The Ben Shapiro Show - November 11, 2015


Ep. 24 - Recapping The Republican Debate


Episode Stats

Length

36 minutes

Words per Minute

198.28804

Word Count

7,297

Sentence Count

509

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

20


Summary

Ben Shapiro gives his thoughts on the 4th Republican Debates, the latest from the University of Missouri, and a very interesting TV appearance with Huffington Post Live. Plus, a look at why Jeb Bush is a dead man walking and why he doesn t know it. Ben Shapiro is a frequent contributor to CNN and frequently appears on Fox News and other conservative media outlets. He is also the host of the conservative podcast The Weekly Standard and hosts the conservative radio show The Ben Shapiro Show. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal, and has been featured on CNN, Fox News, NPR, CBS, NBC, ABC, CBS and NBC, among other outlets. His regular columns appear on the Daily Show with Bill Simmons and the Hill Watch Network with Alex Castellanos, and he's appeared on Huffington Post Live with HAPPY BIRTHDAY WHO CARES! He's also on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Kimmel Live with Sarah Palin, and The View with John Oliver, and hosts his own show on CBS Radio's "Keeping Up With The Kardashians." He also hosts the morning show with Jemele Hill and Kirsten Winslow Boyce, and is the founder and host of "The View with Rachel Maddow. You can reach him on social media at . and on his website at . and his new book, on the podcast, , which is out now. and is available on Amazon Prime Video and wherever else you get your news and information about politics, including on the internet, including his newest podcast, The Real Housewives and other things going on the airwaves. Also, he's on all of his social media accounts, including the internet and social media platforms, including LinkedIn, and his personal website, The Real or Not on the Internet. Thanks for listening to his podcast, Ben Shapiro's Podcasts: Thank you for listening and review the podcast? Subscribe to his show on Apple Podcasts and on Podcharts! Subscribe on iTunes and other Podcasts on the App Store and Shirts on Podcoin or wherever you re listening to the podcast on the pod is listening to this podcast. Enjoys this episode of The Ben s thoughts on politics and other stuff on politics, social media is great? Enjoymentment on this episode? Send us your thoughts and reviews on the latest episode of the show?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Here we are halfway through the week and the day after the Republican debate, the fourth Republican debate, so we'll be talking all about the Republican debate, the latest from the University of Missouri, plus a very interesting TV appearance that I had with Huffington Post Live.
00:00:13.000 We'll get to all of that.
00:00:14.000 I'm Ben Shapiro and this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:22.000 Alrighty, so the big fourth Republican debate happened last night.
00:00:25.000 It was not as interesting as the previous debates because the moderators did their job.
00:00:29.000 They stayed out of the way.
00:00:30.000 The previous debates were sort of like watching a food fight.
00:00:33.000 It was entertaining, but didn't really accomplish a lot.
00:00:36.000 Last night, you sort of got a better picture of who the candidates were.
00:00:39.000 They were given time to talk.
00:00:41.000 The rules were that you had 90 seconds to answer the questions and 60 seconds for follow-ups.
00:00:46.000 That's a long time to talk.
00:00:47.000 Most people don't think of how they speak in terms of time length.
00:00:50.000 For those of us who are in radio or TV, you do think of how much you're talking in terms of time length.
00:00:55.000 90 seconds is a very long time.
00:00:57.000 Now, my words per minute ratio is extremely high, so in 90 seconds, I could probably do about three paragraphs of text.
00:01:03.000 I mean, that's a lot of room to expound.
00:01:06.000 And for some folks, that's good.
00:01:08.000 And for some folks, that's bad.
00:01:10.000 To give kind of my brief
00:01:12.000 Debate grades.
00:01:13.000 I would say the big winners last night were Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
00:01:16.000 I thought both of them did very well.
00:01:17.000 I thought the big losers were Jeb Bush, as always, because he just is a big loser and there's no way around it.
00:01:23.000 We'll get to all of what everybody had to say in just a moment.
00:01:26.000 Jeb Bush was a big loser.
00:01:27.000 He's a dead man walking.
00:01:28.000 He doesn't know it.
00:01:29.000 I was joking with Lindsay earlier that we should really just
00:01:32.000 We should recut Jeb Bush's campaign trailer as the Sixth Sense, where he's just walking around and he's actually dead and everybody in the world knows it, except for Jeb Bush.
00:01:41.000 He's kind of wandering around and interacting with people, but they're not really interacting with him, but he thinks they are.
00:01:46.000 That's Jeb Bush's candidacy at this point.
00:01:48.000 He needs four more exclamation points, I think, to really put the oomph
00:01:51.000 John Kasich last night said,
00:02:10.000 When he was in Washington, D.C., he stepped on every toe in Washington, D.C.
00:02:13.000 And then to prove it, he walked around the stage stomping on everyone's feet last night and then went into the audience in search of more toes upon which to stomp.
00:02:22.000 He is unbelievably obnoxious, but his father was a mailman.
00:02:25.000 So breaking news, his father was a mailman, John Kasich.
00:02:28.000 The most important point is that his father carried mail on his back.
00:02:32.000 John Kasich is basically John Huntsman
00:02:35.000 If you hate charm and also like social disorders.
00:02:38.000 That's the John Kasich candidacy.
00:02:40.000 All right, so we'll jump into the debate itself.
00:02:42.000 We'll start with the lower tier debate.
00:02:44.000 The lower tier debate was actually a bunch of people who are pretty well qualified.
00:02:47.000 It was Bobby Jindal, the current governor of Louisiana, and Chris Christie, the current governor of New Jersey.
00:02:53.000 And it was Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, and Rick Santorum, the former senator from Pennsylvania, all of whom are between 1% and 2% in the national polls, don't have a lot of support.
00:03:02.000 The two big winners were Bobby Jindal,
00:03:04.000 I'm Chris Christie.
00:03:05.000 They're winners for different reasons.
00:03:07.000 Jindal is attacking Christie incessantly.
00:03:09.000 That makes him a winner with sort of his right-wing base, the people who he's looking to win in Iowa.
00:03:14.000 Chris Christie is trying to get establishment support, so should Jeb fall, some of that support falls to him, not just to Marco Rubio.
00:03:20.000 And to that end, he was making his entire case about how terrible Hillary Clinton was.
00:03:24.000 So we'll start with Bobby Jindal.
00:03:26.000 Taking Chris Christie and turning him over his knee and putting that ample weight over his knee and then spanking Chris Christie on national television.
00:03:33.000 Here's Bobby Jindal going after Christie for his record in the state of New Jersey.
00:03:38.000 Chris, look, I'll give you a ribbon for participation and a juice box, but in the real world, it's about results.
00:03:43.000 It's about actually cutting government spending, not just talking about cutting government spending.
00:03:48.000 Governor Jindal, thank you.
00:03:50.000 At that point, Chris Christie accepted the juice box and asked for three more.
00:03:54.000 But Jindal did a good job in this debate of excoriating Christie's record, because Christie's record is not particularly conservative, or at least not that conservative in New Jersey.
00:04:04.000 Christie, meanwhile, had other priorities.
00:04:06.000 He was busy going after Hillary Clinton.
00:04:08.000 His whole goal here was to kind of soar above the debate like a free blimp just flying in the wind.
00:04:14.000 But the bottom line is, believe me, Hillary Clinton's coming for your wallet, everybody.
00:04:19.000 Don't worry about Huckabee or Jindal.
00:04:22.000 Worry about her.
00:04:30.000 Well, he knows his crowd.
00:04:31.000 I mean, everybody hates Hillary Clinton, so that one's a big winner for him.
00:04:35.000 So, Christie had a fine night.
00:04:36.000 Jindal had a fine night.
00:04:37.000 None of it's particularly relevant.
00:04:39.000 If somebody's set to rise, it is Christie, because Jeb Bush is falling, and some of that establishment money has to go someplace.
00:04:45.000 Okay, now let's move on to the debate that actually mattered.
00:04:48.000 The major debate.
00:04:49.000 Nothing really changed in this debate.
00:04:51.000 People who you thought were going to be pretty good were pretty good.
00:04:53.000 People who you thought were going to stink basically stunk.
00:04:56.000 And nothing really changed.
00:04:57.000 But there were a couple of moments that were telling.
00:05:00.000 So Ted Cruz, for example, on immigration.
00:05:03.000 This was a great moment for Ted Cruz, because Cruz is making a play for the Trump voter.
00:05:07.000 He's making the rightmost play for the immigration crowd.
00:05:10.000 He understands that the big contrast between him and Rubio is really only on one issue, and that is immigration.
00:05:16.000 And so he took a very right-wing stance on immigration, and he was very articulate about it.
00:05:20.000 Here's what the senator from Texas had to say about immigration.
00:05:24.000 I understand that when the mainstream media covers immigration, it doesn't often see it as an economic issue.
00:05:30.000 But I can tell you for a million of Americans at home watching this, it is a very personal economic issue.
00:05:37.000 And I will say the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the Rio Grande.
00:05:45.000 Or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press.
00:05:58.000 Then we would see stories about the economic calamity that is befalling our nation.
00:06:04.000 And I will say, for those of us who believe people ought to come to this country legally and we should enforce the law, we're tired of being told it's anti-immigrant.
00:06:14.000 It's offensive.
00:06:16.000 Okay, this is peak Ted Cruz.
00:06:18.000 This is the best Ted Cruz will ever be on a debate stage.
00:06:20.000 And you can see when he's less scripted, he's actually better.
00:06:23.000 Ted Cruz's big problem in these debates has been that he is too scripted.
00:06:27.000 That when he speaks to camera, it feels insincere.
00:06:30.000 When he did his closing statement, I didn't see his closing statement because I was giving a speech last night, but I've been told
00:06:34.000 That Ted Cruz basically told a story about how his father came over from Cuba, and he had the wind in his hair, and the sky was full of birds, and you could feel the sea salt brushing his face, and then he could see the tyranny behind him, but freedom ahead of him.
00:06:49.000 And that's awful stuff.
00:06:50.000 I mean, it's just, it's purple, it's gross, it's vulgar, it's just, it's not good stuff.
00:06:55.000 He doesn't do it as well.
00:06:56.000 Rubio does the my personal story portion.
00:07:00.000 Story time with Marco Rubio is better than story time with Ted Cruz, basically.
00:07:03.000 If you have to pick somebody who's gonna be your Mr. Rogers neighborhood story time guy, it's Marco Rubio.
00:07:08.000 I don't know like my president's based on that, but Marco Rubio's whole, you know, my father and mother worked in the back of a bar so I could stand in front of you today, that whole routine, that's Rubio's specialty.
00:07:19.000 It's not Cruz's specialty.
00:07:20.000 Cruz's specialty is when he fights.
00:07:22.000 That's what's made him popular.
00:07:23.000 He should double down on that.
00:07:24.000 That's where he lives.
00:07:25.000 And you can see that right there.
00:07:27.000 Meanwhile,
00:07:28.000 So Cruz had a good night.
00:07:29.000 I will say one thing about Ted Cruz.
00:07:31.000 One of Cruz's big problems is that he is too honest, and so he answers questions.
00:07:36.000 What he doesn't understand is that these debates are basically designed so that you can reach out to an audience.
00:07:40.000 They're not designed so that you can answer the moderators.
00:07:42.000 So there are a couple of points at which Neil Cavuto was really asking for details from Ted Cruz.
00:07:46.000 Particularly, Cruz was asked about would he have bailed out the banks during the financial downturn.
00:07:51.000 He said no.
00:07:52.000 Which is a good answer.
00:07:53.000 And then Cavuto follows up and he says no again.
00:07:55.000 And it just keeps kind of going round and round in circles.
00:07:58.000 And Cruz is focused on answering Cavuto's question when he really should have just moved off the point and redirected to something else.
00:08:05.000 The same thing happened when he was asked about his tax plan.
00:08:08.000 He got into details of his tax plan.
00:08:09.000 Now, folks, I'm about as versed on this stuff as anybody in politics.
00:08:14.000 I mean, I'm not Jim Pethicoucas at American Enterprise Institute, but I'm pretty versed on the various candidates and their tax plans.
00:08:21.000 And even I was nodding off at this point.
00:08:23.000 I mean, when he starts to get into the vagaries of corporate tax rates versus individual tax rates, he starts talking about 16% versus 14%, everybody was waiting for Ben Carson to attack them with a hammer just to be put out of their misery.
00:08:35.000 I mean, that's basically how bad—
00:08:38.000 That part of it was.
00:08:39.000 And this is the problem with Cruz.
00:08:40.000 You don't have to answer the question.
00:08:41.000 Understand who your audience is.
00:08:43.000 Understand who your audience is.
00:08:45.000 Now, meanwhile, somebody who always understands his audience is Donald Trump.
00:08:48.000 This is why Trump is doing well.
00:08:49.000 Because Donald Trump understands his audience.
00:08:52.000 Donald Trump had a couple of fantastic, fantastic moments.
00:08:56.000 He had one moment that was really awful, and he had a couple of moments that were really fantastic.
00:08:59.000 Trump is a rollercoaster.
00:09:01.000 He is.
00:09:01.000 I mean, he's all the highs and he's all the lows, and you'll get all of it in the course of one debate.
00:09:06.000 The low was when he was talking about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the TPP, Obama trade, and he was saying that it should include in there provisions about currency manipulation with regard to China, and Rand Paul promptly turned to him and said, you understand that China isn't a signatory to that treaty.
00:09:21.000 And Donald Trump looked at him utterly befuddled, and his hair even stopped moving for a second.
00:09:28.000 And it was just kind of dead, awkward silence, like the silence that you have during a date when your date tells you that she once dated, you know, a member of the St.
00:09:39.000 Louis Rams or something.
00:09:40.000 Like, it's just awkward and random, and you don't know what's going on.
00:09:43.000 That's exactly how Trump looked.
00:09:45.000 It was a weird first date moment.
00:09:46.000 He looked, and they kind of froze and stared at each other, and it got real awkward.
00:09:51.000 Creepy sexual tension, and then it moved on.
00:09:53.000 And so that was Trump's low moment.
00:09:55.000 Then there was Trump's high moment.
00:09:56.000 Trump's better moment during the debate—this was, I thought, the best moment in the debate, period—was John Kasich, who just is an obnoxious human being.
00:10:05.000 I mean, John Kasich, if you look up obnoxious in the dictionary, there is a picture of John Kasich and his fat mouth blabbing.
00:10:12.000 The worst moment in the entire debate is when John Kasich started lecturing the American people about how the president of the United States has to care, and when there are shooting victims, he has to be empathetic, and he has to care, and he has to care, and he has to care so much with your money that he's going to care.
00:10:25.000 He actually got booed by the audience.
00:10:27.000 I mean, the audience was sick of hearing from John Kasich about how much he cares when he's busy
00:10:31.000 Yelling, I mean like wandering around the stage yelling at people.
00:10:35.000 He's not even like a charming drunk uncle like Joe Biden.
00:10:37.000 He's like your belligerent drunk uncle who you never want to see ever.
00:10:40.000 He just shows up at the family barbecues once a year because you have to because grandma will be pissed if he doesn't show.
00:10:45.000 And then he shows up and he drinks heavily and sits in the corner muttering to himself about how the bears suck.
00:10:51.000 And then eventually he gets so mad that he stands up and he just starts yelling at you for no reason.
00:10:56.000 And then asks you to bring him another beer.
00:10:57.000 That's John Kasich.
00:10:58.000 So John Kasich was doing this routine
00:11:01.000 Last night, bloviating, stepping all over people, being obnoxious, and Donald Trump just shreds him.
00:11:07.000 And then Donald Trump, giving you a great two-for-one, proceeds to shred Jeb Bush just by— Donald Trump—it's really funny, the way Trump handles Bush.
00:11:16.000 Bush is the—Jeb is the best thing that ever happened to Trump.
00:11:18.000 If Jeb isn't in this race, I don't know that Trump is ahead, seriously.
00:11:21.000 And the reason I say that is because every time Trump slams anyone, it's so gratuitous.
00:11:26.000 He goes out of his way to slap Jeb Bush.
00:11:30.000 I mean, he's like a teenage boy who's taking a baseball bat to a mailbox for no reason.
00:11:34.000 He's driving down the street, there's a mailbox, I got a bat back here, I might as well, you know, that's what Trump is like with Jeb Bush.
00:11:41.000 Anytime he has the capacity to slap a Jeb Bush, he just does it.
00:11:45.000 So what you'll see here is that he and Kasich get into it, and then for no reason at all, Trump just turns around and beats the living crap out of Jeb Bush.
00:11:53.000 But he does it in the most off-handed,
00:11:56.000 Just dismissive fashion.
00:11:58.000 It's really, really entertaining.
00:12:00.000 Here is Donald Trump taking on John Kasich and Jeb Bush.
00:12:04.000 They moved a million and a half people out.
00:12:07.000 We have no choice.
00:12:10.000 We have no choice.
00:12:32.000 Okay, so you can see Kasich the whole time he was this belligerent.
00:12:35.000 The entire debate, he was this belligerent.
00:12:38.000 And when he's being this belligerent, and everybody is groaning at the belligerence, and then Trump doesn't hit him by saying, John, you really ought to sit down and shut up.
00:12:46.000 Instead, Trump hits him by saying, you really ought to let Jeb over here, poor Jeb, just sitting here, being his sad self.
00:12:54.000 You really ought to let him talk once in a while.
00:12:56.000 It's just sad.
00:12:57.000 And you get the feeling that, I mean, this is how,
00:13:00.000 You know, there's two kind of metaphors that come to mind, or similes that come to mind.
00:13:05.000 This is like when you have a younger sibling who isn't participating in the group effort, and mom says, really, you need to let your younger sibling play with the group, right?
00:13:14.000 That's exactly what this was.
00:13:17.000 Trump saying to Casey, you really need to let Jeb, poor Jeb.
00:13:19.000 Just sitting over here.
00:13:21.000 I know you think he's too little, but he can handle it.
00:13:23.000 He'll be fine.
00:13:24.000 There is that feeling.
00:13:25.000 Then there's also the feeling that... If you've ever been on an awkward double date with, like, you have a friend and your friend has a wife, and this wife is kind of a wallflower, kind of dull, and at a certain point, everybody just goes, let's see what Amanda thinks.
00:13:40.000 And everybody just kind of stares at the boring person.
00:13:42.000 That's what that was.
00:13:43.000 He's like, well, you know, he's just not feeling included.
00:13:46.000 And it's sad.
00:13:47.000 I mean, we're having this whole fun conversation.
00:13:48.000 He's just not feeling included, guys.
00:13:51.000 It's so dismissive and so wonderful.
00:13:53.000 And he did the same thing to Carly Fiorina.
00:13:55.000 You know, Fiorina, she's a good debater.
00:13:58.000 She does interrupt people a lot on stage.
00:14:00.000 I would like to see some sort of statistical analysis.
00:14:02.000 I don't know if it's just my perception, but I do get the perception that she tries to interrupt people a fair bit when they're talking.
00:14:08.000 And usually, in this debate particularly, when she interrupted people, it wasn't to say anything that was really of note.
00:14:13.000 She kept saying things like zero-based budgeting without in any way explaining what that term means, which is the first rule of debate and the first rule of education.
00:14:21.000 If you're going to use a term, you need to explain what the term means.
00:14:24.000 You can't just throw out something like
00:14:27.000 No one knows what zero-based budgeting is.
00:14:30.000 Zero-based budgeting, for those who don't know, it just means that the budget procedures of government should all be taken back to zero, meaning that we should see every dollar that's spent on every program and how every tax dollar stacks up to every program, instead of when we say that there's a budget increase, we all base it on what's the budget increasing this year, as opposed to
00:14:48.000 What is the total budget, right?
00:14:49.000 We always look at how much did the budget of the EPA increase year over year.
00:14:53.000 That's not zero-based budgeting and gives you a false perspective.
00:14:55.000 She didn't explain any of that.
00:14:56.000 She just kind of threw that out.
00:14:57.000 Well, at one point, Fiorina's interrupting again.
00:15:00.000 And Donald Trump, who just can't help himself, I mean, he is on the attack all the time.
00:15:04.000 As I've said before, fat lion, don't poke him.
00:15:07.000 And fat lion kind of saunters over and then sits down for a munch on Carly Fiorina's head.
00:15:12.000 Here is Donald Trump going after Carly Fiorina.
00:15:15.000 You can be strong without being involved in every civil war around the world.
00:15:19.000 And how would you respond?
00:15:21.000 Ronald Reagan was strong, but Ronald Reagan didn't send troops into the Middle East.
00:15:24.000 And Ronald Reagan walked away at Reykjavik.
00:15:26.000 He walked away, he quit talking when it was time to quit talking.
00:15:30.000 Can I finish with my time?
00:15:31.000 Why does she keep interrupting everybody?
00:15:33.000 Terrible.
00:15:36.000 Yeah, I'd like to finish my response, basically.
00:15:41.000 Okay, and what's funny about that, again, is here's Trump playing moderator, right?
00:15:46.000 I mean, Trump's not even involved in that conversation, right?
00:15:48.000 It's Rand and Fiorina, and all of a sudden, here's Trump.
00:15:50.000 I mean, it's just, oh, come on, Carly, let's let him finish.
00:15:53.000 It's just Trump big shouting everybody, and it's really, really funny.
00:15:55.000 Okay, so Trump ended up...
00:15:57.000 Kind of maintaining.
00:15:58.000 He did what he does.
00:15:59.000 He's always entertaining.
00:16:01.000 He's always funny.
00:16:02.000 And I'm very glad he's a part of this process.
00:16:04.000 Just for the fodder, it supplies me doing shows like this one.
00:16:08.000 Ben Carson is continuing to do well in the polls.
00:16:11.000 And he really didn't say much last night that was of interest.
00:16:14.000 In fact, Ben Carson does something that's pretty smart.
00:16:16.000 He doesn't always use every second of his time.
00:16:19.000 This is actually an important thing.
00:16:20.000 Most of the debaters feel the need.
00:16:22.000 I'm given 90 seconds.
00:16:23.000 I will use my 90 seconds.
00:16:25.000 They will be used.
00:16:26.000 I will use all 90 seconds of this.
00:16:28.000 You don't have to.
00:16:29.000 Sometimes—because the truth is, very few people watch this thing beginning to end, right?
00:16:33.000 When they take the ratings, they're taking the number of people who watched it for a certain period of time within the two hours.
00:16:38.000 I don't know whether it's 15 minutes or 10 minutes or whatever it is.
00:16:41.000 It's not two hours.
00:16:42.000 It's not 20 million people watched it for two hours, right?
00:16:45.000 It's 10 million people watched it for five minutes in the course of two hours.
00:16:49.000 Most of us are going to watch this debate the way we're doing it right now, right?
00:16:51.000 We'll see clips of it.
00:16:53.000 Well, first of all, thank you for not asking me what I said in the 10th grade.
00:16:55.000 I appreciate that.
00:17:23.000 I'll just forget that follow-up.
00:17:27.000 The fact of the matter is, you know, we should vet all candidates.
00:17:33.000 I have no problem with being vetted.
00:17:36.000 What I do have a problem with is being lied about, and then putting that out there as truth.
00:17:47.000 I don't even mind that so much if they do it with everybody, like people on the other side.
00:17:52.000 But, you know, when I look at somebody like Hillary Clinton, who sits there and tells her daughter and a government official that, no, this was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video, where I came from, they call that a lie.
00:18:19.000 We can pause it there.
00:18:21.000 The media will make Ben Carson president if this continues.
00:18:25.000 Seriously, because the media are so bad, and people hate the media so much, that whenever Ben Carson says stuff like this, we're talking like, you know, look at the crowd.
00:18:32.000 Major ovation.
00:18:34.000 By the way, if he had said one more line, he actually wins all the primaries, right?
00:18:37.000 If he just says right there, if Carson says, the media are out to get me because I am a black Republican, and the media cannot stand the sight of a black Republican because they're racist.
00:18:47.000 If he says that, right, if he drops that line right there, he wins every primary outright.
00:18:52.000 Every Republican primary he wins.
00:18:53.000 Because we all believe that.
00:18:55.000 We all know that's true.
00:18:55.000 We all know that these attacks on Carson aren't just because he's conservative, it's because he's black and conservative.
00:19:00.000 And so he's a living rebuke to the leftist self-perception that they represent all black folks because they're the voices of the minority.
00:19:07.000 So, you know, this is a good moment for Ben Carson.
00:19:09.000 He didn't hurt himself.
00:19:11.000 Rand Paul did hurt himself.
00:19:12.000 Rand Paul made a very good point with regard to Marco Rubio.
00:19:15.000 Rubio was talking about the child tax credit.
00:19:17.000 Okay, the child tax credit is misnamed.
00:19:20.000 Rubio's wrong.
00:19:21.000 Paul was right when Rand Paul said the child tax credit is basically a welfare check.
00:19:25.000 That is what it is because, again, it's going out to people who do not pay that much in taxes, so they're getting more back than they're putting in.
00:19:32.000 But then Rand goes too far, as Rand always does, and he feels the need to slap the military.
00:19:37.000 And why Rand Paul thinks
00:19:39.000 That in a Republican debate, the day before Memorial Day, that people are gonna be like, yeah, let's cut the military budget to zero.
00:19:46.000 Why he thinks that's a winning proposal is beyond me, but Marco Rubio ends up winning the night for himself by taking Rand Paul and basically just, I mean, from the third tier of the wrestling ring, jumping off of the rope and pile driving him.
00:20:02.000 Here is Marco Rubio beating Rand Paul about the ears on military spending.
00:20:07.000 I do want to rebuild the American military.
00:20:10.000 I know that Rand is a committed isolationist.
00:20:12.000 I'm not.
00:20:12.000 I believe the world is a stronger and a better place when the United States is the strongest military power in the world.
00:20:19.000 But Marco, Marco, how is it conservative, how is it conservative to add a trillion dollar expenditure for the federal government that you're not paying for?
00:20:28.000 How is it conservative to add a trillion dollars in military expenditures?
00:20:34.000 You cannot be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.
00:20:42.000 We can't even have an economy if we're not safe.
00:20:45.000 There are radical jihadists in the Middle East beheading people and crucifying Christians.
00:20:49.000 A radical Shia cleric in Iran trying to get a nuclear weapon.
00:20:52.000 The Chinese taking over the South China Sea.
00:20:55.000 Yes, I believe the world is a safer... No, no, I don't believe.
00:20:59.000 I know that the world is a safer and better place when America is the strongest military power in the world.
00:21:06.000 Right?
00:21:06.000 And you can hear people, like, yeah!
00:21:08.000 Right?
00:21:08.000 I mean, yay military.
00:21:09.000 We're Republicans.
00:21:10.000 We like the military.
00:21:11.000 Rand Paul apparently forgot that.
00:21:13.000 He's, which is really bizarre.
00:21:16.000 So that bad, bad moment for Rand Paul.
00:21:17.000 And finally, finally, last clip of the day, we're going to go at least with regard to the debate.
00:21:21.000 And then I have a couple other comments on a couple other topics.
00:21:24.000 Jeb Bush, we have to at least give him, we have to let him talk, as Donald Trump says.
00:21:29.000 We have to let Jeb have his time.
00:21:30.000 Here is Jeb Bush talking about how he would repeal all of Obama's regulations.
00:21:34.000 Sadly he'll never get to do this because he'll never be president.
00:21:36.000 Here is Jeb Bush.
00:21:37.000 On the regulatory side, I think we need to repeal every rule that Barack Obama has in terms of work in progress.
00:21:44.000 Every one of them.
00:21:47.000 And start over.
00:21:48.000 For those that are already in existence, the regulation of the internet, we have to start over, but we ought to do that.
00:21:54.000 The Clean Power Act, we ought to repeal that and start over on that.
00:21:59.000 The Waters of the United States Act, which is going to be devastating for agriculture and many industries, we should repeal that.
00:22:06.000 We should repeal the rules because the economic costs of this far exceed the social benefit.
00:22:12.000 Captain Awkward there with his moment.
00:22:14.000 We gave him his moment.
00:22:15.000 It requires no comment.
00:22:16.000 Okay, meanwhile, on the Democratic side of the aisle, it is amazing the double standard between media coverage of the right and media coverage of the left.
00:22:23.000 Here is a clip that you won't see on any of the network news last night.
00:22:27.000 You remember a couple of weeks ago—we talked about it—you remember a couple of weeks ago, Donald Trump was at an event, and somebody in the audience yelled at him, asked a question about why Barack Obama was a Muslim or some such nonsense.
00:22:40.000 And Trump didn't correct the guy, right?
00:22:42.000 He kind of laughed it off, and he moved on.
00:22:44.000 This led the news for a week, right?
00:22:46.000 Why didn't Donald Trump say, Barack Obama isn't a Muslim, he's a Christian?
00:22:49.000 Not only is he a Christian, he's a devout Christian.
00:22:51.000 Not only is he a devout Christian, he secretly canonized himself as a saint, and he may in fact be the Pope, right?
00:22:56.000 Why didn't Donald Trump do any of those things?
00:22:58.000 Okay, here is Hillary Clinton at a town hall, and you'll see the question, and you'll see the answer, not covered at all by the network news.
00:23:07.000 She says she's a great CEO.
00:23:09.000 Every time I see her on TV, I want to reach through and strangle her.
00:23:17.000 You know, I know that doesn't sound very nice, but... I wouldn't mess with you!
00:23:27.000 Every time she laughs, the maw of hell opens and she bursts forth with that horrible sound.
00:23:33.000 Look, she's laughing at a guy saying he wants to strangle a female candidate.
00:23:36.000 Now we know for a fact that if this were said about Hillary Clinton by anyone on the right side of the aisle, end of their campaign.
00:23:41.000 Right?
00:23:42.000 They're sexist, they're terrible.
00:23:43.000 Hillary Clinton accused Bernie Sanders of being a sexist for saying that he'd love Hillary Clinton as his VP.
00:23:48.000 Can you imagine if this were said about Hillary Clinton?
00:23:51.000 But Hillary gets away with it because Hillary
00:23:53.000 ...is Hillary.
00:23:54.000 And this is the media double standard.
00:23:56.000 Which brings me to the latest over at the University of Missouri.
00:24:00.000 And I do want to take a moment to talk about what's going on at the University of Missouri.
00:24:03.000 There have been false accusations all day today that the KKK has suddenly become active after a hundred years of inactivity.
00:24:10.000 They've suddenly been revived and the entire cast of Birth of a Nation has arrived at the campus of University of Missouri in order to terrorize all the black students for raping white women or some such nonsense.
00:24:19.000 And it's all crap.
00:24:21.000 It's all not true.
00:24:22.000 It's been debunked by the police.
00:24:23.000 None of it is real.
00:24:25.000 But this race hysteria at University of Missouri continues apace.
00:24:29.000 And you can see the level of the hysteria from an appearance I did last night.
00:24:34.000 I was on Megyn Kelly's show.
00:24:35.000 And we taped it beforehand and it aired during the debate, so the five people who weren't watching the debate actually saw me unmaking Kelly.
00:24:42.000 But here's what happened.
00:24:44.000 I was on with a lady on the other side—forgive me, I can't remember her name.
00:24:48.000 I can't remember her name because, honestly, she's too crazy for me to remember her name.
00:24:52.000 But she starts babbling nonsensically about what was happening at the University of Missouri and how terrible things were.
00:24:58.000 I guess her name is Nomiki Konst?
00:25:00.000 I think that's her name.
00:25:01.000 And she's a professional useless person.
00:25:03.000 And here's what she had to say about what's going on at University of Missouri.
00:25:07.000 And I want to break it down after she says it because I think it's important to understand where the media and the campus left are coming from.
00:25:14.000 Well, okay, to be fair, these are not administration... These are students.
00:25:18.000 These are 20-year-olds who are reacting, and it's a very racially charged environment.
00:25:22.000 You know, words matter.
00:25:23.000 And so when that letter was sent on behalf of an administration official, somebody who's supposed to represent the students to create... You look at the documents that Yale sends out, the application documents, and it's all about having an inclusive community.
00:25:36.000 This guy was defending Halloween!
00:25:38.000 Well, he wasn't defending Halloween.
00:25:39.000 He was defending being offensive to a community of people that are being marginalized.
00:25:44.000 I mean, 7% of the youth... He was saying if you want to go as Tatiana, the frog princess, you should be allowed to!
00:25:50.000 No, no, no.
00:25:51.000 He was acknowledging that someone who shows up in blackface, it's okay, it's a joke.
00:25:57.000 I think so.
00:26:13.000 Gender expression would be offensive.
00:26:16.000 So a guy dressed up as a female nurse, that's offensive.
00:26:20.000 That's not for white people to determine.
00:26:21.000 These things are not for the people who are doing it to determine.
00:26:24.000 It is for those who feel hurt.
00:26:26.000 If you feel hurt... Oh, that's fantastic!
00:26:29.000 I hope you have young kids just exactly my kid's age.
00:26:32.000 Okay, so it's not for white people to determine, right?
00:26:34.000 It's for everybody else to determine.
00:26:36.000 Why?
00:26:36.000 Because white people, of course, have white privilege, right?
00:26:39.000 This is what we've learned.
00:26:40.000 We've learned that white people have white privilege.
00:26:41.000 So I do want to take a moment and define what we mean by white privilege.
00:26:44.000 What does white privilege mean?
00:26:46.000 Because we hear this phrase bandied about all the time.
00:26:48.000 What is white privilege?
00:26:51.000 What is white privilege?
00:26:52.000 Well, in order to discuss what exactly white privilege is, I think that it's important that we take a look at the definition that is proposed by the left for white privilege.
00:27:01.000 So, took a look at the Southern Poverty Law Center definition.
00:27:04.000 The Southern Poverty Law Center is a radical left group that routinely accuses Republicans of all stripes of being secretive members of the John Birch Society or the KKK.
00:27:14.000 Everybody's a racist according to the SPLC.
00:27:16.000 They are a
00:27:17.000 Hardcore left-wing crazy group.
00:27:19.000 I mean, they're so crazy that they actually drove a guy to try and shoot up the Family Research Center.
00:27:24.000 They said the Family Research Center was a hate group against gays, which drove a guy named Floyd Corkins to actually walk into the FRC with a gun and try to shoot people.
00:27:33.000 He shot a security guard.
00:27:35.000 SPLC is about as left as it possibly gets.
00:27:37.000 So here is their definition of white privilege.
00:27:39.000 They have a website, and the website is called tolerance.org, because this is the way that it works.
00:27:43.000 Tolerance, according to the left, means that we have to tolerate everything the left does, but the left doesn't have to tolerate anything that we do.
00:27:50.000 They can call the cops on us if we're offensive.
00:27:52.000 So on their website, tolerance.org, and they want to use this website to teach children, elementary school kids, about their white privilege.
00:28:00.000 They quote an article from a lady named Jennifer Holliday in her massively popular, best-selling book, White Anti-Racist Activism, A Personal Roadmap, which has sold, as of now, a grand total of negative three copies, meaning that people went to her house, took the manuscript from her, and proceeded to burn it.
00:28:17.000 So it's negative three copies.
00:28:19.000 Here is the definition of white privilege from her halcyon book, White Anti-Racist Activism, which sounds like maybe the worst book ever written.
00:28:27.000 Here we go.
00:28:28.000 White skin privilege is not something that white people necessarily do, create, or enjoy on purpose.
00:28:34.000 Unlike the more overt individual and institutional manifestations of racism, white skin privilege is a transparent preference for whiteness that saturates our society.
00:28:43.000 White skin privilege serves several functions.
00:28:45.000 First, it provides white people with perks that we do not earn and that people of color do not enjoy.
00:28:50.000 Second, it creates real advantages for us.
00:28:53.000 White people are immune to a lot of challenges.
00:28:55.000 Finally, white privilege shapes the world in which we live, the way that we navigate and interact with one another, and with the world.
00:29:01.000 Okay, the way that she describes white privilege is basically how cults describe the presence of God or thetans, if you're a Scientologist.
00:29:07.000 White privilege sort of attaches to you, and there's nothing you can do about it, and it's because aliens dropped bodies in a volcano several thousand years ago, and they exploded, and the ash attached to your soul.
00:29:16.000 This is what white privilege is.
00:29:18.000 It attached to you,
00:29:19.000 And now you can't get it off no matter how hard you scrub.
00:29:22.000 And so you have to learn just to identify what white privilege is.
00:29:27.000 White privilege is like the matrix.
00:29:29.000 Do you want to see it or do you not want to see it?
00:29:31.000 And so, and she goes on.
00:29:33.000 She discusses what white privilege looks like.
00:29:35.000 Here are some examples of white privilege.
00:29:37.000 Seriously, she says there are perks to white privilege.
00:29:39.000 Here's one of the perks.
00:29:41.000 A perk is, quote, when you go to the Rite Aid, the flesh color Band-Aid generally matches my skin tone.
00:29:47.000 And also, complimentary hotel shampoo generally works with the texture of my hair.
00:29:51.000 This is a white privilege you never knew that you were enjoying, is that when you go over to the grocery store to buy a band-aid, it matches your skin tone.
00:29:59.000 Right?
00:29:59.000 Because if you were black, you wouldn't match your skin tone because it's beige.
00:30:02.000 There's another word for this, it's called the free market, because there are more white people than black people in the United States, and so if you're going to sell a band-aid, you probably want to match the most populous skin tone, you would think.
00:30:11.000 Nope, that's white privilege.
00:30:14.000 You're enjoying your white privilege every time you put on a band-aid.
00:30:17.000 First of all, if you're a black person and your top priority in life is finding a band-aid of your skin color, let me suggest that you reprioritize.
00:30:24.000 Okay, this is true regardless of color.
00:30:26.000 Okay, there are other things that you get from white privilege, too.
00:30:29.000 They say that there are advantages that attach to being white or being Jewish, which is like being white because Jews are successful.
00:30:35.000 This is the way it works in the United States, is white is a constant
00:30:39.000 Constantly expanding group to include people of all nations, ethnicities, and creeds so long as they're successful, right?
00:30:47.000 So Irish people, when they first got to the United States, were considered the underclass and they weren't white, right?
00:30:50.000 They weren't WASPs.
00:30:51.000 They weren't white Anglo-Saxon Protestants because they were Catholic.
00:30:54.000 Then as Irish people became more successful, suddenly they were white.
00:30:57.000 Italians, same deal.
00:30:58.000 They became white.
00:30:59.000 Germans, same deal.
00:31:00.000 They became now Jews, right?
00:31:01.000 Back in the 1950s, white people were banning Jews from country clubs.
00:31:05.000 Now Jews are the whitest people in America, right?
00:31:06.000 I'm a white guy, sitting here wearing my yarmulke with the very, very Jewish name, Ben Shapiro, right?
00:31:12.000 So, I'm a white guy.
00:31:14.000 So, what advantages attach to me?
00:31:17.000 They say, these advantages include skin color not working, quote, against me in terms of how people perceive my financial responsibility, style of dress, public speaking skills, or job performance.
00:31:28.000 That's an advantage that attaches to you as a member of the white privileged class.
00:31:32.000 So let me go through those briefly.
00:31:34.000 I have the advantage of people perceiving my financial responsibilities differently.
00:31:40.000 So for example, as a white guy, I can get mortgages more easily subsidized from the government with bad credit.
00:31:46.000 Oh wait, no, that's if I'm a black guy.
00:31:48.000 Or if I dress with saggy pants and somebody criticizes me because I'm wearing saggy pants and my butt crack is showing, then that is an example of how I get away with it because I'm white.
00:31:59.000 Except that if you're black and you do that and anyone criticizes you, they're a racist.
00:32:04.000 Dress codes are racist.
00:32:05.000 And like, I'm privileged because public speaking skills, job performance, it's not like there are specific statutes that protect me as a white—oh wait, no, there are just specific statutes that protect people as black people, but not as white people.
00:32:17.000 So white advantages from white privilege include also being disadvantaged.
00:32:21.000 So, and most of all, most of all,
00:32:24.000 I love this.
00:32:24.000 They say that white privilege includes people not assuming I got where I am professionally because of my race or affirmative action programs.
00:32:32.000 That's white privilege.
00:32:33.000 They assume that because you didn't, if you're white.
00:32:36.000 You didn't get there through an affirmative action program at the very least, because there are no affirmative action programs for white people.
00:32:42.000 So white privilege is, here's the choice, right?
00:32:46.000 Given the choice between getting into Yale with a lower score, which is true for black folks in America on average, they get into universities with lower scores.
00:32:53.000 Given the choice between getting into Yale with a lower score,
00:32:56.000 Or being able to bitch about a black guy getting into Yale with a lower score.
00:33:00.000 My white privilege is... I do.
00:33:03.000 I feel privileged that I get to bitch about somebody getting into Yale with a lower score.
00:33:06.000 I feel really privileged about that.
00:33:08.000 It's a real winner for me.
00:33:09.000 It's really helped me in my life that I got to complain that somebody else got in with a lower score than I did.
00:33:15.000 This is the white privilege that we're talking about in this video.
00:33:17.000 This is the white privilege this crazy lady is talking about.
00:33:20.000 And that means that we can't say anything about it.
00:33:22.000 We have to stay silent.
00:33:24.000 Really, what white privilege is, is a club with which to beat everyone who could possibly disagree with you.
00:33:29.000 Right?
00:33:30.000 Which is why Tim Wolf, the president of the university, was somebody who enjoyed white privilege.
00:33:34.000 But the coach at University of Missouri, who makes $3.1 million a year and is a white guy, but sided with this movement, he's not white privileged.
00:33:43.000 Right?
00:33:43.000 So the administrator who earns one-sixth of that salary is white privileged, even if he agrees with them, but the guy who's the coach and makes a bajillion dollars a year in taxpayer money, he's not white privileged.
00:33:53.000 It is amazing how this works.
00:33:55.000 Finally, I promised that I would close with this, and I really will because we're running late.
00:33:59.000 I'm gonna close with this, because I just have to show you this, because it was fun.
00:34:02.000 Yesterday, I was on HuffPost Live, and HuffPost Live is a channel for the Huffington Post.
00:34:06.000 They do, like, a live stream, and they have, they're in, you know, several million homes.
00:34:10.000 By the way, whenever anyone says they're in several million homes as a channel, that just means you have the option to flip to their channel.
00:34:15.000 It doesn't mean anyone's watching them.
00:34:17.000 So you haven't seen this clip because no one has ever seen HuffPost Live.
00:34:20.000 It's sort of a mythical—it's like a unicorn.
00:34:21.000 It's mythical.
00:34:22.000 It may exist.
00:34:23.000 It may not exist.
00:34:24.000 But I appeared on it yesterday, and this is—if you don't believe in media bias, if you don't believe what Ben Carson has been saying about media bias, this is demonstrative of media bias at its finest.
00:34:34.000 And as I've said before, there's a reason left-wing networks don't really enjoy having me on, and it's because of things like you're about to see here.
00:34:41.000 There's no question that last week he's risen in Republican estimation, specifically because of all the failed attacks on him and the supposed exaggerations and lies that nobody on the left has been able to back up.
00:34:53.000 Well, his own campaign admitted that they lied about the issue of West Point, right?
00:34:58.000 That what was written in his biography... Yeah, his own campaign said that he never actually applied for a scholarship, and in order... Listen to me, please.
00:35:08.000 His own campaign admitted that they never applied for a scholarship, or that Ben Carson never applied for a scholarship.
00:35:12.000 Not the mainstream media.
00:35:13.000 I'm an opinion journalist on the right.
00:35:14.000 I'm very clear about my agenda.
00:35:15.000 You aren't.
00:35:39.000 I'm very clear about my agenda.
00:35:40.000 I have absolutely nothing to hide.
00:35:45.000 This is why they don't like having me on, and this is why they lower my volume when the anchor is talking.
00:35:50.000 Because if you couldn't hear there, I'm saying over and over to her, you're lying, you're lying, you're lying.
00:35:54.000 That's a lie, that's a lie, that's a lie.
00:35:56.000 And this is why they don't like me having them on their programs.
00:35:59.000 And they also don't like face-to-face interviews.
00:36:00.000 They like it much better when I'm on Skype.
00:36:03.000 So if you ever wonder why I'm not on CNN more or MSNBC more, that right there is pretty much why.
00:36:10.000 By the way, later in the interview, at the very end of the interview, this host tried to revise her statement and got her revision wrong.
00:36:17.000 And I said, even when you correct yourself, you're still lying.
00:36:22.000 It never ends with these folks, and as I say, Ben Carson may be president yet thanks to people like the folks at HuffPost Live.
00:36:28.000 I hope that you enjoyed the debate much more than I did.
00:36:31.000 I made the sacrifice of watching it for you, dear listeners and dear watchers, and make sure that you stick around for tomorrow's episode when I'm sure we will learn that Ben Carson in fact lied about being married and in fact is married to several goats, a chicken, and a monkey of some sort.
00:36:46.000 This is Ben Shapiro, and this is The Ben Shapiro Show.