Ep. 234 - Pocahontas Admits She’s 99.9% White
Summary
Elizabeth Warren has finally released a DNA test proving that she's super duper white. We will analyze Focahontas' new presidential campaign slogan, Elizabeth Warren, Vote For One in 2020. Then, fake news does another fake news, President Trump dunks on Leslie Stahl, and how transgenderism broke political correctness.
Transcript
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Liawatha Elizabeth Warren has finally released a DNA test proving that she's super duper white.
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We will analyze Focahontas' new presidential campaign slogan,
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and how transgenderism broke political correctness.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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I woke up today, I didn't, you know, this news about Liz Warren's DNA test,
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about her Indian ancestry, this just broke this morning.
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Last night when I put my head on my little purple mattress, you know,
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I thought, what are we going to talk about tomorrow?
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She goes, Mac, Mac, Elizabeth Warren wrote your show today, Mac.
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We, this is, this is truly illustrative of how deluded the left is right now,
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that they are celebrating Liz Warren's test as a victory.
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Liz Warren's test proving that she is nearly 100% white as a victory.
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If you have your own small or medium-sized business,
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or if you work in HR, you know how crazy it can be.
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they had to hire an entire army of HR specialists, obviously.
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You have miles of spreadsheets, time off to manage,
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never-ending paperwork, countless random employee issues.
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The stress is huge, and it leaves no time to do what you love,
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such as working with people and making your business better.
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and automates the countless tasks that you have to deal with.
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I've worked here when this was a small business.
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can really derail people from doing what they want to do,
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what they need to do to make their company grow.
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e-signatures, onboarding paperwork, all of that.
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There are no long-term contracts or commitments.
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and it didn't go the way that she wanted, I think.
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that she has a smidgen of Native American ancestry
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and perhaps more likely closer to 1024th Native American.
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and the left is releasing this as though it is a victory.
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from inside the Liz Warren campaign headquarters,
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inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters
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to see why they're releasing this as a victory.
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but DNA and me showed that I'm actually 4.2% Cherokee Indian.
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I'm also part Northern Asian and even some Kurdish.
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I used to get in trouble for always using the N-word,
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but with DNA and me, I found out that I'm 2.1% black.
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Nobody's making fun of me now or my people who are victims.
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Order now and find out if your friends should be more sympathetic.
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Find out if you are a victim, the victim identifier.
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So, you know, I thought that I was just a coddled white woman,
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traded on my fake ancestry to gain a professional advantage,
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you know, now a member of the United States Senate.
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We've got to get into this because the way that the left is reacting is lunacy.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has released a DNA test that provides strong evidence.
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She had a Native American in her family tree dating back six to ten generations.
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An unprecedented move by one of the top possible contenders
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for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.
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This is unprecedented because it shows how insane the left has gotten
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about their racism, about their race obsession.
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They are now releasing tests that show that they have one,
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That is bizarre that we're now releasing our racial pedigrees
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That, not, not in 70 years or so have, have we seen that in a developed country.
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And it's the Democrats doing it all in the name of progressivism.
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Warren, whose claims to Native American blood have been mocked by President Trump
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and other Republicans, provided the test results to the globe on Sunday
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in an effort to diffuse questions about her ancestry that have persisted for years.
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She planned an elaborate rollout Monday of the results
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This is like that scene, you know, that Jim Carrey clip where,
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I think it was in Dumb and Dumber, where the girl is like,
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And he just looks at me and goes, so you're saying there's a chance.
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Well, Liz, you're between 96.9 and 99.9% white.
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This was done by Carlos Bustamante, Stanford University geneticist.
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I'm trying to analyze, just for you, how the left possibly thinks that this is a win.
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Because it's even, it's even, the news reporters got the number wrong.
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They initially thought it was between 132nd and 1 500th, I think, Indian.
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Now they've revised that to 132nd to 1 1,000th Indian.
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Also, Native American DNA is notoriously unreliable in these tests.
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The reason for that is that Native Americans don't take these tests.
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And two, because, you know, Native American, I'm willing to admit Native Americans have been
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treated a little rough in this country from time to time.
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So they don't, they don't want to give over their, their DNA to these guys.
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The, the important statistic here is not 1 32nd.
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The average European American is 1.8% Indian, Native American, American, indigenous, whatever
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That's the average white American has 1.8% Indian in them.
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Liz Warren has almost that exact same amount, possibly significantly less.
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It would be, it would mean that virtually every white member of the United States Senate, Congress,
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running for president could say, oh, I'm an Indian, I'm Cherokee, prove that I'm not.
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Because don't forget, Liz Warren used this for professional benefit.
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Fact checker, left-wing commentary websites say that she didn't.
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My first thought on this was, what was she thinking?
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And I'm not the only one, and this is not just a partisan reaction.
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Jim Messina, who was Barack Obama's campaign chairman, he also was furious.
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He's tweeting at you saying, what are you thinking?
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22 days before an important election, the midterm elections, Liz Warren is doubling down
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on this absurd claim that she's an Indian, telling you not to believe your lying eyes
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After the Kavanaugh effect that's already killing Democrats and swing races, Liz Warren comes
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down and says, yeah, but really, I'm Chief Liawatha.
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Liz Warren needs less attention on her ancestry.
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It's that President Trump gets in the heads of his opponents because he's so brash and infuriating
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because he's like a little schoolyard bully who's holding Liz Warren's, like, stalks of
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She's holding it, he's holding it above her head and she's saying, I am Native American.
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If she were thinking clearly here, if she were thinking rationally, she would not take
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What she is thinking is that this issue has dogged her in her career.
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It might prevent her from being successful in 2020.
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President Trump has forever branded her Pocahontas.
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So what she's thinking is right now, even before the midterms, I'm going to get this story
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My personal pravda, the Boston Globe, is going to run with it and they're going to cover for
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me and all of the media are going to cover for me.
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And then when it comes up again, the next time President Trump calls me Pocahontas in six
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months, I can say, I took a test and it proves I'm Native American.
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President Trump is going to have a field day with this.
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I hope he's just, he's just, you know, testing out the tweets.
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He's trying, he's massaging it like a poet with, you know, with his meter and his rhyme
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So Liz Warren claims for her professional career that she's Native American, not even just like
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And she's listed in the Harvard directories, Native American.
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She, she contributes a recipe to a Native American cookbook called Pow Wow Chow as Elizabeth
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Not Elizabeth Warren, 99.9% generic white, possibly 0.1% Cherokee, then probably not even that.
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So she's been using this for her entire academic career.
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Conservatives obviously are going to laugh at that as we've been doing all day.
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You say, oh, well, you know, I thought she was lying about being Native American, but she's
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So I don't know, I'm, I must be like one 1,000th sub-Saharan African, right?
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You know, a lot of people are moving around in Sicily in the, in the good old days.
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I don't get to sing certain songs that are politically incorrect and offensive.
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And this doesn't make her an Indian, but even among the left, because I think what, what
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she's thinking right now is, okay, I'm going to at least give myself this data point that
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I can always point back to before the 2020 primaries heat up.
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And I'm going to give leftist progressives an excuse not to hate me.
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I'm going to give the race-obsessed left an excuse not to hate me.
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Because now they know, now they know that she's 99.9% white.
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Before, we all, everybody knew it, but there was this kind of, you could just pretend, say,
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And she doesn't look Indian, but we don't know.
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You know, when you, when you're watching a horror movie and the monster or the killer is
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off screen, you fill it with whatever you want to see.
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You fill it with your imagination and it really works.
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When you see the monster, it's always a letdown because it can't live up to your expectations.
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That is how the race-obsessed left, the activists that Liz Warren is trying to appeal to here,
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So, I think this is going to backfire because in the intersectional left, just like in that
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If you're a white lady from Harvard, you're going to lose that battle eventually.
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Also, I would like to point out identity politics doesn't work for Native Americans because there
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So, I think they're kind of believing their own press releases.
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They're believing some of the stuff that they're putting out there in their advertisements.
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever got from my mother is don't believe you're on
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Don't believe the stuff that you were saying just to kind of puff up your activities or
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Don't fall into the trap of believing that yourself.
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She thinks, if I can claim even one 1,000,000th Native American ancestry, I'll get that victim
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The appeal of racial identity politics, which the left has totally embraced for decades now,
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It gets to our very basic animal instincts, which is, you look like me.
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And it's pretty cheap and it's pretty tawdry and it's not a human or humanistic or elevated
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The identity appeal only works if you can say, yeah, I'm going to help out black people
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specifically and that other guy hates black people and I'm going to help out Hispanics
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specifically and the other guys hate Hispanics.
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It only, if you're appealing directly to that group, what's the appeal for Native Americans?
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What argument is she making on behalf of Native Americans?
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At least in certain municipalities, if you can actually appeal to race and you can get
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racial groups to vote as a block, then you can, then it, then it works.
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She, she, she must be kicking herself that she doesn't have some, you know, more, more
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populous racial minority group that she could cynically try to play on.
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The, the other, the other reason this doesn't work for Democrats is it reminds American voters
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So this is not going to be as bad an effect as the rest of them, but it reminds voters
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of the one drop rule, which is this racist Democrat policy from the 19th and 20th centuries
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that if you had even one little teensy drop of black heritage in you, then you were black
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for purposes of the law and therefore you were a second class citizen.
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It's a, uh, uh, creates racial hierarchies that do, do not and should not exist.
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And she's buying into that a century later for her Native American, uh, lies because what
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a tangled web we leave when we, when we practice to conceive, uh, when we practiced, oh, that's
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A Freudian slip is where you say one thing and mean your mother.
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What a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive.
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She switched from white ethnicity to Indian, Native American ethnicity.
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This, uh, she contributed, you know, recipes to that cookbook and Harvard touted this for
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She's been covering up for that lie ever since.
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And this evidence today exposes that lie even more.
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Does she, just putting aside all of that ugliness, does she really think this quells the issue
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that people are going to say, okay, well, okay, one, one thousandth.
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Does she not think her primary opponents in 2020 on the left are going to use this?
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Does she not realize that Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Joe Biden, all of these guys are going
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It's not, she is not the leader in this presidential race right now.
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If anybody is, probably Joe Biden is because Barack Obama might support him.
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If there's a breakout star right now, she is not the leader.
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She cannot play it as though she's the nominee.
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She's got to play really hard, punch really hard.
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I think she did it because Trump makes people expose who they are.
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You know, I remember this vividly in the 2016 primaries.
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There was that moment on stage where President Trump, he's talking to Jeb Bush, he's prodding
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Jeb Bush, and Jeb Bush says something that, you know, he thought Donald would approve of.
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And Donald puts his hand out there and Bush smacks it, gives him a weird, like awkward
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And this killed Jeb Bush because Jeb Bush had been running on, I am this serious, mature,
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And President Trump exposed that when he, when he did his like, yeehaw, you know, jump
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It exposed him as not really being more stable, not really being more mature than anybody else.
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He might've held a Chablis glass the right way, but it exposed that lie.
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He obviously did it to Hillary when he, when he had a prodded Hillary Clinton into calling
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The Democrats now are admitting to being a mob because they hate Trump so much.
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They say, yeah, you bet we want to go clobber them at their house where their children sleep
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You bet we're going to go out there and get them.
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So he's, he's forcing them to admit who they are.
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And unfortunately for Liz Warren, she's an old white lady.
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This is the difference between Democrats and Republicans here.
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Because what are the Republicans talking about in their strategy sessions?
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They say, we're going to go hard on political correctness.
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We're going to go hard on the economic prosperity, the virtual extinction of unemployment, the relative
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That's what we're going to campaign on in this election.
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For membership in these Indian tribes, usually you need one quarter Indian heritage.
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I think the Eastern Cherokees allow you to go down to 1 16th.
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And the Cherokee Nation says there's no limit, there's no minimum, but you do have to be able
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Liz Warren doesn't have, doesn't meet any of those requirements.
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She would be rejected for membership even though she contributed powwow chow to that cookbook.
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And I'm one, I'm less than one 1,000th Native American is not an answer.
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The other political error that she's making here is she doesn't realize that when you're
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When you are explaining in politics, you are losing.
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Well, in politics, sometimes the best defense is a good offense.
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When you punch back really hard, it disorients your opponent.
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But when you're explaining, you've already given up the argument.
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If somebody says to you, when did you stop beating your wife?
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You say, well, what, what, what, did you, did you talk to my wife?
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My wife will tell you that, that I, I didn't beat her.
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And you've already lost because you've accepted the premise that they're giving you.
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The premise that Liz Warren is fighting against here is that she's a liar and a fraud and inauthentic.
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She's not going to win by explaining why she's not a fraud.
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She's got to talk about, I don't know, health care or whatever other, or, you know, soaking the rich, I think is paid.
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If she's fighting on the terms of this premise that she's, she's, she's not really inauthentic.
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President Trump uses this to great effect when you're explaining you're losing.
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If you saw this 60 Minutes interview, it was superb.
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A left-wing Hollywood publication, Variety said, quote, 60 Minutes outmatched by Donald Trump.
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Well, do you think it was, nope, it was one beer.
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Had I not made that speech, we would not have one.
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I was just saying she didn't seem to know anything.
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And you're trying to destroy a life of a man who has been extraordinary.
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What I said is, the person that we're talking about didn't know the year, the time, the place.
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Professor Blasey Ford got before the Senate and was asked, what's the worst moment?
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And she said, when the two boys laughed at me, at my expense.
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And then I watched you mimic her, and thousands of people were laughing at her.
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They can do what they, I will tell you, the way now Justice Kavanaugh was treated has become a big factor in the midterms.
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Well, I think she was treated with great respect.
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But do you think you treated her with great respect?
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Do you think you treated her with great respect?
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There are actually, I mean, it's typical, you know, Trump bluster.
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But there is a lot of rhetoric to realize there.
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And it's all on this, when you're explaining, you're losing.
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She says, you mocked, you made fun of Christine Ford.
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You know, that lady who changed her story a thousand times and discovered these 30-year-old memories after the fact at the 11th hour.
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And so his first reaction is, no, I didn't really make fun of her.
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Now, what a less skilled media operative or a less skilled politician would have done there is, I didn't really make fun of her.
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I said, hypothetically, I just pointed out, you know, the testimony.
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And, well, it depends on what the definition, you know.
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What he does is he realizes where this is going.
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If it were just one question, they could move on.
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But he realizes that Leslie Stoll of 60 Minutes is going to try to nail him on this point.
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And just drill it until he says something stupid and they're going to run with that.
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He says, look, the way Kavanaugh was treated very, he even takes that little beat.
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And then she says, but I want to get back to talking about how you made fun of her.
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At first he said, oh, I didn't really make fun of her.
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Now you might say these sort of contradict one another.
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But you are seeing rhetorical strategies change as he's getting where this is going.
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So she's just there hectoring him, just badgering him.
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And that, I think that really shows you a lot about how we should handle politics
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So you've got, you can't counter that line of attack
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by trying to explain why you weren't really making fun of her.
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You know, Antonin Scalia, in an interview with Leslie Stahl,
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almost the exact same setup, he had a similar interaction with her
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that torture isn't cruel and unusual punishment.
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She goes, well, if you're trying to get information out of a terrorist,
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If you're trying to get information, that's not punishment.
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She goes, well, you know, because you're a terrorist.
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And finally, he just cuts her off and he says, well,
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Which is a line that I now use constantly, you know, whenever,
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whenever you get to the end of an argument and say, well,
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You know, I saw Jeff Flake today was getting squishy again.
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Also, water is wet and the sky is blue and the sun shines.
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And Jeff Flake said, well, we shouldn't have spiked the football over Kavanaugh.
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I want, I want para jumpers, you know, out of helicopters and out of airplanes to grab a
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football, not deploy their parachute and just dive it right into the dirt.
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I want it to go halfway through the core of the earth.
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This is a bare knuckle moment and we can't have people who don't understand that.
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The fake news this weekend was particularly egregious.
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They said, quote, watch, President Trump says that Robert E. Lee was a great general during
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Ohio rally, calling the Confederate leader incredible.
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Now, here's the clip that they posted with President Trump.
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The trouble with their tweet is that it was completely incorrect.
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Herman Cain, during one of the debates in 2012, some Bloomberg reporter said,
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Mr. Cain, we've analyzed your tax plan and it'll cost the government way too much money.
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And he said, well, the problem with your analysis is that it is incorrect.
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That's the problem with your tweet, NBC, is that it is incorrect.
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An earlier tweet misidentified the general President Trump described as incredible at a rally in Ohio.
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It was General Ulysses S. Grant, not General Robert E. Lee.
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An attached video clip lacked the full context for Trump's remark.
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And Lincoln just said, you hardly knew his name.
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And Lincoln said, I don't care what problem he has.
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The setup on the incredible general in that first clip was he had a drinking problem.
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The payoff in this clip is he had a drinking problem, but he was an incredible general Ulysses S. Grant.
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How long do you think it took NBC News to correct that story?
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You remember, there was a study a few years ago that came out, some psychology study, that said that conservatives are much more likely to be authoritarian than leftists.
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And they said, oh, actually, it's the opposite.
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Sorry, we forgot it was opposite day when we released the video.
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So I guess it was opposite day when NBC News released that clip.
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How long do you think it took them to correct that?
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Are we to suspect that they didn't watch the clip?
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They always run the fake story on page one and then the correction on page 377.
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And this clip, by the way, tells us a lot about Donald Trump.
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Plus, we've got to get on to how Mitt Romney never learns anything, some important polls for the midterm elections.
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And then I think I've discovered the straw that broke the camel's back of political correctness.
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I think I've discovered the end of political correctness.
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But first, we've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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That's the podcast that I'm doing with Andrew Klavan.
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You get the Leftist Tears Tumblr, which contains heap big leftist tears these days.
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This clip tells us a lot about Donald Trump because he's talking about Ulysses S. Green.
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He says, look, there was this incredible guy, but he had a drinking problem.
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And then Lincoln had this trouble because the Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, was a great general.
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And Lincoln picked all the guys who looked like the good generals, all the guys who should have been the good generals.
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You know, they had the right cut of their jib, and they talked good, and they went to West Point, and they all should have been great generals.
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And so Lincoln took a little look over at that alcoholic, that guy with a drinking problem, Ulysses S. Grant.
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And he picked him, and he said, I don't care if he's got a drinking problem.
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I'll put the historical seriousness of that story aside and just listen to Trump telling that story.
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One of the things about Trump is he's this big ego, right?
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Trump is on every building that he's ever walked by.
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And this is pretty self-effacing because he's comparing himself to an alcoholic.
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He's saying, look, I know I don't look like the tough conservative president.
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I don't talk like the guy who can fix the economy, bring peace around the world, you know, fix some wars here and there, renegotiate.
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I know I don't talk like that guy, and I don't look like that guy, and I've got my own flaws.
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But sometimes that's just the guy who can get it done.
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And some more evidence for this is that he's said this before.
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They were talking about Brett Kavanaugh's beer drinking.
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And Trump said, you know, I'm basically the only politician in the world who can say I've never had a beer.
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The only good thing about me is that I don't drink.
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But for him to talk like this at a rally is pretty impressive to me.
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It actually shows me that he understands his place, not just in the Republican Party, not just in the American government, but also in history.
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That he's the guy who goes in and just the unlikely fixer.
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He's the unlikely guy that you'd never pick in ideal circumstances.
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You'd always pick the guys who look like they should win except they can't win.
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So you pick that guy and maybe he can pull you out of victory.
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Sometimes I worry, you know, that he really is the caricature that the left makes him out to be.
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I really, you know, I trust my lying eyes before I trust the lying New York Times.
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Compare that line to Mitt Romney, who we've talked about, I think, months ago on the show.
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We talked about how Mitt Romney can't learn anything.
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Donald Trump does learn things, but Mitt Romney just can't.
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Here is some, you know, lefty comes up, approaches Romney with a camera and tries to get Romney on the record talking about,
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maybe it was a right winger, I don't know, talking about never Trump.
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You know, President Trump is, you know, or rather Mitt Romney is going to go to the United States Senate.
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So whoever it is, left or right winger has the camera there.
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And you hear this question come out from, you know, all the other press who are there with the microphones.
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President Trump was not the person I wanted to become the nominee of our party.
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But his president now, the policies he's promoted have been pretty effective.
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When there's a place where I disagree, I want that out.
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But right now, we're in a race to say, are we going to have a nation that is going to be guided by conservative principles
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And that's why people, I think, are going to get behind Martha McSally and across Republicans across the country.
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Mitt Romney was the former presidential nominee of the Republican Party.
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He said his promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.
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By the way, it turns out President Trump has kept more promises than virtually any president in recent history.
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I mean, he gave that speech, that blistering speech against Donald Trump.
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He was the face of the true never Trump movement.
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I never, what are you talking about never Trump?
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This reminds me, he did this exact thing in 1994 when he was running for Senate in Massachusetts.
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He was asked about the record of Ronald Reagan.
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Ronald Reagan and, you know, in the 1980s, Reagan Bush.
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Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan Bush.
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I was an independent during the time of Reagan.
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I was an independent during the time of never Trump.
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Look, Mitt Romney comes from the squishy wing of the Republican Party.
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His father, George Romney, came from that same wing.
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The liberal, you know, kind of consensus, middle part of the Republican Party.
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But he always pretends to be something different when he's running for office.
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He was the governor who installed Obamacare in his state, and then he tried to pretend that he wasn't.
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If they had said, well, you know, you led never Trump.
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If they said that to him and he said, look, yeah, I was really anti-Trump, never Trump.
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And then it turned out he's been a very good president.
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And I can't wait to continue this great conservative success when I'm in the U.S. Senate.
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Still be a little skeptical of Romney, but at least he's being honest.
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But he looks me in the eye and he tells me that reality isn't as it is.
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If in that 94 election, he thought that being a conservative was a risk in that 94 election against Ted Kennedy.
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But if he came out there, they said, what do you think of Reagan-Bush?
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And he said, I thought things went great during Reagan-Bush.
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And I think the reason that we've seen an economic boost is because of the policies of Reagan-Bush.
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And I think we defeated the Soviet Union, which by that time had been defeated because of Reagan-Bush.
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Yeah, if returning to Reagan-Bush means winning the Cold War and having peace and prosperity, you're damn right I'm a supporter of Reagan-Bush.
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If he had said that, he would have had a fighting chance.
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If you stand in the middle of the road, you are going to get hit by a truck.
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He's going to win the Senate seat, but it's really frustrating.
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Speaking of polls, by the way, before we get on to the cause of the death of political correctness,
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I want to point out an important poll that matters.
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All of which show significant movement in the direction of the Republican candidate after Brett Kavanaugh.
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You saw this movie with Damien Chazelle came out over the weekend.
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And, you know, Ryan Gosling movie about Neil Armstrong landing on the moon.
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And it's one of these blockbuster Oscar bait movies.
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Now there had been some controversy with this movie because they don't show Neil Armstrong planting the flag on the moon.
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I sort of suspect it's because they want to cozy up to Chinese audiences and overseas audiences,
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which are going to constitute a lot of its profit.
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But Ryan Gosling did an interview and he said, oh, you know, it's because it was a human achievement.
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So I was watching these box office returns pretty closely because I thought, you know, if this is a monster win at the box office,
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conservatives aren't as influential as I thought we were.
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The raw feeling of patriotism wouldn't be as big.
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It only made, I think, what is it, 16 million over the week?
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Polls are notoriously unreliable, especially generic polls, especially national polls.
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The only explanation I can come up with is that Americans don't want to see Hollywood disrespect them anymore.
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They don't want to see elites disrespect them anymore.
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There was this study that came out at the end of last week.
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It showed that 80% of Americans oppose political correctness.
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Now it's up to 80% consider political correctness a serious problem in the country.
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I actually think that's the one that put it over.
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Because, you know, it's one thing to say, you have to say happy holidays instead of merry Christmas.
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You might roll your eyes and say, man, that's stupid.
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I mean, the holiday is Christmas, but all right, whatever.
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It's quite another thing to follow a guy's daughter into the changing room at the swimming pool.
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Because you say that men can be women and women can be men.
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We've got a lot of hormones pumping through our body.
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The attraction for men to women and women to men is essential to the human condition.
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It's enjoyed by at least 97% or 98% of the population.
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There was a story that came out from the women's cycling tournament, the UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championship.
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This transgender dude who now is pretending to be a woman won the women's championship.
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Lots of transphobic bigots are responding to my world championship wins saying, next up, the Paralympics.
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Hey, women, you realize all these people, many of them women, are comparing you to disabled people, right?
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Because this person, this guy, Rachel McKinnon, is trying to distract from the fact that he, a man with a biological advantage,
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took a prize away from women who should have won because it's a women's competition.
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And he actually, look, we've been predicting this forever and it's happened frequently too.
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He actually responded because people said, look, you have a biological advantage.
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He said, quote, focusing on performance advantage is largely irrelevant because this is a rights issue.
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We shouldn't be worried about trans people taking over the Olympics.
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We should be worried about their fairness in human rights instead.
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He says that people are comparing women to the disabled in the analogy about the Paralympics.
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There is a handicap when men are competing against women.
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This guy, Rachel McKinnon, tweeted out, he said, we don't know why men do better at sports than women.
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Because then the response is always, well, Michael, you're not exactly an Adonis.
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I'm just telling you men are stronger than women.
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I think that there is this idea, this crazy ideology, especially among millennials, that, oh, well, you know, men generally are stronger than women.
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But look, there are a lot of women who could beat up guys.
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There are not a lot of women who could beat up guys.
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There are virtually no women who could ever beat up any guy.
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People, you know, I don't know, maybe some like eight-year-old boy or something.
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But people who are vaguely in the same age range, it virtually can never happen because men simply are stronger than women.
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And I think it cracked political correctness because I can look with my own two eyes and I can see that a guy is not a woman and that a woman is not a man.
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And when that lie is exposed, when that essential lie is exposed, all the other ones, you think, oh, maybe illegal aliens aren't really undocumented dreaming dreamer, sleeping dreamers.
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I think you're seeing the crack up of political correctness.
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We're talking about earlier President Trump's political kind of gut reaction.
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I think there you're going to find where people resonate strongly.
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Because he doesn't think about politics from the perspective of Edmund Burke or Russell Kirk or Michael Oakeshott or even Bill Buckley or whatever.
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He's thinking about it from a really gut level, from a media level, from an information level.
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Those were the big issues in the 2016 campaign.
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And we're still seeing that really resonates with people.
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The lies of political correctness, justice, injustice, protecting our borders, protecting our country.
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Really good news for Republicans from all of those polls.
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But look around because in the next 22 days, you're going to see polls get manipulated, try to suppress conservative votes, try to boost left-wing activism and left-wing votes.
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Look around for that because it is bound to happen.
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But we will be here drinking our pow-wow tears, our pow-wow chow tears and smiling because right now people should be cautiously hopeful.
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