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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1242 Critic Calls Libertarianism a Religion, Knows Nothing, Gets Smacked Down

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

AJ+, a division of Al Jazeera, has a popular social media presence and makes widely viewed videos -- nearly all of them dreadfully wrong -- on a variety of topics. And man are they wrong about libertarianism. Since I haven't done a good smackdown in a while, well, you see where this is going.

Show notes for Ep. 1242

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1242.

0:03.4

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0:08.0

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0:14.5

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0:29.7

Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. I sound worse than I feel, I think. I'm getting better. I'm able to

0:36.2

sit here and talk to you folks once again. I mean, for

0:39.3

heaven's sake, at some point, I've got to resume the show, right? That's just got to happen.

0:43.8

So today is as good a day as any. And I've got one of these crazy anti-libertarian things that

0:50.4

comes out once in a while, whether it's Salon or Slate or the Washington Post or wherever,

0:56.7

it's the same old stuff rehashed over and over, sometimes with slightly different take,

1:03.6

but I realized I haven't done one of these in a while. I used to do this somewhat regularly.

1:07.7

I would take some attack on libertarianism and go through it and point

1:12.5

by point and respond. And I would have fun doing that. And I haven't done that in a while. And in my

1:18.3

supporting listeners group, which you can join through supporting listeners.com, somebody posted a video

1:24.8

from something called AJ Plus, which is actually an Al Jazeera network, that actually has a

1:32.1

really, really substantial reach. They get a lot of views on their videos. And this video is from

1:39.1

their newsbroke segment, and it features a comedian named Matt Lieb, L-I-E-B, and it's on the religion of libertarianism.

1:49.4

You don't even need to click on play, do you?

1:52.8

You already know what they're going to say.

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