and what do you make of his status remaining in the evangelical community given what apparently even some of his insider folks knew? well, it s interesting in the era of the russia investigation, now the new trendy thing is for your investigators to be investigated. i d love to see more scrutiny landing on jerry falwell jr. s church. he is not a pastor. it s very important to remember that. his brother got the church. he got the school when reverend falwell sr. left us. now, i had the pleasure of debating reverend falwell on bill maher s show once, and he was a remarkable guy, reverend falwell sr. he was a segregationist who built whites-only schools. he defended apartheid. he said 9/11 was god s punishment on america. i grew up in the 80s as a kid being raised by an ex-nun, looking at a media culture that said this is what christianity is. and for too long, we ve had a media world where we have atheists and then you have people who scream at women outside clinics, and that s meant
project. meanwhile, they claim it would cure these social ills. it would exacerbate all of them badly through energy poverty. sean: joe, the 70s was the ice age is coming. then global warming. now we just say climate change. but it s really predicated on what? a battle against capitalism, the premise that man on earth is pillaging the planet for profit? well, first of all, hl mankin, who was a democrat, said it correctly. the urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it. you re dragging the majesty of the creation, weather, climate, all these things i ve loved since i was a kid being dragged
tropes seem to follow him everywhere. there is fire where that anti-semitic smoket is. you say that trump sets the tone. he has allowed bigots go about their business. absolutely. the ways in which he condemns racists where you can see it so half-hearted. it s like a kid being forced to do something by his parents. you mentioned world war ii because when donald trump said that he was a nationalist, he didn t just off the cuff say he was a nationalist. at that point, i think, kind of the racism and anti-semitism that he had been winking at in these dog whistles i think. sean: of course the media lecturing the president on civility and tone on talk radio and civility and tone and lecturing fox news, they wonder why people chant that they suck constantly, regularly. there s no introspection, no internal conversation that maybe they ve earned it and the president calls them fake news
don t like tropes. you say that trump sets the tone. he is allowed pickets go about their business. absolutely. the ways in which he condemns racists where you can see it so half-hearted. it s like a kid being forced to do something by his parents. you mentioned world war ii because one donald trump said that he was a nationalist, he didn t just off the cuff was a nationalist. at that point i think kind of the racism and anti-semitism that he had been winking at in these dog whistles i think. sean: of course the media lecturing the president on civility and tone on talk radio and civility and tone and lecturing fox news. they wonder why people chant that they sock constantly, regularly. there s no introspection introspection, no internal conversation that maybe they ve earned it and the president calls them fake news and they bubble and feels like alka-seltzer and water and with
they do get it. they get that words matter. hell, yes, they get it, don. that s even more pernicious, then. yi. it s an absolute moral vacuum. it s an absolute moral vacuum in this white house, and they re all collaborators. yeah. julia, very interesting piece in the washington post. by the way, congratulations on that. you write about how much responsibility president trump bears for the deadly anti-semitic attack in pittsburgh, and then you say that trump sets the tone. he s allowed bigots to go about their business. absolutely. i think you can t overestimate the power of the bully pulpit of a president. you know, the things he says and the things he doesn t say and the ways in which he says them, the ways in which he condemns racists where you can see it s so half-hearted. it s like a kid being forced to do something by his parents, and then five minutes later he s joking to his friends or, you know, his tens of millions of followers on twitter that actually he doesn t