Dennis Prager Show - What Will Come Next?
Aired: 2024-04-29
Duration: 09:22


=== Judging Trump vs. Judging Palestinians (09:10) ===

[00:00:00]  The attempt to kill as many Israelis as possible on the part of Iran and, of course, the part of Hamas.
[00:00:10]  I feel bad for you if you have a Hamas supporter, which is the same thing as Palestinian supporter, just like German supporter in 1943 was a Nazi supporter.
[00:00:21]  Nobody who said, I'm for the Germans, was for the Germans, but not for the Nazis.
[00:00:30]  The ability of people to delude themselves, I am convinced as many people fool themselves as they try to fool others.
[00:00:42]  I feel bad for you, and I mean it.
[00:00:44]  If you have a relative or friend who's anti-Israel, that is sort of the litmus test of our time.
[00:00:56]  How you react to the Middle East.
[00:00:58]  And there are some on the right who have failed the test, to be perfectly honest.
[00:01:02]  It's dispiriting.
[00:01:04]  But I live with disappointment because I don't expect much from human beings.
[00:01:08]  To be perfectly honest.
[00:01:12]  Yeah.
[00:01:13]  That's right.
[00:01:17]  Let's see.
[00:01:17]  I'm having one of my favorite observers of the scene in the Middle East on at the bottom of the hour.
[00:01:25]  I'm going to go to the Trump trial.
[00:01:28]  What is it, 35 felonies he's accused of or something?
[00:01:32]  Did you see that?
[00:01:33]  Yeah.
[00:01:35]  It's unbelievable.
[00:01:37]  He paid a woman with whom he had a one-night stand.
[00:01:42]  Well, he denies it.
[00:01:44]  He denies it, I'm sorry.
[00:01:45]  He's accused of paying a woman not to say anything.
[00:01:51]  It was a one-night stand.
[00:01:56]  Now, just for the record, I'm opposed to adultery and I've never committed it.
[00:02:01]  Okay?
[00:02:01]  Just for the record.
[00:02:03]  Having said that, I have never judged people on that issue, certainly not politicians.
[00:02:11]  Billy Graham had a very powerful statement.
[00:02:15]  Well, it was about Bill Clinton, and I don't think he was a big Bill Clinton fan.
[00:02:22]  Do you remember what Billy Graham said?
[00:02:24]  It was very insightful.
[00:02:26]  He said, don't judge him until you have as many opportunities as he does.
[00:02:31]  Yeah, they're very powerful.
[00:02:33]  Exactly right.
[00:02:36]  You know, most men go to work, come home.
[00:02:42]  Right?
[00:02:42]  But other people have other men go to work.
[00:02:47]  And have any number of women throw themselves at them for whatever reason.
[00:02:53]  They're rich, they're powerful.
[00:02:55]  Whatever attracts women, those two are big ones.
[00:02:59]  Famous.
[00:03:04]  The ease with which people judge people, they don't judge, it's amazing, they don't judge the Palestinians, but they do judge Trump.
[00:03:16]  Or for that matter Clinton.
[00:03:18]  I'm not defending either act.
[00:03:23]  Clinton I actually do judge because I believe he raped a woman.
[00:03:31]  His serial philandering was quite obnoxious to say the least.
[00:03:38]  But if he had done good for the country I would be more interested in that than I would be in his personal sins.
[00:03:55]  Judging is a complex matter because we are called to judge the notion, don't judge others, right, because the mode in your own eye and so on, but...
[00:04:07]  But if you do judge, you will be judged by the same standards.
[00:04:11]  People forget the rest of the admonition in the New Testament.
[00:04:15]  The idea that we are not to judge ever is actually an immoral idea, and it's certainly not made by Jesus, and it's not made by the Old Testament.
[00:04:27]  Now, there's a great phrase in Hebrew, don't judge your neighbor until you're in his place.
[00:04:35]  That's a very powerful thing, and I have understood that.
[00:04:40]  I understood that when I was seven, and I understand that now, and I understand it better now.
[00:04:47]  You don't know the demons that animate somebody.
[00:04:51]  That's why I restrict my judgments to clear good and evil issues.
[00:05:00]  That's where it matters, where it's clear and it's evil.
[00:05:06]  Otherwise, I give a lot of slack to people.
[00:05:08]  Even Bill Clinton, although I don't, because of the, I believe he raped a woman, and what he did was way more than Donald Trump did.
[00:05:26]  The Wall Street Journal had a very powerful piece defending Trump on this matter, and they don't like Trump.
[00:05:31]  They don't want him to be the nominee.
[00:05:33]  They're not pro-Trump, but they are pro-justice and pro-truth.
[00:05:41]  The Statue of Limitations has already taken place with the Trump alleged payoff to Stormy Daniels.
[00:05:54]  So, the...
[00:05:57]  The DA has simply decided to make them felonies which don't have a statute of limitations.
[00:06:06]  Generally speaking, a Republican has as much a chance to be acquitted, a conservative has as much a chance of being acquitted by a Washington D.C. or New York jury as a black did with a white jury in And Jim Crow South.
[00:06:31]  Apropos of nothing, but I am thinking about it because I'm reading a biography of President James Garfield, who was one of the presidents who was assassinated.
[00:06:47]  Poor thing.
[00:06:48]  He was a good man by every account.
[00:06:51]  A really good man.
[00:06:53]  And he feared that he would only be remembered for having been assassinated.
[00:07:01]  The reason that I raise him as an issue, I'm reading the biography of James Garfield, and I'm up to the Civil War.
[00:07:16]  But the point I want to make has nothing to do with the Civil War.
[00:07:21]  Or slavery.
[00:07:23]  It has to do with his diary entries.
[00:07:29]  And each chapter of the book opens up with a quote from James Garfield's diary.
[00:07:40]  Do you recall that?
[00:07:41]  And every quote is Shakespeare.
[00:07:45]  He quoted Shakespeare constantly.
[00:07:50]  When I read about James Garfield, we're talking about the middle of the 1800s.
[00:07:56]  When I read about James Garfield's curriculum in either college or high school, I think it was college, it was so much more rigorous.
[00:08:12]  The amount of learning was so much greater than takes place anywhere, including Harvard.
[00:08:20]  He had to know Greek and he had to know Latin.
[00:08:24]  At Harvard, by the way, you had to know Hebrew till 1800 or you couldn't graduate.
[00:08:32]  This country was founded on the Bible.
[00:08:37]  And that's what people really mean by white supremacy.
[00:08:41]  That's what they really mean.
[00:08:44]  The values that permeated this country, which was largely white.
[00:08:50]  We're Judeo-Christian.
[00:08:51]  And if you don't like the term Judeo-Christian, you're ignorant of basic theology.

=== One Of Many Reasons (00:26) ===

[00:09:00]  They're the only two religions on earth that share a Bible.
[00:09:04]  Two-thirds of the Christian Bible is the Hebrew Bible.
[00:09:09]  And they both share that.
[00:09:11]  One of the many reasons that there is such a thing.
[00:09:16]  Judeo-based Christians.
[00:09:19]  Founded the United States of America.