The lies that are allowed to stand (09-11-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_01]: A couple of messages. We're going over the debate last night.

[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe the only debate, maybe the last debate that we ever see. It's possible.

[00:00:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And so Russ says, the way that we are doing debates is a waste of time. I'm not an expert

[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_01]: in really anything but I listen to WBT a lot and I read a lot on a lot of topics from the right

[00:00:52] [SPEAKER_01]: and the left and the center sources. I felt like I knew more about the topics than either candidate

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_01]: or the moderators. I think I could make their points better than either of them did. I see that

[00:01:04] [SPEAKER_01]: a lot in congressional hearings too. It's almost like they only know the most basic surface or

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_01]: even make-believe points and not much of substance. It feels like I'm watching them arguing over

[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_01]: stork delivery or under cabbage leaves is where babies come from versus discussing

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_01]: actual biological facts. Yeah, this is one. There was, I forget what it was called. There's a,

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_01]: there's, it's not a syndrome but like an effect or something that Michael Crichton

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_01]: identified and then named it. I think it's called like the Gelman effect or something like that.

[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And he named it after somebody who had said it which was, let's say you're an expert in a

[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_01]: let's say you are an expert in the beet field. You know a lot about beets and you open up the

[00:01:56] [SPEAKER_01]: newspaper and look at that. There's a big story about beets and beet farming and beet fields

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_01]: and you're reading it and you're like, oh my gosh, that's wrong. Oh, this is wrong too. This

[00:02:08] [SPEAKER_01]: other thing is wrong and you realize the reporter doesn't know what they're talking about as they're

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_01]: reporting on this story. You could cite all these problems in the report because you are an expert

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_01]: in beets. I don't know why you chose beets. I'm not here to judge your decision. I'm just saying

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_01]: you recognize there are a lot of problems in the article. You will then after realizing that

[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_01]: this published article is filled with errors, you will then turn the newspaper page and read

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_01]: another article and assume everything in it is correct because like reporters, they don't

[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_01]: have their own beets. I'm not talking about the vegetable at this point. I'm talking or is it a

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_01]: legume? I don't know. But I'm talking about like this is your beet, you cover this beet and

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_01]: that's you know you develop sources, you have a historical knowledge. That really is such a big

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_01]: part of being a beet reporter of whatever kind is that you remember the things that occurred in

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_01]: the past and it brings context to the current situation you may be facing or reporting on.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_01]: And that is really important in politics because politicians, you know, will change their views

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_01]: on things. In fact, this is kind of ironic in that there was a clip from 2020 I believe it was or 2019

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Kamala Harris on the debate stage with Joe Biden and Joe Biden is saying that he's not going to

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_01]: issue an executive order banning AR-15s. And Kamala Harris said she would. And Joe Biden

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_01]: keeps correcting her and pointing out that you can't do that because it's unconstitutional.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_01]: And you know who was the debate moderator for that? You know who was asking the question

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_01]: during that exchange? David Muir. And so when Kamala Harris is up there last night saying

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_01]: she's not taking anybody's guns, she's a gun owner herself, which by the way

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_01]: that's new information, but nobody thought to ask her what kind of gun? When did you buy the gun?

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Why did you purchase a firearm? Right? Nobody asked her. She just gets to say that and move on.

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_01]: But David Muir, the same anchor sitting at the desk last night, doesn't remember or chooses not

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_01]: to that Kamala Harris said she would do an executive order to start taking up AR-15s.

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_01]: And Joe Biden told her that's unconstitutional. He didn't remember that for some reason.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_01]: All right. I do have audio. I will get to let me get to the there was another hang on one more

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_01]: here. Message this was from Timoteo. He says, well, he wants me to focus the whole show on 9-11.

[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_01]: If instead it veers into post debate analysis, please no gaslighting today. Not that you ever

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_01]: would. And I have never heard you do so. But I have heard so many pundits post debate gaslighting

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_01]: about Trump's performance. It is sickening. Let's all be brutally honest with each other.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Trump got his butt handed to him last night because he let Kamala get to him.

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_01]: All he had to do was stay calm and he couldn't do it. Kamala was cool, calm and collective,

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_01]: which made all of her lies believable and made Trump look like a rabid dog. I'm still voting

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_01]: for Trump, but he was an embarrassment last night. And then he followed up by saying good opening at

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_01]: the beginning of the show. So. Yeah, I mean, I think I think beats our roots. OK, thank you.

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Right. OK, the gel man amnesia effect. Or is it gel man? Thank you, IKIFU.

[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_01]: People, I think it it's much like radio. People hear things they want to hear.

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_01]: I love Vince Coakley has a saying he's on, you know, from 10 to noon on WBT here. And Vince will

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_01]: say, do not hear. What I am not saying. And anybody who has done this job for any period of

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_01]: time knows exactly what that means. People will call in or write in and they'll they'll accuse me

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_01]: of saying something I didn't say, but they swear they heard it. They heard me say something that I

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_01]: know I didn't say, which, by the way, is one of the things that piece of advice I got a long time

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_01]: ago when I was first starting out as a as a host, when I was making the transition, as it were,

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I was getting the the newsroom blockers when I was moving from reporter to host. And John Hancock

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_01]: told me, just be yourself and, you know, don't ever make up positions or or or arguments,

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_01]: you know, just to stir the pot or anything like that. There's no need to do that.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And also, more importantly, your audience is going to is going to figure that out.

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_01]: You can't get anything by the audience. And that's why I kind of laugh. Not kind of. I do.

[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_01]: I laugh at leftists who attack me and claim that I'm only taking a position in order to, you know,

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_01]: get people to listen to the show or download the podcast, which, by the way, you could do

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_01]: at the Pete Callender show dot com totally free comes right to your smartphone or tablet every

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_01]: single day. Thank you very much. Anyway. If I if I were to be making up my philosophy or my

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_01]: opinions or my positions, I would forget what they all were. How could you keep them all straight?

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_01]: You would you could not. And the things that I say as I'm doing the show that. That stick in

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_01]: people's minds and they will come to me years later and they'll say, oh, remember when you said

[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_01]: some this, you know, this position is whatever. And I won't remember saying it because I talk a lot.

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Three hours a day minimum. And I can't remember everything that I've said, but I do know this,

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't say things that I don't believe because I would not be able to keep them all straight,

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't be able to remember them all. And then somebody would approach me at some remote and say,

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_01]: hey, you said this. And then, you know, a year ago, you said this other thing.

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_01]: And they're they're exactly opposite. So which is it? They catch you, they call you out. So it's

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_01]: just not it's just not good. It's not a it's not a good idea. I don't know how I got down this path.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_01]: But beats are roots. Thank you, Monica. Appreciate it.

[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_01]: So when I was a kid, my grandpa died with Alzheimer's. And before he died, my mom and

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_01]: my dad and all of us really helped take care of him as he got progressively worse.

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Forty years ago, there were no treatments and not much support for caregivers and family.

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Things are different today because of the work of so many people, including the Alzheimer's

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Association of Western North Carolina. It's a great organization with awesome people. They've

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_01]: got huge hearts. I've been a supporter for like 25 years. This cause means a lot to me.

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I participate in the annual walk to end Alzheimer's and I am leading a Charlotte team

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_01]: this year. It's called Pete's Pack. You can sign up and join the team and walk with me.

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_01]: It's on October 19th at Truist Field in Uptown. Sign up at ALZ.org slash walk and then just look

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_01]: for my team Pete's Pack. And there's also a link in the podcast description here. Also,

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be emceeing the Gastonia walk on October 5th. So make a team and join us

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_01]: or make a donation to help me hit my goal. I would really appreciate it. There are

[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_01]: a bunch of other walks around the Carolinas and you can go to ALZ.org for all of the dates and

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[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_01]: for families, for more time, for treatments? This is why I walk.

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_01]: I slaved over a hot microphone, actually a hot board to pull these soundbites. Actually,

[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_01]: let me play one. I'm going to play one right now because I think that this is,

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I think this is, this was one of my beefs. One of my beefs in the way that the moderators ran

[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_01]: the debate last night. The question to Harris was, do you support any restrictions on a woman's

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_01]: right to an abortion? Which note the assumption there, right? That there's an unfettered right

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_01]: to abortion, the right to abortion. Okay. Which I thought Dobbs did away with that quote,

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_01]: right to abortion. No? Okay. So does she support any restrictions? And Harris says,

[00:10:51] [SPEAKER_01]: I support reinstating the protections of Roe v Wade, which were actually like that they were

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_01]: changed under KCV Planned Parenthood. But she says this assuming that you don't know what she's

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_01]: about. And there's a whole precursor here where Trump starts talking about, well, I guess I should

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_03]: play that one first, but this one's a little bit longer, but here we have abortion in the ninth

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_03]: month. They even have, and you can look at the governor of West Virginia, the previous governor

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_03]: of West Virginia, not the current governor is doing an excellent job. He meant, but the governor

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_03]: before he said the baby will be born and we will decide what to do with the baby. In other words,

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_03]: we'll execute the baby. And that's why I did that because that predominates because they're

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_03]: radical. The Democrats are radical in that and her vice presidential pick, which I think it was a

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_03]: horrible pick by the way for our country, because he is really out of it. But her vice presidential

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_03]: pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. He also says execution after

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_03]: birth. It's execution, no longer abortion because the baby is born is okay. And that's not okay

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_03]: with me, hence the vote. But what I did is something for 52 years, they've been trying to

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_03]: get Roe v. Wade into the States and through the genius and heart and strength of six Supreme Court

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_03]: justices, we were able to do that. Now, I believe in the exceptions for rape, incest and life of

[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_03]: the mother. I believe strongly in it. Ronald Reagan did also. You hear that? I believe in

[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_01]: the exceptions. So he clearly states this and they don't care. It doesn't matter what he's saying.

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_01]: They have their lies. They're going to keep promoting 85 percent of Republicans do exceptions.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Very important. But we were able to get it. And now states are voting on it. And for the first

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_03]: time, you're going to see, look, this is an issue that's torn our country apart for 52 years.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Every legal scholar, every Democrat, every Republican, liberal conservative, they all

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_03]: wanted this issue to be brought back to the states where the people could vote.

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what happened. Dare I say democracy where where the people at the state level get

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_01]: to decide what the abortion law should be? And you can disagree with certain states and their

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_01]: abortion laws. They don't live in those states. Or if you live in the states, try to change the law.

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_03]: That's how democracy works. Happened now, Ohio, the vote was somewhat liberal. Kansas,

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_03]: the vote was somewhat liberal, much more liberal than people would have thought.

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_03]: But each individual state is voting. It's the vote of the people. Now it's not tied up in

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_03]: the federal government. I did a great service in doing it. It took courage to do it. And the

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Supreme Court had great courage in doing it. And I give tremendous credit to those six justices.

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_00]: There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it's born.

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Madam Vice President, I want to get your response to.

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's the way that they quote fact check, even though that's not true.

[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Did you? That's not true. You can do that. He's saying execute them because they're withholding

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_01]: care. You know who did that? Oh, it's who Trump said. Walls. Governor Tim Walls. And Trump is also

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_01]: correct when he talked about the Virginia governor's comments that got him all in all of

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_01]: the trouble. A 2015 Minnesota law said that the state requires to report whether abortions resulted

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_01]: in the live birth of a baby and what actions were taken to preserve the life of that baby.

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Due to the efforts by the state's Democratic governor, Tim Walls,

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Minnesota no longer keeps track of the born alive babies. Oh, and Tim Walls repealed the bipartisan

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_01]: measure stripping the state's requirement that measures be taken to preserve the baby's life

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_01]: and health, and then merely replaced it with a nebulous requirement for quote unquote care.

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And at the national level, at the national level, they the born alive pain capable act,

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Democrats rejected that too. They blocked that as well. So this does occur. They used to keep

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_01]: track of it in Minnesota, but then they stopped doing so because of Tim Walls. So when Trump is

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_01]: talking about women going in for late term abortions and then they're botched and the

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_01]: baby gets delivered and then the abortionist is. They just let the baby die. That's their position

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_01]: and their and you heard what what's her face here, Lindsay Davis, I think is her name. Yeah,

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Lindsay Davis, you heard the way she like no state allows that. Like, she's very matter of

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_01]: fact, like I'm so sure of this and it's not true. You're quote fact check is a lie also.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_01]: And then when Trump turns it around and says you should ask her, does she support abortion in the

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_01]: ninth month? And what does Lindsay Davis do? We're moving on. Thank you. Shuts down the debate.

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_01]: We're not going to expose our audience to this line of questioning because we don't want to

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[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_01]: this one real quick. This is very short. This was the follow up on the abortion question and.

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and Trump's response about like, you know, hey, you know, you guys are like radicals here.

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_01]: And then he turns to the moderators and tells them to ask her, go ahead, ask her, you should ask,

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_03]: will she allow abortion in the eighth month, ninth month, seventh month?

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Come on. OK, would you do that? Why don't you ask why don't you answer the question?

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Would you because under Roe v. Wade, the question would you could do abortions in the seventh month,

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_03]: the eighth month, the ninth month and probably after birth. Just look at the governor,

[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_03]: former governor of Virginia. The governor of Virginia said we put the baby aside and

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_03]: then we determine what we want to do with the president. Trump, thank you.

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_01]: See, that's how they bail out Harris. That's how they bailed her out.

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And you heard Harris's response there. This is why like the mic muting thing this like,

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_01]: oh, we want the mics muted. Oh, no. Kamala Harris wants the mics unmuted. And then,

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_01]: of course, ABC is like, no, we're going to mute the mics, but we'll keep them open if there's a

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_01]: back and forth. OK, well, that's not muting the mics then. But you heard a response there.

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, come on. Like, that's not a response. Answer the question. And she wouldn't.

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Dennis, welcome to the program. Hello, Dennis.

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, Pete, how are you doing? Hey, I'm good. What's up?

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Last night, one thing that I haven't heard anybody mention is Kamala said that for the first time

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_02]: this century that we don't have any troops in a war zone. Yeah, not true. And if I had.

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_02]: But I would think if you're getting shot at in Syria and Iraq,

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_01]: that you would feel like you were in a war zone. Yes. Yeah. And they literally were attacked

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_02]: in Iraq. Yes, yeah. And I read that we had one soldier actually get killed in Jordan

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_02]: back early in the year. So NPR said it was technically true, but they were in harm's way.

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. Yeah. I think these fact checking leftist organizations,

[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_01]: they're just ridiculous with this stuff. Like, OK, well, yes, maybe kind of sort of true,

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_01]: but lacking context. And so if you think of it in this other way, then it makes it kind of true.

[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Right. It's absurd. They give her they give her all of the benefit of the doubt on any of her lies

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_01]: and they give none of that kind of benefit of the doubt to Donald Trump. And it's obvious.

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_02]: I think. Yeah, I was surprised that NPR even fact checked that, but they did.

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. Yeah. Appreciate the call, Dennis. Thank you. Yeah. There were a number of them,

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_01]: the very fine people hoax. Right. She accused him of saying that and that's been debunked.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_01]: The Project 2025 thing. He's like, I had nothing to do with that. I've never even read the thing.

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_01]: She made false claims on the trade deficit, on the Putin. He could do whatever he wants. And

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be a dictator on day one. And that she blamed him for the Afghanistan withdrawal

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_01]: debacle. The bloodbath hoax, she said that one, too. He said there'd be a bloodbath if he doesn't

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_01]: win in the car industry, lady in the car industry. Good grief. The abortion monitor hoax, she did

[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_01]: that one. The rental property hoax like, oh, you know, he got in trouble for never renting to

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_01]: black people. He refused to rent property to black families. That's not true.

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_01]: She said he called for the execution of the Central Park five. That wasn't true.

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_01]: The suckers and losers lie. The fracking claims, oil production, national sales tax,

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_01]: distorting the unemployment figures. She says she was raised in a middle class family.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_01]: She's the daughter of two professors, lived in a very well to do area in Canada for a long time.

[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_01]: That he would terminate the Constitution, that he sold us out to China. Right. Of all the things

[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_01]: to hit Trump on, you think you think he's the one that's selling us out to China? OK.

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Not one troop in a war zone. Here it is. This is from Breitbart. They are currently active due to

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_01]: U.S. troops deployed in Iraq and Syria who have been under frequent attack by Iran backed militia

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_01]: forces over the past year. And then on the taking guns away, she said we're not taking any guns

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_01]: away. But just last month during her first campaign event together, Harrison Walls pushed

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_01]: for a ban on AR-15s and other similar platform guns. All right, against my better judgment.

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Yes, Winston. Good afternoon, Pete. How are you doing? I'm OK. Last night, I thought that Donald

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Trump had a fumble on the first down his entrance onto the stage. He did that hard left turn.

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_04]: And I just said, oops, that's that's one against them. And then I thought in my mind, I did have

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_04]: some vino in me. Kamala Harris, I was kind of banking on her to can kick in a debate.

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_04]: And I was kind of surprised when the debate took shape. But Donald Trump just came off the knee,

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_04]: wound up really uptight and probably he should have had a glass of wine with me.

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_04]: And he probably would have been more presentable, more acceptable.

[00:22:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't know. He doesn't drink. He doesn't he's never smoked. He's never drank. He's never

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_01]: tried drugs. Nothing. So I don't think that he would I don't think you'd be able to convince

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_01]: him to do that. But it is noted. Thank you, Winston. I did think it was interesting last night

[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_01]: on the during the debate. When Kamala Harris touted her endorsement by 200

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Republicans, formerly of the George W. Bush administration, including and she called them by

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_01]: name Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who the left has called

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_01]: a war criminal for 20 years, 23, actually. Right after 9-11 and the attack on America

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_01]: and George W. Bush then led the effort into Afghanistan and then expanded it into Iraq

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_01]: and this was these were called war crimes. But now what Democrats are celebrating Dick Cheney's

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_01]: endorsement of their candidate. I've been saying this for a while, there's a realignment of the

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_01]: parties going on and a lot of it has to do with military contracts. Global adventurism.

[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_01]: And Trump is trying to drag, it seems like, is trying to drag the Republican Party

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_01]: away from that, dare I call it, globalist perspective. Right? Ben Weingarten, who is a

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_01]: writer at the Federalist and he's, I think, I believe he's a NatCon guy, national conservative

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_01]: guy, and I am wary of some of these folks and some of their positions. But today is the anniversary

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_01]: of 9-11 and, you know, I encourage people to take a moment and say a prayer for all of the

[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_01]: victims and the families that survived today. I've talked about this many times over the years.

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_01]: I was a reporter working in the newsroom at the time and my father was working right across the

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_01]: trade center, was on the subway car when the first plane hit. We could not get in contact

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_01]: with him. He survived. They moved the train up to the next stop, they let everybody out.

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Second plane hit. He eventually got out of Manhattan and got home but we couldn't contact

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_01]: him for a while. And so there are all, you know, all of the stories is very, it's a,

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I usually get kind of down around this memorial day. And because it affected my life,

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_01]: it affected people I knew, as it affected, I think, everybody who saw it. We now have,

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_01]: you know, entire generations that have been raised post 9-11. They have no perspective on it.

[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And Weingarten had a piece a couple of years ago, but I've kept it.

[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_01]: How should we honor the fallen after these, you know, 20 years? And he said,

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_01]: we should be America, not some decadent briber of molocrats that bend over backwards so we don't

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_01]: hurt the feelings of 7th century throat slitters who see weakness as an invitation to attack.

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Not a nation that puts its warriors through struggle sessions,

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_01]: makes them social workers and babysitters in hellholes, and asks them to do it all while

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_01]: hamstrung with suicidal rules of engagement that privilege their enemies. We should once again be

[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_01]: a nation that cultivates excellence, that instills in its people confidence,

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_01]: a nation that creates patriots. We are an exceptional country in the history of mankind.

[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_01]: We are. As much as there are people running around our country right now that would like to deny that,

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_01]: we are. We are an exceptional country. And as such, it must be loved, cherished, and defended.

[00:27:04] [SPEAKER_01]: The United States is a great country. It needs defending. He said if our current trajectory

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_01]: continues apace, there will be little left to defend and even fewer left willing to defend it.

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's what we can do. That's what I can do. That's kind of

[00:27:25] [SPEAKER_01]: what I've attempted to do in my tiny little way,

[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_01]: is to try to help protect it and to celebrate it as a way to honor the fallen.

[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_01]: So if you get a moment today, take a minute, say a prayer if that's what you're inclined to do.

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