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00:01:38.000There's a serious question to be asked about what it takes to be labeled alt-right these days.
00:01:42.000So, as someone who is quite familiar with the alt-right, you may recall all the way back to the 2016 election cycle when the alt-right and I went at it on a routine basis, mainly because they didn't like that I was a cuck Jew and I didn't like that they were a bunch of anti-Semitic mind freaks.
00:02:00.000I don't mean people who voted for Donald Trump, because the vast majority of those people are not alt-right.
00:02:04.000I mean people who are actual racists, who believe that there is a white supremacy inherent in the color of your skin, which is stupid and ridiculous and anti-democratic.
00:02:14.000Well, the problem is that the left has now broadened out the label alt-right to apply to anyone.
00:02:18.000So, they've labeled me alt-right, which is
00:02:21.000I mean, like, full-on insane, considering I was the number one target of the alt-right in 2016.
00:02:26.000According to the Anti-Defamation League, I was the number one recipient of anti-Semitic tweets among Jewish journalists, with a bullet.
00:02:31.000I mean, I'm talking 40% of all anti-Semitic tweets directed at journalists, many of these from the alt-right, were directed at me personally.
00:02:37.000And yet now I am supposed to believe that I'm a member of the alt-right.
00:02:41.000What made me a member of the alt-right?
00:02:43.000What made me a member of the alt-right is that I am not on the left.
00:02:45.000And the latest beneficiary of this particularly bizarre line of logic is, of course, our future president, Kanye West.
00:02:52.000So, a few days ago, I warned you that if you're conservative and you are supremely
00:02:57.000Just in love with the fact that Kanye West is saying some mildly conservative things on Twitter, you might want to hold off.
00:03:02.000You might say, great, I'm glad he said that on Twitter, but before you start declaring that he's a presidential candidate, before you start saying he's a celebrity who knows things, you might want to take a look at his older tweets, which include things like, fur pillows are hard to sleep on.
00:03:13.000True, true, I can't argue with that tweet, but not exactly in line with, I would say, the intellectual thinking of the conservative movement, but
00:03:23.000Because Kanye tweeted these relatively mild things about how victim mentality is not good, and how you have to go out and work for yourself, and how he likes Candace Owens, who is the communications director of Returning Point USA, working with Charlie Kirk, both good folks.
00:03:37.000Well now, there's a person who's written for the Washington Post, her name is Molly Roberts, and she says that Kanye West is an alt-right darling.
00:03:43.000Which is weird, since the alt-right is not particularly fond of black people.
00:03:47.000But again, this is the way that the left shrinks that Overton window.
00:03:50.000The left says there is a window of acceptable rhetoric, and if you're not on the left, you are outside that window of acceptable rhetoric.
00:03:55.000Sure, Kanye spent most of the 2000s saying that George W. Bush was a vicious racist, but now he's out of the tent because he says that self-victimization is a disease.
00:04:05.000So here is what this leftist writes over at the Washington Post.
00:04:08.000Quote, Kanye West was having a great weekend until he wasn't.
00:04:12.000One moment, the rapper-producer-entrepreneur was dispensing pearls of pseudo-philosophy on Twitter to the retweets of adoring observers.
00:04:17.000The next, many of those same admirers had turned to denouncing him instead.
00:04:21.000Oh, and he had become an alt-right darling.
00:04:23.000Whatever West is going through at the moment, the response to his Twitter spree reveals more about the people who have fled from him.
00:04:28.000And those who have flocked to him, too.
00:04:30.000West's fortunes reversed, writes this writer for the Washington Post, Molly Roberts, when he expressed his admiration on Saturday for red pill YouTuber Candace Owens, an African-American Donald Trump supporter known for, among other things, referring to Black Lives Matter protesters as whiny toddlers pretending to be oppressed for attention.
00:04:46.000The following day, he tweeted nine videos from Scott Adams, who gained his fame first for creating the cartoon Dilbert, and second for proclaiming that rape is a natural instinct of men and society a virtual prison for men's desires.
00:04:56.000Okay, that is taking Scott Adams wildly out of context.
00:04:58.000I believe Scott Adams' actual argument is that natural instincts of human beings are bad and this is why you create civilizations, which I thought was a relatively uncomplicated and uncontroversial
00:05:08.000In any case, as Molly Roberts continues, it's easy to cast West as just another lost man, seduced by the far-right's promise to provide a sense of purpose.
00:05:17.000All that pseudo-philosophy does suggest a preoccupation with the sort of existential problems figures such as psychologist Jordan Peterson, who has become a surprise lifestyle guru, claim they can solve.
00:05:26.000It's also possible to connect West's eccentric behavior on Twitter—this isn't the first time his forays into politics have discomfited some fans—to the mental health struggles that led to his 2017 hospitalization.
00:05:48.000Talking about how he is looking for a marble table, a marble conference table, because he can't actually have a meeting without a marble conference table.
00:05:55.000Kanye is the guy who tweeted, I love me some me, right?
00:05:57.000I mean, Kanye is famous for not being... Unhinged might be a word that you might use in connection with Kanye.
00:06:03.000This is a guy famous for charging on a stage in the middle of a music awards ceremony to yell at Taylor Swift.
00:06:09.000And now, only now, does the left discover that Kanye might be a bit unstable.
00:06:14.000Because he tweeted that he likes Candace Owens' videos.
00:06:17.000All right, well, this is the way this is gonna go.
00:06:19.000Also, I love that they link Jordan Peterson, a former professor at Harvard University and now a professor over at University of Toronto, widely understood to be one of the smarter humans alive.
00:06:32.000to Kanye West, that West is just another lost man seduced by the far-right's promise to provide a sense of purpose.
00:06:37.000It's so funny how the left talks about this.
00:06:39.000They never talk about followers of Bernie Sanders this way.
00:06:41.000Bernie Sanders promises to provide a sense of purpose also, right?
00:06:45.000His sense of purpose lies in the collective, and his sense of purpose is, I will tell you how you can help fix all of the problems of planet Earth by giving me lots of power and by redistributing all wealth.
00:06:54.000The left never says, look at all these Bernie bros, right?
00:06:56.000These are guys who are lost, looking for something to do, bored, useless, and now they found a sense of purpose in Bernie Sanders.
00:07:03.000But when it comes to somebody on the right, then all of a sudden it's lost, angry young man experiencing existential angst.
00:07:11.000Welcome to the real world where a lot of people experience existential angst.
00:07:14.000The question is, who can cater to that in a healthy way?
00:07:16.000Jordan caters to that in a healthy way, but now they're saying that Kanye West is a Jordan Peterson devotee or something?
00:07:22.000I wish Kanye West were a Jordan Peterson devotee.
00:07:24.000I mean, I think that would be really good for Kanye.
00:07:25.000In fact, Kanye, go over and listen to Jordan Peterson's lectures on the Bible, on the Enlightenment.
00:07:42.000So, Kanye, who was supremely wealthy during Hurricane Katrina, I mean, the guy was worth tens of millions of dollars by the time of Hurricane Katrina.
00:07:47.000At that point, he wasn't out of touch.
00:08:10.000Now he's out of touch, and you can tell that he's out of touch because he's saying things that Molly Roberts doesn't like in the Washington Post.
00:08:17.000I mean, you know he's out of touch now.
00:08:18.000You know he's a member of the alt-right because he said that self-victimization is a problem, because he said that you're in control of your own life.
00:08:24.000Kanye says these things, and boom, this dude is like Hitler.
00:08:27.000He is just like Hitler, and now he's not even a real black person, is what Molly Roberts is really saying, because a real black person would feel an authentic tie to his roots.
00:08:35.000And Kanye doesn't feel an authentic tie to his roots anymore because he's become so wealthy and so cloistered.
00:08:40.000Weird, I haven't heard the same thing about Snoop Dogg, because Snoop Dogg makes videos about shooting the President of the United States.
00:08:46.000Snoop Dogg is woke, so Snoop Dogg obviously has a tie back to the people, but Kanye has no tie back to those people, obviously because he's wealthy.
00:08:54.000What happened is Kanye got rich, and then he was on the left, but he still had a tie to his people.
00:08:58.000But then he was still rich, and now he is saying things that aren't left-wing, and this means that he has lost all tie to being black.
00:09:04.000Kanye West is basically like Bill Nye the Science Guy in blackface.
00:09:07.000That's basically what he is right now.
00:09:12.000There are people who are saying he's gone to the sunken place, which is a reference to what I thought was the racially polarizing movie Get Out, which was overlooked by all the critics.
00:09:21.000The bad racial messaging in Get Out was overlooked by all the critics because obviously it was a left-wing film.
00:09:28.000The Washington Post continues, Okay, so here is what Molly Roberts writes in the Washington Post.
00:09:55.000But the moment West expressed his approval of Owens, liberals recoiled.
00:09:58.000Eager to signal their lefty credentials, they withdrew their support the moment West went against the party line, which sort of sounds like this writer.
00:10:04.000Then there's the right, all's and otherwise.
00:10:05.000Most conservatives had less interest in West's work, and they certainly didn't like it when he condemned Bush.
00:10:09.000But now, a lineup of luminaries on the right has assembled to defend West against liberal hoards.
00:10:13.000Where Alex Jones once called West a microcosm of America's degeneration,
00:10:18.000He now praises his bold moves against the Thought Police.
00:10:20.000Where Bill O'Reilly once described West as a disease, the former Fox host on Sunday decried the attack against him by American Stalinists.
00:10:26.000Okay, so first of all, I would just like to point out that Alex Jones is not really particularly representative of the American right.
00:10:48.000But you can feel all these same things.
00:10:50.000Like, I did an entire segment two days ago about why conservatives should not be over the moon about Kanye West suddenly embracing the right-wing agenda.
00:10:58.000At the same time, I'm defending him from American Stalinists like this column.
00:11:01.000I mean, this is this sort of thought policing.
00:11:17.000West has hyped up his announced album even further with the publicity he gained from courting controversy.
00:11:21.000Liberals have shown off their willingness to enforce ideological purity no matter who the offender is.
00:11:25.000And the far right has demonstrated once again they're willing to flip-flop at the slightest sign they might be able to land a mainstream celebrity recruit.
00:11:31.000Don't trade your authenticity for approval, West tweeted last week.
00:11:35.000Okay, well, again, the left would not be complaining because they were talking for years about what a woke guy he was when he was ripping into George W. Bush.
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00:13:02.000Meanwhile, while the West is consumed with the saga of Kanye West, I think that it is important to give an update on the situation regarding Alfie Evans, who's this two-year-old child in Great Britain.
00:13:13.000So this two-year-old child in Great Britain, almost two, has been condemned to die by the British courts.
00:13:18.000His parents want to remove him from Britain.
00:13:19.000The Italian government has sent a plane.
00:13:21.000The Italian government has said that they will provide for his medical care in Italy.
00:13:24.000And the British government is saying, no, we will not let him out.
00:13:29.000We will not let him go to save his life because he must die with dignity.
00:13:32.000And we say that death with dignity means dying in our hospital at our behest.
00:13:35.000Now, number one, the idea of dying with dignity is such an insulting term.
00:13:39.000Just the very terminology of dying with dignity is really bizarre because
00:13:44.000Everybody is gonna die, and the suggestion that if you cling to life that somehow you lack dignity, or the suggestion that if you meet your end, being sad about your impending death, that this means that you are somehow lacking in courage, that there is a dignified way to go, and the dignified way to go is in a hospital surrounded by people who are pumping juice into you, or, alternatively, the dignified way to go is for us to unhook a baby and watch that baby suffocate to death because the baby can't breathe properly, doesn't seem super dignified to me.
00:14:10.000You know, everybody has to face death.
00:14:12.000Your choice as an adult is how to face it.
00:14:14.000But as a child, there's no such thing as dying with dignity.
00:14:29.000But the idea that you're going to take a two-year-old who's dying of a horrible brain disease and then say, this child has to die with dignity.
00:14:40.000And beyond that, the arrogance of these folks to say that they know more than the parents about what is best for the child and what's best for the child is to die without this experimental treatment.
00:15:12.000But the idea that his standard for a dignified life should be the standard for everyone, even above the wishes of parents who are the ones who have to spend time with their child.
00:15:19.000The father last night was giving mouth-to-mouth to his son because the hospital would not give his son oxygen.
00:15:25.000Okay, this is evil what we're watching in Britain.
00:15:29.000And that's happening because the bureaucracy, the centralized bureaucracy of great states have decided that they know more than the common man about virtue and vice.
00:15:37.000They know more about dignity and death than the common person, including the common person who has to actually visit the gravestone.
00:15:43.000None of these doctors are going to be going to Alfie's grave after the kid dies.
00:16:22.000What they have to be involved in is explaining how it is that a woman and a man who's had some hormone treatments can have a baby and it's the same thing as two lesbians magically having a baby.
00:17:02.000My own skin has been plagued by acne since I got off the pill six months ago, and my default states are angry, hungry, or sleeping.
00:17:07.000Such are the perils of trying to have a child the way Lara and I are trying, without in vitro fertilization or cryogenically frozen sperm, the way fertile cisgender people do.
00:17:14.000They simply couple up and boom, a child is born.
00:17:17.000I'm not sure why there are perils involved with this.
00:17:31.000And not seeing the reason we have to have a, let's look at this, 1200 word essay?
00:17:35.000On you having sex with a dude who thinks he's a lady?
00:17:38.000Not sure why that is worthy of space in the New York Times, but...
00:17:41.000Alright, alright, I just, I love that everything, if you could run a scam, right, let's say, it's so funny, folks on the left are constantly thinking that, you know, the Bible thumpers, the people who believe in things like actual biology, that these people, what they're really seeking to do is they want to take lesbians and they want to marry them off to men and force them into a situation where they have to have biological children with a male.
00:18:02.000I guess all we have to do now is declare that the man's a woman.
00:18:53.000I didn't even vaguely realize I wanted biological kids until my mid-twenties.
00:18:56.000Before then, I'd vaguely imagined that children would simply come to me a la Auntie Mame or Diane Keaton in Baby Boom.
00:19:01.000I'd inherit them from a long-lost relative and simply slot them into my independent, modern life.
00:19:06.000Little did I know that in just a few years I'd be staying up to read studies in which scientists combined the eggs of two female rats to make a child, hoping for 50 more years on the planet so I'd be around when they began testing on humans.
00:19:15.000But you don't need them to combine two female eggs, you're having sex with a dude who has sperm.
00:19:20.000Again, the reason that I highlight this is just to demonstrate that when you cast out biological distinctions and pretend,
00:19:26.000That science is something that science is not.
00:19:28.000You end up with bizarre notions like the idea that it's some sort of great earth-shaking event when a man and a woman have sex and create a baby because the man has been taking some hormone treatments.
00:19:38.000Also, this article is making a case that I'm pretty sure this writer doesn't want to make.
00:19:43.000Which is that it may be worthwhile for transgender people not to actually mutilate their own genitals.
00:19:50.000That it may be worthwhile for them to keep the genitals that they have so that they can actually procreate when they choose to do so.
00:19:55.000This is actually the subtle case that is being made by this article, but it's pretty amazing.
00:20:19.000So, pretty interesting stuff, actually, is that the conclusion of the article is the conservative conclusion that you may want to wait to have hormone treatment and mutilate your body because you think that you are a member of the opposite sex, because you may never know what sort of choices you want to make later.
00:20:34.000But this is what happens when a society decides to purposely confuse itself about basic concepts like what gender constitutes.
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00:21:52.000Alright, so speaking of the media's promulgation of particular ideas about gender and transgenderism, it is pretty obvious that this is having a significant impact
00:23:44.000I mean, this notion that sex is some sort of social construct is so insane.
00:23:49.000Or that gender is completely untethered from sex.
00:23:51.000It doesn't even make sense according to the advocates of transgenderism.
00:23:55.000If gender and sex are completely untethered, then why is it that transgender people want to appear to look like women?
00:24:00.000Why is it that transgender people find it important to use female names?
00:24:04.000If all this is untethered from sex and completely arbitrary, then wouldn't you just assume you could be transgender without picking up any of those cultural stereotypes that have been created by that patriarchal white cisgender society?
00:24:16.000Also, these second graders are learning, a person who is assigned male or female at birth and does identify that way is a cisgender person.
00:24:23.000A queer person, it's complex and can mean a lot of things.
00:24:25.000A person who doesn't identify as straight or bi or gay or lesbian.
00:24:43.000The reason I bring this up is because the same government that says it gets to decide whether your child should live or die in Britain is the same government that gets to decide whether your school teaches you this propaganda or not.
00:24:55.000Okay, so there's a Jewish school in Britain
00:24:58.000It's now, it's been threatened for two years by the British authorities because it is a Jewish school, meaning they do not want to teach propaganda from the LGBT left.
00:25:06.000They're not interested in teaching about the moral equivalence between heterosexual sex and homosexual sex.
00:25:11.000They're not interested in teaching about the socially approved ideas of transgenderism.
00:25:16.000They say that God made men and God made women, and there are some people who are born intersex, but that's not the same thing as transgenderism.
00:25:22.000That school is now being threatened with its license revoked, revocation, license revocation in Britain.
00:25:27.000Okay, so the same government that's telling you how to raise your child is telling you when your child has to die.
00:25:31.000Centralized government is such a nightmare.
00:25:33.000This is why it sort of matters when you see these pieces that seem to be on the wild left, because everything that starts off on the wild left ends up on the mainstream left within about five minutes.
00:25:43.000The whole goal here is indoctrination of children.
00:25:46.000And you can see this even insofar as there's another story that's insane.
00:25:51.000Apparently, according to LifeSite News, transgender activists gathered outside a Rhode Island Catholic church last week—it's a Catholic church, for God's sake—to protest a lecture delivered by pediatrician Michelle Crotella, who views affirming transgenderism in kids as a form of child abuse.
00:26:08.000By the way, I tend to agree with this position.
00:26:11.000I tend to agree with the position that if my two-year-old came to me and said, Daddy, I'm a girl, and I said to him, you know what, you're right, kid, you're a girl.
00:26:20.000Ignore all your biology, you're a girl.
00:26:22.000That purposefully confusing children is a form of child abuse, I think that there's a solid case to be made for this.
00:26:28.000Michelle, certainly the idea of generally mutilating, or hormonally mutilating children, I think is a form of child abuse, pretty obviously.
00:26:54.000The Roman Island Catholic explained the law, quote,
00:27:18.000It's one thing to argue that if you are a parent, you should be allowed to make the terrible decision about forwarding your child's transgender feelings.
00:27:28.000I said it's a terrible decision because studies show that well over 80% of all children who believe they are transgender when they are children outgrow it by the time they're teenagers.
00:27:35.000Very often they end up gay or lesbian.
00:27:37.000But the state has now mandated that everyone be indoctrinated with these ideas.
00:27:43.000And it's a very short leap from here to the idea that homeschooling itself should be illegal.
00:27:47.000So a lot of Christians, a lot of Jews have started taking their kids, Muslims too, have started taking their kids out of public schools and educating their children at home to avoid these social leftist strictures.
00:27:57.000Well, the state is not gonna stand for that.
00:28:00.000The state is going to say that you are not licensed to do that and your kid is a truant.
00:28:04.000And then, they will say next, that if your kid does not learn what the state wants your kid to learn, then they will take your kid away from you and give him up to foster care.
00:28:11.000They'll send him Child Protective Services.
00:28:18.000Within five years, there will be a serious movement in this country to end homeschooling, simply because everyone on the left believes that homeschooling is a threat to their social values.
00:28:27.000And the case will be made that you're bringing up kids to be intolerant, that you're bringing up kids to be cruel and nasty.
00:28:35.000Parental power will shrink as the power of the state grows.
00:28:37.000So anyway, this woman, Critella, Dr. Critella, she was speaking at the St.
00:28:42.000Pius V Church in Providence, and 40 LGBT activists showed up outside.
00:29:14.000But I will tell you that once you start going outside churches and protesting traditional churches, suggesting those traditional churches have to change their ways or face your wrath, you're talking about something deeply disturbing and fascistic in the extreme.
00:29:28.000Now in just a second I want to discuss the controversy swirling around Joy Reid over at MSNBC because she is now in serious trouble.
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00:31:32.000All righty, so a leading LGBT advocacy group has now rescinded its Straight for Equality in Media award from MSNBC host Joy Reid on Tuesday.
00:31:42.000Now, it would be easier for me to follow this controversy if Joy Reid had not in fact blocked me on Twitter years ago, but it turns out that Joy Reid
00:32:24.000predicate of our sexual freedom society is that whatever floats your boat, which means by necessity certain things do not float your boat, which means that you have to leave people alone if things don't float their boat.
00:32:33.000But apparently Joy Reid committed some sort of grave sin here, and now she must be cast out like a leper from the leftist group thing.
00:32:40.000So Liz Owen, director of communications for PFLAG National, said the group had invited Reid to honor her at their 45th anniversary celebration.
00:32:46.000Joy Reid's been pro same-sex marriage for years.
00:33:07.000Newly uncovered posts were uncovered by Mediaite and she responded that the that she had been hacked that this was all the result of hacking which is real weird this is her big mistake is that she suggested that she that she she came out and she said that
00:33:26.000You're not allowed to make the Anthony Weiner mistake.
00:33:28.000It's one thing to post a bunch of weird stuff and then apologize for it later, but Joy Reid instead said that she'd been hacked, which led to this entire controversy about whether, in fact, she'd been hacked.
00:33:39.000All this stuff had been discovered by looking at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
00:33:43.000The Wayback Machine captures websites, old websites and old posts, and there's no indicator that the Wayback Machine itself had been hacked.
00:33:51.000But the point here is simply that the left is so intolerant that no matter how much Joy Reid may believe that she is an ally, she is in fact not an ally, right?
00:34:00.000She cannot be an ally because she said something that people don't like 15 years ago, 12, 15 years ago, even though she has recanted all of those particular posts.
00:34:09.000Right, so it's, this is, I think, a really bad, a lot of people on the right are jumping on this and saying Joy Reid should lose her career, Joy Reid should be fired, and listen, I understand the satanic temptation to stomp on Joy Reid's grave, I get it.
00:34:21.000Like, I understand that there are a bunch of people on the left who say a really nasty thing about the right, and if this were someone on the right, I don't think Joy Reid would be defending them, but I'm gonna say, for the record, that I think that somebody who had positions that they then recanted, and clearly recanted,
00:34:35.000I don't see why bringing up their old posts and then destroying their career over it is a worthwhile thing, because the truth is you can do this about pretty much anything.
00:34:49.000Anybody who's had a long career in public is going to have said some stuff that they're embarrassed of.
00:34:54.000Anybody in public is going to have said some things that they wish they hadn't said.
00:35:11.000There's a column I wrote very early in my career about the Israeli-Palestinian issue, in which I suggested transfer as a possibility for Arab populations.
00:35:21.000I think this is true for pretty much everybody in public life, that if you go back far enough, you can find something they said that they no longer believe, and destroying them over that is a really dangerous game.
00:35:28.000Because if we're going to do that, then people are just going to hide what they believe.
00:35:32.000What you actually want from your public persona, what you actually want from opinion makers, are their thoughts.
00:35:37.000You don't want them hiding their thoughts.
00:35:49.000And again, I find the whole attack on Joy Reid to be wildly, wildly silly, particularly from the left.
00:35:57.000So I'm looking at some of these posts right now.
00:36:03.000So, uh, she, she wrote a post called, uh, Charlie Crist is not gay.
00:36:07.000Uh, she wrote a post, apparently, or this was on her website, uh, it was called Harriet Meyers and the Lesbian Hair Check, talking about Harriet Meyers' lesbian hair.
00:36:15.000That's the kind of stuff that you're gonna ruin her career over?
00:36:18.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:20.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:21.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:24.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:27.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:29.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:31.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:33.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:35.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:36.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:38.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:40.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:41.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:43.000Again, I'm not sure why any of this is particularly homophobic.
00:36:45.000Most straight people had a hard time being convinced to watch Brokeback Mountain.
00:36:48.000I admit that I couldn't go see the movie either, despite my sister's ringing endorsement, because I didn't want to watch the two male characters having sex.
00:36:55.000Well, the truth is, it doesn't make you homophobic, because again, being a homophobe just means that you are scared of gay people, or scared of homosexual activity, or presumably that you're bigoted against homosexuals.
00:37:07.000Not being into the activity does not mean you're homophobic.
00:37:11.000Again, if that were the case, then gay people would be straight-phobic, because that logic doesn't hold at all.
00:37:15.000Here's another one of the posts that supposedly has to finish Joy Reid's career.
00:37:19.000Some people use the word immoral when they really mean distasteful.
00:37:22.000I think a lot of heterosexuals, especially men, find the idea of homosexual sex to be well-gross, and they lump it in with immorality.
00:37:28.000And then there are the concerns that adult gay men tend to be attracted to very young, post-pubescent types, bringing them into the lifestyle in a way that many people consider to be immoral.
00:37:36.000So that last sentence is the one that borders on the controversial, right?
00:37:39.000That last sentence where she says that there are adult gay men who prey on younger men.
00:37:44.000Yeah, that's the only section here that I find to be, you know, truly, truly controversial.
00:37:48.000But again, Joy Reid has apologized for all this stuff in the past.
00:37:52.000As a society we're going to have to be a little bit more forgiving of people, I mean right and left, people who have recanted prior views because otherwise I think you just end up in a position where nobody will give their views openly at all about virtually anything.
00:38:03.000Okay, so meanwhile the controversy has broken out about President Trump's nominee to fill the VA.
00:38:12.000Ronny Jackson of course was the White House physician and there are a lot of bad stories that have been breaking about Ronny Jackson.
00:38:17.000Apparently Ronny Jackson, there's a report that he was drunk on duty at one point,
00:38:22.000And the Democrats are immediately jumping on this.
00:38:26.000Here is one Democratic senator unloading on Ronny Jackson yesterday.
00:38:29.000Well, they fall in three different areas.
00:38:32.000Improper dispensing of prescription drugs, repeatedly drunk while on duty while traveling, and creating a toxic work environment.
00:38:43.000By the way, we had 20 military folks and retired military folks tell us these stories.
00:38:49.000And in the previous administration, we were told of stories where he was repeatedly drunk while on duty, where his main job was to take care of the
00:38:59.000I told Admiral Jackson just a little while ago
00:40:24.000Promulgate the idea that there is a lot of chaos inside the administration, which unfortunately there is.
00:40:30.000That said, the media bias on all of this stuff is insane.
00:40:33.000Trump is not wrong when he says that the media are just wild about everything.
00:40:37.000Chris Chilesa over at CNN spent an entire segment, an entire segment of TV, analyzing an awkward handshake photo of Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron, the president of France.
00:41:18.000Okay, and what's super weird is that the media are fascinated with presidential handshakes.
00:41:22.000Yeah, I made fun of them for like five seconds yesterday, but the media spent full-on segments yesterday analyzing the weird dynamics between Trump and Macron as though this has any sort of relevance to anyone.
00:41:35.000So there's a movie that's out called I, Tonya, and there's a scene in the movie where there's a guy who was working for a National Enquirer-like publication, and he says that we were staking out Tonya Harding's house and we were covering this thing.
00:41:45.000In an insane fashion, providing the model for the mainstream media.
00:42:01.000And then people wonder why there's significant credibility problems with the media.
00:42:05.000Speaking of credibility problems with the media, there was a piece that came out from the Washington Post yesterday, and it was a picture of three reporters.
00:42:11.000It was Ashley Parker, April Ryan, who's the black reporter from the African American News Network, whose name I can't recall, and the third person was Jim Acosta, the insufferable Jim Acosta from CNN.
00:42:24.000And they're all standing there and doing a hero shot, looking off into the distance.
00:42:28.000The entire article is about how heroic these members of the media are in the face of the Trump administration.
00:42:34.000They're literally getting front page photo spreads in mainstream American newspapers.
00:42:37.000I'm supposed to believe that these people are victims?
00:42:40.000The media are so enthralled with themselves over their own behavior under the Trump administration, no wonder Trump is tempted to just spit in their eye on a regular basis.
00:42:50.000I can blame him for picking people without betting them, but I can't blame him for spitting in the eye of the media because the media really are wild.
00:42:56.000Okay, time for a thing I like, and then we'll do a thing that I hate.
00:44:26.000So yesterday I didn't have time to pay tribute to the Armenian Genocide, simply because we ran out of time on the show, but I want to do it today.
00:44:32.000So yesterday marked the opening of the Armenian Genocide.
00:44:35.000The Armenian Genocide was actually a series of genocides, and they were basically religious wars by Muslims against Christians.
00:44:43.000The Armenian Genocide had to do with ethnicity, but it also had a large component to do with religion.
00:44:50.000On yesterday's date, in 1915, hundreds of Armenians, intellectuals, Christians for the most part, were forcibly deported from the Turkish capital of Constantinople.
00:44:57.000The number soon escalated into the thousands.
00:45:01.000That kicked off the Armenian Genocide, the persecution of Christian Armenians by Muslim young Turks who wanted to cleanse the new country of the troublesome non-co-religionists in preparation for the new regime in Turkey in the aftermath of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
00:45:13.000By the time the genocide was over, it lasted from 1915 all the way to 1923,
00:45:17.000Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were dead.
00:45:19.000Top range estimates put the number at 1.5 million.
00:45:31.000CNN reports, the death toll is in dispute.
00:45:34.000A photograph from the era documents some mass killings.
00:45:36.000Some show Ottoman soldiers posing with severed heads, others with them standing amid skulls in the dirt.
00:45:40.000The victims are reported to have died in mass burnings by drowning, torture, gas, poison, disease, and starvation.
00:45:45.000Children reported to have been loaded onto boats, taken out to sea, and thrown overboard.
00:45:49.000And of course, rape was frequently reported.
00:45:51.000Now, what's amazing is that so many countries still refuse to use the term Armenian Genocide.
00:45:55.000The United States and Israel among them, both of those countries should immediately use the term Armenian Genocide.
00:46:00.000It is absurd not to recognize the truth of the Armenian Genocide and not to recognize also that the Armenian Genocide was the predecessor for the Holocaust.
00:46:08.000The current dictator of Turkey, who is an Islamist himself, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a terrorist supporter and a radical Muslim, has threatened multiple foreign countries if they use that.
00:46:17.000In 2010, Erdogan openly warned he could throw 100,000 Armenian immigrants out of Turkey.
00:46:36.000When I say that the Armenian Genocide was the predecessor for the Holocaust, there were German staffers.
00:46:41.000I mean, the Germans were allied with the Ottomans in World War I. There were German staffers in the army who were present at the happening of the Armenian Genocide.
00:46:50.000Hitler's confidants, as Shmueli Boteach points out, learned from Turkey's genocidal playbook.
00:47:17.000And of course, in one of his speeches, Hitler apparently, this is sort of controversial, but he apparently made reference to the Armenian Genocide.
00:47:24.000If the world didn't care when the Turks were slaughtering the Armenians, they're not going to care when we go after all of our enemies.
00:47:29.000So, it is important to recognize genocides when they are occurring.
00:47:32.000It is important, particularly in an era of continued religious conflict, to recognize the religious components of the Armenian Genocide as well.
00:47:39.000Okay, I want to take one second here and analyze a Federalist paper.
00:48:13.000He says the liberty of the people would be less safe in this state of things than in that in which the national forces were left in the hands of the national government.
00:48:20.000As far as an army may be considered as a dangerous weapon of power, it had better be in those hands of which the people are most likely to be jealous than in those of which they are least likely to be jealous.
00:48:29.000For it is a truth which the experience of ages has attested that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.
00:48:38.000There's a really deep point, you know, obfuscated by some of the language here, but what Hamilton is actually saying is that you should distrust the national government.
00:48:47.000He's saying the reason that you can trust the national government to have a standing army is because you distrust the national government to do the right thing, which means that if they do the wrong thing, people will leave the army or people in the states will rise up and resist them.
00:48:58.000Furthermore, he says, people are always in the most danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the hands of friends.
00:49:05.000It's one of the reasons why I think even my own political viewpoint has changed over the years.
00:49:09.000I was much more kind of traditionally conservative and less libertarian when I was 19 than I am now.
00:49:15.000One of the reasons is because when you're a young conservative growing up under the Bush administration, you figure, okay, I like George W. Bush.
00:49:21.000I don't mind that the government has more power.
00:49:25.000I don't like that the government has this much power.
00:49:26.000And then the question becomes, okay, when you have a Republican again, are you going to go back to the idea that power is only a matter of who uses it?
00:49:32.000Or are you going to say that there's an inherent risk to the national government having the kind of power that can be wielded by your political enemies?
00:49:39.000And therefore we should minimize that amount of power.
00:49:41.000That's what Hamilton is really saying underneath the surface there.
00:49:43.000Okay, so we'll be back here tomorrow with more.
00:49:46.000Again, it's been just an honor to be here at Liberty University.
00:49:49.000The kids here are just amazing and I can't speak highly enough about what the students here are doing for their community and for the world.