Ep. 936 -Â CNN Is Full Of Backstabbers And Sexual Deviants
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Mary Trump is pulling her podcast from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan talking to scientists she doesn t like. This is the final straw. I m calling for a complete and total shutdown of all new podcasts until we figure out what the hell is going on.
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Mary Trump has announced that she will be pulling her podcast from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan
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talking to scientists that she doesn't like, which is pretty shocking news for all of us.
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Mary Trump has a podcast. Mary Trump, the whiny niece of the former president.
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There are now so many podcasts that even the whiny niece of the former president,
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who has never done a single thing in her entire life other than be the whiny niece of the former
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president, has one. It's too much. It's too much. There's too much noise. This is the final straw.
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I am calling for a complete and total shutdown of all new podcasts until we figure out what
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the hell is going on. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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today, visit constantcontact.com. Mary Trump is pulling her podcast, informing people for the first
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time that Mary Trump has a podcast. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. I said the other day
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while I was humming Joni Mitchell songs, I had Neil Young all weekend. I had, you know,
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old man, take a look at my life. I said, why am I, what do I have Neil Young in my head? Oh, right.
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Because he got himself in the news by opposing Joe Rogan. I said, at this point, we just have
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forgotten artists and even not, not only has-beens, but never, never was-es are now just using this Joe
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Rogan non-troversy to get their names out there. And then Mary Trump proved it. Now, for the first
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time ever, people have heard of the Mary Trump podcast. We are in the pure opportunism phase of
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the Joe Rogan non-troversy. And it's not just coming from hippies from the 60s, and it's not just coming
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from political hacks trying to cash in on their family name. It's coming from the White House. Jen
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Psaki from the White House press briefing room pressured Spotify to censor Joe Rogan even more
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than they already have. Our hope is that all major tech platforms and all major news sources for that
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matter be responsible and be vigilant to ensure the American people have access to accurate
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information on something as significant as COVID-19. That certainly includes Spotify. So this disclaimer,
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it's a positive step, but we want every platform to continue doing more to call out
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mis- and disinformation while also uplifting accurate information. I mean, look at the facts,
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right? You are 16 times more likely to be hospitalized if you're unvaccinated and 68 times
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more likely to die than someone who is boosted if you're unvaccinated. That's pretty significant.
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And we think that is something that unquestionably should be the basis of how people are communicating
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about it. But ultimately, you know, our view is it's a good step. It's a positive step,
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but there's more that can be done. The fact that Spotify will now put a disclaimer
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on only those podcasts of Joe Rogan that I don't like, only the podcasts that dissent from the
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liberal orthodoxy, that's a good step. The fact that Spotify is now pressuring Joe Rogan to have more
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Democrats and establishmentarians and libs on his show, that's a good step. But we need more.
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I never again want to hear the phrase, build your own platform. This is something that the
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squishes have really relied on in recent years and the libs as well, both the libs and the squishes.
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They very often team up. Build your own. Sure. Of course we need to build our own platform. We have
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built our own platform. I'm here. I'm here on one of the platforms that we have built, but that's not
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enough. Okay. We also need to rein in the government and we also need to rein in the much more powerful
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platforms that are working in collaboration with the government. What Jen Psaki is showing you in that
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clip is that the free marketplace of ideas ain't so freaking free, is it? Spotify is, I guess,
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kind of acting of its own accord in, in response to the workings of the market. I guess that's kind
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of true. They've got a bunch of libs who are protesting them. And so they're, they're reacting
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to that. They're also reacting to the president of the United States who is using the full force of
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that office to pressure a private company, to censor a political dissident, not even that much
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of a political dissident, just a guy named Joe Rogan, who is a liberal, who is a left winger,
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who kind of sort of dissents from the dominant ruling class sometimes. And the president of the
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United States is using his power to get the private company to shut Joe Rogan up.
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That, that problem is not nearly going to be fixed by win hearts and minds in the culture.
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You need to wield the government to punish the other political actors who are doing this and to
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bring into line the so-called private companies that are very often working in collaboration with
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the government. It was very fashionable in the sort of conservatism talking points of the 1990s and
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2000s to draw a clean distinction between private enterprise and the government. Big government,
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bad. Private enterprise, good. Even if it's big corporations, even if those corporations are
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basically just products of the government. Google, is Google a private corporation?
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Sort of, kind of. I mean, it was founded with a lot of government money actually and developed with
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a lot of government money and it reacts very closely with the government. They work together
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on a lot of things, but so it's sort of private. It's sort of public. It's sort of the culture.
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It's sort of politics. We need to wield all the power we can. The left is wielding all the power
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they can. Joe Biden is, through his spokesman, trying to censor Joe Rogan, a UFC-loving, DMT-taking,
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pot-smoking podcaster. Okay? We need to fight back too or we're going to get completely rolled over.
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Liberals have been complaining over the past few days about how too many people are watching Joe
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Rogan. Not enough people are watching CNN. Of course, every single sensible person in America
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trusts Joe Rogan more than they trust CNN. And now there's even more reason for that. There is
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trouble a-brewin' at CNN. The president of CNN, Jeff Zucker, has been fired. Why was he fired? Well,
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there's two stories. There's the story you're reading about in the press and then there's the real story.
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Jeff Zucker, the ostensible reason why the president of CNN was fired is because he was
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stupping his deputy, Allison Gallist, and that this was a consensual office relationship.
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Jeff Zucker is no longer married. Neither is Allison Gallist, though previously they were married.
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And so it was consensual and it was an office relationship, but they didn't disclose it.
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And because Jeff Zucker didn't fill out a form with HR, that's why he got fired.
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If you believe that, I have got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. Obviously, there's a lot more to it.
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There's a lot more to it because CNN already knew about that relationship.
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There's a lot more to it because apparently a lot of people in media knew about that relationship.
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Katie Couric wrote about it in her book. In Katie Couric's memoir, she wrote about how Jeff Zucker,
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she heavily insinuated that Jeff Zucker and this woman, she named the woman, were obviously
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stupping one another. The affair appears to have broken up both marriages and then
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Zucker is now being ousted because of it. It gets even dirtier than that. Allison Gallist,
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the paramour here, the executive at CNN, was the former communications director for Andrew Cuomo.
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Andrew Cuomo, whose brother Chris Cuomo was one of the anchors at CNN. Andrew Cuomo,
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who was built up into a fantasy of the greatest governor in America, almost exclusively by CNN.
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CNN. So dirty, so corrupt. And then the cherry on top of the corruption Sunday is everyone at CNN
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apparently knew about this. A lot of other people in the media knew about this and nobody reported on
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it. Other than Katie Couric mentioning it in her book. This story perfectly, perfectly encapsulates
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the corruption of the establishment media. It really illustrates two things. One,
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the corruption of the establishment media. You can't trust these people because they obviously,
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they are literally sleeping with one another, right? They are literally in bed with one another.
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The politicians and the media executives and the whole morass, the whole liberal establishment.
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And they're not going to cover things. Do you think it is just a coincidence that the network
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that employs Cuomo's brother and Cuomo's former communications director, where that communications
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director is sleeping with the president of the network, that they would just happen to give
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unduly positive coverage to the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo? Do you think it's just a
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coincidence? No, it's a very corrupt arrangement. And this isn't the only one. There are lots of
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these. The establishment media is teeming with them. That's the first thing this teaches you.
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The second thing this teaches you, and it seems obvious, but it bears repeating.
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You need to flee from sin. I don't want to sound like a preacher, man, but you need to flee from sin,
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especially sexual sin, because that's the easiest to give into. It's so basic to our nature
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and it'll get you. It'll get you. This guy, Jeff Zucker, they didn't fire him because of the affair
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that everyone knew about. They fired him because they wanted him out. They used the affair as a
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pretext, but he opened himself up to that. He compromised himself when he engaged in that affair.
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That's what we do when we engage in sin. This is why, by the way, the libs, the rulers, want us
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to just do a lot of drugs and look at a lot of porn and engage in lots of weird sex stuff and do
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and do all sorts. They want to compromise us, okay, so that we're always sitting. It's just like
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getting, getting compromise on somebody, okay? Governments, politicians have known about this
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for many, many years. That's what happened to Jeff Zucker here. He is not the only one. He is not the
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scandal. They go on air, Brian Stelter and some other dude and that chick whose name I forget,
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she's the blonde lady. They go on CNN and they basically defend Jeff Zucker.
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I do just want to say something personal for a moment, if I may. And that is, I mean, I feel it
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deeply personally, but also I think I speak for all of us and our colleagues. This is an incredible loss.
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It's an incredible loss. Jeff is a remarkable person and an incredible leader. He has this
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uncanny ability to make, I think, every one of us feel special and valuable in our own way,
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even though he is managing an international news organization of thousands of people. I just know
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that he had this unique ability to make us feel special. And I don't think that that comes around
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all the time. And I think, again, it's an incredible loss. And I just think it's so regrettable
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how it happened. If what you're reporting is true, these are two consenting adults who are both
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executives that they can't have a private relationship feels wrong. It just feels wrong, doesn't it?
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Wow. What a rosy picture CNN lady is painting of what happened. There are two executives. Sure.
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The only reason this woman was an executive, at least according to Katie Couric's book,
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is because Jeff Zucker was stupping her. That's how she got her job. That's how she got promoted.
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Do you think that is fair to the other women at the network who maybe got passed over for a promotion
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because they weren't sleeping on top of Jeff Zucker? Do you think that's fair to them?
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Do you think we ought to promote a culture of empowering women in the workplace? If you want to
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get ahead, there's one easy way to do it, ladies. Just go knocking on that door at your boss's office
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and close the door behind you. That's right. That's how you can get ahead. It's two consenting
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adults. Isn't that fine? Two consenting adults who were married, who broke up their marriages because
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of this and created a highly unprofessional workplace dynamic. That's fine. It's just two consenting
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adults. Yeah. People can consent to things that are bad that shouldn't be allowed. People do it all
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the time. We shouldn't tolerate that. It's bad for them. It's bad for their marriages. It's bad for
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society. It's bad for the company. But this, this is what is encouraged. And this is why you can't trust
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the establishment media. You can't trust it. There is no way, even if just one aspect of this one story
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were true, you could never, you could never trust CNN's reporting of Andrew Cuomo. The fact that his
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brother until recently, Fredo, was one of the top anchors at their network. How are you going to trust
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their coverage of Andrew Cuomo? One of the most powerful guys there is the brother of Cuomo.
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The fact that one of their apparently top executives was the former communications director
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for Cuomo. How are you going to trust? She, she, this woman was being talked about as a replacement
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for Jeff Zucker just a year or two ago. Yes, Alison Golis, she might replace Jeff Zucker whenever he
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retires. She was very high up. How are you going to trust their coverage of Cuomo? How did this
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news come out? Well, the news was already leaked, but why, why would Jeff Zucker step down now? Because
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apparently Chris Cuomo, this is just being reported, Chris Cuomo had audio, compromising audio,
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compromise on Jeff Zucker on this issue. So they're all blackmailing each other. They all know each
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other's dirt and they're all covering up for each other. And who gets screwed? You, the viewer,
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you, the public, you, the people who are having information concealed from you or who are just being
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outright deceived through active lies. This is just one little episode, but it's one episode that you
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see countless times a day on countless issues throughout the establishment media. I sort of
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feel bad for everyone in this situation because everyone did bad things and then everyone tried
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to catch other people doing bad things to cover up their bad things. And it was just game theory. And
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they were all just, they're, they're just sort of waiting to see who would crack first. It was a
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prisoner's dilemma. And finally it did. One great way to avoid this, don't do it. I remember before I
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got married, I asked Andrew Klavan, that old sage, I asked him for advice. I said, how do you have a good
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long marriage? He says, uh, it's pretty simple. Don't sleep with other people and then don't get
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divorced. There you go. That's how you have a good long marriage. Don't stop other people. Don't get
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divorced. Okay. Easier said than done. I know Drew has also made the point that every man is two
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drinks and a wink away from ruining his life. So it's possible we're all tempted, but this would
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be a good reason why not to, because it can come back and it really compromises you and it compromises
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your integrity and it can lead to great humiliation. Speaking of liberals getting in trouble at legacy
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media outlets, I've been meaning to talk about this for two days now, and we just, we've run out of
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time each day, but I have to get to Whoopi Goldberg. Whoopi Goldberg made a very impolitic comment about
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the Holocaust. She has now been suspended. There are calls for her to be fired. She's furious that
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she was suspended at all. Here's the comment in case you haven't heard it. Well, also, if you're
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going to do this, then let's be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn't about race.
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No. No, it's not about race. It's not about race. It's not about race. It's not about race.
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What is it about? Because it's about man's inhumanity to man. That's what it's about.
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But it's about white supremacy. Well, but it's not about race. But these are two white groups of
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people. Well, that was after black people too. But you're missing the point. You're missing the
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point. The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. Let's talk about it for what it is.
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It's how people treat each other. It's a problem. It doesn't matter if you're black or white because
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black, white, Jews, it's how everybody eats each other. So is it if you're uncomfortable,
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if you hear about mouse, should you be worried? Should your child say, oh, my God, I wonder if
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that's me. No, that's not what they're going to say. They're going to say, I don't want to be like
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that. I want you to pull over if you're driving. If you are watching this or listening to this,
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I want you to sit down because I have, I think, the most contrarian take on this whole episode
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of anyone that I have heard on either side of the aisle. While Whoopi Goldberg is obviously 100%
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wrong as in historical matter, I think she kind of makes a good point. All right. I just,
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I said it. I said it. I know people are going to be shocked and offended and rend their garments
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and clutch their pearls. She is 100% wrong as a matter of history. Hitler very much perpetrated
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the Holocaust because he hated the Jews. He viewed the Jews as a race, not just as a religious group,
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but as a race. The Jews historically are a race and a religion. It's very difficult for modern people
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to understand that a tribe of people and a religion of people could be the same thing because in
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modernity, we don't really think of tribes anymore. We don't really think of nations anymore. We think
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that any people can be part of any religion and the two are completely separated. That was not true in
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the ancient world. That is not true historically of Judaism. Actually, that idea is really a product
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of Christianity. When Christianity comes and St. Paul says that there is neither Jew nor Greek nor
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slave nor free, but all are one in Christ Jesus. That is a pretty radical and novel idea. And so
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because Christianity shaped the development of the West, it's the most important feature that shaped
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the development of the West, then that's how we think of things. But that wasn't always true and
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that is not the case with Judaism. So yes, Whoopi is wrong that the Holocaust was not about race. And
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the Holocaust specifically refers to Hitler's genocide of the Jews. Hitler also killed millions
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of Ukrainians. Hitler also killed millions of Russians. Hitler also killed lots and lots of Catholics.
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Hitler also killed what, half a million gypsies, something like that. Hitler also killed lots and
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lots of other people. That's not really what we're referring to with the Holocaust. They are separate
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things. Hitler killed a lot of people. And he killed the Jews because they're a race. However,
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the point that Whoopi makes that I really like, that I think actually is a pretty conservative point,
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is that when we're talking about something, even this, you know, is extremely evil. I guess the most
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extremely evil thing you can think of in modernity, the Holocaust. The essence of that evil is not race.
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We are really tempted these days, especially by the left, to say that every bad thing is racism,
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that racism is the most evil thing in the world. There is nothing more evil than racism. It is the
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core evil. This is why the original sin of America is racism. That's the language they use. But it's not.
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The original sin of America, all of the original sin of the whole world, is original sin. And it's
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deeper. The issue here is that the imagination of man's heart is evil from the very beginning.
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You can't boil down the evil in the world just to race. It's deeper than that. It's actually more
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fundamental than that. And so Whoopi, I bet you Whoopi Goldberg would have no idea what I'm talking
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about if I explained to her the implications of the things that she were saying, and if I corrected
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her on the historical record. But that point is very important because if we try to boil down all
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evil to race, we're going to come up short. It's much, much deeper than that. And ultimately,
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it is religious. And because all human conflict is theological, you've got to get down to that
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issue too. And the more that we just babble and prattle about race, the worse off we're going to
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The film premieres a week from today, Thursday, February 10th, and will be free for all to stream
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00:25:54.020
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The Orlando Magic's 23-year-old starting forward is deeply religious and proudly unvaccinated.
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On Friday, Isaac got attention for choosing not to kneel in unison with his teammates or to wear a
00:26:21.360
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Speaking of the Nazis, there is a riveting story in Rolling Stone. I'm serious. That's not even a joke.
00:27:38.100
I'm not being facetious. Rolling Stone, a very left-wing outlet, has a really interesting long
00:27:44.200
essay about an undercover federal agent. Here's the headline. He spent 25 years infiltrating Nazis,
00:27:54.640
the Klan, and biker gangs. It's about this Fed who would go into all these radical far-right groups,
00:28:03.840
radical, far-right domestic terrorist groups all around America, the ones who we're told
00:28:08.380
pose the greatest terror threat. We've got to be on guard. There's a Klansman around every corner,
00:28:14.520
and he would infiltrate them, and he would thwart their actions.
00:28:19.640
I think the point of this essay is that, as I've just said, there are Nazis and Klansmen everywhere,
00:28:26.520
and we've got to be on the lookout, and we've got to suppress the right wing in America.
00:28:30.240
Ironically, though, the effect of the essay, I think, is to prove all of us right-wingers correct
00:28:36.760
when we say that the Nazis that we're told about, the Klansmen that we're told about,
00:28:43.240
are very often just Feds. It's very often just Feds LARPing, live-action role-playing this Nazi stuff
00:28:49.780
and inventing a threat where none really exists or where the threat is relatively minor.
00:28:55.920
This is just from the essay. By his count, there are 600 FBI agents who are certified
00:29:01.840
undercover employees, but some of them do the work of backstopping agents, creating false
00:29:06.800
credentials and social media profiles for UCEs working in the field. So there's 600 of these guys
00:29:13.260
running around or doing their work online, 600 around the country. At one point in this account,
00:29:20.160
the undercover Fed talks about how when he was infiltrating one of these Nazi Klansmen,
00:29:26.980
whatever groups, he ran into another undercover Fed, and he only knew about the other undercover
00:29:31.940
Fed because he had heard about him somewhere. There's 600 of them, so there are a lot of these
00:29:36.080
undercover Feds, but he had heard about him. They had some connection. They said, oh, hey, look,
00:29:39.860
it's like that Spider-Man meme. Oh, hey, it's you. Oh, hey, it's you.
00:29:43.680
This is actually how I imagine most Klan meetings to go. Whatever Klan meetings still exist in
00:29:50.600
America, whatever Nazi meetings there are, I suspect that when they show up, it's kind of
00:29:57.760
like that Fed picnic. Remember the rally for the justice for January 6th that happened a few months
00:30:02.620
ago, and the only people who showed up were journalists, liberals, and undercover federal agents,
00:30:09.660
and like one Klansman from Appalachia who didn't get the memo. But all, probably 99% of the people
00:30:17.760
at this thing, and it was so obvious, there were photos going around of all these dudes wearing the
00:30:22.240
same logo-less shorts and t-shirts. They're all wearing their Garmin watch. They've all got Fed
00:30:27.560
sunglasses on. They all got a nice fresh haircut probably in the basement of Langley. They're all
00:30:32.600
checking their sixes. A lot of situational awareness. These guys blended in like a,
00:30:39.360
like a clown, you know, like a big colorful clown. It was so obvious. And I, and I think that's the
00:30:46.320
point here. What we have been saying for years that this threat that we're told, oh, it's the,
00:30:53.980
the racists, the Nazis, the white supremacists, it's, I think it's mostly imagined and contrived
00:30:59.900
and actually being encouraged by our federal government. And the whole point of this piece,
00:31:04.180
by the way, is to advocate for an even greater surveillance state. The whole point of the piece
00:31:09.460
is to say, this is a real problem. We need even more of these guys. We got to stamp out the right
00:31:13.400
wing. If you read it carefully, really makes, really makes the opposite point. Maybe these federal
00:31:21.820
agents who are protecting us from phantoms, maybe, maybe they're doing more harm than good. Maybe they're
00:31:27.080
the ones creating the illusion of this threat. Speaking of agents of the state, there's a parent
00:31:35.880
right now, number of parents in the North Penn school district, right outside of Philly,
00:31:41.240
who showed up to a school board meeting to report on something that if this mother had not had courage,
00:31:48.260
we probably never would have heard of. This came from libs of TikTok, that a fifth grade teacher
00:31:52.500
lined up students by their race, these are 10-year-olds, and made the white kids apologize
00:31:58.340
to the black kids. I actually pulled my daughter out of AM cult because of the fifth grade teacher
00:32:04.580
who lined those students up from whitest to darkest, made them turn around, and the white ones needed to
00:32:10.840
apologize to the black ones. Now, do not tell me that did not happen, okay, in this district. You need to
00:32:17.140
put an end to this. Kids do not see color, and you are segregating them, and you are separating them.
00:32:24.220
This is not okay. Do something or get out of those damn chairs. I love it. I love her righteous anger,
00:32:32.340
and I love the point that she's making. This is not okay. The teachers who do this need to be
00:32:36.440
canceled. They need to be fired. They need to not work as teachers again. I love cancel culture.
00:32:41.320
Cancel culture is awesome when it's for the right reasons. All cultures cancel. Every single person
00:32:46.420
supports cancel culture. Plenty of people who pretend to hate cancel culture right now are calling to,
00:32:51.920
they're calling to cancel Whoopi Goldberg. Maybe they have good reason to. I think there are plenty
00:32:56.560
of good reasons to ostracize people. There are standards. There are taboos. There are consequences
00:33:01.680
for what people say. Of course, certainly that should be enforced against this teacher, without question.
00:33:09.400
Now, it actually ties in with the Whoopi point a little bit, too, because let's take away all of
00:33:13.740
Whoopi's stupid historical commentary on the Holocaust. Let's just get to the ostensibly
00:33:20.020
deeper philosophical point she's trying to make, which is that evil doesn't just boil down to race.
00:33:25.080
It boils down to man's inhumanity toward man. It really boils down to the perversion and fallenness
00:33:30.140
of man's heart. If it is the case that it's really all about race, all evil in the world is about race
00:33:39.260
and white supremacy, then the exercise that this teacher is doing in her classroom is totally
00:33:44.520
justified. If it's really, if the, all the problems of the world stem from white supremacy, then yeah,
00:33:49.980
the white kids probably should apologize to the black kids. Shouldn't they? And they should be
00:33:53.860
taught that whiteness is bad and blackness is good and white people should always feel ashamed of
00:33:59.740
their skin color. And you've got to root out, out damn spot, out damn whiteness, right? If,
00:34:04.940
if the racial ideology of the left is true, if it's not, if racism is merely a symptom of a deeper
00:34:14.340
fallenness of the world that is not merely about one group or some other group, but is actually about
00:34:20.280
the man in the mirror and our own cracked, broken hearts that are corrupt from the beginning,
00:34:26.500
well, then this exercise doesn't make any sense at all.
00:34:29.180
And the answer to this, by the way, is not the, what the libs are doing right now is they're saying
00:34:36.820
one group, good, the other group, evil. What a lot of people want all the kids to be told is you're
00:34:42.600
all good. You're all good people deep down. What the kids should really be taught is no, you're all
00:34:46.920
fallen. You're not totally evil. You're not 100% irredeemable, but you're not good either. You're
00:34:54.700
fallen and you need humility and you are a sinner. That's the nature of this world. And we need to
00:35:00.040
practice virtue and we need to be on guard against sin and we need a redeemer. That is what, I know
00:35:05.960
that sounds so radical now to say that. That's what education was until like five minutes ago,
00:35:11.420
by which I mean 60, 70 years ago when the secularists really took over the educational
00:35:17.740
institution. And what happened since that time, our education has crumbled and little 10 year olds are
00:35:22.420
being told to feel ashamed of themselves for the color of their skin. This is a lot deeper than
00:35:27.320
just some stupid racial theory. This requires an entire overhaul of how we see ourselves and our
00:35:33.840
country. Starting to think these teachers are the baddies. You know, these teachers who are, they're
00:35:38.560
such good people, but they seem to, they actually on closer inspection seem to be the baddies. There is
00:35:44.680
an abortionist who was tweeting out the other day her defense of abortion. She tweeted out, she said,
00:35:52.300
being against abortion, uh, if you are against abortion, you do not have the moral high ground.
00:35:59.380
Yes, you do. You do because it's, because it's immoral to support abortion and it's moral
00:36:04.820
to oppose abortion. And so just on that issue alone, you do have the moral high ground if you oppose
00:36:10.280
abortion because abortion is evil. So then she responds to her own tweet and she says, being against
00:36:16.440
abortion is being for reproductive coercion. So I'll repeat, if you're against abortion,
00:36:21.200
you do not have the moral high ground. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. When people are
00:36:27.980
really confident of something that they believe in, they don't have to constantly repeat it in an
00:36:31.940
angrier and angrier way. If you're, if you're confident, if you're secure, if you have a good
00:36:40.080
formation of what you believe, then you just say it and it's clear and you don't need to yell and
00:36:44.400
scream and cry about it. You just say it. I looked at this woman's bio and herself bio in her bio.
00:36:51.640
She writes do-gooder, do-gooder in her own bio. The thing about do-gooders is the real do-gooders
00:36:59.260
don't say that they're do-gooders. They don't. They don't have to. They just do good things.
00:37:06.940
The people who say, I'm a do-gooder, I'm a good person. I'm so virtuous. I'm so wonderful.
00:37:14.920
They're saying it, one, because I think they're trying to convince themselves and two, because
00:37:18.760
it's not manifestly true from their behavior. But, but saying so will not make it so. The left
00:37:27.560
believes that language, because there's no such thing as objective reality, if we just say certain,
00:37:33.940
if we just say that a man is a woman, then the man really will be a woman. They'll just say,
00:37:39.100
if we just say that vicious people are virtuous people, then they really will be virtuous people
00:37:44.040
and vice versa. But that's not the case. That's not the case. Reality has a say too. I saw
00:37:50.440
one of the more disturbing stories, not because anyone died or it was particularly gruesome.
00:37:57.680
It was a disturbing story about where our culture is headed. It was a local news story
00:38:01.260
about the metaverse, about how we're all going to plug into virtual reality and Mark Zuckerberg is
00:38:06.320
going to control the world. And we're going to leave the world built by God. And we're going to
00:38:10.480
go into a world built by Mark Zuckerberg. Isn't that going to be so much better? And in the news story,
00:38:15.300
they said the future, not just of commerce, not just of schooling, but the future of church
00:38:24.420
Metaverse is an online platform where people can use virtual reality headsets to transport themselves
00:38:29.520
to any realm they wish, including church. Jackie Banez explains the appeal of digital
00:38:35.540
worshiping in the metaverse. I believe the future of the church is the metaverse.
00:38:40.660
A growing number of people are turning to the metaverse for their religious services
00:38:44.820
as folks pop on virtual reality headsets and partake in digital church.
00:38:53.900
But just because it's virtual doesn't mean it's less interactive than going to a physical house
00:38:58.500
of worship. If anything, VR church participants say it enhances their religious experience.
00:39:04.460
I was able to see a rendering of the verse I was reading, which made scripture much more meaningful
00:39:12.820
for me. And it's so much more than scripture readings. Baptisms are also taking place in the
00:39:19.100
metaverse. The rebirth that you got through Jesus Christ. Do you want this?
00:39:25.400
But this kind of worshiping isn't just for the tech savvy.
00:39:30.620
Baptisms are not taking place in the metaverse. That's the problem. Maybe people think that when
00:39:36.600
they log into their video game and have their little character put their head under the little
00:39:40.420
digital water that they're being baptized. They're not. They're not. They're not going to church,
00:39:46.100
even, in the video game. They're playing a video game. Our faith, Christianity, is an incarnational
00:39:57.240
faith. It's so incarnational that the second person of the Trinity, the divine logic of the universe,
00:40:03.560
took on flesh. He was incarnate of the Virgin Mary. Conceived by the Holy Spirit, incarnate of the
00:40:15.120
Virgin Mary and became man. And became man. At that point, when you're reciting the creed
00:40:20.580
in Christianity, you actually get down on your knees. Because this is the central fact that God
00:40:28.400
became man, took on flesh. And what these heretics are trying to do is take the flesh away.
00:40:36.520
And this has huge, even if you're not Christian, even if you're not particularly religious,
00:40:40.180
this has huge implications for your politics. Charlie Kirk the other day got in trouble with
00:40:44.700
Media Matters because he made a point that I've made on this show dozens of times, that transgenderism
00:40:49.340
is such a big focus of the left, not only because they're creepy, perverted sexual theorists on the
00:40:55.940
left who want to upend all traditional sexual mores, but because they want to get rid of the flesh.
00:41:03.600
They want it to be a stepping stone into transhumanism. They want to say that your body doesn't matter,
00:41:10.460
your location doesn't matter, your family doesn't matter, your nation doesn't matter,
00:41:13.960
real reality doesn't matter. We can just be transported wherever we want in the metaverse.
00:41:18.880
Go into your pod, work on your laptop, and isolate yourself. That's what this is about. A denial of the
00:41:25.500
importance of the flesh. But you can't have that. Real community, real worship, real life happens with
00:41:34.960
your body. Not on a couch, not with some goggles on, not living in some dystopian hell created by
00:41:40.860
Mark Zuckerberg. Take the goggles off. Go into real life. The sunshine is beautiful and the church is
00:41:47.620
much more beautiful too. Now speaking of the real world, I see why the Democrats want to deny the real
00:41:56.960
world. Because they are basing their political views largely on fantasies. Fantasies like the idea that
00:42:03.740
baby's not a baby, that a man can become a woman. Fantasies of how the economy is going to work.
00:42:09.780
Fantasies about how geopolitics. So they like fantasy much more than they like reality. That's
00:42:14.460
why they're denying reality. In reality though, Joe Biden is a very unpopular president. In fantasy,
00:42:22.960
Joe Biden's the most popular president ever who got 700 bazillion votes in 2020. In reality,
00:42:28.820
Joe Biden, according to the majority of voters, is the worst president ever.
00:42:36.900
Rasmussen and the National Pulse conducted a survey on people's opinion of Joe Biden.
00:42:44.880
Question was, who's the worst president in history?
00:42:49.480
54% of likely voters believe that Joe Biden will be remembered as one of the worst presidents in
00:42:57.940
American history. Only 25% think his presidency will be remembered as about average. When the
00:43:10.200
same question was asked about Donald Trump, it was a much smaller number who thought he would be one of
00:43:15.280
the worst presidents in history. 43% said that. When it was asked about Obama, it was even lower.
00:43:19.980
33% said that. What's weird is it's not just the Republicans skewing this, even among Democrats.
00:43:29.420
More Democrats ranked Biden as one of the worst presidents, as ranked him as one of the best
00:43:35.500
presidents. 28% said he'll be one of the worst. 27% say that he will be one of the best. This is bad
00:43:42.880
news for Biden. In part, you've got this issue of when presidents are in the hot seat, they're less
00:43:50.020
popular than they are remembered. So this is why Obama, only 33% say that about him. This is why
00:43:56.460
Bill Clinton's image has been rehabilitated. It's why George W. Bush's even to some degree has been
00:44:00.800
rehabilitated. But that doesn't explain everything away for Biden. Presidents are supposed to be
00:44:06.540
popular at the beginning of their administration. Then they get less popular over time. By the time they
00:44:12.480
leave office, usually they're relatively unpopular, then it bounces back again.
00:44:17.380
Joe Biden's been in office for one year and he's already one of the least popular presidents
00:44:23.520
in American history. Why is that? I think it's very simple. I think it's because you can't deny
00:44:32.060
reality forever. I think that Joe Biden began his campaign on lies. The very first claim of Joe
00:44:39.140
Biden's presidential campaign is that Donald Trump called Nazis very fine people at Charlottesville.
00:44:44.100
That didn't happen. It was completely made up. And the lie was that Donald Trump's a white
00:44:49.520
supremacist. Then the lie was that he was going to completely shut down the virus. Then the lie was
00:44:53.740
that the economy was going to be great. Then the lie was that there was going to be peace and harmony
00:44:57.500
around the world. Then the lie was foreign affairs were going to get better. And then none of that
00:45:01.480
happened. Everything got worse. This is one of the great conservative consolations is that you can't
00:45:09.160
deny reality forever. You can put your little goggles on. You can shut out the world. You can
00:45:13.900
try to just live in your fantasy. You can't do it forever. Eventually reality is going to come back on
00:45:19.780
you. So how are the libs explaining all of this away? Why Biden is so deeply unpopular, why things are
00:45:27.000
really not going well, why everyone seems, seems to really dislike this guy. According to Brian
00:45:32.100
Stelter, according to CNN, it's, it's the obvious answer. It's the answer. It's the cause of all the
00:45:37.940
evil in the world. It's racism. High conflict is a force that causes people to lie awake at night
00:45:45.240
and fear for the future. And I can see this kind of conflict right now with a looming Supreme Court
00:45:51.320
confirmation battle. I guess I could call it a confirmation process. Maybe I should, but I default to
00:45:56.600
the word battle because that's the way it's portrayed in the press. And look, maybe it won't
00:46:00.740
really be a battle. Some conservative activists are saying they're not planning to go scorched earth
00:46:05.900
against President Biden's nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer. Since whoever the nominee is
00:46:12.480
will not change the balance of the court. But let's be honest. Fox wants a fight. Right wing radio and TV
00:46:19.760
wants a fight. They need a fight over the Supreme Court. They're already starting a fight that's rooted in
00:46:26.300
white identity politics. All the Fox's primetime shows are outraged that Biden has committed to
00:46:31.600
nominating a justice who is black and female. There it is. It's rooted. What's it rooted in?
00:46:37.560
What's the root of all of this evil, all this tension, all this conflict, the root white racism.
00:46:42.880
This is why guys, this is why I'm sort of willing to give Whoopi Goldberg at least a little bit of
00:46:50.000
grace here. Because yes, she was totally wrong about the history, but at least some person
00:46:55.920
in the establishment is, is admitting that not the root of all evil in the world is not race,
00:47:03.060
that there's actually something deeper than race. You can be, you can be wrong about the historical
00:47:07.700
point, but, but correct about the deeper rot that undergirds human conflict. Stelter won't do that.
00:47:16.500
The reason we are told the reason that conservatives are going to oppose Joe Biden's inevitably radical
00:47:22.580
leftist court nominee. Who's going to want to enshrine mass baby slaughter in law, in imaginary
00:47:30.140
ink in the constitution. The only reason we oppose that is because of racism or whatever.
00:47:36.720
Even when Joe Biden is admitting that his nominee is going to take this radical view of the constitution,
00:47:42.720
he admitted it yesterday. There's always a renewed national debate. Every time we nominate any president
00:47:48.960
nominates it justice, because the constitution is always evolving slightly in terms of additional
00:47:55.860
rights or curtailing rights, et cetera. And it's always an issue. The constitution's always evolving
00:48:02.060
slightly. Oh, because the constitution's a living, breathing document, right? It's not, it's not. It's
00:48:06.280
a piece of paper. It's very much dead. It's got words on it. The words have meaning. We can read those
00:48:10.760
words. Our lowercase constitution, the way that we all kind of live together, that is evolving. That's
00:48:16.040
always changing. But the cap, the whole point of the capital C constitution on paper is that it
00:48:21.060
doesn't change. It's just text. And if you want to change it, you can, you need to go through the
00:48:25.540
amendment process. And so there's a built-in way to change the constitution, but it is not steadily
00:48:31.460
always necessarily evolving. So what Biden's saying is I'm going to nominate someone who's going to
00:48:37.420
completely ignore the constitution and read into it whatever whims and caprices she has. And what does
00:48:43.620
Brian Stelter say? It's just white identity politics. It's not white identity politics.
00:48:49.480
If it were, that would only be a response to leftist identity politics, whether it be
00:48:55.560
them, the left ginning up black identity politics, Hispanic identity politics, any other kind of
00:49:01.420
identity politics. That comes first. There was a report from Pew Research that showed that white
00:49:07.560
people in America have the lowest racial consciousness of any group by a lot. It's about 15% for white
00:49:12.360
people. It's over 50% for every other group. So please don't prattle onto me about the scourge of
00:49:17.680
white identity politics. It barely exists. And these battles, by the way, only happen from the
00:49:22.880
Democrat side. It started with Robert Bork. Then it went to Clarence Thomas against a black man, by the
00:49:27.320
way, Democrats, Joe Biden. And then it went to Brett Kavanaugh. Those are, that's the only place where
00:49:33.500
this high conflict is. It's total projection from the left. And it's not, it's not primarily or
00:49:41.380
ultimately about race. It's about the way we view ourselves as a country. It's about the way we view
00:49:46.940
the constitution. It's about the country that we want to live in. It's about the way that we view
00:49:50.760
ourselves. The Democrats have done a very, very good job of reordering the way that all of us view
00:50:00.220
ourselves and the way that all of us view our countrymen. But reality does creep in, in the end.
00:50:06.580
Reality, the reality is dawning on people. Is that enough to lead to a political upheaval? One can hope.
00:50:12.600
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00:50:14.460
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Mike Coromina. And hair and makeup by Cherokee Heart. The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production,
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copyright Daily Wire 2022. Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, Jeff Zucker resigns from CNN over revelations
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he was schtupping his closest colleague, who happens to be a former comms director for Andrew Cuomo.