The Glenn Beck Program - June 11, 2019


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Summary

A baby is found wrapped in a plastic bag in the woods in Georgia, and police are looking for the mother of the baby, but why is the police looking for her? Glenn explains why. Plus, the latest on the helicopter crash in New York, and a prediction on how many books Jim Acosta is going to sell.


Transcript

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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.
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.
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
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?
00:06:23.040 How radical has it become?
00:06:27.900 Well, a radical feminist,
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,
00:06:41.680 a form of killing that we need to be able to defend.
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,
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
00:15:04.960 to kill it.
00:15:05.660 they went
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
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
00:15:58.360 stupid.
00:16:01.400 So you
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
00:16:21.880 they're stupid
00:16:22.660 and I
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
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
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
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
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
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
00:18:48.700 best of the
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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
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
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
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?
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,
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,
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
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,
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
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
00:27:11.540 to kill a baby five
00:27:13.260 minutes from birth?
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
00:27:31.220 a completely ridiculous
00:27:32.780 standard, obviously,
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
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?
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.
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
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%
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
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
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
00:31:37.280 choose.
00:31:37.700 You can't restrict that
00:31:38.540 woman's right to choose.
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
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
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
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
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
00:32:51.100 they're pregnant yet.
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
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
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
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.
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
00:35:17.260 apologizing to the gay
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
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.
00:41:32.880 Did he say the word retard?
00:41:36.380 Oh, my gosh, that is awful.
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
00:43:07.240 choice.
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.
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?
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?
00:47:50.820 Radical Islam
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
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,
00:48:21.480 Trump is a white supremacist
00:48:23.000 and all he cares about
00:48:24.000 is white people
00:48:24.620 and white power.
00:48:25.820 White straight people.
00:48:27.020 White straight people.
00:48:28.380 He has no...
00:48:29.180 He gives no f***s
00:48:30.320 about anyone
00:48:31.400 other than white people.
00:48:32.940 F*** it.
00:48:33.560 I am who I am.
00:48:34.500 If you don't like it,
00:48:35.280 f*** it.
00:48:36.140 Regardless of those two options,
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
00:48:44.840 that involves this country
00:48:46.360 is disgusting.
00:48:47.720 I think white power
00:48:48.520 should be released
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
00:48:57.860 and people of color
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,
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
00:49:39.880 f*** Republicans.
00:49:41.120 Basically,
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.
00:50:06.720 The Blaze Radio Network.
00:50:11.940 On Demand.