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Sept. 7, 2023 - Dennis Prager Show
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Easily Fooled
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subscribe at prager topia.com hi it's mark isler with you again back with you again filling in for dennis prager It's always an honor and a privilege, and it never gets old.
Even if Sean, I think you've gotten much older, right?
Why is he laughing?
Just Sean has gotten older.
Hey, the last two times I was on Sean, you weren't here.
Do you have a note, an absence note, or do you have something?
It was planned.
So because it was planned, you don't think you need a note?
You'll leave him as soon as possible.
Oh, I may be alone here soon.
Alright, it's good to see you back.
There's no one like Sean who can have the right touch to the show, especially when he listens to it.
He'd like that too.
See, I explain to my students different idioms and one of them is inside joke or expressions.
That's an inside joke for Sean and I. As always, you can reach me at markisler at aol.com, M-A-R-K-I-S-L-E-R at aol.com and follow what I'm up to doing on Facebook and elsewhere.
Sean and Kevin, whenever they get to my podcast, we'll begin the podcast.
Yeah, you didn't answer me on the last note I sent you.
All right.
Oh, but he's got a new car.
Can you applaud for yourself?
I didn't even ask you, what kind of car is it?
What is it?
I thought it was a Jeep, but I was afraid to show my name with it.
Yeah, he's applauding his Jeep.
And his dog initiated it in some way.
I'm not going to leave that to the listeners.
In this hour, I want to talk to you about my deep frustration with my fellow Americans' inability, in my humble opinion.
Of course, if I say it's humble, then probably mean it's not, but therefore, I'm paid to give opinions.
But after the first Republican debate, there was wild approval for Vivek Ramaswamy.
On Facebook, I read it, and on other social media platforms, and maybe on talk radio.
So I asked myself, why was that?
Mostly because he was articulate and spoke with passion.
He was surely glib, one can't argue that.
But I was surprised that most people couldn't see past that veneer.
There was something about him that bothered me when I listened to him, even the very first time.
I don't know if I heard him first on Dennis or where I heard him.
And not because one Facebook observer suggested he said, oh, you don't like his nationality.
No, no.
I could care less about that.
And then to the person's credit, I'm not going to say their name.
You wouldn't know them anyway.
I told them a little bit about him and they said, oh, let me do my research.
So that was nice.
I just care about choosing good people.
Maybe I have a slick meter.
I don't know.
Even with Bill Clinton, I recognized it right away.
People would say to me, if you met Bill Clinton, you'd be charmed by him.
I don't think so.
I never thought that.
I never met him, but I knew he was a snake oil salesman from the beginning.
I remember, I bet you Sean doesn't remember this, in one of the primers he lost, I'm going to guess it was Massachusetts, but it could have been somewhere else, they said, Governor, I think he was governor.
How do you feel about having just lost?
And he said, oh, that's good for the campaign.
This will excite everybody.
And I said, I don't believe this guy.
That doesn't make sense to me.
And of course, I feel your pain.
That one never worked for me.
Sean, I don't think that worked for you either, right?
I feel your pain, yeah.
I don't think so.
Not unlike Obama's hope and change, often setting up, you remember what he would do, false arguments or saying we believe one thing and then...
Destroying that argument, even though we never said it.
And of course, he would do another, right?
Does he live in Martha's Vineyard?
I don't even know.
But he lives in a coastal town.
And he's always talking about global warming, right?
As if he worries about that.
Or as another example, people taken in.
There's a big one by Uncle Joe Talk.
Do you remember that?
Oh, Biden's just like your Uncle Joe.
He's this nice guy.
But I knew his history.
And I knew how nasty he could be and how self-serving he was.
Or people.
People who support Hillary Clinton.
There are people who love Hillary Clinton.
That's fine.
But they don't realize the Clinton's history.
If you got in their way, they'd step all over you.
There's no doubt about that.
I don't know.
And by the way, on my shows in the past, I remember I had on people who knew them.
I remember a story with Bill Clinton was being taken around by his security staff and someone gets in a car with him and says, Governor, am I going to get that appointment?
He says, sure.
Someone else gets in the car later, same job.
He says, sure.
He had no trouble not telling the truth.
I don't know why people don't see this.
Yeah, I get taken in sometimes too, but not often.
I don't know if you ever do this, but I'll have an initial reaction about someone that may not be good.
And with time, I changed my mind.
Actually, this was a talk show host where I used to work at KABC, another station.
And I thought, you know what?
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe this person's really a nice guy.
And then, as I got to know them better, I come back to my original position and say to myself, oh, I was right from the start.
For example, I got taken in by Mitt Romney.
Now, I didn't care for him all that much when I first saw him and met him in advance and stuff.
Something about this guy, I don't know.
And then I thought I was wrong, especially after I met and liked a family member of his.
Sean, I don't know if I ever told you this, and his wife at the convention, I got to go to the convention, I waved her and she looked right at me and waved back.
So there I was taken in.
I don't want to say too much, but I was taken in.
I think part of that thinking, though, was I wanted him to be a good guy.
It took a while to realize that he had no real principles.
And how self-serving he was.
But once I did my research and looked into his character, I figured out who he was.
And I've asked myself, well, not just me, but I've asked on the air.
I said, forgive me, I made a big mistake.
I was a delegate for Mitt Romney.
There are even talk show hosts, for example, who will go unnamed, that are nothing like they may sound on the air.
Obviously not Dennis.
So the only thing, Sean, you weren't here last time, but here's what I said about Dennis that I don't think people know.
I want to see if you agree with me.
I think Dennis has a terrific sense of humor, but you don't see it as much on the air as you do off the air.
Do you agree with me?
Are you thinking about it, or did you agree with me?
Sean...
Yeah, Sean was saying he's funny on the air, but off the air, he's got this big sense of humor.
I thought Sean's reaction reminded me of a Jack Benny line.
I'll tell the story.
They said that Jack Benny, if you remember, for those that don't remember, he was considered very cheap.
Not in real life, but on the air, he was considered very cheap.
So in rehearsal, they say, a robber comes up to you, Jack, and they say, with a gun, and they say, your money or your life.
And Jack Benny says, I'm thinking.
I'm thinking.
And that became the line they used.
So, Sean, I saw you thinking.
I was thinking, is he thinking of it, Dennis?
He disagrees with me.
But that was a good point.
And I think that people who know Dennis outside say he's got a great sense of humor.
But there are listeners who think from listening to people on the air, they think they know them.
Radio, after all, is a very personal medium.
But some hosts pretend to be something they are not.
But I can spot people like Vivek Ramaswamy pretty fast most of the time.
But as I said, many people after the debate were gushing all over him saying he should be considered for the vice presidential slot.
But did they do their homework?
Did they do their research?
So if you don't know, I'm going to help you a little bit now.
Did they know he was funded by George Soros' brother with some scholarship and had that fact erased from Wikipedia?
And supposedly, I think this is true, I can't be sure, he paid someone in the organization, Wikipedia, to erase that before he ran.
And when his campaign, this part I know is true, I read it, his campaign was challenged on that point, they replied, he needed the money at the time.
Ah, these people don't understand, when you get in big time, they check this stuff out.
They checked out when he had the scholarship.
And I think it was Fox Digital.
As someone reported, he made over $2 million a year, a little more than Sean, each of those two years that he got the scholarship.
And this is one that's only come out the last week or two.
Did people check that he had companies closely tied?
He formed companies tied to the Chinese Communist Party, and I think they failed.
Did they hear his...
Latest position that Israel in the next few years should not be funded at the same level as now and should be equal in funding to other countries in the Middle East that are with us or against us.
It didn't matter to him.
Did they hear his position on Taiwan or the Ukraine-Russian conflict?
No.
They were enamored with him because he was glib in the debate.
Perhaps aided by the perception of the poor performance by the others on the stage.
I'll get into that the next hour.
Of course, the Republican Party leadership omitted our own Larry Elder from the debate stage.
Do you hear why they did it?
They said, I think it was the Harris poll.
They didn't count that poll as one of the polls that showed the approval numbers that Rasmussen.
Okay, not Harris.
That's an older poll.
Thank you, Sean.
The Rasmussen poll, they didn't count that, and he never knew about it, but they eliminated him from the stage.
More of that later.
But what I want to focus on here is that people get taken in by smooth talkers.
Of course, it's important to be articulate, both for our foes and friends alike to understand where we are.
Look how weak Joe Biden is on the world stage because he can't communicate.
And look, sorry, I'm not comparing the two, but look how mesmerizing Adolf Hitler was with the German people and how that helped him to seize power.
Let me know what you think.
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Mark, I'm still back with you again.
I had more to say about Vivek, but you know I'm caller-driven.
So let's go to someone and see what you guys have to say.
And we'll go to Al in Atlanta, Georgia.
Al, you're on with Mark.
Hey, thanks for taking my call.
I'm really a big fan of The Prager Show and I've enjoyed your guest hosting over the past.
Thank you.
I kind of wanted to take a different take.
Play the advocate position.
You know, Vivek Prabhaswamy, I hear this big groundswell of accusations about his past from friends and from your introduction monologue.
And I'd like to take a step back and just introduce the fact that he has strong ideas like microchip independence and other things that would strengthen our company.
He expresses a love for our country.
And quite frankly, the jury's still out in my mind as to whether he's got a groundswell of the Soros connection, et cetera.
The whole panel is a bunch of broken toys as far as I'm concerned.
Nikki Haley, Christie, and Pence, they've all shown their allegiance to maybe some other than supportive American fur support, in my opinion.
I wonder your opinion on, you know, let's look at the ideas the guy presents, how we might incorporate those into our future governance instead of just knocking him down for perhaps receiving some money from Soros.
Al, you make good points, but I didn't just say the Soros thing.
I pointed out he had connections with the Chinese Communist Party, building up businesses with them.
By the way, as far as I know, they failed.
I don't like his position on Israel.
I don't like his position on Russia and Ukraine.
I don't like his position on Taiwan.
So it wasn't just the Soros connection.
But I agree with you, and I'm going to do this in the next hour, that a lot of the people up there...
I leave a lot to be desired also, but I don't think that's a reason to rush.
And I think it's, that's why I try to make it a larger theme.
It's not just about him.
It's about people being taken in by people, salesmen, slick people.
And if he can change his positions that quickly, I think, I want to be careful about this.
As far as I know, he went to Wikipedia and had that connection to Soros erased.
If that's true, and I'm saying I'm not 100% sure about that, that's why I mentioned that stuff.
But the other stuff...
I like people who are articulate, but I think I'm talking about something else.
Can you see through people who, I'll even use this word, who might be phony sometimes?
And that's the impression I get about him.
He's too slick for me.
And I admit it, I was taken in by Romney.
But part of that was hope.
And look what you're saying that I agree with totally.
Compared to the others, you know, they leave a lot to be desired.
I'm going to get to that next hour, but Al, that's a good call.
We mostly agree.
Thanks so much.
Let's go to someone else.
Joey in Orange County, California.
I think it's Joey.
You're on with Mark.
Hi, Mark.
I'm so glad that you mentioned that about Vivek Ramaswamy because, you know, he's good-looking.
He's very articulate.
He's constantly smiling.
He could sell you a refrigerator even if you already had two.
Actually, I need a refrigerator, so if he did that, I might buy it, despite what I said.
We'll call the effects, see if he has one for sale!
But anyway, you know, when I watched him, and the previous caller said he has a lot of strong opinions on everything, and he does, and he thinks he's right about all of them, and some of them are just way too strong for me, about Taiwan, about Israel, about, you know, he just wants to come in and handle everything, and I think...
What Nikki Haley said is right.
He lacks a lot of experience in foreign policy.
He just really lacks it.
And by the way, I think a lot of Nikki Haley, next to Trump, I put Nikki Haley up there.
Well, listen to me the next hour and I'll take care of her.
No, I don't go into detail about her.
She rubs me the wrong way, too.
That's why I agreed with the previous caller.
We've got a lot of people out there that leave something.
But it's all right.
There are no perfect people.
There are no perfect people.
But what you said, I'm not going to say.
Sean and I were talking about something off the air.
And I said experience has to count for something in life.
We all get better.
I can tell this story.
And he just wrote to me today.
Glad I was on the air.
My first producer, Richard, I'll say his name.
Five years after I was a talk show host, I said, Mark, do you realize how good you've gotten?
And I said, what do you mean?
Wasn't I always this good?
And he said, no, you weren't.
We get better with experience.
And I see him in the fact, yeah, he's got all these opinions and he's shouting them out.
Yeah, but did he think through the Israel thing?
Did he think through Ukraine and Russia?
Okay, maybe those are his opinions.
But he's sounding like someone who's figured it all out.
Right?
I think Dennis said this line that I know from Mark Twain.
I'm going to try to paraphrase.
Right?
Mark Twain goes off to college.
He finishes four years later and he said, oh, after whatever these times in college, I realize how smart my parents got.
Right?
Right.
We realize that as we go on.
He's too glib for me.
But that's my opinion.
Well, but I agree with you.
He's too glib for me.
And it brings up my red flags right away.
But for most people, they just adore him.
They go, oh, look at him.
He knows everything, and he's so cute, and he smiles, and they're right on his little red wagon.
And so that's worked for him all his life, and I'm glad, but he's not going to be my president.
And by the way, Sean and I were not taken in by what you say is cuteness.
Sean, we didn't have that discussion about how cute he is, right?
But Sean's disagreeing.
He said he appeals to the younger audience, and maybe that's why people like him.
They say, oh, he'll go well with the younger crowd.
Well, he goes really well with the younger crowd.
They seem to think, you know, he's one of us.
Let's put him in office.
Well, it is scary.
You know, you probably know I'm a part-time teacher also.
And with our educational system, it doesn't surprise me that, you know, the way they view people and their values are a lot different than maybe yours and mine.
Well, but we still have to raise them up.
You know, it's our job.
You're good.
You're good.
Orange County, you're not so far from me.
When are you inviting me over for lunch?
I'm just kidding.
Oh, when do you want to come?
I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
Thanks, Joey, for the call.
I appreciate it.
And, Sean, we have time for another one now?
Yeah, let's go for it quickly.
Let's go to Paul in Sterling Heights, Michigan, I think.
Hey, Mark.
How's it going?
I just had a question.
I don't understand what the issue is with taking a $50,000 merit-based scholarship, no matter who it's from, when there's no strings attached to it.
I just don't see what the issue is with that.
And I read this correctly, and I always want to say that so I keep my credibility.
As far as I know, there were reports that during that time that he took the scholarship, he was making over $2 million a year.
Now, you may say, terrific, let him make $2 million and $50,000.
But I think if you talk a certain way, it's hard to be, you become hypocritical, you know, after a while.
So maybe George Soros' brother, I thought about this.
What he says makes that hypocritical.
To me, it would be dumb not to take $50,000 scholarship if somebody's willing to give it to you based on merit of what you've done in your life.
We gotta go, but I'll answer that.
Thanks for the call.
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So I want to tell you I was complimenting Sean on all that stuff.
He has ruined it for me now because he said I'm saying Vivek.
Let's see, he said pronounce it.
It's pronounced like cake, so...
Vivek?
That's it?
Vivek?
You messed me up for the rest of the day.
Then I started asking him, is it Kamala or Kamala?
I still don't know.
So what is it, Sean?
What is it in that case?
Kamala.
Oh, okay.
He's the one giving me advice.
He went both ways.
He said both names.
It's Kamala?
That's it?
And you're sure it's Vivek?
I'm going to say Mr. Ramaswamy.
Huh?
He told you on the air.
And so on the debate, I didn't really watch the debate.
I was teaching.
I had a good excuse.
They didn't mess up his opponents or they did?
Those in the know, save the fake?
He's trying to be a poet laureate now too?
Okay.
You've got to understand this has messed me up.
I have enough trouble.
I'm going to talk about this in the third hour.
I'm going to talk about Jimmy Buffett a little bit.
Did you remember Jimmy Buffett, Sean?
He's saying it like, of course, how could you ask me that?
And so does Rick.
But I now, when I play a song, it stays in my head and I can't get it out of my head until I hear the next song.
Do you have that problem?
When you're listening to something?
Most people do?
Oh, that's good.
I feel a little better.
And I'm not going to ask you now, but think about it for the third hour.
What's the song?
Don't do it now.
That I'm thinking of that I can't get out of my head.
Okay, that's good and that's later.
So to those of you out here, I'll get back to your calls in a second.
I speak for a living, so I know how important that is.
But it's only part of the qualifications for those in leadership positions.
But many of you were taken in by Ramaswamy, even though they didn't know, you guys didn't know his true character.
But I'm a behaviorist.
I think Dennis is too.
So I care much more about what people do than what they say.
That is one of the reasons I don't have much trouble with President Trump.
He often says things, obviously, that are over the top or are better left unsaid.
I don't think, maybe his parents, I don't want to blame his parents.
Maybe when he got rich, no one ever told him, you know, you probably shouldn't say those things.
Some of those things you should keep to yourself.
But he got things done for this country, which is what I care about most.
Maybe that's why so many people despise him, and they despise him.
Because they get taken in by the spoken word more often than by good deeds.
That's what counts.
And by the way, I wanted to make this a bigger topic.
So in our own lives, it's important too.
I remember in business meeting two people when I had my own business.
I met two gentlemen who wanted to buy my business.
And I told one of my brothers, I said, boy, we met these great guys who want to buy my business.
And he said, you don't know if they're good guys or they're great guys.
You just know they have a good personality.
Maybe.
And he was right.
Because people have to stand the test of time, including our friends.
And yes, even our families.
Dennis has remarked, and I agree with him totally about this, the phrase, he loves him like a brother.
Well, but there are brothers that don't get along, sisters that don't get along.
The families you get in life, that's luck.
That's what that is.
Who do you choose?
You choose your friends and close relationships, not your family members.
But even they have to stand the test of time.
How often do people we thought were our friends disappoint us?
Let me know what you think.
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I'm Mark Eisler sitting in for Dennis Prager.
Mark Eisler.
It's Mark.
I'm listening to the song.
I like it, but what's the name of that song?
Little girl.
I love rock and roll, and I know Dennis loves it also.
Yeah, it's Mark Geister back with you again for Dennis Prager.
There's no one on the radio now that I can think of who would be a greater honor to fill in for.
The only reason I emphasize now, I never got to fill in for Rush.
That would have been a privilege, too.
We almost made it happen, but not quite.
And by the way, Rush, It wasn't the one who didn't make it happen.
It was someone else.
But anyway, that's how it works.
But I'm lucky enough...
Just think about that.
To fill in for the best.
Dennis is the best.
No one who covers so many important issues in life with the clarity that he brings to it.
So again, for me, it's a great privilege.
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I try to answer everyone, but I must admit, sometimes I don't get to it, so I apologize in advance.
What we often do in life is we do the urgent things instead of the most important things.
So I apologize for that if I don't get back to you.
The last time I was on, I read probably, well, in my opinion, the greatest speech in American history ever given by an American president.
And I can tell by your comments that many of you appreciated what I did.
Some of you...
Telling me you were even moved to tears.
So here's the part of that Gettysburg Address that I want to repeat now, and you'll see why.
President Lincoln said, Now we're engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.
It is for us the living, rather than to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here, dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take in great And that is
our next task in this new civil war.
Which is ongoing in this country.
It may not be physical, but it is just as real between those who want to continue the limited government that our founding fathers bequeathed to us, or those who want to control our lives and turn this into just another socialist or communist country.
Where liberty is gone and tyranny wins.
Where Benjamin Franklin, I read his autobiography, One of the great founders.
May yet be right, and I quote him often because this line is so great.
When asked what kind of country we created, he said, a republic if we can keep it.
And now it used to be, I didn't know years ago it wasn't a democracy.
A lot of people think it's a democracy.
No, it's a republic.
I learned that from Franklin.
But now that last part hits me even more than the other part.
If we can keep it.
He knew even then.
What wisdom in those words?
Lincoln asked, can our nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated long endure?
So I ask you, will we dedicate ourselves to the unfinished work that he talked about all those many years ago?
To try to do a little that we can for those all over the years who have so nobly advanced this cause?
Will we make sure that all those who paid the ultimate price did not die in vain?
Will we yet have a new birth of freedom?
And can we make sure that this government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth?
I am not sure, as I once was.
When I was a little kid and was inspired by President John Kennedy, and I'll quote the line I want to now, the lines, Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
Those words may ring hollow now when the threat comes not only from the outside, which is what President Kennedy was talking about, outside our borders, but from within our borders, How else can you describe Americans being locked up for years for the crime of trespassing,
or exercising their free speech rights, or put in solitary confinement for relatively insignificant offenses, or parents being arrested at school board meetings for exercising their free speech rights?
To describe unequal justice with the party in power seeking to prosecute or eliminate its political enemies and getting off just about scot-free.
Need I mention, Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton and her husband, and of course even the so-called big guy, that's what he was called in communications when money passed, Joe Biden.
How is Biden still in power?
How is his son still free?
How is Hillary walking the streets after all those emails accessible by our enemies?
I don't know if you remember this name.
How is Sandy Berger?
Do you remember him, Sean?
He stuffed documents in his clothing and walked out, and we found out about this, and as far as I know, he was never prosecuted, or maybe he pled to some lesser charge.
The list goes on and on.
How are all these people not held accountable?
With their ultimate betrayal and the indignity of it all.
How else do you describe the indictment of a former president by his political opponents both on the national and local level?
Our founders never envisioned this tyranny.
Or if they did, they tried to prevent it.
You know, their brilliant system, I've talked about this, of checks and balances, right?
You know, Congress passes laws, the president can veto it, Congress can overturn it, the Supreme Court can say it's unconstitutional, and then they divide a power between the federal government and the state government, and ultimately they gave it to the people.
What do you do, though, when your opponents so lust for power that they will do anything to get it, or to keep it, including destroying the country in the process to get that power?
How else to explain allowing thousands if not millions of illegals to cross our borders, some of whom may be here to infiltrate our country and to plan new attacks?
But it all makes sense if you want power at any cost.
The days when Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill could, I think right after arguing about laws in Congress, at night they would have a drink.
How do you explain that?
There's nothing like that today.
It just doesn't take place.
We now have enemies within and some may be your neighbors next door.
I mean, that sounds pretty dramatic.
Actually, it started long ago, before I knew it, when the government itself was part of the assassination of its leader.
You know, you've heard me many times now.
I was the only host I know on national radio or even local radio at that time who said that President John Kennedy was assassinated by a conspiracy.
And as best as I can tell, that the CIA was involved.
That's why it's always covered up to this day.
You can't see everything.
Imagine a president of the United States assassinated.
By members of his own government.
So all my dreams about the sanctity of this country's government have been dashed.
Maybe we were lied to about the Vietnam War.
Maybe the Gulf of Tonkin incident was fabricated.
Maybe there were no Iraqi weapons of war.
I know, I was on the other side.
Maybe, just maybe, we've been lied to for a long time.
It's all very disheartening.
Not hopeless.
I didn't say hopeless.
But disheartening.
Because as Lincoln said, we must make sure that this country, so conceived in liberty, must not perish from this earth.
Tell me what you think at 1A Prager 776. Can you really believe these indictments of President Trump?
And by the way, why aren't local Republican district attorneys doing the same thing?
Indicting Democrats?
I don't get it.
Why aren't impeachment proceedings going on at the national level?
When is Mitch McConnell going to be replaced?
I can't believe I have a story.
Lindsey Graham says, oh, onward, just keep on going.
Everything's fine.
Even one of my favorite senators, I'll mention this the last hour, John Kennedy said, oh, no, he explained it all.
And it was just at a press conference that he had some issues.
How can this go on?
Will we be smart enough to choose the best leaders to run for office?
And not look for a miracle in a bottle like Vivek Ramaswamy.
The really good men and women are out there.
330 million people, right?
Somewhere over that or around that?
I used to say, you give me choices between Clinton and Bush?
You've got to be kidding.
What do we have, dynasties in this country?
And now what do we have to choose?
Let me know what you think at 1-8-Prager-776.
I'm Mark Eisler filling in for Dennis Prager.
Mark Eisler back with you again filling in for Dennis Prager Helen!
Helen, I'm sorry.
I apologize.
All we did was talk about her city, but...
We must have lost the line or she couldn't hold on that long.
So I do apologize to you.
Try to call back.
It's a full board.
But as soon as we can, we'll get you back on.
Let's see.
Brent agrees with me about Vivek.
Now, how do you say it again?
The cake.
Vivek.
Vivek.
I'm not going to win on this.
But here's someone who really disagrees with me.
Let's see where he went.
Oh, here it is.
Eric in Portland.
You're on with Mark.
How you doing, Mark?
Real well.
Yes.
Let me have it.
Mark, you get an F for that first hour.
The whole hour?
Being a former teacher.
Yeah.
You start off with, you know, why we should not like Vivek.
Phil's waiting for something.
And you gave absolutely nothing.
So, I guess you said he took a grant or something like that.
I don't think you listened to the whole thing.
That's not all I said.
I did.
I let you know the whole thing.
But you just said all I said is he got a grant.
He got a grant.
Let's be accurate.
He got a grant from Soros' brother.
I don't know much about Soros' brother.
That wasn't the problem.
The problem was he said he took it because he needed the money, and it looks like he was making $2 million a year, and he got that erased, if I'm right, he got that erased from Wikipedia because he was embarrassed by it.
That's not good stuff, but I didn't stop there.
I went on, and I said he had companies that had dealings with the Chinese Communist.
I don't like his position on Israel, on Russia, on Taiwan.
That's what I said, not just took a grant.
Okay.
So, yeah, again, you're not giving anything.
All you're doing, it's more of an attack.
It's more of the same thing, like, say, when Trump came out, they attacked his business.
I said he was the worst businessman in the world.
And, of course, that was false.
Right, but I didn't say he was a bad businessman.
I said he did business with the Communist Chinese Party.
Okay, well, you know, maybe Vivek can defend himself on that.
But I want to let you know that, I mean, Vivek won the Republican debate.
There's no doubt about it.
I mean, he hit every conservative point there was, and so immediately he started to get attacked by Republicans that, you know, don't like that kind of conservatism, that kind of thing.
So I thought it was pretty obvious.
What was going on, you know, the left-wing media is really attacking.
Now, he won the debate.
He won the Republican debate.
Just as Trump won the Republican debate back in the day.
That may be.
He may have won the debate, although I have an alibi for that, which is, look who he's facing.
I'm going to go over that.
If I get a chance, all the others, you probably would agree with me.
They leave a lot to be desired.
You would agree with that, right?
Like our own, you may not agree with me, but our own Larry Elder, if they didn't keep him on the stage, I think you would have been impressed by him if you know him.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, of course, yeah, that's what the Republican Party did to keep Larry Eller out.
It's ridiculous.
It's horrible.
But it's inside baseball, swampy stuff.
He may have won the debate in terms of being articulate.
I don't even want to argue that, but I'm saying...
I did bring up this other stuff.
I'm not like those Democrats out there, and I'm not attacking him because he's conservative.
I'm attacking him for all these other reasons.
I do care about character.
That does matter to me.
Obama, you couldn't trust what he said.
Joe Biden looks like he's made deals, sold out to the United States.
Character does matter in who we select as leaders.
I agree with you.
Character absolutely does matter, but you have not presented anything.
About his character that would eliminate him.
Because saying that he took a $50,000 grant, which, you know, from George Soros, that's almost a potter's thing.
You're going to take a $50,000 grant from a communist?
Absolutely.
Take it.
Do whatever you want with it.
Well, why would you erase that fact from Wikipedia unless you're embarrassed?
Well, no.
I mean, you know social media.
There's all kinds of false stuff on social media if he actually had the ability to remove something on Wikipedia, which we know...
Run by communists on Wikipedia and all that.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
But I know you like him, and you're very good, by the way.
You're very articulate.
I appreciate your call.
But his campaign, I read that.
That's accurate.
His campaign spokesperson said that he needed the money during that time.
And then, if it's right, on further research, it looks like he was making over $2 million a year, more than Sean and I make together during those years.
So he doesn't sound like he or his campaign have been on.
Okay.
Well, that's, you know, again, that's fine, but you haven't presented, you know, the proper evidence to, because it was almost like you were doing a, kind of like a mini little hit piece on him, and we're waiting for the substance, you know, the actual...
You're hard.
You really like him.
Well, no, here's the thing.
No, I'm a Trump supporter.
I am.
I'm Trump all the way.
It's obvious this country...
You know, if you're a conservative, there is no other choice than voting for Trump and the Republican Party voting in the election.
I mean, for many, you know, they are jailing conservatives all over the country.
That's right.
And our country goes, as Trump goes, our country goes.
It's all, you know, but attacking Vivek, I just found it was a little, it was like, why?
It's like, I mean, the guy on his woke, this woke stuff he talks about, it's brilliant.
I mean, it's absolutely brilliant stuff.
You know, I have to concede to you now, because Sean just pointed out to me, you're a Trump supporter in Portland, and that's difficult enough, so how could I possibly argue with you?
Well, yeah, you know, I just...
I appreciate you guys taking the call.
Well, no, answer that.
How is it for you to be a Trump supporter?
Do you get a lot of grief or your family or friends?
Oh, absolutely.
No, it's very difficult.
No, here in Portland, I am very difficult.
I'm talking extremely difficult.
I have to watch what I do.
I have to watch what I say.
You know, it's incredibly difficult.
That's why, you know, the country's in such danger.
I mean, it's no joke.
I've been ostracized many different places defending trouble.
I mean, going back to the COVID years, you know, I was banned from all kinds of places.
I was fighting all the COVID stuff.
So why do you stay in Portland?
I mean, you could ask me why do I stay in Los Angeles.
Yeah, I'm actually considering leaving.
I'm actually considering it, but I got some real estate up here.
I got a small little business up here.
Well, Sean just said, he just told me in my earpiece that you could room with him.
Where are you guys at, anyway?
In Los Angeles area, you know.
Yeah, I just sent my son down to college.
Well, I won't even get into that.
But anyway.
It sounds like I was left-wing.
Yeah, I understand that one, too.
Hey, you're a good man.
You're tough to get past because you're saying I didn't give any strong arguments.
And you're a Trump supporter, which I probably am also.
I just want to make sure he can win.
But you're really good.
So thanks so much for your call, Eric.
Thank you very much.
Absolutely.
And do we have time, Sean?
What do we got left?
I don't want to be unfair, so I'll keep you over, Brent.
But go ahead, Brent.
You go, because you have the opposite side.
If we need to, we'll keep you over.
Go ahead, Brent.
You're on with Mark.
Yeah, hello, magnificent Mark.
Thank you.
I'm giving you a triple A plus.
Wow, he gave me an F. I noticed.
And thank you for ripping the slick Marxist mask off of vivacious Rima Slimy.
Oh, you didn't like them.
No.
Hold on.
We're hitting the break.
I promise.
We'll put you on hold.
So don't leave us.
Boy, what a difference between the two of them.
Let me know what you think.
1-8 Prager 776. I'm Mark Eisler sitting in for Dennis Prager.
The Dennis Prager Show.
The Dennis Prager Show.
The Dennis Prager Show.
Mark, I was back with you again.
I hate to interrupt that.
I mentioned before the passing of Jimmy Buffett this last week.
I'll get to all your calls.
You guys want to talk politics, and I promise to get back to him.
He wasn't just an excellent singer.
It's what he was.
I enjoyed his singing very much.
I got to see him in concert once.
My younger brother introduced me to his music that way, and I was pretty impressed.
But I'm still surprised, days later, how many people appreciated his music and said that he had uplifted them, especially at dark times in their lives.
That is a pretty good legacy, to make such a difference in people's lives, like Dennis does.
And his sister said that even at the end, he still had that kind of good cheer.
And Sean, thank you for playing Cheeseburger in Paradise.
I played, my students had never heard of him, and I played a couple of songs, and they loved it.
His songs could be silly and crazy, but they were uplifting for the most part.
As Dennis has said, and my favorite president, Abraham Lincoln, has said, happiness is a choice, and I share that with my students.
I share many life lessons with them as well as, of course, teaching them at the same time, and I taught them that happiness is a choice.
I do what I wish my teachers had done with me when I went to school.
Often whenever they said something I was really interested in, they say, oh, now we have to get back to the subject, you know, the subject at hand.
That's why Dennis doing Ultimate Issues strikes such a chord with me, the things that really matter in life.
But I make life lessons a part of my teaching.
So recently one student came up to me after class and told me I had helped him get out of his depressed mood when I said every day I try to look for good things.
That happened that day.
He said he was depressed early in the day about missing his family in Mexico and also breaking up with his girlfriend and that my words had cheered him up.
It seems Jimmy Buffett had that effect on thousands and thousands of people.
So the message for all of us is to ask yourselves how you want to make a difference in your life.
Of course, for those who believe that this is not all the life there is, it's comforting to know that there's something after this.
I don't get how atheists don't get too depressed and think, this is it?
By the way, that might describe or explain the left a little bit.
Because if they think, if they're atheists especially, and they think this is all they're at, they get their...
Meaning and purpose out of controlling other people's lives, but maybe I'm wrong about that.
But it certainly is very depressing to think that this is all there is, that the good people suffer the same fate as the bad people.
But that is not what I want you to consider for now.
As I watch all these wonderful people leave us and realize how important they were in our lives, I want you to think about your legacy and how you want to make a difference.
While you can in people's lives.
Of course, I've said this before, but you must find time to spend with the people you care about and tell them you care about them before it's too late.
We often spend too much time doing what's urgent and not what's important.
As Dennis taught me many years ago, this is all we have and it is time and it is so precious.
I often dream about my loved ones who've passed and in my dreams I get to be with them one more time and I share stuff I wanted to share with them but then I wake up and I realize it was a dream and it can be a little depressing.
That's why I say the message is do it while you can.
And one of the advantages of living a long life is you get to see so much in life but like most things in life it's a double-edged sword because if you get to live a very long life you also get To see way too many people you care about pass on.
And I was surprised.
I'm still seeing posts on Facebook and elsewhere about how much Jimmy Buffett meant to them.
How he had cheered them up.
And that's what we'd want to do in our limited time here to try to make a difference.
So I thought the time goes so quickly when I'm filling in for Dennis.
I promise I'll get back to politics.
So let me go back to your calls.
And so many good ones.
And here's one.
Let's go to Susan in Stallion Springs, California.
You're on with Mark.
Hi, Mark.
Commenting.
I was a geriatric nurse, skilled nursing, and what I've seen with McConnell, I don't go along with the explanation at all.
There is no way it's lightheadedness or dizziness or whatever they've been saying.
He appears to be having TIAs, many strokes.
And he meets everything as far as I dealt with that a lot.
Yeah, no, I feel sorry for him.
I do too.
But you have to know, I think, especially in that kind of position, when your time is up.
So look what we got.
So we got Fetterman, who wins his election.
Oh, God, that supports my theory.
The American people, in that case, I guess they vote just because he's a D, not because of his personality.
But they voted for him anyway.
They're so angry at us and everything's supposed to we stand for.
And you got Mitch McConnell.
And you got, of course, Biden, the best example of that.
He's the president of the United States.
And you wonder if he's all there, and I don't mean that in a mean way.
It's just so sad to watch.
And you have, I'm not going to get to it, but you have Senator Lindsey saying, oh, everything's fine, he explained it to us.
Senator Kennedy, who I like even more, saying he explained it to us, everything's fine.
The Senate Republicans are hopeless as a group.
And the doctors.
And the doctors that explained that, it was totally inaccurate.
If you don't know anything about medicine, you might buy it.
But I dealt with it.
I know.
I saw it all the time.
And he meets all the parameters on that.
And same thing with Biden.
The way he walks.
His gait.
Dementia.
It's absolutely...
He's like McConnell, except he's in motion and his eyes are moving a little bit.
And we all know the things that Biden has said, many of which don't make sense.
And he's the leader of our country.
But the Democrats so lust for power, Susan, that they'll do anything to keep that power.
How about his wife, by the way?
Where is her dignity for her husband that she lets go on?
And I think part of that is that's that lust for power.
I consider that elder abuse, and that's what...
It took place when I was in skilled nursing.
There was a certain amount of elder abuse with family.
Thank you for your call.
I appreciate it.
It looks like you guys want to talk about that, so let's go to Kim in Los Angeles.
Kim, you're on with Mark.
Hi.
I'm just taking a guess here, but I think there's probably vested business interests for Mr. McConnell.
And if I understand this correctly, his wife is Chinese.
I mean, that doesn't really mean much, but it could mean something.
Well, I think there's some businesses owned that have dealings with China.
I think you're right about that, as far as I know.
Yeah, so I think that he is probably highly likely compromised in a similar way to Biden.
And what I like is that we're willing to pick on our own.
The Democrats don't want to do that.
And again, none of this is said out of meanness.
It's just if you can't serve, you can't serve.
I mean, that one is obvious.
Thanks for your call.
I appreciate it.
Let's go to Jimmy.
Jimmy wants to talk about it too.
Jimmy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
You're on with Mark.
Hello, Mark.
Thank you for this.
The girl explained it.
Mitch McConnell is a Chinese Democrat.
Lindsey Graham is a two-face.
Biden is a devil.
And the Pope, I'm disgraced.
I'm a Catholic.
He's an embarrassment.
We're in trouble.
We need Jesus.
The famous nine words of all time.
The greatest nine words ever spoken.
Forgive them, Father.
They know not what they do.
Thanks for your call.
I only think, I do think, unfortunately, the Democrats do know.
They know exactly what they're doing.
Let's go to Vincent in Atlanta, Georgia.
You're on with Mark.
Hey, Mark.
We probably need some Margaritaville.
These are dark days, but I just, yeah, I just wanted to say that this Democrat Party is lawless and corrupt.
They are the threat within described by President Lincoln that would destroy us.
These Democrats don't know what this party has become, and the rest don't care.
But that's why they run fraud investigations, fraud elections, arrest everyone inside, and then force their own attorneys to testify against them, because they count on Republicans to basically complain with sound and fury and then roll over.
And America was not built with cowardice, and it cannot remain with cowardice.
And if we're going to save this country, that's what's going to take, courage.
You're really on to it because...
That's why they hate Trump so much, because he upset that apple cart, the swamp in Washington.
I hate to use that word, but it's true.
He stepped on those toes.
By the way, I'm going to do an analysis of the candidates if we have time, but that's why they don't like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the Democrat Party, because he's also someone that may upset the apple cart.
I watched him with, was it Tucker or someone else?
No, it was Bill Maher, I think, where he was interviewed and he said, My father was killed.
I know who killed my father.
They don't want to hear any of this stuff.
1-8-Prager-776.
I want to hear from you.
Mark Eisler filling in for Dennis Prager.
And so I want to give you my take on the political candidates out there, and then you can call it 1-8-Prager-776, and I'll get back to you.
So let's start with the evil side.
I mean, I'm sorry I'm saying that.
I would have said Democrats in the past.
Do I think Joe Biden is going to stay in the race?
I just have this feeling he's not going to stay in the race.
Something is going to give.
Will it still be a Biden-Harris ticket?
Therefore, I don't think so.
Because I'm bringing up the issue of Kamala, Kamala, whatever it is, I think they can find a way to get rid of her, too.
Will Robert F. Kennedy Jr. play any role in their party?
I obviously don't agree with many of his views, but he appears to not be controlled by the left.
He is his own man, and that's saying something on that side.
Will that phony Gavin Newsom actually take over for Joe Biden?
I can't believe the rest of the country doesn't see what he's done to California.
Incredibly, he turned this paradise.
He's not the only one, but the Democrats controlling every state office and controlling all the levers of power.
There was a caller, I don't know if he's still on, want to talk to me about what Karen Bass has done as mayor of Los Angeles.
They're all terrible.
The fact that people don't see how bad he is amazes me.
But do I think he's got a real possibility?
Believe it, but I think he does.
So you can let me know your take about what you think their side will do.
Ours is a little more difficult for me because we have so many candidates.
Let's start at the top.
I think President Trump was a great president because he did great things.
The only question for me is can he win?
Obviously the other side is doing everything they can to destroy him before he destroys them.
That's what I think is going on.
Will the American people figure it out?
I'm not sure, because they get enamored with the wrong thing sometimes.
But here's my choice if I am confident he can win.
Next on the list is Ron DeSantis.
He's been a disappointment.
I thought he'd be better than he was, at least on the campaign trail.
He's kind of the opposite.
We started to bring it full circle with Vvek.
Did I say that right this time?
Vvek.
I've got to get that right.
At night, instead of listening to Jimmy Buffett, I'll say Vivek ten times.
Maybe I'll get it right.
He's faltered because of a sloppy campaign.
I'm talking about DeSantis now.
Because he's not flashy and doesn't speak with passion.
He's also made some serious blunders like, I think there's a quote, labeling Donald Trump supporters, quote, as listless vessels devoid of principle who simply follow whatever comes down the pike from truth social every morning.
I don't even know how to find truth social.
Do you, Sean?
Have you looked at it?
He doesn't know.
Most of us don't even know.
But if I ask Dennis, do you look at Truth Social every morning?
Dennis says, how do I find that?
I guess he would know what it is.
And I don't like his supporters.
It's not fair always to pick on people who support you.
But the Bushes, I just don't have much use for the Bushes.
And I said it at the time.
George W. Bush helped us lose the next election because he stayed out of it.
He thought he was above that.
They hate Trump.
They support DeSantis big time.
But I'm a behaviorist, which I said earlier, and he's been an excellent governor.
So I'd be okay with DeSantis.
I think I'm done with...
Oh, no, no.
One more I'd be okay with.
Tim Scott.
I think Tim Scott is a good guy.
He's not conservative enough for me, but I think he's a good guy to be a fine president.
Of course, my favorite on that list would be Larry Elder, but I've kind of alluded to it before.
Daniel, is that how you say her name?
I didn't support her for RNC chair.
Harvey Dillon, I think, was running against her.
The inside crowd.
See, we have the inside swamp on our side.
It's clear of McConnell and the rest of them.
Like Lindsey Graham.
How could they not see that McConnell needs to go?
Oh, because they get the committee assignments from him.
And he controls the money.
I get it.
That's more important than the country.
Yeah, I get it.
Lindsey Graham and some of the others there who support him.
And they kicked the finished story, so Larry Elder didn't get to go into the debate.
What was the poll?
Rasmussen.
Rasmussen poll, they decided not to count.
Why is that?
I think Rasmussen was only one of the two that got it right when Trump won.
Oh, so Larry's campaign didn't know about it.
You decide not to count that poll.
Oh, that's nice.
Why is that?
Was it a fix-in to make sure that Larry wasn't on the stage?
I don't want to be conspiratorial, but he would have been the best.
You wouldn't have needed Vivek.
Did I say it right that time?
I won't have to do it in the middle of the night now.
I got it right.
So, now for my losers.
Isn't that great that I categorized them all as losers?
Because I don't like any...
I think.
Let me see if I'm right.
If I leave...
Oh, yeah.
I don't know that guy.
What's his name?
Bergman?
I don't even know how to say his name.
Burgum.
I don't know.
I guess he's a governor.
A lot of these people are on there because they get name recognition.
I remember a story years ago.
Jack Kemp, when he ran for vice president, didn't do well.
In fact, I think he lost in the debate.
To Biden, yeah.
He didn't look good.
But his speaking fees went from $10,000, if I'm right, per speech to $50,000.
So I know why some people do this.
But let's start with Vice President Pence.
He doesn't come off well.
I wasn't thrilled when he was chosen as Vice President.
I knew his crowd included the Paul Ryan type.
See, I do my research.
So I didn't trust him.
By the way, to be fair, President Trump has not made good choices.
Maybe that's one disadvantage of being an outsider.
Because Sean and I were talking about this.
Experience matters in every field.
But Trump did not have that experience.
He trusted others.
Like, who was his first Secretary of State?
I think he was a disaster.
He picked a lot of bad people.
And I think that comes from not having been there.
That's one of the disadvantages.
The advantage is he's willing to clean the swamp, and he didn't have those deals.
But there are so many bad people he picked.
FBI director, I can't even think of his name now.
What a disaster that was.
The list is long of the choices he made that were bad, and Pence was one of them.
I didn't like it at the beginning.
Pence's argument that he followed the Constitution is spurious for me.
There is precedent for returning the electors to the states.
I think it happened in 1870, somewhere around there.
He let all of us down when the country was on the line.
And I love, here's what he does.
He touts the Trump-Pence team when that works for him.
And then he, what were you going to say?
Limited time.
But it's convenient how he talks about No one is above the law.
He's turned on Trump, too.
He wants to have it both ways.
Give me credit for the Trump-Pence, but turn on Trump because the Democrats are going after him.
Whoa, boy.
I have no use for him.
I'll get to the rest.
Let me know what you think.
1-8-Prager-776.
I'm Mark Eister filling in for Dennis Prager.
The Dennis Prager Show.
Mark Eister filling in for Dennis Prager.
And Joan in Simpsonville, South Carolina has such a good point.
Helps me talk about another character.
But Joan, you're on with Mark.
Hi.
Hi, Mark.
Thank you for having me on your show.
I appreciate it.
Sure.
Yeah, what I wanted to say is, yes, Trump did make some bad picks as far as people in his administration.
But I think he acknowledged that.
And, for instance, he picked Christopher Wray.
He said Chris Christie was the one who told him to pick him.
Is that true?
I didn't know.
Chris Christie had suggested Christopher Wray?
Yes, definitely.
I've heard that more than twice.
And I think he...
I believe I even heard Trump say it.
But other than that, everything else he did for our country was perfect.
So I can't really fault him too much.
Well, you know, you...
Gave me a chance to talk about Chris Christie.
Now, there's a despicable guy.
He's so full of himself in more than one way, but it's all about him.
I think, who did he attack?
Marco Rubio last time.
He's not a nice guy.
The American people like good people.
And what was that?
Bridgegate in New Jersey and stuff like that?
I think he left with the people really unhappy with him in New Jersey.
But he's full of himself.
What are his polling numbers?
I don't even know.
Is he getting actually one or two percent?
Yeah.
Here I'm talking about the people not having good judgment.
So I guess there's something like that.
Yeah.
Everything he accuses Trump of is what he's doing himself.
Yeah, and some of the others, so it gives me a chance.
Why is Asa Hutchinson up there?
Oh, yeah, to say Trump should be prosecuted or whatever to get his minutes of fame, right?
Am I leaving anybody out?
There's a sorry cast.
We have 330 million people.
Trump is terrific, obviously, and I hope he becomes president again.
He was doing stuff.
There's a caller there.
Maybe I'll answer her now.
Kathy in Pasadena said, Can you list Trump's accomplishments?
And Gene is saying he's done so much.
I'll take your call, Kathy.
Maybe you are serious.
Go ahead, Kathy.
You're on with Mark.
Yes, I am serious.
People always say he did so much, and I have to answer to his critics in my household.
I'd like to be able to say he did this, this, this, and this.
No, I didn't quite catch you.
You want to be able to say that, or someone said that?
No, I... I want to be able to answer to his critics.
Oh, I get it.
So you didn't disagree with me.
Yeah, well, let's start off by he's been strong militarily.
You know, the missiles that he struck at Syria let our enemies know right away, hey, this guy, unlike Biden, of course, to come, wasn't going to play around.
Let's talk about ending the Iran deal, giving money, which Biden wants to still do, with our enemies, killing our soldiers.
Let's talk about North Korea, at least was...
For a while, not activating any missiles, testing any missiles.
Let's do locally.
We were an exporter of gas to other countries in the world, and now our gas prices have gone up like crazy, which impacts inflation and everything else.
Let's talk about, I forgot, the embassy in Jerusalem.
A lot of presidents had talked about it, but no one had ever done it.
Climate change.
He understood that a lot of it, you know, maybe there is climate change.
There's not much we can do about it.
What do you want to, should I keep going on with the list?
The Supreme Court justices.
Maybe they didn't come through the way we thought they would, but he certainly tried to get conservative Supreme Court justices.
These are people that just don't like him.
How could you say he didn't do a good job?
The inflation rate, what was it?
Two percent?
One something?
I don't even know what it was.
What are they saying?
Because they hate him and they don't want to recognize all that he's done.
Well, that's for sure.
I'm with you on, yeah, I don't know what it is.
Personality, I guess.
I don't know.
Well, I said it before.
I said it before if you heard me.
He says things he shouldn't say.
He's off the top.
You know, a lot of times.
He can be very funny, by the way, sometimes too.
But he gets himself in trouble.
He doesn't filter it as well as Dennis maybe would do.
I even have that in my notes here.
Maybe Dennis should have run for president.
Then we would have lost his microphone, his voice.
But you need someone who filters that, who knows how to speak and what you can say.
Unlike, you helped me start where I began.
That's a redundancy.
Back to the vague.
Where he's so slick and all that stuff.
Yeah, Trump is not slick.
And they hate him for that.
Because he does say things he shouldn't say.
There is no filter there.
And that's disappointing.
But hey, I want to say this.
We get packages.
We don't get perfect people.
We don't get perfect husbands and wives.
We don't get perfect presidents.
I talked about Lincoln.
My favorite president.
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Let me know what you think.
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Keep in touch with me.
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One of these days, I've been saying this for a couple of years, we'll start my podcast.
It should be interesting.
I have some different ways of doing it.
It may not be the same everybody else is doing, but watch that on Facebook.
I'll let you know.
Which of these calls do I pick?
Well, Joe and we did about Chris Christie, so I did him.
And let's go to...
This is an interesting one.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Let's go to Tim.
Tim, you're on with Mark.
Hey, Mark.
How's it going today?
Real well.
Good.
Curious what your thoughts on President Trump's support for the socialist vaccine program, where he gave $15 billion to pharmaceutical companies to make a vaccine, which was ineffective.
Then pass the PREP Act to shield them from any liability.
Yeah, that's not one of my...
That's a very conservative move to me.
Yeah, no, you're right.
I think this is my only alibi for him or excuse for him.
Those were tough times, if you remember.
And people were worried.
People were scared.
I had a teacher next door to me die.
Pretty sad.
She was taking care of her parents and they counted on her and she dies ahead of them.
Wasn't the only one I knew who died.
So those were desperate times.
And people will do things.
Oh yeah, you helped me remember my thought I wanted to say before the break.
Abraham Lincoln wasn't perfect.
And, you know, he did habeas corpus.
People picked on him because he wasn't for ending slavery at the very beginning.
Actually, Lincoln, I read that book about him.
Lincoln knew when to do things.
He knew when he had the American people on his side.
So it was to keep the union together, but he wholeheartedly supported the ending of slavery at the right time.
I think to go back to those times, that's my answer.
Trump was caught up in it.
That's why Fauci and all...
Well, I agree those were crazy times, but we've learned a lot since then, and he still has never come out and spoken out against the vaccine.
He actually refers to himself as the father of the vaccine and still pushes it to this day.
It's a good challenge, and here's my answer.
He's got an ego problem.
Look, he supports Vivek because, you know, he likes him because he said good things about him.
Donald Trump...
He does have some personality weaknesses that are obvious.
If you like him, he's a big supporter of yours.
If you don't like him, he quickly turns on you.
Unlike Dennis' idea, which I love about a bank account, that people have a bank account, they do good things, they do not such good things, he's going to turn on you real quickly.
This was his baby, and I think it's hard for him to admit he was wrong.
Let me say this.
We're talking about people's lives here, though.
People are dying.
I mean, this is not just an opinion or somebody that doesn't like something.
I get it, but like I said, we're not going to agree with your presidents on everything.
We get the whole package.
I mean, as somebody who voted for Trump twice, that was enough to make me cut ties with him.
So we'll never have my support again.
Oh, that's fair.
Who were you both for in this election coming up?
I will not vote.
I feel the elections are cooked, and I think that voting is a waste of time at this point.
I appreciate your call.
I don't agree with you.
Lincoln would never agree with you.
These are tough times.
Thanks for your call.
But I would never give up on this country.
How could you, if you heard me talk about Lincoln at the Gettysburg Address, they gave their lives.
He was only wrong about one thing I said the last time I read the entire Gettysburg Address.
He said, people will little note nor long remember what we say here.
No, we remembered it.
Forever.
And we'll probably remember it forever.
And when he said, we owe it to all of them?
They paid the ultimate price?
And there have been millions or at least thousands after that?
And many thousands who gave their limbs and arms and whatever?
How could you ever give up on this country?
This is it.
This is the last best hope, as Lincoln said.
I agree with you.
A lot of the elections...
Look, Dennis is neutral on the election being stolen.
I've seen enough to feel strongly that election was stolen from Donald Trump.
That's why I'm so angry at Mike Pence for what he didn't do.
That's why I'm so angry at Nikki Haley.
I didn't mention her for turning on Trump at that point.
You know, I care about loyalty.
It's one of the qualities I care a lot about in people, since we're talking about people.
And I did with the opening monologue.
That's the test of time.
Loyalty, goodness, right?
Those are the qualities we look for in people.
You can't give up on this country.
There is nothing else.
I don't get it.
So we have to vote and do our best to make sure.
And that's why I'm so upset with the Republican Party and have been.
You have Mitch McConnell there supposedly leading things.
I'm not in love with Kevin McCarthy either.
But we're the Republicans standing up for what we believe in.
What the average American believes in.
They don't go there to make money and make connections.
You know, a lot of these politicians get rich at this.
You know, like Nancy Pelosi.
I don't know if her husband was always wealthy.
I don't know.
Or Dianne Feinstein.
I didn't mention her.
From all obvious signs, she's not the same person.
I don't care about our politics.
And she shouldn't be doing it anymore.
They have to know.
But we don't get perfect people.
And you can't give up.
You've got to go out and vote.
Our sacrifice is small compared to everybody else's sacrifice out there.
So that's my response to you.
Let's see the Abraham Accord's biggest accomplishments.
Let's go to, I think I understand, Lake Forest, California and Conran.
You're on with Mark.
Line three.
Hi, Mark.
I take exception with that last caller.
He's making our argument.
I believe the Democrats would have supported and backed vaccines sooner than Trump ever would have.
Yes, I don't know if this is what you're saying, but they always circle the wagons.
There's no issue about that.
We've got to do everything we can to make sure that our people win.
The reason I... Well, I think his point was that he's still defending Trump, and that bothers him very much.
I appreciate your call.
We have time.
Let's go to Mike in Akron, Ohio.
Mike, you're on with Mark.
Hey, Mark, thank you so much for taking my call.
I agree with all your points about Trump.
He did a lot of wonderful, wonderful things.
I'm so sorry to hear about the previous caller who said he wouldn't vote again.
I think it's our sacred duty.
Politics are tied to morality.
Morality is tied to the church.
If you're a Christian, it is your...
It's our sacred duty.
If you value the lives, the blood that was spilled in previous world wars and so forth, it's our sacred duty to vote.
If you value freedom, yes, there's corruption.
Yes, there is corruption.
Hold on a second.
I'll hold you over.
Hold on there.
We've got to go to the break.
1-8 Prager 776. Mark Eisler for Dennis Prager.
Mark Eisler back with you again.
A lot of you say very nice things to me.
You can keep in touch.
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But it's a team effort.
It's never done alone.
I've seen a lot of producers in my life.
There's no one better than Alan for Dennis.
I've never seen anyone produce it as well as Alan does for Dennis.
So thank you, Alan.
Whenever he asks, I'm there.
And Rick and Alejandro and Tony and Suzette.
Manning the calls.
That's not easy when they come in rapidly.
And Zach, to quote Sean, whatever he does.
No, he made you do a lot, Zach, if you're listening to me.
And I don't want to leave out Sean, which I did one time.
Zach is terrific when he fills in for Sean, but Sean has done this forever, and experience matters, and relationships matter.
He makes me so comfortable.
It's like having a right-hand man.
They read your mind.
They know what you want.
And I know Dennis feels that way, too.
The show would not be as successful without Sean.
I was on with Mike.
Let's go back to Mike in Akron.
Hi, Mike.
Hello, Mark.
Thanks again for keeping me on.
By the way, there's a great team there at Dennis Prager.
I love Dennis Prager.
He's such a national treasure.
He's got a great team.
But every once in a while, they screw up.
You've got to send them to the punishment room.
So that's all I want to say about that.
But going back to voting...
It's a sacred duty.
And as I said, politics is tied to morality.
Morality is tied to the church.
It's our sacred.
If Christians would just show up and vote, we would win.
But you also wanted to say, because I wanted to get that in, you support DeSantis, right?
Yeah, okay.
I wanted to say that.
And the reason why is because Trump is not a principled person.
He was phenomenal for foreign policy.
He unleashed American energy.
Loved all of that.
But the problem is he supported Fauci, gave Fauci a presidential medal of accommodation on his last day in office.
He stands by everything he did.
He can't admit his mistakes.
And he can't pivot like Ron DeSantis did.
If you look at Ron DeSantis' record, it is stellar.
To me, you get a guy that has a serious Harvard law degree that isn't going to make the mistakes, that is principled.
Oh, you lost me there with Harvard.
You were doing so well when you mentioned Harvard that you care about a law degree.
I know, but it's the end of the show.
They have a serious law degree program.
Okay.
But those kinds of things don't necessarily impress me.
But you are!
He'd be a good choice.
That's all I want to say.
I don't agree with you about everything you said about Trump.
I don't know if DeSantis is as strong as Trump is, and I don't like the Bushes and other people who support him, but that's another day.
Thanks for your call.
I want to thank everybody out there.
It's unbelievable to have a microphone in this country.
You cannot give up on it.
That's the theme.
And you've got to pick the right people.
Not voting.
I'm glad he called up with that idea.
No, no.
You've got to save this country.
It's the greatest experiment in the history of the world.
It's not just an experiment.
We're not perfect, but boy, are we the best.
It's so obvious to me, even now, and we've got to keep it going.
So I finish my show the same way every time.
It's a privilege to have a microphone in the greatest country in the history of the world, and it's mankind's bestless hope.
As Lincoln said, let's keep it that way.
See you next time.
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