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Sept. 12, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Educators vs. Children - September 12th, Hour 3
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All right, news roundup, information overload hour, 800-941-SHAWN.
Our number, if you want to be a part of the program, we'll get to your calls coming up, I promise, this hour.
And anyway, our friends at Project Veritas have struck again.
And, you know, this is really important.
They've been exposing all these school administrators and all these efforts that hurt our kids and corrupt the entire educational process.
I mean, there was a landmark study when Ronald Reagan was president.
It was called A Nation at Risk.
Some of you may be too young to remember.
And that study concluded what has happened to the educational system in America, were it done by an outside entity or force would be tantamount to an act of war.
I mean, that was their conclusion.
Now, things have gotten dramatically worse.
We pay more per capita per student than any other industrialized country.
And we usually come in somewhere around 40th in proficiency in terms of reading, writing, math, etc.
That's how bad a job they're doing.
And you have this unholy alliance between Democrats and the teachers' unions.
Anyway, that's what makes this undercover project of Project Veritas so important.
And, you know, they have been exposing this secret curriculum that teachers are forcing on a captive group of children instead of teaching them reading, writing, math, science, history, and computers.
Now, for example, in New York City, I have a middle school teacher encouraging students to engage in political violence and to throw bricks at people.
You just, you can't even make this up.
Listen.
This is what I told my students.
as I can.
There's like a couple of random places There's strategic ways to do this.
You want to.
And I brought up like crazy organizations that have done this.
They chose which places to throw bricks to.
They chose and they didn't do it in their own neighborhood.
They didn't do it to a public community.
That's like doing it to our own community.
It doesn't just make sense.
You got to go out to the people not directly affecting you.
Yeah, if you're going to throw a brick.
Yeah.
At the beginning of that, I can actually be able to do that.
We do better than each other.
You know that you keep family business.
Yeah.
It is exposed to the beginning of them.
They're not talking about me, so I'm not spending that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, at that point, when I first started challenging it, I had my kids change the way.
How did it go?
The attitude because it's a limited justice to all.
And we were trying to change that as teachers.
Yeah.
How do you think kids can fight?
Because sometimes they feel powerless to fight.
They can't fight.
The first thing is to be able to be a critical thinker.
Challenge your panel.
Challenge the advantage that you need.
Ask questions.
Conversation.
I used to meet.
You were.
But, like, yeah, I think the students do it.
Me too.
Now, you couldn't hear it all, but let me just explain some of this to you.
This is a New York City middle school teacher encouraging students to engage in political violence and throw bricks at people with opposing views.
And literally, that's what I tell my students.
I was like, guys, there's a strategic way to do this, protest, and you want to.
And I brought up a crazy organization that have done this.
Like, they choose which places to throw bricks in.
They choose, and they didn't do it in their own neighborhood.
They didn't do it to black and brown communities.
Doing it in our own community doesn't make sense.
You got to go after people who it's not directly affecting.
Throw it, the brick, at the people that are actually doing the things that need to change.
I tell them, my kids, we don't stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance.
We do the Pledge of Allegiance every morning, you know, but we keep going on our business.
It was a clash decision at the beginning of the school year.
They're not talking about me, so I'm not standing up.
And then she says at one point, you know, when I first started challenging the pledge, I had my kids change the words.
It was something like, I think we added at the end, and we will fight for those who this does not address or something like that.
We added it because it's like, and liberty and justice for all, and we'll fight until that is true.
And the students and I would kneel during the Pledge of Allegiance.
Now, do you think parents might be upset if they knew this was going on?
And what about parents that do speak up at school board meetings?
Oh, that's right.
They run the risk of being investigated as domestic terrorists.
James O'Keefe, founder, CEO of Project Veritas, is with us, his group once again with this undercover video.
Is anything going to happen to this teacher?
Well, Sean, regarding her employment status, she's deleted her social media and the school has disabled the phone number for the school.
This is Ariane Franco, middle school English teacher, New York City Department of Education.
But Sean, this is just part four.
There's been four videos released.
The first video, the Connecticut principal was put on leave.
The second video, Trinity School, which is a private school in New York City, prestigious school, she was put on leave.
The last two teachers that we've exposed just deleted everything and we don't know their employment status.
All right.
So let's talk about how widespread this is.
Is this something you really have to work hard to get or is it that easy?
Well, I mean, every time we sit down with one of these people, they tell us something that's interesting.
I think throwing bricks at people is basically encouraging people to commit acts of political violence.
And there's a lot of discrimination that we've uncovered in these exposés where, for example, they've said we don't hire people.
Many of these people are directors.
This woman, you just played the tape on the air.
She's a teacher.
But they say don't hire religious people, don't hire people over the age of 30, ask certain questions, which in any application process is against the law.
So it's widespread.
And it's so widespread that the Attorney General of Connecticut, Sean, has announced that he's launching a civil rights investigation.
I want to find out who applied to these schools and who are not gained employment status as a result of this discrimination.
Well, it's pretty unbelievable.
And I know you'll often do follow-ups.
How many more in this series can we expect?
We've gotten so many tips from parents everywhere.
They go to VeritasTips at ProtonMail.com.
They've given us a heads up about things happening in their school district.
It seems like wherever we go, there's a video to be found.
And we're going to keep this as an ongoing beat.
What's remarkable, Sean, about the series is that in the state of Connecticut, we had Democrats and Republicans both admonishing the behavior.
There was kind of a consensus form that you just don't discriminate.
Democrats were focused more on the fact that they weren't hiring people over the age of 30 and discriminating against Catholics.
Republicans were focused on they were having a subtle indoctrination program to deliver liberal bias.
But you can bet that this is an ongoing investigation.
If you see or hear fraud in your child's school, VeritasTips at ProtonMail.com will send a reporter to investigate.
Well, I got to be honest.
It's amazing what you've been able to accomplish.
And yet, almost every day yourself, you're under fire.
What's the latest with some of the incidents with you and lawsuits and, I guess, raids and everything else?
Raids by the FBI, that's right.
Project Veritas is going to trial this week, Sean, on the Democracy Partners lawsuit.
That was the Bob Creamer story that you reported on in 2016 where there were hidden camera videos of his operatives inciting violence at Trump rallies.
So they sued me for, get this, breach of fiduciary duty.
Bob Creamer is trying to argue that Project Veritas has a fiduciary duty to him, which is an absurd argument.
It doesn't make any actual sense.
Dude, do you have any financial ties to him?
I doubt it.
No, he's trying to make the stupid argument that our undercover journalist had an applied duty because she was filming him and pretending to be an intern, but that's not going to hold up in court.
That's going to federal jury trial starting Wednesday in Washington, D.C. As it pertains to these teacher stories, the Attorney General of Connecticut has sent us a letter, Project Veritas, a letter, threatening to subpoena me for my tapes.
We replied to that letter.
We just posted this on our website and basically told them to go pound sand and to we told them to read the First Amendment.
We're a news organization.
Governments try to subpoena us, but we're protected by shield laws, and we have to stand firm on that.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, with all these lawsuits, and I can only imagine what your legal bills are.
With all of this going on, I can only imagine that, you know, it costs a fortune to defend yourself.
But as per my recollection, you've won every case you've ever been involved in.
Project Veritas has won every case, a fact conveniently omitted from our Wikipedia page, so no one really knows about it.
And as you have had me on the air discuss before, we sued the New York Times for defamation, and we're winning that.
We're going to discovery in that.
We're even being sued by American Federation of Teachers.
Randy Weingarten, who's the head of American Federation of Teachers, put out a statement last week, Sean.
Listen to this.
It says, quote, at this point, remain watchful.
If you remember or encounter someone who could be secretly recording you, keep in mind that this is O'Keefe's new tactic.
And remind yourself and your members to be aware at all times.
Trust that verify is my rule.
This is the head of the teachers' union.
She's also suing us for a story we did about teachers behaving badly.
So people have sued us, but we keep winning the cases, and they've stopped suing us, Sean, because they know we don't back down.
I remember the Kramer quote, the campaign is fully in it.
Quote, well, I mean, Hillary knows through the chain of command what's going on.
I'm not suggesting we wait.
We need to start this Adam Schiff right now.
That's right.
That was Kreamer.
You covered that story.
You were at the debate interviewing people.
was there uh close to you that man it was this was a time when um when i think you were on the air with me that night you were on the i was on the air i I walked over to you and said hello, and you put something flag Mike.
You interviewed me.
But this was a story that was mentioned at the debate between Hillary and Trump.
It was a video your audience may recall is a massive story where these guys named Bob Creamer, who did work with the DNC at Donald Brazil, was caught on tape saying, he was recorded saying that Hillary Clinton, it was her idea to put people in Donald Duck costumes and do what they called bird-dogging.
And as part of this bird-dogging, it would be people at these events that would incite violence.
And they were bragging about doing this.
And it was so grotesque that the DNC fired Bob Creamer.
Scott Foble, another operative, was fired after he was caught on tape bragging about bussing people across state lines to commit fraud.
Now, you would think, Sean, that these people would be investigated.
Who knows?
Maybe they'd be raided by the feds.
But no, no, no.
Project Veritas is the one that gets sued.
Project Veritas is the one that gets raided.
We're kind of living in clown world.
But, Sean, this week, federal court, starting on Wednesday, opening arguments, it's Project Veritas is being sued by Mr. Kramer and Democracy Partners, and we will go to a jury verdict in the nation's capital.
Well, I don't like the venue.
I'll be very frank about that.
It doesn't mean I just, there's certain jurisdictions that are strongly against anything conservative.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back more with James O'Keefe, founder and CEO of Project Veritas.
All right, we continue our expose, the latest expose and tape release of James O'Keefe, founder, CEO of Project Veritas, having to do with teachers now.
In this case, a New York City middle school teacher encouraging students to engage in political violence, throw bricks at people with opposing views.
I don't think we have equal justice or application of our laws anymore, James.
I just don't.
And as evidenced by Hillary Clinton, you know, and top seeker classified emails, bleach bit destroying emails on her server, 33,000 of them, you know, all the evidence, even Jim Comey admitting that she had committed a crime, but no prosecutor would likely prosecute.
We don't have the same standards for conservatives that we do for liberals in this country.
It's very clear.
It's very evident.
And it becomes a costly proposition for organizations like yours to do work that, frankly, was pioneered by the likes of 60 Minutes and Mike Wallace back in the day.
Well, that's a good point.
It is a tough venue, but I think that the things we're fighting for, I know they're fighting for the First Amendment.
These principles that we're fighting for are simply first of the principles.
In the last case, we got sued by a so-called bird dogger sued us for defamation.
We won on a directed verdict.
That means the judge threw it out right before the jury issued the verdict.
And the judge, Sean, actually said what you just said.
This is a federal judge in North Carolina a couple of years ago, ruling on behalf of Project Veritas.
He said, if you sued Mike Wallace for what you're suing James O'Keefe for, everyone would laugh at you.
He dismissed the case because clearly this is about the right to report information.
And it should give your audience hope, Sean, that the ACLU, the American Civil Liberties Union, is supporting us involving the FBI raid.
They filed an amicus letter that tried to unseal the warrants that were used against us to raid our newsrooms.
So there is some consensus here between liberals and conservatives on the First Amendment still in this country, and we hope the rule of law prevails.
I'm really worried about liberties, basic liberties and freedoms.
And your cases definitely highlight this conflict and this double standard, which we've been pointing out regularly.
The FBI, unfortunately, has been politicized.
The DOJ has been weaponized.
And where this ends up, I don't know.
That's what makes this election in 57 days that much more critical.
James O'Keefe, thanks for sharing it.
As always, we appreciate you being with us.
Thanks, Sean.
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All right, 25 till the top of the hour, 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, 57 days till these all-important midterm elections, you might want to start checking out.
We'll put up on our website sometime later this week when early mail-in voting starts in every state so you can be prepared.
I advise all of you, even though I prefer one election day.
I don't like all this early voting.
I don't like mail-in ballots.
I don't like any of it.
Absentee ballots with a valid excuse, I'm fine with.
That's perfectly fine.
That's acceptable.
Now, Florida has shown that mail-in balloting can work, early voting can work.
However, it just went, to me, it lends itself to too many opportunities.
I like paper ballots, one election day, know the results at the end of the night, and everybody go to sleep.
That's simple.
But I'm never going to get what I want.
So you have to embrace what the system is.
Anyway, so John Fetterman, the Democratic senatorial, you know, leftist lunatic that wants safe shooting zones and Pennsylvania to be a sanctuary state and no limits on abortion and a moratorium on fracking, which is an $81 billion industry in Pennsylvania, you know, says he's ready to debate Oz.
He spoke this weekend in Montgomery County.
It's clear he's struggling mightily is post-his stroke that he had just prior to the primary.
One of you, you didn't have a doctor in your life making fun of it, making light of it, or telling you that you're not fit to be served.
Can you describe a stroke?
What's happened?
So I use the example.
So pretend I was, I want to go to Wegmans.
It's such the most important race for the Senate here for 22.
We have to replace Pat Toomey.
Oh, no, no.
Senator Toomey was not very nice to me.
He had Toomey is a miracle.
He had a chance.
He had a chance to match me up again.
Abortion is the ballot now in November.
Obviously struggling, which, by the way, I don't take any delight in.
I wish this guy the best of health.
And I mean that, even though, but the reality is you got this guy that wears his hoodie and with all his tattoos, he's never had a real job in his life.
We find out he's been a trust fund brat his entire life, you know, living off mommy and daddy.
The one job he had as mayor, he missed 50 city council meetings.
It was like a small town of less like 2,000 people.
It was ridiculous.
He couldn't even show up.
The one thing he's most noted for is chasing an innocent African-American jogger down the street.
He did this and pulls a shotgun on him and calls the police on him.
The guy did nothing wrong.
Absolutely nothing.
There's a story out about him as well.
And this kind of blew me away also.
Because when you think of, imagine, whenever you go to the standard, what if it was a MAGA Republican?
What if it was a conservative?
So you got a guy by the name of Raymond Johnson, career criminal, cold-blooded.
Lee lures a guy to a house, shoots him, stabs him, robs him, disposes of his dead body, long hair, glasses, you know, and this guy, Johnson, referred to himself as the son of the devil, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.
This guy should never walk the streets again.
In 2019, John Fetterman voted to commute this guy's sentence.
And Johnson is now back out on the streets.
Now, they're having a record rise since this idiot's been lieutenant governor.
You know, violent crime in the Philadelphia suburbs have gone up 60%.
What's his answer?
Well, to let a third of prisoners out of jail?
To let guys like this out of jail?
Now, by the way, this might not have been Johnson's first murder, according to one witness who said Johnson bragged about how he had killed several people, and he was a hitman before he got caught.
Deputy Sheriff testified under oath Johnson threatened to kill an accomplice if he testified against him.
You know, giving violent criminals a break is what this guy does best.
He's bragged about helping pardon more criminals than every administration in Pennsylvania history combined.
But he hasn't gotten a single question from the media mob in Pennsylvania.
Not one.
I'll debate Oz.
You know, after 80% of the vote is done, you talk about hiding in a basement bunker.
This guy's been hiding.
He's done a whopping 30 minutes of campaigning for the entire general election campaign.
Oz has been hammered with question after question after question, date after day after day as he travels the entire state.
This guy will not serve the people of Pennsylvania.
He's out of touch.
You want a moratorium on fracking?
Is that what you want?
Do you want all these criminals let out of jail that he's supporting?
You want decriminalizing a heroin and safe shooting zones?
Meaning you can shoot these drugs into your system in safe places.
Okay.
You want Pennsylvania to be a sanctuary state?
Because that's what he supports.
When it came to endorsing candidates for president in 20, what, 16 and 20, he supported Bernie Sanders.
He's to the left of Bernie Sanders.
That's that race.
That's why we're paying attention.
57 days from now matter.
Let's say hi to Rob is in Oklahoma.
Rob, how are you?
Glad you called.
Mr. Hannity.
What's going on, sir?
It's an honor to speak to you, sir.
I got to tell you, Katie is awesome.
In my opinion, she deserves a raise.
I have a question for you, sir.
Yes, sir.
In regards to the election dates, I'm with you on the one-day thing, but I have a question as it pertains to the Constitution.
Article 1, Section 4 says that state legislatures set the rules, but Congress can alter those rules.
And since we do have a single date that is the second Tuesday in November or the Tuesday in November that we vote on, how is it possible constitutionally that we do have all these other things when Congress has stepped in and said it's that Tuesday in November?
So how is it possible that the states have all these other different early votings and everything else?
Listen, if I had my way, I said it earlier, I would have day of voting.
I'd have paper ballots, and that would be my chosen method.
There's a reason why Democrats like this system.
They want no accountability.
Remember, they've been fighting hard.
They don't even want voter ID.
They don't want signature verification.
They don't want updated voter rolls.
They don't want partisan observers observing.
They want to recreate 2020 and the chaos surrounding 2020 all over the country if they can.
Now, if they win this election, and this is the danger of 57 days from now, if Republicans don't get one or both houses, it's going to be very, very difficult to stop this massive power grab that they really want.
That's part of it.
Ending the legislative filibuster, that's part of it.
They want it on all of these issues, packing the courts.
They want it.
John Fetterman's one of them.
Raphael Warnock's another one of them.
You've got the most radical socialists in power, and they want more power, and they want power in perpetuity.
So all these measures will be put in place if they are given more power after November.
Well, I certainly get the idea that the Democrats don't like it, but how is it the Republicans don't come back and so repeatedly refer to the Constitution and educate people on it every time they get the bully pulpit?
Educate people and say, here's what it says.
Well, some are, and some don't have the ability to, I guess.
I don't know.
Sometimes I listen to some of these elected officials and I'm like, why did you ever get in this business?
It's like they don't have any guiding principles within them.
You know, you have to have a passion for conservatism to be a conservative candidate and somebody that will hold the line and stand up for the promises you make to your constituents.
And there are too many rhino Republicans, weak Republicans, but I'm hoping it gets stronger.
I'm pretty convinced that the House is going to flip Republican.
I'm pretty convinced, but I don't want to say with any degree of certainty.
I'm cautiously optimistic.
I think these Senate races, as I have been saying, are all hard and we can't take one of them for granted.
And why they allow this, when they had the power, they should have put these changes in place.
They didn't.
Hopefully next time they will.
I'm looking forward to seeing, I don't know, I expect in maybe 10, 11, 12 days, we'll get this Commitment to America paper from Kevin McCarthy.
And I hope every candidate in the House and Senate signs it.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Thanks, Rob.
800-941, Sean Josh in Illinois.
Josh, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, thanks for having me on.
Real quick, I just want to talk about the, we'll call it the Safety Act that the Democrats here voted on in the early hours back in January of 21.
Basically, it eliminates cash bail.
Pretty much lets every criminal out of jail and doesn't hold anybody accountable.
Yeah, same thing in New York.
Same thing in a lot of liberal states and cities around the country.
It's insanity.
It is absolute madness.
It is.
It is.
This bill is New York and California on steroids.
I mean, literally, there are state attorneys all over the state that are saying we're pretty much going to let out half the people in our jails right now.
You know, it's kind of funny.
I heard Dick Durbin and Laurie Lightweight.
Now, I think it's the best political jiu-jitsu move I've seen in my life.
And that is Governor Abbott and then also Governor DeSantis putting illegal immigrants in buses and sending them to Chicago and sending them to D.C. and sending them to New York.
Lori Lightweight, so they're out there saying how cruel and horrible it is.
And what does Lori Lightweight do and Dickie Durbin do?
They go ahead and they pack up the same illegal immigrants and send them to the suburbs instead of in the city of Chicago.
You can't make it up.
No, you can't.
I mean, they're hypocrites.
It's really crazy.
And that in itself is going to bring a huge amount of problems to the criminal justice system because you have a whole bunch of people coming that are undocumented.
You have no idea who they are.
And you won't ever know who they are because you can't detain them.
Yeah.
I appreciate the call, Josh.
It's very simple, basic, fundamental common sense.
Conservatism is common sense.
It is liberty, freedom, constitution, capitalism, limited government, lower taxes, less bureaucracy, law and order so everyone's safe and secure.
You want a basic education so that kids have a ladder to success in life.
You secure your border.
You enforce the laws.
You respect our borders and sovereignty.
You have standards for letting people in to the country.
We should be in this day and age knowing all the natural resources we have, not only energy independent, but the most energy dominant force on the planet Earth.
These are not complicated principles here.
Simple stuff.
Let's see.
Darlene is in New Jersey.
Darlene, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
I appreciate it.
Well, your giants showed a lot of guts yesterday when they got that touchdown in the final minutes of the game and went for two points.
They were down by one.
They could have tied it, but they played for the win.
They got the two points.
And then the other team drove down the field and nearly hit a field goal.
They just missed wide left.
It was great.
That was a great game.
Well, I'm a Grubhub driver in New Jersey, and we've spoken a couple of times before.
I don't know if you remember or not.
Okay, the reason I'm calling you today is because I just wanted to say that I want to talk about the president's speech.
And I was driving around at the time and listening to the speech, and I was just totally appalled.
I'm pretty poor.
I do Grubhub.
I live day to day, basically.
I just moved back in with my mother in Pennsylvania.
And for him to have called anyone who wants to make America great again, the horrible things that he said was just outrageous to me.
What did you think about it when you saw the background?
It was horrifying.
I was like a bad movie.
It was like a terribly.
It really was.
It was like a horror movie.
It's a good way to put it.
I could not believe how offensive he was.
I mean, you know, sometimes Trump, he's a little up loud and obnoxious.
I grew up in New York, so I kind of get all that.
But his policies were amazing for us.
I could afford to drive my car.
I could afford to, you know, live on my own.
And now I can't.
And I blame that all on him.
And for him to sit up there in that ridiculous show of, I don't even know what to call it.
I was appalled.
It was just, hey, let me ask you a personal question.
So I finally figured out how to use Uber Eats.
Number one, is Grubhub better?
I don't know if you do both or just the one.
I do both.
I do both.
Okay.
And you don't have to answer this question.
Can you make enough to live on being a driver doing that?
If I work 60 hours a week, which I usually do, I work like six days a week, I can get, bring home, well, I get, I make about $1,000, but that doesn't include my car care, my gas.
You know, I have a Ford Maverick.
It's a hybrid.
I just bought it, so it's not too bad on gas.
I was lucky enough.
My father died from 9-11-related illnesses because he was working across the street from one of the towers.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So my mom bought me a new truck, a Ford Maverick.
So that helps a lot because I'm getting probably about 40 to 45 miles to the gallon.
But it is, it's very difficult to make ends meet.
Absolutely.
Anyway, we appreciate it, Darlene.
We wish you the best.
And if we can ever help you, let us know, okay?
Well, you know, I'll be talking to you again.
Thank you again for having my call, Sean.
You know, think of that.
60 hours a week.
That's a hard job.
And you've got to maintain your car.
That's a hard job.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity, tonight, set you DVR, 9 Eastern, Fox News, Senator Tim Scott, South Carolina, Senator Ted Cruz.
We'll also be checking in with Mike Huckabee, Kaylee McInaney, Laura Trump, Clay Travis, our pollsters, Robert Cahale, Matt Towery, and much more.
9 Eastern.
Hannity, Fox News, C you then.
Back here tomorrow.
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