else.
00:40:01.000Secondly, Media Matters bills itself as an objective uncoverer of news, a media watchdog.
00:40:08.000Instead, they cover for folks on the left.
00:40:10.000They said that nobody should go after Joy Reid for exactly the same kind of stuff, and they try to ruin people on the right, and more importantly, they try to ruin the advertisers that are tangentially associated with people On whose shows they are advertising.
00:40:41.000It makes Tucker a coward that Tucker hasn't doubled down on his old statements.
00:40:45.000Why would Tucker double down on his old statements?
00:40:46.000He said them on a shock jock radio show.
00:40:49.000I don't know that Tucker agrees with them.
00:40:52.000We'll get to Tucker's response in just a second, but here is very objective journalism-ing block of wood, dumber Cuomo brother, Chris Cuomo on CNN, suggesting that Tucker Carlson is a coward because he wants to catch him in a Catch-22.
00:41:03.000The Catch-22 is, if Tucker apologizes, it's because Tucker is evil, and if Tucker doesn't apologize, it's because Tucker is evil.
00:41:50.000Apologizing to the mob very often does cost people their jobs.
00:41:54.000Apologizing to people you've hurt is one thing.
00:41:56.000Apologizing to a bunch of folks on Twitter who don't give a damn, that's another.
00:41:59.000If they want to point to the person, like here's, for example, he made some comments about a guy named Warren Jeffs.
00:42:04.000Warren Jeffs was convicted of facilitating rape.
00:42:08.000And Tucker made some comments about how this guy was not actually guilty of facilitating rape.
00:42:12.000Now, if victims of Warren Jeffs came forward and said, that's really offensive to me, and Tucker then came forward and apologized to them, that is a discreet victim to whom Tucker presumably owes an apology.
00:42:23.000But if it's just some rando at Media Matters who hates Tucker Carlson and wants an apology from him on a daily basis, that's silly.
00:42:28.000And that's basically what Tucker said.
00:42:31.000He said, you know what, I'd offer an explanation or an apology, but I know that the people who are coming after me don't care about an explanation or apology.
00:42:38.000And listen, I'm not in the business of questioning people's motives, but when it comes to media matters, I don't have to question their motives.
00:43:49.000I have a running list on my website, Daily Wire, of all the dumb, bad things I've ever said.
00:43:54.000I've issued apologies directly to people who I feel like I have offended, to who I have wronged, because it's not just about them being offended.
00:44:48.000He's had time to go get mosquito bitten in a random cave in Malaysia, but showing up on one of the biggest podcasts in America, not so much to answer some tough questions.
00:44:59.000In any case, this exchange is pretty telling.
00:45:12.000Kara Swisher, very, very angry that her son listens to the show, and in fact goes so far as to suggest that perhaps YouTube should change its algorithms so that her son shouldn't be able to find our videos, or perhaps we should even be kicked off of YouTube. - My son, who's 13 years old, started watching Ben Shapiro videos. who's 13 years old, started watching Ben Shapiro videos.
00:45:30.000And he's like the gateway drug to the next group.
00:45:33.000And then it goes right to Jordan Peterson, then it goes down, and in three clicks, he was at neo-Nazi stuff.
00:46:10.000And so, people try to find other ways of knocking people offline.
00:46:14.000They try to find other ways of downgrading.
00:46:15.000They try to find excuses to say that certain videos don't meet community guidelines on YouTube, or that Facebook ought to downgrade particular content, or that advertisers ought to pull off of programs.
00:46:26.000The left isn't interested, at least many on the radical left are not interested in an exchange, a free and open exchange of ideas.
00:46:32.000They are interested in shutting down those ideas.
00:46:34.000I'll be at University of Michigan tonight.
00:46:37.000The history department at the University of Michigan is putting on some sort of counter-event to my event at the University of Michigan.
00:46:43.000Something about dilettantes in history and the power of the enwightenment.
00:46:49.000I mean, this is the actual title of what they are talking about.
00:46:52.000Let me find the exact title of the panel.
00:46:54.000The panel is titled something like, When Provocateurs Dabble in History, Ben Shapiro and the Enwightenment.
00:47:00.000Featuring speakers and panelists responding to my attacks on campuses and academia, along with my new history book, The Right Side of History.
00:47:06.000How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great.
00:48:38.000Charlie Hunnam stars in the title role, and Rami Malek stars as Louis Degas, who is sort of the forger.
00:48:44.000For folks who don't remember the story of Papillon, there is supposedly, the story is probably mostly fiction, there is a guy who is convicted of murder and was sent to French Guiana and then to Devil's Island, and he escaped after a bunch of years and ended up writing a best-selling book about all of this.
00:49:00.000That became a movie with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.
00:49:02.000So I could recommend the one with Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek, but it's mostly just okay.
00:49:06.000Instead, I'll recommend the original with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.
00:51:39.000So, you have given a number of speeches about the difference between opportunity and outcome, and you say that our country has no lack of opportunity, correct?
00:51:49.000Equal access to rights, I think, would be a better way to state it, yeah.
00:52:55.000We need more people who are open-minded and open-hearted.
00:52:58.000And Victor McElhaney was apparently one of those people.
00:53:01.000I was just informed that he was the person I spoke to at the speech last night by a fellow member of the USC community.
00:53:08.000So my heart goes out to his family and really I'm Pretty upset about it, as I think everybody who's a good-hearted person should be.
00:53:16.000Alrighty, well, we will be back here a little bit later, but if you want to access that, you're gonna have to go over to dailywire.com and become a subscriber.
00:53:22.000Also, today would be a good day to pre-order my book, The Right Side of History, before it is all sold out at your local bookstore or on Amazon.
00:53:31.000Go check it out right now, searching up the bestseller charts.