The Michael Knowles Show - April 25, 2023


Ep. 1232 - Did Fox News Just Make a HUGE Mistake？


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Tucker Carlson, the most popular cable news host in history, has been let go by Fox News. Why did they do this? And why did they let him go? And what will they do with his show now that they have a new host?

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00:00:37.700 Tucker Carlson is out at Fox.
00:00:40.920 Unbeknownst to him or any of us, the final episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight aired last Friday.
00:00:47.200 Fittingly, his final segment involved him highlighting the heroism of an everyday American over a slice of pizza.
00:00:54.660 Tyler Perel joins us in studio.
00:00:57.340 He will deliver literally anywhere.
00:00:59.920 Tyler, it is so great.
00:01:00.660 Got a couple pies for you.
00:01:01.080 Great to meet you in person.
00:01:02.500 A couple Cocos pies.
00:01:03.760 So we add, these are from Cocos, established 1978.
00:01:07.040 This is sausage.
00:01:08.700 That's sausage.
00:01:09.540 And pineapple.
00:01:10.200 And really quick, as a pizza professional, do you look down on this order?
00:01:13.620 I do.
00:01:14.200 I think that.
00:01:14.740 I consider a criminal.
00:01:16.540 I knew you did.
00:01:19.040 That's it for us for the week.
00:01:21.240 We'll be back.
00:01:21.960 By the way, the entire episode of Let Them Eat Bugs, not quite as good as pizza.
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00:01:29.820 And we'll be back on Monday.
00:01:31.600 In the meantime, have the best weekend with the ones that you love.
00:01:34.340 And we'll see you then.
00:01:35.520 What a great show.
00:01:37.200 What a great show.
00:01:39.160 Every solid conservative loves Tucker Carlson.
00:01:43.660 Many liberals do, too.
00:01:45.460 I can personally attest Tucker is one of the best guys in politics.
00:01:50.300 Always willing to help out and take a stand for what he thinks is right, even when it's
00:01:55.680 not popular, even when it might get him in trouble with the powers that be.
00:02:00.560 People have loved that honesty on his show.
00:02:03.580 That's how his show has dominated all of the others in cable news.
00:02:08.740 Highest ratings ever.
00:02:11.320 So why would Fox let him go?
00:02:14.260 Now, the most popular cable news host in history is also the most coherently conservative.
00:02:23.080 Tucker Carlson, unlike many conservatives in media, especially in television media, is
00:02:29.000 no court jester in the kingdom of liberalism.
00:02:32.040 He says what he thinks.
00:02:33.380 He promotes guests he believes in.
00:02:35.260 And he doesn't let the powers that be push him around.
00:02:37.620 Is it any wonder that the liberal establishment feels an urgent need to shut him up?
00:02:44.280 For years, and especially on his primetime show, Tucker has asked all the right questions
00:02:48.700 and pushed mainstream American public discourse to the right.
00:02:54.000 And ultimately, that was a price the establishment could not afford to pay, no matter how high his
00:03:01.400 ratings, no matter how profitable his show.
00:03:04.140 I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:14.040 Welcome back to the show.
00:03:17.120 Coming up, we have Whoopi Goldberg lecturing us on what is and is not American.
00:03:22.660 Is there anything more American than drag queen story hour? 0.94
00:03:25.600 I can't imagine, right?
00:03:27.740 In the meantime, I hope that the kind of pressure from the established powers that you see in
00:03:32.280 cable news, I hope that doesn't make it to podcasts and YouTube, because that would be
00:03:38.260 not a great thing.
00:03:39.500 This was the best aspect of the Tucker Carlson Tonight Show is that it was on cable.
00:03:45.740 The fact that we had at least one voice on cable who was articulating a conservative point
00:03:53.680 of view, not just a center right point of view, not just a kind of a libertarian live and let
00:03:59.120 live point of view, a conservative point of view.
00:04:03.120 That was unique, at least in terms of the ratings stratosphere that we're talking about
00:04:08.160 with Tucker Carlson.
00:04:10.100 And so he irritated too many people who were too powerful.
00:04:14.480 He was asking a few too many questions.
00:04:15.960 I'll give you a great example.
00:04:17.040 Just a week or two ago, Tucker aired a segment about the 911 calls after Jeffrey Epstein's death.
00:04:23.320 Do you remember that?
00:04:23.940 You remember how strange that was, Jeffrey Epstein, who ran this cabal of pedophiles who were
00:04:30.540 extraordinarily prominent, wealthy, and they had their weird secret pedo island.
00:04:34.420 And then all of these very, very prominent people were implicated in it.
00:04:38.280 So Jeffrey Epstein gets arrested, and then oopsie-daisy, he just ends up dead.
00:04:41.580 And it was probably just a suicide, right, except that the security cameras broke, and the security
00:04:46.420 guards didn't make their checks.
00:04:47.820 And I think Hillary Clinton was spotted in a FedEx truck outside. 0.99
00:04:51.260 No, I'm joking about that last part.
00:04:52.700 Am I joking?
00:04:53.820 I don't know.
00:04:54.700 And then Tucker stays on the story and says, all right, well, let's get the 911 calls at
00:05:01.620 least.
00:05:02.520 So he requests the 911 calls from New York.
00:05:05.840 And New York says, oh, yeah, we don't have them.
00:05:07.420 We deleted them.
00:05:08.280 Oopsie-daisy.
00:05:10.320 Oh, yeah, the Jeffrey Epstein calls.
00:05:12.180 Yeah, no, that was a while ago.
00:05:13.380 We just deleted those.
00:05:15.360 Oops.
00:05:15.640 Now, the NYPD says that they regularly delete old calls.
00:05:23.320 So there's nothing in particularly interesting here.
00:05:29.760 Seems like a lot of coincidences.
00:05:31.400 I'm willing to take one or two coincidences and say, well, okay, maybe that's just incompetence.
00:05:37.520 But you take the Jeffrey Epstein off suicide watch.
00:05:41.880 You leave him unsupervised.
00:05:43.640 The one guard forgets to make his rounds.
00:05:45.840 The second guard forgets to make his rounds.
00:05:47.700 The cameras around his jail cells break.
00:05:49.900 The call gets erased.
00:05:51.540 Ah, seems like too many coincidences.
00:05:54.000 So Tucker was pulling the thread of that story, and he's pulling the thread of the January 6th
00:05:59.800 nonsense he aired.
00:06:00.880 Coincidentally, I happened to be on his show that night, the night that he started to air
00:06:04.540 the January 6th footage that none of us had seen because the Democrats who controlled the
00:06:10.980 House hid this footage.
00:06:12.520 Finally, the Republicans come in.
00:06:13.700 Kevin McCarthy takes over.
00:06:15.080 And he has this footage.
00:06:16.180 He says, oh, my goodness, the January 6th narrative.
00:06:18.760 I'm sorry.
00:06:19.780 But January 6th, the worst day in the history of the whole American history.
00:06:26.100 On January 6th, it turns out that the security footage tells a very different story than what
00:06:32.000 the Democrats had told.
00:06:33.080 So what does Kevin McCarthy do?
00:06:34.160 He says, I'm going to give that footage to Tucker because he's the biggest voice on the
00:06:37.200 right on television.
00:06:39.080 And so he's going to go through it.
00:06:40.340 You know that irked the liberal establishment.
00:06:43.320 You know that was an embarrassment to liberal-minded and liberal-identifying people, even at his
00:06:48.880 own network.
00:06:50.200 And so they finally boot him.
00:06:53.680 Speaking of crime, by the way, Daily Wire has requested the manifesto from the Nashville
00:06:59.580 shooter, the trans-identifying shooter who targeted a Christian school and killed little
00:07:03.480 Christian kids and their teachers.
00:07:06.360 We know there's a manifesto.
00:07:07.960 The Nashville police told us there was a manifesto.
00:07:10.400 That was weeks ago now.
00:07:11.540 We still haven't seen it.
00:07:12.700 After all of these shootings, we see the manifesto almost immediately.
00:07:16.700 Why haven't we seen this one?
00:07:17.980 Daily Wire puts in a request for it.
00:07:22.260 The Nashville PD says they won't give it to us.
00:07:26.160 Now, the Nashville PD, the cops on the scene, acted with such heroism that it gave people
00:07:32.440 a sense of confidence.
00:07:33.460 Finally, one of these police departments has really got their act together.
00:07:36.720 But then the political apparatchiks who are over the police department, they seem to be a
00:07:42.560 little less responsive than the actual cops themselves.
00:07:46.020 And why is that?
00:07:47.620 I'm not sure that I even blame the Nashville police.
00:07:50.160 I'm sure that there are local politicians who are poking around in here and throwing their
00:07:53.740 weight around.
00:07:55.920 Also, the FBI.
00:07:56.880 The FBI is now apparently involved.
00:07:59.560 Nashville Metro Council member Courtney Johnston said that the document in the wrong hands
00:08:11.120 would be astronomically dangerous.
00:08:14.560 So we can't let it get into the wrong hands.
00:08:16.980 You know, like the hands of conservative journalists who can read it and then report on what motivated
00:08:20.580 the shooter.
00:08:21.720 That's the local politician.
00:08:23.740 Then the FBI is apparently involved.
00:08:25.320 But this is very strange because right after the shooting, the Daily Wire called the Memphis
00:08:28.740 Field Office of the FBI.
00:08:30.100 The FBI said, at this time, it does not appear to be federal.
00:08:33.560 And so the FBI is only going to get involved if this is a federal kind of a crime.
00:08:37.320 So then why is the FBI now providing assistance when it apparently doesn't have any jurisdiction?
00:08:42.260 We all know the answer, right?
00:08:44.380 We all know the answer because the circumstances of this shooting are not politically convenient
00:08:50.080 for the ruling class.
00:08:51.680 Because these kinds of shootings are supposed to be perpetrated by white young men, ideally
00:08:58.740 heterosexual, ideally. 0.68
00:09:01.180 If they can identify in any way as Christian, that would be ideal. 0.99
00:09:05.460 And then we'll get all the details about the shooting.
00:09:07.740 But then the moment that the shooting is a transgender identifying, LGBT identifying shooter 0.99
00:09:14.320 targeting Christians, we can't let that information get out.
00:09:18.120 And so we're going to bring in the feds, even though the feds don't really seem to have any
00:09:21.260 role here, given the facts on the ground.
00:09:24.280 We got to bring them in to suppress this.
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00:10:47.800 Speaking of liberal elites clamping down, this story out of New York, oh man, it sums up everything.
00:10:55.880 It's so ridiculous.
00:10:58.160 It gets me viscerally angry, but it tells you everything you need to know about how culture
00:11:04.580 and politics actually work. 0.74
00:11:05.960 The New York Democrats want to ban the sale of tobacco for everybody.
00:11:14.620 Not just they want to raise the age at which you can buy tobacco.
00:11:18.900 You can join the army at 18.
00:11:20.980 You can go fight terrorists in Iraq and Syria at 18, but you can't smoke a cigar until 21.
00:11:27.300 Not even that, they're saying they'll just ban it for everybody.
00:11:30.500 If you're born after 2010, you never get to purchase a tobacco product in the state of New York.
00:11:36.960 This is according to an April 13th memo from Jennifer Lee, who is the director of the
00:11:41.180 Health Department's Bureau of Tobacco Control.
00:11:45.040 And the normie take on this, the immediate reaction from conservatives is going to be,
00:11:51.440 here are those nanny state liberals always trying to put their government regulations on us. 0.68
00:11:57.440 We need to fight for freedom, and we need to fight for the ability to do what we want.
00:12:02.260 But that's not what's going on here, because at the same time that New York is trying to ban
00:12:07.320 tobacco, New York is legalizing marijuana.
00:12:12.260 Marijuana contains much more tar than tobacco does.
00:12:16.220 I'm not encouraging people to go smoke cigarettes.
00:12:18.260 I do not smoke cigarettes.
00:12:19.260 I don't like cigarettes.
00:12:20.000 I do love cigars, though, which you don't inhale.
00:12:22.480 And it's, well, listen, we can get into the distinctions between different types of
00:12:25.000 tobacco some other time.
00:12:27.800 But it can't just be nanny state regulations, big government coming in and taking away things
00:12:33.080 that might be harmful for you.
00:12:34.340 Marijuana is more harmful than tobacco, by pretty much any measure.
00:12:41.000 Tobacco, actually, this is a point that Tucker's made, too.
00:12:43.100 Man, I better watch out.
00:12:46.280 The people who took out Tucker, they're going to come for me if I keep saying too many dangerous
00:12:49.640 things, like the benefits of cigar smoking.
00:12:53.160 What does nicotine do?
00:12:55.440 Nicotine gets your heart pumping a little faster.
00:12:57.520 Nicotine makes you a little bit more focused.
00:13:00.060 Nicotine gets you through that work day.
00:13:03.800 What does marijuana do?
00:13:05.720 Marijuana makes you slower and hungrier and dumber and less funny.
00:13:11.300 That's what happens.
00:13:12.140 Who likes nicotine?
00:13:14.600 Conservatives.
00:13:16.560 Who likes nicotine?
00:13:17.740 Generally, people who are a little more normal, people who are a little more similar to the
00:13:28.060 common man, you're not going to see Mike Bloomberg smoking a cigarette, okay?
00:13:33.000 You're not going to see the liberal elites flying around in their private jets.
00:13:36.520 They're probably not smoking cigarettes.
00:13:38.280 They're probably micro-dosing LSD or something, but they're not smoking cigarettes.
00:13:41.200 So, ordinary people like cigarettes.
00:13:44.920 Conservatives tend to like cigars.
00:13:46.740 Bow-tie-wearing conservatives tend to like pipes.
00:13:50.260 Tobacco is, generally speaking, a more right-wing thing.
00:13:54.720 And marijuana, though I know that there are people on the right who like to puff the devil's
00:13:58.620 lettuce and have a little Haitian oregano now and again, marijuana is more of a lib thing.
00:14:04.600 And what you're seeing in New York is not a question of freedom versus tyranny or laissez-faire
00:14:12.540 versus the nanny state. 1.00
00:14:13.620 What you're seeing is just a fight between two cultures. 0.91
00:14:15.720 Are we going to live in a more conservative culture?
00:14:17.540 Are we going to live in a more lib culture?
00:14:21.320 Are we going to live in a culture where the sort of vice, but it's not that bad kind of
00:14:26.800 vice, is nicotine?
00:14:28.520 Or a culture where the vice, but it's not that bad kind of vice, is pot?
00:14:31.200 Are we going to live in a culture where the rules that set the limits around our behavior
00:14:38.220 are from the traditional moral order and from the church?
00:14:41.460 Or are we going to live in a world in which the rules that set the limits around our speech
00:14:45.780 and behavior are from political correctness and wokeness?
00:14:49.740 What is it?
00:14:50.240 This is about so much more than just cigars and blunts, okay?
00:14:54.780 There's a big difference between a cigar and a blunt.
00:14:56.540 But it's just a symbol of two cultures.
00:14:59.440 Are we going to live in the culture that cares about the children because we don't want to
00:15:05.000 scandalize the children?
00:15:06.080 We don't want to damage their immortal souls and we want them to raise up and be good virtuous
00:15:10.640 citizens and then one day be saints and go to heaven?
00:15:13.700 Or are we going to live in a culture that cares about the children because we fear that if one
00:15:19.100 of them is sexually confused, they might not be able to access cross-sex hormones and chop 0.97
00:15:22.760 their genitals off? 1.00
00:15:24.820 It's just two different views of what it means to care about children and raise up the next
00:15:28.220 generation.
00:15:29.120 Just two different cultures. 0.98
00:15:30.620 What kind of culture do you want to live in?
00:15:33.380 Cigars or blunts?
00:15:35.480 A philosopher's pipe or a glass bowl?
00:15:39.440 What kind of culture do you?
00:15:40.380 I know what culture I want to live in.
00:15:41.860 Speaking of culture, Chicago's culture seems to be on the decline.
00:15:46.880 I guess it's been on the decline for 100 years, but it's really not looking great right now.
00:15:51.160 You remember a week or two ago, there was that roving gang of something like 100 young
00:15:55.920 Chicagoans wreaking havoc, setting cars on fire, vandalizing, attacking people.
00:16:01.160 So there was a young couple who was attacked by this roving gang.
00:16:05.880 Here's what the couple says.
00:16:07.140 It was very random because all we were doing, we just left Nordstrom and we were looking for
00:16:11.520 somewhere to eat and we saw that group and they just thought they were tough and they
00:16:14.960 wouldn't move out of the way.
00:16:16.920 Just out there being stupid, young and dumb, trying to prove a point for nothing.
00:16:21.160 And then they attacked this couple.
00:16:24.900 And this guy told the news that he was recovering from shoulder injuries, back injuries, a black 1.00
00:16:30.260 eye.
00:16:30.860 He says that's how it happened.
00:16:32.300 And a state senator, Robert Peters, comes out to comment on the whole thing.
00:16:37.100 And what does he say?
00:16:37.760 Does he say, we'll make sure that we prosecute these ruffians to the fullest extent of the 1.00
00:16:42.940 law.
00:16:43.340 We will make sure that every Chicagoan can feel safe walking down the street.
00:16:46.740 No, of course not.
00:16:48.200 You know what happens.
00:16:49.240 The Chicago state senator, Robert Peters, takes the side of the little thug teenagers.
00:16:55.480 He says, since I'm a glutton for punishment, I'm sure I'm going to get the most unhinged
00:16:59.040 crime weirdo replies.
00:17:00.580 Hold on.
00:17:00.820 So he's already saying, I'm going to say something controversial.
00:17:03.760 And these weirdos who don't love violent crime on the streets of cities, they're going
00:17:08.740 to be really upset with me.
00:17:09.620 What's he say?
00:17:09.940 He says, I would look at the behavior of young people as a political act and statement.
00:17:17.160 It's a mass protest against poverty and segregation.
00:17:22.460 Rest in peace to my mentions.
00:17:25.200 One thing he said there is correct. 0.99
00:17:27.780 It is a political act.
00:17:29.240 When you've got roving gangs of ruffians prowling the street, looking to beat people up, set 1.00
00:17:39.520 cars on fire, kill people just for fun, not to alleviate poverty.
00:17:45.900 These are not starving children stealing a loaf of bread.
00:17:49.740 As you heard from the victim, they were just looking to beat people up.
00:17:52.380 They didn't even really take anything.
00:17:53.660 When they set a car on fire, they didn't go in and even steal the stereo to go sell it
00:17:58.380 down the street.
00:17:58.840 They just set it on fire.
00:17:59.700 They just tried to destroy things.
00:18:02.020 And that is a political act.
00:18:04.560 And the state senator defending these criminals, that is a political act.
00:18:08.980 You're right.
00:18:10.160 That is a statement.
00:18:13.860 The statement is, we run these streets.
00:18:17.560 The political act is, you're not safe.
00:18:20.600 The political act is, if you see me walking down the street, watch out.
00:18:24.400 You're not going to be able to reason with me.
00:18:25.880 You're not going to be able to argue with me.
00:18:27.120 You're not going to be able to turn to the law.
00:18:28.780 The law is not on your side.
00:18:29.940 It's on my side.
00:18:30.880 We're no longer going to be a nation of laws.
00:18:32.760 We're no longer going to be lady justice, blindfolded, meeting out justice fairly and
00:18:37.080 equally.
00:18:37.700 No.
00:18:39.400 Now it's going to be a nation of men.
00:18:41.860 And certain people are going to get a free pass, and certain people are going to have
00:18:44.360 the book thrown at them.
00:18:45.420 And if BLM burns the country down for eight months and throws Molotov cocktails at federal
00:18:49.220 buildings, oh, that was mostly peaceful.
00:18:52.020 We'll maybe give you a little slap on the wrist.
00:18:53.780 Probably, though, it's okay.
00:18:54.880 Go out.
00:18:55.300 No bail.
00:18:55.760 No bond.
00:18:56.200 You're fine.
00:18:57.600 We're going to drop those charges.
00:18:58.920 But if you're a granny at the Capitol on January 6th, if you're a Midwesterner who goes in 0.98
00:19:04.440 and takes a picture smiling in the Capitol rotunda, oh, you're going to solitary confinement.
00:19:08.600 You're a terrorist.
00:19:09.860 You're an insurrectionist.
00:19:10.760 We might send you to Gitmo, frankly.
00:19:12.540 You better thank your lucky stars that we're only putting you in solitary confinement in D.C.
00:19:17.840 We're not a nation of laws anymore.
00:19:19.520 We're a nation of men.
00:19:21.000 It's a political act.
00:19:21.900 Speaking of political acts, you know Netflix has this show about Cleopatra, sort of about
00:19:27.540 Cleopatra.
00:19:28.260 It's called Queen Cleopatra. 0.90
00:19:29.740 It's a Netflix documentary.
00:19:31.560 And yet, the person playing Cleopatra is black. 0.96
00:19:39.440 But Cleopatra is not black.
00:19:41.880 This is not a fictional character where you might say, okay, we can bend the races a little
00:19:44.840 bit.
00:19:45.840 This is not a contested historical fact.
00:19:50.720 Cleopatra was white.
00:19:52.260 She was Greek Macedonian.
00:19:53.600 If you did a biopic on Idi Amin and you cast me, that would be a little bit weird, wouldn't
00:20:02.740 it?
00:20:03.200 We're going to have a biopic on Xi Jinping starring Tom Cruise.
00:20:07.280 That would be a little bit strange, wouldn't you say?
00:20:10.040 But what does the director of this show say?
00:20:13.560 Tina Garavi.
00:20:15.080 She says, that's a political act.
00:20:18.000 This is a political act.
00:20:19.180 She says, doing the research, I realized what a political act it would be to see Cleopatra
00:20:26.180 portrayed by a black actress.
00:20:30.160 Why shouldn't Cleopatra be a melanated sister? 1.00
00:20:34.720 And why do some people need Cleopatra to be white? 0.99
00:20:38.360 So the question is, why shouldn't Cleopatra be black?
00:20:40.800 The answer, of course, is because she wasn't.
00:20:43.260 Yeah, but why couldn't she be?
00:20:44.680 To quote John and Robert Kennedy, quoting George Bernard Shaw, the socialist playwright,
00:20:52.960 writing a line for The Serpent in the Garden of Eden Tempting Eve, some people see things
00:20:58.080 that are and say, why?
00:20:58.980 I dream things that never were and say, why not?
00:21:02.420 That's the animating spirit of leftism.
00:21:06.000 Why shouldn't she be?
00:21:07.920 Why do some people need her to be white? 1.00
00:21:09.380 When you say, why do some people need Cleopatra to be white, or to be at least not black? 1.00
00:21:14.680 What you're really asking is, why do you care about the truth?
00:21:17.800 It's the same question as, why do some people need Bruce Jenner to be Bruce, he and him?
00:21:25.440 Why do you need that?
00:21:26.540 Why do you need to refer to men who think they're women as he and him and with male names?
00:21:32.420 Why do you care about the truth?
00:21:35.040 Why won't you let us make you lie?
00:21:38.700 Her proximity to whiteness seems to give her value, says the director.
00:21:42.100 And for some Egyptians, it seems to really matter.
00:21:45.180 So that's the other thing, is about this Netflix movie.
00:21:48.400 Some of us who are whiter, I guess I'm Sicilian, so we're a little bit of a liminal, marginal case.
00:21:53.960 But some of us have criticized it, and we've said this is a little bit strange.
00:21:58.580 But the people who are really angry here are Egyptians, as even Gharavi, the director, says.
00:22:04.000 Says, yeah, I knew I'd get the Egyptians mad at me, because I'm rewriting the history of Egypt in this completely silly way. 1.00
00:22:12.500 But I felt it was important enough for the political act.
00:22:16.280 It is a political act, but it's based on a lie.
00:22:18.920 And so then the question for us is, forget about Cleopatra and Netflix and all the rest of it.
00:22:25.180 In these political acts, are the political acts going to be acts of pure will, or are they going to be acts of will following intellect?
00:22:37.200 What makes a human being?
00:22:38.940 What distinguishes us from the rest of the animals?
00:22:40.980 We have will and intellect.
00:22:42.460 We can think abstractly.
00:22:43.720 We have a rational soul.
00:22:44.780 So do we order our will and our public actions according to reason, law, logic, facts, reality, truth?
00:22:58.300 Or do we say, forget about all that stuff.
00:23:00.500 I shall be as a god.
00:23:01.640 I will do whatever the hell I want.
00:23:04.240 And who are you to tell me?
00:23:05.500 Who are you to tell me I'm not a woman? 0.67
00:23:06.700 Who are you to tell me Cleopatra is not black? 0.99
00:23:08.420 Who are you to tell me that the January 6th people weren't the worst insurrectionist terrorists in history?
00:23:15.180 Who are you to tell me BLM was violent?
00:23:17.100 You don't know.
00:23:18.920 That's just your opinion, man.
00:23:21.360 And according to the left, opinions and perception, they have nothing to do with facts.
00:23:26.180 There is nothing but our own subjective, not even interpretation, our own subjective imposition of will on reality.
00:23:36.020 Who are you to talk about the truth?
00:23:38.540 I'm going to talk to you about my truth.
00:23:39.920 And if you don't like my truth, I'm going to burn down your city.
00:23:42.360 I'm going to clobber you on the head on the streets of Chicago.
00:23:45.540 I'm going to engage in a political act.
00:23:47.360 That's what our politics has become.
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00:25:51.020 Speaking of irrational politics, Nancy Mace.
00:25:54.880 She's a Republican.
00:25:56.640 She's kind of a squish. 1.00
00:25:58.540 She's one of those Republicans, but not that kind of Republican.
00:26:01.420 You know, I'm a cool Republican.
00:26:03.340 Nancy Mace just came out, and she explained on ABC, a liberal news network,
00:26:08.600 how the Republicans need to compromise their beliefs to win elections.
00:26:14.300 I want us to find some middle ground.
00:26:16.700 As a Republican, a conservative, constitutional conservative who's pro-life,
00:26:20.980 I saw what happened after Roe v. Wade, because I represent a very purple district, as purple as this dress.
00:26:26.540 And I saw the sentiment change dramatically.
00:26:29.640 And as Republicans, we need to read the room on this issue, because the vast majority of folks are not in the extremes.
00:26:36.820 And we just saw, you know, a fetal heartbeat bill signed in the dead of night recently in Florida.
00:26:42.060 In my home state of South Carolina, there was a very small group of state legislators that filed a bill that would execute women who have abortions and gave more rights to rapists than women who've been raped.
00:26:54.560 That is the wrong message heading into 24.
00:26:57.140 We're going to lose huge if we continue down this path of extremities and finding that middle ground.
00:27:03.040 The vast majority of people want some sort of gestational limits, not at, you know, not at nine months, but somewhere in the middle.
00:27:09.620 They want exceptions for rape and incest.
00:27:11.460 They want women to have access to birth control. 1.00
00:27:13.400 These are all very common sense positions that we can take and still be pro-life.
00:27:18.340 This woman is very confused, and she's on a liberal news network, and she's just mindlessly regurgitating leftist talking points that are completely divorced from reality. 1.00
00:27:28.900 Do you know in some Republican states, rapists have more rights than their victims?
00:27:32.520 It's just not true.
00:27:33.280 It's just complete nonsense.
00:27:34.480 She probably read it on Media Matters or something like that.
00:27:38.100 Very confused woman doing her best impression of the mom in Mean Girls.
00:27:42.340 Hey, hey, liberals, I know I'm a Republican, but I'm a cool Republican.
00:27:48.620 You know, I'm not that kind of Republican.
00:27:50.480 I'm cool.
00:27:51.180 I'm going to be your friend.
00:27:52.280 Okay.
00:27:53.180 On many issues, we can compromise with our political opponents and should compromise even, perhaps, on issues like taxation, on issues maybe like zoning decrees.
00:28:09.440 I don't know.
00:28:09.940 On issues like immigration, okay, we can compromise.
00:28:14.680 We can meet in the middle.
00:28:15.680 That's how politics works.
00:28:17.460 Okay.
00:28:18.560 On some issues, you can't, though, because on some issues, a compromise would be, in principle, as bad as the worst outcome of the two outcomes that you're trying to decide between.
00:28:34.380 In some cases, a compromise is the worst outcome of all, or at least as bad in principle.
00:28:40.620 And one of those issues would be abortion, because on abortion, if you try to compromise on it, you are literally splitting the baby.
00:28:51.060 You know that phrase, splitting the baby, comes from the Bible, where it was used as an instrument to determine who was the true mother of a child.
00:29:03.400 Two women claimed to be the mother of a child.
00:29:05.120 And so the decree to, all right, split the baby, give half to one and half to the other, it exposes who the real mother is, because the real mother says, don't split my baby.
00:29:12.420 You can give it to her, but just don't split the baby.
00:29:14.440 Say, oh, you're the real mother.
00:29:15.460 Okay, great.
00:29:15.980 You can't compromise on abortion, because either the baby is human and alive and shouldn't be murdered, or the baby is just a stupid clump of cells, and who cares?
00:29:28.980 It's one of those two things.
00:29:30.300 Comedians have done bits on this in recent years, even comedians who are considered to be somewhat liberal.
00:29:36.560 Louis C.K., remember, he said, oh, yeah, having an abortion, it's just like going to the bathroom.
00:29:40.940 You know, it's like, it's just like that, it's no big deal, or it's murder.
00:29:44.800 And so he gets the audience sort of on his side, and then he points out abortion is very possibly murder.
00:29:49.540 Chris Rock, same thing.
00:29:50.400 He said, I'm with you guys.
00:29:51.420 You know, look, I'm totally pro-choice.
00:29:53.000 Abortion's great. 0.99
00:29:53.900 You know, but don't tell me it's a clump of cells.
00:29:55.400 I'm here to murder babies. 0.89
00:29:57.060 And then the audience doesn't know what to do.
00:29:58.840 He says, no, no, I'm on your side.
00:30:00.060 I'm just saying, yeah, well, I'm all for abortion. 0.94
00:30:02.260 Abortion's great, but it's about murdering a baby. 1.00
00:30:04.940 Right?
00:30:05.260 And then the audience is so shocked by this, because he's calling out the truth.
00:30:09.140 It's one or the other.
00:30:10.000 It's a completely binary issue.
00:30:11.320 It's sort of like the transgender bathroom. 0.71
00:30:16.740 The difference is with abortion, you can come to some political compromise, and because unborn babies don't have a voice, you won't hear their screams.
00:30:27.100 And you don't necessarily have to acknowledge the injustice of it.
00:30:30.840 So you can say, okay, all the babies who are 12 weeks old and older, they get to live.
00:30:35.160 But the 12 weeks old and younger, we can murder them. 0.99
00:30:39.160 And because they're little babies and they're vulnerable, you won't have to pay too much attention.
00:30:43.160 Whereas with an issue like the transgender bathrooms, those are so obviously mutually contradictory because either the men go into the women's bathroom or they don't. 0.71
00:30:50.420 So you can say, okay, either men are women and they have the right to go into the women's bathroom or men are not women and they obviously don't have the right to go into the women's bathroom. 0.50
00:30:57.380 Either the transgender people get this right to go in and use the ladies' room or women are allowed to have their own bathrooms. 1.00
00:31:05.020 But you can't simultaneously have both.
00:31:06.920 It's logically impossible.
00:31:08.640 It's practically impossible.
00:31:12.600 Nancy May says, well, we have to to win elections.
00:31:15.580 I don't think we do.
00:31:16.860 There's three issues.
00:31:18.400 There's three issues that I can see that we have won on in recent years.
00:31:24.520 One of which is abortion.
00:31:28.240 Okay, we talk about in the last 50 years, sometimes we win on taxes for a little bit and then we lose on taxes.
00:31:35.800 Sometimes we win on foreign policy and then we lose on foreign policy.
00:31:39.640 But abortion is one of the few issues where we have consistently won.
00:31:43.400 It's because we've taken a clear line.
00:31:45.980 Now, speaking of young people, another Hollywood celebrity has come out and defended drag queens and drag queen performances for everybody in society.
00:31:58.120 And so there's a right to drag queens. 1.00
00:31:59.700 That would be Kevin Bacon.
00:32:02.480 And I keep my side of the street clean.
00:32:07.420 You wouldn't know what I mean.
00:32:11.680 This is so weird and creepy.
00:32:13.380 Karma is my boyfriend.
00:32:15.440 Karma is a god.
00:32:16.540 It's Kevin Bacon and some lady, I guess his wife, and they're wearing a shirt that's just a very creepy, mustachioed-looking man on it and says, drag is a right. 1.00
00:32:28.880 It says, drag bans are bad karma.
00:32:34.340 Right now, drag performers in the LGBTQIA plus community need our help.
00:32:38.560 Shop the Six Degrees of KB campaign supporting the ACLU Drag Defense Fund. 0.68
00:32:44.340 Or make a gift here.
00:32:45.520 Drag is art. 0.98
00:32:46.560 Drag is a right. 0.98
00:32:47.620 Drag is a right. 0.98
00:32:53.960 Down writing the Declaration, you've got Thomas Jefferson, the Founding Fathers.
00:32:58.260 They say, we hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:32:59.900 That all men are created equal.
00:33:02.400 That they're endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.
00:33:04.860 Among these are the right to life, liberty, and big fat guys strapping on stilettos and jiggling for kids.
00:33:13.260 That's, those are self-evident rights.
00:33:16.320 We don't, hold on.
00:33:17.560 Hey, Tom, Tom, what was that last one?
00:33:20.520 Huh?
00:33:20.720 No, don't worry about that.
00:33:21.520 It's about, you know, the guys putting on the stilettos and jiggling around at the library in the elementary school.
00:33:25.100 Um, how is that a right?
00:33:28.580 It's self-evident, of course.
00:33:30.040 That's the, that's pretty much the argument Kevin Bacon said.
00:33:32.340 It's self-evidently a right.
00:33:33.520 I don't think it's a right.
00:33:34.540 It's a wrong.
00:33:35.840 And it's a wrong that we tolerate to some degree in society.
00:33:40.680 Because it's a fallen world and we've got other things to worry about.
00:33:44.840 But it's obviously a wrong.
00:33:46.040 The whole reason drag is funny is because it's wrong. 1.00
00:33:48.020 There's been a conflation recently between drag queens and transgender identifying people.
00:33:55.980 But those are different things.
00:33:58.320 In the case of transgender identifying people, it's men who really believe they're women and who do their best to dress up like women. 0.99
00:34:03.680 And they fool themselves.
00:34:04.920 They, because they have a defect of perception, they look in the mirror and they say, wow, I really am a woman.
00:34:09.840 All the rest of us know, no, you're not.
00:34:11.480 You don't look like a woman. 1.00
00:34:12.440 You are, you have a huge Adam's apple and you're obviously a dude.
00:34:14.920 But they, because of their flawed perception, think that they are the opposite sex.
00:34:19.720 Drag queens, they know. 1.00
00:34:20.840 They say, I'm a big burly guy, but I'm going to put on a silly wig and a big dress.
00:34:24.120 I'm going to dance around.
00:34:24.900 And the whole amusing aspect of the performance is that I am not a woman.
00:34:31.380 The incongruity, the wrongness of it is the point.
00:34:35.520 This is why whenever the libs find some photo from, you know, a conservative governor or something from Halloween one year.
00:34:42.080 And he's wearing a wig or something and they say, ha ha, see, he supports drag and transgenderism.
00:34:47.480 See, he believes that men are not women too.
00:34:49.880 You say, no, he's making fun of it.
00:34:52.060 It's a joke.
00:34:54.000 When a man, including the guys who did drag shows and cabarets and things like that, when they put on the wig and the dress and the stilettos,
00:35:01.940 they're making fun of the idea that a man can be a woman. 1.00
00:35:06.160 It's a joke.
00:35:07.140 And it's weird.
00:35:07.820 And societies at different times will clamp down a little more harshly on these or allow them to exist in back alleys.
00:35:17.780 And I think a lot of conservatives would say, look, in some seedy part of town, if you want some weird cabaret where dudes are dancing around like women, 0.98
00:35:25.760 then, okay, we're just going to look the other way.
00:35:29.340 It's not the conservatives who are the aggressors in this drag queen culture war. 1.00
00:35:35.400 It's the libs.
00:35:37.060 The libs are forcing the issue.
00:35:38.600 If the libs allowed their drag queen thing, they just kept it to some back alley somewhere in the red light district, no one would really pay attention. 1.00
00:35:49.480 But they're the ones bringing it into the libraries.
00:35:52.040 And they're the ones bringing it into the elementary schools.
00:35:54.260 And they're the ones bringing it onto Main Street during their pride parades. 0.91
00:35:57.500 And so now we've got to say, no, it's wrong.
00:36:00.720 It's wrong.
00:36:01.300 There's no right to that.
00:36:02.440 But we've had laws against this for much of American history, and it's wrong.
00:36:10.080 It's the same with the bathrooms.
00:36:12.120 If some troubled man uses the women's bathroom every now and again, as has been the case for many decades now,
00:36:20.780 and he doesn't really bother anybody, and everyone thinks it's weird, and they're kind of out on their guard.
00:36:25.340 But all right, out of a pity for these deluded people, okay, fine, we'll let it go.
00:36:29.820 But then if you try to establish it as a right, then you're forcing the issue, and we've got to tell you the truth, which is no.
00:36:35.320 This is weird.
00:36:36.300 It's wrong.
00:36:37.100 It's not conducive to human flourishing.
00:36:39.340 You men are not really women. 0.99
00:36:40.760 You don't have a right to do the women's things. 1.00
00:36:42.720 And Kevin Bacon, you are wrong.
00:36:45.020 My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop at Norm's Music.
00:36:50.680 And he says, known for its diversity and pollution, New York City is also called the melting bone.
00:36:57.160 That's so true.
00:36:57.700 We started out, we were a melting pot in this country, and now we are the melting bones, according to Corrine Jean-Pierre.
00:37:03.920 That's how that experiment worked out.
00:37:08.620 Speaking about what's American and drag and freedom of expression, Whoopi Goldberg was on The View.
00:37:16.940 And Whoopi made a claim about American law and culture and just what it means to be an American.
00:37:27.500 And Whoopi says, banning books and banning drag queens, that is just downright un-American.
00:37:34.740 I'm not willing to give you access to my body.
00:37:38.860 I'm just not willing to do that.
00:37:40.620 That is none of your business.
00:37:42.580 What goes on in my family is none of your business.
00:37:45.280 Like, I feel like if you don't want to see drag shows, then don't take your child to a drag show.
00:37:52.700 If you don't want your child reading certain books, give the library a list of the books you don't want your kid to read.
00:38:00.240 Stay off my back.
00:38:02.720 Because my rights are just as important as yours.
00:38:05.500 And when it comes to what I do with my family and my body, it's none of your business.
00:38:12.340 It is up to you to know what your kids are reading.
00:38:16.240 If you want to know, go to the school.
00:38:18.300 If it's not a book you're interested in, tell the teacher you don't want your kid reading it.
00:38:22.580 But don't get in the way of my kid being able to read that book.
00:38:26.860 That is not American. 0.86
00:38:28.560 Get off my back.
00:38:29.880 That is not American. 0.86
00:38:30.940 Okay, so before we get into Whoopi's confused philosophy, just as an historical point, banning books is very American.
00:38:41.940 Banning drag shows is obviously very American for much of American history throughout the country, including in San Francisco.
00:38:49.260 Transvestitism was completely illegal.
00:38:51.400 You would be arrested for public disturbance if you ever did that.
00:38:55.740 All sorts of weird sexual behaviors were illegal in the United States until the Supreme Court invented some right to do weird sex stuff in the mid-2000s.
00:39:06.220 Okay, so it is deeply, deeply American to proscribe this sort of weird behavior.
00:39:11.180 But even banning books has always, for all of American history, has been very, very much a part of American public life.
00:39:19.160 Obviously, going back to the Puritans, they banned all sorts of books.
00:39:21.660 In fact, there was one guy who was ostracized from the colony by Governor Bradford for writing poems that were a little bit licentious, a little bit lascivious.
00:39:32.140 And they almost executed him for it, but then they just banished him to an island so he could wait for an English ship to come by and take him back to Britain.
00:39:39.780 And then, obviously, up through the founding era, all sorts of laws against obscenity.
00:39:44.280 In fact, these laws against obscenity were being exercised at the federal level as recently as 2008.
00:39:52.220 The guy was in prison until 2011, one of the pornographers that they threw in jail.
00:39:56.080 But furthermore, it's not just the Christians and the conservatives banning books, quite the opposite.
00:40:01.460 It's the libs.
00:40:02.160 Since the middle of the 20th century, it's the libs who say, you can't teach the Bible in schools.
00:40:07.140 Oh, no, we better not find any teachers with a Bible in school. 0.90
00:40:10.080 We're going to get the ACLU on your back. 0.84
00:40:11.700 That's right, the American Civil Liberties Union.
00:40:13.380 We're going to go after you for having a Bible in schools. 1.00
00:40:15.980 You better not recite any prayers in schools.
00:40:18.680 Oh, no siree.
00:40:20.980 This is America.
00:40:22.240 One nation under God.
00:40:23.220 We're not going to let you teach the Bible in schools. 1.00
00:40:27.160 If you don't want your kid reading gay porn in the library, then politely ask the librarian.
00:40:34.200 What are you talking about?
00:40:35.120 We've got laws against this for all of our nation's history.
00:40:41.660 And furthermore, this is a self-government.
00:40:46.620 And so when you say, how dare you?
00:40:49.020 How dare you infringe on my right to make my kid read gay porn when he's 10 years old?
00:40:53.780 You don't have that right.
00:40:55.500 That's a wrong.
00:40:57.240 And who sets the civil rights and wrongs? 0.88
00:40:59.800 Well, that would be the people in a self-government, in that democracy that you people are always
00:41:03.180 prattling on about, even though you don't believe it at all.
00:41:05.740 All of which is to say, the liberals obviously don't care about any of this.
00:41:10.380 They're just going to wrap themselves in the flag to peddle their radicalism.
00:41:17.860 And it's a political lesson for conservatives.
00:41:21.600 The libs, when they're being really, really effective, they're not burning the American flag.
00:41:26.840 The libs, when they're being really effective, they just are lying about American history.
00:41:31.120 And they're saying, oh no, my view, my weird trans-thruple parading gay porn down the hallways
00:41:38.280 of elementary schools, why that's as American as apple pie.
00:41:41.060 That's why the founding fathers fought the revolution, was to defend my right to do that.
00:41:45.140 And it's obviously totally bogus, but that's what they do.
00:41:48.860 They're picking up a lesson from Machiavelli.
00:41:52.360 They're picking up a lesson from a lot of political thinkers, which is, if you want to
00:41:55.660 be politically effective, you've got to wrap yourself in the flag.
00:41:57.880 So there's two ways to do it.
00:42:00.220 You can either do it in the pure will kind of politics, which is, some people see things
00:42:05.860 that aren't, say, why I dream things that never weren't, and say, why not?
00:42:08.500 Which is the Humpty Dumpty kind of politics in Alice in Wonderland, where Humpty Dumpty says,
00:42:13.540 what does a word mean?
00:42:14.540 It means whatever I say it means.
00:42:17.360 And Alice says, well, it's got to be awfully confusing for words to have all those meanings.
00:42:23.960 The question is, do words really mean those things?
00:42:26.140 And Humpty Dumpty says, no, no, the question is, which is to be master?
00:42:28.960 That's all.
00:42:31.520 That's the liberal version of it.
00:42:33.400 It's just, yeah, we'll just, whatever we say, that's going to become the truth because
00:42:36.280 we said it.
00:42:37.120 Then there's the conservative version, which is, what is the truth?
00:42:39.500 You engage in a rational process, and you ask yourself questions about objective reality,
00:42:47.080 and you reason through that using your abstract reasoning, and then, and maybe the inherited
00:42:52.060 wisdom of the ages, and maybe just looking at the customs of people who already exist.
00:42:56.260 And then you use your will to try to pursue the truth.
00:43:00.900 So when the conservatives, when we wrap ourselves in the flag, it tends to be because we're making
00:43:09.360 an argument that really has a basis in history.
00:43:11.820 That's not what the Libs do, and I'm not just making a cheap shot.
00:43:14.480 Don't forget, the biggest liberal campaign on education in the last five or six years was
00:43:20.680 the New York Times 1619 Project, which claimed that America's revolution was fought to preserve
00:43:26.840 slavery, and even left-wing academic historians said that wasn't true.
00:43:30.200 And when the writer of the 1619 Project, Nicole Hannah-Jones, was confronted by this, she basically
00:43:37.060 shrugged her shoulders.
00:43:38.000 Yeah, okay, whatever.
00:43:39.880 Se non è vero e ben trovato, is the Italian expression.
00:43:42.840 You know, if it's not true, it makes a good story.
00:43:47.000 And what did the New York Times do?
00:43:48.000 Eventually, they kind of were forced to correct it a little bit subtly many months later, but
00:43:53.880 they still continue to peddle the 1619 Project because they don't care.
00:43:59.180 Politics grounded in the truth or a politics that is pure will.
00:44:04.240 Which one are we going to have?
00:44:08.700 You see this actually, RFK Jr. is running for president now as a Democrat.
00:44:14.240 And RFK Jr. is a lifelong Democrat.
00:44:16.260 Obviously, his father is Robert Kennedy.
00:44:17.720 His uncle is John F. Kennedy.
00:44:19.600 And he's been an environmental lawyer his whole life.
00:44:21.820 He actually lived in the town right over from me when I grew up.
00:44:24.540 And he's a lib.
00:44:25.220 He's a real lib.
00:44:26.140 But he's gotten a lot of conservative cred recently because he's questioned vaccines for
00:44:30.060 a long time.
00:44:31.500 And vaccine skepticism is now conservative.
00:44:33.260 It used to be liberal.
00:44:33.900 Now it's conservative.
00:44:34.860 After we saw how the liberal establishment lied to us for the last three years.
00:44:38.860 He questions big pharma.
00:44:41.500 Questions Dr. Fauci.
00:44:42.640 And so he's done a lot of great work over the last few years.
00:44:46.220 Now, RFK Jr. running against Biden.
00:44:49.520 And a lot of conservatives are saying, why is he running as a Democrat?
00:44:51.820 He should be running as a Republican.
00:44:52.880 He's a Republican these days.
00:44:54.360 The Kennedys are Republicans these days.
00:44:56.360 Here's what RFK Jr. just had to say on the campaign trail.
00:44:59.460 We're now in this situation where, you know, without free speech, democracy just withers
00:45:08.600 and dies. 0.53
00:45:09.340 Free speech is the fertilizer.
00:45:12.740 It's the sunlight.
00:45:14.680 It's the water for democracy.
00:45:16.680 And, you know, nobody, there is no time in history where the people who are censoring
00:45:24.220 speech were the good guys.
00:45:26.680 You know, they're always the bad guys because, of course, that's the, that is the first and
00:45:32.500 last step of totalitarianism, silencing critics.
00:45:36.340 So that's the sort of statement that sounds like it's true, but it isn't really true.
00:45:40.840 It isn't really true because throughout history, everyone, everyone ever in power at all has
00:45:47.600 censored speech.
00:45:48.380 And everyone, I don't care how liberal you think you are, you would support some kinds
00:45:54.620 of limits on speech.
00:45:56.920 This is throughout all of history.
00:45:58.100 Throughout all of history, sometimes the Catholics have censored speech.
00:46:01.140 Sometimes the Protestants have censored speech.
00:46:03.720 Sometimes the Jews have censored speech.
00:46:06.160 Sometimes the Muslims have censored speech.
00:46:08.280 Today, we see the atheists especially censoring speech.
00:46:11.500 Sometimes it's been the Democrats.
00:46:15.280 Sometimes it's been the Republicans.
00:46:16.960 Sometimes it's been this person or that.
00:46:19.820 And the reason for that, as I explained in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling
00:46:22.620 Minds, number one national bestseller.
00:46:24.840 Hello, hello, producers.
00:46:27.460 Where are you at?
00:46:28.160 There we go.
00:46:29.080 All right.
00:46:29.560 We're missing Mr. Davies, I think.
00:46:32.660 As I explained in my book, Speechless, every, there we go, every culture has to have certain
00:46:39.920 limits.
00:46:41.360 Every culture is going to recognize certain things as taboo.
00:46:43.920 And so RFK is pointing out that the current censorship that's going on is quite wrong because
00:46:54.940 it's the libs who are doing it and they're censoring true speech.
00:46:58.680 But it's not wrong necessarily to censor false, evil, ugly speech.
00:47:03.260 It's not wrong to censor drag queen expression in the elementary schools, is it? 1.00
00:47:08.060 It's not wrong to censor the gay porn in the elementary school libraries.
00:47:11.340 I think all of us would agree that that's a very good thing.
00:47:13.680 It's not wrong to censor threats.
00:47:14.980 It's not wrong to censor fighting words.
00:47:16.980 It's not wrong to censor all these things.
00:47:20.400 It's a shallow liberal view that RFK Jr. is expressing.
00:47:24.820 And I think he's doing it with the best of intentions and he's one of the best Democrats
00:47:28.080 out there.
00:47:29.480 It's just another reminder, liberalism is not going to save us.
00:47:32.400 Even the old liberalism of the 1960s, the Kennedy liberalism, even the much older liberalism,
00:47:39.220 the classical liberalism, it's not going to save us.
00:47:41.580 It's just wrong.
00:47:43.900 You're not going to beat liberalism by being a different kind of a liberal.
00:47:49.880 You've got to offer an alternative.
00:47:52.820 And the liberal establishment doesn't like when you offer an alternative to that, which is why
00:47:57.780 they took Tucker Carlson off the air.
00:47:59.040 Okay, we've got Cabot Phillips coming up on the member block to talk about dating.
00:48:05.400 Because I have a lot of questions about dating.
00:48:07.400 The rest of the show continues.
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