Ep. 147 - Claps Not Laughs： Michelle Wolf And The Death Of Comedy
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After Michelle Wolf's cringe-fest at the White House Correspondence Dinner, the left is desperate to reclaim the limelight, but they can t seem to get their wits together to do so. Michael explains why, and why he thinks they should do it. Plus, a new toy for kids, and a new video on leftist abuse of language.
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Until 50 years ago, only men were allowed to attend the White House Correspondence Dinner.
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And after Michelle Wolf's cringe-fest performance on Saturday night,
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the Correspondence Association is considering reinstating that rule.
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We will analyze why Wolf's schtick bombed, the difference between comedy and important comedy,
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Then, my latest video for PragerU on leftist abuse of language.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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It is also, I didn't mention this at the top, it's Cecile Richards' last day at Planned Parenthood.
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She's the maniacal ghoul who has run Planned Parenthood for a decade,
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We'll also play the audio of my new PragerU video at the end here, mostly because I really want Kanye to see this.
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Kanye is now on a run of Scott Adams, Jordan Peterson, Candace Owens.
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I think this is the time for him to see my PragerU video, so please tweet it at him.
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It's about how you can, if you control the words, you control the culture.
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So the White House Correspondents Dinner was on Saturday.
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Not like regular people don't call it nerd prom.
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It's all these, you know, journalists and bloggers and TV types.
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And they call it nerd prom because what they're saying is we're really smart.
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So we, you know, we put on our tuxedos and you're not nerds.
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Brian Stelter and Don Lemon and Jim Acosta are not nerds.
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I'm sorry to say, I don't want to be mean to you guys.
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At least Jim Acosta does, you know, you don't, but you're not nerds.
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Like Jim Acosta just, I think the height of his intellectual activity is staring at himself
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So that, this happened on Saturday, a ton of backlash against the main performer.
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So the White House Correspondents Dinner has been going on since the Coolidge administration.
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And, uh, they, they would always have some sort of entertainment.
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And by, I think it was 1985, that was the first year they invited a comedian to give the
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Now, uh, you know, these have been going on for a long time.
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Even Stephen Colbert pushed the edge a little bit, but he was still fine.
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And now some people are trying to defend her and say it was good, even though really no one
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Here are the ladies at the view defending Michelle Wolf's monologue.
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You guys gotta stop putting Kellyanne on your shows.
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It's like that old saying, if a tree falls in the woods, how do we get Kellyanne under that tree?
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Like, she burns facts, and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye.
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Well, when I first saw the coverage of it, because I hadn't seen it live, I thought that someone had really pushed the limit.
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Because every headline was, it was awful, it was uncomfortable.
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Then I read it and watched the clips, and she, the comedian did her job.
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If people have a problem with it, it might be taking issue with this dinner as a whole in these times.
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That isn't her, look, there have been plenty of comedians on, I guess they're all on the left.
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Some are not quite on the left, but they're usually on the left.
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Even Stephen Colbert, who really actually did kind of go up to the edge.
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The job of a comedian is not to push the envelope.
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And this gets, I had Owen Benjamin on the show a few weeks ago, and he talked about this big distinction in comedians.
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The one, like, Jimmy Kimmel can't be funny anymore, because the left lost its sense of humor.
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So now, instead of telling jokes on his show, instead of making people laugh, he makes political statements.
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And then they don't laugh because it isn't funny, so they just clap.
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It didn't tickle me because he's not doing his job, but mm.
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You know, this is the distinction between comedy and important comedy.
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This is the main distinction in comedians these days, because there are comedians who make people laugh, and they tell jokes.
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And then there are people who can't make others laugh, who can't tell jokes, so they do important comedy.
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This kind of ruined George Carlin, even, when he decided to become a philosopher instead of a comedian.
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And then he started doing this philosopher shtick.
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But people totally misunderstand the job of comedians.
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They say, you're there to speak truth to power.
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They totally derelicted their duty for a decade, and now they are the butt of jokes.
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Now they're sort of the clowns rather than the journalists or the comedians.
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And the comedians are there to make people laugh.
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So, look, I'm not surprised that the view isn't the most insightful place to look for commentary on this.
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The left and anti-Trump conservatives now are calling those of us who didn't like the shtick hypocrites.
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They're saying, oh, what, are you offended, snowflakes?
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I am offended because it's not in good taste, but I don't really care.
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Douglas Brinkley, who's a CNN talking head who refers to himself as a presidential historian.
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Douglas Brinkley came on for reaction after the correspondence dinner, and they said, what do you think?
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And he said, well, you know, there were some good lines.
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And then the third time they brought him on, he said, okay, they've got to cancel this dinner.
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Margaret Taleb, the head of the White House Correspondents Association, she defended Wolf.
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She called Wolf a talented comedian who had a message to deliver, and she did deliver a message.
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Again, this is back to the views, misunderstanding of comedy.
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The point of comedy isn't to deliver a message, it's to make people laugh.
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So then the head of the White House Correspondents Association said, unfortunately, the entertainer's monologue was not in the spirit of that mission to unify the country.
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So even the White House Correspondents Association threw this woman under the bus.
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Maggie Haberman, more than basically any journalist, was totally in the tank for Hillary.
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The Hillary campaign openly talked about this with one another in memoranda that have since come out.
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But Maggie Haberman tweeted out, she said, that the press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking out on national television, was impressive.
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Because Michelle Wolf was really crude to President Trump, and then almost exclusively the women in the Trump administration.
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Those were her two targets, Trump and the women in the Trump administration.
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Now, I have to say, a lot of this sounds like a little, too little, too late, because everybody was laughing in the room.
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I don't know that it was like real laughter, but it was at least performed laughter.
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All of those left-wing journalists there, they gave her her laughs.
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She did this thing, well, we'll get to it in a little bit, but Michelle Wolf had this segment where she would call out something, and then the whole audience would call back.
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So they were in it, and then they realized how awful it looked afterward, and they said, okay, we've got to throw her under the bus.
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Because Wolf was vulgar, she was vicious to women about their appearance, she was profane, she was, and what all of the media people realized, because they were all laughing in the room.
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But then when they left, they said, uh-oh, now we can't criticize Trump for those things.
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Uh-oh, yikes, we just destroyed our main line of attack against Donald Trump.
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So in that way, I think it was really a great event, because it showed them to be the hypocrites that they are.
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So the other ridiculous lie that's going around is that Wolf mocked everybody.
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Only the GOP is getting offended, you little snowflakes.
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The Twitter description of the trending story of the White House Correspondents' Dinner, written by Twitter, said Wolf doled it out to everybody.
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Uh, NBC analyst Howard Feynman wrote about this.
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He said, he tweeted out, uh, regarding Michelle Wolf, one, yup, crude, blunt, pitiless.
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Number two, she torched everyone, even Democrats, Stormy Daniels, the media.
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Three, she wasn't playing to all of America or The Room, but to her Netflix deal.
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Basically, none of that is true, or if it's true, it shows that she was terrible.
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Number one, right, he admits here that this was more about attacking the president than being funny.
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So it wasn't, it was about attacking the president, right?
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The, the few jokes that she told about Dems were compliments.
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They were, you know, this is, I think they called it Ben Smithing after the founder of Politico,
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or after, uh, uh, the founder of BuzzFeed, I suppose.
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Uh, he, Ben Smithing is when you say something mean about Democrats,
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but it's just mean enough to get credibility as an attack,
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but then it's, uh, not so mean that it actually hurts.
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So one of the jokes that Michelle Wolf said was Democrats are bad because they lose sometimes.
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You know, they're really bad because they lose elections.
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The, the whole joke was, you know, Republicans could nominate Jeff pedophile Nazi doctor and
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And the only flaw is that, I don't know, they're not charismatic enough, but they're really good.
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Another joke was that Rachel Maddow is just too smart for TV.
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She, oh, Rachel Maddow is way, way too educated for a popular TV show.
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So then number three that, uh, the NBC analyst says is, uh, that means she didn't do her job.
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She didn't, if she's playing to all of the, uh, playing to all of these places other than the
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You know, yes, he says number four, she was invited, but that was, that was a mistake to
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It's not her job to behave, but it is her job to read the room and to entertain,
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Obviously the reaction shows she did not do her job and she isn't funny.
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She just makes political statements that this guy at NBC likes, but that's not the same thing
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There are plenty of people who on the conservative side who say things that I like, who aren't
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I like them, but it, that doesn't make them a comedian.
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Now the final left-wing attack here is that it is hypocritical for Trump supporters to attack
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this woman for being vulgar and profane and not having class or anything and not being funny.
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They say it's hypocritical because Trump, you know, Trump says mean things and he says vulgar
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I will explain to you why these cases are completely different.
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Here is a classic example from Donald Trump from one of the debates with Hillary Clinton.
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Oh, it is, uh, it's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump
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You know, Michelle Wolf was reading from her script all night, but that was extemporaneous.
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Now, if Michelle Wolf were to try to do a joke like that, she would probably just yell in
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What's funny is waiting for Hillary to tee it up.
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And then Hillary says, I don't want to live in an America where Donald Trump is president.
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One, you could make a joke about her character, her own actions, and you could make a joke
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So he says, she says, I don't want to live in an America with Donald Trump.
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You wouldn't, you know, because I do good things and you would do bad things.
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That's why you wouldn't want it because you're a crook.
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He did it with little Marco, to use his phrase.
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And it's, and we need to have a leader that is principled.
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You're never going to be president of the United States by insulting your way to the presidency.
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Well, the main reason it's so funny is because it's true.
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Jeb Bush says, you've got to be real tough like me.
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If you just prick that little ridiculous balloon, it'll pop because we all know,
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The other reason it's funny is that he's punching back.
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Roseanne Barr was tweeting all of the rules for comedy to explain why this schtick didn't
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And one thing she said is, never insult someone in the room who's more famous than you.
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Never pick a fight with someone more famous than you because you'll lose the audience.
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And Donald Trump actually doesn't really pick fights.
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Jeb Bush, in these attacks, Hillary Clinton, they were supposed to be the bigger characters.
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They were supposed to be the more stately people.
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But they degraded themselves and they kept attacking and attacking.
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So it just gave Trump the opening to punch back, even with John McCain.
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You know, he was so vicious to McCain and basically made fun of his being a prisoner of war.
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Now, I'm not saying McCain was as vicious to Trump.
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And what happens with Trump is the minute you hit him, he punches you back at least twice as hard.
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You can argue about whether that's appropriate or nice or whatever, but it's always punching back.
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The other thing about Trump is his comedy isn't essentially angry.
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It plays on anger sometimes, but it's actually not angry in itself.
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It might be a facsimile of anger, but it's not really anger.
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So I get a call from one of the reporters yesterday, and they said, the president of Mexico said they will not, under any circumstances, pay for the wall.
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Now, if he were really angry, there wouldn't be a joke there.
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He wouldn't know how to play on their reactions, right?
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He'd say, you're not going to believe what they said to me, but they're not going to get away with this because da-da-da, and you did this to me, right?
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But the Trump response is, okay, they've thrown this one at me.
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The wall just got 10 feet higher and goes right out, and that's why it's funny.
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The Washington Post, where democracy dies in darkness, ran a trollish headline today because her performance is basically being universally condemned.
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That Wolf's performance was not normal for the Correspondents' Dinner is a testament to its timeliness and necessity.
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It's not, we need to suspend the rules because it isn't normal.
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This is why left-wing comedy is so insufferable.
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So, you know, if the purpose of comedy is to make people laugh, then they'll keep that in mind.
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Your vision is so warped by your own hatred of Donald Trump that you don't realize the rules of comedy still apply.
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And so you might find catharsis in her saying mean things about Trump.
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Let's get to Michelle Wolfe herself to compare.
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So the woman who introduced her said, Michelle Wolfe is not a political comedian by trade.
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Like a porn star says when she's about to have sex with a Trump, let's get this over with.
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I'm going to skip a lot of the normal pleasantries.
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White House Corsors and Spine Association, thank you for having me.
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She opens up with this very easy joke about a porn star, right?
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Not President Trump, not the sitting president, just Trump.
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It immediately begins with disrespect and an easy joke, a joke that anybody could make.
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Black tie, you know, these journalists get to go out for a night and pretend that they're movie stars or celebrities there.
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So it is supposed to be elevated and a little glamorous.
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That's been the way it's been for decades and decades.
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I'm going to make this unpleasant and tense and debased and ugly and just bleh.
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Right, and so you already know where she's coming from.
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She's not coming from the kind of place where you would laugh and tell jokes.
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She's saying, this is a miserable time and you're going to be miserable with me.
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I identified 48 statements that she intended to be jokes.
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And I was able to identify 48 lines that she would probably call jokes.
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I say that the Oxford English Dictionary definition of a joke is a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline.
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Now, forget that these didn't really have punchlines, a lot of them.
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Maybe she wanted people to laugh, but they didn't follow the arc of what an actual joke is.
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Said, yeah, Ivanka Trump is a disappointment to women.
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It's just, you just don't, that's what you think.
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So, regardless, I wanted to include that because that's 48 statements that might have been intended to be jokes.
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And a 23rd flew directly from the genital to the scatological.
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I'm actually surprised she did this because this sort of thing is a parody of bad female comedy.
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This is what you get from Amy Schumer when she's not stealing other people's jokes and Sarah Silverman.
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It's the easiest, grossest comedy that usually people don't really laugh at.
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South Park perfectly skewered this sort of fake comedy.
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You know, talk about how fat you are and how you want to have sex with guys and then say, my vagina a lot.
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And Trey Parker and Matt Stone are making fun of the Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman kind of comedy because that isn't funny.
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I suppose they think it's funny because it's incongruous, right?
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So, they say, well, women are perceived as being very feminine and nice and pleasant and graceful.
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And we're going to be explicit and vulgar and materialistic and profane.
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It doesn't work when the norm for women is feminism.
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When the gracefulness and the femininity has all gone out the window for decades, then it's not funny anymore.
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And now, everything that Michelle Wolfe did was extremely vulgar.
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So, F words, explicit genital references, pretty raunchy general references.
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That's not to say that you can't do those things.
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You can talk like a sailor sometimes or make jokes about genitals or whatever.
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As I say, there's a time and a place for everything, and that's college.
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But there are times and places for this, right?
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So, they'll say, well, Trump said gross things.
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He talked about genitals and made jokes about genitals.
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He didn't do that on a podium at a black tie affair.
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He didn't even brag about it or do it in public.
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He defended those statements as locker room talk because they were locker room talk.
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Because he thought he was having a private conversation with a guy, the sort of conversation that every guy has.
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Whatever little feminist guy is telling you, I've never said anything like that.
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Because those are the creepy guys that are convincing you that they're nice and sensitive and feminist.
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But there's a difference between locker room talk and glitzy Washington affairs.
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And also, you've all been criticizing Trump for saying those things.
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Now, you've been saying it's, oh, so it's the worst thing that he did that.
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And yeah, it's great for her to do it because he did it.
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It's so easy to just cheat at comedy by using swear words and raunchiness as a crutch.
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It's much easier to do that than to try to do jokes without that.
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It's much harder to be funny without that crutch.
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If you took all of that out, there wouldn't be any words left.
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So the idea is, that's the whole thing of women talking about their genitals.
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You hear little kids using terrible words in front of their parents.
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They used to do it not in front of their parents.
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So there was a great, again, I always bring up Norm because he's the best living comedian.
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And Norm Macdonald was invited to one of these Comedy Central roasts for Bob Saget.
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And all of these roasts, it was the same thing as this.
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Just how do you say the raunchiest, grossest thing with the most F words?
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And so Norm decided, I'm going to be really subversive by telling clean jokes from the Dean Martin roasts.
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So he'd say things like, you know, yeah, you know, your face looks like a flower, like a cauliflower.
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You know, and then Bill would say, oh, this is so shocking.
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Now, the rest of the jokes, we'll have to wrap this up in a second.
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But the rest of, I'll try to run through these quickly.
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The rest of them, Hillary ignored, Michigan and the campaign.
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In another one, Michelle Wolf called Trump, well, I'll just say the word, she called Trump a pussy.
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I can use it because they talk about the hats that way.
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And then she made a joke about how she can't grab him.
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She used the euphemism about pulling out of the Paris Agreement and how most men don't do that.
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Then one of her jokes just said, Trump is racist, xenophobic, Nazi, incompetent, and impotent.
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And so this was actually one of the best jokes of the night.
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Which, first of all, don't knock it till you try it.
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You know, you gotta get that baby out of there.
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You know, unless it's the one you got for your secret mistress.
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And the reason, it's not that this joke was terribly funny.
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It would have been funny if it weren't such a horrifying image that it kind of overwhelmed the comedy of it.
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This was a totally inappropriate joke for an event like this.
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But it was pretty good because it killed all of the pro-abortion arguments.
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For instance, she admitted that the baby is a baby.
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She said, you gotta really, you know, you've gotta knock it because you gotta get that baby out of there.
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She is saying, look, abortion is when you kill a baby in the womb and get rid of it.
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And she's following that to its logical conclusion.
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But it was probably the closest thing to a joke she had all night.
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But, you know, Jonathan Haidt did that study that shows that conservatives understand the left.
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The left doesn't understand the right terribly well.
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And then all the rest of the jokes were about sex, you know.
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She talked about how she worked at Bear Stearns.
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So she's never been harassed, but she got effed.
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Joe, excuse me, Mika and Joe, where she said Mika and Joe on Morning Joe on MSNBC.
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And the rest just total insults against other media personalities.
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The reason the schtick bombed is because she's so angry.
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And the premises, other than the abortion one, just weren't true.
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And the premise was that Starbucks isn't doing enough to stop racial discrimination.
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The real joke is that Starbucks is the most hippy-dippy, bleeding-heart place on Earth.
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We will get into how it wasn't always like this and how to get comedy back.
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But I've got to say goodbye, I'm sorry, to Facebook and YouTube.
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You know, you can find this show on iTunes, on Stitcher, on Google, on Facebook, on YouTube,
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I think you can get it on AOL Instant Messenger still if you text that, like, chatbot.
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Go to dailywire.com right now for the rest of the show.
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You're really going to want to watch this and the PragerU video.
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But it's $10 a month, $100 for an annual membership.
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You get me, you get the Andrew Klavan show, you get the Ben Shapiro show.
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You'll get to ask questions in the conversation.
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When you sip a delicious ambrosia, you don't always want to switch.
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And right now I'm on the Kanye West Vintage 2018 for when Kanye West,
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decided that he was going to start saying extremely conservative Republican things on Twitter.
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Thank goodness I brought this home over the weekend so that I could survive.
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Some of my colleagues, sorry to say they perished.
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They didn't bring their leftist tears tumblers home.
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You don't know the day or the hour when leftist tears will drown you in their salty deliciousness.
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It wasn't always this vulgar and this crass and this gross.
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You know, it wasn't always this disconnected from reality at these dinners.
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I couldn't find a clip of performers at these dinners because they don't really have them available until recently.
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But here's a clip of President Kennedy from the 1962 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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Like members of Congress, I have been during the last few days over the Easter holiday back in touch with my constituents.
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And frankly, I've come back to Washington from Palm Beach, and I'm against my entire program.
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So it's kind of funny, too, because he, John F. Kennedy's vacation home, one of his, was right near Donald Trump's.
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And people say all the time, they say, I miss it when politics was civil.
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If you want the politics to be civil, the culture has to be civil.
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If you want the culture to be civil, you have to be civil.
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You have to comport yourself with dignity and integrity and not be screaming and yelling and profane all the time.
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You know, people can say, they tweet out or they put on Facebook, you know, I effing hate this stupid whatever Michelle Wolfe.
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That's not something, if you want things to be civil and nice, you have to behave in a nice and civil way.
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Roger Kimball, who is one of the great observers of culture, he got this exactly right at American Greatness.
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He wrote, quote, the idea that there is certain conduct unbecoming a lady is anathema to Michelle Wolfe.
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On the contrary, she wears her vulgarity like a badge of honor, happy to trade an hour of embarrassed titters for a lifetime of dishonor.
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You go up and you say, I'm going to get the applause of the crowd for 15 minutes and I will permanently degrade myself.
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I will permanently be that woman who did those disgusting things.
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You know, that woman whose parents probably aren't very proud of that display.
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But I got the titters of the crowd for an hour.
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But when it becomes vile and mean and angry, not only is it debasing and not only does it ruin the glamour and ruin the appeal of that entertainment, it isn't funny.
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It actually works much better when the performer and the audience have dignity themselves.
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Okay, we've got, how many more minutes do we have?
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Well, I want, I really want to talk about Cecile Richards and why I'm going to miss her.
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Cecile Richards, it's her last day at Planned Parenthood.
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Her bloodlust increased abortions at Planned Parenthood.
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In 2014, abortion hit a historic low in America.
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But that's the right direction to be going down.
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She made the goals of Planned Parenthood pretty clear.
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But we saw a lot of things come out of that tenure.
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There were those undercover videos from the Center for Medical Progress
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that showed members of Planned Parenthood, executives of Planned Parenthood,
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haggling over how much they could get for selling baby parts and organs and limbs,
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I mean, she was, she showed Planned Parenthood for what it is.
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And I hope the next person can be so cartoonishly ghoulish.
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And I wish Cecile Richards a nice time for the rest of her days on Earth
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This is about how the left uses language and how they destroy language.
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And really, you've got to send it to Kanye West.
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Why does it matter whether we call someone who breaks the law to enter the country
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What's the difference between a Christmas tree and a holiday tree?
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Words exist so that we might discriminate one thing from another.
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A baby says mama to distinguish mommy from daddy.
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They are the masters of words because they know that words matter.
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Soft words selected to sugarcoat harsh realities so as to make those harsh realities easier for us to swallow.
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And if you aren't watching right now, if you're not a subscriber, the artwork is phenomenal on this video.
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Some people pointed out when they talk about swallowing soft words that Democrats give you.
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The video goes on for, I think, another four minutes or so.
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It's this subtle point that a lot of people ignore because it's so easy to get wrapped up in the language of the left.
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The difference between a Christmas tree and a holiday tree is night and day.
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The difference between an undocumented worker or a future American or a refugee asylum seeker and an illegal alien.
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So please go over there because really all I want is for Kanye West to tweet this video.
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I think if we can get this in front of Kanye, it'll be over.
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We'll just have to get to the rest of the news tomorrow.
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