David Horowitz Discusses 'Progressive Racism' | Larry King Now | Ora.TV — Transcript
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- 0:00David harwitz is the founder of the
- 0:01online news magazine
- 0:03frontpagemag.com
- 0:05president of the David harwitz Freedom
- 0:08Center he's also a New York Times
- 0:09best-selling author his newest book is
- 0:12Progressive racism it is volume six in
- 0:16the Black Book of the American left
- 0:18series and we'll talk about that in a
- 0:20while David welcome back hey Larry you
- 0:23recently stared up some controversy by
- 0:25branding The Weekly Standard editor Bill
- 0:27Crystal a renegade Jew
- 0:30for his opposition to Donald Trump what
- 0:33does his being a renegade Jew have to do
- 0:36with opposition to Trump I call him a
- 0:38republican spoiler in a renegade you
- 0:40look we live in a democracy when the
- 0:43people have voted uh the idea you accept
- 0:47their verdict the uh people who have
- 0:49opposed Trump call themselves
- 0:51constitutional conservatives but the
- 0:53Constitution begins we the people that
- 0:55the people are sovereign so what I
- 0:58didn't I never objected to people who
- 1:00oppos Trump I didn't particularly take
- 1:03sides in the
- 1:04primaries but once the primaries were
- 1:07decided and Trump get he got the most
- 1:10votes of a republican ever gotten a
- 1:11primary and Crystal comes out um with a
- 1:15third party move can have only one
- 1:18effect which is to split the Republican
- 1:20vote and elect Hillary and in my view
- 1:24Obama and Hillary and betrayed this
- 1:27country and the Jews by giving nuclear
- 1:30weapons to a hitlerite regime in Teran
- 1:35that says openly they want to
- 1:36exterminate the Jews of Israel we gave
- 1:39them weapons yeah this nuclear the Iran
- 1:42deal basically legitimized their quest
- 1:45for nuclear weapons give them $150
- 1:48billion we let them violate they're
- 1:50already violating it they got these
- 1:52ballistic missiles so I Renegade Jew
- 1:56just meant Crystal was betraying the
- 1:58Jews of Israel and I also put in here
- 2:01which I believe he was betraying this
- 2:03country I I think a vote for the
- 2:06Democrats is a vote for disastrous
- 2:09policies but this Administration has
- 2:11sold more arms to Israel than the three
- 2:13previous ones combined that's true
- 2:15that's so well doesn't Israel as you
- 2:18know probably better than I do because
- 2:21you've probably been there Israel is a
- 2:22tiny country how many nuclear bombs can
- 2:25it take from Iran not that many all
- 2:30right but so you call what do you make
- 2:33though
- 2:34shouldn't if you're a Republican or a
- 2:36Democrat and you don't like the person
- 2:39they've nominated shouldn't you put your
- 2:41country before your party if you really
- 2:43don't like well if he wants to vote for
- 2:45Hillary let him vote for Hillary but
- 2:47let's not pretend that um you you're
- 2:51going to find a candidate who's going to
- 2:52win three states it's going to be thrown
- 2:55into the House of Representatives the
- 2:57Republicans are going to win back the
- 2:59house I mean this is how about George
- 3:02Will's idea says vote for Hillary let
- 3:05her be a four-year failed president then
- 3:07a Republicans come back to power but he
- 3:09can't vote for Trump you know when Obama
- 3:11was reelected I my first thought was a
- 3:15lot of people are going to be dead
- 3:17because of this election and it turns
- 3:18out there are 200,000 Christians
- 3:20slaughtered 200,000 syrians slaughtered
- 3:24on Obama's watch two million two million
- 3:2720 million refugees created
- 3:30these American presidency has
- 3:33consequences so I I don't buy that
- 3:35complacency how many Americans were lost
- 3:37under the George Bush presidency I mean
- 3:40losses are they happen all the time
- 3:43David if you go to war you get L this
- 3:45was a Slaughter because we created a
- 3:47vacuum we had a base in Iraq we had
- 3:4920,000 troops there we could have
- 3:51snuffed Isis at the
- 3:54start uh I mean I I didn't want to go
- 3:56into the Iraq War I supported the Iraq
- 3:58War I still support supp it was badly
- 4:01managed and the Democrats sabotaged it
- 4:03but Hillary supported it and Trump did
- 4:05not yeah and that was actually a decent
- 4:07thing she did okay are you a supporter
- 4:10of trump yeah all right do you have any
- 4:13doubts and Donald's an old friend of
- 4:15mine any doubts on when he says things
- 4:18and then does I will not raise money
- 4:20from anyone else now he's I I knew a lot
- 4:24of his promises he can't keep he can't
- 4:26well doesn't that disappoint you uh
- 4:28here's what I think about Donald and
- 4:30I've never met him first of all I love
- 4:34his political incorrectness I love that
- 4:36he has the guts to just blow through all
- 4:39that nonsense and he's the only
- 4:42politician that does uh but secondly uh
- 4:45you can count on he has a massive ego
- 4:47they all do but he his is especially big
- 4:51um Trump Towers Trump Airlines Trump
- 4:54this Trump that so mentally he's putting
- 4:56Trump on the White House and I believe
- 4:59there are promises he's made that he's
- 5:02got to keep he whether he builds a ball
- 5:05a wall from one end of the country to
- 5:07the other but he's got to secure the
- 5:10borders uh he's got to dismantle
- 5:13Obamacare he's got to rebuild the
- 5:15military he's got to take care of the
- 5:17Vets uh and I think he'll do it just for
- 5:20his his own legacy I mean you know there
- 5:22are things he won't do there are things
- 5:23that'll disappoint me but he's so much
- 5:26better than Hillary or uh and you him
- 5:29talking in North
- 5:31Korea it's okay to he talks off the top
- 5:34of his head I mean let no but doesn't
- 5:35that could be dangerous and your
- 5:37president you don't talk I think that's
- 5:39right I think that's right but I think
- 5:40once they get into the presidency
- 5:42they're surrounded by all kinds of
- 5:44people who are telling them that's
- 5:45ridiculous were you once on the left my
- 5:48parents were Communists uh I marched in
- 5:52a Mayday Parade a communist Mart made a
- 5:54parade in
- 5:551948 I was one of the founders of the
- 5:59new left I edited the largest magazine
- 6:01of the left ramp Parts I raised a lot of
- 6:04money remember ramp Parts yeah I raised
- 6:06a lot of money for the Black Panther
- 6:08Party uh to buy a
- 6:11school um what changed you well they
- 6:14murdered the woman that I got to do the
- 6:16bookkeeping of the school and then what
- 6:19happened in the Vietnam War in 19 this
- 6:21happened in December 74 this woman
- 6:24disappeared her body was discovered in
- 6:27February and in April America withdrew
- 6:30from Vietnam then in other words the
- 6:32left won a huge Victory caused America
- 6:35you were of the left yes we caused
- 6:37America's withdrawal and the Communists
- 6:40proceeded to slaughter 2 and a half
- 6:42million indo-chinese peasants in
- 6:45Cambodia and in Vietnam and it wasn't a
- 6:48single protest from the left and that
- 6:51taught me that the left was not about
- 6:52anti-war it was about anti-america
- 6:55Bernie Sanders you don't like him I
- 6:57guess he's a communist he's a lifelong
- 7:00communist he honeymooned in the Soviet
- 7:02Union he he's Denmark isn't his model
- 7:05it's Cuba and Venezuela I
- 7:09mean I I mean I know this in my bones
- 7:12because I was there with them all if you
- 7:14discover that if you realize that you're
- 7:16part of a movement like communism which
- 7:19is so evil the first thing you do when
- 7:21you when you change your views is you
- 7:24want to warn other people Obama hasn't
- 7:26done Obama is still in his heart a
- 7:29communist
- 7:31is a smart one Harvard
- 7:34graduate Harvard led the law
- 7:36review well
- 7:40yeah okay I don't think he would agree
- 7:42with you no he
- 7:44wouldn't you call him an American
- 7:47traitor yes that's a tough statement
- 7:50well but I said if Franklin Roseville
- 7:52gave nuclear weapons to Hitler what
- 7:54would we call him but he didn't give
- 7:56nuclear weapons to he has of course
- 7:59deled there were sanctions around him
- 8:01the idea was to bring the that regime
- 8:03down when the people went out in the
- 8:06streets there were lots of good Iranians
- 8:08and they demonstrated against the regime
- 8:10he did nothing didn't lift a finger to
- 8:14help them so you think you think
- 8:16President Obama and that's because he
- 8:18was starting these negotiations from the
- 8:20beginning and John you know and it's the
- 8:22whole Administration John kery who
- 8:24started his career betraying his
- 8:28comrades in arms in Vietnam them and
- 8:30lying that they had committed
- 8:32atrocities what about the right-wing
- 8:34bothers you their bigotry they what
- 8:38bigotry I I think this bathroom law in
- 8:40North Carolina is
- 8:43idiotic um unless you station a
- 8:45policemen in every bathroom to look at
- 8:48people's genitals and compare it to
- 8:50their birth certificates how can you
- 8:52enforce this stupid law David don't you
- 8:54think when you label someone like Obama
- 8:56a
- 8:58traitor you you could lead people like
- 9:01Donald Trump's former Butler to say that
- 9:03he should be killed if he's a traitor I
- 9:06know look there are lunatics all over
- 9:08the place but the left the left is out
- 9:10there inciting murder of policemen and
- 9:15massive numbers I they incite murder a
- 9:19policeman if aop blank fry them like
- 9:22bacon what do we want Dead Cops what
- 9:24when do we want them now accusing
- 9:28innocent police officers defending their
- 9:31lives of murder as happened in Ferguson
- 9:33to talk about the civil rights movement
- 9:35has become a roving Lynch Mob if a cop
- 9:38shoots an unarmed person black or white
- 9:41that cop is wrong if he shoots him in
- 9:43the back if he shoots him with his hands
- 9:46up but not if he shoots him when he's
- 9:49after he's tried to wrestle his weapon
- 9:51from him as Michael Brown this Thug in
- 9:55uh Ferguson did trying to wrestle his
- 9:58weapon away and then was charging him
- 10:00and then gets six warning shots and
- 10:02keeps charging kill him of course it's
- 10:07your life versus his but but this
- 10:10officer's life has been ruined by the
- 10:12racist left you said that Obama would
- 10:16never be president if he weren't
- 10:18black he wouldn't be dog catcher if he
- 10:21weren't black wait a minute but he had
- 10:22no I mean come on what's the black
- 10:24population in America 11% yeah but
- 10:27whites aren't racists they
- 10:29there are white racists and there are
- 10:31black racist let me clarify that but
- 10:34this country
- 10:36is the most tolerant country in the
- 10:39universe um here I'll give you one
- 10:42statistic in
- 10:431958 only 4% of Americans approved of
- 10:47interracial marriage between blacks and
- 10:49whites which is the index of how
- 10:51assimilated a group is today the figure
- 10:54is
- 10:5587% a race a white racist couldn't
- 10:59survive in public life I mean David Duke
- 11:01who follows him you think he can hold a
- 11:03March in Washington like farahan and get
- 11:06uh a million people or 10,000 people
- 11:10even following him no but that's an
- 11:12advancement don't you think it's
- 11:14tremendous it it's the greatest social
- 11:16Revolution probably in the history of
- 11:18mankind and it's taken place in the last
- 11:2150 years do you think Hillary would be
- 11:23serious if she weren't a
- 11:25woman or or uh Bill Clinton's wife or
- 11:30Bill Clinton's wife wouldn't you call
- 11:31the Bill Clinton presidency a success I
- 11:34think that Bill
- 11:35Clinton Clinton was not an ideologue the
- 11:38way these people are he certainly isn't
- 11:40and he he read a a a domestically a
- 11:44pretty good economy um helped by having
- 11:47a republican uh Congress um you know my
- 11:52only complaint about him is the way he
- 11:54treated the White House and that just
- 11:56his vulgarity and his abuse of women but
- 12:00that's true of a lot of democratic
- 12:02politics what do you mean by Progressive
- 12:04racism well it's the racism of the left
- 12:08um Let me let the Democratic party is
- 12:11the is the party of racism why do I say
- 12:14that well aside from the fact that they
- 12:17put all these racial categories into our
- 12:19life which were supposed to be expunged
- 12:22by the Civil Rights Acts so now race is
- 12:26a factor in hiring people and getting
- 12:28into college
- 12:29the Democrats control every major inner
- 12:33city of any size in America all the
- 12:36Killing Fields Chicago uh St Louis uh
- 12:41Baltimore uh Detroit uh Washington DC
- 12:45and they control them 100% there are no
- 12:48Republicans on those City councils uh
- 12:52and and and the Mayors are all
- 12:54Democratic and they've controlled them
- 12:57for 50 to 100 years everything that's
- 13:00wrong with the inner cities of America
- 13:03Democrats are resp and progressives are
- 13:04responsible for um including the schools
- 13:08that don't teach these kids year in and
- 13:10year out where they've got the kids
- 13:12trapped because they oppose the voucher
- 13:14programs uh 100% controlled by democrats
- 13:18if those were Republicans the Democrats
- 13:20would be screaming racist this is RAC do
- 13:22you mean by control what control them
- 13:24how they control all the authorities
- 13:26what whatever the authorities are in the
- 13:28inner cities blacks used to be
- 13:30Republican that's right where did the
- 13:32party lose them they lost them with a
- 13:34famous phone call that John Kennedy made
- 13:36to Martin Luther King in jail that's how
- 13:39they lost him uh and that that's what
- 13:42Drew blacks to the Democratic party well
- 13:45the Democrat they also passed the first
- 13:47major civil rights law under Lyndon
- 13:50Johnson did you disagree with that law
- 13:52no but that was uh I believe the Civil
- 13:56Rights Acts were supported by more
- 13:59Republicans than by democrats I believe
- 14:01the well because the Democrats of the
- 14:03South voted against it yes well and
- 14:05Johnson got party of slavery party of
- 14:08segregation party of the inner city that
- 14:11isn't the case anymore they threw that
- 14:13away and Linda Johnson said I know but
- 14:15lost the South forever who's the
- 14:17President's chief advisor on
- 14:20Race Mr
- 14:22Sharpton a racial arsonist a convicted
- 14:26liar who never paid his the fines he
- 14:30supposed to paid a tax evader uh and a
- 14:33Lynch mob leader that's who Sharpton is
- 14:36why is he the
- 14:38chief uh Counsel on race relations why
- 14:41has he been in the White House 80 to 100
- 14:44times is because in his heart Obama is a
- 14:47racist too Obama too and I will give you
- 14:49the quote that shows it Obama has said
- 14:53racism is in America's
- 14:56DNA H that's genetic passed on to
- 15:00Generations in fact the opposite is true
- 15:03slavery existed in Africa for a thousand
- 15:06years before a white person ever set
- 15:08foot there for 3,000 years there was
- 15:11slavery in all societies at some time or
- 15:14another and nobody ever said it was
- 15:16immoral not Aristotle not Moses not
- 15:19Jesus they were all wrong until
- 15:22wilburforce yeah in the 18th century and
- 15:26Englishmen in America who became
- 15:28American an in 1776 or
- 15:311787 in our birth certificates said
- 15:35Liberty and equality are god-given
- 15:38rights that government can't take away
- 15:41within a little a a little more than a
- 15:44generation at that time but the 90 80
- 15:47years slavery was abolished in America
- 15:50and in the Western Hemisphere every
- 15:52black in America owes their freedom to
- 15:54Thomas Jefferson and the founders what's
- 15:57in America's DNA is Liberty that Obama
- 16:01said it's racism just just reveals well
- 16:05where he's you have to walk in his skin
- 16:06and weak it's hard to do that uh uh it's
- 16:10easy to say that as a white he had an
- 16:12incredibly privileged life actually the
- 16:14last chapter in this book is called
- 16:16black skin
- 16:17privilege he went to all these of course
- 16:20we don't know his college records but he
- 16:22got into all the premier SCH you're not
- 16:25going to say he's stupid I don't think
- 16:27he's stupid no but I don't know that he
- 16:30he would have gotten into Harvard if he
- 16:31were white
- 16:33either who knows but anyway Thomas
- 16:36privil Deale if he were weren't he would
- 16:38certainly wouldn't have gotten the pass
- 16:40he got his two most intimate political
- 16:43advisers before he hit the national
- 16:46stage where an America hating racist
- 16:49named Jeremiah Wright who he was his
- 16:53inner counsel in his family matters in
- 16:55his politics and Bill a and idiot
- 17:00American Terrorist whom I happen to have
- 17:03interviewed at length when he many many
- 17:06years ago you were friends no I I I did
- 17:10a a piece with Peter ker on the Weather
- 17:13Underground for a Rolling Stone magazine
- 17:16and I interviewed him for 10 hours David
- 17:18you've LED two lives
- 17:21yeah thank you so much I love talking to
- 17:24you thanks Larry his new book is
- 17:26Progressive racism
- 17:29David harwitz and that book is available
- 17:31wherever books are
- 17:33sold
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