Dennis Prager challenges a caller's claim that conservatives value truth less than liberals. Prager cites defamation cases against Fox News, Rudy Giuliani, and Alex Jones to show liars exist on both sides, then focuses on COVID: he argues the left's lockdown and vaccine messaging was less truthful than right-wing skeptics, and the caller can't provide data to counter him.
Alright, let's take some calls here. Michael in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Hello.
Hello. Hi. You know, you say often that truth is not a left-wing value, the truth is a value of the right wing.
No, I say it's a conservative value and a liberal value.
Conservative value. I did not mean to misquote you.
That's alright. I wasn't thinking you did.
Fox News owes $700 million to Dominion for lying about them. Rudy Giuliani owes $140 million to the Georgia election workers for lying about them. Alex Jones owes $1.1 billion for lying about this, you know, Sandy Hook. Mike Lindell promised $5 million if somebody could prove that he didn't, um, if he wasn't quoting election data correctly. He wasn't.
Okay, so, so, yes, so, okay, so I, I, I don't use— I don't use individuals to prove my point because there are liars of every persuasion. There are lying Christians, lying Jews, lying Buddhists, lying Mormons. So it proves nothing when I say the truth is not a left-wing value. I am talking about the entire left. It is not a value for the whole. In other words, let me ask you a question. Do you think that there is more— there was more truth from the whole Democratic Party, the whole left, the entire CDC and NIH about COVID or the right-wing dissenters? Who told more truth?
I trust the studies.
Oh, well, wait, wait. That's not an answer. It's not an answer. Who do you think told more truth?
The people who write the studies.
Who? I asked you the government or the dissenters.
I can answer the question.
No, you're not answering the question. Who lied more?
You're referring to about the government. I'm sorry, I can't.
You can't answer? You don't find the government? The Democratic Party and the teachers unions and the CDC and the NIH. Lockdown, lockdown kids and take as many vaccines and boosters as possible versus the dissenters who were almost all identified as conservative. Who do you think told more truth on the most important issue of the last 4 years?
How do you measure the amount of truth they told?
Okay. Okay. If you can't, then okay. So you're agnostic. Okay. So you are agnostic. You're not prepared to say— you called in to tell me that they're equivalent. Is that your point? You think that they lie on both sides? Is that why you called?
No, I think they lie more on the right.
I asked you a very— then I asked you, right? I asked you on the most important issue, who lied more, the left or the right, on COVID? Do you— and you have no answer?
I, I don't have any statistics.
That's correct. You have no answer. Okay, my friend, you can call in and say the right lies as much as the left, but on the most important issue of the last 4 years, you have no idea who told more truth. Okay, that was, that was revealing, and I think you should reflect on your position. I really do thank you for calling, so I took your call first.
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