[NOISE] Let's go.
>> Yeah, get the fuck out of here.
>> Proud Boys were ran out of a Drag Queen Story Hour that was hosted by
Attorney General Leticia James in New York,
and they thought they were gonna show up and cause problems,
but they ended up leaving with their tail tucked between their legs.
They were treated accordingly by counter protesters and were chased away.
Now, before we get to the Proud Boys, a few important notes about the event
itself, this all went down at the center which is an LGBTQ community center.
The event was hosted by Drag Queen Story Hour which
happens to be an entire nonprofit organization.
The event was packed with protesters who were both for and against the story hour.
We've got more video.
Let's watch.
>> [NOISE] We love
the children,
and we wanna
protect them
[NOISE].
>> Welcome, we're here, we're clear.
>> Now you can notice from the video that the Proud Boy side of the protests
were much smaller than the Pro Drag Queen Story Hour side of the protest.
Now, Leticia James said in a statement yesterday that the recent rise
in anti-LGTBQ+ protests, rhetoric, and
policies has left New Yorkers myself included devastated and disappointed.
But I know better than anyone that when the choice is between love and
hate between joy and venom, New Yorkers will always choose love, and
New Yorkers will always choose joy.
We have more video in just a moment.
So stick around for that.
But Cenk, how good is it to hear Proud Boys cry about
how they were [LAUGH] like, >> Yeah, I hear you on that, and
obviously it's good that they got run out of town there with this nonsense talk.
But in a crazy role reversal here, I'm gonna take the position you took earlier
in the show, back I watched the whole video and the guy who had to cut on his
face, he kept saying we just came to help people, we just came to help people.
No, no, hold on, hold on.
I think there's some of these right wing nut jobs got convinced by right wing media
that they're actually doing like weird things to kids in those things,
cuz they say it all the time.
Right wing media is one of the worst things on the planet.
And so they just lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie all the time to create fear and
anger in their voting base.
So two Proud Boys guys probably thought like, my God, they're probably gonna grab
kids on the street and we're gonna go help them etc, and, but that's not true guys.
It's not true.
They're trying to get you to hate people who are doing drag queens,
drag shows or anyone in the LGTBQ community and
then they use the guise of protecting kids to get you angry and afraid so
that you'll go attack them, and they will see scenes like this.
Now, I love that the LGTBQ community stood up for itself,
and they were a much larger, and they said no, not on our watch and
goddamn right we're gonna do the shows, right?
And so I love that part of it.
But the right wing media is what's driving all this fear and
hatred in the first place.
>> Interesting, interesting time to stay.
I mean, I don't know what's in the heads of these Proud Boys.
All I do know is there are certain figures like Kyle Rittenhouse type
figures who show up to events because they're looking for trouble.
So I would put the Proud Boys in that camp, but
obviously, I don't know for sure.
What I do know is we have some more video that I wanted to show you.
This is from Olea Scooter Castor, who's the founder of Freedom News TV.
Just wanna give them credit for this video.
Let's watch.
>> [NOISE]
>> Can you tell us what happened?
>> [NOISE]
>> And the cars is gonna lock?
>> Yes. >> And where's the lock?
All right, so we're gonna try to walk you over there easy buddy.
>> [NOISE]
>> So they were clearly outnumbered.
People are chanting and yelling at them as they're walking away,
they're all clearly being escorted away.
So look, the one thing I just wanna say about this is drag
shows are not inevitably sexual in nature, and
I think the right wing thinks they are, and that's just a lie.
I remember there used to be or there still is actually this,
there's this bar where I used to live, and every Saturday they have a brunch,
a drag queen brunch where people are doing karaoke.
It's not sexual at all.
Not even close.
In fact, the drag queens who perform are anything but sexual and in fact, like,
say some pretty insulting things to you if you're not good at karaoke as they did to
my best friend Lauren once.
But nonetheless, like, yeah, you're right.
I mean, there is this narrative in right wing media that drag queens and
every drag queen performance is inevitably sexual when that's not true.
But what's interesting is if the right wing is genuinely concerned about
sexual messaging towards children, want to show you this quick image
that Rand Paul decided to put out there over the weekend.
He's with his son, okay?
Can you believe Hunter, I'm sorry, Hunter Kimball.
I don't know if that's his son, was disciplined for
wearing this shirt in Utah, okay?
So what is, not his son.
My bad.
So what is that shirt?
Well, that shirt is basically featuring guns engaging in a sexual position.
So gun's doing 69 on each other because I don't even know why that's a thing.
I don't know who came up with that logo, that image, but
why is it okay for a kid to wear a shirt or
a hoodie in that case that has guns doing a sexual position?
>> Yeah, let alone the fact that those guns are used to murder children on
a regular basis.
So look, the oldest trick in the book by Republicans is we're doing
our hatred to protect the children, right?
So we hate gay people and we are not allowed to say that your parents are gay,
for example, in Florida, in a classroom because we're protecting the children.
We trans people drag queens, etc.
We're protecting the children.
Abortion.
You have to vote for Republicans that are gonna give tax cuts to the rich and
never do anything for you because the children, they're killing the children.
This is the oldest trick in the book, okay?
Now, in reality, there are people killing the children.
Those are the guys who have, they are 15s that were in that shirt that go into
schools and kill them 20 at a time.
There are a lot of things that do great damage to our kids.
They're not passing laws all across the country saying,
we should make child labor legal again.
So and they're having the kids work in meatpacking plants and
their fingers getting cut off, etc, etc, right?
So when it comes to actually protecting the children, the Republicans don't wanna
do it under any condition, but they wanna trick you into getting your votes.
So they pretend to be in favor of the children.
Plus they get the added benefit of driving your fear and hatred towards the others.
So that's exactly what they're doing here.
So that's why I think a lot of the people that are in Q and on Proud Boys and
other groups, they genuinely believe it, especially the Q and I guys,
half of them are completely other lunatics.
Some portion of them were actually sexually assaulted as a kid, and
they're really worried about protecting kids.
So they're the most susceptible to propaganda.
So and the Republicans know that and take advantage of them,
they're disgusting people, the Republican leadership.
>> So real quick with Rand Paul, apparently he later took
down the image with the young boy, maybe because he got called out.
So let's go to Laura Bassett's tweet here.
This shirt, by the way, he deleted it.
So obviously you don't see the image there, but
she had quote tweeted the image and said this shirt is called guns and 69 and
uses the American flag to depict AR-15s having sex.
But tell me more about how queens and trans people and
library books are grooming our kids.
And yes, that is, in fact, the name of the shirt.
Guns and 69 USA flag shirt.
For the low, low price of 22.99, if you want your kid to wear a shirt
featuring assault weapons performing oral sex on each other.
>> All right,
that's the last thing is to go back to my point from earlier in the show.
Yeah, but some people do wanna believe that,
they wanna believe that guns don't harm kids because they like their guns, and
they wanna believe that gay people do harm their kids cuz they don't like gay people.
So when Republican leaders do that propaganda, unfortunately,
it finds a welcome audience in some portion of their base.