In the summer of 2018, a man named Dustin Heiss, then a bartender in the Hamptons, says he went to a bar named Murph s along with his friend and boss, George Ganellis, and encountered CNN's Don Lemon. There they encountered a night that would change his life forever.
00:44:42.300but it is totally out of line for CNN PR to be injecting itself into this because CNN doesn't just represent Don Lemon.
00:44:49.840CNN represents men and young women and others inside the building at CNN who need to understand that they have someone fair and impartial at the helm when cases like this may come up,
00:45:04.200And what they are telegraphing and injecting themselves into this case about which they know absolutely nothing because they weren't there is that they don't give a damn about the employees who work underneath Don Lemon or who might feel intimidated by Don Lemon or Chris Cuomo,
00:45:35.480influenced people to the fact where they they're calling me a liar.
00:45:39.040And there's been many other websites that have taken their words and formulated their own narrative on who I am and what I've done and what I'm looking at.
01:11:39.660I mean, there's so many people who were upset by the real things that were happening
01:11:43.080in Loudoun County and in their state that motivated it.
01:11:46.600And the college educated barb, the people who didn't go to college jab, is also a perfect indictment on the contemporary left
01:11:55.620and how it sort of morphed from a movement that wanted to represent labor and the working class
01:12:00.360into a movement that actually actively has contempt for the working class,
01:12:05.600because on these cultural issues, they look down on the working class and actually they actually regularly implicate the working class in all kinds of evil.
01:12:14.320There's a there's a tweet going around now saying if you're not black and you're using the term woke pejoratively, it's a racial slur.
01:12:21.500It's like actually amazing how the way that we've inflated the definitions of racism and bigotry and hatred
01:12:27.380implicates everybody who doesn't happen to be an educated cultural leftist elite.
01:12:32.580In all of these these terrible things that we have worked so hard in this country, spilled blood, sweat, tears to stigmatize and to erase from our culture is remarkable.
01:12:43.640And that, I think, really does show the contempt they have for people who are outside of their class.
01:12:48.940You know, they didn't even make a joke.
01:12:50.800They just said they're not college educated.
01:13:21.460And his response was midget, midget, midget, midget.
01:13:24.540And I was like, you know, because on television, we're all like, oh, he said the thing.
01:13:29.120But honestly, it's like you they leave you no choice.
01:13:32.600The word policing, the thought policing.
01:13:35.100And to your point, that was the line, right?
01:13:38.640Oh, it's people, people who did not go to college because they could not possibly give two shits what happens to their children in K through 12 education.
01:13:54.400And I was just going to go back to that because it shows how some of these people who are and I think it's some mediocrity.
01:14:00.180I think that's really the best word to use in the circumstance because their ideas go wildly unchallenged.
01:14:05.100And that's why they think you just have all of these uneducated rubes coming out to vote for Glenn Youngkin, white, uneducated rubes coming out to vote for Glenn Youngkin, who, by the way, the indications are that he did fantastically well with the Hispanic vote.
01:14:17.140So that's why they think this, because their ideas are never challenged, because they have created this world in which everything that is a challenge to them is actually bigotry and racism.
01:14:29.760And that's how this really sick ideology metastasized.
01:14:34.360And it is our governing ideology because it's coming from the heights of every major institution, whether it's Saturday Night Live, Don Lemon, whose show is not very highly rated.
01:14:43.500But CNN is one of the top news websites in the world, one of the top websites in the world.
01:14:47.860These are people with a whole lot of power, and they are the ones that are governing us with their entirely hollow and sick morality.
01:14:56.760And it actually puts working people down.
01:15:08.300And I feel like, OK, you can mock all you want parents who lined up for hours to speak out against mandatory masking or mandatory vaccines for young children or really disgusting cultural filth in the library.
01:15:23.000And we are not talking about pride and prejudice.
01:15:26.380We are talking about we've we've run the soundbite twice now.
01:15:30.040But books that actually glorify and lift up and encourage the rape of young boys, celebrate young young boys performing oral sex on grown men.
01:15:57.540That's not what this movement was about.
01:15:59.220And the real parents out there know it.
01:16:02.380I mean, I look at it, Emily, and I know you I know you're on the ground.
01:16:04.360I think, OK, you can either learn this lesson right now on your own in the wake of last Tuesday or you will learn it again next November when the voters go back to the polls in 2022.
01:16:14.980I don't know if you had a similar reaction, but in the like couple of days after the 2016 election, I was like, so is this the case now that the host of Celebrity Apprentice, literally somebody who was hosting that show not very long ago at that point, like 18 months ago?
01:16:28.220Is it the case that if the host of Celebrity Apprentice defeats the former secretary of state in a presidential election?
01:16:35.360Like, is this what actually is the course correction that the media needs to embark upon?
01:16:40.860And if anything, we saw the sort of like navel gazing and the reckoning for a couple of weeks.
01:16:46.280You had Dean Bequad of The New York Times saying, we don't get religion.
01:16:49.080But then after that first couple of weeks, they latched onto the racism, sexism, bigotry excuse and dug deeper and deeper and deeper into the trenches.
01:16:56.040And that's where it's like, well, they can learn a lesson in November 2016.
01:17:01.260They can learn it in Virginia, but they never internalize it.
01:17:05.220And I don't know what could possibly make them undergo this course correction because it's a religion.
01:17:09.180You know, this is like you're asking them to forfeit and to give up something that in many good people's minds.
01:17:15.800And there are some people who are decent.
01:17:17.160They want to actually be fighting racism, but they have no idea what's happening in the rest of the country.
01:17:23.500I can tell you, I have someone in my family who got addicted to drugs during the opioid crisis.
01:17:28.620And dealing with that whole thing has just been very rough on the whole family.
01:17:31.740But I would say with respect to this person in our family, we I describe my own behavior as if we could just if we could just if we could just if we could just like that's how it is when you're dealing with an addict.
01:17:41.820Like if we could just get this person to go over this hump or get over this bridge or just get into this program or just just just just.
01:17:48.100And what you learn over the years is there's no just there's just no just that's going to be the solution.
01:17:56.100And you're saying the similar thing about the media like Trump didn't help them be more self-reflective.
01:18:03.800In fact, he added to their own problems of, you know, blinders and not being able to understand the country and hating the working class at their own expense.
01:18:11.820And Tuesday's election is not going to do it.
01:18:14.660And this year is not like none of it's going to do it.
01:18:17.480So basically, the country's got to forge on without them and vote out the people, not the James Carvels of the world, but the far left wokesters who want to police every thought and every word that we have.
01:18:28.940And there also has to be I mean, so what scares me?
01:18:31.940So I was born in the early 90s and I have I live in a deep blue city.
01:18:37.280And what I see is that it's not just sort of members of the elite media.
01:18:40.340There are a lot of people who have filtered through our system of higher education and even K through 12, as the Virginia case illuminated, who have this very deep, deeply ingrained sense of that, that empty morality.
01:18:53.700They believe that all of these inflated definitions are not only accurate, but essential.
01:18:59.620And there are a lot of good people who have been sort of conditioned to see the world this way.
01:19:03.980And that's a reckoning that goes beyond the media.
01:19:06.340I mean, that's what happens if you talk to, as I know that you have people at corporations, a lot of times they say it's their own employees.
01:19:13.120It's not even the threat of bad publicity from the media, but it's their own employees who are complaining about a heterodox thinker who might work for them or it may have been hired to work for them or some sort of bad tweet.
01:19:23.440It's their own employees that cause them to make these sort of woke decisions that end up resetting the standards for our entire society.
01:19:31.260I have no sympathy for them. Grow a pair. Grow a pair.
01:20:15.680This is part of America where we enjoy the free and thoughtful, even sometimes thoughtless exchange of ideas, good, bad, and ugly.
01:20:23.920All right. This is not without consequence, because not only did we see last Tuesday, but today there's in the news a Suffolk USA Today poll.
01:20:31.840The question is, do you hope Joe Biden will run for a second term?
01:20:48.180So those are still the front runners for each party, but it's not it's not good for Joe Biden that two thirds of his of the entire country does not want him to run again.
01:21:00.760And I think actually the number in the crosstabs of independence was like 44 percent, which is terrible for somebody who wanted to build back better and restore a sense of normalcy.
01:21:09.220And that was a huge part of his campaign.
01:21:10.780He got into office and acted like he had a mandate to be a new Franklin Delano Roosevelt to implement a policy that was bigger than the New Deal.
01:21:18.280And he's I mean, that's not what people elected him to do.
01:21:21.320And so the sort of recognition, I think the recognition and recognition among establishment Democrats that a lot of this is bad for their brand and bad for their electoral chances is the one thing where you can start to see the cultural arbiters, the tastemakers, the gatekeepers undergo a course correction.
01:21:39.020And we saw sort of a preview of that last week where you had the Carvilles of the world, you had Van Jones, you had the CNN panel sort of contemplating their echo chambers.
01:21:47.160But then on the other hand, as the week wore on, sort of not unlike 2016, we saw everybody scapegoating racism and saying that even Winsome Sears, the black woman who was elected lieutenant governor, even she's a foot soldier of white supremacy.
01:22:01.720And so, you know, they always find a scapegoat because it's that's it's this religion.
01:22:07.160But to the extent that elite Democrats start to see their power threatened, that might be the thing that drags them back.
01:22:13.240Mm hmm. I wonder. So they they've now passed the one point two trillion dollar infrastructure bill.
01:22:19.140They've got Nancy Pelosi managed to get that through thanks to the Republicans who crossed over to help her.
01:22:24.460They haven't managed to pass the build back better.
01:22:27.680The triple B. It's basically basically just social spending on the Democrats wish list that still hangs out there.
01:22:34.940And I do wonder whether it would be a gift to them if they can't get it through, like if they get it through.
01:22:41.880I don't know whether Joe Biden's numbers go up or down because he wasn't elected with a mandate.
01:22:47.880He wasn't elected to take the country far left, to spend trillions and trillions of dollars that we don't have while we're in the midst of an inflation problem.
01:22:54.560And I do wonder whether, you know, some of these Democrats should be rooting for that to fail, for Manchin to really throw down or Sinema to say, you know what, on second thought, no way, because I I don't know that that's going to help them.
01:23:08.500Yeah. And that's a that's a really good point, because they are also used to having the entire media, entire legacy media be the support system for them.
01:23:18.400So like it's the public relations arm. So if they pass something that might be broadly unpopular with the country, it's generally sort of popular with the media for ideological reasons.
01:23:26.660And so they get this huge public relations boost. But the legacy media is not what it used to be.
01:23:31.380We're fragmenting to all of these little niches. And so they're going to have, you know, if you have Joe Rogan railing against your bill, if you have Megyn Kelly railing against your bill, that matters a lot.
01:23:41.920And so their PR arm is sort of disintegrating a little bit. And I don't know that they fully realized that.
01:23:46.680And they've also sort of screwed themselves with their own polling questions into thinking a lot of this huge social spending is popular.
01:23:53.400And those questions are asked in a way that, of course, the media would frame the issues.
01:23:57.560But if that's not happening and people are just sort of actually finding the cold, hard reality of this, I think you're right.
01:24:03.660I think it would be a gift for them if Manchin and Sinema block it, because this is this bill is just larded up with a lot of unpopular things.
01:24:12.700That isn't to say parts of it aren't popular, but it's a huge, huge bill that can be spun and should be spun to show how negative it is in certain aspects.
01:24:21.380I like larded up. I'm going to use lard more in my in my daily vernacular.
01:24:27.520I like it's a surprising verb. Yeah, it's very graphic.
01:24:31.180Yeah, it brings it home. It really has a certain image.
01:24:33.660It's not a good one, as we all know, when swimsuit season comes around.
01:24:39.620All right. So let's talk about the vaccine mandate, because it suffered a blowback this this past weekend when the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which oversees Texas, Louisiana, I think Mississippi, found the vaccine mandate unconstitutional.
01:24:51.480As the audience knows, Joe Biden refused to sort of put it in writing this executive order saying, you know, you've got to do it if you have 100 employees or more.
01:24:59.380He finally did it. And as soon as he did it, it was legally challengeable.
01:25:02.580Like we couldn't challenge it until he actually put it in writing.
01:25:04.960And now it's failed in front of the Fifth Circuit, which is very well respected court.
01:25:09.540Very bad for him. But they have the solution, Emily.
01:25:12.400They have the solution. And that is Big Bird.
01:25:15.380He is going to sell it to us, even if our employer can't ram it down our throats.
01:25:21.020Here's a little bit of the town hall CNN did with Sesame Street.
01:25:27.600Hey, Granny Bird question. Have you decided if Big Bird's going to be getting the vaccine?
01:25:32.880Yes, I did. I asked my questions and I got my answers and I've scheduled an appointment for my grandson.
01:27:08.540And so they are now using, you know, anthropomorphic puppets to influence parents' decision with state-sponsored television.
01:27:16.940I guess they're trying to get at the children watching CNN in the morning, which is like those kids have much bigger problems than the vaccine on their hand.
01:27:36.920I mean, I personally emailed the head of our school and said, this is the hell a lot of us will die on.
01:27:41.620Because, look, I'm not saying never, but there's no way I'm offering my eight-year-old up first in the first round before this thing's even got.
01:27:48.420It's it's it's the emergency authorization.
01:27:50.740It's not even the permanent authorization.
01:27:52.660But these schools are so in love with these mandatory vaccines.
01:27:58.840And I do wonder whether that's going to be reflected in in those polls we were talking about or in those on that voting day next November, too.
01:28:09.000I think that's probably going to be a very common sentiment.
01:28:12.060I'm sure it already is around the country.
01:28:14.740You can it's perfectly understandable and reasonable to anybody who doesn't live in the Fauci echo chamber in the Fauci bubble and has sort of been able to take a breath and say, listen, it's true.
01:28:25.500You know, as an adult, I'm comfortable and fine.
01:28:28.080But for kids, it's an entirely different question.
01:28:30.440And so, yeah, I think this is sort of a big jumping the shark moment, a big overreach moment for the Biden administration.
01:28:36.740And it's also amazing on the left that their their labor coalition, where you have so many unions that are upset with this.
01:28:43.820I mean, there's just normal people around the country that are upset with this and they have no voice on the contemporary left or in elite media at all.
01:28:50.480And so that's how they that's how Democrats, establishment Democrats and journalists lose sight of what is popular and what is reasonable because they don't listen to anybody who disagrees.
01:29:02.520It's one thing to say it's not great even to mandate it for adults, in my view, but it's quite another to say you must stick this needle in your five year old's arm before we've had adequate testing.
01:29:13.500Ask any doctor, honestly, like doctors off camera will tell you the truth, which is there wasn't a big enough sample size.
01:29:20.480And look, maybe you want to go, you know, six months into it.