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00:03:26.000And so I thought to myself, how did we go from one bad cop in Minneapolis and three cowards who stood and watched resulting in the death of George Floyd to the Washington Redskins changing their name and removing their logo?
00:04:20.000This has been multi-institutional, multi-dimensional, and a targeted, diabolical campaign of the left for quite some time.
00:04:30.000How did we also get from statues to George Washington to now Google pledging over $100 million to the cause of racial justice and amplifying black voices?
00:04:44.000How did it get to a place where syrup bottles with Aunt Jemima are canceled, but the governor of Virginia, who was either wearing blackface or the KKK hood, which he hasn't told us which one it was, it was one of the two.
00:05:05.000You see, the time that we're living in, it's not a serious one, but it's an unbelievably serious time, to play on words.
00:05:14.000We're not at all serious about the issues that are facing our country.
00:05:19.000But we are living through the most serious chapter in American history since the American Civil War.
00:05:27.000You see, our country right now is being held hostage by radical leftists who used and exploited a singular tragedy to open their wish list and Pandora's box of radical leftist, anti-American, fundamentalist ideas.
00:05:47.000And one of my fears is that there just is not enough courage in our country that we can close it.
00:05:55.000We went from total lockdown and fear to riots, back to lockdowns and fear.
00:06:01.000And now we're changing the name of a football team.
00:06:06.000Mind you, a win for the radical left means a staggering loss for America.
00:06:12.000JFK once said this, politics is like football.
00:06:15.000If you see daylight, run through the hole.
00:06:17.000And that's exactly what we are seeing.
00:06:20.000The murder of George Floyd was the daylight for the radical left and for the Democratic Party.
00:06:27.000And now they're running totally free and untouched to the end zone, hoping to score a win for the game, to use the metaphor and to complete the metaphor.
00:06:37.000Now, to keep with the football analogy, one of the most recent victims of the left's ground in pound political offense was the Washington Redskins.
00:06:48.000And they've been a member of the NFL since 1932.
00:06:52.000Now, interestingly enough, there's a very interesting backstory here.
00:06:55.000But in a statement released to the press early Monday morning, they announced that they were officially dropping their 88-year-old name.
00:07:03.000It read in part, quote, today we are announcing we will be retiring the Redskins' name and logo.
00:07:09.000Upon completion of a thorough review of the team's name, Dan Snyder and Coach Rivera are working closely to develop a new name and design, an approach that will enhance the standing of our proud tradition, rich franchise, and inspire our sponsors, fans, and community for the next 100 years.
00:07:25.000It's so laughable to see the left ever try to argue for tradition in a press release considering everything that flies in the face of preserving tradition.
00:07:34.000So the Redskins will start the 2020 football season with a new name and new logo, all because a evil cop killed somebody in Minneapolis.
00:07:42.000And that's what it's going to finally take to break the 28-year-old Super Bowl drought?
00:07:50.000This is utterly ridiculous and totally rubbish, especially considering that according to a Washington Post survey, 90% of Native Americans have no problem with the Redskin name at all.
00:09:04.000And the Washington Post notes that many of these Native Americans voiced admiration for the team name, like Barbara Bruce, who said, I'm proud of being Native American and of the Redskins.
00:09:30.000The name is a sign of strength, not of weakness.
00:09:35.000Here's a fun fact to share with your friends.
00:09:37.000The Redskins logo was actually designed by a Native American, Walter Blackie Wetzel, to depict a member of the Blackfeet tribe.
00:09:49.000So now we're erasing Native American history, something that was actually portrayed in a positive light of Native American culture.
00:09:56.000White liberals decide that they don't like the way it looks or feels, so white liberals get what they want because white liberals are miserable bullies.
00:10:05.000White liberals want you to feel sorry for something that you did not do.
00:10:10.000White liberals want you to apologize for your immutable characteristics.
00:10:16.000Lance Wetzel said everyone was pretty upset about the change.
00:11:19.000I don't think that's going to be very favorable.
00:11:21.000If you want to see something that's actually less popular than the Washington Redskins, call it the Washington politicians.
00:11:28.000I'm more offended if you call it the Washington politicians than the Washington Redskins, for good reason.
00:11:37.000And by the way, in the Washington Post, the global opinions editor, a woman named Kayen Atai, I might have mispronounced her name, Kayen Atia, said, quote, the Texas Rangers team name must go.
00:11:51.000The left will destroy everything they touch.
00:11:53.000The left is relentless in their utter and complete focus of debasing the United States of America.
00:12:03.000They're going to go for the Texas Rangers.
00:12:14.000Instead of proposing a new football team, they're going to destroy a preexisting football team.
00:12:19.000Instead of trying to build something new, they're going to try to destroy something that exists.
00:12:24.000Cayenne said in the Washington Post, quote, as the Washington football team name finally gives up its racist slur of a name, there's one major sports team that has avoided the spotlight and resisted meaningful engagement.
00:12:34.000With the violent and racist implications of its name, to know the full history of the Texas Rangers is to understand the team's name is not so far from being called the Texas Klansmen.
00:12:43.000But of course, as you know, it doesn't stop at sports teams.
00:12:46.000This is from NBC, quote, the Boston Police Department is conducting an arson investigation after a statue of the Virgin Mary was set on fire at a church in the city's Dorchester neighborhood.
00:12:56.000The Mary, the mother of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is now a target for the left.
00:13:02.000It's not just a silly sports logo or a team's name or a bottle of syrup.
00:13:24.000Well, to use the analogy and to complete it, if JFK was right and the radical Marxist left is engaged in a game of sinister cultural football, if you will, a good defense may be our only hope to save America if we can actually play offense again.
00:13:42.000We need to start playing offense with a sense of urgency.
00:13:46.000We need to set the agenda and establish ground rules.
00:13:48.000The president has done very well on this terrain throughout his presidency.
00:13:53.000And by the way, I want to hear your new thoughts on what the name should be.
00:13:56.000I think the Washington lobbyists would probably be the most fitting for considering that eight out of 10 of the wealthiest counties in America are around Washington, D.C., despite Washington creating nothing of value.
00:14:07.000That's right, nothing of value for the rest of America.
00:14:10.000Washington lobbyists, Washington politicians, I don't know.
00:14:13.000Email me what you think the new Washington Redskins should be called.
00:14:17.000And the best suggestion that we get, we'll get a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.
00:14:22.000Signed copy, New York Times bestseller, send me what you think the Washington Redskins should be renamed as.
00:14:38.000So while we're on the subjects of total disgraces in sports, listen to this unbelievable story from the National Basketball Association.
00:14:46.000So apparently, this is reporting from the Washington Free Beacon.
00:14:50.000The official online store of the NBA does not permit fans to order a custom jersey with the phrase, quote, free Hong Kong printed on the back.
00:14:59.000When shoppers go to input their custom message in support of Hong Kong, the site gives you an error message that says, we are unable to customize this item with the text you have entered.
00:15:45.000Whether you're LeBron James, who's worth $600 million or whoever, if you hate America and you would rather side with the oppressive Chinese Communist Party regime, then leave the country.
00:15:57.000America is the only country in the history of the world where even those who say they hate it refuse to leave.
00:16:03.000America is the only country in the history of the world where you can make millions of dollars hating the very country that you live in.
00:16:09.000And Senator Josh Hawley has the right idea.
00:16:12.000He called a subpoena for NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:16:19.000In fact, I am going to tweet that out the day that this episode airs, that we should subpoena Adam Silver in front of a Senate committee for his ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:16:31.000Senator Josh Hawley said, this is big-time money for the National Basketball Association.
00:16:35.000I think we do deserve to know exactly what they're making.
00:16:38.000And we deserve to have them explain to us why they will not stand against this authoritarian regime.
00:16:45.000Anything with the word national affixed to it, which claims to represent our country, should be transparent about why they refuse to condemn America's greatest enemy.
00:16:56.000And speaking of the Senate Judiciary Committee, before we get into this, I want to thank those of you that are supporters of the Charlie Kirk Show at charliekirk.com slash support, charliekirk.com slash support.
00:17:16.000So the Senate Judiciary Committee, Lindsey Graham, made news on Sunday when he announced that former special counsel Robert Mueller would be invited to testify before his committee.
00:17:28.000Graham wrote on Twitter, apparently Mr. Mueller is willing and also capable of defending the Mueller investigation through an op-ed in the Washington Post.
00:17:35.000Graham added, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have previously requested Mr. Mueller appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify about his investigation.
00:17:45.000Now, this comes after Mueller published a scathing column in the Washington Post last Saturday in which he defends his team's prosecution of Roger Stone and others calling Stone a still a convicted felon and rightfully so.
00:17:57.000He goes on to say, we also identified numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign personnel, Stone among them.
00:18:03.000This could also include Lieutenant General Michael Flynn and Sisliak, but we did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government in its activities.
00:18:26.000Make sure you are the first one to hear our exclusive interview with Roger Stone.
00:18:31.000And all of this, of course, comes as President Trump makes a brave and just decision to grant clemency to Roger Stone last Friday, keeping the 67-year-old from showing up to serve time in a coronavirus-infested prison.
00:18:43.000But by the way, I supported Rogers' pardon vocally and vociferously, loudly and publicly for a variety of different reasons.
00:18:54.000This was a multi-decade campaign to try to take Roger Stone, who used to be partners with Paul Manafort.
00:19:00.000I'm in no way getting into the history of Roger Stone or what he did in the 80s or 90s, and that's what that is, that is not what justice is.
00:20:18.000And remind me again who abused their presidential power.
00:20:21.000Jesse Waters broke this down so well about the media's coverage of this that it's all a distraction to stop you from focusing on deeper issues.
00:20:59.000Bill Clinton pardoned the former CIA director and his business partner, Susan McDougal.
00:21:06.000And he pardoned the biggest tax cheat in U.S. history, international fugitive, Mark Rich, after Rich's wife donated a half a million to Clinton's presidential library.
00:21:16.000Barack Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, who conspired with WikiLeaks, and the media loved it.
00:21:23.000But Trump commuted the sentence of Roger Stone, who did not conspire with WikiLeaks, and the media hated it.
00:21:43.000Barack Obama got a pass despite some incredibly questionable abuse of power.
00:21:48.000Namely, commuting the sentence of Bradley Chelsea Manning, who I think is a man who thinks he's a woman.
00:21:57.000He was charged with 22 offenses, including aiding the enemy, which is one of the most serious charges that could have resulted in a death sentence.
00:22:06.000And can you guess which garnered more media outrage?
00:22:08.000Trump commuting Roger Stone for a process crime or Obama commuting Chelsea Manning?
00:22:15.000I have a lot more thoughts on the Roger Stone issue.
00:22:38.000We went from an evil cop doing something unspeakably evil in Minneapolis to changing sports teams' names to Google funding BLM Inc. to $100 million to American churches marching in the streets around with BLM activists basically in a couple weeks.
00:22:52.000It's because we lost our culture for multi-decades.
00:22:55.000We sent our kids to colleges that did not offer them value, that got them into debt, that taught them things that do not matter around ideas that have no basis in truth, to hate our country.
00:23:06.000We funded our media through our movie ticket sales, through watching cable television far too much, buying the DVDs, buying the music, and just shamelessly indulging in leftist culture and not as conservative as building our own cultural institutions, allowing the left into the church.
00:23:26.000And this is why it's all coming to a point right now.
00:23:31.000And so while that's happening, Democrat mayors in America's biggest cities, yeah, they're focused on more important things, right?
00:23:38.000So you take Bill de Blasio, for example.
00:23:41.000Now, he obsessed over his hand-painted BLM Inc street mural right in front of Trump Tower.
00:23:48.000But while he was doing that, the family of one-year-old DeVelle Gardner Jr. was grieving.
00:23:55.000DeVell was a one-year-old boy who was shot in the streets of Brooklyn while sitting in his stroller.
00:24:00.000His father and grandmother were interviewed on Hannity on Fox News, and it's heartbreaking.
00:25:24.000Devil, do you believe, based on what you know now, and no one's talking, that people thought that your son's life mattered by the way they're conducting themselves right now?
00:26:48.000And excuse my expression, but you took something that was precious from me, precious from my son, precious, something precious from his mother.
00:27:35.000And it's like, I wanted to get him out this violence before something like this happened.
00:27:40.000And as these tragedies continue happening across our country, isn't it strange that the only network giving these greeting families a platform is Fox?
00:27:48.000Wouldn't you think that CNN or MSNBC would be all over these interviews?
00:27:57.000We went early and we went assertively on this podcast and we received a lot of backlash, we received a lot of praise, and a lot of people in the middle that said, Charlie, I don't know, maybe this organization, BLM, maybe they mean well.
00:28:10.000I think it is so clear that we here on the Charlie Kirk show were right early and we were right often.
00:28:18.000BLM Inc. is silent on the fact that over this last weekend, you were more likely to be shot in New York City and die than die of the Chinese coronavirus.
00:28:29.000So sure, keep locking down churches and synagogues and forcing thousands of people onto unemployment.
00:28:34.000But meanwhile, in Chicago, 14 more people were murdered and at least 64 people were shot.
00:28:40.000Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot, she's up to something play tape.
00:28:45.000When I was a kid, I loved the Batman TV show.
00:28:49.000And when the city of Gotham had a real difficult challenge, one of the things that the mayor there did is he called out and he sent out the distress signal to Batman.
00:29:02.000So we are doing something similar for the census.
00:29:07.000And I'm happy to report I'm calling out the census cowboy.
00:29:18.000So if you see the census cowboy come into your neighborhood, that's not a good thing.
00:29:25.000That means you got to step up and do your part and make sure that you fill out the census.
00:29:31.000He's going to be going to the 10 communities across Chicago that have the lowest census response rate.
00:29:53.000So for those of you that were listening carefully, I'm going to try my best to provide some visual context here.
00:29:58.000That was Mayor Lightfoot pulling on a bright green cowboy hat from underneath her podium and welcoming a black cowboy on horseback to join her at a press conference, all encouraging Chicagoans to take the census.
00:30:11.000So do Black Lives Matter actually matter to BLM?
00:30:20.000And it's translating into what may end up being a serious electability for them in November.
00:30:26.000A new Zogby poll might be some indication.
00:30:29.000The poll, conducted by John Zogby Strategies and EMI Research Solutions, surveyed 1,000 voters nationally, found that 77% of black voters are committed to voting for Biden, only 77%.
00:30:44.000Meanwhile, according to these results, 14% of black voters plan to support President Donald Trump, with another 9% still not having made up their mind.
00:30:53.000Joe Biden has a young black voter problem.
00:30:56.000This is some great news for President Trump.
00:30:59.000Surveys also indicated, this is continuing the article, that only 57% of black voters between the ages 18 and 29 hold a favorable opinion of former Vice President Joe Biden.
00:31:10.000On the other hand, 88% of African Americans 65 years of age and older held a favorable view of Biden.
00:31:16.000The lack of enthusiasm is spilling all over Twitter into Chance the Rapper.
00:31:21.000Said, are you more pro-Biden or anti-yay, Kanye West, and why?
00:31:25.000And he goes on to ask, why do you like Joe Biden?
00:31:29.000So there's a lot of good traction happening there.
00:31:31.000And I believe the more that we expose BLM Inc. for being nothing more than a Democrat Marxist front group to try to raise money off of a singular tragedy or tragedies that happen in isolated incidents, the more we are going to have success in the black community.
00:31:48.000It's time to get bold with our thinking.
00:31:50.000President Trump is doing more and more of that.
00:31:52.000And he's going to be rewarded electorally and politically the more he leans into his instincts and his impulses.
00:32:00.000We are in a critical moment in our country right now.
00:32:03.000You have people being gunned down in the streets and you have mayors making light of it, being cowboys for the census as if it's some sort of joke, bloody Chicago, and it's some sort of joke.
00:32:12.000And just so we understand, just in the last week, 33 people were shot and wounded in Chicago, 39 total shot, 6 shot and killed.
00:32:20.000And just in July, 44 shot and killed, 201 shot and wounded, 245 total shot, and 52 total homicides.
00:32:27.000I'm bringing the year-to-date total in Chicago, 392 total homicides.
00:32:32.000Total shot, 1,969 total shot, and shot and wounded, 1,612.
00:32:40.000We got here because conservatives do not play offense.
00:32:44.000We are going to be unpacking this all week with some of the biggest guests in the conservative movement.
00:32:49.000We are going to be unpacking this with some of the biggest thought leaders, senators, politicians.
00:32:54.000So email me whatquestions you have, freedomatcharlikirk.com, and email me ideas you have on how conservatives can play offense to save our country.
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