The Dennis Prager Show LIVE

All right, all, or as they say in Pittsburgh, yinz. You know what that is? Yinz is only said in Pittsburgh apparently, and it means y'all or all of you. Yes indeed, I'm Dennis Prager, the show where we talk about everything. In a dark time in American history. But if we fight, we will— hey, I got a good one! If we fight, there will be light. You know, there is a repressed poet in me. Good reason, I might add. The repression is worthy. It's the short version of U-1s? I didn't know that. You know, I am telling you folks what I learn here from my colleagues. I would love to talk to you about it. Needless to say, my column this week is about Jews and Christians failing the greatest test that they have had, at least since slavery. That is a long time. It is 150 years. I am just stunned at what is happening. For example, the one that is the biggest one to me is that the, I assume, the very small number of rabbis, priests, or ministers who have told their congregations through Zoom or through email or through some, yeah, I guess email, some mass mailing, as it were, from the house of prayer, from the institution, that colorblind is in fact what their religion teaches. And I have a theory, which I write in my piece. You should all see the piece. It's up at my website, it's up at Town Hall. And I write in there that most rabbis, priests, and ministers fear the left more than they fear God. They fear the New York Times more than they fear God. It's an interesting thing to me. You know who put this in my mind? Jordan Peterson. I don't think I've had a dialogue with a public figure that influenced me as much as that, and I've had magnificent thinkers in my life. It's been one of the joys of my life. I'll never forget the great time with Charles Krauthammer, may he rest in peace. But when I asked him, "Do you believe in God?" You could see it, it's on the internet. It was at a PragerU event. Asked him if he believed in God, and he said something to the effect that, no, no, that's Charles Krauthammer, no, no, no, that's different, that's different, that's about atheism. So I asked Jordan Peterson if he believed in God. That actually would be worth finding if you could. I have not heard it since that night. And something to the effect of, well, Dennis, I will tell you, I do not know if I am worthy. In other words, if you believe in God, the demand of that belief is so great on how you behave. And I thought, wow, that is right. How can you believe in God and then behave as if you don't? Then, then it doesn't mean anything. If you believe that a— that there is a car coming in your direction, you will swerve, correct? Because you, you believe the car will hit you, so you are acting on your belief. If you don't try to maneuver your car, then you really don't believe you'll be hit by the oncoming car. If so, if you don't act on your belief, then it's hard to say you really do believe. And when I see clergy in any of these religions who are not willing to speak out, for example, on colorblind. I mean, if you are a Catholic priest, a Protestant minister, or a rabbi, and you can't say hello, this is like fundamental to Catholicism, Christianity, Judaism, that race does not matter, that the human being is a member of one race. We are all a member of one race, the human race. God did not create a race specifically so that nobody could say, "I descend from the original race," or the superior race, or whatever. God has no race, we are in the image of God. If you cannot say that, you are a worthless clergyman. What it means is that you are afraid of what Twitter will say, not what God will say. That is, I feel, is what mainstream Protestantism, mainstream Judaism, and mainstream Catholicism have devolved into. Fear of Twitter over fear of God. Getting your values from the New York Times, not from the Bible. This is the test. I mean, this is truly the test. Here is another one. The— is this the most massive amount of looting that has taken place in American history at any one time? I mean, we're talking about more than a week, maybe two weeks of it. Vast numbers of stores. Did you see what happened in Manhattan? I mean, I saw a video because the mainstream press doesn't report it. Fifth Avenue, I believe it is. When would there have been more looting? Now, I'm not talking about larger rioting, but more looting. I don't know. But in any event, is there not a message from churches and synagogues that thou shalt not steal remains in force? It's like the lying Scientists— this is one of the most important things to develop in the last— in my lifetime, actually— where scientists, thousands, have taken the position that with COVID-19 it is okay to demonstrate in mass numbers without social distancing, but it is not okay to protest lockdowns. Get it? So their position is, needless to say, political, not scientific. I've been telling you this, that the left poisons everything it touches. Science is one of the more obvious examples. Everything. I don't know how people will still enjoy football the way they did. I just don't know. It is an amazing thing, is it not? Hey, the players are telling you, you are all despicable racists, but come out and cheer for us. You know what is amazing? You can say the worst thing, and it is the worst thing, racism is the worst thing. You can say the worst thing about people and expect them to have no reaction except, oh, you are so right. Oh, forgive me. Yeah, every white is a racist is an absurdity. If every white is a racist, it means no white is. Do you understand? It's like, oh, we're all guilty. If we're all guilty, then we're not all guilty. I mean, there's— it's foolishness. But the religion thing is a real big one. If you are considering sending your child to a Catholic, Christian, or a Jewish school, ask them one question. You know, I'd just like to know what my child will learn here if I enroll him or her. So what is your position on— I assume you teach the traditional Jewish or Christian view on colorblind, that that is the ideal. Am I right? And if they start hemming and hawing, the school is not— it's Jewish or Christian in facade, not in content.

1-800-PREGGER, 776-877-243, 777-6 This is Lon Hee Chen of the Hoover Institution for TownHall.com. Public health officials across America have spent the last several months warning about the dangers of the coronavirus and the need for us to stay at home, halt economic activity, and avoid social interactions with our friends and neighbors. We are now reopening our economy in many parts of the country. But these same public health officials have compromised their own credibility as we do so. On the one hand, they've urged caution and a slow return to work, school, and faith gatherings. They've criticized those who opposed the stay-at-home orders. But at the same time, these officials have been broadly supportive of the large protests on America's streets in the last few weeks. Public health officials should be helping us understand the comparative risks of activities. Not endorsing the causes they like while prohibiting the ones they don't. Their hypocrisy is costly indeed. They have impacted our ability to address future health crises. I'm Lon Hee Chen.

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I think the New York media is describing Florida as coronavirus raging through the state. That's literally the word they're using, at least in the New York Post. But there's a peculiar— there's a peculiarity about these, these data-driven news reports. All the— but always at the bottom of the article, at the end of the report, they admit that deaths and hospitalizations are are down and hospital capacity is nowhere near being stretched thin. I don't understand it any more than I can make sense of a, of a guy like Anthony Fauci who told us that masks don't work and they're not effective and you shouldn't go around wearing a mask, you're causing more problems than, than solutions, and then admitting That were— those were lies because they were worried that we would, you know, scarf up all the face masks from the hospital workers. And now if you live in California, soon-to-be Texas, Tampa, Florida, you don't wear a mask, I guess you're breaking the law. I don't know what they're gonna do to you if you don't have a mask. Think there'll be a mask jail? Will there be a prison for people who refuse to wear a mask? I'm serious. They're going to lock people up? You're just going to give you a fine? You're going to pay a fine if you refuse to wear a mask? I saw a conservative activist got kicked off a flight. He was trying to get to Tulsa, uh, on an airplane. They kicked him off the plane. I believe it was American Airlines.

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We used to be able to testify in court and we were believed. Now, unless there is a video from 3 different angles, no one cares what you have to say. With all this talk about racism and racist cops, I've never seen people treated differently because of their race. And while I know that cowards that have never done this job will call me a racist for saying it, all I've ever seen was criminal behavior and cops trying to stop it. And they didn't give a rip what their skin color was. I've seen cops help and save any type of race, gender, or ethnicity you can think of. And while that used to mean something, no one cares anymore. I've been called every name you can think of, and many of them with racial overtones. And it's never come from cops. I've watched African American cops take the brunt of this and even talked one rookie out of quitting after he was berated by a lot of cowards that had the same skin color as him. I've never heard— I've heard words I never heard before coming a cop. Uncle Tom, cracker.

Okay, everybody. So there's— this is the latest. Jimmy Kimmel is in trouble because he apparently used the N-word in quoting a rapper or something. Are you aware of that? How many years ago was that? And he did blackface once. Coming at some party appearing as Oprah. And now for this, and I want— now this is Megan Fox on his show, the actress, in 2000— what, 2009— telling a story. And I've listened to it and read it over 3 times. And he is being pilloried for it. I am no fan of Jimmy Kimmel. He has helped produce the culture that will devour him. And it does not bring me joy. I'd rather that he had been strong and wise and understood that the left is a despicable force that crushes everything good. And he didn't. Instead, he went along with it, and now he will be devoured by it. Eretz ochelet yoshvecha, a land that devours its own. That is the subtitle for the left. As the French Revolution devoured its own, the leftist revolution will devour its own. Unfortunately, it may devour America as well, because it is purely a force of chaos. That is all it is. Chaos breeds dictatorship. There is no exception to it. Humans cannot live in chaos. The left may want them to, but the people cannot. Chaos is chaos. So this is a recording from 2009 with Megan Fox, the actress, on his show. Solution to that problem was to then have me dancing underneath the waterfall getting soaking wet, and that's perfectly At 15, I was in 10th grade. That's sort of a microcosm of how Bay's mind works. Yeah, well, yeah, well, that's really a microcosm of how all our minds work, but some of us have the decency to repress those thoughts and pretend that they don't exist. Oh, pretend that, I guess, what, did we just cut off there, or? Yes. Okay, I guess then pretend that they're not there. So he's been—

Some of us have the decency to repress those thoughts and pretend that they don't exist.

There we go. Did he, uh, there was more. Okay, pretend that they don't exist. So he has been skewered for that. I thought it was actually something that the left also— left is an immaturity reaction to life. Life is supposed to be perfect, so men are not supposed to have those thoughts. They're very big on what you think. That is the reason that they, they're totalitarian, because they are very, again, as I said, big on what you think. So clearly he had a sexualized thought. She's— this is a girl in a bikini and 6-inch white heels. White heels? 6-inch high heels and under a waterfall dancing. And he acknowledges and then says the right thing. Yes, that's what we think, but decent of us don't express it. That is exactly the right response. Exactly. And he is skewered for it on Twitter by people whose perception of reality is so perverse and immature and naive and utopian. Oh, a man has that thought? She's 15 years old. You think that the libido knows age? Yes, it knows age prepubescent. I have zero understanding of any man attracted to anybody prepubertal. I do not understand that as a human. I do not understand that as a male. That is sick. But a female that looks like a woman, the libido does not ask for a birth certificate. The conscience asks for a birth certificate. It is an astonishing thing that he was skewered for that. I'm going to talk about the issue of the religions later, so I'm going to let you go. And don't forget to call back in the third hour, folks. But I want to take calls. Do you, on this, do you feel that what he said was bad? I'm telling you to have me defend Jimmy Kimmel. He's not earned my respect. I wonder if the people devoured by— I mean, does, uh, for example, who was the Minnesota senator who was devoured by his own— Al Franken. See, they don't learn anything from it. It is an amazing thing. They don't think, whoa, you know, I really helped unleash this, uh, this McCarthyism. And now I've been clobbered by it. But no, doesn't think that way. You know, in Europe they don't have this nearly as much. I follow music, as you know, intensely because I conduct periodically and I'm aware of the classical music world. So there have been conductors and singers and instrumentalists, but especially singers and conductors who have lost all of their ability to perform in North America. Canada is even worse than the United States. And European orchestras are hiring them. The Europeans have a, I think, a more mature view of sexuality. They don't— not that Not that the behavior is acceptable, but that it does not warrant the end of your life, except that you are still allowed to breathe. I don't defend men harassing women. I think it's low-life behavior. But I am aware of the human condition, and it's a flawed human condition, and I put things within a scale of things. My wife was quite intensely harassed in her single younger days. And, uh, well, she looked at it as, this is unbelievably boorish behavior, and I'm going to go on with my life. You know, it's like men. I'll tell you, I never understood this when I was a young man, when the guys would be offended if a gay man, you know, approached them. I, I actually took it as a compliment. My theory was Hey, if he thinks I'm attractive, maybe women do too.

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Dr. Strom, I just did a video about the Hong Kong flu of 1968, and if you look at the number of people who contracted it and died and adjusted for population, it was about 150,000 Americans. Uh, that's about, uh, 20, about 38,000 fewer deaths than we have so far with the current coronavirus. And we didn't shut down the government. I don't even remember it. I was 16 years old. I don't remember anybody talking about it at the time.

Okay, that point well taken. Let's just look at the numbers now. So since, since the, the May 16th, okay, we're having new cases clearly. And okay, businesses are opening up and people are getting more liberal. They're not, they're not as worried about transmission. But in the last week, I mean, there's going to be 709 new deaths, so 29,000 new cases. And last weekend was the highest daily total since May 16th.

Okay.

But if somebody gets a disease, is that a death sentence? Probably not. We see the mortality is probably less than we thought. So transmission is going to happen. And maybe we do want that because I told you last time I was on about herd immunity. You get 50 to 70% of the population infected, you're— people are going to become immune. And, uh, and we may need that herd immunity if we don't get a vaccination within the next, what, year? We hope by year end. So yes, there are new cases. Does it warrant a complete shutdown? Probably not.

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The president was interviewed, I think it was on Fox News, I think it was Sean Hannity. The president responded to what happened with, I think, I don't think this is a controversial view, but maybe you do. Here was the president last night with Sean on Fox News Channel.

I thought it was a terrible situation, but you can't resist a police officer. And, you know, if you have a disagreement, you have to take it up after the fact. It was a very sad, very, very sad thing. It's going to be up to justice. I hope he gets a fair shake because police have not been treated fairly in our country. They have not been treated fairly.

Is President Trump controversial with that remark? It was a very sad thing. He said it was a terrible thing, but you can't resist the police. Is resisting the police acceptable to anybody? Thank you to whoever texted me on the MyPillow text line the image of Leslie Nielsen. I think it's from Naked Gun. And again, all hell breaking loose behind him, and he's saying, he's saying, nothing to see here, please disperse. That's what America feels like right now, isn't it?

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In the 3-year turnaround, which is the best economic turnaround in US history, Hugh, under President Trump's leadership, 2.5 million people pulled themselves out of poverty. We don't talk about that. But that is in contrast with the failure of the Great Society's War on Poverty. Over 50 years failed to move the poverty line at all, and President Trump comes in and does it. In the African American community, we have the lowest unemployment in U.S. history right now, the highest middle class income ever measured. President Trump has done more through justice reform, HBCUs, which are our historic Black colleges and universities, and our Opportunity Zones that Tim Scott has helped author. Has done more good for that community than any president in the last decade, last 100 years, really.

I think the president is upholding the Constitution. On Sunday, we had Colin Powell say he's drifting from it. I wrote a Washington Post editorial this morning saying that's absurd. What's your assessment of Donald Trump's fealty, his loyalty to the Constitution?

This man is committed to the Constitution.

If you look at everything he's done in standing up for America with Hi everybody, I want to remind you about Uncle Tom, the great, uh, documentary made by Larry Elder. And great is a word I live by on this. You will find it great too. And you go to UncleTom.com and enter the code Prager, you get 20% off. You will see courageous, intelligent— well, courageous is the thing. A lot of intelligent people, very few courageous. Courageous blacks speaking about the situation in America. It's pretty riveting. So Uncle Tom is the movie the leftists do not want you to see. It's a tremendous opening, tremendous. Anyway, go to UncleTom.com and use the code Prager for 20% off. Congratulations to my friend Larry Elder. His success brings me great joy because it helps the country. That is the case. New York Times has a big piece today by a professor at MIT, and, uh, it begins As follows. Well, the title is "Sex Does Not Mean Gender: Equating Them Erases Trans Lives." Is there a word in here about competing against— see, they don't deal with, uh, with these issues. That's immoral. So this professor being— this is the first words of the, uh, of the piece in the New York Times. This would have been inconceivable 3 years ago. That is how quickly the, the chaos of society is taking place, thanks to the left and one of its leaders, the New York Times. Men menstruate. Some have even given birth. There you go. That's it. Uh, if you could find Sean when I was laughed at on Bill Maher's show and I said Among the left's lies is that men menstruate. And Bill Maher just thought I was out of my mind making this up. And this is the first words of a New York Times opinion piece today, published in the New York Times. An MIT professor: Gender is not sex. So does sex matter? The answer is no. So gender is what you make up. It's all made up. Do you understand? So I guess they— she admits you cannot change sex. Does sex matter? Apparently not. That's correct. For the record, if you look like a woman, dress like a woman, take a woman's name, I don't care what you began, I will refer to you as a woman. It is none of my business. How you began life. Okay, I see you as a woman, you're a woman, that's— I don't have an issue, but I'm not going to say men give birth. I will not enter the lying world of the left, the fake world of the left. Truth is not a left-wing value. Every day, more and more of you who hear me understand that I've been saying this for years. And that it's true. That's, that's the key point here. It is becoming more and more apparent. Men menstruate. MIT professor. We're talking about degrees.

To say that men can menstruate is a lie, and that is now—

that is what is said. You hear the laughter? I never heard it. You never heard it, right? He never heard it. Folks, check That was, that was, this is so revealing. They laughed. Get now on, I want you to understand the infantilization of the left-wing mind and the ability to manipulate it. The Bill Maher audience. When did I do this show? In, in September, October? No, not October, I think. Okay. So that's 2 and 6, 8 months ago. 8 months ago, I was on Bill Maher's show and he said, "Never heard of that," and laughed. And the entire audience laughed at me and laughed at the idea. They were not just laughing at me, they were laughing at me because the idea is preposterous. Men menstruate. What, is he kidding? See? And now none of them would laugh because they were told by the left that's what happens. Okay, I have my Stepford marching orders from the left. If the New York Times says men menstruate, so will I. Relief factor, which of course I took today because I had that fall during, while playing form of tennis. I always try to be precise. It's called pickleball, but that may not be something you're aware of. Anyway, it doesn't matter. I, uh, I'm taking this because I got back pain again and it's working as usual. Give it a try, please. 3-week quick start is only $19.95. Doesn't work in 3 weeks?

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All right, now Chris in Laguna Beach, I'm going to take you on the male-female hour, so I'm going to let you go now. And thank you for that. Uh, that's tomorrow. Yes. So I cleared one line. Uh, Dave in Phoenix, Arizona, where I will be, but it's sold out. I will be in Phoenix on Thursday night. First appearance in 4 months anywhere. Sold out in 2 weeks. Anyway, hi, I'm sorry, interrupting you. Hi, go ahead.

Sorry, I interrupted you. I'm saying make sure you wear your face mask now. There's an order.

Yeah, but tell me for a moment, I won't take away from your time, what, uh, what is the story now? I, I'm getting conflicting messages about the Scottsdale, Phoenix, and the rest of Arizona.

What I have noticed is that really when— that I believe a lot of it is just because now we can actually get testing done. And before, literally, we remember just a couple months ago calling up a big pharmacy here and saying, okay, where do we get tests done? And they just were rude.

Said, we don't know.

And they just kind of hung up on us. It's like— and then we went to the government website and it said, well, look, if you don't have any symptoms or if you're not basically dying or something. Don't worry about a test.

Well, I was actually— I wasn't clear. I was asking about masks.

Oh, about masks. Oh, well, I understand that it's the governor's order to wear them, but you know, nobody's like a Gestapo making you wear them. It's just that you feel kind of bad if everybody's wearing one and you're not. I mean, you gotta have— there's the guilt element there.

If you think it— well, believe me, I know it. I don't wear a mask outside, period. I do when obviously I can't. You don't have a choice inside a store. Okay, so tell me what's on your mind.

Well, Dennis, I've been thinking about this since you've been talking about this. I'm going to let my— I believe this is letting my head rule and not my emotions rule. I think it's an American value to allow free speech between— from anyone, whether it be a corporation or just an individual or anything in between. And I'm not talking about the tech Giant's stifling speech, that's another story. But I'm just talking about, it's not just a thing of the state allowing free speech, but it's, I'm not going to let Kaepernick or any of these people ruin my experience of football. And I, not only that, for every guy who kneels, everyone who might stand, and you never know those guys' names, is a hero. And just as much a reason to watch.

That's an articulate position.

I had to really think about it, work it out before I called you.

Yeah, well, you did, and I salute you. My position is that there are two issues, and they're huge. Either one is enough for me to object. Everybody who has a set of values, even incorrect values in my view, everyone who has any values has a cause. So theoretically, let us say you had a pro-life football player. I would object to his kneeling at the flag, taking a knee during the national anthem to bring attention to abortion. I suspect that while their hearts would be with this man, most pro-life Americans would take the same position. And the reason is we want to have at least one place where our ideologies play no role. There is only the sport. Allow people to enjoy the sport. Pro-life, pro-choice, Democrat, Republican, Black Lives Matter supporter, Black Lives Matter— that is the group, not the idea, opponent. And that is the beauty of sports. Kaepernick and the left have ruined it.

I agree.

Okay, so that's enough. The second is when someone announces, ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the national anthem, and you don't rise, you go to the ground, to say that it does not in any way disrespect the national anthem is to tell me men menstruate.

Well, the point is that it does disrespect. That's why they do it. But my point is that it doesn't bother me that they disrespect. That's an American value that's higher than the flag. That's the way I look at it.

Okay, so I'm not— I don't want the government— no, no, I don't want the government to suppress their ability to do it, but don't ask me to buy a ticket. To watch the game. I have to be free to respond. Just as he is right, he has the right to give me a big finger in my face from the football field, I have the right not to say, "Thank you for giving me the middle finger." All right? Attending a pro football game today with half the team or more, white and black, telling you you're a bunch of racists coming to the game is the old— there's an old statement. You get spit on and then you thank the person and tell them how nice it is that it's raining outside. When I'm spit on, I do not thank the spitter. That to me is what attending an NFL game is now about. Thank you for spitting on me. Please continue and allow me to cheer you at the same time. Alrighty, yes indeed. Let's go to Cleveland and Mike. Hello Cleveland, Mike.

Yes, uh, Dennis, you always say that the left lies, but you told a whopper a few minutes ago when you said the New York Times said the men menstruate. No, no, no, it was a guy from MIT that wrote an opinion piece.

Okay, I didn't, I didn't lie. It's, it's, I usually hang up when people say I lie because it's, it's a despicable charge. I have never lied in 35 5 years. At the worst, I have been imprecise. So, okay, let me ask you a question. If your house—

Yeah, there we go. What?

Yes, there we go. I'm going to actually ask you a question, I know.

Okay, good.

Yes. If you had to bet your house on it, do you think the New York Times editorial page is for or against that column?

I have no idea.

Okay. Then you live in a make-believe world.

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In the 3-year turnaround, which is the best economic turnaround in U.S. history, Hugh, under President Trump's leadership, 2.5 million people pulled themselves out of poverty. We don't talk about that. But that is in contrast with the failure of the Great Society's War on Poverty. Over 50 years failed to move the poverty line at all, and President Trump comes in and does it. In the African American community, we have the lowest unemployment in U.S. history right now, the highest middle class income ever measured. President Trump has done more through justice reform, HBCUs, which are our historic Black colleges and universities, and our Opportunity Zones that Tim Scott has helped author. Has done more good for that community than any president in the last decade, last 100 years, really.

I think the president is upholding the Constitution. On Sunday, we had Colin Powell say he's drifting from it. I wrote a Washington Post editorial this morning saying that's absurd. What's your assessment of Donald Trump's fealty, his loyalty to the Constitution?

This man is committed to the Constitution. If you look at everything he's done in standing up for America with our allies and others who would do us harm, This man has made sure the world knows that America first doesn't mean America alone. But this is the first president we've had in 50, 60 years, Hugh, that has told the rest of the world what's important to us. I think that's very refreshing, and we've got to give him a second term.

I believe this whole election is about the Constitution. I think Donald Trump is the Constitution candidate, and I think Joe Biden and the Democratic Party is off the rails to the left. Your assessment?

Well, the Democrats are trying to perpetrate a socialist agenda that you heard in the presidential debate, Hugh. And you'll see it in the general election with Biden. Biden is no moderate. He absolutely wants to perpetrate a socialist agenda on the people of America, and we're not going to let that happen.

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You know, the idea of shutting down our economy was just, you know, awful. I mean, and by the way, the people who suffered the most, Larry, were the lowest income people, Black Americans. We had the best, you know, Larry, from 2017 through 2020, what demographic group saw the fastest rise in incomes?

Blacks.

Black Americans. Yes. I knew you knew that. And, and you know, wait a minute, how could that happen? And we've got a racist president. How could that have happened? We had more economic advance in 3 years for Black Americans under Trump than than we did in 8 years under Obama.

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Okay, y'all, I'm Dennis Prager. And this is an important time for you and me to be together and sort out the attempt to destroy the country and the West. The allowing of people to take down statues is a Like, just like the allowing of the destruction and the looting two weeks ago is, if that does not tell you about the abject poverty, moral poverty of our political leaders, the one thing they're supposed to do is to protect life and property. That's, that's the single most important role of government, and it's the one it fails at the most. It's really good at mandating masks. That's, that, that they're really— they're great at that. They're great at lockdowns. You cannot leave your house. They're great at the, at the, uh, mandatory inspections. Most of which are pointless, of businesses and restaurants in particular. But they're awful at protecting life and limb, especially the Democrats. It is an astonishing thing for anybody in any city to vote Democrat. It is astonishing. Anyone who takes Black lives seriously and votes Democrat doesn't take Black lives seriously. An amazing thing. I sit in awe of Democrats to have convinced Blacks that they are good for them. You want to send your kid to any better school? We are in line with the teachers union, so we will not allow that. Republicans want school choice so that a Black parent could send their kid where they want, but Not Democrats. Democrats oversee the slaughter of Blacks and Blacks in the— because of policies and because they don't care. Remember, the response to Black Lives Matter is all Black lives matter. Black Lives Matter is not what Black Lives Matter believes. Black Lives Matter is, as I played for you yesterday, one of the founders said, a Marxist organization. They use race the way the Communists used workers.

This is Lon Heaton of the Hoover Institution for TownHall.com. Public health officials across America have spent the last several months warning about the dangers of the coronavirus and the need for us to stay at home, halt economic activity, and avoid social interactions with our friends and neighbors. We are now reopening our economy in many parts of the country. But these same public health officials have compromised their own credibility as we do so. On the one hand, they've urged caution and a slow return to work, school, and faith gatherings. They've criticized those who opposed the stay-at-home orders. But at the same time, these officials have been broadly supportive of the large protests on America's streets in the last few weeks. Public health officials should be helping us understand the comparative risks of activities. Not endorsing the causes they like while prohibiting the ones they don't. Their hypocrisy is costly indeed. They have impacted our ability to address future health crises. I'm Lon Hee Chen.

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I think the New York media is describing Florida as coronavirus raging through the state. That's literally the word they're using, at least in the New York Post. But there's a peculiar— there's a peculiarity about these, these, uh, data-driven news reports. All the— but always at the bottom of the article, at the end of the report, they admit that deaths and hospitalizations are down and hospital capacity is nowhere near being stretched thin. I don't understand it any more than I can make sense of a, of a guy like Anthony Fauci who told us that masks don't work and they're not effective and you shouldn't go around wearing a mask, you're causing more problems than, than solutions, and then admitting That were— those were lies because they were worried that we would, you know, scarf up all the face masks from the hospital workers. And now if you live in California, soon-to-be Texas, Tampa, Florida, you don't wear a mask, I guess you're breaking the law. I don't know what they're gonna do to you if you don't have a mask. Think there'll be a mask jail? Will there be a prison for people who refuse to wear a mask? I'm serious. They're going to lock people up? You're just going to give you a fine? You're going to pay a fine if you refuse to wear a mask? I saw a conservative activist got kicked off a flight. He was trying to get to Tulsa, uh, on an airplane. They kicked him off the plane. I believe it was American Airlines.

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We used to be able to testify in court and we were believed. Now, unless there is a video from 3 different angles, no one cares what you have to say. With all this talk about racism and racist cops, I've never seen people treated differently because of their race. And while I know that cowards that have never done this job will call me a racist for saying it, all I've ever seen was criminal behavior and cops trying to stop it. And they didn't give a rip what their skin color was. I've seen cops help and save any type of race, gender, or ethnicity you can think of. And while that used to mean something, no one cares anymore. I've been called every name you can think of, and many of them with racial overtones. And it's never come from cops. I've watched African American cops take the brunt of this and even talked one rookie out of quitting after he was berated by a lot of cowards that had the same skin color as him. I've never heard— I've heard words I never heard before coming a cop. Uncle Tom, cracker, pig, and the N-word, just to name a few. I've heard them thousands of times, and never once did I see an officer retaliate. They just took it. The nasty words have now turned into rocks and bottles and gunfire. I've watched it happen to those around me, and I've seen the total destruction of their life. This job is a walking time bomb, and you can get canceled or prosecuted on the very next call. Even if you do everything right. No profession has to deal with that.

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I am reading from the Financial Times headline, Pompeo castigates Bolton as a traitor. Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, has hit out at John Bolton, calling his former colleague a traitor and accusing Donald Trump's ex-national security adviser of lies in his new memoir. John Bolton is spreading a number of lies, fully spun half-truths, and outright falsehoods, Mr. Pompeo said about The Room Where It Happened, Mr. Bolton's new book that is scheduled for release next Tuesday. In a statement headlined I Was in the Room Too, Mr. Pompeo said it was both sad and dangerous that John Bolton's final public role is that of a traitor who damaged America by violating his sacred trust with its people. Strong words. I just don't like memoirs which are tell-alls. Now, I read memoirs. I'm reading Bob Gates's new book, which will have anecdotes in it. I'm sure he submitted for the, uh, the review of, uh, the appropriate authorities to make sure that we do not give away any methods or source. It results in death. That's why the Pentagon Papers was not a moment of virtue for this country. It was a moment of assassination by Daniel Ellsberg and those who cheered it. It resulted in the deaths of people who could be traced in their cooperation with the United States government by the North Vietnamese after they triumphed after the United States cut and ran from Vietnam in 1974, uh, 1975, excuse me. So no, I just don't believe in it. You gotta put your books in for review. There have been memoirs by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, by Vice President Cheney, by George W. Bush, by Condoleezza Rice. They all get submitted to the same process, and guess what? It's not quick. And Ambassador Bolton ought to have followed the rules.

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You write in your book, uh, Amity Schlaes, Okay everybody, Dennis Prager here.

Yes, very depressing story out of Nashville. Harpeth Hall is from the Tennessee Star. Harpeth Hall, elite Nashville prep school, drops George Washington. Quote, not relevant to the way we teach history today. Why would you send your child there? Tell me, doesn't that invalidate the school? That is not the way history is taught? Then why would you send your child there? That means you prefer prestige to truth. You prefer a prestigious high school for your child to a moral high school for your child. So you deserve what you get. I, I have zero sympathy for any parent who cares about this country who sends their child to Harpeth High School, uh, Harpeth Hall School. Sorry, that invalidates it. Bye-bye, so long, cheerio. You're worthless. You're more than worthless. You're a destructive element in Nashville and in America. It is amazing to me. People— this is a great example of parental values because I'm sure it's a prestigious school, so therefore what? They'll get into a prestigious college. Do you care about your children's values or being able to say my child goes to Harpeth Hall?

For all—

for whatever that is worth, always find that amazing when parents boast about what school their kids go to. If they do, it means that they have nothing really positive to say about their child. It is, uh, it is such a giveaway to me when people just make sure that you know that their kid is at a prestigious school. I would, I would find it a lot more impressive if you told me your kid didn't go to college at all and was making a living. That would impress me. Actually, my, my child thought that 4 years of left-wing indoctrination at the $50,000 a year was not a good deal and, uh, learned a great deal on his or her own, which you can do, of course. You know, you're not going to learn to be a doctor on your own, I understand that. So you gotta— you have to take certain courses in biology and obviously go to medical school. I understand that. A relative of mine, specifically of my My wife is studying for a degree. She's from California, but she's studying for a degree in Arkansas. And she brought home a boyfriend to visit the back, the relatives. He's a terrific guy. He's at University of Arkansas Medical School. And he radiated such health He's so not jaded. I, I think it's fair to say it's not the only group I would say it of Americans, but I, I think that as a general rule, people are nicer in the South. I mean, if you were to ask people on a day-to-day basis, just sweetness, kindness, courtesy, are New Yorkers or folks in Little Rock, or in Arkansas generally— he wasn't from Little Rock— nicer? I mean, what, what do you think? Forget politics, okay? We're not talking politics. You know my belief, and now it's fascinating, this too is coming to pass. Cities do not produce healthy results. They produce culture, they produce a lot of good things, I have no doubt about that. But they're not the healthiest places to live. I am stunned that people stay in some apartment buildings in little apartments, not just Manhattan, whether it's Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island. I've lived in 3 of the boroughs. I grew up in New York. When, when they could probably get work in Arkansas, for example, and have such a nice place to live with nice neighbors and no drug deals in the street as a general rule. What stops people from doing that? And the only answer I could think of is fear of the unknown. You talk about xenophobia, fear of the foreigner, of the stranger. I think people in big cities have xenophobia. They fear people in rural areas. They fear people in the South, right? Isn't that, you know, that the irony? The people who charge xenophobia probably have it the most. Against fellow Americans, forget non-Americans. You, uh, you, if you're a parent, you really have to make some very big decisions now. I don't think you should send your kid in most cases. Obviously, I, I'll bet in Arkansas it's not an issue, but it might be, I don't know. But there is, uh, if you send your child— I read to you yesterday The, all the associations of education, it, it, what they are going to now teach, they're going, your child will get zero appreciation of the founders of this country, zero appreciation of this country, and a Black Lives Matter curriculum, not to mention an LGBTQ curriculum, so that, you know, they will be Drag queen story hour in for the— for your 5-year-old. Why would you send your child there? Because it's easier than homeschooling, because it's cheaper than a religious school or private school. By the way, not all religious schools are good. Read my article today at Town Hall on how Christians and Jews are failing their test. That's what you should ask. You ask your clergyman. I mean, it would be obviously an in-your-face question. I appreciate that, and I don't mean it to be that, but would you say you fear God or Facebook more? God or Twitter, God or Google, God or the New York Times, God or CNN. I mean, it's, it's, it, there are not many people who really believe in God. It is a very interesting thing. I'm going to play for you later that we found the Jordan Peterson response to me. I interviewed him right before he left public life because of his wife's cancer. She was with him there. I had the honor of meeting this wonderful woman. It was special to me. I have pretty much met everyone I want to meet. My favorite though, to be honest, I've never sought meeting famous people. The reason I loved meeting Jordan Peterson is not because he's famous, because he's such a remarkable human being. I've never been seduced by fame. I like my buddies. People ask me, so if you could choose 3 people to have lunch with or dinner with, so I pretty much choose the same 3 people I have had it with for the last 30 years. Every Saturday afternoon I've had Sabbath lunch with the same two couples. How many years is it now? Is it, is it approaching 30? A little scary. It's 25. 25 years. Oh, oh, it's really something. You know, I, I'm philosophizing here, which I often do. And I was given a gift when I was very young, and that is the love of wisdom. I really loved it. I wanted to be wise. I didn't use the word. I would say I wanted to understand life. And I remember thinking, when I die, I want to be able to look back had a full life. And I do believe that that helps. I think that, uh, it had— you know, people think of death now because of the coronavirus. I think people who feel that they have had a full life have a different approach to the issue of death. We'll be back.

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Dr. Strom, I just did a video about the Hong Kong flu of 1968, and if you look at the number of people who contracted it and died and adjusted for population, it was about 150,000 Americans. Uh, that's about, uh, 20, about 38,000 fewer deaths than we have so far with the current coronavirus. And we didn't shut down the government. I don't even remember it. I was 16 years old. I don't remember anybody talking about it at the time.

Okay, that point well taken. Let's just look at the numbers now. So since, since the, the May 16th, okay, we're having new cases clearly, and okay, businesses are opening up and people are getting more liberal. They're not, they're not as worried about transmission. But in the last week, I mean, there's going to be 709 new deaths, so 29,000 new cases. And last weekend was the highest daily total since May 16th.

Okay.

But if somebody gets a disease, is that a death sentence? Probably not. We see the mortality is probably less than we thought. So transmission is going to happen. And maybe we do want that because I told you last time I was on about herd immunity. You get 50 to 70% of the population infected, people are going to become immune. And, uh, and we may need that herd immunity if we don't get a vaccination within the next, what, year? We hope by year end. So yes, there are new cases. Does it warrant a complete shutdown? Probably not.

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The president was interviewed, I think it was on Fox News, I think it was Sean Hannity. The president responded to what happened with, I think, I don't think this is a controversial view, but maybe you do. Here was the president last night. With Sean on Fox News Channel.

I thought it was a terrible situation, but you can't resist a police officer. And, you know, if you have a disagreement, you have to take it up after the fact. It was a very sad, very, very sad thing. It's going to be up to justice. I hope he gets a fair shake because police have not been treated fairly in our country. They have not been treated fairly.

Is President Trump controversial with that remark. It was a very sad thing. He said it was a terrible thing, but you can't resist the police. Is resisting the police acceptable to anybody? Thank you to whoever texted me on the MyPillow text line the image of Leslie Nielsen. I think it's from Naked Gun. And again, all hell breaking loose behind him, and he's saying, He's saying nothing to see here, please disperse. That's what America feels like right now, isn't it?

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In the 3-year turnaround, which is the best economic turnaround in U.S. history, Hugh, under President Trump's leadership. 2.5 million people pulled themselves out of poverty. We don't talk about that, but that is in contrast with the failure of the Great Society's War on Poverty. Over 50 years failed to move the poverty line at all, and President Trump comes in and does it. In the African-American community, we have the lowest unemployment in U.S. history right now, the highest middle-class income ever measured. President Trump has done more through justice reform HBCUs, which are our historic black colleges and universities, and our Opportunity Zones that Tim Scott has helped author, has done more good for that community than any president in the last decade, last 100 years, really.

I think the president is upholding the Constitution. On Sunday, we had Colin Powell say he's drifting from it. I wrote a Washington Post editorial this morning saying that's absurd. What's your assessment of Donald Trump's fealty, his loyalty talked.

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Hi.

Hi.

Hey, let me step outside.

Okay, don't, don't forget to put on a mask.

Um, got a question for you. Yeah, I wonder sometimes if, if the statues would be better off— some of them, I'm not saying George Washington, but some of the Confederate generals If they'd be better off in a museum.

Yeah, some might. Yeah, I, that's, I, first of all, it can't be torn down. That's an act of public criminality and it should be charged as such. If a city votes to take down a statue of a Confederate general, so be it.

The second thing I wanted to ask you is if that statue was of Hitler, Would you want it in the main square of the public, or would you want it in a museum?

Any society that put up a statue of Hitler would be announcing that we honor Jew hatred, death camps, and war and atrocities. That's all he stood for. But that is not the case with the statues of the people they are taking down. Columbus did not stand for what Hitler stood for. We are not honoring him for any of the killing that was done by everybody who went anywhere in the world at that time. And I am not defending it, I am explaining it. He is honored for introducing Western civilization to the Americas.

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You know, the idea of shutting down our economy was just, you know, awful. I mean, and by the way, the people who suffered the most, Larry, were the lowest income people, Black Americans. We had the best, do you know, Larry, from 2017 through 2020, what demographic group saw the fastest rise in incomes?

Blacks.

Black Americans. Yes, I knew you knew that. And, you know, wait a minute, how could that happen? We've got a racist president. How could that have happened? We had more economic advance in 3 years for Black Americans under Trump than we did in 8 years under Obama.

Stephen Moore is my guest. He was an economic advisor to President Trump. President Trump, to me, I could be completely wrong, you would know more than I would about this, instinctively he didn't want to shut down the economy, did he?

Oh, Trump did not want to shut down the economy, no way. He got terrible advice from Fauci, who's, you know, a disaster as his health advisor. And I'll tell you this, you know, we can't undo what has been done, but Donald Trump is not gonna shut down this economy again. I guarantee you that. I mean, now the left is saying, oh, we have to shut down the economy again because we've had a few more cases of coronavirus. No, we— look, the vast, vast, vast majority of the people who've gotten very sick and have died from coronavirus are people over the age of 65 or 70. So let's keep those people healthy. But, you know, we've got to get— you can't keep an economy down. And I actually think it's because we did this, we locked down the economy for 2 or 3 months, that we have these riots in the street. You can't keep young people locked up for— with nothing to do. To do, no jobs to go to, no income for 2 or 3 months, and expect— you're, you're creating a tinderbox and it was just waiting for a match.

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Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA, Falkirk Center, Liberty University. Let's talk about what, college campuses in America? Because Turning Point USA, you do a lot of speaking at college campuses because they are the places really that they're the incubators of the woke madness, cultural Marxism.

So I want everyone to watch the news very carefully the next 6 months. When you see outward radicalism, hatred of our country, statements by Joe Biden or by leading Democrats that make your skin crawl. I want everyone listening to this to take a step back and ask, where did this come from? And it came from the universities. These ideas were given merit and basis through higher education and college campuses, through an intelligentsia of left-wing Marxist radicals that have been given undeserved credibility for absolute garbage, foolish ideas. For everyone listening to this, if you are worried about the continual decline of America into chaos or into our anarchy, or as America's continued to trend, I want you to ask yourself the question, am I actually supporting it without even realizing it? Because I know a lot of your listeners, Eric, they say, oh no, no, no, I don't support the downfall of America. I'm very careful where I shop and what I do and where I go to church. Maybe if you send your kid to a college, I'm not saying it's the right thing or the wrong thing, but you very well might be financially assisting the greatest threat to the future of America. And if you're voluntarily donating money as an alumni, you're absolutely doing that.

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The new book, I don't know when he sleeps because he publishes a new book every 3 weeks, is Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win. First, tell us, David, what is the key to your—

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Hey everybody, so another statue that's been brought down is that of Saint Junipero Serra, or Father Junipero Serra. He was a Catholic priest in the 18th century in California, and he brought Christianity largely, or Catholicism at any rate, to many Native Americans. And there is, so here's a description in American Magazine. I can't tell the politics of the magazine. I don't know if it's right or left, so it seems to be Quite accurate, actually. In a video of the San Francisco toppling, people can be heard cheering as the statue of the 18th-century Franciscan priest holding a cross fell to the ground. People strike and kick the statue in the video, and it's clear the statue has also been tagged and splashed with what appears to be red paint. So I'm wondering, if you had to entrust your child for a year with the people who kicked and brought down the statue, or the people who would like the statue to remain, even if you're an atheist, which group would you choose? Even, I have two funny reactions from my colleagues. Triple G is cracking up and the Living Martyr is shaking his head, lamenting the state of affairs that prompted my question. You've got to be a really angry dude or dudette to tear down the statue of Father Sarah, who is Saint Sarah now. Saint Junipero Serra. And he was made a saint by the most liberal pope of our lifetime, most left-wing pope, Francis. Pope Francis made him a saint. I guess Pope Francis is not woke enough. Now here's an interesting question. Will Pope Francis comment on the tearing down of the man he made a saint? Statues of the man he made a saint? He has not yet, has he? Not that we know of. Has any Democratic politician commented on Washington? Tearing down of our past. By the way, he is not even charged with killing Native Americans. He's charged basically with being part of the Western invasion of native lands. In other words, no Westerners should have come to North America. And even worse, spreading Christianity. You don't want to do that. Who would want the products of such people like The first country in the world to have for vast numbers of people such equality of opportunity, such freedom. You know why America is hated by the left? Because it's successful. America is hated by the left very, very similar to why Jews are hated by anti-Semites. Because they have succeeded. And I don't mean just financially, but they have succeeded in making a good family life, in making a stable society. Nobody hates failures, right? Think about it. America succeeded and they want to bring it down. I would think that if you love people, what you would want to do is say, you know, America's really done very well for most of its people, inordinately well, uniquely well. More people want to move to America by a factor of 3, according to Gallup poll that just came out. 3 times more people want to move to America than any other place. And that includes Africans, sub-Saharan Africans, meaning black Africans. 2 million who have moved here in the last 50 years. 2 million. According to the data of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, head of Black Studies there, about 300,000 came to America as slaves. 2 million have come voluntarily. The transatlantic slave crossing was like a concentration camp on the seas. It was so evil. But I do want you to understand that despite that, apparently vast numbers of Black Africans have not bought the idea that this is a racist country. Yes, indeed. Look at that, it's already time. They write here, and they're right, when you get out of pain, your life is a lot different Boy, is that ever true. Pain is a very bad thing. Even if you are good at withstanding it, it has a deep impact on you, makes you tired, makes you— makes your immune system weaker. Please try to get out of it. There's a 3-week quick start for Relief Factor, $19.95. You'll know in 3 weeks if it works. ReliefFactor.com, 800 800-838-4000.

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I am reading from the Financial Times headline, Pompeo Castigates Bolton as a Traitor. Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, has hit out at John Bolton, calling his former colleague a traitor and accusing Donald Trump's ex-national security adviser of lies in his new memoir. John Bolton is spreading a number of lies, fully spun half-truths, and outright falsehoods, Mr. Pompeo said about The Room Where It Happened, Mr. Bolton's new book that is scheduled for release next Tuesday. In a statement headlined I Was in the Room Too, Mr. Pompeo said it was both, uh, sad and dangerous that John Bolton's final public role is that of a traitor who damaged America by violating his sacred trust with its people. Strong words. I just don't like memoirs which are tell-alls. Now, I read memoirs. I'm reading Bob Gates's new book, which will have anecdotes in it. I'm sure he submitted for the, uh, the review of, uh, the appropriate authorities to make sure that we do not give away any methods or source. It results in death. That's why the Pentagon Papers was not a moment of virtue for this country. It was a moment of assassination by Daniel Ellsberg and those who cheered it. It resulted in the deaths of people who could be traced in their cooperation with the United States government by the North Vietnamese after they triumphed after the United States cut and ran from Vietnam in 1974, uh, 1975, excuse me. So no, I just don't believe in it. You got to put your books in for review. There have been memoirs by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, by Vice President Cheney, by George W. Bush, by Condoleezza Rice. They all get submitted to the same process. And guess what? It's not quick. And Ambassador Bolton ought to have followed the rules.

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You write in your book, uh, Amity Shlaes, quote, most Americans shared something else with Harrington: confidence. In the 1930s, the New Deal had failed to reduce unemployment. The prolonged periods of joblessness were what had made the Depression great, but the memory of the New Deal failure had faded just enough that younger people liked the sound of the term, and memories of more recent successes fueled Americans' 'current ambitions. Many men were veterans,' end of quote. This confidence that we could reorient society, we could cure poverty, as you pointed out, this is what drove a lot of this stuff.

Oh yes.

Well, you know, it's always— I was looking at a flip chart, a flip picture today, you know, on the internet where they said, 'Well, racism is a result of capitalism. We need socialism to get rid of racism.' And I thought, wow, that's pretty intense, but a lot— and pretty wrongheaded, but a lot of young people believe that. The epigram of the current book, Great Society, which I hope your listeners will pick up— there's a lot of facts you may have thought about before, but never seen laid out— is nothing new, just forgotten. And now, here we are, people are just wealthy enough, unemployment has been low And I will take some of your calls now.

In Pittsburgh, it is Frank. How you doing?

Okay, Dennis, it's an honor to talk to you. Um, I've read a couple of your books and I don't know, at least to me, you're one of the clearest thinkers I've ever heard. I agree with just about everything you say. Um, but anyhow, I'm not normally a defeatist person. I'm more of a, of a happier person, more positive person. But with things I mean, I hear on your show, on Fox News, maybe on one American network, different networks or different things I read with colleges pumping out armies of liberals, statues being torn down, armies of leftists.

I wish they pumped out armies of liberals. Go ahead.

Okay. Excuse me. You're right. You're right. Armies of leftists, statues being torn down just for the sake of fun, cities being burned just for the sake of fun, trying to get rid of police, etc., etc. It seems like— I think in the Bible there's references to the end. I'm not saying this is now, but references to the end times when everything that is good is bad and everything that's bad is good. They vilify and trash religions— Christianity, Judaism, doesn't make any difference. They vilify the religion and then they praise stuff stuff like, um, uh, like RuPaul, you know, with the, with the, um, female impersonators and all that stuff. It's just, I mean, how do you go on? It's almost like from the conservative side, anything you do, basically, I try to teach my daughters well. I try to teach them right from wrong, you know, all that. They're very good girls. But it almost seems like from this side, we're just rearranging check, uh, deck chairs on the Titanic. The ship is eventually going to sink. All the stuff that George Soros, all the money he's pouring into— where they said these activists, they would find pallets of stones.

George Soros is nothing compared to the Ford Foundation and the vast amounts of money being given by corporations. I can't stand George Soros. Soros. He's a force of evil. But let me tell you something, when you look at the funding of Black Lives Matter, look at corporations and look at the foundations. Who gave them $100 million? Was it Ford or Rockefeller? Ford? Yeah. Well, he asks the $64,000 question. So I tell you, I agree with everything he said. Except they're not tearing down statues for fun. That's part of it. They're bored. That is part of it. They want to bring down the West. That Father Sarah represents Judeo-Christian Western civilization. His statue represents what they loathe, that America was Christianized. North America was Christianized. Amazing, isn't it? Amazing. No, before how do we fight it is— he asked how do we fight it, my producer. Before asking that, he's asking how do I— I, was his name Frank? I don't remember. How do I in Pittsburgh fight depression. I don't mean clinical depression, just getting depressed. If I'm just rearranging chairs, deck chairs on the Titanic, then, you know, it's hard to whistle a happy tune. Well, it could be the Titanic. Civilization is fragile. I've said that my whole life. That's my fear of the left. They are an iceberg. That's a great analogy. The left is the iceberg. We are veering toward it. Question is, can we avoid it? Yes. If enough people simply said, we are not sending our children to what the left has destroyed, the public school, that would be a tsunami. That would be an earthquake. The problem is good people don't fight sometimes until it's too late. That's the problem. There's a great way for you to make, make a statement, a real big one, and protect your children from the crap, the moral crap taught to them from elementary school through college. Take them out. And I do not believe there is a secular answer. Secular conservatives do a great service to this country. I love them. Douglas Murray is an example. There are so many of them. But the West will not survive the death of the Judeo-Christian basis. In God we trust is the motto. You know, I'll bet you, I do believe that if the Republicans, if the Democrats have both houses and the presidency, I think they'll take down the inscription in God We Trust that is in the House of Representatives. When the president gives, any president gives a State of Union address and is standing there, they never pan out, never. It's amazing. I only know it because I went there. Gigantic letters in God We Trust. That is a basis of this society because rights come from God, not from man. Not in God We Trust, he'll take care of us. In God We Trust because without God we have no rights. The anti-God crowd are an anti-freedom crowd. Have you noticed that, folks? They're not a nice crowd, the anti-religious crowd. I'm not talking about every atheist. I'm talking about the anti-religious people who want Father Sarah— and by the way, Ventura City wants it down. That is amazing. Out here in Los— in the Los Angeles area, I thought Ventura was a fairly traditional place. In Ventura, the letter announcing the removal of the Sarah statue was signed by Mayor Matt LaVere, Father Tom Elowat. It's amazing that they got a priest to do it. I told you, because leftism has affected Catholicism, Christianity, Protestantism, and Judaism so deeply. That's an example. There's a priest who was signed a letter to take down the, the, the saint's statue, and this is a Jew defending the statue.

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I keep asking you the same question every week because I still don't get it. The greatest nation on God's earth, uh, until the coronavirus, the Wu Flu, the biggest economy the world had ever seen. The markets returned to where they were pre-COVID, and then there's these weird skittish moments where, where there's a flutter on the market and there's a sudden drop because what, 4 Apple stores are closing Trish, what's going on?

Well, yeah, you know, some people are nervous right now. There's still a lot of volatility out there because they're trying to figure out, is this for real, right? Like, they want to make sure that this economic recovery is indeed for real. And when you hear about Apple stores shutting down, when you hear about states getting very nervous about reopening, that they're saying to themselves, wait a second, we're not gonna have a repeat of what we just went through, are we? And I think that the short answer to that is, of course, no. But nonetheless, it's how committed are American consumers going to be, how committed is corporate America in this new environment to move forward. And that's what it's going to come down to, right? Because if we start to backpedal here, we start to say, okay, no, we're shutting everything down, schools don't start in September, then you run the risk of another shutdown and another economic, frankly, catastrophe, because that's what that was. They caused— this was sort of self-inflicted— an economic catastrophe.

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Welcome. I'm talking to my friend Dinesh D'Souza. He has a new book out today. It's called United States of Socialism. If previous presidents had done the right thing, the monster that is now China would not be as big as it is, and we would not have to deal with it in this way. But it seems to me that the naivete and the greed of Clinton and the Bushes with regard to China, thinking that that the God of the free market is going to solve the political problems in China and make them just like us. That's one kind of stupidity. The other is just the pure greed of saying that, knowing that at least whatever happens, I'm gonna make a lot of money. We've let this go on for 30+ years. And it seems that you need someone like Trump to deal with them in the way that he's been dealing with them. At least that's what I think.

[Speaker:DENNIS PRAGER] The Chinese have had a longstanding policy of getting favorable treatment from the leaders of other countries by financing their family members. It's an old kind of Asian despotic mode of doing business. Now, if you look at Biden, for example, over the years Biden's net worth has not gone up for the simple reason that he has to disclose Hey, stay on everybody.

Even if I don't get to you, I want to summarize what you have to say. I am—

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I didn't hear a word you said. I know, I would summarize before this hour is over. Don in Clarksville, Tennessee. Hello.

Hi Dennis. I just want to bear witness to the, what you were saying about the Southerners being kinder. Um, we moved here from California about in November and we lived in California for 6 years. And that's one of the first things that struck my wife and I was the kindness of the people. And I think I attribute that to the governor, the government's onerous imposition on the private sector, making life much more You have to allocate that much more resource just to eke out a living there in California. I think the people are much more gentler and kinder as a result here.

I think that's a factor, but I think the biggest factor is that more people in the South believe in America, believe in God. What do people— what do the left believe in? Anti-racism? What decent human being is not anti-racist? It means it doesn't tell us anything. Every decent person is anti-racist. It's like being anti-homicide. They believe in nothing. That's the problem. God and country means something in Clarksville, Tennessee. Ayesha in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hello there.

Hello.

Hi.

Hey, Dennis Prager. I've been listening to you for many years, like 10 years. How are you doing?

Hey, you started at a very young age.

Hello?

I said you started at a very young age.

Well, how about that? Uh, well, so, uh, right quick, I'm a military vet.

Love your show.

Listen to a lot of conservative, um, so-called pundits and, um, just want to say here, uh, I understand that race is a man-made concept. I'm darker than you because of melanin, not because I'm a different race. It's a shame that we're tearing down statues and relics of people that are viewed as heroes in some circles, and history is best qualified to reward all research. Tearing down statues and relics and renaming schools, et cetera, is to me in a sense trying to erase history and the truth, and some ugly truth. Also, I cannot cannot wait until white America, those who call themselves the silent majority and really don't want to speak from the heart or say too much out of fear of retribution or shame or ridicule, I cannot wait until they start to speak from the heart and say how they truly feel. And then Black America will be able to turn around and see that it's not because of the color of your skin or the way you look physically that white Americans, some in large numbers, don't want to live amongst you.

But very small number. Anyway, I would love to meet you one day, Dave, Tim, Rob, John, Joe, and Maureen. I wish I could have summarized your calls.

This is Lonnie Chen of the Hoover Institution for townhall.com. Public health officials across America have spent the last several months months warning about the dangers of the coronavirus and the need for us to stay at home, halt economic activity, and avoid social interactions with our friends and neighbors. We are now reopening our economy in many parts of the country, but these same public health officials have compromised their own credibility as we do so. On the one hand, they've urged caution and a slow return to work, school, and faith gatherings. They've criticized those who opposed the stay-at-home orders. But at the same time, these officials have been broadly supportive of the large protests on America's streets in the last few weeks. Public health officials should be helping us understand the comparative risks of activities, not endorsing the causes they like while prohibiting the ones they don't. Their hypocrisy is costly indeed. They have impacted our ability to address future health crises. I'm Lanhee Chang.

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I think the New York media is describing Florida as coronavirus raging through the state. That's literally the word they're using, at least in the New York Post. But there's a peculiar— there's a peculiarity about these, these data-driven news reports. All the— but always at the bottom of the article, at the end of the report, They admit that deaths and hospitalizations are down and hospital capacity is nowhere near being stretched thin. I don't understand it any more than I can make sense of a, of a guy like Anthony Fauci who told us that masks don't work and they're not effective and you shouldn't go around wearing a mask, you're causing more problems than, than solutions. And then admitting that those were lies because they were worried that we would, you know, scarf up all the face masks from the hospital workers. And now if you live in California, soon-to-be Texas, Tampa, Florida, you don't wear a mask, I guess you're breaking the law. I don't know what they're gonna do to you if you don't have a mask. Think there'll be a mask jail? Will there be a prison for people who refuse to wear a mask? I'm serious. They're gonna lock people up? You're just gonna give you a fine? You're gonna pay a fine if you refuse to wear a mask? I saw a conservative activist got kicked off a flight. He was trying to get to Tulsa, uh, on an airplane. They kicked him off the plane. I believe it was American Airlines.

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We used to be able to testify in court and we were believed. Now, unless there is a video from 3 different angles, no one cares what you have to say. With all this talk about racism and racist cops, I've never seen people treated differently because of their race. And while I know that cowards that have never done this job will call me a racist for saying it, all I've ever seen was criminal behavior and cops trying to stop it. And they didn't give a rip what their skin color was. I've seen cops help and save any type of race, gender, or ethnicity you can think of. And while that used to mean something, no one cares anymore. I've been called every name you can think of, and many of them with racial overtones. And it's never come from cops. I've watched African-American cops take the brunt of this and even talked one rookie out of quitting after he was berated by a lot of cowards that had the same skin color as him. I've never heard— I've heard words I never heard before coming a cop. Uncle Tom, cracker, pig, and the N-word, just to name a few. I've heard them thousands of times and never once did I see an officer retaliate. They just took it. The nasty words have now turned into rocks and bottles and gunfire. I've watched it happen to those around me and I've seen the total destruction of their life. This job is a walking time bomb and you can get cancelled or prosecuted on the very next call, even if you do everything right. No profession has to deal with that.

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I am reading from the Financial Times headline: Pompeo castigates Bolton as a traitor. Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State, has hit out at John Bolton, calling his former colleague a traitor and accusing Donald Trump's ex-national security adviser of lies in his new memoir. John Bolton is spreading a number of lies, fully spun half-truths, and outright falsehoods, Mr. Pompeo said about the room where it happened Mr. Bolton's new book that is scheduled for release next Tuesday. In a statement headlined, I Was in the Room Too, Mr. Pompeo said it was both sad and dangerous that John Bolton's final public role is that of a traitor who damaged America by violating his sacred trust with its people. Strong words. I just don't like memoirs, which are tell-alls. Now, I read memoirs. I'm reading Bob Gates's new book, which will have anecdotes in it. I'm sure he submitted for the review of the appropriate authorities to make sure that we do not give away any methods or source. It results in death. That's why the Pentagon Papers was not a moment of virtue for this country. It was a moment of assassination by Daniel Ellsberg and those who cheered it. It resulted in the deaths of people who could be traced in their cooperation with the United States government by the North Vietnamese after they triumphed after the United States cut and ran from Vietnam in 1975. 1974, 1975, excuse me. So no, I just don't believe in it. You got to put your books in for review. There have been memoirs by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, by Vice President Cheney, by George W. Bush, by Condoleezza Rice. They all get submitted to the same process. And guess what? It's not quick. And Ambassador Bolton ought to have followed the rules.

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You write in your book I don't normally hum along with that one. I usually do the happiness theme. Hey everybody, Dennis Prager here. It is an honor to be with you, and it is an honor. I don't— I never lose sight of that fact. Just wanted you to know. The Ultimate Issues Hour, third hour every Tuesday, about the great issues of life. And I think I feel very, very vindicated about having chosen an Ultimate Issues Hour. What year did we start the Ultimate Issues Hour? '18? What was it? No, really, what, what was the year? That was the third of the dedicated shows. We had a Male-Female Hour and a Happiness Hour, and the third— we hate— we even had a History Hour. 2006? This is 14 years, The Ultimate Issues Hour. Tells you about the big issues of life. So today's big issue is the subject of my article today, and that can be found at DennisPrager.com, my column every Tuesday, into which I pour my heart and my brain each week. You can, how do people get it just regularly? It's really, it's important for me that you read what I write.

Hmm?

Just sign up for the newsletter where? At DennisPrager.com. And it's a town hall each week, among other places. Anyway, it is about the big test that religion is facing. And I ask a question, this will explain this point very quickly. I ask a question in the course of the column, Do you think your rabbi, priest, or pastor fears God more or fears Twitter more? I am dead serious. I do not speak hyperbolically. I think most rabbis, priests, and ministers fear the the mob, and I mean the intellectual mob, not just the mob in the street, more than they fear God. Fear of God, as I quote Ecclesiastes, let me get that because it's a mind-boggling quote. It's one of the books of the Bible. It gives you an idea of why I am nuts about the Bible. And yeah, here, I'm gonna get it for you. This is, I actually was not even aware of it till I wrote the column, which is Shame on me. I'm writing a commentary on the Bible, but of course it's on the first 5 books, which I know much of it by heart in Hebrew, but the later books, the writings and so on. Let me do a search on Ecclesiastes 12:13. Ready? Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Is that great? That's really— that is as good a summary as even the one I've always liked from Micah 6:8. Oh man, has God not told you all he wants? To pursue justice, act mercifully, act kindly, and walk humbly with your God. God is essential to both, you see. That is what has been lost here. That is why we have 'In God We Trust' on our coins. But fear of God is critical, is the oxygen of life. It is, 'If you fear God, you will not fear man.' You will not fear what the New York Times will say about you. You. You will not fear what people will tweet about you. It is very liberating, by the way. There is nothing more liberating than fear of God. Did you know that? It is the most liberating thing you can have in your life, because fear paralyzes people, like fear of COVID-19 has paralyzed the world. So let's, uh, let's ruin the lives of hundreds of millions because we're so frightened. Fear is the oxygen of the— well, hysteria is the oxygen of the left. I've said that for much of my life. I wrote all these things prior to the current conditions that we live in. So my subject today is the impact of the left on religion. Politics as such is not normally the subject of the Ultimate Issues Hour, but it's a little pointless to avoid it. It's rather prominent. Last hour I mentioned they're taking down the statues of a saint. Saint, not just a priest, a saint. Junipero Serra, 18th century Catholic missionary in California. And they're taking— they're just taking down a statue. It's chaos because the authorities do nothing to stop this vandalization. It's an incredible thing. The authorities are not authorities. They're only authorities You know, when they, they want to be woke, and I, I am stunned by the ability of people to tear down statues and not be stopped, even if I agree with, on rare occasions, with the, with the statue, or at least don't disagree. I, I think the statue should be left, including the statues of, of, uh, people I don't like. It's because, as you see, the president was right. So tomorrow it's going to be George Washington, and he was mocked. Then that's exactly what happens. It never stops. People, you think people say, oh, we'll just take down Confederate general statues. Okay, so in, you know, in one year it's the Catholic saint. Because he had the audacity to bring Christianity to North America. So I was reading to you that in the city of Ventura, they want to take down the statue of Father Serra, and— or Saint Serra, if you're saying Saint Junipero Serra— and, uh, one of those signing the letter was a Catholic priest in the city of Ventura, California. A Catholic priest wants to tear down a Catholic priest statue of a saint because the guy's woke. So this guy marches to the beat of the left. This is, this is now the norm in mainstream Protestantism, mainstream Catholicism, and mainstream Judaism. Mainstream meaning not Orthodox. The Orthodox are not exactly they're fighting on behalf of God and Torah, which is my problem I have with them, but at least they're not woke. Why did no priests, rabbis, or ministers get on the internet? I mean, everybody can have a big voice now. Why didn't they get on the internet and say, the Ten Commandments says thou shalt not steal. Every one of you who is looting is violating the most fundamental, one of the 10 most fundamental rules of civilization. If you know a priest, rabbi, or minister who put that out in public, let me know. Oh, what are they, are they afraid to do that? Are the, is the Ten Commandments window dressing? Dennis Prager, 1-800-PRAGER-776. So that's why I wrote the title of my column is that Judaism and Christianity are failing their greatest test. I mean, this is not like a communist or fascist country where you speak out, you risk your life. You speak out, you risk being condemned by the Los Angeles Times. That's not exactly death. It's an honor. You're probably decent if the LA Times condemns you. The odds are you're right if the New York Times has contempt for you. 1-8-Prager-776. Very curious. Yes, let me see. Something just came in here. That's an MIT chaplain forced to resign after citing George Floyd's rap sheet to students. Well, there was a— there was— now, who— oh, this is amazing. The Archdiocese of Boston forced Daniel Maloney to resign from his chaplain role at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after students and alumni complained that Maloney brought up George Floyd's past criminal history in an email to students.

Wow.

Wow. Well, there's a good clergyman. He writes for First Things, like it's, it's not relevant. He— Sarah's not a saint, but Floyd is.

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I keep asking you the same question every week because I still don't get it. The greatest nation on God's earth, uh, until the coronavirus, the Wu Flu, the biggest economy the world had ever seen, the markets returned to where they were pre-COVID, and then there's these weird skittish moments where there's a flutter on the market and there's a sudden drop because what, 4 Apple stores are closing. Trish, what's going on?

Well, yeah, you know, some people are nervous right now. There's still a lot of volatility out there because they're trying to figure out, is this for real? Right. Like, they want to make sure that this economic recovery is indeed for real. And when you hear about Apple stores shutting down, when you hear about states getting very nervous about reopening, they're saying to themselves, wait a second, we're not going to have a repeat of what we just went through, are we? And I think that the short answer to that is, of course, no. But nonetheless, it's how committed our American consumer is going to be, how committed is corporate America in this new environment to move forward. And that's what it's going to come down to, right? Because if we start to backpedal here, we start to say, okay, no, we're shutting everything down, schools don't start in September, then you run the risk of another shutdown and another economic, frankly, catastrophe, because that's what that was. They caused, this was sort of self-inflicted, an economic catastrophe.

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Hey there, folks.

Welcome. I'm talking to my friend Dinesh D'Souza. He has a new book out today. It's called United States of Socialism. If previous presidents had done the right thing, the monster that is now China would not be as big as it is, and we would not have to deal with it in this way. But it seems to me that the naivete and the greed of Clinton and the Bushes with regard to China, thinking that the god of the free market is going to solve the political problems in China and make them just like us. That's one kind of stupidity. The other is just the pure greed of saying that, knowing that at least whatever happens, I'm going to make a lot of money. We've let this go on for 30-plus years, and it seems that you need someone like Trump to deal with them in the way that he's been dealing with them. At least that's what I think.

The Chinese have had a longstanding policy of getting favorable treatment from the leaders of other countries by financing their family members. It's an old kind of Asian despotic mode of doing business. Now, if you look at Biden, for example, over the years Biden's net worth has not gone up for the simple reason that he has to disclose any investments that he has, any deals that he makes, makes. But now watch the Biden family—his brother James Biden, his other brother Frank Biden, his son Hunter Biden—their net worths have skyrocketed. Why? Because when Biden goes to China, he takes Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden then gets a deal through the Shanghai Free Trade Zone that is not available to Western investors, in which the Chinese government itself is putting in money—a $1.5 billion investment.

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Dr. Strom, I just did a video about the Hong Kong flu of 1968, and if you look at the number of people who contracted it and died and adjust for a population.

Hey, listen, I want to remind you folks, let's see, we passed Father's Day, right? Past Mother's Day, we passed Christmas, past Hanukkah. What's the next time that there might be a gift? What holiday? The summer solstice. If you want to give a great summer solstice gift— that's right, we are So if you want to give a great post-summer solstice gift, that is very often done because people are so sort of intoxicated with the joy of the summer solstice that it might take a day or two and then you send the gift. That's the way it's done among atheists who don't have Christmas, for example. So They have that. But if you want to send a great one, they post— it's not easy— the post-solstice. You can't say post-solstice 10 times. I'll bet you cannot. Anyway, seriously, Prager Utopia is not only great gifts, great for you. You hear the show anytime you want. Prager Utopia Unlimited, you have everything. You have 10 years of shows and all of my lectures, all of my courses. PragerUtopia.com. Great gift, great for you. Great for the show. Subscribers help this show. Okay, let's make it clear. This is a pretty important thing. This is not self-aggrandizing. I am aware of how important my voice is, and not only my voice, thank God, but my voice certainly in this time of attempt to destroy the United States as the United States of America. PragerTopia.com. PragerTopia. Hey, you want to see a perfect example? It just came in to me. It's a perfect example of this Ultimate Issues topic, right? Right. Of the failure of religion to stand up to the left. The Archdiocese of Boston. This is just now. What's the date? Yeah, it's today. The Archdiocese of Boston forced Daniel Maloney to resign from his chaplain role at MIT after students and alumni complained that Maloney brought up George Floyd's past criminal history in an email to students. Although Maloney, a Catholic priest, was making an argument that Floyd's past should not justify his death, the fact that he brought up Floyd's rap sheet, it shows you the hatred of truth on the left. The man is— the issue is not did he deserve to die. Of course not, that's a given. But to deny that the man would not have been in that position, would never have encountered police without the background that he had, that is not relevant? It is not fair to bring up? The fact that he brought up Floyd's rap sheet at all prompted some to protest the chaplain's message to campus officials and file bias complaints. Why is it biased? George Floyd was killed by a police officer and should not have been, Maloney wrote in his June 7 email to the MIT Tech Catholic community. He, quote, he had not lived a virtuous life. He was convicted of several crimes, including armed robbery. Robbery, which he seems to have committed to feed his drug habit. And he was high on drugs at the time of his arrest. But we do not kill such people. He committed sins, but we root for sinners to change their lives and convert to the gospel. Boy, this is really biased stuff, isn't it? You know what's contemptible? I expect MIT to be a totalitarian state. They're secular leftists. It's the archdiocese removing him as chaplain. That is, that is my point. The Archdiocese of Boston fears the left more than it fears God. Get it? That's my theme. That's my theme of the article. That is what is true in much of Judaism, in much of Catholicism, and in much of Protestantism. They fear the left more than they fear God. This is a perfect example that they would not stand by their chaplain and removed him. In the wake of George Floyd's death, most people in the country have framed this as an act of racism. I don't think we know that. Wow, you can't even question— how do they know it was racism? Really, how do you know it was racism?

We don't know anything.

It was wrong, but we don't know it was animated by racism. It might have been. Many people have claimed that racism is a major problem in police forces. I don't think we know that. That's right, it's a very complex question. And in terms of lethality, in terms of interaction, the guy at Harvard who I have a trust in, what was his name, Frey? Who's the guy at Harvard who just wrote another piece for the Wall Street Journal? Fryer. Is that what? No, not Fryer. I don't think it's Fryer. Just look it up anyway. Whatever. I'll get you the name. He claims in his rigorous data there is more interaction, more negative interaction, I guess including stopping vehicles. Of Black drivers. There are data that suggest otherwise, that it's Black drivers who speed more often. I don't know what the truth is. Fryer it is? How do you spell it? That's why I did F-R-Y-E-R. It's a very strange spelling of that name, right? It's usually F-R-E-I-E-R. Okay, anyway, I go where the truth is. And a lot of Black people that I know have said— Black people, what a joke— a lot of Blacks that I know have said that. Some deny it, that it's a huge issue. Be that as it may, on the lethality, on killing, they are actually disproportionately killed less than whites by police. And talking about unarmed people. Anyway, the guy has been removed. And listen to this, I love this term. An article in the Tech Campus newspaper reports that MIT's Dean for Student Life Susie Nelson said administrators and— ready?— the Bias Response Team. There's a Bias Response Team at MIT for all the flagrant bias at the place. Anyway, what the topic of this talk is, what the Archdiocese of Boston has done, because they're wimps. Because as I said, a lot of religious people don't fear God, they fear what people, what the mob will say. The left is the mob today. Terrence Donilon, a spokesman for the Archdiocese, told WBZ-TV, quote, quote, while Father Maloney's comments should not reflect on the entirety of his priestly ministry, they nonetheless were wrong, and by his resignation, he accepts the hurt they have caused. This is all about the hurt they have caused. So the question now is, does it cause any hurt? Well, what doesn't it? You think removing him as chaplain does— why doesn't that cause hurt, right? I don't understand. Why is that invalid. We'll be back.

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Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show, the president was interviewed, I think it was on Fox News, I think it was Sean Hannity. The president responded to what happened with, I think, I don't think this is a controversial view, but maybe you do. Here was the president last night with Sean on Fox News Channel.

I thought it was a terrible situation, but you can't resist a police officer, and you know, if you have a disagreement, You have to take it up after the fact. It was a very sad, very, very sad thing. It's going to be up to justice. I hope he gets a fair shake because police have not been treated fairly in our country. They have not been treated fairly.

Is President Trump controversial with that remark? It was a very sad thing. He said it was a terrible thing, but you can't resist the police. Is resisting the police acceptable to anybody. Thank you to whoever texted me on the MyPillow text line the image of Leslie Nielsen. I think it's from Naked Gun. And again, all hell breaking loose behind him, and he's saying, he's saying, nothing to see here, please disperse. That's what America feels like right now, isn't it?

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In the 3-year turnaround, which is the best economic turnaround in U.S. history, Hugh, under President Trump's leadership, 2.5 million people pulled themselves out of poverty. We don't talk about that, but that is in contrast with the failure of the Great Society's War on Poverty. Over 50 years failed to move the poverty line at all. And President Trump comes in and does it. In the African American community, we have the lowest unemployment in U.S. history right now, the highest middle class income ever measured. President Trump has done more through justice reform, HBCUs, which are our historic Black colleges and universities, and our opportunity zones that Tim Scott has helped author, has done more good for that community than any president in the last decade, last 100 years, really.

I think the president is upholding the Constitution. On Sunday, we had Colin Powell say he's drifting from it. I wrote a Washington Post editorial this morning saying that's absurd. What's your assessment of Donald Trump's fealty, his loyalty to the Constitution?

This man is committed to the Constitution. If you look at everything he's done in standing up for America with our allies and others who would do us harm, this man has made sure the world knows that America first doesn't mean America alone. But this is the first president we've had in 50, 60 years, Hugh, that has told the rest of the world what's important to us. I think that's very refreshing, and we've got to give him a second term.

I believe this whole election is about the Constitution. I think Donald Trump is the Constitution candidate, and I think Joe Biden and the Democratic Party is off the rails to the left.

Your assessment? Well, the Democrats are trying to perpetrate a socialist agenda that you heard in the presidential debate, Hugh, and you'll see it in the, in the general election with Biden Biden is no moderate. He absolutely wants to perpetrate a socialist agenda on the people of America, and we're not going to let that happen.

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Almost everything most Americans think they know about what happened in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9th, 2014 is wrong, based on misinformation. Larry Elder tells you the truth. Truth in this week's Prager University video. See it at prageru.com, where we teach what isn't taught. Hi everybody, Dennis Prager, Ultimate Issues Hour, and the subject is the cowardice that dominates the clergy. Not all by any means, but mostly because they fear the left more than they fear God. It's a time of testing for Judaism and Christianity, and unfortunately, the grade is a D. And I gave you an example. The Catholic chaplain at MIT was removed by the archdiocese because the leftists complained about him. Dennis Prager wrote a completely honorable email about George Floyd. But the wimps who basically run the Catholic Church, just as they run much of Judaism and Protestantism— oh, oh, you object? Oh, the left objects, of course. Oh, of course. We at the Archdiocese of Boston don't stand for Catholicism. We stand for genuflecting, not before Christ, but before the left. Yosef, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hi, thanks for calling.

Thank you for taking my call, Dennis Prager. Longtime listener. It's an honor to speak with you. Thank you. You know, I just want to mention that you talk about this being an ultimate issue. It's very much an ultimate issue. In fact, in the Talmud itself, I believe it's Rabbi Meir, who said, this is in Tractate Brachot, by the way, 28b, may your fear of God be as great as your fear of man. I love it.

What is it, Brachot 28b?

28b, right? All right. The thing is that this is human nature, is to have peer pressure, to have, you know, fear of an audience, stage fright. And it's a big challenge to rise to that occasion. So you're right on the money, as usual. Thank you.

Are you a rabbi? I am, yes. Do you have a congregation?

I do not.

I'm a teacher. And do you teach at a Jewish school?

Uh, yes, among other places. I'm an Orthodox rabbi.

Right. And so, where are Orth— why aren't Orthodox rabbis commenting?

On— I believe they are. I believe they are commenting to their congregations and within more of a closed circle. I think this is such a dangerous time, such a scary time, that you almost can't blame people for not making public pronouncements. I blame religious people.

That's why the subject is, do you fear man or God more?

But here's the thing, Dennis. When we say fear God or fear man, in a normal sense, that would be people ridiculing you. When you're dealing in a society where your very life could be at risk for making one of these comments, and suddenly your life as you know it becomes dangerous, literally. So that poses a difficult thing when you have a rabbi—

Okay, I— Look, you're obviously— You're a kindred spirit. I'm a family— I am a family man with children. I speak out like this. I don't fear for a moment that I will be killed as a result of it, and neither should a rabbi, priest, or minister. Your name will be dragged through the mud, much as mine is on a daily basis. But that's— I mean, this is— we're not talking about communist Russia. Or fascist Germany. You know, we're talking about— still, it's the United States. You're not going to get killed for your opinion.

Well, with rioting going on in different places and people—

Well, you're in Minneapolis. You obviously feel it particularly intensely. Anyway, look, I mean, well, let me just say this. If you really believe that if a rabbi said, you know, my congregants, I just want you to understand we are seeing a massive desecration of the Ten Commandments with all this theft going on and no retribution. You think that he's taking his life in his hands for saying that?

Absolutely not. You know, I believe Orthodox rabbis are saying that to their congregations. So what you were saying in terms of a broader audience, in terms of making statements in the news or in papers and things like that, If a rabbi made that statement in a tweet, you think he would be taking his life in his hands in Minneapolis? Well, I wouldn't have thought that maybe a half a year ago, maybe even a few months ago.

Now I would have the question. Wow. All right.

Listen, stay in touch with me. Okay. That's the fact that this rabbi who agrees with me thinks that. Gives you an idea of where we're at in America today. Ladies and gentlemen, Reduzone is an extremely interesting, an extremely worthwhile product. It tells your brain, and it's composed of what you are already producing in your own body, OEA, which I knew nothing about, but I spoke to the doctors who made this, and it's the only FDA-accepted product with OEA. And it's very simple. Tells your brain you're full. Like, I fast every day 15 to 18 hours, and so I, I don't, uh, have the problem that most people have of they just think they're hungry a lot. Calories is, is almost everything. Not everything, but almost everything. I ask you to try this product, ridyouzone.com. Tells you it burns fat while you, while you're not eating. Promo code Dennis Prager.

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Dr. Strom, I just did a video about the Hong Kong flu of 1968, and if you look at the number of people who contracted it and died and adjusted for a population, it was about 150,000 Americans. That's about 20, about 38,000 fewer deaths than we have so far with the current coronavirus, and we didn't shut down the government. I don't even remember it. I was 16 years old. I don't remember anybody talking about it at the time.

Okay, that point well taken. Let's just look at the numbers now. So since, since the May 16th, okay? We're having new cases clearly. And okay, businesses are opening up and people are getting more liberal. They're not, they're not as worried about transmission. But in the last week, I mean, there's gonna be 709 new deaths, so 29,000 new cases. And last weekend was the highest daily total since May 16th, okay? But if somebody gets the disease, is that a death sentence? Probably not. We see the mortality is probably less than we thought. So transmission is going to happen, and maybe we do want that because I told you last time I was on about herd immunity. You get 50 to 70% of the population infected, you— people are going to become immune. And, uh, and we may need that herd immunity if we don't get a vaccination within the next, what, year? We hope by year end. So yes, there are new cases. Does it warrant a complete shutdown? Probably not.

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The president was interviewed, I think it was on Fox News, I think with Sean Hannity. The president responded to what happened with, I think, I don't think this is a controversial view, but maybe you do. Here was the president last night with Sean on Fox News Channel.

I thought it was a terrible situation, but you can't resist a police officer, and you know, if you have a disagreement, you have to take it up after the fact. It was a very sad, very very sad thing. It's going to be up to justice. I hope he gets a fair shake because police have not been treated fairly in our country. They have not been treated fairly.

Is President Trump, uh, controversial with that remark? It was a very sad thing, he said. It was a terrible thing, but you can't resist the police. Is resisting the police acceptable to anybody? Thank you to, uh, whoever texted me on the MyPillow text line the image of Leslie Nielsen. I think it's from Naked Gun. And again, all hell breaking loose behind him, and he's saying— he's saying, nothing to see here, please disperse. That's what America feels like right now, isn't it?

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Dennis Prager, Ultimate Issues Hour, the test of Judaism and Christianity in America today. Will they speak out? It's easy to speak out against racism. It's like opposing sin. It's like opposing murder. Gee, I'm against murder. Oh, that's courageous. I'm against racism. Wow, you're a man of courage. Give me a break. Let's live in reality. Every decent person is opposed to racism. But are you going to speak out? Are there any religious leaders speaking out against the This unique, unprecedented threat against America, like the tearing down of a George Washington statue. Yeah, do you, do you who teach Bible not, not understand that the Bible teaches you have to judge people not only in their generation? As it says about Noah, he was a, he was a righteous man in his generations. That is why the words are there. It could have just said he was a righteous man, right? Right? God saves one man, the world stinks. He saves Noah because he was a righteous man in his generations. You judge people in their generations. I assure you, all of you, including me, will be judged as awful in the future because we are meat eaters. But that will not be fair because in our time that is the norm. I happen to be a big devotee of proper treatment of animals. I haven't eaten veal in my whole adult life, but that's a separate issue. All right, anyway, let's go to Woodland Hills, California, and Mike. Hello, Mike.

Yeah, Dennis, you really hit a nerve with this. I gotta tell you, I'm not I've actually left my church. I mean, we've been dealing with COVID for months, not opening up the churches. Everything's online. It gets old. Now, what I'm going to tell you, you're not going to be surprised about, but there's a church out in Thousand Oaks, Godspeed Calvary Chapel. Rob McCoy is the pastor.

Yeah, he's had him on before. He's a giant.

He is. And he's the only one— I don't know if the only one is— Jack Hibbs, another one. Jack Hibbs, another giant.

They're dear friends of mine. Yep.

There's a few that are talking about it. And I've been— I went out there a few weeks ago. I've been going to his church now. He had Charlie Kirk give the sermon a few weeks ago, if you can believe that. It was just all about the left. He always— he always weaves in culture to a biblical worldview. That is so strong. You just don't get that. I mean, my own church wasn't even addressing the whole racial racism issue here. I couldn't believe it. They would give a sermon, not even mention it. We're going through this. Implosion in this country, not a word about it. That's right.

And that was an evangelical church, correct? Yes, that's right. Exactly. That's what's sad to hear. I mean, look, I'm not expecting pastors, rabbis, and priests to say this, although obviously I am. The idol worship of our day is leftist.

That's it.

And you know, leftism, I've said this all of my life, leftism is the secular religion of the post-Christian age. That's the way it is. Haddon Township, New Jersey, Dorothy, hello.

Hi. Hi, am I on there? You are.

Hi Dennis, I'm great. Um, really, this is a privilege to talk to you. Um, not every priest is a coward. Um, on June 9th, I got a message on through my email from Patriots for America, and it was subject: True Courage. Here, a priest is taking a stand against violent rioters, and the man's name is Father James Altman, A-L-T-M-A-N. He is a priest from a parish in Wisconsin, though I live in New Jersey, across the Delaware from Philadelphia. And in his homily, which was in a video, he boldly spoke out against the rioting, and he cited many of the Ten Commandments. He called out the weak shepherding by Catholic bishops while the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist was denied to us during the quarantine. He also called out Archbishop, uh, in, uh, D.C. for his outlandish criticism of President Trump for his visit to the Pope John Paul II shrine.

He compared that— can I see him on the internet? I hope so. So one minute, James, what you need to do— James Altman, yeah, yeah.

But what I would do is try to You got to look for Patriot for America newsletter, which was 6920. Okay, I will.

No, this is very good to hear. But you know, the first comment, it was so sad from a Catholic, obviously a practicing Catholic. Not all priests are cowards. Oh God. Could be said, of course, with regard to rabbis and pastors. Mike in Yorba Linda, California. Hi. Good morning.

Yes, I'll speak for my circle. Family and parents were disheartened. Some of us can't imagine going back to our Protestant churches for the lack of courage and addressing in detail what our issues are and preparing young people. It's So I don't have a lot of optimism for the Protestant Church. No, I don't.

Or the Catholic Church or Judaism, that's right. That's my point. That's the point of my column today. Please read it, folks. It's free. I mean, I'm not asking you for funds. I'm just telling you that yes, there isn't the— within the Protestant Church, the hope is generally evangelicals. But let me tell you something, the inroads made by the left into evangelical circles is very dispiriting. I think left is making inroads into modern orthodoxy in Judaism. And of course, it's made inroads into the papacy. Yep, that's, uh, that's the world in which we live. It's dispiriting because the religious have the solution.

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I think the New York media is describing Florida as coronavirus raging through the state. That's literally the word they're using, at least in the New York Post. But there's a peculiar— there's a peculiarity about these, these data-driven news reports. All the— but always at the bottom of the article, at the end of the report, they admit that deaths and hospitalizations are down and hospital capacity is nowhere near being stretched thin. I don't understand it any more than I can make sense of a, of a guy like Anthony Fauci who told us that masks don't work and they're not effective and you shouldn't go around wearing a mask you're causing more problems than, than solutions. And then admitting that those were lies because they were worried that we would, you know, scarf up all the face masks from the hospital workers. And now if you live in California, soon-to-be Texas, Tampa, Florida, you don't wear a mask, I guess you're breaking the law. I don't know what they're gonna do to you if you don't have a mask. Think there'll be a mask jail? Will there be a prison for people who refuse to wear a mask? I'm serious. They're gonna lock people up? You're just gonna give you a fine? You're gonna pay a fine if you refuse to wear a mask? I saw a conservative activist got kicked off a flight. He was trying to get to Tulsa, uh, on an airplane. They kicked him off the plane. I believe it was American Airlines.

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We used to be able to testify in court and we were believed. Now, unless there is a video from 3 different angles No one cares what you have to say. With all this talk about racism and racist cops, I've never seen people treated differently because of their race. And while I know that cowards that have never done this job will call me a racist for saying it, all I've ever seen was criminal behavior and cops trying to stop it, and they didn't give a rip what their skin color was. I've seen cops help and save any type of race. Gender, or ethnicity you can think of, and while that used to mean something, no one cares anymore. I've been called every name you can think of, and many of them with racial overtones, and it's never come from cops. I've watched African American cops take the brunt of this and even talked one rookie out of quitting after he was berated by a lot of cowards that had the same skin color as him. I've never heard— I've heard words I never heard before coming a cop: Uncle Tom, cracker, pig, and the N-word, just to name a few.

Town Hall and on my website, my column every Tuesday. That's the column today. Send it around, please. That's— that you have to— this is the way to fight. Send articulate things that are written and then just make people aware. If people defriend you, then you didn't want them anyway in your life. Just because of an article? Ask them to send you an article from a different perspective. Yes, Mike in Whittier, California. Hello.

Hi Dennis, how you doing? Okey-dokey. Okay, I just had a short comment about about in the Catholic Church, most of what you hear is just God is unconditional love. So why would you be fearing God to begin with?

That's fascinating. I just want you to know that has been my contention my whole life, that we have overdone the love issue. That, uh, as that's why I quote in my article and mention it to you now. The, uh, the quote from Ecclesiastes that can all be summed up— it says it could all be summed up: fear God and keep his commandments. That's, uh, that's the issue. That's right, you're supposed to fear your parents too. Do you know that? It's actually a biblical law. It's the only people to fear, God and parents. And the left has destroyed both parental authority and God's authority and substituted their authority. Now they're getting rid of police authority. They got rid of teachers' authority. Get it? It all makes sense. Takes a long time to figure it out, but then it makes sense. That's right, Rick in Costa Mesa, California. Eventually religious statues will be torn down also if religious leaders don't step up. Well, look at Father Serra. Guy's a saint. The sin of bringing Catholicism to North America. Dawn is mixed race and disappointed her church has been lecturing about BLM and diversity. Yes, just want you to know that that's the easy thing to do. To say today you're against racism is sort of like saying you believe that it is good to drink water. Who's for racism today? I mean, let's be honest. Anybody who is is evil, by the way, just for the record. All right, everybody, all of this is in the Rational Bible. I hope you'll read it.