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00:00:00.000It's a Monday, it's a brand new week, and we have so much to talk about, from President Obama's climate change agreement, to Donald Trump attacking Ted Cruz, plus a very special holiday edition of Things I Hate.
00:00:11.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:23.000It is indeed a Monday, and it was a busy weekend for a lot of folks.
00:00:26.000President Obama had himself a busy weekend.
00:00:29.000Over the weekend, he signed an agreement that is best described as a America-gives-everybody-lots-of-free-crap-and-nobody-else-does-anything agreement, which is President Obama's favorite type of agreement.
00:00:40.000He declared over the weekend that this was just the step necessary in order to save the planet.
00:00:53.000Here's President Obama over the weekend explaining that what he just did, the agreement that he just signed to save the world, will indeed save the world, but only, only if you give him lots of money to give to other people.
00:01:06.000The targets we've set are bold, and by empowering businesses, scientists, engineers, workers, and the private sector,
00:01:14.000Investors to work together this agreement represents the best chance we've had to save the one planet that we've got He's gonna save the planet folks.
00:01:24.000So Isis Putin Global War thousands of people killed
00:01:31.000Destroying the global economy, going back to a standard of living where only a billion people were on the planet as opposed to six billion people on the planet.
00:01:42.000So what exactly is in this particular agreement?
00:01:45.000Well, it turns out that what's in this agreement is that industrialized countries are supposed to transfer a hundred billion dollars every single year to less developed countries.
00:02:03.000We're supposed to send money to poor countries that are supposed to be impacted by climate change, which I always thought was global, right?
00:02:08.000I thought the idea was that climate change affected everyone more or less equally, but apparently it only hurts poor people.
00:02:15.000The world has now become the fake New York Times headline.
00:02:18.000You remember the old fake New York Times headline joke, right?
00:02:21.000End of world coming, blacks and poor people hurt most.
00:02:25.000This is basically how President Obama thinks of global warming, right?
00:02:31.000Therefore, everybody in the industrialized world has to sign checks to everybody in the non-industrialized world.
00:02:36.000This, of course, has worked out beautifully in terms of foreign aid because it's not like we've signed tremendous amounts of money over to foreign dictators who have then taken that money and used it to build palaces and buy guns for themselves and murder people.
00:03:16.000He actually said that the only tool to stop him is finger wagging, and Kerry goes, yeah, that's the most powerful tool there is.
00:03:25.000Which may be why we're losing to ISIS, gang.
00:03:27.000That just may be why we're losing to ISIS.
00:03:30.000The deal itself, the agreement, explicitly includes a provision that means that Obama can avoid Congress, because there's nothing in the agreement that says that Congress has to do anything to meet these goals.
00:03:41.000It's sort of like a pledge that we're going to try and meet the goals.
00:03:44.000So none of this has to come to fruition, but Obama presumably can misdirect resources from one thing to this particular agreement.
00:03:52.000It's a terrible deal all the way around, but this is who President Obama is, and it is incredible.
00:03:57.000By the way, the father of climate change activism, this guy who's been deemed the father of climate change awareness,
00:04:05.000He is now calling this deal BS, and he's saying it's BS.
00:04:17.000He says this is nonsense because there is nothing here that actually forces any of these industrializing countries to cut down their carbon emissions, which is true.
00:04:24.000So China and India and Russia will continue to emit.
00:04:27.000We won't, and we will also sign them large checks so that they can continue to emit, which is just going to be awesome.
00:04:33.000Meanwhile, over here in the real world, President Obama continues to be more scared of climate change than he is of terrorism.
00:05:34.000There's another poll over the weekend showed that a plurality of Americans support a temporary ban on Muslim immigration and visas to the country until the government can get it worked out.
00:05:42.000That's Trump's proposal that we discussed last week.
00:05:44.000I explained why I think that that proposal is wrongheaded, but the reason people are getting behind Trump is not because they're bigots, as I said last week.
00:05:51.000The reason they're getting behind Trump is because they don't trust the government to keep us safe.
00:06:10.000We know that Tashfeen Malik, who is the delightful female who came over from Saudi Arabia along with her husband, Syed Farooq, and then shot 14 people in San Bernardino, we know she was screened by DHS, that's the Department of Homeland Security Terror Squad, that she passed a criminal and national security background check using an FBI database, and now we know something else.
00:06:39.000The Obama administration actively prohibited its own DHS agents from screening social media messages of foreign citizens applying for visas to enter the country.
00:06:49.000According to John Cohen, who's a former acting undersecretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis, quote, during that time period, immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process.
00:07:07.000She was posting messages about how much she loved ISIS and people in our government were forbidden by the Obama administration from checking what she was posting on Facebook.
00:07:17.000According to John Cohen, quote, The primary concern, this is the key, the primary concern was that it would be viewed negatively if it was disclosed publicly and there were concerns it would be embarrassing.
00:07:46.000He said it was primarily a question of optics.
00:07:49.000It was primarily a question of optics.
00:07:51.000There were concerns, from a privacy and civil liberties perspective, that while this was not illegal, it would be viewed negatively if it was disclosed publicly.
00:08:06.000President Obama shut down a program that would have looked at the Facebook messages of people entering the country, including a terrorist who shot 14 people.
00:08:13.000So 14 Americans were shot to death because of President Obama's optics.
00:08:18.000What an absolute jackass our President is.
00:08:21.000And the President of the United States allowing Americans to die for optics.
00:08:29.000Benghazi was Hillary Clinton allowing Americans to die for optics.
00:08:31.000She didn't want people to notice that Benghazi had turned into a hellhole because she'd created it and so she didn't give security and so Americans had to die for that.
00:08:40.000Americans have to die in the Middle East, in Israel, they have to be killed in Israel for optics because we can't acknowledge that Israel is in the same war as the United States.
00:08:49.000Americans have to be killed in Paris because optics, we can't recognize that ISIS is a global threat.
00:08:58.000And you want to know why Trump is rising?
00:08:59.000Okay, I said last week that Trump is the right-wing version of Obama in the sense that he is a reality TV star elevated to political levels, but he's in direct response to the incompetence of Obama.
00:09:11.000The more that you think the government is incompetent, the more you don't want the government doing anything.
00:09:15.000Which, to my way of thinking, is actually probably right.
00:09:18.000Why would you trust the government to be able to screen anyone if they're not even looking at the Facebook messages of people coming into the country?
00:10:15.000How many Americans have to die so that Democrats feel good about themselves and multicultural about themselves?
00:10:20.000In Europe, they're starting to feel the brunt of this, by the way.
00:10:23.000Angela Merkel, who is the chancellor of Germany,
00:10:27.000She was the Time Magazine Person of the Year.
00:10:30.000We talked about this a little bit last week.
00:10:32.000She was the Time Magazine Person of the Year because she announced that she was going to allow a million Syrian Muslim refugees into the country.
00:10:38.000Today, she came out and she said, by the way, we're going to have to go back on that a little bit because it turns out this isn't going all that well.
00:10:44.000But she had to say it originally because she had to feel good about herself.
00:10:48.000The Europeans had to feel good about themselves.
00:10:50.000I was having this conversation over the weekend with the managing editor over at Daily Wire, Jeremy Boring, and Jeremy and I were talking about Fourth Amendment rights and security.
00:11:00.000And he was saying that he's really uncomfortable with what a lot of what the French government is doing in France where they're knocking down doors of mosques.
00:11:06.000And I said, well, it sort of depends on what's going on in the mosque.
00:11:09.000I believe in reasonable search and seizure.
00:11:11.000I don't believe in unreasonable search and seizure.
00:11:14.000When you have a multicultural society where you suggest that all cultures are equal and equally dangerous,
00:11:20.000When you do that, and then when you say at the same time, we're going to keep you safe, then what ends up happening is in order to keep you safe, we have to look at some cultures and suggest, hey, maybe these mosques that are funded by Wahhabists all over the world and are linked to terrorism, maybe they're violating basic principles of Americanism, maybe we ought to take a look at them and their connection to terror.
00:11:40.000But because it's multicultural, because we're all multicultural, we now have to make sure we're not singling out that group of people, and to make sure we're not singling out that group of people, now we have to violate everybody's rights.
00:11:50.000So basically, the way that security used to work, is you looked at the description of the suspect, and then you targeted the suspect.
00:11:56.000Now the way security works is, you look at the description of the suspect, if the suspect happens to be of minority persuasion, then you have to target everyone.
00:12:05.000Everyone has to be targeted, or no one can be targeted.
00:12:08.000And this is how civil liberties get violated across an entire nation, because, after all, we can't discriminate against this particular group, or this particular subgroup, or this particular set of potential terrorists.
00:12:18.000No, we have to discriminate against everybody equally, which, of course, is idiocy, because the fact is, not everyone is equally likely to be a terrorist.
00:12:28.000So, at the same time this report is coming out, the Obama administration is going around, the entire left is going around saying the real threat to the world right now, the real threat to the world is Donald Trump.
00:12:38.000As I've mentioned, I'm not a Donald Trump fan.
00:12:40.000I'll explain more on that in a little while because Donald Trump said a couple of things over the weekend that are just absurd.
00:12:45.000But, the entire left has decided that the real threat to global peace is not radical Islam.
00:12:56.000Well, those people who know the United States well are quite shocked because they see it
00:13:18.000As totally contrary to American values, as discriminatory, and frankly as potentially dangerous in that it seems like a person running for President of the United States who's doing well in the polls is prepared to take actions that would in fact ratify the notion that people are at war against Islam, not against Daesh.
00:13:44.000And so I think that you've got to be very careful just by categorizing people by being Muslim.
00:14:00.000We have a huge process of examining people for visas.
00:14:04.000We know who's coming into our country for the most part.
00:14:07.000We know who's coming into our country for the most part.
00:14:08.000We have a huge process of vetting all of our visas.
00:14:12.000Okay, except that the day after he says this, there's now a massive report that comes out from a member of the Obama administration saying we're not vetting anybody.
00:14:20.000We're now finding out that we're not vetting anybody.
00:14:21.000That, in fact, the people who were vetting were not even looking at their Facebook posts.
00:14:24.000And if we had been looking at their Facebook posts, or if we had looked at the address of the lady who was coming in, or if we had been monitoring their activity after they came into the country, or if we hadn't intimidated neighbors into shutting up because they were afraid of being accused of racial profiling, then there wouldn't be 14 dead people in San Bernardino.
00:14:40.000They'd be going about their business today.
00:14:43.000And then he says it's discrimination to disagree with him, basically.
00:14:50.000And so now what we're getting is we're getting people trotting out the... We're trotting out prominent American Muslims to explain that Donald Trump is really ISIS.
00:15:05.000Like, if you're comparing a guy saying stuff to people who are literally murdering the disabled... There's a report today that ISIS is going around murdering people with Down syndrome.
00:15:14.000If you're really going to compare Donald Trump to those people, first of all, the only people I know in America who murder the mentally disabled are Planned Parenthood.
00:15:22.000I mean, if you're unborn and we know that you're Down syndrome, then they're totally into killing you.
00:15:25.000But those are the only people in the United States I know of, any organized group, who's in favor of murdering the mentally disabled or people who have mental issues.
00:15:34.000But they're now trotting out, the media are trotting out, prominent Muslims to explain that Trump really is ISIS.
00:15:39.000Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who's most famous for
00:15:42.000For lagging it on defense, dogging it on defense when he's playing for the LA Lakers.
00:15:46.000Terrific score, great skyhook, not a great defensive player.
00:15:49.000Now he's a prominent Muslim spokesperson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbari says Donald Trump is doing ISIS's work.
00:15:55.000Although Mr. Trump isn't committing the violence, when the violence happens, he exploits it.
00:16:00.000Okay, so instead of offering practical and realistic solutions, he's exploiting people's fear and he's doing ISIS's work for them.
00:16:10.000And that is something that we can't let him keep doing that.
00:16:15.000We have to say something about it at least.
00:16:17.000Now, you see, Donald Trump is doing ISIS's work for them.
00:16:20.000Now, what's weird about this is I wasn't aware that it was ISIS's agenda to prevent Muslims from entering the United States.
00:16:27.000In fact, I thought probably that was the reverse of their agenda.
00:16:30.000If they want to take over the United States, it's kind of hard to do that if there are no Muslims here.
00:16:34.000I didn't realize that ISIS's main agenda was preventing the entry of Muslims into Western countries.
00:16:39.000It seems like it's been a pretty successful tactic for ISIS and Al-Qaeda to have more Muslims in Western countries because you can create breeding grounds for terrorism.
00:17:24.000So if there's a Muslim-majority state, then it has to be run by Sharia law.
00:17:31.000But I live in a very diverse country, and I have to respect everyone else's beliefs.
00:17:37.000Okay, so who's doing ISIS's work here?
00:17:40.000ISIS is literally called the Islamic State.
00:17:43.000It's literally called the Islamic State.
00:17:45.000And for folks who don't know ISIS's history, the reason Islamic State is different than Al-Qaeda is because ISIS wanted to craft its own Islamic utopia.
00:17:55.000It was just an international terrorist group that had backing from states like the Taliban-run Afghanistan.
00:18:00.000And ISIS actually wants to create its own state, its own Sharia law state.
00:18:05.000There's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar saying not only that Islamic countries, many of them have Sharia law, but that if it's a majority Muslim country, it must have Sharia law.
00:18:15.000Is it Donald Trump saying less Muslims in the United States we haven't vetted?
00:18:18.000Or is it Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, you know, L.A.
00:18:21.000Laker great, saying that Muslim-majority countries must be ruled by Sharia law?
00:18:26.000By the way, Sharia law means that it's a theocracy, folks.
00:18:29.000I know the left wants to soft-pedal what Sharia law is.
00:18:32.000Okay, there are two types of Sharia law.
00:18:34.000There's Sharia law in the United States, which means that there are people who engage in, for example, contractual negotiations, Islamic contracts, and they want it to be bound by
00:18:43.000Their own contract, and so those are enforced in American courts the same way that there are Jewish contracts that are enforced in American courts.
00:18:51.000Then, there's Islamic law, as in, like, the government is run by Islamic law.
00:18:54.000If the government is run by Islamic law, we're talking about taking the hands off of people for thievery, we're talking about stonings for adultery, we're talking about killings and mutilations for homosexuality, we're talking about women not being able to vote, we're talking about a lot of things that are not so nice, okay?
00:19:08.000Sharia law countries don't tend to work particularly well with Western values.
00:19:32.000Trump and ISIS, they're two sides of the same coin.
00:19:34.000To make this argument, you have to be so morally blind.
00:19:37.000Whatever you think about Donald Trump, and I think that he's a bloviating blowhard, whatever you think about Donald Trump, that doesn't change that he is not ISIS.
00:19:44.000Any comparison of a guy who says stuff about limiting immigration of a group you can't vet to people who legitimately carve the heads off of babies, which is what ISIS has been doing, it's really pretty disgusting.
00:19:56.000Here's Barack Obama making that case, however.
00:19:59.000Terrorists like ISIL are trying to divide us along lines of religion and background.
00:20:07.000And just as Muslims around the world have to keep rejecting any twisted interpretation of Islam, all of us have to reject bigotry in all of its forms.
00:20:33.000What helps ISIL is people not liking Muslims.
00:20:36.000Right, if we were just nicer, then things would go better.
00:20:39.000Because it's not like the United States has been welcoming to Syed Farouk and his family.
00:20:42.000It's not like France was welcoming to the families of the people who murdered 130 people in France.
00:20:47.000It's not like Europe is being welcoming.
00:20:49.000It's not like Sweden has been welcoming to Muslims, and they've taken over the entire city of Malmö, to the extent that Jews are now fleeing, like there are no Jews in Malmö, which was a Jewish center, because they're afraid of hate crimes against them by Muslims.
00:21:03.000Nobody is suggesting that Muslims should be treated badly.
00:21:06.000But if you're trying to equate, if you're trying to equate rational fear of Islamic infiltration, Islamist infiltration into the West, with ISIS killing people, Westerners,
00:21:25.000Over the weekend, news broke that Ted Cruz had secretly attacked Donald Trump.
00:21:30.000There was some leaked audio of Ted Cruz attacking Donald Trump.
00:21:34.000This is from a fundraiser, and it's pretty mild stuff, but it led to what is now being blown up into a major battle between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
00:21:42.000Here is Ted Cruz, the tape that started it all.
00:21:45.000Ted Cruz at a fundraiser talking about Donald Trump.
00:21:49.000The final two candidates I'll discuss are Trump and Ben Carson.
00:21:54.000Both of them I like and respect, both Donald and Ben.
00:21:58.000I do not believe either one of them is going to be our nominee.
00:22:01.000I don't believe either one of them is going to be our president.
00:22:03.000I think both of them, their campaigns have a natural arc.
00:22:08.000And with both of them, I think gravity is pulling them down.
00:22:18.000But I think in both instances, in particular, you look at Paris, you look at San Bernardino.
00:22:23.000It's given a seriousness to this race.
00:22:26.000That people are looking for who is prepared to be a commander-in-chief, who understands the threats we face.
00:22:33.000Who am I comfortable having their finger on the button?
00:22:38.000Now that's a question of strength, but it's also a question of judgment.
00:22:44.000And I think that is a question that is a challenging question for both
00:22:48.000So my approach, much to the frustration of the media, has been to bear hug both of them and smother them with love.
00:22:57.000This is basically the point that Ted Cruz is making here, and it's not a wrong point, which is that as people get more serious, they're moving away from Carson.
00:23:05.000They're not moving away from Trump, by the way, because Trump has staked out the hardest core position, and when you stake out the hardest core position, you tend to attract people.
00:23:16.000Strong language makes you feel strong.
00:23:18.000This is true in every social science study ever done.
00:23:20.000If you use strong language and you're wrong, you're more likely to attract supporters than if you use weak language and you're right.
00:23:25.000Well, that relatively mild attack on Trump, and Trump decided to go after Cruz, and I will say Trump has had success going after Ben Carson, some other members of the Republican race.
00:23:37.000He has no success going after Cruz because his strongest line of attack is basically what the establishment says about Cruz.
00:24:38.000He'll never get anything done, and that's the problem with Ted from Donald Trump.
00:24:41.000By the way, we did not colorize that video.
00:24:43.000I mean, Donald Trump, for those who can't see, looks like he is gradually turning into an Oompa Loompa.
00:24:47.000I mean, he is wildly orange in that particular clip.
00:24:51.000By the way, it is worth noting, because we're talking about his general appearance, that he did release a letter today from his doctor about his health.
00:25:45.000That attack on Cruz is going nowhere, by the way, because Donald Trump calling Ted Cruz wild is like OJ Simpson saying to somebody that they mistreat their wife.
00:25:55.000That is not going to carry a whole hell of a lot of water.
00:25:57.000It's also not going to carry a lot of water because Trump versus Cruz is not just an exercise in temperament, it's also an exercise in conservatism.
00:26:05.000One of the other things Trump said over the weekend, and this was actually more astonishing to me than his attack on Cruz, was Trump
00:26:13.000We didn't really have a chance to discuss this last week, but Scalia was specifically asked, he's in the middle of a Supreme Court hearing, and it's about affirmative action.
00:26:22.000And so Scalia said in the middle of that hearing, by the way, it's true that affirmative action doesn't really, there's some people who say affirmative action doesn't help black kids because they'd be better off going to schools they're qualified for, where they can do really well, as opposed to schools that are too hard for them, where they don't do as well.
00:26:37.000There are statistics that bear this out.
00:26:38.000People drop out at higher rates, they don't do as well in passing the bar, in terms of getting into law school through affirmative action, for example.
00:26:45.000And everyone on the left said Scalia's a racist for even mentioning this.
00:26:49.000Well, Donald Trump is asked about it, and here is Donald Trump hitting Antonin Scalia over absolutely nothing.
00:28:09.000The intellectual constipation on the part of Donald Trump there is truly amazing.
00:28:12.000He's, like, pushing out a terrible intellectual bowel movement in the middle of that.
00:28:16.000I mean, he's just, he's, he's... First of all, what Scalia said is absolutely true, but, you know, this is Trump.
00:28:22.000I mean, Trump is reacting to it on the spot, and then I love, I love the little riff, oh, I read a lot of stuff, and there I am, I'm reading things, and then the things that I read, they go in my brain, and then I think about them, and then eventually I say something when you ask me a question about them, but they're tough.
00:29:41.000Okay, on to more important things, like things that I hate.
00:29:44.000Okay, so MSNBC, we've commented on Melissa Harris-Perry before.
00:29:47.000She's the anchorette of MSNBC on the weekends, and she is the one who always hashtags Nerdland, which as I mention every time, I find deeply ironic, because to be a nerd, you have to be smart.
00:30:18.000Every bit of them should be taken out and burned.
00:30:20.000They're awful in every way it's conceivable.
00:30:22.000I mean, how you take Liam Neeson and turn a movie with Liam Neeson into just a garbage fest is beyond me, because I think Liam Neeson's a really good actor.
00:30:32.000Those episodes are awful, but 4, 5, and 6 are terrific.
00:30:35.000And 4, 5, and 6 are terrific mainly because the villain is awesome, right?
00:31:58.000I don't know how genetics works in this galaxy far, far away, but in the galaxy where we live, typically white kids are produced by white parents, and black kids are produced by black parents.
00:32:06.000Or at the very least, black kids are produced by at least one black parent, and white kids are generally produced by two white parents.
00:32:11.000Because if you have one white parent, one black parent, typically the kid tends to look mixed.
00:32:15.000I mean, this is just the way that genetics works.
00:32:17.000What did you expect was going to happen?
00:32:19.000Take off the mask and all of a sudden it was going to be Shaq?
00:32:22.000That would be a weird moment, wouldn't it?
00:32:25.000And by the way, now we all care that James Earl Jones was the voice of Darth Vader, but back in the day when they made these movies, no one cared that James Earl Jones was the voice of Darth Vader.
00:32:35.000If you just listen to the voice of Darth Vader, you don't go, oh, that's a brother.
00:33:46.000MSNBC infusing entertainment with values that actually are not there.
00:33:50.000Like, there's enough leftism in movies.
00:33:52.000You really don't have to search far to make up excuses for talking about leftism in movies.
00:33:56.000For God's sake, the one that's gonna win all the Oscars this year is a movie about a guy who thinks he's a girl, but we're all gonna pretend that he's really a girl, right?
00:34:02.000This Eddie Ren made in the Danish girl flick, which is gonna win all sorts of awards.
00:34:05.000And if it's not that movie, then it'll be the lesbian flick with Cate Blanchett, right?
00:34:08.000So, I mean, you don't have to go far in the entertainment field to find leftist content that you can absolutely adore.
00:34:14.000But Melissa Harris Perry making, you know, basically, this is actually an intellectual step up for her from normally what she talks about.
00:34:21.000This is a lady who's actually worn tampon earrings on air.
00:34:24.000She actually, to protest abortion politics or some such nonsense.
00:34:55.000And so, on Saturday Night Live, they had Will Ferrell on to be George W. Bush, which, by the way, is the most overrated impression of all time.
00:35:02.000This is such an overrated impersonation.
00:35:04.000Will Ferrell does not do a good George W. Bush.
00:35:06.000He looks significantly more like Jeb than George.
00:35:08.000I mean, if you slap a pair of glasses on him, he looks exactly like Jeb, but he looks nothing like George.
00:35:13.000And so, here he was on Saturday Night Live.
00:35:15.000They are so desperate to avoid hitting President Obama.
00:35:51.000I'll tell you something, that's not going to work when you have to go to China or Azerbaijan, where you have to talk loudly so they will understand.
00:36:02.000Not to mention, he's some kind of brain surgeon, and I got news for him.
00:36:12.000Running the country is not brain surgery.
00:36:19.000This is what they do and this goes all the way all the way all the way back I mean I'm not I think we have this clip of Chevy Chase doing Gerald Ford all the way back when I mean this is this is and this is how SNL has been going after Republicans for literally decades at this point they can never bring themselves to go after a Democrat in any real way here is Chevy Chase doing Gerald Ford if you go back 40 years they're doing this routine.
00:37:47.000I mean, if that's what they were doing 40 years ago... By the way, that impression of Gerald Ford probably lost Gerald Ford the 1976 election.
00:37:54.000He was constantly bumping into things.
00:37:55.000Gerald Ford was the most athletic president we have ever had.
00:37:58.000He was actually an All-American linebacker for Michigan, for University of Michigan.
00:38:01.000So, but they played him like an idiot.
00:38:03.000And so, Things I Hate, Saturday Night Live, Melissa Harris Perry, and the generalized attempt to read leftism into entertainment where it doesn't exist, and critique right-wing thought where it doesn't exist.
00:38:16.000And then also to use the mechanisms of culture in order to rip on the right wing, which is all that Saturday Night Live.