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June 25, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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Thank you.
I'm going to do something today that for the last 35 years, 40 years, I have done constantly and have not done in four months.
Five months?
March, April, May, June.
Yeah, four months.
I'm going to lie to give a speech.
Phoenix, Arizona.
and that was sold out very quickly it's fascinating Boy, have I reinforced for you and for me, if nothing's horrific, life is terrific.
Now, do you believe me?
Okay, everyone.
Dennis Prager here.
If nothing's horrific, then life is terrific.
Fascinating.
Oh, my God.
Carly Fiorina.
There is an element.
The Republican Party.
It has been, for much of my life, Democrat-like.
It's painful to see because I campaigned for her and I like her personally.
I've had to deal with this.
Everybody has to deal with this.
There are people you like who you believe take policies that truly hurt our country.
That's why intentions don't matter.
Anyway, we all have to grapple with it.
When I talk about personal matters, like on the Happiness Hour and so on, these are the products of a life lived, not just books read.
She came out for Joe Biden.
Where did you see that, Mr. Producer?
The Atlantic.
I stopped looking at The Atlantic.
I used to go there.
You know, I go to left-wing sites regularly.
You know why?
Because The Atlantic on occasion would actually have an interesting article.
But they're obsessed with power.
The left must take power.
You know what I find?
I find two things to be particularly emblematic of our time.
The taking down of statues of good people without any comment.
By Democratic leaders.
Have they condemned any of the statue removal?
You haven't seen it.
Oh, Andrew Cuomo supported them.
That's right.
Who is deeper?
Andrew or Chris?
See?
I asked it in a very nice way.
I meant who is shallower, but I didn't put it that way.
And I asked who is deeper.
Listen to this.
Black Lives Matter destroys statue of immigrant who died fighting slavery.
Protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement vandalized and toppled a statue Tuesday night in Madison, Wisconsin.
Of Colonel Hans Christian Hegg, an immigrant from Norway who died fighting for the Union against slavery.
What do you think of that?
They also pulled down protesters.
They pulled down the forward.
What's the forward statue that normally stands outside the state capitol in Madison?
I'm sure they'll...
Did Madison have slaves?
I don't know the answer.
Because they may want to rename the capital of Wisconsin.
The American past is being obliterated.
And liberals and leftists are okay with it.
This is not playing with fire.
This is playing with nuclear weapons.
With regard to one's civilization.
The group also tore down the Colonel Hans Christian Hegg statue.
The group then went on to throw the statue into Lake Monona.
Hegg fought for the Union during the Civil War and was a stark opponent of slavery during that time.
Tweets of the destruction showed Hegg's pedestal vandalized with the words, Black is beautiful.
Scrawled across it.
The statue was decapitated and thrown into a nearby lake.
James Madison.
So, you understand the tearing down of statues has nothing to do with bigotry, slavery, the Confederacy, unless it's a Confederate statue.
It has to do with America.
This is the symbolic destruction of America, and it's past.
In other words, the protesters taking down this man's statue are midgets attacking giants.
You should know that midgets attacking giants is the story of humanity.
There's no time when giants were not attacked.
By people of no conscience, no depth, and no decency.
That is the human condition.
I don't know why God made it that way.
Now, you'll say, why blame God?
He should blame those little people.
Well, I don't blame God, but God obviously made a world in which every generation produces A serious number of sheep, of the herd, of the weak.
Now, people can rise above it.
I acknowledge that.
But it's still...
That's the default.
Heg is the exception.
That's why I've always said I've studied goodness, not evil.
There's not much to study in evil.
I mean, there's something to study, clearly.
And it's inherently more interesting than goodness to study.
But the great puzzle is not how do you make bad people.
The great puzzle is how do you make good people.
...on this system and replace it, all right?
And I could be speaking figuratively.
I could be speaking literally.
It's a matter of interpretation.
Like, let's be very real and let's observe the history of the 1960s.
When black people were rioting, we had their highest growth in wealth, in property ownership.
Think about the last few weeks.
Since we started protesting, there have been eight cops fired across the country.
You remember they were telling us that there was due process.
Okay, so I want to deal with that.
This is a Black Lives Matter man, is that correct?
Hawk Newsome.
Hawk Newsome?
And, well, where was he speaking?
MSNBC? Oh, he's speaking on Fox News.
Okay.
They're interesting that Fox News has, and I agree with them.
Do they have equally conservative people on MSNBC or CNN? And why would that be?
I love, you know what, I love when they go, ad we have on our panel, Republican strategist.
Republican strategist means Democrat.
Republican strategist.
Anyway, so listen to this.
The vast amount of destruction, including in black neighborhoods.
See how it was worth it?
Eight cops have been fired.
Are you with me, my dear friends?
The idea that violent protest has led to good.
Well, that's their belief.
By the way, we're going to burn down this civilization.
I may mean it figuratively, I may not.
And replace it.
Weren't you dying to know what the end of that sentence would be?
Replace it with?
What will they replace with, Chaz?
A country run by Black Lives Matter?
What?
Yes, that's what they would love.
We will replace it.
God.
But, oh, Trump, I can never vote for Trump.
Oh, my God, I'm a morally superior individual to him.
So what if I'm voting for the left that is okay or wants to destroy my wonderful country?
If this country doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system.
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We are now reopening our economy in many parts of the country, but these same public health officials have compromised their own credibility as we do so.
On the one hand, they've urged caution and a slow return to work, school, and faith gatherings.
They've criticized those who oppose the stay-at-home orders.
But at the same time, these officials have been broadly supportive of the large protests on America's streets in the last few weeks.
Public health officials should be helping us understand the comparative risks of activities, not endorsing the causes they like while prohibiting the ones they don't.
Their hypocrisy is costly indeed.
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I think the New York media is describing Florida as coronavirus raging through the state.
That's literally the word they're using, at least in the New York Post.
But there's a peculiarity about these data-driven news reports.
Always at the bottom of the article, at the end of the report, They admit that deaths and hospitalizations are down and hospital capacity is nowhere near being stretched thin.
I don't understand it any more than I can make sense of a guy like Anthony Fauci who told us that masks don't work and they're not effective and you shouldn't go around wearing a mask.
You're causing more problems than solutions.
Those were lies because they were worried that we would scarf up all the face masks from the hospital workers.
And now, if you live in California, soon to be Texas, Tampa, Florida, you don't wear a mask, I guess you're breaking the law.
I don't know what they're going to do to you if you don't have a mask.
Think there'll be a mask jail?
Will there be a prison for...
People who refuse to wear a mask?
I'm serious.
They're going to lock people up?
You're just going to give you a fine?
You're going to pay a fine if you refuse to wear a mask?
I saw a conservative activist got kicked off a flight.
He was trying to get to Tulsa on an airplane.
They kicked him off the plane.
I believe it was American Airlines.
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Now, unless there is a video from three different angles, no one cares what you have to say.
With all this talk about racism and racist cops, I've never seen people treated differently because of their race.
And while I know that cowards that have never done this job will call me a racist for saying it, all I've ever seen was criminal behavior and cops trying to stop it, and they didn't give a rip what their skin color was.
I've seen cops help and save any type of race, gender, or ethnicity you can think of, and while that used to mean something, no one cares anymore.
I've been called every name you can think of and many of them with racial overtones, and it's never come from cops.
I've watched African-American cops take the brunt of this and even talked one rookie out of quitting after he was berated by a lot of cowards that had the same skin color as him.
Almost everything most Americans think they know about what happened in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9th, 2014 is wrong based on misinformation.
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1-8 Prager-776, ladies and gentlemen.
You know what?
Every day I report to you really terrible things that are happening in our society.
Some of them...
Stay with me.
And I need to repeat constantly, which is not fully redundant.
So you can repeat non-constantly.
Therefore, it's not redundant.
A few things like this.
Why are there so many hoaxes of racism?
And there's a reason.
It's because there's so little racism.
That is, if anybody said, oh, it's a little racism, yeah?
What argument do you have for that?
Well, what proof?
And here's the proof.
The staggering number of hoaxes.
Who would need hoaxes if there was all this racism?
You have to remember that argument.
A brief history of the noose hoaxes, just noose hoaxes.
I'll start within the last five years.
University of Delaware, September 23, 2015. University of Delaware officials said three apparent nooses found hanging outside a campus performance hall were not, quote, instruments of a hate crime, but harmless remnants of lanterns used during a campus event.
You have to understand that prior to that, there was hysteria on all these campuses or in the press.
Of how much racism there is in America.
DePaul University, June 2016. Students claimed that an image of an untied rope laid on the ground was a noose placed on the Lincoln Park campus by a student who was animated by Annapolis' lecture that occurred last week.
Students reported the noose to campus security who claimed that they are investigating the incident.
And that turned out not to be.
University of Maryland, June 2017. Oh, by the way, they said, click the link above and take a gander at the photo of this horrible noose.
Man alive.
University of Maryland, June 2017. Quote, this is the University of Maryland Police Department statement.
Earlier today, we were notified of a knotted piece of plastic wrap laying on the ground.
By the way, it's lying.
This bothers me, bad English.
In the 7500 block of Baltimore Avenue, police were notified out of concern for possible hate bias.
Turned out to be a loop at the end of a piece of plastic.
Washington, D.C. construction site, August 2017. After investigating the situation, police determined that the construction crew was using the rope to, quote, move equipment.
Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson Akita Brown told DCist that the incident is not being investigated as a hate-bias crime.
Jussie Smollett, February 2019. You all know about that.
I need not read you.
Oakland's Lake Merritt, June 2020. Victor Sangby, who is black, told KGO-TV that the ropes were part of a rigging that he and his friends used as a part of a larger swing system.
He also shared video of the swing in use, and then the NASCAR one.
The thing that really bothers me, as I explained yesterday, was that our race driver, Bubba Wallace.
His reaction was to defend himself when a normal reaction and a decent reaction would have been, boy, is that great news.
I know my fellow NASCAR drivers aren't racist, and I'm so happy that their name is cleared and NASCAR fans are cleared.
Right?
Wouldn't that be the decent reaction?
I told you things that stick in my mind.
One is this argument that you must remember, and that's only a tiny number.
I have my own list.
That I got from Breitbart.
The other is Uncle Ben.
Why is Uncle Ben's image, why is that racist?
You would think if the country were racist, it wouldn't put a distinguished-looking black man with a bowtie.
on the box of one of its most popular products, right?
I mean, think about the worst form of racism in Europe, the Nazi racism, right?
Did they have pictures of obvious Jews on product in the 1930s?
It's all sick with taking down the statue of Lincoln.
But many Americans, maybe most, will vote for the party that supports this.
How can you be led astray by this preoccupation with Donald Trump?
He's a flawed man, I understand that.
It's like if you vote Democrat, you are voting like that Black Lives Matter leader.
We will replace it.
What will you replace it with?
You'll replace Trump.
What will you replace Trump with?
Democratic Party is essentially the voice of Black Lives Matter.
You can't get further left than the Democratic Party.
I don't know what you would advocate.
A gulag?
Replace it with what?
That's the mature person's question.
We'll be back.
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Trump will smash the left and win.
First, tell us, David, what is the key to your optimism?
Why are you so confident that in 136 days we're going to win?
I believe that this book I've written, Blitz, part of it is about how evil the Democrat Party has become.
And part of it is about why Trump is able to survive all these attacks.
He's the most slandered human being in the history of the human race.
And yet he's managed to prevail, mainly because he doesn't back down.
Mainly because when the racists left...
You know, and the only serious racism in America is anti-white racism.
Everybody can see that now.
And I say that as somebody who marched in this first civil rights march in 1948 before any of these looters were born.
But Americans, first of all, they're not stupid.
And they understand that the Democrats are compulsive liars and hypocrites.
Everybody can see that.
The coronavirus has been manipulated by the Democrat Party.
It's always about convicting Trump of crimes he didn't commit.
You can't play in the park with your children or open a barbershop or a salon because of the virus, but you can have tens of thousands of people in the streets.
rioting and burning things if they're doing it for the Democrat cause.
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The seats were sold out in two weeks, they told me, at the station.
So I'm wondering, will people be scalping tickets?
Isn't that funny?
You know, scalping tickets to basketball games, hockey games.
Will there be people in the front scalping tickets?
To a theological dialogue.
That would be a first, no?
Hey, hey, hey!
Me too, tickets?
Now, ladies and gentlemen, one of my 30 favorite people in the world, Ami Horowitz.
Are you okay with that introduction, Ami?
No, 30's not bad.
I mean, I think the last time you said it, it was up to like 115, so I am moving up the charts, which I appreciate.
And by the way, what kind of ego do you have on yourself, Dennis?
Are you scalping your tickets?
Please.
Please.
No, you totally misunderstood that people would scalp tickets for a theological dialogue.
I didn't say for Dennis Prager.
And anyway, half of it is Wayne Grudem.
So I am totally open to criticism, but that charge is deflected.
Scurrilous, is it?
Scurrilous?
You crack me up.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't see his latest video, his latest video is so good that I think I smiled through the, well, through the second half, actually, now that I think of it.
He went in Manhattan and asked White, do they think that police should be disbanded and removed from the inner city?
And all you heard was cop hatred.
And I'm not going to give away the end.
And then he went into Harlem, which is largely black, and asked them.
So I have to ask you, Ami, how much editing was involved?
Because if those whites were typical of people in Manhattan, we're really in bad shape.
It was typical, and it was the preponderance, as with all my videos, you only see the preponderance of the response that I get.
And the vast majority wanted to see the police abolished.
Now, keep in mind, I'm self-selecting only in the sense that I'm not walking anywhere in Manhattan.
I'm in the East Village, which is particularly left.
All of Manhattan is left.
The East Village is a little more left of that.
So Manhattan, while it's a very liberal city, The East Village is the neighborhood of the left.
As you like or want to differentiate, and I do as well in my own life.
So yeah, that is the majority opinion of people on the left.
That's very fair to say.
The anger at police.
I mean, one guy just...
I mean, I would say that guy was about 35, 40, right?
Yes.
The tall guy.
And all he kept saying was F, and of course he used the word, F the police.
I hate the F-ing police.
We actually edited him down.
Because he said it three or four more times.
I'm not kidding.
My wife is like, it's enough of that guy with the F word in the police.
I'll take out a couple more.
You know what?
I would like to ask that guy.
I really would.
I would have the guy on the show.
Of course, he'd never come on.
But I would...
And we don't know who he is, but I would like to ask him, what percentage of police does he believe is evil?
I know, I've interviewed enough of these guys, and I know, I would say he would say, if not all, the vast majority.
Look, there's not an insignificant percent of this population on the left.
Who think that all cops are evil.
All cops are bad.
They've said it to me.
On camera.
In fact, in my two videos ago.
Every single cop is bad.
If his apartment were invaded, would he call 911?
Of course he would.
Come on.
So what would he do with his cognitive dissonance?
He would ignore it.
He would shove it deep, deep, deep down in that black hole.
And he would do...
He would do what's best in his self-interest, because self-interest oftentimes trumps ideology, and there's no question in that case.
Or, alternatively, he would try to mediate between him and the guys breaking into his apartment and trying to murder and rape him and his family.
If he has a family, I don't know.
It's hard to imagine he's a married man with children.
I mean, he wasn't the only one.
The others were just as vehement.
They just didn't use the F word.
Correct.
No, they find policing in this country to be so, and it's not even systematically racist.
I mean, I've said the massive part of it in their mind.
But they just, look, I've said it before, and I can't, it bears repeating.
What does the left really want?
Okay, answer that when we come back.
That's right.
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Point well taken.
Let's just look at the numbers now.
Since May 16th, okay, we're having new cases, clearly.
And, okay, businesses are opening up and people are getting more liberal.
They're not as worried about transmission.
But in the last week, I mean, there's going to be 709 new deaths, so 29,000 new cases.
And last weekend was the highest daily total since May 16th, okay?
But if somebody gets a disease, is that a death sentence?
Probably not.
We see that mortality is probably less than we thought.
So transmission is going to happen, and maybe we do want that, because I told you last time I was on about herd immunity.
You get 50 to 70 percent of the population infected, people are going to become immune.
And we may need that herd immunity if we don't get a vaccination within the next, what, year?
We hope by year end.
So, yes.
There are new cases.
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Welcome.
I'm talking to my friend Dinesh D'Souza.
He has a new book out today.
It's called United States of Socialism.
If previous presidents had done the right thing, the monster that is now China would not be as big as it is, and we would not have to deal with it in this way.
But it seems to me that the naivete and the greed of Clinton and the Bushes with regard to China, thinking that You know, the god of the free market is going to solve the political problems in China and make them just like us.
You know, that's one kind of stupidity.
The other is just the pure greed of saying that, knowing that at least whatever happens, I'm going to make a lot of money.
We've let this go on for 30 plus years, and it seems that you need someone like Trump to deal with them in the way that he's been dealing with them.
At least that's what I think.
The Chinese have had a long-standing policy of getting Favorable treatment from the leaders of other countries by financing their family members.
It's an old kind of Asian despotic mode of doing business.
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Hey everybody, Dennis Prager here.
Go to our website, Cited on the show, you'll see Ami Horowitz's latest video, which is, you should send it to every human being you know, and in fact, even to some non-humans.
That's how clear it is.
They'll get the point.
He went around Manhattan, well actually, I'm learning the Lower East Side, or the East Village, actually, and asked, People of white persuasion, whether cops should be disbanded, defunded, removed from black areas.
Then he went to a black area and asked them if the police should be defunded and removed.
So you were saying, Ami...
Yeah, you guys want to...
Before I get to the point, you want to hear a little interesting kind of tidbit behind the scenes?
Yeah.
So what I generally do is these on-the-street interviews.
In general, about one out of every three white person I approach will speak to me.
I would say seven out of ten black people will speak to me.
In fact, I got a little uncomfortable at one point when black people were walking up to me in each village saying, hey, can you interview me?
I had to say, no, I'm only talking about white people today.
So it was a little weird.
Wow, God, I'll say.
Jesus Christ.
So here's the point I would make about why in their mind they want to abolish the police.
And the point is, is that what do the left really want at the end of the day?
And what they want is, they want to guide our descent into anarchy.
Because only once in their anarchy, then maybe we can rebuild this nation in their own kind of warped theology, their own warped image.
So abolishing cops fits right into that theology, that way of thinking.
Because obviously they are the line between civility and instability.
So it makes sense that they want to abolish the cost.
That's right.
Or it makes sense that they want to destroy the judicial system and open up the prisons.
The left has never cared about, I said it before, I'll say it again, the left has never cared about people.
It's why Mao has killed 25 million people, and Stalin killed tens of millions of people.
No, no.
Mao, nobody says under 40 million, and many say 80 million.
So I always say 60 million.
Yes, I'll be conservative.
I'll be conservative.
Just know, I mean, you know, that's my field, and I'm not pulling rank here, but I really have looked into this.
Anyway, I wanted everybody to know the number.
Now tell us what happened when you went to Harlem, a black area.
Okay, so I go to an all-black community, 90% black community in East Harlem, and I ask them sort of the same question.
How would you feel about Baltimore police?
And they, look, I know this is in the news a lot.
Right?
And there are a lot of people telling them, the police are bad, the police are bad, the police are bad.
I think, you know, ingrained into their thinking.
But the reality is, they don't feel that way.
They look at me like I was crazy, like I had two heads.
That's right.
Abolish the police.
That's right.
He's on the police.
Are you nuts?
This is what protects us.
Look, crime is a regressive tax.
What I mean by that is crime does not affect, affects poor people and underprivileged people and people of color more acutely than it affects white people and wealthy people because most of the crime happens in bad areas.
They're totally aware of that.
They understand that, which points out again how the left doesn't care about the people they're ostensibly trying to protect.
They don't care about black people.
That's the bottom line.
That was one of my columns.
The left doesn't give a damn about blacks.
It doesn't care about it.
I don't know if it gives a damn in the title.
I hope you will read that column.
The highlight of your...
This wonderful short video is one of the most enthusiastic proponents of keeping police in Harlem and presumably other black areas was a guy wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt.
Correct.
That was worth everything, I gotta tell you.
You know, what I love about these videos is that you can't write this stuff out.
What happens organically is always way better than anything you can think of.
I know you to be an honest man.
You're a religious man and an honest man.
How many blacks agreed with removing the police and are not on the phone?
I probably end up talking to about 30 black people in that area and I came across one person.
It was one out of the entire, I was in a few hours, one person.
It is so uniformly accepted among most black people.
Not again, not the Black Lives Matter leadership, right?
This guy was not a proponent of black lives, he may not know how radical the Black Lives Matter leadership are, But they are, take those guys out of the equation, the sharkins.
The black leadership is really problematic, right?
It's across a whole different levels.
But the black people, the black folks on the street, the street, these guys are eminently reasonable.
They understand what's at stake.
They understand who's going to pay the price for these crazy, insane ideas.
They're going to pay the price.
The only time you were looked at as equally...
Asking a bizarre question was when you asked them, is it problematic to get an ID to vote?
I remember that.
And I'll never forget the woman.
I really, I watch your videos and I almost memorize them.
The woman who said to you, or a few of them, gave you the address.
Yes.
Of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
I don't know the address of my local Bureau of Motor Vehicles, but they did.
By the way, that's impressive that you can recall a video from four years ago.
But again, it's bigotry of low expectations.
That's right.
They're not supposed to be able to know these things.
It's astonishing.
They can't do these things.
Right.
They don't know what's best for them.
This is what the true racism that exists in our country, and it comes exclusively from the left.
Exclusively.
And it's grotesque.
It's frankly grotesque.
And ladies and gentlemen, he nevertheless continues to live in Manhattan.
There's a beautiful country out there of kindred spirits, and he has decided to live in Manhattan.
That is his way of...
What?
What about a way?
L.A. is the epicenter of the conservative intellectual renaissance.
Ami, God bless you.
You're really terrific.
Watch his video at amihurwitz.com or cite it on the show at dennisprager.com.
The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Pain-Free Studio.
This is Lon He Chen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com.
Public health officials across America have spent the last several months warning about the dangers of the coronavirus and the need for us to stay at home, halt economic activity, and avoid social interactions with our friends and neighbors.
We are now reopening our economy in many parts of the country, but these same public health officials have compromised their own credibility as we do so.
On the one hand, they've urged caution and a slow return to work, school, and faith gatherings.
They've criticized those who oppose the stay-at-home orders.
But at the same time, these officials have been broadly supportive of the large protests on America's streets in the last few weeks.
Public health officials should be helping us understand the comparative risks of activities, not endorsing the causes they like while prohibiting the ones they don't.
Their hypocrisy is costly indeed.
They have impacted our ability to address future health crises.
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I think the New York media is describing Florida as coronavirus raging through the state.
That's literally the word they're using, at least in the New York Post.
But there's a peculiarity about these data-driven news reports.
Always at the bottom of the article, at the end of the report.
They admit that deaths and hospitalizations are down and hospital capacity is nowhere near being stretched thin.
I don't understand it any more than I can make sense of a guy like Anthony Fauci who told us that masks don't work and they're not effective and you shouldn't go around wearing a mask.
You're causing more problems than solutions.
Those were lies because they were worried that we would scarf up all the face masks from the hospital workers.
And now, if you live in California, soon to be Texas, Tampa, Florida, you don't wear a mask, I guess you're breaking the law.
I don't know what they're going to do to you if you don't have a mask.
Think there'll be a mask jail?
Will there be a prison for...
People who refuse to wear a mask, I'm serious.
They're going to lock people up?
You're just going to give you a fine?
You're going to pay a fine if you refuse to wear a mask?
I saw a conservative activist got kicked off a flight.
He was trying to get to Tulsa on an airplane.
They kicked him off the plane.
I believe it was American Airlines.
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Yes, everybody.
Dennis Prager here, Sacramento, California.
Dave.
Hello, Dave.
Hey, Dennis.
Love you.
Thank you for taking my call.
I just want to say real quick, Kamala Harris is being touted about as possibly being a running mate for Joe Biden, and in the last about six days, she was quoted, and you can find us on Google and stuff, she was quoted as saying, when we take back the White House, Trump supporters need to know we will be coming after you.
For you were the ones that betrayed us.
That type of language...
I gotta check that out because obviously I haven't heard it.
Thank you for telling me if it's true, but it's hard for...
I've almost never been misled by a caller.
So we're gonna look into that.
I wouldn't put it...
In other words, I don't find it...
I find it incredible, but not incredible from her.
I don't find her to be a good person.
God, it's so ironic.
I debated her on Larry King when she was running for Attorney General of California.
I'm not going to play it now, but it's really ironic.
And I remember leaving thinking, I'm not an intellectually honest human being.
I'd never known about her before.
George in Phoenix, Arizona, where I will be tonight.
Hello.
George in Phoenix, hello.
Yes, Dennis.
Could you talk into your phone?
Don't talk into a speakerphone.
Here I am.
We have a rather unique situation in Arizona right now, and you're coming here.
We have Mark Kelly with an excellent campaign downplaying his connection with the Democratic Party.
And indicating that he will work with both Republicans and Democrats.
And McSally's campaign is a little bit lackluster.
Now, I'm a conservative Republican, and I will end up voting for McSally for a reason that I hope others will find good for them, too.
And that is when Mark Kelly gets to Washington, if he's elected, and he may get elected, He's going to find that he's going to have to vote with the Democrats.
That's exactly right.
Thank you.
Sorry to let you go.
That is correct.
I'm always disappointed because I have a high opinion of Americans.
At the well-intentioned naivete, oh, this is not a left-wing Democrat.
Tell me who has not sided with the Democrats.
That is a Democrat.
When push came to shove, name one.
It is irrelevant.
A Democrat, a vote for a Democrat is a vote for the left and that is a vote for the dissolution of America as we know it.
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Welcome back, America.
It's Hugh Hewitt.
Thank you for joining me this morning.
The president and the vice president greeted a group of seniors to the White House yesterday to talk about senior policy.
The media was invited in and a, quote, spray occurred.
I'd like you to hear some of that.
You may have seen some of it, not seen much of it on the news last night.
Donald Trump talking with John Roberts of Fox News addressed the Chaz Zone in Seattle.
Cut number six.
You know, they're negotiating garbage removal.
These people have taken over a vast part, a major part, a very good part of a place called Seattle.
Seattle's big stuff.
That's a major city.
And we have a governor who's stiff and we have a mayor who said, oh, this is going to be a love fest.
The problem with what happened in Seattle is it spreads.
And all of a sudden they'll say, let's do some other city and let's do another one.
And we're not going to let it happen.
So timing-wise, hey, we're all set to go.
We're watching the process.
But the most amazing thing about the process is how the fake news media doesn't want to cover it.
And he's right.
And the fake news media doesn't want to cover it because it does make Democrats look bad, and the fake news media is an arm of the Democrats.
Honest to goodness, the Seattle thing is, for the reason the president said, very concerning.
If it becomes obvious to Antifa.
That they will not be in any way molested.
Then Columbus goes up.
Then Austin, Texas.
I don't think they'll try this in Texas, actually.
Texas business owners are going to object mightily if they take over eight blocks or four blocks.
I don't know what it is.
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I keep asking you the same question every week because I still don't get it.
The greatest nation on God's earth, until the coronavirus, the Wu flu, the biggest economy the world had ever seen, the markets returned to where they were pre-COVID, and then there's these weird skittish moments.
Where there's a flutter on the market and there's a sudden drop because, what, four Apple stores are closing?
Trish, what's going on?
Well, yeah, you know, some people are nervous right now.
There's still a lot of volatility out there because they're trying to figure out, is this for real, right?
Like, they want to make sure that this economic recovery is indeed for real.
And when you hear about Apple stores shutting down, when you hear about states getting very nervous about reopening, they're saying to themselves, wait a second, we're not going to have a repeat of what we just went through, are we?
And I think that the short answer to that is, of course, no.
But nonetheless, it's how committed are American consumers going to be?
How committed is corporate America in this new environment to move forward?
And that's what it's going to come down to, right?
Because if we start to backpedal here, we start to say, okay, no, we're shutting everything down.
If schools don't start in September, then you run the risk of another shutdown and another, you know, economic, frankly, catastrophe.
Because that's what that was.
They caused, this was sort of self-inflicted, an economic catastrophe.
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show.
Thank you.
Dr. Strom, I just did a video about the Hong Kong flu of 1968. And if you look at the number of people who contracted and died and adjusted for a population, it was about 150,000 Americans.
That's about 38,000 fewer deaths than we have so far with the current coronavirus.
And we didn't shut down the government.
I don't even remember it.
I was 16 years old.
I don't remember anybody talking about it at the time.
Okay.
Point well taken.
Let's just look at the numbers now.
So since May 16th, okay, We're having new cases, clearly.
And, okay, businesses are opening up and people are getting more liberal.
They're not as worried about transmission.
But in the last week, I mean, there's going to be 709 new deaths, so 29,000 new cases.
And last weekend was the highest daily total since May 16th, okay?
But if somebody gets a disease, is that a death sentence?
Probably not.
We see that mortality is probably less than we thought.
So transmission is going to happen, and maybe we do want that, because I told you last time I was on about herd immunity.
You get 50 to 70 percent of the population infected, people are going to become immune.
And we may need that herd immunity if we don't get a vaccination within the next, what, year?
We hope by year-end.
So, yes, there are new cases.
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Hey there, folks.
Welcome.
I'm talking to my friend Dinesh D'Souza.
He has a new book out today.
It's called United States of Socialism.
If previous presidents had done the right thing...
The monster that is now China would not be as big as it is, and we would not have to deal with it in this way.
But it seems to me that the naivete and the greed of Clinton and the Bushes with regard to China, thinking that the god of the free market is going to solve the political problems in China and make them just like us.
That's one kind of stupidity.
The other is just the pure greed of saying that, knowing that at least whatever happens, I'm going to make a lot of money.
We've let this go on for 30-plus years, and it seems that you need someone like Trump to deal with them in the way that he's been dealing with them.
At least that's what I think.
The Chinese have had a long-standing policy of getting favorable treatment from the leaders of other countries by financing their family members.
It's an old kind of Asian despotic mode of doing business.
Now, if you look at Biden, for example, over the years, Biden's net worth has not gone up for the simple reason that he has to disclose any investments that he has, any deals that he makes.
But now watch the Biden family, his brother James Biden, his other brother Frank Biden, his son Hunter Biden.
Their networks have skyrocketed.
Why?
Because when Biden goes to China, he takes Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden then gets a deal through the Shanghai free trade zone that is not available to Western investors in which the Chinese government itself is putting in money, a $1.5 billion investment.
Hello, everybody.
I'm Dennis Prager.
Thank you for being with me.
Oh, yes.
I wanted to read to you the statement made.
They're ending.
I didn't think it would happen this fast.
Shop for Chaz is now ending.
Sean was thinking of moving there, and so this is somewhat of a blow to his hopes.
You were trying to get a condo there, if I'm not mistaken.
In Chaz.
Price was right, yeah, yeah.
And wonderful people in the neighborhood.
Dear comrades in the struggle.
So, folks, they're communists.
But it doesn't mean anything to most Americans, because most Americans don't know how bad communist is.
See my, watch my video.
What is it?
Why people don't hate communism as much as Nazism?
Is that the title?
Close.
At PragerU.
By the way, I just want you to know a very interesting phenomenon.
Other than fundraising a month, two months actually, a year, I talk very little about PragerU.
I mention it in passing, obviously, if it's in the news.
But I will share this with you because it's good news.
And that is the support for PragerU is greater than ever.
We thought that during the economic downturn, you know, like many nonprofits, it would struggle.
The support has actually increased and have the numbers of views.
What was it that Marissa had said?
X number, million a day of views.
Are you aware of that?
I mean, millions a day.
And it's gratifying.
It doesn't, you know, I still, I just wanted to share that with you because people understand.
You know my old, and it's an important line, good people are divided among three groups, those who do nothing, those who fight, and those who help the fighters.
And those who help the fighters are as important as the fighters.
That is not a fundraising line.
Ask any general how important are the supply troops, the supply lines, and it's a self-evident answer.
Just thought I'd share that with you.
Dear Comrades in the Struggle, this is the CHAZ leadership.
Over the last weeks, we achieved what no one thought possible.
We successfully built a self-governing community.
They did?
That's why they're disbanding in two weeks?
After two weeks?
Murder and crime and...
I told you truth is not a left-wing value.
And convince city leaders to enact meaningful police reform, including substantial budget cuts to the SPD, Seattle Police Department.
Last night, Solidarity Committee received notice from some of our trusted partners that persons in the park were in danger.
We immediately implemented our emergency relocation plan, successfully evacuating most of the park.
Thankfully, no danger materialized.
So that's the reason they're disbanding?
Because of danger?
However, we are now left with the reality that very few people remain in our beloved shop.
These are children.
You understand?
These are children, play-acting.
After this, I guess it's a return to video games.
This morning, census finds fewer than two dozen clustered near the East Precinct.
Remember, that's the police headquarters that they took over.
Two dozen are left.
Census.
I love that.
They took a census.
One, two, three, four, until twelve.
Eleven additional people are at the Space Needle.
Last night's BLM march had 71 participants, a number we expect to continue to drop.
It is time we shift to the next phase of our organizing and move to continue the struggle through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.
We have held city officials accountable and can continue to do so in a way that is safe for everyone.
The CHOP project is now concluded.
While we expect a very small handful of holdouts may try to remain in the chop, no further organizing will be occurring to support this presence, and the number on-site will be too small to be more than an annoyance for pedestrians rather than a zonal blockade.
Now, you know why they're saying that?
Because they're losing the support of even Seattle leftists.
Not because they disagree with them, but because it's a nuisance.
They have impacted middle-class Seattle residents.
You don't want to fool around with that.
So it's okay to support evil.
That's the middle-class Democrats' view.
I can support these people, but not in my backyard, right?
It's a NIMBY. So please go elsewhere, leftists, but I will vote for the leftist party.
Thank you, everyone, for your support over the last two weeks, and congratulations on your victories.
But I wish he would name what those victories are.
You should feel proud!
Let's not let this momentum die.
Please remember to continue supporting the kind of revolutionary change We just created.
Now, what will they then advocate for revolutionary change?
Ready?
By voting for Joe Biden as President of the United States.
And there are a number of Republican who are never Trumpers who will also vote for revolutionary change because they can't stand Donald Trump.
I am stunned because some of these people are good people.
Better to vote for a left-wing French Revolution in America than for a guy you can't stand.
Wow.
I don't get it.
I really don't.
I don't get it morally.
I don't get it Americanly.
I don't get it politically.
I don't get it.
And Jay Inslee as Governor of Washington.
Jay Inslee has come across, to those of us who are not on the left, as bizarre.
And despite our occasional differences, we believe Jenny Durkin, that's the mayor, has stepped up and shown leadership that will help us heal.
Heal.
We urge you to vote to re-elect her in 2021. In solidarity, the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest Solidarity Committee.
Very nice.
1-8 Prager 776. There is a story in the New York Times about Minneapolis.
I tell you, I was riveted.
It was like watching.
A thriller movie you can't stop watching.
I just want to read to you one story from it.
The title of it is, A Minneapolis Neighborhood Vowed to Check Its Privilege.
It's already being tested.
Subhead.
Blocks from where George Floyd drew his last breaths.
Residents have vowed to avoid the police to protect people of color.
The commitment is hard to keep.
So listen to, I've just isolated one story.
Mitchell Erickson's fingers began dialing 911 last week, before he had a chance to even consider alternatives, when two black teenagers, who looked to be 15 at most, cornered him outside his home a block away from the park.
One of the boys pointed a gun at Mr. Erickson's chest.
Demanding his car keys.
Now, would you say that that was an act of evil?
Pointing a gun at a person's chest, a stranger, and demanding his car keys.
Thank you.
So let's see how Mr. Erickson, a good Democrat and supporter of Black Lives Matter, reacted to having his life threatened by two black teenagers.
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In the three-year turnaround, which is the best economic turnaround in U.S. history, Hugh, under President Trump's leadership, two and a half million people pulled themselves out of poverty.
We don't talk about that.
But that is in contrast with the failure of the Great Society's War on Poverty.
Over 50 years failed to move the poverty line at all.
And President Trump comes in and does it.
In the African-American community, we have the lowest unemployment in U.S. history right now, the highest middle class income ever measured.
President Trump has done more through justice reform, HBCUs, which are our historic black colleges and universities, and our opportunity zones that Tim Scott has helped author, has done more good for that community than any president in the last 100 years, really.
I think the president is upholding the Constitution.
On Sunday we had Colin Powell say he's drifting from it.
I wrote a Washington Post editorial this morning saying that's absurd.
What's your assessment of Donald Trump's fealty, his loyalty to the Constitution?
This man is committed to the Constitution.
If you look at everything he's done in standing up for America with our allies and others who would do us harm, this man has made sure the world knows that America first doesn't mean America alone.
But this is the first president we've had in 50, 60 years, Hugh, that has told the rest of the world what's important to us.
I think that's very refreshing and we've got to give him a second term.
I believe this whole election is about the Constitution.
I think Donald Trump is the Constitution candidate, and I think Joe Biden and the Democratic Party is off the rails to the left.
Your assessment?
Well, the Democrats are trying to perpetrate a socialist agenda that you heard in the presidential debate, Hugh, and you'll see it in the general election with Biden.
Biden is no moderate.
He absolutely wants to perpetrate a socialist agenda on the people of America, and we're not going to let that happen.
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Perhaps you noticed.
We're examining what's right with America and what can be made better.
No other country does this kind of introspection better than us.
Some of what we've found we don't like and will change.
Every life has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
That includes our law enforcement as well as every skin color.
We've been through this before in America.
We always came out stronger.
We will this time, too.
Our hosts make sure of that.
We are the answer.
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I mean, and by the way, the people who suffered the most, Larry, were the lowest income people, black Americans.
We have the best.
Do you know, Larry, from 2017 through 2020, what demographic group saw the fastest rise in incomes?
Blacks.
Black Americans.
Yes, I knew you knew that.
And, you know, wait a minute, how could that happen?
We've got a racist president.
How could that have happened?
We had more economic advance in three years for black Americans under Trump than we did in eight years under Obama.
Stephen Moore is my guest.
He was an economic advisor to President Trump.
President Trump, to me, I could be completely wrong.
You wouldn't know more than I would about this.
Instinctively, he didn't want to shut down the economy, did he?
Oh, Trump did not want to shut down the economy.
No way.
He got terrible advice from Fauci, who's, you know, a disaster as his health advisor.
And I'll tell you this, you know, we can't undo what has been done, but Donald Trump is not going to shut down this economy again.
I guarantee you that.
I mean, now the left is saying, oh, we have to shut down the economy again because we've had a few more cases of coronavirus.
No.
Look, the vast, vast, vast majority of the people who've gotten very sick and have died from coronavirus are people that are over the age of 65 or 70. So let's keep those people healthy.
But, you know, we've got to get, you can't keep an economy down.
And I actually think it's because we did this, we locked down the economy for two or three months, that we have these...
Beer and whiskey.
That was what I had him on.
Almost everything most Americans think they know about what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9th, 2014, is wrong, based on misinformation.
Larry Elder tells you the truth in this week's Prager University video.
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It's one of the most...
I mean, every video we put out, I think, is important.
That's one.
Truly one of the most...
He doesn't say it, but it gives you an idea of how much you're lied to in the American media, especially about any racial issue.
Also see his movie, Uncle Tom.
It'll actually inspire you, which we need badly.
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Right?
Was Walter Williams in it?
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So let me finish the story here.
So you get it?
This is a New York Times story in Minneapolis, section of Minneapolis.
So this is a guy, a white guy, who opposes using police in solidarity with blacks, as if blacks don't want police.
I mean, it's the left-wing bubble they live in.
So sure enough, last week, Well, I'll just say it again.
Two black teenagers looked to be 15 at the most, cornered him outside his home.
One of the boys pointed a gun at his chest, demanding his car keys.
By the way, just for the record, it's such trauma, and I don't use that word easily.
It's overused.
To have a gun pointed at you is traumatic.
It's a form, actually, of driving people crazy, mock executions.
This was not a mock execution, but it's on the way there.
I was once terrorized, and my whole life I had terror once, when I was smuggling out anti-Soviet documents from the Soviet Union.
It was midnight at the Soviet-Romanian border, and they were checking my stuff.
You know that I was sick for six weeks after that?
And I'm not easy to make afraid, as you know.
Just from that.
Because I was sure they would find the documents and send me away.
Anyway, flustered, Mr. Erickson handed over a set, but it turned out to be the house keys.
The teenagers got frustrated and ran off, then stole a different car down the street.
By the way, do you believe, there's a question, do you believe that a fair number of black kids, males under 30, have gotten the message that the country does not blame them for any crimes they commit, because they are such victims of racism?
Do you think that message has been Delivered, like, to these two 15-year-olds?
Or even worse, I can do this because I'm black and therefore a victim?
Victimhood is a green light for hurting people.
Just want you to know that.
Talked about that often.
Okay, now we go on.
Mr. Erickson said later he would not cooperate with prosecutors in a case against the boys.
See?
This is a good, Minnesota nice moron who is hurting the society.
How you get so perverse in your moral thinking, I don't even know.
He would not testify against kids who threatened to murder him.
Are you with me?
Thinking he's doing them a service.
What if they go on to actually murder somebody?
Has he done a service then?
What produces such people in America?
College?
The New York Times?
Well, there would be the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
They're interchangeable.
He would not cooperate with prosecutors in a case against the boys.
After the altercation, he realized that if there was anything he wanted, it was to offer them help.
And exactly what would that mean, to offer them help?
See, it's not explained.
I would love to know.
What does offer them help mean?
I might say that in general, Telling people who threaten to murder people with a gun, or any other implement, that you won't testify them, won't prosecute them, they can continue to do this, is not helpful.
That does not offer them help.
But he still felt it had been right to call the authorities because there was a gun involved.
Two days after an initial conversation, his position had evolved.
Been thinking more about it, he wrote in a text message.
I regret calling the police.
It was my instinct, but I wish it hadn't been.
I put those boys in danger of death by calling the cops.
And the New York Times even writes, what about the fact that the boys had put his life in danger?
Yeah, I know.
And yeah, it was scary.
But the cops didn't really have much to add after I called them.
I haven't been forced to think like this before.
So I would have lost my car.
So what?
At least no one would have been killed.
How do we produce such thinking in the United States?
What if two white boys had come up with a gun?
Would he then prosecute them or want to just help them?
Or Hispanic?
Or Asian?
What if two Asian guys did?
See, we who are called conservatives believe that moral standards are consistent for everyone.
Because we don't really care what your race is.
We care what your character is.
It's very quaint.
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Yeah.
We used to be able to testify in court.
And we were believed.
Now, unless there is a video from three different angles, no one cares what you have to say.
With all this talk about racism and racist cops, I've never seen people treated differently because of their race.
And while I know that cowards that have never done this job will call me a racist for saying it, all I've ever seen was criminal behavior and cops trying to stop it.
And they didn't give a rip.
What their skin colour was.
I've seen cops help and save any type of race, gender, or ethnicity you can think of, and while that used to mean something, no one cares anymore.
I've been called every name you can think of, and many of them with racial overtones, and it's never come from cops.
I've watched African-American cops take the brunt of this and even talked one rookie out of quitting after he was berated by a lot of cowards that had the same skin color as him.
I've never heard.
I've heard words I never heard before coming a cop.
Uncle Tom Cracker, pig, and the N-word, just to name a few.
I've heard them thousands of times, and never once did I see an officer retaliate.
They just took it.
The nasty words have now turned into rocks and bottles and gunfire.
I've watched it happen to those around me, and I've seen the total destruction of their life.
This job is a walking time bomb.
And you can get cancelled or prosecuted on the very next call, even if you do everything right.
No profession has to deal with that.
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I am reading from the Financial Times headline, Pompeo castigates Bolton as a traitor.
Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, has hit out at John Bolton, calling his former colleague a traitor and accusing Donald Trump's ex-National Security Advisor of lies in his new memoir.
John Bolton is spreading a number of lies, fully spun half-truths, and outright falsehoods, Mr. Pompeo said, about the room where it happened, Mr. Bolton's new book that is scheduled for release next Tuesday.
In a statement headlined, I was in the room too, Mr. Pompeo said it was both sad and dangerous that John Bolton's final public role is that of a traitor who damaged America by violating his sacred trust with its people.
Strong words.
I just don't like memoirs which are tell-alls.
No, I read memoirs.
I'm reading Bob Gates' new book, which will have anecdotes in it.
I'm sure he submitted it for the review of...
The appropriate authorities to make sure that we do not give away any methods or source.
It results in death.
That's why the Pentagon Papers was not a moment of virtue for this country.
It was a moment of assassination by Daniel Ellsberg and those who chaired it.
It resulted in the deaths of people who could be traced in their cooperation with the United States government by the North Vietnamese after they triumphed after the United States cut and ran from Vietnam in 1974. 1975, excuse me.
So no, I just don't believe in it.
You've got to put your books in for review.
There have been memoirs by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, by Vice President Cheney, by George W. Bush, by Condoleezza Rice.
They all get submitted to the same process.
And guess what?
It's not quick.
And Ambassador Bolton ought to have followed the rules.
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Thank you.
You write...
Yes, everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.
The story is really remarkable.
It's from the New York Times, no less.
And I say no less not because it's distinguished.
It isn't.
But because it's so on the left, and it still reported this on these white people, these sensitive fools who don't want to call the police.
Ami Horowitz made a video.
You should see it.
Site it on the show at DennisPrager.com or go to AmiHorowitz.com.
Made a video in Manhattan.
I had him on last hour.
It's great.
I love that video.
All these left-wing whites who hate the cops, and then he goes into Harlem, and all these blacks who say, what are you, crazy?
Of course we want police here.
Including a black guy wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt.
There's no doubt in my mind, no doubt, that the left has contempt for blacks.
Every leftist.
That's why they have different rules for blacks than anybody else.
It should be so obvious to every black person.
The left has not only done nothing good for you, it's harmed you, and they use you.
You are used for their power.
Racism, racism, racism.
Vote for us.
But the worst is the contempt.
The beauty of the Judeo-Christian tradition is it doesn't know race.
Holds everyone as created in God's image and doesn't make the Ten Commandments contingent upon your color.
Thou shalt not steal.
I don't look at black looters during these riots and think, oh, they're black, so you have to give them some slack.
I'm not being poetic with the rhyme here.
No, I just think, that's disgusting.
They're thieves.
The society that allows people to be thieves will die.
That's it.
If they're white thieves, black thieves, or any other thieves, they're thieves.
Do not steal applies to all races.
1-8 Prager 776, Kathy in Brooklyn, New York.
Hello.
Hey, Dennis.
Yes.
I listen to you very, very, very often, and I agree with everything you say.
And I'm a lifelong New York City resident, and you can't even imagine the green light.
They're just doing whatever they want because they know.
They know nothing is going to happen to them.
It's like they opened up the doors of hell and everybody just flew out.
It's just unbelievable.
And I know for a fact that it's all because of the leadership in New York City.
They're very sore.
Everybody's very scared.
So worried about offending people.
Offending people.
The people that stay worried about offending know that.
Where do you live in Brooklyn, Kathy?
Park's throat.
And do your neighbors tend to think as you do or not?
No, no.
I am definitely not the majority.
Definitely.
I think on my whole entire block, which has, forget about it, lots and lots of people, there might be one more person that thinks like me.
One more person.
Well, that's really something.
It's an amazing thing.
The contempt for America and the contempt for blacks that both characterize the left.
What did you just say to me?
Okay, let's see here.
Shannon in Shelby, North Carolina.
Hi.
Hello, Shannon.
I think this is so important.
The Atheist, Agnostic Department of Education is the greatest threat to our nation and possibly the world.
They don't teach history.
Common Core doesn't teach history.
They think all the other things are important, but that, along with their support of the media and the fake news, they are ruining generation after generation.
The Department of Education?
Yes, sir.
Yes, you're right.
That's correct.
I've told people I should say it every day.
You should not send your kid, in most cases, not all, to your local school, private or public.
It's a big problem.
It's the biggest in some ways.
Relief Factor, if you go to their website, you will read case after case.
Of it relieving people's pain.
I know that those are authentic letters.
I get them.
They get, obviously, far more.
And I know the people who run this.
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Dr. Strom, I just did a video about the Hong Kong flu of 1968. And if you look at the number of people who contracted and died and adjusted for a population, it was about 150,000 Americans.
That's about 38,000 fewer deaths than we have so far with the current coronavirus.
And we didn't shut down the government.
I don't even remember it.
I was 16 years old.
I don't remember anybody talking about it at the time.
Okay.
Point well taken.
Let's just look at the numbers now.
So since May 16th, okay, We're having new cases, clearly.
And, okay, businesses are opening up and people are getting more liberal.
They're not as worried about transmission.
But in the last week, I mean, there's going to be 709 new deaths, so 29,000 new cases.
And last weekend was the highest daily total since May 16th, okay?
But if somebody gets a disease, is that a death sentence?
Probably not.
We see that mortality is probably less than we thought.
So transmission is going to happen, and maybe we do want that, because I told you last time I was on about herd immunity.
You get 50 to 70 percent of the population infected, people are going to become immune.
And we may need that herd immunity if we don't get a vaccination within the next, what, year?
We hope by year end.
So, yes, there are new cases.
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Hey there, folks.
Welcome.
I'm talking to my friend Dinesh D'Souza.
He has a new book out today.
It's called United States of Socialism.
If previous presidents had done the right thing...
The monster that is now China would not be as big as it is, and we would not have to deal with it in this way.
But it seems to me that the naivete and the greed of Clinton and the Bushes with regard to China, thinking that the god of the free market is going to solve the political problems in China and make them just like us.
You know, that's one kind of stupidity.
The other is just the pure greed of saying that, knowing that at least whatever happens, I'm going to make a lot of money.
We've let this go on for 30 plus years, and it seems that you need someone like Trump to deal with them in the way that he's been dealing with them.
At least that's what I think.
The Chinese have had a long-standing policy of getting...
Do you have any favorable treatment from the leaders of other countries by financing their family members?
It's an old kind of Asian despotic mode of doing business.
Now, if you look at Biden, for example, over the years Biden's net worth has not gone up for the simple reason that he has to disclose any investments that he has, any deals that he makes.
But now watch the Biden family, his brother James Biden, his other brother Frank Biden, his son Hunter Biden, their networks have skyrocketed.
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Hello, everybody.
Dennis Prager here.
Detroit, Michigan, Ron.
Hello, Ron.
Hi, Mr. Frager.
I was calling in today.
I had caught some of the conversation regarding the Black Lives Matter gentlemen about burning down and this, that, and the other.
I just wanted to make a statement that everyone that you see with a t-shirt on or everyone that is black does not believe in burning Anything down.
The majority of the people I know are my peers and my church members are just all about trying to be productive, protect their family, and enjoy them and see their children raped.
I remember when the Republican Party had to deal with the coming out of the Tea Party people.
On the fringe, the things that they had to go through, It didn't make me afraid or, you know, stop me from interacting with my wife, friends, all the way from elementary school, and we have great relationships.
And then I read that a couple weeks ago, you got two gentlemen that they were choosing to be part of Antifa that were part of this bootleg or something had driven all these miles.
To go to the protesters and create chaos by killing police officers.
And I believe that the conversation, if we don't designate the conversation, that we give them more ground than they deserve.
Because we're squeezing out the people, and it's going to take everybody to make sure that this country continues on.
Okay, alright, alright.
You made a lot of points, Ron.
Okay.
Hold on, so you made a lot of points.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Now you don't have to be sorry.
It's fine.
So, first of all, I want to understand, were you saying, and you know, I just go for clarity, not debate.
Were you saying that the Tea Party is as extreme on the right as Black Lives Matter is on the left?
You see, I don't know.
What extreme...
I mean, when you talk about extremes...
What I'm saying is that the people in the Republican Party had to deal with the Tea Party, and there are people in the Democratic Party that will deal with Black Lives Matter, and because...
All right, so you are comparing them in terms of the extremism of their positions.
I want to lift up the people that are trying not to be affected by that.
Let me ask you another one.
Do you believe that Black Lives Matter would like to burn down this nation?
You said blacks don't.
I agree with you.
Do you believe that Black Lives Matter would like to?
I don't believe that they would like to do that.
But he was one of the heads of BLM who said this.
But because you're the head of something, because you're the head of something does not mean that you dominate, that you're a dictatorial, that everyone that takes a piece of what you're saying is going to follow you.
All I wanted to know was how you feel about it.
Finally, who were you going to vote for?
I'm just curious.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Who did you vote for last night?
I voted for Hillary.
Right.
I voted for Hillary.
Right.
And the economic situation, I just wish, you know what, ideally, and I'm going to get off here, if Trump had come in, he gives so many people weapons against me.
That's true.
Rhetorically, that's correct.
Okay, glad you called.
But I don't believe.
Obviously, I think all of you know.
I don't think.
And I'm not even sure that Ron believes it.
But the issue is not Ron anymore.
He's not on.
The issue is the issue.
There is no equivalent on the right to BLM on the left.
Of any consequence whatsoever.
There is just this notion of, well, both parties have gone extreme.
I always ask people, tell me an extremist position of the Republican Party.
I can give you...
The number of extreme left positions of the Democratic Party equals the number of positions of the Democratic Party.
What is an extreme position?
Don't tell me about the President's tweets.
Tell me about the positions of that party.
Well, both parties I love would be.
It's because people are afraid to take a side, and especially the side against the left, because you could be fired.
You could be defriended.
You could lose your children's visits.
We don't do that to the people on the left.
They do that.
I don't know why all of this isn't obvious.
Ray in Livermore, California, in the San Francisco area.
Hello.
Hello, Dennis.
A great and important show, the Dennis Parker Show.
Thank you for being there.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
The story you're meeting reminded me of a couple things that I've witnessed that is just lawlessness and disrespect.
For your fellow man.
I've got an example of each.
First, the disrespect.
I was at a gas station yesterday, and a fellow pulled up with blurring music.
He parked his car, he rolled his window down, and then turns the stereo up to 11. So everybody in the gas station had to listen to whatever it was he was listening to.
Complete disregard for everyone.
And lawlessness, more than a half dozen times traveling down my local freeways, people, there are...
People traveling at over 100 miles an hour through traffic and racing their vehicles.
Yes, right.
Both of the examples are true.
50 years ago, a person doing that with the music would have been told, hey, hey, hey, fella, you want to put that down?
You want to turn that down?
People are afraid to do that now.
This is Lon He Chen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com.
Public health officials across America have spent the last several months warning about the dangers of the coronavirus and the need for us to stay at home, halt economic activity, and avoid social interactions with our friends and neighbors.
We are now reopening our economy in many parts of the country, but these same public health officials have compromised their own credibility as we do so.
On the one hand, they've urged caution and a slow return to work, school, and faith gatherings.
They've criticized those who oppose the stay-at-home orders.
But at the same time, these officials have been broadly supportive of the large protests on America's streets in the last few weeks.
Public health officials should be helping us understand the comparative risks of activities, not endorsing the causes they like while prohibiting the ones they don't.
Their hypocrisy is costly indeed.
They have impacted our ability to address future health crises.
I'm Lanhee Chen.
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I think the New York media is describing Florida as coronavirus raging through the state.
That's literally the word they're using, at least in the New York Post.
But there's a peculiarity about these data-driven news reports.
Always at the bottom of the article, at the end of the report.
They admit that deaths and hospitalizations are down and hospital capacity is nowhere near being stretched thin.
I don't understand it any more than I can make sense of a guy like Anthony Fauci who told us that masks don't work and they're not effective and you shouldn't go around wearing a mask.
You're causing more problems than solutions.
And then admitting Those were lies because they were worried that we would scarf up all the face masks from the hospital workers.
And now, if you live in California, soon to be Texas, Tampa, Florida, you don't wear a mask, I guess you're breaking the law.
I don't know what they're going to do to you if you don't have a mask.
Think there'll be a mask jail?
Will there be a prison for...
People who refuse to wear a mask?
I'm serious.
They're going to lock people up?
You're just going to give you a fine?
You're going to pay a fine if you refuse to wear a mask?
I saw a conservative activist got kicked off a flight.
He was trying to get to Tulsa on an airplane.
They kicked him off the plane.
I believe it was American Airlines.
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Yeah.
We used to be able to testify in court and we were believed.
Now, unless there is a video from three different angles, no one cares what you have to say.
Hi, everybody.
Wait.
you Thank you.
Dennis Prager here.
Dave in Denver wants to know, would a show like yours exist if Chaz or BLM took over?
I think it's a rhetorical question.
I'm not sure that this show will survive if the Democrats take over.
There's a tremendous amount of censorship already on the...
In the tech world, on Twitter and the others, and there were attempts to undo talk radio a long time ago.
Not just now.
Ongoing.
What is it called again?
Not balanced speech.
What is it called?
They have a term for it.
And it is to ensure that You hear both sides on talk radio.
Of course, there's no ensure that you hear both sides on the New York Times or CNN. Fairness doctrine.
That's right, the fairness doctrine.
We are the largest audience.
Talk Radio is the largest audience of non-left-wing thought talk in America, in the world.
And they would love to tear it down.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So that is correct.
Ronnie in Cotton Valley, Louisiana, is that correct?
No, sir.
My name is Ronnie.
I'm from Cotton Valley, Louisiana, but I'm in the city of Chicago, Dennis.
Okay.
That's where I am right now.
I have been for the last 30 years.
I don't know how we got Cotton Valley, Louisiana.
Okay, go ahead.
College Valley, Louisiana is 34 miles outside of Shreveport.
Okay.
We don't have a lot of time, so go ahead.
Go ahead.
Okay, so everything that you talked about is true.
It's all true, but you take it out of historical context.
For instance, Black Lives Matter is a hashtag.
It's not a movement like the NAACP. When folks get in trouble with the police in this country, they don't call Black Lives Matter.
They call the NAACP. You can't call Black Lives Matter.
It's a hashtag.
It's not a movement.
So that comparison right there is irrelevant.
Secondly, all of the riots that have happened in this country, as far as black folks are concerned, didn't start happening until the 1960s.
Prior to that, they happened all by white folks.
Rioting why?
Why were they rioting, Dennis?
is why did they come in and steal, loot, and murder black folks and take our stuff?
You can have right here in the city of Chicago, 1919, Red Summer.
Black men swim in the imaginary line.
White folks get upset.
They stole him to death.
They burned down.
You're right.
You're right.
Thank you.
And I'd love to have time to react, but I'll leave it at that.
Thank you.
We are now reopening our economy in many parts of the country, but these same public health officials have compromised their own credibility as we do so.
On the one hand, they've urged caution and a slow return to work, school, and faith gatherings.
They've criticized those who oppose the stay-at-home orders.
But at the same time, these officials have been broadly supportive of the large protests on America's streets in the last few weeks.
Public health officials should be helping us understand the comparative risks of activities, not endorsing the causes they like while prohibiting the ones they don't.
Their hypocrisy is costly indeed.
They have impacted our ability to address future health crises.
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I think the New York media is describing Florida as coronavirus raging through the state.
That's literally the word they're using, at least in the New York Post.
But there's a peculiarity about these data-driven news reports.
Always at the bottom of the article, at the end of the report.
They admit that deaths and hospitalizations are down and hospital capacity is nowhere near being stretched thin.
I don't understand it any more than I can make sense of a guy like Anthony Fauci who told us that masks don't work and they're not effective and you shouldn't go around wearing a mask.
You're causing more problems than solutions.
Those were lies because they were worried that we would scarf up all the face masks from the hospital workers.
And now, if you live in California, soon to be Texas, Tampa, Florida, you don't wear a mask, I guess you're breaking the law.
I don't know what they're going to do to you if you don't have a mask.
Think there'll be a mask jail?
Will there be a prison for...
People who refuse to wear a mask, I'm serious.
They're going to lock people up?
You're just going to give you a fine?
You're going to pay a fine if you refuse to wear a mask?
I saw a conservative activist got kicked off a flight.
He was trying to get to Tulsa on an airplane.
They kicked him off the plane.
I believe it was American Airlines.
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With all this talk about racism and racist cops, I've never seen people treated differently because of their race.
And while I know that cowards that have never done this job will call me a racist for saying it, all I've ever seen was criminal behavior and cops trying to stop it, and they didn't give a rip what their skin color was.
I've seen cops help and save any type of race, gender, or ethnicity you can think of, and while that used to mean something, no one cares anymore.
I've been called every name you can think of, and many of them with racial overtones, and it's never come from cops.
I've watched African-American cops take the brunt of this and even talked one rookie out of quitting after he was berated by a lot of cowards that had the same skin color as him.
I've never heard.
I've heard words I never heard before coming a cop.
Uncle Tom, Cracker, Pig, and the N-word, just to name a few.
I've heard them thousands of times, and never once did I see an officer retaliate.
They just took it.
The nasty words have now turned into rocks and bottles and gunfire.
I've watched it happen to those around me, and I've seen the total destruction of their life.
This job is a walking time bomb.
And you can get cancelled or prosecuted on the very next call, even if you do everything right.
No profession has to deal with that.
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I am reading from the Financial Times headline, Pompeo castigates Bolton as a traitor.
Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, has hit out at John Bolton, calling his former colleague a traitor and accusing Donald Trump's ex-National Security Advisor of lies in his new memoir.
John Bolton is spreading a number of lies, fully spun half-truths, and outright falsehoods, Mr. Pompeo said about the room where it happened, Mr. Bolton's new book that is scheduled for release next Tuesday.
In a statement headlined, I was in the room too, Mr. Pompeo said it was both sad and dangerous that John Bolton's final public role is that of a traitor who damaged America by violating his sacred trust with its people.
Strong words.
I just don't like memoirs which are tell-alls.
No, I read memoirs.
I'm reading Bob Gates' new book, which will have anecdotes in it.
I'm sure he submitted it for the review of The appropriate authorities to make sure that we do not give away any methods or source.
It results in death.
That's why the Pentagon Papers was not a moment of virtue for this country.
It was a moment of assassination by Daniel Ellsberg and those who chaired it.
It resulted in the deaths of people who could be traced in their cooperation with the United States government by the North Vietnamese after they triumphed after the United States cut and ran from Vietnam in 1974. 1975, excuse me.
So no, I just don't believe in it.
You've got to put your books in for review.
There have been memoirs by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, by Vice President Cheney, by George W. Bush, by Condoleezza Rice.
They all get submitted to the same process.
And guess what?
It's not quick.
And Ambassador Bolton ought to have followed the rules.
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Hello my friends.
I'm Dennis Prager.
I welcome you to the show.
Given the time we're in, I can't think of a better subject than Abraham Lincoln.
I must admit, I have a pessimistic view, as you know.
That's not what I'm admitting.
I have a pessimistic view of human nature, as you know.
But I still never thought I would live to see statues of Abraham Lincoln torn down by Americans and allowed to do so by authorities.
That, I have to acknowledge, is new.
There's a new book out by an author I've had on before, Every Drop of Blood.
That's the title.
It's up at DennisPrager.com.
The momentous second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.
I have found that the best way to learn history, there are two best ways.
One is through biography, and the other is through one small era of time.
I find general histories just too large.
Anyway, it's a terrific read.
I've had this author on before, and he is the deputy editorial page editor of the Providence, Rhode Island, the Providence Journal.
Every drop of blood, and even Lincoln scholars have said he came up with stuff they didn't even know about.
Now, Edward, how do you pronounce your last name?
It's Acorn.
It is Acorn.
Okay.
Yes.
Yes.
Well, I had you on on your baseball book.
Yes.
Yes.
Can I ask you a question?
Sure.
How is Otto doing?
I'm very touched that you even know about Otto.
Otto, I want you to understand.
He's the star of your fireside talk.
There's no question I play second fiddle to Otto.
There are people who pass me in the airport and they will only go say hi to Otto.
Not it's a joy to meet you.
Can we have a photo?
Say hi to Otto.
We now have Otto merchandise.
You could have an Otto coffee mug.
Well, I'm very touched.
That means you watched the Fireside Chat.
Yes.
I'm honored.
What is the politics of the Providence Rhode Island Journal?
Well, to tell you the truth, I've left the Providence Journal because the newspaper industry is contracting faster than you can imagine.
And now I'm focusing on writing books full-time.
How interesting.
How interesting.
When I was the editor of the editorial page, I tried to keep it right down the center as much as I could.
Right.
But I did defend...
You know, our freedoms, I think we're very, very fortunate to live in this country, and I did make the case to pay for all this government we want.
We've got to have businesses.
So I suppose that would put me in the center or to the right.
Well, no, the moment you said we're fortunate to live in this country, it puts you on the right.
That was the giveaway.
That's how sad it is.
That's what it's become.
Yes, yeah.
So have you been...
What has Rhode Island been like in the lockdown?
Has it been a lockdown state?
Yes, it's been very, very locked down.
And I think it's done some things that are not strictly constitutionally permissible, but, you know, we're getting through it.
Well...
So, you really write well, and it's a joy to have you.
I read again, knowing I would have you on, the second inaugural address, and it actually gave me the chills.
Isn't it incredible?
Incredible, and anyone who doubts his loathing of slavery, it takes five minutes to read the address.
It's that brief.
And they should just read that.
The address is about the horrific suffering America endured during the Civil War.
And Lincoln comes out and says, in his opinion, he thinks it may be God's judgment on the crime of slavery.
And that's an amazing thing for a president to say when he's on the cusp.
Of winning this war that's just torn the country in two.
And he tries to unite the country by saying, this was a crime, this was a sin, and this is God's punishment on all of us, North and South.
And I can't imagine any other political figure in American history doing that.
And it's not just that he said that, it's that the country...
Eventually embraced these remarks, and they're chiseled in stone at the Lincoln Memorial.
And that is our country's statement, that we accept this verdict by President Lincoln.
Sometimes when I see the riots, I think of Lincoln and that the country is still paying for the sin.
I think that's quite possible, but I think There are also, you know, forces trying to...
Oh, no, I'm not defending it.
Exploit them for political ends.
No, no, no, that's a given.
But I do think of that, my God, the punishment doesn't seem to end.
Even when there is real repentance, and obviously the sin is gone.
Not completely.
There's no sin that's completely gone in any event.
So what prompted you to write this, given how much Lincoln scholarship is already out there?
Yeah, there's a million books about Lincoln out there.
I mean, in fact, there's a tower of them all glued together across the street from the Ford's Theater in Washington.
And that's very daunting if you're a writer to see all these books, this giant tower.
Of books across the street there about Lincoln, and I thought, what can I add to that?
But I've always been fascinated in the second inaugural address and just how powerful it is, how filled with suffering it is, and how Lincoln tries to bring people together instead of dividing them.
So I started to look at that day, just 24 hours, sort of the night before.
I just found all these fascinating intersections of people, like Walt Whitman was covering it for the New York Times, and Frederick Douglass, the great black leader, was there listening to Lincoln, and he came to a White House reception the night of the speech.
Was he the first black to visit a White House?
First, he had visited with Lincoln a couple times, but this was after the inauguration.
They opened up the White House to the public, and thousands of people lined up to shake hands with the president, if you could imagine this.
And Douglass tried to be among them, and the guards kept throwing him out because he was black.
And he eventually made his way in, and there's a very poignant scene of Lincoln greeting him, saying, hey, here's my friend.
Frederick Douglass.
And he asked Douglass what he thought of the speech, and Douglass says, Mr. President, it was a sacred effort.
And to me, that's a very compelling story, because Douglass had been very critical of Lincoln.
He thought he was a hack president who didn't care about black people, and he came to see that Lincoln's the one who freed the slaves.
And it came to regard him with immense, immense regard.
I'm speaking with Edward Acorn, major writer, and a fascinating one.
And I have a thought about that.
I'm going to share with you, Edward.
Every Drop of Blood, the momentous second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.
I'm going to divert for a moment because I said the book is fascinating.
The most important thing in communication, I'm saying this to my listeners, I know you know this, is to be interesting.
And I just want you to know, since you're interested in everything, I could tell.
I mean, you just wrote a book on baseball before this.
I came to this conclusion through music, which I'm very devoted to.
I conduct orchestras periodically.
All my life I have asked myself, why do I like this guy's interpretation of Beethoven's third and not this guy's?
What is it about it?
It's the same notes.
So what's different?
And then I realized this conductor or this pianist held my interest.
And the other one didn't.
And that includes everything that involves communication.
I had boring teachers.
And they had no success.
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Dr. Strom, I just did a video about the Hong Kong flu of 1968.
And if you look at the number of people who contracted and died and adjusted for a population, It was about 150,000 Americans.
That's about 28,000 fewer deaths than we have so far with the current coronavirus.
And we didn't shut down the government.
I don't even remember it.
I was 16 years old.
I don't remember anybody talking about it at the time.
Okay.
Point well taken.
Let's just look at the numbers now.
So since May 16th, okay, We're having new cases, clearly.
And, okay, businesses are opening up and people are getting more liberal.
They're not as worried about transmission.
But in the last week, I mean, there's going to be 709 new deaths, so 29,000 new cases.
And last weekend was the highest daily total since May 16th, okay?
But if somebody gets a disease, is that a death sentence?
Probably not.
We see that mortality is probably less than we thought.
So transmission is going to happen, and maybe we do want that, because I told you last time I was on about herd immunity.
You get 50 to 70 percent of the population infected, people are going to become immune.
And we may need that herd immunity if we don't get a vaccination within the next, what, year?
We hope by year-end.
So, yes, there are new cases.
Does it warrant a complete shutdown?
Probably not.
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Hey there, folks.
Welcome.
I'm talking to my friend Dinesh D'Souza.
He has a new book out today.
It's called United States of Socialism.
If previous presidents had done the right thing...
The monster that is now China would not be as big as it is, and we would not have to deal with it in this way.
But it seems to me that the naivete and the greed of Clinton and the Bushes with regard to China, thinking that the god of the free market is going to solve the political problems in China and make them just like us.
You know, that's one kind of stupidity.
The other is just the pure greed of saying that, knowing that at least whatever happens, I'm going to make a lot of money.
We've let this go on for 30 plus years, and it seems that you need someone like Trump to deal with them in the way that he's been dealing with them.
At least that's what I think.
The Chinese have had a long-standing policy of getting favorable treatment from the leaders of other countries by financing their family members.
It's an old kind of Asian despotic mode of doing business.
Now, if you look at Biden, for example, over the years Biden's net worth has not gone up for the simple reason that he has to disclose any investments that he has, any deals that he makes.
But now watch the Biden family, his brother James Biden, his other brother Frank Biden, his son Hunter Biden.
Their networks have skyrocketed.
Why?
Because when Biden goes to China, he takes Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden then gets a deal through the Shanghai Free Trade Zone that is not available to Western investors in which the Chinese government itself is putting in money, a $1.5 billion investment.
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What's up, man?
The president was interviewed, I think it was on Fox News, I think it was Sean Hannity.
The president responded to what happened.
I don't think this is a controversial view, but maybe you do.
Here was the president last night with Sean on Fox News Channel.
I thought it was a terrible situation, but you can't resist a police officer.
And, you know, if you have a disagreement, you have to take it up after the fact.
It was a very safe...
On August 9th, 2014, is wrong based on misinformation.
Larry Elder tells you the truth in this week's Prager University video.
See it at PragerU.com, where we teach what isn't taught.
Yeah, that'll shake you up, that video, at PragerU.com.
I don't normally say this, but I like this man.
We've never met, but I like him.
Thank you, Dennis.
I love your reaction.
Edward Acorn, A-C-H-O-R-N, Every Drop of Blood, the momentous second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.
I gave an ode to being interesting, my dear listeners.
It is true for everything.
Talking to friends, giving a speech, writing a book, writing a symphony, conducting a symphony, making a painting.
Interesting is number one in communication.
And he's interesting.
So it's a long way of getting to the point, but it's not the only point.
The point is that everybody needs to know that.
In my wild mind, I just ask questions all the time.
Did you ever wonder, and we'll get obviously back to your book and Lincoln, I'm sure you had at college.
Some boring teachers.
Did you ever ask, and I'm not saying you need to say yes, did you ever ask a question I always ask myself about a boring teacher?
Does he or she realize how boring he or she is?
I don't think I've ever asked that.
I was such a goody-two-shoes, I always tried to extract any information I could get out of them, I could.
I was never a goody two-shoes.
But you were right.
I mean, to me, if history is not engaging, it's pointless.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
And that's a big part of the effort you as a writer put in.
I have to, I'm not talking about being salacious or just over the top.
But folks, this is why this...
Interesting means this is why this is important.
And you have done that with the second address.
So, anyway, so let me ask you, because you just wrote a great piece for American Greatness on this, but I opened up the interview with you by saying, as pessimistic as I am about the human condition, I never expected statues of Abraham Lincoln to be...
Violently torn down, and the authorities doing nothing about it.
Is this as shocking to you as it is to me?
Oh yeah, it's just terrible.
I mean, America is founded on the rule of law, which is the only way everybody's rights can be respected.
And if you have mobs, you know, taking away people's rights, that's a complete violation of everything we believe in.
And especially Lincoln.
I mean, Lincoln is somebody who was, to me, he saved this country.
He made all the freedoms we enjoy possible, really.
If the country had broken apart, we might very well have lost World War II. I mean, we wouldn't have held back communism.
I mean, the world is vastly different because this guy was so...
Devoted to saving the Union.
That's right.
I was thinking as you were talking, anybody involved in taking down a statue of Abraham Lincoln, that's all you need to know about them.
It's not a statement about Lincoln.
It is a statement about the people who tear him down.
And they're vile.
You don't have to say anything, but that is the obvious inference to be drawn from that.
Was Lincoln, this really fascinates me, and I'm not sure you'll have an answer, but I have, in my book on happiness, happiness hour on radio, I have often cited Abraham Lincoln's great line, we are as happy as we decide to be.
He had a very, very hard life.
Yes, he did.
His mother died when he was nine years old.
His father left him and his sister in the wilderness to go back to Kentucky to get another wife, and they almost starved to death when they were left on their own.
And to me, that kind of formative experience is about as tough as you can get.
And his sister died in childbirth when he was young.
Life was very, very hard back then.
And Lincoln was profoundly depressed.
No, no, keep going on.
Tell about his kid.
I want people to understand what he had to endure.
Oh, and he lost two of his sons.
One, his son Edward, died when he was a baby.
And during the Civil War, Lincoln's 11-year-old son, Willie, who was really the light of his life, he died of a sickness, apparently, from drinking polluted water in Washington.
So you can imagine how Lincoln felt of having taken his family to Washington and that they all endured this horrific war and he lost his son.
And people who knew him throughout his life said he was...
He had the look of sadness that was just a heartbreak.
Wait, wait, please add his marriage.
Yes, well, he had a very tough marriage.
He loved Mary Lincoln, but she was very volatile.
So would we say today manic depressive or some other term like that?
I don't.
Well, it's hard to diagnose her from this distance, but she definitely had these...
Really strong emotional swings.
And so it was very trying for him.
And of course, the war, he felt anguished about all the young men he was sending to their deaths.
But he had to do it to save the country.
So it's hard to imagine someone being strong enough to endure all this.
That's right.
But he had this way about him of telling funny stories that got him in trouble, actually, because some of them were very dirty.
But he would tell funny jokes, and people said his whole face lit up.
He just changed completely.
And he just loved these stories and loved seeing people laugh, and he would just roar with laughter himself.
Did he have any close friends?
He really didn't.
I thought so.
He was very close to this guy named David Davis, who he spent years on the judicial circuit in Illinois with.
But Davis said he was the most secretive closed man he ever knew.
And he really didn't let his heart be exposed.
He was very, very locked up in himself.
But he loved laughter, and he got in a lot of trouble for this.
He would read funny pieces to the cabinet before cabinet meetings, and they were appalled that this guy's president, and he's trying to...
All right, let me have one more segment with you.
Edward Acorn, the book, Every Drop of Blood.
I want you to tell people why it is so wrong to dismiss Lincoln and take his statues down.
This is Lon He Chen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com.
Public health officials across America have spent the last several months warning about the dangers of the coronavirus and the need for us to stay at home, halt economic activity, and avoid social interactions with our friends and neighbors.
We are now reopening our economy in many parts of the country, but these same public health officials have compromised their own credibility as we do so.
On the one hand, they've urged caution and a slow return to work, school, and faith gatherings.
They've criticized those who oppose the stay-at-home orders.
But at the same time, these officials have been broadly supportive of the large protests on America's streets in the last few weeks.
Public health officials should be helping us understand the comparative risks of activities, not endorsing the causes they like while prohibiting the ones they don't.
Their hypocrisy is costly indeed.
They have impacted our ability to address future health crises.
I'm Lanhee Chen.
Fighting for those whose liberties are being violated.
I think the New York media is describing Florida as coronavirus raging through the state.
That's literally the word they're using, at least in the New York Post.
But there's a peculiarity about these data-driven news reports.
Always at the bottom of the article, at the end of the report, they admit that deaths and hospitalizations are down and hospital capacity is nowhere near being stretched thin.
I don't understand it any more than I can make sense of a guy like Anthony Fauci.
Who told us that masks don't work and they're not effective and you shouldn't go around wearing a mask.
You're causing more problems than solutions.
And then admitting those were lies because they were worried that we would scarf up all the face masks from the hospital workers.
And now, if you live in California, soon to be Texas, Tampa, Florida, you don't wear a mask.
I guess you're breaking the law.
I don't know what they're going to do to you if you don't have a mask.
Think there'll be a mask jail?
Will there be a prison for people who refuse to wear a mask?
I'm serious.
They're going to lock people up?
You're just going to give you a fine?
You're going to pay a fine if you refuse to wear a mask?
I saw a conservative activist got kicked off a flight.
He was trying to get to Tulsa.
On an airplane, they kicked him off the plane.
I believe it was American Airlines.
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We used to be able to testify in court and we were believed.
Now, unless there is a video from three different angles, no one cares what you have to say.
With all this talk about racism and racist cops, I've never seen people treated differently because of their race.
And while I know that cowards that have never done this job will call me a racist for saying it, all I've ever seen was criminal behavior and cops trying to stop it, and they didn't give a rip what their skin color was.
I've seen cops help and save any type of race, gender, or ethnicity you can think of, and while that used to mean something, no one cares anymore.
I've been called every name you can think of, and many of them with racial overtones, and it's never come from cops.
I've watched African-American cops take the brunt of this and even talked one Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here.
It seems that periodically, either God or nature sends truly great human beings at specifically difficult times.
Abraham Lincoln was one.
And this book is only about the second, only in the sense of restricted in time.
But it makes it all the more fascinating.
Every drop of blood, it is up at DennisPrager.com about his second address.
So, before we say goodbye, tell people why it's so awful to see Lincoln's name besmirched, his statues taken down, etc.
Well, I think Lincoln is a profound He's the only decent man who did everything he could to save this country.
And he brought down slavery.
I mean, was he perfect?
No.
But he is the one, more than anyone else, who made sure...
He thought he was going to lose in 1864. And he did everything he could to make sure as many black people would be freed as possible.
When he left office.
And after this horrific war, what did he do?
He didn't call for hatred.
He didn't call for going after all the Confederates.
I mean, there were people who wanted them hanged.
There were people who wanted white Southerners punished very severely.
And he said, with malice toward none, with charity for all.
Which was a risky and extraordinary thing to say in March 1865. And he said it.
Would we adopt that today?
Yeah.
He promoted love rather than hatred, which is always a dangerous thing to do.
Right, after the largest loss of life in American history.
That's right.
Yeah, so I find that so profoundly moving.
And when you look at just one day, one slice of history, you get very close to the people.
All these characters, to me, just came to life.
And you said it was interesting.
It's kind of easy to be interesting when you're writing about such remarkable human beings.
All the people in this book just are wonderful to get to know.
Some of them not so much, like Booth, John Wilkes Booth, who was stalking Lincoln at the inauguration, and I think planned to kill him that day.
But I bring in all these people, and you'll get to meet them and feel like you're right there on the ground with them.
The book is Every Drop of Blood.
And it is up at my website, and I am one of your readers.
One final question prompted by that.
Did he have a premonition he'd be assassinated?
Well, he tended to have a dream before momentous events of a ship offshore heading towards the shore, and he had that dream before he was shot.
He sort of shrugged off assassination.
He said, this country's going to go forward.
Whatever they do to me, they can't stop it.
And that was his attitude.
Well, Andrew Johnson did everything he could to stop it.
Here's another story.
He was drunk at the inauguration.
Is that right?
I write about that, yes.
I think we've just come up with your next book titled Drunk at the Inauguration.
Well, you're a joy.
Edward Acorn, A-C-H-O-R-N, every drop of blood, and let's talk soon.
Thank you, Dennis.
Thank you.
I literally really like this guy.
You know, I want you to know, folks, I never lose sight.
Of the good fortune I have to talk to more or less anyone I want to talk to about anything I want to talk to.
And you have the good luck to be in on it.
It's also good for you.
But I want to just say again what I began.
I never would have predicted the defamation of Abraham Lincoln.
If Abraham Lincoln is not worth memorializing, hear me out, no one is.
And that is in fact what the left believes.
No one is.
Essentially, everyone who lived before them is in varying degrees an a-hole.
That is the arrogance that is at the heart.
Of leftism.
We are better than everyone who lived before us.
I have never had that thought in my life.
Ever.
It's absurd.
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Hey there, folks.
Welcome.
I'm talking to my friend Dinesh D'Souza.
He has a new book out today.
It's called United States of Socialism.
If previous presidents had done the right thing, the monster that is now China would not be as big as it is, and we would not have to deal with it in this way.
But it seems to me that the naivete and the greed of Clinton and the Bushes with regard to China, thinking that You know, the god of the free market is going to solve the political problems in China and make them just like us.
You know, that's one kind of stupidity.
The other is just the pure greed of saying that, knowing that at least whatever happens, I'm going to make a lot of money.
We've let this go on for 30 plus years and it seems that you need someone like Trump to deal with them in the way that he's been dealing with them.
At least that's what I think.
The Chinese have had a long-standing policy of getting It's an old kind of Asian despotic mode of doing business.
Now, if you look at Biden, for example, over the years Biden's net worth has not gone up for the simple reason that he has to disclose any investments that he has, any deals that he makes.
But now watch the Biden family, his brother James Biden, his other brother Frank Biden, his son Hunter Biden.
Their networks have skyrocketed.
Why?
Because when Biden goes to China, he takes Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden then gets a deal through the Shanghai Free Trade Zone that is not available to Western investors, in which the Chinese government itself is putting in money, a $1.5 billion investment.
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The president was interviewed, I think it was on Fox News, I think it was Sean Hannity.
The president responded to what happened.
I don't think this is a controversial view, but maybe you do.
Here was the president last night with Sean on Fox News Channel.
I thought it was a terrible situation, but you can't resist a police officer.
And, you know, if you have a disagreement, you have to take it up after the fact.
It was a very sad, very, very sad thing.
It's going to be up to justice.
I hope he gets a fair...
Because police have not been treated fairly in our country.
They have not been treated fairly.
Is President Trump controversial with that remark?
It was a very sad thing.
He said it was a terrible thing.
But you can't resist the police.
Is resisting the police acceptable to anybody?
Thank you to whoever texted me on the MyPillow text line the image of Leslie.
Hello, everybody.
I'm Dennis Prager.
Thank you.
I keep thinking about Abraham Lincoln.
He just got a slight outline of the pain that he endured in his life.
And yet he's the one who said we're as happy as we decide to be.
A big part of the left is an immaturity about life, as I've often said to you.
Leftism and immaturity are synonymous.
Doesn't mean that every individual, and again, I'm not talking about liberals, every leftist, there are leftists who have mature aspects.
They'll go to work on time, do their job diligently.
Maybe a good family person.
These are wonderful things.
But there is an immaturity at the heart of leftism.
And there are many aspects to it.
One is that you are guided by feelings, not by reason and your mind.
Which is why we've had all the riots and protests, both.
Not just riots.
Well-intentioned people in many instances.
In some instances, not.
A lot of it's driven by a loathing of the country.
Not all of it.
A lot of it's driven by a loathing of Trump.
Much of it.
But as a naivete about all of the left, and that is John Lennon's song really summed it up.
Imagine.
Like Chaz, they imagined this loving community.
It's closing down today, after two weeks.
The French Revolution had that.
There is a utopian streak in human beings.
One of the good things, there are certainly downsides to religion, but one of the good things is it defers utopia to what's called in theology an eschatological era.
In other words, In God's good time, sometime in the future, there will be a time where the lion will lie with the lamb, etc.
Call it a messianic age.
But the Judeo-Christian world has postponed utopia and realizes it cannot be achieved on earth.
Humans are too flawed.
So I have always looked at America as an amazing place given.
How flawed people are.
The left looks at America as so flawed, given how wonderful people are.
So it's America.
Systemic racism and all these other systemic misogyny and patriarchy.
I mean, just a whole litany of things that have little relationship to reality at this time.
All right.
Thank you.
I have explained to you for many years, it's the essence of my book, Still the Best Hope, explains the left, America, and Islam.
I beg you to read it, because it so clarifies everything.
What America stands for, which most conservatives don't know, and what the left stands for, which most leftists don't even know.
Still the best hope.
One of the things that I make clear is that America has a trinity.
And it's on every coin.
I didn't make it up.
E pluribus unum, liberty, in God we trust.
And the left loathes all three.
Anywhere the left takes over, there is less liberty.
There is no exception to that in the last 100 years.
And it's obviously true in America right now.
The left has contempt for in God we trust.
That's well known and obvious.
And they don't believe in E Pluribus Unum for many one.
And I have the latest proof.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.
June 9th.
Title of his column.
Let's change our motto to out of many.
We.
Yep.
Can't get more direct than that.
The contempt for the three values upon which America stands from everyone on the left.
So here he is, and this guy's more of a liberal than a leftist, but he's a liberal who's not anti-left.
Let's put it that way.
Which is most liberals.
Let's change our motto, e pluribus unum, from many one.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
They don't believe that, that everybody should adopt the American value system and American identity.
They don't like that at all.
So from many, we.
Which is moronic, because then the meaning means nothing.
You might as well say, from many, many.
Deep, huh?
That's deep.
I'd say that our motto used to be out of many one, but I am certain that if we're to thrive in the 21st century, it needs to be out of many we.
The only way we are going to remain America is if our motto becomes out of many we.
Out of many, we summons us all people of every color to a deeper commitment to pluralism.
There you go.
That's not what liberalism stood for.
Liberalism believed deeply in America, its promise, to incorporate all people of all races and ethnicities.
And nationalities into America.
This is not new.
It's way older than when I wrote my book just a few years ago.
Remember when there was just a move to just not even make it legal, just declare English is the official language of the United States.
The purpose is to unite everybody in one language.
And the Democrats opposed that.
They don't like the idea of an America.
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America has been doing some soul searching lately.
Perhaps you noticed.
We're examining what's right with America and what can be made better.
No other country does this kind of introspection better than us.
Some of what we've found we don't like and will change.
Every life has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
That includes our law enforcement as well as every skin color.
We've been through this before in America.
We always came out stronger.
We will this time too.
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You know, the idea of shutting down our economy was just, you know, awful.
I mean, and by the way, the people who suffered the most Larry...
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Who monitors my show.
The Democrats don't want a common language because they don't want people to thrive.
They know immigrants to this country cannot do well if they don't master English.
They need a dependent class.
Keeping them at a minimal English level helps achieve that.
They need large minority underclass.
Yes, that's correct.
It's a bad party, the Democratic Party.
Almost always has been.
I'll tell you something, if you want to tear down things, you should tear down the Democratic Party.
That was the party of slavery.
The Republican Party was founded as an anti-slavery party.
That was its origins.
But none of that matters.
If you're starting to tear down Abraham Lincoln, Nothing's left.
You should be angry at these people.
There's something wrong with your ability to think clearly if you're not.
That's the sad thing.
Yep.
Mike in Rancho, Santa Margarita, California.
Hi.
Hi, Dennis.
Can you hear me okay?
I do.
Great.
First of all, it was a great honor to have met you at California Adventure, Disney's California Adventure, years ago.
You guys had a promotional thing there, one of the highlights of my life.
So I really appreciate you.
Thank you very much.
I also had, under your encouragement, made a statement to the L.A. County Board of Supervisors when they removed the cross from their county logo.
County SEAL.
Yes, the County SEAL.
And I just want to get your take on this.
This has been very incremental.
I can remember Ronald Reagan's farewell address.
And his party's words were to warn us all that if we don't teach our children well, we're going to lose our country.
Just because we have only less than a minute.
Your point is so well taken.
I spoke at that rally.
A couple of thousand people showed up.
And I said to them then, I'm a Jew.
The cross is not my religion, but the cross is my history.
Removing the cross from the county seal of Los Angeles, the angels, founded by religious Christians, Catholics in particular, when you take that cross off, you are taking away my history, not my religion, my history.
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