The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1466 - FBI’s Shocking Crime Cover-Up Exposed. It's Worse Than You Think

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the Kamala Harris campaign has been telling us that violent crime declined under her watch. 0.93

00:00:05.700 That's what the FBI data had showed.

00:00:07.600 Well, it's just been revealed that the FBI data was completely wrong.

00:00:10.420 This is a major scandal that isn't getting the attention it deserves.

00:00:13.760 Also, Kamala was interviewed by Brett Baer on Fox yesterday.

00:00:16.120 Her performance was atrocious, even by her standards.

00:00:18.900 And Jerry Seinfeld has had an epiphany.

00:00:20.720 He now says that actually the woke scolds aren't ruining comedy, as he had previously claimed. 0.95

00:00:26.140 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.

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00:02:34.120 There was a claim that the toothpaste company Colgate used to make all the time on television.

00:02:39.340 You probably are familiar with it.

00:02:40.820 They said that 80% of dentists recommend Colgate.

00:02:43.840 Now, technically, the figure was accurate.

00:02:46.180 Colgate did send her out a survey.

00:02:48.220 And when they got the survey back, 80% of dentists had indeed indicated that they recommended

00:02:52.580 Colgate.

00:02:53.180 But ultimately, the advertising regulators came down pretty hard on Colgate and forced them

00:02:57.980 to pull the ad off the air.

00:02:59.680 And they did that because Colgate left out an important piece of information, which is

00:03:02.940 that the survey allowed dentists to recommend multiple brands.

00:03:07.000 So, yes, 80% of dentists did recommend Colgate, but 80% of dentists also recommended Colgate's

00:03:12.840 competitors.

00:03:13.940 Now, we're bombarded with misrepresentations like this so often from politicians, advertisers,

00:03:19.180 and so on that pretty much everyone understands that statistics are very often misleading at best. 0.99

00:03:24.460 That's why we have the famous quote, there are three kinds of lies, lies, damn lies, and 0.99

00:03:28.700 statistics. 0.99

00:03:29.100 But even given that baseline of skepticism that we all have, it's still very easy to fall into

00:03:36.160 the trap of assuming that some statistics are reliable.

00:03:40.240 So take the murder rate, for example.

00:03:42.340 That's the number of murders that occur divided by the population.

00:03:46.880 And you think that it'd be pretty hard for the government to fudge that kind of data.

00:03:51.140 After all, if somebody gets murdered, the odds are very high that someone's going to notice it

00:03:55.560 and file a report, unlike crimes like shoplifting or assault, which often go unreported and for

00:04:02.620 shoplifting, oftentimes undetected.

00:04:06.120 And also people know that the DA won't do anything about it, so they don't report it.

00:04:11.260 But murder is still prosecuted, even in places like San Francisco or New York, for now.

00:04:16.300 So when the FBI declared last month that violent crimes, including murders, had declined for

00:04:23.640 two years in a row, it was natural for a lot of people to take that claim seriously.

00:04:28.480 Democrats immediately used it as a talking point.

00:04:30.800 They said that it was proof that Donald Trump was wrong when he said during the debate that

00:04:34.860 this country has become more dangerous under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

00:04:38.980 Here's that moment one more time.

00:04:40.760 Watch.

00:04:41.880 Crime is down all over the world except here.

00:04:44.700 Crime here is up and through the roof.

00:04:46.860 Despite their fraudulent statements that they made, crime in this country is through the roof.

00:04:51.740 And we have a new form of crime.

00:04:53.500 It's called migrant crime. 0.98

00:04:54.900 And it's happening at levels that nobody thought possible.

00:04:57.540 President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is actually coming down

00:05:01.540 in this country.

00:05:02.220 But Vice President Harris...

00:05:03.140 Excuse me, the FBI defraud...

00:05:03.820 They were defrauding statements.

00:05:05.540 They didn't include the worst cities.

00:05:09.160 Now, when I covered this at the time, I didn't take any issue with the FBI's actual data.

00:05:13.780 They claimed that they had finally incorporated the vast majority of police departments into

00:05:17.800 their calculations.

00:05:19.300 And, you know, we kind of took them at their word on that.

00:05:21.360 Instead, I pointed out that the FBI's data, by its own terms, is incomplete and therefore

00:05:26.920 misleading.

00:05:27.400 It's a bit like the Colgate ad.

00:05:29.160 It tells you something that's technically true, but it doesn't tell you anywhere near

00:05:32.600 the full story.

00:05:33.280 Specifically, the FBI's data only counts crimes that are reported to law enforcement.

00:05:37.380 And there's a lot of evidence that people don't report most crimes to law enforcement.

00:05:41.000 In fact, that evidence comes directly from the DOJ.

00:05:43.700 According to the DOJ's survey of crime victims last year, less than 50% of violent victimizations

00:05:48.840 were reported to the police.

00:05:50.440 Less than 33% of property crime victimizations were reported.

00:05:53.760 Only 43% of robberies were reported.

00:05:56.660 Now, a relatively large number of auto thefts were reported, more than 70%, presumably because

00:06:00.780 people needed to file those claims in order to get an insurance payout.

00:06:04.040 Otherwise, we could assume that no one would have reported those crimes either because no

00:06:08.060 one expects prosecutors or law enforcement to do anything about it at this point.

00:06:11.980 But the DOJ's survey of crime victims doesn't include murder victims for the obvious reason

00:06:17.000 that murder victims can't answer the survey.

00:06:19.940 So last month on this point, I conceded that the FBI's murder data and only their murder data

00:06:26.200 was probably accurate.

00:06:28.660 After all, how could the FBI and local law enforcement agencies possibly be undercounting the amount of

00:06:34.320 murders that are being reported?

00:06:36.640 These are not easy crimes to cover up.

00:06:39.920 Well, it turns out that I shouldn't have conceded even that point.

00:06:43.920 Because even on this basic, straightforward statistic, which measures how many people are

00:06:48.460 getting killed in this country, our federal government has been cooking the numbers.

00:06:54.120 And they've been doing it in a way that makes it very clear that they're trying to hide

00:06:58.020 information from the public.

00:06:59.120 This is not an innocent error.

00:07:00.920 It is deliberate and purposeful and malicious.

00:07:04.320 Real Clear Investigations has just reported that, without alerting anyone, the FBI has

00:07:09.420 just revised its violent crime statistics for 2022.

00:07:13.320 And the new data shows that thousands more rapes, robberies, and murders occurred in that

00:07:19.220 year as compared to what they previously had told us.

00:07:21.540 The FBI's original claim, which was that violent crime had fallen by more than 2% in 2022,

00:07:27.040 has now been revised.

00:07:28.840 Now they say that violent crime actually increased by 4.5% that year.

00:07:35.940 Specifically, somehow the FBI now says that it missed nearly 8,000 rapes, 33,000 robberies,

00:07:42.560 37,000 aggravated assaults, and 1,700 murders in 2022.

00:07:48.320 How did that happen exactly?

00:07:52.420 I mean, these are massive revisions.

00:07:55.000 But the most incredible one is that last figure.

00:07:57.780 How do you miss 1,700 murders?

00:08:02.180 I mean, we're not talking about one or two cold cases that slipped through the cracks.

00:08:06.000 These aren't people who just disappeared and the FBI found their body six months later or whatever.

00:08:10.420 People were killed, and the police were alerted, and then they just weren't included in the initial count we received from the FBI,

00:08:18.540 the same count that was used to discredit Donald Trump as a liar during the debate.

00:08:23.000 Well, here's how Real Clear Investigations explained what happened.

00:08:26.340 Quote,

00:08:26.560 The FBI's crime stats revisions reveal how much guesswork is involved and even the final numbers often seized on by politicians.

00:08:34.580 The FBI doesn't simply count reported crimes.

00:08:36.780 Instead, it offers estimates by extrapolating data from police departments that report only partial year data.

00:08:42.720 The Bureau also makes estimates for cities that report no data.

00:08:46.040 The FBI's method of generating these estimates changes over time, and it affects the figures they report.

00:08:52.100 Yes, you heard that correctly.

00:08:53.300 However, the FBI extrapolates from partial data, and they also just make up estimates from cities that report no data at all.

00:09:02.200 According to Jeffrey Anderson, who ran the DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics from 2017 to 2021,

00:09:07.220 quote,

00:09:07.940 The FBI's processes, such as how it tries to estimate unreported figures, has long been a black box, even to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Department of Justice's actual statistical agency.

00:09:18.820 Now, we're meant to assume that this is one of those innocent mistakes that only ever goes in the same direction, coincidentally.

00:09:26.820 It's like that jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics just a few weeks ago, the one that overestimated job growth by about 800,000 jobs.

00:09:33.960 We're supposed to conclude that these statistical errors aren't deliberate and that the federal government isn't trying to cook the books in order to help Kamala Harris's failing campaign.

00:09:43.880 But there's a very clear reason to doubt that explanation, especially in the case of this FBI revision.

00:09:49.020 And that's because the FBI's revised data, which shows all the violent crimes they missed, wasn't announced anywhere.

00:09:56.020 The FBI did a stealth edit on their own report three weeks ago.

00:09:59.980 Didn't tell anybody about it.

00:10:01.720 And it's only coming to light now because the investigative journalists at Real Clear Investigations noticed this line at the bottom of the FBI's data, quote,

00:10:09.520 The 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in CIUS 2023.

00:10:15.440 Now, nowhere did the FBI explain what the update showed exactly.

00:10:21.660 They didn't hold a press conference and explain why they undercounted tens of thousands of serious crimes that impacted very real victims.

00:10:28.820 Instead, on a hunch, Real Clear Investigations had to pull up the charts and the graphics and do a comparison.

00:10:36.120 Even when the FBI released a press release last month claiming that violent crime had fallen again in 2023,

00:10:41.880 they didn't mention that their statistics from 2022 were completely wrong.

00:10:45.440 So, obviously, this looks a lot like malice.

00:10:49.240 And, of course, we have no reason whatsoever to trust that their data from 2023 is remotely accurate either.

00:10:53.840 We could probably wait another year and then we'll get the update on those numbers.

00:10:58.200 So, we're at the point now where the government can't be trusted to tell us anything.

00:11:04.200 Even information as basic as the number of Americans who are being murdered every year.

00:11:08.180 And if they can't get that right, or if they're willing to lie about it,

00:11:13.080 then there's absolutely no reason to trust what these people say on anything.

00:11:17.420 To trust what they say when they say that the earth is getting too hot or that illegal immigrants don't really commit that many crimes or anything at all. 1.00

00:11:24.420 We are ruled by people who are constantly finding new ways to discredit themselves.

00:11:28.540 Now, if there's anything amusing about this whole situation,

00:11:32.580 it's that there is one crime statistic that, according to the FBI, keeps going up, like clockwork.

00:11:38.480 And that is the number of hate crimes in this country.

00:11:41.140 When I looked into the hate crimes reporting system earlier this year, I found that it's completely meaningless.

00:11:45.560 There are no standards at all.

00:11:47.000 The reported incidents don't even have to be crimes in some cases.

00:11:49.840 And yet the figure always manages to go up.

00:11:53.420 It's never undercounted.

00:11:55.820 And we all know why that is.

00:11:57.600 The federal government can use hate crimes as a political tool.

00:12:01.160 They want to report more hate crimes so they can punish all those dreaded MAGA Republicans who are beating up Asians at 2 a.m. in San Francisco.

00:12:08.480 But in an election year, they want to say that violent crimes generally are going down.

00:12:13.900 So they just make up those numbers, too.

00:12:16.260 That means, among other things, that the so-called fact-checking industry should just be disbanded immediately.

00:12:23.980 It's no use citing government reports when they're worse than useless.

00:12:28.360 We should never have another fact-check during a live presidential debate ever again.

00:12:33.520 It also means that if Democrats really care about misinformation, as they so often claim to,

00:12:38.440 then they should demand the immediate dismantling of these government agencies that are apparently incapable of telling the truth.

00:12:43.500 The misinformation, as always, is coming from inside the house.

00:12:48.960 Now, to be very clear about this, they just tried to memory hole the murders of nearly 2,000 Americans.

00:12:56.500 That's what they were just caught doing.

00:12:58.940 And even if you think that it was unintentional, it's still very clear that they tried to cover up their alleged mistake.

00:13:05.340 That's how little they care about American citizens.

00:13:07.420 They'll deny you police protection, and then they'll lie to the public about your death if you're murdered.

00:13:14.880 Some people might call that depraved.

00:13:17.580 They might call it immoral, even treasonous.

00:13:21.480 But for the Biden-Harris administration, it's just the cost of doing business in an election year.

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00:14:30.900 Well, as you know, hopefully, by now, Am I Racist, my new film, number one documentary of the decade,

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00:14:55.840 And this is when you can finally see it.

00:15:00.800 So the film is coming to Daily Wire on October 28th.

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00:15:29.420 This is, and also, this is better than that other board game that that other host sells.

00:15:34.960 Did I just rip off his idea to have, did I see how successful his game was and say, I need one for myself?

00:15:41.720 I'm not going to say that I did.

00:15:42.980 I'm not going to say I didn't do that.

00:15:44.480 But this is the Am I Racist game.

00:15:46.180 And, you know, this is a game with, games are fun if there are stakes.

00:15:49.620 You know, you need to have stakes in a game.

00:15:51.700 And the stakes here are pretty high because this is basically a trivia game.

00:15:55.560 But if you get the trivia answer wrong, then you're racist.

00:16:00.700 That's basically the way the game works.

00:16:02.400 I'll show you.

00:16:03.220 So there are a lot of, it's a whole bunch of cards, and they all have facts, stereotypes, that have to do with different races.

00:16:14.140 And you have to kind of figure out if it's right or if it's racist.

00:16:19.320 And like I said, if you're wrong, if you get it wrong, then it turns out you're racist.

00:16:22.560 And that's, so this is a high stakes gamble.

00:16:25.420 So just for an example, I'll give you one.

00:16:29.580 We'll do a quick round of trivia.

00:16:32.180 I'll just give you one right now.

00:16:34.560 We'll find out when you're playing at home if you are right or racist.

00:16:41.740 Here's the fact.

00:16:45.220 In the Middle Eastern country, Agrabah, a woman accused of adultery is punishable to death by stoning.

00:16:50.920 Now, is that true? 0.93

00:16:55.280 Or is that a vicious, slanderous, racist lie?

00:17:00.000 Well, let's, then you flip it around and you find out the answer. 0.98

00:17:02.240 Well, if you said that that's true, then you're racist.

00:17:06.660 Because it turns out that Agrabah is a fictitious country in the story Aladdin.

00:17:12.520 You, you, you, and you thought that was true.

00:17:15.160 I read that and you said, oh yeah, Agrabah, they do stone people to death.

00:17:18.480 Yeah, that sounds like an Arab country.

00:17:20.540 They probably would do that in an Arab country.

00:17:22.840 That's what you were thinking to yourself, weren't you? 1.00

00:17:24.900 You racist scumbag. 1.00

00:17:26.740 How dare you? 1.00

00:17:28.980 And you know something?

00:17:29.960 They don't even stone women to death in Agrabah, in Aladdin.

00:17:32.700 That's not part of the story, is it?

00:17:35.580 So now we're slandering Aladdin too. 0.99

00:17:38.980 We're gonna have a Disney on our ass in no time here. 0.98

00:17:41.980 Okay, so that's the game. 0.99

00:17:44.160 You can go to dailywire.com and find out if you're racist.

00:17:48.020 Yesterday we talked about Kamala allegedly mulling an appearance on Joe Rogan.

00:17:53.840 And I think that it's safe to say that after her Fox interview last night, Rogan is probably off the table.

00:17:59.940 Because she sat down for an interview with Brett Baer.

00:18:02.480 And something that, you know, as we talked about yesterday, she never would have done this unless she was desperate.

00:18:11.060 I mean, there's no way that back in August, sitting down for a Fox News interview was something that they considered to be in the cards.

00:18:20.400 But they're doing it now because it's a Hail Mary pass.

00:18:23.680 It's the kind of thing that you lob into the air if you feel like you have no choice.

00:18:28.660 High risk proposition.

00:18:30.680 And in this case, the risk really did not pay off.

00:18:33.180 It was pretty much a disaster.

00:18:36.580 She did as bad as you would expect, if not worse.

00:18:38.760 So let's go through some of these clips from this interview.

00:18:41.880 We'll start with this.

00:18:42.660 Here they are.

00:18:43.280 This is how the interview began.

00:18:45.780 Talking about the border crisis.

00:18:47.380 How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years?

00:18:58.380 Well, I'm glad you raised the issue of immigration because I agree with you. 1.00

00:19:01.240 It is a topic of discussion that people want to rightly have.

00:19:06.680 And you know what I'm going to talk about.

00:19:08.820 Yeah, but just a number.

00:19:10.060 Do you think it's one million, three million?

00:19:12.260 Brett, let's just get to the point.

00:19:14.300 Okay.

00:19:14.640 The point is that we have a broken immigration system that needs to be repaired.

00:19:20.380 So your Homeland Security Secretary said that 85 percent of apprehensions...

00:19:23.820 I'm not finished.

00:19:24.800 We have an immigration system... 0.99

00:19:26.800 ...of six million people have been released into the country.

00:19:30.400 And let me just finish.

00:19:31.180 I'll get to the question, I promise you.

00:19:32.460 I was beginning to answer.

00:19:33.740 And when you came into office, your administration immediately reversed a number of Trump border policies.

00:19:39.860 Most significantly, the policy that required illegal immigrants to be detained through deportation,

00:19:45.720 either in the U.S. or in Mexico.

00:19:48.420 And you switched that policy.

00:19:49.700 They were released from custody awaiting trial.

00:19:52.420 So instead, included in those were a large number of single men, adult men, who went on to commit heinous crimes.

00:20:01.000 So, looking back, do you regret the decision to terminate Remain in Mexico at the beginning of your administration?

00:20:09.000 At the beginning of our administration, within practically hours of taking the oath,

00:20:15.060 the first bill that we offered Congress, before we worked on infrastructure,

00:20:22.580 before the Inflation Reduction Act, before the Chips and Science Act,

00:20:27.780 before the Bipartisan Safety Communities Act.

00:20:31.640 So you basically get how this went.

00:20:34.160 She filibustered... 1.00

00:20:36.640 It's funny she said in that, when she started to answer the question or not answer it.

00:20:43.420 So let's get to the point.

00:20:45.620 But getting to the point is exactly, of course, what she didn't do and never does.

00:20:51.400 For her, answering a question is always a game of frantically avoiding the point at all costs.

00:20:57.640 But she's not... 0.99

00:20:59.120 And she's not the only politician in the country who handles interviews that way.

00:21:03.840 Most of them do.

00:21:04.740 She's just really bad at it. 0.93

00:21:05.880 She's very bad at it. 1.00

00:21:07.540 So that's how it went.

00:21:08.780 And Brett Baer tried valiantly to get her to answer the question.

00:21:12.340 And she would ramble and filibuster. 1.00

00:21:15.220 The only difference is that Brett was really the first interviewer who has ever called her out on this.

00:21:24.260 And not allowed her to just get away with it.

00:21:26.220 And this dynamic also was very evident when she was asked about Biden's cognitive decline.

00:21:32.680 This is maybe the most striking moment in the interview.

00:21:35.600 Let's watch.

00:21:35.940 You call Donald Trump, he's misguided.

00:21:41.000 You say now he's unstable.

00:21:43.260 He is unstable, but...

00:21:44.340 He's not well.

00:21:45.320 You say he's mentally not stable.

00:21:47.140 He's not stable.

00:21:47.920 Let me ask you this.

00:21:48.840 You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game, that ran around circles on his staff.

00:21:54.840 When did you first notice that President Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished?

00:21:59.340 Joe Biden, I have watched from the Oval Office to the Situation Room.

00:22:08.340 And he has the judgment and the experience to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people.

00:22:18.740 There were no concerns raised?

00:22:20.340 Brett, Joe Biden is not on the ballot.

00:22:22.020 I understand.

00:22:22.420 And Donald Trump, Donald Trump is...

00:22:24.120 But you talked about it.

00:22:25.100 And Donald Trump is...

00:22:25.980 After George Clooney said within a few minutes of talking to President Biden at a fundraiser that he thought this was not the same Joe Biden that we saw on the debate stage.

00:22:34.520 Donald Trump is on the ballot.

00:22:35.680 I understand.

00:22:36.820 You met with him at least once a week for three and a half years.

00:22:40.140 You didn't have any concerns?

00:22:43.100 I think the American people have a concern about Donald Trump, which is why the people who know him best,

00:22:48.200 including leaders of our national security community, have all spoken out, even people who worked for him in the Oval Office.

00:23:01.000 First of all, it's amazing that this is the first time she's ever been directly asked that question.

00:23:06.800 She pushed Biden out, took over the nomination, and has never been asked about it.

00:23:13.880 You know, even though...

00:23:17.640 I mean, think about this.

00:23:18.380 When she refuses, as she always does, to take accountability for the disasters of the Biden administration,

00:23:25.420 when she just dismisses any suggestion that the last four years count for anything,

00:23:32.440 the implied reasoning behind that is that the president had dementia.

00:23:38.440 Right?

00:23:38.900 She's not going to come out and say that, but her actual argument, we all know, is that,

00:23:44.020 well, the last four years don't count because the guy at the top is senile, and you can't hold that against me.

00:23:50.900 So that's kind of the...

00:23:53.480 And any of her voters, however many she ends up having, that's also their reasoning.

00:24:01.400 That's going to be their reason.

00:24:02.180 Like, anyone who's going to give her another four years, it's going to be under the assumption that,

00:24:07.800 yeah, well, but she, the president, this is not her fault.

00:24:11.600 The guy is senile.

00:24:14.360 And it's funny that she's never asked about it until today.

00:24:19.220 And you heard how just shifty and dishonest her answer was. 1.00

00:24:25.420 But my favorite moment was probably this one.

00:24:29.380 More than 70% of people tell the country is on the wrong track.

00:24:35.060 They say the country is on the wrong track.

00:24:37.420 If it's on the wrong track, that track follows three and a half years of you being vice president

00:24:43.600 and President Biden being president.

00:24:45.620 That is what they're saying, 79% of them.

00:24:49.120 Why are they saying that?

00:24:50.160 If you're turning the page, you've been in office for three and a half years.

00:24:54.580 And Donald Trump has been running for office.

00:24:57.460 But you've been the person holding the office, Madam Vice President.

00:25:01.320 You and I both know what I'm talking about.

00:25:02.860 You and I both know what I'm talking about.

00:25:04.200 I actually don't.

00:25:04.840 What are you talking about?

00:25:05.520 What I'm talking about is that over the last decade, people have become.

00:25:11.520 But listen, over the last decade, it is clear to me and certainly the Republicans who are on stage with me.

00:25:19.180 So that was my, that was probably my favorite part is you and I, come on, you and I both know what I'm talking about.

00:25:27.760 Actually, I don't.

00:25:28.700 I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

00:25:30.540 And you speak for all of us, Brett. 0.67

00:25:32.820 Nobody knows what the hell she's talking about.

00:25:35.120 Least of all does Kamala know what Kamala is talking about?

00:25:37.280 All she can do is reflexively pivot to Trump, blame him, even though she's been in office, not him. 0.99

00:25:44.760 And it's a pathetic, it was a pathetic, weak, pitiful performance, a very unimpressive performance. 0.99

00:25:53.000 And that's the word I think that best fits Kamala. 0.99

00:25:54.800 I was thinking as I watched these clips that she is an exceedingly unimpressive person.

00:26:01.640 I think she is the least impressive, the most unimpressive presidential candidate in American history. 0.84

00:26:08.320 And I think that that's not hyperbole.

00:26:10.580 I mean, there have been some duds, of course, but she's the most unimpressive.

00:26:16.820 There's just nothing formidable about this person at all.

00:26:20.000 She has no impressive traits. 0.96

00:26:21.620 She's like the Carolina Panthers of politicians or something like that. 0.98

00:26:30.640 And that's almost worse than being, say, the Browns.

00:26:34.060 The Browns are a dysfunctional disaster all the time.

00:26:38.060 And you could say that dysfunctional disaster describes Kamala, 0.94

00:26:41.700 but I think it's more accurate to say that she's just this dull, bad, kind of blah all the time. 0.97

00:26:50.000 A very low ceiling, let's say.

00:26:53.820 So if she's going to smash the glass ceiling, it better be no more than four feet off the ground because that's as high as she can get. 0.98

00:27:02.060 And it's different from, say, like Barack Obama was a bad president, but a very bad president.

00:27:10.200 When all is said and done, he may go down as the worst president of all time.

00:27:12.900 I mean, the other competition, of course, is Joe Biden.

00:27:17.080 But when you look at the kind of the pivot point of Barack Obama's presidency, his eight years,

00:27:22.600 and just what a disaster it's been for the country and the culture.

00:27:26.320 But on a personal level, there were some impressive things about him.

00:27:33.700 He had rhetorical skills.

00:27:35.120 He had charisma.

00:27:38.480 George Bush, also not a very impressive man, but at least had a kind of swagger and personality to him.

00:27:44.000 And, like, even our bad presidents had traits that explained how they became president.

00:27:51.880 You could look at them, and even if you don't like them and you think they're terrible, you could say,

00:27:55.980 OK, yeah, I can see how that happened.

00:27:57.500 I can see how it happened.

00:28:00.940 But with Kamala, and she's not president yet, thank God.

00:28:03.620 But still, you look at this person, and there's just nothing there.

00:28:09.500 Incredibly unimpressive.

00:28:10.740 Joe Biden would be second place on the list of the most unimpressive.

00:28:15.960 But at least he used to have political skills.

00:28:18.540 He doesn't anymore because he has dementia.

00:28:20.280 But Kamala, I mean, what are her skills? 1.00

00:28:23.740 Really, what are her, even if you're the, you know, you're dyed in the wool Kamala supporter,

00:28:30.380 you're going to vote for her.

00:28:33.620 Even to you, I would pose that question non-rhetorically.

00:28:38.360 What are her great skills? 0.98

00:28:41.480 What's the most impressive thing about this person?

00:28:45.060 Really?

00:28:48.840 And that's what comes across, which is why I think, as I've said before,

00:28:55.200 I think the campaign, they wanted to keep her off, keep her away from interviews,

00:29:02.740 keep her away from unscripted moments, and they wanted to do what they were doing for

00:29:07.980 the first couple weeks of the campaign, where she only did the rallies, and they brought

00:29:12.120 the celebrities out, and, you know, they were building this hype train around her that had 0.97

00:29:17.500 nothing to do with her specifically, but they were just kind of turning her into this fictional

00:29:21.400 character who you never even saw except at the rallies when she was delivering a scripted

00:29:25.780 speech.

00:29:26.320 And they obviously wanted to do that.

00:29:29.180 Their plan was to try to, if they could have got away with doing that for the whole three

00:29:33.260 months before the election, they would have.

00:29:34.920 And I think it was a strategic mistake.

00:29:36.720 I think they should have just, politically, strategically, they should have just stuck with that.

00:29:42.600 Don't do a single interview.

00:29:43.880 Don't do a single press conference.

00:29:45.240 Only do the rallies.

00:29:46.720 Have the celebrities come out and just do that. 1.00

00:29:49.980 Coast on the vibes and try to do it for three months.

00:29:52.080 That was their best chance.

00:29:55.280 And yeah, she would have got killed for it by people like me.

00:29:58.380 You know, she would have, conservative media would have continued to criticize her harshly 0.99

00:30:02.300 for not doing any interviews and being scared.

00:30:04.560 But, you know, this is what happens. 0.71

00:30:11.860 You know, it's like the quote, whoever, it's better to say nothing and be thought a fool than 0.91

00:30:16.940 to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

00:30:18.820 And I think that, you know, she probably should have taken that to heart.

00:30:23.220 But it's too late now.

00:30:25.040 So let's flip it around to Trump.

00:30:27.420 He had a town hall on Fox News yesterday.

00:30:29.440 And there was one moment from that that I think is notable.

00:30:32.620 Let's watch that.

00:30:34.380 Up and down the ballot.

00:30:35.800 How many of you are worried about biological men and boys competing against women and girls in sports?

00:30:41.720 Just show me.

00:30:42.520 That's almost the entire, that is the entire room.

00:30:45.180 And I know you have a question.

00:30:46.580 I do.

00:30:46.920 By the way, excuse me, it's so crazy.

00:30:50.920 Your question, your name and your hometown.

00:30:53.620 My name is Linda and I'm from Milton, Georgia.

00:30:56.300 But originally Brooklyn, New York.

00:30:59.400 I'd get that.

00:31:00.920 My question is, how do you plan on addressing the transgender issue in women's sports?

00:31:05.980 I have nine grandchildren, six of them female, all playing sports.

00:31:10.980 And we are very concerned for their safety, not just on the field and the courts, but in their locker rooms as well.

00:31:17.260 Right.

00:31:17.600 It's such an easy question.

00:31:20.300 And everybody in the room, and you know that answer.

00:31:22.520 We're not going to let it happen.

00:31:24.220 You look, just yesterday they had a volleyball match.

00:31:26.940 Did you see that?

00:31:27.660 Yeah.

00:31:28.020 Where a person that transitioned, okay?

00:31:31.120 We have to be very careful because this can terminate your political career if you say it slightly off.

00:31:36.320 But transitioned from man to female.

00:31:40.900 I was on a volleyball.

00:31:42.160 And I saw the slam.

00:31:43.360 It was a slam.

00:31:44.880 I never saw a ball hit so hard.

00:31:46.800 Hit the girl on the head. 1.00

00:31:47.740 But other people, even in volleyball, they've been permanently, I mean, they've been really hurt badly.

00:31:52.380 Women playing men. 0.56

00:31:54.220 But you don't have to do the volleyball.

00:31:56.160 We stop it.

00:31:56.940 We stop it.

00:31:57.840 We absolutely stop it.

00:31:59.240 You can't have it.

00:32:00.580 It's a man playing in the game.

00:32:02.460 I mean, physically, from a muscular state, even if it was a little bit less, maybe they do all sorts of tests and drugs and everything else.

00:32:09.860 Look at what's happened in swimming.

00:32:12.340 Look at the records that are being broken.

00:32:13.680 So how do you stop it?

00:32:14.640 Do you go to the sports leagues?

00:32:16.660 Do you go to the Olympic councils?

00:32:17.440 You just ban it.

00:32:18.600 The president bans it.

00:32:20.560 You just don't let it happen.

00:32:24.080 Um, uh, good answer.

00:32:26.680 And, uh, I mean, it, it really is that it's, it's, well, there are different levels of the problem.

00:32:34.280 So when you say ban it, like there's different, uh, but ultimately it's probably, it's going to be a legislative thing, but it is a simple, you just ban it.

00:32:44.240 You shouldn't, I mean, he's right.

00:32:45.360 You just don't, don't, it should not be allowed.

00:32:47.160 It should be banned.

00:32:48.120 It should be banned on every possible level where you can ban men from competing in women's sports. 0.96

00:32:52.680 Um, and, uh, and, and by the way, it's, it, it's not even the law, right?

00:33:02.340 When you're, when you're putting this in law or into policy, uh, the policy is not, oh, trans identified men are not allowed to compete in women's sports.

00:33:12.880 That's not what the law says.

00:33:14.120 You don't need to say anything about trans in the law because trans actually has nothing to do with it.

00:33:20.660 That's the whole point.

00:33:21.420 Like what you identify as is irrelevant.

00:33:23.640 It's not, we don't, the law, it doesn't matter to the law what you identify as the law.

00:33:29.640 And the policy should be that women's, that, that female sports are, most of these sports at most levels are sex segregated. 1.00

00:33:41.020 And so you play on the sport that, um, uh, aligns with your biological sex.

00:33:47.120 That's it.

00:33:48.100 And, uh, doesn't mean trans quote unquote trans people are banned from sports.

00:33:52.640 I can still play sports, but you just have to be on the team that aligns with your biological sex, regardless of what you identify as.

00:34:02.340 It really is amazing.

00:34:03.400 And I know I, you know, kind of make this point a lot, but it, it, it's, it's worth marveling at just how thoroughly we have won on this issue.

00:34:14.960 Uh, I mean, we've really crushed, like we've crushed them on this issue.

00:34:19.400 When you've got questions like this being asked on Fox news and the whole audience is against men and women's sports and they're, you know, cheering for it.

00:34:28.800 And the Republican candidate is speaking out against it so clearly and forcefully.

00:34:33.620 Yeah, you just ban it, right?

00:34:35.880 Um, that shows you how much we've won because none of that would have happened or did happen in 2016, uh, or even 2020.

00:34:45.060 So it's really been over the last four years, some of us have been fighting on this issue for more than four years, but it's been over the last four years that, uh, that these great strides have been made.

00:34:55.900 And, um, we have totally shifted the Overton window on this, on this thing.

00:35:01.000 And so for the trans activists, they're, I mean, they are truly fighting a losing battle.

00:35:04.820 Um, and you know, I, I, uh, I've, I've been saying now for a while that I think that on the issue of transitioning kids and the issue of women's sports, the trans activists are losing those issues and they will lose them completely.

00:35:21.400 Um, but I've also said that on the larger issue of trans ideology, like that's going to be a longer term fight.

00:35:29.220 I mean, that isn't going anywhere, but I actually think I, I revise that I think and say now that, yeah, we're, uh, protecting kids from transitioning, protecting women's sports.

00:35:38.680 I mean, these issues, it's, it's a, it's been for, for, for team sanity, it's been one victory after another, after another, after another.

00:35:45.800 And the trans activists are totally like, it's, it's not going to turn around for them. 0.87

00:35:49.340 It just isn't, um, and they're losing it and it will be totally lost.

00:35:54.540 But I also think that I have an even more optimistic view actually now, um, that I think that even the broader fight against trans ideology, uh, that they're losing there too. 0.69

00:36:08.320 And, um, 10 years from now, like as a trans activist, even a thing is it, is, or, or, you know, there might be a few, but it's fringe, fringe, fringe stuff that no one's talking about or paying attention to.

00:36:21.120 I think that could be the case 10 years, even five years from now.

00:36:24.540 And this is kind of more evidence of that.

00:36:27.640 This is, uh, so sort of staying on this topic, but going to another story.

00:36:31.160 New York Post has this, a trans, I'm reading, I'm reading now, I'm going to read the article from the New York Post, just reading it verbatim.

00:36:37.820 This is their language.

00:36:40.680 A transgender woman convicted of killing a couple to try to get money for her sex change ended up having the procedure covered by California taxpayers, thanks to radical policies backed by VP Kamala Harris. 0.98

00:36:50.620 The notorious so-called yacht killer, who was born John Jacobson Jr. and now goes by Skylar DeLion, um, is currently serving life without parole after initially being sentenced to death for the slaying of Thomas Hawks, 57, and his wife Jackie, 47, 2004.

00:37:05.640 Uh, DeLion, uh, DeLion, DeLion, 45, um, let's just call him Jacobson, actually.

00:37:16.100 Jacobson duped the couple into letting them and, uh, and several associates board their 55-foot yacht and take them out on it after feigning interest in purchasing the vessel.

00:37:25.500 While out at sea, somewhere between Newport Harbor and, uh, Santa Catalina, uh, Jacobson used the stun gun to incap, incapacitate the couple and force them to give up their bank account information and sign over the boat's title before tying them to the anchor and tossing it overboard.

00:37:39.460 And this was all done in order to get a sex change operation and, uh, and then two decades later, uh, the sex change operation happened, uh, courtesy of the taxpayers.

00:37:51.320 Okay, so that's the story.

00:37:52.340 Now, by the way, I was reading the article verbatim, at least initially, and the article uses the biologically incorrect pronoun throughout, refers to the killer as she and her.

00:38:02.560 Uh, but I didn't want to correct that as I was reading because, you know, I want you to see that the New York Post still felt the need to respect the pronoun preferences of a convicted killer.

00:38:12.000 So we're still, uh, that's still happening with the media.

00:38:15.320 But in spite of the New York Post absurdly participating in this charade for the sake of protecting the feelings of a murderous psychopath, um, in spite of that, we still see the Overton window shift here.

00:38:29.800 Because nobody will defend this.

00:38:34.660 This guy was able to get the taxpayer funded, quote unquote, transition surgery.

00:38:38.840 He was able to do that thanks to the bureaucrats in the state and the policies they've put in place.

00:38:44.980 But no voters support this.

00:38:48.760 I mean, put that up for a referendum.

00:38:51.780 Should taxpayers be, be, be funding sex change operations for, for criminal, for inmates in prison?

00:39:00.520 Even in California, do you think that's going to pass?

00:39:04.200 I don't think so.

00:39:06.720 And no Democrat politician at this point will defend it.

00:39:11.520 Kamala certainly won't.

00:39:13.340 Now, she did defend it and support it back a few years, back in 2020.

00:39:16.680 But now she won't.

00:39:19.020 Because, uh, going back to one more clip from the interview last night, Brett Baer asked her, uh, about, about this, about, about funding sex change operations for, uh, criminals, for prisoners.

00:39:29.080 And here's, here's how she handled that.

00:39:33.480 Every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access. 0.55

00:39:38.800 So, are you still in support of using taxpayer dollars to help prison inmates or detained illegal aliens to transition to another gender?

00:39:48.820 I will follow the law.

00:39:50.760 And it's a law that Donald Trump actually followed.

00:39:53.280 Um, you're probably familiar with, now it's a public report, that under Donald Trump's administration, these, uh, surgeries were available to, on a medical necessity basis, to people in the federal prison system.

00:40:09.340 And I think, frankly, that ad from the Trump campaign is a little bit of, like, throwing, you know, stones when you're living in a glass house.

00:40:16.720 The Trump aides say that he never advocated for that prison policy and no gender transition surgeries happened during his presidency.

00:40:22.240 Well, you know what, you've got to take responsibility for what happened in your administration.

00:40:25.040 Yeah, no surgeries happened in this pregnancy.

00:40:27.120 It's in black and white.

00:40:28.040 So, would you still advocate for using taxpayer dollars for gender reassignment surgeries?

00:40:31.760 I will follow the law, just as, I think Donald Trump would say he did.

00:40:36.220 You would have a say as president.

00:40:37.360 I, like I said, I think it's, he spent $20 million on those ads trying to create a sense of fear in the voters because he actually has no plan in this election that is about focusing on the needs of the American people.

00:40:53.760 So, another amazing moment.

00:40:55.180 I mean, first of all, she says you're responsible for what happens during your administration, which is a problem for her, you know, because that's the opposite of her message most of the time, that she's not responsible for any of the things that happened during her administration.

00:41:06.660 And, uh, least of all inflation, the economy, border crisis, uh, crime, all the rest of it.

00:41:12.700 But, uh, you know, and, and she blanks, she says that Trump supported this and that's not true.

00:41:20.740 So, uh, actually the Trump campaign, of course, Trump never supported sex change operations for inmates and this never happened in the federal prison system under Trump.

00:41:29.740 So, that's a lie.

00:41:30.280 But still, the most remarkable thing is that she won't defend it.

00:41:37.840 Only four years ago, she was out saying proudly, yeah, absolutely.

00:41:42.440 She won't say that.

00:41:45.240 She won't say, yeah, I support it.

00:41:46.540 Trans women are women. 0.90

00:41:48.080 Yada, yada, whatever.

00:41:49.460 She's not saying that.

00:41:51.980 In fact, blaming, like, pointing to Trump is, is striking that she's pointing at him and saying, well, he did it too.

00:42:00.020 He gave the, he gave the, mom, he gave the inmate sex change operations too.

00:42:04.560 Yell at him also.

00:42:06.080 Why am I the only one going in timeout for the sex change operation?

00:42:09.500 Like, that's what she's doing.

00:42:11.880 Again, leaving aside the fact that that's not true, um, it, it is a tacit admission that she's wrong.

00:42:20.780 I mean, this is a, this is a hundred percent the way you respond when you are agreeing that it's a bad thing.

00:42:29.720 So, uh, I don't like, what else do you need to see?

00:42:34.120 When you've got Democrat politicians, even the most radical Democrat politicians who four years ago considered this a winning political issue.

00:42:42.240 They thought that they, that this was a winner for them.

00:42:44.800 That they could make themselves seem tolerant and enlightened and all those sorts of things by going out and supporting sex change operations for inmates, by supporting, uh, gender transitions of children and, and, and everything else.

00:42:58.880 And now only four years later, they are running from, from, from, from it as fast as they can.

00:43:06.000 They never bring it up.

00:43:08.160 When's the last time Kamala on her own brought up trans issues, except maybe in the most sort of opaque way, like in, in, in the most kind of general vague sort of way.

00:43:22.180 But when was the last time that on her own at a rally in an interview or wherever, uh, she just brought it up as a point.

00:43:32.240 They don't cause they, they are embarrassed of it.

00:43:35.520 And, um, and that's how, you know, if you're a trans activist, you know, you're in trouble.

00:43:40.860 You know, you're in big trouble because, because you're losing, uh, you know, you're losing the fight in state legislatures.

00:43:51.540 You're, you're, you're, you're even starting to lose in the courts and, um, you've lost in the court of public opinion.

00:44:00.640 And now you're losing your own people.

00:44:02.440 Like they're ashamed of you.

00:44:03.780 They are embarrassed of you.

00:44:06.120 They're looking at you like, okay, yeah.

00:44:08.120 All right.

00:44:08.980 They want your support.

00:44:10.080 Yeah.

00:44:10.440 They want you to vote for them, but they're like, they want you to stay over there and I don't, that's, uh, okay.

00:44:18.480 All right.

00:44:19.060 Yeah.

00:44:19.560 Thanks.

00:44:20.100 Thanks for your support.

00:44:21.080 Um, just stay, stay there.

00:44:22.780 That's okay.

00:44:24.620 So that's a, that's a bad sign for the trans activists, but a great sign for humanity.

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00:46:47.500 Now, let's get to our daily cancellation.

00:46:54.880 For our daily cancellation today, we must cancel Jerry Seinfeld.

00:46:58.700 It's a bit of a sad moment for me.

00:47:00.280 I've always liked Jerry Seinfeld.

00:47:01.860 His show was a touch overrated, but still one of the greatest television comedies of all time, no doubt about that.

00:47:06.720 But he hasn't created a solid piece of entertainment, whether a film or a TV show, since Seinfeld went off the air 25 years ago, despite multiple attempts.

00:47:13.560 But even so, he's undeniably one of the great comics.

00:47:17.800 And over the years, he has shown a willingness to speak out against hyper-PC culture and the deleterious effect that it has on comedy.

00:47:25.160 He spoke out most explicitly in an interview with The New Yorker recently, where he said that the extreme left, in his words, is killing comedy.

00:47:36.580 As far as I can remember, it was the first time that he had directly called out the left.

00:47:41.240 Now, not exactly an act of bravery.

00:47:43.000 He's a 70-year-old comedian who's worth over a billion dollars.

00:47:45.980 So he's not putting much on the line by talking about these issues.

00:47:49.580 But many of us appreciated it all the same.

00:47:52.700 That is, until the interview he just did with fellow comedian Tom Papa this week, where he backtracked on all of it.

00:48:00.300 I did an interview.

00:48:01.920 So there were two things that I have to say I regret saying and that I have to take back.

00:48:09.040 And I said that the extreme left has suppressed the art of comedy.

00:48:15.860 I did say that.

00:48:17.380 Yeah.

00:48:17.700 That's not true.

00:48:19.460 It's not true.

00:48:20.660 No?

00:48:20.880 No.

00:48:21.740 Again, let's go back to our solid liquid analogy.

00:48:25.520 Okay.

00:48:26.560 And the other thing that I have said about this, if you're Lindsey Vonn, if you're a champion skier, you can put the gates anywhere you want on the mountain.

00:48:37.920 She's going to make the gate. 0.82

00:48:39.480 Right.

00:48:39.940 That's comedy.

00:48:41.020 Mm-hmm.

00:48:41.340 Whatever the culture is, we make the gate.

00:48:44.880 Mm-hmm.

00:48:45.120 You don't make the gate, you're out of the game.

00:48:47.160 The game is, where is the gate?

00:48:49.720 How do I make the gate and get down the hill the way I want to?

00:48:55.620 So does culture change?

00:48:58.160 And are there things I used to say that I can't say, that everybody's always moving?

00:49:02.460 Yeah, but that's the biggest, easiest target.

00:49:07.100 You know, you can't say certain words.

00:49:09.940 Right.

00:49:10.480 You know, whatever they are versus about groups.

00:49:13.700 So what?

00:49:14.180 So these larger cultural themes of this is not considered acceptable, this is not acceptable.

00:49:20.960 Yeah.

00:49:21.640 So I don't think the, as I said, the extreme left has done anything to inhibit the art of comedy.

00:49:29.880 Right.

00:49:30.300 I'm taking that back now officially.

00:49:32.420 Got it.

00:49:32.720 They have not.

00:49:33.540 Right.

00:49:34.620 Do you like it?

00:49:35.840 Maybe, maybe not.

00:49:36.820 It's not my business to like or not like where the culture is at.

00:49:41.080 Yeah.

00:49:41.860 It's my business to make the gate.

00:49:45.400 Wow.

00:49:46.060 What a profile and courage.

00:49:48.260 An inspiration for the ages is Jerry Seinfeld.

00:49:50.920 Now, needless to say, this is a cowardly retreat.

00:49:54.420 All the more cowardly because of how unnecessary it was.

00:49:58.040 People talked about his original comments condemning the extreme left for about half a day and then moved on.

00:50:02.520 At this point, he may as well have said it 600 years ago.

00:50:04.680 He didn't need to issue any clarification, much less a full retraction and apology.

00:50:09.240 But he was obviously quite disturbed by the pushback, however mild and fleeting it may have been.

00:50:15.420 Jerry Seinfeld never had much edge to begin with, but whatever edge he may have had at one point, he has now lost, obviously.

00:50:22.520 And we've seen this devolution, and it's been quite sad and tragic.

00:50:28.080 We've seen it with nearly all of the greatest and most influential comedians and entertainers and cultural figures of his generation, the ones who are still alive.

00:50:37.660 They've pretty much all retreated and gotten duller and blander with age.

00:50:43.120 Howard Stern is another prime example, and we've talked about that many times.

00:50:48.560 People often lament that George Carlin, who's obviously, he would be older, he's a generation above Seinfeld.

00:50:54.660 But people often lament that George Carlin isn't around anymore to lampoon the woke insanity.

00:51:02.600 What they don't understand is that if he was around, he would almost certainly be in the Howard Stern and Jerry Seinfeld camp.

00:51:09.540 I mean, you should be thanking God.

00:51:10.840 If you like George Carlin stuff, you should be thanking God he's not around.

00:51:13.720 He would be doing stand-up sets about how Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.

00:51:19.700 He'd be doing a hilarious rant about why it's lame to disrespect a person's preferred pronouns.

00:51:25.540 That would totally be what he would be doing.

00:51:27.960 That's been the trajectory for nearly all of these people.

00:51:30.140 Even Bill Burr has gotten distinctly more PC with age, like a lot more.

00:51:36.480 Now, you would think it would go the opposite way.

00:51:38.240 As you get older and richer, you'd give less of a damn what anyone says or thinks.

00:51:44.060 But in most cases, the combination of age and wealth has a neutering effect. 0.84

00:51:48.880 And these guys are comfortable with their place in life.

00:51:51.040 They're fat and happy.

00:51:51.800 The last thing they want to do is rock the boat, which is probably why.

00:51:55.520 Probably why it'd be best if most comedians just retired at 50, so we don't have to see them like this. 0.98

00:52:01.020 Like, it's just sad and pathetic and painful to witness. 0.80

00:52:03.860 And case in point, Seinfeld now says that the job of a comedian is to make the gate. 0.95

00:52:14.240 I mean, I can't think of a worse, a more wrong-headed way of explaining what a comedian is supposed to do.

00:52:22.340 And this is coming from a legendary comedian.

00:52:24.920 But what he says is that the culture sets out the boundaries, draws the course, and a comedian is supposed to operate within those boundaries.

00:52:35.520 He's supposed to navigate the course, follow the guideposts, stay on the path that the culture has created for you.

00:52:43.040 Use the words they tell you to use.

00:52:44.800 Avoid the language they tell you to avoid.

00:52:47.480 Talk about this subject, not that one.

00:52:49.580 These things are forbidden.

00:52:50.700 Avoid those.

00:52:51.300 Because this is comedy, according to the brave and bold Jerry Seinfeld.

00:52:56.260 Comedy is following the rules, making the gate, staying in the lane, driving the speed limit, to mixed metaphors.

00:53:02.140 After doing stand-up comedy for like 50 years, this is Seinfeld's great insight.

00:53:06.860 Half a century in the business, and he now sounds like a court jester performing a set for Kim Jong-un in North Korea.

00:53:13.360 Isn't it hilarious?

00:53:14.140 Isn't it so funny to follow the rules exactly and never offend your audience under any circumstances?

00:53:19.860 Isn't that cool, kids?

00:53:21.940 This is what the cool people do.

00:53:23.620 That's true comedy.

00:53:26.120 Now, the reality, of course, is the opposite.

00:53:30.520 The primary job of a comedian, the most essential role of comedy in any society, is not to make the gate and follow the course, but to question why the gate is there and not over there.

00:53:42.600 Why does the course go this way, but not that way?

00:53:46.540 You can't find the humor and absurdity in the boundaries if you're not willing to push them.

00:53:51.020 That doesn't mean that comedy always has to be intentionally outrageous or intentionally offensive just for the sake of it, but it does have to be aware of the ridiculous aspects of the culture, the rules that don't make any sense.

00:54:01.820 And it has to be willing to lampoon those rules, which will always risk upsetting the people who put the rules in place.

00:54:08.880 This is why the left can't do comedy anymore.

00:54:11.040 It's why comedians like Bill Burr have gotten much less funny as they've become more liberal.

00:54:15.420 Like walking on the path without questioning it or without venturing off of it, that may be the safest thing, and it may be the easiest.

00:54:26.260 It's not funny, though.

00:54:28.460 There's never been a good adventure story about a guy walking on a marked trail from point A to point B and never leaving it.

00:54:36.100 There's also never been a funny comedy with that premise.

00:54:39.960 A comedian doesn't just make the gate.

00:54:42.200 He critiques it.

00:54:43.040 He questions it.

00:54:43.780 He makes observations about it.

00:54:45.900 He points to its idiosyncrasies.

00:54:48.280 He might even crash directly into it on purpose.

00:54:51.800 He does anything but unquestioningly follow it. 0.98

00:54:56.680 Otherwise, he is, at best, a boring and lame and redundant comedian. 0.98

00:55:00.520 At worst, he's not a comedian at all, but a propagandist, a whore for the cultural powers that put the gates up in the first place. 0.99

00:55:07.060 And such a pathetic specimen as that might still make us laugh, but we're laughing at him, not with him. 0.98

00:55:14.500 And there is certainly a significant difference between the two. 0.89

00:55:16.660 And that is why Jerry Seinfeld is today, sadly, canceled.

00:55:21.240 That'll do it for the show today.

00:55:22.060 Thanks for watching.

00:55:22.580 Thanks for listening.

00:55:23.140 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:55:24.080 Have a great day.

00:55:25.000 Godspeed.

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00:55:48.580 I've been told because I'm a white male, kind of at the top of the pile, how do I get down from the top?

00:55:54.260 I don't think you necessarily can.

00:55:56.660 They're good past all the talk about racism.

00:55:59.260 We have to love each other.

00:56:00.540 It can't be that simple.

00:56:01.680 How do we get to a point of racial harmony? 0.60

00:56:03.620 It's good to talk to you.

00:56:08.180 We're still on a journey, all of us together.

00:56:09.800 I think you've got some journeying to do.

00:56:11.180 Just talk to me about the statistics.

00:56:12.800 We have an epidemic.

00:56:13.320 20 million crimes a year, 6,000, 7,000 hate crimes.

00:56:17.520 No, there's no epidemic.

00:56:18.480 Why are we talking about statistics?

00:56:19.980 This is not a matter of statistics.

00:56:21.720 Well, you asked me about the statistics.

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