Ep. 170 - A National Conversation About National Conversations
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Summary
On this day in history, the U.S. executed Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But the left just don t want to admit it. Today, we ll discuss why the hysteria over illegal immigration is actually a healthy sign for our culture.
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don't actually want to have conversations at all.
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Then, why the total hysteria over illegal immigration
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We will look at examples even back in the old country.
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Chris Pratt preaches the gospel at the MTV Movie Awards.
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When you pay off the first baseman every month, who gets the money?
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Well, all I'm trying to find out is what's the guy's name on first base.
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That is the national conversation that is happening right now between Republicans and Democrats,
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The Republicans and Democrats are Bud Abbott, the tall guy, the straight man.
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I'm sorry, the Republicans are Bud Abbott, the tall guy, the straight man.
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The sort of shorter, pudgier, unkempt one wearing the silly hat.
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That is, that is, actually, I think I just described the Democrat party perfectly.
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Because an often overlooked aspect of who's on first, maybe the most famous comedy routine
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in history, is that the straight man, Bud Abbott, understands exactly what's going on.
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He can tell you, it's not, it isn't that complicated.
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The reason that this is funny is because we understand what's going on, because it isn't
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And then Lou Costello, who's the comic guy who just can't understand anything, he is
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He, he can't figure out that who is on first, what is on second, I don't know, is on third.
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So, you know, you've got Bud Abbott there, the Republican straight man, who just says,
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look, I'll tell you the names of everybody on the team.
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And then Lou Costello comes and he says, wait, who's on, who's on second?
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And he couldn't explain how, because it was just, it was a simple question that could have
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led, but he couldn't explain how, because they're, the Democrats just have this
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I don't mean to pick on Tom, everyone is spewing this on that side of the aisle.
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All they have are these shallow talking points.
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They're not interested in following a logical argument.
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Then getting back to who's on first, you see Bud Abbott, he stays basically calm.
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And Lou Costello, he's getting angrier and angry.
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And they're also wearing stupid hats, just like Lou Costello.
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They're going out there and wearing those silly hats.
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This is in black and white, so I can't tell if Lou Costello's hat is pink or not, but that
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You can't have a national conversation with that.
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They aren't sufficiently able to use language and to process ideas to be able to communicate
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Somebody on Twitter tweeted out at me, some lefty, said, F you and F this and F and do,
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And some other blue checkmark guy, I don't know, I think he's a writer, he said, I couldn't
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I said, I know you couldn't have said it better.
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You're a professional writer and you couldn't say it better.
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David McCullough says to write well is to think clearly.
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When you see these wacko lefties on Twitter using profanity and slurs and calling you all
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sorts of bad things, it's because they aren't thinking clearly.
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But if they're not thinking clearly, if they're not willing to use their cognitive faculties,
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And so at least some people like President Trump, they see this for what it is.
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The squishy people, they look, they see the Democrats get really angry.
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Seriously, we should try to seriously engage with your temper tantrums and with your invective
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And Donald Trump says, no, I'm not going to reward you for acting like a little child.
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I wouldn't have a heightened discourse with a little toddler.
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They're all emotion and angry and not able to think clearly.
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He's not taking the Democrat premises and we shouldn't either.
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They're not interested in a national conversation.
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They're interested in entrapment and just using a cudgel and banging you on the head.
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Like Luke Costello starts to get angry with the bat, right?
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Don't let them do it because that's what they want.
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Here's another great example of this is the UN Human Rights Council.
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It was just announced today that we're pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council.
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And this was another, this was a headline on the left.
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They said, oh my gosh, Donald Trump is pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council.
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Venezuela, people starving in the street eating rats.
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Yeah, that's, they finally let women drive this year.
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They're finally considering letting women drive.
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China, which had a national policy for decades of mass abortion of children.
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Those are the, and it's been a slave state since the communists took power.
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He doesn't get tricked by those claims, those premises.
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It's really, and this is actually good news for the culture.
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But before we do that, I do want to point out, this is a good thing.
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Worldwide, Italy has just elected a government that wants to deal with this craziness.
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With the craziness, the illogic of open borders, for instance.
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And it's actually sort of what we would call bipartisan.
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There's this right-wing party, the Movimento Cinque, I'm sorry, the Lega party.
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And then this sort of left-wing party, the Movimento Cinque Stelle.
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And he turned away a ship of so-called refugees, the M.S. Aquarius.
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And these aren't refugees who were just off the coast of Calabria and they pulled them on shore.
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These boats would go and prowl the Libyan coast and find anybody who was, you know,
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sitting in a tube drinking a daiquiri, probably not exactly doing that,
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but who were very close to the Libyan coast and pick them up and bring them to Europe.
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Is Italy going to absorb over a billion people?
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By the way, this got shock and indignation all around Europe.
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Meanwhile, by the way, as Angela Merkel is so shocked and horrified by this,
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the German interior minister, Horst Seehofer, who's the head of Bavaria's Christian social union,
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actually called up Salvini and congratulated him.
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He said, oh, thank you for having common sense and finally turning this away.
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Salvini said to Macron, he said, oh, if you're so upset about this,
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how about you take all these refugees for years and years and years?
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And 60% of Italians support this policy because there is a turning,
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Trump's popularity, mainstream media breathlessly reporting,
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the poor little kids being ripped out, making up total fake news
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There's a top Democrat candidate running for Congress in West Virginia.
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He's campaigning on this line, I voted for Trump.
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Top Democrat prospect is saying, I voted for Trump.
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America executing Soviet spies back when we had a spine.
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But I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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You'll get to come back later and see the conversation
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Because the mainstream media, they are losing their minds.
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Wow, that tastes like 45% approval ratings, doesn't it?
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You didn't watch the MTV Movie Awards last night?
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If you missed it, here's all you need to see from it.
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This being the Generation Award, I'm going to cut to the chase
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and I'm going to speak to you, the next generation, okay?
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I accept the responsibility as your elder, so listen up.
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People are going to tell you you're perfect just the way you are.
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But there is a powerful force that designed you that way.
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And if you're willing to accept that, you will have grace.
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And like the freedom that we enjoy in this country,
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that grace was paid for with somebody else's blood,
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I mean, what a wonderful speech from Chris Pratt, a movie star.
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And you heard, by the way, when he said God exists, there's a cheer.
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There was a huge amount of applause in the audience.
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This is, I really think we're turning a corner here.
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I really think that the more they turn up this hysteria, it's because they're losing.
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And so, thank goodness we have political leaders who are willing to stand firm and say,
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It's just like a little, they're just bubbling all their anger, but it's because they're losing.
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And then on the culture, you've got guys like Chris Pratt coming up.
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He comes up and he says, all right, here's my advice, kiddos.
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And when people try to affirm you, because that was clearly a shot at this self-empowerment,
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self-esteem movement, daily affirmation kind of culture that we're in now, where they say,
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Something else gives me hope for the culture, too.
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And so I don't know if you've been following this.
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We've mentioned soccer on the show in the last couple of days.
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But we've brought up the World Cup a little bit.
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And so all the girls in the office, all the girls in the office and Paul Bois are pretending
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And it's very frustrating and somewhat amusing because nobody can name any soccer players
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So you might have seen me, Alicia and I were sniping at each other on Twitter this morning
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And the headline from Deadline is Fox Sports scores viewership record with Mexico's World
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Doesn't matter that we're closing up our border.
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I said, viewership record, Fox Sports, that, a World Cup game is the biggest audience they
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And I realized they left a couple words out of that.
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Soccer game record with Mexico's blah, blah, blah.
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So the game had four and a half million viewers.
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To put that into context, Super Bowl 44 had 114.4 million viewers.
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So about 3.9% of the viewership of the Super Bowl watched this record-setting World Cup game
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25 times, more than 25 times as many people as watched that record-setting World Cup game
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The Oscars 2018, that was an all-time low in ratings, all-time low in viewership, still
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So the worst, lowest-rated Oscars ever got six times as many viewers as the record-setting
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The average NFL game gets 14.9 million viewers.
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The lowest-rated of last season was about 8 million, a little over, like 8.1 million,
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and the highest was almost 26 million, compared to 4.5 million for the record-setting World
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The deadline, headline, which we're seeing in a lot of places, you know, record-setting
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There is a concerted effort among the media to get Americans to like soccer.
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They write articles all the time that say, you should like soccer.
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I talked about this on the Andrew Klavan Show the other day.
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It gives me hope for the culture as I lose half of my audience.
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Finally, we only have a few minutes left, but I do want to wrap up on this day in history.
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Because on this day in history, the United States government fried a couple of Soviet spies
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who are directly responsible for killing American soldiers.
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I speak, of course, of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were executed by the government on this day
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This is an important case, not really because of the Rosenbergs, but because of what it means
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for the left in America and our national conversation, as we always call it.
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So Julius was, he worked in the Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratory.
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And he was, you know, working around this laboratory on important projects, right, at a time when the
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United States is developing atomic bombs and fighting major wars and, you know, really trying to
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get an edge on our opponents, but not only in the Axis powers, but also after our alliance
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with Russia and he was fired when it was discovered that he was a member of the Communist Party.
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So for years, his co-defendant, Morten Sobel, said that he was innocent.
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The Rosenbergs' children said the parents were innocent.
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And the American left defended them for decades and decades and decades until 2008, when old
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They were martyrs from the government, which is repressive and trying to put down dissent
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And they unjustly killed these innocent people with trumped up charges.
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And I bet a lot of you in high school learned that the Rosenbergs were killed unjustly, that
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it was a setup, that there's no evidence that they were really spies.
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In 2008, their co-conspirator admitted, we tried to pass on nuclear technology to the
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Soviets, nuclear secrets, and they did pass on other secrets.
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In 2015, the New York City Council, under Bolshevik Mayor Bill de Blasio, honored Ethel Rosenberg
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We know for a fact that she passed on secrets to the Soviets.
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We know that Ethel, by the way, according to many historians, hid money.
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She hid espionage paraphernalia for her husband.
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She acted as an intermediary between the Soviets and her husband.
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And yet, there's a study by the historian Larry Schweickart, who's at the University of
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Dayton, that showed that very few textbooks admit that the Rosenbergs are guilty.
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The vast majority of textbooks say, oh, they were innocent.
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Or, this is another trick they use, they say, oh, it's controversial.
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You hear this, oh, Donald Trump's policy at the border is controversial.
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It was signed into law two administrations ago.
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It's like the opposite of controversial, right?
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The Columbia professor, Eric Foner, said until very recently, he said, they were prosecuted,
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the Rosenbergs, out of a determined effort to root out dissent, to shatter careers and
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The Rosenbergs tried to give the Soviets top secret information from the Manhattan Project.
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They did hand over top military data on sonar and radar.
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That information led directly to the Russians shooting down U.S. planes in the Korean conflict
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They did the same thing with Alger Hiss, by the way, the American left.
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He was accused by Whitaker Chambers, another ex-communist party member,
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and who admitted to spying himself, and nobody believed Chambers.
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Really, only Richard Nixon came out and said, I believe Chambers.
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And finally, it turned out that Hiss was a communist.
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That's why the left dogged him his entire career.
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So the takeaway here is do not let the left get to you.
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When we have our national conversations and they call you all manner of evil
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It means that, you know, maybe you're getting a little too close for comfort.
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And they will slander you and they'll try to destroy you.
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There are always those, you know, the Republican who Democrats,
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the Republican who the New York Times really likes,
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that guy's usually doing something wrong, right?
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That's the evidence that you're doing something wrong.
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knowing that nobody wants to have a conversation with you on the left.
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We're supposed to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
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Those squishy Republicans want to be wise as doves and innocent as serpents.
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Keep your eyes peeled and look at reality square in the face
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We've got a lot of cool stuff coming up this week.
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