The Ben Shapiro Show - November 30, 2015


Ep. 32 - Obama Says The Dumbest Thing He's Ever Said. Again.


Episode Stats

Length

35 minutes

Words per Minute

199.75882

Word Count

7,178

Sentence Count

445

Misogynist Sentences

22

Hate Speech Sentences

17


Summary

Every new day is like a bright, beautiful sunrise of President Obama's stupidity, because every new day he wakes up is a new sunrise of stupidity. Today, we are back from the Thanksgiving weekend, and it's a bright new day, and that means President Obama has said something even stupider than anything he's said in the recent past, even the stupidest thing he's ever said, because, well, why not? We'll talk about that, and the Planned Parenthood shooting, and why the left should not be all that excited about it. We'll also get to Donald Trump, who continues to be under attack from both the mainstream media and from the right, and who needs to realize that the only way to take Trump down is to watch him take himself down. And, of course, we'll get to Planned Parenthood and the shooting of a bunch of innocent people in a nightclub in America's most liberal city, which is a thrill! And we'll explain why they were so excited and why they shouldn't be so excited, and also why they should be worried about it, because it's an act of defiance against ISIS. Ben Shapiro is back, and there's so much to talk about, including: 1) Planned Parenthood. 2) Donald Trump. 3) Climate change summit in Paris. 4) Obama's climate change summit. 5) Paris, and his stupid. 6) Iran. 7) Iran, and Syria. 8) Iran and the Islamic State. 9) The people of Paris, are you listening to me? 10) Iran? 11) ISIS? 12) What are you doing to me with your mind? 15) What do you think of it? 16) I don't know? 17) What will you think about this? 18) Is it a good thing? 19) What would you like to see me do in the future of this country? 21) What does it look like, Ben Shapiro's thoughts on this country, and what are you going to do in 2020? 22) How do you want me to do more of this in the next five years? And so much more? You're going to be more stupid than this, you're not thinking about this, do you agree with me, right? ? Welcome back to another episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, y'all? - Ben Shapiro


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Howdy everybody, we are back from the Thanksgiving weekend.
00:00:03.000 And I had a great weekend, not thinking about politics and really just enjoying my family.
00:00:06.000 And now we're back, and it's a new day, it's a bright new day, and that means President Obama has said something intensely stupid.
00:00:12.000 Stupider than anything that he's said, even in the recent past, because every new day is like a bright, beautiful sunrise of President Obama's stupidity.
00:00:19.000 We'll get to it.
00:00:20.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:21.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:29.000 Alrighty gang, we have returned and there is so much to talk about.
00:00:32.000 We'll get to the Planned Parenthood shooting that happened over the weekend and a thrill went up all the lefties leg when this happened.
00:00:38.000 We'll explain why they were so excited and why, in fact, they shouldn't really be all that excited about it.
00:00:44.000 We will also get to Donald Trump who continues to be
00:00:46.000 Under attack from both the mainstream media and from the right.
00:00:50.000 Folks on the establishment right seem to think that the only way to take Trump down is to watch him sort of take himself down.
00:00:56.000 It's not going to happen.
00:00:57.000 I'll explain why.
00:00:57.000 But we start in Paris, where President Obama has descended from the clouds, high atop Mount Olympus, to deliver a message to global terror.
00:01:06.000 The President of the United States is attending a climate change panel.
00:01:09.000 This is the big climate change panel, the big climate change meeting that we've been waiting for all our lives.
00:01:14.000 Day after day, we've been waiting for President Obama and the rest of these global bureaucrats to get together in mahogany-paneled rooms and gather around the thermostat, pray, and then increase the temperature by a couple of degrees so as not to emit carbon.
00:01:28.000 Well, President Obama started off with a speech at this climate change summit.
00:01:34.000 Where they will sign a bunch of agreements that mean nothing because none of these developing countries that actually do a lot of the polluting, like China and India, are actually going to sign on to anything that would stagnate their actual economic development.
00:01:44.000 Only we will do that because we are suicidal enough and stupid enough to do that.
00:01:49.000 President Obama, he spoke at the very beginning, and it's important to know about President Obama.
00:01:53.000 The man's arrogance is just breathtaking.
00:01:56.000 I mean, breathtaking.
00:01:57.000 The UN asked that all the global leaders would speak.
00:01:59.000 And they said, if everyone can please keep their comments to three minutes, that would be awesome.
00:02:03.000 Three minutes would be great.
00:02:05.000 President Obama then got up and spoke for 14 minutes.
00:02:08.000 Because that's what President Obama does.
00:02:09.000 Because President Obama,
00:02:12.000 He loves that little red light on the camera, and anytime it's on, he talks.
00:02:15.000 I mean, he gets up in the middle of the night, he walks to the refrigerator, the light goes on, and he starts talking until somebody comes down and forcibly closes the refrigerator.
00:02:22.000 When the light goes on, President Obama talks, and he doesn't stop.
00:02:25.000 So President Obama started talking, and he repeated a line that we talked about last week, and I said it was maybe the dumbest thing he'd ever said.
00:02:32.000 President Obama doubles down on the stupid in Paris, and he says this with regard to the climate change summit that is currently happening.
00:02:43.000 And we salute the people of Paris for insisting this crucial conference go on, an act of defiance that proves nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children.
00:03:03.000 What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshalling our best efforts to save it?
00:03:12.000 Okay, this is legitimately the stupidest thing any human being has ever said.
00:03:16.000 And there's a long history of people saying stupid things.
00:03:18.000 But like I say, every new day with President Obama is a new sunrise of stupidity.
00:03:23.000 You wake up in the morning and you think, God, he can't possibly get any dumber.
00:03:27.000 And then you wake up the next morning and you think, how could he have been so smart yesterday?
00:03:30.000 Because it's just, I mean, it is incredible.
00:03:33.000 Okay, first of all, he says that he thanks the people of Paris for insisting the climate change summit go on.
00:03:38.000 I was unaware that there was a groundswell of support in Paris for a climate change summit, that as the bodies were bleeding out on the ground at the nightclub a couple of weeks ago, people immediately said, we must band together
00:03:52.000 You know, they can—we will fight them on the shores.
00:03:54.000 We will fight them in the mahogany-paneled hotel rooms talking about climate change.
00:03:59.000 We must have our climate change summit.
00:04:01.000 It's deeply important.
00:04:02.000 We must.
00:04:02.000 It must—no one did this, right?
00:04:04.000 President Obama says that they did, and then he says it's an act of defiance against ISIS.
00:04:10.000 Which just, what?
00:04:14.000 An act of defiance against ISIS.
00:04:16.000 Again, the people who are sitting around in their mud huts in Isisville, they're really sitting around and thinking to themselves, you know what?
00:04:23.000 What we really have to stop is a bunch of these bureaucrats getting together and jabbering with each other, with translators, about how to destroy the global economy.
00:04:33.000 We really need to, what we really need to make sure of is that they destroy, we can't let them destroy their own economies.
00:04:38.000 We have to keep those, we must stop them from destroying their own economies and so we're gonna go kill a bunch of French people at a nightclub.
00:04:47.000 The only thing more insane than that concept is what Obama said about that.
00:04:50.000 It's an act of defiance.
00:04:51.000 ISIS is sitting there and they're just, they're sitting around and they're so angry.
00:04:54.000 You can just see them, they're grumbling in the caves.
00:04:56.000 Ugh, we thought we had defeated them, but no.
00:04:58.000 They have a climate change summit, damn it!
00:05:03.000 Allah, what have you allowed?
00:05:07.000 No one is doing this.
00:05:08.000 There's not a single member of ISIS who has ever had these thoughts.
00:05:11.000 But President Obama says that they've had these thoughts, and then he continued along these lines, and he says that we stand united in solidarity, not only to deliver justice to the terrorist network, but to protect our people, and we salute the people of Paris.
00:05:23.000 He says, what greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshalling our best efforts to save it?
00:05:28.000 Here's what you have to understand about President Obama and what he's actually doing with ISIS, and it's actually kind of incredible.
00:05:36.000 And it's something the left likes to do, and it'll bring us to Planned Parenthood in a minute, but there is a commonality here.
00:05:42.000 When John F. Kennedy was shot, John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald.
00:05:45.000 Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist.
00:05:47.000 Lee Harvey Oswald was an ardent communist.
00:05:49.000 He tried to defect to the Soviet Union.
00:05:51.000 He actually did defect to the Soviet Union.
00:05:52.000 Then he came back after trying to defect to the Soviet Union and basically hating it there because it turns out Soviet lifestyles weren't great.
00:05:59.000 He came back to the United States.
00:06:00.000 Then a few days before he assassinated Kennedy, he tried to defect to Cuba.
00:06:04.000 He went down to the Cuban embassy in Mexico and tried to defect to Cuba.
00:06:07.000 He was a communist.
00:06:08.000 Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist and he shot the president of the United States and he killed him.
00:06:13.000 Jackie Kennedy, when she heard who had actually done this, when they captured Oswald, her actual quote, according to people who she talked to, and there were biographers who said this, Jackie Kennedy actually said, quote,
00:06:30.000 She was upset that the guy who shot her husband wasn't some right-winger who had killed her husband over civil rights.
00:06:36.000 He wasn't some racist conservative.
00:06:39.000 It was, in fact, a communist.
00:06:40.000 A silly little communist.
00:06:41.000 Now, at the time, you have to understand, we were engaged in a global battle with the greatest threat that Western civilization had ever seen to that point, which was a massive communist empire that was expanding in all directions.
00:06:54.000 But to her, the greater threat was civil rights here at home.
00:06:58.000 To her, the greatest threat and the thing that her husband that she hoped, if he had to die, would have died for was, in fact, civil rights, was people marching in Selma.
00:07:06.000 She wishes that somebody who had killed him, maybe if he'd been martyred for civil rights, then people would have sided with the civil rights bandwagon and more progress would have been achieved.
00:07:15.000 But because it was some silly little communist, all that was going to happen is people were going to be more anti-communist and hate those communists.
00:07:20.000 And we all know the communists are silly and unimportant, even though we were at the time, again, engaged in a global civilizational battle.
00:07:27.000 President Obama is doing the same thing.
00:07:29.000 President Obama basically feels like the people who got killed in Paris, you know, he just, he really regrets it had to be some silly little Muslim radicals.
00:07:37.000 Why couldn't it have been some anti-climate change activist?
00:07:40.000 Why couldn't it have been some pro-life person?
00:07:42.000 Right?
00:07:43.000 Why couldn't it have been just like an American conservative?
00:07:45.000 Like an American conservative had gone into the Paris nightclub and shot up the nightclub in the name of, we're going to shoot up nightclubs now in order to prolong the oil-based economy.
00:07:53.000 He would have been super happy, right?
00:07:55.000 Because then all of a sudden there's this groundswell of support for fighting climate change.
00:07:59.000 But it happens to be some Muslim radical.
00:08:01.000 So what does Obama do?
00:08:02.000 He says, no, no, don't worry.
00:08:03.000 They're not Muslim.
00:08:03.000 They're not even Muslim.
00:08:05.000 ISIS is not Islamic, right?
00:08:06.000 They're not Islamic.
00:08:07.000 But instead of him admitting
00:08:09.000 That it's Muslim radicals.
00:08:10.000 At least Jackie admits it was a silly little communist.
00:08:13.000 Instead of Obama admitting that ISIS is a bunch of Islamic radicals...
00:08:17.000 Instead of doing that, the President of the United States does a magical sleight-of-hand transference procedure whereby ISIS becomes the people he wants them to be.
00:08:28.000 They're actually created.
00:08:29.000 They're transformed in magical fashion.
00:08:31.000 He puts the curtain in front of them, and then when he removes the curtain, it's not ISIS anymore.
00:08:35.000 The people who killed all the people in Paris are people who want to stand against climate change, and here he is, standing in defiance of all the people who would kill in the name of the oil-based economy.
00:08:46.000 Which, of course, doesn't exist.
00:08:47.000 Like, there's nobody who's doing this.
00:08:48.000 So he just makes them up.
00:08:49.000 He just completely makes them up.
00:08:51.000 Out of whole cloth.
00:08:52.000 He just makes them up because it's that important.
00:08:54.000 He wants to fight climate change.
00:08:56.000 And it annoys him.
00:08:57.000 ISIS is a distraction for the President of the United States.
00:09:01.000 Isis isn't really important.
00:09:02.000 Isis isn't a global threat.
00:09:04.000 Isis, we talked about this column at the time, Paul Krugman in the New York Times, who's an ideological equivalent of President Obama.
00:09:11.000 They're on the same page.
00:09:12.000 He wrote like two days after the Paris attacks, quote, sorry conservatives, when President Obama describes climate change as the greatest threat we face, he's exactly right.
00:09:21.000 Terrorism can't and won't destroy our civilization, but global warming could and might.
00:09:26.000 That's what Paul Krugman—and Obama thinks that, too.
00:09:28.000 He thinks global warming is what's going to kill us all.
00:09:31.000 Now, the reality is, Obama doesn't really care whether global warming is going to kill us all, because there is no hard evidence to suggest that global warming is going to destroy all of Western civilization.
00:09:39.000 We've had climate change for the entirety of the history of the planet.
00:09:43.000 It will continue ad infinitum into the future.
00:09:45.000 Even the best scientists can't explain the exact correlation between the level of carbon emissions
00:09:51.000 And the extent of global warming.
00:09:53.000 The best scientists can't explain the extent of global warming and whether that is better or worse for us.
00:09:57.000 In fact, there's an international panel on climate change that has suggested that over the next 100 years, climate change will actually significantly help the globe because it actually creates more farmable areas.
00:10:08.000 If it gets warmer, then a lot of the places that are too cold to farm right now actually become pretty good bread baskets because there's a lot of the planet that's uninhabitable because it's too cold.
00:10:17.000 President Obama worries about the coastal cities, supposedly.
00:10:20.000 But the reality is that they've built sea breaks in most of these coastal cities, and they could further.
00:10:24.000 I mean, New Orleans exists below sea level.
00:10:26.000 Idiotically, we should have moved it after Hurricane Katrina.
00:10:29.000 But, you know, we built sea breaks there, and we continue to do that.
00:10:31.000 We continue to build levees.
00:10:34.000 But President Obama, for him, it's not really about climate change.
00:10:37.000 Why is he so passionate about climate change?
00:10:39.000 The reason Obama is passionate about climate change is because climate change is a cover for global redistributionism.
00:10:45.000 Climate change is a cover for take Western civilization down a peg in terms of the economy and give all of our money to all the poor countries because Obama is basically a Marxist, right?
00:10:54.000 And the fact is that if you look at
00:10:57.000 What the people who push climate change say, they agree.
00:11:00.000 In February, the Executive Secretary for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change said this, quote, This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.
00:11:27.000 Okay, first of all, this is not the first time in human history that we've intentionally transformed the economic development model.
00:11:32.000 We had this for a hundred years.
00:11:33.000 It was called the Soviet Union.
00:11:34.000 It was an intentional transformation of the economic development model, right?
00:11:37.000 But the left wants to do away with the two greatest forces in the alleviation of poverty in the history of humanity.
00:11:45.000 Those two great forces, the oil-based carbon economy and capitalism.
00:11:49.000 Those two things are the greatest forces for the alleviation of poverty ever created by man or God.
00:11:55.000 The oil-based economy has lifted 50% of the globe out of dire starvation-level poverty over the last 50 years.
00:12:02.000 And the left wants to do away with that.
00:12:03.000 Because the problem is that even though we've lifted them up from dire poverty, then the developed countries have lifted this much.
00:12:10.000 So they would rather that the people who went from here to here
00:12:13.000 We're good to go.
00:12:28.000 Medium people in terms of the economy becoming super rich or rich becoming richer, right?
00:12:33.000 They care about the gap.
00:12:34.000 They don't care about the people at the low end.
00:12:36.000 That's President Obama when it comes to climate change.
00:12:39.000 That's his actual agenda here, and he said it.
00:12:40.000 I mean, he said in his 14-minute speech today,
00:12:44.000 That he wanted to, quote, reaffirm our commitment that resources will be there for countries willing to do their part to skip the dirty phase of development.
00:12:51.000 Okay, it's not a dirty phase of development, meaning that when he says dirty phase of development, what he means is that there are countries, every time a country develops, you have to pollute a lot in order to develop quickly.
00:13:01.000 Because if you want to expend more energy more quickly without environmental restrictions, you're going to pollute a lot.
00:13:08.000 He says if they skip the dirty phases of development, we'll be there to pick up the pieces.
00:13:11.000 Okay, the fact is you can't go from being a not-developed economy to a developed economy without the development part, right?
00:13:16.000 You can't just go from one to the other.
00:13:18.000 You can't just give somebody a wallet and say, okay, now you're rich.
00:13:21.000 That's not how it works.
00:13:22.000 This is why when people win the lottery, they immediately go back to being poor again if they were poor before.
00:13:26.000 They don't know how to take care of money.
00:13:28.000 In order for you to become a developed economy, you have to learn how a developed economy operates.
00:13:32.000 You have to open your boards.
00:13:33.000 You have to have certain capitalistic features in order for that to work.
00:13:36.000 Now, if you want to say that we will reward them for being environmentally conscious, there's another way to do that, which is that we put sanctions on countries that are not environmentally conscious, right?
00:13:46.000 We just don't trade with countries that decide to pollute up the wazoo, right?
00:13:50.000 We could do that.
00:13:51.000 But, and then that's a real incentive.
00:13:53.000 We don't have to pay them out of our own pocket or anything like that.
00:13:55.000 But President Obama wants to pay them out of our own pocket.
00:13:58.000 That's the whole goal.
00:13:59.000 He says he wants to make sure resources flow to countries that need help preparing for the impacts of climate change we can no longer avoid.
00:14:05.000 He says poor island nations, we have to pay them so that presumably they can relocate even though, I don't know what global picture he has in his head where islands are moments away from becoming Atlantis and it's going to be, there's not going to be any steady and slow encroachment of the waters where people decide, okay, you know what?
00:14:20.000 We're moving now.
00:14:21.000 By the way, I don't know when this started.
00:14:24.000 I think it's probably the last, really since World War II, this idea that human populations are not transient, that you settle in one place and that that's where you stay for the rest of time.
00:14:32.000 This ignores all of human history, of course, because there are many, many, many cities that used to be thriving metropolises and no longer are.
00:14:40.000 In the United States, we call them Detroit, right?
00:14:41.000 I mean, this actually happens.
00:14:42.000 I mean, there are cities in the United States that have been abandoned.
00:14:45.000 New Orleans was abandoned after an environmental disaster.
00:14:47.000 The population dropped by significantly more than 50% after Hurricane Katrina.
00:14:52.000 And then we're stupid enough to send people back there with incentives.
00:14:55.000 And they stay there.
00:14:56.000 And then it turns out the environment wins in the end.
00:14:58.000 President Obama wants to do that with the island nations as well.
00:15:01.000 So this is President Obama over in Paris.
00:15:02.000 And by the way, he says, what is our greatest foe?
00:15:05.000 Our greatest foe, says President Obama, is cynicism.
00:15:08.000 Not ISIS, not people who want to kill us.
00:15:10.000 Cynicism is our greatest foe.
00:15:13.000 One of the enemies that we'll be fighting at this conference is cynicism.
00:15:18.000 The notion we can't do anything about climate change.
00:15:22.000 Okay, so every time he says that, I sort of keep waiting for a superhero with a big C on his chest to bust through the back wall.
00:15:28.000 I'm cynicism and I'm here to kill all of you.
00:15:31.000 We're gonna fight cynicism.
00:15:33.000 Our enemy is cynicism.
00:15:34.000 Obama's used this phrase before.
00:15:35.000 You've heard him do it a lot in domestic speeches, right?
00:15:37.000 We have to fight cynicism.
00:15:39.000 Why?
00:15:39.000 Because Obama...
00:15:41.000 He actually believes he's Jesus Christ.
00:15:42.000 I mean, he comes and the unbelievers will be punished and they'll be sent to a burning, fiery hell.
00:15:48.000 He's not even like a good version of Jesus.
00:15:50.000 He's like a bad version of Jesus.
00:15:51.000 He's like Jesus gone wrong.
00:15:54.000 He's gonna come in and he's going to explain to everybody how it is.
00:15:58.000 And if you disagree, it's because you didn't see the three stars in the east, right?
00:16:01.000 And he didn't follow to the manger.
00:16:05.000 And he's in the manger.
00:16:06.000 And it's just, it's amazing.
00:16:08.000 If you disagree with him, it's not because he's wrong, it's because you're cynical.
00:16:11.000 It's because you've become too cynical to believe.
00:16:14.000 You've become too cynical to believe.
00:16:15.000 And if you just believed in Tinkerbell, the harder you clap for Tinkerbell, the longer she will live.
00:16:20.000 And you can revive Tinkerbell, if you believe.
00:16:23.000 I mean, there are those of us who enjoy Disney movies, and I have a daughter, and she loves Disney stuff, and I enjoy Disneyland, I love Disneyland, but I also realize the difference between Fantasyland and actual life.
00:16:34.000 President Obama apparently doesn't.
00:16:36.000 Okay, so, meanwhile,
00:16:38.000 Other news over the weekend.
00:16:39.000 There was a big shooting over in Colorado.
00:16:42.000 I think it was four or five people killed.
00:16:44.000 None of them inside the Planned Parenthood.
00:16:45.000 It was all cops.
00:16:47.000 There was a guy who was a complete nutjob who decided that he was going to go shoot up near the Planned Parenthood.
00:16:53.000 And by shoot up, I don't mean do drugs.
00:16:54.000 He was going to kill people near the Planned Parenthood.
00:16:56.000 We know this guy's a nut because he is a nut.
00:16:58.000 I mean, I'm not just saying he's a... Like, people on the left, they like to say that people who we know exactly why they're doing what they're doing, that they're nuts.
00:17:05.000 They'll say that Islamic terrorists are nuts.
00:17:07.000 I was talking to Candace, who works here, and Candace was saying earlier, she was at Thanksgiving, and somebody at her Thanksgiving table said, no, no, no, the ISIS terrorists in Paris were just nuts.
00:17:18.000 When I say nuts, I don't mean like, it's nuts as in I disagree.
00:17:21.000 When I say nuts, I mean like, psychiatrically.
00:17:23.000 Having problems, okay?
00:17:25.000 Like, has a medical problem.
00:17:26.000 This guy, who shot up the area near the Planned Parenthood, this particular fellow lived in a shack, basically a one-room shack, in the woods, with no running water and no electricity.
00:17:37.000 In 2015, he'd been convicted in the past and charged with being a peeping Tom, as well as throwing his wife, apparently, through a window.
00:17:44.000 He'd also, all of his neighbors described him as a nut who scared their children.
00:17:48.000 And he had registered to vote in Colorado, apparently, as an independent woman.
00:17:52.000 Right?
00:17:54.000 Like a political independent and also a woman.
00:17:57.000 But the left decided that really this guy, he might need to shut up the area near the Planned Parenthood, not because he's a crazy person, but because we all need to shut up about Planned Parenthood.
00:18:07.000 Now, I will say this.
00:18:09.000 Let's go.
00:18:26.000 If it were legal in most states, and now it's not legal in any because of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, but if it were legal, Planned Parenthood did do late-term abortions, like final-term abortions, up until the point of birth.
00:18:39.000 Planned Parenthood has no problem with any of that.
00:18:41.000 These are people who murder kids, and they are happy to do it.
00:18:44.000 Okay?
00:18:45.000 And they make money off of it.
00:18:46.000 And then they sell their parts, and whether they sell the parts for profit or not is completely irrelevant to me.
00:18:50.000 The selling the parts, I always thought that, and I've said this for literally months here, I always found it bizarre that people were so upset about the selling of the baby body parts.
00:18:58.000 That seems wildly secondary to the actual killing of the baby.
00:19:02.000 Like, how you dispose of the body parts afterward is of significantly less consequence to me than what you actually did to snuff out the life of a child, but
00:19:11.000 You know, there were all these videos that came out, and here, for example, is one of the videos, the Planned Parenthood video, showing them openly discussing what they do with the baby body parts after they kill them and then carve them up.
00:19:21.000 So we're oftentimes looking for liver and thymus.
00:19:25.000 Are two of the most in demand.
00:19:28.000 Yes.
00:19:29.000 Excellent.
00:19:30.000 Alright, here you go.
00:19:39.000 So now this...
00:19:43.000 Sean, can you help me out?
00:19:44.000 I don't... So... I think this is lung, right?
00:19:48.000 I don't think this is kidney.
00:19:49.000 Yeah, these are lungs, because that's the trachea in the middle there.
00:19:53.000 Okay, we don't have to watch more of this, but this is what they do, right?
00:19:56.000 I mean, so this is on video.
00:19:58.000 These are baby body parts.
00:19:59.000 They're used for research.
00:20:00.000 They kill babies.
00:20:01.000 Okay, this is not inflammatory rhetoric.
00:20:03.000 This is fact.
00:20:05.000 Okay, people like me saying this, the left is now blaming for this not going and shooting up the area near the Planned Parenthood.
00:20:12.000 So John Hickenlooper, who is the governor of Colorado, he went on national television yesterday and he blamed me and you and Carly Fiorina and the people who made these tapes for the shooting at the Planned Parenthood.
00:20:24.000 Here's John Hickenlooper.
00:20:25.000 The United States of America ought to begin a discussion looking at how do you begin to tone back the inflammatory rhetoric that
00:20:34.000 In some ways it might be good for, I don't know, selling products in advertisements or whatever, but in some way it is inflaming people to the point where they can't stand it and they go out and they lose connection with reality in some way and commit these acts of unthinkable violence.
00:20:55.000 Okay, so the idea is that if you hadn't seen any of these Planned Parenthood videos, this guy would be fine, dandy, living in the woods right now.
00:21:01.000 What this does is it creates what we call a heckler's veto.
00:21:04.000 Meaning that the heckler is the- sort of like the heckler's veto existed for the drawing of Muhammad.
00:21:11.000 Right?
00:21:11.000 If you know that if you draw Muhammad, somebody's going to come and shoot up the place where you're drawing Muhammad, then you shouldn't draw Muhammad.
00:21:16.000 Right?
00:21:16.000 We should stop you from drawing Muhammad because somebody will come up and kill you.
00:21:20.000 So we have to stop you.
00:21:21.000 Right?
00:21:21.000 This is what is called the heckler's veto, meaning the person who violates all protocols and norms is now the person who gets to dictate whether you exercise your free speech.
00:21:29.000 So the person who is the nut, who goes and shoots up the area outside of a Planned Parenthood, is now the person who gets to decide whether you do or do not speak up about facts about Planned Parenthood.
00:21:40.000 And it's not just John Hickenlooper who is saying this, that it's inflammatory rhetoric, that it's people saying crazy things like Planned Parenthood kills babies.
00:21:49.000 He's not the only one saying this.
00:21:50.000 Planned Parenthood itself, there's an official on TV who's saying exactly the same thing.
00:21:53.000 It's hateful, inciting rhetoric that is creating this whole problem in the first place.
00:21:58.000 We've experienced so much hateful language, hateful speech.
00:22:05.000 Such a negative environment has been created around the work that Planned Parenthood does around the idea of safe and legal abortion.
00:22:15.000 And we've seen that across the country from all sorts of speakers in the last few months.
00:22:21.000 I can't believe that this isn't contributing to some folks
00:22:26.000 Okay, so that's Vicky Cowart, the appropriately named Vicky Cowart, who is saying that talking about Planned Parenthood is what is causing all of this to happen.
00:22:48.000 There are a couple of things that are worth talking about when we get to these sorts of comments.
00:22:51.000 First of all, the left has been doing this for literally generations, that every time somebody does something bad, they blame the right for it.
00:22:57.000 Every time somebody, even somebody unassociated, somebody who's a complete nutjob does something bad, they blame the right for it.
00:23:03.000 I mean, I mentioned the JFK assassination.
00:23:06.000 The left, in the aftermath of the JFK assassination, tried to blame the right.
00:23:09.000 The left actually tried to say that it was a climate of hate that had been created around JFK that allowed for Lee Harvey Oswald.
00:23:15.000 Utter trash.
00:23:16.000 They said the same thing about Jared Lee Loeffler.
00:23:18.000 You remember when Jared Loeffler shot and wounded badly, Gabrielle Giffords shot her in the head in Arizona.
00:23:24.000 They tried to claim that Sarah Palin was somehow responsible for this because she had a targeted district list, including Gabby Giffords' district, even though there was no evidence that Jared Loeffler had ever seen any of this.
00:23:35.000 When it comes to, I will say this, however,
00:23:38.000 There is, in fact, to be consistent.
00:23:41.000 It is absolutely possible that rhetoric can drive violence, but it depends on what the rhetoric is.
00:23:46.000 There's a difference between pigs-in-a-blanket-fry-em-like-bacon, which is apparently a common chant at some of the Black Lives Matter movements, which is openly calling for the death of cops, and rhetoric like Planned Parenthood kills babies.
00:24:00.000 Me saying Planned Parenthood kills babies does not suggest that the solution is for you to go and kill Planned Parenthood doctors, right?
00:24:06.000 Or for you to go and bomb a Planned Parenthood clinic.
00:24:09.000 There's a difference between ISIS's rhetoric, which is, go kill Westerners, or Palestinian rhetoric, where you have an imam, we've shown video of it, holding a knife and stabbing the air and saying, go stab a Jew.
00:24:18.000 There's a difference between that and
00:24:21.000 By the way, Planned Parenthood also, they kill babies and we're funding it.
00:24:25.000 There's a difference in level of rhetoric.
00:24:27.000 And the way that you can tell the difference in level of rhetoric is by who responds to the rhetoric.
00:24:32.000 If the only people that you can find to respond to the rhetoric are nuts, we should not pay attention to nuts who are quote-unquote perverting a cause.
00:24:39.000 Because they're nuts, right?
00:24:41.000 You don't pay attention to... They're nutty people who think all sorts of nutty things.
00:24:45.000 And the idea that you have to be careful not to set off the nutbags, you have to be careful not to set off the loonies, this is something that I find utterly distasteful.
00:24:54.000 And it's been applied to Islam also.
00:24:56.000 John McCain says the same thing.
00:24:58.000 John McCain actually said, over the weekend actually, John McCain said that Donald Trump, for example, his rhetoric was going to turn Muslims against the United States and you'd get more terrorism.
00:25:06.000 Here's John McCain, Senator from Arizona.
00:25:09.000 Oh, I think it has an interesting effect of turning Muslims all over the world against the United States of America, which is 99% and 44%, 100% people who practice an honorable religion.
00:25:24.000 And by the way, the fact is that we can succeed here, and ISIS is not that strong, but the longer they stay in power, the more this poison spreads and metastasizes from as far away as Afghanistan, Africa, and other parts of the world.
00:25:42.000 Sitting next to him, of course, is Lindsey Graham, who is just sort of sitting there nodding along, looking increasingly like the spokesman for Jabba the Hutt.
00:25:50.000 You remember that guy with the big tentacle that wrapped around his neck?
00:25:52.000 He sort of looks like that.
00:25:53.000 In any case, the fact is that what John McCain says there is so silly.
00:25:59.000 If rhetoric causes you to become a terrorist and kill innocent people,
00:26:03.000 Right?
00:26:04.000 Then it better be very, very strong rhetoric.
00:26:06.000 And Donald Trump's rhetoric is not pushing rational people to being terrorists.
00:26:10.000 What is pushing rational people to being terrorists is a full worldview that includes terrorism as part of the agenda.
00:26:16.000 Right?
00:26:16.000 That's what makes rational—there are a lot of rational people in ISIS.
00:26:19.000 They're not all crazy.
00:26:20.000 They're not all mutts.
00:26:20.000 They are evil.
00:26:22.000 But they are making rational decisions based on their view of the universe.
00:26:25.000 To brush everybody off as nuts, and we do this very commonly in Western civilization, because we have this sort of psychopathological view of human behavior.
00:26:33.000 All human behavior is driven by your pathology, you don't make independent choices, it's all just driven by your genetics and your environment.
00:26:40.000 No, it turns out that people are capable of making decisions, and making rational decisions, so you have to look at what rational people do.
00:26:45.000 So, here is the question.
00:26:47.000 Does pro-life rhetoric lead rational people to go out and murder people?
00:26:51.000 The answer is no, it doesn't.
00:26:53.000 Because a huge percentage of the American population is pro-life, a huge percentage of the American population are not going out and killing abortion doctors.
00:27:01.000 And the converse is true with regard to radical Islam.
00:27:06.000 Radical Islam is an ideology where they are encouraging people to go out and kill Westerners, and you have a huge bulk of people who agree with the concept of going out and killing Westerners for various causes.
00:27:18.000 And I think it's very important to distinguish between these two things.
00:27:22.000 I think it's also important to distinguish between movements like Black Lives Matter that promote stuff that's not even factually true, and stuff like the anti-Planned Parenthood movement, which is promoting stuff that is factually true.
00:27:31.000 Black Lives Matter is not saying a tiny percentage of cops are corrupt and racist, let's find them and prosecute them.
00:27:37.000 Black Lives Matter is saying the entire infrastructure is corrupt and racist, let's redo the entire infrastructure.
00:27:43.000 And what they're leading to, their behavior is not actually leading to cop murder,
00:27:47.000 As much as it is leading to resistance to cops.
00:27:49.000 Right?
00:27:49.000 A rational person would respond to the rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and resist cops because cops are corrupt and racist.
00:27:56.000 They wouldn't kill cops, but they would resist cops.
00:27:58.000 And that you have seen en masse.
00:28:00.000 You have seen big numbers of that.
00:28:01.000 The pro-life movement wouldn't encourage people to go out and kill abortion doctors.
00:28:04.000 It would encourage people to go out and protest abortion doctors.
00:28:07.000 And that, in fact, you have seen.
00:28:08.000 So you have to correlate the activity being called for by the movement with the actual activity of the movement.
00:28:14.000 That's how you can tell whether an ideology is actually promoting violence or whether an ideology is just promoting its own ideas.
00:28:20.000 So I think that it's important to point all of that out.
00:28:23.000 And don't buy into all of this nonsense that if a nut goes crazy and perverts an ideology, that's the same as radical Islam and ISIS.
00:28:30.000 It's not the same thing at all by any stretch of the imagination.
00:28:33.000 I think that's an important point.
00:28:35.000 Okay, so now we're coming near the end of the show and we're going to do our new segment, Stuff I Hate.
00:28:39.000 It's the counterpart to Andrew Klavan's Stuff I Like, suggested, of course, by Lindsey.
00:28:44.000 I also wanted to do Stuff I Like, but that would be significantly too positive for the show, so we can't do that.
00:28:50.000 I will mention one thing that I do like in passing, because I do get a lot of people who ask me what books I'm reading and what I like.
00:28:56.000 There's a Thomas Sowell book that I'm reading right now that's called Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality.
00:29:00.000 That is excellent.
00:29:01.000 You should go out and you should pick up a copy.
00:29:03.000 All of Thomas Sowell's writings are terrific.
00:29:04.000 This one is about global inequality, and he makes the point that everybody acts like global wealth inequality is something new.
00:29:11.000 It isn't.
00:29:11.000 It's existed forever.
00:29:12.000 And he goes through the environmental causes and the cultural causes and the economic causes.
00:29:17.000 And it really is quite good.
00:29:19.000 Okay, now on to things I hate, which is wildly more entertaining than what I just said.
00:29:22.000 And that is, okay, there was a tweet that came across my Twitter feed that nearly blinded me today.
00:29:31.000 And this tweet came courtesy of New York, what is it, New York Magazine?
00:29:36.000 It's not the New Yorker, it's New York Magazine.
00:29:38.000 And they have a
00:29:40.000 Lady who does photos for them named Annie Leibowitz and Annie Leibowitz does all of their kind of cheesecake photos of people who are unattractive and their new thing that they do is They they call things Let's just put it this way I want to show you the tweet and and for those of you who can't see I'll describe it to you in all of its gory detail, but the they put up a tweet and Let's just say this is example number three million two hundred seventy three thousand two hundred eleven in the destruction of the English language Okay, here we go
00:30:09.000 And it's
00:30:28.000 Not in a sexy pose at all.
00:30:30.000 Looking like she's, as Lindsay put it, preparing for a bowel movement.
00:30:34.000 She's sort of sitting there, sideways, with her hand on her knee, and her other hand holding a cup of coffee, and it clearly looks like she's not ready for this photo to be taken, right?
00:30:41.000 It looks like it's done during the off minute.
00:30:44.000 Right, like she was posing, and then she said, God, can someone get me a cup of coffee?
00:30:47.000 And they brought her a cup of coffee, and then they took a photo as she was holding up the cup of coffee, and she looks like she's about to bitch out her assistant, right?
00:30:53.000 She looks like she's staring off into the distance, like there's somebody who's done something mad-
00:31:00.000 Okay, there are many reasons to hate this particular thing.
00:31:12.000 The number one reason is not because she is particularly unattractive.
00:31:16.000 She's no more unattractive than many members of the population.
00:31:19.000 Somebody tweeted at me, is your wife perfect?
00:31:21.000 And my answer is number one, yes.
00:31:25.000 And number two, my wife doesn't make a habit of going around in just her panties with a cup of coffee and bent over so you can see every fat roll in her stomach, right?
00:31:33.000 Which is what you can see there.
00:31:35.000 And to count, because people can't see if you haven't subscribed.
00:31:38.000 And folks, you really should subscribe just for moments like this.
00:31:41.000 Although I may be making the opposite case depending on how you perceive this photo.
00:31:45.000 There are one, two, three fat rolls that you can see coming off of her as she stares like she's been up all night, you know, at the camera.
00:31:55.000 But what really gets me about this is not even the photo of her.
00:31:58.000 It's clearly just a stupid photo.
00:31:59.000 Like, a stupid photo.
00:32:00.000 It's just dumb.
00:32:01.000 Right?
00:32:01.000 I mean, it's a dumb photo, and it's playing as high art, and I hate the destruction of standards.
00:32:05.000 It makes me nauseous.
00:32:06.000 I hate when the left says that things are magnificent art.
00:32:09.000 It's not just, like Adele, it's not just a good song.
00:32:12.000 It's the greatest song you have ever heard in your entire life.
00:32:14.000 It is epic.
00:32:15.000 It is all capital letters EPIC.
00:32:17.000 It's the greatest song you'll ever hear.
00:32:19.000 It's been downloaded 25 million times because she sings better.
00:32:23.000 She is a better singer than Pavarotti.
00:32:25.000 She is just the greatest singer you have ever heard in the history of humanity.
00:32:29.000 I mean, she is like the Homeric sirens calling men to the distant shores to be drowned.
00:32:36.000 It's not just a beautiful photo.
00:32:39.000 They don't just say, here's a photo.
00:32:40.000 It's a stunning photo.
00:32:42.000 Well, okay, there are many definitions of the word stunning.
00:32:45.000 Unless they're using the one where, like, you got hit in the face with a brick and it was stunning.
00:32:49.000 Like, you were actually stunned by the photo.
00:32:51.000 Then this is not, in fact, stunning.
00:32:53.000 It's stunning in the sense that, like, a train wreck is stunning.
00:32:57.000 Or, like, watching a butchered cow is stunning.
00:32:59.000 But it's stunning.
00:33:02.000 Right?
00:33:02.000 The death of the English language here is what really bugs me about this.
00:33:05.000 And again,
00:33:06.000 You know, I can mock people how they look all day long, people can mock me, you know, it's school, it's childish and all of this.
00:33:11.000 It's also funny, but it's childish.
00:33:13.000 But what is not childish is the fact that she probably considers herself to be some sort of grand heroic art hero for doing this.
00:33:22.000 Right, she considers herself, she's fighting the body shaming by sitting there and being unattractive.
00:33:28.000 I mean, this is what she would be sitting, if she were sitting in a Starbucks, she would look like this, right?
00:33:31.000 I mean, she's sitting in a Starbucks just with no clothes on.
00:33:33.000 That's what this is.
00:33:36.000 But this is art, right?
00:33:37.000 This is art.
00:33:37.000 And there are a couple of things they're doing here.
00:33:39.000 One is, they're fighting the body shaming.
00:33:41.000 They're fighting the body shaming.
00:33:42.000 Okay.
00:33:43.000 Ladies, let me just tell you something about body shaming for one second.
00:33:46.000 Okay, men are attracted to women, and it doesn't really... For every pot, there is a lid, and it doesn't really matter, you know.
00:33:52.000 Men...
00:33:54.000 There was something where ISIS said that they wanted to restrict anything that would attract a man to a woman.
00:34:01.000 And so I tweeted, so you mean everything, right?
00:34:04.000 Because the fact is that men are just attracted to women.
00:34:07.000 That's just the way that it is.
00:34:08.000 And looks are important, but they are not everything, obviously.
00:34:12.000 But the body-shaming movement has turned into, if a man says that he finds one woman more particularly attractive than another woman, if a man has taste,
00:34:20.000 If a man, not even good or bad, he just has a taste, that means that he must be body shaming a woman, right?
00:34:26.000 Amy Schumer should be your new standard of beauty.
00:34:27.000 Lena Dunham should be your new standard of beauty.
00:34:29.000 If, however, this were Heidi Klum getting naked, then that's objectification, right?
00:34:32.000 If she were beautiful, it's objectification.
00:34:34.000 If she's ugly, then she's standing up for new standards of beauty.
00:34:37.000 You know, ladies, Annie Leibovitz, New York, you can define beauty any way you want.
00:34:41.000 Men will always define beauty by how they have always defined beauty, which is what do they want to have sex with?
00:34:46.000 You know, what do more men want?
00:34:47.000 That's how men define female beauty.
00:34:49.000 Just get used to it.
00:34:50.000 This is called reality.
00:34:51.000 I know it's unwelcome.
00:34:53.000 The other thing about this that I don't like, they're redefining beautiful.
00:34:55.000 They're also redefining stunning.
00:34:58.000 They're just redefining the language wholesale.
00:35:00.000 Stunning used to have a meaning.
00:35:01.000 Stunning was like Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday.
00:35:04.000 She was not naked and stunning.
00:35:06.000 Not every naked woman is stunning and not every stunning thing is a naked woman.
00:35:10.000 There are beautiful, beautiful women who don't do this.
00:35:13.000 Right?
00:35:13.000 There are beautiful women who don't do this.
00:35:15.000 And I know my wife is beautiful without her taking her clothes off.
00:35:17.000 It's more fun when she does, but she is significantly, she's a beautiful, beautiful woman with or without her clothes.
00:35:25.000 And I know that because I married her before I saw her without her clothes off.
00:35:28.000 So, you know, obviously there was enough there to attract me.
00:35:31.000 So this is one of the things that just drives me nuts about the left is their manic insistence that the language be redefined to meet politically correct standards that don't conform to reality.
00:35:43.000 So there it is.
00:35:43.000 Things that I hate.
00:35:45.000 And I promise you that tomorrow, a new sun will rise.
00:35:48.000 President Obama will again emerge like the beautiful butterfly that he is from his cocoon with something incredibly stupid to say.
00:35:54.000 And we will talk about it.
00:35:55.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:35:55.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.