Ep. 604 dissects Trump’s alleged racism through AOC’s "white supremacist" fundraising email, mocking her Queens donor base while praising the economy’s record-low unemployment. The host defends Trump’s migrant caravan ad—featuring a deported cop-killer—as pragmatic border policy, dismissing racial bias claims by comparing it to Willie Horton’s 1988 ad. Clinton’s "Black politician" joke is framed as harmless tribal humor, while Trump’s Charlottesville gaffe is chalked up to media misinterpretation; the segment slams leftist double standards, citing Warren’s Kavanaugh fundraising evasions and Gillum’s admitted campaign dishonesty. Ultimately, it argues Trump’s policies reflect pragmatism, not racism, while exposing progressive hypocrisy in election narratives. [Automatically generated summary]
Perhaps the biggest question of this year's midterm elections is, why do Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's eyes look like the headlights of a runaway train that's about to derail and plow into everything that is good about America specifically and human life in general?
Maybe that's just my biggest question.
But in any case, the answer is simple.
The woman is nuts.
Proof comes in the new fundraising email from the Google-Eyed Socialist Loon, which begins with the words, quote, and these are all real quotes.
Six days from now, we can defeat the brutal white supremacist forces of anti-Semitism, anti-immigrant nativism, and racism, unquote.
So apparently come Tuesday, Akasio-Cortez is planning to invade 1940s Germany.
The email continues, quote, we can hold accountable the cold, hot-hearted monsters who have repeatedly attacked our healthcare.
We can send a message to the bigots and billionaires that this country belongs to all of us, unquote.
This portion is obviously tailored to appeal to Akasio-Cortez's base, namely shrieking hysterics who have no idea what the hell is going on outside of their own insufficiently medicated imaginations.
But wait, there's more.
She says this election, quote, affords us the chance to forge a powerful bulwark against Donald Trump's toxic, self-serving, and destructive agenda.
We must offer a path out of the darkness, unquote.
This, of course, is utter nonsense since she's campaigning in Queens, whereas everyone knows there is no path out of the darkness.
Although the E-Train will get you to Rockefeller Center, which is very nice around the holidays.
Finally, the crazy lady concludes, quote, this is our chance to push back against white supremacist forces across our nation, against the xenophobes who are militarizing the border, against the bigots who seek to erase our transgender families, against the apologists for sexual assault, and the Islamophobes who so hate to divide us, unquote.
Akasio-Cortez received an immediate response from America's white supremacist, xenophobe, militarist, bigot, apologist, Islamophobe, who issued a statement saying, quote, leave me alone.
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Election Resistance Rising00:08:16
So the election is basically here.
Here we are.
It's Tuesday.
I hope you'll all go out and vote and not just sit around and complain.
And, you know, I should just tell you, this is the most important election of our lifetime.
Everybody always says that about every election.
This is, this is the most, nobody ever says, you know, this one, maybe, I don't know, you know, but go if you want, don't vote.
No, this is the most important.
And this is, you know, I have been asking around.
I have some sources with like inside knowledge, and I have to tell you, no one knows anything.
The polls are notoriously unreliable.
They have been bouncing around like crazy.
Even in the Senate races, which are usually the better polls in the congressional races, I don't even know who's running polls in congressional races.
I don't think they matter at all.
And of course, turnout is everything.
And everybody's telling me they don't know what's happened.
So you get three possible outcomes, right?
One is the Republicans win.
They hold the House and they hold the Senate.
That would be an amazing development, an amazing development.
First of all, it would be such a slap in the face of the far left.
It would be such a slap in the face.
When I say the far left, what I'm talking about is CNN, NBC, ABC, the New York Times.
It would be telling them your resistance stank.
What you did to Kavanaugh, stank.
You and your hectoring people in restaurants stank.
It's all of it.
We'd reject all of it.
It would be America just turning to them like that wonderful freedom system that we have that just kind of speaks back when people overstep.
The left has become radical.
It has become radical and it has become socialist and it has become violent and has become entitled.
It's demanding things.
If we hold the House, which would just be, it wouldn't be unprecedented, but it just rarely happens in a midterm that the party in power doesn't lose a lot of seats.
In this case, you have this president who is such an outlier, such a big figure, divisive.
He has made the left insane.
The news people have abandoned all their principles to get at him.
The talk show hosts are all against him.
Stephen Colbert had Nancy Pelosi on last night, and it was like, oh, please, I hope we win so much.
Why is that okay?
Why is that okay for a public network to broadcast an entertainment show that every night is just essentially a public service announcement for the Democrats?
I do not know why that's fair or right.
You know, they have the right.
I'm not saying they don't have the right to do it.
I'm just saying I don't know why that's okay, why that's fair.
All right, so that's one thing that would be great.
The next thing, of course, is that we hold the Senate but lose the House.
That's the one that everybody's been saying has happened.
That is kind of the common wisdom, what everybody says is going to take place next.
That too, if we don't get like wiped out in the House, that too is a kind of victory because that's just following the map.
That means that Donald Trump and the resistance have not had a big effect.
That just means that Donald Trump and the resistance haven't had a huge effect.
You know, it means that for all the hysteria, for all the, you know, news skewing its stories, for all the entertainment industry coming out against it, not much has happened.
That's just the map.
That's the way it goes.
The other is the blue wave.
That was what was supposed to happen.
But right now, according to the polls, which like I say are all over the place and nobody knows, if the blue wave happens, then we have to recalibrate.
We have to say this is going to be a terrible two years in which Donald Trump, who is a master politician, he's going to be playing the opposition, but it's not going to be pretty.
Not a lot is going to get done.
And, you know, a lot has gotten done.
You know, Congress with a small majority has really accomplished a lot.
They passed the tax reform bill.
That was a big deal.
They've rolled back regulations.
They used that Congressional Review Act.
And of course, the great judges, there have been 84 great judges.
The economy, I mean, nobody, you know, this is the funny thing.
Elections nowadays are about nothing.
They're about ginning up your emotions.
Both sides.
And, you know, this is true on both sides.
They're about what will make you emotional, what will get you out to the polls.
In a sane world, if this were a sane, you know, if this were the world from the civics class where they say, this is democracy, this is how democracy works.
In a sane world, we would be talking about the incredible economy.
You know, do you want to keep this economy?
These are the guys who brought you the economy.
Put them back in.
They will bring you more of the economy.
Workers' pay, which everybody's been complaining about, has ratcheted up.
It's reached the highest level in over nine years.
The new job numbers came out.
They were unbelievable.
The unemployment rate is still at 3.7, which is the lowest rate since 1969.
No major industry in the nation lost jobs as the increase in hiring just continues to surge.
It is absolutely unbelievable.
This economy is absolutely unbelievable, and it is because of the regulations dialing back.
And, you know, here is just another interesting thing.
The press, which has become radicalized, like I said, 8% of the people, the radical 8% of the country is running like 80% of the press.
And that is a sin, and it's wrong.
And it's not that they don't have the right.
They have the First Amendment.
They have any right they want, but it shouldn't be this way.
It should not be this way.
And it's skewing everything.
So we're paying attention to all the radicals.
This socialist Andrew Gillum, who looks to me like a corrupt city mayor in Florida, who seems to be ahead.
Caseio-Cortez, of course, who is just, you know, I mean, if the woman bumped into a wall in a corner, it would take three people and a crane to get her out.
She doesn't know anything about anything.
She and Don Lemon should have a conversation because it would just be like sort of vapid little speech clouds going back and forth.
Neither of them knows a damn thing.
This guy, Beto O'Rourke, Roberto, Roberto, he's such a Hispanic fellow.
O'Rourke, who they're just in love with in Texas.
He looks like he's going to get blown away.
And it looks like the inner polls are like 8%, 9%, 10% for Ted Cruz.
But they're in love with all these people.
But the fact is, and Kim Strassel points this out in the Wall Street Journal today, the fact is to fight back against Donald Trump, a lot, a lot of the people running on the left are running as moderates.
Now, it's a scam, not because they might not be moderates in their hearts, but because they're going to vote with Pelosi or whoever it is who is in charge.
They're going to vote with the left on everything, on everything.
It doesn't matter whether they're nice people.
It doesn't matter whether they served in the military.
It doesn't matter what.
But there have been a lot.
They're putting up a lot of veterans.
Kim Strassel says it's the year of the Democrat veteran in battleground after battleground districts.
Democrats recruited former service members as their candidates, and most of them are running as moderates.
I mean, even this Kirsten Sinema in Arizona, who called herself a Prada socialist, she said, I'm a Prada socialist.
She was caught on tape saying that she's running as a moderate.
And so, and oh, and who's the other one?
Claire McCaskill in Missouri.
She put out a radio ad, right, saying, oh, she's not one of those crazy Democrats.
That's what the radio ad.
I've said, Claire McCaskill, she's not one of those crazy Democrats.
So Brett Baer asked her about this, and she said, well, I mean I'm being civil.
And then Brett Baer and she had this wonderful exchange, cut number 10.
Just to be clear, there's not another crazy Democrat in the Senate.
Well, I would say this.
I would not call my colleagues crazy, but Elizabeth Warren sure went after me when I advocated tooling back some of the regulations for small banks and credit unions.
I certainly disagree with Bernie Sanders on a bunch of stuff.
I'm not calling my colleagues crazy, but Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are just a little bit, you know what I'm talking about.
That's the way they're running.
They are running to the right.
For all the press on Acazi-Cortez and Andrew Gillum, they are running to the right as moderates, which they're not and will not be.
And if they take the house, we're going to hear about impeachment almost immediately.
Believe me, everything, everything they say is going to go by the boards.
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So meanwhile, we've got Donald Trump.
And of course, the Democrats are trying to push the whole thing toward healthcare, which is a good issue.
It's a good issue because of John McCain, because John McCain caused the Republicans to fail to repeal Obamacare, and then they would have had to reform it and fix it.
Instead, they've got this kind of limping Frankenstein monster that just won't die.
And it's a mess, and it's going to be a mess.
And people are concerned about it, rightly concerned.
You know, Obama screwed up everything.
He screwed up the Middle East and he screwed up our health care system, made it much worse than it was.
And so they're pushing, of course, what they're pushing is universal health care, which is even a worse mess.
But still, that's their issue.
And Trump is trying to keep it on the caravan.
This caravan, which I don't know who's paying for it, but this caravan has clearly been a blessing for Trump.
And he has played it.
He's now sending, I think, approximately 500,000 troops.
No, I'm joking.
The last I heard it was like 15,000 troops or something.
By the time he's finished, the entire American military will be standing on the Mexican border.
And he says they're going to play it tough.
You know, there is intel coming in that he is right about the people in this caravan, that many of them are armed.
Some of them are dangerous.
Some of them present security threats to the United States.
And he's got the, they threw rocks at the Mexican police.
And Trump says that is not going to happen here.
There's cut number four.
Because they're throwing rocks viciously and violently.
You saw that three days ago.
Really hurting the military.
We're not going to put up with that.
They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back.
We're going to consider it.
And I told him, consider it a rifle.
When they throw rocks like they did at the Mexico military and police, I say, consider it a rifle.
You know, and that's tough talk, but he's right.
You know, you cannot have your military being, you know, rocks can kill.
Rocks can really hurt people, but he's talking about real, that's a really dangerous situation.
People can get hurt that way.
And they asked Jim Mattis, you know, they're saying, you know, they're talking about this, that Trump is doing this for the election.
That's true.
This is a good issue for him.
It's a good issue for the Republicans.
The Democrats do not know what to say because they're secretly for open borders.
They like, what did Rush call them?
Undocumented Democrats.
They like undocumented Democrats coming into the country.
So he's right.
They're right about this.
But you cannot pretend that Trump has not been banging this drum since the last election, since 2016.
He has been.
This is an issue for him.
So he's using it now with the caravan coming.
But they're just pretending it's not there, and it is there, so it is a real issue.
And they asked Jim Mattis, they say, well, this is just a campaign stunt sending troops to the border.
Not a good question to ask Mattis.
Here's his response.
Yeah, the support that we provide to the Secretary for Homeland Security is practical support based on the request from the Commissioner of Custom to Border Police.
And so we don't do stunts in this department.
Thank you.
We don't do stunts.
And you've got to believe him because otherwise he'll kill you.
He just reaches out and rips your throat out.
Are you sure this is not a sort of kill?
Mattis is tough.
But the thing is, the thing is, the Democrats have lost their way on this.
They have just gone.
We've played every possible person we can.
Like saying that there shouldn't be Democrats, Harry Reid, saying there shouldn't be birthright and citizenship, and all the Democrats saying, you know, from Barack Obama on down, saying that we can't just have open borders and let people in, but they've all changed.
And Project Veritas, which has been going after some of these campaigns in a wicked, wicked way, by which I mean wickedly well, you know, has got Beto O'Rourke's people just saying, oh, yeah, we're using campaign funds to feed the caravan, to help people through.
We're sending trucks down there.
And he caught them on this.
Let's hear a little bit of that, an excerpt of that.
I just hope nobody that when the wrong person finds out about this.
For me, I can ignore the rules, and I'll fing it.
I don't mind breaking the rules, and I can defend any position.
Yeah, I was going to use the vans, too.
So we could probably use that.
Can we use the vans?
Yeah.
I'm thinking of like, if we're going to use that to give some of those inner bids rights to the airport, to the bus station, why not?
I'm done being nice.
I'm done being professional.
Because nothing is professional.
None of this is like that there's a rule.
Don't have to repeat this.
Like if you just say we're buying food for some event, like the Halloween events, because there's block walks coming up for Halloween.
Have you been able to go and like help out any more with the other people?
I did yesterday.
Tonight we get more.
So it's, I don't know how that's going to go.
Tonight, you get more.
There's more people coming.
More people coming.
Oh, wow.
You know, and this is, this is a fair video because this is a tone that is coming down from the top.
First, in terms of immigration, but also in terms of dishonesty.
O'Rourke has been lying about the fact that he was in a hit and run accident and left the scene of the crime.
He's buried an incident that happened in Texas a long time ago.
I'll try and get back to that.
So this dishonesty, this kind of thing, like there are no rules.
We'll say anything.
We'll do anything as long as we can do what we want.
That's typical leftism.
It's the typical way these guys behave.
So that's what we've got.
We've got Trump on the one side.
I'm sending the military.
Mattis is going down there personally and will be personally biting the heads off illegal immigrants.
That's Trump.
And on the other side is, yeah, we're stealing campaign funds to help them.
And we don't really care about the people who sent us the money and we'll do it whatever we want.
There's no rule book here.
So Trump has an ad.
You're taking advantage of this moment.
Trump now has a new ad, very powerful ad.
And for those of you who are not watching but are listening, it features this monster, you know, hardly, hardly call him a human being, this Louis Racamantas, who is now on death row after he murdered two California sheriff's deputies.
And you will see in this, it's a little hard to hear, but they have subtitles.
But you'll see when he was in court, he was laughing and saying, I wish I could have killed more police.
And this is featured in the new Trump ad.
Here it is.
Ladies and gentlemen, currently step out of the hallway.
Breakout soon?
He says he wants to apply for a pardon for the felony he committed.
Attempt of murder.
Who else?
It says, who else will the Democrats let in?
The Democrats let him in, and President Trump is making America safe again.
You know, let's talk about this ad for a couple minutes here.
You know, Rackamantis came in, snuck in, I think, during the Bill Clinton era.
He committed crimes.
He went back.
He was sent back and deported.
He broke in again.
He broke in, I think, twice more.
He came in under the Bush administration.
So it's a little bit, you know, a little bit dishonest to say Democrats let him in.
Who else will they let in?
But, you know, philosophically, it's not as dishonest as all that.
There is one side that wants the borders secured.
There is one side that wants the border secured.
And then you got another side.
You got Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saying, you know, I just want the ice to be there to ensure safe passage, safe passage.
You know, one side, you know, I'm reading this book about the way our moral senses are developed.
And this is by Jonathan Haight, the Righteous Mind.
And he talks about the different levels of the different ways we react morally to things.
And one of them is whether we care about somebody and whether we do harm to somebody.
But then there are other ways.
And he says that liberals only react on this care-harm matrix axis, whereas Republicans and conservatives react on many different axes on our morality.
So they're going, oh, I care.
These people, you know, and we say, well, wait, yeah, but there are a whole other things.
The rule of law matters.
The borders matter.
Lots of different things matter.
Why It's Called Racist00:15:34
So it is fair to say, it is fair to say illegal aliens have caused a lot of crime.
I've visited prisons, a lot of illegal aliens in our prisons.
And we have to have some kind of security at the border.
It is fair to say that this is an emotional ad.
But of course, of course, of course, the left has to call it racist.
Why is it racist?
It is racist.
It shows pictures of people trying to break through, trying to break through the border fences, breaking through border fences.
Why is it racist?
Because the people in the ad are Mexicans, right?
The people in the ad are Mexicans.
They're not hanging out on the Canadian border watching boring old Canadians come over the border like that.
First of all, they're not doing it.
They're Canadians, so they always apply and go through all the rules and regulations and all this.
It is true that a lot of illegals come in by overstaying their visas.
That is true, and that's a problem as well.
But this is a very, very dramatic problem that is affecting people in the border states.
It's not affecting East Coast liberals in New York and LA.
Well, it is affecting them in LA.
But if you're rich enough, they're not coming into your neighborhood.
They're not bothering you.
You're getting the hardworking people who want to do things, you know, take on the jobs, as they say, that Americans won't take on.
You know, this is a serious problem.
And he is absolutely right.
And they're comparing it to the Willie Horton ad in 1988.
This was when Dukakis was running.
And Bush ran this ad saying that this murderer, Willie Horton, had gone off on a furlough program that Dukakis approved of and struck again.
Here's that ad.
Bush and Dukakis on crime.
Bush supports the death penalty for first-degree murderers.
Dukakis not only opposes the death penalty, he allowed first-degree murderers to have weekend passes from prison.
One was Willie Horton, who murdered a boy in a robbery, stabbing him 19 times.
Despite a life sentence, Horton received 10 weekend passes from prison.
Horton fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man, and repeatedly raping his girlfriend.
Weekend prison passes.
Dukakis on crime.
That's a very powerful ad.
Willie Horton was black.
You wouldn't know if you weren't looking at it, but he happened to be black.
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You know, so let's talk about this, Willie Horton, and let's talk about the new ad.
Is this racist?
Is it racist?
Now, when the Dukakis ad came out, I was a liberal.
I voted for Dukakis.
And I saw that ad, and they started screaming immediately, oh, oh, oh, the racist.
And I thought, what's racist about it?
What's racist about it?
Oh, I get it.
It's racist because the killer happens to be black.
So there are two ways to look at the world, right?
One of them is through the lens of race, and the other is not through the lens of race.
The argument of the left.
So if you're not looking through the lens of race, you're only looking at behavior.
A man came in and killed two sheriff's deputies who had been here illegally before and he slipped in again.
We need border security.
I don't care what color he is.
And to be honest with you, I don't care what color he is.
I do not care what color he is or what color the sheriff's deputies were.
The sheriff's deputies, as far as I'm concerned, were colored khaki.
They're on my side.
They're the good guys.
This guy's the bad guy.
That's the way I look at it.
I'm not saying I'm colorblind.
I'm not saying I'm free of all the little glitches that human beings have in their heads.
I'm not, but I overcome them.
I'm a free human being with a logical mind who can overcome some of those prejudices.
And I would say most of those prejudices.
I'm just not looking at that.
I'm looking if you let a murderer go free, you have not got the right criminal policy.
I thought that then when I was a liberal.
I think it now that I'm a conservative.
I still think it, and I do not think their charge is valid.
I think that you are not allowed to say you cannot criticize this person.
If you criticize this person according to the, and he's a certain color, you are against that color skin.
We know you can't do it because they immediately turn around.
If a dark person disagrees with them, they immediately jump on him.
So it's not about that.
It's all about the leftism, as I said yesterday.
It's not about the color of the skin.
That's a scam.
But what about Trump himself?
Is Trump a racist?
I mean, I think, you know, I watched Trump and I have been, he said one thing to me that was egregious, which was when he was running the first time and they asked him if he would disavow the Ku Klux Klan and he stumbled on it.
He stumbled on it.
He didn't do it.
He waited a day.
I don't know how long it was, maybe two days, before he stumbled on it.
Now, I interpreted that, I interpret that as really bad politicking.
Trump wants to win.
You know, that's his thing.
He wants to win.
And sometimes he overlooks the moral aspect of something.
You disavow the Ku Klux Klan, even if it costs your votes.
You do it.
It's just something you do.
You have to.
If you can't disavow the Klan, what do you stand for?
You don't stand for anything.
He hesitated because he wanted those votes.
No one could possibly believe that this guy is a Klansman.
That's an absurd argument.
You know, the other day, I'm going to say something almost nice about Hillary Clinton.
The other day, this piece of video of Hillary Clinton made the rounds.
This is Hillary making a joke during an interview.
Let's play it.
What do you think of Corey Booker's?
And you didn't come on him and you're feel free.
Oh, I adore it.
What do you think about him saying kicked him in the shins, essentially?
Start to get to that kind of political.
Well, that was Eric Holder.
Oh, Eric Herrick Holder.
Sorry.
Yeah, I know they all look alike.
No, they don't.
Oh, well done.
All right.
So everyone on the right jumped on Hillary Clinton.
And listen, kicking Hillary Clinton around is good sport and we should all do it.
It's lots of fun.
But I've made that joke.
A lot of people I know have made that joke.
It's funny, first of all, and it's based on some kind of small truth.
You know, it's a little harder for white people to distinguish people of color from one another.
You know, I remember when I pitched the movie One Missed Call, it was a Japanese horror film, and I had to go in and pitch my version of it.
I got the plot all wrong because I confused.
It was a Japanese, I confused two of the beautiful Japanese actresses in the film, and I mistook the plot.
The people I was pitching it to had to correct me.
You know, so it's funny.
If we can't laugh with each other about this, we can't live together.
If we can't make jokes about each other, we can't live together.
That is the way you discharge hostility in a non-toxic way.
There's nothing wrong with what Hillary Clinton said.
I know we're supposed to jump on her and every little thing.
And I know they would jump on us if it were the other way around.
I mean, good golly, if it had been Trump who made that joke, you know, they'd be outside with pitchforks.
Still, still, I think that you either look at the world and say, hey, I know we're all different colors.
I know there's some glitches in there in our minds that there's some tribalism inside.
We were born to be tribal.
It's a good evolutionary adaptation.
I know all that stuff, but so what?
We're going to make jokes about it.
We're going to be fine.
We're all going to get together.
We're all Americans.
That's one way of looking at the world.
That is one way of looking at the world.
I seriously believe that that is the way Trump thinks.
You know, I'm not averse to dumping on Trump or attacking Trump when I think he's wrong, when I think he's doing something wrong.
I seriously think he's just thinking about fixing stuff and winning and winning.
Sometimes he thinks about winning so much he forgets to think about things that are a little bit more important than winning, but that's what he's thinking about.
When Jim Acosta said to him, you call yourself a nationalist, aren't you worried that people like me will try and twist that, as I will, to say white nationalist?
Trump's response was, I've never even heard that theory.
I've never even heard about that before.
I literally think that's true.
I literally think he does not.
When he was talking in Charlottesville, and I know Ben and I disagree about this, and he said there are great people on both sides.
If you go back and listen to that transcript, and Trump is not always the clearest speaker in the world, he's clearly referring to both sides of the question of whether statues like that of Robert E. Lee should be torn down.
That's what he's talking about.
The media made it sound as if he was saying, oh, there's great people on the Nazi Party.
you know, which is absurd.
Does anybody really think that Trump goes to Ivanka and says, well, yes, you're Jewish, but there are great people in the Nazi Party, too.
No.
I mean, no, it doesn't make any sense.
It's like when people say Trump is Hitler and you say, yeah, is he killing anybody?
Is he rounding anybody up?
What's he doing?
People live in their imaginations and they do not make the distinction between their imaginations and reality.
We all do this a little bit.
The left does it all the time.
I seriously believe that Trump is just not thinking in those terms.
Remember, remember, the left set the terms of racism.
The left set the terms about whether we should discuss every little thing about racism.
Is it racist if you're in an elevator and a black man gets in to be nervous about that?
Is that racist?
You know, I don't actually think it is if you're in a neighborhood where black people commit crimes.
But so what if it is?
So what?
It's a little glitch in your mind.
So what?
It's not hostile.
It doesn't mean you're going to be mean or not hire people or anything like that.
The left set the terms where we're supposed to walk on glass about everything we say, about every move we make, anything that comes into your mind that may not be the, you know, that is part of original sin and part about the broken life of being a human being.
They set these terms.
They set these terms.
You know, somebody said to me, one of my favorite things that somebody once said about me was, you don't even know you're offensive.
You don't even know you're offensive.
And that's true because I really know in my heart that I only want people to do what they want and be happy.
That's my point of view.
If I say something that's offensive, hey, I'm a person of goodwill.
You know, it's probably just a glitch, something I stumbled over.
The left set these terms, and they only apply to the right.
They only apply to the right.
Remember, when Harry Reid or whoever Joe Biden says, oh, Barack Obama, he's what a clean Negro.
We don't have that many clean Negroes.
That's fine.
They don't care about that.
If anybody on the right says it, it's a problem.
You know, I want to take a look.
And by the way, just to throw this in.
President Trump used his executive power for the first time to designate a national monument, establishing a 380-acre site in Kentucky to honor African Americans' role as soldiers during the Civil War.
So he's the worst white supremacist ever.
There's just no question about it.
They set the terms in which gaffes are revealing.
And most of the time, they're lying.
So Mitt Romney says, I'm going to stuff women in binders.
Oh, we had all these women in binders, meaning we had resumes of women.
We were looking to hire women, and we had women in our binders.
And they said, oh, what a gaffe.
What a gaff.
You know, Mitt Romney, the man who stuffs women into binders, help, Mitt, don't do it.
Yes, I'm going to stuff you into the binder so you don't escape.
You know, it's like the woman you keep in a pumpkin shell.
I stuff them into binders.
Nonsense.
It's nonsense, and it only runs one way.
So let's take a look at some of the gaffes that maybe are a little bit more revealing than that Hillary Clinton one.
I let Hillary Clinton off the hook because I know she was not saying anything racist.
She was making a joke.
It's okay for us to make jokes.
Not everything we say has to be judged on a scale of okay or outrage.
That's ridiculous.
We're just human beings.
We're all Americans.
We're living together.
But let's take a look at some real gaffes that really were interesting.
Joe Donnelly in Indiana was debating.
Senator Joe Donnelly in Indiana is debating.
He has a slim lead right now over the Republican challenger Mike Braun.
And he made this remark about how his staff is diverse.
We want everybody to have a chance in Indiana and in America.
And my offices reflect that, both on the campaign side and on the Senate side.
Our state director is Indian American, but he does an amazing job.
Our director of all constituent services, she's African American.
But she does an even more incredible job than you could ever imagine.
It isn't their race.
or their religion.
It's the incredible person that they are.
But at the same time, they have to have a chance.
I don't usually cringe, but I have to say when I heard that, I did cringe.
He's African American, but she does an amazing job.
But that's a gaffe and doesn't reveal that secretly in his heart he's a racist.
You know, I don't think so.
I have to say to his credit, his challenger, Mike Braun, said, I don't hold out against him.
I don't think he's a racist.
What an adult thing to say.
But he added, he added that if it had been me, if it had been a Republican, it is all we would be hearing in the news.
And that's the difference.
So, you know, there are gaffes and there are gaffes.
The difference is the gaff meter only goes one way.
It only rats its one way.
Then there are things that actually are kind of revelatory.
Elizabeth Warren, and obviously in Massachusetts, she's debating, and she was going back and forth with Jeff Diele, and they were discussing the Kavanaugh hearings, which is a big issue.
It really did turn the tide, I think, of the way voters were feeling.
People thought if you guys are going to do that, and if the press is going to do that to a man without any corroboration, without any proof, you guys are out of control.
And I think that really did give some momentum to the right.
So Warren's thing is, well, you didn't stand up for Christine Blasey Ford, and Diehl's thing is, you know, you didn't stand up for due process.
In the middle of this, he mentions the fact that she sent out a fundraising letter, which I believe is against the Senate rules, based on the Kavanaugh hearing.
And he says, you know, you did that, and it slips through the cracks until the moderator brings it up again and listen to what Elizabeth Warren does.
That was such an intense moment in our country's history as far as trying to deal with presumption of innocence, the cornerstone of our legal system.
And you were willing to throw it right out the window because you were part of the Senate Democrats who were trying to score political points by using poor Dr. Ford's testimony as a way to drag down a man without any corroborating evidence.
Ethics Under Fire00:05:02
So I don't think I quite understand the answer.
Because I'm looking for the times when you've called out Donald Trump, when he's made fun of someone like Dr. Ford, when he's made fun of someone who's disabled.
I would like to drill down on what Representative Diehl said.
The fundraising while the vote was being taken on the Cavanaugh hearing, did you or did you not do that?
Actually, I don't know, and I don't know what the...
There has been an ethics...
Isn't there an ethics committee?
Yeah, there's an ethics complaint has been filed about a fundraising.
Then I will check into it, but I don't know.
Do you have any response to that?
I don't.
Representative?
You could hear the audience groaning distantly in the background because she lied.
I mean, she lied, and she lied with a kind of reflex that I've seen before.
Obama used to lie like that.
I don't know.
I don't know what we're fundraising.
How do I know what we're fundraising?
I mean, that's absurd, utterly absurd.
And that is telling.
That's really telling.
There's an ethics complaint filed against her, and she hadn't heard about it.
She looked completely blindsided by that.
And, you know, we can make fun of the Pocahontas stuff, but that's another way that she's been lying.
You know, I mean, it would have been so simple, so simple for her to say, you know, gee, that was a family legend, and I believed it, and now I know it's not true.
But instead, she said, no, look, I'm one 1,024th of an Indian, so get me a headdress and off I go.
You know, I mean, I think that that does tell something about her.
And then there is some really bad stuff coming up.
And again, I'm talking about this stuff because the press doesn't.
If the press did, we would be having a much different election.
It would not be about these kind of big roundhouse punches that everybody's throwing, but it would be, in fact, about the nature of these people.
Andrew Gillum, who the polls show him winning against Ron DeSantis in Florida for governor, which I just think is amazing.
I mean, what is going on that they think this corrupt mayor, socialist mayor is a good guy.
And once again, Project Veritas went in and talked to one of his campaign staffers, Omar Smith, who also said he was a friend of his, an old pal of his.
And just, he just, Omar Smith, who has since been fired since this video, said, yeah, we just lie about all our positions because we don't want people to know the truth.
Fairy tales in the modern day begin with, once I am elected.
I don't say, just can't say, but I do think he's not saying specifically, like, I'm going to bambooz stocks.
I'm going to come against ARs only because he's running a race right now.
I do think he would support anybody doing that stuff.
Bill Nelson.
Right, that's all I'm worried about.
All right, whatever.
Whoever the next person might be.
I just want to say insane.
It's because he's trying to get the moderates and the gun total north floor.
All right, this is a bad state.
Okay.
It's a cracker state.
Okay.
Okay, ask anybody outside of here.
You go to Court St. Lucie, Orlando.
Man, them crackers ain't going to let us do that.
Don't you say?
So what is he doing?
He's campaigning.
He's politicky.
So you're saying that different environments, wherever he speaks, he'll address a different audience.
Yeah, that's what a politician do.
So just we lie.
It's a cracker state.
It's an effed up state.
And they fired him.
But still, I think that tells you something.
You know, it's like, you know, it's kind of like, it's kind of like a woman comes up to you in a bar or a man comes up to a woman in a bar and tries to pick you up and you say, you know, that's really flattering, but I'm married.
And she says, oh, well, your wife doesn't have to find out.
It's like, I know my wife doesn't have to find out.
That's not the point.
So when you got your campaign workers who's saying, yeah, we lie because it's a cracker state.
We hate them.
We hate them.
Why are you running?
If you hate the state, if you hate the people, why are you running?
You know, to impose on them something against their will?
Is that why you're running?
Is that what your politics is about?
You know, it doesn't make any sense to me.
And it is a real deal.
These are real scandals, not just gaffes.
The New York Times released an expose.
I was talking about this before, started talking about this, about Bedo O'Rourke when he was in real estate development.
First of all, it revealed for the first time that he's not a blue-collar guy, but the son-in-law of a billionaire.
And they reported that O'Rourke's father-in-law proposed gentrifying a neighborhood in El Paso by force, bulldozing public housing to make way for restaurants, a shopping district, and an art walk.
And O'Rourke, the Times claimed, served as the, quote, pretty face for the plan while also serving in city government.
What's interesting about this story, when it came out, they were attacked, the Times was attacked, savaged by its readers who didn't want to hear about this.
This is a problem that the Times has created for itself by becoming a leftist rag instead of what it used to be, a newspaper.
It now has readers who will only want to hear the good news about the left.
They don't want to hear these stories, so you can't report the truth without losing your audience, which is fine if you're Sean Hannity or Chris, what's his name on MSNBC if you're an open partisan.
But if you're supposed to be a newspaper and you can't report the news, you've really screwed things up.
The Times' Dilemma00:02:11
All right, so listen, here we are.
We do not know what's going to happen.
We just don't know.
I really do believe that things could go either way.
I am hopeful.
I am hopeful that there is going to be a hold in the House.
I think there is the, how can I say it?
Situation is there exists that could create that.
I think if the press were reporting simply honestly, simply in a po-faced, straightforward way, it would be that way.
But I think we're just going to have to find out.
It is a tense interesting, suspenseful race.
It is an amazing race and I think, like it's, it's really worth following.
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