A Loudoun County father was made the face of the supposed domestic terrorist parents, and his story is horrifying. Raiders coach John Gruden resigns after his old emails are leaked, and the new Superman is bisexual. I'm Ben Shapiro, and this is a disturbing story about a school board meeting in which a white, blue-collar male showed up to harangue an obscure public on his local public school board and said some things that shocked the entire community. The Daily Wire's Luke Rosiak broke the story, and you'll see why it's so disturbing. And what it really has to do with is the fact that the elitists in our society have cut themselves off from the rest of America and now are attempting to dictate policy to everyone else at the cost of human decency. Tweet Me! if you have not yet reached out to Birch Gold to diversify part of your IRA or 401k into a precious metals IRA, go ahead and do it today! Text Ben to 474747 to get a FREE information kit on protecting your savings with gold! I buy my gold from Birch Gold and get a signed copy of my book, How to Destroy America in 3 Easy Steps: It's a Good Book by Ben Shapiro! Ben Shapiro's The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressiveVPN. Visit ExpressVPN.org/TheBenShapiroShow and get 20% off your first purchase when you place an order with ExpressVPN! This month, you'll get an A-plus rating with the Better Business Bureau, a FREE, 5-star rating! and a FREE copy of How to destroy America in Three Easy Steps by Birch Gold! You'll get a Signed Copy of my excellent book, a really good book that's a Badass Book, How To Destroy America In Three Easy Takes That's a really Good Book, I'll Give Me That Book I'm Gave You A Book That I'm Working On It, I'm Not Even Better Than That, I Can't Say That, Too Good Book I Can Say That I'll Be That Good, I've Been There Too Good And I'll Tell You'll Get That Too Good By Me, Too Gave Me That Too Much Good Book That Will Help Me A Sign That I Can Read It, Too Much Of That, That's A Good Book And I Can Do That, So I'll Also Be That, A Signed Copy Of That And A Free Book I'll Say That And That's That And I Will Be That And Other Things I'll See That I've Got It, And A Friend That Can Help Me Say That & I'll Hear That, And That Will Also Help You Say That So Much More!
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00:01:31.000Alrighty, so, late last night, the Daily Warrior broke what is certainly the wildest, most insane, and sickest story of the year.
00:01:40.000The reporter, the indomitable Luke Rosiak, Excellent reporter for Daily Wire.
00:01:53.000No, we're not talking about Black Lives Matter rioters.
00:01:55.000We are talking, of course, about parents who are going to school board meetings and then saying things, which is super duper scary.
00:02:02.000And there are certain people who have been made the face of this supposed domestic terror movement.
00:02:07.000You know, people who have been treated as though they are a deep abiding violent threat to teachers and school boards across the nation. Well, this is the story, according to Daily Wire, of one of those people. His name is Scott Smith. Here's Luke Rosiak writing. And this is a disturbing story.
00:02:21.000And you'll see why it's so disturbing.
00:02:23.000And what it really has to do with is the fact that the elitists in our society have cut themselves off from the rest of America and now are attempting to dictate policy to everyone else at the cost of human decency.
00:02:34.000On June 22nd, Scott Smith was arrested at Loudoun County, Virginia's school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an unlawful assembly after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students.
00:02:44.000What people did not know is that weeks prior, on May 28th, says Smith, a boy allegedly wearing a skirt entered a girls bathroom at nearby Stonebridge High School where he sexually assaulted Smith's 9th grade daughter.
00:02:56.000Juvenile records are sealed, but Smith's attorney, Elizabeth Lancaster, told the Daily Wire that a boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, one count of forcible fellatio related to an incident that day at the school.
00:03:09.000As a result of the viral video showing his arrest, Smith became the poster child for what the National School Boards Association has since suggested could be a form of domestic terrorism, a white, blue-collar male who showed up to harangue obscure public servants on his local school board.
00:03:22.000Lancaster, the lawyer, said if somebody would have sat and listened for 30 seconds to what Scott had to say, they would have been mortified and heartbroken.
00:03:29.000Minutes before Smith's arrest, the Loudoun County Public Schools superintendent lectured the public that concerns about the transgender policy were misplaced because the school system had no record of any assault occurring in any school bathroom.
00:03:40.000Then, a woman wearing a rainbow heart shirt, a left-wing community activist, told Smith she did not believe his daughter, he says.
00:03:46.000His rage reached a boil, and he had a heated exchange of words with the woman.
00:03:50.000A police officer there to keep the peace in the meeting pulled on his arm.
00:03:53.000Before he knew it, Smith says, he was hit in the face, handcuffed, and dragged across the floor with his pants pulled down.
00:03:57.000Images of the incident were splashed on TVs and newspapers across the world.
00:04:02.000Bhuta Biberaj, the county's progressive and top-elected prosecutor, who has close ties to the school board's most liberal members, appeared in court to personally prosecute Smith for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
00:04:12.000Biberaj ran on a platform of ending mass incarceration, but she wanted to put Smith in jail for the misdemeanors.
00:04:17.000As prosecutor, Ibarraj would have known about the case involving Smith's daughter.
00:04:20.000The suspect, Juvenile Court Prosecutors assured Smith, was being held responsible.
00:04:24.000He was on house arrest, confined to his mother's townhouse.
00:04:27.000According to Lancaster, a conviction was expected on October 14th, likely in the form of a guilty plea to a lesser sexual assault charge.
00:04:33.000But on October 6th, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office, a 15-year-old was charged with sexual battery and abduction after police said he forced a girl into an empty classroom, held her against her will, and touched her inappropriately.
00:04:45.000Lancaster says the suspect is the same boy who allegedly attacked Smith's daughter.
00:04:50.000What follows, based on extensive exclusive reporting from Loudoun County, is Smith's experience.
00:04:54.000It is a story the school system and media were never going to tell.
00:04:57.000So, the short story here, and we'll get to the details in a second, is that one of the parents, who was protesting a school board and was speaking about the threat of transgender bathroom policy, had a daughter who was allegedly raped in the bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt.
00:05:13.000And when he started to say what he thought, people started to get angry at him, and this resulted in him being branded a quote-unquote domestic terrorist by the media and the face of this very upset movement.
00:05:44.000Deputies from the sheriff's office ultimately responded to the school, not to investigate the alleged rape of a child, Smith said, but because school administrators called them on him for making a scene about it.
00:05:54.000Smith acknowledges he did make a scene.
00:05:56.000He says any father would have done the same.
00:06:01.000Six cop cars showed up, like an effing SWAT team, to respond to the school's complaints about an assertive parent, he said.
00:06:06.000Thank God I drew enough attention to it without getting arrested that we got an escort to the hospital and they administered a rape kit that night.
00:06:12.000A sane, examined buccal swab, his lawyer said, came back later, favorable to the prosecution's case.
00:06:18.000The sheriff's office declined to release records relating to Smith to the Daily Wire, but in response to a public records request, confirmed that a report with offense, forcible sodomy, and sexual battery matching that date and location exists.
00:06:32.000At 448 on the day of the incident, the principal sent out an email to the community that claimed nothing jeopardizing student safety had occurred, painting Smith as the villain, and offering counseling services for witnesses of Smith's blow-up.
00:06:42.000The letter said, quote, Good evening, Stonebridge families.
00:06:46.000This is Stonebridge Principal Tim Flynn.
00:06:48.000There was an incident in the main office area today that required the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office to dispatch deputies to Stonebridge.
00:06:53.000The incident was confined to the main office and the entrance area to the school.
00:06:56.000There was no threat to the safety of the student body.
00:06:58.000The incident was witnessed by a small number of students who were meeting with the staff adjacent to the main office.
00:07:02.000Counseling services and the services of our unified mental health team are available for any student who may need to talk about today's incident.
00:07:10.000LCPS washed their hands of this, Smith said.
00:07:12.000It was only taken seriously because of the Sheriff's Office.
00:07:15.000The LCPS Director of Communications said only that, quote, any information related to student information is confidential under state and federal laws regarding student privacy.
00:07:24.000Lancaster, this is the lawyer, told the Daily Wire she accompanied Smith's daughter to meetings with prosecutors, that the suspect made self-incriminating statements in an interview, that prosecutors brought the charges, and that a conviction was expected imminently, likely in the form of a plea deal to a charge of felony aggravated sexual battery.
00:07:39.000Smith had not opposed the downgrade, saying about the boy, what if he made one mistake?
00:07:44.000On June 22nd, the school board held a meeting, where the focus of discussion was a proposal expanding special protections to transgender students.
00:07:51.000Smith showed up out of practical concerns.
00:07:55.000My wife and I are gay and lesbian friendly, Smith said.
00:07:57.000We're not into this children transgender stuff.
00:07:58.000The person that attacked our daughter is apparently bisexual and occasionally wears dresses because he likes them.
00:08:03.000So this kid is technically not what the school board was fighting about.
00:08:05.000The point is, kids are using it as an advantage to get into the bathrooms.
00:08:09.000From the dais, school board member Beth Bars painted such concerns as paranoia and prejudice.
00:08:14.000Our students do not need to be protected and they are not in danger, she said.
00:08:16.000Do we have assaults in our bathrooms or locker rooms regularly?
00:08:20.000Superintendent Scott Ziegler replied, quote, to my knowledge, we don't have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms.
00:08:25.000Board Chair Brenda Sheridan asked, have we had any issues involving transgender students in our bathrooms or locker rooms?
00:08:31.000Ziegler answered, Time Magazine in 2016 called that a red herring, that the data was simply not playing out that transgender students were more likely to assault cisgender students in restrooms than were other students.
00:08:42.000Smith tried to contain himself as an activist who prioritized lived experience and believed women ignored his daughter.
00:08:48.000Nearly 250 members of the public had signed up to speak.
00:08:51.000Many of them were critical of the school system's racial and transgender initiatives.
00:08:54.000Others were supporters of the transgender policy, who painted their neighbors as ignorant bigots, with one saying hate was dripping from the followers of Jesus in this room.
00:09:03.000The board threatened to stop the meeting if participants were loud again.
00:09:07.000After another speaker blasted the school board for suspending a teacher named Tanner Cross for speaking in opposition to a transgender proposal, the crowd cheered, and the board shut the meeting down.
00:09:16.000Two courts later ruled Cross had to be reinstated.
00:09:21.000Apparently, after far-left board member Bartz was elected in 2019 with 55% of the vote, she lashed out at parents who disagreed with progressives and teachers' union-backed policies so often and with such vitriol that most of her peers, who agreed with her views, censured her and stripped her of her committee assignments.
00:09:36.000Bartz then retreated to a Facebook group officially known as the Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County, later known to critics as Chardonnay Antifa.
00:09:44.000And she started targeting people in the parent community who were questioning the Loudoun County School Board.
00:09:52.000Okay, but this apparently came to a sort of logical apex at this June 22nd meeting.
00:10:01.000Apparently, one of the parents confronted Smith.
00:10:06.000Okay, because Smith was talking about what had happened to his daughter.
00:10:10.000A parent named Jackie Schwarm confronted him.
00:10:13.000Schwarm was at the June 22nd school board meeting wearing a shirt with a rainbow heart on it as a Girl Scout troop leader.
00:10:21.000Smith and Jess, Jess' wife, said Schwarm sought them out in the crowd, demanding to know which side they were on, then berated them, they were in the wrong.
00:10:30.000I thought she was my friend, Jess said.
00:10:32.000Smith tried to tell her what had happened to his daughter, he said, and she looks me dead in the eyes and says, that's not what happened.
00:10:38.000Schwarm then noticed that Smith was wearing a shirt with the name of his plumbing business on it, and she goes, oh, I'm going to ruin your business on social media.
00:10:45.000You're a B-word, Smith told her video shows.
00:10:47.000A police officer monitoring the tension-filled exchange pulled on Smith's arm.
00:10:49.000He yanked it away and soon, Smith and the officer were wrestling.
00:10:53.000Jess cried out in words lost in the chaos, my child was raped at school and this is what happens.
00:10:57.000Smith was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
00:11:03.000Swarm, this rival parent, actually did a 40-minute phone call with the Daily Wire and contended she had no relationship with the topic and she didn't have any sort of argument with Smith and didn't know he had been arrested.
00:11:15.000After the Daily Wire offered evidence of her involvement, she said she went over to ask Jess for a playdate between their teenage daughters.
00:11:21.000She claimed she asked Jess how she was doing, to which Jess purportedly responded, we know critical race theory isn't real, but we don't want them to know it.
00:11:27.000Schwarm told the Daily Wire that if Smith's daughter told them she was raped by a Martian, she would believe her, but she also made repeated comments about the daughter's mental stability.
00:11:36.000As to her comments on the Facebook group, she told the Daily Wire the group was apolitical, that she had never taken part in list-making activities, And then she started calling other parents racist.
00:11:47.000After Schwarm repeatedly brought up that Smith was convicted of a crime, the Daily Wire asked if a restorative justice circle, a technique pushed by progressive prosecutors as an alternative to punishment, would have been a positive resolution to the arrest.
00:11:59.000Apparently, Schwarm then said she did not know what restorative justice was and wasn't interested.
00:12:04.000Okay, this entire thing ended up on national TV.
00:12:11.000And the entire story ended up being a story about how Smith was a terrible person who is trying to terrify members of the school board.
00:12:20.000And the prosecutor decided to go forward with the case and try to prosecute Smith and throw him in jail for all of this.
00:12:28.000Smith said nothing as his likeness traveled around the world, the avatar of ignorant bigotry.
00:12:32.000Advisors told him it would be better to let the process against his daughter's assailant play out.
00:12:37.000The culprit was expected to plead guilty on October 14th, but then there was a second case in which apparently the same teenager was charged with forcing a victim into an empty classroom where he held her against her will and inappropriately touched her.
00:12:51.000The Daily Wire is withholding the name of the suspect because of his age.
00:12:54.000Reached at home, his mother declined to comment on the allegations.
00:13:14.000The prosecutor, Bibbaraj, has not returned a request for comment.
00:13:18.000Though the injection of politics into schools and criminal justice have led to pain where there was none before and enemies where there were once neighbors, it is possible some elected officials of Loudoun County might actually believe this story has a happy ending.
00:13:28.000Though Smith's daughter has been allegedly raped and separately beaten at school, the teen has adopted increasingly strong progressive views over the course of her tenure at LCPS.
00:13:42.000But unfortunately, this is part and parcel of the issues that we are told don't matter.
00:13:47.000We are told that parents are not supposed to worry about this, that educators are going to be handling the education of your children.
00:13:52.000That the school boards ought to be ha- I mean, it's what Terry McAuliffe says in Virginia.
00:13:56.000And that if you have any serious questions about this, if in fact your child has suffered at the hands of this ideology, Then you're making it all up.
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00:15:17.000Now, if you're concerned about any of the stuff happening in schools, then you're the bad guy.
00:15:22.000This is the gaslighting of the American people.
00:15:24.000We're told that this stuff is not supposed to matter.
00:15:27.000So, for example, one of the editors over at Axios, Margaret Taliv, she said on CNN that if you're worried about critical race theory in schools, you really shouldn't be because it's not happening.
00:15:58.000As it turns out, the 1619 Project, which is now Growth of Critical Race Theory, is being taught in schools all over the country.
00:16:04.000You have the National Education Association passing resolutions talking about the importance of critical race theory.
00:16:10.000To pretend that critical race theory is not taking place in our schools is just a very simple form of gaslighting.
00:16:16.000It's a game that the left likes to play, where they boil down complex ideas into very simplified versions of themselves, and then they put them into indoctrination centers across the United States.
00:16:25.000And then, if you protest, they say, well, what we're teaching there, it's not the complex form, and the complex form is what you're talking about.
00:16:33.000And then if you go to a school board and you protest, maybe they call you a domestic terrorist.
00:16:36.000This is a piece by a woman named Maude Marrone over at Barry Weiss's Substack.
00:16:40.000Barry is doing better reporting than probably half of the major media in the country.
00:16:46.000Here is what Maude Marrone writes, quote, I'm a mother of four, a criminal defense attorney, and a lifelong liberal who is deeply concerned about the direction of New York City's public schools.
00:16:54.000I've been outspoken about my views, along with an untold number of frustrated parents.
00:16:58.000For that, the FBI is considering using the Patriot Act against me.
00:17:02.000Late last month, the National School Boards Association, an umbrella organization representing thousands of local elected school board officials, sent a letter addressed to President Biden.
00:17:10.000It warned that America's public schools and its education leaders are under an immediate threat, but not just any threat.
00:17:15.000Quote, the classification of these heinous actions could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.
00:17:20.000The letter implored the White House to enlist the support of Homeland Security, the FBI and the DOJ to investigate the threat, adding the alleged crimes fall under the purview of the Patriot Acts in regards to domestic terrorism.
00:17:32.000Says Maude Morone, I read the letter with grave concern, as would any American who cares about our public schools and the safety of teachers and students.
00:17:50.000The worst of the so-called crimes that require the FBI to investigate domestic terrorism and the DOJ to activate include prank calls.
00:17:57.000An individual in Ohio yelling, quote, a Nazi salute in protest of masking requirements.
00:18:01.000Another individual in Washington state whose disorderly conduct prompted the board to call a recess, spreading misinformation online and disorderly conduct arrests.
00:18:09.000In New York, disorderly conduct is not even a criminal offense.
00:18:12.000And yet within days of the NSBA letter, the top law enforcement official in the country, A.G.
00:18:16.000Merrick Garland, publicly responded to the letter with a memorandum to the director of the FBI agreeing with the NSBA that, quote, there has been a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against board members without providing any evidence.
00:18:28.000The FBI's clear message to parents is that the NSBA is on the right track.
00:18:33.000Says Maude Maron, many of the parents who are on the receiving end of the federal government's chilling message are new to school boards, new to speaking up, and to say the absurd part out loud, clearly not domestic terrorists. The combination of extended COVID-related school closures, mask mandates, and increasingly extreme race and gender-focused curriculum, the removal of tests, honors classes, merit-based admissions, has created a bumper crop of engaged, and in many cases enraged, parents rightfully concerned about what is happening in their children's schools.
00:18:57.000I've witnessed some of the viral videos myself and some of the meanings.
00:19:01.000Over the last four years, I've actively participated in many raucous school board meetings where board members and even the New York City school chancellor have been shouted down by parents who refuse to be ignored.
00:19:10.000I've never raised my voice to make a point, but I have sat next to those who have.
00:19:13.000They are sincere parents exercising their civil liberties.
00:19:16.000I also know what it's like to be on the other side of the table.
00:19:19.000I was elected to two consecutive terms on Manhattan's largest school board in what is the nation's largest school system.
00:19:26.000As school board chair, I was harassed, bullied, smeared, subjected to online campaigns demanding my resignation.
00:19:31.000It's not fun to listen to people call you names or falsely accuse you of racism, but when you're elected to a school board slot, you have an obligation to listen to everyone at public meetings.
00:19:41.000I never would have considered their activism to be something best handled by the FBI.
00:19:45.000You may disagree with parents like me who do not want our children indoctrinated with critical race theory masked during recess or told their biological sex is not real.
00:19:53.000But in a free society, we don't call the feds to police our fellow Americans because we don't share their politics.
00:19:59.000Hey, this is exactly right, but this is the war.
00:20:01.000The war right now is between people who believe they should be in unquestioned control of your life and everybody else.
00:20:43.000Whether you put yourself in the shoes of a parent who's had a child abused at school and then apparently ignored by the school.
00:20:51.000Whether you put yourself in the shoes of a parent who doesn't want their kid indoctrinated in a government center and then told to sit down and shut up and that all of their worries are mere conjecture. Parents are fighting back against this sort of stuff. They should be fighting back against this sort of stuff. When we apply the headlines that the left would like to apply to our lives, when we apply those to our lives, many of us look and we get upset and we get fearful and there isn't a good reason for that.
00:21:18.000We should be upset and fearful of the standards the left is setting, which are not standards at all.
00:21:23.000It is not about standards at all, in the first place.
00:21:27.000And so when there's blowback, and the left ignores the blowback, they are cruising for a bruising, because they are setting standards that no one can hold.
00:21:32.000They are basically saying that they get to set every moral standard in the country, and if you have any questions at all, you're crazy.
00:21:38.000You're crazy, or you're violent, or you're a domestic terror threat, or you're a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, and you shouldn't care about the fate of your kids.
00:21:45.000You should just put the fate of the country and your children in their expert hands.
00:21:50.000We'll get to more on this in just one second, because this is the pervasive sense across all of American culture at this point.
00:21:55.000The left sets standards that are not standards and only apply to a particular set of people, and everybody else, as long as you go along with their agenda, you're fine.
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00:24:00.000There's a piece in the Wall Street Journal today by William McGurn talking about how parents are fighting school boards Harry Jackson left the Fairfax County School Board meeting Thursday night feeling frustrated.
00:24:11.000The father of a Thomas Jefferson High School sophomore, he had signed up to address the board about sexually explicit material in the school library, including work he and other parents say normalizes pedophilia.
00:24:19.000But the list of speakers ended right before his two minutes of the mic.
00:24:22.000A student who did speak that evening defended the contested material, saying, quote, There's nothing that is inappropriate unless you go looking for it.
00:24:28.000Mr. Jackson takes it as a backhanded admission.
00:24:30.000I'm glad to see we agree there's pornographic material in the library, he says.
00:24:33.000Thomas Jefferson isn't just any public school.
00:24:44.000Naval Academy, a retired naval intelligence officer, he's one of thousands of American parents taking on their school boards across the country.
00:24:51.000Like many of those rallying outside Thursday night's meeting, Jackson wore a t-shirt saying parents are not domestic terrorists.
00:24:57.000All this has transformed once dull school board meetings into increasingly raucous encounters between parents and officials.
00:25:03.000On so many of the hot-button issues of the day, from mask mandates and lockdowns to critical race theory, transgender policy, and racial preferences for admissions, the public schools have become the vanguard for today's progressive agenda.
00:25:13.000But parents such as Mr. Jackson aren't taking it anymore, and they show no signs of relenting.
00:25:20.000The blowback is real, and the blowback is going to continue.
00:25:23.000And Democrats have a problem here, because they cannot allow the blowback to continue.
00:25:28.000The party base is owned by the most progressive radicals, and this means setting standards that no one can possibly uphold, and alienating vast swathes of the American public.
00:25:37.000Democrats are cruising for a political bruising here, even if they refuse to see it.
00:25:42.000Ian Ward has a piece for Politico that's quite fascinating today.
00:25:47.000So David Shore, you'll recall, is a data analyst who was essentially ousted from his job last year because progressives got super angry at him because he wrote a piece pointing out that riots don't actually help your political cause, that riots actually are counterproductive and result in people not liking what it is that you're pushing.
00:26:07.000And for that, because he was in the middle of the Black Lives Matter riots, he was thrown out of his job, David Shore.
00:26:11.000Well, David Shore, who's at least an honest, he's of the left, right?
00:26:16.000He says that, essentially, the Democratic Party is now being held hostage by an electorate that is too radical for the rest of the American population.
00:26:27.000At its most basic, David Shore's theory goes something like this.
00:26:29.000Although young people as a whole turn out to vote at a lower rate than the general population, the aforementioned type of young person is actually overrepresented within the core of the Democratic Party's infrastructure.
00:26:39.000Those would be young people who are highly progressive in their politics.
00:26:42.000The sorts of people who have gay pride flags on the back of their computers and list their pronouns and believe that America is deeply inequitable.
00:26:52.000According to Schor, the problem with this permanent class of young staffers is that they tend to hold views that are both more liberal and more ideologically motivated than the views of the coveted median voter.
00:27:00.000And yet they yield a significant amount of influence over the party's messaging and policy decisions.
00:27:04.000As a result, Democrats end up spending a lot of time talking about issues that matter to college-educated liberals, but not to the multiracial bloc of moderate voters the party needs to win over to secure governing majorities in Washington.
00:27:16.000Shor says, quote, it is descriptively true that people who work in campaigns are extremely young and much more liberal than the overall population and also much more educated.
00:27:24.000I think this is pushing them to use overly ideological language to not show enough messaging or policy restraint and from a symbolic perspective to use words that regular voters literally don't understand. And I think that that is a real problem. This is, of course, exactly right.
00:27:38.000And the fact is that the the motivated young liberals who are really creating policy and pressure inside the Democratic Party are pushing the Democratic Party incredibly far outside the mainstream.
00:27:50.000And of course, Shor isn't the first one to say this.
00:27:52.000According to Politico, in 2015, the political scientists Ryan Enos and Eitan Hirsch published a paper in the American Political Science Review analyzing the results of a survey they conducted among staffers on Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.
00:28:04.000Based on the results of their survey, Enos and Hirsch concluded that, quote, Individuals who were interacting with swing voters on the campaign's behalf were demographically unrepresentative, ideologically extreme, cared about atypical issues, and misunderstood voter priorities.
00:28:24.000The people you're most likely to hear from, not just inside the Democratic Party, but in the halls of media power, agree with the radicals.
00:28:38.000It is people who are college-educated white people in the main.
00:28:41.000And those college-educated white people are coming out of college just as woke as they were when they left college and they go into the newsrooms.
00:28:48.000And then they start covering politics in exactly the same way.
00:28:52.000I've been told by people on the left the culture wars don't matter.
00:28:54.000The culture wars matter, I think, to a lot more people than even questions as far as how the government is going to spend your money.
00:29:00.000The reason being, on a day-to-day level, how we treat one another, how we interact with the institutions of daily life, how the media cover us and our values.
00:29:10.000There's a lot to be said for the idea that the culture wars are more important than some of the economic wars.
00:29:14.000That the culture wars, being upstream of everything, are in fact the key to everything.
00:29:19.000And when you watch every major institution of the country twisted toward the cultural left, and then you're told that you have to be excluded because you're a redneck, you're going to respond pretty badly to that as well you should.
00:29:30.000And this has ramifications for nearly every major cultural story in America today.
00:29:34.000A group of privileged elites who have basically decided that they are going to educate the American public about what is best, and they're going to use utterly unpalatable standards in order to do so.
00:29:44.000Because they have to teach you what is right and what is wrong.
00:29:50.000Whether it is at school boards, or whether it is in the halls of media, they are going to teach you.
00:29:54.000You are a dumbass, and they are the elect.
00:29:57.000We'll get to more of this in a second because this has pretty broad cultural ramifications.
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00:32:06.000Okay, so your cultural leaders in every institution are people who believe that they are better than you and they get to cram down their values on you.
00:32:15.000Whether we're talking about the Loudoun County School Board, which ignores an alleged assault on a 15-year-old girl in order to promote their agenda, or whether you're talking about the NFL higher-ups and the media, right, who have all decided that standards that are unreachable by any human being must be held up as these standards.
00:32:56.000Well, today's story of the... This is how it works, right?
00:32:59.000Is that if you do something that is just woke enough, you do something that's just woke enough, then we'll ignore the fact that you have participated in all of the systems that you claim to decry.
00:33:08.000There's a great example of this that happened over the last 48 hours, an interview with Axios from the founders of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream.
00:33:14.000So you'll remember the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream?
00:33:16.000Is this uh, you know, they're very very left-leaning and they decided they were essentially going to boycott Israel.
00:33:22.000They're going to remove their stamp of approval for Ben and Jerry's in Israel because the Israeli government has promoted quote-unquote settlements activity, namely Jews being able to live in historic Judea and Samaria.
00:33:32.000And Ben and Jerry's is a wild leftist company and so the two founders of Ben and Jerry's, who are a couple of Bernie Sanders Vermont socialists, We're not socialists at all.
00:33:41.000They were asked a very simple question by Axios.
00:33:43.000Okay, the simple question is, it's weird, you're willing to boycott Israel, but I see that you are very, very happy to have your shops open in places like Texas and Georgia and Florida.
00:35:22.000Now you may have checked your calendar recently and noticed that it is actually the year 2021.
00:35:28.000And also you may think to yourself, wait a second, so these were private emails leaked apparently by somebody at the NFL to the media and John Gruden who signed a 10 year, $100 million contract.
00:35:39.000in 2018 is about to lose $70 million in contract money because of bad old emails that were revealed by somebody inside the NFL offices.
00:35:49.000Now, I've been reliably informed by the left that leaked emails are super bad.
00:35:51.000We're not even talking here about Hunter Biden just leaving his laptop out there.
00:35:54.000We're talking about like leaked emails are bad, right?
00:36:12.000There's a bunch of stuff in there that's kind of bad.
00:36:14.000Also, if you've never met an athlete or been in a locker room or spoken to a bunch of testosterone-ridden 21-year-old men, and you're going to pretend that what John Gruden was writing in his emails is anywhere close to the top 80% of the things that are bad that are said in a locker room, you're out of your damn mind.
00:36:32.000But John Gruden is going to lose his job, and the NFL is going to declare that it's woke, right?
00:36:38.000You remember football became gay last year, right?
00:36:40.000They put out a commercial about how football was gay.
00:36:42.000Now, how many football fans actually think of football is gay?
00:36:46.000That's not a thing that is designed at marketing toward the average football fan.
00:36:51.000That is designed at marketing toward the woke left, which is then going to give the NFL a pass on all of the rest of its insipid vanities and terrible acts.
00:37:02.000And the reality is that the NFL is rife with alleged criminality, as well as serious internal racial problems.
00:37:09.000And the way that you distract the woke left, the beautiful thing, if you're a wonderful left-wing capitalist at the top of the elite structure, You can just distract the woke left by throwing out one of these human sacrifices every so often.
00:37:19.000So here's the story from the New York Times.
00:37:21.000Quote, John Gruden stepped down Monday as the coach of the Las Vegas Raiders football team, hours after the New York Times detailed emails in which he had made homophobic and misogynistic remarks following an early report of racist statements about a union leader.
00:37:34.000His resignation was a striking departure from the football league for a coach who had won a Super Bowl, been a marquee analyst on ESPN, and returned to the NFL in 2018 to lead the resurgent Raiders, which he had coached years before.
00:37:44.000I've resigned as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, he said on Twitter.
00:37:47.000In a statement issued by the team, I love the Raiders and don't want to be a distraction.
00:37:50.000Thank you to all the players, coaches, staff, and fans of Raider Nation.
00:37:53.000I'm sorry I never meant to hurt anyone.
00:37:55.000Mark Davis, owner of the Raiders, said in a statement he had accepted the resignation.
00:37:59.000Rich Bisaccia, the Raiders' special team's coordinator, was elevated to interim head coach, according to the team.
00:38:05.000Gruden's departure came after the New York Times reported that NFL officials, as part of a separate workplace misconduct investigation that did not directly involve him, found that Gruden had casually and frequently unleashed misogynistic and homophobic language over several years to denigrate people around the game and to mock some of the league's momentous changes.
00:38:22.000Hey, so in other words, this entire report by the NFL was done because there were allegations of sexual harassment inside the Washington Redskins, now the Washington football team, structure.
00:38:34.000They called some 650,000 emails, including private emails, from Gruden to people who are inside the Washington Redskins, now Washington football team, structure.
00:38:45.000Then the NFL decided that they were going to leak these emails to basically destroy Gruden.
00:38:51.000Put aside what Gruden says in the emails.
00:38:54.000Do you want to live in a world where all of your old emails, hacked at any time, could be the reason for your downfall?
00:39:00.000Is that the world you want to live in?
00:39:01.000First of all, ExpressVPN.com, go check it out right now and protect your data.
00:39:04.000But, beyond that, are you really interested in now being in a situation where there is no distinction between public and private?
00:39:10.000Private emails are just out there for everyone to see, and we can unleash our selective outrage on anyone we choose, at a moment's notice, for pure convenience.
00:39:40.000Matt Damon is so important that he's allowed to use that word up till, like, last year, and everybody just goes, well, you know, we do like him as an actor.
00:39:47.000But John Gruden used it in 2011, in an old email, and he has to be fired.
00:39:51.000Okay, so here are the people in the NFL who are currently playing.
00:39:57.000Bradley Chubb was injured for the Denver Broncos.
00:39:59.000He failed to appear for a court date on misdemeanor traffic charges near Denver.
00:40:03.000Deontay Harris is injured but is still active with the New Orleans Saints.
00:40:05.000He is suspected of drunk driving, reckless driving, and speeding.
00:40:09.000Richard Sherman was recently signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
00:40:12.000He apparently has been accused of domestic assault because he was accused of crashing his car in a construction site and trying to break into his wife's parents' home.
00:40:21.000Zayvin Collins, of the Arizona Cardinals, is active.
00:40:24.000He's been accused of excessive speeding and reckless driving.
00:40:27.000Frank Clark, of the Kansas City Chiefs, is still active.
00:40:29.000He's accused of having a concealed submachine gun in his car.
00:40:34.000Josh Jacobs, of the Las Vegas Raiders, of that very team, is currently active.
00:40:38.000He's accused of driving drunk after a car crash.
00:40:42.000But, at least they didn't send old emails in 2011, referring to Michael Sam in denigrating language.
00:40:52.000And by the way, the NFL itself, right, is now experiencing major lawsuits from black players because it turns out that the NFL had used race norming, assuming black players start out with a lower cognitive function, in trying to determine whether players had suffered from CTE and brain injuries.
00:41:10.000See, an entire sport that is based on people bashing their head into things and people getting concussions, And then people getting brain injury from that.
00:41:18.000And the NFL was assessing black players differently from white players.
00:41:21.000Roger Goodell still has a job, I've noticed.
00:41:24.000But at least they didn't send any bad old emails from like 2011, 2014.
00:41:27.000Gruden's departure came as after that New York Times report that NFL officials, as part of a separate workplace misconduct investigation, found that Gruden had casually and frequently unleashed misogynistic and homophobic language.
00:41:40.000He denounced the emergence of women as referees.
00:41:43.000Okay, so this wasn't even when he was working for the Raiders.
00:41:50.000The messages were sent to Bruce Allen, the former president of the Washington football team, and others while he was working for ESPN as a color analyst during Monday Night Football.
00:41:57.000Okay, so this wasn't even when he was working for the Raiders.
00:42:02.000In the emails, Gruden called the league's commissioner, Roger Goodell, the F word. Okay, well, there's only one problem. Roger Goodell isn't gay, right? So we now have a standard whereby using the word day.
00:42:15.000The F-word, that is a slur applied to gay people, to using that against non-gay people is now apparently about targeting gay people.
00:42:24.000He also called Roger Goodell a clueless anti-football P-word, and then said that Goodell should not have pressured Jeff Fisher, then the coach of the Rams, to draft queers, a reference to Michael Sam, a gay player chosen by the team in 2014.
00:42:55.000I mean, it is now safer in the NFL to be a repeat alleged sexual offender than it is to have bad old emails, is the way that this works.
00:43:05.000And then everybody will overlook the fact that the NFL continues to be a rather exploitative place.
00:43:12.000This push by the elites in our society to basically control everything that you do and then gaslight you about all of it, to set standards that are utterly unreachable by anybody.
00:43:21.000Because again, to me, and to I think most people, this isn't about the bad things that John Gruden said in his emails.
00:43:27.000The problem is the standard you're now holding people to, which is that if you said anything bad in private ever, ever, and it is ever substantiated, and it is adjudicated to be bad ten years after the fact, You could lose your entire career and you can be destroyed.
00:43:40.000And that's what's going on with Jon Gruden right now.
00:43:43.000Because if you're Matt Damon and you just come out and apologize for it because you said it yesterday, you're fine.
00:43:47.000But if you're Jon Gruden and the NFL needs a distraction from the... Where are the other 650,000 emails, by the way?
00:43:52.000I've noticed that the only emails that have leaked are about Jon Gruden.
00:43:56.000Can we see Roger Goodell's private old emails?
00:43:58.000Can we see the old emails from the executives at ESPN?
00:44:01.000By the way, if you want to look for bad behavior at ESPN, I mean, there are still historic figures at ESPN who have been described as engaging in rather reckless behavior, who are still commenting on the NFL like day in and day out.
00:44:15.000Is that your culture has been the way that your kids are taught, the way that we are all subjected to a group of people who get to determine, like Coddy's sitting under a palm tree, whether you ought to exist in the society or not.
00:44:28.000And if you protest any of it, or if you notice any of it, this means that you're crazy.
00:44:32.000The hijacking of institutions to push this sort of stuff out is amazing.
00:44:38.000So for example, you're seeing this right now with DC Comics.
00:44:42.000So DC Comics is now attempting to essentially gain some attention for their comic books.
00:44:49.000And they've been doing this for a while by increasingly relying on wokeness.
00:44:53.000Now the reality is that the comic book audience is a bunch of teenage to young male readers.
00:44:59.000Predominantly straight and the DC Comics gang over there is interested in hijacking iconic American figures and then using them for social justice purposes.
00:45:10.000They're not building new characters with new personalities who are woke.
00:45:14.000Instead they're taking iconic characters and they are just Retrofitting them in order to push wokeness and then if you notice that then it's because you're bad, right?
00:45:22.000You're not supposed to notice any of this so it is cultural elites attempting to tell you what morality looks like and to shape the minds of young teenage boys and Then tell you they're not doing that or if you notice that they're doing that.
00:45:35.000That is the silly game that we play stupid games win stupid prizes.
00:45:38.000That is why Superman is now coming out as bisexual Which is very exciting stuff.
00:45:43.000The New York Times says, up, up, and out of the closet, the new Superman, Jonathan Kent, who is the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, will soon begin a romantic relationship with a male friend, DC Comics announced on Monday.
00:45:53.000That same-sex relationship is just one of the ways that Jonathan Kent, who goes by John, is proving to be a different Superman than his famous father.
00:45:59.000Since his new series, Superman, son of Carl L., began in July, John has combated wildfires caused by climate change, thwarted a high school shooting, and protested the deportation of refugees in Metropolis.
00:46:11.000Don't worry guys, the cultural arbiters, they're not attempting to affect your kids in any way.
00:46:14.000They're definitely not attempting to cram down a particular set of values on you.
00:46:17.000And if you notice that they are, it's because you're bad.
00:46:20.000So make sure you don't say anything about it.
00:46:22.000And for sure don't say anything about it.
00:46:23.000Because if you say something about it, they'll come after your career and destroy you.
00:46:27.000If you notice that they are attempting to control how people think, if you notice that they are attempting to hijack mainstream cultural figures and then twist them into social justice warriors, well then that's because you're intolerant and bad and bigoted.
00:46:44.000By the way, it doesn't matter whether Warner Brothers and DC Comics, it doesn't matter what any of these people do in their business.
00:46:49.000It doesn't matter how they treat people.
00:46:50.000It doesn't matter that they do business with China.
00:46:52.000The key is they're pushing the cultural factors that make them the elites and you not the elites, which is why you need to shut up and pretend that none of this matters to you.
00:46:59.000And you have to just wave your hand and say, well, you know, that's just the way the culture goes now.
00:47:04.000The left fights culture wars because the left's culture wars are the ways that they change how people think.
00:47:09.000It is the threat they use to cudgel people into silence.
00:47:11.000It is the standards they use to take control.
00:47:14.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.