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Jan. 11, 2022 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	My hat on often.
	He has made a PragerU video.
	He's a columnist at the Wall Street Journal.
	Andy Posner, Fox News economic analyst as well.
	And hey, you know, it's nice to see you.
	This is a new addition to the Prager show, seeing my guests.
	Where are you right now?
	That's one beautiful room.
	Nashville, Tennessee.
	I'm in my study.
	This is where I do most of the TV and other Skype and Zoom meetings from.
	So you set up your own lighting?
	I did.
	Everything's all set up.
	Cool.
	This is great.
	It's all on my iPad, by the way, which is incredible to me.
	Yeah, it is.
	The whole thing's incredible.
	Technology is the best example today of a blessing and a curse.
	The kids who get addicted to their phones is a bad thing.
	You know, the video games, on the other hand, that we could do this, and I have access to so much information.
	Blessings and curses come together.
	Anyway, so, by the way, Andy, are you now a regular columnist at the Wall Street Journal?
	I'm sorry, say that again?
	Are you a regular columnist at the Wall Street Journal?
	Well, I would say over the past, I don't know, six, seven, eight, nine years, they run...
	Probably eight to ten articles I write a year, so I guess I'm pretty regular.
	Yeah, because the guys who have an illustration of their face seem to be the columnists.
	Anyway, I hope it's true, because you're terrific.
	All right, so let me talk to you a little about economics and other matters.
	How worried are you about inflation?
	I'm real worried about inflation.
	I don't think the Biden administration has any plan to combat it.
	We can't admit that their policies caused it, and their policies clearly, clearly drove what we're suffering through now.
	They couldn't admit it was happening when it was happening, and they have absolutely no solutions to reduce it, so other than the Fed increasing interest rates, which is going to hurt everybody, but probably needs to be done.
	There was an article in the Los Angeles Times, I don't expect you to have read it, I read the LA Times, I live in LA, and because I'm...
	A martyr to my cause of bringing information to my listeners.
	But they said the high gas prices have nothing to do with policy.
	It's only because of COVID. How could that possibly be?
	Look, there is a concerted effort by John Kerry, which has been very successful, to get banks, large banks like Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, not Bank of America, not to lend.
	To oil, people that are in the oil or gas business.
	Now, for the big companies like Exxon, they can probably get by.
	But for the smaller companies, the independents, the people that are out there fracking, it's incredibly expensive.
	It's incredibly risky.
	And if they don't have the financial resources to do the drilling, it significantly reduces our ability to maintain our energy independence, which we gained under President Trump.
	If we lose that, we're dependent on other countries for oil.
	When we're tapping into the supplies available in other countries, we're driving up the demand for oil worldwide.
	Oil is priced worldwide.
	It's not just priced in the United States.
	We were the third largest energy exporter in the world prior to COVID. If we don't get back to that, if we reduce the supply and we increase the demand because we're trying to tap into that supply...
	Prices are going to go up.
	That's exactly what happened.
	Nobody should be surprised by this.
	Even Larry Summers predicted this was going to happen.
	And Larry Summers and I often disagree, but I don't think he's stupid.
	And back last March, he said, if you enact these policies, you're going to see massive inflation.
	The Biden administration ignored him, and we're paying the price on food and on energy.
	Just a word on Larry Summers.
	I regard him as a liberal, not a leftist.
	Yeah, I think that's fair.
	Yeah, so the liberals don't understand that the left is destroying liberalism, but we conservatives do.
	So that's the battle in the country, is for the mind of the liberal.
	I did not know, I'm not proud of it, but I did not know about the lending.
	John Kerry can pressure banks whom and whom not to lend to?
	How?
	Yes.
	Not only can he, but he has been.
	And I had a Wall Street Journal article on this about maybe two, three weeks ago, talking about how in Texas they had enacted a law that said that if you didn't lend to, if you didn't support, if you refused to invest in the oil and gas sector, in the fossil fuels industry, you couldn't do business with the state of Texas.
	And that really cut these big banks out of about $58 billion last year in municipal bond deals.
	So this year, if there were a similar number of municipal bond deals in Texas, which is a very fast-growing state, then these banks would be cut out of that.
	And that kind of woke them up.
	I think that if we can get more red states to take actions like Texas took, we're going to see real progress in fighting back this environmental, social, governance investment criteria.
	That's affecting really our entire free enterprise system, but in particular, the fossil fuel sector.
	So let me go back to my question then.
	How did John Kerry force, I don't know, Citibank to not loan money to energy companies?
	Look, there's a lot of pressure that Kerry can bring to bear from the government.
	I mean, he is Biden's.
	I forget what his title is.
	He's the climate guru, the climate guy for Biden.
	And he carries a lot of weight in the White House.
	And he's going around to these banks saying, look, we've got control of the House.
	We've got control of the Senate.
	We've got the presidency.
	If you don't toe the line, if you don't get on board with this, not only are you going to have adverse reactions from investors like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard that build huge amounts of these public companies, even these publicly held banks.
	And they're all pushing this ESG investment criteria.
	Not only will you have pressure from them, but you'll have pressure from the federal government.
	So they all kind of threw their hands up in the air and said, all right, we're going to commit to this carbon neutrality by 2050 and try and convince everybody we're super good people.
	And in the meantime, we'll destroy the American fossil fuel sector.
	So what is the case with Texas?
	Did Texas prevail?
	Well, Texas passed this legislation.
	There's two parts to this.
	There's the part where they can impact the banks by saying, if you don't do business with people in the fossil fuel sector, you can't do business with Texas.
	That's great.
	If you don't invest in fossil fuels, you can't do business with Texas.
	That's great.
	The problem is you've got these investment asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard, that handle billions and billions of dollars for the state of Texas and for other red states as well.
	And they will take the shares they own in oil and gas companies and vote them against the interests of the people in the state of Texas.
	For example, BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street owned about 21% of Exxon.
	When Exxon found a proxy contest coming from a group called Engine No.
	1, they tried to put environmentalists on Exxon's board.
	Putting environmentalists on an oil and gas companies board, one of the largest companies, if not the largest company in Texas, employs thousands of Texans, very supportive of the oil and gas industry.
	BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard took their 21% interest and voted those shares in favor of the insurgent company.
	Engine number one, not only to put those environmentalists on the board of Exxon, which has had a tremendous impact on how Exxon does business.
	But also on some shareholder resolutions that were in support of these climate change, these climate change agendas, zero carbon by 2050. So it succeeded, Texas succeeded, by getting these banks to pay attention and say, hey, you know, we're not going to be able to do business with Texas if we don't invest in oil and gas companies.
	However, these companies like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, the problem with them is they do invest in oil and gas companies and then vote the shares against the interests of the people.
	What animates BlackRock?
	I'm sorry?
	What animates BlackRock?
	BlackRock is run by an individual named Larry Fink.
	He's the CEO. And he and these other asset managers have really teamed up on these ESG investment criteria.
	The idea that they're going to save the world.
	Okay, so ideology.
	Social justice and corporate governance.
	So they're run by leftists.
	That's the answer.
	That is absolutely the answer.
	They are run by leftists, and red states better wake up quick, because this is a big problem.
	This is a threat to the entire free-market capitalist system, and I think people really don't need...
	It was the video I did for PragerU.
	I mean, this is a huge threat.
	My God, is it...
	Can you hang on?
	Sure.
	I'll be back with Andy Puzder, who is on Fox.
	With economic insight, and really social insight, and the same with Wall Street Journal, this is just another example of my constant phrase, daily probably, everything the left touches it ruins.
	And if you think that emergency measures in the name of COVID were something, wait till emergency measures in the name of climate.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here, if you know where to look for it.
	Stream on your phone, tablet or TV.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.
	Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you?
	I don't have no respect.
	The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail, followed by miles of open border.
	Human trafficking guard.
	That journey is extremely dangerous.
	The seven-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.
	A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.
	This little urn contains the ashes of my son.
	His dreams cut short forever.
	We're so worried about other countries' problems, and we don't even focus on our own.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Man, I miss my father and I want him to be here with me, but he's not.
	We all had something in common.
	A lot of us were miserable.
	We had no fathers in our lives.
	This is how I began the life of crime.
	I desired to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	Hey, everybody. everybody.
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	Two guys, actually.
	They're not a group.
	Two is not a group.
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	Let's see.
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	Andy Puzder is on with me now.
	And he is with the Wall Street Journal and with...
	Fox News specializes in economics.
	You have a tremendous background in economics, of course, and in business specifically.
	So how do you explain this incredible, destructive, left-wing turn of so many people in business?
	It's a little hard to explain.
	I think a lot of people become dependent on government assistance for their business.
	They don't want to generate support from the government.
	They don't want to be over-regulated by the government.
	They want the government to buy into what they're doing as opposed to opposing it.
	So you find a lot of incentives for people to comply with this sort of collectivist attitude.
	Secondly, there's a lot of pressure on businesses not to do anything that offends the left.
	Because the left is very good at attacking people on the right.
	The left thinks, they think collectively.
	They don't think independently.
	People on the right, they just want to run their business.
	They want to run their lives.
	They want to be successful.
	They want to teach their kids how to be successful.
	People on the left have kind of a group think.
	And when they come after you, if you're running a business, they can seriously damage that business.
	Now, I have to say, I found, when I was running CKE Restaurants, That when I came out and said something that was conservative or leaned right, it actually, and we got a lot of protests from people on the left, it actually would increase our business.
	It actually would help.
	Now, I marketed our company a little different than some other companies market theirs, and we were more of a, we were a large brand, a national brand, but we weren't as big as McDonald's, Wendy's, or Burger King.
	Carl's and Hardy's are smaller, so we could kind of compete as the, As the runner-up kind of person, we didn't have to have this broad appeal.
	We could appeal to a particular segment of the population and do so effectively.
	But I think businesses get a lot of pressure from the left as far as consumers who gang up on you.
	They get pressure from the government, and they get pressure from government regulatory agencies, from the bureaucracy.
	Finally, let me say one other thing.
	I think when people become successful...
	Maybe more easily than they thought would be the case.
	You know, you might take a Mark Zuckerberg, for example.
	They tend to think that they didn't deserve it.
	And they want to look like they're very generous people.
	I don't see Mark Zuckerberg giving away the bulk of his fortune, but he wants to appear as a very generous person.
	And so they will do things to try and make him appear that way.
	And I think part of that is to go with these collectivist, leftist ideas.
	Look, the fact is, and I've said this to my listeners for years, big business is not our ally.
	And that flies in, well, let me ask you, do you think that flies in the face of basic capitalist theory?
	No, I think small businesses are our ally.
	Right, they're the best, yes.
	I think the big business has become very government dependent.
	You know, the larger you are, the more you're, you know, like...
	Any of the car companies, how dependent are they in the government for subsidies to try and get their products on the market?
	If a Tesla can undersell a Chevy because it's using electric, even though fossil fuels are creating the electricity, it's an electric-run car as opposed to a gas-powered car, then people are going to be trying to do the things to make the government happy so they can get those subsidies and their cars cost less because that's how you compete.
	So the more the government becomes involved, the more government picks winners and losers, the more government is subsidizing business, the more you're going to tend to see businesses going towards leftist, collectivist-type activity.
	And that's even true, though, under a Republican president.
	Yes, that's absolutely true.
	It's true across the board.
	So elections have no effect on big business being left-wing.
	Well, you know, the one election that seemed to start to make a difference was Donald Trump's election.
	Donald Trump was so disruptive to the system.
	I think this is why you found that in not only 2016, but with great venom in 2020, that not only the mainstream media, not only Democratic Party, not only unified everybody on the left, because...
	Donald Trump came in and really put the lie to everything that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had been saying about the economy, about what would work for the economy when Obama was in office.
	That you needed government.
	You needed government help.
	Government built that.
	You didn't build that.
	We needed government regulation.
	Trump came in, wiped all of that out immediately, and the economy soared.
	Labor numbers were the best we've seen in my lifetime.
	Wages went up.
	Inflation was down.
	Everybody was working.
	Poverty was reduced more than it had ever been reduced, and reduced for children more than it had ever been reduced for children.
	So you really saw Trump coming in and changing the dynamic.
	Companies had to come back to America.
	You didn't treat America fairly.
	You didn't treat us fairly.
	You were a globalist.
	Well, guess what?
	We weren't going to treat you fairly either.
	So you started to see a change with that election.
	But when we elect people that are more establishment Republicans, and I may end up supporting an establishment Republican in the next election because whoever is going to be better than Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.
	But if we get a real mover, changer, shaker, mover in office like Donald Trump, there's tremendous resistance on the right to the extent that they probably did things in the election.
	Certainly the media did things during the election that they wouldn't have done in any other election and been able to get away with it.
	But they were all so adamant that Trump...
	Be defeated because he was going to bring down their entire globalist economy.
	And they won.
	They won this.
	But who knows?
	He may be back in 2024. We may have another very, very solid candidate who could make changes.
	But it's going to be tough to find somebody that would implement change as dynamically as President Trump did.
	You know, I interview a lot of, I mean, I interview the finest minds in the country.
	Very few am I in such total agreement as I am with you.
	It's just the way it is.
	Anyway...
	Good to hear.
	Yes, well, you're out fighting and so am I. Andy Puzder, thank you so much.
	Thank you, Dennis.
	Pleasure to be here.
	Thank you.
	That's what he did, Donald Trump.
	He disrupted.
	I didn't know there was such a deep state until then.
	I didn't know...
	There's so much I didn't know until the last few years that I'm...
	I will admit I'm a little embarrassed.
	But I have to be transparent with you.
	I trusted doctors till the last two years.
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	music There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.
	Stream on your phone, tablet, or TV.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com. .
	Streaming on Salem Now.
	The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.
	Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you?
	I don't have no respect.
	The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail, followed by miles of open border.
	Human trafficking, but...
	That journey is extremely dangerous.
	The seven-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.
	A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.
	This little urn contains the ashes of my son.
	His dreams cut short forever.
	We're so worried about other countries' problems, and we don't even focus on our own.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store, or go to SalemNow.com.
	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
	So help you God.
	I'm great.
	How about you?
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	Perfect.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	Man, I miss my father and I want him to be here with me, but he's not.
	We all had something in common.
	A lot of us were miserable.
	We had no fathers in our lives.
	This is how I began the life of crime.
	I desire to have a father who would tell me that what I did was wrong.
	Look for Salem Now in the App Store or go to SalemNow.com.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	In terms of omission as well as commission, as much omission, I'll give you a recent example and then I'm going to go to my guest who has made a preview video on the New York Times.
	Just now, You should look up how many mainstream papers, as they're called, Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times, CNN. Well, CNN did.
	Jake Tapper, I played.
	And I did it because I want you to know that any time the left does something honest, I will bring that to your attention.
	But almost none of your liberal or left-wing relatives, Know what Justice Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor, said about 100,000 children being in the hospital for COVID, when the number is 3,500.
	100,000.
	Her perception of what is happening is because of the New York Times, which I have no doubt she reads daily, And CNN and the others.
	She lives in a fake world like the entire left does.
	Here's a great test.
	Ask every single one, not controversially, not in an attack.
	Ask every liberal relative you have or friend.
	Did you happen to catch what Sonia Sotomayor said about kids and COVID? My guest...
	My name is Ashley Rinsberg.
	She's an investigative journalist.
	Did a magnificent video that is up now at PragerU.
	And let's see, what is it titled?
	Can You Trust the New York Times?
	Ashley, congratulations on the video.
	Thank you, Dennis.
	It's a spectacular video, and PragerU did an amazing job, so thank you.
	That's very kind of you to say that.
	Where am I talking to you now?
	I'm in Israel, at home, just outside of Netanya.
	Oh, so what country were you born in?
	Born in South Africa, Johannesburg.
	Oh, why didn't I guess that?
	An investigative journalist on American journalism, living in Israel, born in South Africa.
	Okay, I got it.
	Anyway, it really is a delight to talk to you.
	So I'm going to play for everybody just the opening of your PragerU video, and then we'll elaborate on the New York Times and its most recent errors.
	Back with you in just a moment.
	So here you are.
	New York Times.
	Every day, hundreds of newspapers and TV and cable news stations around the world follow its lead, literally.
	Why wouldn't they?
	Isn't the Times the gold standard of journalism?
	The place where the facts of the story are presented without bias or agenda?
	Actually, the answer is no.
	When it comes to episodes of major historical significance, the New York Times has routinely failed to provide the public with unbiased journalism.
	Instead, it has chosen to manufacture false narratives, often with catastrophic consequences.
	It has done this in service of its own financial and ideological interests.
	This goes back at least to 1932. Okay, alright, so we'll talk about 1932 in a moment.
	That's the beginning of Ashley Rensburg's video on the New York Times.
	Tell the story of their firing an editor, not even a columnist, an editor, because he published a Republican senator.
	Yeah, that's a topic I cover in the book, actually, because you've got this environment at the Times culturally that has become so radicalized over the last five years or so that they couldn't stomach...
	I mean, this individual's name is James Bennett.
	He was a very senior editor at the New York Times.
	He was highly regarded, not just by the New York Times, across the media as a liberal stalwart.
	We're not talking about a right or center-right person here.
	We're talking about it.
	You know, a liberal guy.
	And he published an op-ed by Tom Cotton in which Cotton calls for using the National Guard to quell the riots slash protests that took place last summer.
	And that was just intolerable to the New York Times newsroom.
	There was an upheaval, a walkout by hundreds of Time staffers, and he was eventually fired for his transgression of having a war hero, and I believe a Harvard-trained lawyer, senator, contributed and I believe a Harvard-trained lawyer, senator, contributed a piece to the New York Times.
	And they fired him.
	Fired him.
	They had his back for a few days, and they kind of were running this line about Free expression and an open exchange of ideas.
	And then when things got too hot for them to handle, he was out.
	So that was pretty summarily.
	I'll be back with you in a moment.
	Ashley Rinsberg, the video, and of course we have to mention the book, very important about the New York Times.
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	should concern all of us.
	That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups.
	Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms.
	Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Folgen.
	That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration.
	Fulgen even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure.
	I'll bet.
	What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Fulgen.
	The question is why.
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	America, if anybody wants it.
	But the answer is, yeah, I wish I had thought about ordering a half a billion pills two months ago before COVID hit here.
	But we're nearly two years into this pandemic.
	You're a year into the presidency.
	Empty shelves and no test kits in some places.
	Three days before Christmas when it's so important.
	Is that good enough?
	No, nothing's been good enough.
	But look, we are.
	When last Christmas we're in a situation where we had significantly fewer people vaccinated, emergency rooms were filled.
	Well, Mr. President, yes, I would have to agree with you on that.
	For once, there's something you and I agree on.
	Nothing has been good enough.
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	Hello, everybody.
	Ashley Winsberg has a current video up at PragerU on the New York Times.
	And he has an important book, a really important book, The Gray Lady Winked, How the New York Times Misreporting Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History.
	My sense, Ashley, is that things are actually getting worse at the New York Times.
	I gave the example just this week with Sonia Sotomayor's absurd statement.
	A grotesque distortion of reality saying 100,000 kids were in hospitals for COVID when the number is about 3,500.
	So I looked up, did anybody report this?
	And we had Jake Tapper said it on CNN. Finally, the New York Times reported it in one sentence in the bottom of an article in a series of articles in a daily COVID update.
	One sentence.
	If it had been the other way around, if, let's say, a conservative justice had said, you know, there's virtually no one in the hospital today for COVID, it would be major headlines in the New York Times.
	Do you agree with this assessment?
	Yeah, that's absolutely the case.
	And, you know, this is the kind of stuff that we see on a micro level, like with this case, even though this has big ramifications, just as we saw it 40, 50, 60 years ago or more, for example, with the Holocaust, doing the same exact thing with the Holocaust, an historical episode of major significance.
	Where they would bury stories just in that same manner.
	Back of the paper, maybe a couple inches about, you know, a million murdered Jews in Europe.
	And that's a tactic.
	We kind of think of it as an oversight, but it's not.
	That's giving them a little too much credit.
	It's intentional.
	It's deliberate.
	It's part of the editorial process.
	When Bennett was fired, their own editor, because he published the Republican Senator, I read, and tell me if you know more about this, Or if this simply resonates with what you know, it was overwhelmingly young New York Times staffers who pushed for him to be fired.
	That's also what I've read, and that is probably the case.
	But it kind of leaves out one piece of the picture here, which is the New York Times' audience.
	Their audience of subscribers who they're hoping will pony up monthly...
	For 20, 30 years to come are younger, woker, more millennial than they had previously been.
	They are sort of...
	Creating this new audience and cultivating that audience which is more radical, more zealous, and less likely to be in favor of the kind of centrist compromise that America has traditionally been built on.
	That's why we're seeing such radicalization at the paper itself because they are chasing the money.
	They're following the dollar with that.
	And it might be a sound business strategy, but from the point of view of gathering facts and bringing the truth, it doesn't exactly work.
	So do you think, and I don't want wishful thinking here, just do you think that except for the left, that the reputation of the New York Times is lower than it's ever been?
	Absolutely.
	I think that Times used to be an American institution.
	I think people who even were not ideologically aligned with them respected them, respected the reporting, knew that whatever the foibles might be, whatever the problems the management, the ownership had, that there were a lot of great reporters there in the newsroom manning the operation.
	Today, we're seeing that shift play out in real time where part of their desire to follow that younger, woker audience means finding a newsroom that That's in line with those expectations as well.
	And the real problem there is that part of the woke movement or something that's very core to it is this idea that whatever gives us more power is true rather than the other way around.
	We've typically thought of truth being power.
	They look at it as power being truth.
	And that's exactly what we've seen with the 1619 Project where whatever helps our ideological aims Is by definition true.
	And we're seeing that reflected in the New York Times newsroom today.
	Wow.
	So, I infer from what you say that they are building a young audience.
	I thought that they're in trouble in that regard.
	They are in trouble, in large part because they haven't fully innovated and adapted in their space, but they are tempting to build a young, new audience, an audience that they can rely on.
	Now that advertising is out of the picture for them, they're looking at subscriptions, and they want long-term subscriptions.
	They want subscriptions from people who are in their 20s and 30s.
	We're going to be paying that fee for the long term.
	That's where their revenue base will really come from.
	And they've been doing an okay job.
	Trump was a boon for them.
	He really drove a lot of revenue, a lot of subscription.
	Like a lot of newspapers and news outlets on the left, they're now suffering from the lack of Trump.
	That's right.
	That's what I've heard.
	I'm curious.
	You may not have an answer to this because it's not what you wrote about, but...
	Is the Washington Post more, less, or equally unreliable?
	You know, the Post, I haven't studied it in the depth that I've studied the New York Times.
	What I can say is that the historical episodes of the Holocaust or reporting on atomic radiation as a result of the bombing of Japan or a number of others where you look at the Times and you look at its great competitor to the Post side by side, and the Post never went as far down the rabbit hole as the New York Times did.
	The Post never covered up the Holocaust.
	The Post was actually advocating for a boycott of the Berlin Olympics in the 1930s, where the New York Times was just embracing the Nazi propaganda with both hands.
	So, you know, historically, there's almost no question.
	The Post has been much more reliable.
	The Times has really gone out on the farthest limb in order to advance its own agenda, where the Post at least had some modicum of hewing to the truth.
	And today?
	You know, today it's unclear.
	What we know is that the Post has deep pockets.
	It's owned by Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon, on the one hand.
	On the other hand, it makes them, in a way, vulnerable to the kind of leverage that the Times is vulnerable to, which is, in a large degree, the leverage of business and the leverage of China.
	All right.
	Listen, I want to thank you, and I want to send everybody to your book, The Gray Lady Weaked, and to your video at PragerU.
	Ashley, thank you.
	Thank you so much, Dennis.
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	There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.
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	The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.
	Why do you think our politicians...
	Politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you.
	Don't have no respect.
	The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border That journey is extremely dangerous The seven-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.
	A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.
	This little urn contains the ashes of my son.
	His dreams cut short forever.
	We're so worried about other countries' problems, and we don't even focus on our own.
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	It's great to be with you.
	I wrote in April of 2020 that this was a dress rehearsal for a police state.
	And I was right.
	And police states rarely happen overnight unless there's some violent coup.
	So we have a gradual but Very powerful movement toward a police state.
	We have not yet reached the levels of Austria or Canada or New Zealand or Australia or France or Germany or almost any European country.
	That's why I wrote last week in my column that America remains A beacon of freedom, despite the lack of freedom in the country, compared to other Western countries.
	Look at Canada.
	Canada is a police state.
	It is.
	There has been, in Canadian history, putting aside issues of its founding and its treatment of indigenous peoples.
	There has never been a Canadian segregation and Legal subjugation of a group like the unvaccinated.
	And they get away with it because the media lie to you about the pandemic of the unvaccinated.
	The vaccine turns out to be largely a dishonest enterprise in that it's not a vaccine.
	Vaccines render you safe from the illness.
	This does not do that.
	They have redefined, in fact, they literally, dictionaries are now redefining vaccine to protect you, rather than, in other words, if you get the illness, you won't be as sick as if you would have been had you not been vaccinated.
	That's not a vaccine.
	By the way, if it does that, that's great.
	And if there are no side effects, wonderful.
	But there are side effects for many people.
	My point about the police state is this, and that's why this is the most important Supreme Court decision in memory.
	If the government can shut down businesses, force businesses to fire people, etc., etc., and have the government do so based on this quote-unquote emergency, All they need to do is declare an emergency.
	And I promise you, I don't usually make predictions, I promise you that they will declare climate change an emergency.
	Wait till you see what they shut down then.
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	Dramatic music The hard infrastructure bill that you helped pass, it meant a lot in terms of what it's going to get done, but it also meant a lot in the politics of getting Build Back Better killed.
	Can you explain that to people?
	Yeah, I mean, initially the Democrats knew, the poll data was clear.
	What was popular was hard infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges and expand broadband.
	That was the popular part.
	And so I liked the approach in the Senate of putting together a bipartisan group.
	The president ended up agreeing with that to deal with the popular part of it, which I described as the sugar, leaving the Democrats to see if they could pass the spinach.
	And as we ended the year, it looks to me like they couldn't swallow the spinach.
	Now, I know Schumer said last night on a call, he's not giving up.
	I don't expect him to.
	But the worst of BBB, it appears to me, is dead.
	It does to me as well, and congratulations on that.
	It was great strategery, as former President Bush liked to say.
	I want to turn to senators.
	They have different career paths.
	Some are looking down the street at 1,600.
	And some are looking at Mitch McConnell and want to be leader someday.
	John Thune's actually been in both positions.
	I read a story that got me upset that John Thune might be thinking of retiring.
	How do you say it ain't so, Joe, in South Dakotan, Leader McConnell?
	Well, John Thune is an outstanding senator.
	He's done a great job as a whip, which is our number two position in the Senate.
	It would be a real setback for the country and for our party if he retires, and I certainly hope he won't.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	You have Attorney Binger.
	Pick up an AR-15.
	Oh my god, yeah.
	You have better trigger posture than him, Kyle.
	Kyle, what is he pointing at?
	Is he threatening the jury?
	Pretty much.
	He was pointing his gun at the gallery, and I looked at my attorney.
	That's your gun, right?
	That's my rifle.
	Yeah, that is yours, right.
	That we're having destroyed right now.
	We don't want anything to do with that.
	Oh, wow.
	So, I looked at Corey, and I said, Corey.
	That's gun safety 101. Loaded or unloaded.
	Treat a gun like it's loaded.
	Yeah.
	And he points it at the jury.
	Exactly.
	I think at that point I said, all right, they're freaking out.
	I mean, they got nothing left.
	So there's this video that the FBI had in their archives, 14 months.
	It clearly shows you being chased down by this deranged individual, corners you, all of it, HD. You know, this isn't, you know, behind the cars because, and this was always key that, you know, people who are looking at this never got, is that all the camera footage from that night was surface level, right?
	Because it's handheld.
	So, and of course, Richie thinks he has his camera going, but he doesn't.
	And he's beating himself up over that, but, you know, it happens in the heat of the moment, that this thing is above, looking down, sees the whole thing.
	You can actually see the anger and just, just...
	You know, insanity in Rosenbaum's face as he's chasing you.
	That I don't think you show that face to anybody that they would think that this guy...
	Let alone threatening to kill them twice that night.
	Right, right.
	right that he has anything other than, you know, very dangerous, evil intentions.
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	China has built the largest DNA database in the world and it's only growing.
	This should concern all of us.
	That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups.
	Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms.
	Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Folgen.
	That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration.
	Folgen even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure.
	I'll bet.
	What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Folgen.
	The question is why.
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	America, if anybody wants it.
	But the answer is, yeah, I wish I had thought about ordering a half a billion pills.
	Two months ago before COVID hit here.
	But we're nearly two years into this pandemic.
	You're a year into the presidency.
	Empty shelves and no test kits in some places.
	Three days before Christmas when it's so important.
	Is that good enough?
	No, nothing's been good enough.
	But look, look where we are.
	When last Christmas we were in a situation where we had significantly fewer people vaccinated.
	Emergency rooms were filled.
	Well, Mr. President, yes.
	I would have to agree with you on that.
	For once, there's something you and I agree on.
	nothing has been good enough.
	Keep up with what's trending.
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	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	There's a major push by the worst of Americans to get children to get vaccinated.
	Bill de Blasio, and of course the Departments of Health in places like Los Angeles County, these are the worst of our fellow Americans.
	I'm sure they're fine friends.
	And fine parents, fine spouses.
	The damage that these people are doing on the basis of a gigantic lie is unprecedented.
	Bill de Blasio offered kids $100 to get vaccinated.
	Sesame Street promotes vaccination for children.
	Let me read to you a statistic.
	From the sick county in which I live.
	Truly sick.
	And Barbara Farrar, a...
	I don't know what term.
	What can I say that'll sound over the top?
	A fanatic fool.
	That's the most accurate.
	A fanatic fool.
	Barbara Farrar.
	So I'd like to read to you from their own report.
	This is the County of Los Angeles Public Health, October 28th of 2021. Pushing to have kids in L.A. County vaccinated.
	This is their statement on their website.
	Do you know how many pediatric deaths there have been in L.A. County?
	Five in children ages 12 to 17. One under five.
	And one between five and eleven.
	So that means seven between birth and seventeen.
	Seven.
	And parents are going to give them, their child, a vaccination.
	That may hurt them.
	I'm not saying it will.
	I'm saying may.
	And is exceedingly unlikely, exceedingly, statistically negligible to help them.
	Why are parents doing this?
	You might be really hurting your child and you have no excuse except panic and ignorance.
	Do you understand that?
	I accuse parents who are getting their young children vaccinated Of hurting their children for no good reason.
	And they have no good reason.
	Like Sotomayor, they believe lies.
	I'm angry.
	I'm angry on behalf of kids.
	The despicable, irresponsible lockdowns have hurt children terribly.
	And now you want to vaccinate them against something that won't hurt them?
	The contempt for children.
	In this country, by its authorities, it's unprecedented.
	We used to treasure children.
	The left has contempt for them.
	The left doesn't even want you to have them.
	It's now commonplace on the left.
	Don't bring children into a world of climate change.
	And they're too expensive.
	Plus, you can't eat out as often as you want.
	The left has contempt for everything that is good, and that includes children.
	Teach them that they're not really a boy or a girl until they decide to be one later.
	That's what's happening in many public schools.
	They're not even called boys and girls anymore.
	That is a policy I announced about five years ago.
	Teachers being told, don't call your students, little kids, boys and girls.
	Okay, boys and girls, line up.
	No, no, no.
	Students, line up.
	Because there may be in that class.
	Five-year-olds who don't know if they're a boy or a girl, and we don't want to be non-inclusive.
	If the left would write an honest book, it would be How to Damage America's Children by the editors of the New York Times.
	Did you hear those numbers?
	See kids masked?
	Poor things.
	When I see kids masked outdoors, for that matter indoors, but especially outdoors, I look at them, they're walking with their family, and I think, poor kids to have such parents.
	I'm sure the parents are sweet people.
	You know how much damage sweet people do?
	You don't think that they were people.
	In every totalitarian regime who were sweet in their personal life and who supported bad things, truly bad, hurtful, damaging things.
	The ability...
	This is the forte of many people on the left.
	Like Minnesota.
	Minnesota nice.
	And we'll elect people who ruin human lives.
	We will elect people who watch people tear down Minneapolis and do nothing about it.
	Nothing.
	But we will re-elect them.
	But we're nice.
	And they are nice.
	Minnesota is the living example of nice people who do terrible things.
	Not enough people are speaking out on behalf of kids in this country.
	Why do you want them vaccinated?
	Given the infinitesimally small possibility that they will die of COVID, why would you do this?
	The kids who have to go to college and get a booster shot.
	Do the deans and presidents of universities?
	Have any idea about what might happen to kids if they get vaccinated?
	I don't.
	I don't claim I do.
	All I claim is that the possibility of damage is much greater than the possibility of death without vaccine.
	That's all I know.
	In Sweden, as I said on Fox News last night, remember?
	Sweden?
	Every school was open in 2021. No teacher died, no student died.
	You know how many people, you know how many kids we are killing because of lockdowns?
	To her credit on Fox News, I mentioned that she had said because of COVID. Everybody says that, everybody.
	Well, what COVID did to young people.
	And I said, we can't keep saying that.
	COVID did nothing to young people.
	Lockdowns hurt young people.
	Never say COVID. Say lockdown.
	Chicago Teachers Union, every Chicago teacher who supports the strike should be fired.
	As I said yesterday, I volunteer to go in to a classroom unmasked, unvaccinated.
	I've had COVID. I am the safest.
	And have none of the kids masked and happily give them a lesson.
	You invite me to any public school in L.A. County.
	I would volunteer in Chicago, but I'm not going to also fly to Chicago and do it.
	I don't have the time.
	These teachers are scared wimps.
	When I see these masked teachers outside in Chicago demonstrating that they don't want to die, do you understand the lowlifes, the nothings that teach your children?
	You want them to be a model?
	You want such scared hypochondriacs as the model in front of your child?
	Get your kid out of a Chicago school as quickly as you can!
	They have proven they don't give a damn about your child.
	They've proven it.
	But there's nothing they can do.
	People will still send their kids to school.
	I am convinced there is nothing teachers can do to ruin children that will have enough Americans take their children out of school.
	America stinks.
	You're not a boy.
	You're not a girl.
	You'll die if you come to class.
	This is what they get, and you send them there?
	They spend more time with these terrible human beings than they do with you?
	I'm sorry this has happened.
	I'm sorry.
	But it has happened.
	You have one chance with a child.
	Don't screw it up.
	Take them out of the schools.
	Homeschool them.
	Put them in a school that actually teaches decency and courage.
	That's right.
	We'll be back.
	We'll be back.
	and most costly manhunt in U.S.
	history...
	The United States killed Osama bin Laden.
	There are reports surfacing that al-Qaeda has placed a 50,000 U.S. dollar bounty on the heads of any U.S. Navy SEALs.
	Nobody's gonna survive that.
	There's nobody in that.
	This is the single largest loss of life in Afghanistan in a single incident.
	Most of them are U.S. Navy SEALs.
	We discovered bullets in the bodies of the Navy Seals.
	The military threw them away.
	More likely than not, that supports a shootout on board.
	Get anybody out there.
	We have a fallen angel.
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	There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
	In spite of all the years of conflict, there's hope here if you know where to look for it.
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	The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.
	Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now?
	I'm not talking to you.
	I don't have no respect.
	The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail, followed by miles of open border.
	You might get to keep the guard.
	That journey is extremely dangerous.
	The seven-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.
	A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.
	This little urn contains the ashes of my son.
	His dreams cut short forever.
	We're so worried about other countries' problems, and we don't even focus on our own.
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	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	The 1776 curriculum, that's what it's called, of Hillsdale.
	The Hillsdale 1776 curriculum.
	This is a good example of there is so much now available for you to teach your kids.
	Serious history and serious thought at home.
	You can get it for free.
	It's K-12, kindergarten to 12th grade.
	As they say, our children deserve to be taught the truth through a sound curriculum that was created by teachers, not bureaucrats, and upholds the dignity of each individual.
	America depends upon an honest, candid look at our history.
	Download Hillsdale 1776 curriculum for free at k12.hillsdale.edu.
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	The data that I have given you, the official data, seven kids.
	Died in the gigantic Los Angeles County, and they're pushing them to be vaccinated.
	By the way, I'd like to know about the health state of the seven that died.
	That's under 17, zero to 17, seven kids.
	This is, again, it's from the L.A. County Health Department.
	Their own paper.
	L.A. County, seven.
	Five between 12 and 17. One under five.
	And one between five and 11. Two under 12!
	Oh, my God.
	Sesame Street is pushing it for kids.
	You know my old line, well, well, this is, I've had this since I was in my 20s.
	Yes.
	I have contempt for humanity and love for individual humans.
	I love people and I have contempt for humanity.
	I will admit that I have a more optimistic view of the American people.
	That has been somewhat hurt.
	It's painful for me to tell this to you.
	That people would not desire to be informed about the health of their children.
	They just take the word of the politicians of their state.
	That's it.
	You still believe in masks, but if you visit Florida, do you die?
	Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez goes to Florida, doesn't wear a mask.
	Goes back to New York and wears a mask.
	Or goes back to Washington.
	I mean, why aren't people dying like flies in Florida?
	It's got the largest, except for Maine, it's got the largest percentage of old people, and Maine is so small it's insignificant in this regard.
	It's the largest population proportionally of old people.
	What are people doing with their time if they're not studying what's going on?
	Thank you.
	Why do I know this?
	Why do I know that ivermectin works and your doctor won't even prescribe it to you?
	You know that one of us is really, really, really wrong.
	Let's be clear.
	What if it turns out that this guy's not a doctor was right and your doctor was a sheep?
	Which is what I believe in this regard.
	Sweet, kind, loves you doctor is a sheep.
	Oh, I read Ivermectin for horses.
	Oh, really?
	There's no doubt in my mind I read more about Ivermectin than most of the doctors of this country.
	That's a scandal.
	That is a scandal.
	And it is downright evil.
	That doctors for the first time cannot prescribe what they think will work for their patient.
	It is a harmless drug.
	One of the hundred essential drugs on the World Health Organization list, as is hydroxychloroquine, taken for half a century in large doses with virtually no side effects.
	Well, there's not been a double-blowing test.
	But the doctors who've used it have saved lives.
	Why isn't that significant?
	So I have doctors calling me saying all the doctors who report that they have saved lives with ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine and zinc, they're quacks.
	They're quacks, not the doctors calling in are quacks.
	The doctors who saved lives are lying to me.
	That's, and lying, and lying to the country, right?
	That's what they're saying.
	I'm supposed to believe the American Medical Association, which has announced that children are not born boys or girls.
	That's its announcement.
	No longer list sex on a birth certificate.
	The American Medical Association.
	I'll bet you Justice Sotomayor does not know this.
	The ignorance is staggering.
	I've told prominent conservatives about the AMA and they didn't know it.
	I rarely say this, but it's one reason you should listen to the show, and you should listen to all three hours.
	You'll really get an insight into life.
	The knowledge that you need, you need to live by.
	We have a way of listening without commercials.
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	Go to PragerTopia.com.
	Five bucks a month.
	I suspect most of my listeners can afford it.
	And you have the hour to repeat.
	Like the male-female hour and this hour and so many others.
	One child between 5 and 11 in LA County died.
	And there's a push to vaccinate kids 5 to 11. Why doesn't that say to you that the health authorities are corrupt?
	They are.
	They're corrupt.
	The young woman who sat in for me and whom I will be doing dialogues with on a weekly basis, I'll tell you about that within a few days when that's finalized.
	Harvard has told her that she can't come back to Harvard without a booster.
	A 22-year-old woman forced to take three vaccination shots?
	On something we have no idea with regard to its long-term effects?
	No idea.
	We can't know.
	Because it was released so quickly.
	We can't know.
	What we do know is there is virtually no risk to her without the damn vaccine.
	Harvard was the first university to close down.
	No wonder...
	Buckley was right.
	I'd rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than the faculty of Harvard.
	That's me.
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	The hard infrastructure bill that you helped pass, it meant a lot in terms of what it's going to get done, but it also meant a lot in the politics of getting Build Back Better Can you explain that to people?
	Yeah, I mean, initially the Democrats knew the poll data was clear.
	What was popular was hard infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges and expand broadband.
	That was the popular part.
	And so I liked the approach in the Senate of putting together a bipartisan group.
	The president ended up agreeing with that to deal with the popular part of it, which I described as the sugar, leaving the Democrats to see if they could pass the spinach.
	And as we ended the year, it looks to me like they couldn't swallow the spinach.
	Now, I know Schumer said last night on a call he's not giving up.
	I don't expect him to.
	But the worst of BBB, it appears to me, is dead.
	It does to me as well, and congratulations on that.
	It was great strategery, as former President Bush liked to say.
	I want to turn to senators.
	They have different career paths.
	Some are looking down the street at 1,600.
	And some are looking at Mitch McConnell and want to be leader someday.
	John Thune's actually been in both positions.
	I read a story that got me upset that John Thune might be thinking of retiring.
	How do you say it ain't so, Joe, in South Dakotan, Leader McConnell?
	Well, John Thune is an outstanding senator.
	He's done a great job as a whip, which is our number two position in the Senate.
	It would be a real setback for the country and for our party if he retires, and I certainly hope he won't.
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	You have Attorney Binger pick up an AR-15.
	Oh my god, yeah.
	And just decide...
	You have better trigger posture than him, Kyle.
	Kyle, what is he pointing at?
	Is he threatening the jury?
	Pretty much.
	He was pointing his gun at the gallery, and I looked at my attorney.
	That's your gun, right?
	That's my rifle.
	Yeah, that is yours, right.
	That we're having destroyed right now.
	We don't want anything to do with that.
	Oh, wow.
	So, I looked at Corey, and I said, Corey, that's gun safety 101. Loaded or unloaded.
	Treat a gun like it's loaded.
	And he points it at the jury.
	Exactly.
	I think at that point, I said, alright, they're freaking out.
	I mean, they got nothing left.
	So there's this video that the FBI had in their archives, 14 months.
	It clearly shows you being chased down by this deranged individual, corners you, all of it, HD, you know, this isn't, you know, behind the cars because, and this was always key that, you know, people who are looking at this never got, is that all the camera footage from that night was surface level.
	Right?
	Because it's handheld.
	So, and of course, Richie thinks he has his camera going, but he doesn't.
	And he's beating himself up over that, but, you know, it happens in the heat of the moment.
	That this thing is above, looking down, sees the whole thing.
	You can actually see the anger and just, you know, insanity in Rosenbaum's face as he's chasing you.
	That I don't think you show that face to anybody.
	That they would think that this guy...
	Let alone threatening to kill them twice that night.
	Right, right.
	right that he has anything other than, you know, very dangerous, evil intentions.
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	The evil of giving kids the vaccine has been my subject, proving it to you with statistics from...
	Health authorities, that corrupt group of Americans.
	Corrupt may not be the word.
	I don't think they're all doing it for money, so corrupt is not the accurate word.
	Incompetent certainly is a proper term.
	Panic-driven.
	And authoritarian.
	But not...
	Not necessarily anything to do with corruption.
	Another thing to mull over, which I have come now to realize more and more, even though I wrote that this is a rehearsal for a police state as early as April 2020. If the government...
	Can declare an emergency and then take away fundamental rights from its citizens?
	Then why can't the government declare other emergencies and take away rights?
	Well, I'll give you two examples.
	So we have here, in New York State, Foolish woman, Hochul, who was lieutenant governor under that unsavory governor.
	Let me find it.
	She has declared that New York State, she has declared a state of emergency, yes, well, it's a health crisis because of racism.
	Here we go.
	New York governor declares racism a public health crisis.
	For too long, communities of color in New York have been held back by systemic racism and inequitable treatment.
	It's one of the great lies of modern history.
	I am proud to sign legislation that addresses this crisis head-on, addressing racism, expanding equity, and improving access for all.
	The Hate Crimes Analysis and Review Act ensures that we collect accurate demographic data of perpetrators and victims to better protect the communities being targeted.
	I don't know, what is she talking about?
	Well, this is State Assembly Karinas Reyes.
	Really?
	They're going to get accurate demographic data of perpetrators and victims?
	A wildly disproportionate number of the perpetrators of violent crime are black?
	They're going to get accurate data in New York State?
	Is there a single one of you who believes this?
	Does she know what she's talking about?
	Governor Hochul is likely following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's lead.
	CDC Director Rochelle Walensky declared racism a serious public health threat.
	What we know is this racism is a serious public health threat that directly affects the well-being of millions of Americans.
	As a result, it affects the health of our entire nation.
	Wow.
	We're so racist that non-whites are suffering health consequences.
	They're getting sick.
	They're getting hospitalized due to racism.
	That's sick.
	The whole thing is sick.
	Anyway, if this is a state of emergency, is that correct?
	Did I get that right?
	Oh, excuse me.
	Public health crisis.
	But what prevents her from saying it's an emergency?
	And so having rules like we have now with COVID, if you deny that this is...
	A health emergency and health crisis, you will, I don't know, you will suffer consequences.
	You should be fired.
	We can't have people getting New Yorkers sick.
	You get New Yorkers sick by denying that health care is part of systemic racism.
	And certainly wait till the other shoe drops with global warming.
	If you use too much oil, you will pay a price.
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	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
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	The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.
	Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you?
	I don't have no respect.
	The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border.
	Human trafficking guard.
	That journey is extremely dangerous.
	The seven-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.
	A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.
	This little urn contains the ashes of my son.
	His dreams cut short forever.
	We're so worried about other countries' problems and we don't even focus on our own.
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	prediction on what will happen after COVID is now that they have found that half of America, at least half of America, is fine with denying people fundamental rights, like making a living, because of the panic over vaccines, the vaccinated fear the unvaccinated.
	Something perverse about that, is that not?
	Did people who were vaccinated against measles, they fear the unvaccinated against measles?
	Or chicken pox?
	Or polio?
	Oh, you're not vaccinated against polio.
	You can't eat in my restaurant.
	I'm firing you.
	Isn't this the first time that the non-vaccinated got such treatment?
	Maybe they know that the vaccine doesn't work much.
	It's now basically a six-month protection.
	How many boosters will it take for people to wonder if this is a real vaccine?
	And my answer is, it's unlimited.
	Unlimited.
	The lying panic that the media have instilled in people about this is so effective that I would say half of America would be happy to take a booster every few months.
	Why not?
	I won't die.
	That's what they think.
	So now that the left understands what you can do to Americans and have them accept it, they will apply it to global warming.
	After all, COVID only threatens a certain number of individuals from the left's perspective in the left's lying universe.
	Global warming is an existential threat.
	Nobody's ever said COVID is an existential threat.
	That means threat to the existence of.
	So this is a threat to the existence of the human race and indeed many other biological species.
	So what will they have as rules then?
	Well...
	At a certain point, if you drive a gas-powered car, maybe then you will not be allowed to use parking lots.
	Why is that different?
	I know it sounds absurd to you, but three years ago it would have sounded absurd that if you didn't get vaccinated, you could no longer fly an airplane or be a nurse or a doctor.
	Correct?
	You would have thought that anybody who said that was a conspiracy theorist, a crazed human being.
	If anybody would have predicted the acceptance of the suppression of the ability to travel in Canada.
	Yes, our pathetic neighbor to the north, which must substitute a sheep for a maple leaf on its flag, be much more accurate.
	Maple Leaf has nothing to do with Canadian life, but you have a nation of sheep who elected a shepherd, a sheep shepherd.
	There are some conservatives in Canada, but they have nothing comparable to what we have here in the fight today.
	They don't have talk radio, which is huge.
	Fox News, Daily Wire.
	Prager University, Breitbart, I mean, it's American greatness, American thinker, and I always hesitate to mention that, because a turning point USA, because I always leave out something terrific.
	But nevertheless, I want to make my point.
	Canada has none of this.
	It has some.
	Imagine that in Canada.
	You had COVID and you still can't board a plane or a train or a bus.
	On Christmas, you couldn't get together with more than three other people.
	And they accepted this?
	Yes, they did.
	What did they think?
	you'll die.
	You will die.
	So it's a very interesting question.
	What There are two interesting questions.
	Why are some people so much more afraid than others?
	I don't have an answer.
	And what will the left do with regard to depriving people of fundamental rights in the name of the infinitely greater crisis than COVID, climate change?
	There's no doubt.
	That they will be laws against your freedoms.
	If the left had its way, I believe that they would ban single-family homes.
	Takes up way, way too much energy.
	Or ban homes over a greater square footage.
	Way too much energy for just one or two people.
	Not allow you to air-condition your...
	Place of work or home to under 72 degrees or 74 degrees or 76 degrees.
	Jimmy Carter spoke about that in his presidency.
	He spoke about your thermostat.
	The acceptance of the draconian rules here, in all of history, you just need one precedent.
	And then you can do whatever the hell you want.
	This was a test case.
	Will Americans say, okay, let's screw our fellow American, even the fellow American who had COVID? Because we're vaccinated, but we're afraid of the people who are not.
	Let's screw our children, which is indefensible.
	It is an act of evil that is being promoted by the CDC. And the President of the United States.
	It's evil to give a kid this vaccine.
	But I am well aware of the fact that whatever millions of listeners I have, the vast majority, overwhelming majority of Americans don't hear this show.
	As you can tell from Sonia Sotomayor.
	Right?
	Right.
	This is Carol Platt-Lebow for townhall.com.
	China has built the largest DNA database in the world, and it's only growing.
	This should concern all of us.
	That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups.
	Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms.
	Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Folgen.
	That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration.
	Folgen even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure.
	I'll bet.
	What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Folgen.
	The question is why.
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	America, if anybody wants it.
	But the answer is, yeah, I wish I had thought about ordering a half a billion pills.
	Two months ago, before COVID hit here.
	But we're nearly two years into this pandemic, you're a year into the presidency, empty shelves and no test kits in some places, three days before Christmas when it's so important.
	Is that good enough?
	No, nothing's been good enough.
	But look, look who we are.
	When last Christmas we're in a situation where we had significantly fewer people vaccinated, emergency rooms were filled.
	Well, Mr. President, yes.
	I would have to agree with you on that.
	For once, there's something you and I agree on.
	nothing has been good enough.
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	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	We'll see you next time.
	But I wanted to take it about a kid who was ostracized because he was unvaxxed.
	We're very curious about that call and if that is at all typical of what is happening.
	Got a lot of interesting calls here.
	Janet in Minnesota is correct.
	More kids die from drowning than from COVID. That is exactly right.
	Wit in Atlanta.
	Film industry.
	Key grip booted from Disney's show due to no vaccine.
	It's a tragedy.
	It's evil.
	Well, Disney's really vile.
	Disney's as woke and hate-filled as a company gets.
	Chris in Surprise, Arizona.
	Asymptomatic.
	Kids don't spread the virus as the media tell us.
	Almost nothing happens as the media tell us.
	Bill in Crown Point, Indiana.
	Hello.
	Oh, shoot.
	Hi, Diana.
	Pardon the delay.
	Thank you for being such a...
	Guiding, positive guiding force in the lives of so many of your listeners.
	Thank you.
	I have a question that dovetails with the question I've heard you ask more than once regarding you need a potentially life-saving operation.
	Would you prefer your surgeon to be one who you act one with politically but has never performed the operation?
	Versus one who has performed at several times successfully, but they're at the opposite end of the political spectrum from you.
	Am I? That's correct.
	Am I? Yes, go on.
	Right.
	Right.
	My question concerns, let's say you own a professional sports franchise.
	Would you prefer a coach who is pure as the wind-driven snow?
	Is it at one with you?
	I don't mean he's a prude or anything, but he never uses profanity.
	He's at one with you politically, but his record as a coach is just a shade above mediocre versus a spittle-spewing, fist-pounding coach who routinely uses profanity, shouts at his players, at the officials, and so on.
	But he is a very successful coach.
	We're not talking about Little League.
	We're talking about professional sports?
	Yes, sir.
	That's correct.
	I would prefer the cursing coach who won.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Little League, I prefer the non-cursing coach because I don't give a damn if my Little League team wins.
	That's not their profession.
	People make money in professional sports by winning.
	I love this stuff.
	Okay, everybody.
	Stay tuned.
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	- The whole thing is up in flames.
	I don't even want to waste a lot of time on the degenerate who burned it down.
	It was a guy from Brooklyn, I think 49 years old.
	They miraculously got him.
	And I just cannot shake what a metaphor that is.
	You know, millions and millions of people watch Fox News.
	Fox News celebrates American exceptionalism, greatness.
	Very patriotic channel.
	There's no way around that.
	They love the country.
	They proudly air plenty of conservative views, along with liberal views as well.
	They try to take their fair and balanced mantra pretty seriously.
	And some evil guy decided...
	To burn down the Fox News channel Red, White and Blue Christmas Tree last night.
	And it's gone.
	And I just keep thinking about how much evil there is right now in the country.
	What we're up against as Americans.
	Right is wrong.
	Good is evil.
	Up is down.
	Everything is inside out.
	And I was so anguished this morning in hearing about this and so upset.
	And I know a lot of it is because of my personal relationship over the years with Fox.
	I spent many, many hours walking to and from Fox as a Fox News contributor.
	I guest-hosted Sean Hannity's show a number of times.
	I guest-hosted Fox& Friends back in the day.
	I was on Fox many, many nights.
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	I was on Fox many, many nights.
	The hard infrastructure bill that you helped pass, it meant a lot in terms of what it's going to get done, but it also meant a lot in the politics of getting Build Back Better killed.
	Can you explain that to people?
	Yeah, I mean, initially the Democrats knew, the poll data was clear.
	What was popular was hard infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges and expanding broadband.
	That was the popular part.
	And so I liked the approach in the Senate of putting together a bipartisan group.
	The president ended up agreeing with that to deal with the popular part of it, which I described as the sugar, leaving the Democrats to see if they could pass the spinach.
	And as we ended the year, it looks to me like they couldn't swallow the spinach.
	Now, I know Schumer said last night on a call, he's not giving up, I don't expect him to.
	But the worst of BBB, it appears to me, is dead.
	It does to me as well, and congratulations on that.
	It was great strategery, as former President Bush liked to say.
	I want to turn to senators.
	They have different career paths.
	Some are looking down the street at 1,600.
	And some are looking at Mitch McConnell and want to be leader someday.
	John Thune's actually been in both positions.
	I read a story that got me upset that John Thune might be thinking of retiring.
	How do you say it ain't so, Joe, in South Dakotan, Leader McConnell?
	Well, John Thune is an outstanding senator.
	He's done a great job as a whip, which is our number two position in the Senate.
	It would be a real setback for the country and for our party if he retires, and I certainly hope he won't.
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	You have attorney Binger pick up an AR-15.
	Oh my god, yeah.
	And just decide...
	You have better trigger posture than him, Kyle.
	Kyle, what is he pointing at?
	Is he threatening the jury?
	Pretty much.
	He was pointing his gun at the gallery, and I looked at my attorney.
	That's your gun, right?
	That's my rifle.
	Yeah, that is yours, right.
	That we're having destroyed right now.
	We don't want anything to do with that.
	Oh, wow.
	So, I looked at Corey, and I said, Corey, that's gun safety 101. Loaded or unloaded.
	Treat a gun like it's loaded.
	And he points it at the jury.
	Exactly.
	I think at that point, I said, alright, they're freaking out.
	I mean, they got nothing left.
	So, there's this video that the FBI had in their archives, 14 months.
	It clearly shows you being chased down by this deranged individual, corners you, all of it, HD, you know, this isn't, you know, behind the cars, because, and this was always key that, you know, people who are looking at this never got, is that all the camera footage from that night was surface level.
	Right?
	Because it's handheld.
	So, and of course, Richie thinks he has his camera going, but he doesn't.
	And he's beating himself up over that.
	But, you know, it happens in the heat of the moment.
	That this thing is above, looking down, sees the whole thing.
	You can actually see the anger and just, you know, insanity in Rosenbaum's face as he's chasing you.
	That I don't think you show that face to anybody.
	That they would think that this guy- And let alone threatening to kill them twice that night.
	Right, right.
	right that he has anything other than, you know, very dangerous, evil intentions.
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	This is Carol Platt-Libao for townhall.com.
	China has built the largest DNA database in the world, and it's only growing.
	This should concern all of us.
	That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups.
	Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms.
	Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Folgen.
	That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration.
	Fulgen even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure.
	I'll bet.
	What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Fulgen.
	The question is why.
	The question is why.
	The question is why.
	Some great issue of life explored.
	Today is a bit different than the, well, there is no normal Ultimate Issues Hour because of so many topics, but nevertheless, it's a bit different.
	And I debated very long and hard internally whether to do this or not.
	But I think it's too important to avoid.
	The New York Times has three columnists out of about 40. I don't know how many they have.
	I'd say about 40. Three that are generally deemed more conservative than liberal.
	And they are Ross Douthat, Brett Stevens and David Brooks.
	Brett Stevens is conservative.
	He came from the Wall Street Journal to the New York Times.
	But there is no leftist who hated Donald Trump more than Brett Stevens.
	So he was acceptable to the New York Times.
	It was during the Trump administration.
	That he was brought over from the Wall Street Journal.
	And he has continued to write anti-Trump pieces and anti-woke pieces.
	So I give him credit for attacking the woke left within the pages of the New York Times.
	I have debated him on Donald Trump in person.
	On the New York Times internet site and in print.
	But he has done a lot of good work.
	And he would say the same of me.
	Dennis is wrong on Trump, but has done a lot of good work.
	Then there's Ross Douthat, whom I was on a panel with once.
	A very fine man.
	And Ross is also a religious man.
	Occasionally writes pro-religion.
	I don't remember his stance on Donald Trump.
	I don't recall it being pro or con.
	And then there's David Brooks.
	David Brooks is there the longest of the three by far.
	He was brought over from National Review, a conservative magazine, and has become not just disaffected with Donald Trump, But disaffected with the Republican Party and with conservatism.
	So he wrote a long piece in The Atlantic, and it is titled, What Happened to American Conservatism?
	It's a long piece.
	Obviously, I'm not reading you the whole piece, but I have extracted a few.
	I would like to respond, by the way.
	Needless to say, I invite David Brooks onto my program.
	But I have to say this, the article is very disappointing in its shallowness.
	There is so much a lack of specificity that it's almost hard to rebut.
	However, my overriding critique is this.
	Whatever you want to say about Republicans and conservatives, And even those who support Donald Trump.
	How could you avoid the realization that the left is ruining this country?
	If you are not prepared to say that, then you are not within the realm of conservatism.
	You're not even in the realm of liberalism.
	An awakened, not woke, awakened liberal understands that the left is destroying this country.
	Medicine, sports, schools, from college to kindergarten, you name the institution, the left is wrecking it.
	Not a word about that in this very long piece by the New York Times, David Brooks, ostensibly, One of its few conservative columnists.
	It begins, The rich tradition I fell in love with has been reduced to Fox News and voter suppression.
	So it gives you an idea of where he is at.
	It's been reduced to Fox News and voter suppression.
	It's so unfair.
	That's it.
	That is the extent of conservatism, Fox News, and voter suppression.
	First of all, the use of the term voter suppression shows you that he's almost now indistinguishable from the woke left.
	Republicans are trying to suppress the vote.
	Why?
	Because they want elections to be on Election Day?
	That is now called suppress the vote.
	That is classic.
	Communist double-think.
	Double-speak.
	Suppress the vote.
	That he would even use that expression shows you that he's no longer, and he's not only not any longer a conservative or a Republican, but he's not even a liberal.
	Fox News.
	What is so bad about Fox News?
	Do they lie?
	Do they regularly lie, like the left-wing media?
	If so, I'd like to know what those lies are.
	I would.
	I would attack them.
	What passes for conservatism now is nearly the opposite of the Burkean conservatism I encountered when I was young.
	Then, he writes, but it means when he was young.
	Today, what passes for the worldview of the right is a set of...
	Here, now listen to how he defines the right.
	A set of resentful animosities, a partisan attachment to Donald Trump or Tucker Carlson, a sort of mental brutalism.
	Really.
	So let's begin.
	A set of resentful animosities.
	Now, you know what?
	He doesn't mention one, but he does underline.
	So you know what I'm going to do?
	I'm going to find what he meant.
	So I'll get that during the break.
	Because it's underlined.
	That means it's attached to a column.
	Resentful animosities.
	That's true.
	I have resentful animosities.
	So does he.
	He has a resentful animosity to conservatives, to Republicans, to the right.
	I have a resentful animosity to the left.
	Correct.
	I don't know why that's wrong.
	A partisan attachment to Donald Trump or Tucker Carlson.
	Yes, partisan attachment.
	That's correct.
	What is ipso facto wrong with a partisan attachment to Donald Trump?
	Well, it's a given to him or to Bret Stephens, not to mention every single other commentator and reporter at the New York Times.
	The man is an authoritarian, would-be fascist dictator.
	Which is a joke, given that we are much closer to dictatorship under the Democrats than under Trump.
	Tucker Carlson?
	I think he's one of the most thoughtful commentators of the American media.
	I don't quite get why a partisan attachment to Tucker Carlson renders you unacceptable.
	And a sort of mental brutalism.
	I don't know what that means.
	What is mental brutalism?
	That's a new one.
	The rich philosophical perspective that dazzled me then There you go.
	So the first heading is now inside the work.
	Voter suppression.
	We want you to have an ID. That's voter suppression.
	We don't want tens of millions, hundreds of millions of ballots sent out that are not requested.
	That's called voter suppression.
	This is a very important hour because the critiques of conservatism need to be responded to.
	I'm Dennis Prager.
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	We understand that a plane has crashed.
	The people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
	Biggest and most costly manhunt in U.S. history.
	The United States killed Osama bin Laden.
	There are reports surfacing that al-Qaeda has placed a 50,000 U.S. dollar bounty on the heads of any U.S. Navy SEALs.
	Nobody's going to survive that.
	There's nobody in that.
	This is the single largest loss of life in Afghanistan in a single incident.
	Most of them are U.S. Navy SEALs.
	We discovered bullets in the bodies of the Navy SEALs.
	The military threw them away.
	More likely than not, that supports a shootout on board.
	Get somebody out there.
	We have a fallen angel.
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	There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
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	Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here.
	Ultimate Issues Hour.
	I'm responding to a major attack on conservatism.
	That's certainly an ultimate issue.
	Written by David Brooks, formerly a conservative.
	He still thinks he's a conservative, but I don't understand how.
	The criterion, one criterion has to be...
	That you devote much of your life to fighting the left.
	That is a very major part of conservatism.
	The other is that you protect the American Trinity.
	In God we trust, a pluribus unum, and liberty.
	I would say that at the very basic level, to be a conservative is to protect liberty.
	The left has never protected liberty from Lenin to Soros.
	It has never been protected.
	There is no example of the left being in power and allowing free speech.
	There is no example from the United States to Europe, to Asia, to back to the Russian Revolution.
	There is no example.
	Your kid's college is an example.
	Nowhere does the left ever take power and allow dissent.
	Ever.
	There is no exception to the rule.
	Liberals allow dissent.
	The left suppresses it.
	So if you are a conservative and you don't fight for liberty, just don't say you're a conservative.
	That's all.
	That's fine.
	So I looked up during the break because he said, what passes for the worldview of the right is a set of resentful animosities.
	So you click on the URL under resentful animosities, and you get another article in The Atlantic.
	The Atlantic loves David Brooks.
	And it was written by David Brooks, which is fine.
	He attended the, let's see, what did he attend?
	And this was written last November, just a few months ago.
	And he went to...
	National Conservative Conference.
	Yeah, the National Conservatism Conference.
	And he cites a young woman, Rachel Bovard, one of the thousands of smart young Americans who flock to Washington each year to make a difference.
	And so she gave a speech, and she spoke about...
	This is an example of...
	What does he call it in his article?
	Resentful animosities that characterize the right.
	Listen.
	So he quotes her.
	This young woman giving a talk.
	She believes, let's see, woke elites, increasingly the mainstream left of this country, do not want what we want.
	She told the National Conservatism Conference, which was held this month at a bland hotel alongside theme parks in Orlando.
	What they want is to destroy us.
	Not only will they use every power at their disposal to achieve their goal, but they've already been doing it for years by dominating every cultural, intellectual, and political institution.
	What's wrong with that?
	That is not accurate?
	So that's an example of the resentful animosities that animate the right.
	Well, as I said, if anti-left is not...
	Part of your Weltanschauung.
	You're not a conservative.
	That's fine.
	But let's be intellectually honest and morally aware.
	He writes here, let me look up the word naive, because that really does describe him to a certain degree.
	One of the ideas she's absorbed, that is this young woman that gave this talk, is that the conservatives who came before her were insufferably naive.
	They thought liberals and conservatives both want what's best for America, disagreeing on only how to get there.
	But that's not true, she believes.
	Woke elites, increasingly the mainstream left of this country, do not want what we want.
	That's correct, they don't.
	Since when does the left want what the right wants?
	Since when?
	Liberals and conservatives, I agree.
	When liberals...
	Liberals and conservatives differed on the ways to get there.
	Liberals believed in racial integration.
	Conservatives believed in racial integration.
	The left does not believe in racial integration.
	There is no subject in which, except for expansion of government, that the left and liberals agree.
	Insufferably naive?
	Bob Dole was insufferably naive about the left.
	So was Mitt Romney.
	And basically all of the Republicans between Reagan and Bush.
	That's right.
	Okay, we continue.
	Another camp with which we associate with the Scottish or British Enlightenment of David Hume and Adam Smith did not believe that human reason is powerful enough to control human selfishness.
	Most of the time, our reason merely rationalizes our selfishness.
	They did not believe that individual reason is powerful enough even to comprehend the world around us, let alone enable leaders to engineer society from the top down.
	We are afraid to put men to live and trade, each on his own private stock of reason, because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, Burke wrote in Reflections on the Revolution in France.
	So he calls himself a Burkean conservative, David Brooks, and he quotes this.
	What conservative doesn't agree with this?
	That's why we don't want big government, because we don't trust that reason will prevail in so many people, because it doesn't.
	Is reason prevailing now?
	Giving children COVID shots?
	Lockdowns for the healthy?
	Has reason prevailed?
	Or has authoritarianism prevailed?
	Okay, so I needed to share you.
	That's what he stands for, that Burkean phrase, and so do other conservatives.
	I'm skipping a lot because this is a huge piece.
	Conservatives are supposed to be epistemologically modest.
	Epistemology is the search for truth, study of truth.
	But in real life, this modesty can turn into a brutish anti-intellectualism, a contempt for learning and expertise.
	But he never gives an example.
	Do you know there were no examples in this gigantic essay?
	How do you rebut something that only gives you generalizations?
	I'm a big believer in generalizations.
	But I always give examples.
	I'd like to know, what is the contempt for learning and expertise among conservatives?
	Because we have contempt for universities?
	That's because we love learning.
	My contempt for universities comes from my love of learning.
	I have 6,000 books.
	I have loved learning my whole life.
	I mean, love it.
	Anyone who loves learning Loathes what the universities have become.
	Anti-learning centers.
	So to accuse conservatives of being anti-learning and expertise is the opposite of the truth.
	The left loathes learning.
	And they love the experts that they like to cite.
	We'll be back.
	The hard infrastructure bill that you helped pass, it meant a lot in terms of what it's going to get done, but it also meant a lot in the politics of getting Build Back Better Can you explain that to people?
	Yeah, I mean, initially the Democrats knew, the poll data was clear.
	What was popular was hard infrastructure, deteriorating roads and bridges and expand broadband.
	That was the popular part.
	And so I liked the approach in the Senate of putting together a bipartisan group.
	The president ended up agreeing with that to deal with the popular part of it, which I described as the sugar, leaving the Democrats to see if they could pass the spinach.
	And as we ended the year, it looks to me like they couldn't swallow the spinach.
	Now, I know Schumer said last night on a call he's not giving up.
	I don't expect him to.
	But the worst of BBB, it appears to me, is dead.
	It does to me as well, and congratulations on that.
	It was great strategery, as former President Bush liked to say.
	I want to turn to senators.
	They have different career paths.
	Some are looking down the street at 1,600.
	And some are looking at Mitch McConnell and want to be leader someday.
	John Thune's actually been in both positions.
	I read a story that got me upset that John Thune might be thinking of retiring.
	How do you say it ain't so, Joe, in South Dakotan, Leader McConnell?
	Well, John Thune is an outstanding senator.
	He's done a great job as a whip, which is our number two position in the Senate.
	It would be a real setback for the country and for our party if he retires, and I certainly hope he won't.
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	You have Attorney Binger pick up an AR-15.
	Oh my god, yeah.
	And just decide...
	You have better trigger posture than him, Kyle.
	Kyle, what is he pointing at?
	Is he threatening the jury?
	Pretty much.
	He was pointing his gun at the gallery, and I looked at my attorney.
	That's your gun, right?
	That's my rifle.
	Yeah, that is yours, right.
	That we're having destroyed right now.
	We don't want anything to do with that.
	Oh, wow.
	So, I looked at Corey, and I said, Corey, that's gun safety 101. Loaded or unloaded.
	Treat a gun like it's loaded.
	And he points it at the jury.
	Exactly.
	I think at that point, I said, alright, they're freaking out.
	I mean, they got nothing left.
	So, there's this video that the FBI had in their archives, 14 months.
	It clearly shows you being chased down by this deranged individual, corners you, all of it, HD, you know, this isn't, you know, behind the cars because, and this was always key that, you know, people who are looking at this never got, is that all the camera footage from that night was surface level.
	Right?
	Because it's handheld.
	So, and of course, Richie thinks he has his camera going, but he doesn't.
	And he's beating himself up over that.
	But, you know, it happens in the heat of the moment that this thing is above looking down, sees the whole thing.
	You can actually see the anger and just, you know, insanity in Rosenbaum's face as he's chasing you that I don't think you show that face to anybody.
	That they would think that this guy, let alone threatening to kill them twice that night.
	Right, right.
	right that he has anything other than, you know, very dangerous, evil intentions.
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	We'll be right back.
	The Ultimate Issues Hour is the third hour every Tuesday.
	I am reading to you excerpts from the Atlantic long, long article by David Brooks, who came to the New York Times, I don't know, 20 years ago, from the National Review, was seen as a conservative.
	He is now abandoned.
	He thinks he is, of course, still Burkean conservative, whatever that means, because I don't see how Burke and modern conservatism differ that much at all.
	Nevertheless, that is what he believes.
	So he's a Burkean conservative and therefore anti the conservative and Republican movement now.
	I don't know if he's a Democrat, maybe he's an Independent, but I was curious to know, what is this man's attack on conservatism?
	And there is not a single specific example in this many thousand word piece.
	So I'm reading to you excerpts.
	In real life, conservatives, conservatism has turned into a brutish anti-intellectualism, a contempt for learning and expertise.
	I was aching for an example.
	The intellects and the intellectuals on the right are so vastly more intellectual than the crowd on the left who are just pushing wokeness.
	Victor Davis Hanson?
	Who's the left-wing equivalent of Victor Davis Hanson?
	I mean, the list is so long.
	Deeply intellectual, thoughtful people on the right.
	Does he not know them?
	Contempt for learning?
	The only contempt for learning is on the left.
	The purpose of the university is not to learn, it's to become a leftist.
	How many students at Harvard ever heard of Tom Sowell?
	Doesn't that prove to you that it's all ideological?
	Conservatives are supposed to prize local community, but this orientation can turn into narrow parochialism, can produce xenophobic and racial animosity toward immigrants, a tribal hostility toward outsiders, and a paranoid response when confronted with even a hint of diversity and pluralism.
	This is just a smear.
	The average conservative couldn't care less what color you are.
	They care about your values.
	In fact, that's true, I think, for 99% of conservatives.
	I've done a test.
	It's a riot.
	I have a very large audience, see a thousand people, and nearly all are conservatives.
	Let's say, so I will ask them, which Supreme Court would you prefer?
	And I give them two Supreme Courts.
	One Supreme Court, white, male, Christian, leftists.
	And the other is black, female, gay, what else did I say?
	Atheist, rightists.
	They laugh, and they all vote for the second group.
	Conservatives judge people by their values, not by xenophobic criteria.
	That's just a smear that he picked up from the left.
	Depressing.
	Just depressing.
	Xenophobic and racist animosity toward immigrants?
	We don't want illegal immigrants flooding the country.
	That doesn't make you a racist.
	It's really sad to see the man write this stuff.
	Conservatives are supposed to cherish moral formation, but this emphasis can turn into a rigid and self-righteous moralism, a tendency to see all social change as evidence of moral decline and social menace.
	I don't know what he's talking about.
	That was my reaction to most of this piece.
	I don't know what he's talking about.
	Because he doesn't give a single example on any of this.
	It's a very long piece.
	He could have given examples.
	A rigid and self-righteous moralism?
	What is he referring to?
	I'm curious.
	Is it opposition to same-sex marriage?
	Is that self-righteous moralism?
	Barack Obama was opposed to same-sex marriage.
	Was he a self-righteous moralist?
	Is it possible that there were decent people on both sides of that issue?
	I'll continue.
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	There's about 57 Muslim states in the world.
	There's one Jewish state.
	The massive ingathering of Jews in the last 150 years back to the land is absolutely unprecedented.
	They say that there's no greater sign of redemption coming than the Jewish people returning to the hills of Judea.
	As a Christian, I've always supported Israel's claim to the Holy Land.
	To me, the Palestinians were just getting in the way of God's plan.
	300,000 Palestinians are unemployed.
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	The public would be outraged if they knew the truth.
	Why do you think our politicians are not on the sidewalk right now talking to you?
	I don't have no respect.
	The old wall randomly turns into a guardrail followed by miles of open border You might traffic in the bar That journey is extremely dangerous.
	The seven-year-old girl died in the desert from the country of India.
	A great pillar of the community was killed by a man who had been deported at least twice.
	This little urn contains the ashes of my son.
	His dreams cut short forever.
	We're so worried about other countries' problems and we don't even focus on our own.
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	Judge Thomas, you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help you God.
	I was under a constant attack.
	You're not really black because you're not doing what we expect black people to do.
	This is the wrong black guy.
	He has to be destroyed.
	So you'd still like to serve on the Supreme Court?
	I'd rather die than withdraw from the process.
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	I debated whether to do this because I didn't want to spend time Criticizing David Brooks of the New York Times.
	But it's such a disappointing piece that he wrote about conservatives that somebody needs to respond.
	I mean, I am the perfect example of this conservative.
	So I need to respond.
	This is just, really, it's just left-wing smears of conservatism.
	And as usual, they don't have specifics.
	You know what the left media, like the Atlantic, you know what they do?
	I've never noted this to you.
	I started lecturing this I've noted to you.
	You'll see my point in a moment.
	I started lecturing at 21 years of age.
	It was a very strange life.
	I can't wait to write my autobiography.
	So I gave a speech at a Jewish event up in the Catskills in New York State.
	And one of the leading men, older than me, one of the leading...
	One of the rabbis of his generation was present at my speech.
	My speech was about comparing Judaism to another religion.
	And he came over to me at the end of the speech, said, it's a really good speech, but you have to watch out with regard to something.
	And I loved getting critiqued, still do, especially then by older people.
	I thought older might have known more, and I was right.
	And he said, you have to guard against the tendency of comparing the best of your group to the worst of the other.
	The fact that I remember this so many decades later shows what an impact that critique made of me, and I have been careful about that all of my life.
	I never gave that precise speech again.
	You have to compare the worst of yours to the worst of theirs, or the best of yours to the best of theirs, or the average of yours to the average of theirs.
	So, what do you read about all the time?
	QAnon.
	You know I know nothing about QAnon, I swear to God.
	So, because it may sound unbelievable to people on the left.
	I know nothing about it.
	I don't know what it is.
	I have never seen it.
	I don't know anybody who goes to it.
	But they cite QAnon all the time when talking about conservatives.
	Does Victor Davis Hanson consult QAnon?
	Does Larry Elder consult QAnon?
	Does Ben Shapiro consult QAnon?
	Do I consult QAnon?
	Just names that come to my mind immediately.
	But here's the proof that that's what they do.
	And that they don't take us on fairly.
	They don't debate us.
	That's a very important point.
	Was it Alex Berenson who challenged?
	No, no, no, no.
	Robert Kennedy Jr., who was smeared by Jake Tapper, who Mike praised yesterday, just for the record.
	And Tapp at CNN. And he said, why don't we debate?
	And he said, no, no, no, I don't debate.
	What was the term he used?
	I don't debate anti-vaxxers or something like that.
	My wife will give me the word.
	Let me see if I can get it right now.
	Let's see.
	It'll come up.
	Anyway, he doesn't debate whatever it is.
	Would Jake Tapper debate me?
	I've offered $10,000 plus to any...
	New York Times reporter, a columnist, other than Brett Stephens or Ross Douthat, with whom I agree most of the time, for a debate.
	It doesn't happen.
	Conservatives are supposed to, yes, self-righteous moralism, a tendency to see all social change as evidence of moral decline.
	Really?
	We see all social change as evidence of moral decline?
	Give me an example.
	We see a lot of evidence.
	Yes, the United States doesn't need to be transformed, David Brooks.
	We see the transformation of the United States as a vile act that will end America as the beacon of liberty on earth.
	That's true, but that's not the same as seeing all social change as evidence of moral decline.
	All?
	All is a big word.
	Well, I won't even get to finish the piece, but I will continue.
	The piece is, of course, to be confined on the Atlantic.
	It would be worthwhile for David Brooks and I to have a discussion, and I repeat once again, he's invited to my show.
	Back in a moment.
	This is Carol Platt-Lebow for townhall.com.
	China has built the largest DNA database in the world, and it's only growing.
	This should concern all of us.
	That's because China could use this information in the future, perhaps, for example, to build bioweapons targeting specific ethnic groups.
	Given this background, common sense dictates that Americans shouldn't be storing their DNA or other personal information with Chinese-linked firms.
	Quite sensibly, after getting an FBI briefing about the firm's connections to China, the Los Angeles County Sheriff notified the county that his office wouldn't work with Folgen.
	That's the genetics firm LA County hired for mandatory COVID testing and registration.
	Folgen even admits in a public disclaimer it stores information outside the United States where data privacy protections may not be as secure.
	I'll bet.
	What's alarming is how many others have chosen to work with Folgen.
	The question is why.
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	America, if anybody wants it.
	But the answer is, yeah, I wish I had thought about ordering a half a billion pills.
	Two months ago before COVID hit here.
	But we're nearly two years into this pandemic.
	You're a year into the presidency.
	Empty shelves and no test kits in some places.
	Three days before Christmas when it's so important.
	Is that good enough?
	No, nothing's been good enough.
	But look, look who we are.
	When last Christmas we're in a situation where we had significantly fewer people vaccinated, emergency rooms were filled.
	Well, Mr. President, yes.
	I would have to agree with you on that.
	For once, there's something you and I agree on.
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	Rumble.com And I don't know what he now is.
	Is he a Democrat?
	Is he an Independent?
	But he finds us pathetic.
	I have not read in the entire piece a single specific.
	Only generalized statements were anti-intellectual.
	That's a giveaway.
	Anti-intellectual.
	The left, it's the left that's anti-intellectual.
	But okay.
	Donald Trump is the near opposite of the Burkean conservatism I've described here.
	How did a movement built on sympathy and wisdom lead to a man who possesses neither?
	You know, not once in the Trump era did I use the term Trump derangement syndrome.
	Not once.
	And I didn't even believe it existed for most of the four years.
	I now am convinced that it exists.
	That Trump has deranged otherwise sane, rational minds.
	The hatred of the man has distorted perceptions of reality.
	I have never offered Donald Trump as a moral model, nor have I cared if he is.
	The most important thing a president can do is help this country and help the world and fight for liberty and protect liberty, because that's what we stand for, and that's what he did.
	He was a great president.
	Is he a great man?
	God will decide.
	Is he a bad man?
	God will decide.
	I am not interested.
	I am interested in America and the world.
	What he can do for America and the world and what he did was enormous.
	Enormous.
	How did a movement built on sympathy and wisdom lead to a man who possesses neither?
	Let me ask you something.
	Does the current president have wisdom and sympathy?
	I think Donald Trump had more wisdom and more sympathy than Joe Biden.
	Does Kamala Harris strike you as a woman of sympathy and wisdom?
	Do I care?
	How did a movement that put such importance on the moral formation of the individual end up elevating an unashamed moral degenerate?
	He's not a moral degenerate.
	If he's a moral degenerate, then we have lost our vocabulary.
	A moral degenerate.
	Because of his P-word remark in private, that makes him a moral degenerate.
	Private male, male talk in the history of the world would invalidate the great majority of men.
	Not me, to be honest, but it doesn't matter.
	Because I know what to judge and what not to judge, and I don't judge private talk, period.
	I judge public talk and actions, not private talk.
	That was wisdom.

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