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He Gets Us campaign next in ongoing attack against conservatives and Christians · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: All right. You may have noticed during the Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: if you watched it. In between star studed advertisements and
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of football, this year's Super Bowl watchers
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Speaker 1: were being taken, as it was described by many online
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Speaker 1: as going to church. He gets Us, a campaign to
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Speaker 1: promote Jesus and Christianity, is running two ads during the
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Speaker 1: game as part of a staggering one hundred million dollars
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Speaker 1: media investment. To me, the spots will be nothing new.
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Speaker 1: He gets Us content has been prepping or has been
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Speaker 1: peppering TV screens, billboards, and social media feeds since a
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Speaker 1: national launch in twenty twenty two. The campaign is arresting,
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Speaker 1: portraying the pivotal figure of Christianity as an immigrant, a refugee,
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Speaker 1: a radical, an activist for women's rights, and a bulwork
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Speaker 1: against racial injustice and political corruption. He gets Us website
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Speaker 1: features content about of the moment topics like artificial intelligence
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Speaker 1: and social justice. Whatever you are facing Jesus face at two.
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Speaker 1: The campaign claims it's getting noticed when the campaign's videos,
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Speaker 1: titled The Rebel has need one hundred and twenty two
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Speaker 1: million views on YouTube and eleven months google searches for
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Speaker 1: He gets Us, a spike since the beginning of the year.
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Speaker 1: The campaign is a natural fit with the NFL, they say,
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Speaker 1: whose games have long contained symbols of religion. Players often
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Speaker 1: prey on the field and point to Heaven after touchdowns.
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Speaker 1: But certain details about the he gets Us ads have
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Speaker 1: set off alarm bells among young people in those skeptical
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Speaker 1: of religion, two groups a campaign is specifically trying to
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Speaker 1: attract as many young people have turned against faith, religion, God, etc. Now.
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Speaker 1: Some of the campaign's major donors and its holding company
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Speaker 1: have ties to the conservative political aspects and quote far
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Speaker 1: right ideology. CNN says that appear at odds with the
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Speaker 1: campaigns inclusive messaging. The campaign has connections to anti LGBT
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Speaker 1: and anti abortion law as well. Read the Bible and
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Speaker 1: you'll understand why would be my response. The chain of
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Speaker 1: influence behind he gets Us can be followed through public
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Speaker 1: records and information on the campaign's own site. The campaign
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Speaker 1: is a subsidiary of the Servant Foundation, also known as
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Speaker 1: sign a Tree. According to research compiled a left leaning
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Speaker 1: news outlet says that Servant Foundations donated tens of millions
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Speaker 1: of dollars to the Alliance Defending Freedom. It's a conservative
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Speaker 1: Christian legal group ADF, which by the way, does amazing work,
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Speaker 1: has been involved in a lot of significant court cases.
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Speaker 1: They've been involved in several legislative pushes to curtail LGBTQ rights,
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Speaker 1: CNN says, and squash non discrimination legislation in the Supreme Court. Now,
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Speaker 1: while donors who support He Gets Us can choose to
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Speaker 1: remain anonymous, Hobby Lobby co founder David Green claims to
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Speaker 1: be a big contributor to the campaigns multimillion dollar campaign budget.
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Speaker 1: Hobby Lobby has famously been at the center of several
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Speaker 1: legal controversies, including the support of anti LGBTQ legislation. I
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Speaker 1: love how's anti LGBTQ is how the media you know,
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Speaker 1: phrase it instead of them just saying the truth, which
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Speaker 1: is they support traditional marriage legislation. They go on to
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Speaker 1: write in a successful years long legal fight that eventually
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Speaker 1: led the Supreme Court allowing companies to deny medical coverage
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Speaker 1: for contraception on the basis of religious beliefs. Again, you gotta,
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Speaker 1: you know, make sure Hobby Lobby looks bad if you're CNN.
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Speaker 1: Green discussed his involvement with a campaign in the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl ad spot during a November interview with conservative talk
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Speaker 1: shows Glenn Back, he said, quote, we are wanting to
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Speaker 1: say we we being a lot of different people that
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Speaker 1: he gets Us. Green said referring to Jesus. Jesus understands us.
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Speaker 1: He loves who we hate. I think we have to
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Speaker 1: let the public know and create a movement. He gets
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Speaker 1: Us does not list owners on its website. Funding for
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Speaker 1: He gets Us comes from a diverse group of individuals
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Speaker 1: and entities with a common goal of sharing Jesus's story authentically.
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Speaker 1: Besides funding information, page reads, most of the people driving
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Speaker 1: and gets Us include our donors, including our donors choose
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Speaker 1: to remain anonymous because the story isn't about them and
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Speaker 1: they don't want the credit. Jason vander Ground, spokesman for
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Speaker 1: He gets Us, in president of a creative marketing firm, Haven,
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Speaker 1: said to see Ann that the Servant Foundation uses a
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Speaker 1: fund which unites donors to provide pool support for organizations
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Speaker 1: while ensuring the organizations can operate without donors impacting specific messages.
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Speaker 1: Funding for the campaign comes from a diverse group of
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Speaker 1: individuals and entities with a common goal of sharing Jesus
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Speaker 1: and Jesus's story authentically. C Ann again on the at
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Speaker 1: hack at such an ad campaign said the campaign is
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Speaker 1: tied to evangelical churches. By the way, yay be assured,
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Speaker 1: we're not left or right or a political organization of
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Speaker 1: any kind that he gets us site reads. We're also
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Speaker 1: not affiliated with any particular church or denomination. See. This
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Speaker 1: is the thing and the reason why I wanted to
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Speaker 1: read you this story because I do think it's so
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Speaker 1: important that people really understand this. Notice how they're now
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Speaker 1: attacking right conservatives, They're attacking attacking churches, they're attacking donors,
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Speaker 1: and they're now saying that if you're an evangelical Christian
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Speaker 1: that you're obviously some sort of horrific right wing person.
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Speaker 1: If you stand up for traditional marriage, you're actually technically
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Speaker 1: anti LGBTQIA, and therefore you're the worst person in the world.
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Speaker 1: That's what they're saying. If you believe in basic values
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Speaker 1: now and you're not accepting of others and what they
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Speaker 1: want to force you to believe, then you're also the
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Speaker 1: worst person in the world. You have to understand this
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Speaker 1: is now what we are up against. This is who
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Speaker 1: we are, this is what we are, this is what
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Speaker 1: we have become as a country. We have a group
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Speaker 1: of individuals that hate faith. They hate God, they hate religion,
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Speaker 1: They hate that the Bible actually sets out a basic
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Speaker 1: list of right and wrongs. They hate the fact that
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Speaker 1: we are that we live in a nation where there
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Speaker 1: are people that go to church and believe there's a
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Speaker 1: higher being. In fact, they hate that we are now
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Speaker 1: in a scenario with an ad campaign during the super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: there is telling people that if you're struggling life with depression, anxiety,
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Speaker 1: if you're struggling with a list of different things that
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Speaker 1: real people actually are dealing with, that there may be
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Speaker 1: answers within the Bible, that there may be something that's
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Speaker 1: bigger than you. This is how much the left, which
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Speaker 1: is really has a hardcore anti God aspect now of
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Speaker 1: their politics. It's how far they're willing to go. If
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Speaker 1: you're a Christian, if you're a conservative and you give money,
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Speaker 1: they want to docks you. Docsing is where they say,
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Speaker 1: look at this person, look at their company, don't shop there,
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Speaker 1: don't do business with them, or if they work for
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Speaker 1: somebody else, they should be fired for this. Right. So
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Speaker 1: you go out there and you tell people during the
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Speaker 1: super Bowl, hey, there's a God, and if you are struggling,
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Speaker 1: maybe you should look at this. They want you to
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Speaker 1: be destroyed forever. And that's exactly why CNN has written
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Speaker 1: this article the way that they are writing this article.
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Speaker 1: This is why they've decided this is the way they
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Speaker 1: want this article to be written. This is why they
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Speaker 1: are saying it this way is because they do not
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Speaker 1: believe that you have the right to believe in a
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Speaker 1: higher being, and if you do, they want people to
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Speaker 1: think that you are a bigot, racist, homophobe, xenophobe, everything
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Speaker 1: else they can call you. In other words, you go
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Speaker 1: to church and you're an evangelical and you're a bigot,
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Speaker 1: You're a racist, you're you're a fundamentalist, or a KKK member.
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Speaker 1: That's the message CNN is saying in this article. All
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Speaker 1: because two ads are Boy the super Bowl, giving people
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Speaker 1: hope and anyone that gives money to them. They want
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Speaker 1: they want you to be They want to own you,
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Speaker 1: also the part that I do love about the bigotry
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Speaker 1: of the media. The campaign quote is tied to evangelical churches.
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Speaker 1: Be assured, we're not left or right or a political
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Speaker 1: organization of any kind. That he gets us. Site reads
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Speaker 1: we're also not affiliated with any particular church or denominate.
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Speaker 1: While it gets us as it's not intended to be
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Speaker 1: connected to any particular Christian ideology, it has theological ties
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Speaker 1: to evangelical practices as well as financial ones, and then
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Speaker 1: goes on to write in general, Christian evangelism is closely
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Speaker 1: tied to conservatism and as an extremely influential force in
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Speaker 1: American politics. All right, So let's just be clear now
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Speaker 1: you should hate this these ads that ran in this
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Speaker 1: campaign because it's closely tied to conservative politics, all right.
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Speaker 1: I really don't know what else to say about the
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Speaker 1: bigotry of the left and the media than just to
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Speaker 1: read these words to you. It is so perfectly encompassing
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Speaker 1: of where we are in society today. Is there any
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Speaker 1: other ads that we're in the Super Bowl or anything
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Speaker 1: else that happened in the Super Bowl that has written
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Speaker 1: about this extensively by CNN? The answers no. They're now
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Speaker 1: attacking Conservatives, Christians, evangelicals for having an ad up there
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Speaker 1: that says He gets Us trying to help people that
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Speaker 1: are struggling in a godless world. On the heat excuse me.
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Speaker 1: On the He gets Us outreach site, which is meant
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Speaker 1: for churches and marketers who wish to interact with the campaign,
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Speaker 1: the organization outlines its beliefs. He Gets Us has chosen
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Speaker 1: to not have our own separate statement of beliefs. Each
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Speaker 1: participating church ministry will typically have its own language. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: we generally recognize Lazian Covenant as reflective of the spirit
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Speaker 1: and intent of this movement, and churches that partner with
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Speaker 1: Explorers from He gets Us a firm this covenant. This
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Speaker 1: information does not appear to be listed anywhere on the
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Speaker 1: main He Gets A site intended for the public. The
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four Governant is an important unifying document in
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Speaker 1: evangelical Christian churches. While the movement itself was started by
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Speaker 1: the prominent evangelical leader Billy Graham. So apparently now Billy
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Speaker 1: Graham's a horrible person. Documents and decisions that have come
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Speaker 1: out of the movement summons have to cry the ideology
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Speaker 1: of disordered sexuality and focus heavily on the impact of
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Speaker 1: the devil and sin on national cultures. I don't understand
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Speaker 1: what's wrong with that. Have you ever read the Bible?
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Speaker 1: It's pretty clear. The influence of Graham, a founder of
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Speaker 1: modern American evangelism, is also evident in speakers and partners
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Speaker 1: from he gets us. Some of them are affiliated with
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Speaker 1: groups bearing Graham's name, including the Billy Graham Center at
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Speaker 1: Wheaton College, a liberal arts institution in Illinois. The Wheaton
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Speaker 1: College has a deep history of abolitionism and racial justice.
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Speaker 1: Campus Pride also ranked it as one of the worst
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Speaker 1: campuses for LGBTQ youth. Okay, well, why it's a hardcore
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Speaker 1: Christian college that teaches the Bible and isn't afraid to
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Speaker 1: offend people and their sins. So of course, Wheaton College
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Speaker 1: would rank as one of the worst campuses for LGBTQ
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Speaker 1: youth because they're not going to give you a Kumbaya
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Speaker 1: warmhog when you're living in something that is clearly a
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Speaker 1: sin based on what their beliefs are. Students are required
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Speaker 1: to sign a community covenant stating Christianity condemned sexual immorality.
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Speaker 1: So that's also means straight sex. That also includes homosexuality
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Speaker 1: and adultery. What's wrong with that? It's a Christian college.
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Speaker 1: CNN Investigative team asked vander Ground, the representative for He
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Speaker 1: gets Us gets Us, if the campaign supports and affirms
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Speaker 1: LGBTQ Christians. The debate over lgbt Q plus issues is
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Speaker 1: a great example of how the real Jesus too often
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Speaker 1: gets lost, overlooked, or distorted in debates over political and
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Speaker 1: social issues. He said, our focus is on helping people
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Speaker 1: see and consider Jesus as he is shown in the Bible.
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Speaker 1: He gets us and he loves us, and that includes
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Speaker 1: people on all sides of these issues. By the way,
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Speaker 1: brilliant wording from He Gets Us to not walk into
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Speaker 1: the scumbaggery booby traps of the media. Some critics right
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Speaker 1: Big headline here say the campaign is not authentic. The
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Speaker 1: minds behind He Gets Us says, say the campaign message
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Speaker 1: is intended to appear appeal, excuse me, to younger people
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Speaker 1: and those who say who may see Christians as toxic
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Speaker 1: and divisive. So there you go, So we are toxic
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Speaker 1: and devisive if you believe in God. Right, the critics
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Speaker 1: of a campaign of two ads that are not offensive
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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl are now attacking all Christians saying
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Speaker 1: that we're all evil, terrible people. That's what they just said,
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Speaker 1: Make no mistake about it. That's what they just said.
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Speaker 1: And this is the bigotry again coming from CNN. This
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Speaker 1: is how evil CNN is and the members of the media.
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Speaker 1: This is what they want to do to anybody that
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Speaker 1: believes in a higher being, believes in something that's higher
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Speaker 1: than themselves. That I mean, this is it. You have
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Speaker 1: to understand now, they've decided what religion can and can't
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Speaker 1: say to be accepting of them. If you believe in
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Speaker 1: a basic set of standards and rules, or you believe
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Speaker 1: in a higher being and you believe that there are
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Speaker 1: actual rights and wrongs, that they'll destroy you, folks like
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Speaker 1: they'll come after you and they will flat out and
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Speaker 1: destroy you. Some critics quote say the campaign is not authentic,
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Speaker 1: saying the mind behind the He Gets Us says the
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Speaker 1: campaign messages intended to appear to younger people and those
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Speaker 1: may who may see Christianity as toxic and divisive. A
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Speaker 1: lot of times when people look at Christianity, unfortunately they
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Speaker 1: see it is much of a much more hypocritical, judgmental, discriminatory,
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Speaker 1: is what Vanderground told CNN's Tom Foreman. We're trying to
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Speaker 1: unify the American people around the confounding love and forgiveness
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Speaker 1: of Jesus. By design, our media message focuses on his humanity.
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Speaker 1: Since we've learned these resonate with the widest possible audience.
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Speaker 1: Gets His Partner site reads. We also provide open opportunities
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Speaker 1: to anyone willing to connect with our partners to learn
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Speaker 1: more about Jesus. The word of the campaign has sparked
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Speaker 1: enthusiasm among Christian groups and influencers online, but other Christians,
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Speaker 1: including those in the growing Deacon instruction movement, who are
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Speaker 1: reevaluating their relationship with religion, aren't buying it. The deconstruction
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Speaker 1: movement all right, well, let's deal with that in a moment.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Kevin Young, a pastor and biblical scholar who discussed
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Speaker 1: this Christianity and social media, says a campaign won't do
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Speaker 1: much to, you know, to stop people's criticism of the church,
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Speaker 1: saying this, young people are digital natives who understand the
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Speaker 1: difference between slick marketing and authenticity. He says megachurches, mega events,
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Speaker 1: and mega spending on marketing is seen as money that
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Speaker 1: could have been used funding community programs and advocacy for
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Speaker 1: the oppress such as refugees, LGBTQ plus individuals, and abortion
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Speaker 1: rights and the poor. Well, why would a church spend
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Speaker 1: money on abortion rights? It doesn't go against what we believe.
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Speaker 1: So that's ridiculous, right, they want you to spend the
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Speaker 1: money on advocacy. And this is this is doctor Kevin Young,
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Speaker 1: who's a pastor, is saying this, and said Young says
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Speaker 1: he'd prefer to see action and accountability, saying, quote, young
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Speaker 1: people want a church that will put some put shoe
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Speaker 1: leather to their faith and do something for those in
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Speaker 1: harm's way, those who the church itself has harmed. Oh
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Speaker 1: so a pastor is now saying that religion and believing
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Speaker 1: in God is actually harmful, sounds like a great pastor.
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Speaker 1: Some he gets us messages. Messaging makes oblique references to
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Speaker 1: cancel culture, which raises a red flag for some who
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Speaker 1: see the term is highly political in a staple of
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Speaker 1: conservative rhetoric, one message Jesus slogan, Jesus was canceled. It's
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Speaker 1: true by the way he was literally he was crucified.
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Speaker 1: When it comes to crucifixion and cancel culture, I don't
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Speaker 1: see much to compare, writes Josiah Daniels for so Journey
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Speaker 1: Christian publication. Furthermore, Imagining Jesus says political is itself a
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Speaker 1: political decision, and it is a decision that aligns with
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Speaker 1: politically and financially powerful interests. Other Christians have criticized a
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Speaker 1: campaign for a different reason altogether, for being too vague
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Speaker 1: and apparently dehumanizing, are de emphasizing biblical teachings and Jesus's holiness.
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Speaker 1: Conservative pundit Charlie Kirk took him of the campaign, saying
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Speaker 1: those involved have been taken for a ride by these
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Speaker 1: woke tricksters. Vanderground says the campaign is committed to being
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Speaker 1: scripturally accurate, saying we believe it's more important now than
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Speaker 1: ever for the real, authentic Jesus to be represented in
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Speaker 1: a public marketplace as he is in the Bible now.
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Speaker 1: The ad campaign comes as Christian identity has waned in
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Speaker 1: the US in recent decades. According to a new data poll,
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Speaker 1: about sixty three percent of American adults identify as Christian
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, down from about ninety percent in
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Speaker 1: the nineteen nineties. That's significant decline younger adults in particular,
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Speaker 1: driving this downturn. Quote Jesus didn't have an image problem,
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Speaker 1: but Christians and their churches do, Young said, these campaigns
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Speaker 1: end up being pr for the wrong problem. Young people
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Speaker 1: are savvy. One of their primary issues with evangelicalism and
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Speaker 1: the modern church in America is the amount of money
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Speaker 1: spent on itself. The two Super Bowl ads alone are
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Speaker 1: I have to spend with thirty second spots for the
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Speaker 1: game running roughly a record high seven million in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty seven are twenty twenty three, Vanderground told Christianity Today
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Speaker 1: the campaign plans to invest a billion dollars on spreading
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Speaker 1: their message. It's exactly that investment and the people behind
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Speaker 1: it that have led some Christians to wonder if He
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Speaker 1: gets Us will actually lead people to Jesus, and if
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Speaker 1: it does, what path they will ultimately be encouraged to take.
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Speaker 1: So now it's a conspiracy theory. I love how two
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Speaker 1: ads in the Super Bowl have caused this much anger
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Speaker 1: from the left right. So recap this. This ad campaign
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Speaker 1: is bigger than racist, anti LGBTQ and two pro actual God,
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Speaker 1: this message is bigger than racist and homophobic, and the
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Speaker 1: list goes on and on. Why because well, we've just
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Speaker 1: said so, We've decided it right, We've decided that it's bad,
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Speaker 1: so therefore it must be bad. This ad spend is
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Speaker 1: something that is terrible because you shouldn't be spending money
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Speaker 1: on things like this again their words, even though the
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Speaker 1: left has no problem with George Soros and others spending
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Speaker 1: countless dollars and the media giving multi billion dollars ad
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Speaker 1: campaigns and Democratic candidates and values all day long, every
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Speaker 1: day for free. What I'll also say about this is
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Speaker 1: one other thing. I don't know everybody involved. What I
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Speaker 1: do know is looking at these ads, they're a hell
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Speaker 1: of a lot better than some of the other ads
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Speaker 1: that we've seen during the Super Bowl. And the fact
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Speaker 1: that this is the most controversial ad of the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl I think also tells you something else, how much
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Speaker 1: people are angered by traditional values being discovered and talked about.
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Speaker 1: Let's just compare this to the demonic performance at the
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Speaker 1: Grammys by this non binary devil that was worshiped by
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Speaker 1: all of Hollywood some have described as end of day vibes.
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Speaker 1: Elon Musk actually slammed the demonic performance at the Grammys.
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Speaker 1: But did anybody write this big article on the devil worship,
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Speaker 1: the actual devil worship that went on during the Grammys, No,
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Speaker 1: and write an article about that? Now? Was that good
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Speaker 1: for America? Was it good for our kids to see
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Speaker 1: that at the Grammys? I would say no, it was not.
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Speaker 1: Is it sad that the Grammys were even allowed this
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Speaker 1: to happen? I would also say, yes, it is really
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Speaker 1: sad for me. It's incredibly sad that this is what's happening.
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Speaker 1: But I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised at all that
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Speaker 1: our country and the media right now would would would
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Speaker 1: support cherish, encourage, advocate, and give standing ovations to devil
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Speaker 1: worship at the Grammys. Well, two ads that deal with
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Speaker 1: God being your friend for people that are in need
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Speaker 1: and hurting are played at the Super bowl and the
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Speaker 1: fact they want to go after every single person's given
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Speaker 1: money is also tells you a lot about these people.
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Speaker 1: It's really sad. This is what we're now up against.
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Speaker 1: These these ads were, by the way, inclusive, They weren't
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Speaker 1: mean spirited, they weren't something that was just evil. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's be clear. They were ads that made sense. They
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Speaker 1: were ads that were I think actually important. And they
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Speaker 1: were ads And if you watch them for thirty seconds,
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Speaker 1: if you were triggered by them, that's really your fault
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Speaker 1: that you were triggered by them. They won't stop though.
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Speaker 1: You may not know this, but what I can tell
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Speaker 1: you right now is the President United States of America
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Speaker 1: is on top of it, let's see, on top of
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Speaker 1: dealing with any object flying in the air. We finally
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Speaker 1: got a press briefing from the President United States of
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Speaker 1: America on what all they've been shooting down and what
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Speaker 1: we now found out. There's a good chance we may
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Speaker 1: have been shooting down science projects from kids and bottle
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Speaker 1: in bottle cap clubs quote unquote, not a joke. We
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Speaker 1: did shoot down a Chinese by balloon after it had
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Speaker 1: successfully maneuvered across the United States of America. And successfully
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Speaker 1: done exactly what it is that was sent here to do.
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Speaker 1: Shut it down a week earlier, but we didn't. We
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Speaker 1: allowed for the reconnaistance mission to be finished before we
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Speaker 1: shut it down. But then we've decided to overreact based
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Speaker 1: on politics and basically shoot down anything, including what could
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Speaker 1: be a high school kids project or space junk. Biden
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Speaker 1: also was angry after his press conference yesterday. He was
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Speaker 1: asked a question about his family's Chinese business deals. Biden
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Speaker 1: tells the press give me a break and stomps off
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Speaker 1: when asked that basic question. Why is he so angry?
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Speaker 1: You can decide for yourself. I'm going to play that
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Speaker 1: for you in a moment. But before we get to that,
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear what the President actually had
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Speaker 1: to say about shooting down unidentified flying objects called UFOs
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Speaker 1: or whatever they are that could just be kids science projects.
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Speaker 1: Listening carefully. Last week, in immediate aftermath of the incursion
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Speaker 1: by Chinese high altitude balloon, our military, through the North
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Speaker 1: American Aerospace Defense Command so called NORAD, closely scrutinized our airspace,
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Speaker 1: including enhancing our radar to pick up more slow moving
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Speaker 1: objects above our country around the world and doing so,
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Speaker 1: they attract three unidentified objects, one Alaska, Canada and over
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Speaker 1: a Lake Huron in the Midwest. They acted in accordance
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Speaker 1: with established parameters for determining how to deal with underdentified
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Speaker 1: areal objects in US airspace. At their recommendation, I gave
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Speaker 1: the order to take down these three objects due to
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Speaker 1: hazards to civilian commercial air traffic and because we could
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Speaker 1: not rule out the surveillance risk of sensitive facilities. We
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Speaker 1: acted in consultation with the Canadian government. I spoke personally
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Speaker 1: with Prime Minister Trudeau and camped from Canada on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: And just as critically, we acted out of an abundance
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Speaker 1: of caution and an opportunity that allowed us to take
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Speaker 1: down these objects safely. Our military and the Canadian military
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Speaker 1: are seeking to recover the degree so we can learn
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Speaker 1: more about these three objects. Our intelligence community is still
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Speaker 1: assessing all three incidents. They're reporting to me daily and
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Speaker 1: will continue the urgent efforts to do so, and I
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Speaker 1: will communicate that to the Congress. We don't yet know
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Speaker 1: exactly what these three objects were, but nothing right now
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Speaker 1: suggests they were related to China's spy balloon program or
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Speaker 1: that there were surveillance vehicles from any other country. The
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Speaker 1: intelligence community's current assessment is that these three objects were
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Speaker 1: most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation or research
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Speaker 1: institutions studying whether or conducting other scientific research. Now, the
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Speaker 1: question you should be asking yourself is, Okay, let me
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Speaker 1: get this straight right. You guys are now sitting up
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Speaker 1: F sixteens F twenty two raptors other planes to shoot
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Speaker 1: down random things, and you can't tell us what they
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Speaker 1: are before you shoot them down, but you're shooting them
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Speaker 1: down anyway, so you could get headlines that show that
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Speaker 1: now you're being serious about shooting things down. Imagine what
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Speaker 1: China is thinking right now and how much they're laughing.
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Speaker 1: You allow, our actual spy balloon that you know is
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Speaker 1: a spy balloon that you know as a size of
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Speaker 1: school buses, is collecting data and hovering over our most
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Speaker 1: sensitive nuclear sights and military bases. And you don't shoot
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Speaker 1: that down. You let it successfully go across America. But
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Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, you're shooting down everything you
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Speaker 1: can find that you can shoot down, including things that
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Speaker 1: you don't even know what it is. And then you
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Speaker 1: find out, oh, it might be science projects or actual
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Speaker 1: weather balloons, and none of them have ties to China
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Speaker 1: compared to what was happening last week when we knew
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Speaker 1: it was China. Does that make any sense to any
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Speaker 1: of you. It shouldn't, because it doesn't make sense to
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Speaker 1: anybody because it's completely illogical. But the presence letting you
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Speaker 1: know they shot down some random stuff just in case,
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Speaker 1: but the one that actually need to be shut down
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Speaker 1: we didn't shoot down. Instructed our intelligence community to take
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Speaker 1: a broad look at the phenomenon of unidentified aerial objects.
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Speaker 1: We know that a range of entities, including countries, companies,
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Speaker 1: and research organizations operate objects at altitudes for purposes that
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Speaker 1: are not nefarious, including legitimate scientific research. I want to
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Speaker 1: be clear, we don't have any evidence that there has
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Speaker 1: been a sudden increase in the number of objects in
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Speaker 1: the sky. We're now just seeing more of them, partially
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Speaker 1: because the steps we've taken to increase our radars to
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Speaker 1: narrow our radars, and we have to keep adapting our
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Speaker 1: approach to delay to dealing with these challenges. That's why
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Speaker 1: I've directed my team to come back to me with
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Speaker 1: sharper rules for how we will deal with these unidentified
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Speaker 1: objects moving forward, distinguishing, distinguishing between those that are likely
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Speaker 1: to post safety and security risk that necessitate action and
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Speaker 1: those that do not. But make no mistake. If any
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Speaker 1: object presents a threat to the safety of security the
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Speaker 1: American people, I will take it down. Okay. If that's true,
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Speaker 1: mister President, then why did you not take down the
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Speaker 1: one that flew over our country that was a security
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Speaker 1: and safety risk? Why did you allow it to finish
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Speaker 1: its mission? It's stated goal of hovering and flying over
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Speaker 1: our most secret sites. You didn't take it down until
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Speaker 1: after the mission was completed for China. You understand now.
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Speaker 1: This actually, I think makes him look worse because you're
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Speaker 1: realizing that he said, all right, we have an optics problem.
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Speaker 1: Anything you can find right now, just shoot it down.
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Speaker 1: If it's a kid's science project, we don't care shoot
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Speaker 1: it down, just shoot it down. And they did it,
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Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, spent millions of dollars shooting down
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Speaker 1: balloons that are tied to science clubs. But the real
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Speaker 1: one we should have shot down. No, that one was successful.
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