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Dec. 8, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	I'm Dennis Prager, and I am honored to be with you.
	Today is December 8th.
	Normally, I would say, ah, 17 days to Christmas.
	Hanukkah's coming up in a couple of days.
	And it would be, as always, throughout my life, it's been a festive time.
	And I hope you make it a festive time.
	I made the Thanksgiving completely normally.
	All of this is, it is not about science, my friends.
	If you want to be intellectually honest, it is not about science.
	Because scientists differ.
	So you choose your scientist.
	Certainly that's what the left does.
	What this is about is philosophy of life.
	This is about how you're made up.
	Are you a scared individual?
	And I'm not saying this with contempt.
	I'm saying this completely openly.
	Are you someone who scares?
	I don't mean scares others.
	I mean scares easily.
	I have a dear relative.
	I adore her.
	I truly do.
	She's a special human being.
	And she's just frightened.
	She has barely left her apartment this year, essentially so since March.
	So that's eight months, nine months.
	In nine months, she's barely left her apartment.
	I speak to her periodically, and she's not complaining.
	She's good-spirited.
	She reads a great deal.
	And she talks to people on Skype or on FaceTime or on Zoom, whatever she chooses.
	But she's scared.
	And if she goes out, she wears gloves.
	She wears, I believe, some eye covering.
	I don't recall.
	And certainly a mask everywhere, including, of course, outdoors, if she should go out.
	She does not drive, and so she's afraid to go in an Uber, and certainly not public transportation.
	So, is she following the science?
	No, she wouldn't even claim that.
	She's following her disposition.
	I follow my disposition, taking science into account, obviously.
	My disposition is I want to live.
	I am not putting my life on hold until a vaccine.
	That's my disposition.
	The question is, and it is a question, I don't have an answer to it, can you choose your disposition?
	Can you shape your disposition?
	This is a very...
	I assume an eons-old question.
	And I don't have the answer.
	I did a happiness hour recently on that question.
	Have you successfully fought your nature?
	So that's the question here.
	And it's not predictable.
	Sometimes it's predictable.
	There are people I know who are quite afraid.
	Don't let their kids play with any other kids.
	Which, people have to understand, that's completely irrational and abusive of the child.
	Of course it's done to protect the child, theoretically.
	But there's no such thing as protecting a child from COVID. Children don't get COVID. The fact that somebody does is like protecting children from lightning.
	Children are killed by lightning.
	It is not a threat.
	So, in light of that, let me bring to your attention here a piece increasingly unworthy of reading New York Times.
	It's a very interesting question to me about the editors of the New York Times.
	Do they know how they have ruined their reputation with at least half this country?
	I assume they would say they were never our readers to begin with, so we have lost nothing.
	And since we are the voice of the left, the most prominent voice of the left, We have shored up our base with a vast number of people and are doing fine in terms of subscriptions.
	I think that that's what they would say.
	We don't give a damn about our reputation.
	We only care about our base.
	It's sort of like running for office.
	Very few people, unless it's a close district, appeal to both sides.
	Shore up your base.
	Get the vote out.
	That's the way the New York Times operates.
	Listen to this piece from one of their contributing opinion writers, a doctor, Elizabeth Rosenthal.
	The title, It's Time to Scare People About COVID. Our publishing message about the virus should explain the real cost in graphic terms of catching the virus.
	So the article is a piece of crap and it is a staggering lie.
	It's a gigantic lie because there's no data in the article.
	They don't want public messages to tell people the truth that if you are healthy and under 50, it is almost inconceivable that you will die from this illness.
	They don't want any data.
	There's no data in the piece.
	I was waiting for it.
	No.
	They just want graphic images of people dying on ventilators.
	This is what she wants.
	She said, look, it worked with cigarettes.
	Show graphic images of people with lung cancer.
	That's it.
	This is what they do.
	It's an amazing article.
	Yep.
	So, just like for smoking, that's what she wants done with COVID-19.
	Quest Diagnostics made a video featuring people washing their hands, talking on the phone, playing checkers, the message come together by spending time apart.
	As cases were mounting in September, the Michigan government produced videos with the exhortation, spread hope, not COVID. Urging Michiganders to put on a mask for your community and country.
	Forget that.
	Mr. Rogers type nice isn't working in many parts of the country.
	It's time to make people scared and uncomfortable.
	This is from a doctor.
	This is another group that has been hit, whose reputation has been hit.
	You know why?
	This is a very important time.
	This is a time of testing.
	Americans have not been tested because we've had it good.
	I mean, Americans were tested in World War II. I mean, I'm not talking about that.
	I mean, domestically, there has not been a character test.
	And now there is.
	Who are you really?
	Trump was a character test.
	Do you talk to your parents if they voted for Trump?
	That was the character test.
	Not did you vote for Trump or not vote for Trump.
	There is no Trump supporter who believes that everyone who voted for Biden is unworthy of being talked to.
	If there was such a person, I've not met him or her.
	But tens of millions of people believe that if you voted for Donald Trump, You deserve to lose your job.
	You deserve to have no space on the internet.
	You deserve only contempt.
	And you deserve to be ostracized by family and friends.
	That's a character test.
	And the left has failed.
	That's not unexpected.
	The left is a failure.
	Not liberals.
	That's one of the divisions.
	Liberals will still talk to parents who voted for Trump.
	It's leftists who don't.
	Not all leftists don't either.
	But of those who will not, they are leftists.
	So this is a time of testing.
	So this is a clear example of it.
	Fear appeals can be very effective, said Jay Van Bovel, associate professor of psychology at New York University who co-authored a paper in Nature about how social science could support COVID response efforts.
	We'll read to you more of this.
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	This is Lon He Chen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com.
	California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19.
	The request would have been better received if, at the same time, Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants, or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person while many California schools remain closed for in-person learning and millions of students slog their way through online classes.
	The problem with Newsom's hypocritical actions is that they undercut the very healthcare professionals and scientists whose advice he is asking Californians to follow.
	It makes those of us who live in California wonder who we can trust and what guidance we should be listening to.
	At a time when we need leadership and clarity, Newsom has given us hypocrisy and confusion.
	California's voters won't soon forget his shortcomings.
	I'm Lon He-Cheng.
	The Pepperdine Graduate School of Public Policy.
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	Preparing public leaders for tomorrow.
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	you Thank you.
	Washington Post in its history has never endorsed the Republican president.
	The New York Times has not endorsed one since 1956. Tim Groseclose, who wrote the book Left Turn that I often refer to, says that the media were truly fair and balanced.
	The country's a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third independent if the media reflected that diversity.
	He estimates that the average state would vote anywhere from 8 to 10 points in favor of the Republican candidate.
	Democrats would never win at the presidential level if the media were truly fair and balanced. .
	We've been talking about some of the stories that were ignored or suppressed by the media, including but not limited to the allegation made by Tara Reid, the former staffer of Joe Biden, who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Biden.
	Turns out 35.4% of voters were unaware of the allegation.
	And nearly 9% said that they would have voted for Trump or a third-party candidate or not voted at all for president had they known about the allegation.
	That is enough, according to newsbusters, to flip Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump.
	The Hunter Biden scandal, 45% of voters unaware.
	9.4% said they would have switched their vote.
	That Kamala Harris has a more left-wing record than Bernie Sanders, the self-described Democrat Socialist.
	25.3% of Biden voters were unaware of this.
	4.1% say they would have changed their vote again, enough possibly to flip Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump, according to the newsbusters.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Buerca.
	Talk to us about this unique pardon, which the president called a pardon of innocence.
	As soon as I heard it last week, Thanksgiving week, I tweeted out, it should never have happened.
	It shouldn't happen like this, but I'm glad it happened.
	Talk to us about the last few days in your life, General Flynn.
	Well, I'll tell your audience that it really hasn't sunk in yet because it's such a surreal process that my entire family has gone through.
	And that includes my extended family because, as you know, Seth, I have a large number of brothers and sisters.
	I have nine.
	My wife's one of seven.
	So we have an extended and large family that it has affected and impacted all of us.
	So it really hasn't sunk in yet for me personally.
	I will tell you that I really do appreciate the type of words that the president used and certainly the White House statement that they came out with used in the language to describe what happened.
	Very, very powerful.
	It should not have ever happened to me, should never happen to any American citizen who decides to step into the political environment and challenge the...
	Hi, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	I From the bottom of my heart, I recommend this Angel Tree campaign.
	Every Christmas, you have been the audience that has raised the most money for the Salvation Army this year.
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	They send a gift and a Christmas card to a kid of a...
	A kid who has a parent in prison.
	It's a beautiful thing.
	The Prison Fellowship does this.
	They get a gift from the parent, as it were, and a note, hopefully, and a Bible.
	The thing is, everybody listening, 99% of you could afford something, and it's only a matter of doing it.
	This is a great example of fighting one's nature.
	I have to do it.
	That's why I'm laughing.
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	And I thank you on their behalf.
	It's every day I think the New York Times can't get...
	We're foolish.
	I'm wrong.
	There's a new low on a daily basis.
	This is a doctor who's a columnist for them.
	She wants scare videos of people dying on ventilators and can't breathe and wailing relatives.
	She wants that to scare people.
	If this doesn't tell you about the left, nothing does.
	This is the opposite.
	Remember, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself?
	That was said by a liberal.
	If that's not as obvious a difference as you can get, both in what America was like 80 years ago versus America today, that was more than 80, 90 years ago.
	That's what Make America Great Again is, is when leaders could say we have nothing to fear but fear itself.
	If that were said today, the left would mock that person.
	Twitter would ban the tweet.
	Think about it.
	Yes.
	From what I could find, the state of California came close to showing the urgency, a soft-focus video of a person on a ventilator featuring the sound of a breathing machine but not a face.
	It exhorted people to wear a mask for their friends, moms, and grandpas.
	I'm a grandpa.
	Don't wear a mask around me, okay?
	I want to see your face.
	I want to be human.
	Alright, there you go.
	I'll take my hydroxychloroquine every week, which I do.
	You want to know how to get hydroxychloroquine from a doctor?
	Then send me an email.
	It is despicable that the number of lives that have died because of people like this Rosenthal at the New York Times.
	These doctors who have cheated the public of something that could save lives have taken early enough.
	The disgrace of the left.
	They have killed people en masse.
	Trump didn't kill people.
	The left has killed people with its anti-hydroxychloroquine and zinc protocol.
	As close to completely safe as drug exists.
	The FDA, that corrupt organization, which told doctors not to use it.
	I really do.
	I have to control my anger.
	Because I believe, you'll have to understand why I'm angry, I believe that perhaps 100,000 Americans, Dr. Risch of Yale, of the Yale...
	The epidemiologist believes 200,000 lives could have been saved.
	I said it on my show.
	I won't steal your thunder.
	One of you has a very, very intelligent...
	If they're still here.
	Yeah, good.
	Here.
	I'm going to let you get the credit, Ed.
	It's a brilliant idea.
	Go ahead.
	Hi, Dennis.
	Yeah, thank you for taking my call.
	So, you know, I was thinking about your comment.
	If the New York Times and the CNNs of the world claim to have such a monopoly on compassion, why is it that they're not showing the graphic images of the millions of people around the world who are dying from acute starvation because we have voluntarily disrupted the world's food supplies?
	Ed, if I had a prize for a call, in fact, I do.
	Sean is available 24-7 to you.
	Well, thank you.
	But, you know, thank you.
	Seriously, I appreciate that, those kind words, but we love your show.
	You're doing a great job, and keep up the great fight.
	Well, people like you give me strength.
	That is a brilliant idea.
	That's what we need.
	Videos of families ruined.
	By the lockdown.
	Why are the videos only allowed in one direction, oh New York Times?
	Because your interest in truth is a zero.
	Zero, zero.
	Like you're Dr. Rosenthal.
	Another person bringing disgrace to the medical profession.
	Dr. Rosenthal, $20,000.
	$20,000.
	To debate me.
	to your favorite medical charity.
	On your advocacy of scare videos.
	To frighten Americans.
	You coward.
	Cowardice is now on the left.
	Cowardice is cringing.
	Cowardice.
	Being intimidated.
	Being frightened is now a virtue.
	It's the upside-down moral compass of the left.
	Scared people are virtuous.
	Get it?
	Bullies are virtuous.
	Close your restaurant.
	Go to hell, you who run restaurants.
	Go to hell.
	That is the message of the left.
	I mean it literally.
	We will put you in hell.
	God, it's so angering.
	That was Ed in L.A. God bless you.
	That is such a great idea.
	See, if Fox News were a fighter, and some of the people on it are, but not the entity, that's what they would do.
	A minute and hour on crushed lives because of the lockdown.
	A minute, an hour on all the doctors who know the lives that would be saved.
	The one doctor by hydroxychloroquine.
	The one doctor who spoke out against hydroxychloroquine at the Senate hearing last month, which of course the press didn't cover.
	But you can watch it.
	Two and a half hours of testimony.
	The one doctor who spoke against it never treated a COVID patient.
	But he knows.
	But he knows.
	Yeah.
	Well, if this isn't clarifying to you, then nothing will be.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Berger.
	Why did they have to take you down?
	Mike Flynn Thank you.
	Yeah, that's...
	We don't have enough time in your show to talk about the whole...
	We don't probably have enough time in this week.
	Here's what I would just say to synthesize it.
	My whole life in the military, and for those that have worked around me and know me, I, you know, I'm one of these guys that comes into an organization and looks at processes, looks at procedures, looks at the leadership, looks at how we train people, and really tries to improve and make things, you know, it's not just make things, you know, more efficient, but it's also trying to solve the problems for the people in the field.
	And I was one that came into Washington, D.C. I didn't get to Washington, D.C. until I was a two-star.
	I never served.
	I served in the, you know, as a field soldier.
	Served, you know, in infantry divisions, in airborne divisions, in special operations, you know, in other tactical and strategic commands, too, and served in the intelligence community.
	All the way up to the director of one of the largest intelligence agencies in the world, the Defense Intelligence Agency, as well as I served as the Assistant Director of National Intelligence for partner engagement under James Clapper for a year.
	So I say all that because what I learned is that the efficiency, the effectiveness, the ability of the intelligence community...
	It does not function well inside of Washington, D.C. Where it functions best is in the field, and that's where our best people are.
	What we find is everybody stares at their navel in Washington, D.C., and it's what we call, you're very familiar with this, the circular reporting.
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	Transcription by CastingWords Hugh, when you're committing fraud, you're kind of covering your tracks.
	When there are irregularities, you still have people defending the system.
	It's not an easy fight.
	So, Kurt, I think the president of Maria Bartiromo yesterday was trying to tell his supporters, I'm not going to win any lawsuits.
	I am going to run for president in 2024. And by the way, we need to win Georgia.
	I think that's what he was saying yesterday.
	And I speak Trump pretty well.
	He's saying it's hard to get to the Supreme Court.
	There is presently no lawsuit that has not been dismissed that would alter any result in any state.
	That's a factual statement.
	Do you agree with it?
	I think that you are correctly assessing the president's position.
	The president's a practical guy.
	He's a smart guy.
	Look, he's a guy who builds tall buildings.
	And fantasy doesn't enter into it when it comes to engineering.
	The building either stands or it falls.
	And sometimes you don't like the answer.
	I do think he'll run in 2024. That's just what my gut says.
	I think there are a lot of Republicans who are going to grumble a little about having a...
	You know, stand back in line an extra four to eight years.
	But that's just the way the cookie crumbles.
	This is a very competitive guy.
	This is a guy who arguably chose to run for president when Barack Obama insulted him at the White House press correspondence dinner.
	He wants to win.
	He wants to Grover Cleveland this all over the place.
	And I would not put it past him.
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	Turning now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Turning now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	Hi, everybody.
	Dennis Prager here.
	Listen on radio.com.
	There's actually a piece in the New York Times.
	America's Pravda.
	It's time to scare people about COVID. We need public messages of people dying on ventilators.
	But Ed in LA had the most brilliant response.
	What about PSA about people who've lost their jobs?
	The family's weeping because they have to give up their home.
	See, the left is immaturity.
	Left equals immaturity of thought.
	It's not grown-ups.
	And grown-ups understand there's a price paid.
	The moment you understand prices are paid and take them into consideration, you have left the left.
	Let's spend more money.
	Let's print more money.
	Let's put the next generation in more debt.
	It doesn't matter.
	It doesn't matter.
	Let's forgive everybody, or nearly everybody, their student loans.
	Yeah, but what about the people who pay the student loans?
	Are they suckers?
	Yes, they are.
	The decent are suckers on the left.
	That's correct.
	You employ people, you're a sucker.
	In LA, did you see the video?
	I spoke about it yesterday.
	A woman has outdoor dining to keep her restaurant alive in L.A. in a parking lot.
	Banned.
	Totally banned.
	Go to hell, lady.
	And that's the message from Garcetti and from Barbara Ferrer, or Ferrer, whatever her name is.
	I'll get it.
	And Ferrer and Newsome.
	In the same parking lot, there was a permit given to a Hollywood director making a film there to have outdoor dining in the exact same way that she was banned.
	In the exact same spot.
	Because Hollywood is powerful and restaurant owners are nothings.
	And you keep voting Democrat thinking they're the party of compassion.
	I don't get it.
	I must admit, there is a gulf between us.
	An unbridgeable one, as I have often said.
	See all the work I did for outdoor dining.
	For tables being seven feet apart.
	And I come in today because I'm organizing a protest and I came in to get stuff for that.
	And I walk into my parking lot And obviously, Mayor Garcetti has approved this.
	Has approved This being set up for a movie company.
	Alright, we'll leave it at that.
	That's right.
	That's because the movie company...
	Garcetti doesn't care about the little guy.
	No Democrats care about the little guy.
	They use the little guy.
	Get it?
	Teachers use students.
	Communists use workers.
	You're used by the Democrats.
	Democrats don't give a damn about blacks.
	They're used.
	You're all used.
	And you're willing to be used.
	I don't know why.
	I don't know why.
	And they set up a movie company right next to my outdoor patio.
	Which is right over here.
	This is perfect.
	Garcetti gives a permit to a film company, but on the same lot.
	In the same way, she goes out of business and the film company thrives.
	And the little guy will still vote for Garcetti.
	Or an interchangeable Democrat.
	It's truly...
	One lives to see an anti-existence.
	This is like an anti-reality.
	Democrats care about the little guy like the Communists cared about the little guy.
	It's identical.
	It's identical.
	God, the people who have come here from the former Soviet Union or from the Czech Republic as it was known, Czechoslovakia then, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Poland, Hungary, Cuba, Vietnam, The people who come here, I so feel for them.
	It's like leaving a place where you are threatened with your life and you then escape to a place where a few years later you're threatened with your life again.
	You thought you came to a free place.
	No difference between an American communist and a Hungarian communist?
	or a Bulgarian communist?
	All right, everybody.
	Okay.
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	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the release of the Denver Police Department.
	California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19.
	The request would have been better received if, at the same time, Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person.
	While many California schools remain closed for in-person learning and millions of students slog their way through online classes.
	The problem with Newsom's hypocritical actions is that they undercut the very healthcare professionals and scientists whose advice he is asking Californians to follow.
	It makes those of us who live in California wonder who we can trust and what guidance we should be listening to.
	At a time when we need leadership and clarity, Newsom has given us hypocrisy and confusion.
	California's voters won't soon forget his shortcomings.
	I'm Lanhee Chen.
	The Pepperdine Graduate School of Public Policy, impacting policy decisions today, preparing public leaders for tomorrow.
	Learn more at publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	Washington Post and its history has never endorsed a Republican president.
	The New York Times has not endorsed one since 1956. Tim Groseclose, who wrote the book Left Turn that I often refer to, says that the media were truly fair and balanced.
	The country's a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third independent if the media reflected that diversity.
	He estimates that the average state would vote anywhere from 8 to 10 points in favor of the Republican candidate.
	Democrats would never win at the presidential level if the media were truly fair and balanced.
	We've been talking about some of the stories that were ignored or suppressed by the media, including but not limited to the allegation made by Tara Reid, the former staffer of Joe Biden, who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Biden.
	Turns out 35.4% of voters were unaware of the allegation.
	And nearly 9% said that they would have voted for Trump or a third-party candidate or not voted at all for president had they known about the allegation.
	That is enough.
	According to Newsbusters, We're good to go.
	Enough possibly to flip Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump according to the newsbusters.
	Pardon, which the president called a...
	Hi, everybody.
	Every one of you who has listened to me for any length of time knows that the trait in the human being that I most admire because of its rarity and because good can never be achieved without it.
	But again, it is rare.
	So when I meet someone who has it...
	It's very encouraging.
	One of those who has it is Cheryl Atkison.
	She is a five-time Emmy Award winner, and she has blown the whistle, as it were, on the state of American media in the book just printed, slanted, How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism.
	Cheryl, welcome back to my show.
	So glad to be back here, Dennis.
	Thank you.
	I don't think I ever asked you, is the name Cheryl common?
	It's not that spelling, and I'm not sure where my parents got it.
	I think I've asked them, and they said they just thought it was a nice spelling, but it's just Cheryl, just spelled differently, S-H-A-R-Y-L. So how do you pronounce it?
	Cheryl.
	Oh, you do, as if it's an E. I guess so.
	I never really thought about it, but I get pronounced first and last name a little bit differently and it really doesn't bother me and I think they all work just fine.
	I'm delighted.
	Anyway, you have written a very important book here and you've gotten people in the industry to open up.
	I'm curious, since you come from the world of journalism and mainstream journalism as it is known, Can you date, not necessarily to the day, perhaps to the era, to the year, as close as possible?
	Can you date the beginning of the real decline?
	It's a good question.
	I can put one date to one thing, and it's a very specific date, actually to two things.
	Convince us to have censorship in our news because we had to create a market that appeared we needed someone, curators to come in.
	This was a thing that was relatively unheard of before September of 2016, when a nonprofit called First Draft, that when I checked was funded by Google at the beginning of the last election cycle, owned by Alphabet, run at the time by Eric Schmidt, big, big, big Hillary Clinton donor supporter.
	And First Draft introduced this concept in its modern usage of fake news and the notion that we all need to be protected from it.
	And it meant conservative fake news when it was initially used before Donald Trump co-opted their term.
	And then shortly after that, maybe a couple of weeks after this was introduced in fall of 2016, President Obama gave a speech at Carnegie Mellon.
	And said that we had to find some way to curate information in this wild, wild west media environment.
	And he meant the internet.
	And I remember hearing it at the time and thinking, nobody wants that.
	There had been no...
	We've been conditioned to think we want this.
	Nobody had said anything about this before this introduction to the topic.
	And once they convinced us that we needed these fake fact checks and curation of our information, you see what's happened.
	And this was all, in my view, an effort to not just control the news, which they had successfully done by then, but they saw people could still get unfettered access to information and studies and so on online, and they needed us to invite them in to come and curate our information online so that they could do the same thing they'd and they needed us to invite them in to come and curate our information So I can kind of put a date to that part of the movement as far as when the news began to be so controlled by propaganda and narratives.
	A slow burn starting when I noticed maybe the early 2000s with the pharmaceutical industry having a lot of good luck in that arena and then political interests and other corporate interests copying those strategies.
	When you were in, where were you basically?
	Which network or which newspaper in the beginning?
	Well, I worked at CNN back when it was a news organization in 90 to 93 after local news.
	And then it was at CBS when I noticed, I didn't notice anything like that at CNN. And then at CBS, started there around 94, 95. And probably in the early 2000s, I mean, there's always a bit of that.
	It's been written about before, the big tobacco companies being able to slant and stop coverage years ago.
	So there's always been some of that.
	But I really started to notice it in, I'd say, the early 2000s.
	Maybe we're talking 2003, 4, 5, 6. And then it sort of exploded, but we have to remember that the introduction of social media and widespread use of the Internet, which is still relatively new, that that gave a whole new avenue for the propagandists, the smear industry, as I call it, that controls our narratives, gave them a whole other way to do this effectively in a broader way they've never done it before.
	Control the narratives, make certain topics off-limits, censor information.
	Controversialize those who are not on message with what the political and corporate interests want them to be.
	And the news, we've allowed ourselves, we've invited them in our newsrooms now, not just taking their talking points, but they work in the newsrooms.
	And I think Genesis explains why when there's so much media misreporting, false information being put out at New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, that those same reporters get promoted and live to see another day because the mission was accomplished.
	They're not any longer seeing their own.
	They want to present a narrative, and they've done so successfully even if they've reported something that's false or wrong.
	That's not a problem.
	If a hundred writers at the Washington Post and New York Times and LA Times heard this, which of course they don't.
	They're hermetically sealed from dissent.
	But if they did, what would they think and what would they say?
	Well, some of them agree, and some of them have commented in my book.
	A lot of good journalists see the same things, but their voices are drowned out by the bully mob who goes along with this propaganda because they're either believers or they're conflicted or they're lazy, whatever the reason, that they go along with these narratives and propaganda and talking points, and they're being taught differently about what news is.
	There's a whole lot of people that differ.
	All right, so hold on there.
	I'm very curious what you think they would think and what they would say.
	This is a truly significant book, Slanted, How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism.
	That is correct.
	That is correct.
	That is exactly what they've done.
	The book Slanted is up at DennisPrager.com.
	Cheryl Atkison.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	Turning now on the Charlie Kirk Show.
	If the Democrats accomplish unified government, they will then push and provide amnesty and voting rights for illegals all across the country.
	Again, all about strengthening their voter base.
	Power grab.
	They will also add tens of millions to various relief rolls across the country.
	Not to mention the aggressive push to bring in cheap labor into America.
	Something that even some Republicans are saying they want to do.
	We'll get to that later on in the program.
	And so now we are experiencing a two-front war.
	We are now fighting in the courts and the state legislatures, and we are now fighting in Georgia.
	Both are important.
	Because if we lose in the courts and if we lose in the state legislatures, then all of a sudden we are going to look around the landscape and say, I wish we would have took Georgia a little bit more seriously.
	I wish we would have prevented Warnock and Ossoff from becoming United States Senators.
	I wrote this in my Newsweek piece, and I'm sure that plenty of...
	Members of the activist media are going to take exception to this.
	But we need to turn the United States Senate into a legislative kill squad, a graveyard where the Democrats' dystopian and ruinous socialist ideas go to die.
	We should be unafraid talking about this because their ideas are actually widely unpopular with the American people.
	They might be popular with groups of people that don't own property.
	They might be popular with...
	ruling class members or people that live in centralized urban environments.
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	How can you not take this seriously and understand that if Biden were inaugurated under this cloud right now with 70 million plus people believing he's a real fraud, not just they don't like him, they didn't vote for him, but that he's a fraud, that you wouldn't This is, again, I'm just mystified.
	I don't get this.
	Well, and part of it is that people believe the kind of hypnosis from the main propaganda channels, where they say, well, there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
	First of all, there you have a...
	An objective and a subjective statement.
	So this is a very important point that we need to...
	You've heard this many times, right?
	It's almost an incantation that they say on television every day.
	There's no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
	They say it almost as a prayer ritual on CNN. They have to every day.
	And so what you have there is a no, meaning there's none, zero.
	That's an objective.
	And then widespread.
	That's a really important thing, though.
	How do you define widespread?
	This is really important stuff.
	You want to understand what's happened to the news media.
	So I asked you, if reporters at the Washington Post, CNN, New York Times heard you speaking to me now, what would they say?
	I would guess that they have not read what I've written or watched my program and won't read the book.
	Based on my experience, they will talk to each other and tell one another and copy each other's reporting saying that I'm a conservative, untrue, who's gone off the deep end and now peddling to the right-wing audience so that I can make money somehow or aggrandize myself because I was fired by CBS, not true.
	But these things that have been circulated, they would sort of just regurgitate.
	And that, by the way, I'm not to be listened to because I'm anti-vaccine.
	Not true.
	And that I have this crazy lawsuit for the government spying on me when they didn't.
	Not true.
	They did.
	And we have the airtight forensics.
	So those are the sorts of narratives that would, I think, I don't think they would do any true self-reflection and look at what I've actually said or written because, you know, it's hard to disagree with.
	The facts that I've put in the book, but I think they would just sort of circulate these rumors and critiques without really knowing what they're talking about.
	So what I said before you came on is the New York Times is prepared to have half the country think it's a lying piece of propaganda because there are so many on the left that will support it that it doesn't matter to them to have credibility that transcends the left.
	Is that a fair analysis?
	I think that's true, but I wouldn't say the way they are is because they're seeking that market.
	I would say they have that market because of the political and corporate interests that are pulling strings in the news and at the New York Times.
	And so they've been left with that dynamic, and that's fine with them.
	They don't have to have a bigger segment.
	It's not that they're, in my view, seeking that audience.
	I mean, that's sort of a secondary thing.
	They've been directed.
	To go for that audience because they're serving, whether it's pharmaceutical interests or powerful political people on the left who have money ties.
	You know, I think all this goes back to money.
	It's not just ideology.
	So where you see narratives being pushed, it's not necessarily just for our own good, they think.
	It's because there are donors somewhere in the background.
	You know, third parties that are pulling strings.
	Let me tell everybody, because I want them to read your book.
	It's called Slanted, How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism.
	Up at DennisPrager.com and, of course, Amazon and elsewhere.
	And what is the name of your podcast?
	The Sheryl Atkinson Podcast.
	That's easy.
	Good luck to you.
	We need you.
	Thanks so much.
	Thanks.
	Thanks.
	Thanks. Thanks.
	This is Lon Hie Chen of the Hoover Institution for TownHall.com.
	California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19.
	The request would have been better received if, at the same time, Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person.
	While many California schools remain closed for in-person learning and millions of students slog their way through online classes.
	The problem with Newsom's hypocritical actions is that they undercut the very healthcare professionals and scientists whose advice he is asking Californians to follow.
	It makes those of us who live in California wonder who we can trust and what guidance we should be listening to.
	At a time when we need leadership and clarity, Newsom has given us hypocrisy and confusion.
	California's voters won't soon forget his shortcomings.
	I'm Lon Heachan.
	The Pepperdine Graduate School of Public Policy, impacting policy decisions today, preparing public leaders for tomorrow.
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	Trending now on The Larry Elder Show.
	Washington Post and its history has never endorsed a Republican president.
	The New York Times has not endorsed one since 1956.
	Tim Groseclose, who wrote the book Left Turn, that I often refer to, says that the media were truly fair and balanced.
	The country's a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third independent if the media reflected that diversity.
	He estimates that the average state would vote anywhere from 8 to 10 points in favor of the Republican candidate.
	Democrats would never win at the presidential level if the media were truly fair and balanced.
	We've been talking about some of the stories that were ignored or suppressed by the media, including but not limited to the allegation made by Tara Reid, the former staffer of Joe Biden, who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Biden.
	Turns out 35.4% of voters were unaware of the allegation, and nearly 9% said that they would have voted for Trump or a third-party candidate or not voted at all.
	That is enough, according to newsbusters, to flip Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump.
	The Hunter Biden scandal, 45% of voters unaware.
	9.4% say they would have switched their vote.
	That Kamala Harris has a more left-wing record than Bernie Sanders, the self-described Democrat socialist.
	25.3% of Biden voters were unaware of this.
	4.1% say...
	They would have changed their vote again enough, possibly to flip Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to Trump, according to the newsbusters.
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	Talk to us about this unique pardon, which the president called a pardon of innocence.
	As soon as I heard it last week, Thanksgiving week, I tweeted out, it should never have happened.
	It shouldn't happen like this, but I'm glad it happened.
	Talk to us about the last few days in your life, General Flynn.
	Well, I'll tell your audience that it really hasn't sunk in yet because it's such a surreal...
	Process that my entire family has gone through, and that includes my extended family, because as you know, Seth, I have a large number of brothers and sisters.
	I have nine.
	My wife's one of seven.
	So we have an extended and large family that it has affected and impacted all of us.
	So it really hasn't sunk in yet for me personally.
	I will tell you that I really do appreciate the type.
	Of words that the president used and certainly the White House statement that they came out with used in the language to describe what happened.
	Very, very powerful.
	It should not have ever happened to me.
	It should never happen to any American citizen who decides to step into the political environment and challenge those that would otherwise want to change our way of life.
	Mine was really not an issue that was revolved around a criminal act.
	It revolved around really political persecution.
	And that was clear from the beginning.
	It was clear to me it'll be a story that I will tell soon and someday.
	And it's an amazing story.
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	As important as any single event in this whole train of facts is the January 5th meeting in the Oval Office.
	Where Obama and Biden meet with James Comey.
	Sally Yates, then the Deputy AG, and Susan Rice, who was the National Security Advisor at the time.
	And I think they not only discuss the Flynn prosecution, but they talk about what was the main driving force here, which is how do we continue this investigation of Trump once Trump is in power?
	And they explicitly discuss withholding from the incoming Trump administration.
	I frankly think that both the removal of Flynn and the removal of Sessions are explained by the fact that the only way you could pull off what they wanted to do, which was continue the investigation after the Trump administration was in power, was to remove people who would have been in the best position to thwart it, which would have been Flynn.
	As National Security Council and Sessions as Attorney General.
	So I think that was actually a very important piece of information because it showed people that something I think I've been saying all along, which is that there are a lot of things that are in the nature of abuse of power that are not necessarily criminal offenses.
	And that information from the Attorney General showed that they were not looking at least at that transaction as a crime.
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	turning now on the Charlie Kirk show everybody I'm Dennis Prager I have a treat for you this hour.
	And the treat is Adam Carolla.
	You ever been introduced as a treat?
	No, I've been introduced as a trick, but not a treat.
	You see?
	I'm very happy to have done something unprecedented in your life.
	Yeah, not important, but certainly hadn't been done before this.
	He's entirely right.
	It was not important.
	But it was fun.
	He is a treat.
	I don't care.
	You can deny it all you like.
	When you walk in, I told him when he walked in the studio, I cheered up.
	And I cheer people up.
	I mean, people look to me to cheer them up.
	But you have that effect on me.
	Yeah, you see?
	Sean says I was cheered up before he came in the studio.
	I am now on a...
	I have gone up a notch.
	I gotta say, your demeanor is one of the things that's most vexing to me when I hear about people talk about PragerU and you being a hate merchant and I'm a sycophant of Dennis Prager and he's a sycophant of mine.
	And I read these tweets and it is...
	It's surreal because of what an upbeat, friendly, warm person I know you to be.
	You know, I think it's one thing if there's a politician and the politician may be a little dour and you call him a racist or a hate monger or whatever it is, even if that's not the person.
	But you are basically Santa without the beard and it's just insane when you have to read depictions of you.
	So how do you explain it?
	This is not traditional in American life that you just smear decent people, and whatever one thinks of my views or yours, we're decent people.
	So how do you explain what's happened?
	It's like a moral virus.
	Well, if you really think, you know, if you look at everything through a sort of an argument with a nine-year-old, When you have an argument with a nine-year-old, you, they state their case, you state your case, you then destroy their case, and at some point they call you fat.
	And then they end the argument.
	So it goes ad hominem, right?
	So when you are being called a racist or homophobic or xenophobic or, you know, all the things they call you, all the things they call me, in a weird way, it's a compliment because it means they've lost the argument.
	Got it.
	That's entirely accurate.
	Could you imagine a speech in debate in high school, like some speech in debate tournament where they went back and forth, you know, raised the minimum wage or, you know, border security or whatever the subject, greenhouse gases, whatever it be, and at some point one side just started calling the other person a racist?
	Well, you go, that guy lost the debate.
	He lost the debate.
	That's exactly right.
	I wonder if that doesn't happen now in debate.
	No, I'm not joking.
	It probably does.
	Kids are taught you dismiss opposition.
	You dismiss opposition with ad hominem attacks.
	I wanted to finish the sentence.
	I don't expect you to have followed this, but it is amazing.
	Outside of Toledo, Maumee High School, the teacher said, I'd like you to hear both sides.
	So for extra credit, watch a PragerU video.
	Five minutes of non-left-wing input.
	The Toledo Blade, the major paper of the area, has now editorialized twice against allowing PragerU videos to be shown in schools.
	And I don't raise it because it's my organization.
	I raise it to give you an idea of what is happening.
	And this is middle America.
	But again, a very backhanded Compliment because they feel so threatened by your message.
	They would let a flat earther video run and they wouldn't care because they would go, this is ridiculous.
	No one believes this crap.
	Who cares?
	No harm, no foul.
	This is a great compliment in that they are taking you seriously and that they also know the message has a lot of truth in it.
	And they feel threatened by it.
	Well, you know, you'll love this.
	So our old motto was for PragerU, give us five minutes, we'll give you a semester.
	So I have restated it.
	Give us five minutes, we will undo a semester.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	You're now like an orthopedic surgeon who is not seeing the patient After they had the skiing accident, you're seeing them a year later when the bone didn't set right, and you literally have to re-break the bone.
	You have to re-do it.
	It kind of used to be a triage, like, see us, we'll fix you.
	Now, first we must undo the brainwashing you received that cost you $50,000 a year, and then once we get to the blank slate, we can move forward with the message.
	Welcome to the Treat an Orthopedic Surgeon Hour of the Dennis Prager Show.
	I've never been called an orthopedic surgeon, just as you were never called a treat.
	By the way, I want to remind you folks, Adam Carolla and I, I hate to use the word, I so never think of myself with this verb, but I don't know what else they star in a movie called No Safe Spaces.
	It is truly a great movie, and I don't take credit for it.
	The people who made the movie made a great movie.
	And it is available.
	Just go to nosafespaces.com.
	This is what you should show yourself and anyone who is willing to watch a movie, which has a lot of liberals in it.
	I always remind people.
	But it is about freedom of speech in America in a powerful way.
	Nosafespaces.com.
	By the way, Netflix will not stream it.
	And Walmart will not carry it.
	I just want you to know that.
	But you go to nosafespaces.com, you can get the DVD, and you can stream it.
	What do you think of that?
	Why did Netflix say no?
	Well, I think we know why they said no.
	They would say...
	It didn't meet our criteria or something, you know, didn't reach a level of quality or something, which you can always hide behind because all that stuff's subjective, right?
	You could do that with Gone with the Wind.
	You could say, I give it a four.
	We only do fives and above here on Netflix.
	But I think it's pretty...
	I think it's now...
	I think five years ago, when you were talking about this stuff, when I was talking about this stuff, people were looking at us with one eyebrow raised.
	I think it's understood now that there's an agenda with these entities, and they don't like anything that's perceived as right-wing, even if it's not right-wing.
	And it's a McCarthyism, and the insane part about it is...
	These people never stopped bitching about McCarthyism, and now they engage in it.
	Well, this is McCarthyism on steroids.
	Right.
	Adam Carolla is with me here.
	Did you hear me?
	I know you did, because I'm very honored.
	I know you listen to my show every day, and I am honored.
	So, I was reading a piece in the New York Times by a doctor who was also a columnist there.
	We need to scare Americans much more than we have about COVID. What is your take on that?
	Well, first off, if anyone has watched 10 minutes of CNN in the last nine months, they're sufficiently scared.
	It's an interesting thing that we need to scare people more.
	That's all the New York Times has been doing.
	That's all LA Times has been doing.
	That's all CNN, MSNBC. That's all the news agencies have been doing.
	And what she doesn't understand, and by the way, I never thought I would come across this many stupid doctors.
	Did you?
	Like when you were a kid, when you were nine and someone was a doctor, they were the wisest man in town, the wisest woman in town.
	Did you know you were going to meet this many dumb doctors?
	It's insane.
	Okay.
	She doesn't realize that the reason people aren't sufficiently scared is because they already did it with the boy that cried COVID. They went, Too much, too hard, too overblown, closed down beaches, closed down parks, outdoor dining, never giving the ages out of all the people who have died.
	They went too hard that direction, and that's why people are going the other direction.
	If they go harder that direction, people will go harder the other direction.
	That's the hope, I certainly believe.
	So my take is that the issue is not science, it's disposition.
	People are disposed to embracing life with all its dangers, and there are people who are scared.
	Is that a fair thing?
	Yes, and as you say, the biggest driving factor in this whole thing is not fear, it's shame.
	And when scared people see people that aren't scared, they're shamed.
	And when they're shamed, that brings out the ire.
	You want angry?
	Shame somebody.
	A disagreement's a disagreement, but you're a coward, and I'm not?
	Now there's great anger.
	So their response is, you're killing people, I'm not.
	You're not wearing a mask outdoors, walking your dog one mile from another human.
	Right.
	You're a mass murderer.
	A lot of this...
	You're a mass murderer.
	Lot comes back to shame.
	This is Lon H.N. of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com.
	California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19.
	The request would have been better received if, at the same time, Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person.
	While many California schools remain closed for in-person learning and millions of students slog their way through online classes.
	The problem with Newsom's hypocritical actions is that they undercut the very healthcare professionals and scientists whose advice he is asking Californians to follow.
	It makes those of us who live in California wonder who we can trust and what guidance we should be listening to.
	At a time when we need leadership and clarity, Newsom has given us hypocrisy and confusion.
	California's voters won't soon forget his shortcomings.
	I'm Lon He Chen.
	The Pepperdine Graduate School of Public Policy, impacting policy decisions today, preparing public leaders for tomorrow.
	Learn more at publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show. - Washington Post and its history has never endorsed a Republican president.
	The New York Times has not endorsed one since 1956. Tim Groseclose, who wrote the book Left Turn, that I often refer to, says that the media were truly fair and balanced.
	The country's a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third independent if the media reflected that diversity.
	He estimates that the average state would vote anywhere from 8 to 10 points in favor of the Republican candidate.
	Democrats would never win at the presidential level if the media were truly fair and balanced.
	We've been talking about some of the stories that were ignored or suppressed by the media, including but not limited to the allegation made by Tara Reid, the former staffer of Joe Biden, who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Biden.
	Turns out 35.4 percent of voters were unaware of the allegation and nearly 9 percent said that they would have voted for Trump or a third party candidate or not voted at all for president had they known about the allegation. That is enough. According to Newsbusters, to flip Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to Trump.
	The Hunter Biden scandal, 45% of voters unaware.
	9.4% say they would have switched their vote.
	That Kamala Harris has a more left-wing record than Bernie Sanders, the self-described Democrat socialist.
	25.3% of Biden voters were unaware of this.
	4.1% say they would have changed their vote again, enough possibly to flip Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump, according to the Newsbusters.
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	Trending now on America First with Sebastian Buerca.
	Yeah. .
	Talk to us about this unique pardon, which the president called a pardon of innocence.
	As soon as I heard it last week, Thanksgiving week, I tweeted out, it should never have happened.
	It shouldn't happen like this.
	It happened.
	Talk to us about the last few days in your life, General Flynn.
	Well, I'll tell your audience that it really hasn't sunk in yet because it's such a surreal process that my entire family has gone through.
	And that includes my extended family because, as you know, Seth, I have a large number of brothers and sisters.
	I have nine.
	My wife's one of seven.
	So we have an extended and large family that it has affected and impacted all of us.
	So it really hasn't sunk in yet for me personally.
	I will tell you that.
	I really do appreciate the type of words that the president used.
	Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.
	Adam Carolla is with me.
	Talking about life in America and life in general.
	And I urge you to see our movie, No Safe Spaces, at nosafespaces.com.
	Very often when I meet with Adam, he is with his son, Sonny.
	And for good reason.
	He's a good man.
	So Sonny is at school, and I was speaking to him during the break, and I'd like to hear more about this.
	Are you okay with that, Adam?
	Sure.
	So Sonny, how old are you?
	I'm 14. Go on.
	Oh, I was just going to say I'm in ninth grade as well.
	And how are you attending school these nine months?
	I'm doing Zoom school and some kids go to a school, like they go to school in person, but they still do their Zoom classes just in a classroom at school.
	It's very confusing, but the teachers...
	I'll tell you how confusing it is.
	You said it, and I don't understand it.
	So you're right about the confusing part.
	They go to class and still do Zoom?
	So it's like as if they were doing Zoom school, but instead of doing it from their home, they actually go to school and just sit in a classroom and do Zoom school from there.
	Instead of just actually seeing their teachers.
	Am I missing something?
	Oh, no.
	What he's not telling is the teachers actually go to the kid's bedroom and run the class from the kid's bunk bed.
	While the kid is in the school?
	Yeah, we just flipped the script.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, well, you should have mentioned that, Sonny.
	I can't believe...
	Where are the teachers?
	Yeah.
	The teachers...
	It's hard to tell.
	They don't really...
	You just see, like, a white wall behind them, so everybody just assumes they're at a classroom and school.
	But the COVID rules...
	I went to a week of the...
	They call it the pod, like actual school still with Zoom.
	And it's very interesting because the teachers are very strict about it, but they're also very inconsistent.
	Like, I had a teacher who was yelling at everybody during lunch to spread out, spread out, spread out, to the point we were like 10 feet away.
	And then also, a kid needed help in class, so she sat down right next to him and was helping him.
	Well, that's nice, actually.
	Yeah.
	Do you know how many 14-year-olds have died of COVID? I have no idea.
	I would imagine not.
	Do you know?
	Something below 100, I would imagine.
	Yeah, I would imagine two.
	You're much more likely at 14 to die in a car crash.
	So I hope your father is driving safely, but that's a separate issue.
	But now I want to talk about the content.
	So, do you feel that there is an agenda, a political, philosophical agenda in how you're taught?
	Yes.
	As I was telling you earlier, at our high school orientation during Zoom, they were talking about how we need to bring down stereotypes.
	And this even dates back to 7th grade, when I first started middle school.
	We were always talking about how we need to get rid of stereotypes and how every stereotype is bad.
	And we were talking about Asian stereotypes, and I asked my teacher, what if you say every Asian is good at math?
	And she said, that's also offensive.
	I said, why is that?
	I said, because if an Asian kid's not good at math, then he feels excluded, which is...
	Right.
	So I have a...
	That's a superb question.
	I just dropped...
	Nobody says every about any group, but it is a stereotype that Asians are good students.
	The reason it's a stereotype is because it's true.
	It's like, what is true is not a left-wing question.
	Well, here's the reality with stereotypes.
	It's someone who tells jokes for a living.
	Right, oh yes, yes, you live on it.
	They have to make sense.
	Yes.
	So if you say, man, every time I'm in a rush and running late, I get on the freeway, I get behind one of these German drivers.
	It doesn't work.
	Well, that's how you know all stereotypes.
	If it's confusing, then it doesn't work.
	If it makes sense...
	Right.
	No, it's like we speak of French cuisine, not English cuisine.
	Right.
	Is that anti-English?
	Or is that anti-French?
	What if you're not a good cook and you're French?
	Right.
	Are you excluded?
	It's such a weird time.
	No, it's so weird.
	But wait a minute.
	Here is the punchline.
	Sonny, I would like you to ask, in light of that, no stereotypes?
	So, have you been taught that whites are racist?
	A little bit.
	Well, wait.
	So, wait.
	Isn't that a stereotype?
	This is a very good point.
	I never really thought about that.
	I should bring that up to them.
	Yes.
	And when you do, I will have you back up.
	The anti-stereotype people are the exact same ones who tell you all, not most, all whites are racist.
	Well, you know, they give you the choice between being an active Klan member or not knowing you're racist.
	Right.
	But you are nevertheless.
	You're one or the other.
	So wait, you're an active Klan member or an inactive Klan member?
	Right.
	Reminds me, I've got a real.
	Sonny, are there other kids in your class who feel as you do about America and life?
	There are a few.
	So, one time, a year or two ago, there was this kid in my theater class, and he saw that I got in a huge debate with like 30 kids, and what I say by debate is I said, I think Trump's doing a pretty good job as president, and then that just, you know, I was just being called racist by 30 kids.
	And then after class, he went, hey, do you support Trump?
	Are you a Republican?
	I went, yeah.
	And then he went, oh, me too.
	Like, kind of in a whisper.
	Like, after everybody left class on the way out.
	He's a Murano, this kid.
	You got it.
	Here's an interesting concept.
	In 2020, in Los Angeles, being in high school, being Republican is like being gay in the 50s.
	Oh, perfect.
	It's perfect, right?
	Yes.
	Like, hey, listen.
	This is not new.
	A guy called my show.
	I've been broadcasting since 82. In the 80s, a guy called my show, said, Dennis, I want you to know I work in Hollywood and I'm gay.
	And it is much harder to come out as a Republican.
	Yeah.
	This was in the 80s.
	Well, now, in 2020, you may get some intersectional woke points for being gay.
	You actually may get a few bonus points for being gay versus many more demerits for being a Republican.
	Much more.
	Look at Dave Rubin.
	Right.
	Well, to be fair, whether you're Candace Owens or Dave Rubin or whomever, you cease being that thing once you become a Republican.
	You cease being gay.
	You cease being black.
	Or cease being a woman.
	Or anything.
	Yes, you're right.
	They don't have two boxes.
	They have one box.
	So you can't be gay and a Republican.
	You just have to be a Republican.
	Sonny, if I were your dad, I'd be very proud of you.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, thank you.
	I tell him that.
	You do?
	Eh, not in so many words, but a knowing nod.
	One of the reasons you seem to be turning out quite special is you're not lavished with praise.
	My father told me I did a good job once before I was 20-something.
	He complimented me once in my first 20 years.
	And I'm fine.
	This is not a complaint.
	He's beat my dad by 100%.
	Yeah.
	No, infinite.
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	Did they have to take you down, Mike Flynn?
	Yeah, we don't have enough time in your show to talk about the whole thing.
	We don't probably have enough time in this week.
	Here's what I would just say to synthesize it.
	My whole life in the military, and for those that worked around me and know me, I'm one of these guys that comes into an organization and looks at processes, looks at procedures, looks at the leadership, looks at how we...
	Train people and really tries to improve and make things, you know, it's not just make things, you know, more efficient, but it's also trying to solve the problems for the people in the field.
	And I was one that came into Washington, D.C. I didn't get to Washington, D.C. until I was a two star.
	I never served.
	I served in the, you know, as a field soldier, served, you know, in infantry divisions and airborne divisions and special operations.
	You know, in other tactical and strategic commands, too, and served in the intelligence community, all the way up to the director of one of the largest intelligence agencies in the world, the Defense Intelligence Agency, as well as I served as the assistant director of national intelligence for partner engagement under James Clapper for a year.
	So I say all that because what I learned is that the efficiency, the effectiveness, the ability of The intelligence community does not function well inside of Washington, D.C. Where it functions best is in the field, and that's where our best people are.
	What we find is everybody stares at their navel in Washington, D.C., and it's what we call, you're very familiar with this, the circular reporting.
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	Hugh, when you're committing fraud, you're kind of covering your tracks.
	When there are irregularities, you still have people defending the system.
	It's not an easy fight.
	So, Kurt, I think the president on Maria Bartiromo yesterday was trying to tell his supporters, I'm not going to win any lawsuits.
	I am going to run for president in 2024. And by the way, we need to win Georgia.
	I think that's what he was saying yesterday.
	And I speak Trump pretty well.
	He's saying it's hard to get to the Supreme Court.
	There is presently no lawsuit that has not been dismissed that would alter any result in any state.
	That's a factual statement.
	Do you agree with it?
	I think that you are correctly assessing the president's position.
	The president's a practical guy.
	He's a smart guy.
	Look, he's a guy who builds tall buildings.
	And fantasy doesn't enter into it when it comes to engineering.
	The building either stands or it falls.
	And sometimes you don't like the answer.
	I do think he'll run in 2024. That's just what my gut says.
	I think there are a lot of Republicans who are going to grumble a little about having a...
	You know, stand back in line an extra four to eight years.
	But that's just the way the cookie crumbles.
	This is a very competitive guy.
	This is a guy who arguably chose to run for president when Barack Obama insulted him at the White House press correspondence dinner.
	He wants to win.
	He wants to Grover Cleveland this all over the place.
	And I would not put it past him.
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	I'm Dennis Prager.
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	In studio with me, father and son, actually.
	Adam Carolla and Sonny Carolla.
	Sonny, do you have close friends?
	Oh, in general?
	Yeah.
	And do they share your views or you don't discuss these things?
	We don't really discuss them.
	Most of my friends don't really know, like, they're not interested in it.
	They're not really sure what they're talking about.
	But I guess we just don't really discuss it.
	How about you, Adam Carolla?
	You have close friends.
	Just Sonny and two of his friends.
	I knew I would get a great answer.
	Yeah, it's kind of interesting because you picture your average 40-year-old who's on the left and he or she has no idea what's going on.
	On the right, as you always say, never listen to a second of talk radio.
	Never read this stuff.
	Never seek it out.
	When you're 14, it's even worse.
	I mean, the kids just have the one side story.
	They really...
	I know it from talking to my daughter and her friends.
	They just have the one side.
	That's it.
	They do not have the other side.
	I've debated them...
	A couple of times, and it's interesting because the other night there was a power outage, so there was nothing to do.
	So we were talking about politics, and my sister and her friends were like, well, we know a lot about politics.
	They kind of just think I repeat what Dad says, which is kind of dumb.
	They don't repeat what their dad says.
	No, they don't.
	Exactly.
	But the thing is, I found it very funny when they said they know a lot about politics, is because earlier, when I was talking to my mom about the lockdown and the curfew, I said it's almost like a fascist policy.
	And as they were walking by, they said, what does fascist mean?
	And then an hour later, they're, well, we know a lot about politics.
	And that's how most people migrate are.
	No, I'm not surprised at all.
	Adam, what's your mask policy outdoors?
	I never wear one outdoors, ever.
	I encountered the most pathetic form of human being, which is I was walking my dog, and a guy pulled up next to me in a Jeep, and at first I thought he was waving, like I thought it was a neighbor or something.
	He was wagging his finger at me.
	For not wearing a mask alone on the street walking my dog.
	The most profoundly disappointing part of this entire chapter is what middle-aged men have turned into.
	It's insane to me.
	Just the coward, the cowardice of this.
	It's so craven.
	That's the most disappointing.
	Gavin Newsom is an idiot, a nuisance, and a cartoon character.
	Garcetti is an idiot, a nuisance, and a caricature.
	It's the regular middle-aged male, for some reason, that have turned into cowards and pearl clutchers.
	And the idea that this idiot slowed his jeep down to wag his finger at me for not wearing a mask...
	Is insane.
	No, I don't wear one outside.
	Ever.
	Right.
	Why would I? Look, if Gavin Newsom told me to do five push-ups before I put my shoes on in the morning and left my house, I wouldn't do that either.
	At least that would be healthy.
	Yes.
	But I would argue that he doesn't have that power, number one.
	And number two, I will be in charge of my health and my safety.
	And the idiots who say, well, what about other people?
	There's no spread alone out on the street.
	It's insane.
	So no, I never do.
	This, if I may say, this is part, and if you differ, I don't think you'll differ, but if you do, obviously you know you can.
	There's an emasculation of men, a demasculinization of men, At the heart of what you said, that precedes COVID, but is now clearer than ever.
	More men in the United States in 2020 wear bracelets than eat stew.
	Did you know that?
	You've cracked sure enough.
	It's a truce.
	I looked it up.
	What else do you have to know?
	I mean, what else is there?
	That's like...
	That is dispositive, as they say in the courtroom.
	I wrote a book called The 50 Years Will All Be Chicks.
	Yeah, but you were wrong.
	I know.
	Five years.
	It was.
	Yes?
	Yes.
	Will All Be Chicks.
	It's one of his great books, by the way.
	You laugh out loud reading his books.
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	Because for whatever reason, the number of people attributed to having died from heart attacks or strokes has been added to the number of people that have died from COVID-19.
	So the overall number really isn't that much different.
	And then a couple days later, Johns Hopkins puts out a statement, Sally, and says, ah, I'm sorry, wrong, we retract this.
	What's going on?
	Well, I like to say, it's an old saying, statistics are a lot like sausages.
	You'd like them a whole lot better if you don't know what went into them.
	And I think, you know, this is the case with COVID. You know, Larry, there only have been, what, 274,000 deaths in the U.S. I think the
	author Genevieve Bryant did a very good job of really...
	Telling the truth, just like Scott Atlas, in many cases who just resigned as the president's advisor on the pandemic, had a lot of good information.
	But the mainstream media and public health officials seem to have the idea that they have to scare people to death and really come up with a lot of untruths when a lot of the lockdowns and things are destroying our economy, destroying people's health.
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	I'm sorry.
	Why did they have to take you down, Mike Flynn?
	Yeah, we don't have enough time in your show to talk about the whole fact.
	We don't probably have enough time in this week.
	Here's what I would just say to synthesize it.
	My whole life in the military, and for those that have, you know, that worked around me and know me, I, you know, I'm one of these guys that comes into an organization and looks at processes, looks at procedures, looks at the leadership, looks at how we train people, and really tries to improve and make things, you know, it's not just make things more efficient, but it's also trying to solve The problems for the people in the field.
	And I was one that came into Washington, D.C. I didn't get to Washington, D.C. until I was a two-star.
	I never served.
	I served in the, you know, I was a field soldier.
	Served, you know, in infantry divisions, in airborne divisions, in special operations, you know, in other tactical and strategic commands, too, and served in the intelligence community all the way up to the director of one of the largest intelligence agencies in the world, the Defense Intelligence.
	Alright everybody, you're listening to The Dennis Prager Show.
	And a reminder that I got a letter from a happy listener about Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific.
	And it's very impressive.
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	And I appreciate people expressing their appreciation.
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	Okay, back to...
	Man, I adore Andrew.
	Andrew, God.
	That is hilarious.
	Do you know who got into my mind?
	It shows you how sick my mind is.
	Andrew Cuomo.
	Oh, boy.
	Is that hilarious?
	How could I confuse Adam Carolla and Andrew Cuomo?
	There was a nerve ending in the synapses of the brain.
	It played a trick on me.
	Well, we're both Italian, but that's about as far as we go.
	That is as far as you go.
	That is entirely accurate.
	Did you hear the article I read on the air?
	Of course you did, because you mentioned about...
	Dennis, I listen to every show, so if you said...
	If I saw you at 6 a.m.
	on Monday morning and you said, let me tell you what I was dreaming last night, I'd go, I already saw it.
	I know.
	I know what's going on.
	I know everything.
	Yes.
	Oh, did you hear the line talking about that?
	Would you say, a caller said to me, this was one of the greatest comments I ever got, Dennis, you are transparent.
	Do you agree with that?
	Yes.
	Yes, so do I. So you will love this.
	If you heard this, I feel bad because it's precious.
	My son and I were doing a fundraising event for PragerU in Michigan just a couple of months ago.
	And I mentioned this transparent line in my talk because I aspire to be transparent.
	He gets up, he goes, before anything else, I'd just like to share with you that growing up with a transparent was a challenge.
	Good one, isn't it?
	Yeah, it's a very good one.
	Yeah, I thought you'd appreciate it.
	So they want to put out, the New York Times wants to have the government put out very gruesome deaths of people from COVID to scare people into masks.
	What's your take?
	First off, would you like the government to be a propaganda machine?
	Because it's essentially propaganda.
	It is.
	I mean, you could do the same thing about airplane crashes or moped crashes.
	I mean, you could choose.
	It's like we always say, smoking.
	You know, 50,000 people die of secondhand smoke every year when no one dies of secondhand smoke.
	I think there's a...
	You're in very dangerous waters when you've lost the people.
	I work with a bunch of young guys at my podcast, and I say to all those guys, if you heard something on CNN five years ago, what would you have thought?
	And they go, I just believe that's what happened.
	I said, now if you hear something on CNN, what do you think?
	And they go, hmm.
	Is that right?
	Yes.
	Well, that's actually comforting.
	It's depressing, but it's comforting.
	Right, but CNN and Los Angeles Times, New York Times, it's no different than the governor or the mayor.
	That's correct.
	And if they want to keep going down the sort of hyperbole, scare porn path, then we're going to tune out even more.
	They don't realize that the harder they bang that drum, the less we listen.
	They claim, her claim was, that scaring people about cigarette smoking worked.
	Yeah, well, telling your kids the boogeyman's under the bed, so go to sleep or eat your vegetables.
	I mean, it's lying.
	If it's okay to lie, then it's okay to lie.
	But you're going to lose your constituency.
	People will stop listening.
	It's insane that she is actually coaching up the government to essentially lie, which they're already doing.
	They've been lying.
	Talking about that, Sean brought in this piece of data.
	Through June, remember I asked your son how many people, I didn't know the answer, how many people under 14 have died of COVID? As of June 17th, the number was, let's see, 26. Eight under one year.
	Five, one to four.
	Thirteen, five to fourteen.
	So we're talking about.013%.
	And for that, these kids should be scared and wear masks and not go to school.
	And that's the information that people aren't getting.
	That's right.
	They're not getting.
	At all.
	The news agencies won't report on that.
	Yeah, we're now at a point where everyone is just going to have to start deciding for themselves what's best for them because there's clearly an agenda going on.
	And not only that, they're saying this stuff out loud that they're not supposed to be saying out loud.
	You're not supposed to announce we need to start scaring people before you start scaring people when you've been scaring people.
	You know, these people are bold and brazen and oftentimes stupid.
	That's a dumb article.
	You're not supposed to announce that we want the government to scare people.
	That's a great point, but this is where we're headed.
	You know, I have said this.
	This is really, I think, an important point.
	As I know, you know me well.
	I studied Russian in order to read Pravda, the famous Soviet newspaper.
	At the top of Pravda, it said, Organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
	There was more honesty in that sense in Pravda than in the New York Times because it doesn't say Organ of the Democratic Party.
	Right.
	But I think people are starting to understand that.
	Ah, that's the key.
	Adam Carolla and my movie is out.
	Nosafespaces.com This is Lon He Chen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19.
	The request would have been better received if, at the same time, Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants, or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person while many California schools remain closed for in-person learning and millions of students slog their way through online classes.
	The problem with Newsom's hypocritical actions is that they undercut the very healthcare professionals and scientists whose advice he is asking Californians to follow.
	It makes those of us who live in California wonder who we can trust and what guidance we should be listening to.
	At a time when we need leadership and clarity, Newsom has given us hypocrisy and confusion.
	California's voters won't soon forget his shortcomings.
	I'm Lanhee Chen.
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	Washington Post and its history has never endorsed the Republican president.
	The New York Times has not endorsed one since 1956. Tim Groseclose, who wrote the book Left Turn that I often refer to, says that the media were truly fair and balanced.
	The country's a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third independent if the media reflected that diversity.
	He estimates that the average state would vote anywhere from 8 to 10 points in favor of the Republican candidate.
	Democrats would never win at the presidential level if the media were truly fair and balanced.
	We've been talking about some of the stories that were ignored or suppressed by the media, including but not limited to the allegation made by Tara Reid, the former staffer of Joe Biden, who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Biden.
	Turns out 35.4% of voters were unaware of the allegation.
	And nearly 9% said that they would have voted for Trump or a third-party candidate or not voted at all for president had they known about the allegation.
	That is enough.
	According to Newsbusters, We're good to go.
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	All right, my friends. my friends.
	I got Adam Carolla here.
	I'm delighted.
	And he brought his son, who I'm getting to know better and better, Sonny.
	Sonny, your dad is around now in the house more than since you were born.
	I think it's fair to say.
	Right, Adam?
	Well, I haven't changed my schedule.
	So I'm out every day.
	Oh, I see.
	I go to work every day.
	But you're not on the road as much.
	No, not on the road.
	Because of lockdown.
	Not on the road as much.
	So you are home more, in that sense, in the evenings.
	Yeah.
	So are you liking that, Sonny?
	I like that.
	I like to see him more, I think.
	It's nice.
	Okay, I was just curious.
	We take a lot of maskless walks.
	Oof.
	Yeah.
	Boy, do you guys tempt fate.
	It is insane how I see people at night walking alone with a mask on.
	You know, the thing is so...
	My neighborhood is pretty empty.
	Right.
	So my immediate gut reaction is I get sad.
	It's depressing to me.
	Well...
	It makes me think how malleable everyone is and also how you can eventually get anyone to kind of do anything with just a couple months of sort of berating them.
	Fast society can be turned one direction or the other.
	Think about what you're able to get.
	This kind of stuff, you know, the lockdown's going to be two weeks and then we're going to stop the spike and then we're going to get back and now we're, you know, nine months in and everyone's fine with it.
	It's amazing how malleable people are.
	And, you know, we always...
	We always thought that of other cultures.
	You know, how can you go along with this?
	How can you go along with this?
	But now, we're becoming that.
	That's what defined this country from all these other places where everyone just, you know, got in the same gray pajamas and did the lockstep marching.
	People like you and me did not expect the American people to be heard like.
	And attack people like you and me who speak out.
	That's right.
	That's the most pathetic, scariest part of this whole mess.
	Well, keep up the good work.
	Folks, watch the movie we're in.
	It's very powerful and extremely entertaining at the same time.
	No Safe Spaces is the name.
	Nosafespaces.com The two of you have been a joy to have.
	Thank you.
	Thanks, Dennis.
	The Dennis Prager Show, live from the...
	This is Lon He Chen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com.
	California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19.
	The request would have been better received if at the same time, Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person while many California schools remain closed for in-person learning and millions of students slog their way through online classes.
	The problem with Newsom's hypocritical actions is that they undercut the very healthcare professionals and scientists whose advice he is asking Californians to follow.
	It makes those of us who live in California wonder who we can trust and what guidance we should be listening to.
	At a time when we need leadership and clarity, Newsom has given us hypocrisy and confusion.
	California's voters won't soon forget his shortcomings.
	I'm Lon He Chen.
	The Pepperdine Graduate School of Public Policy, impacting policy decisions today, preparing public leaders for tomorrow.
	Learn more at publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
	Trending now on The Larry Elder Show.
	Washington Post and its history has never endorsed a Republican president, The New York Times has not endorsed one since 1956. Tim Groseclose, who wrote the book Left Turn that I often refer to, says that the media were truly fair and balanced.
	The country's a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third independent if the media reflected that diversity.
	He estimates that the average state would vote anywhere from 8 to 10 points in favor of the Republican candidate.
	Democrats would never win at the presidential level if the media were truly fair and balanced. .
	We've been talking about some of the stories that were ignored or suppressed by the media, including but not limited to the allegation made by Tara Reid, the former staffer of Joe Biden, who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Biden.
	Turns out 35.4% of voters were unaware of the allegation.
	And nearly 9% said that they would have voted for Trump or a third-party candidate or not voted at all for president had they known about the allegation.
	That is enough, according to Newsbusters, to flip Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump.
	The Hunter Biden scandal, 45% of voters unaware.
	9.4% said they would have switched their vote.
	That Kamala Harris has a more left-wing record than Bernie Sanders, the self-described Democrat socialists.
	25.3% of Biden voters were unaware of this.
	4.1% say they would have changed their vote again, enough possibly to flip Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump, according to the Newsbusters.
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	Talk to us about this unique pardon, which the president called a pardon of innocence.
	As soon as I heard it last week, Thanksgiving week, I tweeted out, it should never have happened.
	It shouldn't happen like this, but I'm glad it happened.
	Talk to us about the last few days in your life, General Flynn.
	Well, I'll tell your audience that it really hasn't sunk in yet because it's such a surreal process that my entire family has gone through.
	And that includes my extended family because, as you know, Seth, I have a large number of brothers and sisters.
	I have nine.
	My wife's one of seven.
	So we have an extended and large family that it has affected and impacted all of us.
	So it really hasn't sunk in yet for me personally.
	I will tell you that.
	I really do appreciate the type of words that the president used and certainly the White House statement that they came out with used in the language to describe what happened.
	Very, very powerful.
	It should not have ever happened to me, should never happen to any American citizen who decides to step into the political environment and challenge the...
	You know, those that would otherwise want to change our way of life.
	Mine was really not an issue that was revolved around a criminal act.
	It revolved around, really, political persecution.
	And that was clear from the beginning.
	It was clear to me it'll be a story that I will tell soon and someday.
	And it's an amazing story.
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	As important as any single event in this whole train of facts is the January 5th meeting in the Oval Office.
	Where Obama and Biden meet with James Comey, Sally Yates, and the Deputy AG and Susan Rice, who was the National Security Advisor at the time.
	I think they not only discuss the Flynn prosecution, but they talk about what was the main driving force here, which is how do we continue this investigation of Trump once Trump is in power?
	And they explicitly discuss Withholding from the incoming Trump administration information about Russia.
	And I frankly think that both the removal of Flynn and the removal of Sessions are explained by the fact that the only way you could pull off what they wanted to do, which was continue the investigation after the Trump administration was in power, was to remove people who would have been in the best position.
	To thwart it, which would have been Flynn as National Security Counsel and Sessions as Attorney General.
	So I think that was actually a very important piece of information because it showed people that something I think I've been saying all along, which is that there are a lot of things that are in the nature of abuse of power that are not necessarily criminal offenses.
	And that information from the attorney general showed that they were not looking at least at that transaction as a crime.
	Why I am actually coming to Georgia.
	We're doing a rally tonight.
	We're doing a door knocking blitz tomorrow morning.
	We are activating all of our student activists at Students for Trump and Turning Point Action, our 501c4 political vehicle.
	And the reason that we are here, just the same reason why President Trump is up to the government on Saturday, is that... ...for not the media.
	That is the question.
	Where was God?
	Is God supposed to be good?
	Is it supposed to be good?
	Does God want us to suffer?
	Ten years, you're not finished yet!
	Quiet!
	Why did you do this to me?
	Who are you?
	Bruce.
	I'm God.
	Vino!
	Yancey!
	Is that your final answer?
	Our survey says God!
	Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!
	Well, it was nice to meet you, God.
	Thank you for the Grand Canyon, and good luck with the autos.
	Hello, my friends.
	Dennis Prager, the Ultimate Issues Hour, because the ultimate issues are the most important issues.
	Obviously, there are the details of life and the pain.
	In family, in friendship, in economics of one's life, all of these are true and must be dealt with.
	But we are here to think about the big issues as well.
	My best analogy is a map.
	A map tells you exactly where you are.
	Wisdom tells you where you should go.
	It's the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
	This hour is about attaining wisdom, and we've been doing it for many years.
	On a number of occasions, not often, but on a few occasions, I have a guest.
	And I do today, on the Ultimate Issues Hour, the guest is Robert McTeague.
	He's a philosopher and a theologian.
	He's a member of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits.
	And he has a book out.
	Called Real Philosophy for Real People, Tools for Truthful Living.
	Father McTeague, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Dennis, I'm very glad to make your acquaintance today.
	Thank you for giving me time.
	You're very welcome, sir.
	You are completely free to tell the truth.
	Have you ever heard my show before?
	Yes, I have, sir.
	And I've also followed Prager University.
	Oh.
	Well, there you go.
	Did not know what you would say.
	Anyway, you're grappling with the great issues.
	It's the perfect example of an Ultimate Issues book, writing about philosophy for today.
	Do you live in the Bay Area?
	Yes, I do.
	You know, Jesuits move around a great deal, and at the time, I find myself in the Bay Area these days, for the time being.
	You would have a more positive response in Zimbabwe.
	No!
	You know, Dennis, I have never been invited to the Cool Kids table in my life, and I don't think I'm going to be invited to the Cool Kids table anytime soon.
	But, you know, this is the difference between fame and honor.
	Fame is the approval of the mob, and honor is recognition by honorable people.
	And that's how I understand my presence on your show today.
	An honorable man who wants to know, wants to have a conversation with me.
	And this life, it's hard to improve on that.
	It was already worth having you on.
	That was a very deep and wonderful insight.
	The difference between...
	I'm laughing because my engineer said, okay, let's go home now.
	See?
	This is what I have to deal with in my headphones.
	People have no idea.
	It's like having a Greek chorus behind you at all times.
	But anyway, that is a brilliant distinction, honor and fame.
	That's right.
	Honor is how you are received by honorable people.
	Fame has nothing to do with that.
	That's exactly right.
	By analogy, G.K. Chesterton said that a crass and vulgar woman seeks attention from crass and vulgar people and dresses accordingly, and a wise and prudent woman seeks attention from wise and prudent people and dresses accordingly also.
	What I want in the book is for honest people...
	Who know they're being lied to.
	Say, can you help me turn the lie down?
	Can you help me figure out what's going on?
	So the elevator pitch for my book is this.
	This book will help you to be a lie detector, a truth detector, a lie refuter, and a truth promoter.
	All in one volume.
	How long did it take you to write?
	Well, you know, people ask me the same thing about my sermons.
	How long do your sermons take to prepare?
	And I said, always the same amount of time.
	Always my whole life.
	I started reading philosophy when I was 18 in 1979. The book took me too long, as my good friend Ignatius Press, Father Fessier, reminded me.
	I started writing it in 2011. I finished writing it in about 2018, which is probably about six years too long.
	But I've been teaching it in the classroom since the late 90s.
	So this is something that has been battle-tested in the classroom for very many years.
	Do you walk around the Bay Area with a priest's collar?
	Sometimes, yeah.
	When I'm on my way to mission, and if I'm going to Walmart to buy a pair of jeans, no.
	But otherwise, yeah, I do.
	Do people respond to you, or are you just another person who happens to have a...
	For the most part, it's been just another person in the crowd.
	What I find that I attract the most attention when I'm wearing what a friend of mine called my Sin Fighter suit is at airports.
	I've had people come up and thank me and say, oh, Father, I'm so glad.
	You know, would you hear my confession?
	Would you give me a blessing?
	Sometimes there'll be a fellow priest who's in a wheelchair and needs a little bit of help and sees some recognition.
	So it's my way of letting people know, yeah, I'm open for business.
	I'm more than just some guy from New Jersey.
	I have something else to give.
	I have a very close friend who's quite young.
	He's in his late 20s.
	He converted to Catholicism from Protestantism a couple of years ago.
	He's an extremely serious thinker.
	He's written two books of his own.
	And he's thinking of being a priest, and he's very torn.
	What would you say to him?
	Well, God gives us gifts and desires for a reason, and we would do well not to ignore them.
	Be very clear about what a priest is.
	Spend some time with the ordination ritual where you're told repeatedly by the bishop, imitate the mysteries you celebrate and model your life on the cross of Christ.
	The great clarity I had for my own vocation was the night before my mother had heart surgery, and the parish priest, a friend of the family, brought Holy Communion to the family, and he put his thumb in the aisle and then reached out with his thumb to anoint my mother.
	And I had this clarity.
	I said, oh, here's this man who gave himself to Christ so that Christ could be given to others.
	What could be more important than that?
	And that really propelled me down that road towards priesthood.
	So if your burning desire is to love the people of God as Christ loves them, which is to say, as poor, chaste, obedient, and sacrificially, then priesthood may be something that you're called to.
	But what if you're also burning to make a family?
	Well, you know, and that's a very fine thing.
	Now, here's the key thing.
	The church, historically, has ordained celibate men and has ordained married men, has never ordained bachelors.
	Why not?
	Because you have to prove that you're willing to make an undivided commitment.
	To what you decide is the greatest good.
	You know, when I told my parents I was planning to become a Jesuit, my mother said, I knew something like this, what happened to you.
	And I said, Mom, you make it sound like it's a James Dean movie and the law caught up with me.
	And she said, well, you were never satisfied.
	You never wanted what everybody else wanted.
	I said, Mom, I think that's a good thing.
	Was it Emerson or Thoreau who said, most men lead lives of quiet desperation?
	And my father said, you know, you'd be a good husband and father.
	But you'd always have one eye on the horizon.
	And I could hear your wife say, I know Bob loves me, but I don't have all of him.
	And you wouldn't do that to a woman.
	So eventually, you have to make a choice.
	Where do you think you can most fruitfully, faithfully, and fully serve God?
	And for some folks, it's that sacrificial way of being a husband and father.
	Who are the unsung heroes of the day?
	And then there is the very sacrificial, also paternal way of serving God, and that's in the person of Christ.
	And you make that celibate commitment so that you're announcing to the world, I want to live with an undivided heart.
	A priest has to stand before his people and say, because of who God is, and because of who you are to God, I choose to love and serve you without reservation.
	And it's harder to do that if you've got another family.
	I've asked this of religious Jews, Catholics, Protestants, all of my adult life, and I have no agenda because I'm so pro-religion and the good people and all those three faiths.
	But I think that it's helpful for people to hear, and I'm not rooting for any answer, but I am curious.
	Do you ever have a crisis of faith?
	Well, you know, I have spent a lot of time wrestling with the problem of evil.
	A few weeks before I got my undergraduate degree, I watched the violent death of my best friend, and I realized I had a choice to make.
	Either everything the Church proclaims about the cross and resurrection of Christ is absolutely true, Or, life is a bad joke that probably shouldn't have happened.
	So it's either Thomas Aquinas or it's Nietzsche.
	And everything else is just whistling past the cemetery.
	We'll be back in a moment, Father Robert McTeague.
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	Why I am actually coming to Georgia We're doing a rally tonight.
	We're doing a door knocking blitz tomorrow morning.
	We are activating all of our student activists at Students for Trump and Turning Point Action, our 501C4 political vehicle.
	And the reason that we are here, just the same reason why President Trump tweeted out that he will be here on Saturday, is that the Georgia Runoff election is not about playing offense.
	You see, President Donald Trump is one of the best offensive political players in American history.
	He was always setting the tone with his agenda.
	Let's get a vote on the wall.
	Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, 200 other federal judges, tax cuts, embassy to Jerusalem, renegotiating trade deals, NAFTA, withdrawing us from TPP. Getting the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan to the table for historic peace deal.
	President Trump was always playing offense, which is why President Trump is a successful president.
	And God willing, we'll serve a second term if we can uncover and prove that this election has been contaminated and stolen.
	However, what's going on in Georgia right now for the runoff elections is not an offensive strategy.
	There's no use in convincing you otherwise.
	That wouldn't be true.
	The reason that I am in Georgia and the reason why we are deploying our resources to Georgia for the runoff elections is not to play offense, but instead to play defense.
	Why do we keep asking for Dr. Fauci's expertise in this pandemic?
	He's been inconsistent and wrong from the start.
	That's what Kennedy said last night on Fox Business Network.
	She had a pretty scathing reaction to Fauci saying, close the bars but open schools.
	We've been foisted!
	First no masks, now masks.
	Then no school, now school.
	Pick a damn lane while you still have a job, Fauci.
	In the meantime, you can either politely force New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to open all schools or, Anthony, come watch my kids a couple days a week.
	Good luck keeping the dog off the bed.
	He has a soft spot for Taco Bell and Starbucks snowman cookies.
	And that's the memo.
	That's quite a memo.
	It's hard not to get discouraged.
	Confused about how they're going to handle, for example, implementing the vaccine.
	I was talking to my pal Mark Davis this morning about he took an online poll.
	It was so funny.
	We had such an interesting, one of my greatest friends in the world, and Mark did a Twitter poll asking of the three options when the vaccines start rolling out within weeks, God willing, are you going to be one first in line?
	As soon as you can get it, you'll get it.
	Two, you'll take a wait-and-see approach before you get the vaccine.
	Or three, heck no, I'm not getting the vaccine.
	And Mark starts reading the numbers to me.
	70% voted for two and three.
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	I think that they don't want it to be true.
	I think that there's a discomfort that will set in.
	Hi, everybody. everybody.
	This is the Ultimate Issues Hour, third hour every Tuesday.
	A reminder, planning another cruise with listeners.
	I've been doing it for 25 years.
	These are phenomenal times together.
	There's a banner at dennisprager.com next year in June.
	It's London to Iceland.
	If countries are not allowing it, we will swim.
	I intend on going.
	They all sell out, so I strongly suggest that you click on it.
	So, here's my story with my guest, Father Robert McTeague, who's a Jesuit priest, Catholic priest, Jesuit order.
	Book is up at DennisPrager.com, Real Philosophy for Real People.
	So, dear Father, I now hereby label you a kindred spirit.
	Well, thank you, Dennis.
	How fellow well met.
	Thank you.
	When you said, it's very comforting, actually.
	People say that to me a lot.
	Oh, God, I hear you say something.
	That's exactly what I think or say.
	And when you said, we really do have two choices.
	God and whatever religious expression we have within the Judeo-Christian world, Catholic, Protestant, Jew, and by the way, I include Mormons, okay, for the benefit of those who don't.
	I do.
	They're in the Judeo-Christian world.
	They believe in the Bible.
	They believe in the God of the Ten Commandments, and those are my criteria.
	People have additional beliefs that's between them and God.
	But anyway, when you said the choice is God or life is a bad joke, Right.
	That's what the secular world doesn't understand.
	They have chosen to believe that life is a bad joke.
	Yes.
	I can't remember the author's name, but that view is what he calls, you know, life is an episode between two oblivions.
	That's a great term.
	Why bother?
	Why bother?
	And you know, here's the interesting thing.
	People cavil against God because of the problem of evil.
	And I said, look, if there is no God, there is no good.
	And then evil isn't evil.
	You don't have the problem of evil anymore.
	You have the fact of pain.
	And I've witnessed violent death.
	I've dealt with people who've been abducted and tortured and mutilated.
	I've met people who've made deals with spiritual darkness.
	And what's caused me to waver is my own weakness, not the promises of God.
	I have no doubt about the promises of God.
	I've never despaired of God.
	I deservedly despair of myself.
	St. Philip Neri, who was known as the cheerful saint, which is why I don't have a devotion to him, because I'm a dark, gloomy, melancholic Irishman with an apocalyptic imagination, but he said every morning he'd get up and say, Lord, watch out for Philip today.
	He may betray you.
	And that's my prayer, too.
	I know that I'm a sinner, so I despair of myself.
	I do not despair of God.
	Yes.
	Bertrand Russell, is that...
	Human life is an episode between two oblivions.
	That sounds like something he...
	Yes, he believed that.
	That's the point.
	Right.
	It was not...
	A religious man telling you, uh-oh, look at what you believe.
	Rather, I am an atheist.
	This is what I believe.
	It reminds me of, who was the, I don't know if you remember, but he was the only rock star astronomer.
	His name eludes me 20 years ago.
	Do you remember Sean?
	Carl Sagan?
	Yeah, Carl Sagan.
	Good.
	So I had a television show for six months, a national TV show, in the 1990s.
	And it was really wonderful, but it was a time when they wanted sex and sensationalism rather than what I had to offer.
	I'm not complaining, I'm really describing.
	Anyway, I had Carl Sagan on one night.
	And I will never forget, he said to me, you know, Dennis, I look...
	Into the cosmos.
	And what I see and realize is how utterly insignificant we humans are.
	And I thought, God, that's beautiful.
	Here's my question.
	I'd say, Carl, how tall in the cosmos do you have to be before you're significant?
	Oh, you're good.
	You are definitely good.
	I am enjoying you.
	That is exactly right.
	Isn't that stupid?
	Your significance comes from physical size?
	Oh, God!
	It was painful.
	Oh, I'm sure.
	Yes.
	Right.
	If we were as large as Jupiter, we'd still be insignificant.
	Well, yes, of course.
	But, you know, I've written an article once called There Used to Be a Better Class of Atheists, and I had Bertrand Russell photographed there.
	But, you know, we've gone from Carl Sagan to Bill Nye the science guy.
	I mean, this is what scientism, this is their A-game?
	That's right.
	Yeah, I'm dubious about this.
	The real issue isn't intellectual rigor.
	It's not evidence.
	If you wanted to pick a century where science was most congenial to faith, you'd pick the 21st century for sure.
	The real issue has to do with human heart and human weakness in the presence of pain and evil.
	You know, I mean, I was a chaplain in a level one trauma center, and I've had...
	People looked up blood-soaked over dying loved ones and say, how can you see all this and still believe?
	Now, I can give a lecture in that moment.
	I know how to do that.
	But that's not what they're looking for at the moment.
	So people of faith and intellectual integrity also need to know how to speak to answer the immediate needs of the heart, start a relationship, and then over time bring body, soul, and heart over to the truth.
	So the maximum of the class...
	Go on, I'm sorry.
	No, very briefly, the maxim of Jesuit missionaries was always, enter through their door, but lead them through yours.
	Good.
	So, I am going to bounce a thought off you, and this is because I so respect you, and I'm just curious to get your reaction.
	So, I have been writing on theology all of my life, and I... I'm just finishing third volume of my five-volume commentary on the Torah.
	So I've thought about this very seriously.
	I know biblical Hebrew very well.
	So I wrote an essay about 20 years ago, and it's in my book of essays, Think a Second Time, for my listeners' sake, mentioning that, that I think the hardest commandment in the Torah, all the commandments of the Bible are in the Torah, the first five books.
	And I think the hardest one is to love God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your might.
	And when we come back, I'd like you to expound on your reaction to the fact that I think that that's the hardest of the commandments.
	This is a serious thinker who knows how to talk to people.
	Real philosophy for real people.
	Tools for truthful living.
	The book is up at DennisPrager.com.
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	Mike Flynn.
	Yeah, we don't have enough time in your show to talk about the whole thing.
	We don't probably have enough time in this week.
	Here's what I would just say to synthesize it.
	My whole life in the military, and for those that worked around me and know me, I'm one of these guys that comes into an organization and looks at processes, looks at procedures, looks at the leadership, looks at how we train people.
	And really tries to improve and make things, you know, it's not just make things, you know, more efficient, but it's also trying to solve the problems for the people in the field.
	And I was one that came into Washington, D.C. I didn't get to Washington, D.C. until I was a two-star.
	I never served.
	I served in the, you know, as a field soldier.
	Served, you know, in infantry divisions, in airborne divisions, in special operations.
	You know, and other tactical and strategic commands, too, and served in the intelligence community all the way up to the director of one of the largest intelligence agencies in the world, the Defense Intelligence Agency, as well as I served as the assistant director of national intelligence for partner engagement under James Clapper for a year.
	So I say all that because what I learned is that the efficiency, the effectiveness, the ability of The intelligence community does not function well inside of Washington, D.C. Where it functions best is in the field, and that's where our best people are.
	What we find is everybody stares at their navel in Washington, D.C., and it's what we call, you're very familiar, this is a circular reporting.
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	subscribe on YouTube today trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show Hugh, when you're committing fraud you're kind of covering your tracks When there are irregularities, you still have people defending the system.
	It's not an easy fight.
	So, Kurt, I think the president of Maria Bartiromo yesterday was trying to tell his supporters, I'm not going to win any lawsuits.
	I am going to run for president in 2024. And by the way, we need to win Georgia.
	I think that's what he was saying yesterday.
	And I speak Trump pretty well.
	He's saying it's hard to get to the Supreme Court.
	There is presently no lawsuit that has not been dismissed that would alter any result in any state.
	That's a factual statement.
	Do you agree with it?
	I think that you are correctly assessing the president's position.
	The president's a practical guy.
	He's a smart guy.
	Look, he's a guy who builds tall buildings.
	And fantasy doesn't enter into it when it comes to engineering.
	The building either stands or it falls.
	And sometimes you don't like the answer.
	I do think he'll run in 2024. That's just what my gut says.
	I think there are a lot of Republicans who are going to grumble a little about having a...
	You know, stand back in line an extra four to eight years.
	But that's just the way the cookie crumbles.
	This is a very competitive guy.
	This is a guy who arguably chose to run for president when Barack Obama insulted him at the White House press correspondence dinner.
	He wants to win.
	He wants to Grover Cleveland this all over the place.
	And I would not put it past him.
	If the Democrats accomplish unified government, they will then push and provide amnesty and voting rights for illegals all across the country.
	The Press: We certainly do, and so does the Ultimate Issues Hour, which this is, third hour on Tuesday.
	A philosopher, Catholic priest, Robert McTeague.
	Real philosophy for real people, tools for truthful living.
	Father McTeague, the issue of evil and suffering has always plagued me since I began thinking in high school.
	I have not disqualified God.
	The price that my theology and faith have paid is the difficulty of loving God, given the staggering amount of unjust suffering on earth.
	So, where am I wrong?
	Well, there's a clarification that's involved.
	Now, I'll speak to you first as a philosopher and then as a theologian and then as a pastor.
	As a philosopher, if you have a continuum between the perfect knowledge, which only God has, and being absolutely ignorant, dumber than a bag of hammers, where is human knowing in that continuum?
	We don't know.
	We can't know.
	Next question.
	Where would we have to be on the scale of knowing?
	To be able to conclude with certainty that God is mismanaging the universe.
	We don't have an answer to that question, and we can't.
	So, from a purely logical point of view, the problem of evil, at most, can offer a weak, inductive argument against the existence of a good and wise and provident God.
	But that's only at the level of a philosopher, but you're asking a deeper question.
	So then I turn, as a theologian, And, you know, Jewish theology, which, of course, you know, infinitely better than I do, you know, the book of Job, the laments of the Psalms, and somehow God is justified, and the later prophets point to that.
	And as a Christian, I'm obliged to say that God's purposes are revealed and fulfilled in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, who is the Christ of God.
	Now let me talk to you as a pastor.
	You've seen unjust suffering.
	You've experienced it.
	I have, too.
	Those leave wounds.
	If you don't bring those wounds to a God who can console you, they'll become infected with evil.
	So we have a logical problem, we have a theological problem, and we have a pastoral, spiritual problem.
	And I'd be happy to address any or all of those with you at any time.
	Well, I think it was an excellent response.
	Thank you.
	Do you feel that I speak for many in saying that loving God in the light of all the suffering is a challenge, or is it sort of quirky on my part?
	No, no, no, not at all.
	You're in very good company.
	I mean, it goes back to the scriptures.
	It goes back to the Psalms.
	I mean, I've experienced it in my own life.
	When I was a young Jesuit, not yet ordained a priest, and I was teaching at a Midwestern Catholic university, And I dealt with students who were victims of unspeakable crimes, of child abuse, heart-wrenching.
	And then I had to leave the university to go study theology.
	And they said, come back with answers.
	Not just compassion and Kleenex, but with real answers.
	So my master's degree in systematic theology was called Redeeming Violence, the Cross as a Sacrament of Healing.
	Most theology of the cross, called soteriology, focuses on the question, how is the cross of Christ?
	Well, that's been done by better men than me.
	My questions are different.
	Number one, what does the cross say not about my sin, but the victims of other people's sin?
	What does it say to the people who care about the victims of other people's sin?
	And what does it say to the pastors who have responsibility for the souls of the first two groups?
	And so I talk about Christ crucified as an instrument of healing.
	And that's what I think is distinctive about the Catholic proclamation of the gospel of Christ, is that we preach Christ crucified and risen, yes.
	We proclaim Christ returning, yes.
	But we also proclaim Christ reigning right now.
	And honestly, in light of what's going on in the church and the world these days, that can be a hard sell to make.
	Yeah, I certainly wanted to get to that.
	And I guess it's as good a time as any.
	Do you think there's a crisis in the Catholic Church?
	Oh, gosh, yeah.
	You know, I wouldn't say that we're flourishing.
	I don't think we're living in a golden age.
	You know, even before the time of the COVID interruption, or if you want to use religious terms, the season of COVID tide, what one commentator called the business of churchianity, what a friend and former student called the status quo ordo, Was in a death spiral in the United States, demographically and financially.
	Those corrosive dynamics have been greatly accelerated by COVID. All right, when we come back, I want more, obviously.
	Is the church in crisis?
	This is a serious and live wire, man.
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	This is Lon He Chen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com.
	California Governor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly called on Californians to come together and make sacrifices to fight COVID-19.
	The request would have been better received if, at the same time, Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one of America's most posh restaurants or sending his kids to a Sacramento private school in person while many California schools remain closed for in-person learning and Governor Newsom wasn't off violating his own public health guidance by dining with a group of lobbyists at one The problem with Newsom's hypocritical actions is that they undercut the very healthcare professionals and scientists whose advice he is asking Californians to follow.
	It makes those of us who live in California wonder who we can trust and what guidance we should be listening to.
	At a time when we need leadership and clarity, Newsom has given us hypocrisy and confusion.
	California's voters won't soon forget his shortcomings.
	I'm Lon Heachan.
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	Washington Post and its history has never endorsed a Republican president, The New York Times has not endorsed one since 1956. Tim Groves Close, who wrote the book Left Turn that I often refer to, says that the media were truly fair and balanced.
	The country's a third Republican, a third...
	Democrat and a third independent if the media reflected that diversity.
	He estimates that the average state would vote anywhere from 8 to 10 points in favor of the Republican candidate.
	Democrats would never win at the presidential level if the media were truly fair and balanced.
	We've been talking about some of the stories that were ignored or suppressed by the media, including but not limited to the allegation made by Tara Reid, the former staffer of Joe Biden who claims that she was sexually assaulted by Biden.
	Turns out 35.4% of voters were unaware of the allegation.
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	The Hunter Biden scandal, 45% of voters unaware.
	9.4% say they would have switched their vote.
	That Kamala Harris has a more left-wing record than Bernie Sanders, the self-described Democrat Socialist.
	25.3% of Biden voters were unaware of this.
	4.1% say they would have changed their vote again, enough possibly to flip Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin to Trump, according to the Newsbusters.
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	Talk to us about this unique...
	It's amazing that Every time Father McTeague speaks, this music precedes him.
	It's a phenomenon in his life.
	Father Robert McTeague, Roman Catholic priest, Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits, book, Real Philosophy for Real People.
	The last issue was The Crisis of the Church, which you were acknowledging, which, of course, precedes, well precedes the...
	What are its roots?
	Well, you know, a lot depends on how far back you want to go.
	If you want to go all the way back, you go back to Adam and Eve.
	More recently, let's go back to Pope Pius X at the beginning of the 20th century, sounding the alarm about modernism, which he called the mother of all heresies, the heresy of all heresies.
	The idea that the Church really doesn't have anything truly distinctive to offer, and that if we're going to have any credibility or persuasiveness or authority at all, that we have to be in harmony with whatever the heirs of the so-called Enlightenment are willing to accept.
	Once you begin to go down that path, it's really hard to recover.
	And so when people ask me, Father, do you think COVID is God's chastisement?
	And I said, that's above my prayer grade.
	I'm inclined to say no, because I don't think God will let me off that easily.
	But it is a time for illumination, for the thoughts of many to be revealed, as Scripture says.
	And this is where we find out who really believes and who doesn't, whose heart has been won over to worthy worship, and whose heart has not.
	And so for just speaking as a Catholic priest, It's time for the Catholic Church to say, we've got to win people all over again for Christ and for worthy worship.
	This is a time to teach and to reteach people, and we have to do it soon, or otherwise even more souls are going to drift away.
	Well, this is the outsider.
	And I am totally sympathetic outside because there is nothing good in the collapse of Christianity generally or Catholicism specifically.
	I always remind my fellow Jews that with all the anti-Semitism that existed in Christian Europe, the Holocaust was not produced by Christianity.
	It was produced by anti-Christianity.
	It became fascism, Nazism, and Communism arose when Christianity died.
	Why would anyone, Jew or non-Jew, welcome, even if you're an atheist, you've got to be pretty optimistic about human nature to welcome the collapse of Christianity in the West.
	No, no, that's certainly true.
	true and i think we're a lot of the intelligence here in the political managerial class have been infected with a kind of vichy syndrome and they can eat god in general as a buzzkill and the catholic church in particular because we're the final bullwark against the the the madness of relativism and so we're we're the team to beat and you can't believe you do
	you will not like what the world will look like if the catholic church is not there to proclaim the gospel to offer the sacraments right so Tell me then this.
	If I had to summarize the difference between Benedict and Francis, Benedict thought that the Great Crisis was secularism, and Francis thinks it's capitalism.
	Is that an unfair characterization?
	I think that that's a reasonable characterization.
	You know, Benedict and then John Paul were academics.
	I spent most of my life in academia.
	Their way of governing the church is more accessible to me.
	I think that Benedict had a sense of continuity, that to be faithful to Christ is to be in line with all of what the Church has taught.
	I think Francis' approach is with more a sense of immediacy.
	What is the clamor right now?
	The way that's being done has led to confusion among many of the faithful.
	Well, I have harsher words, but I don't expect the priest to have harsher words, and I mean that quite sympathetically, because it's not an easy time.
	Do you have a theory as to why Benedict resigned?
	You know, I've gone back and forth on that, and I think somewhere out there is a doctoral dissertation waiting.
	To be written.
	I know people who studied under Benedict back when he was Father Ratzinger, and their claim is, and they say that Benedict hinted at it in many interviews, and it's along these lines.
	The Church had John Paul who tried to govern from his sickbed for a very long time, and Benedict didn't want the Church to go through that again.
	And that's why he thought it was better to leave while he could still do it under his own power.
	Some people find that persuasive.
	Other people make interesting cases that there may be more kind of Dan Brown novel powers and principalities at work.
	I'm not so sure.
	I will say that I'm sorry that he did, because he was a scholar, and I think what he had to say About worship and about the distinctive role of the West for the sake of the Church in the world, as articulated in the Regensburg lectures, that needs to be promoted to this day, and I wish he had taken the opportunity to do so.
	It is, to me, a tragedy that he resigned.
	I don't remember any other voice condemning him the day he announced it.
	I did.
	For the sake of humanity, And here I am, you know, a non-Catholic.
	But I was a big fan.
	I mean, because the man told the truth.
	Your book is about the truth.
	And he told the truth.
	Those Regensburg lectures were awesome.
	Final segment coming up with Father Robert McTeague.
	It's a good time for me to remind you that, of course, his book is up at DennisPrager.com.
	That also at DennisPrager.com is a banner.
	For my trip with you to Israel next October.
	500 came last time and it was the experience of their lives.
	If the Democrats accomplish unified government, They will then push and provide amnesty and voting rights for illegals all across the country.
	Again, all about strengthening their voter base.
	Power grab.
	They will also add tens of millions to various relief rolls across the country.
	Not to mention the aggressive push.
	To bring in cheap labor into America.
	Something that even some Republicans are saying they want to do.
	We'll get to that later on in the program.
	And so now we are experiencing a two front war.
	We are now fighting in the courts and the state legislatures and we are now fighting in Georgia.
	Both are important.
	Because if we lose in the courts and if we lose in the state legislatures.
	Then all of a sudden we are going to look around the landscape and say, I wish we would have took Georgia a little bit more seriously.
	I wish we would have prevented Warnock and Ossoff from becoming United States senators.
	I wrote this in my Newsweek piece and I'm sure that plenty of members of the activist media are going to take exception to this.
	But we need to turn the United States Senate into a legislative kill squad, a graveyard where the Democrats' dystopian and ruinous socialist ideas go to die.
	We should be unafraid talking about this because their ideas are actually widely unpopular with the American people.
	They might be popular with groups of people that don't own property.
	They might be popular with ruling class members or people that live in centralized urban environments.
	How can you not take this seriously and understand that if Biden were inaugurated under this cloud right now with 70 million plus people believing he's a real fraud, not just they don't not just they don't like
	him.
	they didn't vote for him, but that he's a fraud, that you wouldn't speak up.
	This is, again, I'm just mystified.
	I don't get this.
	Well, and part of it is that people believe the kind of hypnosis from the main propaganda channels, where they say, well, there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
	First of all, there you have a...
	An objective and a subjective statement.
	So this is a very important point that we need to...
	You've heard this many times, right?
	It's almost an incantation that they say on television every day.
	There's no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
	They say it almost as a prayer ritual on CNN. They have to every day.
	And so what you have there is a no, meaning there's none, zero.
	That's an objective.
	And then widespread.
	That's a really important thing, though.
	How do you define widespread?
	This is really important.
	For example, 1% wouldn't be widespread.
	That's not widespread.
	1% is the margin in many of these states.
	So all of a sudden, if we just have 1%...
	All right, everybody, final segment here with a gentleman that I have truly enjoyed talking to, and that is Father Robert McTeague, M-C-T-E-I-G-U-E, the book Real Philosophy for Real People, Tools for Truthful Living.
	So I wrote many times that lies are the root of evil.
	What's your favorite root of evil?
	Well, yes, lies are the root of evil.
	Loving things out of order, loving things out of proportion, giving anything other than God the central place in your heart.
	St. Augustine said, peace is a tranquility that comes from order.
	St. Thomas Aquinas said the office of the wise man is to put things in their proper order and place.
	And St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, warned us against disordered attachments.
	A disordered attachment is loving anything that displaces God or takes you away from giving your best service to God.
	I told you folks...
	The third answer would be idolatry.
	I'm totally with you.
	It's...
	I'm going to do something so uncouth that I will have to repent.
	But speaking to you, all I should do is promote your book, which I have been with great passion.
	But I would love you to read my Torah commentary because it so reflects your views.
	When I speak of the Ten Commandments, I note...
	You will love this in light of the Catholics you just quoted.
	The Talmud, which is almost 2,000 years old, and it's the second holiest book in Judaism, has a statement, whoever does not worship any false god, worships the true God.
	So that has been my root.
	I have seen all the false gods.
	Mm-hmm.
	that have replaced the God of the Judeo-Christian traditions.
	And I don't believe in any of them.
	So it's one other point.
	God spent the six days of creation not creating.
	There's only three times is the word create used.
	The rest of the time he was making order.
	That's exactly what you were saying.
	Listen, I hope we meet one day.
	It's all I can tell you.
	Please, God.
	I would like that very much, and I'd be happy to have you conversation.
	And, you know, I'm the host of a talk show myself.
	I'd like to have you on the show.
	It's called The Catholic Current from the Station of the Cross.
	We're based in Buffalo.
	Maybe we can work that out sometime.
	I charge a cigar.
	Very good.
	I smoke cigars, too.
	I knew it.

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