At his podcast,
and what the hell is going on with
critical race theory is very good,
very informative.
Thank you, Mark, appreciate it.
>> Thank you Mark, and
on the Princeton point here,
you and I have discussed,
at the college level this is fair
game. Go ahead and do it, right?
I mean, I remember 20 years old
going to tour Germany and trying
to find the home of Karl Marx
because- [INAUDIBLE]. >> 1848,
he wrote Mein Kampf, I want to know
what it was all about. So that's
part of the education in America,
if you so choose. So that's that,
more to come, ring mile.
>> Okay, so
that's part of the education.
Well, unfortunately,
the education in America apparently
lacking because Karl Marx did not,
of course, write Mein Kampf.
I understand you might be confused
except that it was kind of
a notable guy that did.
I don't know why I need to go do
research to educate Bill Hemmer
co-anchor of America's Newsroom,
but Mein Kampf is a 1925
autobiographical manifesto
by Nazi Party leader, Adolf Hitler.
The work describes the process by
which Hitler became antisemitic,
and outlines his political ideology
and future plans for Germany.
Volume 1 was published in 1925,
Volume 2, 1926.
Neither were written by Karl Marx,
nor were they written in 1848.
Now, the Communist Manifesto was
written by Karl Marx in 1948, but
the question, Yasmin, is, did he
just mean the Communist Manifesto,
and he got the name wrong?
Or does he actually think Karl Marx
wrote the book Mein Kampf?
So, did he get the name wrong, or
did he get the book wrong,
which do you think?
>> John, it's a toss up,
who even knows what these people?
Who knows my initial reaction was,
did he misspeak?
Did he say the wrong thing?
It's easy to say the wrong thing
when you're on live television.
>> Yes. >> I would imagine.
>> But is he going to retract it?
Is he going to correct himself?
That's what needs to happen.
You need to, at least, educate your
viewers that you said that wrong,
it was a mistake,
fine that happens and move on.
But this is why Europeans and
non-Americans think Americans
are so dumb.
And why everyone makes fun of us
and our crappy education system,
and the education system that we're
not working to improve, and
the high cost of education
in this country.
It's a problem, and
we're seeing it now on Fox News
play out in real time.
>> Yeah, it is definitely a problem
regardless of which explanation
is true.
I assume he has to have
meant the Communist Manifesto.
because he got the author right,
he got the city right,
he got the year right.
The issue is and I think I'm really
trying to be open-minded at this
and play devil's advocate.
If you're going to
have a Freudian slip, should it be
about Mein Kampf, that seems weird.
Mein Kampf is such a singular book
known only for how awful it is
the person who wrote it.
How could you think that that's
what it was?
But, anyway, hoping that
Bill Hemmer is watching this,
I want to provide him a little bit
more information about that book to
avoid problems like this.
Here's an interesting note.
Hitler began Mein Kampf while in
prison following his failed coup
in Munich in November 1923, and
a trial in February 1924, for high
treason, in which he received the
very light sentence of five years.
So, it turned out that historically
allowing someone who did a coup
to just get off with a slap on
the wrist turned out poorly for
Germany and the rest of the world,
so, bear that in mind.
But, finally,
maybe he just slipped.
But he didn't catch it.
And notably, his co-host,
Dana Perino,
she didn't correct him.
Although it seems like she
noticed it because Steve Morris
captured these two frames from
the video after he said that,
can we go to this?
She looks directly at the camera.
I feel like she got it.
Why wouldn't she correct him,
even just to save him?
Did she like that he made
the mistake and
then it looked like he was trying
to find out more about Mein Kampf
didn't understand it, I don't know.
I don't know, these
are the questions that keep
me up late at night.
>> It is a very strange thing
to gloss over and not correct,
especially if you note.
I can understand if she didn't
notice it at the time, maybe she
was thinking about something else,
I don't know.
But she looked at the camera
directly when she [LAUGH]
>> Wasn't speaking,
I feel like that's quite indicative
of the fact that she knew something
wasn't quite right, though.
>> Yes, yeah, and
I know what a lot of people in
the chat are probably saying,
it's a convenient slip up to make
to leave the audience thinking.
That the guy they think of as
the commie wrote the book
that the fascist wrote,
that's a convenient slip up.
Anyway I don't know exactly why
Bill Hemmer made the mistake he
did, but someone needs to fix this.
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