The Charlie Kirk Show - Why America's Public Libraries are Banning this Christian Children's Book with Kirk Cameron
Aired: 2022-12-15
Duration: 30:44


=== Twitter Message Suppression Revealed (08:04) ===

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[00:00:00]  Today in the Charlie Kirk show, why didn't Twitter delete their emails and their messages?
[00:00:05]  And then Kirk Cameron joins us as he talks about the fruit of the spirit, which is apparently more controversial than naked adults dancing in front of children.
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[00:01:32]  Why didn't the Twitter employees delete all of these messages that Elon is now publicizing?
[00:01:42]  Now, you might say, well, Charlie, it was illegal.
[00:01:45]  They were not allowed to.
[00:01:46]  Well, hold on.
[00:01:46]  That didn't stop Hillary Clinton.
[00:01:48]  That didn't stop Lois Lerner.
[00:01:51]  That didn't stop all of these other people that have routinely broken the law and deleted emails, deleted messages, because they knew that those emails or those messages would be incriminating.
[00:02:06]  No, they made a decision to keep them there.
[00:02:10]  I have a couple of theories with this.
[00:02:11]  My first theory is that they did delete a fair amount.
[00:02:17]  That this is the remnant, that they had to leave a little bit of the stuff they were proud of, but they deleted the stuff that is so bad, so incriminating, so awful, they didn't want to make it look like they just burdened the whole house to the ground.
[00:02:32]  That is my first theory, that they actually did go on a deletion spree.
[00:02:38]  And this is what remained.
[00:02:40]  That what remained is Yoel Roth's Slack channel, which is very interesting because if you look at how the left is covering this, including Brandi Zedrozny and all these people, they're actually very proud of these messages.
[00:02:59]  They're proud of labeling my Twitter account Do Not Amplify.
[00:03:05]  They seem to be proud of their internal discussions of how to suppress half the country's ability to communicate politically.
[00:03:14]  These are not people that are filled with remorse.
[00:03:16]  They almost look at this as a record that will be looked at by historians of when the Twitter line was held against the abusers of democracy.
[00:03:31]  Now, Jack Dorsey testified in front of Twitter in 2018.
[00:03:37]  There are multiple ways to interpret what he was talking about here.
[00:03:42]  But one of the sentences of Jack Dorsey here unequivocally shows that Jack Dorsey lied under oath in front of Congress.
[00:03:53]  And my own Twitter account, thanks to the Twitter files, is evidence and proof of it.
[00:04:00]  Play cut 10.
[00:04:01]  Social media is being rigged to censor conservatives.
[00:04:05]  Is that true of Twitter?
[00:04:07]  No.
[00:04:09]  I don't know what Twitter is up to.
[00:04:11]  It sure looks like to me that they're censoring people and they ought to stop it.
[00:04:15]  Are you censoring people?
[00:04:17]  No.
[00:04:18]  Twitter shadow banning prominent Republicans.
[00:04:22]  It's bad.
[00:04:23]  Is that true?
[00:04:24]  No.
[00:04:25]  Now, the shadow banning thing aside, which is open for interpretation of what that would mean.
[00:04:30]  We know what it is, but they legally might be able to escape from that one.
[00:04:34]  The more informative line of questioning there against Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter and founder of Twitter, was, are you censoring people?
[00:04:44]  Him saying no is a lie under oath.
[00:04:48]  Him saying no should get him a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.
[00:04:53]  It won't, but putting do not amplify on my account is a lie under oath.
[00:05:02]  Anthony Fauci recently is very involved in this.
[00:05:05]  Elon Musk is teasing that there are messages and files and emails that show that Anthony Fauci himself was pushing Twitter to censor or sponsor certain stories.
[00:05:18]  Now, this is a clip of Anthony Fauci that admittedly I thought was edited because, and I'm not, I'm being honest, if you look at this Anthony Fauci video just without sound, it looks like someone drew a Hitlerian mustache on his lip.
[00:05:33]  It just the way the shadow goes down on his nose.
[00:05:35]  I'm not saying he is.
[00:05:36]  I'm not saying that's appropriate.
[00:05:38]  It just looks that way.
[00:05:40]  Play cut 73.
[00:05:41]  But the latest now, Dr. Fauci, is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
[00:05:45]  He's now asking the Florida Supreme Court to greenlight an investigation into, and the way he put it, is any and all wrongdoing in Florida with respect to COVID-19 vaccines.
[00:05:58]  I don't have a clue, Kate, what he's asking for.
[00:06:01]  I mean, we have a vaccine that unequivocally is highly effective and safe and has saved literally millions of lives.
[00:06:10]  Now, look, I'm sure it's just an act of cosmic hilarity.
[00:06:18]  But I mean, I'm not saying it's appropriate because you're not allowed to do that.
[00:06:25]  That's for Daniel Horowitz and for Steve Dace to talk about.
[00:06:29]  But just the way that CNN arranged the lighting, the nose, the shadow of the nose looks like Anthony Fauci has the Hitler stash.
[00:06:38]  Okay, anyway, that's enough of that.
[00:06:40]  But the point is that Fauci and DeSantis are now going back and forth.
[00:06:44]  So Ron DeSantis has been exhibiting phenomenal courage of going after Anthony Fauci.
[00:06:49]  And Anthony Fauci, in my personal opinion, needs to be patient zero of the new Republican Congress accountability project.
[00:06:59]  Anthony Fauci needs to be focused on by every single person.
[00:07:04]  The Attorney General, the Attorneys General.
[00:07:07]  See, I'm getting my grammar correct.
[00:07:12]  The attorneys general of the country, the House Congress.
[00:07:17]  All roads lead from Anthony Fauci.
[00:07:22]  Now, in some ways, the Twitter files are kind of a, it's kind of a collection of every corrupt company, influence, and government agency that seemingly all worked to influence public opinion via Twitter.
[00:07:45]  All roads lead from Anthony Fauci, it seems, but all roads lead to Twitter.
[00:07:52]  Whether you are a government agency trying to suppress speech, derail a president, DHS, NIAD, whatever it might be, it seems that all of them went through Twitter at one point, period, or time.

=== Vaccination as Religious Commandment (06:05) ===

[00:08:04]  Now, of course, if we were able to look at Facebook or Google's files, that would be a separate issue.
[00:08:11]  But right now, we're having a little bit of a window into the suppression operation that went into Twitter.
[00:08:17]  We're going to play more about Ron DeSantis and Fauci, but Fauci needs to be patient zero.
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[00:10:10]  It is the mark of a tyrant to try to separate children from their parents.
[00:10:15]  And this is why there has to be a special commandment for honoring your mother and father.
[00:10:21]  You do not have to love your mother and father.
[00:10:24]  It does say that later in the scriptures, but if we're talking just about the decalogue, the Ten Commandments, you must honor them.
[00:10:30]  You must treat them heavily.
[00:10:31]  That is the Hebrew.
[00:10:33]  It is the word honor and heavy have the same root, just as curse and light have the same root.
[00:10:40]  And so it shouldn't even be a question that grandparents should be near their grandchildren.
[00:10:46]  I'm a very big believer in the power of grandparents.
[00:10:49]  For those of you that are grandparents, you need to take that role very seriously.
[00:10:54]  You can have a profound and lasting impact on somebody's life.
[00:10:58]  It is the destruction of the nuclear family is one of the great tragedies of the last couple of decades.
[00:11:07]  So it shouldn't really be much of a question, but it is, unfortunately.
[00:11:11]  Where Fauci was asked, should you even be near your grandchildren if they're not vaccinated?
[00:11:21]  And almost with religious fervor, vaccination is the answer.
[00:11:28]  This is going to sound somewhat silly, but the way he answers sounds like an evangelist I know who would say, well, Jesus is the answer, which is true, by the way.
[00:11:38]  Jesus is the answer.
[00:11:38]  But the way he answered is vaccination, again, is the answer.
[00:11:43]  Play cut 11.
[00:11:44]  Since we've been vaccinated, how dangerous is it to be near our grandchildren?
[00:11:49]  They have not been vaccinated beyond what's required in the schools.
[00:11:53]  Right.
[00:11:53]  Well, vaccination, again, is the answer.
[00:11:57]  So if you want to protect your grandchildren and vice versa, I would encourage my child, who is the parent of my grandchildren, to get their children vaccinated.
[00:12:09]  Do you notice the leading question to how dangerous?
[00:12:14]  It implies that there is a danger being around your grandchildren.
[00:12:19]  It's not a matter of, the question should be, not even should, if you were to want to be at least somewhat fair, is there a danger to be around your grandchildren?
[00:12:26]  No, it's a question of how dangerous.
[00:12:30]  This is a really troubling development.
[00:12:35]  Kids are germ factories.
[00:12:37]  Fact.
[00:12:38]  They're also gifts.
[00:12:40]  For a grandparent to be engaging in a calculus that says, I might not visit my grandkids because they do not have their COVID booster.
[00:12:54]  You are an immoral human being.
[00:12:56]  You are a selfish, narcissistic, neurotic freak.
[00:13:02]  Yes, you might get sick being around your grandkids.
[00:13:05]  So what?
[00:13:07]  They need you.
[00:13:08]  Forget the fact that you probably need them for a little bit of joy in your life.
[00:13:12]  You're trying to tell me that treasured memories, experiences, lessons that could be taught around Christmas or Thanksgiving previously or New Year's are going to be put in suspension because of a grandchild's vaccination status with an MRNA gene altering technology.
[00:13:37]  How is this even remotely a question?
[00:13:41]  The answer is if you don't believe in the value of the transmission of values, or you don't believe in the necessity, let me be more clear, of the transmission of values from the elder to the child, and you believe in this garbage, radical egalitarianism that has plagued our land, you could end up getting to a place where you're saying, well, I don't know if I'm going to come over for Christmas again this year because little Johnny doesn't have the seventh COVID booster.

=== Transmitting Values to Children (15:30) ===

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[00:16:17]  Joining us now is Kirk Cameron, a great American and really someone I enjoy.
[00:16:23]  Kirk, welcome back to the program.
[00:16:25]  Hey, Charlie, great to be talking with you.
[00:16:27]  You know, I'm a great full American, and I'm really thankful to be talking with you today.
[00:16:32]  Well, so, Kirk, you've been in the news.
[00:16:34]  You have a new book.
[00:16:35]  I think it's new, or you could kind of correct me there, As You Grow, which is a fun story with brilliant art that teaches the biblical truths of the fruit of the spirit, which, of course, is my memory correct, sir.
[00:16:48]  Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control.
[00:16:52]  Did I get that right?
[00:16:54]  You nailed it, bro.
[00:16:55]  All right.
[00:16:56]  I have a whole speech about self-control being the last of the fruit of the spirit, the most difficult of all of them, and patience.
[00:17:02]  I'm not very patient.
[00:17:03]  So, Kirk, why is this book considered to be controversial?
[00:17:10]  That's a great question.
[00:17:12]  So, to give a little backstory to it, I wrote this book called As You Grow.
[00:17:16]  It's about teaching children biblical wisdom through the seasons of life and the value of the fruit of the spirit.
[00:17:23]  As you said, kindness, goodness, self-control.
[00:17:25]  And I wanted to do a book reading at a public library because that's all the rage now.
[00:17:29]  We see drag queens at public libraries.
[00:17:31]  So, I called a few and I was denied by over 50, 5-0 woke libraries who have hosted drag queen story hours.
[00:17:41]  And some of the most shocking denials included Alameda County Public Library, who said that they would deny a book to teaching children about self-control and kindness and goodness, while they had scheduled a gender name change clinic the following day.
[00:17:55]  Rochambeau Public Library said that they were a queer-friendly library and that their messaging just didn't align.
[00:18:03]  And that I could fill out a form, I could reserve the space, but they would not let me run my book in their library.
[00:18:10]  And finally, another one said that they have a specific strategy of authors that they allow, and they're focusing on authors of color.
[00:18:18]  So, this is kind of crazy to me because I hadn't even read the book.
[00:18:21]  I told them what it was about.
[00:18:22]  And the truth is, I think even drag queens would love my book.
[00:18:26]  It's sweet, it's beautiful, and the illustrations are lovely.
[00:18:32]  And I've just simply asked them to give me equal time in the same room to read my story to children in public schools who are being overwhelmed by mental illness, school shootings, cyber bullyings, and drug overdoses.
[00:18:46]  Maybe they could use a little stuff on kindness and gentleness and faithfulness and generally healthy values.
[00:18:54]  Yeah, I mean, I think a drag queen needs a lot, including the fruits of the spirit.
[00:18:59]  I totally, I totally agree with that.
[00:19:02]  I'm not exactly overly sympathetic to the pedophile drag queens, but hopefully they find Jesus and are born new.
[00:19:10]  So, Kirk, I think your book is terrific.
[00:19:13]  And I think what you're doing is super smart and really an offensive strategy.
[00:19:18]  I mean that as a compliment because we're seeing this plague of unadulterated degeneracy of these freaks that are dressing in drag and naked around children.
[00:19:31]  I'll just play a cut here.
[00:19:33]  And if you guys are disgusted by this by watching it, well, guess what?
[00:19:37]  This is done in front of children.
[00:19:38]  Play Cut 79.
[00:19:54]  And now let's play cut 77.
[00:20:19]  Now that's done with a sign that says it's not going to lick itself.
[00:20:25]  Sorry to subject you to that, Kirk.
[00:20:28]  But I'm doing that for a reason.
[00:20:30]  I'm trying to invoke an emotion from the audience because that is considered to be perfectly acceptable by mainstream society, but you want to just read a book about love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control.
[00:20:46]  And that's not allowed.
[00:20:48]  That's right.
[00:20:49]  I mean, those clips are so horrifying.
[00:20:52]  That's going to make every parent and grandparent who loves their children just throw up in their mouth.
[00:21:00]  And I don't even know what to say about that.
[00:21:03]  And so I'm doing everything that I can.
[00:21:06]  And I'm calling on every parent and every grandparent to recognize that this all happened on our watch and that we cannot be simply the complainers about culture, but we must be the creators of culture.
[00:21:17]  That's why we're here.
[00:21:18]  We're supposed to be the salt and the light.
[00:21:20]  We're supposed to be the ones who are the guardians of the good and hold back the moral decay.
[00:21:25]  We're supposed to be enhancing the flavors of heaven all throughout society.
[00:21:29]  And we're passing the baton to our children.
[00:21:31]  So here's what I want them to do.
[00:21:32]  I want every grandparent, parent to get a hold of their favorite children's storybook, something with good values, books of virtue.
[00:21:39]  It could be my book, could be your book, could be anybody's book.
[00:21:41]  Call your public library who's hosted a drag queen story hour and say, I'd like the opportunity to read my book as part of your program.
[00:21:49]  And if they say no, they're likely violating the Constitution and equal access laws.
[00:21:54]  And they can call us.
[00:21:55]  They can email us at our website at bravebooks.com.
[00:21:58]  We'll show them how to host their own story hour, send them free books and show them how to assert their legal rights in court, like I've told many of these libraries that I'm going to do if they continue to discriminate based on viewpoint and values.
[00:22:13]  Kirk, I just want to applaud you.
[00:22:15]  That's so incredibly important.
[00:22:17]  Are you going to sue?
[00:22:18]  We are prepared to, 100%.
[00:22:21]  And we've sent letters, which you can read at bravebooks.com to the libraries that we've sent those letters to.
[00:22:28]  And again, my hope is that this is just a misunderstanding.
[00:22:31]  I suspect that it's not because I think we are in a, we're in a values war, as we know.
[00:22:39]  Your previous guest just demonstrated that.
[00:22:42]  It's happening to you and to everyone.
[00:22:43]  And nobody can hide from this.
[00:22:45]  So we want to bring it to the forefront and help people understand that if we're going to talk about tolerance and inclusion, you cannot exclude people who love God and love the moral code that has been working for 4,000 years to build the most flourishing societies.
[00:23:02]  Well, and this is an important point, Kirk.
[00:23:04]  So for years, you and I were called bigots and hateful, every name possible, because we said that these sexual predators should not be allowed around children.
[00:23:20]  We were against allowing drags, whatever, into libraries.
[00:23:25]  I think it's totally wrong.
[00:23:26]  But they said, oh, it's the First Amendment.
[00:23:28]  It's free speech to be able to have a bunch of pedophile story hour or whatever.
[00:23:33]  Then you have people like David French, who I don't expect you to know, but he's a writer for the National Review.
[00:23:39]  I'm familiar.
[00:23:40]  Keep going with your story.
[00:23:41]  Yeah, no.
[00:23:42]  And so David French comes out and he's like, This is the beauty of the First Amendment, that we're able to have all sorts of speech.
[00:23:48]  And at times, you get strange speech and you get provocative speech.
[00:23:51]  And I've met David before.
[00:23:52]  I actually think he believes this.
[00:23:54]  And that's really weird that he thinks that part of the First Amendment means you have to have speech that you find to be reprehensible, which I think there is some truth to that.
[00:24:05]  But when it involves children, I think the rules are completely different, right?
[00:24:10]  And so, but then his whole argument, he says, well, if we can ban them, then they can ban us, but they are banning us.
[00:24:18]  That's the point.
[00:24:20]  Yeah, I agree with you, Charlie.
[00:24:21]  That's exactly the point.
[00:24:23]  I think that what's great about all of this, and you do this all of the time, is that we have a chance now.
[00:24:30]  Somebody is pulling back the curtain and we're seeing the Wizard of Oz.
[00:24:35]  We're seeing who it is, right?
[00:24:38]  It's not the great and powerful Oz.
[00:24:40]  It is people who are playing tricks.
[00:24:42]  It's cowards who are actually masquerading as being tolerant when really behind the curtain, we see what it is.
[00:24:50]  It's totalitarianism.
[00:24:51]  It's not a desire to coexist, but to conquer.
[00:24:54]  And now that we see this, the question is, what are we going to do about it?
[00:24:59]  The editor of the Federalist magazine wrote a great article about this, saying that, you know, maybe I could get my book read if I dressed in fishnet stockings and I twerked in front of five-year-olds.
[00:25:08]  Then libraries would be lining up to let me read that.
[00:25:10]  That's exactly right.
[00:25:12]  But she made the very important point that these principled conservatives that want to allow free speech at any cost, and I'm a constitutionalist, I love free speech.
[00:25:21]  But she said the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is not a suicide pact.
[00:25:26]  That's not what the founders had in mind.
[00:25:28]  They did not have in mind the actual decomposing of the moral fabric upon which this republic is built.
[00:25:36]  And we have to have reasonable restraints when it comes to lewdness, when it comes to immorality, and poisoning our children.
[00:25:44]  This is not hard.
[00:25:45]  And if you make it hard, then you take your own intellectual calisthenics way too seriously, right?
[00:25:51]  Yeah.
[00:25:51]  It's not about licentiousness.
[00:25:54]  It's not about vices.
[00:25:55]  Pornography is not speech.
[00:25:57]  Drag queens in front of children is not speech.
[00:26:00]  Speech, more than anything else, needs to be the pursuit and the exploration of truth, goodness, and beauty.
[00:26:07]  And said differently, the most important mechanism of speech is to challenge tyranny.
[00:26:12]  That's really what it was there for, right?
[00:26:14]  To challenge the government and challenge power.
[00:26:17]  I don't know what the heck you're challenging in fishnets in front of children.
[00:26:21]  Yeah.
[00:26:21]  Man, I'm just, I'm excited to be in the fight.
[00:26:24]  I'm excited to be in the fight with you.
[00:26:26]  God's put us on the stage of the world at this point in history because he knows that heroes are required.
[00:26:32]  And my job and yours is to play our role well.
[00:26:36]  Kirk, just tell us more about the book itself.
[00:26:39]  I think it's so incredibly important.
[00:26:41]  And you're not just taking this.
[00:26:43]  I mean, what I love about what you're doing is you say, okay, Kirk Cameron could go to almost any church and read this.
[00:26:48]  But you say, no, we deserve a place in the public square.
[00:26:52]  That's really admirable.
[00:26:54]  Well, Charlie, the reason I'm doing this is because I'll give you an example.
[00:26:59]  I'm looking at a very sad picture in my backyard out my living room window right now of a pile of oak wood.
[00:27:07]  There used to be a beautiful oak tree over my little guest cottage for my mother-in-law out there.
[00:27:13]  And the reason that the tree came down shocked me.
[00:27:16]  It seemed like it happened overnight.
[00:27:18]  All of a sudden, this beautiful tree that has been there for 30 years turned brown, the leaves died, and someone came over and said, this whole thing is dead.
[00:27:27]  How did that happen overnight?
[00:27:28]  He said, it didn't.
[00:27:29]  It happened over 30 years.
[00:27:31]  And what I didn't realize was that the grass underneath the tree was being watered daily by my sprinkler system.
[00:27:36]  And I was actually rotting the roots and actually injuring the tree for 30 years.
[00:27:42]  I didn't even know it.
[00:27:43]  And so this has been decaying all of this time without me being aware.
[00:27:48]  And I think that's what's happening in America: is that we've been warned by our forefathers, even before them, the pilgrims 400 years ago, they said the taproot that will give strength to the republic, that will cause all of the leaves to stay green, is faith in God and in his word and a morality that is going to permeate every aspect of your culture.
[00:28:14]  And it will keep every branch of government, of family, of the media, of education, and the marketplace strong.
[00:28:20]  If you rot that, you're done.
[00:28:22]  You're toast, you're screwed.
[00:28:23]  It's over.
[00:28:24]  And that's what's happened for decades.
[00:28:26]  We have been allowing others and ourselves through our neglect and apathy for the roots to be poisoned and the sap to be corrupted.
[00:28:34]  And now the fruit is rotting.
[00:28:35]  And we're going, holy cow, what happened overnight?
[00:28:37]  It really didn't, but it did happen on our watch.
[00:28:40]  And that's why we need to engage at every level.
[00:28:42]  That's why I appreciate what you're doing, Charlie.
[00:28:45]  And I'm trying to join the fight with you.
[00:28:47]  It's so well said.
[00:28:49]  And this should not be a tough one for a country or a civilization.
[00:28:53]  And, Kirk, I actually think most parents, when properly educated, find the drag thing reprehensible and they find what you're trying to do rather admirable.
[00:29:05]  I mean, we could play tape after tape.
[00:29:07]  I mean, we had the Francis Parker school last week of the dean of students bragging about some of the most graphic sexual material going out to just teenagers, to underage kids.
[00:29:18]  I mean, this is a fight for our children in, you know, the highest stakes imaginable.
[00:29:23]  Yeah.
[00:29:24]  And now we see this isn't about for me.
[00:29:27]  This is not about drag queens per se, but we see them now teaching our children and in the White House with the president, signing celebratory documents that are redefining major institutions.

=== Parents Must Get Involved (01:03) ===

[00:29:40]  And what I'm saying is that we need to understand change does not start at the White House.
[00:29:44]  It starts at your house at the kitchen table in how we teach our children.
[00:29:48]  And then it works its way out from there.
[00:29:50]  So moms and dads, grandparents, get involved.
[00:29:53]  I totally agree.
[00:29:54]  Kirk Cameron, thank you so much.
[00:29:56]  Keep up the great work.
[00:29:57]  What's the name of the book one more time?
[00:29:59]  It's called As You Grow, and you can get a hold of it at Amazon or BraveBooks.com.
[00:30:04]  Thank you, Kirk.
[00:30:05]  God bless you.
[00:30:06]  Thank you.
[00:30:07]  You too.
[00:30:08]  It is really something that in our country, it is controversial to read about the fruit of the spirit.
[00:30:17]  And it is acceptable, popular, tolerated, subsidized to have half-naked, perverse weirdos dance in front of children.
[00:30:30]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:30:32]  Email me your thoughts as always: freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:30:35]  Thank you so much for listening and God bless.
[00:30:40]  For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.