00:00:42.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:25.000Thanks, Charlie, and thanks so much for the congratulations.
00:01:28.000I'm excited to get started, hit the ground running.
00:01:31.000Tell us about your vision for humanevents.com and what you want this website to be.
00:01:38.000Yeah, so we have a great staff at Postmillennial, and they're going to be shouldering some of the workload at Human Events as well, which is exciting.
00:01:48.000We also have a great spate of columnists already up at Human Events.
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00:01:55.000And what I'd really like to do is branch out a little bit into some of the international news that I think has really been popping lately and is not necessarily the post-millennial's purview.
00:02:08.000So that's pretty interesting and exciting.
00:02:10.000And also have some great columnists to tell us what they're thinking.
00:02:16.000I'd like to do some more rapid response pieces so that we can tackle the analysis of breaking news every day as it comes in.
00:02:25.000Yeah, so that's, you know, that's pretty much what we're looking at.
00:02:28.000We often have great columns from you, Charlie.
00:02:31.000We have Jack Pesobica's senior editor at Human Events, and he is usually entirely on fire.
00:02:45.000So I want to get into this story here that you've been covering this theme, this genre.
00:02:50.000And I'll be honest, Libby, you know, I was so appalled yesterday when I went to University of California, Santa Barbara, in one regard, of just the lackadaisical attitude that the college students had with trans individuals going after children.
00:03:07.000You know, they think it's part of initiation.
00:03:10.000Really, it's just really, you think about it.
00:03:12.000Now, this is not an example that happened in America, but there's plenty of similar examples that have happened in America.
00:03:17.000This one is so grotesque of a drag queen, erotic drag show for babies and children in the United Kingdom sparks international outrage for babies.
00:03:47.000I was like, oh, maybe David French is right.
00:03:49.000For those that don't know, it's kind of this wonky, nerdy, inner conservative piece of debate that went viral, what, four years ago, right, Libby?
00:04:00.000Yeah, so Rob against David French and David French took the neoliberal, hey, I don't like drag queens, but I'm going to fight for their right to be able to expose themselves and, you know, do all this stuff.
00:04:53.000Now, for those on podcasting or radio, I struggle to even explain that.
00:04:58.000I mean, Libby, how would you explain what we just saw?
00:05:00.000Just complete quasi-naked degeneracy in front of babies, right?
00:05:05.000Yeah, you have grown men doing flips and spinning around in barely any clothing and spreading their legs to the wild applause of parents who hold up their children to show them that this is normal behavior in our culture, that grown men wearing high heels and dancing around provocatively is what they can expect in life.
00:05:27.000It has been really a wild ride with this whole drag queen situation.
00:05:32.000As someone who came out of theater, I have a theater background.
00:05:49.000It's specifically for adults, by adults.
00:05:54.000And this transformation has been totally insane to see essentially the canonization of drag queens as some sort of crazy progressive saint.
00:06:04.000And the idea too, that we constantly hear that drag queens are not sexual, that this is not a sexualized activity.
00:06:33.000This is the intentional inclusion, and I use that word deliberately of sexualized content for children so that children's barriers are broken down, their guards are broken down.
00:06:44.000I remember when my son was little and I was taken by surprise when our library in Brooklyn was hosting drag story hours and there were kids, you know, in the room.
00:06:56.000I didn't take my son because that's really just not my jam.
00:07:11.000They don't want to get too close to the drag queens.
00:07:14.000And the parents are just like, no, honey, this is perfectly great and acceptable and good.
00:07:18.000And it's this intentional breaking down of children's barriers.
00:07:22.000Children have, they know what's yucky.
00:07:25.000They know in their stomach, they back away.
00:07:28.000We should encourage their instincts and not try and suppress them.
00:07:32.000And shows like this suppress children's instincts so that they can't recognize danger when it's staring them directly in the face.
00:07:39.000Westerners are so entitled and they have no idea how most civilizations operate.
00:07:44.000Roman historian writes, in Roman history, especially towards the fall of Rome, there were widespread sexual relationships between adult men and adolescent boys.
00:07:54.000This had been a common feature of the Greek world and was adapted by the Romans, who saw it as a natural expression of male privilege and domination.
00:08:00.000A Roman man would direct his sexual attention towards a slave boy or at times even a freeborn child and would continue to do so until the boy reached puberty.
00:08:09.000These relationships were seen as acceptable or even idealized form of love, the kind of love expressed itself in a poem, story, or song.
00:08:16.000In the Roman world, quote, a man's wife was often seen as beneath him and less than him, but a sexual relationship with another young boy represented a higher form of intellectual love and engagement.
00:08:26.000It was a man joining with that which was equal and could therefore share experience and ideas with him in a way he could not with a woman.
00:08:33.000Pedophilia was understood to be good, acceptable, moral, and loving in Roman times.
00:08:39.000Libby, any thoughts before we go to break on that?
00:08:42.000Yeah, so this was at the end of the Roman Empire, and I think we are clearly veering toward the end of our empire.
00:08:50.000But those anecdotes from Rome are actually used by people like state senator Scott Weiner in California to justify reducing the penalties for older gay men having relations of that nature with boys who are not yet of age.
00:09:12.000Yeah, look, groomers can't reproduce, so they recruit instead.
00:09:15.000And that's what we see time and time again.
00:09:19.000And just a quick question, one minute remaining, Libby.
00:09:23.000Why are parents seemingly okay with this?
00:09:24.000That's, I mean, I under, there's three types of people, right?
00:09:27.000There's infants, there's the protector of infants, and there's predators.
00:09:29.000Predators are always going to be around infants, they're always going to be around the protectors of infants, is the group that the West really institutionalized as a moral good.
00:10:55.000And I said, you know, mom, they're removing the breaths of healthy young girls in order to affirm to these girls that they can actually be males.
00:11:14.000Well, mom, because these are the people you're voting for.
00:11:16.000The people you're voting for are in favor of young girls doing this to themselves.
00:11:21.000Mom, they're doing drag queen story hours instead of just perhaps having, you know, retired people at nursing homes maybe read to kids, grandparents whose kids moved across the country, something like that.
00:14:26.000And I remember reading about something Mother Teresa said when she was asked, she's such a fascinating character in theology, but she had said, she had been asked about the second coming of Jesus Christ.
00:14:40.000And she, you know, why has this not happened yet?
00:14:44.000And she said, well, you know, God says that he keeps sending him and you keep aborting him.
00:14:51.000It's just quite a spiffy little comeback.
00:14:54.000But when you think about it, there is a huge scale.
00:14:57.000And it starts to make you think about the number of talented, beautiful, creative, loving, kind, world-changing, spectacular human beings who we will never know.
00:15:10.000If you hear my voice, you are a former fetus.
00:15:12.000And it just, it's sad because it shows the left has so little hope in humanity.
00:15:17.000How many Steve Jobs, how many game changers, how many amazing entrepreneurs were aborted?
00:16:51.000We are going to get into a topic that fires me up significantly because it is close to home, literally.
00:16:59.000And that is the intentional destruction thanks to the parasites and the locusts that have taken over Illinois and Chicago and destroyed the once greatest state and city in America.
00:17:09.000And they did it through a planned demolition so quickly.
00:17:12.000We have a great guest to help talk about his own personal experience about how he's suing the city.
00:17:18.000He's had his press credentials pulled.
00:17:20.000There's so many different angles to this.
00:17:38.000You're one of the only Maverick journalists that's actually trying to hold these people accountable.
00:17:43.000I visit from time to time, and I was just there this last weekend, and it depresses me what has happened to our beautiful city.
00:17:50.000Just, William, for a national audience, just walk through the last couple years, especially of what's happened in Chicago and what it used to be, even five years ago.
00:18:27.000And I was very, very, I guess you could say, I knew that, I always knew that we were on the like the brink of total destruction and collapse, but I had no idea that 2020 was going to hit so hard.
00:18:45.000And it was like right around my birthday and St. Patrick's Day, March, you know, 10th through the 17th on 2020 that Lightfoot and Predsker just locked it down.
00:18:57.000Schools, church, businesses, they canceled the St. Patrick's Day parade.
00:19:03.000Not only did I take it hard, I took it personally.
00:19:06.000I mean, you know, and I remember, and I decided that I was going to ask questions, you know, like we read history books about people in Germany who were, you know, who asked questions and things like this, you know?
00:20:53.000And by the way, what's really sad is the city I grew up in, I grew up in the suburbs, that the area I grew up in is the trib used to ask really good questions.
00:21:02.000I grew up that the trib used to actually get into adversarial back and forth with the dailies and with the aldermen.
00:21:10.000And it was good for ratings and it was good for the Sunday edition.
00:21:14.000WGN used to go into City Hall trying to almost challenge the consensus, not defend it.
00:21:25.000Mayor Lightfoot, I can totally understand why you would think another $100 million in grants would buy you the votes necessary to win re-election.
00:21:36.000But the business experts and this is okay, folks.
00:22:24.000I truly appreciate you because Chicago reporters, it wasn't until like the 20th time I went viral asking Mayor Lori Lightfoot, challenging her on lockdowns, lootings, carjackings, and mass shootings and having her literally call me stupid.
00:22:45.000I mean, you know, and it wasn't until like the 20th time that this went viral that Chicago reporters were like, oh, we're going to have to, we're going to have to get on this, this, on the same page as William Kelly.
00:23:00.000Otherwise, we're going to look like we're just working for life.
00:23:03.000Which is what, so I do have a question, though.
00:23:05.000I mean, was WBBM and WGN and the Trib and the Sun-Times, were they not asking any critical questions?
00:23:11.000Don't they have to live in this city as well?
00:23:14.000Mayor Lightfoot would say crime is down.
00:24:06.000That is exactly when it became, you know, this idea, you know, the, you know, like the old, what do they call it, the, you know, Wizard of Oz, you know, they pulled back the curtain.
00:24:17.000This little like Mayor Lightfoot, you know, and all of a sudden, people started to realize that she wasn't all powerful and that she wasn't telling the truth and that she was vulnerable and that somebody might actually be able to beat her in an election.
00:25:43.000The last press conference I tried to attend, I wanted to ask her about the spike in police suicides, you know, a serious issue.
00:25:51.000I, you know, I grew up in a cop neighborhood on the south side, the 19th ward, you know, a lot of Chicago city employees, police, fire, you know, teachers, et cetera.
00:26:02.000And, you know, this was a very important people.
00:26:07.000People started contacting me and saying, hey, Kelly, you're the only guy.
00:26:11.000Could you please, at the next city council press, you know, conference, ask Mayor Lightfoot about her policies about the, you know, regarding time off for the Chicago police.
00:26:21.000We've got a spike in the police suicides.
00:26:27.000And then I show up at the press at the city hall and they tell me my media credential has been revoked.
00:26:34.000I want to talk about that, but I want to play more your tape here because it's important for the audience to understand the importance of your work.
00:26:49.000Well, that's not true, but get to your question, sir.
00:26:53.000Real Chicagoans are asking me, how could you possibly even consider running for reelection as mayor of the city of Chicago after all the harm you've caused?
00:27:04.000Well, I disagree with you fundamentally.
00:27:07.000And I don't think I need to address any and dignify your comments one second further.
00:27:14.000And for asking these questions, they pulled your press credentials and you're suing them.
00:27:18.000So, William, I'm just curious, do they have a right to pull your press credentials?
00:27:27.000The entire complaint, by the way, because the truth has nothing to hide, can be found at reporterwilliamjkelly.com and click it, read it, and decide for yourself.
00:27:38.000You know, I believe that it is a clear First Amendment case.
00:27:52.000And when they decided that they couldn't have any more of this, we were getting closer and closer to her reelection campaign.
00:27:59.000She's, you know, and she did, she just realized that she could not possibly get re-elected mayor of the city of Chicago if I kept, you know, if one reporter kept showing up asking her real questions.
00:28:13.000And so, so, yeah, so we're in federal court as we speak.
00:28:36.000We, you know, they still haven't renewed my press credentials.
00:28:40.000So I'm still fighting to get my freedom of speech back.
00:28:43.000And I think that there are a lot of reporters, you know, if they can do this to me in Chicago, then they can do this to other reporters, other radio hosts.
00:28:52.000They can do this to other platforms, bloggers, websites.
00:28:59.000I mean, Mayor Lightfoot is not unique, sadly.
00:29:02.000There are a lot of Democrats around the country that want due to their, you know, if they've got a reporter who keeps asking, you know, asking them questions.
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00:32:04.000It's an actual credential that the city of Chicago, believe it or not, issues so that you can be a real reporter, right?
00:32:13.000And they can revoke it and prevent you from doing a job that should be constitutionally guaranteed, right?
00:32:22.000I've had this credential for 10 years.
00:32:25.000It actually says that it's still good, technically speaking.
00:32:28.000If I don't know if you can zoom in on that, but I mean, but Lori Lightfoot revoked it because she thought my questions, which, by the way, if I were mayor of the city of Chicago, I would appreciate somebody asking me, you know, there was a mass shooting in front of Holy Name Cathedral.
00:32:58.000You know, so you know, but but I mean, yeah, so but I'm just curious, what is the process you had to do, go through to get that credential?
00:33:06.000You have to apply for it, or what is the process?
00:33:09.000Yeah, you had to prove that you actually worked for a media organization.
00:33:13.000And I've had a radio show in Chicago off and on for, I don't know, 20 years.
00:33:18.000I have my own Emmy Award-winning television production company.
00:33:21.000I write for the, you know, the, I just had a great story in the Daily Mail, despite not having a Chicago media credential about the prisoners at Cook County Jail being pressured to vote in the election, regardless of their residency at William J. Kelly, you know, at William J. Kelly is where you can find that story or at the Daily Mail.
00:33:47.000And, you know, I mean, so I've, I, you know, I've, I write for the, you know, the New York Post.
00:33:52.000You know, I, you know, there, there's no question that I'm a journalist.
00:33:56.000You know, the question is, you know, the problem was that I was asking real questions.
00:34:01.000And I wasn't even, you know, technically speaking, I really wasn't even going after Mayor Whitefoot per se.
00:34:08.000You know, I wasn't like the kind of reporters that you remember watching when you were a kid, you know, who literally were hateful against Richard Jay or even Richard M.
00:34:24.000Literally within hours, the trib would have it in either the evening edition or the next, and it would just be pummeling Daly and his father.
00:34:51.000I went to City Hall press conferences and asked Mayor Lightfoot what I perceived, what I thought initially were just basic, you know, questions, you know, and not only did Mayor Lightfoot hate me, but other Chicago journalists seem to hate me for asking real questions.
00:35:20.000So I'm hoping that we can get together.
00:35:22.000I'm hoping that maybe we can do some kind of a press conference or an event, you know, for this lawsuit against Lightfoot, you know, and not only for William Kelly in Chicago, but for the other reporters who are going to, I guarantee you, especially if I lose my lawsuit, heaven forbid, I guarantee you other reporters in other cities and states, especially heading into 2024, Charlie,
00:35:50.000do you think other Democrats and other cities, if they see that Mayor Lightfoot can discriminate against William Kelly in Chicago, you think that that will embolden them?
00:36:02.000It's called legal precedent, by the way.
00:36:05.000You know, if they're able to prevent me from getting, you know, getting my media credential back and covering a mayor's race, then trust me, Charlie, they're going to come after you.
00:36:17.000They're going to try to prevent you from here.