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Jan. 16, 2020 - Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor
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‘I Can’t Believe They Let Me Out’
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is Radio Renaissance.
Now, I got that idea, this pause after the this from National Public Radio.
You know, it makes it sound really important if you put in a big pause and say, this is National Public Radio.
Well, this is Radio Renaissance, ladies and gentlemen.
I am Jared Taylor with American Renaissance, and with me is the indispensable PK.
Well, unfortunately, Mr. Taylor, Tax dollars don't fund Radio Renaissance as NPR has funded.
That's true.
And suppose, I guess for that reason, I don't have the right to say this and give it a dramatic pause.
Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are listening.
If you're listening right when this goes up or Maybe you're commuting to and from work.
We appreciate each and every one of you.
I wanted to take a quick moment, real quick, to say rest in peace Christopher Tolkien.
He, of course, was the son of the great author J.R.R.
Tolkien, the author of Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, basically the greatest cinema masterpiece that Peter Jackson turned around in the early 2000s.
You know, Lord of the Rings.
Two Towers and Return of the King.
Have you seen those movies?
Yes, and I read all the books.
I read The Hobbit and I read the trilogy when I was in high school.
I was a very early fan.
Did you read The Hobbit to your daughters?
No, that I did not do.
That I did not do.
But they read it on their own.
Well, I know that a lot of our listeners out there cherish these books and there's one concept I wanted to bring up real quick because it's always stuck with me.
It's sort of with the Elves.
The Elves knew they were going to lose.
And they had this concept, this notion of being able to go on with hope and hopelessness.
Though, what they called the Long Defeat.
Though we might lose, we will keep fighting until we are defeated.
Courage against overwhelming odds.
You fight on.
Even though you know in the end, you will lose.
That was the whole idea of the Elves.
That's one of the beautiful concepts that is at the heart of that trilogy.
And I think that there's a lot that we can take from that.
Yes, there is.
And when we, in this movement of ours, we don't just calculate the chances of success.
That doesn't matter.
We do what we do because it's our duty.
It's what we owe to our ancestors and our obligation to our children.
That is why we do it.
We don't think it might not work.
No, we go forward with what we know is right.
But to begin this episode, I'm going to start off with Tom Steyer.
He's one of these late-arrival Democratic candidates for the presidential nomination.
He is a hedge fund manager and a billionaire, and he's a little bit too close for comfort, frankly.
He got his BA from Yale, as I did, and his wife's maiden name is Taylor.
I think that is about as far as we go in terms of commonalities.
But as I say, that's a little too close for comfort.
Well, you know, even back in 2017, Tom Steyer spent $10 million on television ads favoring the impeachment of President Trump, back in 2017.
So he was a man ahead of his time.
Well, Steyer, who has bought his way into the remaining group of candidates, just the other day he said a Steyer administration will ensure that all undocumented communities have access to affordable and safe housing, among the many foolish things that he said.
So what is this?
You can be an illegal immigrant in this country and he's going to make sure that you get affordable and safe housing.
Well, you know, he's from California.
And California, the state alone, has about 108,000 people who are already homeless.
This is without all the illegals are going to come if he makes promises of that kind.
And the Federal Housing Agency reported on January 7th that homelessness nationally between 2018-2019 is up 3%.
But the real culprit here is California, which is up 16%.
And that offset a noted decrease in many other states.
California all by itself.
has half the homeless people in the entire country.
53% of them all live in sunny California with nine times as many folks sleeping rough as the state with the next highest number, which is Florida.
And the figures are 108,000 as opposed to 12,000.
Florida, you'd think, would attract even more because it's even sunnier for the most part than California.
Now, 18.2% of California's population is poor And that is well above the poverty rate in the other poorest states.
Arkansas at 13%, Mississippi at 16%, West Virginia at 14.6%.
To repeat, in California, it's 18.2%.
This is Tom Steyer's very own state.
And so they can't figure out what to do with all the people who are sleeping rough.
But he is going to put an affordable and safe roof over every illegal that waltzes across the border, along with, of course, free health care, plus workplace training and cultural celebrations.
Now doesn't that warm your heart, PK?
Doesn't that make you proud to be an American?
You don't need a fire.
You don't need to turn on the heat.
That story right there.
I'm going to be warm for the rest of winter.
I should think so.
My little heart goes pitter-pat when I hear people making these lovely promises to people who don't.
They do not belong here.
And I say that advisedly.
They do not belong here.
And speaking of those who do not belong here, we have another story about the U visa.
Now, I learned about U visas for the first time when we had a story set in that was out in Seattle.
This was a group of people who faked a criminal attack.
They faked a rape.
And this was in order to take advantage of this U visa.
And the U visa is granted to foreigners who can persuade the federal government that they've been victims of a criminal assault of some kind, and if they cooperate with the authorities, then they can get a green card.
What the rationale of this is, I have no idea.
What does that make you suddenly deserving of a green card if somebody has assaulted you?
Now, the Seattle story I thought was particularly interesting because The Seattle Times write-up of it made a very deliberate point of saying, now don't forget...
Foreigners are no more crime-prone than natives.
And don't forget, most accusations of rape are true and not lies the way these were.
I thought it was absolutely hilarious that this allegedly straight news story had to throw that in just to reassure us, just to make sure we didn't jump the tracks with this particular news story.
In any case, the U visas are back in the news because Eurydia Hernandez-Linares, a 36-year-old foreigner, Pleaded guilty to operating a business to help secure U visas for illegals.
And this was something that she carried out in Hennepin County, Minnesota, which includes the city of Minneapolis.
Now, it's not clear where she was from.
Nobody seems to have quite gotten to the bottom of this, but she is unquestionably a foreigner.
And she admitted that she fraudulently obtained a U visa for herself in 2016.
After calling the sheriff's office in 2015 to report a violent crime against her that had never occurred, Ms.
Linares and a friend cut themselves with box cutters and claimed that they were robbed by men with knives.
As part of her little entrepreneurial undertaking, Ms.
Linares would charge illegal aliens anywhere between $2,000 to $5,000 to get them U visas.
Now, I wonder what was included in the high price spread.
You know, what do you get for $5,000 you don't get for $2,000.
In any case, what she did, she would carve them up with box cutters.
I guess that's a small price to pay for a green card.
She would work them over the box cutters and then have them report to the police they were victims of violent crimes.
Well, she faces up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.
Her sentencing is set for January 30.
So, we'll see what she gets stuck with.
And let us hope, let us hope that when her term is up, Seattle is no longer the sanctuary city that we wish it were, and she can be sent back to wherever it is she came from.
Remember, wounds heal, and those scars that she inflicted on those individuals, they're a reminder of what it took to become an American.
That's right.
They can show them proudly.
This is what it took.
These are battle scars.
This is how I became an American.
That's like fighting at Valley Forge.
There you are.
That's like hitting the beaches at Iwo Jima, you know?
These are my battle scars, how I became an American.
Well, this business about U visas...
Last year, the Government Accountability Office, GAO, described potential widespread abuse of the U-Visa program spurred on by provisions in the Violence Against Women Act.
Remember when that was passed with great fanfare?
I think that was about 2016?
You know, I never quite understood.
I thought violence against women was already against the law.
But what is in the Violence Against Women Act?
I honestly don't know, except for something that is quite interesting.
That has to do with the fact that in fiscal year 2019, the number of potential fraud cases had increased by 305%.
And that is because, contained in the Violence Against Women Act, it allows foreigners living in the U.S.
to self-petition for a green card so long as they can demonstrate that they are victims of domestic abuse by a U.S.
citizen or green card holder, spouse or parent, or an adult U.S.
citizen, son or daughter.
So, this has been apparently a huge invitation to people to claim that they were beaten up by some U.S.
citizen or green card holder.
I guess if some non-green card holder beats you up, too bad.
For that, I guess you have to be hit with box cutters.
But this has been a result.
The United States government has detected more than 13,000 fraud cases among these petitions for green cards by foreigners claiming they were victims of domestic violence.
So that's just another thing to be on the lookout for.
The Violence Against Women Act, which as I say the Democrats were crowing over, And I suppose I was remiss in not really looking into the details.
I suppose if I'd been looking hard, I would have discovered this little provision that makes you visas even more fascinating.
But on the subject of immigration and the various tricks that people use to get into the country, I believe you had a story about some of the consequences of illegal entry in New York.
I do, and this is a story about violence against women.
So how scared do you think New York officials are of the public finally focusing on their sanctuary policies?
You know, they don't seem to be the least bit worried, do they?
No, we've talked about what's going on in that state with the insane bail reform, basically criminals are committing a crime, and you're actually going to tell a story about this in a few minutes, but this one might Take the proverbial cake.
So on January 6, 2020, residents of the Richmond Hill neighborhood in Queens, New York, were shocked to discover that a 92-year-old well-known woman in the neighborhood, her name is Maria Fertes, she was lying in the street just after midnight.
It wasn't until several days later that medical examiners realized that she was actually murdered.
Wait, lying in the street for several days?
They didn't understand the cause of death.
It took an autopsy to discover and ascertain what actually happened.
So the police were able to use surveillance video and they found a man knocking her to the ground and assaulting her.
On January 10th, About a week ago, the Newark Police Department announced the arrest of Raiz Khan, and they charged him with sexually assaulting and then murdering the 92-year-old.
ICE immediately issued a statement this past Monday, revealing that Khan is an illegal alien from Ghana.
From Guyana.
Guyana.
Yes.
Different places.
Different places.
You're right.
Guyana.
G-U-Y.
A-N-A.
That's in South America.
It is in South America, that's right.
Who should never have been in the country.
The immigration agency publicized that Khan was arrested on November 27th, 2019 for assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
Six weeks prior to the murder.
ICE issued a detainer request, but the NYPD, in compliance with New York's illegal policies of restricting communication with ICE, They released him without bail after the arraignment.
What's your reaction?
That is the question.
How many more is it going to take?
We had these over and over again in California, over and over again in Maryland.
How many dead 92-year-olds, raped and dead 92-year-olds, is it going to take?
I just don't understand this.
Are these people so utterly heartless?
They just, again, they don't care.
You know, Ken Cuccinelli, who's one of the acting top people at DHS, put out a tweet where he said, what's going on here?
It's like, hey, well, dude, you're in charge of, you're one of the main people at DHS.
Why don't you guys do something instead of tweeting about it?
Well, get this.
Local media in New York are reporting that Khan also had a pretty extensive criminal history, which means that this illegal alien was able to continue committing crimes and cycling back onto the streets because of the criminal justice revolving door that exists in the Empire State.
Had federal law been followed, Khan would have been in removal proceedings.
And the 92-year-old Fertiz would still be alive.
Now get this.
Given the 2,500 murders and 14,500 sexual offense charges among those subjected to ICE's detainers every year, rapes and murders that are 100% what?
Preventable.
Avoidable.
Avoidable.
They shouldn't be happening.
They shouldn't be happening.
They happen every day, though, in sanctuary cities across the country.
And in states that act as proverbial.
Sanctuary States.
We've talked about California, New York, Illinois.
You know, it really is.
It's just like these bail procedures.
By removing bail, because it would hurt the Little Deer's feelings and it discriminates against the poor and the non-whites, we're removing bail.
And I suppose the theory is here, ex-deporting them, that would hurt the Little Deer's feelings because they're probably not white and they're probably not citizens And so that would be awful.
That would be against our compassionate compulsions.
But so they stick around and they rape and they kill instead.
I just don't get it.
And like you said, they're primarily, these illegal aliens, people of color, are preying upon people of color and their communities.
And it's just like the crack epidemic.
The black community started screaming, we need something done to stop all these killings.
And guess what?
There are a lot of measures taken.
To drive crime down and now we're seeing all of that unraveling.
You know it just goes to show you how much of a virtuous thrill people get from saying abolish ICE.
It doesn't matter if that means people of color, vulnerable communities, marginalized communities, if their members are killed or raped, doesn't matter if The cost is that we can't show our virtue like preening peacocks by saying abonish ice.
Precisely.
It's just incredible to me.
There's one last note that we have to bring up about this because this is where it gets even crazier.
Can it get any crazier?
It can.
Get this.
New York officials have come out and they basically said, hey, you know what?
What is ice talking about?
ICE, they say, never requested a hold and they know nothing of its immigration status.
The New York Times actually quoted a police department spokesperson saying that, quote, we did not receive an ICE detainer in regard to this individual after he had been arrested on November 27th.
Well, guess what?
ICE provided a copy of the detainer request stamped 742 P.M.
on November 27th.
Well, it sounds as though a detainer wouldn't have made any difference anyway.
It's their policy to ignore detainers.
This is the easiest, this is the issue that is so important for, obviously we're not offering any advice here, this is all unsolicited, just one person's opinion.
If you ever wanted to run for office, this is the only thing you'd be talking about, as if I'm elected, I will do everything in my power to stop sanctuary cities, to go after and prosecute sanctuary cities, because these politicians enabling these policies to exist, they are persecuting law-abiding Americans, and you could craft it, like you said, of They're primarily preying upon people of color and their own communities, but that's irrelevant.
The thing is, these people shouldn't be in the country.
Right.
It's just scandalous.
And so we move to yet another scandal which is all too similar and all too analogous.
It's this decision on eliminating bail.
Bail, of course, is the requirement that people put up a certain amount of money that they forfeit if they don't show up for trial.
If you can't afford the bail, then you are a guest of the city of New York, of the state of New York.
You get three squares and a cot, but bail has been eliminated.
For all non-violent felonies.
And the result is that people who would not have had an opportunity to walk are walking.
And of course, this has been changed because the requirements of bail, just like the requirement to obey the law, fall more heavily on the melanin enhanced.
And this is something we cannot tolerate.
So we get the extraordinary saga of Gerald Woodbury.
Age 42.
He robbed four banks.
One in New York's midtown Manhattan, one in Harlem, one in the West Village, and one in the Upper West Side just since the end of the year.
He's a pretty busy guy.
He's quite an operator.
Four banks.
Well, and he got away with about a thousand dollars each time before the cops nabbed him.
That was last Thursday.
Well, The new, the no bail law applies to bank robbers, believe it or not.
And so out he went the very next day.
And he is quoted as saying, I can't believe they let me out.
What were they thinking?
Well, the answer, Mr. Woodbury, is they weren't thinking at all.
Well, apparently Mr. Woodbury went home, got a good night's sleep, and then the very next day he robbed yet another bank.
This one in downtown Brooklyn.
That's pretty good work.
Out on Thursday.
Out on Thursday.
Back in action on Friday.
This guy is dedicated to his job.
He's a diligent back robber.
Well, he is still on the loose.
And the police, despite the surveillance video of him, that they identified it right away.
Uh-oh, this is our good buddy Gerald.
We booked him just the other day, but he is on the lam and on the loose, and we don't know when we're going to see him next.
You know, Another State, it's a story we We cut this one story, but it is important to note that in Illinois, lawmakers are looking to end cash bail, mandatory minimums, and get this, expand deferred prosecution to try and keep people of color out of the criminal justice system.
What's deferred prosecution?
How does that work?
Well, if you can give me one second, I will tell you.
Deferred?
Well, that's like deferred removal.
You know, it's deferring.
I mean, if something is sufficiently deferred, then it might as well not happen, right?
Well, a committee, so state rep Maurice West from Rockford, Illinois, describes this, quote, a deferred prosecution program is an alternative justice program designed for first-time non-violent offenders.
It's an opportunity to It is an opportunity to keeping a conviction from being permanently entered onto their record.
Gosh, so that sounds as though a first offense just doesn't count.
It doesn't go on the record.
It's deferred.
It's a mulligan.
I know you don't goth, but it's a mulligan.
It's a legal mulligan.
Wow, so it's a stroke and a miss that doesn't count.
Okay, okay.
Now, and this is in the interest of racial justice, I assume.
It is entirely in the interest of racial justice, as we've seen that same call that we've seen in California.
Look at San Francisco.
The new DA just basically got rid of all of the prosecuting attorneys because he fired a bunch of them.
Chesa, what's his name?
Chesa Boudin?
Yes, Boudin.
Yeah, who was raised by the Weathermen.
Yes, yes.
Both of his parents were doing a hard time having, being Weathermen and killing people, but that's a good preparation for being a prosecutor, don't you think?
I'd say so, I would say so.
That's the future.
Our listeners, obviously, are those who are interested in the concepts of law and order.
And what we're seeing right now is this pendulum swinging so far left.
But, Mr. Taylor, I'm afraid that the demographics have shifted to a point that there isn't going to be a Republican response.
With demographics being destiny, how can you get Republicans elected in some of these districts?
My guess is that if enough liberals get mugged and raped and knocked off, if enough happens to them, this is a pendulum that should surely swing back.
As a matter of fact, I think non-whites tend to react more vigorously when their interests are violently threatened than whites anyway.
So I would like to think that if this goes too far, the pendulum will swing back, but it's very hard to say.
Now, on the subject of this disappearance of law and order, we have to return back underground to the New York City subway.
As you know, From October 2017 until June 2019.
During stops for fare evasion.
Back to one of our favorite subjects, fare evasion.
When the race was recorded, 73% of the people received a ticket for fare evasion and 90% of those who were arrested on that charge were black or hispanic.
Oh boy.
Very sad.
And fare evasion costs the system $300,000,000 a year.
$300,000,000.
You can clean up a lot of graffiti.
You can get some new equipment for $300,000,000.
And this is apparently a very, very bad thing.
And therefore, I mean, the fact that they're trying to actually enforce some of this to some extent, I mean, they're really ambiguous about whether they can enforce it.
But if they were to enforce it, that's a cool $300,000,000 into the system's coffers.
Letitia James.
You know Letitia James?
She is the newly elected, melanin-enhanced, melanin-enriched Attorney General of the State of New York.
She has sent a letter to the Police Commissioner requesting enforcement data, policies, and other information that she said may shine a light on whether officers have exhibited racial biases.
Hey listen, just make it illegal to arrest black or brown people.
Isn't that where we're headed?
I mean, it seems to me they're probably arresting people who beat the fare.
I mean, isn't that what their job is?
They're not arresting people who don't beat the fare.
Anyway, this just stinks in her eyes.
So, Letitia James, she used to be a public defender.
And in June 2016, when she was a New York City public advocate, she's one of those who tried to put pressure on the banks to stop any kind of financial services to the gun industry.
She's one of those.
So she wants to drive gun manufacturers out of business because she would deny any access to banks.
Well, in any case, Mayor Bill de Blasio says, all this is fine.
And furthermore, we talked about this before, Mario Cuomo, who has discovered just how lawless the subways have become.
And the fact that you don't arrest fare beaters, that means you get all sorts of people just living in the subway, folks that you really don't want to have to step over on your way to work, but they're living in the subway.
And so Mr. Cuomo has proposed there be 500 new transit police officers hired.
Well, Letitia James doesn't care for that.
She says that this will worsen the racial disparities in arrests.
I guess they might, those extra 500 people, might arrest people who are breaking the law.
That would be an intolerable thing.
It's not allowed.
It's not allowed.
There are basically three states Dear listener, that if you're living in, you should consider moving immediately.
California, Illinois, and New York.
Well, I'm not sure you should come to Virginia.
Virginia's heading that way too, you know.
Actually, it is that way.
Well, Governor Northam, Governor Northam is He's trying to imitate San Francisco.
He's going to say, we're just going to write you up a ticket if you shoplift anything that's worth less than $900,000.
And it's all about racial disparities.
All about racial disparities.
You're right.
Yes, yes.
And criminality.
But back to New York City subway.
Now, it was in the context of reading about this letter that Letitia James has written to the police commissioner.
Got to look into this.
These racial disparities are intolerable.
I learned about a demonstration in Brooklyn last November of more than a thousand people apparently They took to the streets and they did a massive fair evasion campaign against what they called rampant NYPD violence against black and brown people.
Now, furthermore, these thousand people, and according to photographs, many of them are non-white, but many of them are white.
They are demonstrating in favor of free public transportation, first of all.
And then, boy, you know that half of New York City is going to end up living in the subway, if they can stay in there all the time.
But what shocked me, and I thought I was pretty hard to shock, were some of the placards these people were waving.
Some of the placards said, Disarm the Police.
Now isn't that, in effect that means, okay, no police.
It's a Bolshevik revolution is what these individuals, and those people at that event, they were largely white, by the way.
If you've seen the videos of what they're doing, they're advocating on behalf of their melanin-enhanced comrades.
Yes, disarm the police.
Then there was another big banner.
This is one of these, sort of the width of a street, big banners lugged around by lots of people.
And this one said, anti-up.
Punch the cop.
NYPD out of MTA.
NYPD, that's New York Police Department, out of the Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Ante up.
Punch that cop.
What?
Violent?
I mean, what are these people?
Think about all the great work that a guy like William Bratton, who was the head of the NYPD for so many years, he wrote a great book called The Turnaround.
It's about how he reversed this just significant decline, largely utilizing the work of James Q. Wilson and his concept of broke windows policing.
Yeah, of course.
You go after, you know, the whole concept of that was you go after simple neighborhood disorders, drunks, panhandling, youth
gangs, prostitution, and other urban incivilities. I like the way he, urban incivilities, that's
a good way of putting it.
That is a good phrase.
And of course, what could be more of an urban incivility than fair evasion?
Well, some of the stuff they're doing in San Francisco, you know, copulating and defecating
on the sidewalk, I think that might be even more uncivil.
But anyway, yes, this is all.
You've got to start small and that way the big stuff almost goes away by itself.
Oh yeah, and that's what happened in New York with Bratton in charge.
But let me finish off the other big banner that they were carrying in this demonstration.
It said, Don't let these pigs touch us ever again.
And then it had NYPD with a big red slash through it and a circle around it near the get rid of it and an image of a pig oink oink.
You're talking about this decline in law and order.
When the citizens of a city themselves say disarm the police, punch out a police officer, this is the end.
Urban incivility.
I mean, it's worse than that.
This is urban insurrection.
This is utter and total chaos.
Urban anarchy, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
But anyway, that is the direction in which all too many of our fellow citizens seem to be going.
But as I say, the pendulum will swing back.
It must swing back.
There's no choice but to swing back.
Gravity cannot be ignored forever.
For every action, there is a what?
An equal and opposite reaction.
Yeah, I would hope for an utterly unequal, vastly superior reaction to this one.
But now we have yet another urban, an urban incivility story.
This is on a grander scale in a way, and it has to do with Clarence Smith, Pastor Clarence.
And it has to do with a federal program that reimburses institutions, including churches, that provide meals and snacks.
To children and elderly people and to people with disabilities.
Well, Pastor Smith was running something called the New Life Impact Church.
Sounds like a great organization.
It sure does.
New Life.
We're going to have a new life and it's going to have a great impact on your new life.
Well, it turns out that he was claiming to feed the hungry and he collected nearly a million dollars in feed the hungry fees.
But he wasn't feeding the hungry.
He was feeding his own bank account.
And when the authorities began to question him as to, could you show us records of the people, these hungry children and oldsters that you've been feeding?
He claimed that all of his records had been destroyed in a flood.
Now this was in Chicago.
You remember the Great Chicago Flood of 2017?
You know the whole city was underwater for weeks?
I don't.
You don't remember?
Well, Clarence Smith sure remembers.
All of his records were washed away in a flood.
Now, what did he use the funds for?
He bought himself a brand new Bentley Flying Spur.
You know how much a Bentley Flying Spur costs?
$200,000?
No, he got the bargain model, $142,000.
Okay.
Yes, yes.
And all kinds of other flashy stuff.
So, the New Life Impact Church sure had an impact on him.
It gave him a new life.
And he has a colorful past.
Mr. Smith, and once again, he is one of our... Well, I don't know how to call him.
He's a person of color.
Let's put it that way.
And he gave himself unauthorized access to a credit union account of a man who died and proceeded to write himself checks totaling $106,000.
And so he pleaded guilty to a charge of financial exploitation of the elderly and was sentenced to six months in jail.
Well, a few years later, he filed for bankruptcy.
I guess he worked through that $106,000 pretty rapidly, claiming that he had debts of $80,000, but only $20 in cash on hand.
He's had various ins and outs, people suing him.
But one thing that I would like to point out, there were photographs of this New Life Impact Church in Chicago.
And I must say, it is the pokiest, dumpiest little storefront, windowless pile of junk I nearly ever saw.
It's extraordinary to me that this place managed to funnel a million dollars through it, claiming that it was feeding the hungry.
Loaves and fishes.
I just don't get it.
Reverend Clarence Smith.
And I wonder if he's one of these self-appointed reverends or if he actually went to Divinity School.
I suspect it's one of these churches where, you know, you just stand up and say, I'm the preacher man.
He got an online diploma.
Maybe not even that.
In any case, he says, I totally deny any and all allegations of fraud.
I've served the community for years and will let this play out in court, says he.
So, we'll see.
Now, I must say, this sort of fraud is by no means the exclusive province of persons of color.
Do you remember Jim and Tammy Faye Baker?
I do?
You do.
Back in the 80s, right?
Well, yes.
Yes.
Back in the 70s and 80s, they had something called the PTL Club.
Do you remember what that stood for?
I don't.
Praise the Lord.
It was the Praise the Lord Club.
Well, later on, the PTL Club, people laughingly referred to it as the Pass the Loot Club.
They were enriching themselves to a fare-thee-well.
And I remember Tammy Faye.
Gorgeous Tammy Faye.
She said, well God wants his people to travel first class.
You're being hyperbolic there when you say gorgeous, correct?
You know, one of the jokes about her, this was back when Jimmy Hoffa had disappeared.
Somebody said, you know, you scrape the makeup off Tammy Faye Baker and you're gonna find Jimmy Hoffa!
That was unkind.
Well anyway, Jim Baker went to jail for five years for skimming off the top.
But did you know Jim Bakker is back in action.
He's got a brand new blonde wife.
Tammy Faye divorced him while he was in the big house and then she later died of various complications.
He's back on the air!
It's no longer called the PTL Club, but they're still passing that loot.
So, you know, as I say, there are miscreants in all groups, but I do find it particularly intriguing whenever I find these persons of color who are presumably doing such great good for the community.
They're getting this money to feed the hungry, sucker the homeless, and they're buying Bentleys.
Anyway.
So, back to well-known people, Tammy Faye.
From Tammy Faye, let's move on to Stephen King.
Yeah, let's move on to...
You could argue that this is the most famous living author.
Maybe J.K.
Rowling in terms of book sales, but Stephen King, of course the writer of horror fiction, lives in Maine.
That's important because Maine is still one of the whitest states.
What we're going to talk about is the backlash that he faced over his comments on diversity in the Academy Awards and the Oscars.
So, in yet another year of Oscar nominations that saw a paucity.
I always hate when you encounter that word.
A paucity.
A paucity of recognition for women and artists of color.
This has been going on for what?
They just don't learn.
Every year, I guess the past three years, Oscar's so white.
Hashtag has been trending on Twitter.
You know, what else has to be said by the cultural elite in Hollywood who are so upset that, you know, just make it illegal for white men to even be nominated.
No white man can be nominated if they direct a movie for best director.
No white man supporting actor or best actor.
No, you can't do it.
That would solve their problem.
How hard is that?
Just go and do it.
Well, get this.
Stephen King took a different stance.
He took a very different stance.
Early on Tuesday morning, he spoke about the three Oscar categories in which he is able to nominate.
So I guess he's a member of the Academy?
Yeah, he's a member of the Academy.
Now, I don't know if you knew this, but a couple years ago after the whole brouhaha blew up and they actually looked at who was a member of the Academy, they saw how overwhelmingly white and male it was, they created a couple hundred seats, I believe.
Yeah, it's like packing the court.
Exactly!
FDR court packing going on.
Let's make the Supreme Court as many as it takes until I win.
I followed that.
They added portions of color and ladies of color.
It was just diverse, diverse, diverse.
So author Stephen King is able to nominate for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, and Original Screenplay.
I guess that's because, although he's not in the movie industry, some of his books have been turned into screenplays.
Oh my goodness.
Basically, I can't think of what intellectual property he's put out there that hasn't been turned into either a TV series, a streaming series, or a movie, or rebooted.
So he's one of these terrible wicked white males.
He is.
He is a white male who said this.
He said that diversity is not a consideration for him when he votes as a member of the Academy.
Oh no!
Oh no!
Quote, I would never consider diversity a matter of art, only quality.
This is revolutionary.
It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.
End quote.
This is what he put out on Twitter.
Now, of course, did he not pay attention at all?
Was he too busy tweeting out anti-Trump invective over the past few years to pay attention to what's going on with the Academy?
Part of the too busy counting is money.
I can't even imagine what the residuals are on some of the books and the checks he gets for some of his properties.
So a huge controversy erupted.
It was two minutes hate against Stephen King, the author from Maine.
Not to be confused with anybody else by that same name.
So some of the leading people of color in Hollywood, Ava DuVernay, she's the director of one of the biggest flops in history.
A Wrinkle in Time.
And she made it very diverse, people of color.
The remake, the colorized version.
So she called King's comments, quote, so backward and ignorant, you want to go back to bed.
End quote.
She would go on to tweet this.
When you wake up, meditate, stretch, reach for your phone to check on the world, and see a tweet from someone you admire that is so backward and ignorant, you want to go back to bed.
You know, I don't understand.
If a guy says, I don't think about diversity, I think purely about ability and quality.
That's backward and ignorant.
In other words, let's set aside quality.
In other words, isn't she saying, isn't she saying, Nominate people that look like me, even if we're no good, simply because they look like me.
Content of character is irrelevant.
The merit of what you produce, the quality of what you produce, is not something you should take into consideration when it comes to nominations.
And Ava DuVernay's eyes, like you said, all that matters The poor girl is heartbroken.
She's disgusted.
Has Stephen King eaten crows?
He has.
Oh, he has.
He did come out and put up a comment that, you know, my previous tweet was irresponsible, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But you know what?
It's already out there, what he said.
So kudos to him for even saying that and causing a meltdown for a few hours.
Well, I'm sorry he caused heartburn for poor Ava DuVernay.
You know, you would really like them to stick to their guns, wouldn't you?
And maybe someday they will. Maybe Stephen King, you know, if he...
And that's the other thing. This guy is sitting on bags of money.
Oh, I think he's worth... maybe... I know it's worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars.
Might be approaching 500 million dollars.
But here's a guy, here's a guy who still can't speak his mind.
No.
Still can't.
Well, I guess he won't be invited to all the nice parties.
Okay, now where were we?
As we're moving along here, I think we had a few more stories to talk about.
Yes.
I wanted to tell our listening audience about Lizbeth Mateo.
Lizbeth Mateo was the subject of a very flattering profile in the Los Angeles Times.
And the reason for this is very simple.
She is herself an illegal immigrant, but has a California bar card, and she is an immigration lawyer.
Yes.
Now, let me quote from the story.
She's never sure whether judges or other lawyers know that the polished, savvy, 34-year-old woman advocating on behalf of her clients does not have legal status herself.
Now, she's savvy.
She's polished.
But she's an illegal.
And this is, let me continue to read.
While Donald Trump fixates on walls, California will continue to concentrate on opportunities.
This is what Kevin DeLeon said back in 2018 when, as President Pro Tem of the California Senate, he appointed Lizbeth Mateo, illegal immigrant, to a post on a state advisory committee studying ways to help underserved students go to college.
the idea that they're cowering in the shadows.
No, no, no, no.
And DeLeon said that, Elizabeth Mateo, quote, embodies California values and the California dream.
Breaking into the country, breaking our laws, and becoming a lawyer.
That embodies the California dream.
And she didn't even have to have someone cut her.
No, didn't even have to go through the box cutter treatment.
Bye.
Yes, well she's from southern Mexico.
She was 14 when her parents hopped the border along with her.
And at first she thought she was not going to be able to go to college because she was illegal.
She was going to go to join the U.S.
Navy instead.
But she managed to get into Santa Monica College and then Santa Clara University and got a law degree.
And as the LA Times says, She has a desire to pursue justice as if it were her moral obligation.
Pursuing justice.
Now here's a woman who is an immigration lawyer.
She is battling for people like herself who broke the law to come here, who are here illegally, and the LA Times down on its hands and knees, may I kiss your feet, Elizabeth Mateo, saying she has a desire to pursue justice as if it were her moral obligation.
So, this is a morality tale from the LA Times.
And I would like to follow up on this with yet another adoring profile.
This was in the January 6th New York Magazine of one of the few Americans who is referred to by her initials.
You're talking, obviously, of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
I'm afraid I am.
A-O-C.
So she's right up there with LBJ and FDR and JFK.
How many of them are there, you know?
That is a very, very select few.
And she's one of them.
In any case, New York Magazine reminded us that she's the youngest woman ever elected to the House of Representatives.
And she was recently ranked as the fourth most tweeted about politician in the world.
And in doing so, she beat out every single Democrat currently running for president.
She is most tweeted about.
Now, did you realize that there's already a children's book about her?
The title is very clever.
It's called the ABCs of AOC.
I think that's even better than Healthy Holly.
And I wonder how many copies of it have been bought by admiring people who wish to get... Well, we won't go into that.
Probably a lot more than Healthy Holly ever sold on a good day.
We'll see.
There's also a comic book series about her.
I'd like to see that.
And a young adult biography of her.
Boy, it's pretty nice of you having young adult biographies while you're still... She's still in her twenties, isn't she?
And you'll be gratified to know that there is a Christmas sweater with her face upon it.
Now, last January, back when the government was about to be shut down, did you know that she was the only Democrat to vote against funding the government?
And do you know why?
No, I don't know why.
Because funding the government meant funding ICE.
Ah.
Funding ICE.
So she voted against funding the government.
She'd rather the whole shebang grind to a halt, I guess.
And if ICE isn't funded, then all of her buddies all around the world could come swarming across the border.
Correct.
Yes.
Now, she is of course a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
But, she has complaints about it.
And let me quote her.
They let anybody who the cat dragged in call himself a progressive.
There's no standard.
Anybody the cat dragged in.
She would prefer to be able to decide.
Then she says, the same goes for the party as a whole.
Democrats can be too big of a tent, says she.
And when she was asked what she would do as a member of Congress if Joe Biden, Democrat, were elected, she groaned.
She said, Oh God, in any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party.
Well, there's party loyalty for you already.
No party for white men.
No, I guess not.
And last month, Politico reported that some political operators are already speculating that a O.C.
will run for president in 2024-2028.
All of her advisors are already talking about it.
She could be a candidate.
Now, also, there is a discussion of a possible run for mayor of New York in 2021.
But they decided against it for now.
What is perhaps more likely is a run for the Senate.
Now, of course, if she ran for the Senate, that would mean challenging Chuck Schubert in 2022 or Kirsten Gillibrand in 2024.
She has got high hopes, it certainly seems.
And Ocasio-Cortez is still in regular contact with leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America.
But, interestingly enough, she's up for re-election in 2020 herself.
After her first two-year term is over, she's already attracted a dozen challengers, including a Democrat pastor, a city councilman, a close-to-the-box machine, and apparently her team is very well aware that she can't take re-election for granted.
Well, if there really are a dozen challengers, come on.
She can probably get elected without moving a muscle.
As you would say, get this.
She's already gotten $5.3 million that she raised in 2019.
Around $5.3 million.
And she has got all kinds of local influence.
Her endorsement was almost what it would take to get Tiffany Caban into office as Queens District Attorney.
Remember her?
She thought she was in.
It was just a difference of a few votes.
She was yet another one of these Soros supported forget-the-law kind of prosecutors.
And of course, if she went in her re-election, one of the main planks on her platform will be the abolition of ICE.
And that's central to a district where Guess what percentage of the population of her district was born in another country?
I think it is approaching 55%?
It's about half.
That's right.
That's right.
So, anyway, that's just an update on AOC.
As I say, she is in rare company, being identified just by her initials.
Now, I believe you had something to tell us about the Trump security team.
Yeah, you know, we're running out of time here.
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So, did you know?
The USA Today decided to publish a story.
It's one of those All these white people don't they understand that this can't be?
That's right.
The title of the piece was Trump's white male team is a bad look for America and bad for national security too.
The deck continues.
The problem isn't just optics.
It's about protecting America.
The lack of diversity means Trump and his team Aren't getting the best advice available.
Now, I mean, again, these are one of those stories.
You see these published every day.
I just saw another one.
You know, we were talking last week on last week's episode about how there are too few black Coaches in the NFL.
There was a story today in the Detroit News I saw about how only two of the 32 quarterback coaches in the NFL are black.
And how this is, we've got to look into this.
But this story is a little bit different though.
Now the Trump national security team is just too white.
Well get this.
She writes, the author, Kate Brennan was the author of this op-ed.
When President Trump strode to the podium last week to tell America what would happen next with Iran, he clearly wanted to project his vision of American strength.
He stood amid top members of his national security team, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other military officers.
All men and all white.
Oh no!
While it's clear display of US military might, as well as Trump signaling that he had full support of his team, this carefully choreographed moment sent another message.
The only people who can handle this national security crisis are white men.
You know, I wonder what Steve King thinks about that.
I wonder if Steve King thinks, well maybe... The author.
The author.
I wonder if he thinks maybe Trump is choosing his team based on ability.
Based on merit.
They get the job that way.
I'll just read one thing real quick.
She wrote that this was a throwback to white male America and that Trump's white male team is bad look for America and bad for national security too by saying, and I quote, This is especially true when Trump hosts foreign leaders like the Saudi Crown Prince or travels to countries where the rights of women and minorities are under assault.
Instead of setting an example for the rest of the world, the United States, under Donald J. Trump, is sanctioning a worldview that excludes women and people of color from positions of power and influence.
Because he actually visits Saudi Arabia, this makes it even worse?
I mean, what's the connection there?
This stuff is just so... White men gotta go, you know?
Why are white men employed as coaches in the NFL?
And why are white men even up for consideration for, like we talked about, Academy Awards or to be part of the security team of President Trump?
Well, we have a little bit of good news.
It is qualified good news, I'm afraid.
But the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, he is the only governor so far to avail himself of Donald Trump's executive order giving local governments the authority to reject refugee resettlement.
He stepped forward and said, nope, not for us.
Actually, I should say he didn't step forward.
He's in a wheelchair, so he kind of rolled forward.
Okay, he rolled forward.
Just to clarify.
He came forward, yes.
Now, already, 39 states have said they're going to take refugees, and of these, 17 have got Republican governors.
But anyway, fortunately the number that have to be resettled is down to merely 18,000 from 30,000 previously.
All of the Democrats are threatening to increase the numbers to 150,000, 200,000.
The more the merrier, the more the merrier.
Alas!
Alas, U.S.
District Judge Peter Messite of Maryland granted a preliminary injunction according to which the Trump administration is barred from enforcing this executive order and that it will be appealed.
But this is yet another bump in the road.
Now, but again, hooray, hooray for Governor Greg Abbott.
Well, and the fact is, you know, it's, there are, let's see, 37 states, six counties, and nine cities have so far said that they will accept refugees, but two counties have already opted out.
Appomattox County in Virginia, my very own state, you wish it were yours, and Beltrami County in Minnesota.
I hope there'll be many more, so some are stepping forward.
A lot of good stuff is happening in Minnesota, and I'll say this, I know our time is about to run out, Governor DeSantis and Governor Kemp, two Republicans who won their races largely on campaigning on stopping illegal immigration.
I mean Kemp did some radical stuff and he's been, you know, he barely won in Georgia and he's been a dismal operator thus far as the head executive of that state.
They need to step up and they need to say, we're also going to do what Abbott did.
This is how you start to prepare for the post-Trump America.
You know, Trump, you know, we've got what?
Nine months till the election?
Roughly?
Ten months till the election?
Yes.
You know, there's a lot that's going to start happening in the next couple years, and there's some opportunities here for some leaders, elected leaders, to really assert themselves.
And they are muffing their opportunity.
It's really too bad.
Only one governor so far?
Shameful.
And Texas is a state, that's good, because Texas is a state, the demographics are shifting, and that state has been targeted, Mr. Taylor and dear listener, That's right, yeah.
resettlement. I believe it's the number one state for refugee resettlement.
So he says, not a loss. Now I guess, boy we're almost out of time, I really do want
to talk about the CNN settlement with Sandman. Everybody knows about that.
This is a Nick Sandman, the guy with the Covington High School, who was smeared as
a racist across the board by all these media organizations.
There was a settlement with CNN. We don't know how big the check was.
We talked about that before already, but this is the interesting part I want to
talk about.
Well, ABC, CBS, and NBC didn't even report the news at this time.
Ha ha ha ha.
Why might that be?
Yes, and he is still suing NBC and the Washington Post.
But even better, their defense in court by CNN said that calling someone a racist is not a factual question.
It is something that cannot be proven one way or the other.
That this is basically, you can call anybody a racist you like because it can't be proven or disproven.
They actually went to court and said that.
Now they call Donald Trump a racist all the time.
Yes they do.
But they're saying, we can call anybody a racist because it's completely divorced from the facts.
And as we all know what happened in that case, what?
They settled out of court.
They settled out of court.
They wrote a check and I hope it was a big big check and I hope that Nick Sandman and his lawyers are using this money to pursue all these other targets all the more aggressively.
I do as well.
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