[O'Reilly Factor] Yale professor makes case for Donald Trump vote
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O'REILLY: "Personal Story" segment tonight, column in the "Wall Street
Journal" recently caught my eye. It was written by a Yale Professor
David Gelernter who says, who says, he is voting for Trump, even though
he is not very happy about it.
The professor joins us now here in New York City down from New Haven.
So, I mean, you came out of the closet. And so I can't imagine at Yale
-- what do they say to you? You are voting for Trump. What do they say?
DAVID GELERNTER, PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, YALE: Well, they are
used to it I have been out of this closet. I have been a Republican for
a long time.
O'REILLY: But it's different with Trump.
GELERNTER: But it's true. It's true.
O'REILLY: Right. Right.
GELERNTER: Even the one percent. Half of one percent of Republicans at
Yale are scared to death of Trump so, yes, it's a different thing.
O'REILLY: So, you say it's about 99 percent liberal Democrat at Yale?
GELERNTER: I would say 99. Ninety nine and a half percent. Not just
liberal leftist.
O'REILLY: Wouldn't they do better up there if they had a few, you know,
they always speak about diversity. Get somebody in there. Now, you are
not a big Trump fan.
GELERNTER: True.
O'REILLY: But you are casting a ballot for him, why?
GELERNTER: I have no choice. My duty as a citizen to look at the big
picture. Trump is a bum with respect to his dealings with women. I'm
not proud of what he has done. He is not proud of what he has done. But
I have a responsibility to look at what kind of president Hillary
Clinton would make. And a woman who has been a career liar, who spent
her career selling out the United States, making a principle and a
practice of doing that, I have no reason to doubt that she is going to
continue lying.
O'REILLY: All right. So, your vote is basically that she is worse than
he is.
GELERNTER: She is worse than he is. And we need somebody who is not
scared to make big changes. Trump is not my pick but --
O'REILLY: All right. But he is not scared.
GELERNTER: He is not scared.
O'REILLY: Okay. And Hillary Clinton would pretty much do what Barack
Obama has done. Now, Secretary Clinton is a Yale Law school grad.
GELERNTER: Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. Yes.
O'REILLY: Do they like her up at Yale? Are they promoting Hillary
Clinton? Do they think she's going to be a good --
GELERNTER: They don't have to promote her. They are madly in love with
her. But I will say not to the extent that they love Obama. Obama
really rings the bell for them.
O'REILLY: Ahah!
GELERNTER: But the Clintons have been big at Yale since Bill's earlier
days, since Bill is a governor in Arkansas. Proud of him.
O'REILLY: Now your peers at Yale, do they ever come up and congratulate
you on your courage?
(LAUGHTER)
No, I'm serious. Well, they said, look, we may not agree with you
Professor, but you are pretty courageous to do what you did, write the
journal article and be outspoken.
GELERNTER: I will tell you. To be fair Yale has been fair to me. But it
helps that they live in an intellectual ghetto like all major
universities. They read the "New York Times." That's it. And for the
students, too. The faculty and the students don't have a clue what's
going on in the world.
O'REILLY: So, there is no robust debate up there? There is no Yale
factor.
GELERNTER: If I publish in the "Wall Street Journal" they have no clue.
O'REILLY: They don't even know it?
GELERNTER: They don't even know it.
O'REILLY: Is it banned?
GELERNTER: If I'm on this show which may be watched all over the
country, they have never heard of it.
O'REILLY: They have never heard of it because you have the internet.
GELERNTER: There is a rumor.
O'REILLY: It will get out on the internet. Right. But then when you go
back to Yale, I mean --
GELERNTER: You can't under estimate the incredible parochial mess of
Yale, of Harvard.
O'REILLY: Is it arrogance? Is it snootiness? Is that what it's based on
or are they just unrealistic.
GELERNTER: It's professional arrogance. It is not like these are
unpleasant people. They are easy going. They are friendly and so forth.
It's a professional arrogance that says our business to be smarter than everybody else.
O'REILLY: But they can't say they are smarter than you.
GELERNTER: They don't know anything about me except I'm weird and
interesting to Republicans.
(LAUGHTER)
O'REILLY: All right. Halloween is coming up. And I think I'm going to
go trick and treating up at Yale. That will liven the campus up a
little bit.
GELERNTER: Consider it an invitation.
O'REILLY: All right. Professor, thank you very much.
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