July 8, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
05:26
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| Listen to what he ascribes, this massive increase in murder in Philadelphia. | |
| Okay? | |
| One, the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. | |
| Okay, let's analyze each of these for truth. | |
| Why would that increase murder? | |
| Do you know? | |
| People are bored in the lockdown. | |
| Hey, you know what? | |
| Hey, guys. | |
| Got nothing better to do today. | |
| Let's kill some people. | |
| Maybe? | |
| I obviously don't relate to that. | |
| Next. | |
| The unrest triggered by George Floyd's murder. | |
| What's that have to do with the increase in murder? | |
| Hey, George Floyd was killed. | |
| Let's kill. | |
| Don't quite see that. | |
| Escalating poverty. | |
| Why is there escalating poverty? | |
| Until the lockdown. | |
| The highest employment rate in the inner city ever recorded. | |
| I guess it's escalating poverty due to lockdown. | |
| Maybe the lockdown has not been a good idea, which has, of course, been my position. | |
| Broiling summer heat. | |
| Yeah, but it was a broiling summer heat last summer in Philadelphia. | |
| And a flood of illegal guns. | |
| I'm sure that there are more illegal guns this year than last year. | |
| In other words, it's all nonsense. | |
| Every single thing he said is irrelevant to the truth. | |
| These have created a toxic mix of despair in our city, and we must address it. | |
| Yeah, you know, I feel a little despair. | |
| How come everybody I know that's felt despair didn't go out and murder? | |
| I guess they didn't despair enough. | |
| This is what goes for intelligent talk today in America. | |
| Now, it's interesting. | |
| He didn't include racism. | |
| Did you notice that? | |
| Now, why not? | |
| Do you know why? | |
| Because that would suggest that the murderers were almost all black. | |
| See? | |
| That's the reason he didn't include racism. | |
| He was between a rock and a hard place. | |
| And since everything else is blamed, every pathology in the inner city or anywhere in persons of color life is attributed to white racism. | |
| But... | |
| If he does that here, he acknowledges that the increase in murder is overwhelmingly among black murderers. | |
| So that's why he didn't include the usual culprit of white supremacy. | |
| Truth is not a value, and that's why it's on the Ultimate Issues Hour. | |
| And the other example of truth not being a value, then I'm going to talk about values, is... | |
| How about this? | |
| The police have pulled back. | |
| Is that the most obvious single reason? | |
| It's astonishing that he wouldn't acknowledge. | |
| This is the head of the city council in Philadelphia, and they'll be re-elected. | |
| That's the amazing thing. | |
| Be re-elected. | |
| You think this comment is a service to his community? | |
| But you can't acknowledge, look, we want to defund the police, we Democrats. | |
| So why would we acknowledge, as the Atlanta mayor did, by the way, she said, you know, she's seeing the vast increase in murders in Atlanta. | |
| And she said, well, you know, you can't blame everything on the police. | |
| She got a lot of blowback for that one. | |
| Police aren't doing these killings. | |
| She said something to that effect. | |
| I'll get you the exact quote. | |
| Now, truth is a victim. | |
| you I have said all of my life lies are the root of evil. | |
| They are. | |
| You can't have big evil without lies. | |
| You can have little evils. | |
| People can hold up a store. | |
| People could murder somebody they robbed. |
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