April 7, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
04:43
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| Douglas McKinnon was in the White House staff, Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. | |
| Douglas McKinnon, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show. | |
| Dennis, thanks so much for having me on. | |
| I really appreciate it. | |
| Where are you locked up? | |
| I'm locked up in Florida at the moment. | |
| It's a beautiful day. | |
| I hate to tell anybody up in the Northeast that it's beautiful, but that's the way it is. | |
| Where in Florida? | |
| Outside of Boca Raton right now, Archie. | |
| Oh, I know the area real well. | |
| I know Florida really well. | |
| My son lives in Fort Lauderdale, so... | |
| In fact, I just spoke in Boca. | |
| You know, there was a time when you could give a speech and people would sit next to each other. | |
| Do you remember that? | |
| I do, indeed. | |
| And you can still do that, Dennis, if you're a liberal speaker. | |
| You just can't do it sometimes if you're a conservative speaker or if you're locked down under a COVID-19 crisis. | |
| Yes, okay. | |
| Your thesis in today's piece, is it off the hill? | |
| Is it on the hill? | |
| Yeah. | |
| I want to tell you, because I opened up the show saying this, and I want your reaction to it. | |
| Believe it or not, I'm pleasantly surprised you and I are not alone in our dissent. | |
| We're not, but we're in the minority, as you've talked about and I've written about and talked about, because for the last two-plus months, especially the mainstream media has gone into sort of clickbait hysteria mode over this and, unfortunately, intimidated a lot of voices of reason and objective thinking into silence on this, too. | |
| I wrote last week, and tell me, I always tell people who come on the show, have no hesitation whatsoever about the differing with me. | |
| Okay, so having said that, I wrote that with the obvious note that there are always exceptions. | |
| There's a left-right divide on this like there is on everything else. | |
| Do you find that? | |
| I do find it. | |
| I find it in my own family, amazingly enough, Dennis, and with friends. | |
| And, you know, it sort of goes down to the same divide with regard to President Trump. | |
| And just to state some facts here, again, with regard to the media, the conduct, with regard to the experts that you've been talking about over the last number of weeks, as you remember, during the swine flu pandemic of 2009, 2010, Much of the media was telling us there's not much to see here and just keep moving along, where they buried a lot of the stories. | |
| But as your listeners know well, in 2009, 2010, when President Barack Obama was in office, 61 million Americans were infected with the swine flu, 300,000 hospitalized, 18,000 approximately lost their lives. | |
| And, you know, so the question is, for Dr. Fauci or anybody else, were those lives less important then? | |
| Were mistakes made then? | |
| Were mistakes made now? | |
| Why did the media bury the story or not think it was much of a story then? | |
| Why is it more of a story now? | |
| And to your point, unfortunately, partisan politics is playing a role in some of this. | |
| When you say your family, you're referring to the left-right divide. | |
| I am indeed, yes. | |
| So those in your family on the left, are they preoccupied with the virus or with President Trump's incapacity to deal with it? | |
| Well, I think they're, unfortunately, they're sort of more thinking about and more consumed with the fact, at least initially, and I think a lot of people were initially. | |
| We're consumed with the fact that this might be, you know, after Russia didn't work, collusion didn't work, a lot of things didn't work, that this might be the final domino that could topple President Trump and make sure he doesn't get reelected. | |
| And then, you know, as it went on and it started affecting everybody's families, then all of a sudden some of that, some of those opinions shifted. | |
| But it's really scary and quite frightening to have people initially think, oh, this might be a good thing. | |
| Because it might hurt President Trump, and that's the poison of the politics that we live in right now. | |
| Let me make clear, none of us are saying that people on the left are happy people are dying from the virus. | |
| It's that, oh, well, if it's going to happen, then that it happened on Trump's watch is what Doug McKinnon is talking about. |
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