Ep. 891 - The Media's War On White Men
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Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all counts on Friday, and the left is not taking it well. Troy Gaston, a BLM leader in Chicago, summed up the response: "I want y'all to make some noise for being survivors, man. For having the courage to come back out here when the system told us that we do not have a voice."
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Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all counts on Friday, and the left is not taking it
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well. Troy Gaston, a BLM leader in Chicago, summed up the response.
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I want y'all to make some noise for being survivors, man. For having the courage,
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for having the courage to come back out here when the system told us that we do not have a voice.
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Because if you come out here, under these situations, we will be shut down.
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That's what the verdict was all about. It was telling us to be silent,
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Today, we come out here simply to be recognized as people
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who deserve to live and be treated with equality and respect.
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Does anybody believe that BLM is not treated with respect? That BLM is not recognized?
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If BLM is not treated with equality, that is only because it is given deferential treatment.
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BLMers get plea deals and dismissal of charges for spending six months looting and burning cities
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coast to coast. Meanwhile, horn hat wearing goofballs, rotten solitary confinement for making a mess of
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Nancy Pelosi's office. But in this case, in the Rittenhouse case, the evidence was so weak that even
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a unified liberal establishment could not succeed in sending a teenager to jail for killing a serial
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child rapist in self-defense. So what does BLM want now?
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We wait for the federal government to charge the Rittenhouse with first-degree murder.
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If you don't win at the state level, take it to the federal. If at first you don't succeed,
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try, try again. The right is celebrating a victory for the rule of law, which the persistent left
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is already back at work to undermine. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday from Brian Boggs, who says,
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the prosecutors can take comfort in the fact that we all take a beating sometimes. That's true.
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Breaking news right now. Breaking news this morning out of Waukesha, Wisconsin. There was a parade in
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Waukesha, and someone drove an SUV speeding down the parade trying to kill as many people as possible
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by all appearances. Five people are dead. Forty people are injured. There is footage. We're not
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going to play it. It's very difficult to watch, and I don't think there's any reason to play it.
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Andy Ngo right now, who has done a great job exposing militant leftist groups, Antifa and BLM,
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Andy Ngo is reporting that the suspect who was arrested is a BLM supporter. He's a young black male.
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His social media is apparently riddled with pro-BLM, George Floyd riot types of posts.
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He reportedly, again, not just from Andy Ngo, but other outlets are reporting that he was out on a
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$1,000 bail earlier this week for an earlier crime, and so because of the compassionate policy of letting
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criminals off the hook, now five people are dead at least, and 40 people are injured. We don't know
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for certain that he was a BLM supporter, but the attack did take place an hour outside of Kenosha.
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It would appear, at least, that there is some connection there, but the cops are quiet about
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this, so we don't have any confirmed information yet. Very difficult to believe that this was an
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accident. Doesn't look like an accident at all. More from the mostly peaceful crowd.
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Meanwhile, CNN, CNN. We're going to hold off reporting more on that until more information's
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available. Meanwhile, CNN has this headline. There's nothing more frightening in America today
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than an angry white man. There it is. There it is. You awful white man. I'm sure some of you in the
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audience, at least, are white men. Some of you are probably pretty angry hearing that headline. Well,
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you're the most dangerous person in America, according to John Blake, some race hustler at CNN.
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Now, there are a lot of problems with this headline. The first one is, it's just not true.
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Okay. It's offensive. It's racist. It's mean spirit. It's divisive. Sure. It's also just not
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true. Here we have a report from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs,
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Bureau of Justice Statistics. This is from January 2021. Here's race and ethnicity of violent crime
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offenders and arrestees 2018. Here is the first sentence of the first paragraph. In 2018,
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based on data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, black people were overrepresented
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among persons arrested for nonfatal violent crimes and for serious nonfatal violent crimes relative
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to their representation in the U.S. population. White people were underrepresented. White people
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accounted for 60% of U.S. residents, but 46% of all persons arrested for rape, robbery, aggravated
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assault, and other assault, and 39% of all arrestees for nonfatal violent crimes, excluding other
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assault. Hispanics, regardless of their race, were overrepresented among arrestees for nonfatal
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violent crimes, excluding other assault relative to their population or representation in the U.S.
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population. So, and not angry white men. Angry white men, basically the least likely to attack you.
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Now, what the left will say is, well, Michael, those statistics by definition are only representing
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people who are arrested for these crimes. So, it might be the case that white people are committing
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a gazillion murders. They're just not getting arrested for it. In order to believe that,
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you need to believe that there is some conspiracy either of black victims or white victims or Hispanic
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victims or any kind of victims who are all colluding together not to report certain crimes to the police
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because they don't want white men to get in trouble. In order to believe that, you have to believe that,
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for instance, the New York Police Department, which is majority minority, right? It's not,
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not majority white, is colluding just to make sure that white people don't show up in the crime
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statistics. But, of course, that's not the case. Okay? So, the first part of the headline that's
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false is the headline, right? I mean, rather, the first part that's wrong about the headline is just
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that it isn't true. Here's a quote from it. This angry white man has been a major character
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throughout U.S. history. He gave the country slavery, the slaughter of Native Americans,
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and Jim Crow laws. Again, that's not true. The white man didn't give the country slavery. He
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didn't create slavery. Slavery was practiced in Africa long before the white man ever got there
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and was practiced long after the white man left or after the transatlantic slave trade.
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Not just Africa. Slavery is practiced everywhere in the world outside of the West. The unique thing
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about the West is not that we created slavery. It's that we abolished slavery. That's what's
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unique about the West. The slaughter of Native Americans. Native Americans were slaughtering
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one another long before the white man ever got here. Okay? And the slaughter continued after the
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white man arrived. Just a few years before Columbus's arrival in the Americas, the Aztecs slaughtered 80,000
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people in four days at the consecration of Tenochtitlan. That's just one Native American
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nation. Just one among many, many, many. And Jim Crow laws. Okay, I guess the white man did that.
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One out of three. One out of three. Now, what's more interesting about this headline to me than just
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the race hustling, which is so typical of CNN. And yes, it's obviously ridiculous, but whatever.
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What's more interesting than that to me is the victim mentality. You saw that actually in the video
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from Kenosha, where that other race hustler had justice for victims. Or I'm sorry, the video was
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from Chicago, but it was about what was going on in Kenosha. It said justice for victims.
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Although right now there is a revolt against Western civilization and really what you'd call
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Christendom, right? Christianity. The concern for victims is exclusively a creation of Judaism and
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Christianity. The concern for victims, taking the side of victims, does not exist in non-Jewish and
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non-Christian cultures. Okay, you see it uniquely in the Bible. And then it finds its fullest expression
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in Christianity through the passion of Christ, where not only does God take the side of the victims,
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but God actually is the victim here and takes the side of the victims, right? This is an idea
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that was expounded upon by a sociologist by the name of René Girard, who died only recently. He was
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at Stanford. And he has this idea that at the heart of culture is rivalry, mimetic rivalry, that we kind
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of imitate one another. And because of this, we end up killing one another. We end up in a state of war
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of all against all. This is why all the stories about the creation of civilization tend to involve
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brothers, right? Romulus and Remus, Cain and Abel, these two mirrors of one another that become more
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and more rivalistic. And then eventually this leads to a murder. And when you take it beyond just one
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person against one person, you see it in scapegoating. The idea that the only way for the culture,
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the society to resolve all of this tension is to scapegoat someone. Literally, the scapegoat would be
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to put all of the evils and all of the sins onto a goat and then send the goat out into the wilderness
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or to just attack one group of people or to attack one person. And the trick about scapegoating is
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you never know when you're the one doing it. When you're scapegoating, you always think that
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you're completely justified and you're on the, we all do this. You never are aware of that. And what
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the left isn't aware of right now is that they are scapegoating in the law, in the media, in the
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culture, they are scapegoating. The straight white male is the cause of all the evils in the world,
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Nicole Hannah-Jones. She is the fabulist behind the 1619 Project at the New York Times.
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She's the one who pushed this now mainstream thesis that America was founded to defend slavery. It's
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completely without evidence. Actually, the New York Times had to admit that the central thesis
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was BS, but it doesn't matter. They keep promoting it anyway, and now it's made its way into schools.
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So for Nicole Hannah-Jones, everything, every single thing must be the fault of white people
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and white supremacy. So after the Rittenhouse verdict, she tweeted out, quote,
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in this country, you can even kill white people and get away with it if those white people are
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fighting for black lives. This is the legacy of 1619. Nicole Hannah-Jones knows that she can't say
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that Kyle Rittenhouse killed black people because he didn't kill any black people, and the media tried
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to present it as though that were the case, but the only people that Kyle Rittenhouse shot
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were white people. So Nicole Hannah-Jones, in order to make her theory fit, she needs to make
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those white people that Rittenhouse killed into black people or into avatars of black people.
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Now, all the white people that Rittenhouse killed were trying to kill Rittenhouse.
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Beyond that, one of the people Rittenhouse killed was a serial child rapist.
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Another guy that Rittenhouse killed beat women in his own family. I think he beat his own mother.
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I mean, these are people who are so cartoonishly evil that if you turned it into a Hollywood producer
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and you said, hey, here's the Kenosha story, and this kid is going to kill a child rapist and a
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mother beater and all these, the producer would look at you and say, that's a little too on the nose,
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buddy. Come on, that's a little ridiculous. There's no way. But what is astounding to me is
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not that in this country you can even kill white people and get away with it if they're fighting
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for black lives, the legacy of 1619. What's astounding to me is that in this country,
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journalists will lament the death of a serial child rapist who was shot while trying to kill
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a 17-year-old because that's the legacy of the 1960s, right? That's the legacy. And what it comes out of,
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it gets back to this idea of the victim mechanism. The left wants to take the side of the victim.
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I want to be as charitable as I can to the left. They think they're taking the side of the victim.
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They think the victim is black people and brown people and women and people who have different
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sexual desires and the marginalized and the oppressed and whatever, right? So that's,
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they're taking the side of the victim against the evil white man who's the cause of all the evil in the
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world. Christianity, right? The prevailing society. And Christianity too is taking the side of the
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victims. Any concern for victims that anyone has ever had in the world comes out of Christianity,
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comes out of Christian culture. And so now you've got these two rivals. And actually this sociologist
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Rene Girard makes the point that wokeism, he doesn't call it this because it was a little too early,
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but what he's referring to as wokeism or political correctness is a kind of mirror of Christianity.
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And now they too are locked in a kind of rivalry. And, and the, the, the problem of this of course,
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is you can never see that you are the one scapegoating people. So, so Nicole Hannah-Jones,
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who is a very prominent person, she's maybe not a very intelligent person or a very serious,
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but she's very prominent. She can actually twist herself into a logical pretzel to say that a white
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kid shooting a couple of white criminals who were trying to shoot him or trying to kill him more
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broadly, one was trying to shoot him, that somehow that is an example of white supremacy. This is
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critical race theory. We talk about critical race theory and it's, it seems like this very nebulous
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concept. What everything is critical race theory or the left does nothing as critical race theory.
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So Winsome Sears, who, who just became the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, she was running along with
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Glenn Youngkin. Winsome Sears, a black woman herself, just went on CNN and, and encountered the line that
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we're all encountering about critical race theory. This is the official party line of CNN, namely,
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critical race theory is not being taught in schools. And she says that's bunk.
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You oppose critical race theory being taught in schools, which I should say is not part of
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Virginia's curriculum. You did say though, that the good and the bad of American history should be
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taught. And, uh, that we should also tell viewers, you're the former vice president of the Virginia
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Board of Education. So explain how you think race should be taught in Virginia public schools.
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Well, let me back up. I beg to differ that CRT is not taught.
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I didn't say that. I just said it's not in the curriculum, just to be clear.
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No, no, no, no. It is part of the curriculum. It's weaved in and out of the curriculum. In fact,
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in 2015, former governor, uh, who was just defeated McAuliffe, his state board of education
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had information on how to teach it. So it's weaved in. So, you know, it's semantics, but it's weaved
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in. So love this. She won't let CNN get away with this. CNN says beep, boop, beep, beep, boop. No
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critical race theory in schools and Virginia schools. Beep, beep, beep, boop. I'm a, I'm a talking head on
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CNN. And then the person they're talking to is the former vice president of the Virginia school
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board. So she says, actually, uh, CNN lady, you have no idea what you're talking about. And I
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worked in this very closely and absolutely critical race theory is being taught in Virginia schools.
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And we just won an election because of that. And then the CNN lady is smart enough to know that
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she's not going to be able to win the point. She's not going to be able to refute that fact with
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Winsome Sears. So she says, well, no, no, no. I didn't say it's not being taught. I said it's
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not in the curriculum, which is a distinction without a difference. Even the point, the side
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point she's trying to make, even the retreating point she's trying to make is not true. The
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curriculum is the schedule of things that are taught. If something is taught, it is in the
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curriculum. Well, no, it's just some one random teacher saying something. That's what the left
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might say. No, it's just some teacher going off script. No, it's not. It's being taught
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as a part of the program. It is in the curriculum, which is what Winsome Sears is saying.
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And the way the left tries to get away with this line is they say, well, there is no unit
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of critical race theory. It's not as though students are taught, okay, now we're going to learn about the
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American revolution. And now we're going to learn about, you know, the enlightenment. And now we're
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going to learn about critical race theory. And now we're going to learn about calculus, right? It's
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not, that's not how it's taught, but that's not what critical race theory is. Critical race theory
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isn't a specific academic, it is a movement. It's not a specific academic field or unit. It is an
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analytical framework. So it's not taught as just one thing. Critical race theory is a lens through which
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you view all the other things. So no, you're not going to spend two weeks learning critical race
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theory. You're going to spend a whole school year learning critical race theory as it pertains to
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history, as it pertains to literature, as it pertains to economics, as it pertains to everything. And
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that's what Winsome Sears has to say. It's much worse. Don't let them tell you that there's no lesson
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on critical race theory in schools. It's much worse than that. It's in all of the lessons.
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Critical race theory says that everything about America is hopelessly rotten because it is all
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formed by white supremacy. And so everything about America, the culture, the tastes, the history,
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the military movements, the form of government, the form of economics, it's all hopelessly,
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irredeemably rotten because of white supremacy. And it's all going to be ripped out by the root.
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And beyond that, if you can get the left to admit that critical race theory does play some role in
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the education as that CNN lady started to have to admit, the next thing that I'll tell you is
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that you as a parent have no right to stop it. This was another, this was a really great weekend for
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dumb columns on legacy media outlets. There was a piece that went up on NBC. This is by
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Christina Wyman, who is the author of some, some new novel. And she's a, I guess an educator. She's a
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former, at least a former middle school teacher. And she's, she has very strong views on, on the role
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that parents should have in their kids' education. She really thinks that parents should have no role.
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And so she published on NBC what I think it, I don't want to be hyperbolic here. It, it might be the
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dumbest thing I've ever read. And, and I read a lot of really, really dumb things. This might be,
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this might take the cake. The headline is schools face parents who want to ban critical race theory
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and don't get how teaching works. So it's not that they don't get what critical race theory is. It's not
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that they don't get how the, how the schools are ordering their curricula. It's that they don't get
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what teaching is. Subheader, an educator's top goal is to teach students to think. Parents who
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dictate curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies, and biases hinder that goal.
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Forget about teachers who, who imbue the curricula with their opinions, ideologies, and biases. That,
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it's the parents who have any say over what is taught. They are a threat to education.
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NBC, a writer for NBC and a former teacher says that you as a parent have absolutely no right
00:26:05.760
to have a say in your kid's education. She writes, quote, parents have always tried to
00:26:09.700
interfere with curricula as I observed when teaching middle school in the mid 2000s. Even then,
00:26:14.840
there was no shortage of parental input about the content of my instruction from books to test
00:26:19.100
questions. Part of the problem is that parents think that they have the right to control teaching
00:26:23.100
and learning because their children are the ones being educated. But it actually, gasp, she writes
00:26:27.540
gasp in parentheses, doesn't work that way. It's sort of like entering a surgical unit thinking you
00:26:34.040
can interfere with an operation simply because the patient is your child. So I'm going to pause it
00:26:40.060
right there. A lot of conservatives are saying this is an imprecise analogy and it's crazy to compare
00:26:46.060
educating to surgery, for instance. I actually think the analogy is okay. I think it's a pretty good
00:26:52.120
analogy. But the fact is parents do have a say in their kids' medical decisions. I know that the left
00:26:59.820
doesn't think they do anymore. The left is saying, we're going to jab your kid with the Fauci ouchie
00:27:03.520
regardless of what you want. We're going to trans your kid. We're going to take your little boy and
00:27:07.780
chop him up and make him look like a little girl regardless of what you want because we know what's
00:27:11.500
best. But actually, believe it or not, parents do have a say in surgery. And by the way, education
00:27:20.020
is as formative, at least as formative as surgeries are. You are shaping the way that a child will view the
00:27:26.520
world. You are shaping what a child thinks about what is true and false and right and wrong and good
00:27:31.160
and bad when you educate them. Certainly when you educate them for 13 years or more. So yeah, it is
00:27:39.480
a lot like surgery. And the parents have a right over how their child is formed in these really,
00:27:45.600
really important decisions that will shape their entire life. The woman goes on. She says,
00:27:51.240
teaching too is a science. Unless they're licensed and certified, parents aren't qualified to make
00:27:56.460
decisions about curricula. In fact, parental interference can actually hinder student
00:28:00.580
advancement. An educator's primary goal is to teach students to think. Parents who attempt to influence
00:28:05.980
curricula with their personal opinions, ideologies, and biases hinder that goal. An educator's goal is
00:28:11.700
to teach students to think. What does that mean? What exactly does that mean? I think it's a similar
00:28:18.240
version to we teach students how to think, not what to think. But of course, the educators are
00:28:24.700
teaching students what to think. Here's something. An educator's primary goal is to teach students to
00:28:30.540
think. That is a what. That's not a how. That's a what. That's ideology. That's personal opinion. That's
00:28:38.860
bias. That's the same thing that the educator is accusing the parents of doing. Kind of gets back to our
00:28:47.720
point about scapegoating. For these teachers, for the left broadly, they're the problem because the
00:28:56.360
parents are trying to teach students something about the world. They're trying to form the way
00:29:01.820
their students and children view the world. Of course, the same could be said of the educators.
00:29:08.380
That's what they're doing. But the left, the educators can't see that. They believe that what
00:29:15.180
they're doing is totally just and right, and the other people are completely, totally wrong.
00:29:21.340
If an educator like this kooky woman teaches a student that a boy can become a girl,
00:29:28.540
then that educator is hindering the student's education because that educator is teaching the
00:29:33.900
student something that isn't true. If the educator says that America was founded in 1619 and the central
00:29:39.040
fact of America is slavery, that educator is hindering the student's education because the
00:29:45.200
educator is teaching the student something that isn't true. If a parent comes in and says,
00:29:50.640
get that crap out of the classroom, the parent is helping the student's education because the parent
00:29:56.040
is kicking away the things that are false and demanding that students be taught things that are true.
00:30:02.640
And this is now a battle for the minds and souls of the next generation of Americans.
00:30:13.620
And who's going to be better at that? Left-wing ideologue teachers or parents. The Democratic Party
00:30:22.500
sent out a tweet just today said that the number one occupation for Democrat donors in recent years
00:30:31.020
is teachers. Exactly. Exactly. That's the problem. So if you want your kids to be taught the
00:30:41.680
Democrat, leftist, liberal view of the world, an evil view of the world that is not true and it's not
00:30:48.520
good and it's not beautiful, then we have to, well, let's let things be the way they are. Let's back
00:30:54.640
off. Let's never question any of the teachers. Let's not show up to school boards. If you don't want
00:30:58.800
your kids to turn out that way, then we need to politically get a little bit aggressive and we
00:31:03.540
need to show up to school boards and we need to demand resignations and we need to demand that
00:31:07.320
lunatic teachers like this woman, Christina Wyman, get fired, that they don't have a platform,
00:31:14.220
that we cancel them. We need to cancel this. We need to cancel the bad books in the education.
00:31:18.720
We need to cancel the stupid ideas in the education and we need to cancel the bad teachers
00:31:22.760
and administrators and they need to be fired and they never should be allowed near students ever again.
00:31:26.980
Okay. And are conservatives willing to say that? Are conservatives willing to do that?
00:31:32.620
I think so. I think you're beginning to see a movement on the right that's doing that. Ron
00:31:37.020
DeSantis in Florida is doing that. A lot of candidates for Senate right now. Blake Masters,
00:31:41.720
whom I just sat down with, he's saying these sorts of things. J.D. Vance, Josh Mandel in Ohio,
00:31:46.400
both running against one another. They're saying these sorts of things. That's what we got to do.
00:31:50.840
Got to get much tougher. There's a shocking report out of a school in California.
00:31:55.180
Abigail Schreier, who wrote Irreversible Damage. It's a book about how the culture is trancing
00:32:02.140
little girls and then they're regretting it and then that's not being reported on.
00:32:07.060
There's a book that was, I think it was canceled from Target. Then there was an uproar. It went
00:32:11.380
back to Target. It's a very good book. Abigail Schreier revealed that at a late October meeting at a
00:32:17.840
conference of California's largest teachers union, the California Teachers Association, CTA,
00:32:22.200
documents show that teachers were encouraged to recruit students into LGBT clubs to urge them to,
00:32:31.620
quote, have the courage to create a safe environment that fosters bravery to explore
00:32:36.020
sexual orientation. And, quote, this is what one of the teachers reportedly said, quote,
00:32:42.360
we're going to do just a little mind trick on our sixth graders. So recruiting 11-year-olds
00:32:46.880
to explore their sexual orientation in clubs that, by the way, don't keep records. So this was another
00:32:54.540
aspect of it. Lori Caldera, who's a middle school teacher, a Buena Vista middle school teacher in
00:33:01.600
California, an LGBTQ club leader, was heard on tape saying, quote, because we're not official,
00:33:06.640
we have no club rosters, we keep no records. In fact, sometimes we don't really want to keep records
00:33:11.720
because if parents get upset that their kids are coming, we're like, yeah, I don't know, maybe they
00:33:16.040
came. You know, we would never want a kid to get in trouble for attending if their parents are upset.
00:33:19.740
So these are teachers who are recruiting kids into these clubs, not keeping records of it,
00:33:24.480
stonewalling the parents if the parents have any questions, and transing the freaking kids.
00:33:28.860
I don't want to sound hyperbolic about it. I don't, you know, I don't want to put on my Alex Jones
00:33:34.960
voice, even though Alex Jones has been right about a number of things like the gay frogs, but, but we
00:33:41.600
have record of this. Audio record documents being reported by a very serious, respected source,
00:33:48.440
Abigail Schreier, that these teachers are trying to trans the kids. It's exactly what conservatives
00:33:54.340
have been talking about. Schreier even went on, she said, speakers went so far as to tout their
00:34:00.400
surveillance of students' Google searches, internet activity, and hallway conversations
00:34:04.880
in order to target sixth graders for personal invitations to LGBTQ clubs while actively concealing
00:34:12.600
the club's membership roles from participants' parents. So this question, beyond the specific
00:34:18.980
sexual questions raised, the extreme creepiness of this, the, I assume, illegality of some of this,
00:34:26.780
I assume that the schools need to keep better records and are not allowed to stonewall parents
00:34:30.680
this way. But beyond all of that, it actually comes down to a very simple, mundane question.
00:34:37.320
Who has the right to raise your kids? For the last 20 or 30 years, and I guess really even a little
00:34:45.980
before that, the right would say, just us, just the parents, it's just us. And what the left has said
00:34:52.640
is, it takes a village, right? So meaning, that was Hillary Clinton's memoir title. So Hillary Clinton
00:34:58.420
representing the left's view here would say, actually, parents have very few rights, and it's all
00:35:04.000
the society. Really, they mean the government. And the right would say, forget society, forget the
00:35:11.360
government, it's all parents. And the real answer is, it's both. It is both. There's a reason that it
00:35:18.940
takes a village to raise a child is an old idiom, is that it's true. And I'm not even saying this
00:35:23.460
prescriptively. I'm not even saying it should be the case that it takes a village to raise a child.
00:35:27.380
I'm just saying it does. Your kids are going to be influenced by the village. That is inevitable.
00:35:34.460
You can be the most protective helicopter parent you ever saw, and your kids are still going to be
00:35:39.960
influenced by the neighbors, by the other kids that they meet in the neighborhood or at school,
00:35:44.300
if they're going to a school. They're going to be influenced by what they see on TV. They're going to be
00:35:48.480
influenced by things they see on billboards that you can't lock them up in a little room forever.
00:35:54.400
They are going to be influenced by society. And this is why it's not enough to just take the you
00:36:00.540
do you, laissez-faire, hands-off approach to politics that a lot of conservatives demonstrating,
00:36:07.200
I think, a lot of cowardice in recent decades have done. They've said, no, forget it. Whatever you want
00:36:12.200
to do is fine, as long as it doesn't affect me. Well, it does affect you. Even the private stuff,
00:36:17.920
even the personal stuff, it does affect you because we live in society. Politics means the
00:36:23.000
public stuff, right? That's all. Public and political mean the same thing. And so it is going
00:36:29.180
to affect you. And to some degree, your kid is going to be raised by the village, and to some
00:36:33.840
degree, the kid is going to be raised by you. And it is up to us asserting our political rights to
00:36:38.000
decide exactly what that balance is. If these lunatics at NBC and in the California teachers unions
00:36:44.960
and in the Democratic Party have their way, the parents are going to have no rights whatsoever.
00:36:50.440
And the village that raises the kids is going to be a radical leftist village that fills your kids
00:36:54.000
heads with insane racial and sexual views. We can't let them do that. And we need to recognize
00:37:01.260
that because the village does have a say, we need to assert our political rights. Not just, you know,
00:37:05.920
politics is downstream of culture. I'm just going to work on myself and look at the man in the mirror.
00:37:09.620
You got to do that too. But you got to show up to that school board. You got to show up to the
00:37:12.860
elections. You got to fire these bad teachers. You got to kick the pornography out of schools.
00:37:17.040
You got to kick the 1619 project out of schools. But I repeat myself, frankly. So not quite obscene
00:37:22.800
in the same way that pornography is, but it is obscenely anti-historical. It is obscenely anti-American.
00:37:29.260
It's obscenely false. You've got to assert your political power. Speaking of political rights,
00:37:36.500
there is a cop who got fired for donating to Kyle Rittenhouse. Lieutenant William Kelly
00:37:41.760
from the Norfolk Police Department was fired because he made a $25 anonymous donation to Kyle
00:37:50.320
Rittenhouse's legal defense. Was going to do it on GoFundMe. GoFundMe barred donations to Kyle
00:37:56.360
Rittenhouse's legal defense because GoFundMe is a far-left organization that targets conservatives.
00:38:00.980
So then there was another one who was give, send, go is the more conservative version of it.
00:38:04.340
This cop gives 25 bucks to this kid's legal defense. Hackers obtained Kelly's name and address,
00:38:14.280
email address, gave it to the Guardian, a left-wing paper. The Guardian ran a story.
00:38:20.480
Kelly got fired because the police chief, Larry Boone, suggested that he lose his job. Larry Boone,
00:38:26.620
the police chief, the Norfolk police chief, was a supporter of BLM. He attended a BLM protest,
00:38:32.180
fully uniformed, fully uniformed last May. And he said, no, this cop gave 25 bucks to Kyle
00:38:38.540
Rittenhouse. He's got to be fired. And the city manager accepted that recommendation.
00:38:44.340
Kyle Rittenhouse was vindicated. Kyle Rittenhouse did nothing wrong. The court of law
00:38:49.220
determined that. He acted in self-defense. This man should never have been fired. Frankly,
00:38:56.420
I think the police chief probably should have been fired for showing up to the BLM protest. His BLM is a
00:39:01.480
terrorist organization. What I would do, if I were a constituent, if I lived in Norfolk,
00:39:08.260
Virginia, what I would do, I'd probably call up that Norfolk, Virginia police department.
00:39:13.520
I would probably ask to speak to police chief, Larry Boone. And I would probably demand that he
00:39:18.580
be reinstated. And furthermore, if I were a constituent in Norfolk, Virginia, I would probably
00:39:23.500
demand that the police chief here, Larry Boone, lose his job. What I would demand is the opposite of
00:39:29.300
what actually happened. Because the media narrative we were told is that Kyle Rittenhouse was a
00:39:35.080
terrorist, domestic, violent, white supremacist, whatever stupid slogan you want to hear. And he
00:39:39.820
killed peaceful protesters. And that isn't true. It turned out the opposite was true. And so instead
00:39:44.380
of Lieutenant William Kelly losing his job and Larry Boone getting to laugh about it, I think probably
00:39:50.500
the opposite should be true. I think police chief Larry Boone should lose his job. I think people
00:39:55.180
ought to probably call that police department and demand the reinstatement of Lieutenant William
00:40:01.100
Kelly. That's just what I would do if I were a constituent of Norfolk, Virginia. Though I,
00:40:06.080
unlike my colleague, Matt Walsh, I'm not a trans Virginian. The Kyle Rittenhouse case was so clear
00:40:15.200
after we saw the evidence, after the media narrative went away, it was so clear that even
00:40:22.240
people on CNN are beginning to admit it. During the Tweedledee Tweedledum handoff between Chris Cuomo
00:40:30.440
and Don Lemon, these two fellas even managed to admit that the verdict was right.
00:40:40.080
You know, you know, you're going to have people saying if he was black, this would be different,
00:40:43.620
right? Because we're dealing with systemic injustice right now. And even though this verdict,
00:40:47.980
I believe, is justified by the law and the facts here, that's what we should want every time people
00:40:53.080
are frustrated that you wouldn't get it if he was black, even though this may be the right outcome.
00:40:58.900
But at the same time you're doing that, you're going to have him be weaponized by one of the
00:41:03.660
most toxic people and outfits in our society? Well, so therefore, when that judge said this,
00:41:11.180
when he, you know, dressed down the prosecution, prosecution did a lot of things wrong,
00:41:14.120
right? I mean, this really rests. But they had a hard case. They had a hard case,
00:41:18.960
but they didn't do a good job even with a hard case. I mean, that's obvious to see.
00:41:23.080
So it's mostly Chris Cuomo who's admitting that the verdict was right. And Don Lemon's trying not
00:41:27.960
to, but Lemon is smart enough to realize that he can't make a good argument here. So he says, well,
00:41:32.340
you know, yeah, it was just that prosecution, that prosecution. And Chris Cuomo says,
00:41:37.300
what about the prosecution? They had a hard case. Really, they had an impossible case.
00:41:44.040
The best shot they had was to, to keep evidence from the defense and to, they called their best
00:41:50.740
witnesses. All those witnesses ended up making the case for the defense, not the prosecution.
00:41:54.560
You could have had the greatest lawyers in the world. All right. The two prosecutors in Kenosha,
00:42:01.660
Blinken and, is that his name Blinken? Or I don't even remember his name anymore. Or the one they
00:42:06.860
called Lunchbox. Those two guys talk about Tweedledee, Tweedledum. They did not do a good
00:42:11.440
job. They were not very good lawyers. But you could have had Alan Dershowitz and Johnny Cochran
00:42:19.320
and Ken Starr and all the greatest lawyers in the country. And they still couldn't have made the case
00:42:25.140
because the evidence wasn't there. That's the point Chris Cuomo was making. Now, why are these
00:42:30.260
gentlemen on CNN making this point right now? Is it because they have integrity?
00:42:36.640
Maybe. I don't want to say certainly that they don't have integrity. Cuomo and Lemon, both in
00:42:43.680
earlier eras, have been more balanced than they are now. They're probably just getting a call from
00:42:49.320
the head of CNN saying you got to be more leftist and combative. Didn't Chris Cuomo, he got caught on
00:42:54.100
that audio just some months ago saying he hates his job and he feels like a hack and all this. So
00:42:59.660
maybe it's that. I suspect the reason that they're coming out now and saying, oh, the verdict was
00:43:05.480
probably right. And hey, you know, look, whatever. It's okay. It's all good. It's because they know
00:43:10.340
that their network spent a lot of time spreading a lot of lies and slander and libel about Kyle
00:43:19.560
Rittenhouse. That's not just CNN. It's NBC and the Washington Post and the New York Times and all
00:43:25.120
of them. And I think they remember Nick Sandman. You remember Nick Sandman? He was that kid wearing
00:43:29.500
the MAGA hat when the Native American lunatics started banging a drum in his face and the black
00:43:33.500
supremacists were screaming slurs at them. And he smiled. And after smiling, all the media outlets
00:43:39.520
called him a white supremacist and all that. Do you remember what happened after that? Oh yeah,
00:43:44.180
Nick Sandman shook them all down for a ton of money. We don't know the exact number because there
00:43:48.400
were non-disclosures there, but Nick Sandman made a lot of money off those guys. And I think CNN
00:43:53.420
is trying to cover its derriere. And I hope, oh, do I hope, that now that Kyle Rittenhouse has been
00:44:00.620
exonerated, I hope he takes them to the cleaners. I hope that Kyle Rittenhouse becomes a trillionaire
00:44:11.840
suing these dirtbag liberal journo outlets into the dirt. I hope that Kyle Rittenhouse and Nick Sandman
00:44:23.520
have to split time owning these various outlets. Like divorced parents. I hope it's like,
00:44:30.860
okay, Kyle, you can have CNN on the weekends. But I, Nick, I want to have CNN during the week.
00:44:36.700
And then maybe for the summers, I want it to be unambiguous. I want these guys to lose a lot
00:44:45.060
of money. Justice was served in the case. We've talked so much about the Kyle Rittenhouse case.
00:44:51.540
I guess that's now coming to an end. We're going to move on to the next left-wing hoax.
00:44:57.300
But just because justice was served, that's great. We've got to keep it up. Okay. Just like you heard
00:45:03.980
that, the BLM guy, he said, no, well, yeah, okay. He was exonerated at the state level.
00:45:09.600
We want federal charges. Right? The left never gives up. The left is really persistent. We've
00:45:15.940
got to be persistent too. We won. We've got to take it further. Got to sue those media outlets
00:45:20.980
into oblivion. What the left is trying to do in this country is delegitimize the opposition.
00:45:26.960
This is a story. This actually came out a couple of weeks ago,
00:45:29.180
but I think it pertains to what's going on now. Mike Cernovich discovered this.
00:45:35.300
The Washington Post was running an ad to promote the idea of January 6th, the insurrection. They're
00:45:42.460
running an advertisement. An investigation by the Washington Post provides the richest
00:45:46.680
understanding to date of Trump's mindset and the cost of his inaction as democracy came under attack.
00:45:52.280
Now, I'm not saying that it's weird for a journalistic outlet to run ads on their stories.
00:46:01.800
But, you know, everyone does that. We do that. Everybody does that.
00:46:05.680
But it is weird to run ads on a story that doesn't really catch. Right? No one really believes the
00:46:14.640
January 6th thing. The whole narrative is falling apart. We were told January 6th was a bunch of
00:46:18.840
domestic terrorists who came in armed, who killed a cop, who were taking over the government. And then
00:46:24.420
the more we've learned about it, the less and less it seems true. Actually, almost every single
00:46:31.220
thing we were told about that day was a lie. So the story has kind of fallen apart.
00:46:37.420
In a normal world, that would be the end of the story and they'd move on to something else.
00:46:41.540
But the left is so dead set on keeping this narrative
00:46:45.740
that they've got to promote it. Just like the New York Times story on
00:46:49.620
the 1619 project. The thesis of that was proven incorrect. The New York Times spent millions
00:46:53.760
of dollars promoting it anyway because they have ideological goals
00:46:57.460
as well. And the goal here is to not merely win a political
00:47:01.800
battle. It's to utterly delegitimize the opposition
00:47:05.180
such that anytime they get any power or win at all, it is considered
00:47:09.140
an existential threat to democracy, to the country, to the republic, to the constitution,
00:47:14.020
and it must be done away with. Those are the stakes here. What kind of persistence
00:47:20.820
is the right willing to engage? What kind of lawfare? What kind of electioneering?
00:47:25.520
What kind of protest? What kind of legislating is the right willing to do?
00:47:31.440
The left is playing for keeps. Are we willing to play for keeps too? I hope so. I'm Michael
00:47:34.720
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the jury in the Rittenhouse case gets it right while the
00:48:31.860
media explodes in a blind rage. We'll talk about the fallout from the not guilty verdict
00:48:35.820
today. And a man plows through a Christmas parade in Wisconsin, injuring dozens and killing
00:48:40.740
many. Many aspects of this case make it inconvenient for the corporate media. We'll talk about those
00:48:45.300
facts today. And Fauci officially recommends boosters for all people over 18. Plus, the fight
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