The Book is OUT! Unwoke： How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America
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Ted Cruz's new book, Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America, details how the radical left seized every major institution in America and how we can fight back. Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson discuss the importance of unwoke and how to defeat cultural Marxism.
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And Senator, let's just start with congratulations.
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Your new book is out, Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America.
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And I have to say, when you get the book, if you haven't gotten the book,
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the best page, just skip right ahead to page number 40.
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It's the best page in the book, so congrats on that, most importantly, Senator.
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You should definitely just go right there, read that, and then start at the very beginning.
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Every podcast is done alongside my co-host today.
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That's Ben Ferguson, the nationally syndicated radio host has become a very dear friend.
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So I actually think maybe the best page in the book is the very first page of the book
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And if you recall the inscription that I wrote on the front, I said,
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Ben, you are one of the three best hosts in history of the Verdict podcast.
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Don't leave out the word undoubtedly, you used that word.
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I want to make sure that I get that in the history books.
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Now, never mind that there have only been three hosts of Verdict,
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and that would be you, me, and Michael Knowles,
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And the second sentence I actually liked even better than the first,
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and I said of all of the men to play college tennis,
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When you signed this, I didn't want to travel with it,
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We were on the road last week, and I didn't want to travel with the book
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because I was like, all right, this is one I want to genuinely say forever.
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So I got home for the trip, and I didn't want to knock the book around.
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So I was reading all day yesterday and all day today
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to make sure that we could have a stellar interview on your own show
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And also, for people that don't understand what the definition of cultural Marxism is,
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Look, I wrote this book because the world has gone insane,
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and my reaction is the same as millions of people, as the listeners of this podcast.
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This book is my best effort to explain it, and in particular, it's explaining how the radical left
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And so the book starts, chapter one, is the universities.
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And I call the universities the Wuhan lab of the woke virus.
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The universities are where the virus was created.
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It's where it mutated, and it's where it spread.
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Each chapter of the book focuses on a different institution the radical left has seized.
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So chapter two focuses on K-12 education and all the radical garbage being put in our kids,
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whether it's critical race theory or radical transgenderism.
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Chapter three focuses on journalism and how journalism has changed from covering the news to propaganda.
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From there I go to big business and how big business today, the Fortune 100,
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are the economic enforcers of the radical left.
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From there I go to big tech and how big tech is pervasively censoring speech.
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And by the way, if I could have just one back, I would have entertainment back.
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Entertainment, I think, is the most consequential of all of these.
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And in entertainment we talk about Hollywood and movies and television and sports and music.
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From there we go to science, and I talk about how science has been corrupted and politicized.
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And the final chapter in the book is on China and explains how China is a nexus that links them all.
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And the book was really designed to do two things.
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Number one, explain how and why, specifically, the radical left took over every one of those institutions.
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But secondly, to lay out a clear battle plan how we take them back, how we fight back.
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And this book is laying out how we recapture the institutions of America.
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You know, in this book, and I encourage people to get it because there is just incredible history in the very beginning as well about your family.
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I know your father and have gotten to spend some time with him.
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But there is some incredible history, not only about your family, but also how your father was involved in Cuba,
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in the students at a young age, and what was happening really with the revolution down there,
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and how he was, I guess you could say, brought in to this revolution with Castro, not realizing what Castro was doing.
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And it started at a young age where they were targeting children, and it was an incredible part of the story,
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not just because of what happened, but also how he was beaten and how his life was threatened
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and how he was a marked man who had to get out and come to America.
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Talk a little bit about that story, of that being your history of your family,
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It's the beginning of the book, and it takes your breath away when you realize how close your father was to death in Cuba.
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Well, my family story is a huge part of why this matters so much to me.
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And what I want to do is just read you the first page of the book.
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His white linen suit was stained red with blood.
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Blood that had been beaten out of him with a club, regularly, each hour.
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Breaking his nose, shattering his teeth, scarlet red blood, as if his suit were emblazoned with the color of the Marxist revolution of which he was a part.
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As my father lay on that prison floor, crumpled and broken, not a spot of white was visible on the now torn and tattered suit he had been given for his 17th birthday.
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To this day, my dad remembers what he was thinking in that dark hole.
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Three years earlier, when he was just 14, my father had made the fateful decision to join up with the revolution in his homeland of Cuba.
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Rafael Bienvenido Cruz did not know that Castro was a communist.
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He didn't know the horrors that would befall the Cuban people at the hands of his new comrades.
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He just knew that the then dictator of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista, was corrupt and cruel and oppressive.
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As Francis Ford Coppola immortally chronicled in the Godfather saga, Batista was in bed with the American mafia, enjoying wealth and power purchased with the blood beaten out of the Cuban people.
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My aunt, my Tia Sonia, whom I adore, who we actually had on verdict as a guest, talking about Cuba.
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She fought in the counter-revolution after Castro succeeded.
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I also tell the story of my grandmother, my abuela.
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My abuela was a sixth-grade teacher, and she told me she loved teaching.
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She loved teaching her students, and she had a pure photographic memory, man.
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She literally, everything she read, she remembered word for word.
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She told me about when Castro took over that they almost immediately targeted the children.
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And one thing to understand, Marxists always begin with the kids.
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As my father told me, the revolution, like he was, were a bunch of 14- and 15-year-old boys who didn't know any better.
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Teenagers, and you look at every communist revolution in the world, whether you're talking about Russia or China or North Korea or Cuba or Venezuela,
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it is always the young teenagers who are idealistic, who believe, and who are naive, who don't have the world experience to understand they're being lied to.
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But communists start not just with teenagers, they go younger.
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And what my grandmother told me is she said almost immediately after the revolution, they sent the army into the elementary schools,
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and soldiers would go into kindergartens and first grade, and they would tell all of the little kids,
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they'd say, close your eyes and pray to God for candy.
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And then they'd open their eyes and there'd be no candy.
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And then the soldiers would tell them, they'd say, close your eyes and pray to Fidel Castro for candy.
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And the kids did so, and while their eyes were closed, the soldiers would quietly slip a piece of candy on each child's desk.
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Che Guevara, who was a vicious, bloodthirsty murderer, he was Fidel Castro's right hand.
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Che Guevara described children as malleable clay, that you can take the defects out of them.
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You want to know why the cultural Marxists in America started in the universities?
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You want to know why they've gone into K-12 to elementary schools and junior highs and high schools?
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Because if you take the children, you take the nation.
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And this book is designed to lay out how they did it and how we take them back.
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You know, when I was reading this book, Senator, I go back to there's certain pivotal moments in I think everyone's life that you look back on and you go, wow, if that would have gone differently, my whole life would have gone differently or may not even exist in the first place.
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I was hit by a drunk driver when I was a young kid.
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Many times I was in a, as you know, a shooting where I was a target of a gang initiation.
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I wonder if I would have been hit that night and in my life would have, you know, I wouldn't have my kids.
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There's that moment in this book where you wrote, my father joined up and began doing acts of sabotage, burning government buildings, throwing cocktails, whatever he could to undermine the, the oppressive regime.
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But Jesus police had caught him and they were, uh, they were extracting their brutal revenge.
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The next day was dragging the office of a colonel who told him, I'm letting you go.
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But if another bomb goes off, if another fire starts, I'm blaming you.
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How can I be responsible for every bad thing that happens in the city?
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Her eldest child had walked in the door, beaten, covered in his own blood.
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As she told me when I was a child that imagined that from that day was scared into her mind forever, forever.
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My abuela told him, get out of the country.
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And that was the turning point for your entire family history.
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Because not only did he get out, but he, he applied to colleges in America.
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He, he, to the university of Miami, to LSU, the university of Texas, Texas was the first one that let him in.
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And that's how your family history started anew with a clean slate in America.
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When you were writing that, I'm assuming you've heard the story many times, but when you put it on paper, it took my breath away.
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I don't think they know this yet, but it is dedicated to my father, my Tia Sonia, and my abuela in my family, the original Freedom Fighters.
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I don't think my abuela is dead, but I don't think either my dad or Tia Sonia have seen that yet.
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Now, my dad listens to Verdict, so he, he may find it out right now listening to the podcast.
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But, but it was, I mean, when I, it's actually the very last thing I type on the book is the dedication.
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And that was, look, it's, it's, it's why I am who I am.
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I grew up as a kid sitting at the feet of my father and my Tia Sonia and hearing about Freedom Fighters.
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And, and it is an unbelievable blessing when you are the child of someone who fled oppression and came to America seeking freedom.
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It's not something, oh, that's kind of interesting.
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We either, we, we defend our freedom here or we lose America.
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I hate them with a passion from the pit of my gut.
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Communism has been responsible for more death, more misery, more destruction, more poverty, more suffering than any force in the history of humanity.
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And, and this book is all about how the same philosophy that has produced such misery is taking over and has taken over the major institutions of America.
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And, and look, you've heard me say this before, but as a child, my father probably a thousand times said to me, when we lost our freedom in Cuba, I had a place to flee to.
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If we lose our freedom here in America, where do we go?
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There was also a point in there that, that hit me.
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And, and, and you said that your dad did something that I think we've lost in this country.
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And that's admitting sometimes that maybe we get things wrong.
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Maybe green alternative energy is, is in this green religion is a failure.
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We've tried this and doc, you know, you know, the government taking over our kids.
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And your dad was an advocate for Castro early on, and he was ashamed by it.
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He sat down and he made a list of every place he'd spoken in Austin, Texas in support of Castro.
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He then went back to each and every one of them and stood before the same people to make amends.
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I didn't do so knowingly, but I did so nonetheless, I urge you to support an evil man and an evil
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That's not just a, a, a point of, of, of incredible character, but why don't we have that with politicians
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today where they can admit, Hey, I may have gotten something wrong and I'm sorry that I got it wrong.
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We tried this and it didn't work because we are now, we have so many elected officials that refuse to ever admit
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And, and, and that story, likewise, my father told me thousands of times.
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I was probably, I don't know, two or three years old.
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And, and, and I've admired it every time I've heard it because to have the courage, he had
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gone and, and spoken at, at rotary clubs and Kiwanis clubs in, in Austin supporting Castro.
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When, when he got here, he got here, it was 1957.
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He didn't know that Castro was a communist and he hated Batista.
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And, and, and then when, when Castro took over and declared he was a communist and, and, and
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my dad saw the evil and oppression and theft and murder and cruelty, and, and that as bad
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as Batista was, Fidel Castro was a thousand times worse.
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Yet, you know, I'm reminded of the, the, the clip recently where Barack Obama played that,
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that he said, you know, we all, we are all complicit in the Middle East because he says, well,
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what Hamas did was terrible, but he said, what's happening to the, the Palestinians, the,
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And I got to admit of all the clips of Obama, that might be the one that pisses me off the
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I actually did, um, uh, did yesterday, Megan Kelly show, uh, her podcast in, in, uh, New
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York and was talking about the book and, and, and she played that clip for me and, and I
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try to, try to speak reasonably and respectably and I try to limit my cursing, but I, but she
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played it to me and I just said, what utter bullshit.
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And by the way, anytime I say something like that, my father will call or text me and say,
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And my dad's right on that, but it, but it just, it's infuriating.
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And it's like, look, Obama, you sent over a hundred million dollars to the Ayatollah,
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uh, to Iran, you funded these Hamas terrorists, you set flooded money into the Gaza Strip.
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You put money directly in the hands, uh, of these death squads.
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And by the way, you're repeating the bigoted racist lie that there's an occupation.
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And yet, you know, is Barack Obama capable of saying it was a mistake to send a hundred
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billion dollars to the Ayatollah who chanced death to America, death to Israel?
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Is Joe Biden capable of saying it was a mistake for him to send nearly a hundred million dollars
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You mentioned, um, education and, and how it's easiest way to change a country in one
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But there was also one of the things you said on page 64, it says how to fight back.
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He said a few years ago, you walked in to your daughter's bedroom and asked what she'd
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She said she had been learning about Christopher Columbus, the quote unquote, real story.
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I asked what that meant for the next few minutes.
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I heard about the crimes of Christopher Columbus in a minute detail.
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Every murder, native American transmitted disease and stolen acre of land seemed to be
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I heard that Columbus who claimed the land for himself because he, his straight white privilege
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or something like that had not actually discovered anything at all, but rather had landed on the
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shores of what would come to be known as America by accident.
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This quote unquote revolution familiar to most adults in the United States is something that
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American children encounter sooner or later in a textbook, believing that they've accessed
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some secret hidden knowledge that the grownups don't want them to have.
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That moment for me is the moment that terrifies me for our kids in this, my kids generation
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is that we have, we have handed our children over to this school systems and it's not just public
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schools now, it's private schools as well, who are indoctrinating them in this idea that
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America somehow was started on, on, on, on evil, bad motives and that you should not love
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this country, but you should be ashamed of this country.
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And you had to deal with this with your own daughter.
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And the problem is this indoctrination is happening in every school in America.
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America and, and, and what I described part of the way that this book is all about how
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But, you know, as she was saying that Columbus was evil and racist and genocidal and terrible
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and she hated Christopher Columbus, you know, I just, just sat down in her bedroom and I
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tried to have a conversation with her and I said, look, I'm not deeply vested in making
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the argument that Christopher Columbus was some incredible hero, but, but I said, you know
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what, we do have a federal holiday named after him.
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Do we typically name federal holidays after evil, racist, genocidal maniacs?
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Like, might there be another side to the story?
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And, and she was not, not really able to, to see much that was admirable.
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I said, well, what do you think about getting in three rickety, rickety wooden ships and,
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and, and, and leaving Europe and, and, and heading, heading west when you think you're
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falling off the edge of the world to, to, to explore and discover?
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I mean, I mean, is that spirit, that intrepid spirit, is that anything to be admired?
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And, and, and, and I said, secondly, look, it is true that Columbus and, and, and the men
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who traveled with him, that, that, that they carried some, some germs that, that, that were,
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that were new to, to, to the, to the Western Hemisphere, that when they got here, some of
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the, some of the Native Americans died from those germs.
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They didn't know what a germ was, so they didn't know they were carrying it.
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And, and when you accuse him of mass murder, does culpability matter?
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Does the fact that they didn't know what a germ was, they had no idea they were doing it,
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is that at all relevant if you're going to call him this evil, terrible murder?
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Or, and, and what I talk about in the, in the book is not long thereafter, which Thanksgiving
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of that year, we were talking about Thanksgiving, and she and a friend of hers from school, and
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this is when they were in grade school, said, said likewise, oh, Thanksgiving is, is, is
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It's when the pilgrims were oppressing the, the, the Native Americans.
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And, and, and, you know, again, I, I made the argument, I think, even more vigorously
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this time, and I said, and I said, listen, it is certainly right that the settlers that
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came to America, that they settled America, and, and, and, and they ultimately conquered
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America, and, and, and they, they committed some terrible acts to Native Americans.
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But if you look at the history of humanity in, in every continent, every nation was acquired
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And every time there's conquest, you have one group of people who are conquering another
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By the way, in the United States, before we were the United States, the Native Americans,
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one tribe conquered another, conquered another, conquered another.
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And you look at Europe, you look at Asia, that's the history of humanity, one group of people
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And any time you have conquest, there are, are horrible things that happen, there are
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But I said, look, in, in any war, there were atrocities on both sides.
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I said, you know, I asked, I asked my daughter, I said, you know, from whence do you think the
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The Native Americans did some horrible things to the settlers who came here also.
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And, and the connection that, that, that I made for her and that I make in the book is
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those two discussions are interlinked and intertwined, which is for all of the teachers and all of
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the professors and all of the people advocating that Columbus was evil and advocating that
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Thanksgiving is evil because the pilgrims were stealing from the, the, the Native Americans.
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Was the settlement of the new world a good thing or a bad thing?
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Was the formation of the United States of America good or bad?
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And, and, and I'm not neutral or ambivalent on that question.
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I think the United States of America has been the greatest force for good of any nation in
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the history of the world that we have produced more prosperity, more abundance.
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We have shed our blood and treasure and tears fighting tyranny more than any nation in the
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But America, I believe, like Reagan said, is a shining city on a hill.
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Click over to Amazon, type in Unwoke, and buy the book right now.
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You mentioned that what we're up against in one of your chapters is about the newsroom
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And you start with a great story of a former colleague of mine that is hard to deal with,
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Jake Tapper, in a fight as he's in essence calling you a liar.
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And this is the new thing that the media has done.
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And they become so sanctimonious that they are always looking for a moment to tell you
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We've seen this in the last several days as they've been demanding a ceasefire to protect
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the terrorists in Gaza who the Israelis are trying to eradicate from the face of this
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earth with good reason after what they did just one month ago.
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Israel, we knew, was on an artificial clock the day the terrorist attack happened before
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the media, before the left, started going to the aid of Hamas and the Palestinian people
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that were backing Hamas, many of them that were, and saying, okay, all right, you had
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Now it's your obligation to stop trying to protect yourself.
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And this is our media now, and it goes back to this idea that they have, which is they're
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They're here to go after people like you and others that they don't like and indoctrinate
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a nation to believe in socialism and communism and Marxism.
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Look, that is exactly right, and the media has fundamentally changed.
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And so the chapter on journalism, I talk about how when I was first elected to the Senate 11
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years ago, and I actually focus on CNN as really a case lesson.
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11 years ago, CNN, they aspired to be journalists.
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If you asked them, they'd say, we want to be journalists.
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And we want to focus on facts and not our opinion.
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They leaned hard left, and they couldn't help themselves.
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Number one, they would articulate to you they were trying to achieve.
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But number two, I think they believed in their heart they were trying to do that.
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And so when I was first elected to the Senate, you may find this hard to believe, but I went
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I went on there over and over and over again, and they would give you a chance to lay out a
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conservative argument, and they'd attack you from the left, and they'd be unfair, and
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they'd play gotcha questions, but they would give you a chance to present the other side.
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And what happened is when Donald Trump became president, I think it fundamentally broke the
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They hated him so much that today the media no longer views its vision as being journalists,
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as being fair and impartial and presenting both sides.
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Instead, they have embraced a vision that they are advocates, they are defenders of democracy,
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and what they mean by democracy is left-wing radical policies.
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And, you know, so the story I tell in the very beginning of the journalism chapter is during
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the presidential race, I was out on the campaign trail.
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I was actually in our campaign bus, and I was doing an interview with Jake Tapper.
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I've known Jake since he was a cub reporter on the George W. Bush 2000 campaign, and I
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And he was interviewing me for his Sunday show.
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And we did an interview, and it was, I don't remember, probably 10 minutes or so.
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And I had learned a lesson, and it's something that I do with every Sunday show, which is
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that I insist that the Sunday show either be live or it be live to tape.
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And the reason I learned that is I had done, just a few weeks earlier, an interview with
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And Bob Schieffer, I hadn't insisted on that, and he'd done the interview.
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And then afterwards, his show had edited it, and it basically cut out every good argument
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I made, and just put this slash job where he decimated me because he excluded all my
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good answers, and just edited it in a way that was really deceptive.
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If we do one of these, they must air what I actually say.
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And I said, look, if you want to give me five minutes or six or eight or 10 or 12 or whatever,
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you can pick the time, but when we film it, you air exactly what happens during that time.
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And in the course of the interview, we were talking about the shooting at Fort Hood, and
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Nadal Hassan, who was the radical Islamist who had walked through and murdered 14 innocent
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And I mentioned that the Obama administration knew that Hassan was a radical jihadist.
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They knew that he had been in email communication with Anwar al-Awlaki, who was the Islamist
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cleric, the radical, that he'd asked al-Awlaki about the permissibility of waging jihad on
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his fellow soldiers, and yet the Obama administration did nothing until he committed that act of
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And when I said all of that, Jake immediately interrupted, and he said, that's not true.
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And he said, what you're saying is fundamentally false.
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And, you know, I just kind of smiled, and I said, well, you know, Jake, as John Adams
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And, you know, when you research the issue, that's exactly what you're going to find out.
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Jake and his production team leaves the bus, and I don't know, five, ten minutes later,
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And he says, hey, can you come in and talk for a second?
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And he said, look, after we did the interview, he said, I went and got on the Internet, and
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I just had not seen the revelation that the Obama administration knew it.
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He said, I agreed we would do this live to tape.
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And so if you want, I will air it exactly as it happened.
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And then after I air it, I will come on live, and I'll say, after the interview, I researched
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And it turns out I was wrong, and Cruz was right.
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What he said was exactly right, and I was in error when I said he was not telling the
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He said, option number two, which he said I'd really much prefer, is that we just edit
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We just remove it from the interview, and we air everything else, and just not include
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And I describe in the book that, you know, I thought about it, and it was obviously in
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my self-interest to pick option number one.
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That, like, having CNN, having Tapper admit he was full of crap, and I was right.
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But I also expected that I would be doing a whole lot more interviews with Tapper and
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with CNN, and I frankly respected how he approached it, that he came to me, and he admitted he was
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wrong, and he gave me that option, I thought was an honorable way to handle it.
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And so I made what I would say is a long-term play rather than a short-term play, and I said,
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okay, you can go ahead and cut the segment out.
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So the story I recount in the book, that segment never aired because CNN cut the segment out.
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I focus on Tapper in particular because I think he's a smart guy, and I think he wants
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to be a journalist, and I think in his heart right now, he knows that he's not.
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That now CNN will have a panel of five experts there to discuss, true or not, Donald Trump
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is the devil, and all five of them agree, of course he's the devil.
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And, you know, look, CNN used to be a place, if you go back to 2017, in 2017, I did three
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We did one on health care and two on tax policy, and they were great debates.
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I think they were among, if not the highest rated shows on CNN that whole year.
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They were 90 minutes, Bernie is an unapologetic defender of socialism.
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I'm an unapologetic defender of capitalism, and we had a real and substantive debate.
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That CNN doesn't exist anymore, and it's bad for America, it's bad for the world that
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And I describe all of this in the book, but I also describe how, because journalism, corporate
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media is broken, it's part of what makes the radical Democrats so extreme, why they vote
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for such ridiculous policy positions that are so out of the mainstream, because they
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know they will never, ever, ever get asked about it by reporters back home.
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Senator, there's another part of your book that I want to mention real quick, and it's
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a trend, whether it's you talking about big tech or the schools or Marxism in Washington.
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The list goes on and on, especially when you have a lot to talk in here about science and
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That chapter is probably my favorite as I was reading it today.
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But there's a trend in this book, and I love this.
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The book is you, in each chapter, in essence, ask, how do you fight back?
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It's not just a book of you ranting about issues, but you actually lay out how we can succeed
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And that's what empowers the reader to not just read a book, but to take something from
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Well, it is critically important, and there are all sorts of elements of how we fight
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The views of the radical left are wildly unpopular.
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Look, no rational person supports abolishing the police.
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No rational person supports open borders and the chaos at our southern border.
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No rational person supports medically and surgically sterilizing and castrating eight-year-old
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No rational person is befuddled by the question, what is a woman?
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All of those are 90-10 issues, and the radical left is on the extreme minority position on
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It's why they rely on force rather than persuasion, because their positions are out there.
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And so often, shining a light is really, really potent.
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So we had a podcast several weeks ago that was entitled, Black Lives Matter is Hamas.
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And we walked through how Black Lives Matter, as a statement, is a truism.
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However, Black Lives Matter, the organization, Black Lives Matter, Inc., is a very different
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It is founded by avowed Marxists who are trained Marxists.
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They're trained in fomenting communist revolutions.
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That's their own self-description, not our language, their language.
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They are vicious racists, and they are deeply, deeply anti-Semitic.
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Indeed, one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter has called since 1995 for the destruction
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And on our podcast, we laid out all of that evidence, and then we named names of all of
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the, or a number of the giant corporations who had given millions of dollars to Black Lives
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Matter, and that included Amazon and Apple and Coca-Cola, and we said, listen, do these
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Do you support demanding the destruction of the state of Israel?
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Do you support these avowed Marxists because you gave money to them?
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That podcast came out, I believe, October 18th.
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The next day, Coca-Cola went online, and they scrubbed their website to remove every reference
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to the $500,000 that they had given to Black Lives Matter, and it was a direct result of
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We put the podcast out, and almost immediately they erased it.
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I'm calling them out, and I'm shining a light, and I'm saying, look, have you apologized to
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the American people for why you were funding a viciously racist and anti-Semitic organization?
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You just didn't care because your woke politics mattered more to you than doing the right thing.
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And that's one of the strategies that is inherent in this book, is shining the light and calling
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And chapter after chapter, I talk about winning victories, whether it's winning school board
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seats back, or flipping Virginia red as parents got furious, or whether it's Elon Musk buying
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All of these are strategies where we take these institutions back.
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It's an incredible book, Senator, and congratulations on it.
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It's one that I hope everybody listening will go grab.
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One of the chapters that you've got to read if you get it, make sure you read the big tech chapter, and also science.
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The science chapter to me was one that, as I was reading it, Senator, I know you well enough
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to know when you really get passionate about something.
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You were really, really passionate when writing that chapter on science, and what has happened,
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and how science has just been totally corrupted, whether it's by Fauci or others that are pushing
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And those are two chapters I just want to mark for people.
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So grab the book, Unwoke, How to Defeat a Cultural Marxism in America.
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Don't forget, hit that follow, subscribe, or auto-download button wherever you're listening
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We do this podcast Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
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It's some of the things deeper in each podcast maybe you missed because of time restraint.
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And on those in-between days, I'd love for you to join me as I'll keep you updated on
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breaking news on my podcast, the Ben Ferguson podcast as well, on those in-between days.
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And the Senator and I will see you back here in a couple of days.