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Welcome to the show, Ben Ferguson, filling in for the great one. He will be back with you on Monday.

He's got a lot of time, he's going to want to tell you about his awesome trip to Israel.

He'll be back with you on Monday and I'll be with you for the next three hours here.

So I want to recap the 4th of July in two different ways for you.

You have two big different things, I guess you say controversies. One, the President of the United States of America actually wanted to honor this country and the people that have protected and defended this country and made this country a great country.

It's literally what we do on the 4th of July.

Whether you're a crazy liberal who hates Donald Trump or an individual that loves the President,

we all are doing the same thing on the 4th of July in theory, which is to celebrate our independence, to celebrate our freedoms, to celebrate our ability to disagree with one another then that we don't go to jail when we disagree with one another.

We are celebrating the fact that we have a free and fair elections. We are celebrating everything that is America.

So right before the 4th of July, you saw the liberals freak out over a pair of Nike tennis shoes all because of a failed NFL quarterback who I argue hates America in Colin Kaepernick.

He tells Nike you don't need to sell these shoes because I find them offensive and we'll get into that in a moment.

Now, when American shoes became offensive is beyond me. Now, there's a lot of hypocrisy that's gone on with this flag, this old American flag on the back of these Nike's.

And the hypocrisy starts with the fact that these flags were used at one of Barack Obama's inaugurations and nobody was freaking out then.

I post this up on Twitter and you can check out the picture there and I put it up on Facebook as well if you want to see it.

It's been Ferguson show on Twitter and Facebook of these flags clearly flying at the inauguration of Barack Obama.

And you didn't see Colin Kaepernick say he was offended by it then. You didn't see another liberal out there say they were offended by this old American flag.

They used it. It is inauguration. This is not and not a single person was losing it like they lost it this week because of Colin Kaepernick and because Nike telling you you can't we you know Nike saying oh we're so sorry we didn't mean to anybody we're not going to release the shoe.

It also it blows up the narrative member when Colin Kaepernick came out and in and the whole fight I said it's the wrong place and the wrong time to disrespect this country national anthem and the American flag by kneeling.

And there were many progressives black lives matter you know extremists that were saying this isn't about the flag. This isn't about anti American. This is about police brutality.

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