The reaction continues to the death of football star and murderer O.J. Simpson, and some of the media have spun some absurd analyses of his legacy. Here to discuss it all and more, my co-star in the soon-to-be launched series, Adam Carolla, joins me on The Megyn Kelly Show.
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00:00:16.380We have a great, great show lined up for you today. There's so many things I want to get into.
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00:00:23.400The reaction continues following the death of football star and murderer O.J. Simpson.
00:00:29.120And some of the media have spun some absurd analyses of his legacy.
00:00:36.020Speaking of media, MSNBC continues to go all in on the threat of Donald Trump and how his movement hates everything about our country.
00:00:44.300That's how they understand MAGA, a group of people that hates everything about America.
00:00:49.660And the law school dean at UC Berkeley hosted a dinner for students at his home, only to be interrupted by a pro-Palestinian protester who was there at his invitation.
00:01:04.700And in a surprise to no one, she is now playing the victim.
00:01:09.440We will play you her out-and-out lies about the encounter and show you the actual videotape of the encounter so you can see it for yourself.
00:01:22.700When you get called out on it or held to account for your behavior, play the victim.
00:01:27.520And if possible, sue and go public with your scurrilous allegations against the person you have targeted.
00:01:34.160Here to discuss it all and more, my co-star in the soon-to-be-launched series, Mr. Burcham, Adam Carolla, host of the Adam Carolla Show podcast.
00:02:15.360I was a big football fan when I was a young man.
00:02:19.220And, you know, he was the first kind of superstar.
00:02:21.760And he was the first guy that was black and palatable to mainstream America, you know, like Jim Brown was a great running back in the NFL as well.
00:02:33.560But he was too sort of headstrong and outspoken and wasn't considered good for mainstream America.
00:02:41.580But O.J. was the first, and he was beloved by all.
00:02:48.720I mean, you know, the notion that, you know, he was set up by the cops and it was a racist thing and everything else is insane because he was, at the height of his powers, probably one of the most beloved Americans on the planet.
00:03:18.640And he was making it in, you know, what many considered to be a white man's world, trying to be a guy who just got judged on the basis of his character and not to lean into any social justice issues or whatever we were calling him back then.
00:04:36.380Well, you know, the thing about the AP, and we'll get into the stories of the young black man who was shot by the police, and we can break down that game film.
00:04:48.240But what you need to understand with all the major news outlets as it pertains to race is they have two jobs.
00:05:01.640If it's a cop shooting, then make a big deal out of it.
00:05:04.820If it's a bad cop shooting against a white or it doesn't fit the narrative, then they tamp it down.
00:05:10.980And so they do it with all stories and all stories of race.
00:05:16.380So I was looking at it the other day, which was a few months ago.
00:05:21.840I can't remember if it was Bobby or or another hockey legend died, but they started it with controversial racist comments.
00:05:34.060And then got to the part where he was in the Hockey Hall of Fame way down the road.
00:05:39.520And so if you look at some of the white great athletes or luminaries who have died and you read these AP or USA, whatever, it starts off with some sort of controversial racist thing.
00:05:53.500Because obviously these guys had their heyday in the 50s and the 60s, and they said something stupid when they were drunk.
00:06:15.120Like Roseanne is in our special, our comedy show, your comedy show that I'm co-starring with you in, Mr. Burcham.
00:06:23.220You think they'd give her the same treatment?
00:06:24.740They're going to put in the first line many, many years from now when Roseanne passes, the comments that she made that ended her show, the reboot of her show.
00:06:33.180She won't get any lovely NPR headline, or I'll give you the AP one.
00:09:46.300And for some reason, if there's a black and a white and the white puts his hands on the black, it is racist and it's a hate crime, even though there could be context to it.
00:10:01.280Maybe there's a traffic altercation or someone tried to hurt somebody or something like that.
00:10:05.880But in their world, there's no such thing as a black-white interaction that's not racist unless it's multiple blacks trying to kill one white girl, in which case it has no application racially.
00:10:20.260So, really, their own measuring stick is bent into a pretzel, if you really think about it.
00:10:26.380Like, if you go, like, well, look, they hate bad cop shootings, right?
00:10:32.320That's the number one thing they complain about is bad cop shootings.
00:10:35.500Okay, well, then what about when cops shoot a white guy?
00:10:41.060No, it's not something we're interested in.
00:10:43.120So, their own yardstick for measuring this stuff is completely warped.
00:10:50.020And obviously, they have an agenda, and their agenda is to agitate, and they're essentially going to cause a race riot, like, if they're not careful, and they already kind of have.
00:11:01.900I mean, they've done it with George Floyd and many other cases.
00:11:06.040But they're essentially baiting America into a race riot.
00:11:11.080That's essentially what the news is doing.
00:11:55.400It's not like O.J. Simpson was the leader of the civil rights movement of his era.
00:12:00.760You know, he wasn't a social justice leader, but he represented something for the black community in that moment, in that trial, particularly because there were two white people who had been killed.
00:12:11.280And the history around how black people have been persecuted during slavery.
00:12:25.320It might not be the backdrop of the Trump campaign.
00:12:28.140But until this country is ready to actually have an honest conversation about the racial dynamics from our origin story till today, we will always have moments like O.J. Simpson that manifest.
00:12:40.160And our country will always be divided if we don't actually deal with the issue of race.
00:12:44.620Wait, what, what, what, she brings up the race of the victims.
00:12:53.460She points out that somehow he represented something for the black community, particularly because he killed two whites.
00:13:02.220So that makes the black community more, what, empathetic in her view to O.J.?
00:13:07.560Because, OK, and then she she lands it with we're always going to have moments like O.J. Simpson that manifest if we don't have this honest conversation.
00:13:16.220So I guess the whites are going to have to get used to the whole murder thing unless we get real frank about D.E.I.
00:13:59.280It would be an honest conversation for all races.
00:14:01.440The races that do the least of it are doing the worst in our society.
00:14:05.580So now we're done with our honest conversation about race, except for you and none of your so-called leaders ever want to have that conversation, which is the only honest conversation about race.
00:14:18.220The rest of the race discussion is window dressing.
00:14:21.680That's just, well, should we get a black DA?
00:15:07.260But they don't want to talk about what he did, what happened, about the travesty that he unleashed on his family and these two innocents.
00:15:17.720And I went back, Adam, and I pulled this because, you know, you and I are old enough to have lived this firsthand when she was murdered, along with Ron Goldman.
00:15:25.900For the young people listening, she was OJ's ex-wife.
00:15:28.440There had been a long history of domestic violence, and then she went out to—they had seen each other at a ballet rehearsal for her daughter earlier that day.
00:19:16.820He had such a nice look to him, and his tone was so unarming and so pleasing that we, as biological creatures, sort of looked at him and went,
00:23:23.180Same thing, Trump and OJ, basically looking at the same situation.
00:23:27.740Well, to be fair to the L.A. Times staff writer, in the L.A. Times computers, that's just a spell correct.
00:23:34.860Anytime you're writing a hit piece about someone nefarious, it just auto-corrects to Trump.
00:23:40.860So if you're telling a story about Bismarck or Pol Pot or Hitler, it just auto-corrects to Trump.
00:23:51.200So if you're writing a story about Jeffrey Dahmer or Charles Manson, it would just come up with Trump.
00:23:55.600You can't remember that manual override.
00:23:57.740Yeah, obviously, it's got to be an interesting life for Joy Behar, because she will be laying on her deathbed, possibly with prostate cancer.
00:25:26.220And, of course, it was all over the place yesterday.
00:25:29.180It was all over my mentions yesterday, people tweeting pictures of the two of us at me in my comments.
00:25:35.480And this is the first time I really went down the rabbit hole with any, you know, amount of time.
00:25:41.680And I have to tell you, it's amazing to me how many people have given real thought to this.
00:25:47.140They were having arguments about how it could be, how it might not be, about how I have, like, a more heart-shaped face,
00:25:55.360and she had a more square jaw, about how somebody really needs to check me for the scars from, like, whatever operation I had to transform.
00:26:05.880I think the theory is I was, I am right now, actually, Nicole Brown Simpson, that I wasn't actually murdered,
00:26:14.320that somehow Hollywood staged this or did something to make it look like I had died.
00:26:20.800And then I came back as journalist, Megyn Kelly, and I guess also decided to make myself a public figure.
00:26:29.240I didn't decide to leave this, leave this quiet life, you know, having gotten away with this ruse.
00:26:33.360I decided to go back on the air under the name Megyn Kelly.
00:26:36.720And there was somebody online defending me, saying, no, here's what he says.
00:27:18.420I am a real person with a whole independent history having nothing to do with Nicole Brown Simpson, who was very clearly murdered back in 1994.
00:27:28.520And I don't know what this says about us, Adam, but I do think it's important in our society to somehow try to maintain some distance between COVID starting in a lab is a conspiracy theory, and you're a nutcase.
00:27:45.200And people who believe there are lizard people, you know, walking amongst us, and that I'm reincarnation or the current version of Nicole Brown.
00:27:53.940Like, I do worry that, like, I do worry that, like, getting from the first group, which are not conspiracy theories, they're just labeled such, into the second group, which are genuinely unhinged beliefs.
00:28:21.760If you create flat earthers and lizard people and all that, then they will lump side effects from the vaccinations and lab origin or origin of the virus or people who take ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine.
00:28:39.040Then you'll get lumped into the lizard person, flat earther group, which would be pretty effective if you were trying to throw a little mud and tarnish the reputation of somebody who believed in something that was real, like origins of COVID, and then smear them.
00:29:02.020So there is something sort of diabolical about it.
00:30:34.820So, Adam, you made reference to this situation in Chicago with a police officer involved shooting a man named Dexter Reed, 26-year-old from Chicago,
00:30:48.980was shot dead after he pulled a gun on cops and shot them and actually did shoot a police officer in the arm.
00:30:58.920And then the police responded that this is the at least initial information coming out from the authorities there,
00:31:04.860including a group that's charged this civilian office of public of police accountability with investigating this kind of case.
00:31:12.080Amazingly, the media continues to raise the decedent's race.
00:31:29.800And also, they continue to show Dexter Reed's high school graduation photo as though this is just this super sweet, clean-cut kid who hasn't done anything wrong.
00:31:40.900He's just, you know, graduating from high school, living an upstanding life, without mentioning, and it happened again today in the New York Times, without mentioning, he has a mugshot.
00:31:53.240And that's because he had multiple recent arrests, including gun charges, including for having an authorized weapon.
00:32:02.960We played the video yesterday of a neighbor's surveillance camera that appears to show him shooting out of the passenger side of his vehicle.
00:32:14.480The gun smoke comes out of the passenger side.
00:32:17.940The cop gets blown back, falls on his back, and it's on the right side of your screen.
00:32:22.940For those of you watching this on YouTube, you're going to see the cops back up.
00:32:25.840Look, you see the cop fall down, and then the shootout begins.
00:32:30.020And they are reporting on this in a way that doesn't, in many cases, immediately make clear there's a reason the cops unleashed 96 shots in 41 seconds on a black man, as Washington Post used for its headline.
00:33:29.800They don't like the part where he fired on the cops first, and they don't like the part where the cops were black, and some were black, and appear to be female as well from the video I've seen.
00:33:42.840So what they do when they write the story, when, you know, L.A. Times, New York Times, or Legacy Media, or whoever the race hustlers are write the story, they go, okay, let's put them all in a basket.
00:35:11.260And as we get closer to the election, I imagine they're going to keep trying to hustle this.
00:35:18.120On the other hand, it's always to their own detriment, because I don't think of them as news anymore.
00:35:24.980But it's amazing, like, the misleading.
00:35:28.920The New York Times doesn't use the mugshot and doesn't even mention the prior arrests, Adam, which are, as you point out, one of them, not convicted, but arrested for aggravated, unlawful use of a firearm.
00:35:54.020They pretend to hate guns, except for they don't care about the part where this guy was arrested for firearms and firing his gun at the cops.
00:46:46.820And on top of that, now they're saying they're blaming this guy saying, oh, the next time one of our people calls up a Republican congressman or something and tries to get an answer from them, they may well say, oh, I read these stories.
00:47:00.700You guys aren't fair, so I'm not going to talk to you.
00:47:04.080They're actually, that's their managing editor of standards and practices, trying to blame the likely reluctance of Republicans to deal with NPR after this on Yuri, as opposed to the actual content of what he's saying and the content that we hear from NPR all the time.
00:47:21.240It's like NBC saying, oh, now Republicans aren't going to want to come on after what we did to Ronna McDaniel.
00:47:26.920And that's somehow, I guess, Ronna McDaniel's fault.
00:47:29.560No, you have yourself to blame for this, folks.
01:09:22.680And I had a legal right to attack her when she placed hands on me.
01:09:29.680And I would like you to know, Adam, because while this young lady appears to be just a law student, I actually graduated from law school and passed the bar.
01:09:38.680In fact, passed the bar in three different states and went on to practice for a decade.
01:09:41.680And I would like to let her know about a little thing that's called trespassing, because once someone tells you to leave their property, you have no right to remain there.
01:09:52.680And they are allowed under the law to use a reasonable amount of force to eject you from the property if they perceive a threat, which this couple accurately did, given your bizarre lunatic like behavior.
01:10:08.680She had every right to place her hands on you.
01:12:58.680Maybe maybe you walk around with your own Mr. Microphone.
01:13:01.680And when she starts talking about that shit, you get into October 7th where you talk about like the the crazy radical Islamist attacks on American America.
01:15:28.680The campus is long tradition of activism was another lure to Professor Fisk.
01:15:33.680As a student, Fisk and her peers organized the first Berkeley women's law journal, and they protested the tenure denial of two especially fabulous women professors, both of whom are now Emirata.
01:15:44.680You have to, it's a quote, you have to mobilize students, staff, or faculty activism and use that energy to make a better place, she said, Adam.
01:15:57.680You're looking at it in the face, Catherine.
01:15:59.680There's your student activism face to face.
01:16:03.680Then finally, we've got one reason I came back as faculty to Berkeley is because of its longstanding commitment to scholarly rigor.
01:16:13.680That's also policy driven to advance the cause of social justice.
01:16:19.680They've been railing about BLM and not just George Floyd, Michael Brown, as recently as two years ago, who we all know was another guy who brought on his own death by going for and attempting to attack a cop.
01:16:44.680But it's not so unlike sanctuary cities or defund the police.
01:16:52.680So the same Tencent head Yentas are screaming about defunding the police and then the cops pull back and then the criminals come in and then they get carjacked and they want to know where the cops are.
01:17:23.680We have our own citizens with their own problems.
01:17:26.680They say one thing and are immediately attacked by like it turns on them just that fast.
01:17:35.680So whether it's whatever this idiot saying about diversity or defund the police or sanctuary cities, it's all the same.
01:17:42.680It's just I make a proclamation that makes me sound like a hero and then it blows up in my face shortly thereafter.
01:17:50.680Mm hmm. I think that Berkeley Law School should do to this student what Vanderbilt did to those morons who stormed the chancellor's office and allegedly assaulted cops on on campus.
01:18:07.680She should be expelled not only for the breaking the law by trespassing on the dean's property, but for her obvious lies and vicious defamation of some of two people they claim to respect their dean and his wife.
01:18:23.680There's one more clip from this young woman who gave an interview to Fox News once again exaggerating her alleged injuries.
01:18:33.680I felt that this dinner was, you know, a kind of disgusting and extravagant and lavish display of wealth that was already being funneled using our tuition money for this genocide.
01:18:49.680We had even done a criminal defense consult with the National Lawyers Guild, who, you know, pretty much thought this was a pretty low risk action.
01:18:57.680She kept on grabbing inappropriately at my breasts and kept grabbing in my shirt area, trying to tug and pull.
01:22:05.680And he is going after her and he is demanding that he, because he is legally permitted to identify as a female, be allowed on the damn Giggle app.
01:22:18.680And they have had to, she, Sal Grover, has had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the definition of what is a woman.
01:22:28.680Only at one point was a settlement offered by Roxy Tickle.
01:22:34.680And it would have required a payment in addition to Sal Grover, the woman, attending a gender identity re-education camp of some sort and opening up the Giggle app to males.
01:22:50.680And now she's going through this big process.
01:22:53.680And here's how the spectator describes the stakes.
01:22:56.680If Roxy Tickle wins, it will establish that males have a legal right, not just to the female sex category, but to all female spaces, including hospital wards, sports facilities, domestic violence, refuges, rape crisis centers, and prisons across Australia.
01:23:45.680I but I don't know if you're like me, but my mind starts to swim with a lot of the transgender stuff, especially when you read it through like the L.A. Times, because it'll be a guy who goes into a Denny's bathroom and rapes a nine year old girl, except for the guy identifies as a female.
01:24:05.680So it'll and her pronouns are they so to go like they she went into the bathroom and then they pulled out their phallus.
01:24:17.680And then she proceeded to rape the female with her penis.
01:24:23.680And then they and I'm like, OK, is this a gang rape?
01:24:28.680I don't know what's going on anymore because you guys won't label anything anymore because you're you're worried about offending a phallic.
01:25:02.680Where are they in women's sports being destroyed by men?
01:25:07.680Where are the women's rights advocates when it comes to things like this being destroyed?
01:25:14.680They're nowhere to be found because they're hypocrites and they're cowards.
01:25:19.680But they should be the ones that are speaking out against this stuff, not you or whoever's on Fox network.
01:25:29.680They should be the tip of the spear for pushing back against these things.
01:25:35.680Unfortunately, circling back to the Berkeley story, they created this environment and now they're being eaten up by this environment.
01:25:45.680They were the ones that's that created this group and that group and this group only in black graduations and black dorms and, you know, LGBT day and month and all this stuff.
01:26:00.680They're the ones who tried to segregate everybody and now they're being infiltrated by their own.
01:27:56.680The overwhelming majority of these people are people that need help, not people that are spearheading a movement because this is an actual biological event that is going on with them.
01:28:09.680But that is the narrative that we created.
01:28:13.680So when nut jobs come along, we cannot offer any counterargument to that because we already signed off on the insane premise that this was an actual thing like cancer or COPD or hepatitis B.
01:28:37.680All the progressive politicians got on board with it.
01:28:40.680And now when nut jobs come along, we all have to pretend like it's real.
01:28:45.680To your point, this is why Kelly J. Keene, who's a very strong and wonderful, brilliant activist on this on the right side, she says this is one of the many reasons why you can't engage in the pronoun game.
01:28:58.680Because how do you make the argument she can't come into the women's locker room?
01:29:35.680We do not have to relive the trauma we have gone through at the hands of men every time we want to defend why we want to be away from them occasionally.
01:29:43.680Just have a refuge away from you, whether it's online or in real life.
01:31:06.680Join this landmark fight to reclaim sex based rights and protections for all women and girls.
01:31:12.680She's already had to pay, I think, at least half a million dollars in this whole just just the you know, the lawsuit is the punishment already.
01:31:57.680I mean, you're making a star out of me, Adam Carolla, because we are going to be starring along with an amazing, amazing cast in this series that's coming out in The Daily Wire called Mr.
01:32:12.680Burcham, and it's based on this shop teacher that Adam has created in his own mind.
01:32:18.680He's been doing this bit for years and now his life comes to the screen in Mr.
01:33:51.680Because this is like so many big stars there who came together to make this thing real.
01:33:56.680Yeah, this thing's about 30 years in the making.
01:34:02.680I started my radio career by creating this character called Mr. Burcham so many years ago.
01:34:10.680I was teaching boxing and I did a morning stunt with Jimmy Kimmel where he was going to box Michael the Maintenance Man.
01:34:19.680And it was one of those morning show stunt things.
01:34:22.680And then, you know, Jimmy and I became friends and I told him I wanted to get in a radio and he told me I had to come up with a character.
01:34:29.680So I invented this character, which is amalgamation of all the shop teachers I had in junior high who hated the kids and who love woodworking.
01:34:43.680They just didn't like the idea of kids being in their shop class.
01:34:47.680So I created this character, became popular, and then it just kind of floated around.
01:34:53.680And we did the pilot for Fox about 11 or 12 years ago, but it was before its time, I'll say about 11 or 12 years ago.
01:35:05.680And Fox decided to focus on Bob's Burgers and whatever other crap they were trying to put out.
01:35:11.680But at some point it found a home at Daily Wire, which I'm elated about because it's really the first project I ever did in show business.
01:35:23.680What do you mean? You did No Safe Space? You've been a movie star.
01:35:28.680Yeah, I'm saying the first thing I ever did was Mr. Burcham.
01:35:34.680Oh, I see. This project was the first. I got it. I got it. I got it.
01:35:38.680Well, you made me join the reunion in order to participate in this.
01:35:42.680So I'm like a real, I feel like Norma Rae now, Adam, thanks to you.
01:35:46.680Well, maybe I shouldn't be saying this, but you know, I figured if I can get you to be my animated wife, that's one step closer to reality.
01:35:58.680Are we going to, are we going to have any like bedroom scenes, our characters? Should I be worried?
01:36:04.680I'm working on some right now. I've been, I've been working the beats out my head, but I'm going to put them down on paper real soon.
01:36:13.680And yeah. And the thing about animation is they can't just draw it out of whole cloth.
01:36:19.680They have to physically witness you. So just be prepared. We'll be wearing body suits.
01:36:25.680It's going to be tasteful. It'll be classy.
01:36:28.680Now there's the tease. Adam Carolla, thank you so much. And go check out more from Adam at AdamCarolla.com.
01:36:36.680What a, what a fun way to end the week.
01:36:38.680On Monday, Alan Dershowitz and Arthur Idalla will be here with all things Trump as that trial gets underway.