The Ben Shapiro Show - July 03, 2017


Macho Man Donny Savage | Ep. 332


Episode Stats

Length

23 minutes

Words per Minute

190.13908

Word Count

4,557

Sentence Count

332

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

Sen. Kamala Harris tweets that Americans won t lose their health care under the proposed Republican health care reform bill, which is a complete load of nonsense. Ben Shapiro explains why she's wrong, and why it's a good thing she's not running for president in 2020. He also talks about how the media is losing its mind about everything, including President Trump and the WWE, and how it's time to get a grip on it. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Weekly Standard" and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" on Fox News Radio. He's also a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard and hosts the conservative radio show "The View From The Top" on SiriusXM's Power 99.7. He's a frequent contributor to the New York Times, CNN, and other media outlets, and is one of the most influential people in the conservative media, and yet, he's not even close to being a presidential contender? What's even crazier, is that he's a Democrat? And yet, she thinks she's running for President in 2020, and she's already running for the Democratic nomination? What are we supposed to think about that? We'll get to all of that in a minute, and much more! Plus, we'll also talk about Ring's amazing floodlight cam, and the new Ring Floodlight Cam, and what it's really all about? . Thanks to Ring for sponsoring the show, Ben Shapiro's amazing doorbell, Ring Floodlighting, and a whole bunch of other stuff, too! - check it out here on The Ben Shapiro on the Ben Shapiro show! Subscribe to his new podcast, Ben's new book, "Everything is Stupid," out now! Ben's Book Recommendation: The Stupid Thing You Can't Stop Me Now! on Amazon Prime Day, out on Tuesday, July 18th, July 19th, only on the 27th, at 7 PM Eastern, July 31st, 7 PM EST, 7/ridiculous, July 28th, 8/5th, 9/6th, 6/9th, and 7/8th, 7/7/9/9, 9/8/10, and 9/7, all the rest of the world will be coming soon! Thanks Ben's book review of "I'm Too Stupid for This?" Thank you for listening to Ben Shapiro?


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00:00:00.000 Sunday, Senator Kamala Harris, who has been cribbing Bernie Sanders' cheat sheet in order to position herself for a 2020 Democratic presidential run, tweeted out her feelings on the possible restructuring of Medicaid under the Senate health reform bill.
00:00:10.000 She tweeted, quote, Americans won't lose their health care.
00:00:14.000 It's not like we left it on the bus.
00:00:15.000 The Republicans are taking it from us.
00:00:17.000 Don't take our stuff.
00:00:19.000 Needless to say, this is imbecilic.
00:00:20.000 Kamala Harris is right.
00:00:22.000 Nobody will be losing their health care.
00:00:23.000 They didn't leave it on the bus because it's not a physical commodity, and it was never their stuff.
00:00:28.000 Those on Medicaid had a grant from the government taken from redistributed money to help pay for their health care, which they obtained by pressuring doctors to provide it at low reimbursement rates.
00:00:36.000 It wasn't theirs any more than unemployment benefits are yours, or welfare is yours, or any other redistributist outcome is yours.
00:00:45.000 Healthcare is a series of goods and services that belong to someone else until you pay for them in an exchange, mutually agreed by the two sides.
00:00:52.000 My wife is a doctor.
00:00:53.000 Her labor is not your stuff.
00:00:55.000 That would make her an indentured servant.
00:00:57.000 She has sunk some nine years of her life into becoming a doctor.
00:00:59.000 Four years of college, four years of medical school, and now she's just completed her first year of residency.
00:01:03.000 That means we've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on her education, and she's spent countless hours working, away from home, studying, and the like.
00:01:10.000 That work is not yours.
00:01:12.000 It is in Kamala Harris's.
00:01:13.000 The sense of entitlement behind democratic policy is simply mind-boggling.
00:01:17.000 More importantly, it's actually counterproductive.
00:01:19.000 Declaring someone else's labor yours doesn't make it magically appear.
00:01:23.000 Harris seems deeply concerned about cuts to Medicaid.
00:01:25.000 Apparently she's unaware that Medicaid outcomes are generally no better than uninsured outcomes, and that doctors are dropping out of Medicaid coverage day in and day out thanks to government's failures.
00:01:34.000 The moment you declare someone else's services yours, they stop providing them.
00:01:38.000 But by invoking that sense of entitlement, Harris merely ensures that she'll increase her popularity.
00:01:42.000 Unfortunately, it is political catnip to tell people that things that don't belong to them actually do.
00:01:47.000 That's how Democrats gain power, even as they destroy the services they supposedly seek to provide.
00:01:52.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:01:52.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:01:58.000 Everything is stupid!
00:02:00.000 Oh yeah, that's right.
00:02:01.000 It's another day, another glorious day!
00:02:04.000 And everything is intensely stupid.
00:02:06.000 We'll get to President Trump and the WWE and him playing 5D Hungry Hungry Hippos and the whole deal.
00:02:13.000 We'll get to all of that.
00:02:14.000 And then the media losing their minds and shouting NAZI about everything.
00:02:18.000 It's...
00:02:19.000 You know, I tweeted last week that each night I go to bed and I think, things can't possibly get any stupider.
00:02:24.000 And then I wake up the next morning, and I think, God, things were so much smarter last night.
00:02:28.000 And yes, yes indeed, that prophecy has come true, spoken in the book of Deuteronomy, and now repeated by me, or paraphrased by me.
00:02:35.000 Everything is intensely stupid.
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00:04:04.000 President Trump on Friday.
00:04:06.000 So you recall that on Friday, President Trump tweeted out or Thursday, he tweeted out about Mika Brzezinski and her bloody facelift.
00:04:13.000 And everybody said, oh, end of the world.
00:04:15.000 It's so terrible.
00:04:17.000 And we said, this is not presidential.
00:04:18.000 This is not great because it's not because it's kind of schmucky.
00:04:21.000 So, but does President Trump back off?
00:04:24.000 No, this is a man who fights.
00:04:25.000 He fights!
00:04:26.000 He fights sort of like a boxer punching himself in the face repeatedly, but he fights.
00:04:30.000 He fights sort of like a man who stuffs coins into a sock and then smacks himself in the groin, as Jonah Goldberg says, but he fights!
00:04:37.000 Okay, so there are a lot of people on the right who are saying, oh, he fights and he's destroying the media.
00:04:42.000 No, here's what's happening.
00:04:43.000 He's destroying himself, and the media are destroying themselves, and they're both destroying themselves, and America sits over here and laughs because of the WWE.
00:04:49.000 So, on Saturday, Trump tweets out, Okay, first of all, listen, we got the slogan, okay?
00:04:53.000 Like,
00:05:02.000 At a certain point, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, it becomes tiresome because your tweets are not making America great again, okay?
00:05:08.000 They're not.
00:05:09.000 I'm sorry, they're not.
00:05:10.000 They may have helped you during the campaign.
00:05:12.000 That's great!
00:05:12.000 Lots of things that help you during the campaign do not help you when you become president, as Barack Obama learned.
00:05:17.000 But I love that it's modern-day presidential.
00:05:19.000 Tomorrow is July 4th, brought to you by such presidents as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
00:05:27.000 And now, modern-day presidential is this.
00:05:30.000 So, demonstrating just how modern-day presidential all of this is, Trump tweets this out on Saturday.
00:05:36.000 This is really, he tweeted this out.
00:05:42.000 Hey, if you cannot see what this is, it is Trump from the WWE when he's in the WWE Hall of Fame.
00:05:49.000 And this is Trump tackling some dude.
00:05:51.000 And somebody, I guess somebody from Reddit did this.
00:05:53.000 They pasted into the meme a logo of the CNN head.
00:05:58.000 And then Trump tackling CNN and pummeling CNN.
00:06:01.000 Clotheslining CNN and pummeling it.
00:06:04.000 Okay, your first reaction has to be to laugh because it's really freaking funny, okay?
00:06:07.000 It's just... Inherently, this is all insane.
00:06:10.000 We now live in idiocracy, which came half a century too early.
00:06:14.000 It's all crazy, okay?
00:06:16.000 Everything is crazy.
00:06:17.000 We have reached peak stupid.
00:06:18.000 Or, you know, I think that every time I think we've reached peak stupid, it turns out that there's another hill yet to climb.
00:06:24.000 It's Sound of Music.
00:06:25.000 Climb every mountain.
00:06:27.000 I mean, literally every time we reach peak stupid, we look up and there's 300 more feet of stupid yet to surmount.
00:06:34.000 It's pretty amazing.
00:06:35.000 So, Trump tweets this out.
00:06:37.000 He tweets out, hashtag fraud news CNN.
00:06:39.000 He doesn't want to call them fake news anymore.
00:06:40.000 He thinks fraud news is better, which I don't really know why.
00:06:43.000 But in any case, he writes, hashtag fraud news CNN.
00:06:46.000 And then he, and all hell breaks loose because the President of the United States has done something deeply awful.
00:06:53.000 A couple of notes on the deeply awful thing.
00:06:55.000 First of all, his followers immediately go, Oh my god!
00:06:59.000 It's the greatest thing that ever happened!
00:07:00.000 It's just spectacular!
00:07:01.000 What a genius!
00:07:03.000 No.
00:07:04.000 Just no.
00:07:05.000 Okay, just no.
00:07:07.000 It's not no.
00:07:08.000 Okay, it's hilarious, but it's hilarious like Dumb and Dumber is hilarious, okay?
00:07:12.000 I love the movie Tommy Boy.
00:07:13.000 Tommy Boy, my parents think I'm an idiot for liking the movie Tommy Boy.
00:07:16.000 I think the movie Tommy Boy is hilarious with Chris Farley and David Spade.
00:07:18.000 I think it's really funny.
00:07:20.000 But it is not the greatest thing that the love child of Chris Farley and David Spade in that movie is now tweeting from the Oval Office, apparently.
00:07:27.000 Like, that's weird.
00:07:28.000 Okay, it's weird.
00:07:30.000 And it's not great.
00:07:31.000 And again, John Adams once, on the day that he occupied the White House, he wrote a letter to his wife and he said, may none but good and honorable men occupy this office.
00:07:40.000 Mm-hmm.
00:07:40.000 So in any case, Trump tweets this out and his followers are like, yeah!
00:07:43.000 Because it's mean to CNN, get it?
00:07:45.000 Because CNN's stupid!
00:07:47.000 Stupid!
00:07:47.000 S-T-O-P-I-D, stupid!
00:07:50.000 And then CNN responds, CNN, they've got to win here, right?
00:07:53.000 I mean, CNN can just sit here and go, my God.
00:07:55.000 My God.
00:07:58.000 But instead what they decide to do is lose their minds.
00:08:00.000 CNN decides that it is important.
00:08:02.000 They can't just say this is dumb.
00:08:03.000 They can't just say it's unpresidential, which it is.
00:08:05.000 They can't just say it's sort of disgraceful to the Oval Office.
00:08:07.000 I mean, listen, this is not the only disgrace that's ever happened to the Oval Office.
00:08:11.000 Bill Clinton, you know, got his juices spread around the Oval Office.
00:08:14.000 So there have been a fair number of things that have happened in the Oval Office that haven't been great.
00:08:18.000 But is this, you know, is this elevating the discourse?
00:08:21.000 Is this elevating America?
00:08:23.000 Is this a good, is this good role modeling from our leadership?
00:08:27.000 No, no, no, not so much.
00:08:30.000 Okay, but instead of Democrats just saying that, instead of Democrats saying, you know, this is really incompetent, like the President of the United States should spend his time talking about important things and bringing the country together, and instead he's tweeting out this kind of silly crap, right?
00:08:41.000 Instead of them doing that, they go to 11, right?
00:08:44.000 They always go to 11 on the spinal tap, on the spinal tap machine.
00:08:47.000 Let's go to 11 on those speakers.
00:08:49.000 And now it turns out that not only is this just stupid.
00:08:51.000 It's not just stupid and dim-witted and ridiculous and hilarious.
00:08:55.000 It's not just any of those things.
00:08:57.000 No.
00:08:57.000 Donald Trump is a threat to the Republic.
00:08:59.000 So here comes, here comes School Marm, Brian Stelter over on CNN to warn America.
00:09:05.000 Trump is gonna come and he's gonna clothesline you just like he clotheslined that logo of CNN or something or... Okay.
00:09:11.000 Alright.
00:09:13.000 The president is grappling with Senate Republicans who've missed a self-imposed deadline on health care.
00:09:18.000 He's preparing for a stare-down this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
00:09:22.000 But on Twitter, he's wrestling with... us.
00:09:26.000 Look at this video from his Twitter account this morning.
00:09:29.000 This is a WWE WrestleMania video from years ago.
00:09:33.000 You can see that the CNN logo has been superimposed onto the other fighter's face.
00:09:37.000 Now this showed up on a Reddit message board days ago.
00:09:41.000 Now it's showing up on the President of the United States' own Twitter feed.
00:09:45.000 The early reactions in the last 90 minutes have ranged from, this is juvenile, ridiculous, idiotic, oh wait no it's just funny, he's just having fun, oh wait no it's actually scary, dangerous.
00:09:58.000 We've heard a wide range of reactions to this.
00:10:00.000 The first, CNN's response.
00:10:02.000 The strongest statement I've seen from CNN or any news outlet this year in response to the president's attacks.
00:10:09.000 Quote, it is a sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters.
00:10:14.000 Clearly, Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied when she said the President had never done so.
00:10:18.000 Okay, like, stop it.
00:10:19.000 Okay, it's, okay, so it's just, okay.
00:10:21.000 So, yes, if you watched that video and what you got from that is someone ought to punch Brian Stalter, okay, then you're an idiot.
00:10:27.000 You're an idiot.
00:10:28.000 So, two weeks ago, a Trump-hating Bernie Sanders supporter went and shot up a bunch of Republican Congress people and tried to assassinate dozens of them.
00:10:35.000 And I said on this program, the Democrats were not openly calling for violence, so I'm not gonna blame Democratic rhetoric for a nutjob trying to shoot people.
00:10:43.000 And now, and CNN said the same thing, right?
00:10:45.000 And now they're turning around, they're saying, Trump's gonna get us all killed because he tweeted out an idiotic WWE wrestling meme.
00:10:53.000 CNN.
00:10:55.000 So here, it's basically, here's the cycle of conversation now.
00:10:59.000 Trump tweets something stupid, indefensible, ridiculous, quasi-vile.
00:11:04.000 The media then says, it's not enough to say that it's all those things.
00:11:07.000 He's a Nazi!
00:11:08.000 A violent, evil Nazi!
00:11:10.000 Nazi, Nazi!
00:11:12.000 And then everybody goes, okay, well, I guess I'm not that, I guess, like, if I have to choose between these two people, I guess Trump's tweeting that bad.
00:11:18.000 I mean, like, really, guys?
00:11:20.000 Like, seriously?
00:11:20.000 But the entire media, because they can't help it, they are, they keep looking for the kill shot.
00:11:24.000 And this is the problem, okay?
00:11:25.000 They keep looking for whatever is going to somehow oust Trump from office.
00:11:30.000 And they think that every time he tweets, this is now impeachment worthy.
00:11:32.000 The time has come.
00:11:34.000 And so you get Brian Stelter saying, this is like Hugo Chavez, or Receip Tayyip Erdogan, like the dictator of Turkey, or Vladimir Putin.
00:11:43.000 Is this president trying to impersonate Hugo Chavez, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vladimir Putin?
00:11:50.000 Because this is exactly the kind of language that leaders use when they are trying to undermine the press.
00:11:56.000 Is he trying to be Hitler?
00:11:59.000 Stalin?
00:12:00.000 Okay, okay, okay.
00:12:01.000 Shut him up.
00:12:01.000 This is such stupidity.
00:12:02.000 I mean, really.
00:12:03.000 Pansy.
00:12:04.000 Pansy stuff from CNN.
00:12:05.000 And then it continues.
00:12:06.000 So CNN's Jim Acosta, he comes out, he says, someone's going to get hurt.
00:12:09.000 Don't you understand?
00:12:10.000 Someone will die because Trump tweeted out a meme of himself from a WWE fake wrestling event tackling a logo of CNN.
00:12:20.000 Oh, it's all so stupid.
00:12:22.000 It's so intensely stupid.
00:12:24.000 I've lost all capacity to speak intelligently about something so intensely stupid.
00:12:29.000 The more you watch the news, the more IQ points you lose.
00:12:31.000 By the time, if this continues for another six months, we will all be clinically brain dead from losing this many brain cells.
00:12:37.000 It is fully, fully insane.
00:12:39.000 Okay, here is Jim Acosta saying, someone will get hurt.
00:12:41.000 Someone.
00:12:43.000 All right, Jim.
00:12:46.000 There are two approaches to this.
00:12:47.000 One is we can just sit back and be silent and just take it.
00:12:52.000 There are some people who say, you know, don't take debate.
00:12:55.000 You're just going to encourage this behavior even more.
00:12:58.000 But I think we're well past that now.
00:13:00.000 I think we're at the stage where we have to try the other.
00:13:03.000 We're past that.
00:13:04.000 It's too dangerous.
00:13:05.000 We have to... Okay, first of all, you have a third choice, which is to treat the tweet like it is.
00:13:08.000 It's Trump, who's not world's most intelligent man, contrary to what his public thinks, okay?
00:13:13.000 Tweeting something that his unbridled, volatile id told him to tweet, and that doesn't mean anything, because he's just Trump, and he tweets things, and he says stuff.
00:13:21.000 And by the way, his defenders should say this.
00:13:24.000 This would be the best defense for Trump, is the man just says stuff, right?
00:13:27.000 He gets up in the morning, and while he's peeing, he watches Morning Joe,
00:13:31.000 And then he gets mad.
00:13:32.000 And then he tweets the thing.
00:13:34.000 And then we all go on with our day.
00:13:35.000 Because guess what?
00:13:36.000 Nothing has changed.
00:13:37.000 Has anything markedly changed since January except everything has gotten supremely stupid?
00:13:41.000 Like, even more stupid than it was last year?
00:13:43.000 You thought that 2016 was stupid.
00:13:45.000 And then 2017 came along and said, hold my beer.
00:13:47.000 Okay.
00:13:48.000 Martha Raddatz on ABC, she does the same thing.
00:13:50.000 She says, it seemed like a threat to me.
00:13:51.000 It seemed like a threat.
00:13:52.000 I mean, I'm feeling, I'm feeling scared and fragile.
00:13:53.000 Okay, as someone who receives death threats on a fairly regular basis, a death threat sounds like someone calling up your phone and saying, I'm gonna come to your house and murder you.
00:14:01.000 It doesn't sound like a meme where somebody tackles you.
00:14:05.000 Okay?
00:14:05.000 It's not even a meme where somebody has you in a gas chamber pushing a button, okay?
00:14:08.000 I get hundreds of those, okay?
00:14:10.000 This one is a meme literally of the logo.
00:14:12.000 Like, it would be like if someone took the Daily Wire logo and had... and had Bernie Sanders tackling it.
00:14:19.000 Would I feel threatened by that, or would I just say, this is the stupidest crap I've ever seen?
00:14:22.000 But the media, oh no.
00:14:24.000 We have to play wounded.
00:14:25.000 Well, this is a real threat.
00:14:26.000 It's a threat to liberty!
00:14:28.000 ABC's Martha Raddatz.
00:14:30.000 He certainly can communicate to the people, but I want to ask you, is that the kind of communication you want?
00:14:34.000 That he's beating up on somebody?
00:14:36.000 That he's beating up on the media?
00:14:38.000 You're in charge of Homeland Security there.
00:14:41.000 That seems like a threat.
00:14:43.000 Yeah, certainly not, though.
00:14:44.000 I think that no one would perceive that as a threat.
00:14:46.000 I hope they don't.
00:14:47.000 But I do think that he's beaten up in a way on cable platforms.
00:14:51.000 Okay, and then the right responds, of course, we'll get to the right's response in a second, because the right, basically, the left has lost its mind and the right is losing its soul.
00:14:58.000 So those are basically the two things that are happening right now.
00:15:01.000 The stupidest response came courtesy of our friend Sally Cohen.
00:15:03.000 So Sally, she responded saying, is there no line?
00:15:07.000 Have you no decency, sir?
00:15:08.000 Let me make a point and ask a question.
00:15:14.000 I actually can't believe this is happening.
00:15:18.000 It was Donald Trump who said that Barack Obama wasn't a citizen of this country.
00:15:22.000 It was Republicans who said he had a Kenyan colonialist mindset that literally questioned his legitimacy to even be in the White House.
00:15:32.000 Had President Obama gone to a veterans event, Kayleigh, a veterans event, and used that event to attack the media, you'd be all over.
00:15:41.000 And guess what?
00:15:42.000 He got roaring applause.
00:15:43.000 He got roaring applause for that, by the way.
00:15:45.000 You got to talk.
00:15:45.000 Now it's my turn.
00:15:46.000 So I can't believe you can defend this.
00:15:49.000 I mean, really?
00:15:50.000 Is there no... So my question is, is there no line?
00:15:53.000 Like, if that had been a picture, not of the CNN logo, or video, not of the CNN logo, but it had been Jake Tapper's head he was punching, would that cross a line for you?
00:16:01.000 What if it was a picture of Donald Trump holding a bloodied CNN logo up?
00:16:06.000 Sally, you clearly... When does it cross the line?
00:16:08.000 When does it cross the line?
00:16:09.000 You haven't listened to me.
00:16:10.000 When does it?
00:16:12.000 Okay.
00:16:13.000 I have a question, Sally.
00:16:14.000 When does this cross the line?
00:16:15.000 Okay, you tweeted this a week ago.
00:16:18.000 One week ago.
00:16:20.000 Quote, troubled Wisconsin man goes on 50 state killing spree.
00:16:24.000 And it's a picture of Paul Ryan.
00:16:27.000 Hmm hmm hmm.
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00:18:35.000 No, but but
00:18:38.000 On the other hand, Kathy Griffin, Trump bloody head, Julius Caesar performance, Trump being killed, the CNN coverage with the spotlight over Trump's head.
00:18:50.000 There's been a lot of violent, nasty rhetoric surrounding Trump since the election cycle.
00:18:55.000 So what's so wrong with this?
00:18:56.000 And we'll discuss what's wrong with that in just a second, because I think that there is a problem with the general notion.
00:19:03.000 I think there's a problem with the general notion that when it comes to the rhetoric that you use,
00:19:09.000 We are no longer in retaliatory mode.
00:19:11.000 We are now in offense mode.
00:19:12.000 So if the left weren't even doing this, I think the right, a lot of members of the right would be celebrating this sort of stuff.
00:19:17.000 But how should the media really be responding to this?
00:19:19.000 Well, the way the media should be responding to this is the way that David Fahrentholdt of the New York Times responded to this.
00:19:23.000 So here is David Fahrentholdt.
00:19:24.000 He was on a panel on CNN about this, and here's what he had to say.
00:19:29.000 David, I also remember President-elect Trump saying that he was going to limit his use of Twitter once he got into office.
00:19:35.000 I was going to be restrained, that's right.
00:19:36.000 He said, yeah, if I even get on Twitter, it'll be restrained.
00:19:41.000 Does all of this surprise you?
00:19:44.000 No, not at all.
00:19:45.000 Look, this is dumb.
00:19:46.000 It's a dumb thing to have tweeted.
00:19:48.000 It's not a very presidential thing to have tweeted.
00:19:49.000 But listen, everybody else in the world has learned from this.
00:19:52.000 The foreign leaders that Trump insults on Twitter, the companies that he goes after on Twitter, they've all realized that it's mostly just talk.
00:19:58.000 It's just a guy talking.
00:19:59.000 He's yelling at the screen.
00:20:00.000 He's expressing his anger.
00:20:02.000 And they've begun basically to ignore him.
00:20:04.000 We're good.
00:20:21.000 If you're an enemy of Trump, this is what you'd be saying about this tweet.
00:20:23.000 What you'd be saying, if you were smart, is this tweet just shows that Trump doesn't know what he's doing.
00:20:27.000 That he's a volatile dope who goes on Twitter and spouts off and is not advancing any policy, but he's catering to a base of people who are mad and whatever.
00:20:37.000 And Trump's people don't want that to be.
00:20:39.000 So Trump's people are of divided minds.
00:20:40.000 On the one hand, they want to say, why are you taking this so seriously?
00:20:43.000 On the other hand, they want to say everyone should take Trump super seriously.
00:20:46.000 On the left, they say, we don't want to take Trump seriously.
00:20:48.000 And then they say, but we're going to take him super seriously, like it's a threat of violence.
00:20:51.000 Basically, I have another wrestling gif that sort of shows what exactly really is happening in this Trump media fight.
00:21:01.000 Right.
00:21:01.000 That's actually what's happening here.
00:21:03.000 Because everybody's treating it like Trump is kicking media in the head and knocking them out.
00:21:08.000 And the media is treating it like the media are kicking him in the head and they're knocking him out.
00:21:10.000 Basically, they're both knocking each other out because this is all just insane and stupid.
00:21:14.000 It's just insane and stupid.
00:21:16.000 And one of the reasons, again, that the right is responding the way they are to Trump's tweet
00:21:20.000 is because of the media coverage of other violent rhetoric, right?
00:21:23.000 They've ignored it for years, except when it comes from the right, in which case they declare it the worst thing in the world.
00:21:27.000 There's a representative named Zeldin, who is on CNN, and he was being asked about all of this, Congressman Lee Zeldin, I guess, and he was being asked by Frederica Whitfield about Trump's tweet, and she won't let him talk, right?
00:21:40.000 He says, you guys do this all the time, and she won't let him talk, and you wonder why the right is frustrated, guys?
00:21:45.000 This is why.
00:21:45.000 So what was the message today?
00:21:48.000 What was the message today, then?
00:21:52.000 I'm not here to defend the tweet that was there this morning, so that's why I'm giving the answer, that there's a way for the President to be able to raise his game, but there is a... It's not a changing of direction, that we all need to do more to be able to raise our game, because while we're here talking about it, you have people in Hollywood making jokes about assassinating the President of the United States, punching him in the face, cutting his head off, you do have people in the media
00:22:23.000 You're trying very hard not to deal with the topic at hand right now by bringing up these other examples that have already been discussed ad nauseum.
00:22:33.000 And you're trying to shift.
00:22:35.000 No, that is relevant, okay, because that's what Trump always says, right?
00:22:37.000 Trump's entire defense is, I'm punching back, which means that the left needs to call out their own rhetoric the same way that they're calling out the right's rhetoric.
00:22:44.000 And the right, by the way, is full of crap also, because the right does this routine where they're very pissed that Barack Obama used a selfie stick in the Oval Office.
00:22:52.000 Totally fair, okay?
00:22:53.000 He shouldn't be using a selfie stick in the Oval Office.
00:22:55.000 It's disrespectful.
00:22:57.000 You can't do that and then turn around and say, this is totally cool what Trump is doing.
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