Dennis Prager Show - Sen Duckworth: Should We Tear Down Washington's Statue?
Aired: 2020-07-07
Duration: 03:24


=== National Dialogue Needed (03:00) ===

[00:00:00]  Okay, let's hear her.
[00:00:03]  This is important.
[00:00:08]  Named after Confederate leaders, but there are leaders like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson who were slave owners, and some people are demanding that their monuments come down, too.
[00:00:18]  So, in your view, where does it end?
[00:00:20]  Should statues, an example of George Washington, come down?
[00:00:24]  Well, let me just say that we should start off by having a national dialogue on it at some point, but right now we're in the middle of a global pandemic.
[00:00:32]  Okay, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on.
[00:00:35]  We should have a national discussion on it.
[00:00:39]  So she's not prepared to say no.
[00:00:43]  Senator of the United States of America, from Illinois, whether we should tear down George Washington and Abraham Lincoln statues.
[00:00:54]  Yeah, blow up the Washington Monument.
[00:00:56]  These are Taliban.
[00:00:58]  The left, Democrats are equivalent to the Taliban.
[00:01:02]  Remember everybody got angry about blowing up the Buddhist statues?
[00:01:06]  They regarded Buddhism as heretical, and these people regard the founders as heretical.
[00:01:14]  I see no difference.
[00:01:15]  Well, you say, well, they're not violent.
[00:01:18]  Really?
[00:01:20]  There's not a violent wing?
[00:01:22]  Taliban had a violent wing, or was a violent wing.
[00:01:27]  There's no violent wing to the left?
[00:01:29]  Say, well, there's a violent wing to the right.
[00:01:31]  No, there isn't.
[00:01:32]  There are violent individuals on the right.
[00:01:35]  Not a wing.
[00:01:40]  Anyway, certainly, ideologically, they're like the Taliban.
[00:01:44]  So we'll have a national discussion.
[00:01:46]  That's all she says.
[00:01:47]  Now she goes on to what the president should have talked about.
[00:01:50]  Go on.
[00:01:51]  At some point, but right now we're in the middle of a global pandemic, and one of our allies, one of our countries that are opposed to us, Russia, has put a bounty on American troops' head.
[00:02:03]  What really struck me about the speech that the president gave at Mount Rushmore was that he spent more time worried about honoring dead Confederates than he did.
[00:02:12]  Okay, that's a lie.
[00:02:13]  He did not worry about dead Confederates.
[00:02:18]  They didn't say anything about it.
[00:02:20]  Is that correct?
[00:02:20]  I mean, I just want to bounce this off Mr. Truth.
[00:02:26]  The living martyr is Mr. Truth.
[00:02:31]  I'm sorry?
[00:02:32]  Talked about Lincoln.
[00:02:35]  They say anything, because truth is not a left-wing value.
[00:02:39]  Next, continue.
[00:02:41]  Honoring dead Confederates than he did talking about the lives of the 130,000 Americans who lost their lives to COVID-19.

=== Overcoming The Pandemic (00:38) ===

[00:02:50]  Wait a minute.
[00:02:51]  He's supposed to go to Mount Rushmore on Independence Day to talk about deaths from COVID? Okay, go on.
[00:03:03]  ...or by warning Russia off of the bounty they're putting on Americans' heads.
[00:03:07]  I mean, his priorities are all wrong here.
[00:03:10]  He should be talking about what we're going to do to overcome this pandemic.
[00:03:13]  What are we going to do to push Russia back?
[00:03:15]  What does it mean, overcome the pandemic?
[00:03:18]  What is your take on overcoming the pandemic?
[00:03:22]  Keep Americans unemployed for another year?