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00:00:00.000So I'd like to thank the Academy, my wife, my parents, my agent, and God Almighty for the great honor of being the top journalist target of Jew hatred in America over the past few months according to a comprehensive study from the Anti-Defamation League.
00:00:11.000I'm honored because being targeted by mouth-breathing idiots is a compliment.
00:00:15.000You know, you're doing something right if people who tweet pictures of gas chambers on the day of your child's birth find you unacceptable as a human being.
00:00:21.000Hint, I also find you unacceptable as a human being.
00:00:24.000First, Twitter should not ban the Jew haters.
00:00:27.000As the dude who receives hook-nosed Jew memes more than any other journalist on planet Earth, I don't believe people ought to be suspended or banned from Twitter or Facebook for posting vile garbage so long as you're not openly advocating violence.
00:00:38.000I make a habit of retweeting these pieces of human crap in order to mock their stupidity and to expose the fact that people like this exist.
00:01:03.000Alt-right means something, and it means ethno-cultural European solidarity that has nothing to do with conservatism, the Constitution, or ideals of liberty.
00:01:10.000To read what the alt-right is, we actually have a great piece over at Daily Wire that you can check out.
00:01:14.000By the same token, downplaying the alt-right's anti-Semitism as mischievous and trolly, as some people at sites like the Trump-centric alt-right meeting site Breitbart like to do, that's lying by omission and provides cover to evil.
00:01:26.000Third, Jew hatred is not widespread among Trump supporters.
00:01:29.000So, the ADL report links Trump support to Jew hatred on Twitter.
00:01:33.000There's no question that there's a very small but loud segment of alt-right Trump supporters who tweet gas chamber memes at people, but it's pretty small.
00:01:40.000The vast majority of Trump supporters find this sort of stuff absolutely reprehensible.
00:01:44.000They're not in line with the alt-right.
00:01:45.000I know it, you know it, we all know it.
00:01:47.000To overestimate their percentage of the population would be wrong and foolish.
00:01:50.000Fourth, a lot of online Jew hatred is astroturfed.
00:01:53.000The ADL study shows Jew hatred on Twitter spikes at certain times and cascades on itself.
00:01:58.000That means it's being coordinated, or at least encouraged, by specific Twitter personalities.
00:02:01.000I can say with certainty, the amount of Jew hatred in my Twitter feed has dropped exponentially since Twitter banned Milo, which, by the way, is a ban I opposed.
00:02:09.000Trump does wink, by the way, at the alt-right.
00:02:13.000Donald Trump may not be an alt-righter, he isn't, but he spends an awful lot of time and effort winking at them.
00:02:17.000The hiring of Steve Bannon as campaign CEO, a guy who turned Breitbart.com from an edgy conservative site into an alt-right haven, then bragged about it, was a shout-out.
00:02:25.000Trump winking and nodding at Vladimir Putin, it's part of the same pattern.
00:02:28.000His language about international bankers may not be intentional, but the alt-right certainly treated it that way.
00:02:34.000Finally, the media ignored Jew hatred if it's directed against the right.
00:02:37.000The ADL has done a really good job of charting the rise of Jew hatred against conservative pundits.
00:02:42.000But the entire media largely ignored that same Jew hatred, so long as it only targeted people like me on the right, and only began to notice it when it hit people on the left, like Julia Jaffe.
00:02:51.000We Jews on the right, who oppose Trump, were used to it by the point the left figured out about it.
00:02:55.000Politico magazine just did an entire piece, like two weeks ago, about anti-Semitism among this segment of Trump supporters, and they asked, quote, why has the Jewish right looked away?
00:03:03.000This is patently insane, and it demonstrates the myopia of much of the left.
00:03:07.000The left itself is replete with anti-Semitism and Jew-hatred.
00:03:10.000Just check their support for the Palestinians and their charter for the Black Lives Matter movement.
00:03:14.000So, what's the future of the alt-right and all this sort of Jew-hatred online?
00:03:38.000I had a two-day break, and now we're back into it.
00:03:40.000The debate is tonight, we'll get to all that.
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00:04:27.000Okay, tons to get to today here on The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:04:30.000We are going to get to the debate stuff because obviously the big debate is tonight, is it Trump's last chance or is it beyond Trump's last chance?
00:04:59.000James O'Keefe, who does a great job with investigative journalism, he broke a video in which he showed that there are people who work for the DNC who are involved in promoting voter fraud and also involved in promoting violence at Trump rallies.
00:05:12.000Here is a clip from one of O'Keefe's undercover videos.
00:05:15.000This investigation has revealed compelling evidence of a dark money conspiracy, a violation of federal campaign coordination laws between Hillary Clinton's campaign, Priorities USA, Hillary's super PAC, and the Democratic National Committee.
00:06:27.000A second group, and that group works for the DNC.
00:06:29.000So what he's talking about is the idea that they stack people in the line at Trump rallies in order to ask nasty questions of the Trump folks and try and elicit a violent response that the media can pick up on.
00:06:40.000He actually talked about a situation where a 69-year-old woman apparently did this to an older guy, and the older guy hit her, or at least she claimed he hit her, and this became a national media story.
00:06:48.000I remember when it happened, there was national media coverage of this 69-year-old woman who claimed that she'd been assaulted by this Trump supporter.
00:06:55.000He's saying, we astroturf this kind of stuff.
00:06:57.000And that's not the only allegation that is being fulfilled and proved correct by these tapes from O'Keefe and Project Veritas, which is a good organization.
00:07:08.000There's also a second piece of information, and that is that these folks engage in voter fraud and are happy to do so.
00:08:13.000Okay, well, what Scott Fovall is talking about is voter fraud.
00:08:15.000And he talks in the video about the idea that you rent cars, and then you go to places, and you just vote under an assumed name, and you write in a ballot, and it gets picked up.
00:08:24.000Now, is this the kind of voter fraud that's going to shift massive presidential elections?
00:08:30.000Very difficult to say that that's the case.
00:09:33.000And the media, who are attempting to downplay this, attempting to pretend it doesn't exist, trying to say that nobody admitted to any wrongdoing here.
00:09:39.000Both Foval, the guy who's on this tape, he's already resigned.
00:09:42.000And the guy he works for has already resigned as well.
00:09:44.000So obviously, the Democrats know heads have to roll here, or they're going to be accountable for all of this.
00:09:58.000The media have completely ignored all the bad things that are going on with Hillary Clinton.
00:10:02.000WikiLeaks continue to come out demonstrating that Hillary is coordinating at very high levels with the media, that the Hillary campaign was coordinating at very high levels with the DOJ and the FBI.
00:10:30.000Well, first of all, I'm not in a position to make... I haven't given a thorough investigation, but offering a public official a benefit in return for the public official making a concession of some kind is illegal.
00:10:46.000And not only is it illegal if you're asking a public official to do something illegal, it can be bribery if you offer a public official an incentive, a benefit, in order to do something that is legal.
00:11:01.000If you offered to pay him or to give him a benefit to issue a grant to you or to your organization.
00:11:16.000What Ashcroft is saying here is 100% true.
00:11:18.000Obviously, there's evidence of a lot of illegal activity in Hillary Clinton's emails, and no one cares because the media are more focused on Donald Trump's shenanigans with women over the past 30 years.
00:11:27.000They're also not that interested in Bill Clinton's shenanigans with women and the fact that Hillary Clinton helped cover those up and targeted the women involved.
00:11:34.000There's apparently a new accuser who's now come forward today against Bill Clinton.
00:11:39.000Yeah, I'm not sure that this is relevant to the presidential race unless there's evidence that Hillary tried to cover it up, but it just does demonstrate the media's level of interest when it comes to Bill Clinton is nil, and their level of interest when it comes to Donald Trump is extraordinarily high.
00:11:52.000He started making inappropriate gestures.
00:11:55.000We were responsible for editing our own stories, and we had a very small editing room.
00:12:01.000And he had touched my shoulder and done other things to me before in public around other people, but that was just his nature to be very, you know, demonstrative and
00:13:16.000That said, that said, all that's legit to say, that said, what Donald Trump is saying about the rigging of this election is not correct.
00:13:22.000So here is Donald Trump about the election, and I just want to, before we play this, I just want to point something out.
00:13:27.000This is going to be the theme, because we're going to talk about the debate in a second.
00:13:30.000I know there are a lot of people out there who are desperate to see Donald Trump win, who really want to see Donald Trump win.
00:13:35.000There's a large part of me that would love to see Donald Trump win, just to stick it to the media, and to stick it to Hillary Clinton, and watch her weep as her life's ambitions crumble before her, because that would be really, really amusing.
00:13:44.000For all the people who are rooting for Donald Trump to win, you care more about Donald Trump winning at this point than Donald Trump does.
00:13:50.000I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings.
00:13:52.000I hate to be the guy who brings you the reality.
00:13:55.000As I say all the time, if you want to hear shows where they're going to tell you things that you want to hear, you can tune on over to a bunch of shows on Fox.
00:14:01.000There's some syndicated radio shows that do the same thing.
00:14:03.000I won't name names like Laura Ingraham or Sean Hannity.
00:14:05.000They'll tell you what you want to hear, and they'll tell you that everything is hunky-dory, Trump's gonna win, he's gonna walk away with this thing, all of it is not real, all of it is not true.
00:14:13.000You know, the elections are rigged, and when Donald Trump goes down in flames, that's because he was stabbed in the back.
00:15:54.000It's not designed to accomplish anything, except it's supposed to get a lot of people who are conservative, people who are Republican, people who hate Hillary and hate Obama, to grin.
00:16:03.000That's fine so far as it goes, but the man's running for President of the United States still.
00:16:53.000The jeans I'm wearing now, which are spectacular, the most comfortable jeans I own, I got those from Trunk Club, too, and they fit me really well.
00:16:59.000I mean, everybody just goes around saying, man, you look fantastic in those jeans.
00:17:08.000What they do is, you can actually go into their physical locations in Dallas, New York, L.A., Chicago, or Charleston, and they will have a personal stylist run through the rigmarole with you, like pick out clothes with you and help tailor things, and they'll do it for free.
00:17:21.000And then you order the clothes, and they send you a trunk full of clothes that you can either accept or reject.
00:17:24.000If you're not in any of those big cities, they have a personal stylist for you anyway,
00:17:28.000You contact them, you can text with the person, you become friendly with the person, you can ask them to make outfits out of your current wardrobe and mix them with new items.
00:17:36.000They send you a trunk, but it's not like a regular thing, it's only if you want.
00:17:39.000So they send you the trunk, and then you can pick to keep what you want, and you can send back what you want, and the shipping is free.
00:17:48.000I actually do like dressing well, and if you like dressing well, even if you're a dude who doesn't care about dressing well, everybody else in business is gonna care whether you dress well.
00:20:10.000It's rigging from the media that is far to the left.
00:20:12.000It's rigging in the terms of actual voter fraud that exists on a relatively small scale, but yes, it exists, and yes, we should be concerned about all of that.
00:22:24.000If you believe the polls are rigged, you're listening to too much Bill Mitchell.
00:22:27.000And I don't know why you would do that if you have five brain cells to rub together, okay?
00:22:30.000This idea the polls are rigged, this discredits the entire argument.
00:22:33.000When you say the media's rigged, the polls are rigged, the elections are rigged, the media are rigged, but when you say the polls are rigged, you sound like a fool and you discredit the rest of the argument.
00:22:57.000Clinton plus 10, Clinton plus 4, Clinton plus 8, Clinton plus 11, Clinton plus 12, Clinton plus 4, Clinton plus 9, Clinton plus 3, Clinton plus 7, Clinton plus 4.
00:23:09.000Okay, those are not good polls for Donald Trump.
00:23:12.000And there's another poll that was out today that had him down 15.
00:23:14.000And I'm going to make a prediction right here, and that prediction is that Trump is actually going to underperform how he's doing in the polls because he has no ground game.
00:23:23.000The reason that I say that is because Mitt Romney underperformed the polls because Barack Obama's ground game was better than his.
00:23:32.000Donald Trump's ground game look like nothing.
00:23:34.000I mean it's just it's it's the it's the it's it he's got no ground game and I'm talking to people on the ground in these states.
00:23:39.000He's got no ground game so he's he just keeps claiming rigging and again the goal of saying that it's rigged is that he can blame everybody else.
00:23:56.000He says that the media are rigging it.
00:23:58.000Now, if this were the message, if this were the message, it would make more sense, but this hasn't been Trump's message.
00:24:02.000So the good message that Pence is pushing is being lost in the bad message that Trump is pushing.
00:24:06.000I have to tell you, it really is astonishing to most Americans that as these unsubstantiated allegations are treated with an enormous amount of coverage on this network and other networks, that revelations coming out of Secretary of State Clinton's years in the State Department and the Clinton Foundation are virtually ignored by the national media.
00:24:27.000That state department officials actually directed contracts for the Haitian recovery after the earthquake to friends of the Clintons.
00:24:36.000And literally, that got almost no media attention while those that stepped forward with these unsubstantiated claims that Donald Trump has denied,
00:24:46.000We're treated with headline news and continuous coverage.
00:24:49.000It's one of the reasons why so many Americans feel like this election is being rigged by a national media that's constantly trying to change the subject away from and practice willful ignorance toward the corruption and misdeeds and pay-for-play politics.
00:25:05.000Okay, and what he's saying there is 100% true.
00:25:07.000The media are ignoring real allegations about Hillary Clinton in order to cover all these other allegations about Trump.
00:25:12.000Now, the allegations about Trump may be true.
00:25:14.000Okay, and where there's smoke, in my opinion, there tends to be fire.
00:25:18.000But that doesn't mean the media have been fair in their coverage.
00:25:21.000Pence points out that there was a bombing of a GOP office, I believe it's in North Carolina, and a couple of other offices had their windows broken.
00:25:29.000And Pence points out that, can you imagine if supposed Trump supporters had burned down a Democratic Party precinct office?
00:25:57.000My wife and I were in North Carolina today and I wanted to come by to call attention to this cowardly attack on our supporters in North Carolina and to no less extent an attack on the American political system.
00:26:14.000This was an act of political terrorism and I have to tell you how inspired I am to see the way this community has come together and people have come together
00:26:24.000To continue to move forward undeterred, unintimidated.
00:26:30.000Okay, so he's exactly right about all of this.
00:26:35.000Now, you know, the media's rigged, it's true.
00:26:38.000Again, so what do the Democrats do with all of this?
00:26:41.000What the Democrats do is they do what you knew they were going to do, because they're not stupid, okay?
00:26:44.000They may be evil, but they're not stupid.
00:26:46.000So what the Democrats do, Barack Obama says to Trump, look, you keep talking rigged, rigged, rigged, rigged, rigged, stop whining.
00:26:52.000You start whining before the game's even over?
00:26:59.000If whenever things are going badly for you and you lose, you start blaming somebody else, then you don't have what it takes to be in this job.
00:27:09.000Because there are a lot of times when things don't go our way, or my way.
00:28:10.000Okay, and the problem is it discredits the entire rigged argument about the media and about voter fraud and all the rest of it when the guy who's uttering the argument is only doing so when he says the polls are rigged and when he's losing by 15 points, when he's losing by 10, 12, 15 points.
00:28:24.000Okay, it undermines the entire argument.
00:28:26.000And this is the problem, again, with Trumpism.
00:28:27.000Trump corrupts every decent argument we've got.
00:28:30.000He goes out there and he articulates these arguments, but he only does so for his own personal benefit.
00:28:35.000I mean, you can see it happening in real time.
00:28:37.000Here's Jake Tapper of CNN talking to Rudy Giuliani, and he's talking about the rigging of elections, and here's Tapper going after Giuliani.
00:28:44.000That's one of the areas where people only voted for Obama, just like in Utah, there are places that only voted for Romney.
00:28:50.000Maybe there are situations in which it's right.
00:28:54.000I remember a case when I was Associate Attorney General where 720 dead people voted in Chicago in the 1982 election.
00:29:01.000I remember in my own election about 60 dead people voted.
00:29:05.000So I can't sit here and tell you that they don't cheat.
00:29:09.000And I know because they control the polling places in these areas, there are no Republicans, that it's very hard to get people there who will challenge votes.
00:29:20.000So what they do is they leave dead people on the rolls.
00:29:24.000And then they pay people to vote those dead people.
00:29:30.000We have to go, Mr. Mayor, but just to put a button on this, it sounds as though you are saying that Trump is serious when he says that the election is going to be stalled.
00:30:35.000Okay, so the problem here is that what Giuliani is saying about the reality of election fraud is still true, and you can't name a large-scale situation in which Republican election fraud defeated a Democrat, can you?
00:30:49.000But the problem is that this entire argument gets discredited when the guy making the argument and the people making the argument are arguing on behalf of a guy who's going to get creamed.
00:31:26.000Look, voting is the lifeblood of our democracy.
00:31:29.000And when you have Secretary of State, Republican Secretary of State say, hello, we are conducting a free, fair, open and honest election.
00:31:38.000When you have board of election officials, when you have others who have been deeply involved in preparing for election day.
00:31:45.000Many of them are scratching their heads and they're saying, what is he talking about?
00:31:49.000I think every time that Donald Trump faced some scrutiny or is challenged by Secretary Clinton on his policy ideas or releasing his taxes, he'd go to these tactics to try to frighten people, divide people.
00:32:03.000It's time that he makes a better closing argument than calling upon, I guess, calling out our election process.
00:32:10.000Okay, so I don't think that this is going to break into violence.
00:32:12.000I think this is the media exaggerating everything, because the only violence I've seen this year has been in Democratic cities, with Black Lives Matter burning crap down, or people associated with Black Lives Matter burning crap down.
00:32:22.000But, you know, it's still, this is a bad argument, and we're going into the final debate.
00:32:27.000We still have 20 days to this election, and Trump's already conceding.
00:32:29.000So, what does that mean for the debate tonight?
00:32:42.000It's going to be urine down the... I can't come up with enough terrible bodily fluids jokes to explain how bad tonight is going to be because it's gonna be Donald Trump getting up there and saying every crazy thing that the Breitbart commenters want him to say because those are all potential subscribers to Trump TV.
00:37:15.000We're supposed to believe that he cares so deeply about all these victimized women.
00:37:19.000Okay, again, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, you're supporting them.
00:37:23.000So that's what this debate is going to be tonight from the Hillary side.
00:37:26.000Meanwhile, again, Trump has no interest in winning anymore.
00:37:29.000He only has interest in bilking the people who he thinks he can keep loyal to him after he gets shellacked.
00:37:34.000And so Steve Bannon, apparently, who's the campaign CEO, who only wants to burn things down and make money—that's what Steve Bannon is all about—Bannon apparently told CNN that there's another surprise guest coming.
00:37:44.000First—the first surprise guest, by the way, is Obama's half-brother, which makes—like, what?
00:38:33.000But I don't think that that's what's going to happen.
00:38:35.000I think this is just a way for him to suggest that there's some great conspiracy out there, and the half-brother, and it's like, okay, we're gonna just come up with as much crazy crap as you can bring.
00:38:43.000So Bannon apparently told CNN that this is only the appetizer on this entire poo-poo platter of crap.
00:39:03.000The Clinton campaign reportedly does not want to have that family interaction because they're concerned about who the Trump campaign might be bringing to the debate.
00:39:10.000And I think they have reason to be concerned about that.
00:39:33.000One of the mothers of one of the Benghazi victims will be there.
00:39:35.000We also know on the Clinton side, Mark Cuban and Meg Whitman will be in the audience.
00:39:39.000But Bannon said they have other people who will expose Bill and Hillary Clinton's sordid past.
00:39:44.000We'll find out what that means, I suppose, later today.
00:39:48.000OK, and my theory was, and if I had money I would have put it on it, my theory was that he was going to bring Bill's supposedly illegitimate child.
00:40:27.000So, yes, he has no intention of winning anymore.
00:40:32.000And again, you want to vote for him, vote for him.
00:40:34.000If you think he's the best choice, vote for him.
00:40:36.000If you think he's a better choice than Hillary, vote for him.
00:40:38.000But you have more faith in Trump than Trump has.
00:40:40.000You care more about this election than Trump does.
00:40:42.000You think worse things are going to happen with Hillary Clinton as president than Trump does, obviously, otherwise he wouldn't be running what is a campaign that's a business decision now.
00:40:49.000It's just a campaign that's a business decision.
00:40:52.000Okay, so, let's do some things I like and things I hate, and then we'll do a little bit of bibble.
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00:42:18.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:42:24.000So, Chuck Schumer, who is going to be the new Senate Majority Leader if the Democrats win—he's a senator from New York—he went off on Trump over the last couple of days, and he said that Donald Trump's campaign and its tolerance of racism, it's just toxic.
00:44:26.000I'm old enough to remember when the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, went out there and said that Mitt Romney was literally going to enslave black people again.
00:44:32.000He was going to put y'all back in chains.
00:44:34.000The Democratic Party does this sort of stuff all the time.
00:44:38.000They suggest that white people are out to get you.
00:44:40.000Hillary Clinton has said in this campaign that she needs to reeducate all the whites in America about racism and institutional bias and implicit bias.
00:44:49.000Democrats do this sort of stuff all the time.
00:44:51.000Normally, I like being on the moral side of the aisle.
00:44:54.000So, I used to say, well, we don't do that.
00:44:57.000Democrats pander on racial, tribal terms.
00:45:00.000And when Chuck Schumer says that Trump appeals to this group of people, and he does so either knowingly or unknowingly, there is some truth to that.
00:45:08.000As somebody who received, apparently—there were 20,000 anti-Semitic tweets directed at journalists since March.
00:45:15.000I was the recipient, personally, of 8,000 of those tweets.
00:45:18.000Okay, so when you look at the top 10, we don't have the chart with us today, maybe we'll have it tomorrow.
00:45:21.000If you look at the top 10 journalists targeted on Twitter by anti-Semites, by Jew hatred, the bar graph looks like, you know, low, low, low, low, and then me, I'm way out here.
00:45:31.000And the reason for that is because I don't back Trump.
00:45:33.000If I back Trump, that number would not be nearly as high in any real way.
00:45:39.000What I hate is the fact that both sides have now become tribal.
00:45:41.000It used to be one side was tribal, and that was evil and nasty, and now the Trump campaign has moved into tribal territory by pandering to the alt-right, and that's really gross, and that's something I hate.
00:45:50.000Meanwhile, another thing that I hate, Julia Roberts, all these actresses who think that we need their opinions on politics, it's really galling.
00:45:58.000I mean, the lady's not even a good actress, and here she is telling us about
00:46:02.000Hillary Clinton, how wonderful she is.
00:46:04.000This is at a Broadway for Hillary fundraiser.
00:46:07.000Because, in case you needed to know, folks, the cast of Rent loves Hillary Clinton.
00:47:25.000I think that about sums it up right there.
00:47:27.000If you're a bad mother and you curse in front of your children, or better yet, if you abandon your children, make sure that you give money to Hillary Clinton.
00:47:33.000That seems like a great pitch for Hollywood.
00:47:37.000Again, the fact that Hollywood has impact in our culture is the reason that you have this particular scenario, this Trump versus Hillary celebrity fest.
00:47:46.000And we're going to get the final revenge tonight in this debate.
00:47:49.000The final revenge of celebrity culture when the guy from The Apprentice stars against the former first lady and star of Bill Clinton's sex fest.
00:47:58.000A little bit of Bible talk because it is a Wednesday indeed.
00:48:02.000So, this week, technically, the Jews finished the Bible.
00:48:06.000We finally finished going through the five books of Moses.
00:48:09.000We do that on Simchat Torah, which is next week, so I'll be off Monday-Tuesday for Simchat Torah on a holiday called Shemini Atzeret.
00:48:15.000Don't worry, it won't be on the test, I won't ask you later.
00:48:17.000But, we technically finish the Bible then, but we won't have a chance to actually do the last portion of the five books of Moses unless we do it now.
00:48:25.000So, the final parasha, the final portion of the five books of Moses is called V'zot Habracha, meaning this is the blessing, and it's Moses' final word to the Jews, and then it is the final
00:48:37.000The final words of the five books of Moses before you enter into the prophets and Joshua entering the land.
00:48:47.000It says, And the Lord said to him, this is to Moses, This is the land I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your offspring.
00:48:53.000I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.
00:48:56.000And Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab by the mouth of the Lord.
00:49:09.000I mean, you go through this entire cycle where Moses takes this stiff-necked people out of Egypt and takes them through the desert, and they're constantly rebelling, and they're constantly driving him crazy, and they're constantly doing things that slap God directly in the face.
00:49:23.000And Moses is constantly standing up for them, but also standing up for God.
00:49:28.000I mean, there's a point in the Torah where
00:49:30.000God says to Moses, I'll just kill off all these people, make your kids the new nation.
00:49:32.000And Moses says, if you do that, I want you to blot my name out of this book, which is an amazing thing.
00:49:36.000And so finally, it comes time for Moses to die, and God doesn't let him into what he's always wanted to see, which is the land of Israel.
00:49:43.000He says, you can see it from here, but you can't cross over.
00:49:45.000And that image is so moving, just him on the top of this mountain looking across, and he can see where he can't go.
00:50:24.000And it says that he dies by the mouth of the Lord, Al-Pi Hashem.
00:50:28.000Hashem is what we call God, it means literally the name, because we don't like to speak God's name in vain.
00:50:33.000When it says Al-Pi Hashem, by the mouth of the Lord, the Midrash says, sort of the Apocrypha, they say that by the mouth of the Lord means that God took his soul with a kiss, in the same way that God breathed his soul into Adam, God took Moses with a kiss, and the idea was that, they say that
00:51:08.000Normally, they say the ultimate act of charity for a human being is to bury someone, because you know it's never going to be reciprocated, right?
00:51:14.000I mean, if you do charity for somebody, the idea for some people is that they'll come back and they'll reciprocate.
00:51:19.000It's reciprocal altruism, as they say in Darwin land.
00:51:22.000But with this, when you bury somebody, when you pay homage to them after they die, you know that's never going to be reciprocated.
00:51:53.000For my money, just as a piece of literature, this is the most moving end to any piece of literature that's ever been written, whether you believe it was written by God or whether you believe it was written by man.
00:52:01.000And obviously, as an Orthodox Jew, I believe that it was written by God.
00:52:04.000Okay, so, tomorrow we will be back with debate highlights and lowlights, and I'm sure there will be flying pies and flying cow pies and all sorts of goodies to talk about, and Donald Trump presumably will at some point
00:52:16.000Tag out and Hulk Hogan will run in and hit Hillary with a chair.
00:52:18.000And then Hillary will tag out and Bill will come in and whip it out.