Jan. 17, 2022 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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Hey, good morning from the free state of Florida, everybody. | |
| I wanted to give a quick update and then I wanted to talk about Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| for just a moment. | ||
| Our plan was to be back in studio today. | ||
| There was one more slight delay with the house. | ||
| We are officially in tomorrow. | ||
| And we'll have internet Wednesday morning. | ||
| So what we're going to do is tomorrow night, Tuesday, we will do a test show. | ||
| We're going to try to rig together some crazy internet just to do a test show. | ||
| And we're going to set up the studio. | ||
| And then Wednesday at 11 a.m. | ||
| Eastern, The Rubin Report returns officially. | ||
| I really thank you guys for your patience. | ||
| It's been a crazy time over here, but all good, all good. | ||
| On this day, though, I really want to talk about Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| for just a moment. | ||
| sort of uses him for their own political purposes on a day like today. | ||
| It's one of the sort of most miserable days that you can be online in a certain respect because it's | ||
| like Is that really what he would have believed and would he | ||
| have wanted someone like you to say that and everything else? | ||
| So I was trying to find a clip that I thought would just illustrate something in a broad sense | ||
| So first I want to throw to this clip. It's about 50 seconds | ||
| [Applause] | ||
| If I lived in China or even Russia or any totalitarian country | ||
| (coughing) | ||
| Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. | ||
| Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges because they haven't committed themselves to that over there. | ||
| But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. | ||
| Somewhere I read Of the freedom of speech, somewhere I read. | ||
| Of the freedom of press, somewhere I read. | ||
| That the greatness of America is the right to protest for rights. | ||
| Man, isn't that beautiful? | ||
| I don't even have to add much commentary to that. | ||
| It's like, even back then, we had the tools, we had the documents to free ourselves. | ||
| And that's what we've done consistently in America. | ||
| Expanded more freedom to more people. | ||
| And that's not how it is in totalitarian regimes. | ||
| And it's like, does it feel like maybe we're giving that stuff away right now? | ||
| Are we possibly giving it away? | ||
| How does our freedom of assembly feel right now? | ||
| that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was always talking about so that his children wouldn't be judged | ||
| by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. And that's not how it is | ||
| in totalitarian regimes. And it's like, does it feel like maybe we're giving that stuff away right | ||
| now? Are we possibly giving it away? How does our freedom of assembly feel right now? How does our | ||
| freedom of speech feel right now? That's for you to decide. | ||
| So on this day, I would say, maybe we've got all the tools we need. | ||
| Maybe we've got the documents we need. | ||
| Maybe we live in the country we're supposed to live in, but it's up to us to strengthen those things. | ||
| It's up to us to live up to those ideals. | ||
| And it's up to us to fight for the things, most importantly, equality. | ||
| The equality that Martin Luther King wanted more than anything else. | ||
| Okay, guys, I thank you for your time. | ||
| Oh, the sun is coming! | ||
| If you're looking for more honest and thoughtful conversations about politics instead of non-stop yelling, check out our politics playlist. | ||
| And if you want to watch full interviews on a variety of topics, watch our full episode playlist all right over here. |
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