Dennis Prager Show - Biden is Gutless and Panic-Struck
Aired: 2020-03-12
Duration: 06:01


=== Surprise In Israel (05:46) ===

[00:00:01]  I wouldn't go into any...
[00:00:02]  This is a real leader, folks.
[00:00:04]  That's what you want.
[00:00:05]  Gutless, panic-struck guy named Joe Biden.
[00:00:09]  I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now.
[00:00:11]  That is correct.
[00:00:11]  You certainly wouldn't.
[00:00:13]  I thought it was a joke when he said it.
[00:00:15]  I remember I was headed to the airport right after that, right after he said it.
[00:00:24]  The weakness of the West today is mind-boggling to me.
[00:00:28]  Just mind-boggling.
[00:00:32]  You know, I gotta tell you, I'm quite surprised at Israel.
[00:00:36]  Not allowing anybody into the country for two weeks, or you come in, you go quarantine for two weeks.
[00:00:43]  I must admit, I did not expect this from Netanyahu.
[00:00:51]  And I would love to know what Israelis think about it.
[00:00:56]  But it shows you the power of the media.
[00:00:59]  The media control the world.
[00:01:01]  Politicians are puppets.
[00:01:04]  They are clay in the hands of the media.
[00:01:08]  The media shape people's perceptions of life.
[00:01:14]  They tell you there's a blizzard outside.
[00:01:17]  You remember when I was in New York?
[00:01:19]  I wonder how many of you remember that.
[00:01:21]  Two years ago, I was to give a speech in New York City.
[00:01:24]  On the way, flying from LA to New York, on the plane, because I was on the internet, I got an email, your speech is cancelled, sorry.
[00:01:36]  I'm flying to New York to a cancelled speech, because there was a snowstorm.
[00:01:42]  I arrive in New York City, and yes, there's snow, that's correct, there's snow on the ground.
[00:01:50]  I grew up in New York City.
[00:01:52]  There was snow on the ground every winter.
[00:01:54]  Nothing happened.
[00:01:55]  People put chains on their tires or bought snow tires or took the subway, and it didn't mean a thing.
[00:02:03]  I was about to say a damn thing.
[00:02:05]  I won't say it.
[00:02:06]  It didn't mean a thing.
[00:02:09]  Today, so they canceled the speech.
[00:02:13]  I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now.
[00:02:15]  They canceled the speech.
[00:02:19]  They didn't say...
[00:02:20]  They should have said nothing if people did not want to drive to my speech.
[00:02:25]  It's a free country.
[00:02:27]  Well, it's less free than it was when I was a kid, but it's still relatively free.
[00:02:32]  You can either drive or take an Uber or take a bus or take a subway and walk to the speech, whatever you want to do.
[00:02:40]  They did not allow this option to people.
[00:02:42]  My speech was canceled.
[00:02:45]  I was stuck in New York for three days for no reason.
[00:02:49]  How many of you have ever been in a city for no reason?
[00:02:51]  It's a very rare thing in most people's lives.
[00:02:54]  Think about it.
[00:02:55]  Most of you have never been somewhere for no reason.
[00:03:00]  I've had that twice.
[00:03:01]  Both ironically happened in New York.
[00:03:04]  Two canceled speeches in New York, and I was there for no reason.
[00:03:07]  Oh, no, no, no, wasn't.
[00:03:08]  The first time.
[00:03:10]  I remember the first time.
[00:03:12]  The first time.
[00:03:14]  My, the woman who played the role that the living martyr now plays in my life, a wonderful, wonderful woman, who is now in the U.S. Navy, and she, anyway, she worked for me for years, and I went to New York because she told me I had a speech in New York.
[00:03:33]  While I was walking on a street in Manhattan, I remember it vividly, I got a text, no, no, it's pre-texting, I got a beep.
[00:03:44]  Got a beep from her.
[00:03:46]  And Carrier Pigeon, that was the earlier person before her.
[00:03:51]  And the message was, I'll never forget it.
[00:03:56]  Are you ready?
[00:03:57]  It's next week.
[00:04:00]  That was the message.
[00:04:03]  And I thought, it can't mean what I think it means.
[00:04:07]  Exactly.
[00:04:08]  But it did mean what I thought it meant.
[00:04:12]  I was in New York.
[00:04:13]  The wrong week.
[00:04:15]  So I've had two New York experiences of being there for no reason.
[00:04:18]  Anyway, people panic.
[00:04:21]  And the media, of course, lead people by the nose.
[00:04:25]  Oh, blizzard!
[00:04:27]  Oh, snowstorm!
[00:04:27]  I wrote about this in my book of essays, Think a Second Time.
[00:04:32]  About that people trust the media more than their own eyes.
[00:04:38]  You gonna believe me or your lying eyes?
[00:04:40]  Remember that famous scene where the guy's caught in bed with another woman?
[00:04:45]  Right?
[00:04:46]  Oh, nothing happened.
[00:04:47]  You're going to believe me or your lying eyes?
[00:04:49]  Okay.
[00:04:56]  I'm getting a message here now.
[00:04:57]  No young people will know what you're talking about when I say beeped.
[00:05:04]  All right, young people.
[00:05:06]  Prior to texting, you would wear a little thing on your belt, or I guess keep in your purse if you didn't have a belt, and a message would come in.
[00:05:19]  You'd get a beep.
[00:05:20]  It's called a beeper, because it gave you beeps.
[00:05:23]  And then you'd press a button, and some message would come up, call so-and-so, or some little message.
[00:05:31]  Pager.
[00:05:31]  Yeah, that's right.
[00:05:32]  Pager.

=== But If I Turn Out Right (00:28) ===

[00:05:33]  Correct.
[00:05:34]  Thank you.
[00:05:35]  Thank you.
[00:05:36]  All right, now that you all know, we're back.
[00:05:42]  I find the reaction to the virus more depressing than the virus.
[00:05:52]  But if I turn out right, nobody will pay a price.
[00:05:57]  That's the amazing thing.
[00:05:59]  Not the media, not the politicians.