The increasingly dangerous rhetoric coming out of the American right
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🗓️ 7 October 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on The Readout. |
| 0:06.3 | Hello, I'm Mike Lindell, inventor of My Pillow. |
| 0:08.8 | Thanks to your support, you've helped make My Pillow become one of the fastest growing |
| 0:12.8 | companies in America. |
| 0:15.3 | Hit your wagon to Trump and you end up on the trash heap. |
| 0:19.2 | The My Pillow guy now says he's broke and can't afford his lawyers anymore. |
| 0:23.9 | And then you have Kevin McCarthy who groveled at Trump's feet and has next to nothing to |
| 0:27.8 | show for it, except humiliation and no speaker's gavel. |
| 0:31.7 | And my friend Ali Velshey joins me tonight on Band Books Week and why he takes a stand |
| 0:37.5 | every week against the epidemic of book banning in this country. |
| 0:45.7 | And we begin tonight with the increasingly dangerous rhetoric coming out of the American |
| 0:49.5 | right. |
| 0:50.5 | On Thursday, Fox's Greg Gutfield went on the air and said this. |
| 0:56.6 | We had a war over slavery. |
| 0:59.0 | We knew slavery was inhumane and immoral, but somehow we couldn't solve slavery peacefully. |
| 1:05.6 | It was an evil, but one side refused to acknowledge that it was evil because it was too big of |
| 1:11.4 | an admission for them to make. |
| 1:13.6 | Doesn't that feel that way now that this defiant refusal to reverse this decline argues |
| 1:20.3 | against the survival of a country? |
| 1:22.6 | What does that leave you with? |
| 1:24.2 | It leaves you with you need to make war to bring peace because you have a side that cannot |
| 1:30.1 | change because then that means an admission that their beliefs have been corrupt all the |
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