Speaker 1: Up next, how woud for Gianno called well part of
Speaker 1: the gig which as Democrats continue to embrace an increasingly
Speaker 1: radical agenda. There's only one man, I said, only one
Speaker 1: man who can save the left from itself. But whether
Speaker 1: liberals heat his warnings or continue their descent and too
Speaker 1: woke madness remains an open question. This is Outlive with
Speaker 1: Gianno Caldwell. Welcome back to Outow with Gianno called Blow.
Speaker 1: I've got an amazing show for you guys this week
Speaker 1: that's a little different than usual. I'm going to SELLO
Speaker 1: this episode because I really want to focus on someone
Speaker 1: who have concluded is the only person who can save
Speaker 1: the left from completely and perhaps irreversibly going off the
Speaker 1: rails into wokeness and progressiveness. But before I tell you
Speaker 1: who it is, I want to play for you a
Speaker 1: clip of earlier this month pointing liberals to something they
Speaker 1: need to be made more aware of. They have a
Speaker 1: bad case of progressive phobia. That's the phrase coined by
Speaker 1: Stephen Pinker to describe a brain disorder that strikes liberals
Speaker 1: and makes them incapable of recognizing progress. It's like situational blindness,
Speaker 1: only what you can't see is that your dorm in
Speaker 1: is better than the South before the Civil War. If
Speaker 1: you think America is more racist now than ever, more
Speaker 1: sexist than before women could vote in, more homophobic than
Speaker 1: when blow jobs were a felony, you have progressive phobia
Speaker 1: and should adjust your mask because it's covering your eyes.
Speaker 1: I'm sure some of you recognize that voice, and you're like,
Speaker 1: that cannot be who I think it is. It actually is.
Speaker 1: That was none other than liberal comedian, I said, liberal
Speaker 1: comedian Bill maher given a monologue on this HBO talk show.
Speaker 1: You know, it's It's interesting to me because I've been
Speaker 1: watching Bill Maherr fairly closely these last several months, and
Speaker 1: I happen to find myself agreeing with the number of
Speaker 1: things that he's been saying. Now, that doesn't mean I
Speaker 1: agree with everything that he says, because I think he's
Speaker 1: still wrong on a number of issues. But what I
Speaker 1: can appreciate it's his consistency and willingness to call out
Speaker 1: his side when he believes they're going in the wrong direction. Now,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I had an opportunity to meet Bill
Speaker 1: maher I was actually called by someone that you all
Speaker 1: may know, some of you may love some of you
Speaker 1: may not love her, but and Colter called me up
Speaker 1: one day while I was in l A at my
Speaker 1: home and she said, hey, Bill says that he's available
Speaker 1: for dinner on Friday at the Polo Lounge. And I
Speaker 1: immediately said Bill who, And she said, Bill Maher, he
Speaker 1: can come have dinner with us after for his show. So, man,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. You know, obviously seen Bill Maher on television.
Speaker 1: I'm interested in his point of view, and I was
Speaker 1: more so looking forward to a robust conversation, a debate,
Speaker 1: if you will, the talk of politics, culture, and see
Speaker 1: where he's coming from beyond the TV screen, because some
Speaker 1: people are totally different than they are on television. And
Speaker 1: I found Bill Maher to be a very reasonable guy
Speaker 1: on a number of issues. So I was kind of
Speaker 1: surprised by that, especially considering how polarizing he's seemed to be.
Speaker 1: And he sometimes makes them really uh, I mean to
Speaker 1: put it lightly, some wrong predictions on things. He talked
Speaker 1: about Russia Gate as an example of something that Trump
Speaker 1: he colluded with Russia and later admitted that it was wrong.
Speaker 1: He called it erroneous reporting. So he's made some statements
Speaker 1: He's talked about faith in a negative way, and we're
Speaker 1: talking about uh, anybody believing because he's an atheist. But
Speaker 1: then on some of these political issues I find him
Speaker 1: to be in some cases correct. You know. It's it's
Speaker 1: interesting that he talked about the progressive phobia. He talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, talking about race and how people feel as
Speaker 1: though we've not made any progress to a more perfect union,
Speaker 1: which I think that is a lie. The notion in
Speaker 1: America has made no progress towards a more perfect union
Speaker 1: is absurd. It's a false narrative. And just to just
Speaker 1: to give you a little bit of a fact right here,
Speaker 1: according to Pew Research Center, of all US newlyweds had
Speaker 1: a spouse of a different race or ethnicity, compared to
Speaker 1: just three in n seven. You can talk about the
Speaker 1: fact that being accused of racism as a social death
Speaker 1: sentence these days, or rather, I mean that, let's be clear,
Speaker 1: maybe being accused of racism on the right as a
Speaker 1: as a death sentence, because people like Senator white House,
Speaker 1: who we recently discovered belongs to a whites only club,
Speaker 1: is what the report things said. He belongs to a
Speaker 1: white only club, And it's been reported and I've not
Speaker 1: seen any condemnation from the Democratic Party. I've not seen
Speaker 1: anything from the White House. You talk about Hunter Biden,
Speaker 1: I mean he's been accused of racism, and rightfully, so
Speaker 1: you see him and I've talked about it on this episode,
Speaker 1: on an episode of this podcast before. If you haven't
Speaker 1: listened to it about Hunter Biden, take a listen. He
Speaker 1: in word in word in word, Hennessy rates in words
Speaker 1: is what is what he told his attorney. He used
Speaker 1: the actual in word over text message. It has been reported,
Speaker 1: no condemnation from the Democratic Party, no statement from the
Speaker 1: White House. Meanwhile, Hunter Biden himself now has the ability
Speaker 1: to sell art pieces for fifty thousand or hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars since that incident has occurred. If it
Speaker 1: was a Republican I don't have to tell you what
Speaker 1: what it would be at this point. I think you
Speaker 1: already know that. We got a very bunch of very
Speaker 1: smart people listening to me right now, so you understand that.
Speaker 1: But it's not even about that your side or my
Speaker 1: side per se. It's not about that in the sense
Speaker 1: that right should be right and wrong should be wrong.
Speaker 1: And that's why I can appreciate the sentiment from Bill Maher.
Speaker 1: We got a black vice president, y'all, we had a
Speaker 1: former president that was African American. A number of counties
Speaker 1: supported Barack Obama. A lot of people were inspired by
Speaker 1: Barack Obama. Even Republicans have admitted that we have made
Speaker 1: tremendous progress in this country. That doesn't mean we're done.
Speaker 1: I think there's some issues that need to be taken
Speaker 1: care of them. Talking about police reform, I think that's
Speaker 1: an issue, and we just found out that Tim Scott
Speaker 1: has come to a deal with some Democrats for bipartisan
Speaker 1: framework for police reform. So we're not done, by no measure.
Speaker 1: But to say that things are so bad and they're
Speaker 1: so just out of control, it's a lie. And I
Speaker 1: think we need to just admit that to ourselves. We
Speaker 1: made a lot of progress. There's more work to be done,
Speaker 1: but we made a lot of progress. You know. I
Speaker 1: think two reasons why the Democratic Party will continue to
Speaker 1: push this the notion that things are so bad, and
Speaker 1: I think it's it's important for us all to understand
Speaker 1: the why of it. I think back when I was
Speaker 1: growing up and I was on the South side of Chicago,
Speaker 1: and we would see the politicians that would come into
Speaker 1: our neighborhoods on a pretty uh, inconsistent basis. So when
Speaker 1: I say that, I'm talking about the only time you
Speaker 1: really saw them was around election time. And they make
Speaker 1: all these promises. They would make all these promises, how
Speaker 1: they're gonna fix this, fix that, do this, just give
Speaker 1: them a chance to reelect them, whatever the case, and
Speaker 1: you look around, nothing gets done. You don't see him
Speaker 1: again into the next election. And with people they go
Speaker 1: at them. And I'm talking about the constituents in the
Speaker 1: neighborhood who challenged them and say, well, you said this
Speaker 1: was gonna happen, and it didn't happen. What would they do.
Speaker 1: They would blame racism on their own party. Mind you.
Speaker 1: They would say the politicians, which were the senior Democrats, uh,
Speaker 1: were white that were in the areas of downtown in
Speaker 1: the North Side, which is in areas where you mostly
Speaker 1: see white residents or constituents. They would say, they're giving
Speaker 1: them all the resources. They don't care about us. They're
Speaker 1: racist people, these white politicians. And then you look and
Speaker 1: you say, man, y'all belong to the same party. You're
Speaker 1: comfortable being in the party with these racist people who
Speaker 1: seemingly don't keep their promises and are withholding resources from
Speaker 1: your community. Yeah, that's what they would say. And you
Speaker 1: know what the truth of the matter is, especially on
Speaker 1: the national level, they keep the lie going and I
Speaker 1: can call it the big lie if you will, because
Speaker 1: they want to lock in a permanent base of voters.
Speaker 1: They're called African Americans, who they know are people who
Speaker 1: care a lot about racism because we've experienced these policies
Speaker 1: of racism. We've experienced what the Democrats done in terms
Speaker 1: of Jim Crow. We've seen that, we've seen slavery, we've
Speaker 1: seen even Uh died Frank Uh. Something passed under the
Speaker 1: Obama administration which really put the same standards of these
Speaker 1: major banks like JP Morgan Chase Bank of America on
Speaker 1: small community banks that were black owned, random out of
Speaker 1: business they couldn't afford to keep up. So now we
Speaker 1: have less black banks. We're talking about banks in which
Speaker 1: African Americans who may not have had the best credit profile,
Speaker 1: they might not have had it, those banks were more
Speaker 1: willing to lend than the JP Morgan shakes in the
Speaker 1: Banks of America. They were much more willing. This is
Speaker 1: what democratic policies, policies have done to the African American community,
Speaker 1: and they keep up the narrative of racism, which does exist.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it doesn't exist, so I don't
Speaker 1: want anybody to misunderstand me here. It does exist, but
Speaker 1: they need to get things set straight in their own
Speaker 1: house before they do anything. But it's not just the politicians.
Speaker 1: Mara even goes after fellow comedian Kevin Hart, who is
Speaker 1: arguably the biggest star in the business. There is a
Speaker 1: recurrent theme on the far left that things have never
Speaker 1: been worse. Kevin Hard expressed a view many hold when
Speaker 1: he told The New York Times, You're witnessing white power
Speaker 1: and white privilege at an all time high. This is
Speaker 1: one of the big problems with wokeness, that what you
Speaker 1: say doesn't have to make sense or jibe with the facts.
Speaker 1: Wherever be challenged, lest the challenge itself be conflated with racism.
Speaker 1: But saying white power and privilege is at an all
Speaker 1: time high, it's just ridiculous. Higher than a century ago,
Speaker 1: the year of the Tulsa race massacre, higher than the
Speaker 1: years when the KKK rode unchecked and Jim Crow went unchallenged,
Speaker 1: higher than the nineteen sixties when the Supremes and Willie
Speaker 1: Mays still couldn't stay in the same hotel as the
Speaker 1: white people they were working with higher than during slavery,
Speaker 1: and I mean actual slavery, not Prince doesn't like his
Speaker 1: record contract slavery. Racism is still, unfortunately still with us.
Speaker 1: We have the footage in policing, housing, job discrimination, segregated schools,
Speaker 1: wealth inequality. The legacy of injustice sadly lives on and
Speaker 1: demands remedial action. I understand as best I can how
Speaker 1: racism sends a person's soul so much that they might
Speaker 1: see it everywhere, but seeing clearly is necessary for actually
Speaker 1: fixing problems. And clearly racism is simply no longer everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's not in my home, and it probably isn't in yours,
Speaker 1: if I read my audience right, and I think I do.
Speaker 1: For most of the country, the most unhipped thing you
Speaker 1: could ever be today is a racist. Even Derek shaw
Speaker 1: And was not backed up by his fellow officers, and
Speaker 1: that never used to happen. The low point of race
Speaker 1: relations wasn't Kim Kardashian wearing corn rows, even though it
Speaker 1: happened on Snapchat, and George Wallace standing in the doorway didn't.
Speaker 1: Because here's the thing, kids, there actually was a world
Speaker 1: before you got here. Again, I'm pretty sure you're scratching
Speaker 1: your head saying Bill Maher said that. Yes, folks, Bill
Speaker 1: Maher said that, I'm sure a lot of you are shocked.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna be honest, I've been shocked. I've been
Speaker 1: watching on a weekly basis. I've been seeing some of
Speaker 1: the things that you've been saying. I mean, attacking a
Speaker 1: fellow comedian, uh, someone who you know, arguably is the
Speaker 1: most successful comedian in the business. Kevin Hard is everywhere,
Speaker 1: and it's so shocking. With as much success as um,
Speaker 1: Kevin Hard is game for him to say that white
Speaker 1: supremacy is at all time high. Now, this isn't a
Speaker 1: defense of white supremacists, because they exist. I want to
Speaker 1: be clear about that. But you and I damn well
Speaker 1: know that that cannot be true. Bro, You're in every movie.
Speaker 1: This guy is in every movie he's directing, he's producing,
Speaker 1: They're throwing money at him. If white supremacy was supremacy,
Speaker 1: was it all time high? You could not be in
Speaker 1: a position to even make that comment with it actually
Speaker 1: getting a response. Come on, Kevin Hart, Come on, bro,
Speaker 1: do better. Don't jump on the woke bagwagon's because it
Speaker 1: seems to be a lot of media light there. Let's
Speaker 1: speak truth. We can be consistent and our values. We
Speaker 1: can tell the truth because there's enough messed up stuff
Speaker 1: going on out here that you can be honest and
Speaker 1: consistent and you can say, man, you know things, uh
Speaker 1: may not be exactly how I would want to see him.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of progress to be made,
Speaker 1: but certainly there's been a lot of progress. Had Remember
Speaker 1: Jada Pickett Smith when she said Hollywood all white. I
Speaker 1: don't know if y'all remember that. Jada Pickett Smith, her
Speaker 1: husband is Will Smith. She said, you know, everybody who's
Speaker 1: winning an award is all white. Hollywood is all white.
Speaker 1: Where's the black actress and the actors? And and this
Speaker 1: thing really really moved. It became a trending topic, I
Speaker 1: think on Twitter, but certainly on social media. Everyone was
Speaker 1: talking about it. It was all a buzz. Now you
Speaker 1: see these awards show. You see all these black actors
Speaker 1: that are winning awards, directors, producers, etcetera, etcetera. And Kevin
Speaker 1: Hard is one of those people. So how could you
Speaker 1: say white supremacy is at an all time high. What
Speaker 1: sense does that make? This is where we are now
Speaker 1: in our country. Whatever makes it's gonna make the most noise,
Speaker 1: gets the most attention. Saying white supremacy is at an
Speaker 1: all time high gets the most attention. It's gonna get
Speaker 1: the most headlines. That's what people are doing these days.
Speaker 1: Is not based in truth. It's not factual, and the
Speaker 1: left needs to hear bier Mar's message. They need to
Speaker 1: hear it. Now. This wasn't Bill Maher's first time attacking
Speaker 1: his own side. Back in April, he sounded an awful
Speaker 1: lot like a conservative while discussing COVID, the media and
Speaker 1: the less irrational alarmist approach to the pandemic. Don't spend
Speaker 1: me when it comes to my health. Over the past year,
Speaker 1: the COVID pandemic has prompted the medical establishment, the media,
Speaker 1: and the government to take a scared straight approach to
Speaker 1: getting the public to comply with their recommendations. Well, I'm
Speaker 1: from a different school, giving me straight, doc because in
Speaker 1: the long run, that always works better than you can't
Speaker 1: handle the truth. Um now, I get it. Doctors tell
Speaker 1: people lies because they don't trust you to finish the
Speaker 1: antibiotics after your dick starts feeling better. And media, well,
Speaker 1: I think we all know if it bleeds, it leads.
Speaker 1: The more they can, the more they can get you
Speaker 1: to stay inside and watch their panic porn, the higher
Speaker 1: the ratings. Researchers at Dartmouth built a database recently monitoring
Speaker 1: the COVID coverage of the major news outlets across the
Speaker 1: world and found that while other countries mixed the good
Speaker 1: news in with the bad, the US national media reported
Speaker 1: almost bad news, and even as things were getting better,
Speaker 1: the reporting remained negative. Trust and traditional media has declined
Speaker 1: to an all time low, and many news professionals are
Speaker 1: determined to do something about it. Right They're not. They're
Speaker 1: really not. Now, I'll tell you by the numbers. For
Speaker 1: the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans
Speaker 1: um have trust and traditional media. According to some data
Speaker 1: that came out of Americans agree with the statement of
Speaker 1: journalists and reporters are purposely trying to miss lead people
Speaker 1: by saying things they know are foss or gross exaggerations.
Speaker 1: Fifty six percent of Americans I didn't say, fifty six
Speaker 1: percent of Republicans I said, fifty six percent of Americans
Speaker 1: believe the journalists and reporters are lying to us. This
Speaker 1: was in January. This came out and Axios. This wasn't
Speaker 1: in a right wing blog. This came out in Axios.
Speaker 1: Fifty eight percent of Americans think that most news organizations
Speaker 1: are more concerned with supporting an ideology or political position
Speaker 1: than with informing the public. Fifty eight percent feel this way. Now,
Speaker 1: if you don't believe there's been media amount practice when
Speaker 1: it comes to COVID and just about any other issue,
Speaker 1: let's go back to Hunter Biden in an N word.
Speaker 1: If it were someone else, Now, let's let's not even
Speaker 1: say if it was Don Junior, Donald Trump Junior, or
Speaker 1: a Republican forget, I don't even don't even think about that.
Speaker 1: Let's let's not even talk about the political parties and
Speaker 1: how it would have impacted them. If it was a
Speaker 1: sixteen year old girl. New New York Times I believe
Speaker 1: it was. The New York Times did a piece on
Speaker 1: the sixteen year old who used the INN word profusely,
Speaker 1: and they reported on her and she lost all kind
Speaker 1: of uh college opportunities. You can mention anybody, just a
Speaker 1: regular person, be the manager at Hooters now I did
Speaker 1: use the word Hooters. I actually enjoyed their chicken wings.
Speaker 1: I had something yesterday. I usually get the chicken wings,
Speaker 1: curly fries, barbecue sauce hot on the side, and bread it.
Speaker 1: So I I enjoyed the food the food. Let's let's
Speaker 1: just imagine if it was Hooters for a second. If
Speaker 1: the manager of Hooters sent text messages like Hunter Biden
Speaker 1: and someone saw that, it would have one likely made
Speaker 1: the local news to probably became a national story. Three
Speaker 1: he would have been fired the same day, and everyone
Speaker 1: will be talking about how bad racism is in America.
Speaker 1: The President of the United States, his son, Hunter Biden,
Speaker 1: did the N words at the N word profusely, unchecked,
Speaker 1: no condemnation, so no media holding him to account. I mean,
Speaker 1: there were some outlets that reported in Fox News reported it, um.
Speaker 1: I think the Hell might have did something on it.
Speaker 1: There was a New York Post did something on it.
Speaker 1: I know that for sure. There were some outlets, but
Speaker 1: we're talking about the range of New York New York Times.
Speaker 1: I didn't see anything, and it's still to this day,
Speaker 1: haven't seen anything about it. Not seeing anything in the
Speaker 1: Washington Post, not seeing anything in these major publications that
Speaker 1: oftentimes talk about these issues. It's media malpractice at all
Speaker 1: time high. And we see people do not trust the
Speaker 1: media anymore, and for good reason, and for absolute good reason.
Speaker 1: Now there's some good news organizations out there. There are
Speaker 1: some great journalists out there there do their job without
Speaker 1: fear of favor to any political party. They just do
Speaker 1: their job, and we respect those folks, and our hats
Speaker 1: goals off to them. But I'll tell you there needs
Speaker 1: to be more of this truth telling. And I'm liking
Speaker 1: what Bill Martins saying. Let's roll that next clip. And
Speaker 1: politicians they lie because it's their nature to cover their
Speaker 1: ass they don't get blamed if things goes badly, and
Speaker 1: also to keep in practice. But when all of our
Speaker 1: sources for medical information have an agenda to spin us, yeah,
Speaker 1: you wind up with a badly misinformed population, including on
Speaker 1: the left. Liberals often mocked the Republican misinformation bubble, which
Speaker 1: of course is very real. Ask anyone who works at
Speaker 1: Hillary's pizza parlor. And we do know conservatives have some
Speaker 1: loopy ideas about COVID, like the third of Republicans who
Speaker 1: believe it couldn't be spread by someone showing no symptoms.
Speaker 1: But what about liberals? You know the high information by
Speaker 1: the science people. In a recent Gallop survey, Democrats did
Speaker 1: much worse than Republicans and getting the right answer to
Speaker 1: the fundamental question, what are the chances that someone who
Speaker 1: gets COVID will need to be hospitalized? The answer is
Speaker 1: between one and five of Democrats thought it was over
Speaker 1: another put the chances at so almost of Democrats are
Speaker 1: wildly off on this key question, and also have a
Speaker 1: greatly exaggerated view of the danger of COVID two and
Speaker 1: the mortality rate among children, all of which explains why
Speaker 1: today the states with the highest sheriff of schools that
Speaker 1: are still closed are all blue states. So if the
Speaker 1: right wing media bubble has to own things like climate
Speaker 1: change denial, shouldn't liberal media have to answer for how
Speaker 1: did your audience wind up believing such a bunch of
Speaker 1: crap about COVID. A new report in the Atlantic says
Speaker 1: the media won't stop putting pictures of the beach on
Speaker 1: stories about COVID, even though it's looking increasing like the
Speaker 1: beach is the best place to avoid it. Sunlight is
Speaker 1: the best disinfected, and vitamin D is the key to
Speaker 1: a robust immune system. Texas lifted its COVID restrictions recently,
Speaker 1: and their infection rates went down in part because of
Speaker 1: people getting outside. Bill Maher is saying, hey, liberals, why
Speaker 1: aren't you following the science, the same thing conservatives have
Speaker 1: been saying since the start of a pandemic. If you
Speaker 1: look at the numbers, if you look it folks, the
Speaker 1: like Rhondo Santiz, who clearly followed the science in his state,
Speaker 1: if you look at people like Gavin Newsom, and let's
Speaker 1: be honest, folks, I want to tell you I lived
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles since last year, and uh may, I
Speaker 1: couldn't do it anymore. I could not be locked in
Speaker 1: my house. I was locked in the house for two months.
Speaker 1: Couldn't go anywhere. I lived in this really fancy building
Speaker 1: downtown l A. I couldn't use any of the manise.
Speaker 1: I couldn't go to the pool. And I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to say that I'm so good, but yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a great building. I worked hard. I'm glad to have
Speaker 1: lived in that building. But I couldn't use anything. Paying
Speaker 1: the same amount of rent all of this other stuff,
Speaker 1: and you couldn't use anything. And Gavin Newsom and the
Speaker 1: politicians there seemingly didn't have it figured out because they didn't,
Speaker 1: and it took me all of a week to figure out,
Speaker 1: maybe I should move to a place where this freedom.
Speaker 1: That was after two months trying to see what was
Speaker 1: going on with COVID, I said, man, you know what,
Speaker 1: Florida's open, Miami's open. And it took me two weeks
Speaker 1: to move there where people seemingly by did by the science,
Speaker 1: they followed the rules. And then we saw the distinction
Speaker 1: between places like California and Florida, where California a very
Speaker 1: large state, Florida very large state. You saw California completely
Speaker 1: shut down, Florida open. What was the difference the numbers
Speaker 1: of COVID infections through the roof in California and not
Speaker 1: so much in Florida, an open state. Think about that
Speaker 1: for a minute, an open state, less infections. There was
Speaker 1: one group that followed the science and the other one
Speaker 1: didn't it and jeopardize their population even more. Bill Maher,
Speaker 1: he shocked people when he defended Republican Governor RHN de
Speaker 1: Santis from the attacks of the media and the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: And I want you to listen very closely to this
Speaker 1: next clip, which he makes almost exactly my point. Should
Speaker 1: let the sun and wind do their thing. But but
Speaker 1: too many liberals that can't be right because Texas and
Speaker 1: beach loving Florida have Republican governors. But life is complicated.
Speaker 1: I've read that the governor of Florida reads I know,
Speaker 1: we like to think of Florida as only middle school
Speaker 1: teachers on bath salts having sex with their students in
Speaker 1: front of an alligator. But apparently the governor is also
Speaker 1: a voracious consumer of the scientific literature, and maybe that's
Speaker 1: why he protected his most vulnerable population, the elderly, way
Speaker 1: better than did the governor of New York. Those are
Speaker 1: just facts. I know it's irresponsible for me to say them. Look,
Speaker 1: here's what I'm saying. I don't want politics mixed in
Speaker 1: with my medical decisions. And now that everything is politics,
Speaker 1: that's all we do. If their side says COVID is nothing,
Speaker 1: our side has to say it's everything. Trump said it
Speaker 1: would go. We look a miracle, and we said it
Speaker 1: was World War Z. Trump said we should ingest household disinfectants,
Speaker 1: and we laughed, as we should, of course, And then
Speaker 1: it turned out of America was literally drenching the fruit
Speaker 1: in Clorox, and now, of course we find out that
Speaker 1: all that paranoia about surfaces will bullshit. Anyway, I knew
Speaker 1: that I needed to do an episode on Bill Maher
Speaker 1: because I don't know. At some point, I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: going to go extremely left and wrong, So so we'll
Speaker 1: get the good out of him while we while we can.
Speaker 1: This is stating the hypocrisy of those who are supposed
Speaker 1: to be the party of science. Remember that Democrats are
Speaker 1: supposed to be the party of science. Republicans are supposed
Speaker 1: to be the looney tombs. They're supposed to be out
Speaker 1: of the looney band. Don't believe anything with regards to science.
Speaker 1: That has been a working narrative. That's the idea that
Speaker 1: people have capitulated to in the media and in political parties.
Speaker 1: That's been what has been said. But then we find
Speaker 1: out that the one that they crowned king you're talking
Speaker 1: about a New York Times bestseller. We're talking about governor
Speaker 1: of New York State. Y'all know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Andrew cmo He was the one that wasn't following the
Speaker 1: science and he wrote a book about how he saved
Speaker 1: New York. Is a lot like who does this? Who
Speaker 1: does this and get away with it? Apparently some folks
Speaker 1: and particular political parties they do. That seems to be
Speaker 1: the case. Again. Mar is a staunch liberal, but he
Speaker 1: recognized this and is unafraid to call out the excesses
Speaker 1: of wakeness. Marmade other comments that I won't even play
Speaker 1: for you, I'll just read them to you. He talked
Speaker 1: about free college. He said that I know that free
Speaker 1: college is a left wing thing, but is it really
Speaker 1: liberal for someone who doesn't go to college and makes
Speaker 1: less money to pay for people who do go and
Speaker 1: make more, especially since colleges have turned into giant luxury
Speaker 1: daycare sentence, were overpaid babysitters anxious to indulge in every
Speaker 1: student whim. And let's not forget about the fact that
Speaker 1: those are his comments and I agree with that, But
Speaker 1: let's not forget about the fact that college has increased
Speaker 1: in value and it seems to be that the degree
Speaker 1: doesn't mean as much as it used to. And also
Speaker 1: this pushing of this this elitist narrative that you have
Speaker 1: to go to college in order to be successful. Mindre,
Speaker 1: I went to college. I have a b s. In psychology. Great,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, those who choose to go
Speaker 1: to trade schools. There's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with someone who wishes to just go to high
Speaker 1: school and then go take on a trade That's absolutely fine.
Speaker 1: You can be incredibly successful, you can be a multimillionaire.
Speaker 1: You can even be a billionaire. It doesn't matter. It
Speaker 1: really doesn't matter. It's about following your passion and doing
Speaker 1: what's best for you. So I can appreciate and applaud
Speaker 1: him for going after the left, people like Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: who have been using this mantra we gotta pay. Let's
Speaker 1: be clear about it. Joe Biden has made the progressive
Speaker 1: stance on free college his own. During the election, he's
Speaker 1: talked about that, but now that he's in office, you're
Speaker 1: not seen anything about any free college. He's like, let
Speaker 1: them come up with their own bill. And he's really
Speaker 1: Biden his time because he realizes that at some point,
Speaker 1: soon enough, the Republicans are going to take over the House.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna get much of any of his policies passed,
Speaker 1: and then he's gonna say, hey, I was all for it.
Speaker 1: It was the Republicans that came and stepped in away
Speaker 1: and we weren't able to pass anything. Right, How condigned
Speaker 1: of him to say that it's all the Republicans fault.
Speaker 1: That's what they do, just like his old ball us
Speaker 1: is all the Republicans fault. And I'm talking about, of course,
Speaker 1: Barack Obama. You may wonder why Marr has taken such
Speaker 1: a turn against his party in the media. Here's one answer.
Speaker 1: He's staunchly politically incorrect. Indeed, in an interview which I
Speaker 1: encourage you all to see, he had an interview with
Speaker 1: Jordan Peterson. If you don't know Jordan Peterson, really smart
Speaker 1: guy out of Canada. He's grown a very, very large
Speaker 1: following because he was so against political correctness. Now, in
Speaker 1: a conversation with Bill Maherr, Bill maher said, political correctness
Speaker 1: is the elevation of sensitivity over truth, the elevation of
Speaker 1: sensitivity over truth. We can be sensitive, we can be
Speaker 1: racially sensitive, but we also have to be honest. We
Speaker 1: shouldn't be in a position where we're just lying about things.
Speaker 1: Just tell the truth. Just like Kevin hard, White supremacy
Speaker 1: is at all time high. Really really is it all
Speaker 1: time high? Okay, So again, the elevation of sensitivity over truth.
Speaker 1: I really hope the left is listening. And I know
Speaker 1: that some of you all who are listening to this podcast,
Speaker 1: your Democrats, I know. I get your messages, I get
Speaker 1: your your Instagram, d m s, I get the you know,
Speaker 1: the Twitter, even some emails people saying I know that,
Speaker 1: and I respect you just as much. But you gotta
Speaker 1: understand that the people on your side in a lot
Speaker 1: of cases seemingly are lying to you. They're lying. Now
Speaker 1: be honest too. There's some Republicans that lie that. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna I'm not gonna defend any of that because
Speaker 1: it happens on both sides, but there seems to be
Speaker 1: one side there's really pushing outrageous narratives. And that's why
Speaker 1: somebody who's his liberal as b Omer is speaking out
Speaker 1: against it and passionately so. And to me, he seems
Speaker 1: to be the only major voice on the left that
Speaker 1: still believes in common sense on multiple issues, even in
Speaker 1: the face of cancel culture. What which he rightly views
Speaker 1: is ridiculous and stupid. Now I'm gonna tell you, because
Speaker 1: I'm wrapping up the show right now, we're the place
Speaker 1: in a time in this country where we must be
Speaker 1: more about truth than the narrative of the moment, than
Speaker 1: the narrative of the moment. We have to be honest.
Speaker 1: We have to be honest, and that goes for both sides,
Speaker 1: because Republicans in some cases are pushing lives to um
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you, you know, especially and this
Speaker 1: may anger some people, but I think about what happened
Speaker 1: with the capital on January six. Now. I know there's
Speaker 1: been various viewpoints on this particular issue. I remember when
Speaker 1: I got the news. I was actually in Brazil with
Speaker 1: my then girlfriend and we were on a ferry going
Speaker 1: somewhere and I got a message saying the capital has
Speaker 1: been attacked, and I'm like what. It didn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what capital? Because it obviously and clearly couldn't
Speaker 1: be the U. S. Capital. Now, I want you to
Speaker 1: take a moment and just think for those who may
Speaker 1: be Trump supporters there, you know, staunch conservatives, And I
Speaker 1: thank you for joining me, and I thank you for
Speaker 1: listening on a consistent basis, And the numbers look great,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate your listenership, and I encourage you to
Speaker 1: continue to listen. But I'm going to be honest with
Speaker 1: you I'm gonna give you my point of view from
Speaker 1: my lens, and I will be honest, So take it
Speaker 1: for what it is. Just imagine this was January and
Speaker 1: the House and Senate was certifying the election for Trump's
Speaker 1: win in Black Lives Matter and Natifa stormed the capital
Speaker 1: and they were really disrupting the process. I don't care
Speaker 1: what what the situation. Maybe you store in the capital,
Speaker 1: you're going to building that you're not supposed to be
Speaker 1: in at that particular time, and I get it. It's
Speaker 1: the people's capital, but the people's business is going on
Speaker 1: at the same time. And Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA
Speaker 1: did that. What would we be calling them? We would
Speaker 1: be calling them domestic terrorists because that's what they did.
Speaker 1: Violated the law, and rightfully so. Black Lives Matter and
Speaker 1: members of Black Lives Matter and the TIFA burned courthouses
Speaker 1: down to the ground, rioting, looting, committing all kinds of
Speaker 1: criminal acts. We saw that. We saw peaceful protests, and
Speaker 1: then we saw others who took advantage of a of
Speaker 1: a very sensitive moment. What do we call those people?
Speaker 1: We call them criminals because that's what they were. I
Speaker 1: don't care how you what you know what the moment is.
Speaker 1: It gives you no right to go violate someone's business
Speaker 1: or property, no matter what the situation is, and those
Speaker 1: people should be held to account um. And certainly we've
Speaker 1: not really seen that with a lot of these county prosecutor,
Speaker 1: as are prosecutors in general, who have been dropping cases
Speaker 1: um like flies on honeyes. They're just dropping cases left
Speaker 1: and right against the folks who really went and destroyed
Speaker 1: property over a billion or billions of dollars in damage. Now,
Speaker 1: if we can call folks on that side criminals, if
Speaker 1: we can say if they would have gone into the capital,
Speaker 1: they would be domestic terrorists. We have to be consistent.
Speaker 1: The Trump supporters that went into the capital on January six,
Speaker 1: they violated the law. It was a domestic terrorist act
Speaker 1: in my view. I've said it on air um and
Speaker 1: I get pushed back. I understand, but I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: honest about it because that's exactly what we would say
Speaker 1: about the other side. Ye. Well, that's it for this
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