11⧸9⧸18 - Best of Program - Guest, Bill O'Reilly
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Summary
Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly discuss the Florida recount and how it shows the deep-rooted corruption in our political system. They also discuss how the principles that we all share are being lost on the left, and how the people on the right are not seeing the harm that is being caused to others.
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On tomorrow, Saturday, we always have a special podcast.
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Tomorrow, we have an amazing millennial, 21-year-old guy,
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whose goal it is to talk to every World War II veteran he can
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until they're all gone, which is probably another 10 or 12 years from now.
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He's like legitimately one of my favorite guests we've ever had on.
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You don't want to miss the podcast tomorrow on Saturday.
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All right, today's podcast, we're talking a little bit about the corruption in Florida.
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I might have, you know, gone off the deep end there for a little while.
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Nah, not too far. Not too far. You were under control, sort of.
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I mean, you know, look, you're talking about yet another replay of this Florida thing.
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I can understand it. We'll go through some of the details of that.
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Yeah. He always has an interesting perspective.
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And a lot of it ties into his book as well, which is, as you know, probably about the Nazis.
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Yeah, and we also touched in the third hour today, you'll hear a piece of it.
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And we touched on how the principles that we all share are being lost on the Democrats.
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They're not seeing the oppression that is being caused by the people on the Uber left.
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They're not seeing the harm that is being caused to others.
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And it's really important, all on today's podcast.
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You're listening to The Best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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I was in Florida when they said, this will never happen again because we're going to a whole new system.
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I was in Florida when I told Florida, if this happens again, we're coming for you.
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I was in Florida when Florida almost set the whole world on fire.
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I was in Texas watching Florida and on Monday saying to Florida, I'm coming down with shovels and a saw and we're going to dig.
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And then we're going to saw Florida off from the United States and just let it float into the middle of the ocean.
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Does anyone know what's going on in Broward County?
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It's been 72 hours and they're still counting votes.
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In fact, in Broward County, they came out and said right away, how many people came and voted?
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Then the next day they came out and said, oh, there's about 10,000 more votes here.
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Broward County is probably the most technologically advanced and economically developed areas in Florida.
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But for some reason, I just thought of it, they're probably using Common Core math where the answer really doesn't matter.
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The Broward County election supervisor claims that she doesn't even know how many ballots are left to be counted.
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Could I ask the Broward County election supervisor how that's even possible?
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Now, I don't know if Broward County election supervisor knows this,
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but literally every other county in the nation reported the results pretty much minute by minute.
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Large dumps of voting results are being pushed out at late night hours.
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And curiously, they always seem to benefit the Democrats.
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Oh my gosh, look, we just found some more Democratic ballots.
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To say something is rotten in the county of Broward is being kind.
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Yesterday morning, a video was released on Twitter showing bags of ballots being transported in private vehicles
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Because if it is, I don't think you should have the job.
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I'd like to ask, where were the, quote, supervisors?
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Who's to say that ballots weren't just taken out and burned and replaced with fakes?
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This is the reason why voting results are delayed and coming in late at night?
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Because you just had to put it in the back of your Porsche
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and then take it out to some guys in the back of a truck?
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If we can just get a Democratic Socialist in there, I'm sure he'll fix it.
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Probably shouldn't use the word fix when we're talking about voting in Florida.
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Yesterday afternoon, over 100 ballots were rejected in Miami
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after finding out the people that voted had voted multiple times.
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Republican Senate candidate Rick Scott has had enough.
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accusing Florida election officials of hiding information.
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The lawsuit even suggests that the election supervisor in Palm Beach County
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I'm not a guy who's for, you know, just higgledy-piggledy executions.
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But I've got to tell you, what the hell is wrong with you?
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So, apparently their election supervisor took it upon herself
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just to determine voter intent when reviewing both damaged
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It looks like they were trying to vote for the Democrat.
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You are the only group of people that could take the hanging chads and make it worse.
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This appears like legitimate election tampering and fraud.
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You just showed that you're no better than countries like Russia.
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To steal a little bit from the great sage Forrest Gump,
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No, but I knew Anton Scalia a little bit, and he liked her.
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Yeah, which was kind of perplexing to me because, you know,
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Justice Ginsburg made no, you know, she's not a phony.
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I mean, she basically said, look, I'm ruling on my political beliefs
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and the Constitution be damned, and that's what I'm going to do.
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Yeah, she said at one point she was using the South African Constitution
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It showed that two people that opposed to each other can still be friends,
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But what you didn't report is that while Justice Ginsburg said
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she was going to use the South African Constitution,
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she was also listening to the Paul Simon record recorded down there,
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So, Bill, let's start with Broward County and Palm Beach County.
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Complicated issue because, you know, Broward County is a problem,
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always has been historically, very, very locked-up Democrat,
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and then all of a sudden we're getting a tarn of votes out of Broward County,
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as Trump just pointed out about 10 minutes ago in a little press conference he had
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And, look, we have a federal elections commission.
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And I think you've got to hand over all this stuff to it and let the federal oversight kick in.
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Well, unfortunately, you know, they've done a number on the FBI,
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so we don't really have the FBI that has, you know, got a lot of confidence with people.
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I still think that they're confident in doing things like that.
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I mean, they came up real fast catching the bomber.
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And, you know, look, if there's any whiff, then the FBI has got to go down,
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You have Dr. Brenda Snipes, who is the, you know, election commissioner.
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In 2016, she got into trouble for throwing away ballots.
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The judge said she violated federal and state laws on the ballots.
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But Broward County didn't do anything about it.
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No, because it's, you know, I don't know whether you know that area.
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It is the county with the Stoneman Douglas in it.
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And we know that they didn't do anything for the people on the school board who were obviously, you know,
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The sheriff, Scott Israel, he's still the sheriff today.
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I mean, if I'm working in the ballot and I tend to be a corrupt person and I see what just happened and nobody did anything to Scott Israel,
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nobody really did anything except blame the right, what makes you think that anybody's going to say anything about you if you fix the ballot?
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Well, look, speculation is not really useful here.
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I think that we have a new attorney general, acting attorney general.
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So tell me about the new attorney general, because that also now is something that the Democrats are saying, you know, we don't accept him.
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He's this is this is this is probably an impeachable offense, yada, yada, yada.
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Tell me about him and what you think about Jeff Sessions leaving back.
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I got to tell you, I just don't even bother with the partisan gibberish anymore.
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I really don't. I'm so busy with with really important stories and trying to accumulate facts that when these people say this stupid stuff,
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look, Whitaker is a guy who was entrenched in the Justice Department under Sessions.
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So he would be the logical guy that anybody would appoint.
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So you just the apparatus in the Justice Department continues to roll because you put a guy in who knows what's happening.
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And then a few months from now, you nominate who you believe should be the new attorney general.
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Now, Whitaker is on record is saying that he didn't believe the Hillary Clinton investigation was conducted properly.
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I believe that will be proven beyond a reasonable doubt by the inspector general's report.
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He's also, you know, skeptical about power given to Robert Mueller and other special prosecutors as anybody should be.
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All right. So I don't see any problem with him. Number one.
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Remember that Joe Manchin, who, you know, was supposed to be this guy who was going to, you know, kind of, you know, he was going to come from both sides.
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Uh, he's the guy who came out yesterday and was talking about impeachment, uh, for the president because of what's because of this.
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Yeah. Somebody teed him off, um, in the Trump administration.
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Um, somebody did something. Um, so Manchin is really, now that he won, he's, it's scorched earth.
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Yeah. Um, sessions look befuddled in the job from day one.
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Where's the attorney general? Why is he taking a more aggressive posture?
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He, he just, you know, when you're a senator or a congressperson, part of your job and sometimes all of your job is being diplomatic and trying to raise money and trying to be back slap and schmoozerama and all this.
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You know, he's supposed to kick doors down and get bad guys.
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That's the kind of attorney general I would like any speculation.
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Um, Jeff sessions was, ah, you know, I, I just don't know.
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I said I'm bill O'Reilly.com on Wednesday is going to be Chris Christie.
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And Trump even said it today in his little impromptu press conference.
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So that's, if you're going to place a bet, that's what you place your bet on.
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I didn't really run the state of New Jersey that well.
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I don't like, I don't like, uh, you know, I feel the same way about Rudy Giuliani and
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I like Rudy Giuliani, but, uh, you know, I don't want the guy who you're like, Hey, how
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Don't ever ask a real good job with law enforcement in New York city, though.
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Um, but boy, oh boy, did he clean up New York city.
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It is Friday and Bill O'Reilly from billoreilly.com joins us.
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Let me, uh, let me take you to, uh, what happened in front of Tucker Carlson's house.
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This is what we believe to be Antifa, um, surrounding his, his house, uh, at night, scaring the life
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Here we go, Bill O'Reilly, who has had his, uh, share of, uh, of threats as well.
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I didn't make them public, uh, because, uh, of children and I had to have, uh, actual armed
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Is there anything worse on your family than having to have, I've had to have, I've had armed
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You know, one of the reasons that I, uh, don't regret leaving Fox news is because I don't have
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And I had to deal with it every day of my life for, uh, 16 years, uh, once we became
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number one, the first four, when we were coming up, I didn't have to deal with it that much,
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but once we became successful, then the threats came every direction, every direction, every
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Um, so, you know, I recommended on, um, my website that, uh, Tucker Cawson filed charges
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Um, and that's the only way it's going to stop.
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I found it, I found it interesting that Antifa, um, that has been accused of being the group
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here, uh, Antifa, their Twitter, uh, feed was suspended.
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Well, look, um, whoever did it, um, deserves to be punished.
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Um, I will tell you that this is exactly what happened in the late 1920s, 1930s in Germany.
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Also happened in the, also happened in the, uh, in 1919 here in America and in the mid
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thirties here in America as well, but not to the extent, no, if the fear never, the,
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Beck, if these people aren't punished, then this is going to escalate to where, as you said,
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Uh, just real quick, play the beginning of that audio, please.
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We might need to know where you sleep at night.
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That individual, Tucker Carlson said, was on his show recently.
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I had two people tell me last night, uh, that they also recognize the voice.
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And they said, this guy was just on, uh, Tucker's, uh, show.
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You can take that audio and they can voice print that we will find out who that guy was.
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And if the DC police investigated, um, but everybody's watching now, whole country's watching.
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And, uh, you know, Mr. Carlson himself is, I would file, absolutely file a lawsuit against
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these people, um, for putting my family in danger.
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Bill, we talked about this earlier this week and it kind of goes here.
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Um, what we saw in the, uh, in the original vote, I don't know how it's going to turn out
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now was that the American people turned down the, uh, real strident, uh, right in, in Romney
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counties and they turned down the, the crazy left, uh, all across the country, which told
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me that we have a big portion of America that is just not interested in this kind of fight.
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I think they fear, um, these people, these kinds of real, uh, committed zealots who will
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stop at nothing to advance their political agenda.
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I think they're feared by independent Americans who say, this isn't our country.
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Um, and there's an article today in the wall street journal that Elizabeth Warren has finished.
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I don't think the democratic party can go with Bernie Sanders or any of these far, far left
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I also want to talk to you about, um, Acosta and the shooting in, uh, thousand Oaks, California.
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And I, I kind of like to tie that to again, Germany and your book where would Bill O'Reilly
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have got three topics I need to cover here in the next 10 minutes.
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But, uh, Bill, first of all, let me ask you about, uh, Elizabeth Warren.
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You said you thought she was done because she was too far, uh, left.
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Would you include Cory Booker and Spartacus in that and Bernie Sanders?
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And Gillibrand and, uh, um, the Senator, uh, Kamala Harris from California, that whole crew,
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um, that's trying to sell, you know, socialized medicine, um, high corporate taxation, high personal
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What do you think, what do you think about Michelle Obama starting to move in, uh, she's
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just doing a lot of things that just seem presidential.
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I know that, but do you think, do you think she's, do you think she's a possibility of a
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I wrote a column on billoreilly.com, which gets into it.
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He has far more important guests than me to really get into the micro of it.
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But if you want to know billoreilly.com has a column Acosta's job back, as you know,
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is to get information to the people that watch CNN.
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So on a presidential press conference, his job is to ask questions, not what he does.
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He makes statements and then he tries to provoke a response, not get a response.
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No, he basically says, um, you know, you call the caravan an invasion.
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I mean, and you're looking at it going, all right.
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So you just attacked the president of the United States and insinuated he's a liar or that he's
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incompetent and doesn't know what an invasion is.
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Now, if they want CNN wants to give a cop a primetime opinion show, good.
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And then when the president of the United States, and I've interviewed five of them, says, sit
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So there's it's because the only thing that happens after that is chaos.
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But here's the problem with the rest of the West, the rest, the rest of the press corps.
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They should have suspended him or, you know, apologize.
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See, look, once Trump was president two years ago, once he won, then the media chieftains
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basically sat down and said, OK, we're embarrassed.
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So MSNBC under the Comcast banner, CNN under Tom Warner basically told their people, get
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And then the Fox in people in response to that basically sent out a message.
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We're going to support Trump so that all the Trump supporters watch Fox and all the Trump
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haters divide themselves between the other two on cable news.
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What I want to ask you is what I do not want the president picking and choosing who's going
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But I cannot think of anything because he's already tried not to call on.
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So what is the president to do other than what he did?
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Not the president, but the White House communications office is to issue standards that when the president
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says sit down and that's the end of the questioning, you sit down and shut up.
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And if they issue that so everybody knows what the rules are, it'll be a lot easier to enforce
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But it doesn't matter because if they don't, then they're out.
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And it first of all, before I get into the aftermath of that, any thoughts on on that?
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I my analysis on the shooting in the bar is the same as it was in the synagogue shooting,
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the church church in Charleston and the high school in Broward County, Florida.
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The men that have done this have a one thing in common.
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They are emotionally disturbed individuals who in the 1950s and 60s, when you and I grew
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OK, you can live on this machine and talk to other people as screwed up as you are.
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And then finally, when you look around and see your life means nothing and you don't believe
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in anything, you have no relationships with anybody.
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Then you say, I want to end it, but I'm going to take people with me.
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There is a really powerful video that is out of this mother whose son was not killed in
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Vegas, but was there, survived and then was killed here.
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And you can understand what she's saying because, you know, her son was just killed and she's
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Now, we, you know, it's not appropriate to talk to the mom about this at this point, but
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California has the strictest gun control in the nation.
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What they're really saying is we want ban, gun ban, not gun control, because gun control
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OK, so anybody possessing a gun, you have to give it up or we arrest you.
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OK, they want to disarm the entire population, particularly with handguns and AKs, things
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And the ban will work out even worse because the only people.
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If you're in a rural part of America, I mean, they would let you have a rifle.
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But if you want to protect yourself with a handgun in a dangerous neighborhood, they
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would absolutely take your right away if they could.
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First is Chris Cuomo last night, and then it's followed by Chris Matthews.
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The only consensus there is is in a canard, and here it is.
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First, I would like to offer my thoughts and prayers, because that's what you do when
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You mock those who lost loved ones, because if you gave it any thought at all, you would
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never walk away from any of these without figuring out a better way to deal with them.
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We do it because somebody's a nut, or this guy, a nut has a gun, a gun with a nut, a nut
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with a gun, whatever it is, somebody with an attitude, a bad life experience, whatever
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The easiness, when you get a semi-automatic Glock, which is beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,
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beep, beep, it doesn't take any intelligence or skill or talent to use one of these guns
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to just kill people in their face, and they're doing it now with some rapidity in this country.
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The moments of silence are about all that Congress has the guts to do, and it's not good enough.
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I know it's well-intended in some cases, but usually it's a throwaway line by a staffer
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Bill O'Reilly mocking thoughts and prayers and then calling for it to be outlawed.
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Look, Cuomo and Matthews play to a crew, all right?
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You don't get discretionary viewing with Chris Cuomo and Chris Matthews.
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The crew is largely secular, doesn't really believe in religion to any meaningful extent,
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and I'm generalizing now, of course, all right?
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So, prayers and thoughts to that crew, that's like a waste of time.
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And then the overall message that they send is what I just told you.
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They won't say that because that becomes an extreme position.
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They can get in a lot of trouble, so they'll never – but they'll code it.
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The cliché is dog whistles, you know, that ridiculous phrase.
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But if you will look and step back and see what really drives this mass murder,
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But we're a free society, and there's no solution to that.
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So you can live the way you want to live unless you break the law.
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And what happens is these people, they get so isolated, so desperate, so hopeless,
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they decide, I'm leaving the planet, and I'm taking people with me.
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And you're not going to stop that no matter what you do.
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Bill, any thoughts on – you know, you just finished all your research with the SS.
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We are, you know, talking about, you know, banning guns.
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We're talking about banning speech, intimidation.
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You have Antifa on the street, which is, you know, our American version now of the brown shirts.
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Well, I don't think that what happened in Nazi Germany can happen here.
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I do believe that we are heading the United States into a period of time where hatred is overwhelming the public discourse.
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And that led to power being distributed to the Nazis, who then used the power to exterminate people.
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But the hatred is going to cause people to be harmed.
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And we have to – we commentators, you, me, and the other sane people with radio and television exposure have to keep pointing that out.
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And look, we've got to tamp the hatred down, and we've got to recognize evil, and all of us have to collectively fight evil, which is the theme of killing the SS.
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And that is our responsibility to do that, not ridiculously inflame the hatred, which is what you're seeing now in much of the media.
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This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.
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We are a nation that is – we're segregating each other.
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But we are now segregating ourselves online, too.
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So all of our opinions, we're only comfortable with the ones that we think are on our side, because everything has been made into a war.
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Ideas, ideas are what we should be looking for.
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Now, studies show that conservatives are actually better at this than liberals.
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If you go to a barbecue, and you start talking about – for the most part, and this may be changing, and it's bad if it does.
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If you go to a barbecue, and there's a bunch of conservatives there, and you start spouting liberal ideas, but you're decent about it, most likely you'll have a lot of people who will engage you on that and talk to you about it and want to know your point of view, etc., etc.
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You go into a cocktail party on Madison Avenue or on Central Park West, and you start talking about, well, I don't know.
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I mean, Donald Trump has done some good things.
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Not so good at examining their own ideas and being self-reflective.
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And that's what we need to work on, is being more self-reflective and having these conversations.
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And not necessarily, you know, let me read a bit of what I wrote in the book Addicted to Outrage, which also fits today, what I wrote about Samantha Bee.
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There is a chapter in here about Samantha Bee and about why I did what I did with Samantha Bee and how it worked out.
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And I just want to read, I just want to read just part of it.
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Most people outside my audience don't know this, but I used to be funny.
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In fact, early in my talk radio career, stations weren't sure they wanted a funny, not-all-political talk show on before Rush Limbaugh.
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I traveled a ton, and I would do 40-city comedy tours every year.
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Then when we went to Iraq, which I had supported when I saw, but later when I saw we really didn't have a plan that would work, I soured.
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But I began to understand the Patriot Act was anything but patriotic.
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I saw the Republicans betray everything that they said they believed in.
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The economy collapsed, and I saw us abandon the free market to save the free market.
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I, too, wanted hope and change, just not from the guy who had been a good friend of Jeremiah Wright and was an active member of his church.
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Things began to change for me, and I knew how to draw a crowd, how to make people laugh.
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But it was important to me to expose and convince the country that many Americans were horribly and dangerously wrong.
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I explained to Sam my journey, my mistakes, and my regrets.
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I think for perhaps the first time, she had a little understanding of me and what I had tried to do.
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Perhaps not, if in fact she didn't, explains the path that she took.
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Now this is, I'm talking about a, I'm talking about a private conversation that we had in a dressing room.
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Um, and, um, I'm only exposing it because I want you to understand, I want you to understand how this happens to all of us, to all of us.
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And only the honest will be able to get out of it.
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CNN will not be able to get out of the Jim Acosta spiral, death spiral, because they are not being honest.
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I told her that, uh, an audience that she would get would cheer and would grow the more she took on the king, whoever that king would be.
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The more she fed their outrage with her coverage, the more they would cheer.
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But in the end, even though she said she was not doing it for ratings, because, and I believed her on this,
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she honestly had something to say that she thought would help,
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she would end up doing damage that she didn't recognize at the time that would divide us even further.
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I tried to explain how I really believed, and in some ways still really believe,
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that I was acting as a pressure valve, uh, relieving steam that my own side needed released.
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What I hadn't seen is that by making my own side laugh,
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I was also inflicting deep wounds on the other half.
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Those wounds she would also inflict, and she would, as time goes by, regret them more and more.
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Because I believe she was smart and deeply compassionate,
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who happens to be tasked with making her tribe laugh,
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and at the same time being an activist for what she believes in,
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People who can do it are paid a great deal of money,
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and are encouraged by those who pay them to, uh, keep going.
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but an opinion guy who moonlighted it being funny on the side.
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I would probably end up mostly doing the same way I did the first time,
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I hadn't found any examples of anyone in the media, comedy, etc.,
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who had ever charted a successful course through these waters.
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I called her to discuss coming with me to Detroit
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with the caveat that our audiences were not allowed to talk politics.
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and discuss what our audiences learned about the other side,
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is you being locked in a plane with me at 40,000 feet
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The more and more I saw her clips and her stories,
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it was the only one she knew or understood how to work,
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when he described where celebrities could grab women.