1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: Far left mob wins again. New York Times opinion editor 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: James Bennett forced to resign after employees revolted over the 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: paper's decision to publish an op ed by Senator Tom Cotton. 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: They totally surrendered to a woke child mob from their 5 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 1: own newsroom that apparently gets triggered if they're presented with 6 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 1: any opinion contrary to their own. Staffers of the New 7 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 1: York Times, in the newsroom and in the opinion section 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: were outraged. They were horrified. They said it was inappropriate 9 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: to publish an op ed like that buildings matter too. 10 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,200 Speaker 1: It's not just three words. Those three words, on top 11 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: of years and years of complaints within the Philadelphia Inquirer 12 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: that we were not devoted to diversity, have been struck 13 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: with hold dramatically change in the United States. People who 14 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,559 Speaker 1: valued free speech are now totally intimidated. People who thought 15 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: that as an American you had every right to stand 16 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: up for what you believe are now being told yes, 17 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: and then you get fired. All of the academics who 18 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: for a hundred years talked about the importance of intellectual freedom, 19 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: the notion that tenure meant you couldn't get fired, etc. 20 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: They've all sold out, and they're now part of sort 21 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: of a lemming like rush to say oh no, if 22 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: you don't do exactly what you're supposed to do, you're 23 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: in deep trouble. It reminds me a lot having last 24 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 1: year written Trump versus China, and one a lot of 25 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: research on how the Chinese Communists that have vote. It's 26 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: really remarkably like Maoism. When Mao was out of China, 27 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: they went through a whole period where they would have 28 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,559 Speaker 1: sessions where you could admit to everybody else how bad 29 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: you were, and if you admitted well enough, then you 30 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:01,640 Speaker 1: had been rehabilitated. But you had to get in a 31 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: group and say, oh, yes, I did the following nine 32 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: terrible things, and I finally go totally out of control, 33 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 1: and young people took advantage of it and were destroying things, 34 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,839 Speaker 1: and finally the army moved in and stopped all them, 35 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: but not until many many people, including the current General 36 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,239 Speaker 1: Secretary of the Communist Chinese Party, Hijunping, had been severely affected. 37 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: He was sent out to work out in the countryside. 38 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: His father was sent out to work on the countryside. 39 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: Even somebody as powerful as Dung Chauping. His grandson was 40 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: thrown off of the third floor of a building at 41 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: Beijing University and crippled for life because he didn't fit 42 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: the particular moment. So, as I'm watching all this as 43 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 1: a historian, I see a really disturbing new movement. This 44 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: is a movement where the new totalitarians on the left 45 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: control the narrative and the agenda and demand that those 46 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: who disagree lose their jobs. And what makes it dangerous 47 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: is that these detolitarians are almost totally reinforced by the 48 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: propaganda media, whether it's The New York Times or it 49 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:15,679 Speaker 1: is Washington Posts or ABC, NBCCBSMSNBC and CNN. I want 50 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: to set a baseline here as a historian and as 51 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: a citizen that the Constitution was written to protect freedom. Remember, 52 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: the founding father's number one goal was to avoid tyranny. 53 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: They had been deeply influenced by their study of the 54 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: English Civil War, and they really understood that at the 55 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: end of the fight between Parliament and the King, when 56 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: King Charles the First was beheaded that in a very 57 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: short time it degenerated into a dictatorship called the Commonwealth 58 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: under Cromwell. And Cromwell was a classic dictator the founding 59 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: fathers were trying to design a constitution which would minimize 60 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: the opportunity to go to dictatorship. I think the way 61 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: they opened the constitution was very, very important, remembering that 62 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: they did this based on the Declation Independence, which was 63 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: the most radical pro freedom document in history up to 64 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: that point. Because remember, the people writing the Declation Independence 65 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: in seventeen seventy six are writing it in the world 66 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: in which the normal belief is that power comes from 67 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:29,919 Speaker 1: God to the king and then trickles down, but that 68 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: the king is the center of power. The king is 69 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 1: the center of defining rights. As a top down power 70 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 1: comes from God through the king. You only, as a commoner, 71 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: have some right to power based on the fact that 72 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: the king has granted it to you. And what made 73 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 1: the Magna cart Is so extraordinarily important was that it 74 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: was the first time you had a statement. Because the 75 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,039 Speaker 1: king was desperate for money, and all the nobles got 76 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: together and they said, look, unless you signed this great charter, 77 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: which is what magnet Carta me, we're not going to 78 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 1: give you the money. And here was a position of 79 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: great weakness at that point, and so King John said, 80 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: all right, I'll sign it now. He tried as surpass 81 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: as he could to get away from it, but that 82 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 1: became the benchmark. That that's why if you go to 83 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: the US capital, at the very center of the capitol 84 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: there's a copy of the Magnet Carta, because it really 85 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 1: was the beginning of defining that the king only operated 86 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,160 Speaker 1: with the permission first of the nobles, then of the commoners, 87 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: and aldama of an elected parliament. This has been a 88 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,559 Speaker 1: long developing thing. By the time of the English Civil 89 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: War and the founding fathers knew the win, it all 90 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: broke down that there was an enormous danger of sliding 91 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 1: into dictatorship, they defined a totally new and radically different model, 92 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: and they said in the Declaration Dependence, we hold these 93 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,599 Speaker 1: truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, 94 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: that they are in dowed by their creator with certain 95 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the 96 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 1: pursuit of happiness. Now what this meant was that you, 97 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 1: as a commoner, as an everyday person, you had an 98 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: endowment directly from God, not from the King, not from 99 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: the government, directly from God, and that that endowment included 100 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: rights that could not be alienated. That is the alienation 101 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 1: meant taken away from you, so you couldn't lose these rights. 102 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 1: And among them there were three that were particularly vital. Life, liberty, 103 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: and the pursuit of happiness, which in their generation meant 104 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 1: something a little more profound. And happiness with me today 105 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 1: really meant the pursuit of virtue, of a life or 106 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: of being lived by somebody who wanted to do the 107 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: right thing, whether society. So that's the baseline for creating America. 108 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: And it's remarkably radical baseline because it says God has 109 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: given you these rights and the king and the government 110 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: can't take them away from which is in very real 111 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: sense what the fight was all about, which led amally 112 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: to the free in the United States. But now the 113 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: Founding Fathers, having won their freedom, watched years of the 114 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: system not quite working, and so the Founding father said, 115 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: we need a structure. We need to make sure that 116 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: we have an agreement, a contract that will enable us 117 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: to preserve our freedom and to block any future Cromwell, 118 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: any future dictator. And so they met in Philadelphia for 119 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: fifty five days. Ironically in the modern world, they met 120 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: in secret. They opened every session with a prayer, and 121 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: when the deadlock got so bad it looked like it 122 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: was all going to break down. Benjamin Franklin, the oldest 123 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: man at the Constitutional Convention, proposed, but stop for one 124 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: full day and have a day of prayer and fasting. 125 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: And they brought in a famous local preacher and they 126 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 1: listen to him, and that created a spirit of trying 127 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 1: to find a compromise in a way of working together. 128 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: And at the end of fifty five days they produced 129 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: this amazing document. So if you think of the Declaration 130 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: Independence as a statement of purpose, then the Constitution is 131 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: a statement of structure designed to protect it. And I 132 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: think it's important to look at exactly how the Constitution begins, 133 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: because they're trying to make a larger visionary statement before 134 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 1: they get into the details. Then what they're saying at 135 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: the very beginning is really central to how America has 136 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: operated ever since, because they start with the idea of 137 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: we the people. They're not saying we the states, we 138 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: the politicians, or we the lawyers, We the people the 139 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: United States, in order to form a more perfect union, 140 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: established justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, 141 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty 142 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:15,439 Speaker 1: to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and established this 143 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: constitution for the United States of America. I want to 144 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: emphasize a couple of pieces of this because in this 145 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: very brief opening statement they say that we have to 146 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: keep working to perfect the union. Justice is a very 147 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: central part of this, which is why they would fully 148 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: understand the concerns about finding a way to achieve justice 149 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: for African Americans and finding a way to achieve justice 150 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 1: for everyone who is a part of America. They would 151 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 1: ensure domestic tranquility. Now look at the murder rate this 152 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:53,559 Speaker 1: week in Chicago, New York, Seattle, Saint Louis, Portland, a 153 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 1: long way from domestic tranquility. Provide for the common defense, 154 00:09:57,960 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: which is why they were very big and making sure 155 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: that we were capable of protecting ourselves. So they wanted 156 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:07,719 Speaker 1: to protect us domestically. That's insured domestic tranquility, and they 157 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:11,199 Speaker 1: wanted to protect us from foreign thlas that's the common defense. 158 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: But they want further. They want to promote the general welfare. 159 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 1: They want people to be better off, they want people 160 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: to have a better future. Finally, they want to secure 161 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity is 162 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 1: this is being written for all time. This is a 163 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: timeless document that is capable of providing a better future 164 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: for almost everybody now. Securing the blessings of liberty to 165 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 1: ourselves nor posterity has been an ongoing process, initially applied 166 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: largely the property of white males, then gradually more and 167 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: more people had access to it. Even as early as 168 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 1: the Revolutionary period, there were African Americans petitioning to get 169 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,600 Speaker 1: out of slavery, and in state after state they began 170 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 1: to adopt anti slavery positions. Even at the very beginning, 171 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,599 Speaker 1: there were great concerns about the role of women, and 172 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: in fact, John Adams's wife writes him and says, do 173 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: not forget the ladies, and women begin to play a 174 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: bigger and bigger role in America. So this is what 175 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: we've inherited. And what's frightening about what's going right now 176 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: is through a combination of total ignorance and propagandistic brainwashing, 177 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: the radical left hast forgotten the values of the founding 178 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: fathers and forgotten what made America a unique place. And 179 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: in fact, I would say of our original history, the 180 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: most accurate parallel to what we're currently watching is the 181 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 1: Salem Witchcraft Trials of sixteen ninety two. Remember the Salem 182 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: witchcott prows start with gossip, ultimately kill a number of people, 183 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: and have been used ever since as a symbol of 184 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: the mob run amok. To look at Arthur Miller's great 185 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 1: play The Crucible, you really get the sense of the 186 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: Salem Witchcraft Trials are a perfect model for what happens 187 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: when the mob loses any sense of balance, in any 188 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 1: sense of fact, in any sense of justice. So I've 189 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 1: really struck over the last couple of months with how 190 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: many people are being directly hurt by this new left 191 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: wing tou totalitarianism. This is the first episode in a 192 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,479 Speaker 1: new series I'm calling Shut Your Mouth, the New Toutalitarians 193 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 1: the Left, in which I will discuss how this new 194 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 1: movement is affecting us in media, academic, sports, business, the 195 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: federal bureaucracy, entertainment and politics. And in our final episode, 196 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 1: we want to hear from you what have you experienced 197 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: in your own life. So I'm going to start here 198 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: with some examples of how the left has taken over 199 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 1: the media, because I think, frankly, they're so weird. I 200 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: grew up really being trained by a local weekly newspaper 201 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: editor named Paul Walker in Harsburg, Pennsylvania. And Walker was 202 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:03,560 Speaker 1: in the old school of newsmen who actually covered the news. 203 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 1: His great hero was Frank Kent, who had worked at 204 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: that time for the Baltimore Sun and who was just 205 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: interested in reporting what actually happened. He wasn't trying to 206 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: write as a social critic. That's really my background. At 207 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 1: the time I was growing up, The New York Times 208 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: really was a great newspaper. You could argue whether it 209 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 1: or the London Times was the greatest paper in the world. 210 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 1: There's no question, with the exception of some occasions, there'd 211 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: always been a certain level of anti semitism at the Times, 212 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:33,599 Speaker 1: and there'd always been in the nineteen thirties totally dishonest 213 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 1: reporting in Russia, where literally we now know in retrospect 214 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: the New York Times correspondent in Russia and the thirties 215 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: consciously cooperated with other Western reporters to avoid covering the 216 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 1: huge problem in Ukraine, where there was a deliberate, politically 217 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: forced famine that killed millions of people. So in that sense, 218 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: there's always been a certain blemish at the Times but 219 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,520 Speaker 1: it was still overall a great newspaper. But now let's 220 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 1: take a couple of case studies and you'll see how 221 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 1: much The New York Times is becoming a perfect example 222 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: of left wing toutalitarianism. One of the things that actually 223 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: made me decide to focus on this series was the 224 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 1: resignation from The New York Times of the editorial page 225 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: editor James Bennett. What happened to him was a perfect 226 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: example that when you start dealing with tutilitarians, you're never 227 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: liberal enough because they keep setting a new standard that's 228 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,800 Speaker 1: more and more and more street. According to the time 229 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: Zone reports, on June third, the paper published not ed 230 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: by Republican Senator Tom Cotton entitled quote Send in the Troops. 231 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 1: Cotton's a conservative senator from Arkansas, and his article argued 232 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,800 Speaker 1: that the US government should use of the military if 233 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: the protest and riots spread after the horrific killing of 234 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: George Floyd and they became too dangerous. Four days after publishing, 235 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 1: Bennett resigned because he had dared to publish Cotton's opinion. 236 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: It was simply too much for the liberal newsroom to 237 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: have a Republican opinion with which they disagreed. In their 238 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: own paper. According to the Times, publisher A. G. Salzberger 239 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: wrote a note to the staff saying, quote, last week 240 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 1: we saw a significant breakdown in our editing processes, not 241 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:28,360 Speaker 1: the first we've experienced in recent years postbook. Salzburger later 242 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: said in an interview that quote both of us concluded 243 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 1: that James would not be able to lead the team 244 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: through the next league of change that is required postbook. 245 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: Bennett then had to apologize to the entire staff. This 246 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: is maoism. He had to apologize to the entire staff 247 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: for publishing the op ed because it had a quote 248 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: overly harsh tone. By the way, I just want to 249 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 1: point out the thing at Times now has published an 250 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: article by a Chinese communist attacking the United States, an 251 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: attacking a relative of the writer. So if you're a 252 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: Chinese communist who wants to attack the Nited States, the 253 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: New York Times will publish you and nobody will be fired. 254 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: If you are a conservative United States senator who also, 255 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: by the way, was a veteran of service in the 256 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: least and you publish something conservative, then that's unforgivable and 257 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: the person who publishes it will be fired. And so 258 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: the Benne case made me really stop because Bennett had 259 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: to apologize one time before because they had actually had 260 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 1: a headline that offended people because it was too neutral, 261 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: and when I was supposed to be an anti Trump, 262 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: but I thought, if the New York Times now has 263 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: a newsroom filled with radical leftists to such a degree 264 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 1: that many of them said it made them feel quote unsafe. 265 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: So you can publish a Chinese communist that doesn't make 266 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: you feel unsafe, but if you publish a US senator 267 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: that makes you feel unsafe, and hardly have a better 268 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: case study of what the tottal charan is where the 269 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,359 Speaker 1: left is left. Bennett's resignation was occurring about the same 270 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 1: time that stand Wushnowski, the top editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, 271 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: was being forced out. Wushnowski resigned after running an article 272 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: in the paper with the headline quote buildings matter to 273 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,199 Speaker 1: This article, not an opinion piece, was simply expressing the 274 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 1: real cost of physical damage to buildings in the city 275 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: of Philadelphia. This caused a profound outrage among that paper's 276 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,400 Speaker 1: radical staff. Many in the newsroom performed a sickout, which 277 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: meant they used sickly to avoid coming to work because 278 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 1: They apparently didn't relieve enough in the cause before go 279 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 1: being paid. That is, they didn't want to give up 280 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 1: their money. They just wanted to feel virtuous. While they 281 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 1: didn't show up the paper itself, they had run a 282 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: public apology to its readers for the headline. Listen to this, 283 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:56,399 Speaker 1: it said, quote the Philadelphia Inquired A published the headline 284 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: and Tuesday's edition that was deeply offensive. We should not apprintative. 285 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: We're sorry and regret that we did. We also know 286 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:06,760 Speaker 1: that an apology on its own is not sufficient. The 287 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: headline accompanied a story on the future of Philadelphia's buildings 288 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: and civic infrastructure in the aftermath of this week's protest. 289 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: The apology continued quote. The headline offensively riffed on the 290 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter movement and suggested an equivalence between the 291 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 1: loss of buildings and the lives of black Americans. That 292 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: is an acceptable place, but no notice hidden in this 293 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 1: is something that the left doesn't want to admit, they said. 294 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: The future of Philadelphia's buildings and civic infrastructure in the 295 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:44,160 Speaker 1: aftermath of this week's protests because these protests involved substantial 296 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 1: damage to the buildings and the infrastructure, something the media 297 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,159 Speaker 1: is desperately tried to avoid saying so. After serving twenty 298 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 1: years at The Inquirer and leading the newsroom for ten years, 299 00:18:56,040 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: Mushnowski stepped down. He was forced out for one headline. 300 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: Now another example. On July fourteenth, two more key people, 301 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: one of the New York Times and one of the 302 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: New York Magazine left their posts and did sell in 303 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: a way that really put the target right on the 304 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 1: radicals and the newsrooms. Barry Weiss, a self proclaimed centrist 305 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: opinion editor and writer at the New York Times, left 306 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: her job because she found working there to be toxic. 307 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 1: She said she regularly dealt with open hostility from co 308 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: workers because she didn't hear to the Times group think. Ironically, 309 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,719 Speaker 1: she was hired to work at the paper in twenty 310 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:40,199 Speaker 1: seventeen because the news room at a twelve stack realized 311 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 1: that completely missed the mark on the twenty sixteen elections, 312 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: and it was feebly trying to win back the trust 313 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:50,399 Speaker 1: of conservatives. Well enough of that, and a striking resignation 314 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 1: letter to Salzburger, which she published on her website, Weiss wrote, quote, 315 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: but the lessons that ought to have followed the election, 316 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:02,959 Speaker 1: lessons about the important of understanding other Americans, the necessity 317 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,439 Speaker 1: of resisting tribalism, the centrality of the free exchange of 318 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,640 Speaker 1: ideas to a democratic society have not been learned. Instead, 319 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 1: a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps 320 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: especially at this paper. The truth isn't a process of 321 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,680 Speaker 1: collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened 322 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: view whose job is to inform everyone else. Now, as 323 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,439 Speaker 1: a historian, I can tell you what that is. That 324 00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: is Leninism. That is exactly what Lenin taught. It's exactly 325 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,600 Speaker 1: what they did at the Soviet Union, and it's exactly 326 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: what dun shall Pay learned when he went to the 327 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,679 Speaker 1: Lenin University in the twenties and learned how to be 328 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 1: a good solid Communist in the Leninist Stalinist tradition. Communists 329 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 1: believe in Jji and Pin would totally agree with the 330 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: left wind staff that it is the job of the 331 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:57,360 Speaker 1: elite to train the rest and correct them when they 332 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: fail to learn the lessons. Says perfectly Orwell's nineteen eighty 333 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,919 Speaker 1: four vision of tetotalitarianism, which I recommend everybody if you 334 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: want to understand where we're going and how sick it 335 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: is now whist. The same week was matched by Andrew Sullivan, 336 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: who's a columnist at New York Magazine, who expressed concern 337 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 1: that a woke culture is crowding out dissenting opinion. Also 338 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: left his post of July fourteen. By the way, he 339 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,720 Speaker 1: is not a conservative columnist. His editor in chief, David 340 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 1: Haskell wrote, quote Andrew Lyn I agreed that his editorial 341 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 1: project in the magazines, though overlapping in many ways, were 342 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 1: no longer the right match for each other now. Andrew 343 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: Sullivan is a center left writer, was one of the 344 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:49,160 Speaker 1: most effective and powerful gay writers in America. His men 345 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: I've debated before. I have enormous respect for him, but 346 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 1: he had found that even at New York Magazine there 347 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: was no space because he wasn't radical enough, and he 348 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: was willing to do exactly what he was told by 349 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 1: the radical left. Now, these are just a few examples 350 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: of how the radical left is controlling the media, which 351 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,399 Speaker 1: is why I describe it as a propaganda media not 352 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 1: a news media, and how they sense her political speech 353 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: instead of accepting dissenting opinions. Supposed journalists now who really 354 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: ought to be called propagandists, now rally for editors to 355 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,760 Speaker 1: be fired when points of view that differ from the 356 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,439 Speaker 1: radical consensus are allowed to be expressed. There are a 357 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,959 Speaker 1: range of other examples of how people have lost their 358 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 1: jobs because there are different viewpoints, and we're going to 359 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: get to them in a series of briefings. Are you're 360 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: going to be able to read all of them at 361 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: gain which three sixty dot com slash shut your mouth. 362 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: I think it's a very important project, and I think 363 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: you will be very sobered and very angered when you 364 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 1: realize how many Americans are now suffering because they thought 365 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: they were free, and they thought they were allowed to 366 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,199 Speaker 1: have their own opinion, and they thought this was a 367 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: country where you could speak up without fear. And as 368 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 1: you discover in area after area, we're now dominated by 369 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: totalitarians who controlled the universities, they control many of the 370 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: big corporations, they control the news media, and we are 371 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: in the fight of our lives to preserve the Constitution 372 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: and to preserve the liberties which we were guaranteed in 373 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: the deck Bush Independence. So I hope that you'll listen 374 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,640 Speaker 1: to the future, tell your friends and neighbors about this 375 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: whole series. I think it's very important that we arouse 376 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,480 Speaker 1: every American to understand that the very nature of their 377 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: constitutional liberty is now at risk.