Dennis Prager Show - Adam Carolla on the Covid Hysteria
Aired: 2020-12-09
Duration: 05:06


=== Putting Out Scare Porn (04:21) ===

[00:00:00]  So you will love this.
[00:00:01]  If you heard this, I feel bad because it's precious.
[00:00:07]  My son and I were doing a fundraising event for PragerU in Michigan just a couple of months ago.
[00:00:17]  And I mentioned this transparent line in my talk because I aspire to be transparent.
[00:00:25]  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.
[00:00:34]  Good one, isn't it?
[00:00:35]  Yeah, it's a very good one.
[00:00:36]  Yeah, I thought you'd appreciate it.
[00:00:38]  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.
[00:00:51]  What's your take?
[00:00:55]  First off, would you like the government to be a propaganda machine?
[00:01:01]  Because it's essentially propaganda.
[00:01:03]  It is.
[00:01:04]  I mean, you could do the same thing about airplane crashes or moped crashes.
[00:01:11]  I mean, you could choose.
[00:01:12]  It's like we always say, smoking.
[00:01:14]  You know, 50,000 people die of secondhand smoke every year when no one dies of secondhand smoke.
[00:01:21]  I think there's a...
[00:01:25]  You're in very dangerous waters when you've lost the people.
[00:01:31]  So, 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?
[00:01:44]  And they go, I just believe that's what happened.
[00:01:46]  I said, now if you hear something on CNN, what do you think?
[00:01:49]  And they go, hmm.
[00:01:51]  Is that right?
[00:01:52]  Yes.
[00:01:53]  Well, that's actually comforting.
[00:01:54]  It's depressing, but it's comforting.
[00:01:57]  Right, but CNN and Los Angeles Times, New York Times, it's no different than the governor or the mayor.
[00:02:04]  That's correct.
[00:02:05]  And if they want to keep going down the sort of hyperbole, scare porn path, then we're going to tune out even more.
[00:02:13]  They don't realize that the harder they bang that drum, the less we listen.
[00:02:20]  They claim, her claim was, that scaring people about cigarette smoking worked.
[00:02:29]  Yeah, well, telling your kids the boogeyman's under the bed, so go to sleep or eat your vegetables.
[00:02:36]  I mean, it's lying.
[00:02:38]  If it's okay to lie, then it's okay to lie.
[00:02:42]  But you're going to lose your constituency.
[00:02:45]  People will stop listening.
[00:02:48]  It's insane that she is actually coaching up the government to essentially lie, which they're already doing.
[00:02:55]  They've been lying.
[00:02:56]  Talking about that, Sean brought in this piece of data.
[00:03:01]  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.
[00:03:19]  Five, one to four.
[00:03:21]  Thirteen, five to fourteen.
[00:03:24]  So we're talking about.013%.
[00:03:30]  And for that, these kids should be scared and wear masks and not go to school.
[00:03:37]  And that's the information that people aren't getting.
[00:03:40]  That's right.
[00:03:41]  They're not getting.
[00:03:42]  At all.
[00:03:43]  The news agencies won't report on that.
[00:03:47]  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.
[00:03:58]  And not only that, they're saying this stuff out loud that they're not supposed to be saying out loud.
[00:04:02]  You're not supposed to announce we need to start scaring people before you start scaring people when you've been scaring people.

=== Organ of the Communist Party (00:59) ===

[00:04:09]  You know, these people are...
[00:04:12]  Bold, and brazen, and oftentimes stupid.
[00:04:16]  That's a dumb article.
[00:04:17]  You're not supposed to announce that we want the government to scare people.
[00:04:23]  That's a great point, but this is where we're headed.
[00:04:28]  You know, I have said this.
[00:04:31]  This is really, I think, an important point.
[00:04:34]  As I know, you know me well.
[00:04:37]  So, I studied Russian in order to read the famous...
[00:04:41]  A Soviet newspaper.
[00:04:43]  At the top of Pravda, it said, Organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
[00:04:48]  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.
[00:04:56]  Right.
[00:04:58]  But I think people are starting to understand that.
[00:05:02]  Ah, that's the key.
[00:05:04]  Adam Carolla and my movie is out.