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00:00:15.000So the big story of the day continues to be the reverberations, the fallout from Israel rejecting the request to visit by Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, two anti-Semitic members of Congress.
00:00:25.000Now, this is being completely misportrayed by the media.
00:00:28.000I mean, the same media that pretends that every time Hamas organizes a terrorist attempt on the Israeli border, and then Israel has to shoot people attempting to invade its country, that Israel is the aggressor.
00:00:38.000That same media that routinely defends the Palestinian Authority, which is a terrorist entity, which funds terrorists, which names streets after terrorists.
00:00:45.000That same media that champions those folks, that they are actually championing Ilhan Omar and Rashida's leadership.
00:01:01.000Times had run a photo on the front page suggesting that a picture of an Israeli member of the IDF protecting a Jew from being beaten by Arab Muslims in Israel was actually a picture of an Israeli member of the military beating an Arab Muslim in Israel.
00:01:17.000They cancelled their membership to the L.A.
00:01:20.000The media bias against Israel is longstanding, and it has not abated in any way, shape, or form.
00:01:26.000So the media coverage, naturally, of the Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib fake visit to Israel is similarly egregious.
00:01:33.000All the headlines are, Israel rejects American congresspeople.
00:01:36.000And the members of the media are also buying the line put out there by Tlaib and Omar that Israel is rejecting them because they are Muslim.
00:01:43.000Which is eminently untrue and insane to boot.
00:01:49.000There are Arab Muslim parties sitting in the Knesset right now.
00:01:52.000Members of those parties have called for the destruction of the state of Israel, but because those members of the party happen to be Israeli Arab citizens, they are free to say whatever they want.
00:02:00.000There are Israeli Arab members of the, not only of the Knesset, but of the Israeli Supreme Court.
00:02:05.000So all of this talk about Israel is wildly discriminatory against Muslims.
00:02:09.000Arabic is an official language in Israel.
00:02:14.000Prayer on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism.
00:02:17.000You have to have a special armed guard to go up on the holiest site in Judaism, controlled by Israel, in order to pray up there out of respect for the Islamic Waqf.
00:02:26.000When there are riots up there every year or so, the Israelis basically protect the right of the Muslim population on top of the Temple Mount to riot.
00:02:35.000The Islamic Waqf has been destroying historic artifacts up there, and the Israeli government is doing nothing about it.
00:02:42.000The notion that Israel doesn't tolerate dissent is obviously insane.
00:02:45.000The only people who could believe that are people who have never been to Israel or watched Israeli media coverage.
00:02:50.000Haaretz, which is a major Israeli newspaper, is not even comparable to the New York Times.
00:02:55.000Haaretz's coverage of Israel is more akin to Al Jazeera than it is to the New York Times.
00:02:59.000And that is a major Israeli newspaper.
00:03:01.000So this notion that Israel can't tolerate criticism or that Israel is discriminating against Muslims is sheer absolute nonsense.
00:03:07.000And yet, that is the way the media is portraying Israel's rejection of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
00:03:13.000In reality, the reason they are rejecting Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar is it is against Israeli law for Israel to allow people into the country who seek to destroy the country through boycott, divestment, and sanctions.
00:03:22.000That is a movement that was started by terrorist sympathizers who openly wish to see Israel wiped from the map.
00:03:28.000Their idea is that if they can get the world community to leverage economic sanctions against Israel, then Israel will be greatly weakened.
00:03:38.000The leaders of the BDS movement have made no secret of the fact that they are not interested in forcing Israel to a negotiated peace with terrorists.
00:03:44.000Instead, what they are interested in is Israel not being on the map.
00:03:48.000And Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are part of that movement.
00:03:53.000Rashida Tlaib has used publicly the dual loyalty smear.
00:03:56.000Rashida Tlaib has hung out with Hamas sympathizers, with Hezbollah sympathizers, with terrorist sympathizers for large swaths of her career.
00:04:04.000I mean, going back to January, there was a report in the Times of Israel about Tlaib posing with a Hezbollah-backing anti-Israel activist named Abbas Hamideh, who actually painted a picture of her in front of the Capitol building wearing the Palestinian scarf, the Palestinian pride scarf.
00:04:21.000According to the Times of Israel back in January, an anti-Israel extremist who heads a right-to-return advocacy group, which would call for the importation of every Palestinian into Israel as citizens, which would of course destroy the Jewish nature of the state and destroy the democracy, attended a Detroit swearing-in reception and dinner party for freshman Rashida Tlaib, where he posed with her for a photograph that he tweeted.
00:04:44.000He said, I was honored to be a Congresswoman Tlaib swearing in ceremony in Detroit and private dinner afterward with the entire family, friends and activists across the country.
00:04:53.000In the picture, Hamida is holding a painting of Tlaib in front of the U.S.
00:04:56.000Capitol while she is wearing a thobe, a traditional Palestinian gown that she wore during her swearing in on Capitol Hill.
00:05:03.000Hamida's social media presence is noteworthy for its virulent attacks on the Jewish state.
00:05:08.000He has tweeted things like criminal Zionism will eventually die, just like Nazism.
00:05:12.000No racist and supremacist political ideology should maintain itself.
00:05:16.000Israel does not have a right to exist.
00:05:17.000This is a person posing with Rashida Tlaib at her inauguration, at her swearing-in.
00:05:23.000And then she also posed with a second terrorist supporter.
00:05:26.000This is according to Stephen Emerson, IPT News.
00:05:30.000Two months after that, in March, she posed with Nader Jalajal, a Palestinian activist who last year mourned the death of a terrorist who led a shooting attack that murdered a rabbi.
00:05:40.000So, Rashida Tlaib has not been particularly shy about her associations, neither has Ilhan Omar.
00:05:45.000And they weren't being very shy about their associations on this particular trip either.
00:05:49.000Because as it turns out, the Israeli government, and I've spoken with members of the Israeli government, members of the Trump administration about all this, the Israeli government was fully prepared to let Omar and Tlaib visit.
00:06:39.000And as we will see, the United States actually has a record of barring Israeli legislators from entering the United States if they feel they have terrorized.
00:06:55.000The whole thing is manipulative garbage on the part of both Omar and Tlaib, which became absolutely clear today when Rashida Tlaib made it clear that she hates the Jews more than she loves her own grandmother.
00:07:06.000That is pretty obvious from her behavior today.
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00:08:28.000What exactly were these illustrious Congresswomen, these anti-Semitic Congresswomen?
00:08:33.000And notice, by the way, media bias in its purest form.
00:08:37.000When Donald Trump says something that is racially insensitive or xenophobic, the media rush to call it racist, which is an editorial judgment.
00:08:45.000And in fact, when the New York Times prints a headline after the El Paso shooting, Trump urges unity versus racism, people lose their minds because you're not even allowed to suggest the truth, which is that he was urging unity against racism.
00:08:56.000In other words, newspapers will characterize what Trump says.
00:09:02.000They'll call him a racist because they feel the duty to do so.
00:09:04.000When Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Omar say something anti-Semitic, the first move of the media is to ignore that and pretend they are not saying anything anti-Semitic.
00:09:12.000And the New York Times will print headlines about how they've opened a conversation about Israeli money on Capitol Hill or some such, which is what they did after Ilhan Omar suggested that American support for Israel is all about the Benjamins.
00:09:25.000In any case, so what were Omar and Tlaib actually going to do in Israel?
00:09:27.000As I say, their itinerary was labeled a trip to Palestine, which in and of itself eliminates the Jewish state.
00:09:34.000There is no actual territory called Palestine.
00:09:37.000There are Palestinian-administered territories that are disputed under international law and that Israel claims ownership of, both historically as well as in terms of winning a war, which they did in 1967 as well as 1973.
00:09:50.000Both wars initiated by Israel's enemies.
00:09:52.000Well, what exactly was on their itinerary?
00:09:57.000Well, apparently, the office of the Prime Minister of Israel has revealed that Omar and Tlaib had plans on meeting with organizations during their visit that have expressed support for terrorism against the nation.
00:10:07.000The office of Prime Minister Netanyahu tweeted, quote, the itinerary of the two congresswomen reveals that the sole purpose of their visit is to harm Israel and increase incitement against it.
00:10:17.000In addition, the organization that is funding their trip is MIFTA, which is an avid supporter of BDS and among whose members are those who have expressed support for terrorism against Israel.
00:10:30.000That's a non-governmental organization that is extremely anti-Semitic.
00:10:34.000They have ties to terrorist sympathizers.
00:10:36.000They have falsely accused Jews of using the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover.
00:10:40.000Mifda, this group that these women were traveling with, has also reportedly praised suicide bombers and deems terrorists as being national heroes.
00:10:48.000One of the most stunning findings on the group, according to Ryan Saavedra at Daily Wire, is that they have on their website promoted content from a neo-Nazi organization which itself promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that Jews control the media.
00:11:00.000The author of the article in question that was promoted on the MIFTA website is the research staff of National Vanguard Books, which is a neo-Nazi organization according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
00:11:11.000They actually put out a piece on their website talking about the evils of miscegenation.
00:11:20.000A closer look at the travel itinerary for Omar and Talib shows they also plan on meeting with additional extremist organizations, including the Defense for Children International Palestine, which has ties to terrorism.
00:11:31.000NGO Monitor reports that DCIP leads the campaign exploiting children to promote demonization of Israel and is linked to the PFLP terror group.
00:11:39.000Many of its allegations are false and part of attempts to smear Israel with allegations of war crimes and promote BDS.
00:11:45.000Several past and current DCIP board members and employees have apparent ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is a designated terror organization by the US, EU, Canada, as well as Israel, and they support BDS, which Nancy Pelosi called, like, two months ago, anti-Semitic.
00:12:01.000Seth Mandel of Washington Examiner Magazine, he tweeted, One reason you won't see coverage of the organization funding Tlaib and Omar's trip is that it would undermine the narrative this is about criticism of Israeli policy.
00:12:12.000It shows the true face of BDS, blood libels, Nazi screeds, celebration of terrorists.
00:12:17.000And naturally he's right, the media have completely ignored all of this.
00:12:21.000Okay, so, President Trump had suggested that Israel bar them.
00:12:26.000And Trump is doing this for his own political reasons.
00:12:29.000One of those reasons is that President Trump would like to make Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib the faces of the Democratic Party.
00:12:35.000He wants to force Pelosi and Steny Hoyer and Chuck Schumer to all get behind the most radical members of the Democratic Party so that he can run against them.
00:12:43.000And it's not a bad domestic political strategy.
00:12:47.000It's also true that Trump happens to be morally right when he says that Israel shouldn't let these people in.
00:12:52.000OK, so I'll talk a little bit about the strategy here in a second, whether it benefits Israel, whether Israel did the politically right thing in barring these women.
00:13:00.000I think that the case is getting stronger that they did actually, as these women exposed their own agenda.
00:13:05.000But President Trump had made the very strong case that Israel shouldn't let these people and people are now in the United States.
00:13:11.000How dare he say something like really?
00:13:14.000Okay, if you're a Democrat and you went out there and suggested that Mexico shouldn't let Trump in, do you think there'd be any hubbub at all about that?
00:13:21.000Like, really, on the part of the media?
00:13:25.000If some Democrat suggested that Steve King should be barred from entry to, for example, an African nation, do you think that anybody in media or government would think that this was an element of treason?
00:13:38.000Here's Trump saying Israel shouldn't have to let in people who want to destroy it.
00:13:42.000If you look at their language, if you look at what they've said, if I ever said it, it would be a horrible month, to put it mildly.
00:13:52.000So the things that they've said, Omar, Khalid, what they've said is disgraceful.
00:13:59.000So I can't imagine why Israel would let them in.
00:14:02.000But if they want to let them in, they can, but I can't imagine why they would do it.
00:14:06.000Okay, and then he continued along those lines.
00:14:08.000He said they've said some of the worst things about Israel.
00:14:10.000Of course, everything he is saying here is 100% true.
00:14:13.000I think that if Israel allowed them to come in for the normal reasons, other than those reasons, I really believe that it would be a terrible thing for Israel.
00:14:23.000I think it would show a terrible sign.
00:14:27.000They said horrible things about Jewish people.
00:14:30.000They said horrible things about Israel and Israelis.
00:14:33.000I think it would be a terrible thing, frankly, for Israel to let these two people, who speak so badly about Israel, come in.
00:14:42.000And the media's response to how dare Trump again, if this were Barack Obama as president talking about Steve King visiting Africa, no one would think that that was a bad thing.
00:14:52.000Or if he had said that about Donald Trump visiting Mexico, right, then nobody would think that that was a bad thing, particularly in the media.
00:14:58.000In one second, I'm going to get to what the Prime Minister of Israel has to say about all of this.
00:15:01.000It is obvious what the agenda was from the start.
00:15:03.000Today, Rashida Tlaib totally exposed the agenda because she is not only a terrible person who believes terrible things, she's also a fool.
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00:16:19.000Okay, so Prime Minister Netanyahu put out this statement.
00:16:22.000No country in the world respects America and the American Congress more than the state of Israel.
00:16:26.000As a free and vibrant democracy, Israel is open to critics and criticism, with one exception.
00:16:31.000Israeli law prohibits the entry into Israel of those who call for and work to impose boycotts on Israel, as do other democracies that prohibit the entry of people who seek to harm the country.
00:16:48.000In 2012, the Obama administration barred a member of Knesset named Ben-Ari.
00:16:52.000And they did so because he was associated with the Kahanei Chai party, which is considered a terrorist organization in the United States, the Koch party.
00:16:59.000He was no longer in the Koch party, but his past with the Koch party led the United States to bar him from entry.
00:17:04.000An entire Israeli delegation then canceled its trip.
00:17:07.000This was not considered a big deal at the time because countries have rules.
00:17:12.000Prime Minister of Israel continues, Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar are leading activists in promoting the legislation of boycotts against Israel in the American Congress.
00:17:19.000Only a few days ago, we received their itinerary for their visit in Israel, which revealed that they plan to visit whose sole objective is to strengthen the boycott against us and deny Israel's legitimacy.
00:17:28.000For instance, they listed the destination of their trip as Palestine and not Israel.
00:17:32.000And unlike all Democratic and Republican members of Congress who have visited Israel, they did not request to meet any Israeli officials, either from the government or the opposition.
00:17:41.000A week ago, Israel warmly welcomed some 70 Democratic and Republican members of Congress who expressed broad bipartisan support for Israel, which was also demonstrated a month ago in a resounding bipartisan vote against BDS in Congress.
00:17:53.000However, the itinerary of the two Congresswomen reveals the sole purpose of their visit is to harm Israel and increase incitement against it.
00:18:01.000In addition, the organization funding their trip is MIFTA, which is an avid supporter of BDS and among whose members are those who have expressed support for terrorism against Israel.
00:18:09.000Therefore, the Minister of Interior has decided not to allow their visit, and I, as Prime Minister, support his decision.
00:18:15.000Nonetheless, if Congresswoman Tlaib submits a humanitarian request to visit her relatives, the Minister of Interior has announced that he will consider her request on the condition that she pledges not to act to promote boycotts against Israel during her visit.
00:18:29.000ambassador to Israel is David Friedman, and he released his own statement supporting Israel.
00:18:34.000The statement says, The United States supports and respects the decision of the government of Israel to deny entry to the Tlaib Omar delegation.
00:18:39.000The BDS movement against Israel is not free speech.
00:18:42.000It is no less than economic warfare designed to delegitimize and ultimately destroy the Jewish state.
00:18:47.000Israel properly has enacted laws to bar entry of BDS activists under those circumstances present here.
00:18:52.000And it has every right to protect its borders against those activists in the same manner as it would bar entrance with more conventional weapons.
00:18:59.000Initially, Israel had indicated it would accept the Tlaib Omar delegation and use their visit as an opportunity to engage with and educate the delegation members with regard to Israel's vibrant and robust democracy, its religious tolerance, and its ethnic diversity.
00:19:11.000Unfortunately, the itinerary of the Tlaib-Omar delegation leaves no room for that opportunity.
00:19:17.000This trip, pure and simple, is nothing more than an effort to fuel the BDS engine that Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar so vigorously support.
00:19:23.000Like the United States, Israel is a nation of laws.
00:19:25.000We support Israel's application of its laws in this case.
00:19:29.000That statement is entirely just and proper.
00:19:31.000Okay, so Ilhan Omar then responds with a completely dishonest statement, which is a giant shock knowing Ilhan Omar's history as a Congress person and before.
00:19:41.000Quote, It is an affront that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under pressure from President Trump, would deny entry to representatives of the U.S.
00:20:17.000They are banning Omar and Tlaib, not because of their Muslim heritage, not because of their religion, but because they want to destroy the state of Israel.
00:20:26.000Trump's Muslim ban is what Israel is implementing, this time against two duly elected members of Congress.
00:20:31.000Denying entry into Israel not only limits our ability to learn from Israelis, but also to enter the Palestinian territories.
00:20:37.000Okay, um, you had no intention of learning from Israelis.
00:20:39.000We saw your itinerary, so you're a liar.
00:20:41.000Sadly, she says, this is not a surprise given the public positions of Prime Minister Netanyahu, who has consistently resisted peace efforts.
00:20:48.000Two years ago, he offered to come to the table with Mahmoud Abbas and negotiate without preconditions.
00:20:53.000It turns out it's very difficult to negotiate with people who want to murder you.
00:20:56.000Restricted freedom of movement of Palestinians.
00:20:58.000That's true, because every time the security fence is opened up, people try to commit acts of terrorism.
00:21:03.000Limited public knowledge of the brutal realities of the occupation.
00:21:06.000Yeah, why don't you read Haaretz once in a while?
00:21:08.000And aligned himself with Islamophobes like Donald Trump.
00:21:19.000Nancy Pelosi, by putting this This ideologically radical, nasty human being on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs committed a great sin against the American people.
00:21:30.000Because this lady should not be anywhere near the levers of power when it comes to the delegation of foreign aid.
00:21:35.000There can be good arguments to be made about foreign aid.
00:21:39.000This is not an honest person trying to push the priorities of the United States abroad in terms of human rights, because this is the same person who says we shouldn't sanction Venezuela or Russia or China or Iran, but we should sanction Israel.
00:21:56.000By the way, this is on Nancy Pelosi and it's also on Ted Deutch, two members of Congress for the Democrats who had to sign off on this congressional delegation visiting using an NGO.
00:22:05.000That has to be signed off on by party leadership.
00:22:12.000How do we know that her statement is a bunch of crap?
00:22:14.000Well, one of the ways that we know that her statement is a bunch of crap is because Rashida Tlaib then decided that she was going to fulfill that request.
00:22:21.000She put out a bunch of tweets about how she really, really wanted to visit her city.
00:22:46.000Quote, Minister Derry, I would like to request admittance to Israel in order to visit my relatives, and specifically my grandmother who is in her 90s and lives in Beit Ur al-Fuqa.
00:22:55.000This could be my last opportunity to see her.
00:22:57.000I will respect any restrictions and will not promote boycotts against Israel during my visit.
00:23:57.000I guess I don't need to see her that much.
00:23:59.000She tweeted out, when I won, it gave the Palestinian people hope that someone will finally speak the truth about the inhumane conditions.
00:24:05.000I can't allow the state of Israel to take away that light by humiliating me and use my love for my city to bow down to their oppressive and racist policies.
00:24:31.000It is truly amazing that Rashida Tlaib would expose herself this way, but again, You give these folks on the left enough rope and they will hang themselves.
00:24:39.000She followed that up with another tweet.
00:24:41.000Silencing me and treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me.
00:24:58.000It seems like you're getting a lot of media attention.
00:24:59.000She says, I've decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in, fighting against racism, oppression, and injustice.
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00:26:46.000Okay, so, as we have now found out, Rashida Tlaib cares much more about slandering Israel than about visiting Siti, than about visiting her grandmother.
00:26:55.000It was all a bad faith effort from the beginning.
00:28:07.000You don't actually want the Democratic Party to rally around the nasty, discriminatory, gross ideology of the squad, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib in particular.
00:28:17.000So it's a dangerous game to elevate those people to a position of prominence rather than trying to force Democrats to separate off of them, which probably is what would have happened, by the way.
00:28:26.000Omar and Tlaib probably would have gone.
00:28:29.000That propaganda would have become a serious subject of controversy among the intelligentsia.
00:28:35.000But it would be obvious that it was propaganda, and then Trump could go to all the Democrats and say, guys, you really okay with this sort of propagandizing on behalf of terror?
00:28:42.000Everything I told you before about the terror-supporting groups with whom Omar and Tlaib are associated, that could have been made front-page news by President Trump.
00:28:50.000He could have done that after they went there.
00:28:53.000The preemptive bar forces a lot of Democrats to back Omar and Tlaib when they might not necessarily otherwise have done so.
00:29:00.000Anyway, this is what the Democrats do.
00:29:01.000Now, what the Democrats should do here Right.
00:29:04.000Is they should say, listen, Israel has rules.
00:29:18.000If Steve King had wanted to plan a trip to Mexico and the Mexican government said, no, not interested, I think a lot of Republicans would have gone.
00:30:30.000So Ruven Rivlin, who is the speaker of the Knesset, announced that he would ban the entire delegation of members of Knesset from attending a women's conference in Washington in retaliation.
00:30:38.000Guess who was vice president when the Obama administration barred entry to the United States for a sitting member of the Israeli parliament based on that person's viewpoint and associations?
00:31:18.000They are not going to import people to hang out with terror supporting groups.
00:31:21.000Many strong supporters of Israel will be deeply disappointed in this decision, which the Israeli government should reverse.
00:31:27.000The question is whether Omar and Tlaib should receive special dispensation because they're members of Congress, when if they were not members of Congress, they would certainly be barred.
00:31:34.000Ariel Gold is a Jewish woman who works for Code Pink, and she was barred from entry to Israel specifically because of her support for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
00:31:43.000So if she were a member of Congress, should she be allowed in now?
00:31:57.000Steini Hoyer is the House Majority Whip and he similarly put out a statement talking about how this was bad.
00:32:03.000He said the decision of the Israeli government to deny entry to Israel by two members of Congress is outrageous regardless of their itinerary or their views.
00:32:34.000Ambassador to Israel, actually I think he should resign because he doesn't seem to understand that his allegiance is to America, not to a foreign power.
00:32:41.000He should be defending the rights of Americans to travel to other countries.
00:32:44.000But the ambassador was basically saying what the President of the United States, his boss, was saying.
00:32:50.000Well, I wish President Trump would resign.
00:32:52.000I don't think he's going to do that, but certainly I can call on Ambassador Friedman to resign.
00:32:56.000His allegiance, again, is to America, not to a foreign power, and it's to the Constitution of the United States, not to the President.
00:33:04.000Okay, so the fact is that his allegiance is not really in question.
00:33:10.000You can have allegiance to the United States and also believe that Israel has no duty to import terror supporters onto its shores.
00:33:17.000Okay, Ted Luthen, he tweeted the same thing, and then he tweeted out, it has been brought to my attention, my prior tweet to the U.S.
00:33:23.000ambassador in Israel raises dual loyalty allegations that have historically caused harm to the Jewish community.
00:33:35.000So, in terms of strategy, here's the problem.
00:33:38.000There is something beneficial to Israel in having Democrats, who are weak supporters of Israel, still be titular supporters of Israel.
00:33:45.000Forcing them to back Omar and Tlaib, or putting them in a position that makes it easy for them to back Omar and Tlaib, may bear some negative fruit down the line when Omar and Tlaib gain more and more power inside the Democratic caucus, and when Democrats make clear that they're going to continue kowtowing to them.
00:34:00.000It is opening a rift that doesn't necessarily need to be open.
00:34:05.000It's been my belief that since the Obama administration, the Democratic Party has been moving radically anti-Israel, and they continue to do so.
00:34:12.000And that extends all the way to Chuck Schumer and his Democratic Party backing the Iran nuclear deal.
00:34:17.000With that said, is it a good strategic move?
00:34:21.000I'm not sure it's a good strategic move by Israel to bar Omar and Tlaib.
00:34:24.000I think there are other ways of demonstrating what Omar and Tlaib were doing.
00:34:28.000On a moral level, is there any question that Israel has the right to do this?
00:34:41.000Again, I think that the case is now moving in Israel's direction, given the fact that Rashida Tlaib has basically come out and explained that she doesn't care about visiting her grandma at all.
00:34:49.000All she cares about is slandering the state of Israel.
00:34:52.000Alrighty, in just a second, we're gonna get to a coverage shift over at the New York Times that demonstrates full-scale the insanity of our mainstream media, and how it seems that editorial is now in the control of a bunch of woke interns from Wesleyan.
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00:37:00.000In this particular conversation, I really wanted to let Piers kind of spill out his own ideas on the subject, since he let me do the same on his show.
00:37:47.000I mean, one of the beautiful things that I love about doing the Sunday Special is I really do get to hang out with people on the other side of various aisles.
00:38:07.000Also, it is that glorious time of the week when I give a shout out to a Daily Wire subscriber.
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00:38:26.000Someone has to pay the taxes for liberal policies.
00:40:25.000I felt I needed to give you that update because I was so enthusiastic yesterday on my radio show about buying Greenland that I'd feel bad if you went into the weekend thinking that was still a possibility.
00:40:33.000Meanwhile, over at the New York Times, the woke have taken over.
00:40:37.000It is amazing, very often, these sorts of ridiculous, censorious decisions that are made, I mean, at these organizations, like the Atlantic, to go after Kevin Williamson, or Business Insider, to go after Daniella Greenbaum.
00:40:53.000Those decisions are usually not made by the editors.
00:40:55.000Those decisions are being made by the interns who get the coffee.
00:40:58.000Because, very often, the editors Out of a feeling of, I need to care what my employees think, and if they're offended by somebody, then we need to change our editorial policy.
00:41:08.000That's had a major impact on how organizations run, up to and including the New York Times.
00:41:12.000According to the Washington Examiner, Dean Beckett, the executive editor of the New York Times, said recently that after the Mueller report, the paper has to shift the focus of its coverage from the Trump-Russia affair to the president's alleged racism.
00:41:24.000He says, we built our newsroom to cover one story, and we did it truly well.
00:41:28.000Now we have to regroup and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story.
00:41:34.000So in other words, the editorial coverage at the New York Times, the news coverage, is being dictated by narratives that the New York Times left wants to push.
00:41:41.000So it went from Russia, which was a giant fail for them, to Trump's a racist in no time flat, and they're going to shift how the paper is constituted in order to push that.
00:41:51.000Baquette made the remarks at an employee town hall on Monday.
00:41:53.000Her recording was leaked to Slate, which published a transcript on Thursday.
00:41:57.000Baquette explained, That was a really hard story, by the way.
00:42:40.000It's been become so divided by Donald Trump.
00:42:43.000No, guys, there's no such thing as media bias.
00:42:44.000That's just the executive editor of the nation's foremost newspaper talking about shifting his coverage from Donald Trump's a Russian spy to Donald Trump is a vicious KKK-like racist dividing the country.
00:42:54.000Why do you think there's media bias again?
00:42:56.000Are you suggesting there's media bias, madam?
00:43:09.000Because the transcript has been released.
00:43:11.000So the staffers were asking Baquette why they don't just call Trump racist every day.
00:43:15.000And Baquette was like, yeah, you know, maybe we should.
00:43:18.000He says, you know, we shouldn't use racially tinged or racially charged.
00:43:22.000He says, if you're going to do what I said, you got to put your money where your mouth is and just describe it.
00:43:26.000And then a staffer said, quote, I have another question about racism.
00:43:30.000I'm wondering to what extent you think that the fact of racism and white supremacy being sort of the foundation of this country should play into our reporting.
00:43:38.000Just because it feels to me like it should be a starting point, you know, like these conversations about what is racist, what isn't racist.
00:43:44.000I just feel like racism is in everything.
00:43:46.000It should be considered in our science reporting, in our culture reporting, in our national reporting.
00:43:51.000And so to me, it's less about the individual instances of racism and sort of how we're thinking about racism and white supremacy as the foundation of all the systems in the country.
00:44:00.000And I think particularly as we are launching a 1619 project, I feel like it's going to open us up to even more criticism from people who are like, OK, well, you're saying this and you're producing this big project about it.
00:44:09.000But are you guys actually considering this in your daily reporting?
00:44:12.000So in other words, the foundation of every story written by The New York Times, according to this unnamed staffer, is that white supremacy lies at the root of America, not the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution of the United States, not broader principles, but racism.
00:44:24.000The story of America is the story of racism and how racism infects everything.
00:44:29.000And Baquette says, pretty much, that he agrees with this.
00:44:31.000He says, maybe we shouldn't use the word racist, because everything is racist.
00:44:36.000He quotes a guy named Keith Woods, who's ombudsman for NPR, and he says, his argument boils down to this.
00:44:43.000His view is that a huge percentage of American conversation is racist, so why isolate one comment from Donald Trump?
00:44:50.000I do think that race has always played a huge part in the American story, and I do think that race and understanding of race should be part of how we cover the American story.
00:44:57.000Sometimes news organizations sort of forget that in the moment, but of course it should be.
00:45:01.000I mean, one reason we all signed off on the 1619 Project and made it so ambitious and expansive was to teach our readers to think a little bit more like that.
00:45:08.000Because that's the job of a newspaper, is to indoctrinate you in a particular political point of view using their news coverage.
00:45:15.000I mean, that is astonishing stuff from the New York Times, but only astonishing if you've never actually watched the coverage from the New York Times.
00:45:23.000Alrighty, time for some mailbagging, so let's do it.
00:45:26.000Carlo says, hey Ben, I'm a free market guy, but recently I've been doubting the validity of the claim that wages reflect a person's productivity.
00:45:33.000I'm 23, I have a pretty high salary for my age.
00:45:35.000I have a bachelor's in economics, I'm proficient in two programming languages.
00:45:38.000The thing is, I don't really do anything.
00:45:40.000I work in an office and watch videos on YouTube most of the day.
00:45:43.000I have a friend that nurses in intensive care that makes $20,000 less than I do.
00:45:47.000My question is, is the free market really that good at determining wages?
00:45:50.000If it were true, shouldn't all the people I know that have real jobs make more than I do?
00:45:55.000You're mixing up the value of your labor with the effort of the labor.
00:46:02.000You're sort of using a model of the Marxist labor theory of value, meaning that how hard you work should be reflected in your wages as opposed to the value of your work reflected in your wages.
00:46:12.000So presumably the reason that you are earning more than your friends who are nurses who work in intensive care is because you have a very specialized skill set that you have spent a lot of time cultivating, and there's a demand for that skill set.
00:46:25.000And so you're getting paid more, meaning that somebody needs to do that job.
00:46:28.000There are not that many people who can do that job.
00:46:30.000You are one of the people who can do that job.
00:46:33.000And so what determines wages is not how hard you work.
00:46:36.000There are people who are working, digging ditches every day, who work a lot harder than I do, and I'm sure I get paid more than most of those people.
00:46:43.000Okay, but that isn't because I have a specialized skill set that people want to hear from.
00:46:48.000Now, does that mean that my work is quote-unquote more valuable on a moral level?
00:48:00.000The question is, how do you create a system where a lot of people are going into medicine to help people while also recognizing that not everybody should go into medicine because at a certain point you're gonna have a surplus of doctors or a surplus of nurses.
00:48:13.000The way that markets determine how much labor is necessary is through the pricing mechanism.
00:48:17.000That is what the pricing mechanism is designed to do.
00:48:19.000And this is just as true in labor and services as it is in product.
00:48:23.000I think just on a pure level, stethoscopes more important than pencils.
00:48:27.000Stethoscopes are more important than pencils.
00:48:29.000But the question as to how many stethoscopes should be produced and how many pencils should be produced, that's a question of how many people want to buy stethoscopes and how many people want to buy pencils.
00:48:39.000That's how we allocate the amount of labor that should be designated for a particular task.
00:48:44.000This is why baseball players get paid lots and lots of money, because they have a very specialized task, and a lot of us want to see the best baseball players, but there are very few people who can play baseball at that high a level, and so they're paid a lot of money.
00:48:57.000Maybe that's a problem with our priorities.
00:48:58.000Maybe we ought to make a case that our priorities ought to be different, but that's a case for individual human beings, and forcing people to quote-unquote have different priorities is a mistake, because people's priorities are what they are.
00:49:09.000Hey, Tori says, do you have any favorite documentaries?
00:49:14.000First of all, Ken Burns' Civil War documentaries are really, really good.
00:49:19.000Grizzly Man, which is a documentary about a guy named Timothy Treadwell who got eaten by a bear by Werner Herzog, is really good also.
00:49:25.000And not only is it good, also it has Werner Herzog narrating, which is always somewhat hilarious.
00:49:45.000Other documentaries, there's one that just came out on HBO called The Cold Blue that is very good about flyers during World War II.
00:49:51.000Peter Jackson just came out with a fantastic documentary where he went back and recolorized and put sound into a lot of the old footage from World War I called They Shall Never Grow Old.
00:50:09.000I'm wanting to dive deeper and know more about the current issues going on today, but wanting to get multiple viewpoints on those issues so I can hear what both sides think.
00:50:17.000What are some ways you would recommend going about finding info on issues from both sides while still trying to get accurate details?
00:50:23.000Well, I've always said that you should think of news coverage as a series of intersecting lines.
00:50:28.000So if you listen to this podcast and then you listen to the leftist podcast, Pod Save America, for example, you'll hear two wildly different perspectives on the politics of the day.
00:50:37.000See, this is also the difference between this podcast and Pod Save America.
00:50:40.000Pod Save America will never recommend that you listen to my podcast.
00:50:43.000I'll recommend that you listen to their podcast.
00:50:45.000I think you should listen to lots of different podcasts.
00:50:47.000Okay, so Pod Save America, you listen to their podcast, you listen to my podcast, and then what we are saying that is the same, which is usually the basis of fact, that is the intersection point.
00:50:58.000You actually have to look at two different news, look at Daily Wire, and then look at Huffington Post, and where they cross over, that would be the core of fact, and then everything else is opinion.
00:51:07.000I've been recommending this for years, because I think people should think for themselves and be fair-minded in how they approach subjects.
00:51:13.000Just because something is printed in the New York Times doesn't make it false.
00:51:16.000It may be biased in its coverage, but you have to look at how the New York Times covers something and National Review and what they have in common.
00:51:47.000Yes, there are some conservatives in the crazy world of academia with a great salary doing clinical work and research with over 20 publications.
00:51:53.000Anyone can achieve their dreams through hard work.
00:51:55.000Brian, I really... What a fantastic, fantastic story, and it is 100% true.
00:52:00.000The decisions you make in your life are going to impact your life way more than anything else you do.
00:52:04.000I can't tell you the number of letters I've received this week.
00:52:06.000I mean, probably hundreds of letters this week in my mailbag.
00:52:11.000Specifically about the podcast the last couple of days and the radio show the last couple of days in which I talked extensively about how it is that the personal decisions that you make determine the course of your life.
00:52:20.000How it is not impersonal forces that politicians blame that determine the course of your life.
00:52:25.000That usually, in a free country, the decisions you make are the ones that are important.
00:52:31.000How when I say that you having two jobs to pay for a roof over your head, that's a you problem.
00:52:35.000What I mean by that is that it is a problem for you to solve.
00:52:38.000That is not a problem that can be solved by Kamala Harris riding it on a white horse.
00:52:41.000I've gotten so many letters from people saying, yeah, I work two jobs, and I'm glad I do, because it's my decision, and this is a free country.
00:52:47.000And a ton of letters from people who say, yeah, I used to work two jobs, and now I don't have to work two jobs, because I've worked hard, and I've developed a skill set, and I've made decisions, and I've moved to different parts of the country.
00:52:58.000Life isn't all you're guaranteed in the United States.
00:53:34.000Seeing an American life as an adventure in which you are the hero of your own story, making those decisions, it will make your life so much better than sitting around whining to Kamala Harris that the economy is rough right now.
00:53:48.000And if you think that welfare benefits are going to save you either, we are spending $30,000 plus per capita on welfare in this country for poor families.
00:53:56.000And that is not guaranteeing a ladder out of poverty for people.
00:54:00.000The best way for you to make your way in the world is to make a series of smart decisions.
00:54:05.000Make those decisions over and over and over.
00:54:07.000Learn to become the kind of person who makes those smart decisions.
00:54:10.000You will be so much more successful and happier in life because you'll have taken control of your own life.
00:54:14.000And I've gotten, I promise you, dozens to hundreds of letters in the mailbag this week proving it.
00:54:19.000People saying that they actually appreciate this perspective because there's nothing more enervating than being told by a politician you can't do it.
00:54:26.000And the Obama line, the si se puede line, yes we can, routine?
00:54:32.000The answer is not yes we can, the answer is yes you can.
00:55:42.000But if you're just looking for sort of a brief overview, then there is a book by Will Durand called The Story of Philosophy that's great.
00:55:49.000It gives you like 15 to 20 page introductions to each of the great philosophers.
00:55:52.000There's also a great compendium called History of Political Philosophy edited by Leo Strauss that gives you 20 to 30 page summaries of philosophy.
00:56:01.000There's also a great book called The Passion of the Western Mind that really spends some heavy time going through Plato and Aristotle.
00:56:07.000If you want like a very, very brief intro, then my book, The Right Side of History, does cover some Plato and Aristotle right at the very beginning, talking about the foundations of Greek thought.
00:56:20.000So, the answer is, I would not fare great on Jeopardy because all the categories in which I know a lot of things are the categories they don't quiz on Jeopardy.
00:56:27.000So, it depends on how, how, okay, so great story.
00:57:56.000Who the hell needs a trip to Mexico City in 1982?
00:58:00.000So, my dad gets the final question, he blows it, and my mom is super excited because now she has a refri- that refrigerator was in our house for a solid 15 years.
00:58:48.000So a little bit of Jeopardy insiderism.
00:58:53.000I don't think I would do great on Jeopardy, I'll be honest.
00:58:55.000Theodore, I know a lot of the answers, but again, really depends on the seating, really depends on the categories.
00:59:00.000Theodore says, Hey Ben, I'm a long time fan and a new subscriber.
00:59:04.000I've heard you make a few Mean Girls references along with a few other pop culture references that sound a bit surprising coming out of your refined mouth.
00:59:10.000What are your other guilty pleasure comedy movies?
00:59:49.000The one who's the oldest, this was her favorite movie growing up.
00:59:53.000She loves physical comedy and Rat Race is full of it.
00:59:55.000Okay, Ashira says, do you think it's irresponsible for a young couple to get married before they can be financially responsible for themselves?
01:00:11.000Is the alternative that you are sleeping together and living together and then getting pregnant without being married?
01:00:15.000Because this seems a lot more irresponsible to me.
01:00:18.000If the alternative is that you don't get married and you're not sleeping together until you are financially prepared, then that seems fairly responsible to me that you should be able to have money, but I also, if you have any level of income, if you're living on your own and your potential spouse is living on their own and you both have jobs, it's cheaper to live together than it is to live separately.
01:00:38.000So I've never really understood the argument that it is expensive to get married.
01:00:41.000Not unless you have a big wedding, it ain't.
01:00:43.000My wife and I spent less money after we were married than before we were married.
01:00:46.000So I'm not sure that I buy the argument.
01:00:49.000That marriage is some sort of financial burden unless one person intends on not working.
01:00:54.000And if one person intends on not working, then maybe you should wait to have kids until you can financially afford it.
01:00:59.000Joel says, Hey Ben, I really love the show and value your insights.
01:01:02.000If you had to guess, how probable do you think it is we could have a crash of the US dollar at some point over the next 10 years or so?
01:01:08.000If this happened, what do you think things would be like considering that world markets are so much more connected now than they were before the Great Depression?
01:01:27.000dollar and in the full faith and credit of the United States, which is what the dollar is backed by, that faith is going to remain extremely high because there is no near competitor.
01:01:55.000dollar will remain the global basis of commerce.
01:01:59.000Well, yeah, I mean, I'm always concerned when a Republican president doesn't win the popular vote, when a Republican candidate doesn't win the popular vote.
01:02:18.000And Donald Trump is very likely to lose the popular vote in 2020.
01:02:23.000He lost it by nearly three million votes in 2016.
01:02:26.000I think there's a good shot that he loses the popular vote in 2020, simply because I think Democrats in California and New York are vastly concerned with him being elected and are going to show up in massive numbers.
01:02:37.000In fact, I think there could be a wider popular vote gap and electoral college gap than there was last time.
01:02:41.000I think it's quite possible that Trump wins the same states that he did last time, but loses by more popular votes because people in big cities on the coast show up to vote.
01:02:50.000Electoral College is not a popular vote system.
01:02:53.000I think that as the gap grows between the popular vote and the Electoral College, there will be a lot more kickback against the Electoral College, just practically speaking.
01:03:01.000But it's more concerning that the Republicans seem not to be able to make inroads.
01:03:06.000In big cities, especially, because population seems to be moving more and more from rural areas to urban areas.
01:03:11.000Randolph says, hey, Ben, what is your take on hormonal birth controls, which don't prevent fertilization, but do prevent the egg from embedding in the uterine wall?
01:03:17.000Do you take the stance that this is the same as abortion?
01:04:44.000Stephen Colbert said on his show the other night that President Trump would look great if our next president were a single-celled organism, meaning that Donald Trump is terrible.
01:04:54.000He actually said this on Anderson Cooper.
01:04:56.000President leaves, he's not popular, and then, you know, George W. Bush left with low ratings, I guess you would say, or opinion polls, and now is viewed much more differently, you know, at least differently.
01:05:32.000I mean, it's typical nonsense from Colbert.
01:05:34.000Because then Colbert seems perturbed that there are people who want the president to be a complete jerk.
01:05:40.000There's a large group of Americans, and I don't even think it's necessarily Democrat or Republican, there's a large group of Americans who think the president should be a complete jerk.
01:05:50.000He shouldn't be somebody that you necessarily admire.
01:05:53.000It should be like, look, a guy who's willing to work on the dark side and get things done.
01:05:57.000Well, I also think there's people who just like the fact that he's... that you're upset about him and that, you know, that we're covering him and... Sure, I'm familiar with the term drinking liberals' tears, but that seems like a huge price to pay to get to see guys like he's upset.
01:06:17.000It's drinking leftist tears, not liberal tears, by the way.
01:06:20.000Like, we have a whole Tumblr just for it.
01:06:38.000It is the job of conservatives to make leftists cry with good arguments and good policy.
01:06:43.000I don't think it's the job of the of the right to make the left cry simply by trolling them.
01:06:47.000However, do I understand the the The emotional response to Stephen Colbert, you bet your ass I do.
01:06:56.000The fact that Stephen Colbert says the kind of stuff he says on a nightly basis, is excused for it by the media, is brought on Anderson Cooper to laugh about it, the fact that he does that sort of stuff, and then he is perturbed when people react to him, is supremely disingenuous.
01:07:11.000Because this is what Stephen Colbert is.
01:07:17.000Donald Trump, we can talk about policy all day long, and yes, some people voted based on judges, and some people voted based on pro-life positions, and a lot of that is true.
01:07:25.000But the chief appeal of Donald Trump, as opposed to any other Republican, was that he is a late night host who is going to slap Stephen Colbert.
01:07:34.000And that is because when you crap from great height upon a huge majority of the American people, It turns out some of those people are not going to like it very much and they're going to want someone who slaps at you on a regular basis.
01:07:46.000You cannot simultaneously suggest that Donald Trump is comparable to a single-celled organism or slime mold and then be like, well, why are people so angry at me all the time?
01:07:57.000Why do people constantly want to comment?
01:08:14.000Did it ever occur to you that after spending eight years trolling Republicans as racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, and calling Mitt Romney the most boring person who has ever lived, a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, that the right might say, you know what?
01:08:28.000That's exactly what happened here, and the fact that Colbert doesn't even understand this is part of the continuing problem.
01:08:32.000Okay, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours.
01:08:35.000Otherwise, have yourself a wonderful, relaxed, nice weekend, and then we'll be back here on Monday to go over whatever the hell happens this week, and I'm sure it'll be great, given the last few news cycles.