Ep. 358 - Media Mourns Dead Terrorist
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ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed. President Trump is booed by Nationals fans. Congresswoman Katie Hill resigns. And Kanye West comes out as pro-life. Plus, Field of Greens and more!
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So, everybody is talking about how President Trump was booed by Nationals fans last night.
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And if you haven't seen it yet, here's the clip of that.
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Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!
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So, listen, some people are upset by that. But my point is, you can't really blame them, can you?
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I mean, Trump did just kill a scholar, after all. And austere one at that.
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It's one thing to go around killing scholars, but to kill an austere scholar, of all things, well, you just can't do that.
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We'll talk about Al-Baghdadi's death and especially how the media reacted to it,
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including the Washington Post's now infamous characterization, as I just alluded to,
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of the terrorist leader as an austere religious scholar.
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We've also got to talk about Kanye West, of course, and his new gospel album.
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Also, him coming out as pro-life, which I think is the more significant revelation over the last week about Kanye West.
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And Katie Hill resigned. We've been following this story for the last week, so we're going to talk about that as well.
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All right, so Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and make sure we pronounce his name right, out of respect for the dead.
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And ISIS leader, brutal, savage, sadistic, mass-murdering rapist, was killed this weekend, as you've heard.
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Blew himself up like a coward as American forces were closing in.
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And we can be quite sure, on top of that, that the virgins he was expecting to wake up to after he blew himself to smithereens, well, we can be sure that he probably was disappointed when he awoke.
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This is a great win for the good guys, for the world, politically, for Donald Trump.
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But that factor, Donald Trump, combined with the fact that Baghdadi was Muslim, seemed to cause real problems for the media.
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It just, it kind of sent them, they got all discombobulated based on those two factors.
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You'd think this story is pretty straightforward, pretty simple.
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But the media, well, for the media, it's never that simple, especially when it comes to Donald Trump.
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They can't give Trump credit for anything, ever.
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And also, they can never put identity politics to the side.
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Which is why they spent the last 48 hours in, it would seem, almost mourning, they've almost been mourning the death of a man who would lock people in cages and set them on fire.
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They have almost been, it would seem, upset that he died.
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I know you've seen this by now, but we've really got to break this thing down, because it is incredible.
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The Washington Post, Baghdadi dies, and immediately, the Post puts up an obituary with this headline.
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It said, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State's terrorist-in-chief, dies at 48.
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Now, this, with the way that's phrased, dies, with the passive phrasing, it makes it seem like he died peacefully in his sleep of a heart attack,
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or, you know, died of pancreatic cancer or something.
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It doesn't quite let on to the fact that American forces effectively killed him by forcing him to blow himself up.
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Terrorist-in-chief, sure, that's a fine description.
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But then comes the headline change, and they change it to a headline that will live forever in infamy.
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Aboukhar al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at the helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.
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A headline that, as many people have been, it kind of makes you wonder how they eulogized other famous murderers.
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Like, Timothy McVeigh, noted political activist, dies at 33.
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Or, John Wayne Gacy, boisterous party clown and children's entertainer, dies at 52.
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Adolf Hitler, prominent painter and environmentalist, dies at 56.
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The really amazing thing about this is that Washington Post, it's the fact that they changed the headline.
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Okay, so there had to be a real thought process that went into this.
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There had to be a discussion that involved numerous people.
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There had to have been an actual, audible conversation among multiple people at this supposedly respected news organization.
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And that conversation had to begin with someone saying something like,
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Hey guys, this headline about the serial raping terrorist is a little harsh.
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Why don't we try to highlight his positive sides a little bit more?
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Or the conversation could have started with something more like,
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Hey guys, this headline might make people think that Donald Trump did something good.
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How can we make it seem like less of a victory for him?
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However the conversation started, this is what you ended up with.
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And the other amazing thing is that apparently, you would assume,
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they didn't think they would get any backlash for it.
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They were blindsided by the backlash, which is why they ended up changing the headline a second time.
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It took them three tries to get to a headline about a very simple story.
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It took them three tries to get to the right headline.
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But the fact that, again, multiple people looked at the headline,
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Which just goes to show why the media embarrasses itself so often and why it is so hated.
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Because these people who work in the media really don't understand how normal human beings work.
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If you're in the media and your job is to communicate,
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your job is to communicate with normal people and tell them what's going on in the world.
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So if you don't understand how a normal brain works,
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that's going to be a very difficult thing to do.
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They thought that normal humans would prefer for a terrorist leader to be characterized as a religious scholar.
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But, and I haven't seen anyone really point, anyone else really point this out.
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due to their suffocating fear of being Islamophobic,
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austere in this context means strict or rigid or uncompromising.
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what you're saying is that they very strictly adhere to the fundamentals of their religion.
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So if you call Baghdadi an austere scholar of Islam,
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what you're saying obviously is that he is someone who adheres very closely to
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and understands very well the fundamentals of the religion.
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That's what it means to be austere and scholarly in this context.
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Are they implying that a strict observance of Islam would lead to ISIS?
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Now, I know they weren't trying to imply that, but they did.
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They forgot that, as in the media, they forgot what they normally do.
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you know, when you're so committed to always going to certain talking points
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sometimes you get mixed up and you forget what your talking point is supposed to be
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because it can be hard to remember, right, in fairness to them.
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So they forgot that their talking point is usually
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They forgot about that, and this time they went with,
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Now, it wasn't just the Washington Post embarrassing itself.
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but also the way that Trump described the death of Baghdadi
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in his address to the nation was very scandalizing
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with very weak stomachs who can't deal with it.
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So here's a clip of that address from the president.
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Last night, the United States brought the world's number one terrorist leader
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whimpering and crying and screaming all the way.
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Baghdadi's demise demonstrates America's relentless pursuit of terrorist leaders
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and our commitment to the enduring and total defeat of ISIS
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He will never again harm another innocent man, woman, or child.
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How could President Trump say such mean things about that poor man?
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Oh, he definitely does deserve to be spoken of this way.
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Some people definitely do deserve to be spoken of like that.
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Some people are murderous scumbags who bring nothing but death and misery
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And when they die, the appropriate and right thing is to celebrate and laugh
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That is the appropriate thing to do sometimes when people die.
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The idea that we should respect everyone who dies, of course, is crazy.
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there's no reason why we have to start respecting them now.
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And there's no reason why we have to pretend that there's anything
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So what Trump says here is not only acceptable,
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but actually the only acceptable way to talk about a piece of garbage
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when they are finally thrown out as they deserve to be.
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Not just the media, but the D.C. elites as well.
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those were the same people booing Trump at the Nationals game.
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The Nationals, their fans are 90% D.C. bureaucrats and lobbyists and lawyers.
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So if you're getting booed by them, that's, I'd be, I would be very upset.
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If you go out onto the field at a Nationals game
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and you don't get booed by these people, that's a bad sign.
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So the fact that Trump was booed, I think, is a great sign for him
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Now, here's an example of someone who was upset.
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Dana Shell Smith, a bureaucrat and Georgetown fellow
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who lists her pronouns in her Twitter bio, just to give you an idea.
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We don't delight in death like the terrorists do.
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Should go without saying, but to be perfectly clear,
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I'm remarking on the presser, not on the actual operation.
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The killing of Baghdadi was unquestionably good and necessary.
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So she says she's glad the terrorist was killed,
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but the way that it was described made her tummy hurt,
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and she's really worried and concerned about that.
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Michael Morell, the former deputy director of the CIA,
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went on Face the Nation to talk about how bothered and concerned he is
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with the rhetoric surrounding the death of this scumbag terrorist.
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So I'll let Sandy answer the operational military question.
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We should be really thankful that Baghdadi is gone,
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and clearly the intelligence community and the U.S. military did an amazing job,
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and the president made exactly the right decision.
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And the president thanked Gina Haspel, the CIA director.
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And I think we'll learn more in the days ahead about what the intelligence was
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and how we got it, and we'll thank even more people.
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It bothered me a little bit some of what the president did in providing detail
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about taking back to the United States pieces of Baghdadi's body.
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It bothered me a little bit hearing the president talk about some of that Syrian oil being ours,
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You know, the oil comments, Margaret, really validate,
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at least it sounds to people like it validates,
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40 to 50 years of conspiracy theories about what American foreign policy is all about, right?
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So a great, great day, but I think the president could have handled
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Of course, this idea from the woman that I just read, or this guy,
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this idea that we're going to upset ISIS even more because we say mean things about their dead leader,
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she said it's going to endanger personnel in the region.
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Right, because ISIS, they were big fans of Americans prior to this.
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They were totally on board with us, but now that we've said mean things about their dead leader,
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now they're going to be, you know, a little bit testy probably with American personnel.
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No, of course, ISIS, they already killed Americans.
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They've swore that, you know, they have declared war on the West already,
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So I think those two factors already are, that's pretty much all they need.
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I don't see how rhetoric is going to add to anything.
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Are they implying that there are ISIS militants who, you know, weren't already really sold on bringing down the West
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and declaring jihad, but now that they've heard President Trump's unseemly rhetoric,
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they're saying, you know what, actually, yeah, death to the West.
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All right, let's go to a different story here, important update on a story that we've been talking about.
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Katie Hill, the Congresswoman who had a nasty habit of sleeping with her subordinates,
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And this is pretty incredible, actually, because on Monday, last Monday, we talked about this story.
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And at the time, the story was, part of the story anyway, was that nobody was talking about the story,
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And it looked like she was going to get away with these blatant ethical violations.
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It looked like she would get away with it because the media wasn't paying attention.
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They had just decided they were going to ignore it.
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Which is one of the reasons why it took Katie Hill several days before she even came out and acknowledged
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this story, when it was first published by Red State, who did great journalism on this, by the way.
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She was very lackadaisical in her response because she didn't need to get on top of it.
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The way that, I would argue, a male politician in her situation would have to.
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But we, much as we did with the James Younger case last week, we pressed this.
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And I know we talked about this on Friday, but it's worth reiterating that if there is
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an important story that's going on that the media is trying to bury, one of the great things
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about the internet, and there are a lot of terrible things about the internet, but one
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of the great things is that we can use it to force the media to take note of it.
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We don't have to just sit back and complain about, oh, why isn't anyone talking about this
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If it's an important story we think people should pay attention to, we can bypass the
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So it's not even really, I guess I should stipulate, it's not even so much forcing the media to
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It's more bypassing them and saying, forget about you.
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And then when everyone's talking about it anyway, now the media has to swing around and
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say something about it because it's way too conspicuous that they're ignoring it.
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And we did it twice last week with two different stories.
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And this is something we should be doing a lot more often.
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She's resigning, but she's not leaving apologetically.
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And she wants us to know that she is the victim.
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Let me read for you a little bit of her statement that she published about leaving.
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It says, it is with a broken heart today that I announced my resignation from Congress.
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This is the hardest thing I've ever had to do, but I believe it is the best thing for
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my constituents, my community, and our country.
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This is what needs to happen so that the good people who supported me will no longer be subjected
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to the pain inflicted by my abusive husband and the brutality of hateful political operatives
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who seem to happily provide a platform to a monster who is driving a smear campaign built
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Having private photos of, I just love how already, you know, it sounds like she's gearing
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up for some kind of apology where she says, oh, they're no longer to be subjective to the
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And then you think maybe it'd be my poor choices, but it's by my husband.
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Having private photos of personal moments weaponized against me has been an appalling
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It's also illegal, and we are currently pursuing all of our available legal options.
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However, I know that as long as I am in Congress, we'll live fearful of what might
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It's the feeling I decided to leave when I, uh, I decided to leave when I left my marriage
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and one I will not tolerate being forced upon others.
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I can no longer allow my community, family, friends, staff, supporters, and especially the
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children who look up to me as a role model to suffer this unprecedented brand of cruelty.
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Think of the children who are upset by the fact that my unethical actions have been exposed.
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Um, oh, now we're getting to an apology, it looks like.
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For the mistakes made along the way and the people who have been hurt, I am so sorry, and
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I'm not a perfect person and never pretended to be.
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It's the one thing that made my race so special.
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I hope it, uh, showed others that they do belong, that their voice does matter, and that
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I hope it showed the other polyamorous perverts who enjoy having sex with their tax-funded
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subordinates that there is a place for them in Congress.
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Well, something tells me, Katie, that, um, that there, that I think those, there are plenty
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So you, I don't, I don't think you needed to blaze the way for them.
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So you're, you're really just falling in line with so many others.
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Um, those of you who know me personally know that I'm a fighter and it's thanks to countless
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other fighters who supported me that we were able to stand up for the ideas of blah, blah,
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It's just, I wanted you to get a, get, just get a, hear that because it's such a bunch of
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She was running around having sex parties with, with the subordinates who are paid with tax money.
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Her behavior is wildly unethical, completely unacceptable.
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Now I said last week that, you know, the whole revenge porn thing and releasing private photos,
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And, uh, and whoever did it probably did break the law and they should be prosecuted for it.
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So I'm, I'm, I'm in agreement there, but as far as she's good, so we can talk about that.
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But as far as she's concerned, all she should be doing is apologizing.
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She can leave all of the self-righteous, I'm a fighter and I'll get through this.
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You're fighting again, because you were having sex with your subordinates who are being paid
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with tax money, which is at a minimum against the rules in Congress, probably also illegal.
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Uh, and of course there are, there are, you know, we're hearing from plenty of leftists
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who feel sorry for her and are telling us that she's a victim and how horrible it is for her.
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Uh, well, I say now for the 50th time that if she was a man, you know, uh, the, nobody would
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And she also would not be able to get away with a, a resignation statement like that.
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There, there were, back during the heyday of the Me Too movement, when, when men were
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being, uh, kicked to the curb left and right, there were some guys who, who, when they, when
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they resigned from whatever position issued statements sort of like that, where they made
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themselves out to be the victims and they were ridiculed for it across the media.
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And for good reason, most of the time, unless they really were innocent.
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Um, yet we're not seeing the same ridicule here.
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We're seeing a lot of sort of nodding heads and oh, poor Katie, poor Katie.
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Uh, now before we get to emails, let's talk briefly about Kanye West.
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First of all, before we get to the album, um, this I think is the biggest headline.
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I don't even know what that is, but, uh, here he is being interviewed about the album, but
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he starts getting into politics a little bit and he starts really laying down some facts.
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Democrats had us voting Democrats with food stamps for years, bro.
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Guns in the eighties, taking the fathers at the home, plan B, lowering our votes, making
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I think it's really hard to overstate the significance of someone like Kanye West saying what he just
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Now, those of us in the pro-life movement, we've been saying this for years.
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The Democrats are pushing abortion onto minority populations.
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And as a result, minority children are being exterminated by the millions.
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Without abortion, it is also an inarguable fact that the black population in terms of a
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percentage of the overall population would be much, much higher than it is today.
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We can't say exactly how much higher with any precision, but considering that in some
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cities, black children are more likely to be aborted than born, it's not hard to see
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how the math would generally work out if you didn't have abortion.
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But the problem the pro-life movement has had is how do we get this message to the people
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The media is run by Democrats, Hollywood, the entertainment industry, the music industry,
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So we need people inside these structures to open their eyes to the truth and start speaking
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it so that they can reach the populations that we have trouble reaching.
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That's the significance of what Kanye just did there.
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And to an extent, the significance of what he's been doing for a year now.
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This, to me, I know some people were, you know, made a big deal about it when he came
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out in support of Donald Trump, which was great that he was speaking his mind on that.
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But to get away from, rather than just talking politics, to get into these, get into the
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trenches, basically, on these cultural issues and speak out specifically about something
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And I would love to see Kanye West perform at the March for Life.
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And he's got music that he could perform now at the March for Life, namely the music that
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came out last week, Jesus is King is the album.
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And, you know, everyone's been talking about it.
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It's a big sensation, especially among Christians.
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Now, it's not very often that Christians, conservative Christians anyway, will be big fans of a rap
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album, sort of a rap album, rap slash gospel album.
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It's just been, looking on Facebook and on Twitter and stuff, there have been people raving
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about a Kanye West album who I never thought in a million years I would see raving about
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So I think, as for the album itself, I've listened to it maybe three times now.
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Not hard to do because the album is like 27 minutes long.
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Many of the songs are way too short and have sort of an unfinished feel to them.
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Like the song Jesus is Lord at the end of the album.
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It starts, and for the first 45 seconds, it sounds like it's building to being this great
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gospel track as the music builds and builds and builds.
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And then it just stops at 49 seconds, and that's it.
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And it really feels like that was the beginning of a song.
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And then Kanye forgot to do the rest of the song, so we just got the intro, and that was it.
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But there are also a couple of really good songs, songs that feel complete.
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The one with Kenny G, I forget the name of it, but that's probably my favorite.
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That same sort of vibe, except with Jesus in it.
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In fact, speaking of College Dropout, Kanye's first album, and I think still to this day his
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best album, and one of the best albums of the century, I think, in any genre.
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But on that album, he had the song Jesus Walks, which is one of my favorite songs.
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And so maybe that was my issue with this one a little bit, is that when I heard that Kanye
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was making a Jesus album, I thought it would be a whole album of Jesus Walks type songs.
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And, but none of the songs on this album quite reach that level.
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And many of them don't even feel like fully complete songs.
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So that might be affecting my ability to assess it fairly, given my expectations.
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As for the message of the album, I give that a 10 out of 10.
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And on the message, you know, the other thing that surprised me with these songs is this
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It wasn't shallow kind of Christian music talking points, which is what you get from a lot of
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Christian music, which is why I don't like contemporary Christian music.
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But that's not, he gets into some, he gets in depth and talks.
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I mean, he gets into some, what I would call serious theology in a way.
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Um, resisting sin, you know, obedience to Christ, uh, repentance.
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It's like, and that's, and that's, again, most contemporary Christian music, they're not
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So I was very impressed with that, which is why message wise, 10 out of 10.
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As for the music, I give it a solid six and a half to seven out of 10.
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If he just goes, I hope he goes back around and finishes the album sometime.
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Maybe he does a remastered, you know, deluxe, whatever edition of it.
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I think it has the potential to me, it comes off like a rough draft of a, of a Christian sort
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Uh, if he finishes it, which maybe he will, then I think it could go from music wise,
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Okay, let's go to emails, mattwalshowatgmail.com, mattwalshowatgmail.com.
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This is from Abigail says, greetings, future overlord.
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So please forgive me and don't do me and my entire family to a painful death.
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I don't know why you'd even bother saying that.
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If you're disagreeing with me, you know what the penalty is.
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I work at an ice cream shop where I swing the iPad around, which gives an option for
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I'm a manager and most of the time I'm by myself and do everything by myself.
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Take their order, make the ice cream, go outside, clean up after children, adults or
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Uh, my, my sister works at a coffee shop where they take coffee very seriously and she puts
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My point being just because people don't physically wait on tables doesn't mean they don't put a
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Um, first of all, the way that you're groveling to me like that is actually exactly what I would
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As far as the thing about tips, listen, it's, I'm not, yes, uh, I'm sure that what you do
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in your job, you do work hard, but the tips, it's not just about rewarding people who work
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hard because if tips are about rewarding people who work hard in their jobs, then we would
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But we don't, I mean, there, there are people who do jobs that you, you, where you'd think
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you would tip them considering how hard they work, considering that what they're doing is
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important for you, but you can't do it yourself.
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Uh, considering the service they provide, you'd think you'd tip them.
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Like for example, your plumber, nobody tips your plumber, but if you, if we're going to
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tip people who work hard, they provide a service, we don't tip plumbers though.
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Um, it's crazy to me that we tip cab drivers, Uber drivers, um, even the guy who runs, who
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runs the, you know, the complimentary hotel shuttle from the airport to the hotel and
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back, but we don't tip the captain who pilots the plane 30,000 feet in the air and keeps
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He's standing there when you all, when you, when everyone's shuffling out after the plane
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lands, he's standing there saying goodbye to everyone.
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I've never seen anyone flip, uh, slip that guy a five.
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So it's not really a measure of how hard you work.
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Some of it is just a social convention where I can't really figure out why we do tip certain
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Um, but I guess my point is, you know, we know that we tip waiters, we tip delivery drivers,
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If you're at a hotel, if it's a fancy hotel, you tip everybody.
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If we are going to start adding and tipping more people, then in my opinion, we're not
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going to go to people who work at coffee shops or ice cream parlors, which is no offense
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to you any more than we're going to start tipping podcast hosts.
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But if we're going to do that, then why wouldn't we start tipping electricians, plumbers, car
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Um, but let's, as I said, let's just, let's just stop.
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This is from Matthew says, dear Matt, my name is Matt and I live in Austin, Texas.
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I'm a Greek Orthodox Christian, but not the best example.
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It's a blessing to have someone like you in conservative media or any media who is not
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only brilliant and funny, but also willing to poke fun and be a bit self-deprecating.
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That's one reason I get nauseated listening to Hannity and those like him, as it seems
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their primary concern is with letting their listeners know that they're, that they predicted
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Well, in fairness, if I did predict something, then it happens.
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I definitely let you know about it and I will let you know.
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So that's one of the, it's one of the joys of doing a job like this.
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One, I'm a huge sports fan, especially college football.
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But as long as I look through Twitter and Facebook and even the news, part of me wonders
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if perhaps I shouldn't focus on sports so much and maybe try to focus on the current
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I completely disagree with the quote, religion is the opiate of the masses, but part of me
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has started to wonder if sports has become the opiate along with TV shows, et cetera.
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It seems the only secular items that have been remotely thought provoking is the Dave Chappelle
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Even though I don't agree with them on lots of things, I have tremendous respect for anyone
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who's willing to speak out, um, on the things we're seeing.
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And then number two, will you come to the University of Texas at Austin and give a talk?
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I can provide security as I plan to start working out tomorrow.
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Well, on the second one, yes, I would be happy to come.
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On the first question, uh, I think, yeah, we, we, we can tend to over entertain ourselves.
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And I think generally in our culture, we are sort of entertaining ourselves to death, but
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in moderation, I don't see any problem with it.
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So when, when people are way too focused on, on these kinds of things and sports and entertainment,
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that becomes their entire life, unless it's what you do for a job outside of that, it becomes
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I think that's a problem, but on the other side of it, it also annoys me how, you know,
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on Sunday you're watching football and this happens to me football Sunday comes.
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Maybe I'll post a few things to Twitter, give them my thoughts on what's happening.
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And without fail, there are always going to be people who respond, well, all these things
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And, you know, you got ISIS and Syria and everything, and you're talking about this.
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Well, yes, those other things are important, but I don't have to spend 100% of my time thinking
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about and talking about all of the important things in the world.
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It would be a strange way for a human being to live.
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And I don't think any human is capable of living like that.
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So there are going to be moments when you're focused on things that aren't as important.
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And I think that that's one of the joys of sports.
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That's why I like going to, you know, watch a football game or something, or you go to any
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I think one of the joys of it is that you're all there.
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It's not very important, but it's a break from all the madness that's going on outside.
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So for those three or four hours, you're going to really care about this game, which doesn't
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And we need to be able to focus on things that aren't important.
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And there's also a balance in, I think, you have very uninteresting and bland and boring
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people who all they care about is pop culture and watching TV.
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And these are people without personalities, barely even human anymore, because their mind
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But then on the other end of the spectrum, I think you have people who are incapable of
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caring about or talking about entertainment, sports, that sort of thing.
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And I think those people also are very bland and uninteresting and have given up their personality.
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So I think as human beings, it's sort of a balance.
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Well, we'll save this one for tomorrow, actually.
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