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Biden Ignores Antisemitism, NPR CEO has Issues w Free Speech & WH Terrified of Losing Young Voters Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Wee can review
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  Speaker 2: Ben Ferguson with you. And these are the stories that
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  Speaker 2: you may have missed that we talked about this past week.
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  Speaker 2: First up, Biden responds to anti semitism by basically not
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  Speaker 2: condemning it at all.
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  Speaker 1: Why is the White House playing it this way? We'll
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  Speaker 1: explain it.
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  Speaker 2: Also, the new NPR CEO has major issues with truth
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  Speaker 2: and says that the First Amendment really gets in the way.
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  Speaker 2: Why are your tax dollurs going to fund her radical agenda?
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  Speaker 2: We'll break that down for you as well. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: Democrats are scared. They're terrified the youth vote isn't coming
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  Speaker 2: in to do what they did last time, and now
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  Speaker 2: they're having to take a radical stance against Israel to
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  Speaker 2: try to get young voters back on their team. It's
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  Speaker 2: the weekend Review and it starts right now. We've been
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  Speaker 2: covering anti semitism on college campuses and exposing what's been happening,
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  Speaker 2: but now we're getting to see the White House, specifically,
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  Speaker 2: the President of the United States of America is just
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  Speaker 2: pathetic and that word doesn't seem strong enough, but a
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  Speaker 2: pathetic response to anti Semitism on college campuses. I want
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  Speaker 2: to play this for you from a reporter to the
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  Speaker 2: President of the United States of America and get your
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  Speaker 2: reaction to it. Listen to this and the anti submitted
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  Speaker 2: protests on college campuses.
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  Speaker 3: I condemned that another protests. That's why I've set up
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  Speaker 3: I ford them to do with that. I also condemn
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  Speaker 3: those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians
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  Speaker 3: and they're how they're dreaming.
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  Speaker 4: Columbia University president resigned.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 2: I'll allot to find out more of I love that
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  Speaker 2: they asked should she resign?
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  Speaker 1: He because I didn't know that. I'll have to find
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  Speaker 1: out more about that. But he condemns.
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  Speaker 2: People that are anti Semitic and then says, I also
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  Speaker 2: condemned those that don't know about the Palestinians, Like, what
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  Speaker 2: in the hell is the president doing here?
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  Speaker 1: Sir?
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  Speaker 5: Well, look, he said he didn't know that, and I
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  Speaker 5: actually believe that's some of the most honest words that
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  Speaker 5: he said. I think he has no idea what's going on.
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  Speaker 5: He's not aware of what's going on, and in particular,
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  Speaker 5: he's professing ignorance as to what's happening at Columbia, what's
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  Speaker 5: happening at Yale? And it is utterly disgraceful. But you
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  Speaker 5: know who's not ignorant? I mean, I agree he's oblivious,
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  Speaker 5: But who's not ignorant? Or the other Democrats who are
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  Speaker 5: supporting this And and I want you to listen to
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  Speaker 5: So there was an event, a Climate Core event where
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  Speaker 5: AOC was speaking right next to Joe Biden, and he
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  Speaker 5: was right there, and and AOC had something to say
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  Speaker 5: on this that I want everyone, everyone to listen and hear.
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  Speaker 5: Here here's AOC addressing Columbia and Yale.
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  Speaker 6: It is especially important that we remember the power of
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  Speaker 6: young people shaping this country today, of all days, as
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  Speaker 6: we once again witness the leadership of those peaceful student
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  Speaker 6: led protests on campus. It's like columb Via, Yale, Berkeley,
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  Speaker 6: and many.
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  Speaker 2: Others really, because a group of Yelle Student Center formed
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  Speaker 2: a human chain to block a Jewish student from entering
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  Speaker 2: the university yesterday, and if you no history, this was
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  Speaker 2: a chilling act of anti Semitism that echoed nineteen thirty
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  Speaker 2: nine when Nazis blocked Jewish students are entering Vienna University
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  Speaker 2: simply because they were Jews.
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  Speaker 5: Now that's absolutely right. And you also had a Jewish
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  Speaker 5: student at Yale who was poked in the eye with
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  Speaker 5: a flag and had to seek medical treatment because of that.
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  Speaker 5: And to say, when you have threats of murder and
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  Speaker 5: violence and death, when you have, as you had it
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  Speaker 5: at Columbia, a student saying that Hamas should murder the
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  Speaker 5: Jewish students on that campus, that is not peaceful. Threats
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  Speaker 5: of violence and calling from the murder of your former
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  Speaker 5: students is not remotely peaceful. But understand, AOC, this is
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  Speaker 5: a sitting member of Congress. She's singling out Columbia Yale,
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  Speaker 5: she's praising what's happening at Columbia Yale. Understand she supports
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  Speaker 5: this vicious anti semitism. And there is Joe Biden happily
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  Speaker 5: sitting there. In fact, he said at the same event
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  Speaker 5: that he's learned that when AOC listened and it speaks,
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  Speaker 5: you got to listen to her. Well, you know that
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  Speaker 5: that is Unfortunately, today's Democrat party, which is the White House,
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  Speaker 5: is utterly tepid, unwilling to condemn specifically what is happening
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  Speaker 5: at Columbia and Yale, and the radicals in their party
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  Speaker 5: explicitly endorse it and celebrate it.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the radicals of the Democratic Party. You and
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  Speaker 2: I have said this for a long time. When they
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  Speaker 2: tell you what they believe in, believe them. I'll give
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  Speaker 2: you example of this. A group of Columbia University professors
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  Speaker 2: actually held a rally Monday. These are the professors who
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  Speaker 2: are indoctrinating the kids to hate Jews and hate Israel.
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  Speaker 2: They held a rally to express solidarity solidarity with the
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  Speaker 2: anti Semitic students that had been suspended for holding unauthorized
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  Speaker 2: protests on campus. And not only that, but when you
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  Speaker 2: go back and look at what these leaders these universities believe,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's cutting gay who we've exposed on the show
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  Speaker 2: multiple times. But at an event just two months after
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  Speaker 2: nine to eleven, Columbia University's current president remarked, and this
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  Speaker 2: was two months after nine to eleven, that terrorism is
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  Speaker 2: a quote form of protesting.
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  Speaker 1: When they tell you who they are, believe them. Listen
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  Speaker 1: to this.
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  Speaker 7: So it's not you'll always have individuals who will have
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  Speaker 7: extreme views. But what's really troubling in the region is
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  Speaker 7: that there's actually quite a broad base of society which
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  Speaker 7: has some sympathy for the terrorists, not so much because
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  Speaker 7: they approve of their methods, but it's a form of
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  Speaker 7: protesting against a system which is not delivering for them
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  Speaker 7: on the economic or the political front.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's no wonder that this university is totally
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  Speaker 2: just lost to its mind and we're watching this anti semitism.
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  Speaker 2: If that's what you're saying in public two months after
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  Speaker 2: nine to eleven, then imagine how many children you've been
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  Speaker 2: able to indoctrinate college students to believe that the Jews
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  Speaker 2: are Israel and that you should feel sympathy for Hamas
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  Speaker 2: has bought Isis al Kaeda.
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  Speaker 1: The list goes on and on.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and when she says there's a broad base of
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  Speaker 5: society that has sympathy for these terrorists, she's revealing a
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  Speaker 5: lot about the world in which she lives, about Ivy
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  Speaker 5: League universities, about our elite universities, about our academic system,
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  Speaker 5: about the left. Everyone she associates with falls into that
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  Speaker 5: crowd when they look at the terrorists and understand, we're
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  Speaker 5: not talking about terrorists in the abstract, We're talking about
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  Speaker 5: Hamas and what they did on October seventh, murdering twelve
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  Speaker 5: hundred israelis murdering some thirty Americans, raping women and little girls,
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  Speaker 5: committing atrocities that the world has not seen since the Nazis.
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  Speaker 5: And in today's leftist academy, using the President of Columbia's
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  Speaker 5: own word, they have some sympathy for that. No, there
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  Speaker 5: is no sympathy. Terrorism is not a form of protest.
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  Speaker 5: Terrorism is a horrific form of violence that targets civilians,
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  Speaker 5: that targets women and children, that commits murder and act
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  Speaker 5: of cruelty. And that's exactly what Hamas did, and it's
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  Speaker 5: what It's the reason these college campuses are allowing these
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  Speaker 5: anti Semitic protests to go on, these threats to against
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  Speaker 5: Jewish students to go on. It's the reason Jewish students
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  Speaker 5: are being advised by the Orthodox rabbi at Columbia to
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  Speaker 5: stay home because Colombia will not protect your physical safety.
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  Speaker 5: And the reason is the President of Columbia, the administrators
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  Speaker 5: of Columbia, they explicitly sighed with the radicals and with
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  Speaker 5: the terrorists, and it is shameful and it's sick.
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  Speaker 2: Finally, on this we're going to do a deep dive
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  Speaker 2: about the dark money that is clearly backing and orchestrating
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  Speaker 2: these not only events, but the shutting down of roads
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  Speaker 2: and bridges and supporting what's happening on these college campuses
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  Speaker 2: being anti Semitic. But there is one caveat, and this
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  Speaker 2: should be talked about it. And like I said, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna give you a lot more on this in another episode.
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  Speaker 2: But we've now found out that the NFL, the National
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  Speaker 2: Football League, funded a left wing group bailing out anti
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  Speaker 2: Israel bridge blockers. And this is again how the left
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  Speaker 2: just holds these companies and these organization hostage, like you
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  Speaker 2: better give us some money.
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  Speaker 1: We need somebody to bail out some people, and they
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  Speaker 1: just do it well.
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  Speaker 5: And look, we talked about in the wake of October seventh,
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  Speaker 5: how black lives matter, how the Chicago chapter put out
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  Speaker 5: a tweet praising h Hama saying we stand with Palestine
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  Speaker 5: and and and having a a picture of a paraglider.
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  Speaker 5: Remember it was a paragliders that came in that the
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  Speaker 5: Hamas terrorists used to murder young people in Israel, and
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  Speaker 5: and and the cultural Marxist they support each other, and
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  Speaker 5: and and and we're seeing that. Look on Columbia, it's
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  Speaker 5: not just the students that are facing threats of violence,
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  Speaker 5: it's the faculty too. So a Columbia professor, Shi David
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to go and we talked about this on
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  Speaker 5: on on Monday's pod that he he intended to go
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  Speaker 5: and and be right among these protesters and stand up
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  Speaker 5: for Israel. And what Colombia did. They revoked his past
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  Speaker 5: to campus. They they zeroed out his access and blocked him.
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  Speaker 5: This is the administration of Columbia. They decided between a
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  Speaker 5: professor on their faculty who happened to be Jewish or
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  Speaker 5: the anti Semitic protesters who are threatening violence, that the
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  Speaker 5: problem was the professor who dared to be Jewish.
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  Speaker 8: You know.
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  Speaker 5: One of the things that this professor, Davidai, tweeted out
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  Speaker 5: he said, quote to all the journalists, I promise I
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  Speaker 5: will try to get back to each and every one
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  Speaker 5: of you. In the meantime, I want you to consider this.
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  Speaker 5: To the best of my knowledge, the last time that
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  Speaker 5: a professor was denied access to their own university for
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  Speaker 5: being Jewish was Nazi Germany. Well, actually that's not accurate,
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  Speaker 5: because we covered on this podcast how USC did that
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  Speaker 5: to a USC professor where they ordered him to stay
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  Speaker 5: at home and teach from home for precisely the same reason,
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  Speaker 5: because anti Israel protesters were threatening violence and they decided
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  Speaker 5: not to protect him but instead to stand with the protesters.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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  Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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  Speaker 2: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. Senator,
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  Speaker 2: if you are at MPR, can you imagine, if you
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  Speaker 2: are lefty lefty, how much freedom I think it would
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  Speaker 2: make you feel like you had to then go out
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  Speaker 2: there and continue to push propaganda on the American people.
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  Speaker 2: If this is your CEO, I mean, it's a license
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  Speaker 2: to basically go all in on liberal propaganda at the
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  Speaker 2: taxpayer's expense.
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  Speaker 5: Now, that is exactly right, And I've got to say listen.
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  Speaker 5: As you know, I'm the ranking member on the Senate
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  Speaker 5: Committee of Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and part of my
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  Speaker 5: responsibility in that role, we've got jurisdiction over about forty
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  Speaker 5: percent of the US economy, and part of my responsibility
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  Speaker 5: is oversighted. I can tell you that I am actively
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  Speaker 5: engaging in oversight right now, calling on NPR to explain,
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  Speaker 5: to explain why they're willing to put in place a
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  Speaker 5: hard left wing activist, not a neutral journalist, but someone
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  Speaker 5: who is biased, who is who is an active supporter
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  Speaker 5: of censorship, to violence, to silence the views she disagrees with.
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  Speaker 5: Why NPR believes that that is an appropriate leader for
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  Speaker 5: their institution.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a really great point.
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  Speaker 5: And listen, don't necessarily take our words for it. I
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  Speaker 5: want you to listen to Katherine Maher in her own
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  Speaker 5: words because it's going to show just how radical she is.
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  Speaker 8: And I want to play a couple of clips.
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  Speaker 5: Let's start with her explaining that in her view, the
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  Speaker 5: number one challenge that she faces is the First Amendment
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  Speaker 5: of the Constitution.
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  Speaker 8: Let's play that clip.
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  Speaker 9: The number one challenge here that we see is, of course,
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  Speaker 9: the First Amendment in the United States is a fairly
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  Speaker 9: robust protection of rights. And that is a protection of
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  Speaker 9: rights both for platforms, which I actually think is very
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  Speaker 9: important that platforms have those rights to be able to
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  Speaker 9: regulate what kind of content they want on their sites,
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  Speaker 9: but it also means that it is a little bit
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  Speaker 9: tricky to really address some of the real challenges of
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  Speaker 9: where does bad information come from and sort of the
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  Speaker 9: influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing. Center.
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  Speaker 2: This is the woman running MPR, and I guess this
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  Speaker 2: is almost like the best thing you can put on
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  Speaker 2: your resume, right, You're like, hey, I think the First
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  Speaker 2: Amendment's a real problem.
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  Speaker 1: It's like perfect, We'd love to hire you at MPR.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and she actually says, well, the First Amendment is
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  Speaker 5: really important for platforms. But then what she describes as
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  Speaker 5: their First Amendment right is for their ability to censor
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  Speaker 5: and silence things they disagree with. So to her mind,
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  Speaker 5: what she cares about is the ability if there's a
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  Speaker 5: view that is right a center, as far as she's concerned,
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  Speaker 5: the First Amendment is all about silencing those views, there
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  Speaker 5: can be no dissent.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 5: I want you to listen to another clip. This is
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  Speaker 5: a Ted talk where she's discussing truth when she was
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  Speaker 5: at Wikipedia, and somehow she has a different view of
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  Speaker 5: truth than I think you and I might have.
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  Speaker 8: Give a listen.
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  Speaker 4: But the hard things, the places where we are prone
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  Speaker 4: to disagreement, say politics and religion. Well, as it turns out,
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  Speaker 4: not only does Wekipedia's model work there, it actually works
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  Speaker 4: really well because in our normal lives, these contentious conversations
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  Speaker 4: tend to erupt or disagreement about what the truth actually is.
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  Speaker 4: But the people who write these articles, they're not focused
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  Speaker 4: on the truth. They're focused on something else, which is
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  Speaker 4: the best of what we can know right now. And
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  Speaker 4: after seven years of working with these brilliant folks, I've
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  Speaker 4: come to believe that they are onto something that perhaps,
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  Speaker 4: for our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking
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  Speaker 4: to convince others of the truth might not be the
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  Speaker 4: right place to start. In fact, our reverence for the
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  Speaker 4: truth might be a distraction that's getting in the way
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  Speaker 4: of finding common ground and getting things done. Now, that
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  Speaker 4: is not to say that the truth does and exist,
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  Speaker 4: nor is it to say that the truth isn't important. Clearly,
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  Speaker 4: the search for the truth has led us to do
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  Speaker 4: great things, to learn great things. But I think if
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  Speaker 4: I were to really ask you to think about this,
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  Speaker 4: one of the things that we could all acknowledge is
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  Speaker 4: that part of the reason we have such glorious chronicles
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  Speaker 4: to the human experience in all forms of culture is
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  Speaker 4: because we acknowledge there are many different truths. And so
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  Speaker 4: in the spirit of that, I'm certain that the truth
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  Speaker 4: exists for you and probably for the person sitting next
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  Speaker 4: to you. But this may not be the same truth.
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  Speaker 4: This is because the truth of the matter is very
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  Speaker 4: often for many people. What happens when we merge facts
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  Speaker 4: about the world with our beliefs about the world, So
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  Speaker 4: we all have different truths. They're based on things like
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  Speaker 4: where we come from, how we were raised, and how
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  Speaker 4: other people perceive us.
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  Speaker 5: What utter garbage? Like every word of that. You want
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  Speaker 5: an indictment of the modern left. You want an indictment
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  Speaker 5: of the idiocy of media. You want an indictment of
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  Speaker 5: the academic world. You want an indictment of big tech.
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  Speaker 5: Good God, what utter garbage? Truth doesn't exist? George or
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  Speaker 5: Well is spinning in his grave and laughing at the
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  Speaker 5: same time. Two plus two doesn't equal four, It equals
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  Speaker 5: five because we say it is there is no truth.
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  Speaker 5: Listen to that quote. Our reverence for the truth might
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  Speaker 5: be a distraction that's getting in the way of finding
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  Speaker 5: common ground and getting things done.
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  Speaker 8: But don't worry.
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  Speaker 5: This is only for things that don't matter, the contentious issues.
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  Speaker 5: What does she identify politics and religion? When it comes
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  Speaker 5: to politics and religion, look, Jesus Christ said, I am
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  Speaker 5: the way the truth in the life. But no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: no no, don't have reverence for truth. We're not interested
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  Speaker 5: in that. We are interested in set aside of truth.
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  Speaker 5: That can be your truth, my truth. Everyone has a truth.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe for you, two plus two is five? What utter garbage?
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  Speaker 5: Do you know what a journalists supposed to be interested
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  Speaker 5: in the truth?
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  Speaker 8: Now? Do you have perfect truth?
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 8: Do you have perfect knowledge?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 5: But you should get damn close to it. You should
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  Speaker 5: be trying to get to the truth. Remember what journalists
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  Speaker 5: used to learn?
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  Speaker 7: Who?
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 8: When? Where?
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  Speaker 9: How?
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 9: Like?
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  Speaker 8: What happened? What are the facts? Well?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, not according to her. According to to her,
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  Speaker 5: there are no facts. There is no truth. It's your truth.
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  Speaker 5: It's my truth, and my truth. From Catherine Marr's perspective
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  Speaker 5: is as a left wing partisan, whatever the orthodoxy is,
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  Speaker 5: and we will silence views that disagree. And the First
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  Speaker 5: Amendment is a pesky pesky barrier. All right, I want
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  Speaker 5: to play one more clip. Yeah, one more clip where
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  Speaker 5: she's describing what she did at Wikipedia. Listen to this
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  Speaker 5: third clip.
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  Speaker 9: I started by talking about the idea of free and
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  Speaker 9: open as some of our founding principles sort of free
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  Speaker 9: and open source coming from me to the open source community. Well,
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  Speaker 9: I have come to the opinion and the perspective that
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  Speaker 9: free and open was a way of looking at the
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  Speaker 9: world that was inherently limited relative to what we were
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  Speaker 9: trying to achieve. Free and open has the best of intentionality,
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  Speaker 9: but in the end, what free and open often ended
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  Speaker 9: up doing, and particularly in the case of Wikipedia, was
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  Speaker 9: really recapitulating many of the same power structures and dynamics
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  Speaker 9: that exist offline prior to the advent of the Internet.
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  Speaker 9: And so what we ended up seeing was Wikipedia really
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  Speaker 9: rebuilt this idea of knowledge as a whole around what
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  Speaker 9: the Western canon. You see the exclusion of communities of
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: languages because of the ways in which Wikipedia is based
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  Speaker 9: on reliable sources. The idea of a written tradition is
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  Speaker 9: something that is particular to many I mean not sorry,
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: the idea of a written tradition, which is particular to
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  Speaker 9: some cultures and not to others. The ways in which
• 18:45
  Speaker 9: we I ascribe notability often really comes from sort of
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: this white male, westernized construct around who matters in societies
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: and who is elevated in whose voices, and so some
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: of these ideas of sort of this radical openness really
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  Speaker 9: did not end up with the intention really did not
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  Speaker 9: end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that just is brilliant, right there, God bless So.
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  Speaker 5: Look she's explaining at Wikipedia, they deliberately abandoned a quote
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  Speaker 5: free and open approach. By the way she's telling you
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  Speaker 5: what she's going to do at NPR. NPR is not
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: going to be free and open, according to her, because
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: she doesn't believe in free and open. Why because free
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: and open number one, she says, Well, that advantages cultures
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: that believe in the written word, because you know, what
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: good has book learning ever done anyone? Well, heck, you're
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: forgetting those cultures that don't believe in that fancy learning
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: stuff like what utter garbage. I'm sorry, I thought, actually
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  Speaker 5: a journalistic outfit should actually reflect celebrate the best of education,
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: of learning, of what we know.
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  Speaker 8: But she says, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: If it's actually free and open, it will recapitulate a
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: white male, westernized, westernized construct. Let me ask you something, Ben,
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: what the hell does that mean? Seriously? Those are the
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: words Marxist use, and typically the more syllables they use
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: when they get polysyllabic, the less they're making any sense.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: So explain to me the phrase recapitulate a white male,
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  Speaker 5: westernized construct that does not end up living into the
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: intentionality of what openness can mean. Those words have no
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: content other than I want the power to silence things
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  Speaker 5: I don't like.
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  Speaker 8: Am I wrong?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: No, you're right. And my question goes back to this.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: For you.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: It used to be at MPR and others they would
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: at least fake it like their bias. Now it's just
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: flat out open and they're doing it with our tax tours.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Is there ever going to be a day of reckoning
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: where MPR finds out, hey, good luck your own thing,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: because we're not going to pay for this propagana anymore.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: Look, if NPR cares at all about journalistic integrity, if
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: they care at all about continuing to receive taxpayer funds,
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: they should terminate Catherine Marr immediately. Her job should be done.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: They should not have a rabid left wing partisan who
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: hates the First Amendment, who've used it as an inconvenience,
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: who wants to censor conservatives, who is actively explicitly and
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: unabashedly opposed to free and open communication, who doesn't believe
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: in truth, who believes truth is an impediment to what
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: she's doing. That is not a journalist in any way.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: She ought to go and join Emily's list, she ought
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: to go and join the DNC. She got to go
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: run for Congress and become a henchman to Nancy Pelosi.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: She should not actually be running a news organization, especially
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: not a news organization funded by the taxpayers. And if
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: we have to be honest, if you had a Democrat
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: who had a shred of integrity, they would say, of course,
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: this is not appropriate for her to run NPR. The
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: chances of that happening are zero. But I can tell
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: you I'm going to be pushing for accountability and I'm
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: going to be pushing for oversight of NPR because it
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: is brazenly shameless for them to put someone so wildly
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: unqualified in that position.
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  Speaker 2: As before, if you want to hear the rest of
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: dow the podcasts from earlier this week to hear the
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: entire thing. I want to get back to the big
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: story number three of the week. You may have missed
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: younger voters, which Joe Biden desperately needs. Those thirty five
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: and under are he's at risk of them not showing up.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: The ones that voted for him last time, if they
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: don't show up this time, can cost them the election.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: We've seen a lot of pandering.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: We've seen yet another round of Hey, I'm going to
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: pay off your student loans and I don't care how
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: many millions or billions it costs.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: We're going to buy votes that way.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: We also see him coming out and not making the
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: big statements to fitting Israel because the young people have
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: been in doctrine and this goes back to what we're
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: witnessing on college campuses.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: They've been in doctrinated to hate Israel.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: And so that's why I think we've seen the President
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  Speaker 2: not say anything in a.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Real way publicly.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: In fact, he's talked about what they've leaked from the
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: White House. Let's talk about the leaks over the last
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: two weeks. They claim that the first Lady told Joe
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Biden to stop it, stop it now, referring to Israel's
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: attacks on the terrace, and that was leaked by senior staff. Obviously,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: there's there's real leaks that are shocking, and then there's
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: leaks that you do on purpose to get a news
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: cycle that was clearly a purposeful leak. And then we
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: also had it coming out of the White House that
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: apparently the President in essence told Israel, hey, your Ian
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: dome worked. Take the win, right, don't retaliate against against
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: the people attacking you. Just be excited that you got
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: the win. If that's the messaging from the White House
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: when it comes to actual war, then it's very clear
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: this is all orchestrated as well.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, understand, it's not just Israel that the angry left hates.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: I want you to play a video of what happened
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: at Yale this weekend. And it's gonna be hard to
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: tell from the audio, but after you listen to the audio,
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna explain what you just listened to.
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: But but but play that audio.
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  Speaker 1: Ben.
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  Speaker 2: Senator, I wish people could see that video because if
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: you witness it, it's up on your on your Twitter
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: It will make you enraged at what they're cheering. Yeah,
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: you really need to see this video. So this occurred
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: on the Yale campus and they're chanting Viva Viva Palestina.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: But what they're doing is they're pulling down the American
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: flag from a flagpole. And and by the way, the
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: image of the students strikingly the students, the Yale students
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: that are there, if any of them are Palestine, and
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: they don't appear to be. And there is in the
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: foreground of the image there is this young blonde kid
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: who appears to be just your typical woke leftist American,
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: although he's got short blonde hair and he's wearing a
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: Palestinian scarf. And as the American flag goes down, he
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: thrusts his fist in the air. And the cheering you
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: hear is when the flag goes all the way down
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: and hits the ground. These are Yale students cheering the
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: American flag being torn down. Play the audio again and
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: understand the cheering is when the American flag hits the ground.
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: Play the audio again. Ben.
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  Speaker 2: You also see people that are smiling and in essence laughing, Senator,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: like they can't believe this is happening on their campus
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: and enjoying the moment. They've been camping out there. But
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: this is at Yale. And if you see this at
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Yale and you realize Yale is allowing this to happen,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: the question is why on earth would you send your
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: kid to Yale and go half million dollars or more
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: into into debt, or have to pay that money for
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: your kids to be indoctrinated at a place that is
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: clearly not coming down hard on these actions.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: Now, look that that is exactly right, and it's because
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: the Yale administrators are terrified to engage with against the
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: left because they support the views of the left. I'll
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: tell you something else that was tweeted. There's a story
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: in the Free Beacon. The Dean of students of Northwestern
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: attended a protest targeting the campus Jewish Community Center. So
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: the Dean of students went to a rally where protesters
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: said the school quote weaponizes anti Semitism to silence pro
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Palestinian actor, and let me read you that article. The
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Dean of students at Northwestern University attended an anti Israel
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: protest this week targeting Hillel, the school's Jewish student community center,
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: to defend the demonstrator's quote right.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: To free speech.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: Dean of Students Monadugo said she showed up at the
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: rally on Monday to support anti Israel's activists quote right
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: to protest and to protect the right to free speech.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: According to The Daily Northwestern. Protest organizers demanded that the
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: university end its relationship with Hillel, a one hundred year
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: old nonprofit group that operates Jewish community centers on campuses
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: around the world, including Northwestern. The protest took place during
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: Northwestern's Admitted Students Day, which seeks to introduce incoming students
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: to campus life. So imagine you are Jewish students coming going.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Oh great, this is a welcoming place for me.
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: Quote.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Hillel is one of the many places in which this
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: university is complicit in infusing Jewishness with Zionism, said one
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: protest organizer in a speech at the rally. A leaflet
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: handed out by protesters accused Northwestern of quote funneling Jewish
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: students into Hillel, the Zionist Foundation for Jewish Life. It
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: also claimed the school quote weaponizes claims of anti Semitism
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: on campus to silence pro Palestinian activism. This is the
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Dean of students, now, I will say. After this became public, Northwestern,
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: at least to their credit, they put out a statement
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: claiming the Dean of students goes to every protest to
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: make sure there's not violence. Maybe it sure doesn't sound
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: like that from the article that was printed in the
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: campus paper. But I'm at least glad they're feeling the
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: need to try to explain it. I suppose that is
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: marginally better then saying, yep, that's where we stand.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: It's American college campuses, and it's all coming and being organized,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: as you mentioned earlier, by the left. And if you
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: look at this, you go back to what you said
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: at the beginning about how important is to follow the money.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Why is it that when it comes to these issues,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: And I'm going to answer my own question here, but
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: it's like the media doesn't exist when it comes to
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: investigative reporting. I would assume the media could figure it
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: out pretty darn quickly, Senator. Who's paying for this, who's
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: organizing it, who's behind it, where the money is originating from.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Not as single story is being written about it, though.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: No, because they don't care. Because the media is ultimately
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: supportive of these goals. They're not they're not covering it.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: By the way, I will give some credit, and this
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: is something painful for me to do, but I'm gonna
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: give a little bit of credit to see it in.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: You know, who's been most vocal speaking out on this.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: CNN has had a lot of coverage that you're You're correct,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: especially this past weekend.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: And Jake Tapper in particular, and listen, I've been very
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: critical of Jake. You and I both know Jake very well,
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: but on this issue, Jake, Jake Tapper has been the
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: single most outspoken major media figure and I'm gonna give
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: them credit for that because his colleagues and his colleagues
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: at other networks and newspapers should do the same.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Senator, last question for you on this one.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: If we do find out that these organizations that are
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: backing and clearly growing, these these anti Semitic protests are
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: directly connected to Democratic donors, Democratic Party Party, what are
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: the chances that the media covers it or what do
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: you bet we're the only ones people hear about it
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: from zero?
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: The media won't cover that. They have no interest in
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: it whatsoever. They have no interest in who's promoting this,
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: who's funding it, who's paying people. Listen, Ben, as you know,
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: I have had anti Israel Prohamas protesters at my home
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: every Saturday morning for over three months now. It's the
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: same group of about fifteen people. They're clearly being paid
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: by somebody. Nobody cares who's paying them. Somebody is paying
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: them to and they're doing this at the homes of
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: other people as well, other elected officials as well. This
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: is a concerted effort. But do you know where this
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: ends up?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Where is that?
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: If you want to see where this ends up, take
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: a look at Europe. Sadly, Europe has for a long time,
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: for centuries, been on the cutting edge of anti Semitism,
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: and you can look to Europe to see perhaps the
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: next step of where these college campuses are. This weekend,
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: the London police threatened to arrest a man for being
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: quote openly Jewish, and I want to read from a
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: post that Jonathan Turley put up this weekend quote the
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: London police are under fire this week for threatening to
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: arrest aman wearing a kipa near the near a pro
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Palestinian march. Officers inform Gideon Falter, head of the Campaign
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Against Anti Semitism watchdog, that he was quote antagonizing the
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: protess by being quote openly Jewish near such a march.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: He was told that if he tried to cross the
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: street while being quote openly Jewish, he would be arrested
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: for breach of the peace in the video police officer.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: One police officer said, quote, you are quite openly Jewish.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: This is a pro Palestinian march. I'm not accusing you
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: of anything, but I'm worried about the reaction to your presence.
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: Another officer then adds later, quote, you will be escorted
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: out of this area so you can go about your business,
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: go where you want freely, or if you choose to
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: remain here because you are causing a breach of peace
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: with all these other people, you will be arrested. Now.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: I want you to pause and reflect on that in London,
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: it is now an arrestable offense according to police, to
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: be openly Jewish, to wear a yamica.
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: You're the one.
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: If you are simply Jewish and and acknowledge your Jewish
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: heritage and and don't hide it, that is grounds for
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: being arrested in London. That's where this heads. That is
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: the fruit of the cultural Marxist leftist ideology. That is
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: the fruit of the anti Semitism infusing our universities.
• 33:27
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• 33:42
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