Ep. 508 - Sick But Not Tired Of Winning
Summary
Dems in six states head to the polls today, and polling shows Joe Biden might blow Bernie Sanders out of the water within a matter of hours. Then, a woman asks Slate if she should tell her husband to stop sleeping with his girlfriend to stop coronavirus from spreading to her mother.
Transcript
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Democrats in six states head to the primaries today,
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and polling shows Joe Biden might blow Bernie Sanders out of the water within a matter of hours.
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We will examine the latest data on Joe's chances in November.
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Then, pundits on all sides attack the president for his response to the flu-manchu outbreak.
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But a very important group, much more important than the chattering class,
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Finally, a woman asks Slate if she should tell her husband to stop sleeping with his girlfriend
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to stop coronavirus from spreading to her mother.
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We will break down this woman's problems and our culture's problems, both biological and social.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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We're going to find out maybe who the Democrat nominee is.
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We've got Michigan, Washington, Missouri, Mississippi, Idaho, North Dakota, and Democrats Abroad.
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You know, the left complains about the right wing in this country colluding with foreign entities.
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They actually have a completely separate primary among the Democrats for Democrats who happen to be living overseas.
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We will get to the breakdowns in those states, what it's looking like, and how Bernie Sanders just totally collapsed.
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So, Michigan, Washington, Missouri, Mississippi, Idaho, North Dakota, and all those various Democrats living abroad.
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Right now, the only states that Sanders is projected to win are Washington, also known as Little Wuhan these days, and Democrats abroad, which is not a state.
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And even there, Bernie is only up by a very small margin.
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For Democrats abroad, it's about 1.4%, and in Washington, it's about 0.5%.
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So, the key states to look at here are Missouri, Mississippi, and Michigan.
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According to data for progress, Missouri, Missouri, right now, in 2016, Hillary won Missouri by 2,000 votes out of 623,000 votes total cast.
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So, Bernie Sanders can make a huge play here in Missouri, except he's getting blown out of the water.
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He's up 30 points on Bernie Sanders, who's down at 32.
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Then, Liz Warren has four, even though she's not in the race anymore.
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And Gabbard, who is in the race, but the mainstream media don't want to admit that she is, she's down at two.
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So, Biden absolutely crushing it in Missouri right now.
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Bernie didn't do well, and it looks like the same is going to hold true.
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Michigan, which may decide the general election in November.
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So, Bernie's certainly going to win in 2020, right?
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Detroit Free Press currently has Joe Biden at 51%.
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Then, other gets nine, and declined to answer the question gets 13.
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I mean, Biden is almost double Bernie right now, according to Detroit Free Press.
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Mitchell Research also shows in Michigan, Biden is at 54%.
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I mean, we were talking about two weeks ago how Bernie was running away with the nomination.
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They were going to nominate a socialist in 2020.
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And then, we, the conservatives, were just absolutely going to trounce him and win 57 states, plus American Samoa, plus the people abroad, and plus Greenland.
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And that doesn't look like it's going to happen now.
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I mean, Joe Biden really seems to have consolidated.
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Then, there was a question about his electability.
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Then, the question about his electability went in his favor in South Carolina, and he shot back up very quickly.
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And, it's why you could see huge swings like that in the analysis.
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According to a Firehouse Optimist poll, Trump does better against Bernie than he does against Biden.
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Duh, I've been telling you that the whole time.
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If you're running against a guy who honeymooned in the Soviet Union and who says nice things about Fidel Castro, you're probably going to do pretty well in America.
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You're definitely going to do very well in Florida.
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What's important to note here, though, because what the Democrats keep telling us is, actually, what some Republicans keep telling us, too, is, look, when you go up against Biden in November, Trump is going to have a really hard time.
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Uh, Biden's going to win if the coronavirus tanks the economy, Biden's going to saunter over to the White House.
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However, in a head-to-head matchup, Trump still beats Biden in all the most important states.
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So, the way that the mainstream media, the way that the Democrats are trying to convince you that Biden is going to win and Trump is going to lose, is they only show you national elections.
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What matters are people in those states, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, right, the states that are actually going to deter, Florida, they're going to determine the election.
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And head-to-head right now, Trump is winning, even against Joe Biden.
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And, by the way, Joe, it's not like Joe Biden's going to get better throughout this campaign.
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If anything, day by day, we're seeing Joe Biden fall apart.
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The guy is absolutely collapsing before our eyes.
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That might just be because there's a lot of pressure on these campaigns.
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It might be because they're physically just daunting.
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We could now, I think, have a regular segment on this show, which is what jumbled nonsense came out of Joe Biden's mouth today.
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We have to do it every day because every day there's more to look at.
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Yesterday, we saw Joe forget his boss's name twice and then his own name once.
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Today, we see that he forgets who controls the House of Representatives.
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We're going to keep the House, increase it, and flip it to Senate.
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We're going to win back the House, except we won back the House already two years ago.
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But I wasn't paying attention then, and I don't, anyway, I'm getting confused.
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Look, taken in isolation, any of these little gaffes are easy enough to make.
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I confuse Bernie and Biden sometimes, let's say.
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Hopefully, I'm not just becoming like, you know, Joe Biden myself.
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But when they happen multiple times a day, every single day, to degrees from, you know,
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you kind of forgot who controls the House of Representatives to, you forgot your own name.
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And the next gaffe Joe made yesterday really should have Democrats worried.
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So, okay, he forgot who controls the ads of representatives.
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In one clip from the same speech yesterday, Joe Biden was campaigning with Cory Booker.
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Like, he was making sounds, but they were not coherent words.
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He went on as though he was making sense, but the words didn't mean anything.
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But if we invest in ourselves, China will not be, as they say in Little Steel Town, I come from Claremont, Delaware, not a patch on our team.
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Could anybody, look, I know people are in the chat box right now and live.
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Could anybody try to tell me what he just said there?
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If you look, Cory Booker's standing behind him because Cory Booker endorsed Joe Biden yesterday.
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Cory, when, when Biden starts to ramble like that, you see his eyes kind of widen up.
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So now to add more evidence to the heaping pile that Joe Biden is not fit to become president.
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Joe Biden is now reportedly asking that he not even stand for the next debate.
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First, let's take a question from a listener from J.H.
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Do you think Biden might ask Hillary to be his VP?
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All right, Sleepy Joe might be slipping, but he's not that dumb.
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The, the only, the only way that she would want to be VP is if she thought there were
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a good chance of becoming president, which I guess in this presidential field is pretty
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But I think the only man who would ask Hillary to be VP would have a, have a real death wish.
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I wasn't on the phone call, but there was a phone call with CNN hosting the next, next
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The CNN moderators, the CNN executives said that for this debate, instead of standing at
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a podium like normal people at a presidential debate, let's just have these two men sit
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You know, they're for, for political standards.
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And Bernie Sanders pushed back on this reportedly.
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He wants to show that he's vigorous, especially after he just had a heart attack.
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The Biden camp is denying that they asked for a seated debate, but they're also not pushing
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It could be that the CNN executives just said, look, these two guys cannot possibly stand up
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They've been on the campaign trail now forever.
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Or the other possibility is just that the Biden campaign requested it because they know that
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They're also, by the way, they're both in the most at-risk category for the coronavirus.
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Maybe you think people are overreacting to coronavirus.
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Maybe you think people, the media are blowing it out of proportion.
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But it is the case that people are self-quarantining right now.
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My podcast co-host, Senator Ted Cruz, is self-quarantining.
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So I wouldn't be surprised if the Biden and Bernie campaign start to change their reaction.
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This is a big miscalculation on the Democrats' part, though.
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First, we'll get to a listener response from TB.
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I, I, it's one of those words when you read it, it's so obvious.
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But when you hear a presidential candidate articulating it with his words, that, that's why I didn't
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Despite all the negative press, he said covfefe.
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The Democrats, if they want to show that they're really ready for Trump in November, they should
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If they can, they should have these two candidates run a marathon.
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They should have been running down San Vicente in Los Angeles over the weekend.
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In times of uncertainty, people want a vigorous president.
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Think about the uncertainty or you've got the market tanking.
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You've got this virus that seems like not the end of the world, but who knows?
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We don't really know a whole lot about the virus.
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But in that time of uncertainty, you know who you don't want to be president?
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A guy who, who can't speak or a guy who can't stand or a guy who is frail and elderly.
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I mean, you want wise elder statesmanship, sir, but you, you, you want a guy who can actually
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So we saw yesterday Hillary Clinton is not yet ready to endorse.
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But she's still not, she's not going to endorse him.
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Even though she doesn't like Bernie Sanders, she's not willing to put her support behind
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Now, the only other holdout here would seem to be Nancy Pelosi and Nancy Pelosi raises
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Okay, so one person here, other than Hillary, one person who's not willing to endorse Joe just
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yet, that would be the Speaker of the House, one of the leaders of the Democratic Party,
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Nancy Pelosi, who said she isn't ready to endorse Joe because she usually just wants
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Return the Affordable Care Act, and that's just, you know, we just, so we're going to fight
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them in the Congress, in the country, and in the court of law to preserve all that that
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means, the lives saved, the progress made, and then working together to take the best that
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But it's no reflection on who I would support for President of the United States.
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I'll just say, just generally, I usually always kiss my vote for a woman.
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By the way, I love, I love how the left gets away with these kind of categorical statements,
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I love how women can get away with these categorical statements, but men cannot.
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I like, it's always, I guess that's leftism, right?
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If they didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.
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Imagine if I came out there and said, Michael, who are you going to support for President?
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I haven't decided yet, but a man, definitely a man.
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I just think men are better at it and women, they're just not.
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And then you deploy, say, wow, Michael, that's so brave.
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It's kind of silly even to, to complain about it.
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The reason that I think Pelosi's line here is interesting is because there are some people
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in this country who have not given out hope that Hillary Clinton could somehow still
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Now that might become much more difficult after tonight.
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All right, we've got these six states coming up.
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If Joe Biden really blows it out of the water and looks like he's going to do well in the
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future states too, then the odds of a brokered convention decrease significantly.
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If there were a brokered convention, we don't see these very often, you could walk in there
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Mike Bloomberg could be the nominee for goodness sake.
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Instead, probably Joe Biden's going to walk away with this, but they're not ready just
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The whole democratic establishment is coalescing here.
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We'll see if Joe Biden can put that to rest tonight.
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The, the big question in the election probably will not be the brokered convention and Hillary
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coming in and Epstein-ing everybody and, and stealing the nomination.
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Probably a big question, at least for the next couple months is going to be this Wu flu, this
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People are getting a lot of different information about it.
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I've spoken to friends who are expert in this field who say, really, we need to take this
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Honestly, it's not being blown out of proportion.
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I've also heard from people who say, yeah, it's not a big deal.
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So, do you know what the average age of, uh, Wuhan virus death is?
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That's pretty, I mean, that's like, how old do people live?
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The average life expectancy is, what, 78, I believe.
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It's a little higher for women, a little bit lower for men.
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So, this seems to be really affecting people who are already in a weakened condition.
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The other weird thing about it, and it's related to that fact, is kids don't get it.
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As far as I can tell, there have been no serious cases of the Wuhan virus among children.
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The kids who have gotten it have shown very, very mild systems.
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This is like revenge of the Zoomers, or whatever the generation after the Zoomers is, against
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We don't know very much about it, so I'm not going to pretend that we've got all the answers
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However, everything we're seeing shows that other public health crises have been deadlier
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So, I think about the swine flu, which I actually had in college.
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It was a nasty flu, and a lot of people died from it.
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I think it was, at the low end, 12,500, might have been as high as 15,000 people in the United
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Around the world, it was 200,000 people died from it.
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Did we hear that, you know, this was going to destroy the economy?
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I guess in those days, during the early Obama days, the economy was already destroyed.
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But it just didn't seem to be such a big sensation in the mainstream media.
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If it had been a Republican president, probably it would have been.
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Okay, so those were much, much deadlier than this.
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That's, that's all I can give you on the biological or medical front, the public health front,
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Anyway, the political aspect is a little easier to take a look at here.
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And that, I think, is where a lot of people in the mainstream media are focusing their efforts.
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Except for one group, and that one group really matters.
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He appointed his number two to lead the task force to take care of it, right?
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He put the vice president of the United States in charge of it.
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He very early on banned travel from at-risk countries for coronavirus.
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He was called a racist at the time, as he always is, but it was a smart thing to do.
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So far in the United States, how many cases do we have?
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All right, that comparison shows we're doing relatively okay.
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Now, there is a criticism of Trump that he's even mentioning statistics like that.
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President Trump yesterday tweeted out, he said, look, we've only had 22 deaths.
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Think about that compared to other public health crises.
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There is a criticism here that the president shouldn't be mentioning those sort of statistics.
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You know, it is, I think, probably unseemly of the president to downplay it like that.
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You don't want your president to say, whew, we made it out fine, only 26 people dead, right?
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You want from your president a guy to seem to be somber and sort of mourning every single death.
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However, the criticism of the chattering class on the administration's response here
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is not representative of the rest of the country.
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We have polling to gauge exactly what people think.
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And despite what the pundits say on the left and on the right, despite everybody criticizing
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It polls people in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
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So you're talking about three of the most important states in 2020, representative of
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A majority of likely voters in all three states are, are very or somewhat concerned about a
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You have 56% in Michigan, 56% in Wisconsin, 62 and a half percent in Pennsylvania.
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So 79% of people in Michigan, 72.4% of people in Pennsylvania, 81% of people in Wisconsin say
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that they're not planning to, you know, dramatically change their lives for the Wuhan virus.
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And then most importantly of all for our political examination, they think Trump is doing a good job.
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Trump has a net positive approval rating on his handling of coronavirus so far.
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In Michigan, he's got a net 15.6% positive approval rating.
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That's how much people like the way he's responding to this.
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Now, if you tuned in to virtually any cable news program, right or left,
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if you tuned in to the pundits, it would say, oh, he's messing this up.
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The voters in those key states think he's doing a good job,
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which is all the more impressive because he actually doesn't have a great overall net approval rating.
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His overall net approval rating in Michigan is 2.9 points.
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And yet on coronavirus, people think he's doing a good job.
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So, I understand the in-depth analysis, historical precedent, the esoteric reading of the tweets.
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When you've got a column in the New York Times or when you've got a cable news show or when you've got a podcast.
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But for voters on the ground, at least according to the one poll that we've got on it,
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We will get into more fake news going around about President Trump because the press are really attacking him now.
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They've got a new hoax about Trump using the word hoax.
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It's pretty much like Charlottesville 2.0 when Trump allegedly called Nazis very fine people,
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There is so much fake news going on about Trump right now.
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Whatever legitimate criticisms one could make of his response in the last couple weeks
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are just getting totally drowned out by all the unfair attacks from the press.
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Trump refuses to say if he has been tested for coronavirus
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and storms out of White House briefing on crisis.
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That is the slowest storming out I've ever seen in my life.
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And then he very slowly walks out, which is the only way that you could end any sort of
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And to the Daily Mail, that's he refuses to say if he's been tested for coronavirus.
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And he storms out of the White House briefing on the crisis.
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They can even include that first part because you hear at the very end as he's walking out
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You see him as, oh, well, one, Mississippi, two, Mississippi, three, Mississippi, I mean,
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Now, if Joe Biden were storming out somewhere, it might look like that.
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But, you know, Joe Biden, or Donald Trump, rather, is a young and vibrant man.
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The biggest hoax right now being perpetrated by the mainstream media is the hoax about the
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Democrats are now accusing President Trump of calling the coronavirus a hoax.
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You see it, it's all over media, it's all over cable news.
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It never, this is the new Nazis are very fine people at Charlottesville hoax.
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It should be obvious that President Trump does not think it's a hoax because President Trump
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appointed his number two guy to run the prevention and recovery.
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Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus.
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But, you know, we did something that's been pretty amazing.
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And because of the fact that we went early, we went early, we could have had a lot more
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We will do everything in our power to keep the infection and those carrying the infection
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Either the hoax that he's referring to is the Democrats' attacks on him for not handling
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coronavirus well, for botching the whole public health crisis, or the hoax is coronavirus.
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How could the hoax be coronavirus when Trump goes on to brag about what a great job he did
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stopping coronavirus and how, had he not acted as quickly as he had, coronavirus would have
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spread much more quickly and there would be more deaths.
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That was the substance of his speech was, man, coronavirus really could have been bad.
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But luckily, I did a very good job at stopping it.
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Obviously, the hoax is the criticism of his response.
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You don't need an advanced degree to, to be able to understand that.
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The guy said, on the issue of taking statues down and to take away our history, there are
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I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white supremacists who should be condemned totally.
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I guess it was in the same paragraph just a few moments later.
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They said that Donald Trump called neo-Nazis very fine people.
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Put that away with the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny.
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That's the, that is the criticism of Trump baked into the equation from the beginning.
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He is very entertaining and that's sort of unseemly in a president.
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Is President Trump's talking costing people's lives in coronavirus?
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Are the tweets costing people's lives in coronavirus?
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Did Barack Obama get anywhere near this kind of scrutiny for the public health crises that
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Media don't want to admit it, but he's doing, he's doing fine.
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Now, they should have a recurring segment on this show too.
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Because they, in their Dear Abby letters, they always have the strangest people write
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The, the letter that they just published was, should I pause my open marriage because of
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And by the way, a lot of editors just write the letters themselves.
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What makes this Slate article so crazy is the terrible advice that Slate gives.
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So, should I pause my open marriage because of the coronavirus?
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You probably could put the question mark up a few lines here and just say, should I pause
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Dear Had to Do It, my husband and I have an open marriage.
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Is it unreasonable to ask my husband not to swap fluids with his girlfriend until the
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So far, I've yet to see a public health official weigh in on limiting one's exposure to his
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To be safe, you could ask your husband to do so.
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Also to be safe, make sure none of you leave the house for any reason whatsoever.
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Wear gas masks constantly, even in the shower, even to bed, and apply hand sanitizer so often
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that your skin is never not gleaming with an alcoholic dew.
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Or you could just live your life and follow basic public health advisories.
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I suppose mathematically, your husband being in close contact with another person does increase
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But unless he and his girlfriend are into public sex, like in the middle of Times Square public,
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or are handrail licking fetishists, the elevated risk is probably negligible.
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Swapping fluids seems like a surefire way to pass or contract the virus.
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But if your mother lives with you, but if you don't need to get to the point of, I can't
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I am assuming that you're operating on good faith and not using this public health crisis
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as a way to drive a wedge between your husband and his girlfriend.
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Everyone's got enough drama to deal with as it is.
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Because you notice in the column, the advice is never, hey, be more traditional.
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The columns are always like, yeah, hell yeah, you should be sleeping with his girlfriend.
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I mean, people read these things to be titillated.
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But let's just assume that this is a real person writing in with a real letter.
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This woman basically saying, hey, I've got some, I'm a little uncomfortable with my husband
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How dare you tell your husband to stop cheating on his wife?
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And it just shows you how depraved it all gets.
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I mean, this question at least is not even posed in a kind of, I'm jealous that my husband
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is cheating on me, which any reasonable person would feel.
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It's posed as, hey, there's a pandemic going on and I don't want my mother who's got a frailty
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to die because my husband wants to sleep around.
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I also love, it gives you away the whole game on the left here, right?
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The left on one hand is saying coronavirus is going to be the end of the world.
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You've got to take it super duper uber seriously.
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On the other hand, don't think for even one moment of not slutting it up for a couple days
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On the one hand, oh, no, nothing could be worse.
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On the other hand, yeah, go ahead and swap fluids with anybody you meet on the street.
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I mean, they've obviously politicized this beyond all measure, but terrible advice.
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And I wish that woman would write into my show so that I could give her good advice on this.
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And shockingly, I know this is going to come as a big surprise.
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The slate advice column is not the dumbest article on the internet today.
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It's not the dumbest article on the internet of our times.
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The dumbest article on the internet, the dumbest series, and I haven't talked about it much,
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but I think the time has come, is the 1619 Project from the New York Times.
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The New York Times is now launching an initiative to convince people that slavery is the essential
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So America begins in 1619 when the first slave comes to the colonies.
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Not 1776 when you sign the Declaration of Independence.
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Now, you couldn't call this project journalism for reasons we'll see in a second.
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The only thing you could call it, and this is actually the fairest term I can come up with,
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It is leftist propaganda to decide to push a narrative, and people put out propaganda all
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The reason that they're catching a little bit of flack right now is because actual historians,
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not just conservatives, leftist historians too, are criticizing the New York Times, and the
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So Leslie Harris is a history professor at Northwestern University.
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She just wrote a piece in Politico about how she was approached by the 1619 Project.
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She gave her notes on what the 1619 Project got wrong, and the New York Times completely
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Quote, one critical reason that the colonists declared their independence from Britain was
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because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery in the colonies, which had produced
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At the time, there were growing calls to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire, which
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would have badly damaged the economies of colonies in both North and South.
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So that's like one of the far claims they can make is the whole American Revolution, the
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This historian, Leslie Harris, writes in Politico, quote, I vigorously disputed the claim.
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Although slavery was certainly an issue in the American Revolution, the protection of
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slavery was not one of the main reasons the 13 colonies went to war.
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The editor followed up with several questions probing the nature of slavery in the colonial
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era, such as whether enslaved people were allowed to read, could legally marry, could
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congregate in groups of more than four, and could own, will, or inherit property.
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The answers to which vary widely depending on the era and the colony.
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I explained these histories as best I could with references to specific examples, but
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never heard back from her about how the information would be used.
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Despite my advice, the Times published the incorrect statement about the American Revolution
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So we're talking about the first essay of 1619.
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In addition, the paper's characterizations of slavery in early America reflected laws and
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practices more common in the antebellum era than in colonial times.
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That is, the description the New York Times is giving of these laws governing slavery were
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much closer to what you saw right before the Civil War than what you saw during the founding
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She goes on, they did not accurately illustrate the varied experiences of the first generation
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of enslaved people that arrived in Virginia in 1619.
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How do you start a project where you say, we're going to reveal the truth about American
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And then historians from across the political landscape, it's not just Harris, five other
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academic historians signed a letter claiming, quote, that the 1619 project got some significant
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elements of the history wrong, and the Times refuses to correct the errors.
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The people who staff the New York Times are all a bunch of over-credentialed, uneducated
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They're people who graduated from very fancy schools, and they're convinced of their own
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brilliance, but they don't actually know much of anything.
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And think about it with regard to the gender issue, right?
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Let's say I were going to write a devastating critique of gender roles in the history of
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So I decide out of my own brain, I'm not reading anything, I'm not learning anything, I just
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say, you know, one of the big issues with gender roles is there's actually 56 genders.
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And, you know, for our history, we've pretended there are only two genders, but really there are
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A biologist could come up to me and say, oh, no, actually, Michael, there aren't 56 genders,
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Because he would have some knowledge of this topic, and then he would tell that to me.
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I would say what the leftists are actually saying right now about that very issue.
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They would say, nope, sorry, 56, because I said so.
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They know nothing about the history at the New York Times.
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They know absolutely nothing about the founding era in the 1619 Project.
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Those writers are abjectly wrong and profoundly ignorant.
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And yet, they are convinced of their own narrative.
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They're convinced of the utility of their own narrative, where they just don't give a damn.
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This series is now being taught in school districts in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Buffalo, and New York.
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It means there's no objective press in this country.
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The Grey Lady, all the news that's fit to print, is publishing historical fiction in its pages.
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It means there's no objective educational apparatus in this country.
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In some of our biggest cities, we're teaching this fiction as though it were history.
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There is no objectivity in those institutions for the transmission of information.
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We always say, when will the press report on this?
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Well, that shows you how ignorant we are, how we don't learn the lesson.
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We say, when's the media going to report on this thing that's damaging to leftists?
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They're not going to, ever, ever, not once, okay?
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Once we accept that, once conservatives realize this is not a level playing field, this is not neutral,
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there is not an even marketplace of ideas that we can bandy about in on the pages of the New York Times or in our schools,
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then, and only then, will we begin to win the fight.
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