Ep. 552 - The Media Narrative In The Jacob Blake Shooting Begins To Crumble
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The media narrative in the Jacob Blake shooting is falling apart, as the truth emerges. The story we were originally told appears wrong or misleading on a number of key points, but it doesn t matter to rioters who consider truth to be in irrelevant detail to them. Also, a nun at the RNC convention last night sent in to do battle against the DNC s fake nun. And in our daily cancellation, I cancel the New York Times for an article that asks us to feel sorry for men who get caught by police while trying to have sex with children. Yes, really.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media narrative in the Jacob Blake shooting is falling apart.
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As the truth emerges, the story we were originally told appears wrong or misleading on a number of
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key points. And we'll talk about that today, but it doesn't matter to the rioters who consider
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truth to be in irrelevant detail to them. And same for the media. Also, five headlines,
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including the nun at the RNC convention last night sent in to do battle against the DNC's
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fake nun, spiritual battle. And there was a clear victor, I think. And in our daily cancellation,
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I will cancel the New York Times for an article that asks us to feel sorry for men who get caught
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by police while trying to have sex with children. Yes, really. All of that coming up and much more.
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Packed show today, a lot to cover. We will begin here. Only hours after the shooting of Jacob Blake
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by Kenosha police, the narrative had already solidified. That's all it takes these days.
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Sometimes not even hours. A narrative can take shape in mere minutes. But in this case,
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in spite of the fact that all we had to go on was a short video of police shooting a man while he
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leaned inside his car, the media had rendered its verdict. Jacob Blake was an unarmed victim,
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gunned down by police after he stopped to innocently break up a fight between two other people.
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Well, there were questions, though. Was he unarmed? Was he breaking up a fight? Why was he reaching into
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the car? What exactly happened between Blake and the police right before the shooting? And why were the
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police there in the first place? These were open questions. And now the answers to those questions
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are finally coming to light. And, you know, it should not surprise us that the answers don't
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line up with the narrative, as they so rarely do these days. So let's go through what we know.
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First of all, according to Wisconsin media outlet Madison 365, which obtained audio from the police
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scanner on the night of the shooting, Blake's girlfriend had called 911 to report that Blake was
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at her home and was not supposed to be there and had taken her keys and wouldn't give them back.
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Police responding to the scene were informed that Blake had an open warrant for his arrest. It had
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been previously reported rather quietly by the media that Blake was wanted for sexual assault,
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trespassing and and domestic abuse as well. Now, this fact alone doesn't directly vindicate the
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officers, but the scanner audio is significant for a few reasons. First of all, it shows that the
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eyewitnesses who claimed that Blake was breaking up a fight were wrong. Those eyewitnesses were
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apparently lying. Or if we want to be generous and see the best in people, assume the best,
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we'll say they were mistaken. The police were summoned to the scene because of apparently Blake's
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own actions. Of course, it shouldn't be a revelation that eyewitness reports are often unreliable,
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especially where high profile police shootings are concerned. We should always keep in mind that the
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Black Lives Matter organization rose to prominence on the back of false eyewitness reports in Ferguson
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about Michael Brown putting up his hands and yelling, hands up, don't shoot. If it wasn't for
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that original false report and false narrative, who knows where we'd be today? Would we have all of
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this chaos in writing? I don't know. Unfortunately, there's even more reason, though, these days to doubt
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eyewitness reports as these shootings are not happening in a vacuum. Witnesses on the scene know
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what sorts of things they should say in order to frame the narrative in an unfavorable light for
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police. We don't know if the apparent false information in this case was intentional or not.
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But the temptation to give false information in this intensely anti-police environment must be very
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strong. This is only added on top of the well-established fact that eyewitness reports in general are
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incredibly inaccurate. And that's something that we've known for a long time. Also, the fact that
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Blake had apparently taken someone's keys raises more critical questions about what he was doing
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when he walked to the car where his kids were reportedly sitting and opened the door with police
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guns trained on him. Was he reaching for something? Was it even his car? Did he intend to drive away?
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Now it seems there could have been potentially more than one reason why police would want to open fire
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or would have a reason to open fire. If he was going for a weapon of some kind, that would be clear
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justification for an equal response from police. If he, as a wanted sexual and domestic abuser, was
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about to flee the scene with a van full of kids, possibly involving the children in a dangerous high-speed
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chase, that could be another reason for police to stop him by whatever means necessary. Or if the police had
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reason to suspect, good reason to suspect either of those possibilities, and that could be a reason
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for them too. And then the other shoe dropped later on, yeah, later yesterday. The Wisconsin DOJ
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finally released some information that filled in most of the rest of the puzzle. We're told that when
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police arrived on the scene, they tried to arrest Blake. He resisted. They tried to use non-lethal
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measures, a taser. He resisted that too. He told them he had a knife in his possession. He went to his car
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while they screamed for him to stop. He reached. They shot. Then they recovered a knife on the floorboard
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of his car. So it's a review. Wanted domestic abuser. Girlfriend calls police on him. Police come
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to make the arrest. He resists. Fight back. Fights back. Goes to his car. Reaches in. Knife is recovered.
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Was he already holding the knife? Was he reaching for it? Was he reaching for something else and the
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knife just happened to be there? There are still aspects of the story that remain unclear, but it's a very,
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Now that the truth is coming out about the Jacob Blake shooting,
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you would expect maybe if you didn't know any better that that would make a difference to the
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rioters. Of course it doesn't. It doesn't make a difference to them or anybody else on the left
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because truth and conclusions drawn have no necessary relationship. All they care about are
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anecdotes and stories. It could be an out-of-context anecdote. It could be a completely
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false anecdote. None of that matters. And the problem is that when people think this way,
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that generalized conclusions can be made based on random cherry-picked anecdotes, it's almost impossible
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to reason with them because these are by every definition unreasonable people. Either not capable
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of or simply not interested in engaging in any kind of critical analysis at all. Here's a great
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example of that problem. Lots of people have sent me a video which supposedly shows that the Blake
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shooting was racist. It's not a video of that shooting. It's a different police incident. And one
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tweet of this video sent to me meant to debunk my take on the Blake shooting has over 20,000 retweets.
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And the caption says, I mean, here's a video of a white man doing the exact same thing and not being
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shot once, let alone seven times. Let's take a look at the clip. Watch.
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Okay. So you have this supposedly revealing contrast there. In one case, the white guy gets
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in the car, chases after the cop, gets in another car, doesn't get shot. In the other case, the black
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man reaching into a car does get shot. What does that prove? Well, absolutely nothing at all of
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relevance. All it proves is that in the first case, that particular police officer didn't shoot.
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And the other, those particular police officers did. Now, if you could show me that the first
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officer in the first case has fired on black people in the same situation, then you might have
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something. But what you would have there is only an indictment of that particular cop, not cops
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generally. These are mere anecdotes, different people, different places, different times,
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different situations. And two can play at this game. That's the problem with drawing conclusions
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from anecdotes. Anyone can do it. And then it becomes an anecdotal battle, flinging anecdotes
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back and forth across the divide as we huddle in our trenches. If I wanted to, I could show you the
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police shooting of Daniel Shaver, a white man, gunned down, unarmed, on his knees, begging for his
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life. I could juxtapose that against video of a black man being much more aggressive and not being
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shot by cops. Maybe I could show you a rioter throwing a brick at police or something like
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that. Remember that police officer who was bashed in the head with a brick by rioters in Kenosha on
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Sunday night? You might not remember it because it's already like it never happened. We don't talk
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about it. But the attempted cop killer in that case didn't get shot. I don't know what his race was,
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but it's a thing. I don't even know if he's been arrested. So could I look at that and draw some
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kind of conclusion about the way cops responded? No, I can't. I've merely shown that in one case
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something happened and in another something else happened. To make more general statements and to
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form conclusions on a larger, less isolated scale, that's when you enter the realm of statistics and
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you need huge sets of data and then you need to compare that data set against the other data set and
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you have to make sure that you've set parameters and you've taken all the various factors into
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account that might skew your results. Now, as it happens, I have done that. Others have done it
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too when it comes to the issue of supposed systemic racism in policing. You can look at the number of
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black people arrested in a given year versus white people. You can look at the percentage who wind up
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getting shot by police. If you do that, you'll find the percentage is nearly identical between white and
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black people. You can look at the overall number of unarmed police shootings every year for all races
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and when you do that, you'll find that it's quite a rare occurrence and most of the supposedly unarmed
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shootings, or many of them anyway, aren't really unarmed at all because the unarmed person was using
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some other weapons such as a vehicle to inflict harm or threaten officers. You can do that. I've done it.
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It's the only way to confirm or disconfirm claims about systemic bias and racism.
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One other brief point, since we're on the subject of knocking down anecdotes,
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let's do one more because this one is one that I see a lot and it's pretty annoying because it's
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so ridiculous. And you've probably seen this too. Here's an example, a tweet from a guy named Austin
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Duke saying, so the F what Matt, it still doesn't justify seven damn shots. What's so hard to understand
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about that? When a mass murderer is taken to Burger King in the country, in this country, but black folks
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dying over $20 in cigarettes, that's a problem. Seven shots isn't acceptable and we won't accept that.
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Now, this is a reference, of course, to Dylan Roof, who is the racist mass murderer. The point being
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made here, again, a common point is that Dylan Roof killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston and yet
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was taken alive while, insert whatever cherry-picked example, Jacob Blake, George Floyd, et cetera,
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was killed or shot. But what are the differences between these cases? You might say Roof was white.
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That's the difference. Okay. Sure. Maybe under normal circumstances, they would have shot the mass
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murderer dead, but decided not to because he's white. Maybe. Or maybe he survived, Roof did,
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because he surrendered peacefully. And maybe most, the vast majority of these high-profile police
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shootings end up being police shootings because the suspects in question do not surrender peacefully.
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Perhaps that's the difference. And that would explain why, for example, the Beltway snipers,
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black mass murderers, killed 17 people in a racially motivated killing spree, were also taken alive
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because they also surrendered peacefully. A great many black killers, white killers, Asian killers,
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Hispanic killers, all kinds of killers have been taken by police alive. And the reason is usually that
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they surrender peacefully. Now, certainly there are some criminals who don't surrender peacefully and are
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still taken alive. And if you have proof that black criminals who don't surrender peacefully are
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significantly more likely to die than white criminals who don't surrender peacefully, then show me that
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proof. The burden of proof is on you as the person making the claim. If you cannot meet the burden of
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proof, it is reasonable for me to conclude that the thing which most determines a person's fate when
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they're being arrested is how they choose to act in that moment. And that really makes a lot of sense when you
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think about it. But why do I waste my breath? None of this matters to the people advancing the narrative,
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which is why they will continue to protest for Jacob Blake, raise him up as a hero in spite of whatever facts
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are known or become known in the future. I mean, my God, they rioted in Minneapolis last night after a wanted
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murderer killed himself as police closed in, committed suicide. Even that somehow is police brutality.
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The truth is irrelevant to these rioters and insurrectionists. They only want to destroy.
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They are filled with hatred, envy, and aggression, and they will take any excuse they can find to let
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it out. But the truth remains all the same, and we have to continue to speak it and defend it and let
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its banner wave because someone in this country has to still care about the truth. And that's the only hope
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So the RNC convention last night, night three, I hosted our all access watch party. I think we had
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a good time. Um, and I was really happy that our all access members had an opportunity,
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uh, you know, had the special treat of listening to me all night. So that was wonderful for them.
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And there were even a few good speakers during the convention as well. I thought, um, now I'm,
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I'm biased admittedly, but I, I thought the star of the night, the best speech was from sister
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Deirdre Byrne. Uh, she's an army colonel, a doctor and a nun. It's kind of sounds like the beginning
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of a joke, but it's all, it's all rolled into one. So she's all of those. And she got up to speak
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and she did not disappoint at all. Take a listen. While we tend to think of the marginalized as living
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beyond our borders, the truth is the largest marginalized group in the world can be found
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here in the United States. They are the unborn. As Christians, we first met Jesus as a stirring
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embryo in the womb of an unwed mother and saw him born nine months later in the poverty of the cave.
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It's no coincidence that Jesus stood up for what was just and was ultimately crucified because what
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he said wasn't politically correct or fashionable as followers of Christ, we are called to stand up
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for life against the politically correct or fashionable of today. We must fight against a
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legislative agenda that supports and even celebrates destroying life in the womb. Keep in mind, the laws
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we create define how we see our humanity. And we must ask ourselves, what are we saying when we go
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into a womb and snuff out an innocent, powerless, voiceless life? As a physician, I can say without
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hesitation, life begins at conception. That's, that's awesome. And you know, I mean, you know, I'm going to
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like that. That's, that is right in my wheelhouse. And I have to tell you, just so you know, if you're
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not Catholic, what you just saw there, that's a real nun. Okay. She's got the habit. She's defending
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the unborn. She's very kind and gentle, but you get the impression that she could whoop your ass if
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she needed to. So those are, those are nun vibes. Okay. It's total nun vibes. Contrast that with the fake
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nun at the DNC, dressed like a secretary praying to the sky goddess or whatever she was doing.
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So, you know, just all you need is that contrast. And I know which nun I'm going to choose in the
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celebrity death match. Other than that, I thought there were other good moments, some good speeches.
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I also thought there were missed opportunities. And I think there have been some missed opportunities
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all throughout this, the RNC convention. Now they, yeah, they've talked about supporting the
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police. They've talked about the riots and chaos. They've talked about law and order. I think
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there should be an even greater emphasis on that. I mean, we are right now, the RNC convention is
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happening. They got three hours of primetime coverage while, um, Democrats are burning down
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the city in Kenosha. And, you know, and so I think that, I think there's a real opportunity there
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to focus in intensely and show people what's happening. And, you know, in, with, with,
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with specificity, not just saying, Oh, right. At this point, when you say rioting, it almost
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doesn't mean anything to people. We're numb to it. I think you need to get into specifics and talk
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about specific things that are happening and then call out Democrats by name who refuse to condemn it
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or who, uh, or who have actually actively encouraged it. There's been a little bit of that. Some of that,
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I think there should be more. Okay. Number two, CNN has been a parody of itself, of course, for years
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now, but what I'm about to show you is so embarrassing and disgraceful that the phrase
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beyond parody scarcely begins to cover it. Watch what you're seeing behind me is one of multiple
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locations that have been burning in Kenosha, Wisconsin over the course of the night. A second
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night since Jacob Blake was seen shot in the back seven times by a police officer. And what you are
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seeing now, these images came and come in stark contrast to what we saw over the course of the
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daytime hours in Kenosha and into the early evening, which were largely peaceful demonstrations
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in the face of law enforcement. It wasn't until night fell that things began to get a little bit
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more contentious. Things were thrown back and forth. Police started using some of those crowd
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dispersal tactics like tear gas, even playing, uh, very loud sounds to push them out. And then
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what you were seeing, the common theme that ties all of this together is an expression of anger
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and frustration over what people feel like has become an all too familiar story playing out in
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places from across the country, not just here in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Fiery, but mostly peaceful
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protests. CNN says as a literal fire rages in the background. Um, I, I, I'm, you know,
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it makes you wonder like if they were reporting live from the Titanic, a pleasant cruise, but a little
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damp, probably what they would say. You know, people sometimes ask questions like, is there really
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anything new about biased media? Uh, you know, did having a media more interested in propaganda than
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truth? Is that new? I mean, has it, and the answer is no, of course it's not. As long as there has been
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anything like a news media, it's been biased and, and there's been propaganda. I think the difference
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now, um, between now and other periods in the past is that these days, the media really just has
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no concern for the truth at all, period. They aren't even worried about looking like they're telling
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the truth. And this largely is a reflection of our post truth culture where relativism reigns supreme
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and, uh, many of the people in this country honestly believe that truth is fluid and can be
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whatever they want it to be. And the media reflects that. Um, and I think the media in fact reflects it
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more than it drives it. The media is a symptom of the underlying, you know, moral relativism, uh, not,
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not more than it is a, a, a cause of that. Let's go to number three. As you probably heard by now,
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the 17 year old who killed two rioters, Kyle Rittenhouse is his name, has been arrested and
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charged with first degree murder. Um, and now we, we haven't seen, here's what it comes down to for
00:23:39.740
me. First degree murder is the charge. We haven't seen as far as I'm aware, any video that shows
00:23:48.080
anything other than self-defense. There are multiple videos out there of, of Rittenhouse and of the two
00:23:53.680
incidents that occurred. Um, now if, if there's something floating around out there, evidence of an
00:23:59.320
actual first degree murder, I haven't seen it. And I've looked that there's still a question mark
00:24:05.340
here, a pretty big one. The second shooting, the one that was caught vividly and close up on camera,
00:24:12.060
that to my mind, clearly self-defense, non-controversial. He's falling, they're chasing.
00:24:18.120
One of the rioters also has a gun. Um, he falls, they try to pounce on him. He gets, you know,
00:24:23.500
then he opens fire, self-defense all the way. Uh, I think, I think that part of it, any defense
00:24:29.540
attorney is going to have no problem handling that. You could hire me as your, as your defense
00:24:33.500
attorney. My, my, my legal education involves watching Better Call Saul. That's all I got.
00:24:39.040
And even I could probably get you clear on those charges, but then you have the first shooting.
00:24:44.240
Um, and that's the one that wasn't clearly caught on tape. As far as I know, I think from what we have
00:24:49.520
seen, there are strong indications of self-defense, but you know, I, I, I don't think we fully know
00:24:54.580
yet. Here's what we do know though. Sadly, Kyle Rittenhouse is screwed no matter what, even if
00:25:03.060
he's innocent, which you very may well, he, he may, he, uh, he very well may be, but even then he's
00:25:10.340
still, he's still screwed because our media and system is rigged against people like him. And they're
00:25:16.460
going to, they're going to make an example of him. You know, it's all the people talking about
00:25:21.700
problems in the system. They're right. There are serious problems in the system. It's just not the
00:25:27.420
problem they're talking about. Number four, the New York post reports that a taxidermist in England
00:25:33.260
has now unveiled, uh, his latest work. It's called potable high five machines, and they're made using
00:25:40.080
limbs, uh, from rodents, uh, apparently. And, uh, reading out from the article, it says his
00:25:47.080
inspiration came from wanting to help people who like to celebrate and greet each other with a high
00:25:50.600
five, but are concerned about doing so during coronavirus. He said, um, they're called potable
00:25:55.280
high five machines that are, and are made out of rat legs. He said, I've been skinning rats to make
00:26:00.120
other things, but I accidentally tore off one of the legs when I was making an, I was making an
00:26:04.160
abominable snowman, which have heads made from rat scrotums. I don't want to waste it or just throw
00:26:10.100
it into my tub of odd, odd toes and scraps of ball sack. So I thought, so I thought it might be nice
00:26:16.220
to make a portable high five machine. Okay. Well, that makes sense. Personally, I don't know why you
00:26:23.460
wouldn't take your tub of toes and ball sack and make like a nice stew or even a dip, uh, for your
00:26:29.840
Tostitos to serve when your fellow serial killers come over for the game on Sunday. Um, now let's
00:26:36.320
take a look at this creation here. There it is. There's the, the high five machine. Absolutely
00:26:43.540
horrifying. Imagine waking up tied to a chair in somebody's root cellar and you look around and
00:26:51.260
you see that, you see that right there. What would you think? And then you look to the other side of
00:26:58.260
the room and you see little snowmen made from rat scrotum. And then you say to the other person
00:27:03.820
tied up in the room with you, Hey, it looks like that snowman is made from a rat scrotum. And they
00:27:09.440
say to you, how can you so easily identify a rat scrotum? And you say, because this is my basement
00:27:16.340
and then you take out your ax and kill him. Twist ending. You didn't see that coming. Got a little
00:27:22.500
dark there at the end. All right. Um, number five, finally, a video has gone viral. I'm not sure who this
00:27:27.740
girl is, or even if this is supposed to be a joke or not, but, uh, people are taking it seriously
00:27:31.860
and, uh, and, um, are, are mocking this girl. My perspective on it might surprise you a little
00:27:37.900
bit. I don't know, but first watch this. I was just doing my makeup for work and I just wanted
00:27:43.720
to tell you guys about how I don't think math is real. And I know that like, it's real because we
00:27:49.980
all like learn it in school or whatever, but who came up with this concept? And you're like Pythagoras,
00:27:55.020
but how, how did he come up with this? He was living in like the, I don't know, whenever
00:28:02.160
he was living, but it was not now where you can like have technology and stuff, you know?
00:28:07.760
Like he didn't even have plumbing and he was like, let me worry about Y equals MX plus B,
00:28:12.880
which first of all, how would you even figure that out? How would you like start on the concept
00:28:18.360
of algebra? Like, what did you need it for? You know? Cause like I get like addition, like,
00:28:24.540
Hey, if I take two apples and then on three, it's five, you know, but how would you come up with the
00:28:30.280
concept of like algebra? Cause what would you need it for? You know what I mean? Like, what would you
00:28:34.820
need it for back then? You didn't need it. So why would you come up with it? Now, of course,
00:28:40.420
people are sharing that and mocking her for being an idiot. Uh, that seems to be the consensus,
00:28:44.580
but I'm going to, I'm going to unironically, and I have to say that because no one can ever tell
00:28:48.680
when I'm being ironic or not. So unironically, I will defend her here because what she's posing
00:28:53.880
is actually a very intelligent question and one that philosophers and mathematicians have been
00:28:59.000
debating for thousands of years. In fact, the people that are calling her stupid have only revealed
00:29:02.720
their own stupidity. You know, oftentimes you can tell how dumb someone is by how they react
00:29:12.100
to an abstract point or question like this. Oh, that's a stupid question. No, it's just you're
00:29:17.080
stupid. So you don't understand why that's actually a really intelligent question. Um,
00:29:22.220
is math real? That is not a stupid Einstein wondered about the same thing. Was he stupid?
00:29:28.120
There is a debate about whether math is innate to the universe, a fun, you know,
00:29:32.800
sort of a fundamental facet of reality or whether it's a human construct. In other words,
00:29:38.320
is math invented by people or did we discover it? Entire philosophical theories have been built
00:29:45.200
around the idea that math is not innate, um, that it was invented, which is what the girl here is
00:29:51.180
suggesting. And I don't happen to agree. I think math is, math is innate and mathematics is just the
00:29:56.120
process of noticing and sort of attaching symbols to these innate patterns in the universe. So math is
00:30:01.700
real, but symbolic. Uh, you know, we use a little sideways M to denote the fact that there are three
00:30:07.880
units of something. Um, we could use any symbol for that. So that's symbolic, but it is still a fact
00:30:13.460
and, uh, that there are three or whatever word and symbol you want to use to denote it. But what the
00:30:20.240
girl is demonstrating here is a capacity for abstract thought. Um, just the practice of taking something
00:30:27.980
basic and questioning why it exists or if it exists or why it needs to exist. That's a capacity that I
00:30:37.380
think we should encourage in young people. And I think one of the problems with the public education
00:30:40.920
system is that it's not encouraged. You know, if you're in math class and you're learning algebra
00:30:45.200
and you raise your hand and say, you know, and start asking philosophical questions about
00:30:51.400
whether this is, you know, a fundamental pattern of the universe or whether this was invented or what's,
00:30:57.480
what's, you know, there's not going to be time to get into that with you. And you're just going to
00:31:01.240
be told to shut up and do your, do your assignment. Um, but these are exactly the questions that I think
00:31:05.760
young people should be encouraged to, to think about and talk about. I think most people never
00:31:11.060
wonder about these things because they're not intellectually curious and their brains can't
00:31:14.480
deal very well in the abstract. But when you see this, uh, I think when we see this in kids,
00:31:20.420
we should encourage it and not go, you moron, what an idiot and make farting noises in their faces.
00:31:26.040
I don't think that's the right response when young people are asking abstract questions.
00:31:32.920
That's just me though. That's my thought. All right. Um, we're gonna get to our daily
00:31:37.680
cancellation, uh, right now for our daily cancellation. We're going to cancel, uh, the
00:31:45.140
New York times for a lengthy article, quite lengthy, must be 8,000 words or more just published.
00:31:50.020
Um, just published yesterday. Here's the headline convicted of sex crimes, but with no victims and
00:31:55.780
online sting operation to catch child predators, snared hundreds of men. But what were they really
00:32:00.660
guilty of? Now, if you think that those of us who warn of the normalization of pedophilia and the
00:32:05.640
sexualization of children are suffering from paranoid delusions, you should really pay attention
00:32:09.740
here. The article, uh, talks about a sting operations conducted by law enforcement to catch
00:32:14.420
sex predators. And it focuses especially on, um, operation net nanny, which is the initiative in
00:32:19.920
Washington state where sex predators are lured to a house to catch a predator style and arrested.
00:32:25.600
Although it's not on TV, this is all just a law enforcement operation, but it's quite clear that
00:32:30.740
the, the, the writer of this article, Michael Winnerip, uh, wants us to feel sorry for these men who get
00:32:36.320
caught. And he appears to see this tactic of trapping potential sex predators as unjust and unfair,
00:32:41.440
and we should pity them for it. Um, I will say that throughout the article, he does raise a few
00:32:46.720
interesting points. One thing that he dwells on is the fact that in many cases, men who actually
00:32:51.600
molest and rape children get lighter sentences than men who get caught up trying to molest kids
00:32:57.500
in these sting operations. And I would agree that men who actually molest kids should get longer
00:33:02.520
sentences in the same way that a murderer, uh, a murderer should get a longer sentence than an
00:33:07.180
attempted murderer. Right. But the answer in my opinion is extending the sentences for the child
00:33:12.960
rapist, not shortening the sentences for the attempted child rapist. So an example that he gives
00:33:19.040
is of a man who had, who raped a 13 year old repeatedly over the course of a year admitted
00:33:23.840
to molesting two of his siblings also, but got, um, then, then was his sentence was a minimum of
00:33:29.940
seven years. Meanwhile, another man who got caught in a sting operation trying to meet with an 11 year
00:33:34.920
old for sex got a minimum of 10 years. Now, yes, that that's absurd. The rapist ought to have gotten
00:33:40.940
more than seven years. How about 70 years instead? Um, I don't think child rapists should ever see the
00:33:46.700
outside of a prison ever again, but a guy who tries to meet an 11 year old for sex, even if there is
00:33:51.600
no 11 year old, because it was an undercover cop the whole time is undoubtedly a threat to society
00:33:56.320
and should consider himself lucky to only get 10 years in prison for that. So this is the way the
00:34:02.460
article is kind of set up. And it starts right off the bat, giving us an extremely sympathetic
00:34:07.100
portrait of a man who wanted to rape a 13 year old girl. Um, here is, uh, here's the picture of the
00:34:13.840
man along with his mother. So I think that gives you a good idea, pretty good idea of, of how the
00:34:17.220
New York times wants us to view this guy. And let me read a little bit of this to you. Okay. It says
00:34:22.520
Jace Hembrick worked as an apprentice laborer during the weeks, uh, renovating homes around
00:34:29.180
Vancouver, Washington and at neighborhood gas stations on weekends. Much of the rest of his life
00:34:34.040
was online. He was hardcore amassing a collection of more than 200 games. People told him, uh, it wasn't
00:34:39.620
smart to be so, so cut off from reality, but his internet life felt rich as a dungeon master and
00:34:45.000
dungeon dungeons and dragons. He controlled other players destinies as a video warrior. He was known
00:34:50.700
online by his, by his, uh, nickname and was constantly messaging fellow gamers, particularly
00:34:56.560
his best friend, Simon, though the two had never met in person over the last few years. They paired up
00:35:01.420
as teammates playing rainbow six siege and rocket league and grew close. Um, this is, this is all
00:35:09.560
in crucial information that we need about this guy at 20. Hambrick was still living at home with his
00:35:13.700
mother, big surprise there, uh, to save money for college where he hoped to study game design.
00:35:18.220
He was a voracious reader who could knock off a thousand page fantasy novel in two days,
00:35:23.460
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, et cetera. Uh, giving us his whole life story. And then finally
00:35:27.740
one Friday after work in February 2017, Hambrick came across a casual encounters W4M women searching
00:35:35.620
for men post that seemed meant for him. Uh, just gamer girl sitting home on Sunday. It read,
00:35:41.740
we can chat as long as I'm not leveling. I don't even know what that means. As long as I'm not
00:35:47.020
leveling. Hambrick emailed back. Sounds like fun. What game you play in? Uh, I am hooked on alien
00:35:52.360
isolation. Gamer girl replied, forget sex. Hambrick wrote, let me come watch. Uh, let me come watch.
00:35:58.880
I haven't gotten that one yet. Adding that he was 20, 15 years, 15 minutes later, gamer girl replied
00:36:04.960
that she was 13. Hambrick was confused. Why did you post an ad on Craigslist? If you're 13, you mean
00:36:11.100
23? She asked for his cell phone number and they switched to texting, exchanging photos. Gamer girl was
00:36:17.860
beautiful. He thought if he wasn't being pranked, big eyes, cute white cap, soft smile, gazing up at
00:36:23.700
the camera serenely with a really nice set of headphones. They exchanged a few texts about sex.
00:36:29.340
I can be real bad if you're into bondage. He typed, but he was already hoping for more than just sex.
00:36:34.640
I don't get out much. He texted. Uh, I feel like if we get to talking, I, it might go somewhere.
00:36:39.900
You're beautiful and a gamer. I might have no problem hanging out with you. That's cool.
00:36:44.960
So gamer girl replied, and then it gets into even more graphic stuff, uh, with the guy talking about
00:36:49.520
what he wants to do to her sexually, uh, do that is to a girl who told him that she's 13.
00:36:55.160
Now back to the article, it says, was this an elaborate game? Again, she claimed to be 13.
00:37:00.920
The photo seemed to tell a different story and the gaming chair she was seated in looked too
00:37:04.600
expensive for a kid. She, well, parents could have bought it. You know, she used slang. A 13 year old
00:37:10.220
probably wouldn't know like FTP. It means F the police that originated in eighties hip hop. Oh yeah.
00:37:15.820
I'm sure there's no 13 year olds that know that the vulgarities and snide tones seem to adult. Her
00:37:20.120
texts were full of LOLs. Was she an immature teenager or a sly adult? Her driving direction
00:37:26.640
seemed too specific for 13. Hamburg texted that he would be driving a red Prius, his mother's
00:37:31.400
and gamer girl replied that she would be wearing a gray sweatshirt and ripped jeans. It was a 20 minute
00:37:35.320
drive to the house. Um, after stopping for condoms, he arrived at seven, 7 PM, three and a half hours
00:37:40.600
after their first email, she came to the door just as she'd said in torn jeans and sweatshirt. And, um,
00:37:47.660
and then, uh, it goes on and then he goes inside and that's when Chris Hansen shows up or, you know,
00:37:53.780
whoever's standing in for Chris Hansen. Um, you know, the cops come out and, uh, and, and all of that,
00:38:00.520
and they live happily ever after or the rest of us do. And he went to prison as he should. And the
00:38:05.240
New York times wants us to feel badly about that because after all, he was never actually talking
00:38:09.660
to a 13 year old and he didn't, he didn't think that she looked 13 and, uh, she knew how to give
00:38:15.540
driving directions. What 13 year old can do that? And she uses LOL. Apparently 13 year olds don't do
00:38:21.460
that. Of course, none of this makes any sense. She told you she was 13. What you thought this was a
00:38:26.720
grown woman pretending to be 13 and thus trying to attract child rapists because she's into that sort
00:38:33.460
of thing. Now I'm sure there are freaks out there in the slimy dregs of cyberspace who are into that,
00:38:38.080
but that excuse just doesn't cut it and shouldn't. A girl told you she was 13. You came over to have
00:38:45.400
sex with her. End of story. Goodbye. Enjoy prison. Um, the article makes much of the fact that these
00:38:52.940
guys who get caught in these things aren't really soliciting minors for sex because they're actually
00:38:56.880
talking to undercover cops. It also tells us that a lot of the predators don't have a criminal history
00:39:01.560
and many of them don't have child porn on their computers. We're supposed to be impressed by that
00:39:05.920
apparently. And then it sort of skims over other things that are, that seem relevant. Like the fact
00:39:11.780
that half of the men caught in this Washington sting operation were trying to meet children 11 years old
00:39:17.220
and younger, which makes them pedophiles by definition. Now, yes, there can be gray areas when
00:39:23.400
it comes to who ends up on the sex offender registry. Uh, you hear about cases, for example, of say an 18 year
00:39:28.480
old in a relationship with someone a few years younger than him ending up on the registry, even
00:39:33.640
though they're so close in age, they could have gone to high school together. Now that is unjust.
00:39:37.980
I think most of us can agree and wrong, but that's not what we're talking about here. 20 year old and a
00:39:42.100
13 year old, no gray area, no mitigating circumstances, grown men looking to meet 11 year olds,
00:39:49.540
no gray area. These are sex predators, plain and simple. What about using these sting operations to
00:39:55.440
catch them? Well, um, you know, is there something unfair about that? Does it matter that they aren't
00:40:01.880
actually chatting with a real child? No. And no. First of all, if you're told that she's 13,
00:40:08.280
you're perfectly free and able to say, Oh, nevermind. You shouldn't be on this site, kid.
00:40:13.880
Go tell your parents and walk away. There's no entrapment here because you aren't being trapped at
00:40:19.580
all. You're not backed into a corner. You can walk away. Second, catching predators and enforcing
00:40:25.420
the law against child molestation and rape and sex crimes. That's very difficult. Um, these are not
00:40:31.400
easy laws to enforce precisely. The problem here is that so often the laws are enforced retroactively
00:40:37.240
and the, after the crime has been committed, but then in that case, the damage has already been done
00:40:42.280
to the child. So now we're punishing a predator and protecting the next victim, but it's too late to
00:40:47.780
protect the first victim. So law enforcement tries to devise ways to protect even the first victim,
00:40:52.760
to smoke these guys out and get them behind bars before they're able to successfully hurt a child.
00:40:59.360
This isn't pre-crime like the minority report. You are catching people who are actively trying to
00:41:05.540
commit a crime. It's just that they're trying to commit it in, you might say, a controlled environment.
00:41:10.640
It's no different than a woman who gets a murder charge for trying to hire an undercover cop to kill
00:41:15.220
her husband. The point obviously is that if the undercover cop hadn't been there, she would have hired a
00:41:20.120
real hit man. And then we'd be arresting her after the poor sap she's married to is already six feet
00:41:25.460
under. So what's going on here of all the problems in the world of all the injustices to expose.
00:41:33.060
Why are we getting a novel length article telling us about the trials and tribulations of men who
00:41:37.580
tried to have sex with pubescent or prepubescent children? Well, it goes back to what we said at the
00:41:42.400
top. There is in my estimation, a noticeable effort, um, underway in our culture to normalize
00:41:49.600
pedophilia and sexualize children and to paint the men who prey upon children as victims of an
00:41:54.540
overzealous and prudish system. This is just another example of that, of many. And the examples
00:42:01.240
are only increasing. And that is why, uh, with great vengeance, we must cancel the New York Times
00:42:08.020
again. All right. We'll leave it there for today, guys. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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