Feb. 12, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
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| What they are trying to do is to demonize and vilify anyone who voices skepticism about the election. | |
| That is correct. | |
| Whereas if you voice skepticism about Donald Trump's election, you wrote for the New York Times. | |
| Exactly, right. | |
| And they're trying to go, I would say, even further than just demonize. | |
| I think they're trying to go to the point of criminalize, right? | |
| You will not question these election results. | |
| I really believe that's how significant this is. | |
| So, in other words, if you've noticed in House Manager's presentation, they keep using that phrase over and over, the big lie. | |
| And they clearly want this fantasy that no reasonable person can have suspicions about the election. | |
| They want this fantasy to become the prevailing orthodoxy, and to speak against it makes you into a, then, quote, terrorist, another phrase they're using a lot, right? | |
| Because you are directly responsible for violence if you have suspicions about the election. | |
| And by the way, Dennis, part of the reason that I don't believe in the validity of the election from a common sense perspective, and admittedly, again, this is circumstantial, it's not evidence-based, but I think it's compelling nonetheless. | |
| Part of the reason is, why are they going to such lengths to try to dismiss even the discussion of the election, unless they themselves perhaps know that these gains were not legitimate? | |
| I mean, in other words, the violence with which they are treating justice Well, it is unprecedented where a discussion is shut down and virtually criminalized. | |
| People who said that 9-11... | |
| It was a fantasy. | |
| It was cockamamie nonsense. | |
| It's just dismissed as cockamamie nonsense. | |
| They're not declared the public enemy of the country. | |
| Right. | |
| And that's what's important here, too, Dennis. | |
| In a sense, they're not going after Trump. | |
| I mean, they are, of course. | |
| They're going after you and me and 74 million others, at least. | |
| Correct. | |
| Yes, I agree. | |
| I have another question, and that is, why... | |
| Doesn't the defense just saturate that room with videos of left-wing riots? | |
| Right. | |
| Well, listen, they may. | |
| I don't know yet. | |
| And I'm not part of that defense team, so I don't know. | |
| But I 100% concur with you that that would be a great idea. | |
| Because, also, remember this. | |
| I think in those opening statements, which, well, they weren't really opening statements. | |
| It was the vote to have a trial, right, on the constitutionality. | |
| What the House impeachment managers did, and I have to say they did it in a compelling way, very dishonest, but very compelling, is they made a highly emotional case. | |
| They presented a narrative to the American people. | |
| And Trump's lawyers largely answered with process claims, right, and with constitutional claims, which are valid. | |
| But again, it's as if you're fighting in different arenas. | |
| And in the court of public opinion, we have to answer a narrative with a more compelling narrative. | |
| So my hope is, to your point, When they get to present now, in terms of the real trial, that we have to counter their narrative with a more compelling and, thankfully, factually-based narrative about, let's talk about actual instigation of violence all over this country, which was caused, at least in part, by the acquiescence and, in some cases, encouragement of significant figures on the left. | |
| You know, for example, let's get specific here. | |
| I did a lot of TV when I was at CNN with Chris Cuomo, and he and I sparred all the time, largely over Antifa. | |
| He told me on the air, you know, the listeners can hear the tape, he said Antifa is a good cause. | |
| Now, he claimed it got carried away at times, you know, but it's a good cause. | |
| Of course, I pushed you, but no, it is not a good cause, right? | |
| It is about political power through force. | |
| But those kinds of statements from significant figures on the left gave a lot of license. | |
| They ought to contrast, exactly, they should have all the statements of Democratic officials who either supported or did nothing with regard to the burning down of their cities. | |
| They should contrast that to the instant condemnation of every leading Republican of what happened on January 6th. | |
| They don't know how to go for the jugular on the right. | |
| They just don't. | |
| No, I agree. | |
| By the way, you know, to me, the best example there, how about now Vice President Kamala Harris, then Senator from your state, from California? | |
| Right, about bail. | |
| How about, yeah, exactly, raising bail funds for extremely violent, we're not talking about political protesters who got arrested for trespassing or something like that. | |
| No. | |
| For literally, one of them, Jamil, gosh, I'm forgetting his last name, but one of them arrested for attempted murder of police. | |
| Freed by the Minnesota Freedom Fund, so-called, which she actively solicited funds for publicly on her Twitter account and which at least a dozen Joe Biden staffers contributed toward. | |
| I mean, you want to talk about condoning political violence and the riots in Minnesota. | |
| They directly did it, not even indirectly, not in a roundabout way. | |
| They actually said, we will pay to get you out of jail after you violently assault the city, including trying to kill cops. | |
| Well, you're, as usual, you're a sobering combination of passion and sobriety. | |
| I love it. | |
| That's a good combo, right? | |
| All right. | |
| Looking forward to that cigar with you. | |
| Wonderful. | |
| Thank you, Dennis. | |
| Thank you very much, Steve Cortez, a colleague of mine on AM 560 in Chicago. |
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