The Dan Bongino Show - Debunking The Latest Media Whopper (Ep 1061)

Episode Date: September 6, 2019

In this episode, I address the latest media hoax about the gun issue. I also discuss the solid job numbers and the associated media coverage. Finally, I debunk this persistent “global warming” myt...h. News Picks:The August jobs numbers are out.   What would really happen if a mandatory gun “buy-back” was instituted?   The NRA’s political donations pale in comparison to those of liberal groups.   San Francisco calls felons “justice involved individuals” and the NRA “domestic terrorists.”   The gun used in the Odessa attack was illegally manufactured and sold.    Devin Nunes filed a lawsuit against Fusion GPS. The discovery phase should be fascinating.   More evidence that global warming is a hoax.   Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:39 slash Dan. Again, that's patriotmobile.com slash Dan. Again, that's patriotmobile.com slash Dan. Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. Nice big updates. Finished the audio book yesterday, recording it. Very happy. You're going to love it. Book two coming out September 24th.
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Starting point is 00:01:26 What do we got? It's going to be a debunk-aa-thon a liberal debunk-a-thon on the gun issue which has been rife with misinformation uh i've got some updated numbers on the economy good news very good news today thankfully and some more debunking global warming hoax uh hoax stories out there that the liberal media wants you to believe so So it's a stacked show. It is Friday. Welcome to the Dan Bongino Show. Producer Joe, how are you today, my good friend? It's Friday.
Starting point is 00:01:54 I'm doing great. That was a very long one. It is Friday. Joe, knee deep in emotion on these intros lately. I'm a little banged up today. Went to my jujitsu class last night, which I never do on the weekday because I don't like to wake up groggy. But there's a tournament this weekend.
Starting point is 00:02:12 So the school is closed on Saturday. So I went last night. And folks, I have to tell you, I took a beating last night. For those of you who do Brazilian jujitsu and grappling, I am a purple belt a no stripe purple belt um and i took a beating from a four stripe blue belt which are kind of like the same thing um but he was young i'm not an excuse at all listen to no excuses in this game i'm 44 i
Starting point is 00:02:38 think he's 20 or 30 but he just was quicker i cannot i could he's just was quicker than me i was in a we were doing this mount drill where you get in a mount position on a guy you know But he just was quicker. I could not. I could not. He just was quicker than me. I was in a, we were doing this mount drill where you get in a mount position on a guy, you know, you've seen in street fights a lot and you got to hold it. I couldn't hold this guy down. I could not. He was just quicker than me. And my brain, because I'm old and I'm decaying, my half-life, my half-life is, it's speeding up.
Starting point is 00:03:01 I'm like carbon dated. Okay. I'm on the mount position and my brain knows what I'm supposed to do. Prevent him from pushing on the knee. Don't let him buck me up. Sit back, chest to chest, hip to hip. I know exactly what I'm supposed to do. And as me and Joe were talking, he's like, the same thing happens in music, Dan.
Starting point is 00:03:17 Your brain says do it, and your fingers just don't work that fast anymore. Right, Joe? It doesn't come out. It's just the same way. My brain is like, do this. And my body just won't do it. This kid smoked me. And I came home last night very depressed because I got annihilated in this drill.
Starting point is 00:03:34 I just could not hold this kid down. And it's driving me nuts because in my heyday, I would have had no problem. Gosh. All right. Let's get into the content because we got a stack show for you that I'm trying buddy all right today's show brought to you by buddies at helix sleep thank god for the helix sleep mattress last night because i slept well and woke up and felt pretty good go to helixsleep.com slash dan get up to 125 off all your mattress orders here's the difference with helix sleep helix sleep has a customized mattress uh they have customized a quiz and it
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Starting point is 00:05:06 Helixsleep.com slash Dan. All right, let's go. Yeah. First, economic numbers are out. Kind of a good news, bad news, more good news than bad news thing. But I'd like to give you some perspective. Stay with me because I got a stacked show for you today. We're going to get to the gun issue next and the misinformation and the economic,
Starting point is 00:05:24 excuse me, the global warming hoax later. All right. But number one, even CNN had to acknowledge, for those of you who missed it, the job numbers came out this morning, the official U.S. government job numbers, despite the New York Times efforts to Maggie Haberman specifically to insinuate that Trump had leaked the job numbers early. He was talking about the private industry ADP payroll numbers, not the government numbers, but it's the New York Times, whatever. Fake inheritance is their thing. Even CNN this morning had to acknowledge
Starting point is 00:05:53 that the 130,000 jobs created in August and the subsequent numbers coming out of that were pretty darn good. Listen to CNN, Joe. This must have killed them. Killed them to have to say this. Here you go. Take a look at the jobless rate. Three point seven percent. This remains near a historic generational low. About five hundred more than five hundred thousand people entered the labor market. So these months and months and months of decent job numbers are encouraging people to come back in.
Starting point is 00:06:19 So that is an important sign of success in the labor market right now. Business information services, big job gains there again. Healthcare, these have been driving parts of the economy, really. Healthcare and business information systems. Folks, CNN must have been like this. They were probably seething with rage before having to put this segment on the air. Listen, was it the greatest job number? No, again, I'm going to give you the up and the downside. We're not here to kind of put lipstick on anything.
Starting point is 00:06:49 It was a very solid number. The prediction was 163,000, so it was a little below predictions, and there was some revisions downwards the prior months. But here's the upside. The upside is the unemployment rate held steady at historically low numbers, 3.7%, despite the fact that you heard the clip yourself, CNN, not me, not the Dan Bongino show, that 500,000 people entered the workforce. Why does that matter? Folks, it matters because even if we have significant job creation,
Starting point is 00:07:18 if more people start to enter the workforce and declare themselves eligible to work the way the fractions work, and it's pretty simple to figure the way the fractions work and you can it's pretty simple to figure out the unemployment rate can actually tick up meaning job growth was so strong and so solid that even though more people entered the workforce and declared themselves eligible to work the unemployment rate percentage of people unemployed over the percentage of people eligible to work still held steady 3 000 manufacturing jobs were created. Now debunking again liberal myths because you know they will lie about this. Even CNN had to tell the truth. Liberal politicians will lie to you.
Starting point is 00:07:52 That's what they do. That's how they make their living. That's all they're about. They live in fairytale land. They're the Teddy Ruxpins of politics. You stick a quarter in them, they'll tell you any story you want. They're going to say, well, wage growth, this is only for the rich. Ladies and gentlemen, wages grew 3.2%. Again, a lot of that wage growth was focused at the lower end of the
Starting point is 00:08:10 wage scale, not the higher end. Wages are going up. They went up 3.2%. So the liberal myth that, well, wages are stagnant, again, is just not true. I don't know what else to say. It's just not true. They just made it up. It's incorrect. You are not accurate. You can repeat over and over, well, wages are stagnant. That doesn't make it true. That just makes you a liar. And it makes the people who repeat it idiots for not doing their own homework.
Starting point is 00:08:33 I'm sorry. You're just dumb. You're not repeating. You're repeating incorrect information over and over, pretending it's true, and you're deceiving people. Again, I'm giving you the up and the down because it's only right to do that.
Starting point is 00:08:48 The numbers weren't spectacular. They weren't off the charts. They were below expectations. They were very good, however. These are not bad job growth numbers. They're solid, especially 10 years into a recovery. And having to deal with eight years of Obama's anemic recovery. Here's Fox Business with some other notes.
Starting point is 00:09:07 I want you to pay particular attention to the notes here in the video clip, excuse me, about black and Hispanic unemployment as well, minority unemployment. Go with the Fox clip. Average hourly wages up 0.4% month over month. For the last 12 months, it's up 3.2%. Now, labor force participation rate edged up at 63.2%. Average hourly work week also up 0.1 hour to 34.4 hours. Non-supervisory wages rose 11
Starting point is 00:09:37 cents. The white unemployment rate, 3.4%. Black unemployment rate at a historic low since they've been keeping records in 1972, 5.5%. Hispanic unemployment rate, 4.2%. Asian unemployment rate, 2.8%. Again, good numbers. Great? No? Very good? Yes? Right, right. Now, I bring up, and I wanted you to focus on the black and Hispanic unemployment portion of it at the end. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Folks, not that that matters. You know, if you're unemployed, you're unemployed. Whether you're black, Hispanic, or Asian shouldn't matter. But it does matter because the liberals are in love with a story, not the story. And their narrative that Donald Trump has been bad for the minority community, Donald Trump is the Donald Trump economy, or the economy under Donald Trump, probably a more precise way to phrase it,
Starting point is 00:10:35 that this isn't due to Trump, wages aren't growing, this is only for the rich, minorities are struggling. Ladies and gentlemen, it's not true. It's just not true. I don't, I'm not sure why you want it to be true you can still vote against donald trump if you're a democrat you don't like him nobody's preventing you from doing that but why you're living a lie is genuinely puzzling to me black and hispanic unemployment under the trump economy the economy under trump is flourishing unemployment is at historic lows for these minority groups you're saying
Starting point is 00:11:08 are being negatively impacted by Trump policies. What you're saying is factually not correct. You're just wrong. You're just wrong. Again, do whatever you want. You want to vote Democrat? You want to vote independent, communist? Do your thing. I'm not here. I'm not a liberal. whatever you want. You want to vote Democrat? You want to vote independent? Communist?
Starting point is 00:11:28 Do your thing. I'm not here I'm not a liberal. I'm not Antifa, the anti-First Amendment group that tell you not to speak out or not to do your thing. I'm just saying if you're voting based on the idea that the economy under Donald Trump has negatively impacted wages in the minority community you're voting on a lie.
Starting point is 00:11:44 Vote for whatever other reason. You don't like a stance on abortion? Fine. But you're voting on a lie vote for whatever other reason you don't like a stance on abortion fine but you're voting on a lie what you're voting on is just not true okay all right good job numbers one downside um that i just want to keep your eye on keep your eye on the ball our national debt is exploding there is no solution on the horizon and ladies and gentlemen if we don't fix this soon, again, I can't warn you enough. It's only a matter of time before this implodes on us. So that is the one dark side to all of this in the future, which I've warned you about repeatedly. All right, moving on. Good job numbers. I want to make sure I covered that right at the top of the show and do what we always do, debunking liberal myths. Now, there was a great article sent to me by a listener.
Starting point is 00:12:27 Forgive me, I forget who sent this over, but good job. Great piece. I read a lot of your emails. This was a piece at Reason.com. I want to get into the Second Amendment gun portion of the show because the misinformation out there after the Odessa shooting is just, again, extraordinary. The media refuses to tell the truth. This was a great piece about the gun buyback program air quotes which is really a gun confiscation that beto o'rourke and others are
Starting point is 00:12:50 proposing uh pieces by john stokes uh reason mag uh the futility of a gun buyback before you ask how many americans will give up their guns ask how many cops will even try to take them. Excuse me. Very, very excellent piece. Very extraordinarily excellent piece to use in precise English. Up at the show notes today, but definitely worth your time. Go to Bongino.com, read the article, or if you subscribe to my email list, which I always appreciate, I will email these articles to you every day. Great piece. The question they're asking is a fair one. So Beto O'Rourke, Robert Francis O'Rourke, who's really a backbencher now for the presidential nominee, he'll have to drop out soon at some point if this keeps going the way it is, saying, well, make no mistake, you are going to have to sell back your gun to the government. Well, it can't be a buyback if the government never owned it. The government doesn't
Starting point is 00:13:42 own my firearms, so there's no reason for me to sell them back to the government. And as one leader, excuse me, reader, astutely pointed out to me, Joe, I'm going to need a background check on these government officials who want to take my guns back. Fair enough, right, Joe? Great point.
Starting point is 00:13:59 And if they don't pass my background check, I'm not interested. So good point. Hat tip to the reader who sent that to me, too. We should demand a background check. Government officials, I want to know who they are, right? That's what the government wants from us. So I want that from them, too. Only fair.
Starting point is 00:14:14 But having said that, a fair question to ask, because we do facts here, unlike the liberal media that's been lying to you about just about everything, the economy, guns, the environment, everything else. What a buyback or a confiscation, which it really is, what a confiscation actually were. So there's two things I think we should hit, which is reason magazine does, Joe, because we do it fair analysis. And number one would be, well, where they've tried policies like this before, because we're trying to give a comprehensive analysis of how this would actually work in the real world,
Starting point is 00:14:40 unlike the fairytale land the liberals live in. Right. It's been tried before or in right it's been tried before or models of it have been tried before and what has been the results of people complied have the police officers who were supposed to do it complied i have people actually turn their guns in takeaway number one from the reason piece well ladies and gentlemen this has actually been tried before in before i get to this uh in New Zealand, this is in the piece. I didn't put it up here, though.
Starting point is 00:15:07 In New Zealand, they tried this, and only 10% of people actually turned in their guns. But more importantly, if we're not going to use New Zealand, let's use New York. So New York had not exactly a gun confiscation program, but Governor Cuomo, excuse me to quote the piece, they had this SAFE Act in 2013. It was one of the toughest gun control laws in the nation and one of its important provisions according to the piece was the mandatory registration of all quote assault weapons in the state wasn't a confiscation or a ban so it's not nearly as severe what it was what o'rourke and others are pushing but it was
Starting point is 00:15:39 just a registration requirement so let's see how that worked out so to be clear beto wants to confiscate your firearms new york implemented a registration requirement if you had a quote assault weapon which is of course a fabricated term by the left it's almost meaningless because they can't even tell you what it is so all you had to do we didn't have to turn them in joe you just had to go and register your assault weapons well would it be fair enough joe to say well if beto's talking about confiscating them how did compliance work when people were only asked to register those now we know in new zealand the confiscation didn't work at all 90 of people flipped off the double barrel middle finger and said no no thanks i'm not turning those
Starting point is 00:16:21 in um well let's see in reason piece, how exactly did the registration requirement work out? Well, the answer is, it didn't. A conservative estimate by the National Shooting Sports Foundation found that New Yorkers owned, they're being conservative here, that New Yorkers owned about one million
Starting point is 00:16:40 assault weapons, air quotes, I have to put that in there, at the time the ban was passed. So you would assume, Joe, you'd get one million registrations for these, quote, assault weapons, right i have to put that in there at the time the ban was passed so you would assume joe you'd get one million registrations for these quote assault weapons right dan yes you well joe i'm sorry again but that's not what happened so 44 000 were actually registered which is about four percent of the total this non-compliance with the law is widespread and mostly open but the police aren't even doing much about it the piece goes on to talk about how the cops and and a lot of local sheriffs and a lot of local police department and law enforcement supervisors and officials in these places are
Starting point is 00:17:16 like no we're not gonna do that we're not wasting police assets to go and take people's i'm sorry we're just not doing it so So you have a twofer. So again, unlike liberals who say like Beto, we're going to confiscate your guns under the guise of a buyback and never think to what Thomas Sowell calls phase two, right? Liberals never ever, Thomas Sowell, the most brilliant, I think, economist and philosopher of our time
Starting point is 00:17:39 who I adore in his books. They're just terrific. Changed my whole life. Thomas Sowell always says about liberals that they never ask the question, okay, and then what? Never. Yeah. They put out these platitudes. They say, we're going to confiscate all assault weapons. They're dangerous. They never say, okay, and then what happens? How do you actually do it? Because when you say, well, we've tried things like this in the past, and then what happened? You get gross
Starting point is 00:18:02 levels of noncompliance. I don't mean gross in a qualitatively bad way. I mean gross in the sense of large. You have unbelievable noncompliance. People just say, no, we're not doing it. And the cops are like, yeah, we're not getting them. So I guess my point is, so what's the point? Now, I want to get to the second part of this in a second, the noncompliance part. But fair enough, again, this show is, I want to get to the second part of this in a second, the noncompliance part.
Starting point is 00:18:26 But fair enough. Again, this show is, I'm a conservative, but I listen to your liberal emails. Sometimes I actually get one guy that said, hey, I'm a liberal. I listen to your show. And he actually brought up a good point. I forget what it was a while ago, but I had discussed it on the show. But a lot of the liberal emails I get from people, they don't think things through even in their questioning. but a lot of the liberal emails I get from people,
Starting point is 00:18:45 they don't think things through even in their questioning. Like one person emailed me, for example, a liberal and said, well, Dan, if you're saying noncompliance with gun laws, in other words, my point on Fox and elsewhere, when I talk about gun laws, as a former law enforcement guy, myself has been folks, criminals don't care about gun laws. The evidence is overwhelming where gun laws are the strongest in some of our inner cities. Gun crime is the highest. I don't know what else you need to hear.
Starting point is 00:19:07 Even my interviews with people in the street, when I arrested them for gun crimes, hey, you know that's against the law, they're like, man, I don't care about that. They're like laughing at you, like, what are you, an idiot? Gun laws, like, get it from CeeLo on the corner. They don't, I'm just, I'm not messing with you. They'd be like, that's, it was a real guy.
Starting point is 00:19:29 CeeLo, he's got him on the corner for whatever five six hundred bucks yeah the saturday night specials those guns they don't like gun law what are you an idiot because you're like you're crazy like dude why would i care about gun laws they just don't care the evidence is overwhelming but fair enough liberals have emailed me and well, what's the point of any law then? If you think people, just criminals, just ignore laws and we should just abandon it. No, that's not the point. You're missing the point. Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of laws is to put perimeters and offense around the behavior of criminals. But to not obstruct the legal big R God-given rights of law-abiding
Starting point is 00:20:08 citizens. Let me give you an example, because that may have been a little too word superfluous. Okay. We have burglary laws, right? The burglary laws are meant to prevent your God-given big R rights to property. In other words, I have God-given rights to own property, private property. Burglary laws are in effect to say you, Joey Bag of Donuts, the criminal, can't take my property. It is against the law.
Starting point is 00:20:37 And you can be prosecuted for it. It puts a limit on the bad guy, not on me. Why? Because I'm not a burglar. I don't steal other people's stuff. So do you get it? The purpose of laws, I could give you legions of examples here. Sure.
Starting point is 00:20:54 Robbery, assault with a deadly weapon. I have the right to life, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If you kill me, you've taken all of those. That's why there's a law against homicide larceny gun laws work in the opposite yeah they put perimeters prescriptions around the behavior of the law abiding against being able to they prevent them from being able to protect themselves while doing absolutely nothing to stop the behavior of criminals who don't care that's how you know it's an ineffective law it doesn't do anything to stop criminals they don't care the evidence is overwhelming all it does is put
Starting point is 00:21:38 obstacles in front of law-abiding uh citizens who want to exercise their God-given right to protect themselves against said criminals. So your email, which I get, and again, I'm reading them on the air, so thanks for emailing me. Your email that, well, what's the point of any law? No, no, you're missing the point of law. It's to stop the behavior of criminals from infringing on our God-given rights, not to stop the God-given rights of people and infringe on them from protecting themselves against criminals.
Starting point is 00:22:08 That's not the point of our laws. It's never been. That's why gun laws are so stupid. They don't work. Second, it's amazing from this reason piece. It's just phenomenal how liberals, again, change their minds about anything when it comes to laws following us. Liberals say, well, it's the law of the land.
Starting point is 00:22:29 Obamacare, the law of the land. You must use gun laws. It's the law of the land. But then when it comes to other laws they don't like, liberals are like, ah, forget it. Put up this quote from the Reason piece. This was a great find by the author, John Stokes. I mean, who was this who said this?
Starting point is 00:22:45 Quote, when a prominent politician kind of goes after these phantom sanctuary cities and talks about how bad they are, basically what he's going after is police chiefs. And I trust police chiefs in terms of knowing what should be done to keep their communities safer. And police department
Starting point is 00:23:01 and mayors a lot more than I trust that of a washington politician was that donald trump going after gun laws they ignore gun laws i trust the locals no that was tim kaine hillary clinton's vice presidential nominee talking about how we should just ignore immigration laws and trust the locals to enforce it what is it so on gun laws when the local police chiefs and the mayors who respect the second amendment say we're not enforcing that we're not confiscating people's guns get lock him up to confiscate his gun but then when it comes to immigration laws they don't like
Starting point is 00:23:36 joe and locals say we're not enforcing that we're a sanctuary city they're like that's great we trust the locals more these guys are total frauds. They're total frauds. You understand they're total frauds? They're frauds. I don't like Obamacare. Unfortunately, it was passed. I have to abide by it.
Starting point is 00:23:56 There's no moral inconsistency there. There's nothing. Having said that, I have an executed God-given right to protect myself enshrined in the Second Amendment. Your law saying the Second Amendment is not the Second Amendment is not a law. I'm sorry. It may be some bill you signed, but it's
Starting point is 00:24:15 not a law. They can't have it both ways. That's a wish. The misinformation, Joe, is just incredible. I got more on this. Still haven't gotten to the global warming hoax. This is going to be an absolute debunk-a-thon. But I want to get to next, another one of these
Starting point is 00:24:31 misinformation pieces. So again, the first piece, just to tie that up, gun confiscation laws, this is the solution. It's never worked. Nobody's giving you their guts. It's not going to work. The evidence is overwhelming. The next one I want to get to is the whole donation. This is infuriating.
Starting point is 00:24:47 The whole donations thing. The NRA is buying off all these politicians. Really? Let's compare what the NRA spends versus other groups. They're conveniently left out. All right. Today's show also brought to you by buddies at Stamps.com. Stamps.com.
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Starting point is 00:26:45 Thanks to our sponsors too. Stamps.com, click on the microphone, enter Dan. Okay. So I've been inundated again with emails from liberals and some conservatives saying, Dan, can you talk about this whole NRA is buying off politicians? Ah, they're bribing all these people. It's over. The end of them.
Starting point is 00:27:05 Butt off everybody. What do they call it? Massacre Mitch McConnell. Butt off by the NRA. So I said, okay, because the show does facts and data. I think it would be responsible to talk about how lobbying actually works, how much money is spent, how conservative groups influence elections, how liberal groups. And specifically, let's talk about the NRA. Again, disclosure, I have never worked for the NRA.
Starting point is 00:27:28 Contrary to what liberals tell you, they can't stop lying. I did work at NRA TV, as many of you know. That is not the NRA, as you can tell by the lawsuit now. It was a production company that does production for the NRA. I did not work for the NRA. But liberals will lie to you because, again, that's what they do. So here's a piece by Kimberly Strassel, who is one of the finest reporters out there,
Starting point is 00:27:48 does actual work. Yeah, she's great. I know, Joe. You like Kimberly Strassel. Every time I say Kimberly Strassel, you must really like her work. Yeah, I do. You thought, Joe.
Starting point is 00:27:55 I always get a yeah out of Joe with that. Up at Potomac Watch, which is her opinion section at the Wall Street Journal, she says the left's lucrative nonprofits, that's the title, powerful interests and dark money are mostly on the Democratic side. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Keep that up. Did she get that title wrong? Kim Strassel, September 5th, 2019. I thought we'd been told by the media out there who lies to us constantly that dark money is a Republican problem.
Starting point is 00:28:21 Apparently not. From Kim Strassel's piece, let's talk about how much dark money is spent on liberal causes versus conservative causes. Okay, let's get right to it. Liberal public policy charities organized under the 501c3 tax code bagged $7.4 billion of this foundation money in 2014. This dark money. So liberals, just to be clear, because I know liberals have a tough time with math. So this dark money they're talking about, liberal non-profit or liberal public policy charities got $7.4 billion.
Starting point is 00:28:54 For conservative charities, the figure must have been higher because we've been told by the media, clearly it was higher than $7.4 billion because dark money is a Republican property. No, the figure was a mere $2.2 billion. That $7.4 billion because dark money is a Republican property. No, the figure was a mere $2.2 billion. That $7.4 billion also
Starting point is 00:29:09 dwarfed the total 2013- 2014 campaign receipts to federal, state, and local campaigns. $4.1 billion on that spending cycle by independent groups, $830 million. So, folks, you have almost three times as many liberal public policy initiatives influencing elections and public thought. You have nearly three times as much money going into liberals.
Starting point is 00:29:37 It's a dark money. I just, I mean, I'm telling you, I wake up every morning. I'm like, what? Can you tell me? Is there one? Is there just one thing liberals tell the truth? I'm not. I'm not kidding.
Starting point is 00:29:51 I'm not talking about personal stuff. And I'm talking about the big macro to not the micro issues. Because, you know, I don't want to get into like individual stories. But in the macro debate about the big things, education, economics, firearms, the Second Amendment, abortion, right to life. Do liberals tell the truth about anything? I'm not kidding. Like, I'm almost at the point now where it's getting so easy to debunk their stuff. I want them to actually debunk me at some point.
Starting point is 00:30:20 Dark money is a Republican problem. You guys are getting almost three times um as much almost four times as much money do these public policy liberal groups than conservative groups are getting who where's the dark money problem on your side now let's get to uh uh the uh the nra specifically so here's a national review article about how much money specifically has been spent by each of these, by the NRA versus by Planned Parenthood and others. I have it up in the show notes today for you to check out. Folks, by Alexandra DeSantis. This is from February 28th of 2018.
Starting point is 00:30:57 NRA critics ignore the political influence of Planned Parenthood. From the piece. Folks, again, the NRA, you may say, the NRA spends money on lobbying and they do donate to candidates. There's no doubt about that. I'm not here to tell you they don't. The problem I have with the liberal critics of it is when you bring up
Starting point is 00:31:16 the counterpoint that Planned Parenthood in many cases and their affiliates and associated groups donates more money, they don't. Well, that doesn't matter. That doesn't influence how we think. It's only the bad guys at the NRA that do. So from the piece,
Starting point is 00:31:31 during the 2016 election cycle alone, Planned Parenthood's political action arms shelled out over 38 million to elect Democratic politicians. In its 2016-2017 annual report, the group reported spending $40 million on public policy, as well as upwards of $175 million in such nebulous categories as movement building, strengthening and securing Planned Parenthood, and engaging communities. Undoubtedly, much of
Starting point is 00:31:59 that money is flooding into the pockets of those who will push for policies that benefit Planned Parenthood's bottom line by protecting abortion on demand. Keep in mind, and unlike the NRA, they get taxpayer money upwards of $500 million a year, or did. Where's that conversation? Again, I'm not suggesting to you or sitting here telling you that the NRA doesn't attempt to influence public policy in the direction of Second Amendment protections. I'm not saying that. I'm being transparent and honest. Again, I didn't work there. I'm just giving you the facts. But when you look at actual political donations to the NRA since 2012, Planned Parenthood spent $2.6 million on direct political donations.
Starting point is 00:32:42 2.6 million on direct political donations. ANRA, 2.7. Effectively the same amount on donations. Now, they did spend, depending on the estimates used, 55 million on issue advocacy and elections in 2016, which is a good amount of money. But again, Planned Parenthood is almost at the exact same figure when you're talking about donations and far greater when you're talking about donations and far greater
Starting point is 00:33:05 when you're talking about outside influence so if we're gonna have a fair conversation the reason i bring this up is that my friend wayne listens to my show i ran into him in the gym the other day and he's like you know i'm getting tired of this with this constant demonization the nra is being this you know 700 pound uh boogeyman in the room. If they're bad, if NRA bad, NRA bad, because they donate money to candidates, and why is Planned Parenthood not equally as bad? No, no, that's good money. We are advocating for the termination of life in the womb.
Starting point is 00:33:37 That's a noble cause. So you have one group advocating for the right for you to protect yourself against criminals. That's what they do. Bad. This group's advocating for wiping out life in the womb. No, no, no, that's good money. That doesn't have any effect at all. Again, they're hypocrites. You as a conservative or a libertarian with principles, we have no problem saying, yes, you are correct. There are lobbies out there that
Starting point is 00:34:00 advocate for the second amendment and the rights of firearm owners out there. Yes, you're correct. Does that money go to some politicians? Yes, it does. Does that influence those politicians? I would think, Oh,
Starting point is 00:34:13 how can you say that? I'm because I'm not an idiot. Now, does it influence all politicians? No, you may say that's impossible. Dan, you get a donation.
Starting point is 00:34:24 Does it? all politicians? No. You may say that's impossible, Dan. You get a donation. Does it? Ladies and gentlemen, I have been a Second Amendment advocate on this show for my entire life and during my entire tenure doing the Dan Bongino Show. I assure you, if I ran for office and the NRA donated money to me, it's not going to make me extra super Second Amendment support. You get what I'm saying? Are there some on the fence that may be influenced by political money? Folks, we'd be morons to say no, all of us.
Starting point is 00:34:50 Of course, we're human beings. They're influenced by this stuff. I have no problem saying that. But most of the people advocating for second amendment rights believed it before the NRA donation. Having said that, the same goes for Planned Parenthood. Because again, we're principled here.
Starting point is 00:35:09 We're not liars like the left. There are liberals out there running for office, Joe, who believe that life could be terminated in the womb up to the ninth month of pregnancy. They believe that. The Planned Parenthood donation isn't going to affect them one bit. It's going to help them.
Starting point is 00:35:25 But likewise, vice versa. Are there other Democrats out there who may have had pro-life tendencies who now, because of Planned Parenthood money, are going to become rabidly pro-abortion? Of course. But again, we're principled, unlike the left, that just will not tell you the truth. Blood money, the NRA. What about blood money at Planned Parenthood where actual life is terminated?
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Starting point is 00:38:52 laws big trouble you know i don't support these i believe they entirely violate due process and i believe they will have severe unintended consequences a little bit of background what are red flag laws they're the equivalent of gun they call them gun violence protection orders uh where you can go to court without charging someone with a crime that's the problem i have with these and you can have someone's gun gun someone's guns confiscated or firearms confiscated without accusing without accusing them of a crime now folks the the potential for abuse. Now, I don't have any doubt that if you were to implement these, like anything else, Joe, I mean, if we were to implement a,
Starting point is 00:39:32 say, a no need for a search warrant policy, right? Say we throw the Constitution out the window. Give me an example of why I don't like red flag books, right? If we were to throw out the search warrant requirement in the Constitution, yes, you would prevent some crimes. Cops could just storm into whatever house they wanted eventually you're going to find people selling drugs you would have sacrificed liberty for security and later you'd have none because there'd be a mass revolt because people want their civil liberties back right the same thing with red
Starting point is 00:39:57 flag laws are you going to stop some gun crimes probably the problem i have with him is the potential for abuse is massive how How do I know that? Look at this story at legal insurrection. What's going on in San Francisco right now? Be up in the show notes by Leslie Eastman. San Francisco declares the NRA to be a, quote, domestic terrorist organization. So let me be clear on this. So let me be clear on this.
Starting point is 00:40:39 The same organization, excuse me, the same city that has a human defecation map so you can avoid stepping in human waste because people consider the streets of San Francisco, because it's so poorly run, a one big public bathroom. As my buddy Tim used to say, I always do the Tim. He was my co-instructor in the Secret Service Academy. He said, the world's a man's bathroom, man. He was a hundred. I don't think he meant that in San Francisco, okay? They can't even clean the poop off the streets. They want to start designating people domestic terror because you're an NRA member? Or you're a member of the NRA?
Starting point is 00:41:02 The same people, by the way. Did I lose you on the audio there? Yeah. I did. I was going to say, because I didn't hear you the way. Did I lose you on the audio there? Yeah. I did. I was going to say, because I didn't hear you for a second. I was like, where's Joey? I usually hear a grunt here and there or something. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:12 So we're talking about the NRA. So San Francisco, that can't clean a poop off its own streets. You want them to be able to designate people. The San Francisco government has a red flag and be able to take your guns. Now, this is the same city, by the way, San Francisco government has a red flag and be able to take your guns. Now, this is the same city, by the way, San Francisco. Remember the story from a week ago? The same city that doesn't want you anymore in official city paperwork to refer to felons as felons. They want you to refer to them as justice-involved persons.
Starting point is 00:41:44 So just to be clear in san francisco the human waste in the streets capital of the united states the defecation capital of the world san francisco if you're an nra member you are a domestic terrorist but if you are a felon you are a justice involved person ladies and gentlemen if that isn't a red flag for red flag laws, I don't know what is. Stay away. To the Trump administration, this is a really, really bad idea, these red flag laws. They will absolutely blow up in people's faces because governments like San Francisco are guaranteed to abuse them. All right.
Starting point is 00:42:20 Here's a quick story. Moving on. Last thing on the firearm issue because it's important. The Bogino rule. Again, I can't tell you this enough. Wait 24 to 72 hours before reporting on an anti-conservative, anti-Trump story making its way around the media. There is a significant, not 100%, but a significant chance the story will be debunked later. Now, I'm just going to give you one example.
Starting point is 00:42:50 Here's a tweet by Jim Sciutto from CNN. New Odessa gunman purchased weapon in private sale, which does not require a background check. Josh Campbell disgraced a former FBI guy reporting. This guy just is a hack on CNN's guy, Campbell. So that, of course, remember Jim Sciutto, CNN, and his lackey, Josh Campbell. I wonder how many federal arrests that guy ever made. He was like the Comey dude.
Starting point is 00:43:16 I think it's the same guy. They're reporting, just so you're clear, again, a story, not the story. And the narrative they're reporting on CNN, Shudo, and others is the Odessa shooting. There was a loophole. We got to fix the law for background checks. In other words, he made his circum way, slithered his way around the law. Yeah. So you're meant to believe here that the law, a new background check law, would have stopped him because what he did was legal. Please tell me you understand before
Starting point is 00:43:47 I go on, because there's a National Review piece I'm going to put up in a second to show you. If you would have waited, unlike Jim Sciutto and Josh Campbell, if you would have waited 24 to 72 hours, which I always do before reporting on these types of stories, you would have found out that the narrative
Starting point is 00:44:04 they're trying to tell you, that this guy didn't break the law, Joe, that the law just wasn't strong enough, and if we had better laws, this guy wouldn't have been able to buy this gun. If you would have reported that, you would have been wrong again. Like Shudo.
Starting point is 00:44:20 National Review. Ladies and gentlemen, the gun used in the Texas Odessa shooting was illegally manufactured and sold. Jack Crow, National Review, September 5th, 2019. Be in the show notes today. Folks, as I was debating Chris Hahn and Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night, trying to explain to Chris,
Starting point is 00:44:40 liberal Chris, who is not getting it lately, the Odessa shooting was an illegal sale the fact that it was private is irrelevant it was not legal the Odessa shooter was prohibited from buying that firearm 18 USC 921 and the guy who made it illegally manufactured it and engaged in an illegal sale to him it was already against the law. What do you want? I said this the other night and a lot of people email me that I wasn't trying to be funny. I was really trying.
Starting point is 00:45:13 The fact that it came off as humorous was unintended. But I said to Chris, so the Odessa shooting, that guy already broke the law and you want to make another law to make it what, Joe? Extra supercalifragilisticexpialidocious illegal? Yeah. Justice League twins activate illegal? Like, really, really illegal. Extra super illegal.
Starting point is 00:45:36 It was already illegal. So, in other words, the story, not the narrative, the story, the real story, if you would have waited, is the Odessa shooter illegally bought a firearm because he didn't care about the law. That's the facts. How do you know he didn't care about the law? Because he did it anyway. He tried to buy a firearm, was told no. So he went around and engaged in an illegal sale. The fact that it was private is irrelevant
Starting point is 00:46:05 if i can hat tip david harsani on twitter harsani made a great point on twitter notice how with the liberal this is a excellent excellent verdict is in excellent point david harsani joe when someone buys crack in the street in a private sale, do you refer to that as a private crack sale? I refer to it as an illegal crack sale. It's an illegal sale. It's illegal. Yes, thank you.
Starting point is 00:46:35 No one goes, it was a private sale of crack. It was an illegal drug buy. Yeah, we need background checks, though. When you buy a gun in the street. Jeez. Right? You sold him crack without a background check? It was illegal.
Starting point is 00:46:48 It was illegal against the law. The criminals don't care. The guy who sold the drugs doesn't care. The guy who bought the drug, they don't care. They don't care. They ignored it. This guy did not engage in a private gun sale. It was an illegal gun sale.
Starting point is 00:47:05 They're only using the term private sale because they want to reinforce this image that there's this major loophole that these people, and if we just fixed it by another law, it would stop people. There already is a law. If you're a prohibited possessor,
Starting point is 00:47:20 you cannot buy and you cannot loan a prohibited possessor a firearm. They just don't care. Reinforcing my point from the beginning that gun laws don't work. Probably just as poorly as a lot of our drug laws. They just don't work. The difference is there is a public good to owning a firearm. You get to protect yourself.
Starting point is 00:47:43 There is no public good from smoking crack. None. Nope. And I'll make a strong case to you that drug laws don't, I mean, that's a whole other show. I'll probably get some negative feedback on that. But fine. But that's a, I don't have the time for this here. But at least with crack, it's a very difficult
Starting point is 00:48:00 argument to make. You know what? It's good for weight loss. No, it's not no it's a really awful thing and a plague on our society owning a firearm is not right people protect themselves their property areas that have second amendment based laws and regulations you see lower property crime rates because people don't want to break into a house where the owner could defend themselves. My gosh.
Starting point is 00:48:31 If you just would have waited. But they can't. Reporter, it was a private sale. The private crack sale. We don't know. You understand? This is what we do on the show. Like,
Starting point is 00:48:46 one of the common evergreen themes has always been to point out to you the narrative so you see it now. Whenever you see on Twitter, on Facebook, it was a private sale. Your first question should be,
Starting point is 00:48:56 was it illegal? Yes, it was. So why is it, why does it in private matter? What's the, it doesn't matter. What does that add to the story? It was an illegal gun sale.
Starting point is 00:49:07 It'd be no different than if a gun owner in a gun store as an FFL sells a gun to a guy who's a prohibited possessor. It was a gun store sale. It was an illegal sale. There you go, Dano. The law didn't matter. It doesn't matter. Criminals don't care.
Starting point is 00:49:23 Framing. It's how they frame issues. When we learn to pick them apart, we can more effectively debate this stuff. And remember, we're never debating the libs. They're not open to information. I'm sorry. Most of them. You're debating the liberals.
Starting point is 00:49:35 So the third party guy or woman listening hears it and sees you're the more rational one. All right, moving on. So the band brigade continues. this is a great montage again hat tip elizabeth harrington on twitter the cnn uh telethon on on the global warming hoax which was a disaster for the candidates they're all on the record now all these candidates who agreed in the global hoax-a-thon global warming hoax-a-thon on cnn they're all on the record now talking about banning everything from cheeseburgers. Bring on the ribeyes, as I said yesterday.
Starting point is 00:50:08 Wait a minute. Cheeseburgers, cow farting. They want to ban everything. Here's a little montage they put together of the Global Warming Hoaxathon and all the bans. Check this out. There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking.
Starting point is 00:50:21 We're going to be okay if the vast majority of the world goes vegetarian immediately. Coal-burning plants. No one's going to build another coal burning. We've got to shut the ones down we have. Do you ban plastic straws? I think we should. I love the vision of the Green New Deal. Do away with commercial air travel and a lot of other things. We have to take combustion engine vehicles off the road as rapidly as we can. What about offshore drilling oil? Would you ban it? Yes. Absolutely
Starting point is 00:50:45 yes. Yes. Some of it is with light bulbs. Some of it is on straws. Some of it, dang, is on cheeseburgers, right? I was writing that down. You see my pen? I was furiously writing that. So here's the ban from the hoax-a-thon. Here's the ban list. The Democrats
Starting point is 00:51:04 want to ban straws, plastic straws, coal. I wrote so fast I can't even read what I wrote. What is that? Oh, natural gas. It looks like cars. I have such awful hair. They want to ban air travel. Engines, combustion engines,
Starting point is 00:51:19 offshore drilling. What is this one? Cheeseburgers and meat. So, straws, coal, gas, air, travel, engines, drilling, meat, and cheeseburgers. What's left? What's left? I don't know. I don't know what's left. I don't know how my house would even function.
Starting point is 00:51:37 I don't know. No meat for dinner. I wouldn't be able to travel up to New York to work. I can't drive anywhere because I have a combustion engine. We don't have, well, we do have natural gas. That's right, over in the other place, right? Coal, I don't know what percentage,
Starting point is 00:51:48 but you're, and plastic straws, I use glass straws in the house anyway. It's not really much of an environmental thing. Although, listen, if we can find options, great. But folks,
Starting point is 00:51:57 do you understand how ridiculous this party has become? The band brigade. And I just took a couple notes here because, you know, I think what makes our show different is i like to add just a level of color commentary just not to rant i mean rants are great but they don't really help you a lot but just remember i cited thomas soul before to tie the
Starting point is 00:52:13 show together if you read thomas soul's fantastic book vision of the anointed he talks about this how the central planners have this fatal conceit to quote hayek as well this fatal conceit this knowledge problem but they don't think it's a problem. In other words, the people want to plan your world, get rid of coal, get rid of gas. We're going to plan for. So you understand if they had the knowledge to effectively implement an energy policy that was market-based effective and would work, they'd be in the private sector and not in government. The reason they're in government telling you what you can't do is because they failed at finding what you could do in the private sector.
Starting point is 00:52:47 They could find no way to find a hole in our economy they could fill. And they can't make any real money in the private sector because they're not smart enough. So they go into government and they have the fatal conceit of the knowledge problem where they think they're now smart enough in government to tell you what they couldn't figure out in the private sector themselves. The anointed ones, as Thomas Sowell calls them, his vision of the anointed, self-anointed, genius planners who couldn't plan a simple company to make money in the private sector, but all of a sudden can figure out how to marshal the resources of the entire U.S. economy. Sure. Good job, guys. All right. Amazingly, I'm going to wrap this up. This is another great article from Commentary Magazine in the show notes today. I'd really like you to read this.
Starting point is 00:53:27 It's very short, but it's very good. John Steele Gordon, September 3rd, 2019, Commentary Mag. Global warming or bad data? Garbage in, garbage out. Folks, more debunking of the biggest hoax of our time, the global warming hoax. More evidence, I should say. Now, you would think if you were trying
Starting point is 00:53:51 to show, Joe, I'll get to some snippets from this piece in a second. If you were trying to show that the globe was warming, Joe, it's not a trick question. I'm not setting you up, but as the audience ombudsman, here we go, the audience ombudsman hat, I'm going to give it to Joe.
Starting point is 00:54:08 If we were looking to see that the globe was warming and to prove that the global warming hoax was not a hoax, do you think you'd need temperature readings to do that? Not a trick question. Yes, Dan, temperature readings would be a major part, Dan. Yeah, there we go. It would be a major part of showing the temperature went up.
Starting point is 00:54:25 Okay, good job. The audience on BuzzFeed comes through in the class. Well, Joe, do you think those temperature readings would be a problem if the devices you were using to obtain those temperatures were, say, sitting behind a Chinese food place that had a heat vent blowing onto the temperature? Would that be a problem?
Starting point is 00:54:42 Just throwing that out there for you. That would suck everything up, Dan. Yeah. Very nice. Very witty. From the commentary piece, this is so good. So, folks, we have these temperature sensors, right, that are trying to prove the global warming hoax is real.
Starting point is 00:54:58 Well, what's the problem with these sensors? So, check this out. Many of these sensor stations have a big problem. They haven't changed appreciably over the years, but the land around them has, often profoundly, with big growth in urban and suburban areas.
Starting point is 00:55:14 Listen to this one. The weather station that was put in the middle of Nassau County, Long Island, where I live for a point, it was a potato field in 1923. But the sensor's still in the same spot. But the potatoes are's still in the same spot. But the potatoes are long gone. And now it's behind a strip mall,
Starting point is 00:55:31 20 feet from the kitchen exhaust fan of a Chinese takeout joint. You think that might impact... Folks, these weather stations haven't moved. It's kind of a problem if you're behind a kitchen exhaust fan. You think that may be an issue? Now, again, the incompetence here is stunning. Now you may say, okay, you just mentioned one. No, no, the piece goes on. I'm not done. A study by meteorologist Anthony Watts found that almost 90% of the 1,221 weather stations in the U S did not meet the national weather services setting standards, which requires that they be at least a hundred feet from any artificial heat source or radiating service.
Starting point is 00:56:17 This is unbelievable. You can see some of the most egregious violators here, and they have a link in the piece, read it to deal with the get along. You know, here's their solution. This is government. covered this is really this is unbelievable to deal with this defective information like a thermometer or a heat station near a heat source climate scientists joe have adjusted the data to solve the problem okay oh now we invariably these adjustments
Starting point is 00:56:41 have made earlier data show lower temperatures and recent data show higher one oh man shocker folks can you hear it do i have another snippet from that piece i think we had a record high in nassau county for january 98 degrees you know what do you do? 198. Listen, there were a lot of Kung Pao chicken orders in January. The January in Nassau County, it was 104. Meanwhile, you go to the place, and the guy who owns a Chinese food restaurant said record orders of Kung Pao chicken. It's near the exhaust fan. You think you may want to move that?
Starting point is 00:57:23 No, no, don't worry. We'll just adjust it down it's not 104 in january joe it was only 82.5 oh that sounds right that's what county long island holy moses oh daniel oh my gosh folks this is again i just i'm not suggesting to you that we don't have an impact on our climate we do of course we did when you know when we were back in our neanderthal days or when when the north america was populated largely by american indians they lit fires too, folks. Fires emitted CO2 and other products into the atmosphere. Human beings naturally produce waste as a function of living. It's not a matter of if or not if. It's a matter of how much and what's the impact. I'm simply suggesting to you that the liberal global warming
Starting point is 00:58:21 hoax is a hoax. The globe is not warming to some catastrophic levels where we're all going to die. Matter of fact, the piece points out at the end, when you look at NOAA, the National Oceanographic Administration, when you look at their temperature stations, you see the temperature, folks, has been relatively stable for a very long time now.
Starting point is 00:58:41 It's all nonsense. All right, that was a fun show please subscribe on our youtube channel that was a good time youtube.com slash ron g last segment crack me up you're not supposed to laugh at your own jokes but i thought it was funny uh also just subscribe to the show excuse me on apple podcast google podcast and please pick up my book exonerated it's coming out september 24th you pre-order it now you. You'll have it. I think Amazon ships out a little early. Barnes & Noble. Please check it out.
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