Dennis Prager Show - The Columbia University Newspaper Wants to Belittle Me
Aired: 2023-12-12
Duration: 05:08


=== Graduate School Dropout (04:21) ===

[00:00:01]  I should really read to you the opening sentences there.
[00:00:06]  They reported on my speech, and it's not even subtle that the reporter didn't like me.
[00:00:18]  Is that fair to say?
[00:00:21]  Oh my God.
[00:00:23]  I spoke for about, I would say, almost 90 minutes, and then...
[00:00:33]  And then I took questions, and I would say virtually nothing of what I actually said was reported.
[00:00:43]  But I want to read to you the opening of the report.
[00:00:50]  College Republicans host conservative commentator Dennis Prager for Israel and Morality Talk.
[00:00:57]  That's the headline.
[00:00:59]  That's the title of the piece.
[00:01:02]  So who wrote it?
[00:01:03]  Cameron Spur.
[00:01:05]  I didn't even look to see that.
[00:01:07]  Conservative author and radio host Dennis Prager, a school of international and public affairs dropout.
[00:01:16]  I have to say, I've been called everything.
[00:01:19]  I mean everything.
[00:01:22]  Dropout, that's the first.
[00:01:24]  So, it's so interesting.
[00:01:28]  The normal way of putting it, somebody who attends, Graduate school, for example, and does not stay for a degree, you normally say, Dennis Prager, who attended the School of International Affairs.
[00:01:42]  Isn't that what you would normally think?
[00:01:46]  Whether I got the degree or not?
[00:01:50]  Or even say, but, you know, left before getting his degree or anything.
[00:01:56]  I'm not even...
[00:01:58]  I'm not personally offended.
[00:02:00]  I just want you to understand how in the first sentence the Columbia University newspaper wanted to belittle me.
[00:02:10]  So it's an interesting thing.
[00:02:13]  Did you ever even hear of a graduate school dropout?
[00:02:17]  It's a term used for high school and college.
[00:02:21]  And not even college so much.
[00:02:25]  I'm a graduate school dropout.
[00:02:30]  It's really precious.
[00:02:33]  By the way, just for the record, you should all know what it meant to drop out.
[00:02:40]  I actually gave my master's thesis orally, and I did not type it up.
[00:02:46]  That is correct.
[00:02:48]  It would have taken a very long time.
[00:02:51]  Ironically, or interestingly, perhaps not ironically, because I simply didn't know how to touch type.
[00:02:58]  And in those days, unlike now, when you make an error, you just redo the word in a nanosecond.
[00:03:06]  In those days, if you made an error while typing, you had to use some white-out fluid over the letter, go back, and then retype the letter.
[00:03:20]  So if you didn't know how to type, touch type as they called it, you really were in trouble.
[00:03:30]  And the interesting thing is I was never taught it.
[00:03:34]  Here's an example of where sexism, and it was sexism, I will acknowledge, really benefited women.
[00:03:42]  When I was in high school, I think it was high school, The girls were taught to type and the boys were not taught to type.
[00:03:55]  Did you know that?
[00:03:56]  Yeah.
[00:03:56]  Did you have that too?
[00:03:59]  No.
[00:03:59]  No, but I did.
[00:04:01]  It was probably common a long time ago.
[00:04:05]  Those lucky girls who learned how to type.
[00:04:07]  I didn't learn anything in the other class.

=== Staunchly Pro-Israel Voice (01:00) ===

[00:04:09]  I don't even know what it was.
[00:04:10]  I think it was something to do with health.
[00:04:13]  Maybe that's why I've been healthy.
[00:04:15]  Maybe I shouldn't be ungrateful.
[00:04:20]  Anyway, dropout.
[00:04:23]  Spoke to students in the Lerner Arun Arledge Cinema on Tuesday in an event titled Israel and Morality, hosted by the Columbia University College Republicans.
[00:04:38]  Prager, a staunchly pro-Israel voice.
[00:04:43]  That's so fascinating.
[00:04:47]  A staunchly pro-Israel voice.
[00:04:52]  That's correct.
[00:04:53]  I am a staunchly pro-Israel voice.
[00:04:58]  I assume that the author believes that there are just two sides.
[00:05:04]  There's the staunchly pro-Palestinian and the staunchly pro-Israel.