The Roy Moore campaign is on the rails after another accuser emerges. Plus, the left finally acknowledged that Bill Clinton is probably a rapist, but they don t seem to acknowledge just why they ignored it in the first place. We ll discuss all of it on The Ben Shapiro Show with Ben Shapiro ( ) on today's episode. Links From This Episode: All Previous Podcast Episodes Leave Us a Review On Apple Podcasts Subscribe To Our New Podcasts And Stay Up To Date With The News And Discussion On All Things Campaigning And Things Happening In Our Country See all the great resources you can use to help find great candidates for your 2020 Primary Slate.Become a Member of The Green New Deal and get 10% off your first month with discount code GreenNew Deal when you sign up and place an order of $35 or more. ZipRecruiter is the Best Way to Recruiter for Quality Candidates! Check it out and get all the details you need to find quality candidates to work with you in 2020! You can get a FREE 30-day VIP membership when you run your first-choice recruiter, and get 20% off of $99 or more when you upgrade to $99.99. You get VIP access to all VIP packages and get access to VIP Provenza Plus a 7-day proververing and access to the VIP membership, and a 3-day discount when you get a discount when they run their first choice, and they get the choice of VIP access and they also get a choice of $24/MBPR and VIP access, they get $4/MBORROW AND VIP access gets $4 and they can access VIP access AND VIP PRIBREPRION AND A VIP discount, AND they also receive $4 AND VIP REPRISE AND THE MISSION AND A MANDOROR AND THE SECRETRY AND A VOTING PACKAGE AND A MONTH AND A PATREON AND A CITY AND A FANDORION AND CONFIRMENT AND A WORLD AND A CHOT AND A PRANDOR AND A SPY AND A BREIRD AND A PLACE AND A VIOTOR AND HEATING PRANDORY AND A LIFE AND A COMPLEMENT AND CONFERFERMENT AND AND A SUPPORTER AND A FRIFERBERRY AND A THIRD PLACE TO SUPPORT THE PRIVORY PRANDCAST AND A FINERY AND A YARD AND A LOWER PRAND BACK AND A SINGING AND A PASSION AND THEY LOWOW PRANDMENT AND BOWLE AND A DISCORD AND A TOWBACK BOWL AND A FACE AND A TOUR AND A GREIRD PRINGLE?
00:00:00.000The Roy Moore campaign is on the rails after another accuser emerges.
00:00:03.000Plus, the left finally acknowledged that Bill Clinton is probably a rapist, but they don't seem to acknowledge just why they ignored it in the first place.
00:00:21.000Okay, so the latest news is that Senate Republican contender from Alabama, Roy Moore, was hit with another allegation yesterday, a very credible allegation, from a woman who is now 55 years old.
00:00:32.000She says when she was 16 years old, Roy Moore essentially tried to rape her.
00:00:35.000We'll talk about that, but we will also talk about this op-ed from the New York Times that truly is astonishing and I think shows just why the
00:00:43.000Evil people in politics are going to continue to gain credibility and actually gain in the public consciousness as opposed to losing the public consciousness.
00:00:52.000It's an article from the New York Times that's truly astonishing today.
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00:02:05.000Okay, so I want to start with this article from the New York Times.
00:02:08.000I'll get to the allegations against Roy Moore in just a second, but first I want to give you the background because a lot of people on the left have been wondering, why is it that so many people on the right, why is it that so many people on the right are constantly
00:02:20.000You know, making excuses for bad behavior on their own side.
00:02:23.000This seemed like a question that was being asked a lot during the last election cycle.
00:02:27.000I said, you know, we were the party that said the character mattered.
00:02:29.000We were the party that suggested that the president of the United States should not be involved in sexual misconduct.
00:02:36.000And now we're nominating Donald Trump.
00:02:38.000And I thought that was an open, honest question.
00:02:40.000But the reality is that many people on the right, as I discussed yesterday,
00:02:44.000are responding directly to the left embrace of Bill Clinton.
00:02:47.000The Bill Clinton years broke the country as far as the question is whether character matters in their politicians.
00:02:52.000There are always two perspectives on whether character matters in politicians.
00:02:55.000Going all the way back to the founding, there was the delegate version of representation and there was the sort of responsibility version of representation.
00:03:02.000So the delegate version of representation goes like something like this.
00:03:06.000The character of the person you elect doesn't matter so long as they do what you want.
00:03:09.000It doesn't matter if they're a good person.
00:03:11.000It doesn't matter if they're a smart person.
00:03:12.000So long as they are doing your bidding, you could elect a dog to basically hit a button in the Senate and you'd be just fine.
00:03:19.000This is the delegate model of representation.
00:03:20.000Then there's what the founders thought.
00:03:22.000Edmund Burke, philosopher John Stuart Mill thought this.
00:03:25.000That when you elect a representative, the whole point of having a representative government as opposed to a democratic government is that a democratic government is all about the idea that the people get to vote on every issue.
00:03:33.000A representative government is about the idea that you elect representatives so you can delegate to them the responsibility to do independent thinking, independent research, and come to their own conclusions.
00:03:43.000So that means you have to trust the character of the people that you actually elect.
00:03:46.000This is why there's an inscription on the White House from John Adams that says, may none but good and wise men sit in this house.
00:03:53.000The idea that character was innately bound with good legislation was something the founders really believed and was part of American politics for centuries.
00:04:01.000That broke down during the Clinton years.
00:04:03.000Because during the Clinton years, there have been bad people who were president before.
00:04:39.000This was legitimately a phrase that was used.
00:04:40.000They were a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty.
00:04:42.000This was one of the things that some of the Clinton defenders were saying.
00:04:44.000People like Nina Burleigh from Time Magazine.
00:04:46.000She was saying that she didn't care about Clinton's sexual peccadillos because she would be willing to offer the president oral sex so long as he kept abortion legal.
00:04:54.000This is a very lowbrow way of saying that it's the delegate model of representation.
00:04:57.000So long as he votes the way I want, it doesn't matter if the guy is a complete scumbag.
00:05:02.000Well, now, that logic has turned in on itself for the Democrats, because so many people on the right are basically saying the same thing now.
00:05:08.000They're basically saying, who cares how Roy Moore votes, right?
00:05:10.000This is the David Horowitz perspective.
00:05:11.000Or rather, who cares how Roy Moore acts?
00:05:13.000Who cares if he tried to rape a 14-year-old girl?
00:05:16.000Who cares if he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old?
00:05:18.000None of that matters, so long as he votes the right way on abortion.
00:05:22.000And the left is objecting to this, I think rightly so.
00:05:24.000So, now what is the left doing in response?
00:05:26.000Well, now the left is trying to rewrite history.
00:05:28.000They are trying to explain why they defended Bill Clinton, but they think that it's absolutely wrong to defend Roy Moore or Donald Trump when there are allegations against them.
00:05:35.000And so what they've decided to do, as their solution, is throw Bill Clinton under the bus, but defend their behavior at the time.
00:05:41.000So, there's a piece by Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times that is astonishing in its unconscious honesty about how the left viewed Bill Clinton.
00:05:49.000So I'm going to go through it because I think that this informs.
00:05:51.000You want to know why we are where we are in politics?
00:05:54.000It is because of things that happened when I was a child.
00:05:56.000It's because of the, it's because of the 1990s when the entire political left decided that character no longer counted.
00:06:01.000And then the right learned the lesson that if character no longer counted, it shouldn't count for anybody.
00:06:05.000So here is what Michelle Globerg writes.
00:06:35.000It's not accurate that the right was talking about Bill Clinton during the Roy Moore stuff because they were trying to dismiss allegations against Roy Moore.
00:06:42.000I was one of the first people to say that Roy Moore should step out of the race.
00:06:45.000And I was mentioning Bill Clinton because I was pointing out the hypocrisy of the left in going after Roy Moore.
00:06:50.000I was saying that they should embrace a standard where they throw Bill Clinton overboard too, and Ted Kennedy, and JFK, and Harvey Milk, and all the people who are molesting, you know, young women.
00:06:59.000All these people should be thrown overboard by the left if they wish to remain consistent here.
00:07:04.000The left doesn't want to remain consistent, so they're going to accuse us of hypocrisy even if I'm not a hypocrite, even if I think that Roy Moore is guilty.
00:07:09.000In any case, Michelle Glover continues, despite the right's evident bad faith, I agree with Hayes.
00:07:36.000Juanita Broderick came out with her allegations in like 1992, and she alleged that Bill Clinton took her into a room and forced himself on her and physically raped her, and that there was a dinner afterward that she attended where Hillary Clinton came up to her, patted her on the hand, and she said, meaning keep your mouth shut.
00:07:54.000The left, for two decades, has been ignoring Juanita Broderick and pretending that Juanita Broderick didn't exist.
00:07:59.000During the last election cycle, when the Trump campaign brought up Juanita Broderick, the media quashed interviews with Juanita Broderick.
00:08:05.000They said, this is old news, why would we cover this?
00:08:08.000Only now, when the election's over, and when they're trying to look to weaponize all sexual allegations against the right, do they finally admit that this stuff happened against Bill Clinton.
00:08:29.000She says, Democrats are guilty of apologizing for Clinton when they shouldn't have.
00:08:33.000At the same time, and here's where you start getting the excuses, here's where you get the, yeah, sure, we crapped all over Juanita Broderick and Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey and Monica Lewinsky.
00:08:42.000Sure, we dumped heaps of garbage on them and destroyed their lives.
00:08:45.000Sure, we did all the things, but you know why we did that?
00:08:51.000She says, at the same time, looking back at the smear campaign against the Clintons shows we can't treat the feminist injunction to believe women as absolute.
00:08:58.000The believe women is in quotes in her piece.
00:09:00.000Okay, so the idea here is that the smear campaign against the Clintons means that you get to crap all over a bunch of credible allegations?
00:09:08.000What's hilarious is this article is supposed to be kind of against Roy Moore.
00:09:11.000The exact same logic could be used for Roy Moore, right?
00:09:14.000The people who are defending Roy Moore today say that this is a smear campaign launched by the Washington Post and the left-wing media 30 days before an election in order to get Roy Moore.
00:10:37.000And a bunch of other Republican figures.
00:10:38.000And now it's the right-wing media that's going to militarize this?
00:10:41.000The Clinton years, this piece continues, in which epistemological warfare emerged as a key part of the Republican political arsenal, shows us why we should be wary of allegations that bubble up from the right-wing press.
00:10:53.000So, she starts off by saying, I believe Juanita Broderick, and then she dispenses eight paragraphs explaining why she shouldn't have believed Juanita Broderick.
00:10:59.000She says, at the time, the reactionary billionaire Richard Mellonscape was bankrolling the Arkansas Project.
00:11:05.000Which David Brock, the former right-wing journalist who played a major role in it, described as the multi-million dollar dirty tricks operation under the Clintons.
00:11:11.000Yeah, quote David Brock, the head of Media Matters, now a multi-million dollar dirty tricks operation against Republicans.
00:11:16.000Various figures in conservative media accused Bill Clinton of murder, drug running, and using state troopers as pimps.
00:11:21.000Brock alleges that right-wing figures funneled money to some of Clinton's accusers.
00:11:25.000Okay, does that mean that you can't believe the accusers?
00:11:28.000Because what she seems to be saying is you shouldn't believe them.
00:11:30.000So do you believe them or do you not believe them?
00:11:55.000Right, she says that Willie accused not only Bill Clinton of groping her and rubbing his erect penis on her and pushing her hand to his crotch, but accused the Clintons of having her husband and then her cat killed.
00:12:06.000The answer is no, you don't have to believe that allegation, but you have to disprove the other one.
00:12:10.000You have to at least, I thought that the idea behind Me Too is that we have to at least take seriously the other allegation.
00:12:15.000And then she dismisses the Paula Jones stuff.
00:12:18.000Even though Bill Clinton settled for hundreds of thousands of dollars out of court, she says that Paula Jones' claim must have been nonsense as well.
00:12:24.000And then she finishes this way, this is amazing, she says,
00:12:27.000Of the Clinton accusers, the one who haunts me is Broderick.
00:12:30.000The story she tells about Clinton recalls those we've heard about Weinstein.
00:12:33.000She claimed they had plans to meet up in a hotel coffee shop, but at the last minute he asked to come up to her hotel room instead where he raped her.
00:12:39.000Five witnesses said she confided in them about the assault right after it happened.
00:12:42.000It's true she denied the rape in an affidavit to Paula Jones' lawyers before changing her story when talking to federal investigators.
00:12:47.000But her explanation that she didn't want to go public but couldn't lie to the FBI makes sense.
00:13:03.000Because that would have helped the right.
00:13:05.000And she concludes this way, she says, It's fair to conclude that because of Broderick's allegations, Bill Clinton no longer has a place in decent society.
00:13:12.000Okay, if you think that, didn't he no longer have a place in decent society 25 years ago when he was running for president?
00:13:17.000Seems to me rapists didn't have a place in decent society in 1992 the same way they don't in 2017.
00:13:22.000Because we should remember, it's not simply partisan tribalism that led liberals to doubt her.
00:13:27.000Discerning what might be true in a blizzard of lies isn't easy, and the people who spread those lies don't get to claim the moral high ground.
00:13:32.000We should err on the side of believing women, but sometimes that belief will be used against us.
00:13:36.000Well, then you're not erring on the side of believing women, are you?
00:14:03.000Okay, just because somebody, just because the left had political herpes and now the right has acquired political herpes does not make political herpes good.
00:14:11.000But to pretend that this is something that's unique on the right or the left now has the capacity to say their herpes have been cured at the same time they're defending their acquisition of herpes to begin with is disgusting.
00:14:20.000Before I go any further, we're going to talk about Roy Moore and what's happening with Roy Moore, who clearly needs to step down from this race.
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00:16:04.000Here's the less disturbing allegation.
00:16:06.000According to the New Yorker, which has been doing good work on the Harvey Weinstein stuff, so before everybody goes, the New Yorker is just biased to the left, and that's why they're going after Roy Moore.
00:16:14.000They also broke all of the news about Harvey Weinstein.
00:16:17.000They say that Roy Moore, in the early 80s, was a regular visitor to the local Gadsden Mall and he was banned from the mall.
00:16:26.000They say that, according to this columnist,
00:16:29.000He spoke or messaged with more than a dozen people, including a major political figure in the state, who told me they'd heard over the years that Moore had been banned from the mall because he repeatedly badgered teenage girls.
00:16:38.000Some say they heard this at the time, others in the years since.
00:16:40.000These people include five members of the local legal community, two cops who worked in the town, several people who hung out at the mall in the early 80s, and a number of former mall employees.
00:16:48.000The Moore campaign did not answer requests for comment.
00:16:51.000The stories that say that they've been heard for years have been swirling online for days.
00:16:56.000People are saying that he was banned from the Gadsden Mall and the YMCA for soliciting sex from young girls.
00:17:01.000Teresa Jones, the Deputy DA in Ottawa County, she told CNN last week it was common knowledge that Roy dated high school girls.
00:17:08.000He was from 1981 to 1985 an employee at a store that was in the Gadsden Mall.
00:17:12.000He said the mall was the place to be and he says he saw more there a few times even though it was his understanding that he had already been banned.
00:17:39.000So yesterday, there was a lot of talk right before, during our show, I told you about how Gloria Allred was going to be holding a press conference with an accuser.
00:17:46.000And I suggested that Gloria Allred's presence was an indicator that there may be a problem with the story, because Gloria Allred is a publicity hound.
00:19:06.000She was 16 years old at the time, and something that people should know is that she, like the first woman who accused Roy Moore of sexually molesting her when she was 14 years old, she's a Trump supporter as well.
00:19:16.000Like, everyone in Alabama's a Trump supporter, so that shouldn't come as any surprise to anybody.
00:19:20.000So, these allegations are very credible.
00:19:22.000She also said that she knew Roy Moore and she had proof that she knew Roy Moore.
00:19:26.000She said that she worked at a restaurant until 10 p.m.
00:19:28.000at night, and basically, it was 10 p.m., she got off shift, her boyfriend couldn't pick her up, so Roy Moore offered to give her a ride home, brought her in a car around the back of the restaurant,
00:19:53.000And yesterday she actually pulled out the yearbook.
00:19:56.000And Roy Moore's signature appears in that yearbook.
00:19:58.000It looks just like his signature from today.
00:20:00.000Unless she went ahead and forged this for no apparent reason.
00:20:03.000It says, to a sweeter and more beautiful girl, I could not say Merry Christmas.
00:20:09.000So, making Christmas great again, Roy Moore.
00:20:11.000This is Christmas 1977, Love Roy Moore, D.A.
00:20:14.000So he actually signed it with his position, and then he signed it with the date, right, 12-22-77, and then it said Old Hickory House, right, so he even signed the location.
00:20:24.000Roy Moore's response to all of this was to suggest that all of this was basically, all of this was nonsense, that he didn't know her,
00:20:33.000There's a picture of her, by the way, you can see there on the bottom, you can see the picture of her from her high school yearbook.
00:20:38.000And, you know, she was, apparently she competed in beauty pageants and contests and such, and more used to come in and flirt with her, she says.
00:21:12.000This situation, you'll see that because I'm 11 points ahead, or 10 or 11 points ahead, this race being just 28 days off, that this is a political maneuver.
00:21:24.000Okay, so he's going to blame it on a political maneuver in exactly the same way that Michelle Goldberg tries to blame not believing the accusers, Juanita Broderick, on political maneuvering.
00:21:31.000So you can see, the exact mirror logic of the Clinton years is now being used by Roy Moore.
00:21:37.000And one of the things that's really, you know,
00:21:40.000Very difficult about this entire situation is that everyone, because they're looking at these allegations through the political lens, and it's impossible not to look at it through the political lens, they are now turning this into a battle between the establishment and the non-establishment.
00:21:53.000There's a report out today, the only major Republican who is not disassociated from Moore in the aftermath of those very credible allegations that were made by this woman yesterday.
00:22:00.000Literally, the only Republican who has not yet disassociated is Donald Trump himself.
00:22:04.000Trump is supposed to come back into town, I believe, today, and we'll see what he has to say.
00:22:08.000Apparently, according to Politico and sources around the president, he's actually tempted to support more in spite of all of this, which would not be surprising given what we know of President Trump's proclivities in terms of bucking the so-called establishment.
00:22:20.000Turning this into an establishment versus anti-establishment fight versus a don't support people who
00:22:37.000That everyone who doesn't support Roy Moore is basically a cuck establishmentarian who is willing to back down from the Clintons.
00:22:43.000And everybody who's willing to fight is willing to stand with Roy Moore because the left is just so evil and just so bad.
00:22:49.000You're a wimp if you don't stand with Roy Moore.
00:22:52.000So you can see this from Moore's coordinator in Alabama calling all of the Republicans lightweights who are saying that he should step down.
00:22:59.000You're telling the voters of Alabama, if you choose your senator, that we are going to try to nullify your vote, therefore you don't have constitutional right to vote in Alabama, because we are going to work our best to nullify your vote if you vote for Roy Moore.
00:23:23.000Us Republican senators know more than you do.
00:23:27.000And we're going to nullify your vote through some kind of mechanism in the rules of the Senate.
00:23:34.000That's what we have from Senator Cory Gardner.
00:23:36.000That's kind of a breach of the Constitution that I don't think folks in Alabama will rest well with.
00:23:40.000Okay, so this is what it's going to turn into now.
00:23:42.000Now it's going to turn into, they're going to try to turn this into a battle between establishment and non-establishment over an issue that really has nothing to do with the establishment or non-establishment.
00:23:50.000Good moral people should look at allegations and see whether they are credible or not.
00:23:53.000And the left has ignored this for 25 years and the right is beginning to ignore it now in response to the left.
00:23:58.000Like, Sean Trent from RealClearPolitics basically sums this up incredibly well.
00:24:02.000He says, if you don't understand the logic as to why so many of these people seem to be okay with what's going on with Roy Moore, why so many people seem to be backing away from all of this, you have to understand that this is all born of the Clinton years.
00:24:16.000He says, I don't think you can underestimate the degree to which many conservatives have this attitude.
00:24:19.000A, we fought a battle over whether character counts and got our asses handed to us, and B, liberal leaders always circle the wagons around their guys and ours always cave.
00:24:31.000I think that the left did not actually win that battle.
00:24:34.000I think the reason George W. Bush was elected president is because the left didn't win that battle.
00:24:37.000But I think that there are a lot of people on the right who believe that, and so they're going to continue down this path where only the real fighters are willing to stand up for child rapists or alleged child rapists.
00:24:47.000Okay, I'm going to continue along these lines and talk about whether this kind of misconception inside the Republican Party
00:24:54.000That being a policy hard-ass and being willing to go along with disgusting people are tied together because there seems to be this misconception that I think needs to be separated out.
00:25:02.000But I'm going to talk about that in just a second.
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00:27:20.000Okay, so again, this sort of whataboutism is not good.
00:27:24.000But the left did it, and so does the right, and it's really not a positive development.
00:27:28.000And I think, again, that it's being tied to attitude.
00:27:30.000So why do I think that Trump is tempted not to throw Roy Moore under the bus?
00:27:33.000I think the reason he's tempted not to throw Roy Moore under the bus is it seems like the people who are most ardent about throwing Roy Moore under the bus are also the people who are anti-Tea Party and people who are anti-Trump.
00:27:42.000You know, the Jeff Flakes of the world.
00:27:43.000Jeff Flakes said he'd support a Democrat before he supported Roy Moore.
00:27:46.000No, the proper answer is you would support a write-in candidate before you would support Roy Moore or you would abstain from voting.
00:28:42.000The Cook Political Report just moved Alabama, a Senate race, in which no senator has been elected a Democrat from Alabama since, I believe, 1994.
00:29:59.000Do you think with 27 or so days left that if the GOP were, if Mr. Moore were to step aside, that they would have the time to be competitive in that Senate race?
00:30:08.000But more importantly, we need to stand for basic principles and decency has to be one of those.
00:30:13.000And again, the problem here is that there are so many people on the right who now respond to the tone and tenor more than they respond to the information.
00:30:19.000The real question here is, is Roy Moore credibly alleged to have done these things?
00:30:23.000Do you think he's guilty or do you think he's not?
00:30:25.000And if the only people who are out there speaking on this are people like McConnell and Bush, this turns into a proxy fight about attitude as opposed to what it should be about.
00:30:34.000This is my biggest problem with politics in the modern age.
00:30:37.000Politics in the modern age seems to be almost entirely about the attitudes that we attribute to the other side as opposed to the facts on the ground.
00:30:43.000I don't care what's in Jeb Bush's head.
00:30:45.000I don't care whether he hates Roy Moore because Roy Moore is too fundamentalist.
00:30:49.000I don't care whether Mitch McConnell doesn't like Roy Moore because he feels that he'd be a hassle in the Senate.
00:30:53.000The question to me is whether Roy Moore should sit in the Senate if he did these things, and it appears that he did.
00:31:27.000That's what Michelle Goldberg does too.
00:31:28.000Instead of saying, were the allegations of Juanita Broderick credible 25 years ago?
00:31:32.000She says, right, but the motivations of the people leveraging those allegations were not credible.
00:31:37.000If we just go after each other's motivations, and we just attribute to one another motivations, without any evidence, because it's convenient for us to do so, that's how bad things happen, folks.
00:31:48.000That's how Bill Clinton ends up President.
00:31:49.000That's how Roy Moore, despite credible allegations, ends up in the Senate.
00:31:53.000If we just sit around, accusing each other of bad motivations, instead of making independent moral judgments for ourselves, it absolves you of independent moral judgment, when you can just blame the other guy for his motives.
00:32:04.000It's one of the most disgusting things I think about human beings, just about human nature.
00:32:08.000It's something that we ought to fight.
00:32:09.000You know, if somebody does something that you think, if there's an absolute moral question, is it wrong to steal?
00:32:18.000And then, instead of answering the question, is it wrong to steal?
00:32:21.000You say, yes, but the motivations of the people condemning thievery are really suspect.
00:32:25.000They're religious fundamentalists, and I don't like that.
00:32:28.000then you're just avoiding answering the question.
00:32:30.000You're justifying your own immorality by attributing motives to somebody who you don't even know.
00:32:35.000And that's what I see happening so much.
00:32:36.000And so what this has resulted in is an unconscious connection for many people on both sides of the political aisle between being radical on politics, being anti-establishment on politics, and being willing to go along with bad guys.
00:32:52.000Because if you're willing to go along with bad guys, that just shows that you're hard-nosed enough to know that your opponents are really nasty people who must be defeated by any means.
00:33:01.000If you're hard-nosed enough on POTSC, if you know the country's really in trouble, then you know that the left has bad motivations in going after Roy Moore, and therefore it doesn't matter.
00:33:08.000You don't have to answer the question as to whether Roy Moore is guilty or not.
00:34:08.000So you could kill two birds with one stone.
00:34:10.000He should say, everyone should go out and vote for Jeff Sessions tomorrow in the Alabama State Senate.
00:34:14.000The other thing that could happen, right, the other thing that could be very easy to do is, I believe the other senator from Alabama is Richard Burr, if I'm not mistaken.
00:34:20.000So you could say to Richard Burr, I want you to drop out of your Senate seat right now and run for the open Senate seat in a write-in campaign, and then we'll have another special election that doesn't involve Roy Moore for your Senate seat.
00:34:31.000There are a couple of solutions that are still on the table, but the longer Trump dilly-dallies around, the longer Trump refuses to say anything, and if he just comes out and he says, listen,
00:34:40.000I think Roy Moore should step down, but that's all I've got to say on the matter.
00:34:42.000He's going to need to do more than that.
00:34:43.000He needs to rally his base to vote for someone who is not Roy Moore, because otherwise you're going to end up with a split vote.
00:34:48.000And as much as people in Alabama, there's a base of people who like Roy Moore and have allegiance to Roy Moore, many more people in Alabama have allegiance to Donald Trump than have allegiance to Roy Moore.
00:34:57.000This is one area where Trump really could make an outsized difference in the wake of allegations like this.
00:35:03.000He wasn't able to arrange people behind Luther Strange, and I don't think he should try to at this point, but I do think that he should stop, I do think that he should leverage his capacity to try and replace Roy Moore with somebody who is more palatable.
00:35:18.000What I don't think that he should do is continue along the lines laid out by Representative Mo Brooks, the David Horowitz line.
00:35:23.000Even if he did it, I'll be voting for Roy Moore.
00:35:25.000Here's Mo Brooks making exactly that case.
00:35:43.000Okay, that's the delegate model of representation.
00:35:45.000Vote for a person who may rape children so long as he votes right on the issues.
00:35:51.000I think that Trump needs to fight against this.
00:35:53.000But, you know, I have my doubt the character will ever...
00:35:57.000We may have reached the breaking point for character in American life, where we've just decided that character legitimately doesn't matter in American life anymore, and that would be a very, very sad point.
00:36:04.000Okay, I want to get to what I think is a giant nothing burger about Donald Trump Jr.
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00:37:42.000I really don't think that there's very much here at all.
00:37:44.000You can see that CNN was going nuts over this.
00:37:48.000They were suggesting that this just demonstrates that active collusion took place.
00:37:52.000No, and I will explain in just a moment.
00:37:55.000According to new reporting in The Atlantic magazine, three full weeks before running mate Mike Pence denied the campaign was, quote, in cahoots with Wikileaks, Donald Trump Jr.
00:38:04.000was absolutely in touch with, you guessed it, Wikileaks.
00:38:07.000Wikileaks, you'll recall, was the organization the U.S.
00:38:09.000intelligence community believes was chosen by the Kremlin to spread hacked information damaging the Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.
00:38:15.000What is so fascinating is how the communications, in the form of Twitter direct messages, mesh with certain points on the campaign timeline that we already know quite well.
00:38:24.000For instance, October 2nd, Trump friend and former advisor Roger Stone tweets that damaging material is coming from WikiLeaks.
00:38:55.000And on that same day, the 14th, Mike Pence denies any collusion with WikiLeaks.
00:39:00.000It is, to say at the least, fascinating.
00:39:03.000Okay, so this idea that there was some sort of deep-seated collusion going on, unfortunately, the record sort of belies this.
00:39:10.000So, according to The Atlantic, according to a source familiar with the congressional investigations into Russian interference with the 2016 campaign, who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing,
00:40:44.000Why is it okay for you to make hundreds of thousands of dollars off a blank book on which the only recommendation is Ben Shapiro's and Shapiro made no money off of it?
00:41:02.000We are the largest, fastest growing conservative podcast on planet Earth.
00:41:10.000I added the on planet earth and not just in the nation because I was informed by a viewer that there's no other conservative show on planet earth that is as big as ours.
00:42:54.000When I first, there are very few movies where I try watching them once, I hate them, and then I go back later and I re-watch them and I really like them.
00:43:02.000In fact, this may be the only movie like that that I can think of.
00:43:04.000So, a few years back, I tried watching The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford, and I thought, man, this thing is just slow.
00:43:56.000And his performance as Robert Ford in this is really quite good and quite tragic.
00:44:01.000It is a very complex story about why Jesse James is sort of worshipped by the American public, even though Jesse James is really a terrible person.
00:44:09.000But even Jesse James is a shaded character.
00:44:11.000It's really, really interesting, and it's got so many great character actors.
00:44:15.000The cast of this thing is really fantastic.
00:44:18.000I was looking at the cast the other day.
00:44:21.000I'm trying to remember who else is in this.
00:44:26.000Mary Louise Parker plays Brad Pitt's wife.
00:44:47.000Paul Schneider plays Dick Little, and he is terrific in it.
00:44:50.000So there's really great character actors, and the movie itself is really, I think, quite good, and demonstrates that good and evil have shades to them.
00:47:42.000They're also saying, you know, how dare he fail to disclose that he was married to Ann Donaldson, who's the chief of staff to the White House counsel, Don McGahn, saying that that is a conflict of interest.
00:47:53.000Talley didn't mention his wife when describing his contact with lawyers for the White House.
00:47:57.000Yes, I'm sure he was trying to, I'm sure he was trying to hide that.
00:48:00.000I'm sure he really thought he was going to get away with his wife works for the government.
00:48:04.000Again, the idea that it's an oversight seems slightly more palatable to me, but it just demonstrates that we do this routine now that's really, really dumb and really irritating, where we pretend that judges have no political proclivities whatsoever.
00:48:16.000The question is, will he make a good judge?
00:49:41.000This is not my favorite stuff, as you know.
00:49:44.000And whenever I analyze rap genre, rap and R&B genre, very often it's to critique this particular aspect of the culture.
00:49:53.000The glorification of drugs and violence and effing hoes.
00:49:58.000It's amazing that an entire genre of music is allowed to talk about women this way, and meanwhile we're supposed to pretend that it's okay.
00:50:07.000Well, we've decided as a society this kind of stuff is not to be said about women, except if you're recording these kinds of songs.
00:50:45.000I have no idea where he'd get the money for that.
00:50:47.000What I find interesting about the left is that they're very upset about the cultural appropriation that Post Malone is apparently engaging in by taking tropes from rap and using them being a white guy from an upper middle class background, I suppose.
00:51:01.000I too am upset with cultural appropriation of bad things in culture.
00:51:06.000I don't think anyone should be appropriating things about effing hoes and blowing people away.
00:51:11.000So Post Malone may be very talented, but to critique him on the basis of cultural appropriation is an astonishing thing.
00:51:18.000So the problem here is that if you were black, it would be okay, but he's white, so it's not okay for him to say these things?
00:51:23.000One of the problems with rap culture is that these things are present in the first place.
00:51:27.000If you want to correct this, if you don't want people culturally appropriating garbage, maybe you shouldn't make garbage for people to culturally appropriate.
00:51:33.000The problem here is not that Post Malone is white.
00:51:35.000The problem is that the message that he's promoting in this song is the same as the message that's promoted throughout the rap community, and apparently, without which you cannot rise to the top of the R&B rap charts.
00:51:47.000So, you know, I wish that he would use his talents to promote better messaging, and if he's gonna culturally appropriate, you know, appropriate the musical stylings if you wish, but please, don't culturally appropriate the worst aspects of a rap culture that glorifies stuff like this.