'Sup, you beautiful bastards? Hope you're having a fantastic Tuesday,
welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show, and let's just jump into it.
And the first thing we're gonna talk about today is the controversy and scandal surrounding Tomi Lahren.
Tomi, if you don't know, has a nightly talk show on Glenn Beck's The Blaze.
And if that still doesn't sound familiar, you've most likely heard her at some point on Facebook, saying:
The snowflake
the snowflakes
snowflake
snowflakes
snowflake
the snowflakes
She hates snowflakes and liberals, and she's gonna yell about it, and she has blown up over the past year.
Well, she did something the other day that has a lot of her conservative support bashing her.
And that was, when she went on the show The View, she said this:
[Lahren:] I'm pro-choice, and here's why. I am a constitutional,
you know, someone that loves the Constitution. I am someone that's for limited government,
and so I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government but I think that the government should decide what women do with their bodies.
I can sit here and say that as a Republican. And I can say, you know what? I'm for limited government,
so stay out of my guns, and you can stay out of my body as well.
And there was a lot of backlash, because in general, most conservatives are against abortion.
They don't see it about a woman making a choice about a baby in the future,
or the removal of cells, they see someone killing a baby.
And, you know, this is a massive debate for a ton people.
So she got a ton of hate. People saying, I can't believe I supported you, you're pro-baby killing.
I can't believe you're in favor of infanticide.
Even Glenn Beck chiming in, tweeting:
Rule another label out. I am not a 'constitutional.'
I believe in life, liberty and property.
Just an old fashioned 'constitutionalist.'
Then I saw a lot of liberal people that were cheering Tomi getting all this hate.
Which is also kind of funny to me, because they're happy Tomi Lahren's getting hate,
but it's because that she has a view that a lot of them agree with.
But I guess they still see it as the comeuppance for her saying a lot of the other stuff that they don't like.
But also something I wanna put out there is, just because someone says they're a Republican, or a Democrat,
we shouldn't lock them into a specific box.
According to the Pew Research Center last year, yes,
while a majority of Republicans believe that abortion should be illegal in most cases,
34% actually believe that it should be legal in most cases.
With independents, the support jumps to 60%,
and with the Democrats, it jumps to 79%, but a big thing to note there,
there are still 18% of Democrats in this poll that think abortion should be illegal in most cases.
We often think of both parties in their most extreme viewpoints,
and it's important to remember that people in general, their beliefs exist on a spectrum.
There are definitely trends and certain locked-in beliefs that go with other beliefs,
but you should never really expect to agree with someone on every topic.
Now that said, Tomi Lahren has also come under fire for a different reason,
not because she has this opinion,
but people are pointing to another video saying, Tomi Lahren is a hypocrite,
she doesn't stand for anything, and she says whatever
to just try to get the most views possible.
And it's this video where she says this:
[Lahren:] Pro-choicers are supposed to be about rare and safe abortions.
That's how they avoid sounding like straight-up baby killers?
By acknowledging abortion as not a positive thing and a difficult choice?
Then we have Lena freakin' Dunham out there wishing she could have murdered a fetus.
Wishing for the option to kill your child doesn't exactly say much about the cause,
her character, or the pro-choice movement.
So on top of Lena Dunham, she bashes the pro-choice movement in general as baby killers,
but then she goes on The View, she abandons the phrase that this is baby killing,
and uses it as a place to say the government shouldn't be involved.
Later tweeting:
Listen, I am not glorifying abortion. I don't personally advocate for
it I just don't think it's the governments place to dictate
But of course, the argument people are putting across is, if you're saying that it is baby killing,
Right, to cut back to a different video, Glenn Beck tweeted this one out,
that showed Tomi and other women mocking other women who say it's 'my choice.'
Where they make jokes about whether it's one month into pregnancy and they decide to abort,
or the kid's being annoying after soccer practice, it's the mother's choice.
Right? That mindset is that there is a person inside of a woman.
And that's the main argument from pro-lifers. It's not about a woman's choice, it's about the choice of the baby.
That whether the baby is inside of the mother, or outside of the mother after birth,
that baby has rights.
The idea being that if a mother drowns her baby in a bathtub,
she's killing a baby, which she should not legally be allowed to do,
and they see abortion as the same thing.
So that's why many have been calling her a hypocrite and going at her for her beliefs.
And on top of all the hate that's being spewed right now, on top of the debating,
reports came out that she was suspended from her show this week.
And if that's true, I gotta say, I don't understand the move.
Because if you've ever listened to Glenn Beck talk about this topic,
he says he doesn't hire people that just believe what he believes.
He says he brings people in because he wants different people to be able to argue their points
so that people can have a real conversation.
If you're pro-choice, you can have a job at The Blaze.
Um...
I don't hire people who are sycophants, or who have my opinions.
So then, if the allegations are true that they did suspend Tomi Lahren this week,
how does that make sense? Whether she said something that you don't agree with,
she said something that proves she's a hypocrite, how does that-
How does shutting her down not make you a hypocrite?
I don't know, all this infighting and the shouts from the sideline.
It's a very interesting situation.
So with that said, I wanna pass the question off to you. What is your opinion on this?
Do you think what she's saying makes sense? Do you think she went too far calling people hypocrites?
Or do you think, no, she's a hypocrite. She doesn't believe what she's saying she's going for views.
It's really any thoughts you get from this I'd love to know what you think.
And from there, I want to share some stuff I love today,
And today in awesome, brought to you by The Sports! Shirt.
A shirt that says, "I don't understand what these people are doing with that ball,
but thank you for inviting me to the party.
I hope the person and/or team you like wins.
You could also lie to me about the rules and I'll just go along with that.
I know that design's one of your favorites, so I thought I'd bring it back for a little bit.
The first bit of Awesome is, if you have Netflix,
Dave Chappelle has two new comedy specials that just came out
I have 20 minutes left to finish the second one but I got to say, everything I've seen so far I loved it.
I know comedy is subjective but if you like Dave Chappelle, Boom. More Dave Chappelle
Then, if you're a fan of horrifying nuclear explosion porn,
dozens of now declassified videos from the 1950s and 1960s
of the United States testing nukes has been uploaded to YouTube. It is horrifying
Then we got video of Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds losing it during an interview
Then, today we got some more super hot fire
and if you don't know what that reference is, don't worry about it.
It's just for those that do.
Then, really quick, I just want to give a shout out to everyone who created promoted is involved with love Army for Somalia.
To oversimplify this campaign, people saw that there were people suffering, not having access to water, to food.
So they came up with the idea to let's raise money so we can buy food and we can buy water
and let's try and convince Turkish Airlines to fly it to Somalia
and Turkish Airlines said yeah we love Somalia let's do this reportedly not
only did they agree to do a full cargo flight about 60 tons of food they also
reportedly agreed to transfer 140 tons of food spread over the next six months
and as far as how much money they raised for all that food and water as of
recording this video it is at one point nine eight nine million dollars it is
about the past two million dollars I just want to spread that story cuz it's a story of love of people that didn't
have to do something that did something I think it's important we acknowledge when these good things happen
because otherwise we can have a pretty dark view of the world and also if you want to help push it over that to a million
number you want to promote it link to that down below if you want to see the full versions everything I just shared
the secret link of the day anything at all links is always on the description
down below then let's talk about you -because you cynical bastards won't believe this YouTube apologised
and admitted there was a problem that is not a joke that is a thing that happened they said
quote we're sorry and we're going to fix it now just in case there are people that are not aware of the relationship
many of us have with YouTube this is this is akin to waking up and seeingDonald Trump tweet
hey you know what I just realised I've been kind of a dick for a bit also some of the negative
things about me in the news aren't fake news you'd be like what is happening
did Donald Trump get hacked? but they did it initially tweeting sorry for all the
confusion with restricted mode some videos have been incorrectly labeled and that's not right we're on it more to come
if you don't know restricted mode as a setting on YouTube that is supposed to block mature content on YouTube
and in the past week a lot of people realised a tone of people are blocked
seemingly for not the best reasons and in the story really blew up when LGBT
creators realize that when they talked about their sexuality like them
realizing that they were gay or someone talking about their transition from a man to a woman or something like that
those videos were being removed under restricted mode they were saying all Wed
just me explaining my life how does that make me too adult not appropriate
and then later you can put out a statement on their blog writing we understand that
this has been confusing and upsetting and many of you have raised concerns about restrictive mode in your content
being unfairly impact a bottom line is that this feature isn't working the way
it should we're sorry and we're going to fix it we designed this feature to broadly restrict content across more
mature topics whether these are videos that contain profanity those that depict
images or depictions of violent or discussion of certain diseases like addictions and eating disorders
today about 1.5 percent of YouTube's daily views come from people of restricted
mode turned on we know this isn't about the number it's about the principle of
anyone having access to important content in different points of view event provide examples of videos they
got it wrong on and ending on the note
of it will take us time to fully audit our technology and roll out new changes
so please bear with us and you've watch a show for a while you know I am hyper critical of YouTube but I also love them
well I commend them that something on their site is not working as intended
and that they apologize I know that for a lot of people that's not enough I didn't even realize that have been
available for this long but this has been a feature since 2010 and it's one thing to say that the system is not
working as intended when you go into YouTube's own policy center it's as a video is not automatically filtered from
restricted mode like videos are reviewed by our team for violations of the Community Guidelines and
videos that are age restricted as part of that process will not appear for users that have
restricted mode turned on but tonight I say out of the over 2,000 videos I have uploaded to this channel
over my entire career not one of them is viewable on restricted mode
thats a ridiculous thought you manually you view people manually go through my entire
archive and go no to every single video it kind of seems like a policy pages
lying to me but I'm going to turn off cynical Phil for a second switch back to
positive Phil and and just once again Thank You YouTube for acknowledging that
something on your site was not working as intended and saying you're going to
fix it now we go into the realm of words or words actions or actions and many of
us who continue to watch who are rooting for you will hold you accountable based
on your actions in the future and then one of the most requested stories today
let's talk about sorts of identity last night the YouTube channel SourceFed
announced SourceFed, Source fed nerd and the channel 'people be like'
are being cancelled now if you're new here and you're wondering why people are asking
me this question it's because over five plus years ago I created SourceFed and then later SourceFed nerd
the big thing to know moving forward and I said this on other occasions when people ask me
about the content of their videos or decisions or whatever I have not been involved in nor made choices on those
channels for the longest time and that was always kinda the intent now for you
long timers who know what the original content was and what it is now you know
that it's like it's pretty much a completely different channel than content the people running like I hand
selected the first six hosts for those channel but a change was also kind of the point of the experiment
from the beginning my goal at SourceFed was to have whoever was producing and hosting
that show drive that show of course it's going to change over time initially was
myself and producer than the host then because the funding for the YouTube channels ran out and I was paying for
the channels out of my own pocket and it was burning a hole it was not profitable
at that time I talked to and sold a bunch of channels to discovery digital networks and revision 3 through that
relationship continued for a while I became less involved until I was completely not involved now 2017
the situation has changed further there was a merger of a bunch of different
channels and networks into a thing called Group 9 group 9 is now who owns
and makes decisions regarding those properties so that was asking Phil why
did you shut down source fed, I didn't I didn't make that decision also in connection to this
there was a tube filter article that talked about this that said
that the reason that I took time off was to deal with it it's not the case because I haven't had input
on that channel in a very long time, my time off last week had everything to do with
the future of my show my career and my channel if you have watched a show for the
past year you know that I have some new lofty goals and the show and Channel
are doing better than ever and it's the prime time to do which I'm just trying to trying to do that and going into that
further right now would not be the most professional thing I could do right now
so that's where I'm going to leave that
that said the final note I want to say here and I'll say it with this picture
that I have found yesterday I think I was finalizing a post schedule and our
original hosts in this picture in that big empty office all our rides and ventures end at some point
and it is that journey and the experiences you
have with people that really make it special creating something from nothing putting your reputation on the line
finding fantastic people to all work together to make an even more fantastic thing
the only thing that sucks is it probably doesn't come across to to the people that I employed and brought into
this but I felt very much privileged to work with such fantastic people and
thats where I am going to end today's show and remember
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