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What historical event does Glenn Youngkin commemorate?
Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. So 250 years ago yesterday, a man stood up in this church in Richmond, Virginia. It's called St. John's Church. It's still there today. It's on East Broad Street in Richmond.
250 years ago yesterday, a man named Patrick Henry stood up in that church in Richmond, Virginia, and he gave a speech that is still remembered now, not just decades or generations later, but literally centuries later. This was, give me liberty or give me death. Now, it's not at all clear to historians if Patrick Henry actually said those exact words in that speech that day.
Might have been kind of stolen from Shakespeare and later attributed to him. I don't know. But regardless, it was a good speech. It was important. It's credited in part with Virginia choosing to join what would become the Revolutionary War against the tyrannical King George, which is how we got our independence as a nation. It's how ultimately we got our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.
It is how we got our democracy. And on the occasion of that 250 year anniversary of Patrick Henry's give me liberty or give me death speech, which again, that 250 year anniversary was yesterday.
The current governor of Virginia, Republican Glenn Youngkin, went to that church in Richmond, Virginia yesterday, where they reenacted the whole dramatic speech, including the give me liberty or give me death thing, which may or may not have actually been said in that. speech 250 years ago. But still, it's a really nice, important thing to commemorate. 250 years is a big anniversary.
It's a nice thing for Glenn Youngkin to have done, right? Then he left. He walked out of the church, and this is what happened. Let me just show you just one more minute of this here. This is from a different angle.
And I think this one is helpful because in this angle, you can see him greeting and shaking hands with the men in wigs who have just done the reenactment, smiling and pretending like nothing's going on around him. And then there's kind of this big reveal when he gets down to the SUV that's waiting for him. Watch.
Shame on you!
Shame on you!
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