The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - May 15, 2021 Aired: 2021-05-15 Duration: 05:20 === Biden's Appeal to Authority (05:20) === [00:00:00] Dan Bongino. [00:00:02] Welcome to the Bongino Brief. [00:00:03] I'm Dan Bongino. [00:00:05] I want to give you some strategic and tactical advice. [00:00:08] I am unfortunately forced to debate liberals, Geraldo and others. [00:00:12] Geraldo says he's not a liberal, but he is on some issues. [00:00:17] I have to do it in front of three and a half million people, you know, two, three nights a week on Hannity. [00:00:23] And it, you know, you have to obviously be prepared. [00:00:25] That's my job is to do homework on this stuff. [00:00:28] But one of the things when you're preparing to debate, I was never a debater in high school. [00:00:32] I wish I was, is when you understand the leftist tactics, you can call them out. [00:00:36] So I'm going to address two right here, and I'm going to show you an example of how this works. [00:00:43] The first tactic I want you to kind of develop an antenna for, an antenna system. [00:00:49] Is this often used Democrat propaganda tool, it's called an appeal to authority. [00:00:55] The appeal to authority is when you're trying to make a point that is either factually deficient or you know is inaccurate, you state that some authority figure is vouching for you. [00:01:08] Joe Biden did this the other day. [00:01:10] In my newsletter, you'll read this, he did this in fact about taxes and his Joe Biden tax plan. [00:01:15] Here's a piece by Beckett Adams in the Washington Examiner. [00:01:18] Joe Biden talks to dead people. [00:01:19] This story is hilarious. [00:01:21] I love this story. [00:01:22] In my newsletter today. [00:01:24] So Biden's trying to push this Biden economic plan where he spends us into an abyss and taxes the rich, even though the rich will pay less. [00:01:33] So Biden knows it's not going to work. [00:01:35] So he appeals to authority. [00:01:36] How did he do that? [00:01:37] Here's the quote Biden added from the examiner. [00:01:39] He said, talking about his plan. [00:01:41] And by the way, you saw the last five Fed. [00:01:44] He's talking about the Fed presidents. [00:01:46] Coming out and saying, what'd they say? [00:01:48] They said Biden's plan is going to grow the economy. [00:01:51] So just to be clear, Biden appeals to authority. [00:01:54] The authority he's citing is these Federal Reserve chairmen, who I wouldn't trust as far as I can throw them, but they're supposed to be experts on the economy. [00:02:01] And he's saying, guys, ladies, gents, the last five support my plan. [00:02:09] Well, when you notice that's an appeal to authority, you should right away call that out. [00:02:14] If he can defend it, he should be able to defend it himself. [00:02:16] Well, what was the problem with Joe Biden's appeal to authority here? [00:02:19] Um, two of those guys are dead. [00:02:21] So Joe Biden's either doing like a sixth sense Bruce Willis thinking, I talk to dead people. [00:02:27] What is it? [00:02:27] I see dead people was actually the line. [00:02:29] I think Haley, Joe Osmond, wasn't that the actor? [00:02:31] I may have gotten one right finally. [00:02:32] I always get this stuff wrong. [00:02:33] They're not here. [00:02:35] From the Examiner, former Fed Chairman William Miller and Paul Volcker are dead. [00:02:40] So I'm pretty sure they're not endorsing Joe Biden's plan. [00:02:44] Guy brought up a funny point before the show. [00:02:46] Next thing Joe Biden's gonna be like, I'm endorsed by Washington, Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, Samuel Chase, John D. Rockefeller, What was it? [00:02:58] Carnegie! [00:03:00] He's gonna get endorsements from all these dead people! [00:03:03] So he says five Fed chairmen endorsed him. [00:03:06] Two are dead. [00:03:07] Well, that leaves three more. [00:03:09] Two of which, Greenspan and Bernanke, have been relatively silent on Biden's pricey infrastructure and jobs proposals. [00:03:16] They certainly haven't claimed the plan would, quote, grow the economy. [00:03:20] Folks, these appeals to authority are typically nonsense. [00:03:24] Just like this one. [00:03:25] When you sense it, always go back and look at who the authority figure they're appealing to you. [00:03:31] Oh, look, these Fed chairmen. [00:03:32] Two of them are dead. [00:03:33] Always go back and research it when liberals say it. [00:03:35] You'll find that it's typically bunk. [00:03:37] And I'm thinking right now, what happened last week? [00:03:39] We talked about the infamous trickle-down economics myth. [00:03:42] There's no such thing as trickle-down economics. [00:03:43] It doesn't exist. [00:03:45] And remember the article? [00:03:46] They appeal to authority. [00:03:48] What was it? [00:03:49] Penn. [00:03:49] Penn University talked about the trickle-down economics. [00:03:53] This was a show last week. [00:03:54] And then when you click on the footnote, the article from Penn says, yeah, this really isn't a theory. [00:03:59] When they appeal to authority, go check the authority. [00:04:01] You'll find out it's almost always BS. [00:04:03] What's tactic number two? [00:04:04] This is what's called an appeal to emotion. [00:04:06] Learn to sense it. [00:04:07] Learn to pick it out and call them out. [00:04:09] Ah, that's an appeal to authority. [00:04:10] It doesn't exist. [00:04:11] And actually what you're doing now is an appeal to emotion. [00:04:13] You're not basing anything on facts. [00:04:15] Here's Joe Biden trying to claim that paying people more not to work won't cause people not to work. [00:04:20] And notice how he produces no data, but just appeals to your emotion and authority. [00:04:24] The American people want to work. [00:04:26] They may, but eight million aren't. [00:04:28] Check this out. [00:04:29] It's easy to say the line has been because of the generous unemployment benefits [00:04:34] That is a major factor in labor shortages Americans want to work [00:04:40] Americans want to work as my dad used to say jobs about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity [00:04:47] Your place in the community Notice he produces no data on that whatsoever [00:04:54] To refute the common-sense assertion that the government paying people more to not work will cause people not to [00:05:00] work He produces no data. [00:05:03] He just tells this story he's told a thousand times about his dad. [00:05:07] And about, oh, yeah, people want to work. [00:05:09] Yeah, people do want to work. [00:05:10] And a lot of people sadly don't want to work, too. [00:05:13] That's why a lot of people aren't working. [00:05:14] Because they're being paid more not to work, and some don't want to work. 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