July 28, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
06:36
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| Okay, now let's talk about Portland today. | |
| So I read a piece in the Oregonian, and it was about the riots and the effect on business. | |
| And this is the gist of the long article in the Oregonian this weekend, as I understood it. | |
| Basically, that it's exaggerated how much has happened. | |
| Because it's only dangerous at night and in a very small area of Portland, and only a few hundred people are involved. | |
| That's what I picked up from the Oregonian. | |
| A, was my pickup accurate? | |
| And B, if it was, is the Oregonian accurate? | |
| The Oregonian is the paper record in Portland. | |
| It's our legacy media here. | |
| History does good work, but as with all major media institutions and publications, the younger people that have come to replace it are of the social justice world view, and it's reflected more in the journalism. | |
| So with that particular story, I'm glad it's talking about some of the economic impacts of the riots. | |
| I think the bias of the writer shows through in that they're trying to minimize what's happening by describing it as a small area downtown and that it's only potentially dangerous at night. | |
| I mean, that type of perspective is essentially what normalizes this. | |
| I personally do not accept that in any American city should an area of downtown be a literal no-go zone, not just for police, but for drivers or people who have different views. | |
| You can't drive you there. | |
| They have guards essentially standing on the street to block traffic, and it's also to block law enforcement from going inside. | |
| And it's a pretty large area, three by three block. | |
| So is this Portland's Chaz? | |
| It is, but it works in that during the day it goes away. | |
| So, you know, if you work in that area and you work during the day, you can go through. | |
| I mean, the place is a mess, but otherwise you can still access it. | |
| I mean, this is in front of the federal courthouse. | |
| It's in front of the county courthouse. | |
| It's by City Hall. | |
| It's a very important area downtown. | |
| It's at night. | |
| That it becomes a no-go zone. | |
| So it is like Portland's Chaz, I would say, but it's worse than that the number of people there are more radical, more extreme. | |
| It's hard to imagine more extreme than Chaz, but it's an odd competition. | |
| So a final question. | |
| There's something I just, I must admit, I can't quite wrap my mind around. | |
| Not find this intolerable? | |
| It's hard for me to gauge the views of the majority because the people who are vocal are very hard left. | |
| And my hard left, I'm not just talking about liberal or Democrat. | |
| I mean far left. | |
| Communist, basically. | |
| I would say extreme in some ways. | |
| They support this. | |
| They have sympathies not just for socialism and communism and anarchism. | |
| They may actually be supporters of it, and some of them are actually in government's position. | |
| I think it's quite appalling that congressmen for the area, Harold Blumenauer, actually shared the link for how people could donate to one of the Antifa groups who have been buying people. | |
| Yes. | |
| He's the one with the bowtie. | |
| He went to Congress who was saying that what's happening in Portland is being exaggerated. | |
| Democrat politicians are downplaying this because what it reflects on them is that their inability or not having the desire to clamp down on riots in their own cities. | |
| And they're blaming it on the DHS, on the Trump administration, but that's bogus because the surge of additional reinforcements to protect the federal courthouse and other federal property didn't happen in Portland until five weeks in. | |
| So there were already five weeks of daily violent protests that were happening before reinforcements came. | |
| They're just using it now as a convenient excuse to put the blame elsewhere. | |
| Can we read you anywhere? | |
| Yes. | |
| So I'm published on a number of places. | |
| I just wrote my most recent piece. | |
| It's in the New York Post. | |
| And to look up, I write about what the goal of these rioters are. | |
| Oh, good. | |
| Excellent. | |
| I want to get to that piece. | |
| Once again, the name of the place that we can help fund your civil suit against those who beat you. | |
| What is it again? | |
| LibertyCenter.org. | |
| There are several clients there. | |
| I'm one of them. | |
| My legal fund is called Justice for Andy. | |
| Andy, keep up the good work and feel better. | |
| Thank you so much for inviting me on and giving me the opportunity to speak. | |
| Yes, you deserve to say the least. | |
| You have earned it! | |
| Did you get that name? | |
| What is it again? | |
| God, I wasn't even beaten. | |
| Center for American Liberty. | |
| You know how I'll remember that? | |
| CFL. I need acronyms help a lot. | |
| Wow. | |
| Portland, Oregon. | |
| Look, Portland, Oregon exemplifies one of my rules of life, one of my equations. |
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