Dennis Prager Show - Why The Left Is Still Angry Over 2016
Aired: 2024-05-02
Duration: 06:45


=== Elite Cheating Preference (05:03) ===

[00:00:00]  As I said a moment ago, the question was, suppose your favorite candidate loses a close election.
[00:00:06]  However, people in the campaign know they can win by cheating without being caught.
[00:00:11]  Would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose by playing fair?
[00:00:16]  Again, only 7% of Americans said win by cheating.
[00:00:19]  But then he put the question to what he called the elite 1%.
[00:00:24]  And the reason this is important is these are the people that are in charge of things.
[00:00:29]  Running things.
[00:00:31]  The elite 1% make over $150K per year, have a postgraduate degree, not just college degree, have a postgraduate degree, live in densely populated areas, and this group gives President Joe Biden an 82% approval rating.
[00:00:50]  Now, about this group, Rasmussen said this, quote, a heavy concentration of them Went to one of 12 elite schools.
[00:01:00]  Half the policy positions in government, half the corporate board positions in America, are held by people who went to one of these dozen schools.
[00:01:14]  Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, all the rest of the Ivies.
[00:01:21]  Of this group, the elite 1%, Those who make over $150,000 per year.
[00:01:26]  Those who have a postgraduate degree.
[00:01:28]  Those who live in densely populated areas.
[00:01:31]  And again, this group gives Joe Biden an 82% approval rating.
[00:01:35]  Of this group, when asked, would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose fairly?
[00:01:44]  35% said they would rather their candidate win by cheating than lose by playing fair.
[00:01:52]  Think about that.
[00:01:56]  This is five times higher than the percentage of average Americans, but the elite 1%, far more likely than the average American to be perfectly okay with winning by cheating.
[00:02:12]  Now, it gets even worse.
[00:02:15]  He put the question to a subset of this 1%.
[00:02:21]  People that he called politically obsessed, as defined by those who talk about politics every day.
[00:02:32]  And guess what?
[00:02:35]  Among this group, the so-called politically obsessed, those who talk about politics every day, the number who would win, rather win by cheating than lose fairly, jumps to 69%.
[00:02:51]  And Rasmussen, in an interview, said he was shocked by this.
[00:02:54]  He had never seen anything like it.
[00:02:56]  Again, these are the people that are in charge of our news, in charge of social media platforms, academia.
[00:03:10]  He also drilled even deeper.
[00:03:15]  Most Americans, according to polls, believe we do not have enough individual freedom.
[00:03:25]  However, among the elite, and these are not just the politically obsessed elite, these are just the regular elite 1%, 70% of them say there's, quote, too much individual freedom in America.
[00:03:37]  Most Americans don't believe we have enough freedom.
[00:03:40]  70% of this elite 1% believe Americans have, quote, too much freedom.
[00:03:47]  Also, Rasmussen said it's been 50 years.
[00:03:53]  Since the majority of Americans say they trust the government to do the right thing most of the time.
[00:04:01]  Most Americans don't believe the government will do the right thing most of the time.
[00:04:04]  However, you know where I'm going with this.
[00:04:08]  Among this elite 1%, 70% trust the government to do the right thing most of the time.
[00:04:19]  Now, my analysis of this, you know why?
[00:04:22]  They are the government.
[00:04:25]  They are the ones in charge.
[00:04:27]  Or they can pick up the phone and talk to somebody who is in charge and have the outcome influence on their behalf.
[00:04:38]  This is scary.
[00:04:42]  Now this brings us to National Public Radio.
[00:04:46]  We talked about it a little bit yesterday.

=== Reducing NPR Channels (01:56) ===

[00:04:48]  With that guy, Yuri Berliner.
[00:04:51]  Was suspended because he dared write a piece where he said, you know, we're pretty left-wing out here.
[00:04:56]  Wasn't always that case when I got here 25 years ago, but we've gone down that road.
[00:05:01]  We've chased away moderate listeners.
[00:05:05]  Our listeners are more likely to be white, extremely progressive.
[00:05:11]  And we need to rethink this.
[00:05:15]  And he gave an example.
[00:05:18]  An example was the Russiagate stuff.
[00:05:22]  And said over here at NPR, we were obsessed by it.
[00:05:26]  Had Adam Schiff on by my count, he said 25 times.
[00:05:30]  And then when the Mueller report came down, no collusion, no obstruction.
[00:05:36]  We just stopped talking about it.
[00:05:39]  We never apologized.
[00:05:42]  We never did any internal reflection.
[00:05:45]  No mea culpa.
[00:05:47]  We just quietly dropped it and went on.
[00:05:50]  He got suspended for writing that.
[00:05:53]  And a few days after his suspension, he quit.
[00:05:58]  He said, I can't work in a newsroom that's completely intolerant of different views.
[00:06:04]  And by the way, this is not a defund the NPR guy.
[00:06:07]  I am.
[00:06:08]  There's no reason why anybody should be spending a dime.
[00:06:10]  I don't care what your politics are on national public radio.
[00:06:15]  National Public Television.
[00:06:18]  Why?
[00:06:20]  At one time, there was five, six, seven channels.
[00:06:25]  Now, just on cable, there's over 500 channels, plus internet access to any time you want, and any kind of news you want.
[00:06:33]  So what is the rationale behind taxpayers paying for NPR, particularly when it is this left wing?
[00:06:42]  Makes absolutely No sense.