Dennis Prager Show - The Emergency Committee for America
Aired: 2021-05-13
Duration: 06:56


=== David Bragg's Vision (05:39) ===

[00:00:00]  For decades is just to say something most of you know.
[00:00:06]  I feel sort of like some of the biblical prophets who predicted terrible things and then wept when they came about.
[00:00:17]  David Bragg is the founder of this new group, Emergency Committee for America.
[00:00:24]  And I was telling him that when he said, and I didn't interrupt him, It was painful not to interrupt him.
[00:00:29]  Well, you know, I don't know a lot about a lot, but I really do know how to organize.
[00:00:33]  He does really know how to organize, and he does know a lot about a lot.
[00:00:37]  His books are seminal works, for example.
[00:00:41]  He has given a PragerU video.
[00:00:43]  He is, I am sorry to say, a graduate of Princeton.
[00:00:46]  Is that correct?
[00:00:49]  Correct, sir.
[00:00:51]  Hold on.
[00:00:55]  It's tough for me.
[00:00:57]  Think of how much money you gave Princeton University.
[00:01:02]  It gets worse.
[00:01:03]  Why?
[00:01:04]  Go on.
[00:01:04]  I was in Barack Obama's class at Harvard Law.
[00:01:10]  Oh, my God.
[00:01:11]  It's a good thing I didn't know it.
[00:01:13]  We wasted a lot of money.
[00:01:16]  But, Dennis, and this is just the truth.
[00:01:20]  I had a lifeline in college.
[00:01:24]  That helped me and changed me and probably set me on a different trajectory in life.
[00:01:31]  I got a hold of a book written by one Dennis Prager.
[00:01:35]  Years before I met you, you were this light in the darkness that really enabled me to see there was a different way of viewing the world and kept me from falling in line with where my schools would otherwise have led me.
[00:01:51]  I would be remiss if I did not show it an influence you've been on my life since then to the present day.
[00:01:58]  I actually have the chills.
[00:01:59]  I really do.
[00:02:01]  That's how much it means to me.
[00:02:02]  To know that I have affected you is a big deal.
[00:02:06]  The difference you've made in my life, and what I have to imagine are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives is deep and significant.
[00:02:16]  I don't think you need encouragement, but...
[00:02:19]  Well, no, it is good to know.
[00:02:21]  Of course, otherwise, one is speaking to oneself.
[00:02:26]  But that's great.
[00:02:27]  So I'm curious, in light of that, being at Princeton and Harvard, did you feel lonely?
[00:02:36]  I did not, because I had two good things going for me, in Princeton at least, which is Dennis Prager's writings.
[00:02:48]  And those writings were introduced to me by a mutual friend of ours named Yoram Hazoni.
[00:02:53]  And Yoram, who's been on your show and done PragerU videos and has continued to be an influence in my life as well, was a good friend.
[00:03:01]  And so I had this small circle that kept me sane.
[00:03:05]  When I went to law school, it got harder.
[00:03:08]  And I do remember sort of walking by demonstrations.
[00:03:12]  Demanding not only diversity, you know, God willing, had they only demanded diversity of thought, I would have participated in the demonstrations.
[00:03:21]  They were demanding, of course, a very rigid list of physical characteristics they wanted to see in the faculty.
[00:03:27]  And a very young man that everyone thought I needed to watch out for, he was going to be a senator one day, of course, they underestimated him.
[00:03:35]  But a young man named Barack Obama was one of the speakers there.
[00:03:38]  And I remember...
[00:03:39]  I was viscerally objecting to what I was saying.
[00:03:42]  I had a very different view of what it is Harvard Law students should be seeking in the world and demanding in the world.
[00:03:49]  And in moments like that, I did feel quite alone.
[00:03:52]  But I went back to my...
[00:03:53]  So you remember being at Harvard Law and watching Barack Obama speak at a demonstration?
[00:04:00]  Oh, yeah.
[00:04:01]  Do you remember what he said?
[00:04:04]  It was more or less about the need for rigid physical characteristics to be met at the Harvard Law Faculty.
[00:04:11]  They had a list of demands.
[00:04:13]  They wanted a woman of color tenured faculty.
[00:04:16]  They wanted, I think, an Hispanic tenured faculty.
[00:04:20]  They wanted an openly gay tenured faculty and, I believe, a disabled tenured faculty because, of course, Dennis, only someone who is themselves disabled can understand the legal needs of the disabled.
[00:04:32]  And I looked at this, and to me, this rigid focus on physical characteristics went against everything I believed in.
[00:04:41]  I thought, naively, that this was confined to the rarefied, insane air of the Ivy League.
[00:04:48]  Of course, everything we saw on display there has now spilled over not only into our streets, but into our politics.
[00:04:55]  It's taking over one of our two political parties.
[00:04:58]  And this is the great disappointment of Joe Biden.
[00:05:01]  I mean, I worked for years in the Senate.
[00:05:02]  I listened to more hours of Joe Biden talking on than anyone should have to in their lives.
[00:05:09]  But this is a different Joe Biden in many ways.
[00:05:13]  But most importantly, he is now captive of the extreme ideology that at one time could only captivate the Quad at Harvard.
[00:05:21]  Now it's taking control of our councilors and senators across the country.

=== People Decided (01:31) ===

[00:05:24]  How does one join the Emergency Committee for America?
[00:05:29]  They go to our website, EC4America, that's E as in Emergency, C as in Committee, the number for America, ec4america.org.
[00:05:40]  Dennis, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that all of us involved in the Emergency Committee have very demanding and responsible day jobs.
[00:05:49]  I have a very demanding and increasingly tough day job in the realm of defending Israel, which this week has been tougher than usual.
[00:05:57]  We are all doing this as a labor of love, a labor of love for our country.
[00:06:02]  Not only do we not take a dime out of it, not a dime out of it, but frankly, I'm funding this out of money I should be putting into my son and daughter's college funds.
[00:06:12]  But my wife and I had a long talk, and we decided that we needed to try this first.
[00:06:18]  One day, hopefully, the kids will forgive me.
[00:06:20]  You can't go to college, but maybe we did some good.
[00:06:25]  But we need help.
[00:06:26]  Because people are responding extremely well.
[00:06:31]  The conversion rate, how much we have to pay for a new email, or how much we have to pay to get people to join us on social media is lower than anything I've seen in my career.
[00:06:42]  I mean, people want this opportunity.
[00:06:44]  All right, let me remind them.
[00:06:46]  EC4, the number four, the digit four.
[00:06:50]  EC4America.org.
[00:06:51]  I want to ask David Brog, who's an expert on the Middle East.
[00:06:55]  Books on it.