Irrationality and radicalism. How did it come to this . To answer that question you can do no better than to read David Horowitz book to left in University Volume eight in the latest edition to a series of collective desk with the conservative writings including the black book of the american left including essays from 1993 to 2010 and addresses what David Horowitz described as one of the underappreciated tragedies of our time the campaign of the left to support the curricula of collegiate institutions and transform entire schools and departments into doctrinal Training Centers for social and political causes for this campaign arguably has done more to steer america towards the left the left goal of the fundamental transformation of this country than any other strategy and cultural marxism. If the chronicle said campaigner for next quarter century and gave of davids efforts to bring political neutrality and intellectual integrity to college classrooms. You party now David Horowitz is the author of too many books and articles to name all of them essential reading for understanding the radical left and waging war against it but among the minor times bestsellers radical son unholy alliance and most recently big agenda president trumps plan to save america. If you have heard me introduce david before youve no doubt heard the call and the leftmost hated apostate because he knows them better than they know themselves and that makes him an existential threat to them and invaluable to us. Please welcome the author of the left and the university and the founder of the freedom center, David Horowitz. [applause] thank you markieff. Thank you everybody for coming. Last week i was at the university of houston in houston where do we before they had held a National Conference for students for justice in palestine. The university hosted students for justice in palestine is a creature of the terrorist Organization Hamas and its a hamas propaganda network. I brought along a little clip to show you so you can share with me. Mahmoud also herat was the founder. Theres no place we can choose among us and you have no future among the nations of this world and had to annihilation. To do destroy the jewish state and annihilate its [inaudible] [inaudible] [chanting] [chanting] [chanting] [chanting] [chanting] [chanting] that was seven minutes into my talk and died said at the outset of the talk when i was a radical at her glee and columbia in the 60s i always wanted to hear what the other side had to say because i felt that would make me a better radical. I would have an argument. Those days are gone. The greatest american tragedy of my lifetime is the destruction of our educational system by progressives and its conversion into an indoctrination and the Recruitment Center for this theological left. This book that ive written, the left in university is the fifth book that i have written about the university. The problem which has been 50 years in the making and it has a special interest because its really dispatches from the war front. What i wrote engaging in a battle to restore Academic Freedom to the university, to restore the modern Research University to basically our liberal arts colleges in the principles of it. I base my campaign which was for an academic goal of rights for students on the very famous Academic Freedom statement of the American Association of University Professors which these days is run by stalinists who are not happy with my proposals. I took their 19 teen statement which was really the statement that created the modern Research University basing it on scientific pencils and scientific procedures. That is you have a hypothesis and you try to test it by evidence and of course in a liberal arts field humanity, sociology Political Science there is no way its conducting the kind of experiments the scientists actually do so every and issue is controversial 1915 statement said its not the place of a faculty member in a democracy to indoctrinate his or her students but to present them with divergent opinions in a fairminded way because the task the teacher and the democracy is to teach students how to think not tell them what to think. What has actually happened over the last six years is that the political left and i suspect a lot of my generation of radicals stayed in the universities and pursued academics to avoid the draft, to avoid fighting communism which they sympathize with. The reverted them in the 19th century all of them were religious institutions. You are there to install the doctrines of the particular denomination. Because their training ministers and priests. Thats what the universities have become today. Except the religious doctrines they teach and instill the doctrines of narcissism. Identity politics which is culturalism which ill explain shortly. For those of you who are mystified that college students, its not believe me there a faculty cohort behind these these proud students and anti learning students. When i was a radical that i consider myself a marxist revolutionary at the time, i wanted to hear what they were saying. I wanted to answer them. I was in school to learn how to do that. Thats where i perceived it. If you want to understand why there is a concerted effort to shut down the everett other side, its because these are religious institutions and did not dealing with the divergence of opinion as they would in a democracy, theyre dealing with the religious heresy. What you do is you burn them at the stake if you have enough power to do that. Or, you just close them down as is happening to university of michigan, and other conservatives. Ill take it all personally. What happened is beginning in the 70s the left saw the students the first thing they did was begin a purge of conservatives from faculties by not hiring them. Today conservatives are as rare as unicorns. They then purged books that required reading list. The average student will go through four years of a college in our country to never encountered a conservative adult or read a book by conservative who has a endeavor hundred years. Then they purged conservative ideas from the curriculum. They did that by inventing studies, black studies, womens studies, these are all political fields, theyre about leftwing politics. You cannot be a conservative them via womens studies professor. Womens studies is not about the academic study of women, its about training marxist feminists. Training students in the marxist idea that the environment determines everything. That we are socially constructed. This is a socially influenced and socially constructed. The Neuroscience Department you learn that is hardwired into the biological system. So the fields are so constructed that cannot be part of it. That is some of the founders of womens studies who actually believe they should be about the study of women. Ive encouraged and treated by enemies by these political radicals. The next thing they did the next thing they did was to prevent conservative discourse from the outside. When you come to a campus and get treated like this, the newspaper there, the entire report was of the demonstration, and the university was dead. To my presence. Which is the purpose of the agenda of the left. Until 2001 i was reminded by one of these chapters, the left of the university. And golder at cornell. Pelted with oranges, physically attacked. If you have an orange thrown at you, it is intimidating. In 2001 i conducted a campaign, the idea of reparations for slavery 137 years after the fact from people, to people who were never slaves, was a bad idea and actually racist and the indiscretion to say so. When i was invited to speak at the university of california berkeley, i asked the chancellor, i wrote the chancellor and said i knew Benjamin Netanyahu because of threats of violence, asked him to introduce me, just to protect students, and assigned 30 armed guards, from my talk, when i asked to go to the bathroom before i spoke six guys in jackets preceded me into the bathroom and kicked open the stall doors and i remember saying out loud this is an absolute disgrace in america. When you have University Officials like that there is no way to stop it. You have to expel students who do things like these students did or like they are doing now and read college, demonstrating inside classrooms, they dont want aristotle talk because he was white, the university, i visited and thought it was a pretty good school even though it is a leftwing school, very traditional and students were all interested in discussing ideas without attacking me politically but that obviously has changed. So in 2001 what happened as people started to get physically attacked. I had a bodyguard for that berkeley event and i had not been able to go to a college campus. I had been physically attacked before that. Im trying to think. Im a little lax about these things. I visited butler, i did not have a bodyguard at butler and i was attacked through this chocolate cream pie in my face. Not physically damaging but theres a picture of me on the internet looking pretty pathetic, i was wearing a suit full of stuff. I had been physically attacked where violence was intended and i could never finish speech, the massive campus security, campuses know they have a security problem so when i spoke at the university of houston there were ten cops in uniform, two undercover cops in the audience, that is why they marched out because they knew they would be arrested if they did anything but when you go to a campus, and that is the atmosphere it is not an intellectual discourse anymore, or exchange of ideas. On 400 college campuses, only 3 times have i been invited by faculty, once by a dean who hid from me because he was under assault from his own faculty and the fact of the matter is there is no im sure there are decent people on faculties across this country but none has the courage to stand up for conservatives and invite them. The solution to the berkeley problem or any of these problems is for the faculty to band together and invite conservatives and lectures students on campus to fight for the right for free speech. There are no such people. That is a huge problem and an indictment of the whole university system, the College System and that is part of the complete conversion of the university into a one party system and a 1party state and one of the books i wrote is called 1party classroom because that is what it is. 1party state, you get one point of view. One of the consequences of this is the miseducation or lack of education of college graduates. I have the figures here of the percentage, one third of millennials think that george bush killed more people than joseph stalin. 25 of students who actually know who lenin was, a minority think he was a great guy. I could go on and on with these is but of course this has affected our judiciary, you wonder why the media is such a disgrace these days, it is because of the way people are educated. The Communications Department our Training Ground in marxism. I have been to the university of texas, i went there in boston, a professor of communication, a bolshevik, a member of the interNational Socialists, a bolshevik organization which called for a dictatorship of the proletariat in america. Inside the lecture hall where i was supposed to speak, like the one you saw at the top of my talk here, i was only able to continue because there was a vice chancellor who came, this was in the good old days, and said you will be arrested if you continue this demonstration. It took a long time is usually they come in and say these administrators dont say a word to me but they will say there is a safe room for people who are disturbed, distressed by what David Horowitz has to say and to show you how far gone it has gotten a couple weeks ago i was in washington dc and i called up the chronicle of Higher Education and told them i was coming. 15 years ago, since i was probably the leading conservative critic of what was going on in the universities, the chronicle allowed me to write a piece for them called in defense of intellectual diversity which is in this volume the left in the university. So they invited me when i heard i was treated i was featured on the front page of the chronicle also, such a prominent critic so they invited me and i told them that i had a new book which i would like him to review. Sent them a copy so they could look it over and they arranged, the editor who had treated me well, fairly, i dont know if it was well exactly but fairly, somewhat fairly 15 years ago, the one who invited me, he didnt show up for the meeting but they had ten editors and reporters shoot me questions for an hour and they asked me if i would come to videotape an interview on their website. When i left i got an email, they are not going to put it up, no explanation and there was not a trace of my visit. That is the intellectual journal. You can see there is no dialogue, no dialogue. What is the religion that they teach. Very important. The religion is as you all already know identity politics which is really cultural marxism which i will explain in a moment, marxism is a view of the world in which society is divided into warring classes, the communist manifesto, the history is the history of class struggles which is bunk but that is what marxists believe. What you have is two ideas here, actually 3. The first is peoples class is the determining factor, when the bolsheviks came to power they set out to eliminate classes and by eliminate, it was at that point of a gun which is what they did so you were he race the individual, a whole societies built on the idea of individual rights and accountability but if you have a marxists view it is about classes, classical marxism, the marxism i grew up with. The second idea is society is divided into oppressors and oppressed so there is the ruling class and the working class and the third idea is that there is a civil war between these classes and the conflict that can only be resolved violently. If you think about it, there is a certain coherence to this idea, the idea was of course private property which creates the classes is responsible for all social problems, wars, poverty and so forth. So if you have a revolution, the revolution was to take away the ownership and means of production from the ruling class and put everybody in one class, there is a certain coherence to that idea because you wind up after you have eliminated the oppressor class where everybody is an equal because nobody is an owner of property. This is a delusional idea and it led to the deaths of 100 Million People in the 20th century. Very destructive. If you take away peoples identity as individuals. Individual merit, the american idea, Martin Luther kings idea of judge people by the content of their character. However, cultural marxism, identity politics is 100 times worse because it sees society as divided into races, ethnicitys, genders, this ridiculous, the way they judge who is oppressed, who is marginal. I dont know, if you dressed yourself a bit address and have a mustache and put rabbit ears on your head of course you are marginal. Just look around you you are going to be marginal. That doesnt mean you are oppressed, jews are marginal. We have been marginal throughout history. And persecuted for that matter. But this is a very pernicious idea that society is divided into an Oppressor Group based on race, based on gender are based on Sexual Orientation, and Oppressor Group and an oppressed group and of course ideology is one of war. Theres a phrase for it i discussed before but hasnt been picked up by people but needs to be picked up by conservatives. People of color. People of color is not a group. It is not a group. There is not an identity of interests. A common interest, you think pakistanis and indians have a common interest . They are at war with each other. The example i have forgiven is mexico where you have two main ethnic groups, the descendents of the conquistadors who slaughtered the indigenous indians, oppressors and the sentence of the indigenous indians but when they cross the border into the United States they are both people of color, therefore oppressed, therefore marginal, deserving specialinterest, special allowances, dont look at what they do, they break the law, if they break the law suggesting all mexicans, so good at converting whatever you say into what you didnt say, it is to convert power on the socalled oppressed group and Oppressor Groups, look at the world, the maharajahs in india, people of color, behaviors in syria, isis members, they are people of color, mugar b and these monsters in africa, dictators, our people of color. Everybody in the world is people of color except the bad, evil oppressors, white people, the biggest social problem we have in america is rampant and tie white racism, people talk, democrats, people you would think had brains talk about america as a white supremacist nation. It is the arctic, there are some kkk, some White Supremacists but in charlottesville, a nation of 330 million, the ku klux klan once had what do they have, 11 senators, 75 congressman, the White Supremacists, actual White Supremacists, a member of congress. There are some black supremacists in congress, i will tell you that White Supremacists, same thing with nazis and neonazis. Hitler youth is what they are, literally, an organization that wants to exterminate the jews and says so in so many words which i have written more statements, you have to read some to know the extermination of jews is their agenda. I could go on and on about this but this is the greatest problem our country faces. Why are we so divided . Everybody on the left, everybody who is a progressive sees everything in racial, gender terms and lying about it. Hillary ran a campaign on the idea that women are somehow oppressed in this country to the extent there is a gender wage gap so women actually earned . 24 less on the dollars and men for the same work and same experience, same job. Hillary knows it is a lie because she was around when a male dominated congress in 1963 passed the equal pay for equal work act making it illegal to pay women less than men and as i have said many times from platforms like this, you can show in one sentence why it is a lie. If it were true, employers would fire all their male employees, hire women and increase their profits 20 , it doesnt happen because it is a lie and yet where is the media . Where are the referees, where are the sensible people in our public life . They dont exist and that is because of our corrupt corrupted, destroyed educational system. The modern Research University, i got my model of where i wanted the university to look like from having a guy who went to columbia in the 1950s as a marxist. I was never harassed by my professors the way conservative kids are harassed these days, i never knew the politics of my professors, students in the class of one opinion, they took the opposite to teach us how to think is what a university should be, one of the great achievements of mankind, the modern Research Universities that the left has destroyed. Doesnt exist. What is going on at schools like harvard and yale is disgraceful, it is all over youtube. Is there a solution . There are two ways of looking at that question. Sure. My bill of rights was one attempt at a solution if they just observe at the university, the principles they preach everything would be fine, they dont, they dont. There is an administrator in this country who has reached out to ann coulter or myself or any conservative speakers and attempted to reverse this, not one. So here is my proposal. Doing the academic bill of rights, i issued any external forces by university, passed a few resolutions supporting the idea of those principles, there should be fairness, but no legislation wielding of political power but the left has convinced me that appeals to reason our futile. Campaign i waged failed. There are 33 states where republicans control the state legislatures. The Appropriations Committee in both houses of the legislature in every one of these states controls the lifeline, the oxygen tubes for the president s of these universities and universities, no university, public institutions, 85 of students go to public universities. All the chairman of the Appropriations Committee would have to do is call the president of the university and say constantly coming to me to underwrite, make possible this for your university, that for your university and to advance your own careers because you are judged on what you can bring to the university. I have three things that i want from you. And if i dont get some i am not going to answer your phone calls ever again. The first i want you to provide me with the required reading lists for every one of your graduate courses in liberal arts and i am going to submit that to one of our conservative think tanks and they are going to look it over to see if there is parity between the conservative books you require and conservative others you require students to read and the leftist ones. Of course there is no parity whatsoever because conservative books barely exist and i know this because i did a book called 1party classroom where i studied the regime list of 170 courses and i can tell you they are conservative books free. That doesnt even impose on the professor the responsibility not to risk your but conservative ideas but to present them so students can weigh them. One of the complaints i had i spoke at western new England Law School and conservative students, what their complaint was anytime Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas comes up they make jokes about them. That is a way of stopping people from weighing their ideas, a powerful weapon and having submitted those lists, i give you a term to do this, to see that all the required readings for undergraduates, those lists, disparity between required conservative and leftwing texts. The second thing i want you to do is provide me with a list of all the speakers invited to your campus, often paid exorbitant fees. Michael moore will get 50,000 from a state school during an Election Year to an Election Year for democrats, the Supreme Court has already said that means republicans have to get an exact amount of the same amount of money to adhere to the constitution. That isnt happening or hasnt happened. I want a list of all the speakers invited by your professors and your student organizations and i want them within a year absolute parity between republicans and democrats, leftists and conservatives. The third thing i want is i want you, i will again, have a committee look over your faculties and i want you to begin an affirmative Action Program to diversify your faculties. I could throw a dart at a board with universities named on it, didnt matter which one i had, a faculty with 50 or 100 law professors, maximum two or three are republicans or conservatives. You cant tell me republicans arent lawyers. I want you to begin a program and the Progress Report every semester to see your progress and then i will take your phone calls for your projects. Now. Will that happen . There is only one republican, actually two that i know who would do that. One of them is the president of the United States and the other one is steve bannon. When i see other republicans with some spine i think maybe Something Like this could happen. I want to close with the university of houston. This was a National Conference, jews for justice in palestine was created by the terrorist Organization Hamas, the chairman of the board of american muslims for palestine which provides over 100,000 a year for students for justice in palestine. Which is a hamas operation. A faculty member at the university of berkeley, university of california berkeley and the head of the islamthose above phobia studies program, a program to defame and libel and slander people like me and tried to get people not to listen to us. The entire agenda of students for justice in palestine is to spread genocidal lies about the state of israel, the state of israel doesnt occupy an inch, not an inch of arab land. The land on which israel was created belonged to the turks for 400 years prior, the turks are not arabs, nor are they palestinians, there never was a country called palestine, it is a geographical term the romans imposed on the jewish homeland, the jews are the only Indigenous People of the land around the jordan because its derivation is philistine, the enemies of the jews. Palestine is a geographical area, like new england. It didnt exist, palestinian nationality or claim to a nationality until 1964, 16 years after the creation of the state of israel. You can have all kinds of criticism of the Israeli Government as you can of any government but you cant be spreading genocidal lies that come out of the hamas playbook. Calling israel an apartheid state, the only state in the middle east that isnt apartheid and putting maps created by hamas which show a country called palestine existing in 1947, no such country ever existed and invaded by jews, these are not these on our campuses, these kids who are hitler youth and they are supported by every University Administration including the university of chicago which has been people are praising because you cant believe a word that comes out of the University Administrators mouth these days because it is the universities that tear down the posters we put up pointing this out, the universities that provide offices for these hitler youth students for justice in palestine and they have the Muslim Students association which like the muslim brotherhood, creation, the political left which is a totalitarian proterrorist left these days, all of them do everything they can to undermine the jewish state and make them vulnerable to the genocidal intentions whatever it is, 30,000 lockets from hezbollah and hamas and iran aimed at the jewish state. It is an utter disgrace in the silence around it which is a silence by jewish organizations that dont want to upset the muslims, just amazing. Every time there is an atrocity committed by isis, all the liberals in this country socalled rally around the muslims as though somebody is persecuting muslims. Something like i forget the exact number but 7 times the number of hate crimes against jews in this country is against muslims. So just to close this. I have a reform proposal at the end of this book but it would take administrators with some integrity to carry it out. I dont have any faith anymore. I just think our country is in grave danger because of this. It goes down, they have corrupted the k12 system as well, kids being introductory dated from kindergarten, and a respect for use, no respect for innocence, they are on a mission from their god which is history, what they think is history, the right side of it as though it is moving in any direction. That is why they are so shellshocked, they thought it was moving in their direction, suddenly it is in. Of trump hadnt come in and demolished isis, something obama didnt even try to do for eight years, who knows what the future would be. We could be back in the dark ages. However, i hope you will get involved, we have websites to deal with this, campus campaigns. I hope more people on the right join us, not just on the right. An organization that is gone now because it was taken over by the left, there are brave members, i am waiting for them to come out of the woodwork and expose this terrorist network on our campuses and this is just one piece of a gigantic problem over a 50 year period by the muscles of the left on our universities and their conversion to a cultural marxist institution. [applause] if anyone has a question, stand up and ask your question. Thank you. I fear we are having a problem with a certain viewpoint. You, myself, many people in this room started off as socialists, communists, we were starting from a base of attempting to be good, decent, moral, ethical people and were misdirected and once we learned body count of how many people were murdered for this utopia we started rethinking, i think that is what is going on in the university, exactly what the government wants to be doing, talking about government funding, if youre trying to create a society of enslaving humanity, tierney, undermining constitutional democracy they are doing exactly what they want to do, the only alternative is to call them out for employers, dont hire people from berkeley or yale and harvard. Very sinister what the left has done because you cant do that. They have inserted themselves, there still university, gigantic institution, there are marvelous parts of it, untouched, not entirely untouched, because in the medical schools, the science schools there is a leftist campaign to intimidate people into adopting all of the myths of identity politics, a political war going on for student minds but the fact of the matter is that University Like berkeley or houston, a lot of it does really marvelous things in medicine, physics, astrophysics, various technical fields so you cant tell people dont send your kids to harvard or yale. It is a political battle. Conservatives dont like politics. This is a huge handicap for conservatives. When i first came to the right i looked around and said where is the ground army . There is none. Conservatives, politics is a dirty business we engage in every 18 months. Outside the 18 months unless we are trying to get some favors for our companies or Something Like that outside the 18 months we go back to normal life which is creative at creating jobs, creating product, making peoples lives better. Leftists are at war all the time. We created these universities, recreate new universities, hillsdale, the online universities, it isnt as if information isnt available. I dont know much about clydesdale. I have done fundraisers but never been there because there president is a very traditional conservative who doesnt approve of my confrontational politics but the fact of the matter is these are tiny. We are not talking about harvard and yale. Whether they are endowments, every billion dollars, by the way, one of the great things trump is doing and i know the guy who proposed this, part of this tax bill, and endowment tax on private universities like harvard and yale. 10 endowment tax would pay for all the student loans. Trying to think in a different way inasmuch as we didnt have a median information instantaneous, we use to buy we dont need encyclopedias now, we have it all and just reorganized. The internet has greatly increased the power of conservatives. It has broken the monopoly, the information monopoly the left used to have. A lot of things are happening. The Trump Movement is the biggest first time second time when the tea party appeared i said finally at last, a ground army is forming, now it is much much bigger so theres hoping that. But lets not underestimate the odds, lets be sober about that. I think the hardest thing for conservatives is how to understand the liberal mind, the logic. I know that you said it is a religion and doesnt require a faithbased type of thing and i read the book on the liberal mind which helped explain some of it but children and students are impressionable, their minds are not fully formed but their professors and the leaders of the movement, the Progressive Movement are adults and i want to ask you since you had that perspective as a young man, how do they envision utopia . What is their idea . I have written so much about this. The second volume in this black book series is called progressives. The difference is this. Conservatives form their views of the world by looking at the past which is a record of what human beings are capable of, both good and bad. If you read about the founding of this country that is what they did. They studied societies and they thought democracy was a really bad system but it was better than the others on practical grounds. Leftists dont look at the real world that way. They are looking at an imaginary future that used to be called communism, socialism, now it is social justice, all the same thing. Ultimately the same thing, all headed in the same direction, to treat people as collectives, to erase their individuality, to judge them either on their class position or their race or gender or Sexual Orientation and always to see it in terms of oppressors and oppressed. That is what they are thinking if you want to call it thinking. For them it is tremendous. They think of themselves, social justice warriors, we use their language to describe them, they are heroic, living in a fantasy, a romantic fantasy in which they are saving the world. If you are saving the world you are not going to give that up. You are not thinking logically. And if people get run over by a terrorist truck, not guncontrol. Doesnt make any sense whatsoever. Doesnt begin with a straight face to do Something Like that and it is because the elimination of guns which is what their agenda is is part of creating this world where we all get along people dont get along. They havent gotten along since cain killed abel for crying out tears. That is what i want to ask you. Do they just discount history, look at nazi germany they think they are smarter than everybody else and everybody who existed before them. The bolsheviks, lenin, trotsky, these were very smart people. Michael moore you know . He doesnt come up to them. And lenin at the time, that was the first time but now dont have how did the left react to the collapse of the soviet union, the death of 40 Million People, the starvation, the glug, how do they react . That wasnt real socialism. We are smarter than lenin, then i could go on and on. That is the way people think. They are arrogant and they are stupid. And there is so much emotional satisfaction, it is a religion. A consolation for all the disappointments of life. That is what it is. To take that away from them, i described in my book radical son, personal crisis i went through when i realized marxism is a load of crap. It was everything to me. It made everything i did important and that is the way it is for every leftist. You can see in their contempt, their utter contempt for people who disagree with them, their arrogance, lack of respect, it is astounding. You see it every day on television, you see idiots like joanne reed or lawrence odonnell, pathological liars in the case of odonnell but just morons in the case of joy and read, why is she a moron . Because there is no empathy there, no respect for people who disagree with her. I would like to make a point you mentioned the problems, i would like to bring to your attention secondlargest Public School district in the United States second only to new york, she showed me some literature from a course teachers are being exposed to in terms of this, the importance of understanding the five pillars of the muslim faith, the prayers that signify what that signifies, they go into detail about this. Any other religion it would be totally banned. That is the problem. Not that they are teaching muslim beliefs but the fact that christians, jews, probably atheists, are excluded. Why . Oppressors of muslims, political agenda, in minnesota, a wealthy suburb of minneapolis, giving firstgraders a kids book with pictures, a is for activists. X is for malcolm x and on and on. It is a complete leftist agenda. And on that website is a code of ethics for k12 teachers, if you dont observe, you get suspended and lose your life since that would stop all this. It requires a political city council overseas, school district, and enormous guts. Mister horowitz, i have seen i wanted to ask this question for a while. My grandmother had to live in nazi germany. The National Socialists in germany portrayed the jews as being greedy rich capitalists who only got rich because they stole everything from everybody else. According to hitler basically cheated to get to the top. The concept of White Privilege which many liberals talk about today where they accuse White Christians like myself of stealing from everybody else, do you feel the National Socialist rhetoric of the jews influenced any liberals today to come up with the rhetoric of White Privilege . Maybe i should make myself clear. The National Socialists were socialists, they pick the outgroup, the group that is the source of the problem and the liberals in america who are not liberal, they are bigots. And they have picked a group to scapegoat which is white people. And the naacp wants to ban the National Anthem is the most racist and never. It is nuts. But not if you are inside their religion, not if youre inside the religion, black people cant be racists, can they. And two corrupt attorney generals we had during the administration. And who would appear at the microphone as the police chief in dallas or new orleans or cleveland who is a black cop, we are the most tolerant, Inclusive Society in the world. And everyone is white like switzerland or something, not a big problem, we have large minority populations, people who are the age of most people. And one of the most pampered racists in america is ec coates, the darling of every liberal socalled organization and a pathological hatred for america and white people if you read anything and he has written, when i see these issues discussed publicly, what is missing is a simple statement, and john mccain was a christian, these were communists supporting, salvatori and communist guerrillas in the 80s, tim kane is. Attacked general kelly the other day, the ideas that the constitution enshrined slavery. Actually the american founding, slavery existed for 3000 years before anybody said it was in role, not jesus, not moses, nobody, certainly not mohammed, the muslims are still practicing slavery and still think it is okay. But White Christians led by wilberforce in england and Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson wrote into our birth certificate that we are all creatures of god, whatever you think of other people, creatures of one creator, equal in his, i have to say these days, her eyes, whatever, they have an inalienable right to liberty. Every black in america owns their freedom to Thomas Jefferson, the american founding, 350,000 Union Soldiers who gave their lives to free them and president Abraham Lincoln gave his life as well. When i hear that i know im in a conversation with rational people and not religious fanatics. I watch quite a bit of television. I dont see that. It is okay to be white. Some brilliant i am not good at this, sledgehammer. The trolls, i think it was channel 4, the troll channel, conservative trolls put up a sign, it is okay to be white and it drove the left of the wall. Why . Because they are racist. When i see a conservative on television say you are racist to a democrat, we are on us. Thank you. [applause] you are watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see here online at booktv. Org. Now on booktv we want to introduce you to william hershey, firsttime author, his book is called mister chairman, the life and times of ray c bliss. Who is ray c bliss . On unassuming insurance man who for 50 years was one of the behindthescenes mastermind of the Republican Party at local, state and national level. He was a pioneer in political polling, tv, but probably best known for putting the Publican Party together again after the 1964 Barry Goldwater debacle. Many people thought there might not be another Republican Party but they put the party back together, developed a coordinating committee to get john lindsay, liberals like john lindsay together with Barry Goldwater as he knew he had to have a united party. So largely with blisss help Richard Nixon was elected president in 1968 but nixon held a grudge against bliss because in 1966 when bliss was chairman, nixon wanted the National Committee to pay for an airplane to fly him around the country to campaign for congressional candidates and bliss told him no, he would have to give one to George Romney and Nelson Rockefeller and nixon set i wont forget this and he didnt. In 1969 after bliss had pulled off his miraculous miracle nixon dumped him, forced him to resign, he wanted to make him ambassador to denmark and he said nixons eyes glowed and glowed when he talked about royalty, he said i would like to sell insurance. He was friends with eisenhower, good friends with republican robert taft. He was a behindthescenes guy. There was always a little bit of tension between president eisenhower and robert taft. Two times, tried to get robert taft the republican nomination. And it was interesting in 1952, eisenhower was the nominee and he was coming into ohio just before he got to ohio he had been in a state where the campaign was chaotic. He likes ordering us and if you are a rape list candidate things moved along on schedule and after he came to ohio things move just like that and they became best friends, facts president eisenhower, one of the people who implored bliss to become National Chairman in 1965. So when Richard Nixon wouldnt come to the meetings, putting the party back together, had eisenhower call him so he was blisss enforcer. The way you described him it sounds like he was a precursor to Ronald Reagans big ten. He was very conservative himself but he knew in new york city a very conservative guy couldnt get elected mayor so he needed to win in 1965, i talked to John Lindsays top political aide. This guy called and said this is ray bliss, because can i call you right back . Thought somebody was pulling his leg. He called the number back that he was given, this is ray bliss. Who can i tell them you called me. This was ray price. Ray helped him raise money across the country to get elected mayor. I spoke to lindsay, and the big party should be big enough for everybody him as you said about ronald reagan, he was probably the earliest proponent of the 11th amendment, speak no will of fellow republicans, he believed passionately in the two party system. If he was in trouble, he would go to them to have two parties. What is the difference in the power of the parties then and now . The special interest groups, serve power from the party, plotting against that, one of the most colorful fights against the john birch society. And they thought president eisenhower was a communist and gave a speech saying he wasnt, and Barry Goldwater asked him to be chairman, and with another Splinter Group and got the finance chairman who was a former general who denounced that at the social issue, abortion, gun control, the party is supposed to be something everybody can be part of, not just antiabortion, prorepublican, i dont know what he would do. William hershey is author of this book, mister chairman, the life and times of ray c bliss. You are watching booktv on cspan2 was top nonfiction books and daughters every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. This is about three hours and 15 minutes. Good morning. I was told i would haveo