The Dan Bongino Show - Ep. 556 Liberals Are Showing Their True Colors, and it Ain't Pretty

Episode Date: September 27, 2017

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All right, moving on. Hey, I'm going to try to keep this on track today. But yesterday's show, I don't want to do this show three days in a row. And I'm not going to. But this is really super important what's going on right now. The culture war is now right out there for everybody to see. And as I said during yesterday's show, the greatest thing about this Trump NFL tweet calling out the NFL for kneeling during the national anthem is liberals showed their asses. I see your honey.

It's and it is ugly. Now they are doubling down on this, folks. They are doubling down on this. The liberal media is in a panic. Why are they in a panic? And I'm going to try to walk you through this right now. Because this is really, really not looking good. There was a poll released today.

85% of people surveyed believe that people should stand for the national anthem. Wow. 85% of people surveyed believe that people should stand for the national anthem. Wow. Proving what I told you on Monday's show, again, that liberalism is a fringe position, ladies and gentlemen. Not being a Democrat, being a liberal is a fringe kook position. Men in the women's room, police are hunting black people, America sucks, therefore you should kneel. There's systemic oppression in the richest country on earth where black athletes can make tens of millions of dollars.

These are fringe positions. Liberalism cannot exist, though, if you believe this is a fringe position. So liberalism spends all its time masquerading as something other than it really is. masquerading as something other than it really is. And it spends all of its time covering up and concealing the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans know liberals are kooks. They're nuts. I'm telling you, from listservs I'm on, from monitoring liberal Twitter accounts I monitor, I don't mean like in a CIA way,

but I go and there's about 15 or 20 liberals on Twitter that I go to who are like the, it will dictate where the zeitgeist of the time is for liberals. Like what the liberal collective Borg mentality is thinking. I'm telling you right now, do not believe the hype. They're all with this fake bravado we got Trump on this NFL thing he's divisive they're in a

panic they're in a panic because the polling data is killing them 85% of Americans this is a fringe position you should stand for the national anthem some more data points you need to be concerned about for this growing story about the culture war being exposed now and liberal asses

being showed for what they are ap news on drudge report ap associated press this is not by any stretch of the imagination any kind of a conservative outlet whatsoever ap all right joe another propagandist another propaganda outlet it now has a remember, I hit this yesterday a little bit, but I'm going to double down. These are important stories, folks. And based on the listenership from the last two days' shows, I think you're picking up what I'm putting down.

Ratings for the NFL collectively down 11%. They went from 17.6 million viewers on average over the course of the first three weeks of the season last year to 15.6. Now, remember, again, how do I know liberals are in a panic? They're ignoring the poll that 85% of Americans think they're nuts on this flag issue. Yesterday during the show,

I covered a different topic of the ratings where Brian Stelter from, by the way, the most ironically titled show in the history of media, Brian Stelter at CNN, his show is called Reliable Sources. It should be called Unreliable Sources. I mean, this guy is never a reliable source for anything. But Brian Stelter was tweeting out stuff yesterday saying, well, ratings aren't down tremendously.

Ratings are doing fine. Look, the Monday night football was up 3%. Well, I debunked that yesterday. I told you why. Because people tuned in at the beginning to see if the Cowboys would kneel. They did. They were really pissed off as they booed the Cowboys.

And then they promptly tuned out afterwards. Folks, NFL ratings are down. They are down 11%. Remember how statistics work, Joe. How many times do I got to go over this on the show? Statistics work in the aggregate. The more robust your sample size, the more robust the result. If you want to detect the effect of a drug in a population,

you don't detect the effect of a drug and experiment on one person. You experiment on the largest group of people you can reasonably gather that would be a representative of the population. Therefore, the results of that drug will be more, if they are in fact positive, will be applicable to the greater population. It's the whole science of a sample size.

Why am I saying this? Because when you expand the NFL ratings to as many games as they can, and to be fair, this Nielsen rating that they're down 11%, it's not every game. But it's the largest sample size we have yet. Remember, Joe, for liberals who are having a tough time with this, including Stelter, the larger the sample size, the more robust the result. Okay? Science.

Try it sometime. The biggest sample size we have thus far, NFL ratings down 11%. They lost 2 million viewers. Again, liberals are running for the hills on this. Oh, they were up 0.3%. Okay, I'll take it a lot. If you're a conservative and you're looking to boycott the NFL, an 11% decline overall beats out a 3% bump in one game

where people were probably again only tuning in because they wanted to see what the cowboys would do yeah here's another point liberals are running from why they're in a panic on this direct tv which has the nfl sunday ticket package i don't have direct tv i have compcast but direct tv has a service you can purchase it on your direct tv and you will get access to all the NFL games, like a season pass, where if you're not in that market, I'm in the Miami Dolphins market down here in southern Florida. You can watch, say, the Raider games, the Giant games, whatever you see fit. People were calling DirecTV. I tweeted out the story yesterday, by the way.

It's on my Twitter account from the wall street journal people were calling direct tv in droves requesting a cancellation of the nfl season ticket package to the point where direct tv was forced to respond and is now offering customers a rebate on said nfl sunday ticket package because so many people are calling in to request it again man don't let this get in the way of your argument liberals that this is a great move man they're they're talking so now they're they're moving on with their talking point now there's another piece at the la times today um that's um drudge has on his home page and by the way these a lot of these articles the ap article and other ones i will put in the show notes always available at bongino.com and thanks to everyone who's been subscribing to my email list at Bongino.com.

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But what are you, what was I going to say? Oh, the DirecTV, here's the new argument for them. On the DirecTV, the fans tuning out and the 85% of the people

think you should stand. The new argument now in the LA Times piece is that Trump is divisive and this is Trump's fault. In other words, like, a fourth grade approach like, you started it, think you should sit in a corner with a dunce cap on. The LA Times piece is ridiculous.

This Trump had nothing to do with Colin Kaepernick kneeling. Colin Kaepernick started this debate based on his premise that police are hunting black people and the police brutality is rampant. Now, we're going to debunk this in a minute. Don't go anywhere. I've got some terrific stuff by Jason Reilly and Heather McDonald.

And on tomorrow's show, I'm going to dig in as well to a Washington Times piece about police use of force incidents. They're just making all of this up, folks. But again, the new debate is that Trump is, in fact, divisive, and he's the one doing this. Now, folks, here's what's really going on. triangle of stupidity, Hollywood, academia, and the media, which really controls the popular message that gets out there, has for so long crapped all over the country, conservatives, Republicans, working class men and women, anyone who happens to be outside of a minority group. They have done this for so long, but it's become accepted. It is supposed to be the new normal.

This is supposed to be standard accepted thinking. This is supposed to be standard accepted thinking. Again, returning to my premise, liberalism is a fringe position that only works because they make you believe it's widely accepted and therefore you're afraid to speak out against it. I've used this analogy of a cocktail party before. You're at the cocktail party. You've been told by Hollywood academics and the media that men should be in the women's room. You don't know the people at the cocktail party. You're talking to four, five, six guys that you've never met before. Your wife's talking to a couple ladies over in the corner over there.

You do not want to say anything because you're afraid of what they think. Meanwhile, everybody else is saying the same thing. But they all know that men in the women's room and that police are hunting black people is nonsense. But they're all afraid to say it because they're like, well, I don't know.

Has this guy been indoctrinated by Hollywood, the media, or academia? So this whole thing that Trump is divisive and Trump started this as a response to one thing.

Trump's not taking it anymore. Trump is the first Republican, maybe since Reagan. And I'm not comparing the two. That's always a bit disingenuous. Obviously, they had completely different ideological bedrocks they built their political homes on. But I would argue Trump is the first Republican since Reagan to just flip off and give a double-barreled middle finger to the Iron Triangle, to Hollywood media and academia. He just doesn't care what you say. So what's the response by the media to try to bully him into submission?

Basically, what the media, Hollywood, and academia is trying to do to Trump is say, wait, wait, wait. We've been calling you guys racist for years. You're supposed to accept this, Joe. Yeah. This is what you do. You're conservatives. We call you racist, and you guys agree and apologize. Yeah, we're deplorable.

Yeah. We're deplorable. You're racist, transphobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, phobophobic, phobophilic. You get the point. Yeah. You're supposed to accept this. When Trump stands up and gives the double-barreled middle finger and goes, no, you guys are the sons of bitches.

That's what he said. Boom. You guys, not us. Boom is right. The media is like, what do we do now? Now all of a sudden, to go back to the cocktail party analogy, now all of a sudden there's a guy with a big, bold personality at the cocktail party who goes, screw that, mention being in a women's room. And everybody's like, yeah, all right, I'm with this dude.

The media's freaking out. The media's the cocktail party host and they're freaking out. They're like, shh, everybody quiet, get that guy out of here right now. This is what they're like everybody quiet get that guy out of here right now this is what they're afraid of now they're doubling down on panic like the cocktail party host when someone speaks out like trump the cocktail party host is in a meltdown and i'm seeing it because i watch a couple twitter accounts one of them is i mean seriously, this guy's a moron. No, I mean, like this guy's really, he's a PhD candidate, which if this doesn't discredit academics in general, nothing else will.

There's a guy on Twitter, this guy, Jesse Ben, who is known for saying some of the dumbest, I mean, if you had a catalog of the dumbest tweets in the history of social media, this guy may have three out of the top 10. This guy is an intellectual loser of the highest order and whoever, who's ever giving this guy a PhD, if he's doing a dissertation and you're, you're the, on this board where he's going to have to defend it. You, I mean, you should just pull up this guy's Twitter account. It is hilarity on steroids. Tragically, though, because I'm convinced this guy,

although he's really a loser and an intellectual lightweight, I'm convinced this guy actually believes his nonsense. Now, why would I go so far as to call a guy a loser? Because the showing of the ass has gotten worse. Yes. He has a piece of the Huffington Post. I'm not putting this in the show notes. I'm sorry.

I had to click on it. I had to click on it to show you what's going on, how the liberals are panicking. Folks, they're legitimately panicking right now. Because this NFL thing is not working out for them as planned. I gave you the data. Fans don't like it. America doesn't like it. People aren't watching. And they're canceling their subscriptions. Those are hard numbers I gave you. The left can't refute those

hard numbers. So now they have to double down and the cocktail party hostess, the media, has to scream really loud to get that guy out of the cocktail party before he convinces other people that the emperor has no clothes so jesse ben's premise in this huffington post piece is that the white athletes who remain standing during the national i'm not making this up folks that they are in fact white supremacists will you come on no no no i won't because this is real i i know i i know it's hard to believe this is real, but this guy, he really believes this, that if you are now a white athlete that stands and honors our flag, that you are in fact a white supremacist.

Now, listen. Wow. The only reason I quote or cite this guy's piece, I should say, to be more precise, in this show today, is because, yeah, you may say, well, you just called him a loser and a moron, which he is. Well, why would you talk about him? Because the far left, not Democrats, I mean this,

the far left is infested with intellectual lightweights, morons, and losers who do their social media account have influence they didn't have 30 or 40 years ago yeah you could not unless you published a piece in a major newspaper the new york times back then the washington post whatever it may may have been the chicago trib the chances of people reading an imbecile like jesse ben stuff because the guy really is a moron where i mean i don't know any other way to talk about the guy. Calling people white supremacists for standing for the answer. If that is not an exemplar of a guy who has an empty cranium, I don't know what is.

But this is a dangerous guy. Keep in mind, I'm not suggesting any kind of speech to President of America. I respect his right to say it. I want to be crystal clear on that. I absolutely respect his big R right to be a moron. The problem is people read this and they start to buy into the nonsense.

Now, again, just going back to yesterday's show, this was the genius, the four-dimensional chess game. In this case, I don't want to over, you know, let's not get hyperbolic about how great Trump is all the times i'm talking in this specific case of the nfl this is the four-dimensional chess and the strategic beauty of what trump did he has now forced the cocktail party person to acknowledge the fact that the people at the cocktail party think they're crazy in other words the media has to acknowledge the fact that the public is now starting to

realize that liberals are all nuts. But now they have to double down because Joe, man, I'm really proud of myself how I got through this. I thought I would lose myself because I have so much to talk about on this. Yeah. Self-praise things. It really does. I shouldn't have said that.

But I really love this topic. Grievance politics has nowhere else to go. I did a book signing last night in Vero Beach at the Vero Beach Book Center. Thanks for having me. It went really well. Very well attended. Sold a lot of books.

And a guy asked me a question, even though it was about my book, which is about the Secret Service, a guy asked me a political question basically about grievance politics. And this grievance politics idea, in other words, that you should be constantly angry at the United States,

kneel at the flag, disrespect the country, apologize for the United States. Like Barack Obama did grievance. Politics has nowhere else to go when there's nothing to grieve. So when you're the cocktail party host at a cocktail party where everybody went in afraid to talk about things like, Hey,

I'm kind of patriotic. And then all of a sudden that brash guy walks in the donald trump goes be proud and those sons of bitches should stand at the at the flag everybody's like yeah all of a sudden the cocktail party sees their lose the cocktail party host sees they're losing control they have to get it back and the only way to do it is to double down on like no no, no, America really, really sucks. Like let me, slavery, racism, Jim Crow. Ah, they try everything. White supremacy. You're all Nazis. They have nowhere else to go. There's no way to dial that back. When your entire agenda is built around the fact that America is a hostile place and therefore you should vote for us as liberals we will save you

from the hostility there is no dialing that back you have to double down and you have to be Jesse Benjo and you have to say now it's not only cool to kneel and substantive to kneel and disrespect the American flag now the people who don't kneel are in fact white supremacists in other words the people the people at the party, when the Trump guy walks in and goes, you know what? Those people are sons of bitches. They should get up at the at the playing of the national anthem. And everybody goes, yeah, yeah. Now, all of a sudden, the cocktail party host goes has says to the people who are joining in. You you you're a white supremacist to nowing everybody's terrified and gets back to their normal silence.

Folks, you understand why I've spent three days on this now? This sums up things I have been telling you since we started this show in my basement two years ago. show in my basement two years ago. Liberalism is a fringe nut job position that thrives on the fear at the cocktail party of anybody speaking up. The minute someone speaks up and people start to join in, liberalism is gone. It's wiped out because it's not based in reality. Now, I'm going to get to that in a second. I'm going to show you, I'm going to get to that in a second. I'm going to discuss a couple pieces. Let me pull them up on my smartphone. Sorry if I'm a little slow on the switch on this stuff.

It's okay. I'll make another bacon, lettuce, and dumb sandwich for Jesse here. No, listen. There's a video out there, and this is from what I hear, this video. It's from a friend of mine. I don't have the video because I've tried relentlessly to grab it on YouTube. But it's a video about what they call the first follower. Do you ever hear about this effect?

I bring this up in relationship to the cocktail party argument because it's not the guy who walks in, the Donald Trump that breaks everything up and screams, Get those sons of bitches off their knees. That's really the game changer. I know it. I mean, he was in the case of bringing it up. It's the first follower effect. And just quickly on this, there's a YouTube video out there,

this guy in a park. It's a real video, by the way. It's not like made up or anything. And I heard that the CIA used to use this to teach their agents how to basically get people to believe things and stuff. I don't know if it's true or not, but the guy who told me is a pretty reputable dude.

The video is this guy, he goes into a park and he starts dancing. And I mean, dancing like in a really weird kind of way. And you know, people are looking at him and they're like, okay, is this guy crazy? Like, what is he doing? I mean, he's flailing his arms around. I'm not talking about dancing like, you know,

like Ricky Martin to live in the, what is it? La Vida Loca. I mean, the guy's dancing like he's nuts. People for about two or three minutes are watching this guy, and they're looking at him in puzzled disbelief. And then all of a sudden, they start to join in. And then all of a sudden, it becomes a pack of people doing this stuff. And the premise of the YouTube video, and the way it's used to propagandize people, which the left does, is it's not the guy dancing.

It's the first follower who gets up who really kind of breaks the dam. You get what I'm saying, Joe? Yeah. Because one guy eventually gets up and starts like, hey, this is cool. I'm going to dance with this guy. And then people are like, okay, it's socially acceptable. That has been, again, the genius of Donald Trump is the first follower effect. Again, the genius of Donald Trump is the first follower effect.

And I would argue that the first follower were disgruntled Republicans who were tired of the Republican Party. As they started to leave the party in mass and follow this guy, a revolution has started to happen where people in mass are giving the media the middle finger. And that's what's going on right now. All right. I'm going to get to this date in a second. I'm not going to be able to read the exact thing because my phone just crapped out on me completely. I hope it didn't break. I don't want to get an iPhone X this soon. But today's show brought to you by our friends at My Patriot Supply.

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There's no way for me to be in any way objective about it, but I do a really good job updating my website. My wife does, thanks to her. I shouldn't say me, but I put articles up there that I think really matter. And I hunt these things down all over the internet. Well, Heather McDonald has a really amazing piece, and so does Jason Reilly. And Jason Reilly, the Wall Street Journal, writes a piece from a different perspective, Joe. The piece is actually titled, which may turn you off at first. I used to sit for the National Anthem, too. But Jason Reilly happens to be black, by the way. It doesn't matter to me, but matters to the left that loves identity politics. He is a conservative.

He writes for the Wall Street Journal, but he used to sit for the National Anthem for a different reason, and I wasn't aware of this. He was a Jehovah's Witness, and I'll be honest with you, when I don't know,

I don't know. I didn't, I did not know that Jehovah's Witnesses do not stand for the National Anthem. Apparently, they consider it idolatry,

and they don't, they don't, so that's fine. I, you know, I don't, I didn't know that. But it's an interesting perspective. Now, why am I citing these two pieces? Well, for a couple of reasons. This entire protest, which, as I said in Monday's show, has overtaken its cause, is losing, is losing, it's not gaining steam like liberals want you to believe, because nobody can tell you what the cause is losing is losing it's not gaining steam like liberals want you to believe because nobody can tell you what the cause is but the cause started as a protest against police

brutality and so-called you know systemic oppression yeah now in riley's piece he goes into in pretty well let me talk about mcdonald's piece first because this is important mcdonald's piece heather mcdonald who's done amazing work, she wrote a book called The War on Cops. McDonald's piece, she cites some FBI statistics that are really profound. And the FBI statistics point to the fact that who is real? Folks, this is a very sincere question. This is not, as the left would say, race baiting. You're race baiting by ignoring this stuff. If the concern is systemic oppression, right, which is what the left says this is about, Joe, the NFL, and the mistreatment of black men and the murdering of black men and the hunting of black men by brutal, out-of-control cops, I would expect, and I'm just asking you to be reasonable here, that you would be able to produce facts and data

that would indicate that this is in fact happening. That black men are being killed by packs of cops out there hunting you down and that the numbers would back up these assertions. That's not the case. McDonald's says very clearly the people who are killing, when you look at the statistics show, black men and women are in fact largely black men and women. The data is conclusive.

Now, what's more disturbing about this, and that's not the number I wanted to point out to you. Sadly, and I do mean sadly, that's not surprising to anyone who's done their homework on this you're like oh yeah we already knew that chicago washington dc you know struggling inner cities you know yeah baltimore like that's not it's not a surprise and anyone who's seen the data that's not sadly not surprising either but the number mcdonald points out is that 900 more black men and women have been killed this year according to more than credible statistics. And you can read the piece yourself. It's in the show notes today than in the year prior.

And last year had a bump of I think it was 400 people last year, 400 black men and women killed more than the year before that. Now, her premise on the piece, and this is her her opinion but this is backed up based on some some more than enough uh anecdotal data i've heard from cop friends of mine she believes this is due to the ferguson effect which the ferguson effect is very simply after the ferguson event with michael brown with the nonsense hands up don't shoot narrative that did not happen it was completely fabricated as a myth and a lie that after that, police saw that they were the ones that are being targeted by the communities, by especially people want to hustle the race issue. So police in turn backed off.

Here's what the Ferguson effect is in reality. And McDonald describes it pretty well, but I'll just give you the Reader's Digest version of it. Friends of mine who are cops, the Reader's Digest version of it. Friends of mine who are cops, who engaged in the past in discretionary police action. So in other words, Joe, they weren't called out to a radio run. You're driving around. I used to be, when I was a cop, I was 7'5 king.

I was in the sector car. The radio run is when Central sends you out to a job. You have to answer it. They'd say, 7'5 king, we got a missing child at whatever, you know, 220 Van Sindren. And you'd go and you have to go. You can't just say, oh, no thanks. It's not the way policing works.

That's a non-discretionary police action, okay? A discretionary police action would be, you're on the road to 2020 Van Sindren in your car and a guy on the side of the road looks like he may be getting into a fight with someone. There's a couple people waving you down. I'm telling you what I've heard from cops. I'm not judging anyone. I'm putting the information out there for you to digest.

If you are a liberal and you believe this isn't happening, whatever, man. Stay blind. That's not my problem. That's yours. The cop friends of mine I've talked to said the cops are driving right past it. Nobody called the cops. You didn't dial 911. I'm not going to bother. Is it because they, you know, they're racist and they're hunting black people? Does that make any sense? If you were hunting black people, you would stop to engage in this use of force situation, Joe, would you not? It, right. It's actually the exact

opposite happening. And the reason you're seeing the Ferguson effect or an increase in crime is because these discretionary police actions, cops sees a guy out of the corner of his eye, jump a turnstile. I'm going to stop this guy. His friend's going to put me on YouTube. I'm going to go end up going to jail for harassing this guy. They just letting it go so then what happens the the police car keeps going the guys get in a fight one guy pulls out a gun shoots the other guy the statistics are are are inarguable they are inarguable only people looking to misdirect you would argue otherwise black men and women are dying precisely for the opposite reason of the protest the protest joe and the nfl started with this idea that police were hunting black men it

is the exact opposite the numbers say an exact opposite case that is the large number of black men and women who are murdered are murdered by other black men and women i'm sorry that that's an uncomfortable number for you not by cops and cops i tragically ironically joe are the ones that can stop this rampage and now in fact are dialing back policing which is leading to more black men being killed again i'm going to leave this topic here because I go on about this all day because it so pisses me off. It is not that liberals are not helping black men here. It is that liberals, through their kook, anti-American, police-or-hunting black men position, and their media academic and Hollywood allies that are promoting this propaganda, are actually getting more black men killed.

But don't let that get in the way of a good argument, Libs. Now, in the Jason Reilly piece, phone's still crapped out, by the way, which is amazing. It's like, what the heck just happened? Like an EMP attack just happened in Florida and I missed something? Because we're still recording, no problem. Yeah, we're recording, yeah. In the Reilly piece, he talks about data on use of force incidents.

Now, I'll put this piece in the show notes. I want to go into it a little bit tomorrow, so I'll tweet it out today. And if it's not in the show notes today, it'll be there tomorrow. But a Harvard study they did on use of force incidents, which shows, again, that this idea that police are hunting black men is just not true. I'm just going to give you a quick thing today because I have so many other stories I want to get to today. Harvard study. not true i'm just going to give you a quick thing today i want because i got a i have so many other stories i want to get to today um uh harvard study harvard joe uh last time i checked that a bastion of right-wing conservative values did a study published in the national bureau of economic research they they uh they looked at thousands of incidents of police use of force scenarios and found let me just quote here that these uh police officers were no more likely to shoot non-whites than whites after factoring in

external circumstances, extenuating circumstances, excuse me. Again, Libs, don't let this get in the way of your protest that black men are being hunted by cops, despite the fact that you pushing that narrative is actually causing more black men or at a minimum correlationally to be killed and murdered in the streets that, you know, it's just, it's sick. It's just pissing me off, man.

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a Republican candidate for the United States Senate, was in a runoff last night with the establishment favorite Luther Strange, the sitting United States senator from Alabama. Roy Moore won in a rout. Not surprising to me. Again, I did a show on this three weeks ago where I said he would win by double digits. And he did.

He won by 11 points. We're getting good at the prediction game, by the way. We're on a roll lately. So the polling was obvious. I'm being a little dramatic. The polling was obvious that Moore was going to crush this guy, Luther Strange. Again, they were both Republicans. They were in a runoff.

And I just wanted to kind of reiterate a point I'd made a while ago. Liberals live in a bubble, folks. And in the liberal Hollywood academia media bubble, you have to understand. I saw this when I was a Secret Service agent, especially in the Obama White House. You have to understand, I saw this when I was a Secret Service agent, especially in the Obama White House. Liberals see their political and ideological opponents as repulsive, evil people, not people with repulsive ideas. There's a big difference, Joe. Whereas guys like you and I will have a conversation with someone who's, I have neighbors who are liberals.

Sure. I have zero problem at all whatsoever conversing with them, hanging out with them, none. I mean, honestly, it never even occurred to me to think otherwise. Liberals believe you are evil people, not people with evil ideas. Why am I bringing this up in regards to the Roy Moore case? Because the liberal bubble is reinforced

by the Iron Triangle, Hollywood media, and academia. So when you're surrounded all day by people of like mind, America sucks, police are hunting black people, men should be in the women's room, and that's all you're hearing all day. You are never hearing the alternative perspective, and you're shocked when it happens. You think you're winning. Why do you think you're winning? Because the sample size of people you've surrounded yourself with, Joe, reaffirm your ideas every time you open your

mouth. You've never been to another cocktail party. The Roy Moore victory last night, though, is evidence of a phenomenon I discussed a few weeks ago. More evidence that liberals are winning the culture war because they own Hollywood, the media and academia. And because they've managed to get people to believe in many circumstances that

fringe ideas are in fact accepted by the masses and they do it through their propaganda and gaslighting in the media, but where they're losing folks, you can win the culture wars. That's terrific for you. The problem is if it's not reinforced by some political power, are you really winning? Liberals are being wiped out everywhere. Roy Moore, just to be clear on who Roy Moore is and why Roy Moore, despite the endorsement by Donald Trump of his opponent. endorsement by Donald Trump of his opponent. Roy Moore was told as an Alabama Supreme Court justice, he was told that they had to take the Ten Commandments down from government property. He basically flipped them off and gave them the middle finger. And liberals, here's the comical thing. Liberals thought they won. This guy's off the bench. Look at what we did. They were all celebrating with their bespectacled bowtie wearing foie gras cocktail parties. By the way, can you toughen up a little bit, liberals? The

pajama boy look isn't working. Every liberal I see, it's like, can he get in a gym or something? Gosh. But they sit around with their bespectacled look and their bowties and they're like, oh, we got that Roy Moore. Did you? Did you really? Because Roy Moore sitting in the U.S. Senate as of December 15th, when the general election occurs, I assure you, he's not going to lose this race in Alabama. You really get him? You sure about that? Did you really get that? Was it Kim Davis in Kentucky, the court clerk who wouldn't sign a marriage certificate? You really get her? I know you celebrate it. I read Jesse Ben's stuff and I read the Huffington Post and I read these,

I read the accounts. Joe, they celebrate it. This is why I read. They think they won. Did you really win? The cultural backlash is happening at the voting booth. It is not happening

in the culture at large. Liberals, you will never, conservatives will not win with Hollywood, the media, and academia. They won't. But the reason we win in the voting booth show is because it's not the cocktail party.

It's secret. It doesn't matter what other people at the cocktail party think and if they agree with you or not. Because as you go to get a drink at the cocktail party, you go in a booth and you make your own drink and you don't have to worry if people are judging you or not. Because as you go to get a drink at the cocktail party, you go in a booth and you make your own drink. And you don't have to worry if people are judging you or not.

I want a appletini. But you're a 225-pound 6'1 MMA fighter. You should be drinking hard vodka. You're in the booth and drinking. Nobody cares. Nobody's going to see you. You can't be judged. The same thing is happening in a voting booth.

It is a secret ballot. Same thing is happening in a voting booth. It is a secret ballot. This should prove to you liberals another example of Roy Moore's victory, by the way, which I think ironically advances the Trump agenda, even though Trump had endorsed his opponent. Yeah, me too. Yeah, because he was the anti-establishment guy. You think you're winning, but you're never going to get the American people to accept

fringe ideas until you recognize that American people to accept fringe ideas until you recognize that they are, in fact, fringe ideas, and they won't do it. They really believe this is mainstream stuff. Folks, it's sick. All right, listen, tomorrow's show, I'm sorry I spent a lot of time in this game, but it's really, really important. This stuff matters.

This NFL fight is not about the NFL. It is about a bigger clash of ideologies that really sums up from 30,000 feet the fight going on in America right now and why it's worth fighting. I want to talk about LeBron James tomorrow. The tax proposal that's coming out today. And maybe a story on Bitcoin, too. I'd be really careful on Bitcoin. I'm not an expert in cryptocurrency.

I'm not telling you not to invest in it. But, folks, if I've ever seen a bubble in my lifetime, I would tell you this about any other investment. Bottom line is investments are supposed to represent value, right? I'm not saying there's no value there. I think blockchain is a terrific technology. I did a show on this a while ago. But my

gosh, it is exploding. I would just be very cautious right now. So I'll talk about it. I'll put a piece in the show notes about that today. You can take a look and maybe we'll get to it tomorrow. But don't miss tomorrow's show. Thanks for all the reviews on iTunes. iTunes are well over 500. I really appreciate it.

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