MAGA vs. GOP Takes Centerstage, "Blind Side" Truth, and Our "Feminized" Society, with Jason Whitlock | Ep. 612
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On today's show, Megyn Kelly is joined by Jason Whitlock, host of the show Fearless, to discuss the latest in the Biden-Jill Biden divorce and the lack of a Donald Trump presence at the first Republican Debates. Plus, a story about the real-life story of a family that took in Michael Jordan's son and turned him into a professional football player.
Transcript
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Tuesday.
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It's debate week and it's happening tomorrow night.
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In the meantime, President Biden went to Maui finally last night with his wife, Dr. Jill Biden,
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and he made it about himself again. Seriously, there's something wrong with the president.
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This is not normal behavior. He started talking about a kitchen fire he had in his home.
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I'm sorry, you can't make it up. How he could relate to these people who have now,
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the latest tally I heard was 115 dead. I mean, there are almost a thousand still missing,
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including children. And he wants to talk about his kitchen fire years ago and how he can totally
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relate to what they're going through. People are about to reelect this guy. Half the country wants
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to reelect him. OK, we're also going to get into a story today that I've been obsessed with the past
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week, but we haven't covered yet. Have you seen all the news about the real life family featured in
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The Blind Side, the hit book and movie Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for her portrayal of Leanne
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Tui, the family that took in Michael or and he went on to become a big football star in the NFL?
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Well, they're basically in a divorce. They're in a very ugly fight. And there's plenty to talk to
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about that. Our guest is fired up about that story and much, much more. Jason Whitlock is the host of
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Blaze TV's Fearless with Jason Whitlock. And he's also a columnist at The Blaze. Jason,
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great to have you back. How are you doing? Awesome, Megan. Thanks for having me.
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Good to see you. All right. Let's kick it off with presidential politics since there's an excitement
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in the air as we get ready for the first big GOP debate tomorrow night in Milwaukee, hosted by Fox
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News. Trump will not be there. And now we officially know who will be there. Let me see. It's one,
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two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. DeSantis, Haley Pence, Scott, Christy Hutchinson,
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Burgum and Ramaswamy, who will not be there. Larry Elder, Will Hurd, Michigan businessman Perry Johnson,
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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez. Most people didn't even know that those people were running.
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They most likely will not be missed. As I mentioned, Trump will not be there. And that's the true,
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you know, elephant, not in the living room. The latest Des Moines Register NBC News poll going
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into this debate, of course, Iowa votes first at the first of the nation caucus, shows that Donald
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Trump remains ahead, though by a slimmer margin in Iowa than he has nationally. The CBS poll yesterday
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put him at 46 points up over DeSantis, who was the next nearest competitive 46 point lead. This one
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shows him with a 23 point lead over Ron DeSantis, 42 to 19. So still absolutely stunning and crushing,
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but not quite as crushing as he has nationally. And the question is, what are the stakes now for the
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other candidates going into tomorrow night without the elephant being there, Jason? What do you think?
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What do you think about it? Well, I'm going to start. I'm going to answer a little different than
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the question you asked. I want to start by saying that I think the GOP is making a mistake by not
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having Larry Elder at the debate. And I'm not saying that because I'm some Larry Elder surrogate.
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I'm saying that they're blowing an opportunity. Larry Elder is talking about issues as it relates
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to the Black family and the destruction of the family overall in America that needs to be front
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and center because I think there's an opportunity here. Larry made a bunch of news last week in an
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interview he did with the Breakfast Club with Charlemagne and DJ Envy, very popular radio show
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for Black, younger Black people. And Larry Elder crushed these guys. And if anybody watches the hour long
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interview, you can see that there's a real opportunity for Republicans to make headway
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with Black voters. And that's why I think it would be important to have Larry on the debate stage. He just
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absolutely destroyed these guys on the Breakfast Club. And you could hear a conversational turn
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among Charlemagne and DJ Envy and some woman that they had on named, I think Teslin or whatever,
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where they are openly discussing their, despite that they don't like Joe Biden, that they don't trust
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the Democrat Party. Now they're rigged and they have to crush or go against Larry Elder. But I think
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when I watched the interview, I was like, oh my God, it's finally happening. Black people's eyes are
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opening that the Democrats are fraudulent. And I just think Larry's important to exposing that
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conversation. So I wish that there was some way for Larry to participate in this debate. It's a great
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opportunity for Republicans. He single-handedly switched Dave Rubin over from a lefty to the
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righty or at least somebody. You could see Dave Rubin's eyes come open with like, oh my God,
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what do you mean? Because Larry Elder is a fact machine. He's a fact machine. And what I love about
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the way he persuades people is he doesn't just use sweeping rhetoric. In fact, he uses no sweeping
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rhetoric. He just provides the evidence. He's got the data at the ready on any controversial issue.
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It's the way to win arguments. I wish more in the GOP field would do this, but they say he didn't
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qualify. I think he's disputing that. So maybe something could happen before tomorrow night.
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Yes, I agree. He would be a great addition. But in any event, it doesn't look like it's going to happen.
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Um, I, I mean, I think that you tell me, but I think no one's going to take out Trump just by
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talking about him in absentia. But I do think everyone on the stage tomorrow night will have
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much to gain, right? Like if Ron DeSantis could have some sweeping moment or some pummeling moment
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of one of the opponents up there, it could help him, right? He's been sort of floundering, um, as
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the guy who was supposed to be the standard bearer. And now every piece of news about him since he
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launched has been terrible. Uh, Vivek Ramaswamy, he's done very well for himself, but you know,
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he could be hurt tomorrow because the only reason nobody's laid a glove on him is no one's tried.
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No one's really cared about him yet. Right. But now he's going to be under the national spotlight
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and he could get hurt. Uh, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, they haven't made any impression really.
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So it's their chance to do something. Chris Christie, he's got to decide who's his focus. Is it Donald
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Trump still, or are you going to go after Ron DeSantis now that he's out there?
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He's technically the leader, though, not by much of those who are going to be on stage.
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So what, what would you like to see tomorrow night?
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Well, I think only two people matter, Vivek and Ron DeSantis. And DeSantis matters the most,
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but the guy that in this election cycle may have the most impact other than Donald Trump is Vivek,
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because I think he's revealed a strategy that I wish Ron DeSantis had embraced. Don't attack Donald
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Trump. There's no win there that you're not as, as someone who would have to be considered a Trump
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supporter. You're not going to move me off Trump, uh, by attacking him. I've heard all the attacks.
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I don't care about any attack. I care about whether or not there's any other candidates,
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any other people who can help Donald Trump, uh, drain the swamp and, and get rid of politics
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as usual. And that's why Vivek has landed so strongly with me. And I don't think anybody's
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going to lay a glove on Vivek because he's going to talk circles around all of them. I think this
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guy, young guy is brilliant and unique and has chosen the right strategy of like, he's not wasting
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time attacking Trump. He, he, it's a mistake. Uh, and so Vivek to me is a strong candidate to be
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a vice presidential candidate for Donald Trump, part of Donald Trump's cabinet. If Donald Trump wins
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the nomination and wins elections or wins the election, Ron DeSantis, if he had not attacked
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Trump in any way, don't get baited into an attack with Trump and just had focused on, Hey, look,
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some people talk a good game. I actually execute a great game. Here's what I did in Florida. Here's
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what I'm about. Here's where I think the country needs to go. But I would have stayed away from any
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attack of Trump, Trump supporters. What do you call, what do you call them? Something about
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listless vessels? Well, maybe, maybe not. We'll play the soundbite and get into it in a second.
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But you don't like the comment. No, I just, no, because there's just no win there.
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Donald Trump, despite all of his flaws and he's got plenty of them, he's, he's like, he's been
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jumped into, I'm going to give you a gang analogy, but he's been jumped into the gang. And, you know,
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he's, I don't care about his flaws. I don't care about his, when he misspeaks. I don't care about
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mean tweets. All I care about is like, Hey man, this guy has taken a lot of hits for people like
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me. And, and, you know, I want to be clear. I'm not crying broke or poor or any of that. I'm not,
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but my, my background, my worldview is very working class because of my parents. My mother
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was a factory worker. My dad was a factory worker before he opened a bar basically for working class
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black people. And Donald Trump's America first, bring back manufacturing jobs, resonates and
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speaks with me. And the MAGA crowd resonates and speaks with me. I'm, and again, this is where I think
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the Republicans seem reluctant to be, become totally the party of the working class and really
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go after that and just be comfortable with that brand and with that constituency. And if they did,
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they could bring more black people into the tent, uh, if they embrace that fully. And, and, and that's
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what I think Donald Trump has done despite all the criticism and all the claims that he's a racist
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and he's this and that, that's all silly talking points that just don't land and resonate with
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anybody. So I would just avoid attacking Donald Trump. That's not saying he's flawless, but that
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is saying, Hey, the guy has been jumped into the gang. He's taken all the beatings. Uh, he he's one of
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us for better. One of the reasons people continue to love Trump is he's funny. He's, he's genuinely
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funny. He makes you laugh. And somebody who makes you smile and laugh,
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it's hard to really detest. The Democrats don't seem to understand this. Um, I'll give you one
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example. So he, in connection with this Georgia indictment was forced to post bond and it's just
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so absurd. The reason they want you to post bond in a criminal case, if they want you to post bond
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is that you don't flee so that you don't, you know, abscond to Mexico or Brazil and never returned
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for trial. The absurdity of suggesting that's what Trump is going to do in Georgia is apparent to
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anybody who's got, you know, a brain in their heads. So he sends out this post on his truth
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social network. I've got to read the whole thing. It's just so good. He writes, um, okay.
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The failed district attorney of Fulton County, Atlanta, Fannie Willis insisted on a 200,000 bond
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from me. I assume therefore that she thought I was a flight risk. I'd fly far away. Maybe,
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maybe to Russia, Russia, Russia, share a gold domed suite with Vladimir never to be seen or heard
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from again. Would I be able to take my very understated airplane with the gold Trump affixed
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for all to see? Probably not. I'd be much better off flying commercial. I'm sure nobody would recognize
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me. He's exactly right. Like, what are they? They're talking about mugshotting him down Atlanta
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bail so he doesn't abscond. This is a joke, right? But the fact that he can mock that what's happening
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to him, you know, a criminal case that actually could see him behind bars is part of the reason
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why people are very loyal to him and love him in part because of these indictments. That latest CBS
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poll, I mentioned, reflected people say, I support him because of these indictments.
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The more they persecute him, the more I'm loyal to him. The more rocks they throw at him,
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the more they pile up and he can stand on top of those rocks and become even bigger.
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This is why I just think he has, the GOP has a great opportunity through Trump to really break
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the stranglehold that the Democrat parties have on Black voters because he's just becoming more and
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more relatable the more they persecute him. You know, not me, but a lot of Black people love to
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lean into their victimhood and they can resonate with the fact like Donald Trump's being unfairly
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persecuted and treated here. Come on. I mean, everybody can see through these joke indictments
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and these very politicized indictments. And so his persecution, I think, is just making him more
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likable, more embraceable. And he's just increasing my it's increasing my loyalty to him.
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OK, now let's spend a minute on Vivek. You mentioned he's a sort of rising star within
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Republican politics. He's never governed. He's only 38, but he's made a billion dollars or so
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in the pharmaceutical industry as a young lawyer out of Yale Law School who just had smart ideas and
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knew how to execute them. This is his first foray into politics. And he's been going a different
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route. He will go on adversarial media. You know, he'll speak to anybody. He'll go on, you know,
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leftist TV programs and so on. He's been caught caught, you know, seen on camera rapping Eminem,
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you know, sort of seems younger and a little bit more vibrant. However, I believe he misstepped
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with the following video, Jason Whitlock. You tell me. He put out a tweet yesterday that he was
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doing debate prep. And this is the video, sir. He is not wearing a shirt. He is playing the tennis.
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He is naked from the waist up. I got problems with this, Jason.
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And I'm not sure this is the way I tweeted back at him. Vivek, where is your shirt?
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I think that Vivek and Robert Kennedy are trying to message to the world, hey, look,
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these old guys, you need someone young and vibrant. And we are it. We're still in shape.
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We're not Joe Biden. It clearly needs to be on a walker. And, you know, to some degree that
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Vivek taking his shirt off and playing tennis is as harsh a criticism as he's going to level
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with Donald Trump. It's like, yeah, Trump goes around on a golf cart and plays golf. But,
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you know, can he do this? That's about as harsh a criticism as he's going to have.
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But all these unconventional things that Vivek is doing, I like. Because, again, I don't like
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politicians. I don't like career politicians. I'm instinctively suspicious of them. The only thing
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that's ever interested me about Trump was that he was not a traditional politician. He's very
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authentic. He doesn't act presidential. And so you go into a process that, yeah, I want him to act
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presidential. But the politicians have become so fake and so off-putting to me that I like the
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unconventional. And so Vivek, Robert Kennedy, and Donald Trump are unconventional candidates
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that didn't, you know, again, Trump had no political experience before becoming president.
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RFK, I don't think, has held political office. And Vivek hasn't. I like that.
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I would submit to you that this is more of a shot at Chris Christie than at Donald Trump.
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Sorry. All right. So DeSantis, you mentioned it and we sort of glossed over it, but we're going to
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get to it now. So he has been on getting raked over the coals by Trump supporters for a comment he made
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to Will Witt, who's been on this program drinking his raw milk. We like Will. And DeSantis
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made a comment to him that I don't I know the Trump supporters don't like it. I don't see it as
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untrue. I'm not sure that I'm taking it the same way they are. However, CNN got raked over the coals
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by DeSantis supporter Ken Cuccinelli. He runs the DeSantis Super PAC for it. I'd love to get your take
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on it. So here's how we're going to do it. I'll play you the full the full soundbite because we here at
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the MK show do not take the clips out of context doesn't doesn't mean they're not controversial
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in context. We'll let the viewers decide. But here is what DeSantis said that's leading to some trouble.
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There'll be people who are huge Trump supporters like in Congress who have like incredibly liberal
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left wing records that that's really just atrocious. And yet they're viewed as by some of
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these folks as like as like really, really good. Then you have other people, you know, like a
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Congressman Chip Roy, who's endorsed me, Congressman Thomas Massey. These guys have
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records of principle fighting the swamp that are second to none. And yet they will be attacked by
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some of these people and called rhinos. And ultimately, a movement can't be about the
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personality of one individual. The movement has got to be about what are you trying to achieve on
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behalf of the American people? And that's got to be based in principle, because if you're not rooted
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in principle, if all we are is listless vessels that just supposed to follow, you know, whatever
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happens to come down the pike on truth social every morning, that that's not going to be a durable
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movement. OK, so he said it in the context of ripping on some congressmen who he thinks are to,
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you know, go with the wind, whatever Trump says is right, as opposed to principled conservatives.
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That's that's that's a way in which he said it. But it sounded too sweeping for many MAGA supporters.
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Then you get CNN in an interview with Cuccinelli. Right. Which which you'll hear the way that they
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set it up and him calling them out in soundbite three. Governor DeSantis talked about Trump supporters.
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He used the word words listless vessels. Hold on. I'm going to play it for everybody and then you
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can go ahead. Let's listen. A movement can't be about the personality of one individual. If all
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we are is listless vessels that just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down
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the pike on truth social every morning, that's not going to be a durable movement. Everybody just saw
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there that there was a cut. You cut from the beginning of that quote to the listless vessels.
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You just did what the problem is. Hmm. I'll give you my take and then I'll listen to yours. I think
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that was a bullshit cut by CNN. I do think people can they're smart enough to make up their own minds
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on whether he was speaking about all MAGA, all Trump supporters, or whether he was speaking about
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it in the context of these congressmen who they decide are rhinos only because they dispute some of
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Trump's positions. Right. Like he was saying in the setup, you've got these congressmen who they
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think are the true, you know, true conservatives who will just do whatever truth social says.
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And then you've got others who are principled like Massey, who are great, like committed
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conservatives who will get called rhinos just because they don't follow Trump. And he was saying
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you can't build a movement on that. You can't just be a listless vessel who goes along with whatever
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you read on truth social in the morning. To me, it seemed more focused on the people who
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are following these congressmen. But I could be wrong. In any event, as a newswoman, I would never
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have set it up the way they did on CNN. I think Cuccinelli was right to call her out. CNN is always
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looking to make any Republican look the worst possible, whether it's DeSantis, Trump or whomever.
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But I have seen the the ire of MAGA online over the past few days in response to this clip. So
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having seen the full thing, how do you feel about it?
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Uh, I think in the clip you played and the clip CNN played, I think has been fair to Ron DeSantis.
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I interpreted from the clip, the full clip you play when you start saying, hey, we're not just
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listless vessels waiting for whatever comes down on true social. What you're saying is, hey, we're not
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listless vessels just taking our commands from Donald Trump. And so I get why MAGA people are upset and
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saying, oh, this guy's arguing that we can't think for ourselves. And we have this idolatry with Donald
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Trump. And some people do. But I think Ron DeSantis is is forgetting he signed up for politics and to be
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a politician. And then when you want to provoke a movement to put America first, to drain the swamp,
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as a politician, sometimes you do have to morph yourself into a representation of that movement.
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And so it's going to be about more than just your principles and values. It's going to be how voters
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see you and connect you to the movement. And so there's just a deep belief among MAGA supporters
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that Trump represents the movement. He's the only one who's willing to take these bullets
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for representing them and their voice. I like Ron DeSantis. I like what he did in Florida. But he wants to
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detach himself a bit. And hey, I'm not the face of a movement. And he wants to live in a safe space
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where Donald Trump is playing the thing very high risk. And I say this in all seriousness. And it's like, hey,
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look, politics is a blood sport. You know, presidents get assassinated. Presidents get shot at. Presidents have
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their reputation smeared in reprehensible ways. And so to me, what I hear from Ron DeSantis is
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he wants a little distance. He wants to play it a bit safer. He doesn't want to be seen as the face
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of a movement that is clearly scaring the establishment and has the entire criminal justice system and this
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lawfare that's being played against Donald Trump. Let me ask you, let me, let me, because Ron DeSantis,
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he's many things, but like running to a safe space would not be on my list for him. I mean, he's,
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you know, his Parental Rights and Education Act, which he's taking so much flack for down in Florida.
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He signed a six week ban on abortions, which most of these other Republicans criticized him for.
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Um, he's taken on, you know, fight after fight down in Florida against these sacred cows,
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like Disney's one of them. He doesn't seem like somebody who's not afraid to fight the COVID.
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He fought, he was aggressive, he was more aggressive than Trump was. So he, he's not,
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he's not a safe space guy. He, you could, you've got problems with DeSantis, but the safe space is not
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really apt in mind. I do think he's not afraid to fight, but I don't think he wants to be in every
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fight. And I don't blame him. If I had two young kids and a young wife, there's a level of the fight
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that I might be more resistant to than an 80 year old man. Who's, you know, most of his kids are grown.
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Uh, and look, whether it's true or not, Trump has created the impression that he's willing to pay
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whatever price there is for upsetting the establishment and American history says the
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price for upsetting the establishment could cost you your life. And, and so there's a belief among
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Trump supporters. He's willing to pay that price. And, and I'm not sure if, uh, Ron DeSantis is,
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and that's not a critique of him. That's like, Hey man, this dude's a father and he takes being a
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father seriously. He's got young kids. And so when I look at RFK, this is what I like about RFK.
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I've had him on the show. I've seen him do interviews. RFK knows the price. Having lost
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his father, having lost his uncle, he knows the price that he could pay by taking on the military
00:25:38.980
industrial complex, taking on the CIA, the FBI things. He knows what the price is and he doesn't
00:25:46.260
care. And so I respect that. And it don't, we can't get upset that there are other working class
00:25:54.820
MAGA supporters that are like, yeah, Ron's not all the way about this life. He's a great politician.
00:26:03.380
He's done great things in Florida. He certainly is courageous in comparison to most politicians,
00:26:10.740
but we're living in a very unique time, uh, where, where the state, again, you have a former
00:26:17.060
president that's had four bogus indictments brought against him. The Democrats see intent on putting him
00:26:23.860
in jail. And, and, and it just feels like to MAGA supporters and to me. And again, I like Ron DeSantis
00:26:31.140
would have no problem if he was president of the United States, but I'm not sure if he's all in
00:26:36.980
it. I get it. Here's, here's what I'll say. Oh, just FYI, uh, Santa says three, three young kids,
00:26:44.020
but, um, I think what you're getting at. And I actually think what DeSantis was trying though
00:26:50.580
in artfully to get at is the difference between MAGA and conservatism, you know, MAGA and the old
00:26:58.500
Republican party, right? Like I can, I believe it upsets Ron DeSantis when you call him a rhino.
00:27:05.700
He doesn't like that. He doesn't think that's true. He thinks he's a true Republican conservative.
00:27:12.820
And he, I don't think he would say he's MAGA, but he is a conservative Republican.
00:27:19.300
And so he doesn't like when somebody like, uh, Thomas Massey or somebody, you know, like him,
00:27:24.580
like DeSantis is dismissed as a rhino. And he's trying to say like, these guys in Congress don't
00:27:31.540
deserve that label. They're probably in his mind, a proxy for him. That's what he's trying to say.
00:27:35.940
I am not a rhino and that's a bullshit criticism, but you're kind of like, okay, you're not a rhino,
00:27:41.940
but you're not MAGA and you shouldn't be running, trying to convince us you're MAGA.
00:27:46.660
We're not going to elect you for being MAGA. We can see you're not MAGA. I mean, is that basically it?
00:27:52.340
Yeah. And that is my standard. That's why I like the vague. He's not afraid of the MAGA label.
00:27:59.940
That's why I like Larry Elder. He's not afraid of the MAGA label. The Republican Party,
00:28:05.940
just like the Democrat Party, there are those of us that believe they must die in order for America
00:28:12.260
to be safe. The establishment, the typical politician. This is what the Trump supporters
00:28:17.460
believe. And this is why his support is so strong in the polls. Keep going.
00:28:20.660
Yeah. It's got to go. They've been making just as much, if not more money from insider trading
00:28:27.860
and being bought off by China as everybody else. And so, yeah, he wants to defend the Republican
00:28:33.620
Party and rhinos or what, not even rhinos, but just the Republican Party and conservative.
00:28:38.580
I don't want a conservative. I don't want a Republican. I want someone who honestly wants
00:28:45.780
to fix things. I want someone that's not afraid to say I'm MAGA. If I'm willing to say, and again,
00:28:53.300
there's no true consequences for me, but again, when I see people languishing in jail over January 6th
00:29:00.420
and the price they're paying for supporting Donald Trump and for wanting our elected officials to
00:29:08.100
actually listen to the will of the people, they're willing to pay a price. If Ron DeSantis, again,
00:29:15.300
there's a movie, I've made this comparison probably for the last year about Donald Trump.
00:29:20.020
There's an old movie called Blood In, Blood Out. It's a gang movie. And that's where we're at right now.
00:29:27.380
It's blood in, blood out. If you're not willing to go all the way in, I really don't want to be bothered with you.
00:29:34.580
Hmm. That's fascinating. I think like some of this is reflected in the latest polls and the latest
00:29:41.620
numbers that continue to confuse hardcore Republicans who don't like Donald Trump.
00:29:47.140
You know, they would vote for him, but they don't want him. Never mind the left. Just to go over a
00:29:52.340
couple of them because we haven't yet gotten to them. The CBS poll I referenced, Trump has 62. The next
00:29:57.620
closest is DeSantis with 16. It's a crusher. It's a 46 point lead. Top reasons for considering Trump.
00:30:05.700
Things were better under Trump. Ninety nine percent say that fights for people like me. Ninety five
00:30:10.740
percent believe that feel what they tell you is true. Seventy one percent say they feel that way about
00:30:17.940
Trump. And only sixty three percent say they feel that way about their friends and family, that they
00:30:23.060
tell you what is true. Now, this has people on the left like Joe Scarborough, who once called himself
00:30:27.700
a Republican, utterly confused, saying it's a cult. It's a cult. It's a cult. You know, they believe
00:30:33.140
Trump more than they believe their own family members. But it's it's much more complex than that.
00:30:40.020
It's it's like I don't know if truth is actual truth or if it's just a surrogate for
00:30:45.460
like Ben Shapiro was saying yesterday, authenticity like it's they don't necessarily believe everything
00:30:52.020
Trump says. It's just that they feel like he is a reliable messenger who will fight for the principles
00:30:57.780
he says he'll fight for. Like he more than anybody else really will try to fight for these things,
00:31:04.580
whereas others will cave, whether it's China, whether it's the wall, none of which was perfect,
00:31:09.300
none of which was perfectly executed when he was president, whether it's standing behind conservative
00:31:13.860
justices and so on. They just believe him more than they believe the other candidates.
00:31:19.700
And I don't know what's wrong with their family members that they're not believing.
00:31:22.660
But here's Joe Scarborough. We hold your thought because I want to play Scarborough's reaction to
00:31:26.820
this just to get a flavor for the other side sees when they see that poll. There are really no good answers
00:31:35.460
except, you know, the question is, is it a cult? Nearly 30 percent more people
00:31:43.860
blindly follow their cult leader, Donald Trump than their own religious leaders. That's like,
00:31:52.900
please don't tell me about how this is a Jesus thing. It's not a Jesus thing. It's a cult thing.
00:32:01.780
The religious leaders had they believe 42 percent believe what their religious leaders tell them is
00:32:06.260
true again versus Trump's 71 percent. Go ahead, Jason. Well, as it relates to the religious leaders,
00:32:11.780
I'm glad you brought that up. That's because religious leaders have sold out and they don't
00:32:17.300
stand on biblical values. They don't stand on truth. They opened up their churches to the whole LGBTQ pride
00:32:26.900
movement and all that. And so the religious leaders have thrown away their credibility with a great
00:32:35.780
segment of their congregation. But I just think that people, Joe Scarborough, Ron DeSantis, everybody's
00:32:48.180
going to have to deal with where we are right now. There's a set of values that Trump seems to
00:32:56.340
represent and a set of values that really connects with the American people that we are in dire,
00:33:04.580
dire times when teachers are clearly trying to groom kids into a sexual lifestyle. When our borders are wide
00:33:19.060
open and they're just allowing people to come in at record numbers, we're at a chaotic time where we're
00:33:28.820
willing to overlook, because where Trump is really weak with me is on the COVID vaccine and Operation Warp Speed.
00:33:38.420
But I have to, and trust me, it really, really bothers me that he won't back down off the vaccine and
00:33:46.100
course correct and perhaps admit that he's wrong. That's his ego. It really, really bothers me. And so I
00:33:52.580
get that criticism of some people of him about that. But he's the only guy that I authentically believe
00:34:01.460
would try to do something about illegal immigration, would try to do something about
00:34:07.780
in some ways to bring manufacturing jobs back here to America so that working class people have access to
00:34:20.980
the American dream. I stand on the shoulders of factory workers. All the success that I have is on
00:34:27.860
the back of my parents and their friends as factory workers, as working class people. And that's all been
00:34:33.220
taken away. And not everybody wants to go to college. Not everybody wants to have some suit and tie job.
00:34:44.100
There has to be a way for people like my parents and their friends to provide for their kids. And that's
00:34:50.020
all been taken away. And we think, or I think, Donald Trump is the only person that's really committed to
00:34:58.260
fixing those problems. And so I'm going to have to swallow his ego as it relates to the COVID vaccine
00:35:05.220
and rip my teeth and take it. But this whole thing that it's a cult. No, man, it's a bunch of people
00:35:12.500
have figured out that most of the people in the media have sold out. They've been lying to us ever since
00:35:20.180
Kennedy was assassinated. And people are just tired of it. And so Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski get
00:35:26.740
on TV and they're all upset. We can't control what the public thinks. And we can't break the ties and
00:35:34.180
the loyalty they have to Donald Trump. It's because we forget you're the liars and you don't have our
00:35:40.180
best interests. You've been bought and paid for. You're millionaires. You don't care about working
00:35:44.340
class people. Screw you. Yeah. Okay. So I will say this. I think I won't, I won't say it. It's
00:35:51.780
necessarily true of all the Republicans, but I do believe Ron DeSantis would stand up with the things
00:35:56.380
that you just listed. However, it's not the end of the inquiry. It's like telling a wife or let's say
00:36:03.260
a girlfriend where there's not like the commitment of a marriage. Okay. You like your guy. But I have
00:36:09.980
another guy who would take you out to dinner, who would have a nice job, who would treat you right
00:36:15.600
at night, who would be a good father. And you look at the other guy and you think, oh yeah, I believe
00:36:21.160
he would do all those things. But I like this guy. I don't know. But I like the guy I'm with. He's
00:36:27.060
whatever. He's better looking. I've already had the experience with him overnight. And I'm not looking
00:36:32.520
to trade this guy in. Sorry. That seems to me the more of the dynamic. It's like, but like you said,
00:36:38.740
I like Ron DeSantis, I'd probably be happy with him as president. But you're loyal to Trump. You've
00:36:44.480
already kind of, forgive me, but like fall in love with Trump. That's how large factions of the
00:36:50.900
Republican Party feel. And it's an impossible dynamic for these other GOPers. And no one's
00:36:57.520
figured out how to break it. I don't know that it's breakable. I think. You know how many people
00:37:01.760
have thrown away a great relationship because they think the grass is greener?
00:37:06.980
I certainly have. I've made. And so I just think people have seen traditional politicians
00:37:14.700
sell out. And that's, that's not, I'm not suggesting that Ron DeSantis has sold out,
00:37:21.060
but he's a politician and that's what they do. And I like the fact that Trump's not a traditional
00:37:26.200
politician. I like that RFK is not. I like that the bank's not. I like that Larry Elder's not.
00:37:31.840
Yeah, no, I hear you. I hear you. Um, that it is attractive though. I maintain Vivek should have
00:37:38.760
put that jerk back on. I didn't need to see that. I don't need to be thinking about my possible next
00:37:43.200
president without the shirt on. And I will say RFKJ, he's a little bit more in shape than Vivek. So
00:37:50.000
Vivek, come on, you need to hit those tennis balls a little bit more often.
00:37:54.140
Let me say, if Vivek were here, if Vivek were here, Megan, what he would say is in, in, in all
00:38:02.480
good spirit is like, Hey, Megan, someone could complain. Look how good you look. That's a
00:38:08.140
distraction, Megan. You should tone it down. Look how good you look. That's just a distraction. I
00:38:12.840
don't want, I just want to hear about politics. I don't want to be thinking about how good making
00:38:16.540
a little more ripped in the midsection, Jason, I would not be complaining, but Vivek did not,
00:38:22.480
he was not in the shape to take off that jerk. That's it. I'm stealing the final word.
00:38:26.340
We're squeezing in a break. I'm coming right back. Jason Whitlock's with us for the full show.
00:38:34.200
Okay. So Jason, uh, the president finally was shamed into visiting Maui, the site of the worst
00:38:40.220
wildfire disaster in America in the past century. And, um, it didn't want to go was vacationing in
00:38:47.240
Rehoboth beach in Delaware, then parlayed that into a vacation, uh, in Lake Tahoe. And only when
00:38:54.720
he started to get hit repeatedly, did he decide. And after saying no comment, when we asked, do you
00:38:59.880
want to say anything about the deaths in Maui? No comment. Um, finally decides he's got to go out
00:39:05.280
there from Lake Tahoe. So he goes out there arrives for a short time yesterday evening. And as we knew
00:39:12.560
he was going to do, we had predicted this on the show yesterday, he once again made it about himself.
00:39:19.620
You know, it's one of the lessons of grieving. When you are grieving a loss, you do not want to hear
00:39:24.900
that somebody else had a loss too, and therefore totally understands what you're going through.
00:39:30.120
Just, just say, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Be kind, be, be loving, but don't start telling your
00:39:37.500
own sob stories. Just stop it. Especially as a president of the United States, they don't want
00:39:42.680
to hear it. He did it with the Afghanistan gold star families. Uh, when those 13 service personnel
00:39:47.560
were lost, he lied about the loss that he had suffered on Beau Biden, allegedly dying in Iraq.
00:39:53.040
And he does it all the time. So he goes out there again, worst wildfire losses we've seen in terms of
00:40:01.120
loss of loss of life in American history. And he goes out there and starts talking about a house fire
00:40:07.740
he suffered in his kitchen in which no one died or was hurt in 2004. Sound bite one.
00:40:17.700
I don't want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I,
00:40:24.060
what it's like to lose a home. Lightning struck at home on a little lake. Make a long story short,
00:40:30.600
almost lost my wife, my 67 Corvette, and my cat. But all kidding aside, they ran into flames,
00:40:43.600
saved my wife and saved my family. Not a joke. We were insured. We did not have any problem.
00:40:53.160
But being out of our home for better part of a year was difficult. I can only imagine
00:40:59.700
what it's like to lose your home. Okay. No part of that is true, apparently. It doesn't seem like
00:41:08.800
one word of that is true. Highlights from the actual 2004 Associated Press report at the time
00:41:14.320
of the fire are as follows. It was a, quote, small fire that was, quote, contained to the kitchen.
00:41:20.240
Quote, no one was injured. Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the house,
00:41:25.260
but were able to keep the flames from spreading beyond the kitchen. Fire company chief George
00:41:30.620
Lamborn. Luckily, we got it pretty early. The fire was under control in 20 minutes.
00:41:35.260
Nothing about running in to save the wife, to even mention the damn cat and Corvette in the context of
00:41:42.320
115 people are dead with hundreds more missing, including children, is grossly insensitive.
00:41:49.620
And he thinks he can get away with it by prefacing the remark with, I don't mean to compare tragedies,
00:41:56.320
but I'm going to do exactly that. He's got cognitive issues, clearly. And how they impact
00:42:03.300
him as president is he can't be prepped. Normally, you'd have handlers come in, give him some talking
00:42:11.080
points, give him some reference points, things like that. But he can't be. His cognitive issues are so
00:42:18.360
serious that he can't be prepped. And that's why they try to keep him away from situations and
00:42:23.900
environments they can't control, where he can't just be speaking from a teleprompter. And so when
00:42:29.680
given an opportunity to just kind of speak off the cuff, Joe does what he's been doing probably for
00:42:37.500
the entirety of his political career. He just kind of freelances and exaggerates and says, you know,
00:42:45.300
kind of silly things. And, you know, he's gotten away with it. I mean, this has been his entire
00:42:53.860
career. You know, you can go back even when he would probably have more cognitive skills than he
00:42:58.960
does now. He's been prone to exaggeration and lie and just kind of freelancing things and no one
00:43:06.460
really cares. Well, now that he's president of the United States, you know, half the media doesn't
00:43:12.120
care again. Joe Scarborough, very comfortable talking about the cult around Donald Trump. But
00:43:18.780
what any Biden supporter at this point has to be a member of a cult. There's no rational person that
00:43:26.980
can't see this guy has no business being the president of the United States. He shuffles when
00:43:33.700
he walks, he falls down repeatedly. And he, when not speaking off teleprompter, even when speaking on
00:43:41.220
teleprompter, he makes a complete and utter mess. So it's not surprising. And it's, I'm not even sure
00:43:50.280
if it's a big deal at this point, because we know that he's not really the president,
00:43:54.880
that he's just there, and that there are other people actually making the decisions.
00:44:01.880
You know, it reminds me, Jason, of the, clearly he's been told, don't compare difficulties. Don't
00:44:08.540
do that. Stop doing the thing with Beau Biden. Stop bringing up your, the loss of your first wife
00:44:13.180
at everybody else's tragedy. Keep it about them, not about you. And he can't do it. But to me,
00:44:18.400
it reminds me of, you know, elderly people who, you know how, like, they keep going over the same
00:44:25.480
stories of their lives. They sort of have their top 10 that they tell you about a lot. And that's
00:44:34.040
what he keeps doing. And this is like a little sad in any elderly person, but it's not acceptable
00:44:42.240
when that elderly person is the leader of the free world and is asking for a second term in which,
00:44:48.800
like a true rebel, he will only get older. And so he did it not once, but twice yesterday at a
00:44:55.240
separate stop in Maui. He then went back to the loss of the first wife and his daughter, which of
00:45:01.440
course was a tragedy. It happened 50 years ago and is not appropriate subject matter for this visit.
00:45:10.500
But here he was again yesterday in Maui. Take a listen. I got a phone call saying from my fire
00:45:17.000
department and the young first responder kind of panicked, you got to come home. There's been an
00:45:22.100
accident. So what happened? He said, your wife, she, she's dead. Come home, come home.
00:45:28.840
The tractor trailer had broadsided her and killed her in a car accident along with my little daughter.
00:45:36.320
And I remember all the way down from Washington home, wondering what a lot of people here wondering,
00:45:44.200
what about my two boys? How are they? They were in the car. The difference between knowing somebody's
00:45:49.080
gone and worrying whether they're available to come back are two different things.
00:45:55.220
You know, it's amazing. He's reading. He had somebody write that. That was a planned
00:45:58.560
remark. And in the New York Times, I think it was wrote it up like he often uses the story to show
00:46:05.000
empathy, you know, applauding him for it. They think it's appropriate, I guess.
00:46:08.220
Imagine if Joe Biden were president during Hurricane Katrina and had done something similar, the level
00:46:19.580
of outrage the New York Times and the mainstream media would have. And that's what I find, you know,
00:46:27.880
fascinating, disappointing, just unhealthy about where we're at is like, this happened in Maui,
00:46:35.880
if it had happened in New Orleans or Chicago and it happened in a inner city community and black people
00:46:43.960
were affected. One, Joe Biden would probably be trying to do better and sound more authentic and
00:46:52.000
concerned. But also, if he made these same types of blunders, there would be people calling him one of the
00:46:59.300
worst, most despicable people on the planet and Kanye West.
00:47:04.140
Yeah, he'd be, you know, he don't care about Samoans we'd be hearing from Kanye West or whatever.
00:47:09.700
But, you know, this will all go away because, you know, the victims aren't the right color and the
00:47:16.740
media is all in the bag for, for Joe Biden. It's, we just, I look at this stuff and I look at the
00:47:25.540
media reaction and I, man, we, we somehow just turned this magical place in the clown world.
00:47:32.900
And, and I'll just circle back to, uh, I just have a belief that only Donald Trump gets us
00:47:45.200
This is like this, this really could come back to haunt him because this level of
00:47:49.460
insensitivity is likely to be repeated and it's not a good thing for him. All right,
00:47:53.780
Jason, stand by one more break. He stays with us and we'll be right back.
00:48:01.140
I've been dying to get to this controversy. It, it has so many people talking because we
00:48:05.300
all saw the blind side. I mean, it's like millions of people have seen the blind side and enjoyed the
00:48:10.600
story. Um, I confess, I didn't know that it was just one long racist trope as now I'm learning from
00:48:17.060
places like Salon and slate. Um, you're racist too. If you enjoyed it, um, it's about the white
00:48:22.780
saviors. That's why you're not allowed to like the blind side. Uh, but as it turns out, it's not
00:48:27.180
just slate that didn't like the blind side. Michael or did not like the blind side. Uh, the young man
00:48:33.300
who's featured in it and whose life story is portrayed in both the book, uh, by Michael Lewis and
00:48:38.280
then the movie that was based on the book. So just as a refresher in that movie, the Tui family,
00:48:44.700
which is important to note was already very wealthy. Uh, they had made millions off of a
00:48:50.720
fast food chains. They own like taco bells and some other ones, um, decided to take in Michael
00:48:57.920
or who was from to put a charitably a broken family, uh, and was in foster care and to become
00:49:05.120
his legal guardians. Um, and the, the nature of that relationship will become relevant in the
00:49:11.120
dispute that we're now going to talk about, uh, and helped him and he played football and
00:49:15.760
he wound up getting drafted. He went to the NFL and, um, seemed like a loving, wonderful
00:49:22.200
story up until about two minutes ago when Michael or came out and started ripping on the
00:49:29.300
family and is now actually going after them. So he, I, he also released a book this month,
00:49:35.700
just, just, just so people understand. Um, but in, in the context of that as well, he's commenced
00:49:41.660
a petition in probate court where, uh, he is claiming that in fact he was tricked into signing
00:49:50.940
a document, making the two, he's his conservators, not his adoptive family. And that gave them legal
00:49:58.940
authority to make business deals in his name, but he complains that he never received any sort of
00:50:05.820
payments for the blind side and that, uh, to his chagrin and embarrassment, uh, he was lied to by
00:50:14.140
the two E's. They've enriched themselves at his expense, uh, and that he wants something like
00:50:21.320
hundreds of thousands of dollars from them in, and maybe more actually that he says that they received
00:50:27.080
millions of dollars and he received nothing for the rights to his story. Uh, the two E's are denying
00:50:33.500
it. Jason saying really none of this is true. He, he was well aware of the nature of the legal
00:50:39.300
relationship, that it was a conservative ship, wasn't an adoption. He was over 18 and that they
00:50:45.840
split the monies from the blind side five ways, evenly amongst their family and that they continue
00:50:51.040
to love him. And they seem rather confused about what he's doing here. So what's your take on it?
00:50:56.500
Well, I think that Michael Orr's, uh, own words written in his own memoir in 2011 contradict
00:51:06.940
a great deal of this narrative. Uh, he, and I, I've read his 2011 book, I beat the odds. I've re-read
00:51:16.100
the blind side. I've re-watched the movie, the blind side. I've watched the interviews he's done.
00:51:22.620
And so in 2011, he wrote in his own book that they had entered into a conservatorship and that he
00:51:31.280
didn't really care because all it meant was that he knew he was a part of their family. And so to now
00:51:37.140
come out in 2023 and pretend like you're just discovering I wasn't adopted. I'm in a conservatorship.
00:51:42.940
It's just a flat out lie. It's dishonest. And so I think a lot of this, 90% of it, 98% of it,
00:51:54.080
maybe a hundred percent of it is all driven by the fact that Michael Orr is at a crossroads. He's been
00:52:00.940
out of the NFL for five, six, seven years. Uh, he's 37 years old. Uh, I think he's written in his new
00:52:08.060
memoir that just came out in the past two, two or three weeks that, you know, he struggled with job
00:52:15.160
and career and depression. And so I think this petition is part of a publicity campaign for his
00:52:24.060
new book and part of a campaign that he would love to see a Netflix or Amazon prime or some, uh,
00:52:33.520
movie studio out in Hollywood commission a sequel to the blind side, the real blind side,
00:52:40.620
the new Michael Orr. And he wants to profit from that. He wants to sell his book and he wants to
00:52:46.820
negotiate a better movie deal that makes him the champion and more of the hero of the blind side.
00:52:54.720
And he thinks the book and or a movie made of him, uh, this is just, uh, a frustrated
00:53:02.840
former athlete, uh, doing something I believe very unethical to enrich himself and to enhance his
00:53:10.900
brand. It's sad. Hmm. That's so fascinating. So you're right about the book. Um, in 2011,
00:53:18.100
his memoir, I beat the odds, he writes that the two, he's told him about the legal conservatorship.
00:53:26.300
And he writes, quote, since I was already over the age of 18 and considered an adult by the state
00:53:30.180
of Tennessee, Sean and Leanne would be named as my quote, legal conservators. They explained to me
00:53:36.060
that it pretty much means the exact same thing as adoptive parents, but that the laws were just
00:53:40.020
written in a way that took my age into account. Honestly, I didn't care what it was called. My mother
00:53:45.580
was going to be at the hearing to agree that she supported the decision to have the two is listed
00:53:49.300
as my next of kin and legal conservators, legal conservators. Um, but now he's claiming he didn't
00:53:56.340
understand that. He didn't know that he thought he was adopted. Okay. So that that's clearly not
00:54:01.320
true. Um, the two is have hired the illegal gunslinger out in Hollywood named Marty singer,
00:54:09.720
who you hire him when, you know, you really want to fight. He represents all these celebrities
00:54:15.320
who are, they sue for defamation, et cetera. And he put out a statement, which I'll on their behalf,
00:54:21.100
which I'll read just in part, he writes the notion that a couple worth hundreds of millions
00:54:25.960
would connive to withhold a few hundred thousand or a few thousand dollars in profit participation
00:54:30.960
payments from anyone, let alone from someone they loved as a son defies belief. In reality,
00:54:37.120
the two is open their home to Mr. Orr offered him structure, support, most of all, unconditional love.
00:54:41.240
They have consistently treated him like a son and one of their three children. His response was to
00:54:46.460
threaten them, including saying that he would plant a negative story about them in the press
00:54:50.420
unless they paid him 15 million. The evidence documented in profit participation checks and
00:54:57.500
studio accounting statements is clear. Over the years, the two is have given Mr. Orr an equal cut of
00:55:03.360
every penny received from the blind side. Even recently, when Mr. Orr started to threaten them
00:55:09.580
about what he would do unless they paid him an eight figure windfall and as part of that shakedown
00:55:14.740
effort, refused to cash the small profit checks the twoies gave to him, they still deposited Mr. Orr's
00:55:20.800
equal share into a trust account they set up for him and goes on and on. From there, he's defiant.
00:55:29.620
He maintains these are bad people who really didn't help him as much as the movie portrayed.
00:55:34.480
Here's a little bit of that when he gave an interview on August 14th to the Jim Rome show,
00:55:40.720
I think the biggest for me is, you know, being portrayed, not being able to read or write.
00:55:50.720
Second grade, I was doing plays and for the front of the school. And I think that's one of the,
00:55:57.320
when you go into a locker room and your teammates don't think you can learn a playbook, you know,
00:56:01.940
that weighs heavy on someone. Before I moved in with the family, I was an All-American. That's what I
00:56:08.660
want the generations behind me to see in this book right here, to understand that you don't have to
00:56:13.860
come have someone save you and rescue you to go out and be successful. You.
00:56:21.260
As you're playing right into this white savior thing, you know, like that they're not,
00:56:24.920
they're not my saviors. I did it all on my own.
00:56:26.840
Listen, the, in his book, I beat the odds. He states very clearly that he didn't like the movie,
00:56:36.920
but that he liked the book, The Blind Side. And that's what made me go, okay, well, let me go
00:56:42.220
reread The Blind Side to refresh my memory. And, and, and so if he, there's no way you can like the
00:56:50.180
book, The Blind Side, and then have a problem with the movie. The, the book is far more descriptive
00:56:57.740
and detailed about the struggles that Michael Orr faced when he moved into the Tui's home.
00:57:05.000
He's according to this book that he says he likes and all the provable facts. He moved into the Tui's
00:57:11.760
home, I believe in February of 2004. He was not an All-American football player at that time.
00:57:18.000
He had played one year of football the year before. They played him on the defensive line
00:57:22.160
that year. The coach didn't really know what to do with him. He wasn't all that aggressive.
00:57:26.760
And when he moved in with them in February, 2004, Michael Orr thought he was going to be a
00:57:34.520
basketball player. He's six foot five, 300 and some odd pounds at that time. And, and Sean Tui,
00:57:41.140
the dad in February, he's writing small colleges, trying to get, because Sean Tui's background is
00:57:49.640
basketball. He was a point guard at Ole Miss. He's trying to get small colleges to recruit
00:57:54.840
this six foot five, 300 pound kid to see if he can play small college basketball. No one, the Tui's,
00:58:00.960
when they moved him in permanently into their home, they weren't thinking this was some future NFL
00:58:06.260
player that was going to be worth millions of dollars. They thought they had a kid who needed
00:58:11.200
help just to get his life on the right path. These are all verifiable facts recovered in the blind
00:58:18.180
side. This whole notion that I was an All-American before I moved in, this notion, again, he's very
00:58:24.820
careful with his wording. Oh, they said I couldn't read. Then he says, I was doing plays in the second
00:58:33.000
grade. He didn't say, I was reading in the second grade. He's saying I was doing plays in the second
00:58:39.720
grade. If you read the blind side, the Tui's, when they moved him in, and even before they moved him
00:58:46.220
in, he could not read and he'd have to do book reports. And so Sean and Leanne would spend nights
00:58:53.960
reading aloud books to him so that he could do book reports. They hired a tutor, Miss Sue,
00:59:01.920
to help catch him up. When he moved in with them, I think his GPA, according to the book, was a 0.06.
00:59:10.000
And this is a junior in high school, a 0.06. His IQ was at an 80. The GPA, the IQ level,
00:59:19.400
none of them would have qualified him to get into this Briarcrest school, this private Christian school.
00:59:24.800
Look, he couldn't read. They had to read to him. They invested a lot of time, money, and energy
00:59:33.160
trying to catch Michael back up because Michael had been so neglected by his mother, who was addicted
00:59:40.460
to crack cocaine, had no real relationship with his father, who I believe was in and out of jail,
00:59:45.860
and then eventually died. I think when Michael was 17, 18, 19 years old, he had been abandoned by his
00:59:52.320
father. He and his 11 siblings used to routinely come home, find the door locked because their
01:00:02.740
mother was going on a crack cocaine binge with her friends. And so she would lock them out of the house.
01:00:08.200
She would be someplace else on this cocaine binge. And they came to expect, well, this is going to
01:00:14.680
happen every couple of two or three months. She's going to go on a cocaine binge, and we're going
01:00:18.680
to have to go sleep on a friend's floor and beg for food. And all of a sudden, this young man had
01:00:24.280
been so neglected that by the time the Briarcrest Christian School, the Tuohys and other members of
01:00:31.380
that school administration got a hold of him, he had been so neglected that it was a total
01:00:37.560
reclamation project that the entire school and the Tuohys went on out of their Christian beliefs,
01:00:44.080
not out of some belief that like, oh, man, this guy's going to be in the NFL and worth a bunch of
01:00:48.240
money. First of all, these people already had money. Michael thought he was going to be a basketball
01:00:53.920
player, wanted to be a basketball player. Sean Tuohy is trying to help him be a small college
01:00:58.620
basketball player. This wasn't a money grab by the Tuohys. Much of what he's saying is just
01:01:09.080
dishonest, or certainly has the appearance of dishonesty based off of what he said in his own
01:01:15.620
book, what was written in the Blindside book that was, I believe, published in 2006. And the movie
01:01:22.420
is a very fair portrayal of Michael Orr. And then to pretend like, oh, I got to the NFL and guys
01:01:29.980
watched the movie and thought I couldn't read and learn a playbook. No one thinks that. That's
01:01:35.000
dishonest. You were an All-American football player at Ole Miss before you had to study and learn a
01:01:40.860
playbook then. Let's say they did have those questions. You played in the NFL for one year
01:01:46.620
with the Baltimore Ravens. Well, he played at a high level his rookie year. Everybody's over that
01:01:53.960
hurdle. Of course he can learn a playbook. The Tuohys sent that Miss Sue to Ole Miss to tutor this
01:02:02.860
young man and to walk him through college for all four years. People went to great lengths to catch
01:02:11.220
this kid up. This is one of the most despicable, ungrateful acts I've ever seen. It doesn't
01:02:19.560
surprise me because the one mistake I would say the Tuohys made, but again, they have their own kids
01:02:25.820
who want, their daughter was the same age as Michael and they had a younger son. This kid needed major
01:02:33.580
therapy and still needs major therapy to this day. The kind of neglect he experiences for the first 15
01:02:40.940
years in life. Well, it takes a lifetime of therapy to overcome that. And he's still struggling with
01:02:47.160
it. He's a broken person who is trying to hurt the very people who helped him the most.
01:02:54.340
And it's only being encouraged by these radical leftist media sites who love the, see, they're not
01:03:02.140
white saviors narrative, which I'll talk about in one second. First, just a flavor of how the family
01:03:07.020
feels about Michael. This is a sound, soundbite from, um, SOT means sound on tape for those listeners
01:03:11.840
who sometimes get confused. SOT 10, you can hear the family talking. Um, I think Michael's in this
01:03:16.960
too, about him being part of the family. Do you look at him and think of him as your son?
01:03:22.320
He thinks I birthed him. It's gotten to the point where I think I birthed him. He takes great offense
01:03:26.700
if people don't think that he's, you know, a part of the family. He was Michael and I was Collins and
01:03:32.320
we went about our everyday life and he was my brother. And that was that. I mean, I cannot
01:03:40.100
Sean Jr. and Collins, they act like I was a part of the family. So they welcomed me with, you know,
01:03:44.940
open arms. You're this white woman from one side of Memphis. Michael's a black kid from the other
01:03:49.240
side of town. Were you conscious of that though, when you're meeting this kid and you're beginning
01:03:52.800
to befriend him? I mean, you, had you done anything like this before? It had nothing to do with
01:03:56.920
what color Michael was or how big he was. He was a child that had a need and it needed to be filled.
01:04:04.400
You said it took a year before he really gave you a big hug or a serious hug?
01:04:08.880
Well, I hugged him a lot. I'm real touchy-feely. I go to each child's room every night and kiss
01:04:14.120
him goodnight and hug him. And I did that just to Michael like I did the other two. And, um, it was
01:04:19.720
just kind of not much of a response for a long time. And then finally, one night, it was just as random,
01:04:26.600
you know, I said, night, honey, love you. See you in the morning. And I got a love you too.
01:04:31.580
And I went outside the door and I was like, wow. I said, we have moved mountains.
01:04:38.260
Hmm. What a difference a decade makes the messaging from Michael or very different than
01:04:43.680
he participated in in that interview with Deborah Roberts.
01:04:46.400
Listen, these people who I'm sure are flawed, like all of us, uh, have some sincere Christian
01:04:56.240
beliefs. The other thing that this whole white savior thing that the media has concocted
01:05:02.500
before they ever met Michael or the wife had graduated from this Briarcrest Christian school.
01:05:11.860
coach. I think she was in the first graduating class, maybe in 1978. My memory may be a little
01:05:16.520
bit fuzzy. Uh, but the father was a volunteer basketball coach who made it a point long before
01:05:23.140
Michael or to connect with any of the black kids that came to Briarcrest, particularly if
01:05:29.760
they were poor, that was what he was known for. And it's because of his whole worldview and
01:05:38.020
his basketball experience at Ole Miss and growing up, he grew up poor working class in new Orleans.
01:05:46.820
He had all kinds of black friends. And, and so it was part of his growing up poor. That was part of
01:05:53.700
his connection to Michael is he felt like he could relate and he wanted to provide, uh, Michael the
01:06:00.020
the opportunities that he himself, Sean was denied as, as a young person, but he had done this with
01:06:07.060
other kids at Briarcrest, not moved them in, but have helped them, uh, before Michael or ever got on
01:06:14.260
their radar. Also, I mean, this is what really tears me up about the way the media is portraying this story.
01:06:20.900
His wife grew up, Leanne Tui grew up in a very racist home. She admits that her father was a racist.
01:06:32.980
She's walking down. The father's walking her down the aisle at her wedding. And all of Sean's black
01:06:41.300
friends are there. And the father says to her as he's walking her down the aisle, why are all these
01:06:47.380
niggers here? That's the, where she comes from. And Sean being a Christian and a believer gave her a
01:06:56.980
completely different worldview on race than what her father and family had given her. And it became a
01:07:03.300
part of their mission to be different than perhaps other people in Mississippi, what, what she grew up
01:07:10.740
with. And she embraced that mentality, saw Michael and took Michael into her home as, as her own child
01:07:19.380
and tried to give this young boy the love that his Michael or writes in his own book that his mother,
01:07:26.580
not once in life ever told him she loved not once that no, he had 11 siblings. They never told each
01:07:35.700
other. They loved each other. This is in his own book. This family out of their sincere Christian
01:07:41.300
beliefs, tried to provide that love and support for him. And now they're being demonized and we're
01:07:46.820
turning this into a negative story. And, and, and it's almost like white people, rich white people,
01:07:53.220
they can't win either way. They see a Michael or don't, don't be involved with him. That's,
01:07:58.340
that's the white savior syndrome. If they do get involved with it, uh, you know, then they can be
01:08:04.980
ripped and criticized because they don't do everything perfect. This is crazy. The messaging
01:08:10.260
from the media and from what Michael or is doing is like telling wealthy people, regardless of color,
01:08:16.660
but particularly if you're white, do not get involved. It's not worth the risk. It can all be
01:08:22.580
turned and used against you. Look what happened to Colin Kaepernick and, and, and the white couple that
01:08:29.460
did adopt him and the movie he put out where he's taking pop shots at them. These young people
01:08:36.420
have been so radicalized by social media and, and so academia that, that you got to find your
01:08:44.100
victim of, you got to demonize white people. It is despicable and outrageous the way this story has
01:08:53.700
been covered, the way these people have been demonized. And that's not me saying they're
01:08:57.860
perfect. I'm sure they have false, but could you imagine you got a 17 year old daughter and you're
01:09:05.460
bringing an unraised six foot five, 300 pound young boy into your house. It doesn't matter what color he's
01:09:15.380
in. I got a 17 year old daughter. I'm not bringing an unraised eight. I'm not even a,
01:09:22.100
I'm not bringing any boy. That's not my son into my house with my 17 year old daughter,
01:09:27.540
who's a cheerleader. It's just not happening. These people made great sacrifice to great risk.
01:09:33.620
And it's all being a dump being taken on it. So we can play some social media, political,
01:09:41.540
racial game that leads to just destruction and divisiveness. It's despicable.
01:09:49.140
Gosh, you're so you're so articulate about this issue. Yes. I hear you espouse the thoughts. I'm
01:09:54.340
like, yes, yes, yes. This is all what's bothering me about it. But I wasn't able to put it into words.
01:09:59.460
The it reminded me, by the way, Matt Walsh had a good tweet on it, too. Apropos of what you just said,
01:10:04.100
he wrote after eight years of Barack Obama and all those BLM riots and George Floyd funerals,
01:10:09.860
we've arrived at this moral guidance. Let the black teenager on the side of the road freeze to
01:10:14.180
death. Don't help him or you're a racist. And and some of the media highlights I'll offer to the
01:10:21.060
audience just to underscore it. This is from an MSNBC op ed. The Blind Side isn't the only film
01:10:27.220
that gets things wrong. All white savior movies do. They rip on, for example, Dangerous Minds with
01:10:33.700
Michelle Pfeiffer. This is they say the the or or's lawsuit is an indictment of sorts against the
01:10:39.780
two is it is just as much an indictment of movie audiences that over and over again lap up stories
01:10:45.700
about white people saving some downtrodden black person or some downtrodden group of black people.
01:10:51.700
The white public craves feel good stories that portray them as heroes more than accurate stories
01:10:57.860
that portray black people as complete and complex human beings. They're dehumanizing is what they're
01:11:03.620
saying. Then they go on to say it's not just the white savior films that are problematic,
01:11:08.420
but the ones that they can also double, quote, as the, quote, magical Negro flick where the black
01:11:16.420
character, such as the one Michael Clark Duncan played in the Green Mile or the one Whoopi Goldberg
01:11:22.020
played in Ghost is there to help white characters become the best versions of themselves. That's
01:11:28.820
not OK either. Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost as somebody who could help the grieving widow communicate with
01:11:35.860
her dead husband. That's somehow racist to NPR ads. The blind side drama just proves the cheap,
01:11:44.260
meaningless hope of white savior films. Forbes with the blind side lawsuit teaches us about allyship
01:11:50.980
and white saviorism. Of course, let's not forget Robin DiAngelo in white fragility, excoriating this
01:11:58.420
particular film, the blind side as fundamentally and insidiously anti black. Little did they know, Jason,
01:12:06.660
but this I mean, maybe some of this got in Michael or his head to, you know, maybe he's been influenced by
01:12:12.420
this group. Of course, of course it has. And listen, here's the mistake that Michael or is making
01:12:19.780
it. And obviously the media is making this life. The blind side isn't a story simply about Michael
01:12:29.780
Orr. Sean and Leanne Tui, it's about their life too. It's a group of people. They're kids. It's about
01:12:39.060
their life too. Michael Orr thinks that movie is only about him. And it's not. And it was never intended
01:12:46.980
to be just about him. It was about a group of people and how their lives collaced and ended up
01:12:54.820
helping Michael Orr. But the movie does not paint Michael Orr in a bad light. It paints him in a
01:13:03.780
realistic light. He was a kid in need of a lot of help who accepted that help and ran with that help.
01:13:10.660
But to sit here and to pretend like there is no movie without Michael Orr overlooks the fact there
01:13:17.780
is no movie without Sean and Leanne Tui. Because without Sean and Leanne Tui, this book may be
01:13:26.420
renamed The Green Mob. Because the stats on what happens to kids that are abandoned and treated the
01:13:33.780
way that Michael Orr is, they end up in jail or dead. And so you remove the Tui's and it's a very
01:13:40.580
different story. It may be Shawshank redemption. Who knows? And Michael Orr knows that because he wrote
01:13:47.060
it in his own book, I Beat the Odds. The other thing that's really infuriating is Michael's contention,
01:13:55.860
like, oh, I didn't financially benefit. And basically what he's saying is, I don't like the
01:14:01.620
deal they cut. I should have made more money off this movie. That's basically his argument. And
01:14:08.420
people are going with that. Well, here's what they're overlooking. Michael Lewis, who wrote the book,
01:14:14.980
went to high school with Sean Tui. They're lifelong friends. There would be no book written about Michael
01:14:21.140
Orr or The Blind Side. And The Blind Side book wasn't solely about Michael Orr. It was an analysis
01:14:27.300
of the NFL and left tackle position that Michael and the Tui's were the human interest part of the
01:14:33.460
book. But anyway, it doesn't happen without Sean Tui's relationship with Michael Lewis. Fox,
01:14:41.780
20th Century Fox, declined to make, they bought the movie and then declined to make it. You know who
01:14:48.820
made the movie? Sean Tui's next door neighbor, Fred Smith, the CEO and founder of FedEx.
01:14:55.940
They talked to him. And so it's a very small production company that made The Blind Side.
01:15:02.180
And so Sean Tui's high school buddy, Michael Lewis wrote the book and his next door neighbor
01:15:07.700
financed the movie. No one knew that the movie was going to be a success. This was a great risk.
01:15:14.900
Michael Lewis didn't get rich off of it. No one did. Everybody took a little small
01:15:18.340
percentage just in case. Megan, you and I both know, and most people with common sense know,
01:15:24.260
most movies don't, no matter how good they are, they don't make the money. And so there is no great,
01:15:31.940
oh, I'm going to get rich. That's why all these writers are on strike right now. Because
01:15:37.140
the movie companies, they make most of the money. There was no great deal for Michael Orr to cut or
01:15:45.380
the Tui's to cut, basically because everybody knew this movie was going to be a success.
01:15:50.900
This was Sean Tui using his relationships to help get a book written and a movie made. And his family,
01:16:00.980
including Michael, got to participate in a little bit of the financial success of it. But it just
01:16:08.260
doesn't happen without the Tui's. None of it. The tutors that taught Michael to read, that got him
01:16:15.460
through college, got him through high school. The book doesn't get written. The movie doesn't get
01:16:19.620
made. But Michael Orr is sitting around there saying, look what I did. I'm not getting enough
01:16:25.620
credit. This was all about me. And the movie should have been all about me and the money should have been
01:16:31.540
made by me. And let's ignore the fact that other people, the Tui's, just as important, if not more
01:16:39.380
important in this story. But we're all racist or I'm a sellout for not thinking this is solely about
01:16:48.260
Michael Orr. It's crazy. As I mentioned, Sandra Bullock won the Oscar for portraying Leanne Tui in 2010.
01:16:55.380
I think we've got that video and there. I saw an article online. Another great point on that, too.
01:17:01.700
She's getting blowback for playing the character now. Some people saying she should give back the
01:17:07.060
Oscar. Now, Sandra Bullock is mourning the the recent death of her partner who died young.
01:17:14.260
It's just need this nonsense. This is bullshit. Michelle Pfeiffer. She's listed as one of the bad
01:17:19.780
people because she started didn't start in Dangerous Minds. That was about a white teacher. She
01:17:23.860
who she played teaching African-American and Hispanic-American teenagers in this inner city
01:17:28.340
high school. They also in the MSNBC piece rip on cool runnings loosely based based on the 1988 Jamaican
01:17:36.180
bobsled team where black Jamaicans want to form a national bobsled team and are helped by a white
01:17:42.180
former bobsledder play as played by John Candy. They even rip on to kill a mockingbird where a white
01:17:49.940
attorney played by Gregory Peck defends a black man falsely accused of rape. He loses the case,
01:17:57.860
but is applauded by his noble effort. This is actually the wiki list of white savior movies
01:18:04.660
just referenced in MSNBC's piece. So there's no winning. Right. Sandra Bullock, she's racist. Michelle
01:18:10.500
Pfeiffer is a racist. I guess Gregory Peck is a racist. Why? Because they either helped black
01:18:18.020
people or decided to portray white people who helped black people. The Sandra Bullock thing is
01:18:24.500
insensitive and mean and absurd. All of it is absurd. Jason. Yeah. Atticus Finch. He's evil as well for
01:18:32.260
helping Tom Roberts and I. I've read to kill a mockingbird probably five times. But anyway, as it
01:18:38.740
relates to Sandra Bullock, and this is what Michael or doesn't get and the people that are caping up
01:18:46.260
for him don't get. So in the movie, Michael or is a 17, 18 year old, six foot five, 345 pound kid. And he's
01:18:56.900
wondering why he's not the biggest superstar of this movie. Sandra Bullock plays Leanne Toohey.
01:19:05.540
The reason why you can get a mega star like Sandra Bullock to play Leanne Toohey because it's a grown
01:19:11.540
woman and Leanne Toohey was attractive. And so they got an attractive Hollywood actor, superstar to play
01:19:17.780
her role. That's why her role is more iconic. How many six foot five, 340 pound black actors are there
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out in Hollywood? Or let's say they don't have to be just six foot one, 300 pound actors out in
01:19:32.660
Hollywood who could play an 18 year old and make that character the iconic character of the movie.
01:19:40.260
It's just the facts dictate how the movie plays out. They wanted it fronted by a major star. One of the
01:19:47.460
reasons 20th Century Fox didn't do it is because Julia Roberts turned down the lead role and they felt
01:19:53.860
like, well, without Julia Roberts, are we sure the movie came in? Fred Smith and, you know,
01:19:59.380
the finance, I think it's Alcon, the small production company of finance. They got Sandra Bullock,
01:20:05.060
nice star. She plays this iconic role. It makes her career. She wins an Oscar. There was no
01:20:12.740
300 pound black actor that was going to take Michael Orr's role. I guess, you know, they could have
01:20:19.620
got found the male version of Precious. And it's just comical. The lack of common sense, the lack of
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understanding of how Hollywood works, the movie industry works, how do you become a star and all
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it's just all thrown out the window because Michael Orr is black and there's some white people that need
01:20:43.620
to be demonized and we can throw all the facts out the window. And and it's it's a damn shame
01:20:50.580
what this movie is normal. It's the way now white women are being demonized if they marry a black
01:20:56.180
man like that's that's just you working out your white supremacy. OK, what if I just fell in love
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with a black man? What if I'm not a white supremacist? What if I just love this black man? No, that's your
01:21:05.940
white supremacy. The white couples who adopt black children like Amy Coney Barrett, remember during her
01:21:11.780
confirmation hearing and you had Ibram X. Kendi suggesting this is part of white colonization.
01:21:17.060
She saved two kids from Haiti and orphanages. No white supremacy. Two is same. Sandra Bullock's
01:21:26.260
like I forget it. It's just it's so jumped the shark in terms of its absurdity. And thank you for for
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putting into words what a lot of us have been feeling but are not are less able to articulate.
01:21:39.140
Well done, sir. Stand by much more with the one and only Jason Whitlock right after this.
01:21:46.820
So, Jason, you tweeted something out about the NFL that caught my eye, even though, you know,
01:21:52.180
I don't follow sports. This was interesting. Apparently there was an injury on the field
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in Green Bay, Wisconsin that led to the shutdown of the game. They terminated the game early,
01:22:06.500
which is incredibly rare. And you had a strong reaction to it. Here's your tweet. Football died
01:22:16.500
Saturday night in Green Bay, Wisconsin, when New England Patriots defensive back Isaiah Bolden collided
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with a teammate, laid motionless on the ground and was carted off the field. Minutes later,
01:22:28.500
the NFL made the call to end the game. Football's death was not acute. It was a slow, painful death
01:22:34.980
that paralleled the rise of American feminism and the revolt against all things masculine.
01:22:40.500
It's really a damn shame. I thought it was interesting because my first reaction,
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maybe because I'm a soft lady was, oh, no, the guy got hurt. They had to shut the game down. He was
01:22:51.220
that hurt. What happened? But then I kept reading and found out he's already out of the hospital.
01:22:55.620
It doesn't sound like he was all that hurt. Why did they shut the game down and explain your thinking
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on it? Well, it's a new normal that we're establishing in professional football and just
01:23:09.940
football in general. And this is DeMar Hamlin, the Buffalo Bale player that had to have CPR performed
01:23:18.020
on the field during a Monday night football game last season. They ended up canceling that game. And
01:23:25.780
now we're here in a new season, preseason game. Megan, I'm a former college football player. I've
01:23:33.700
covered football my entire life. These types of injuries that Isaiah Bolden suffered, commonplace in
01:23:39.380
football. We've been continuing with games for 70, 80 years, despite injuries like that. There was an
01:23:47.300
NFL football player that died on the field and the game went on. But now we're in this new era of
01:23:57.380
choosing safety over everything. And again, I don't mean this to be diminishing or condescending or a
01:24:08.500
negative statement. But I get why women choose safety. And I think it's an instinctive thing.
01:24:17.780
When you have a wound, when a child develops inside you, you crave safety more than taking risks,
01:24:27.140
more than freedom. And so men have always been more risk-taking and play fast and loose with our
01:24:35.540
lives. We were roughnecks that fell off buildings, building skyscrapers. Evil Knievel, when I was a kid,
01:24:44.100
used to jump things, cars and fountains on a motorcycle and just do all kinds of silly things.
01:24:50.980
Men take risks. And that had been our nature. As the country has become more feminized and more
01:24:59.060
matriarchal, men are now adverse to risk. And we're starting to choose safety at all costs. And so
01:25:07.780
they've normalized something in football now where, oh my God, there's a bad injury on the field.
01:25:12.660
We better shut this down. No one can play. And guys are making millions upon millions of
01:25:19.700
dollars for playing this game. They know the risk of the game. They just don't want to take
01:25:24.340
the risk or suffer the consequences of that risk when guys used to do it all the time.
01:25:31.700
In a preseason game 45 years ago, it's one of the most devastating hits in NFL history.
01:25:37.380
A New England Patriot wide receiver, Darryl Stingley, got hit by an Oakland Raiders safety,
01:25:43.380
Jack Tatum, and was paralyzed. The game continued. And it was a preseason game.
01:25:49.860
And I'm not saying this is right, but the Patriots got on an airplane and were ready to fly home while
01:25:59.220
Darryl Stingley was still in the hospital. And the opposing coach, John Madden, you know,
01:26:04.260
called them a hundred and a thousand dollars like, hey man, before y'all leave, somebody better come
01:26:08.340
over here and check on your player, Darryl Stingley in the hospital, because John Madden was there.
01:26:12.580
I'm not saying that's, but I'm just telling you, that's what the mentality of football used to be.
01:26:18.420
And now we're adopting a softer safety first mentality. That's not healthy. It's not what
01:26:28.500
men are supposed to do. And it's a reflection of a society that has become very secular. And so when
01:26:36.180
you become secular and you have no idea what happens to you in the afterlife, you value this life more
01:26:42.500
than you do life with God, you now develop an unnatural fear of death or an unhealthy fear of death
01:26:52.740
that will stop you again. This current mentality, if there was a civil war over slavery, most men
01:26:59.300
would not participate. If we were back with Jim Crow and laws on the books that penalize Black people,
01:27:10.260
most men wouldn't take the kind of risk, protest, face police dogs, do all the things that they did to
01:27:20.260
overcome that. That there's a reason why our nature to take risks is actually a healthy thing and needs
01:27:27.380
to be protected because that's how we correct a lot of our problems by sacrificing our lives.
01:27:32.260
So hard to say, as a mother of, you know, two boys and a girl, I, I know this is true. And I know that
01:27:40.660
I should be encouraging them to take risks. You know, I feel the need to say sort of
01:27:46.660
reasonable risks. I don't want, you know, I don't want crazy risks taken, but
01:27:51.220
it's so hard, right? Because especially when they're little, my boys are 13 and 10. All you
01:27:57.540
want to do is protect them. Every instinct, every part of your body is protect, protect, protect,
01:28:02.580
stay in the bike lane, get over there, get, get, get toward the sidewalk, be careful,
01:28:07.060
be careful on your dive into that pool. You're like everything. That's like our whole job is to
01:28:12.500
keep them well. And in our family, sure enough, my husband is more like they're fine, relax. You can do
01:28:19.060
it. You know, and I do think that's the way nature intended it. Like I think we're both
01:28:23.140
biologically programmed to be a little bit more like that, at least when it comes to our children.
01:28:28.020
And yet you're right. Society is moving way more toward the protect, protect, protect,
01:28:34.100
safe space as opposed to take risks, assess, you know, take smart risk. You don't be an idiot.
01:28:40.180
Don't drive drunk. Don't, you know, whatever. But I see what you're saying. I don't know what to do.
01:28:45.460
I feel like. Do we need now as women to overcorrect, to like check our instincts to be the safety
01:28:52.500
monitors? Like, do we need to be more like get out there into the traffic? What's the answer?
01:28:59.220
The problem is not you guys shouldn't do anything. Men just need to be men and men need to, you know,
01:29:06.740
draw some boundaries here in terms of like and just have an understanding that, yeah,
01:29:12.020
we would have never ended slavery in this current mentality. And we wouldn't go off and storm the
01:29:19.220
beaches of Normandy. We wouldn't do many of the heroic things that we wouldn't get up on skyscrapers
01:29:26.980
and fall to our death, our deaths in search of progress and things like that, because everybody's
01:29:32.740
afraid to die. And there's just men used to understand the consequences of progress. And so
01:29:42.100
I don't think people under fully grasp, like the guys that went off to war in the Civil War and did
01:29:50.180
everything to sign up to participate in that war, they knew that death was a real possibility and perhaps
01:29:57.940
even likely or some type of injury. But we were willing to do that to have that progress happen.
01:30:04.660
And so when you start creating a culture where everything is evaluated about, well, how safe is
01:30:12.580
it going to be? Is there any risk? Well, let's don't do it. It's too risky. And so it's a byproduct of,
01:30:20.900
you know, and we had a very patriarchal culture where men, you know, argued amongst themselves and
01:30:31.300
kind of decided, hey, this is what we're going to do. This is what's going to happen. And in the name
01:30:36.820
of progress, we've invited everyone into the discussion. And in the name of progress, we're going
01:30:45.300
to take steps backwards. And many of the things that we're experiencing right now, the things we've
01:30:51.700
been talking about with diversity, equity, and inclusion, and all the reverse racism and all,
01:30:59.460
men won't stand up and be leaders and say, you know what, I'm not going for this. This diversity, equity,
01:31:08.020
inclusion goes against merit. And it's unhealthy for our country, because there are consequences.
01:31:15.300
If you take that type of stance, you'll likely get one out of your job. And we're just not in that type
01:31:21.940
of mentality right now. It's one thing to have female voices at the table. It's another thing to
01:31:27.140
accept the feminization of men. That's the word that is not what we wanted, and not what men should
01:31:34.820
be allowing. I mean, I don't think most women don't want that. Maybe the far lefties do. But I see
01:31:40.100
your point that if you zoom out to the larger culture in America, it's happening. It's interesting.
01:31:46.500
What an interesting way you end up on this football game. We shut down the Boy Scouts. Men can't even
01:31:54.180
really kind of gather together. And women can't. And they want to turn the whole thing around.
01:31:59.460
Hello, look at my shirt. We can't even get into our locker rooms and our bathrooms without the men
01:32:04.260
in there these days. Yes. And that's just not the way it's supposed to be. You know, there are,
01:32:11.140
there needs to be spaces where the genders can gather up. And, you know, sororities and fraternities
01:32:18.420
are good. You know, boys and girls locker rooms are good. And, and there's just a roughness
01:32:29.860
that has to be allowed. If you want to be the leader of the free world, if you want to continue
01:32:38.340
with Joe Biden type leadership, we're just going to continue to pretend that there's no differences
01:32:46.420
between men and women. And we're going to, because China's not doing these things. Russia's not doing
01:32:53.220
these things that we're doing. They're not pretending. Can I tell you, so we had a really
01:32:57.380
interesting guest on yesterday, who's an expert on, he has a book called Digital Madness. And he
01:33:02.660
made the point in it that if you ask the average American teenager what he or she wants to be when
01:33:07.940
they grow up, you'll get the majority, I think, saying a YouTube star. If you ask the same of the
01:33:14.180
Chinese children, they say an astronaut. What are we doing, Jason?
01:33:20.820
It's very safe being a YouTube star. Going into space is dangerous.
01:33:28.020
I mean, we're just, we're choosing the easy path every time. Our kids are too soft. We're too soft,
01:33:36.900
the whole thing. We don't understand that iron sharpens iron. And that again, as it relates to
01:33:43.780
football and I grew up playing football and that's how I got to college, that's a great iron sharpening
01:33:50.900
process that I needed. I injured a knee, a torn ACL. There's a price to play. There's a guarantee.
01:33:58.580
If you play football long enough, you're going to get injured, but it's all worth it. And not all of
01:34:03.540
my experiences in football were great. I didn't get along with my coaches all the time. Felt like
01:34:08.260
sometimes they treated me unfairly. Felt like I was too lazy in college and didn't take it
01:34:13.620
advantage of my opportunities. But overall, it was a great learning experience that helped me
01:34:19.220
develop as a man. And people need to let that process play out. But again, it's like we're on
01:34:25.940
this hunt. Let's remove all unfairness. Let's remove anything that's difficult. Let's remove anything
01:34:30.900
that's high risk. And again, they so dramatically changed all the rules in football. It's not the same
01:34:38.180
game. I've never heard somebody say it so succinctly. I mean, I've talked many times about running to
01:34:46.660
the danger, right? Like, don't be afraid. Don't go to the same space. I've never heard somebody say
01:34:50.580
it so succinctly. Iron sharpens iron. Iron sharpens iron. I want a T-shirt that that reads iron sharpens
01:34:56.900
iron. Jason Whitlock. Stick around. He stays with us. He's agreed to give us a few extra minutes. And it's
01:35:03.220
a good thing because I've got to ask him about Kim Kardashian. He's upset. And I'll show you the
01:35:07.220
video that has him upset. And I'm upset, too. All right. So, Jason, you may have heard that Sage
01:35:14.100
Steele, now former ESPN anchor, came on the show last week. And this was her first public comment on
01:35:22.260
her separation from ESPN and on ESPN strong arming her into apologizing. Her alleged sin was she had gone
01:35:32.500
on the Jay Cutler podcast, which was apparently short lived. It was a former NFL star. And she said a couple
01:35:41.300
of things. She criticized the vaccine mandate at ESPN, saying she thought it was sick, that they were forcing
01:35:47.380
people to get it, though she did get it. She said that she did not appreciate some of the young women
01:35:56.820
going into locker rooms scantily clad as sports reporters and then acting shocked that they
01:36:03.380
experienced alleged sexism or looks by the players. And she said that she, as a biracial woman, her mom's
01:36:12.260
white, her dad's black. She calls herself biracial and that she didn't totally understand why Barack
01:36:19.700
Obama called himself black when his black father really didn't raise him. His white mother did.
01:36:27.140
But you do you. I'm going to do me is what she said on the on the podcast. And she this was in the
01:36:34.820
context of her telling the biracial stuff. She was referencing back to an appearance she had on The View
01:36:40.420
where Barbara Walters was really coming at her saying, why don't you call yourself black? Why
01:36:44.900
do you call yourself biracial? And she was like, I'm I'm half white. I'm half black. That's biracial.
01:36:51.220
Pretty sure my mom was there when I was born. And I just I don't understand when I see a box that makes
01:36:57.300
me say, are you black or are you white? It's kind of confusing. I'm really kind of not either. And I am
01:37:02.580
both. Anyway, that's the context in which Barack Obama came up. ESPN made her apologize. So horrid
01:37:08.980
were those remarks. They forced you to apologize. Here's what she said on the show.
01:37:15.700
I did not want to apologize. I fought. And I fought and I begged and I screamed. And
01:37:24.820
I was told that if I want to keep my job, I have to apologize. And I need my job. And I love my job,
01:37:32.100
Megan. I loved it. But I needed it as well. And they knew that they knew that. So I apologize.
01:37:39.540
And I think that I thought that that was going to be the end of it because that's what I was told.
01:37:44.180
But when it continued. And there were events taken away, events I'd worked years to get.
01:37:52.100
And I was just told, you know, hey, you we need a little more time.
01:37:59.140
Bit by bit, they started taking opportunities away from her.
01:38:02.100
They, quote, sidelined her and effectively started destroying her career. And to her credit,
01:38:07.220
she sued. They settled the lawsuit last week. Your thoughts on what's happened to ESPN
01:38:17.220
I think what happened with Sage Steele is really complicated. But I and so I think it's different.
01:38:26.020
It's a pie and 20 percent is this, 30 percent is this. And what those percentages are, someone else,
01:38:32.980
I have to be the judge. But obviously, ESPN has a commitment to a liberal worldview and is far more
01:38:44.020
comfortable with their hosts that are in support of liberal ideology. And so that's part of what
01:38:52.260
happened to Sage Steele. I think that being a woman in that environment is part of what happened to
01:39:02.260
Sage Steele, because I think many of the Black women at ESPN, from an Elle Duncan to a Jamel Hill to others,
01:39:12.100
tried to undercut and did effectively undercut Sage Steele and try to question her Blackness
01:39:21.300
and whether or not she was the right type of representative for Black viewers. I think that
01:39:29.540
played a role. I think that having been hired and promoted under John Skipper, the previous president
01:39:38.900
of ESPN, I think played a role. And, you know, they don't know how to handle someone like Sage Steele,
01:39:49.700
who has a more authentic view of herself than a lot of Black people on television. Because, again,
01:40:01.300
Sage Steele is 1,000 percent biracial. The only people that don't think she's biracial are racist people,
01:40:11.140
because there was a racist tradition. It started in slavery. If you have one drop of Black blood,
01:40:17.940
you're Black. And so the modern day liberals have adopted all the viewpoints and talking points and
01:40:27.140
beliefs of old school racists. And so, oh, Barbara Walters, white liberal, racist. Oh, you got one
01:40:35.460
drop of Black blood. Why aren't you saying you're Black? Because that's what racist white people have
01:40:40.340
thought since the 1700s. And so, Sage Steele being off at Tiger Woods paid a momentary cost because he
01:40:49.700
wouldn't deny his mixed heritage. But, you know, I don't blame Sage Steele. Barack Obama certainly
01:40:59.060
should have claimed his white heritage. He had no relationship with his Black father. His grandparents,
01:41:04.980
his white grandparents, actually raised him in Hawaii. Barack Obama grew up what the liberals would
01:41:11.700
call very stereotypically white. But in order to advance politically, he has to pretend that, you know,
01:41:20.740
he's Jay-Z or the stereotypical Black kid from around the way. And, you know, he goes out and seeks
01:41:29.140
a marriage with a Black woman to validate his Blackness. And again, maybe he and Michelle just fell
01:41:37.300
in love. But everything I read, Barack Obama, the women that he did like were white. The women that he
01:41:45.300
dated were white until he decided, hey, I'm going to be a politician and I need a Black wife to do that.
01:41:51.860
And so, you know, the other aspect that, you know, at some point I'll probably talk to Sage myself,
01:42:03.700
and this is related to John Skipper. ESPN is cutting back salaries and Sage Steele was highly paid. And
01:42:13.060
when you're in the crosshairs at an ESPN or any of these networks and you're highly paid,
01:42:18.340
and they can't say that, hey, you're highly paid because you drive this much revenue or this much
01:42:27.700
ratings, they're getting rid of a lot of people over at ESPN who were overpaid by John Skipper
01:42:35.700
and a part of a system that was set up and commonplace at ESPN and Fox Sports and across
01:42:42.660
all sports media that in order to have diversity, equity and inclusion, we're going to overpay people.
01:42:50.740
We're going to pay them far more than the value they bring because we're making these statements.
01:42:56.260
And so I think she was saying all these DEI programs, the first thing she always wants to
01:43:01.220
see is diversity of thought. And that's that is what Sage Steele brings. She's diverse on a number of
01:43:06.020
levels. But it was her diversity of thought that they objected to because there's a long list of
01:43:10.900
ESPN anchors who have taken political positions and said really incendiary things which were
01:43:17.300
completely tolerated and not punished and did not lead to a separation. But they were aligned with the
01:43:23.620
leftist view. There's no question if she was aligned with the leftist view, she would be a superstar
01:43:29.460
at ESPN. She would be Malika Andrews. There's no question about that. They've got some young woman,
01:43:36.260
27 years old, Malika Andrews, that is mixed. She's half white Jew, half black,
01:43:45.220
pretends to be a leftist, you know, or toes that leftist line. And now she's the greatest thing since
01:43:51.140
life spread. And they're giving her all kinds of opportunities. That was all on the table for
01:43:55.860
Sage Steele. And that is where I got hats off to her. We talk about courage. We talk about standing
01:44:01.140
on convictions. And it's not a man or a woman thing. Sage Steele, I mean, a woman who was willing
01:44:06.660
to pay the price for standing on her values and principles. And I say hats off to her. It's what
01:44:13.140
makes me have a great deal of respect for Sage. But there are a lot of factors that impacted,
01:44:21.220
you know, Sage Steele's career at ESPN. You know, Disney running ESPN has been a travesty and a
01:44:31.620
tragedy. I got to say this. She also told us this crazy story as a follow up to that view
01:44:38.740
appearance where Barbara Walters was asking her about her race. I mean, it's not like inappropriate
01:44:45.060
anyway. Like what business was any of that of Barbara Walters? She told us a story on the show.
01:44:51.380
This is last Thursday. Barbara Walters elbowing her in the stomach at the water fountain. I can't
01:44:58.660
remember exactly the details, but elbowing her in the stomach. In the green one. Thank you. And that
01:45:04.820
Whoopi Goldberg was a witness to it. So this went everywhere. It made tons of news. And to the
01:45:11.620
point where Barbara Walters, who, you know, passed her representative, I guess is still around,
01:45:16.660
put out a statement saying this is impossible to believe. And it doesn't doesn't sound true.
01:45:23.780
And meanwhile, I'm like, well, I have a live person right here who says it is true. And it 100 percent
01:45:29.460
happened. And the eyewitness Whoopi Goldberg has not come out to say it's not true, which is kind of
01:45:36.100
interesting. If you're Barbara Walters representative, you could easily just go to Whoopi and say, would you
01:45:41.060
please put out a statement saying that this is bullshit? She claims you were a witness. No,
01:45:45.460
it hasn't happened. So anyway, I found that very interesting. But listen, I want to move on to Kim
01:45:49.700
Kardashian because you mentioned overpaid, overpaid women in front of the camera. Hello, Kim Kardashian
01:45:58.100
Segway. She I can't stand her for all sorts of reasons. And I feel like this incident, which somehow
01:46:06.420
I missed God bless you for finding this embodies exactly why I can't stand this woman. It's not
01:46:13.140
personal. I don't think she's evil. I just hate what she represents. So before I play the clip from
01:46:19.940
their show, do you want to set it up so that the audience knows that what we're going to see that
01:46:25.140
that you saw that upset you about her at the DMV? Well, she's got two stylists with her.
01:46:34.500
They basically shut down the DMV or leave it open late for her. And she has them take two or three
01:46:43.060
pictures. She's not satisfied with the first one. And I'm just like, this is a mental illness
01:46:50.420
to be this obsessed with your driver's license photo and your appearance at all times. And then
01:46:58.340
when you think about it, it's like, how often does Kim Kardashian drive? I mean, she's a billionaire.
01:47:04.900
She gets driven around everywhere. Part of this is gimmick for her, the Kardashians TV show or
01:47:12.660
something that's on Hulu or whatever. But I just, this sort of obsession with your looks
01:47:20.420
is a mental illness. And I'm not someone that's going to sit here and argue and say Kim Kardashian's
01:47:26.180
not attractive because she is attractive. But this level of obsession, she's a very, her spirit,
01:47:36.340
her mentality is very unattractive. And, you know, I looked at that and I said that people
01:47:44.100
want to say Kanye's nuts. She's just as nuts. All right, wait, let's let's let not keep people
01:47:51.060
in suspense any longer. Let's see. Kim Kardashian, Kim Kardashian's all important license photo.
01:47:57.220
no chemicals now. Come on, guys, we all need to approve this.
01:48:16.420
Maybe if you can, you come out a bit more. Yes. It's not so corrupt.
01:48:21.540
this, do another and have them side by side ? This one's good. It looks exactly the same