The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (12/11/2023):
3:05pm- On Saturday, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned from her position following controversial statements she made during a U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee hearing. During one exchange with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) asked Magill if calls for Jewish genocide on campus would violate the school’s code of conduct. Magill responded: “If the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment.” Rep. Stefanik then countered, “conduct meaning committing the act of genocide?” Melissa Korn of The Wall Street Journal writes, “Magill will stay on until an interim president is appointed, and afterward will remain a member of the law school faculty, according to a letter sent from board chairman Scott L. Bok.” You can read more here: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/university-of-pennsylvania-president-resigns-amid-furor-over-comments-on-antisemitism-on-campus-658d74cd
3:30pm- Ellen Nakashima and Joseph Menn of The Washington Post report that, “[t]he Chinese military is ramping up its ability to disrupt key American infrastructure, including power and water utilities as well as communications and transportation systems… Hackers affiliated with China’s People’s Liberation Army have burrowed into the computer systems of about two dozen critical entities over the past year.” You can read the full article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/11/china-hacking-hawaii-pacific-taiwan-conflict/#
3:40pm- New York Times Bestselling Author & Contributing Editor at The Spectator Chadwick Moore joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Tucker Carlson’s big announcement—the launch of his own streaming service, the Tucker Carlson Network. The subscription-based network will contain exclusive interviews and original shows and will cost viewers $9 per month. Will Tucker’s audience follow him? Moore believes they will as fewer cable news consumers trust the content and narratives being pushed on television. You can find Moore’s book here: https://www.tuckerthebook.com
4:05pm- Last week, Harvard University President Claudine Gay testified before the House Education and Workforce Committee. During one noteworthy exchange with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Gay refused to say anti-Semitic speech was violative of the school’s code of conduct—arguing that Harvard is an ardent supporter of free speech. In 2020, Rep. Stefanik was appointed to a Senior Advisory position with the Harvard Institute of Politics—however, because she was a vocal supporter of Donald Trump during the 2020 election, the student body protested the appointment and Harvard ultimately fired her. So, the notion that Harvard is an ardent supporter of free speech is flawed—they seem to only support speech provided it gels with the popular progressive opinions of the moment. Caleb Howe of Mediaite writes that “the Harvard Corporation, one of the two boards governing the Ivy League school, will meet Monday” to determine whether Gay should retain her position as university president.” You can read more here: https://www.mediaite.com/news/harvard-boards-reportedly-weighing-claudine-gays-mishandling-against-letting-elise-stefanik-win/
4:15pm- On this weekend’s episode of Real Time, host Bill Maher grilled university administrators for their selective support of freedom of speech. Has the creation of a revolving door between government and education impacted free thought and expression on college campuses? Has it generated a dangerous form of “group think” in which government officials leave the private sector, attain professorships, and push their agenda on the malleable minds of college students? For example, Penny Pritzker is the leader of the Harvard Corporation—she also served as the Secretary of Commerce in the Obama Administration.
4:40pm- In his latest piece at The Free Press, Stanford University Senior Fellow Niall Ferguson writes, “In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published La trahison des clercs—'The Treason of the Intellectuals’—which condemned the descent of European intellectuals into extreme nationalism and racism. By that point, although Benito Mussolini had been in power in Italy for five years, Adolf Hitler was still six years away from power in Germany and 13 years away from victory over France. But already Benda could see the pernicious role that many European academics were playing in politics. Those who were meant to pursue the life of the mind, he wrote, had ushered in “the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds.” And those hatreds were already moving from the realm of the ideas into the realm of violence—with results that would be catastrophic for all of Europe. A century later, American academia has gone in the opposite political direction—leftward instead of rightward—but has ended up in much the same place. The question is whether we—unlike the Germans—can do something about it.” You can read the full article here: https://www.thefp.com/p/niall-ferguson-treason-intellectuals-third-reich
5:05pm- Dr. E.J. Antoni—Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his most recent article for The Daily Caller, “Lyin’ Joe Biden Has Become the Pinocchio-In-Chief.” Dr. Antoni writes, “the average American worker is now paying $4.97 per hour in the hidden tax of inflation, effectively doubling how much he or she pays in federal income tax.” Plus, is now the worst time ever to buy a home in America? You can read Dr. Antoni’s full editorial here: https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/24/opinion-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-2-interest-rate-ej-antoni/
5:20pm- While appearing on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) bizarrely claimed that Republicans who are seeking to secure the U.S. Southern border in exchange for additional aid being provided to Ukraine are guilty of creating “one of the most dangerous moments” in modern American politics.
5:40pm- According to Kate Plummer of Newsweek, University of Pennsylvania Liz Magill will receive a $200,000 per-year salary as a professor at the university’s law school despite resigning from her position as president after her disastrous testimony before the House of Representatives during which she seemingly defended anti-Semitism. You can read me here: https://www.newsweek.com/liz-magill-salary-university-pennsylvania-antisemitism-college-1851262
6:05pm- John Yoo— the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley & a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest article, “Hunter Biden’s Bluff and Gambit.” Plus, special counsel Jack Smith has requested the U.S. Supreme Court determine if Donald Trump’s presidential immunity defense is legitimate, and whether it would make him immune from allegations that he attempted to subvert the 2020 presidential election. You can read Professor Yoo’s article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/12/hunter-bidens-bluff-and-gambit/
6:35pm- While appearing on State of the Union with Jake Tapper, Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) criticized his colleagues who are eager to send more money to Ukraine but don’t seem quite as interested in ending the devastating war. Vance asks: “What is $61 billion going to accomplish that $100 billion hasn’t?”
6:50pm- While appearing on 60 Minutes, tennis player Novak Djokovic said he was vilified over his unwillingness to take the Covid-19 vaccine prior to last year’s Australian Open. Djokovic said he is neither anti-vaccine nor pro-vaccine—he is simply in favor of allowing people to choose what is best for them.
