Ep. 703 - Talent On Loan From God
Summary
Rush Limbaugh was a conservative icon. He was one of the most influential conservative talk radio hosts of all time. On the morning of Ash Wednesday, February 5th, 2011, Rush's life was forever changed when he passed away at the age of 64.
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Back in October, Rush Limbaugh opened up about his faith.
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I mentioned at the outset of this, the first day I told you,
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that I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
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And that's why I'm able to remain fully committed
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to the idea that what is supposed to happen will happen when it's meant to.
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Rush was convinced that what is supposed to happen
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And as always, with impeccable timing, ever the showman, probably with an assist from the big guy
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upstairs, you would say, Rush Limbaugh died on Ash Wednesday, the very day that we are told to remember,
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remember man that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return.
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Rush Limbaugh, a special providence in a death on Ash Wednesday.
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Now we can all pray that Rush is enjoying the greatest show imaginable before the very face of God.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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It is not possible to overstate Rush's influence.
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And what you're going to hear over the next few days,
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as everyone is processing their grief, let me rephrase that.
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As conservatives are processing their grief over the death of Rush
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and as left-wingers are doing quite the opposite.
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You're going to hear that Rush Limbaugh was so important.
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That Rush Limbaugh gave conservatives a voice when they were losing their voice.
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That Rush Limbaugh is responsible, really, for all of the alternative conservative media
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that I'm engaging in right now, not just on radio, but in podcast, Daily Wire,
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What Rush does not get enough credit for, he gets some credit for it,
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is that Rush Limbaugh was a prime representative,
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the, probably, representative, of the conservative movement,
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talking about what it means to be a conservative,
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what it means to be a left-winger in American politics,
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you know, with respect to the other side of politics.
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Obviously, I'm coming at this thing from the right of Attila the Hun,
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but we're trying to figure out what exactly does this mean?
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And now you're going to see a lot of praise for Rush.
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But for much of his career, the establishment right
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Now, you always had the people that I consider to be the real conservative leaders,
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up to and including people like William F. Buckley Jr.,
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many other people, loved Rush, would, you know, bring Rush into their circles,
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But a lot of the very fancy conservatives at the very fancy think tanks
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they felt Rush was a little beneath them, I sometimes think.
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You know, I'm not going to go into naming names,
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but you had people who were a little more establishment,
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really did not want to associate with Rush very much.
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And yet, wise people of all different stripes, all colors, all sorts,
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wise people of all those sorts, in my experience,
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have really, truly appreciated and admired Rush Limbaugh.
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I'm talking about your average Joe on the street.
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I'm talking about the whole gamut of human experience.
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I've truly, I've talked to people who have really no better than like a 9th or 10th grade education
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I've talked to people who have multiple advanced degrees, PhDs, that sort of thing,
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There was no better, forget just broadcaster, that's true too,
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but there was no better political analyst and commentator in his entire era than Rush Limbaugh.
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You know, when we moved to Nashville, whatever it was, a few months ago,
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but then I got a phone call from the EIB network asking if I would like to fill in for the Rush Limbaugh show.
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Nothing could have possibly gotten me to delay my moving to Nashville
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The whole Daily Wire company is moving to Nashville.
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There was one thing that could have gotten me to stay in LA
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so that I could go to the Rush Limbaugh studio and fill in.
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That, of course, was sitting behind the golden EIB microphone.
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I've publicly thanked Rush and the whole EIB team many times for that honor.
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And I considered it such an honor, not just because Rush Limbaugh was the biggest deal in all of broadcasting,
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but because I so respected the man and his understanding of politics and his role in American politics.
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I think there are going to be a lot of establishment types who are going to try to sideline what Rush stood for,
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The New York Times understood that Rush Limbaugh, for all intents and purposes, was the conservative movement.
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With all the jokes and all the sort of vision, all of the sort of grander vision,
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all the way up to his faith that we were discussing, all the way down.
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I'm so sorry that he's gone, but I'm so pleased that if he had to go, he would go on Ash Wednesday.
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I had a priest once in Los Angeles who was ill and we knew he wasn't going to be around forever.
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And he prayed that he would die on Ash Wednesday, that there was this sort of poetic, real beauty to dying on Ash Wednesday,
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this day when we are to contemplate our mortality.
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And Rush clearly did that, not just because he got sick, but he was thinking about his faith for a long time.
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And he faced it with such courage because I think he had a vision of the life beyond.
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New York Times, not quite as effusive in their praise of Rush Limbaugh.
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I was hesitating even to read the negative comments about Rush.
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But I just, you know, from a distance, I just have this sort of suspicion that he might have gotten a kick out of it.
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You can tell a man by his enemies and Rush had all the right enemies.
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New York Times headline, Rush Limbaugh dies at 70.
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Turned talk radio into a right-wing attack machine.
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Just a few choice quotes from the New York Times obit.
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With a following of 15 million and a divisive style of mockery, grievance, and denigrating language,
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he was a force in reshaping American conservatism.
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The most popular radio host in America, New York Times, runs a hit piece as their obit.
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New York Times, he became a singular figure in the American media, fomenting mistrust, grievances,
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and even hatred on the right for Americans who did not share his or his followers' views.
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Nobody in this country has done more to foment distrust and disdain for the American left than the New York Times.
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The lies, the distortions, the libel, that was all the times.
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He pushed baseless claims and toxic rumors long before Twitter and Reddit became havens for such disinformation.
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Because what they're saying is, look, you all now were talking about how terrible Reddit is and all social media,
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and we've got to regulate it and kick all the conservatives off of it.
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And that's, they're pretending in a way that this is a unique evil.
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Actually, New York Times is after a new app right now.
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But they're kind of showing their hand a little bit here because they're saying, no, it's not just new.
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It's not just the neo-Nazis and the whatever silly terms they want to call conservatives today.
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The same people who were trying to shut up conservatives 40 years ago trying to do the same thing now,
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And then this paragraph was really something else.
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To detractors, he was a sanctimonious charlatan, the most dangerous man in America, a label he co-opted.
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And some critics insisted that he had no real political power,
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only an intimidating, self-aggrandizing presence that swayed an aging ultra-right fringe
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whose numbers, while impressive, were not considered great enough to affect the outcome of national elections.
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But then they don't say anything about his admirers.
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So they say, you know, to his detractors, he was this.
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Ordinarily, if you were to use that phrase, you would say, and to his admirers, no, New York Times won't even do that.
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I mean, they go on, they attack his appearance, they attack all sorts of things.
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If I could ever earn the scorn from these derelicts and degenerates of the New York Times that Rush Limbaugh earned,
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oh, my goodness gracious, I would feel that I had really accomplished something.
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I would be, that is something really to be proud of.
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I know pride, deadly sin, queen of all sins, don't want to think about that sort of thing.
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But I would take great comfort if I were Rush Limbaugh and if I were Rush's family
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in the unmitigated disdain, not even with a pretense of trying to be polite or civilized about it,
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just the vicious way that the left is going after him right now, that's a badge of honor.
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The New York Times is not the only outlet celebrating the death of Rush Limbaugh.
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We're hearing this from all sorts of blue check marks all over Twitter in all various fields.
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And it is proven true again and again, the more and more of these that you read,
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My absolute favorite one is from somebody named Charlotte Clymer.
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Charlotte Clymer is an individual who has a lot of followers on social media and makes a big show on these platforms.
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Rush Limbaugh was a coward and white supremacist.
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He aggressively and cynically exploited divisions in our country by weaponizing hatred and bigotry for his own personal gain.
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If Rush Limbaugh deserves credit for anything, it is his pioneering work in spreading disinformation
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and directly enabling our nation's current state of vast distrust of experts
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and spurning of good faith in the public discourse.
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Now, what you need to know to really appreciate this attack on Rush Limbaugh,
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this attack that Rush was known for spreading disinformation,
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for taking away people's trust in experts, for spurning good faith discourse,
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Charlotte Clymer is a man who pretends to be a woman.
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And, moreover, he is the communications director for the pro-abortion group Catholics for Choice,
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It is not permissible to be a Catholic and support abortion.
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Catholics for abortion is not, it is a contradiction.
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But, he, a man whose entire public persona is deception, is a lie,
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And, you know, there are many experts out there who say that men can be women and women can be men.
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There are many experts out there who say that Catholics can support abortion,
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can disregard the Church's 2,000-year teaching on this issue.
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If those are the experts, then I'm glad we are not trusting those experts.
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Spurning of good faith in public discourse, says someone, pushing lies and deception.
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Beyond Mr. Clymer, we have Cameron Caskey, who is sort of the lesser known of the David Hogg people, you know, of the young pro-gun control people.
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Rush Limbaugh has passed on, but worry not, his memory lives on through bigots everywhere.
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It's not because he's particularly well-known, but because I think he's actually revealing something about these people who are attacking Rush.
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Just like the attacks on Trump were not really about Trump, the stomping, you know, dancing on Rush's grave is not really about Rush.
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It's about the people that Rush spoke to, and what that means is it's about the conservative movement.
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Rush Limbaugh had an audience of, I think, 25 million, something like that.
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This fellow, Cam Caskey, says that all those people are bigots.
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This gets to what we've been hearing since the election.
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75 million Americans, they don't just disagree with you.
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They need to be censored, silenced, and ostracized from society.
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There are going to be some squishes who call themselves conservatives, but not that kind of conservative.
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You know, I'm a really serious, intellectual, elite, reasonable conservative.
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I'm not like those Rush Limbaugh conservatives.
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I don't think that all their sucking up and bootlicking to the left is going to keep them out of the gulags,
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but neither here nor there, I'm not really concerned about how those people live their lives.
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It's really for the rest of the conservatives out there to remember, this is all about you.
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He's taking some of the brunt of it now, but this is about you.
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Beyond these sort of silly people mouthing off on Twitter, you get another silly person mouthing off on Twitter,
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No relation, I hope, I don't think so, to my colleague, Ben.
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He says, I wouldn't say I was happy that Rush Limbaugh died.
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That's not just some edgy tweeter, you know, some guy with a TV show or a podcast or a radio show or something.
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No, that's a law professor at what is considered to be the most prestigious law school in the entire country,
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First of all, that I was euphoric that a man died.
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Second of all, that I was euphoric that a countryman, a fellow countryman died.
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And third of all, he was euphoric because of what?
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It's not because of the cut of Rush's jib, not because of his beard, not because of the polo shirts he wore.
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What does Scott Shapiro think about his students?
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What does Scott Shapiro, what do so many of these guys think about all the rest of us?
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Trump and Rush, you know, in many ways very different.
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They approached politics from a different angle.
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You know, Rush's approach to politics was probably more systematic.
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It was more rooted in political philosophy, more rooted in political history.
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But in many ways, these guys were kindred spirits.
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And he made his first appearance on a network show since he left the White House to call in to a TV network and pay tribute to Rush.
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Three or four days ago, I'd call him just to find out, you know, his his fight was very, very courageous.
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And, you know, from diagnosis on, it was just something that was not going to be beaten.
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And he is married to an incredible woman, Catherine, who really every time I spoke to him, he he would tell me how great she was.
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I mean, he, in theory, could have been gone four months ago, really.
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A really touching tribute from President Trump.
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You know, President Trump is sort of known for his off the cuff remarks.
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And sometimes he says things that are not totally politic.
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I remember when he was posthumously awarding, I guess it was the Medal of Freedom to Antonin Scalia.
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You know, he clearly didn't know terribly much about Scalia.
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So he's kind of reading it in the moment, he says, and Scalia is survived by his wife and his 10 kids.
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But probably not appropriate if you're eulogizing somebody or something like that.
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I'm really pleased that the former president did that, called in to pay tribute to him.
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He gave him such a wonderful honor at the State of the Union when he awarded Rush the Medal of Freedom in that room.
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And I'm so glad he did because it drove the Democrats crazy.
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That's a great use of the term or of the Medal of Freedom.
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Guys like Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh are much, much, much more representative of true conservatism, whatever you want to call that.
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It's a term that's often invoked by liberal rats like the Lincoln Project.
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You know, they say, we're the true conservatives.
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But there is a sort of truer or deeper, more substantive conservatism in America.
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And Trump and Rush are much more representative of that than basically all of the think tankers and the talkers and the politicians who call themselves right-wing put together.
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And the way you can tell is if you look at the way that the left goes after them.
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Not even in just one isolated moment because one or two things, but year after year as their influence grows and grows, they attack them and they attack them and they attack them.
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When the golden EIB microphone goes silent, as it has, it's, you know, I suspect it's not so sad for Rush.
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I suspect he's at his eternal reward and we can pray that that's the case.
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Very sad for those of us who will miss him because it's not just his voice that is disappearing from the country.
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You know, they really never managed or they tried so many times.
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We're not just commenting on the culture anymore or criticizing the culture anymore.
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but strange things have happened in 2020 and 2021.
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That's going to be February 23rd for the State of the Union.
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The silencing of the golden EIB microphone, the Rush Limbaugh show,
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is going to cause an increase in the censorship regime that was already going on.
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Because Rush spoke for a lot of people who did not have the ability to speak on a large platform for themselves.
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The New York Times is already expressing this desire of the left-wing establishment to shut up ordinary people.
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New York Times has a headline about this new app, Clubhouse.
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You basically join into these different groups, and it's audio-based.
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So on Twitter, you know, everyone says really mean things because they're all behind a computer screen.
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You know, it's sort of an alienating process when you're communicating only through words.
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You don't have to hear the inflection in someone's voice.
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I find people aren't that mean on Clubhouse because it's audio-based.
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However, it would appear that this free-flowing conversation that's going on on Clubhouse is too much for the left to handle.
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New York Times tweets out, quote, unfettered conversations are taking place on Clubhouse,
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an invitation-only app that lets people gather in audio chat rooms.
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The app has exploded in popularity despite grappling with concerns over harassment, misinformation, and privacy.
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Sounds like the concerns of the New York Times.
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They're worried about unfettered conversations.
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Think about the state of American journalism, specifically of American liberal journalism.
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I actually do think some things are out of bounds.
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I think things like fraud, obscenity, maybe we should have some regulations on those.
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I am not, as has become a sort of very popular phrase in the last, I don't know, three or four years, a free speech absolutist.
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I'm an absolutist for free speech in the American tradition, and those are different things.
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I support the American tradition of free speech, which I think is fabulous.
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But I don't believe there's any such thing as totally absolute free speech.
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This is a finite world, and we're not going to permit things like fraud, like threats, like, you know, so on and so forth.
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But the liberals have always said, we're for free speech.
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They had the free speech movement at Berkeley to destroy all the old social norms in this country.
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They insist that burning the American flag is absolutely 100% protected free speech, no matter what the American legal tradition said before.
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We're the ones who are supposed to tell you what you're allowed to say.
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They obviously tried to shut down Donald Trump.
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You're not allowed to say those sorts of things.
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You're only allowed to say what we want you to say and do what we want you to do.
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Another person, another liberal elite that typifies this point of view, Bill Gates.
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Now, I'm not one for Bill Gates' conspiracy theories.
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You know, there have been a lot of Bill Gates' conspiracy theories.
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For instance, some people say that Bill Gates wants to kill babies in Africa.
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I'm one for listening to what Bill Gates says, and then when I hear his own words, I believe him when he describes his own views.
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One goal that he describes, of course, is that he wants to kill babies in Africa.
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He wants to curb the growth, specifically, of Africa and the third world.
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But he's very concerned about overpopulation, which is a discredited and preposterous and anti-human and wicked sort of concept to be worried about.
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He talks about that openly, as do many liberal elites.
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I don't like him because I think his moral vision is wrong and perverse.
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I hope that he changes his mind, repents, that sort of thing.
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But as of now, this guy is a perfect encapsulation of the elite liberal view.
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And one of those very terrible things, you might think it's trivial, but I actually don't think it is.
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I know this sounds like a Bill Gates conspiracy theory.
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I don't think the poorest 80 countries will be eating synthetic beef.
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I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef.
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So he's saying, yeah, poor countries, they're not going to be able to afford synthetic beef.
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But rich countries can, meaning fake meat that's grown in a lab somewhere.
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And not only can they do that, but they should do that.
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Because Bill Gates, while he's a sales genius and was able to sell a lot of computers in the 90s, is a moral idiot.
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I mean, there's no reason to believe that Bill Gates has any sort of sophisticated understanding of philosophy, ethics, morality, theology.
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But because he's really rich and full of himself, he believes that he is capable of pontificating on these sorts of subjects that he knows nothing about.
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Well, because, I'm just guessing here, because, you know, it's bad to kill the animals.
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And because, you know, the methane from the cows, it's going to cause global warming.
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Is it going to kill us before global cooling kills us in the 1970s?
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Is it going to kill us before the essentially moderate weather that's happened since the late 1990s?
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That's why we've got to switch to synthetic beef.
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And Bill Gates adds, quote, you can get used to the taste difference.
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And the claim is, they're going to make it taste even better over time.
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The fake meat's going to taste better over time.
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Now, you'll notice, he's using these terms here, you know, they should do this, they should do that.
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But more than he uses those kinds of terms, he uses the terms of inevitability.
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Because for Bill Gates, like all progressives, he believes that he understands the science of history, the science of politics, and it's going to move in his direction.
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And if you don't like that, well, that's too bad.
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Oh, you've got your little constitution, your little self-government?
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Well, too bad, buddy, because I know the way the future is going to move, and it's going to take your hamburger away.
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Bill Gates expresses the same view on jobs and energy.
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You know, the left-wingers, like Bill Gates and other liberal elites, have decided that they're going to take away jobs in the energy sector.
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Joe Biden promised he wouldn't do it, but at other times he promised he would do it.
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We all knew he was going to do it, and now he's done it.
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He's taken away jobs in the fossil fuel industry, for instance.
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So Bill Gates was on a TV show, and he was asked, hey, what do you say to the millions of people who are losing their jobs in the energy industry?
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What happens to the 2.8 million Americans that are working in the oil and gas industry?
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This is a 30-year transition, and there's lots of clean jobs that can be created in those same locations.
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There may be some places there's dislocation, and so as we budget, we have to think about those affected communities,
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as well as funding the innovation and deployment.
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Who is we as we decide how we're going to take away millions of jobs, and we decide how?
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Does Bill think he's speaking for the American people?
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The American people don't want to take away millions of energy jobs.
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That's why Joe Biden had to lie to them before the election and say, I'm not going to go after fracking.
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Which, those of us who had been listening for a while, we all knew that.
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But the fact that he lied shows that's not popular.
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We, I think, are these self-appointed benevolent bettors, the liberal elites, who are going to usher in the new age,
00:36:26.420
Yes, well, there's going to be some displacement.
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But, well, you know, but it's a 30-year transition.
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I didn't sign up for any 30-year transition, and I didn't appoint Bill freaking Gates to utterly transform the American energy sector over 30 years.
00:36:53.100
And when I talk about the blob or the liberal elite, I'm talking about the dominant regime that, I guess, right now expresses itself through the elected politicians,
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It expresses itself through the administrative state, the bureaucracy.
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It expresses itself through the universities, through technology, and, generally speaking, with some exceptions, through the richest Americans.
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Do you remember how the Republicans are supposed to be the fat cat party of the billionaires?
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Well, how come most of the richest people in America are Democrats?
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No, not really, because the liberal regime is the dominant regime.
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By the standard of the Constitution, not normal.
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By the standard of at least much of American history, not normal.
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By the standard of what we tell ourselves about the way our society works and our government works, not normal.
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But this is the new normal, according to many left-wingers.
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Actually, Jen Psaki, our favorite current White House press secretary, Jen Psaki admitted this.
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She said, you know, 15 days to slow the spread.
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We're getting on a year now, and there's no end in sight to these lockdowns and the masks and all this crazy nonsense.
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This is the question, as I'm sure is the case for all of you, that every neighbor, every friend, every family member asks, at least me in the street when I'm walking my dog in the morning.
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We want to be straight with the American public, though.
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It is, we are not in a place where we can predict exactly when everybody will feel normal again.
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One is, even though we will have enough doses for every person in this country, as you all know, because we've talked about it in here, vaccine hesitancy remains a challenge.
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We need to ensure that everybody who can get a dose is getting a dose.
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We will also need to be still taking social distancing measures.
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So, you know, there is, of course, is an understandable question.
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And I think the president wants things to return to normal, as we all do.
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But we don't know at this point what that timeline is going to look like.
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The president does not want us to return to normal, because if he did, he would just do it, because he has political power, because we theoretically have self-government and we theoretically elected this guy president.
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So, if he wanted to, he would, but he isn't, because he doesn't.
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We do not need to social distance, an Orwellian term, if ever there was one, a contradiction in terms.
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We do not need to do any of this silly nonsense.
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We've had epidemics before, many harsher epidemics than the coronavirus.
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We haven't reordered society in the way that these psychos are reordering.
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No, we can just stop listening to the exalted Dr. Fauci, peace be upon him, the world leader, you know.
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We can just stop listening to all of these self-appointed elites in all the dominant regime.
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Unfortunately, they have a lot of power right now.
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They have a lot of way of lording that over us.
00:40:06.780
Jen Psaki did this thing that is so frustrating.
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You've probably experienced this if you want someone to apologize to you, and the person, they know they should apologize, but they can't quite bring themselves to do it.
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So, for instance, they'll come to you and they'll say, hey, I'm sorry if you feel offended.
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So, apologize for what you did or don't apologize for what you did.
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The question is, when can Americans expect to get back to normal?
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That seems like that was back in the, I don't know, in the Roosevelt administration at this point.
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And she says, well, you know, we just don't know when people can feel normal again.
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I don't need you to worry about how I'm going to feel.
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Muzzling yourself with filthy cloth all the time and not being able to see people's smiling faces
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and having to, and not be able to understand what people are saying.
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It's increasingly becoming normal, I'm sorry to say.
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Not being able to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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It's increasingly becoming normal because that's what the liberal regime wants.
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And the answer, Jen Psaki, she's getting better at evading questions.
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When are we going to get back to that normal, the normal that we all consider to be normal?
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We will never get back to that if the dominant liberal regime is liberal elites in all various industries, up to and including Joe Biden.
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I don't want you to think that I am hyperbolic here when I say that the current rules that we're living under, the masks and the social distancing, whatever that means, that this is a grave threat to our way of life.
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Or whatever other creepy contradictions they want to make us all spout.
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Unfortunately, there was a hidden camera in some restaurant, some bar, of an L.A. health inspector.
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L.A., one of the worst-run cities for coronavirus, and also, they're not just the worst run in terms of the spread of the virus, but they're also the worst run in terms of the psychos who are enforcing rules there.
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So, this L.A. health inspector shows up, shuts down this bar, and then, as she's doing it, she does a little dance.
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You can see through the security footage, she's dancing around, you know, moving her hips, shaking around.
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Now, I don't want to read too much into just this one video clip.
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It's pretty damning stuff, but maybe, I don't know, I don't know what was going on in her head.
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Maybe she was just, maybe she's just a nut, and she just has to spontaneously start dancing in public.
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If so, you know, not the best bedside manner for a regulator who's throwing people out of work.
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In many ways, what political correctness is, what wokeness, or, you know, whatever term you want, is, is a new set of norms.
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Actually, I explore this topic in my upcoming book, which you can pre-order right now, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
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What political correctness does is replaces the old moral norms with new norms of speech.
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So, you're replacing the standards, and it's also, you're taking the focus from actions to words.
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What, what this woman did to go shut down this business, that was wrong of her to do, whether she danced or not.
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And, I don't think any of us need to be reminded, that woman gets her paycheck, regardless.
00:44:58.780
This woman goes in, shuts down a place of business, puts workers out of their job, probably puts the owner, you know, if this goes on long enough, out of his job.
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And, she gets to dance on back down the street, back to her office.
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And, I'm not talking big business, which is, in many ways, not so different from big government.
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Conservatives are finally beginning to wake up to that reality.
00:45:30.640
What is Joe Biden doing for these small businesses?
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Poor Jen Psaki, Biden's spokesman, doesn't have much of an answer.
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What is President Biden doing for my small business?
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First and foremost, he nominated a woman to lead the Small Business Administration.
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It's sort of like you laugh or you cry with this sort of thing.
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Because, they don't have, what is he doing for my small business?
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But, the way that Jen Psaki expresses nothing is, what is Joe Biden doing for my small business?
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Please, I truly could not possibly care less that the sex of the person that Joe Biden
00:46:23.220
nominated to some stupid bureaucratic role, that's probably not going to do very much for
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I don't care if a woman is ever, ever nominated to whatever stupid bureaucratic post they're talking
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I do care about the state of American business.
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I do care that people are allowed to run their businesses, they're allowed to keep at
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least a little bit of what is theirs, that people are allowed to work, that people are
00:46:53.120
allowed to go to these restaurants and bars and go to these businesses, that they can go
00:47:04.420
I'm afraid we don't really have an answer on that.
00:47:07.860
And Frank, you know, I'm knocking Jen Psaki because she, you know, is not very good at
00:47:15.980
But she's really not much worse than Joe Biden.
00:47:20.280
Joe Biden just recently did a town hall and he managed to put his foot in his mouth again.
00:47:30.020
Joe Biden said that everyone knows he prefers kids to people.
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And you know you enjoy being home with a baby more.
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He's nine and a half months, so I'm very happy.
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Everybody knows I like kids better than people.
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I saw a picture of you with your grandson recently.
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One, Joe is obviously senile and not capable of doing the job.
00:48:03.240
And increasingly, the Biden administration is empowering Kamala Harris, which is a story
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Really what they're, they're really just empowering the bureaucrats.
00:48:17.820
Also, that Joe Biden doesn't consider kids people, right?
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If he's making a distinction between kids and people, which would explain his outrageous
00:48:25.720
support for abortion, blasphemous support for abortion, given his protestations that
00:48:30.300
he's a, in his profession, that he's a devout Catholic.
00:48:33.680
But, but, of course, if you don't consider kids people, then it makes a lot more sense.
00:48:38.860
But even on what he's saying here, he says, you know, I always like kids better than people.
00:48:44.880
And Anderson says, oh, I saw a picture of you with your grandkid.
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I read a story about you playing video games with your grandkid.
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So, Joe Biden doesn't like kids better than adults.
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I think, you know who I think might disagree with the claim that Joe Biden really, really
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This story, I can't believe that people haven't given this more airtime.
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I can believe it with the mainstream media, but not with conservatives.
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Joe Biden has a grandchild that was conceived and born out of wedlock, and he refuses to acknowledge
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And I'm very sad that he's gone, but it seems, we see a little glimmer of the providence in
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the way that Rush went, in all that we get to have taken from his life and career.
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Today on the Ben Shapiro Show, Rush Limbaugh passes away and the online left celebrates.
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The Biden administration has literally no idea what the hell they are talking about when
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And we learn from the Washington Post that spraying gorilla glue in your hair is yet another