Ep. 504 - Biden’s Super Monday
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Mayor Pete Buttigiegiegieg endorses Joe Biden. Amy Klobuchar drops out. Chris Matthews drops out of the race. Beto O Rourke drops out? What seems like centuries ago, no one cares.
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We will examine how the Dems are pulling out all the stops to stop Bernie before Super Tuesday.
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Then MSNBC pushes out Chris Matthews after 20 years.
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We will take a look at the bogus Me Too reasoning
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and then go deeper to what's really behind the ouster.
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Amy Klobuchar drops out yesterday, endorses Joe Biden.
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Pete Buttigieg drops out two days ago, endorses Joe Biden.
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Beto O'Rourke drops out what seems like centuries ago, endorses Joe Biden.
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Nobody really cares, but he's going to do it anyway.
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Susan Rice didn't run for president, didn't drop out, did lie to Americans about Benghazi,
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Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, forget about him?
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Now, unfortunately, I got to remember him because he endorsed Joe Biden.
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Sleepy Joe sweeping up all of these big, big endorsements.
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First, let's turn to Mayor Pete, who went out, campaigned with Biden himself, and endorsed
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And so it's fitting that I am joining to support a campaign that speaks so often about the soul
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I don't believe the world is divided up into people who are all good and people who are
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I don't believe that how you voted in the past makes you good or bad.
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I believe that each of us can have good things and bad things brought out of us.
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I'm looking for a president who will draw out what is best in each of us.
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And I'm encouraging everybody who is part of my campaign to join me because we have
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found that leader in vice president, soon to be president, Joe Biden.
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Mayor Pete's endorsement is just like his campaign.
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We need politics to unify us, to bring us together.
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We, it's, we're not all bad people are all good people.
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We're, we're people and we need politics and politicians do politics.
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And we found a politician who does politics in Joe Biden forward together, unity, unity
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You're just, Pete Buttigieg just likes the way that his voice sounds.
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So that's probably the best thing he's got going for him as a candidate is his voice
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And then there's, there's that little secret radicalism, right?
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The way he opens up is he says, politics is soul craft and, and unity and Joe Biden and
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Before that, about the, about the togetherness.
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Now, this is something that I think the left really believes.
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Pete Buttigieg just gives you a little glimpse into it.
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They believe that the purpose of politics is not to just sort of get along together in
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civil society or to defend a tradition that we've all inherited or to protect the rights
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that are given to us in our constitution, in our laws that are protected by our institutions.
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No, it's soul craft takes on this religious aspect because for the left, the state has
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all the power, all the, is due all of the reverence of a religious institution.
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And they believe that human nature is infinitely malleable.
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So, you know, conservatives tend to believe that the human nature is nature, right?
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They think with just a little bit more time or a little bit more money, they will be able
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to perfect human nature, will end up in utopia.
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That's, the Marxist program was to perfect human nature.
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And that's what Pete Buttigieg believes as well, which is unsurprising.
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You know, he's, he talks like a moderate, he walks like a moderate, he endorses like a
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moderate, but every so often you get a glimpse of that radicalism, which really is the
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They talk in this, uh, in, in this endorsement that how the, the real difference between Joe
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Well, I guess that's true, but the sad thing is if Pete Buttigieg is the moderate of his
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generation, it shows you just how much further to the left the millennials have gone.
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So Joe Biden is very excited to get this, uh, this endorsement.
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So he comes up there and as always just flatters and flatters and flatters.
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If you've supported a man of enormous integrity, a fellow who, uh, has as much, uh, moral courage
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as he has physical courage, I really mean that.
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Like Bo, he, uh, he had a backbone, like he has a backbone, like a ramrod.
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If Pete had been around another six years, I wouldn't be standing here.
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So when you have to set off a certain statement that you're saying by saying, no, no, I really
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What you are implying is that for other things that you say, you don't really mean them.
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It's like when people say, Hey, look, I'm going to be honest.
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You say, well, what were you before where you were lying to me before, but now you're going
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If you have to set off the true statements by saying, no, no, I really mean that.
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Then I have no reason to believe that you really believe the thing you say you mean
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right now, because it means that you don't mean many of your statements.
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So it's very possible that you don't mean the statement.
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So it's not that Joe Biden is, I don't think he's a nefarious, you know, pre-planned sociopath
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I think he doesn't care about the truth at all.
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And so he just flatters and ingratiates and glad hands and compliments.
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People tried to make it out that they were really lascivious.
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I don't think he's lascivious or lustful or something like that.
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I think he's just a flattering, oily politician who's always trying to form an intimate connection
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And as a result of that, if you pay attention for two seconds, you realize you can't believe
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Nevertheless, Biden is now the clear front runner and he's already screwing this up.
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Maybe after Super Tuesday, he'll become the nominee.
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And here he is in all his glory at a rally yesterday.
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He's like Reagan and Lincoln and Pericles combined.
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He can't even recite one of the most famous lines in American history.
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If Democrats nominate this guy, I never want to hear another word, not a peep, about how
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Biden had another greatest hit on Sunday when he was wrapping up an interview with Chris
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Wallace on Fox News, one of the most famous journalists in the country, and he couldn't
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The problem here is not even that Joe Biden messed up Chris Wallace's name.
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I mean, you should know who you're talking to in an interview, or you should have the
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But the real trouble is what he said at the end.
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Yeah, it's just did him back to back, and it's so early.
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Joe Biden is saying that he does not have the energy and stamina of a TV newsman, but
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he wants to become the president of the United States, the leader of the free world.
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That is not a great pitch for your own candidacy.
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Look, if you just say, oh, sorry, I forgot your name, Chris.
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But to say, gosh, it's so early in the morning.
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You're supposed to do it if you become the president.
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My favorite part now is that the Democrats have three real options.
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Elizabeth Warren is not going to get out of the race.
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And actually, by the way, if you have any questions, we're doing live questions from
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So my favorite part about all of this is that the Democrats now have three real options.
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The options are the corrupt dotard, the sort of old man who can't remember the Declaration
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He can't remember what the interviewer's name is.
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And then the billionaire philanthropist, finance, media mogul, who served three mostly successful
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terms as mayor of New York City, one of the world's most important cities.
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They actually, I'm not saying Mike Bloomberg is a good candidate.
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In many ways, he's like the worst candidate possible.
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But just compared to Bernie and Biden, Mike Bloomberg has actually accomplished quite a lot in his
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He's actually an intelligent man, even though he gets his worldview pretty wrong.
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Joe Biden ran for president in 1988, had to pull out because he told very specific lies
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Ran for president again 20 years later in 2008, didn't do any better.
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I don't think he won a single delegate either time.
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Now he's running again 12 years after that, total flop, a guy who accomplished very little
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And you have Bernie Sanders, who got kicked off a commune for being too lazy.
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Bernie Sanders, who never had a job until he was 40 years old.
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Bernie Sanders, who's never effected really any serious legislation.
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And then you got Mike Bloomberg, who's actually made something of himself, actually was a,
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You know, he's relatively successful, got three terms, big career.
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And they're, the Democrats are just like, absolutely not.
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Here is President Trump's reaction to Pete Buttigieg's endorsement of Joe Biden.
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Well, he just, Buttigieg just went out and said something and probably they'll say, hey, look,
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And they probably said, hey, listen, if I win, I'll give you an endorsement, but will
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Now, I'm sure like, I'm sure nothing like that has ever happened, right?
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The point is what we're seeing right now is called a quid pro quo.
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Hey, you remember when you guys were trying to impeach me and throw me out of office for
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How come, how come you only talk about my quid pro quo that I didn't even do?
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Trump's strategy, importantly, is to highlight his opponents doing the same and worse as
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It's this never explain, never apologize, always attack.
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So he's taking every opportunity just to go after them, to needle them, to hit them.
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I mean, how do you attack a guy for endorsing a political candidate?
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Trump figured out how to, and it was a good attack.
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Then at the very end, he gets in there, he complete non sequitur, goes down, he goes,
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and by the way, they're going to steal it from Bernie.
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Because the Democrats are stealing it from Bernie has become a sort of right-wing meme.
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So, right now, with Joe in the lead, President Trump is turning his attention back to Joe Biden.
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So, the attack is shifting, and a lot of people aren't catching this.
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The attack is shifting just from Sleepy Joe, that was the original attack on Joe Biden,
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that Joe doesn't have any stamina, he doesn't have any energy.
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It's now shifting to Sleepy Joe is surrounding himself with radicals.
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I honestly don't think he knows what office he's running for.
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You know, maybe he gets in because he's a little more moderate, so maybe he gets in.
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They're going to put him into a home, and other people are going to be running the country.
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And they're going to be super left radical crazies.
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I love, this is a great way to get the joke across, right?
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Is the really funny outrageous thing he's saying is they're going to put Joe in a home.
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So, well, you're still laughing at, oh my gosh, did he just say he's going to put his opponent in a home?
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Then he moves on to, but he's going to have all these radical crazy young people around him.
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And the radical crazy young people are the ones that you've got to be afraid of.
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Because I think President Trump thinks that Bernie is more beatable in a general election than Joe Biden.
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This is why he's propping up Bernie, and he's going after Biden and Bloomberg.
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He just, I think Trump doesn't believe the Americans are going to elect a radical socialist.
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And probably the Trump team has got a good oppo file on Bernie.
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But now he's starting to use the attacks that he would use in a general election against Bernie against Biden, which is about the radicalism, right?
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He's saying, yeah, even Joe Biden, you think he's kind of more moderate?
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Then they're going to have all these radicals running the country.
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The strategy of going after Bernie and defending, or going after Biden and defending Bernie is not going to turn off the Bernie bros, some of whom President Trump probably wants to win over, or at least demoralize enough that they don't come out and vote in the general election, right?
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But, at the same time, it gets ready that same attack that he thinks is going to be effective in a general election.
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So, you know, Trump is tweeting out, just yesterday he tweets out, they're staging a coup against Bernie.
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A few days ago he goes, Democrats are working hard to destroy the name and reputation of crazy Bernie Sanders and take the nomination away from him.
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They're trying to destroy the reputation of a man I'm calling crazy.
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The Dems are working hard to take the prize nomination away from Bernie.
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Backroom politics, which Bernie is not very good at.
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Even the way that he talks about the home at the rally, he's talking like a stand-up comedian.
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He's talking like a political commentator, not as a guy in the race.
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A guy who's in the race would never admit that there's a chance that his opponent would win.
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He would never say, let's say he wins and you're going to be okay with that, right?
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He would say, no way, we're going to, we're going to win it.
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Now, my opponent doesn't stand a chance and we're going to go beat him.
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But he stands back, he goes, yeah, okay, let's, let's say he wins.
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Let's say Biden wins because he's a little more moderate or whatever.
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You're not going to like what happens, okay, because you're going to get all these radicals running it.
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And Biden will be in a home and he'll be watching TV and that'll be fine.
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But he's, he's, he's got a little bit of that distance there.
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And he's just, he's like, you see this crazy political scene?
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You guys better, you're probably going to want me.
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I'm just saying you're going to want, you're going to come begging for me if those radicals are running the show.
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There's a big political savvy that's going on here, which is that there are two political divides in this country.
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Okay, the two political divides are left, right.
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The other political divide is establishment populist.
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Okay, and they don't, they don't exactly match up.
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So Trump wants to win suburban voters by presenting himself as more establishment than Bernie.
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That's the, that's the pitch of crazy Bernie, crazy radicalism.
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But he wants to mollify, he wants to pacify, he wants to kind of make nice with the Bernie voters by presenting himself as more populist than Biden.
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So all that tweet about, they're stealing it from Bernie, those corrupt people are rigging it from Bernie.
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That's all to say, hey, Bernie bros, you and I have common cause because we're both outside the establishment.
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But then when he goes out and he makes the arguments about how crazy Bernie is, how he's a radical socialist, how Biden's campaign people are radicals, he's making the argument to the suburban voters, to maybe the Biden voters.
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He says, look, I'm more establishment than Bernie Sanders.
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You're going to be a lot more comfortable with me.
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And for people who say that I'm just saying he's doing 4D chess or something, I don't know how conscious this is.
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But if it's innate, then it backs up something we've been saying for the long time, which is that the guy's got very good political instincts.
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Let's take one question from the audience before we get into Super Tuesday, before we get into Chris Matthews.
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Here's a question from A. Michael, have moderates, Biden and Bloomberg, explicitly stated to your satisfaction that communism is immoral?
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Or is their only argument against Bernie that it is a good but impractical idea?
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No, they have not stated to my satisfaction that communism is immoral.
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Unfortunately, a lot of right-wingers have not stated that to my satisfaction either because everybody's just making some lame, bean-counting economic argument.
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I mean, you remember when Barack Obama was president, they went down to Cuba and got absolutely nothing out of it.
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Just gave Cuba everything, didn't take anything in return, didn't get any concessions from the regime.
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And Barack Obama, another guy who talked like a moderate but actually was a secret radical, he came out and said,
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look, these distinctions between capitalism and communism, they don't really mean that much for our generation.
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They are totally different views of the relationship of the individual to the state, of the local community to the state, of tradition and history to politics.
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So he said that and then Barack Obama had the money line.
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I don't even, he's not even saying it that explicitly.
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If by Bloomberg, obviously, that's all he cares about is the efficiency of markets.
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If all you care about is just getting GDP up a little bit higher or just kind of making the market a little bit more efficient,
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then you're just as bad as the hard left, as the radical left.
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In some ways, you're worse because you're not viewing people as people.
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And the human being is much more than just a commodity.
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It's much more than just a sort of cog in a machine that can be greased or oiled or shaped a little bit better under different regimes.
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Trouble with communism is that it's, it's evil.
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It discounts everything that matters to us in life.
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So nobody's making it right now, other than I think President Trump is actually pretty good at making this argument.
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He makes an argument much more to the human person than any of the Democratic candidates.
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Then we got to get to Chris Matthews, not Chris Wallace.
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I told you we're going to do our best to get through it, and we are on track.
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So Super Tuesday, this is maybe the biggest thing to look for going into it.
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Right now, the Buttigieg, Klobuchar endorsements could have completely changed the map on Super Tuesday.
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So Super Tuesday, all these different states are going to go out and vote.
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Before the Klobuchar and Buttigieg endorsement, if you just look at the average of the Real Clear Politics polls,
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Here is who is supposed to win the various states.
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That might, that'll be a surprise for later tonight.
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Now, what happens when you add Pete and Klobuchar's endorsements?
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So obviously, it's not going to work out exactly like this.
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But if Pete and Klobuchar get exactly the number of votes that the polls were predicting,
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or if all of those votes do just transfer over right away to Joe Biden, all of a sudden,
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you've got Alabama, Biden, Arkansas, Biden, California.
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Slightly Bernie, but basically tied with Biden.
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It becomes a Biden blowout if the Klobuchar and Pete votes actually go over to Joe Biden.
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And California is basically a tie, even California with a slight Bernie edge.
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Now, the big wild card here is going to be Mike Bloomberg.
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After Buttigieg and Klobuchar got out, Bloomberg was asked whether he would get out too.
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We both talked to Pete earlier today and Amy just a little while ago, and I wish them all
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I thought both of them behaved themselves, is a nice way to phrase it, but they represented
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And I felt sorry for them, but I'm in it to win it.
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And we are going to go out and we're going to go get them.
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I love that Mike Bloomberg has such condescension that he would say, yes, well, I felt that Buttigieg
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If they had, of course, I would have wiped them off the face of the earth.
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You know, Buttigieg and Klobuchar, they have to play nice.
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They have to make the smart endorsement, right?
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They have their political careers ahead of them.
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They don't have $60 billion like Mike Bloomberg.
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Bloomberg doesn't have to worry about any of that.
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She didn't get out when Klobuchar and Buttigieg did.
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Because Elizabeth Warren is not quite as young as Klobuchar and Buttigieg.
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She's got a little less to lose in her political career.
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This might be the last chance that she could run for president.
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At Bloomberg, certainly this is his last chance.
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Listen to a response that Mike Bloomberg gave to a voter at a town hall on Fox who said, hey, I'm a gun owner.
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I'm a regular American Second Amendment supporter.
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How come I'm not allowed to have a gun and protection, but you, Mike Bloomberg, are allowed to walk around with armed security?
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How do you justify pushing for more gun control when you have an armed security detail that is likely equipped with the same firearms and magazines that you seek to ban the common citizen from owning?
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Does your life matter more than mine or my family's or these people's?
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Look, I probably get 40 or 50 threats every week, okay?
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That just happens when you're the mayor of New York City or you're very wealthy.
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And if you're campaigning for president of the United States, you get lots of threats.
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And, you know, they're all retired police officers who are very well trained in firearms.
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I love that he gives at every opportunity the worst political answer you could possibly give.
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He goes, are you saying, Mr. Bloomberg, that your life matters more than mine?
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And I'm saying that because I'm rich and famous.
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He just, he just goes, look, listen, you peasant.
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I get threats against me because I am a famous politician and, by the way, very, very wealthy.
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And, and look, look, I pay for my security myself because did I mention that I'm wealthy?
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And that's why I need to have more rights than you have, peasant.
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What a great, what a great way to, to connect with the voters.
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I get a real kick out of Mike Bloomberg's elitism, probably not going to play well in Peoria.
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In some ways, he would be the best choice that the Democrats have because he wouldn't just completely destroy the country.
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In some ways, he's the worst choice, though, because it's pretty clear that Mike Bloomberg doesn't really like people all that much.
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He doesn't seem to have a great respect for people.
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But he doesn't, he doesn't really seem to connect with them or view them as human, just as cogs in a machine.
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I mean, he said the president is a managerial job.
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That tells you everything you need to know about the way he, he views the world, but he's probably not going to do that well anyway.
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We're going to see if South Carolina was a fluke or whether, whether it was the beginning of the end of the Democrat nomination.
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Now, Klobuchar and Buttigieg are not the only left wingers to drop out in recent days.
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They're the only presidential candidates to drop out in recent days.
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But there's another major left winger who dropped out yesterday.
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He's had this show hardball for 20 years now on MSNBC.
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He goes out and he says, hey, my first story, I'm retiring.
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And obviously, this isn't for lack of interest in politics.
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As you can tell, I've loved every minute of my 20 years as host of Hardball.
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Every morning, I read the papers and I'm gung ho to get to work.
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I love working with my producers and the discussions we have over how to report the news.
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And I love having this connection with you, the good people who watch.
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So right off the bat, right off the bat, you realize that Chris Matthews did not choose to retire.
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He says, obviously, I'm not losing interest in politics.
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The conversation with MSNBC, I decided tonight will be my last hardball.
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The younger generations out there are ready to take the reins.
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We see them in politics, in the media, in fighting for their causes.
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We're talking here about better standards than we grew up with, fair standards.
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A lot of it has to do with how we talk to each other, compliments on a woman's appearance
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that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay, were never okay.
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And for making such comments in the past, I'm sorry.
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Chris Matthews, one of the real titans of left-wing commentary.
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And actually a left-winger who I always got a kick out of, I mean, he was wrong about
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He got that, he said he got a thrill up his leg when he saw Barack Obama.
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I mean, there were many, many, many, most things he got wrong.
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He always seemed like sort of a straight shooter in that he was saying what he believed.
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And I'm really sorry to see him go the way that he did.
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I said, oh, maybe Chris Matthews is some big womanizer.
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Maybe he's been sleeping with all the women at the show.
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Maybe he's stepping out on his wife all the time or something.
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And sometimes those comments are wrong and I shouldn't have made those comments.
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So I looked up the article that's in GQ magazine by Laura Bassett.
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This is the article that ostensibly got Chris Matthews fired.
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And she gives all the reasons, all the horrible things he did.
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It's called, like Warren, I had my own sexist run-in with Chris Matthews.
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So she's objecting to something Chris Matthews did with Elizabeth Warren too.
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The article begins, I believe the woman, which means he's not telling the truth, said Warren,
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who recently had to defend her own credible story of pregnancy discrimination.
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She doesn't have a credible story of pregnancy discrimination.
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Elizabeth Warren is now saying that she was fired from her first teaching job because she got pregnant.
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But we have her on video from years ago talking about how she didn't get that teaching job.
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She didn't keep the teaching job because she lacked a credential and lacked interest and wanted to stay home with her kid.
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And then this writer, Laura Bassett, writing in GQ, is lying about Warren's lies.
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Not a good way to start off the article if you're going to try to torpedo a guy's career.
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I'm skipping around a little bit, but you get the point.
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There was no reason for him to harp on its veracity except perhaps that he himself has made so many sexist comments over the years that he has a vested interest in Bloomberg being let off the hook and going after Warren.
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It is not sexist to observe that Elizabeth Warren is a liar.
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However, Elizabeth Warren is one of the most famous, infamous, and egregious liars in the entire country.
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She lied for decades about her ancestry and said that she, the whitest woman in the world, was Native American.
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She did that possibly taking jobs away from actual Native Americans.
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She then lied about the pregnancy discrimination.
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She then lied very recently about where her children went to school.
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There's nothing sexist about calling a liar a liar.
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But, you know, this woman, in using the kind of Me Too era as a political cudgel, is using sexism the way that the left has used racism for so many years, which is not to point out an actual example of bigotry, but just to silence your political opponent.
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Matthews has a pattern of making comments about women's appearances in demeaning ways.
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The number of on-air incidents is long, exhausting, and creepy, including commenting to Erin Burnett, for example, you're a knockout.
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It's all right getting bad news from you while telling her to move closer to the camera.
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Regardless of whether you think that a MSNBC host should compliment people's appearances, it is simply a fact that what he said is not demeaning.
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Now, you could say it's wrong to compliment people in the workplace, never give anyone a compliment.
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Fair enough if we're living in this politically correct culture.
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But you can't lie about it and say that it's demeaning.
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Even the word creepy, he adds the word creepy in here.
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Creepy is just a way to, you know, slander somebody without having to give any kind of example.
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And Chris Matthews, look, I have a lot of criticisms of Chris Matthews, but I don't think he's creepy.
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She talks about an interview with Hillary Clinton.
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He suggested that Clinton had only had so much political success because her husband had messed around.
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No one would know Hillary Clinton's name if she wasn't Mrs. Clinton.
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She was the first lady of Arkansas, then the first lady of the United States.
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And then she, immediately after leaving the White House, became the senator from New York, a state she had never lived in.
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Do you think she became the senator of New York because Hillary is just so famously good at connecting with voters?
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I think it probably had something to do with her last name.
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In 2017, I wrote a personal essay about a much older married cable news host who inappropriately flirted with me in the makeup room a few times before we went live on his show,
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I was afraid to name him for all the flirting, the traumatic flirting, for fear of retaliation from the network.
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It was Chris Matthews in 2016, right before I had to go on his show and talk about sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.
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How many years are we into the Trump presidency?
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Matthews looked over at me in the makeup chair next to him, and he said,
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Oh, Ms. Bassett, I'm so sorry this happened to you.
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I hope that you get millions of dollars from MSNBC to pay for the years of therapy that you will need to recover from Chris Matthews saying,
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In a public setting, without inviting you to dinner, without inviting you to his hotel room,
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without inviting you to his office like Matt Lauer does.
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And she says that Chris Matthews needs to be fired.
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Having a news anchor who calls women she-devil.
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By the way, he only did that to Hillary Clinton, and it happens to be correct.
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And treats their assessments with infantilizing suspicion.
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He treated Elizabeth Warren with infantilizing suspicion because she infantilized herself by lying all the time.
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While conducting post-debate interviews builds in a major disadvantage for female candidates.
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The actual problem is all of these mostly left-wing men in power in media and politics
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acting like complete degenerates and abusing women.
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Did I mention they're mostly Democratic, mostly left-wing men who have been doing it?
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Like Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer and all of the other ones?
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Yeah, I just wanted to make sure I got that in there.
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And now, it has become a cynical tool to be wielded with impunity only when it is politically convenient.
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Because, by the way, Chris Matthews is not being fired for this Me Too thing because he made a flirtatious comment in the makeup room or something.
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The reason he's being fired is because he's now not left-wing enough for the Democratic Party.
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But the other day, he came out and came out against Bernie Sanders.
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It would be bad if Bernie Sanders got the nomination.
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The other day, he's made a few on-air gaffes, right?
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But he's made on-air gaffes throughout his whole career.
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There was this incident that was kind of embarrassing where he confused two black politicians and thought one was the other one.
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But he's been doing this kind of stuff for years.
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The thing that changed is the Democratic Party, which is now, in terms of just the delegate count,
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is ready to nominate an open, avowed socialist, an actual communist who honeymooned in the Soviet Union.
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The fight that we're seeing in the Democratic Party nomination right now, the Biden-Bernie fight,
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It's the fight that we're seeing in left-wing commentary.
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And that fight is only going to heat up through November.
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Last question before we get to it, before we get to Super Tuesday later tonight.
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Who would be more beneficial to Biden as a VP, Klobuchar or Buttigieg?
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Having a woman probably would be more beneficial.
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I think women outrank gay men on the intersectional victimhood scale.
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No, I don't think Buttigieg would be a great VP candidate.
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The only advantage he would have is he could debate Mike Pence,
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and the left could pretend that Mike Pence is some big homophobe or something like that.
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But I suspect it's actually going to be someone totally different.
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I don't think Klobuchar or Buttigieg, these kind of fairly weak presidential candidates,
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I don't think that they're going to be the best choice.
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I think you could see someone from somewhere else in politics,
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maybe another name we've heard who hasn't been around in a little while.
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so they don't need to just choose from the handful who have made it this far in the Democratic race.
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We have so much more to get to, but we'll have to save that for tomorrow.
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