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m Victoria Toensing. Now, if you want to be worried, let me tell you how to get worried. Have somebody hand you a note from the famous lawyer. That's just scary. Because the first thing I thought was, oh my God, what kind of trouble am I in? Who's suing me now? Why does a famous — I'll call her a TV lawyer just because you see her on TV a lot, but she's a lawyer — why does she want to talk to me?…

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at an A-plus for insulting tweets. It's not quite Trump level, but it's pretty darn good. We could have just done this by email. It's like the ultimate insult if your address could have been done by email.

All right, let's see how the reactions were. Even CNN said that for a first speech to Congress, Biden got the lowest very positive reaction. So here's how CNN described it. Biden had 51%. But Trump was 57, Obama was 68, and Bush was 66.

So Biden didn't do too well on the positive reactions. But I also have to wonder how much of this is the ever-declining bipartisanship. It could be that people during Obama were more likely to be a little bit friendlier to the other side. And of course Obama was a better orator. But kind of interesting Biden got such a low number.

I'll give you my own opinion here in a minute. Well, I'll give it to you now. I thought Biden's speech was capable. I'm going to criticize a number of things. You probably know where I'm going with most of them. But I would say the criticisms are mostly just the naked political politicization. So the naked partisanship is all the problems. But they're also so obvious that I don't have the biggest problem in the world with it. I don't mind a little naked partisanship if it's just obvious that's what's going on. As long as it's obvious, that feels like good labeling at least.

So let's talk about some of the specific things he said. One of them is white supremacy is our biggest threat in the United States. Is it? How do you measure a biggest threat? Now he's talking biggest threat in terms of violence and people killing people, not climate change or anything like that. But in terms of people killing people, he says white supremacy is the biggest, based on intel, he says, intel agencies.

And I would ask you, is that bigger than the brainwashing from the media? Because it seems to me that nobody does anything in this country in any kind of a big trend way unless the media has brainwashed them to do it. So whenever you see somebody say people are doing this, you got to go back one level and say, but why? Why are there lots of mass shootings? Is it because of white supremacy? Some of them are. But why are there so many, not just white supremacists, but why are there so many shootings? It's the news. The news is the biggest problem. If the news did not cover it the way they cover it, it wouldn't be happening.

So if you say white supremacy is the biggest threat in the United States, ask yourself this: Would it be if the news were just the news? Because I don't think it would be. I feel as though the news is what has caused it.

Yeah, let me say something really provocative here. You ready? I believe that white supremacy is made far worse by the way the news handles the news, and that the white supremacists would just be sitting quietly thinking their white supremacist thoughts if the news didn't tell them they were at war and that they were being threatened and white people are bad and critical r

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ace theory is the way. Imagine a world with no critical race theory and no media pushing it and no wokism and none of that. Would white supremacists be as dangerous as many people think they are? I don't think so. I think that white supremacists, just like everybody else, respond to the news. So if the news is telling them they're under threat, what the hell are they going to do? So it seems to m…

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