{"id":115470,"date":"2019-02-03T08:15:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T12:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=115470"},"modified":"2019-02-03T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T12:18:00","slug":"a-dark-age-has-descended-upon-us-because-the-left-controls-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=115470","title":{"rendered":"A <b>Dark Age<\/b> has descended Upon US because the <i>Left<\/i> controls Silicon Valley (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Dennis Prager: \u2018We Are in a Dark Age\u2019 Because Left Controls Silicon Valley<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_115471\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/25279689270_792eed7c4c_o-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115471\" class=\"size-full wp-image-115471\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/25279689270_792eed7c4c_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/25279689270_792eed7c4c_o-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/25279689270_792eed7c4c_o-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-115471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gage Skidmore\/Flickr<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>by Robert Kraychik<br \/>\nBREITBART<\/p>\n<h2>Dennis Prager arraigned\u00a0the modern era as \u201ca dark age\u201d created by the \u201cleft\u2019s control of Silicon Valley, academia, and media.\u201d Prager offered his remarks on the status quo of free speech and expression in a Friday-aired interview on SiriusXM\u2019s\u00a0<em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em>\u00a0with host Alex Marlow.<\/h2>\n<p>Left-wing axioms, premises, and narratives are increasingly accepted as articles of faith within a progressively censorious society, warned Prager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what we are now at in the Orwellian world that the left has created,\u201d assessed Prager. \u201cAny difference is not debated. It is evil. So if you say America is not racist, you are a racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"powr_1\" class=\"a8d padok\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"powr_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/player.powr.com\/iframe.html?account=100010177&amp;player=743&amp;domain=breitbart.com&amp;terms=prager%20dennis%20left%20are%20dark%20age%20controls%20silicon&amp;uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2019%2F02%2F01%2Fdennis-prager-we-are-in-a-dark-age-because-left-controls-silicon-valley%2F&amp;c=1549185171797\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>LISTEN<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/568506339&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Prager continued, \u201cIf you say, \u2018Well, wait a minute, there really isn\u2019t a wage gap if you factor in hours worked and a whole host of other fair criteria,\u2019 then you\u2019re a misogynist.\u00a0So there\u2019s a list of things that you are, so that the left never, ever, ever has to to debate you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prager University (PragerU), a collection of videos presenting conservative positions on a myriad of subjects, has been targeted for censorship by Google-owned YouTube and other technology companies.<\/p>\n<p>Marlow invited Prager\u2019s comment on suppression of the organization bearing his namesake.<\/p>\n<p>Prager explained, \u201cWe have a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2019\/01\/15\/prageru-files-new-lawsuit-against-google\/\">lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0with Google, which owns YouTube. YouTube has placed 80 of our 400 videos on a restricted list. That means it\u2019s lumped with pornography and violence, so that kids in libraries and schools can\u2019t see them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PragerU videos are presented by relevant subject matter experts, including former foreign heads of state and academics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prageru.com\/videos\/why-did-america-fight-vietnam-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Victor Davis Hanson<\/a>, a real flamethrower, and the former Prime Minister of Canada,\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prageru.com\/videos\/why-trump-won\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Stephen Harper<\/a>. We\u2019ve got four former prime ministers who\u2019ve given videos, four Pulitzer Prize winners, liberals like\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prageru.com\/videos\/israels-legal-founding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Alan Dershowitz<\/a>, but it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Prager stated, \u201cIf you are not on the left. You are to be shut down. We have never, ever had anything like this in American history. We are in a dark age because of the left\u2019s control of Silicon Valley, academia, and media. It\u2019s a dark age that we are living in right now, and it is entirely left-wing induced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question really is at what point will the average American realize that the left is undoing the American Revolution?\u201d asked Prager. \u201cAnd I mean that literally. I don\u2019t mean that figuratively. I don\u2019t mean that as an attack. It\u2019s as factual as two plus two is four.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Left-wing promotion of \u201csame-sex marriage\u201d increased momentum for a broader social refusal to acknowledge differences between men and women, maintained Prager.<\/p>\n<p>Prager remarked, \u201cThe ultimate rationale for same-sex marriage [is the line] \u2018gender doesn\u2019t matter, only love does.\u2019 Once you say gender doesn\u2019t matter, that followed. Remember, there was actually something before \u2018gender doesn\u2019t matter,\u2019 and that was the feminist line of \u2018genders are the same.\u2019 So if genders are the same, then gender doesn\u2019t matter. If gender doesn\u2019t matter, you are any gender you want. So it is a logical progression from the original statement \u2018men and women are no different,\u2019 which was already being taught when I was in college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spotify, an online music service, banned the following PragerU advertisement:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Bans PragerU From Advertising | Short Clips\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qy9bHM2miuo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Prager said, \u201cIt would make better radio to say that I was shocked [over Spotify\u2019s banning of a PragerU advertisement], but nothing surprises me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019re a hate site,\u201d said Prager sarcastically. \u201cFour prime ministers have already made videos for [PragerU], and we are not acceptable to Spotify. But I heard that Spotify uses the Southern Poverty law Center to weed out any conservatives, so that may be a factor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marlow said, \u201cAs Ann Coulter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2017\/01\/11\/ann-coulter-tips-hate-crime-hoaxers\/\">called<\/a>\u00a0it, the greatest hate group in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prager agreed, \u201cWell, it is. It is a hate group. That is absolutely correct. If there is such a thing as a hate group, then the Southern Poverty Law Center would be high on the list. There are others. The Ku Klux Klan is a hate group, but it\u2019s impotent. It\u2019s nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marlow noted, \u201cAnd the Southern Poverty Law Center continues to curry [favor and influence] because of stuff like this. It\u2019s cited as an authority, and you have to listen to talk radio or read websites like [Breitbart News] in order to know that about Southern Poverty Law Center.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PragerU published an analysis of the SPLC in 2017:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Bans PragerU From Advertising | Short Clips\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qy9bHM2miuo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Marlow and Prager examined left-wing control of Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know that my Wikipedia page has been hijacked by the left?\u201d asked Prager. \u201cI can\u2019t edit my own Wikipedia page.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marlow replied, \u201cI talk about this all the time on this show, which is [that] Breitbart\u2019s [Wikipedia] page notes that we\u2019re a conspiracy site, and we can\u2019t edit it. They can\u2019t name one conspiracy we\u2019ve ever published.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prager responded, \u201cThat\u2019s right. Exactly. I\u2019m sure of that. I love your site. I go to it every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marlow said, \u201cThank you, that\u2019s a meaningful endorsement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prager maintained, \u201cIt is a meaningful endorsement. You\u2019ve earned it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marlow stated, \u201cWikipedia is so unbelievably corrupt, and it does not get the attention it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Breitbart_News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">currently<\/a>\u00a0brands Breitbart News a \u201cfar-right\u201d outlet, deriding it as \u201cxenophobic,\u201d \u201cmisogynistic,\u201d \u201cracist,\u201d and as a publisher of \u201clies\u201d and \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI donated to Wikipedia until three years ago, because I wasn\u2019t aware,\u201d recalled Prager. \u201cI don\u2019t use it to check out anything political. I use it to get a list of Haydn\u2019s symphonies. So in that regard it\u2019s been very helpful to me because I\u2019m a big classical music devotee. But then I saw what happened to my own page. In my case, they actually make up stuff. Because somebody wrote it somewhere, so they have a footnote, \u2018Oh, it must be true then!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prager added, \u201cIt\u2019s an absurdity. Anyway, you don\u2019t [publish fake news]. I would never use a website that had fake news. I verify everything over and over before I broadcast it or write about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marlow asked for any updates on PragerU\u2019s ongoing lawsuit against Google.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no update on [our lawsuit against Google],\u201d said Prager. \u201cBut I can only say \u2014 and I can\u2019t say how I know \u2014 they are worried. I can only tell you that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marlow replied, \u201cThis is a cause that people need to get behind, in my opinion, because if Dennis and Prager University can\u2019t make it, then this is the end of free speech as we know it. It\u2019s the end of disagreement. The Orwell era is fast upon us. This is kind of the centerpiece of Breitbart, the fight for free speech, and you guys are really at the tip of spear, right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prager\u2019s forthcoming book,\u00a0<em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rational-Bible-Genesis-Dennis-Prager\/dp\/1621578984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">The Rational Bible: Genesis<\/a><\/em>, part of a series of biblical analyses, is scheduled for release in May. Marlow asked Prager about the book.<\/p>\n<p>Prager linked social increases in secularism with moral decay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very hard for me to say what I think on this, because it sounds grandiose, and I\u2019m very sensitive to that,\u201d Prager stated. \u201cBut I\u2019ll take the risk. The reason that our society has made a war on wisdom is that it has abandoned the single greatest source of wisdom \u2014 whether people are secular or religious \u2014 the bible. So I am trying to explain the first five books, which are in many ways the most important books to Jews and Christians. Everything comes from the first five books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prager assured, \u201cI promise that anybody who reads it will have their life affected. I\u2019ve written a lot of books, but I don\u2019t talk like that about any of the others like I do\u00a0<em>The Rational Bible<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Breitbart News Daily broadcasts live on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/01\/dennis-prager-we-are-in-a-dark-age-because-left-controls-silicon-valley\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/01\/dennis-prager-we-are-in-a-dark-age-because-left-controls-silicon-valley\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager: \u2018We Are in a Dark Age\u2019 Because Left Controls Silicon Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}