Dennis Prager Show - Soleimani's Death Wasn't Celebrated as Bin Laden's?
Aired: 2020-01-16
Duration: 03:48


=== Imagining America's Exceptionalism (03:47) ===

[00:00:00]  So is it the New York Times piece that we're a cult?
[00:00:03]  LA Times?
[00:00:05]  It's a big cult.
[00:00:07]  60 million people cult.
[00:00:10]  It might be the biggest cult ever.
[00:00:15]  Is it the biggest cult ever?
[00:00:18]  There are people on the left who believe that Christianity is a cult.
[00:00:24]  So it's not the biggest cult ever.
[00:00:26]  There you have a billion people in a cult.
[00:00:30]  From the left's perspective.
[00:00:35]  The press is so dishonest.
[00:00:43]  The achievements of this president are so remarkable.
[00:00:46]  If there were a conservative press, we would just be smiles in this country.
[00:00:57]  I want you to imagine a conservative New York Times, a conservative news network, CNN. Imagine that.
[00:01:11]  Imagine you send your kid to a university.
[00:01:14]  I mean, let's play John Lennon's game of imagine.
[00:01:19]  I imagine sending my kid to university.
[00:01:24]  And coming home and saying, you know, Mom and Dad, my professor emphasized the fifth of the Ten Commandments, that I honor my mother and father, even though, you know, I've had issues with you, Mom and Dad, but nevertheless, there's no asterisk at that commandment.
[00:01:45]  You know, I still may not agree with you on everything, but you're certainly going to get my honor as my parents.
[00:01:54]  You know, Mom and Dad, I took a course in American history and I realized this country is really exceptional.
[00:02:04]  Everybody had slavery, but America fought a war to abolish it.
[00:02:12]  And that's why more black Africans have come to America voluntarily as immigrants that came involuntarily as slaves.
[00:02:22]  You know, Mom and Dad, I didn't know that until my professor of history showed me that.
[00:02:30]  I have such a more positive view of this country.
[00:02:38]  Of course, before class, as class started, we took the Pledge of Allegiance and then resumed our studies.
[00:02:52]  I realized that, you know, I had a pretty radically secular upbringing, but America was really founded on what I now understand are Judeo-Christian principles.
[00:03:05]  That even Jefferson, who is no Christian as such, made it clear that if there's no God, if the Creator doesn't give us our rights, then they're not inalienable.
[00:03:20]  Men give rights.
[00:03:21]  Men take rights.
[00:03:22]  God gives rights.
[00:03:23]  They're permanent.
[00:03:24]  They're fixed.
[00:03:26]  Can you imagine that, my dear listener?
[00:03:29]  Your kid coming home from college like that?
[00:03:34]  You turn on the conservative news network, still called CNN. They tell you how good the economy is.
[00:03:44]  They delineate the evil of Soleimani.