Dennis Prager Show - Dems Ascribe Murder Uptick to Covid-19 Aired: 2020-07-08 Duration: 05:26 === Unrest and Murder Increase (05:09) === [00:00:01] Listen to what he ascribes, this massive increase in murder in Philadelphia. [00:00:11] Okay? [00:00:15] One, the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. [00:00:23] Okay, let's analyze each of these for truth. [00:00:30] Why would that increase murder? [00:00:35] Do you know? [00:00:38] People are bored in the lockdown. [00:00:42] Hey, you know what? [00:00:43] Hey, guys. [00:00:45] Got nothing better to do today. [00:00:46] Let's kill some people. [00:00:49] Maybe? [00:00:50] I obviously don't relate to that. [00:00:53] Next. [00:00:54] The unrest triggered by George Floyd's murder. [00:00:59] What's that have to do with the increase in murder? [00:01:04] Hey, George Floyd was killed. [00:01:08] Let's kill. [00:01:12] Don't quite see that. [00:01:17] Escalating poverty. [00:01:21] Why is there escalating poverty? [00:01:23] Until the lockdown. [00:01:26] The highest employment rate in the inner city ever recorded. [00:01:32] I guess it's escalating poverty due to lockdown. [00:01:38] Maybe the lockdown has not been a good idea, which has, of course, been my position. [00:01:44] Broiling summer heat. [00:01:46] Yeah, but it was a broiling summer heat last summer in Philadelphia. [00:01:54] And a flood of illegal guns. [00:01:56] I'm sure that there are more illegal guns this year than last year. [00:02:00] In other words, it's all nonsense. [00:02:02] Every single thing he said is irrelevant to the truth. [00:02:09] These have created a toxic mix of despair in our city, and we must address it. [00:02:20] Yeah, you know, I feel a little despair. [00:02:24] How come everybody I know that's felt despair didn't go out and murder? [00:02:30] I guess they didn't despair enough. [00:02:34] This is what goes for intelligent talk today in America. [00:02:39] Now, it's interesting. [00:02:48] He didn't include racism. [00:02:50] Did you notice that? [00:02:52] Now, why not? [00:02:55] Do you know why? [00:02:57] Because that would suggest that the murderers were almost all black. [00:03:02] See? [00:03:03] That's the reason he didn't include racism. [00:03:06] He was between a rock and a hard place. [00:03:09] And since everything else is blamed, every pathology in the inner city or anywhere in persons of color life is attributed to white racism. [00:03:22] But... [00:03:23] If he does that here, he acknowledges that the increase in murder is overwhelmingly among black murderers. [00:03:32] So that's why he didn't include the usual culprit of white supremacy. [00:03:40] Truth is not a value, and that's why it's on the Ultimate Issues Hour. [00:03:44] And the other example of truth not being a value, then I'm going to talk about values, is... [00:03:51] How about this? [00:03:53] The police have pulled back. [00:03:56] Is that the most obvious single reason? [00:04:02] It's astonishing that he wouldn't acknowledge. [00:04:04] This is the head of the city council in Philadelphia, and they'll be re-elected. [00:04:08] That's the amazing thing. [00:04:12] Be re-elected. [00:04:15] You think this comment is a service to his community? [00:04:22] But you can't acknowledge, look, we want to defund the police, we Democrats. [00:04:28] 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. [00:04:41] And she said, well, you know, you can't blame everything on the police. [00:04:46] She got a lot of blowback for that one. [00:04:51] Police aren't doing these killings. [00:04:53] She said something to that effect. [00:04:54] I'll get you the exact quote. === Lies Are the Root (00:30) === [00:04:56] Now, truth is a victim. [00:05:05] you I have said all of my life lies are the root of evil. [00:05:11] They are. [00:05:12] You can't have big evil without lies. [00:05:16] You can have little evils. [00:05:18] People can hold up a store. [00:05:20] People could murder somebody they robbed.