Retconning Kamala & Bibi's address (07-24-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] All right, let me quickly define a term for you. And I've mentioned this term before. I don't know if I've ever defined it. So let me do that now. The term for short is called retcon. And it stands for retroactive continuity. All right, retroactive continuity. In media world, like TV shows, movies and stuff, there are a lot of

[00:00:58] times there are people whose job is specifically a thing called continuity. And it can mean a couple different things. But generally speaking, it's to make sure that things line up correctly. Continuity, right? Whether you're doing like, for example, remember the old Starbucks cup that was in the Game of Thrones episode? Right? It showed up like somebody was drinking a Starbucks, they set it down on a table, and then they recorded and not

[00:01:28] nobody noticed it. And then it got into the final show. And Game of Thrones is, you know, some like medieval setting kind of fantasy world. They don't have Starbucks, okay? They don't even have running water. So continuity problem. Continuity is also, um, if you're doing a series of, uh, of shows or movies or books, and you're on, you know, episode 12 in season four,

[00:01:56] and you change some key fact of one of your character's origin stories, for example. Right? That's called retconning. Retroactive continuity. Retcon. And it is a literary device that is sometimes used on purpose, where facts in the world of a fictional work that were established through earlier versions,

[00:02:26] versions of the narrative, but then you either adjust them, uh, you add to them, uh, maybe you just completely ignore them, or you even contradict them in a later episode or book or a sequel or whatever. Right? Retroactive continuity. Things didn't line up. And whether it's intentional or unintentional or whatever, it just means that your later episodes don't, uh, comply or adhere to facts that you originally put into the story.

[00:02:59] That's what we're seeing right now. Okay? That is what we are seeing right now. Retconning. It is a form of gaslighting when done by media and politicians. No, no, no. I don't know what you're talking about. Kamala Harris has always been a fantastic candidate. Right? Retconning. Oh, no, no. These comments that she made, these are fantastic comments. Oh, that coconut story was awesome. Right?

[00:03:27] That's what, that's what, that's one of the, where she, where she's telling the story about her grandmother. And you're like, Oh, would you fall out of a coconut tree or something like that? Like that's being now turned into something cool.

[00:03:37] By all of the, by all of the, the TikTokers. They're retconning. They're cleaning up her previously understood narrative that we all knew because we all watched her for the last, what, since 2019, for the last five years.

[00:03:54] And even before that, when she was attorney general, right? When she was a local prosecutor, when she was a U S Senator, she has a history. She has a body of work. We know what it is. We know how she has answered questions. We know how she fumbles for response.

[00:04:10] I said yesterday, she is the kid that didn't read the book that get ups in front of the class or gets up in front of the class and then delivers some sort of oral report on a book.

[00:04:20] She didn't read and think she's totally nailing this. Meanwhile, everybody else is like, you totally didn't read this book. It's so obvious.

[00:04:29] Retcon. Keep that in mind. Okay. So first I'm going to start with this occurred this morning on Fox and friends.

[00:04:38] I'm just going to play the sound bite. I'm not going to give you any kind of, uh, uh, any kind of nothing. I'm not going to try to influence you one way or the other.

[00:04:46] Just listen to this exchange. The, the guy you're going to hear talking at length will be Brian Kilmeade. All right.

[00:04:55] And see if you can figure out what part of his statement has now become the latest outrage.

[00:05:04] I've also, uh, I've talked about like the Salem witchification of America where there's like this giant wheel of outrage and you just spin it and then it just lands on somebody and they become the witch.

[00:05:14] And then you got to, you know, throw them in the water, see if they float. Okay. So here is the clip.

[00:05:19] Obviously you compare him to, uh, president Biden who was a muddling way through speeches. People, uh, no, couldn't go more than 15 minutes.

[00:05:28] She's very good on the prompt and no one even doubted that. Uh, she had 3000 people there. Why are they there? A lot of them have to do with, Hey, I'm a Democrat.

[00:05:35] I thought we were going to go down in flames. Now we have a shot. But the problem with Kamala Harris, number one, she has not had a record exploited heavily because people thought and marginalized her.

[00:05:44] Uh, even in the democratic party, they said, wow, what a bad choice Joe Biden made. Number two is, uh, she hasn't sat down for an interview when she sits down in an interview and says, do you want to, uh, defund ice?

[00:05:56] Where do you stand on, uh, Medicare for all? Where? Why didn't you show up? The most recent decision already, you got a question. She will not show up for the prime ministers, uh, joint session of Congress today.

[00:06:08] She'd rather address in the summer, a sorority, a college sorority, like she can't get out of that.

[00:06:15] Did you hear it? I'll back up. It's at the end.

[00:06:24] Prime ministers, uh, joint session of Congress today. She'd rather address in the summer, a sorority, a college sorority, like she can't get out of that.

[00:06:37] The campaign Democrats media, but I repeat myself, they're attacking Brian Kilmeade, Jamie Harrison, Democrat national committee chairman from South Carolina is attacking, uh, Brian Kilmeade for being a racist.

[00:06:58] I'll play it. I'll play it again. Last time.

[00:07:01] Not show up for the prime ministers, uh, joint session of Congress today. She'd rather address in the summer, a sorority, a college sorority, like she can't get out of that.

[00:07:12] They're saying that he said a colored sorority when he clearly said, and I mean, I hear it.

[00:07:23] I think it's pretty clear. He's talking about it being summer and she's speaking in front of a sorority, a college sorority. I'll play it again.

[00:07:33] Now that you, now that you know the, what the outrage is over.

[00:07:37] Why didn't you show up? The most recent decision already, you got a question.

[00:07:41] She will not show up for the prime ministers, uh, joint session of Congress today.

[00:07:45] She'd rather address in the summer, a sorority, a college sorority, like context clues here.

[00:07:55] Dog whistle here in people context clues in the summer.

[00:07:58] He says it twice.

[00:08:00] And then he points out it's a college sorority point being it's the summer.

[00:08:08] Why is she going to a college sorority in the summer to do this speech?

[00:08:17] I know she was AKA.

[00:08:18] That was the, uh, alpha kappa alpha sorority.

[00:08:22] See, but AKA is a black sorority.

[00:08:27] I believe they are at Winthrop.

[00:08:29] I think they were the sorority or, you know, there are several large, they're called, what do they call them?

[00:08:33] Like the divine nine or divine seven or something.

[00:08:35] I mean, there's, uh, like a phi a alpha alpha phi alpha is one of them as a black fraternity.

[00:08:40] There were, there were a couple of different of these fraternities on the campus at Winthrop.

[00:08:45] And, um, I was in a fraternity at Winthrop.

[00:08:48] Uh, and like, so that was part of Greek life.

[00:08:52] There were these different fraternities.

[00:08:53] We were not white for, I mean, my fraternity had black people in it.

[00:08:56] Their fraternities, I don't think had white people in it, but there we, we would do stuff as,

[00:09:00] you know, quote, Greek organizations.

[00:09:02] Um, to me, he's clearly saying college sorority because he points out that it's the summertime,

[00:09:11] but this is what the Democrats have now, dare I say, seized upon.

[00:09:15] Dare I say they are pouncing just a little bit, pouncing on this comment saying that this is racist.

[00:09:24] He's a racist.

[00:09:25] He called it a colored sorority.

[00:09:33] This is once again, gaslighting, right?

[00:09:38] Gaslighting, which by the way, comes from the old movie where the, you know, character,

[00:09:43] the guy was trying to convince his wife that she was crazy and he would keep adjusting the lights in the house

[00:09:48] that were run off of gas and he would turn the gas lights up and down, up and down,

[00:09:52] and then deny that it was happening, he would, he would make her question her own sanity.

[00:09:56] And that's the point.

[00:09:57] These people are, will, they will lie to you about what you just heard somebody say.

[00:10:03] I mean, again, like, oh, no, that's a dog whistle, whatever.

[00:10:06] It's not like, that isn't even a dog whistle.

[00:10:08] If he said that, if he had actually said that, that's not even a dog whistle, right?

[00:10:12] Because who says that term except like 80 year old people, right?

[00:10:17] That grew up and that was the term that they were supposed to use.

[00:10:20] And then it changed my generation, Gen X, the best, the awesomest.

[00:10:23] Like we don't use that term.

[00:10:25] We've always used black.

[00:10:26] And then they tried, you know, then became African-American.

[00:10:28] So sometimes I use that term.

[00:10:31] But he, he clearly is talking about her avoiding a speech by Netanyahu at the Capitol

[00:10:39] because she's going to go speak to a sorority during the summer,

[00:10:43] a college sorority like she can't get out of that.

[00:10:45] That's what he said.

[00:10:46] Like she can't get out of that because it's summertime.

[00:10:50] Although I don't know if it's, if it's down south, like we go to college earlier.

[00:10:55] I don't know.

[00:10:55] I don't know what the schedules are up there.

[00:10:57] Like, cause up north, like we would go to school in like September.

[00:11:00] We would start in September and down here you start in August.

[00:11:03] Yeah.

[00:11:04] Good question to ask is when you hear that statement from Brian Kilmeade this morning,

[00:11:11] talking about how Kamala Harris is not attending the prime minister's speech in front of the joint session of Congress,

[00:11:18] which is occurring right now, actually.

[00:11:21] Instead, she went to a sorority in the summertime.

[00:11:25] She's going to speak at a college sorority in the summer.

[00:11:28] Like she can't get out of that.

[00:11:29] That's what he said.

[00:11:31] Why would leftists all hear instead of the word college, they think he said colored?

[00:11:39] Why did you hear that word?

[00:11:41] That's weird.

[00:11:43] Hmm.

[00:11:45] All right.

[00:11:45] Let me go over to Gina.

[00:11:46] Welcome to the show.

[00:11:47] Hi, Gina.

[00:11:49] Hey, how are you?

[00:11:50] Hey, I'm good.

[00:11:50] Thank you for taking my call.

[00:11:51] Yes, ma'am.

[00:11:53] So I'm not sure exactly what the gentleman said on Fox News.

[00:11:57] It does sound close to color, but it also could be college.

[00:12:01] But I just wanted to clarify why the vice president is, well, she chose to go to the college event.

[00:12:09] Instead, it's a national convention for one of the Divine Nine organizations.

[00:12:13] And because she's a fellow Divine Nine member, she's making her rounds to all of the conventions.

[00:12:19] So it would probably not be a smart move for her to skip out on this event.

[00:12:25] She scheduled the event and scheduled to meet.

[00:12:31] We understand things might happen, but I think that's why the convention only happens every two years.

[00:12:35] So if she doesn't talk to us nationally at this convention, she would miss out on the opportunity.

[00:12:41] So I just wanted to clarify that.

[00:12:43] How long is the convention?

[00:12:44] Do you know?

[00:12:46] Yes, it started on the opening ceremony.

[00:12:48] It was Monday.

[00:12:49] It ends Saturday.

[00:12:51] But her schedule probably doesn't permit her to, and our schedule doesn't either, that she, that would be the only time we could actually hear from her.

[00:13:01] So our schedules have to line up and then hers has to line up as well.

[00:13:04] Right.

[00:13:05] No, I totally get this.

[00:13:06] That was the only time.

[00:13:07] No, I totally get the scheduling component of it.

[00:13:09] I kind of feel like, though, the vice president of the United States probably could have gotten maybe some leeway on the scheduling.

[00:13:21] Probably.

[00:13:22] Yeah.

[00:13:22] Like, hey, you know what?

[00:13:24] We got like this foreign leader and the head of the Senate, the vice president is, you know, leader of the Senate.

[00:13:29] They always preside over foreign dignitaries that come to town and do this joint speech.

[00:13:33] This wasn't something that just popped up.

[00:13:35] Got it.

[00:13:35] So do you think that there's a, do you think there might be like a political benefit for her to not be at the speech?

[00:13:45] Yes, I think I also could.

[00:13:47] Yeah, probably.

[00:13:48] Yeah.

[00:13:48] But I think that was her decision and I don't think, I think that she can, I mean, how long is the prime minister supposed to be here?

[00:13:57] Just through like Friday, I believe he's meeting with Trump on Friday.

[00:14:01] Okay.

[00:14:02] So that's all I know.

[00:14:03] Like, that's the only reason I know he's here till Friday.

[00:14:05] So I appreciate the call, Gina.

[00:14:07] Thanks for the background info.

[00:14:08] Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is addressing the joint session of Congress.

[00:14:13] So go ahead and let's dip in.

[00:14:15] Well, I want to assure you, no matter what pressure is brought to bear, I will never allow that to happen.

[00:14:28] Lots of Democrats sitting on their hands.

[00:14:34] Oh, Rashida Tlaib is there.

[00:14:37] She's just tweeting something or texting.

[00:14:39] She's looking at her phone.

[00:14:41] The vast majority of Americans have not fallen for this Hamas propaganda.

[00:14:46] They continue to support Israel.

[00:14:47] And I want to say thank you, America, and thank you, senators and House members who continue to support us, continue to support Israel, continue to support the truth and see through the lies.

[00:14:59] But as for the minority that may have fallen for Hamas's cons job, I suggest you listen to Colonel John Spencer.

[00:15:09] John Spencer is head of urban warfare studies at West Point.

[00:15:12] He studied every major urban conflict.

[00:15:17] I was going to say in modern history.

[00:15:19] You corrected me.

[00:15:20] No, in history.

[00:15:23] Israel, he said, has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history and beyond what international law requires.

[00:15:40] Democrats not applauding that.

[00:15:46] Oh, Dan Goldman stood up, though.

[00:15:48] He applauded.

[00:15:51] Democrats from New York.

[00:15:52] That's why, despite all the lies you've heard, the war in Gaza has one of the lowest ratios of combatants to non-combatants casualties in the history of urban warfare.

[00:16:06] And you want to know where it's lowest in Gaza?

[00:16:09] It's lowest.

[00:16:11] In Rafah.

[00:16:13] In Rafah.

[00:16:15] Remember what so many people said?

[00:16:17] If Israel goes into Rafah, there will be thousands, maybe even tens of thousands of civilians killed.

[00:16:25] Well, last week, I went into Rafah.

[00:16:28] I visited our troops as they finished fighting Hamas's remaining terrorist battalions.

[00:16:34] I asked the commander there.

[00:16:37] How many terrorists did you take out in Rafah?

[00:16:40] He gave me an exact number.

[00:16:42] Twelve hundred and three.

[00:16:44] I asked him, how many civilians were killed?

[00:16:48] He said, prime minister, practically none.

[00:16:53] With the exception of a single incident, where shrapnel from a bomb hit a Hamas weapons depot and unintentionally killed two dozen people?

[00:17:02] The answer is practically none.

[00:17:05] You want to know why?

[00:17:07] Because Israel got the civilians out of harm's way, something people said we could never do.

[00:17:12] But we did it.

[00:17:13] These heroes here today, the heroic soldiers of Israel, should not be condemned for how they're conducting the war in Gaza.

[00:17:36] They should be commended for it.

[00:17:38] I want to thank all of you here today who forcefully opposed the false accusations of the ICC and stood up for the truth.

[00:18:02] These lies are not only libelous, they're downright dangerous.

[00:18:07] The ICC is trying to shackle Israel's hands and prevent us from defending ourselves.

[00:18:11] And if Israel's hands are tied, America is next.

[00:18:16] And I'll tell you what else is next.

[00:18:18] The ability of all democracies to fight terrorism will be imperiled.

[00:18:23] That's what's on the line.

[00:18:25] So let me assure you, the hands of the Jewish state will never be shackled.

[00:18:30] Israel will always defend itself.

[00:18:32] My friends, in the Middle East, Iran is virtually behind all the terrorism,

[00:18:58] all the turmoil, all the chaos, all the killing.

[00:19:03] And that should come as no surprise.

[00:19:06] When he founded the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini pledged,

[00:19:11] we will export our revolution to the entire world.

[00:19:15] We will export the Islamic revolution to the entire world.

[00:19:21] Now ask yourself, which country ultimately stands in the way of Iran's maniacal plans

[00:19:28] to impose radical Islam on the world?

[00:19:31] And the answer is clear.

[00:19:33] It's America, the guardian of Western civilization and the world's greatest power.

[00:19:38] It seems like Democrats like that line.

[00:19:48] It seems like they're all applauded.

[00:19:49] Well, that guy's texting.

[00:19:51] But most everybody's on their feet for that one.

[00:19:54] That's why Iran sees America as its greatest enemy.

[00:19:59] Last month, we heard a revealing comment,

[00:20:04] ostensibly about the war in Gaza, but about something else.

[00:20:08] It came from the foreign minister of Iran's proxy, Hezbollah.

[00:20:11] And he said this,

[00:20:13] This is not a war with Israel.

[00:20:16] Israel, he said, is merely a tool.

[00:20:19] The main war, the real war, is with America.

[00:20:24] Iran's regime has been fighting America from the moment it came to power.

[00:20:28] In 1979, it stormed the American embassy.

[00:20:32] It held scores of Americans hostage for 444 days.

[00:20:36] Since then, Iran's terrorist proxies have targeted America in the Middle East and beyond.

[00:20:43] In Beirut, they killed 241 U.S. servicemen.

[00:20:47] In Africa, they bombed American embassies.

[00:20:50] In Iraq, they supplied explosives to maim and kill thousands of American soldiers.

[00:20:56] In America, they actually sent death squads.

[00:21:02] They sent death squads here to murder a former Secretary of State and a former National Security Advisor.

[00:21:09] And as we recently learned, they even brazenly threatened to assassinate President Trump.

[00:21:14] But Iran understands that to truly challenge America, it must first conquer the Middle East.

[00:21:22] And for this, it uses its many proxies, including the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas.

[00:21:30] Yet in the heart of the Middle East, standing in Iran's way, is one proud pro-American democracy.

[00:21:37] My country, the state of Israel.

[00:21:39] Well, Fetterman's on his feet.

[00:21:49] And he's wearing a suit.

[00:21:50] All right.

[00:21:51] Good for him.

[00:21:52] All right.

[00:21:53] So that's a little bit of Benjamin Netanyahu's speech in front of the joint session of Congress,

[00:21:59] the joint meeting of the House and Senate.

[00:22:02] All right.

[00:22:02] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is addressing the joint meeting of Congress.

[00:22:07] It sounds like he's getting ready to wrap up his speech here.

[00:22:10] This is a fundamental thing that we have a right to demand and to receive a new generation of Palestinians

[00:22:24] Palestinians must no longer be taught to hate Jews, but rather to live in peace with us.

[00:22:36] Those twin words, demilitarization and deradicalization, those two concepts were applied to Germany and Japan

[00:22:44] after World War II.

[00:22:46] And that led to decades of peace, prosperity, and security.

[00:22:51] Following our victory, with the help of regional partners, the demilitarization and deradicalization of Gaza

[00:23:02] can also lead to a future of security, prosperity, and peace.

[00:23:07] That's my vision for Gaza.

[00:23:17] Now, here's my vision for the broader Middle East.

[00:23:22] It's also shaped in part by what we saw in the aftermath of World War II.

[00:23:29] After that war, America forged a security alliance in Europe to counter the growing Soviet threat.

[00:23:37] Likewise, America and Israel today can forge a security alliance in the Middle East to counter the growing Iranian threat.

[00:23:46] All countries that are at peace with Israel, and all those countries who will make peace with Israel,

[00:23:52] should be invited to join this alliance.

[00:23:55] We saw a glimpse of that potential alliance on April 14th.

[00:24:02] Led by the United States, more than half a dozen nations worked alongside Israel

[00:24:07] to help neutralize hundreds of missiles and drones launched by Iran against us.

[00:24:13] Thank you, President Biden, for bringing that coalition together.

[00:24:18] Oh, that got Democrats to stand up.

[00:24:23] They're applauding that.

[00:24:25] Well, not all the Democrats.

[00:24:28] The squads, not.

[00:24:31] The new alliance I envisioned would be a natural extension of the groundbreaking Abraham Accords.

[00:24:38] Those accords saw peace forged between Israel and four Arab countries,

[00:24:42] and they were supported by Republicans and Democrats alike.

[00:24:47] We could call...

[00:24:48] I have a name for this new alliance.

[00:24:53] Uh-oh.

[00:24:54] I think we should call it the Abraham Alliance.

[00:24:57] I want to thank President Trump for his leadership in brokering the historic Abraham Accords.

[00:25:10] Republicans like that.

[00:25:23] Americans, Israelis were relieved that President Trump emerged safe and sound from that dastardly attack on him,

[00:25:31] dastardly attack on American democracy.

[00:25:33] There is no room for political violence in democracies.

[00:25:42] All right, we'll have to leave it there.

[00:25:44] He did say, you know, Israel's enemies are America's enemies.

[00:25:47] Israel's fight is America's fight.

[00:25:50] And Israel's victory will be America's victory as well.

[00:25:55] He's asking for more of the military assistance and to have it, you know, freed up and arrive more quickly.

[00:26:03] He says if we get it more quickly, then this war will end more quickly.

[00:26:07] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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