Conservative pundit Laura Ingram is
calling for Republicans to defund
the military, wow.
What seemed like a moment of
clarity about the tons of money
that goes to the military and
military contractors.
The reality is that she's looking
to protect the white supremacy in
the ranks of the armed forces.
So this all started when the
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
at his confirmation hearings,
where he vowed to root out white
supremacy and right ring radicalism
in the military.
So on Wednesday, a couple days ago,
he tweeted out just how they were
going to begin that process,
because it seems like
a pretty big one.
So he tweeted, today I met with
senior leaders to discuss extremism
in the military, as the first
step I'm ordering a stand down to
occur over the next 60 days.
So each service, each command and
each unit can have a deeper
conversation about this issue,
it comes down to leadership,
everyone's.
So he's going to break it down
amongst all of them to do
it this way.
There's more details about how
they're looking to approach this
and they also understand exactly
how tough this might be.
So over at Vanity Fair they were
talking about, they quoted
John Kirby, who is the Pentagon
spokesperson saying we don't know
how we're going to be able to get
after this in a meaningful,
productive, tangible way.
And that is why we had this meeting
today and that is certainly why he
ordered to stand down, so
John Kirby was saying that.
So it's a bit of a tough thing, so
after all that went down Laura
Ingram had a little bit of anger
towards the way they were going to
go about this and she has this to
say about what she wants to do.
>> Are they worried that members of
the military are going to side
with the constitution?
Instead of crazy social justice
warriors who want to remake America
and even remake the military?
Finally a message
to the republicans like Liz Cheney,
this is your opportunity to show
everyone that you'll fight harder
against the Democrats than you do
against Donald Trump.
Refuse to allow a single US
taxpayer dollar to fund
this ideological and un-American
purge of the US military or
expect a lot of us to push for
steep cuts in military spending.
After all, why should we find
an organization that Democrats plan
to use not to protect us but
to restrain us?
>> Who is us?
How many times is us getting thrown
around and in that, we're obviously
talking about white supremacy and
people who have
been in military ranks?
Pursuing this type of stuff without
us really noticing it or
really do anything about it?
This is where the air comes now
suddenly there's,
we need to pull back some funding
on the military before they rip
us apart and take us out, who's us?
I thought, I don't know if she's
ever denied her stances on how she
feels about white supremacy but
she's definitely letting us know
every other time she speaks
about the way she really feels.
This is the golden calf for
the Republican Party,
is the defense of our nation,
the military, my God,
if we defunded we die?
Do you know that immediately as
soon as we take a dollar from the
military and put in something more
useful we'll die, the country like
implodes and goes into this hole
that starts right around Missouri.
That's what happens to the country,
but hey, if we're talking about
reading white nationalist, white
supremacist from the military.
Let's take away all that money
because that's more important than
the country collapsing on itself.
>> So JR, excellent point,
the Secretary of Defense said that
they want to make sure that there
weren't white supremacists and
right wing extremists
within the ranks working against
the United States Government.
If Laura Ingraham thinks that's us,
well then you've
kind of answered your own question.
Okay so you've admitted that you're
in that category and she says not
a dollar to the United States
military if they're going to root
out white supremacist.
But that is not a new opinion,
you should not be overly surprised
by that, because remember,
white supremacists in the south
attacked the United States military
to defend white supremacy.
That is literal, that's a fact,
that's exactly what happened.
So they prioritized their racism to
maintain slavery over their love
of the United States military.
In fact, that's why they attacked
you as military and murdered so
many of us to protect their
cherished white supremacy.
So there's nothing at all new for
the right wing that's the history
of America is the right wing doing
that for centuries.
So in the longer version of that
rant that went on air,
she conflated so many things,
she said are they going to be
targeting Christians?
No, they never said that,
you made it up.
And then she said, now remember
when we were targeting Muslims and
they said it was unacceptable.
And she read a bunch of clips of
people including Hillary Clinton
saying, we should not be going
into Muslim neighborhoods and
religious places and
targeting people who are innocent.
Well, yeah that's true, but
that's because she said, Muslims
overall in their communities,
they didn't say Muslim extremists.
So if you said to any rational
person on the left, hey the FBI
has or the United States military
has information about Muslim
extremists that might do an attack,
should they be investigated?
Our unified response would be
of course, of course they should be
investigated, you know why?
We don't want to be attacked by any
extremist Muslim, right wing,
white supremacist or otherwise.
So but if you watch that whole
segment Laura Ingraham did
a Masters class in how to lie to
people.
She pretended they were targeting
Christians and all right
wingers and all white people, and
that they were leaving Muslim
extremists alone
when the exact opposite is true.
>> The cheesy way these things
always flow though, as soon as you
see them pointing out one thing and
potentially calling it
a hypocritical position, that'll be
the one that they tend to take.
And then you look the wrong way
while they're going ahead and
doing everything that they've done.
I want to point out one other thing
that she pointed out that I think
was it wasn't that subtle, but in
the midst of everything else that
was the the basis for her speaking.
It was a subtle,
I wouldn't call it a threat but
just at least a head nod.
And republicans like Liz Cheney,
if you want to prove to us that
you're willing to fight democrats
as hard as you willing to
fight Donald Trump or Republicans,
that love Donald Trump.
You're going to do what I say right
here which is oppose the military,
blah blah and the rest of it.
So this is going off of the list
Cheney challenges that happened
within the house and they're in
fighting when they tried to rid her
of her positioning as one of the
lead Democrats in the house, sorry.
Lead Republicans in the House
because of her
vote to impeach Donald Trump, this
is still harkening back to that.
This is bringing back Kayla's
change don't forget, a large
portion of the Republican Party
still upset with you even though
you survived because
McCarthy saved you behind somehow.
Don't forget, we're still here and
we'll do something to you if you
don't start listening to us,
you need to prove to us you're
still a right kind of Republican.
That was still baked in there,
very, very obviously.
>> And something that I think is
really important to bear in mind
also is the extent to the danger
brought by right wing extremists.
Over the last 20 years they have
been responsible for
more deaths in this country than
any other extremist group.
And yet Laura Ingraham wants you to
focus on Muslims or other groups of
individuals, not these extremists
and white supremacist as well.
And the thing is,
these are a direct threat to our
government and we got to see some
of that going on on January 6th.
And if we continue to ignore it and
she holds up, shakes these shiny
keys to the side so
that you focus on something else.
And we don't address those things,
then it's going to continue to be
problematic and especially when we
have these individuals infiltrating
our military who are supposed to
be protecting us.
>> So one of our members just wrote
in and I love doing this show with
you guys.
In a sense, a Seattle Seahawks have
the 12th man on the field that's
their fans, we have our 12 hosts.
So perpendicular time wrote in here
kind of impressive that she just
flat out lied about what
the Pentagon said.
Yes, the Pentagon never said
anything about Christians at all,
they didn't talk about Christian
extremists or Christian moderates,
they didn't they never
said the word Christian,
she just made it up right?
And they didn't say white people in
general that's nuts.
And they didn't say
conservatives in general,
that'd be half the country.
And maybe more than half
the military, that'd be a giant
waste of time to investigate every
right-winger in the military,
I'm I in favor of that?
No, the military waste way too much
money as it is, but
I'm I in favor of them
investigating white supremacist and
right-wing extremists who
are planning to do violence.
Who in their right mind wouldn't be
in favor of investigating that?
Do you want them to
just carry out the violence?
What are you in favor of?
It's insanity.
>> Yeah.
>> But if their plan is what Laura
Ingraham said at the end, if you
dare investigate white supremacist
in the military, we'll make sure
the military budget gets cut.
Okay, deal,
I'll take both sides of that, yeah.
All right, well investigate
white supremacists and
cut the military budget because I'd
much rather have it go into health
care and education, deal.
>> Absolutely.
And sorry, my very last thought.
And thinking about the indictment
that Laura Ingram has on the people
that she claims to be a part of
the groups of conservatives
Christians and Republican,
the Republican Party in general.
Are you going to weed conservatives
out of the military?
Are you going to weed religious
Christians out of the military?
You're calling them on white
supremacist, this is
the belief pattern, it's if we keep
talking about Christianity and
conservative movement they're all
white supremacists, right?
So stop blaming us for saying that
many Republicans are racists and
white supremacists and that
the conservative movement likes to
coalesce around their beliefs.
You said every time they always
point out, they give their their
dog whistles to their followers and
say, hey, can you see they're
attacking you guys,
you Christians, you conservatives.
Shouldn't they not,
they always speak up and say hey
you live keep calling us racist you
guys like to use it all the time.
Hey, you know who uses
it all the time?
Laura Ingram uses it all the time
to fire you up in the other
direction but when someone says
hey, you guys might want to start
rejecting that racism and white
supremacy because you look bad.
And in fact you're dangerous they
go, how dare you?
Hey, both sides of calling you what
you are and you celebrate
it when Donald Trump and
people like our Ingram say, hey,
my white supremacist stand up.
They go, yes, so which one is it?
You can't get mad when one person
identifies you and
then the one that you support does
the same thing.