5⧸26⧸17 - Society is laughing at political correctness
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Summary
Former U.S. Senator Tom Coburn joins Glenn Beck to discuss his new book, "Smashing the D.C. Monopoly: How to Restore Freedom and Stop a Runaway Government" and why the Constitution is the only thing that can hold us back.
Transcript
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I know there's a ton happening in the world today, and we're going to get to all of it,
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You don't know, I mean, how many genders are there?
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You can use the N-word, because you're black, you can't.
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But, you as a white person, you can claim that you're black, but I can't, even though I'm white.
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The reason why so much of this is happening is because we have violated the Bill of Rights.
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We have so weakened our Constitution and so weakened the Bill of Rights that because the Constitution and the balance of power is broken,
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George Washington wouldn't have said, well, George Washington wouldn't have had a phone, but he also had pens, but he didn't use it that way.
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And this has been happening for 100 years, and we are just starting to feel the pain that even Ronald Reagan talked about in the 60s and then again in the 80s.
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One of these days, it's going to hit critical mass, and you're not going to have any good choices.
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So how do we return, not to the good old days, but to a country that we can understand and that will navigate around anything that the future is going to throw our way?
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Because the future is going to throw amazing things our way, both good and bad.
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Things we haven't even dreamt about, thought about.
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Some of the world's oldest and craziest futuristic nightmares are just over the horizon, but so also are our greatest days, our greatest hopes, and our greatest dreams.
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It's going to be up to us to choose which path do we take.
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And that's easier when you have the Constitution as your gospel of freedom.
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It's the sacred American scripture that tells us how to navigate.
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Senator Coburn has written a book, Smashing the D.C. Monopoly.
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The subtitle tells you everything you know, Using Article 5 to Restore Freedom and to Stop a Runaway Government.
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Welcome to Dr. Tom Coburn, former U.S. Senator.
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I found your book fascinating, and let me take you to a couple of places.
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I'm going to start at the beginning of the book.
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I want to go to – I want to take you to William Barton.
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Well, actually, there were three people involved in this.
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One was Colonel George Mason, who actually raised the first issue associated with ever knowing,
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was there ever a country that voluntarily ceded power back to its citizens, and whether or not they did or did not.
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And so that started the conversation with Barton and bringing forth Article 5, the subsection that we talk about.
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There's a lot of stories about Barton in the history, but his leadership in terms of this issue and restoring our freedom.
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Well, he said – you wrote in the book – he said,
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Well, that's right, and the reason that clause is there is because right now where we find ourself is that's the only solution that's big enough for the problem in front.
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So would you agree with me that the chaos that we are feeling right now – because I think we're having a crisis of chaos.
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I think that the only time that people reach out for somebody who will make it stop, more of an authoritarian, progressive kind of player, is when they are afraid.
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And I don't think they're afraid of ISIS or war as much as they are afraid of the loss of the Western way of life.
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Well, Glenn, I think our country's unsettled, and innately people know something's wrong.
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And would you agree that what's wrong, these problems are coming from the fact that we have not adhered to the Constitution, so we're rudderless?
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Well, we not only have not adhered to it, we've had Supreme Court that has changed its meaning irreverently, in my opinion, to where we no longer have the structure that would allow us to maintain the freedoms and the opportunity to fix ourselves, to set ourselves right.
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You know, what we're seeing today is people talking about the problems we have.
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A recent poll, I think, said 84% of Americans don't trust the federal government.
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There's a million dollars in debt per family out there, right?
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For the millennials, there's $1.7 million interest in unfunded liabilities coming their way, not counting the debt.
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I will tell you, though, Tom, I don't think that's a bad number, that 84% of people distrust the government.
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I think you go back to George Washington's time, I'll bet you that number was in the 90s if they would have taken polls.
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I mean, George Washington said you shouldn't trust government.
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Well, but they're also saying is we don't think it works anymore.
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As a matter of fact, the millennials don't know how it's supposed to work because the education has been so disruptive in not teaching and undermining the principles of our country that we're built upon.
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So I don't worry that people don't trust the federal government.
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I worry the fact that what that will lead to is no confidence in anything that comes out of there.
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Well, you have a problem now where 49% of conservative millennials, conservative millennials, 49% believe in freedom of speech, but that the government should determine what that speech should be.
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Yeah, and that's scary because we've had our whole education establishment stolen in terms of freedom and the principles that built this country.
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And the Judeo-Christian principles that allowed us to do that in the first place.
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Not that there are not a lot of great young people out there, but when they've been taught that you don't – you know, it's not good for you to listen to a difference of opinion.
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Matter of fact, you ought to not listen to a difference of opinion.
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Well, the only way you really grow intellectually is to listen to a difference of opinion and actually think about it.
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And now we have this whole generation that doesn't think you want to – you know, they want to go, my hair's on fire, I can't listen to you, even though you may have sound reasoning and good logic in your discussions.
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That's a symptom, though, Glenn, of the problem.
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The problem is we've abandoned limited government.
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You write in the book about Samuel Jones, why Article 5 solution, why it exists.
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Well, the Article 5 solution exists because it was forced to exist.
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As a matter of fact, it was the only thing in the Constitutional Convention that never had heavy debate.
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Now, most people don't realize that if you look at Madison's notes,
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And the only aspect of that convention that didn't have vigorous debate, vigorous, hard-fighting debate before they came to agreement, was Article 5.
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And the very aspect that they would come around to allowing a restoration of the principles.
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Actually, the history is that our founders knew that republics wouldn't live long, right?
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And so they came around to the idea that we have to put a way for us to at least put a salvage echo in there.
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Tom, I sure appreciate your taking on this topic and explaining it to the American people.
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Smashing the D.C. monopoly, using Article 5 to restore freedom and stop a runaway government.
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It has tremendous, tremendous history, including a story about Jefferson Davis.
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After the war, Jefferson Davis said, we should have just used Article 5.
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If we would have used Article 5, we wouldn't have had the Civil War.
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And if you can get involved in the Article 5 movement in your state,
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it's just passed in Texas, and it is starting to gain momentum, and it is critical.
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They'll never give themselves a limit on their power in Congress.
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You need to do it, and it needs to happen through a convention of states to change the Constitution
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and put a few things in there like, I don't know, you spend the money that you have,
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Article 5 convention, and the name of the book, again, is Smashing the D.C. Monopoly by Tom Coburn.
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First of all, the Obama administration knew that gang members were part of an illegal immigrant surge.
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They knew that gang members, the Obama administration knowingly let in at least 16 admitted MS-13 gang members
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who arrived into the U.S. as illegal immigrant teenagers in 2014.
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This is a top senator saying on Wednesday, citing internal documents that showed the teens were shipped to juvenile homes throughout the country.
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You're our gang member specialist, Pat, for MS-13.
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Wow, that's not what I was expecting from the gang expert at all.
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Like Islamic extremists, that's one of their favorite things to do is to cut the heads off their victims.
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It started in Texas, obviously, in Dallas and Houston.
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Is this one of the gangs that learned some of their stuff?
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This conversation is one of those that relates to what we talked about yesterday with the Planned Parenthood videos.
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You were thinking the people that were educated by the CIA.
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I was talking about the gangs in Mexico that were trained or picked up a lot of their tools of the trade from Al-Qaeda.
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The car bombings and the beheadings and everything else.
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That could also be MS-13, but that sounds like the Zetas, too.
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Just talking about this, it goes back to Planned Parenthood yesterday.
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These women who, again, probably go out to dinner with friends and are delightful.
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And then, during the day, they just pull legs off of live babies because they don't want to get in trouble for partial birth abortions.
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And you get this line where, like, your ideology or this thing you're trying to win or whatever it is gets in the way of just basic common sense.
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You might be for being nice to people from different cultures and all these things that are promoted by the left.
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But it gets to a point where you're defending this indefensible position where you're ignoring real dangers to the citizens of your country.
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And the same thing, I think, happens with Planned Parenthood.
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I mean, Planned Parenthood, lately they've been coming out with these pamphlets that people have been finding from the 50s where they're like, you know what?
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And people are like, well, they were admitting.
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They were admitting that this was killing a child.
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And that is an absolutely valid observation on that.
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But more importantly, I think, is progressivism.
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At that time, they were trying to win a battle about birth control.
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So they didn't care what they said about abortion.
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They'd say anything about abortion to win this thing today.
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It really rubs me the wrong way sometimes when an eyeball falls on my lap,
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which is another quote from one of those Planned Parenthood videos if you missed that yesterday.
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They will say anything to win the thing in front of them to advance progressivism by one step.
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So what was the, why is he letting the MS-13 gang members in knowingly over the border?
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Well, I mean, I think it's, if you admit that we have a problem with gang violence coming across the border in any real fashion.
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So you're saying that he didn't, he's not bringing them in to make a case, he's silencing people from saying that.
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That's why you have to be a whistleblower to report it, right?
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Because these are, you wish we were in a country in which people weren't overwhelmed by that.
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Winning these little political arguments where we could all come together, you know,
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stopping gang members from coming into the country should be fairly obvious.
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I mean, even, wouldn't you think, and I gotta believe these people exist,
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but wouldn't you think a pro-choice person could come out and be okay saying,
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wow, it's really bad what they're doing today with these clinics.
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Maybe you believe in something earlier on in the pregnancy or whatever,
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but they can't even bring themselves to criticize people who are admitting,
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pulling legs and arms off of children so they don't get in trouble.
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It's not the evil people you have to worry about in the world.
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It's the apathetic people that are the problem.
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It is Friday, and we are thrilled that you would choose to spend some time with us today.
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As we try to figure out this crazy, chaotic world and make sense of it,
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you know, we were talking, you know, some deep stuff a minute ago,
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but, you know, as I said before we went into the break,
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it's not the evil people that we have to worry about.
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It really is the apathetic people that we need to wake up.
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I don't know how to talk to somebody who is that far gone and evil,
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but if we can just wake up a few apathetic people, the world changes.
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And if you don't, the world continues to slide downhill because evil advances.
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You know, it's Adolf Hitler learned from the Turks.
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look it, the Christian world didn't even stand up for the Christians being slaughtered.
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I went to Auschwitz, and about, I don't know, 50 yards behind the gas chambers and the crematoriums.
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Now, the guy from Auschwitz, he was obviously a monster.
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But he lived there with his wife and two or three children,
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and the kids would be out back playing with bunny rabbits.
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I mean, they had a little bunny rabbit hut right there,
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And they were playing one day with the bunny rabbit,
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and one of the inmates, one of the kids screamed,
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And he had crawled through the fence just to get a potato.
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When you are surrounded by evil and corruption,
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And it's frightening because evil is advancing.
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It's just that the awake usually push it back into the darkness.
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So we really have to figure out how to be awake.
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You have to know the information and know the history.
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How many times have we talked about progressives from the past
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and learned that what we thought was true about them 10 years ago
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And this goes all the way to maybe the most covered thing of all time
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The Nazis, you know, they have so many consistent commonalities
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with other movements, and progressives in particular.
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Oh, I love the letter that we have in the Mercury Library
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from the, like, what is it, the Universal Betterment for Man
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50 million people have been inspired by your progressive ideas.
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And rest assured, your name will always be remembered
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as part of the eugenics program that we are going to start.
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Like, it was going to be something that was praised until the end of time.
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You told me, I think it was two or three weeks ago,
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we were discussing the environmentalist policies of the Nazi regime.
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And you asked me to kind of go through that and pick out all of the ties.
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Because Adolf Hitler was, I mean, he would have been an environmentalist.
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I mean, he was an environmentalist in many ways.
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And he loved dogs and animals, you know, more than people.
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We went back and looked at it, and there were a lot of similarities.
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shared large parts of its concerns with Hitler.
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Population will inevitably and completely outstrip
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whatever small increases in food supplies we make,
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as environmental legend slash crazy person Paul Ehrlich put it.
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Of course, it's not as plausible to find new space to grow food
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and could solve this problem by gaining living space to the east.
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The book Hitler Ascent quotes Mein Kampf's first volume,
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noting Hitler's belief that the New Reich would have to conquer
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with the German sword the soil that the German plow would till
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in order to provide the people with their daily bread.
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Hitler's desire for living space was specifically
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to secure adequate food supplies for the German people.
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Despite all the tactical flexibility and political maneuverability
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Hitler always insisted on these two goals with dogmatic rigidity.
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The BBC wrote about the movement that influenced Hitler,
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including the growing concern about the allegedly negative effects
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There is also a belief in the virtues of agrarian society
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and the panic over Germany's limited resources of food and raw materials.
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The only thing keeping those quotes off a Prius bumper sticker
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The environmentalists of the day certainly noticed the Nazis' green efforts.
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German conservationist Wilhelm Leinenkamper wrote that the Nazis
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refuse all kinds of compromise and demand strict, literal fulfillment.
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Those refusing the call of sacrifice are under attack.
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Sounds like something you'd hear about those evil climate deniers today.
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The book The Green and the Brown by environmental professor Frank Ucowetter
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dives into the debate as to why environmentalists were so enthralled with Nazis.
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Much of it was an ability to overlook the nastiness of the regime
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But the similarities to modern-day environmentalism are unmistakable.
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the lion's share of conservationist publications between 1933 and 1945
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could be printed again today without raising eyebrows.
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The Nazi policy of Dauerwald, or Eternal Forest,
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was a nationwide, top-down, sustainable forestry program
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that was a passion project of one Erman Goering.
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Long before he sampled the sweet taste of cyanide,
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"...only by the complete subjection of the individual to the service of the whole
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can the perpetuity of the community be assured.
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Eternal forest and eternal nation are ideas that are indissolubly linked."
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the Nazi Eternal Forest Program is as impressive as a yummy glass of lukewarm kombucha.
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Ironically, then we might conclude that it was the Nazis
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who pioneered the application of ecologically aware forestry in Germany.
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The book rightly points out that when the war ramped up,
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the Nazis clearly prioritized the military over the trees.
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"...I would argue that this policy left a long-term legacy for the German forest
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Jonah Goldberg also outlined the regime's similarities
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when it came to these areas in his book, Liberal Fascism.
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Heinrich Himmler was a certified animal rights activist,
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Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy, championed homeopathy and herbal remedies.
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Hitler and his advisers dedicated hours of their time to discussions
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of the need to move the entire nation to vegetarianism
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as a response to the unhealthiness promoted by capitalism.
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Organic food was inextricably linked to what the Nazis then described,
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as the left does today, as social justice issues.
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The one environmental issue that you don't see Hitler all that concerned about
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which is odd considering the Earth warmed about 0.7 degrees Celsius
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just slightly less than the entire amount of warming
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I guess the world had more pressing issues to deal with back then.
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we do it when we celebrate the Lord's birthday,
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You could have a potato and, you know, some sort of buttery spread.
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You could eat it for two weeks if there was plenty of butter, sour cream, and gravy.
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And what was interesting, as he described it, was essentially,
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Like, you get to that point where you're just like, well,
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I mean, because he was saying that it was so bland for so long
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that he would start to notice, like, the little, like,
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It was no longer bland to him because he just had, he almost, like,
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So when he would have, like, a little bit of Tabasco,
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when he started introducing that, it was like this flavor, you know,
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And, but what he described was one of the most difficult things of doing
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it is, here's a guy who's obviously in entertainment,
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he's traveling a lot, he's doing all sorts of things,
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was to realize how important to just the human interaction experience
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You're, he said he'd go to, like, you know, he's in Hollywood,
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so he would go to, or he's in Vegas, but he would go to, like,
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a Hollywood-type meeting, and there'd just be catering there at 11 a.m.
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with danishes and bagels and cookies and all that stuff.
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You just, by default, yeah, you have one danish,
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and then you're walking by and you grab a couple cookies,
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and you wind up eating 800 calories and not even thinking about it.
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Well, he, when he eliminated that, he realized how much of a weight that was.
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I mean, the world without food would be, first of all, short,
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but second of all, if you kind of eliminated the need for it,
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and, because, you know, that guy who did the, he was eating, like,
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he was calling it, what's the, the Charlton Heston reference
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and I don't know if he still makes it or not, but it was like.
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Yeah, that was the dumbest name I've ever heard of.
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Yeah, because it's not, you don't want to name it.
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His was just, like, all that, it was all the food you need,
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That's a huge change in the human, especially in American experience.
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where you're either together with the family and stuff,
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Bill O'Reilly is still sharing his opinions at BillOReilly.com
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with podcasts where he comments on the news of the day every day.
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Let me introduce you to my friend, Bill O'Reilly.
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Well, the kind of half-snort, half-breath, like...
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I want to keep it pithy, Beck, so you can get into the good...
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Another very bad week for Fox News in third place.
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And now it appears as they're coming after, as I predicted on this program, coming after
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Well, first of all, I don't know if the ratings are fair, but they did okay on their coverage
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You know, we talked about this last week when we said that if you're going to make big changes
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in any operation, whether it's TV, radio, sports, you've got to have a plan.
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I'm not sure that the Fox News poobahs have a plan.
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So, but I, you know, there's a lot of talent there.
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I mean, you know, Sean Hannity and I disagree on an awful lot of things.
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Yeah, the Hannity thing is interesting because it's the same playbook that they use with
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me and they're being Media Matters and their affiliated groups.
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And they're going after him in exactly the same way.
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And I wonder if Fox is going to learn the lesson or if they're going to let that happen.
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And if he goes, the next stop, they've cleaned house at Fox.
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This is a very, very methodical and effective campaign of media terror.
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These people sit up there and they threaten sponsors.
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If you don't pull out, then we're going to put it on the internet that nobody should
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The key to it is if the broadcast companies themselves are going to stand up to this, and
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everybody should, because it could happen to anyone.
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My team that I put together to investigate what happened to me in another few weeks, we'll
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have amazing information for everybody about how well funded and targeted this is.
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So if Fox News wants to keep any semblance of what it once was, it's going to have to fight
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And I'm not sure whether they will or will not.
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Before we go on to the next topic, I just have to know, terror, is that a word for, that's
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Well, I didn't know what you were saying because I know how to spell terror and pronounce it,
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and you seem confused because it sounded like you were saying it's terror.
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No, no, no, no, no, Mr. O'Reilly, you are the king, sir.
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So let's go to the terror attacks in Manchester, England.
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Looks like the guy was trained in Syria, got there from Libya.
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And I asked this question for years, why is the world allowing ISIS to have a headquarters
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Why isn't every nation joined together and say we're going to obliterate these people by force?
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I don't understand why they have been able to sit there for four years.
00:40:10.180
Do you believe that that's that is an accomplishment of Donald Trump?
00:40:14.600
He was at the EU yesterday in Brussels, not the EU, but NATO headquarters in Brussels.
00:40:20.420
And while, you know, some of the NATO people said we have differences of opinion with Mr. Trump,
00:40:29.600
Well, they say that, but where is the declaration of war that NATO should announce against ISIS?
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And, you know, there's got to be some formalization here of the fight.
00:40:43.880
So anybody get up there and say, oh, this is terrible.
00:40:48.960
Are you going to put troops, more troops in Afghanistan because ISIS is there now?
00:40:52.760
Are you going to pay more of the freight that Trump has been banging the drum on?
00:40:58.740
Are you going to pay more of the of the cost of the NATO alliance?
00:41:04.200
So once it gets into specifics and you don't hear much from them, everybody's oh, yeah, it's
00:41:48.940
So in the clip, you are you make the point that President Obama refused to confront evil
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And now and now, you know, little girls were killed at a pop concert.
00:42:03.800
But I want to ask you on that, Bill, is President Obama yesterday came out with a statement and I quote, at least we did something in Syria.
00:42:24.140
What did he do besides draw a line in the sand and then let them stomp all over him?
00:42:28.620
Yeah, I didn't see that quote, but I mean, I think the Obama administration was caught in a policy of retreat that simply made terrorism worse.
00:42:54.140
He didn't want to confront foreign terrorists on their own soil or Afghanistan or chase the Taliban around.
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So he withdrew, withdrew the traps from Iraq, the troops from Iraq, cut the force in Afghanistan.
00:43:13.240
ISIS pops up in Iraq, gains strength, goes over to Syria, causes trouble.
00:43:20.480
So I think the president might say, you know, my policy really didn't work.
00:43:28.580
So you you also have made the point this week in the podcast about Donald Trump, you know, did what he could to stop terrorists from coming to America, potential terrorists coming to America and creating chaos and committing these heinous acts here in America.
00:43:55.400
Trump's travel ban was blocked yet again, this time by the Fourth Circuit Court.
00:44:05.600
I mean, if the president of the United States wants to stop immigration from seven countries that can't vet people getting on airplanes, that seems to be a logical thing.
00:44:15.960
But the left has made it into an anti-Muslim screed.
00:44:24.020
In the Supreme Court, the president will win it and he should take it there as soon as he can.
00:44:34.640
But it's a symbolic thing that, you know, the world has to be an orderly place.
00:44:38.600
And if you have a Somalia where anybody can get on an airplane and go to Paris and then change planes, go to New York, you might want to stop that.
00:44:49.620
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00:44:54.160
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00:46:01.860
I believe that Trump asked Coates and Rogers, hey, if you don't have anything, would you please put that out because my administration is under siege?
00:46:17.560
If I'm president and I'm asking my guys, look, do you have anything?
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And if you don't, can you just maybe go on a record and say at this point in time, this day, we don't really have much?
00:46:34.880
But it's now being spun as some kind of behind the scenes, behind the back, dastardly deed.
00:46:44.780
So, you know, Bill, what I like about this is the fact that you have a dog bark in the middle of a very important point.
00:46:56.820
If that's your watchdog, I'm coming to rob your house.
00:47:13.240
So let me go back to this point, because what the press was saying this week about Donald Trump was, hey, he went and he asked, you know, look, can you just say that you're not,
00:47:37.240
Say, look, the country can't take a long, drawn-out scandal.
00:47:43.080
If you have something or, you know, at this point you can say we don't have anything, but it's continuing, whatever, can you just keep the people up to speed?
00:48:00.300
But just the fact that Trump would address the issue with anybody involved in the investigation means to the anti-Trump press that he's corrupting it.
00:48:11.260
So I think this is the kind of perspective that Americans need to hear, because they're not hearing it on the national news television broadcasts and in the newspapers.
00:48:24.220
It's like everything, every leak is a negative, and he's just the devil, and everything he does is bad, and that's that.
00:48:32.800
But if you're president, you would do exactly what you just said, Beck.
00:48:39.700
Look, I want to know if any of my guys are in a suspicion.
00:48:45.880
You know, I mean, and I have an obligation to run the country, and this is demoralizing the country, so let's get updates from time to time.
00:48:54.220
For instance, the other thing is, is that he hired a private attorney.
00:49:07.660
I would lawyer up because you know, I mean, I don't know if you saw this, Bill, but there is, I'm trying to remember the website we found out.
00:49:15.080
It's on some crazy left Silicon Valley tech website.
00:49:22.400
At least that's the way I looked at it, and I don't know it thoroughly,
00:49:27.180
but it just screamed lefty, and what they did is they took old clips from the 1980s and 90s of Donald Trump,
00:49:37.140
and then they took new clips, and then they went to neurologists and neuro speech therapists and said,
00:49:52.460
And they actually, I mean, you're not supposed to diagnose people.
00:49:56.260
Psychiatrists, neurologists, they were all on the record, none of them had their name exposed,
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saying, yep, it looks like he's in the early stages of dementia.
00:50:13.120
So Trump is smart to hire his private lawyers, but he's also done something else that's interesting.
00:50:20.520
He's formed a rapid deployment force to answer all of these leaks
00:50:27.540
and to provide some perspective for the country.
00:50:32.300
When they come out in the morning paper, he's got guys that are now dedicated to saying,
00:50:43.580
Because Spicer, he's really not effective doing that.
00:50:46.920
He needs to have a very methodical crew that can run down what the allegations are,
00:50:53.800
He needs to do it on a website so people can read it.
00:50:55.940
But they are organizing that now, and he has to, because it's a drip, drip, drip.
00:51:02.200
They're going to try to set him up in any way they can to get him out of office.
00:51:07.220
The goal isn't reporting the honest truth to the American public.
00:51:17.460
I know it's a little bit of a CNN question, but let me ask you.
00:51:38.200
So you like him as a guy, and you, if he took a dump on your desk,
00:51:47.720
Look, that was a crude remark by Anderson Cooper.
00:51:54.320
I was surprised, because Cooper usually doesn't traffic in that stuff.
00:51:57.520
Cooper is, Cooper, I think, lost his, lost his mind temporarily, and he immediately apologized
00:52:05.720
Yeah, and he felt, you know, I mean, the eye roll and everything.
00:52:13.760
If you do like Trump at CNN, you really can't function there.
00:52:19.740
But, look, for my purposes, all right, I don't rubber stamp Donald Trump.
00:52:29.200
Anybody remembering my interviews with him, I mean, I confronted him on Putin.
00:52:38.500
So, it's not my job to be rubber stamping Donald Trump as president.
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My job is to try to get to the truth of whatever is happening that day.
00:52:50.660
And I'll tell you what, in the mainstream American media now, by mainstream I mean the national
00:53:03.340
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00:53:22.660
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00:53:29.820
He's usually with us for an hour on Fridays so we can hear his opinion.
00:53:35.620
And remind you that he is on every day on podcast at BillOreilly.com.
00:53:44.500
And Bill, I hope you take this as seriously as we do.
00:54:12.300
I mean, you know, if you look at Beck and the way he moves around,
00:54:16.760
you can have a very, very good discussion with an archaeologist and a paleontologist.
00:54:26.020
If you're watching, those fingers are in casts.
00:54:33.520
And they just have to be one broken on each hand and nothing more.
00:54:41.500
Because there's been quite a controversy over three events this week.
00:55:01.800
And there is footage of Melania, Trump reaching out to hold Melania's hand.
00:55:17.080
I might have been just, look, I can make it down here myself or something.
00:55:21.580
You know, I kind of try to stay away from that kind of stuff.
00:55:25.860
But, yes, it was amusing to those who do not like the Trumps.
00:55:30.600
It wasn't amusing to me because I've lived that life.
00:55:37.600
So I thought maybe somebody who's all hoity-toity actually has that happen to him.
00:55:42.760
Then, the next day, again on the tarmac, he reaches for her hand.
00:55:51.120
And she moves her hand and crosses her face to brush back her hair.
00:56:10.380
I mean, I know you don't like to connect the dots, but can we infer that she's pissed off at him?
00:56:17.300
I think she's furious with Putin and is transferring.
00:56:29.020
Did you see the footage from yesterday with Donald Trump at the NATO summit where he took, if you want to call him a president, the president of Montenegro,
00:56:41.740
and just pushed him out of the way and then stood in the front, like, not like he didn't even have any excuses.
00:56:54.380
He just pushed him out of the way, stood in his place and then just kind of like looked around.
00:57:08.300
But what I read on the progressive websites was he kicked him in the groin.
00:57:30.020
And, you know, and the Montenegro guy, president or king or whatever he is, that's important to NATO.
00:57:51.100
But there is a tradition there that perhaps you don't know, Beck.
00:57:54.740
As a sign of affection and respect, you shove people.
00:58:13.100
Any kind of international stuff just running right by me.
00:58:37.740
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00:58:43.320
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Dad told me, and Granddad certainly doesn't want the tie, wants the books.
00:59:16.340
You know what people don't know is that your late father is buried in Montenegro.
00:59:37.880
Going to go out to the beach myself and, you know, just chant and try to get in touch with
00:59:46.420
Chelsea Clinton, who's my new favorite Clinton.
00:59:52.280
You know, she's been saying some things this week that, you know, that you've kind of taken
00:59:59.160
Chelsea wants to be the arbiter of what's racist and homophobic and sexist.
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Um, and I don't know if Chelsea's quite up to that, but perhaps I'm wrong.
01:00:16.320
No one is qualified to make those decisions unless you can have an x-ray into a person's
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If, uh, you know, what Chelsea wants to do is just create this PC culture where if you
01:00:33.180
If you're going to get some, uh, government money, you really should go out and look for,
01:00:43.780
So if you said, I identify as a black man and I'm going to work for the NAACP, do you
01:00:52.120
think they'd embrace you like they did, uh, what's her name?
01:00:58.780
I believe that in this country, if we were all honest with each other about, look, this
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is my circumstance and here's where I'd like it to be better.
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I think that 90% of Americans would buy into all of that.
01:01:17.280
But if you start to accuse people of being racist and this and that, and it's all negative
01:01:23.020
and you're a bad person just because you don't agree with me politically, we're never going
01:01:30.740
We find ourselves with the progressive left demonizing and trying to harm anyone with whom
01:01:42.100
What is the thing that reasonable people on the left side of the spectrum say about the
01:01:54.860
You know, if you talk to moderate Democrats or liberal people who are open-minded and will
01:02:02.900
listen to an opposing point of view rather than condemning it immediately, you'll find
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that they feel the right is not compassionate enough.
01:02:15.200
You don't feel sorry for the folks enough, but if you say to them, as I do, and I think
01:02:22.100
you do this as well, my solutions to the problems are more compassionate because they'll solve
01:02:35.460
You feel bad for them, but nothing gets better.
01:02:38.940
It's interesting that, you know, like Black Lives Matter, they, um, they're fighting against
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oppression, but I believe the solutions that they are recommending, uh, of, you know, an
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absence of capitalism, et cetera, et cetera, only will create more oppression.
01:02:58.360
It, you know, education, um, family values, uh, respect for the constitution.
01:03:09.520
If the law is wrong, it means respect the constitution.
01:03:19.200
Generally speaking, the Black Lives Matter people, they feel the constitution was put into
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place by slave owners, by brutalizers of their race.
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Police protect poor people and defenseless people, but not in their eyes.
01:03:57.060
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01:05:17.840
Um, let me, let me, let me show you, play some audio here, show you how crazy Chelsea
01:05:25.880
Listen to this and tell me, how are these all interconnected?
01:05:30.200
Um, which is to be able to, uh, kind of carry multiple concerns in both our head and our heart.
01:05:37.100
I mean, just listening kind of to the concerns around education and climate change, kind of
01:05:43.240
women's health, you know, child marriage, access to technology.
01:05:52.000
We have to focus on each of them kind of in their interconnectedness.
01:05:56.480
You're in the audience and you're going, yes, yes.
01:06:01.680
So, child marriage and global warming are interconnected.
01:06:18.440
But I think you look at somebody, when you look at somebody who's hot, don't you want
01:06:27.080
I don't think that's what they're speaking of, however.
01:06:29.560
Seven-year-old children are closer to the asphalt, so they get hotter faster.
01:06:36.480
That's just a theory, but I think you see the connections there.
01:06:56.580
I'm just listening, kind of, to the concerns around education and climate change.
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You're getting, and you are getting an e-marriage certificate.
01:07:19.260
Okay, but how does that tie in, then, to climate change again?
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Because it's too hot to get one outside, you can't go outside, to go to the city hall.
01:08:04.880
But the good news is there are a few people that are starting to make sense.
01:08:11.720
And we noticed this pattern, and we thought, we've got to save all this stuff for a Friday
01:08:18.240
And two, it'll make you feel really, really good when we tell you who is starting to make
01:08:26.240
Well, we're going to actually start with a little Chelsea Clinton, which will make you
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a little bit of pee might come out while you're listening to it.
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And we begin that right now because it's Friday.
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So I want to start with Chelsea Clinton just to show you people can say anything now.
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And everybody will just nod their head like they're a little bobblehead in the back of
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Chelsea Clinton is saying the craziest crap here.
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I'm just listening kind of to the concerns around education and climate change, kind
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of women's health, you know, child marriage, access to technology.
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We have to focus on all of them because climate change is, of course, connected to child marriage.
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The average temperature for the month of May is, what, 71.
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That's the only thing left to do is to propose to some.
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It's almost, it's almost eight tenths of a degree hotter than it was 47 years ago.
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And that was, you know, my age plus 40 years that I have no concept of.
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Or is it a 47 year old who has lived his whole life with this constant oppressive,
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another tenth of a degree hotter this month, another tenth of a degree hotter as it was last year,
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another tenth of a degree as it was 10 years ago, another tenth of a degree.
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Maybe he can't take the constant tenth of a degree rise.
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So he immediately, he's falling to his, not listen to this.
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How do you not have, because you're the charge of the audio vault.
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There's no romantic music we can play for without being sued.
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Sarah, do you have any, you know, Barry White, Love Story, anything?
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Oh yeah, we could totally play Barry White with no problems.
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And on the way out, just submit your bank account to their, to the record company.
01:12:04.420
So, uh, when they sue us, we don't have to, like, delay you and bother you for the withdrawals
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That'll, you know, we don't want to make, we want to, did I ever tell you what a buzz kill
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He, we just had, we had Mr. No Spin Zone, uh, uh, last hour.
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So I'm, I'm, I'm standing there and I've had 47 years where the thermometer,
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So it's, it's, it's 0.8 degrees hotter than it was when I was a baby.
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And I'm like, our first, I've, I've kicked and I've screamed and I've, I've bought a Prius.
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I won't really, I'm not that great at recycling.
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I, I talk about, I've, I'll get onto a big fat airplane and I'll fly all over the world to
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talk about, but what I really have done is I've made that sacrifice of buying a Prius.
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And so I'm, I'm now, I'm, I am, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm out of options.
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And I know that in a hundred years, we're all doomed.
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And so I'm standing there and I just say, dear God, what am I going to do?
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And I fall to my knees and now on my knees, I'm, I'm sobbing and then I look up and across
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the room, I see the most beautiful seven-year-old I've ever seen.
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This is not, this is really kind of creepy so far.
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Chelsea was saying how they're, they're obviously connected.
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This is the most obvious way I can see this happening.
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Much more than the seven-year-old going, I'm hot.
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And you think to yourself, I must marry her now.
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Mostly because you seem to specify her gender, which I was not, that was not okay.
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Sorry, I, I, I forgot myself, I forgot myself in the moment of desperation of the 0.7 or
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I was so, I was so blinded by the sadness that I forgot she didn't tell me what she identified
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So, now, when we come back, I'm going to make you feel, you're going to say, why, mister?
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Please don't do the sweet southern iced tea voice again.
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What's coming up is going to prove what you're talking about.
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It's being recognized by some very important people.
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They have pushed this craziness like, you know, child marriage and pedophilia is because of climate change.
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Oh, wars, terrorism, all of it is climate change.
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And they've pushed these ideas so far that culture is starting to push back.
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If you see, people who are generally considered liberals are pushing back in the comedy realm.
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Once you can joke about it and the people, the audience laughs, when they're ridiculing you, it's over.
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Then he moved to L.A., came out of the closet, told his parents.
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But he has a nephew who goes to his old high school.
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So he's really protective of this kid because his nephew is openly, proudly, defiantly gay.
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Going to high school, and my friend is like, if anyone gives s*** to the great, he's so protective.
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So he went back for Thanksgiving, and he's talking to his nephew, and he goes,
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If you ever want to, like, talk to me about it, how are things?
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And his nephew started choking up and said, yeah, you know, it's pretty rough there, you know.
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They're still really oppressive, and it's pretty harsh.
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And my friend, the way he put it to me was, my inner Liam Neeson woke up, right?
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He was just, like, he was thinking, like, give me a name.
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But he kept his cool, and he was like, well, just let's talk about it.
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And his nephew said, well, you know, for instance, my gay, lesbian, transgender club at school,
01:19:53.900
we wanted to have our prom the same night as the straight kids' prom,
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and they're going to make us wait two weeks to have it.
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And my friend had to stop himself from saying, you need to shut the f*** up,
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because I don't think you know what oppressive means.
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That's the pendulum swinging back harder, right?
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It's like, okay, we have overplayed the hand of oppression.
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Can't keep up with the glossary of terminology.
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I could not be a more committed, progressive, feminist, pro-gay, pro-transgender person,
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but I cannot keep up with the f***ing glossary of correct terms.
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It's like a secret club pass where they change it every week,
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RuPaul, who she laid down on the barbed wire of discrimination
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so this new generation could run across her back
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and now they openly embrace it and like it, apparently.
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This is what went through my head, as he just said that.
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If it's in the letters that you have to say all the time,
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The one I was always confused about was little people.
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And that one seems like they're going in the wrong direction there.
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Well, it might have been coined by little people.
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And I'd hate to tell people what they want to be called.
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The thing is, if some, you know, if James Colmey is walking around, we're going to call you little people.
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We're just looking for the tallest guy in government.
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Wait, he got to pick not because he was FBI director, but because he was tall?
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I understand why gay people are mad, and I empathize.
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But if you want to take some advice from a Negro, pace yourself.
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Just because they pass the law doesn't mean they're going to like you.
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I'm just judging them on the merits of their character.
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They're sitting on my couch, giggling with my wife,
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This guy talks to me the way a cat would speak if a cat could talk.
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You're all supposed to have some kind of gay political argument.
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The last one was about a petition in federal court to take the words husband and wife out of the law.
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I said, well, why would you want those words out of the law?
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He said, because it discriminates against same-sex couples.
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And whichever one of you is gayer, that's the wife.
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What's amazing is how he's saying, take your chips off the table.
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And it is, that's the message from all of these comedians.
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The progressives always, this is what happens in history every time,
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And they did it so much, in the early part of the 19th century,
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A liberal means somebody who's really for freedom,
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and a conservative is somebody who is more of a fascistic kind of person.
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And then they have socialists, and Marxists, and everything else.
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They've done it each time they've raised their head,
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And every time, it's not what these comedians are saying alone.
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It's that people are laughing, and sometimes clapping.
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You've got to see him live before you say that.