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Charlie Kirk (0:00)
Hey, everybody. Today on the Charlie Kirk show, producer Andrew fills in for part of the show and I come in as well. So it's kind of a fun off the cuff episode. Send us your thoughts on the style of it. It was a little less scripted than usual. At freedomarliekirk.com we cover Dr. Seuss, Andrew Cuomo and sports. We actually talk a little bit about sports. If you want to support our program, please do so by going to charliekirk.comsupport. that's charliekirk.comsupport to get behind the work we're doing. If you want to become a monthly supporter, we have an exclusive call with just our monthly supporters every month. And so if you want to get in on that, please consider supporting us monthly@charliekirk.com support when you guys get behind us, you make us bulletproof and stronger than ever. So please consider doing that. If you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com Fun episode, lots of topics. Buckle up. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
Andrew Colvett (1:02)
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are
Charlie Kirk (1:05)
lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy.
Andrew Colvett (1:12)
His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one
Charlie Kirk (1:17)
of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point usa. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.
Andrew Colvett (1:33)
Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show. This is Andrew Colvett filling in for the one and only Charlie Kirk, one of the producers of this fantastic program, if we do say so ourselves. And I'm excited to be here today. I tell you what, Charlie often gives me the honor of sitting in his seat, speaking into his microphone when he gets to go do other cool stuff that happens to coincide. So not that I want you to go anywhere else. Please stay right here. We've got a packed show for you. But Charlie is on Outnumbered with Fox right now, mixing it up with the ladies there, holding his own. He will be back. Charlie will be back in the seat. And maybe I'll hang out with him. Not sure yet. We'll see how things go. But I want to kick things off with, I mean, there's massive events happening all across the world, from Cuomo having a third accuser come forth to the $1.9 trillion stimulus boondoggle that the Democrats are trying to pass through the fallout continues, good and bad, from President Trump's speech. Nikki Haley's in the crossfire right now as we speak. But really, the most important piece of news. It's not like we could be helping our country emerge from the pandemic. No, the most important news of the day is that Dr. Seuss has been canceled. That's right. We can't have Dr. Seuss, that. That racist old bigot who cared about children so much and has been a shining light of literacy for decades and decades. We can't have him in our schools. Oh, no. Oh, no. Dr. Seuss is canceled. So this is from CNN. Six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published because they portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong. The business that preserves the author's legacy said the titles are. So I want you guys to think, if you had children, you currently have children like I do. You got some Dr. Seuss books in the closet on the bookshelf. Do you have any of these books? Because you might be a bigot and you didn't even know it. That's what the left wants to tell you. So here's the titles. And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street. If I ran a zoo. McElliot Elliot's pool on Beyond Zebra. Scrambled Eggs super. Everybody loves Dr. Seuss when he's talking about eggs. I thought that was, like, mandatory to be an American, but apparently not. Scrambled Eggs super is canceled. The cat's quizzer, the Dr. Seuss Enterprises, which makes these. These books available, says ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises catalog represents and supports all communities and families. And the announcement was made on Tuesday, the birth date of the famed children's book author. How's that for a Happy birthday gift? Dr. Seuss, you're canceled. You have been weighed, you've been measured, and you have been found wanting. Unfortunately for you, Dr. Seuss, he's, you know. By the way, his real name is Theodore Seuss. Geisel. I believe that's how you pronounce it. We just know him as Dr. Seuss. Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, all of this. How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I wonder what's gonna happen to that movie. Is Netflix gonna cancel it? I think every Christmas, Netflix makes that particular movie with Jim Carrey, the new adaption available to all. So we'll see what happens there. I bet they're gonna put a little disclaimer in front of the movie you watch come next holiday season. This movie is offensive to some audiences. Viewer discretion advised. It's like this is the time that we lived in. So from cnn, the arbiter of all truth in the Biden administration era says. But Dr. Seuss had a long history of publishing racist and anti Semitic works spanning back to the 1920s when he was a student at Dartmouth College. There, Dr. Seuss once drew black boxers as guerrilla and perpetuated Jewish stereotypes by portraying Jewish characters as financially stingy, according to a study published in the Journal of Research on Diversity in Youth Literature. This is the part that really gets me. The study. So we talk a lot about. On the show, you gotta study or you gotta, you gotta follow the science, not necessarily the scientists, Right? Because you have scientists that will tell you all sorts of crazy things. But if you actually look at the science in the truest sense of the word science, you can discover truth. Certainly we're not anti science, we're pro science, but we're, we're anti activist scientists. So when they say, well, we're listening to the scientists, the question should then be, which scientists are you listening to? And the same with these studies. When they say, oh, we consulted educational leaders. Well, which educational leaders did you study? Was it Victor Davis Hanson? Was it any of the folks that were on the 1619 Project before Joe Biden canceled it? I'm sorry, the 1776 Commission, the counter to the 1619 Project. Charlie Kirk obviously was one of those folks that was on that commission. They got canceled as well. The study published. But here's the thing. This is the study. Which study? Which educational experts are they including in this study? That study published in 2019, examined 50 books by Dr. Seuss. Get this. And found 43 out of the 45 characters of color have characteristics aligning with the definition of Orientalism or a stereotypical offensive portrayal of Asia. The two African characters, the study says both have anti black characteristics. So I read this and I instantly was like, characters of color. Are we talk. I mean, if you look at the Dr. Seuss characters in the books, and I promise you, I am, I, I am trying to not be insensitive here, but are we talking about red fish, blue fish, one fish, two fish? I mean, are we, are we saying that two is less than one or is. Is worse than one, rather. So is, is the two offended as well? Or is it just the red fish or is the blue fish? I'm not exactly sure, folks. But there is another aspect of this which I think is really important because it shows just how high up the wokeism has gone. Now, this is not a surprise to any of you, but it's significant. It's like mark this day in history, March 2, 2021, is the day that wokeism officially was endorsed at the highest level at the White House of the United States. And it is a brain virus. The real pandemic of 2020 was not just Covid. It's wokeism. And it's spreading quickly. It's very destructive. So read across America. Every year, the president gives a recorded address and it's played on certain radio stations from certain schools. And part of that address typically has been a mention of or reading from Dr. Seuss books. Up until this year, conspicuously, the Biden administration chose not to include a reading from Dr. Seuss or a mention of Dr. Seuss because obviously Dr. Seuss is a giant racist, and we can't have that, can we? So think about it. A book and a bunch of books that have brought so much joy, that have been a symbol of literacy, of learning, of creativity, of good, solid values for generations, is being erased, is being conspicuously denied its rightful place in childhood literature. Why? Because all of a sudden, characters that are not human, characters that are made up in large part now, there's a few exceptions to that, are being called people of color. They're not people of color. There's maybe a few exceptions. Maybe just a few exceptions. I think the New York Post has done a really good write up on this, explaining a few of these examples that are being cited of an Arab chieftain from if I Ran a Zoo. Anyways, folks, the details are relatively unimportant in this. These characters are all made up. It's fantastical on purpose, it's creative, it's colorful. But this is what it's come to. The left is canceling some of the things that we dearly love and that have been a shining light for generations. Now here is. Here's something that's a little bit interesting, I think about this, is that he has long been lifted up by the liberal elite of this country for being a wonderful educator of kids and being a wonderful purveyor of morality. Let's go ahead and play President Obama talking about just such a thing.
