Dennis Prager

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[[File:Dennis_Prager.jpg|thumb|165px|"Urine and feces. Yes! Urine and feces!"<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yNcyqk3jq4 urine and feces]. Weasley111 on YouTube, 25 March 2019.</ref>]]
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{{cquote|America is engaged in two wars for the survival of its civilization. The war over [[same-sex marriage]] and the war against [[Theocracy|Islamic totalitarianism]] are actually [[Jonanism|two fronts in the same war]] — a war for the preservation of the [[American exceptionalism|unique American creation]] known as [[Judeo-Christian|Judeo-Christian]] civilization. One enemy is [[Irony|religious]] [[Psychological projection|extremism]]. The other is [[New Atheism|secular]] [[Bullshit|extremism]]. One enemy is led from abroad. The other is directed from home.|||Dennis Prager on one of his bad days<ref>[http://www.dennisprager.com/san-francisco-and-islamists-fighting-the-same-enemy/ San Francisco and Islamists: Fighting the same enemy]. dennisprager.com, 2 March 2004.</ref>}}
{{cquote|There is not one iota more wisdom in the medical profession than in any other profession.... Science is what the media agrees with, not real science.|||Dennis Prager<ref name = medprof>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTiHA32FUc Fireside Chat Ep. 176 — Is It the Greatest Mistake in Human History?], PragerU, YouTube, 4 March 2021.</ref>}}

'''Dennis  "Urine and Feces" Prager''' {{lived|1948}} is an [[United States|American]] [[neoconservative]] [[Conservative talk radio|radio host]], professional [[tone troll]], anti-vaxxer,<ref name=covid-pos /> [[conspiracy theorist]], and human/slug hybrid who believes that [[The United States as a Christian nation|the United States is a Christian nation]], and that it's under attack from "[[Snarl word|secular leftists]]" who control the [[Liberal media|media]], [[Political beliefs of academics|universities]], [[public education]] system, and [[Labor union|other]] [[Reality|institutions]].

Unfortunately, for every reasonable position he has, [[Fractal wrongness|he seems to say at least ten things that are]] either [[Bullshit|blatant lies]] or mind-fuckingly [[insanity|bizarre]]. He is also notable for having one of the worst cases of [[psychological projection]] ever, even by wingnut standards and for possibly being a worse offender of [[Jonanism]] than [[Jonah Goldberg]] himself. He is well known for his opposition to "the left" allowing their "feelings" to get in the way of policy, but when policy hurts his "feelings", he loses his freakin' mind. Hmm…

Prager is rarely countered, due to the fact that nobody to the left of the [[radical]] right takes him seriously anymore.<ref>[http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/08/21/prager-persuades-really/ Prager persuades? Really?] freethoughtblogs.com, 21 August 2011.</ref> Despite this, he has a [[niche|small group]] of very devoted fans.

The ''Dennis Prager Method For Choosing Viewpoints''™® is to take the opposite viewpoint of a leftist, since "the Left lies about everything".<ref>Dennis Prager, [https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/left-lies-trump-russia-collusion-allegation/ Assume the Left Lies, and You Will Discover the Truth]. National Review, 26 March 2019.</ref>  That should give you an idea of his level of intellectualism.

==Anti-environmentalism==
Prager pushes [[anti-environmentalism]] through [[global warming denialism]] ("leftist hysteria" apparently) and myths around [[DDT]] bans.<ref>[https://archive.is/in0G2 Leading Australian Earth Scientist Debunks Global Warming]. Archived from dennisprager.com, 27 April 2009.</ref><ref>Dennis Prager, [http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2013/02/26/dennis-prager-n1520196/page/full Environmentalism and Human Sacrifice]. Town Hall, 26 February 2013.</ref> He's also ventured into weird "[[Environmentalism]] [[Secular religion|is replacing]] [[God]]" territory:

{{quotebox|Nothing comes close to environmentalism in generating left-wing enthusiasm. It is the religion of our time. For the left, the earth has supplanted patriotism. This was largely inevitable in Europe, given its contempt for nationalism since the end of World War I and even more so since World War II. But it is now true for the elites (almost all of whose members are on the left) in America as well.<ref>[http://www.dennisprager.com/judaism-christianity-environmentalism/# Judaism, Christianity, Environmentalism]. dennisprager.com, 1 April 2014.</ref>}}

==Gay marriage==
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Prager is notable for having a history of being extremely [[homophobic]] despite [[Denialism|denying]] it every ten seconds in his articles and radio show. He has claimed that the legalization of gay marriage is a greater threat to America than economic depression.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9A9sVV24gA Dennis Prager Thinks Gay Marriage Bigger Threat Than Bad Economy]. heathr456 on YouTube, 12 April 2009.</ref> He claims that this is because legalizing gay marriage will redefine the concept of "[[gender]] itself". He is credited with writing the 1993 essay ''Judaism's Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism rejected Homosexuality'' in which he writes:

{{quotebox|[[Judaism]] cannot make peace with homosexuality because homosexuality denies many of Judaism's most fundamental principles. It denies life<ref group="note">How?!</ref>, it denies [[God]]'s expressed desire that men and women cohabit, and it denies the root structure that Judaism wishes for all mankind, the [[Family values|family]].<ref name=catholiceducation>Dennis Prager, [https://archive.is/PbWSL Judaism’s Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism (and then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality]. Archived from catholiceducation.org, 5 June 2004.</ref>}}

Imagine his reaction when he realizes that most of today's US Jews vote [[Democrat]]ic (and the state of gay rights in [[Israel]]). Moving on:

{{quotebox|But the major reason for anyone concerned with [[women's rights|women's equality]] to be concerned with homosexuality is the [[PIDOOMA|direct correlation between the prevalence of male homosexuality and the relegation of women to a low social role]]. [[Correlation does not imply causation|The improvement of the condition of women has only occurred]] in [[West]]ern civilization, the civilization [[Gay marriage#Status|least tolerant of homosexuality]].<ref name=catholiceducation />}}

Which is why in [[Iran]], where [[homosexuality]] is punishable by death, there is ''perfect gender equality'', right? And the crowning gem of the article:

{{quotebox|While the typical lesbian has had fewer than ten "lovers," [[Debunked: gay men have 500-1000 partners|the typical male homosexual in America has had over 500]].<ref name=catholiceducation />}}

Except he states no evidence for that at all. Also notice how he basically says "I'm cool with lesbians but gays are gross." Many of Prager's fans will cry out "he wrote it in 1993, he could've changed his views since then!" If that is the case, then he certainly shows no remorse over writing it since he has not apologized for the article and rarely brings it up, probably hoping everyone will forget he wrote it. The essay in question is still used by openly homophobic sites such as the Catholic Education Resource Center.<ref>Dennis Prager, [https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/marriage-and-family/sexuality/judaism-s-sexual-revolution-why-judaism-rejected-homosexuality.html Judaism's Sexual Revolution: Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality]. catholiceducation.org. Reposts in whole Prager's awful 1993 essay.</ref> Besides, even if Prager has completely changed his views since then, he really shouldn't act dumbfounded when people think he's homophobic, since this article is the first result on [[Google]] for "Dennis Prager" + "homosexuality". Acting as if he's being [[Persecution complex|persecuted by gay activists]] for his beliefs when called out for his apparent homophobia is ridiculous.

A glaring problem with Dennis Prager's opposition to gay marriage is the fact he's been [[divorce]]d twice and married ''thrice''. He actually talks about this on occasion, saying that the argument that divorce threatens marriage is a ''[[non sequitur]]''. He goes on to defend his position with a hilariously ''non sequitur'' argument himself, saying that "divorce itself no more undermines the institution of marriage than car crashes undermine the institution of driving."<ref>[http://www.dennisprager.com/columns.aspx?g=96ed215a-2939-4100-b9cc-66562b7dc7b6&url=the_divorce-threatens-marriage_lie The divorce-threatens-marriage lie]. dennisprager.com, 12 April 2005.</ref> This is, of course, an example of a [[false analogy]], since you don't swear to be with your [[car]] til death do you part.

==Ferghtin der Mooslims!==
{{cquote|...America will not change the attitude of a single American-hating Muslim by allowing Ellison to substitute the Koran for the Bible. In fact, the opposite is more likely: Ellison's doing so will embolden Islamic extremists and make new ones, as Islamists, rightly or wrongly, see the first sign of the realization of their greatest goal -- the [[islamophobia|Islamicization of America]].|||Dennis Prager<ref name=muslims>Dennis Prager, [http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2006/11/28/america,_not_keith_ellison,_decides_what_book_a_congressman_takes_his_oath_on/page/full/ America, Not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on]. Town Hall, 28 November 2006.</ref>}}
When [[Muslim]] [[Congress]]man [[Keith Ellison]] was elected to office, Prager decided to harass him in the most [[Asshole|assholish]] way possible, writing an article on [[Townhall]] that Ellison should not be allowed to take the oath on the [[Koran]] but instead the [[Bible]], which would essentially violate [[United States Constitution#Article 6|Article VI]] of the Constitution.<ref name=muslims />

He states in the article that allowing Ellison to use the Koran would be more devastating to American values than [[9/11]]. This was a [[manufactroversy]] since, according to the [[Anti-Defamation League]]: "''No Member of Congress is officially sworn in with a Bible''. Under House rules, the official swearing-in ceremony is done in the House chambers, with the Speaker of the House administering the oath of office en masse."<ref>[https://archive.is/IsKOX ADL Statement on Dennis Prager's Attack On Muslim Congressman for Taking Oath of Office on Koran]. Anti-Defamation League, 1 December 2006.</ref> Only in private ceremonies held after the official ceremony can religious texts be used. Prager also ignores the [[Establishment Clause]], but it's likely the [[US Constitution|Constitution]] isn't American ''enough'' for Prager. He attempted to bullshit his way out of what he wrote on [[Sean Hannity|Hannity]],<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vtg5eG0ttI Malik Shabazz Embarrasses Dennis "The Bigot" Prager]. Hatalles on YouTube, 1 December 2006.</ref> saying that he was merely making a "request" for Ellison to not use a Koran, despite his article explicitly saying "He (Ellison) should not be allowed to do so &mdash; not because of any American hostility to the Koran, but because the act [[Bullshit|undermines American civilization]]." He later attempted to state that the liberal media was on Ellison's side, a sign that he was being persecuted for his "[[Islamophobia]]". He is probably too stupid to recognize that there is a difference between criticizing Islam itself and targeting the [[human rights]] of a single Muslim who isn't breaking the law, hurting someone, or even a [[fundamentalist]] for that matter.

Most confusingly, Prager said that Ellison's beliefs were irrelevant, it was the ceremony that mattered since it was an "unbroken tradition" since [[George Washington]]. This is incorrect since [[John Quincy Adams]] was sworn in on a [[law]] book, [[POTUS#Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)|Franklin Pierce]] also used a law book and simply affirmed the oath as opposed to being sworn in, [[LBJ]] used a [[Catholic]] Missal, and Congressman Henry Waxman never used a Christian Bible. Some Jewish officeholders, such as Governor Linda Lingle, have also been sworn in on the [[Tanakh]], but Prager said this was irrelevant since any Jews who used the Tanakh were "[[No True Scotsman|secularists who didn't believe what was in it anyway]]". Of course, this contradicts Prager's claim that the officeholder's belief is irrelevant and that it's only the ceremony that matters.

Prager's comments led to him being criticized by the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Only the theocratic [[American Family Association]] and [[Constitution Party|Virgil Goode]] supported Prager.

==Creepiness==
{{cquote|The [[rape]] of a name can be as vicious a [[crime]] and as destructive an act as the rape of a body. Sometimes the rape of a body is worse, sometimes the rape of a name is worse. But they are both rapes.|||Dennis Prager<ref name=rape>Dennis Prager, [http://www.creators.com/opinion/dennis-prager/the-rape-of-a-name-is-also-rape.html The Rape of a Name Is Also Rape]. creators.com, 25 June 2007.</ref>}}

One of the most disturbing articles he's written is "The Rape of a Name Is Also Rape" in which he writes that being falsely accused of [[rape]] is just as bad, if not worse, than ''actual rape''.<ref name=rape /> While such a false accusation is a terrible crime, it is obviously not on par with rape, but again that is somehow a "leftist" view.

When it comes to relationships there's no one to go to for worse advice than the Pragernater. This is made especially apparent in his essay "When a Woman Isn't In the Mood: Part II" where he gives eight reasons as to why women should submit to having [[sex]] with their husbands even when they’re not in the mood.<ref>Dennis Prager, [http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2008/12/30/when_a_woman_isnt_in_the_mood_part_ii When a Woman Isn't In the Mood: Part II]. Town Hall, 30 December 2008.</ref> He is ''just'' able enough to write it in a way so he can plausibly deny that he was advocating for [[marital rape]]. However, he sure as hell wasn't being sensitive to victims of marital rape and at one point calls "childhood trauma" one of the "myriad" of reasons that women try to get out of sex. By the way if you take his advice by constantly pressuring your wife into having sex as opposed to trying to "get in the mood" together the relationship will probably end in resentment and divorce.<ref group=note>Sound familiar?</ref> Also, having sex with someone who's not in the mood doesn't sound pleasant to most sane people.

Later, in an article on [[Todd Akin]]'s rape comments, he is impressively hard on Akin, [[Cognitive dissonance|showing some hope that he will be sensitive to rape victims]].<ref>Dennis Prager, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120822203823/http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/314541/worse-wrong-dennis-prager Worse Than Wrong: The pro-life movement must disavow Todd Akin’s comment]. Archived from the National Review, 21 August 2012.</ref> He ends up blowing this opportunity when he tries to say that some rapes may not really be rape, so long as they're not "forcible rapes." Of course if you point out his borderline [[sociopath]]ic attitude towards rape victims he will just call you another "leftist" who lets "feelings" get in the way of "logic" (a.k.a. his feelings).

Not as fucked up as the above, but Prager also has bizarre views on sexual harassment. He once claimed that liberal teachers and CBS News (it doesn't make much more sense in context) were responsible for "[[Brainwashing|indoctrinating]]" young girls with feminism which was making them "oversensitive" to men's advances, which in turn explained the reason higher levels of sexual harassment were being reported by young girls.<ref>Dennis Prager, [http://www.humanevents.com/2008/06/03/liberalism-and-victimhood/ Liberalism and Victimhood]. humanevents.com, 3 June 2008.</ref> The idea that girls had a better idea of what sexual harassment was and weren't as afraid to report it seems never to have crossed his mind.

Prager's creepiness reached its height when he wrote an article that was horribly titled "Sandusky Abused Children, NCAA Abuses History" in which he ''attacked the NCAA'' for stripping Penn State of their football wins in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky [[pedophilia]] scandal.<ref name=ncaa>Dennis Prager, [http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/312700/sandusky-abused-children-ncaa-abuses-history-dennis-prager Sandusky Abused Children, NCAA Abuses History]. National Review, 31 July 2012.</ref> He accused the NCAA of trying to rewrite history and then went off on a separate rant on how the evil libs in [[California]] were "rewriting" history to include minorities. Most of the creepiness came from how [[Rape apologists|callous]] he was towards the rape victims, thus proving that he's not one of those touchy-feely lefties who are controlled by emotion. For those who believe this to be an exaggeration the article includes this paragraph:

{{quotebox|The lesson the NCAA is teaching young people — that history and truth don’t matter if enough powerful people don’t want them to matter — can be as injurious to society as the cover-up was to the victims of Sandusky.<ref name=ncaa />}}

One would think that if the media ''was'' as [[liberal]] as Prager claimed they are they could've simply used this single, fucked up sentence to destroy his career but instead it was largely ignored and the article itself still managed to get 34 [[Facebook]] "likes."

==Fear-mongering==
{{cquote|I write the words ‘[[civil war]]’ with an ache in my heart. But we are in one. Thank God this civil war is non-violent. But the fact is that the left and the rest of the country share almost no values. The American value system and the leftist value system are irreconcilable. If the left wins, America’s values lose.|||Dennis Prager<ref>Dennis Prager, [https://www.wnd.com/2010/03/130881/ It's a civil war: What we do now]. Wing Nut Daily, 23 March 2010.</ref>}}
Prager's greatest enemy is not the gays, or even the feminists, but instead "the left". Who Prager believes the left consists of is unclear since his definition of the left apparently means that [[Barack Obama]] is our first leftist president, with the ''possible exception'' of [[FDR]].<ref>Dennis Prager, [http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2009/07/21/americans_are_beginning_to_understand_the_left Americans Are Beginning to Understand the Left]. Town Hall, 21 July 2009.</ref> This is another blatant [[lie]] since [[JFK]], [[LBJ]], [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]], and even [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] and [[Eisenhower]] governed to the left of Obama. The left is also working hard to [[Homosexual recruitment|turn]] university students into [[bisexual]]s, somehow.<ref>[https://dennisprager.com/column/college-taught-her-not-to-be-a-heterosexual/ College taught her not to be a heterosexual]. dennisprager.com, 19 April 2005.</ref> He has even accused the "secular left" of being [[Antisemitism|anti-Semitic]] (that must be a lot of Jews, then); during a debate [[Christopher Hitchens]] confronted him on this claim and Prager couldn't back it up, which led to Hitchens accusing Prager of being "evasive".<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsWoki5LbIk Part 4 - D'Souza, Hitchens, and Prager]. tothesource on YouTube.</ref>

Basically, "the left" is based off of overgeneralizations that are built on either [[straw man]] [[logical fallacies]] or the [[spotlight fallacy]] if he bothers to find some left-wing [[fringe]] group. [[Ironically]], he repeatedly accuses the [[pinko commie|pinko liberals]] of generalizing the poor [[conservative]]s.<ref>Dennis Prager, [http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2010/08/24/for_the_left,_opponents_cannot_have_decent_motives_the_ground_zero_example For the Left, Opponents Cannot Have Decent Motives: The Ground Zero Example]. Town Hall, 24 August 2010.</ref><ref>[https://dennisprager.com/column/leftism-makes-you-meaner/ Leftism Makes You Meaner]. dennisprager.com, 10 January 2012.</ref> Sadly, his fans pretty much buy into whatever he says and seem utterly convinced he is one of the [[Dunning-Kruger effect|greatest intellectuals of our time]], even though he basically just scares them into thinking that everyone (the media, public schools, universities, [[Hollywood values|Hollywood]]) is out to turn them and their [[children]] into liberal homosexuals which can only be avoided by listening to Prager's show or buying his books so he may show you what American values ''really'' are. [[Groupthink]] at its very best.

==Breakdown==
{{cquote|For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is [[totalitarianism]]: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.|||Dennis Prager<ref name=tolerance>Dennis Prager, [https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/08/tolerance-health-and-fascism-dennis-prager/ Tolerance, Health, and Fascism]. National Review, 27 August 2013.</ref>}}
After Barack Obama's reelection and the repeal of [[DOMA]], Prager grew increasingly crazy. He compared the repeal of California's [[Prop 8]] to the {{wpl|2013 Egyptian coup d'état|Egyptian coup,}} because he believed it was anti-[[democracy|democratic]]. He blamed the repeal of Prop 8 on the "[[Supreme Court of the United States]], [[Conspiracy theory|colluding judges]] and the [[Liberal boogeyman|Democratic Party of California]]".<ref>Dennis Prager, [http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/egypts-coup-and-ours/ Egypt's coup ... and ours]. [[WND|Wing Nut Daily]], 8 July 2013.</ref> [[Brown v. Board of Education|After all this is]] [[Loving v. Virginia|the first time courts have overridden the will of the majority.]]

He went even further off the rails and wrote a column about how efforts to promote [[LGBT]] tolerance would lead to a [[fascism|fascist]] takeover of America.<ref name=tolerance /><ref>Luke Brinker, [http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/27/nros-dennis-prager-lgbt-non-discrimination-effo/195617 NRO's Dennis Prager: LGBT Non-Discrimination Efforts Breed “Fascism”]. Media Matters, 27 August 2013.</ref> Never mind that fascism is inherently a right-wing ideology; what tolerance has to do with a [[nationalism|nationalistic]], [[corporatism|corporatist]], and anti-democracy political philosophy that believes in quashing the rights of minorities, we can't be entirely sure of. He still thinks it's the left that's hysterical, by the way...remember what we said about psychological projection?

In an article on [[Intelligent Design]], he basically pulled the old "[[atheism|atheists]] have more faith than [[creationism|creationists]]",<ref>Dennis Prager, [http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/why-some-scientists-embrace-the-multiverse/ Why some scientists embrace the 'multiverse']. Wing Nut Daily, 17 June 2013. {{quotebox|...it is atheistic dogma, not science, to dismiss design as unscientific. The argument that science cannot suggest that intelligence comes from intelligence or design from an intelligent designer is simply a tautology. It is dogma masquerading as science.}}</ref> and then exaggerates the theory of a [[multiverse]] as being more influential than it actually is.

==Fun facts==
{{cquote|Ever since I attended college, I have been convinced that either “studies” [[confirmation bias|confirm]] what [[common sense]] suggests or that they are mistaken.|||[[Bullshit|An inspiring quote]] from Dennis Prager<ref>Dennis Prager, [http://www.wnd.com/2011/09/346641/ Why young Americans can't think morally]. Wing Nut Daily, 19 September 2011.</ref>}}

Prager constantly spouts something outrageous and batshit crazy. Here are few of his greatest hits:

*Prager wrote an article in 2011 that "predicted" that during Obama's State of the Union address the "Under God" motto in Congress would not be shown based off how it hadn't been seen in recent years due to godless cameramen.<ref>Dennis Prager, [http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/257836/god-and-congress-dennis-prager God and Congress]. National Review, 25 January 2011.</ref> The first statement was incorrect, since about five minutes into the address the motto is seen several times and the second statement was a blatant lie as seen by a picture of the 2010 State of the Union address.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxcdmUIP4AE&feature=relmfu 2011 State Of The Union-Enhanced & HD]. Michael McIntee, YouTube, 27 January 2011.</ref>
*He claimed that feminism and women abandoning [[marriage]] for careers were responsible for higher depression rates among women,<ref>Dennis Prager, [http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2008/06/24/why_are_so_many_women_depressed/page/full/ Why Are So Many Women Depressed?] Town Hall, 24 June 2008.</ref> despite ''housewives'' reporting higher rates of depression than working women.<ref>Elizabeth Mendes, Lydia Saad, and Kyley McGeeney, [http://news.gallup.com/poll/154685/stay-home-moms-report-depression-sadness-anger.aspx Stay-at-Home Moms Report More Depression, Sadness, Anger]. Gallpu, 18 May 2012.</ref><ref>Livia Gershon, [https://daily.jstor.org/what-really-made-1950s-housewives-so-miserable/ What Really Made 1950s Housewives So Miserable]. JStor Daily, 8 June 2017.</ref> Whoopsie!
*He persistently claims that his preference for children to be raised by [[heterosexual]]s over homosexuals is a perfectly rational one despite studies showing it makes no difference.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110515082819/https://cpa.ca/cpasite/userfiles/Documents/Marriage%20of%20Same-Sex%20Couples%20Position%20Statement%20-%20October%202006%20(1).pdf Marriage of Same-Sex Couples – 2006 Position Statement]. Canadian Psychological Association, 2006.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111103132756/https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2010/10/27/amicus29.pdf Brief Of The American Psychological Association, The California Psychological Association, The American Psychiatric Association, And The American Association For Marriage And Family Therapy As Amici Curiae In Support Of Plaintiff-appellees]. Kristen Perry, et. al., v. Arnold Schwartzenegger, Appeal from United States District Court for the Northern District of California, 25 October 2010.</ref><ref>Stephanie Pappas, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/16/gay-parents-better-than-straights_n_1208659.html Gay Parents Better Than Straight Parents? What Research Says]. [[The Huffington Post]], 16 January 2012.</ref>
*Prager took a Dorito ad<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxzhGPrHCKI Doritos Commercial - Slap - Super Bowl 44 Spot]. wrfilmshd, YouTube, 7 February 2010.</ref> ''way'' too seriously and believed it to be racist against [[African-American]]s, even though the race of the actors was irrelevant.<ref>Dennis Prager, [http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2010/02/16/the_doritos_ad_was_not_funny/page/full The Doritos Ad Was Not Funny]. Town Hall, 16 February 2010.</ref>
*Prager managed to anger [[Randroid]]s and [[Ron Paul]] fans in the past, mainly when he raged on Paul for saying that blacks are disproportionately [[Execution|executed]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsiAd2nT8Z8 Dennis Prager: "Ron Paul Is A Sickening Liar And Should Leave Office."] libertyangel500, YouTube, 17 February 2012.</ref> Unfortunately for Prager, Ron Paul was actually [[stopped clock| right]] in this case.<ref>[http://www.aclu.org/capital-punishment/race-and-death-penalty Race and the Death Penalty]. American Civil Liberties Union.</ref> Also, the fact that Prager accuses Paul of being a "radical lefty" during his rant makes his definition of a "leftist" even more confusing.
*He is fervently opposed to [[Obamacare]] and has used [[PRATT|disproven talking points]] to back his arguments.<ref>[https://archive.is/rzEGX Cutting the Crap: Dennis Prager's 10 Health Care Lies -- er, Questions]. Archived from pleasecutthecrap.typepad.com, 7 August 2009.</ref> deconstructs said talking points quite nicely and proves how intellectually lazy Prager is.
*Even the [[libertarians]] have taken potshots at Prager due to his anti-[[marijuana]] legalization stance.<ref>[https://archive.is/Ovanq Dennis Prager’s War on Drugs]. Archived from [[Before It's News]], 20 March 2013.</ref> Plus, he basically lumped them in with "leftists" (again). ''Wonkette'' went after him as well, briefly uniting libertarian and liberal bloggers in their disdain for the man.<ref>Stegan BC, [http://wonkette.com/505836/dennis-prager-urges-kids-to-take-up-tobacco-in-place-of-their-marijana-cigarettes Dennis Prager Urges Kids To Take Up Tobacco In Place Of Their Marijuana Cigarettes]. Wonkette, 12 March 2013.</ref>
*He has called [[COVID-19]] lockdowns "the greatest mistake in human history".<ref name=medprof />
*After he contracted COVID-19, he went on a bizarre anti-vax rant in which he said that natural immunity is "infinitely preferable to vaccine immunity"<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQGGTbfkxhA Dennis Prager Coughs Through Saying He Got Covid On Purpose | The Kyle Kulinski Show], Kyle Kulinski, ''The Young Turks'' 20 October 2021</ref> and claimed that he wanted to contract the virus the whole time, and said he used hydroxychloroquine and [[ivermectin]] (so much for natural immunity).<ref name=covid-pos>[https://www.businessinsider.com/conservative-radio-host-dennis-prager-tests-positive-for-covid-19-2021-10?amp Conservative radio host Dennis Prager announces he tested positive for COVID-19, which he said he was intentionally trying to contract 'the entire time'], Azmi Haroun, ''Business Insider'' 18 October 2021</ref>
*He has accused atheists of supporting [[incest]], or at least having no valid reason to oppose it.<ref>[https://www.mediamatters.org/dennis-prager/dennis-prager-theres-no-secular-argument-against-adult-incest Dennis Prager: ‘There's No Secular Argument against Adult Incest.’] Media Matters for America, 11 October 2022. {{quotebox|There's no secular argument against adult incest. Brother and sister want to make love, what's your argument? That they're going to produce mentally retarded offspring? That's nonsense. It takes many generations of inbreeding to do that. There is a religious argument - sex cannot enter family life. It's a big taboo.}}</ref>

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{{cquote|George Orwell's fictionalized world where Big Brother reigns supreme is no longer a figment of the imagination, but a prophetic vision of present-day threats... Big Tech is making Orwell’s ''1984'' a 21st century reality.|||A PragerU video that runs as an advertisement before YouTube videos. ''Really.''<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA6pazfxkxw Big Tech Is Big Brother]. PragerU, YouTube, 3 June 2019.</ref>}}

Prager runs a non-profit online program called '''Prager University'''.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/user/PragerUniversity PragerU] at [[YouTube]].</ref> Watch two or three [[YouTube]] videos and you'll be assaulted with an ad of theirs. Keeping up with his paranoia around universities turning students into secular bisexual leftists, the "university" has the totally not bizarre motto "[[Anti-intellectualism|Undoing the damage of the University… five minutes at a time."]] Since it doesn't offer degrees, the "University" does not even rise to the level of [[diploma mill]].

==See also==
*[[Evil Liberal Science Conspiracy]]
*''[[Still the Best Hope]]'' — His awful book. It's basically an [[Ann Coulter]] book but even ''more'' smug and [[paranoid]].
*[[Salem Radio Network]] — The [[Right-wing media groups|reactionary right wing radio network]] that gives him a voice

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==References==
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