Brother Nathanael - Beto's Brave New World
Aired: 2019-03-16
Duration: 04:51


=== Beto's Family First (03:05) ===

[00:00:01]  It finally happened.
[00:00:03]  He was born to be in it.
[00:00:06]  The climate will fry us, but man, he will not do it.
[00:00:10]  The moment is now.
[00:00:12]  Yes, Beto will not run for president.
[00:00:15]  We've heard a lot of people speculate that you and Senator Cruz may face each other again, not in a Senate rematch, but running for a higher office.
[00:00:23]  What are your thoughts on running for president?
[00:00:26]  I don't want to do it. I will not do it.
[00:00:29]  Amy and I are raising an 11-year-old, a 10-year-old, and a 7-year-old.
[00:00:34]  And we've spent the better part of the last two years not with each other, missing birthdays and anniversaries and time together.
[00:00:43]  Our family could not survive more of that.
[00:00:47]  We need to be together.
[00:00:49]  He bit the bullet.
[00:00:50]  To hell with the family.
[00:00:52]  The missus is ecstatic.
[00:00:55]  After four months of sort of saying, look, I'm thinking about this.
[00:00:58]  This is something I'm considering for myself, for my family.
[00:01:00]  He is finally making it official.
[00:01:03]  All that anticipation coming to today in which he releases this video with his wife, Amy, saying, I'm officially in the race.
[00:01:10]  Let me let you listen to a bit of it.
[00:01:13]  Amy and I are happy to share with you that I'm running to serve you as the next president of the United States of America.
[00:01:20]  This is a defining moment of truth for this country and for every single one of us.
[00:01:25]  The challenges that we face right now, the interconnected crises in our economy, our democracy, and our climate have never been greater.
[00:01:32]  And they will either consume us or they will afford us the greatest opportunity to unleash the genius of the United States of America.
[00:01:40]  In other words, this moment of peril produces perhaps the greatest moment of promise for this country and for everyone inside of it.
[00:01:48]  Who would not eulogize with fawning eyes that the defining moment of truth has finally arrived?
[00:01:56]  If it's false, still, everyone inside can munch on a moment of truth.
[00:02:02]  He'll do policy for the people in the innermost.
[00:02:05]  In the outermost, in the Israeli land of campaign promises, he'll do policy for the gilded and sightsee a peace process for the jilted.
[00:02:16]  He'll slam the occupation in principle, but principally won't change a damn thing.
[00:02:22]  He'll put his mouth where the money is.
[00:02:25]  But we're on the inside and change is moseying on down the street like an old Chevy running on empty filling up in Mexico.
[00:02:34]  No matter how you got inside, cause you're anchored as a beta baby to Beto's brave dystopian world.
[00:02:41]  Hi everyone, I'm Rena, 9 and 3.
[00:02:49]  Thank you for joining us. Former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke made it official today and said he is running for president.

=== White Civilization's Cancer (01:59) ===

[00:02:56]  O'Rourke rolled out his campaign with a feature in Vanity Fair, including photographs by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz.
[00:03:03]  The tagline for the article?
[00:03:05]  I want to be in it.
[00:03:07]  Man, I'm just born to be in it.
[00:03:10]  Man, Vanity Fair, owned by the Newhouse Boys, was transcript to be in it.
[00:03:17]  Annie Leibovitz, too, that legendary paparazzo who transposes photo fantasies into moments of truth, was just born to be yoked to Susie Sontag.
[00:03:28]  It was a love affair, leave of its muse.
[00:03:31]  That lover Susan Sontag, born Susan Rosenblatt, penned a piece titled, White Civilization is a Cancer.
[00:03:38]  It made a big splash when she wrote in it, Mozart, Algebra, and Shakespeare cannot redeem what white civilization wrought upon the world.
[00:03:49]  Scruples prevailed.
[00:03:51]  Sontag recanted.
[00:03:53]  It slandered cancer, patients she decried.
[00:03:57]  Then she died of cancer of the white blood cells.
[00:04:01]  Well, there's an irony here.
[00:04:03]  It's okay to be white inside.
[00:04:06]  It's gender neutral, too.
[00:04:09]  And talk about clashing up civilizations.
[00:04:11]  Muslims created algebra, not whites.
[00:04:14]  Boy, if only intellectuals can be historically correct.
[00:04:19]  But let's celebrate. Beto has that changey feel, and man, he's in good company.
[00:04:25]  It was Leibovitz who shot the pics of the champ, changing into a vamp, a femme fatale, a seductress, a temptress with feverish eyes in a climate where a little photoshopping will do ya.
[00:04:38]  We're all gonna get do ya'd into 2020.
[00:04:42]  It's not an illusion.
[00:04:44]  It's perilous with promise.
[00:04:46]  At negative rates, you can take it to the bank.
[00:04:49]  You can Google it.