Dennis Prager Show - As Goes California!
Aired: 2025-12-03
Duration: 05:34


=== What I Learned from My Campaign (03:41) ===

[00:00:00]  I am with the riveting Larry Elder and just came out this past week, as goes California.
[00:00:08]  And it's the sort of book that's worth memorizing.
[00:00:12]  The chapters, let me read to some of the chapters.
[00:00:16]  What my parents gave me, another routine spectacular play, the line that Tom Soule gave to you.
[00:00:22]  Right.
[00:00:22]  California's long slide downhill.
[00:00:25]  What I learned from my campaign.
[00:00:28]  As goes California, the real problem is liberal governance.
[00:00:32]  The black face of white supremacy.
[00:00:35]  Oh, my God.
[00:00:36]  Yeah.
[00:00:36]  I quoted that despicable columnist, the L.A. Times.
[00:00:40]  Her name is Erica D. Smith.
[00:00:42]  And when I came back to radio to fulfill my contract, I had two months left to go, Dennis.
[00:00:47]  I invited her on the show.
[00:00:48]  Oh, the chances are.
[00:00:50]  Shockingly.
[00:00:50]  Oh, oh.
[00:00:51]  Shockingly, she declined the offer.
[00:00:53]  They never debate.
[00:00:55]  A handful do.
[00:00:56]  I know I always get letters.
[00:00:57]  Well, so-and-so will write.
[00:00:59]  95% won't debate.
[00:01:01]  They will only smear.
[00:01:02]  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.
[00:01:08]  Jesse Jackson, about 100 times, won't come on.
[00:01:11]  Louis Farrakhan, about 50 times, won't come on.
[00:01:14]  Maxine Waters won't come on.
[00:01:15]  Dennis, when you and I were at another station, Gloria Allred used to have a two-hour show.
[00:01:21]  In those days, they programmed in a kind of bizarre way because she's so left-wing.
[00:01:25]  You would never find a left-wing person on a station with a conservative host today, but in those days, you did.
[00:01:31]  And Gloria and I are very good friends.
[00:01:32]  I like Loria as a person.
[00:01:34]  And Gloria had Maxine Waters on all the time.
[00:01:37]  I said, Gloria, would you please ask Maxine Waters why she won't come on my show?
[00:01:41]  Did she?
[00:01:42]  To her credit, she did.
[00:01:43]  And on the air.
[00:01:45]  Oh, wow.
[00:01:45]  And Maxine Waters said, well, you know, Gloria, I don't go on shows of entertainers.
[00:01:51]  Larry, he's nothing but an entertainer, and I just don't deal with entertainers.
[00:01:55]  Now, Gloria, you're a serious journalist.
[00:01:57]  I go on your show, but Larry, he talk a lot about me.
[00:02:00]  I know he talks a lot about me, but Gloria Allred is a serious journalist.
[00:02:06]  I'm an entertainer.
[00:02:08]  Oh, my God.
[00:02:10]  By the way, I met her finally in D.C. at the house lunch area.
[00:02:18]  David Dreyer invited me.
[00:02:20]  And Maxine Water.
[00:02:21]  That is so typical.
[00:02:22]  David Dreyer.
[00:02:24]  He's a great peacemaker.
[00:02:25]  He walks in, and I said, David, can you take me up there and introduce me to Maxine Waters?
[00:02:31]  He said, sure.
[00:02:32]  So we walk up.
[00:02:33]  By the way, when they're together, they're all friendly and joking and laughing.
[00:02:37]  This idea that they're at each other's throats is what they do publicly.
[00:02:41]  But behind closed doors, they're all one big club.
[00:02:44]  So walks up to her, and she's talking to somebody else.
[00:02:48]  She sees me out of the corner of her eye.
[00:02:50]  So she ignores me for a very uncomfortably long time as David and I are standing there.
[00:02:54]  Finally, she turns, and David says to her, Maxine, this is my friend Larry Elder.
[00:03:02]  Larry wanted me to meet you.
[00:03:03]  And Larry, Maxine, Maxine, this is Larry.
[00:03:06]  I said, Congressman Waters, it's really nice to finally meet you.
[00:03:11]  Nice to finally meet you, too!
[00:03:13]  And turned around and began talking to the other woman.
[00:03:15]  And David was shocked at how rude she was.
[00:03:17]  And I sat down and said, David, don't you realize that people who are on that side despise me?
[00:03:24]  Because I break the narrative.
[00:03:25]  The narrative is that we're victims, we're an aggrieved party.

=== Breaking Bread Apart (02:06) ===

[00:03:28]  We need to have the Democratic Party because they're the party of social justice and equity.
[00:03:32]  I break that.
[00:03:33]  I am a bigger threat to her than you are.
[00:03:36]  Oh, oh, of course.
[00:03:37]  By far.
[00:03:38]  He was shocked.
[00:03:40]  That is one great story.
[00:03:43]  I wonder, though, if they're still breaking bread quite as amicably as they once did.
[00:03:56]  There's a certain degree of animosity.
[00:03:58]  There really is.
[00:04:00]  On that day, though, that's what happened.
[00:04:02]  But you're right.
[00:04:03]  There used to be a baseball game that they would play regularly, and sometimes Republicans and Democrats would be on the same team.
[00:04:11]  That stopped years ago.
[00:04:12]  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.
[00:04:20]  That's done.
[00:04:21]  Forget about that.
[00:04:22]  Men getting together and telling dirty jokes and having drinks and smoking cigars.
[00:04:26]  No, no, no, you're kidding me.
[00:04:29]  I thought women did that because there's no difference between the sexes.
[00:04:32]  That's right.
[00:04:34]  So I didn't quite get the answer of why they didn't want you on the debate stage.
[00:04:42]  Okay, the other thing I said was I think I give them heartburn, particularly on issues of race.
[00:04:47]  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.
[00:04:56]  I used to think it was Al Sharpen.
[00:04:57]  It's now Joe Biden.
[00:04:58]  And they should call him out for saying stuff like this.
[00:05:01]  And they don't.
[00:05:02]  The other thing is Republicans purport to be the party of fiscal responsibility.
[00:05:07]  And compared to Democrats, they are.
[00:05:08]  But that's a low bar.
[00:05:10]  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.
[00:05:18]  We need an amendment to the Constitution to fix spending to a certain percentage of the GDP.
[00:05:22]  Otherwise, they'll never make the dramatic cuts they need to make that apparently the new president of Argentina wants to do.
[00:05:30]  And they'll never make construction changes.
[00:05:32]  This is critically important.