The Great America Show - December 17, 2023


Mid-Day Update： December 17th, 2023

Topics
anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bigotry
Hosted by
Lou Dobbs John Fawcett
Mentioned
Producer Barack Obama William Jacobson Biden Lloyd Austin
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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

153.13

Word count

364

Sentence count

25


Summary

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The U.S. and U.K. Navy shoot down 15 attack drones over the Red Sea, while the Pentagon reports almost 100 Iran proxy attacks against American troops in Syria and Iraq, and no response from the White House. Biden actually accuses Israel of indiscriminate bombing in Gaza. CNN also claims Israel was using dumb bombs in those airstrikes.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 This is Lou Dobbs with The Great America Show midday update for December 17th.
00:00:05.600 The U.S. and U.K. Navy shooting down 15 attack drones over the Red Sea
00:00:10.200 while the Pentagon was reporting almost 100 Iran proxy attacks
00:00:14.940 against American troops in Syria and Iraq.
00:00:18.840 66 of those troops wounded, 19 of them with severe brain trauma,
00:00:23.800 and no response from the White House, no response from the Pentagon,
00:00:27.840 which is apparently caught up in DEI drills and has no time or resources to protect our forces.
00:00:35.000 By the way, our military is now the smallest it's been since the beginning of World War II,
00:00:39.660 1.3 million, and unlikely to improve without massive enlistment bonuses or a return to the draft.
00:00:47.280 All branches fail to reach their recruiting goals by large margins,
00:00:51.260 and huge numbers of service members just want out, and they're leaving in droves.
00:00:55.960 And with Biden and Lloyd Austin mandating vaccines and pushing Marxist critical race theory
00:01:02.100 and DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, there's no wonder.
00:01:07.400 Producer Barack Obama taking a lot of flack for a Netflix film he consulted on,
00:01:12.360 the movie Leave the World Behind is the title,
00:01:15.580 and with a line in the movie demonizing white people, generating a lot of backlash.
00:01:21.020 And I hope this will remind everybody just who Barack Obama really is.
00:01:26.000 And he is nothing if not divisive.
00:01:28.760 And his vice president acts like he's in a race with Obama to be most divisive.
00:01:33.220 Biden actually accusing Israel of indiscriminate bombing in Gaza.
00:01:37.540 CNN also claiming Israel was using dumb bombs in those airstrikes against Hamas terrorists.
00:01:44.200 ABC News, to its credit, set the record straight.
00:01:46.720 Israel is using precision weapons, guided weapons, 55 to 60 percent of the time.
00:01:52.500 ABC News reports that is the highest number of smart bombs, guided bombs in the history of urban warfare.
00:02:01.080 Our guest today is William Jacobson, professor of law at Cornell University.
00:02:05.540 We'll be talking about the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bigotry.
00:02:11.760 Professor Jacobson, one of the smartest people we talked to, I hope you'll join us for that.
00:02:17.560 This is Lou Dobbs with the Great America Midday Update.
00:02:21.680 Have a great day.