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Thank you.
- Thank you.
Concludes with the Ultimate Issues Hour.
Truth is, we've been talking about ultimate issues for a year and a half, for all intents and purposes.
As America, a systemically racist country, is an ultimate issue.
That's why I've been telling you, getting clear on the ultimate issues is like getting vaccinated.
Hmm.
Getting well vaccinated.
And it's not a new process.
It's not some new form of vaccination.
The idea of having prepared oneself philosophically for what goes on in life is the essence of wisdom.
Alright, y'all.
Here's a...
Here's a story for you in Newsweek and elsewhere.
The Biden administration replaces mothers with birthing people in maternal health guidance.
The White House's 2022 fiscal year budget replaced the word "mothers" with "birthing people" in a section about public health funding.
Hmm.
What do you think of that?
The highest...
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed nations.
This is from the piece.
That is from the Biden administration.
With an unacceptably high mortality rate for black American, Indian, slash Alaska Native, and other women of color.
To help end this high rate of maternal mortality and race-based disparities in outcomes among birthing people, reads the 2022 White House fiscal year budget proposal.
If you're a woman, do you not think that this is a slap at you?
Especially if you're a mother?
You've now been reduced to a...
birthing people.
This is an ode to the effects of college education and now high school and elementary school.
Thank you.
So many years ago I said that college in most cases makes people stupid.
I don't use cute lines.
I literally believe that.
I believe that the odds are, that means it doesn't always happen, it means the odds are, you leave four years of college less capable of critical thought than when you entered.
More of a fool.
That's what I believe.
This is proof of it.
You think the person who wrote this at the Biden administration budget office, do you think this person went to college?
No, you don't think so.
You are as certain of it as you are that the sun will rise tomorrow.
You had to learn that at college.
Say birthing people.
By the way, how many people does this affect?
How many Let's see, I've got to get this straight.
How many biological women who identify as men have given birth?
We're talking about such an infinitesimally small number of people that for the sake of the 99.99% of those who give birth who are biological women, you continue to say mothers.
And by the way, I don't even understand.
Doesn't the transgender female consider herself, I'll even say herself, a mother?
Right?
So what is the point?
Why say birth?
Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I blew it.
I blew it.
I'm sorry.
I completely blew it.
The birthing people for transgender is a male.
I'm sorry, it's a biological female who identifies as a male.
I blew that.
So, 99.99%.
All of this proves that there are so few real problems in this society, the left creates them, in order to give meaning to their lives.
I read to you yesterday, it was so important, and I spent...
Maybe a minute on it.
There was an article in the New York Times in May about young Jews being torn by the Gaza War, and some of whom supported Hamas, which is not surprising.
Who was the writer who made that point?
The Israel lobby is...
The pro-Israel lobby is mostly non-Jews, and the anti-Israel lobby is mostly Jews.
That's a brilliant, brilliant point from something I read to you last week.
And in this piece of the New York Times, I'm going to try to memorize it, it's so important, where a young woman in her 20s, Jewish woman, well, Jewish, a woman born a Jew, let's put it this way, said that she was,
that the article said for Jews like her, supporting the Palestinians that the article said for Jews like her, supporting the Palestinians is a religious That's exactly right.
All of leftism is a religious expression.
Birthing people.
I salute Newsweek for reporting it.
Newsweek is getting better and better.
Amazing.
Newsweek had two ridiculous articles about me two years ago as it sank lower and lower.
I contacted the editor and in one case they simply retracted what was written to their credit.
And now it's just improved and improved.
I've actually subscribed to it.
I subscribe to websites that I use.
how else are they going to stay in business?
What is it called when you...
There's a term, right?
Enlightened selfishness?
What is it called?
Enlightened self-interest.
When I send money to a website that I frequent, That is an example of enlightened self-interest.
I want to use that website, so I want to do my part in making sure it survives.
I do it for photography websites, music websites, a whole host of them.
I want them to stay in business.
When I was at college, one of the four things I learned...
I just picked the number.
That was to be cute.
I don't know if I learned four things.
But anyway...
I took an economics class, and the professor made a very powerful point.
Every time you buy an item, think of it as a vote.
And I've never stopped thinking of it that way.
If you get a Coke, you're voting for Coca-Cola.
I don't think you should vote for Coca-Cola.
I think you should vote against it.
One of the most woke anti-American companies, which is really saying something because that's what they've all turned into.
The race for who's the bigger coward, university deans, teachers, unions, or corporate heads, it's a very, very tough race.
The competition is keen.
All right.
Barry Weiss is a female.
Barry Weiss was a reporter for the New York Times.
She left it because of its wokeness, and it's no longer being a newspaper, but the propaganda sheet.
She has a piece here.
Psychiatrist lecturing at Yale's Child Study Center.
You with me?
Again, it's very hard to measure whose...
Who's the most distorting?
Yale is so up there, though.
Who is it who wrote that your child...
Oh, yes, R.R. Reno.
He tries not to hire kids who went to Ivy League colleges.
The odds are they're more brainwashed than other kids.
This will give you an example when we come back from Yale.
This is Albert Mogler for townhall.com.
The Supreme Court announced last week that it would hear an abortion case coming from the state of Mississippi.
The case is Dobbs v.
Jackson Women's Health Organization, the infamous abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, is challenging legislation that makes abortion illegal after the 15th week of a woman's term.
If the law is upheld, lives would be saved.
Lots of them.
This is big news, but it's not necessarily the case that the court will reverse Roe v.
Wade.
I often refer to the cumulative case theory of the pro-life movement.
That comes down to this.
Pro-life legislation and pro-life lawyers working to erode Roe v.
Wade step by step, law by law, restriction by restriction, court precedent by court precedent.
Make no mistake, this case is huge, and the precedent will be massive.
The second issue is even more important.
The Mississippi law, and thus this particular Supreme Court case, It focuses on the life of the unborn child.
That's the biggest issue here.
We should watch and hope and pray for change from the courts.
We also need to hope and work and pray for a change in human hearts.
Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
Because in the last week, we've been treated to a number of stories, including this on the Washington Post headline.
Leading scientist says that without a full investigation of lab leak theory, the world will face COVID-26 and COVID-32.
This is Baylor College of Medicine's Peter Hotez.
I'm glad to see that he and so many other scientists and liberal reporters have finally acknowledged the basic common sense of our point a year ago, which is that this virus didn't emerge from some rural village.
It came from a city larger than New York.
Right down the street from a lab where they research these viruses.
I mean, surely your common sense should dictate we should at least look into that possibility.
And that's what we should have been doing from the very beginning.
And that's what all these skeptics from the very beginning should have been acknowledging was at least a reasonable concern.
Well, I read one of his quotes from last year.
Condemning, quote, QAnon and the Russians and the Murdoch media empire.
And so I think to myself, when you're throwing those three things together, that is kind of a poker tell.
Now, I don't want to indict or convict him of being a lab denier until I've done more research.
But it does seem to me that people ought to pay a price if they were simply dismissive of this theory.
And not only dismissive, downright obstructionist in its investigation last year.
Yeah, well, Hugh, if that's the case, and it should certainly reflect on someone who made such a silly comment.
And it's also a reminder, too, that all of these supposedly neutral, scientific, nonpartisan so-called experts often harbor deep partisan antipathies towards their opponents.
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My friends, I do want to remind you, in light of what you just heard, my video is about leaving fathers.
There's a great movie out called, or titled, The Streets Were My Father.
You can see it at SalemNow.com.
You can stream it.
You can buy it.
You should give it out to people.
It's a beautiful Father's Day gift.
It's a celebration of fatherhood.
Using kids who grew up without fathers as the models, and how, ultimately, they turned their lives around with the G-word.
I don't even want to say the G-word, because the G-word is, in leftist circles, is verboten, forbidden.
God.
I got it out.
The most obvious solution to the problems of the inner city, Religion are never even mentioned.
They're never mentioned.
More government money.
That's what's mentioned.
Fewer police.
Truly, the secular world produces morons.
Not all people who are secular are morons, by no means whatsoever.
But the secular world produces morons.
It's just the way it is.
I realized that when I was at Columbia.
Anyway, see the film.
It's titled, The Streets Were My Father.
You will be very moved.
The power of God to change lives.
The need for dads.
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I want you to hear a video that's gone viral.
It's a very interesting video in that it's a black man and his daughter.
And he's not dressed like a banker, let's put it that way.
And you could almost cry.
The daughter, how old do you think the daughter is?
Eight?
Seven?
Six?
Five?
No, she's not three or four.
Three or four.
If she's three or four, I will buy you a Tesla.
What do you think of that?
Now you're paying attention.
I would say she's five.
So listen to this video.
We should put it up.
It needs to be seen.
It's a breath of fresh moral air.
Take it away.
Daddy teaches you you can be anything in this world that you want to be, right?
Don't daddy teach you that?
Yeah, and it doesn't matter if you're black or white or any color.
It doesn't matter if you're black, white, brown, yellow, right?
And how we treat people is based on who they are and not what color they are.
And if they're nice and smart.
See?
This is how children think right here.
Critical race theory wants to end that.
Not with my children.
It's not going to My baby's gonna know that no matter what she wants to be in life, all she has to do is work hard.
And she can become that.
Work hard even though you don't know anyone.
You can make friends.
Yeah, you can make friends.
No matter what color they are.
So we need to stop CRT. Period.
Point blank.
Children do not see skin color, man.
They love everybody.
If they're good people, they love them.
We pray for people that are hurt.
That are hurt?
So here's, I have a question.
I don't know the answer, but I have a question.
Did this man go to college?
Interesting question, right?
I would assume that if you're that wise, you did not go to college.
That's just, that's my assumption.
Yes.
See, the reason I love this so much is that is exactly how I view the world.
I divide the world between the decent and the indecent.
Not between colors.
Not between ethnicities.
Not between religions.
Are you decent?
And by the way, God divides the world between the decent and the indecent.
That is one of the great messages that I convey.
In my rational Bible commentary, the third volume is coming out in September.
Please either order it at Costco or on Amazon.
Pre-order it.
It is life-changing stuff.
I'm very self-conscious about saying it because I wrote it, but I'm sorry.
I'm not going to hide it.
Hide what I believe its impact.
Read the 2,000, 3,000, whatever, 2,500 reviews of the Rational Bible.
That's how I divide the world.
I got that line.
The girl is six.
Ah, cool, man.
No Tesla for the living martyr.
And if it's the Price is Right rules, I was closer.
Right?
Do you know that a woman once told me why she took her kid out of, what is it called?
What do they send the kids to?
It was preschool, but daycare.
Yeah, daycare.
She said, one day, well not one day, my daughter's first words, you know, beyond mommy or daddy, my daughter's first words were, come on down.
Triple G gets it.
He's cracking up.
Do you get it?
See, there's no way to know.
I'm with an Easter Island figure.
Anyway, that was what they said on The Price is Right.
If you won, come on down!
Or you became the contestant.
I don't remember which.
You're the next contestant.
Okay, fine.
The price is right.
And she thought, that's not a good sign.
That means that my daughter is watching television at daycare.
The world is divided between the decent and the indecent.
And...
One of the most powerful lines that I've ever read, Viktor Frankl went through the Holocaust, psychoanalyst in Auschwitz, and was asked after the war, immediate family, his own wife, murdered by the Nazis, do you hate the German race?
And he answered, no.
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
That is what this man and this girl are saying, and it is the opposite of the left.
The left does not divide the world between decent and indecent.
It is literally a demoralizing view of the world.
As I wrote in a piece, the left does not have a broken moral compass.
It doesn't even use a moral compass.
It doesn't even use a moral compass.
My guest has written a piece we have up on LarryElder.com called America the Outlier.
Voter photo IDs are the rule in Europe and elsewhere is the title of the piece.
It's up on LarryElder.com.
Please welcome back to the program John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center.
CrimeResearch.org is the website.
John, thank you so much for coming on.
I appreciate it.
Great to talk to you.
John, I read your piece.
One of the things that Eric Holder once said, the former AG, is that photo ID, requiring photo ID, is an example of, quote, pernicious racism, end of quote.
Right.
Well, I mean, there's all sorts of hyperbole that's being thrown around just a couple weeks ago.
The New York Times was claiming that the Republicans were becoming anti-democratic and authoritarian.
And one of their two main proofs for that was that the types of voter laws requiring IDs that Republicans and state legislatures were trying to push through.
I guess my response is, if requiring photo IDs is proof of an authoritarian, anti-democratic tendency...
Then Sweden is anti-democratic.
France is anti-democratic.
You know, essentially all of Europe is anti-democratic.
You point out in your article that of the 47 nations surveyed, only one does not require government-issued photo ID to vote, and that's UK. And even there, they're mandatory in Northern Ireland because of the fraud that they've experienced in the past.
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you Thank you.
you I'm almost speechless because after listening to your piece about Fauci's testimony, I went and read Nicholas Wade's memo, which I was remiss in not reading.
And I was just flabbergasted.
Look, I knew, and I said all last year, that it was possible this was an escape from a lab because the Chinese do billions and billions of dollars of all kinds of bio-research.
We know their safety protocols are lousy.
We know they don't have any scruples about doing gain-of-function research, all the stuff we sweat over.
They don't care about any of that.
So, you know, you knew it was a possibility.
But when I went back and read...
I'm sure you've read it.
It's meticulously reported, and the guy ought to get a Pulitzer Prize.
But one of the things he says in there is that Dr. Xi, who is the Chinese virologist who did the research, actually set out in the grant application that Xi was going to do gain-of-function research.
Here's a quote from Wade's piece.
He said, Dr. Xi set out to create a novel coronavirus with the highest possible infectivity for human cells.
And she got the grant from the Echo Health Alliance, the leader of which, I didn't know this either, was the guy who organized the first letter in February of 2020 from 27 virologists which supposedly debunked the lab theory.
Yep.
And so, Jim...
The point is that I also had Dr. Fauci on the show.
He denied it.
I think the credibility is shattered because people don't know when to say I don't know.
There's no way Dr. Fauci knows what the grants say.
He hasn't read that sub-grant, but he should know, and he does apparently know now.
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As Galileans, we witnessed...
...and we saw a lot of people that were not going to be able to see.
Yes, indeed, y'all.
Dennis Prager here.
Yale.
R.R. Reno.
I'm going to have him on.
He's a very thoughtful man.
He edits First Things, which I subscribe to.
Again, I support the journals that I read.
The Prager family budget can handle it, and probably most of yours can, too.
It's an investment in...
The good thinkers in America, or the hobbies.
As I said, I do it from my photography sites.
Anyway, Yale is a wasteland.
Yale...
Somebody really ought to do a ranking of the most moronic and destructive of our universities.
Yale would be in the top ten.
If I meet a Yale student, I assume...
That I've met a Stepford leftist.
So listen to this.
Psychiatrist is from Barry Weiss.
A psychiatrist lecturing at Yale's Child Study Center spoke about, quote, unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way.
That's okay at Yale.
Incidentally, I will give you more, but I want to...
Here is the ad.
Yale CME, Continuing Medical Education.
Child Study Center Grand Rounds, presented by Yale School of Medicine's Department of Child Study Center.
I told you, everything the left touches, it destroys.
Medicine is the most current victim.
Science has been a victim for a while.
The psychopathic problem of the white mind.
That is the title of the conference!
In the wasteland, the hate-filled wasteland called Yale University.
If a Yale graduate applied to work for me, I would much sooner look at the application of someone who went to a community college.
In other words, I hold it against you if you are a recent Yale graduate.
You are a hate-filled moron.
That's what I assume.
Like the people at this...
Tell me what words you would prefer that I use.
This is Yale Medical School.
The psychopathic problem of the white mind.
Aruna Helanani.
MD, MA. Oh, we need more degrees.
Forensic psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Date, April 6, 2021. Virtual talk.
Course director, Andres Martin, MD, MPH. Wow.
Oh, I love this.
The Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.
But I want you to know, PragerU is not accredited.
When people ask us if it's accredited, why do they assume that that is in any way a statement of its excellence?
Yale Medical School is accredited.
A few weeks ago, she writes, Barry Weiss, someone sent me a recording.
Of a talk called The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind delivered at the Yale School of Medicine's Child Study Center by a New York-based psychiatrist as part of Grand Rounds, an ongoing program in which clinicians and others in the field lecture students and faculty.
When I listened to the talk, I considered the fact that it might be some sort of elaborate prank, but looking at the doctor's social media, it seems completely genuine.
Here are some quotes.
From the lecture.
This is the cost of talking to white people at all.
The cost of your own life as they suck you dry.
There are no good apples out there.
White people make my blood boil.
This moron gave a lecture at Yale Medical School.
Oh my God.
It is true.
Do you know this is going to really blow your mind?
I have seen so much sick and evil in the last year and a half that for the first time in my life, this will blow everybody's mind.
It'll blow the secular and it'll blow many religious people who will be surprised that I didn't believe in this before.
I'm not saying I do now, but I truly understand the belief in the devil.
It is hard to explain what happened in America this year in purely rational terms.
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Specifically, ivermectin, vitamin D, zinc, and hydroxychloroquine.
At the very least, they do nothing bad to you.
They are among the safest drugs ever made.
We are told that children should get a vaccine that is still in an experimental stage.
But people should not take hydroxychloroquine, which has a half century of safety.
That is sick, my friends.
That is borderline evil on the part of the medical profession.
If your doctor did not prescribe it, change your doctor.
Your doctor is a sheep.
They may know a lot of facts about biology, but you don't want them as your doctor.
I'm sorry, because you may have a wonderful relationship.
Go golfing with him or her.
1-8 Prager 776. Rick in Orlando, Florida.
Hello.
Sean, do we attach to our callers?
Are you there, Rick?
That's odd.
Yes, can you hear me?
Now I do, yes.
Oh, hey, sorry.
I won't take too much of your time.
Sorry about that.
Don't worry about it.
I don't even know if it was you or us.
Go ahead.
I just wanted to say, you know, I find it just so gross, the double standard in the media, you know, in regard to Kamala Harris talking about illegal immigrants wanting to stay away.
You know, if Trump had said the same thing, everyone would be calling him racist.
Correct.
But you called about the father and daughter you heard.
Oh, well, I mean...
That's not even half of it, because, I mean, would you like to hear something even more disgusting, I heard?
All right.
Okay.
No, I don't.
To be honest.
Okay.
Forgive me.
We'll be back in a moment.
Please do speak about the subject you tell the screener.
Thanks a lot.
Thanks a lot.
you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past.
It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before.
Right.
It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this.
You know, I have faced different so many things in my life.
It's in my book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO? And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence.
I'm not going to...
I'm never going to give up.
When things that I believe in, I'm going to stand firm.
I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure.
Great things come out of things.
You look back at things in life.
I look back at things that happened to me.
I look back at, wow, if that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now.
I look back and I use those things as...
They were character builders.
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So Laureen Powell Jobs, or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces her name, she is now, according to Alex Marlowe, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros, pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes.
And so I want to be very clear.
She does not want to destroy America.
She wants it to be hers.
And it's not just her.
There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg, of these oligarchs that are pumping in billions of dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg put $400 million through the Center for Technology and Civic Life into this last year.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yale is where, among other things, in 2015, this is covered actually, there is actually a scene in No Safe Spaces of Yale students screaming and cursing.
A liberal, a liberal professor, who was the head of one of the houses where they live.
They divide, I think, Yale into houses where people live.
This is from The Atlantic, which is as woke as you can get.
November 2015. Professor Nicholas Christakis lives at Yale, where he presides over one of its undergraduate colleges.
His wife, Erica, is a lecturer in early childhood education.
The two of them reside among students and are responsible for shaping residential life.
Before Halloween, some students complained.
That to the Yale administration, that they were offering heavy-handed advice on what Halloween costumes to avoid.
In other words, well, I remember what they had said.
The wife had said, it's Halloween, wear what you want.
Okay?
That was the extent of her anti-left statement.
Wear what you want.
Ah, but isn't that cultural appropriation?
And again, A gigantic idiocy from the left that doesn't mean anything.
Cultural appropriation is beautiful.
Beautiful.
That is one of the beauties of America.
That you can have an Italian chef in a Mexican restaurant.
And a Mexican chef in an Italian restaurant.
It's a blast.
Anyway, a faction of students tried to get the couple removed from their residential positions.
Even Atlantic wrote, the guy who wrote this, he cracks me up.
He attacks me periodically.
He's a perfect example of a liberal who doesn't understand how bad the left is.
He thinks I'm bad.
It's a giveaway.
So, they just stood and cursed and screamed at the professor, these are frightening students at Yale.
Not all.
I'm sure there are irrational students and some rational faculty.
But by and large, that school is gone.
This lecture at the Yale Medical School means you should not send your child to Yale.
You should not even apply.
We'll be back.
I'm Dennis Prager.
I'm almost speechless because after listening to your piece about Fauci's testimony, I went and read Nicholas Wade's memo,
which I was remiss which I was remiss in not reading.
And I was just flabbergasted.
Look, I knew, and I said all last year, that it was possible this was an escape from a lab, because the Chinese do billions and billions of dollars of all kinds of bio-research.
We know their safety protocols are lousy.
We know they don't have any scruples about doing gain-of-function research, all the stuff we sweat over.
They don't care about any of that.
So, you know, you knew it was a possibility.
But when I went back and read, I'm sure you've read, it's meticulously reported, and the guy ought to get a Pulitzer Prize.
But one of the things he says in there is that Dr. Xi, who is the Chinese virologist who did the research, actually set out in the grant application.
That she was going to do gain-of-function research.
Here's a quote from Wade's piece.
He says, Dr. Xi set out to create a novel coronavirus with the highest possible infectivity for human cells.
And she got the grant from the Echo Health Alliance, the leader of which, I didn't know this either, was the guy who organized the first letter in February of 2020 from 27 virologists which supposedly debunked the lab theory.
Yep.
And so, Jim, the point is that I also had Dr. Fauci on the show.
He denied it.
I think the credibility is shattered because people don't know when to say, I don't know.
There's no way Dr. Fauci knows what the grants say.
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Can you discuss that, please?
It's to do with contract law, correct?
Right.
So there's this case, United States v.
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When I'm signing it.
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It's like a marriage contract in the Catholic faith.
If you go in as a woman, knowing that I... I'm never going to have children.
Yes.
And not telling your husband.
That is a reason to nullify the wedding as if it never actually occurred.
Yes.
As if it never occurred.
So now they're saying, well, it applies to the election, right?
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So I want to get through a very important piece of news that happened.
The Pelosi Commission.
So for the last couple months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow-walking this.
I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission to look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it.
She wanted this to be a later authorized commission so it would go into the election year of 2022 and hurt Republicans.
So she did not want this to be an overnight thing.
So she pretended as if she was negotiating with Republicans on this commission.
And the more information that we get about January 6th, the more it looks like an interruption, not an insurrection.
And I'm not supporting the smashing of windows or the assaulting of police officers.
You lay your hand on a police officer, you should go to prison for a very long time.
I'm not minimizing that.
At the same time, who killed Ashley Babbitt?
And why were there no charges against the person that fired a shot at Ashley Babbitt, who was unarmed?
I thought that was the big mantra of BLM Incorporated.
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When I say Republicans, I mean someone who is not even a Republican, someone who voted for impeachment.
And so, the commission is supposed to be like a 9-11 style commission to look in to the January 6th incident.
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Hey, folks, I'm talking to Kevin McCullough, Tell us, what did you make of Kamala Harris when she posted, have a great weekend or something like that?
The way I take it sometimes...
I don't want to be like the left.
When the people on the left say something really stupid, I don't want to pile on as though they're the devil.
So when she said, have a nice weekend, we know it's because she's ignorant and it's bad as the vice president not to understand what Memorial Day is all about.
But I kind of feel like I almost don't know what I what do I expect from these people that she's never given a thought to Memorial Day, I don't think.
No, I don't think so.
And I think that she's a pragmatist in almost every area of life.
I think she takes opportunities to advance herself.
You know, even on this one post, it was a picture, it was a selfie.
And she was with a selfie saying, enjoy a long weekend.
Whereas my wife, who has a brother who is in forward duty right now, I have...
Hi everybody.
I'm Dennis Prager.
I'm going straight to my guest, a man who's been a professor for decades at New York University, Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media, culture, and communications, and he has a story to tell, so I'm going to let him tell his story.
Professor Miller, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
Dennis, thank you so much for having me on.
I really appreciate it.
So did you ever think you'd end up on conservative talk radio?
Well, actually, I was on conservative talk radio back when I was investigating Bush Cheney's victories in 2000 and 2004. And in retrospect,
I realized that when Bill O'Reilly and others had me on, What I don't think liberals do, which is to have somebody from the other side come on and make his case and argue with him, and that was all fine.
So I'm not at all surprised to be on your show now that I've been hit with what I've been hit with.
I find that conservatives, you know, principled conservatives and libertarians are a lot easier to talk to than people on the so-called left, which I no longer recognize.
I don't see what's really left about it.
I think it's kind of insane.
And my story, I guess, is evidence of that insanity.
Well, it certainly is.
I want to get back to this big, what I call macro issue of the left and about the realization of what I believe are many liberals that Their enemy is not us, the conservatives.
I wonder if you would assent to that, but I'm not going to ask you that now.
Okay.
Most important is to tell your story, so go ahead.
Okay.
Well, I teach a course on propaganda at NYU. I've been teaching it for about 20 years.
And what I always do in starting out the first day is I make clear to the class that I don't teach propaganda as some kind of a remote academic subject.
Propaganda study should actually be a feature of the curriculum in every high school and college, because it is a very powerful force that very few people understand.
And I make the point in class that when you really study propaganda, you have to be prepared to move out of your comfort zone.
I mean, wherever you sit on the political spectrum.
Because if you just dig into a particular propaganda narrative as impartially as possible and look at all the evidence, you're bound to find that some of the things you've believed, sometimes believed fervently, are false or maybe half true.
And make all this clear, it's a kind of warning, telling them that this kind of study is exhilarating in a way.
It's really exciting, but it can be sort of difficult.
Psychologically and socially.
People will start rolling their eyes when you tell them what you've discovered because they've been listening to their favorite media outlets and they don't know what you know.
So I made all this clear.
And I said, you know, we will look at the historical background of propaganda.
We'll look at World War I. We'll look at the Nazis.
We'll look at the Bolsheviks.
But we're really interested in propaganda drives that are going on right now.
Or that are recent enough for you to remember.
And I used the example, it was not an assignment, of the mask mandates, which I've been studying all summer.
And I said, you know, I encourage you to read all the randomized controlled trials of masking in hospitals.
I said there were eight.
There were actually ten.
And now there were twelve.
I told the class they all have found that masks are not effective at barring the transmission of respiratory viruses.
They're too small, those viruses, for masks to keep them out.
I said, I would encourage you to read those, and I would encourage you also to read the more recent studies finding otherwise.
And I gave them some tips on how a layperson can sort of assess The soundness of a new study.
I said all this.
Then, the following week, a student emailed me and asked to join the class late.
So I said yes, she did.
And the subject of masking came up again for about 15 or 20 minutes.
She said nothing.
The following week, she went on Twitter demanding that NYU fire me for putting the students at risk.
And this wasn't just one tweet.
It was a stream of tweets, all pretty venomous.
She took screenshots of my website, which is markcrispinmiller.com.
It's called News from Underground, in which I share stories, information that you're not getting from the media.
And she tweeted all these as if they were self-evidently false.
And she said that all the sites I had taken them from Or either far right, she said, or conspiracy sites.
This is complete nonsense.
But she was furious.
Now that's, you know, not pleasant for me, but it's her First Amendment right to do that.
I wish she'd spoken up in class.
But the astonishing thing, the real point of the story is that NYU took her side.
Okay?
Here she'd asked that I be fired.
The department chair quickly tweeted her his thanks for her tweet and said, this is a quote, we as a department have made this a priority and are discussing next steps.
Dennis, this blew my mind.
This was a formal public declaration of departmental approval for this student's sort of rash tweet based on what she thought I had said in class.
You know, you look at her profile, she's all BLM and defund the police and all this stuff.
So, the next day, the dean of my school and this doctor who determines COVID rules for NYU, and they are really draconian rules, that have led to several lawsuits.
These two guys, without consulting me, emailed my other students directly without putting me on copy.
Hinting that I'd given them dangerous misinformation, including a list of links to the recent mask studies, which are pretty sloppy studies, and told the class that those were the truth and to believe them.
This is the opposite of what I do in class, Dennis.
My purpose is to get them to do their own research and make up their own minds, okay?
So here we have these administrators horning in, all right?
And then finally, I was...
I was told to cancel the propaganda course for this semester on the pretext that if I taught two sections of my film course, which is very popular, it would be good for the department because of the numbers.
The problem with that argument is both classes have a limit of 24 students and they're both always full.
So this was just a pretext.
I had to do it because the chair said to do it.
And I said, I'm doing this under protest.
I couldn't take this, okay?
This was outrageous.
And all too typical of what's going on now across the board.
It's been going on for decades, but it's reached the crisis point in the age of COVID. So I put up a petition at change.org.
Your listeners can find it just by, you know, searching on change.org in my name.
And I basically said that NYU should respect my academic freedom.
That was the ask in my petition.
But I was doing it in the name of all professors, all scientists and doctors, all journalists, all whistleblowers, all activists, anyone who has been gagged or punished for their dissidence, certainly over this last year and a half, but really for decades.
You know, it's just wrong.
It's dead wrong.
And it was like a shot across the bow.
Okay, here's the most astonishing thing that happened and why I'm talking to you now.
A month after the student attacked me, 25 of my department colleagues sent the dean a letter.
They didn't tell me they were doing this.
They didn't ask me any questions.
He emails me with this letter attached.
Saying he had ordered a review of my conduct at the request of my colleagues, who accused me of, okay, first of all, they said, I discouraged students from wearing masks in violation of New York state law.
Okay, there's no such law, and I did not discourage them from wearing masks.
But that was just the jumping-off point.
They also accused me, and I'm quoting now, of explicit hate speech.
Bumping attacks on students and others in our community.
Advocating for an unsafe learning environment.
Well, why is the hate speech directed at whom?
Mask wearers?
This had nothing to do with my teaching.
It was based on four things I'd written online.
All right, hold on, hold on.
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So, Laureen Powell Jobs, or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces her name, she is now, according to Alex Marlowe, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros, pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes.
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I am speaking to a professor, a long-time professor at New York University, which is in a competition with Yale for the most repressive of speech.
I'm not burdening Professor Miller with that assessment, but that is mine, viewing the academic world for years.
Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and there have been calls for his removal because in a class about propaganda, which he teaches, and tell me, Professor, if I have it right, in summarizing what you did,
you mentioned that there were studies many studies that showed that masks might not be quite as effective or at all effective and that this might be construed the push for masks as a form of propaganda is that correct well of course it is the I mean, it would be accurate to call it propaganda, even if it were completely...
Right, exactly.
There's true propaganda, that's right, even though we tend to use it in the pejorative sense.
That's right.
Yes, that is correct.
So, one student, this is, look, I kept quiet the entire time because it was riveting, and I wanted everyone to hear your story, and obviously more, but I just want to note some of my reactions.
The fact that one student, one radical student, canned through one tweet, or a couple of tweets, Cause this much damage shows, one, the fragility of decency at our universities.
This tweeting radical should have been ignored.
Right.
She should have been ignored.
Or, you know, my chair, if he felt compelled to tweet back, he should have said, thank you for your input, right?
Right.
Have a great day.
Have a great day.
Good luck to you.
No, no, no.
Dennis, I actually think that this was...
An opportunity that my colleague seized with the approval, tacit or explicit, of NYU itself.
So let me just answer your question, the one you asked before the break.
They accused me of explicit hate speech.
I was raising questions about transgender ideology.
I wrote a short piece from my list serve, which your listeners can join just by going to markcrispinmiller.com, four paragraphs on a Sprite commercial that featured a mother breastbinding her daughter.
I asked why the Coca-Cola Company, which owns Sprite, which is a notorious corporate felon, would be celebrating transgenderism, you know, to sell a soft drink.
It can't be that there's a huge Well, I don't follow that.
How does that lead to eugenics?
Well, because this is a complicated history, but eugenics was a big movement in the first half of the 20th century.
Yes, I'm very well aware.
Justice Brandeis even voted for it.
Well, yes.
Very popular with the intelligentsia and so on.
And it had to go underground briefly after the Holocaust because the eugenics enthusiasts had been celebrating Hitler's...
A rise to power because they said this is finally a head of state who understands our philosophy.
Right, who was getting rid of the ill and, I'm sorry, what was the word you were using?
The unfit.
The unfit, that's right, yes.
That was Margaret Sanger's word for it.
She was a rabid eugenicist, right?
So it re-emerged in the early 50s with the founding of the Population Council.
This was 1952. That was Rockefeller money.
And the Rockefellers have always been big, big enthusiasts for this kind of thing, and so is Bill Gates.
Gates has said, he said in 2010, that he'd like to see the global population reduced by 10 to 15%.
I think he really wants it to be reduced by far more, as Ted Turner, who is an ally of his, has been very explicit in saying the population should be reduced by Yeah, Ted Turner said he regrets having as many children as he had.
Yeah, that I don't believe, because these people are free to procreate, you know, like rabbits.
I mean, David Rockefeller had five children also.
And what I'm saying is that there's a strong eugenicist, there's a kind of eugenicist Right, but I don't understand the connection between the pro-transgender crowd and eugenics.
Because if you encourage that kind of mutilation, I'm talking about surgery, transition surgery, and subject children to regimens of puberty blockers and hormones, which is also, incidentally, very profitable for big pharma.
You are sterilizing them.
Oh, okay.
That's true.
That's medically accurate.
It is medically accurate.
That's right.
Okay, so you said this, and now NYU has accused you not only of debunking masks, but of hate speech.
Yeah, and let me add, Dennis, that I also strongly questioned allowing biological males...
To compete in girls and women's athletics.
Right.
You know, I consider myself a sane feminist, and on feminist grounds, that is simply wrong.
Right.
But none of the feminist organizations agree with you.
Well, you know, that's unfortunate.
I mean, I find myself asking, let me say, where are all the women who say my body, my choice, right, when we're being subjected to a mandatory experimental vaccination program?
Very few people...
Alright, so you have a big flaw, my friend.
What's that?
No, no, you have common sense and you search for truth.
That immediately renders you an outlier at any university in this country, NYU in particular.
I'm going to come back to you.
And ladies and gentlemen, let me give the Prager Courage Award to this man.
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My guest is a professor at NYU, has been for, I think, 20 years, and he is in trouble because, and this is literally true, he is in trouble for saying what he believes, he is in trouble for seeking truth, he is in trouble for not following what the left wants every professor to say.
Is that fair, what I just said?
Yeah, I just want to make one point about it.
My so-called colleagues, they are my colleagues, my colleagues on the so-called left, have indeed come after me for, you know, dissenting from their dogma.
That is a fact.
But I think they're, I suspect, that they're being used by a very, very corporate university.
With an enormous investment in the vaccine industry and the whole COVID narrative.
They want to get rid of me because I'm a pain in the ass as far as they're concerned.
You know, when the Nazis came to power, they did something that's called which means streamlining.
That meant making sure that all cultural institutions, publishing houses, schools, you name it, were all streamlined.
Which is to say, completely unified in their commitment to the Nazi ideology, okay?
Well, I think NYU is doing something like that, to me, because I'm raising really important questions, and more importantly, I'm encouraging my students to study, to do research into these issues on their own and make up their own minds.
So it's like teaching the slaves to read, right?
NASA doesn't want that.
They don't want citizens who are thoughtful, independent-minded, you know.
They want something more like what you'd find in China, okay?
And of course, they have a branch in Shanghai, and there's a member of the Chinese government on the Board of Trustees.
I think he's in the government.
He might be with, you know, some real estate company.
But the point is, your listeners, I just have to tell you and them that I went through my In my colleague's letter with a fine-tooth comb, I wrote a very careful rebuttal of every single charge.
I said, your letter is either a pack of lies or delusions, and I ask that you retract it and apologize.
They ignored that request.
I sent it again.
They ignored that, okay?
So I am suing them for libel.
Okay, that's why I'm on the show.
I want people to know that this is my...
My attempt to say no, again, in the name of all those who've been canceled, who've been persecuted, who've been punished, who've been fired, who've been deplatformed, I don't care where they are on the political spectrum, okay, this lawsuit is my attempt to turn the tide, okay?
I have a GoFundMe page.
You can just do a search on my name and the word libel.
And you can get the whole story.
All the documents in this lawsuit, Dennis, are up on my website at markcrispinmiller.com.
And again, people can join my listserv and get a daily, you know, get all these emails from me, or a daily digest option and just get one.
I think it's very important.
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That's right.
I have a question, and that is, has any professor...
At NYU come to your defense?
The answer to that question is very troubling and disappointing.
The only person who has come to my defense is an untenured woman in the night school who has been referring students to me over the years.
I've guest lectured to her classes, untenured, and she's come to my defense.
I think about eight members of the faculty in my department did not sign the letter, but not one of them has reached out to me.
No colleague has reached out to me.
I have heard nothing from the administration for months.
Now, it's significant, Dennis, that this review that they're supposedly conducting is completely groundless legally and constitutionally.
And the president at NYU got a detailed letter to that effect from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
That's the acronym.
The FIRE, right.
He ignored that letter, okay?
The reason why the dean ordered the review, the dean told me in our one conversation, is that university lawyers told them they must, okay?
That strikes me as evidence that they're behind this, okay?
The review was supposed to end in mid-December.
In the meantime, as I told the dean I would, I had former and current students write emails in my defense.
All right, hold it there.
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Can you discuss that, please?
It's to do with contract law, correct?
Right.
So there's this case, United States versus Throckmorton, and there was a, in that opinion, the phrase, fraud videates everything, which basically says we go back to square one.
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When I'm signing it.
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So I want to get through a very important piece of news that happened.
The Pelosi Commission.
So for the last couple months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow-walking this.
I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission to look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it.
She wanted this to be a later author.
She wanted this to be a later author.
She wanted this to be a later author.
A dissenting professor.
For those of you aware of the Bible, a dissenting professor is as rare as a red heifer.
You get the red heifer award.
Okay.
Are you familiar with my reference?
It's a biblical reference, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
Anyway, they existed in biblical times, red cows, but they're pretty much obsolete or extinct today.
And so are dissenting professors.
In fact, just professors looking for truth is fairly rare.
Well, apparently.
So you are suing NYU, and you were mentioning about students writing emails.
Well, wait a second.
I'm not suing NYU. I'm suing...
There were 25 colleagues who signed this letter.
Oh, you're suing them?
Well, I'm not suing the six of them who are junior faculty, because for all I know, they were pressured or they don't know me.
So it's 19 colleagues I'm suing for libel, yes.
And as to the review, I told the dean I was going to have students write letters in my defense, and they got over 50. They did?
Really?
Really?
50 students came to your defense?
Well, over 50, most of them students, some of them former visitors to my classes who've seen me teach.
I think they have about 55 or 56. Right, so you're being accused of hate speech.
Among other things.
What about the mask?
Did the mask thing arise?
Are you killing students?
Is that part of the charge?
My colleague's letter started with the accusation that I discouraged the students from wearing masks, which is a fantasy.
I did not.
Too bad.
I think you should have, but it doesn't matter.
My job is to get the students...
Well, look, Dennis, I've been vindicated now that we have Dr. Fauci's emails because they make clear that he never believed that masks work.
There's an essay on my website.
It's called Masking Ourselves to Death.
Which I put up in September.
And I think your listeners will find it extremely enlightening.
Oh, good.
I want to read that.
I've been following the mask issue.
When you cited studies that showed masks were worthless, did you cite the New England Journal of Medicine, universal masking in hospitals in the COVID-19 era?
Well, I did not yet because, you know, it hadn't come out.
Oh, no, no, it did.
No, it came out May 21, 2020. Let me read this excerpt to you.
I've read it to my listeners many times.
Right, right.
This is in the New England Journal of Medicine, the most prestigious medical journal in the United States, though no longer.
None of them are prestigious any longer.
They're like universities.
But in any event, three MDs or five MDs wrote it.
We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection.
Public health authorities define a significant exposure to COVID-19 as face-to-face contact within six feet with a patient with symptomatic COVID-19 that is sustained for at least a few minutes and some say more than 10 minutes or even 30 minutes.
The chance of catching COVID-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal.
In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.
Right, right.
There is an NEJM article among the eight that I told the students to read.
It was probably that one.
There's also one in the British Journal of Medicine that finds that cloth masks are not only ineffective, but Right, exactly.
Increase the danger of infection.
They're talismans.
Alright, so I have the big macro question to ask you.
If I had you on my show five years ago and said to you, Professor Miller, how would you characterize yourself as liberal, progressive, or left?
What would you have said?
Well, you know, even then I would have said, you know, I'm more or less on the left, but I'm very different from a lot of other people on the left.
You know, I've been on the outs with them really since 2005 when my book on the 2004 election came out.
It was an interesting list from basic books.
It was very carefully sourced by The Theft of an Election.
And while the corporate media completely blacked it out, the left press attacked me as a conspiracy theorist.
And these are magazines I'd written for.
And they were written by people I knew and thought of as friends.
It was really strange, and it got me thinking when I got over the shock about that phrase conspiracy theory and conspiracy theorist.
And I dug deep into that history, and it turns out, Dennis, that prior in 1967, that phrase was only used now and then in the media.
Conspiracy theory.
Conspiracy theorist had never been used.
Why did it start in 1967?
Because that year, the CIA sent out a memo to all its station chiefs worldwide.
It's memo 1035-960.
You can find it online.
And it was about the problem.
They called it the problem of certain books having come out questioning the Warren report on Kennedy's assassination.
They regarded these books One of which was a bestseller as a problem.
And the solution was to discredit the authors.
And it instructed its station chiefs to use their media assets to attack these writers as conspiracy theorists.
And it gave a number of, you know, facile talking points that they could use in their various articles, you know.
And then you find that from then on, the use of the phrase in the press just Increases and increases and increases after King's assassination, after Bobby's assassination, after Iran-Contra, especially after 9-11.
Now it's used all the time.
Now it's associated with the far right, right?
Back in 67, as you'll see in the memo, they said it's a good idea to associate this with the communists and the Kremlin.
So, it was, you know, these writers were discredited as connected to the far left back then.
Now it's the far right.
And, you know, this last election was demonstrably stolen, seems to me.
And that whole charade in the Capitol was a psychological operation.
It was theater that was a large, that was a completely peaceful march.
You know, I know a lot of people who were there.
Well, well...
You get my courage award.
I have one final question.
Do you wear a mask when you teach?
No.
No.
But I'm not allowed in any of the university buildings because I'm not vaccinated.
And I'm not going to prove that I'm...
All right.
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So I know this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell has failed to survive challenges in the past.
It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before.
Right.
It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this.
You know, I have faced so many things in my life.
It's in my book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO? And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence.
I'm not going to, I'm never going to give up.
When things that I believe in, I'm going to stand firm.
I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure.
And that's where, you know, you just, great things come out of things.
You know, you look back at things in life.
I look back at things that happened to me.
I look back at, wow.
If that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now.
I look back and I use those things as they were character builders.
And by the way, I want people to read about your story and your character.
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So, Laureen Powell Jobs, or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces her name, she is now, according to Alex Marlowe, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros.
Pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes.
And so I want to be very clear.
She does not want to destroy America.
She wants it to be hers.
And it's not just her.
There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg, of these oligarchs that are pumping in billions of dollars.
Thank you.
Wow.
My column this week is about the best thing Americans could do to take back their country from the left, and that is to pull their kids out of schools.
Colleges is another...
NYU is another example.
High schools, elementary schools.
Find a good school...
If one exists in your area, under college or anywhere, college.
And homeschool.
If millions of parents took their kids out of school, even for a year, even if colleges, you know, it's like if they have the women's weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics, if they, in fact, take place.
Biological men compete as New Zealand is sending a biological male weightlifter to compete against women.
And women just didn't show up.
That would end the lie and the fraud and the cheating of biological men who consider themselves women competing against biological women.
That's all you have to do.
Don't show up.
That is what you have to do with college.
Don't show up.
They care about money.
I don't know if they care about money or leftism more.
It's probably 50-50.
Same with your...
How could you send your kid back to school when teachers wouldn't show up to teach your children for a year and a half?
How could you do that?
You do not have contempt for the teachers who are cowards?
And irrational, unscientific fears trumped their commitment to teaching your children in person?
It's a very daunting thing to think about homeschooling, but what is your choice?
Yes.
What is your choice?
Do you know how you're playing with your child's mind?
And soul, and I don't mean that in a theological sense.
Everyone has a soul, whatever definition they give to the word.
Their ability to think clearly, their values, and their love of you.
If you have any traditional values, your child is taught to have contempt for you at school.
I'm sorry you're in this position, but you have no choice but to remove them.
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Kept telling myself, this is a guy who practically, literally and figuratively has been face down in the gutter.
And this is a guy whose life, you know, was at one point kind of hanging in the balance.
So I know this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell, you know, has failed to survive challenges in the past.
It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before.
Right.
It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this.
You know, I have faced so many things in my life.
It's in my book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO? And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence.
I'm never going to give up.
When things that I believe in, I'm going to stand firm.
I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure.
And that's where, you know, you just...
Great things come out of things.
You look back on things in life.
I look back on things that happened to me.
I look back and go, wow, if that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now.
I look back and I use those things as they were character builders.
By the way, I want people to read about your story and your character.
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What makes the current ruling class in America different?
My other very good friend, who also does a great job at Breitbart.com, has a new book out called Breaking the News.
Alex Marlowe, he filled in for us last week.
I encourage all of you to check out that book, Breaking the News.
Alex Marlowe has been teasing this for months, saying that there is a new George Soros.
Saying that there's a new person on the scene that is spending just massive sums of money, almost unfathomable amounts of money, to try and remake America in the image that they so desire.
I've been trying to get it out of Alex for months of who this person is, but he was very disciplined.
I've got to give Alex credit.
But he said, nope, I am not going to tell you who this person is.
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So I know this year has been tough for you, but it's not like Mike Lindell has failed to survive challenges in the past.
It isn't like you haven't faced adversity before.
Right.
It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this.
You know, I have faced so many things in my life.
It's in my book, What are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO? And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence.
I'm never going to give up.
When things that I believe in, I'm going to stand firm.
I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure.
And that's where you just...
Great things come out of things.
You look back on things in life.
I look back on things that happened to me.
I look back and go, wow, if that hadn't happened, I might not be where I'm at now.
I look back and I use those things as they were character builders.
By the way, I want people to read about your story and your character.
This book, What Are the Odds?
From Crack Addict to CEO. Gracious enough to let us auction off some of these books for the signed books for our Prison Fellowship Angel Tree Campaign to send kids to summer camp.
These are the children of prisoners in America who, for $200, are sponsored for an entire week to go to summer camp, not only to play, to be outside with other kids, but also...
Hear the gospel.
Learn the message of God's love.
Mike, our listeners have donated over $175,000 to send these kids to summer camp in the last couple of weeks, and your book helped play a part in that.
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So, Laureen Powell Jobs, or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces her name, she is now, according to Alex Marlowe, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros, pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes.
And so I want to be very clear, she does not want to destroy America.
She wants it to be hers.
And it's not just her.
There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg of these oligarchs that are pumping in billions of dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg put $400 million to the Center for Technology and Civic Life into this last election.
$400 million.
Jeff Bezos, with his play money, owns the Washington Post, which propagandizes you and your children through Apple News.
Thank you, Laureen Powell Jobs.
So what you have here is a technology ecosystem that has been built through businesses of largely unearned wealth.
Now, some could say that Jeff Bezos earned his wealth.
I think that's probably somewhat true.
Do I think that he gamed the U.S. Postal Service?
Yes.
Do I think that he misleads the type of company he is?
He's just a server company.
That loses money intentionally to take over other small businesses.
But I think there's something fundamentally different about making massive sums of money in this new technology era and the ways that people made money in the early 1900s, 1950s, and 1980s.
You see, technology has led to fast, immediate wealth creation.
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Thank you.
Well, we really have an ultimate issue for the Ultimate Issues Hour today.
I'm Dennis Prager.
Third hour on Tuesday is some great issue of life.
Fathers is the issue.
Can't get more ultimate than that.
Fathers.
And there's a new PragerU video given by me as it happens.
It's out this week.
Are fathers necessary?
In it, I cite, for example, Atlantic Magazine published an article titled, Are Fathers Necessary?
A paternal contribution may not be as essential as we think.
New York Times published a discussion among five intellectuals titled, What Are Fathers For?
One of them, Hannah Rosen, an editor at New York Magazine, Opened her response by stating, I'm not sure whether a child needs a father.
HuffPost published a piece titled, Fathers Are Not Needed.
I can give you examples for the rest of this hour, and actually not even comment.
I could fill the hour with such examples.
There's a film out now, a documentary, The Streets Were My Father, about this subject.
Lee Habib is the producer of this, and we're going to talk about fathers now, and we're going to take your calls as well.
Lee, when you were a kid, if you were told that when you reach adulthood, there would be a major segment of the American population that thought fathers were not necessary, what would you have thought?
The person was out of their mind, or would you have said, you know what, we're moving in that direction?
You know, I'm from New Jersey, Dennis, so in my early youth, I would have said, you're out of your mind.
But at the time I was in my 20s and early 30s, I thought, we're heading in that direction.
I was near Columbia University.
I was near NYU University in the New School.
I was a young, aspiring actor.
And people were starting to actually think like this in the big cities and the universities.
And of course, as you've talked about and Bill Barr talked about in a recent speech, the madrassas, which are the, let's face it, the seminaries, the school, the colleges, the Ivy Leagues, have passed this line of thought on to the entire country and to the culture.
And I think a lot more people than we'd care to admit actually believe this, Dennis, and they really do believe this.
And what is your take on why?
For example, There's no movement saying mothers are not necessary.
So, how do you explain this?
You know, Dennis, I'm not a psychiatrist, right?
But I think a lot of it has to do with the idea that there are valid single moms who are around some really bad men.
And some really bad men who didn't pay child support.
My own wife had a father who never even showed up and never paid child support.
And ultimately...
My wife's mom started to think, who needs a man if that's the best there is to offer?
So in some cases, it's an intellectual movement that comes from the progressive left, but sometimes it's just experience.
And if you've had an experience of a bad father, and you've had the experience of a bad husband, that alone can actually formulate a worldview, Dennis.
And I've seen this happen in my own life.
I've often asked myself, and my dad did too, Because he knew what a privilege it was to have a father, and a good one, and a present one, not just a father who drank or abused his kids and was never there.
And he said, you did nothing to earn this privilege, and you better follow my suit.
And by the way, he did this by example.
He led by the way he lived his life, and it was unimaginable that I, too, wouldn't be a good father, because I'd been handed this gift.
But I had very good friends, Dennis, who didn't have this gift, and they hung around my house.
And my father was...
A father to many who didn't have fathers.
So my heart goes out to those that just had this experience as opposed to this intellectual movement that's been pushing for a world without men.
I invite you, my listeners, to join.
Do you have a theory as to how this incredible thing has developed in America that fathers are not necessary?
1-8 Prager 776-877-243 This is an incredibly important question in light of the fact that fathers are so important.
I mean, the data are dramatic about the percentages of violent criminals in prison who grew up without fathers.
I don't remember it offhand.
I will check it during the break, unless you remember it for some reason.
But it's unbelievably high.
In other words, if you have a father in your life, Who obviously is not inebriated or drugged out or cheating on your mother all the time, then the chances of your growing up to be a productive citizen are increased more dramatically than perhaps any other single piece of data.
I appreciate you, Lee Habib.
For being that honest and noting it is not just left-wing ideology that a lot of people had lousy experiences with fathers slash husbands slash boyfriends and that that might have been a part of it.
Nevertheless, intellectually, it begs the question, still, the fact, it's like saying, you know, Too many planes are crashing.
We don't need airplanes.
Right?
Isn't that...
It's a non-sequitur.
I had a bad experience with a man or a father.
Therefore, fathers are unnecessary.
It's a non-sequitur.
Is that fair to say?
It is fair to say.
And what we have to remember is that not all people act through rationality.
They act through experience and emotion.
But the data is overwhelming.
To some of those points, Dennis, 85% of youths in prison don't have fathers.
That's 20 times the national average.
90% of homeless and runaways are fabulous.
32 times the national average.
80% of children with behavioral disorders are fabulous.
21 times the national average.
And I can go on and on.
This isn't just this positive data.
This is almost a law of gravity at this point in time.
I don't know how one can ignore the statistics and the data, especially the people who are so-called people of data and science.
What does the left say to those statistics?
I don't have an answer to my question.
It's not rhetorical.
Do you know?
Yeah, I mean, I've heard it.
I've had many debates with sociology professors, and they will say that capitalism itself and poverty causes fatherlessness.
Of course, my rebuttal is that fatherlessness causes poverty, and that cultural norms can get established, which then change everything.
And the Great Depression...
Fabulousness rates across the board were under 10% for the African American community, under 5% for whites and other ethnic groups.
It was sort of unimaginable.
My grandfather used to always tell me, who lived long enough to see these things happen, an Italian immigrant from Sicily who didn't speak the language, and he couldn't believe that the town he used to live in, the edge of Newark, was filled with kids pushing along baby carriages.
And he said the idea that a man could have a child and not raise it was unimaginable.
To the Italian community and to the Lebanese community.
So what happened?
Will that change?
What happened where a guy could get a girl pregnant and just leave?
What happened?
And when did it happen?
And I think we know that it was somewhere around the mid-1960s and it had nothing to do with economics.
It had to do with incentives.
It had to do with other things besides economics.
Poverty.
Poverty causes crime.
Poverty causes fatherlessness.
I don't know.
I don't know your background, but I assume that it was obviously ethnically different, but not dissimilar socioeconomically.
My grandparents on my father's side were truly poor.
The thought that that would lead my grandfather to leave the family is laughable.
It's actually laughable.
He wouldn't know what you're talking about.
Or to hold up the local liquor store.
It's no sense.
Exactly!
I'm laughing because it's preposterous.
This poverty explains everything theory is preposterous.
I'm talking to Lee Habib.
I want to talk to you.
This is the Ultimate Issues Hour.
How has the idea even percolated?
In the society, that fathers may not be necessary.
How did we go from father knows best, a major sitcom of the 50s, to fathers are not necessary, inside of one or two generations?
That's ideology.
Back in a moment with Lee Habib and the subject of fathers.
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Obama tore this country down.
No one stood up to him!
My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
And Uncle Tom is somebody who has sold out.
I will not pretend to be a victim in this country.
I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
Most black people don't believe that other blacks can be independent, free thinkers.
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Can you discuss that, please?
It's to do with contract law, correct?
Right.
So there's this case, United States v.
Throckmorton, and there was a, in that opinion, the phrase, fraud videates everything, which basically says we go back to square one.
And the idea of that is that if you and I enter into a contract and I approach this in bad faith and there is fraud...
When I'm signing it.
Yes, before...
It's like a marriage contract in the Catholic faith.
If you go in as a woman, knowing that I... I'm never going to have children and not telling your husband.
That is a reason to nullify the wedding as if it never actually occurred.
So people are saying...
As if it never occurred.
So now they're saying, well, it applies to the election, right?
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So I want to get through a very important piece of news that happened.
The Pelosi Commission.
So for the last couple months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow-walking this.
I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission to look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it.
She wanted this to be a later authorized commission so it would go into the election year of 2022 and hurt Republicans.
So she did not want this to be an overnight thing.
So she pretended as if she was negotiating with Republicans on this commission.
And the more information that we get about January 6th, the more it looks like an interruption, not an insurrection.
And I'm not supporting the smashing of windows or the assaulting of police officers.
You lay your hand on a police officer, you should go to prison for a very long time.
I'm not minimizing that.
At the same time, who killed Ashley Babbitt?
And why were there no charges against the person that fired a shot at Ashley Babbitt, who was unarmed?
I thought that was the big mantra of BLM Incorporated.
So for months now, Republicans have been Negotiating with Nancy Pelosi.
When I say Republicans, I mean someone who is not even a Republican, someone who voted for impeachment.
And so, the commission is supposed to be like a 9-11 style commission to look in to the January 6th incident.
But we all know how these things happen.
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Today's June 8th?
I really blew that.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is what happens on live radio.
You blow it, and...
And you own it.
That's the way it works.
So in two days, there will be this hearing in the district court.
Or establish a relief fund by the defendants of $100 million for all the local small business owners that have been hurt.
That's correct.
8,000 canceled hotel reservations.
Local county investments of $2 million lost to host local events.
Countless dollars by local restaurant owners.
And instead they're going to Colorado.
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A lot of people are fighting, you know?
If you despair, that's the lazy way out.
I just want to tell you, I have no compassion or respect for people who love this country who despair and do nothing.
Okay?
As far as the country is concerned, your despair is worthless.
Just want you to know that.
The task is to fight.
And if you want something to motivate you to fight, look at the picture at Normandy Beach of the grave sites.
Always works for me.
Lee Habib's a fighter.
Terrific guy, I might add.
He's my Lebanese brother.
Not many people knew I had a Lebanese brother.
I didn't even know that I had...
Wait, but I didn't even know, Lee, until this conversation, that I have a Lebanese-slash-Italian brother.
Indeed.
From Mississippi.
From Mississippi.
You know, it's a great question to ask.
And I'm going to do it again.
I did it like ten years ago.
I devoted an hour.
Has your life ended up as you assumed it would when you were in high school?
And I'm thinking about you.
And I'm thinking, I don't think it did.
No, no, it didn't turn out anything like it did, but it turned out so much better.
Yeah, no, exactly.
That's right.
There's no question it may be better.
I'm just saying it's very different, that's all.
Very different.
You assumed growing up as a Lebanese Italian in New Jersey that you'd end up in Mississippi like I thought I'd end up in Iceland.
You know, the Jewish community of Iceland.
Oh, God.
Anyway, apropos of the subject, the subject is not, are fathers necessary?
That's tangential.
We all know they are.
They're unbelievably necessary.
The question is, how did it develop that people would think they're not?
We went from Father Knows Best, a major sitcom of the 50s, to Fathers Are Unnecessary, Inside of a Generation.
And apropos of this, Ali has a magnificent documentary now available.
It's at SalemNow.com as it happens.
The Streets Were My Father, about fathers, and about God for that matter.
And my video was up at PragerU this week, also about fathers being necessary.
So, we're talking about how this happened.
And you gave a very important and honest answer, saying it wasn't just ideology.
Because there are bad fathers.
There are abandoning fathers.
There are molesting fathers.
All of this is true.
But as I said, it's like saying, because there are so many car accidents, we don't need cars.
One has nothing to do with the other.
And so it's mostly been ideology.
All right, let me take some calls here, and of course, I'd like you to react as well, obviously.
Lee, Kim in Castaic, California.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
Thank you for taking my call.
Thank you.
So I just had this conversation with my best friend of 35 years.
I grew up with my dad, my grandparents, my grandfathers, both of them, seven uncles.
She grew up with...
No father in the house, no male, just her mother, her grandmother, her aunties.
And she just told me the other day that her daughter, she thinks, is a lesbian.
And we had a conversation about that.
But she felt like it's because her father was not a good father and she didn't really allow her father to parent.
She protected her daughter from...
The father is if, you know, he wasn't needed.
And I've seen her basically teach her daughters, now a next generation of young black girls, that men are not necessary.
Fathers are not necessary.
And I think that my theory on that is because it justifies, in her case, her bad decision-making and her values that she was taught, which I think are wrong.
And I think that that's why a lot of black women accept All of these intellectual theories because it keeps them from having to take responsibility for the fact that they have failed a whole generation of young people.
That's fascinating.
So let me comment quickly on the lesbian issue because I distinguish.
I've done massive research on homosexuality.
Last 15 years ago, not 15, 25 years ago, I wrote a 17,000 word essay on the subject.
And I believe that female homosexuality and male homosexuality have little in common.
They have some things in common.
They're obviously both same-sex attraction.
But I think female sexuality is not as...
Built in, to use a non-scientific term, as male homosexuality.
But in any event, I just wanted to comment on that.
But again, there's a lot of dysfunction, unfortunately, in the black community with regard to fathers.
And she is saying, this black woman who just called, it leads to some bad decisions like, men are not necessary, I'll have a baby anyway.
I think, though, Lee, that the government and policies have added a tremendous amount, unfortunately, of substance to that belief, I don't need a man.
Any thoughts?
No, there's no doubt.
Look, when you have welfare rules that reward a woman for keeping the man away, and that if the man joins and they earn just enough money, they lose all their health benefits.
They lose their medical benefits.
There are actually incentives that just...
Cut the wrong way for folks.
But, you know, Dennis, back to that experience.
There was a tremendous book, and I know you did this back when the book came out in 1999 called Faith of the Fatherless.
All right, hold it there.
Hold it there, Lee Habib.
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It's to do with contract law, correct?
Right.
So there's this case, United States versus Throckmorton.
And there was a, in that opinion, the phrase fraud vitiates everything, which basically says we go back to square one.
And the idea of that is that if you and I enter into a contract and I approach this in bad faith and there is fraud.
When I'm signing it.
Yes.
It's like a marriage contract in the Catholic faith.
If you go in as a woman, knowing that I'm never going to have children and not telling your husband, that is a reason to nullify the wedding as if it never actually occurred.
So people are saying...
As if it never occurred.
So now they're saying, well, it applies to the election, right?
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So I want to get through a very important piece of news that happened.
The Pelosi Commission.
So for the last couple months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow-walking this.
I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission.
To look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it, she wanted this to be a later authorized commission so it would go into the election year of 2022 and hurt Republicans.
So she did not want this to be an overnight thing.
So she pretended as if she was negotiating with Republicans on this commission.
And the more information that we get about January 6th, the more it looks like an interruption, not an insurrection.
And I'm not supporting the smashing of windows or the assaulting of police officers.
You lay your hand on a police officer, you should go to prison for a very long time.
I'm not minimizing that.
At the same time, who killed Ashley Babbitt?
And why were there no charges against the person that fired a shot at Ashley Babbitt, who was unarmed?
I thought that was the big mantra of BLM Incorporated.
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Negotiating with Nancy Pelosi.
When I say Republicans, I mean someone who is not even a Republican, someone who voted for impeachment.
And so, the commission is supposed to be like a 9-11 style commission to look in to the January 6th incident.
But we all know how these things happen.
This would be a Mueller style counsel that would be a roaming prosecutor.
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Hey folks, I'm talking to Kevin McCullough.
Tell us, what did you make of Kamala Harris when she posted, have a great weekend or something like that?
The way I take it sometimes...
I don't want to be like the left.
When the people on the left say something really stupid, I don't want to pile on as though they're the devil.
So when she said, have a nice weekend, we know it's because she's ignorant and it's bad as the vice president not to understand what Memorial Day is all about.
But I kind of feel like I almost don't know what I what do I expect from these people that she's never given a thought to Memorial Day, I don't think.
No, I don't think so.
And I think that she's a pragmatist in almost every area of life.
Thank you.
So...
The question of this Ultimate Issues Hour is not, are fathers necessary?
That's like asking, is oxygen necessary?
The question is, how did it happen that it became a question?
And I'm taking your calls as well as speaking this entire hour with Lee Habib, Among other things, has produced this new documentary exactly about fathers, The Streets Were My Father.
It's very uplifting, and it is at SalemNow.com.
He's host of Our American Stories, a weekday radio show syndicated across the U.S. and founder of American Private Radio.
On the side, he is a badminton announcer.
How did you know?
I follow the sport.
Does badminton have announcers?
If they do, they probably come from the tennis world, and that is the whispering announcer, who barely announces.
I thought the golf announcers whispered, because they don't want to disturb the golfers.
That's true, too.
A lot of whispering in that sport as well.
You know, I actually...
By the way, Dennis, I brought up the faith of the fatherless.
Yes.
Because you get to that idea that experience can shape ideas.
I mean, that was basically what Paul Witts was getting at, was that Hobbes, Voltaire, Hume, Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Sartre, Stalin, Freud, all suffered from defective fathers.
Their personal experience severed them from God.
So if you don't have a father, it's harder to get to God.
Look, anyone who's watched your video on the Fifth Commandment, honor thy father and mother, that thy days will be long upon the land which God giveth thee.
Well, what happens if you don't have a father?
How do you get to the father if you don't have a father?
So this idea that experience influences ideas is very profound.
You know, this is what H.G. Wells wrote in the book.
This is from H.G. Wells.
And his mother had just tried to keep the family together.
The father was always drinking and playing cricket.
And this is what he wrote.
My father was always away at cricket.
And I think my mom realized more and more as the years dragged on, without material alleviation, that our father and our Lord, Lord, on whom to begin with she had perhaps counted unduly, were also away, playing perhaps at their own sort of cricket in some remote quarter of the starry universe.
Wow.
Say it!
Wow.
Well, now that you've raised God, I have a theory that not only have many young Americans been deprived of an earthly father, they have also been deprived of a heavenly father.
At least for those who don't have an earthly, One of the benefits of Judeo-Christian religions is a Heavenly Father.
So that can, for some people, be a vehicle to their becoming an earthly father or whatever, but if you don't have either, that's a big hole in one's life.
That's wrong.
Yes, the Heavenly Father thing should not be...
That's why people should not say, Our Parent in Heaven.
As the woke Jews and Protestants and Catholics do.
Wokeism has infected Judaism and Christianity terribly.
Who wants to say our parent in heaven?
Really, I mean, think about it.
You relate to a father or mother.
You don't relate to a parent.
You relate to a father or a mother.
Or now birthing...
What is it?
Birthing person.
Yeah, birthing person.
And Dennis, in our film, that's precisely what we get at.
These three young men encountered God the Father.
God the Father, Leslie Williams, an African-American guy who really didn't know his dad.
His dad drank all the time.
At the close of the film, he says, the rules that I lived on under my godly father were the rules I always wanted.
God taught me the values of living, the values of loving.
It's beautiful, and it's true.
I'm going to devote some time to this, even after this hour on another show, because as I've gotten older, I actually appreciate my father's role in my life more, interestingly, as time has moved on.
And it's an interesting thought.
If you never say, what would my father say?
Or what would my father do?
That's a hole in your life.
Is that a fair statement?
I never said that before.
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My parents didn't teach me that I was a victim.
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I know that that makes many people on the left uncomfortable.
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Can you discuss that please?
please?
It's to do with contract law, correct?
Right.
So there's this case, United States versus Throckmorton.
And there was a, in that opinion, the phrase fraud videates everything, which basically says we go back to square one.
And the idea of that is that if you and I enter into a contract and I approach this in bad faith and there is fraud.
When I'm signing it.
Yes.
It's like a marriage contract in the Catholic faith.
If you go in as a woman, knowing that I'm never going to have children, I'm not telling your husband.
That is a reason to nullify the wedding as if it never actually occurred.
As if it never occurred.
So now they're saying, well, it applies to the election, right?
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So I want to get through a very important piece of news that happened.
The Pelosi Commission.
So for the last couple months, Nancy Pelosi, I think, has been intentionally slow-walking this.
I think that Nancy Pelosi has been intentionally dragging her feet for months because Nancy Pelosi wanted a commission to look into January 6th, despite the fact that every single department of law enforcement right now is looking into it.
She wanted this to be a later authorized commission so it would go into the election year of 2022 and hurt Republicans.
So she did not want this to be an overnight thing.
So she pretended as if she was negotiating with Republicans on this commission.
And the more information that we get about... ...
...great affection for Lee Habib... ...producer of the documentary about fathers and God... ...The Streets Were My Father...
It's at SalemNow.com.
I have a video up this week on fathers, talking about not just the necessity of fathers, but how it even arose that they're not necessary.
By the way, I should add, because there are so many single moms out there, it's not a knock on single mothers.
It's just people need to face the truth even when it is not their reality.
It's such a weakening of the American character that people can't acknowledge these things.
Lee, I'm going to give an example here, which you're certainly free to react to.
I came out to California to head a major Jewish institution, an educational center.
They had thousands of members.
And I was single.
I was a young guy.
I was in my 20s, actually, when I became director.
And I remember saying to them, Judaism passionately advocates marriage.
And I'm single.
And I'm the head of a Jewish center, an educational center.
And I don't think you should fire me for not being married.
But I do think you should fire me if I ever say Judaism does not teach that we should get married.
So that's the issue with single mothers.
Nobody wants to fire you or condemn you or what have you.
If you deny that fathers are important, that's wrong.
Is that a fair distinction?
I think that's a very fair distinction.
You know, I don't know if you remember William Raspberry.
He was a great African-American columnist for the Washington Post, and he was a liberal.
But he wrote a column called The Elephant's Tale, and it was about young bull elephants being out of control in Pillensburg National Park in South Africa.
And they were pretty soon thinking about just putting these young bull elephants down or randomly killing rhinos for no reason.
And this is what he wrote.
But then last year, someone got the bright idea of bringing some older, mature bulls to Millensburg.
Perhaps the bigger, stronger males could rein in as teenagers.
The gamble paid off for reasons both obvious and subtle.
The bigger bulls, establishing the natural hierarchy, became the dominant sexual partners for the females.
The resulting reduction in sexual activity on part of the young bulls Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
When was that written?
In the 70s?
80s?
1999. He then made the link to the absolute, out-of-control, fatherless problem, not just in urban America, but in rural America and in the Latino community.
And it was a crisis.
That's when you could write such things in the Washington Post.
That's right.
The elephant's tail.
Yes.
Good.
Thank you.
Angelina, Medina, Ohio.
No.
Medina.
I was just there.
Medina.
Yes, hello.
Thank you for taking my call.
I really think, and maybe I'd like to hear your thoughts on this, but this whole push that fathers are not necessary is really just a ploy from the left as part of their endgame to destroy the nuclear family.
First, you get rid of the fathers, render them useless, castrate them, shame them, get them all together.
Then, leave the mothers to raise the children, which of course we know.
It can be done to a certain point, but it really takes both parents to raise effective, well-adjusted human beings.
So when ultimately the mothers fail to raise good, productive members of society, then we can blame the mothers for their failure and then get rid of them.
And then you've effectively destroyed the nuclear family by taking the children and putting them in the hands of the state.
Well, interesting.
Do you recall, Lee, in light of what was just said, that the original, the museum, I think it was of African American history, put up a listing of white values and it included the nuclear family?
Yes, it was shocking and horrifying, actually.
Yes, I would say so.
There is no question that the nuclear family is considered patriarchal, heteronormative, all these terrible things.
I think there's a lot of truth to what she said.
Paul, Los Angeles, California.
Hello, you're on with me and Lee Habib.
Hey, gentlemen.
Thank you for taking my call.
It's a pleasure.
I agree with a lot of what has been said, but I have to say there's something that's...
The Murphy Brown episode of years ago was one of the Matrix moments in my life.
And it made me realize people just don't want to be judged.
That's one of the base reasonings behind it.
Dan Quayle pointed it out, but he pointed it out inartfully.
This all boils down to a desire to not be judged.
What are your thoughts?
Very intelligent call.
Lee?
Very intelligent.
I think that's a big part of it.
And by the way, we are apprehensive about judging that individual mom, right?
Right, which is what I said, yes.
Right.
And it's that simple.
And then from there, we also got in sitcoms, the father who is hapless and an idiot.
That started to happen, right?
The strong woman, the idiot husband.
And so I think you're right about the judgment.
I also think the role of the culture.
In addition to the role of ideology, the role of experience, the role of the sexual evolution, I think five or six multifaceted songs have attributed to this movement of our father's necessary dentists.
And I think it's almost been a perfect storm the last quarter of the century.
Can you name, and again, this is not rhetorical, you might be able, I don't follow films much, can you name a film in the last 15, even 20 years that showed a heroic man?
Gran Torino.
That's about it.
Wow.
Yeah.
How about this?
Can you name one that showed a heroic clergyman?
On the waterfront in 1954. Yeah, exactly.
I was thinking of that, too.
Exactly.
What was the year?
1954. Yeah, 54. Exactly.
It's in black and white.
That's right.
That's exactly correct.
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Right.
It's almost like God prepared me for such a time as this.
You know, I have faced so many things in my life.
It's in my book, What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO? And I think that's also what gives my employees and all my family, it gives them confidence because I have such confidence.
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I'm not going to buckle up to the cancel culture and the pressure.
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So, Laureen Powell Jobs, or Lauren, whatever, however she pronounces her name, she is now, according to Alex Marlowe, editor of Breitbart.com, the new George Soros, pumping millions and millions of dollars towards social leftist activist causes.
And so I want to be very clear, she does not want to destroy America.
She wants it to be hers.
And it's not just her.
There is an entire network of Jeff Bezos to Zuckerberg, of these oligarchs that are pumping in billions of dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg put $400 million to the Center for Technology and Civic Life into this last election.
$400 million. $400 million.
Well, the bad news is it's the final segment of a great hour.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I just want you to know, folks, that I am the treasurer, admittedly not president, but treasurer of the Lee Habib fan club.
And it keeps me awake at night.
I trust you with my best riches.
That's right.
No, and I take that role very seriously.
Lee Habib is a great guy.
And he is a producer of the documentary The Streets Were My Father about the fatherhood issue and about God.
They are related, ladies and gentlemen.
The assault on fatherhood and the assault on God are absolutely commensurate with one another.
They parallel each other and they are related directly.
And so that's available at salemnow.com.
The streets were my father.
My video on fathers is up at PragerU this week.
But the subject of this hour has been, why would something so obvious, something that was obvious to all of humanity and every culture, the necessity of fathers, now be even up for debate?
Let me summarize some of the calls, folks.
I wish I could take all of your calls, as you well know.
Joy in Minnesota says, Men have not decided to exercise their ability to create and sustain good families.
I couldn't agree with you more.
If men do not get raised to be men, they won't be men.
They will remain boys.
That is exactly correct.
The biggest comment made to me in my generation, in my world, was, Be a man.
Did you have that too, Lee?
Yeah, man up.
Man up, that's right.
Man up.
That's exactly right.
They don't use that today.
They'd be called sexist and misogynist and a whole host of things.
Mike in Pennsylvania, one of his kids has two children with a young woman who benefits economically from not marrying.
How's that for a society committing suicide?
To make it beneficial not to marry.
Jasminka, Pasadena, California.
The absence of a religious father has resulted in devaluing fatherhood in general.
There's no question they are related.
That's why I, for many reasons, including the fight against totalitarianism, I have come to believe that a case could be made that honor your father and mother is the most important of the Ten Commandments.
I never felt that way in the first decades of my teaching the Ten Commandments.
And that's the story.
Lee Habib, God bless you, my friend.
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