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Dec. 3, 2025 - Dennis Prager Show
05:34
As Goes California!
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What I Learned from My Campaign 00:03:41
I am with the riveting Larry Elder and just came out this past week, as goes California.
And it's the sort of book that's worth memorizing.
The chapters, let me read to some of the chapters.
What my parents gave me, another routine spectacular play, the line that Tom Soule gave to you.
Right.
California's long slide downhill.
What I learned from my campaign.
As goes California, the real problem is liberal governance.
The black face of white supremacy.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
I quoted that despicable columnist, the L.A. Times.
Her name is Erica D. Smith.
And when I came back to radio to fulfill my contract, I had two months left to go, Dennis.
I invited her on the show.
Oh, the chances are.
Shockingly.
Oh, oh.
Shockingly, she declined the offer.
They never debate.
A handful do.
I know I always get letters.
Well, so-and-so will write.
95% won't debate.
They will only smear.
I've invited Al Sharpton on the radio show over the 30 years I've been on radio maybe 100 times, won't come on.
Jesse Jackson, about 100 times, won't come on.
Louis Farrakhan, about 50 times, won't come on.
Maxine Waters won't come on.
Dennis, when you and I were at another station, Gloria Allred used to have a two-hour show.
In those days, they programmed in a kind of bizarre way because she's so left-wing.
You would never find a left-wing person on a station with a conservative host today, but in those days, you did.
And Gloria and I are very good friends.
I like Loria as a person.
And Gloria had Maxine Waters on all the time.
I said, Gloria, would you please ask Maxine Waters why she won't come on my show?
Did she?
To her credit, she did.
And on the air.
Oh, wow.
And Maxine Waters said, well, you know, Gloria, I don't go on shows of entertainers.
Larry, he's nothing but an entertainer, and I just don't deal with entertainers.
Now, Gloria, you're a serious journalist.
I go on your show, but Larry, he talk a lot about me.
I know he talks a lot about me, but Gloria Allred is a serious journalist.
I'm an entertainer.
Oh, my God.
By the way, I met her finally in D.C. at the house lunch area.
David Dreyer invited me.
And Maxine Water.
That is so typical.
David Dreyer.
He's a great peacemaker.
He walks in, and I said, David, can you take me up there and introduce me to Maxine Waters?
He said, sure.
So we walk up.
By the way, when they're together, they're all friendly and joking and laughing.
This idea that they're at each other's throats is what they do publicly.
But behind closed doors, they're all one big club.
So walks up to her, and she's talking to somebody else.
She sees me out of the corner of her eye.
So she ignores me for a very uncomfortably long time as David and I are standing there.
Finally, she turns, and David says to her, Maxine, this is my friend Larry Elder.
Larry wanted me to meet you.
And Larry, Maxine, Maxine, this is Larry.
I said, Congressman Waters, it's really nice to finally meet you.
Nice to finally meet you, too!
And turned around and began talking to the other woman.
And David was shocked at how rude she was.
And I sat down and said, David, don't you realize that people who are on that side despise me?
Because I break the narrative.
The narrative is that we're victims, we're an aggrieved party.
Breaking Bread Apart 00:02:06
We need to have the Democratic Party because they're the party of social justice and equity.
I break that.
I am a bigger threat to her than you are.
Oh, oh, of course.
By far.
He was shocked.
That is one great story.
I wonder, though, if they're still breaking bread quite as amicably as they once did.
There's a certain degree of animosity.
There really is.
On that day, though, that's what happened.
But you're right.
There used to be a baseball game that they would play regularly, and sometimes Republicans and Democrats would be on the same team.
That stopped years ago.
And as you know, Tip O'Neill and Ronnie Reagan used to sit down at the end of the day and go to have a cigar, tell dirty jokes, and have drinks.
That's done.
Forget about that.
Men getting together and telling dirty jokes and having drinks and smoking cigars.
No, no, no, you're kidding me.
I thought women did that because there's no difference between the sexes.
That's right.
So I didn't quite get the answer of why they didn't want you on the debate stage.
Okay, the other thing I said was I think I give them heartburn, particularly on issues of race.
And I explained how I think they should be dealing with calling Joe Biden, they should call Joe Biden the biggest race hustler in this country.
I used to think it was Al Sharpen.
It's now Joe Biden.
And they should call him out for saying stuff like this.
And they don't.
The other thing is Republicans purport to be the party of fiscal responsibility.
And compared to Democrats, they are.
But that's a low bar.
Every now and then we have this standoff about spending, and the government gets bigger and bigger, whether it's Ronald Reagan, whether it's Donald Trump.
We need an amendment to the Constitution to fix spending to a certain percentage of the GDP.
Otherwise, they'll never make the dramatic cuts they need to make that apparently the new president of Argentina wants to do.
And they'll never make construction changes.
This is critically important.
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