The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 66 - Trump Finally Goes Nuclear

00:00:00.000 We're here.

00:00:01.000 It is a Wednesday, and Donald Trump is in full-scale meltdown.

00:00:04.000 Plus, two candidates have dropped out of the race.

00:00:06.000 We'll tell you who.

00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:08.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:17.000 Well, we begin with a fond farewell to two Republicans who have now dropped out of the race.

00:00:21.000 Senator Rand Paul dropped out of the race earlier this morning.

00:00:24.000 Apparently, the conference call was somewhat awkward.

00:00:26.000 Apparently, he called up all of his campaign operatives

00:00:29.000 And he told them that he was dropping out.

00:00:31.000 He sort of just announced it and dropped the bombshell on them.

00:00:34.000 And then when none of them said anything, he said, well, okay then, bye.

00:00:38.000 And then he hung up.

00:00:40.000 This according to people who are inside the Rand Paul campaign.

00:00:43.000 The other candidate who dropped out was Rick Santorum, which begs the question, was Rick Santorum even running?

00:00:48.000 I mean, that's amazing.

00:00:49.000 But Governor Jim Gilmore's campaign is going swimmingly.

00:00:51.000 He's just sitting in the background waiting for every other candidate to drop out.

00:00:55.000 And Jim Gilmore will be the only one left

00:00:58.000 Twelve men enter, one man leaves.

00:01:00.000 The Republican nomination process.

00:01:02.000 So, this is all very exciting stuff.

00:01:05.000 Well, moving on to New Hampshire, the big question was going to be, Donald Trump loses Iowa.

00:01:11.000 How glass is his jaw?

00:01:12.000 Does he see a major drop off in New Hampshire?

00:01:15.000 And right now the polls say no.

00:01:16.000 The polls say that Trump maintains a 24 point lead in the latest poll.

00:01:19.000 There was another poll this morning, had him up 24, 21 maybe.

00:01:24.000 So in all the polls, he's basically maintaining his lead in New Hampshire.

00:01:26.000 New Hampshire is a very different state than Iowa.

00:01:28.000 Ted Cruz is not going to clean up in New Hampshire.

00:01:31.000 It's not a particularly religious state.

00:01:33.000 It tends to be more of a Rockefeller Republican state, all of which plays to Trump's strength.

00:01:39.000 But Trump, instead of turning from Iowa and then moving forward, Trump is

00:01:44.000 George Costanza in the Jerk Store episode.

00:01:47.000 He keeps going back to the site of his defeat and then yelling about how he was defeated, but he wasn't really defeated, he really won, but he was cheated and they took it away from him, and the Jerk Store called and they said that they want more of you, and it's really that

00:02:03.000 It's that feel from Donald Trump.

00:02:05.000 So, you can watch Donald Trump's evolution in real time.

00:02:07.000 We talked yesterday about how he did this on Twitter, how he announced that he was so grateful for the result in Iowa, and then within 30 minutes he had swiveled to, I'm self-funding but I'm not even sure it's worth self-funding, you people don't even appreciate it.

00:02:20.000 And he sort of did the same thing over the past 24 hours, generally.

00:02:24.000 So he started off with, I'm really honored by how he performed in Iowa.

00:02:28.000 We'll start off with Donald Trump explaining that Iowa was really a tremendous victory for him, and then you're gonna see him, over the course of today, basically move to, I was cheated, everyone's cheating me, I was screwed, Ted Cruz is Satan, etc.

00:02:41.000 I mean, it's amazing to watch the guy in real time, because all that matters is just the damage done to his ego by all of this.

00:02:48.000 Here's Donald Trump,

00:02:50.000 Starting off on a positive note and then it starts to go kind of downhill.

00:02:55.000 What's your post-mortem on Iowa?

00:02:57.000 What do you think happened there?

00:03:00.000 Well, I think that I did well there.

00:03:02.000 I think that I came in second place, a strong second place.

00:03:08.000 That probably if I would have.

00:03:10.000 I was told always that I could not do well in Iowa.

00:03:13.000 I was told don't go to Iowa.

00:03:15.000 And I said, what are you talking about?

00:03:16.000 And they said, it's not your place.

00:03:18.000 Don't go there.

00:03:18.000 I said, but I know people there.

00:03:20.000 I think I'll do well.

00:03:21.000 And I went there, you know, I started in 10th place and went there, I came in, I ended up in 2nd place.

00:03:27.000 I guess there was a poll that came out that had me winning it by 4 or 5 points, a pretty close poll.

00:03:32.000 But I came in 2nd place and, you know, I'm happy with that.

00:03:36.000 It's interesting that Marco came in 3rd place and they said it's one of the great victories in the history of politics.

00:03:43.000 And I said, well, how come if he came in third place and I came in substantially better at second place, why isn't mine one of the great victories in the history of politics?

00:03:52.000 And they said, no, no, his is, but yours isn't.

00:03:54.000 I said, oh, that's wonderful.

00:03:56.000 I didn't understand that.

00:03:57.000 But, you know, I came in second place.

00:03:59.000 I was, you know, I was satisfied.

00:04:01.000 I think probably it's a place I could have won if I really went there more and did a little more work there.

00:04:08.000 But, you know, I was, I was satisfied with it.

00:04:12.000 He's a happy camper.

00:04:13.000 He was satisfied with it.

00:04:14.000 Everything was fine.

00:04:15.000 And it was a historic victory.

00:04:16.000 I mean, if Rubio was a historic third, he was a historic second.

00:04:19.000 Of course, Trump was expected to win, and Rubio was expected to get 17% of the vote, and he got 23.

00:04:24.000 But nonetheless, Trump says he's happy with the result.

00:04:27.000 And then he says, well, you know, there are really some reasons why I didn't win.

00:04:31.000 So, for example, I could have won if I hadn't skipped the debates.

00:04:34.000 Maybe that was a mistake, that I didn't skip the debates.

00:04:36.000 Here's Trump explaining that.

00:04:38.000 I think some people were disappointed that I didn't go in the debate.

00:04:41.000 If I had it to do again, I would have done the exact same thing.

00:04:45.000 And the reason is, you know why?

00:04:47.000 Because I raised $6 million for the vets in one hour.

00:04:50.000 So if I took a second place instead of a first place and could give the vets $6 million, I'll do that all day long.

00:04:58.000 It's not a question of learning.

00:04:59.000 I mean, I just want to continue to do well.

00:05:02.000 Our theme, the theme is so important.

00:05:04.000 It's just make America great again.

00:05:06.000 That's what we're going to do.

00:05:07.000 That's what we're going to do.

00:05:08.000 Not really a question of learning.

00:05:11.000 Well, if you look at the second place, people didn't talk about my second place.

00:05:15.000 They didn't talk about it as positively as they should have.

00:05:18.000 And yet, with Marco, who was more than 2,000 votes behind me, that's a lot of votes, by the way, they said, oh, he's surging, he's surging.

00:05:26.000 So, I don't know, why is the third place person doing well and the second place person, who, by the way, has never run?

00:05:32.000 Scott was mentioning before, he said, one of the amazing things about you, you've never run for office before.

00:05:36.000 It's incredible how you're doing, because you've never done.

00:05:39.000 Your brand is the winner.

00:05:40.000 I think my brand is doing great, yeah.

00:05:43.000 And so he's happy, right?

00:05:44.000 His brand is doing great.

00:05:45.000 He's a winner.

00:05:46.000 He's finished second.

00:05:47.000 2,000 votes is a lot of votes to beat somebody by.

00:05:49.000 Ted Cruz, by the way, beat Trump by 6,000 votes in Iowa.

00:05:53.000 So Trump's a happy camper.

00:05:55.000 And then the worm begins to turn.

00:05:58.000 Because Trump realizes that people are thinking that maybe he's going to lose some momentum.

00:06:03.000 People are starting to think that maybe he's not the all-powerful, godlike winner.

00:06:08.000 And so he begins to lose his mind publicly.

00:06:11.000 And his followers are following him right down this path, and so are the media.

00:06:13.000 The media have decided that Trump is not, he's not just egomaniacal.

00:06:18.000 He's not just paving the path for a possible third-party run.

00:06:21.000 No, Trump is really sincere about this.

00:06:22.000 Maybe he's got a point.

00:06:24.000 Because the media have an interest in chaos inside the Republican field.

00:06:27.000 So Donald Trump, the next day, you know, this is all within 24 hours, pretty soon he starts to feel that tickle at the back of his neck that means that he must hit someone and hit them soon.

00:06:40.000 I mean, it's like a cocaine addiction for Trump, but the cocaine for him

00:06:44.000 We're good to go.

00:07:02.000 If you thought he was turned up to 11 already on the spinal tap scale, he's now gonna go to 20.

00:07:06.000 So he starts off by saying that you should trust him because he's the biggest, baddest, most masculine testosterone-y guy you've ever seen, you've ever heard of.

00:07:15.000 Here's Donald Trump saying he's gonna beat the bleep out of people.

00:07:19.000 If we are attacked, somebody attacks us, wouldn't you rather have Trump as president if we're attacked?

00:07:25.000 Oh, we'll beat the bleep out of them.

00:07:29.000 Anybody attacks us.

00:07:35.000 You know, interestingly, speaking of potential, because he hates Obama so much, Putin, he said, Donald Trump is a genius, and he's the real leader over in that country.

00:07:45.000 And these people that I'm negotiating with all the time, these people on the stage with me, they said, you should disavow what Putin of Russia said.

00:07:54.000 I said, I'm not disavowing that he called me a genius.

00:07:57.000 Are you crazy?

00:08:00.000 Don't worry, I can't be seduced.

00:08:04.000 But wouldn't it be nice, if you think about it, wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along with Russia and others and we can use them to knock out ISIS with us so that maybe we don't always have to pay for it, knock the hell out of them, but let them drop some of their bombs that cost a million dollars a piece.

00:08:22.000 Let them use some of their weapons that cost billions and billions of dollars.

00:08:27.000 Let them beat the shit out of ISIS also.

00:08:30.000 Right?

00:08:31.000 Right?

00:08:32.000 Now this is an idea, man, right here.

00:08:35.000 We're gonna build a wall with Mexico, Mexico's gonna pay for it, we're gonna bomb ISIS, and we're gonna make the Russians pay for it.

00:08:41.000 Also, if someone bombs us, if the Russians do something we don't like, we'll bomb the bleep out of them.

00:08:46.000 If you're mildly confused by all of this, all you have to just keep repeating in your head, gang, is Trump.

00:08:51.000 If you just keep repeating that word, all will be okay.

00:08:54.000 It's like Peter Pan.

00:08:55.000 If you think Tinkerbell's dead, all you have to do is clap and Tinkerbell comes back to life.

00:08:59.000 If you think Trump's candidacy is in shambles or that he's falling apart as a human being, just keep repeating, Make America Great Again, until you come back.

00:09:07.000 Now, in a little while I want to talk about why I think that Trump is still a viable candidate.

00:09:13.000 But, first we have to get to the main thrust of the news today, and that has been Trump's absurd contention.

00:09:19.000 His absurd contention.

00:09:20.000 We saw him before saying Iowa went fine for him, didn't go as well as he wanted, his ground game wasn't as good as he wanted it to be, and now he's decided, no, no, I did the best that I could.

00:09:30.000 I was just cheated.

00:09:31.000 I was cheated out of this.

00:09:32.000 I have never yet won, I've never yet lost in my life.

00:09:35.000 I must have been cheated by someone.

00:09:38.000 No, I think it's worth noting here that Donald Trump is sort of a fabled cheater in his own right, in his personal life, not just with regard to his wives, although he is, but even down to things like playing golf.

00:09:48.000 The Weekly Standard had an article with kind of the Trumpiest stories, and one of them was Donald Trump

00:09:54.000 Sheets of golf all the time, including one time when there was a short rain delay and everybody sort of went into the clubhouse.

00:10:01.000 When they came back out, Trump's ball was about a foot from the cup.

00:10:03.000 And somebody said to him, you didn't hit that.

00:10:06.000 No one saw you even swing a club.

00:10:08.000 And Trump kind of shrugged and smiled and said, well, it's golf.

00:10:10.000 Everybody does that.

00:10:12.000 But Trump said, in any case, when it comes to elections, then Trump says everybody else is a cheater, he is pure as the driven snow.

00:10:18.000 And Ted Cruz is the one in his crosshairs, so here is Donald Trump at the same rally, same rally in New Hampshire, you can see.

00:10:25.000 Right after saying that he's pretty excited about his finish in New Hampshire, he says, Ted Cruz is a terrible, terrible cheat, he's a liar, he's a cheater, he's a terrible person.

00:10:31.000 Here we go.

00:10:32.000 He spoke personally that one day you were his friend and the next day you were insulting him.

00:10:36.000 What do you say about that?

00:10:37.000 Well he insulted me.

00:10:38.000 I mean he started with the insults and as you know and he insulted Ben Carson by doing what he did to Ben Carson that was a disgrace.

00:10:46.000 And he insulted the people of Iowa by doing a voter violation form that nobody's even seen before, which was disgraceful.

00:10:56.000 So no, no, he's he's a man of insult.

00:11:00.000 He's a man of insult.

00:11:01.000 OK.

00:11:01.000 Cruz originally said at a rally that people would start.

00:11:04.000 He said this at a private donor meeting, actually.

00:11:06.000 He said people would start to see Donald Trump for who he is.

00:11:09.000 That's not an insult, that's a fact.

00:11:11.000 Donald Trump then said that Ted Cruz was a Canadian who couldn't be trusted and everybody hated him and he was ugly.

00:11:18.000 So you tell me who was the person who initiated this particular conflict.

00:11:21.000 Cruz was very careful not to attack Trump because he didn't want to initiate that conflict precipitously.

00:11:28.000 So Trump is making a couple of accusations, and to back up one of them, the idea that Cruz had targeted Ben Carson, Ben Carson sort of said the same thing.

00:11:36.000 Ben Carson said the Cruz campaign was corrupt, just like the Obama White House.

00:11:39.000 Here's Ben Carson, then I'll give you the backstory.

00:11:43.000 Yeah, but Bill, here's the issue.

00:11:45.000 A culture exists within the Cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way.

00:11:54.000 Isn't this the same thing we see with the Obama administration?

00:11:57.000 The IRS scandal?

00:11:59.000 No responsibility?

00:12:00.000 Let's see what, in fact, the Cruz campaign will do about those individuals who inappropriately disseminated this information, knowing that the caucuses were not over.

00:12:12.000 They were awfully anxious to get it out there, weren't they?

00:12:15.000 Okay, so here's what actually happened here.

00:12:17.000 And first of all, let it be noted.

00:12:18.000 You have Donald Trump saying that what Ted Cruz did to Ben Carson was terrible.

00:12:22.000 We'll talk about that in a second.

00:12:24.000 Donald Trump once suggested that Ben Carson was pathological like a pedophile.

00:12:28.000 Okay, if you remember just a few weeks ago, Donald Trump was doing rallies when Ben Carson was surging.

00:12:34.000 Donald Trump was doing rallies in which he reenacted being stabbed in the belt buckle and called Ben Carson a pathological liar.

00:12:42.000 Right, he said that Ben Carson had said that he was pathologically violent, and pathological means like a child molester.

00:12:48.000 This is what Donald Trump said about Ben Carson, but he's very insulted on Ben Carson's behalf.

00:12:52.000 Okay, so, today, today, first of all, Trump also added, by the way, that he said that Cruz is really, really dishonest.

00:12:59.000 I think I know why.

00:13:00.000 You know why?

00:13:01.000 Because he was born in Canada.

00:13:02.000 Can't trust those Canadians!

00:13:04.000 The Canadians, they're canucks, they're liars!

00:13:07.000 Everybody from Ottawa,

00:13:09.000 Oh, he's lying with their bacon, and their leaves, and their syrup?

00:13:16.000 Lying asses from north of the border, no one can stand the Canadians, eh?

00:13:20.000 Terrible people.

00:13:21.000 So Cruz is a pathological liar, Cruz is a terrible person, because he was born north of the border.

00:13:27.000 Which begs the question, is to Donald Trump's own wives, or his current wife wasn't even born in the country either, so are all foreigners worthy of this accolade, or just Canadians?

00:13:38.000 I mean, I've been up to Canada, the people there seem relatively nice.

00:13:41.000 I mean, I've been to worse countries than Canada.

00:13:42.000 I think most of us have been to worse countries than Canada, goodness.

00:13:45.000 But okay, so Donald Trump, he, as you see, he has swung from, Iowa went great for me, and I'm gonna win New Hampshire, to, Iowa was stolen from me, and I was cheated, and they're all liars!

00:13:57.000 Okay, so let's go through the various accusations against Ted Cruz.

00:14:00.000 So, here's what happened.

00:14:02.000 This morning, at about 5.40 a.m., Donald Trump started tweeting out all of this stuff about Cruz.

00:14:09.000 He tweeted out, Ted Cruz didn't win Iowa, he stole it.

00:14:12.000 This is why all of the polls were so wrong, and why he got far more votes than anticipated.

00:14:16.000 Bad!

00:14:17.000 Exclamation point.

00:14:18.000 Because that's how Trump tweets.

00:14:20.000 Everything is sad!

00:14:21.000 Exclamation point.

00:14:22.000 Or bad!

00:14:22.000 Exclamation point.

00:14:23.000 You know, frankly, frankly, bad.

00:14:26.000 Sad.

00:14:26.000 Glad.

00:14:27.000 Mad.

00:14:27.000 Dad?

00:14:28.000 So he tweets that out.

00:14:32.000 He doesn't explain why it is that Ted Cruz jumped like 4% in the polls.

00:14:37.000 Did Marco Rubio also cheat?

00:14:38.000 He jumped 6% in the polls.

00:14:39.000 Actually, did Ben Carson cheat?

00:14:40.000 He jumped 2% in the polls.

00:14:43.000 And conversely, was Jeb Bush victimized by cheating since he lost 2% in the polls?

00:14:48.000 Just a weird thing to say.

00:14:49.000 Then he says, during primetime of the Iowa caucus, Cruz put out a release that real Ben Carson was quitting the race and to caucus or vote for Cruz.

00:14:58.000 And continued, many people voted for Cruz over Carson because of this Cruz fraud.

00:15:02.000 Also, Cruz sent out a voter violation certificate to thousands of voters.

00:15:06.000 The voter violation certificate gave poor marks to the unsuspecting voter, grade of F, and told them to clear it up by voting for Cruz.

00:15:13.000 Fraud!

00:15:15.000 And finally, Cruz strongly told thousands of caucus goers, voters, that Trump was strongly in favor of Obamacare and choice.

00:15:22.000 A total lie!

00:15:23.000 Exclamation point.

00:15:24.000 In other words, I'm the real winner of the Iowa caucuses.

00:15:26.000 Okay, let's go through some of these

00:15:40.000 Nonsense attributions one by one.

00:15:43.000 By the way, Cruz's campaign responded by saying that Trump should see a shrink for Twitter addiction.

00:15:48.000 So here's what, let's go through these.

00:15:51.000 First of all, as I mentioned, the idea that the reason that Cruz outperformed the polls was because of fraud is absurd.

00:15:57.000 If you were going to defraud somebody, you wouldn't go up by 4%, you'd go up by 10.

00:16:01.000 And the fact is that, again, he didn't even have the biggest move of the night.

00:16:05.000 That was Marco Rubio's move from 16.9% to 23.4%.

00:16:09.000 And then he says, the Cruz press release stole votes from Ben Carson.

00:16:12.000 This is what Carson is mad about also.

00:16:15.000 So here's what happened.

00:16:16.000 This happened right before the caucuses on Tuesday.

00:16:19.000 On Tuesday, a report came from the Carson camp to CNN that after the Iowa caucuses, Ben Carson would be going home to Florida, he would not be visiting South Carolina, and he would not be visiting New Hampshire.

00:16:30.000 Those are the two next caucus and primary states.

00:16:35.000 And everybody on the internet, everybody, including me, went, oh, well, that means he's done, right?

00:16:39.000 I mean, it means if he's not leaving the race, he is clearly about to make up his mind to leave the race.

00:16:44.000 Because why is he announcing this week that he is going to just quit the campaign trail and go to someplace completely irrelevant?

00:16:50.000 He's going to go to Florida, and then he's going to go up to D.C., neither of which is in either of these primary states.

00:16:54.000 So why is he doing that?

00:16:55.000 The only reason is his campaign must be coming to some sort of ignominious finish.

00:17:00.000 And a lot of people thought this.

00:17:01.000 CNN reported, they tweeted out, CNN reported specifically, quote, After the Iowa caucus, Rio Ben Carson plans to take a break from campaigning.

00:17:10.000 Usually when you say take a break from campaigning, what that means is you suspend your campaign.

00:17:14.000 Especially in the middle of the caucuses, in the middle of the primary season.

00:17:18.000 Anybody with half a brain understood that this is not a great sign for the Carson campaign.

00:17:24.000 Everybody got this.

00:17:25.000 Representative Steve King, who's a Cruz supporter, he tweeted, quote, Carson looks like he's out.

00:17:29.000 Iowans need to know before they vote.

00:17:31.000 Most will go to Cruz, I hope.

00:17:33.000 And then a Cruz staffer told precinct captains, quote, breaking news.

00:17:37.000 The press is reporting that Dr. Carson is taking time off from the campaign trail after Iowa and making a big announcement next week.

00:17:43.000 Please inform any Carson caucus goers of this news and urge them to caucus for Ted Cruz.

00:17:49.000 First of all, there's nothing that's actually not true in that statement.

00:17:53.000 I don't know that he said about the big announcement next week that I didn't see from CNN, but the part where he's taking time off from the campaign trail, that's true.

00:18:00.000 That's true.

00:18:02.000 So apparently this is what Trump is so mad about in Carson.

00:18:05.000 Oh, they said they went around and they sent an email and they told people that I was out and I was really still in.

00:18:09.000 Hey, Carson's campaign has been run pretty terribly from the very outset.

00:18:13.000 He spent more money than I think anybody else in the race.

00:18:16.000 He's run through more money.

00:18:17.000 He's run through more advertising.

00:18:20.000 He's, you know, run through more staff.

00:18:23.000 A lot of his staff has left.

00:18:24.000 And this comes from somebody who actually likes Ben Carson.

00:18:27.000 I was a big Ben Carson defender when it came to several of the ridiculous scandals the media tried to put on him.

00:18:34.000 I was the one who debunked

00:18:35.000 The ridiculous Ben Carson never went to West Point routine that the Washington Post tried to slap him with.

00:18:40.000 But this idea that something terribly wrong happened here is ridiculous.

00:18:44.000 He told CNN, I'm taking a break from campaigning.

00:18:46.000 They reported he's taking a break from campaigning.

00:18:48.000 The Cruz campaign read into that.

00:18:50.000 He's probably gonna quit soon.

00:18:51.000 Go tell people he's gonna quit soon.

00:18:53.000 Vote for Cruz.

00:18:55.000 Okay, this is a big deal.

00:18:57.000 Apparently, by the way, Rubio also pushed that same narrative.

00:19:02.000 Cruz apologized for the screw-up.

00:19:04.000 He said, quote,

00:19:24.000 Okay.

00:19:24.000 I mean, I suppose they should have sent an update, although I'm not sure why that update is necessary.

00:19:30.000 I mean, the fact is that if I still look at this race, and I think Carson's out after New Hampshire.

00:19:34.000 So, you know, that's actually a viable reason to tell people, by the way, Carson's not sticking around for the entirety of this situation, so why don't you shift to somebody who can win?

00:19:44.000 And again, Ben Carson outperformed the polling average by 1.6%.

00:19:46.000 So, if Trump is contending,

00:19:50.000 That all of these Carson voters shifted over to Cruz and gave him the victory.

00:19:53.000 Let's do the math a little bit here.

00:19:54.000 Okay, Ted Cruz beat Donald Trump by over 6,000 votes.

00:20:00.000 6,000 votes.

00:20:00.000 Okay, Ben Carson overall went up in the polls.

00:20:04.000 He actually beat his poll average by 1.6%.

00:20:05.000 He won about 17,000 votes.

00:20:08.000 So in order for Trump to make the claim that Cruz stole all of this support from Ben Carson, you would have to claim, actually, that Ben Carson probably had double the number of votes that he actually had.

00:20:20.000 Because here's what you figure.

00:20:23.000 Not every Carson supporter was going to go to Cruz.

00:20:25.000 You figure maybe half of all the Carson supporters go to Cruz if they shift over.

00:20:29.000 Let's assume 100% do.

00:20:30.000 That means he still would have had to win another 30% on top of his vote, and all of that would have gone to Cruz.

00:20:37.000 Okay, the statistics just don't match up.

00:20:39.000 It's silly.

00:20:40.000 This is suggesting that Ben Carson was polling at 7.7%, and if it hadn't been for that nefarious Cruz activity, then he would have been polling not at 7.7%, but he would have been polling at like 13%.

00:20:50.000 He would have been polling twice where he was.

00:20:53.000 Which is ridiculous.

00:20:54.000 And not true.

00:20:56.000 And there's no poll to support.

00:20:57.000 Okay, the next accusation made by the Trump campaign is this voter violation certificate that people got all hot and bothered over over the weekend.

00:21:05.000 And do we have a picture of the voter violation certificate?

00:21:08.000 We may not.

00:21:09.000 There's a voter violation certificate and what it looks like, I don't think we do, but in any case you can look it up at Daily Wire, we put it up.

00:21:16.000 It looks like a piece of, it's a manila envelope.

00:21:21.000 And it looks like a piece of junk mail.

00:21:24.000 And it says on the front, election alert, voter violation.

00:21:27.000 And then it says public record right below that.

00:21:29.000 Right?

00:21:30.000 So you get these things all the time from mortgage companies and it's junk mail.

00:21:33.000 You get it from telemarketer.

00:21:34.000 You get this kind of stuff in the mail all the time.

00:21:36.000 I get at least one of these a day in the mail, not based on elections, but based on some company trying to get me to pay for them to do my property taxes or some company that's trying to get me to pay to do my own IRS filings or whatever it is.

00:21:50.000 And then if you open it up, it says voting violation.

00:21:52.000 And then it says in the mailer, quote, you are receiving this election notice because of low expected voter turnout in your area.

00:22:00.000 Your individual voting history as well as your neighbors are public record.

00:22:03.000 Their scores are published below.

00:22:05.000 Many of them will see your score as well.

00:22:07.000 Caucus on Monday to improve your score and please encourage your neighbors to caucus as well.

00:22:11.000 A follow up notice may be issued following Monday's caucuses.

00:22:15.000 And so they were saying, then the Iowa Secretary of State tried to suggest that this scared people into voting for Cruz.

00:22:21.000 They thought that if they didn't show up and vote for Cruz, they'd go to jail or some such.

00:22:26.000 What utter nonsense?

00:22:28.000 Can they find one voter in the state of Iowa who showed up at their caucus place and said, oh boy, I better vote for Ted Cruz, because if I don't, they're going to put me in jail.

00:22:37.000 Is there anyone in Iowa who did this?

00:22:38.000 Anyone?

00:22:39.000 It's not a violation.

00:22:40.000 It doesn't look like a public record.

00:22:41.000 If anyone has ever seen a notice from the government, it doesn't look like a notice from the government.

00:22:45.000 It's clearly not a violation of law.

00:22:47.000 In fact, the Marco Rubio campaign sent out its own version of the voter violation notice.

00:22:51.000 And it says on a caucus report card, did you vote?

00:22:54.000 And then there's big red X where people didn't vote.

00:22:56.000 And then it says improve your score by caucusing on Monday.

00:23:00.000 Right?

00:23:01.000 So it's the same thing, it just doesn't say voter violation, which is just a way to scare people.

00:23:05.000 And by the way, the backlash from it probably caused some people not to vote for Cruz because they were annoyed by it.

00:23:10.000 Democrats have been using similar tactics for years.

00:23:13.000 Even the Washington Post reported this.

00:23:15.000 But now Trump is trying to spin it into the case that Cruz tried to say that it would be illegal not to vote for him.

00:23:20.000 There's not a person in the United States who believes that it's illegal not to vote for a particular candidate.

00:23:25.000 Well, maybe there are Democrats who believe that it's illegal not to vote for Hillary Clinton.

00:23:28.000 That would be the only thing that would explain this, but this is a ridiculous charge.

00:23:32.000 Finally, Trump says that Ted Cruz is mean to him because he said that Trump backs Obamacare and that he's pro-choice.

00:23:39.000 Okay, Trump says openly that abortion is not murder and says he is for caveats.

00:23:43.000 He also said the only reason that he switched from pro-choice to pro-life is because he had a friend who didn't have an abortion and her child was a quote-unquote total superstar.

00:23:52.000 He was asked if the kid had been a loser, would you still be pro-abortion?

00:23:54.000 He said yeah.

00:23:56.000 That's not a pro-life position, gang.

00:23:58.000 As far as Obamacare, Trump says he's going to repeal and replace Obamacare, and then he says in the same breath, quote, I am going to take care of everybody.

00:24:05.000 I don't care if it costs me votes or not.

00:24:07.000 Everybody's going to be taken care of much better than they're taken care of now.

00:24:10.000 And then he said, Republicans have no heart when it comes to healthcare.

00:24:13.000 The government has to do something to take care of poor people with no healthcare.

00:24:18.000 Okay, how is that not Obamacare?

00:24:20.000 It's actually worse than Obamacare.

00:24:21.000 It's single-payer.

00:24:23.000 He says he's not for single-payer either.

00:24:24.000 So, the question here is, what is Trump thinking?

00:24:27.000 So, the easy answer is he's not.

00:24:29.000 The easy answer is he's reacting, he's saying wild things that the media will cover him, because that's what he does.

00:24:35.000 This is who Trump is.

00:24:36.000 That's the easy answer.

00:24:37.000 Then there's the answer that he's trying to put Cruz on the defensive, he's trying to make Cruz defend all this stuff, and the media will do his dirty work for him.

00:24:44.000 Which is not a strategic, terrible idea.

00:24:46.000 Although, it makes him look weak.

00:24:49.000 You can't puff yourself up and then whine.

00:24:52.000 My favorite part of John Wayne movies is always the part right after the bar fight where he sits around and whines about how he would have won if it hadn't been for that guy who hit him with the chair.

00:25:00.000 If you're going to campaign on your masculinity and your testosterone level and I'm big and I'm bad and I'm gonna bomb the bleep out of everybody, this is not a good look.

00:25:09.000 It's also possible, and this is starting to reenter my mind, that Donald Trump may be prepping for a third-party run.

00:25:17.000 That if Donald Trump, let's say that he collapses in New Hampshire completely, just falls apart in New Hampshire.

00:25:21.000 I don't think that'll happen, by the way.

00:25:22.000 I think he'll win New Hampshire.

00:25:24.000 Let's say he falls apart in New Hampshire.

00:25:26.000 He's been saying for months that he was going to run as a Republican if he was treated fairly, right?

00:25:32.000 He was always with this caveat, if he was treated fairly.

00:25:35.000 In Donald Trump's world, no one has ever treated him fairly.

00:25:38.000 He has never been treated fairly, and now he's saying openly, I wasn't treated fairly, and therefore, I should basically have these, we should have a redo in Iowa.

00:25:47.000 By the way, if there were a redo in Iowa today, he would lose dramatically.

00:25:50.000 If we did the election again after all of this happens, Donald Trump goes down in flaming defeat in Iowa.

00:25:56.000 Like, really, really bad.

00:25:58.000 Ted Cruz probably comes out the same place, and Marco Rubio probably boosts even more.

00:26:02.000 So Trump, you know, it hurts him more in Iowa, but...

00:26:06.000 None of this is good for Donald Trump.

00:26:08.000 None of it is good for the Republican Party.

00:26:11.000 That is certainly the case.

00:26:13.000 And I'm getting all sorts of people who are saying, oh, you're such a Cruz defender.

00:26:15.000 You just keep coming out and defending Cruz.

00:26:17.000 Listen, I've defended Marco Rubio from false allegations.

00:26:21.000 I've defended Trump from false allegations.

00:26:23.000 I've defended Trump many times from false allegations and from slander.

00:26:27.000 I've done the same thing for Ben Carson.

00:26:29.000 Trump is off his meds on this one.

00:26:31.000 He's just off his meds on this one.

00:26:32.000 Now, I said earlier I would make a case for Trump.

00:26:34.000 The case for Trump is the same as it's always been.

00:26:36.000 The case for Trump is that Trump is the most electable Republican.

00:26:39.000 He wins blue-collar voters.

00:26:41.000 He appeals to people who watch politics in five-second increments.

00:26:45.000 And there's a real possibility that he does damage in a lot of blue-collar states, like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan.

00:26:50.000 That's the case for Trump.

00:26:52.000 But don't pretend that he's principled.

00:26:53.000 Don't pretend he's suddenly a beacon of honesty in the political process.

00:26:58.000 The people who are selectively choosing to be outraged by Ted Cruz's campaign tactics, it seems to me they weren't quite as outraged when Donald Trump was slandering Ted Cruz as a Canadian citizen who was not capable of running for President of the United States.

00:27:13.000 Okay.

00:27:14.000 Meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, Bernie Sanders is now starting to put Hillary Clinton's feet to the fire.

00:27:18.000 And I've been saying now for weeks, if Bernie Sanders actually wants the nomination, all he has to do is one thing.

00:27:25.000 All he has to do is one thing.

00:27:26.000 Endorse slavery reparations.

00:27:28.000 That's it.

00:27:29.000 If he endorses slavery reparations, Hillary is toast, she sticks her head in the oven, and Bill is a jolly widower.

00:27:35.000 That's how this goes.

00:27:36.000 Okay, Hillary Clinton is only hanging on thanks to support in the black community, and South Carolina is 50% black in terms of the Democratic primary voting base.

00:27:44.000 Bernie Sanders has now pressured Hillary Clinton into debating him tomorrow night.

00:27:47.000 They have a town hall tonight.

00:27:49.000 They have a debate tomorrow night, which I'll have to watch.

00:27:52.000 Ugh.

00:27:52.000 Republicans, by the way, have a debate on Saturday night.

00:27:55.000 Which I'll also have to watch.

00:27:58.000 So all of this, I make these sacrifices for you, my loyal listeners and watchers.

00:28:04.000 Bernie Sanders says Hillary Clinton is worried.

00:28:06.000 She's spinning and she's spinning.

00:28:09.000 Here is Larry David as Bernie Sanders on MSNBC.

00:28:13.000 You mentioned the word debate.

00:28:14.000 People need to be debating the issues.

00:28:16.000 Are you going to be participating in a debate with Hillary Clinton tomorrow night?

00:28:21.000 The answer is yes.

00:28:22.000 And you know that

00:28:24.000 I have always wanted more debates and Secretary Clinton in the beginning was not so interested in more debates.

00:28:30.000 Now suddenly they're very interested in more debates.

00:28:33.000 What I wanted to see is on top of New Hampshire three more debates.

00:28:38.000 We were talking about California and Michigan and I wanted New York City.

00:28:42.000 Secretary Clinton represented New York seven years in the Senate.

00:28:46.000 I thought it'd be a good idea for some reason she's not interested in debating in New York.

00:28:51.000 So why are they suddenly interested in more debates?

00:28:53.000 You said that with a little sly smile.

00:28:55.000 Well, golly gee, I don't know.

00:28:57.000 It may have...

00:29:00.000 It may have something to do with the fact that the nature of this campaign has changed a little bit, and now they're getting a little bit nervous.

00:29:09.000 But it was interesting, as you'll recall, way back when DNC said six debates, we had no input into that.

00:29:15.000 Secretary Clinton said, hey, that's great, that's fine.

00:29:17.000 Now they want more debates, that's fine.

00:29:19.000 I love debates.

00:29:20.000 Okay, it's funny that Clinton wants more debates with him.

00:29:23.000 That's because she's hoping that he lays off of her.

00:29:25.000 Bernie Sanders has laid off of her really heavily so far.

00:29:29.000 If Bernie Sanders ever decided to lay a glove on her, he could actually do her some damage.

00:29:33.000 If Bernie Sanders ever said to her, you know, Secretary Clinton, you know I have nothing but respect for you, but I have to ask you, in terms of government corruption, you know, the fact that you set up a private email server and you're passing classified information on it, I don't think this is just a Republican scandal.

00:29:45.000 It's President Obama's Inspector General for the intelligence community.

00:29:49.000 You can brush it off as a non-issue as much as you want, but there are people's lives who are put at risk.

00:29:55.000 It's a risky move for Sanders, but at this point, what does he have to lose?

00:29:57.000 He's winning by 33 in New Hampshire, and he's got to make a move sometime here.

00:30:01.000 So Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders continue to go at it.

00:30:04.000 Chris Matthews over on MSNBC!

00:30:06.000 No episode of The Ben Shapiro Show is complete without a Chris Matthews quote.

00:30:10.000 Chris Matthews over on MSNBC.

00:30:11.000 He specifically asked Hillary Clinton.

00:30:14.000 You know, Bernie Sanders, he's a revolutionary.

00:30:16.000 He's a socialist revolutionary.

00:30:17.000 He has like a Lenin beard.

00:30:20.000 I think that he would probably want to farm in the gulags.

00:30:23.000 What do you do with him?

00:30:24.000 He's a revolutionary and you're just... What do you do?

00:30:28.000 How do you compete with a revolution of promises, really?

00:30:35.000 Well, first let me say I am thrilled, too, that we've got young people getting active in the campaign on the Democratic side.

00:30:43.000 I was very proud of the many, many young people working for me, volunteering for me, voting, caucusing for me in Iowa, and the ones I have here in New Hampshire, I'm just so impressed with.

00:30:56.000 So that's a net good no matter what.

00:30:59.000 I do think that we have an obligation to keep people focused on what's at stake in this election.

00:31:06.000 And you got close to saying it, Chris.

00:31:09.000 We can't let the Republicans rip away the progress we've made.

00:31:13.000 We can't let them go back to trickle-down economics, repeal the Affordable Care Act.

00:31:17.000 We can't let them stack the Supreme Court for another generation.

00:31:22.000 First of all, I think it's important to point out what's right behind Hillary.

00:31:24.000 You want to know why she's running, gang?

00:31:26.000 You want to know why the media is pretending she's a viable candidate?

00:31:29.000 Behind Hillary Clinton, for those who can't see, are two posters.

00:31:33.000 One says, Girls!

00:31:34.000 And the other says, Madam President 2016.

00:31:37.000 In this kind of childish handwriting.

00:31:41.000 Again, this is so frustrating to me.

00:31:44.000 We were pointing this out yesterday.

00:31:45.000 Beyoncé does this song.

00:31:46.000 Isn't it Beyoncé who does the Girls We Rule The World song?

00:31:49.000 Is that Beyoncé or is it somebody else?

00:31:50.000 I think it's Beyoncé.

00:31:52.000 She sings Girls We Rule The World and then she does a music video where she's going down on her husband.

00:31:57.000 I mean, Beyoncé, clearly, when we do this Hillary Clinton Girls We Rule The World nonsense, remember something.

00:32:03.000 The crazy old loon bag who was standing behind Hillary yesterday, drooling as he ran lesbian porno through his mind?

00:32:08.000 That guy is the only reason that Hillary Clinton is even mildly prominent.

00:32:12.000 Before we do the whole girls-we-rule-the-world thing.

00:32:15.000 Turns out, girls don't rule the world.

00:32:17.000 Guys don't really rule the world.

00:32:19.000 People of power rule the world.

00:32:20.000 Some of those are guys and some of those are girls.

00:32:23.000 And the nature of their genitalia are of no consequence, but this is the only reason people are taking Hillary seriously.

00:32:28.000 And if you're talking about the female revolution,

00:32:31.000 Versus the socialist revolution.

00:32:33.000 The socialist revolution definitely has the sort of fire behind it.

00:32:37.000 Ezra Klein over at Vox.com, which is a wild left-wing website.

00:32:41.000 He reports a poll today.

00:32:42.000 54% of voters say they are open to a political revolution to redistribute wealth.

00:32:48.000 Oh, happy day.

00:32:50.000 I look forward to the heads on the pikes.

00:32:52.000 That'll be very exciting.

00:32:53.000 I'm looking forward to Bernie Sanders leading that charge.

00:32:57.000 We'll take the rich and we will cut off their heads and we will stick them on pikes and we will use their money to fund your education by other rich people whose head we will cut off and put on pikes and then we will march around in circles with spaghetti on our heads singing Reading Rainbow.

00:33:12.000 That is our plan.

00:33:14.000 That's the political revolution of Bernie Sanders and Hillary's trying to fight that.

00:33:18.000 Good luck, gang.

00:33:20.000 Okay, on to some things that I like and some things that I hate.

00:33:22.000 So, first, an actual thing that I like.

00:33:26.000 I like jazz.

00:33:27.000 I tend to like old jazz, kind of swing music, and there are a lot of singers from the Frank Sinatra era who are well-known.

00:33:35.000 Obviously, Sinatra's well-known.

00:33:36.000 Tony Bennett is well-known.

00:33:37.000 One who's slightly less well-known, but who has a really kind of interesting voice.

00:33:41.000 They used to call him the Velvet Fog.

00:33:43.000 It was Mel Torme.

00:33:44.000 If you've never heard Mel Torme sing, he's really a very talented musician.

00:33:48.000 Here's just a brief clip of Mel Torme with George Shearing.

00:33:51.000 George Shearing was a really terrific pianist.

00:33:55.000 Never got credit for being as good a pianist as he was.

00:33:57.000 He's also blind, like Ray Charles, he's blind.

00:33:59.000 And so George Shearing and Mel Torme will play a little clip of this and then we'll get on to other things.

00:34:04.000 So here's what it sounds like.

00:34:11.000 When true lovers meet in Mayfair, so the legends tell.

00:34:20.000 Songbirds sing, winter turns to spring.

00:34:30.000 This album particularly, by the way, we need to stop it there, but this album particularly is very, very good.

00:34:35.000 An Evening with George Shearing and Mel Tormé.

00:34:37.000 Great album.

00:34:38.000 You can pick it up for pretty cheap.

00:34:39.000 It's really good stuff.

00:34:41.000 Okay, here's another thing that I like.

00:34:42.000 So...

00:34:43.000 Hamas, the terrorist Palestinians, were digging a tunnel, trying to dig a tunnel into Israel.

00:34:48.000 This is how they spend their off hours and their free time.

00:34:50.000 And actually, this is what their job is.

00:34:52.000 They get paid to do this.

00:34:53.000 They were digging a tunnel into Israel to try and kidnap and kill Jews, because this is what Israel's Palestinian peace partners do for fun.

00:35:00.000 And in a minute I'll talk about something that I hate on this particular score.

00:35:04.000 And they were digging a tunnel into Israel and the roof collapsed.

00:35:07.000 The roof fell in.

00:35:08.000 So well done, God.

00:35:09.000 Well played, God.

00:35:10.000 And they did a funeral for the Hamas guys.

00:35:14.000 250,000 people apparently showed up for this funeral.

00:35:16.000 So a quarter of a million people showed up to do a funeral for these poor victims who buried themselves in rubble trying to build a tunnel so they could kidnap Jewish children.

00:35:25.000 I mean, these are literally the most evil people on earth.

00:35:28.000 I mean, these are ISIS.

00:35:30.000 The only difference between Hamas and ISIS is the name.

00:35:32.000 But, here's the thing that I love.

00:35:34.000 So, they had a funeral for the Hamas guys, and we have a clip from that funeral.

00:35:41.000 And here's what it looked like.

00:35:52.000 Okay, that is a roof collapsing and Hamas guys falling.

00:35:57.000 So first, God collapsed the tunnel.

00:35:59.000 And then at the funeral, God collapsed the roof.

00:36:03.000 So well played, God, well played.

00:36:06.000 Apparently, these people don't know how to build a working toilet, but they know how to build tunnels, but not that well since they cave in.

00:36:12.000 They also don't know you don't stand on roofs in large groups, you stupid asses.

00:36:17.000 So, sadly, not enough of them were killed.

00:36:20.000 Um, that's- that's too bad.

00:36:21.000 I was hoping for- I was hoping this would become a recurring cycle until you ran out of Hamas guys.

00:36:24.000 Basically, you'd have a Hamas guy who would die in a cave-in, you'd have a funeral for him, all the Hamas guys would climb on a roof, that would cave-in, you'd have a funeral for those guys, too many guys would climb on the roof, that would cave-in, and then eventually you'd end up with no Hamas guys.

00:36:36.000 That was- that was- I think that would be a great plan.

00:36:39.000 It hasn't happened that way.

00:36:40.000 Okay.

00:36:41.000 On the other side of that, here's some- here are some things that- that I hate.

00:36:45.000 And I'm gonna save the best for last.

00:36:46.000 So, we'll start with, there was another terrorist attack in Israel today, another Palestinian terrorist attack in Israel.

00:36:51.000 There have been a multiplicity of stabbing attacks nearly every day by the Palestinian, the glorious peace-loving Palestinian peace partners.

00:36:59.000 It's just disgusting that the West continues to maintain this ridiculous fiction.

00:37:03.000 You wouldn't ask anybody to make peace with ISIS, but Israel is expected to make peace with Hamas and with the Palestinian Authority, both of them terrorist groups, because of course they're Jews and whatever, the Jews.

00:37:13.000 So here is the headline that CBS ran.

00:37:17.000 So there were two Jews who were stabbed.

00:37:20.000 One was a 19-year-old female police officer who was stabbed to death.

00:37:23.000 She died today.

00:37:24.000 Here is the headline.

00:37:25.000 And then the three Palestinians engaged in the attack were shot and killed.

00:37:28.000 The headline from CBS News, in case you can't see it, quote, three Palestinians killed as daily violence grinds on.

00:37:36.000 That is their headline.

00:37:37.000 So three terrorists stab two female soldiers and kill one.

00:37:42.000 The headline is that the Palestinians were killed as the daily violence grinds.

00:37:46.000 It's just violence.

00:37:47.000 We don't know who did it.

00:37:47.000 We don't know why it happened.

00:37:48.000 It just magically happens that way.

00:37:50.000 Those poor, poor Palestinians.

00:37:52.000 The media are complicit.

00:37:54.000 They are complicit in the worst form of Jew hatred and anti-semitism, and this sort of headline is proof.

00:37:59.000 I said it on CNN well over, I guess almost two years ago now, during the Gaza War.

00:38:05.000 I said that if Hamas could have designed a news network, it would look like CNN.

00:38:09.000 Coming in a close second, CBS News.

00:38:11.000 I mean, that's just outrageous and disgusting.

00:38:13.000 Okay, something else that I hate.

00:38:15.000 So we talked about Bernie Sanders earlier.

00:38:17.000 Bernie Sanders, apparently,

00:38:19.000 There was a romantic comedy with Susan Sarandon in it.

00:38:21.000 We were wondering why Susan Sarandon was so fond of Bernie Sanders.

00:38:25.000 Apparently, there was a low-budget 1999 romantic comedy called My Ex-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception, which sounds quite terrible.

00:38:33.000 He also did, I guess Sarandon wasn't in this one, but he was a stingy candy dispenser in 1988's Sweetheart's Dance, according to his IMDb page.

00:38:42.000 Here is Bernie Sanders in the trailer for, well I guess in, My Ex-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception, and he's playing a rabbi.

00:38:49.000 Okay, Bernie Sanders knows less about Judaism than my daughter, and my daughter can speak eight word sentences, you know, like this is, come on, here we go.

00:38:57.000 Testing, testing, one, two, three, can you all hear me?

00:39:02.000 My name is Rabbi Manny Shevitz, and I am very pleased that you invited me to be with you today, and I've prepared a few words for this important occasion.

00:39:16.000 Today we celebrate life, a very sacred part of life.

00:39:23.000 I remember when I used to walk down my old neighborhood in Brooklyn.

00:39:29.000 That was before the Dodgers went to Los Angeles, which was the worst thing.

00:39:33.000 The worst thing that ever happened, and I don't know why we let them do that.

00:39:37.000 I mean, nowadays, there is no pride.

00:39:41.000 You don't know who owns what team, you don't know who's playing for what.

00:39:45.000 Today they're here one day and they're gone the next day.

00:39:48.000 It's a terrible thing.

00:39:50.000 I remember when the Dodgers played the Yankees, and you bought a ticket, and that ticket was good for 10 years.

00:39:57.000 Now we go to the stadium, and you look out on the field, and you see the Red Sox, you see the Orioles, you see the Cleveland Indians.

00:40:04.000 You see everything, but you don't see the Yankees versus the Red Sox.

00:40:10.000 Okay, I'm getting a little bit off the track here, but let me not take any more of your time.

00:40:16.000 Just one quick thought.

00:40:18.000 Oh, by the way, that free agency, free agency crap, that really gets me.

00:40:23.000 There's $2 million here, they spend $12 million there.

00:40:27.000 What's so free about that free agency?

00:40:31.000 I can't take that anymore.

00:40:32.000 Okay, let me just make my point here, and that is, all in all,

00:40:40.000 It's not so bad.

00:40:42.000 When it's good, it's good.

00:40:45.000 If it doesn't feel right, just say no.

00:40:51.000 There's always tomorrow.

00:40:54.000 There's always tomorrow.

00:40:58.000 It could be worse.

00:41:00.000 Now, let's just thank God.

00:41:03.000 You have your arms.

00:41:05.000 You have your legs.

00:41:06.000 Let's eat!

00:41:08.000 Okay, so, I didn't know whether to put this in Things I Love or Things I Hate.

00:41:12.000 I hate that I have a 90- I mean, he looks like he's 73 then!

00:41:17.000 When was this, 1999?

00:41:18.000 So this is 17 years ago?

00:41:19.000 He looks like he was 73 then, so he's beyond the grave now.

00:41:23.000 But Bernie Sanders playing a rabbi is insulting.

00:41:26.000 His name is Rabbi Manischewitz, get it?

00:41:28.000 Like Manischewitz, get it?

00:41:31.000 I can't actually distinguish what he just said from anything he ever says in his speeches.

00:41:35.000 You could legitimately put in his normal speeches with the reaction shots, and it would be exactly the same.

00:41:41.000 So I like that the media have ignored this, by the way.

00:41:44.000 This has never come up.

00:41:45.000 Everything that Donald Trump has ever done has come up.

00:41:48.000 They've dug up Ted Cruz's old clips from when he was in high school theater.

00:41:53.000 I mean, like, everything that these people ever do has come up.

00:41:55.000 This somehow didn't come up, and it's on his... He has an IMDB page, and this has never come up.

00:41:59.000 How many times have you heard people on MSNBC ask Bernie Sanders about the essays he wrote back in the 70s where he said that women enjoyed being gang-raped?

00:42:07.000 He actually wrote essays in the 70s saying this.

00:42:09.000 Never, ever, ever.

00:42:11.000 I mean, how can you watch?

00:42:12.000 Yeah, this guy should be president.

00:42:15.000 Okay, alright.

00:42:16.000 Okay, a couple of final things that I hate here.

00:42:19.000 Michael Nutter, who is the mayor of Philadelphia, he came out and he says that we have to be very careful about Hillary Clinton.

00:42:25.000 Let's hear him explain why we have to be so careful about Hillary Clinton.

00:42:30.000 You re-ran some of Senator Clinton's, Secretary Clinton's speech tonight.

00:42:36.000 You've been in big crowds.

00:42:37.000 You have a tendency to talk a little louder.

00:42:40.000 No one shouts louder.

00:42:42.000 Oh, give me a break.

00:42:44.000 Okay, so now, if you ever call a woman angry, then you're a sexist.

00:43:12.000 I'm angry right now.

00:43:34.000 But this is how the left thinks.

00:43:35.000 They're words that cannot be said.

00:43:37.000 Words that cannot be said.

00:43:38.000 Which brings me to President Obama today.

00:43:41.000 We'll get to this more tomorrow, but President Obama today gave a long speech.

00:43:44.000 A very long speech, apparently, over at the Islamic Center of Baltimore, which its former imam is a guy who's justified suicide bombings.

00:43:52.000 And he actually said that Muslim Americans should be able to practice their religion.

00:43:57.000 They have a right to practice their religion without, quote, divisive rhetoric from the campaign trail.

00:44:02.000 This is what President Obama said.

00:44:03.000 That right does not exist.

00:44:05.000 There is no right to practice your religion without divisive rhetoric.

00:44:09.000 Divisive rhetoric is called free speech.

00:44:11.000 What you're talking about, President Obama, is called a blasphemy law.

00:44:15.000 Those are against the law in the United States.

00:44:17.000 But President Obama does this routine all the time.

00:44:19.000 Remember, this is the same guy who said that the future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.

00:44:24.000 He said that the United Nations is the same guy whose administration embraced a UN resolution specifically calling for quote measures to criminalize incitement to imminent violence based on religion or belief.

00:44:35.000 And this is

00:44:37.000 He hates free speech, so long as that free speech targets the practice of Islam.

00:44:43.000 But, by the way, the media is free to target Christianity and Republicans.

00:44:47.000 So, Jimmy Kimmel, who is just awful, and the beer doesn't make him appear any smarter, it just makes him appear lazier.

00:44:57.000 Jimmy Kimmel,

00:44:58.000 He did a routine yesterday on his show where he tried to claim that Republicans aren't good Christians.

00:45:03.000 And even as a Jew, I know this is crap.

00:45:05.000 So here's Jimmy Kimmel trying to claim another thing that I hate, that Republicans are bad Christians.

00:45:10.000 Why?

00:45:10.000 Because he brings Jesus to talk about it.

00:45:11.000 The words of the candidates, as read by Jesus himself.

00:45:14.000 You don't lock your doors because you hate the people on the outside.

00:45:17.000 You lock your doors because you love the people on the inside.

00:45:23.000 The fact is that we need appropriate vetting, and I don't think that orphans under five should be admitted into the United States at this point.

00:45:32.000 You don't stop bad guys by taking away our guns.

00:45:35.000 You stop bad guys by using our guns.

00:45:40.000 Look at that face.

00:45:41.000 I mean, would anybody vote for that?

00:45:46.000 I would bomb the shit out of them.

00:45:49.000 I would just bomb those suckers.

00:45:52.000 The other thing is, with the terrorists, you have to take out their families.

00:45:58.000 I'll take the votes of everyone who likes machine guns and bacon.

00:46:04.000 I will build a wall.

00:46:06.000 It will be a great wall.

00:46:12.000 Okay, so the idea here is that if you take the most extreme quotes of the Republicans and put them in the mouths of Jesus Christ, then it's clear that Jesus is not a Republican.

00:46:21.000 And there's this hippie perception that Jesus was like this bearded hippie walking around.

00:46:25.000 First of all, he didn't look anything like this.

00:46:27.000 Jesus looked like my Sephardic in-laws, okay?

00:46:31.000 It was a short Jewish swarthy guy from the Middle East at the time.

00:46:34.000 The Jews had not yet gone to Europe, so they weren't white.

00:46:36.000 In any case, forget what Jesus looked like, okay?

00:46:40.000 Jesus was not a huge pacifist pansy.

00:46:44.000 If you even do a cursory read of the New Testament, it is clear that Jesus, he said at one point, right?

00:46:51.000 I come to bring a sword, right?

00:46:52.000 There's a point where he says he comes to bring the sword.

00:46:54.000 There's a point where Jesus talks.

00:46:56.000 He was going through the temple and overturning the tables of the moneylenders, right?

00:47:01.000 And he was doing that because they were corrupt.

00:47:02.000 Okay, so this whole Jesus was a pacifist, Jesus was just meek and mild to everyone, he was the Lamb of the Lord.

00:47:09.000 Okay, Christians believe that.

00:47:11.000 They also believe that Jesus was a tough hombre.

00:47:13.000 Which is what made him sacrificing himself worthwhile.

00:47:16.000 If Jesus was just a pansy, then he was like every other flower child at Kent State.

00:47:19.000 It wasn't who Jesus was, and anybody who reads the... But it's particularly galling.

00:47:23.000 Jimmy Kimmel's an atheist, by the way.

00:47:25.000 It's particularly galling to have atheists using Jesus as a... Oh, well, you guys, you know, you say you believe in Jesus, but then you say stuff like this.

00:47:32.000 You say stuff like this.

00:47:34.000 I can tell you one thing that Jesus wasn't that fond of, and I can tell you this from the history of Christianity.

00:47:39.000 Other proselytizing religions killing people in the name of their religions.

00:47:42.000 Jesus, not so hot on that one.

00:47:45.000 If you put Jesus against Muhammad, they actually were sort of in conflict.

00:47:48.000 The Quran and the New Testament have a mild conflict there.

00:47:51.000 So it's insulting all the way through.

00:47:54.000 Okay, I know we're long, but come on.

00:47:56.000 We've been doing this for weeks now.

00:47:58.000 Alright, so, we'll finish up by critiquing the final thing that I hate.

00:48:01.000 There are all of these, we've talked about this tendency of the left, and it really is a gross, yucky tendency of the left, to use children in all of their videos and advertising now.

00:48:11.000 So they've decided to cut a new video.

00:48:13.000 I'm trying to remember which group this is that cut this ridiculous video.

00:48:16.000 But this group has now cut a video trying to rip on Stacey Dash.

00:48:23.000 Stacey Dash is a commentator for Fox News, she's black,

00:48:26.000 And she talked about how there shouldn't be Black History Month because that's divisive and stupid and racist.

00:48:32.000 And so there's a group of people called Because of Them We Can.

00:48:37.000 And what do they do?

00:48:38.000 They get a bunch of kids, of course, because all of the wisdom is in the mouth of babes, right?

00:48:42.000 This is the silly leftist notion that children are so smart that we should follow them all, which, if you've ever met a two-year-old, is presumably, it is definitely the worst idea you could possibly have.

00:48:53.000 If two-year-olds were around the world, nuclear Armageddon would have happened a thousand times over by now.

00:48:58.000 But they got a bunch of kids out there to stand in front of the camera and rip into Stacey Dash because if even these children understand, if even these children understand, then shouldn't Stacey Dash understand?

00:49:08.000 Here we go.

00:49:08.000 Let's listen to a bunch of idiot kids talk about Stacey Dash.

00:49:12.000 I don't think so.

00:49:13.000 No.

00:49:13.000 Just like there shouldn't be a Black History Month.

00:49:16.000 You know, we're Americans.

00:49:18.000 Period.

00:49:18.000 That's it.

00:49:19.000 What?

00:49:20.000 Excuse me?

00:49:22.000 What did she just say?

00:49:23.000 Oh my gosh.

00:49:25.000 Is that even legal?

00:49:27.000 Uh, that don't make any sense.

00:49:30.000 Does Cardi want to know about this?

00:49:32.000 Black History Month is our turn!

00:49:44.000 Yes.

00:49:45.000 Yes it is.

00:49:46.000 Welcome to the United States, where we can say things that offend you.

00:49:49.000 But there's a whole generation of people who don't believe that's legal.

00:49:52.000 Also, if you're going to do a video about intelligence and intelligent political conversation, and you're trying to use children, why don't you make sure those kids use proper grammar?

00:50:01.000 I know this is old-fashioned, but you're allowed.

00:50:04.000 It's okay.

00:50:04.000 You can use proper grammar.

00:50:06.000 No one's gonna hurt you.

00:50:07.000 It's okay.

00:50:08.000 And it's not a white thing.

00:50:09.000 There are black people who use proper grammar, President Obama uses proper grammar.

00:50:12.000 It's totally fine.

00:50:14.000 Okay, we'll continue and we'll hear why Black History Month is the greatest thing since sliced bread and has helped millions of black people descend into poverty and single motherhood.

00:50:21.000 Our strength.

00:50:22.000 Our accomplishments.

00:50:23.000 And our contributions.

00:50:25.000 And our beauty.

00:50:27.000 It forces us to talk about our amazing history.

00:50:30.000 And it didn't begin with slavery.

00:50:33.000 No negativity.

00:50:34.000 No stereotypes.

00:50:36.000 All excellence.

00:50:38.000 Because that's who and what we are.

00:50:40.000 We're not canceling anything.

00:50:43.000 So you have to rock with us for 29 days.

00:50:46.000 It's a celebration.

00:50:47.000 It's Black History Month.

00:50:52.000 Now there is a well stated case.

00:50:54.000 No stereotypes, no negative information.

00:50:56.000 Yeah, that's a great teaching of history.

00:50:58.000 What a great teaching of history.

00:50:59.000 If I'm learning about history, what I want to make sure of is that one group is cast as saints, complete saints, nothing has ever happened that is bad from this particular group.

00:51:08.000 Okay, the fact is, I don't believe in Black History Month, I don't believe in Jewish History Month, I don't believe in Hispanic History Month.

00:51:13.000 There's something called history.

00:51:14.000 Either you were important enough to cut it, or you weren't.

00:51:17.000 And if you didn't make the list of all of the important historical figures, I'm sorry, there are no affirmative action points.

00:51:22.000 There's no Eskimo History Month because it's very difficult to name all of the very, very important Eskimo historical figures that we should all know about.

00:51:30.000 And I don't think that it's important that lots of people know about people because of their ethnicity.

00:51:34.000 I think it's important that we know about them because of what they did.

00:51:37.000 So, you wanted to vote a day to Frederick Douglass?

00:51:41.000 I'm all for ya.

00:51:42.000 You wanted to vote a day to Martin Luther King?

00:51:44.000 I'm all for ya.

00:51:46.000 You wanted to vote an entire month so that we can learn about random stuff that didn't make the history books because it wasn't as important as other stuff that happened?

00:51:55.000 Well, tough.

00:51:57.000 I mean, this whole thing is silly, but the idea, first of all, that kids have to- we have to have Black History Month so you have pride in your race.

00:52:02.000 I am not a person who believes in racial pride.

00:52:05.000 I don't like racial pride.

00:52:06.000 I believe in religious pride, that's why I wear a yarmulke.

00:52:09.000 But I've never understood why Jews are so all-fired, excited that Sandy Koufax was Jewish in a great picture.

00:52:14.000 Like, so what?

00:52:15.000 He didn't do anything Jewish.

00:52:16.000 He did one thing that was Jewish his entire life, right?

00:52:18.000 He took off Yom Kippur during the World Series.

00:52:21.000 Okay, that was not that big a deal.

00:52:24.000 I don't like racial pride.

00:52:25.000 I don't like white racial pride.

00:52:26.000 I don't like black racial pride.

00:52:27.000 I think that if you're proud of the level of melanin in your skin, you should also be proud of your height and your hair color.

00:52:31.000 You have no control over it.

00:52:33.000 It says nothing about your accomplishments.

00:52:35.000 And just because there were black people in history who did something has nothing to do with you.

00:52:39.000 There is not a black guy who abandoned his girlfriend in the inner city with a kid who should feel better about himself because there were black people in history who did good things.

00:52:49.000 That's stupid.

00:52:50.000 Just like white people, white supremacy is idiotic.

00:52:52.000 It's the same principle.

00:52:53.000 You shouldn't feel better about yourself as a loser white person because there were people historically who were winners who were white people.

00:52:59.000 That's idiotic.

00:53:01.000 But I guess that we're supposed to, it's all fine to try it on a bunch of black kids to say this kind of stuff.

00:53:06.000 No stereotypes, no negativity.

00:53:09.000 Let me tell you something.

00:53:10.000 Stereotypes are bad, but actual information is useful.

00:53:15.000 I promise you, you want to help the black community?

00:53:17.000 Spend a month teaching all Americans to marry the mothers of their children.

00:53:22.000 Spend a full month doing it.

00:53:23.000 Why it's good to teach the mother to marry the mother of your children?

00:53:26.000 That will do lots more for the black community and black history than learning about George Washington Carver ever would.

00:53:32.000 This is, it's just, it's a misprioritization.

00:53:34.000 And if George Washington Carver is important enough to make the history books, he should do it on his merit, not on the basis of his race.

00:53:40.000 Obviously, he wasn't inventing things as a black inventor.

00:53:42.000 He was doing it as an inventor who happened to be black.

00:53:45.000 It's just, it's insulting all the way around.

00:53:47.000 By the way, Barack Obama said the same thing about Muslims today.

00:53:50.000 I mean, it's amazing.

00:53:51.000 Barack Obama today said that we should make sure there are Muslim TV characters who are not in national security situations.

00:53:57.000 I totally agree.

00:53:59.000 I think that we should have Muslim TV characters, a plethora of Muslim TV characters, who draw Muhammad on television.

00:54:05.000 Let's start with that.

00:54:06.000 Once we do that, then we can talk about having lots of Muslim TV characters who do other things that the Muslim community deems un-Islamic.

00:54:13.000 So this whole kind of affirmative action that accrues to particular cultures or particular races is silly.

00:54:21.000 Merit before diversity every time.

00:54:23.000 It's as simple as that.

00:54:24.000 And merit before Trump-versity.

00:54:26.000 Just because Donald Trump lost doesn't mean that he was cheated, gang.

00:54:29.000 Well, we'll find out if he carries this forward through New Hampshire.

00:54:32.000 If so, things are going to get really, really interesting.

00:54:34.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:54:35.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - February 03, 2016

Ep. 66 - Trump Finally Goes Nuclear

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