Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 13:32)
The Fabulous Fabulist Fabrication: The Epic Story of George Santos, New York’s Lying Ex-Congressman
Part II (13:32 - 20:11)
What’s Behind the Human Tendency to Believe Unbelievable Stories? Why We Tend to Buy into Big Lies
Part III (20:11 - 21:39)
Why is Santos Out While Senator Menendez is Still in Office? The Ejection of George Santos Raises Big Questions for American Politics
Part IV (21:39 - 25:57)
President Biden is Going to Hollywood: Big Fundraising Foray Among the Entertainment Industry’s Progressives
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, December 5, 2023. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing. |
| 0:10.0 | A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.4 | Here is one of the most difficult questions to answer about human nature. |
| 0:17.9 | Why is it that we tend to fall not so much for the little lies, |
| 0:21.4 | but for the very big lies. And why is it that when some are |
| 0:25.7 | caught telling a lie that's obviously a lie they stick to it? Well one of the persons |
| 0:30.4 | we could ask is former Congressman George Santos, or at least we think he is |
| 0:34.8 | former Congressman George Santos. |
| 0:36.9 | He might be former Congressman George Devolder, or George Devolder Santos. |
| 0:41.4 | We simply aren't sure. And that's a part of the story. |
| 0:45.6 | If you look up a basic biographical reference to George Santos, one of the first things you're |
| 0:50.1 | going to find is that he is the first Republican and only the sixth |
| 0:54.0 | member of Congress to be expelled by the body. That happened on Friday and it |
| 0:58.6 | requires a two-thirds vote by the House of Representatives and at least two-thirds of his fellow members of the House voted |
| 1:04.9 | to expel him and that required not only the overwhelming vote among the Democrats but also a significant |
| 1:11.2 | number of Republicans. |
| 1:13.2 | They voted to oust one of their own. |
| 1:15.9 | But then again, they never really considered him one of their own. |
| 1:19.3 | There's a huge story behind this, but at least some of the facts |
| 1:21.6 | have to be stipulated before we can go further. |
| 1:24.7 | And the fact is that the reason George Santos was removed from office now is not that he was |
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