Dennis Prager Show - Republicans who Attack the President
Aired: 2020-01-14
Duration: 05:14


=== Why Focus on Character? (04:20) ===

[00:00:00]  Here is my clearer moment.
[00:00:06]  Virtually every attack on the president, especially by people who are Republican or conservative, the never-Trumpers, is about his character.
[00:00:20]  Why do they focus on his character?
[00:00:24]  I'll talk about the character issue momentarily, but why do they focus on his character?
[00:00:32]  If a president is a good president, it is not our business to focus on the character of the president.
[00:00:44]  It's our business to focus on the policies of the president.
[00:00:51]  Do you know the character of any previous president?
[00:00:54]  Do any of you?
[00:00:59]  I mean, think about it.
[00:01:00]  It's almost not even discussed.
[00:01:05]  You know the character of Lyndon Johnson?
[00:01:08]  You know the character of John F. Kennedy?
[00:01:11]  You know the character of George W. Bush?
[00:01:14]  I mean, it's a very complex question, the character of a human being.
[00:01:20]  You have to know somebody really, really well.
[00:01:23]  I never attacked Barack Obama's character, not once.
[00:01:26]  Not once.
[00:01:29]  I said he was the most destructive president of my lifetime, but that's because of his policies.
[00:01:34]  I have zero idea about his character.
[00:01:38]  Truly, I have zero idea.
[00:01:41]  I have no idea.
[00:01:43]  Maybe his wife does, maybe his intimates do, maybe God does, but I don't.
[00:01:49]  He may be personally honorable and charitable in every sense of that word.
[00:01:58]  And honest, I mean, maybe all these things.
[00:02:02]  He was a terrible president.
[00:02:05]  The country is worse off because he was president of the United States.
[00:02:09]  That's my belief.
[00:02:10]  Obviously, others think he made magnificent contributions.
[00:02:15]  Their one example, I think, or their biggest example, not one, is the extending of the government into health care ever more than before.
[00:02:26]  Every person that I know who was affected by Obamacare has been adversely affected.
[00:02:32]  Every single person, including family members.
[00:02:36]  People who have insurance through their company have not been affected.
[00:02:40]  Everyone I know who had personal insurance, including young people, has been negatively affected by Obamacare.
[00:02:48]  Maybe I know, maybe everybody that I know that has been affected is a fluke, is an outlier.
[00:02:54]  It's possible.
[00:02:55]  But anyway, the Iran deal was a disgrace.
[00:03:00]  His vote at the end, anti-Israel.
[00:03:02]  First anti-Israel vote on the Security Council, as I recall, by an American president.
[00:03:07]  And if you don't understand that that is a litmus test, then your moral compass is broken.
[00:03:13]  To think that Israel is the villain in the Middle East makes you a moron.
[00:03:17]  Okay?
[00:03:17]  Or an anti-Semite.
[00:03:19]  Not necessarily an anti-Semite.
[00:03:21]  I said or.
[00:03:22]  Or a moral moron.
[00:03:27]  Anyway, why the obsession with his character?
[00:03:30]  Because all the Never Trumpers can't attack his policies.
[00:03:34]  That's the clarity that I realized.
[00:03:38]  What a cheap, cheap, cheap tactic.
[00:03:42]  It speaks so poorly of these never Trumpers some of whom I really like All of a sudden these people are character assessors from afar Oh, we know, we know his character.
[00:03:59]  Even let's say you do.
[00:04:02]  That's what matters in a President of the United States?
[00:04:04]  What you think of the person's character?

=== Do You Understand? (01:08) ===

[00:04:12]  Based on what exactly?
[00:04:14]  The, what is it, Planet, was it Planet Hollywood?
[00:04:18]  What is it called again?
[00:04:19]  Not Planet Hollywood.
[00:04:21]  The tape.
[00:04:23]  Access Hollywood?
[00:04:24]  Yes.
[00:04:26]  The word planet does not belong there?
[00:04:28]  I stuck it in?
[00:04:28]  Planet Hollywood is a restaurant.
[00:04:31]  Okay, so therefore what?
[00:04:33]  I can't believe...
[00:04:34]  No, no, no.
[00:04:34]  The way you said it to me was disrespectful.
[00:04:36]  I can't believe that.
[00:04:39]  Planet Hollywood is a restaurant.
[00:04:41]  Did you hear the tone with which he said that?
[00:04:43]  Access Hollywood. - Good.
[00:04:53]  Do you understand how you don't think clearly if you think that you know people's character by what they say privately?
[00:05:00]  Do you understand you don't think clearly?
[00:05:02]  There is something wrong with you.
[00:05:05]  You are malfunctioning in the moral sphere.
[00:05:10]  You know nothing about a human being by what they say privately.