No Prayers For You! | Guests: Kevin Williamson & Lisa Paige | 8⧸5⧸19
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1 hour and 55 minutes
Summary
On this episode of the Glenbeck Program, Glenbecken explains why the media and politicians have crossed yet another line in their coverage of the weekend's mass shootings in the United States, and why they need to do something about it.
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the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenbeck program well we've uh
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we've crossed over lines that i didn't know could be crossed i have watched the media for a very
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long time i've watched people in washington politicians for a very long time and i thought
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i had seen the worst of them and every time i think that i find something brand new
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that they do that it crosses yet another line the this weekend's coverage of the two
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mass shootings in the united states this weekend where it was was so incredibly horrific
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it's i i am almost without words to describe it of course you know by now in el paso mass shooting
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in dayton ohio another mass shooting uh they are you know horrible horrible incidents and yes i must say
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my thoughts and prayers are with the victims i know that's not cool anymore to say
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you know honestly my thoughts what do you care about my thoughts prayers are actually important
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if you happen to be a person of faith here's something to let you if you you know if you're
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one of these people that is not a person of faith you might think that prayers are just meaningless
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uh and i that's certainly your right to do that uh but it's one of the most important things that
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someone of faith can actually offer in a situation like this so when you demean it
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you're demeaning every the most important things that everyone you're talking about believes in
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just so you understand what you're doing and we've actually crossed the line there too with politicians
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because remember over the past few months we've seen this thing creep up where they say thoughts
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and prayers are not enough thoughts and prayers are not enough and okay i mean i don't understand
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why you feel the need to point that out i guess you think it's cool it gets you some new donations
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but we've crossed the line now to this from kamala harris this weekend no more thoughts and prayers
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so no longer are you allowed to think about these incidents and no longer are you absolutely you're
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certainly not able to pray for the victims of these incidents or the families of the victims of these
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incidents don't think about them and don't pray for them kamala told you not to no more thoughts and
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prayers well i mean they've mastered the no more thoughts part of that because they certainly don't
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seem to be using their noggin there is very little thinking going on when it comes to this but i want to
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get to something very specific because if you were reading the reports about this this weekend
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you'll notice of course that the dayton shooting was basically not talked about and the reason for
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that is there's no real political use you know you look at the 2020 candidates and we'll play them
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all for you here what they're doing is trying to find the best way to use the dead bodies from the
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weekend to move their polls one percent two percent who can come out with the coolest most viral
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reaction to these horrible tragedies to try to move up the the scale of the 25 candidates by one or two
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it's despicable it's completely despicable but what they have done and what the media has done
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it goes beyond that this weekend you heard this line in probably every single report about the white
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nationalist manifesto that went on and i want to quickly before we take a one minute break say this
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policy of not naming these victims i've been very outspoken about that if you know this i was one of
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the people behind the scenes asking for this policy uh beforehand and i also would extend that to
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talking about their motivations generally speaking i think you should probably know generally what they
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are but focusing too much on a manifesto i think is a really bad idea this is what they want
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but because of what the media has done this weekend i want to give you at least one paragraph
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of this manifesto because they are they are you know frankly they are lying to you about it they're
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lying to you about the entire thing and you need to know the details of it so here is the one line
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you heard everywhere this weekend if we can get rid of enough people then our white way of life can
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become more sustainable obviously in the context of all the reporting with much quotes from the entire
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manifesto you would take that to to to mean if we can get rid of hispanic people right then our the
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white way of life will flourish that is sort of the reasoning of this guy and there's certainly a lot
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of that in his manifesto but i want to take a 60 second break and on the other side tell you what comes
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immediately before that in the same paragraph back in 60 seconds
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so if we can get rid of enough people then our way of life can become more sustainable
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in every single article that i think i read about these shootings uh and it is part of the manifesto
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now you will hear all these candidates specifically blaming trump for these shootings
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beto o'rourke explicitly did it this weekend he's from el paso he said trump is a white nationalist
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and he is responsible for this shooting his his racism is the one leading to the violence
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uh president trump is responsible for this violence from cory booker we'll play you the quotes coming up
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i don't want to run out of time here though several of these candidates did the same thing
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the blame is on president trump why because in the manifesto it does reference uh the dislike for
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immigration uh the uh dislike for uh you know illegal immigration the idea that many people would be
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coming across the border and invading that was a big thing that you saw people talking about how
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trump said this looks like an invasion and this guy says it looks like an invasion this is trump's fault
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so let me give you this paragraph from the manifesto again it ends with this if we can get rid of
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enough people then our way of life can become more sustainable obviously in context what that means
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is that white people can have a more sustainable flourishing life if we get rid of all these mexicans
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here is the paragraph the american lifestyle affords our citizens an incredible quality of life however
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our lifestyle is destroying the environment of the country the decimation of the environment is creating a
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massive burden for future generations does this sound like donald trump to you
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corporations are heading the destruction of our environment by shamelessly over harvesting resources
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is this donald trump or is it anything you could have heard from any of the 25 candidates
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running for the presidency uh on the in the democratic party could this could not be said by jay insley
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this has been a problem for decades going back to the manifesto for example uh shamelessly over
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harvey uh this excuse me this uh phenomenon is brilliantly portrayed in the decades old classic
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the lorax watersheds around the country especially in agricultural areas are being depleted fresh water is
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being polluted from farming and oil drilling operations consumer culture is creating thousands of tons of
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unnecessary plastic waste and electronic waste and recycling to help slow down slow this down is almost
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non-existent you see he's very upset that there's not enough recycling going on just like donald
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harvesting resources just like donald trump he's very upset at the corporations heading the destruction of
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our environment just like donald trump now when the mick malvaney went on on tv this weekend to try to defend
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the president he brought up the fact that this uh maniac who we will not name said well all my ideas
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predate trump it's not trump's fault which is true he does say that but this is to me much more important
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that people understand he goes on after the uh we're not recycling enough commentary to say that urban
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urban sprawl creates inefficient cities where on which unnecessarily destroy millions of acres of land
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we even use god knows how many trees worth of paper towels just to wipe water off our hands
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everything i have seen and heard in my short life has led me to believe that the average american isn't
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willing to change their lifestyle even if the changes only cause a slight inconvenience the government
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is unwilling to tackle these issues beyond empty promises because they are owned by corporations
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was that a quote from elizabeth warren or the manifesto of of the el paso shooter which one was it do you
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know if i were to just give you that out of context who said that certainly wouldn't be donald trump
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as your guess would it corporations that also like immigration because more people means a bigger
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market for their products i just want to say that i love the people of this country but gd most you're
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all are too stubborn to change your lifestyle so the next logical step is to decrease the number of
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people using resources and here's where the media picks it up if we can get rid of enough people
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then our way of life can become more sustainable do you believe the media is this horrible i do this
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for a living this is my stupid job to come on this radio station you're listening to or this podcast
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that you're listening to and blab about how bad the media does every single day and it's easy to find
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examples of it but it has been an exclusive focus there's a massive op-ed from the new york times
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today that we can go through there is there are dozens of articles in the times every candidate that
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came out on record is saying basically the same thing that it's donald trump's fault
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every the media is a concert they're all playing the same note though and that note is it's donald trump's
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fault that the shooting went on it's his rhetoric that leads to these things if you want to find a
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balanced source they'll say something like well look you can't blame donald trump but he's creating
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an environment in which this stuff can flourish well what the hell is this listen to the candidates
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on stage they are telling you that people like donald trump and corporations are killing you
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killing your children using uh things like excess plastic waste not enough recycling ruining our water
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the environment is under attack by the american consumer and we must do something to stop it
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or our way of life will not be able to be sustained that is the unquestioned truth from every single
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democrat and basically every media source available in america today
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now it's one thing to completely ignore the part of the manifesto that disagrees with your narrative
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because that's what a lot of the media has done here they just say you know what you know what i gotta
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say look it's all about trump it's all about immigration that's what he's talking about we're
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not going to link to it now because we don't want to give him attention that's our reasoning we're not
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going to link to it but uh trust us here's a bunch of quotes from it that all point to the white supremacy
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thing yet here he is outlining and in detail every argument you could say the same thing about
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elizabeth warren he's talking she's talking about corporate consumerism destroying our nation
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victimizing innocent people jay insley is talking about how the environment is being ruined and
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people like uh you know donald trump and big corporations are are victimizing you and destroying
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our way of life he's quoting from their campaign platforms it's one thing to ignore it it's another
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step beyond that to use a quote from that paragraph and still not mention the environmentalist part of
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his his uh manifesto they're quoting from the same paragraph and acting as if that information does not
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exist beyond beyond horrible beyond anything i have ever seen before in the media
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it's due in for glenn on the glenn beck program let's play some of the clips
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for you here is uh let's start with beto o'rourke because look beto o'rourke is in a massive amount
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of desperation he needs something to go his way and he's decided you know what there's a bunch of
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people suffering so let's use that that's a good way to to rise in the polls
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here is beto o'rourke talking about trump being a white nationalist do you think president trump is a
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white nationalist yes i i do and again uh from some of the record that i just recited to you
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the the things that he has said both as a candidate uh and then as the president of the united states
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this cannot be uh open for for debate and and you as well as i have a responsibility to call that out
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to make sure that the american people understand what is being done in their name by the person who
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holds the highest position of public trust in this land so there's not it's not even not even
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it's okay to suggest it there can't be a debate about it you can't disagree
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there is look there's no evidence that donald trump is a white nationalist is he occasionally
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insensitive when it comes to racial issues probably probably true does he say the wrong
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thing sometimes yeah probably true uh is he a white national does he have a white nationalist
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ideology you know it's hard to i think make an argument that donald trump has a a particularly
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well-defined ideology of any sort he believes in a few things really strongly things like trade
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protectionism that he's believed in his entire life ever since he's been in the public eye
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there are things like the border that you know he came to later in life but has been pretty
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consistent since in this run of pres uh since he announced his candidacy he's been strong on the
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border has been trying to do that uh pretty outwardly but the idea that he is any there's any evidence
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that he's a has a developed white supremacist ideology is completely insane it is not true beto o'rourke
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knows it's not true here is beto talking about trump's racism leading to violence he is a racist
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and he stokes racism in this country and it does not just offend our sensibilities it it fundamentally
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changes the character of this country and it leads to violence it leads to i mean again do you think
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beto you know it's his district it's his at least his area do you think he bothered to read the manifesto
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do you think that we could does he know that we could go into his platform and do the exact same
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thing to him does he know it does he care because he knows the media is not going to do it to him
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the media is not going to say hey uh beto o'rourke and jay insley and kamala harris you know what we're
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seeing a lot of your rhetoric in his manifesto do you want to comment on that is that fair well of course
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it's not fair of course it's not fair just like it's not fair to blame donald trump you don't
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this is a crazy idea and i've developed this over a long long uh see i've been thinking about this
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one for a while and i want you to see i'm gonna run it by you see what you think um maybe the person
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who pulls the trigger should be responsible for the murders
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now look the show's really short if we all agree on that one i gotta tell you this three hour thing
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filling in for glenn today i'd have to go and we might be talking nfl by hour two
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because i don't i i would not be able to keep this one going if we all agree on it but i thought
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it would be an interesting concept if we blamed the perpetrator of the crime for the crime
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i thought we could go down that road we don't blame whatever politician we don't like
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for the crime instead we blame the person who actually committed the crime for the crime
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it's an approach occasionally used by law enforcement
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that's kind of how they look at it we've got a legal system that our founders put together
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that put the squarely the blame for a crime on the shoulders of the person who committed it
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not family members not their children not their brothers not their fathers not the person that they
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share general agreement with on one section of a politician's policy
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and not the person who also agrees we don't recycle enough or we're over harvesting resources
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or that corporations are the massive ill destroying our nation
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no no we don't blame them we blame the person who actually committed the crime
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it's due in for glenn on the glenn beck program i you know i don't want to
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let anybody think that we're not going to get into uh actual solutions to this stuff today we are
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we're going to go into all of that we're going to talk about really like what how do you you know
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what is this what's the real cause of this but the media stuff is so egregious on this one i i it's
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almost insurmountable i cannot believe and it has to be intentional by these candidates and by the
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media to ignore this stuff is absolutely unbelievable welcome in pat gray of pat gray unleashed
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welcome pat thank you you know be here pat there was another shooting that happened this weekend not
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just the one in el paso no no there wasn't it's been summarized talk about that one we can't no
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can't talk about that one because it was done by a socialist so we don't want to know about that
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it was it was happened to be done by um a supporter of one particular candidate in fact who's going to
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vote for uh elizabeth warren elizabeth warren elizabeth warren supporter shot nine people i guess this is
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her fault uh that i guess we had nine people were shot in dayton uh you know it's it's unbelievable
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really it's if saying the word invasion makes makes donald trump responsible for the el paso shooting
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i then i'm sorry the hollywood movies featuring three solid hours of massacre that we watch over and
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over and over and over i guess those have no effect on anybody the video games that you play for
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8 10 12 hours a day those have no effect on you in desensitizing people uh now i've i've never said
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that they cause those things that hollywood is responsible for those things but if you're gonna
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say that the word invasion makes trump responsible for this then we need to look at some other people
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like quentin tarantino who are responsible for what's going on in this country i mean the blood
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bath that he continually uh manufactures and puts on screen for people to see that's that doesn't do
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anything to people but oh the word invasion made this guy run out and kill 20 20 people in el paso
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it's just so asinine yeah i know it's a hollywood's very quick to take credit for stopping people from
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smoking uh from in from getting people to be more friendly to lgbt causes they put the they'll tell
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you we put this in the movie movie we want people to understand we want to normalize it we want people
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to understand that it's okay which i think they've helped do yeah actually i think it has normalized and
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they they believe that was the right thing to do and they did it and they admitted to it when it comes
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to violence when it comes to anything else no that has nothing to do with our movies the good things
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work the bad things never do any make any difference and look i'm much more of a person
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who says look you can't you can't blame these you can't blame these uh companies even if their
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intent was to make people more violent it still would not be their responsibility their responsibility
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goes to the people who do this you know lots of people we've had a massive rise in uh violent
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video games over the past you know 20 30 years and we've seen a decrease in violent crime in violent
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crime yeah now that we have seen an increase in the type of shooting that would be associated with
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a first person shooter right like the mass shooting of random people gamified where where they're talking
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on 8chan boards hey who's going to get the high score right like there has been an increase in that
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type of crime but in a context of a lowering uh overall crime number yeah and so that's so it's weird
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it's weird it's incongruent yes also the same guy who used the word invasion used the word
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sustainable yeah thank you in his rant about the environment and so is al gore who talks about
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sustainability all the time is he responsible for the killing in el paso as well uh are all the rest
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of the presidential candidates who are also on board with climate change and sustainable forms of
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energy are they responsible for the killing and again if you just joined us he didn't use
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sustainable in some other context he used it in the context of the environment of all climate change
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goofballs yeah he talked about how uh you know we are shamelessly over harvesting resources we are
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creating unnecessary plastic waste because of our quote consumer culture we uh have destroyed millions
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of acres of land we use so many trees worth of paper towels just to wipe off our hands does this
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sound like donald trump no i heard it legitimately zero people in the media point out that this was
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one of his main motivations no one is that's i mean it's incredible it's so irresponsible yeah and
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you know you you played some of what beto o'rourke had to say that's some of the most irresponsible
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rhetoric i've ever heard from a mainstream politician yeah anybody in a major poly uh party i have never
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heard that kind of irresponsible talk about a president of the united states at one point he compares him to
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the third reich he legitimately just states he's a white nationalist racist i mean that's just it's
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he he definitely he answers the question is donald trump responsible for this killing his answer isn't
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well look it's yes that's unbelievable they don't say yes to anything no beto is could you confirm that
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the sky is blue well look uh well look it's uh especially beto he can never answer a question
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he can't he can't they can never straightforward and they'll be pinned down uh candidate uh candidate
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x yes or no question is the sky blue well look i i mean let me be clear about this as i've stated in
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the past i mean look at try to get elizabeth warren to admit that taxes go up with her health care
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plan oh no she can't she can't do it she cannot do it overall cost we all know they're going up yeah
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she'll only talk about that listen to this from the the new york times this is an op-ed out today
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i found to be fascinating if one of the perpetrators of this weekend's two mass shootings had adhered to
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the ideology of radical islam the resources of the american government and its international allies
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would mobilize without delay the awesome power of the state would work tirelessly to deny future
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terrorists access to weaponry money and forms to spread their ideology the movement would be
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infiltrated by spies and informants its financiers would face sanctions places of congregation would
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be surveilled those who gave aid or comfort to terrorists would be prosecuted programs would be
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established to radicalize former adherents no american would settle for thoughts and prayers
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as a counter-terrorism strategy first of all some of those things would happen but all
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at the opposition of you new york times you would oppose every single one of those things if radical
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islam was uh the reason for it and secondarily you'd criticize us for using the phrase radical islam
00:29:40.000
so don't act as if you're all on board with fighting things this way you never have been not to mention
00:29:47.220
the fact that there have been mass shootings from radical islamists a lot of them we haven't done any of
00:29:53.160
those things we haven't largely because the media has said you can't do them right right right fort
00:29:59.460
hood did they mobilize any of that stuff uh orlando orlando right shooting now then it goes on to say
00:30:06.060
in predictable corners moderate muslims would be excoriated for not speaking out more forcibly
00:30:12.600
against the extremists in their midst that's true and what what are those predictable corners
00:30:16.240
right you're talking about conservatives right you're talking about conservatives who would be upset
00:30:21.120
about that you are never upset about it the new york times is never upset about those things
00:30:26.980
now supposedly we are supposed to be really upset about white nationalism well guess what we are we are
00:30:33.020
and always have been always have announced it strongly from the beginning absolutely white
00:30:39.360
nationalists and terror attacks are local but the ideology is global i found the word global to be
00:30:45.540
intriguing there considering this global warming fanatic who went and shot people by his own
00:30:52.360
description because of the environment along with immigration you've only heard immigration i love
00:30:58.320
the fact that they point out that it's global on saturday a terrorist who according to federal law
00:31:02.720
enforcement official wrote that he feared a quote hispanic invasion of texas was replacing white
00:31:07.580
americans open fire at walmart what else did he say did he say just that it goes on to explain
00:31:14.520
a lot of the things he said in the manifesto except the ones that are inconvenient to the left
00:31:24.500
let me give you the exact one the inconvenient truth is the title of the manifesto it's amazing
00:31:34.900
is also the title of an albor book nobody has anybody mentioned that has anybody mentioned it
00:31:40.000
it's the i saw it for the first time this morning when i was handed the article by my producer and i
00:31:46.840
the inconvenient truth yeah wow and does that seem weird right wing rhetoric it kind of seems like
00:31:53.640
maybe this guy because glenn wrote a book called an inconvenient book maybe this guy's just pair you
00:31:57.960
know he's doing a parody he doesn't like gore no he loves gore right he's in here he does not
00:32:02.980
mention gore by name yeah but he's on board with what he's saying uh it goes on is al gore responsible
00:32:08.380
for this is he i mean we should play that game of course and it's a dumb game it's stupid it's
00:32:14.320
asinine the times goes on most importantly american law enforcement needs to target white nationalists
00:32:19.680
with the same zeal that they have targeted radical islamic terrorists the zeal you totally disagreed
00:32:24.860
with along the entire path of the war on terrorism you disagreed with that path but now it's okay for
00:32:30.540
white nationalists is it also okay for environmentalists is it also okay to go to every one of their
00:32:36.200
meetings and have the government infiltrate the meetings of environmentalists to make sure those
00:32:40.240
extreme environmentalists don't do this too yeah is that okay and by the way this is the first radical
00:32:45.300
environmentalist to do something like this yeah to do crazy things we've had multiple uh psychos
00:32:51.420
yeah if you're these things there was um a guy who held at gunpoint the discovery channel right a couple
00:32:57.460
years ago yep we have multiple organizations that are set up to destroy property uh like alf and elf
00:33:04.400
the animal animal liberation front and the environmental liberation front this is not new
00:33:09.560
no uh it is it's been out there for a while but they say there can be no middle ground when it comes
00:33:14.680
to white nationalism and the terrorism it inspires you either for it or against it well you know what
00:33:19.000
i would agree with you on that were you with us when it came to islamic extremism are you with us
00:33:25.080
when it comes to environmental extremism i've seen little to no evidence of either
00:33:28.920
i mean i the the hypocrisy that is going on with us right now is just it's just unbelievable
00:33:39.360
let me give you a uh a quote from cory booker you have time for cory booker here pat who doesn't
00:33:45.460
always make time for cory always make time for cory booker here is cory booker uh on nbc's meet the
00:33:53.140
press we have a president united states who is particularly responsible uh i i in my faith
00:33:59.380
have this idea that you reap what you sow and he is sowing seeds of hatred in our country and
00:34:04.460
this harvest of hate violence that we're seeing right now uh lies at his feet when you have the
00:34:10.560
president from the highest moral office in our land talking about invasions and infestations and
00:34:15.720
whole countries the kind of things that come out of his mouth that so harm the moral fabric of our
00:34:22.480
nation he is responsible he's responsible he has taken no action whatsoever to even condemn white
00:34:28.940
supremacy that's unbelievable i mean they are just flat out saying donald trump is responsible for
00:34:34.940
the shooting it's true i mean presidential candidates are flat out saying the president of
00:34:42.280
the united states is responsible and being cheered on by the media for doing it and being cheered on by
00:34:47.360
the media you know for doing it this is replaced their hatred for trump is such that it trumps their
00:34:53.460
hatred for guns yeah that's amazing yeah yeah that's a great point they're not even worried about the the
00:34:58.100
call i mean they're that's a kind of a ancillary issue right now they're a little bit on the gun
00:35:04.020
control thing but mostly this is about donald trump that's how much they hate this guy it's it's really
00:35:11.320
uh psychotic at this point it's gone way too far yeah the other thing too is that cory booker just
00:35:19.480
loves the the idea that he gets a chance to say the s word on tv he does love he loves it yeah man does
00:35:25.960
he think he's super special is it and i said it in the debate but without you know right it was
00:35:30.820
abbreviating the s word for s whole countries and now he says that he knows he's on television and
00:35:37.820
they're not gonna they're gonna have to bleep it he doesn't care yeah although they didn't they
00:35:41.460
didn't bleep it in the debate because they couldn't it was live right and it was cnn yeah cnn loves it
00:35:45.760
too they all love that they get to say these nasty words on tv now because they think oh donald trump
00:35:50.220
said i can say i mean do we do that with john carrey when he's using the f-bomb and interview after
00:35:55.340
interview after video interview no no we did not no they do like that part of it there's just this
00:36:01.420
i guess there's just a level of of uh it's an incredible disconnect from reality and i guess
00:36:10.580
what i find most offensive about it is we are in a period here where we just watched the 29 people
00:36:17.200
get murdered this weekend it could and the numbers could rise it was a horrific thing now we saw
00:36:22.760
dozens of other shootings in chicago for example this weekend too that nobody's talking about people
00:36:27.740
were shot in a park yeah in chicago this week yeah there was nobody's talking about that depending
00:36:31.960
on what definition you use you could i mean you could make the argument there were two mass shootings
00:36:35.480
in chicago this weekend um but what you're seeing here with these candidates is their efforts to take
00:36:43.500
as as many bodies as they can find and lump them onto their poll numbers to see if they'll go up
00:36:49.340
they are using the suffering and death of these people to try to advance their political campaigns by
00:36:56.500
one point it's really despicable if they can get just a couple of more donations out of the
00:37:03.060
suffering and horrible nightmare these families have been through all the better and never let
00:37:09.160
a crisis go to waste maybe maybe they can push it up so high yeah they make the next debate wow
00:37:14.760
wouldn't that be great that'll be great yeah then they really cashed in on this tragedy good for
00:37:19.420
you never let a crisis go to waste right they've learned that lesson well haven't they yeah they have
00:37:24.140
pat gray from pat gray unleashed the podcast will be available in mere moments if you want to listen
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getting everything but to get it from you guys i just want to thank you dave i appreciate that man
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it means a lot thanks a lot uh blaze tv.com slash glenn promo code glenn love to have you subscribe as
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well kevin williamson is coming up next i'm hillary that's your four minute buzz and now here's more
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williamson on his new book it's a packed show today back in just a second
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the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenbeck program we are waiting words from
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president trump on the shootings from this weekend we know 29 people died between two shootings uh both
00:40:08.540
incredibly horrific and you know what i gotta say it my thoughts and my prayers are with everybody
00:40:15.140
uh involved in this uh you know kamala harris set a new standard we learned about today because it was
00:40:20.680
you weren't allowed to say thoughts it was like thoughts and prayers are not enough that was sort of
00:40:25.320
this thing that rose with the left over the past couple of years and now kamala harris set a new
00:40:31.040
standard this weekend no more thoughts and prayers so you are not allowed to pray anymore it's it's not
00:40:37.200
even that that's not enough you just shouldn't do it at all and you also shouldn't think about the
00:40:41.620
incident which i thought was amazing from someone who's going to certainly pitch brand new legislation
00:40:47.100
that is sort of the requirement a lot of times for these things don't think about it and everything
00:40:52.160
will be fine we'll get into that here in a moment we're not sure you know he's trump is scheduled to
00:40:57.080
come out we're going to take that when he does we also have uh all the latest updates on what
00:41:02.720
happened what does it mean if you missed last hour it's important to go back and listen to it we'll try
00:41:08.520
to cover some of the stuff as we go forward here today including you know the idea that nobody is
00:41:14.480
covering from uh what this uh murderer was talking about in el paso that it was not only the dislike of
00:41:20.520
immigrants which is definitely part of it he's definitely a a terrible human being with a white
00:41:25.040
nationalist ideology and hates immigrants and all that's really bad and it's everything the media is
00:41:29.880
saying about that part of it is completely correct they are completely ignoring of course the other
00:41:34.860
motivation he clearly states there even when they take quotes out of that paragraph they are ignoring
00:41:41.620
the fact that he also was uh by his own words motivated by uh consumerism uh environmentalism
00:41:49.120
too much plastic waste that we're uh using uh we're over harvesting resources all of these
00:41:57.260
kind of left-wing things that you could just as easily pull out of the democratic debate from last
00:42:01.560
week and blame on democrats now that's insane and you shouldn't do that because it was it's not
00:42:07.720
democratic presidential candidates fault to to uh to go down that road but it's also just as insane to
00:42:14.440
just blame president trump speaking of president trump he is walking to the microphone right now
00:42:19.500
we're going to take his words on the shootings from this weekend let's tune in
00:42:23.980
he's walking up now he's uh oh yeah here he goes walking up to the microphone
00:42:33.200
about to make a statement on el paso and i assume dayton as well
00:42:38.580
it'll be interesting to see what direction he goes in here we'll have some uh background
00:42:44.180
information on his uh sort of how he's handled previous incidents like this there's been some
00:42:50.420
new reporting on that just in the past few weeks kind of speak to his mindset in moments like this
00:42:55.840
it'll be interesting to see this and and uh and kind of go into depth on the on the philosophy on it
00:43:01.140
um because you know guns are not a core issue for trump it was not something that he walked into the
00:43:06.960
election uh a big supporter of the second amendment he uh has named some uh justices to the supreme court
00:43:14.100
that have backed this uh pretty strongly uh but we'll see how he handles this situation here as he
00:43:20.400
now makes his way to the microphone good morning my fellow americans this morning
00:43:29.640
our nation is overcome with shock horror and sorrow this weekend more than 80 people were killed or
00:43:38.240
wounded in two evil attacks one saturday morning in el paso texas a wicked man went to a walmart store
00:43:49.100
where families were shopping with their loved ones he shot and murdered 20 people and injured 26 others
00:43:57.820
including precious little children then in the early hours of sunday morning dayton ohio another
00:44:09.320
twisted monster opened fire on a crowded downtown street he murdered nine people including his own sister
00:44:19.100
and injured 27 others the first lady and i joined all americans in praying and grieving for the victims
00:44:29.560
their families and the survivors we will stand by their side forever we will never forget
00:44:37.540
these barbaric slaughters are an assault upon our communities
00:44:43.000
an attack upon our nation and a crime against all of humanity we are outraged and sickened
00:44:52.260
by this monstrous evil the cruelty the hatred the malice the bloodshed and the terror our hearts are
00:45:03.020
shattered for every family whose parents children husbands and wives were ripped from their arms
00:45:10.480
and their lives america weeps for the fallen we are a loving nation and our children are entitled to grow up
00:45:19.740
in a just peaceful and loving society together we lock arms to shoulder the grief
00:45:27.180
we ask god in heaven to ease the anguish of those who suffer and we vow to act
00:45:34.820
with urgent resolve i want to thank the many law enforcement personnel who responded to these atrocities
00:45:43.580
with the extraordinary grace and courage of american heroes i have spoken with texas governor greg abbott
00:45:52.420
and ohio governor mike dewine as well as mayor de margo of el paso texas
00:46:00.200
and mayor nan waley of dayton ohio to express our profound sadness and unfailing support
00:46:09.840
today we also send the condolences of our nation to president obrador of mexico
00:46:16.900
and all the people of mexico for the loss of their citizens in the el paso shooting
00:46:23.200
terrible terrible terrible terrible thing i have also been in close contact with attorney general bar
00:46:31.600
and fbi director ray federal authorities are on the ground and i have directed them to provide any and all
00:46:40.980
assistance required whatever is needed the shooter in el paso posted a manifesto online consumed by racist
00:46:52.260
hate in one voice our nation must condemn racism bigotry and white supremacy these sinister
00:47:02.120
ideologies must be defeated hate has no place in america hatred warps the mind ravages the heart
00:47:11.360
and devours the soul we have asked the fbi to identify all further resources they need to investigate
00:47:20.500
and disrupt hate crimes and domestic terrorism whatever they need we must recognize that the
00:47:29.600
internet has provided a dangerous avenue to radicalize disturbed minds and perform demented acts
00:47:37.840
we must shine light on the dark recesses of the internet and stop mass murders before they start
00:47:45.920
the internet likewise is used for human trafficking illegal drug distribution and so many other heinous crimes
00:47:55.620
the perils of the internet and social media cannot be ignored and they will not be ignored
00:48:03.920
in the two decades since columbine our nation has watched with rising horror and dread as one mass shooting
00:48:13.320
has followed another over and over again decade after decade we cannot allow ourselves to feel powerless
00:48:23.020
we can and will stop this evil contagion in that task we must honor the sacred memory of those we have lost
00:48:32.880
by acting as one people open wounds cannot heal if we are divided we must seek real bipartisan solutions
00:48:42.320
we have to do that in a bipartisan manner that will truly make america safer and better for all first we
00:48:52.020
must do a better job of identifying and acting on early warning signs i am directing the department of
00:49:00.820
justice to work in partisan partnership with local state and federal agencies as well as social media
00:49:08.020
companies to develop tools that can detect mass shooters before they strike as an example the monster
00:49:14.720
in the parkland high school in florida had many red flags against him and yet nobody took decisive action
00:49:22.160
nobody did anything why not second we must stop the glorification of violence in our society
00:49:29.880
this includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace it is too easy today for troubled youth
00:49:39.180
to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence we must stop or substantially reduce this
00:49:48.120
and it has to begin immediately cultural change is hard but each of us can choose to build a culture
00:49:56.180
that celebrates the inherent worth and dignity of every human life that's what we have to do
00:50:01.620
third we must reform our mental health laws to better identify mentally disturbed individuals
00:50:10.640
who may commit acts of violence and make sure those people not only get treatment but when necessary
00:50:18.740
involuntary involuntary confinement mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger not the gun fourth we must
00:50:27.940
make sure that those judged to pose a grave risk to public safety do not have access to firearms and that if
00:50:37.620
they do those firearms can be taken through rapid due process that is why i have called for red flag laws
00:50:45.460
also known as extreme risk protection orders today i'm also directing the department of justice to
00:50:54.740
propose legislation ensuring that those who commit hate crimes and mass murders face the death penalty
00:51:04.660
and that this capital punishment be delivered quickly decisively and without years of needless delay
00:51:12.700
these are just a few of the areas of cooperation that we can pursue i am open and ready to listen and discuss all
00:51:21.980
ideas that will actually work and make a very big difference republicans and democrats have proven
00:51:29.980
that we can join together in a bipartisan fashion to address this plague last year we enacted the stop school
00:51:39.420
violence and fix nix acts into law providing grants to improve school safety and strengthening critical
00:51:48.220
background checks for firearm purchases at my direction the department of justice banned bump stocks last year
00:51:57.740
we prosecuted a record number of firearms offenses but there is so much more that we have to do now is the time to
00:52:07.740
set destructive partisanship aside so destructive and find the courage to answer hatred with unity devotion and love
00:52:19.580
our future is in our control america will rise to the challenge we will always have and we always will
00:52:29.020
win the choice is ours and ours alone it is not up to mentally ill monsters it is up to us
00:52:38.140
if we are able to pass great legislation after all of these years we will ensure that those who were
00:52:45.820
attacked will not have died in vain may god bless the memory of those who perished in toledo
00:52:54.300
may god protect them may god protect all of those from texas to ohio
00:53:02.060
may god bless the victims and their families may god bless america thank you very much thank you
00:53:12.060
there's president trump from the white house uh there's a lot to take in there let's go back
00:53:17.900
through it and kind of if you missed part of it we'll kind of take take you through the important
00:53:22.060
parts of what president trump just said addressing the shootings from this weekend we'll do that in 60
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in the new york times today there's a op-ed from james comey and it's entitled mr president please
00:54:53.580
take a stand against racism this is what you've heard basically non-stop that the president needs
00:54:59.420
to condemn in the strongest terms uh racism well if that's actually what the request was the
00:55:06.860
president just did that in uh incredibly explicit terms condemned racism said the ideology of hate
00:55:14.780
has no place here said that the internet was a was a big source of this and he wants to go after it
00:55:22.620
uh going after uh he said we will not be powerless in trying to stop this ideology
00:55:29.340
and he condemned racism in the strongest terms you've probably heard him uh do it in so i mean
00:55:34.460
if that was actually a real request it has been fulfilled i i suspect that they'll they the goalposts
00:55:42.060
will be moved on this one uh and now there will be well why aren't you doing x y and z there was a
00:55:48.060
six-part plan the president outlined in response to these shootings uh talked about the doj looking
00:55:55.740
for early warning signs for people being radicalized and potentially turning into shooters he started
00:56:02.060
talking about involving big tech companies and trying to detect these things early that was one two
00:56:07.260
wanted to stop the glorification of violence in our society he cited the video games um that have
00:56:13.260
been cited by you know a lot of uh conservatives and and usually are after shootings uh and the
00:56:18.860
media's glorification in general of these shootings talked about mental health treatment and potential
00:56:24.620
confinement if someone seems to be a high risk the only sort of gun law he mentioned uh one
00:56:33.660
surrounding the gun debate would be the red flag laws this is a extreme risk protection it's a program
00:56:40.220
we've talked about before and it exists in several states basically if someone if a lot of people
00:56:46.140
around somebody are saying this guy is in a major problem here's the evidence that there could be some
00:56:50.940
process to at least temporarily take away their weapons if they are deemed to be a massive uh threat
00:56:58.940
and step six um i guess step six was uh the step five excuse me the federal death penalty
00:57:06.460
uh he wants to make that come back he'd already talked about that already and bringing in uh the
00:57:12.300
opportunity to kill people uh in in a federal uh sense um which obviously the states already have
00:57:18.700
their own laws on that and he talked about doing uh last it was the all ideas that will actually work
00:57:23.420
that was interesting the way he phrased actually uh the emphasis on actually meaning don't bring me
00:57:29.340
the same old crap you do over and over again after these shootings that aren't going to affect them
00:57:33.820
uh he talked about his past accomplishments with school shootings and with the hope of trying to
00:57:40.620
get something bipartisan done and we should you can always talk about whether that's a good idea
00:57:45.660
bipartisan action sometimes uh sounds better than it is in moments of uh national stress we'll get
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we have kevin williamson coming up here in just a little while uh and he's going to react to the
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shooting as well he's got his new book out called the smallest minority it plays into it really ties in
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well with uh with the conversation going on today a couple things i want to give you quickly how much
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time do we have we're about a minute um the president brought up his ban of bump stocks and that is
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interesting um it's obviously used as a positive here um i do not agree that it's a positive i believe
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that is a an entirely unconstitutional thing that the president has done and i we talked about that in
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depth at the time you can't just ban things when it comes to firearms in this country it's you know
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i mean he's been able to do it i do believe it will go up and be challenged in the courts and
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you know potentially be overturned eventually it's not that i care about bump stocks certainly never
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going to buy one but this is a incredible it's an incredibly slippery slope we're talking about here
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and i don't believe it should have been allowed there's also uh reporting in tim alberta's new book
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this is following the steve scalise shooting says the only unusual part of trump's response to the
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scalise shooting was his fixation in discussions with doctors at the hospital and later with
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scalise himself on the size of the bullet there's also the question he posed to friends and aides in
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the days following the shooting quote should we do gun control the president asked steve can lead the
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way he's got credibility now end quote you know the the defense of the second amendment has never
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been central to donald trump's candidacy per se he's had a i would say a really good record when
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it comes to someone like um gorsuch who i feel very confident in his uh backing there um so far
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he's holding the line on this i think the phrasing that he said in that uh statement the way he emphasized
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the word actually when he said i will look at all ideas that will actually work was important the
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president and his administration seem to be holding the line on this it's it gets tough sometimes but
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this is when it's most important to have principles
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jeffrey goldberg the editor-in-chief of the atlantic called kevin williamson one of the most talented
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conservative writers in america he also said he's not one of the most talented conservative writers in
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america he's one of the most talented writers in america high praise that could only be followed up
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just a few days later with and that's why he can't work here
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kevin williamson is is a fantastic writer uh you know his work from national review and
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the atlantic for like three days and he joins us now his new book is called
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the smallest minority independent thinking in the age of mob politics welcome to the show kevin
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hey how are you pretty good uh it was an interesting uh weekend and speech from president
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trump uh do you have any uh any reaction as to what uh what the day's events are where the day's
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events are taking us well i i guess my my only reaction would be from isaiah and uh woe unto them
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who call evil good i think that um we are at a moment in our national history in which we are
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almost entirely without moral and intellectual leadership i resist the urge to put the president
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at the center of national life but it's natural that in times like this people would be looking
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to him for some clarity and direction at least so far as policy and such things go that of course is
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lacking because he's a man of no principles and can't really provide clarity for that reason so
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it's a terrible scene um you know i i live here in dallas where the el paso shooter was from this area
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and i think that um there's a great deal of sadness and frustration here over that
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yeah it's really it's really rough and i i you know it's one of those things where it's it's
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dominating the news uh coverage today and and it's important to talk about it but i i i do want to
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kind of transition to the book i think you know there is a natural transition here in that you know
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probably the gun debate is potentially the most tribal thing that goes on in our politics i mean it's you
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you know you see this immediately after the shooting people don't even take time uh to even
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understand how many people have have been lost before they're saying either it's about video games or
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whatever it is on on the right or on the left it's about gun legislation uh do you see that as as maybe
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the most obvious reflection of what your book kind of covers well i think that um yeah it seems like
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the press releases are already written they didn't have some on file awaiting to go for these
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um but there's something else that i get you and um i don't want to uh trivialize uh these shootings
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by saying that they're the same thing as these you know sort of social media outrage uh episodes
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because they're not but they have something in common which is um we have a culture in which
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certain people have come to feel that the only thing really worth having is someone's attention
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uh what they value above all is celebrity fame notoriety and uh they engage in these
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performative hysterics and these mass shootings are in that sense um not just acts of terrorism but like
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all acts of terrorism are also a form of theater they're a way of people trying to draw attention
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to themselves and to derive from these acts a sense of significance in their lives and uh it's right
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to understand these things as terrorism but the point of terrorism is to change how people think
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and feel and act you know terrorism is about beyond the actual act of violence in question it's a larger
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cultural ramifications and how it influences how people conduct their lives and that's how i think
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these things need to be understood yeah it strikes me as the because if your goal is to stop mass
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shootings you probably don't have the right goal right the goal should be to keep protect life in
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general as as much as you can i think you know the idea that we have a rising incidence of mass shootings
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in a in an environment where crime is dropping and and murder is dropping is it is is a is a highlight on
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what you're talking about is that it's really seems to me to be the attention people are seeking
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and doing things in this way and that is uh that plays i think to the way the media covers these things
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and it certainly plays to the way people are able to kind of enter small tribes online and let the end
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and they sort of multiply uh the anger and angst on top of each other does that does that make sense
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yeah you know the biggest school massacre um in american history i think it's still the biggest one
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was the one that happened to bath michigan in the early early part of the uh 20th century that didn't
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involve any firearms at all it was uh dynamite and bombs and it was a fellow who was a frustrated
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political candidate who um also had some debts and other problems in life that he had political ambitions
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that he was unable to realize and his uh you know desperate act was a sense of a way to try to draw
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attention to himself and to show that he was someone who mattered and who should be thought about and
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who should be considered um when he was unable to get that through politics so part of the alienation
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i think has to do with some changes in the way we live that not all of us but a lot of us move a lot
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more than we used to we change employers a lot more than we used to get married later in life we put
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off parenthood until later in life there's less church attendance so the normal ties and relationships
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that for a long time gave people a sense of value and meaning in their lives have been either diminished
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or in some cases entirely eliminated for people and so they're looking for new sources of relationship
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and context and meaning and unfortunately people have found these on the internet and on social media
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in uh the worst kind of uh tribalistic politics uh whether it's the you know sort of us and them
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version of democrats and republicans team red and team blue or some of the more uh extreme and in the end
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homicidal uh political tendencies that you see on some of the outlying corners of the internet
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you talk about um the idea of how people choose these these tribes how do they choose these these like groups
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that they join and i will say and i think i'm completely wrong on this but for a very long
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time i believed these tribes were chosen essentially with uh with i don't know in the moment sort of
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objective uh cost benefit right like you're looking at policies that you like policies that you don't like
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um and you choose sort of your group based on who agrees with you more you make the point in the book
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that's not at all that is not it at all is it i want it to be it but it's not these are underlying
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social identities um people don't actually vote in a way that has anything to do with their
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short-term or near-term economic interest there's a lot of research on this
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and uh one of the best ways of predicting someone's uh partisan identification is what their parents
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was uh people inherit these social identities through their families and you see this too and especially
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on in the northeast where you meet guys who are bankers and uh and you know insurance people and
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other people you sort of stereotypically think of as being republicans and they're you know lifelong
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democrats and you ask them why and nine times out of ten the answer is going to be something like
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well my dad was in the union we were all democrats and that's and that's how that went and i think
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that's you know perfectly respectable it's a fine reason as any to get your political identity but
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that's that's it doesn't come from self-interest it doesn't come from economic factors um people
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often talk about this in a very stupid way in the case of black voters um because black voters tend
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to identify very strongly with the democratic party and there's this idea that it's because of you know
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the hope of welfare benefits and that sort of thing but in truth uh as african americans get wealthier
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as their incomes go up they become much more left-wing um their preferences for redistribution for
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higher taxes for welfare benefits and things like that actually increase the less likely they are to
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to benefit from those and this is um you know this is something that's a matter of social identity and
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how people understand their place in the world and it's about well here's what people like me are like
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and but the more important part of course is and here's what these other people are like um you know
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a lot of it's based on just plain opposition that well maybe i don't agree with the democrats on
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everything but i grew up really not liking these uh conservative people i knew from church and they
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were very backward and they were very judgmental and so i take my identity as being in opposition
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to that um that's where a lot of this stuff comes from talking to kevin williamson the smallest
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minority independent thinking in the age of mob politics is the book um there's something that
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politicians say all the time and there's a word they use all the time and it's never criticized
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by anyone in fact when you say it it ends arguments the word of course is democracy uh
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your take on democracy is a little different than the way i see it portrayed in the media and i think
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it's the right way of looking at it can you kind of walk us through this sure yeah i'm i'm more with
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john adams and those guys on this and they they hated the idea of democracy as such of course they
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meant slightly different things by it than we do so democracy is perfectly not only fine but necessary
01:10:54.860
it's a procedural question it's how we make certain kinds of decisions how we choose
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representatives in some cases it's how we make our voice heard through referenda and things like that
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but the idea that something is right or desirable or necessary because 50 plus one of the people
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believe that is nonsensical and the idea that something becomes more valuable as it becomes more
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popular or legitimate as it becomes more popular is also nonsensical this is why we have things like
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written laws and a constitution and a bill of rights you know the bill of rights is the most
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anti-democratic institution in american life it's the list of 10 things you idiots don't get to vote
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on um this stuff is settled which is going to of course come up right now with the second amendment
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especially but um we tend to attribute value to things because they're popular and uh popularity
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certainly has certain kinds of economic value you know taylor swift's going to make a lot more money
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than than johan bach will this year she's going to sell a lot more music than he will but um that
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doesn't necessarily make it better or more desirable or superior so democracy is one little part of
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something that is more broadly known as liberalism liberalism constitutes you in the rule of law
01:12:07.460
individual rights property freedom of speech independent courts all the rest of these things that make a
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decent civil uh humane government possible um in some cases the more democratic things get the worse
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they get and we see this in um in cases where you've got um democratic forms that are being led
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by these populist demagogues and that's basically how venezuela got into the situation where it is
01:12:30.900
right now uh we've seen things happen like that in countries like india and pakistan and to a lesser
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extent the united states we've mostly been lucky on that front but not always uh you talk about the
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second amendment and certainly that's going to be coming up uh for massive debate here in the next few
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days you also talk a lot about in the book about the first amendment and and one of the one of the
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phrases that you again another conversation ender when you say hey look you can't shout fire in a
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crowded theater that's supposed to mean well whatever speech i'm against at this moment is okay for me to
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censor can you kind of go into that why what why do people misunderstand what that means that one is
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one of the worst it's one of the dumbest cliches that's really enabled a lot of uh a lot of oppression
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so this came out of the supreme court argument in which the court was trying to decide whether we
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could lock up the head of the socialist party for protesting uh world war one and the idea behind
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fire in a crowded theater was well if this guy is allowed to speak this way people will riot there
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will be uh you know civil unrest and so essentially this is just as holmes coming up with a legal
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rationale for the heckler's veto for saying that the problem isn't the speech um the problem or rather
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the problem isn't the fact that people are going to commit violence in reaction to the speech but the
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speech itself so it's a pretext for censoring things that we don't want to hear because they're
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unpopular and this is a really interesting thing for where we are as a country right now because we've got
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really good first amendment jurisprudence right now thanks to some really really good judicial
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appointments the first amendment legally it's probably never been in better shape but there's
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a cultural question there too and these things feed on one another and so to the extent that we
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think of certain ideas as being unutterable as being uh outside of what should be protected
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um then these things can eventually be squeezed out of what's protected by the first amendment this is
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where the idea of hate speech comes in that well we want to protect political speech
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unless we really really don't like it in which case we're going to call it something else and it's
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not protected and of course the whole idea of the first amendment is to protect speech which is
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controversial and unpopular and marginal because if it weren't it would need protection in the first
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place because no one would be trying to censor it so these things kind of feed off of one another
01:14:46.840
what's considered culturally undoable is part of how things get defined in places like canada and
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austria and germany where they've got more invasive speech rules than we have here in the united states
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but also how people here in the united states uh foresee a future regime of which you've got
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hate speech laws more uh controls on political speech to what we euphemistically call campaign
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finance law and those sorts of things so they they feed off of one another and that's an important
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thing i think to keep in mind that anytime you're putting something outside the realm of what should
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be protected that's what you're really setting yourself up for is uh is a future regime of censorship
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does it worry you that the the they're already talking about the doj looking into ways to partner
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with big tech firms to to crack down on on this sort of speech i mean nobody you know look nobody's
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going to stand up i think more than conservatives to say uh you know uh white nationalism uh especially
01:15:42.920
as a government ideology which you know is just implied you have gigantic government to enforce these
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types of things i mean it's just it's just totally against what conservatives want um absolutely fine
01:15:53.960
we should all stand up against white supremacy and this sort of speech but that's what ideas when it
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comes to government trying to implement laws to stop this that that is i hate to use the slippery slope
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thing but it's terrifying well and the slope is slippery for reasons that people don't understand you
01:16:10.240
know corporations like one size fit all solutions they like to have uniformity and homogeneity
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and the problem with that is that companies like facebook and google and twitter and others are
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global they are international and it's tempting for them to take the most restrictive standard and make
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that their default position the same way that california essentially sets automotive emissions rules for the
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rest of the country um so in places like germany austria much of western europe but also singapore
01:16:38.260
china and some other places they have a whole different culture about free speech and they have a whole
01:16:42.900
different set of rules and assumptions now western europe is pretty liberal and it's democratic of
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course but they've also got um rules about political speech and certain kinds of political organizing i get
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into this extensively in the book um that just simply wouldn't be acceptable in the united states
01:16:57.340
under the first amendment they have a theory called militant democracy and this is the idea under which
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they ban certain kinds of political speech they prohibit certain kinds of political parties you know in
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austria you can theoretically go to prison for 25 years for selling someone a copy of mind comp
01:17:11.320
um now i don't think mind comp is a great book i don't want to lock people up for reading it either
01:17:16.440
and um now in the united states we think of these things as being crazy and we wouldn't accept that
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these are not you know these are not crazy uncivilized countries yeah this is what's in europe we're
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talking about yeah um kevin we're up against the break here we gotta we gotta call it here but
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the smallest minority independent thinking in the age of mob politics much better than mind comp i can tell you
01:17:35.320
that right now you can get it in bookstores everywhere kevin thanks for being on the program
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the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenbeck program
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why is it that these things happen over and over and over again and
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you probably saw this posted at some version of it in your facebook feed this weekend
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or on any sort of social media where people reacted to the shootings
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and i don't know if people realize how insulting it is or maybe that's the purpose
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is something completely different we you know we care of course we care
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we all care in fact one of the things we say when we really care about something
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is we pray for it if you happen to be a person of faith
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but we're told now that that's either not enough or something we shouldn't do at all
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and kamala harris's words this weekend no more thoughts and prayers we need action
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so you're no longer able to pray about it you're not even able to think about it anymore
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because you don't want to think in a situation like this that's always a bad outcome
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why won't we do something well what are you really asking
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what you're asking is why don't we do the thing that you want
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why don't we do the thing that you want the government to do
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that's what the people on your feet are really asking
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why hasn't the emotion overwhelmed you like it's overwhelmed me
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we're all emotional about a situation like this of course
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but it is our job as citizens of the united states of america
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to not let emotion overwhelm a sober decision making process
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we have seen some really bad things in american history
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which have been born out of emotional distress leading to policy
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this is why we have a constitution with amendments
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these are the things you can't change with just democracy
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these are the principles that our society stands on
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you could miss a really important part of the story
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to alert you to a wide range of identity threats