Covington Strong ｜ Guest： Dr. Peter Boghossian ｜ 1⧸23⧸19
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On this episode of the Glenn Beck Program, Glenn talks about the Covington Catholic School shooting of an 11-year-old boy and the reaction of the Catholic Church, the media, and the rest of the country to it.
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The Covington Catholic School. This story felt important to me from the moment we saw it,
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and it is only gaining in importance. This is, you know, I talk about the Archduke Ferdinand moment.
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Uh, this is, this is a moment. This is a moment in our history, and in very important a moment,
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a moment, because there are characteristics of this story that stand out and are different than any
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you're going to be able to count on your neighbors coming up. I felt this was an important story
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on the Covington Catholic School since the moment I saw it.
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But there are things about this that stand out. First, I think we're all disappointed
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at how fast everybody jumped on the bandwagon to bash this kid. But in a society of virtue signaling,
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you can kind of understand. But I was disappointed with how fast moderates and conservatives and the
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Catholic Church itself jumped immediately to attack this kid. That's a really bad sign.
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And I think it's a result of an entire generation of virtue signaling. It's not good.
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We collectively have no chance against future mobs if our own will turn on their own
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just to virtue signal. You have no chance. If no one will give you the benefit of the doubt
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without hearing the evidence, we have no chance. I also think what sets this apart, this is the first
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time. Not really evident to the average person. This is the first time that the media has full-on
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knowingly lied to perpetuate a story. And I don't mean knowingly, they knowing, us. Usually there's some
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shadow of a doubt. Usually there's some reason. Usually there's something. We've all heard stories
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and there's always something you're like, there's just this nagging feeling. Well, yeah, but maybe
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I'm not really sure. So you stand up and support what you think. But you could be pushed down.
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Because there's always some piece that seems to be missing. This is the first time I have seen one
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that the facts of the story. The evidence that the story was wrong was out about as early as the story
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itself. And the media knew on this one. They knew. They saw this as an opportunity. Whether it happened
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like that or not, it didn't matter. But something's changing. This is the Kavanaugh story. We asked ourselves,
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are we going to learn from this? Nope. We said, what happens when this is your son or daughter? Remember?
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What happens when this? Well, this is someone's son. This is a minor. This isn't Kavanaugh who did
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something 40 years ago that none of us could prove. See, with Kavanaugh, we still had to go with our gut
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and our common sense. And some people's gut went the other way. Some people said, no, you know what?
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I just believe her. And it kind of fell down on party lines, but not universally so. Anyone honest
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could come to a different conclusion. On this one? No. There's no way. So this is Kavanaugh on steroids.
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Yeah, because you think if we happen to have 40 different viewpoints of the entire party that
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supposedly happened that Kavanaugh was at, it would have been easy to decipher what actually
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occurred. Right? Here, we have 40 cameras, and they still can't seem to figure it out. It almost
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hints at some dishonesty. Almost. I know I'm reaching there. Right. But it almost seems like
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they're just fitting this to their narrative, no matter the cost to this poor 16-year-old kid.
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So here's the thing. The media knew on this one. They saw this as just an opportunity.
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Whether it happened like the way they said or not, it didn't matter. There's more disturbing
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stuff about that I'll get to in a second. This is also the first time the mob of millions has gone
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after a child. Now, let me say this. Do you remember just last week there was this picture
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of a naked trans man standing next to a trans child that has been performing in strip clubs.
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No one in the media had anything to say about that behavior or their parents.
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Apparently, we can read the mind of that kid. The kid smiling, even though the all of the two hours
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of video evidence show that's not what was happening there.
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That was unacceptable to the media that they had to preach.
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Especially we never the mob never attacked some kids, especially just for smiling.
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If I give the left the grace of trying to frame their point of view in my mind,
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the most harsh charge I can come up with is that he smiled at someone and then the rest of it.
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Even if you did smile at someone, is that enough to destroy him?
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To say you wanted to push him into a wood chipper?
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To offer free oral sex to anyone who will punch him in the face?
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To offer signed copies of all of my albums if somebody will just beat him up?
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This is an attempt to destroy an innocent person.
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This is an attempt to destroy an innocent child
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Usually the hard, hard left will not accept the fact,
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When the evidence is clear and people have made a mistake,
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Just like, just like they did with the Obama picture.
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I'm sorry, of the, uh, the jail pictures of the kids.
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So here the media and social media and the left have said,
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Oh, the evidence shows he's not a horrible monster.
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Well, I'm sure he's a horrible monster some way or another.
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And so now they're going to find any way they can to prove that they may have,
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They just weren't right about it in that instance.
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You know, Martin Luther King on, on, on last Monday,
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Martin Luther King saying, don't judge me by the color of my skin,
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but by the content of my character on the same day,
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just a few steps away from where he made that dream,
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where he proclaimed that dream and spoke it into possibility of existence.
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At best, this is the best example of widespread hate speech
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and active threats of harm delivered over Twitter and Facebook,
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where the companies refuse to police people I've seen.
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You could say whatever you want about these kids,
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How many people would they have to ban if they had to enforce this?
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I believe they realize that if they actually police the left,
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the left would rise up and strike them back hard.
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but I've truly lost the ability to articulate the hysterical rage,
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Every single one of them die and their parents.
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It's like if you took the intersectionality foundation
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I'm just, I'm, I just am triggered by those hats.
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Without white boys being able to empathize with other people,
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some secret patriarchal cabal is keeping people down,
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Look at the crap-eating grins on all those young white slugs.
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Just perverse pleasure at wielding a false dominion
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If you think millennials don't respect war vets,
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the kid was the embodiment of what Trump has done to the country.
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a Klan member, a conservative, a Trump supporter,
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a patriarchy member, being a male, being white,
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get killed in incidents all across the country.
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And we're spending this much time on a kid who's,
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it's important for us to cover it because if not,
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But it makes no sense that this was a story in the first place.
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even if he was a jerk and even if he was a racist,
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and even if he was the worst person you can think of that you could
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in your stack of stuff that I think probably a lot of the same things that is in yours.
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really hacked off about this Covington kid thing.
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they're still looking for a way to persecute these kids.
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Listen to her asking him whether or not he has anything to apologize for.
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Do you feel from this experience that you owe anybody an apology?
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my position is that I was not disrespectful to Mr. Phillips.
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I wish we could have walked away and avoided the whole thing.
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Nobody in the media has any integrity or honesty,
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especially when you bring up the Parkland kids.
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they were vile in many of the things that they said,
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they were tweeting out the F word in interviews.
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David Hogg was completely disrespectful to anyone who disagreed with him.
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He was making stuff up about Daniel Lash and others.
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And yet Laura Ingraham couldn't even question why he couldn't get into a
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there is these kids trying to get into college.
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like Hogg did because they're not the right political ideology.
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I'm going to say what I wanted to say on Monday.
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do has made me think about it over and over again,
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we are now entering the time where I will not be surprised to see someone
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beaten within an inch of their life in the well of the Senate.
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And the reason why I bring that up as an example is because I remember
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doing my homework on trying to figure out what,
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what was life like in America leading up to the civil war?
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there was a Senator who was talking about the whore that the South is
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sleeping with and that whore is slavery and it offended the South.
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And so one of the house members walked over with a silver tipped cane and beat
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They finally came back like two or three years later to deliver the rest of
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They never prosecuted the guy who beat him to death.
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the Democrats in the house and the Senate wore necklaces with that cane
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this story is a turning point for America and you better know what side you're on.
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we should do a special maybe on Monday that you can just watch with your kids.
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and show our kids how important this is because at worst,
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let's say there's been some of these like fights between the proud boys and
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you see the full video and actually the proud boys were attacked first and
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maybe you have a preconceived notion or one of these groups and you say,
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It wasn't like they took a bad moment out of context of a larger event.
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And they just assigned a horrible intent to him for no reason.
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I haven't seen the Covington Catholic school administration.
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but I have a really hard time supporting the Catholic school and really even the archdiocese at this point,
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because the archdiocese just released a statement that said,
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we're still looking into it before we see if there's any sanctions that need to be taken.
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So people are willing to give them a little extra slack.
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Cause you know how hard it is to come across really good schools,
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but that school will be forever divided now because I believe what's happening.
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but I'm guessing what's happening is the social justice warrior Catholic side is fighting against the traditional Catholic side.
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And so I do have this word in from some people in the know,
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but I believe it to be true that they're concerned about picking a side because half of their congregation will leave.
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They want to keep everybody together and they don't know what to do.
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There is going to be a cleansing and purge and purging of those people who will not listen to the Lord's commandments.
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we all understand there's people that make choices.
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That you're trying to make choices and sometimes you make the wrong ones and you,
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no patience for a faith organization doing that.
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you should be saying principled things until there's zero people at your school.
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that's your job until they nailed him to a tree.
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They nailed him to a cross and he was still saying principled things,
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the whole faith is based on doing things that are unpopular in those moments to stick with those principles.
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I'm having a t-shirt made that everyone can buy.
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It is about people who stood and were acting decently in principle and they had nothing wrong.
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This story represents everything that the middle of the country is done with.
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all it has to be about is doing the right thing to defend these kids who did nothing wrong.
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You don't even have to play the political card.
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The righteous among the nations didn't suddenly become righteous.
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They just refuse to go over the cliff with the rest of society.
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This has evidence and proof it happened in front of our own eyes.
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Yesterday we posted all of the clips so you could see it.
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We told you in a tick tock so you could send it to your friends.
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I'd like to throw that kid into a wood chipper.
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would I love to throw that kid in a wood chipper?
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decline of the abrahamic traditions particularly
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ways to view these folks as religious really that they
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is blasphemy they have privilege which is the analog to original sin
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quasi-religious context although they don't they don't consider themselves
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religious so when you look at it through that lens their behavior makes
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universities are so um they're not they've become
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and not centers where people find the truth so they've placed an agenda ahead
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of the truth and we tried to shine a light on that because we think it's
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hurting people so are are you in the vast minority
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are you in the majority but the only vocal ones
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how prevalent is your philosophy you know especially because if i'm not
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mistaken you're on the left yeah i would consider i'm i consider myself a
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classical liberal okay and that's not the left very what's very in well it's
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what's very interesting is that 10 15 years ago i would be the guy that
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now i'm the guy the whole institution has swung so far to the left
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that i'm the guy conservative and religious parents and i wrote a manual for
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creating atheists uh so we we have some you and i have some
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substantive metaphysical disagreements but again those can be worked out in
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and and tell them that they want their kids to study
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with me and it's just the most fascinating twist in the culture war
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the fact that you and i are having this conversation now is another
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fascinating twist in the culture war and i think the commonality there is
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we might disagree about interpretations of facts but both you and
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we both agree there's an external world we both agree that your subjective
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experiences of the world don't trump any objective reality we both agree that
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we don't want to punch anybody being punched right we want to work out our
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lowest common denominator but unfortunately has to be said in this
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in this cultural environment so we both value the truth and we both value the
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fact that we can have conversations in which not only can we get to the
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truth but it's okay if we disagree i want to know what you think and and if
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if i'm wrong about something i don't want to be wrong this is sam harris as you
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dedicate your book i don't want to be quotation i don't want to be wrong one
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second more than i have to be exactly right and as long as we we share that
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attitude it's finally that's what aristotle talked about is the highest
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form of friendship between being between two virtuous people if both
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people love the truth that's ultimately the only thing that
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matters if they have integrity so i i i mean i'm a classic uh liberal as
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well i am very religious but i don't i mean i have no i have many atheist
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friends um and i don't i i'm not trying to save them and i'm not condemning
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them or whatever just live your life man and live your life to the best that
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you can is what is the system that you're living under making you a better
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human being or a worse human being and i know people who are very religious
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who it makes them a much worse human being um and and that's what we should
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all be striving for is how can we respect each other's rights
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basic human constitutionally uh guarded human rights leave people alone
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that is that is a view i share but that is not what's coming out of
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these bodies of literature in what we term grievance studies basically anything
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that has studies at the end of it one of the things that is coming out of this
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is the is an overt racism in the in the name of non-racism it's an anti-male uh
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basically it's identifying people on the basis of their immutable characteristics
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for example their skin color or some fat right martin luther king's dream is
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absolutely dead right now right that's correct it's not that we judge people on
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the content of their character not the color of their skin
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it's the other way around so we but but what's worse than that is that we see
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from these bodies of literature and this is really what i want people to
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understand people think well why does this affect me
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well it affects you because this stuff is being taught in school to our kids
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and they don't develop robust defenses of their ideas
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they're not even many many people who have alternative
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opinions for example conservatives or libertarians or christians
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they don't feel comfortable voicing those opinions in the classroom
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so not only do students other students not get the benefit of learning
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why people believe things right that's the philosopher you're going to
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harbor must we want to speak to people so that we understand where they're
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coming from and when you understand where someone's coming from
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especially in this incredibly polarized environment
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to understand their points of view and to have compassion toward them
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and the if you look at the literature coming out of these fields
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there's a weird sense of redemption if you're quote-unquote woke
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but these these bodies of literature are causing contention they're causing
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damage they're they're hurting people and that's why we decided to do this
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project because someone needed to shine a spotlight on this
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okay um let me just take a quick minute break one minute break and then we're
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going to come back and i want to hear what's happening to you at the university
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and how people can get involved in in changing this when we come back
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this year i have an adopted son um i know his mother has scottish background
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we don't know who the father is um and uh so i have no idea what his true background
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i have no idea what his health background is it'd be amazing to actually find that out
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oh it's gonna be so cool all these years it's gonna be so cool we're really excited
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i'm excited as a family it's kind of like one of those things we want to open up together
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the glenn beck program with dr peter bogoshen um so you did this experiment where you showed
01:33:59.120
that you could pretty much get anything published um and instead of that being a shock wave uh through
01:34:08.240
the uh peer-reviewed um uh um system you instead uh start receiving incoming fire from the system
01:34:21.040
saying right you betrayed us right but so just a small correction or maybe a large correction not
01:34:27.840
that we could get anything published right we could get anything that was morally fashionable published
01:34:33.020
correct correct so we so if it if it espouses feminist dogma it's far more likely to be published
01:34:39.820
sure i'm not going to get anything published if if you publish something that was religious or whatever
01:34:44.820
and not in fashion you couldn't get that published you couldn't even get some of the other stuff published
01:34:49.520
um until you really zeroed in on exactly the right language correct yeah we've we figured out what
01:34:57.020
the core tenets of their belief system are and you know i'll tell you i can tell you this and many
01:35:01.480
listeners probably won't believe it but it's the biology denialism is big and hatred of men is
01:35:07.460
big and um you know we want in the dog park paper the paper that received the most attention we we argued that
01:35:15.360
we should train men like dogs um that was big so there's just if you know what to write about and you know
01:35:25.720
what is morally resonates with them then they'll just accept it boom hook line and sinker
01:35:30.760
and that's unfortunate again because seven papers in seven years usually means tenure at most institutions
01:35:36.220
and then these folks in the grievance studies complex start teaching these papers to kids they
01:35:42.320
they then use that as homework and they study and they test them on it and then they come to think
01:35:47.540
it's knowledge right so they don't need faith in this sense they just well how do you know that not
01:35:52.160
because i have faith well here it's in this this piece of evidence boom and they point to it
01:35:56.160
so what did your university say well they brought me up on charges but i i think it's really important
01:36:04.340
to to give some background so that people have a context for this um first there was an anonymous
01:36:11.460
collective of portland state university faculty who wrote really a slanderous open letter about me
01:36:18.140
that you can still read it it's online in the portland state university vanguard they pictured me as an
01:36:23.920
evil villain and they put this you know nose on me and they said you know snake oil etc etc
01:36:29.600
and they the the letter was really aimed at students to tell them that i having me on the
01:36:35.700
faculty was demeaning to their education but i'll let people read that that um that for themselves
01:36:42.320
so i think that's kind of the context that excuse me there are bullies these people are fundamentally
01:36:50.140
they're bullies and in this case they're anonymous so they're not just bullies they're cowards
01:36:54.680
and they're operating behind the scenes and so i'm sure that that that and other things that i don't
01:37:01.540
have access to put tremendous pressure on the administrators to do something to me so i don't
01:37:07.140
necessarily blame them for an investigation i do understand that they're under a lot of pressure
01:37:11.220
but do you blame them for cowardice i mean truth is truth it's it's like the covington school right
01:37:20.140
now they're they're worried about losing their funding and everything else they don't know which
01:37:23.740
side to come out on if you watched all of the videos and i watched i mean my team watched all of it
01:37:30.220
it's a very different story now these kids may be bad other times but they weren't then and i'm sorry but
01:37:37.760
if it's the truth not to stand is to stand right so that's that's a commonality that we we have um
01:37:45.800
we we both defer to what's true independent of our own personal feelings correct so in this case there
01:37:52.080
were two things there was uh i i was found guilty of not going to the irb in the irb is basically this
01:37:59.220
human subjects board and anytime you do experiments quote-unquote experiments on human subjects
01:38:04.480
you need to get permission and so we looked at this as and this has caused considerable controversy
01:38:12.180
and debate we looked at investigating certain fields and certain journals and certain conclusions
01:38:18.500
that the journals come to they viewed human subjects as the journal editors so i was found guilty of that
01:38:27.040
and currently that's escalated to the president and the provost of portland state university so
01:38:33.300
um and they may or may not impose additional sanctions on me we can talk about that the second
01:38:40.720
charge of data fabrication is ongoing and um i don't i have not received anything i don't know where that
01:38:49.300
stands um i know that when i decided to go public with this that the it was the the support that
01:38:57.040
i have gotten has been unbelievable truly truly humbling and amazing from all over the spectrum
01:39:03.960
political spectrum ideological spectrum religious spectrum so those frankly are the most um touching
01:39:11.880
and satisfying to me um they all start you know we don't agree or we have many points of disagreement but
01:39:17.840
you know what you have done i really appreciate and we need alternative voices in the academy so
01:39:23.980
people really are fed up with this but glenn what's really interesting about this is that as the
01:39:29.060
letters of support flood in and they're they they're going to the to the man who um spearheaded the
01:39:35.520
investigation and some to my boss the chair of the philosophy department people are signing their names to
01:39:41.340
these that's what's amazing to me about this that people are no longer they're no longer afraid to be
01:39:48.640
called a racist or a homophobe or a misogynist so when they sign their names to this they're doing
01:39:55.680
so in a very public way they're giving me a very public show of support and people just aren't scared
01:40:01.380
anymore so that's that's been a a an amazing sea change in this whole thing courage is contagious
01:40:09.880
and people i truly believe most people who are thoughtful want to do the right thing they don't
01:40:19.000
want to be a pariah they don't want to stand alone um and it and it takes just a few leaders to stand up
01:40:25.860
and say guys it's worth it because here's what it means um you know i'm very concerned about what
01:40:32.760
our future is going to hold for my kids i don't care about my future at this point i care about the future
01:40:38.840
of my kids the future of the truth if if we don't get a handle on this i mean what what happened uh
01:40:45.780
in in uh portland to the weinsteins is obscene and evergreen yeah yes and most people don't know
01:40:53.980
what's what what happened um and they were holding i mean it was like france they were holding little
01:41:00.960
mock trials in the library people you know professors were not allowed to leave it's frightening
01:41:07.740
exactly and i i really want to say i think this is important this may be very hard for people to
01:41:15.780
conceptualize or very hard for people to understand but once you put in the the element of a kind of
01:41:22.740
evangelism to this it makes sense the the mike nina just released a video if you go to his youtube
01:41:28.780
channels mike nina um one of the things that he shows in this video is how these what happened
01:41:37.820
at evergreen perfect to brett and heather perfectly parallels the evangelical or a radical religious
01:41:46.980
fervor yes and once you understand that you understand why people act like that yeah peter i would
01:41:53.400
love to have you in for a very long non-interrupted conversation thank you for being on the program
01:41:59.580
uh and thank you for taking a stand back in a minute
01:42:03.560
you're listening to glenn beck i wish we could have talked to him for another hour at least um but
01:42:13.860
we'll have him hopefully back for a podcast he's a brave man all right lifelock i want to talk to you
01:42:19.940
about seven hundred million people being violated just last week it was released uh i think this
01:42:29.840
week that 700 million people that's twice the population of the united states have had their
01:42:36.880
identity stolen that's incredible so all of that information you may be in that um all of that
01:42:45.580
information is now on the dark web probably are i mean odds are there's a good chance
01:42:49.820
of it i mean there's it was a western hit yeah so it most most likely you there's a good chance
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this is the glenn beck program um tonight at five o'clock television i'm gonna show you some things
01:43:29.380
that no one else will show you uh about who these kids were actually facing these um kids from
01:43:37.580
covington catholic school uh the stuff that the media just does not want to cover um we have to
01:43:46.320
support these kids have to not you don't have to support the school um maybe you want to i just got
01:43:53.300
a letter from a just got a letter from a father just a minute ago who said glenn we've been listening
01:43:59.160
to you on the way in he said thank you so so much for bringing the truth uh to light regarding
01:44:05.340
covington catholic um i feel compelled to tell you the conversation that took place in my car today
01:44:10.220
when i took my son to school this morning uh incidentally my son attended the march for life
01:44:15.980
in washington dc this past weekend i looked over at him and he looked physically nervous on the ride in
01:44:22.180
i asked him if he was he said he was very nervous i told him son you don't have to go to school to
01:44:28.760
get together uh today the principal said they sent out last night no student had to show up for school
01:44:34.700
if they felt uneasy or fearful even if the parents were unsure he understood he said uh my son looked
01:44:42.780
at me and said dad i could stay home but if i do the jerks win i am nervous but i'm going anyway
01:44:52.560
glenn i just wanted to show you the character of these fine young men at the high school and i'm so
01:44:57.260
proud to support them and send my son to this school um dan i i hope the school does stand with
01:45:05.520
you and the archdiocese i'd love to support the school in any way and i would if the school does
01:45:11.580
take a stand on this and they do come to the right conclusion on this i i would suggest to you that our
01:45:19.220
audience will help you build security that is appropriate for that school we've done it for jewish
01:45:25.080
schools uh why we wouldn't do it for a christian school that i think is going to be under attack
01:45:29.860
for a long time um and and we we just stand with you i urge you to stand with covington as well you
01:45:38.760
can go to glennbeck.com and there is a covington strong t-shirt and hat um and wear it and wear it
01:45:45.920
proudly and wear it boldly um and if people ask you about it don't argue just say have you seen the
01:45:53.540
video because let me show you the video uh and if people aren't interested in the video they just
01:45:58.620
want to fight walk away but we need to show these guys that we stand with them and i'd love to get
01:46:03.660
pictures of you when you get your t-shirt and take pictures of you wherever and let's overwhelm these
01:46:08.780
students with you've got fans all around the country you're not alone you're not alone i want
01:46:15.760
to uh change the subject and play a little bit of what brett bear said last night he was on the way
01:46:20.340
home from a skiing trip with his family and the car slid on ice and flipped over and a good samaritan
01:46:26.880
helped pull the family out and everyone's okay but it was a very dicey uh situation for a while
01:46:33.700
here's what brett bear said on his return last night as we were released from the hospital i tweeted this
01:46:40.380
don't take anything for granted every day is a blessing family is everything it's always good to
01:46:51.280
remind yourself of that before something does it for you count your blessings
01:46:56.340
and i meant it may i um first say brett you have been in my prayers and i think many in this audience
01:47:07.560
prayers and he's a good good man but it is interesting what he says and it's it's easy to dismiss
01:47:16.180
what he says i said to my wife last week honey we have had some real trouble in the last few years
01:47:25.640
we've really gone through some real difficult times but i can't tell you the last time that i cried out to
01:47:33.200
the lord where i just begged for help and that usually only happens when you have a crisis in
01:47:42.060
your family i mean a real crisis with your children where you are crying out to the lord you know i'll
01:47:47.280
trade my life for theirs and that moment puts it all into perspective had a situation with both of my
01:47:57.080
daughters here recently one daughter went in we thought she had an appendix that was about to go
01:48:04.340
and uh brought her in and it wasn't the appendix and then we thought it was the ovaries and thought
01:48:10.220
for a minute that they were going to have to they had the possibility of taking her ovaries and i'm like
01:48:15.880
this is my 12 year old daughter um it turned out not to be that and then it was something else and
01:48:22.420
i cried out to the lord and it is so clarifying those moments
01:48:32.660
the next day my my eldest daughter went into the hospital for testing she has epilepsy and it's
01:48:45.060
bad and she's 30 and she's just you know she struggles to live an ordinary life and she just
01:48:54.640
wants them to end and we've tried all kinds of medicine and it hasn't worked and um so she went
01:49:01.380
in for a test and uh they pushed her and pushed her and pushed her and pushed her to try to get her to
01:49:08.800
have a seizure she had three seizures in the end she was in for i think seven days ten days
01:49:13.560
and she had such great spirit but all i wanted to do was be with her the whole time
01:49:21.360
now she has to go in for five other tests and uh one of them will be a minimum of 20 days in the
01:49:33.660
hospital uh they do uh i don't even know what they call it now but a type of brain surgery where
01:49:42.520
they're implanting these um wires in her head uh to be able to monitor it um inside her brain
01:49:52.820
uh and she's gonna have to be awake for the operation and then and then 20 to 30 days of
01:50:00.480
testing in the hospital i i don't know i as her dad i want to be there every second of it and uh
01:50:09.520
so i i i have a lot of people depending on that i show up to work every day so i will be here but i
01:50:17.620
i i ask for your uh understanding uh on this and i ask for your prayers for my my daughters both of
01:50:28.500
them but i echo the words of brett bear you just don't wait for it to remind you let this be your
01:50:38.620
reminder that family's everything family is absolutely everything and we get lost so easily
01:50:49.040
and when something happens in a blink of an eye you recognize like we did at september 11th about our
01:50:58.400
freedom you recognize oh my gosh this is so fragile it's not always going to be like this
01:51:04.220
one more thing i i want to thank uh ut medical and and the zale uh lipsche hospital for epilepsy
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this is the greatest group crew of doctors and nurses i have ever experienced they were
01:51:24.020
unbelievable these nurses were just incredible uh as are the doctors but um modern medicine
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well we are not really even in the presidential uh primary race yet and we already have
01:53:21.280
nine democrats and we have a 10th one ninth one ninth one today yeah uh peter buddha judge
01:53:28.060
oh i love huge huge fan buddha judge i don't exactly know how to pronounce his name although
01:53:33.120
people are tossing around many different ones um but he is the mayor of south bend indiana
01:53:38.300
uh-huh um you know normally if a mayor of a non-gigantic city doesn't you know enters the race
01:53:44.420
most people don't take them as serious candidates i mean julian castro is in the race he was former mayor
01:53:49.280
of san antonio uh he's been taken relatively seriously a buddha judge has a lot of um uh support
01:53:56.040
uh he is he would be the first gay president for example if he were to win he's a military veteran
01:54:00.820
he's the youngest mayor of a city his size i think it's over a hundred thousand uh in you know and he
01:54:06.800
would be the youngest president ever elected uh if he were to win also he uh had has had multiple
01:54:14.380
big figures like barack obama mentioned him specifically as one of the future people in
01:54:19.600
the party that to watch so that's kind of he's trying to get he's trying to introduce himself
01:54:23.900
to everyone but he does have some support within the democratic party um so we have nine candidates
01:54:30.300
now it's kind of putting them in categories of uh you know kind of the favorites uh you have a shot
01:54:35.720
you have a shot if everything goes right you basically have no shot and uh and no shot at all
01:54:43.260
so that's what i've gone all right five categories so no five categories nine candidates yes how many
01:54:49.340
categories have a candidate in it five categories have a candidate i think like over time this is
01:54:54.240
going to grow i think the interesting part about this is you've got nine candidates now but really
01:54:59.120
only three you'd consider generally top tier candidates so there's going to be i think we
01:55:06.280
have 20 there's 17 i think they're going to clear that easily i think they'll hit 30 they may hit 30
01:55:11.700
candidates for this thing i think it's possible so starting off at the bottom no real shot at all
01:55:16.880
uh i would put uh andrew yang he is a uh he is a tech entrepreneur but a guy i think you'd find
01:55:23.140
interesting probably wouldn't agree with him on a lot but he's a guy who's really concerned about
01:55:27.740
what uh artificial intelligence is going to do to our job markets he's he's a guy you've been
01:55:32.640
talking he not specifically but a guy you've been talking about for a while who this tech entrepreneur
01:55:37.060
type that is saying look ai is going to wipe out all these jobs we better have universal basic income
01:55:42.540
yeah in my book i've said i talked about that candidate i said any candidate who says all these
01:55:47.800
jobs don't worry about it and i'm going to bring more back is either a fool or a liar because ai is going
01:55:55.480
to wipe jobs out like crazy in the next 10 years and so i don't know anything about him i i'm sure
01:56:02.040
you disagree on the solutions but um i disagree with universal basic income it just doesn't work
01:56:07.100
however uh we do have to have that conversation he'd be interesting if we had conversations with
01:56:14.680
him concerns are aligned at some level yes because that's at least an honest look at the future
01:56:21.480
richard ohida uh he's a state senator from west virginia or he was a state senator from west
01:56:26.240
virginia he's kind of in the race as the if you remember webb who ran a few years ago um uh he was
01:56:31.560
like a military guy and he was kind of running as a i'm a sane democrat oh he is a uh oh he was a
01:56:37.160
former military guy as well and that's kind of his position right now and john delaney who was a
01:56:41.440
former maryland congressman kind of a rich guy business guy white guy bye okay so those are the
01:56:46.500
basically no shot then we go to almost no shot and in that category i have uh only tulsi gabbard
01:56:53.240
from uh hawaii now she is a young bernie sanders type um you know uh friendly to the camera uh very
01:57:02.980
uh she has had some issues um with uh she's the one that her dad ran an anti-gay thing or organization
01:57:11.520
of some level uh so she's had some controversy within the democratic ranks but she's very very
01:57:15.860
super bernie sanders liberal but not enough recognition uh if everything goes right this
01:57:22.240
category i've got julian castro who has been talked about as an up-and-coming guy for a long time
01:57:26.980
um and has some experience he was a head of hud under obama he ran senate he was mayor of san antonio
01:57:33.460
so i mean i don't know if there's a miracle situation like the hail mary goes up could be caught
01:57:38.900
with julian castro and i would say be really the first hispanic candidate because we've never had
01:57:43.980
a hispanic candidate run really i mean not no not a serious contender and beto's not in the race yet
01:57:49.560
so we don't have any other serious hispanics here yeah uh pete i mean besides ted cruz oh yeah i forgot
01:57:55.660
about him um peter buddha judge who we just talked about um he again because of his sort of you know the
01:58:02.360
fact that people like obama are mentioning him by name i think you put him in that if everything goes
01:58:06.560
right category then has a shot do i really think elizabeth warren has a shot i mean i can't imagine
01:58:12.380
her winning this this primary she's just so terrible she's such a bad candidate forget her
01:58:17.320
policies she's a terrible candidate i can't imagine someone with the same policies can't just beat her
01:58:21.560
but she's a top tier candidate in that people know her name she will never get a lot of money well with
01:58:26.780
donald trump no one she is the dream matchup of donald she is if you want to hey make sure donald
01:58:33.480
trump wins she's the one to pick yes if you're gonna take one of these top tier candidates there's
01:58:37.660
no better path for trump to win than uh elizabeth warren and also i put in the has a shot category
01:58:43.860
uh kirsten gillibrand from new york again i don't think it's gonna happen it's she has a shot at it
01:58:51.160
because she's a relatively big name and can raise some money and uh she was big on the me too movement
01:58:56.380
her rick record really changed from sort of moderate to conservative democrat to i'm bernie
01:59:03.400
sanders uh once she started thinking about running for president which is an interesting thing that i
01:59:07.960
don't really care about because i think they probably both sucked both of her personas but if
01:59:12.520
you're if you're a uh a voter in a democratic primary do you really want to take a chance that
01:59:18.720
someone who's once thought of something conservative or moderate could be your president like i don't think
01:59:23.980
they want that so i i i doubt it i doubt she has a chance she has been very active in the me too
01:59:29.100
movement but that's to the negative because uh she's being criticized by the left for ousting al
01:59:35.060
franken she was kind of responsible for that so they don't like her because they liked al franken who
01:59:39.460
cares if he's molesting people and the favorites i would say the only one favorite i think is in there
01:59:43.540
in that group is kamala harris and she we've talked about her before relatively personable has a
01:59:49.580
prosecutor background which is you know a good matchup for someone who's under pressure except
01:59:54.040
you were on the side of police so i mean that's a little problematic a little problematic you're
01:59:58.440
gonna have to deal with that yeah um all right more five o'clock tonight glenn beck tv on blaze tv.com