Katie Couric wanted to make the case for fluidity of gender. Instead, she made the case against abortion. Ben Shapiro explains why. Plus, Hillary Clinton is back, and she thinks babies are babies if they are intersex babies or transgender babies. Ben Shapiro also points out that intersex children are not babies unless they are born with a gender identity disorder, which is what Hillary Clinton has been arguing for years, and now she s back! Plus, he explains why it s good news that the left only cares about babies with gender identity issues if they re intersex or transgender, and only babies with that identity is a baby if they're born with that particular gender identity, and that's not even close to being a baby unless they re born with an intersex baby or transgender baby, and then they re not a baby at all. And, of course, that s not even half as bad as Hillary Clinton's recent comments about the future being a woman, because she's back, right? Thanks to our sponsor ZipRecruiter for sponsoring the show, and to our new supporters over at Hot Air for sponsoring our new ad-free version of the show. . Also, a big thank you to my listeners for all the support, and thanks to all the listeners who submitted questions, and all the questions they sent in and the amazing questions they answered! and the support we got! Thanks again, Ben Shapiro and I hope you enjoy The Ben Shapiro Show! ! - Your continued support is greatly appreciated! - Ben Shapiro - Thank you Ben Shapiro & Sarah Kaspbrak - The Weekly Standard Subscribe to the Ben Shapiro Podcast! Subscribe, Rate, Review, and Share, Subscribe, Share, and Retweet Ben Shapiro's Workplace Podcast and much more! -- Thank you for listening and Share Ben Shapiro, Thank you! -- Your Support is so Much Love & Support, Thank You! -- Rachel Maddow -- The Best of Ben Shapiro. -- -- Yours Truly, Cheers, Rachel Maddie, Caitie, Sarah, Rachael, Amy, Jeezy, JUICY, J. M. & Sarah, Jazmin, P. P. & Kaitlyn, AKA: Sarah, ? & Kacie, R. Rachie, J-YANNA
00:00:06.000Appearing with Ellen DeGeneres to talk about her new documentary, Gender Revolution, Katie Couric began spouting off about gender in the womb.
00:00:13.000Gender, Couric explained, was, quote, really a deeply biological thing, an unintentional ringing rebuke to the gender as a social construct crowd.
00:00:22.000She then added, just because you operate on a child and tell the child you're a certain gender, that doesn't necessarily coincide with who that person feels he or she actually is.
00:00:30.000This applies really to intersex children, not generally to biologically male or female children, but Couric forged ahead.
00:01:12.000As Ed Morrissey of Hot Air points out, This is where the entire logic of leftism on abortion breaks down.
00:01:29.000The left focuses incessantly on the victim status of various human beings from various racial, sexual, ethnic groups.
00:01:36.000The left will sing the lyrics to Born This Way with all their heart, but then they'll attempt to argue that until you're born, you weren't this way.
00:01:43.000If we're going to talk about the ultimate victim group, let's talk about unborn children, who have done nothing to deserve their fate, or developing human beings in the womb.
00:01:51.000If it takes some talk about intersex babies to make leftists care about babies all of a sudden, that is certainly worth the price.
00:02:03.000Okay, we're gonna get to everything Trump-related in a second, plus it was a good time over at Ferris State University, and we'll talk a little bit about that a little bit later.
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00:03:30.000As I mentioned a minute ago, Katie Couric now thinks that, I mean this is good news I suppose, all leftist logic in the end turns in on itself.
00:03:37.000And that's certainly true of abortion.
00:03:38.000I think it's amusing that Katie Couric now only thinks babies are babies if they are intersex babies or transgender babies.
00:03:45.000So apparently babies who are not any of those things, babies who don't suffer from those conditions,
00:03:49.000Those are not babies, but if you're a transgender baby, then you're a baby, which is just kind of weird.
00:03:53.000But in any case, that wasn't the only stupid thing to come out yesterday.
00:05:20.000Last month, as women organized a march that galvanized millions of people all over our country and across the world.
00:05:29.000So please, set an example for every woman and girl out there who's worried about what the future holds and wonders whether our rights, opportunities, and values will endure.
00:05:41.000And remember, you are the heroes and history makers, the glass ceiling breakers of the future.
00:05:49.000As I've said before, I'll say again, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world.
00:06:01.000Okay, I have a daughter and she is just three now.
00:06:04.000And I also think that she is going to have a wonderful future.
00:06:08.000I also don't think she's going to have a lot of glass ceilings to break.
00:06:31.000You're the majority of the people in college.
00:06:34.000In 147 out of 150 of the biggest, most populous cities, women who are single and unmarried and work the same number of hours as men earn 8% more on average than men do.
00:06:45.000So can we cut it out with this whole glass ceiling shattered routine?
00:06:49.000And when Hillary Clinton does it, it's even more irritating because the fact of the matter is that Hillary Clinton's shattering of the glass ceiling involved her marrying a more powerful man and then riding his coattails to all sorts of glory, but not the White House.
00:07:02.000Actually, my favorite headline of the day was apparently there's some couple that's been married, I guess, for 22 years, have been together for 22 years, and they're breaking up over Trump.
00:07:10.000And the first thing that went through my mind is I'm really feeling bad for the Clintons.
00:08:52.000So it is not true that the press does not cover terrorism.
00:08:55.000In fact, they released a list of 78 attacks since 2014 that they said had not received enough media attention, and on that list were terrorist attacks in Nice, France, and terrorist attacks in Berlin, and the terror attack in Orlando.
00:09:12.000I'm pretty sure those received enough media attention.
00:09:14.000But here's what's smart about all of this.
00:09:16.000Here's what's smart about all of this.
00:09:18.000It has forced the media now to go back and rehash all of the terrorist incidents.
00:09:23.000The media are so crazy and so stupid that Trump says, you didn't cover the terrorist attacks enough.
00:09:27.000And instead of them just saying, that's not true.
00:09:30.000Now, this is a misdirect, because you actually want to talk about X, Y, or Z. Instead, the media goes into, How dare he!
00:09:36.000We'll show you how much we covered terrorist attacks, and we'll cover them anew, just to prove you wrong!
00:09:41.000And Trump's sitting there smirking at himself, knowing that the entire premise of that speech, the entire premise of him saying that, was designed to force the media to spend lots of time talking about terror attacks, so suddenly Americans would recognize what he's trying to do with his immigration and refugee order.
00:10:33.000There's several instances, and the President, again, got a great update today on the fight against ISIS that's going on throughout the region and what our military is facing throughout this globe trying to combat ISIS.
00:10:44.000But there's a lot of instances that have occurred where I don't think that they've gotten the coverage it's deserved, and I think that's what the President's clearly referring to there.
00:10:53.000And again, reiterating this point is smart because, number one, every time Trump picks a fight with the media and then the media allow him to do that, every time the media kick back by saying, how dare you attack the media, Americans go, I don't care about you, you're the media.
00:11:06.000Why would I possibly care if Trump attacks you?
00:11:08.000You attack each other, fine, whatever.
00:11:14.000Trump is speaking at CENTCOM and Trump again reiterates that NATO is somehow a boondoggle and NATO allies have to pay more money or the tacit threat is we're going to cut them off.
00:11:25.000Here's Trump talking about NATO at CENTCOM.
00:11:30.000We only ask that all of the NATO members make their full and proper financial contributions to the NATO alliance, which many of them have not been doing.
00:11:41.000Many of them have not been even close.
00:12:22.000We're surrounded on both sides by oceans, and to our south we have a weak state, Mexico, and to our north we have a very friendly state in Canada.
00:12:28.000So, the United States does not have a lot of border problems in terms of being in the middle of Europe, for example, and facing down a threat from multiple sides.
00:12:35.000And so what that's meant, typically, is that Americans tend to have this real isolationist streak.
00:12:40.000The only problem is in an era of mass communication, in an era of easy jet travel, in an era of missiles and global trade, it's very difficult to isolate yourself from the world without also harming yourself economically and harming yourself
00:12:56.000And every time the United States has tried to isolate itself, and has said, okay, let's turn inward, let's cut our military, let's turn inward, let's stop worrying about what's happening over in Estonia or Latvia, let's stop worrying what's happening over in the South China Sea, every time we do that sort of thing, it ends up redounding not to our benefit, but to our detriment.
00:13:12.000It always ends up building to the point where rogue states end up attacking us, whether it's Japan in World War II, or whether it is Germany in World War I, we always end up being dragged into wars against our will,
00:13:23.000Because if you leave the playground and there's nobody there to boss it around, you may not like bossing it around.
00:13:28.000The United States may not like being the global organizer.
00:13:30.000But, if we're not going to organize, you know who's going to do it, is Russia and China.
00:13:34.000And you may think that doesn't matter.
00:13:35.000It does matter when China starts cutting off trade between all of these Southeastern Asian countries and the United States through a sphere of influence.
00:13:42.000It does matter when they begin encroaching territorially more and more toward American interests.
00:13:46.000It does matter when China becomes more powerful and Russia becomes more powerful in Eastern Europe and starts threatening our Western European allies
00:13:53.000And then all of a sudden we get dragged into conflict again, except conflict with an emboldened and strengthened enemy like a Russia or a China.
00:14:00.000The start under Obama, this isn't unique to Trump, but it did start with Obama and it's continued under Trump, this sort of revanchism, this idea that we're going to
00:14:09.000Just come back into our borders and everything is going to be okay.
00:14:13.000Every time it's been tried, it fails, and this is true not just with World War I and World War II.
00:14:16.000Bill Clinton tried this in the 1990s by slashing our military to the bone, and the result was 9-11.
00:14:22.000George W. Bush built up the military and got aggressive on the foreign policy sphere, and we saw a dramatic decrease in the number of terrorist attacks on American soil.
00:14:29.000Then, he leaves office, and the number of terrorist attacks increases massively because ISIS grows.
00:14:34.000The fact is, you cannot remove yourself from the international scene and hope that everything is going to be okay.
00:14:40.000And that seems to be the premise of a lot of what Trump is saying here, and that's a problem.
00:14:44.000With all that said, the media are losing their ever-loving minds over Donald Trump, and we're going to have to continue this over at Daily Wire.
00:14:51.000But I want to talk a little bit about the fact the media keeps saying, they keep throwing around this term, constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis.
00:14:57.000I want to talk about what a constitutional crisis actually looks like, whether it's a crisis or not, and the fact that the Constitution is actually built to withstand crises.
00:15:06.000It's built to have crises and withstand them.
00:15:08.000We'll talk about all of that over at dailywire.com.
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