1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,240 Speaker 1: This is Buck's first thoughts, the news you need to 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: you subscribe on the iHeart app for wherever you get 4 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: your podcasts. What's the first book you can remember reading 5 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: when you think back to the first author that you 6 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: could name? Who comes to mind? Sure a lot of 7 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 1: different answers out there, but for a good number of 8 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: the people listening to this across the country, doctor SEUs 9 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: is a likely bet. Doctor SEUs is among the most 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,879 Speaker 1: well known, probably the most well known children's author of 11 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 1: all time. And now we find out the extent to 12 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 1: which the cancel culture of the left has grown that 13 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: even Doctor SEUs is not safe from their grasp. Of 14 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: course not though right nobody can be allowed to send 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: the way. There's no body of work that's so important, 16 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: that's so timeless, that you will not see the left 17 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: apply the standards of wokeness with the ever evolving, shifting, changing, 18 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: and often duplicit as standards of wokeness. The six Doctor 19 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: Seuss books that will no longer be published today, according 20 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 1: to various news sources because of racist and insensitive imagery. 21 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: This is from Doctor Seus's Enterprises, so the company that 22 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,759 Speaker 1: owns it no longer wants to have to deal with 23 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: the possibility here of getting getting boycotted or anything else. 24 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 1: So they think that they have beaten the left, They've 25 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: beaten the wokeness to the punch, although I'm sure they 26 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,119 Speaker 1: were already receiving a lot of pressure and there's criticism. 27 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: I can hardly keep up with all the stories these days. 28 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: They had another voice actor on The Simpsons who just 29 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: came out to say he'll no longer be voicing a 30 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: character of color, a person of color character that's no 31 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: longer allowed, as you know, and people are supposed to 32 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: apologize for doing it in the first place. Now there's 33 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: so many of these stories. It's happening all the time. 34 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: You know, it's funny, isn't it. I thought that the 35 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: Biden administration, I thought the left, once they were in charge, 36 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: could at least give us a couple of months of 37 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 1: focusing on governance and important issues. But no, you see 38 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: what they do. You see that when you believe the 39 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: things that the left believes, you take action on it, 40 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: even when it's counterproductive, even when it's absurd, and when 41 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: it goes against core values of this country free speech 42 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: and freedom of expression are core values and shrine to 43 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 1: the First Amendment to the Constitution. There't these aren't trivialities, 44 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: these aren't small things. And never before in my lifetime 45 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 1: has free speech and freedom overall been under such sustained 46 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: assault from people who have adopted an ideology of sanctimoniousness 47 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: and oppression simultaneously. They think they're the good guys, and you, 48 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: if you don't agree with them, are the bad guys. 49 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: And that now even extends to children's books. Six Doctor Seus' 50 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: books no longer to be published, including and to Think 51 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran 52 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: the Zoo, Mckeligot's Pool, On Beyond Zebra, Scrambled Eggs, Super 53 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: and the Cat's Quizzer. This comes right after one day 54 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 1: after Joe Biden omitted Doctor SEUs from Read Across America Day, 55 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 1: which is usually held on the author's birthday on March second, 56 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: so it's Read Across America Day, and Joe Biden, the 57 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: Biden administration they got up a thought into this one. 58 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: You're gonna make sure that they show they prove their 59 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: woke bona fie days. These people are you could say 60 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: cultural Marxists, you could say they are neo Kamis. There's 61 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: all kinds of descriptions, but ultimately it comes from a 62 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 1: mindset overwhelmed with the propaganda of victimology. Here we are 63 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: in America. People are so incredibly fortunate to even be here. 64 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: This is such an amazing place. And I know a 65 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: lot of time on this show has spent criticizing what's 66 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: going wrong and what people in power are doing wrong. 67 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 1: That's because it's a political talk show. But I'm also 68 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 1: here to tell you that America is amazing. That's the 69 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 1: greatest country that has ever existed, and it's worth fighting 70 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: for because of all those things, and that you should 71 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: enjoy it as you can enjoy your life, spend time 72 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,719 Speaker 1: with your loved ones, get the most out of this 73 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: place that you can, and feel blessed in that process, 74 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: even though there are people that are trying to take 75 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: some of those blessings away from you. I'm aware of that, 76 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: and that's what we talk about here. But the Left 77 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: takes a very different approach, one of constant victimization, a 78 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: belief that there is oppression that is omnipresident in our society. 79 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 1: It is absolutely everywhere, and that means the only way 80 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: to deal with it is for government power and cultural 81 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: power to combine to suppress wrong think, to suppress ideas 82 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: that are disfavored by the ruling class, by the elites 83 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: at any given point in time. And here you have 84 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 1: doctor SEUs the latest with this. But I have to 85 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 1: tell you what you're seeing now with Amazon banning books, 86 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:33,919 Speaker 1: including academic works on things like transgenderism. Are people that 87 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 1: have spent years researching issues and want to present an 88 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: argument not allowed. Amazon now says that they will block 89 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: the sale of books that they find offensive or insensitive. 90 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:50,840 Speaker 1: If you can have culture, if you can have books, movies, 91 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 1: television shows that can be construed by someone somewhere as offensive, 92 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: you've essentially created the eradication of culture. In fact, the 93 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: only culture that you'll be left with is one that 94 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: defines the dominant group as the constant enemy, right, one 95 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: that picks one group that they're always it's always open 96 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: season on attacking and everything else. Everyone else has this 97 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,440 Speaker 1: constant protection that they can invoke of well, I'm part 98 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,840 Speaker 1: of the oppressed class. This is what the left does. 99 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: Isn't it fascinating how many people live in extreme wealth, 100 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: live an unbelievable splendor in America and are some of 101 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: the loudest voices for how hard and oppressive and bad 102 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,919 Speaker 1: this place is. It's stunning. Whether you're talking about you know, 103 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 1: Hollywood actors and celebrities, professional athletes. They enjoy looking down 104 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: on America while they benefit in ways that previous generations 105 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: of humanity around the globe would have thought were incomprehensible 106 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,600 Speaker 1: levels of freedom and wealth and an opportunity. But I 107 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 1: suppose everything is relative. You know, there's a concept called 108 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: hedonistic adaptation, and it has to do with once you 109 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: get used to something feeling good, once you have had 110 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: enough of, say living in a mansion, you know you 111 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: want three. Once you've been flying first class, you want 112 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: to fly private. Right, whatever benefits, whatever joys that you 113 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: can find in things, in actual possessions, or in goods 114 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 1: and services that you can buy, you get used to 115 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: it and you want more. And you see this with 116 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: the elites and the wealthy in America all the time. 117 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: It's never enough, and so they eventually reach a point 118 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: where the only real thing that matters to them is 119 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: the approval and the admiration of their peers. Essentially, ego 120 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: is all that's left. The only thing that is truly 121 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: unfillable is ego and the adoration of the crowd. And 122 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,119 Speaker 1: you see this with some very very wealthy people, someone 123 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 1: like Bill Gates, for example. I mean he finds he 124 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: finds an existential necessity not for the planet, for himself 125 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: in pushing this climate change nonsense. Because when you've been 126 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: close to or the richest man in the world for 127 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: the last thirty years, another house, another jet fanciest food 128 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: in the world, you know you can only wear one 129 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: suit at a time, you can only eat one meal 130 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: at a time. You can only be married at well, 131 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 1: I mean generally speaking, only be married at one person 132 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: at a time. Right, I mean, there's only so much 133 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: that can be done here based on material wealth. But 134 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: the ego is endless. The ego is endless, and that's 135 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:53,280 Speaker 1: why wokeness is this, this reservoir of vanity. You see, 136 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: these are people that have to do nothing, that have 137 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: to don't They don't take a difficult stand. It's the 138 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: opposite of that. They cover themselves in cheaply one glory 139 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 1: by throwing under the bus. Writers, authors, creators, leaders, heroes, warriors, 140 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: you name it, of the past, throw it all under 141 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: the bus. As though they're better than them because they 142 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 1: now have a new understanding of what's important and what's 143 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: right in society. You should also remember that they're not 144 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: seeking to replace this with anything that is worthwhile. That's 145 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: another problem. The art that is created in communist regimes 146 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 1: is always the most brutish, boring propaganda. There's a reason 147 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 1: for that, because for the mind to be truly free, 148 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: there has to be the opportunity to test boundaries. There 149 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: has to be the possibility of uncomfortable ideas, of uncomfortable truths, 150 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: even expressed in society. I often tell people with the 151 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,839 Speaker 1: work that I do, the truth is perhaps say, ironclad 152 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: defense against defamation. But the truth does not always work 153 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: in your favor. When you say it. People often don't 154 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 1: want to hear the truth. Truth can be an ugly thing, 155 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,839 Speaker 1: a difficult thing. In fact, a huge part of what 156 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: the Democrat Party does in America today is convinced people 157 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: who feel like they are disenfranchised, that they're left out, 158 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 1: that they have no agency in any of this, that 159 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: it's not their fault. You see, they haven't made any 160 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 1: bad decisions. They're not putting short term over long term. 161 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 1: There's no individual or personal discipline involved in where you 162 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: are or how your life is going. It's the other 163 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,320 Speaker 1: they're oppressing you. And maybe if we start banning more 164 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: books then things will even out. This is, of course preposterous, 165 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: doesn't work that way. But you have those who won't 166 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: take responsibility for themselves adhering to this, loving the hearing 167 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: of this message. And then you have those who have 168 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 1: done incredibly well, unbelo believably well, live in luxury and 169 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:08,320 Speaker 1: circumstances that kings of previous eras would have found unthinkable. 170 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: And what do they do. They pretend to be obsessed 171 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: with the plight of those who have less, out of 172 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: both a sense of guilt and a burning desire for 173 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:23,719 Speaker 1: superiority for other for those who don't hold the same beliefs. Right, 174 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:27,480 Speaker 1: I am better then, this is the virtue signaling idea. 175 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: I am better than those other people because I care 176 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: so much about those who have less. I don't do 177 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: anything for them. Of course, I don't help them. I 178 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,600 Speaker 1: don't speak honestly or truthfully to them. I pander, But 179 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: it makes me look good because the ego is endless, 180 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: and people that could have never in a million years 181 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: come up with something as timeless and creative as the 182 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: books of Doctor Seuss now find a way to make 183 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:54,839 Speaker 1: themselves feel tall and strong and brave by comparison when 184 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,679 Speaker 1: they're actually none of those things, and they're tearing down 185 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: the free culture that was the reason for all the 186 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: prosperity and all the benefits that we've had in this country. 187 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Make sure 188 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 189 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. One of the big problems 190 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: is that police are too often called into situations where 191 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 1: they should actually be the last resorts. So many activists 192 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: have said that we should find alternatives to cops as 193 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 1: first responders, you know, maybe healthcare professionals or community members. 194 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: And now the NYPD is saying, all right, I hear you, 195 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: but what about robot dogs. Wow, a robot dog. What 196 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:42,800 Speaker 1: a cool way for the police to say they have 197 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: too much money and should be defunded. And this robot 198 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 1: dog comes with tons of features. It's got cameras, it's 199 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: got a microphone, it's even got an extra knife that 200 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: it can plant on an unarmed body, all sorts of things. 201 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: But you've got to give props to the police for 202 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: how they're marketing the robots. Oh, look at our adorable dog. No, 203 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: it's a cup made out of steel. Like they can 204 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: call tear gas potty smoke. Doesn't mean it's going to 205 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: sting any less when they blast you with it. Here's 206 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:19,440 Speaker 1: a great example of ingratitude in America and practice. You 207 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: have Trevor Noah, who is a guy who lives in 208 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 1: a thirty million dollar mansion in bel Air. I'm serious, 209 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: thirty million dollar house, not a three million dollar house. 210 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 1: That's a really nice house. At thirty million dollar house, 211 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 1: Who's calling for the defunding of a police department where 212 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 1: the starting salary is forty two grand. They don't need money, 213 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: they don't need overtime, they don't need training. Defund them. 214 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:52,839 Speaker 1: Oh what do you think Trevor Noah, who is painfully 215 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:57,319 Speaker 1: unfunny and not talented, and I understand the market you 216 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 1: would say has rewarded him, Well, not really. A bunch 217 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: of media executives who decided, for whatever reason, wanted to 218 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 1: feel good about themselves in whatever way, thought, let's make 219 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 1: Trevor Noah a big deal in America by giving him 220 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: a TV show where he talks about American politics. And 221 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 1: he's not funny. He's not good at the job. He's 222 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: just not good at People that have seen him know this. 223 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 1: But put that aside for a second, because that's completely subjective, 224 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 1: and people can argue with me, and they can say 225 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 1: he's hilarious or whatever. Fine, he's a guy who's incredibly blessed, 226 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: and the moment that he heard something go bump in 227 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: the night in his thirty million dollar house in bel Air, 228 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: I can assure you he would be calling the police 229 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,520 Speaker 1: and he wouldn't want them to send a social worker. 230 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: He wouldn't want them to send a social worker. He 231 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: would want them to send armed law enforcement officers. But 232 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: you see, it's a more popular stance if you're on 233 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: the left now, to pretend that the problem Erica are 234 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 1: the cops. It's a more popular stance for celebrities to 235 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: say that this would be easy to fix, the problems 236 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,480 Speaker 1: of society would be easy to fix if only we 237 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: would send social workers instead of law enforcement officers. These 238 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: people don't know anything. These voices you hear in the media, 239 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 1: they don't understand law enforcement. They don't speak the truth 240 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 1: about the law enforcement incidents that are at the center 241 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: of the so called BLM movement, and when the truth 242 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: does come out, they don't share that because it never 243 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 1: really matters. Right. The best example of this is Mike Brown, 244 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 1: hands up, don't shoot. He did not get shot with 245 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: his hands up. He was charging a police officer. According 246 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: to several African American eyewitnesses and the report done by 247 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: Eric Holder as part of Obama as the head of 248 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: Obama's DOJ that's what the facts actually said. Still still 249 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: went with the movement there. I'm concerned for the future 250 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: of the city of Minneapolis. You know, the George Floyd 251 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:04,760 Speaker 1: there with Officer Derek Chauvin is going to be underway soon. 252 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: And if that goes in the direction I think it will, 253 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: which is there will not be a second degree murder 254 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 1: conviction I believe. If there is, I think that's outrageous. 255 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 1: There might be a lesser charge that he's convicted on. 256 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: I think that's possible. But if let's just say Officer 257 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: Chauvin ends up being cleared of all criminal charges, which 258 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: based on the autopsy report of what actually was the 259 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: cause of death or George Floyd, seems like a distinct possibility, 260 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: there will be. Right, You're in the freedom Hunt. Thanks 261 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: for listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast to get 262 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: the latest from Buck at buck sexton dot com. I 263 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: want to try and experiment with you now, in this 264 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: cancel culture, in this world of left wing domination of 265 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: social media, news media, and an entertainment in Hollywood. Think 266 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: about some thing that you could say, as a white 267 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:08,199 Speaker 1: male about white males that is derogatory, that is um, 268 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:14,200 Speaker 1: that is undermining, that is offensive, that would be considered 269 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,160 Speaker 1: a problem from the left's perspective. I mean, how far 270 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 1: can you actually go? I think it's an interesting, interesting 271 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 1: experiment to run in your in your own mind, because 272 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: you can only do this with white males. It is 273 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 1: only in America, the the the province, that is, it 274 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: is only the in the realm of white males, where 275 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,879 Speaker 1: there is nothing that can be said about white maleness 276 00:17:39,359 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: that is too offensive, too derogatory, too nasty. And in fact, 277 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: you get, as a white male, or anybody else for 278 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: that matter, you get a kind of social credit score 279 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: points added to you. You're a you're a better person. 280 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: And if you're wondering, Buck, what do you mean, how 281 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:03,360 Speaker 1: does this work in practice? Here's a phenomenal example of it. 282 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 1: You know, when you want MSNBC. If I went on 283 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 1: MSNBC and and wanted the audience to like me, there 284 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 1: are certain things that I would I would try to 285 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: work into the conversation no matter what we're talking about, 286 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:20,119 Speaker 1: and one of them would be a self deprecating and 287 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 1: self loathing attitude about white maleness. I can't change it's in. 288 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: These are immutable characteristics. Despite what the left thinks these days, 289 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 1: I am male. I am considered white. Now. I think 290 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 1: white as a categorization is also quite broad and in 291 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: some ways useless and vague. But yes, I am considered 292 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: to be of Caucasian skin tone. And that means that 293 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: that's that's what I'm dealing, that that's what I what 294 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: I am. You listen to John Brennan, the former CIA director, 295 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: and you hear a guys say this, and you know 296 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: that it's the equivalent of Jeb saying, please clap. I mean, 297 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 1: that's what John Brennan's doing here to the MSNBC audience. 298 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 1: It's embarrassing. Well he's embarrassed, but not of what he 299 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 1: should be. Play three. That's why we started with Katie 300 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,400 Speaker 1: Benner's great new reporting about the investigation to police officer 301 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 1: it renders you know, at best hypocritical, at worst cynical, 302 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 1: and falls any notion that the Republicans care about the 303 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: lives in the safety of law enforcement. Well, I must 304 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: say to Claire's point, I'm increasingly embarrassed to be a 305 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: white male these days and light of what I see 306 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:35,120 Speaker 1: of my other white male saying. But it just shows 307 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:38,919 Speaker 1: that with the very few exceptions like Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, 308 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: Adam Kinzingery, there are so few Republicans in Congress who 309 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: value truth, honesty, and whatever. Embarrassed to be a white male. 310 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: He throws that in there as a cheap applause line, 311 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: but this is really a mentality on the left. There's 312 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: this feeling of sad and a sense of transgressing when 313 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,520 Speaker 1: you're talking about white males. We've you've done something wrong, 314 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 1: You've somehow violated something. You don't you didn't do anything, 315 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 1: but your white maleness is a problem. If you're a leftist, 316 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: if you're a Democrat today, you actually believe this stuff 317 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: and then think, do what I had said. You have 318 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 1: the experiment in your head of what can you say? 319 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:26,880 Speaker 1: How far if I were to sit here and tell 320 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:31,919 Speaker 1: you that you know, white males are the cause of 321 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 1: oppression and wars all of the world, that white males 322 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,040 Speaker 1: are are the cause of racism, white males are the 323 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 1: cause of sexism and the patriarchy. All these things not 324 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:46,880 Speaker 1: just a list of what the left believes. The left 325 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: believes these things they cause the patriarchy, they cause racism. 326 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: In fact, it's really not possible for them to be 327 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,760 Speaker 1: racism except white males against other people. That's the which 328 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: is crazy if you know anything about the world, and 329 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:58,959 Speaker 1: racism all over the world that doesn't even involve anybody 330 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:03,119 Speaker 1: who's white. Buttheless, there's a lot of a lot of 331 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,159 Speaker 1: this belief out there, and they make it very clear. Now, 332 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: assume for a moment that you're that you're talking about. 333 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,160 Speaker 1: If you were going to talk about any group other 334 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:18,399 Speaker 1: than white males, any racial group, gender group, would you 335 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 1: be able to get away with this? In fact, would 336 00:21:21,240 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: it be career enhancing for somebody to sit up, sit 337 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 1: up on a national TV channel like MSNBC and trash 338 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 1: their identity group or mock it or make fun of it. No, 339 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,400 Speaker 1: of course, And if anyone else not from the group 340 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 1: did it, their career would be over. Of course, it 341 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 1: would be all done. You'd be run out of polite society. 342 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,680 Speaker 1: How did we get to this point? Well, as I've 343 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: been saying to you, it is part of the messaging 344 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: campaign that the left has had for many, many years 345 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 1: now that you can get cheap points, cheap virtue signaling 346 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 1: points if only you embrace this anti white male, anti 347 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: patriarchy rhetoric as a white male or as anybody else. 348 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,320 Speaker 1: This is now the culture, This is the way people 349 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: think about this. I mean, if you turn on you know, 350 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: comedians these days, what will comedians make fun of Republicans, hillbillies, 351 00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 1: white males? That that's what you get. That's what comedians 352 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,639 Speaker 1: think their job is. They certainly will not make fun 353 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,400 Speaker 1: of any other groups. If they do, the woke mob 354 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 1: comes after them. And even if they're making fun of groups, 355 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 1: and we all used to know the difference. As I've 356 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 1: been saying to you, comedy has been has been killed 357 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 1: off by the left. They say, will all the comedians 358 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: are liberals? Yeah, for the same reason that all the 359 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 1: college professors are liberals, because they're a bunch of extremists 360 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 1: who won't allow anybody else with different ideas to be 361 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:52,479 Speaker 1: in the same field. Right, because they're absolutists. Right, did 362 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 1: the Communists take over the Soviet Union, did Stalin and 363 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: his inner circle or are they in charge because their 364 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 1: ideas were so good, you know, were they so much 365 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: more widely beloved, you know, the Bolsheviks than the Mensheviks. 366 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,760 Speaker 1: Or then the reform movement that was under way at 367 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: the time of the Russian Revolution, that evolved the constitutional 368 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 1: democracy movement, but no one even remembers that anymore. They 369 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 1: were trying to get there. But no, of course, not right. 370 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: You're supposed to forget. You're supposed to forget all of that. 371 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 1: These people, because of their belief system, they think that 372 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: there can't be opposing ideas because it's all rooted in 373 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:39,920 Speaker 1: this obsession with a belief of absolute truth in politics 374 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 1: and in culture, I mean, which is just it's so 375 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 1: counter it's just so counterintuitive for all the rest of us. 376 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: Of course, culture needs to be different, and culture is messy, 377 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,439 Speaker 1: and this is why they get these ideas like cultural appropriation. 378 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:56,959 Speaker 1: It's an absurdity. There's no such thing. They will tell 379 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,879 Speaker 1: you there is, and they will say that, you know, 380 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: you can't be a white person who cooks Asian food, 381 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: for example, to which I always point out, Asia is 382 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 1: a very big place and everybody in Asia. Every country 383 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,639 Speaker 1: in Asia has borrowed from regional cuisines. And you know, 384 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,640 Speaker 1: there is no straight line here to even talk about, 385 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: but they pretend that there is. It's all about power. 386 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,640 Speaker 1: It's about transferring into the hands of a very few, 387 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,080 Speaker 1: not just the ability to dictate your actions through government 388 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:31,159 Speaker 1: and cultural and private sector coercion now, but also to 389 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: trying to control your thoughts. There are people who are 390 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 1: obsessed with control as a general principle, controlling others, and 391 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: they desire also at some level to be controlled themselves. Right, 392 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 1: and only at the very very top are there those 393 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,640 Speaker 1: who are so in love with their own power, their 394 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,440 Speaker 1: authority that they just wish to increase the control that 395 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: they have on everyone else and then have absolute freedom 396 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: to do whatever they want themselves. That that's the end 397 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: stage of authoritarian leftism today. That's where these commies want 398 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: to take us. And you see this in the way 399 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 1: they approach so many of these issues. What cultural additions 400 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: have the haves the left made in recent years that 401 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,919 Speaker 1: you think will be enduring will be timeless? What are 402 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: they doing that is inspiring beautiful worthwhile? No, they tear 403 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: down everything else before them and they hold themselves up 404 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: and they act as though somehow this is going to 405 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: make this a better country. By running around like powermat 406 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 1: hall monitors, this is going to improve American society. People 407 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,880 Speaker 1: do at their core have have a yearning to be free. 408 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: They can suppress it, and it can be it can 409 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 1: be locked up essentially by those who would rather then 410 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 1: be controlled. And this is why a lot of belief systems, 411 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: a lot of political systems, focus so much on that 412 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: absolute control. We're supposed to have a system rooted in 413 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: individuality and individual freedom, and it is under assaults from 414 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 1: the collectives left. And I know you could say, all, 415 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: come on, some children's books. What's the big deal. They're 416 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: actually banning books, folks. Can we just understand the left 417 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: is ascendant right now and what are they doing. They 418 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,160 Speaker 1: are banning books. They're not banning mind comp by the way, 419 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: that you can still get on Amazon. I checked. But 420 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:31,360 Speaker 1: they are banning books that say that maybe giving hormone 421 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:37,439 Speaker 1: blocking medicines, to hormone blocking agents to eleven twelve year 422 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: olds who think they're transgender, and it is think, by 423 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: the way, there's no physical manifestation of this, that that's 424 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: hate speech, it's hate. I've always been opposed to hate 425 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: speech codes and rules because I knew how this would go. 426 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,400 Speaker 1: The slope is in fact slippery, and this is what's 427 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: happened on social media too. At first it was terms 428 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: of service. You can't say mean things to people, you 429 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: can attack them and you know, put their personal data 430 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: online and docks them. All Right, well, some of that 431 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 1: seems reasonable. Then it's as well, but also we don't 432 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: allow hate speech. What does that mean? Does advocating for 433 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 1: the enforcement of US federal law and ur southern borders 434 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 1: that hate speech talked? A lot of Democrats will say 435 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 1: it is they're controlling so much of the society around them, 436 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: and we find ourselves playing defense these days. I think 437 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: the first step is understanding why what they're doing on 438 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:34,159 Speaker 1: a philosophical level is both wrong and destructive. This does 439 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: not make America a better place, and it doesn't even 440 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: have the outcome that they wanted to, which is that 441 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 1: we are all more respectful of each other. No respect 442 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: comes from an understanding. You know, it's really not possible 443 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: to have respect in society without also some level of 444 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: wisdom and judgment. And if people can't understand that, they're 445 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,159 Speaker 1: not always going to like what others say. They're not 446 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 1: going to like other research and the ideas that they 447 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 1: put forward in society. All that happens is they force, 448 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: they suppress freedoms and create a backlash. And it's one 449 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: that we're going to be dealing with, I think in 450 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:20,160 Speaker 1: unforseeable ways right now. But in time will say, of course, 451 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: of course, the book bannings and eventually I'm sure book burnings. 452 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 1: I mean, the stuff that they're doing in this country 453 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,040 Speaker 1: is unthinkable, the cultural suppression. Of course, it led to 454 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:35,119 Speaker 1: some awful outcomes, but right now they can't see it 455 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 1: because they're just drunk with power and self righteousness. One 456 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: of the one of the great benefits of being a 457 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: brainless leftist is that you can just bathe in sanctimoniousness 458 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 1: with a tweet with a BLM hashtag on your social 459 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,920 Speaker 1: media page, all of a sudden, without doing anything or 460 00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 1: earning anything. You're a good person. It's the single powerful 461 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: selling point of American leftism today. This is the Buck 462 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 1: Sexton Show podcast. Follow Buck on Facebook, for Instagram and Twitter. 463 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,560 Speaker 1: No doubt the virus is in the air. There is 464 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 1: no doubt that you can catch it if you inhale 465 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: air that someone else has exhaled, and as Peers described 466 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: beautifully the exercising jogga, the puffing and panting jogger, you 467 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,959 Speaker 1: can feel their breath come and you can sometimes actually 468 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,880 Speaker 1: feel yourself inhale it. So there's no doubt that there 469 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: is a danger there. I do agree that wet soggy 470 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 1: masks are not a good idea, but for goodness sake, 471 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: I've been for a run this morning. Not only did 472 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: I put my T shirt in the wash, but I 473 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: put my mask in the wash as well. So the 474 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: fact that they get contaminated, it's not a reason for 475 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,760 Speaker 1: not wearing them. It's not that you're going to do 476 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 1: anything with that mask apart from wash it. The other 477 00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: thing to say is that forty percent of COVID cases 478 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,080 Speaker 1: happen by catching it from people who have no symptoms. 479 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 1: So you're jogging along, you think you're fine, and then 480 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 1: the next day you develop symptoms of COVID. But you've 481 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:14,320 Speaker 1: actually breathed that COVID onto someone, perhaps you know, an 482 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: old lady walking a dog or something like that. So 483 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 1: I think it's really important to be here. Let's bring 484 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: in you're jogging along, you think you're fine, and then 485 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: you breathe on an old lady and you've just murdered 486 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 1: her and should span the rest of your life, probably 487 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: in a dark prison cell somewhere because you wouldn't wear 488 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: a mask like doctor Greenley of Britain on this Piers 489 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,920 Speaker 1: Mortgage show. I don't even know what it's called. Told 490 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: you too, and all of us sad in my accents. 491 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:50,720 Speaker 1: Moving it's like it's going more into the poorer areas 492 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,320 Speaker 1: of London, you know what I mean. So, yeah, this 493 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: is when you've got a British darker. You're telling you 494 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 1: that you should wear a mask when you're running alone 495 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:04,240 Speaker 1: on TV. Now, she will not be censored or silenced 496 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: by social media or anybody else for being a moron. 497 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: They're just gonna say, yeah, that's right. Whatever protects people. 498 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 1: But there the the theoretical basis that she lines up 499 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: here for you. Getting the virus is like a lightning 500 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: strike fear. I can't tell you it's not possible. But 501 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 1: all the actual research on the epidemiology of this virus 502 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: is is long duration, close proximity indoors. That's how you 503 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 1: get this meaning, that's where the risk is, right, that's 504 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,840 Speaker 1: the that's the concern. You know, there's always a concern. 505 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: You could be going for a jog, you could step 506 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: on a hypodermic needle and you know you might get 507 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:50,520 Speaker 1: you know, hepatitis. But people don't run around worried about that. 508 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: They worry if they're actually intervened as drug users, about 509 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 1: getting blood born of blood borne pathogens like that. Right, 510 00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: that's that's a reasonable You tell people, hey, don't use 511 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,600 Speaker 1: dirty needles. You don't say, hey, be careful because there's 512 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 1: a one a one in a million, one in a 513 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: billion chance when you go for a job in the 514 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: park you might step on a dirty needle. It's possible. 515 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I can't tell you it's not possible, right, 516 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: of course it is. But is that what you're worried about. 517 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 1: We have seen as part of the mass panic induced, 518 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 1: the mass hysteria induced by our mass media has resulted 519 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: in the complete elimination of a reasonable understanding of risk 520 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,080 Speaker 1: in our lives. And this doctor is a perfect example 521 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,360 Speaker 1: of it. You can listen to me, or you can 522 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: listen to doctor Fauci, who says, of course New York 523 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: did a great job dealing with the pandemic. Cromo particularly 524 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 1: did a great job highest death toll in the country 525 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,000 Speaker 1: after New Jersey, which is basically just a province of 526 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: New York in terms of the population dispersal here and 527 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,560 Speaker 1: how it works at the virus here's doctor Fouchi you 528 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: play twenty. The CDC will be coming out within the 529 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: next few weeks, maybe even sooner with some guidelines about 530 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 1: what people who are vaccinated. And I think, and I 531 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 1: know you're referring Dana to people who are doubly vaccinated 532 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 1: fourteen days out, they're protected, they have that ninety four 533 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,920 Speaker 1: to nine protection. What can they do? I'm very certain 534 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,720 Speaker 1: and we've discussed this, and you're right. I don't want 535 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: to get ahead of the guidelines because the CDC wants 536 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: to do things that are science based. If you can't 537 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:23,960 Speaker 1: get the science, you've got to maybe you as modeling, 538 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,800 Speaker 1: and in addition to modeling, you use good professional, common 539 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: sense judgment. They'll be coming out with that. But one 540 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 1: of the things that I think is going to become 541 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:36,680 Speaker 1: clear that if you have individuals adults who are vaccinated 542 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 1: to people that are doubly vaccinated and are protected, then 543 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: you can do things that we weren't talking about before. 544 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 1: You could have dinner in a home without masks on. 545 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 1: You could have friends who you know are doubly vaccinated 546 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 1: and are protected together there once you're double vaccinity says, 547 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,400 Speaker 1: you could have dinner in a home, a private home. 548 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,120 Speaker 1: I hope you've been doing that all along, folks, early do. 549 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 1: This is Buck's first thoughts. The news you need to 550 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,120 Speaker 1: get for your day in forty five minutes. Make sure 551 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,799 Speaker 1: you subscribe on the iHeart app or wherever you get 552 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 1: your podcasts. It's Harsani time. We got our friend David 553 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: Harsani in the mix. He is at National Review dot com. 554 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 1: Seen your writer there, David? What's going on much? How 555 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: are you, you know, getting getting used to what it's 556 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 1: like to have our our democrat overlords in place here. 557 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: It's every bit is annoying, frustrating and point and uh 558 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 1: pointless as I thought it would be. But let's let's 559 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 1: do this this first, because I've been talking today a 560 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 1: fair amount about the the canceling of I know it's 561 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 1: only six books, but they're canceling children's books now. He 562 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,320 Speaker 1: wrote that it's fascinating to me that people can't stand 563 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: against the book burners without making about Fox or conservatives 564 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 1: and even if geisl was a racist, meaning uh, doctor Seuss, 565 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,520 Speaker 1: it doesn't change anything. Roldal was an anti semi and 566 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,320 Speaker 1: I still wouldn't want people to stop publishing his books 567 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,919 Speaker 1: explaining his arm for a long time. I mean, free 568 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,120 Speaker 1: speech is not contingent or your belief in free speech 569 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: and in an open society isn't contingent on the opinions themselves. 570 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,160 Speaker 1: Either you believe that free speech is a neutral principle 571 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:22,600 Speaker 1: or you don't. Now, people don't have to publish a book. 572 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,600 Speaker 1: But if they're banning a book because it's insensitive, and 573 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,359 Speaker 1: then even the people who are are against that, meaning 574 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,759 Speaker 1: you know, left wing people, they only have to make 575 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,080 Speaker 1: the case that doctor Zeus wasn't you know, deep inside 576 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,399 Speaker 1: he wasn't a racist. It doesn't matter. There are plenty 577 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,920 Speaker 1: of books we read from people who are racists or 578 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,879 Speaker 1: who had opinions in the time that would not work 579 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,840 Speaker 1: today for us. That doesn't diminish their work. There's a 580 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,640 Speaker 1: million books we can ban right now. I was just 581 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 1: rereading one of my favorite books, All the King's Men, 582 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,680 Speaker 1: and the end word is used throughout it. But it's 583 00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,799 Speaker 1: not a racist book. I know, there's weird to say 584 00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,720 Speaker 1: it's a book of the time in Louisiana and thirties, 585 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,520 Speaker 1: and that's the way that people spoke in those days. 586 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:09,040 Speaker 1: This is a never ending, big damdlist you're going to have, 587 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 1: and the left windows they can't even say we're shoom Bannett. 588 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 1: Instead they're talking about how all doctor Susie who caress 589 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,440 Speaker 1: that would do with it. But they can't just get 590 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,080 Speaker 1: themselves to be on the right side of something like this. 591 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 1: So that's just a note. I think it shows it 592 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,040 Speaker 1: shows the power of the woke narrative that there are 593 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,360 Speaker 1: so many people who are making a living in the 594 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 1: realm of free expression and free speech or what should 595 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: be that realm. And if you're look, it's very straightforward. 596 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 1: If you're somebody who's a big Biden supporter and Biden voter, 597 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:46,480 Speaker 1: and you work in news media, any kind of communications media, 598 00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,480 Speaker 1: you basically, I mean, I know there are some exceptions 599 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:51,640 Speaker 1: that we know who they are, the prominent ones, but 600 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,120 Speaker 1: you basically shut your damn mouth and go along with 601 00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:58,200 Speaker 1: all this cancelation stuff, even though you're supposed to be 602 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,200 Speaker 1: the people who would speak out most fervently against it. 603 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:02,960 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure you've been following this thing at 604 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,359 Speaker 1: the New York Times, where the science reporter forty plus 605 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,320 Speaker 1: years was fired for using the N word in a 606 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,600 Speaker 1: descriptive way, not not not not insulting anyone with it, 607 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,920 Speaker 1: but asking a student about it. And he was fired. 608 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,840 Speaker 1: And this he's put up like fully long blog posts 609 00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,239 Speaker 1: detailing what happened, and it's just it's this. I don't 610 00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,279 Speaker 1: know if it's more like nineteen eighty four or it's 611 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,800 Speaker 1: more like Kafka's the Trial or something, but it's just 612 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,359 Speaker 1: insane to read. And I don't even know how people 613 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,839 Speaker 1: can confunction, especially creative people are writers, or people are 614 00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:37,440 Speaker 1: supposedly thinking for themselves, can can function in that kind 615 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:41,719 Speaker 1: of stifling intellectual environment. I think I think it's sad 616 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,120 Speaker 1: for the New York Times. I think it's sad for 617 00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,160 Speaker 1: us in general. I've asked people this, what what, for example, 618 00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,719 Speaker 1: should be the sanction against somebody who is a court 619 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,000 Speaker 1: stadiographer or is she supposed to or he's supposed to 620 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 1: make you know edits in real time? If if you know, 621 00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,759 Speaker 1: if you're if you're reading back, what somebody you know? 622 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,880 Speaker 1: What about a detect if a detective who's saying this 623 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,800 Speaker 1: is what I heard the suspects say before the shooting happened, 624 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,839 Speaker 1: is he supposed to be bleeped or is he going 625 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,759 Speaker 1: to actually be canceled and fired for quoting words that 626 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:13,719 Speaker 1: he heard in the context of a criminal investigation. But 627 00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,120 Speaker 1: you start to go into this realm of straight crazy 628 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,560 Speaker 1: town and another thing I think is really problematic. And 629 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,000 Speaker 1: nobody else will say this when you're going into the 630 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:27,360 Speaker 1: banning of words, but only some people aren't allowed to 631 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,400 Speaker 1: say the words other people are. This is really just 632 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,920 Speaker 1: a power dynamic. I mean, this is actually something that 633 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,319 Speaker 1: people should reject on a principle. It's not like it's 634 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,719 Speaker 1: a ban on a word because if it has ever 635 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,640 Speaker 1: heard or utter. I mean in some context, words that 636 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,399 Speaker 1: are banned for some people are celebrated in others, as 637 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,520 Speaker 1: we all know. And I think that this is a 638 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,959 Speaker 1: rule that really is just about making It's just about 639 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:52,480 Speaker 1: making some people bend the knee to the constantly changing 640 00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,160 Speaker 1: whims of the left. It doesn't actually protect anyone or 641 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,960 Speaker 1: make it. I mean, everyone understands that using an ethnic 642 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 1: slur or using a meeting word about somebody's immutable characteristic 643 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,880 Speaker 1: is a grotesque and a moral thing to do. But 644 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,640 Speaker 1: this goes way beyond that into even the repetition of 645 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 1: somebody else saying the words specifically to understand what the 646 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,920 Speaker 1: word was, is now a cancellable offense. Yeah, you make 647 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,319 Speaker 1: a great point on the Court's demograph. For if now 648 00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,279 Speaker 1: we have to board to the soul of whoever is 649 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,080 Speaker 1: using whatever word and divine or try to figure out 650 00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,320 Speaker 1: their intent, that's going to be a rough road. And 651 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 1: as you say, certain people are empowered or bestowed with 652 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,800 Speaker 1: the power to decide who's using it correctly and who isn't. 653 00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,800 Speaker 1: I mean, then it's just about power. Now, there's already 654 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,239 Speaker 1: certain words have stigma attached to them. We don't use 655 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,280 Speaker 1: them and we don't say them. A normal, well adjusted 656 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,760 Speaker 1: people don't use these words in a way to insult 657 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,640 Speaker 1: other people. But you know, in the end, even if 658 00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:56,960 Speaker 1: they do that, it doesn't mean they have to work 659 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,360 Speaker 1: at the New York Times. But are we going to, like, 660 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,600 Speaker 1: let's say doctor SEUs used those words in the past, 661 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:05,200 Speaker 1: that we're gonna now get rid of his books everywhere 662 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,239 Speaker 1: because he was that kind of person. It seems just 663 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:12,120 Speaker 1: these standards are Listen. I mentioned this before, but literally 664 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:16,759 Speaker 1: I was just thinking about all the books Pallion Chuck 665 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000 Speaker 1: Chuck Palinchuck wrote The Fight Club with a book that 666 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,840 Speaker 1: I love. I mean, it is has misogynistic characters in it. 667 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,719 Speaker 1: So what are we going to do? Do we know 668 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,680 Speaker 1: that he is in a misogynist Now, I'd have to 669 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,560 Speaker 1: know and like meet him before I know if I'm 670 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,920 Speaker 1: to publish his book. You can't have these kind of 671 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,240 Speaker 1: standards in society. It doesn't work, especially in our artistically. 672 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,239 Speaker 1: Remember twenty thirty years ago, you know, it was the 673 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:38,400 Speaker 1: last who was always like, we're going to ban books 674 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,520 Speaker 1: in libraries. They were the ones always concerned about it. 675 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,480 Speaker 1: Was in the Patriot Actor. Remember it was such a 676 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:45,080 Speaker 1: big deal that the government would know what books you're 677 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,840 Speaker 1: taking out. And now they're perfectly fine with it, or 678 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,279 Speaker 1: they won't say anything, which is bad enough for someone 679 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,880 Speaker 1: who's a journalist. We're speaking of David Harsani. He is 680 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,040 Speaker 1: a senior writer of National Review, and David, I wanted 681 00:40:55,040 --> 00:41:02,000 Speaker 1: to get your take on the Noble the changing malleable 682 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:03,759 Speaker 1: as the word I was really think of the malleable 683 00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:09,200 Speaker 1: journalistic ethics of CNN as an organization, a more specifically 684 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,080 Speaker 1: Chris Cuomo. Look, I understand this. I don't care what 685 00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,320 Speaker 1: my job is, what I'm doing. I wouldn't be on 686 00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:18,360 Speaker 1: TV trashing a family member. And I mean up to 687 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:19,960 Speaker 1: the point where they could say, you know you do 688 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:21,960 Speaker 1: this or else, and I'd say, I'll take the rls 689 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:23,920 Speaker 1: like that's just a It's a point of honor and 690 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,680 Speaker 1: pride for me, and I wouldn't do it. However, if 691 00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:31,120 Speaker 1: I were holding myself out as a journalist, I would 692 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:36,280 Speaker 1: also have shied away from doing a propaganda variety hour 693 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,200 Speaker 1: in favor of a politician during a pandemic because he 694 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:44,080 Speaker 1: was my brother. And I think that CNN should have 695 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:49,600 Speaker 1: known that too. As a quote news organization, Yeah, they're 696 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:52,400 Speaker 1: not a news organization. They're just kind of this corrupt 697 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:57,480 Speaker 1: institution that pretends to do journalists and the worst of 698 00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,600 Speaker 1: all the worst MSNBC because they put tend not to 699 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,680 Speaker 1: be on the left, which is there is a propaganda unit. 700 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,880 Speaker 1: But more than that, with Chris Cuomo, they keep pretending 701 00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,439 Speaker 1: that the problem is that he isn't covering what's going 702 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,320 Speaker 1: on now with his brother. No, the problem is that 703 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,960 Speaker 1: he covered up for his brother for a year. He 704 00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,120 Speaker 1: never should. As you mentioned, I would never go on 705 00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,239 Speaker 1: their badmouth with my brother, even if it was true, 706 00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,840 Speaker 1: I would I would just report something else. But the 707 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,600 Speaker 1: idea Lord wants that. I don't think any normal people 708 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,759 Speaker 1: wanted to do that. They wanted him not to act, 709 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,440 Speaker 1: as you say in this Variety Hour, covering up for 710 00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:38,040 Speaker 1: a guy who was sending people to die in nursing homes. 711 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,520 Speaker 1: And for me, listen, I think that these accusations against 712 00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,120 Speaker 1: Cuomo are serious. I hope he's afforded to due process 713 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:48,960 Speaker 1: that liberals never give conservatives like Bread Kavanaugh. They're serious allegations, 714 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,759 Speaker 1: but the using government to kill people because even more 715 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,040 Speaker 1: serious allegation, and people still aren't talking about it, even 716 00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,160 Speaker 1: the left, which is now supposedly you know, the reason, 717 00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,080 Speaker 1: of course is time of why they don't care aback 718 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,759 Speaker 1: Cuomo now, But even they are not really getting into 719 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,600 Speaker 1: his worst the worst sins and how he acted like 720 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:10,400 Speaker 1: a dictator basically and you know, destroyed the lives of 721 00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:14,160 Speaker 1: many people. So just to go back, Chris Cuomo's problem 722 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,400 Speaker 1: is not the coverage, as you mentioned, but the not 723 00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,200 Speaker 1: the I mean the not not covering, but the coverage itself. 724 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:24,000 Speaker 1: And I have to say that this this idea that 725 00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,719 Speaker 1: the media was honest in the way that it was 726 00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:31,000 Speaker 1: portraying Governor Cuomo in the past. I mean, I know 727 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,640 Speaker 1: that that's not true, because you and I were having 728 00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:38,560 Speaker 1: conversations six months ago about the gross, slobbering love affair 729 00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,840 Speaker 1: that the mainstream media was having, a corporate media was 730 00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,480 Speaker 1: having with Cuomo as the governor of New York. And 731 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,600 Speaker 1: I also put it in my many, many, many exhibits 732 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:52,160 Speaker 1: of what a complete jackass doctor Fauci is and what awful, 733 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:56,320 Speaker 1: awful judgment he has. He was pointing to Andrew Cuomo 734 00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:59,560 Speaker 1: as the gold standard. I mean, what else do you 735 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,520 Speaker 1: have to If this guy was my private physician, I 736 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,719 Speaker 1: would never I wouldn't even go let him, you know, 737 00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,279 Speaker 1: hit me on the need to check my reflexes, Like 738 00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,239 Speaker 1: I would go nowhere near this guy. And he's still 739 00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:16,080 Speaker 1: allowed to make all these policies. He literally said the words, 740 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,520 Speaker 1: this is the way to do it, where he's done 741 00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:20,160 Speaker 1: it the right way, and the rest of the country 742 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,640 Speaker 1: should follow. Why doesn't anyone ask him about that? Why 743 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,360 Speaker 1: doesn't anyone ask him how he feels about that, and 744 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:27,040 Speaker 1: why he made another big giant mistake in the past. 745 00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,840 Speaker 1: No one, no one, no one challenges that guy with 746 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:34,440 Speaker 1: any access. But yeah, we were talking about this. Probably 747 00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,359 Speaker 1: I don't know when exactly, but probably an April already, right, 748 00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:42,000 Speaker 1: I mean, there were some local reporters that noted that 749 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,399 Speaker 1: he had fudged the numbers on the on the deaths 750 00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,000 Speaker 1: at nursing homes way back in I think it was 751 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,320 Speaker 1: April or may. I think they were at the Associated 752 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:54,320 Speaker 1: Press and some other organization in Albany. People knew. The 753 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:58,080 Speaker 1: main main media, the political media, the big time Chris 754 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,760 Speaker 1: Colombos of the world and everyone was on TV covered 755 00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,600 Speaker 1: it up for him, and they wouldn't report it, and 756 00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,880 Speaker 1: they ignored it, and uh, you know, and now now 757 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,880 Speaker 1: they pretend that never happened. When I ever asked to 758 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:09,960 Speaker 1: answer for those things in the media, they just go on. 759 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:15,040 Speaker 1: They make giant mistakes. They literally cost lives. Maybe it 760 00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,160 Speaker 1: cost lives in this instance, or maybe then cost lives. 761 00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,600 Speaker 1: But they covered up something that was you know, that 762 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:24,239 Speaker 1: might have had a lot to do with the high 763 00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,720 Speaker 1: death tolls in New York frankly so, and that spread 764 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,520 Speaker 1: from there to the rest of the country. By the way, 765 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,520 Speaker 1: even though I don't you know, I don't know that 766 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,760 Speaker 1: that's exactly true. We can't know. I think the virus 767 00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,359 Speaker 1: was going to go through America anyway, But the point 768 00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,040 Speaker 1: is that they did not cover Donald Trump with that tone, 769 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,800 Speaker 1: or De Santis or any Republicans. So it's just completely 770 00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,719 Speaker 1: misleading reporting that that was a year long thing and 771 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:50,640 Speaker 1: now that we're supposed to reward them because they finally 772 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:55,439 Speaker 1: decided to go after Andrew Cormo when it doesn't matter 773 00:45:55,560 --> 00:46:00,439 Speaker 1: for Democrats anymore. David Harsan everybody National Review dot com 774 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,800 Speaker 1: for his latest David, thanks so much for joining U.