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May 6, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	There is no greater picture, no picture that more accurately depicts the Orwellian absurd world in which we live in America today than the Vice President of the United States kissing her husband both outdoors wearing masks and both vaccinated.
	Have you seen that picture?
	Have you?
	Yeah.
	Have you?
	You gave it to me.
	I'm surprised that someone here didn't see it.
	When was that?
	I believe it was yesterday.
	It was yesterday.
	Yes.
	It should be the symbolic photo of the age...
	The Enlightenment, 18th century France in particular, though it was also in England, was supposed to usher in the age of reason.
	We are living in the age of anti-reason, the age that celebrates the irrational.
	The very notion that you have to wear a mask after being vaccinated and then being told the vaccine is effective, why isn't that obvious as an utter absurdity, a contradiction?
	Or that if you had COVID, you don't have immunity the first time that has happened.
	You get a virus and you're no longer immune.
	Nothing happened.
	Nothing happened.
	That's what we're supposed to believe.
	Nothing happened.
	How could you not have contempt for the vice president and her husband if you see that picture?
	How is that possible?
	The age of feelings I dubbed this the age of feelings when I began my career.
	How do you feel about it?
	Not, is it right?
	How do you feel about it?
	I told the story all of my life.
	Well, not all of my life.
	How old is my son?
	He was born in 83. 17 and 21 is 38. My older son is 38 years old.
	Wow, hard to believe.
	So I'm telling you a story from 36 years ago when he was 2. And he was in a park with his mom.
	At the time, my wife.
	And she told me when she came home what happened.
	Some disgusting kid, some boy bully, walked over, I don't know, five, six years old, and just threw him down.
	That would not have been...
	I mean, she would have told me.
	It was worth telling me, obviously.
	But that's not the reason I'm telling you the story.
	What happened next?
	The mother ran over to her son, who's practicing to be a Nazi, and she said to him, What's troubling you, darling?
	What's troubling you?
	You little a-hole.
	What's troubling you?
	And I thought that that was symbolic of the time.
	That happened in a park in Beverly Thrills, California.
	Not surprising.
	Not that everybody in Beverly Thrills thinks that way, but it's still, as I said, not surprising.
	It would be more surprising had it happened in Pocatello, Idaho.
	Let us put it that way.
	If I had to have you bet a park in which city?
	Beverly Thrills, California?
	Or Pocatello, Idaho?
	I think you would have guessed Beverly Thrills.
	What's troubling you?
	Now, by the way, it would be very interesting one time to...
	We will.
	Let's do this.
	I am now addressing my producer.
	And let's do an hour.
	Do you think if a parent had whacked the kid's bottom at that moment, that would have been wrong?
	All right?
	Let's see.
	When I did, it must be at least a decade, I did a show on were you ever spanked and do you think that that was wrong in retrospect?
	And it was...
	Astonishing to me how many people thought that their parent had done a service to them.
	I did not expect the calls that I got.
	But here would be a real-life situation.
	Would it have been right for the parent to have whacked that kid on the bottom after throwing a baby down?
	Age of feelings.
	How do you feel?
	How are you feeling, darling?
	What's troubling you?
	So anyway, yes, the age of reason has given us the most irrational period in history.
	You would have to go to some dark age.
	Anyway, the Dark Ages are somewhat overstated in their darkicity, in their darkitude.
	But anyway, you know, the contempt with which the medieval church is viewed by the enlightened for its irrationality.
	But I don't know, tell me what irrationality was greater than secular irrationality.
	And I'm a Jew asking this question, so I don't have any axe to grind here.
	The greatest irrationality of many Catholics...
	In the Middle Ages was hatred of Jews.
	So, nevertheless, I am posing the question.
	What matched it?
	Oh, they put Galileo in house confinement.
	Okay, that's what you have to dig up.
	Galileo's treated better than a lot of the people.
	Who basically did nothing when they stormed the Capitol.
	He wasn't put in solitary confinement, some of these people are.
	Who did no damage, hurt no human being.
	Two people vaccinated, outdoors, wearing masks, is sick enough.
	Indoors, it's sick enough.
	and then kissing through the mask?
	It's not kissing, by the way.
	It wasn't kissing.
	You're being corrected.
	That's a very interesting question.
	Can it be said that you have kissed while wearing a mask?
	That's true.
	It's face-to-face contact.
	The thing that I have always feared the most, I've said this all of my life, is irrationality.
	It is anti-rationality.
	Amazing, isn't it that the most rational people today, as a group, turn out to be the religious?
	And I have a theory why.
	I've told it to you.
	Everybody needs some irrational in their life.
	Reason is not enough.
	Reason is necessary, but not enough.
	The religious Christian and Jew...
	Tends to confine their non-rational to their religious beliefs.
	I acknowledge it.
	I'm a religious Jew.
	I have non-rational or certainly non-provable beliefs.
	I believe Moses was on Sinai and received the Ten Commandments from God.
	I can't prove that.
	But I'm very rational about life.
	That allows me to express my belief that Reason is not enough.
	Religion offers that as an outlet for the desire to have the non-rational in life.
	That's good.
	Love is not rational.
	Beauty is not rational.
	There's a place for it.
	I mean, think about what we're supposed to believe.
	COVID is one example.
	We're supposed to believe that Jackson Pollock's paintings are worth millions of dollars.
	Man standing on a ladder throwing paint from cans.
	And I'm supposed to believe that that stuff that they hang in museums of modern art conveys a message.
	No, conveys.
	stuff conveys.
	I'm Dennis Prager, 1-8 Prager, 7-7-6.
	I'm Dennis Prager, show.
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	.
	Yes.
	From colleges to corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all.
	By doubling down on the divisions, we've worked so hard to heal.
	You know this stuff is wrong.
	Hear me clearly.
	America is not a racist country.
	Okay, the man is being slammed for saying America is not a racist country.
	Kamu Bell says, you know, it depends on how you define racism.
	Here's how he defines racism.
	I define that as a country that is built on racism.
	So yes, I believe America is a racist country because it literally is built on and runs on racism.
	America is built on racism and runs on racism.
	It's sort of the petrol of America, the fuel of America.
	So his definition of racism is America was built on racism and is run on racism, whatever the hell that means.
	And the definition given by this gentleman in the Washington Post, quote, it means that we have systems and institutions referring to systemic racism.
	It means we have systems and institutions that produce racially disparate outcomes regardless of the intentions of the people who work within them, end of quote.
	So if every cop is devoid of racism, but the cops pull over more blacks than they do whites, that's systemic racism.
	Even if the cops aren't racist.
	Because the outcomes are different.
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	This is Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com for Town Hall.
	Why would a high-ranking American diplomat alert an Iranian government official about Israeli covert actions?
	In a leaked recording between Mohammad Javad Zarif and a political ally, the foreign minister revealed that John Kerry personally informed him that Israel was behind over 200 attacks on its military forces and proxies in Syria.
	Zarif professed astonishment at Kerry's tip-off.
	No doubt the Israelis are astonished at this as well, and all Americans should feel the same way.
	After years of unfounded accusations about Republican collusion with Russia, we now hear of a prominent member of two Democratic administrations sharing intelligence about our allies' covert operations with a regime that regularly holds Death to America rallies in its capital.
	The Biden administration needs to explain Kerry's actions immediately, especially while pursuing pointless negotiations with the puppet government in Tehran.
	I'm Ed Morrissey.
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
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	For the hot new summer blockbuster, he and his dazzling co-star, Kamala.
	His use of voice modulation was rather extraordinary given the television era.
	And it served as cover at times for...
	Unspooling an ambition in this speech that was Rooseveltian in size and scope.
	It's really beautiful.
	I mean, it was beautiful.
	He's developing a kind of positive populism.
	He also talked about the soul of America, and that was so passionate when he talked about the injustice, the knee of injustice is on the neck of black America.
	His connections to the people in this room, I'm not even sure if all of them are deserving of them, but he does not care.
	He gives to them the benefit of the doubt.
	And his voice, that kind of grandfatherly, whispery voice, and the fact that it actually wasn't a big raucous crowd, let that intimacy really land.
	Every single sentence had a very clear point to it, and every line of it had that Biden humility in it.
	He's really...
	Hi, y'all. y'all.
	My name is Dennis Prager.
	And if you love reason, you loathe the left.
	There's no possibility to love both reason and the left.
	The epitome is two vaccinated human beings outdoors wearing masks and giving covered kisses to one another.
	But the media find it unworthy of contempt.
	They think it's a beautiful role model.
	Ye who are masked, no matter what the circumstance, you are doing a good thing.
	You are a model.
	Now, I want to contrast this with a new story you don't know, or very few of you know.
	This is really, shall we say, important.
	Yeah, here it is.
	It's from the Chicago Tribune.
	I assume that...
	I don't know who sent this to me.
	This is...
	I put in the wrong date.
	I put in June 3rd, 2021, and we're in May.
	That's probably from May 3rd.
	DuPage County Judge...
	Orders Elmhurst Hospital to allow COVID-19 patients to receive controversial medication.
	Now, I want you to understand why I have such contempt for the medical profession while understanding there are some terrific human beings who are doctors.
	A DuPage County judge Ordered Elmhurst Hospital to allow a comatose woman suffering from COVID-19 to receive a medication the Food and Drug Administration said could be unsafe, but the legal fight appears bound to escalate.
	Nuria Fipe, F-Y-P-E-68, of Elmhurst has been in intensive care at the hospital since early April.
	And is now on a ventilator, according to testimony at the court hearing.
	Her daughter, Desireta Fipe, is pushing for her mother to receive a medication called ivermectin, normally used to treat diseases caused by parasitic worms.
	The FDA, however, has cautioned Against using ivermectin to treat patients suffering from the virus.
	It says some people have been hospitalized after self-medicating with a form of the drug intended for horses and that large doses can be fatal.
	Did you read this article?
	Chicago Tribune.
	First of all, the very way they cover it.
	To receive controversial medication.
	Ivermectin has been used for decades with millions of people.
	It's about as safe a drug as exists in the world.
	Controversial?
	Some people were hurt when they used a form of it for horses?
	Oh, am I supposed to crack up?
	Is that a joke?
	Large doses can be fatal.
	Large doses of what cannot be fatal?
	Large doses of aspirin can be fatal.
	You know how many Americans died because of the FDA opposition and the CDC opposition to ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and zinc?
	There are epidemiologists who believe most of those who died.
	Would have lived had they been given these simple, safe drugs.
	This is the age of the irrational, led by the media, the despicable, lying, fraudulent media who are killers, absolute killers, in aiding and abetting this medical fraud.
	Another federal agency, the National Institutes of Health, has taken a more measured stance, saying that while the drug is well tolerated when used for its intended purposes, there isn't enough information to allow a recommendation for or against using it to treat COVID-19.
	Wait, so it's well tolerated?
	So if it's well tolerated, what's the risk?
	Wait, it's well tolerated if you have a lupus?
	But it's not well tolerated if you have COVID? Elmhurst Hospital's attorney, Joseph Monahan, said at the hearing, none of its doctors would agree to administer ivermectin for COVID-19.
	Now you know why I have contempt for the medical profession?
	That is example 56. The percentage of doctors who were fools is so large that it is painful to me.
	Painful.
	I was not aware of it.
	I was not aware of it.
	It's so sad...
	It is such sad news.
	Not one doctor in the hospital would administer to a comatose COVID patient on a ventilator.
	The ventilator is safe.
	You hear?
	This is safe.
	The kiss of death ventilator is safe, but ivermectin isn't.
	An internal ethics panel concluded its use could not be justified.
	Are you listening to this?
	Elmhurst Hospital's internal ethics panel concluded its use could not be justified?
	On a comatose, COVID-ventilated patient?
	He argued that judges should not overrule medical decisions.
	Oh, God forbid!
	The court doesn't have the authority to order a medical corporation to use particular medications, particularly when it's an off-label use, particularly when the federal government has said it could be dangerous.
	Judge James Orrell pointed to an affidavit from Fipe's physician, Fipe again is the woman who's comatose, Dr. William Crevere of Orland Park, in which the doctor said he has used the drug successfully for COVID-19 patients since last year.
	If Elmhurst doctors don't want to use ivermectin, the judge said, they should allow Crevere to administer it.
	Right?
	Why is that, doctor?
	Less holy than the hospital's doctors, who are cowards.
	Why wouldn't this be tried if she's not improving, to judge that?
	Yes.
	Why wouldn't we try the ivermectin?
	So masks after vaccine outside should be worn, but ivermectin on a patient on a ventilator should not be used.
	This is the sick world induced by the medical profession that has lost its soul.
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	For the hot new summer blockbuster, he and his dazzling co-star, Kamala.
	Thank you.
	His use of voice modulation was rather extraordinary given the television era.
	And it served as cover at times for unspooling an ambition in this speech that was Rooseveltian in size and scope.
	It's really beautiful.
	I mean, it was beautiful.
	He's developing a kind of positive populism.
	He also talked about the soul of America, and that was so passionate when he talked about the injustice, the knee of injustice is on the neck of black America.
	His connections to the people in this room, I'm not even sure if all of them are deserving of them, but he does not care.
	He gives to them the benefit of the doubt.
	And his voice, that kind of grandfatherly whispery.
	Every single sentence had a very clear point to it, and every line of it had that Biden humility in it.
	He's really trying to bring the country together.
	It was a make America feel good night.
	The President of the United States talking?
	No!
	That's what you thought.
	In fact, it was Jesus in aviator glasses.
	What Joe Biden said last night was beautiful, beautiful.
	It was intimate, grandfatherly, indeed Rooseveltian.
	So there's a good litmus test with that kind of commentary.
	Anybody who tells you that Tucker isn't fantastic and you shouldn't be watching Tucker Carlson, don't trust them.
	Because they ain't one of us.
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	And we haven't had inflation in so long.
	You're not old enough to have.
	To buy a house at 12.5% or 13% 30-year interest like I did when my wife and I bought our first house in 1985. But it is not a good thing.
	Inflation is a destroyer of lives.
	Well, there's a number of compounding factors here as well.
	Not only all the money is being printed, but if you look at the CPI numbers that came out in February, half of the inflationary pressures were energy-related.
	And so when you combine the massive spending...
	Plus, the Green New Deal that's going to put pressure here on oil, natural gas, just energy prices in general.
	This used to be comparative advantage for us here to beat China long-term because of our energy independence.
	He is moving us down the path.
	You and I remember 1973, dependencies on the Middle East, War of Yom Kippur, oil prices quadruple, a 30-year fixed mortgage, Hugh, in 1981, right when Reagan got on board, was 18.6%.
	And we have a generation that does not understand what happens with inflation and interest rates and how that absolutely destroys an economy, frankly, destroys families.
	When you look at your colleagues in the Senate dining room, and I've had lunch up there before, and I know you folks all get together and get along fine, and they're Bible studies, and everybody's a human being, and nobody wants to screw up.
	Honestly, do they not get that?
	Do they not understand what they're unleashing on this country?
	And it will destroy poor people.
	It's poor people and old people on fixed incomes, especially, who are crushed by inflation.
	It worked your whole life to be 80 years old with a pension and happy, and all of a sudden you cannot buy food.
	What Biden is doing and the left is absolutely an attack on the working class of this country.
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	This is an amazing thing.
	The age of the irrational.
	I don't know.
	I publicly invite anyone, I have a large audience in Chicago, I invite anyone from Elmhurst Hospital to come on the show and defend what I consider a crime, a moral crime, not a legal crime.
	A moral crime against this woman in their hospital.
	I will treat you with great respect.
	But when they were contacted by the Chicago Tribune, what do you think they're responsible as living martyr?
	Ye who follow this stuff all the time.
	And who in fact made me aware of this article.
	Is that correct?
	You didn't.
	You know, I can't separate us.
	It's really sick.
	Did I find the article?
	Did he find the article?
	I no longer know.
	I need a psychiatrist.
	Except only one quarter of them are worthy of visiting.
	Another corrupted profession.
	Anyway, what do you think the Elmhurst Hospital had to say?
	We follow the science.
	That's a very good guess.
	We follow the science.
	Okay.
	The real answer is nothing.
	They would not respond.
	Now that you hear that, doesn't that make sense?
	They never respond.
	This is one of the left's great achievements.
	Why respond?
	The judge is looking at this, and he's like, entered the twilight zone.
	Wait.
	The patient has a doctor who wants to prescribe it.
	So let that doctor prescribe it.
	Why are we listening to the hospital's doctors?
	Elmhurst Hospital Ethics Committee.
	The Ethics Committee.
	You know how sick this must be?
	The Ethics Committee decided it is better for this woman to be on a ventilator in a coma than give her ivermectin.
	The Ethics Committee.
	It's warped.
	This is warped.
	Judge Oral said they should allow the personal physician to administer it.
	Why wouldn't this be tried if she's not improving?
	The injection of the rational.
	The judge must be going out of his mind.
	Wait a minute.
	She's going to die, Elmhurst.
	Get it?
	She's already comatose.
	Get it?
	You can't stay in a ventilator forever.
	Get it?
	Ivermectin is safe.
	Why does the hospital object to providing this medication?
	If someone has been in the ICU for a month and not improving, why would the hospital not consider another medication?
	This judge...
	We've entered the realm of the anti-rational.
	No wonder the Oregon Education Department, nobody's objecting.
	They've announced that there's no one right answer in math.
	The Elmhurst Hospital doctors would probably concur.
	Had Elmhurst Hospital spokesman ready?
	Here it is.
	An Elmhurst Hospital spokesman declined to comment.
	They always declined to comment.
	Hey, Elmhurst, you're killing a human being who might be saved effortlessly.
	No comment.
	This country truly does need a renaissance.
	Every profession has been corrupted by cowards, fools, and leftists.
	every like other purported covid nineteen treatments that have not gotten government approval of ivermectin has been embroiled in controversy One of its leading proponents, Dr. Pierre Corey, a pulmonary and critical care specialist, testified in favor of the drug before a U.S. Senate committee last year.
	Now listen to this.
	But YouTube later took down the video in which he made his statement, calling it medical misinformation.
	Do you understand how many people YouTube is killing?
	They take down a doctor's testimony on behalf of Ivor Becton?
	I'm so sorry to bring you this stuff on an almost daily basis.
	I am not kidding.
	I am sorry.
	I can understand someone wanting to watch Looney Tunes cartoons.
	I do.
	The trouble is, it's too precious an experiment, America, to opt out of this battle.
	One thing you can do for yourself is try for three weeks, just three weeks, try relief factor if you have muscular or joint pain.
	They have a very honest statement.
	If it doesn't work in three weeks, it...
	Probably won't work.
	So they have a special price for the three-week, what they call quick start.
	Just $20 and shipping.
	That's it.
	You'll know in three weeks.
	You cancel the order if it doesn't work.
	That's it.
	Relieffactor.com 800-500-8384 The lockdowns actually have the opposite of the intended purpose.
	So wouldn't it be better to have restaurants go every other table, outdoor dining, and trust the business owners to be able to handle this appropriately?
	And Ron DeSantis said yes.
	When there is no vision, the people perish.
	That's actually a proverb.
	And many of these other states had no vision at all whatsoever, no leadership.
	I'm going to say something very provocative that I know is going to get written up on all the Media Matters websites because it's true.
	Ron DeSantis is more of a president of this nation than Joe Biden.
	Ron DeSantis, I think our...
	Thank you.
	Ron DeSantis has led the nation in reopening.
	This is why, and we were just talking about this last night, we are far surpassing all these economic projections because the reopening is happening quicker than people could possibly imagine.
	It's because of one man, and I'm not discounting the other states that Opened alongside of it.
	But I want you to put yourself in Ron DeSantis' shoes.
	Florida's a battleground state.
	Florida's a state that had a lot of consequential congressional races.
	There was pressure on Ron DeSantis.
	Hey, are you going to bring home Florida for Trump?
	Now, by the way, Governor Ducey, as we're here live on AM 960, The Answer in Arizona, and Governor Kemp in Georgia, they didn't deliver Georgia and Arizona for Trump.
	In fact, they didn't deliver one Republican Senate seat for Republicans.
	Ron DeSantis had a lot of pressure.
	And he could have done the safe and easy thing.
	He said, Ron DeSantis said, we are reopening.
	He got rewarded for that.
	Trump won by 400,000 votes in Florida, more than any other Republican in recent memory.
	Maybe people right now are waiting for bold and courageous leadership, not just milk toast, vanilla pandering.
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	We can continue to have faith and keep hoping that things are going to work out and that somewhere, somewhere there's an all-seeing apparatus that will do right.
	But it's not, no one's saying just sit around and have faith and hope things work out.
	We have to be engaged.
	There's no question, Jacob.
	But there's no either or.
	You can't sit on the sidelines anymore, Jacob.
	You've got to be involved.
	And incidentally, I'm honored to have you listening to the show, and I appreciate very much.
	Your kind and supportive words.
	I don't mean just sit around and just hope that good things happen.
	You've got to be sure that you're engaged in a voting registration process.
	You've got to campaign for politicians.
	You've got to volunteer at your local Republican headquarters.
	There's lots you can do.
	Jacob, I'm glad you called.
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	Well, this is quite a story, is it not?
	No.
	No. No. No. No. No.
	So to bring you up to speed in case you're just joining, we're living in the age of the anti-rational.
	The left, everything to do with the left is anti-rational.
	I began with The Kiss.
	The Kiss.
	Somebody should do a painting like The Scream.
	That was one of the most, by Edvard Munch.
	One of the most famous paintings of the 20th century.
	Sometimes I feel like that guy in the picture.
	Sean, what is that?
	Don't we have I'm going crazy here, some audio thing?
	I'm going crazy.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That would be an audible version of that particular painting.
	This should now have, after the scream, the kiss.
	The fake vice president of the U.S. and the fake vice president's spouse.
	The second husband.
	I love that term.
	Second gentleman.
	Oh, the second gentleman.
	Of course, first lady, second gentleman.
	I blew that.
	That's right.
	I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane.
	No, no, no.
	Wrong audio.
	Not worthy of any consequences, but wrong audio.
	Come on, I thought this one...
	you know he doesn't know what it is you here yet so I so anyway I'm contrasting that You got it?
	Go ahead.
	Doesn't anyone notice this?
	I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
	Is that the one you had in mind?
	Okay.
	That's right.
	I'm taking crazy pills, yeah.
	So, we have the vice president and the first gentleman, second gentleman.
	By the way, if he's the second gentleman, what am I? Am I like the 48,863,466th gentleman?
	I'm higher?
	I don't know.
	That would be good to just rank the gentleman of the country.
	I'm contrasting that.
	Or showing another act of the irrational at Elmhurst Hospital in Chicago.
	A woman comatose from COVID. And the ethics committee decided against giving her ivermectin, an utterly safe drug.
	So the FDA is probably going to rush, for the first time, rush approval of the vaccine while still not recommending ivermectin.
	Or hydroxychloroquine and zinc for COVID? You know how little joy it brings me to tell you that our institutions have all been corrupted?
	Yesterday I showed you the CIA ad.
	Do you have any faith that the CIA is competent after seeing the ad for the type of person that they want?
	Any at all?
	If you...
	Read everything I wrote.
	There are a thousand articles and ten books out there.
	A thousand articles.
	Ten books.
	35 years of broadcasting.
	I never said the CIA was incompetent and corrupt, or the FBI was incompetent and corrupt, or the FDA was incompetent and corrupt.
	It never even occurred to me.
	This has been a year of clarity.
	And not a happy year at that.
	They're all corrupt.
	The FBI on top has been corrupted.
	They're attacks on opponents of the Democrats.
	They are an arm of the government like the Stasi in East Germany.
	That's what the FBI has become.
	There are great individual agents, there are great individual doctors, there are great individual CI agents, but they work for corrupt companies because the left is in control.
	YouTube took down the video of doctors telling people that they could save their lives with ivermectin.
	YouTube is killing human beings.
	Along with the medical profession.
	That brought a charge, continued the Chicago Tribune article, that brought a charge of censorship from Senator Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican who was on the panel.
	YouTube did not respond to a request for comment.
	Get that?
	I told you, that's all.
	They never respond.
	Elmhurst Hospital didn't respond.
	YouTube didn't respond.
	Dr. Corey said ivermectin has proven its worth.
	He has treated upward of 200 COVID-19 patients with the drug and seen dramatic results, he said.
	And colleagues around the world have reported similar findings.
	And the article ends.
	Clinical trials involving the medication are underway.
	And in court papers, the hospital said the judge's decision to order the use of ivermectin was hurried and unfair.
	Oh, my God.
	But the judge said, given Fipe's condition, his decision had to be speedy.
	And the article ends with a quote from the judge.
	If I wait for an evidentiary hearing, she might not be around.
	Is that like one of the great quotes?
	That's up there with give me liberty or give me death.
	If I wait for the hearing, she'll be dead.
	That's okay with the FDA. That's okay with Elmhurst Hospital.
	We have produced non-thinking robots in the medical profession.
	FDA. FDA. Non-thinking Americans.
	That's what you're taught.
	You do not have the right to question experts.
	This is inculcated in Americans, has been, it was from my age.
	Experts are gods.
	You are not an expert.
	Your opinion is useless.
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	Remember when the Obama administration came into Ferguson and accused the Ferguson Police Department of institutional racism?
	Principal finding, Ferguson is 67% black, but 85% of the traffic stops are of black people.
	An 18-point gap.
	Ergo, systemic racism.
	And the Ferguson PD only had, out of 50 officers, about 3 or 4 black.
	Now, New York City is 25% black, right?
	What percentage of the traffic stops are black people?
	55%.
	That's a 30-point gap.
	But the NYPD is majority minority.
	So how is it that this NYPD police force, this majority minority, has a bigger gap between the percentage of blacks in the city and the percentage of blacks who are those who are pulled over in traffic stops, a bigger gap with a racially diverse PD? But the Obama administration didn't accuse the NYPD of systemic racism.
	But the Ferguson PD that has a smaller gap, 18 point, with an almost all-white police department, is systemically racist.
	So we're always going to be racist.
	Kamal Bell says, I believe America is racist because it was founded on racism and is still run on racism.
	Was it run on racism when Obama was president?
	And did it go back to racism when Trump became president?
	of the 700 counties that voted for Obama twice, 2008, 2012, 200 of them switched to vote for Trump in 2016.
	Now, when did they become racist?
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	When President Biden said January 6th was the worst threat to democracy since the Civil War, that is a crazy statement.
	It is an ahistorical crazy statement that ignores 9-11.
	What did you make of that?
	What is your old colleague Joe Biden up to?
	Oh, I tell you, Hugh, I'm still trying to process.
	What I heard last night and thinking about what was once the far-left fringe of the Democrat Party is truly now front and center.
	The Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC ideology, that's now in charge.
	It was breathtaking.
	$6 trillion, Hugh, in new spending proposals.
	These are just massive spending increases.
	Of course, the higher taxes, doubling cap gains rates, more gun control, free preschool and community college, the Green New Deal.
	Hugh, I mean, I thought to myself, this is making – this is making – This show is now available on live video streaming on Town Hall TV as well as our website.
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	The story I just read to you from the Chicago Tribune is up at dennisprager.com.
	Thank you.
	I hope some of you in Chicago get this to Elmhurst Hospital.
	Tell them the contempt that they have engendered in half the country.
	Utter contempt.
	I believe that they are helping to kill a patient.
	Can't get stronger than that, can you?
	The Ethics Committee.
	That's the most depressing part of the article.
	Let's have an evidentiary hearing, as the judge said.
	She'll be dead by then.
	That's okay, we followed the FDA! There was nothing scarier to me than non-thinking followers.
	That's what the left has produced.
	In medicine, in law, in academia, everywhere.
	It's not the country I grew up in.
	Let's see here.
	Now, how come I don't see...
	Isn't that weird?
	I don't see any names on the thing.
	Everything is...
	Do you see names on the...
	Oh, I see why.
	I made a boo-boo.
	Setting it up.
	I got it now.
	Okay, we're good.
	All right, let's see here.
	Robin in Thousand Oaks, California.
	Son is a student at a UC campus, University of California.
	Not allowed to mandate vaccine as FDA approved.
	Is FDA approved for emergency use only?
	So that's what's going to happen.
	The FDA is going to rush approval.
	It should always take years.
	It won't in this case.
	But if you have cancer and there's a possible cancer drug, they'll take five years.
	But to rush a vaccine that is politically correct, they'll take a year and a half.
	It's corrupt.
	The whole thing's corrupt.
	Bud in Plainsville, Illinois, ex-police officer could tell from the juvenile's parents' attitude the child needed police discipline or not.
	Correct.
	Let's see.
	Oh, my God.
	Kathy in Calumet City, Illinois.
	Are you familiar with...
	Calumet, because you're from there.
	I mean, from Chicago.
	Had pneumonia and COVID, her doctor saved her life with ivermectin.
	That's right, Kathy.
	You should be picketing in front of the Elmhurst Hospital.
	I'm alive, thanks to ivermectin.
	They're killing, and then fill in this woman's name.
	Johanna in Anaheim, California.
	Doctors are afraid of lawsuits and of losing their license, so they're extra cautious.
	Really?
	If a doctor prescribed ivermectin, he's afraid of losing his license?
	I don't believe that.
	Not that you're not telling the truth.
	I believe he might be afraid, but I don't believe that he'd lose his license.
	cowardice in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
	This is Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com for Town Hall.
	Why would a high-ranking American diplomat alert an Iranian government official about Israeli covert actions?
	In a leaked recording between Mohammad Javad Zarif and a political ally, the foreign minister revealed that John Kerry personally informed him that Israel was behind over 200 attacks on its military forces and proxies in Syria.
	Zarif professed astonishment at Kerry's tip-off.
	No doubt the Israelis are astonished at this as well, and all Americans should feel the same way.
	After years of unfounded accusations about Republican collusion with Russia, we now hear of a prominent member of two Democratic administrations sharing intelligence about our allies' covert operations with a regime that regularly holds "Death to America" rally The Biden administration needs to explain Kerry's actions immediately, especially while pursuing pointless negotiations with the puppet government in Tehran.
	I'm Ed Morrissey.
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
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	For the hot new summer blockbuster, he and his dazzling co-star, Kamala.
	Thank you.
	His use of voice modulation was rather extraordinary given the television era.
	And it served as cover at times for...
	Unspooling an ambition in this speech that was Rooseveltian in size and scope.
	It's really beautiful.
	I mean, it was beautiful.
	He's developing a kind of positive populism.
	He also talked about the soul of America, and that was so passionate when he talked about the injustice, the knee of injustice is on the neck of black America.
	His connections to the people in this room, I'm not even sure if all of them are deserving.
	Every single sentence had a very clear point to it, and every line of it had that Biden humility in it.
	He's really trying to bring the country together.
	It was a make America feel good night.
	Wait a second.
	Wasn't that the President of the United States talking?
	No, that's what you thought.
	In fact, it was Jesus in aviator glasses.
	What Joe Biden said last night was beautiful, beautiful.
	It was intimate, grandfatherly, indeed Rooseveltian.
	So there's a good litmus test with that kind of commentary.
	Anybody who tells you that Tucker isn't fantastic and you shouldn't be watching Tucker Carlson, don't trust them.
	Because they ain't one of us.
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	music And we haven't had inflation in so long.
	You're not old enough to have bought a house at 12.5% or 13% 30-year interest like I did when my wife and I bought our first house in 1985. But it is not a good thing.
	Inflation is a destroyer of lives.
	Well, there's a number of compounding factors here as well.
	Not only all the money is being printed, but if you look at the CPI numbers that came out in February, half of the inflationary pressures were energy-related.
	And so when you combine the massive spending...
	Plus, the Green New Deal that's going to put pressure here on oil, natural gas, just energy prices in general.
	This used to be comparative advantage for us here to beat China long-term because of our energy independence.
	He is moving us down the path.
	You and I remember 1973, dependencies on the Middle East, War of Yom Kippur, oil prices quadruple, a 30-year fixed mortgage, Hugh, in 1981, right when Reagan got on board, was 18.6%.
	And we have a generation that does not understand what happens with inflation and interest rates and how that absolutely destroys an economy, frankly, destroys families.
	When you look at your colleagues in the Senate dining room, and I've had lunch up there before, and I know you folks all get together and get along fine, and they're Bible studies, and everybody's a human being, and nobody wants to screw up.
	Honestly, do they not get that?
	Do they not understand what they're unleashing on this country?
	And it will destroy poor people.
	It's poor people and old people on fixed incomes especially who are crushed by inflation.
	It worked your whole life to be 80 years old with a pension and happy, and all of a sudden you cannot buy food.
	What Biden is doing and the left is absolutely an attack on the working class of this country.
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	This is why we're fighting for the soul of America.
	Music.
	You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
	You are not to be heard.
	This is one of the few things we have no precedent for in the United States.
	You have the right to remain silent.
	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I did.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	We know exactly what's going on here.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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	The lockdowns actually have...
	The opposite of the intended purpose.
	So wouldn't it be better to have restaurants go every other table, outdoor dining, and trust the business owners to be able to handle this appropriately?
	And Ron DeSantis said yes.
	When there is no vision, the people perish.
	That's actually a proverb.
	And many of these other states had no vision at all whatsoever, no leadership.
	I'm going to say something very provocative that I know is going to get written up on all the Media Matters websites because it's true.
	Ron DeSantis is more of a president of this nation than Joe Biden.
	Ron DeSantis has led the nation in reopening.
	This is why, and we were just talking about this last night, we are far surpassing all these economic projections because the reopening is happening quicker than people could have possibly imagined.
	It's because of one man, and I'm not discounting the other states that Opened alongside of it.
	But I want you to put yourself in Ron DeSantis' shoes.
	Florida's a battleground state.
	Florida's a state that had a lot of consequential congressional races.
	There was pressure on Ron DeSantis.
	Hey, are you going to bring home Florida for Trump?
	Hello, everybody.
	It is an honor.
	And I don't say that often.
	Especially now, I don't even want to add.
	Especially when it's someone in the world of politics.
	But it's actually incorrect.
	It doesn't matter what world it is.
	Gutsy people are rare in every profession.
	In this case, it is the senator from the state of Missouri, Senator Josh Hawley.
	And Senator Josh Hawley has written this book, which I am delighted to tell you is one of the best-selling books in the United States, and we will make it even better.
	The Tyranny of Big Tech.
	Senator Hawley, you, sir, have courage.
	The rarest of all the good traits.
	Well, thank you so much, Dennis.
	I appreciate that.
	That's kind of what you say.
	Well, it's accurate, and I don't know the origins of courage.
	It's a dilemma to me.
	I try to figure it out.
	In any event, just tell everybody quickly what happened with Simon& Schuster.
	Well, they were the original publishers of this book.
	They're the ones that initially signed it up, commissioned it.
	And then back in January, they canceled it.
	They bowed to the woke mob, a Twitter mob that started a petition to get me deplatformed to have the book canceled.
	And Simon& Schuster gave in to them.
	I read about it in a press release.
	They didn't even alert me personally.
	I just read about it in a press release.
	They said, you know, we're going to cancel this book.
	We don't think that Holly ought to be able to publish this with us anymore.
	They basically accused me of inciting a riot at the Capitol, which is totally false.
	And they know it's false, by the way, but they didn't have the guts to stand up to the mob.
	In fact, they kind of became part of the woke mob.
	Here's my view on that, on cancel culture, is I refuse to go along with it, Dennis.
	I refuse to bow down to it.
	I refuse to be co-opted by it.
	I refuse to cooperate with it.
	And so I'm delighted this book found another publisher, and now people can read it for themselves.
	Well, it's doing magnificently.
	And by the way, just for the record, we share publishers, Regnery.
	And your book is doing great.
	The assault on free speech is unprecedented in American history.
	Is that fair to say?
	I think it is fair to say.
	Absolutely.
	And I suppose you can look back to, in our early days, the Alien and Sedition Act, where you had the government try to criminalize a certain amount of dissent, which, by the way, is what the Democrats would like to do today.
	If they could pass legislation like that today, they absolutely would.
	But what they've figured out is they can use the tech companies to do the same thing and not have to pass any laws at all and not have to survive First Amendment scrutiny, and that's why big tech is so dangerous.
	That's exactly right.
	That's also unprecedented.
	I testified at the Senate because Prager University was sort of the first well-known censored item on big tech, so your colleague Senator Cruz invited me to testify.
	And they asked the representative of Google, which runs YouTube, why did you take down Mr. Prager's video on the Ten Commandments?
	Senator, if I left you in a room alone for a week and told you you can't come out until you figured out what Google answered, you would not get the answer.
	So I will tell you, you could actually watch it, believe it or not.
	This is on YouTube.
	When I testified there.
	So Senator Cruz goes to the man and says, why did you take down Mr. Prager's video on the Ten Commandments?
	And his answer was, because it mentioned murder.
	That sounds about right for big tech.
	That's about their level of historical and biblical literacy.
	Right.
	Exactly right.
	Well, the $64,000 question is, what can be done?
	Did I lose the senator?
	I'm sorry.
	I've got you now.
	You said the $64,000 question.
	Is, what can be done?
	Well, I think what we've got to do is we have to break them up.
	Dennis, we've seen this before in our history in terms of companies becoming monopolies and trying to exert political power.
	We've never seen, as we were just talking about, companies with this size and this amount of power before.
	This is truly new.
	But we know what the solutions are.
	The solution is to break up monopoly power, to make sure that these monopolies can't exercise political control.
	And that's what we have to do.
	We have to put the people back in control of their own speech, of their own lives, of their own data, personal property.
	So I think we have to break them up.
	And we've also got to give people the right to sue.
	You know, for instance, take you and your platform.
	I think if these big tech companies, if they come and try to de-platform you or anyone else on the basis of political viewpoint, violating their own terms of service, you ought to be able to go to court.
	So give people the right to go to court and break these companies up.
	So does that involve repealing Section 230?
	It does.
	I think Section 230 right now prohibits lawsuits like that.
	It basically immunizes these tech companies, as you know from personal experience, in just about every circumstance that matters.
	And so my view is we've got to change that law, which was never meant, by the way, to protect these companies.
	Section 230 is a law passed in the mid-'90s.
	There was no Facebook.
	There was no Google.
	Now these dominant platforms are using 230, these monopolies using 230. To amass power and to protect it.
	So we've got to give people the right to sue.
	We've got to change 230 to do that.
	But we've got to go further.
	I think that alone isn't enough.
	We've got to pair that with trust-busting that will actually go in there and break these companies up and get some real competition back into our marketplace.
	Well, do you have any support among colleagues?
	You know, I think that Republicans are increasingly coming to understand, Republican senators and representatives are increasingly coming to understand the major threat big tech poses.
	I don't know how you couldn't understand it after the last year, when they tried to interfere in a presidential election, when they deplatformed the sitting president of the United States, Donald Trump, back in January, when they're trying to censor our speech now.
	I mean, it's just, it's absolutely unbelievable.
	Now, will the Democrats, however, be willing?
	To actually do something that meaningfully challenges Big Tech's authority, I'm skeptical.
	I think the Democrats have fallen in love with the monopoly power of Big Tech for the reasons we were talking about.
	They can use it to censor speech and not be accountable to the First Amendment.
	So I think that the Democrats have a tough choice to make.
	They talk a lot about getting tough on monopolies, but will they actually do something about it, about these woke corporations?
	We'll see, but I think we've got to put them to it.
	How do you put them to it?
	Well, I've introduced legislation that would break the companies up, and I call it the Bust Up Big Tech Act, and it's right there in print, and it's right there in the form of a law.
	And so I've challenged colleagues on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats, join me in this effort.
	If you're serious about doing something, join me in this effort.
	I've also introduced legislation to give people the right to sue, to make those terms of service enforceable so that if they violate their contract with you, you can sue them.
	And I've issued the same challenge.
	If you're serious, Let's pass this.
	Join me in it.
	So far, I have to tell you, not very many takers.
	I think folks in Washington, they like to talk about this problem, but they don't really want to yet do anything about this problem.
	So why would a Republican be hesitant?
	Oh, well, two things, I think.
	For some folks, they're hesitant to take on companies that they think that constitutes intervention in the market.
	You know, well, we're intervening in the free market.
	My response to that is, listen.
	Right now, these monopolies are destroying the free market.
	I mean, we need to revive our free market.
	We need more competition to make the market truly free.
	The problem with monopoly power is it kills competition, and it kills the free and fair operation of the market.
	I think the other thing, though, Dennis, is frankly, there's a lot of influence that big tech has purchased.
	They have fleets of lobbyists.
	They've got influence with think tanks, with academics, and they've used a lot of that to try and influence Republicans and to tell them that, you know, you've got to leave big tech alone, you've got to stay away from this issue.
	And I think that's had an effect, and we've got to push back on that and really highlight the dangers this monopoly power poses to free speech and democracy.
	They even take down doctors.
	That's right.
	All the time.
	And if you don't tell the party line on any issue, whether that's about COVID-19, whether that's about other medical issues, whether that's about election integrity, religious liberty, then you're at their mercy.
	And again, if you don't like a decision that they make, they deplatformed you and you don't like the decision, tough luck.
	Nothing you could do about it.
	You know, Facebook says, oh, you can appeal to our board.
	What we saw earlier this week, yesterday, the Facebook board is just Facebook.
	They're just there to bless what Facebook does.
	The Facebook board.
	Exactly.
	It's just laughable.
	We've got to give people some real power.
	Well, I cannot endorse your book highly enough, The Tyranny of Big Tech by Senator Josh Hawley.
	It is, of course, up at DennisPrager.com.
	Senator, it's very important work you're doing.
	And I assume it's somewhat of a lonely battle.
	I hope when you go home to Missouri, you get reinforced emotionally to do the battle.
	I do.
	It is a privilege to represent the state of Missouri, and it's a privilege to have the support of the people of Missouri.
	And my view is, Dennis, they can say whatever they want about me in Washington, D.C. I'm going to keep on representing the views of my constituents and fighting for their needs no matter what.
	All I can say is thank you.
	Senator Josh Hawley, the book, The Tyranny of Big Tech.
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	For the hot new summer blockbuster, he and his dazzling co-star, Kamala.
	Thank you.
	His use of voice modulation was rather extraordinary given the television era.
	And it served as cover at times for unspooling an ambition in this speech that was Rooseveltian in size and scope.
	It's really beautiful.
	I mean, it was beautiful.
	He's developing a kind of positive populism.
	He also talked about the soul of America, and that was so passionate when he talked about the injustice, the knee of injustice is on the neck of black America.
	His connections to the people in this room, I'm not even sure if all of them are deserving of them, but he does not care.
	He gives to them the benefit of the doubt.
	And his voice, that kind of grandfatherly, whispery voice, It actually wasn't a big raucous crowd.
	Let that intimacy really land.
	Every single sentence had a very clear point to it, and every line of it had that Biden humility in it.
	He's really trying to bring the country together.
	It was a make America feel good night.
	Wait a second.
	Was that the president of the United States talking?
	No, that's what you thought.
	In fact, it was Jesus in aviator glasses.
	What Joe Biden said last night was beautiful, beautiful.
	It was intimate, grandfatherly, indeed Rooseveltian.
	So there's a good litmus test with that kind of commentary.
	Anybody who tells you that Tucker isn't fantastic and you shouldn't be watching Tucker Carlson, don't trust them.
	Because they ain't one of us.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	And we haven't had inflation in so long.
	You're not old enough to have bought a house at 12.5% or 13% 30-year interest like I did when my wife and I bought our first house in 1985. But it is not a good thing.
	Inflation is a destroyer of lives.
	Well, there's a number of compounding factors here as well.
	Not only all the money is being printed, but you look at the CPI numbers that came out in February.
	And so when you combine the massive spending plus the Green New Deal that's going to put pressure here on oil, natural gas, just energy prices in general, this used to be comparative advantage for us here to beat China long-term because of our energy independence.
	He is moving us down the path.
	You and I remember 1973, dependencies on the Middle East, War of Yom Kippur, oil prices quadruple.
	A 30-year fixed mortgage, Hugh, in 1981, right when Reagan got on board, was 18.6%.
	And we have a generation that does not understand what happens with inflation and interest rates and how that absolutely destroys an economy, frankly, destroys families.
	When you look at your colleagues in the Senate dining room, and I've had lunch up there before, and I know you folks all get together and get along fine, and they're Bible studies, and everybody's a human being, and nobody wants to screw up.
	Honestly, do they not get that?
	Do they not understand what they're unleashing on this country?
	And it will destroy poor people.
	It's poor people and old people on fixed incomes, especially, who are crushed by inflation.
	It worked your whole life to be 80 years old with a pension and happy, and all of a sudden you cannot buy food.
	What Biden is doing and the left is absolutely an attack on the working class of this country.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	got a question for you guys.
	Bob, I love this bumper, so I just want to make that clear.
	How often do we change?
	We used to change more often, didn't we?
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	And my friends, listen to this news story from The Guardian.
	What is today's date?
	This is The Guardian, May 5th.
	Trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard set to make history at Tokyo Olympics.
	Did you see this article?
	The transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard...
	was effectively guaranteed a place in the women's super heavyweight category.
	While the 43-year-old has not yet been named in the New Zealand team, an International Weightlifting Federation insider confirmed to The Guardian that she would automatically qualify because of amended rules approved by the International Olympic Committee.
	It means Hubbard, who won silver at the 2017 World Championships and was sixth after an injury in 2019, is almost certain to become the first transgender athlete to compete at an Olympics.
	Would you say that Laurel Hubbard has an advantage being biologically male in lifting weights?
	Uh, yeah.
	We're living, we competed as a man until 2012 and did not win.
	There is a way to win for a man in these sports.
	Become a woman.
	But if you say it's not fair to biological women, you're called transphobic.
	Because the left doesn't debate, they smear.
	I'm so used to it, it means nothing to me.
	But you should at least know their tactic.
	If you told an eight-year-old, you know, a man said he was a woman and started lifting weights against other women.
	Is that fair?
	Little...
	I was going to say Tommy, but there are no more Tommies, right?
	Little...
	Give me a name.
	What's a typical name of an eight-year-old boy today?
	Or girl, but boy.
	Your name isn't right.
	Alan is dying, isn't it?
	Dennis is dead.
	I don't know why.
	It's a great name.
	I don't know why Alan is.
	Maybe D. Alan.
	Hudson.
	Ezra?
	Wait.
	Thomas is 47. Did you say Ezra?
	Why'd you give me the 48th?
	I asked for the most common.
	Jackson.
	There you go.
	Hey, little Jackson, come over here.
	That's what I call my grandson.
	His name is Jack.
	I call him Jackson.
	Liam is number one.
	Okay, Liam, do you think it's fair if a man says he's a woman and then competes against women?
	But that's a transphobic question.
	Didn't they cancel the Harry Potter, the whole Harry Potter convention?
	Because the author has said exactly what I'm saying now?
	It's just not fair?
	An event, okay.
	For that reason, yeah.
	So...
	You think it's fair that this person can compete?
	A number of scientific papers have recently shown people who have undergone male puberty retain significant advantages.
	I can't believe the Guardian is even acknowledging this.
	In power and strength, even after taking medication to suppress their testosterone levels.
	Hubbard lived as a male for 35 years.
	And did not compete in international weightlifting.
	But since transitioning in 2012, she has won several elite titles.
	So did not compete until 2012. Wow.
	Everything is upside down.
	Started with the upside down kiss.
	Vice President of the United States and the second gentleman kissing outdoors, though vaccinated, and outdoors through masks.
	And half this country finds that impressive.
	That is depressing.
	That a Democrat would act so moronically is not surprising.
	That half the country would admire what they did.
	There's a reason for a very deep concern about the future of the society.
	Everyone's reaction should be, these people are fools.
	We are governed by fools.
	Is that about this?
	Well, Book Festival cancels Harry Potter segments citing J.K. Rowling's comments on gender.
	Hey, New Zealand.
	Well, New Zealand is into it.
	All the English language countries are.
	Did you know that?
	We are to the left.
	We, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, the United States, UK, are to the left of the rest of the world, of France, of Germany.
	A New Zealand book festival canceled a Harry Potter themed quiz.
	Due to J.K. Rowling's seemingly transphobic remarks.
	There you go.
	Alright.
	1-8 Prager 776 is the number.
	I had a high the other day.
	Two days ago, I did a Zoom call with a couple of hundred.
	Members of Prager Force from all over the country.
	That's inspiring.
	We should put that up.
	They all just asked me spontaneous questions.
	I spontaneously answered.
	We'll be back.
	The Tennis Breaker Show.
	Live from the Reefactor Pain Free Studio.
	Turning now on the Charlie Kirk Show.
	The lockdowns actually have the opposite of the intended purpose.
	So wouldn't it be better to have restaurants go every other table, outdoor dining, and trust the business owners to be able to handle this appropriately?
	And Ron DeSantis said yes.
	When there is no vision, the people perish.
	That's actually a proverb.
	And many of these other states had no vision at all whatsoever, no leadership.
	I'm going to say something very provocative that I know is going to get written up on all the Media Matters websites because it's true.
	Ron DeSantis is more of a president of this nation than Joe Biden.
	Ron DeSantis, I think our...
	Thank you.
	Ron DeSantis has led the nation in reopening.
	This is why, and we were just talking about this last night, we are far surpassing all these economic projections because the reopening is happening quicker than people could have possibly imagined.
	It's because of one man, and I'm not discounting the other states that Opened alongside of it.
	But I want you to put yourself in Ron DeSantis' shoes.
	Florida's a battleground state.
	Florida's a state that had a lot of consequential congressional races.
	There was pressure on Ron DeSantis.
	Hey, are you going to bring home Florida for Trump?
	Now, by the way, Governor Ducey, as we're here live on AM 960 The Answer in Arizona, and Governor Kemp in Georgia, they didn't deliver Georgia and Arizona for Trump.
	In fact, they didn't deliver one Republican Senate seat for Republicans.
	Ron DeSantis had a lot of pressure.
	And he could have done the safe and easy thing.
	So that Ron DeSantis said, we are reopening, and he got rewarded for that.
	Trump won by 400,000 votes in Florida, more than any other Republican in recent memory.
	Maybe people right now are waiting for bold and courageous leadership, not just milk toast, vanilla pandering.
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	Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
	We can continue to have faith and keep hoping that things are going to work out and that somewhere there's an all-seeing apparatus that will do right is the wrong approach.
	But it's not.
	No one's saying just sit around and have faith and hope things work out.
	We have to be engaged.
	There's no question, Jacob.
	But there's no either or.
	You can't sit on the sidelines anymore, Jacob.
	You've got to be involved.
	And incidentally, I'm honored to have you listening to the show.
	And I appreciate very much your kind and supportive words.
	I don't mean just sit around and just hope good things happen.
	You've got to be sure that you're engaged in a voting registration process.
	You've got to campaign for politicians.
	You've got to volunteer at your local Republican headquarters.
	There's lots you can do.
	Jacob, I'm glad you called.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on The Larry Alder Show.
	Remember when the Obama administration came into Ferguson and accused the Ferguson Police Department of institutional racism?
	Principal finding, Ferguson is 67% black, but 85% of the traffic stops are of black people.
	An 18-point gap.
	Ergo, systemic racism.
	And the Ferguson PD only had, out of 50 officers, about 3 or 4 black.
	Now...
	New York City is 25% black, right?
	What percentage of the traffic stops are black people?
	55%.
	That's a 30-point gap.
	But the NYPD is majority-minority.
	So how is it that this NYPD police force, this majority-minority, has a bigger gap between the percentage of blacks in the city and the percentage of blacks who are those who are pulled over in traffic stops?
	With a racially diverse PD, but the Obama administration didn't accuse the NYPD of systemic racism.
	But the Ferguson PD that has a smaller gap, 18 point, with an almost all-white police department, is systemically racist.
	So we're always going to be racist.
	Kamal Bell says, I believe America is racist because it was founded on racism and is still run on racism.
	Was it run on racism when Obama was president?
	And did it go back to racism when Trump became president?
	Of the 700 counties that voted for Obama twice, 2008, 2012. I was telling you about how much encouragement I get.
	In 2016. Now, when did they become racist?
	And I did get from the Prager Force people.
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	Between high school and college students.
	And a couple of hundred were on a Zoom poll with me.
	I'm just telling you this.
	I want you to know there's hope.
	I'd have on the line one of my favorite people in America.
	Oh, I tell you.
	Adam Carolla.
	I'm still trying to process what I heard last night.
	And thinking about what was once...
	Adam is doing this week's PragerU video.
	Adam is the only person who does a PragerU video, you'll correct me if I'm wrong, without a script.
	That is true.
	You would be exceedingly uncomfortable with a script, right?
	You know, I didn't learn to read at a young age, and I did carry that all the way through my adulthood.
	And so the notion of reading something from a script or a teleprompter is much more intimidating to me than improvising or having beats or having thoughts and notions.
	So for a lot of people, it feels like a security blanket is all loaded up into the teleprompter.
	But for me, it feels like a liability because I'm not good at reading and I'm not good at reading out loud.
	I should have stayed in construction.
	Clearly in what the president shared last night.
	Anyway, it works.
	I don't give a hoot, frankly.
	I can only tell you that it works.
	It's about...
	It's about white privilege.
	And you are a perfect example of a non-privileged youth.
	Forgive me for putting you on for you to hear you.
	But here I have an excerpt from Out of the World.
	oldest video from PragerU out this week. Trending now on the Eric Metaxas show. Thank you.
	I think many people on the far left today think teaching civics is a way of enshrining colonialism and slavery and talking about...
	But you understand, this is what I'm talking about.
	The Upper West Side of Manhattan has taken over the culture.
	And, you know, I don't say that.
	I'm not speaking as an anti-Semite or as a hater of liberals, but I mean there's a worldview.
	You know, the red diaper babies.
	That worldview, bizarrely, has gained purchase in the culture so that everybody thinks it's normal when you think of America to think that Columbus was a genocidal maniac and on and on and on.
	In other words, if you look at the roots of these ideas, the seeds of these ideas, it's fundamentally anti-American.
	It's anti the views of the founders.
	It demonizes the founders.
	It's kind of a Howard Zinn But the answer to how it's in and the answer to Noam Chomsky is to look at immigration figures, and liberals tell us that themselves.
	Everybody wants to come to America, and it's not only because of economic opportunities in this country, which, by the way, are tied into our legal system, but it's because we're a great, great country.
	Nobody wants to go to Cuba.
	Nobody wants to go to Russia.
	We are still the most popular country in terms of immigration in the world and will continue to be so.
	People vote with their feet and all the votes point in the direction of people wanting to come to America.
	Everyone wants to come here because whatever we have...
	Profiling me.
	Let me give you another example of the white privilege I'm talking about.
	The privilege of not obsessing over stuff.
	Do you think, oh, I said it well, given that I had no script, or, wow, I wish I had to put it in another way.
	You know, I always critique myself fairly harshly, but the way I do the videos for PragerU...
	You know, Alan will sort of shout something out and I'll just sort of roll on it.
	So I don't have any record of how I would have said it because I just say it in the moment.
	And you guys always do such a great job of putting the whole thing together that I'm always pleased with the outcome.
	Well, a lot more pleased than we are.
	What is the story with this gentleman?
	Okay, really?
	I'm confused on the timing, gentlemen.
	I'm sorry, Adam.
	All right, Adam, I'm going to come back to you in a moment.
	I've got to take a break.
	You're well aware of those things.
	Adam Carolla's video is up.
	God, show it to kids.
	I mean, it is so good.
	It's funny and powerful.
	The greatest privilege is knowing nobody is going to show you any favors.
	That is brilliant.
	Trending now.
	ReliefFactor.com.
	Trending now on the Mike Deliger Show.
	One of the greatest products that I have ever endorsed.
	Because it's so effective in relieving people of pain.
	...in their joints or in their muscles.
	You try it for three weeks.
	It doesn't work.
	They say it won't work.
	So you're low in three weeks.
	You cancel the order after three weeks.
	A lot of you paid $20 in shipping.
	It's at relieffactor.com where you can read all these testimonials.
	And it is available as well by phone.
	800-583-84.
	We also talked.
	Trending now on the Mike Deliger Show.
	For the hot new summer blockbuster, he and his dazzling co-star, Kamala.
	His use of voice modulation was rather extraordinary given the television era.
	And it served as cover at times for...
	Unspooling an ambition in this speech that was Rooseveltian in size and scope.
	It's really beautiful.
	I mean, it was beautiful.
	He's developing a kind of positive populism.
	He also talked about the soul of America, and that was so passionate when he talked about the injustice, the knee of injustice is on the neck of black America.
	His connections to the people in this room, I'm not even sure if all of them are deserving of them, but he does not care.
	He gives to them the benefit of the doubt.
	And his voice, that kind of grandfatherly, whispery voice, and the fact that it actually wasn't a big raucous crowd, let that intimacy really land.
	Every single sentence had a very clear point to it, and every line of it had that Biden humility in it.
	He's really trying to bring the country together.
	It was a make America feel good night.
	Wait a second.
	Was that the president of the United States talking?
	No, that's what you thought.
	In fact, it was Jesus in aviator glasses.
	What Joe Biden said last night was beautiful, beautiful.
	It was intimate, grandfatherly, indeed Rooseveltian.
	So there's a good litmus test with that kind of commentary.
	Anybody who tells you that Tucker isn't fantastic and you shouldn't be watching Tucker Carlson, don't trust them.
	Because they ain't one of us.
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	Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
	We haven't had inflation in so long.
	You're not old enough to have bought a house at 12.5% or 13% 30-year interest like I did when my wife and I bought our first house in 1985.
	but it is not a good thing.
	Inflation is a destroyer of lives.
	Well, there's a number of compounding factors here as well.
	Not only all the money is being printed, but if you look at the CPI numbers that came out in February, half of the inflationary pressures were energy-related.
	And so when you combine the massive spending...
	Plus, the Green New Deal that's going to put pressure here on oil, natural gas, just energy prices in general.
	This used to be comparative advantage for us here to beat China long-term because of our energy independence.
	He is moving us down the path.
	You and I remember 1973, dependencies on the Middle East, War of Yom Kippur, oil prices quadruple, a 30-year fixed mortgage, Hugh, in 1981, right when Reagan got on board, was 18.6%.
	And we have a generation that does not understand what happens with inflation and interest rates and how that absolutely destroys an economy, frankly, destroys families.
	And there are times when I think I should pay to do my work.
	When I'm on with Adam Carole, it's in the latter category.
	This is just so much fun.
	Adam Carole is doing this week's video at PragerU.
	Adam, I heard you visited my home when I wasn't there.
	- Yeah, I ate all your nil away for you. - Worked your whole life to be 80 years old with a pension and happy, and all of a sudden-- - Yes, that's how I knew.
	I said, oh, Adam Krohler's here.
	So, I don't know, should I be insulted?
	Like, you've almost never come over, and then I'm out of town, and you come over.
	Well, your son is, stepson, invited me and my son over to hang out, watch a movie, and, uh...
	You should be able to share ideas about fear of being fired from your job or shouted down.
	We just showed up.
	I was disappointed.
	I was hoping you were there and we could do it in your office and I could pet auto and inhale second-hand smoke, but alas, you weren't there.
	That is beautiful.
	Pet auto and inhale second-hand smoke.
	It doesn't get better than that on this planet.
	Let's be honest.
	That's heaven.
	By the way, I just want everybody to know, one of the great moments, you know, you are a genius, I'm an amateur, but nevertheless, I'm a good amateur, and I relive certain moments of life and then offer them to the public.
	When you put me on the phone with your son, who is a terrific kid, by the way, truly terrific kid.
	At a restaurant.
	Hey, Sonny!
	Got one of your favorite people here.
	Take a guess.
	And I was sort of his eighth guest.
	So wouldn't it be better to have restaurants at every other table, outdoor dining, and trust the business owners to be able to handle this appropriately?
	LeBron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Dennis Prager.
	What company?
	What company I'm in.
	Wait, does he know that LeBron James picked on the officer who saved the black girl's life?
	Yeah, he does.
	He's no longer a fan.
	God bless him.
	Hey, listen, did you see the CIA video?
	We are far surpassing all these economic projections.
	The recruitment video?
	Oh, yeah.
	Because of one man.
	Yeah, when you say CIA video, I'm so old school, I thought it was undercover surveillance video.
	Exactly.
	Florida is a state that has a lot of consequential congressional ratings.
	There's pressure on Ron DeSantis.
	Hey, are you going to bring home Florida for Trump?
	Yeah, I did see that video.
	I had to believe, when I saw it, my first thought was that somebody had paid the CIA on your behalf to manufacture that video.
	Ron DeSantis had a lot of pressure.
	It was farcical.
	I don't know if people from any other generation could even make sense of that.
	Maybe people right now are waiting for bold and courageous leadership.
	I played the entire video on my show yesterday.
	For those who don't know, this CIA made a recruitment video with a woman announcing that she was depressed and cisgender trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show.
	Yeah, now why exactly is that an effective recruitment video?
	Somewhere there's a...
	You know, I said...
	In the past, when it comes to the cancel culture, you know, when they got comedians to be silent.
	We have to be engaged.
	There's no question, Jacob.
	But there's no either or.
	You can't sit on the sidelines anymore, Jacob.
	You've got to be involved.
	Incidentally, I'm honored to have you listen to the show.
	And I appreciate very much your kind and supportive words.
	This is the CIA and the FBI. I mean, if you want to know how woke we are, you know, that used to take place on college campuses that used to happen for certain corporations.
	Jacob, I'm glad you called.
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	Globally woke this nation has become.
	That's right.
	I thought it was the worst advertisement, but the most accurate, perhaps, for what the CIA represents today.
	Are you back on the road?
	I am heading to Appleton, Wisconsin tomorrow to do four shows.
	And yes, I am generally back.
	Back on the road.
	I never left the road.
	I would just go do comedy shows at any state that was open.
	I've been to Florida multiple times.
	I've been to Texas multiple times.
	I've flown commercially multiple times to Nashville.
	I did not stop doing shows around the country.
	Only shows in Los Angeles last year.
	Oh, that's great.
	I know.
	Same thing here.
	I'm going to Cleveland this weekend.
	Remember we once ended up in the same city and didn't even realize it?
	It was just, you know, hitting a dartboard target?
	I think it was Cleveland.
	I think you were there to see the Philharmonic, and I was doing a show.
	Oh, that's right.
	That is one of them.
	I think there was also two shows.
	That doesn't matter.
	We've got to go back on the road because I treasure those evenings.
	Which, by the way, people can watch on the internet, I believe, until they take it down, Adam Carole and I, in dialogue.
	So you're going to Appleton for four shows.
	And does the audience sit there masked?
	No.
	No, out of all of the comedy shows, and as I've said, I've been to Florida three times, Texas three times, Nashville multiple times.
	I've been all over the country.
	Everyone is indoors and nobody is masked at any comedy show I've performed at over the last 16 months.
	I take it you have my reaction to the Vice President of the United States kissing her husband outdoors, both inoculated, with masks on.
	It's ridiculous theater.
	And it also shows a certain contempt for the American people.
	Like, how dumb do you think people are?
	Perfect.
	That's right.
	And what do you want them to believe?
	I mean, it really shows a lot of contempt in a weird way.
	It is a soft bigotry of low expectations.
	Yes, of the entire American people.
	Trending now on The Charlie Kirk Show.
	We started talking about how certain states have handled the Chinese coronavirus and the lockdowns alongside of it differently than others, which, by the way, is an attribute of the American system.
	It is a positive that we are able to have certain states handle this more maturely than others, and that we did not have a one-size-fits-all strategy straight from Dr. Fauci.
	It's a good thing that Dr. Fauci was giving recommendations and not orders.
	It's a very positive thing.
	I started to ask myself the question, I explored this last night and a little bit this morning, why is America reopening?
	Now, the obvious answer is it's because virus case rates are going down.
	We finally have the vaccine distributed.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Streaming on Salem Now.
	Most people don't believe that Jesus is coming back.
	What if there was evidence that proves that this is all real?
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	This discovery proves that he is coming back.
	The Republican Party and the Democratic Party have changed so dramatically.
	I mean, when you talk about the choice between a Nixon and a Humphrey or a McGovern, I don't think there's anything comparable today.
	The party has lurched so far left.
	I mean, Joe Biden is a husk.
	I don't know who is controlling the nation.
	But if Joe Biden...
	30 years ago were president, it would actually be a moderate Democrat.
	What we have now is so far left that I can't imagine that most Democrats who really understand what is going on would be for what's happening.
	Well, look, there was a vote the other day in the Senate and the Republicans tried to add an amendment saying that any university that discriminates in admissions against Asian Americans We'll use loose funding.
	Every single Democrat voted against that because it was seen as somehow anti-black.
	I don't understand how being for Asian Americans is anti-black, but every single American Democrat voted against that and it lost by one by one vote.
	How can you vote against a law that says you can't discriminate against Asian Americans?
	We have such a long history of discriminating against Asian Americans.
	There are now lawsuits involving Yale and Harvard and Princeton who are accused of discriminating in admission policy against Asians in order to raise the number of African Americans.
	They deny that there's a quota system.
	But if it ever, ever got below 13 percent, they'd be held to pay.
	That's not a quota.
	I don't know what it is.
	I call it a chart.
	A couple more words here with Adam Carolla.
	I want to remind everybody that Adam and I...
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	...with that verb, but I don't know what other verb works.
	Star in the movie No Safe Spaces, which is a terrific movie, truly terrific movie about free speech in America.
	That's at nosafespaces.com.
	We, unfortunately, we were pretty prophetic about these.
	threat to free speech in that film, more likely.
	- Yeah, we were. - It's hard to believe that the one thing all Americans agreed on, free speech, is now under such attack.
	So, I know that, uh, Look, obviously, I know you agree with that.
	But it's unprecedented.
	I wonder, what do you think, Mike?
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Do they think the country is in crisis?
	No, they don't think the country is in crisis because they are in a system that suggests that they're moving toward the light.
	It's always...
	You know, they live in Los Angeles, they go to a public school, and the implications are We're moving in the right direction.
	There's this constant sort of drumbeat of, we need to keep going in this direction.
	You know, the verdict was great for the George Floyd trial, but not enough.
	We haven't done enough yet.
	It's interesting.
	We used to celebrate Martin Luther King Day, but we don't really do that anymore.
	We just announced it's not enough.
	I like disagree with people.
	I like hearing people with different points of view.
	I don't mind the debate, but you gotta be, you gotta come at it with good faith.
	After the trial, after the George Floyd trial, that she wasn't happy, it wasn't enough.
	So, there's this constant sense of movement.
	Which has to be unsettling to people, because movement is unsettling.
	As a kid, if you have to move, or you have to switch schools, or you have to leave the state, that's very unsettling for people.
	We live in this country now where everything, it's a progressive movement, where everything needs to constantly move.
	And if you want to stay still and you like to say that existed before 10 minutes ago, then you're called either an older bigot or an old bigot.
	Older than 10 minutes ago.
	All right, good luck in Wisconsin, folks.
	Watch this video up at PragerU.
	See no safe spaces.
	And I'll see you soon.
	Whether I'm in my house or not, I'll see you soon.
	Thanks to my friends.
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	of us that are conservatives have hoped, I think it was a false hope, that at some point the left was going to stop.
	At some point they were going to say, you know what, maybe we've gone too far.
	No, this is just the beginning of their plans.
	This is just the very start of what they plan to do to our nation and to our country.
	And Donald Trump I think only accelerated a lot of their radicalism.
	You see, what they used to hide, what they used to pretend did not exist, they now lead with.
	They now say the private part out loud because they know the media will not hold them accountable.
	A great example of this is the Washington Post has now completely disbanded their fact-checking division.
	Who needs fact-checking when the Ministry of Truth has taken over the presidency?
	Where all they did was fact-check.
	Donald Trump's presidency.
	And most of those fact checks were basically critiques of nuance and context.
	They were not things that actually were necessary for massive front page fact checking.
	But they've disbanded their fact checking division because who needs to fact check Joe Biden?
	He's who they want to be put in place.
	But here's the thing that I think that we need to focus on the most, which is every single conservative in the country.
	And I'm just going to start doing this right after, you know, right after, let's say, late May, early June, which is every single conservative in the country needs to start showing up to these school board meetings.
	I think we have the tape here of this group of teachers that showed up, not teachers, this group of parents in Vail, Arizona.
	They just showed up to a random school board meeting and took over the school board.
	They fired the school board and they said, we're in charge now.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Larry Elder show.
	From colleges to corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress.
	at all.
	By doubling down on the divisions, we've worked so hard.
	To heal.
	You know this stuff is wrong.
	Hear me clearly.
	America is not a racist country.
	Okay, the man is being slammed for saying America is not a racist country.
	Kamu Bell says, you know, it depends on how you define racism.
	Here's how he defines racism.
	I define that as a country that is built on racism.
	So yes, I believe America is a racist country because it literally is built on and runs on racism.
	America is built on racism and runs on racism.
	It's sort of the petrol of America, the fuel of America.
	So his definition of racism is America was built on racism and is run on racism, whatever the hell that means.
	And the definition given by this gentleman in the Washington Post, Quote, it means that we have systems and institutions referring to systemic racism.
	It means we have systems and institutions that produce racially disparate outcomes regardless of the intentions of the people who work within them, end of quote.
	So if every cop is devoid of racism, but the cops pull over more blacks than they do whites, that's systemic racism.
	Even if the cops aren't racist.
	Because the outcomes are different.
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	This is Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com for Town Hall.
	Why would a high-ranking American diplomat alert an Iranian government official about Israeli covert actions?
	In a leaked recording between Mohammad Javad Zarif and a political ally, the foreign minister revealed that John Kerry personally informed him that Israel was behind over 200 attacks on its military forces and proxies in Syria.
	Zarif professed astonishment at Kerry's tip-off.
	No doubt the Israelis are astonished at this as well, and all Americans should feel the same way.
	After years of unfounded accusations about Republican collusion with Russia, we now hear of a prominent member of two Democratic administrations sharing intelligence about our allies' covert operations with a regime that regularly holds Death to America rallies in its capital.
	The Biden administration needs to explain Kerry's actions immediately, especially while pursuing pointless negotiations with the puppet government in Tehran.
	I'm Ed Morrissey.
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu.
	Trending now on The Mike Deleger Show.
	For the hot new summer blockbuster, he and his dazzling co-star, Kamala.
	His use of voice modulation was rather extraordinary given the television era.
	Thank you, bro.
	Thank you.
	I'm on a mission to make this book a national bestseller.
	It is already, but I want it to be number one.
	That's how important I think this book is.
	Unsettled.
	That's the title.
	Unsettled.
	The book just came out last week.
	What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters.
	Now, let me explain something.
	The author.
	Is the former Undersecretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Obama Administration.
	Top scientist on environment at the Obama Administration.
	Former professor at Caltech.
	Unsettled?
	So before we speak, let me just tell you a few of the things in this copiously...
	Footnoted book that I'll bet if you're well-educated you don't know.
	Heat waves in the United States are now no more common than they were in 1900. The warmest temperatures in the U.S. have not risen in the past 50 years.
	Humans have had no detectable impact on hurricanes over the past century.
	Greenland's ice sheet is not shrinking any more rapidly today.
	The net economic impact of human-induced climate change will be minimal through at least the end of the 21st century.
	Excuse me, we're in the 21st century.
	I added that in my words.
	I should have used his until the end of the century.
	A little more from his book.
	Tornado frequency and severity are not trending up.
	Nor are the number and severity of droughts.
	The extent of global fires has been trending significantly downward.
	The rate of sea level rise is not accelerated.
	Global crop yields are rising and not falling.
	The author of this book is a professor from Caltech, head of energy science in the Obama administration, Stephen Koonin.
	Stephen Koonin, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Pleasure to be talking with you, Dennis.
	Thank you kindly.
	How is your book doing?
	We're doing very well.
	It's in very high demand.
	Sold lots of copies, and people are really interested.
	I'm really quite pleased but surprised by the response.
	I mean, people, I think, are hungry for a factual, non-catastrophic description of what's going on with the climate system.
	So I have a question for you.
	I looked up your book.
	I looked up your name, actually.
	And obviously a lot of things came up.
	What I read from was the Wall Street Journal featured review.
	Was your book reviewed in the New York Times?
	No, it wasn't.
	And of course, my agent sent copies to them.
	Neither the Washington Post.
	No.
	It's been ignored.
	Have you been on the Today Show?
	No.
	I'd be happy to go talk to Al Roker, for example.
	I think that would be a wonderful conversation.
	Has anything known as mainstream, if you will, non-conservative media given your book attention?
	I did.
	Just one.
	We've been trying very hard to break the blue wall, if you like.
	Just one.
	I did a brief interview on Monday with Larry Mantle from an NPR station in Pasadena.
	I had known him from the time I was at Caltech, and we talked for 15 minutes about the book.
	And it was nationally broadcast on NPR? I don't know.
	I've not followed that.
	I think AirTalk is a national show.
	So other than 15 minutes on NPR, there has been this blue wall.
	Did you know there was a blue wall when you were in the Obama administration?
	No, I was not aware that there was...
	Really two different media worlds that don't cross one another.
	I mean, I've just discovered that in the last couple weeks.
	Fascinating.
	I don't mean to pry into your brain, but I will.
	Has it affected your perception of America?
	Yes, it has.
	I mean, I have...
	You know, I've traveled a lot in the U.S., and I think I have a great appreciation for the diversity of thought and culture across this wonderful country.
	But I am really surprised, I would say almost shocked, at the kind of fingers-in-the-ear attitude that I'm getting from one half of the country.
	Because after all, I've written a book which, as you say, is copiously referenced.
	Everything in the book is largely not my science, but it's what's in the official reports.
	And somehow they don't want to hear that.
	That's correct.
	Because it's not science that drives them.
	So therefore science will not persuade them.
	They are driven by other agendas.
	Is that fair to say?
	When you say they, I think that's true of many of the politicians.
	Well, no, it's true of the media.
	Well, and the media, and the media.
	But I would like to think that my fellow scientists would acknowledge, hey, you know, he's got it right.
	And that's happened a bit, but not anywhere near as much as I would like.
	Right.
	Well, this is going to sound funny, and I'm okay with it.
	If you were a regular listener to this show, You would not have been surprised at all.
	This is what we are dealing with in the United States today.
	That the New York Times would not review your book is a smoking gun as to the lack of desire for scientific truth and that there are other agendas.
	Let's get into the book itself.
	Dennis, just one more on the New York Times.
	You know, the book, I'm not sure I should talk about exact sales numbers, but my agent and publishers say it's well into bestseller territory in terms of numbers.
	And a real test for me is going to be whether I will appear on the New York Times or Washington Post book bestseller lists.
	Well, that will be interesting.
	My last book was number two.
	Number two on Amazon.
	The second best-selling book in the world on Amazon.
	And it did not appear...
	Number one on the Wall Street Journal did not appear anywhere in the New York Times bestseller list.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	It's not a bestseller list, the New York Times.
	They have never revealed how they even ascertain what is.
	Right.
	So don't think that way.
	Look at your Amazon ratings.
	Or the Wall Street Journal list, and you'll have a much more, or the Publishers Weekly list, you'll have a much better indication.
	Anyway, when you were in the Obama administration, did you think at that time that the catastrophic predictions were accurate?
	No.
	No.
	So you were never an alarmist.
	No, I never was.
	You know, when I was, as I started to focus on energy matters related to climate, when I went to BP, when I was a chief scientist for five years, I was much more concerned about energy technologies and didn't really do a hard look at the science.
	But, you know, my attitude was, okay, this is likely a problem, and we should be working on ways in which we might be able to deal with it.
	And I was focused on energy technologies.
	But catastrophe?
	No.
	Come on.
	Anybody who knows anything about the world knows we're tremendously resilient.
	So what animates people who say that, you know, we have 12 years, nine, we're down to nine.
	It's like, you know, you renew your car, a lease, every three years.
	This is the same thing here.
	So Al Gore in 1990 said we had 12 years, and described it, these are the words constantly, existential threat to biological life.
	What animates them, since you are a prominent scientist, it is clearly not science.
	These people don't know the science.
	They've not read the reports.
	They're not scientists.
	And that goes for Mr. Gore and all the way on up to the people, most of the people in politics today.
	You know, I like to think, again, I'm a scientist.
	I'm not a student of human behavior.
	But I like to think about this quote from H.L. Mencken, who says, you know, the purpose of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by a series of mostly imaginary threats.
	Okay, I think we can take what the politicians say with a grain of salt, but when they start invoking the science and abusing the science, that's where I think it's really bad.
	That's right.
	All right, let me hold that thought, because we must take a break, because I want to re-announce their book, to which I am morally committed.
	It is titled, Unsettled.
	What climate science tells us what it doesn't and why it matters.
	Stephen Kunin.
	Some of us that are conservatives have hoped, I think it was a false hope, that at some point the left was going to stop.
	At some point, they were going to say, you know what?
	Maybe we've gone too far.
	No, this is just the beginning of their plans.
	This is just the very start of what they plan to do to our nation and to our country.
	And Donald Trump, I think, only accelerated a lot of their radicalism.
	You see, what they used to hide, what they used to Pretend did not exist.
	They now lead with.
	They now say the private part out loud because they know the media will not hold them accountable.
	A great example of this is the Washington Post has now completely disbanded their fact-checking division.
	Who needs fact-checking when the Ministry of Truth has taken over the presidency?
	Where all they did was fact-check Donald Trump's presidency.
	And most of those fact-checks were basically...
	Critiques of nuance and context.
	They were not things that actually were necessary for massive front-page fact-checking, but they've disbanded their fact-checking division because who needs to fact-check Joe Biden?
	He's who they want to be put in place.
	But here's the thing that I think that we need to focus on the most, which is every single conservative in the country, and I'm just going to start doing this right after, you know, right after, I'd say, late May, early June.
	Which is every single conservative in the country needs to start showing up to these school board meetings.
	I think we have the tape here of this group of teachers that showed up, not teachers, this group of parents in Vail, Arizona.
	They just showed up to a random school board meeting and took over the school board.
	They fired the school board and they said, we're in charge now.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show. . .
	From colleges to corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all.
	By doubling down on the divisions, we've worked so hard to heal.
	You know this stuff is wrong.
	Hear me clearly.
	America is not a racist country.
	Okay, the man is being slammed for saying America is not a racist country.
	Trending now on the Charlie Kirk Show.
	Some of us that are conservatives have hoped, I think it was a false hope, that at some point the left was going to stop.
	At some point they were going to say, you know what?
	Maybe we've gone too far.
	No, this is just the beginning of their plans.
	This is just the very start of what they plan to do to our nation and to our country.
	And Donald Trump, I think, only accelerated a lot of their radicalism.
	You see, what they used to hide, what they used to Pretend did not exist.
	They now lead with.
	They now say the private part out loud because they know the media will not hold them accountable.
	A great example of this is the Washington Post has now completely disbanded their fact-checking division.
	Who needs fact-checking when the Ministry of Truth has taken over the presidency?
	where all they did was fact-check Donald Trump's presidency.
	And most of those facts...
	Thank you.
	I'm Dennis Prager, and I welcome you back speaking to the top scientist in the Department of Energy in the Obama administration, Caltech professor.
	What specifically, by the way, professor of what?
	I was a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech.
	Oh, my God.
	That's right up my alley, theoretical physics.
	When I first heard the word string theory, I thought of a Beethoven quartet.
	Gives you an idea where I am.
	Right, right.
	Well, you know, look, we're all just people, and all I was doing was having fun.
	And that's what I, like most professors, that's what you like to do.
	I wish most professors like to have fun.
	Oh, God.
	That would be a better world.
	All right.
	We'll leave it at that.
	Anyway, his book, ladies and gentlemen, is of unsurpassed importance at this time.
	It's titled Unsettled, with a question mark.
	Unsettled?
	And the question is about the whole issue of global warming, climate science, and so on.
	And this is from a man who was in the Obama administration and a Caltech professor, ignored completely in the world of the Washington Post, New York Times, etc.
	However, he got a featured review in the Wall Street Journal.
	That was why it was my first question to the professor, and I was not surprised by his answer.
	Let's go to a number of the most popularized images that we get.
	I think the two biggest are polar bears and glacier melting.
	So let's begin with polar bears.
	Are they disappearing?
	You know, that's not a particular subject I've studied up on, but from my casual reading, I think polar bears are doing just fine.
	Populations are going up.
	By the way, it is indicative of your being a scientist that you would say it's not your field.
	But you did do your research, and it is in the book.
	And certainly not my field, but I did a lot of reading, and that's what I have understood.
	Next, the melting of glaciers both in Antarctica and Greenland.
	Yeah, so, you know, I think this is something that there's some popular misconception about.
	I've got a graph in the book from a...
	Very recently published paper that tries to tease apart all of the things that are causing sea level to rise.
	And what you see is that the glaciers were high in terms of melting about 60 years ago, and then they went down, and now they're starting to go up again.
	All right, but not quite as high as they were, let's say, in 1950. And so there's a lot of variability here.
	The glacier of melting depends on a lot of different things, not just the temperature.
	And if we look at just the last 20 years and get all excited because, ah, it's going up, it's melting faster, you really have to put that in some historical and geological perspective.
	The same is true for Greenland.
	Again, I'm looking at this graph in the book, and it was melting more in 1940, say, than it was a few years ago.
	It may be going up again.
	It's very variable.
	The exact causes of that variability we don't understand.
	And so we shouldn't get too excited.
	You know, climate is a 30-year average.
	And let us step back a little bit and stop confusing weather with climate or natural variability with human influences and really take a longer-term view of these things.
	What is your reaction to the constantly stated argument, 97% of scientists agree, and then fill in the rest on climate science?
	Yeah, well, first of all, the 97% number comes from a ridiculously distorted survey of some published papers.
	It's been thoroughly debunked, and again, there are references in the book to the debunking.
	But even beyond that, What are we supposed to be agreeing or disagreeing about?
	If you ask me if the globe is warmed by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit over the last century, absolutely.
	If you ask me whether carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is going up because we're burning fossil fuels, absolutely.
	If you ask me whether that is exerting a warming influence on the globe, sure.
	But is that the only cause of warming, or is that going to lead to a catastrophe?
	I'm not there at all.
	That's the issue.
	That's what I said from the beginning.
	I'm just telling my listeners.
	Never denied it's getting warmer.
	Never denied that carbon dioxide might play a role.
	But the question is, is it catastrophic?
	Yeah.
	So where are these modeling predictions of catastrophe coming from?
	Probably 20 different modeling centers around the world.
	And they build and run these very large, complex computer models.
	They're all different.
	They all give different results.
	And then they feed in assumptions about what future emissions are going to look like, and hence future temperatures.
	But even as the temperature is rising, The economic impact of the rising temperatures is expected to be minimal, according to the reports.
	And again, not Steve talking, but the official UN and US government reports.
	So I don't understand where climate catastrophe comes from.
	Well, from somebody who has at least as many credentials as you, a young woman named Thornburg.
	Oh, right.
	Well, you know, I've read her book, and I hope she reads mine, and maybe someday she and I can have a conversation.
	You're a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech.
	She's a teenage girl, and she gets the attention, and you don't.
	Yeah, well, look.
	That's fine.
	I never, you know, I never set out for attention when I sat down to write this book.
	I really, again, just wanted to explain to people and see the eyes light up when they finally understand, which is what I've been doing as an educator for 30 or 40 years.
	Do you have any, forgive me, do you have any thoughts about the objective of getting the country off?
	Fossil fuels by 2030 or 2040?
	Yeah.
	So it's good to sort of say a little more precisely what the proposals are.
	All right.
	So hold on.
	I don't want to interrupt you.
	I want to have your full thoughts on that when we come back.
	Again, I'm speaking to a professor of theoretical physics, Caltech.
	He was the head scientist in the Department of Energy in the Obama administration.
	My suspicion is he's a lifelong Democrat.
	I'm not going to go there with him unless he wants to note it.
	But I just want you to understand where he's coming from.
	This notion of the settled science, 97% agree, existential threat.
	None of it is true.
	None of it is true.
	Some of us that are conservatives had hoped, I think it was a false hope, that at some point the left was going to stop.
	At some point they were going to say, you know what, maybe we've gone too far.
	No, this is just the beginning of their plans.
	This is just the very start of what they plan to do to our nation and to our country.
	And Donald Trump, I think, only accelerated a lot of their radicalism.
	What they used to hide, what they used to pretend did not exist, they now lead with.
	They now say the private part out loud because they know the media will not hold them accountable.
	A great example of this is the Washington Post has now completely disbanded their fact-checking division.
	Who needs fact-checking when the Ministry of Truth has taken over the presidency?
	Where all they did was fact-check Donald Trump's presidency.
	And most of those fact-checks were basically Critiques of nuance and context.
	They were not things that actually were necessary for massive front-page fact-checking, but they've disbanded their fact-checking division because who needs to fact-check Joe Biden?
	He's who they want to be put in place.
	But here's the thing that I think that we need to focus on the most, which is every single conservative in the country, and I'm just going to start doing this right after, you know, right after, I'd say, late May, early June.
	Which is every single conservative in the country needs to start showing up to these school board meetings.
	I think we have the tape here of this group of teachers that showed up, not teachers, this group of parents in Vail, Arizona.
	They just showed up to a random school board meeting and took over the school board.
	They fired the school board and they said, we're in charge now.
	Keep up with what's trending.
	Subscribe on YouTube and at rumble.com.
	Trending now on the Larry Elder Show.
	From colleges to corporations to our culture, people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven't made any progress at all.
	By doubling down on the divisions, we've worked so hard to heal.
	You know this stuff is wrong.
	Hear me clearly.
	America is not a racist country.
	Okay, the man is being slammed for saying America is not a racist country.
	Kamu Bell says, you know, it depends on how you define racism.
	Here's how he defines racism.
	I define that as a country that is built on racism.
	So yes, I believe America is a racist country because it literally is built on and runs on racism.
	America is built on racism and runs on racism.
	It's sort of the petrol of America, the fuel of America.
	So his definition of racism is America was built on racism and is run on racism, whatever the hell that means.
	And the definition given by this gentleman in the Washington Post, quote, it means that we have systems and institutions referring to systemic racism.
	It means we have systems and institutions that produce racially disparate outcomes.
	Regardless of the intentions of the people who work within them, end of quote.
	So if every cop is devoid of racism, but the cops pull over more blacks than they do whites, that's systemic racism.
	Even if the cops aren't racist.
	Because the outcomes are different.
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	Thank you.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	This is a truly significant interview.
	I mean, I think all of my...
	I don't have interviews.
	I don't think it's significant.
	Yet, some obviously will rate as even more than some others.
	He's a man who should be on the cover of a time.
	He should be man of the year as far as I'm concerned.
	He was the head scientist in the Department of Energy in the Barack Obama administration.
	By the way, I described you as a lifelong Democrat.
	You don't have to respond, but am I right?
	You know, I am largely apolitical, but if I had to pick a party, I'd probably be on the right side of the Democratic Party or the left side of the Republicans.
	Right, I gathered that.
	You are, to me, a classic liberal who has just...
	You don't have to react to this.
	You're certainly free to.
	But you are a liberal who is discovering, as some, like Alan Dershowitz have, that the left is your enemy, not the right.
	I firmly expect to be vilified for what I've written.
	Right.
	But not by the right.
	No, I don't think so.
	That's right.
	It's a sort of a revelatory thing.
	Where am I speaking to you right now?
	Where are you located?
	I'm in upstate New York.
	You're on vacation or you have a home there?
	No, no, no.
	I escaped New York City about a year ago to a house we own north of the city.
	And I hope to return to Manhattan.
	I'm at NYU, after all.
	Oh, you were at NYU. Oh, very interesting to see how your colleagues...
	Certainly got a sensitive thing there.
	It'll be interesting to see how your colleagues react to you at NYU. I can tell you that I know the upper administration quite well.
	I mean, former university administrators all talk to one another.
	And, you know, they know I'm writing this book.
	And to their great credit, they have said, We're behind you 100%.
	They're not.
	No, no, I'll tell you why.
	They're not going to attack you, but you are, by the academic and media worlds, ignored.
	That we established at the outset.
	They can't respond to you.
	You know too much.
	Yeah, perhaps.
	Yes, no, no.
	I know your situation better than you do.
	Okay.
	That took a lot of chutzpah.
	All right.
	We can have that conversation someday.
	By the way, I escaped New York 44 years ago.
	I see.
	All right.
	I went to Columbia, then I left.
	All right.
	Be that as it may.
	All right, so I asked you, what do you think of the plans to get carbon-free, fossil fuel-free by 2030, 2040, 2050?
	Yeah, so let's just a little more precisely say what the plans or the proposals are.
	The administration would like to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
	From the peak in 2005, down to half of that value by 2030. So, 10 years from now, we're already about 15% down, so they would like to accelerate the decline that's been happening more or less naturally anyway.
	The other proposal is to make the power system, or electrical generation system, be zero emissions.
	By 2035, only 15 years from now.
	And in many ways, that's a much bigger lift because it involves transportation and buildings as well as...
	I'm sorry.
	That is a much bigger lift because it's a much more drastic...
	So do you think that this transformational effort is worth the effort?
	Not at the scope and scale at which it's being proposed.
	Let us remember that U.S. greenhouse gas emissions are only 15% of global emissions.
	And yes, they've been declining, and Europe has been declining, but the rest of the world has been going up.
	And even if the U.S. were to go zero in 10 years, that would be quickly negated.
	By the growth of the emissions from the rest of the world.
	Especially China and India.
	All right, please hold it there.
	I want to remind everybody.
	This critically important book up at DennisPrager.com is titled Unsettled.
	That's the name.
	As in, really?
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	By doubling down on the divisions we've worked so hard to heal.
	You know this stuff is wrong.
	Hear me clearly.
	America is not a racist country.
	Okay, the man is being slammed for saying America is not a racist country.
	Camus Bell says, you know, it depends on how you define racism.
	Here's how he defines racism.
	I define that as a country that is built on racism.
	So yes, I believe America is a racist country because it literally is built on and runs on racism.
	America is built on racism and runs on racism.
	It's sort of the petrol of America, the fuel of America.
	So his definition of racism is America was built on racism and is run on racism, whatever the hell that means.
	And the definition given by this gentleman in the Washington Post, quote, it means that we have systems and institutions referring to systemic racism.
	It means we have systems and institutions that produce racially disparate outcomes regardless of the intentions of the people who work within them, end of quote.
	So if every cop is devoid of racism, but the cops pull over more blacks than they do whites, that's systemic racism.
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	Hi, everybody.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
	I'm speaking with the top scientists in the Obama administration in the Department of Energy.
	Professor of theoretical physics, Caltech, and now a professor at NYU teaching gender studies.
	That was just a joke, Professor.
	I have a very dark sense of humor.
	No, I got it.
	God bless you.
	If the phone went dead, I wouldn't have been shocked.
	Yeah, right.
	By the way, are they going to demand that in order to go back to NYU, you have to have a vaccine?
	You know, I haven't been following that closely.
	I am vaccinated.
	I'm of an age where I thought that was true.
	I think they, no, I'm not sure.
	I don't know.
	I've not been told it very closely.
	Right, okay, right.
	Not a big deal.
	Anyway, he is the author of this critically important book, just came out last week, Unsettled?
	What Climate Science Tells Us What It Doesn't and Why It Matters, being completely ignored in the world of the mainstream media and widely given attention to by the true media.
	The ones that are called conservative.
	So, we were talking about the aim to get carbon free by any given date and so on.
	If you were Emperor of the United States, and this is meant seriously, if whatever you wanted to happen, knowing the science as you do, what would you advocate?
	I think, first of all, We need to get better at the science.
	And, you know, that's a little bit of a technical discussion.
	I'm going to leave that aside, only to say we need to stop wasting our attention on silly computer runs of what happens if CO2 goes up, et cetera, et cetera, and really focus on trying to understand the models and do better observations of the climate.
	But that's kind of a given.
	I'm a scientist.
	You'd expect me to say we need more science.
	I think the second thing we need to do is to Do research and development and demonstration of low-emissions technologies.
	I'm a big fan of nuclear power.
	I'm a nuclear physicist by training.
	We need to learn how to make nuclear reactors smaller than they are.
	I think, you know, wind and solar, why not?
	Although it takes land and you have to manage the grid much more.
	Carefully than you do if you have more conventional sources of electricity.
	So we need to make the grid much better, and that is one part of the Biden administration proposal that I think is very sensible.
	And then, you know, I think we're going to see a slow electrification of cars.
	Batteries will get better.
	The grid will be able to take it.
	Which we'll have a hard time doing now if we do too many electric cars.
	I think that will happen gradually.
	But what I don't think is warranted is this kind of forced, large-scale decarbonization that is being proposed.
	I would do two other things.
	That's interesting.
	I would, you know, really get serious about adaptation planning.
	You know, the main way in which society will respond to changing climate is adaptation for various reasons.
	And so I would urge states and localities to really get serious about plans for that.
	And of course, in the end, it will cost money.
	And then finally, I think we need an exploratory program to understand whether we have geoengineering as an option to be deployed in really bad situations.
	So we need to understand geoengineering better, but by all means let us not think about using it.
	What is geoengineering?
	So that's an intentional intervention into the climate system to push it one way or the other.
	The main way that's being discussed, has been discussed for many decades, is to put a fine haze of particles in the stratosphere.
	You know, when Mount Pinatubo went off in 1991, it cooled the planet by about half a degree centigrade, one degree Fahrenheit, for a couple years.
	And we had beautiful sunsets, as you may remember.
	Well, we could do that artificially.
	We have the technology to do it.
	Nobody has done it.
	But if the planet ever started to go in a runaway, warming direction, which I believe is very unlikely, but not impossible, We wouldn't have anything to do except do something like that, so we'd better understand it.
	What the risks are, what the feasibility is, things of that sort.
	And Congress, in fact, allocated some money a year ago to do a research program.
	If we did nothing, absolutely nothing, by the end of the century, how much would the globe warm by, in your opinion?
	Depends on two things, really.
	How sensitive is the climate system to increase carbon dioxide?
	And the second is what emissions will happen between now and the end of the century.
	I think, you know, if you want to carry around in your head a number, it's probably about another degree.
	So about as much as we saw in the last century, we'll see in the next century.
	If we did nothing.
	Yeah.
	So we are uprooting the economies of the world for a degree.
	Yeah.
	A degree and a half.
	I'll give you a degree and a half.
	Centigrade.
	Centigrade.
	Sean, we have achieved the Hall of Fame moment on the Dennis Prager show, just for the record.
	Even I was surprised by that.
	So what role...
	Does carbon dioxide play in global warming?
	So carbon dioxide...
	So the Earth is warm, as warm as it is, because the atmosphere that covers the Earth's surface intercepts and slows down the heat as it comes out from the Earth's surface and goes back out to space.
	And the carbon dioxide that we have added, Which is a tiny, tiny fraction of what's in the air.
	The carbon dioxide of the molecules in the air, the carbon dioxide that we have added, increases that heat trapping ability by about a percent.
	By about one percent?
	One percent.
	Hold on.
	I will have to recover for the next three minutes.
	Times has put forward a horrifyingly honest argument about abortion.
	The headline it ran was this.
	The right to an abortion means the right to have it for any reason.
	They intend for abortion to be available for any reason at any time or for no reason.
	Their focus was a law passed in 2017 by the legislature in Ohio, a law that seeks to prevent abortion on the grounds that the unborn baby has been diagnosed with Down syndrome.
	The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times is saying that it is wrong.
	To try to protect unborn babies that are diagnosed with Down syndrome by such a law.
	Why is it wrong?
	Because, says the editorial board, it interferes with what is a greater good than human dignity in the womb.
	And that means a woman's absolute autonomy.
	And what the paper claims is her constitutional right to destroy the life within her.
	Like I said, this editorial is honest.
	It's also horrifying.
	I'm Albert Moeller.
	Publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu Trailing now on The Charlie Kirk Show. . .
	Some of us that are conservatives had hoped, I think it was a false hope, that at some point the left was going to stop.
	At some point they were going to say, you know what, maybe we've gone too far.
	No, this is just the beginning of their plans.
	This is just the very start of what they plan to do to our nation and to our country.
	And Donald Trump, I think, only accelerated a lot of their radicalism.
	You see, what they used to hide, what they used to pretend did not exist, they now lead with.
	They now say the private part out loud because they know the media will not hold them accountable.
	A great example of this is the Washington Post has now completely disbanded their fact-checking division.
	Who needs fact-checking when the Ministry of Truth has taken over the presidency?
	Where all they did was fact-check.
	Donald Trump's presidency.
	And most of those fact checks were basically critiques of nuance and context.
	They were not things that actually were necessary for massive front page fact checking.
	But they've disbanded their fact checking division because who needs to fact check Joe Biden?
	He's who they want to be put in place.
	But here's the thing that I think that we need to focus on the most, which is every single conservative in the country.
	And I'm just going to start doing this right after, you know, right after, I'd say late May, early June, which is every single conservative in the country needs to start showing up to these school board meetings.
	I think we have the tape here of this group of teachers that showed up, not teachers, this group of parents in Vail, Arizona.
	They just showed up to a random school board meeting and took over the school board.
	They fired.
	They fired.
	Yes, my friends.
	We're going to have to replay this hour at some point in the future.
	or That's how important I consider it.
	The book is unsettled?
	What climate science tells us, what it doesn't, why it matters.
	Stephen Koonin was the top scientist in the Department of Energy in the Obama administration.
	former professor of physics at theoretical physics to be precise at Caltech and now a professor we didn't establish a professor of what at NYU well you know when I went to NYU because I've been a Provost at Caltech I would have kind of been fed up with the academic tribalism And I said, I don't want to be a professor of anything.
	I just want to be a professor.
	And the provost at the time, a nice guy whom I know, well, Dave McLaughlin.
	Said, you've got to be a professor of something.
	So I'm in the civil engineering department.
	I'm in the business school in technology and operations.
	And I've got an appointment in physics as well.
	Nice.
	So the data that you gave at the end of the last segment were staggering.
	If we did nothing...
	Maybe the temperature of the world would increase 1 or 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit.
	No, centigrade.
	Oh, I thought you said Fahrenheit.
	No, no.
	So that's about 2.5 to 3 degrees Fahrenheit.
	Right.
	And let's say that happened.
	What would the results be for humanity?
	Well, you know, given that we've gone up by...
	One degree centigrade or two Fahrenheit already since 1900, roughly.
	And the world has prospered.
	It's not such a big deal.
	Okay?
	And even the IPCC said that.
	The official reports say for a temperature rise of even up to seven or eight degrees Fahrenheit, the economic impact is minimal for the U.S. and the globe.
	Okay?
	Minimum.
	You know, in the book you can find the exact text.
	I'll put you on the spot, but you're certainly free to say anything.
	So when we're told that Manhattan will be underwater, fires will engulf the planet, the Antarctic ice sheet will melt and rise seas seven feet, would you characterize these as lies?
	I would characterize them as gross exaggerations.
	You know, the sea level at the Battery in Manhattan, just to take that example, is going up.
	It's been going up since 1850. And it's been going up at one foot a century.
	Now, you know, the IPCC will say, well, in the next 80 years it could be going up a little more.
	I want to thank you for a magnificent hour and a magnificent book.
	Okay.
	No big deal.
	No big deal.
	Some of us that are conservatives had hoped, I think it was a false hope, that at some point the left was going to stop.
	At some point they were going to say, you know what, maybe we've gone too far.
	No, this is just the beginning of their plans.
	This is just the very start of what they plan to do to our nation and to our country.

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