The Great America Show - WHEN RACE TRUMPS MERIT, AMERICA LOSES

00:00:00.000 Hello everybody, I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to the Great America Show and it is great to have you

00:00:05.060 with us. We begin today with breaking developments in both the Department of Justice's six-year-long

00:00:10.840 investigation of the President's son, Hunter Biden, and new developments in the House Oversight

00:00:16.840 Committee investigation of President Biden himself, with very serious implications for

00:00:23.140 the President. A whistleblower has made allegations of financial corruption involving President Biden

00:00:29.980 directly and foreign governments and entities and individuals. First, the President's son. First,

00:00:38.320 the President's son, major media outlets are reporting that federal prosecutors are now nearing a decision

00:00:44.340 on whether to charge Hunter Biden in the four to six-year-long investigation that involve allegations

00:00:51.200 of tax, drug, and gun-related violations. This happening is House Oversight Committee Chair

00:00:58.120 James Comer's investigation of the Biden family is ramping up. The Daily Mail reporting that a

00:01:04.940 whistleblower has come forward with some damning allegations against the President for his conduct

00:01:10.640 during his time as Vice President. The whistleblower says that Joe Biden was part of a criminal bribery

00:01:18.060 scheme with a foreign national in which an exchange of money was made for policy decisions while he was

00:01:25.140 still vice president. This whistleblower says the FBI and DOJ have a detailed file on the pay-to-play

00:01:33.100 scheme. Now, you've heard me before criticize the FBI and DOJ countless times on this program,

00:01:40.600 asking a very simple question. If there are good guys in the FBI and the DOJ, and they're not all corrupt,

00:01:47.920 then where are they? Where are the whistleblowers? Well, some are showing up. We might be in the midst

00:01:56.140 of a new direction shift in the FBI. We can only hope so, depending on whether this whistleblower was

00:02:02.820 or is an employee of those agencies. As I said, we might finally be seeing those brave members of the

00:02:09.940 FBI and DOJ start to come out and do their duty as Americans, and do their best to help stem the

00:02:16.600 pervasive corruption of the DOJ and FBI. And now let's get up to date on other serious allegations

00:02:23.840 by former CIA Deputy Director Michael Murrell against Secretary of State Tony Blinken and about the role

00:02:31.780 that Blinken played in the days just before the last 2020 presidential debate. Murrell claims Blinken

00:02:39.780 came to him asking Murrell to draft that letter signed by 51 former intel officers stating that

00:02:47.300 the Hunter Biden laptop was just Russian disinformation. Those who signed that letter

00:02:53.400 knowingly lied and did so to sabotage President Trump and his campaign for re-election. Blinken first said

00:03:01.920 that he wouldn't talk about the allegation at all, but then changed his mind, and he now says he

00:03:08.100 doesn't deny reaching out to Murrell about drafting that letter, but he also somewhat bizarrely claims

00:03:15.440 it wasn't his idea. So then the question becomes, whose idea was it, and who is Blinken covering for?

00:03:24.580 It's clear those 51 intel veterans lied, and they lied for the purpose of intervening in the presidential

00:03:31.740 election of 2020, thereby arguably denying President Trump re-election and putting an

00:03:39.080 illegitimate president in the White House. And now joining us, I am pleased to say, is Heather

00:03:45.000 McDonald. Heather is one of the smartest people I know. She's putting her great gifts to fighting to 1.00

00:03:52.160 preserve the American way. Heather McDonald, great to have you here on The Great America Show.

00:03:57.320 Lou, it's always such a pleasure to be with you and embarrassing to get such an introduction, but

00:04:02.420 I will try to live up to the standard that you set.

00:04:06.100 Your new book, When Race Trumps Merit, is to me a fascinating statement about where we are,

00:04:14.700 because this has been the nub of the thing for so long. When Race Trumps Merit, the affirmative action,

00:04:23.180 quotas, everything else, there is, I think, in this society, every understanding that merit

00:04:31.420 is what it's all about. Ability, talent, skill, all Trump, race. They have to, or it wouldn't be America,

00:04:43.380 right?

00:04:43.700 Well, Lou, you're absolutely right. And your puzzlement is completely justified. And as you

00:04:52.400 say, though, we have been betraying this ideal of accomplishment, of effort, of achievement,

00:05:00.300 of excellence for decades without really taking account that we are doing so. So we've had,

00:05:08.440 to a maybe ever lessening degree, a discourse about accomplishment. But what's been growing in

00:05:15.900 volume for decades and what reached an absolute peak of hysteria and neuroses after the George Floyd

00:05:24.980 race riots was an alternative discourse, which says that there is no excellence in America.

00:05:32.200 America. There is no opportunity in America. There is no greatness in America because we are

00:05:38.360 systemically racist. And therefore, we have to make as the criterion for selection for every single

00:05:47.060 mainstream institution, not excellence, not merit, but rather identity and above all race. And we have

00:05:55.940 been tearing down meritocratic standards in education. Anybody that doesn't know about the vast racial 1.00

00:06:03.540 preferences in admissions to college and admissions to law schools and admissions to medical schools

00:06:09.560 in admission to business schools is in some kind of faraway hamlet, unaware of any kind of news that's

00:06:20.540 been going on. But it has gotten much worse and much, much more dangerous. And that's why,

00:06:27.100 you know, I'm trying to sound the alarm now that we were at the brink of losing everything about our

00:06:35.840 civilization if we don't stand up to these phony charges of systemic racism.

00:06:41.500 And standing up right now looks like some some equivalent, some analog for for Tiananmen Square,

00:06:51.280 when the young dissenters stood in front of those tanks, because right now the forces arrayed against

00:06:58.060 anyone who does in any way not conform, who does dissent, who does want to exercise his or her right of free

00:07:06.660 speech, even if it's unpopular, even if it's a contra establishment, especially if it's contra

00:07:14.640 establishment, you are canceled, you are expunged, you are removed, and in effect, destroyed by the forces

00:07:26.640 that control our society, our economy. And it's it is a big ask now for people to actually exercise free

00:07:35.580 speech, because there is sure to be consequence, negative consequence.

00:07:41.040 Brilliant and Bravo. And that's it. I mean, you've said it all, Lou, and that's the conclusion of my

00:07:46.480 book. But you're absolutely right. What this is going to take is personal courage and a commitment to

00:07:52.760 principle that transcends the individual. But I talk about a conversation I had with a leading

00:08:01.080 oncologist at an East Coast medical school who has devoted his life to trying to cure cancer. That's

00:08:08.100 all he wants to accomplish. And he got a email message that was sent out across the country

00:08:16.020 by the deputy director of the National Cancer Institute. This is a federal agency that funds

00:08:23.040 about 35 cancer research centers across the country that are located at large university,

00:08:29.460 you know, the cutting edge university medical schools, but they're no longer cutting edge because

00:08:35.400 they're all capitulating to diversity, but they used to be. And this is where the most funded cancer 0.81

00:08:43.020 research goes on. And the deputy director from the National Cancer Institute, a federal agency,

00:08:48.180 you know, presidentially appointed, sent out a message saying, please send us a more diverse group of

00:08:56.760 candidates for this particularly prestigious award that the National Cancer Institute grants to the

00:09:03.600 most cutting edge researchers that are doing high risk, high reward science. She said, send us a

00:09:12.120 different slate of candidates because what we've been, the awardees have not been diverse. She did not say,

00:09:18.600 send us more meritocratic candidates, send us more excellent candidates. The message was change your

00:09:26.960 standards. I don't care at what scientific cost in order to, so that we can put some black faces out 1.00

00:09:35.200 there. And I asked this oncologist who sent me this email, when are you guys going to stand up and defend your

00:09:44.360 life work? And he responded, we want our jobs, we need our jobs. If we stand up, the people who stand up, it's

00:09:54.500 exactly as you said, Lou, they've all been canceled, they've been destroyed. And without much effect, he said the

00:10:03.680 entire scientific enterprise is going to have to come down, it will be in 50 years, it will have been destroyed to the

00:10:11.360 ground. And then it will have to be rebuilt from the ground up. So that's the problem. Unless you are outside of an

00:10:20.120 organization that can impose these draconian punishments on simply speaking the truth, you're asking a lot of people. And

00:10:29.420 that's, you know, it's a hard ask to make. But unless people start standing up, the left is going to win and it is all coming down.

00:10:41.340 And I hate to say, Heather, I believe we see the the rubble field growing. It is we we are headed toward an

00:10:55.620 amazing result for what has been the most powerful nation on earth for the for more than a century now,

00:11:03.640 militarily, scientifically. And to think what this country has become in these latter decades is appalling.

00:11:15.480 It's tragic. It's heart rending. Because not only will all of us suffer as Americans, but the world, they they don't

00:11:23.540 realize it, or pretend at least that they don't see it at all. The effect will be global.

00:11:31.040 Well, here's what's going on, Lou. You know, one of the themes of my book is the concept of disparate impact. And what we're

00:11:40.180 doing here in the United States is tearing down every meritocratic standard, if it has a disparate impact on so called

00:11:47.940 underrepresented minorities. So if there's a test that blacks don't do as well as whites on, we get rid of the test, we get rid of the 0.89

00:11:55.920 expectation of excellence on the assumption that that's a racist test. No, it's not. What our problem is, is we have these vast 0.87

00:12:03.920 academic skills gaps that make it inevitable that any colorblind meritocratic standard will have a disparate impact. And unless those

00:12:14.080 skills gaps are closed, we will not have any possibility of racial proportionality coexisting with excellence. But we've

00:12:23.220 decided that we would rather have no standards of excellence and have standards of excellence that have a disparate impact. So we're

00:12:30.220 getting rid of gifted and talented programs for students. We're saying you may be a gifted, talented mathematics

00:12:38.220 whiz, but we're not going to allow you to study calculus in the ninth grade, even though you're ready for it, because those calculus

00:12:46.220 classes will not be racially proportionate. Meanwhile, China is throwing everything it's got at its most talented students. It is making sure that its 0.96

00:12:57.220 math geniuses are given early advanced training to make sure that they can realize their talents to the fullest extent.

00:13:05.220 So while we decide that we want our medical research labs, we're going to select our researchers for federal grants on the

00:13:15.220 basis not of their scientific accomplishments, but on the basis of their skin color, China's not doing that. And so this is 0.85

00:13:25.220 the progress of medical science will absolutely slow down in the United States.

00:13:33.220 We are not selecting our best researchers to try and understand Alzheimer's disease or diabetes.

00:13:41.220 We're saying the federal government is saying we would rather select on the basis of race. China will 1.00

00:13:47.220 take up the torch. But and then they will. I mean, in nanotechnology, in military technologies, in AI and engineering. Again, we have engineering

00:13:58.220 schools across the country that are selecting their students on the trivialities of race and sex. That is not happening in China.

00:14:08.220 China. The freedom issue is a different one. China will not take up that torch. 0.69

00:14:14.220 That's for sure. But as far as as far as dominance in science and tech, China will take over and crush us. 0.99

00:14:23.220 With that, we're going to take a quick break. We're talking with author, scholar, great American Heather McDonnell.

00:14:31.220 Her book is When Race Trumps Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence Destroys Beauty and Threatened Lives.

00:14:41.220 And because we are a parochial broadcast, those are American lives we're talking about.

00:14:47.220 Stay with us. We'll be back with Heather McDonnell.

00:14:51.220 We're back now talking with Heather McDonnell and her book again is When Race Trumps Merit.

00:14:57.220 Heather, I want to go to something that you know that you were mentioning as we broke for the commercial.

00:15:03.220 And that is the idea that bureaucrats in the federal government are making decisions about who gets grants, how it's done, diversity trumping excellence.

00:15:16.220 That's what you're really talking about here is a society, an economy now that is perverted.

00:15:23.220 Well, it's absolutely true. I mean, we just get more and more bureaucratized, more and more risk averse.

00:15:28.220 It's the feminization of the economy. Females are not the risk takers. They're not the entrepreneurs on average. 1.00

00:15:36.220 I mean, obviously, any individual can be a complete, you know, variant from the norm.

00:15:44.220 But there are absolute traits that are clustered around the two sexes that psychology has recognized for a long time.

00:15:54.220 So we have, yeah, the increasing bureaucracies, the human resource departments, the diversity departments, of course,

00:16:02.220 which are just the absolute poison of a meritocratic society and a society that's truth telling because we are not a racist country at this point.

00:16:13.220 We were a racist country. We're a shamefully racist country.

00:16:16.220 But we are not that country today. But the diversity bureaucracy is dedicated to that untruth.

00:16:22.220 But what kills me, Lou, it's not just the apparatchit bureaucrats that have gone to, you know, gotten their MAs in some phony organizational student service, you know, falsehood of a non-academic discipline.

00:16:44.220 It's the leaders of these organizations who are skilled, who should know better, who are nevertheless themselves selling out their organizations.

00:16:54.220 So you have the editors of leading scientific magazines, journals.

00:17:00.220 You have the heads of medical schools.

00:17:02.220 You have the heads of our science funding agencies declaring that math is racist, that science is racist, that medicine is racist.

00:17:12.220 It is a mass psychosis.

00:17:14.220 And what it's driven by is the fact that we have not closed our racial disparities over decades of trying, over trillions of dollars of effort, redistribution, social programs, school funding at vastly higher levels in inner cities.

00:17:34.220 And the gaps have not closed.

00:17:36.220 And Americans of good will are terrified that the gaps are not going to close.

00:17:41.220 And they're putting out there proleptically the only allowable explanation is racism because nobody wants to talk about the behaviors and the culture that are impeding this desired goal of all groups having equal outcomes.

00:17:59.220 And the reason we don't have equal outcomes is not racism.

00:18:04.220 It is a dysfunctional inner city culture.

00:18:08.220 Have we ever been in a situation like this in our country where there are so many myths and deceits and false narratives and hoaxes being played on our entire society that's been allowed to grow up?

00:18:23.220 People accept as fact what is absolute balderdash.

00:18:28.220 I don't think so, Lou.

00:18:30.220 I think that is what is so hard to accept.

00:18:33.220 I'm astonished on a daily basis, Lou, that we are living these fictions.

00:18:40.220 We're all forced to go along with them.

00:18:43.220 The fiction that blacks are at daily risk of their lives from whites, and yet this is the standard line you get after the shooting of the 16-year-old Ralph Jarl in Kansas City when he rang the bell and, according to the homeowner, knocked on the wrong door at 10 p.m. at night.

00:19:07.220 And the homeowner maybe trigger happy, maybe not, shot him, he will, Jarl will survive. 0.95

00:19:13.220 But after this produced the usual outpouring of racial bathos that, oh, my God, to be black in America is to be at constant risk of our lives from whites, this is preposterous. 0.98

00:19:28.220 The reason that blacks are at elevated risk of their lives is not from whites, it's not from the police, it's from other blacks. 1.00

00:19:36.220 They're killing each other by the dozens every single day. 1.00

00:19:40.220 Every single day there are dozens of black homicide victims. 0.98

00:19:44.220 That is more than all white and Hispanic homicide victims combined, even though blacks are only 13% of the population. 0.95

00:19:52.220 The interracial violence, if we're going to talk about who's killing whom across the races, blacks commit 87% of all interracial violence between blacks and whites and whites on blacks. 0.91

00:20:08.220 So I have a long list of the activities while white that are lethal. 1.00

00:20:14.220 You know, if you're reporting on a crime while white, if you are riding the subway while white, if you are walking in downtown Minneapolis while white, if you're riding your bicycle while white, if you're jogging while white, these are all activities that have led to egregious assaults, if not murder, black on white, 0.79

00:20:36.000 that never gets talked about because the only thing that the media will ever talk about are the few instances of white on black assault.

00:20:45.000 But those are so rare that that we hear about every single one of them.

00:20:51.000 And there are very few.

00:20:54.000 And I think we have to kind of pull back to and remind everybody we're talking about a society in which our media is owned.

00:21:03.000 I'm going to say the number is somewhere approaching 95% is corporatist owned media in this country.

00:21:11.000 You were saying earlier that the people have a sense of this, but they are overwhelmed.

00:21:18.000 No wonder the most powerful institutions in our country are peddling what are outright lies and lies that do not contribute to the public good.

00:21:28.000 There is no greater good at work here.

00:21:31.000 This is destructive of the very society that we built, this great nation that we've built.

00:21:37.000 Well, facts have got to matter.

00:21:39.000 And at this point, it does feel like they don't.

00:21:42.000 I mean, I can put out the facts on crime and policing.

00:21:45.000 I've been doing it for 20 years, and I can't say I've had a huge impact on liberal discourse, 0.96

00:21:52.000 but I'm going to continue doing it because I can't stand to live with idiocy, which is what our country is today. 0.56

00:22:00.000 But I think if more people have the facts, and my book does have a whole range of facts to counter the racism narrative. 0.98

00:22:10.000 When your kids come home from school, if they've been brainwashed there and they say the police are racist, here's the facts.

00:22:17.000 You know, here's the facts of who's killing blacks. 1.00

00:22:21.000 Here's the facts about what our country is. 0.94

00:22:23.000 Here's the facts about why Google does not have 13% black engineers. 0.99

00:22:30.000 You know, here's the facts about why Asians are whooping everybody's ass here because they have a culture that values studying. 0.98

00:22:39.000 If we all emulated that, especially in the inner city, we wouldn't have these problems. 0.99

00:22:44.000 There is their culture.

00:22:46.000 There is that.

00:22:48.000 But there is, in point of fact, differences in talent, and they have to be acknowledged.

00:22:54.000 We would not, you know, this bloviating nonsense that has come up and become, has been put in granite in front of everyone on granite tablets.

00:23:08.000 Diversity is our strength.

00:23:10.000 It's pure nonsense.

00:23:12.000 Our strength is our talent, our energy, our commitment, our work ethics, our culture.

00:23:19.000 That is our strength.

00:23:21.000 Diversity is what we can achieve with strength.

00:23:26.000 Your thoughts?

00:23:27.000 I completely agree.

00:23:29.000 Again, diversity is simply a code word for preferences.

00:23:33.000 If we didn't have these skills gaps, if we didn't have the talent gaps, nobody would be talking about diversity.

00:23:39.000 We talk about diversity because we know that in a colorblind setting, we're not going to have it.

00:23:45.000 And so we do have this entire myth around diversity.

00:23:48.000 And the fact of the matter is, as you know, you've discussed, Lou, the social science actually tells us the opposite.

00:23:55.000 Exactly.

00:23:56.000 It's not the case.

00:23:57.000 It's not the case that communities do best with diversity.

00:24:02.000 We don't.

00:24:03.000 The social trust goes down.

00:24:05.000 Volunteerism goes down.

00:24:07.000 Philanthropy goes down.

00:24:09.000 You know, it's not ideal.

00:24:12.000 We sort of have it now.

00:24:13.000 We've got to learn to live with it.

00:24:15.000 But the fact of the matter is, is that the most successful societies, everybody looks at the Norwegian

00:24:21.000 societies, they are much more homogeneous.

00:24:24.000 So that's a really dirty truth that nobody wants to talk about.

00:24:29.000 And we have.

00:24:30.000 I'm sorry.

00:24:31.000 And those Chinese folks over there, the CCP, they have that little secret as well.

00:24:37.000 We're going to talk about homogeneity.

00:24:39.000 We're going to talk about diverse societies and the truth, because we are talking with truth teller Heather McDonnell.

00:24:46.000 Her book is, I recommend it to you highly, When Race Trumps Merit, How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty and Threatens Lives. 0.60

00:24:56.000 We'll be back with Heather in just one moment.

00:24:59.000 We're back talking with Heather McDonnell.

00:25:01.000 Her book is, When Race Trumps Merit.

00:25:04.000 Heather, you and I are going to be upsetting the left in particular, the powerful corporate entities.

00:25:10.000 You know, freedom of speech means having the ability as well as not only to speak, but to speak truth to power.

00:25:15.000 You are doing that.

00:25:17.000 We salute you.

00:25:18.000 And we are deeply grateful for you so doing.

00:25:22.000 Let's take a couple of examples of truth in our society.

00:25:26.000 The title forty two ends next week.

00:25:31.000 That means that we're going to have an onslaught of illegal immigrants across our border.

00:25:36.000 The estimates are a half million next week after the 11th half million poised to come across that border.

00:25:44.000 The countervailing influence to that are fifteen hundred active duty troops to be sent to the southern border by President Biden.

00:25:51.000 But what what he doesn't tell everybody is that those troops will not be there to apprehend, to capture, to support.

00:25:59.000 They'll be doing administrative tasks, bookkeeping, transportation, perhaps janitorial work for all I know.

00:26:07.000 But they will not in any way be securing the border.

00:26:12.000 That is the kind of lies that we have that we have come to expect.

00:26:19.000 And it frustrates us all mightily.

00:26:21.000 Your thoughts?

00:26:23.000 Every country has a right to decide who comes in.

00:26:26.000 It is simply not the right of people outside of a country to set that country's immigration policy.

00:26:34.000 And we have forgotten that in this country.

00:26:37.000 There's this notion that anybody from the third world who wants to come here has an entitlement to come here.

00:26:43.000 That's not the case.

00:26:45.000 But my my challenge to the left is you can choose one of two propositions.

00:26:49.000 You can't choose both.

00:26:51.000 You cannot on the one hand say that America is the absolute, you know, nadir of oppression towards people of color.

00:27:01.000 And that, you know, we are we lead every every world civilization in awfulness and and and prejudice and racism.

00:27:11.000 And you cannot at the same time say that we should be opening our borders to every third world person of color because they're mutually exclusive. 1.00

00:27:22.000 If we're so awful, why do you want everybody to come here? 0.65

00:27:25.000 So you get to have one proposition or the other.

00:27:28.000 You know, if you're going to be an open borders person, admit that this country is not racist, that it is absolutely the least prejudiced country in the entire world.

00:27:40.000 Give that one up. 0.98

00:27:41.000 Or if you're going to insist that we are the most racist, prejudiced country, then tell third world people stay away, because if you come here, you will be oppressed.

00:27:51.000 In fact, we have the worst of both worlds.

00:27:53.000 We have the racism narrative and then we have this this absolute emasculation of our national sovereignty that says that all cultures are equal and that there will be no change in American culture.

00:28:09.000 There's a horrific article out in the American conservative recently about a guy that lived in Mexico and describing just the lawlessness of public on public streets, the the sense of everybody trying to get ahead by breaking the rules.

00:28:27.000 There are different cultures.

00:28:29.000 There are different cultures.

00:28:30.000 It is absurd.

00:28:31.000 If you go to a Nordic culture, if you go to Germany, Switzerland, there's no litter on the streets. 0.98

00:28:36.000 New York City right now is a absolute trash heap.

00:28:41.000 There's litter everywhere because people are littering. 0.99

00:28:44.000 The problem is the people.

00:28:46.000 There are places where people don't throw trash on the street.

00:28:50.000 That's a different culture. 0.92

00:28:51.000 And we are bringing in cultures here that, yes, there are individuals who are hardworking.

00:28:58.000 There's no question.

00:28:59.000 But on in bulk at the levels that we're bringing in, it is not compatible with the country that we want to be.

00:29:11.000 It is not.

00:29:12.000 And the Republicans and their investigative committees holding hearings.

00:29:19.000 And amongst those testifying, Tara Lee Rodas from Health and Human Services outright saying that the Biden administration is the middleman between the Mexican drug cartels and these and the sex trafficking of hundreds of thousands of children.

00:29:37.000 This is as well as, of course, the smuggling of deadly fentanyl that claims at least 100,000 American lives every year.

00:29:47.000 But without without response, there is no we are so innervated, so desensitized.

00:29:55.000 Maybe what the word you used is the correct word where we have been emasculated.

00:30:02.000 We don't know about our society because we can't come together because our politicians are afraid of the issues themselves.

00:30:08.000 They choose sides, they virtue signal, and it's resolved.

00:30:11.000 Your thoughts?

00:30:12.000 Well, I'm just amazed that the left proposes these radical changes in the very way human beings think of themselves.

00:30:21.000 And radical changes is the wrong word.

00:30:23.000 It's too generous.

00:30:25.000 Radical lies, let's just be honest about here.

00:30:29.000 And then that immediately becomes the default.

00:30:32.000 And it then becomes the burden shifts to the conservatives that are trying to preserve the truth to make their case.

00:30:39.000 And, you know, the New York Times says, oh, it's the left, it's the right that's waging culture wars.

00:30:45.000 No, we're not.

00:30:46.000 We're just trying to hold our ground.

00:30:48.000 It's the left that's waging culture wars.

00:30:50.000 And yet they immediately set the new terms.

00:30:53.000 And, you know, we hear about trans rights.

00:30:57.000 Rights are something – this is not some sort of inalienable right that was existing from all of human history.

00:31:07.000 But they immediately claim that all of a sudden this is some uncontroversial, self-evident right.

00:31:14.000 And that anybody that wants to say that parents should be allowed to know what's going on to their children in school from their teachers, that they're violating this new breed of trans rights. 0.90

00:31:28.000 It is simply stunning.

00:31:29.000 Now, as far as the social epidemic contagion of one in four high school students or younger saying they're non-cis heteronormative, not surprising.

00:31:43.000 Adolescents are looking at every moment for some way to have power and authority over adults. 0.95

00:31:51.000 And if you can come up with a whole set of hoops to jump through for pronouns and whatnot, it's not surprising that this – they're flocking to this identity because it's cool.

00:32:03.000 It's, you know, the way – it's a way to not be normal, not be traditional, conservative.

00:32:09.000 So the only hope is that it's a passing phase.

00:32:13.000 But to the extent that the American Pediatric Association has its say, it'll have castrated chemically all these kids before they come to their senses and maybe say that there's more important things in life than simply trying to embrace some sort of transgression.

00:32:32.000 transgressive identity.

00:32:33.000 And, of course, it's no longer transgressive.

00:32:36.000 It's now been completely normalized.

00:32:38.000 So we'll have to have some new thing.

00:32:41.000 You know, trans is not going to be the top dog victim for very long on the totem pole.

00:32:46.000 There'll be something else that'll come along and displace it.

00:32:48.000 And that's sort of a scary thing to think about, Lou.

00:32:51.000 It is scary.

00:32:52.000 Meanwhile, women don't have rights to choose their own bathrooms. 1.00

00:32:55.000 They've got to share it with someone else.

00:32:57.000 They don't – Title IX means nothing to women because now transformed genders can race against them, jump against them, run against them, do whatever in their sport and beat them. 1.00

00:33:11.000 I mean, it's madness.

00:33:13.000 And it's on its face.

00:33:14.000 It's absurd and unfair because men are built in lots of ways more powerful than women. 0.90

00:33:21.000 They're faster.

00:33:22.000 You have to acknowledge that reality, right?

00:33:26.000 Well, I love it.

00:33:28.000 I mean, I don't – what's not to like in this situation, Lou?

00:33:31.000 You have the feminists who destroyed male sports through Title IX and said, well, you know, these may be more popular, you know, but we're going to take them out so that we can have equal funding. 1.00

00:33:44.000 And so now the feminists are getting trounced by the men. 1.00

00:33:48.000 And I say let both sides eat each other up.

00:33:50.000 I really don't care.

00:33:51.000 I don't have a dog in that fight, you know?

00:33:54.000 It's fantastic.

00:33:55.000 You know what?

00:33:56.000 I don't either.

00:33:57.000 I don't either, except I have grandkids who are playing sports, and I want them to be able to play sports as young ladies against young ladies. 0.99

00:34:05.000 I want the guys to have, you know, their domain.

00:34:09.000 Well, too bad.

00:34:10.000 Too bad.

00:34:11.000 I'm sorry.

00:34:12.000 It's worked pretty well across the span of humanity.

00:34:16.000 Well, if the feminists aren't willing to stand up to this tale with them, I mean, what good are they? 1.00

00:34:22.000 If I were a feminist, I would say, isn't this just like men to come in and destroy our, you know, field of accomplishment here? 0.56

00:34:31.000 This is toxic masculinity.

00:34:33.000 But most of them, lips are sealed.

00:34:35.000 They're willing to go along with this.

00:34:36.000 So why should I care?

00:34:37.000 You know, I really do not care if females are no longer going to be able to win swimming titles or running titles against men.

00:34:45.000 If they're not willing to stand up and say that there are absolute differences in skeletal development, muscular development, hormonal development, to hell with them.

00:34:58.000 You know, I really don't care.

00:35:00.000 I think it's all quite amusing.

00:35:02.000 All of the issues we've been talking about today, of course, are critically important, but ignored too often.

00:35:08.000 No public hearings, no major studies about all of the controversial issues we're confronted with.

00:35:14.000 And too few social critics like Heather McDonnell have both the talent and the courage to take on these big issues, to separate facts from labels and smoke, seeking truth.

00:35:26.000 Our founders, inspired and blessed by God, created our Constitution, and our cherished rights, rights now threatened from within, principally by the left, the Marxist Dems.

00:35:37.000 And like our founders who created these rights, we have a fight brewing over the preservation of those rights, these American rights.

00:35:46.000 Heather, we thank you for being in the fight.

00:35:48.000 Your concluding thoughts, if you will.

00:35:51.000 Well, I agree.

00:35:52.000 I don't think they're God-given either.

00:35:54.000 I think they are human creations.

00:35:56.000 And it is Western civilization that created the very ideas that the left has appropriated now and is trying to destroy Western civilization with tolerance, equality, due process of law, limited government.

00:36:09.000 These are very specific creations of a very specific civilization that is now a universal gift to the world.

00:36:18.000 And people should stop apologizing for it.

00:36:23.000 Get the facts.

00:36:25.000 Get the facts that describe America today.

00:36:28.000 And do not allow yourself to be silenced by phony charges of racism or sexism.

00:36:36.000 It doesn't matter.

00:36:37.000 Let them call you that all you want.

00:36:39.000 If you know you have the truth on your side, this is our moment of fighting and of courage.

00:36:45.000 And it is time for everybody to stand up and stop being frightened.

00:36:51.000 Thank you so much, Lou.

00:36:52.000 It's always a pleasure.

00:36:53.000 I appreciate it.

00:36:54.000 That's all for us here today.

00:36:55.000 Joining us tomorrow will be Just the News editor, John Solomon, with lots, of course, to take up, including his new book for children, All American Stuff.

00:37:05.000 We hope you'll join us for that.

00:37:07.000 Until then, thank you.

00:37:08.000 God bless you.

00:37:09.000 And may God bless America.

The Great America Show - May 04, 2023

WHEN RACE TRUMPS MERIT, AMERICA LOSES

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