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Front page, LA Times: Talk radio host fired up GOP, widened US divide. That's the headline. The LA Times, like the New York Times, does not pretend to be a newspaper, so it's fine. It's an opinion piece, and it's a spokesperson for the left, like Prager was for the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. So he divides, right? He divides. When the left accuses a conservative of being divisive, and I had that in fact yesterday, I've had a fascinating Zoom conference, which I will tell you about in a moment. The left, one of the features of people on the left is a thorough lack of self-awareness. It is conservatives who divide, not we. So I write in my piece coming out tomorrow in the Wall Street Journal, liberals and leftists dismissed him throughout his career and again in their obituaries this week as divisive, as if the left has not been the most divisive force in America since the Civil War. This lack of self-awareness on the part of the left is mind-numbing. Calling America systemically racist and every white American racist and separating college dorms and graduating exercises by race— that's not divisive? Using the demonstrably false New York Times The 1619 Project, to teach America's schoolchildren that our country was not founded in 1776, but in 1619 when the first black slaves arrived in North America, and that the Revolutionary War was fought in order to preserve slavery. That's not divisive? Forcing the employees of tens of thousands of American businesses to sit through Mao-like anti-racism sessions. That's not divisive? Forcing high school girls to race against biological males who identify as females. That's not divisive? The Supreme Court ruling that non-denominational prayer in schools is unconstitutional. That was not divisive? I didn't mention Roe v. Wade, but obviously that's another example. The only reason I didn't mention it is when you mention abortion, you have to be aware nothing else gathers the reader's attention. So the point of divisiveness was the point rather than abortion per se. But of course Roe v. Wade completely divided the country. But he's divisive. This is— so here, I want you to understand the rule. Are you ready? Rules for leftists: we left on the left may divide, but if a conservative or some liberal points out that we divide, that person will be attacked as dividing. Get it? That's how it works. It's like with Islamic terrorists. We can blow you up, but if you respond, then we take revenge for your responding. Remember that rule? That's exactly what the left does non-violently. We can attack, but if you attack back, you're the one who was divided. Many occasions, but not for a while, I've mentioned to you that when I was a child, there was an adult line used that drove me crazy. I mean, as far back as my memory goes, like being 7, when I and another kid would get into a fight, or two other kids would get into a fight, and one of the parties would say, "But he started!" And the parent or teacher would say, "I don't care who started!" And as far back as I can remember, I thought, you don't care who started? What else is relevant? I don't think I used the word relevant, but what else matters? You don't care who started? That's amazing. Yes, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, but we shouldn't be fighting. It's obviously absurd, but so is the left-wing charge against Rush Limbaugh. I could have made— the problem with all of my writing for me is that I have to cut a great deal. I love cutting because the terser a piece is, the more likely it is to be read. Nevertheless, I would— I might write a piece on 750 words, which is the preferred length, only on divisive or divisive things the left has done. So the next time you hear it with regard to the right, let me understand something. It's divisive to believe that government should be smaller. It's divisive to believe that you should not recognize the race of an individual but their character. I'd like you to give me, you can call me now if you can, what conservative positions are divisive as opposed to normative? Okay? Want corporations to pay lower taxes than corporations all over the world? That's divisive? You, you would like to only enable legal immigrants? Is that divisive? You would like to have a way of monitoring who is voting so that it is completely fair and legal? That's divisive? Now let me ask you a real toughie. Right now in California, in fact, we're going to be speaking, I will be speaking, I don't like the royal we, I will be speaking to the head of the recall Gavin Newsom campaign, which already has surpassed, I believe, 1.5 million signatures, which is what is required. However, they want 2 million signatures because every signature is going to be pored over to make sure it's valid. So here's a real toughie. How many of you know what I'm gonna ask? How come they're so keen on having valid ballots valid signatures when it comes to recalling a Democratic governor, but couldn't care less about the signature when it comes to voting? Are they suppressing the vote by checking for signatures? Is it racist to check for signatures? Another rule of the left. Say whatever works at any given moment. Do not worry if it's applicable to any other issue. Cool, huh? I mean, who's gonna call you on it? The LA Times. You're so right, I hadn't thought about that. That is right. 1-800-PRAGER-776. The column I wrote for the Wall Street Journal out tomorrow notes something that I have not heard noted much, and I'm not quite certain why. Either people feel it's too delicate or they just forget to mention it, but the man was going deaf. According to what I read, he was essentially deaf near the end of his life. You heard about Beethoven composing when he was deaf, the most extraordinary achievement of a deaf person that we know of in history. Well, I would put Rush Limbaugh being a talk show host and not having it obvious to anyone that he was essentially deaf is up there. It's sort of Beethovenesque. 1-800-PRAGER-776. I'm Dennis Prager.