The Dennis Prager Show LIVE
Dennis Prager hosts a panel including Sidney Powell, Mike Gallagher, Larry Elder, Hugh Hewitt, Charlie Kirk, and Sebastian Gorka to discuss Trump's debate performance, COVID-19 policy, and media coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story. The group debates mask mandates, promotes early treatment with hydroxychloroquine, and criticizes what they see as left-wing censorship.
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Within hours of the Nice attack, police killed a man who had threatened passersby with a handgun in Montfavet, near the southern city of Avignon. France's Le Figaro newspaper quoted a prosecution source as saying the man was undergoing psychiatric treatment and that they did not believe there was a terrorism motive. All right, that's not the one who killed the people, it's a different one, I want you to understand. It's not the Nice beheader. Nice's mayor Christian Estrosi said the attack in his city had happened at Notre Dame Church and was similar to the beheading earlier this month near Paris of teacher Samuel Paty, who had used cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. I, I, I always note to you I don't know why Western press adds the word prophet. This is new. This is only done because it's Islam. They don't say the Savior or the Lord Jesus, do they? Why not? Sean finds out a good point. When I see Sean sort of going vertically, I know, I know I've hit the pay dirt. If you saw that in a paper, yes, it would knock you over. That is correct. I mean, why isn't it right? I mean, you know, he beheaded, uh, 3 people who were praying to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but it is the Prophet Muhammad and it is capitalized. Like, that is, he has 3 names for a name, you know, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, that is FDR. This is TPM. That is right. In the name of TPM, the Prophet Muhammad. You know why? Because the press is composed of people who are sheep. And who are cowards. Cowardice is the human norm, right? Courage is the rarest of the good traits. So why would you expect it from the media? Is the media composed of particularly courageous people? The idea is preposterous. A person with the slightest courage would actually ask Joe Biden questions that challenged him. You think it takes courage to challenge The president takes courage not to challenge the president. I would love to know where this guy is from, the one who attacked in the, in the church. Enough is enough. Listen to this. This is key. Who made this point? This is the key I need to know. Estrosi. Okay. Estrosi told reporters— he's the mayor of, of Nice. The suspected knife attacker was shot by police while being detained. He is on his way to a hospital. He is alive. Enough is enough. It's time now for France to exonerate itself from the laws of peace in order to definitely wipe out Islamofascism from our country. You say Islamofascism in the United States and the left considers you a hater and a bigot. Right?
We're worse.
We're worse than Europe, as it happens, in terms of speech right now. The English-speaking countries in general are worse. I don't have a good reason for it, but that is the way it is. Do you know that the recent controversy over this school, Maumee High School, using PragerU videos— do you know what they singled out as a good example of how terrible we are? A video titled Is Islam a Religion of Peace?
Trending now on the Mike Gallagher Show, the polls in our face over and over again telling us that Trump is going to get clobbered on November 3rd. The polls saying he's losing in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida, Wisconsin. I don't believe it. I just don't believe it. I could be in denial, or maybe we're right that this enthusiasm gap is dramatic. Listen to this data before we go to your calls. There have been 13 reelection events since the president got out of the hospital and returned to the campaign trail. 13. According to the data provided by the Republican Party chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, the president has attracted over 167,000 rallygoers, and a huge percentage of them aren't even Republicans. At Trump's October 17th visit in Janesville, Wisconsin, The RNC reports that 47.5% of the over 13,000 people there said they were not Republicans. In his October 14th stop in Des Moines, Iowa, she said 29.4% of the over 10,000 people were Democrats. At the first stop he made when he got out of the hospital— well, it feels like 6 months ago— was what, just a week or two ago? He was in Sanford, Florida on October 12th. 24.4% didn't even vote in 2016, and 31.8% were not Republicans. 16.3% were Democrats. Ronna McDaniel told the Washington Examiner, the RNC and Team Trump have the largest political operation in history built to turn out voters with surgical precision.
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Kamala Harris has referred to the Black Lives Matter movement as a beautiful movement. Yeah, there's some knuckleheads. Yeah, there's some people that set fire to some things. Yes, there's people that shoot, but by and large it's a beautiful movement for racial solidarity based upon a narrative. And that narrative is that the police are engaging in systemic racism against Black people, that the police are killing Black people because they are Black people, not because because they've done something bad, not because a cop reasonably thought that, uh, this black person was posing a threat. No, no, no. They were doing it just because this suspect was black. And so a movement based upon a false narrative— there's no evidence whatsoever that that's true— is a beautiful movement, even though it is causing people like the gentleman who shot two LA sheriff deputies in the head to do so, even though it motivated a gentleman in New York to kill execution-style 2 cops, even though it motivated a gentleman in Baton Rouge to kill execution-style 3 cops, even though it motivated a gentleman in Dallas to kill 5 cops execution-style. It's a beautiful movement. Never mind what used to be called the Ferguson effect, now it's called the Minneapolis effect. And these are cops admitting that they pull back. Why be proactive? Why try to stop crime? Why try to intervene fights? All you're going to do is put yourself in jeopardy of being accused of engaging in systemic racism. So to hell with it, we'll just deal with radio calls. It's called the Ferguson effect, at least it used to be. Now it's called the Minneapolis effect. You know what happens? Bad guys know it, and as a result, street crime goes up.
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Trending now on the Hugh Hewitt Show, uh, the sleeper I'm Dennis Prager, and I'd like to remind you that there is something you can do to help this election and this country Got only a few days left. You'll be proud of yourself. Go to keepamericaamerica.com. I spoke to the great, great, great man who was behind the, uh, the movement, and it's, uh, it's inspiring. It's just inspiring. Go to keepamericaamerica.com. That's what this election is about. I don't know why that's not obvious to most Americans. See, if you want to fundamentally transform this country, you acknowledge you're not keeping America America. And if you know what the left is going to do to America, you certainly know America won't be. So there's really nobody should be in doubt. The left hates America. The left everywhere in the world hates America. How could you not hate a place that is founded, based, rooted, has in its DNA racism, where all its white citizens are racist? Gee, I love America, but all its whites are scum. As I've said to you since I played that 12 years ago. I need to interview the people in the audience, the sweet fools who cheered that. Living in, in a country that is so good to the vast majority of its citizens, police are attacked by a gun-wielding man You see it on camera, and they— what are they supposed to do? You know, they didn't— it says they didn't taser him. They didn't have tasers. Did they not have tasers because it's now banned to Philadelphia police? I'd love to know why they didn't have a taser. Of course, you have to pray that the taser works. The number of times tasers don't work is Quite remarkable. How often have you read, folks, the guy was tased and nothing happened? Didn't go through his clothing or whatever it might be, or he was so high on something it didn't affect him. What are the police supposed to do? They, they've banned tear gas, they've banned mace, they've, uh, what are they supposed to do? Riots. They riot because it's fun to riot. You understand? It's fun. It is fun. They have utterly, utterly pointless, boring lives. They're lost souls. All they know how to do is hate, and they yell at the right for hating. It's, it's quite sick. Go to keepamericaamerica.com. Final request to you. We're going to have a doctor on later who has a piece in the Wall Street Journal, Masks Are a Distraction from the Pandemic Reality. First, consider how the debate has evolved and the underlying scientific evidence. Hmm, there's something wrong with that sentence. That's the sentence. They must have missed a word when they edited it. Consider how the debate has evolved and the under— okay, I get it. There's consider two things. It's not clear, but anyway, he's a doctor, but he's a courageous doctor. For that, I salute him. Consider how the debate has evolved and consider the underlying scientific evidence. Several randomized trials of community or household masking have been completed. Most have shown that wearing a mask has little or no effect on respiratory virus transmission, according to a review published earlier this year in Emerging Infectious Diseases. You, you get— how often do you get that? Is that a quarterly? Yeah. You know, he has a great marriage, my producer, but there is a little tension in his home whenever Emerging Infectious Diseases arrives in the mail. Who's gonna read it first? So who got it first this time, the last issue? You step aside. But you are the first to read Cat Digest. He doesn't find that funny, which is funny in itself. That was below the belt. It was unfair. But your wife is now laughing, there's no question about it. Anyway, a review published earlier this year in Emerging Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal, in March, when Anthony Fauci said wearing a mask might make people feel a little better but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think it is, his statement reflected scientific consensus and was consistent with the World Health Organization's guidance. The highest quality evidence so far is studies like the one published in June in Health Affairs. That's another source of tension in your home when Health Affairs arrives. Which found that U.S. states instituting mask mandates had a 2% reduction in growth rate of COVID-19. Compared with states without those mandates. 2%. We're not talking death even, we're just talking rates based on tests. The most reasonable conclusion from the available scientific evidence is that community mask mandates have at most a small effect on the course of the pandemic. But You wouldn't know that from watching cable news or sitting next to a mother being forced off an airplane because her small children are unable to keep a mask on. What is the reason that a 3-year-old has to have a mask on an airplane? Do we have even, even one instance of a 3-year-old infecting an adult, let alone the adult dying from it? The people who say follow the science, that is one of the most grotesque lies of our time. They don't follow the science, they follow scientists they agree with. Uneven, shakier scientists. By the way, this is a professor. Dr. Latipo is an associate professor at the UCLA School of Medicine. Okay, but it doesn't matter to people. Because when you counter with scientists, they are banned from Twitter. This guy Dorsey is a crackpot. I mean, I played his live responses yesterday and he just sat there and lied. Well, why did you shut down the Twitter account of the New York Post? No, they could just— they could put it right back up. 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This is Hugh Hewitt for TownHall.com. The 2020 election is now just days away. Here's my short case for backing the Trump-Pence ticket and voting for Republican senators and representatives in your state. On the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has done as well as any president could have done, and certainly better than Joe Biden. You're safer and more secure because of the Trump military buildup. The president has made the necessary pivot with China, and he's brokered the first major peace deal in the Middle East in 25 years. On the economy, Trump and the GOP succeeded in bringing unemployment to all-time lows early this year. Now, even amidst the pandemic, the economy is bouncing back. Your First and Second Amendment freedoms are much stronger as well because Trump has bolstered the Supreme Court and federal courts with strong judges who honor the Constitution. Whatever you think of Trump personally, there's no question his policies have been good for the country. Join me in voting for a second Trump term. I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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Sydney, where is the case against Mike Flynn?
It is still sitting in Judge Emmet Sullivan's court, more than 160 days after the government moved to dismiss it with prejudice, more than 50 days after the DC Circuit told him to decide it with dispatch, and now approximately 3 weeks after the hearing.
Is this just playing for time? You've had the— you filed that, that request to have it dismissed. The higher 3-judge panel said it should be. Then Judge Sullivan played another game. How long can this purgatory last? You're the legal professional. How Long can this sword of Damocles be held above Mike Flynn's head?
Well, if it runs in the next week, I think we're gonna have to look at filing another mandamus action. This is just unforgivable.
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The bar was very low for Trump on this debate, and he cleared it magnificently. All he had to do—
did themselves in because they kind of, on all the pre-media leading up to it, on all the channels, they had the surrogates on talking about, you know, well, we're expecting the president to come out and hammer us and be mean and nasty and come for us. And I just, you know, blow the expectations away, just be kind control. It was, it was a, it was a really strong performance in so many ways, not the least of which was he also controlled the substance. He got in the topics that he wanted to get in. He did bring up the Hunter Biden laptop. He did bring up the corruption issue. He did work his way into those areas that some people had said he wouldn't be able to. And I think that it was just a masterful use of the moment, the opportunity, the demeanor, and the, and the, the content of the evening. I thought it all worked in his favor.
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Robert in Park Ridge, Illinois says Jerusalem police use water cannons very successfully. So if a, let's say a Palestinian terrorist were attacking police, they would take, let me ask him what he means. Robert in Illinois, thank you for calling.
What is your Dennis?
Tell me what your referral. Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it. Good yontif.
Uh, wait, that's very belated.
Yes, I know it is, but I'm not—
Well, if you could—
if you—
you're what? I'm— say it again.
I said I'm not Jewish, but I—
Wait, how do you know the term good yontif if you're not Jewish?
Well, because I had been in partnership in businesses with Jews all my life and very close friends of mine. And if you take my last name, which I won't give you, but if you change one letter, it becomes Jewish.
So I see. All right. That's adorable. I, a lot of, you know, certainly a lot of non-Jews know Shalom or even Shabbat Shalom, but good Yom Tov, which is both. It's a combination of Hebrew and Yiddish, meaning happy holiday. That's, that's really, uh, you, you know the lingo if you say good job. All right, go ahead. What's on your mind, my friend?
Well, I just— you were talking about how the police stopped the, uh, the rioters and the Jews.
Oh, rioters?
I thought you were referring to the attacker in Philadelphia. I'm sorry.
Yes, yes, right. But, uh, you want to stop them? I have no idea. I was talking to a police officer, a neighbor of mine this morning, and he said absolutely use water cannons, stops them in 5 minutes. That's what they did in Jerusalem. And I can't understand why they're not using that device.
They should have used it. It's a very interesting suggestion with regard to rioters. That's very, very interesting. I assume the injuries are very minimal and it works. Thank you. It's a— I, I'm glad I took your call because I thought you were referring to the Philadelphia attacker. A water cannon is not going to work there, but against a lot of people, that's, uh, that's a good suggestion in my opinion. Uh, all right, uh, let's go to John in Villanova, Pennsylvania. So you're, you're on the spot there. What's the story?
I am on the spot here, but I wanted to say that the water cannon was certainly effective with the Wicked Witch of the West, so that's a start. I was actually listening to the other talker here in Philadelphia this morning, and he had on the commissioner, or the head of the union, the police union, and the figures on the tasers are pretty dispiriting. There are, it's like a 1 to 3 ratio. There's 6,300 police officers, and only 2,300 have completed the necessary training and carry tasers. So it's a 3-to-1 deficit. So, and the two officers that were called out did not have them, right?
Did he explain why that is?
Uh, funding, you know, defund the police.
Uh-huh. Well, that's, that's recent.
Uh, that's true. I mean, he did say funding. He didn't use the catchphrase, uh, right, I mean, the police. He just said it was a funding issue.
Right, well, it's, uh, defunding the police, even for the left, is particularly stupid. And that, that's— I gotta admit, I didn't predict that one. I, I know everything they touch they destroy, but defund the police? Who exactly will stop people from doing evil? Social workers? No, I mean it. I would like to know who will stop it. Or do they not acknowledge anyway? They don't. You know, in San Francisco, if you want to get that up, I think it's 3 Walmarts have closed. Make sure it's Walmart. There are a lot of articles on that in central San Francisco. Because there people come in and simply rob things. There's a guy on video sticking his hand in the cash register and emptying it, and again in another store. Now you realize this is not a crime as such in San Francisco because in California the left has made a law that if you rob under $900, it is not a felony. So these people just keep robbing under $900. And anyway, the prosecutor, I believe, uh, that in San Francisco, I believe is Soros-funded, uh, he doesn't believe in prosecuting criminals. He believes in, I don't know who, I guess prosecuting Republicans. Very sick stuff going on. That's why this election is so important. Relief Factor is important because if you have back pain, neck pain, any joint pain, you know what I'm talking about. The great majority of people who use this product It works for them. It doesn't work for everyone, and you'll find out in 3 weeks if it works for you. So they have a 3-week special price, $19.95 and shipping. You just go to relieffactor.com. That's it. Or call 800-500-8384 for the 3-week quick start. relieffactor.com. I knew I wasn't sure.
This is Hugh Hewitt for TownHall.com. The 2020 election is now just days away. Here's my short case for backing the Trump-Pence ticket and voting for Republican senators and representatives in your state. On the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has done as well as any president could have done and certainly better than Joe Biden. You're safer and more secure because of the Trump military buildup. The president has made the necessary pivot with China, and he's brokered the first major peace deal in the Middle East in 25 years. On the economy, Trump and the GOP succeeded in bringing unemployment to all-time lows early this year. Now, even amidst the pandemic, the economy is bouncing back. Your First and Second Amendment freedoms are much stronger as well because Trump has bolstered the Supreme Court and federal courts with strong judges who honor the Constitution. Whatever you think of Trump personally, there's no question his policies have been good for the country. Join me in voting for a second Trump term. I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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Sydney, Where is the case against Mike Flynn?
It is still sitting in Judge Emmet Sullivan's court, more than 160 days after the government moved to dismiss it with prejudice, more than 50 days after the DC Circuit told him to decide it with dispatch, and now approximately 3 weeks after the hearing.
Is this just playing for time? You've had the— you filed that request to have it dismissed. The higher 3-judge panel said it should be. Then Judge Sullivan played another game. How long can this purgatory last? You're the legal professional. How long can this sword of Damocles be held above Mike Flynn's head?
Well, if it runs into next week, I think we're going to have to look at filing another mandamus action. This is just unforgivable.
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The bar was very low for Trump on this debate and he cleared it magnificently. All he had to do—
did themselves in because they kind of on all the pre-media leading up to it, on all the channels, they had the surrogates on talking about, you know, well, we're expecting the president to come out and hammer us and be mean and nasty and come for us. And I just, you know, blow the expectations away. Just be kind, control. It was, it was, it was a really strong performance in so many ways, not the least of which was he also controlled the substance. He got in the topics that he wanted to get in. He did bring up the Hunter Biden laptop. He did bring up the corruption issue. He did work his way into those areas that some people had said he wouldn't be able to. And.
Okay, all Dennis Prager here. So I'm very curious what's happening in Toledo, outside of Toledo. Those of you who didn't read my column this week, especially if you live in Ohio and especially near Toledo— I was gonna say Toledo because that's, that's what it is in Spain. But in Toledo, they had a high school wherein they declared it's good for kids to be exposed to all points of view, which you would think is about as controversial as it's nicer when it's 70 than when it's 10 degrees out, right? But the left does not want all points of view, so Kids were told for an extracurricular— or excuse me, extra credit assignment— that they can watch a PragerU video of their choice. There are 450. One woman yanked her daughter out. She would not allow her daughter to be in a class that exposed kids to 5 minutes of conservative thought. That's what it amounted to, and the school, Maumee High School, caved in, needless to say. The leader of the alumni of Maumee High School. No, Maumee? Take a look. I may be mispronouncing it. The leader of the high school objectors is a woman who said that PragerU videos What is it? They— oh, they dishonor. I think they— it's worse than that. They reduce the humanity of people of color and members of LGBTQ. You know, in all of these attacks on PragerU, there are no examples given. The idea that we would attack the dignity in any way of a gay or lesbian or, or a transgender human being or a person of color is so, so foreign to my outlook on life. Everyone is created in God's image. It's not even something we have to work at suppressing. We don't have the instinct to demean any human being because of what they are in any of these categories. So this woman lied, and I wrote in my column, she just lied. She made it up. They always make up stuff about the right because you're allowed to lie on the left. Truth is not a left-wing value. These things that I say, I know about half the people listening think, oh, it's just an attack on the left. No, it is an attack on the left, but it is a, if it's not accurate, you shouldn't listen to me. It is either true or not true. Truth is not a left-wing value. It is a liberal value. It is a conservative value. The left lies every time it can. And it convinces you it's true. Men menstruate. Get it? That's a declaration of fact for the left. And if you deny that and say only women menstruate, you are a hater and you are anti-science. Get it? You're anti-science if you say only women menstruate. So, oh, we're going to pursue this issue. What, so what is the name of the high school? You put it right here. And the answer is— Mommy, you were right. Mommy, my apologies. It's, uh, southwest of Toledo, of Toledo. Maumee High School. Somebody read my article and commented in town hall that they are a graduate of Maumee and they are really angry at what happened, the way they folded. They always fold. Does anybody fold to conservatives? Well, the Girl Scout story that you just sent me today is beyond belief.
Hmm?
Listen to this. As the Town Hall reports it, what a shame, Girl Scouts cowers to the cancel culture mob. Girl Scouts of America on Wednesday, yesterday, posted a tweet celebrating the new confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Barrett. The goal of the tweet was simple, to celebrate another woman, only one of five, who has ever sat on the highest court of the land. Of course, the rage mob had to go after the Young Women's Organization for celebrating a conservative justice. So here's an example of One from Asha Rangappa, a woman. Was Barrett a Girl Scout? If not, why the post, knowing how divisive it is at this moment? Now notice, this is very important. Had they celebrated a left-wing female justice, which they certainly would have, no leftist would have said it's divisive. You're only divisive if the left differs with you. It's another way in which the language has been hijacked by the left. The president is called divisive, but the Democrats are not divisive. Lying to the country for 3 years about collusion between the campaign of Donald Trump and Russia, that's not divisive. Men menstruate is not divisive. Only responses, or this is not even a response. The Girl Scouts naively believe that the left celebrates women of achievement. It's a completely naive belief. They celebrate leftist women of achievement. We'll be back.
This is Hugh Hewitt for TownHall.com. The 2020 election is now just days away. Here's my short case for backing the Trump-Pence ticket and voting for Republican senators and representatives in your state. On the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has done as well as any president could have done, and certainly better than Joe Biden. You're safer and more secure because of the Trump military buildup. The president has made the necessary pivot with China, and he's brokered the first major peace deal in the Middle East in 25 years. On the economy, Trump and the GOP succeeded in bringing unemployment to all-time lows early this year. Now, even amidst the pandemic, the economy is bouncing back. Your First and Second Amendment freedoms are much stronger as well because Trump has bolstered the Supreme Court and federal courts with strong judges who honor the Constitution. Whatever you think of Trump personally, there's no question his policies have been good for the country. Join me in voting for a second Trump term. I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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Sydney, Where is the case against Mike Flynn?
It is still sitting in Judge Emmet Sullivan's court, more than 160 days after the government moved to dismiss it with prejudice, more than 50 days after the D.C. Circuit told him to decide it with dispatch, and now approximately 3 weeks after the hearing.
Is this just playing for time? You've had the— you filed that request to have it dismissed. The higher 3-judge panel said it should be. Then Judge Sullivan played another game. How long can this purgatory last? You're the legal professional. How long can this sword of Damocles be held above Mike Flynn's head?
Well, if it runs into next week, I think we're going to have to look at filing another mandamus action. This is just unforgivable.
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The bar was very low for Trump on this debate and he cleared it Magnificently. All he had to do—
Democrats did themselves in because they kind of, on all the pre-media leading up to it, on all the channels, they had the surrogates on talking about, you know, well, we're expecting the president to come out and hammer us and be mean and nasty and come for us. And I just, you know, blow the expectations away. Just be kind, controlled. It was, it was a, it was a really strong performance in so many ways. Not the least of which was he also controlled the substance. He got in the topics that he wanted to get in. He did bring up the Hunter Biden laptop. He did bring up the corruption issue. He did work his way into those Hi everybody.
Uh, that, uh, Girl Scout thing is the perfect example. I wish I had known this. My— the topic of my fireside chat this week is courage, and the Girl Scouts exhibited none. The people Dennis Prager, who demanded that they retract the tweet celebrating another woman on the Supreme Court. One, they— the answer of the Girl Scouts would have been, we celebrate any woman, whatever her political views, who makes it to the Supreme Court. We support women. We are not political. That is the answer. Are the critics saying we can only celebrate women whom they agree with? Why didn't they say that? Because there's no courage. This is not the land of the free or the home of the brave for the most part any longer. I could cry when I say that, but I won't lie to you about the serious state of damage the left has done to this country. And the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are two examples of what I give of everything the left touches, it destroys. That this is a perfect example. But we can't win if there's no courage. I mean, they had such an easy answer. Would you like us only to post women of achievement with whom you agree? Yes or no?
That's it.
That's all you have to do. Does anyone doubt that if a Democrat president or Democratic president had appointed someone, a woman, the Girl Scouts didn't celebrate that, they would be attacked for why didn't you celebrate this woman being placed on the Supreme Court? Now, by the way, as far as I'm concerned, the whole thing is unnecessary. You should celebrate good people on the court. I don't care if there are 9 women on the court or 9 men on the court. I care that there are 9 people who regard the court as interpreting the Constitution and not making laws. What a trivial thing to think of. Gee, what's the gender? What's the race? What's the ethnicity? What's the religion? What do we have now? 7? Is it 7 Catholics? Think I care? What do I care if there's 7 Catholics? It's at least 6. 6 or 7 of the 9. She's a Catholic. And the Chief Justice is a Catholic. So, it is what it is. What do I care? Total of 6. Yeah, here we go. Somebody wrote a very powerful statement. If you're the parent of a college student, donate to ADF because your child may be mired in something constricting his or her speech. There's a banner for Alliance Defending Freedom at my website. Hi, this is Dennis Prager, and you know we are in a fight for our fundamental freedoms. That's why I am grateful for my friends at Alliance Defending Freedom. They are on the front lines fighting pivotal lawsuits for Americans whose freedoms are threatened, and they do it for free. That's why we're asking you to be as generous as you can by giving today so that Alliance Defending Freedom can continue to fight these lawsuits and be ready when your rights are threatened too. Give your gift now by visiting adflegal.org/dennisprager. I'm Dennis Prager, and thank you for joining the fight for freedom.
This is Hugh Hewitt for TownHall.com. The 2020 election is now just days away. Here's my short case for backing the Trump-Pence ticket and voting for Republican senators and representatives in your state. On the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has done as well as any president could have done, and certainly better than Joe Biden. You're safer and more secure because of the Trump military buildup. The president has made the necessary pivot with China, and he's brokered the first major peace deal in the Middle East in 25 years. On the economy, Trump and the GOP succeeded in bringing unemployment to all-time lows early this year. Now, even amidst the pandemic, the economy is bouncing back. Your First and Second Amendment freedoms are much stronger as well because Trump has bolstered the Supreme Court and federal courts with strong judges who honored the Constitution. Whatever you think of Trump personally, there's no question his policies have been good for the country. Join me in voting for a second Trump term. I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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Sydney, where is the case against Mike Flynn?
It is still sitting in Judge Emmet Sullivan's court more than 160 days after the government moved to dismiss it with prejudice, more than 50 days after the D.C. Circuit told him to decide it with dispatch, and now approximately 3 weeks after the hearing.
Is this just playing for time? You've had the— you filed that, that request to have it dismissed. The higher 3-judge panel said it should be. Then Judge Sullivan played another game. How long can this purgatory last? You're the legal professional. How long can this sword of Damocles be held above Mike Flynn's head?
Well, if it runs in the next week, I think we're going to have to look at filing another mandamus action. This is just unforgivable.
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The bar was very low for Trump on this debate and he cleared it magnificently. All he had to do—
did themselves in because they kind of on all the pre-media leading up to it, on all the channels, they had the surrogates on talking about, you know, well, we're expecting the president to come out and hammer us and be mean and nasty and come for us. And I just, you know, blow the expectations away. Just be kind, control. It was, it was, it was a really strong performance in so many ways, not the least of which was he also controlled the substance. He got in the topics that he wanted to get in. He did bring up the Hunter Biden laptop. He did bring up the corruption issue. He did work his way into those areas that some people had said he wouldn't be able to. And I think that it was just a masterful use of the moment, the opportunity, the demeanor, and the, and the, the, the content of the evening. I thought it all worked in his favor.
I, I'm, I'm guessing that if any needle was moved, it was with suburban women who needed to see that he is capable of being controlled, measured, responsible, unemotional. That was really magnificent on his part that he was able to do that. And look, we've seen him do it before. We know he's capable of it. But the fact that he chose to do it last night, I really do think that there are a lot of people who all they needed to know was, can he do that? Will he do that? Is this a guy when things get tough who flies off the handle? Or who can be in control. I really do think that he moved that needle.
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The polls in our face over and over again telling us that Trump is going to get clobbered on November 3rd. The polls saying he's losing in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida, Wisconsin. I don't believe it. I just don't believe it. And I could be in denial, or maybe we're right that this enthusiasm gap is dramatic. Listen to this data before we go to your calls. There have been 13 reelection events since the president got out of the hospital and returned to the campaign trail. 13. According to the data provided by the Republican Party chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, the president has attracted over 167,000 rallygoers, and a huge percentage of them aren't even Republicans. At Trump's October 17th visit in Janesville, Wisconsin, The RNC reports that 47.5% of the over 13,000 people there said they were not Republicans. In his October 14th stop in Des Moines, Iowa, she said 29.4% of the over 10,000 people were Democrats. At the first stop he made when he got out of the hospital— well, it feels like 6 months ago— was what, just a week or two ago? He was in Sanford, Florida on October 12th. 24.4% didn't even vote in 2016, and 31.8% were not Republicans. 16.3% were Democrats. Ronna McDaniel told the Washington Examiner, the RNC and Team Trump have the largest political operation in history, built to turn out voters with surgical precision.
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Kamala Harris has referred to the Black Lives Matter movement as a beautiful movement. Yeah, there's some knuckleheads. Yeah, there's some people that set fire to some things. Yes, there's people that shoot, but by and large, it's a beautiful movement for racial solidarity based upon a narrative, and that narrative is that the police are engaging in systemic racism against Black people.
Well, everybody, a I'm excited Dennis Prager is here with you. So needless to say, you are wondering why am I excited. So let me tell you something. It's a really big deal what I'm about to say. It's very simple, but it sort of took a good chunk of life to realize this. I'm very worried about America. I do not hide that from you. I don't engage in hyperbole and I don't engage in patronizing. This is what I believe. I'm— this is what I know. This is what is true, period. But I, I— so I work on myself not to get down because I'm so concerned about this great last best hope on earth. And one of the things that works is a very, very simple question that I have applied in much of my life through difficult times. And everyone has difficult times. What's your choice? You have two choices: to work at happiness or to give in. That's it. There was no, there was no third choice. So I work on that, and I have generally been successful. I'm even at this time deep concern about the election, deep concern about the country. When you think about it, what a spectacular place has been created here for virtually everyone, every color, every race, every ethnicity. When you think about that and then watch people literally burn it down, burn the flag that has represented liberty to the world? How does a good place produce such despicable human beings? You burn the US flag, you are despicable. You know, Heine— was it Heine who said, first they burn books, then they burn people? I don't know. I don't know who said that first. I wouldn't be surprised. First they burn flags, then they burn people. I'm not predicting it. I just said I wouldn't be surprised. And I'm talking about good flags. Heine said it? Thank you. Thank you kindly. You know what else Heine said? Heine is the greatest German poet. Heine said 100 years before Hitler's rise, I quoted in one of my columns, he said, I mean, the guy was like a prophet. He said, and I'm paraphrasing because I didn't memorize it, but the gist of what he said was, the only thing holding back German barbarity is the cross. And if that talisman— that is the word he used— if that talisman is destroyed, all hell will break loose in Germany. Is that not amazing? 100 years before Hitler. Yes, that is right. That is right. So that was his prediction. And listen, the whole post-Christian a world devolved into staggering barbarity because the human being is barbaric. Something has to temper the barbarity. And the only thing I know of is good religion. There's bad religion too. There's bad religion within all religions, not just that there are bad, some bad religions. Christianity has a mixed record, but its death does not have a mixed record. It is bad news. We are living in a post-Christian America. You like it? And I am a Jew saying this, so I have got a lot of credibility when I say it. It is not my religion, but American Christianity has been great, and it's been great for my group, Jews. And yet most American Jews vote left. An act of national stupidity the likes of which I cannot think of anything comparable. It's really, it's really, it is a suicidal a vote, as one can imagine. But wisdom is rare. In the fifth book of the Bible, just before Moses dies, he composed a poem. It is two chapters from the last in Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Torah. Moses is about to die, but he composed a song in Deuteronomy 32, and he is, as usual, critical of the Israelites. It is amazing. It is the only biblical book constantly critical of its own people. One of the reasons I believe in the divinity of the Torah, the first 5 books. And he is critical of the Israelites and you know what, it is a great line, says, 'You have been repulsive.' Two things he attacks them on, repulsive and lacking in wisdom. Is that not something? Lacking in wisdom. That is right, that is what we are seeing in America. We need a Moses to announce it. Every leftist lacks wisdom. The university is the anti-wisdom institution. Democratic Party is the party of anti-wisdom, and the, and the people who are not wise vote for them. Wisdom has to be earned. Let's defund police. Would you say that that's wise? It's wise if you think that police are the problem and not criminals. Get it? That is an example of the backward world. And that is an example of what is on the ballot next Tuesday, on the assumption that there will still be Americans who didn't vote by next Tuesday. I commented earlier on another thing the left has destroyed, Election Day. Americans go to the polls or not go to the polls for over a month before Election Day. What is the rationale for that? Rationale means reason for. On what rational basis should people be allowed to vote 6 weeks before Election Day? You celebrate January 1st in November? Why is that not equally foolish? Equally. What is at stake? And that's why what is at stake on Election Day or these weeks is America. It is. But when you own the media, you can make the issue Donald Trump, not America. So that's what people do. If you listed his accomplishments, they're unique in my lifetime, unique. The guy should truly get the Nobel Peace Prize. But Barack Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize. When he was elected, he had done nothing. Barack Obama has promoted peace as much as I have promoted badminton. I should get the badminton award. I am as deserving of it as he is. Even he knew it was a farce. But the left has destroyed the Nobel Peace Prize too. It's another thing. I don't even look who wins. It used to be a big deal. You know, when Soviet dissidents were awarded it and so on. I mean, there was a time when people who have truly contributed to world peace would get it. That would be our president and what is happening in the Middle East. You don't know how amazing it is that Sudan is going to make, uh, just going to have relations with Israel. Sudan is the place where the Arab world went to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, and announced in 1967 after the Six-Day War, no peace, no negotiations, no recognition. The three famous nos. Khartoum, Sudan. And now they're gonna have an Israeli embassy there. You can thank President Trump.
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And not only did he win the debate, he might have won the election last night. There are thousands and thousands of emails we are getting at freedom@charliekirk.com, and feel free to email us your feedback of swing voters and people in the middle, moderate voters that say last night gave them exactly what they needed to vote for Donald Trump. If you're still undecided at this moment, you were waiting for a moment like that. I understand that the Malibu and the Manhattan chattering class of liberal elites or the base of the Democrat Party No matter what Donald Trump could have done last night, you would not vote for him. Donald Trump could have done an act of a miracle and they still would not have voted for him. However, last night was all about swing voters. Last night was also about properly motivating the base for President Trump to continue to do well in early voting, where Republicans are doing quite well. So typically in these debates, It's always about style. Politicians stay within kind of a pre-arranged framework. They use their talking points. But the number one thing that politicians are told to do by their handlers and their advisors is do no harm. Don't contradict any other statements you've made. Don't turn off voters and definitely don't make news that will hurt you in key demographics and key areas.
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This is Hugh Hewitt for TownHall.com. The 2020 election is now just days away. Here's my short case for backing the Trump-Pence ticket and voting for Republican senators and representatives in your state. On the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has done as well as any president could have done and certainly better than Joe Biden. You're safer and more secure because of the Trump military buildup. The president has made the necessary pivot with China, and he's brokered the first major peace deal in the Middle East in 25 years. On the economy, Trump and the GOP succeeded in bringing unemployment to all-time lows early this year. Now, even amidst the pandemic, the economy is bouncing back. Your First and Second Amendment freedoms are much stronger as well because Trump has bolstered the Supreme Court and federal courts with strong judges who honor the Constitution. Whatever you think of Trump personally, there's no question His policies have been good for the country. Join me in voting for a second Trump term. I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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Sydney, where is the case against Mike Flynn?
It is still sitting in Judge Emmet Sullivan's court more than 160 days after the government moved to dismiss it with prejudice, more than 50 days after the D.C. Circuit told him to decide it with dispatch, and now approximately 3 weeks after the hearing.
Is this just playing for time? You've had the— you filed that request to have it dismissed, the higher 3-judge panel said it should be. Then Judge Sullivan played another game. How long can this purgatory last? You're the legal professional. How long can this sword of Damocles be held above Mike Flynn's head?
Well, if it runs in the next week, I think we're I want to remind you that if you want phone service at an incredibly cheap rate, but the phone service is first class, I checked it out. I got a phone and I went on PureTalk and it's terrific. $20 a month. Unlimited text, unlimited talk, 2GB of data. Dial on your phone, go #250, #250, and say Dennis Prager. A very easy name. I was blessed with an easy name. Two syllables, first and last name. All right, y'all. Uh, Mark in Stockton, California. Hi.
Yeah, I don't understand why you seem to suggest that the left is responsible for this early voting when many red states run by Republican governors are having early voting.
It's a very fair challenge. Tell me who they are. I'm not challenging you. Tell me what the conservative, uh, legislatures— it doesn't matter what the governor is today— what conservative state legislatures said you could vote 6 weeks before.
Aren't Texas and Florida having early voting?
Are they 6 weeks? Are they 1 week? I mean, the length of time matters. It's a very fair question.
I don't know.
Oh, well, so if you don't know, I don't know and you don't know. Okay, that's a fair— it's a very fair challenge. The overwhelmingly, the movement toward Everything loosening rules on voting comes from the left. So my assumption is that if you can vote 6 weeks in advance, that was passed by a Democratic state legislature. If I am wrong, I not only want to know, I will announce it and condemn it. I would be stunned. You want to look that up? When you can vote in Texas? It's an interesting question. All right, I thank you for your call. The first thing in the first value of this show is truth. I have a motto. I have many mottos that guide me. One of them is first tell the truth and give your opinion. All right, um, Steve in Minneapolis, a happy city. Hello.
Hey, how you doing?
Okay.
Um, The whole main thing is you were speaking earlier how we've kind of lost our faith and our ways of our culture, one of which I think that's definitely true where we have said goodbye to integrity. In regards of Joe Biden kind of being a husk and Pelosi and AOC and Harris being the main form of it or taking over, I feel like the left and the community, they know and they don't care. Um, so they know we're not talking about that. They're making that a point to where it's not even an issue for them. They're like, yeah, so what? As long as we have our mob rule, we don't care as long as we win.
Well, yes, that's, that's, that's obviously true. Well, I, I would say to any fair-minded person who's thinking of voting for any Democrat, why aren't you frightened of the Democratic Party? In light of its silence for months of rioting in the United States of America, Democratic mayors and Democratic governors doing nothing, nothing, as chaos, as mayhem was allowed to proceed. Why are you not afraid of the left? Is there anything comparable on the right? You know how many times I see, oh, the FBI has released statistics that the right is actually the bigger source of terror in America. I don't know what they're talking about. Individual crackpots who do some mass shooting, they're all listed as right-wing. But there's no mob violence on the right, none. Individual despicable humans are all over the place, but mob violence is a monopoly of the left, and, and tolerating it is done again by left-wing governors and mayors. How does somebody in Seattle, how does somebody in Portland, how does somebody in Minneapolis, New York Vote, vote Democrat. The brainwash is so deep that as you watch your city or parts of your city destroyed, you vote for the party that enables it. It's, it's almost unbelievable. Yes. Okay. New York City, Elliot. Hello, Elliot.
Hi, Dennis, how are you?
Okay.
I just want to tell you I'm in the middle of Genesis and it's a wonderful book. I, I read, uh, Voracious, so that was excellent. Anyway, I walked into a Starbucks. You're very welcome. I walked into a Starbucks and I noticed when the server turned around, she He had on a shirt with all kinds of little sayings on the back in square boxes, and it had one said, you know, Black Lives Matter, Enough Is Enough, you know, and some other slogans which I cannot remember. I looked at the girl, I said, when did you get these shirts? And she said, about 2 weeks ago. I said, and you believe in that? She says, she shook her head. Shrugged her shoulders. I said, why are you wearing it? I need a job. So here's a corporation that's forcing—
wait a minute, was it— wait, I'm sorry, was it a Starbucks shirt?
A Starbucks shirt. I said it was issued.
Oh, this was an officially produced shirt by Starbucks? BLM and Enough Is Enough.
It had two slogans on it in the front. I could see Starbucks, uh, symbol on one side where it didn't cover from the apron, and it gave the fist of BLM on the other side.
Wow.
Did you know this? Let's look this up. It's, uh, you know, very rarely in my career has a caller made up something. Very, very rarely. So I believe Elliot. But I need to check it because he might have made a mistake. I can't believe Starbucks with its logo would hand out hatred to its, organized hatred to its workers. I mean, I wouldn't fall down in shock, but I must admit, Even that— look, if Nike could, could make Colin Kaepernick a hero, then Starbucks could hand out these t-shirts. It's very difficult to know which group to have the most contempt for. Big business is one of the contenders. For contemptible.
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The bar was very low for Trump on this debate, and he cleared it magnificently. All he had to do—
did themselves in because they kind of, on all the pre-media leading up to it, on all the channels, they had the surrogates on talking about, you know, well, we're expecting the president to come out and hammer us and be mean and nasty and come for us. And I just, you know, blow the expectations away, just be kind control. It was, it was a, it was a really strong performance in so many ways, not the least of which was he also controlled the substance. He got in the topics that he wanted to get in. He did bring up the Hunter Biden laptop. He did bring up the corruption issue. He did work his way into those areas that some people had said he wouldn't be able to. And I think that it was just a masterful use of the moment, the opportunity, the demeanor, and the content of the evening, I thought it all worked in his favor.
I'm guessing that if any needle was moved, it was with suburban women who needed to see that he is capable of being controlled, measured, responsible, unemotional. That was really magnificent on his part that he was able to do that. And look, we've seen him do it before. We know he's capable of it. But the fact that he chose to do it last night, I really do think that there are a lot of people who all they needed to know was, can he do that? Will he do that? Is this a guy when things get tough who flies off the handle or who can be in control? I really do think that he moved that needle.
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The polls in our face over and over again telling us that Trump is going to get clobbered on November 3rd. The polls saying he's losing in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida, Wisconsin. I don't believe it. I just don't believe it. And I could be in denial, or maybe we're right that this enthusiasm gap is dramatic. Listen to this data before we go to your calls. There have been 13 reelection events since the president got out of the hospital and returned to the campaign trail. 13. According to the data provided by the Republican Party chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel, the president has attracted over 167,000 rallygoers. And a huge percentage of them aren't even Republicans. At Trump's October 17th visit in Janesville, Wisconsin, the RNC reports that 47.5% of the over 13,000 people there said they were not Republicans. At his October 14th stop in Des Moines, Iowa, she said 29.4% of the over 10,000 people were Democrats. At the first stop he made when he got out of the hospital, well, it feels like 6 months ago, was what, just a week or two ago? He was in Sanford, Florida on October 12th. 24.4% didn't even vote in 2016, and 31.8% were not Republicans, 16.3% were Democrats. Ron McDaniel told the Washington Examiner, The RNC and Team Trump have the largest political operation in history built to turn out voters with surgical precision.
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Kamala Harris has referred to the Black Lives Matter movement as a beautiful movement. Yeah, there's some knuckleheads. Yeah, there's some people that set fire to some things. Yes, there's people that shoot, but by and large it's a beautiful movement for—
Okay everybody, it's a delight to speak to the senior counsel of the Alliance Defending Freedom, Matt Sharp. And as soon as he's on, we will, uh, we will have him on. I want to tell you, as I have on a number of occasions, it is very, very— there are very few groups I would ask you to support financially. PragerU is one of them. Salvation Army is another, and Alliance Defending Freedom is another. Matt Sharp is a senior counsel there. So, uh, as you know, uh, Matt, I, I adore your group, and I take my audience very seriously before I ask them to support something. So let's review for just a moment what exactly you do and why people need to fund you?
Well, Alliance Defending Freedom is one of the preeminent defenders of free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, just freedom to live out your faith and beliefs in our country. We've had over 11 victories at the U.S. Supreme Court, defended countless people of faith, small business owners, college students, and others for speaking out their views on campus, and we win. And the most important thing is that these victories are not just for the people we represent, but they truly are victories for every American.
And let me explain, they— the point is they do this for free, so, but so they need a lot of money to hire these lawyers. That's the point, my friends, why I support them. I know my, my producer supports them. Uh, when did you come into being? Because When I was a kid, freedom was pretty widespread in America.
Yeah, so we found about 25 years ago, our founders got together and recognized that there was a gap. There was not anyone standing up for people of faith or people with conservative values. The ACLU had abandoned them and was no longer truly defending civil liberties for everyone. And so there was a desperate need for an organization like Alliance Defending Freedom to rise up. And so 25 years ago we did and started off funding cases and then litigating cases, and then have now grown where we have dozens and dozens and dozens of attorneys all doing this full-time of taking various cases and doing it free of charge. But as you said, it is only through contributions large and small that we're able to continue to take these cases and stand in the gap.
So I want to remind you folks, there is a banner for ADF at my website. And I know people's minds are preoccupied with the election, totally understandably, but whoever wins, the fight for freedom goes on. I mean, that just— it doesn't matter if the Republicans win. I mean, it matters. I mean, the country is at at stake here. But with regard to this, I wish if Republicans won, you know, we wouldn't need an ADF. But look at the campus. I mean, give us an example of a case you handled on a campus.
Well, we've got a recent one in Florida State involving a student, Jack Denton. He's a Catholic student, was the Senate president there at Florida State, and was on a private message board with some other friends, and they were talking about some of what's going on in the country and how their Catholic faith informs what they think about things like Black Lives Matter and some of the protests and things like that. And he just raised some questions of, is this consistent with our Catholic faith to support some of these causes? Next thing you know, he's being just lambasted by his Senate peers. He is voted out of the Senate. Stripped of his presidency role, and that comes with like a stipend and things like that, all because he privately expressed his views on current issues facing our country. And so ADF took his case and was able to get a great victory for him where the federal court chastised Florida State for what they did in saying you can't punish him, you can't strip him of the benefits of being a a student senator and Senate president because he expressed his religious beliefs in these private conversations. And these are the battles we deal with all over the country where students of conservative values or religious values are finding themselves attacked and punished by university officials for those views.
That story, it was hard for me not to interrupt. I mean, a private chat and the guy is vilified and removed from office. And they took his case. They can't take their case, these cases, if you don't fund them. We have a break coming up, my friends. Please do America a favor and you'll feel better. Contributing to causes makes you feel good. The ADF banner is at DennisPrager.com. Talking about feeling better is Relief Factor. Relief factor really does work in the great majority of people. I used to tell you when I went on speeches, you know, there was a time in America where you'd be face to face with strangers. Good old days. And people would come over and they would tell me, I had two cases that I recall, I threw away my cane, one person told me, and another person told me they canceled their surgery. Not postponed, canceled. This Relief Factor was so effective. Try it for 3 weeks for $19.95 plus shipping, and that's all it is. And you'll know in 3 weeks if it works, but you got to take it as directed. ReliefFactor.com, 800-500-8384.
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We've been told for days now, for weeks now, that this is a Russian influence operation. It's not Hunter Biden's laptop, and this is another version of Russian collusion by the Trump campaign. We now have the evidence. You have the story. The Senate, the— Bobulinski is out there. We have the FBI. We have DNI Ratcliffe saying there is no Russian aspect to any of this. John, what should your colleagues, your fellow media moguls and editors-in-chief, be doing right now?
They should be going through the same emails I've been going through and that Peter Schweitzer has been going through. Matt Boyle's been going through and doing the reporting and finding out what went on in Joe Biden Inc. during the days he was vice president and the immediate afterwards. Remember, this, this story about China is more than just a family getting rich, though that should be the primary concern we have. The second is that it shows a judgment question. Donald Trump for 20 years has been arguing that China poses an enormous threat to America. Joe Biden was arguing he'd like to make China grow and it wasn't a threat to America. His family cashed in on it. Then in 2019 and 2020, when the coronavirus came along, he flipped around and came to Donald Trump's way of thinking. So which candidate do you want? You want the candidate who was right about China from the beginning or the one that changed tune only after he and his family made millions of dollars from China? I think that's, that's the big question that'll be at the middle of this debate tonight.
You're talking about what they should be doing now.
What is—
what should they be doing with regards to what they said previously about the laptop, John?
They ought to correct the record. They ought to acknowledge that when they went with Adam Schiff's malarkey one more time— how many times has Adam Schiff misled the country the last few years? They should correct the record. They should say, we were wrong, we've been told otherwise, and then they should follow up on the journalism now that they know it's real material and inform the American public. Anything short of that is censorship to the detriment of the American public. Voting public.
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Glenn Reynolds, who writes a column for USA Today, wrote a column about Hunter Biden and his laptop, and USA Today won't publish it. Twitter shuts down the account of the New York Post so they can't even tweet their own article, and people trying to tweet the article get a message that says error. I know I got a message that's an error when I tried to tweet it. So big tech— Google, Facebook, Instagram— All against Trump. Hollywood hates his guts. The media have been complicit in suppressing this story and attacking it as Russian disinformation.
All right, really good stuff here. Matt Sharp is the senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom. You and I both wish you didn't have to exist, but you're needed more today than ever. It's, as I say to my listeners, it is no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave. Tragically, and it's worth crying over, but somebody has to do this, and you're doing it with all of these cases. The Florida State case is unbelievable. So what happened there? What victory did you win?
Well, we've just had a preliminary victory on behalf of Jack Denton, and the first step was the court said you had to restore those the payment, the salary he got as a student senate. And then even more encouragingly, just a few days later, the Florida State University Student Supreme Court— they've got a Supreme Court there made of law students— ruled in favor of Jack and said not only that, but you have to reinstate him to his position as a senator and senate president. And it was an encouraging thing to see even law students having a better grasp of the First Amendment than the university did in all of this.
What is this?
We're seeing victory after victory.
Yeah, I'm sorry, what is the state of sexual harassment or assault accusations made and the assumption is by definition the male student is guilty? Are you involved in any of those?
No.
So we primarily focused on the free speech, freedom of religion cases, but we know those do process concerns in some of those cases, our clients experience them as well, where students like Jack just get kicked out with very little process. But that's why we were happy to see we were able to take advantage of that here at Florida State and that the student judiciary ruled for Jack and gave him the relief he deserved.
How many lawyers work for you?
So we have dozens and dozens, I think over 60 full-time attorneys now that take a variety of cases, campus Free speech, life, religious liberty, all handling these cases with hundreds and hundreds of calls we get every month that we're responding to.
Would you like to have more lawyers, or you think you're at a good point?
You know, we are in need for more. Like I said, we get hundreds of calls every month, and a lot of those we're not able to assist with because we don't have the resources. We don't have enough attorneys. And we're only seeing more and more attacks on free speech, more and more attacks on people of faith. Situations like Jack Denton's in Florida— no one could have imagined something like that happening, you know, 10, 20 years ago, and yet it's becoming all too commonplace.
Well, my friend, my heart and my actions are with you. So is my money. So thank you, sir.
Absolutely.
And thank everyone for, for contributing to help us to defend people like Jack Ditten and others.
That's right. You're, you're right, folks. Think about this. If 100 of you gave $1,000—
am I—
100 of you could afford $1,000. I, I, you got to think in those terms. But listen, if 1,000 of you gave $100 Give $50. The other day, I just want to say this, the other day I had, uh, I got a printout on the internet. It was so, it was not a Word document, it was, it was a picture of something printed. I needed to get it into Word. There was a free service that transcribes print into Word text. You with me, folks? Is that clear? So they did it. It's a free service. They— then they— and then they said, if you liked our service, please contribute. So of course I contributed because I used them. I don't like to take things for free. I'm not telling you I'm a terrific guy. It didn't bankrupt me, but I am telling you that I've gotten myself into the habit of supporting what is important. And that's what I'm asking. It's a great habit to get into. And this is, uh, what, whether I use it, if it's a website I use and they ask for donations, or it's a, it's a great place. So There's a banner for ADF, Alliance Defending Freedom, at my website. Yes, indeed. Mike in Rochester, Minnesota. Hi.
Hello, Dennis. I appreciate everything you do.
Thank you.
Um, yeah, I had two points, but I was only allowed to give one to the call screener. But I work for a major airline, so as you probably read that gives us the option to wear BLM pin. And when CEOs and executives were questioned about it, they said, well, we're not supporting the BLM movement, just that Black lives do matter. That was their response.
But, but it's, it's like the logo of BLM, correct?
Yes, it's exactly right. Right. And it has— oops, I almost said the airline—
and it has our Well, if you work in Minnesota for a major airline, it's not exactly a puzzle.
No.
Okay, it's not Lufthansa.
No. And would you have time for my second point?
Okay, if it's a good one. Is it a good point?
Is it—
you promised me a good point.
Well, I'll try. All right, so I go to a Lutheran church, and you were talking about how the left ignores the violence and So we were talking about a local man who was killed, a local, um, first responder in a just a regular accident. And I said, yeah, that's sad. And it's sad in Philadelphia how the rioters are injuring police. And, and it was complete— they just ignored the comment. They moved on to something else because my pastor is of the left and I have friends of the left at that church.
And it's right. So a Lutheran pastor will not confront the injuries to 30 policemen?
Nope, did not make a comment.
So I have a question. I assume it's not Missouri Synod, correct? It's ELCA, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Okay.
Yeah, correct.
So my question is, why do you stay in that church?
I question that myself all the time. I've been going to that church for 20-plus years. I love the original pastor.
All right, so it's a good question.
This is Hugh Hewitt for TownHall.com. The 2020 election is now just days away. Here's my short case for backing the Trump-Pence ticket and voting for Republican senators and representatives in your state. On the coronavirus pandemic, Trump has done as well as any president could have done, and certainly better than Joe Biden. You're safer and more secure because of the Trump military buildup. The president has made the necessary pivot with China, and he's brokered the first major peace deal in the Middle East in 25 years. On the economy, Trump and the GOP succeeded in bringing unemployment to all-time lows early this year. Now, even amidst the pandemic, the economy is bouncing back. Your First and Second Amendment freedoms are much stronger as well because Trump has bolstered the Supreme Court and federal courts with strong judges who honor the Constitution. Whatever you think of Trump personally, there's no question his policies have been good for the country. Join me in voting for a second Trump term. I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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Sidney, where is the case against Mike Flynn?
It is still sitting in Judge Emmet Sullivan's court more than 100 60 days after the government moved to dismiss it with prejudice, more than 50 days after the DC Circuit told him to decide it with dispatch, and now approximately 3 weeks after the hearing.
Is this just playing for time? You've had the— you filed that, that request to have it dismissed. The higher 3-judge panel said it should be then Judge Sullivan played another game. How long can this purgatory last? You're the legal professional. How long can this sword of Damocles be held above Mike Flynn's head?
Well, if it runs into next week, I think we're going to have to look at filing another mandamus action. This is just unforgivable.
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The bar was very low for Trump on this debate, and he cleared it magnificently. All he had to do—
did themselves in because they kind of, on all the pre-media leading up to it, on all the channels, they had the surrogates on talking about, you know, well, we're expecting the the president to come out and hammer us and be mean and nasty and come for us. And I just, you know, blow the expectations away. Just be kind, control. It was, it was a, it was a really strong performance in so many ways, not the least of which was he also controlled the substance. He got in the topics that he wanted to get in.
He did bring up Ah, wonderful to be with you. Time flies here, it really does, which is— it's a good sign. Got a lot of great calls here, but my question to the last caller who works for a major airline in Minneapolis and stumped me. I'm sorry, most people don't know that it's the hub of— I won't even say. Okay, uh, I, I asked him a question. Why do you stay in your, in your church? The number of you whose rabbis, priests, and ministers have the opposite views of your religion as you understand it, of morality as you understand it, and of America as you cherish it, and you still go there, and it's somewhat of a puzzle. And I'm not criticizing you because you're not doing anything wrong necessarily. It's just It's a puzzle. Bernie, Texas, and David, hello.
Hello, Dennis. I was calling about early voting in Texas that was enacted originally by Democrats in the 1980s. They were blue dog Democrats, so different than the leftist party they have now. But I guess why I called is I'm troubled by our supposedly conservative Governor Abbott. He extended early voting during this shutdown another 6 days.
Yes, look, he's done a lot of good things. Here is my take. A lot of great calls here. There's painful stuff that I can't take everybody. World leaders, state leaders in the United States, city leaders, leaders all over the world have been spooked by this virus. Good judgment is so rare on planet Earth at this time that anyone who exercises it, like the governor of South Dakota, should, should be isolated for praise. People have been freaked out by the media. And I'll give you an example. The baseball player, the Los Angeles Dodger, yanked out in the 8th inning of the last game of the World Series because he was tested positive and then showed up for the celebration with his teammates without a mask while COVID positive. What is the headline in the Los Angeles Times? Uh, let's see. MLB says rules broken. And what is Plaschke, who's freaked out about this There's no masking Turner's poor judgment. Let's see how many of them get critically ill. Okay, healthy and young, let's see. Okay, no masks, great test.
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The polls in our face over and over again telling us that Trump is going to get clobbered on November 3rd. The polls saying he's losing in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida, Wisconsin. I don't believe it. I just don't believe it. And I could be in denial, or maybe we're right. That this enthusiasm gap is dramatic. Listen to this data before we go to your calls. There have been 13 reelection events since the president got out of the hospital and returned to the campaign trail. 13. According to the data provided by the Republican Party chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel, the president has attracted over 167,000 rallygoers, and a huge percentage of them aren't even Republicans. At Trump's October 17th visit in Janesville, Wisconsin, the RNC reports that 47.5% of the over 13,000 people there said they were not Republicans. In his October 14th stop in Des Moines, Iowa, she said 29.4% of the over 10,000 people were Democrats. At the first stop he made when he got out of the hospital Well, it feels like 6 months ago was what, just a week or two ago. He was in Sanford, Florida on October 12th. 24.4% didn't even vote in 2016, and 31.8% were not Republicans, 16.3% with Democrat or were Democrats. Ronna McDaniel told the Washington Examiner the RNC and Team Trump have the largest political operation in history. Built to turn out voters with surgical precision.
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Kamala Harris has referred to the Black Lives Matter movement as a beautiful movement. Yeah, there's some knuckleheads. Yeah, there's some people that set fire to some things. Yes, there's people that shoot. But by and large, it's a beautiful movement for racial solidarity based upon a narrative. And that narrative is that the police are engaging in systemic racism against Black people, that the police are killing Black people because they are Black people, not because they've done something bad, not because a cop reasonably thought that, uh, this Black person was posing a threat. No, no, no. They were doing it just because this suspect was Black. And so a movement based upon a false narrative— there's no evidence whatsoever that that's true. Is a beautiful movement, even though it is causing people like the gentleman who shot two LA sheriff deputies in the head to do so, even though it motivated a gentleman in New York to kill execution-style two cops, even though it motivated a gentleman in Baton Rouge to kill execution-style 3 cops, even though it motivated a gentleman in Dallas to kill 5 cops execution style. It's a beautiful movement. Never mind what used to be called the Ferguson effect, now it's called the Minneapolis effect. And these are cops admitting that they pull back. Why be proactive? Why try to stop crime? Why try to intervene fights? All you're going to do is put yourself in jeopardy of being accused of engaging in systemic racism. So to hell with it, we'll just deal with radio calls. It's called the Ferguson effect, at least it used to be. Now it's called the Minneapolis effect. You know what happens? Bad guys know it, and as a result, street crime goes up.
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The sleeper moment in this debate came at the end when Joe Biden announced the shutting down of America's oil industry. And I believe that's going to be the soundbite that's going to travel. As I said before the debate, he had to talk to Pennsylvania, and the president did. He talked to Pennsylvania repeatedly about fracking. And we're going to see some fact checks on the vice president's record on fracking. But the oil industry, the return to the Paris Accords, That was an unforced error by Joe Biden that I think will resonate with a lot of middle Americans as being extreme. I also think the president was very effective when he spoke directly to the Black community. By the way, our colleague Kristen Welker did very well tonight in maintaining pace and questions. I kind of feel vindicated when I told Mark Meadows yesterday she would do just that. She ran a marvelous ship and it's a very difficult thing to do. And I do believe, though, made some ground with the African American community and that Joe Biden got tripped up by Kristen on the crime bill, on the super predator stuff. You have to go check what everyone else was saying and everyone else was saying Donald Trump won. He wasn't going away because a debate, like a football game, goes until the whistle blows at the end. And when the whistle blew at the end, Joe Biden had wilted. And America is gonna, there's a lot of messages within the debate, but the over message is at the end that Joe Biden was fading after 4 days of rest. 95 minutes. It went a little bit long and he was fading. Look, let's, let's get to my favorite quote of the night. Cut number 14.
I would transition from the oil industry.
Yes, I will transition from the oil industry.
Yes.
I thought, bingo, that's on my card. You're done. But there's a lot of other good stuff.
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So Joe Biden was starting to run out of steam. 45 minutes, an hour, hour 15 into the debate, you could start to see Joe Biden looking at his watch. He called Donald Trump Abraham Lincoln. He said the poor boys instead of the Proud Boys. And it was becoming more clear that Joe Biden was metaphorically overheating. President Donald Trump saw an opportunity, and Kristen Welker, the moderator, decided to have climate change be the final topic of the debate. Now, why they frame climate change as an existential threat, which it isn't, to our country and to our planet as a primary concern is basically just pandering to the wishlist of the most powerful elites that have their whole life so neatly organized financially, they're looking for another thing to try and spend time and try to make themselves feel valuable in life. Climate change is not a pressing issue for families that can't pay the mortgage and cannot get jobs, cannot send their kids to school. And we're happy to—
Hi everybody. I'm going to go straight to my guest. I have not, I don't believe I have ever met this gentleman. However, I am already honored because he has the greatest of the human traits, courage. And he himself is an associate professor at the School of Medicine at UCLA, the UCLA Medical School. And he has written a piece that just came out The Wall Street Journal, masks are a distraction from the pandemic reality. Viruses inevitably spread, and authorities have oversold face coverings as a preventive measure. Dr. Ladapo, welcome to The Dennis Prager Show.
Hey, thank you, and happy to, happy to join. Thanks for inviting me.
So before the mask issue, and I know We really have one segment here, but before that, I am very curious, how has the reaction been to you at the medical school?
Oh, sure, Dan. Well, first I just want to say that I'm speaking for myself and not on behalf of the university. Right. So that might give you a sense of how the reaction has been. You know, it's been mixed. I mean, I've gotten, I've received a lot of supportive messages and communications, both from within the university and outside. But, you know, in terms of the general thinking of the university, its general position on issues, it tends not to fit in with that. And so I've gotten quite a lot of pushback. from, uh, from some of my colleagues, which is absolutely their right to do. Um, so, so that's how it's been.
Have there been any calls for you to be fired?
I'm sure there have been. I'm sure there have been. Um, uh, uh, yeah, I'm sure there have been. Uh, but, uh, you know, yeah. And that's, as you know, that's kind of, that's where we are right now as a country. And there's nothing special about me in that respect, unfortunately. Dissenting opinions have not, at least not in any time in history that I can think of, ever been so, you know, so suppressed in the United States.
This is unique. That is correct. It's a point I make every day. We have never undergone such an assault on free speech. One final thing before the mask, but it's partially about the mask. Why Why is there such passion for masks? It isn't purely a medical answer. So what do you think is behind it?
Yeah, and that's, that's the, that's the million-dollar question. And I'm so happy to hear you ask that because for so many people it's missed on them. They think that it's just an issue of science or, you know, it's just the mask. Why don't you wear the mask? And, you know, at its root, it is actually for some people, it is a really personal issue. And because it is so personal, it also involves a personal part of the body. It absolutely rouses, you know, very strong passions about, you know, liberty and civil liberty. And they are not unfounded passions. At all. And, um, and you know, it's been kind of amazing to me that, that so many people can't under— even if they think that everyone should wear a mask or whatever they feel, however they feel, I've been surprised that people, so many people seem to not be able to recognize that it really is a very, you know, very personal, um, issue for many people. It touches, you know, it touches a place that is, um, right.
But the passion to believe, I see a chart here. In addition to your article, The Federalist today has a chart of states and countries when they invoked the mask mandate and how the cases simply went up. It seems to have had no impact. So why would doctors support something that doesn't seem to have scientific credibility?
Yes. So what I would say to that is that I don't, I don't Personally, I don't believe that it has no scientific credibility. There is some evidence for it. Even before the pandemic, there was some evidence for it, but there was also quite a lot of evidence against it, arguing against any benefit, which is why that's just not been a recommendation. You know, I think that what's happened now is that we have a— there's a big political component that is sort of steering the science instead of the other way around. So the political component has to do with, you know, it has to do with political power. It has to do with fear and just how transformative this pandemic has been and how so many people have felt loss of control. So I think that's all feeding into the kind of the passionate support for them. Uh, but, and I get those, you know, those videos that show droplets spraying here and there. I totally get it. Um, but, you know, but that doesn't give us the answer to whether they are— the mask mandates are effective or not.
And does it matter what type of mask?
So the studies that have looked at that do seem to have found differences in how much droplet activity is— how much droplets are released. So it seems to matter. I mean, it's kind of the theory supports it mattering. The question of whether in actuality it matters is basically— there's actually a little bit of data on that also, but mostly in healthcare settings, not in the community setting. And then in terms of protection and filtration, there's data on that too, you know, with the N95s and that sort of thing being more effective at filtering out particles.
Where would you recommend someone, if anywhere, where someone wear a mask?
You know, it's really interesting. So I'd say two things. The first thing is that, is that there's a researcher it is an infectious disease specialist at UCSF. I think the last name is Gandhi. And she has, you know, she's sort of supported and others have supported this theory that the mask may actually be protective for the wearer in terms of reducing the viral load and how sick people get. And who knows, she may be correct. So I think it's reasonable for people who are at increased risk to, to consider wearing them. That's different from a mandate, particularly given the uncertainty, but I think that that's a reasonable suggestion until we know more. Indoor settings are the other place there seems to be anecdotes. You got to be careful with them, but there seems to be enough sort of anecdotal evidence that indoor places with poor circulation, there might be, there's probably a benefit on average with, with mask wearing in those situations. And that is probably the extent to where the evidence is strong.
So indoor with poor circulation, poor ventilation, like, yeah, like a phone booth.
If you can fit more than one person in a phone booth and one of them happens to be COVID-19 positive, sure.
You're Good man. I'm glad you went along with me on that one. I'm actually surprised you know what a phone booth is.
You sound very young to me.
So how do you, how do people explain, uh, that, uh, and I, I have flown a fair amount during this lockdown. So while we eat, we're We're inches away from strangers. So for a prolonged period of time during eating, and if you nurse your drink, it's really prolonged. You, I'm referring to coffee. But if you nurse whatever drink you're drinking, we're talking about a serious period of time. And we are hearing nothing about people getting sick from airplanes.
Yeah, absolutely. You know, and thank goodness that, you know, thank goodness for that. So, you know, I mean, a couple of things with the planes. One thing is that my reading is that they actually have, um, the, uh, the amount of air exchange in planes tends to be, uh, greater than, um, than buildings. So I don't— I'm not certain, but that's what I've read. So that's one piece that is that, you know, you got to imagine, right, that someone, at least one person has to have the virus. And if, if, if the number of people that have the virus, and then even if that person has the virus, they have to be at some point, they have to be asymptomatic, right? Because you're not going to get on a plane these days if you're symptomatic. So that's bringing the numbers down further. And then they have to be in a stage where they're actually contagious. And that window is, is, is for most people not that long. So that's important, you know, even though it, again, it's part of like, it's part of the hysteria that has, you know, been our—
that's the word—
copilot through this pandemic.
Well, okay, I gotta take a break and I know you have to go. I would love to do a part 2, and if you smoke cigars, I would love to have a cigar with you.
Okay, well, I can— if you, if you're gonna take a break, I can stay on.
Oh, okay, fine. I love it.
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So Joe Biden was starting to run out of steam, 45 minutes. An hour, hour 15 into the debate, you could start to see Joe Biden looking at his watch. He called Donald Trump Abraham Lincoln. He said the poor boys instead of the Proud Boys. And it was becoming more clear that Joe Biden was metaphorically overheating. President Donald Trump saw an opportunity, and Kristen Welker, the moderator, decided to have climate change be the final topic of the debate. Now, why they frame climate change as an existential threat, which it isn't, to our country and to our planet as a primary concern is basically just pandering to the wish list of the most powerful elites that have their whole life so neatly organized financially. They're looking They're looking for another thing to try and spend time and try to make themselves feel valuable in life. Climate change is not a pressing issue for families that can't pay the mortgage and cannot get jobs, cannot send their kids to school. And we're happy to build out the entire issue of climate change, environmentalism, and environmentalism has become a religion of the left. But since they decided to have that topic last, Joe Biden was the least alert, the least prepared to interface on this topic. And so this topic started around whether or not climate change was an existential threat. President Donald Trump, I thought, handled it perfectly. Lowest carbon emissions in 30 years. 1 trillion trees planted. He went through the whole list.
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We've been told for days now, for weeks now, that this is a Russian influence operation. It's not Hunter Biden's laptop, and this is another version of Russian collusion by the Trump campaign. We now have the evidence. You have the story. The Senate, the Bobulinski is out there. We have the FBI. We have DNI Ratcliffe saying there is no Russian aspect to any of this. John, what should your colleagues, your fellow media moguls and editors-in-chief be doing doing right now?
They should be going through the same emails I've been going through, that Peter Schweitzer has been going through, and Matt Boyle has been going through, and doing the reporting and finding out what went on in Joe Biden Inc. during the days he was vice president and the immediate afterwards. Remember, this, this story about China is more than just a family getting rich, though that should be the primary concern we have. The second is that it shows a judgment question. Donald Trump for 20 years has been arguing that China China was an enormous threat to America. Joe Biden was arguing he'd like to make China grow and it wasn't a threat to America. His family cashed in on it. Then in 2019 and 2020, when the coronavirus came along, he flipped around and came to Donald Trump's way of thinking. So which candidate do you want? You want the candidate who was right about China from the beginning or the one that changed tune only after he and his family made millions of dollars from China? I think that's, that's the big question that'll be at the middle this debate tonight.
You're talking about what they should be doing now.
What is—
what should they be doing with regards to what they said previously about the laptop, John?
They ought to correct the record. They ought to acknowledge that when they went with Adam Schiff's malarkey one more time— how many times has Adam Schiff misled the country the last few years? They should correct the record. They should say we were wrong, we've been told otherwise, and then they should follow up on the journalism now that they know its real material and inform the American public. Anything short of that is censorship by far.
Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here. I'm speaking with an associate professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, or medical school as we used to call it. And is it Ladapo or Ladapo?
It's Latipo.
Doctor, are you there?
Uh, yeah, I'm here.
Is it Latipo? Did I pronounce it correctly? Is it the first syllable?
Uh, yeah, it's Latipo.
Okay, great.
So yeah, but it's all— it's okay however you pronounce it. It's all good.
You know, you're—
you are—
I know it's not what you expected when you went on a national radio show, but Dennis Prager. Let me tell you, you exude health. You do. You have a blessed nature. I've never met you, but I read people. I've been doing this for 35 years, so you don't even have to react. It's just a delight. You're a delight to talk to.
And again, thank you. Thank you.
You're welcome. And he has written this article. It's in the Wall Street Journal. It's up at DennisPrager.com. My listeners, masks are a distraction from the pandemic reality. So, okay, let us imagine you are Emperor of California, which is— the governor is emperor now. What would you state to the people of California, either through mandate or through suggestion? What would you tell the people of California?
Yeah, well, Well, I mean, I think that I would try to keep it— I think the guidance around this pandemic would just be better with just people exercising common sense and realizing that there's a lot of people are walking around thinking that that, you know, that the only way forward is to, you know, stay at home and await a vaccine, and then life can resume. And, you know, and the truth is that's a terrible way to look at life, you know? It works out for some people, particularly people with jobs that are higher paying and, you know, and can, you know, kind of have the financial safety and don't have to show up as frequently. But it's complete havoc for other people. I mean, it's undoubtedly ruined people's lives, the lockdowns. So I think that, you know, I think it would almost be a live and let live type of guidance where where, you know, people do what they're comfortable doing and we support people who are at increased risk. And I know that the intention of this call was more about masks, but another area where there is substantial evidence of benefit but is just completely not being covered, not being shared with people, is the use of, of oral medications like hydroxychloroquine with zinc, possibly ivermectin, but definitely hydroxychloroquine with zinc for early treatment. That right now, the evidence points to that as being an effective way to help protect the most vulnerable people while we sort of get to herd immunity via vaccine, via infection. Combination of the two while keeping life moving forward. I mean, think about the— I mean, what I might even say to help people understand is like, imagine if, you know, a year from now, let's say we get to herd immunity in a year, and a year from now we have another pandemic. I mean, are we really going to repeat this again? It's not really— it's not a sustainable strategy, and it's probably not a good strategy for that reason.
I agree with every word you said, and I rarely wear masks, and I take hydroxychloroquine and zinc every week as a prophylactic.
Great, great. That's great.
And vitamin D. Apparently vitamin D is a big deal here.
Yeah, there is some interest in that. And also I think that there's less evidence, right, so far, but I mean, there's very little harm from taking normal doses of vitamin D. So especially while we don't know the answer and there have been— yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I admire you and we're going to publicize your words and I hope we speak again.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
You're very welcome. The magic word he used in the first segment was hysteria. The governor of California charges the president with wanting to be a dictator. Is a dictator And his most recent proclamation was that you should wear your mask between bites. We are living in the age of absurdity, and tragically, a vast number of Americans believe the absurd. People walking alone outdoors with masks on. Forget driving with a mask. All right, everybody. Uh, his, his whole point, I mean, it's what are we going to do with the next virus? Why isn't there hysteria over heart disease, which kills 3 times as many a year, every year? Why don't we have a countdown on that? Why have we come to accept heart failure and heart disease leading to fatality, right? There's no hysteria over it. So why is there hysteria over the virus? I said it in March, I wrote it in March, the greatest worldwide mistake in history. I have been confirmed by the reality of it. Now France is going to shut down again. So there's an article where a French restaurant owner says, this is it, it's over. All of my life's work is now over. There are millions, tens of millions like him in Europe, tens of millions like him in the United States. The, the, the, there are people who can work from home and make a living. There are many people who can't work from home. You can't work from home if you own a restaurant, a nail salon, a gym. Let people go if they want.
You don't want—
no one's demanding. There's no law you must eat in a restaurant or you must work out at a gym. I would if they open my gym. I'd go tomorrow at 100% capacity. I would go tomorrow. Hey, and let's see, with all the hysteria— that I believe it's hysteria— over the baseball player who joined his, uh, his team in celebrating the World Series victory, let's see. No mask. They had no mask.
He was positive.
Let's see how many of them die, how many of them are hospitalized. Isn't that all that matters? What's the difference if they get COVID that leads to nothing? That's like getting a vaccine. Maybe the guy gave his fellow players a vaccine. What's the difference between a vaccine and what he did?
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We've been told for days now, for weeks now, that this is a Russian influence operation. It's not Hunter Biden's laptop, and this is another version of Russian collusion by the Trump campaign. We now have the evidence. You have the story. The Senate— the Bobulinski is out there. We have the FBI. We have DNI Ratcliffe saying There is no Russian aspect to any of this. John, what should your colleagues, your fellow media moguls and editors-in-chief, be doing right now?
They should be going through the same emails I've been going through, that Peter Schweizer has been going through, and Matt Boyle has been going through, and doing the reporting and finding out what went on in Joe Biden Inc. during the days he was vice president and the immediate afterwards. Remember, This, this story about China is more than just a family getting rich, though that should be the primary concern we have. The second is that it shows a judgment question. Donald Trump for 20 years has been arguing that China poses an enormous threat to America. Joe Biden was arguing he'd like to make China grow and it wasn't a threat to America. His family cashed in on it. Then in 2019 and 2020, when the coronavirus came along, he flipped around and came to Donald Trump's way of thinking. So which candidate do you want? You want the candidate who right about China from the beginning or the one that changed tune only after he and his family made millions of dollars from China. I think that's, that's the big question that will be at the middle of this debate tonight.
You're talking about what they should be doing now.
What is—
what should they be doing with regards to what they said previously about the laptop, John?
They ought to correct the record. They ought to acknowledge that when they went with Adam Schiff's malarkey one more time— how many times has Adam misled the country the last few years. They should correct the record. They should say, we were wrong, we've been told otherwise, and then they should follow up on the journalism now that they know it's real material and inform the American public. Anything short of that is censorship to the detriment of the American public, the voting public.
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Glenn Reynolds, who writes a column for USA Today, wrote a column about Hunter Biden and his laptop, and USA Today won't publish it. Twitter shuts down the account of the New York Post so they can't even tweet their own article. And people trying to tweet the article get a message that says error. I know I got a message that said error when I tried to tweet it. So big tech— Google, Facebook, Instagram— all against Trump. Hollywood hates his guts. The media have been complicit in suppressing this story and attacking it as Russian disinformation. But the Steele dossier, that wasn't Russian disinformation. Oh no. John is in St. Petersburg, Florida. John, you're on the Larry Elder Show.
Yeah, you know, I was just thinking, uh, when you were talking about Adam Schiff and he was saying that this is all Russian disinformation, and I was thinking, well, you know, the guy that dropped off the laptop was Hunter Biden, so I guess the Bidens are Russian. Is that right?
Apparently so, John, that the Russians made Hunter Biden take his laptop. The Russians made Hunter Biden leave it for 90 days, and that it therefore became the property of the computer store owner. The Russians made the computer store owner contact the FBI. You know, the Russians, they're amazing. You know, the biggest interferer in our election, not the Russians, it's the media.
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There are a lot of, uh, there's apparently a study from Denmark, the only controlled trial on the efficacy of face masks against COVID infection, and according to press reports, it found no effect of face masks. But the publication of the study has been denied by 3 major journals. Are you aware of that? You're not surprised, of course. Well, the politicization, the leftization of science is another catastrophe. I watch these rallies where, you know, 26 people show up for Joe Biden in circles, and the happy, excited Tens of thousands at all of the president's rallies. Is it not obvious that the healthier, happier part of America is overwhelmingly going to vote for the reelection of the president? Do you know the unhappy tend to hate the happy? It's a deep resentment, and the left is all unhappy. There were liberals who were happy, there were conservatives who were happy, but they're all leftists are miserable in every sense of the word of miserable. It is amazing the amount of obscenities they use in responses to tweets, very rarely with their name. You know, this doctor that I just had on, I was shocked that he came out. I didn't even ask him. He came out for hydroxychloroquine and zinc. He's at— he's an associate professor at UCLA Medical School. Of course he came out for it. How could you not if you know anything about it? You know how effective it is in the early stages of COVID So people, including corrupt doctors or ignorant doctors— I'll give them the benefit of the doubt— ignorant doctors. I truly believe I know more about the hydroxychloroquine studies than 99% of American doctors. I don't know more about how hydroxychloroquine works, I admit that, but I know way more about the studies in the world. The vast majority are ridiculous studies. They're given when too late, they're given in too high a dosage, and that alone invalidates the study. You give it as soon as a person tests positive. And the tests, I don't know what about the— by the way, here's a perfect test of the tests. The anger at Justin Turner, the Los Angeles Dodgers star, Taken out because he's positive. The report comes in, he's taken out in the 8th inning, they win the World Series, and he celebrates with his teammates. And that's all that's talked about in the utterly woke, radicalized, uh, journalistic, uh, propaganda sheet known as the Los Angeles Times, with their sportswriter. Sportswriter— I, I don't know why, but sportswriters are, are like the ultimate woke. They're the ones who led the fight against the Redskins name. But American Indians couldn't care less about the Redskins name. Dodgers' big moment marred by third baseman's act of selfishness. Bill Plaschke, the chief sports writer. Mr. Woke. The guy is so dependably left that I could write his columns. He's so proud of himself. I am Mr. I care about humans. Justin Turner, he's just selfish. Well, let's see what happens. What if nothing happens? Will you write, I was wrong, Mr. Plaschke? Here's a public challenge. If nothing happens to any of the players, will you retract your attack on him? You might have marred the celebration of the World Series. He didn't mar it. Maybe Bill Plaschke, the sportswriter of the LA Times, marred it. We'll find out, won't we? And then if I'm wrong, I will retract it. One of us is wrong, Mr. Plasky, right? Is that clear? Not to the left-wing mind. They're never wrong because evidence is not the issue. Passion is. Oh, he didn't wear a mask when he celebrated with his fellow players. They're gonna die. What will happen to them, Mr. Plasky? They never tell us what will happen to them. What if not one ends up even in a hospital for a day? Not one. Dodgers' big moment marred. It's marred by Bill Plaschke and the LA Times. It's not marred by Justin Turner. But who's going to say that? I did. Uh, but hey folks, you know what I wrote 25 years ago? Being on the left means never having to say you're sorry. For the LA Times, the World Series victory of the LA Dodgers is inconsequential compared to Justin Turner celebrating with his teammates because he's COVID positive. Oh my God. Well, we'll know in 2 weeks, won't we? And then we'll see. All right, Riduzone is an incredible product. I only, uh, recommend it because I talked to the doctors who made it. It's composed of OEA, the molecule that you already have that tells your brain you're full. You will eat less, burn fat. 30% off if you use the promo code Dennis. Riduzone.com. And 30-day money-back guarantee. Eating less is the road to health, not just to weight loss. Riduzone.com, promo code Dennis.
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The bar was very low for Trump on this debate, and he cleared it magnificently. All he had to do—
did themselves in because they kind of, on all the pre-media leading up to it, on all the channels, they had the surrogates on talking about, you know, well, we're expecting the president to come out and hammer us and be mean and nasty and come for us. And I just, you know, blow the expectations away. Just be kind control. It was, it was a, it was a really strong performance in so many ways, not the least of which was he also controlled the substance. He got in the topics that he wanted to get in. He did bring up the Hunter Biden laptop. He did bring up the corruption issue. He did work his way into those areas that some people had said he wouldn't be able to. And I think that it was just a masterful use of the moment, the opportunity, the demeanor, and the content of the evening, I thought it all worked in his favor.
I'm guessing that if any needle was moved, it was with suburban women who needed to see that he is capable of being controlled, measured, responsible, unemotional. That was really magnificent on his part that he was able to do that. And look, we've seen him do it before. We know he's capable of it. But the fact that he chose to do it last night, I really do think that there are a lot of people who all they needed to know was, can he do that? Will he do that? Is this a guy when things get tough who flies off the handle or who can be in control? I really do think that he moved that needle.
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The polls in our face over and over again telling us that Trump is going to get clobbered on November 3rd. The polls saying he's losing in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida, Wisconsin, I don't believe it. I just don't believe it. And I could be in denial, or maybe we're right that this enthusiasm gap is dramatic. Listen to this data before we go to your calls. There have been 13 reelection events since the president got out of the hospital and returned to the campaign trail. 13. According to the data provided by the Republican Party chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, the president has attracted over 167,000 rallygoers. And a huge percentage of them aren't even Republicans. At Trump's October 17th visit in Janesville, Wisconsin, the RNC reports that 47.5% of the over 13,000 people there said they were not Republicans. It is October I want to—
oh geez, I just knocked both earphones out of my ears. All right, all right, everybody. A lot of you should be— all of you should be thinking about a refi. About a new loan, about cash-out refi, reverse mortgage, if you are, because of the spectacular, truly spectacular rates right now, the guys who have been with me from Sierra Pacific Mortgage from the beginning of the lockdown, I really salute these guys, andrewandtod.com. So talk to them, discuss it. There's no obligation, but discuss your situation. 888-888-1172, andrewandtodd.com. They'll take it from there, and I strongly recommend them, and I strongly recommend that you get locked in— not locked down, locked in— to these great rates. andrewandtodd.com. 888-888-1172. Is it— we have a Biden, he's speaking, Joe Biden at a rally. How many, how many people are there? About 20 in their cars. Yes, let's bankrupt some more small businesses. Same minimum wage in Alabama as in New York City. My economic plan has been analyzed by the guys on Wall Street. You know what they say? What?
They say my plan will create 18.6 million good-paying jobs.
Who is they?
Who is they?
$1 million more than he's going to be able to create if he got elected, and $1 trillion more in economic growth. What he's forgotten: when you all do better, everybody does better. Okay. All right. Everybody does better. Okay. Very good. It's not a zero-sum game. So they're sitting in cars to protect themselves from the virus?
No, they're out. They're standing by their cars.
They're standing by their cars.
30 people.
30 people.
Opposed to the Trump rally.
And he has tens of thousands at a rally, same state. Okay, let's see here. Greg in Van Nuys, California. Hello.
Hi Dennis, uh, thanks for taking the call. I, I believe that the virus is real, but I also believe that the lockdown will kill, uh, far more than the virus. When I speak to my wife about this, and I raise the same questions you raise when I ask her, well, what about— why aren't we as tweaked about heart disease or cancer or any of those diseases? And her response is, well, we know more about those diseases and they're more manageable even though, yes, people die from them all the time and there's a high death high death rates, people, they're more manageable, and we have vaccines and we have known methods of prevention. How would you respond to my wife about that?
Well, we have no vaccine against heart disease. We have no vaccine against cancer, the two things you mentioned.
Right, okay, true.
So they're not, I mean, they're manageable, but they're not, we have 3 times as many deaths every year from heart disease as we have at— if you believe the statistics on COVID, which everybody acknowledges are a mixed bag because anyone who has COVID and dies of something else, it's listed as a COVID death. So that's— it's a dishonest number. None of us ever said that the disease is a fraud or whatever other word is used. Of course there's the disease. No one denies it. We deny the accuracy of the numbers. But in any event, even if they were right, I was against the lockdown from the beginning. Only in very small areas where there are overloading of hospitals does it make any sense, and only in any event of those who are most vulnerable. There is nothing you can say to your wife, and, and I want you to love her up and everything, and I don't want it to be a cause of friction I don't believe that you can't— reason cannot be effective against passion. And so that's the story. That is why it is almost impossible to talk to anyone who is a leftist. You use reason and they use passion, right? You disagree with them, you are sexist and intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist, and bigoted. And that's the end of the issue. In the University of Wyoming, when they attacked me for coming there a couple of years ago, they wrote an editorial against me and noted as well that I'm an anti-Semite. I've done more for Jewry in my lifetime than almost any living Jew. I can document that with great ease. Aside from, even if I didn't, most Jews are not anti-Semites. But they just throw it in. They throw it in with the president. All the smears of the president. They smear, they don't debate. That's not his wife. His wife is— the issue is her fear with regard to COVID. There is maybe one statistic that might have an effect. It's easily gotten on the internet. What percentage of people at given ages die of this illness? It is infinitesimally small. You are more likely— if you are under 70, you are more likely to die in a car crash. Why is the society shut down over that? Sweden kept its schools open from the beginning, never shut them down for everyone age 16 and under. Why are we putting masks on 3-year-olds on airplanes? The society has been taken over by hysteria. This is not good. This is a bad, bad sign. And do you know who are the most hysterical? Guess who? The well-educated. Because the well-educated have been brainwashed longer than anybody else. The crap you get at college, the garbage, the nonsense, the drivel from fools whom you pay $40,000, $50,000, $60,000 a year. You learn not to think clearly unless you've been blessed with clarity going into college or you're inebriated for 4 years. Back in a moment.
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So Joe Biden was starting to run out of steam 45 minutes, an hour, hour 15 into the debate, you could start to see Joe Biden looking at his watch. He called Donald Trump Abraham Lincoln. He said the poor boys instead of the Proud Boys. And it was becoming more clear that Joe Biden was metaphorically overheating. President Donald Trump saw an opportunity. And Kirsten Welker, the moderator, decided to have climate change be the final topic of the debate. Now, why they frame climate change as an existential threat, which it isn't, to our country and to our planet as a primary concern is basically just pandering to the wish list of the most powerful elites that have their whole life so neatly organized financially. They're looking for another thing to try and spend time and try to make themselves feel valuable in life. Climate change is not a pressing issue for families that can't pay the mortgage and cannot get jobs, cannot send their kids to school. And we're happy to build out the entire issue of climate change, environmentalism, and environmentalism has become a religion of the left. But since they decided to have that topic last, Joe Biden was the least alert the least prepared to interface on this topic. And so this topic started around whether or not climate change was an existential threat. President Donald Trump, I thought, handled it perfectly. Lowest carbon emissions in 30 years, 1 trillion trees planted. He went through the whole list.
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We've been told for days now, for weeks now, that this is a Russian influence operation. It's not Hunter Biden's laptop, and this is another version of Russian collusion by the Trump campaign. We now have the evidence. You have the story. The Senate, the— Bobulinski is out there. We have the FBI. We have DNI Ratcliffe saying there is no Russian aspect to any of this. John, what should your colleagues, your fellow media moguls and editors-in-chief be doing right now?
They should be going through the same emails I've been going through and that Peter Schweitzer has been going through and Matt Boyle's has been going through and doing the reporting and finding out what went on in Joe Biden Inc. during the days he was vice president and the immediate afterwards. Remember, this, this story about China is more than just a family getting rich, though that should be the primary concern we have. The second is that it shows a judgment question. Donald Trump for 20 years has been arguing that China poses an enormous threat to America. Joe Biden was arguing he'd like to make China Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Dennis Prager. I want to take as many calls as I can before I bid you adieu. Au revoir. Auf Wiedersehen. Do svidaniya. Until tomorrow's show. Where's the Berlin call? I want to— Did he hang up? I can't believe it. I was just about to get the guy who was going to talk about the Berlin But I looked it up. Thank you, whoever it is and who hung up just as I was about to get him. Did you know this? 20,000 protested masks and lockdown in Germany in August. 20,000. Why don't we have that? Why is there more clamoring for freedom in Germany than in America? 20,000 gather in Berlin for anti-mask Day of Freedom protest. This is the Daily Beast. August 1st. No, I know they're doing shutdowns again. I just wanted to note this. I did not know this, and I think it's important. I wish we had this. So you know what The Daily Beast reports? Day of Freedom gathering— the title is the same as a Nazi film from 1935. Get it? So if you call for a day of freedom, you're a Nazi. The left-wing report on the, on the issue. Uh, Ty in San Antonio, hello.
Hey Dennis, thank you so much for taking my call. Um, yep, so I have a couple quick statements and then I just want to get your opinion on a question.
So give me the opinion on the question one because we don't have a lot of time.
Okay, okay, the question, so, so The question is, uh, and this is different from what I told you, told your call screener.
All right, then do the one on the Dodgers. Do you have to do what you told the screener? What's, what's your Dodger point?
So it seems like having been on a lot of teams before, sporting teams, that the sentiment around the Dodgers or the virus was one of that it's not nearly what it's being sold that it is, because Justin Turner would have never came back out there and put his teammates in jeopardy if he had already had discussions with them. And trust me, they have, you know this, about the virus and knowing that, hey, they're gonna be okay if I come, they're gonna be okay with the fact that I'm coming back out here even though I just tested positive. So I think you're right.
I gotta get— I gotta move on, forgive me, but I think you're right. Exactly. The— this headline in the LA Times, which you can't get to the left of the LA Times, Therefore, it's an angry newspaper and it's filled with nonsense. So on the sports page is this giant headline by their left-wing chief sports reporter, Bill Plaschke, and how he has marred— what is it? Dodgers' big moment marred by third baseman's act of selfishness. So we'll see, right? We'll see what happens to his teammates. I'll be shocked if, if one of all his teammates ends up in the hospital for one day. Okay, so I'm on the record of saying that. He's on the record of saying that the guy was selfish and, and risked— let's say some of his teammates get COVID. They're healthy and young. That's important.
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