0:10 - 0:17 Afterburner

0:17 - 0:20 Well, we've got a little walk to take today, folks. We're gonna end up

0:20 - 0:24 in the same place we started, but there's a lot of history we need to cover in between.

0:24 - 0:28 OK, let's get started.

Do you recognize this man?

0:28 - 0:31 This is Rodney King.

Name sound familiar? Well, it should.

0:31 - 0:35 He was the victim of a severe beating at the hands of white policemen, and in the early '90s

0:35 - 0:40 he was one of the most famous people in America.

Now what about this man?

0:40 - 0:43 Do you know who he is? His name is Kenneth Gladney,

0:43 - 0:47 and he too was beaten. King is famous and Gladney is almost unknown,

0:47 - 0:52 because King's beating -- which was criminal and appalling -- fit a narrative,

0:52 - 0:54 and Kenneth Gladney's did not.

0:54 - 0:58 Mr. Gladney made the mistake of attending a town hall meeting with Representative Russ Carnahan.

0:58 - 1:02 Now, President Obama, facing rising criticism of his radical health care reforms,

1:02 - 1:07 promised Congressional Democrats that "If you get hit, we'll punch back twice as hard."

1:07 - 1:12 Now, part of that 'punching back' strategy was to have members of the Service Employees International Union

1:12 - 1:15 attend these town hall meetings in defense of Obamacare.

1:15 - 1:20 Well, three of them, wearing SEIU T-shirts, saw Mr. Gladney handing out flags

1:20 - 1:23 that bore the American Revolutionary slogan "Don't Tread On Me."

1:23 - 1:28 Now, when Mr. Gladney offered one of the SEIU members a flag, he replied,

1:28 - 1:32 "What kind of nigger are you to be giving out this kind of stuff?"

1:32 - 1:35 The three union members then proceeded to knock Mr. Gladney to the ground

1:35 - 1:37 and repeatedly punch and kick him.

1:37 - 1:39 Now, let me answer the question that this left-wing union member asked.

1:39 - 1:45 This American patriot, Mr. Gladney, is the kind of person that runs counter to the narrative.

1:45 - 1:49 Racial protection, racial sensitivity and victimology only apply to those blacks and minorities

1:49 - 1:51 that follow the narrative.

1:51 - 1:56 That's why you'll never see Mr. Gladney on the cover of Time or Newsweek or The New York Times.

1:56 - 2:00 Now, what do I mean when I say "the narrative?" Well, let's turn to MSNBC.

2:00 - 2:05 Greg Gutfeld and the folks at Hot Air are trying to keep alive a remarkable story.

2:05 - 2:11 Take a look at this segment run on MSNBC at 10:45 a.m. on August 18th of 2009.

2:11 - 2:17 "A man at a pro health care reform rally just outside wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder

2:17 - 2:24 and a pistol on his hip. The Associated Press reports about a dozen people in all at that event were visible.

2:24 - 2:28 Also, there are questions about whether this has racial overtones.

2:28 - 2:33 I mean, here you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns

2:33 - 2:36 strapped to their waists. [inaudible]"

2:36 - 2:42 And the gentleman with the assault rifle, representing the angry, ugly face of white racist America

2:42 - 2:48 come to lynch the black president? The man whose face we never see, but whose rifle and handgun are used to make the case?

2:48 - 2:50 Who is this horrible bigot?

2:50 - 2:52 Oh, it's this man.

2:52 - 2:57 And what is his hateful, racist, lynch-mob reason for attacking the president of color?

2:57 - 3:02 "I'm absolutely, totally against health care. Health care in this way, in this manner --

3:02 - 3:04 stealing it from people -- I don't think that's appropriate."

3:04 - 3:11 So why was he edited out? Why, in fact, did MSNBC producers choose to cut away from his face and hands --

3:11 - 3:16 but keep his rifle and handgun -- to gin up stories of armed, white mobs at town hall meetings

3:16 - 3:19 ready to lynch a black president because of racial hatred?

3:19 - 3:23 He was edited out because not only didn't he fit the narrative -- he was edited out,

3:23 - 3:28 and the American people were lied to by MSNBC, because he ran counter to the narrative,

3:28 - 3:33 just as that other American patriot, Kenneth Gladney, ran counter to the narrative.

3:33 - 3:35 So what exactly is "the narrative?"

3:35 - 3:38 Well, now we have to go for that long walk.

3:38 - 3:41 These two men are not politically correct.

3:41 - 3:44 Now, we've all heard that term, but what does it mean? Where did it come from?

3:44 - 3:49 Most people think it started in the '90s, or perhaps even the '60s. No.

3:49 - 3:52 Its origins go back to World War I.

3:52 - 3:55 Now, prior to the Great War, Karl Marx predicted that the workers of the world,

3:55 - 4:00 united by class consciousness, would arise as one and overthrow national identities

4:00 - 4:05 and bring about the paradise on earth of world communism. They considered this not theory,

4:05 - 4:09 but science -- accepted fact -- and war would be the trigger.

4:09 - 4:15 War came. The biggest, most appalling, most horrific war imaginable came,

4:15 - 4:21 but communist revolution only came to agrarian, backwards Russia, which was practically a feudal country,

4:21 - 4:27 and not to the modern, capitalist, industrialized nations like England and Germany and the United States,

4:27 - 4:30 as communist science had assured the world that it would.

4:30 - 4:34 Now, as the dust settled on the Great War, a group of Marxist philosophers

4:34 - 4:39 decided to form an institute -- a think tank to analyze what had gone wrong.

4:39 - 4:45 It was originally to be called the Institute for Marxism, and would be similar to the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow.

4:45 - 4:50 But some worried that the Institute for Marxism might be a little bit too, um --

4:50 - 4:51 well, actually, a little bit too honest.

4:51 - 4:56 So they decided instead to name it the Institute for Social Research.

4:56 - 5:01 Based at Frankfurt University in Germany, the Institute for Social Research opened its doors

5:01 - 5:06 on July 22, 1924, and over a short period of time this Marxist brain trust

5:06 - 5:10 became known simply as "the Frankfurt School."

5:10 - 5:14 The Frankfurt School's problem was very simple. The workers, seduced by the material successes

5:14 - 5:18 and general prosperity provided by capitalism, were too blinded --

5:18 - 5:23 that's the word they often used, "blinded" -- by this prosperity and relative well-being

5:23 - 5:27 to recognize their class consciousness and bring about the communist revolution.

5:27 - 5:32 Someone else would have to be the vanguard.

But who?

5:32 - 5:37 Now, while these Marxist intellectuals were trying to figure out who the new vanguard of the revolution was going to be,

5:37 - 5:41 another problem arose. Nazism was on the rise in Germany.

5:41 - 5:45 Many of these intellectuals were Jewish communists, doubly unwelcome in Hitler's Third Reich,

5:45 - 5:50 so in 1934 they moved the Institute for Social Research out of Frankfurt

5:50 - 5:55 and took refuge in America -- specifically, at Columbia University in New York City.

5:55 - 6:01 The Institute for Social Research remained at Columbia until 1951, when it returned to Europe.

6:01 - 6:04 Presumably, it wasn't very far from the Columbia School of Journalism,

6:04 - 6:08 which awards the Pulitzer Prize.

But it was while it was here in America

6:08 - 6:14 that the Institute, still informally known as the Frankfurt School, did its most important work.

6:14 - 6:19 The great insight gained by the Frankfurt School was to divorce Marxism from economics

6:19 - 6:23 and marry Marxism to the culture.

6:23 - 6:29 And the fruit of this fundamental change in strategy is known as critical theory.

6:29 - 6:31 Now, the theory of critical theory is simply to criticize.

6:31 - 6:35 I know it sounds silly when you put it so plainly, but really, that's all there is to it.

6:35 - 6:41 You see, the Frankfurt School found their new vanguard for the revolution against Western civilization,

6:41 - 6:44 and it was going to be the dispossessed.

6:44 - 6:48 The beauty, the genius -- the genius! -- of critical theory was twofold.

6:48 - 6:53 First, each area of critical theory could appear to be unique and self-contained.

6:53 - 6:58 For example, feminism could attack Western culture from the perspective of its oppression against women,

6:58 - 7:02 and that oppression must be unique to Western culture.

7:02 - 7:06 No mention was made of what the ancient Chinese or the Aztecs or the Persians or anyone else,

7:06 - 7:10 how they had treated women. Only the oppression of women in the West was on the table.

7:10 - 7:14 Likewise, African-American studies would only criticize American slavery,

7:14 - 7:18 as if slavery were unique to America. The genuine horrors of American slavery

7:18 - 7:22 and its consequences was a powerful weapon against traditional culture,

7:22 - 7:27 as was the example of Rodney King. But to quote the black African King Ghezo,

7:27 - 7:34 who said in the 1840s, "The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory

7:34 - 7:42 of all their wealth. The mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery."

7:42 - 7:47 You see, now, a quote like that shows the economic incentive of a black culture

7:47 - 7:50 to sell other blacks into slavery purely for economic gain.

7:50 - 7:54 Quotes like that make slavery seem less about racism and more about economics,

7:54 - 8:00 and quotes like that show that there's a little more than white English-speaking guilt to go around.

8:00 - 8:04 It runs contrary to the narrative and it has to be suppressed in schools.

8:04 - 8:08 It is politically incorrect.

8:08 - 8:11 Preeminent psychologist and Frankfurt School co-founder Erich Fromm

8:11 - 8:15 argued that there were no real sexual differences between men and women,

8:15 - 8:18 and that the roles they played in traditional Western culture were simply that --

8:18 - 8:21 roles assigned to them by the culture.

8:21 - 8:24 So now gender studies could launch critical theory attacks and claim

8:24 - 8:27 that all of the oppression of homosexuals or women throughout history

8:27 - 8:34 were due merely to Western culture and the corrupt patriarchy of Dead White Men.

8:34 - 8:40 Dead White Men laid the philosophical foundation for the United States of America.

8:40 - 8:45 If capitalism had triumphed where Marxism had failed, the only way left to bring down

8:45 - 8:50 this edifice of success and prosperity was to go to the root morality that it was based upon

8:50 - 8:56 and attack it from all sides. Gender studies, radical feminism, African studies, Native American studies,

8:56 - 9:02 the deconstruction of classical literature to show racism or sexism or whatever other useful -ism

9:02 - 9:05 for philosophies that didn't even exist at the time of their writing --

9:05 - 9:12 all of these programs and all they do is inculcate and aggravate a sense of rage, separatism and victimology

9:12 - 9:16 and assign to the only culture that actually tries to eradicate these injustices

9:16 - 9:20 the sole onus of their origins.

9:20 - 9:23 Now, I said that critical theory was brilliant strategy in two ways,

9:23 - 9:28 the first being that it launched multiple, apparently unconnected attacks against the dominant culture.

9:28 - 9:35 But the real source of its power and genius, however, is that the criticism never demands an alternative.

9:35 - 9:38 What might have been better, what might have worked in its place,

9:38 - 9:41 what alternatives have been tried successfully in the past -- nothing.

9:41 - 9:43 That's because they have nothing.

9:43 - 9:48 There is no logic, no history and no factual underpinning to their dreams and philosophy.

9:48 - 9:54 Everything they believe in has proven to be wrong. It's been drowned in oceans of blood and tears.

9:54 - 9:58 But why should mere fact trump ideology? One of the main pillars of the Frankfurt School,

9:58 - 10:03 Max Horkheimer, famously wrote, "Logic is not independent of content."

10:03 - 10:06 Yes it is. Yes, it is!

10:06 - 10:10 Even the idea of facts, logic, reason and history are under attack, which is why Rachel Maddow

10:10 - 10:15 will do 30 minutes making fourth-grade jokes about "teabaggers" because that infantile snark

10:15 - 10:21 is all she has against common American citizens who are quoting Hamilton and Jefferson and Adams,

10:21 - 10:25 chapter and verse, and who are referring to the various clauses of the U.S. Constitution

10:25 - 10:30 and asking where these new federal powers draw their Constitutional legitimacy.

10:30 - 10:32 You can't argue with that.

You can't even let that come out.

10:32 - 10:36 No, let's make teabagger jokes, and let's just mock the rubes instead.

10:36 - 10:42 America -- the Frankfurt School's bastion of racism and sexism -- fought a civil war

10:42 - 10:48 and lost 360,000 Union dead to eliminate the shameful heritage of slavery.

10:48 - 10:54 America has elected a black president and run a female for vice-president twice.

10:54 - 10:57 Is there so much as a single black mayor in all of Europe?

10:57 - 11:00 Are there even any black people living at all in China? None of that matters.

11:00 - 11:04 It's off the narrative -- in the same way that Kenneth Gladney is off the narrative,

11:04 - 11:09 the narrative being that President Obama's radical socialization of American health care --

11:09 - 11:15 and in fact the entire economy -- is opposed only by a small group of rural, white, ignorant, paid,

11:15 - 11:20 gun-toting lunatics driven by a racial hatred for a black president.

11:20 - 11:25 That's the narrative. And it will be maintained, even if it means MSNBC producers and executives

11:25 - 11:29 have to work throughout the night or over the weekend finding the footage they need

11:29 - 11:34 to tell the story, and excising those faces and hands that inconveniently get in the way.

11:34 - 11:38 Now, I understand that Mr. Gladney is bringing a lawsuit. Good for him.

11:38 - 11:43 If I was this unnamed patriot with the AR-15 -- I can't find his name, because the media

11:43 - 11:48 never deemed it worthy to report it -- then I would sue MSNBC for defamation of character

11:48 - 11:54 and for using me as a pawn to tell the exact opposite story I was there to tell myself.

11:54 - 11:57 You know, there's a line in the movie "Serenity" that I often think of these days,

11:57 - 12:01 and that line is "You can't stop the signal."

12:01 - 12:03 The truth will get out.

12:03 - 12:06 The left has been telling these lies for almost 100 years now,

12:06 - 12:10 in order to resurrect a political philosophy that has killed no less than 100 million people

12:10 - 12:13 and still will not die.

12:13 - 12:18 Now, do I think that Contessa Brewer, Rachel Maddow and the producers at MSNBC are part

12:18 - 12:21 of a vast Frankfurt School conspiracy? Of course not.

12:21 - 12:26 Contessa Brewer does not strike me as a person who was hired for her deep historical perspectives,

12:26 - 12:30 but that's the power of the narrative, you see. It's now so deeply and widely embedded in the culture

12:30 - 12:34 that it's simply what people believe.

12:34 - 12:39 And if there were any real journalists left in the world, we'd have heard more about the Frankfurt School.

12:39 - 12:45 But the signal will get out, even if it's just through the efforts of a few of us sitting here in our basements,