In this case, much of the funding for the first PragerU videos. ", "Who Funds PragerU's Anti-Muslim Content? [8][32], Among topics covered, PragerU videos have argued against a $15 minimum wage, against increased gun control, and in support of capitalism. [41], By 2015, PragerU developed two partnership programs to promote its views, including religious material, in public and private schools. And he issued a stark warning to members of his party who were looking to take advantage of Clintons misfortune: Today it is the Democrats. PREP released its first content in April 2021. This was an astonishing accomplishment. The main animated videos tend to be about broad questions, giving right-wing basics on topics ranging from Karl Marx to Hezbollah to feminism to stock buybacks. Same low price. Hundreds of black men were elected to southern state legislatures as Republicans, and 22 black Republicans served in the US Congress by 1900. All of these are, presumably, things Dennis Prager wants college students to know. Mr. Politically, Prager leaned more Democratic early in his career, and in 2011 said that Trumps swearing render[ed] him unfit to be a presidential candidate, let alone president. But like many previously anti-Trump conservatives, Prager now wholeheartedly supports the president. [6][15] YouTube responded, saying: "We aim to apply the same standards to everyone and we dont censor anyone. After I became a Republican in the early 1990s in a recent column, I explained how emotionally difficult it is for a Democrat to vote Republican, let alone become one I concluded that I had left the dangerous party and joined the stupid party. Back in 1866, the Democratic party started the KKK, kind of. He ran as the most pro-Russian candidate for president since Henry Wallace helmed the Soviet fellow-traveling Progressive Party ticket in 1948, extolling Vladimir Putins manly virtues at every opportunity while bringing Kremlin-style moral relativism to the campaign trail. Making up the Trust are members Ned Hennighausen, Allan Noble, Hon. [46], Climate Feedback, Reuters and the Weather Channel have found that PragerU's videos promote inaccurate and misleading claims about climate change. The derivation of the emails (stolen by Russian hackers) and the purpose of their dissemination (to sow dissension among the American body politic) have either been ignored, or, in the case of my conservative interlocutor, ludicrously held up as an example of Russian altruism meant to save American democracy from the perfidious Clinton clan. Secondary school teachers and college professors can register their classes through PragerU's Academic Partnership program, which lets students sign up and allows teachers to monitor their students' progress. Yet, he so loathes the president that he will vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. [4][31], Historians and political scientists have criticized PragerU's videos for containing misleading claims about topics such as slavery[35][36][5] and racism in the USA,[37] immigration,[38] and the history of fascism. Since uploading its first YouTube videos in 2009, conservative channel Prager University (also called PragerU) has become one of the leading forces in introducing right-wing political ideas and history to younger audiences through short videos full of colorful animation and interviews. https://twitter.com/carolmswainFollow Carol Swain on Facebook! The Democratic Party was once largely liberal. Liberty3. It is to vote for the party that supports the unprecedented suppression of free speech by Big Tech and universities. History professor Kevin M. Kruse said that the video presented a "distortion" of history, "cherry-picked" its evidence, and was an "exercise in attacking a straw man". Which modern party represents southern conservatives? The erudite, deep and accomplished Fiorina is on an incomparably higher level than Sen. Barbara Boxer, whose professional life has been largely devoted to getting elected. This site is a proud member of Salem National, a subsidiary of Salem Media Group. But Prager University unabashedly reflects modern conservatism in the Trump era: divisive to the extreme, anti-abortion, anti-immigration, unbelieving in human-caused climate change, anti-same-sex marriage, pro-traditional family, and vocally pro-Trump. "[40], Reason has criticized PragerU's claims of being censored by big tech companies for being false, as the company's content had not been removed from any social media platforms, and that they indicate a misunderstanding of the First Amendment as protecting a party from any type of censorship, when that law merely protects content from censorship by the government. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. So no, the modern Liberal Kombucha tea drinking vegan left wing POC-loving feminist SJW Democrats did not make or perpetuate the KKK, the modern Republicans did. Tomorrow it could be us.. [30] Each video costs between $25,000 and $30,000 to create. Which, may I remind anyone, happened around the time of The New Deal. When conservative bloggers are willing to accept hundreds of thousands of dollars from Malaysias authoritarian government to launch a smear campaign against a democratic opposition leader they know nothing about, how much of a jump is it to line up and defend what at the very least was attempted collusion on the part of a brain-dead dauphin like Donald Trump Jr.? [53][54][55], Mother Jones said PragerU videos assert that there is no gender pay gap,[5][56] and that there is not discrimination in policing of African-Americans. Did you know that the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK, and fought against every major civil rights act in U.S. history? Sign up now to get all our videos as soon as they're released. It wasnt long ago that the GOP used to mock Democratic presidential candidates for supposedly winning endorsements from foreign adversaries, like when a Hamas official said he liked Barack Obama in 2008. 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One would have thought a U.S. intelligence community assessment concluding that the Russians preferred their partys nominee over Hillary Clinton would have introduced a bit of introspection on the right. https://optin.mobiniti.com/prageruDo you shop on Amazon? Donate today to PragerU! Nowrasteh wrote that the video was full of errors and half-truths and omitted relevant information. It was co-founded in 2009 by Allen Estrin and talk show host Dennis Prager. Are you interested in having Dennis speak to your organization or group? Favorable views of Putin a career KGB officer who hates America have nearly tripled among Republicans in the past two years, with 32 percent expressing a positive opinion. It is to vote for the party that supports the Green New Deal, or something very close to it, which will further ruin an economy already in ruins from Democrat-supported lockdowns. http://l.prageru.com/2ylo1YtFollow Carol Swain on Twitter! I also do not take Prager U, or any other right-wing think tank as a legitimate source of information. [5], On race, Pam Nilan, in her 2021 book Young People and the Far Right, says that PragerU "pretends to sidestep" white supremacy, but that "the message is always that white culture is better than other cultures. The Democrats in 1866 created and pushed the KKK. Lincolns vice president, a Democrat named Andrew Johnson, assumed the presidency. http://l.prageru.com/2c8vsffScript:When you think about racial equality and civil rights, which political party comes to mind? [5] PragerU guests cover a range from the secular right, the far-right, and the theocratic right. I criticized his Russian reset, his Iran nuclear deal, his opening to Cuba, even his handling of political conflict in Honduras. So angry are many Americans at what the left is trying to do to America that spectacularly bright and accomplished individuals from every walk of life have decided to leave their professions and run for office. Here, laid bare, are the impulses of a large swathe of todays Republican Party. Johnson and the Democratic Party were unified in their opposition to the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery; the 14th Amendment, which gave blacks citizenship; and the 15th Amendment, which gave blacks the vote. When Banks And Other Institutions Try to Change the World. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is "The Rational Bible," a commentary on In the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sandford, the court ruled that slaves arent citizens; theyre property. But today, it is left, and the left readily acknowledges it wishes to "transform" America, which means to destroy America as we have known it. It is named after someone named Prager, though.. [10][8], Since a lawsuit over the use of a photograph in 2013, PragerU has used animation in its videos. "I vote for the man (or woman), not the party" is what millions of Americans say and what, in fact, many do. PragerU has also been accused of promoting anti-LGBTQ politics. All three passed only because of universal Republican support.During the era of Reconstruction, federal troops stationed in the south helped secure rights for the newly freed slaves. On Monday night, he went so far as to give a platform to fringe leftist Max Blumenthal author of a book comparing Israel to the Third Reich and a vocal supporter of the Assad regime in Syria to assail the bootlicking press for reporting on Trumps Russia ties. As historian Eric Foner - himself a Democrat - notes:In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.For the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/videos/inconvenient-truth-about-democratic-party Instead, we get this from the president of the United States, explaining away his sons encounter with Russian operatives who were advertised as working on behalf of the Kremlin: Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. But the most important is to keep non-leftists in fear of anyone who opposes the left. "[44], Sociologist Francesca Tripodi has studied PragerU's marketing and messaging for the nonprofit Data & Society. 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Ive been following Russias cultivation of the American right for years, long before it became a popular subject, and I have been amazed at just how deep and effective the campaign to shift conservative views on Russia has been. Posted on Mar 19, 2019Updated on May 20, 2021, 4:47 pm CDT. He also writes about politics, history, and breaking news. [21][22] In August 2018, Facebook removed two PragerU videos from its platform. Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has fought against every major civil rights initiative, and has a long history of discrimination. PragerU's Educator Program, with 3,000 sign-ups reported as of 2015, supplies teachers with lesson plans and study guides that accompany videos. Whether this was wise in every case is not my subject here. [8] PragerU is based in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California,[4] and it had around 50 employees as of January 2020. I believe they made a keen study of the American political scene and realized that, during the Obama years, the conservative movement had become ripe for manipulation. The Republicans? The article also noted that it had received comparatively little attention from news and media analysts due to PragerU's lack of coverage of topical issues, such as Donald Trump. This obviously serves the left and the Democratic Party in many ways. It is to vote for the party with the only anti-Semites, not to mention Israel-haters, in Congress. Fine Democrats who defended slavery did as much harm to blacks and to America as disreputable Democrats. Nor was Trump Jr. the only Republican to seek Russian assistance against Clinton. And since slavery, there has never been a time when the two major parties differed as much as they do today. And third, they are producing a Republican Party that actually stands for something other than being an alternative to the Democratic Party. My message for todays GOP is to paraphrase Barack Obama when he mocked Romney for saying precisely that: 2012 calledit wants its foreign policy back. They say that they would vote for any Republican except Donald Trump because they find his character so objectionable. I find nothing admirable in this position -- morally or rationally. Prager University releases one five-minute animated video every week on major topics that dovetail with Pragers radio show, including What Made George Washington Great, Why Trump Won, and What Does Diversity Have to Do With Science? It also puts out 2-3 man on the street-style interview videos every week, usually asking college students questions that they think should be easy to answer. Democrats don't use the words "open borders," but they support this country-wrecking policy. Today, these figures are no longer on the fringe of GOP politics. Would somebody please help me out here: Im confused, read the email to me from a conservative Republican activist and donor. William Prager, (before 1940) Willy Prager, (May 23, 1903 in Karlsruhe March 17, 1980 in Zurich) was a German-born US applied mathematician. Dennis Prager, a conservative commentator, said in a Nov. 8 interview with Newsmax that it was "inconceivable" that gay men would have been seen as "pariahs" during the AIDS crisis. Since there was no exodus of people from the south to the north during this time, I will assume that the culture, ideas, and economics did not suddenly change during this time either. Its mission was to stop the spread of slavery into the new western territories with the aim of abolishing it entirely. The same can be said about the comparison between Whitman and Jerry Brown. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described the video as a "dog whistle to the extreme right." No one article can truly encapsulate Pragers decades of political commentary, but he did a pretty decent job summarizing his own worldview in a March This is a great time to be a Republican. Nevertheless, a great number of Americans still vote for "the individual.". It is this ethical rot that allows Dennis Prager, one of the rights more unctuous professional moralists, to opine with a straight face that The news media in the West pose a far greater danger to Western civilization than Russia does. Why wouldnt a religious right that embraced a boastfully immoral charlatan like Donald Trump not turn a blind eye towardor, in the case of Franklin Graham, embracean oppressive regime like that ruling Russia? [31], Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute criticized a 2018 PragerU video by Michelle Malkin that argued for stricter restrictions on immigration. In California, two powerhouse women, Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, are the Republican candidates for senator and governor respectively. WebPaul Prager is the Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of TeraWulf Inc., a leading clean energy digital asset company. This is a small, almost random sample of the impressive Republican candidates coming from outside politics. Or when he praised Putin on Morning Joe in December of 2015. [58], In October 2020, Gita Jackson of Vice noted that "There's already a cottage industry of YouTubers trying to debunk PragerU."[55]. He was awarded a bronze star for his military service and is a judge who graduated Yale Law School. Turn on Fox News and you will come across the networks most popular star, Sean Hannity, citing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a reliable source of information or retailing Russian disinformation such as the conspiracy theory that murdered DNC staffer Seth Richwho police say was killed during a robbery attemptwas the source of last summers leaks, not Russian hackers. PragerU guests cover a range from the secular right, the far-right, and the theocratic right. Some prominent video presenters have included Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Nigel Farage, Charles Krauthammer, Michelle Malkin, Bret Stephens and George Will. Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League described it as "filled with anti-immigration and anti-Muslim rhetoric". Prager University is a non-profit, but not an actual accredited college in any way, though Prager does refer to some of the conservative pundits who have made videos for him as faculty. These include both mainstream conservative intellectuals (Charles Krauthammer, Dinesh DSouza) and younger, more influential fire-breathers like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk. If Republicans put country before party, they would want to know what the Russians did, why they did it and how to prevent it from happening again. It is to vote for the party that, for the first time in American history, openly identifies with socialism more than with capitalism. Is Propagating Climate Misinformation", "Facebook apologizes to right-wing group PragerU after being accused of censoring its videos", "Are Google and Facebook really suppressing conservative politics? There is also no evidence that the south went from being a group of kind people fighting for civil rights, to suddenly being racist bigots. Paul Prager, who is the TeraWulf co-founder, CEO, and chair of the board joining us here this afternoon. The latter was demonstrated first and foremost in its unanimity in opposing the Obama-led attempts to, in his words, fundamentally transform America. My friend, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, is one prominent example. Today, most Republicans evince no shame in the fact that their candidate was the clearly expressed preference of a murderous thug like Vladimir Putin. It was obviously a credit to the Republican leadership. Moments for such soul-searching had arrived much earlier, however, like when Trump hired a former advisor to the corrupt, pro-Russian president of Ukraine as his campaign manager last summer. According to Snopes, the video is inaccurate as recent history and statistics indicate that white privilege still exists. Thats politics! And from elected Republicans, we get mostly silenceor embarrassing excuses. Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. Sometime after 1866, the two parties switched platforms. Prager sued Google in 2017 for blocking some of its videos on YouTube, which was dismissed a year later. Mike Rothschild is a writer who specializes in researching and debunking conspiracy theories and fringe beliefs. But is Prager University winning hearts and minds on college campuses? The third myth is that the Republican Party has maintained a stronghold on the South with their use of the so-called Southern Strategy.. [3] In 1957, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[4]. Despite the name, short for Prager University, PragerU is not an academic institution and does not hold classes or grant diplomas. Worst of all, GOP voters never punished him for it. Thousands of sources and facts at your fingertips.iPhone: http://l.prageru.com/2dlsnbGAndroid: http://l.prageru.com/2dlsS5eJoin Prager United to get new swag every quarter, exclusive early access to our videos, and an annual TownHall phone call with Dennis Prager! "[37] She also demonstrated an algorithmic connection on YouTube between PragerU, Fox News, and alt-right personalities. Get the weekly newsletter with videos, Prager's column, show news, and exclusive offers - delivered right to your inbox. [5], Dave Rubin stated in a video that "racism, bigotry, xenophobia, homophobia, and Islamophobia" are "meaningless buzzwords". Third parties aside, the Democratic Party used to be favored in the rural south and had a small government platform (which southern social conservatives embraced), and the Republican party used to be favored in the citied north and had a big government platform (which northern progressive liberals embraced). In May, the Wall Street Journal reported that a Florida Republican operative sought and received hacked Democratic Party voter-turnout analyses from Guccifer 2.0, a hacker the U.S. government has said is working for Russias intelligence services. WebWilliam Prager, (before 1940) Willy Prager, (May 23, 1903 in Karlsruhe March 17, 1980 in Zurich) was a German-born US applied mathematician.In the field of mechanics he is well Of course, as I often noted on my radio show, I prefer the foolish to the destructive. He is a white, non hispanic male registered to vote in Palm It is to vote for Kamala Harris, the most left-wing member of the U.S. Senate, for vice president (and, given Biden's age and health, perhaps soon president). Luci Turner is a crafter and freelance writer. Critics of Prager University call its videos biased, dangerous, fake news, propaganda, and , Overall, Prager University claims to have received. In South Carolina, a small-business man named Tim Scott is the Republican candidate for South Carolinas first congressional district. It is to vote for the party that Big Pharma, big corporations and radical teachers unions support. She (yes, she) is another candidate from central casting. Often its not the right approach to say that videos with the same topic should get the same rating. They also still extensively fund PragerU, though the channels website makes no mention of them. Both Republicans.The slavery question was, of course, ultimately resolved by a bloody civil war. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is "The Rational Bible," a commentary on the book of Genesis. Watch Dennis Prager on Salem News Channel, California Do not sell my personal information. You have to explain to your childrenrepeatedlywhat America you stand for, Prager wrote in a 2013 column on his website. Pragerthe 62-year-old founder of a multibillion-dollar infrastructure holding company, Beowulf Energywould very much like to change that. [49][50][51][52], In 2019, Mike Gravel, a former United States Senator from Alaska, launched The Gravel Institute, a progressive left-leaning think tank, to counteract PragerU. It really started as more of a grassroots movement, that was picked up by the democrats of the time. Today it is the opposite in many respects. In Florida, in the Tampa Bay area, the Republican congressional candidate is Mike Prendergast, a recently retired Army colonel with 31 years of active duty experience. [15] PragerU claimed that Google's demonetization and flagging violated the First Amendment by arguing that YouTube was a public forum. Republican voters announced that they prefer to lose an election than have a Republican who in any way supported expansion of the federal government. In the fall of 2020, PragerU started fundraising for PragerU Resources for Educators and Parents (PREP), a program targeted towards kindergarten and school-aged children. Click https://smile.amazon.com and a percentage of every Amazon purchase will be donated to PragerU. Or, the Democrats?Most people would probably say the Democrats. PragerU is an American advocacy group that creates videos and content to promote a conservative viewpoint on various political, economic, and sociological topics. Historians and political scientists have also heavily criticized PragerU's videos for containing misleading claims about topics such as slavery and racism in the USA, immigration, and the history of fascism.