Back to episode — Episode 2957 CWSA 09/13/25
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tupid or evil and you don't think you're stupid and you don't think you're evil. That's what triggers cognitive dissonance. When there's a disconnect between what you're doing or experiencing and what you believe to be true. And then your brain spontaneously comes up with a story that usually sounds ridiculous to observers. So here's the test. Are the MSNBC hosts experiencing the situation in whi…
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I've also noticed that the people who are most angry about Charlie Kirk have a belief that he was a completely different person. Completely different person. I've heard somebody raging about how he was racist against Blacks. Now, I don't know every single thing that Charlie Kirk ever said, but I would still be willing to bet a large amount of money that he's never, not even once, said something that anybody could construe as racist against Blacks. I'll bet nothing. I'll bet not once. How about even I'll bet he never even brushed against it. It's completely opposite his Christian identity. And he would be way too smart to do it accidentally. He was way too good. So now, where in the world does that even come from? Where does that come from? I mean, do people just make up and other people say, "Well, I've never heard him talk, but my friend Bob says he's this terrible person." So this is again the two movies on one screen that I always talk about. How in the world would they have that opinion about him? I'm completely baffled.
Chris Cuomo was criticizing Elon Musk and he said, quote, "I know there's power in playing the victim, but Elon Musk is the one saying that the left is the party of murder." So that's what Elon said the other day. The left is the party of murder. And he acts like that is pushing extremism. To which I say, is he really saying that Elon Musk should stop complaining about the left trying to kill him? Do you know how much security that guy needs? Can you imagine the number of death threats that Elon Musk has gotten? All from the left. So when he says that the left is the party of murder, yeah, there's some hyperbole in that obviously, but to imagine that Elon Musk is the problem. He's literally the victim of all kinds of death threats and entirely from the left, I would guess. If it's not 100%, it's probably 99%. So I think Chris Cuomo missed the mark on that complaint because the problem is not the person complaining about getting murdered. That's not the problem.
Oh my god. Yeah, Charlie Kirk got murdered, but the real problem is the people complaining about it. What? What? The real problem is the complaining about the murder. I think the real problem is the murder. It's reminding me of a Norm Macdonald joke. You've probably all heard it by now when he talks about Bill Cosby. He goes, "You know, some people say the worst part about the Bill Cosby situation is the hypocrisy." And then he pauses for effect and goes, "I don't think it's the hypocrisy. I think the worst problem is the rape." And it feels like that. It's like, no, the worst problem is not the complaining. It's not the complaining. It's the murder. It's the murder.
Then here's another example. The account Media Lies spotted this. So the Tennessee House Representative Justin Pearson, he was on MSNBC just recently, and here are some of the things he said after Charlie Kirk's murder. So wouldn't you think people would tone it down after he gets murdered? Well, some of the things he said was Trump's an authoritarian dictator. The cities that he's sending the National Guard into will be quote occupied by the military. Yeah, he's a white supremacist. He called federal assistance for law enforcement terrorism. We have to fight back against it. These are not benign acts and Black people are being used as pawns.
Now, does that sound like somebody who's trying to get a solution to any problems? No. That is not somebody who's trying to solve a problem. I don't know what that is, but it's not a problem solver. And when asked about what the problem is, Representative Pearson said that instead of more policing, what they need is things to battle poverty, resources basically to battle poverty. Because if you battled poverty and you improved the schools, you would have less violence. Well, he's a stupid idiot because if you don't solve crime, you don't get any of that other stuff there. There's no such thing as far as I know. I've never heard of any high crime area that solved their crime by helping the poor. Have you? I've never heard of that. As far as I know, that's a completely impossible thing.
However, I have heard of cities such as New York City under Giuliani where they beat back the crime and then the economy prospered and presumably people did better in general. So there are examples where battling crime first can get you to a place where you have at least the opportunity to work on whatever you think are the other problems. But if you don't do crime first, you're not going to have a base of business. You're not going to have a tax base. You won't have money to improve your schools from the tax base. This guy's an idiot. This is not a difference of opinion. This is an idiot. And he's elected. He's in charge.
And I guess on MSNBC, Peter Baker, he said that the people who were calling the left radical and lunatics are the ones ratcheting up the political rhetoric. Yeah. Do you think any Republicans are going to get a gun and murder somebody because they've heard the words radical and lunatic? Do you think that's likely? Where do these people come from? They have the worst takes.
Well, Bill Maher was on Friday night, his normal show, and he had some things to say. He did helpfully tell his audience, and they got really quiet, that Trump is not Hitler. He was very forceful about Trump is not Hitler. So you're not really helping yourself if that's where you're going with your narrative. And then he said, I'm paraphrasing that a little bit, but he said directly, Trump is not Hitler. So thank you for that. That helps a lot. And he said that the people who mocked Charlie Kirk's death or tried to justify it, he says, "I think you're gross. I have no use for you." So that was the right take. I agree with that. So I think he's on the right side of this. He's a free speech guy, so that makes sense.
But I wonder, I didn't hear him acknowledge like Charlamagne tha God did that he might have been part of the problem. Did Bill Maher ever accuse Trump of being a fascist or trying to steal democracy? Because I think he might have. I think he might have. But I'd rather be happy that he said Trump is not Hitler and happy that he's not happy with the people who celebrated it. So that's something. But I feel like he needs to kind of come clean that he may have used some of the words. I mean, he's not to blame. Yeah. I'm not going to say he's to blame, but collectively, don't you think they all knew the risk? You know, you've heard the phrase stochastic terrorism. The idea that you just use words to condemn somebody to the point where somebody says, "Man, I'm going to have to take care of this." And they get violent. So it feels like the Democrats knew on some level that they were putting Republicans in mortal danger, but they were ok
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ay with it because they wouldn't personally be blamed. Oh, I'm just one person who said a few words. You know, if there were hundreds and hundreds of people on TV saying a few words, well, you can't put me in jail for that. David Axelrod, famed Democrat consultant sort of guy, he torched the Democrats over a few what he calls the mistakes. He said it was insane to spend three years before he did…
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