The Closing of Our Hearts | Guests: Bill O'Reilly & Mark Levin | 5⧸31⧸19
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Summary
Glenn Beck shares a personal story about the hardest years of his life, and the struggles of raising his son and daughter, and why you should never have to go through the same. Glenn Beck is an American conservative commentator, radio host, author, and talk show host. He has been married to his wife, Pam, for almost 30 years, and they have two teenage boys. He is a father of three teenage boys and a stepdad to a 14-year-old girl.
Transcript
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We're so glad that you have joined us today and I want to start with a
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very personal story that I think if you're a parent, you can relate to.
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If you've had any trouble in your life, you can relate to.
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But we are losing the ability to relate to one another because we're not
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standing up and talking about those common things that we all share.
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There's a recent Gallup survey shows Americans worry more about burglary
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Does that even does that even come to mind to you?
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I mean, I guess when you, you know, take steps, you worry about it less.
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I mean, and maybe it's because we live in, you know, nice neighborhoods and a
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lot of people can't afford to live in a nice neighborhood and crime seems to be
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if they see a burglar alarm and it is engaged, they turn around and go to the
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I want to talk to you about two things that I think you can relate to.
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And I've had, just like you have, a lot of things happen in your life that you would consider and you'd put in a hard bucket.
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But the day my daughter was born, Mary, in 1988, and they said she'd never walk, she'd never talk, she'd never feed herself, she wouldn't understand speech.
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Hard, because it was the greatest day of my life, but he was adopted.
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And we didn't know if his adopted mother, who fell in love with him, was going to give him up to us.
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Now my son is a teenager, and my two kids, I love all my kids, and they're the greatest things of my life.
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I have, I have tried to noodle things through, but when it comes to raising my son, and to get through the teenage years, I am grasping at straws.
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And I feel, almost every day, I'm about to lose him.
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My daughter is now in her 30s, and she prays for the day when she crosses over to the other side and her disabilities are removed, because she knows that her life will be easier.
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She's been going through testing for about a year.
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What she is, what they're proposing, in the end, will probably be about a million dollars.
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I know, just like you, you have these struggles with your kids, and then you have to go to work.
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Then you have to worry about your car payment, or if your car has broken down, how am I going to afford this?
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Please, I know that you are no different than me, that whatever the struggle is, there are times in your life that you look up and you're like, Lord, I can't do any more.
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But through all of that, it's the greatest joy of my life.
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I wouldn't trade a single day with my daughter.
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I wouldn't take away the pains of my own life because they've given me a chance to feel empathy.
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It's given me a chance to know what real love is.
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Only when you're down on your knees going, Lord, give it to me.
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Only when you get there, are you really living?
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Do you know what's worth living for, not just what's worth dying for?
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I don't know if I'd really know who my wife is.
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I don't know if I'd know how much she really, truly loved me.
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How many people do you know that you find are giants,
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They somehow or another have reached out of the mud and the muck
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in a, in a way that would make it almost impossible
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and, and people who really understand that life is the
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most precious thing on this planet, human life can sit
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down and write bills that are humanitarian, but at the
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I think it can be done, but it's been so politicized
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and all of this horrible, horrible, um, discourse
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I, I resent Disney and Comcast and all these people
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injecting themselves into this debate on an economic
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Now we'll boycott you if we don't like your political
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position rather than trying to bring people together.
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Why can't Disney hold a forum for the best minds
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in the country to discuss this situation and come up
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I mean, I don't want a corporate, I mean, I don't
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Do you want another think tank from the people of
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I would like to have discussions, all right, among
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people of goodwill to come up with a framework where
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we can deal with the subject of abortion in a way that
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Here's what, here's, here's, here's the framework.
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And we might disagree on when that's a baby or not, but, you
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Because I believe that that human DNA is present on
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I have been in, instead of, you know, a guy who said, yes, with
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exceptions of rape and incest, because I don't want to, but I'm
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I'm going more and more uncomfortable with that every day.
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Um, and it's my compassion that has always left that door kind of
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However, I think there, I think there are people with, um, good
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They can say, all right, well, the heartbeat or until it's, uh, until
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it's viable, which I don't buy into at all, but they're still good
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And the way to deal with this is to continue to have conversation and
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continue to look at research and just not condemn those people of
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But you can't include, you can't do that anymore because you're not
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hearing reality when people say, well, that's not even a baby until
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That's just ridiculous that you're a science denier.
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And I can't have a conversation with you because you're not being honest
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You're not looking for truth lifted out of the emotion and you have to put
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So this all happened because of, uh, the governor of Virginia, Mario, uh,
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Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, Hillary Clinton, all of these high,
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high level democratic politicians who basically said to the nation, you know
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Abortion should be on demand at any time for any reason.
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Well, that horrified most Americans, that position horrified most Americans.
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You can practice eugenics as Supreme court justice Thomas pointed out.
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So the backlash against those people I just mentioned is what led to the
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And what led to you changing your opinion, I believe, all right, is that we
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can't have a society that just throws human life away, uh, and worships at the
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You said, well, we have to bring it back into science.
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However, you know, I just reread, uh, Eisenhower's farewell speech and, you
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know, everybody knows it because he said, you know, the vast industrial
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military industrial complex, but he said, there's two things that we have to
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The second thing in holding scientific research in and discovery in respect,
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as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that
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public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological
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What he was talking about where these universities were going to start getting
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And so they're going to start to do the things that the government wants.
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They're going to start to, uh, have their own kind of, uh, elite and we could find
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ourselves in trouble because the same elites who are working with the military
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industrial complex, the same kind of thing is happening over in education and
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Um, but science is leaning heavily toward the pro-life position.
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I mean, so you're saying, wait, wait, wait, you're saying scientific, you're
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Now we have all of these things that all of them lean toward, this is a person.
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You, and you can't cavalierly decapitate a person, even if it's not born yet.
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What I'm worried about is that American young people in particular don't understand what
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the hell is going on here because it's easy to rationalize behavior.
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And, and the rationale they're given is it's not a human being and it's the mother's, um,
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right, human right and constitutional right to do whatever she wants with it.
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It's not challenged by anybody, um, in the national television media, I don't know any
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No, you know, one newspaper that challenges that point of view.
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And if you utter it, if you're in the entertainment industry, you don't work.
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So I want Disney and Comcast to start to discuss this matter on a life.
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Iger would never do it because he is a politically correct guy who puts his finger up to the wind
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and says, well, this is what most of the Hollywood community believes.
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So it's really sad that we've come to this place in this country where economic terror is
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If anybody thinks that abortion on demand, as we have now in New York state, for any reason
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at any time is good public policy, humane policy.
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If anybody believes the founding fathers would have sanctioned that, they're not just stupid.
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Well, anybody who thought Martin Luther King or Gandhi or Lincoln or any of the great heroes
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and thinkers of the past would have agreed with that, they are crazy.
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The people who would have agreed with that were people like Mengele and Goebbels and Hitler
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We have something genuinely horrific to tell you about Martin Luther King that came out
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But first, let's get to what was said and who said it.
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David Garrow, who is a Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Martin Luther King.
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He has gotten a hold of a memo describing a tape.
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It is supposedly not going to be released in the archives until 2027.
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However, the memo that describes what's in the tapes has been seen by this guy who is
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completely credible when it comes to Martin Luther King.
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But I mean, he wrote like, yeah, the Pulitzer Prize winning book on Martin Luther King.
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So the memo accompanying the tape alleges that Martin Luther King looked on and laughed as
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a pastor of Baltimore's Cornerstone Baptist Church raped a woman in the hotel room.
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The FBI documents say that King had a conversation in which he, quote, discussed which women among
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the parishioners would be suitable for natural and unnatural sex acts.
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When the women, one of the women protested that she did not approve, the Baptist minister
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Garrow wrote that the FBI agents did not intervene during the alleged rape.
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They had bugged the room on the lamps in the room.
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At the same hotel the same evening, or same hotel in the following evening, excuse me, King
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and a dozen other individuals participated in a sex orgy.
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When one of the women shied away from engaging in an unnatural act, King and several of the
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men discussed how she was going to be taught and initiated in this respect.
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King told her to perform such an act would help your soul.
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Now, there is, I think, the asterisk you need to put next to it in that the FBI was looking
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for negative information on Martin Luther King at this time and perhaps is, you know,
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not, is, is describing these conversations in some way that isn't accurate or is misleading.
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If, unless the tape, if the tape has been erased, I think you could say, all right, well,
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However, you know, it's pointing to a tape that supposedly exists and will be released
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So now here is, here is, here are the questions.
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What would the motivation of the source be to release this?
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He is the guy who is recognized around the world as being the guy that has, has captured
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I want to get to that when we come back, because it is telling.
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There is a conversation we started a few minutes ago about an audio tape that supposedly is in
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existence that has Martin Luther King watching a rape of a woman and laughing.
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about it, engaged in an orgy and saying horrible, horrible things.
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If this is true, this completely changes Martin Luther King.
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All right, so let's get back into this Martin Luther King conversation that we were having with Stu.
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He has no reason to put this out, or so you would think.
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He would have no reason to put this out about Martin Luther King if it weren't true.
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He is the guy who is the expert on Martin Luther King.
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He is embraced by everybody on the left and everybody who's a King fan.
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This is the ultimate biography of Martin Luther King.
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Now, he has just come out with a document that says that the government has a tape.
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It has not been released, but it has been heard.
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Well, there's a memo describing it written by the FBI.
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Yes, and they transcribed it and summarized it.
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So it hasn't been heard by anybody today that we know of.
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This is just a memo that is showing what tapes they have on Martin Luther King.
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We know that J. Edgar Hoover was making tapes of Martin Luther King.
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Kennedy and Johnson were spying on King because Hoover thought that he was a communist and also thought he was very low of moral character.
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Well, the moral character one, there's been evidence of, right?
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You know, in the story, it talks about how they thought he had 10 to 12 mistresses throughout his life, and they think now the number is more like 40 or 45.
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Now, the question that you should ask is, because we don't know if this tape, until this tape is released in 2027,
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and I would urge, for history's sake, that that tape is released, if it exists, or any other tapes are released long before 2027.
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In fact, in the next 18 months to two years, because digital audio deep fakes are not good yet.
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By 2027, you will not believe your eyes, and you will not believe your ears.
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So, any audio tape after really 2020, 2022, you're not going to believe.
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So, if you want to know if this is true, that tape and any other tapes like it for anything should be released now,
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because we don't have the technology to fake them yet.
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This puts him in the outs, and you could say, well, he just wants to tell the truth.
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Now, we know that he's been a lefty, but what does that mean?
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In his own words, he is a, what did he call himself, a quintessential Bernie Sanders donor?
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And he said he is also a democratic socialist and has been, at times, an enthusiastic participator in democratic socialism.
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This is the author that has released this information.
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Democratic socialism, for it to come true, several things have to happen.
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But, one, you must destroy anyone who talks about the individual.
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Democratic socialists, it is not about the individual.
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What is the hardest thing for a socialist to get around?
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Or any of these people who are talking about social justice now, the way it's interpreted today, the biggest obstacle they have is Martin Luther King.
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Judge me by the content of my character, not the color of my skin.
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And I see a day when blacks and whites can play together.
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Well, that's a very conservative message, quite frankly.
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His message of America, live up to your founding documents.
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All men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain rights.
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That is not a democratic socialist message, nor is it helpful to those who are democratic socialists.
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But you have to destroy it in such a spectacular way.
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That he watched and laughed as a rape was going on.
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As it was going on, if he was saying these horrible, horrible things to a woman in an orgy,
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is he a guy we have a Martin Luther King day for?
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If you're going to pull down statues of people from 1800, you've got to pull down a guy from 1960,
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At least that's not what we were told he was about.
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And I'm sure you can find many civil rights activists that did not participate in rapes.
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So you can have a holiday still about some civil rights activist.
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But can you have a holiday for a guy who watched a rape on tape?
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Even though you can still say what he said was good, you cannot hold him up.
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You can hold his words up, but you cannot hold him up to be that guy.
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What they have to do is destroy him and his words.
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And because he was such a bad person, all of his words are disqualified from being positive.
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And to your point here, listen to this quote from the author.
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He said, the new information, quote, poses so fundamental a challenge to his historical stature
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as to require the most complete and extensive historical review possible.
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I mean, he, that is a, I mean, that is like, if this is true, and again, we don't 100% know
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that it is, though it's in FBI documents and there's apparently a tape set showing that
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If it's clear on tape, I mean, can the American people stand by and say, allow that to go on?
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You know, you take a Martin Luther King day, a national holiday.
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And what does that do for, what does that do to African Americans?
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I mean, you think Bill, the Bill Cosby thing was jarring, right?
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Like here's a guy who's a popular sitcom host in the eighties and, or, or like a, a really
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This guy's like the guy when it comes to civil rights in the United States of America.
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And, uh, I would say a rape is a violation of civil rights.
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Uh, so it's going to be difficult to hold if that tape exists and it is as, as described
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in this story and multiple others, it's almost incomprehensible.
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Why is he an honest broker or is he a democratic socialist, uh, who is a strong activist who
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Is this part of a movement of destroying, uh, all of our heroes and turning everything upside
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African-Americans have had all of their heroes taken away.
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How does that leave the African-American looking at history?
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Is there anyone they can look up to in American history?
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Here's a white guy bringing out all this information with probably white FBI agents and everything
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I mean, it's going to be hard not to look at that.
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You know, I don't know how you look at a story like this.
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I mean, there's definitely been coverage of it, but you're, it hasn't been, it hasn't
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I mean, certainly if this story came out about some, uh, conservative religious figure,
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Can you imagine what they'd be doing to Billy Graham?
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Uh, and, and I think they just don't know what to do.
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They didn't do people like Jim Baker for having an affair.
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But remember, remember, this is coming from the left, not the Democrats from the democratic
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This is coming from a guy who says, I'm in with the Bernie Sanders crew.
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Who did we introduce you to last night with Bernie Sanders crew?
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What picture are you starting to see about who Bernie Sanders surrounds himself with?
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If you didn't see it last night, you want to understand this Martin Luther King thing
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You look at this guy's credentials, what he says about how a big supporter he is of Bernie
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And all of a sudden you start to understand exactly what's happening in our society.
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By the way, if this is true, uh, there had to be other civil rights activists that knew
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There had to be other people, uh, press members.
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If this is true, America has been lied to from everyone on the democratic left, everyone
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on the democratic left and all the media, because people had to know about this stuff.
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I mean, we did know he was, he had some sketchy parts of him for sure.
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But I mean, he's doing orgies, he's doing orgies, multiple prostitutes and hotels all
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Um, she is, uh, somebody that was, she was a writer for playboy.
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I, I personally think she is, she's a female Ernest Hemingway of our day.
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It is, uh, uh, provocative, uh, but it is full of some real universal truths.
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Well, she is, she is shocking herself because she's realizing I'm not one of the
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I don't think I'm even, I mean, I still want to call myself liberal, but I think I'm a classic
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Uh, and she's starting her whole life over and she is so honest and raw and funny.
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Now I didn't know how we would get along at all.
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Um, and this is what she had to say about kind of coming out and going, wait, I guess
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maybe I, I mean, I don't want to say I'm a conservative, but I believe these things.
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We used to be great because we had differing opinions and we would push back and meet kind
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And now it just feels like no one is listening to each other.
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My hope for people is that they, I understand the urge to retreat into a tribe because it's,
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It's also terrifying when you're out there just alone in the middle, trying to be nuanced,
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I thought I was losing my mind when I started pushing back a little bit and feeling, and so
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You've been a fan of hers for a while, haven't you still?
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You know, she, like there's very few people I feel like that can cut through this world
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because there's, you know, when it comes to, especially online stuff, because so many
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people are just like, I say the same 12 things every day.
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And I will, you know, I mean, think about the people that, you know, 90% of them that
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are in the media right now, you can just cookie cutter, you know, what their opinion is going
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bring up points that I hadn't heard or think about things in a different way.
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One of the things that I liked about her, and these are the best, this is such a great
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Once a week, every Saturday I put out an interview with somebody and they last about 90 minutes
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I'm just going to blurt it all out and see what happens.
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We have Mark Levin, a good friend and coworker of mine.
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Mark, I have to tell you, I was up on vacation.
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I bought your book and I bought the audio book.
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And lo and behold, about five o'clock in the afternoon, I stop.
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And my family keeps walking in and out of the room.
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And as I pull my earbuds off, they're all laughing at me.
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And they said, we have really enjoyed you today, Dad.
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And they said, all day long, we've been listening to you go, uh-huh.
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And it was all me commenting on your book the entire day.
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The name of the book is Unfreedom of the Press.
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Mark, tell me, tell the audience why this is not just a, why this is a book that transcends
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Now, are you painting paintings or are you painting the walls?
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First of all, you're very kind and I very much appreciate it.
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The question was, I think, why did I write this book?
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Well, look, the reason it transcends politics is because it's about the Constitution and the
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The Constitution's about our rights and our liberties and protecting them.
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And so, you know, Glenn, I've written a lot about the Constitution and American history and philosophy.
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One area I don't know a lot about is the history of the press.
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They're wrapping themselves in the First Amendment.
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I said to my wife, I'll see you in about 16 months.
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It's not a history book, but some of that's necessary.
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We have the Patriot Press before the Revolution, before the Revolution, with the printers, you
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know, moving the printing presses, being chased by the British.
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And they were really unique in the original Patriots because they are the ones who push the
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They are the ones who push the ideas of Aristotle and Cicero and Locke.
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And they were spreading them among the colonists.
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And, you know, Obama talks about fundamental transformation.
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They didn't want to fundamentally transform society or human nature.
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They wanted to fundamentally transform government.
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They didn't like to be pushed around by government.
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They believed in property rights, all these things that you and I and our audiences believe in.
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You know, there were about three dozen newspapers.
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But there were several hundred pamphlets and pamphleteers.
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They'd discuss it in their pubs, at home, and so forth.
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This is really a unique format, because there's really no other national format where this occurs.
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And so, just to jump quickly, you had the revolution, and soon after the revolution, you had the party press.
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This is the part of the book that I found really fascinating, because you point out the people knew.
01:45:58.880
When you got the Democratic ledger, you knew what it was, that it was an organ for, it was that point of view coming at you.
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And so you could read the Democrat, and you could read the Republican, and you'd balance them yourselves.
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They weren't masquerading as fair and balanced.
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In fact, in some cases, publishers and editors were on the payroll of the post office, or something like that, depending on the administration.
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It was a very rough period for the press, but they were very honest about who they were, as you point out.
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You have papers today, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the Arizona Republic, was the Arizona Republican.
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So they were full-throated about candidates, parties, causes they supported.
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And then you move through, and I passed the yellow journalism period, because it's not that interesting.
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And then you move through to the early part of the last century, the progressive movement, of which you're well familiar.
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They really, it is a poison that spread into all aspects of our society.
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And John Dewey, as you know, one of the intellectuals behind that movement, he focused specifically on schooling and the media.
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And just so the audience understands, the purpose here, as typical, was to have a relative handful of people determine what news is, digest it, analyze it, interpret it, and then burp it up for the rest of us.
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You've really, you really captured the progressive disease really well in explaining it.
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You know, it's funny, I was attacked in the Washington Post yesterday, and I love these guys, because they prove the point of the book.
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And I take my time going through their attack on me, which is usually personal, and I don't really care.
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They are exactly, as I say in the book, because they are who they are.
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And so you have people, Lipman and others, saying at the time that people are too busy or they're too stupid, so we'll figure this stuff out.
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And then you get up to a few decades ago, where on top of that they added social activism.
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They call themselves public press or community press.
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And they've really bought into, you know, Alinsky tactics and these other tactics of the hard left.
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A lot of these guys haven't gone to journalism school.
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They come out of the Democrat Party, come out of an administration, or this is their mindset regardless.
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And so today what we're getting on TV is a one-party press rather than a two-party press that is pushing the progressive agenda and social activism.
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That's why there's not a dime's worth of difference between most of the media and the Democrat Party today.
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And in the first chapter, I show you the surveys.
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I show you some of the reporters, what they're saying.
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There's very little diversity in newsrooms today.
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There's very little diversity in reporting today.
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The only debate on the left in the media today really is, do we come out and say who we are like a lot of them are doing now?
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Yes, we're liberals, we're progressives, and thank God for us.
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Or there wouldn't have been a civil rights movement or, you know, climate change issue.
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So they really believe they are the truth-tellers.
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And then the other side, like the New York Times today saying, well, you know, we don't want all of our people on measly CNN and MSNBC because they have a different view, which is, yes, we're all those things, but we really don't want to admit it.
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They're just, they live in these circles that allow them to believe that they are the fair and balanced one, that they are the, well, no, we're just, we are the paper of record.
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They live in those circles, and they don't care to mean, in fact, I think they despise most of the people that live in the center of the country or have different points of view.
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And so it's just a self-fulfilling label for them.
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Most of them live in the same areas, generally, you know, in a 40, 50-mile radius of Washington or New York, most of them.
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Even the new so-called left-wing reporters live in mostly blue Hillary Clinton counties.
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They self-identify as either Democrat or liberal in large numbers.
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The last survey showed about 4% identifying as conservatives.
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It's much like universities where faculty hire faculty, so they pick the same ideological ideology that people share and take them out of the same Ivy League schools.
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But the New York Times I focused on in particular because this is held up as the gold standard, and the gold standard isn't worth crap.
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And I go back and do the history of the New York Times during the Holocaust and the history of the New York Times when Stalin was wiping out the Ukrainians.
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That's the part where my family was hearing me go, yes, yes, finally, yes!
01:50:57.880
If you read that chapter, you will never view the New York Times the same again.
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The New York Times, and I pulled from some of the greatest scholars on this subject, during the Holocaust,
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The New York Times did everything it could to bury the Holocaust in the back pages of its newspaper.
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The New York Times did this for several reasons.
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Number one, FDR wanted to tamp down the focus on the Holocaust.
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The New York Times liked FDR, liked the New Deal agenda.
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They didn't want the New York Times to be viewed mostly as a niche Jewish newspaper.
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So they felt that they really shouldn't focus on the Holocaust.
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The owner, the publisher, Sulzberger, was sort of a secular Jew, and he didn't like these Jewish organizations in New York lobbying him for a Jewish state.
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And all of that was poured into the pages or poured into the mindset of the New York Times.
01:51:52.720
So while the European Jews are being wiped out, whole towns, the Jews are missing.
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It's being reported in European newspapers and eyewitnesses.
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And it wasn't until 1944 where the vast majority of the American people were informed of the extent of the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust.
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Is there any other business that could survive having done that and be called the paper of record?
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And they come up with these weasel-worded so-called apologies about it.
01:52:34.200
They had a guy, Walter Durante, who was their correspondent for 12 years in Moscow.
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And Stalin decides that these darn Ukrainian peasants will not buckle to my commune ideology.
01:52:48.960
So rather than shooting them one at a time, he decides to wipe out the entire population if he can.
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He cuts off the Ukraine from all communication, all transportation, all food and water.
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These poor people are cannibalizing each other.
01:53:02.440
Solzhenitsyn talks about the Ukrainians trying to get into the gulag to try to get some food.
01:53:07.780
And late at night they could hear them at the gates.
01:53:10.560
A couple of British reporters go in from the Manchester Guardian.
01:53:17.000
Mr. Durante, on the payroll of the New York Times, said it's not happening.
01:53:25.320
And as far as Stalin goes, you know that old saying, sometimes you've got to break a few eggs?
01:53:30.740
He wrote that in an article for the New York Times.
01:53:33.300
He trashed the British journalists who were reporting on what was taking place.
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The executives at the New York Times had to know.
01:53:41.640
And, you know, he got a Pulitzer Prize, and they still haven't given back the Pulitzer Prize for this.
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So when you see the New York Times when the Hamas is shooting missiles on the Tel Aviv,
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and somehow the New York Times is defending Hamas and trashing Israel.
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And when they run these Holocaust-like cartoons, oh, they got by our editor.
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You know, a lot has gotten by your editor, as a matter of fact.
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I want the people to know that's the New York Times.
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Mark Levin is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller, Unfreedom of the Press.
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He had stiff competition, went up against Howard Stern, and gave Howard Stern only a one-week number one status.
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It's not a political hatchet job and not just about Donald Trump or whatever.
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This is truly an understanding of the press and what's happened, where we've been, and where we need to go.
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So, really important book, and you'll learn a lot, and it's really well written.
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Mark Levin, by the way, you can see him on Blaze TV every single night.
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If you'd like to subscribe, you can subscribe now at blazetv.com slash Glenn.
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I suggest that we cancel all Mondays and have four-day work weeks every week, at least during the summer.
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Flood the zone with facts that an impeachment inquiry would do.
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Then I think you could actually move a lot of Americans.
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I will say, though, Nancy Pelosi has to be calculating.
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Abraham Lincoln was calculating and saving the union early in the war.
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He had said if the country has to be half slave, half free, if that saves the union, then I'm for that.
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If saving the union is required by letting all go free, then I am for that.
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He was very calculating and he moved to the position when he thought the American people were ready to move towards the emancipation of slaves.
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So, I'm not being critical of Nancy Pelosi here.
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I will say, though, there are times, though, to not calculate.
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And I would say when you have a president who's abused power more than any other president, not only in our lifetime, I just can't think of any historical presidents.