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July 23, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	Hey, Mark Davis, welcome!
	Via video, we've got a little different camera set up here, so I'm sort of looking more directly at you, at least in a three-quarters way, rather than the left side of my head, which usually festoons the screens at DennisPrager.com or TownHallTV.com, whenever you check in, when I'm filling in for Dennis.
	And it's always a joy to fill in for Dennis.
	This edition is the Thursday...
	July 23rd edition of the Dennis Prager Show.
	I'm Mark Davis from 660 AM, The Answer, the happy morning host here in Dallas-Fort Worth, and that means I've just freshly completed my morning show.
	And any time I do the Prager Show, I am enormously prepped and informed and energized by just having gone a few rounds with the listenership here and weighing and assessing various things they're thinking about.
	And if I may, as we dive into a program, let me give you a little thumbnail on stuff we're going to talk about.
	We are going to talk about Portland.
	The way you know that Portland is resonating is the leftist media culture doesn't want to talk about Portland.
	That's how you know how important it is.
	The way you know that the rioting and the lawlessness are the kind of thing that the president...
	The most important thing for the president to do is to fix it, is to help protect these people.
	Because the local leaders will not.
	Now, if as a bonus to that, if it helps him win in November, then awesome on top of awesome.
	But we'll talk a little bit about that today.
	1-8 Prager-776.
	1-8 Prager-776.
	The COVID briefings are back.
	Not too far into the 5 o'clock hour Eastern time.
	4 Central, 3 Mountain, 2 Pacific.
	There's the president.
	And it's funny.
	Shocker.
	They're giving him grief for being out there at the lectern alone.
	Mr. President, where's the task force?
	You may recall when he gathered the entire task force behind him, there was Dr. Fauci, whom they always honed in on to see if they could catch him in something that resembled a grimace.
	There was Dr. Birx and her scarf of the day.
	Love her.
	Love the scarves.
	There are three or four, five, six other people sometimes.
	Like a small church choir behind him, it would appear.
	And I remember at one point, the reporter culture seemed to ask, what are all those people doing standing behind you?
	I mean, don't they have work to do?
	You're just using them as political props, the illusion of communal support.
	Shouldn't those people be doing something rather than just standing there behind you?
	Well, now there's nobody standing behind them, and the reporters say, where are all your folks?
	This is just exhibit A, B, C, D, E, all the way through Z of the hostile media culture that he's up against every day.
	And so, knowing that they are there in the opposition party, as Steve Bannon so properly identified them, we're also going to talk a little bit about schools, opening schools, whether and how to open schools.
	We're going to talk about law and order.
	We're going to talk about little things, specific things, specific stories, and also some really, really broad conceptual things like love of country and the loss of the concept of love of country.
	There's a little news story you might have run across this week, a bit of a Twitter war between Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
	Yeah, if you dig into those stories and see the ones that ran on Fox News and ESPN, etc., etc., you will see in the opening paragraphs, I started that.
	And I live to bring people together.
	But boy, I didn't envision that.
	I'll pull back the curtain, tell you a little bit of how that story got going for the purpose of showing you why this is important in my life.
	Why it should be important in your life, no retreat, no surrender on love of country.
	Because when that is lost, this is some of what you get.
	A country filled with citizens that disagree but keep tight the basic love of country, you don't have fires of rioting in the streets.
	The country that has citizens that disagree with each other on various things, but we keep close to our breast the notion of love of country.
	We don't have a tax on the police.
	The country filled with citizens that might disagree with each other on one or two or a million things.
	If they have the basic foundation of love of country, you don't have the attempt that's currently underway.
	To erase large parts of our history and erase large parts of our culture.
	So the dwindling of love of country, and by the way, which has never meant sycophancy, fulsome praise, unconditional cheerleading.
	We're a country that has some problems.
	We always have.
	But we're the greatest country God ever created.
	And you don't have to believe that God had a direct hand in creating this country.
	I do.
	And along those lines, as we embark on talking about all these things, 1-8 Prager 776 and follow me on Twitter at Mark Davis.
	That's another entire show that takes place over there.
	I check into it during the commercial breaks and see how everybody's doing.
	1-8 Prager 776. But at the beginning of the show that I do here in DFW, The one thing that I've always loved about Dennis is that he talks about God a lot.
	I talk about God a lot because I feel he has a direct hand in my life, in your life, in daily events, and in our broadly written history.
	So, when I came back from a spring break vacation, like many of you, I might have been off the second week of March.
	It became pretty clear by midweek, speaking of the NBA, as they shut down, I came back.
	I bought back a couple of vacation days because Thursday of that week I was back on the air because I could not stay away while the country was being shut down in the grips of coronavirus.
	So the first thing I did on that Thursday that I came back from spring break vacation as we all went on this enormous COVID misadventure, I said, you know something?
	I'm going to pray.
	And I did.
	And I've done it every day since.
	I mean, on the air, before the show.
	And this is how it goes.
	And I hope it will resonate with you.
	Lord, we ask you today for wisdom and for goodwill.
	We ask for the wisdom to navigate our problems from COVID-19 to social strife and things between and beyond.
	We ask you to fill us with the energy to be smart and safe as we reclaim our lives here in this virus era.
	And we ask for the wisdom to seek smart solutions to our various lists of social ills, even as troublemakers seek to divide us.
	And amid these divisions, Lord, let us treat each other with respect and patience as we work together to change what should be changed.
	But also to resist those who would opportunistically destroy big parts of our history and our culture.
	Remind us, Almighty God, that in these most challenging of times, that you are there to unite us to follow your guidance and to treat each other as we would like to be treated.
	Because, Lord, we know if we follow you, we can get through anything.
	And we ask these things in your holy name.
	Amen.
	That's it.
	Would that take a minute-ish?
	I've done it at the beginning of every show here locally ever since I returned, yanked back from vacation.
	Listen, if a talk show host comes back from vacation, you know bad things are happening.
	And boy, have they.
	And they have not stopped.
	I don't know when we get out of this bad science fiction movie.
	I don't know when I get on a plane again.
	I know I could get on a plane tomorrow, but I'm not going to.
	Because I will not wear a flippin' mask for four hours, even to fly somewhere I want to go.
	I guess we probably better talk about masks.
	Obviously, it's a part of our daily lives, and I'll give you my short hashtag.
	Masks are good.
	Mask mandates are bad.
	Absolutely.
	Should you wear a mask around strangers in close company?
	Of course you should.
	Of course you should.
	Should government make you?
	No.
	Why not?
	If it's a good thing to do, why not the mandates?
	Why are the mask mandates bad?
	Because it's not America.
	Because it's not America to punish people for a long list of things that we do that are sort of health-related.
	Not that these are the same.
	We don't have diet police.
	We don't have exercise police.
	We don't have smoking police.
	There are all kinds of things that are unhealthy that we let you do.
	There are all kinds of things that are healthy that we do not make you do.
	Masks are a good idea.
	Mask police, mask mandates are a terrible idea.
	I'll run that at the flagpole and see who salutes.
	Your salute or whatever can be taken right now.
	out.
	1-8 Prager 776. Mark Davis in for Dennis.
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	At every turn, it seems like there are more unanswered questions and few honest explanations about why so many of our liberties are under attack.
	Why are so many bright people teaching me nonsense?
	Some of the scenes of violent protests are just amazing.
	They're irrational evil.
	Dennis Prager and Dr. Wayne Grudem confront the toughest social issues we face today, explained through historical, political, and never-before-told personal stories.
	More rabbis, priests, and ministers fear the left than fear God.
	When you stand before God at the final judgment, what will you say to him about how you voted on abortion laws?
	The Larry Alder Show Thank you.
	you Steve is in Portland, Oregon.
	Steve, you're on The Larry Elder Show.
	Hello, Larry.
	Thank you for taking my call, sir.
	I appreciate it.
	I don't know if you were briefed by the producer, but I am, in fact, law enforcement.
	I was told that you're a cop with Portland.
	You know, one of my best friends is your number two guy, Charlie Wiggins, and I understand he's more popular than your chief.
	Is he?
	I would say so.
	I mean, as far as I'm concerned, anyone who's wearing the blue is popular.
	Steve, I just made up that name.
	There's nobody named Charlie Wiggins who's your number two guy.
	You're lying.
	Apologize for faking a cop.
	Apologize.
	All the men and women in blue out there busting their butts, sacrificing for really real good people, and you're playing one?
	A fake cop?
	Apologize.
	That's like playing a fake soldier.
	Apologize.
	I'm also a soldier.
	Apologize.
	Punk.
	I heard him on somebody else's show saying he was a cop in Jacksonville, Florida.
	Calling my show saying you're a cop in Portland.
	No, Steve, you're a punk.
	Oh, he hung up.
	We have a development in the phone call I just had with the gentleman who played a fake cop claiming that he was a cop from Portland.
	Mr. Christian, what happened?
	Well, Officer Steve, he called back and Officer Steve said...
	Kudos to you, Larry, because he calls all the shows on the network and all around, and he's gotten a lot of people, and he said that was the best anyone got him.
	He spanked him.
	Thank you, Larry Elder.
	Well, as Mr. McConnell said, I was born at night, but I wasn't born that night.
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	Oh my God.
	The Vice President of the Heritage Foundation for All Matters Defense and Foreign Affairs.
	He is Jim Carrafano.
	Follow him at JJ Carrafano.
	But we could just spend the whole time talking about 80s movies like Krull.
	Yeah, we could.
	But it's fun, isn't it?
	That's what we've been doing since you came in.
	You know, actually, almost every movie probably has a link to contemporary foreign policy that we could spit out.
	We'll find it.
	We'll spin it in.
	We'll spin it in.
	Who are the slaves?
	Who are the slaves?
	See it at PragerU.com where we teach what isn't taught.
	Thank you.
	That they do.
	On the Dennis Prager Show, this is the Thursday, July 23rd edition.
	Mark Davis filling in from 660 AM, The Answer, Dallas-Fort Worth.
	I got 37 things I could go off on some tangent about, but let's welcome some calls in and let me wrap my thoughts around those of other people and see where it all goes.
	DennisPrager.com to watch the show in progress there via the magical camera.
	At Dennis Prager for Twitter.
	At Mark Davis for me in the Twitter world.
	And much appreciate all y'all.
	Alrighty, let us hop into the phone world.
	Let's go to Cleveland and say hi to Carolyn.
	Hey Carolyn, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Good.
	How are you?
	Can you hear me?
	I surely can.
	Thank you.
	You're welcome.
	I called in.
	This is the first time I've ever called in.
	And I have a sister that lives out there in that area.
	And we've been discussing and debating different issues regarding the situation out there and the protests that have been happening almost for, what is it, 60 days?
	And she seems to picture President Trump as Hitler and KKK and says that her...
	Friends also see her, particularly Jewish friends, also see similarities in his techniques that resemble those that Hitler and the Nazis used.
	I countered that because she's seeing uniformed, well, she says not uniformed, people grabbing.
	I understand.
	Protesters and dragging them off into unmarked vehicles.
	And then where do they go and da-da-da.
	But I know that the protester that they did lead off, who was part of the black bloc of Antifa, into an unmarked SUV was for his safety, their safety.
	I do believe in law enforcement having some accountability.
	And knowing who they are, and so there's the ability to say, okay, who just got my Uncle Fred?
	And where might they be taking my Aunt Betty, etc.?
	And I wonder, and I think this is probably a good bit of journalism here, to what extent there really is all that anonymity and the unmarked this and the unmarked that.
	That's worthy of attention.
	In the personal story that you bring about, this is your sister, right?
	Yes.
	And has your relationship with her been a largely good one over your shared lifetime?
	No, actually, we've been separated for many, many, many years, and we're beginning to get to know each other again.
	Wow.
	Well, there's timing.
	So it's really quite interesting.
	Well, this is lovely, and there should be, and this is not just some Twitter troll whom you can block.
	This is a member of family that you'd like to be able to do some outreach, and maybe I can help you here.
	Would I surmise correctly that you are generally supportive of the president, generally like his presidency and hope he wins?
	I like many things that he does.
	Like every other president, I think he has made some mistakes.
	Some of them could be, you know, maybe serious, some not.
	But on balance, on balance, do you hope he wins?
	Then the first thing to do, and this is something I would urge for every friend, every family member who is a Trump hater, and your sister is a hater.
	This is not a disagreement.
	This is a slander.
	Say, when you talk about him, you're talking about me.
	Because what kind of horrible person would support a Nazi for president?
	What kind of execrable soul would support someone for president who's an actual racist?
	So try to keep a civil tongue in your head, sis, and let's talk about what he has done that you might disagree with.
	Which, by the way, is maybe thoroughly explicable.
	To the extent that you know your sister, is she just a fairly liberal woman?
	My sister used to be, she was a teacher at one point in New York and then she became a New York City policewoman.
	Wow!
	And then she left the force and she also stated in her conversation to me that the NYPD are aware that the President has tried to put pressure on them and that the Portland PD don't necessarily want to.
	The federal intervention.
	But I see something different.
	Yeah.
	Listen, they're teachers of all political stripes.
	They're cops of all political stripes.
	But I presume that she would actually find things to admire in the president's general support of law enforcement.
	So all I would suggest is in having conversation with her and always be upbeat and open and loving and accepting and all that good stuff that we're all supposed to be, Let's talk about things the president has actually done, not even using the word Nazi, not stormtroopers, not racist, actual policies that she either doesn't like or likes.
	If there's a policy she doesn't like, then that's a policy disagreement.
	If she doesn't like the wall, if she doesn't like lower taxes, if she doesn't like constitutionalists on the Supreme Court, if she doesn't like regulatory reform...
	Great!
	Then we have issue disagreements, but hopefully you can lovingly escort her to a world where she is not a bitter, hateful human being, because that's hard on her.
	It's sad, and it's heavy lifting to walk around feeling that way about people.
	So I wish you enormous luck, and feel free to call me back when I fill in, or call Dennis back and fill him in on how the story went.
	I know he'll be glad to...
	Hear it as well.
	And I pray for you guys and good family harmony.
	And listen, you have family disagreements all day.
	That's fine.
	It makes Thanksgiving fun.
	But everybody needs to keep a civil tongue on their head and keep some basic connectivity here.
	And I wish you well.
	We always end every conversation.
	I say, I love you.
	And she says?
	And she says, be safe.
	Yeah, okay.
	Because I guess it's kind of hard to say, oh, by the way, the president you support is Hitler.
	Love you, too.
	Well, a journey of 100 miles begins with a few small steps.
	Take those steps.
	Be the one to build the bridge.
	I'm proud of you.
	I do love you, and I love her, too.
	And I appreciate it very, very much.
	Let me share a little story about a friendship.
	I have a lot of friends.
	I have many, many friends that I don't disagree with, that I don't agree with about everything.
	And through professional associations, there are some friendships I've made from absolute stone-cold, hardcore liberal Democrats, okay?
	And we have gotten together on radio, on television, in print, and done some things.
	And despite our disagreements about virtually everything, we remain cordial.
	There's actual love.
	There's regard for our families and all that good stuff.
	And we don't have enough of that these days.
	There's one friend, or so I thought, and he would just hammer me to death on Twitter.
	And it's like, dude, I see you every once in a while.
	You don't need to do this.
	And then I sent him a direct message and I said, I just want you to know, you know, I live to disagree.
	I do talk shows for a living, but coming from you, if you think Trump is the devil, you're talking about me.
	The logic I just gave this, this nice lady.
	He just didn't care.
	He said, it's been hard to watch what's happened to you.
	What happened to me?
	Nothing happened to me!
	And the friendship was destroyed by his Trump hatred.
	So you'd like to think you can reach out to people.
	You should always try.
	It may not always work.
	Because Trump hatred eats the brain, it eats the heart.
	So I wish you well in any attempt you make to build a bridge.
	Mark Davison for Dennis Prager.
	Stick around.
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the Relief Factor Pain-Free Studio.
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	And we are looking at potentially trillions of dollars worth of additional debt if he becomes president.
	Am I wrong, Trish?
	No, you're not wrong at all.
	You're absolutely right.
	And you could also be looking at AOC as the head of the Department of Energy.
	Or maybe Secretary of Commerce, take your pick, and you can throw Elizabeth Warren in there at Treasury, I guess, while we're at it.
	It would be economically...
	Very bad for our country to have an administration like that.
	Now, I say this without any political bias.
	I say this just through an economic lens right now.
	Just looking at it through the prism of what is best for our markets, what is best for our economy, what is best for our future.
	Those are policies that will not benefit us, Seb.
	Not in any way, shape, or form.
	You want to tax the heck out of everybody?
	Guess what?
	Nobody's going to want to work.
	It's actually that simple.
	It's been done all around the world.
	You take your pick.
	USSR, Venezuela, communist Cambodia.
	It never works.
	Now, as far as this whole environmental thing goes, look, I'm not going to sit here and say that we shouldn't have high-speed rails.
	I mean, hey, that would be kind of nice, right?
	But it's going to be hard to do it to Hawaii, like Maisie Hirono.
	It's going to be a little bit difficult to get a high-speed rail all the way to Hawaii.
	I'm not a geography major, but I think it might be hard.
	That might be a little difficult, but here's the reality.
	You can sign up for all this climate change stuff, right?
	And you can say, we're going to do our very best, and we're going to cut down on emissions, and we're going to put our coal industry out of business, etc., etc.
	But unless you have buy-in from the rest of the world, including some of the biggest nations in the world, i.e.
	China, and don't forget India, and they sit there and they say, no, no, no, we're still an emerging market.
	We need to have this opportunity to grow like you guys did.
	Well, I'm sorry, you cannot surrender to these guys and allow them the opportunity to grow effectively at our expense.
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	Is Joe Biden vulnerable?
	To being leveled in the same way that Dukakis was in 88?
	So it's a little bit different in that Donald Trump is an incumbent president, and George H.W. Bush had an opportunity to introduce himself after eight years as vice president.
	At the same time, it's going to be the same scorched-earth tactics in the election.
	Joe Biden has had an advantage that he's been able to hide out.
	It's almost a conservative talking point, but in this case, I think it's true.
	He's had an advantage in that he's been able to hide out away from crowds and scrutiny.
	He's not terribly nimble, whatever you think is going on.
	And so I think he's going to have a harder time defending himself than a lot of candidates like Barack Obama or Bill Clinton who are very good at returning volleys.
	You know, Zogby came out with a poll, and I'm not a big fan of Zogby, but they asked the question, do you think Joe Biden has dementia?
	And I thought to myself, whoa!
	That broke through to a pollster?
	Because I've never seen that asked before.
	Has that concern broken through, or was that Zogby looking for headlines, Sean Trendy?
	I think that's Zogby looking for headlines.
	And look, I didn't necessarily mean to imply that he has dementia.
	If you follow Joe Biden's career, he's not.
	Barack Obama or Bill Clinton are one of these overriding intellectuals.
	In a way, that's good because it makes it harder for Trump to hang the dreaded liberal elitist albatross around his neck.
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	If you want to watch the show, not just listen, go to townhall.com and click on the Town Hall TV button. go to townhall.com and click on the Town Hall TV Mmmh.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, if you're going to dive in, dive in, man.
	I mean, gone are the days where you just, you know, drive around and listen to the show.
	I've got to watch this whole spectacle.
	What else are we going to make you do?
	Hey, whatever you choose to do, we appreciate it.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis Prager today.
	1-8 Prager 776. Let us dive back to some more of your calls.
	We are in Los Angeles.
	Steve, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Happy Thursday to you.
	Hello, Mark, and thanks for filling in.
	You do a great job, and I love when you do have to replace Dennis.
	You're a joy to listen to.
	Thank you.
	I have to tell you, my son came home from work last night.
	He works for a major warehouse company.
	He has an employee, a retail warehouse company whose colors are red, white, and blue, and whose name might be Costco.
	It might rhyme with Costco.
	Yeah.
	He wore, as is required, he wore a mask to work with an icon of the American flag on it and was told he had to take it off.
	Too political.
	Okay, let's begin the flowchart.
	Here's the flowchart.
	Okay, because it was too political.
	Do you feel like they also say no to Black Lives Matter masks, you know, Republican elephants, Democrat donkeys, you know, etc., etc., you know, Antifa?
	I believe so, because they don't allow any type of...
	Any type of branded logos being displayed on clothing or things like that.
	So the reason I ask is if they have a general philosophy that says no logos of any kind, no imagery, plain masks only, okay, then at least it looks like they're not necessarily picking on the American flag.
	However, however...
	How sad is it?
	I mean, if they say no political statements, no pro-life, no pro-choice, no immigration messages, how sad is it that the American flag is now viewed as a political statement?
	It starts a political argument when you wear the symbol of our country.
	How very sad is that?
	That's another argument against athletes kneeling for the national anthem.
	That's it.
	Would the American flag be a political issue if people weren't kneeling for the national anthem?
	Well, it would some.
	Your question is great.
	We live in a time where it's like patriotism is only conservative.
	Is that where we are?
	Steve, thank you for the story.
	Increasingly, the answer is yes.
	If you're in a parking lot and you see a car, And there's no Biden sticker on it.
	There's no Trump sticker on it, okay?
	But just a, how about an American flag, a support the troops, let's put that on there, and maybe a God bless our police, right?
	Three totally unpolitical things to say.
	I guarantee you, that's a concern.
	How very, very sad is that?
	When did this happen?
	I mean, there's no date.
	There's no flipping of the calendar page when you go, well, that's when this became...
	I'll throw something else in.
	Constitutionalist Supreme Court justices.
	I don't want Roe v.
	Wade overturned because I'm pro-life.
	I don't want the Constitution to do my political bidding.
	I want the Supreme Court to obey the Constitution.
	There is no right to abortion in the Constitution.
	Period.
	Paragraph.
	That's not pro-life me.
	That's Constitution reading me.
	And you won't find it either.
	But how deeply sad, and this is what I was talking about in one of our broad concepts we'll talk about today, love of country.
	When that's lost, all kinds of other focus is lost.
	And today's Democrat Party, Democrat Party used to be comfortable invoking God.
	JFK did.
	The Democrat Party used to be okay, this is a more recent development, used to be okay backing law enforcement, supporting The men and women of law enforcement.
	When they kiss that goodbye, I believe they kiss November 3rd goodbye.
	Joe Biden doesn't hate the police.
	Joe Biden's not a card-carrying member of Antifa.
	But guess what?
	It doesn't matter.
	Because he will not distance from those who are.
	He will not create space between the kind of old-school center-left Democrat that he's been forever and the AOC squad extremist radicals.
	We're going to run the party and thus run the country if he is elected president of the United States.
	I think you got to duck out.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis Prager.
	Stick around.
	Stick around.
	The Venezuela option, which is 20 years ago, Venezuela was rich.
	Now they're the most impoverished country in South America.
	It can happen here.
	That's the short version of it.
	It's a powerful message.
	It just has to be repeated, repeated, repeated, repeated.
	Now, I've noticed Trump can sell anything, right?
	That's what he's done his entire life.
	And that's a fun message to sell.
	You can also sell Joe Biden isn't the guy.
	He's run by Bernie and by AOC. And it doesn't get old, but he usually gets a feedback loop from rallies, Zeke Miller.
	And you can't have the rallies right now.
	How much is that handicapping him?
	I think it's hard to overstate how challenging that is the president.
	Personally, we've seen him, how those rallies have animated him, reinvigorated him on the campaign trail.
	They were sort of the lifeblood of that 2016 effort.
	And the extended stretch in which he has not been able to hold campaign rallies during the duration of this crisis has really taken a toll.
	He tried to recreate a little bit of that atmosphere in the Rose Garden.
	It's a very different thing when you're doing it in front of a couple dozen journalists outdoors in the heat.
	And in an arena with thousands of screaming fans.
	And the message doesn't designate quite the same way without the applause track, so to speak, of the people around there.
	And potentially the president's own delivery of it suffers as well.
	I think that's something that the president and his campaign is still struggling with.
	How do they find some sort of replacement for that?
	And, you know, is that something that they can ever truly fully replace?
	And do they need to explore other avenues to try to get the president's message out?
	And I don't think they have a perfect answer for that just yet.
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	Now, we are told that the president is bustling Bungling the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
	And that, had he been more competent, hey, listen to his advisors, everything would have been a lot better.
	Well, do you remember the H1N1 virus that the Obama-Biden campaign had to deal with?
	2009?
	Don't ask me why he said this.
	Honestly, don't ask me.
	Don't ask me.
	But this guy is an advisor to the Joe Biden campaign.
	His name is Ron Klein.
	And he is explaining how the Obama administration responded to the 2009 swine flu crisis.
	Now again, he is a top Biden advisor.
	His name is Ron Klein.
	Listen to this.
	I was in the White House in 2009, 2010. I was working for Vice President Biden.
	I wasn't involved directly in the H1N1 response, but I lived through it as a White House staffer.
	And what I will say about it is...
	A bunch of really talented, really great people working on it, and we did every possible thing wrong.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa!
	He speaks almost as fast as I do.
	Slow down.
	Slow down.
	Did you say that the Obama administration was full of very talented people, very smart people, that did everything wrong in responding to the H1N1 flu?
	Did you say that?
	You mean like after the epidemic, a safety equipment industry association recommended that depleted supplies of N95 respirator masks be replenished, but that didn't happen?
	And what I will say about it is a bunch of really talented, really great people working on it, and we did every possible thing wrong.
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	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
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	Okay, a couple of calls on the mystery police, the anonymous cops, the unidentifiable folks who are dragging people away in the night in the streets of Portland.
	I'm an enormous supporter of the federal law enforcement intervention, and not just to protect federal property.
	I also believe that they have a protective duty when local authorities are not getting the job done.
	I do need accountability, however.
	I can't have complete blank mystery uniforms.
	And I don't know to what extent that's really happened.
	I think that might be a little overblown, but let's see what folks are saying about it.
	And we are in Indiana.
	Jeffrey, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How are you?
	How are you doing, Mark?
	Good.
	All right, so here's the deal.
	Yesterday I saw a small press conference.
	I honestly don't know if the gentleman is.
	He may have been a chief, I'm not sure.
	He's holding one of the vets the supposed admittance police are holding, and behind him he has a whiteboard explaining why their names are not on there.
	So this is what happened.
	Apparently their names are first on there.
	And of course, our wonderful computer-driven society found out who they are, started putting out their addresses, their real names, their kids' names, and all that.
	So, if you look close, what they did, they took the actual names off, and it's hard to see, but if you look closely, there's a code across Where their name would be.
	The code references to who they are, and probably like a division and stuff like that.
	So their higher-ups know who they are.
	But me and you couldn't stand there and go, oh, that's Officer Vasquez, that's Officer Smith.
	Okay, in terms of personal names, I get it.
	And in fact, I came face-to-face with this when I had the great honor, and I do mean great honor, in 2007, to visit...
	The facility at Guantanamo, where you've got a lot of armed forces walking the halls and bringing food to a lot of terrorists, bringing white-glove Korans to a lot of people who would kill me where I stand if we let them out.
	God bless these people.
	And they had their nameplate velcroed over.
	And I said, what's that about?
	He said, that's because if they know my name, my family could be dead by nightfall.
	So individual names, I totally get it.
	But jurisdiction and what agency are you with, that's a public right to know thing, wouldn't you say?
	Yeah, the thing is, whether or not that's inside this code, I don't know.
	But the fact that I would have the state of Indiana police and then everything else covered up, I agree with you there, but this super mystery cop, no one knows really who they are.
	We know who they are, and you and I just don't know the code.
	I need to know the code.
	The public accountability means the public has the right to know, not the name of the individual officer, because you're right, the retribution could be swift and merciless, but the agency so that somebody, a reporter, a talk show guy, a bricklayer, a burger flipper, can see something and go, hey, if that was this particular agency, local, federal, regional, whatever, one of your guys just did this.
	Here's the video of it.
	Who's that?
	Or what are you going to do about it?
	That's accountability.
	But you're totally right on individual names because the kind of people who will torch a building, these people have proven, whether it's Tucker Carlson's house or any one of a number of other figures they don't like, they have proven that they will do unspeakable things to people.
	We are in Massachusetts.
	Steve, hey, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Very good.
	Thank you, Mark.
	You know, on another interview yesterday, I forget the guy's name from Homeland Security, all of the federal law enforcement officials who were involved with the Portland situation, they all wear a patch of what department they're from, be it ATF, U.S. Marshals, whatever.
	So that is identified, and as the last caller said, no names on the uniforms or the vests.
	Or the jackets, but a patch of the department is identified, so it is easily identifiable for a reporter or somebody else.
	That sounds like accountability, and that sounds great.
	Steve, thank you.
	In Fullerton, California, Steve, Mark Davis, hi.
	Welcome in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Hi, Mark.
	I am inspired by your opening today.
	And you spoke about prayer.
	Yes.
	And you prayed yourself, and I have three small...
	I've got about 45 seconds, so use the time.
	One is to network all the talk show hosts, do the same as you have done, and ask the people to pray for the country.
	You bet.
	Number two, ask the president to ask the people to pray for the country in the current crisis.
	I believe he is.
	And ask him to reissue President Lincoln's 1863 proclamation.
	And I'd like to have your email address please tell someone there.
	Sure.
	I'll do it right now.
	Anybody that wants me, I'll give it to you right now.
	Anybody that wants me, markdavisshow at gmail.com.
	Markdavisshow at gmail.com.
	And thank you.
	I appreciate it very much.
	We don't have a theocracy.
	Government should not compel us to pray.
	But to have government, to have leaders who choose to...
	Share what prayer means to them and offer us the invitation to.
	That's a big part of what's made this country great.
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	At every turn, it seems like there are more unanswered questions and few honest explanations about why so many of our liberties are under attack.
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	They're irrational evil.
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	Steve, you're on The Larry Elder Show.
	Hello, Larry.
	Thank you for taking my call, sir.
	I appreciate it.
	I don't know if you were briefed by the producer, but I am in fact...
	Yeah, I was told that you're a cop with Portland.
	You know, one of my best friends is your number two guy, Charlie Wiggins, and I understand he's more popular than your chief.
	Is he?
	I would say so.
	I mean, as far as I'm concerned, anyone who's wearing the blue is popular, but yeah.
	Steve, I just made up that name.
	There's nobody named Charlie Wiggins who's your number two guy.
	You're lying.
	Apologize for faking a cop.
	Apologize.
	All the men and women in blue out there busting their butts, sacrificing for really real good people, and you're playing one?
	A fake cop?
	Apologize.
	That's like playing a fake soldier.
	Apologize.
	I'm also a soldier.
	Apologize.
	Punk.
	I heard him on somebody else's show saying he was a cop in Jacksonville, Florida.
	Calling my show saying you're a cop in Portland.
	No, Steve, you're a punk.
	Oh, he hung up.
	We have a development in the phone call I just had with the gentleman who played a fake cop claiming that he was a cop from Portland.
	Mr. Christian, what happened?
	Well, Officer Steve, he called back and Officer Steve said...
	Kudos to you, Larry, because he calls all the shows on the network and all around, and he's gotten a lot of people, and he said that was the best anyone got him.
	He spanked him.
	Thank you, Larry Elder.
	Well, as Mr. McConnell said, I was born at night, but I wasn't born that night.
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	Thank you.
	It is the Dennis Prager Show, Thursday edition.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	So to close out this hour, let me pull the curtain back on what I opened this hour with.
	And that is the notion of how I kind of inadvertently lit the fire under the Mark Cuban-Ted Cruz Twitter war.
	Being me, I will often wrap up the weekend on Sunday night with a few well-aimed tweets about things that I might be talking about on my own show that I host here in Dallas-Fort Worth each week.
	And on Sunday, as wherever you may be, there may be some enthusiasm as all the NBA teams start to get to play down there in the Disney bubble.
	Baseball is starting.
	Got some things to say about that, too.
	But with regard to the NBA here, we're thrilled to have the Dallas Mavericks, which is a pretty darn exciting team.
	Luka Doncic and Rick Carlisle at coach and a fascinating owner like Mark Cuban.
	And I love Cuban.
	Politically, we don't agree on everything, but I don't think he's a hardcore lib.
	Whatever.
	He got us an NBA crown in 2011, and you do that, I'm going to give you a lot of latitude.
	So here's the thing.
	My tweet on Sunday night was...
	Can't wait for the NBA to get going again.
	So much promise.
	So much personality.
	But I will tell you this.
	If one Mavericks player kneels for the National Anthem, I am out.
	Ta-da!
	It's not like something I haven't said 500 times.
	Said it about the Cowboys.
	Said it about the Texas Rangers.
	They better not do it when they start tomorrow.
	I don't think it's going to happen in hockey.
	So this is not unfamiliar territory.
	Mark Cuban sees my tweet and replies to it.
	One word.
	Bye.
	Bye.
	Ted Cruz sees that and says, really?
	This is the owner of the Mavericks essentially flipping the bird to any fans who feel that the anthem should be respected?
	Let's see what kind of a good look that is, especially here in the state of Texas.
	So at this point, I just kind of stepped back and let these guys go at each other, which they did on issues from patriotism to China to Lord knows what else.
	But for me, the focus was about the anthem.
	And here's why.
	This is not a small thing.
	It's not just a song, get over it.
	No.
	This minute and 20 seconds or so that it takes on average to do the anthem is a time when we gather at 20,000 people at an NBA game or 70,000 at a football game.
	And I know ain't nobody gathering for anything these days.
	But when we do, It is a time when we look at these people that we're gathered together with, and we say, look, here we are of all kinds of different races.
	Here we are of all kinds of different political persuasions.
	And here's where we put all those differences aside, all of them, even passionate things that we care about.
	And we don't use it as a personal look-at-me soapbox moment for a pet political issue, even if it's something I've fought for my whole life.
	If somebody said, hey, Mark, let's kneel during the anthem for the pro-life cause.
	No, don't jack with the anthem.
	Period.
	Paragraph.
	End of story.
	And there are two kinds of people.
	Folks who get that and folks who don't.
	Is baseball going to destroy its reputation too in these next couple of days?
	I pray not.
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	I'm not.
	Now, we are told that the president is bungling the response to the coronavirus pandemic and that had he been more competent, hey, listen to his advisors, everything would have been a lot better.
	Well, do you remember the H1N1 virus that the Obama-Biden campaign had to deal with?
	2009?
	Don't ask me why he said this.
	Honestly, don't ask me.
	Don't ask me.
	But this guy is an advisor to the Joe Biden campaign.
	His name is Ron Klein.
	And he is explaining how the Obama administration responded to the 2009 swine flu crisis.
	Now again, he is a top Biden advisor.
	His name is Ron Klein.
	Listen to this.
	I was in the White House in 2009, 2010.
	I was working for Vice President Biden.
	I wasn't involved directly in the H1N1 response, but I lived through it as a White House staffer.
	And what I will say about it is a bunch of really talented, really great people working on it, and we did every possible thing wrong.
	Whoa!
	One in one flu?
	Did you just say that?
	You mean like after the epidemic, a safety equipment industry association recommended that depleted supplies of N95 respirator masks be replenished, but that didn't happen?
	And what I will say about it is a bunch of really talented, really great people working on it, and we did every possible thing wrong.
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	Page 85. The next pope must be willing to remove from office bishops whose personal behavior has become a countersign to the gospel.
	The next pope must be willing to remove from office bishops who teach a doctrine other than that of the Catholic Church.
	The next pope must be willing to remove bishops whose manifest incompetence in governance has irretrievably damaged their capacity to lead.
	Over the last 200 years, the Church has regained the capacity to name It's own bishops without interference from governments with a few exceptions.
	But if you claim the responsibility to choose your own leadership, then you have to own the responsibility to fix mistakes when mistakes get made.
	You know, I've been saying this since the abuse scandals of 2002 broke out.
	There comes a point when a man simply loses the capacity not only to govern but to teach and sanctify.
	That's what bishops do, and when that happens, then the man has to be invited to step down, or if he declines to do that, then he has to be removed from office.
	On the other hand, we've got a lot of very fine bishops in this country, some of them recently appointed, including two former students of mine, I might say.
	I'm not quite the kiss of death yet.
	Give it time, George!
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	Was it hard to get those soundbites from New York?
	No, unfortunately not.
	How long did you have to wait for people to say, the police are disgusting?
	I mean, every time I stopped somebody, that was what I was getting from people.
	I would say that was probably 70% of the people had that perspective about abolish the police.
	But the second half of that video is the more important part of the video, right?
	The second half of the video is after I've set up these people saying that they want to get rid of the police primarily because they're so abusive to black people.
	I then cut to Harlem and ask people in the street in Harlem and you get the exact...
	Inverse reaction.
	Because in Harlem, what do they say if the police disappears?
	Well, they say it's going to be insanity.
	It's going to be crazy.
	Look, crime is regressive, right?
	In other words, the people who end up feeling crime the most are people who are poor in urban areas.
	Not the rich, right?
	Even in Manhattan, where violence is through the roof, I feel it less, although I see it in my neighborhood, I see it less than somebody does in East Harlem or in the South Bronx.
	They're the ones who are the recipients of what would happen if the police end up being defunded, abolished, or they leave.
	And again, as easy as it was for me to find people wanting to abolish the police who are white, it was just as easy, maybe easier, to find people who are black saying, this is crazy!
	It's going to be insanity here!
	The purge!
	It's going to be the purge!
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	speaking of her you It is the Dennis Prager Show on this Thursday edition, the 23rd of July.
	Mark Davis filling in from 660 AM The Answer.
	A little thumbnail sketch of things we are already in the middle of talking about as a talk show nation across various platforms.
	And I've already completed my morning program here at 660 AM The Answer.
	We talked a lot about the COVID briefings.
	We talked a lot about...
	Anthem kneeling, which may destroy support for baseball as it may do in the NBA, as it already has done for football.
	The world of sports is about to learn how truly unimportant it is in our lives.
	For many.
	Or let's just say less important than we think.
	Or than they think.
	I've been a sports fan my whole life.
	My whole life.
	I love it.
	Sports is...
	A recreation.
	It's an escape.
	It's a pursuit, an interest.
	I love it, love it, love it.
	I always, always have.
	But it is as disposable as weak old fish in the refrigerator if it attacks my country.
	I mean, I can't wait to see what the Cowboys put on the field with Dak Prescott, a brand new coach and all that.
	If they kneel, I'm out!
	I can't wait to see if the Mavericks can have another postseason and bring us another NBA crown here in Dallas.
	I can't wait to see, you know, Luka Doncic, Kristaps Porzingis, just other fun names to say.
	I can't wait to see the product.
	But if they take a knee, I am out.
	And as for baseball, my heart breaks.
	We have this beautiful, brand new Globe Life field.
	We have air conditioning for baseball in Texas at long last after frying like bacon with 103 degrees at 7 o'clock for a first pitch.
	We have a beautiful new indoor retractable roof.
	It's just great.
	And not a human being can go as a fan.
	And we open against the Colorado Rockies tomorrow night.
	And my heart breaks just because of the way in which the virus has constricted our lives.
	I understand the no-fans policy for right now.
	Pretty soon I'm going to be looking at putting 10,000 people in there in a capacity of 40,000.
	Will I be one of them?
	I might.
	I don't know.
	But I'd like the opportunity.
	But my point being, before we even get to a season, before we even get...
	And it was a former Ranger, Gabe Kapler, who dispatched his duties with great honor around here.
	When he was here, he's now the manager of the San Francisco Giants.
	And he and some of his players took a knee before the exhibition game against the A's.
	I'm out if my team does that.
	Out!
	I will not have my country insulted.
	I will not have the anthem abused.
	And I'm going to do this one time, and then we're going to get on to various things.
	Portland.
	We're going to talk a little bit about the old 2020 race, stuff Biden has been saying or attempting to say.
	But maybe as a service to all of you, there are five, there's more than five, but here are the stupidest things anybody can say about anthem kneeling when they attempt to support it.
	I'm going to tell you something.
	If somebody comes to me and says, Mark, I am so passionate about my issue.
	Police reform and race or whatever that issue may be.
	Whatever.
	I am so passionate about it and I feel that things are on such a wrong track that I think the country is bad for allowing this.
	I think the country is not to be praised, is not to be lauded, is not to be admired because of my pet political issue here.
	If someone says that to me, all I will do is disagree.
	Vehemently, but I'll disagree.
	At least that person is being intellectually honest with me.
	They are telling me that I am so sick to death, had it up to my eyeballs with, fill in the blank, that I don't really admire the country right now.
	Okay, let's talk about that.
	At least you're being honest with me.
	Do not.
	Do not tell me it's not about the anthem.
	It's not about the anthem.
	It's not about the flag.
	Well, then, okay, genius, do it at some other time.
	Also, don't tell me, hey, man, First Amendment.
	This has nothing to do with the First Amendment.
	Of course you have the right to be a jack wagon.
	If the league will let you, if your team will allow it, stupidly.
	It's not about whether you have a right.
	It's about whether it is right.
	Here's one of my favorites.
	Hey, my brother served in Iraq and he's okay with it.
	Well, let me talk to him.
	By the way, and you know what?
	And if he's intellectually honest with me and says, you know, I fought for this country, but I don't like it very much right now, so I'm on board for anthem kneeling.
	Okay.
	At least you're being intellectually honest.
	But by the way, the fact that the occasional sliver of the veteran population may be okay with the defiling of one of our national patriotic traditions, that doesn't make it right.
	It doesn't make it right.
	Have that veteran take it up with the vast majority of vets who fought wearing that flag, who have no tolerance for that kind of defilement of our national symbol.
	Two more.
	Three down, two to go.
	Hey, I'll solve the problem.
	Just don't play it.
	Really?
	Well, then the terrorists win, as the saying goes.
	You think I'm going to allow these people who hate the country to be the vehicle by which the anthem that we have cherished at the beginning of sporting events for a long time?
	I know it hadn't always been there, but it's been there a while.
	I love it being there.
	Most of you love it being there.
	We won't have it jacked with, and we will not have it surgically removed in order to soothe the ruffled feathers of America haters.
	And number five, the reason they do it during the anthem is that's how you get attention.
	Well, no kidding.
	They got attention, all right.
	And by the way, it's negative attention.
	Isn't the point of making a point to try to get people to believe your point?
	Isn't the idea to attract people rather than repel them to your point of view?
	How many people saw Colin Kaepernick disrespecting the flag and said, you know, that looks like a young man that I ought to pay attention to.
	Maybe I need to consider his point of view a little more.
	Not many.
	Most people said, well, I can't tell you what they said.
	And I'll tell you what that is.
	That is purely a function of today's sick, twisted, viral, click, Driven world that if it gets attention it must be okay if it if it if it gets you on the news That is a defense for whatever you do Well, I can attract attention to your issue by walking naked wearing a sandwich board You know through through a church service doesn't make it a good idea.
	Hey, but you got some attention man.
	It worked So stop saying it's not about the anthem.
	Stop saying anything about the First Amendment.
	That's not the issue.
	Stop recommending we stop playing it.
	Stop telling me that the occasional confused veteran supports it.
	And stop telling me it's okay because this is how you get attention.
	Stop it.
	Just stop it.
	Now, if you've got the guts to tell me that you're so twisted off about police reform and George Floyd and racial issues and cops and blah blah blah that you just don't think the country is particularly admirable right now and you don't feel not only do you not feel like saluting the flag you feel like distracting those who do well we'll have a disagreement but at least you will be being honest with me and I always appreciate that All
	right, let's see, let's see, let's see, let's see.
	We're in San Diego.
	Bob, hey, Mark Davis, in for Dennis.
	How you doing?
	Fine, and you?
	Great, thank you.
	I have a suggestion.
	There's an old expression, if you can't beat them, join them.
	So my idea is to convince the NFL and other franchises to just have a moment of silence before the national anthem.
	And anybody can kneel to protest whatever they want.
	I think that's wonderful.
	I think that's a superb idea.
	And thank you.
	You know, it's ironic in my tweet that set Mark Cuban off into orbit around Saturn and started his war with Ted Cruz.
	That was exactly what I said!
	I said, surely Mark Cuban can come up with some way, the trailblazer that he is, to have some, you know, I've even put on Mr. PA announcer guy.
	Ladies and gentlemen, the Dallas Mavericks invite you to spend a moment of quiet reflection about, you know, whatever you want to do.
	And you can kneel, you can stand on your head, whatever you want to do.
	And then, please rise for our national anthem.
	Thus, you have had your kneeling moment.
	That's fine.
	Not looking to shut down anybody's speech.
	But you leave.
	The anthem alone.
	Ta-da!
	So, there's some Black Lives Matter logo that'll be festooned on the back of the pitcher's mound tonight for Washington Nationals and New York Yankees.
	You've caught this, I'm sure.
	Throwing out the first pitch, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
	That's fine, whatever.
	Hopefully he'll be more on target with that pitch than he was with his early observations about masks.
	And then in the NBA, playing down in that Disney bubble, big old Black Lives Matter stuff festooned on the court.
	And you know what?
	Showing my willingness to play ball figuratively and literally?
	Knock yourselves out.
	That's fine.
	Black Lives Matter as a sentence is undeniably true.
	Black Lives Matter as an organization is an anti-family Marxist mob.
	I'm going to give them some latitude and some benefit of the doubt on that.
	I'm just trying to play ball.
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	Music Now, we are told that the president is...
	Bungling the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
	And that, had he been more competent, hey, listen to his advisors, everything would have been a lot better.
	Well, do you remember the H1N1 virus that the Obama-Biden campaign had to deal with?
	2009?
	Don't ask me why he said this.
	Honestly, don't ask me.
	Don't ask me.
	But this guy is an advisor to the Joe Biden campaign.
	His name is Ron Klein.
	And he is explaining how the Obama administration responded to the 2009 swine flu crisis.
	Now again, he is a top Biden advisor.
	His name is Ron Klein.
	Listen to this.
	I was in the White House in 2009, 2010. I was working for Vice President Biden.
	I wasn't involved directly in the H1N1 response, but I lived through it as a White House staffer.
	And what I will say about it is...
	A bunch of really talented, really great people working on it, and we did every possible thing wrong.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa!
	He speaks almost as fast as I do.
	Slow down.
	Slow down.
	Did you say that the Obama administration was full of very talented people, very smart people that did everything wrong in responding to the H1N1 flu?
	Did you just say that?
	You mean, like, after the epidemic, a Safety Equipment Industry Association recommended that depleted supplies of N95 respirator masks be replenished?
	But that didn't happen?
	And what I will say about it is a bunch of really talented, really great people working on it, and we did every possible thing wrong.
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	No author likes to be told what the most important page and line is in their book, but I'll tell you what yours is.
	Page 85. The next pope must be willing to remove from office bishops whose personal behavior has become a countersign to the gospel.
	The next pope must be willing to remove from office bishops who teach a doctrine other than that of the Catholic Church.
	The next pope must be willing to remove bishops whose manifest incompetence in governance has irretrievably damaged their capacity to lead.
	Over the last 200 years, the Church has regained the capacity to name It's own bishops without interference from governments with a few exceptions.
	But if you claim the responsibility to choose your own leadership, then you have to own the responsibility to fix mistakes when mistakes get made.
	You know, I've been saying this since the abuse scandals of 2002 broke out.
	There comes a point when a man simply loses the capacity not only to govern but to teach and sanctify.
	That's what bishops do, and when that happens, then the man has to be invited to step down, or if he declines to do that, then he has to be removed from office.
	On the other hand, we've got a lot of very fine bishops in this country, some of them recently appointed, including two former students of mine, I might say.
	I'm not quite the kiss of death yet.
	Give it time, George!
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	Was it hard to get those soundbites from New York?
	How long did you have to wait for people to say, the police are disgusting?
	I mean, every time I stopped somebody, that was what I was getting from people.
	people I would say that was probably 70% of the people had that perspective even Solomon Burke says so I'm Mark Davis, filling in for Dennis Prager today.
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	Alrighty, speaking of those phone lines, let's go to them.
	1-8 Prager, 776-18...
	Prager, 776. And we are in Phoenix.
	Todd, hey, Mark Davis, in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Hey, Mark, you're rocking it for Dennis.
	Good job, man.
	You're very kind.
	You're very kind.
	Thank you.
	Oh, no problem.
	Hey, you know, I understand completely how you and your caller, I believe it was, arrived at the point of view of giving people their own minute prior to the national anthem.
	My problem with that is I look at the worst-case scenario, which it will be the worst-case scenario, and when they, whoever they are that week, Right now, I'm told, okay, I can either bow or I can stand like an American does.
	But when I'm given that minute and I don't bow, what kind of a giant dirtbag am I if I don't believe in their current screed?
	Okay, are you talking about the crowd?
	Well, there are no crowds, but let's put crowds in the stands, hypothetically, because eventually you'll get back.
	Are you talking about attendees or, like, fellow or teammates, or both?
	Well, actually, both.
	I hadn't even thought about that.
	I was thinking specifically of spectators.
	But anybody, once you're given a firm bracket of performance...
	Right, right, right.
	All right, let me see if I'm following you, because this is interesting.
	So if we have the...
	So we've won a small victory in that they've chosen to leave the anthem alone, but right before the anthem, it's, you know, ladies and gentlemen, the Utah Jazz invite you to, you know, blah, blah, blah.
	And it's 30, 45 seconds, whatever, where the players are going to kneel, or they'll do whatever they want to do.
	You feel that eyes will be...
	Well, first of all, you're not expected to kneel in your seat.
	So that's never been the case.
	So I don't really think...
	I mean it'll it'll have the feeling maybe of a moment of silence and my rules on a moment of silence is shut up and And that doesn't mean that you know the you necessarily are on board with whatever I mean in a moment if atheists were quiet during moments of silence doesn't mean they're praying they don't have to whatever People that don't like the country, literally don't like the country.
	Do you still stand for the national anthem?
	Yes, you do.
	To avoid attracting attention to yourself, you don't have to sing it.
	You don't have to put your hand on your arm.
	You just standing there is whatever you want to do.
	So, offhand, I don't think necessarily, unless maybe there's like an owner's box filled with noteworthy people, and maybe they're having a little chat during the 60 seconds of kneeling.
	You may have something there, but I don't think it'll necessarily smear across the entire list of attendees.
	Interesting.
	No good deed goes unpunished.
	No good deed goes unpunished.
	Just trying to find a way, let everybody get their kneeling mojo in, if that's what they gotta do, without messing with the National Anthem.
	We are in Cleveland.
	Ed, hey, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Hi, Mark.
	How are you doing?
	Great.
	For what it's worth, and it probably isn't worth that much, I'm a Vietnam veteran.
	Oh, it's worth a lot, man.
	Thank you so much.
	Okay.
	But anyway, I just have a couple points.
	My wife and I are very committed Christian, evangelical Christian, and my wife would love to evangelize during work hours, but she's not allowed.
	That's right.
	I mean, she's working.
	She's at work, and she understands it.
	You know, the owner doesn't want any of that.
	And so she doesn't do it.
	Now, some people will approach her after work, and that's fine.
	That's great.
	And she can say what she wants.
	So that, I mean, the players, you know, the analogy is the players are working on Sundays.
	They're on the clock.
	You know, after the game, they can say what they want.
	Of course.
	Before the game, they can say what they want.
	Yes.
	So, okay.
	And my other point is, if they like taking a knee, let them do it at court.
	When the judge walks in and they say, all right, let them take a knee.
	Let's see how that works.
	And thank you for your call and for your service.
	Thank you.
	And he just gave me a sixth thing to add.
	We're now at six dumb things people can say about anthem kneeling.
	First of all, when they tell you it's not about the anthem, they're lying.
	Of course it is.
	When they tell you, oh, you know, when they...
	You plead First Amendment.
	It's not a First Amendment issue.
	It's not about whether you have a right.
	It's whether it is right.
	When they recommend just don't play it, no, because then the anthem haters win.
	When they tell you that veterans support it, well, veterans can be misguided, too.
	The couple of veterans you can be found who don't like the country very much.
	The fifth one is it's okay because this is how you get attention.
	Don't even get me started on that.
	And here's one of my favorites.
	Oh, you know who gave me this one?
	It's funny.
	I found myself in the company of all kinds of semi-famous people.
	Earlier in the week, that would be Montel Williams.
	And God bless Montel!
	I wish him good health.
	I think he had or still has an MS struggle or something like that.
	I wish him nothing but good things.
	I rather enjoyed his show.
	Montel gets all over me and says, Hey, kneeling is a show of respect!
	We kneel to God.
	If it's good enough for God, it should be good enough for the flag of the dude.
	Montel, please.
	I'm going to give you credit somehow for knowing the difference between communal, worshipful kneeling in reverence to God I think he also said, you kneel when you're, you know, proposing to your wife.
	I'm going to give you also latitude to know the difference between the loving gesture of kneeling to propose to her.
	These are loving gestures.
	How much you love your fiancé to ask her to marry you.
	How much you love God in kneeling in church.
	You think Colin Kaepernick was revealing a love of the country?
	No.
	The message of kneeling is, you ready?
	The message of kneeling is, just write this down, whatever you got to do.
	The message of kneeling is, I am so inflamed by this issue of mine that I don't care about insulting the country to show you how energized I am about it.
	That's it.
	That's it.
	Don't let anyone tell you different.
	Don't let anyone tell you different.
	And that's a purely, objectively, and I say that without judgment.
	That is the message of kneeling.
	The message of kneeling is, I care so much about this, whatever it may be, that I'm going to distract from your moment of love in the country.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	This is about me right now.
	This is about my issue right now.
	You go about love in the country.
	I am going to do this.
	And that is unbelievably obnoxious.
	It's narcissistic.
	It's a hundred different things.
	Now, and this is not to have anything to say about, because, you know, and doggone it, this may be, this may be the most ironic thing of all.
	I'm totally on board for police reform.
	There are clearly some issues of policing.
	We gotta work well.
	I'll work on it in our country.
	Clearly.
	More accountability, better training, more de-escalation.
	I'm all about that.
	And I believe so is the majority of America.
	Why are we even at each other's throats about this?
	And why in the world are there people willing to insult the very nation that allows them the freedom to talk about these problems and fix them?
	Why does that country deserve the scorn of those who seek to attract attention to their issue and themselves?
	By disrespecting this great nation.
	It's a head-scratcher.
	Mark Davis, in for Dennis Prager.
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	And there's Pelosi calling this the Trump virus.
	And I'm back to my original point about overreaching, but I've just got to pick your brain.
	I've got to see if you can explain to me the wisdom of the Speaker of the House going there.
	The Trump, Richard, Richard, the Trump virus?
	Are you kidding?
	No, I just wanted to say that I live in southern Illinois, the bastion of Democrat evil.
	And we're the unwashed, uneducated masses who fix your refrigerators and fix your air conditioners are smart enough to know that she's a liar.
	And everything she says is a political ploy to try to throw everything she can on Trump so he'll lose everything.
	Yeah, but this is beyond politics.
	I mean it.
	Is there anybody in America, anyone in the world listening to my voice?
	Who has some sort of a simpatico with Trump virus?
	Is there anybody listening to me who says, yep, yep, that's about right.
	It's the Trump virus.
	A worldwide pandemic?
	France, Spain, Italy, Australia, Iceland.
	I mean, everybody has fought through this thing.
	How's this his fault?
	What do you suppose...
	And if you believe that the deficit in his leadership has been the failure to have a national mask mandate, do you not understand how that would play with millions and millions of Americans?
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	Music Yesterday, Michael Oren, the longtime ambassador of Israel to the United States, said on this show that the $400 billion deal that the Chinese Communist Party entered into with the mullahs of Iran is a game-changer that nobody noticed in the Middle East.
	It just gave a lifeline to the mullahs who were struggling, and it really declares that the CCP is on the side of the Shia theocrats.
	I don't think that they're on the side of Xi's bureaucrats.
	I think they're on the side of whatever gives them a short-term gain and a short-term advantage.
	I don't think they have...
	You know, the U.S. won't go into deals or U.S. won't deal with countries in a lot of instances economically that don't meet certain standards and certain principles.
	With China, there are no standards and there are no principles.
	I'll deal with anybody who's going to...
	Give me a leg up.
	I think the Middle Kingdom's view is we are the Middle Kingdom and everybody else is one degree removed from us and we don't care what Iran does or what their ambitions are.
	Exactly.
	That's why I don't think they're on their side.
	I think they're on their own side.
	They're definitely not on our side.
	The enemy of our enemy is our enemy.
	Exactly.
	Definitely not on the U.S. side.
	I mean, look, there are...
	There isn't one area of foreign policy that the U.S. and China don't touch one another.
	And I think that we need to find a modus operandi for working with China.
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	Talk to us about your response to what Tucker Carlson is going through right now.
	I think if anyone gets doxed, then the media gets doxed too.
	If we're opening this war, let's go.
	I just think we're at that point.
	It's just so ridiculous, so awful, so absurd to dox someone and so dangerous that, okay, you next.
	What you do unto others is what will be done for you.
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	It is the Thursday, July 23rd, Dennis Prager Show.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis from 660 AM. The answer here in Dallas, Fort Worth, talking about various things in the news.
	Various things you folks care about.
	Things I care about that you're reacting to.
	You're all going to bring stuff up to me as we take a look at, you know, Portland and other flaming cities.
	As we take a look at the status of the race here.
	About 103 days to Election Day.
	In a way, I want more time, and yet in a way, I'd like the election to be tomorrow.
	I don't quite know which.
	Guess what?
	Let's play the field the way that it's striped.
	And speaking of which, we have a lot of sports issues.
	And it's funny, because they're not really sports issues.
	They are issues of love of country, issues of basic decency, etc., etc., etc.
	As baseball does get ready to go, though, I will give you one thing that's kind of a television issue in watching these games.
	The piped-in crowd noise.
	Is ridiculous.
	And I think our friends at Fox, on the games that they broadcast, they're going to have, like, artificially generated, computer-generated fans in the stands.
	Look, can we just embrace the strangeness?
	Can we just live with the way it is?
	It almost makes it worse.
	It's like rubbing salt in the wound to pipe in fake crowd noise, to have some guy up in the booth.
	That cranks a knob like a laugh track at a bad sitcom.
	You know, if the home team happens to jack a home run.
	It's going to be weird and empty and odd to hear that ball clang, clang off the seats of a distant section.
	I know.
	But you know what?
	That's real.
	That's what it is.
	And I can absorb that.
	And then don't even get me started on fake people in the stands.
	Good grief.
	All righty, telephone number is 1-8-Prager-776, 1-8-Prager-776, as we are in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, and David High.
	Mark Davison for Dennis, how are you?
	Doing fine, how are you?
	Good, thank you.
	So, listen, I want to say 2016, 2017, whenever Kaepernick first took a knee, I was watching Balmonte Jones on ESPN.
	And Balmonte Jones came out and slightly said that taking a knee is taking off white people and we need to keep it up.
	White people?
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	I can't find the clips on Google.
	I'm not making this up.
	I've been trying to find the clip of him.
	I'll stipulate.
	Let's stipulate the story as told, but here's what's horribly wrong with it.
	It ain't about white people.
	It ain't about race at all.
	There are plenty of white people who love anthem kneeling.
	Trust me, I hear from them.
	There are plenty of black people who hate it.
	They're called black conservatives, black patriots.
	None of this has anything to do with race.
	As with so many other issues, it's not really about race at all.
	It's about politics.
	White liberals love Colin Kaepernick.
	Alan West and Larry Elder do not.
	So it ain't about race.
	It's about.
	We are in Oxford, Georgia.
	Bill, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Hey, how you doing?
	Good.
	Can you hear me?
	I sure can.
	Good.
	I'll be quick.
	I appreciate getting through.
	Big fan of Dennis Prager, and I think you're doing a great job as well.
	Thank you.
	Appreciate it.
	He thanks you, and I thank you.
	Two things.
	Two things real quick.
	One is, if Mark Cuban decides to have a moment of silence and all that stuff, I think it would be great.
	The great fans of Dallas and Texas would get up and just start belting out the national anthem and then at the very end say, screw you, Cuban.
	Well, I don't know about that.
	If there is a chosen moment of silence, it should be honored.
	And if it's something you don't agree with, well, then just don't be rude.
	And I would call on that, and I'll just stand there and get it over with, and don't worry about it.
	Then when it's time for the anthem, time for the anthem, and be glad that the anthem was not jacked with.
	That's a win.
	It's a win.
	Go ahead.
	What was your other point?
	Yeah, yeah, good point.
	Good point.
	The other thing I wanted to talk about, too, is diversity.
	I'm a white male.
	I have three white boys, and I have a lot of friends either getting laid off, unfortunately, or not.
	opportunities that they think they're pretty qualified for.
	And a lot of them are thinking about, like, changing their name or gender and things like that because it seems like it's such a...
	Do me a favor.
	It sounds like a cool story, and I got like 10 seconds.
	Sit tight.
	Let me hit the break.
	I'll bring you back because it sounds like something I want to pay some attention to.
	So sit tight.
	Bill and I will return because as soon as you go into the workplace, that gets pretty interesting, and I don't know where that was going, and I didn't want to rush you along or blast you into the stratosphere in 25 seconds.
	So Bill and I will be back.
	Bill's in Georgia.
	I'm in DFW. Wherever you are, we're just very glad you are listening to The Dennis Prager Show.
	Mark Davis filling in from 660 AM, the answer here in North Texas, and we will continue.
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	music And the Uyghur.
	Concentration camps is beginning to break through as the repression of Hong Kong has broken through, as have the claims in the South China Sea.
	From 1989 until very recently, a generation has been educated in the idea that the end of history, Francis Fukuyama, it's all coming together.
	It's not all coming together.
	It's coming head to head between the CCP and the U.S. with Russia and Iran as kind of...
	You know, agents of influence of the CCP, but it really is West versus East now.
	It is West versus East, and you see China, whereas before it would kind of, you know, do its foreign policy that often was, you know, against U.S. foreign policy in a very quiet, covert way.
	Now you see China being much more bold.
	And you even see diplomats.
	You know, we've talked a lot about these diplomatic warriors that are going off and really speaking against the United States.
	And you've seen this, you know, I wouldn't even call it a Cold War.
	I'd call it a kind of open war of rhetoric when you saw China blaming, you know, after, of course, after President Trump really started hitting China for its actions on the coronavirus.
	Started saying that the U.S. brought the virus to China.
	And it's not just the U.S. China is really hitting back against anybody that criticizes them.
	Chinese diplomats around the world have taken a much more aggressive stance to countries that criticize them.
	Yeah.
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	Folks, I'm talking to my friend Larry Elder who has a nationally syndicated radio program, but big deal.
	Who doesn't have one of those, right?
	Larry, honestly, I gotta say, your film Uncle Tom, spectacular as it is, is part of something larger that is happening in this country.
	It seems to me that a lot of blacks in America...
	Are finally waking up, thanks to you and others, and they're looking around and they're saying, I have been sold a bill of goods.
	For example, even I didn't really know the history that the Republican Party was formed to end slavery, and that the Democrats were the proponents, not just of slavery, but of keeping blacks down, of the KKK. The Republican Party's whole reason for existence was to stop the spread of slavery and ultimately to end it.
	And you're quite right.
	Democrats founded the KKK. I said that once on Fox News.
	I got fact checked.
	And the fact checker said, Larry Elder said the Democratic Party founded the KKK, when in fact...
	Understanding American history is more important than ever.
	In this week's PragerU video, Ben Shapiro explains how the English thinker John Locke made a profound impression on the Founding Fathers.
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	It's the Dennis Prager Show for this Thursday.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	Glad to be here.
	As we take a look at how the entire sporting world may or may not respect the flag as they...
	Crank up their various seasons.
	And I did say earlier this hour that at least this doesn't seem to be poisoning the world of hockey.
	We do have a hockey story.
	A Dennis Big Hockey fan, right?
	LA Kings, all that.
	Love our Dallas Stars here.
	You know there's going to be an expansion team, right?
	In Seattle, speaking of the crazy Pacific Northwest, the Seattle NHL team has announced its name.
	I know, insert your own joke here.
	Anybody watch Clash of the Titans circa 2010?
	Release the Kraken.
	The Kraken is a fictitious, massive cephalopod sea creature ostensibly off the coast of Norway or something.
	So get ready for the LA Kings, the Dallas Stars, the whatever NHL franchise happens to be near you to make those road trips to Seattle to play The Kraken.
	Now, is that?
	I mean, I guess that's okay.
	In a way, it's kind of cool.
	Big, Nordic sea creature.
	I mean, I'm okay.
	But, uh, is it singular?
	Is it plural?
	You know, the Kraken is a name born of the fans.
	Okay.
	Go Kraken.
	Oh, man.
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	Whether you're here, filling in.
	Glad to be here.
	Bill was with us in Oxford, Georgia, and he had literally just started a story about, I want to say it was your sons who had started, what was the story?
	You had sons that were just starting a place of work.
	Feel free to start at the beginning.
	Is that, you're talking to me?
	Yes, I do.
	Yes, go ahead.
	Sorry about that.
	I'll be quick.
	All right, so.
	I happen to be a white male, not a racist bone in my body.
	I have three white sons, and I have a lot of friends right now that are struggling to either find work or we're getting laid off and things like that.
	One of the things, you know, it seems to be certainly a backlash.
	It seems, you know, white males are, and believe me, nobody wants to hear this.
	I'm even afraid to talk to you about this.
	You know, because it could come off as insensitive and things like that, but I've so many of my qualified friends that are asking me for advice because I've been in the industry before.
	Do I change my name?
	Do I change my gender?
	Do not get discriminated against and things like that.
	I mean, again, this is a scary, scary damn thing to talk about.
	Do me a favor.
	In the interest of time, is there a specific thing?
	Is there something that has happened that has sparked this concern, sort of a wokeness alert of how this is somehow a disadvantage right now?
	I think two things.
	One is the company that I work for has particular trainings pretty much in the wake of recent incidents and things like that.
	That is used a lot is the conversation, you know.
	It ain't no conversation.
	It's indoctrination.
	But a quick thing, if I'm understanding, so the company that you work, in light of all this angst in the wind right now, have they started massive diversity training?
	I wouldn't say massive, but certainly...
	Who gets it and who doesn't?
	Everybody gets it, for sure.
	That's massive.
	So across the board, it's simply expected of you.
	In the post-George Floyd death era, it is simply expected of you that you need diversity training.
	For sure.
	That is a grotesque insult.
	That is a grotesque insult.
	Have they singled out the white people?
	Have they singled out the white people?
	It is not a conversation.
	Under no circumstances is it a conversation.
	They talk, you listen.
	No, no, no.
	It's for the whole company, not just for the white guys.
	No, no, understand, but just understand, it is not a conversation.
	So this is interesting.
	So black, Hispanic, and Asian employees have to sit in for the diversity training?
	For sure.
	Okay, well, you know what?
	Okay, that's probably better than just singling out the white guys, which would seem kind of racist.
	Okay, so what's your thought about that?
	Oh, I don't know what that is.
	Okay, got to go.
	Alright, a word about diversity training.
	The kind of thing this gentleman just described is unbelievably insulting.
	To simply presume that an entire workforce must need diversity training because, I don't know, they breathe is an unbelievable insult.
	And it's part of what we find ourselves Wrapped in, in this sort of post-George Floyd BLM era, and it's part of the weird, evil, racist nation.
	This is the left at work.
	One of Dennis' favorite lines is, the left destroys everything it touches.
	It destroys workplace goodwill in this way.
	To simply assume, well, time to go into the massive, everybody got to sit down for the diversity training, because clearly everybody's a racist.
	Clearly everybody needs enlightenment.
	Clearly no one deserves benefit of the doubt.
	Excuse me, I don't have a racist bone in my body.
	I've never spoken ill of or disparaged anybody of any other race ever in my life.
	Shut up.
	Your diversity training starts tomorrow at 3. That's no way to treat people.
	Now, let's ramp it up a little bit.
	What if you've got somebody in the workplace who really doesn't like black people?
	What if you've got somebody who doesn't really like white people?
	What if you have an actual...
	What seems to be somebody giving off the signal of being an actual racist in the workplace.
	Then is diversity training a good idea?
	I'll be honest with you.
	I don't know.
	Because that stuff is so...
	I don't think that they take it well.
	If you've got an actual racist, oh, they're going to be thrilled with diversity training.
	That's going to work.
	They're going to come out of there with exactly the right kind of enlightenment.
	You know what I would do?
	I think the way you deal with actual racism, which is an actual societal poison, an actual psychological problem, I mean, it's a terrible thing.
	That's a terrible thing to have in your heart.
	I would deliver the quick lesson.
	If I'm the CEO of a company, and I find actual de facto evidence there's a racist in our midst, bring that person to me.
	You know, uh, Wilbur?
	I'm sorry.
	There's a presumption.
	John Wilbur, sorry.
	John, it's come to my attention that you have said this, done this, whatever.
	That is stone-cold racist.
	We don't tolerate that around here.
	Stop it right now, or you will be gone.
	You copy that?
	At which point, he'll either argue and be fired, or say, okay, wow, lesson learned.
	That's the way you do it.
	And if there's a repeat offense, bye!
	Gone.
	See ya.
	Isn't that much better than the Kabuki theater of diversity training?
	I don't know.
	You tell me.
	You tell me.
	Alrighty, let me tell you.
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	Yeah. .
	You are a fearless warrior on social media.
	Talk to us about your response to what Tucker Carlson is going through right now.
	I think if anyone gets doxed, then the media gets doxed too.
	That's like, if we're opening this war, let's go.
	I just think we're at that point.
	It's just so ridiculous, so awful, so absurd to dox someone and so dangerous that, okay, you next.
	What you do unto others is what will be done to you.
	Something like that Jesus said?
	I don't know.
	I probably twisted it.
	I just think that's absolutely disgusting and awful, and if you weren't a fan of Tucker, you should be now, because he's leading the brigade, you know?
	So, your message to the world and to the billion, no, it's got to be two billion eyeballs if you've got a million views, and two billion eyeballs out there is no mercy.
	Is that Nicole Arbour's social media warrior message?
	I believe you just said that.
	But yeah, it's no mercy.
	Treat other people the way you want to be treated.
	So if you don't want to be doxed, maybe don't be doxing people.
	You know, maybe?
	Let's just use our heads and be adults here.
	It's gotten crazy.
	You're on the front lines.
	Are people trying to dox you?
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	But that's nothing.
	I get death threats at 3am on my home phone.
	It's, you know, it's, as I said when I was in the White House, you're only taking flack when you're over the target.
	I told my, kind of weird, my colleagues didn't get it, especially in the press shop back then.
	There were certain, what's the word?
	I won't use it.
	Certain individuals who worked in the White House press office who wanted, Love and approval from places like CNN and the Washington Post and the New York Times.
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	Well, I mean, before she was elected mayor, she was a police reform, in quotation marks, advocate who promulgated the same line of argumentation that you got from the Obama White House, that police departments, including Chicago, were systemically racist, despite the fact that it's the Dennis Prager show Thursday edition closing moments of the second hour Sit tight, another entire hour to go, so everybody just relax.
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	Alrighty, to the phones to wrap things up here.
	We're in Louisville.
	Kevin, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Hello, Mark.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	My pleasure.
	I'm a local resident here in Louisville, Kentucky, and this Saturday the NFAC, quote-unquote, militia, is coming to do a rally, or if you will, in the name of Breonna Taylor.
	And I believe at 8.40 a.m., my local affiliate here in the morning, has been touched by the left.
	They used to have a gentleman named Leland Conway who ran the show, did an excellent job.
	But this morning...
	They've been running cover for this NFAC group.
	They will not mention the fact that they use racial epithets, that they are a supremacist organization.
	Let's get everybody, because a lot of people may not be familiar, because actually, the first time I heard about it, it's the NFAC is, I'll clean it up, the Not Blanking Around clan.
	Get it?
	And I don't know.
	What are they?
	Are they folks for whom BLM is a little too mellow?
	Who are they, to your understanding?
	Well, there's a video on YouTube.
	This past, I think it was two weeks ago, they were in Georgia, Stone Mountain, Georgia.
	And they literally walked through the streets and were walking up to vehicles of white people and saying, hey, reparations.
	Okay, great.
	They were yelling racial epithets.
	And they were all holding assault rifles dressed in black clad.
	And they claim to be a militia, and they use vile intimidation and racial techniques to intimidate those into forcing their will.
	Let's settle this in the following way.
	Don't know how it's going to go.
	Hope it goes okay.
	Local law enforcement needs to be aware of any actual violations of law.
	If they are allowed to openly carry those weapons, if you and I can do it, they can do it.
	However, if at some point there's an act of intimidation or at some point there's a breaking of law, the good, good law enforcement people of Louisville had better enforce the law.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
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	Folks, I'm talking to my friend Larry Elder, who has a nationally syndicated radio program, but big deal.
	Who doesn't have one of those, right?
	Honestly, I gotta say, your film Uncle Tom, spectacular as it is, is part of something larger that is happening in this country.
	It seems to me that a lot of blacks in America Are finally waking up, thanks to you and others, and they're looking around and they're saying, I have been sold a bill of goods.
	For example, even I didn't really know the history that the Republican Party was formed to end slavery, and that the Democrats were the proponents, not just of slavery, but of keeping blacks down, of the KKK. The Republican Party's whole reason for existence was to stop the spread of slavery and ultimately to end it.
	And you're quite right.
	Democrats founded the KKK. I said that once on Fox News.
	I got fact checked.
	And the fact checker said, Larry Elder said the Democratic Party founded the KKK, when in fact, Larry Elder didn't say that.
	Larry Elder said Democrats founded the KKK, which is objectively true.
	Democrats opposed the 13th Amendment, the 14th Amendment, the 15th Amendment unanimously, and as a percentage of the party, more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 64 than did Democrats.
	And what you get in response to that, Eric, is, well, in the mid-60s, en masse, they switched sides.
	All the racists left the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party.
	A couple problems with that.
	First of all, look at all of the Democrats that voted against the Civil Rights Act of 64 in the Senate and ask yourself, how many of them switched?
	Answer, one, Strom Thurmond.
	Ask yourself the same question about the House.
	How many Democrats switched?
	One whose name I can't even remember.
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	Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.
	Thank you.
	Is that in any way an exaggeration?
	Absolutely not.
	He was spot on.
	He was spot on.
	And, you know, my own story, the American dream, my story is the American dream.
	And everything our country has stood for, you couldn't do this anywhere else in the world, come from where I've been to where I'm at now.
	And the fears now...
	I mean, look at all these things that have gone on in these Democrat cities and in my home state of Minnesota and Minneapolis with all this poor leadership that's bringing us down a path for the last 50 years, bringing us down this path away from what this great country was founded on.
	You know, our new slogan should be keep America free, you know?
	Keep America free.
	A lot of people have been talking in the last few years about a political career, a political future for Michael Lindell.
	Tell us about what you're doing to help make America great again.
	Well, the president appointed me the chairman of the Minnesota Trump campaign.
	I was just with him a couple, two, three weeks ago, I guess now.
	I've been there twice in the last few weeks.
	And we're going to be doing so much as soon as I... The restrictions come off.
	In our state, you can't have a big gathering.
	But I've made a promise to the president we'll win Minnesota, first time since 1972.
	And, you know, I believe Minnesota is ground zero not only for this election, but for the spiritual warfare going on in this country.
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	When when the facts are stacked against you, as they are now against Democratic policies and Democratic the history of the Democratic Party, all you have left is name calling.
	And so I can't even think of the name of the person who said, if you vote for Trump, you are a racist.
	It was on Twitter like this morning, and I thought to myself, now we know that racism...
	is the last bastion of a scoundrel.
	I'm sorry, to use the term racism, because you have nothing else.
	And so you just throw names like this.
	It's just absurd.
	But people really need to reject it strongly and don't take it sitting down.
	It is so manipulative.
	You have Joe Biden, as you know, telling Charlemagne the God, if you haven't figured out whether you want me or Trump, you ain't really black.
	This is a guy, Joe Biden, who has consistently lied about his civil rights records.
	He has said publicly several times that I work to desegregate lunch counters and movie theaters in Wilmington, Delaware.
	Zero evidence of it.
	And Jake Tapper some months ago disclosed that and said that his staffers quietly approached him and said, Mr. Biden, can you stop saying this?
	And he said, yeah, I'll stop, and then said it again.
	He also lied and said that he was arrested along with Andy Young while they were trying to visit Nelson Mandela in Africa when Nelson Mandela was behind bars.
	And Andy Young said, no, he weren't.
	This is a guy, Joe Biden, who said he's always gotten the endorsement of the NAACP. NAACP is a 501c3 organization.
	They can endorse.
	And they publicly said, we have never endorsed Joe Biden.
	He is lying.
	Now, why isn't that offensive to you as a black person?
	Rachel Dolezal defended people by lying about her ethnicity, but Joe Biden can lie about what he's done for the civil rights movement, lie about Nelson Mandela, lie about the NAACP. Not a problem?
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	Music I give you Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York.
	It's been bad in New York, too.
	Just last night, they finally, after 50 or 60 days or whatever it's been, have cleared out areas of Antifa-types protesters.
	I saw a video last night, I think it was in Soho, that was so frightening.
	I think it was a couple months ago, but nonetheless, what's happened in America's big cities run by Democrat mayors is something that Americans are noticing.
	And so when the president says, hey, if they're not going to help their own citizens, we can.
	We can send in federal assistance.
	Here's Bill de Blasio's response to that.
	This president blusters and bluffs and says he's going to do things, and they never materialize on a regular basis.
	So, first, we should not overrate his statements.
	They are so often not true.
	Second, if he tried to do it, it would only create more problems, it would backfire, it wouldn't make us safer, and we would immediately take action in court to stop it.
	From my point of view, this would be yet another example of illegal and unconstitutional actions by the president.
	And we have often had to confront him in court.
	It is the Thursday Dennis Prager Show and Dennis will be back for the Friday Dennis Prager Show.
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	Many of you have, so let's hop back to those calls here in just a second.
	Want to provide a little oppo research, as we say in the trade.
	Opposition research.
	What are those pesky Democrats up to?
	A couple of hours ago, we had the always entertaining tag team of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
	Out front talking about what they want to do in COVID policy.
	It's funny when I say, and the answer is, spend a ton of your money.
	Many of you will trip over yourselves saying, Mark, there are a whole lot of Republicans who want to do that.
	And you would be correct about that.
	You would be completely correct about that.
	But here's a little bit of Chuck and Nancy because they're going to reveal a little bit, in so doing, sort of the Democrat narrative.
	As they work oh so hard to get Joe Biden elected at a time when they absolutely have to know that with our cities on fire and with radicals grabbing the reins of the party, that that is going to be a very tough sell.
	We're not going to take care of one portion of suffering people and leave everyone else hanging.
	That's what they may want to do.
	Take care of this and then they'll go home.
	No way.
	This is a comprehensive proposal that addresses the many problems of COVID and we have to address it as a totality.
	Any time a Democrat uses the word comprehensive, as in comprehensive immigration reform, just scream, run, and make sure you're grabbing your wallet as you do.
	Because comprehensive, which sounds kind of appealing, it's like, hey, it's something that solves the whole problem.
	It's not piecemeal.
	It's not catch-as-catch-can.
	It's comprehensive.
	What's not to love about comprehensive solutions?
	Well, if you've studied Democrats for more than five minutes, you know that comprehensive means they're coming at you with a sledgehammer.
	It's going to be expensive.
	It's going to obliterate a lot of your rights.
	It's going to hit you with enormous lurches leftward that you're not going to like.
	It should be kryptonite to conservatives.
	You think we can do it by the end of next week?
	Look, Leader McConnell didn't even show up and make a speech this morning.
	I had it all to myself.
	Rare moment.
	But in any case, I hope so, but they're so divided.
	They're so divided, and there's no leadership from the president.
	At the same time that they know the president has no leadership, they're afraid to buck him on anything.
	And that's just such an old, tired talk about it.
	The definition of courage in the lib dictionary, the definition of courage is a Republican looking to make trouble.
	For President Trump.
	Most courageous Republican in this dictionary, of course, would be Mitt Romney.
	I mean, and don't even get me started on mittens.
	Don't even get me started.
	It could not go a week without suggesting, look at all these other countries doing great.
	Well, guess what, Mitt?
	We're not Germany.
	We don't have the luxury of sort of...
	Monolithic, easily commanded populations.
	You know, pick almost any European country that is used to authoritarianism.
	We're not.
	Americans are going to be big.
	Any problems are going to be big and messy, and the solution might be big and messy.
	We'll get there.
	We will get there.
	And he doesn't know how to solve this problem, as we have seen so much of what has happened.
	So much of the illness and so much of the deaths and so much of the economic hardship and health hardship.
	Illness and death and hardship are Trump's fault.
	Thanks, Chuck.
	It's because this administration has no direction, no plan, no straight line of attack.
	Well, and so the question arises, what do you geniuses want to do?
	Did any of you catch...
	Joe Biden on with, well, I'm going to guess this answer is no.
	Did you catch Joe Biden on Joy Reid?
	Okay, withdraw the question.
	Well, I kind of had to, so here's how that went in a half a second.
	Basically, can I get you a foot rub and a pillow?
	Can I make you more comfortable?
	In what ways is Trump the Antichrist?
	You just go and let me know when you're done.
	And so Joe Biden gave various criticisms of the president and about COVID response.
	And then Joy said, all right, well, what would you do?
	I kind of looked at my wife and said, thanks, Joy.
	And then Joe gave some things that he thought were good policy ideas.
	Expenditure of money on some things.
	The focus on certain things in terms of a vaccine, the mobilization of certain strategies, all of which the president has been doing.
	All of which the president has been doing.
	Huh.
	All right.
	We're in Rochelle, Illinois.
	Tim, hey, Mark Davison for Dennis, how are you?
	Fine, thank you.
	I just heard that, Doug.
	That caller about the NFAC and Grandmaster J, and I thought, what videos have they been watching that I've missed?
	Because I'm completely supportive of what they're doing.
	I don't necessarily like their name, and let's hope that they evolve it into something very fantastic.
	Well, let's take a look.
	We have some new group we always got to look at.
	The NFAC is the Not Blanking Around Coalition.
	And so are they due in Louisville or something?
	And what's your understanding of these folks?
	They're exercising their Second Amendment rights, their First Amendment rights.
	They're doing it in a very organized and structured manner.
	They're doing it in a peaceful manner.
	And the people they were talking to in the cars as their AR-15s were hanging around their neck, Right.
	For people that were not allowed to be in the park while they reserved it.
	So they were stopping cars saying, this park is our park for the day, and what are you doing here?
	I'm going to go to the park, or you'll need to turn around, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	That video is out there.
	Okay.
	I'm going to share a thought.
	I'm going to share a thought.
	Okay, excuse me.
	Whether it's a bunch of black guys involved in, and they are black guys, so I mean that.
	I'm trying to create the visual.
	Or a bunch of white guys taking over, what was it, Michigan?
	The State House?
	Second Amendment guys who I would agree with.
	And their chosen look, their chosen strategy is walking around with AR-15 strapping off you?
	That is intimidating.
	Period.
	And they know it.
	Well, I don't think it's intimidating as you can.
	Really?
	Really?
	You do not...
	I'm going to let this marinate.
	You do not believe it's intimidating for a large group of people to be strolling around with...
	And I'm a huge fan of the AR-15, by the way.
	Own one.
	Love it.
	People say, why do you need an AR-15?
	Well, if you've got ten people trying to get into your house, you need an AR-15.
	Ask the people in riot-torn areas if they need an AR-15 to protect their business.
	But the notion as a look, as a fashion choice, as a moment of activism, say, let's get a bunch of people and let's go walking around in public with AR-15s, is by its definition intimidating, and they intend it to be.
	So please, please, Tim.
	Well, I don't want to lose my Second Amendment right.
	You don't want to lose your Second Amendment right.
	Well, of course not.
	That's immaterial.
	And people who are protesting and doing an action about their Second Amendment right, carrying a firearm, do not want to lose that privilege.
	So they're not going to do anything harmful or dangerous with that rifle or that pistol.
	Well, okay, I begin with a latitude of trusting people until I have a reason not to trust them, okay?
	In fact, especially if it's the Second Amendment guys of whatever color making a point about the Second Amendment, right?
	I mean, that I can sort of see.
	But this NFAC thing, it ain't about the Second Amendment, it's about Breonna Taylor!
	That ain't about the Second Amendment.
	These are not NRA members, you know, going rogue.
	No, they are my fellow American citizens.
	That's right.
	At the beginning of this call, I support them, and I still do.
	I'm not going to change my...
	No, no.
	Okay, dude.
	None of...
	Listen, even with regard to Breonna Taylor, that sounds like something I can find.
	I guess it's just about the tactic.
	It sounds like you're totally on board for the tactic.
	And I'm just telling you, if you ever form a group and you want to make a point by saying, okay, everybody, let's get about 100 of y'all and walk around in public with AR-15s, I'm going to tell you it's a bad move.
	I'm just saying that we should support them.
	We should support them.
	We should bring them along.
	We should absolutely be there.
	Here's me bringing them along.
	You ready?
	Here's me bringing them along.
	Guys, you may have some magnificent points you want to make.
	Leave the AR-15s at home and make them.
	That's me bringing them along.
	Glad to bring them along.
	Good advice.
	And again, I love me my AR-15.
	Will I at some point find 500 other guys to strap on their AR-15s and let's go make some public point about anything?
	That's going to be a no, because I don't think people are going to listen to me very much.
	Mark Davis here for Dennis.
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	Now, we are told that the president is bungling the response to the coronavirus pandemic and that had he been more competent, hey, listen to his advisors.
	Everything would have been a lot better.
	Oh!
	Well, do you remember the H1N1 virus that the Obama-Biden campaign had to deal with?
	2009?
	Don't ask me why he said this.
	Honestly, don't ask me.
	Don't ask me.
	But this guy is an advisor to the Joe Biden campaign.
	His name is Ron Klein.
	And he is explaining how the Obama administration responded to the 2009 swine flu crisis.
	Now again, he is a top Biden advisor.
	His name is Ron Klein.
	Listen to this.
	I was in the White House in 2009, 2010. I was working for Vice President Biden.
	I wasn't involved directly in the H1N1 response, but I lived through it as a White House staffer.
	And what I will say about it is a bunch of really talented, really great people working on it, and we did every possible thing wrong.
	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	He speaks almost as fast as I do.
	Slow down, slow down.
	Did you say that the Obama administration was full of very talented people, very smart people, that did everything wrong in responding to the H1N1 flu?
	Did you say that?
	You mean, like, after the epidemic, a safety equipment industry association recommended that depleted supplies of N95 respirator masks be replenished, but that didn't happen?
	And what I will say about it is a bunch of really talented, really great people working on it, and we did every possible thing wrong.
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	Page 85. Over the last 200 years,
	the Church has regained the capacity to name It's own bishops without interference from governments with a few exceptions.
	But if you claim the responsibility to choose your own leadership, then you have to own the responsibility to fix mistakes when mistakes get made.
	You know, I've been saying this since the abuse.
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	We are in California.
	Melanie, hey!
	Mark Davis in for Dennis, how are you?
	Hi, thank you so much for taking my call.
	My pleasure.
	I wanted to let you know, you broadcast out of Dallas initially, didn't you?
	I still do.
	That's where I am right now.
	Oh, you still do?
	Excellent.
	Yay.
	When I was little, on my way to school, my dad would listen to talk radio, and at that time it was blah, blah, blah.
	That's the early indoctrination.
	That's awesome.
	Well, thank you, Dad, and thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	Absolutely.
	I'm so glad you're on the air.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for what you do.
	There was a story this morning on your local Salem radio affiliate, and the headline with the Citizen's Journal is Forced County COVID-19 Lockdown of Ventura Apartment Building at 137 South Palm Street.
	So what had happened per this story is that The apartment building in Southern California posted this letter saying that each resident must get tested.
	I guess how this came about is somebody went to the hospital, tested positive for COVID-19, and then they subjected all of these 78 residents to essential imprisonment.
	They had to get tested.
	My voice is shaking because I'm in shock.
	Well, let me ask, because as you were talking, I went and found the story.
	I think I'm looking at the same thing you are.
	Was it a suggestion or was it a mandate?
	I mean, tell me.
	Right.
	So they put it mandatory.
	There is mandatory COVID testing and quarantine.
	And what they did is they disabled the card keys.
	All resident card keys will be deactivated during the lockout.
	Wow.
	This is from Venezuela property manager.
	And so they disabled the card keys and they put security at the doors.
	And this is another example that frightens me that we're starting to look like North Korea in some respects and no one is stopping this.
	What do you mean beaches are closed and schools are closed and there's temperature checks and masks?
	Well, you've given us five talk shows in there.
	I mean, the beaches are closed.
	You're outside.
	I think that's crazy.
	Masks are good.
	Mask mandates are bad.
	Schools, I would open schools.
	That's a policy agreement.
	I'm looking at this thing on your story.
	This is apparently what was left for the residents.
	Due to the recent virus outbreak at the Palms Building, the Ventura County Public Health Department has ordered mandatory testing and quarantine for all residents at this location.
	Here's when the testing is, etc.
	Effective immediately, the Palms Building has been placed on lockdown.
	Except for essential workers, no one will be able to enter or exit the building during the lockdown.
	Security personnel will be posted on all entrances of the building 24-7.
	All resident car keys, and apparently car keys maybe as well, will be deactivated during the lockdown.
	Please be aware, the Palms Building is a non-smoking building!
	So not only can you not leave, you can't blaze up.
	If you have any questions, here's the number.
	Thank you for your cooperation.
	Stay safe by keeping your distance and wearing a mask.
	I can't leave my house!
	Why do I need to wear anything?
	Wow!
	Okay.
	Let's spend a moment.
	Let's spend a moment, Melanie.
	Sure.
	Let us begin with an understanding that a building, that local government and the building itself would want to do something.
	If there is, I don't know, what level of outbreak?
	Is there anywhere in the story that shows how many people in the building had it?
	Yeah, so once they did the test, I guess four people did test positive.
	After the test results came in today, 7-20-20, only one more positive.
	Okay, pardon me.
	Here we go.
	I see what you mean.
	The building is run by the Ventura Housing Authority, has elderly and behavioral health cases, 74 units in total, mostly singles, some residents mobile, sometimes not.
	What, in the name of God, are these people supposed to do?
	What are they supposed to do?
	If you go above that, about that line I read, it says two more residents became ill-tested positive, the laundry area was closed.
	So I guess that's how the local affiliate got to score people.
	So what is proper?
	I mean, if this is insane, what's not?
	Should it be just a, hey, an advisory?
	We got some positives in the building.
	You guys might really want to mask up.
	You guys might really want to pay attention to your symptoms.
	I think I'd be fine with information and recommendations are fine.
	But wow!
	That is like...
	I mean, if I feel like I'm in a bad sci-fi movie, imagine these folks who for two weeks will not be able to leave their homes.
	Okay.
	Well, hey, Melanie.
	Thanks.
	I appreciate it enormously.
	Please stay healthy.
	Your freedom may depend on it.
	I mean, okay, and this is first blush stuff, right?
	We got 33 minutes of Dennis Prager show left, right?
	What is reasonable?
	What is reasonable?
	If this is not July, hang on, hold on a second, we may have an update.
	We may solve this as a talk show topic immediately.
	I think the lockdown's been lifted.
	Hang on.
	Over at citizensjournal.us.
	Lockdown was lifted today after results came in and only one positive test occurred.
	Oh, okay.
	Well, now I'm going to go full Emily Letella.
	Never mind.
	But still, well, I'll tell you what.
	The issues, they would do it again.
	They would do it again, don't you think?
	So, as Rahm Emanuel once said, if Rahm Emanuel had a talk show, never let a good topic go to waste.
	So here's what it would be.
	If in Ventura County they will shut your apartment building down where nobody can come in and you can't get out, how do you do the, I don't know, food thing?
	You know, the eating and stuff.
	Wow.
	What is reasonable in an apartment building that has an outbreak?
	Can you tell me?
	1-8 Prager 776. 1-8 Prager 776. Okay.
	So that we don't give anybody short shrift, let me take a look at a couple of things for you that I want you to know about.
	Speaking of this issue, there's a campaign from our friends at Job Creators Network Foundation partnering with doctors from across the country giving Americans the facts about living with the coronavirus.
	That includes presenting the facts about reopening our nation's schools and doing so safely.
	Factor not in dispute.
	As of mid-July, fatality rate for folks under 20, like one-fifth of one percent.
	The American Academy of Pediatrics released a statement strongly urging that policy should start with the goal of having kids physically present in school.
	Encouraging public officials to consider the overall well-being of children.
	To learn more, please go to flattenthefear.com.
	Data really does matter.
	And the fact is, a large part of the population can and should get back to living lives without fear, especially our nation's children.
	Learn more at FlattenTheFear.com.
	FlattenTheFear.com.
	Mark Davis, in for Dennis.
	Be right back.
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	Tell us a little bit about the back story between the mayor and the relationship between the police and the mayor's office and how things are going in Chicago with regards to public safety.
	Well, I mean, before she was elected mayor, she was a police reform, in quotation marks, advocate who...
	She promulgated the same line of argumentation that you got from the Obama White House that police departments, including Chicago, were systemically racist, despite the fact that half of the Chicago Police Department are black or Latino officers.
	Doesn't matter.
	Systemically racist.
	She has, like in so many other places where you see rioters taking control of the streets, she has put Chicago police back on their heels.
	And the result of that, as we know, as we know from research from Roland Fryer at Harvard, and as we know from what we see with our eyes in Portland and Seattle and Chicago and New York and Atlanta and L.A., is that you put police back on your heels and you tell that small segment of the population that are violent criminals, repeat violent criminals in most cases, that you have nothing to concern yourself with as it pertains to the police or the state's attorney's office.
	That's important, too.
	Then you have them.
	Doing what you're doing, doing what you see them doing, which is running amok.
	I mean, 14 people, 15 people shot at a funeral, and it was laying to rest a gangbanger.
	So one gang is there, the other gang drives by and shoots.
	The gang that was there to honor their fallen brother opens fire, and it's a shootout like you see in a Robert De Niro movie.
	Dan, and it does, this all feels like a movie.
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	At every turn, it seems like there are more unanswered questions and few honest explanations about why so many of our liberties are under attack.
	Why are so many bright people teaching me nonsense?
	Some of the scenes of violent protests are just amazing.
	They're irrational evil.
	Dennis Prager and Dr. Wayne Grudem confront the toughest social issues we face today, explained through historical, political and never-before-told personal stories.
	More rabbis, priests, and ministers fear the left and fear God.
	When you stand before God at the final judgment, what will you say to him about how you voted on abortion laws?
	The President is bungling the response to the election.
	The President is bungling the response to the election.
	Thank you.
	Well, do you remember the H1N1 virus that the Obama-Biden campaign had to deal with?
	2009?
	Don't ask me why he said this.
	Honestly, don't ask me.
	Don't ask me.
	But this guy is an advisor to the Joe Biden campaign.
	His name is Ron Klein.
	And he is explaining how the Obama administration responded to the 2009 swine flu crisis.
	Now again, he is a top Biden advisor.
	His name is Ron Klein.
	Listen to this.
	I was in the White House in 2009, 2010.
	I was working for Vice President Biden.
	I wasn't involved directly in the H1N1 response, but I lived through it as a White House staffer.
	And what I will say about it is a bunch of really talented, really great people working on it, and we did every possible thing wrong.
	He speaks almost as fast as I do.
	Slow down.
	Slow down.
	Did you say that the Obama administration was full of very talented people, very smart people that did...
	You know, you're not going to believe this.
	On the team names front, We, of course, have a brand new National Hockey League team, the Seattle Kraken, which sounds ridiculous for about 30 seconds, but then if you think about it, it's kind of cool.
	Large, Nordic, mythical sea creature, and the logo's cool.
	I put it up on my Twitter, at Mark Davis.
	But I've also just shared with you, speaking of team names and where we find ourselves in this bizarre moment, you're aware that they ditched the Washington Redskins, right?
	Proud tradition of using Native American imagery in nothing but a complimentary and honorable way.
	The son of the actual member of the Blackfeet Nation who helped design that familiar face that's been used on a Redskins helmet for about 50 years said it broke his heart.
	He said, when I see that, that's my people.
	I will miss that.
	There was never any evidence, not one shred, That a broad cross-section of people, from Native Americans themselves to anybody else, ever took offense at the Washington Redskins.
	This was phony, false outrage of the moment.
	It was a mob, and they buckled, and it was disgusting.
	Now, there's news because they got rid of the Redskins, but it's not like they told us what the new name was going to be.
	Redskins out and in with...
	And at some point, I guess they'll tell us.
	And I'm sure it'll be lovely and properly non-offensive, although someone will take umbrage at anything.
	Whatever they come up with, it's just going to bother me because it will simply be a salt-in-the-wound reminder that they got rid of Redskins, which they never should have done.
	But the news today, are you ready?
	If it's possible for this story to get any stupider, it has.
	From Adam Schefter at ESPN. Effective immediately, Washington has revealed what they are going to call themselves.
	The Washington football team.
	Now, keep the car on the road.
	This is not a final renaming or rebranding.
	This is just called, we don't know what to do.
	There will be the pending adoption of a new name in the future.
	The future when?
	Week 6 of this season?
	What do you use for the logo?
	It's a big empty circle where the Indian guy's head used to be?
	They will call themselves the Washington football team.
	You are kidding me.
	This is what happens.
	When you let the left handle things, Dennis is right, they ruin everything!
	This is just the height of stupidity!
	Oh, goodness gracious me!
	Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
	Let us head to some more of your calls.
	1-8 Prager 776. We're in Lansing, Michigan.
	Gustav!
	Como ça va?
	How are you doing, sir?
	Thank you, stop.
	Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	How you doing?
	Okay, that will accrue to the...
	Wow, sorry.
	Got to be a little quicker on the draw.
	Well, let's trade one Francophile name for another.
	Let's go to Lakewood, California.
	Trudeau!
	How are you doing, sir?
	Hi, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	Welcome.
	Yes, hello.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	My pleasure.
	Nice to have you.
	Thank you.
	You're so kind.
	Thanks.
	And I wonder, Mark, How many sports fans are aware of the fact that Kaepernick, during practice, is wearing Argyle socks with the pig's faces on it?
	I know.
	That was the thing.
	He tried to tell us that it's not about hatred of the police.
	Then what are you doing wearing socks at practice that portray police officers as pigs?
	And, Mark, I got a solution for the, during the National Anthem, after the players have their warm-ups on the basketball court or they go over to plays in the football field, they retreat to their lockers, you play the National Anthem.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The ignorance of their politics.
	They'll be spared the pain of hearing the national anthem, and we will be spared the spectacle of seeing them.
	However, and I know you know, the spectacle is the point.
	That's why there is enormous narcissism in anthem kneeling.
	It's about, hey, you guys may be paying some tribute to this country thing that you admire, but no, no, no.
	I need it to be about me.
	I need it to be about...
	My issue.
	I need it to be about my feelings rather than a communal moment where we all are grateful just for a minute and 20 seconds that we're in a country that allows us to discuss our problems and work through them.
	Alrighty.
	Discussing our problems and working through them on The Dennis Prager Show.
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	And the Uyghur concentration camps is beginning to break through as the repression of Hong Kong has broken through, as have the claims in the South China Sea From 1989 until very recently, a generation has been educated in the idea that the end of history, Francis Fukuyama, it's all coming together.
	It's not all coming together.
	It's coming head-to-head between the CCP and the U.S., with Russia and Iran as kind of agents of influence of the CCP, but it really is West versus East now.
	It is West versus East, and you see China, whereas before it would kind of do its foreign policy that often was against U.S. foreign policy in a very...
	Quiet, covert way.
	Now you see China being much more bold and you even see diplomats.
	You know, we've talked a lot about these diplomatic warriors that are going off and really speaking against the United States.
	And you've seen this, you know, I wouldn't even call it a Cold War.
	I'd call it a kind of open war of rhetoric when you saw China blaming, you know, after, of course, after President Trump.
	Really started hitting China for its actions on the coronavirus.
	Started saying that the U.S. brought the virus to China.
	And it's not just the U.S. China is really hitting back against anybody that criticizes them.
	Diplomats from Chinese diplomats around the world have taken a much more aggressive stance to countries that criticize them.
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	Folks, I'm talking to my friend Larry Elder, who has a nationally syndicated radio program, but big deal.
	Who doesn't have one of those, right?
	Larry, honestly, I gotta say, your film Uncle Tom, spectacular as it is, Is part of something larger that is happening in this country?
	It seems to me that a lot of Blacks in America are finally waking up, thanks to you and others, and they're looking around and they're saying, I have been sold a bill of goods.
	For example, even I didn't really know the history that the Republican Party was formed to end slavery and that the Democrats were the proponents not just of slavery.
	But of keeping blacks down, of the KKK. The Republican Party's whole reason for existence was to stop the spread of slavery and ultimately to end it.
	And you're quite right.
	Democrats founded the KKK. I said that once on Fox News.
	I got fact-checked.
	And the fact-checker said, Larry Elder said the Democratic Party founded the KKK. When in fact, Larry Elder didn't say that.
	Larry Elder said Democrats founded the KKK, which is objectively true.
	Democrats opposed the 13th Amendment, the 14th Amendment, the 15th Amendment unanimously.
	And as a percentage of the party, more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 64 than did Democrats.
	And what you get in response to that, Eric, is, well, in the mid-60s, en masse, they switched sides.
	All the racists left the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party.
	A couple problems with that.
	First of all, look at all of the Democrats that voted against the Civil Rights Act of 64 in the Senate and ask yourself.
	How many of them switched?
	Answer one, Strom Thurmond.
	Ask yourself the same question about the House.
	How many Democrats switched?
	One whose name I can't even remember.
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	Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.
	Thank you.
	Is that in any way an exaggeration?
	absolutely not you see spot and this is the greatness of CS Lewis How do you not love C.S. Lewis?
	C.S. Lewis was one of the...
	I mean, when you take a look at writers, when you take a look at thinkers, Clive Staples Lewis.
	He's written a lot of fiction, Screwtape Letters, Chronicles of Narnia, Space Trilogy, lots of sort of ethereal sci-fi stuff.
	But it's mostly, as an underpinning...
	For various pieces of what's called Christian apologetics.
	Wonderful books like Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, Miracles.
	C.S. Lewis, just go, thank me later, find anything the guy wrote, read it, enjoy it.
	Here's an interesting thing.
	Do you remember when C.S. Lewis died?
	Maybe you don't, because it was kind of a big news day for other reasons.
	C.S. Lewis died.
	The day of the Kennedy assassination.
	He was 64. Died on the 22nd of November, 1963. His words live on.
	Boy, do they ever.
	This is sort of making the rounds.
	And of all the things that make the rounds, many of them are instantly dismissible, forgettable, and dumb.
	This one is great.
	And a lot of people think that this is sort of a lesson for the COVID era.
	And how to adjust our attitudes in a time when everyone wants us to cower in fear of the latest thing.
	And C.S. Lewis apparently wrote this.
	And I've checked.
	It's not one of those, hey, look, here's the Robin Williams peace plan.
	It's just, no, many of those are total hoaxes.
	This one appears to be real.
	And it was 1948 in an essay.
	On living in an atomic age.
	On living in an atomic age.
	1948. Three years ahead.
	It was quite the atomic age.
	Because we had just nuked Japan to win World War II. So it was quite the atomic age.
	And C.S. Lewis wrote as follows.
	And as I share these words, think about our current concerns.
	Our current fears.
	Quote.
	In one way...
	We think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb.
	How are we to live in an atomic age?
	I'm tempted to reply, why, as you would have lived in the 16th century, when the plague visited London almost every year.
	Or as you would have lived in a Viking age.
	When raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat on any given night, or indeed as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor crashes.
	In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation.
	Believe me or dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was ever invented, and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways anyway.
	We had indeed one very great advantage over our ancestors, anesthetics.
	But we have that still.
	It's perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.
	This is the first point to be made and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together.
	If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, let it find us doing sensible and human things.
	Praying.
	Working.
	Teaching.
	Reading.
	Listening to music.
	Bathing the children.
	Playing tennis.
	Chatting with our friends over a pint and a game of darts.
	Not huddled together like frightened sheep thinking about bombs.
	They may break our bodies.
	A microbe can do that.
	But they need not dominate our minds.
	C.S. Lewis, on Living in an Atomic Age, 1948. We are in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
	Bill, hey, Mark Davis in for Dennis.
	Welcome.
	Happy Thursday.
	I'm doing great.
	Thank you, sir.
	Yeah, I was just going to comment on, I heard you talking about the Redskins, and I can't say that, the Washington football team.
	The Washington football team, as they will be known.
	I heard them, what was going on when they had that name debacle, they were still on the fence about not really wanting to change it, but it was, I think it was FedEx, their sponsor for where they play?
	Yep, FedEx and other companies, FedEx and, right.
	FedEx and other companies made clear that they were going to yank funding.
	So none of that makes it okay.
	The Redskins and Danny Snyder were still gutless for changing it.
	They should have stood up to these companies.
	If you want to transfer some blame to these companies, shame, shame on any company that tried to pressure the Redskins to change the name.
	That is nothing but woke nonsense.
	$150 million is a lot of pressure, though.
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	And guess what?
	It's called doing the right thing.
	It's called doing, because if you cave to pressure like this, bullies will always win.
	And this was nothing but bullying.
	This was false outrage.
	And if FedEx bought it, shame on them.
	And if Danny Snyder buckled under it, then shame on him too.
	I have had it up to my eyeballs with faux outrage, false, just the imagery of mobs and bullies, Winning the day.
	I've had it.
	Now, it's important for me to say, if there is a team name or statue or whatever, where like a majority of people genuinely are offended, or even an appreciable number, it doesn't have to be majority rule.
	If there's, you know, an X percentage, and it's really significant, and their indignation seems organic and non-contrived and genuine and sincere, then I would absolutely, out of kindness and consideration, Say, you know what?
	Maybe you change that.
	But that was never the case with Redskins.
	Never!
	It never was.
	That was phony from the get-go.
	But, what's done is done.
	Of course, here's the funny thing.
	What have they got going on in Redskins land now, where owner Danny Snyder and various others have been hit with more old charges of hostile work environment and sexual misbehavior?
	They may have bigger fish to fry than the team name.
	Wouldn't it be wild if Danny Snyder kicked out his owner of the Redskins, bring in another owner, have him put the Redskins name back?
	Maybe there's a silver lining.
	Mark Davidson for Dennis.
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	Talk to us about your response to what Tucker Carlson is going through right now.
	I think if anyone gets doxed, then the media gets doxed too.
	That's like, if we're opening this war, let's go.
	I just think we're at that point.
	It's just so ridiculous, so awful, so absurd to dox someone and so dangerous that, okay, you next.
	What you do unto others is what will be done to you.
	Something like that, Jesus said?
	I don't know.
	I probably twisted it.
	I just think that's absolutely disgusting and awful.
	And if you weren't a fan of Tucker, you should be now because he's leading the brigade, you know?
	So your message to the world and to the billion...
	No, it's got to be two billion eyeballs if you've got a million views.
	The two billion eyeballs out there is no mercy.
	Is that Nicole Arbour's social media warrior message?
	I believe you just said that.
	But yeah, it's no mercy.
	Treat other people the way you want to be treated.
	So if you don't want to be doxed, maybe don't be doxing people.
	You know, maybe?
	Let's just use our heads and be adults here.
	It's gotten crazy.
	You're on the front lines.
	Are people trying to dox you?
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	But that's nothing.
	I get death threats at 3am on my home phone.
	It's, you know, as I said when I was in the White House, you're only taking flack when you're over the target.
	I told Mike, kind of weird, my colleagues didn't get it, especially in the press shop back then.
	There were certain, what's the word?
	I won't use it.
	Certain individuals who worked in the White House press office who wanted love.
	And approval from places like CNN and the Washington Post and the New York Times.
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	Tell us a little bit about the backstory between the mayor and the relationship between the police and the mayor's office and how things are going in Chicago with regards to public safety.
	Well, I mean, before she was elected mayor, she was a police reform, in quotation marks, advocate who...
	Promulgated the same line of argumentation that you got from the Obama White House that police departments, including Chicago, were systemically racist, despite the fact that half of the Chicago Police Department are A couple of golden moments remaining.
	Let's see what we can squeeze out of this.
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	So appreciative.
	Thank you, Sean.
	Thank you, Christian.
	Thank you, Leslie, for the call screening.
	Thank you, Dennis, for the joy of being able to be here.
	Much appreciate that.
	Let us roll next to...
	We are in...
	Is it Indian Park, Illinois?
	Rich!
	Hi!
	Mark Davison for Dennis.
	How are you?
	Hey, good.
	Thank you.
	I just want to thank you and Dennis for your honesty when you're on air.
	You're very kind.
	My question for you, a week or so ago I heard they were going to play a black anthem before the football game.
	Oh, lift every voice and sing?
	Yeah, that ain't going to happen.
	Let me take 60 seconds on that, but we're going to try to get somebody else on it.
	Rich, thank you.
	Lift Every Voice and Sing is a song from a little over 100 years ago.
	It was written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson and then set to music by his brother, Jay Rosamund Johnson.
	It is a beautiful song.
	And at the time of its ascendancy and popularity, 1919, around the time of the birth of the NAACP, It spoke of liberty, it spoke of a quest for freedom, a thirst for freedom, and it was dubbed, using the nomenclature of the time, the Negro National Anthem.
	I know what they meant by that, and at the time, I get it.
	There is no black national anthem, and so any notion of, well, let's play that, and then Stars of Bangalore, no.
	But I will tell you this, lost in the wash here, Is the beautiful piece of work that is the song Lift Every Voice and Sing.
	Because again, keeping in mind, we're about exactly a hundred years ago.
	Well, that's when it was sort of gaining in popularity.
	I think it was written and put to music by J. Rosamond Johnson around 1905. And having just enjoyed the words of C.S. Lewis, these are lyrics that deserve some attention.
	Stony the road we trod.
	Bitter, the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died.
	Yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
	This is a pretty remarkable thing.
	This is the turn of the sense, 1905. I mean, it's 50 years.
	It's barely half a century past the end of the Civil War.
	And these were folks who felt like there's already been some progress.
	Way more that needs to be done.
	And heaven knows that's still true.
	But Lift Every Voice and Sing is a beautiful piece of music and a beautiful piece of writing.
	Does it serve, like today, as a black national anthem?
	No.
	And you know what?
	Nor should there be.
	There shouldn't be a black national anthem.
	There shouldn't be a white national anthem.
	There shouldn't be an Eskimo national anthem, if you can still say that.
	There shouldn't be a Hispanic or an Asian.
	And no, we have a national anthem.
	The point of which, the point of which is to unite people of all colors, all political stripes, in gratitude for this nation.
	I'm grateful to you, Mark Davis.
	And for Dennis, follow me on Twitter, at Mark Davis.
	I will see you next time.
	Dennis is back.
	Have a great day.

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