After some misadventures trying to set it up, I succeeded yesterday in hosting a livestream in which I discussed my forthcoming book, Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster, as well as a host of other issues prompted by questions from people who were watching, including the significance of the conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque and much more.
Ade Fegan says
Glad your are feeling better Robert
ContraDixie says
Thank you so much Mr. Spencer. You are a treasure. Bless you and stay well.
mortimer says
I never thought I would see North America descend into this current irrationality and madness, but it has come to that. Decades ago this was predicted in “Escape from Reason: A Penetrating Analysis of Trends in Modern Thought” by Francis A. Schaeffer.
Facts and logic are the enemies of the Leftists and Globalists. They hate reason.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Mortimer. We need to defend Western civilization.
James Lincoln says
A fantastic video by Robert Spencer.
I have attempted to transcribe (I hope that I got it right ) a couple of very important points from beginning of the video:
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“…if we believe that our nation is this systemic racist entity… and all that it has done is oppress…that the United States has had a negative effect on the world and has spread hatred and racism and colonialism and imperialism and all that…
…if there comes a threat to the nation, we are not going to defend ourselves, if we really believe that, if our young people believe that, how many young people who are in antifa do you think are going to believe that they ought to join the US military if the United States were threatened…”
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100% true.
Our nation will not defend itself if it does not believe in itself…
medaber_emet says
Dear Robert its so good to see you are better.
i really missed your videos, please make them more often
Julie says
Thank you for so much enlightening information.
David Rasch says
Ordered your book. I have most of what you have written. For a general history I rely on Page Smith’s multi-volume history of the U.S. It was written before political correctness was in vogue and Howard Zinn reigned supreme in public schools.
EL Hernandez says
Love you brother and praying for all of you! . God bless you and prayers always for all those that are defending U.S. ‘the Land of the Free’. What a shame on these individuals protesting, burning down bldgs… on and on… What a crazy world we live in! Would be nice to ship out all these loonies to their own land (an island over by the “Bermuda Triangle” along with ISIS & their demonic ideology with harden hearts that do not want to change. All those that want to do us harm and let them fight it out for themselves. The Lord be with us.. I just keep ministering to as many Muslims as I am able to & the Lord bring them out of this demonic darkness.
mgoldberg says
Oriana Fallaci’s ‘The Rage and the Pride’ has a 15 page section, about ‘What makes America Special’ and it is well worth everyone’s time to read and absorb her observations. Reading this back in 2002 and finding that Robert was considered by her a buddy in the battle against tyranny, some years later, made all the sense in the world. And Robert, I am happy to see your health is improved and your vim and vigor for this fight is undiminished.
mgoldberg says
The pages are from p.70-85. The entire book is extremely insightful and well worth a read- just ask Robert Spencer, if you don’t believe me; however those pages were a wonderful wake up call back in 2002 when the book appeared. And it’s effect upon me, and I suggest this as a reason to read of history- the call to drill down and learn for oneself what is the history and how to get a handle on what is important and meaningful. This is for everyone- not just elites, or very bright folks- it is a task for everyone, if the ideas of this republic, of this nation are to survive and thrive. This time is one where we are asked to go to sleep and reason less, to think less, and that is the totalitarian meme which must be resisted and fought with determination. Read those pages and tell me how this Italian woman got so much and our children are taught so little.
gravenimage says
+1
Henry Mansfield says
The affectation of disgust that American-born Leftists have for this country and all of Western Civilization for that matter reminds me of the fictional character Holden Caulfield.
The same petulance, faux intellectualism, rebelliousness, etc. The teen-age Caulfield simply didn’t have the ability to grasp that adults were operating within an adult framework. Similarly those on the Left who constantly look to destroy Western Civilization in order to create something better tend to be among the more clueless of what really goes on in the world. Testimony from someone like Ayaan Hirsi Ali about escaping Islam or a Venezuelan speaking about the descent of their country in a Marxist hell falls on deaf ears.
Scholar/writers like Robert Spencer have to keep on educating people. Even if bookstores refuse to stock their books and websites are demonetized the truth won’t die once it’s out, it has a way of reconstituting with the tiniest amount of sunlight.
Thanks for your perseverance, Robert.
gravenimage says
Yes–most Leftists have little idea of what life is like outside the civilized world, and have no idea what they are destroying.
tgusa says
If leftists get their way. 100 years later Archeologists will say, we are searching for evidence of the origin and progress of this collapsed modern civilization but we cant find any. Curious.
tim gallagher says
The long march of the left through the institutions of learning, both schools and universities, media, etc, brainwashing young people with the self-loathing for western democratic societies seems to have been pretty successful judged by all this crap that is going on lately. Hopefully, this recent garbage will be defeated. Good to see you involved in the battle against this garbage from the cultural Marxist destroyers, Robert. You do great work on all the issues you get involved in. You cut through all the nonsense extremely well.
tgusa says
Not as successful as some people amy think. My brother has a female uber leftist inlaw. Her son joined the Air Force and now that he is out he wants to become a cop. An example of leftist stupidity rejected even when coming from mom.
“You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln
gravenimage says
Glad to hear this.
tgusa says
She and I have always disagreed on everything but shes not completely insane so we tolerate each other, actually, in the past we tolerated each other but in this day and age we don’t associate any longer. Shes always wrong but like the energizer bunny she keeps going and going.
However, I would have loved to have been fly on the wall when she first found out what he had done.
gravenimage says
Not all people are as crazy as their immediate families.
tgusa says
True, thankfully.
tgusa says
Recently there was also a son of immigrants from Burma that was working as an apprentice with us. I thought he was progressing well but one day he came in and said, I’m quitting. I said to him, really, so soon, we are just getting started. He said , yes I’m quitting, I’m joining the US Space force.
The USSF is getting a good young man there.
gravenimage says
🙂
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, tgusa. Yes, I keep thinking that some of the really extreme, I would say loony, hatred for the pretty bloody decent way of life that we have built in all our western, democratic societies, including Australia, where I live, will begin to fade away reasonably soon, as more and more people wake up to what extreme and hopeless and destructive ideas some of the leftie mob are espousing these days. That story you mention about the leftist mother and son, who was in the Air Force and now intends to become a cop, is interesting. It is a wonder her head didn’t explode or she didn’t have a stroke. I do think a lot of young people have been brainwashed by their teachers into hating our western societies, which I think is terrible, because I feel these societies offer most people a better chance of having a fairly pleasant life than any other type of societies man has ever come up with. These left wingers would create appalling societies if they ever got the chance. gravenimage, there certainly can be a fairly wide diversity of opinions in families, that’s for sure. I notice that some of the left leaning people among my siblings get their news from the left wing media and seem to believe that media’s take on things. Quite a few years ago, I ditched information from those sources and wouldn’t waste my time with it. It just seemed like rubbish to me.These siblings of mine are more intelligent than me, (did better academically) but really do seem to buy the view of things of the left wing media. Of course, they wouldn’t go near the media sources that I tune into.
tgusa says
Tim,
Academic knowledge is fine but we need to take in to consideration that academics are just relaying the knowledge that others before them figured out on their own. With so many books out there many people don’t need a middleman to explain things to them. Answering a question here or there, yes. But there is also common sense, which is found in people of reason. Common sense can not be taught you either have it of you don’t. I will take you over your siblings any day.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, tgusa. Common sense or having what I would call a good bullshit detector is definitely very important. It does surprise me when I see many intelligent people (and good people as well ) that I know, who seem to get locked into a leftist view of the world by only getting their information from the left leaning sections of the media. I keep expecting that they would see through some of the very biased garbage they get from those media sources, but it doesn’t seem to happen all that often