8⧸25⧸17 - ＂Wake Up America!＂ (Bill O'Reilly & Attorney General Ken Paxton join Glenn)
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1 hour and 51 minutes
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157.31569
Summary
Since Al Gore predicted that because of climate change, hurricanes would become more frequent and intense, we ve set an all-time record for the lack, the dearth, the scarcity of major hurricanes. Not only that, but there has been an unprecedented lack of hurricanes of any kind since Al Gore's maniacal rantings.
Transcript
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All week we've heard this could be a major hurricane.
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The last time that the United States had a major hurricane make landfall,
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You might recognize that as being 12 years ago.
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And that's if this one even turns out to be a major hurricane.
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You might also recognize 2005 as being the year of Hurricane Katrina.
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And the time just before Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth came out in January of 06.
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If you remember in that Oscar award winning, riveting, well done movie,
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Al predicted that because of climate change, hurricanes would become more frequent and more intense.
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Since Al Gore's dire warning, we have set an all-time record for the lack,
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Not only that, but there has been an unprecedented lack of hurricanes of any kind
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Even as Al Gore continues to profit from his climate hysteria with movies, seminars all over the world,
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and his investments, he continues to be proven wrong on virtually all of his major claims.
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if your media source isn't exposing those simple, provable, undeniable facts,
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it is definitely time you find a new media source.
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I will make a stand, I will raise my voice, I will hold your hand,
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cause we are one, I will beat my drum, I have made my choice,
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So here's what's going to happen to the great state of Texas.
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Texas is going to be possibly pummeled with this storm,
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and Texans will gather together, and we will take care of each other,
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and we will heal each other, and we will rebuild,
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Um, it's an interesting thing to watch Texas prepare for a hurricane.
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They know what to do, and they know that they can trust their neighbors and their friends,
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and nobody here is looking for the federal government to do anything.
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Did you guys see the, uh, who was it that was said, uh, oh, it was Matt Drudge.
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May I ask what the hell happened with Matt Drudge and Donald Trump?
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And this is, he was making a big deal yesterday out of,
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And I would have said that under, uh, under, uh, Barack Obama.
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It, it was foreseeable that Katrina was going to happen.
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In fact, a year before, and if, correct me if I'm wrong, Stu, almost to the day, wasn't it?
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I did a, uh, an episode on radio of the 10 most dangerous cities in America.
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And most of them, um, were from, uh, all kinds of different things.
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And everybody was expecting New York was going to be number one.
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I think we did it over a two or three day period, didn't we?
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Yeah, and the other one, the other big one everyone was talking about was, uh,
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And it, I remember it took the audience by surprise, um, because it took me by surprise
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The number one most dangerous city in America was New Orleans.
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And I said, it is way overdue for a major hurricane.
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They keep asking for, you know, more tax dollars to fix the levees.
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We should, we should post that, um, that episode.
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Uh, and it was a year later that Katrina happened.
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All I did was I got together with my research team and said, hey, guys, what's the most vulnerable,
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you know, with the power grid, with terrorism, with everything else?
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That was the corrupt system in the city of New Orleans that constantly asked for more bond money,
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more money to fix the levees than never fixing them right.
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I can guarantee you that Texans are battening down the hatches and they are ready.
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And if Galveston or, or Corpus Christi or any place else, God forbid, is damaged,
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we in Texas, all of us will be on the front lines to help them.
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And federal government, we don't need your help.
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I would assume it will be, if it does get as bad as they're saying it's going to be.
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But do you have any doubt that if the FEMA trucks didn't make it, Texans would survive?
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And I want to, I just want to spread this message to you.
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We could be hit by the biggest financial hurricane.
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We could even be hit with civil war and global war.
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In 30, in the next three months, in the next 90 days, I do not believe it is probable,
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but it is possible that the United States is hit by a massive 2008 or worse style economic crash.
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By Christmas, we could be in a global conflict because our enemies would see our weakness and our distractions.
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We could be in a global conflict, and because our enemies are inside the gates between the neo-Nazis,
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the white supremacists and the black supremacists, we could be in civil war.
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By Christmas, it is not probable, but it is possible for a reasonable peace person to think.
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Major economic downturn, civil war, and global war.
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As long as we remember who we are, as long as we remember we're Americans.
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In the end, when the chips are down, that's when we're at our best.
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You know what the other story on the hurricane is?
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That if it turns, it could actually hit Corpus, then go back out into the Gulf, get some more strength, and then come back and hit Galveston.
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It is, and it has nothing to do with the federal government.
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It has nothing to do with the last eight years of Barack Obama.
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It has everything to do with a horrible, corrupt state and local government.
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Because the local government of New Orleans wants to spend their money elsewhere.
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Did you see in Connecticut they're having problems making payments on all the loans?
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And so now Connecticut bonds are starting to look bad?
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I would have thought Connecticut would always be able to pay their bills.
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Yeah, I remember they had a big controversy a couple decades ago because they didn't have an income tax.
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And they said if they just passed this income tax, then we would solve all the problems financially of Connecticut.
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So here's what the state government said this week.
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We may have spent money on things we shouldn't have spent money on.
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They say we're just finishing paying for prisons that we're closing down.
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So all you have to do is just recognize who we are.
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And also, I want to throw something else out there.
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The other part of that is know who you're standing with.
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Because there is an amazing thing going on that people will sound pretty reasonable.
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I'm going to play some incredible audio where the guy sounds pretty reasonable in this little clip that I've heard.
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And then all of a sudden, something comes out and you're like, oh, what?
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I hate to use the word most incredible anymore.
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Because, I mean, every day something is the most incredible whatever.
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If this doesn't, you know, in a very scary slash hysterical way show you, you better open your eyes.
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All right, we have Bill O'Reilly coming up in just about a half hour.
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Also, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who I love this guy.
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He is going to tell us a little bit about the latest decision regarding the Texas voter ID law.
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At the top of our number three, I want to spend a few minutes here sharing with you a guy.
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He's going down to South Carolina, and he wants to restore the Confederate flag.
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This is just something that I just want to play.
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You've got to be careful of who you're standing next to,
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because sometimes people will sound totally reasonable.
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And I want you to listen to, I don't agree with him,
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but I want you to listen to, he sounds like a pretty normal guy
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As he's explaining to the press that the Confederate flag is not racist,
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Again, I don't believe it's a symbol of racism.
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That's my personal view, but how they feel is their business.
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But it would be ludicrous for me to tell you how they...
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Look, I don't think so, but that's my personal view,
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and if you want to view it a different way, I understand that.
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Hey, I get down the street, I see Martin Luther King.
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So, you know what's amazing about this is it's clear that that's the way he refers
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He's just like, I see on the streets, Martin Luther King.
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You should never say those things or think those things, but apparently you do.
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No matter what, don't finish that sentence, sir.
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I just want to tell you that, I mean, the banks are out of control, and they're colluding
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with the government and the corporations, and they're getting rich, and we're not.
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And, you know, I think that everybody really kind of understands.
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I mean, you know, it's just these damn Jew bankers.
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I just think they all should be shoved into another room.
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And I will say that that is an effect of the way.
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I am 100% behind people who say, let's out these white supremacists.
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You know, there's these weird things now where they're like, there's these Twitter accounts
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that are taking pictures of the people in the rallies and they're trying to give them
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consequences at their jobs and all those other things.
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But what that does in the end is put these people back in the closet.
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I'd rather watch every one of them walk down the street with a torch.
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It's interesting, too, because a lot of them are proud of it.
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This should tell this should tell white people.
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I mean, you know, you probably I've told this story before and I don't remember what city
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And I don't want to say because I because I don't remember for sure.
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But I was there with the I think the chief of police, the head of this theater and somebody
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OK, so and I'm I'm standing backstage and they said we are on CST.
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And the head of theater and the sheriff or the police or whatever, they're all standing
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And they said, you know, colored standard time.
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And this kind of thing where this guy is talking and he sounds kind of reasonable warning.
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That should be a warning to for you to wake up on who you're standing next to.
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They might sound reasonable, but they very well may not be.
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This stuff is exactly what our black neighbors are talking about that we never see.
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As you know, if you've listened to me for more than 10 minutes, I am not a sports fan
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But we have had a, I mean, you know, Pat and I had a mental breakdown earlier this week.
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Um, uh, but, uh, you know, I'm just, I'm so sick and tired of being pushed around and
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Uh, and, and as Pat pointed out, um, to me the other day, I said, when are you, when
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are you guys going to, when are you guys going to just stand up and say enough is enough ESPN?
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Because ESPN continues to be the arbiter of all that is right and holy and just, and they're wrong.
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When you, you know, I understand you want to stand up and say, Hey, this is wrong.
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Chink in the armor or taking the guy and moving him around because your audience you think is
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Then they're going to be offended by a guy named Robert Lee.
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And maybe the worst example that a lot of people pass over is the, the guy who was announcing
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Venus Williams tennis match and said she was in, you know, in guerrilla warfare, G U E R R.
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And everyone I go for a few people on Twitter thought he meant G O R I L L A guerrilla.
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And because a few people didn't know the word he used, he got fired.
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And as I've been saying for a while, the righteous don't suddenly become righteous.
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They just refuse to go over the cliff with everybody else.
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But the other thing is, is we don't go after their main money source, their main money source.
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ESPN is very, very profitable, but you know, what's more profitable and more important?
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You go after Disney and I promise you they will stop, but you have to actually have a credible
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Tanya and I talked about it last night and we talked about how people, you know, don't
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You've promised her she's going to be a princess.
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You're going to go to, you know, Disney World and we're saving up for it.
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And then to make some point with ESPN, you say, I'm not going to take you to Disney World.
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But there comes a point to where you're going to have to say, you know what, this is more
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It's more important that she has a culture that she can grow up in that makes sense and
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It's more important than the Disney experience.
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And I know I'm going to miss the magic more than she will, but I got to stand.
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I don't expect anybody else to join that, but I'm not going to Disney World.
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I'm not going to swear off Star Wars, but I am going to do my part.
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And I am a huge, my kids are still begging, dad, when are we going to go back to Disneyland?
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So now, so here comes Mary Sage Steele, and she is talking about a revamp.
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No, I was going to marry her because I was going to leave my wife.
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I was so excited about sanity being restored to ESPN.
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But she says, you know, she's going to revamp this because she says the people she talks
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And as she said, nobody is watching ESPN to hear about Charlottesville.
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I mean, if you're here, if you want to hear about Charlottesville, you're going to Fox,
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She says, for the most part, I think we leave social and political issues to the news
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When you turn on SportsCenter, that's not what you want to hear.
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That's what I believe most viewers want when they turn to ESPN.
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So now the business argument is people say, well, you can't do highlights because everybody
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Uh, it's, I think escape is more important to more and more people every single day.
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There's the escape that is just the empty calories of I'm just going to eat it.
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I know it's bad for me, but I do not want to look at the real world anymore.
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That's an important escape for people as long as you don't become addicted to it.
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Your company's founder came up with fantasy land.
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The other kind of escape is being able to escape into a safe place.
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I mean, a safe place to where you're learning and you're empowering, but you're not being
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Tanya said to me, I got home late last night and she said, you know, it didn't sound like
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And I just wrote to her this morning and I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.
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I don't care if we've seen the movie a hundred times.
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And I think that's really important when, when the industry says you don't want to watch
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I think I don't, again, I don't know anything about sports, but I think you do.
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I think if you have people who are playing them, who are funny, who are commenting on
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it, who are not getting political, who are just happy, I think people will go and watch
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You know, I think just the focusing on the Fox News, MSNBC aspects of it is just wrong.
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They had a show that they, and they, I remember them launching this when I was a kid called
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Outside the Lines, which was, hey, yeah, we're here, we're inside the lines, we're talking
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Here's one show to cover some of those other things.
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Every day you'd get kind of the interesting story that was outside of like what they were
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It's like everything they're doing all the time is talking about race issues.
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And it's like, I just, it is, it is why honestly.
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It is why things I think like Game of Thrones are so huge right now.
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Nobody's telling you, you know, all the lifestyles are from the medieval days.
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And there, you know, all bets are off when people can go out and eat other people and
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Um, it, so all bets, there's no, there's no, um, there's nothing relating to today.
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When you turn on television, I, I watched something, uh, with the kids we were watching,
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And so we started what I've been looking for a show that we can watch as, you know, as
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And it's, um, uh, the, the main character goes to heaven, goes to the Good Place.
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But she quickly finds out that there's a mistake and she should be in the bad place.
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And, um, you know, there's like this computer generated AI that kind of is your guide in
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And she's like, uh, Hey, can you tell me what's in the bad place?
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And, and the AI says, uh, uh, no, but I can, I can play a few seconds of audio of what's
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And the audio just clips in, it's just screaming in flames and, you know, horrible.
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Um, and she'll, she does everything she can to stay in the good place.
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So the AI character yesterday, we're watching like the third episode, the AI character comes
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in and, uh, and she's programmed to give interesting tips and tidbits, you know, in this particular
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Of the, you know, of, of things that, you know, you're trying to be more relatable, more
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And so they say something, they're trying to get somebody to go and do, be an explorer.
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And you could be an explorer like Columbus, uh, just the AI, uh, just a interesting side
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note because of the rapes, the murders, the genocide, uh, and the, you know, the white
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power or whatever the hell, uh, he's in the bad place.
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I don't want it from the right and the religious right.
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And it's so bad coming from sports guys, cause they don't study this stuff.
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They're studying football, basketball, baseball.
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They don't know what the hell they're talking about on these political issues.
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And you have to listen to them babbling their nonsense.
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It would be honestly, if we decided we were going to do a sports show and I'm on the show.
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And everyone in the audience would be like, oh, shut him up.
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Like you talk about issues that are associated with sports and you have to fill in the details
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You don't know where to put the emphasis on the words.
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I mean, yeah, I don't know why that is, but they're almost.
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This goes back to, you know, Andrew Breitbart back when he was alive and his work actually
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And he, but like he talked about politics being downstream from culture.
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When you don't care about these issues, you go with that flow and the flow to everybody
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says, of course, you should be on this side of the argument.
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You should be on the left side of the argument.
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The guy who's on Lawrence O'Donnell talked about this years ago when he said, you know,
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I'm basically a socialist, but there's a really, there's really in-depth, brilliant arguments
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The issue is you have to be educated and actually look at them to understand them.
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And it's because 90% of people will never look into these issues in any depth.
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You talk to people and they consider themselves to be liberals.
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And you talk to them about individual issues and they don't sound like progressives at all
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It's just, it's like they are marinating in this culture where that is constantly said
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And, you know, it just, it makes, it makes the meat taste that way.
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And that is why, and that is why those who are pushing hard, because I personally,
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But there are so many people that have a deep agenda who see culture is the way.
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We've got to make this Disney movie say this, this, or this.
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We have to have ESPN say this, this, or this because they lead the culture.
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If you lose those, if you lose those positions, those are big positions to lose.
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That's why I don't think the average person at ESPN is, you know, a zealot one way or another.
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They're just being told, do not ever go here, but you can go play here.
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And it's becoming fascistic in nature and stupid, suicidal, business-wise, suicidal.
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If those who watch ESPN will alert Disney, I'm done with you.
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Bill O'Reilly is going to explain to us why Donald Trump's speech in Phoenix wasn't so
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And I can't wait to hear Bill O'Reilly's recap on the news.
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And one of the things I want to talk to him about is his new book that is out called Killing
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England, The Brutal Struggle for American Independence.
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I have not read much of it, but I have skipped around in it.
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And I know a lot about the American Revolution and George Washington.
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As you know, I wrote a book on George Washington.
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Bill O'Reilly and I can have fundamental disagreements on things.
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And a very different viewpoint on certain things.
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Because we both know that what we both want in the end is a strong America.
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And a country that can come together again on some basic principles.
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So, as I say this now, I bring on the Antichrist himself, Bill O'Reilly.
00:39:19.480
Killing England will be released to the marketplace on September 19th.
00:39:26.160
But you can order, pre-order on Amazon and Bill O'Reilly.com.
00:39:33.900
And I'm glad you referenced your George Washington book as well.
00:39:41.780
But I was lucky because this whole statue thing, which is much bigger than statue.
00:39:49.260
And I hope we're going to talk about that today.
00:39:51.200
That ties in with killing England because you are going to know exactly who George Washington,
00:39:57.440
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin were as men and how they conducted themselves throughout
00:40:04.080
And then you can determine whether statues of them should be pulled down.
00:40:10.940
Because they are coming for Washington and Jefferson.
00:40:14.900
Here in New York City, as you know, Christopher Columbus, Peter Stuyvesant is the latest.
00:40:26.680
So, Bill, let's start here on the statues because you're exactly right.
00:40:33.260
This is not about oppression and pain that these statues are calling.
00:40:39.000
If you want to have a real discussion about the Confederacy and what that was really all
00:40:46.380
about and whether, you know, Bedford, what's his name?
00:40:52.620
Nathan Bedford Forrest is a guy that we should have a statue on.
00:40:58.840
The answer is no, but we should have that discussion on who this this guy was and who others were.
00:41:07.120
But this is really about taking and tearing down the entire American story and discrediting
00:41:22.920
So, you're seeing now the rise of the far left, you know, whatever you want to call it,
00:41:31.780
You're seeing them rise up because the media will not challenge anything they do.
00:41:38.980
So, we now know that there are college professors.
00:41:41.920
The latest is the guy in Clemson, in South Carolina, who's calling for violence.
00:41:49.340
And if you have to burn down stores or kill cops, you go right ahead and do it.
00:41:57.600
Why hasn't the press made him a front page story?
00:42:02.960
So, the far left, the antifas understand they can do whatever they want now with impunity
00:42:08.660
because the hate Trump media is 100% focused on getting President Trump out of office.
00:42:17.600
Now, as far as your point is concerned, the far left hates the country.
00:42:26.940
It's abused minorities ever since its inception.
00:42:36.060
Almost like Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union.
00:42:41.120
Well, the first thing that has to go is any remnants of what happened to this country
00:42:56.920
And now we'll tear down all the statues and demonize people with whom we disagree.
00:43:01.740
So, we're going to demonize Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, you know, historical figures that fought for the Confederacy.
00:43:11.940
And after we get Columbus, we'll get Jefferson.
00:43:23.400
Because I personally, I don't believe that the Confederate flag is anything but a racist symbol.
00:43:32.120
I know a lot of people don't agree with that because they have been talked into that's their heritage.
00:43:36.920
But if you read the Confederate Constitution, it was not states' rights.
00:43:42.020
You had no right to join the Confederacy if you wanted to abolish slavery.
00:43:49.680
So, it wasn't about the defense of our U.S. Constitution.
00:43:53.640
It was about a new constitution and defending slavery.
00:44:03.740
I understand because, you know, people have to justify in their own head, you know, where my people, you know, years ago, bad people, good people, what do I come from?
00:44:17.940
And so, they do want to look at it as their heritage.
00:44:22.580
And so, they have glossed over a lot of things.
00:44:25.520
But I don't have a problem teaching these guys in proper context.
00:44:30.600
I don't have a problem looking at them as all as individuals.
00:44:34.880
But all of them were traitors to the U.S. Constitution.
00:44:40.120
And all of them, in the end, were, whether they wanted to admit it or not, fighting for the evils of slavery.
00:44:49.560
I agree on the hierarchy level, the Jefferson Davis level, okay?
00:44:55.680
But I don't agree on the troops on the ground level.
00:44:59.580
So, let me give a little, quickly, a little perspective.
00:45:04.480
About 10% of Southerners owned slaves or trapped slaves.
00:45:14.800
In the Civil War, the guys who were fighting on the side of the Confederacy were mainly between the ages of 15 and 22.
00:45:29.660
And they rallied to a cause that said, you have to defend Virginia.
00:45:47.420
This is the kind of the discussion, by the way, America should be having.
00:45:50.900
I will agree with you on that, that the average person didn't know, didn't buy into it.
00:45:55.360
It is the difference that we made between talking about Germans and Nazis.
00:46:05.620
And German soldiers were not prosecuted after World War II.
00:46:13.820
Those who were directly involved and knew what was going on, they were prosecuted.
00:46:19.520
But if you didn't know what was going on, you were not part of the atrocities.
00:46:24.800
You weren't held responsible for those atrocities.
00:46:34.100
We do not appreciate you holding up the Nazi flag and saying, well, yeah, but my family,
00:46:42.820
they didn't fight for the death of all the Jews.
00:46:50.340
Any Nazi symbols are against the law in Germany.
00:47:04.820
So people who are running around saying that, oh, it was a war of northern aggression,
00:47:09.780
and we were unfairly treated, that's just crazy.
00:47:15.280
In fact, Abraham Lincoln is really responsible for all of this, because Lincoln basically said,
00:47:23.700
I'm not going to hang Lee and all the generals.
00:47:26.220
I'm not even going to do anything to Jefferson Davis, except, you know, make him a pariah.
00:47:32.220
All right, so Lincoln, he was the guy that said, if we want to have a country, all right,
00:47:38.840
we're going to have to have reconciliation, all right, and reconstruction.
00:47:47.500
And then Johnson came in and didn't know what he was doing,
00:47:50.140
and the whole thing deteriorated for decades into strife.
00:47:55.580
However, right now, what we have to deal with is that the South and Texas and parts of the Midwest
00:48:09.780
Lee conducted himself after the war in a very, very honorable way.
00:48:20.920
However, the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest in New Orleans does.
00:48:30.500
We can't get people on, you know, in the media on the uber, uber, uber right.
00:48:40.040
I mean, just up against that line of the alt-right.
00:48:42.980
They're still holding up William Bedford Forrest.
00:48:50.480
They won't even admit that he was the key that unlocked the door to the Klan, that he was skinning people alive.
00:49:06.400
See, here's the difference between the alt-right and the antifaz, all right?
00:49:10.960
But the media, all right, has demonized anybody, not only far-right people, but conservative people.
00:49:19.480
I mean, the mantra last week was, if you voted for Trump, you're a racist.
00:49:26.880
On the left, you can be Joseph Stalin's first cousin...
00:49:30.640
...and be calling for overthrow of this government, and the media's not going to do anything to you.
00:49:35.700
Now, American people, they don't want extremism in any way, shape, or form.
00:49:44.980
I said on the GoOnEarly.com podcast, I've been in the business 42 years.
00:49:55.300
I've never met a white supremacist, other than covering that kind of stuff.
00:50:05.620
So, where are they if they're taking over the world, you know?
00:50:14.100
You can hear his take on the news every day on his No Spin News podcast.
00:50:22.960
And I do want to talk to him about Killing England, which comes out in a couple of weeks.
00:50:27.920
And I've just, I've read only a few chapters, kind of skipping around, and it's really, really
00:50:34.020
Bill O'Reilly, Killing England, and his podcast at BillOReilly.com.
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So, Bill, let me continue this conversation about the monuments here just for a bit.
00:51:48.900
We know, and I think we both agree, what we're headed for.
00:51:52.360
We're headed for a possible hot civil war if things don't calm down and simmer down because
00:52:03.520
I'm sorry, but the alt-right is an alternate to the right.
00:52:16.540
So, you have, just like you had in Germany, you have the Nazis and the communists really
00:52:25.340
Every time, and Lincoln was a great example of this, every time we have entered those periods,
00:52:33.020
the way to survive is to have a third force step forward, and that is one that speaks right
00:52:41.120
directly to the people who, like you said, don't want anything to do with either one of
00:52:45.420
those sides, and can speak calm, peace, and understanding.
00:52:51.680
How do we get there in this situation that we're in right now where, quite honestly, and
00:52:58.520
I know you and I disagree on this, both sides kind of suck at that.
00:53:03.640
And I don't mean the Nazis and the Antifa, I mean the parties.
00:53:07.020
They both suck, and the media is playing its role on both sides.
00:53:10.980
It's very hard for, I would say, 80% of Americans are persuadable.
00:53:19.540
If you're not persuadable, if you're just a fanatic, and no matter how many facts you
00:53:27.080
All right, so that's 20% of the American public, 80% are persuadable, and in varying degrees.
00:53:31.340
Some are very open-minded, some are independent, some are locked into whatever.
00:53:35.420
So, you basically then have those people having to make a decision.
00:53:41.760
Now, it's important that they know, and a lot of them don't, because the news agencies
00:53:49.540
And what's happening is a concerted effort to rewrite the history of this country, that
00:53:54.320
George Washington was a bad man, okay, because he was a slaveholder, and he was a brutal guy,
00:54:01.920
And the same thing with Thomas Jefferson, and the same thing with Benjamin Franklin.
00:54:07.700
Now, if you bring in Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, both flawed men, who did
00:54:12.800
extraordinarily good things, all right, then the left don't want to hear about that.
00:54:18.860
But, getting back to Washington and Jefferson, so the population who doesn't want their
00:54:24.000
country run down and changed dramatically has to learn about the men.
00:54:30.760
I mean, we tell you, in the most micro way, what George Washington was really like as a
00:54:37.860
And the guy, I'll give you just one, he demanded that he be called His Excellency.
00:54:44.560
Washington gave orders that he was to be addressed as His Excellency.
00:54:50.080
And, you know, that's pretty haughty for a guy.
00:54:55.880
But, every time we give you something like that, we give you how brave the man was, and
00:55:02.080
what he unbelievably accomplished, single-handedly.
00:55:07.400
Can you give me any perspective on your, can you give me any perspective on being, insisting
00:55:12.820
Because he also insisted on being called the president, which was basically like the title
00:55:20.360
Well, when he was a commander, when he was commanding the forces in the Continental Congress
00:55:25.760
gave him the authority, he knew right away that he had to be feared to keep the rebel army
00:55:41.760
And this is a, a, a, a key because, I'm sorry, this is a key at the beginning because during
00:55:49.560
But soon as the war is after that, he's not that man at all.
00:55:54.040
No, he changes into, and back into, you know, a guy who really didn't like the trappings.
00:56:08.640
But he knew that he had to be respected by the rag tag rebel army, which are a bunch of
00:56:15.200
people from different states who really didn't get along.
00:56:17.820
So, he said, you're going to call me Your Excellency because then that title of respect
00:56:23.260
And then I'm going to set up gallows in our camps and anybody who runs away is going to
00:56:32.860
We're going to come back and I want to talk about the gallows that he put because there's
00:56:35.840
a great chapter in your book where you talk about what is now lower Manhattan, the gallows
00:56:42.480
And it's a pretty intense scene and you don't think of George Washington this way.
00:56:47.480
But I also want to ask you, do you believe in the research that you've done, do you believe
00:56:54.900
the stories that of him just being shot at, never being wounded?
00:57:02.940
He had this almost other world kind of image of the guy was absolutely invincible.
00:57:13.360
And your research, when we come back, I'd like to hear, was that reality or was that kind
00:57:19.900
of like call me Your Excellency kind of built up to make him into an invincible man?
00:57:25.360
So let's go to Bill O'Reilly from BillOReilly.com.
00:57:43.560
He's got a new book out that is well worth your time.
00:57:48.500
It comes out in a couple of weeks called Killing England, The Brutal Struggle for America's
00:57:52.280
Independence, a book that it couldn't be timed better as people are starting to come after
00:57:57.040
Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and all of the monuments, everything that we hold
00:58:04.940
Now is the time to learn it, gang, or we're going to lose it.
00:58:09.160
And personally, my view is we have to be a very unique and peculiar people in our approach.
00:58:16.980
We have to be as unique as Martin Luther King or Gandhi was.
00:58:22.140
If you get angry and you start to have arguments, no one's going to listen to you and no one's
00:58:29.120
We have to find a very peaceful, logical way to be able to communicate with people.
00:58:35.440
And a good way to start is planting this deep inside of your children and yourself.
00:58:40.540
Bill O'Reilly Killing England is available in bookstores in a couple of weeks.
00:58:46.060
Okay, Bill, as you're doing your research on George Washington, I find miracle after miracle
00:58:59.960
You know, he comes off the battlefield and he's got a hole in his hat.
00:59:04.920
And the men begin to look at him as absolutely invincible.
00:59:08.540
They look at him as this guy has been anointed from God to lead us because he's on the biggest
00:59:17.280
horse and the white horse and he's having horses shot out from underneath him.
00:59:29.500
We opened Killing England with the French and Indian War of Braddock's defeat where Washington
00:59:35.240
was a member of the Virginia militia and had three horses shot out from under him.
00:59:39.880
And we tell you that that was a problem, not only because of the danger, but because Washington's
00:59:46.440
hemorrhoids were so severe that he had to ride on a pillow.
00:59:50.040
He had to put a pillow between himself and the saddle or he couldn't get on the horse.
00:59:58.700
And that was very, very important because in the beginning of the war, the rebel army
01:00:09.460
And it would have fallen apart if their leader had not been as strong as Washington.
01:00:13.660
Washington was the last man to be evacuated from the Battle of Long Island where the British
01:00:23.840
And they thought, the King of England thought, that was going to be the end of the war.
01:00:28.020
Washington stayed on that beach, the last guy out.
01:00:33.540
And ironically, the same thing is true with Robert E. Lee.
01:00:37.840
The Confederacy would have lost a long time ago had he not been such a powerful presence
01:00:45.500
Right about that in killing Lincoln, Mars, Robert.
01:00:48.760
And, you know, obviously, different causes and different times in history.
01:00:55.720
But the strength of leadership is what I think Americans need to know about.
01:01:01.780
And when you get back to the statue situation, there are going to come for Washington and
01:01:07.240
And there's there's no doubt that the fanatical left is going to try to tear them down because
01:01:14.800
Both of those men are directly responsible for the freedoms that we have today.
01:01:28.980
So we're we're kind of simpatico here to know about everything about.
01:01:47.940
I want to think I would have been John Quincy Adams against slavery from the jump.
01:01:59.280
So I was having a having a conversation with somebody last night and we were talking about
01:02:03.220
this and I said and somebody said, you know, well, people have a hard time understanding
01:02:07.500
Thomas Jefferson because he compromised, yada, yada, yada.
01:02:11.540
OK, tell me what the argument is right now in Congress on both sides.
01:02:26.300
I think one of the greatest evils of our day is Planned Parenthood.
01:02:35.000
And nobody thinks that's reasonable to do that.
01:02:46.920
I just got back from Mexico City where I did interviews with some people that I'm going
01:02:51.720
to introduce the audience to in a couple of weeks that are just breathtaking.
01:02:57.020
Two years ago, one of them was a literal chain around the neck slave, a labor slave in Mexico in
01:03:09.900
She's now named one of the top 100 most powerful people in Mexico by Forbes magazine.
01:03:22.060
We're not a please stop talking to me about oppression when we don't really understand oppression
01:03:29.100
We say we would be these abolitionists, but there's more slavery happening today than ever
01:03:42.820
If you're if you're not an abolitionist today for real slavery, what makes you think you
01:03:48.480
would have been any different than the worst of our founders back then?
01:03:52.420
Well, I mean, if you're going to get into the reality of today's world, then you can you
01:04:02.320
can basically make the case that the biggest threat to the world is the Islamic Jihad.
01:04:07.240
And we all know that ISIS and Al Qaeda and the Taliban have slaves.
01:04:14.960
But once again, the worldwide outrage against that is muted, is it not?
01:04:20.600
You know, we don't we don't hear the reportage.
01:04:23.280
Yes, ISIS is bad and they're killing everybody and the media has to report it and demonize
01:04:28.400
ISIS to some extent, but not nothing like it should be.
01:04:34.660
I mean, Americans who are good people and who want the best for themselves, their families
01:04:39.420
and their country need to learn so they can fight back and they can they can out debate
01:04:45.460
other people and they can know when they're being lied to on television and in the newspapers.
01:04:52.040
You've got to know when you're being lied to because these dopey college students, they
01:04:56.740
They walk into the classroom and here's this crazy professor telling them all kinds of garbage
01:05:02.780
They didn't have high school history courses that meant anything.
01:05:06.220
So they're sitting there going, oh, I didn't know my country was so bad.
01:05:09.220
I didn't know George Washington was this and that and the other thing.
01:05:11.940
And there's, you know, radical leftists sitting up there.
01:05:14.840
And are there any radical right people teaching in colleges?
01:05:23.300
You can't even get a job in a college if you're just a moderate conservative.
01:05:31.180
People need to now go outside the educational system, read books, listen to shows like yours
01:05:36.040
and mine to get some perspective on the coming social civil war in this country.
01:05:47.080
I was going to ask you about Afghanistan, but I would rather go here.
01:05:51.380
And this, you're going to love this book from Bill.
01:05:56.140
Chapter 6, New York City, New York, June 28, 1776, 11 a.m.
01:06:04.680
20,000 New Yorkers are now aware that George Washington has Sergeant Thomas Hickey's death
01:06:10.620
Much of Manhattan has come to watch the disgraced soldier hang by the neck until dead.
01:06:14.660
Men, women, children, black and white, rich and poor.
01:06:18.160
They've all traveled to Washington's military encampment in lower Manhattan.
01:06:22.560
They came on foot, horseback, push cart, by carriage, just to indulge in colonial America's
01:06:28.080
favorite form of mass entertainment, public execution.
01:06:32.180
On this warm Friday morning, some spectators even enjoy a picnic.
01:06:35.880
Others stumble across the greenery of the common, very drunk despite the early morning hour.
01:06:40.380
Pickpockets, of which there are many, enjoy a busy and prosperous day.
01:06:43.860
These are Thomas Hickey's last moments as a terrestrial being, but there's little sympathy
01:06:51.280
What is the meaning of the story that you go on?
01:06:58.580
Hickey was an Irishman who was in the colonial army and then betrayed Washington and joined
01:07:05.200
a group that wanted to assassinate him by British spies.
01:07:09.020
So what we're getting, Mr. O'Reilly, is that all Irishmen should be hung?
01:07:17.680
So Washington had counter spies and they uncovered the plot to assassinate the general.
01:07:23.540
And Hickey was the leader of the crew and was sentenced by Washington.
01:07:29.520
You know, Washington hanged by the neck until dead.
01:07:31.680
Now, there were many appeals, you know, for clemency and to, you know, trade Hickey to
01:07:36.720
the British for a captured colonial officer, nothing.
01:07:40.000
But Washington said, I got to make an example of this guy.
01:07:43.100
And so we're going to not only hang them, we're going to hang them slow.
01:07:46.320
OK, so the difference you can hang somebody fast and they die when their neck snaps almost
01:07:51.420
You can hang them slow and they're up there five minutes kicking.
01:07:54.500
And that's what Washington and Washington himself came out and stood there while this happened.
01:08:00.520
And the message was that traitors to the cause of independence are not going to be tolerated.
01:08:09.200
You know, he had this optic and everybody in the colonies, believe me, knew about it.
01:08:18.180
If you if you abandon the battlefield, Washington would have you hung or shot.
01:08:25.920
And that was what that's why I say it's the brutal struggle for American independence.
01:08:30.400
You know, this was not some kind of patty cake war.
01:08:33.900
People look at these will look at things like that and say, look at how mean George Washington
01:08:38.660
was and look how bad the colonial Americans were.
01:08:48.620
I mean, the world up until America was much more Game of Thrones than anything we can relate
01:09:02.320
Life expectancy was 40, 42, as it is in Afghanistan right now.
01:09:18.180
Right and wrong was way, way different back then when it is than it is now.
01:09:24.760
You can't be holding people accountable for what they did 300 years ago, 200 years ago in
01:09:31.700
You can't be tearing down every part of American history and reshaping it in your image of today.
01:09:38.120
Bill O'Reilly, the name of the book is Killing England, the Brutal Struggle for American Independence.
01:09:44.140
Also, Bill O'Reilly dot com is where you can find Bill every day and his no spin news.
01:09:57.500
The Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium starts today.
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Analysts are paying close attention to the remarks that are going to be given by the European
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They're looking to end Europe's quantitative easing.
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And that policy shift, if it happens, will have ripple effects here in the United States.
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There are many things that could collapse this house of cards.
01:10:37.460
And I don't assign ill will to, you know, most of the people who are working in the central banks.
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And I find them, quite honestly, irresponsible, many of them.
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But they're the ones who are really shaping the world of tomorrow.
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This time it's different, is what you will hear in symposiums like this in Jackson Hole this weekend.
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As Bill said, the coming civil war, well, I shouldn't say it's coming, it's here.
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A couple things I want to hit before we have to take a break.
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At the top of next hour, we're going to talk about the voting bill that was just overturned here in Texas.
01:12:24.920
Also, Hurricane Harvey, rainfalls posing a danger to New Orleans.
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How is that possible other than corrupt and incompetent local government?
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Bloomberg is now reporting Obamacare plans will be sold in every U.S. county next year.
01:12:52.040
The thing that's legally required will be sold.
01:12:57.380
And after next year, there is one insurance company, one insurer, that has agreed to do business in every county in the U.S.
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All the choices and competition we'll get from this bill.
01:13:25.600
But competition is going to increase, and it's going to be great.
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Dating to 9 million people that you refer to that might have to change their coverage, keep in mind, out of the 300 million Americans that we're talking about, would be folks who the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, would find the deal in the exchange better.
01:13:49.820
So, yes, they would change coverage because they've got more choice and competition.
01:13:54.840
Except now, there's, by next year, there will be one insurer in each county that, quote, has agreed to cover those people in that county.
01:14:07.660
But when you have up to one choice, I mean, how do you even choose?
01:14:13.660
I love these people who say this is a Trojan horse.
01:14:52.500
He works in the White House, and he's being pressured as a Jewish guy.
01:15:03.020
What he said yesterday is one of the best things I have read from anyone with any kind of power in a very long time.
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I'll give that to you here coming up in just a second.
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And also, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is on with us.
01:15:27.640
And I also really want to talk to him about the statues and the controversy.
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That is what is happening to our incredibly dumbed-down society.
01:15:45.720
I've got to blame it on somebody because it can't be me.
01:15:49.440
There's a university up in Canada that is now laying the blame squarely.
01:16:01.060
They have reached the conclusion that marketing by the food industry makes us want delicious, not nutritious food.
01:16:09.940
Researchers claim the industry is essentially committing something akin to criminal entrapment
01:16:24.960
There was a time I couldn't get close enough to hear your voice because you were so round.
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But if you're poor, it's because the rich is holding you down.
01:16:35.320
If you're stupid, it's because the curriculum is too difficult and making you feel bad.
01:16:42.520
Trump can't get anything done, you know, because they won't let him.
01:16:46.860
If you're fat, it's because of the advertising.
01:16:56.880
If we accept this, you might as well roll up the streets of America.
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We need people to stand up and accept personal responsibility.
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What happens in my life may be affected by outside forces, but what I do with it is my responsibility.
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I can either take it and build something great and learn great lessons and be a better man, or I can let it destroy me.
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And if your media source isn't telling you those things, it is damn high time that you find a media source that will tell you those things.
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One of my favorite Texans is our Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton.
01:18:26.140
He has been the Attorney General here in Texas since 2015.
01:18:29.300
He won the election as the state's top law enforcement guy, and he is a champion of the Tea Party movement, conservative principles.
01:18:43.300
I wanted him on today because Texas is under attack.
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The new voter ID bill has been overturned in the Texas Supreme Court.
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No, this was a Corpus Christi district judge appointed by President Obama.
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Tell me what people are fighting, what you're fighting for, for the state of Texas, and what happened.
01:19:15.260
I was in the legislature, actually, in the Texas House when we passed it.
01:19:21.760
I know that's a controversial topic to prevent fraud, but that's what we were trying to do.
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We were allowed seven different photo IDs that people could use.
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If you couldn't get one or you couldn't afford one, we will give you one free.
01:19:36.440
You can use all kinds of IDs, including driver's license, military IDs, concealed handgun, and then we have Texas IDs you can use.
01:19:46.360
There have been no cases that we know of where there's been discrimination in the elections.
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But despite that, this judge found our law discriminatory.
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And so that happened actually when Abbott was the attorney general.
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We drew a fairly liberal panel, and we lost, and we actually asked the whole court to hear it.
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We ended up losing 9-6, but the court gave us a roadmap to fixing it.
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They said if you'll put an affidavit in there, allow people to come in and basically swear that they couldn't get a photo ID
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and that they are the person they say they are, then your photo ID laws are good.
01:20:26.000
And unfortunately, this judge still said it's discriminatory.
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So is it true that this judge requires a photo ID to be able to get into her courtroom?
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It's also true that the Fifth Circuit does as well.
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So almost every federal courtroom you go into, you have to show photo ID.
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I mean, I'd love to hear the answer to that one.
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And if you don't have photo ID, it allows more people to vote that shouldn't be voting.
01:21:08.160
This idea of discrimination is fault because there's no evidence of it.
01:21:12.860
There was no evidence in the trial record of any discrimination.
01:21:16.280
The Justice Department under Obama came to Texas looking at advertising.
01:21:26.400
If there's nobody who has an actual episode, who has standing?
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And yet here we are with our voter ID law struck down.
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We believe that the Fifth Circuit will uphold it, given what they already told us.
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And given the fact that we had the legislature change the law to satisfy them.
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And look, I didn't want to change the law, but it was a relatively minor change.
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And it'll still leave us with a really solid photo ID law and allow us to prevent fraud.
01:21:58.780
But again, it'll have to go back up to the Fifth Circuit to hopefully get the right result.
01:22:05.520
Ken, I don't I don't I mean, I think that wasn't really actually a that was that was an honest question.
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How is this how is this being brought to the front of the court every time?
01:22:22.600
It's just private plaintiffs who sue and and claim discrimination.
01:22:31.880
And again, you ask a great question, because if there is no actual harm, how can this be struck down?
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And the other thing you need to think about, I mean, this is a duly enacted law of the Texas legislature.
01:22:43.800
I mean, this had to go through, you know, all kinds of voting and people debating.
01:22:47.740
And and we have a federal judge that just steps in and says, sorry, you can't do that.
01:22:51.740
I'm taking over, I'm taking over your legislature, basically.
01:22:59.900
Well, I still think we're going to be successful because I think the Fifth Circuit gave us clear guidelines on the part that they were concerned about.
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And if if that didn't do it, then photo ID can't exist for some reason.
01:23:15.880
So Bill and I or Bill O'Reilly and I were just having a conversation about what's happening with the statues around the country.
01:23:22.840
And we we need to have a an actual conversation there.
01:23:28.380
You know, if if you were in the hierarchy of the Confederacy, you knew exactly what was going on.
01:23:35.460
But just like we didn't have a problem with the Germans, we had a problem with the Nazis.
01:23:39.480
We didn't we didn't go and try to erase all Germans.
01:23:46.100
And, you know, Germany went so far as to saying you can't have any German symbols, no statues of any of these guys, no matter no matter where they were.
01:23:58.280
The Confederacy, if you read the Confederate Constitution, was not about state rights.
01:24:08.640
Those statues like Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was the, you know, a great general.
01:24:17.640
Those things need to be talked about and we need to find the right way to deal with our history.
01:24:26.060
But we are now seeing violence and people going like it's Saddam Hussein and putting nooses around necks and pulling them down.
01:24:35.920
What what what what is the state of Texas thinking about all of this?
01:24:40.600
So, you know, we haven't had a lot of controversy about it.
01:24:44.820
I know that UT took some down in the middle of the night, took some statues down.
01:24:49.660
I always think I think you've sort of hit the nail on the head.
01:24:53.100
I think discussion and debate about this is a good thing rather than necessarily doing it in the middle of the night.
01:24:58.380
And a decision made by a few people, because, again, this is our it is our history, bad or good.
01:25:05.120
And hiding it doesn't really I don't think is very effective.
01:25:08.820
I think knowing about it, understanding it and looking to the future and deciding, you know, what what was good about our history, what was bad about our history.
01:25:18.160
I think that's really the only way we can learn if we hide it and bury it.
01:25:26.000
As a Texas attorney general, can you explain to those who might be listening who think that, you know, free speech is great up into a point that we have to defend the people's right to have abhorrent points of view?
01:25:49.260
It doesn't mean that they can act on all of those things, but they have a right to say things that are despicable in our in our thought.
01:25:59.100
In fact, those are the only kinds of that's the only kind of speech that ever needs protecting.
01:26:08.840
I mean, that was the foundation of our country built on the First Amendment, both religious freedom and free speech, free political speech.
01:26:15.260
And, you know, if we start censoring certain people, then the question is, where does it stop?
01:26:21.020
You know, you can't go into a movie theater and yell fire and create chaos and harm to people.
01:26:31.060
We had people die to protect people's right to say really bad, horrible things.
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And that's really what's made our country great.
01:26:38.420
People can believe whatever they want to believe and they can still live here.
01:26:40.880
Let me ask you this. You just said you can't go into a movie theater and cry fire.
01:26:47.160
But here's Nancy Pelosi yesterday. I want to get your opinion on this.
01:26:50.560
Service justified denying that organization their free speech rights.
01:26:55.360
Because the Constitution does not say that a person can shout, yell wolf in a crowded theater.
01:27:01.900
So we know we know you can't cry fire, but can you cry wolf in a crowded movie theater?
01:27:10.880
Well, I might argue you could, because I don't think people really believe there's a wolf.
01:27:23.200
And I invite everybody to go into their crowded movie theater tonight and just yell wolf and see what happens.
01:27:31.380
I don't think anybody's going to beat it to the door.
01:27:39.080
Because I like your wife much more than I like you.
01:27:45.980
She's actually considering a run for Texas Senate in Collin and Dallas County.
01:27:53.900
When is she coming to the studio and she has to bring her musical instrument?
01:28:05.780
I'd love to have her because she'll probably she she hasn't announced, but she may do that next week.
01:28:10.760
So maybe that may be a good time to talk to her.
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Gary Cohn, top White House economic official, said the Trump administration must do better
01:30:05.460
in condemning neo-Nazis and white supremacists following a violent protest in Charlottesville,
01:30:11.020
He is a Jewish American who was president of Goldman Sachs before becoming the head of the
01:30:17.420
And he has, according to the Financial Times, faced really heavy pressure to quit because
01:30:31.260
This administration can and must do better in consistently and unequivocally condemning
01:30:37.160
these groups and do everything we can to heal the deep divisions that exist in our communities.
01:30:42.960
I have come under enormous pressure both to resign and to remain in my current position.
01:30:50.100
I feel compelled to voice my distress over the events of the last two weeks.
01:30:54.580
As a patriotic American, I'm reluctant to leave my post because I feel a duty to fulfill
01:31:00.120
my commitment to work on behalf of the American people.
01:31:03.200
But I also feel compelled to voice my distress over the events of the last two weeks.
01:31:07.280
Citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists,
01:31:17.420
As a Jewish American, I will not allow neo-Nazis ranting, Jews will not replace us, to cause this
01:31:28.500
I feel deep empathy for all those who have been targeted by these hate groups.
01:31:54.720
But America also fought a longer war against the communists.
01:32:04.080
Their sins, their crimes are just not as well publicized.
01:32:09.500
But go read the big, what is it, the Black Book of Communism, where it details all of the
01:32:23.340
One is a national socialist, one is an international communist.
01:32:35.920
And we all have to unequivocally and clearly denounce both sides.
01:32:43.580
The problem is, the left is playing footsie with the communists and the right plays footsie with the Nazis.
01:32:54.740
Denounce them clearly the first time and every time on both sides.
01:32:59.940
And then can we just go back to work and do the things that we're supposed to be doing?
01:33:13.040
We are not divided on, you know, Jews must die.
01:33:28.660
And everybody who is in the media or in politics that is trying to separate us on those things,
01:33:37.440
we are against the shutting down, the burning down of campuses or, you know, businesses
01:33:45.040
because somebody wants to go speak at a university and a communist doesn't like it.
01:33:52.420
You believe in black supremacy or white supremacy?
01:34:00.800
If you believe in brown supremacy, white supremacy, black supremacy,
01:34:07.780
if you believe in an organization called The Race, I denounce you.
01:34:18.480
Supremacy of one color over another is ancient history and it belongs there.
01:34:28.320
And don't let it come crawling back out from its filth.
01:34:37.260
Shove it back into the corners where it belongs.
01:34:42.020
It belongs in that cage of hatred and away from all Americans.
01:35:11.100
Nancy Pelosi has just come out yesterday and said another thing,
01:35:19.480
The Clark Service justified denying that organization their free speech rights.
01:35:24.580
Because the Constitution does not say that a person can shout,
01:35:31.400
So you can't shout or yell wolf in a crowded theater.
01:35:34.540
Now, if I speak wolf loudly, that's almost like shouting.
01:35:39.220
Because I'm going to go to the movie tonight and my wife film it
01:35:43.740
just to see what happens, the panic that ensues.
01:35:55.860
And I would like you to join me in this effort over the weekend.
01:36:01.960
If you go to a movie or if you're in a pact, anything,
01:36:06.400
I just want you to stand up at one point and cry wolf.
01:36:29.540
What if you go to a movie that they're like Little Red Riding Hood?
01:36:36.320
What if you go to a movie that has a threatening animal?
01:36:42.900
See, yelling fire in a crowded movie house is not really speech.
01:36:54.980
When they say there's a limit on freedom of speech,
01:37:00.600
It's also appropriate if there is, in fact, a fire in the crowded movie theater.
01:37:05.900
The reason why you can't do that is that is a warning.
01:37:13.060
So if you go to the wall and there happens to be a fire alarm,
01:37:18.560
you also will be arrested for pulling the fire alarm because you can't do that.
01:37:32.800
If I see the fire alarm, I can't pull that either.
01:37:44.360
Now, I don't know if you can pull the wolf alarm.
01:37:48.660
Only about 10% of U.S. theaters have a wolf alarm.
01:38:01.740
You know, somebody stands up and says in a dark movie theater,
01:38:19.580
I will say, by the way, if you happen to be watching Wonder Woman, Glenn,
01:38:23.220
this weekend, with Wolf Blitzer in the theater,
01:38:29.140
I don't know if it's better or worse to yell Wolf in that situation.
01:38:33.520
It seems to be more accurate, but it would be very annoying to him.
01:38:43.020
Every time he goes to a theater, people yell Wolf in the theater.
01:38:45.320
Do you have the right, in Congress, in a crowded congressional setting,
01:38:50.560
if Wolf Blitzer comes in, do I have a free speech right to say Wolf?
01:39:01.840
What happens if you're in a crowded North Pole, you know, toy center,
01:39:09.900
Well, then that's okay, too, because the name of the...
01:39:19.660
You know, the other thing is, why is nobody talking about her fitness for office?
01:39:24.600
I mean, she has been so confused so often and said such ridiculous things,
01:39:29.380
and nobody says, hey, you know, maybe Nancy Pelosi, something's wrong there.
01:39:34.320
Because seriously, maybe something's a little bit wrong there.
01:39:40.400
They're calling Trump's sanity into question, but not Nancy Pelosi?
01:39:46.160
Now, one would say that if one was doing a show earlier this week and we told the history
01:39:54.400
of why we shouldn't diagnose people, that we probably shouldn't...
01:40:08.400
And I will say, too, Nancy Pelosi, like, you look back at those early Trump interviews
01:40:21.920
At that point, he's much more logical in the way he presents himself.
01:40:38.180
Speaking of people who have always been nuts, James Cameron.
01:40:41.200
If I just may, James Cameron on Wonder Woman, all of the self-congratulatory back-patting
01:40:52.900
Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided.
01:40:56.660
She's an objectified icon, and she's just made male Hollywood do the same thing.
01:41:03.440
I'm not saying I didn't like the movie, but to me, it's a step backwards.
01:41:11.200
She was a terrible mother, and she earned the respect of the audience through pure grit.
01:41:15.760
And to me, the benefit of the characters like Sarah is so obvious.
01:41:21.000
So, James, you never had her in like a tank top or her underpants, her or Sigourney Weaver,
01:41:28.660
strangely, that we didn't want to see in a tank top and underpants.
01:41:34.320
And by the way, if Wonder Woman is objectifying a woman, how do we feel about, I don't know, Thor?
01:41:52.380
I mean, it's nothing but a bunch of women objectifying us all the time.
01:41:55.560
You know, I mean, that's the real reason they are here.
01:42:22.280
Please don't tell me that Mel Gibson, that Richard Gere, that, you know, even Chris, what's his name,
01:42:37.640
You're telling me that women aren't objectifying them?
01:42:44.640
Taylor Lautner is mostly naked most of the time.
01:42:57.740
Jeffy, would you please put your shirt back on?
01:43:03.080
I mean, he heard Wolf and he was like, I got to take off my shirt.
01:43:12.220
And strangely, just like the Hulk, my pants can stay on.
01:43:16.360
And the waist, the calves are all broken and ripped apart.
01:43:26.540
Can we utilize a somewhat annoying internet term here, which is virtue signaling?
01:43:33.000
Like, is there any chance James Cameron believes a word he just said?
01:43:37.100
Like, this is him telling everyone else how enlightened he is.
01:43:43.060
It's not about actually caring about the environment.
01:43:45.320
It's telling everyone that you're signaling to them that I care about the environment.
01:43:51.440
I think you get to a point to where you've been surrounded by sycophants and you've made so much money, etc., etc., that everybody just keeps telling you how wonderful you are.
01:44:07.980
Since Wynne is making a woman out to be a terrible mother, a step forward for women, one of the things he brags about is that Sarah Connor was a terrible mother.
01:44:21.200
Plus, is this not the guy who did Titanic and we saw Kate Winslet pose naked for a portrait?
01:44:40.080
She didn't because the rest of them were objectifying her.
01:44:49.800
Well, she was hooking up with Leo where she left her.
01:44:55.300
So it doesn't matter that she's cheating on her fiancé or whatever.
01:45:08.900
She seemed to be in first class and have a pretty good life.
01:45:12.820
What do you think a guy, a guy gives you the heart of the sea?
01:45:16.740
He gives you a stone like that because he's not oppressing you?
01:45:35.460
This is every Hollywood person with the gun thing, too.
01:45:40.620
They all sit here and whine about how bad guns are.
01:45:43.920
And then you look at all of their movies and it's nonstop guns.
01:45:46.420
And for them, it's okay because they know the truth about the evil bits.
01:45:54.500
It's the progressive, communist, Nazi, dictator, totalitarian, religious dictator.
01:46:09.180
They're just too stupid and they shouldn't do this.
01:46:13.180
And that's a perfect example of why it's so frustrating to connect all the nonsense in Charlottesville with the right.
01:46:18.940
If you are a conservative in the American sense, the one thing you stand up for more than anything is individual freedom.
01:46:26.240
And the idea that everybody in Washington doesn't know better than you.
01:46:35.280
You should not be controlled in every aspect of your life by the government.
01:46:38.500
We are pretty clear that Adolf really liked control of that country.
01:46:49.140
I don't remember a lot of freedoms in that particular regime.
01:47:01.820
One of the first things he did was make universal health care.
01:47:13.940
I know it's a weird thing to think about, but yes.
01:47:18.440
Because I often think of Adolf Hitler as a guy who wanted the government so small that the people had power over it.
01:47:29.520
No, I thought of it as more of a, he wanted the government so big that when people didn't raise their arm to salute them, he murdered them.
01:47:39.400
And no one got punished because it was actually advocated.
01:47:41.840
I could see the way you interpret all of the films and evidence in that way, but I'm feeling a little oppressed by your point of view on this.
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We asked for prayers for the people in the Gulf region who guess the hurricane is starting to come ashore.
01:49:00.420
It looks like it's coming ashore now in Corpus Christi, Texas.
01:49:05.280
Could be bad, especially if it goes back out into the Gulf, which they're expecting.
01:49:18.160
You know what the most dangerous city in America is now besides New Orleans?
01:49:25.960
They say that Tampa, Florida, if it is ever hit with a direct hit on the hurricane, which is hard for the hurricane to come in and make that circle.
01:49:34.900
But if it does, they say it will be a devastating, devastating hurricane.
01:49:42.920
I'm surprised it's dangerous now after Jeffy left.
01:49:45.340
I always thought it was the most dangerous city when we even lived there.
01:49:47.080
Well, when he was there, when he was there, you know, it pushed that whole western seaside up.
01:50:01.240
Well, it wasn't that Florida was held on by the entire continent.
01:50:08.260
Oh, you're going to hang Johnson on that immediately.
01:50:11.680
Because what we're saying, I guess the joke there, Pat, is that Jeffy's...
01:50:21.520
But you're going to see all weekend claims from the Al Gore's of the world showing how this hurricane, after 12 years with no hurricanes, proves him right.
01:50:36.580
There's going to be more frequent and more intense hurricanes.
01:50:47.900
So there hasn't been one since 2005, a major hurricane.
01:50:54.560
Even Hurricane Sandy, which was a hurricane at one point, was not one that actually made landfall, which is kind of an important part of that story, which is why they kept calling it Superstorm.
01:51:09.520
I mean, there's going to be obviously high winds, but the flooding looks like it could be really, really bad.
01:51:16.800
Aren't they saying 36 inches of rain in the next...
01:51:24.200
On my Facebook page, by the way, Glenn, is the disproving of Al Gore's claim from his movie about hurricanes.
01:51:30.220
So as you're hearing this this weekend, it might be a fun view and maybe a share.
01:51:34.280
And I believe I've posted it on Glenn Beck at Facebook.com slash Glenn Beck and at Glenn Beck.com as well.
01:51:41.640
So make sure you share that with some friends as the media goes crazy on global warming.