The anti-Semitic terror attack in Jersey City and the lack of coverage of it by the media is a perfect example of why anti-Semitism in the United States needs to be the focus of all our attention, not just when it happens to be a white supremacist attack, and why the media will only cover it if the shooters happen to be white supremacists. If the shooters are white supremacists, then we will have a national conversation about President Trump, and about ideology, and we'll have a conversation about the tenor of our politics. But if they are Jewish terrorists, then the media won't cover it. Ben Shapiro explains why this is a problem, and how the media should have been much more interested in covering it, not less interested. This show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Stop putting your online data at risk! Get protected at ExpressVpn.com/ProtectYourData and get protected against online data theft at Parcast Connect with me on social media using the hashtag and let me know what you think of the show! Tweet me if you have any thoughts or suggestions on what you d like to see me cover in the next episode of The Ben Shapiro Show! or any other stories you think I should cover on the show. Timestamps: 4:00 - President Trump fights back against the impeachment of the Democrats' impeachment. 7:30 - Merriam-Webster redefines the word 9: 11:15 - What do you care about it? 14: What does the media care about? 16:40 - What does it matter about it more? 17:00 19:30 21:50 - Is it matters more than that? 22:00 | What do they care about ? 27:40 26:30 | Is it easy or not? 29:40 | What are you going to cover it more than it matters? 30:00 + 33:00 Is it more important? 35: Is it better than they do it better? 36:00 Do you care more than them than they don t care? 33:10 ? 35:00 Or do you think it s better than them? 37: What are they better than that ? 40:00? 41:00 Does it matter? 45:00 Are they more important than them or do they have a problem with it?
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00:00:21.000OK, so we're going to get to all the impeachment related news of the day, but there are a couple of stories that we need to comment on right at the top here, because the media malfeasance here is utterly stunning, utterly stunning.
00:00:32.000And the malfeasance of many on the left is utterly stunning.
00:00:35.000The stories that I'm talking about, they're dual stories and they're sort of connected by the coverage of anti-Semitism in the United States.
00:00:43.000Story number one is that there was an anti-Semitic terror attack in Jersey City yesterday.
00:00:47.000It was pretty clear from the very beginning that when somebody drives to a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, like the only kosher supermarket in the area, and then proceeds to have a shootout with police, probably they were targeting the kosher supermarket.
00:00:59.000Because that's a really random location, right?
00:01:01.000Why aren't they just walking into the local supermarket?
00:01:03.000There are tons of supermarkets in Jersey City.
00:01:05.000You want to have a shootout with the cops?
00:01:09.000As a Jew, your first suspicion, if somebody holes up in a synagogue and starts shooting at the cops, or if somebody holes up in a Jewish supermarket, in a kosher supermarket, is that it's a terror attack.
00:01:18.000And we saw the exact same thing happen in France a few years back, after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, I believe it was, when the suspect ended up driving over to a kosher supermarket and holing up there, and then Barack Obama idiotically suggested that these shooters had randomly holed up in a kosher supermarket.
00:01:37.000On the list of circumstances, it is very unlikely that in a vast shootout with police, you just randomly end up with the only kosher supermarket in Jersey City.
00:01:44.000So as it turns out, it was not random.
00:01:46.000It turns out that the shooters in this particular case hold up at a kosher supermarket and proceeded to shoot at the cops.
00:01:51.000Six people are dead, including the two shooters.
00:01:54.000There is apparently a police officer, a 15-year veteran of the force with five children, According to NBC News, we are now finding out who these suspects are.
00:02:01.000There was no coverage of it for nearly 24 hours.
00:02:32.000I don't mention the names of shooters or mass killers on my program.
00:02:36.000But the suspect were apparently one-time followers of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement.
00:02:42.000And the male suspect, there's a male suspect and a female suspect, Apparently they were black, which is only relevant insofar as the media will only cover this stuff or have national conversations on anti-Semitism if the shooters happen to be white supremacists.
00:02:54.000If the shooters happen to be white supremacists, or can in any way be blamed on President Trump, then we'll have a national conversation about President Trump and about ideology, and we'll have a conversation about the tenor of our politics.
00:03:05.000If, however, there's a radical spike in anti-Semitism in, say, New York City, which there has been in the past several years.
00:03:09.000Jews in Williamsburg being beaten on the streets in huge numbers.
00:03:13.000If that happens, then the media don't cover it.
00:03:27.000Well, maybe the pattern is the anti-Semitism.
00:03:29.000Maybe the pattern doesn't have to be your preferred mode of antisemitism that you can blame on somebody else.
00:03:34.000There's a very easy way to tell whether people care about Jew hatred.
00:03:37.000Do they care about it when the person who is committing the Jew hatred happens to be more politically aligned with them than the opposite?
00:03:45.000Okay, do you care about anti-semitic attacks if it happens to be a white supremacist, or do you only care about anti-semitic attacks if it happens to be a person on the left, or vice versa?
00:03:53.000If the answer is only one or the other, it means you don't care about anti-semitism.
00:03:58.000It means that you only care about the political hay that can be made from talking about anti-semitism.
00:04:04.000That the male, in this case, was a one-time follower of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement.
00:04:08.000For people who don't know the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, it's a nonsensical mishmash of horrible stereotypical racism and also a bunch of nonsense garnered from bad readings of the Bible.
00:04:35.000Inside the van used by the shooters was a note with religious writings according to the three sources.
00:04:40.000Jersey City Mayor Stephen Fulop said in a news conference on Wednesday morning, security footage from the Tuesday incident showed the shooters traveling slowly through the streets in a U-Haul van, stopping outside the store armed with long guns and immediately opening fire.
00:04:51.000So obviously they were targeting the location.
00:04:53.000Public safety director James Shea said, there were multiple other people on the street.
00:04:56.000There were many other targets available to them that they bypassed to attack that place.
00:05:01.000So it was clearly that was their target.
00:05:03.000They intended to harm people inside there.
00:05:06.000Shea emphasized the shooter's motive is not yet clear and is under investigation.
00:05:09.000Yes, I am sure that they just really, really, really did not like the matzo ball soup that they had obtained from the kosher store three weeks earlier.
00:05:22.000And of course, the Black Hebrew Israelite movement has had serious problems with anti-Semitism for a very, very long time.
00:05:27.000It is rare that you're going to hear me cite the Southern Poverty Law Center, because the Southern Poverty Law Center is fond of calling basically everybody who is right of center a white supremacist.
00:05:35.000But, their coverage of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement is actually true.
00:05:39.000They point out that the black supremacist wing of the Hebrew-Israelite movement is spreading and its leaders are growing increasingly militant.
00:05:47.000And they talk about the growth of the black Hebrew-Israelite movement.
00:05:52.000It's a black nationalist theology dating back to the 19th century.
00:05:56.000Its doctrine asserts that blacks are God's true chosen people because they, not the people known to the world today as Jews, are the real descendants of the Hebrews of the Bible.
00:06:05.000It doesn't have tons of acolytes, but Obviously, some of its fringe acolytes are dangerous.
00:06:11.000Three civilians were found dead inside the Jersey City store following what became an hours-long standoff and shootout between police and the suspect.
00:06:18.000The only victim identified so far is a Jersey City police detective, Joseph Seals, 39.
00:06:24.000He was killed after police investigating the murder approached the two shooting suspects, and one of them opened fire, hitting the officer in the head.
00:06:32.000So, here's the reason this is relevant, okay?
00:06:35.000The reason this is relevant is, number one, whenever there's an anti-Semitic terror attack, it should be relevant.
00:06:39.000Reason number two is because this will disappear within 24 hours.
00:06:42.000You will never hear about it again, right?
00:06:43.000You will still hear about the anti-Semitic attacks at Tree of Life or at the Chabad in Poway.
00:06:47.000You won't hear about this anti-Semitic attack.
00:06:49.000And that is not based on the identity of the people who were killed.
00:06:53.000It is based solely on the identity of the people who committed the attack.
00:06:56.000Because we now live in a media world in which unless you can draw a narrative that you like from the particular act of anti-Semitism, you don't cover it.
00:07:06.000Again, it was pretty obvious as soon as this happened at a kosher supermarket what exactly was going on.
00:07:10.000It was just a question as to who did it.
00:07:12.000But that doesn't change the nature of the attack.
00:07:14.000Wait until you hear what Bill de Blasio, that tool bag of stupid, actually tweeted about this.
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00:08:59.000Anti-semitic attacks in New York have spiked radically under Mayor Bill de Blasio, but apparently he's only noticing now that anti-semitism is a thing.
00:09:08.000Oh, isn't that nice that Bill de Blasio is finally catching on?
00:09:14.000Demonstrating once again that it only, when it comes to anti-semitism, it's only useful to people who don't care about anti-semitism if it can be blamed on people on the other side.
00:09:25.000Okay, now, I want to juxtapose the coverage of this anti-Semitic terror attack by black Hebrew Israelites in Jersey City with the coverage of an executive order from President Trump yesterday.
00:09:36.000So, President Trump comes out with an executive order.
00:09:40.000I had heard about it a little bit in advance and the executive order is basically designed to extend title six protections on college campus to Jews.
00:09:49.000So title six protections on college campuses are basically designed to protect against discrimination based on Shared ancestry, ethnic characteristics, race, national origin.
00:10:00.000So if a school is deemed to not take seriously racism, it could lose its federal funding.
00:10:04.000So there's a racist incident that takes place on campus, the school doesn't do a full investigation, the school could lose its federal funding.
00:10:10.000If there is an attack on not just black Native American people, there's an attack on Latino people on college campuses.
00:10:19.000If there's any of that, and the school doesn't take it seriously, it could lose its Title VI federal funding.
00:10:24.000Well, going all the way back to the Obama administration, there was a Department of Education policy that stated that discrimination on the basis of, quote, shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics, actual or perceived, if that's not taken seriously by the school, they could lose federal funding.
00:11:07.000Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects students from race, color, and national origin discrimination.
00:11:12.000This prohibition encompasses discrimination, including harassment, based on a student's actual or perceived shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics, or citizenship or residency in a country with a dominant religion or distinct religious identity.
00:11:24.000The DOE explicitly said, These laws protect students who are or are perceived to be members of a religious group, such as Buddhist, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, and Sikhs, from discrimination on any of the bases described above.
00:11:37.000Title VI prohibits discrimination against students of any religion when the discrimination involves racial, ethnic, or ancestral epithets or slurs, how a person or group looks, dresses, or speaks if linked to ethnicity or ancestry, potential or allegedly inherited traits, stereotypes about people who share certain ancestral or ethnic characteristics.
00:11:56.000So the school violates Title VI when harassing conduct on the basis of these things is sufficiently serious as to limit or deny a student's ability to participate in or benefit from an educational program, for example.
00:12:07.000So the school doesn't do anything to crack down and students feel discriminated against.
00:12:10.000It's basically sexual harassment law applied to racial or ethnic harassment on college campuses.
00:12:17.000Okay, so President Trump then promulgates an executive order.
00:12:21.000And listen to the way that the New York Times covers this executive order, because it is some of the worst media coverage I've ever heard, and it prompts some of the stupidest claims by people who hate Trump that I have ever heard.
00:12:33.000And then people make stupid claims about Trump all the time.
00:12:35.000Trump has broken a lot of people's brains.
00:12:37.000The fact that Trump is president has made a lot of people say dumb things they would never otherwise say.
00:12:43.000So, according to the New York Times, Trump targets anti-Semitism and Israeli boycotts on college campuses.
00:12:48.000The president's order would allow the government to withhold money from campuses deemed to be biased, but critics see it as an attack on free speech.
00:12:55.000You can make a libertarian case that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act violates First Amendment prescriptions.
00:13:00.000That really, if people on college campuses decide to say racist or sexist or anti-Jewish things, anti-Semitic things, that that should be allowed because the First Amendment is not allowed.
00:13:11.000Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech, right?
00:13:15.000But if Title VI exists, it should apply to Jews the same way that it applies to black people or Latino people or Native Americans or Sikhs or Hindus, obviously.
00:13:24.000So, here's what the New York Times says.
00:13:25.000Now, this would be a good thing for Jews on campus.
00:13:42.000I know Jews on campuses like NYU who are routinely discriminated against by professors and students alike.
00:13:47.000The order will effectively interpret interpret Judaism as a race or nationality, not just a religion, to prompt a federal law penalizing colleges and universities deemed to be shirking their responsibility to foster an open climate for minority students.
00:13:59.000In recent years, the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against Israel has roiled some campuses, leaving some Jewish students feeling unwelcome or attacked.
00:14:07.000The State Department definition of anti-Semitism does encompass some anti-Israel language, meaning that if you are claiming that Israel is a racist Nazi apartheid state that is considered anti-Semitism, which it should be because it is, under State Department policy.
00:14:24.000But that does not mean that all criticism of Israel is now outlawed on college campuses or something dumb like that.
00:14:29.000If you single out Israel, among all the other states, for behavior that you don't care about from any other state, that is a form of anti-Semitism.
00:14:35.000That has always been a form of anti-Semitism.
00:14:38.000Yeah, the double standard is a form of anti-Semitism.
00:14:40.000This was acknowledged by the Obama administration.
00:15:04.000So I've gotten a lot of flack, personally, for saying that I don't care particularly much about ethnic Judaism when it comes to whether I take someone's opinion seriously on Judaism.
00:15:13.000I don't care what Noam Chomsky has to say about Judaism.
00:15:16.000The fact that he was born Jewish really has very little to do with any of his opinions on Judaism.
00:15:23.000When I'm talking about people who are speaking about the Jewish mission, or Jewish ideology, or Jewish philosophy, I'm going to take more seriously people who take Jewishness more seriously.
00:15:33.000But when it comes to anti-Semitism, which is what this EO is about, when it comes to characterizing Jews, obviously Jews are an ethnicity, obviously Jews are a nationality, and Jewish nationhood has been a part of religious Jewish thought since literally the Bible.
00:15:49.000When it talks about Am Yisrael, that means the nation of Israel.
00:15:54.000Okay, so the idea that Trump did something new by labeling Judaism race, nationality, and religion in the United States, that's nothing new at all.
00:16:04.000Nor is that meant to take Jews and then put them in a separate category.
00:16:08.000Now, as we'll see, because their brains are broken and they have lost all, I mean, like, they've lost all control of their mental functions, have decided that it is anti-Semitic for Trump to protect Jews on college campuses by acknowledging that anti-Semites treat them as a people despite their religiosity.
00:16:24.000I've been told by left-wing Jews, by the way, left-wing Jews who aren't religious, Secular Jews.
00:16:28.000How dare you connect Jewishness with Judaism?
00:16:31.000How dare you, Ben Shapiro, you keep saying that you are more Jewish if you actually care about Judaism.
00:16:39.000Right, you're just as much of an ethnic Jew as I am.
00:16:42.000But there's another element, which is religious Judaism.
00:16:44.000So I've been criticized for conflating Jewishness with Jewish religion.
00:16:51.000I'm not saying that it's exclusively Jewish religion, but yes, Jewish religion plays a part in how Jewish you are, obviously, in terms of your practice, or your philosophy, or your ideology.
00:16:59.000But left-wing Jews will say, you know, you have no more basis to speak about Judaism than I do, even though I've never read the Bible and don't care about Judaism.
00:17:06.000Now they're taking precisely the opposite tack.
00:17:08.000Now they are saying that if Trump says what they say, right?
00:17:11.000If Trump says, right, Jewishness is about more than just your religious practice, they go, oh, anti-Semitic.
00:17:15.000Now you're labeling us a people apart.
00:17:17.000And now you're preparing an anti-Semitic attack.
00:17:18.000Wait until you hear this unbelievable idiocy, which, by the way, is also a complete perversion of the nature of an executive order designed to protect Jews on college campuses who are very much under attack on college campuses right now.
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00:19:21.000And this is what secular Jews have found out throughout history.
00:19:23.000Throughout history, this has been the truth.
00:19:25.000Okay, so, the left wing comes out in force against Trump's EO, designed to protect Jews, calling Trump the real anti-Semite.
00:19:31.000So the same people who, 24 hours from now, will be completely ignoring the Black Hebrew Israelite massacre at this kosher supermarket.
00:19:38.000They will be the same exact people are going to be ripping on Trump as an anti-Semite for promulgating an EO that protects Jews on college campuses.
00:20:14.000And then you get Biana Golodryga, who's a CNN senior analyst, and she tweets out, the intent may be admirable, but the defining label is very Soviet.
00:20:23.000Because the Soviets used to put on their passports that if you were Jewish, they would define your nationality not as Soviet, but as Jewish.
00:20:31.000Okay, but that's not what Trump is doing here!
00:20:34.000He's acknowledging that Judaism, that being a Jew, is not just being a religious Jew, but if you are a secular Jew, if you are an ethnic Jew, that you are also counted as Jew for purposes of protection under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
00:20:44.000He's not saying you're a people a part to be deported or some such crap.
00:21:01.000Andrea Pitzer, who writes books on the concentration camps, she actually tweeted out, Hey, you know this whole thing where an authoritarian personality who's embraced white supremacists on staff decides to designate Jews a separate population category might have some ramifications down the line.
00:21:18.000Jews are... So now you've got secular Jews who are telling me five seconds ago that I was putting too much focus on Jewish philosophy and religion.
00:21:41.000Okay, and this was the hot trending meme on Twitter last night.
00:21:45.000It was the hot meme on Twitter last night.
00:21:47.000You have to be so ignorant, like, read a damn book, you idiots!
00:21:52.000Zach Beauchamp, who Matt Iglesias is the Ralph Wiggum of the internet over at Vox.com.
00:21:58.000Zach Beauchamp is like his more ignorant younger brother.
00:22:02.000He tweeted out the leader of a heavily Christian party using a nonsensical definition of Judaism to justify a policy that would be disproportionately used to silence speech from young Muslims.
00:22:42.000Either the ethnic Judaism is actually a thing or it's not a thing.
00:22:46.000You can't, like, this is utterly nonsensical.
00:22:48.000People hit their heads or they're just damn liars, which is really what this is about.
00:22:53.000Abba Eban, who is the former foreign minister of Israel, one of the great voices in Jewish history, he was asked about Judaism at one point by Mike Wallace.
00:23:01.000He said, it's a religion, it's a peoplehood, it's a civilization, it's a faith, it's a memory.
00:23:04.000It's a world of thought and spirit and action and it cannot be restrictively defined.
00:25:59.000Okay, so what exactly is in this executive order?
00:26:01.000So we were informed by the New York Times it was going to quash free speech and also that it was President Trump doing something totally wild about Jewish nationality, which again is insane.
00:26:13.000By the authority vested in me as President, by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows.
00:26:21.000My administration is committed to combating the rise of anti-semitism and anti-semitic incidents in the United States and around the world.
00:26:27.000Anti-semitic incidents have increased since 2013, and students in particular continue to face anti-semitic harassment in schools and on university and college campuses.
00:26:35.000Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance.
00:26:44.000While Title VI does not cover discrimination based on religion, individuals who face discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin do not lose protection under Title VI for also being a member of a group that shares common religious practices.
00:26:56.000Discrimination against Jews may give rise to a Title VI violation when the discrimination is based on an individual's race, color, or national origin.
00:27:04.000It shall be the policy of the Executive Branch to enforce Title VI against prohibited forms of discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism as vigorously as against all other forms of discrimination prohibited And then they talk about how they are going to define all of this.
00:27:19.000The non-legally binding working definition of anti-Semitism adopted on May 26th, 2016 by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which states, anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.
00:27:30.000Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and or their property toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.
00:27:39.000And the contemporary examples of anti-Semitism identified by the International Holocaust Loss Remembrance Association, to the extent those examples are useful, agencies should So this isn't even going to crack down on anti-Israel speech.
00:27:55.000It is specifically designed to go after anti-Semitic conduct on college campuses.
00:28:00.000Again, in line with the Obama Department of Education.
00:28:03.000There's not even a mention of Israel anywhere in the EO.
00:28:07.000And this drove people off the edge, because people have lost their damn minds, and because apparently, Trump bad, Trump bad man, orange bad, very bad, Trump bad man, orange.
00:28:20.000Okay, now, meanwhile, the impeachment effort moves forward.
00:28:24.000If you think that Trump derangement syndrome ain't a thing, the entire first half of the show has been about Trump derangement syndrome, okay?
00:28:30.000Now, Trump derangement syndrome in practice.
00:28:32.000So the impeachment is moving forward, despite the fact that Democrats don't actually have grounds for the impeachment.
00:28:37.000Doug Collins of Georgia, he said yesterday, and he is correct, that the grounds for impeachment are not only weak, they are pretty much undefined.
00:28:45.000Here is Doug Collins pointing out that the abuse of power charge is about as vague as it gets.
00:28:50.000Abuse of power is the most ambiguous, vague reference to an impeachment you could ever have.
00:29:15.000By the way, even Democrats are recognizing that these things are incredibly vague, and you're seeing an argument break out on the left over impeachment.
00:29:21.000Should we have broadened this out to include the Mueller stuff just so we can kind of throw the kitchen sink in there?
00:29:51.000So, you know, I think there were probably elements of, you know, a conspiracy to commit bribery that were clearly, you know, articulated during the during the depositions.
00:30:04.000OK, so he's saying we should have gone with bribery.
00:30:06.000The problem is they didn't have the elements of bribery, so they couldn't go with bribery.
00:30:09.000On this basis, Mitch McConnell in the Senate, he's saying, listen, there are not 67 votes here.
00:30:26.000However, we are obligated under the Constitution to turn to it when it comes over, and we will.
00:30:32.000Okay, on this basis, a small group of Democrats in the House are recognizing that this is a loser.
00:30:36.000The polls are turning against impeachment.
00:30:38.000People don't think there's much there there.
00:30:40.000And they certainly don't think that this is worthy of impeachment as a general rule.
00:30:43.000Like, the people who hate Trump want him impeached, but that's just because they don't want him to be president.
00:30:46.000Not because they actually believe that this amounts to an impeachable offense, which is why Democrats in swing districts are actually militating against impeachment and in favor of censure, which would have been the Democrats' strongest move here, right?
00:30:57.000They would have had to put the Republicans on record either backing Trump's play or not backing Trump's play, but without any real ramifications for Trump other than sort of general political disapproval.
00:31:06.000Now, because they reached for impeachment on this thing, they're not going to get anything from any Republicans, and even swing Democrats are a little bit uneasy about this.
00:31:13.000A group of about 10 lawmakers, according to Politico, including Representatives Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, Kurt Schrader of Oregon, Anthony Brindisi of New York, and Ben McAdams of Utah, they say, yeah, censure would have been a better play here.
00:31:24.000Schrader said, I think it's certainly appropriate and might be a little more bipartisan.
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00:34:30.000Okay, so the Democrats, as you can see, are just in a bit of disarray with regard to exactly how So you've got Thomas Friedman saying you must impeach Trump to save America.
00:34:45.000Thomas Friedman, who's most often seen basically world-traveling at the behest of particular governments and then writing sophomoric drool pieces about those governments.
00:34:54.000So he'll visit China, they'll put him up at a nice hotel, he'll be like, China is the wave of the future.
00:34:58.000Then he'll head over to Iran, and they'll put him up at a nice hotel, he'll be like, The Iranian people love the Americans.
00:35:02.000And then he'll head on over to Saudi Arabia and do the exact same thing.
00:35:07.000In any case, Thomas Friedman has a column today saying President Trump not only should be impeached, he must be impeached if America's democracy is to remain intact.
00:35:17.000Because the facts here are not in doubt.
00:35:18.000Indeed, Trump's allies in the media and Congress have largely given up disputing them.
00:35:22.000Trump held up congressionally directed taxpayer funding to strengthen Ukraine's military aid against Russia until the new Ukrainian president agreed to do what Trump called a favor.
00:35:30.000Announced that Ukraine was investigating Trump's most likely opponents in the 2020 presidential election.
00:35:36.000Trump apparently thought that just the announcement would kill Biden's campaign in its crib.
00:35:39.000Well, I mean, apparently thought is you making the assumption that is critical to the impeachment case, Thomas Friedman.
00:35:45.000And then he suggests that we need impeachment because if we don't have impeachment, then the election of 2020 will be illegitimate.
00:35:53.000The integrity of our elections would be shattered.
00:35:55.000We would never again have a legitimate president, according to Thomas Friedman, if Trump is not impeached.
00:36:00.000Again, this is setting the narrative for the Democrats that if Trump wins in 2020, then it's not legit.
00:36:05.000Again, I've been saying for the past week, this is dangerous stuff.
00:36:08.000The Democrats thought this was dangerous stuff as of 2015.
00:36:11.000Now the Democrats have refused to accept any election they lose.
00:36:14.000All elections they lose are stolen from them.
00:36:16.000And all elections they win are the will of the people.
00:36:19.000Hey, but the actual argument over exactly how broad or narrow the impeachment should be is a rich one.
00:36:25.000Jamal Bowie over at New York Times, he has more confidence in the ability of Democrats to come up with impeachable offenses than the Democrats do.
00:36:32.000He has a piece today called, Two articles of impeachment for Trump are nowhere near enough.
00:36:36.000The house should take its own sweet time and investigate many more aspects of the president's perfidious behavior.
00:36:41.000Well, don't you think that if the Democrats thought they were going to be able to dig something up, they'd actually be able to do it?
00:37:12.000He's actually a silent generation meme machine.
00:37:14.000He puts out these hilarious memes on his own Twitter account.
00:37:18.000Some of them are hilarious, some of them are off-putting, but he's been doing this since the very beginning because his Twitter account is a place of fun and gimmicks.
00:37:25.000So, you remember that the media went nuts.
00:37:29.000For a picture that we created at Daily Wire that he retweeted of himself putting a medal on the dog that chased down al-Baghdadi in a cave before al-Baghdadi blew himself up.
00:37:46.000Because Trump retweeted a tweet from the Trump War Room account, which is a meme of President Trump snapping his fingers like Thanos.
00:37:55.000It's actually a meme of Thanos with Trump's head on him, snapping his fingers and making the Democrats who are calling for his impeachment disappear.
00:39:25.000I cannot believe that I'm even having to report this on the news.
00:39:37.000I can't believe I'm not taking a break with Kathy Griffin simulating sexual acts on New Year's Eve to report this on the news.
00:39:44.000I should be having a very serious conversation with Block of Wood Chris Cuomo right now about the legality of impeachment, not about a Trump tweet.
00:40:28.000Okay, meanwhile, President Trump was giving a rally in Pennsylvania, and honestly, he seems like he's in a bit of a good mood because Trump actually likes the combat, right?
00:43:16.000So the mainstream media headline was that the inspector general, Michael Horowitz, Had found that there was no bias inside the FBI with regard to these cases, as I pointed out, that was not actually true.
00:43:28.000It just the only standard that was being used by Michael Horowitz was didn't meet the baseline level of legality, meaning that if the people who were biased could make a claim that they were doing something legal.
00:43:59.000Okay, so President Trump was going hard after the FBI last night saying that the scum at the FBI destroyed people's lives.
00:44:04.000Presumably he is talking here about George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, right, who were dragged through the mud over what apparently amounted to nothing.
00:44:35.000Okay, well, you know, were these people scum or were they just bad at their jobs?
00:44:40.000Whatever the motives, it is pretty obvious that the divide in America is going to grow larger.
00:44:43.000William Barr, the Attorney General, rightly suggests that the FBI launched this probe into an actual opposing political campaign on flimsy evidence.
00:44:52.000So he made a statement about the IG report basically saying we disagree that this investigation ever should have been launched.
00:44:59.000The IG was only finding whether a baseline level, it actually says the words low level in the IG report, a low level of suspicion is necessary to launch an investigation.
00:45:09.000And Barr says even that low level by my likes was not met.
00:45:12.000He says the FBI launched this thing on the basis of nearly nothing.
00:45:16.000Presidential campaigns are frequently in contact with foreign persons.
00:45:20.000And indeed, in most campaigns, there are signs of illegal foreign money coming in.
00:45:26.000And we don't automatically assume that the campaigns are nefarious and traitors and acting in league with foreign powers.
00:45:35.000There has to be some basis before we use these very potent powers in our core First Amendment activity.
00:45:42.000And here, I felt this was very flimsy.
00:45:46.000Okay, and then William Barr also suggested that the Trump campaign was spied on.
00:45:49.000So last night the media were saying, no, Trump claimed that he was spied on by the FBI.
00:45:57.000When you send confidential human sources to infiltrate a candidate's campaign, and when you wiretap members of his foreign policy aid team in an attempt to get him, that kind of is spying, is it not?
00:47:12.000Here's Barr saying that the greatest threat to American democracy was not anything Trump was doing in 2016.
00:47:16.000It was the militarization of law enforcement against Trump's campaign in 2016.
00:47:22.000I think probably from a civil liberties standpoint, the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state, principally the law enforcement agencies and the intelligence agencies, both to spy on political opponents, but also to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of the election.
00:47:46.000As far as I'm aware, this is the first time in history that this has been done to a presidential campaign.
00:47:52.000Okay, so Barr presumably will bring out additional evidence of this along with John Durham in the coming weeks, so we'll keep an eye on that.
00:47:58.000Meanwhile, it's nearing the end of the year, and so we get all of these awards given to various political figures.
00:48:03.000Time magazine gave its Person of the Year to Greta Thunberg, no shock there.
00:48:06.000Greta Thunberg has been held up by the media as an example.
00:48:16.000It's also trollery from Time trying to draw fire because they understand some people on the right will then attack Greta Thunberg and then they can use that as an excuse to say that people on the right are intolerant of children or whatever it is.
00:48:26.000Listen, Greta Thunberg is doing what is right according to her own lights.
00:48:29.000I think that she is wrong about a lot of this stuff.
00:48:31.000I don't think that what she's doing is particularly useful.
00:48:33.000I don't think that driving ire about a problem that has no clear and obvious solution is particularly useful, but that's what Time Magazine does.
00:48:41.000The other one that is going to draw not nearly as much attention, but it's actually kind of more important for the country and the world moving forward, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has now named the word they, it's word of the year.
00:48:54.000Now you're saying to yourself, why is the word they?
00:49:05.000The definition of they as a non-binary pronoun was added to three other separate definitions of the word in September.
00:49:11.000Apparently, Merriam-Webster said that the word of the year winner was determined by data.
00:49:16.000Key moments cited by the dictionary publisher where searches spiked were January's Paris Fashion Week featuring non-binary model Oslo Grace, U.S.
00:49:23.000Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal's April statement about her child being gender nonconforming, and June's Pride celebrations.
00:49:30.000Emily Brewster, who's the senior editor at Merriam-Webster said, Pronouns are among the language's most commonly used words, and like other common words, they tend to have been mostly ignored by dictionary users.
00:49:39.000But over the past year or so, as people have increasingly encountered the non-binary use, we've seen searches for they grow dramatically.
00:49:46.000Yes, because everyone was searching to see if everyone had lost their collective mind, and until Merriam-Webster changed the dictionary to reflect a horrible grammatical usage, the answer was no.
00:49:56.000So we have now changed the dictionary to meet the stupidity of an ideology that suggests that you can identify as multiple genders at once, or no gender at all.
00:50:06.000All of this is just sheer nonsense, but good to know that the authoritative institutions in our society are bowing before it.
00:50:22.000At the Lakers game a few nights ago, there's a singer named Lizzo, who I've really not been familiar with, and she was wearing, like, I don't even know where you get this particular outfit.
00:50:33.000Because it seems like not a great outfit, to be honest with you.
00:50:36.000She was wearing what appeared to be a dress that covered her front.
00:50:40.000Then she turned around when she saw she was on camera, and it turns out that she was wearing a thong, and she started shaking her rather ample rear, which is not, listen, You know, beautiful is in many sizes, but she begins shaking her groove thing while wearing a thong in the face of the camera to be put up on the billboard.
00:50:59.000So she basically does a stripper act and she's twerking on the billboard.
00:51:03.000If you can't see this, here she is dancing and then suddenly you have her twerking Doing a fully sexualized twerk in a thong at the Lakers game and people laughing and cheering.
00:51:15.000Oh, the hysterical joy of all of this.
00:51:17.000Now, if you point out that you probably should not, like, you wouldn't have strippers at a game.
00:51:21.000Like, strippers at a game actually twerking on the dance floor would be a bad one, right?
00:51:39.000Guilt seems like a perfectly fine thing.
00:51:41.000If you're doing something that affects children, like if you get naked in front of children at a Lakers game, That doesn't seem empowering as much as it just seems like you being incredibly self-absorbed and not thinking about anybody whose eyeballs are on the screen.
00:51:54.000But, in any case, this was seen as a sign of body positivity, specifically because she is ample, right?
00:51:58.000Because she is not a skinny woman, because she is not an in-shape human being, this is now seen as empowering because she's comfortable in her own body.
00:52:07.000Well, listen, I'm glad for her that she feels secure in her own body.
00:52:10.000She's made a lot of money off of her talents.
00:52:13.000I don't know her talents because I'm not familiar with her work, but the fact that this is now seen as a form of empowerment, let's put it this way.
00:52:20.000If you're an overweight person and you're required, Lizzo, taking off the back of her dress and shaking her rather large butt in a thong in order for you to feel better about yourself, I would suggest that you surround yourself with family and friends who care about you.
00:52:42.000So Megan Rapinoe was given the Sports Illustrated Person of the Year or Athlete of the Year.
00:52:48.000Not a shock, she had a great Women's World Cup.
00:52:50.000Also, she happens to be a political figure and Sports Illustrated has become, effectively speaking, Time Magazine with basketballs.
00:52:58.000And, you know, just like ESPN has become MSNBC with footballs.
00:53:01.000So Sports Illustrated gives the Sports Person of the Year to Megan Rapinoe, deserved on the sports level, not really deserved on the political level, and they get exactly what they deserve.
00:53:11.000Megan Rapinoe then rips into Sports Illustrated, which I should have put this under things I like, frankly, because I do like this.
00:53:17.000I think that when people get exactly what they deserve, it's quite wonderful.
00:53:19.000So according to Mediaite, she got up and apparently they say, as one of just four women to win the Sports Person of the Year award, she wasted no time in putting Sports Illustrated in the hot seat, saying in an acceptance speech, is it truth that I'm only the fourth woman deserving of this award?
00:53:46.000So, she's being given an award for her social justice activism, and she immediately swivels and clocks the people giving her the award, suggesting that they are, in fact, a bunch of sexists.
00:53:56.000That they haven't given more awards to women in the past.
00:54:00.000So, first of all, I just said, I think that on a comparative level, she's deserving of the award.
00:54:04.000Who else would be deserving of the award last year?
00:54:06.000There are a few other people, maybe, but the fact is, And she's as deserving as anybody in her sphere, right?
00:54:12.000If you are ranking people by their sphere.
00:54:13.000If we were just gonna go like athlete of the year, like best athlete of the last year, it would never be a woman.
00:54:19.000The reason being, the bell curve for physical performance when you get to the very edge of the bell curve is all men.
00:54:24.000Because men are built differently than women.
00:54:27.000But, if we are talking about in their respective sports people who are important to their particular industry, of course Megan Rapinoe deserves the award.
00:54:33.000With that said, the fact that she is now dictating to Sports Illustrated how they got to staff editorially is amazing to me, and I kind of love it.
00:54:40.000I kind of love the fact that these Sports Illustrated, SJW woke idiots Who are like, Megan Rapinoe, we have to give her the award because she's so, she hates Trump, she talks about gay marriage, she says that America sucks, she'll kneel for the, oh my god, so much heroine, so much heroism, and then she's like, well how about you guys?
00:55:51.000Your head is as empty as an airplane hangar in the middle of the day if you believe that Megan Rapinoe is uncomfortable with attention.
00:55:59.000This is a person who is attention-seeking beyond all people, but she says she's enjoying all this unprecedented and frankly a little bit uncomfortable attention and personal success in large part due to my activism off the field.
00:56:10.000Colin Kaepernick is effectively banned.
00:56:12.000She says, I see no clearer example of that system being alive and well than me standing before you right now.
00:56:19.000The fact that she won an award, I'm going to use this opportunity to rip on Glamour because you guys didn't do enough for Colin Kaepernick!
00:56:28.000Once you give the SJWs an inch, they will- The alligator will eat you.
00:56:32.000It may eat you last, but the faster you get in the alligator's crosshairs, by the way, the faster you're in the line of sight of the SJW alligator, the faster you're gonna get eaten.
00:56:41.000So Sports Illustrated got the treatment.
00:56:46.000I only hope that Megan Rapinoe continues to do this.
00:56:48.000I hope she continues to wipe the floor with all of the SJW editors who worship at her altar, and then they come before her to kiss the ring, and she immediately slaps them.
00:57:03.000I think the only, the only, automatically under Article 29 of the Constitution of the United States, she has now become the editor of Sports Illustrated.
00:57:12.000It's sort of like the old code of chivalry.
00:57:16.000That if you had a fight with somebody, it's the king's justice.
00:58:26.000President Trump is riding high on an impeachment approval rating bump, but the administration isn't resting on its laurels.
00:58:33.000From the campaign to the DOJ to foreign policy, Trump is getting more aggressive in taking on his adversaries, demonstrating an eternal political truth.
00:58:43.000If you come at the king, you best not miss.