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