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Episode One Hundred Fifty One: Animal House · The Death Of Journalism

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Welcome to episode number one hundred and fifty one of the Death of Journalism podcast.
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My name is John Zigler. I'm your host on today's show. The
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latest in the college campus protests is marked by some patriotic pushback and media hypocrisy.
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Is free speech under attack and the effort to protect Jewish people. The
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New York Times makes some startling admissions, and Tiger Woods inadvertently reveals that his
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claim of suffering racism is surely false. This episode of the podcast may set
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a record for the number of different stories I plan on touching on, so
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because of that, I may be slightly abbreviated in my analysis of each of
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them. Otherwise, this may be a three or four hour podcast, which
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we would like to avoid, so keep that in mind as I go through
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all of the different stories. In episode number one hundred and fifty one,
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we're going to begin with the tide seemingly having shifted in the contagion of anti
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Israel campus protests. Counter protests have gained traction in the last few days or
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a week or so, and social media fame and maybe even some infamy may
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have played a role in that counter protest and the tide having shifted. We're
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going to get to all of that as we go through the latest developments.
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But this morning, as of this taping, Columbia University announced that it is
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officially canceling its graduation ceremonies because of the protests. And I really don't understand
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this on so many levels. Seemingly the protests have been curbed, although not
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totally eliminated, and their graduation is until May fifteenth, that was when it
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was scheduled for. And I can't stand this cancelation nation phenomenon, especially over
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stupidity. But I really can't stand when things get canceled way before they need
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to be. Now. I get that there's travel involved, and people have
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to have noticed that this event that they've been looking forward to isn't going to
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happen, but it's just flat out embarrassing and absurd and such an indication of
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our broken academia that Columbia can't even have a graduation ceremony because of these protests
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put on by a very few number of students, probably helped by outside forces.
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Many of the people participating weren't even Columbia students. And how enraged must
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you be if you're a Columbia student, or especially a Columbia parent that has
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spent an awful lot of money to put your kid through an allegedly prestigious school,
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and then the same class that got their high school graduations destroyed get their
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college graduations completely obliterated due to liberal stupidity. And whether or not any of
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these people are going to figure this out, I have no way of knowing.
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You know, I already indicated that when it came to USC's graduation ceremonies
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that my good friend Matt Lauer, former Today Show host and a liberal,
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was sounding much more conservative, and his son seemed to be sounding more conservative
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in the reaction to what was happening because of all this insanity. But I
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have no way of knowing just how much of a mark any of this is
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making on the cultural and political landscape. But Columbia has been the epicenter of
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this, and Columbia Law School became a major part of the new story in
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the last few days because their law review requested or demanded that final exams be
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canceled because of all this, because of the distress that this was going to
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cause on people who were going to have to take final exams. I mean,
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you can't make this stuff up. It's a parody, it's a joke.
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And it was best articulated the absurdity of all this by a Columbia law
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graduate, Dan Abrams, a guy who I used to work for, a
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guy I considered to be a friend, a guy on whose TV show I
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periodically appear on News Nation, And so I want to play Dan's reaction about
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two minutes long to the news that law students at his alma mater just feel
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like they're under too much pressure from the protests to go through with final exams.
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And here's what that sounded like. We've just learned that the student editors
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of the Columbia University Law Review, which is the premier law students are on
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the Law Review right They put out a statement calling on the law school to
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cancel exams. Not because they're concerned about the safety of Jewish students on campus
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right now, but the anti Israel students are apparently traumatized by police having broken
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up their illegal encampment. I am a not so proud graduate right now of
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the Columbia Law School. The statement reads, we urge the law school to
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cancel exams and give it all students passing grades for their work throughout the semester.
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All right, well that's a great start, right, which is we
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just think everyone should be able to get the same grade. We should all
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pass. And they say the violence we witnessed last night has irrevocably shaken many
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of us on the review. We know this to be the same for a
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majority of our classmates. Videos have circulated of police cladden riot gear, mocking
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and brutalizing our students. Really, did you see the same video that I
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saw? The police didn't ask to be there. This business about the riot
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gear. They're they're in riot gear because they're afraid of you. They're afraid
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of what you're going to do to them. That's why they're in riot gear.
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And yet there were no serious injuries at all. So this notion of
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all we're just so afraid, we're so worked. These are people going to
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be lawyers you didn't even know to argue cases in court. Embarrassing, well
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said there by Dan Abrams. As usual. Now there's no coincidence. I
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think it's very very telling that the two epicenters, really for all of this
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nuttiness are New York and Los Angeles. Now there are a lot of other
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mostly blue areas where things have gotten completely out of control and absolutely insane.
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But Colombia in New York, and I've already mentioned USC in Los Angeles and
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UCLA in I believe reaction to USC capitulating because of all this nuttiness has actually
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become the Columbia of the West. UCLA canceled classes at one point. They
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eventually had police action to try to get rid of these protests on campus that
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have caused an awful lot of vandalism and destruction. And by the way,
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when it comes to the damage being done here, it's not just about graduations
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being canceled. There's an enormous amount of damage. There is so much money
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being spent on law enforcement and overtime and security and all sorts of other things.
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Here in Los Angeles, there is apparently at least residents believe that there
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was a robbery spree in the UCLA A neighborhood that was provoked. They believe
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because all the police presents was at UCLA's campus and those that were doing the
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robberies felt confident that they could get away with it. I couldn't believe that
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the local television news organization here in Los Angeles actually reported that particular narrative.
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But UCLA, which is an area with a very large population of prominent and
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powerful Jewish people, they canceled classes because of the distress that they felt like
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their students were going to be under. And maybe there were so many absolutely
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ridiculous moments, particularly at UCLA, But one of my favorite was when UCLA
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had a provost come into the encampment and try to negotiate this before they eventually
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cleared the area with law enforcement, but they tried to negotiate with these pro
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Hamas protesters anti protesters, and they sent a provost. Now, the provost
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was a black guy, which I'm sure was not by coincidence, But the
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most hilarious part of this was he was wearing an N ninety five mask.
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He was outside in May of twenty twenty four an N ninety five masks.
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Now, the masking issue, I think is extremely telling with regard to what's
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been going on with these protests. Why are they all masks? Now?
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The primary reason, the practical reason, is because of the fact that they
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don't want to be identified. They're afraid that they may lose out on jobs
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or whatever it might be easier to arrest them identify them on the internet if
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they're not wearing masks. So they're all wearing their masks from the COVID era.
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But the fact that the UCLA provost would wear an N ninety five mask,
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he's clearly not trying to hide his identity. He feels as if that's
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acting in solidarity with these crazy people. Because of the fact that the mask
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in the post covid era has become a liberal virtue signal. It's effectively the
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same thing as you know when I used to go to a conservative Republican events
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that the sign you were a Republicans you were an American flag lapel. Well,
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the sign that you're a good liberal is that you're wearing an N ninety
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five mask, or if you're wearing any mask. But if you want to
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really be a good liberal, you wear an N ninety five to signal your
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virtue as a peace offering to these Prohamas anti Israel protesters. And he sat
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Indian style on the ground outside wearing this N ninety five and it didn't work.
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The negotiations collapsed and they ended up having to use law enforcement, and
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frankly, hilarity ensued at times in that situation, but all sorts of damage
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and vandalism was done to the campus, and so I think, well,
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that's one of the many things being lost here. I think some people think,
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well, as long as no one gets hurt, it's not that big
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of a deal. It absolutely is a big deal. It absolutely is a
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big deal because there's all sorts of damage, and it's not just canceled events.
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There's cost of money, there's environmental damage which liberals used to care about
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or pretend to care about. This is a huge deal. There are residual
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side effects here and ramifications to all this. But one last thing on the
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masking, because this is I just think the masking thing is so telling.
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I mean, to me, the mask is not a virtue signal. It's
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a signal that you're an imbecile if you're especially if you're wearing it for COVID.
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And with regard to whether or not these protesters have been wearing masks because
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of security, protection from being identified, or because they want to prevent themselves
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from getting COVID. Somehow, I found this tweet from a self proclaimed liberal
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reporter named Nicholas Slayton to be very telling. This was about a week ago.
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Less than a week ago, he tweeted, USC just announced new security
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measures. Students, faculty, and staff have to scan IDs, submit to
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bag checks, and remove masks to be id'd, and then the reporter rrits.
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Many students still mask to avoid catching COVID. Many students still mask to
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avoid catching COVID. I guess the point there is, well, this is
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a potential threat to their health of these security measures, because they're preventing these
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kids from wearing their masks for a few seconds, and therefore they might catch
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COVID if there's any evidence or logic whatsoever that the mask prevents you or helps
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you tore from getting COVID. And again, most of this is done outside
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anyway, where you could never catch COVID to begin with. But I mean,
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this is so many layers of absolute insanity here, and it's all being
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revealed in front of everybody. Now. How many people are paying attention,
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I don't know, but I hope people are because we're learning so much and
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so much of this, in my view is the way that the Red States
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have handled this generally, very very differently than the Blue States. For instance,
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some of the worst universities to capitulate to these protesters, basically giving them
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anything they want. Come from Blue States, Rutgers in New Jersey, Northwestern
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in Illinois, you see riverside back here in southern California. Total capitulation to
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the protesters with regard to what they gave away in negotiations, which of course
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is the ultimate Heckler's veto. I mean, not only you're not supposed to
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to cancel things because of the Heckler, You're not supposed to give in to
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the Heckler because guess what's gonna happen in the future. You're gonna get more
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Heckling because they are seen as victorious their tactics one the terrorists one. That's
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why you don't negotiate with terrorists. These are people that are not just terrorist
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sympathizers with regard to hamas, they're engaging in terrorist activity themselves. Similarly,
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here in southern California, San Diego State canceled their traditional Sun God festival,
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which apparently is a big deal, which is probably more look forward to than
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the graduation itself, because of fear of the protesters USC and seemingly an indication
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there was some backlash from the parents, like my friend Matt Lauer, did
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come up with some sort of a compromise graduation ceremony scheduled for this week where
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they're moving it to the Colisseum. I'll be very curious to see whether not
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people even PARTI dissipate in that, because it's going to be seen I think
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by both sides as a negative situation. That's just my perception. I just
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think that when you cancel your traditional graduation and you say, hey, we're
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going to do this other thing instead, because we're capitulating to the terrorists,
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that it's going to have a stench on it. And maybe people don't show
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up. I don't know, we'll see, but I do want to at
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least acknowledge that USC did come up with some alternative quote unquote graduation ceremony.
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But in the midst of all of the craziness over the last few days,
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there's been a discernible pushback by counter protesters, and this seemed to have been
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sparked by an incident at the University of North Carolina that got an awful lot
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of publicity where there were some male fraternity members who saved the American flag and
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they even seemingly got support from the interim chancellor at North Carolina. The fact
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that he was an interim or his interim chancellor. I think it's interesting because
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he certainly doesn't seem like a normal liberal academic in the statements that I've seen
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from him. But he supported the defending of the American flag, and I
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think that that was a seminal moment in all this from a couple of different
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perspectives. Number One, the defending of the flag and the fact that this
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went so viral on Twitter especially and on conservative media shifted the narrative from the
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protesters being anti Israel and or pro Hamas to being anti USA. And that's
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where it crossed the line, especially for the liberal media, to becoming far
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more dangerous for Democrats, especially because that's a narrative where you go from most
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of America supporting you because Israel still has more support than Hamasda and people generally
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don't like college protests, especially they don't understand what they're protesting, and there's
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damage being done and what have you. So this thing went from a problem
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you know that that you know, having Democrats be on the side of the
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Prohamas protesters is problematic, but it's not. It's not devastating necessarily, especially
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if the story goes away in a short period of time. But shifting the
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narrative from them being anti Israel to them being anti America, now we got
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a big problem. Now we got a big problem if you're the Democrats and
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you're the liberal media. And what happened at University of North Carolina was important
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from that standpoint, but it also did something else, very very interesting,
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and that is because conservatives, I'm assuming is mostly conservatives rallied around the fraternity
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of white males that protected the American flag and raised a half million dollars for
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them to throw a big party, and had all sorts of you know,
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other people trying to support them in various ways, offering to do concerts for
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them. They obviously got a huge benefit from this. They got some online
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celebrity, a few of them got asked on major television shows that they're getting
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a half million dollars raised for them to throw a party. So this is
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a huge What they did was fine and great and wonderful, but you know,
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it's not like they went to war something, so they're being rewarded in
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a huge way. Huge way, and of course human beings respond to their
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perceived self interest, reward and punishment. Everyone knows this. This is the
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basics of how humanity works. And so when the UNC Fraternity Bros. We're
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seen as benefiting dramatically from their actions. I think that it created effectively a
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market for patriotic action elsewhere in the country, especially in the Red States.
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I mean, I can't prove that there's a direct reaction to this, but
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it's just basic common sense. I used to talk all the time. I
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still do because he's still relevant, and I think Elon Musk has kind of
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taken Matt Drudge's spot in this, But there are a couple of figures,
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Elon Musk and Matt Drudge in the media world where if people know that they
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are interested in the story, it effectively creates a market for that type of
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story, because if you get Elon Musk to tweet or retweet your story,
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it's a huge economic benefit. Similar with Matt Drudge, not as much as
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it used to be, but you know, to a lesser extent it still
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is. If Matt Drudge links to you on the Drudge Report, that's a
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huge economic benefit in numerous ways. So they create markets for stories they like.
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Well, it's somewhat similar, I think to what happened with regard to
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the University of North Carolina. A market was created for patriotic pushback against these
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anti Israel, anti American protesters, and we saw it in other areas of
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the country. Interestingly, in Michigan, the University of Michigan graduation was disrupted
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by these nut jobs and there was a reaction of the crowd to chant usa.
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I found that to be very interesting and very telling. Weirdly, this
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is in a blue state, but the University of Chicago might be a little
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bit different than most other universities in Illinois, but there was pushback in favor
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of the American flag of the University of Chicago. The University of Virginia another
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red state or redish I shouldn't say red state. Politically, I always talk
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about how there's a difference between state level in Virginia and federal level in Virginia,
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because there's so many federal works in Virginia, but there's a Republican governor
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in Virginia. They were not messing around at the University of Virginia when it
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came to police presence there University of Alabama had a very interesting situation. Now
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granted this is Alabama ware, but we had this one very small, short
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moment of unity where both the pro AMAS people and the anti AMAS people or
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the pro American counter protesters were each chanting fuck Joe Biden, which might have
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been the clip of the year, because this is what it takes to unify
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these two sides. The only thing they could agree on was fuck Joe Biden.
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But the episode that probably got the most attention and in many ways was
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the most telling in recent days with regard to the counter protest happened at the
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University of Mississippi. Now you know Old miss as it's called, much like
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what happened and a UNC had been very rational about this. Had a lot
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of people supporting the United States, a lot of people supporting the flag,
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but of course they're mostly white guys. And I think what ended up happening
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at the University of Mississippi was as a reaction to the reaction. I think
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liberals became very nervous and very frustrated about what they saw as being on the
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losing side here politically, and so we had a situation where there was a
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viral video of some white male University of Mississippi students yelling at a very large
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black female who was on the other side of the protests, and things got
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pretty heated. There was screaming, there was yelling, there was chanting,
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and there was one guy in particular, a white guy, who was acting
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weird. I don't even know what he was doing. He seemed to be,
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you know, dancing or jumping up or down or doing some very strange
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movement, and people perceived that he was making monkey noises. Now, how
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you know someone is intending to make monkey noises? I have absolutely no idea.
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And the video isn't even that long. It's just for a few seconds,
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So who the heck knows what the context was of this kid, you
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know, acting some like what some people referred to as like a monkey.
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And the left jumped all over this, I believe mostly out of frustration.
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They needed a aha, see gotcha moment because they were getting clobbered here,
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they were getting absolutely clobbered, and so they saw this moment as aha,
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see, this is really about white male racism. They can't stand effect that.
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I'm sure that the white males at the University of North Carolina were being
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praised for defending the American flag against these Prohamas anti Israel protesters, and so
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they need something to distract, They need something to show that this counter protest
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is illegitimate, and the only way they know how to do that is to
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claim racism. And so this particular kid was effectively doxed. You know,
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liberals pretend to hate doxing except when it fits their agenda. His name went
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all over the internet. He fit every liberal stereotype of a white male conservative
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from a place like University of Mississippi, which has been steeped in a perception
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of racism for a long time. They've done so many things to try to
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correct that perception, including getting rid of the Confederate flag and changing their mascot,
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and they've done everything they possibly can, but you know, it's still
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old miss and when liberals saw this video, they presumed racism. Now,
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I have no idea what was in this kid's heart and what he was trying
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to do or say. I don't think anybody could possibly know based upon the
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very very very limited amount of data that we have on this. That let
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very limited amount of evidence we have on this, But this hits home for
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me because it's one of my pet peeves as someone who looks at the race
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issue a bit differently than most people do I, And you know, it
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angers me. It really angers me when liberals expose what I perceived to be
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their actual racism in claiming racism, especially in situations where we have almost no
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information that we're just going purely on perception. And I believe that the liberal
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perception of what happened at the University of Mississippi was incredibly telling and shows who
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the real racists are, because to me, this whole connection that liberals always
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are very eager to make between monkeys or bananas or whatever in that realm and
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black people is inherently racist and obviously nonsensical. Now I'm not naive I realized
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that any long ago time in this country. Yes, I'm sure there were
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racists who were using monkeys to fame black people, to demean black people.
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I get that, but that hasn't been a thing in this country for a
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very long time. And we're dealing with college students here, so they're not
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steeped in that history. We also, by the way, don't even know
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that that's what the kid was doing. That's the first part of this ridiculousness.
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We have no idea what the real intent or what this kid was actually
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doing. But liberals immediately looked at that and said, oh my god,
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he's acting like a monkey. That's racist towards black people. Well, why
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would you think that it's racist, Why would you think it has anything to
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do with the fact that this was a very large black woman, unless you
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yourself make a connection between monkeys and black people, which is obviously racist.
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So I tweeted about this, and boy did I make liberal heads explode.
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I mean, oh my god, there was I can't remember the last time
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I tweeted something that got more liberal hate without any substance whatsoever in the response
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than this tweet. So I tweeted out one of the liberals who were trying
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to destroy the live the life of this old miss white male student by tweeting
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the following message. Reminder to presume that making quote unquote monkey noises directed at
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a very large black woman is quote unquote racist, means that the person who
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came to that conclusion with no other evidence is the actual racist, because they
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must somehow equate being black with being a monkey, which is ridiculous. That
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was my whole tweet and people went bananas. You know, almost entirely liberals
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went bananas. And I think the reason there's a Freudian slip. They went
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banatas I must be racist. But you know, probably appropriate to say they
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went banatas given the fact that that this whole issue allegedly go comes around because
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this kid was supposedly acting like a monkey. Again, there's no evidence that
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I'm aware of that we know for sure that that's even what he was doing.
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But even if he was, even if I accept that because the kid
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was acting weird, there's no question about that it was a highly charged situation.
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Even if we accept that it was him acting like a monkey, that
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is not inherently racist. If if you automatically think that it is, to
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me, that's racist and of itself. Now, could we find out that,
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yes, that's what the kid was intending, and that he did mean
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it in a racist fashion, Yeah, it's possible, but there's no way
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to come to that conclusion based upon a few seconds of video. And the
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hypocrisy here is off the charts because, as many people pointed out, Larry
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Elder, a black conservative commentator, back when he was running for governor,
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in the recall election a couple of years ago of Gavin Newsom. Now Here
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he is, you know, a person running for governor in a public situation,
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minding his own business. He gets attacked by someone in a monkey mask
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and had things thrown at him, and the media didn't come to his defense,
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Liberals didn't come to his defense. This is a black guy being attacked
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by someone in a monkey mask. Again. I mean, that's way,
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way, way more obvious, dramatic, and with stronger evidence behind it than
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what happened at least so far, based upon we well har on what we
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know at the University of Mississippi, and liberals just said, oh, that's
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funny in that grade, that Larry Elder, that conservative got hit with eggs
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by this goofball and a monkey mask. I mean, so the hypocrisy is
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overt. It's obvious. And to me, the biggest issue here is it's
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not just the hypocrisy, it's what it really shows about the liberal mentality that
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for you to make that connection in twenty twenty four. See, I think
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the timing here is important. We are generations away now from a world in
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which it was remotely aptable for black people to be compared to monkeys. I
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mean, the last time I could even remember this happening in a significant way
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was a pretty big deal in my life because it dealt with Patrick Ewing and
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Georgetown basketball in the nineteen eighties, where opposing fans would occasionally, you know,
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somehow compare Patrick Ewing to an ape or to a monkey, and even
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then I thought, well, that's bad. But the guys seven foot tall
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with long arms, I mean, and man nothing to do with his race,
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I mean so, and I think at that time there were probably kids
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who didn't understand the history of the whole thing. And that was forever ago.
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That was forty years ago now, so forty years later, basically two
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gen almost two generations later. How the hell are you automatically presuming that a
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kid from Old miss is drudging up this, this very ancient racist trope against
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black people. To me, for you to presume that is not just wrong
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from a fairness perspective, but it's also indicating inherent racism on your part.
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Now, as far as Joe Biden and the Democratic response to all this,
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I found it to be extremely telling, extremely telling that Biden finally made a
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statement. And I'll just review and interpret the statement this way, it sounded
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a hell a lot like what Donald Trump did after the whole Charlottesville situation,
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where Donald Trump got crushed for basically saying that there are very fine people on
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both sides of this situation. Now, Biden didn't say that specifically, but
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the essence of what Biden said was essentially the same thing as very fine people
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on both sides. He condemned nobody, really, and so he's trying to
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thread the needle. So when Trump tried to thread the needle on Charlottesville,
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which was a much smaller situation really than what's happened, much smaller in some
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ways than what's happened on campus is nationwide, Trump got crucified for trying to
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thread that needle. The media, when it comes to Biden, they just
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ignore it and move on. Well, Biden's finally spoken, so we can't
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say that he's been silent and we're not going to attack him for basically being
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a coward and not picking a side here. You know, very fine people
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on both sides, some bad people on both sides. That's the coward's way
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out, based upon the way that the media responded to Trump on Charlottesville.
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But the media pocracy doesn't stop with regard to the history of Charlottesville. Frankly,
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it also it gets exposed when it comes to January sixth and the whole
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issue of these protests being mostly peaceful, mostly peaceful protests. That's one of
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the media's favorite phrases when they want to either defend or mitigate the negativity of
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the campus protest. Well, there was a shocking moment, I mean,
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I mean shocking moment on MSNBC when Al Sharpton, of all people, you
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know, black racemonger from decades and decades ago, he had the audacity on
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MSNBC to raise this issue of liberal hypocrisy when it comes to the nature of
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protests and whether or not the violence and the destruction that is being left in
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the wake of these protests is similar to January sixth, and liberal outrage,
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of course is off the charts all these years later on January sixth, but
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not so much when it comes to these campus protests. Now, I'll be
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the first of acknowledge there are differences that are important differences between the two.
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But in some ways I think it's a legitimate analogy, and I did not
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have Al Sharpton making that analogy on MSNBC on my twenty twenty four bingo card.
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But here's what that sounded like. How do the Democrats, how do
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all of us on that side say January sixth was wrong if you can have
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the same pitches going on on College Kemp marlel that has happened though. Okay,
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so we know what's going on here. Now this is audio, but
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you could almost see the liberal pearl clutching in the response of those at MSNBC
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to what Al Sharpton was saying. And again, I do think there are
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some significant and important differences, But generally this is a comparison that I have
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made myself, many others have made. Hey wait a minute, you know,
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what's this business of mostly peace that didn't work on January sixth. January
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sixth was mostly peaceful. Most protests are mostly peaceful. It's not the way
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you judge it. You judge it, at least in large part based upon
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the overall bottom line damage that has been done. And in these particular situations
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throughout the country, there has been a lot of damage being done, not
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necessarily in people dying, but in all sorts of other ways, which I've
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already documented now when it comes to speaking of MSNBC, NBC and Saturday Night
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Live addressed sort of kind of the campus protests in a way that I thought
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was very very telling. See, you know, SNL hadn't been on for
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a couple of weeks, and so I think they felt like they absolutely had
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to address this issue at the top. Otherwise they would have been open to
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ridicule. And so what they did was they took it on in the most
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benign way possible. This is how you know that liberals know this is a
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