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Chapter 1: What does Dan Bongino think about Thanksgiving?
Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. I hope you're all enjoying a very happy Thanksgiving with family. I mean, they come first, right? God, family, country, that order. Get it right and everything falls in line. Folks, I thought to myself, what do we do for folks for Thanksgiving to put a little smile on their face?
Chapter 2: Why is Geraldo Rivera back in the news?
And given that Geraldo is back in the news, who bizarrely wants to fight me again or something like that, Geraldo wants to fight me again. But he does end it off pretty nice, so it's all in good fun. Check this out.
Chapter 3: What is the history between Dan Bongino and Geraldo Rivera?
I mean, there you go. And I just want to be clear for our viewers who aren't familiar. You two sparred a lot on Fox. And man, am I being understated when I say that. How would you feel about him being Secret Service director?
I can't imagine anyone who I feel more fiercely combative with than Dan Bongino. If he were to walk into a bar and I was having a beer, we'd probably square off. We disagree on everything. I think he has his own set of facts. I think he's a provocateur. But I go back to what I said about Major Pete. I have no...
issue at all with his honesty, his credibility, his character, his patriotism, his love of the Secret Service. I think all those things are positive for Bongino. And I think that in some ways, all of these people in the cabinet, and you could name others as well, Dr. Oz, are great on TV. They are bigger than life. They're great communicators.
I see where the president-elect is going with this cabinet. Can they do the job, the day-to-day, the administrative stuff, running these businesses? And they are giant businesses, even though they're government agencies. I guess we'll see. Some will, some won't. But with Bongino, I would, let me put it this way. If I was a target and Bongino was on the job, I feel that Bongino would keep me safe.
He would do the job, Brianna.
A very nice compliment at the end. It's all in good fun, folks. Again, I don't know why everybody wants to fight me all the time. It's this fascination with me and fighting. We are not squaring. Can you imagine, folks? I want to leave this here. I know I'm beating this. I just can't take it pun intended. Can you, I mean, listen, I'm 50 and I feel every second of it.
The dude is 31 years older than me. Can you imagine squaring up with a guy you outweigh by probably 40 plus pounds in a bar? Oh my gosh, this is just insane. Hilarious how many people sent that to me. I thought it would be really great to go over some of our greatest hits, pun intended, and misses with Geraldo and a comment on him now years later. I kind of miss that stuff.
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Chapter 4: What are the key arguments about policing and race?
I think you'll enjoy this. So I have not seen these in advance. However, I was there because it was me when it happened. But my team picked out a few of these. So I'm going to comment on them. I'm going to tell you what I was thinking when I was there. And I think you're really going to enjoy this. But again, I have not seen these since I was there when it happened. Beam Cyber Sale is here.
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Chapter 5: What evidence does Geraldo provide regarding fear of police?
How about people like you that don't credit the humanity of half the country? They are running scared, and they're scared of cops. It doesn't matter that we love cops or that blue lives matter or that there's a thin line between civilization and anarchy. Why are they scared of cops?
Chapter 6: How do Dan Bongino and Geraldo Rivera debate policing issues?
Stop pontificating and produce some actual data. You're a reporter, right? Why are they scared of cops?
A 20-year-old kid has an expired registration. He ends up dead. In the same town where George Floyd was asphyxiated by a brutal cop's knee on his neck. So by those incidents, as a reporter, you've... Wait, wait, hold on.
Chapter 7: What are the contradictions in Geraldo's arguments?
By those two incidents, you've extrapolated as a reporter data that every black child in America should be afraid of the police. And that's rational to you? That's rational? Explain that reason, please. I, that one vividly sticks out because he, Geraldo claims to be a journalist, right guys? And here's the thing. If you actually look at the data, who is it?
Roland Fryer and others who've done actual data research analysis on police interactions between minorities and the police, you'll find out that not only are the data on use of force incidents against black men and minorities, uh, are grossly exaggerated by the media narrative that black men are being hunted. But they're exaggerated so badly it's not even in the ballpark.
It's not even in the ballpark. I think the number of unarmed black men who were shot by the police was somewhere in the neighborhood of 11. And yet when you ask people out there who, like Geraldo, claim to be journalists and don't know the data... You know, what's going on with police interactions with young black men?
You would think there were hundreds of thousands of people being hunted in the street. What killed me about that clip is, I remember, he's not so much an opinion guy. He portrays himself as an investigative reporter, and he totally missed the ball on that. And when I asked him for the data, can you produce the data, and I stopped him. Did you notice he just kept filibustering?
This was kind of like what went on with me and Geraldo over my entire time of doing this show. Hannity with him over the course of five years. He would never produce facts. He claimed to be a facts guy, but it was always some bizarre, crazy opinion that he got from like Joy Reid or something. That's a good one. What was that? Yeah, all right, let me see the next one.
But we have a process for that. And just injecting race into this, Geraldo, which you do on these police issues constantly, when you have none of the data, you have no evidence whatsoever.
You're making me the issue again. Don't you have an argument to make? make that doesn't concern me?
I'm not making you the issue. I'm responding to your dopey comments. You have no idea that there's a racial undertone to this at all. And you're saying, oh, black parents have to worry because they're black kids. You have no data to back that up at all.
You're just further inflaming the situation and the country will burn to the ground because of people like you who say dumb things like that with no evidence to back it up. You see, anytime you ask Geraldo, I'm guessing, guys, this is going to be a theme, right? That me asking Geraldo to actually back up his opinion. And then watch. Watch what he does every time.
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Chapter 8: What is the conclusion of their debate?
There's a dead young man who's never going to take another breath of oxygen again in his life. We don't have all the facts on this. We know she said taser. It appears, appears to be a mistake. You know, listen, me commenting on my own commentary, kind of silly. However, on Thanksgiving, I think it's kind of funny. It is, right? I mean, I'm listening to that trying to pretend it's not me.
Who sounds irrational there? Is it me or Geraldo? I'm not talking over him. He keeps yelling and screaming and all I'm asking him is produce a fact set or a data set to show that he has evidence that this man in that incident where the woman thought she was grabbing her taser and grabbed her gun targeted because he was black.
Notice I repeat over and over, I am not denying the tragic nature of what happened at all. The young man will never be with us again, okay? Period. I never denied that. I'm simply asking Geraldo, show me your evidence this was race-based because you keep making a race argument. Who's the crazy one? And he's screaming over me. Now I've known Hannity a long time. We're really good friends.
He's a good man. He can tell I'm getting pissed off. And I got to tell you of all the times I've debated for all that. So one thing, and again, this is not personal. We were always friendly off the air. Um, That used to bother me the most. You notice how I sit there and listen to him? And then the minute you open your mouth, it's like he couldn't control himself.
And it was so hard to make a point because he just couldn't stop talking. This is better than I thought. I didn't realize you guys dug all this stuff up. All right, let me see the next one here. using the beer analogy. Geraldo, you're a lawyer. I have not seen Amendment 2.5, the right to buy a Coors Light shall not be infringed. These are legal adults in the country.
Now, having said that, if you're going to infringe on a constitutional right, according to the court system, you have to do it. It has to be a compelling government interest. We all agree preventing mass murder is a compelling government interest. Government interest, point taken.
Thank God that we agree on that, Dan. Thank God. But
But it has to... Wait, I'm not done. There's a second part to that. You're a lawyer. I think you know this. It's through the least restrictive means. The least restrictive means is not to tell every single 18-year-old in the entire country who's done nothing wrong, you can no longer purchase a rifle because of some nut. Then why do you tell them they can't drink beer?
Why do you tell them they can't drive a semi? That's baloney, Dan. Did you just hear what I said? We restrict our brains.
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