Dennis Prager Show - Could Larry Elder Replace Newsom?
Aired: 2021-02-19
Duration: 03:57


=== Larry Elder's Response (02:15) ===

[00:00:02]  Hi, Dennis.
[00:00:03]  This is from the pastor.
[00:00:05]  We're in a meeting regarding the recall efforts of Gavin Newsom, which is most certainly going to happen.
[00:00:13]  As of today, it means we need a candidate.
[00:00:17]  I know we talked about Larry Elder before, and Larry Elder did express when he was at Calvary Chapel.
[00:00:28]  Chino Hills, that it could be a possibility.
[00:00:31]  Do you have any way of letting Elder know that there are a lot of people in support of him running?
[00:00:38]  These are not low-level influencers.
[00:00:41]  These are top-level people and with means.
[00:00:45]  We need to encourage Larry.
[00:00:48]  My response?
[00:00:49]  I will tell him.
[00:00:51]  I forwarded your text.
[00:00:54]  This is the response from Larry Elder to me.
[00:00:59]  Dennis, I feel about that office the way Walter Cronkite felt when asked if he'd like to be a senator.
[00:01:07]  He said, I'd love to serve, I'd hate to run.
[00:01:12]  I have neither the temperament, the stomach, the passion, nor the will to run.
[00:01:20]  And if elected, I would not have the desire to spend my last years on earth.
[00:01:26]  Busting heads with those doofuses in Sacramento.
[00:01:31]  Apart from that, dot, dot, dot.
[00:01:37]  So I sent it to the pastor, and he writes back, thank you for the response, and I must say, I agree with him.
[00:01:47]  That's after urging him to run.
[00:01:53]  Shimon says I'd have a big bully pulpit if I were governor of California.
[00:01:59]  I would have a big bully pulpit if I were president or vice president of the United States.

=== Can't Meet Teachers (01:54) ===

[00:02:04]  But otherwise, this national radio show is a much bigger pulpit.
[00:02:09]  With PragerU, this, Columns, I have a huge, thank God, bully pulpit.
[00:02:14]  Because all I want to do is influence people.
[00:02:16]  I don't want to have any power over them.
[00:02:18]  I am touched, though.
[00:02:22]  It would be, I mean, the thought of me negotiating with teachers' unions when I believe they are such destructive forces in America that they have harmed children more than any other single thing in the United States outside of direct child abuse.
[00:02:42]  What am I going to say?
[00:02:43]  It's great to see you guys.
[00:02:44]  Great to meet with you.
[00:02:46]  I can't do that, to be honest.
[00:02:48]  It isn't great to meet with them.
[00:02:50]  I have contempt.
[00:02:51]  For teachers' unions.
[00:02:52]  Utter, total contempt.
[00:02:54]  If they were worthless, I would meet with them.
[00:02:57]  They are harmful.
[00:03:00]  Utterly, 100% harmful.
[00:03:03]  The degradation of the teaching profession in my lifetime to the state of cowardice and contempt for children that most teachers today express is breathtaking.
[00:03:20]  To corrupt the word teacher, the most venerated word in my religious vocabulary.
[00:03:28]  Do you know that teacher and Torah are the exact same word except for the one consonant?
[00:03:35]  They come from the exact same verbal root.
[00:03:39]  That is how venerating, venerated teachers are.
[00:03:47]  Torah?
[00:03:49]  And Maura.
[00:03:51]  How's that?
[00:03:53]  And they've ruined...
[00:03:55]  Actually, the left has ruined both.