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♪ ♪ >> sean: unfortunately that is all the time we have left this evening. in the meantime, let not your heart be troubled. the news continues the night. laura ingraham is up next and we hope you have a great weekend. ♪ ♪ >> laura: all right, i am laura ingraham and this is "the ingraham angle" end. [cheers and applause] welcome to oxford, mississippi. we are live from the campus of ole miss. they will take on the lsu tigers in a legendary rivalry and the campus has swelled with alums from both teams flooding into town. and another highlight of the weekend, former ole miss quarterback, the great eli manning and his family are
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in town and his number 10 jersey will be retired tomorrow and it's going to be extremely emotional. it's going to hang next to the jersey of his father, archie manning, another former qb superstar who played 13 seasons in the nfl. the manning family is beloved in oxford so it is a special time to be here indeed. i don't know about you guys, but the energy is pretty electric, the crowd is not -- [cheers and applause] i want everybody knows already who watches this show and listens to me on radio for years that i am a major sec football fan and the tradition of football is a huge part of life. not just here in the south but it's also across the midwest, the west coast, new england, where i am from and once a week every fall we gathered together in our homes and bars and stadiums and tailgates to cheer for our favorite team and it is what they call the old normal.
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it's called america, all right? and we told you a year and a half ago that the tragedy of this pandemic wasn't just going to be measured in the number of lives lost but in how much of our culture and our traditions we lose in the process. we warned you that a lot of powerful people would try to use the temporary covid crisis to create a new normal. they still have areas of federal control and with a few exemptions allowed they will exclude you, fire you, even shame you for not complying with vaccine mandates. thousands of americans have been forced out of their jobs just this past week although joe biden last night said, such concern about vaccine mandates and people losing their jobs was really overblown. >> i waited until july to talk about mandating because i tried everything else possible.
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the mandates are working. all of this stuff about people leaving, not true. you got 90 something percent vaccination rate. >> laura: tell that to the employees in washington state now out of work or the 34,000 health care workers in new york who have been pushed out for refusing to get the jab. in the list goes on and on. most heartening sincerely days of the pandemic is how red state america did not reflexively bow down. patriotic, hardworking americans fought to preserve their prepandemic lives. now this willingness to fight for our freedom, to maintain our traditions, to defy the so-called experts -- you weren't elected, by the way, to anything -- to make decisions for ourselves. all of this the left detests and biden, he just doesn't understand.
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speak of the things that concern me. one are those that try to make this just a political issue. the freedom. i have the freedom to kill you with my covid. now, come on, freedom. >> laura: how pathetic, he overheard a president of the united states talk about freedom in such a pejorative manner before? his own cdc concedes that you can spread the virus whether you are vaccinated or not. democrats love calling everything an emergency. covid is an emergency, climate is an emergency, racism is an emergency. you name it because when you call something an emergency it gives washington more power. fast forward to this year, when fauci and others said football, especially college football would be super spread offense. well, all of us ignored them. we knew the science of outdoor transmission better than
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dr. fauci did, despite his prestigious degrees and all of his titles, the mass outbreaks that were predicted did not happen, thankfully. the south and the heartland fought harder than the rest of the country to keep our schools open, our church is open, to keep our county fair is going and yes, to keep college football going. [cheers and applause] and they did that no matter what the so-called experts say. >> dr. fauci says it is very dangerous to gather at a game like this. why are you doing it? speak up in my opinion there is no dr. fauci. there is really just us people having a good time, enjoying life and living life the way we should live it. >> so you're not worried about fauci? >> no. >> he needs to come to oxford and take his mask off and enjoy a game. >> dr. fauci says it is not a
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great idea to go into a stadium. >> that's the craziest thing i've ever heard. >> we have lived too long in isolation and people are suffering from it. >> you only live once. don't be scared of living. >> laura: now we understand that americans have an inherent right to self-determination. that means we understand that life is filled with risks and we also know that we manage those risks better than washington, d.c., ever could. you think about college football, you have the school songs, the chants, the cheers and the parties before the game, that adds to all the atmosphere. but in the end, results matter. stats are meticulously analyzed. tds clement deceptions, passing and rushing yards and in the end, you either win or lose. but in politics other than maybe
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on election day, you can insulate yourself from scrutiny despite repeated screw ups, faulty predictions, fumbles, you get the point. oh, if you are a liberal, if you are welcome that usually means zero accountability. and that only seems to make them angry or, by the way, that they have no accountability and they get more resentful along the way. for us, tonight and tomorrow across the united states, we are all going to be having fun with family and friends and we are going to be getting ready to root for our teams knowing that they are going to make mistakes but we are going to remain loyal and hopeful about next season. it's part of the tradition that the left hates about america. they like tearing down our traditions. you know what i say? life is too short to be as unhappy and miserable as they are. i've never seen anybody hate their own team is much as the
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left hates america. feeling the excitement here tonight, it reminds me of a quote that i read by a ole miss alum in "the new york times" many years ago. she said "we might not win every game but we've never lost a party." [cheers and applause] and in the end, we might even invite dr. fauci. [laughter] all right, here with me now and i'm so excited he is with us mississippi governor k reads, wonderful to see you tonight. i know you've been in the excitement for the last couple of days here, it is insane, i thought tuscaloosa was crazy until i came to oxford. mississippi has been vilified, ridiculed in the press for not bowing down to some of the covid tyrants, yet your state now has a 5.5% unemployment. places like new york city, over 10%.
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>> it's been a challenging time for us and everyone across the country, also protecting livelihoods. i've got to tell you, it is great to have you here in oxford, mississippi. what we really think as real mississippi, you're going to see a great football game. >> laura: oh, boy. all the lsu people out there watching. [cheers and applause] when you watch what is happening across the country, we've been telling people now for over a year, governor, that the recovery could be led by the red states including mississippi. here's proof. the bureau of economic analysis reported real gdp for the state increased at an annual rate of 6.9% in the first quarter of 2021 and that mississippi surpassed prerecession level of of real gdp before the united states did.
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until we started getting ready for the show tonight, i didn't know that fact. you won't read that in "the new york times," you won't read that in "the washington post" but you guys are cruising in mississippi, wow. >> no doubt we are seeing great economic growth, gdp growth that we are seeing more capital investment. last year in 2020, during covid-19 we actually saw capital investment exceed $1.9 billion in our state, which was twice the average over the last eight years. forcing people around the country looking at mississippi and other red states, by the way, because we have been open for business, we have a great place, you mentioned new york city, it's a great american city but you can't find better restaurants than right here in mississippi anywhere in new york city. [cheers and applause] >> laura: we ate at lenora's earlier tonight and it was real good but there are some
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headwinds from washington, governor. here is biden's solution to the rising gas prices. watch. >> the cost of gas, $3.30 a gallon from most places when it was in the single digits. i mean, $1 plus. i don't have a near-term answer but it is going to be hard. >> laura: governor, how about drilling and releasing permits for new drilling and land? they decided not to deliver on the drilling permits, that is part of it, is it not? >> president biden does not have a near-term solution to any challenges, he has made that clear. the reality is gas prices going up is a direct result of the policies of the biden administration. >> laura: he blamed saudi arabia, he said some people in the middle east want to talk to me, i had no idea what he was talking about. >> he wants to blame anyone but
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the policies he is pushed on americans over the last year. america was energy independent under president trump. this administration like it hasn't so many areas has tried to change the direction of the country and hardworking mississippians and hardworking americans are the ones paying the bill, it is horrible. >> laura: quick question, how important wasn't to have full stadiums at college football games this fall? you played this year from a lot of people didn't want you to but you had full stadiums, patch stadiums, how important messages that for the spirit of america? >> there's no question that if msnbc and dr. fauci had their way we would play tomorrow's game with no one in the stadiums. the reality is we have to get back to normal in america and recognize that in the south this is part of life. we go to church on sunday and college football games on saturday and we are getting back to normal in mississippi.
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[cheers and applause] >> laura: governor, which is more an essential service, football or her church go. good to see you. thanks so much. the science regarding covid is crystal clear, they are less likely to suffer serious symptoms than adults. we've known that for almost 18 months but despite the overwhelming evidence biden was pushing shots for kids as young as five years old on cnn last night. >> unlike past administrations, science will dictate this. more than 800,000 sites right now that you can go and get a vaccine and you can do that with your children. we will try to work it out to deal with child care centers and those of you who have children or brothers or sisters who are in that age category above 12, get the vaccine for them. get the vaccine.
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>> laura: but here in oxford they are following the facts and the data. oxford school district superintendent bradley robertson recently entered the mask mandate for schools and saying we have to consider the low risk of transmission versus a high risk of learning loss if only more school officials follow his lead. joining me now is congressman john kelly whose district includes oxford. it's great to see you tonight. the best for the entire population and actually consider the science. >> absolutely. they want to consider the science and then they don't and when people do they want to throw rocks but i think it is bad on our kids to wear these masks all day long, inside come outside when it doesn't make sense. follow the signs, do it if it makes sense and if it doesn't, don't punish these kids.
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>> laura: we've known for a long time children are much less likely to dive covid than any other serious communicable diseases, but it doesn't look like the left and democrats really want to let go of the mask issue for the foreseeable future. in 2024 they will undoubtedly change from years from now. speak of like mandates because it shows control and it doesn't matter the signs, children are . we will vaccinate five euros but we don't care about tens of thousands of people coming over our borders were not testing or making sure they are vaccinated but we are going to make our 5-year-olds get vaccinated here at home. >> laura: congressman i was thinking about this today, how the left, they are in power, they have the house in the senate and lot of statehouses, not all of them. of course they have the presidency and a lot of judgeships. they seem angry. these are happy people here. these are kids and adults and
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fans who just want to enjoy life. [cheers and applause] these are just american people who want to live their lives and be left alone by the federal government if at all possible. the left is so unhappy and so angry. why do you think that is? i know it is kind of a weird, broad question. >> they are angry because they are not exercising enough control over america. that is what all the covid is about, the masks, the border withdrawal in afghanistan, they don't care about any inflation, they don't care about real issues. they want to talk about things that take away the freedoms of guard and patriotic loving americans. >> laura: they are really angry that football has actually resumed and there is no super spread. >> i know these ole miss fans love football. [cheers and applause] >> laura: as you saw the angle we sent raymond arroyo to speak with folks around oxford today. here's more of what he found.
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>> what about tailgating? they say tailgating is a big threat. >> it's part of america. if you want to tailgate, if you want the facts, get it. it's a personal choice, do what you want to do and have fun. >> is happening and i don't think it's that big a deal. i really don't, especially, my wife and i were vaccinated. we have no fear of that. that is the whole reason for getting vaccinated. >> laura: coming up i discover what the running of the tent is all about. plus we are going to hear about two theories that explore what it means to be american and what makes this country great. clay travis in the heady join us in moments. don't go away. [applause]
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♪ ♪ >> laura: i'm here right at the grove where people tailgate and people say it's nuts and it's crowded and there will be a massive rush of people, but i don't know. before the big lsu game it's really quiet so far, i'm not releasing activity. not a lot of activity. [chanting]
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>> lets go, brandon! >> why is tonight important? >> biggest game of the year. we will give me your strategy, how are you going to get your spot? >> going to run, going to go straight forward. >> laura: but you know exactly where you're going? >> no. >> laura: i'm worried about your health. >> now, we are good. >> laura: if it means broken bones, sprained ankles, was it all worth it? >> yes. >> laura: if you don't get the spot and someone else gets the spot you wanted will you even go back to your dorm tonight? >> that's not going to happen. >> we will get that spot. [cheers and applause] >> laura: the running of the tent on the grove is more like the running of the bulls, never ever get between a college football fan and tailgating. never ever. speaking of which, tailgates are
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just a good time, they are just quintessentially american. our next guest is them as a window into the great soul of our country. joining me now is clay travis, cohost of the clay travis and buck sexton show and new fox nation show going deep debuts tomorrow. how are you, man? good to see you. why are you in oxford with me, dude? where are you? >> i'm going to be in oxford, and by the way, that looked amazing and i know how incredible it is going to be for the lsu-ole miss game tomorrow. the pomp and circumstance, the pageantry of it all but we are actually doing our real pregame show on fox tomorrow, we are going to be at the farm tomorrow raising money for the brad boyer foundation. his nephew died of a congenital
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heart condition and since then they have made it their quest to raise as much money to fight pediatric heart conditions through the foundations of the crying is going to be on with me tomorrow morning talking college football. it's an awesome thing fox is doing and i can't wait to be a part of it. it is really cool. >> laura: that is so awesome and we have such a great group in oxford, i can't wait to watch you tomorrow morning as well and i have to say, just the whole idea of people gathering together again, being together, packed stadium. last year wasn't the same, let's face it. small crowded stadium. how important psychically is it to have this completely locked and loaded with people every single weekend? >> you said don't get between college football fans and their tailgate and that is exactly what dr. fauci did and what college football fans finally did come is run them over and
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they said we are going to get back to normalcy, full of our stadiums and have a fully normal life and all those people in oxford know what i'm talking about. i am born and bred in the south, i know how important to the culture it is to be in big fall football stadiums on saturday celebrating your teams and the only way, you know this and all the people with you know it too, the only way we get back to normalcy is by kicking the ass of fear and that is what college football is all about. when we all come together in communion on saturday rooting for special teams and favored teams and everybody is in those crowded stadiums, there is not a mask to be seen, you are high-fiving everybody around you, that is how we reclaim american normalcy, that is how we kick dr. fauci's ass and i am so glad college football fans have led us back to normalcy.
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>> laura: no better way to say it, thank you. they are not just college football but taking back the airways. the definitive list of the top 20 radio talk shows in the country, no show on that list has ever originated from outside a big city until now. joining me now is host of "our american stories" that broadcast from right here in oxford, mississippi. you and i started the radio show all these years ago, i can't believe how long ago it was in 2001. your show was a huge success but you're kind of like a my cousin vinny deal. you came from new jersey and you raise your family here, what is so great about mississippi that brought a city boy down here? >> you've seen edge. welcome to america, by the way, laura. welcome to america. [cheers and applause] >> you when i lived in d.c. and i told you i couldn't stand the place and couldn't wait to be out of the place. i'm a refugee from the north coming home to his home country.
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>> laura: what is incredible about the south's it is really not political. people think it is so politically this or that. it's not, it's just people. it's just people being together and i wanted to do a show about college football because it is actually not political. i am political but the football is nonpolitical. it is about family, friends, little bit of faith and a little bit of prayer and hoping your team wins. speak of the success of our show has been we are telling positive stories about a good ad beautiful people and this is a good and beautiful country. my lebanese grandparents and sicilian grandparents did not come here because it is a way as nation, nor did my kenyan friends, chinese friends, mexican friends. it's beautiful country, it's not a perfect country. two hours and out we talk about america's past and we even told story about barbra streisand bet kind of life is that that she starts out as a poor jewish girl in brooklyn and because of intellectual property rights,
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and meritocracy she rises to be the greatest star in the world it is worth $600 million. what a story and we celebrate her story, henry ford's story and the show was a runaway hit in large measure because it comes from small-town america and most people live in small-town america and you know and i know, i lived in l.a. for a year in new york, people from small towns go to the big cities, they stay for a while and then they come back home. they want to go back home. there's something special about small towns. you know each other, you can to each other and you don't want to be the jerk in town. so we get along because we need to come up we are going to bump into each other over and over. >> laura: although i pretty much got run over on the graph. >> that is a different point. >> laura: they do run over you occasionally. politics is such a dominating force in our lives and you've done so much about education and your show is about allocating america, again, not about politics. but how important is it that
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schools get back to teaching and not propaganda. you done a piece on social studies in america. speak of the social studies teachers are weaponizing educatr activism to which i say become a community organizer, run for office. i have nothing against activism but it is not to indoctrinate. thomas jefferson didn't just own slaves, he wrote the declaration of independence, he helped outlaw slavery in the northern and expanded territories and the guy created a revolution that started the abolition of slavery and it was white countries mostly that started this history of ending the human bondage and it was the christian movement. yes thomas jefferson owned and he was a flawed man, we are all flawed but judging in the context of the time we do that every night, all week long. >> laura: we were talking
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about the netflix controversy of chapelle and all of that. he said, how many shows on netflix feature an evangelical or a devout christian of some sort in any prominent role? i was racking my brain, maybe i'm missing one or two and i couldn't think of any. >> the last time i can think of a priest playing a positive role, "on the waterfront" is the last time -- >> laura: we are going back 50 years. >> 1954. netflix doesn't feature a priest or a small town business owner as a protagonist in any of their work. they are always the bad guys. it is dissonant to how we always live our lives our lives. >> laura: it is bad storytelling in antithetical to who we are. >> it is not who we are. >> laura: lee, so great to see you, congratulations on your success and here's a little more from raymond around oxford. >> there are some experts, is that term very lightly, who say tailgating is dangerous because of the pandemic.
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are you worried? is your family worried? >> now, i am nonfaxed and i plan on staying nonvaccinated and of god is going to take me out it is going to be on his terms and not dr. fauci's. >> if anything can bring the country back at his college football. the sec is in particular, they have led the way. >> do you think the south is leading the way back to normalcy? >> of course, it is america, this is what it should be like. football is not about all these rules and stuff. do what you want and everybody's going to have fun. if you're worried about getting corona, then don't come. wait sell >> laura: he also asked him game goers hear what they make of biden's . we will show you the most concerning moments from the town hall. friday follies next. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪
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>> laura: it's friday and that means it's time for "friday follies" and for that we turned our turn here at ole miss, oxford, mississippi, fox news contributor raymond arroyo. all right, welcome to mississippi. you've been watching the president over the last few days, i'm sorry to hear that, and there were some overlooked follies i understand. >> there were. president biden's guests, he is practically a monday through friday folly but i won't go on. the good news is when he is really in a pickle, when he is simply saying things that are untrue he can always rely on some help from his friends. >> what did you do for me lately? $1.9 billion we took care of. >> los angeles and -- what am i
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doing here? >> is at long beach? >> long beach, thank you. >> those were the two more mild fumbles but the white house spent the day trying to clean that up. those were simply untrue statements for the president told anderson cooper he was going to deploy the national guard to relieve the supply chain constipation. nope, they can't do that. you know why? the white house said we don't plan to do it, that is the governor's prerogative, someone didn't tell biden and then this is even worse, he's been down to the border. he hasn't been down to the border since 2008 when he was on the campaign trail and at that time he just drove up from the southern border. >> laura: is that when biden says, i've been really busy, i've been traveling, i've been doing things, the hurricanes, been dealing with -- >> i know the border. no joke. >> laura: this weekend he is going to have been in delaware 20 weekends, so he actually had
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time to go to the border. he chose not to. >> this is why i lies go a little shaky and that is why the agenda stalled on capitol hill. in addition to all the misstatements, the body language and jumbled syntax, it was downright frightening and during questioning the president just zoned out. he started looking at issues. i don't know if he was looking at jeopardy down there or what was happening but you see if you can make out what is happening. speak of the build back better plan coming call at clean electricity and performance prom has been dropped now from the spending bill. >> is going to be a much smaller dose, basically the same dose but a smaller dose. >> laura: what did he say? >> give the same dose, a smaller dose. i can't print. >> is that how they are measuring it with the kids? >> what is the thing with the hands, is it rock them sock them or is he about to drive an imaginary car or?
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>> laura: are they gripping to reality or what they know? >> i was curious how real voters feel because at this point you give the car keys away to someone and we gave him the nuclear codes. i went to the streets to ask what real people made of all of this. >> describe joe biden's cognitive state in one or two words. i'll wait. >> slow. that is the nicest thing i can think of. >> i'm concerned for him. >> behind the scenes. >> slow. >> i think if that was my dad i wouldn't want him out there like that. i would want to protect him. >> he's too old. >> i'm not -- i mean, i am being
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literal when i say this. >> last night when he was going through his little spiel and couldn't stop, does it concern you? is cognitive state? >> it does and it is overlooked by a lot of people but i think it is a serious issue. >> give me your sense of joe biden's cognitive abilities in one word. >> i'm not answering that question. >> your turn. joe biden's cognitive ability in one word. now they are suddenly shy. >> not a joke. not a joke. >> laura, it is really sad. this is funny, the people's reaction, but it is quite sad that americans feel this way about their commander in chief and this is why politico recently filed a complaint with the white house. he's only done nine interviews since taking office. nine interviews in nine months. trumped at 57, obama did 151.
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and biden is incapable of that kind of give-and-take and you see it in the town hall that was scripted till the end. >> laura: what happened repeatedly last night, it was like phone a friend with anderson cooper. every time joe forgot what he was going, and to some kind of pulled him back like come on, grandpa. >> long beach. >> laura: go to the cafeteria. dinner is at 4:30. come on. >> the $100,000 pyramid. oh, it's long beach! it is the border! >> laura: it was elder abuse. raymond, always good to see you. and you are not routing -- are you reading -- [cheers and applause] >> i'm not rooting for anybody but ole miss. >> laura: all right. it's not just happening at institutions in california or liberal arts colleges. professors across the country are being targeted by the woke mob. in moments we are going to hear from a journalist professor
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[cheers and applause] >> laura: welcome back to "the ingraham angle" live on the campus of ole miss in oxford, mississippi. it is so great to be here, big college football weekend and we have a new story about a conservative professor who claims to be the target of the liberal mob. here in oxford? wow. journalism professor claims he was accosted by school administrators after two students accused him of racism. his sin? allegedly uttering the phrase "china virus" in class. professor joins me now. walk us through what happened. >> well, i think we've got to step back a little too will
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witte's appearance here on campus. i happen to be the faculty advisor for turning point usa and i don't think many people knew that until will witt arrived at -- >> laura: who is will witt? excuse me. >> he's part of prayer u and a podcast, he is quite a following. he comes here, speaks on campus, i am associated with turning point usa and the next day i receive an email from the university's equal opportunity and regulatory compliance office saying that i have run afoul of the word police by using the phrase "china virus." what's interesting about that as i don't think i ever used the word "china virus." i tend to use the term "china flu." i was invited to be part of a conversation. which was to take place two days
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later. the following day in class my graduate students notified me that i had been removed from the class schedule -- >> laura: for your teaching the class. >> yes. for the spring of 2022. so i had been removed by -- >> laura: fast forward, happens then? >> i had my meeting with the director of eeo rc and she informs me that the term "china flu" is a racial slur and by implication i must be a racist teacher. >> laura: okay, what did you say to them at this point? >> i asked if the virus was from china, and she said yes, and then i asked if it was a virus, and she said yes, and i said did i violate any university policy and she said no, but everybody knows it's racist and if you had chinese students in class you would have offended them. what is interesting about that is i am pretty good at recognizing chinese students or
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anybody who has chinese in them because 26 years ago i adopted a little baby that was one quarter chinese, so i know someone from china when i see them and nobody in classes from china. but that didn't seem to matter, i was still in violation of some policy. >> laura: there is a middle eastern respiratory virus, mers, so that wasn't racist to say that, that was the official name of it but let's go deeper, what is really going on. in a place like ole miss, it's all conservative, it's all great, it is actually not all great because there are forces inside this industry, the liberal arts and journalism school and beyond that really want to woke-ify misplace. >> i'm a unicorn in the school of journalism. i'm a conservative professor and i make no apologies for the worldview i hold. i believe in the sanctity of
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life and the sovereignty of the individual. i believe we are all created equal and in god's image. [cheers and applause] >> laura: i have to read what ole miss, we asked them for a statement and they said the university of mississippi welcomes all points of view on our campus and we do not discriminate based on political points of view. mr. burris and is scheduled to teach in the spring. that is their response. >> and that is half true. my graduate classes have been removed. i fully expect the two classes i'm still on the schedule for, an undergraduate, will be removed as well. >> laura: but they said you are still scheduled to teach in the spring? >> i am, two undergraduate classes which is half what i was going to be teaching. on september 9th i received an email from the department chair confirming my schedule. that i would be teaching two graduate classes and two undergraduate classes in octobes had been removed.
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