The Ben Shapiro Show - The Wind Turbines Are Frozen | Ep. 1197

00:00:00.000 Texas freezes as the power grid buckles.

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00:01:35.000 Okay, so the big news of the day continues to be this enormous cold snap that is hitting the vast majority of the United States.

00:01:41.000 We in Florida are just I'm just waving at the rest of you guys because it's great down here, but pretty much everywhere else in the United States is frozen.

00:01:47.000 Some 74% of the United States right now is under snow or ice.

00:01:52.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:01:53.000 I mean, we haven't seen a weather snap like this in probably 100 years, 120 years.

00:01:58.000 Well, the Texas grid basically failed yesterday.

00:02:01.000 It required rolling blackouts.

00:02:02.000 Now, I've seen a lot of people in California chortling at this, because Texas and California are rivals.

00:02:07.000 Texas is conservative.

00:02:08.000 California is uber liberal.

00:02:09.000 Okay, well, here's the thing.

00:02:11.000 When Californians look at Texas, they're like, ha ha, your grid failed.

00:02:14.000 You are getting some of that from people in the media left.

00:02:17.000 Let us just quickly note, when California's electrical grid failed, it's because it was hot during the summer.

00:02:23.000 I used to live there.

00:02:24.000 I lived there for nearly all of my life.

00:02:26.000 And every year, there would be rolling blackouts of some sort or another because of the completely predictable weather pattern of it being hot during the summer in Los Angeles.

00:02:35.000 That is not the same thing as a once-in-a-century cold snap that hits Texas and then the power grid fails.

00:02:41.000 See, unexpected events tend to have unforeseen consequences.

00:02:44.000 Why would Texas spend bajillions of dollars to protect against something that happens once every 120 years, apparently?

00:02:50.000 Okay, so they're not equivalent in that way.

00:02:52.000 Let's just begin with that.

00:02:53.000 But now there's widespread debate over why the Texas electrical grid failed.

00:02:57.000 And the answer is, there are multiple factors as to why the electrical grid failed.

00:03:00.000 You're seeing the media run out there screaming to protect the wind turbines.

00:03:04.000 So one of the theories is that the wind turbines in Texas basically froze over and stopped producing the requisite amount of electricity.

00:03:11.000 Another one of the theories is that the electrical grid itself was not essentially wired for this kind of demand.

00:03:17.000 Natural gas was failing because a lot of the pipelines were not actually insulated for this kind of cold.

00:03:22.000 So as always, whenever there's a crisis, there are generally multiple factors in play.

00:03:26.000 But you'll notice that the media are only defending one of the factors.

00:03:28.000 That would be the wind turbines.

00:03:30.000 Now, let's be real about this.

00:03:32.000 Wind turbines are one of the most expensive forms of energy in Texas.

00:03:35.000 Texas is a natural gas and oil state.

00:03:38.000 And so, the case that many conservatives are making today is, what if we had invested more in, you know, the more efficient form of energy, and less in the wind turbines?

00:03:46.000 Would that have given us enough capacity to overcome the shortages created by the cold snap?

00:03:51.000 And the answer is, maybe yeah.

00:03:53.000 So here's what the Washington Post has to say.

00:03:55.000 This is according to Will England, writing for the Washington Post.

00:03:58.000 When it gets really cold, it can be hard to produce electricity, as customers in Texas and neighboring states are finding out.

00:04:03.000 But it's not impossible.

00:04:04.000 Operators in Alaska, Canada, Maine, Norway, and Siberia do it all the time.

00:04:07.000 Well, I mean, first of all, that's because virtually everything in those places is built for things being extremely cold.

00:04:13.000 The climate in Texas is generally not like the climate in Norway or Siberia.

00:04:17.000 What has sent Texas reeling is not an engineering problem, nor is it the frozen wind turbines blamed by prominent Republicans.

00:04:22.000 I love the media are like, nope, not at all.

00:04:23.000 It's not the wind turbines, not at all.

00:04:25.000 You leave those wind turbines alone.

00:04:27.000 You stop that with the wind turbines.

00:04:29.000 And again, wind turbines are a factor.

00:04:31.000 To pretend they are not a factor is to ignore the fact that, again, crises usually have multiple parents.

00:04:37.000 It is a financial structure for power generation that offers no incentive to power plant operators to prepare for winter.

00:04:42.000 In the name of deregulation and free markets, critics say Texas has created an electrical grid that puts an emphasis on cheap prices over reliable service.

00:04:49.000 Well, I mean, Texas created an electrical grid that puts an emphasis on cheap prices because, generally speaking, cheap prices are very, very good for consumers, and that seems to make a bit of a difference.

00:04:59.000 But the Washington Post take here is that it's deregulation that created all of this, because the highly regulated power grid in California has been such a wild, massive success.

00:05:08.000 So it's not the wind turbines, according to the Washington Post, it's the deregulation of the electrical grid system.

00:05:12.000 As though the government would have solved this sort of thing just right away.

00:05:16.000 That's what the government is great at, solving crises.

00:05:18.000 According to the Washington Post, the temporary train wreck of that market Monday and Tuesday has seen the wholesale price of electricity in Houston go from 22 bucks a megawatt hour to about $9,000.

00:05:26.000 Meanwhile, four million Texas households have been without power.

00:05:28.000 Well, yes, it turns out when there is a dramatic increase in demand and there is a dip in supply, the prices go up.

00:05:35.000 That is how supply and demand grids work.

00:05:38.000 One utility company, Gritty, which sells power at wholesale rates to retail customers without locking in a price in advance, told its patrons Tuesday to find another provider before they get socked with tremendous bills. 0.89

00:05:47.000 Which, by the way, I mean, should be noted, if these were just capitalist greedy pigs, they'd be like, yeah, keep on ordering those $9,000 a megawatt hour. 0.58

00:05:56.000 Bills, please keep doing that. 0.66

00:05:57.000 The widespread failure in Texas, and to a lesser extent Oklahoma and Louisiana, shines a light on what some see as the derelict state of America's power infrastructure, a mirror reflection of the chaos that struck California last summer.

00:06:08.000 So the entire case from the Washington Post, of course, is that the grid's failures are due to privatization.

00:06:14.000 Because, again, if there's one thing we know about government-run systems, it is that they are incredibly efficient and they are insulated against every form of attack.

00:06:22.000 Always.

00:06:23.000 This is what the government is great at.

00:06:24.000 Except for not.

00:06:26.000 Governor Greg Abbott called Tuesday for reform of the state's electric grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, ERCOT.

00:06:31.000 He said far too many Texans are without power and heat for their homes as our state faces freezing temperatures and severe winter weather.

00:06:37.000 This is unacceptable.

00:06:38.000 He said he would work with the legislature to find ways to ensure our state never experiences power outages like this again.

00:06:44.000 Meanwhile, people on the right side of the aisle, they were saying, you know, one of the problems here is, in fact, the windmills.

00:06:49.000 So, for example, Dan Crenshaw, our friend from Texas, He said, This is correct. 0.89

00:06:53.000 So he points out that West Texas had wind turbines that had to be de-iced.

00:06:55.000 Leftists are cheering a red state having energy problems.

00:06:57.000 Here is the truth about what happened.

00:06:59.000 Summary, a mix of over-subsidized wind energy and under-investment in gas power means we didn't have enough base load energy for a massive spike in demand.

00:07:06.000 Also, Texas infrastructure isn't designed for once in a century freezes.

00:07:10.000 This is correct.

00:07:11.000 So he points out that West Texas had wind turbines that had to be de-iced.

00:07:14.000 The little energy the power regulators planned on being supplied from wind was now gone.

00:07:19.000 He says, we have almost 31 gigawatts of wind installed on the grid.

00:07:22.000 On Monday, we couldn't even depend on 6 gigawatts working.

00:07:25.000 To make matters worse, existing storage of wind energy and batteries was also gone because batteries were losing 60% of their energy in the cold.

00:07:31.000 Bottom line, renewables don't work well in extreme weather.

00:07:34.000 They never will.

00:07:35.000 This is what happens when you force the grid to rely in part on wind as a power source.

00:07:38.000 When weather conditions get bad, as they did this week, intermittent renewable energy like wind isn't there when you need it.

00:07:43.000 Two, nuclear also got too cold.

00:07:45.000 We only have four nuclear units in Texas, near Houston and Dallas.

00:07:48.000 One of the reactors near Houston turned off due to a safety sensor freezing.

00:07:51.000 No problem with the reactor, but the lack of the sensor forced the plant to shut down as a precaution.

00:07:56.000 He says this is also a good indicator as to how safe nuclear is because they have all sorts of safety switches.

00:08:00.000 3. We don't have enough natural gas online.

00:08:03.000 ERCOT, again that is the Texas power grid, planned on 67 gigawatts from natural gas and coal, but could only get 43 gigawatts of it online.

00:08:10.000 We didn't run out of natural gas, but we lost the ability to get it transported.

00:08:14.000 Pipelines in Texas don't use cold insulation, so they froze.

00:08:16.000 Every natural gas plant stayed online.

00:08:18.000 The downed plants were due to schedule maintenance.

00:08:20.000 Governor Abbott made the right call in diverting all natural gas to home heating fuel and then electricity for homes.

00:08:24.000 Gas and coal brought a stable supply of energy, but still not enough.

00:08:28.000 Why don't we have extra gas power when we need it most?

00:08:30.000 Because years of federal subsidies for wind has caused an over-reliance on wind and an under-investment in new gas and nuclear plants.

00:08:36.000 The bottom line is that fossil fuels are the only thing that saved us.

00:08:38.000 They are the base load energy.

00:08:40.000 Even if we were even more reliant on the wind turbines that froze, the outages would have been significantly worse.

00:08:44.000 See, this is the point.

00:08:45.000 And this is where Crenshaw hits the nail on the head.

00:08:47.000 So, Crisis has many parents, as I say.

00:08:51.000 Failures of the electrical grid, which, in retrospect, are somewhat foreseeable, but not completely foreseeable, considering this is, you know, a once-in-a-lifetime event.

00:08:58.000 Two, the freezing of a lot of the natural gas and oil pipelines.

00:09:03.000 Three, the wind turbines.

00:09:04.000 But, here's the question.

00:09:06.000 Which one of these things is a solution?

00:09:08.000 Now the left would say that the natural gas and the oil are the problem, right?

00:09:11.000 They want more wind turbines.

00:09:13.000 So which factor here is the cheapest to build, the cheapest to maintain, and the most reliable over the course of its development?

00:09:20.000 And the answer here is not wind turbines.

00:09:22.000 So if you're looking from problems to solutions, if you're looking to actually solve problems like this in the future, there are a few things that you can do.

00:09:28.000 One, you can make sure that the pipelines actually have the heating infrastructure necessary so they don't freeze.

00:09:32.000 Two, you can make sure that the nuclear power plants, there are more of them, Three, you can stop subsidizing the most expensive form of energy and the form of energy that is most likely to fail.

00:09:43.000 So when it comes to solutions, the solution is indeed fewer subsidized wind turbines and more subsidization of the most efficient form of energy, if this is what you are worried about.

00:09:51.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second because the media don't want to focus on the answers to the problem. 0.71

00:09:56.000 Because if they focus on the answers to the problem, it might necessitate them taking a second look at the expensive nature of giant wind turbines in the middle of nowhere.

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00:11:12.000 Okay, so according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation, they say, while Texas attempts to identify the causes of the tragic blackouts this week and the sources of mismanagement, it's clear that poor policy decisions are the root of this problem.

00:11:24.000 Texas has lost significant fossil fuel generation capacity over the past several years and instead counted on nearly 20,000 megawatts of new wind and solar generation to satisfy steadily rising electricity demand.

00:11:36.000 It has been known for years that a weather event combining low wind and solar production and record demand could lead to blackouts.

00:11:40.000 This week, that event became reality as new wind and solar generation failed to produce when it was needed the most.

00:11:46.000 As temperatures dropped further on Sunday night and electricity demand started rising, wind generation also began to drop, eventually bottoming out at 2% of installed capacity last night.

00:11:55.000 And so here's the thing.

00:11:56.000 Natural gas and oil was operating at Maybe 70% of its installed capacity?

00:12:02.000 Wind generation was operating at maybe 2% of installed capacity.

00:12:06.000 Preliminary data indicates conservation measures and rolling outages were not initiated quickly enough.

00:12:10.000 Contrary to numerous false reports that coal and natural gas plants were also frozen, almost all of those reliable generators were operating without interruption until the system failure, just as they do in much colder climates all over the world.

00:12:21.000 And so, this happens to be the truth.

00:12:23.000 Now, PolitiFact, of course, is going to say that you can't blame the wind turbines.

00:12:25.000 had our grid not been so deeply penetrated by renewable energy sources that contribute the least when they are needed the most, yet are prompted by billions in taxpayer-funded subsidies every single year. Okay, so this happens to be the truth.

00:12:37.000 Now, PolitiFact, of course, is going to say that you can't blame the wind turbines. Never, ever blame the wind turbines because the leftists at PolitiFact love the wind turbines. So here's what they say.

00:12:47.000 They say Texas does have a bodacious amount of wind power.

00:12:49.000 In winter, it supplies about 25% of the state's electricity.

00:12:52.000 And nearly half of that capacity shut down when ice coated the turbine blades.

00:12:57.000 As residents tried to heat their homes, demand surged.

00:12:59.000 The agency that manages the state's power grid, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, imposed rolling blackouts.

00:13:04.000 The question is, was the state's reliance on wind power its Achilles heel?

00:13:07.000 Did it fail to have enough gas and coal capacity to meet people's needs during extreme conditions?

00:13:11.000 The numbers show that natural gas plants were the biggest cause of the power shortfall, not wind.

00:13:15.000 The state's grid operator said February 15th that about 34 gigawatts of power were offline.

00:13:19.000 But of that, about 4 gigawatts was due to a problem with wind turbines.

00:13:23.000 The rest came mainly from the state's primary sources, natural gas and coal.

00:13:27.000 Those of you who have heard that frozen wind turbines are to blame, think again, tweeted Jesse Jenkins, engineering professor at Princeton.

00:13:32.000 The extreme demand and thermal power plant outages are the principal causes.

00:13:36.000 While the extreme demand, of course, is a principal cause, the question is, where's the flexibility in the supply?

00:13:42.000 So here is the point.

00:13:44.000 If the natural gas and oil facilities were responsible for a bulk of the loss of energy, but also are responsible for the vast bulk of the power that is supplied, then the problem is probably with the other 25% of the power supply.

00:14:01.000 You see how they're playing with numbers here.

00:14:03.000 What PolitiFact is saying is that in winter, wind turbines are usually responsible for 25% of the state's electricity.

00:14:09.000 In the middle of this power outage, essentially, half the capacity shut down.

00:14:13.000 So it went to 12%.

00:14:15.000 Meanwhile, the other 75% of state capacity is provided by natural gas, oil, coal, nuclear.

00:14:22.000 And of that, the bulk worked.

00:14:27.000 Okay, but because it provides a larger percentage generally, that means that the absolute amount of energy lost in that particular sector was higher.

00:14:36.000 Okay, that does not speak to the most efficient source of power.

00:14:39.000 It's pretty obvious what the most efficient source of power here was, and it was not wind.

00:14:43.000 So again, the solution here is not going to be more wind turbines and more investment into renewable energy resources or anything like that.

00:14:51.000 The solution, as everybody knows, is going to be less subsidization of the least efficient forms of energy.

00:14:55.000 There's a certain irony to the fact that the same day that this happened, the same day that this happened in Texas, the editorial board of the Washington Post says that they want to raise the gas tax.

00:15:08.000 I'm not kidding.

00:15:08.000 Right?

00:15:09.000 This is the exact same day.

00:15:10.000 Poor timing here.

00:15:12.000 Because they want electrical vehicles to take over the road.

00:15:14.000 The only way to make electrical vehicles competitive in the American market is to raise the gas tax and artificially boost the price of carbon-based energy sources.

00:15:23.000 So, I mean, the same people who say that they want to blame natural gas and oil and coal and nuclear and all the other forms of energy that are the most efficient forms of energy, all those same people are saying, what if we took those forms of energy and made them more expensive?

00:15:36.000 And they brought out this editorial on the same day that Texas was frozen over and people were dying in their homes because they literally didn't have heat.

00:15:44.000 You can see how the environmental left is really doing yeoman's work over here.

00:15:44.000 Well done.

00:15:49.000 Because unfortunately, environmentalism, Sometimes a great idea, sometimes it has some pretty significant costs.

00:15:55.000 And those costs make themselves most apparent in crisis times, when the least reliable form of energy is relied upon too much.

00:16:01.000 And that is one of the many things that happened here, but it is also the easiest one to fix, and the one that people on the left are desperate not to have fixed at any point in the near future.

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00:18:52.000 Okay, so last night, Joe Biden did one of these town hall events.

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00:19:16.000 There was a lot of this last night.

00:19:17.000 Look at this incredible performance.

00:19:19.000 He was having trouble stringing together coherent thoughts.

00:19:21.000 But we're supposed to pretend that he is utterly with it.

00:19:24.000 He's just as with it as he was back in the 80s when he was barely with it anyway.

00:19:28.000 So the media's treatment of this stuff is pretty amazing.

00:19:30.000 So Joe Biden had a lot of things to say, a lot of things to say.

00:19:35.000 Perhaps the most weird portion of this town hall is when he was talking about China policy.

00:19:40.000 So he was asked specifically by the moderator about the fact that China had been engaging in a genocide against Uyghur Muslims.

00:19:47.000 And his answer was not only nonsensical, it was basically propaganda talking points on behalf of the Chinese government.

00:19:53.000 And the media immediately shifted and swiveled into full-scale Joe Biden defense mode.

00:20:01.000 Here was Joe Biden talking about his conversation with Xi Jinping, the dictator of China, about the Chinese genocide against Uyghur Muslims.

00:20:10.000 I don't know what he thinks he's saying here, but it's not good.

00:20:15.000 And so the idea, I'm not going to speak out against what he's doing in Hong Kong, what he's doing with the Uyghurs in western mountains of China, and Taiwan trying to end the one China policy by making it forceful. 0.75

00:20:31.000 I said, and by the way, he said, he gets it.

00:20:35.000 Culturally, there are different norms in each country, and their leaders are expected to follow.

00:20:42.000 Um, what?

00:20:43.000 Okay, so what he actually was saying at the end there is so crazy.

00:20:47.000 That's crazy.

00:20:48.000 He's saying, you know, he gets it that I have to criticize him because we have cultural norms against genocide here in the West.

00:20:53.000 He gets that I have to criticize him about that, but we have to understand they have their cultural norms as well.

00:20:57.000 I mean, yeah, I'm gonna criticize it.

00:20:58.000 I'm gonna speak out loudly about it, but...

00:21:00.000 I mean, let's be real about this.

00:21:02.000 I mean, they have their cultural norms.

00:21:03.000 I'm gonna read you the entire transcript of what he said, okay?

00:21:06.000 Because I think it is well worth reading, because some people are going to suggest that this is taken out of context, and it is really, really, really not.

00:21:15.000 So here's what Biden actually said, right?

00:21:17.000 There will be repercussions for China, and Xi Jinping knows this.

00:21:20.000 What I'm doing is making clear that we, in fact, are going to continue to reassert our role as spokesperson for human rights at the UN and other agencies that have an impact on their attitude.

00:21:28.000 And then he continued, and this is the part that you just heard.

00:21:34.000 And so the idea is, I'm not gonna speak out against what he's doing in Hong Kong, what he's doing with the Uyghurs in the western mountains of China and Taiwan, trying to end the One China policy by making it forceful. 0.94

00:21:44.000 He gets it.

00:21:45.000 Culturally, there are different norms that each country and that leaders are expected to follow.

00:21:48.000 China is trying very hard to become the world leader, and to get that moniker and be able to do that, they have to gain the confidence of other countries.

00:21:54.000 As long as they are engaged in activity that is contrary to basic human rights, it's going to be hard for them to do that.

00:21:59.000 And then he said that the issue in China policy in general is, quote, much more complicated than that.

00:22:03.000 I shouldn't try to talk China policy in 10 minutes on television.

00:22:07.000 Okay, so there it is in context.

00:22:08.000 Yes, he is saying that the human rights abuses are bad, but also he, I mean, Xi Jinping really understood where I was coming from, because we just have different cultures, you see.

00:22:16.000 That kind of excuse making from Trump would be ripped up and down by the media.

00:22:20.000 But here, they're like, no, no, no, it's fine what he said.

00:22:23.000 How dare you point out that it's bad when he says that there are just cultural differences that lead to, you know, genocide.

00:22:29.000 I mean, it's pretty incredible stuff.

00:22:31.000 And that was not the only example of this, of course.

00:22:33.000 Maybe the most obvious example is Joe Biden suggesting openly that they didn't have any vaccine when he came into office.

00:22:38.000 Here was Joe Biden last night during the CNN town hall.

00:22:41.000 The biggest thing, though, as you remember, when you and I... I shouldn't say it that way, as you remember, but when you and I talked last, we talked about it's one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn't have when we came into office, but a vaccinator.

00:22:54.000 How do you get the vaccine into someone's arm?

00:22:56.000 The F is he talking about?

00:22:57.000 I shouldn't say that.

00:23:01.000 He's so with it, man.

00:23:02.000 Okay, he literally said we didn't have vaccine when he came into office.

00:23:04.000 Trump says that?

00:23:05.000 It's a lie.

00:23:06.000 Biden says it, and Daniel Dale, fact checker extraordinaire, over at CNN says, Biden had said just prior there were only 50 million doses when he took office. I'm looking into that claim, but he clearly wasn't trying to claim the vaccine did not exist at all under Trump.

00:23:18.000 Oh, you mean now you're going to contextualize?

00:23:20.000 Oh, got it.

00:23:21.000 Right, because this is the way that it works for the fact-checkers.

00:23:23.000 When a Democrat says something that's untrue, it requires context.

00:23:26.000 When a Republican says something that requires context, it's just untrue.

00:23:30.000 That's the way that this works for the Democrats and their friends in the fact-checking media.

00:23:34.000 Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to Joe Biden and his COVID takes.

00:23:38.000 So here's the thing about Joe Biden and his COVID takes.

00:23:40.000 So when Joe Biden says that we didn't have the vaccine, obviously that is untrue.

00:23:44.000 There were a million shots given the day that Joe Biden took office.

00:23:47.000 Not only that, Joe Biden knows that the vaccine was there because Joe Biden was inoculated on January 11th.

00:23:52.000 So maybe it was a slip of the tongue.

00:23:54.000 But Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post suggested that it was because Joe Biden has a stutter that this happened.

00:23:59.000 Joe Biden doesn't make that excuse for himself.

00:24:01.000 No, it's that Joe Biden is not all there.

00:24:03.000 We all know this.

00:24:04.000 To pretend otherwise is to fail to look facts directly in the face.

00:24:08.000 We are all aware of this.

00:24:09.000 It's not the end of the world.

00:24:10.000 We've had a lot of presidents who are half senile.

00:24:12.000 But the notion that Joe Biden is in full command here It's pretty wild.

00:24:17.000 Meanwhile, he continues to trot out a completely all over the place COVID policy.

00:24:22.000 And Biden's COVID policy is just all over the place.

00:24:24.000 He's got his, he's unleashed members of his administration to say that the schools should essentially never reopen.

00:24:30.000 And he's got people out there saying they should reopen as soon as possible.

00:24:32.000 And he's got his press secretary, Jen Psaki, saying, what if we opened it one day a week?

00:24:36.000 And now Joe Biden's like, well, what if we opened it all the days a week?

00:24:38.000 I don't have any idea what you guys want.

00:24:39.000 I don't know what you're saying.

00:24:41.000 All I know is that I don't trust you because I have no idea what the hell you're talking about.

00:24:44.000 Here was Joe Biden disowning Jen Psaki's response on schools, for example.

00:24:47.000 Remember, Jen Psaki said the goal was in 100 days to have 50% of schools open to hybrid learning, meaning one day a week.

00:24:54.000 Now here is Joe Biden walking that back and just taking his press secretary and just dumping her right under the bus.

00:25:00.000 Your administration had set a goal to open the majority of schools in your first hundred days.

00:25:05.000 You're now saying that means those schools may only be open for at least one day a week.

00:25:10.000 No, that's not true.

00:25:11.000 That's what was reported.

00:25:12.000 That's not true.

00:25:14.000 It was a mistake in the communication.

00:25:16.000 But what I'm talking about is, I said, opening the majority of schools in K through 8th grade.

00:25:24.000 Because they're the easiest to open, the most needed to be open in terms of the impact on children and families having to stay home.

00:25:32.000 So when do you think that would be K through 8?

00:25:34.000 At least five days a week.

00:25:35.000 I think we'll be close to that at the end of the first hundred days.

00:25:41.000 Okay, so now he's shifting the standard again.

00:25:42.000 Do you believe him or do you think they're going to walk that one back today?

00:25:46.000 My guess is within the next week, they will walk down on backs.

00:25:48.000 That's not what the teachers unions want. 0.91

00:25:49.000 That is not what the teachers unions want.

00:25:51.000 Meanwhile, he is again shifting timelines.

00:25:53.000 He now says that all the shots are going to be available, right?

00:25:56.000 He changed it even over the course of 24 hours.

00:25:58.000 He said, we're going to try and get everybody inoculated by like July.

00:26:01.000 Now he's like, well, we'll have enough vaccines to inoculate everybody by July, which means not everybody's going to be inoculated by July.

00:26:07.000 So he's finally asked, when will things be back to normal?

00:26:10.000 And here's Biden explaining that things will be back to normal You know, like in forever.

00:26:15.000 Here is the President of the United States.

00:26:17.000 God love us.

00:26:19.000 By next Christmas, I think we'll be in a very different circumstance, God willing, than we are today.

00:26:27.000 I think a year from now, when it's 22 below zero here, no, a year from now, I think that there'll be significantly fewer people having to be socially distanced, have to wear a mask, etc.

00:26:43.000 But we don't know.

00:26:45.000 Is he insane? 0.87

00:26:46.000 Is he insane? 0.99

00:26:47.000 A year from now?

00:26:48.000 I mean, I'm looking at my calendar.

00:26:50.000 It's the middle of February, dude.

00:26:52.000 You're saying February 2022, a significantly different number of people will be wearing masks and socially distancing than are now, but we don't know?

00:26:59.000 So he's just talking about forever.

00:27:02.000 Honest to God, what's the point of getting a vaccine if we can't go back to normal?

00:27:05.000 I don't know.

00:27:06.000 Especially if you're young and healthy.

00:27:07.000 What is the point, if you are 20 years old, of going out and getting a vaccine if you can't go back to normal after you take the vaccine?

00:27:12.000 Here's the reality. 0.99

00:27:13.000 Nobody's going to do any of this crap. 0.99

00:27:14.000 Nobody's going to do any of this crap. 0.97

00:27:16.000 As soon as there is any significant level of vaccination in the American community, meaning people over 65 have gotten vaccinated, and people who are more vulnerable have gotten vaccinated, we're all going back to normal. 0.91

00:27:24.000 We're going back to ballgames.

00:27:25.000 We're going back to theaters.

00:27:26.000 Everything is going to go back to normal.

00:27:27.000 Because nobody is going to do this.

00:27:30.000 This is not how human beings were meant to live.

00:27:32.000 We are not going to continue doing this just because Joe Biden fears that there might be a COVID variant at some point in the unspecified future that could do damage.

00:27:41.000 By the way, if we are treating schools this way, for COVID, we should truly shut down the schools entirely.

00:27:46.000 Because guess what's more dangerous to kids than COVID?

00:27:50.000 All the things, pretty much.

00:27:51.000 COVID is less dangerous than the flu.

00:27:53.000 We don't shut down the schools in the fall because of flu.

00:27:57.000 Maybe we need to.

00:27:58.000 Maybe we need to socially distance and mask forever.

00:28:00.000 This is just nonsense.

00:28:00.000 There is no coherent policy coming out of this administration.

00:28:03.000 None.

00:28:05.000 The lack of a coherent policy is truly amazing.

00:28:07.000 But the good news is, That you always have Dr. Anthony Fauci to clarify things.

00:28:12.000 And by clarify things, I mean be a complete, opaque, an opaque piece of glass that no one can see through.

00:28:20.000 Fauci, I went, you can see my trajectory on Fauci.

00:28:24.000 Go back and watch at the beginning of this pandemic.

00:28:27.000 I defended Fauci repeatedly.

00:28:28.000 I said, you know, all of the rage against Fauci is unjustified.

00:28:31.000 Fauci is just a guy trying to do his best.

00:28:33.000 Now it's pretty clear that Fauci is a political hack.

00:28:36.000 Or at least he has morphed into one over the course of time.

00:28:39.000 Here's a perfect example.

00:28:40.000 So Dr. Anthony Fauci, the COVID clarifier, the man who speaks truth to power, right?

00:28:44.000 He's just given him a $1 million prize for quote-unquote speaking truth to power.

00:28:47.000 The highest paid man in the federal government, Anthony Fauci.

00:28:51.000 He was asked about Andrew Cuomo, lying about nursing home numbers.

00:28:55.000 Remember, he had said that Andrew Cuomo was essentially a model governor.

00:28:58.000 Fauci said earlier this year that Andrew Cuomo was doing exactly all the right things in New York and we should follow the lead of Andrew Cuomo.

00:29:04.000 Then he was asked, you know, Andrew Cuomo lied about the number of people who died in nursing homes and were infected in nursing homes.

00:29:09.000 So, got any comments, Dr. Fauci?

00:29:12.000 And all of a sudden, Fauci, who can't shut up about Donald Trump, is like, I have nothing to say about Andrew Cuomo.

00:29:16.000 I don't know.

00:29:17.000 I don't know.

00:29:18.000 Fauci, here he is.

00:29:20.000 He's argued that his state was following federal guidelines when he ordered those long-term care facilities to accept patients returning from hospitals.

00:29:28.000 I wonder, can you clear that up?

00:29:30.000 Was he actually following federal guidelines to do that?

00:29:34.000 You know, Jim, I can't.

00:29:35.000 I mean, I'm sorry.

00:29:35.000 I'm not, I'm really, I'm honestly not trying to evade your question, but I'm not really sure of all the details of that.

00:29:42.000 And I think if I make a statement, it's probably, could either be incorrect or taken out of context.

00:29:46.000 So I prefer not to comment on that.

00:29:49.000 Well, I mean, wouldn't that be nice if he had refused to comment on many things over the course of the last year?

00:29:53.000 You know, as opposed to taking eight different positions on masks and 37 different positions on school reopenings.

00:29:57.000 But don't worry.

00:29:58.000 You know what he will comment on?

00:30:00.000 Anthony Fauci will come out and he will defend Kamala Harris for overtly lying.

00:30:03.000 Kamala Harris said that there was no vaccine plan when she came into office.

00:30:05.000 It's not true.

00:30:06.000 So, here was Anthony Fauci defending Kamala Harris' lie because he knows where his bread is buttered at this point.

00:30:11.000 He knows that the right doesn't like him very much and that the left loves him.

00:30:14.000 Gotta keep that credibility flow in there, Dr. Fauci.

00:30:18.000 Here he was defending Kamala Harris, the apolitical scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

00:30:22.000 What I think the vice president is referring to is that the actual plan of getting the vaccine doses into people's arms was really rather vague.

00:30:33.000 I mean, it was not a well-coordinated plan.

00:30:36.000 Getting the vaccines made, getting them shipped through Operation Warp Speed was okay.

00:30:41.000 But I believe what the vice president is referring to is what is the process of actually getting these doses into people.

00:30:49.000 Oh, weird, because if you actually take a look at the tranching out of doses, what you will see is that, number one, states are the ones making those decisions.

00:30:57.000 Number two, you can see what the line looks like in terms of the number of vaccines that have been tranched out, and it looks like a direct straight line, starting at the beginning of January.

00:31:05.000 There was no dramatic exponential uptick under Joe Biden.

00:31:08.000 It's just a continuation of the exact same line, which means that Biden has been using the same plan.

00:31:13.000 Okay, but Dr. Anthony Fauci, super apolitical.

00:31:16.000 Super apolitical.

00:31:16.000 And the media will defend these folks.

00:31:18.000 They'll defend them until the end of time.

00:31:20.000 They can lie to you.

00:31:21.000 They can say things that are untrue.

00:31:22.000 They can spin.

00:31:23.000 And they will be defended under all circumstances. 0.85

00:31:26.000 Which is why Jen Psaki, the White House Press Secretary, can get out there and just say ridiculous things on a regular basis to the wild cheers of the media. 1.00

00:31:33.000 We're gonna get to Jen Psaki, the most transparent and wonderful of all members of the White House Press Corps, in just one second.

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00:34:43.000 Okay, meanwhile, Jen Psaki over at the White House getting away with her brand, her unique brand of dishonesty. 1.00

00:34:55.000 So, she says a lot of things.

00:34:57.000 A lot of things does Jen Psaki. 0.99

00:34:58.000 So, one of my favorites.

00:35:00.000 You remember there was this big scandal where the White House Deputy Press Secretary, a person named T.J.

00:35:04.000 Ducklow, was dating a person over at Axios, who was covering the Biden transition team and the Biden White House and the Biden campaign.

00:35:10.000 And some people at Politico started covering that particular story.

00:35:15.000 And so T.J.

00:35:15.000 Ducklow called up the woman who was covering the story and basically suggested that she suffered from some sort of sexual jealousy.

00:35:20.000 And then it took them like fully four or five days to fire the guy.

00:35:23.000 First they tried to suspend him.

00:35:24.000 Then when it became clear that the controversy was not going away, they fired him.

00:35:27.000 So Jen Psaki was asked about this.

00:35:29.000 How refreshing, Jen Psaki.

00:35:30.000 And she said, no, you know what?

00:35:32.000 We did the right thing in the end, right?

00:35:33.000 So we get credit for that, huh?

00:35:35.000 I think the president leads by example, and I try to do the same.

00:35:39.000 And on Saturday, when we announced that T.J.

00:35:43.000 Ducklow had resigned his position, something we all agreed was the right path forward, I made clear that every day we're going to try to meet the standard set out by the president in treating others with dignity and respect, with civility, and with a value for others through our words and our actions.

00:35:59.000 He's no longer employed here, and I think that speaks for itself.

00:36:03.000 Well, I mean, you know what speaks for itself?

00:36:04.000 The fact that you guys tried to suspend him for a week and get away with it.

00:36:06.000 That's what speaks for itself.

00:36:08.000 Other things that Jen Psaki said yesterday.

00:36:10.000 This one's pretty great.

00:36:11.000 So, she was doing one of these live-to-camera mailbags, essentially.

00:36:14.000 People were asking her questions.

00:36:16.000 And somebody tweeted at her, What is President Biden doing for my small business?

00:36:19.000 Listen to this.

00:36:19.000 This is the worst answer I have ever heard to this particular question.

00:36:23.000 What is President Biden doing for my small business?

00:36:25.000 First and foremost, he nominated a woman to lead the Small Business Administration who formerly worked there.

00:36:31.000 Second thing is he signed an executive order to make it easier for minority-owned small businesses to get access to the funding that they need.

00:36:39.000 Okay, so I want to focus in there on that first answer.

00:36:43.000 So, the first thing, the most important thing.

00:36:45.000 How are you going to help my small business? 0.99

00:36:47.000 Well, someone with a vagina, I assume, is going to be leading the small business administration. 1.00

00:36:52.000 Although, according to the White House press secretary, Some women have penises. 1.00

00:36:56.000 So I really don't know what it means that a woman was nominated to lead the SBA because it could literally be a woman or a man. 0.99

00:37:01.000 I don't know what any of that means.

00:37:02.000 But it is very important to you that your small business will be helped because a person who identifies as female is going to be leading the Small Business Administration, as opposed to like, you know, under the Trump administration, where Linda McMahon was leading the SBA.

00:37:15.000 A woman.

00:37:16.000 So yeah, really well done there, Jen Psaki.

00:37:19.000 And everybody's like, oh, she's incredible!

00:37:23.000 The gaslighting, I can't take it.

00:37:24.000 I can't take it anymore.

00:37:25.000 And we're in like month one. 0.98

00:37:28.000 It's going to be a very, very long four years with this media in place because they are just garbage at this. 0.75

00:37:33.000 By the way, the Biden administration is actually going to push some pretty bad policy here. 0.89

00:37:37.000 Jen Psaki suggested yesterday that they're going to radically shift on foreign policy, which we all knew was coming.

00:37:42.000 So the best part of the Trump administration, by far, was its foreign policy.

00:37:46.000 By far.

00:37:47.000 They didn't start any new wars.

00:37:48.000 First administration in my lifetime they didn't.

00:37:50.000 They brokered several peace deals in the Middle East.

00:37:53.000 First administration in my lifetime to seriously do that.

00:37:56.000 And the takeaway is all of that was wrong, according to Joe Biden's press secretary.

00:38:01.000 What we need is a return of the foreign policy blob that bullies Israel into making concessions to terrorists and also kowtows to China and all the rest of this nonsense. 0.91

00:38:09.000 Here is Jen Psaki pushing bad policy. 1.00

00:38:10.000 But at least we have a girl who runs the SBA. 1.00

00:38:12.000 That's the important thing.

00:38:14.000 I can assure you that the president, this president does not have, is not looking to the last presidency as the model for his foreign policy moving forward. President Biden has been working in the global arena for decades. And what he means by foreign policy for the middle class is ensuring that our team working on economic issues, our team working on national security issues, our teams thinking about how policies impact the American people are talking and that we make

00:38:43.000 decisions and make policies through that prism.

00:38:46.000 So that was a lot of oatmeal coming out of her mouth right there. 1.00

00:38:49.000 Because that meant nothing except that we don't like Trump and so we're going to dump over all of his foreign policy accomplishments.

00:38:54.000 Now, here's the thing.

00:38:55.000 Why are they allowed to get away with this?

00:38:57.000 They're going to get away with an awful lot of bad policy.

00:38:59.000 They're going to be getting away with an awful lot of lies.

00:39:01.000 They've done so so far for over a month.

00:39:04.000 And that is apparently going to be the new normal.

00:39:07.000 The new normal is they just get away with lying.

00:39:09.000 And the answer is because the media are in on it.

00:39:11.000 Because the media are part of this.

00:39:12.000 The media are a propaganda outlet.

00:39:14.000 Your establishment media are a propaganda outlet on behalf of Joe Biden's administration.

00:39:18.000 The same people who are declaring for years that Fox News is a propaganda outlet for Donald Trump, they are significantly worse when it comes to Biden. 0.91

00:39:25.000 At least there were hosts on Fox News who were critical of Trump when Trump did dumb or bad things.

00:39:31.000 You cannot find hosts on CNN who are critical of the Biden administration when they do bad things.

00:39:36.000 Because according to people at CNN, they've never done a bad thing.

00:39:39.000 Occasionally, Jake Tapper will ask a tough question.

00:39:41.000 That's pretty much it.

00:39:43.000 Meanwhile, the entire media has dedicated itself to focusing in on the thing that affects the most Americans right now, the most important thing in the world, and that, of course, is the January 6th riots that happened six weeks ago and are over, and which Trump was impeached in the House for, and he's not in office anymore.

00:39:58.000 But the good news is, you've got the media defending the Democratic Party against any and all who point out that the Democratic Party is, in fact, a radical party that has backed violence in the past.

00:40:09.000 And the media are working overtime.

00:40:11.000 They are working overtime for the Democratic Party at this point.

00:40:13.000 So, gotta play a couple clips on this.

00:40:15.000 So, Joe Scarborough, a person who five minutes ago was chuckling it up with Donald Trump when he was running for president in 2016.

00:40:22.000 He was getting together with him, he and Mika, they were watching debates together.

00:40:27.000 It was all good times for Joe Scarborough.

00:40:29.000 Then, Scarborough decided that Trump was the font head of all evil.

00:40:32.000 Now, Joe Scarborough is saying that there is no way to criticize the Black Lives Matter riots of the summer In comparison with the Capitol attack.

00:40:41.000 The level of elitism that is implicit in this commentary is pretty astonishing.

00:40:48.000 Let's just listen to what Scarborough has to say, because this does reflect what many in the media think, and it is so dismissive of the concerns of tens of millions of Americans.

00:40:55.000 Here is Joe Scarborough saying, you can never, ever, ever point out that there's violence on both sides of the aisle and that many mainstream figures on the left side of the aisle have given the go-ahead to violence.

00:41:03.000 You can't do that.

00:41:03.000 Here's Joe Scarborough.

00:41:05.000 I know there are idiots on other cable news channels that will say, well, you know, this mom-and-pop store was vandalized during the summer riots, and that's just as bad as the United States Capitol being vandalized. 0.99

00:41:19.000 No. 0.99

00:41:19.000 No, actually, no. 0.99

00:41:21.000 No, jackass, it's not. 0.95

00:41:24.000 The Capitol of the United States of America is the center of American democracy. 0.96

00:41:30.000 And while I am a fierce believer in people's right to defend their private property, I'm not going to confuse a taco stand with the United States Capitol.

00:41:41.000 See, the taco stand is just something that you personally invested in and built a business yourself.

00:41:45.000 And if somebody burns that down, I mean, that's not that big a deal.

00:41:48.000 If they attack a taxpayer building and then the taxpayer building immediately gets cleaned by a crew and is defended by, you know, police officers and everything, then that's much like, why do we care about your taco stand again?

00:41:58.000 I'm just confused.

00:41:59.000 How about this?

00:41:59.000 How about both things are bad?

00:42:01.000 I mean, why can't we just say that?

00:42:02.000 Like, people invading the Capitol building is a tremendous act of evil.

00:42:05.000 You know what else is an act of evil?

00:42:06.000 Burning down a guy's taco stand.

00:42:08.000 That is an act of evil.

00:42:09.000 It is absolute evil to burn down somebody's private property because you are pissed about an unrelated issue or because you're just taking advantage of the chaos surrounding that unrelated issue to do damage to somebody.

00:42:18.000 By the way, it wasn't just a taco stand, Joe.

00:42:21.000 The Black Lives Matter riots did $2 billion in damage. 0.97

00:42:25.000 $2 billion, according to insurance estimates.

00:42:27.000 It was the single most damaging spate of rioting in American history, what happened over the summer.

00:42:33.000 The amount of property damage done at the Capitol was far less than that.

00:42:37.000 That's not to minimize what happened at the Capitol.

00:42:38.000 On an ideological level, it was an act of evil.

00:42:40.000 It was an attempt to overthrow the workings of democracy.

00:42:44.000 It failed.

00:42:45.000 It failed that day.

00:42:46.000 It didn't go on for months.

00:42:47.000 It didn't have massive support from the political infrastructure. 0.87

00:42:51.000 There's a bunch of nutcases deciding they were gonna run into the Capitol building and act like jackasses and photograph themselves and put it on Instagram so they can get arrested later. 0.93

00:42:58.000 That's not to downplay the evil. 0.97

00:43:01.000 But I'm not the one downplaying evil here.

00:43:02.000 It's Joe Scarborough who's downplaying evil.

00:43:03.000 If you burn down a dude's taco stand, apparently that just doesn't rank in the list of priorities.

00:43:08.000 Because for the media, the only thing that matters is what they do for a living, and that is covering the government.

00:43:12.000 And the government is the only thing that matters, because they cover it.

00:43:16.000 So if your property got burned down, no biggie.

00:43:19.000 And if Democrats backed that, no biggie again.

00:43:21.000 Don Lemon making that point.

00:43:23.000 He says, listen, you know, Kamala Harris, sure, she raised money for rioters' legal fees, but that's not a big deal.

00:43:27.000 By the way, Don Lemon portraying himself as an objective journalist, you could switch out the transcripts of Joy Reid and Don Lemon.

00:43:32.000 They would read exactly the same.

00:43:34.000 Joy Reid at least doesn't present herself as objective.

00:43:36.000 Don Lemon does.

00:43:37.000 So here is Don Lemon suggesting that it's perfectly fine for Kamala Harris to raise money for rioters' legal fees because it's legal. 0.98

00:43:43.000 It's okay.

00:43:45.000 Because here's the thing.

00:43:46.000 They don't care if your business gets burned down.

00:43:48.000 All they care about is their political point of view.

00:43:52.000 All they care about is the stuff that is important to them.

00:43:54.000 Now, the stuff that's important to them can be important.

00:43:56.000 But the stuff that's important to you is also important.

00:43:58.000 And by the way, has a much more dramatic impact on your life.

00:44:00.000 If somebody burns down your store, that has a much more dramatic personal impact on you than a bunch of Yahoo jackasses running into the Capitol building and breaking some windows.

00:44:09.000 In terms of personal impact to you, not in terms of impact on the country at large, in terms of personal impact on you, and you know it has a big impact on the country as well, when a bunch of political figures and members of media say it's okay to burn down your taco stand.

00:44:21.000 The dismissive and derisive tone toward people who run businesses in this country and who have invested their life savings in those businesses and who want to live in peace and security in their communities, the dismissive tone is astonishing.

00:44:31.000 Here is Don Lemon defending Kamala Harris bailing out rioters.

00:44:36.000 After the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last spring, thousands of people, including Black Lives Matter supporters, took to the streets.

00:44:43.000 Kamala Harris tweeted support for donations to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.

00:44:51.000 Which helped people post bail if they were arrested while protesting.

00:44:56.000 So let's set the record straight.

00:44:57.000 There was no bailing out, right?

00:45:00.000 Kamala Harris tweeted about a fund to help people post bail, which is entirely legal.

00:45:09.000 Okay, so, um, no, that's called bailing out.

00:45:11.000 If I post a donation link to a bailing out people fund, and those people are not generally arrested for protesting, because protesting is legal, The people who are in jail were rioting.

00:45:22.000 They were committing crimes.

00:45:24.000 That is why they had been arrested in the first place.

00:45:27.000 But according to Don Lemon, that's totally fine.

00:45:28.000 Why is it totally fine?

00:45:29.000 Because he agrees with those people.

00:45:31.000 Because he thinks that those people are doing something that is just and noble.

00:45:34.000 And so it's fine.

00:45:34.000 By the way, I will point out to Don Lemon, you know what else is legal?

00:45:37.000 Perfectly legal.

00:45:37.000 The President of the United States saying untrue things about an election and telling people to peacefully and patriotically march to protest at a Capitol.

00:45:44.000 That is perfectly legal.

00:45:46.000 I don't think that was Don Lemon's perspective on Donald Trump's behavior on January 6th, do you?

00:45:51.000 The utter imbalance in the media is going to be the continuing issue of our time and it's not going away.

00:45:56.000 You want to talk about the fact that we live in two different universes when it comes to the facts?

00:45:59.000 It's because there's an entire industry that is dedicated to lying.

00:46:04.000 Okay?

00:46:04.000 To telling a narrative that is different from the facts and defending people who agree with that narrative.

00:46:10.000 Now, we've tried on this show to differentiate between things that are fact and things that are my opinion.

00:46:14.000 I try to do that every single day.

00:46:16.000 I've said things that many of my listeners disagree with because I think that it's important for you to know the difference between my opinion and something that is factual.

00:46:22.000 Members of our media, they don't care.

00:46:23.000 And I'm honest with you about my own biases.

00:46:25.000 Don Lemon is not.

00:46:27.000 That imbalance is creating the massive distrust of institutions.

00:46:30.000 And know that distrust of institutions is not going to go away.

00:46:34.000 It's not going to go away anytime soon.

00:46:35.000 And that is why you're starting to see the left get more and more authoritarian.

00:46:38.000 The left realizes that in order for them to have a prevailing point of view here, in order to end the polarization, there are only two ways to do it.

00:46:44.000 One is to come back to the table.

00:46:45.000 They don't want to do that.

00:46:47.000 And start being honest.

00:46:47.000 They're not going to do that.

00:46:49.000 And the other is just to purge.

00:46:50.000 The other is to cram down their particular point of view through woke purges.

00:46:55.000 Speaking of which, let's talk about the cancel culture for a moment.

00:46:57.000 So one of the greatest forms of gaslighting that's happening in our society right now is this push by the left to cancel people, to destroy their careers, to go to people's bosses, to get them fired, to destroy their livelihoods, to get them kicked out of schools, based on old media posts or misinterpreted comments.

00:47:12.000 And then, and then, to say that's not happening.

00:47:16.000 Cancel culture is just consequences for your actions, guys.

00:47:18.000 That's all cancel culture is.

00:47:20.000 Well, the question is, are the consequences calibrated to the crime?

00:47:23.000 Or was there even a crime committed?

00:47:25.000 That's what we mean by cancel culture.

00:47:27.000 Nobody is deeply worried about you speaking out against somebody you disagree with.

00:47:30.000 That ain't cancel culture.

00:47:31.000 You know what is cancel culture? 0.71

00:47:32.000 Going to their employer and getting them fired for saying something online that you didn't like unrelated to their job.

00:47:37.000 That's cancel culture. 0.99

00:47:38.000 And you guys are pushing it every single day.

00:47:41.000 But here's the thing.

00:47:42.000 The left has pushed too far.

00:47:43.000 The authoritarian left, which has taken over nearly every institution of American life.

00:47:46.000 We're talking about from corporate America, which is now cramming down bullcrap diversity woke training sessions on you, to Hollywood, which has determined that if you are a conservative, you cannot work there.

00:47:56.000 And also, they're only going to produce films that trend toward one political side of the aisle.

00:48:00.000 And TV shows that trend toward one political side of the aisle. 0.82

00:48:03.000 Whether you're talking about the scientific community, which has caved in large measure to the woke, there are scientific journals that now ban studies.

00:48:11.000 I'm not kidding about this.

00:48:12.000 There are scientific journals that ban studies if those studies have quote-unquote disparate impact.

00:48:16.000 You're not allowed to publish a study if people could use the study to push for policy that is not in conjunction with leftist points of view.

00:48:25.000 Every place from science to Hollywood to corporate America, Every place from government to universities, the authoritarian left is in control of the means of dissemination of information, and they're in control of millions of people who work every single day in this country and pay taxes.

00:48:41.000 They're in control of their lives.

00:48:44.000 And so, what the left is afraid of, very much, is that the authoritarian left, which does not represent the majority in this country, the woke authoritarian left, which loves canceling people, and makes life miserable, and wishes to eliminate all jokes and all fun, and wants to keep tabs on Clubhouse, and wants to keep tabs on Facebook and Twitter, and make sure that they're watching you every minute of every day, to make sure you don't say anything that they don't agree with, those people are annoying, they are Puritan, they are McCarthyists, and nobody likes them.

00:49:11.000 Okay, but they have, We've created a power structure at the top of these institutions by being what is called an intransigent minority in social science talk.

00:49:21.000 So I've talked before on the show about renormalization.

00:49:23.000 The process of renormalization is how you take over an organization.

00:49:26.000 So if you want to take over an organization, it does not require you to have a majority of the stock in a corporation to take over the corporation from the inside, for example.

00:49:33.000 All it requires is about 20% of people to agree that they are not going to go along with an agenda item and the other 80% of people to be kind of wishy-washy about it or silenced.

00:49:41.000 That's all it requires.

00:49:43.000 Renormalization is pretty easy to make happen.

00:49:45.000 The example that I've used before is an example that is taken from Nicholas Nassim Taleb, which is the example of a vegan daughter in a meat-eating home.

00:49:57.000 The vegan daughter says to mom, listen, you guys can make whatever meal you want, I'm only eating vegan tonight.

00:50:01.000 Now mom has two choices. 1.00

00:50:02.000 She can either make two meals, one for the vegan daughter and one for everybody else, or she can make one meal a vegan meal for everybody. 0.99

00:50:08.000 And so the entire family is now eating vegan.

00:50:10.000 Now that family goes to a street barbecue.

00:50:12.000 And they say, listen, we eat vegan now because of our daughter.

00:50:15.000 We need you to either serve us vegan and serve everybody else barbecue, or everybody can eat vegan.

00:50:20.000 And so the neighbor is only inviting four families.

00:50:22.000 They're like, that's a lot of hassle.

00:50:22.000 I'm just gonna order out vegan for everybody.

00:50:24.000 Because why waste the extra money?

00:50:26.000 It's too much.

00:50:27.000 Now you've taken one person, and I got 16 or 20 people who are all eating vegan because of this one person, right?

00:50:31.000 Renormalization is not hard to make happen.

00:50:33.000 Well, in the world of the institutions, this is what the authoritarian left has done.

00:50:37.000 They have said, we are not going to work in the same corporations as you if you do X. If you say X, we're not gonna work with you.

00:50:44.000 And we're gonna bitch to our bosses. 0.98

00:50:46.000 And we're going to threaten lawsuits. 0.79

00:50:48.000 And so the bosses, they say, you know what?

00:50:49.000 It's not worth the hassle. 0.93

00:50:51.000 Just tell everybody to shut up.

00:50:52.000 You should buy a diversity training manual from Ibram Kendi and maybe these people will silence and go away.

00:50:58.000 And so all of these institutions are essentially held hostage.

00:51:02.000 Now here's the problem for the people who are taking over the institutions.

00:51:05.000 Again, they remain a minority within their own institutions.

00:51:08.000 Nobody likes them.

00:51:09.000 But there is no solidarity and cohesiveness to the resistance to this phenomenon.

00:51:14.000 Right? 0.97

00:51:14.000 The other 80% of people who don't like this kind of crap, they are not getting together and saying, listen, we're going to fight back against this. 0.97

00:51:21.000 So now, now, we here at The Daily Wire and a lot of people on the right, we're starting to fight back against this. 0.98

00:51:26.000 Many of us are saying, you know what?

00:51:28.000 We're not okay with this.

00:51:29.000 And we gotta get together and reject this.

00:51:30.000 Do not cave to the cancel culture mob.

00:51:32.000 Do not listen to them.

00:51:33.000 Fight back.

00:51:34.000 Tell your employer that you're not gonna work with that guy if he wants to cancel you. 0.95

00:51:37.000 Tell him that you and 80% of your colleagues are not going to listen to Robin DiAngelo spew bullcrap to you about how being white is inherently supremacist.

00:51:47.000 And if you do that, you can actually re-normalize the institutions.

00:51:51.000 You can return them to normal.

00:51:53.000 So here's how the left is fighting that now.

00:51:55.000 They're fighting it with gaslighting.

00:51:56.000 They say, yeah, we understand that we've renormalized the institutions.

00:51:59.000 We understand that we are using authoritarian measures from the top down in order to cram down our particular point of view.

00:52:04.000 But it's all in your head.

00:52:06.000 It's all in your head.

00:52:06.000 Cancel culture is both good, but it's also in your head.

00:52:09.000 It's a perfect example of the genre.

00:52:10.000 Today, Philip Bump has a piece at the Washington Post, and he's very, very upset that people on the right are noticing cancel culture.

00:52:16.000 If you notice it, here's the problem.

00:52:18.000 If you notice cancel culture, you fight back against it.

00:52:20.000 And there are enough of us to fight back against cancel culture, but they can't succeed. 0.97

00:52:23.000 And the authoritarian left lose their foothold of control.

00:52:26.000 So instead, he has to say, no, no, no, you guys, you're not being canceled, you see.

00:52:30.000 You're just being faux victims.

00:52:31.000 So here's Philip Bump at the Washington Post today.

00:52:34.000 One of the best encapsulations of the past few years of politics came from President Donald Trump about a month after he lost his re-election bid last year.

00:52:40.000 Quote, we're all victims, he told an audience at a rally December 5th in Georgia.

00:52:43.000 Everybody here, all these people here tonight, they're all victims, every one of you.

00:52:46.000 Now he was talking about voter fraud.

00:52:49.000 He said they were victims of voter fraud, which wasn't true.

00:52:50.000 But Bump is going to use this as the jumping off point.

00:52:52.000 The sentiment was central to Trump's appeal to many Republican voters.

00:52:56.000 In the 2016 election, a sense that white Americans were losing out in modern society was a better predictor of support for Trump than economic disadvantage.

00:53:03.000 Trump voters, more than anyone else, saw racism against whites as a potent problem and were more likely to view whites as victims of discrimination at rates similar to racial and ethnic minorities.

00:53:11.000 Trump promised to make America great again, to wind back the clock to a time before things such as Black Lives Matter, to a time when the distributions of the rewards of American society weren't questioned.

00:53:19.000 You see the reframing here?

00:53:21.000 The reframing here is that if you just want to be treated as an individual, it's really because you're in favor of white supremacy and you don't want the hierarchies of power to be torn down.

00:53:28.000 That's the reframing.

00:53:29.000 Now...

00:53:30.000 All of that, that entire line of attack is replete in the cancel culture.

00:53:36.000 If I stand up for individual liberty and the meritocracy, it's because I'm secretly a racist and I should be canceled for saying these sorts of things.

00:53:43.000 Folks on the left are not, on the authoritarian left, they are not shy about saying this sort of stuff.

00:53:47.000 Ibram Kendi says it all the time.

00:53:49.000 This, of course, is a rip on us.

00:53:51.000 It's hard to articulate this sentiment explicitly, though, particularly to a group of Americans who are at the same time hyping their profane indifference to feelings and hawking mugs to hold liberal tears.

00:53:59.000 Right, this of course is a rip on us.

00:54:01.000 How dare we say that we are not in favor of feelings?

00:54:06.000 It's coded, packaged in other ways, such as the framing offered by delegate Kirk Cox, Republican of Virginia, a candidate for governor in the state.

00:54:13.000 quote, there's been so much silencing and shaming because of cancel culture it's gone too far.

00:54:17.000 He said in an ad released on Twitter, we can't even have a competition of ideas and for representative democracy to work you have to have that. The left simply cannot be allowed to ignore other opinions. So I as governor will not stand for that.

00:54:27.000 And now there's nothing wrong with that sentiment. But Philip bump is going to say that it's racist and paranoid to point out that people are being silenced, which is his attempt to silence people, ironically.

00:54:36.000 It's a nebulous phrase.

00:54:37.000 As you may be aware, it's an umbrella term for incidents in which people, usually public figures, have faced blowback for comments or actions, generally ones seen as culturally inappropriate.

00:54:45.000 It's a nebulous phrase, your definition may vary, but it centers on the idea that some people have been canceled, exiled from society for their views.

00:54:52.000 Cox obviously sees this as a politically potent position to take, and that we're mentioning it seems to bolster that idea, but so does a poll from the Huffington Post released on Conducted by YouGov, it found that while only half the country was familiar with the term, the vast majority of Republicans familiar with it see cancel culture as somewhat or very serious as a problem.

00:55:08.000 Since a similar poll conducted in September, the percentage of Trump voters familiar with the term who say cancel culture is a very serious problem increased by 14 percentage points.

00:55:16.000 If you're seeking a Republican nomination, amplifying those concerns seems to be warranted.

00:55:21.000 But this is bad.

00:55:22.000 But this is bad, according to Philip Bump.

00:55:24.000 Right?

00:55:24.000 Because cancel culture is a concept predicated on categorizing particular views as verboten.

00:55:28.000 And those views are often ones that overlap with the sense that whites and men are imperiled.

00:55:33.000 This is by no means always true.

00:55:34.000 Some concern about cancel culture also derives from social media bans.

00:55:37.000 But it's often the case, says Philip Bump of the Washington Post, that the concern expressed as part of the backlash to the perceived phenomenon is the same concern that Trump expressed to applause during his first primary Republican debate in August 2015.

00:55:49.000 His obnoxious comments about women were simply a mark that he wouldn't be beholden to a politically correct worldview.

00:55:55.000 And then he talks about why cancel culture is good, right? 0.91

00:55:57.000 Because cancel culture is about canceling the people that we don't like.

00:56:00.000 And we like canceling those people.

00:56:01.000 So, if you don't go along with that, it's because you have adopted a victimhood mentality, says Philip Bum.

00:56:07.000 He says, The message is that cultural elites, including the media, are trying to silence opposing views, but it's often a convenient claim.

00:56:20.000 None of this is that simple.

00:56:21.000 That, too, is the point.

00:56:23.000 Conflating all criticism into some Big Brother-esque effort at silencing half the country is a facile approach to the moment, which, of course, is why it's appealing to political actors. 0.90

00:56:30.000 Okay, this entire column is basically saying that if you're worried about the cancel culture, it's because you're a white supremacist.

00:56:35.000 Also, stop worrying about the cancel culture.

00:56:39.000 It's amazing.

00:56:40.000 But this is the perspective of the left.

00:56:41.000 This is how they're going to cudgel people into silence.

00:56:43.000 So here's the answer.

00:56:44.000 Don't be cuddled into silence.

00:56:46.000 Don't apologize.

00:56:47.000 Don't be cuddled into silence. 1.00

00:56:48.000 The left knows this crap works. 1.00

00:56:50.000 They know it works. 1.00

00:56:51.000 Okay, let me read you a quote from The Hollywood Reporter.

00:56:55.000 This is pretty amazing.

00:56:56.000 So The Hollywood Reporter was reporting about the firing of Mandalorian star Gina Carano, who is now over here with us over at Daily Wire, producing and starring in a film.

00:57:04.000 The Hollywood Reporter has a long piece about why Carano was tossed from Lucasfilm.

00:57:09.000 There's one quote in this piece that is particularly relevant.

00:57:13.000 It is from a crisis PR representative named Judah Engelmeyer.

00:57:15.000 Quote, I don't know what people at Disney personally believe or don't believe with regard to politics, but as a corporate entity, they want to stay as trouble-free as possible.

00:57:23.000 And anything that's going to offend the left is a problem.

00:57:27.000 I have clients who are making an extraordinary effort to post what the social left wants to see.

00:57:33.000 It's perfectly obvious what's going on here.

00:57:35.000 It's happening in every aspect of our culture.

00:57:37.000 You're not wrong to feel that you are under attack because you are under attack from all of the institutions that have been hijacked by the authoritarian left and then covered for by the mainstream establishment media that love this kind of stuff because it puts them in the driver's seat in American life.

00:57:53.000 And you can see the extent of this.

00:57:56.000 Bachelor stars are now coming out.

00:57:57.000 This is a great example of it.

00:57:58.000 Bachelor stars are now coming out and saying that Chris Harrison must be fired and major changes must be made to address The Bachelor's racism.

00:58:05.000 This is according to Emily Zanotti over at The Daily Wire.

00:58:08.000 If you've missed this story, which we've talked about a few times at this point, this is the most insane cancel culture story of the last few weeks.

00:58:14.000 Okay, it's insane.

00:58:15.000 Chris Harrison didn't even post anything controversial.

00:58:18.000 Chris Harrison is the host of The Bachelor.

00:58:20.000 There was a woman on The Bachelor who, by the way, is competing for the affections of a man who happens to be black. 0.99

00:58:27.000 And this woman, several years ago, attended an Old South party in which she dressed up in an Old South dress.

00:58:35.000 This, in and of itself, was deemed racist.

00:58:37.000 Then, Harrison said, you know what?

00:58:39.000 I'm not the woke police.

00:58:41.000 And the reality is that we should treat people with some grace and let her explain herself.

00:58:44.000 This was deemed second-degree racist.

00:58:47.000 Right?

00:58:47.000 We now have first-degree racism, which is you did it yourself.

00:58:49.000 Now we have second-degree racism, which is that you said a not-racist thing in favor of a person who might or might not have done a racist thing.

00:58:58.000 Right?

00:58:58.000 So we are now second-degree racism.

00:59:00.000 Okay, and so Harrison apologized for having said we might need to show people some grace.

00:59:05.000 By the way, you know who said the same thing?

00:59:06.000 The Bachelor star. 0.77

00:59:07.000 He said the same thing, but because he's black, we ignore that. 0.98

00:59:09.000 And because Harrison is white, this means that he is covertly a white supremacist.

00:59:14.000 He's being accused of perpetuating racism for speaking out against cancel culture and saying that she should be allowed to explain herself, this particular contestant, rather than face a judge, jury, and executioner on social media.

00:59:25.000 So now, old members of The Bachelor are coming out and saying that they want Harrison axed permanently.

00:59:33.000 Demario Jackson and Jubilee Sharp, two alumni of The Bachelor program, said that Harrison should lose his job.

00:59:39.000 Jubilee shared that during her time on the show, according to TMZ, she noticed that white contestants were treated better by producers.

00:59:44.000 DeMario told the site the franchise needs to make major changes in order to deflect further charges of racism.

00:59:49.000 Jackson said, Women who took part in the 25th season of The Bachelor released their own statement, demanding better treatment for black indigenous people of color contestants without naming Harrison specifically, and denounced the host for defending quote-unquote racist behavior.

01:00:09.000 They said we denounce any defense of racism.

01:00:12.000 These experiences are not to be exploited or tokenized.

01:00:16.000 Okay, so our mainstream establishment media, the people who, of course, are standing up for your right to speak freely, people like Don Lemon.

01:00:23.000 So Don Lemon hosts Bachelorette star Rachel Lindsay.

01:00:25.000 Now, recognize, Harrison said this on Rachel Lindsay's podcast, I believe.

01:00:29.000 And Rachel Lindsay got very offended because she is a former contestant. 0.90

01:00:34.000 She was the star of The Bachelorette. 0.82

01:00:36.000 And she, of course, is black. 0.68

01:00:37.000 So she's on with Don Lemon. 0.55

01:00:39.000 And they just spend a segment ripping into Chris Harrison for not being a racist.

01:00:43.000 But don't worry, guys.

01:00:43.000 Cancelled culture isn't real.

01:00:44.000 It's all in your head, and you're just thinking that you're victimized because you're a white supremacist. 0.99

01:00:49.000 So you should be cancelled. 0.94

01:00:50.000 But cancelled culture isn't real.

01:00:52.000 Because you're complaining about it. 1.00

01:00:53.000 Because you're a white supremacist, and you should be cancelled. 0.99

01:00:56.000 But cancelled culture isn't real. 1.00

01:00:58.000 Just keep repeating it over and over until it makes sense.

01:01:00.000 Here is Don Lemon with Rachel Lindsay going after Chris Harrison.

01:01:02.000 By the way, producer Savvy suggests that the play here is going to be that they eventually make Rachel Lindsay the host of The Bachelor, which would be The most perfectly predictable move.

01:01:13.000 I think it's a good call by Savvy.

01:01:14.000 Here is Don Lemon and the Bachelorette star Rachel Lindsay going after Chris Harrison for the great crime of saying that people deserve grace.

01:01:20.000 Why do you think Chris Harrison was willing to give Rachel Kirkconnell so much room for her hurtful actions, yet couldn't muster an empathy towards communities of color who were offended?

01:01:33.000 Well, I think that's the problem in our society, is that people aren't trying to understand the other side.

01:01:39.000 He knew how to defend himself and what he represents.

01:01:42.000 He hasn't taken the opportunity or the chance in almost 50 years.

01:01:47.000 Especially doing what he does in the history of this show to learn about racism and America.

01:01:54.000 That's actually the definition of privilege.

01:01:57.000 He's a white privileged man because he has been cancelled from the show for the great crime of saying that people should be treated decently and not mobbed by social media.

01:02:04.000 And Don Lemon is pushing that forward.

01:02:05.000 But don't you worry about cancel culture.

01:02:07.000 It's not coming for you.

01:02:08.000 I mean, it is, but it's not real. 0.98

01:02:10.000 And when it does come for you, if you complain about it, it's because you're a privileged white person and you should be wrecked. 0.95

01:02:15.000 But don't worry, we're not canceling you because it's just what you deserve. 0.96

01:02:19.000 The authoritarian left can be stood up to.

01:02:21.000 The biggest mistake here is that Chris Harrison apologized.

01:02:23.000 He never should have apologized.

01:02:24.000 He should have told them to stick it.

01:02:25.000 He should have told them to stick it the way that Gina Carano told them to stick it.

01:02:29.000 And more and more people in Hollywood, in business, we all need to do this together.

01:02:32.000 There needs to be a solidarity among those of us who wish to have open debate and discussion and not buy into a culture that says your life should be ruined because you said something that crosses the priorities of the woke left.

01:02:43.000 But again, the game of the media here is to pretend that you are a bad person for even noticing the bad thing they are doing to you.

01:02:49.000 You are the problem.

01:02:51.000 Well, here's the thing, you're not the problem, they're the problem.

01:02:52.000 And we all need to stand up and fight back against this nonsense.

01:02:55.000 Okay, quick note here on Rachel Lindsay, because I've just been informed of this by producer Savvy, who's on top of these things.

01:03:00.000 I mean, she really knows, I don't know what she does the rest of her day, honestly.

01:03:03.000 But in any case, she let me know about this yesterday.

01:03:05.000 So Rachel Lindsay, right, who you saw and heard in that clip with Don Lemon talking about the, Awful, evil Chris Harrison who committed the great sin of saying that people deserve grace and they shouldn't be wrecked on social media.

01:03:16.000 Let me just say, if a white person did what Rachel Lindsay did on her Instagram just a few months ago, that person would have been destroyed.

01:03:22.000 Like, their career would be over.

01:03:24.000 Because here's what Rachel Lindsay did a few months ago. 1.00

01:03:26.000 Okay, in the middle of the Black Lives Matter protest, she tweeted out a picture of herself in front of, I kid you not, a Cadillac XT6.

01:03:36.000 And here's what she wrote, quote, We are living in unprecedented times right now.

01:03:41.000 I know we cannot escape our reality, but we do what is necessary to take care of ourselves physically and mentally.

01:03:46.000 For me, I like to clear my head by going for a drive in my Cadillac XT6.

01:03:51.000 With its Bluetooth connectivity, I can easily connect to my phone to stream almost anything and everything with crystal clear audio on the standard Bose speaker system.

01:03:57.000 I can take this time to listen and learn from podcasts that support and uplift black voices.

01:04:03.000 It is so important that we take the time to understand what and why things are happening in our country.

01:04:08.000 What are some of your favorite podcasts that discuss these issues?

01:04:11.000 Share your recommendations in the comments and tell me how you're doing your part to share some good these days.

01:04:16.000 Hashtag ad.

01:04:17.000 Hashtag Cadillac community.

01:04:18.000 Hashtag Cadillac escapes.

01:04:20.000 Hashtag be the good.

01:04:23.000 So, there's some privilege happening right here.

01:04:27.000 And in Chris Harrison, I think that we can call you privileged.

01:04:31.000 If you are literally cutting an ad for Cadillac, While talking about uplifting black voices by listening to podcasts in your brand new Cadillac XT6 with Bluetooth capability on your Bose system.

01:04:49.000 That might be the definition of privilege right there.

01:04:52.000 I mean, like, wow.

01:04:53.000 Wow.

01:04:54.000 But don't worry.

01:04:54.000 Don Lemon is not privileged.

01:04:55.000 Rachel Lindsay is not.

01:04:57.000 They're victims.

01:04:57.000 They're victims in American society.

01:04:58.000 And not only are they victims, they have the power to cancel.

01:05:00.000 They've been given the power to cancel despite the fact that they are making presumably millions of dollars a year in the case of Don Lemon.

01:05:06.000 Or Rachel Lindsay, who is literally using Black Lives Matter to cut ads for a Cadillac Capitalism always wins, number one, is a lesson from this. 1.00

01:05:15.000 But number two, it is amazing to see the purveyors of cancel culture determine that they themselves can decide who is privileged and who is not based simply on skin color while standing in a very expensive outfit with an expensive purse, it looks like.

01:05:29.000 In front of a Cadillac XT6, bragging about how woke you are.

01:05:35.000 Truly amazing stuff there.

01:05:36.000 All righty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content.

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01:05:41.000 On today's episode, Michael will be talking about how a Philadelphia school honors black communism and black power.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 17, 2021

The Wind Turbines Are Frozen | Ep. 1197

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