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March 15, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
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Okay, thank you.
Thank you both.
By the way, there is a very important movie out.
I had the woman who made the movie, Namrata Sinjgujal.
Not a household name.
It should be, but it would be difficult.
What they would do in America, I mean, she's American, but of course, obviously, of Indian extraction, Sikh precisely.
They'd say NSG, like they did with AOC. She's a filmmaker and an immigrant, and her film, The America's Forgotten, is about the unintended consequences of a broken immigration system.
So she went to the south-southern border, and the film packs a wallop.
Anyway, look, you know my belief.
We have to support non-left-wing films and filmmakers.
Now, if the film is not excellent, I don't recommend it just because it's not left.
But this is excellent and non-left.
It's called America's Forgotten.
You can see it at salemnow.com.
Use the promo code or comoprod, either one, Prager.
It's good.
Comoprods are good.
You know, it's really tragic.
I'm going to end up saying comoprod.
You know how easily you can, it's like getting a tick.
You can invent a tick for yourself, and it takes about two days.
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Do you know, when I very, very first began broadcasting, I understood then the power of habit.
Like I said, you could give yourself a tick, or I could end up saying, it would be easy, and I'd confuse myself, and I'd have to think promo code deliberately to undo it.
So I actually said to myself, and I'm a good listener, I said, Dennis, I was never a big cursor.
And if I ever used such words, it was always private.
I still believe that the acceptance of public cursing, outside of comedic routines, where it's also been excessive, but the acceptance of public cursing was the broken window that led to a lot of what we see.
The holy protects the ethical.
It is one of the biggest concepts I have from my Bible scholarship.
Anyway...
I said to myself, curse as little as possible, lest it come out on air.
And it worked.
My producer is a master at the, because he has much more self-discipline than I, he is a master at knowing the power of habit.
Habit is the key to life in many ways.
There are good habits and there are bad habits.
And whichever you get into gets easier.
It's easier to do good habitually and it's easier to do bad habitually.
The beginning is tough.
Alright, now I said to you, a woman handed me a note.
It's folded up in a, as you can see here, A thank you card.
Folded in half, and she wrote inside the card the following.
Dennis, I just discovered you last year.
It's handwritten in cursive.
Incidentally, pardon me the side subject, does the average high school kid know how to write or read cursive?
Do we have an answer to that?
I am told, when I ask that of parents, that they don't learn cursive.
But if they don't learn cursive, how do they learn to sign their name?
They print it?
Somebody let me know.
Anyway, so she...
I just discovered you last year, and through poking around and looking for views of voices of reason, In a world gone mad, I found you, and I am so grateful.
I want you to know that your words during your hour with Glenn Beck gave me the courage to speak out for truth and freedom and our country.
My mother and sisters cut me off early in 2020 because of politics, and I had to form a new family of people who, like me, pray for discernment and pray for our country.
I've listened to that interview three times because it reminds me that me and my big brain and big mouth were made for a time such as this.
Thank you, underlined.
You touched me, encouraged me, emboldened me, and strengthened me.
I don't know if she wants her name read, so I'm not reading her name.
Rachel is her first name.
Why did I read this to you?
I get a lot of mail, obviously, some very touching mail.
When she came out in person, but that would be not enough.
People give me a lot of things when I appear publicly.
But it made me think, have I given some people courage?
That is what it's called for most at this time.
And I thought, if...
If I play that role, I am very happy and grateful.
The left, as all cults and tyrannies, and the left is a cult, and the left is tyrannical, by definition, everywhere, always, there is no exception.
None.
Liberals are not a cult.
Liberals are not tyrannical.
Liberals are weaklings.
So they vote left.
But it's the left that is cult-like and tyrannical, and like all tyrants and cults, they're bullies.
And the bully assumes that by bullying, people will not resist.
But if you resist, A lot of good will happen.
Also, a lot of pain for you.
Look, I can't believe it.
Her family has essentially disowned her.
That is the proof leftism is a cult.
We don't do that to family members.
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I just read the funniest article about Disney Plus that I think I've ever seen in my life.
If this doesn't completely sum up where we are as a country in 2021, nothing does.
Disney Plus is enormously successful.
Everybody wanted to get it.
Remember when Hamilton started streaming on Disney Plus and people ordered Disney Plus for that?
Get all the Disney movies, all the classics, you know, Peter Pan, Swiss Family Robinson, all the things.
And I'm a Disney guy.
We all, my family and I, we're Disney people.
Well, we can't watch necessarily Swiss Family Robinson, Peter Pan, Dumbo, the Aristocats.
If we have children under seven, it's banned.
Like somebody over at the New York Post called it, it's more like Disney Minus.
Listen to this.
Disney Plus has decided to go whole hog and drop a number of once beloved, now controversial movies from their children's menu.
Children under seven.
are going to be forbidden from watching Dumbo, Peter Pan, Swiss Family Robinson, and the Aristocats.
Settings on the app will prevent the movies from even showing up on the profiles of children under seven.
Children under seven can't handle Dumbo.
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I kind of am obligated to get into this story right now, which is the story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
So I want to read this tweet here from Ben Means, an expert on the British monarchy.
A lot of respect for the tradition and all of that.
A lot of great friends in London and Great Britain.
It's just not a primary concern of mine.
And so I want to read from Ben Goldsmith's tweet, which I thought was terrific.
The narrative being promoted by Meghan, friends of Meghan, and the leftist mainstream media, and everyone else who hates the royal family and British traditions generally, is that the royal couple were driven out of Britain because of snobbery and racism.
This just isn't true.
The British tabloid press and the British publicly initially adored the idea that a glamorous star from suits was marrying into the royal family.
And got terribly excited by the novelty of their royal wedding in the chapel of Windsor Castle.
They only started going off Meghan when they realized she was a pushy, ungrateful, entitled, gag-inducingly politically correct Hollywood gold digger who'd just gone and hitched herself up to Britain's favorite cheeky, chappy warrior prince.
And turned him into an emasculated, humorless husk of his form for myself.
It's actually from James Dellingpole, who I believe writes for Breitbart, amongst other places.
And he interviewed me when we were in London for our campus tour.
Very good guy.
And so there's a lot of people that are kind of dissecting the interview yesterday.
There's a lot of people that are going through the entire thing.
I think just a broader question about this whole saga is...
Are we really now going to blame racism for the alleged oppressed life of Meghan Markle?
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Thank you.
I like my orange shirt and orange tie.
Okay.
Not my usual combo.
I really do like it.
Wow.
All right, everybody.
Dennis Prager, giving you a visual here in case you're not watching.
What did you say?
One of the colors of Prager U. One of the colors of Prager U. The other is blue.
There's a famous college whose colors are orange and blue, no?
University of Illinois?
What about Syracuse?
Is that correct?
How do you like that, Sean?
I come out with these sports things that blow his mind.
I have online a woman who wishes to be...
We've invited her.
But she wishes to be anonymous, which I find fascinating, so we're calling her Elizabeth X. I don't even know where she is.
And she is a parent and a teacher, if I have that correctly, and works with the PREP program, the PragerU Resources for Educators and Parents.
Do I have all of that correct, Elizabeth?
Hi, my name is Elizabeth, and actually my last name is Jex.
I'm okay with not being anonymous, but it sounds like X. Yes, that's really funny.
All right, so where are you located?
Are you okay with telling us?
I don't mean your address, just what city.
Right.
Well, I'm in Utah, and I'm a public high school teacher.
I'm also a mom.
I have four kids, and I've been a stay-at-home mom for 17 years.
But all my four kids are in school now and getting more and more independent.
So I kind of looked around at what was happening in the world, and I'm a really religious person.
I asked through my faith, what can I do?
What can I do in my little corner of the world to do something to help, to help things get better and people to have more peace in their lives?
What became really clear to me was to teach.
I have a degree in English literature, and so I, just this past year, went back to, well, not back, I started teaching high school as a way to kind of be a bright spot in the day of the kids I'm able to reach, but also to create a classroom where there's diversity of thought, and my personal views are...
I don't indulge in them.
I want the text that we cover and the content that we cover to speak for itself and allow students to make up their own minds.
So that's what I love about the PragerPET program when I founded it.
It's a great support to me.
What grade are you teaching?
I teach 11th and 10th grade.
And do you teach literature?
I do, and I teach American literature.
Prager Prep is a huge support there.
PragerU videos.
And then my 10th grade class is kind of a survey of a lot of great literature.
But we still get to do the classics.
I have to kill a mockingbird and Animal Farm and Shakespeare.
So it's really fun.
So your school is allowing you to do all of this?
My school is.
We've been in person all year with masks and social distancing.
Is it a public school?
Yes, a public school.
Well, if you tell me what city, I will move there.
We're just in the suburbs of Salt Lake.
There have been different districts doing different things in this area, but that's what our district has done, and it's just been a joy.
It's a hard year, but that's all the more reason I want to be there.
So, I want people to understand two things here.
Here is a teacher in a public school teaching Shakespeare Animal Farm to Kill a Mockingbird, Pieces of great literature.
That is now, in California, it is undone.
Those are not things that are teachable.
I will talk about what is teachable later.
I'm having Barry Weiss on the next hour who wrote this piece that went viral about what's happening at the most expensive and prestigious high schools.
But back to you and PREP. The other thing is PREP. So this is the PragerU resources for educators and parents.
How has that helped you?
Though I think my community is largely conservative, you know, it's made up of individuals with their own, you know, they have their own minds.
And so I wanted to be sure that I was keeping myself in check, that I really was living up to my ideal of having a really truthful classroom.
But I do have this passion for the Constitution.
And our founding values.
All right, well, so do we, obviously.
Stay there.
Don't forget where you're up to.
Your love of the Constitution, founding values.
And, of course, this is PragerU Fundraising Month.
So please help us, because we do have the courage and the resources necessary to help this country survive the greatest attack, internal attack in its history.
Since the Civil War at any rate.
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Relieffactor.com 800-500-8384 I looked at the headline the gentleman was calling about.
This is in Newsweek.
Evanston is paying reparations of $25,000 to black residents.
They say that's not enough.
Now, I said that to the gentleman without even seeing this headline.
They say that's not enough.
And this is what we're going to be facing.
You know, decades ago, A congressman named John Conyers would introduce a bill at the beginning of Congress every two years for reparations.
And it was a joke.
And every year he'd do it.
And every year he'd do it.
Never in a million years did I ever think we'd get to the point where people are seriously taking this, where serious people are taking this seriously.
Where do you start with this?
I've heard that this is for 400 years of slavery or 250 years of slavery.
America didn't become a country until 1787. Slavery ended 1865. That's not 400 years.
That's not 250 years.
Government didn't own slaves.
States didn't own slaves.
Individuals owned slaves.
And Obama said that, in his view, reparations were justified.
Of course they were justified.
to the slaves themselves or to their legal heiress, good luck trying to find them.
Evanston is paying reparations of $25,000 to black residents.
They say that's not enough.
It'll never be enough.
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Trending now on America First with Sebastian Quirka. - My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge.
It reads, I'm with her.
I choose to recite a different pledge.
My pledge reads, I'm with you, the American people.
For me, that's the political kill shot, Rahim, where you take the classic establishment attitude of, you better be with me.
I'm your elitist leader.
And he says, actually, I want to fight with you.
I'm with you.
Talk to me about taxonomy, categorization.
They have quite successfully turned populism into a pejorative, into a negative.
What are we witnessing around the world in your vocabulary?
Oh, goodness.
I'm Dennis Prager.
Elizabeth is a teacher and a parent in Utah.
And she teaches 10th and 11th grade students.
She teaches literature, specifically American literature.
And she uses the PREP program, Prager University Resources for Educators and Parents.
And we ask all parents to sign up for that.
And obviously all educators.
So you were speaking of your love of the Constitution, etc.
So I have to interrupt you for a commercial, so please continue.
Well, I find that it's the most empowering thing we can teach our students is what freedoms they are granted through the Constitution because it acknowledges a Creator.
And what does that mean for them, no matter their faith or not faith?
So I want to be sure to bring these things into the classroom to allow the text to speak for itself and to empower my students.
And Prager Press is a place where educators and parents already have that foundation of agreeing on those points about the Constitution.
And so there's just a phenomenal place to start off from, to have deep, meaningful conversations about What we can teach our students?
What are their needs?
What's appropriate for the classroom?
What isn't?
And, you know, the safety of being able to speak about these issues in a group that you know already is cheering you on and supporting you.
God, I got the chills.
No, you inspire me, and obviously, PrEP, the fact that we're helping you is so wonderful to hear.
Do you meet kindred spirits through PrEP?
Yes, absolutely.
In fact, yes, it feels very much that way.
A few of us, you know, went ahead and friended each other so we can talk even more on social media.
Oh, I love that.
Because people need that today.
We need that.
Yeah, and it's just a great meeting of the minds.
And these are important issues.
The welfare and happiness of our students and children is essential.
And I see that these issues of teaching freedom as a principle to freedom and the Constitution and what it means as a solution to so many problems, not just academically but mentally and emotionally, when I'm going over the Declaration of Independence with my students.
And we, of course, look at the literary aspects like rhetoric and figurative language.
Important academically, but then when we stop and we look at what does this mean?
How does this affect you?
What is the role of the government in all of this?
You can feel their hearts lighten.
You can feel a joy.
Really?
That's so interesting.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, and I think, I don't know, I don't know why that has maybe gotten lost, but I find so many answers in these wonderful documents that were not just meant for their time.
Well, you are the hope for the country.
And I mean you individually, and you...
I was saying this to my producer during the break.
The hope for this country lies with its religious citizens.
And you are an example of that.
There are a lot of wonderful secular conservatives.
But overwhelmingly, there is no large group like there is of religious people.
And a lot of religious people have faded from the scene, too.
I assume you're LDS? I am.
Well, you're a credit to your church.
That's very kind.
Thank you.
You've earned it.
Thank you so much.
Please join the prep program if you're a parent or a teacher.
We will help you in the most sophisticated and appealing way.
We will help you teach young people.
Do you realize that it is now counter-revolutionary or perhaps revolutionary?
To teach animal farm or to kill a mockingbird.
Do you know, I mean, what I'm about to tell you, could you please get me the article on ethnic studies in California and how there is now a celebration of Aztec gods.
The Christian god, the...
The Christians will be taught in California, normatively, as genocidal.
And so we must get rid of the Christian's God and Christianity and embrace Aztec religion.
The religion of the oppressed.
This was a religion, by the way, Whose dominant feature was human sacrifice.
And yet, 90% of liberals will vote Democrat.
Again, in California.
That's the most painful to me.
the utter collapse of common sense and courage among liberals.
The left is the enemy, and liberals vote for the enemy of liberalism.
I do not know of an equivalent suicidal form of politics as liberals voting Democrat.
I've studied history my whole life.
I do not know of such a suicidal Pact with the devil, as liberals have made with the left.
They have fallen for the gigantic, idiotic lie that the right is their enemy.
What position have I taken that makes me a prominent conservative, an enemy of liberalism?
I'd like to know.
Everything I believe I have written and or broadcast.
I'd like to know what non-liberal positions I have taken.
To believe in racial integration is a liberal position.
To believe in free speech is a liberal position.
to believe, belief, race doesn't matter, is a liberal position.
This is Carol Platt-Lebow of Yankee Institute for townhall.com.
Matt Meyer is president of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, a union leading the effort to keep children at home, insisting that reopening schools is just too unsafe.
So jaws dropped when video of him was seen taking his own daughter to in-person preschool.
The episode highlights the hypocrisy and cynicism evident in too much COVID policy, especially in education.
School districts with strong teachers unions are less likely to hold in-person classes.
Meanwhile, our children remain trapped at home, suffering from social isolation and learning loss.
The achievement gap has increased, and there's a worsening youth mental health crisis.
Parents have stood by helplessly at the mercy of the unions, even as the CDC admits that schools can reopen safely.
In-person learning shouldn't be reserved for children of the privileged.
Our kids deserve policies that put their rightful needs over the self-serving demands of union elites.
I'm Carol Platt-Lebow.
The Pepperdine Graduate School of Public Policy, impacting policy decisions today, preparing public leaders for tomorrow.
Learn more at publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
Training now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
I kind of am obligated to get into this story right now, which is the story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
So I want to read this tweet here from Ben Means, an expert on the British monarchy.
A lot of respect for the tradition and all of that.
A lot of great friends in London and Great Britain.
It's just not a primary concern of mine.
And so I want to read from Ben Goldsmith's tweet, which I thought was terrific.
The narrative being promoted by Meghan, friends of Meghan, and the leftist mainstream media and everyone else who hates the royal family and British traditions generally, is that the royal couple were driven out of Britain because of snobbery and racism.
This just isn't true.
The British tabloid press and the British publicly initially adored the idea that a glamorous star from Suits was marrying into the royal family and got terribly excited by the novelty of their royal wedding in the chapel of Windsor Castle.
They only started going off Meghan when they realized she was a pushy, ungrateful, entitled, gag-inducingly politically correct Hollywood gold digger who'd just gone And hitched herself up to Britain's favorite cheeky, chappy warrior prince and turned him into an emasculated, humorless husk of his form of self.
It's actually from James Dellingpole, who I believe writes for Breitbart, amongst other places.
And he interviewed me when we were in London for our campus tour.
Very good guy.
And so there's a lot of people that are kind of dissecting the interview yesterday.
There's a lot of people that are going through the entire thing.
I think just a broader...
question about this whole saga is, are we really now going to blame racism for the alleged oppressed life of Meghan Markle?
So here's what will be taught in California.
They have an ethnic studies model curriculum.
Marxists have created it.
The new Ethnic Studies curriculum is based on the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, developed by Marxist theoretician Paolo Freier.
Argues that students must be educated about their oppression in order to attain critical consciousness and consequently develop the capacity to overthrow their oppressors.
Realize it's all make-believe.
It's all make-believe.
These are the products of boredom, affluence, and secularism.
They have a cause.
Now they have a reason for living.
I will develop that thought, but I want to give you the insight about the gods.
The original co-chair of the ethnic studies model is R. Toltika Kuautin.
Kuautin, C-U-A-U-H-T-I-N, developed a related mandala claiming that white Christians committed theocide.
Their words are awesome.
Theocide is a new one.
Against indigenous tribes, killing their gods and replacing them with Christianity.
White settlers thus established a regime of coloniality, dehumanization, and genocide characterized by the explicit erasure and replacement of holistic indigeneity and humanity.
The solution is to, quote, name, speak to, resist, and transform the hegemonic Eurocentric neocolonial condition in a posture of transformational resistance.
The ultimate goal is to decolonize American society and establish a new regime of counter-genocide and counter-hegemony, which will displace white Christian culture and lead to the regeneration of indigenous epistemic and cultural futurity.
You know, I must say, I'm going to add to my list French, Russian, Hebrew, English.
I speak academies.
I understood that.
It's meaningless, but I understood the meaninglessness.
This is it.
The students are then taught to chant Aztec chants to the god Quetzalcoatl, the god of human sacrifice.
It's happening!
I told you folks, when Christianity died in Europe, we got fascism, Nazism, and communism.
So here's the question for America.
What will happen here when Christianity is killed?
I'll be back.
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Oprah Winfrey, the fact that Oprah tolerated this whole conversation is so unbelievably disappointing.
And I'll get to that.
But first, I want to play this tape right here of Meghan Markle saying this, making the claim that there were racist remarks against her child's skin color.
But she won't say who said it because she's doing maybe a Jussie Smollett thing.
Play cut eight.
And also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born.
That was relayed to me from Harry.
Those were conversations that family had with him.
If he were too brown, that that would be a problem.
Are you saying that?
I wasn't able to follow up with why, but if that's the assumption you're making, I think that feels like a pretty safe one.
Feels.
Feels like a safe one.
Megan, you are now allowing your feels.
Feelings, I guess I should say, to dictate an accusation of a family that largely, by all evidence available, embraced you.
What an unbelievably ungrateful person you are.
No gratitude.
Perfect leftist.
No gratitude.
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I'll see you next time.
After four years of Trump, Katie Rogers hails the return, she's a New York Times reporter, of the Washington weekend with this fantastic lead, quote, Washington, President Biden did not do anything this weekend.
Well, let's rephrase President Biden did not do anything alarming this weekend.
If they used newsworthy, it would have been neutral, but when they said alarming, they branded themselves.
Agree or disagree, Molly?
Oh, it's, I mean, it's not even a question anymore how...
How corrupt our media are in terms of their full-throated embrace and support of, for instance, Joe Biden and their histrionic negativity toward literally every single thing that Trump or any member of his administration did.
We used to joke that the media took an eight-year nap during the Obama administration.
Remember, they claimed there were no scandals.
Not covering scandals is not the same as not having scandals.
But our media...
We clearly love and support every policy proposal put forth by Joe Biden, no matter how radical it is.
They just don't cover it that way.
And they do take weekends off.
They are enjoying this time.
Their friends and their family members are joining this administration.
This is good times for the media.
And the Trump administration really was bad times for them.
Their friends, their family were out of power.
Their way of life was threatened.
And it showed in every single thing.
They wrote, tweeted, you know, said on TV, and now we're getting the happy, fun time for the media and other elite establishment figures.
It is so obvious.
It is so obvious.
the Manhattan Beltway media elite are left wing.
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show.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I looked at the headline the gentleman was calling about.
This is in Newsweek.
Evanston is paying reparations of $25,000 to black residents.
They say that's not enough.
Now, I said that to the gentleman without even seeing this headline.
They say that's not enough.
And this is what we're going to be facing.
You know, decades ago, a congressman named John Conyers would introduce a bill at the beginning of Congress every two years for reparations.
And it was a joke.
And every year he'd do it.
And every year he'd do it.
Never in a million years did I ever think we'd get to the point where people are seriously taking this, where serious people are taking this seriously.
Where do you start with this?
I've heard that this is for 400 years of slavery or 250 years of slavery.
America didn't become a country until 1787. Slavery ended 1865. That's not 400 years.
That's not 250 years.
Government didn't own slaves.
States didn't own slaves.
Individuals owned slaves.
And Obama said that, in his view, reparations were justified.
Of course they were justified.
to the slaves themselves or to their legal heiress, good luck trying to find them.
Evanston is paying reparations of $25,000 to black residents.
They say that's not enough.
It'll never be enough.
Keep up with what's trending.
Subscribe on YouTube today.
Trending now on America First with Sebastian Brucker.
My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge.
It reads, I'm with her.
I choose to recite a different pledge.
My pledge reads, I'm with you, the American people.
For me, that's the political kill shot, Rahim, where you take the classic establishment attitude of, you better be with me.
I'm your elitist leader.
And he says, actually, I want to fight with you.
I'm with you.
Talk to me about taxonomy, categorization.
They have quite successfully turned populism into a pejorative, into a negative.
What are we witnessing around the world in your vocabulary?
Oh, goodness.
Even though, how long have you got?
Even though, you know, Barack Obama, when he came on the scene, they lauded populism.
And they lauded him running as this populist president.
And then suddenly, a couple of years later, populism didn't work for them.
So community organizers are okay, but Donald Trump, populism not.
Right, correct.
And he was, it's incredible that I had forgotten that clip.
It's incredible to go back to that moment because, of course, what did they say about Donald Trump for the four years after that is that he demanded explicit loyalty from everybody that wrote for him, personal loyalty, whereas her campaign phrase was literally, I'm with her, not I'm with the country, Not I'm with America, not I'm even with the future.
Hi, everybody.
I'm Dennis Prager.
I hope you had a good weekend.
And I'm about to introduce somebody whom many of you are familiar with.
I hope nearly all of you.
But I will give her the greatest accolade I can give.
And you all know that that is the case for me.
If I were to tell you that I am giving the greatest accolade I can, what would I say about a person?
Ninety percent of you are now saying to your radios or your iPads or phone, courageous.
And that is correct.
This woman has courage.
There are not enough of her, but courageous people do a lot of good.
Her name is Barry Weiss.
She was a columnist for the New York Times.
She left the New York Times, which we will talk about.
She now writes for major publications, as well as her own website on Substack.
Common Sense with Barry Weiss.
Barry is B-A-R-I. And it's at barryweiss.substack.com.
Her latest article, I don't know if it's her latest, but a very recent article.
In the Great City Journal has, I believe, gone viral.
I certainly hope it has.
The Miseducation of America's Elites.
I read every word.
And we'll talk about that.
The subtitle is Affluent Parents Terrified of Running Afoul of the New Orthodoxy in Their Children's Private Schools, Organized in Secret.
Imagine that, my friends.
Parents needing to organize in secret in the United States of America.
All right, Barry Weiss, that might have been the longest introduction I ever gave a guest.
Thank you so much, Dennis.
And I have to say that I grew up in a family where your book with Rabbi Joseph Solushka and the nine questions people ask about Judaism was stacked very high on my dad's desk.
And anyone who ever expressed interest in...
Deepening their connection to Judaism or converting was handed a copy at Shabbat dinner.
So you probably owe him some kind of royalty check.
He told me to mention that.
I probably do, actually, now that you mention it.
I'm very touched by that.
I thank you.
So there's a lot to talk about.
How did you meet these parents?
Let me explain for a moment.
You live where?
We're living this year in L.A. Oh, I didn't know you were living in L.A. COVID nomads.
You should have come into the studio.
I'd love to.
Had I known you lived in L.A., I thought you lived in New York for some reason.
No, no, no.
I have been in New York for 15 years, but my fiancée, Nellie, used COVID as an excuse to take me to her native California, and I've really been enjoying it, I have to say.
By the way, Nellie, when I was told the New York Times would write a feature piece on PragerU, my assumption was, given the piece that they wrote on me when I conducted an orchestra here in L.A., That it would be somewhat of a hit job.
And while it still was the New York Times, your fiancé did not write a hit piece.
So I just want you to know...
She'll be glad to hear that.
I think she's working in the other room, but thank you.
Yeah, that was important for me to mention to you.
Okay, so...
Let's go to this article to begin with.
No, you know what?
I hate doing this and I rarely do it.
I want to first ask you, why did you leave the New York Times?
I mean, I think I spelled it out pretty clearly in my resignation letter.
But really the reason I left the New York Times is that all of the reasons that I went into journalism to be able to pursue my curiosity.
To tell the truth, even if it was inconvenient, to talk to people that I disagreed with, and to do that in an atmosphere free of intimidation was no longer possible for me.
And I had a hard choice to make, maybe a choice that some people listening to this are facing in their own lives.
I certainly hear from a lot of, let's call them, closeted people inside.
You know, I think we're going to have a lot of, ostensibly, liberal institutions right now.
And the choice is basically, you know, sit on my hands, avoid an ever-increasing number of topics that are considered third rail, but cling on to, you know, maybe not in your world, Dennis, but in mine, you know, the incredible prestige that comes from telling someone you work at the New York Times.
You know, my grandparents were subscribed to the New York Times for More than 60 years.
And I remember so clearly when I FaceTimed them to tell them that, oh, my God, I got this job.
Can you believe it?
And they were crying.
And, like, that was the kind of response that, at least in the kind of blue world that I tend to live in, I would get.
And also, let's be honest, love it or hate it, it's the most important newspaper in the world still with the greatest amount of reach.
And knowing you can not just write your own articles, but in my case, I was, you know, a commissioning editor.
Getting people into the New York Times, first-time writers, independent-minded people, people that would not otherwise think of the New York Times as a place that they would have the opportunity to publish.
Like, that made me high.
That was the greatest thing ever.
And so I could have stayed and kind of clung on to all of that, or I could leave and kind of live up to the principles that I claim to, that I espouse.
And when I look at what those principles are, there was kind of no other choice but to walk out the door, and in walking out the door, to pursue the kind of work that I came there in the first place to do.
I will say also that, you know, people fixate on the New York Times for lots of understandable reasons, but the story of the ideological transformation of the New York Times is a much, much, much bigger story.
The New York Times is only kind of one instance, one data point, and that is the story of ideological succession.
It's the story of how liberal institutions have been upended, have been rotted out by a deeply illiberal ideology that comes cloaked in the language of progress and social justice.
And that, I think, is one of the great under-told stories of our moment.
And it's one of the stories that I hope I'm delivering for my readers in my newsletter.
I'm quiet because I'm assimilating all of what you said.
My listeners know how true what you said is.
The New York Times is not a liberal newspaper.
It is a left-wing newspaper.
And I have, to the consternation of many conservatives, drawn a huge distinction between liberalism and leftism.
However, and I'd like you to react to this, liberals, and this is a challenge to you perhaps, liberals are not leftists.
I wrote a piece in my column last week or two weeks ago, it was 32 questions to ask people to determine if they're a liberal or a leftist.
First, the obvious, the big example is race is unimportant is the essence of liberal views on race.
Race is important is the essence of left-wing views on race.
They're literally antithetical.
Yet, on every issue, every moral issue virtually, left and liberal are in opposition, and yet liberals vote for the left.
In the largest single instance of suicide that I am aware of as one who has studied history all of my life.
How do you react to that?
There's a lot there to react to.
I would say that, you know, me being on this show is a good test of whether or not I'm a leftist or a liberal in my own instance.
You know, one of the things, frankly, I mentioned my dad at the top of the show, but one of the things that I used to argue with my dad about was your stance on gay marriage.
And I was deeply disturbed by it, even as I admired your writings on Judaism, your writings on any number of topics.
I feel right now that there needs to be a kind of laying down of arms over some old fights.
That might have divided someone like me and someone like you, and a kind of alliance that needs to be built between what I think of as liberal liberals and conservative liberals.
Because in the end of the day, if you and I both believe that our common humanity is more important than the lane that we are born into, if you and I both believe that we need to be fighting for a vision of healthy American identity that's rooted in the ideals of the founders.
Yeah.
Keep that thought.
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My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge.
It reads, I'm with her.
I choose to recite a different pledge.
My pledge reads, I'm with you, the American people.
For me, that's the political kill shot, Rahim, where you take the classic establishment attitude of, you better be with me.
I'm your elitist leader.
And he says, actually, I want to fight with you.
I'm with you.
Talk to me about taxonomy categorization.
They have quite successfully turned populism into a pejorative, into a negative.
What are we witnessing around the world in your vocabulary?
Oh, goodness.
Even though, how long have you got?
Even though, you know, Barack Obama, when he came on the scene, they lauded populism.
And they lauded him running as this populist president.
And then suddenly, a couple of years later, populism didn't work for them.
So community organizers are okay, but Donald Trump, populism not.
Right, correct.
And he was, it's incredible that I had forgotten that clip.
It's incredible to go back to that moment.
Because, of course, what did they say about Donald Trump for the four years after that is that he demanded explicit loyalty from everybody that worked for him.
Personal loyalty.
Whereas her campaign phrase was literally, I'm with her.
Not I'm with the country.
Not I'm with America.
Not I'm even with the future, right?
Not an ideology.
Not a philosophy.
Not a platform.
Just her.
Cultic!
Cultish!
Totally cultish!
And that's the same chart.
They're very good at this.
I mean, they are way better than we are at this.
that is taking little things and projecting them onto their opponents.
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Check out the governor of California.
Here's Gavin Newsom standing in front of an empty Dodgers This is an unbelievable sight.
Because of him, Dodgers Stadium will probably stay open.
And according to the embattled governor of California, even when the pandemic is over, it isn't going to be over.
Because it's never over.
We're never going to have normal again.
I give you the governor of the state of California.
You know, when this pandemic ends, and it will end soon, we're not going to go back to normal.
Because I think we all agree, normal was never good enough.
And normal accepts inequity.
That's why Latinos are dying from COVID at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group.
And while essential workers' wages aren't enough for them to afford the essentials.
And why mothers...
Mothers have been leaving the workforce in staggering numbers.
Look, our eyes are wide open to what's wrong.
And so our journey back must also be a path to close those inequities.
There is no economic recovery, no economic recovery without economic justice.
Latinos are dying from COVID more than any other ethnic group because of inequity?
Really?
What, COVID is racist?
A virus knows that I'm going to infect a Latino and kill a Latino more than a white guy?
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Hi, everybody.
I'm Dennis Prager, and I'm speaking to a very important force in America, Barry Weiss.
She quit the New York Times because it was becoming illiberal.
How many people leave the New York Times?
God, I'm very tempted to talk to you about my friend Brett Stevens, but we won't.
I think about him a lot.
We've had...
He wrote a piece on me.
I wrote a piece on him.
We've done programs together.
Anyway, I'll talk to you about not him, but the issue of Trump in a moment.
I want to just bring everybody up to speed here.
If you want to say something, go ahead.
No, no, I can wait.
I just was cut off in an awkward moment.
I can continue there.
I want you to.
No, no, I want you to continue there.
I just want to rephrase that I had said to you prior to the break that the differences between leftism and liberalism are enormous, much greater than between liberalism and conservatism.
I will respond on the same-sex marriage for a moment afterwards, but you are absolutely right.
There are so many other huge issues that connect conservatives and liberals.
So go ahead.
Yeah, I was simply going to say that, you know, there are any number of topics that you and I could have a debate on for many hours, and I'm sure come to some kind of stalemate.
But I feel very strongly that the fight of the moment and the fight that allows people like me and you to have those disagreements and still, you know, have a drink at the end of the day is liberalism, is the fight for liberalism.
You have to ask yourself, like, what are real conservatives trying to conserve?
They're trying to conserve liberalism.
And if you think, you know, whatever party you vote for, like, if you think political violence is wrong, if you think that mob justice is wrong, if you think that, you know, the presumption of innocence is fundamental to justice,
if you think that whether or not you believe in God, that everyone is created in The image of God or created equally and therefore entitled to equality under the law.
You know, if you're skeptical of the power of a company like Amazon, even when it's clamping down on people whose ideas you might despise, well, congratulations.
Like, we're on the same team.
And I just believe that in this moment, and this was the first newsletter that I wrote, was called The Great Unraveling, and it was about You know, it was based in a meeting that I had at Princeton with some dissident professors, including Robbie George, going back to gay marriage.
Robbie George, one of the most articulate, outspoken opponents, not from a Jewish perspective, but from a Catholic perspective of gay marriage.
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I'd be sitting with Robbie George thinking about how we could collaborate on fighting illiberalism, which obviously comes from the right, of course, but is also coming from the left.
You know, that's kind of where I'm, that's the place that I'm standing in right now.
And it's a place I maybe couldn't have imagined even 10 years ago.
I'm sure you couldn't, right.
I'm sure you couldn't have imagined.
I think we're just, I think we're living through a very significant realignment.
And that the thing that allows for all of the disagreements to happen without us killing each other is the thing that right now is under threat.
It needs to be protected.
Right.
So do you think I've overstated it when I say that liberals voting left is a case of mass suicide?
I don't think it's a case of mass suicide to vote for someone like Max Rose in Staten Island or Richie Torres in the Bronx.
And I think there's any number of flavors within the Democratic Party.
You know, I wouldn't collapse it all into, you know, I don't know what you would say.
AOC, the squad.
Yes, I think it is just that.
I think they're irrelevant because they vote with AOC. I don't care what they personally believe.
They're irrelevant.
The people you just mentioned, I speak about politics for a living and never heard of.
That's not a good sign.
No, it's not a good sign.
It's not a good sign at all.
Okay.
You know, what is our senator from West Virginia?
Joe Manchin.
Yeah, Joe Manchin.
He's a great, perfect example.
There he is in the state, 60-something percent conservative, and gets elected and votes left-wing.
It's irrelevant.
A Democrat is a Democrat.
At this time, the liberal Democrat has been...
Chuck Schumer was a liberal.
He's now a leftist.
They're all indistinguishable.
So I once again restate, liberals vote suicidally.
They think I'm the enemy.
Much more than they think AOC is the enemy.
That's sick.
I'm not sure that...
Well, I guess...
I'm wondering if most liberals think you're the enemy.
I'm not sure most liberals know who you are, in the same way you don't know Max Rose is, to be honest with you.
By the way, if most liberals don't know who I am, that proves something else.
The staggering bubble in which they live.
PragerU has over a billion views a year.
I have millions of listeners.
I had the number one selling book on Amazon when it came out, and it was a Bible commentary, no less.
Excuse me, number two book on Amazon.
Number one on the Wall Street Journal.
If they don't know who I am, it says nothing about me.
It shows you the bubble.
They never heard of Tom Sowell.
They never heard of Larry Elder.
I utterly and completely agree with you.
And if you want to see the divide between those two things, look at the Amazon bestseller list and look at the New York Times bestseller list.
They sometimes have almost no books in common.
I guess what I would say to you is, is the goal to shame people or is the goal to convince people?
I think it's a strategic question of whether you want to say to people who are sort of in the politically homeless liminal space between Tucker Carlson and Rachel Maddow, if you want to say to them, you're committing political suicide, you're idiots, and come over here and agree with me.
I'm not sure that's a winning message.
It probably isn't.
But I will not.
I cannot.
And we all have natures.
My nature is not to patronize people.
Most of my relatives vote Democrat.
Everyone to a person is a wonderful, kind, honorable person.
And when it comes to politics, they are fools.
Naive fools.
And I love them.
Human beings are complex.
By the way, my niece is a lesbian, and she is married to a woman.
Let me get to the gay issue for a moment.
I believed on religious grounds, which I testified in Congress with regard to, and as you know, obviously, I believe that God wants marriage to be between a man and a woman.
I was for civil union with every right that married people have.
But I have that as a religious belief.
I want to tell you about me and gays in a moment.
But I want to remind everybody, this is Barry Weiss, a woman of great courage and intelligence as well, former columnist, left the New York Times for the sake of freedom.
I get the clear impression that Biden is not leading the country.
Mm.
I believe that he's being led.
Now, that is common sense observation.
Most people are thinking the same thing, but I have a radio program.
I get to say it.
Biden is not leading the country.
Now, if he was elected to lead the country and he's not leading the country, whom did we elect to lead the country?
Or I should say, whom did we not elect to lead the country who is in fact leading the country?
And how is that not unconstitutional?
This is related to the piece I wrote on Sunday.
My Sunday piece deals with the exact question that you're asking, Eric, because it is my impression.
As you have seemed to indicate, that Joe Biden is not in charge.
I'm not even sure if he's in charge of changing his shorts on a daily basis, much less running the country.
I can answer that for you.
I don't say that to be...
He doesn't change him on a daily basis, but go ahead.
I'm not saying that to be...
You know, damaging towards him.
I see the little old man that they shuffle out to do the press appearance like he did yesterday, where he forgot the name of the defense secretary, forgot the name of the Pentagon, didn't really know who he was talking to.
He knew it was a multi-sided shape.
Does he have to know that it's exactly like a five sides?
Does he have to know it's a Pentagon?
What if he said dodecahedron?
I would have given him more credit than saying that outfit over there.
If we found out that, you know, Woodrow Wilson is in a coma and his wife is running the country, that's unconstitutional.
Oprah Winfrey, the fact that Oprah tolerated this whole conversation is so unbelievably disappointing.
And I'll get to that.
But first, I want to play this tape right here of Meghan Markle saying this, making the claim that there were racist remarks against her child's skin color.
But she won't say who said it because she's doing maybe a Jussie Smollett thing.
Play cut eight.
And also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born.
That was relayed to me from Harry.
Those were conversations that family had If he were too brown, that that would be a problem.
Are you saying that?
I wasn't able to follow up with why, but if that's the assumption you're making, I think that feels like a pretty safe one.
Feels.
Feels like a safe one.
Megan, you are now allowing your feels.
Feelings, I guess I should say, to dictate an accusation of a family that largely, by all evidence available, embraced you.
What an unbelievably ungrateful person you are.
No gratitude.
Perfect leftist.
No gratitude.
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Transcription by CastingWords After four years of Trump, Katie Rogers hails the return, she's a New York Times reporter, of the Washington weekend with this fantastic lead, quote, Washington, President Biden did not do anything this weekend.
Well, let's rephrase.
President Biden did not do anything alarming this weekend.
If they'd used newsworthy, it would have been neutral.
But when they said alarming, they branded themselves.
Agree or disagree, Molly?
Oh, it's, I mean, it's not even a question anymore.
All right, everybody. everybody.
Dennis Prager here.
Barry Weiss is known to many of you.
She should be known to all of you.
B-A-R-I, by the way.
She has her own website, and she writes for many other publications.
She quit the New York Times for the most honorable reason, because she loves freedom.
And I was dealing with the great issue.
To me, the greatest issue is why do liberals vote left in an act of mass suicide?
And so one of the things you mentioned about differences was same-sex marriage, which is entirely accurate.
That is a difference.
I just want to tell you for the record that I opposed on religious grounds using the word marriage.
I never had an issue with partners.
I know this is quaint-sounding to you, and that's fine.
I don't have an issue.
But I do want you to know the following.
First, my wife and I are godparents to gay men's sons.
In other words, should they die, they have entrusted the moral upbringing of their children to my wife and me, though they know we are opposed to same-sex marriage and they are married.
Because they know that we revere them, we revere their children.
The same with my niece, who was married to a woman.
We love them.
They love us.
The fact that one opposes same-sex marriage on religious grounds does not make one a homophobe.
It makes one opposed to the redefinition of marriage.
And by the way, one other thing about it.
When I testified, I didn't even remember this.
Some left-wing place cited me.
As saying this, and they were right.
I said, this will lead to the denial of gender or sex differences.
Because once you say gender doesn't matter, well then, gender doesn't matter.
And I was right.
I was 100% right.
Same-sex marriage led to the death of gender.
Because its fundamental argument was, gender doesn't matter.
And now we're seeing the consequences of gender doesn't matter.
There were no boys and girls.
Go ahead.
I was going to say, and then I would love to also talk about, because I don't want to be a sore winner.
It's like, the gays won the argument on this one.
Correct.
I don't think that the fundamental argument was gender doesn't matter.
I think the fundamental argument was...
People in a loving relationship who want to raise children should be entitled to the exact same tax breaks, hospital visitation rights, and the rest as a heterosexual couple.
We can have a much, much longer conversation.
Right, and it's not necessary.
By the way, the argument is over.
Exactly.
Right.
So let's talk about...
Yeah, no, no, no, no.
The reason that it's important is if liberals won't vote Republican because of same-sex marriage, they're fighting a battle that has been won on their side.
It's over.
So why don't they fight the battle for America's soul, for America's freedom?
That's my question to you.
What stops liberals from voting Republican?
No?
Well, okay.
That's the debate I had.
Even that, I don't respect the view, even though there are people I adore like Bret Stephens who hold that view.
I don't believe that Donald Trump was nearly the threat to this country that the left is.
I still don't understand that view, and I know you hold it.
You're as big a puzzle to me as Brett.
No, I don't hold the view that...
I think you can look at my actions and, frankly, the skin in the game that I've displayed to see what I think was the extent of the threat that I see from the left.
Yes, I do.
Listen, I opened up saying you are a rare...
It's just as rare in men as in women.
The idea that I'm like a squish on that subject couldn't be for...
No, you're not a squish.
Oh, no, no.
Neither is Brett Stephens.
Brett Stephens has courage.
Wait, was I right in saying...
I'm sorry, I interrupted you.
Go ahead.
No, I was going to say, I think it's a totally coherent position to say...
We're living in a very unstable time, politically and otherwise, in which the center is not holding.
And in a world in which the center is not holding, again, for any number of reasons that we could get into, there are forces rising, I would argue, on the far right and on the far left that are extremely dangerous to the American ideal and to I mean, I don't want to overstate it, but, like, being able to live together without killing each other.
All right, hold that point, because I want to talk to you.
You have three minutes to tell me who is far right that is dangerous.
Dangerous.
Not existent.
Dangerous.
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Earlier today, the White House Chief of Staff, Ronald Klain, tweeted out the front page of the New York Times.
Now, listen, I didn't see this because I don't read the New York Times, but here's the cover of the New York, front page of the New York Times, above the fold, big headline.
Eric Hansen is going to lose his mind.
My operations manager is going to flip his lid when he hears this.
Eric, the headline of the New York Times, President's Goal.
July 4th gatherings with close family.
That's the president's goal.
And the White House Chief of Staff tweeted, this is what we are working toward.
Oh, really?
That's what we are working toward?
They know we, but you got a mouse in your pocket?
Because we're doing that.
Listen, I get vaccinated, I'm done.
And come arrest me if I'm going to be with my family.
I don't know, inside rather than outside.
Do you have any comprehension how nuts this is?
What we're working toward?
And the New York Times, there they are.
They're so proud of themselves over there.
The old gray lady.
Here's our headline.
President's goal.
Fourth of July gatherings with close family outside.
Just a few of you now.
But that's what we're working towards.
These people are lunatics.
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We came out and there are three government websites and my hospital website and I signed I turned 65 two weeks ago.
And of course, the three government websites didn't work.
The hospital one was out of it.
And within three days of CVS getting their allocation, I got my first dose.
Because they know how to do vaccines.
I mean, it was nuts that we opened up new websites, new portals.
Because CVS knows how to handle...
Medication distribution, as does Rite Aid, as does Walgreen.
You know, the idea that you would stand up new websites to do something that's already being done is dumb.
You got it.
It is just that simple.
To me, we had the existing infrastructure.
And whoever was distributing the flu vaccines, those are the same people that should have been distributing this.
We made it complicated.
A lot of people, you know, grabbing for that money.
You know, there's money at each little step of this.
People grabbing.
Grabbing the money.
Do you think we will be around the corner and back to 90% of normal by May?
I want to talk about her magnificent piece, her city journal, on what's happening in the toniest of high schools in America, specifically California in this case.
And I've been talking to her about the macro issue of liberals not knowing what's threatening.
But she is a liberal who does.
She's not unique.
She's rare.
So that's the reason for the amount of time I devoted to that.
As soon as possible, I will have you on again.
I'd like to have you on regularly.
I have tremendous respect for you.
I just wanted to explain we didn't fool you when inviting you to discuss the article.
I just wanted to make that clear.
But I felt that intellectual honesty demanded that...
I address some of these subjects.
Okay, so if it's okay...
Oh, it's fine.
I mean, Dennis, my dad listens to you every day.
I'm just having a conversation with another version of him and his arguments.
I guess the last thing I would say about it is, and I'd love to talk about the piece or whatever else that's your show, is that, you know, there's a tension between kind of...
Staying inside of something and trying to change it from within and exit, right?
There's that famous book, Exit Voice Loyalty, about it.
And I guess there's a strategic question, like, is the message to people, you know, peace out, just leave?
Or is the message like, no, try and change it from within because we need a healthy Democratic Party like we need a healthy Republican Party?
Or maybe your view is accelerationism and just, you know, let it burn because, in your view, it's suicidal.
Yes, that is my view.
That's right.
It is.
Listen, I thank God for you.
You know what?
You being a Democrat and a liberal is of incredible value to me and to many of us who care about this country.
I'll give you an example.
An evangelical Christian...
A very powerful one said to me once, you know, Dennis, of course we would love you to come to Christ, but to tell you the truth, you're far more valuable to us as a Jew.
So I would say to you, we'd love to have you come over.
To a Republican Party, but you're much more valuable to us as a Democrat.
It's a truly similar, not identical, but similar thing.
So I'm not trying to make you a Republican.
I've given up on the Democratic Party.
I think most liberals will not do a thing within it.
Nothing.
There's nothing they can do.
They have to leave it, just like we have to leave our schools.
The same fight, and this brings us to your article, the same fight I hear some conservatives say, no, no, no, we have to stay in the schools and fight on school boards.
You'll lose.
It's a waste of time.
The schools must collapse and be rebuilt as educational centers.
That's my view.
Your fantastic, unbelievably powerful article, which is up, by the way, folks, at DennisPrager.com, is only a confirmation to me the schools have reached the state of hopelessness.
Should I respond to that?
Yes, please.
Well, one of the reasons...
Since I published that article, the amount of incoming that I've gotten, not just from other elite, you know, super expensive private schools, but from public school parents and charter school parents, it's like the floodgates have opened.
So I'm excited to do a lot more on this incredibly important topic.
But the reason that I wanted to start with the elite schools is, and this is a paradox that I keep encountering, not just with parents, but with lots of people, which is, the paradox kind of goes like this.
The people that seem to possess the greatest ability to speak out against this illiberal ideology.
And I think it needs a better branding.
Neil Ferguson called it totalitarianism without a dictator that I sort of loved.
But basically, the people that are...
The wealthy, the people that actually could afford to move to a different town to pull their kid out of the school and hire a private tutor, they are generally the most scared and the most closeted and the most quiet.
And I keep finding over and over again that the people with the least insulation are the ones who are generally roaring the loudest.
One very important example I'm writing about today being this woman, Gabrielle Clark.
A mother, a biracial woman in Las Vegas until very recently.
Her and her children, she has five children, were living in transitional housing.
And when her son was told basically to profess his privilege and his oppressor status in the public charter school democracy prep that he goes to in Las Vegas, he refused.
And it was part of a graded assignment.
And most parents would say, ugh, just go along with it.
You're a senior.
You're about to go to college.
You've worked so hard.
We've worked so hard to get you into this school, to give you the opportunity.
And instead, she said, no.
This is a violation of my child's First Amendment rights, and they're suing the school.
And these people are working class.
These are not people that can afford to go to another school.
And I just find that paradox itself incredibly interesting.
And I found it so strange that These parents, forgetting the few that I spoke to who were on financial aid, but these parents who actually do have privilege weren't using it and weren't being the kind of example that they ostensibly would want to be setting for their children.
And I just find that very strange.
Affluence plus secularism equals cowardice.
It's one of my many equations of life.
Did you just come up with that?
Yes, but I have a lot of others.
I just came up with that one, yes.
But I think I have another one.
Boredom plus secularism equals leftism.
I don't know about that one, but the first one I think I agree with.
I mean, the way that I've thought about it is, you know, to use the Buckley title, it's like people are worshipping Yale more than they're worshipping...
God.
That's right.
That's correct.
Well, one of the things that all of these folks have in common that you spoke to in your article, and by the way, I want my listeners to know, I will be devoting next hour to reviewing your article.
I have marked it up tremendously.
So, you're free to tune in.
Or at least your dad can summarize it for you.
I gotta go interview more parents.
That's right.
Hold on, hold on.
We're going to have a final segment with you.
One of the things the parents in this piece have in common is they're not religious.
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I get the clear impression that Biden is not leading the country.
I believe that he's being led.
Now that is common sense observation.
Most people are thinking the same thing, but I have a radio program.
I get to say it.
Biden is not leading the country.
Now, if he was elected to lead the country and he's not leading the country, whom did we elect to lead the country?
Or I should say, Whom did we not elect to lead the country, who is in fact leading the country, and how is that not unconstitutional?
This is related to the piece I wrote on Sunday.
My Sunday piece deals with the exact question that you're asking, Eric, because it is my impression, as you have seemed to indicate, that Joe Biden is not in charge.
I'm not even sure if he's in charge of changing his shorts on a daily basis, much less running the country.
I can answer that for you.
I don't say that to be...
He doesn't change him on a daily basis, but go ahead.
I'm not saying that to be damaging towards him.
I see the little old man that they shuffle out to do the press appearance like he did yesterday, where he forgot the name of the defense secretary, forgot the name of the Pentagon, didn't really know who he was talking to.
He knew it was a multi-sided shape.
Does he have to know that it's exactly like a five Five sides.
Does he have the notes of Pentagon?
What if he said dodecahedron?
I would have given him more credit than saying that outfit over there.
If we found out that Woodrow Wilson is in a coma and his wife is running the country, that's unconstitutional.
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Oprah Winfrey, the fact that Oprah tolerated this whole conversation is so unbelievably disappointing.
And I'll get to that.
But first, I want to play this tape right here of Meghan Markle saying this, making the claim that there were racist remarks against her child's skin color.
But she won't say who said it because she's doing maybe a Jussie Smollett thing.
Play cut eight.
And also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born.
That was relayed to me from Harry.
Those were conversations that family had with him.
If you were too brown, that that would be a problem?
Are you saying that?
I wasn't able to follow up with why, but if that's the assumption you're making, I think that feels like a pretty safe one.
Feels.
feels like a safe one.
Hi, everybody.
I'm Dennis Prager, and this is the first of, I promise you, many dialogues with Barry Weiss.
Now that I know she's in L.A., it'll be in studio.
You'll hear her really clearly.
I want to tell you something that you might find of interest.
I told just Thursday night I had dinner with Dave Rubin and his husband David.
We're very close with them.
And we had dinner there.
And I mentioned to them a phenomenon that has...
I don't know why it is true, but it is true.
A disproportionate number of the leading conservative intellectuals are Jews and gays.
I don't know why.
It's counterintuitive.
I just thought I would have you put that in your pipe and smoke it, despite the fact that I smoke a pipe and you don't.
I don't have a pipe.
Right, I do, so I'll smoke it for you.
I will think about that.
Yeah.
The thing I wanted to pick up on, Dennis, is what you were saying before, that courage comes from religion.
And, you know, I don't think that, you know, what little courage that I have 100% comes from Judaism.
It's not necessarily God, although I'm not an atheist, but from a sense of what my ancestors sacrificed so that I could have the ability to walk into the New York Times wearing a Jewish star around my neck and to walk out of the New York Times wearing a Jewish star around my neck.
And that is profound.
Like, that is the moving source in my life.
And I think that one of the, and this is, I guess, for another conversation, but I really, really believe that having an anchor that is separate from politics that prevents what I really think of as idol worship, whether it's Trump or AOC, is extremely important.
And I think it is one of the most pressing problems that we need to figure out a way to solve.
Because I really think that people that have the anchor of community and religion and a sense of duty and obligation to something bigger than professional prestige or accomplishment or beating or owning or dunking on your enemies are people that have a true North Star.
That's right.
And I see that in the people that I admire.
Well, as beautifully said, by the way, one other thing you're going to find in your great...
Travels through life.
You're going to start liking conservatives as people.
That's going to really blow your mind.
Barry Weiss, you're already there.
God bless you.
Barry Weiss' piece is up at DennisPrager.com.
This is Carol Platt-Lebow of Yankee Institute for TownHall.com.
Matt Meyer is president of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, a union leading the effort to keep children at home, insisting that reopening schools is just too unsafe.
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I kind of am obligated to get into this story right now, which is the story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
So I want to read this tweet here from Ben Means, an expert on the British monarchy.
A lot of respect for the tradition and all of that.
A lot of great friends in London and Great Britain.
It's just not a primary concern of mine.
And so I want to read from Ben Goldsmith's tweet, which I thought was terrific.
The narrative being promoted by Meghan, friends of Meghan, and the leftist mainstream media, and everyone else who hates the royal family and British traditions generally, is that the royal couple were driven out of Britain because of snobbery and racism.
This just isn't true.
The British tabloid press and the British publicly initially adored the idea that a glamorous star from Suits was marrying into the royal family and got terribly excited by the novelty of their royal wedding in the chapel of Windsor Castle.
They only started going off Meghan when they realized she was a pushy, ungrateful, entitled, gag-inducingly politically correct Hollywood gold digger who'd just gone And hitched herself up to Britain's favorite cheeky, chappy warrior prince and turned him into an emasculated, humorless husk of his form.
It's actually from James Dellingpole, who I believe writes for Breitbart, amongst other places.
And he interviewed me when we were in London for our campus tour.
Very good guy.
And so there's a lot of people that are kind of dissecting the interview yesterday.
There's a lot of people that are going through the entire thing.
I think just a broader...
question about this whole saga is are we really now going to blame racism for the alleged oppressed life of Meghan Markle?
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The founding fathers intended for government to be very small and non-intrusive.
Look at Article 1, Section 8. Maybe someday they'll make a movie out of it.
There are a handful of things the federal government is supposed to do, leaving everything else to the states and to the individuals themselves.
That was the way this government has been set up.
And now, if you add a value to mandates, Government at all three levels takes half of what the American people make.
Half.
And you wonder why growth is slow?
And how in the world do you expect to close the so-called income gap, wealth gap, with this kind of sluggish growth?
How?
It's really, really mind-boggling, the left.
I remember Andy Stern, the former head of the SEIU union, years ago he said, well, Europe, as much as we like to make fun of them, they may have higher unemployment, but they have less inequality.
So it's perfectly okay for people to have fewer jobs, as long as the ones who have jobs don't make a whole lot more than the next guy who has a job.
Stunning.
That's how they think.
You don't believe in systemic racism, you're...
A bigot, and if you're black, you're an Uncle Tom.
A bill that gives black farmers 120% debt relief?
Just because you're black?
Not because they were discriminated against?
Stunning. Stunning.
And I went to the University of Westminster, and funny enough, I saw it as a hotbed, as a recruiting ground.
I saw what was going on with groups like Hizbut Tahrir.
What is this?
Late 90s?
What is this?
Oh, no.
This is 2004 to 2007. Oh, you are young.
Okay.
And what were you reading?
What were you studying?
Politics.
Politics, international relations, a little bit of intelligence studies.
And it was stunning to me that these kind of more fundamentalist Somali guys would come up to me after lectures and seminars and kind of prop their fingers in my chest and be like, you're not a proper Muslim unless you come to this event or that event or our prayer group or whatever.
And I just like to go down to the pub.
No, honestly.
And it was, remember, this was at university.
It was pound a pint.
This was a wonderful time to be alive.
Quid for a pint of pasta.
Exactly.
Right.
And anyway, they ended up guilt tripping me to the point where I decided to try and go to one of their Islamic Society events one evening.
Was this related to his book, Tahrir, or not?
So I didn't know it at the time, but yes is the answer.
And as I was walking up the steps into the little Titchfield Street building in London where they would hold their events, these guys came walking down the steps towards me and said, you don't want to go in there.
We just walked out.
Just leave.
Go back to wherever you were going.
Don't go in there.
I said, well, what's the problem?
I promised these guys I'd go and see what it was about.
I said, they're showing videos of 9-11 and clapping and cheering.
Wow, in London.
In London, in the early 2000s.
And, you know, not so long since 9-11 in that regard.
And so I did an about, you know, talk about a pivotal moment in your life.
I did an about face on my heel, turned on my heel.
And my friend Richard was walking down to the pub.
He was still at the other end of the road.
And I went, Richard, Richard.
He says, what?
I said, I'm coming down the pub.
And I've never left.
That event was so catalytic.
That event for me was when I realized something was drastic.
That's right, you could.
Good.
Hello, my friends.
I'm Dennis Prager, Good to be with you.
Really good.
Really, it's great to be with you.
I didn't take, did I take any calls today?
I don't think so.
It's just been so intense.
Last hour with Barry Weiss.
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All right, everybody.
Welcome back or to the show.
I'm going to take some calls, but I have to get through some really important pieces for you, including, I promise, the Barry Weiss piece about what including, I promise, the Barry Weiss piece about what is happening in elite schools, private schools.
I never isolate public schools for condemnation.
The destruction of education is happening in private as much as in public schools.
Okay?
And there are some public schools where it's not happening, and some private schools where it's not happening, but overwhelming.
This article is about parents at these schools frightened by the evil being taught to their children.
Evil.
That's correct.
Your children are being taught evil.
And they will still keep them there, and they're afraid to fight, but they gather together.
Like anti-communists would gather dissidents in the Soviet Union.
That's what it's come to be in California and much of the country.
Dissidents.
I visited dissidents in the Soviet Union.
Never thought I would use the term in the same way in the United States of America.
But the left is the left is the left is the left.
The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn off their videos when they meet for clandestine Zoom calls.
They are usually coordinating soccer practices and carpools, but now they come together to strategize.
They say that they could face profound repercussions if anyone knew they were talking.
But the situation of late has become too egregious for emails or complaining on conference calls.
So one recent weekend on a leafy street in West Los Angeles, they gathered in person and invited me to join.
In a backyard behind a four-bedroom home, ten people sat in a circle of plastic Adirondack chairs eating bags of Skinny Pop.
These are the rebels, well-off Los Angeles parents, who send their children to Harvard-Westlake, the most prestigious private school in the city.
And I will read to you some of the things of this Barry Weiss piece.
And if you send your kid to Harvard-Westlake, you are hurting your child and hurting your family and hurting America.
But you will still send them there because all you care about is that they get into a good college.
That's a fact, not an opinion.
It strikes them as something more than ironic that a school that costs more than $40,000 a year, a school with Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's right hand, and Sarah Murdoch, wife of Lachlan and Rupert's daughter-in-law, on its board is teaching students that capitalism is evil.
For most parents, the demonization of capitalism is the least of it.
They say that their children tell them they're afraid to speak up in class.
Most of all, they worry that the school's new plan to become an anti-racist institution, quote unquote, unveiled this July in a 20-page document, is making their kids fixate on race and attach importance to it in ways that strike them as grotesque.
But they will still keep their kids there.
They will meet clandestinely.
Out of fear that they will lose their friends, their kid might be kicked out of the school, they will be ostracized, but they still send their kid there because the prestige of having your kid at Harvard-Westlake or the like and getting them into a Harvard-like school is more important than your kid's welfare.
That's a fact.
I have utter sympathy for these parents and utter contempt for their decision to keep their kid there.
Or for those of you who will send your kid there knowing the vile nature of a Harvard-Westlake and the schools like it.
You deserve the results you will get with your child.
That's all I can say.
You've paid, what is it, 40,000 buckaroos a year to screw around with your child's conscience and mind.
One of the fathers has a problem with is a movement that tells his children that America is a bad country and that they bear collective racial guilt.
They are making my son feel like a racist because of the pigmentation of his skin, one mother says.
But they will keep their school there.
Keep their kid there, sorry.
Another poses a question to the group.
How does focusing a spotlight on race fix...
How kids talk to one another.
Why can't they just all be Wolverines?
That's the name of the team like.
Harvard-Westlake has declined to comment.
That's in parentheses.
Why can't they all just be Americans?
How's that for a radical idea?
Or even all just be humans?
The school can ask you to leave for any reason, said one mother at Brentwood, another Los Angeles prep school.
Then you'll be blacklisted from all the private schools, and you'll be known as a racist, which is worse than being called a murderer.
That's probably true.
One private school parent born in a communist nation tells me, I came to this country escaping the very same fear of retaliation that now my own child feels.
I have a special sympathy for the people who came from communist countries.
They thought they were coming to the land of liberty, and they were, until the left took over.
Is there anything about this movement we should question, said a father with children in two prep schools in Manhattan.
And he said, dude, that's dangerous ground you're on in our friendship.
I've had enough of those conversations to know what happens.
A student at the Fieldston School in New York City said to me, this is, again, all from Barry Weiss's article, If you publish my name, it would ruin my life.
People would attack me for even questioning this ideology.
I don't even want people knowing I'm a capitalist.
This comment was echoed by other students I spoke with.
Fieldston declined to comment for this article.
The kids are scared of other kids, says one Harvard-Westlake mother.
That's right.
Imagine that.
Were you scared of other kids other than maybe some, you know, classroom bully?
Were you ideologically scared of other kids?
It didn't occur to you.
The left ruins everything it touches, but half this country votes left anyway.
It is a staggering act of suicide.
The contempt the left has for you liberals is greater than for us conservatives.
Greater.
Because they know you're cowards.
We're not.
The atmosphere is making their children anxious, paranoid, and insecure, and closed off from even their close friends.
My son knew I was talking to you, and he begged me not to, another Harvard-Westlake mother told me.
He wants to go to a great university, and he told me that one bad statement will ruin us.
This is the United States of America.
Are you freaking kidding me?
So here, the son was totally honest.
Hey, Dad, be a whore.
I want to get into a good university.
That's what Harvard-Westlake made his child.
If my child ever said that, don't you meet with a free-thinking human being because I might not get into a good college?
I would have wondered before God, how do I atone for the way I screwed up my child's conscience?
You care about getting into a good college more than free speech in this country?
You don't want me to meet with a woman with a fantastic resume of intellectual honesty who left the New York Times because it's a left-wing propaganda sheet?
The colleges want children, customers that are going to be pre-aligned to certain ideologies that originally came out of those colleges, says a STEM teacher at one of New York's prestigious prep schools. says a STEM teacher at one of New York's prestigious I call it woke weaning.
And that's the product schools like mine are offering.
There you go!
Sure, he wouldn't make his name public, but at least he said it to his credit.
Power in America now comes from speaking woke, a highly complex and ever-evolving language.
The Grace Church School in Manhattan, for example, offers a 12-page guide to quote-unquote inclusive language.
I don't know if I reported this to you, which discourages people from using the word parents.
You hear that?
We'll be back.
We'll be back.
Oprah Winfrey, the fact that Oprah tolerated this whole conversation is so unbelievably disappointing.
And I'll get to that.
But first, I want to play this tape right here of Meghan Markle saying this, making the claim that there were racist remarks against her child's skin color.
But she won't say who said it because she's doing maybe a Jussie Smollett thing.
Play cut eight.
And also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born.
That was relayed to me from Harry.
Those were conversations that family had with him.
If he were too brown, that that would be a problem.
Are you saying that?
I wasn't able to follow up with why, but if that's the assumption you're making, I think that feels like a pretty safe one.
Feels.
Feels like a safe one.
Megan, you are now allowing your feels, feelings, I guess I should say, to dictate an accusation of a family that largely, by all evidence available, embraced you.
What an unbelievably ungrateful person you are.
No gratitude.
Perfect leftist.
No gratitude.
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He tweeted, "After four years of Trump, Katie Rogers hails the return," she's a New York Times reporter, "of the Washington weekend with this fantastic lead, quote, "Washington, President Biden did not do anything this weekend.
Well, let's rephrase, President Biden did not do anything alarming this weekend.
If they'd used newsworthy, it would have been neutral, but when they said alarming, they branded themselves.
Agree or disagree, Molly?
Oh, it's, I mean, it's not even a question anymore how...
How corrupt our media are in terms of their full-throated embrace and support of, for instance, Joe Biden and their histrionic negativity toward literally every single thing that Trump or any member of his administration did.
We used to joke that the media took an eight-year nap during the Obama administration.
Remember, they claimed there were no scandals.
Not covering scandals is not the same as not having scandals.
We clearly love and support every policy proposal put forth by Joe Biden, no matter how radical.
They just don't cover it that way.
And they do take weekends off.
They are enjoying this time.
Their friends and their family members are joining this administration.
This is good times for the media.
And the Trump administration really was bad times for them.
Their friends, their family were out of power.
Their way of life was threatened.
And it showed in every single thing.
They wrote, tweeted, you know, said on TV, and now we're getting the happy, fun time for the media and other elite establishment figures.
It is so obvious.
It is so obvious.
The Manhattan Beltway Media Elite are left wing.
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Thank you.
Thank you.
I looked at the headline the gentleman was calling about.
This is in Newsweek.
Evanston is paying reparations of $25,000 to black residents.
They say that's not enough.
Now, I said that to the gentleman without even seeing this headline.
They say that's not enough.
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Reading to you from Barry Weiss' incredible article about what's happening in our schools and parents' reactions and meeting privately and afraid to speak up.
They'll be ostracized and so on.
See, by the way, this is where it is so important to have a community.
See, if you're ostracized, it's very hard to be alone.
Very, very hard.
So if you're ostracized because you actually think America is a good country and you find that the teaching to your child that race is important is pure racism, is racism in its purest form, that the Ku Klux Klan and the left have almost identical views of race, then for you to take your child out of such a school means that you have to find a community.
Now, if you already have one, Usually a religious community, like the Mormon woman who called me up in Hour One, who's called Deeply Moved Me from Utah, that's great.
This is a good example of why religion is so critical for everything.
As I have spent so much time pointing out in so many arenas of life, but even like-minded people who believe That it is good to teach Shakespeare.
It is good to teach Beethoven.
It is good to teach that there are right and wrong answers in math.
Bill Gates has given a million dollars to Oregon to teach that there is no one right answer in math.
The destructive power of the very wealthy has been, not just power, the use of their power to destroy.
Among the super wealthy is unprecedented in the United States.
That's worthy of its own commentary, but anyway, these people are afraid of being alone, and they would be alone.
Of course, they have a community, but they're afraid to meet with us called conservatives.
One of the fun things to watch.
As people from the left gingerly start leaving the left, like Dave Rubin's video, Why I Left the Left.
It's a very popular PragerU video.
And he was big on the left.
I mean big.
But he's intellectually alive, and he left the left for moral and intellectual reasons.
And now he's come to realize something I came to realize.
I was raised liberal Democrat.
I didn't become a Republican until the Ronald Reagan years.
And I was stunned at how nice people I thought were awful really turned out to be.
Yeah.
Well, the way, for example, if you're a liberal Democrat, the way evangelical Christians are portrayed, crackpot fanatics.
And then I started meeting them.
And liking them.
And being liked back.
sometimes loved.
Disproportionate number of the finest human beings I know are religious Christians.
And this is a Jew speaking.
I continue the article.
My son knew I was talking to you and he begged me not to.
He wants to get to a great university.
Great universities are not great.
They're prestigious.
Get it?
The Stalin Award in the Soviet Union was not great, but it was prestigious.
The living mortal liked that point.
I could tell because he nodded.
There was movement.
The colleges want children.
Oh, I read you that one.
Woke weaning.
That's right.
That's what they produce.
Oh, yes.
We're back to the Grace Church.
Oh, yes.
The Grace Church School in Manhattan.
12-page guide to inclusive language discourages people from using the words parents.
Folks is preferred, or from asking questions like, what religion are you?
They also tell kids not to say, mom and dad.
This is a church-affiliated school.
The left has destroyed much of Christianity, much of Judaism, whatever it touches.
Remember that, everything it touches.
Mormons, be vigilant.
Loving, but vigilant.
Because...
It's very tempting to go with the flow and not with what is right.
A Harvard Westlake English teacher welcomes students back after summer with, quote, I am a queer white woman of European descent.
I use she, her pronouns, but also feel comfortable using they, them pronouns.
Isn't that great?
This is what she greets the students with.
She attached a self-care letter quoting Audre Lorde.
Isn't she the one that substituted for Shakespeare at the University of Pennsylvania?
I'm almost certain.
Caring for myself...
Listen to the quote.
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence.
It is self-preservation.
And that is an act of political warfare.
God, is that inspiring?
Oh my God, I can't believe Jesus didn't say that among the Beatitudes.
Moses didn't include that in Deuteronomy.
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence.
It is self-preservation.
And that is an act of political warfare.
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you you you I looked at the headline the gentleman was calling about.
This is in Newsweek.
Evanston is paying reparations of $25,000 to black residents.
They say that's not enough.
Now, I said that to the gentleman without even seeing this headline.
They say that's not enough.
And this is what we're going to be facing.
You know, decades ago, a congressman named John Conyers would introduce a bill at the beginning of Congress every two years for reparations.
And it was a joke.
And every year he'd do it.
And every year he'd do it.
Never in a million years did I ever think we'd get to the point where people are seriously taking this, where serious people are taking this seriously.
Where do you start with this?
I've heard that this is for 400 years of slavery or 250 years of slavery.
America didn't become a country until 1787. Slavery ended 1865. That's not 400 years.
That's not 250 years.
Government didn't own slaves.
States didn't own slaves.
Individuals owned slaves.
And Obama said that, in his view, reparations were justified.
Of course they were justified.
to the slaves themselves or to their legal heiress, good luck trying to find them.
Evanston is paying reparations of $25,000 to black residents.
They say that's not enough.
It'll never be enough.
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My opponent asks her supporters to recite a three-word loyalty pledge.
It reads, I'm with her.
I choose to recite a different pledge.
My pledge reads, I'm with you, the American people.
For me, that's the political kill shot, Rahim, where you take the classic establishment attitude of, you better be with me.
I'm your elitist leader.
And he says, actually, I want to fight with you.
I'm with you.
Talk to me about taxonomy categorization.
They have quite successfully turned populism into a pejorative, into a negative.
What are we witnessing around the world in your vocabulary?
Oh, goodness.
Even though, how long have you got?
Even though, you know, Barack Obama, when he came on the scene, they lauded populism.
And they lauded him running as this populist president.
And then suddenly, a couple of years later, populism didn't work for them.
So community organizers are okay, but Donald Trump, populism not.
Right, correct.
And he was, it's incredible that I had forgotten that clip.
It's incredible to go back to that moment.
Because, of course, what did they say about Donald Trump for the four years after that is that he demanded explicit loyalty from everybody that wrote for him.
Personal loyalty.
Whereas her campaign phrase was literally, I'm with her.
Not I'm with the country.
Not I'm with America.
Not I'm even with the future, right?
Not an ideology.
Not a philosophy.
Not a platform.
Just her.
Cultic!
Cultic!
Totally cultish!
And that's the same chart.
They're very good at this.
I mean, they are way better than we are at this.
is taking little things and projecting them onto their opponents. . . .
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I'm going to try to take calls, but this is too important an article not to read to you from it.
What is happening at the most prestigious private schools.
A Harvard West-like teacher.
Oh, I already told you that.
Yeah, the one who came in.
So she's a queer white woman of European descent era.
Woe betide the working class kid who arrives in college and uses Latino instead of Latinx.
Anytime I see Latinx, that's Latin with an X at the end.
Of course, you know what Latinos call themselves?
Latinos.
Only in America has the left so...
Poisoned life.
That prestigious newspapers, worthy of no prestige, use the word Latinx.
Because they won't say Latino.
Because Latino implies male.
Do you realize how good things are that people, the left, is preoccupied with trivia?
Do you understand that?
Do you understand that they make up the evils that they fight?
They're all concocted to give them their empty lives meaning.
I spoke in my synagogue this Saturday.
I spoke about this issue, which I will deal with probably on the Ultimate Issues Hour tomorrow.
About the need to find meaning and the need to feel important.
Leftism.
It gives people both because they otherwise have nothing.
No America, no history, no future thanks to climate change, no religion, no God, maybe the Aztec God is actually now being included.
Yep, prayers to the Aztec God are now included in the ethnic studies curriculum in California.
The God of child sacrifice and human sacrifice.
As one mother in Los Angeles puts it, this is what all the colleges are doing.
So we have to do it.
The thinking is, if Harvard does it, it must be good.
I'm in a cult.
Well, that's not exactly right.
It's that the cult is all around me, and I'm trying to save kids from becoming members.
He sounds like a Scientology defector, but he is a math teacher at one of the most elite high schools in New York City.
Leftism is a cult.
The teacher is talking with me because he is alarmed by the toil this ideology is taking on his students.
I started seeing what was happening to the kids, and that's what I couldn't take.
They are being educated in resentment and fear.
It's extremely dangerous.
That's right.
In other words, your child is being crippled emotionally and hampered morally.
Oh, and of course, profoundly hampered intellectually.
For $40,000 a year, but it's prestigious.
Because you worship at the ability to say my kid goes to Yale or Princeton or Harvard or Stanford or Berkeley.
That's what is meaningful in the empty lives of so many people.
My kid goes to.
My kid goes to.
That is the essence of your achievement in life.
You got your kid into a prestigious college and it doesn't mean a damn thing.
Not a damn thing.
And I wonder if in their heart of hearts, a lot of parents know that.
I do wonder.
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You'll protect yourself and your child from damage.
Talking about damage, there's damage to nerves in a lot of people.
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It's hereditary.
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If it's in your feet and other bad things, if it's in your hands, this pins and needles thing.
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They did a great job because they lifted the bone from the nerve.
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A year later, I threw away my inserts.
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Earlier today, the White House Chief of Staff, Ronald Klain, tweeted out the front page of the New York Times.
Now, listen, I didn't see this because I don't read the New York Times, but here's the cover of the New York, front page of the New York Times, above the fold, big headline.
Eric Hansen is going to lose his mind.
My operations manager is going to flip his lid when he hears this.
Eric, the headline of the New York Times, President's Goal, July 4th gatherings with close family.
That's the President's goal.
And the White House Chief of Staff tweeted, this is what we are working toward.
Oh, really?
That's what we are working toward?
They know we, but you got a mouse in your pocket?
Because we're doing that.
Listen, I get vaccinated, I'm done.
And come arrest me if I'm going to be with my family, I don't know, inside rather than outside.
Do you have any comprehension how nuts this is?
What we're working toward?
And the New York Times, there they are.
They're so proud of themselves over there.
The old gray lady.
Here's our headline.
President's goal.
Fourth of July gatherings with close family outside.
Just a few of you now.
But that's what we're working towards.
These people are lunatics.
And Americans know it.
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We came out and there are three government websites and my hospital website and I signed up for all of them.
I turned 65 two weeks ago.
And of course, the three government websites didn't work.
The hospital one was out of it.
And within three days of CVS getting their allocation, I got my first dose because they know how to do vaccines.
I mean, it was nuts that we opened up new websites, new portals, because CVS knows how to handle...
Medication distribution, as does Rite Aid, as does Walgreen.
You know, the idea that you would stand up new websites to do something that's already being done is dumb.
You got it.
It is just that simple.
To me, we had the existing infrastructure.
And whoever was distributing the flu vaccines, those are the same people that should have been distributing this.
We made it complicated.
A lot of people, you know, grabbing for that money.
You know, there's money at each little step of this.
People grabbing.
Grabbing the money.
Do you think we will be around the corner and back to 90% of normal by... ...
Yes Yes Yes.
Hello.
Yes.
All right.
There's so much more in this piece, and I will continue it tomorrow.
I'd like to take some calls now.
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If I let you go, don't...
It might not remain to any of the topics I've raised, so...
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Alrighty, everybody.
Let's go to Ty in San Antonio.
Hello, Ty.
Hi, Dennis.
Thank you for taking my call.
You know, and I'm going to bring this home full circle quickly.
Whenever they legalize homosexual marriage, I looked at my boss and I said, he needs a raving leftist, a 65-year-old white guy.
I said, you got what you wanted, but this is not where it stops.
They will continue to move on because liberalism meets the next division tactic.
And it wasn't six months down the road that we were worried about men walking into women's restrooms and hormonal therapy and all this other stuff.
And it's amazing listening to this woman, who I appreciate what she's done, but her clarity that transitions to schools and what's happening to kids, it's almost as amazing that she doesn't realize what homosexual marriage is doing to the kids and what it's doing to the institution of morals it's almost as amazing that she doesn't realize what homosexual marriage is
Because she was very willing to argue against liberalism out of one side of her mouth, but then y'all got into a debate slightly on homosexual marriage and what it's done to the families and different things.
Well, we didn't actually debate what it's done to families.
This is a very complex question.
Let me say a couple of things here, because I know so many gay couples, and I love them.
And I don't love them because they're gay.
I just happen to love them and they happen to be gay.
And I don't love anybody because they are something.
I love them because they're good.
Anyway, when conservatives frame things in a way that doesn't comport with reality or much reality, we do ourselves a disservice.
My argument was, and it's unanswerable, The argument, otherwise there was no argument for gay marriage, and I said it in Congress.
I said it a long time ago.
The argument is, and they said it, gender doesn't matter.
There is no other argument.
Love matters, gender doesn't.
That was the entirety of the argument.
Most Americans, or many Americans, bought it.
Because love is a powerful word, and because gays can love each other just as much as heterosexuals can love each other.
That's it.
And that is what has happened.
I also have the religious belief, as I said to her, that God wants marriage to be between a man and a woman.
Okay?
I acknowledge that's my belief.
But my package of beliefs are what sustain me to resist the crushing of freedom in this country.
I had an atheist, an Ayn Rand atheist, on my fireside chat.
Wonderful man.
We spoke for an hour and 20 minutes.
My fireside chats, my weekly...
Quite popular podcast, videocast, is always a half hour.
It was an hour and 20 minutes with this man.
And he acknowledged that he is an atheist who loves liberty.
A lot of atheists are on the left and have contempt for liberty.
But he's an atheist who loves liberty.
And he acknowledged...
That, overwhelmingly, it was religious Americans who are protecting liberty today.
So, fine.
So, before we dismiss religious Americans, we're a package.
We come with a lot of beliefs.
One is God wants us to be free.
Another one is that God wants man and woman to marry.
That is not a statement against a gay.
It is no more a statement against a gay than it is a statement against single people.
God wants people to marry.
Is that anti-single?
In the simpleton world of the left, that is what it means.
It's single phobia.
Do I hate singles because I believe people should marry?
Isn't that idiotic?
It doesn't matter.
Idiocy is the norm today.
But that's the way we should frame the argument.
The kids of the couples I know are good kids.
Just for the record.
I don't know if that's the norm, but I don't know if it's the norm in general.
It's tough to raise good kids.
But of course, to be honest, the gays I know except one woman.
For one case, are in fact conservative.
Alright, anyway, the topic was raised and I needed to address it.
Okay, let's go to Roxanne in Los Angeles.
Hello.
Hello, how are you?
I'm well, thank you.
I have to thank you.
When I first came to LA and started listening to you, I was just a total lefty.
Liberal and your thoughtful advice and clarity has helped me become the wildly conservative person I am now, but I just want to point out something that I have to disagree with you on.
Barry's article hit home because my four kids have attended an LA private school that we chose precisely so that they could have a religious community.
And I don't think, it's easy to say that we're cowards, but I'm the den mother for over a hundred closeted conservative parents at my school.
This happened sort of slowly and then all at once.
And they wield a cudgel that is so strong, and that is the accusation of racism.
And we aren't concerned about college.
We're concerned about our sixth graders being bullied by teachers.
I kid you not.
Oh, I believe you.
So, stay on with me.
You've got to tell me where we differ.
Because we're both agreeing about the problem.
Anyway, I want to hear.
And I'm very touched that I touched you.
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I get the clear impression that Biden is not leading the country.
I believe that he's being led.
Now, that is common sense observation.
Most people are thinking the same thing, but I have a radio program.
I get to say it.
Biden is not leading the country.
Now, if he was elected to lead the country and he's not leading the country, whom did we elect to lead the country?
Or I should say, Whom did we not elect to lead the country, who is in fact leading the country, and how is that not unconstitutional?
This is related to the piece I wrote on Sunday.
My Sunday piece deals with the exact question that you're asking, Eric, because it is my impression, as you have seemed to indicate, that Joe Biden is not in charge.
I'm not even sure if he's in charge of changing his shorts on a daily basis, much less running the country.
I can answer that for you.
I don't say that to be...
He doesn't change him on a daily basis, but go ahead.
I'm not saying that to be damaging towards him.
I see the little old man that they shuffle out to do the press appearance like he did yesterday, where he forgot the name of the defense secretary, forgot the name of the Pentagon, didn't really know who he was talking to.
He knew it was a multi-sided shape.
Does he have to know that it's exactly like a five Five sides.
Does he have the notes of Pentagon?
What if he said dodecahedron?
I would have given him more credit than saying that outfit over there.
If we found out that, you know, Woodrow Wilson is in a coma and his wife is running the country, that's unconstitutional.
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Trending now on The Charlie Kirk Show. *music* Oprah Winfrey, the fact that Oprah tolerated this whole conversation is so unbelievably disappointing.
And I'll get to that.
But first, I want to play this tape right here of Meghan Markle saying this, making the claim that there were racist remarks against her child's skin color.
But she won't say who said it because she's doing maybe a Jussie Smollett thing.
Play cut eight.
And also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born.
That was relayed to me from Harry.
Those were conversations that family had with him.
If you were too brown, that that would be a problem?
Are you saying that?
I wasn't able to follow up with why, but if that's the assumption you're making, I think that feels like a pretty safe one.
Feels.
Feels like a safe one.
Megan.
All right, let me go right back to Roxanne in L.A.
Go ahead.
Thank you.
I think where we differ, and Barry brought it up in her article, sort of, and the focus group was Kids at Harvard-Westlake, Families at Harvard-Westlake, which is a very academically college-focused school.
But the rest of us at the great panoply of L.A. private schools are not actually that college-obsessed.
When people talk about higher education and the, you know, the heterodoxy of college, they haven't noticed.
If you've had kids in school in the past 10 or 15 years, the leftward lurch has happened way before college.
And so we're not...
Cowards, we have actual livelihoods that we would lose.
We're also conservatives are naturally the, hey, leave me alone party, right?
So I'm not going to spout politics.
No, no, no.
Okay, you're 100% right.
100% right.
And I don't know in what exact context I use the word coward.
I don't expect people...
I've said this often, and your call is prompting me to say it again.
A person who's going to lose his or her job, I am not demanding you lose your job and speak out.
I am not.
Okay, I want to make that clear.
It's not right for me to do.
I have my job, so it would be just wrong for me to say that.
However, why people keep their kids in those schools, that is not cowardice, that's suicide.
Well, it's suicide, but so here's what happens, is everybody wants to be nice and no one wants to be racist, right?
It's proof alone that there isn't systemic racism, that everyone is scrambling.
So, in other words, just taking your kid out of school is a racist act?
Yes, or not participating in the diversity, equity, and inclusion affinity group.
All right, well, that's where I would, okay, at that point I would use the term cowardice.
I'm not asking you to speak out, but if you can't quietly take your child out...
I do, and I'm a black woman, and I get called a racist.
Say it again?
You what?
I'm a black woman.
I speak up, and I get called a racist.
Oh, of course, yes.
No, I know, no.
Of course you're a racist.
It goes without sense, right?
Listen, the University of Wyoming writer called me an anti-Semite, so you're in good company.
Congratulations.
I mean, schools are spending big money on the diversity, equity, and inclusion.
And our school actually had one-on-one.
They wanted to find out, you know, focus groups.
Well, guess how the focus group was led?
And I can't imagine a Caucasian person being able to speak up in this.
Yes.
No, no.
You know what?
You're very impressive.
Send me an email.
I hope I see it, and I hope...
To know who you are better.
Alright, Joe, John, Lou, Ron, David, and Antoinette.
Oh, Antoinette calls herself a Latina, not a Latinx.
Antoinette, I have a feeling I know what party you vote for.
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