The media are over the moon about a new poll from Pew Research Center. A new poll surveyed some 40,000 people across 37 countries, and it turns out foreigners don t like President Trump as much as they liked President Obama. While 64% of such foreigners had confidence in President Obama at the end of his term, just 22% have confidence in Trump. The countries that saw the biggest drops are generally sophisticated democratic socialist countries like Sweden, Sweden, 83%, the Netherlands, 75%, and Germany, 75%. And Russia, where Trump s consistently sycophantic rhetoric toward the Russian government did not go unnoticed, dropped from 64% to 49%. Confidence in President Trump to do the right thing versus Obama dropped in every single country except for two: Israel, where President Obama was widely and correctly perceived to be anti-Israel, pro-Iran and pro-Palestinian. And Spain, where 11% trusted Obama versus 53% for Trump. Again, not a shock. 46% of foreigners dislike American ideas about democracy, which is weird since we actually promote democracy across the world. 54% complain about American ideas and customs spreading here. And yet, 55% also see Trump as a strong leader. And herein lies the truth about Trump. All of the foibles to which commentators are apt to attribute his unpopularity with foreigners are mere cover for the real issue, that Trump is not a left-winger who wants to minimize American power on the world stage while turning over our moral leadership to the UN. All of which suggest that Trump s right-wing policies are what is truly annoying people around the globe. Which is good, because they actually like an America First. Which is what is good. Ben Shapiro breaks down how the alternative is the Obama administration has been for the last eight years: the moral cowardice of the Obama Administration for the past eight years. Plus we're gonna break down Trumpcare, plus we re gonna talk about what exactly the Congressional Budget Office had to say about it yesterday, and we're going to deconstruct the culture, so jam packed show coming up for you in a jam-packed show. And that's coming up on The Ben Shapiro Show, coming up today on The Daily Show with Ben Shapiro! on The Weekly Standard and The Daily Wire. and much, much more! - Ben Shapiro - The Daily Mail -- Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's newest podcast, Ben Shapiro s new book, The New York Times
00:00:00.000The media are over the moon about a new poll from Pew Research Center.
00:00:03.000The new poll surveyed some 40,000 people across 37 countries, and it turns out foreigners don't like President Trump as much as they liked President Obama.
00:01:16.000The world loves an America that pays their bills without attempting to promote any of our interests.
00:01:21.000In fact, the Pew poll also shows that Trump is more unpopular than Vladimir Putin, a murderous thug dictator who has invaded foreign countries with regularity.
00:01:29.000Foreigners prefer an American policy that favors Iran nuclear weapon development, 49% versus 34%.
00:01:54.00046% of foreigners dislike American ideas about democracy.
00:01:58.000Again, it's just 43% who approve, which is weird since we actually promoted democracy across the world.
00:02:03.00054% complain about American ideas and customs spreading here.
00:02:06.000Again, weird since they watch all of our movies and consume all of our product.
00:02:09.000And herein lies the truth about Trump.
00:02:12.000All of the foibles to which commentators are apt to attribute his unpopularity with foreigners are mere cover for the real issue, that Trump is not a left-winger who wants to minimize American power on the world stage while turning over our moral leadership to the UN.
00:02:25.000All of which suggest that Trump is right.
00:02:27.000America First policymaking, which is a radical shift away from the multipolarity sought by the Obama administration, is what is truly annoying people around the globe.
00:02:35.000Which is good, if the alternative is the moral cowardice of the Obama administration for the last eight years.
00:02:41.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:02:47.000So dude, CNN is having a rough week, and we're gonna get into it, plus we're gonna break down Trumpcare, we're gonna talk about what exactly the Congressional Budget Office had to say about it yesterday, plus we're gonna deconstruct the culture, so jam-packed show coming up for you.
00:03:00.000Before I do that, I wanna say thank you to our sponsors,
00:04:24.000We begin with what is hilarious video.
00:04:27.000James O'Keefe, who is constantly ripped by the news media because they don't like that he goes undercover to do his journalism.
00:04:33.000He was originally responsible for breaking ACORN, the community organizing organization responsible for pushing left-wing agenda.
00:04:42.000James O'Keefe has now dropped a video of CNN senior producer John Bonifield.
00:04:46.000John Bonifield, I guess he's a senior health producer or something, but he's a senior producer talking candidly about CNN's treatment of the Trump administration generally and Trump-Russia collusion allegations specifically, and it's just spectacular stuff.
00:04:58.000Here's from James O'Keefe's Project Veritas, CNN producer John Bonifield basically acknowledging and agreeing that all of our preconceptions about CNN's bias and their agenda are exactly right.
00:05:11.000So you believe like the Russia thing is a little crazy, right?
00:05:17.000Even if Russia was trying to swing an election, we try to swing their elections.
00:05:22.000We're in our CIA and doing it all the time.
00:05:25.000We're out there trying to manipulate governments.
00:05:28.000You win because you know the game and you play it right.
00:06:13.000Okay, so he's saying a bunch of things here that we already knew.
00:06:29.000Number one, CNN is focusing on Russia for the ratings, which is obvious.
00:06:32.000I mean, they focused on Malaysian flight MH370 for like three years and had Don Lemon talking about black holes opening up in the sky to eat flights.
00:07:07.000When there actually is news to break, then CNN's ratings are good.
00:07:10.000When there's no news to break, and they're just spouting about Russia still, then there's not, like tonight, I think, CNN is supposed to be running a special about Trump-Russia, the big story.
00:07:21.000And Bonnefield is honest enough to admit that, although he probably wouldn't have admitted it if he knew he was on tape.
00:07:26.000When he says that Jeff Zucker, the head of CNN,
00:07:30.000Told all the producers that when they were covering the Paris Climate Accords and Trump's pullout from them that you get back to talking Russia because he wants the ratings.
00:07:37.000Again, this is just confirmation of what we already knew.
00:07:40.000Bonnefield also said that if CNN had treated Obama like this, it wouldn't have gone over well at all because obviously their fans tend to like Obama, whereas they hate Trump.
00:07:49.000And so they have been wildly dishonest in how they've covered Trump.
00:07:55.000Everything that Bonifield is saying is true, and all of it confirms what we already knew about CNN, which is that they are biasing their journalism in order to target President Trump, and he is right that they are on a— President Trump is right that they are on a witch hunt.
00:08:07.000Now, that wasn't the only bad story for CNN last night.
00:08:11.000Also fired three journalists responsible for a single-sourced anonymous story that they broke at CNN.com.
00:08:18.000They were accusing Trump associate Anthony Scaramucci of being investigated by the Senate Intelligence Committee for contact with a Russian bank a few days before the inauguration.
00:08:27.000CNN ended up retracting the story and firing the three journalists responsible for the story.
00:08:31.000Naturally, as my friend John Nolte points out,
00:08:34.000CNN also added that it's possible, quote, the facts of the story weren't necessarily wrong.
00:09:31.000They refuse to acknowledge their biases.
00:09:33.000It's one of the more annoying things about CNN.
00:09:34.000If they just said, listen, we're a left wing outlet like MSNBC, like no one cares that MSNBC covers Russia incessantly because MSNBC is openly to the left.
00:10:13.000It's been seven months, though, since Trump won the presidential election.
00:10:16.000Since then, precisely no evidence has emerged to support the claim that Trump somehow colluded with the Russian government in order to win the race.
00:10:24.000But you'd never know that from watching that channel, which has become home for conspiracists on the Russia question worldwide.
00:10:31.000Last February, to name yet another example, CNN produced a story accusing Trump associates of repeated contacts with Russian intelligence.
00:10:40.000That report turned out to be almost identical to a report by the New York Times that Jim Comey called out specifically for being grossly inaccurate.
00:11:10.000Now, again, I think that Sean calling for Zucker to be fired over the coverage of CNN is a mistake for Sean.
00:11:16.000I mean, I defended Sean over the Seth Rich stuff, not because I thought he was right on it, but because I don't like these kind of astroturfed boycotts where people end up losing their jobs because they don't like the way that somebody is covering the news.
00:11:28.000And here's Sean calling for Jeff Zucker to be fired over his coverage of the news.
00:11:32.000Again, I just—the hypocrisy is a little much for me.
00:11:38.000Absolutely it's fair, but I do want to discuss whether the term fake news is useful or not anymore, because I'm not sure that it is useful.
00:11:45.000So when fake news was originally coined, the term fake news was originally coined, what it meant was a story that was outright false.
00:11:51.000So for example, that piece that CNN retracted, that was actual fake news, right?
00:12:26.000And then there are stories where we don't like the angle the news is taking.
00:12:29.000We don't like the bias that's being infused into the news.
00:12:32.000And this is where I find trouble because, you know, President Trump, he's out there saying all these networks are quote-unquote fake news, fake news.
00:12:38.000If you conflate these two categories, you make it so that it is impossible to have a common basis of fact for any sort of political conversation.
00:13:35.000You remember from Princess Bride, where Vizzini gets into a battle of wits with Wesley, and Vizzini has the... Wesley takes iocane powder and supposedly he puts it in one of the two cups, and then Vizzini, who's the cleverest man alive, according to Vizzini, has to try and outwit him.
00:13:51.000And so he does the whole, I'm not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you!
00:13:55.000But you must have known I was not a great fool, and you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me!
00:14:03.000What happens when President Trump routinely says things that are not true, or Sean Hannity says things about Seth Rich that are unverified?
00:14:10.000I mean, last night, Sean Hannity was still on Twitter, saying he's still investigating the Seth Rich thing, which is, you know,
00:14:47.000But it is a mistake to label every single mainstream media outlet fake news, as President Trump does, because it actually blows back on Trump.
00:14:53.000The next time CNN reports something that is true, and Trump calls it fake news, Trump looks like a liar.
00:15:00.000He is right that all of these outlets are biased against him.
00:15:02.000He is right that they attack him in a way they never would have attacked President Obama.
00:15:05.000And I'm glad that President Trump goes up against the media all the time.
00:15:08.000In my book, Bullies, I said this is exactly what politicians should do.
00:15:11.000But the point in Bullies was that you should go after these outlets when they lie.
00:15:15.000You shouldn't just label the entire outlet completely uncredible and suggest that everything that they report is false because that's not actually true.
00:15:22.000Like, if you're going to defeat lies, you have to do it with truth.
00:15:25.000And if you're going to defeat bias, you have to do it by calling out the bias.
00:15:28.000You can't defeat bias by just saying that everything that somebody says that is biased is complete fake news and all lies and garbage.
00:15:35.000Right now what we have is Trump attacks combined with the media's drooling preoccupation with getting Trump.
00:15:42.000Right now, I'm telling because this is the world I live in, right now people on the right will not believe a word that comes from CNN or the New York Times or the Washington Post, even though all of their favorite websites, you know, Breitbart, I used to work there, right?
00:15:54.000I was the editor at large there for four years.
00:15:56.000I was deeply involved in editorial for two of those four years.
00:15:58.000Breitbart, which is a very pro-Trump website, obviously, they rip half their news from the mainstream media at least, okay?
00:16:04.000The notion that Breitbart is doing original reporting is not true.
00:16:09.000I mean, they do some original reporting, but the bulk of what they cover is a Breitbart angle on a news story that has been previously reported by CNN or the New York Times.
00:16:19.000And everybody in talk radio will acknowledge this, right?
00:16:21.000I mean, the fact is that when you listen to Rush, when you listen to Sean,
00:16:24.000Half of Sean's coverage on his radio show is him reading an AP story and then deconstructing the AP story trying to get to the fact.
00:16:31.000So pretending that all of the news is fake is just not true.
00:16:34.000And what you end up with is this bizarre situation where people on the right will only trust Fox News and people on the left will only trust CNN.
00:16:41.000And if they hear that something happened on Fox News, they go, it's complete crap.
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00:18:50.000They're a wildly biased anti-right network masquerading as an objective news source, sometimes running stories without proper substantiation that they then have to back off of.
00:18:59.000But to pretend that every piece of CNN coverage is a lie is not true, just as for the left to pretend during the Obama years that everything coming out of Fox News was not true.
00:19:40.000And anyone who pretends not is lying to you.
00:19:42.000Second, either the facts of a story are factual or they are not.
00:19:46.000Okay, there's two parts to every story.
00:19:48.000There's the facts and there's the opinion.
00:19:50.000And you have to become kind of sophisticated in how you look at the news.
00:19:52.000This is why you listen to or watch shows like this, so that we can break down a story and explain to you what is opinion from what is fact, what is actually being said in the news story, and what is the news media getting out ahead of themselves, right?
00:20:04.000The facts of a story are either factual, however, or they are not.
00:20:07.000The bias of a journalist may impact how the facts are presented, but it doesn't automatically discredit the facts that are presented.
00:20:14.000So if CNN covers the Trump-Russia stuff, and then draws a conclusion that there's collusion, and the conclusion is wrong, that doesn't discredit the underlying facts upon which they are reporting.
00:20:23.000Maybe their conclusion is wrong because they're biased.
00:20:25.000Maybe the way they're reporting the story is wrong because they're biased.
00:20:28.000But that doesn't necessarily mean that the underlying facts are wrong.
00:20:53.000Now the left may not have liked the conclusion the right was drawing, which is that Obama basically ordered it.
00:20:57.000But that didn't discredit the underlying news.
00:20:59.000So, it is your job as a news consumer to try and distinguish the fact from the opinion in any given story without just doing this routine where you say, okay, CNN is all fake news, or Fox News is all fake news, and everybody should be fired because I disagree with them.
00:21:16.000Yes, I think they're egregious in their coverage of Trump.
00:21:18.000I think they are just egregious in their coverage of Trump.
00:21:21.000And I think that producer demonstrates how egregious they are in their coverage of Trump.
00:21:26.000But that does not actually change the underlying facts.
00:21:29.000And to pretend that CNN doesn't feel the heat when they do something wrong is just silly.
00:21:31.000I mean, they just fired three reporters.
00:21:33.000We make a living over at Daily Wire bashing CNN when they get things wrong.
00:21:37.000To pretend that they are not subject to scrutiny is just dishonest.
00:21:41.000So, again, this is not a defense of CNN's activity anywhere along the line here.
00:21:46.000But I'm suggesting to you that you are going to be blindsided by the news if you do what so many on the right are doing and say, I only trust
00:21:54.000The truth is, neither is Fox News in many cases.
00:22:11.000Between good news coverage and bad news coverage, instead of doing this ridiculous partisan knee-jerk crap where people at CNN go, people on the left go, oh, Fox News can't be trusted, everything they say is a lie, and people, faux news, right, they did this for eight years, I was there, and people on the right going, oh, it's from the New York Times?
00:22:26.000How dare you quote the New York Times!
00:22:29.000I promise you, Gateway Pundit is quoting that same New York Times story, whether it's an attempt to debunk the New York Times story or an attempt to grant credibility to the New York Times story, because most reporting is done by the mainstream media outlets that dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars every year to sending reporters to the field.
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