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00:00:54.600 Today we learned from the state of New York which one is meaner. Aborting a child the day before it's born or declawing cats. It's a tough one for New York and they made their decision.

00:01:08.220 Yeah, it was really it was a hard one. It was a hard one. Really difficult. We also there's new polling out kid kid or save the furniture. Yeah, there's new polling out about abortion.

00:01:19.820 And it's interesting because a lot of people who think the pro-choice really don't seem to be in the pro-choice side of the argument.

00:01:26.120 When you look at people's specific views on abortion and reveal a totally different picture than what the media shows you.

00:01:32.940 We hear Glenn's cow over and over and over again.

00:01:37.160 That's a part of the show today because Glenn's not a cow. He's my he's a bull. He's a bull. He's a bull. He's looking for a little loving and who knew what a bull's mating call sounded like until today's show.

00:01:52.700 It's disturbing. We now know unfortunately all throughout the show what a bull's mating call sounds like.

00:01:58.040 We find out about the latest on the helicopter crash in New York and Glenn has a prediction on how many books Jim Acosta is going to sell.

00:02:04.680 It's not high. It's not a lot. No, it's all on today's podcast.

00:02:15.440 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:02:24.160 I want to ask you a question in Georgia.

00:02:28.940 Why are police looking into this at all?

00:02:32.240 in Georgia

00:02:34.200 authorities are looking for a mother of a baby just a few hours old

00:02:41.540 that was found wrapped in a plastic bag in the woods.

00:02:47.580 Why?

00:02:49.600 Why are we looking for her?

00:02:51.760 To make sure she's okay?

00:02:53.480 Are we, uh, are we looking for her because we want to congratulate her on making such a brave choice?

00:03:01.920 A man came home with his daughters.

00:03:12.380 They were unloading grocery bags from their car at 10 o'clock.

00:03:15.040 They heard a sound in the woods.

00:03:22.080 At first they just thought they heard an animal in distress.

00:03:26.720 But that's not what they heard.

00:03:28.100 They followed the sound just to see what was going on.

00:03:33.440 And instead of an animal in distress, they realized

00:03:36.280 that it was a human animal in distress.

00:03:41.220 It was a human baby.

00:03:43.360 We went down, we pulled this sack up, and there was a, quote,

00:03:50.440 poor little baby wrapped in a plastic bag.

00:03:53.740 We called 911.

00:03:56.400 She was alive.

00:03:57.640 She was crying.

00:03:59.260 And we figured that was a good sign.

00:04:00.880 The man credited his daughters with saving the little girl

00:04:05.500 and acknowledged that it could have been much, much worse.

00:04:12.560 In a news conference on Friday, the sheriff said it was divine intervention.

00:04:19.380 Boy, is that sheriff out of touch.

00:04:21.860 He believes in God?

00:04:23.320 He's talking about God?

00:04:25.020 I bet he's one of these guys who's like,

00:04:27.260 thoughts and prayers to the baby.

00:04:30.880 Georgia has what's known as a safe haven law,

00:04:34.480 which permits the mother of the child to drop her baby off

00:04:38.400 at a hospital, police, or fire station

00:04:40.980 until the baby is seven days old without fear of any prosecution.

00:04:47.840 But maybe, maybe mom didn't know.

00:04:50.600 Maybe there's not enough government programs out there

00:04:53.120 that alerted her to this law.

00:04:57.300 Maybe mom did know, but she didn't really care

00:05:00.660 because, I mean, it's not really a baby.

00:05:05.780 She didn't have the money,

00:05:08.500 even though it's, you know, now federally funded.

00:05:11.700 Maybe she didn't have the money. 0.99

00:05:13.180 She didn't have the access.

00:05:14.500 Maybe she was too embarrassed.

00:05:16.860 Maybe she changed her mind at the last minute.

00:05:19.220 When do we stop calling this a fetus,

00:05:23.760 and when do we declare that it's a baby?

00:05:27.380 Five minutes, two hours.

00:05:30.020 We don't even know how old it was when mom dropped the baby off.

00:05:34.180 It might have, she might have had the plastic bag ready to go. 0.99

00:05:37.760 As soon as she had the baby,

00:05:40.000 she wrapped it up and then walked out into the woods some way 0.96

00:05:43.360 and deposited the baby,

00:05:46.440 the fetus, the thing.

00:05:52.220 The baby, by the way, is in stable condition.

00:05:54.780 You think that I'm being sarcastic on all of this,

00:06:09.120 but all of these things are actual questions

00:06:13.160 that we need to answer now.

00:06:15.020 How radical is leftist feminism at this point? 1.00

00:06:23.040 How radical has it become?

00:06:27.900 Well, a radical feminist, 0.91

00:06:30.840 her name is Sophie Lewis,

00:06:33.160 now describes pregnancy as gestational work

00:06:37.080 and an abortion as an acceptable violence, 0.97

00:06:41.680 a form of killing that we need to be able to defend. 0.83

00:06:46.560 Well, at least we're now talking about killing.

00:06:49.600 At least she's brought that word up into play.

00:06:54.920 We're facing a terrible attack on abortion.

00:07:02.020 She says the strategies that have been used on the left

00:07:06.200 have tended to include the kind of ceding ground

00:07:13.180 quote, on with her enemies.

00:07:17.800 We tend to say that abortion is indeed very bad, 0.99

00:07:20.840 but luckily it's not killing.

00:07:23.900 Luckily, it's just a health care right.

00:07:26.940 We have very little to lose at the moment

00:07:28.620 when it comes to abortion,

00:07:29.940 and I'm interested in winning radically, she writes.

00:07:33.540 I wonder if we could think about defending abortion

00:07:35.640 as a right to stop doing gestational work.

00:07:39.020 Abortion is, in my opinion,

00:07:40.680 and I recognize how controversial this is,

00:07:43.160 a form of killing.

00:07:44.860 It is a form of killing that we need 0.95

00:07:46.940 to be able to defend.

00:07:49.500 I'm not interested in where human life starts to exist.

00:07:53.920 I see the forms of making and unmaking each other

00:07:57.240 as continuous processes.

00:07:59.640 The other end of the spectrum

00:08:01.120 is learning how to die well and hold each other

00:08:03.620 and let each other go at the end of our lives.

00:08:06.680 Now it's just at the beginning as well.

00:08:10.340 But looking at the biology

00:08:11.980 helps me think about the violence

00:08:15.220 that innocently a fetus meets out

00:08:19.020 vis-a-vis a gestator.

00:08:21.020 The violence is an unacceptable violence

00:08:25.120 for someone who doesn't want to do

00:08:27.120 the gestational work.

00:08:29.360 The violence that the gestator meets

00:08:32.180 is essentially just going on strike

00:08:37.440 or exit that workplace.

00:08:41.580 And that's acceptable violence.

00:08:44.260 In a recent interview,

00:08:52.140 this author,

00:08:55.420 summarized by a reporter

00:08:59.240 in The Nation,

00:09:05.160 a very liberal magazine,

00:09:07.120 says that she specifically links

00:09:10.840 family abolition

00:09:12.480 to a radical reconceptualization

00:09:16.260 of pregnancy itself.

00:09:19.280 The act of carrying a child to term,

00:09:22.040 she insists,

00:09:23.460 is work,

00:09:25.340 labor,

00:09:26.060 that has long been exploited

00:09:27.900 and overlooked by the academy,

00:09:30.440 and so is mothering.

00:09:32.360 Boy, I want to have a baby with her.

00:09:39.360 What a good mom she would make. 1.00

00:09:45.120 Meanwhile,

00:09:46.180 the radicalization of abortion continues.

00:09:51.820 CEOs from 180 companies,

00:09:54.660 including Twitter,

00:09:56.560 H&M,

00:10:01.320 Slack,

00:10:02.360 Postmates,

00:10:04.560 Yelp, 0.89

00:10:05.840 Tinder,

00:10:07.660 Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream,

00:10:11.360 have signed a letter that says

00:10:13.140 it's time for companies

00:10:14.120 to stand up for reproductive health care.

00:10:17.920 Restricting abortion is bad for business.

00:10:21.920 Though the letter doesn't make

00:10:23.440 any real connection

00:10:24.220 between the availability of abortion

00:10:25.880 and the business climate

00:10:26.900 of a particular state.

00:10:28.800 Instead,

00:10:29.500 they claim restricting

00:10:30.520 reproductive freedom

00:10:31.320 is against our values.

00:10:37.100 States that threaten abortion

00:10:38.760 threaten the health,

00:10:40.200 independence,

00:10:40.820 economic stability

00:10:41.940 of our employees

00:10:43.180 and customers.

00:10:45.160 Equality in the workplace

00:10:46.420 is one of the most important

00:10:47.860 business issues of our time.

00:10:49.820 When everyone is empowered

00:10:51.040 to succeed,

00:10:51.940 our companies,

00:10:52.600 our communities,

00:10:53.140 and our economy

00:10:54.080 and our economy

00:10:54.100 are better for it.

00:10:56.280 So, wait.

00:10:58.200 Restricting abortion 0.71

00:10:59.080 is somehow or another

00:11:00.480 restricting your ability

00:11:01.600 to succeed?

00:11:04.560 Restricting access

00:11:05.680 to comprehensive

00:11:06.780 reproductive care,

00:11:09.220 including abortion,

00:11:10.340 threatens the health,

00:11:11.220 independence,

00:11:11.600 and economic stability

00:11:12.640 of our employees

00:11:13.400 and customers.

00:11:14.020 Simply put,

00:11:14.800 it goes against our values

00:11:16.120 and it is bad

00:11:17.300 for business.

00:11:18.480 What a surprise.

00:11:19.420 This is coming from

00:11:20.140 Planned Parenthood

00:11:21.140 and the ACLU.

00:11:24.020 And because now

00:11:24.960 the ACLU is involved

00:11:26.480 and we know

00:11:27.460 that the chairman

00:11:28.560 of Joe Biden's campaign

00:11:32.380 was the exiting

00:11:35.240 president of the ACLU

00:11:38.460 that has transformed

00:11:40.260 the ACLU

00:11:41.500 into a street riot gang.

00:11:45.220 We're going to be seeing

00:11:48.360 protests on the street

00:11:50.040 for this.

00:11:51.280 We are going to see

00:11:52.660 the left

00:11:53.840 rise up

00:11:55.500 against any of these

00:11:57.460 states.

00:11:59.380 May I just suggest

00:12:01.140 good.

00:12:03.680 Good.

00:12:06.360 At least they're admitting

00:12:08.040 that it's killing.

00:12:11.240 At least they're admitting

00:12:12.940 now that it's all

00:12:14.340 about business

00:12:15.280 because that's all

00:12:17.260 that Planned Parenthood

00:12:18.000 is.

00:12:19.460 Abortion restrictions,

00:12:20.980 they are bad

00:12:21.920 for business

00:12:22.540 if you're

00:12:23.140 Planned Parenthood.

00:12:31.720 Now on the other side,

00:12:34.080 without any

00:12:36.720 sense

00:12:38.260 of shame

00:12:40.180 or irony,

00:12:42.080 New York,

00:12:44.580 which is allowing

00:12:46.780 abortion up to the last

00:12:47.920 five minutes.

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00:13:07.080 If you remember right,

00:13:09.140 Twitter

00:13:09.540 just told

00:13:11.180 Abby Johnson

00:13:11.980 and I think

00:13:13.600 Lila Rose

00:13:14.380 that they cannot,

00:13:15.820 they can't,

00:13:16.700 they can't advertise

00:13:17.580 on Twitter,

00:13:18.660 they can't

00:13:19.440 promote

00:13:20.120 on Twitter

00:13:21.180 and the reason why

00:13:22.820 is because

00:13:23.860 they show

00:13:24.980 what abortion 1.00

00:13:26.620 procedures are like.

00:13:28.300 You know,

00:13:28.900 they'll have little drawings

00:13:29.920 of,

00:13:30.400 you might have seen them

00:13:31.320 last couple of weeks.

00:13:33.900 People are,

00:13:34.600 are,

00:13:35.100 you know,

00:13:35.940 doing

00:13:36.320 clinical

00:13:38.780 drawings

00:13:40.720 of what happens

00:13:42.740 in an abortion

00:13:43.720 procedure.

00:13:44.720 They're not graphic,

00:13:46.120 they're just true.

00:13:46.840 And the social media

00:13:49.520 has come out

00:13:50.300 and said,

00:13:50.740 you can't share that.

00:13:52.380 In fact,

00:13:52.680 Twitter has come out

00:13:53.560 and said,

00:13:53.960 it's so offensive

00:13:54.800 that you have to remove it

00:13:56.480 from your own website

00:13:57.480 if you would like us

00:13:58.460 to consider doing

00:13:59.380 anything with you.

00:14:00.620 So wait,

00:14:02.060 so wait,

00:14:02.720 they're not allowed

00:14:03.580 to talk about abortion,

00:14:05.320 they're not allowed

00:14:06.040 to show

00:14:06.680 sonograms,

00:14:08.420 and they're

00:14:09.640 also

00:14:10.500 not allowed

00:14:11.620 to talk

00:14:12.860 about

00:14:13.480 Planned Parenthood.

00:14:14.640 But other than that,

00:14:16.900 these pro-life groups,

00:14:18.120 they can use Twitter

00:14:19.040 all they want.

00:14:19.900 They just have to remove

00:14:20.780 that from their website

00:14:21.880 and from all their tweets.

00:14:25.140 So it is apparently

00:14:26.520 too,

00:14:28.200 it's just too

00:14:29.580 jarring

00:14:31.560 to see

00:14:34.060 what happens

00:14:38.380 with cats,

00:14:39.740 or I mean

00:14:40.100 with people.

00:14:40.980 but you can

00:14:44.420 you can have

00:14:47.780 that drawing

00:14:48.960 with cats

00:14:50.340 in the New York Times.

00:14:53.080 You can explain

00:14:54.340 the procedure

00:14:55.060 on cats

00:14:56.600 on what they do

00:14:57.980 to declaw,

00:14:59.240 but we dare not

00:15:00.380 even discuss

00:15:01.660 what happens

00:15:02.280 to humans

00:15:03.160 if you try 1.00

00:15:04.960 to kill it. 1.00

00:15:05.660 they went 1.00

00:15:07.840 into great detail

00:15:08.580 about

00:15:08.880 what

00:15:09.520 what happens

00:15:10.480 with cats

00:15:11.140 and

00:15:11.320 and how

00:15:12.580 the cats

00:15:13.280 are declawed

00:15:14.840 and

00:15:15.420 and what that

00:15:16.640 means to the

00:15:17.460 poor cats

00:15:18.160 and it's all

00:15:19.000 for of course

00:15:19.640 our vanity.

00:15:21.320 It's because

00:15:22.020 we put our

00:15:22.580 furniture

00:15:23.060 over cats.

00:15:26.220 It's kind of like

00:15:27.260 how we put

00:15:28.140 our careers

00:15:28.780 over babies.

00:15:31.120 Which one

00:15:31.780 is more

00:15:32.160 grotesque?

00:15:32.820 we love

00:15:35.380 our cats.

00:15:36.460 I don't.

00:15:37.360 I hate cats.

00:15:38.200 But many

00:15:39.220 people

00:15:39.620 strangely

00:15:40.540 find something

00:15:41.500 attractive

00:15:42.080 about cats.

00:15:44.840 And so yeah

00:15:45.560 they don't want

00:15:46.040 them destroying

00:15:46.760 the house.

00:15:47.280 Well I don't

00:15:47.560 want my dog 0.92

00:15:48.140 destroying the

00:15:48.720 house either.

00:15:49.580 That's why

00:15:49.920 he goes

00:15:50.320 outside.

00:15:52.040 That's why

00:15:52.640 I teach him

00:15:53.500 not to chew

00:15:54.260 on things.

00:15:56.500 I can't help

00:15:57.340 it that cats

00:15:57.860 are just too 1.00

00:15:58.360 stupid. 1.00

00:16:01.400 So you 1.00

00:16:02.080 I just

00:16:04.420 do this

00:16:04.780 I just

00:16:05.420 do this

00:16:05.740 for the

00:16:05.980 people who

00:16:06.560 actually

00:16:07.320 get the

00:16:08.420 email the

00:16:08.940 first in

00:16:09.420 line.

00:16:10.320 John

00:16:10.440 Bolt right

00:16:10.860 now he's

00:16:11.240 a guy that

00:16:11.640 goes through

00:16:12.080 all the

00:16:12.400 email and

00:16:13.060 he's every

00:16:13.560 time I

00:16:13.900 start in

00:16:14.280 on cats

00:16:14.740 he's like

00:16:15.120 oh dear

00:16:15.700 God Glenn

00:16:16.180 don't please

00:16:16.740 you're wrecking

00:16:17.220 my whole

00:16:17.640 day.

00:16:18.080 I'm going

00:16:18.260 to hear

00:16:18.480 nothing but

00:16:19.200 cat stuff.

00:16:20.980 Yeah well

00:16:21.320 it's true 1.00

00:16:21.880 they're stupid 1.00

00:16:22.660 and I 1.00

00:16:23.960 hate cats.

00:16:25.780 See and

00:16:26.020 you're right

00:16:26.420 John.

00:16:26.920 My understanding

00:16:27.420 is that you're

00:16:28.000 actually for

00:16:29.200 declawing just

00:16:30.440 for the

00:16:30.880 torture.

00:16:32.080 You don't

00:16:32.800 even care

00:16:33.320 about the

00:16:33.780 furniture or

00:16:34.620 anything like

00:16:34.900 that you

00:16:35.160 just want

00:16:35.600 to declaw

00:16:36.100 these cats

00:16:36.660 because you

00:16:37.060 hate them.

00:16:37.740 Yeah I'd

00:16:37.940 like to just

00:16:38.340 pick them

00:16:38.700 up in the

00:16:39.340 wild.

00:16:40.980 You know and

00:16:41.780 then send

00:16:42.220 them back

00:16:42.600 out.

00:16:45.520 I love

00:16:46.140 that because

00:16:46.400 you can say

00:16:47.380 that and

00:16:47.860 people will

00:16:48.320 be legitimately

00:16:49.140 offended by

00:16:50.140 it but you

00:16:50.880 can talk about

00:16:51.600 a third

00:16:52.020 trimester abortion

00:16:52.900 and you'll

00:16:53.940 get an entire

00:16:54.960 political party

00:16:55.780 that will have

00:16:56.420 absolutely no

00:16:57.200 problem about

00:16:57.880 it a minute

00:16:58.440 before birth or

00:16:59.340 maybe after.

00:17:00.180 That's a

00:17:01.160 standard that

00:17:01.960 perhaps we

00:17:02.540 should reconsider.

00:17:03.340 It doesn't

00:17:03.560 seem morally

00:17:04.120 consistent.

00:17:06.900 Well it is

00:17:08.140 so outrageously

00:17:10.240 radicalized now

00:17:11.760 Stu that you

00:17:13.180 can't do an

00:17:14.140 anti-Hitler

00:17:15.200 painting on

00:17:16.840 eBay, an

00:17:19.560 anti-Hitler

00:17:20.680 propaganda poster

00:17:22.220 and have it

00:17:25.020 actually exist

00:17:26.620 on eBay.

00:17:27.180 this is the

00:17:27.940 second time

00:17:28.700 they've taken

00:17:29.220 my painting

00:17:30.260 down, my

00:17:30.820 10 hour

00:17:31.300 meme, where

00:17:32.880 it's an

00:17:33.260 anti-Hitler

00:17:34.420 poster, Hitler 0.74

00:17:35.520 didn't look

00:17:36.200 like that, that's

00:17:37.460 the way in all

00:17:38.360 of his

00:17:38.660 propaganda, the

00:17:40.680 Jews were made 1.00

00:17:42.100 to be seen

00:17:43.160 and it says

00:17:45.160 as he's reading

00:17:46.320 50 million

00:17:47.180 killed, next 0.69

00:17:48.600 time I should

00:17:49.460 just call it

00:17:50.060 Planned

00:17:50.420 Parenthood, you

00:17:52.140 know as opposed

00:17:52.700 to the final

00:17:53.240 solution.

00:17:54.740 That way, if I

00:17:56.000 really want to

00:17:56.680 dumb it down

00:17:57.540 for people at

00:17:58.380 eBay and

00:17:59.080 Twitter and

00:18:00.280 Facebook, that

00:18:02.520 way he could get

00:18:03.280 away with it, you

00:18:04.020 see.

00:18:05.600 So that's pro-Hitler 0.99

00:18:06.960 propaganda is

00:18:07.920 basically what you're

00:18:08.740 saying there?

00:18:09.340 That's pro-Nazi 0.94

00:18:10.240 propaganda?

00:18:11.400 No, it's anti.

00:18:12.620 And we got a

00:18:14.020 letter in from

00:18:15.620 eBay and they

00:18:19.620 said that we

00:18:21.960 realize there's

00:18:22.680 historical significance

00:18:23.920 of World War

00:18:24.760 II and there's

00:18:26.400 many military

00:18:27.700 collectors around

00:18:28.760 the world and

00:18:30.100 some World War

00:18:30.880 II related

00:18:31.580 historical items

00:18:32.560 are allowed, but

00:18:33.820 this one isn't.

00:18:36.300 This is not

00:18:36.880 about World War

00:18:37.600 II.

00:18:38.520 This is about

00:18:39.300 the world war

00:18:40.400 that we're in

00:18:40.960 right now to

00:18:41.760 save freedom,

00:18:42.680 freedom of speech

00:18:43.700 and freedom of

00:18:44.520 life.

00:18:47.540 This is the

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00:18:49.220 Glenn Beck

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00:18:52.680 Hey, it's Glenn

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00:19:10.760 You know, the

00:19:11.440 part of the plan

00:19:14.100 with the left, I

00:19:15.000 think, is to make

00:19:16.560 you feel small and

00:19:18.060 insignificant, that

00:19:19.580 there's nothing

00:19:20.940 you can do

00:19:21.620 about it, that

00:19:23.000 it's over.

00:19:24.200 And it's a very

00:19:25.280 small number of

00:19:26.880 people.

00:19:28.320 And the way

00:19:29.900 they do it is

00:19:31.120 they manipulate

00:19:32.380 language.

00:19:32.960 We know this

00:19:34.140 through political

00:19:34.940 correctness.

00:19:35.680 They can manipulate

00:19:36.880 language to get

00:19:39.500 you to go, well,

00:19:40.460 yeah, I guess

00:19:41.820 that's where I'm

00:19:42.560 at.

00:19:43.260 But it's maybe

00:19:43.960 not exactly where

00:19:45.180 you're at.

00:19:45.700 And it doesn't

00:19:46.540 give a fair look

00:19:47.980 at what people

00:19:48.840 are actually

00:19:49.620 feeling.

00:19:51.140 Stu's got some

00:19:51.720 numbers.

00:19:52.100 He's looking at

00:19:52.900 the abortion

00:19:54.300 numbers and how

00:19:55.720 Americans really 0.64

00:19:56.600 feel about it

00:19:57.480 with the

00:19:58.560 traditional wording

00:19:59.460 and with new

00:20:01.820 language in the

00:20:03.060 questions.

00:20:03.780 Yeah, I'm

00:20:03.960 fascinated by this.

00:20:04.940 The big headline

00:20:05.900 was 77% say the

00:20:08.300 Supreme Court

00:20:08.900 should uphold

00:20:09.520 Roe versus

00:20:09.940 Wade, which is

00:20:11.500 amazing considering

00:20:12.540 that doesn't seem

00:20:13.380 to be the split

00:20:14.000 of Americans

00:20:14.800 overall.

00:20:15.520 There's a pro

00:20:16.240 choice, pro

00:20:17.520 life split that's

00:20:18.340 been pretty stable

00:20:21.240 at about 50-50.

00:20:23.120 For example, in

00:20:23.740 February, they did

00:20:24.360 a poll, are you

00:20:25.380 pro choice or

00:20:25.920 pro life?

00:20:26.360 It was 47 to

00:20:27.200 47.

00:20:28.560 Now, because it's

00:20:29.400 turned into a

00:20:29.980 bigger issue lately

00:20:30.820 that those polls

00:20:31.760 have moved a little

00:20:32.400 bit and this poll

00:20:33.160 asked that same

00:20:33.800 question, are you

00:20:34.380 pro choice or

00:20:34.960 pro life?

00:20:35.560 And it was 35%

00:20:37.480 said pro life,

00:20:38.820 57% said pro

00:20:41.220 choice.

00:20:42.200 So just to set

00:20:43.380 the kind of

00:20:43.960 baseline of this

00:20:44.680 poll, this is a

00:20:45.780 group of people

00:20:46.580 who were polled

00:20:48.040 here that would

00:20:49.280 be to the left

00:20:50.700 of what is

00:20:52.580 considered normal

00:20:53.780 in our debate.

00:20:55.140 Okay, wait,

00:20:56.120 wait, wait, wait.

00:20:56.720 Can I ask,

00:20:59.340 the left is

00:21:00.900 looking at this

00:21:02.000 debate.

00:21:02.560 They're not

00:21:02.860 putting any

00:21:03.480 stock into

00:21:04.660 what the

00:21:06.380 Democrats are

00:21:07.080 saying.

00:21:07.760 All they're doing

00:21:08.880 is they're looking

00:21:09.680 at what the

00:21:10.660 Republicans are

00:21:11.480 doing, which

00:21:12.520 is, you know,

00:21:14.200 quashing abortion 0.88

00:21:15.720 in state after

00:21:16.700 state after state.

00:21:17.780 And so it's

00:21:18.540 being billed as

00:21:19.760 look, we were

00:21:21.580 fine with safe,

00:21:23.100 legal and rare.

00:21:24.160 But boy, this

00:21:25.800 Trump administration,

00:21:27.040 all these

00:21:27.400 Republicans, they

00:21:28.320 just want to take

00:21:28.960 away every single

00:21:30.040 right on this.

00:21:31.340 Right.

00:21:31.720 So is it possible

00:21:32.760 that they're not

00:21:34.280 as far left?

00:21:35.980 They just are

00:21:37.580 buying into the

00:21:39.020 Kool-Aid and

00:21:40.340 drinking the

00:21:40.940 Kool-Aid.

00:21:41.300 I think that is

00:21:41.900 entirely it.

00:21:42.940 I mean, you see

00:21:43.380 the polling very

00:21:44.260 consistent over a

00:21:45.180 long period of

00:21:45.800 time of it being

00:21:46.540 pretty split between

00:21:47.460 people who consider

00:21:48.220 themselves pro-life

00:21:49.180 or pro-choice,

00:21:49.900 depending on, I

00:21:51.000 mean, it's always

00:21:51.380 pretty close to

00:21:52.000 50-50.

00:21:52.860 35-57 is a really

00:21:54.500 bad poll for

00:21:55.980 pro-lifers.

00:21:57.260 And that's kind of

00:21:57.740 where the reason why

00:21:58.720 that's important is

00:21:59.360 because they answer

00:22:00.040 the other questions.

00:22:00.860 Remember, these are

00:22:01.340 the same people

00:22:02.080 answering the

00:22:02.760 questions.

00:22:03.180 The people who say

00:22:03.820 they're only 35%

00:22:04.980 pro-life are

00:22:05.980 answering all

00:22:06.380 these other

00:22:06.720 questions.

00:22:07.360 So this is not a

00:22:08.340 conservative-leaning

00:22:09.580 poll.

00:22:10.600 I think that's

00:22:11.600 important to set.

00:22:12.780 So the first thing

00:22:13.760 you realize by going

00:22:14.420 through these numbers

00:22:14.920 is there is no

00:22:16.120 reason to ever ask

00:22:17.580 another group of

00:22:18.560 people in a poll

00:22:19.300 whether they think

00:22:20.000 Roe versus Wade

00:22:20.780 should be overturned

00:22:21.680 because none of

00:22:22.300 them know what it

00:22:22.800 says.

00:22:23.900 It's just, do you

00:22:25.120 think unicorns should

00:22:26.820 be able to hold

00:22:27.480 jobs as accountants?

00:22:28.820 Like, the same value

00:22:30.080 in that question

00:22:31.800 because really...

00:22:32.880 I, by the way,

00:22:33.400 am against that.

00:22:34.100 They have hooves

00:22:34.880 not fingers.

00:22:35.640 How do they enter

00:22:36.400 anything in a

00:22:37.140 spreadsheet?

00:22:37.740 Well, I mean,

00:22:38.440 obviously we have

00:22:39.260 voice dictation

00:22:40.240 services.

00:22:40.760 We can get into

00:22:41.160 that debate a

00:22:41.700 little bit longer

00:22:42.380 at another time

00:22:44.220 of the show.

00:22:45.500 You don't know

00:22:45.880 if unicorns can

00:22:46.560 talk.

00:22:46.900 You've never

00:22:47.180 talked to one.

00:22:47.880 All right.

00:22:48.260 You're right.

00:22:48.720 You're right.

00:22:49.260 You're right.

00:22:50.240 But like, you know,

00:22:51.520 Roe versus Wade

00:22:52.320 basically says you

00:22:54.140 can have an abortion

00:22:54.900 in the first

00:22:55.400 trimester.

00:22:56.360 In the second

00:22:56.760 trimester, you start

00:22:57.780 getting into certain

00:22:59.200 restrictions.

00:23:00.000 In the third

00:23:00.600 trimester, a state

00:23:01.380 can pass any

00:23:01.880 restrictions it

00:23:02.540 wants, basically.

00:23:03.360 So, you know,

00:23:05.780 it's basically a

00:23:07.100 first term of

00:23:08.920 right to an

00:23:09.580 abortion, if you 0.69

00:23:10.400 want to put it

00:23:10.840 that way.

00:23:11.180 There's a lot more

00:23:12.020 detail to it than

00:23:12.860 that.

00:23:13.120 But generally

00:23:13.700 speaking, there's

00:23:14.780 also an argument

00:23:15.320 about viability in

00:23:16.580 there.

00:23:17.080 But generally

00:23:17.600 speaking, that's

00:23:18.160 what it says.

00:23:19.140 You know, once

00:23:20.020 it's a viable

00:23:20.560 child, you can't

00:23:21.460 absolutely states

00:23:22.800 can restrict it.

00:23:23.520 They can say it's

00:23:24.120 completely illegal in

00:23:25.520 the third

00:23:25.800 trimester.

00:23:26.300 And in the first

00:23:27.200 trimester, they

00:23:27.780 really can't say

00:23:28.660 it's completely

00:23:29.540 illegal.

00:23:30.420 That's kind of

00:23:30.920 what, and that's

00:23:31.640 why it's

00:23:31.900 controversial, and

00:23:32.540 that's why these

00:23:33.140 laws that are being

00:23:34.860 passed to restrict

00:23:35.860 it more than the

00:23:37.060 first trimester are

00:23:38.000 going to go to the

00:23:39.320 Supreme Court in

00:23:40.060 theory, and that's

00:23:40.760 going to be the big

00:23:41.300 challenge.

00:23:41.780 That's why these

00:23:42.620 things are going on.

00:23:43.800 So, with that being

00:23:45.240 said, what do people

00:23:46.680 actually think about

00:23:47.440 abortion? 0.89

00:23:48.320 Nine percent of

00:23:49.240 people think it

00:23:49.900 should never be

00:23:50.540 legal.

00:23:51.480 Nine percent.

00:23:52.640 Okay?

00:23:53.420 Under any

00:23:54.000 circumstance

00:23:54.600 whatsoever.

00:23:55.880 Another nine

00:23:56.580 percent say it

00:23:57.420 should be life of

00:23:58.140 the mother only.

00:23:59.220 The only exception.

00:24:00.380 So, now you're at

00:24:00.840 18 percent say life

00:24:02.540 or more restrictive.

00:24:05.280 Twenty-nine percent

00:24:06.380 of people say it

00:24:07.540 should only be

00:24:08.200 allowed in the

00:24:09.080 instance of rape,

00:24:10.320 incest, and life of

00:24:12.120 the mother.

00:24:13.320 Okay?

00:24:13.760 So, now you're at

00:24:14.880 That's how many?

00:24:15.780 Uh, 29 percent.

00:24:17.140 So, you're at 47

00:24:18.020 percent of people who

00:24:19.920 say, basically, rape

00:24:22.380 and incest and life, 0.89

00:24:23.880 and that's it.

00:24:25.040 Or more restrictive

00:24:25.920 than that.

00:24:26.480 Okay?

00:24:27.300 So, that's, again, if

00:24:28.360 only 35 percent of

00:24:29.680 these people consider

00:24:30.480 themselves to be

00:24:31.600 pro-choice, or

00:24:33.040 excuse me, pro-life,

00:24:34.660 only 40, uh, 35

00:24:36.880 percent say that, but

00:24:37.720 47 percent are at the

00:24:40.880 point where, let's say,

00:24:41.880 George W. Bush's

00:24:43.040 position was rape, 1.00

00:24:44.040 incest, life of the

00:24:44.740 mother.

00:24:45.320 Right?

00:24:45.560 So, like, I mean,

00:24:46.240 that's a pretty

00:24:47.560 standard way of

00:24:49.020 identifying the pro-life.

00:24:51.340 Exactly.

00:24:52.740 My church is there.

00:24:54.780 That's where my

00:24:55.600 church is.

00:24:56.380 Right.

00:24:56.620 And they would

00:24:57.220 consider themselves

00:24:58.060 pro-life.

00:24:58.620 And this is why this

00:24:59.420 Roe vs. Wade and

00:25:00.320 pro-choice, pro-life

00:25:01.380 thing doesn't make

00:25:02.140 any sense.

00:25:02.620 For example, about a

00:25:03.900 quarter of people who

00:25:06.240 consider themselves to

00:25:08.580 be pro-choice agree

00:25:10.540 with the Mormon

00:25:11.420 church's policy on

00:25:13.620 abortion.

00:25:13.920 think about that for

00:25:16.900 a second.

00:25:17.300 These terms are

00:25:18.340 completely misused in

00:25:19.760 our society.

00:25:20.740 People who say, you

00:25:21.500 know what, yeah, rape,

00:25:22.300 incest, and life of the

00:25:23.320 mother, a position 0.85

00:25:24.400 absolutely associated

00:25:25.720 with pro-lifers, not

00:25:26.960 pro-choicers, about a

00:25:28.180 quarter of people who

00:25:29.040 identify themselves as

00:25:30.340 pro-choice think that

00:25:31.520 should be the law.

00:25:33.020 Like, that is, it's

00:25:34.500 completely misused.

00:25:36.420 Then there's another

00:25:37.500 23 percent who say it

00:25:39.360 should be in the first

00:25:40.800 trimester only.

00:25:42.120 And that's essentially

00:25:42.960 the Roe vs. Wade

00:25:43.980 standard.

00:25:45.080 So, people a lot of

00:25:46.640 times will say, well,

00:25:48.060 Roe vs. Wade, that

00:25:48.880 means you're essentially

00:25:49.720 the Democratic Party.

00:25:50.700 Well, it's not at all,

00:25:51.620 right?

00:25:52.200 I mean, you have now

00:25:52.960 20, you have, let's

00:25:54.820 see, 32, 41, 61,

00:25:57.220 71, 70 percent of

00:25:59.480 people basically saying,

00:26:00.480 you know, Roe vs. Wade

00:26:01.920 is the way to go, which

00:26:03.580 at this point is a

00:26:04.240 massive move to the

00:26:05.400 right.

00:26:06.020 People don't realize

00:26:06.680 that.

00:26:06.880 They say they want to

00:26:07.440 overturn Roe vs. Wade.

00:26:08.940 Well, overturning Roe

00:26:09.640 vs. Wade is, of course,

00:26:12.480 something that I

00:26:13.200 advocate for as a

00:26:14.180 pro-lifer.

00:26:14.980 However, going back

00:26:15.900 to Roe vs. Wade would

00:26:17.740 also be something you

00:26:18.540 can advocate for as a

00:26:19.500 pro-lifer because that

00:26:20.900 is a move to the right

00:26:22.220 from where we are, and

00:26:23.540 a massive one.

00:26:24.740 Another 11 percent

00:26:26.060 saying the first two

00:26:27.400 trimesters.

00:26:28.520 And then at the very

00:26:29.320 end you have what is

00:26:30.540 essentially now the

00:26:31.820 mainstream Democratic

00:26:33.660 position, which is you

00:26:36.460 can have it anytime you

00:26:37.200 want, right?

00:26:37.720 It's up to the mother, 0.96

00:26:38.760 which is a choice

00:26:39.480 argument, a pure pro-choice

00:26:41.260 argument, and that is

00:26:42.540 18 percent of the

00:26:43.600 population.

00:26:44.720 So think of the way

00:26:46.040 these things are tossed 0.94

00:26:48.420 at you in the media.

00:26:49.740 It doesn't seem at all

00:26:50.840 like only 18 percent of

00:26:52.860 people believe the

00:26:53.900 mainstream Democratic

00:26:54.840 Party view.

00:26:56.860 It seems like something

00:26:57.540 completely...

00:26:57.900 And I don't believe it

00:26:58.020 is 18.

00:26:58.680 I don't believe it is

00:27:00.040 18 percent.

00:27:01.040 You think it's lower

00:27:01.640 than that or higher?

00:27:03.480 Lower.

00:27:05.600 Come on.

00:27:06.200 18 percent of Americans,

00:27:08.360 20 percent of Americans

00:27:10.120 believe we should be able 1.00

00:27:11.540 to kill a baby five 1.00

00:27:13.260 minutes from birth? 1.00

00:27:14.800 I mean, that's really

00:27:15.660 the only, you know, you

00:27:17.280 can argue this, but I

00:27:18.020 think it's the most

00:27:19.440 consistent position, right?

00:27:21.400 Like if you're life, if

00:27:23.320 you're saying pro-choice,

00:27:24.980 you are saying the mother

00:27:26.020 has a right to choose

00:27:27.820 essentially when that

00:27:29.280 becomes a being, which is 0.93

00:27:31.220 a completely ridiculous 0.95

00:27:32.780 standard, obviously, 0.83

00:27:33.960 because then we can give

00:27:34.680 the mother the right to

00:27:35.660 choose that when the kid

00:27:36.400 is seven, too.

00:27:37.540 It doesn't make any sense.

00:27:38.480 If you're about choice,

00:27:39.680 why are you restricting

00:27:40.600 it to birth?

00:27:41.920 The woman that I just

00:27:43.400 said was in Atlanta

00:27:45.960 that they're searching

00:27:46.700 for, the mother who

00:27:48.940 had a baby, wrapped it

00:27:50.460 in a garbage bag, and

00:27:51.680 then took it out into

00:27:52.420 the woods.

00:27:52.900 It was just a few hours

00:27:53.900 old when they found the

00:27:54.900 baby.

00:27:55.460 She might have done it 0.96

00:27:56.500 right after birth.

00:27:59.100 Why are we searching

00:28:00.460 for her to say, oh,

00:28:02.340 good for you.

00:28:03.780 Celebrate your choice.

00:28:05.000 Yeah, it's a very,

00:28:05.760 very...

00:28:05.960 Because what's the

00:28:06.560 difference?

00:28:07.080 Yeah, very similar to

00:28:07.920 what Governor Northam

00:28:09.200 said, which was

00:28:10.020 basically the mother

00:28:10.900 and the doctor should

00:28:12.260 be able to choose

00:28:12.940 whether they want to

00:28:13.540 give life-saving

00:28:14.660 treatment to the baby.

00:28:16.880 So why bother?

00:28:17.700 The mother obviously

00:28:18.920 chose that she did

00:28:20.640 not want the baby to

00:28:21.640 receive life-saving

00:28:23.340 treatment, so why

00:28:24.020 give it to her? 0.99

00:28:25.460 So let me give you

00:28:26.240 some of these, a couple

00:28:27.740 of other things here

00:28:28.320 in this, because this

00:28:29.020 is, I mean, it's

00:28:29.620 really fascinating.

00:28:31.140 Specifics.

00:28:32.240 Pro-life or pro-choice,

00:28:33.380 you need to have an

00:28:34.520 ultrasound before you

00:28:36.540 have an abortion. 0.55

00:28:37.260 Would you consider

00:28:37.740 that to be a pro-life

00:28:38.440 or pro-choice view?

00:28:40.580 I would say that is

00:28:41.560 a pro-life.

00:28:42.340 Pro-life view, right?

00:28:43.900 That is, that policy

00:28:45.500 forcing women to look 1.00

00:28:47.280 at an ultrasound

00:28:47.860 before getting an

00:28:48.520 abortion, 52% to 43%,

00:28:50.500 a popular policy.

00:28:51.940 In fact, a third of

00:28:52.860 pro-choicers believe

00:28:54.040 that that should be

00:28:54.720 the law.

00:28:55.420 How about a 24-hour

00:28:56.340 waiting period?

00:28:57.700 Again, it's a pro-life

00:28:58.800 law, right?

00:29:00.960 65% say that should be

00:29:02.760 the law.

00:29:03.700 In fact, includes 41% 0.86

00:29:05.860 of people who consider

00:29:06.620 themselves pro-choice.

00:29:08.900 How about a law that

00:29:10.340 requires doctors to have

00:29:12.000 hospital-admitting

00:29:12.940 privileges?

00:29:14.000 This is seen as one of

00:29:15.060 the most restrictive

00:29:16.040 pro-life laws available.

00:29:18.880 However, 64% of people

00:29:20.960 support it, at least as

00:29:23.840 worded in this poll.

00:29:25.360 And this is one of the

00:29:26.080 things we were talking

00:29:26.600 about earlier, Glenn,

00:29:27.220 about how they word

00:29:27.860 these polls.

00:29:29.300 The poll basically says

00:29:30.680 should doctors be forced

00:29:33.520 or required to have

00:29:34.840 hospital-admitting

00:29:35.660 privileges?

00:29:36.200 This is a law that

00:29:36.860 pro-lifers show because

00:29:39.320 in Roe v. Wade, there's

00:29:40.960 talk about health

00:29:42.200 restrictions in the

00:29:43.160 second trimester in

00:29:44.020 particular.

00:29:44.980 So that's obviously a

00:29:46.060 pro-life rule.

00:29:46.880 You want to make the

00:29:48.060 doctors have more

00:29:50.000 medical responsibilities.

00:29:53.080 However, 68% of pro-choice

00:29:55.800 voters think that should

00:29:56.860 be the law and only 59%

00:29:58.300 of pro-life voters.

00:29:59.880 So it's more supported

00:30:00.660 by pro-choice.

00:30:01.900 Yeah, people don't even

00:30:02.620 know what they're talking

00:30:03.540 about at this point.

00:30:04.400 This is why it's really

00:30:05.560 impossible to have any

00:30:07.260 kind of real discussion

00:30:08.380 with people because

00:30:09.560 you'll bring a fact up

00:30:11.180 and they'll say,

00:30:11.620 well, I don't know

00:30:12.420 about that.

00:30:13.020 I'm just against it

00:30:13.940 because.

00:30:14.620 Right.

00:30:15.400 And so you can't

00:30:16.500 really have, yeah,

00:30:18.160 it's teams.

00:30:18.680 You can't really truly

00:30:19.940 have any intellectual

00:30:21.320 discussions with people

00:30:22.620 because we're being

00:30:23.680 discouraged by it.

00:30:24.620 I want to go back

00:30:25.660 into the language here

00:30:26.680 in just a second.

00:30:27.320 We'll finish up this poll

00:30:28.240 and go back into the

00:30:29.120 language of another poll

00:30:30.160 that we went into yesterday.

00:30:32.160 So to do a quick wrap up

00:30:33.060 of this, Glenn,

00:30:33.800 because if you look at the

00:30:34.980 poll in its entirety,

00:30:35.780 what you see is people

00:30:36.820 do want abortion 0.97

00:30:38.340 to be available

00:30:39.120 in some circumstances,

00:30:40.380 but circumstances

00:30:41.420 that are more

00:30:42.220 restricted than they are

00:30:43.180 now.

00:30:43.660 That's the,

00:30:44.040 that's the takeaway.

00:30:44.620 So in other words,

00:30:47.280 safe, legal, and rare.

00:30:50.400 And rare being the one

00:30:51.760 thing that's, I would say,

00:30:53.100 I mean, everyone wants it,

00:30:54.260 you know, God forbid

00:30:54.980 something's going to,

00:30:55.520 I don't know how it's,

00:30:56.180 I don't know how abortion

00:30:56.740 is safe considering you're 0.85

00:30:57.900 intentionally killing one of

00:30:58.860 the things involved in it,

00:30:59.780 but still, yes, they want it

00:31:01.580 to be safe, legal, and very

00:31:02.820 rare and rare, very rare.

00:31:05.500 I mean, many people think it

00:31:06.760 should be almost never

00:31:07.620 available, but still consider

00:31:08.800 themselves to be pro-choice,

00:31:09.980 which is bizarre.

00:31:10.520 And what this shows is,

00:31:11.580 of course, that the

00:31:12.520 messaging factor is going

00:31:14.920 the left's way with a

00:31:16.800 massive assist from the

00:31:17.900 media.

00:31:18.500 So let me look at it this

00:31:19.640 way here, Glenn.

00:31:20.760 If you look at the two

00:31:22.160 positions that are being

00:31:23.680 talked about a lot, the

00:31:24.920 extreme positions that are

00:31:26.400 debated, quote unquote

00:31:27.680 extreme sort of positions,

00:31:30.920 you have the left saying

00:31:32.160 it's available all the way

00:31:34.340 to birth, okay?

00:31:36.220 It's a woman's right to 1.00

00:31:37.280 choose.

00:31:37.700 You can't restrict that

00:31:38.540 woman's right to choose. 1.00

00:31:39.260 We have 24 candidates in

00:31:40.420 this race.

00:31:40.900 Every single one of them

00:31:41.980 has advocated for some

00:31:44.220 vision of that, where

00:31:46.480 women would be able to 1.00

00:31:47.300 choose the entire time.

00:31:49.020 For right now, what's

00:31:51.300 going on with Republican

00:31:52.500 lawmakers is they're

00:31:53.380 trying to do heartbeat

00:31:54.240 laws, right?

00:31:54.980 Those are the two main

00:31:56.120 positions being talked

00:31:57.740 about at the extremes.

00:31:59.900 Well, right now, if you

00:32:00.960 look at, in the poll, it

00:32:02.180 asks all of these

00:32:03.100 questions.

00:32:03.560 It says, what do you

00:32:04.660 think?

00:32:05.040 Should abortion be 0.99

00:32:06.260 available all the way to

00:32:07.360 birth?

00:32:08.300 And they say 16% of

00:32:10.380 people say yes to

00:32:11.400 that.

00:32:11.940 So the mainstream 24

00:32:13.620 candidates, universal

00:32:14.740 agreement on the

00:32:16.200 Democratic side, only 16%

00:32:18.100 of Americans actually

00:32:19.660 support that position.

00:32:21.860 Now, on the Republican

00:32:23.380 side, it's a heartbeat

00:32:24.440 law.

00:32:25.100 Abortion should only be 1.00

00:32:26.440 available until a

00:32:27.500 heartbeat begins about

00:32:28.600 six or eight weeks into

00:32:29.540 the pregnancy, right?

00:32:30.620 46% of people believe that

00:32:34.480 should be the law.

00:32:35.560 So it's 46 to 16.

00:32:38.780 Yet one side is presented

00:32:40.720 as if essentially it's

00:32:42.780 Adolf Hitler making the 0.95

00:32:44.320 policy.

00:32:45.280 The most hateful thing

00:32:46.400 you've ever heard in your

00:32:47.540 entire life.

00:32:49.040 Only six weeks.

00:32:50.160 Women might not even know 1.00

00:32:51.100 they're pregnant yet. 0.85

00:32:51.900 Well, half the country

00:32:53.220 believes that should be

00:32:54.340 the law.

00:32:55.400 Only 16% believe that the

00:32:57.760 what the entire Democratic

00:32:59.460 field believes.

00:33:02.220 That, yes, it should be

00:33:03.980 available all the way to

00:33:05.120 birth because at the

00:33:06.360 fundamental level, the

00:33:07.640 mommy gets to make the 1.00

00:33:08.680 choice.

00:33:09.580 That is not the way it's

00:33:10.920 presented at all.

00:33:11.940 And it's why I think you

00:33:13.800 see so many people who

00:33:15.020 think that they are pro

00:33:16.580 choice.

00:33:18.840 I mean, you know, that is

00:33:20.360 just like none of their

00:33:22.320 underlying positions

00:33:23.280 identify a pro choice

00:33:25.240 viewpoint as it's

00:33:26.700 currently constructed in

00:33:27.740 our in our political

00:33:28.460 system.

00:33:29.340 But they still believe

00:33:30.500 the media media has

00:33:32.760 made pro choice into

00:33:35.020 extreme positions.

00:33:36.320 And so they think that

00:33:37.880 anything reasonable has

00:33:40.300 to be pro choice.

00:33:43.500 Yeah.

00:33:44.100 Because it's good is

00:33:45.660 unreasonable.

00:33:46.720 Yeah.

00:33:47.420 Pro life or pro choice

00:33:48.880 means good.

00:33:49.600 And anything unreasonable

00:33:52.120 has got to come from

00:33:54.200 the other side.

00:33:54.880 So this is reasonable 0.83

00:33:56.480 rape, incest, blah,

00:33:58.440 blah, blah.

00:33:59.140 It's got it can't be the

00:34:01.540 the people on the, you

00:34:03.500 know, on the right

00:34:04.120 because they're

00:34:04.680 unreasonable.

00:34:05.740 And I see this all the

00:34:06.920 time when, you know,

00:34:08.020 we talk to people all the

00:34:09.360 time that are involved in

00:34:10.240 these debates every day.

00:34:11.280 We have people on the

00:34:12.120 News and Why It Matters

00:34:12.840 all the time that kind of

00:34:13.580 cycle in as panelists.

00:34:14.680 And there's people who are

00:34:15.560 talking about these issues

00:34:17.060 every day of their life,

00:34:18.120 almost universally when I

00:34:20.360 bring up the point that

00:34:21.680 European laws are more 0.84

00:34:23.520 restrictive on abortion

00:34:24.580 than U.S. laws.

00:34:26.260 They're always shocked by

00:34:27.860 that point.

00:34:29.500 Always.

00:34:30.400 You know, here's

00:34:30.880 progressive Europe that's

00:34:32.160 supposed to be so

00:34:32.760 enlightened and they have

00:34:34.460 more restrictive laws on

00:34:35.540 abortion than we do. 0.84

00:34:37.460 People don't even know

00:34:38.360 these things because the

00:34:39.160 media is is doing what

00:34:40.680 you just said, saying pro

00:34:41.880 life is bad and pro

00:34:42.920 choice is good, period.

00:34:44.620 Right.

00:34:44.900 And Americans are

00:34:46.340 Puritans.

00:34:51.200 This is the best of the

00:34:52.440 Glenn Beck program.

00:35:03.820 Let me just go through a

00:35:04.940 couple of things.

00:35:06.100 First of all, yesterday, do

00:35:07.980 we have the audio of the

00:35:10.040 YouTube CEO that is

00:35:13.220 apologizing for what is

00:35:15.460 going on and and 0.77

00:35:17.260 apologizing to the gay 0.99

00:35:18.680 community?

00:35:19.520 And none of us want

00:35:20.780 harmful content on our

00:35:22.560 platforms.

00:35:23.260 I think last quarter alone,

00:35:24.620 we removed nine million

00:35:25.540 videos from the platform.

00:35:26.960 More recently, we have

00:35:28.060 introduced, you know, just

00:35:29.300 like today, we do this in

00:35:30.280 search.

00:35:30.740 We, you know, we had

00:35:31.520 ranked content based on

00:35:32.700 quality.

00:35:33.280 And so we're bringing

00:35:35.020 that same notion and

00:35:36.440 approach to YouTube so

00:35:38.100 that we can rank higher

00:35:39.560 quality stuff better and

00:35:41.540 really prevent borderline

00:35:44.260 content, content which

00:35:45.300 doesn't exactly violate

00:35:46.440 policies which need to be

00:35:47.660 removed, but which can

00:35:49.220 still cause harm.

00:35:50.580 And so we are working hard.

00:35:52.620 It's a hard computer science

00:35:54.440 problem.

00:35:54.940 It's also a hard societal

00:35:56.060 problem because we need

00:35:57.180 better frameworks around

00:35:58.080 what is hate speech, what's

00:35:59.400 not, and how do we as a

00:36:01.020 company make those

00:36:01.800 decisions at scale and get

00:36:03.100 it right without making

00:36:04.180 mistakes.

00:36:06.960 So basically do the

00:36:08.360 impossible, but do it

00:36:10.440 surrounded by really

00:36:12.120 radical liberal progressives

00:36:14.540 and democratic socialists.

00:36:16.840 I'm sure you're going to

00:36:18.140 get that.

00:36:18.660 I'm sure you're going to

00:36:19.400 get that delicate balance

00:36:20.640 right.

00:36:21.280 And that delicate balance

00:36:22.700 is to go ahead and and

00:36:25.940 and make sure that you get

00:36:27.640 the borderline content.

00:36:29.240 So not the content that is

00:36:31.200 violated anything, but the

00:36:32.840 content that just doesn't

00:36:34.520 feel right.

00:36:36.300 Oh, that sounds like it's

00:36:38.800 going to be easy for you.

00:36:41.540 Steven Crowder said, I'm not

00:36:44.820 sorry about what I did.

00:36:47.240 Here's Steven Crowder.

00:36:50.680 I'm not.

00:36:51.620 I'm not sorry.

00:36:52.280 I'll tell you what I am

00:36:53.460 though.

00:36:56.520 I am.

00:36:59.580 I am grateful.

00:37:01.220 I am really grateful to the

00:37:02.800 the outpouring of support that

00:37:04.520 we've seen from people.

00:37:06.480 Let me sort of explain this a

00:37:08.020 little bit.

00:37:08.320 You know, we offered the

00:37:08.920 promo code free speech for

00:37:11.300 $30 off everybody who joined

00:37:12.860 Mug Club through the weekend

00:37:13.760 with a student veteran in the

00:37:15.540 active military discount so

00:37:16.480 that everyone could get it.

00:37:17.420 More people joined up join Mug 0.92

00:37:19.360 Club in the company's history.

00:37:20.620 And I'm so grateful.

00:37:22.060 But something interesting

00:37:22.620 happened over half of you who

00:37:24.880 joined didn't use the promo

00:37:26.640 code.

00:37:27.700 And I've received so many

00:37:29.460 messages, emails from people

00:37:30.700 saying we wanted to pay full

00:37:31.840 precious because we want to

00:37:32.940 support what it is that that

00:37:34.200 the team is doing.

00:37:35.600 And I really I appreciate it.

00:37:37.840 I do want to clarify, though,

00:37:38.820 the promo code is there to be

00:37:40.280 used.

00:37:40.680 So if you have a hard time

00:37:41.920 affording the $99 a year, if

00:37:43.500 that's a stretch, please take

00:37:44.700 advantage.

00:37:45.100 I'm actually going to extend

00:37:46.020 the promo code all the way

00:37:47.820 through Tuesday night free

00:37:48.640 speech, still get the full

00:37:49.620 $30 off.

00:37:52.240 But I didn't I didn't want to

00:37:53.380 go without thanking you

00:37:54.420 guys.

00:37:54.680 And I have some other people

00:37:55.580 that I would like to thank

00:37:56.620 and something I'd like to

00:37:57.260 clarify with you guys.

00:37:58.080 By the way, the reason I'm

00:37:58.640 taping this on my phone is

00:37:59.540 because I'm about to hop on

00:38:01.200 a plane taping a thematically

00:38:04.480 appropriate changed my mind

00:38:06.620 given the current

00:38:07.300 circumstances.

00:38:09.060 If I were an auteur, that

00:38:10.380 would be foreshadowing.

00:38:14.480 And for people who just

00:38:15.280 joined Mug Club tonight,

00:38:16.980 there still is we pre-taped a

00:38:17.920 full one hour life advice

00:38:18.920 segment.

00:38:19.280 So that is going up right

00:38:21.020 now.

00:38:21.180 But I wanted to thank

00:38:21.800 everyone on YouTube

00:38:22.760 specifically, not just Mug

00:38:24.440 Club members and not just

00:38:26.420 people at Daily Wire, you

00:38:27.660 know, Ben Shapiro, Andrew

00:38:28.440 Klavan, Michael Knowles, all

00:38:29.440 of them.

00:38:29.700 Thank you so much.

00:38:30.300 And of course, everyone at

00:38:30.940 The Blaze like Mark Levin and

00:38:32.020 Glenn Beck and and Roman

00:38:33.340 Millennial.

00:38:35.140 But people over here at

00:38:36.840 YouTube who who really

00:38:38.600 aren't necessarily I have to

00:38:39.760 switch arms.

00:38:40.440 Gosh, I need to work on my

00:38:41.320 shoulder endurance.

00:38:42.300 This is embarrassing.

00:38:45.400 People who aren't even

00:38:46.220 necessarily political, people

00:38:47.200 who wouldn't agree with our

00:38:48.120 politics, but covered this

00:38:50.820 anyway, because when you

00:38:52.220 understand the context, you

00:38:53.380 understand the issue that all

00:38:54.460 of us are facing, people like

00:38:55.400 not only Tim Poole and Joe

00:38:57.820 Rogan, but people like King

00:38:58.840 Star and Philip DeFranco, anyone

00:39:00.460 who I've forgotten, I really do

00:39:02.540 appreciate it.

00:39:03.080 So he makes a he makes a really

00:39:09.380 good point that more people are

00:39:12.320 coming out than just

00:39:13.620 conservatives.

00:39:14.760 People are starting to be really

00:39:17.120 concerned.

00:39:18.100 For instance, the news industry has

00:39:21.180 now joined calls for increased

00:39:23.540 scrutiny of big tech.

00:39:25.840 Struggling news industry is joining

00:39:27.800 calls to increase oversight of tech

00:39:29.360 giants like Facebook and Google,

00:39:30.760 urging policymakers to also take

00:39:33.460 into account how Silicon Valley has

00:39:35.240 upended its business of journalism.

00:39:38.140 The antitrust investigation into

00:39:40.840 tech giants will hold a hearing on

00:39:42.940 Tuesday to hear from industry

00:39:44.720 leaders and advocates who believe

00:39:46.140 that Silicon Valley is responsible

00:39:47.740 for the decline in local newspapers

00:39:49.920 and has threatened the business

00:39:51.180 models relied on by many outlets.

00:39:53.440 Now, I don't agree with this reason.

00:39:56.020 I mean, that is honestly like the

00:40:00.000 carriage companies saying, I don't

00:40:03.240 like these car companies.

00:40:04.520 They're getting too big.

00:40:05.900 They're putting us out of business.

00:40:07.620 Well, yeah, because I thought you

00:40:09.440 were progressive progress.

00:40:12.600 I thought you were for that.

00:40:13.920 I don't want a newspaper.

00:40:15.980 I want to be able to just grab it

00:40:18.340 online.

00:40:19.240 Now, yes, it upends your business

00:40:21.480 practices.

00:40:21.960 But I go back to if anybody remembers

00:40:25.000 you're my age, you'll remember if

00:40:27.560 you bought a GM or any any GM car,

00:40:31.860 it said on the door plate as you would

00:40:34.960 step out, it had a little picture of

00:40:37.020 an of an old carriage and it said the

00:40:39.340 Fisher Carriage Company.

00:40:41.340 That's what GM was before it became

00:40:44.540 General Motors.

00:40:45.240 It was the Fisher Carriage Company and

00:40:48.180 they were making carriages and they

00:40:49.780 decided, you know, we either got to we

00:40:52.760 either got to join them or they're

00:40:53.960 going to crush us.

00:40:55.680 And so they stopped making horse

00:40:57.160 drawn carriages and started making

00:40:58.980 cars.

00:40:59.880 That's that's what companies should do.

00:41:03.340 When you start to see the progress, you

00:41:05.900 get out of the way and you join them

00:41:08.400 in the next century or you're going to

00:41:11.600 go out of business.

00:41:12.840 So the industry is calling for more

00:41:15.720 scrutiny and they're asking the

00:41:17.020 Democrats to help them.

00:41:18.200 That is always the last sign before an

00:41:22.220 industry goes out of business.

00:41:24.240 They ask for government protection so

00:41:27.200 they don't go out of business.

00:41:29.020 It doesn't work.

00:41:30.860 It retards progress. 1.00

00:41:32.880 Did he say the word retard?

00:41:36.380 Oh, my gosh, that is awful. 0.97

00:41:38.600 He is so politically incorrect.

00:41:40.400 Yes, I know.

00:41:41.500 I know.

00:41:42.080 And I might use it again in the same

00:41:44.760 context later.

00:41:45.900 So what is YouTube saying that they're

00:41:48.820 going to do?

00:41:50.560 Well, yesterday I did about an hour on

00:41:53.420 this New York Times story making of a

00:41:56.340 YouTube radical algorithms in the alt

00:41:58.520 right and on the alt right, believe it

00:42:01.300 or not, was was Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro

00:42:05.560 and Jordan Peterson.

00:42:07.460 That's the alt right to the New York

00:42:09.260 Times.

00:42:09.620 So they show that they have absolutely no

00:42:12.680 idea what they're talking about.

00:42:15.100 And they they say towards the end that

00:42:18.560 YouTube has played a role in steering a

00:42:22.580 lot of people towards the far right

00:42:25.000 fringes.

00:42:25.940 And it suggests that in time YouTube is

00:42:29.600 listen to this capable of steering them in

00:42:32.560 a very different direction.

00:42:34.520 Now, hang on just a second.

00:42:37.440 What?

00:42:39.140 You're going to steer people.

00:42:42.340 This is Cass Sunstein's nudge.

00:42:46.020 This is Bernays and original propaganda.

00:42:50.600 This is moving people.

00:42:53.560 This is everything you should worry

00:42:56.700 about in a Big Brother situation.

00:42:59.320 That Big Brother watches you, knows

00:43:01.760 everything about you, and Big Brother will

00:43:04.520 eventually shoot you if it has no other 0.99

00:43:07.240 choice. 0.98

00:43:08.000 But Big Brother will nudge you, will push

00:43:10.540 you into the direction it wants.

00:43:13.160 Well, I got news for you.

00:43:15.040 YouTube is not some charity.

00:43:17.560 It's not run by Mother Teresa.

00:43:19.700 They want views.

00:43:21.300 They want to control all of the views.

00:43:24.680 And so they'll do what's best for them.

00:43:29.860 So what are they doing?

00:43:32.420 They said in response, YouTube executives

00:43:35.800 announced that the recommendation algorithm

00:43:38.920 would give more weight to watch time

00:43:42.000 rather than views.

00:43:43.560 That way, the creators would be encouraged

00:43:45.520 to make videos that users would finish

00:43:48.540 and users would be more satisfied.

00:43:51.720 YouTube would be able to show them more ads.

00:43:54.020 The bet paid off.

00:43:56.140 Within weeks of the algorithm change,

00:43:58.260 the company reported overall watch time

00:44:00.460 was growing even as the number of views

00:44:03.580 shrank, according to the 2017 report.

00:44:06.620 So it grew by more than 50% a year

00:44:10.380 for three consecutive years.

00:44:12.420 A month after its algorithm tweak,

00:44:15.440 YouTube changed its rules

00:44:17.720 to allow all video creators

00:44:19.740 to run ads with their videos

00:44:22.240 and earn a portion of the revenue.

00:44:24.840 Previously, only popular channels

00:44:27.200 that had been vetted by YouTube

00:44:28.920 were able to run ads.

00:44:31.020 Neither change was intended

00:44:32.420 to benefit the far right.

00:44:34.320 No kidding.

00:44:35.500 And YouTube's algorithm

00:44:36.740 had no inherent preference

00:44:38.460 for extreme political content.

00:44:40.760 Remember, extreme is Ben Shapiro

00:44:43.580 and Dave Rubin.

00:44:45.300 It treated a white nationalist monologue

00:44:47.680 no different from an Ariana Grande cover

00:44:51.400 or cake icing tutorial.

00:44:54.360 But at the far right,

00:44:57.460 they were well positioned

00:44:58.620 to capitalize on the changes.

00:45:00.780 Many right-wing creators

00:45:02.200 also made long video essays

00:45:04.200 or posted video versions

00:45:05.660 of their podcast.

00:45:07.140 Their inflammatory messages

00:45:08.840 were now more engaging

00:45:10.320 than the milder fare,

00:45:11.880 and they could earn more money

00:45:13.420 from their videos,

00:45:14.740 and they had a financial incentive

00:45:16.580 to churn out as much material

00:45:18.600 as possible.

00:45:19.980 A few progressive YouTube channels

00:45:22.180 flourished from 2012 to 2016,

00:45:24.840 but they were dwarfed

00:45:26.200 by the creators on the right

00:45:27.600 who had developed

00:45:28.680 an intuitive feel

00:45:30.040 of the way YouTube's platform worked

00:45:32.460 and were better able to tap

00:45:34.400 in the emerging wave

00:45:35.780 of right-wing populism.

00:45:39.920 This is YouTube

00:45:41.380 looking at this

00:45:42.600 and saying,

00:45:43.700 we're going to punish those

00:45:45.280 who are good business people.

00:45:48.980 We're going to punish people

00:45:50.640 who America wants to watch

00:45:53.840 because we're not,

00:45:57.420 we're not about ratings.

00:46:00.580 No, we're above that.

00:46:02.420 We're about messages.

00:46:03.760 Now, they're going a step further

00:46:05.780 and they are changing

00:46:07.200 the algorithm

00:46:08.680 to steer you

00:46:10.780 away from messages

00:46:12.440 like mine

00:46:13.720 or Ben's

00:46:14.600 or Jordan Peterson's

00:46:16.100 or Steven Crowder's.

00:46:18.200 Watch carefully

00:46:19.580 because you're being

00:46:21.400 manipulated right now.

00:46:23.460 So, I just want to show you

00:46:33.340 that because it's Pride Week,

00:46:37.100 the CEO of YouTube

00:46:40.540 came out and said

00:46:42.480 he was really, really sorry.

00:46:44.320 He had to apologize

00:46:45.840 to the gay community

00:46:48.000 for what Steven Crowder did.

00:46:50.260 He was wholly inappropriate.

00:46:51.500 I want to play

00:46:53.680 some audio here

00:46:55.080 on the gay pride gathering

00:46:58.620 in Washington, D.C.

00:47:01.120 The question was,

00:47:03.040 what is the biggest threat

00:47:04.960 to gay rights?

00:47:07.420 Here's what the gay pride

00:47:08.960 paraders had to say.

00:47:10.520 We're asking

00:47:11.140 what people think

00:47:12.300 the biggest threat

00:47:12.920 to gay rights is

00:47:13.700 in America today.

00:47:14.980 Why are you out here today?

00:47:16.640 I haven't been

00:47:17.740 and I've lived in this area

00:47:19.180 my entire life,

00:47:20.040 so I went all out.

00:47:21.640 Chitties out. 1.00

00:47:22.380 We're here to celebrate

00:47:23.460 our identities,

00:47:24.560 our sexual identities,

00:47:25.720 our gender identities,

00:47:26.860 our expression.

00:47:27.920 What do you think

00:47:28.460 the biggest threat

00:47:29.380 to gay rights is today? 0.70

00:47:30.980 Straight people.

00:47:32.140 I think you could say

00:47:32.680 this administration right now.

00:47:34.100 That's all I'm going to say.

00:47:35.420 Our current administration.

00:47:36.380 Donald Trump, yeah.

00:47:37.940 Donald Trump.

00:47:39.320 The police.

00:47:40.880 First and foremost.

00:47:41.740 Our current political establishment.

00:47:43.660 I think the biggest threat

00:47:45.220 is the Trump administration.

00:47:46.480 What do you think

00:47:47.460 the bigger threat

00:47:48.520 to gay rights is

00:47:49.540 in America? 0.91

00:47:50.820 Radical Islam 0.99

00:47:51.440 or Donald Trump?

00:47:53.860 I think we all know

00:47:55.180 the answer to that one.

00:47:56.480 What's that?

00:47:57.560 The big orange thing

00:47:58.440 sitting in the White House.

00:48:00.260 Yeah, the...

00:48:01.860 Him.

00:48:02.380 Radical Islam 0.99

00:48:03.200 or Donald Trump?

00:48:06.340 I live under a rock.

00:48:08.400 I would probably say Trump.

00:48:11.000 Donald Trump.

00:48:12.420 Sounds like a trick question

00:48:13.940 to me

00:48:14.280 because they both got issues.

00:48:15.500 Trump and his administration

00:48:17.220 have cast in multiple threats

00:48:19.040 on our...

00:48:20.140 an entire race.

00:48:21.060 Honestly, 1.00

00:48:21.480 Trump is a white supremacist 1.00

00:48:23.000 and all he cares about 1.00

00:48:24.000 is white people 0.94

00:48:24.620 and white power. 0.76

00:48:25.820 White straight people. 0.72

00:48:27.020 White straight people. 0.58

00:48:28.380 He has no... 1.00

00:48:29.180 He gives no f***s 0.98

00:48:30.320 about anyone 1.00

00:48:31.400 other than white people. 1.00

00:48:32.940 F*** it. 1.00

00:48:33.560 I am who I am. 1.00

00:48:34.500 If you don't like it, 1.00

00:48:35.280 f*** it. 1.00

00:48:36.140 Regardless of those two options, 0.99

00:48:37.380 what is the biggest threat

00:48:38.060 to gay rights

00:48:38.560 in this country today?

00:48:41.000 I would say

00:48:41.740 it comes down

00:48:42.280 to a humane rights issue.

00:48:44.000 The white power 1.00

00:48:44.840 that involves this country 1.00

00:48:46.360 is disgusting. 0.99

00:48:47.720 I think white power 1.00

00:48:48.520 should be released 0.85

00:48:50.160 from this country

00:48:51.060 and I think that Trump

00:48:52.000 and his administration

00:48:53.100 perpetuate a system

00:48:54.280 of racism

00:48:54.900 that is institutionalized

00:48:56.860 and black people 0.64

00:48:57.860 and people of color 0.84

00:48:59.020 are absolutely marginalized

00:49:00.480 and really just like

00:49:02.060 criminalized for no reason

00:49:03.560 and I think that it's all

00:49:05.020 because of Trump

00:49:05.660 and his administration.

00:49:06.940 How's your Cortez here?

00:49:07.880 What we need is people

00:49:09.200 in power,

00:49:10.000 not just the president

00:49:10.900 but like Congress

00:49:11.880 to stand behind

00:49:13.300 people that aren't

00:49:15.620 just straight white men.

00:49:19.780 Yeah.

00:49:20.560 Straight white men, 0.72

00:49:21.440 for sure.

00:49:22.400 Yeah.

00:49:23.660 I'm here as an anti-capitalist,

00:49:26.220 as anti-police,

00:49:27.680 anti-military.

00:49:28.400 I'm here to celebrate

00:49:29.100 the original meaning

00:49:30.320 of pride.

00:49:31.860 So I'm here protesting

00:49:33.560 the cops in the parade.

00:49:34.720 I'm here protesting

00:49:35.340 the military in the parade

00:49:36.240 and I'm here celebrating

00:49:37.480 my identity

00:49:38.060 and my friends as well.

00:49:39.380 They don't want to 0.99

00:49:39.880 f*** Republicans. 0.99

00:49:41.120 Basically, 1.00

00:49:41.680 they don't want to see

00:49:42.320 equal rights.

00:49:43.020 They don't want to see

00:49:43.740 anyone thriving.

00:49:44.560 Okay, all right.

00:49:45.520 I think we've heard enough.

00:49:46.700 Now, these are the people

00:49:48.540 that Ocasio-Cortez

00:49:50.220 who attends a parade.

00:49:53.540 These are the people

00:49:54.680 that YouTube

00:49:57.000 is apologizing to.

00:50:00.160 Really?

00:50:02.780 Which one is hate speech?

00:50:04.320 Which one?

00:50:04.960 I don't know.

00:50:05.840 I've got feelings.

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