The Michael Knowles Show - April 22, 2020


Ep. 533 - Lock Down The Border


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Trump announces a temporary suspension on immigration to the United States for 60 days, citing the need to protect American workers and the need for the country to be prepared for a pandemic like the one that has been unfolding in the past month.

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00:00:00.000 For over a month, the left has insisted we lock down our country.
00:00:04.680 Towns, cities, even whole states have ordered citizens to stay locked in their homes.
00:00:09.500 But now that President Trump is applying that logic to the national level by locking down our borders,
00:00:14.960 the left is up in arms.
00:00:16.580 Foreign nationals can hop our fences and enter the country by the millions.
00:00:21.040 But you can't take a simple walk around the neighborhood.
00:00:24.240 Doesn't seem very fair.
00:00:25.200 Then, CNN's Chris Cuomo stages some Broadway-caliber fake news before getting caught in the obvious lie.
00:00:32.660 New York's Mayor de Blasio calls for a ticker tape pandemic parade.
00:00:37.300 Probably not the smartest thing.
00:00:38.620 And an Earth Day co-founder murders his girlfriend.
00:00:40.920 All that and more.
00:00:41.820 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:50.960 Once again, it's all about immigration. 0.93
00:00:55.200 President Trump, when he walked down that escalator in 2015 and announced he was running for president,
00:01:02.020 he made immigration the issue of his campaign.
00:01:05.600 That was considered controversial at the time.
00:01:08.120 The other Republican candidates didn't really want to touch it.
00:01:11.140 Trump totally embraced the issue.
00:01:13.400 And guess what?
00:01:14.040 That issue propelled him to win the Republican nomination.
00:01:18.560 Despite what you heard in the mainstream media,
00:01:20.620 despite what you heard from establishment Republicans,
00:01:22.700 there was broad consensus among Americans that we had to stop illegal immigration,
00:01:29.520 that we had to reduce legal immigration.
00:01:32.300 This was backed up in public opinion poll after public opinion poll.
00:01:35.900 Now, we're locking down the whole country, right?
00:01:38.600 You're not allowed to leave your home.
00:01:40.440 Not only are you not allowed to go to bars and restaurants,
00:01:42.640 if you leave your home to go on a walk around the neighborhood,
00:01:46.240 there's a chance that you will be harassed by a cop.
00:01:48.680 Trump, that's how certain we are that we need to lock this down.
00:01:52.160 That's how certain we are that walls work.
00:01:55.480 And yet, when you try to apply this logic to the national level,
00:01:58.720 the left goes crazy.
00:02:00.340 They're furious.
00:02:01.080 They say, no, forget about the virus.
00:02:03.740 Forget, listen, the virus is only something American citizens have to worry about.
00:02:07.240 We should continue to flood the country with immigration. 1.00
00:02:10.320 That doesn't make a lot of sense.
00:02:12.240 It's a double standard.
00:02:13.840 So President Trump is going hard once again after the immigration issue.
00:02:19.380 He is going to halt all immigration, virtually all immigration, 1.00
00:02:23.540 to the United States for 60 days for two specific reasons in this pandemic.
00:02:30.180 Here's President Trump.
00:02:31.280 In order to protect American workers,
00:02:33.240 I will be issuing a temporary suspension of immigration into the United States.
00:02:38.360 You heard about that last night.
00:02:40.320 By pausing immigration, we'll help put unemployed Americans first in line for jobs 1.00
00:02:45.860 as America reopens.
00:02:48.340 So important.
00:02:49.880 It would be wrong and unjust for Americans laid off by the virus
00:02:53.720 to be replaced with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad.
00:02:58.880 We must first take care of the American worker. 1.00
00:03:03.240 Take care of the American worker. 0.98
00:03:05.140 This pause will be in effect for 60 days after which the need for any extension or modification
00:03:14.100 will be evaluated by myself and a group of people based on economic conditions at the time.
00:03:22.160 This pause on new immigration will also help to conserve vital medical resources for American citizens.
00:03:29.840 A short break from new immigration, depending on the time we're talking about,
00:03:35.500 will protect the solvency of our health care system and provide relief to jobless Americans. 0.64
00:03:41.060 Now, listen to the way he frames this.
00:03:44.420 This is so smart.
00:03:45.500 You would think that the way to frame the immigration issue during a pandemic is to make it a question of public health.
00:03:52.360 Obviously, right.
00:03:53.100 If I'm not allowed, I'm a New Yorker.
00:03:55.220 I live in California right now.
00:03:56.680 I'm not allowed to go to New York because people are afraid of spreading the virus.
00:04:00.840 So, if we've got to reduce even the travel among American citizens to other states,
00:04:06.460 certainly we should be reducing the travel of people from different countries that are affected by the virus into the United States, right?
00:04:13.500 Certainly travel from China, maybe Italy, maybe anywhere all over the place.
00:04:18.260 But he doesn't frame it as a public health issue.
00:04:21.760 He frames it as an economic issue.
00:04:24.460 And the reason for that is, one, this is primarily an economic issue.
00:04:28.420 You've got 22 million Americans who lost their jobs over the last four weeks.
00:04:33.020 Who knows how many over the past week?
00:04:35.140 We still don't have those numbers yet.
00:04:37.200 And so, with unemployment now approaching 20%,
00:04:40.100 surely you should not be flooding the country with millions of immigrants per year. 1.00
00:04:45.580 And that's always been kind of at the bottom of the immigration issue for the majority of Americans.
00:04:52.740 There are cultural aspects as well, sure.
00:04:54.560 But for, I think for most people, what it comes down to is an economic issue.
00:04:59.240 When you flood the country with immigrants, then all of a sudden you've got much more competition for certain jobs and the wages decrease. 1.00
00:05:07.360 He makes it an economic issue also because then it's very clearly not a racial issue, right?
00:05:12.520 That's what the left always says, and they did it this time again, as always.
00:05:16.680 This is xenophobia.
00:05:18.080 It's racist.
00:05:18.900 It's bigoted.
00:05:19.440 No, it's economic.
00:05:22.440 He's saying, no, I'm not, I don't care.
00:05:24.960 I'm not even complaining about what language they speak, how they look, how they dress, what, you know, what their names are.
00:05:31.020 That's not the problem.
00:05:32.100 The problem is a simple economic fact.
00:05:35.120 When you've got 22 million Americans who lose their jobs in a month,
00:05:39.180 you shouldn't flood the country with foreigners who are going to compete for their jobs once the economy reopens. 1.00
00:05:44.980 Very simple, not xenophobic.
00:05:46.400 Of course, that did not stop the mainstream media from smearing Trump as racist,
00:05:50.500 but there is a number coming out of public opinion polling that should make the media and the left very wary of using that race baiting tactic.
00:06:00.120 We'll get to it in a second.
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00:07:14.520 Trump could not have been more crystal clear about this issue.
00:07:17.080 It's an economic issue.
00:07:19.220 So naturally, the media screams racism.
00:07:22.880 Since the outbreak, the White House has been using the virus to justify increased restrictions on immigration.
00:07:28.500 They've basically been working up to this.
00:07:30.560 A move like this, though, would be absolutely unprecedented and would essentially shut down the legal immigration system.
00:07:36.640 And one thing is certain, this is definitely going to be challenged in court.
00:07:39.900 Opponents are calling this xenophobic.
00:07:42.220 This morning, the president's hardline immigration supporters, they are praising the move.
00:07:46.200 But opponents are calling it xenophobic.
00:07:48.560 Okay, basically nothing that she's saying on the issue itself is accurate here or even journalism.
00:07:57.660 Because look at the way that she frames it.
00:08:00.300 Always.
00:08:01.120 Opponents are calling this xenophobic.
00:08:02.880 Who are the opponents?
00:08:03.640 What are their names?
00:08:04.320 Are their names ABC News?
00:08:06.860 Because I think those are the opponents.
00:08:08.440 You just don't want to admit that you oppose it because it makes you look like a hack.
00:08:11.960 So, the only people who support it are hardline immigration hawks, really probably racists, am I right?
00:08:19.000 And the people who oppose it, they're opponents.
00:08:20.960 And they're calling it xenophobic.
00:08:22.240 Okay, look, I'm just reporting the news.
00:08:23.780 That's what they call it, not me.
00:08:25.740 And then those hardline maniac Klansmen over there, they're the ones who support this.
00:08:31.200 Well, public polling shows that that's not right.
00:08:33.540 It's actually the opposite.
00:08:34.940 But then the way she even frames the issue, the whole issue is, Trump has been building up to this.
00:08:40.820 Oh, he was so happy when that pandemic came around.
00:08:43.740 Oh, he couldn't be more happy about coronavirus because it gives him a chance to shut down immigration, 1.00
00:08:48.380 which is so unfair and wrong and illogical.
00:08:52.380 No, it's not.
00:08:53.380 It's perfectly logical.
00:08:55.000 You're saying everybody's got to shut down except the immigrants? 0.98
00:08:59.000 The immigrants get to flood the country by two million a year? 1.00
00:09:02.300 I don't think so.
00:09:03.000 So they're pushing this xenophobia narrative.
00:09:07.740 Not just her, though.
00:09:08.480 You're getting even actually more from ABC on the bigotry, on the racism, on the xenophobia.
00:09:15.900 There were strict orders.
00:09:17.080 There are strict orders already in place.
00:09:18.840 But even a temporary pause would be unprecedented in this country.
00:09:22.260 Look, here's what we know.
00:09:23.360 There will be some exceptions, exemptions, exemptions rather, for health care workers, agriculture workers, people like that.
00:09:29.600 But you heard the president say this is about protecting American jobs.
00:09:32.100 He also says this is about protecting Americans from the coronavirus.
00:09:35.700 But, David, we've got to tell you, America has more confirmed coronavirus cases than anywhere else in the world.
00:09:42.100 We should also note that the number of immigrants who are on the front lines in this fight right now, one in four doctors, one in three nurses, are immigrants.
00:09:49.740 David, opponents say that this is a clear example of the president using this virus to further his hardline immigration policies.
00:09:55.760 This one sure to end up in the courts, David.
00:09:58.400 That's what opponents say.
00:10:00.580 Hi, that's my report.
00:10:02.180 I am opponent.
00:10:04.460 Virtually nothing that she just said here is true.
00:10:06.860 She says it would be unprecedented to drastically reduce immigration.
00:10:09.760 We've done that multiple times in this country.
00:10:12.420 Most notably in 1924, we more or less shut down the immigration system.
00:10:16.260 And that persisted for decades until Teddy Kennedy reopened the whole thing and transformed the country in a hope to try to get some more votes for the Democratic Party.
00:10:25.120 It's happened before that as well.
00:10:27.240 So not unprecedented.
00:10:28.700 Then she says that he's using the coronavirus public health scare as the basis for the immigration order.
00:10:35.120 That just is not true.
00:10:36.240 You heard what he said.
00:10:36.920 It's an economic question.
00:10:38.340 He's not making it a question of public health.
00:10:41.260 And then the opponents say, sure, the opponents do say it at ABC News, not just ABC News, though.
00:10:45.880 NBC News was getting in on it as well.
00:10:48.340 It's still unclear when he'll sign it.
00:10:50.480 But even without an executive order, immigration during the coronavirus crisis has already slowed dramatically,
00:10:56.640 with the administration imposing broad travel restrictions and suspending immigrant visas.
00:11:01.780 Critics say the order is a political dog whistle aimed at energizing the president's base.
00:11:06.580 Yeah, that's what the critics say and the opponents say.
00:11:08.920 And are the critics and opponents ABC or the NBC?
00:11:11.960 I guess they're NBC.
00:11:12.920 It's a dog whistle.
00:11:14.080 What is a dog whistle?
00:11:16.340 What he's saying is it's racist, right?
00:11:20.400 Dog whistle is used almost exclusively in the context of racism.
00:11:24.940 You notice how it's only the left that ever hears this dog whistle?
00:11:27.740 The right never seems to hear it.
00:11:30.100 I guess that would make the left the dogs, doesn't it?
00:11:31.980 If you're the only one who hears the dog whistle, I believe that makes you the dogs.
00:11:36.560 There's nothing dog whistly about this.
00:11:40.020 First of all, it's obviously not a dog whistle because President Trump has been campaigning on this since the first day of his presidential political career.
00:11:48.080 Immigration has been the issue, as it should be. 1.00
00:11:51.300 Republicans don't get this.
00:11:54.140 Conservatives don't get this because they believe the left-wing narrative.
00:11:58.800 Immigration is a winning issue.
00:12:01.840 Cutting immigration, I mean. 1.00
00:12:03.020 Not encouraging it.
00:12:04.140 Encouraging more immigration is a losing issue among huge swaths of the American public.
00:12:11.900 Harvard-Harris poll just came out.
00:12:13.360 A total of 83%, more than five, five and six people or so, say that they favor a moratorium on immigration through the southwest border amid the pandemic.
00:12:25.680 Not reduce it a little bit.
00:12:27.300 Not reduce it a lot.
00:12:28.600 Stop it completely.
00:12:29.680 83% of all Americans, not just Republicans, not just Trump supporters.
00:12:35.460 That figure includes three quarters of Mexican Americans.
00:12:40.560 Very difficult for this to be a racist order if the race that it's allegedly discriminating against overwhelmingly supports the order.
00:12:52.480 75% of Mexican Americans think we should completely shut down the border during the pandemic.
00:12:57.860 And then 93% of Republican voters think we should completely shut down the border amid the pandemic.
00:13:04.220 I remember there was a poll that came out.
00:13:05.820 I think now it was about a year and a half, two years ago.
00:13:07.900 Among Democratic, moderate, independent voters, the majority of them supported reducing not just illegal immigration, but legal immigration.
00:13:19.140 And not just a little bit, but a lot, reducing it by something like 60%.
00:13:23.500 Okay, this is just common sense.
00:13:25.320 We now have the highest foreign-born percentage of the population that we've had in well over 100 years.
00:13:31.320 This creates problems in any sort of country, but particularly in ours, which does not have a particularly racial identity, right? 0.59
00:13:39.040 There are a whole lot of people in this country.
00:13:40.600 It does not have a particularly long history.
00:13:43.040 We're a relatively young country.
00:13:45.080 So assimilation is very important.
00:13:47.100 And you've got the left discouraging assimilation, encouraging people not to assimilate to the United States.
00:13:52.660 So, of course, if you flood it with immigrants, it's going to be much more difficult. 1.00
00:13:57.120 You know, politics is circumstantial and contextual.
00:13:59.580 You have to deal with new and changing circumstances.
00:14:03.720 Right now, when you've got a ton of immigrants in the country and not a lot of assimilation, that would be the time to reduce it, whether there's a pandemic or not. 0.99
00:14:12.120 And the vast majority of Americans agree on this issue.
00:14:16.040 But Republicans don't learn that because they don't want to be called racists.
00:14:18.980 It is obviously not a racist issue.
00:14:26.900 Ask the three quarters of Mexican Americans who support the order.
00:14:30.460 What people are not getting is that immigration matters because it is an existential issue in a democracy.
00:14:39.520 In a dictatorship, it doesn't really matter, right?
00:14:45.820 Because you're going to get the same policies regardless of who comes in and out of the country.
00:14:49.960 In a monarchy, in an oligarchy, sure.
00:14:53.900 In a democracy, immigration will directly affect the kind of governance you get, the kind of country you have immediately. 0.93
00:15:05.280 When the people decide how the government is run, then it really, really matters how the people are made up.
00:15:14.080 This is obviously not a matter of racial solidarity.
00:15:19.560 There is incredible solidarity generally on this issue among all different races, all different kind of people, all different political ideologies.
00:15:26.400 There's some rumor coming out right now that certain advisors in the White House are encouraging Trump to back off of this executive order.
00:15:33.600 They're out of their minds.
00:15:34.800 They're insane.
00:15:35.460 Trump should have done this years ago, okay?
00:15:38.980 Because even when we talk about a moratorium on immigration, he's not saying a total stop all immigration.
00:15:44.160 That would be crazy.
00:15:44.840 There are always exigencies.
00:15:46.640 There are always cases where, you know, someone needs to come into the country where it would be unfair to shut it down completely.
00:15:51.640 But it should be drastically reduced.
00:15:53.700 This is not even a new idea on the right.
00:15:55.800 You know, I remember on Firing Line, on William F. Buckley's program, in the 1990s, they were debating whether or not to drastically reduce legal immigration.
00:16:07.000 Not just illegal, but legal immigration.
00:16:09.140 And you had Arianna Huffington in the affirmative saying that we should reduce legal immigration.
00:16:15.640 That was back when she was more conservative.
00:16:17.280 Still, this was a totally open topic for a debate among the totally most mainstream conservatives ever.
00:16:23.820 This is not some fringe idea.
00:16:25.340 It's not some new idea.
00:16:26.240 It has a longstanding history in the United States.
00:16:28.640 And Trump should do this quickly.
00:16:31.160 Joe Biden, of course, already opportunistically trying to flip on this issue.
00:16:37.060 Unfortunately, Joe's not particularly sprightly these days.
00:16:40.060 So his new attack on Trump is falling very flat.
00:16:43.960 It highlights just about everything that is wrong with the Biden campaign and the state of the left right now.
00:16:50.220 A lot of hypocrisy, not just on that issue, but even on the reopening of various states.
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00:18:32.060 Joe Biden is now trying to take advantage of this situation.
00:18:37.700 You remember, initially, when Trump shut down travel from China, Biden called it xenophobic.
00:18:43.980 He criticized him for it.
00:18:45.300 But now, I guess Biden's seeing the same poll numbers on this immigration issue that all the rest of us are.
00:18:50.320 And so, he's now criticizing Trump for not shutting down travel fast enough, for not being hard enough on China.
00:19:00.720 Here is Joe Biden's implausible attack ad.
00:19:04.560 He failed to act.
00:19:06.880 So now, Trump and his allies are launching negative attacks against Joe Biden to hide the truth.
00:19:12.600 Here are the facts.
00:19:13.860 Joe Biden warned the nation in January that Trump had left us unprepared for a pandemic.
00:19:19.340 Then, Biden told Trump he should insist on having American health experts on the ground in China.
00:19:25.800 I would be on the phone with China and making it clear, we are going to need to be in your country.
00:19:31.760 You have to be open.
00:19:33.000 You have to be clear.
00:19:34.200 We have to know what's going on.
00:19:35.860 But Trump rolled over for the Chinese.
00:19:38.280 He took their word for it.
00:19:39.700 The president tweeted, China has been working very hard to contain the coronavirus.
00:19:43.820 The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency.
00:19:46.960 China, I spoke with President Xi and they're working very, very hard and I think it's going
00:19:51.620 to all work out fine.
00:19:52.740 Trump praised the Chinese 15 times in January and February as the coronavirus spread across
00:19:59.500 the world.
00:20:00.080 It's a tough situation.
00:20:01.180 I think they're doing a very good job.
00:20:02.600 All the negative ads in the world can't change the truth.
00:20:07.500 So, I've got a couple of observations here.
00:20:09.840 First, this is ridiculous.
00:20:12.520 Donald Trump is famously tough on the Chinese.
00:20:15.460 Joe Biden very publicly criticized him for being so tough on the Chinese, including recently,
00:20:21.380 including at the beginning of this pandemic, where he said now is not the time for Trump's
00:20:25.480 terrible, awful xenophobia.
00:20:27.920 Coronavirus emanated from China.
00:20:31.440 A national emergency, you know, worldwide alerts.
00:20:35.600 The American people need to have a president who they can trust what he says about it.
00:20:40.760 That he is going to act rationally about it.
00:20:43.500 In moments like this, this is where the credibility of a president is most needed as he explains
00:20:51.400 what we should and should not do.
00:20:54.000 This is no time for Donald Trump's record of hysteria, xenophobia, hysterical xenophobia.
00:21:01.520 So, Biden's ad is just not credible on this point, right?
00:21:05.080 We have the video.
00:21:05.980 It happened very recently.
00:21:07.760 But worse than that, my actual takeaway from that ad is just how outdated it is.
00:21:15.540 Did you hear that the voice?
00:21:18.680 Donald Trump says he's tough on China, but really he's not.
00:21:23.440 Donald Trump, bad on China, bad for America.
00:21:28.540 I'm Joe Biden, and this is the 1980s.
00:21:31.720 Like, it just sounds so old.
00:21:35.240 It's just, that's not how political ads are done anymore.
00:21:38.260 That's how political ads were done when I was a child, when Joe Biden was only 85.
00:21:42.640 It's just, he just hasn't kept up.
00:21:45.880 And that's fine.
00:21:46.460 I mean, it's not like Joe Biden is sitting there in the edit bay putting the script together.
00:21:50.620 But obviously his consultants are doing that.
00:21:53.920 What consultants did he hire?
00:21:55.960 Did he, like, hire the guys from the Mondale campaign or something?
00:22:00.280 Did he, he picked up, yeah, listen, Truman's consultants are free now.
00:22:05.400 Maybe we'll hire them for the campaign.
00:22:06.920 It's just, it's old and it, it, it underscores every problem the Biden campaign already has.
00:22:13.160 What does he accomplish here?
00:22:15.560 Does he convince people of the point he's making that Trump is easy on China?
00:22:19.300 No, nobody thinks that Trump is too easy on China.
00:22:23.200 Nobody thinks that Biden is tougher on China than Trump.
00:22:26.640 So Biden hasn't won over any independent voters or fence sitting voters, right?
00:22:32.480 However, Biden has irritated the left, which is now accusing him of xenophobia for his ad.
00:22:40.740 They're saying, hey, don't be so tough on China, Joe.
00:22:43.380 That's racist.
00:22:44.040 That's bigoted.
00:22:44.640 That's xenophobic.
00:22:45.440 So he hasn't won over any new voters.
00:22:48.080 He hasn't encouraged his own voters.
00:22:52.140 If anything, he maybe has lost some who are, who are too liberal and who are already skeptical
00:22:56.200 of Joe Biden.
00:22:57.180 And then worst of all, he's confirmed everybody's fears that he's just passed his sell-by date
00:23:03.020 because he's campaigning like it's 1992 instead of 2020.
00:23:09.460 Compare that ad that Biden just put out to the ad that President Trump released just two
00:23:16.020 days ago about Joe Biden.
00:23:18.180 Oh, not another commercial.
00:23:20.220 The kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight
00:23:26.200 and then watch the hair come back up again.
00:23:29.940 They'd look at it.
00:23:30.720 So I learned about roaches.
00:23:31.980 I learned about kids jumping on my lap.
00:23:34.760 And I love kids jumping on my lap.
00:23:36.380 It's like these ads came from two different centuries because really they did.
00:23:48.320 The Joe Biden ad is a 20th century political ad.
00:23:52.200 Very direct, very ominous, pretty hacky, not particularly credible with the serious deep
00:24:00.380 voice man on it.
00:24:02.280 And the Trump ad is a 21st century ad.
00:24:04.960 It's funny.
00:24:06.780 It comes at the attack from an interesting angle, right?
00:24:12.180 It's not just Joe Biden's really old.
00:24:14.340 Joe Biden, old for the campaign trail, old for America.
00:24:18.520 It's not that direct ad.
00:24:20.520 It's memeing.
00:24:22.020 It's kind of using another TV commercial that's prominent in pop culture and then putting faces
00:24:28.320 on it in like a kind of weird way, like it looks like it was thrown together in two hours.
00:24:33.280 And then using the old commercial to look like they're making fun of Barack Obama for endorsing
00:24:40.420 Joe Biden.
00:24:41.060 Joe Biden, who is actually the target of the commercial, he's secondary to the whole thing.
00:24:45.840 That's how interesting it is.
00:24:50.240 That's how compelling it is.
00:24:51.300 That's how much it pulls you in.
00:24:53.460 And it's high energy.
00:24:55.220 It's not bum, bum, Donald Trump is bad and a liar.
00:24:59.800 It's DJ cool.
00:25:01.500 It's like rap music, hip hop at the end, right?
00:25:04.180 Jump, jump. 0.98
00:25:04.860 Like, uh, uh, really sad.
00:25:07.840 And I think indicative of the two campaigns because Joe Biden was supposed to stay at
00:25:13.040 home for the pandemic, get a refresher, recharge his batteries, hit the campaign trail again
00:25:17.620 next month.
00:25:18.720 And that hasn't happened.
00:25:19.940 He's gotten even more exhausted apparently.
00:25:22.020 Whereas president Trump, all energy, all the time, every single day in front of the press.
00:25:28.000 Uh, you know, it's evidence that when you work more, you work more, right?
00:25:31.480 Joe Biden's been out of national politics now for four years and he looks like it.
00:25:35.600 He's just not up to speed.
00:25:37.160 Whereas Donald Trump every single day, he seems to get more energy.
00:25:40.340 Now, regardless of the production quality of these two campaigns, it is amazing that
00:25:46.000 Joe Biden can air that ad and no one in the mainstream media will call him out for it,
00:25:52.000 right?
00:25:53.300 He can completely flip his position.
00:25:55.560 No one will care.
00:25:57.440 There is this hypocrisy, right?
00:25:59.220 This incredible hypocrisy on the whole issue.
00:26:02.000 The left says walls work in your home and they want to lock you behind those walls for
00:26:06.240 18 months.
00:26:07.060 But they say walls don't work at a national level and we got to flood the country with
00:26:10.760 illegal aliens.
00:26:11.540 You're seeing the same thing on jails, right?
00:26:13.760 They're saying we got to let all the criminals out of jails so that they don't get coronavirus.
00:26:17.780 But if you have the audacity to go to drive through church, we're going to arrest you.
00:26:22.060 If you go for a walk in the neighborhood, we're going to arrest you.
00:26:24.340 It's just exactly backwards.
00:26:25.840 It's just this perfect hypocrisy.
00:26:27.620 You're even seeing this, not just on the pandemic itself, but on the way that states are reopening.
00:26:33.340 When conservative states reopen, the left loses its mind and they've got blood on their hands.
00:26:38.060 When a liberal state reopens, it's a wonderful, measured, rational policy.
00:26:41.760 We'll get to that in one second.
00:26:42.980 Then we'll get to Mayor Bolshevik out of New York who is, he is reaching levels of stupidity 0.97
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00:27:59.060 A tale of two states and the mainstream media.
00:28:15.800 Two states are reopening.
00:28:17.040 Actually, some more states than that are reopening, but two I think are really indicative.
00:28:20.900 Georgia and Colorado.
00:28:23.000 Georgia is a conservative state with a Republican governor.
00:28:25.480 Colorado, increasingly a liberal state with a Democratic governor.
00:28:30.000 They are both reopening.
00:28:32.440 Okay.
00:28:33.180 How do you think the media are covering them?
00:28:35.080 Probably exactly the same and totally fairly, right?
00:28:37.660 Maybe not.
00:28:39.140 Georgia reopening.
00:28:40.380 If you just type this into Google News, Georgia reopening.
00:28:45.380 Georgia governor defends plan to reopen gyms, nail salons.
00:28:49.840 He's got to defend it because it's, it's obviously crazy.
00:28:53.500 It's obviously worth, worthy of being attacked.
00:28:57.060 New York Times, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina moved to reopen as hot spots emerge.
00:29:01.680 Why the, why the hell are they reopening?
00:29:03.600 The hot spots are emerging.
00:29:05.100 That's what the media told me.
00:29:07.520 Lindsey Graham warns that Georgia is opening too soon amid coronavirus.
00:29:11.600 Newsweek.
00:29:12.320 Georgia governor Kemp defends reopening of state.
00:29:15.720 New York Times, I am beyond disturbed internal dissent as states reopen despite virus.
00:29:23.380 That shows up right on the first page of the Georgia results.
00:29:26.140 Washington Post, 13 hours ago, Georgia leads the race to become America's number one death
00:29:33.760 destination.
00:29:36.560 Okay.
00:29:37.960 CNN, Georgia governor Brian Kemp faces resistance over move to reopen the economy.
00:29:45.200 TMZ, Atlanta's celebrity hairstylists and makeup artists, not cool with Georgia reopening.
00:29:51.180 Well, if the hairstylists are not cool with it, then I guess we got to stay shut down.
00:29:55.880 You know, it's funny too.
00:29:56.420 The last time that the mainstream media was attacking Georgia, it was attacking Georgia
00:30:00.200 because it would not allow people to kill their babies in Georgia.
00:30:04.820 Remember?
00:30:05.600 So they actually, certain liberal institutions, universities, they wouldn't allow you to travel
00:30:10.180 to Georgia because it was, uh, insistent that you not kill your baby there.
00:30:14.060 But now they're accusing it of being America's number one death, death destination.
00:30:18.340 Last time they were accusing it for not being enough of a death destination.
00:30:21.480 So that's Georgia.
00:30:22.740 How about Colorado?
00:30:23.760 Which is doing the same thing.
00:30:27.420 How Colorado will slowly reopen from its coronavirus stay at home order.
00:30:31.740 Oh, slowly.
00:30:32.560 It sounds measured.
00:30:33.960 Governor Polis outlines initial plan for lifting some restrictions, allowing certain businesses
00:30:38.400 to reopen.
00:30:39.240 Wow.
00:30:39.420 Makes total sense.
00:30:40.240 Colorado moving to safer at home status.
00:30:44.020 Well, that sounds like it's, he's taking it even more seriously.
00:30:47.520 Now, a safer at home status is a code word for reopening, but it's different than, than
00:30:53.800 stay at home status.
00:30:54.780 Like you have to stay at home.
00:30:55.720 This is safer at home.
00:30:56.600 So you'd be better to stay, but you can go out.
00:30:59.280 With Colorado's stay at home order successful, Polis outlines plans to reopen.
00:31:04.060 It was so successful that now we're good because we beat coronavirus.
00:31:08.000 Forget about all those hotspots re-emerging.
00:31:10.820 It's okay.
00:31:11.240 It's successful.
00:31:11.860 We're good.
00:31:13.000 Denver Post.
00:31:13.560 Colorado to shift from stay at home to safer at home.
00:31:16.060 As some businesses can begin reopening this week.
00:31:18.860 I mean, on and on and on.
00:31:21.920 This is what you can expect for the next, well, for the next forever, but certainly during this
00:31:27.180 pandemic.
00:31:28.060 Whenever Republicans do anything, it will be bad and they will have blood on their hands.
00:31:31.480 Whenever Democrats do the exact same thing, it will be wonderful and successful and saving
00:31:37.360 lives.
00:31:41.060 You've got to tune out the news on this.
00:31:43.340 The news.
00:31:43.580 It's not the news.
00:31:44.260 You've got to turn, tune out the mainstream media on this.
00:31:47.960 They are at this point just lying to you.
00:31:50.080 CNN's Chris Cuomo is actually lying to you.
00:31:52.460 We have proof positive of it and it's a, it's a hypocrisy of the sort.
00:31:57.900 You've never seen anything like it.
00:31:59.060 First, we got to check in though on North Korea.
00:32:01.980 You remember how Kim Jong-un was apparently gravely ill, possibly brain dead, possibly just dead
00:32:05.700 altogether.
00:32:07.760 Well, we still don't know.
00:32:08.980 No one's seen him for a long time.
00:32:10.280 Brett Baer of Fox News, one of the last good journalists left in America, asked President
00:32:15.560 Trump this question yesterday at the press briefing.
00:32:18.960 North Korea, what do you, what can you tell us about the status of Kim Jong-un?
00:32:22.920 Well, these are reports that came out and we don't know.
00:32:27.820 We don't know.
00:32:28.640 I've had a very good relationship with him.
00:32:30.700 I wouldn't, you know, I can only say this, I wish him well, because if he is in the kind
00:32:38.400 of condition that the reports say, that the news is saying, that would be a, that's a very
00:32:44.080 serious condition as you know.
00:32:45.360 But I wish him well.
00:32:47.120 We've had a good relationship.
00:32:49.260 I've said it and I've said it many times.
00:32:50.980 If somebody else were in this position, we would have been right now at war with North Korea.
00:32:55.780 And we're not at war and we're nowhere close to war with North Korea.
00:33:00.220 So I just have to say to Kim Jong-un, I wish him very, you know, good luck, good luck.
00:33:06.900 I mean, they came out with very, very serious medical reports.
00:33:09.460 Nobody's confirmed that.
00:33:10.600 It was CNN that came out.
00:33:13.840 So when CNN comes out with a report, I don't place too much credence in it.
00:33:18.600 I like that line at the end.
00:33:20.500 I mean, the North Korea update, there is no update.
00:33:22.420 We don't know where the guy is.
00:33:23.560 We don't know if he's alive or dead or not.
00:33:24.880 I just love that bit at the end.
00:33:27.500 Look, the reports from CNN, if CNN comes out with a, take it with a grain of salt.
00:33:32.380 And he's right.
00:33:34.980 He's not just right on it as a general point.
00:33:38.020 CNN just got caught in a lie that would have made Joseph Stalin blush.
00:33:46.000 In propaganda that would have made the most hardened leftist cynical liars blush.
00:33:55.180 And it was CNN using one of their main anchors to do it.
00:34:00.060 Chris Cuomo, whose brother is Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, maybe the most prominent
00:34:05.080 governor in the whole coronavirus epidemic.
00:34:06.660 I've actually got to get through three New York stooges right in a row.
00:34:10.260 One more ridiculous than the next.
00:34:12.660 Chris Cuomo got coronavirus and he kept doing his show.
00:34:16.520 So obviously it wasn't that bad.
00:34:17.900 And he was hunkering down in his basement.
00:34:21.720 So he said, and now after weeks and weeks in isolation, didn't see his kids, didn't see
00:34:27.160 his wife, didn't see anybody probably just getting gruel and slop put through like a common 0.98
00:34:32.080 prisoner, he was able to reemerge from his basement and he filmed the whole thing.
00:34:37.720 But something just seemed off.
00:34:39.520 It seemed a little bit artificial.
00:34:41.780 All right.
00:34:42.220 Here is the official reentry from the basement cleared by CDC.
00:34:48.460 A little sweaty.
00:34:49.240 Just worked out.
00:34:50.160 Happens.
00:34:51.720 This is what I've been dreaming of literally for weeks.
00:34:56.220 My wife, she was cleared by the CDC.
00:35:01.620 She doesn't have fever.
00:35:02.980 She doesn't have the symptoms anymore.
00:35:04.220 More than seven days from her quarantine.
00:35:06.860 We're still a little scared.
00:35:07.940 So I'll just give you one of these.
00:35:09.580 Just give you one of these.
00:35:11.260 Just give you one of these.
00:35:12.800 Just give you one of these.
00:35:14.220 Bella has, of course, taken the video.
00:35:16.900 This is the dream.
00:35:19.040 Just to be back up here doing normal things.
00:35:22.020 Did anything about that seem normal to you?
00:35:25.520 Did anything about that seem credible at all?
00:35:30.020 No.
00:35:30.620 It's weird.
00:35:31.620 Right?
00:35:32.180 Like he didn't, he hasn't seen his wife and kids in weeks and that's how he says hello
00:35:37.020 to them.
00:35:37.520 He hasn't been out of the basement ever.
00:35:39.280 Not once at all.
00:35:40.040 Not even after they went to bed.
00:35:42.000 That doesn't seem very credible.
00:35:44.300 He would film this moment.
00:35:45.740 It's just, it's just weird.
00:35:47.240 Right?
00:35:47.440 Also, Chris Cuomo is a journalist.
00:35:49.900 He's supposed to cover stories.
00:35:52.180 Right?
00:35:52.380 He's not supposed to be the story.
00:35:53.660 And yet he's making this whole segment about him.
00:35:55.840 What's this all about?
00:35:57.200 Well, it turns out that whole segment that you just saw is a lie.
00:36:02.000 It's a lie because Chris Cuomo has already left his basement probably multiple times.
00:36:06.000 We know he's left his basement because a week ago he was caught outside standing very close with his family by somebody who was on a bicycle who he ended up getting into an altercation with.
00:36:20.080 And they had words and they argued and, and we know that he violated the order that his own brother instituted.
00:36:28.380 So on Easter Sunday, 65 year old East Hampton man was riding his bike and saw Cuomo outside with his wife and another woman and three kids.
00:36:36.600 So one of the women approached this guy, whose name is David, according to the New York Post, and said, may I help you?
00:36:44.680 And David said, he asked Cuomo why Cuomo was not social distancing like he had been talking about doing on his own CNN show and like his brother mandated everybody in New York do.
00:36:55.040 And how do you think Cuomo responded?
00:36:56.440 You remember the last time somebody approached Cuomo and called him Fredo at a, at a bar in New York.
00:37:01.640 Cuomo just starts screaming at him, gets in his face, threatens to beat him up.
00:37:05.040 So Cuomo, typical Fredo fashion, goes out there and reportedly says, quote, who the hell are you?
00:37:10.200 I can do what I want.
00:37:12.040 And apparently he just ranted and he was screaming.
00:37:14.120 He said, I'll find out who you are.
00:37:16.160 And David, the 65 year old man, the senior citizen says, your brother's the coronavirus czar and you're not even following his rules, unnecessary travel.
00:37:24.760 And apparently, by the way, this guy, David's apparently a Democrat who voted for Cuomo.
00:37:28.580 And David says, he just began to boil more.
00:37:30.940 He said, this is not the end of this.
00:37:32.240 You'll deal with this later.
00:37:33.040 We will meet again.
00:37:34.100 If that's not a threat, I don't know what is.
00:37:35.680 Okay.
00:37:36.040 So maybe David's just making this up, right?
00:37:38.460 Could be.
00:37:39.480 Maybe David's just not telling the truth.
00:37:41.080 Except a week ago, Chris Cuomo himself admitted that this happened.
00:37:46.840 He talked about the altercation and he was apparently even more angry than, than he was in person.
00:37:52.240 And I don't want some jackass loser, fat tire biker, um, to be able to pull over, uh, and get in my face and in my space and talk bulls**t to me. 1.00
00:38:06.340 I don't want to hear it.
00:38:07.220 That's what this is all about.
00:38:08.880 Do you remember a week ago, this was a weird news story.
00:38:11.240 I didn't even cover it on this show because I, I don't really care that much about Chris Cuomo.
00:38:14.800 There was this headline, Chris Cuomo did a radio interview and he said he's upset about what he's doing and he doesn't like his job and he, he wants to quit and he doesn't like being the public eye.
00:38:23.140 And then he kind of walked it back the next day and he thought, what, what was that?
00:38:26.460 That was so weird.
00:38:29.120 Apparently this whole stunt, this walking out of the basement for the first time, it's all just to cover up this fact that Chris Cuomo was not abiding by the quarantine order or the social distancing.
00:38:39.400 He was not listening even to his own brother, who was the governor of New York.
00:38:42.920 And then he was going on CNN and lying about it to you and making himself the story.
00:38:46.440 And he continues to lie about it today.
00:38:48.520 Anyway, the people pushing the lockdowns don't believe in them.
00:38:55.080 Okay.
00:38:55.380 I have now been saying, and I've, I've been saying it for weeks that this doesn't seem very credible because, well, one, all the models turned out to be incorrect and overblown as we said they very likely would be.
00:39:07.740 There's no evidence that the lockdowns are doing anything at all, that they're saving any lives.
00:39:13.040 Okay.
00:39:14.880 We're told that the lockdowns are to flatten the curve.
00:39:16.940 I think people don't know what flatten the curve means.
00:39:19.120 Flatten the curve does not mean save lives necessarily.
00:39:21.880 Flatten the curve means reduce the peak number of cases to below the hospital capacity, right?
00:39:30.200 Because if you go above the hospital capacity, then people could die because there aren't, just aren't enough beds, there aren't enough doctors.
00:39:35.020 If you push it below the hospital capacity, you're good.
00:39:39.200 Now, people are still going to die, but there's no way to control at that point.
00:39:43.460 There's no way to reduce how many people will die because flattening the curve doesn't reduce the number of infections, doesn't reduce the number of people absent and hospital overwhelming that will die from the coronavirus.
00:39:55.960 It just spreads it out.
00:39:57.120 It just makes it last a little bit longer.
00:39:59.440 The only way that flattening the curve could reduce the number of deaths is if the hospitals are overrun, which isn't happening anywhere, including in New York, or if we can get a vaccine quickly, which we can't.
00:40:08.300 We don't have a vaccine.
00:40:09.420 And the experts are saying it's going to take 18 months.
00:40:11.240 But the virus is already spreading so fast, that won't matter.
00:40:15.800 The people who are going to get it are going to get it before the vaccine comes out.
00:40:18.880 So the lockdowns are not saving any lives if those things are true, which they appear to be.
00:40:24.960 However, we know the lockdowns are costing people's lives because the unemployment is ticking up.
00:40:29.500 That increases suicides, that increases drug overdoses, other issues as well, which we've talked about on this show.
00:40:34.400 The people pushing the lockdowns, this is like the cherry on top of the sundae to argue against the lockdowns, the people pushing them, don't believe in them.
00:40:46.200 They're willing to lie about them on television like hypocrites, like Chris Cuomo.
00:40:49.880 But even Chris Cuomo, Andy Cuomo's own brother, doesn't believe in them.
00:40:54.020 And yet they expect us to.
00:40:56.260 Because there are different rules.
00:40:57.220 There's a different set of rules for American citizens, regular old Americans, and media people, and politicians, and immigrants.
00:41:04.700 And everybody else other than you.
00:41:06.920 And it's BS and we should push back on it.
00:41:08.840 Bill de Blasio, great example.
00:41:10.120 Mayor of New York, the second New York stooge.
00:41:12.540 Bill de Blasio is from day one violating the lockdown orders.
00:41:18.060 He says everyone's got a lockdown and then he keeps going to the gym.
00:41:21.460 Remember the lady in Chicago, mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, said everyone's got a lockdown, don't get any haircuts. 0.63
00:41:26.060 And then she gets a haircut.
00:41:27.280 Different set of rules for her. 0.99
00:41:28.240 So now de Blasio, he puts his foot in his mouth again.
00:41:30.940 He says when we reopen, the first thing we're going to do, the moment that we can stop social distancing is we're going to have a ticker tape parade and bring out millions and millions of Americans to stand really, really close to one another.
00:41:45.460 Here he is.
00:41:45.820 The day is coming when this city will fight our way back, when this city will get back to normal.
00:41:55.180 The day is coming when we will overcome this disease.
00:41:58.340 The day is coming when I'm going to be able to tell you we can gather again.
00:42:02.880 The day is coming when I'll be able to tell you, in fact, we will be having the concerts and the street fairs and the parades again.
00:42:11.220 But I want to guarantee you one thing, that when that day comes, that we can restart the vibrant, beautiful life of this city again.
00:42:20.640 The first thing we will do is we will have a ticker tape parade down the canyon of heroes for our health care workers and our first responders.
00:42:30.660 We will honor those who saved us.
00:42:35.280 The first thing we will do before we think about anything else is we will take a time, as only New York City can do, to throw the biggest, best parade to honor these heroes.
00:42:48.300 The first thing we will do when we think we've sort of got this highly contagious virus under control is hold a citywide orgy.
00:42:57.220 We have to hold a citywide orgy.
00:42:59.700 I mean, young and old, men and women and everything in between.
00:43:03.240 We're going to do that.
00:43:03.760 That's what New Yorkers do.
00:43:05.700 The moment that we think we've got this contagion under control, we're all just going to rub up on each other really, really close.
00:43:14.580 It's kind of too hot, too cold here, Mayor de Blasio.
00:43:17.180 How about just reopening some businesses and getting a little bit back to normal and still being careful?
00:43:23.440 And maybe don't flood the country or the city, rather, with like 12 million people in the streets all at once.
00:43:28.420 OK, maybe just start with like 12 people, OK, or 1,200, even 12,000.
00:43:33.020 But, you know, you don't need to go zero to 60 immediately.
00:43:36.320 Another, my third New York stooge, AOC, just tweeted out something.
00:43:41.760 It was an attack on Tucker Carlson, but she, AOC doesn't realize that two things can be true at once.
00:43:48.820 So Tucker has, you know, criticized her just like other people on the right have criticized her.
00:43:53.340 And they've said, look, she's this bartender who doesn't know a whole lot about legislation and the country would be better off without her. 1.00
00:43:59.680 And also she's lying about her upbringing.
00:44:01.900 She actually is more privileged than she says she is.
00:44:03.600 So AOC is really upset about this.
00:44:05.960 She tweets out, am I just a bartender who should go back to making drinks without health insurance?
00:44:10.280 Or am I secretly a deceitful child of privilege because I'm an heiress of the Swanson frozen food empire?
00:44:16.620 Oh, wait, sorry, that's Tucker Carlson.
00:44:18.900 OK, so she's getting this dig in at Tucker.
00:44:22.060 But she's saying, which is it?
00:44:23.100 Am I just a bartender who should go back to making drinks?
00:44:26.180 Or am I a secret child of privilege?
00:44:30.600 Both.
00:44:31.140 She's both.
00:44:32.500 She is both.
00:44:33.280 I know that she pretends like she's not, but she is.
00:44:36.620 She is privileged.
00:44:38.940 She grew up in a very, very wealthy town.
00:44:42.260 The town actually coincidentally next to the town I grew up in at exactly the same time, except her town is much wealthier.
00:44:48.400 Very, very wealthy town in a very, very wealthy county, one of the richest counties in the country.
00:44:53.000 And then she attended a very expensive private school, Boston University.
00:44:58.180 Didn't do her much good, but I'm sure she paid a lot of money for it.
00:45:00.640 That is privilege.
00:45:03.600 Even if she got a scholarship, which I don't think she did, but even if she did, right, she still obviously is a product of this privilege.
00:45:11.760 Then after college, she became a bartender and the country would be better off if she went back to mixing drinks. 0.98
00:45:17.920 Those things are both true. 0.57
00:45:18.900 She's saying, she's saying, how could I be a child of privilege if I had a modest profession after college?
00:45:26.820 I don't know.
00:45:27.460 I don't know why you chose the jobs you chose.
00:45:30.320 Being a bartender is a perfectly fine thing.
00:45:32.120 I'm friends with a lot of my bartenders.
00:45:34.200 You can be both things at once.
00:45:36.600 You can be a rich kid or a privileged kid or come from a rich place, right?
00:45:41.840 Those are different things, but the effect of it is kind of the same.
00:45:44.780 It's privilege.
00:45:46.500 And you can be a bartender.
00:45:47.940 So that's all true.
00:45:48.920 She realized, I think, the problem here.
00:45:50.500 And then she doubled down. 0.53
00:45:51.160 She says, also, can we talk about how racist and classist the presumption is that when people say they're from the Bronx,
00:45:57.120 folks like Tucker, equate that with assuming all the worst things about our upbringing,
00:46:01.360 our lives don't have to match some chicken air's idea of a struggle to be validated.
00:46:07.140 AOC is saying that it's wrong to equate growing up in the Bronx with a tough upbringing.
00:46:14.560 She's the one doing that. 0.66
00:46:16.080 That's why she's pretending that she grew up in the Bronx is because she wants it to seem like she had a tougher upbringing than she actually did.
00:46:21.800 And by the way, she didn't grow up in the Bronx.
00:46:23.700 I bet you I've spent much more time in the Bronx than she has.
00:46:27.780 It's because her only argument is, well, on the weekends, she would occasionally go visit family in the Bronx.
00:46:32.940 Yeah, me too, man.
00:46:34.000 OK, we all we all went to the Bronx on the weekends.
00:46:36.520 That's where you buy the good superset and the prosciutto.
00:46:38.240 OK, so it's all so stunningly hypocritical and off note.
00:46:44.080 It is possible that AOC can have the worst of all things.
00:46:48.260 She can have all of that that unearned privilege. 0.96
00:46:51.320 Right.
00:46:51.700 Which is so terrible, according to the left.
00:46:53.240 And she can still not know very much of anything and be bad for the country.
00:46:57.500 Those two things can be true at once.
00:46:59.100 Before we go, just want to remind you it's Earth Day and it's the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.
00:47:05.620 And to commemorate this event, we should remind you that one of the Earth Day founders is a lunatic murderer who killed and composted his girlfriend.
00:47:15.480 That guy's name is Ira Einhorn.
00:47:17.300 He was a master of ceremonies at the first Earth Day celebration in Philadelphia in 1970, April 22nd.
00:47:26.680 Seven years after that event, his girlfriend dumped him because he was a weird hippie loser. 0.98
00:47:31.420 And so he when she came over to his house to get her stuff, he murdered her and then stuffed her in a trunk and composted her because he did take his environmentalism very seriously.
00:47:39.960 He then, like so many leftists before and after, got away with his crime for at least some time.
00:47:47.280 The next year after he murdered his girlfriend, Harvard gave him a lecturing position, hired him to teach at the Institute of Politics.
00:47:55.320 Because they love those left-wing radicals there, right?
00:47:57.280 They welcomed him with open arms.
00:47:58.920 You can read about it in the Harvard Crimson newspaper.
00:48:01.420 Finally, they caught him because there was this weird red-brown liquid that was leaking from the ceiling of the apartment underneath his.
00:48:07.820 Then the co-founder of Earth Day jumped bail, fled the country for 17 years.
00:48:12.660 Finally, he was extradited and put on trial here.
00:48:15.340 The left always tries to call this fake news.
00:48:17.600 So the Earth Day founders and the mainstream media, they try to say, this guy, Ira Einhorn, had no relationship to Earth Day.
00:48:23.780 He was not a co-founder.
00:48:25.400 But the photos don't lie.
00:48:26.860 He was.
00:48:27.700 He portrayed himself as a co-founder at the time.
00:48:30.060 And afterward, history books about it have portrayed him as a co-founder and described him that way.
00:48:34.800 There were photos from the event, with all the crowds in front of him, of him speaking at the lectern, at the microphone.
00:48:41.740 He obviously was very involved in the planning of the first Earth Day.
00:48:46.220 And that is an uncomfortable truth because he, like so many environmentalists, was an absolute nut.
00:48:54.260 And they're trying to distance themselves from that nuttiness.
00:48:57.940 But it's just not possible because we've got the photographs.
00:49:01.900 We've got the evidence.
00:49:02.980 We keep talking about it.
00:49:04.100 Earth Day was crazy then.
00:49:05.460 It remains crazy today.
00:49:06.980 It's a bizarre, pantheistic bacchanal whose predictions have, basically none of them have come true.
00:49:15.900 And that's why people are ignoring it 50 years later.
00:49:18.400 And probably we should continue to ignore it as well.
00:49:21.340 But don't forget the history because it's pretty weird and creepy.
00:49:23.520 All right.
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