Dennis Prager Show - What Killed Michael Brown?
Aired: 2020-12-01
Duration: 04:14


=== Amazon's Rejection Letter (03:50) ===

[00:00:00]  By the way, what did Amazon do to your documentary?
[00:00:04]  They canceled it.
[00:00:07]  They sent us a...
[00:00:10]  You know, I'm a writer.
[00:00:13]  I know about rejection letters.
[00:00:15]  This was a rejection letter that literally had hatred in it.
[00:00:20]  It had contempt for us.
[00:00:22]  It told us never to resubmit, never to...
[00:00:27]  Did not play around and change the title and sort of sneak in the back door.
[00:00:33]  It told us, you know, on and on it went.
[00:00:39]  So, I mean, they were just really brutal about it, and they canceled us.
[00:00:46]  Well, Wall Street Journal got wind of this.
[00:00:49]  Others did.
[00:00:52]  And the Wall Street Journal had a couple editorials on it.
[00:00:56]  Jason Reilly wrote a piece.
[00:00:59]  And they were embarrassed.
[00:01:02]  Because the documentary met every criterion they had.
[00:01:08]  The reviews that had come in before that were all very good.
[00:01:14]  Five out of five, so forth.
[00:01:18]  And so then, of course, we got a nice little phone call from some executive somewhere in the vast world of Amazon who said, oh, we made a mistake.
[00:01:31]  Oh, we made a mistake?
[00:01:33]  We made a mistake.
[00:01:35]  And did he or she specify what the mistake was?
[00:01:41]  No, no.
[00:01:42]  And I asked them, and they said, no, that's, you know, they put it off on somebody else, some other department.
[00:01:49]  They really meant to cancel Mein Kampf, but by accident, they did it to what killed Michael Brown.
[00:01:59]  Right, what killed Michael Brown, which maybe they got in the way with it, except their rejection letter was so personalized.
[00:02:08]  I wish you had it in front of you.
[00:02:10]  Yeah, it was ideological.
[00:02:13]  Of course.
[00:02:14]  The irony is, see, it's irrelevant to the left.
[00:02:18]  Back to your point about the weight of falsehood, they're crushed by the weight of falsehood.
[00:02:24]  Because they don't ask, is your documentary telling the truth?
[00:02:27]  They just ask, does it promote the leftist poetic fiction?
[00:02:32]  That's right.
[00:02:33]  That's right.
[00:02:35]  That's it.
[00:02:38]  But they did finally run, and so it is now streamed on Amazon, among other places.
[00:02:47]  How's it doing?
[00:02:48]  It's done very, very well.
[00:02:49]  In fact, the publicity helped it a little.
[00:02:51]  I would imagine.
[00:02:52]  Exactly right.
[00:02:53]  Prager, you got a big boost when some comedian took 10 minutes to crap on us.
[00:03:00]  It was a great boost.
[00:03:02]  We got a lot more fundraising.
[00:03:05]  That's right.
[00:03:07]  These people have no idea how helpful the publicity is.
[00:03:12]  So, do you, I'm sure you know, but I don't think most of my audience knows, Barack Obama mentioned Ferguson after it was known that Michael Brown was not killed because of racism or even police mistake.
[00:03:30]  Is that correct?
[00:03:32]  Yes.
[00:03:33]  Yes, and many, many other people still refer to it as if it was a given that Michael Brown was a victim of white racism.

=== Two Grand Juries Find Nothing (00:38) ===

[00:03:45]  But his murder was investigated.
[00:03:47]  There were two different Justice Department investigations.
[00:03:51]  There were two different grand juries.
[00:03:55]  Which had blocks on them.
[00:03:57]  Right.
[00:04:00]  And they found absolutely nothing, not one shred of evidence anywhere, to suggest that this was racially motivated.
[00:04:08]  Keep up the great work.
[00:04:09]  You're a special man.
[00:04:11]  Shelby Steele's documentary is up at DennisPrager.com.