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Dec. 28, 2021 - The Dan Bongino Show

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Dan Bongino's Best of 2021: Dan vs. Geraldo

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	Thanks for joining the show today.
	We put together a little compilation here for you.
	Here's a 2021 staple.
	My fireworks with Geraldo Rivera.
	My weekly fireworks.
	This is one where he tried to throw a piece of paper at the camera.
	I don't know if he realized it's not going to come through the other side of the camera.
	This isn't like an episode of The Twilight Zone.
	Check this out.
	Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
	Being stupid has a price.
	And the price is paid by you.
	What does this have to do with my battle with Geraldo last night?
	Or as my mother-in-law calls him, Geraldo.
	Because he just doesn't know anything and he keeps going on the air and saying things that he doesn't know and misinforming people who then believe what he says.
	That's a problem.
	He did it on the police issue.
	Every time there's a police shooting and I'm on the air debating, I'm not every time, but a lot of, unfortunately, a lot of the time he goes on the air and says something about, there are black moms crying because they're, well, you know, losing your child, I would cry too.
	But what he does is he introduces race into these police use of force incidents when he has no evidence whatsoever that any of the incidents we debate on TV are in fact motivated by racism.
	So why bring racism into it?
	The answer is because you want to misinform people.
	He did it last night in Israel again.
	As you know, the Palestinian children being killed.
	Yes, folks, that's a tragedy.
	No one wants to see a child killed.
	You'd have to be a maniac.
	But bringing emotion into it does not solve the problem of why there is a potential war brewing in the Middle East.
	There's a why.
	And the why is very simple.
	Because a terror group called Hamas decided it would be a good idea to launch rockets into Israel.
	That's why.
	For those of you who missed it, here's about a minute of my appearance last night.
	You know what?
	Wait, before I get to that.
	Before I get to that.
	This is important.
	I don't want to go out of order here because it is critical.
	We do this the right way.
	Remember the theme of the show today.
	Liberals live in an alternate reality that's not real.
	It has real world effects.
	When they do stupid stuff.
	There's an article at Bongino.com written by resident fact checker Matt Palumbo.
	I want you to check it out, please.
	It'll be in my newsletter today.
	It's very informative.
	Survey finds conservative media viewers are more informed than liberals on important topics.
	Folks, read the article.
	I'm not going to do the whole thing.
	It's up at my website, bongino.com.
	It's an amazing piece.
	People who watch Fox News and conservative media know a whole lot more than liberals who watch MSNBC on coronavirus, police shootings, Israel, the national debt, tax rates, healthcare, and gun violence.
	We just know more.
	There are facts.
	How many people are killed with AR-15 rifles every year?
	Liberals don't know.
	Conservatives do.
	What's the percentage of Americans that don't have health care?
	Liberals don't know.
	Conservatives do.
	What's the national debt?
	Liberals don't know.
	Conservatives do.
	How many people have died from coronavirus?
	Liberals don't know.
	Conservatives do.
	You get the point.
	Because we tune into media outlets to tell the truth.
	When you tune into people like, well play the Al Sharpton thing, Al Sharpton, Geraldo and others, who don't know anything, it's no wonder that liberals who listen to some of these folks out there are misinformed on the topics.
	Here's a quick clip of my appearance with him last night on Hannity, Geraldo, where again I have to correct his misinformation about what's actually going on in Israel because then liberals will believe it and they'll want to start a war with Israel.
	Check this out.
	There are dozens of Palestinian children dead.
	And whose fault is that?
	Whose fault is that?
	With ammunition provided to Israel by the United States without even a demand for a ceasefire.
	Whose fault is that?
	I demand a ceasefire.
	I demand my president to demand a ceasefire.
	I demand that Israel win the war.
	Israel needs to win the war against terrorism and terrorists that are firing rockets at their people.
	Dan Bongino.
	Let's kill all these children.
	Dan.
	Peraldo, you do this every time.
	This is such garbage and I'm really getting sick of it.
	You play this emotional game with the audience and use your position of responsibility to put out misinformation and BS.
	You know, stop attacking me, punk!
	You did it on the police thing.
	Address the issue!
	You had the guts to address the issue and not address it.
	You can't control yourself, can you?
	You didn't come on this show to attack me.
	You came on the show to talk about the issue.
	Do you have a point about the issue?
	I'm sick of you, Bongino.
	I'm sick of you.
	You're a punk.
	You're a punk.
	Geraldo, let him talk.
	Geraldo, let him talk.
	I'm an out-of-control lunatic.
	Can you calm down?
	Yeah, I'm a ten-time Emmy winner with deep experience in the Middle East.
	Have you ever even been there?
	Geraldo, I haven't been there.
	Again, you see what happens?
	He goes to the emotional argument right away.
	It's about the Palestinian children.
	Doesn't mention the Israeli children that would probably be killed if Israel didn't have the Iron Dome, preventing 3,000 somewhat Hamas rockets from destroying Israel.
	He doesn't mention that at all.
	He goes right to the emotion.
	And when you try to correct him on the issue, he goes right to the ad hominem attack.
	And folks, I don't mind.
	I'm nobody's victim.
	I really don't mind.
	At all.
	Okay?
	I don't mind.
	He's allowed to do what he has to do.
	Let him do his thing.
	But he goes right to the ad hom, you're a punk, starts throwing paper, whatever.
	Um, and then he said something I didn't catch.
	He said something like, I was, uh, I have 10 Emmys.
	Oh my Emmys.
	Gosh, I wish I had 10 Emmys.
	It's really funny.
	I have 10 Emmys.
	And I didn't hear him because you have to understand when you're on television and you're screaming like a lunatic like that, here's what I hear.
	You know Charlie Brown's teacher?
	That's all I hear.
	So I don't really hear everything Geraldo says because he's always yelling.
	So at one point he said, I was a correspondent in the Middle East.
	You've never been there.
	I bet you've never been there.
	Well, this is a text from my wife.
	I didn't catch till after the appearance.
	She's watching it live.
	You better tell him you've been there.
	I didn't hear it.
	Yes, Haraldo, unlike you who was reporting on the security situation in the Middle East, I was actually doing it in Israel, Jordan, Kuwait.
	By Abu Dhabi, Northern Africa, Egypt.
	Yes, I don't need to prove my bona fides to Geraldo and I wasn't there on vacation.
	Geraldo was what, taking pictures or something like that?
	Geraldo lives in an alternate universe where he feels like if you bring up a situation and you say, well, a, listen, a Palestinian child was killed.
	That's a tragedy.
	I don't want anybody's children dead.
	Nobody does.
	Only savages want that.
	But you divorce it from the facts of what happened and how this started.
	You see why liberals are almost every time confused about real facts.
	So Geraldo owes me $1,000.
	I haven't figured out where I'm going to donate that to.
	It's going to be some charity.
	But Geraldo won't pay up because Geraldo doesn't have the dignity to pay up and he's too busy screaming all the time on the air.
	It's really incredible how when I debate this guy on Sean Hannity's show, I patiently listen to him spout all his misinformation nonsense.
	He never knows what he's talking about.
	He pulls facts out of context, has no idea.
	They're all political attacks because he's a failure.
	He doesn't let me get a sentence out before opening his yapper because he has no sense of self-control.
	He's like a child.
	He is.
	He's like an infant.
	You have to like change his diaper once in a while.
	So again, I get a lot and I want to repeat this because it's important.
	About 80% of the comments I get are positive.
	Dan, thanks for beating back all those misinformation.
	But about 20%, I see no point in this.
	No, I do.
	And I'm sorry, but I disagree.
	I do see a point going on in the air in combating this guy's misinformation, because he uses our Republican brand to go on the air and say things that are factually inaccurate, or he takes a fact, like he did last night, takes it entirely out of context, and when I correct him on it, he then bets me $1,000 that I'm lying, when he's in fact the one trying to misconstrue what's going on in Florida and elsewhere.
	What do I mean?
	What happened?
	Well, I want my $1,000 from this guy, because this happened last night.
	We were debating, and Geraldo throws out a number about coronavirus cases in Florida.
	He says 16 or 17,000 a day.
	That number's meaningless, folks.
	Cases doesn't mean anything.
	Because we don't know how many cases there are.
	Why?
	Because that's only the people who were tested.
	Meaning people who probably were showing symptoms.
	Candidly, Florida could have double the number of cases.
	We could have a number of asymptomatic cases in New York where people aren't getting tested.
	Cases doesn't mean anything.
	What we care about here in this pandemic are hospitalizations and death.
	Cases doesn't mean anything.
	It's not a metric you can use because you don't know how many cases there are.
	Only the people who are really sick are gonna go get tested.
	I shouldn't say it's useless.
	It's not a useless number.
	More useful, however, is hospitalizations and deaths.
	That's a very serious number.
	Geraldo throws the case number out, never mentions the Florida deaths per capita at all, because he wants to destroy Ron DeSantis.
	I correct him, and then he bets me, loses the bet, and then celebrates it.
	Here, check this out.
	Haraldo doesn't know, around Ron DeSantis, he doesn't know the numbers.
	I live here.
	Florida's 26th in COVID deaths per hundred.
	Dan, it's Dan Starr.
	Haraldo, it's not my fault you never know what you're talking about.
	It's not my fault that you never research anything before you come on the air.
	You are so full of it.
	You know, that's why I hate coming on with you.
	Folks, please look it up to prove how silly this guy is.
	Haraldo, let Dan talk.
	He doesn't like to do that, Sean, because he always gets caught never knowing what he's talking about!
	Stick to the facts!
	Stick to the story!
	Stick to the facts!
	Stick to the story!
	Stick You see what he did there?
	I bring up a data point to show that Geraldo, again, doesn't know what he's talking about ever, never does any homework before he comes on the air.
	The guy's embarrassed, he really is, I'm sorry, but he's an embarrassment.
	He goes on the air, he wants to attack Ron DeSantis, because Geraldo's a hardcore leftist.
	He pretends to be some pseudo-Republican because he thinks it'll give him street cred.
	The man is a hardcore, open borders, attack Republicans, attack Donald Trump leftists.
	Period.
	That's not even open for debate, the evidence is clear.
	I throw out a number to him to give the debate some grounding in science.
	All right, Geraldo, you're mentioning cases.
	I mentioned to him, if you go back and watch there again, if you rewind the tape,
	that Florida is in fact 26th when it comes to deaths from coronavirus per 100,000 people.
	To which Geraldo can't shut up, loses his mind, because I throw a number at him that doesn't comport with his narrative.
	His narrative, because he's a radical leftist, is what?
	GOP governors suck, Joe Biden is my king.
	Therefore, I'm going to use a number that sounds bad, cases, taking it entirely out of context about how Florida has performed.
	With deaths here showing you I was accurate and Geraldo in fact owes me $1,000 and I'll expect the money.
	I want the check written to me.
	I'm not even going to give him my home address.
	He's going to have to send it to a PO box.
	Because he's that crazy, he'll probably show up.
	Here's Statista, which monitors, by the way, deaths per 100,000 people.
	I put the link in my newsletter today for those media people eager to defend their golden calf, Geraldo, showing you I was right and Geraldo owes me $1,000.
	Statista.
	I had to skip all the way to the end because it can't all fit on the screen at one time.
	If you go there and you look at the link in my newsletter today, Bongino.com slash newsletter, you will see Florida is in fact 26th in deaths per capita.
	Geraldo can't count, of course.
	He's not a very bright guy.
	Again, he probably found his numbers in the empty Al Capone's vault and is flushing them out now for his new narrative of the day.
	Now, shockingly, after losing the bet, he challenges me on my data, just to be clear what happened there.
	And then when he challenges me on my data, because he won't let me talk because he never knows anything.
	He has to yell and scream like the lunatic he is.
	What does he do?
	He changes the bet back to his 17,000 cases a day, ignoring what I just said.
	He bets me on what I just said and then changes back to what he said, which is a fascinating way to make a bet.
	That's like betting someone, I'll bet you $1,000, the Whopper's Maiden Burger King.
	And you say, yeah, yeah, the Whopper's Maiden Burger King.
	And then he comes back and says, I said the Big Mac's Maiden McDonald's.
	And you're like, wait, what?
	This is how Geraldo, because he never knows anything, ever.
	Ever.
	Someone probably, you know, whispered in his ear before he came on the air, one of his liberal buddies, hey, gosh, you know, 17,000 cases.
	He doesn't understand any of the numbers in context.
	Now he tweets out this morning, this complete dunce.
	He says, Tuesday, Florida suffered over 17,000 cases.
	On Wednesday, another 7,000 cases.
	I was right.
	Di Baggino, as usual, was full of mmm.
	And he owes me, I owe him a thousand dollars.
	This is hilarious.
	Then he attacks Ron DeSantis.
	This is the kind of loser this guy is.
	A total zero.
	Changes the bet midstream while talking over you because he knows he got called out.
	He was trying to attack DeSantis.
	He doesn't understand the full set of data at all because he's Geraldo.
	He never knows anything about anything.
	Ever.
	And his positions are totally incoherent, as evidenced by Cut 2, where he gets even more ridiculous on this segment after trying to attack Ron DeSantis, when that wasn't even what this segment was about, because he's a leftist.
	He's a radical, hardcore leftist.
	And he's a wuss, too.
	He pretends to be brave and a tough guy.
	Folks, it's really pathetic.
	I don't even want to get that part.
	It's a joke.
	Like, it's embarrassing.
	You blow too hard, you'd knock this guy over.
	And he pretends to be a tough guy because he got his nose broken 30 years ago on TV.
	Give me a break.
	This isn't foxy boxing, okay?
	Please stop before you humiliate yourself further.
	Here's cut two, where Geraldo suggests, incredibly, that we should give super rights to people to cross our border illegally to get a vaccine.
	Keeping in mind the vaccine doesn't even kick in antibody production for about 7 to 10 to 14 days after the first dose.
	So let infected people across the border illegally.
	Give them a free vaccine here for doing it and then wait and hope they don't spread it for the 7 to 10 days until they can produce effective antibodies.
	This is Geraldo's logic.
	By the way, while you... So we have super rights, right?
	Super rights for illegal immigrants that Geraldo wants.
	Cross the border, free vaccines, spread an infection, do whatever you want.
	But he doesn't want you to have the right To put a medicine or a treatment in your own body, he wants to force a vaccine mandate on you.
	This is how crazy this guy is.
	Check this out.
	On the border, his position is ridiculous.
	So let me get this straight.
	You want to take away the rights of American citizens to put a medicine or a treatment in their body while simultaneously granting super rights to non-citizens who get to cross our border and get a free vaccination despite No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
	You just proved my point.
	You want to grant a set of rights to non-citizens, right?
	You want to allow them to walk in and out of the country while I have to stop at a line at a passport station to come back as a citizen, while you want to take away actual citizens' rights over controlling their own bodies and the medicines that go in it.
	Geraldo, your position is so ridiculous.
	You know, this guy may have been a thing in like the 60s.
	I don't even know.
	What was he, like a Studio 54 guy?
	He's not a thing anymore.
	He's like Fetch, okay?
	He's trying to make himself happen, but he's not happening.
	This guy is the Fetch of cable news talking heads.
	And please, don't mistake for a minute like, oh my gosh, he worked, they worked with him.
	This is not some act, believe me.
	I genuinely dislike this guy.
	Trust me, I don't do acts.
	I don't have time for it, I don't need it.
	The nice part about having the jobs I have is I do them because I want to, not that I need them.
	I've been very smart with my money, saved my money, I'm A-OK.
	I don't need any of these jobs.
	I have these jobs because I want them.
	And this guy is a numbnuts.
	Like I said, he was a thing back in the 40s, or whenever.
	He's not a thing anymore when he's not taking naked pictures of himself.
	By the way, do a few push-ups before you get on the air and try to get some swole on.
	Even your naked pictures that you took with your own selfies are pretty disgusting.
	I'll throw that in there.
	Here's Geraldo, little mini-totalitarian, falling right in line yesterday on the 5.
	Geraldo's upset.
	That according to my sources, a number of Southwest pilots object to the vaccine mandate and called in sick.
	And although it wasn't the only issue involved with the Southwest Airlines cancellations, Geraldo's upset that Republican Representative Chip Roy has said, hey, listen, it's good people standing up for freedom and against unscientific vaccine mandates.
	That drives Geraldo crazy because Geraldo's a little mini totalitarian.
	Geraldo also cites his Supreme Court case.
	I believe he's citing the wrong year.
	He doesn't know about the case.
	I think he's a lawyer, says he is, or whatever.
	But here's Geraldo falling right in line with his little totalitarian impulse.
	Again, proving my point, this has nothing to do with science and it's all about control.
	Check this disaster out from yesterday.
	I don't believe that mandates exist for a reason.
	The Supreme Court in a 1905 decision made very clear, unless this court reverses over a century of precedents, the federal government has the constitutional right to impose a mandate You misread the law.
	I misread nothing.
	I absolutely got it exactly right.
	No, you misread it.
	And these airline pilots are screwing the public.
	And the worst of all is not the pilots, because I say use whatever weapons you have.
	It's Chip Roy, the congressman from San Antonio and Austin.
	This guy is an ideological lunatic.
	He said, when he looked at the crowd of people who could not get on their Southwest flights because they were cancelled and so forth, this makes me happier than I can possibly articulate.
	Eat it, Southwest Airlines.
	This is a guy getting almost sexual pleasure from the chaos and the disruption.
	He's not getting sexual pleasure, Harold.
	You're sick.
	To make this sexual, you're a sick man.
	Congressman Roy, I challenge you, what did you mean when you said eat it to Southwest Airlines when you saw the people?
	Sexual pleasure.
	What a weirdo this guy is, huh?
	Oh my gosh.
	I mean, I know this guy was a thing in like the 40s or something, but he's not a thing anymore.
	What a weirdo.
	Congressman Chip Roy gets sexual pleasure out of calling out unscientific vaccine mandates.
	Unscientific for two reasons.
	Number one, They don't take into account natural immunity, which Geraldo is science.
	Geraldo's not very familiar with science, not really familiar with the law either, as he kind of misinterprets the Jacobson decision because he doesn't understand what it means.
	I think he's a lawyer, right?
	And also, it's unscientific because, as we've seen, the vaccine mandate is driving down trust in vaccine programs.
	So it loses on both sides.
	But Geraldo doesn't know that.
	He doesn't actually do any research.
	And he cites the Jacobson decision, which was about smallpox, vaccinations for smallpox.
	And it was about an equivalent, in today's money, $150 fine if you did not get the vaccine.
	And it was limited to that case, smallpox, a disease with a much higher fatality rate than coronavirus.
	But, you know, it's Geraldo.
	I don't Expect very much from me.
	He's lucky I wasn't on that panel on the five.
	It would have been humiliating for him.
	But do you need more proof?
	This is not about science.
	You have people like Geraldo and Kerry Chant who don't even look up the science.
	All they care about are two things.
	I can't, I'm sorry to keep beating this, beating you over the head with this.
	They care about two things.
	What are the approved two narratives with Geraldo and the totalitarians, Kerry Chant and others?
	Take a vaccine and shut your mouth, Geraldo.
	Number two, wear a mask, it'll solve your problems.
	That's it.
	You're not allowed to say anything else, because both of those require government and their visual symbols of fear in one case, the mask, and a government mandate in the other, and they both empower totalitarians.
	A fear agenda and a mandate agenda.

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