The Ben Shapiro Show - One Day More

00:00:00.000 One day more.

00:00:02.000 Until the 2018 midterms, both parties make their closing arguments, we take a look at the latest outbreak of antisemitism in New York City, and Gloria Steinem and Barbara Streisand are back, and better than ever.

00:00:13.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:20.000 Oh, so many things to talk about because we have one day more until the midterm elections.

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00:01:53.000 So tomorrow, tomorrow it begins is the great election of our time.

00:01:59.000 Now I have to say there are a lot of folks who constantly say that whatever election is happening right now is the most important election of our lifetime.

00:02:06.000 This is not the most important election of our lifetime.

00:02:09.000 It's an important election, just like most elections are important.

00:02:12.000 It's important in the sense that the direction of the country could shift pretty remarkably if the Democrats were to win, for example, the House and the Senate setting up their run against President Trump in 2020.

00:02:22.000 It could also shift against intersectional politics from the left if Republicans were to hold the House.

00:02:26.000 If Republicans were to hold the House in spite of the hatred of President Trump, that would be a pretty remarkable turnabout.

00:02:32.000 And again, the only time since 2002

00:02:35.000 That the party in power has held the seats that they have gained in a House election.

00:02:42.000 2006, the elections shifted the control of the House.

00:02:47.000 2010, the elections shifted the control of the House.

00:02:49.000 2014, the control of the Senate shifted.

00:02:50.000 So this would be the first time in an off-year election in

00:02:54.000 16 years that the party in power actually held the houses that it held before the election.

00:02:59.000 That's a possibility.

00:03:00.000 Okay, so I don't want to discount that possibility.

00:03:02.000 I will not say it's a likelihood, but it is a possibility.

00:03:04.000 So for example, here's a Wall Street Journal poll.

00:03:06.000 There's a chart.

00:03:08.000 We're good to go.

00:03:37.000 Well, there are a lot of folks saying that this could be up to a 40-seat win for Democrats.

00:03:41.000 It could just be a 16-seat win for Democrats, which means that Republicans hold the House.

00:03:44.000 That is within the range of possibilities.

00:03:46.000 For folks who are saying that it is impossible for Republicans to hold the House, that obviously is untrue.

00:03:51.000 It is unlikely that they hold the House.

00:03:53.000 The late-breaking polls are breaking against Republicans.

00:03:56.000 If the election had been held three weeks ago in the midst of Saga Kavanaugh, I think the Republicans probably hold the House, or at least there's a good shot that they do.

00:04:02.000 Tomorrow night, I think that the chances are not great that Republicans hold the House.

00:04:06.000 The new CNN poll shows Democrats leading Republicans by 13 points in the final generic ballot, 55 to 42.

00:04:13.000 Democrats leading among independents by 14, among women by 27.

00:04:17.000 And in some of the bellwether states, things like Florida, where Ron DeSantis, congressperson, who I think is really great, running against Andrew Gillum, who's a radical left Democrat for the governorship of Florida.

00:04:27.000 The early voting is actually cutting in favor of Democrats, which obviously cuts against Republicans, not just for early voting, but more broadly as well.

00:04:36.000 The problem with trying to forecast all these elections is that taking that generic ballot poll that shows Democrats up heavily and not looking at each individual district is not being honest about how this is done.

00:04:47.000 The truth is that congressional elections run a lot more like the Electoral College than the popular vote.

00:04:51.000 So let's be real.

00:04:53.000 In 2016, the national vote totals were very close to the national polling, but the Electoral College did not skew that way.

00:05:00.000 The same thing is true in these congressional districts.

00:05:04.000 So just because

00:05:05.000 You have a congressional district in which everything is even and the national vote totals are wildly out of whack.

00:05:12.000 The national vote totals don't matter.

00:05:13.000 All that matters is what's happening inside that district.

00:05:15.000 So if I had to forecast this thing right now, you know, if I were to go out on a limb, I say Democrats win 40 seats.

00:05:21.000 If I don't go out on a limb, I say Democrats win 30 seats and win slight control of the House and Republicans maintain the Senate, maybe even pick up a seat or two.

00:05:28.000 Now, let's talk about the final pitches that are being made in the run up to the in the run up to this election.

00:05:35.000 Because one of the things that's driving me absolutely up a wall, and I think it is for a lot of folks on the conservative side of the aisle, is the complete and absolute dishonesty about what both parties are contending.

00:05:46.000 So I have freely admitted on this show that I think that President Trump's pitch in the final days of this election about the migrant caravan

00:05:54.000 Being this grave threat to the Republic.

00:05:56.000 I think that is exaggerated.

00:05:57.000 I do not think 12,000 people are descending en masse on the border in militarily violent ways in order to invade the country.

00:06:03.000 I don't think that's what this is going to be.

00:06:04.000 I think by the time this reaches the border, it'll be several hundred people who go to a port of entry, apply for asylum.

00:06:10.000 Some are accepted, some are rejected.

00:06:12.000 I don't think you actually need 15,000 troops who, by the way, are not allowed to actually shoot people because that would be a violation of posse comitatus, right?

00:06:19.000 You can't use domestic

00:06:21.000 Army to enforce foreign policy or state or state law you can't actually do that So they're actually going down there right now, and they're putting up like concertina wire They're putting up barbed wires that people can't cross the border all of which is fine if President Trump thinks it's necessary But you know the President Trump's closing pitch that this is a massive crisis.

00:06:39.000 I think is exaggerated I think he should be pushing the economy although I understand why he's doing what he's doing the reason he's doing what he's doing is because the Democratic pitch has basically come down to Republicans are all racist bigots

00:06:51.000 It's amazing.

00:06:53.000 In 2016, after they lost a national election on the basis of that pitch, they are now reverting to that pitch.

00:06:58.000 The pitch is that if Republicans don't vote Democrat, they are a bunch of racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, anti-Semites.

00:07:03.000 This is the pitch that Democrats are making as their closing pitch.

00:07:07.000 And that is not a good pitch.

00:07:08.000 It isn't.

00:07:09.000 No matter how much you don't like how Republicans are running, Democrats are running an intersectional identity politics campaign.

00:07:15.000 There's been a lot of talk from the left about Republicans running this identity politics campaign.

00:07:21.000 Even if that's true, that does not change the fact that Democrats are also running an identity politics campaign.

00:07:26.000 And here's my great fear coming out of this election.

00:07:28.000 Like, just trying to put on my objective observer cap for one second.

00:07:32.000 And listen, I'm a partisan.

00:07:33.000 I want Republicans to win tomorrow.

00:07:35.000 I think that if Democrats take control of the House, then it's going to forward the worst impulses among them, and it's going to lead to terrible, terrible policy.

00:07:42.000 Because it turns out, it's not just a rejection of Trump to put Democrats in charge of policy, it also means an embrace of radical left policy.

00:07:50.000 There are costs to trying to punish Trump at the ballot box, and that cost is putting people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in position to actually shape policy.

00:07:59.000 Putting people like Andrew Gillum in position to shape policy.

00:08:04.000 So here's the big problem, putting out my objective observer cap.

00:08:07.000 If you are somebody who doesn't like the tone and tenor of our politics, if the Republicans retain the House, Democrats will become ever more wild, and many Republicans are going to think that President Trump's more ridiculous excesses are good.

00:08:21.000 It's an affirmative recommendation of President Trump's more ridiculous excesses.

00:08:27.000 Just as in 2016, Trump won, and so the party decided what we need is to act more like Trump.

00:08:31.000 You could get that as a reaction from the right to the Republicans winning tomorrow night.

00:08:36.000 On the left, if Democrats win, it's going to be a full-scale belief on the left.

00:08:40.000 And a heartfelt belief that the only way to win elections is to be as vile and nasty and intersectional and slanderous of the other side as humanly possible.

00:08:47.000 So I don't see our politics getting better based on anything that happens tomorrow evening.

00:08:52.000 Now, if I had to measure where do I think our politics get worse, I think if the left wins tomorrow night, then our politics get significantly worse in a variety of ways.

00:08:59.000 Not only because the Democrats are then emboldened.

00:09:01.000 To embrace the worst among them, but also because the Democratic policy comes along with a lot of negatives.

00:09:07.000 Their policy is extraordinarily radical.

00:09:09.000 And I know we've ignored that policy all the way through this election because everything revolves around the black hole of Trumpism.

00:09:15.000 But the fact is that the Democrats electing Democrats is not a cost free proposition.

00:09:20.000 And the reason I'm saying this to, you know, moderates and leftists in the audience, liberals in the audience, not leftists, liberals in the audience.

00:09:26.000 The reason I'm saying this is because if you want to make every election a referendum on Trump, then what you have to recognize is that there are costs to that referendum.

00:09:35.000 Those costs come in terms of policy.

00:09:37.000 And you can see that the left is already embracing this intersectional politics.

00:09:40.000 They've not moved away from it.

00:09:41.000 They're not unifying the country.

00:09:43.000 The great lie that the Democrats are putting forward and their acolytes are putting forward is that President Trump is dividing the country, but Democrats will unite the country.

00:09:50.000 That is a lie.

00:09:51.000 I think President Trump has been quite divisive on cultural issues.

00:09:54.000 I think Democrats have been just as divisive or more divisive than Republicans.

00:09:58.000 That isn't whataboutism.

00:09:59.000 That's a condemnation of everybody who's attempting to divide us on the basis of politics.

00:10:04.000 But I'll tell you what's even more divisive is people gaslighting, people on the left suggesting that if you're on the right, you're okay with all of the excesses of President Trump, but if you're on the left, you're a wonderful, good, kind, decent, clean, beautiful human being, just by nature.

00:10:20.000 And this is what you are seeing even from, you know, the quote-unquote moderate Republicans who say, we have to vote for Democrats in order to stop Trumpism.

00:10:28.000 So you're going to affirmatively vote for the party of Keith Ellison in order to stop Donald Trump?

00:10:33.000 Explain to me how that one works.

00:10:35.000 I understand the argument, as I did in 2016, that you don't like anybody, you're staying home.

00:10:38.000 I get that.

00:10:39.000 But to suggest that an attempt to greenlight the Democratic Party is somehow going to make the country better,

00:10:47.000 Is just bizarre.

00:10:48.000 And the media are pushing as hard as they possibly can on this.

00:10:51.000 I mean, the media have just been... When folks say, honestly, when folks say that the media is unbiased, I don't know how you could possibly say that and look at the reality of what the media do on a daily basis.

00:11:02.000 Today, CNN tweeted this out.

00:11:05.000 Remember the ad that President Trump put out there about the caravan?

00:11:08.000 And it juxtaposed the caravan to an illegal immigrant killer?

00:11:11.000 And I said that this ad was inflammatory and over-the-top, but it was effective and it was not racist?

00:11:16.000 Here's CNN's take, quote,

00:11:28.000 So much journalism.

00:11:29.000 And remember, CNN is supposed to be an objective outlet.

00:11:31.000 It is not their job to simply declare ads racist that actually are not racist.

00:11:36.000 But this is what they do.

00:11:37.000 And this is what they do on a regular basis.

00:11:40.000 It's pretty astonishing.

00:11:41.000 CNN fails to report facts on a regular basis as well.

00:11:45.000 This is the same CNN that suggested that President Trump was responsible for the shooting in Pittsburgh, that he was responsible for the bombing attempts against Democrats.

00:11:53.000 Well, there was a guy who was arrested over the weekend for vandalizing a synagogue in New York City.

00:11:57.000 CNN failed to report that this guy was a Democratic activist who volunteered on Obama's presidential campaign and was a former City Hall intern who worked on combating hate crimes.

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00:13:18.000 So the media obviously have a stake in this election cycle in making it a referendum on Trump and ignoring the fact that there's another party that's part of this election.

00:13:27.000 Now, in 2016, the great lie was that that was a referendum on Trump.

00:13:30.000 It was not a referendum on Trump.

00:13:32.000 There's a referendum on Hillary Clinton.

00:13:34.000 And because it was a referendum on Hillary Clinton, Trump won.

00:13:37.000 In an off-year election, it's usually a referendum on the president.

00:13:39.000 That's usually the way that it works.

00:13:40.000 But, again, this is a two-party system, and that means it should be a referendum on Democrats, too.

00:13:45.000 But here are the headlines from the Washington Post.

00:13:48.000 These were the two leading headlines at the Washington Post website as of last night.

00:13:52.000 Quote, Midterms test whether Republicans not named Trump can win by stoking racial animosity.

00:13:59.000 So much journalisming.

00:14:02.000 So much journalism because Trump is stoking racial animosity and so are Republicans everywhere, everywhere.

00:14:07.000 What are their examples in this piece of Republicans stoking racial animosity?

00:14:11.000 A bunch of non-Republican groups running ads non-associated with Republican campaigns and Steve King, who was condemned by the National Republican Congressional Committee head last week.

00:14:21.000 That's an example of the Republicans stoking racial fears.

00:14:24.000 That was headline number one.

00:14:25.000 Headline number two, quote,

00:14:32.000 That's objective journalisming from the Washington Post.

00:14:35.000 And you wonder why Trump rails against the fake news, guys?

00:14:38.000 That's why he's railing against the fake news.

00:14:40.000 Sometimes he's being overbroad.

00:14:42.000 Sometimes he's attacking people because they are covering the news.

00:14:44.000 When he attacks the Washington Post for this sort of coverage, that is not wrong.

00:14:49.000 I don't remember any similar headline about Barack Obama in the aftermath of, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, I don't have the executive power to greenlight illegal immigration, and the Iran deal is going to be fantastic because the Iranian regime is moderating.

00:15:01.000 I don't remember any of this sort of media coverage from the Washington Post.

00:15:05.000 The president's apocalyptic attacks reach a new level of apocalyptic?

00:15:10.000 What is Trump bringing about the apocalypse?

00:15:11.000 You have 3.7% unemployment and record economic growth.

00:15:15.000 Where's the apocalypse exactly?

00:15:17.000 But this sort of media coverage has become the usual on the left, because if they want to make it a referendum about Trump, that's the only way they think they can win.

00:15:25.000 And you will see that the intersectional politics of the left has reached epic proportions.

00:15:30.000 Again, more media bias.

00:15:31.000 ABC News.

00:15:32.000 Trotted out this chart.

00:15:33.000 Here's a chart that ABC News trotted out.

00:15:36.000 It said candidates going into the general election, including House, Senate and Governor's races.

00:15:40.000 Female, 278 candidates, 214 Democrats, 64 Republicans.

00:15:45.000 Non-white, 202, 148 Democrats, 54 Republicans.

00:15:49.000 Openly LGBTQ, 25, all Democrats.

00:15:53.000 So here's the question.

00:15:54.000 Who gives a crap?

00:15:56.000 Who cares?

00:15:57.000 Who cares how many candidates are female or non-white or openly gay?

00:16:00.000 Or transgender.

00:16:01.000 Like, who cares about that?

00:16:04.000 ABC News cares.

00:16:05.000 Because they are deeply involved and ensconced in intersectional politics.

00:16:08.000 When folks claim that Trump is using identity politics, remember, the identity politics did not start on the right, it started on the left.

00:16:15.000 But if you're gonna run a campaign and you got nothing else to run on, you have to run against Trump's quote-unquote identity politicking.

00:16:21.000 So Anna Navarro

00:16:22.000 Who is the left's favorite Republican, which is to say she's no longer Republican.

00:16:26.000 She was on CNN with Chris Cuomo, a.k.a.

00:16:30.000 block of human, actually like a block of wood.

00:16:33.000 And here is Ana Navarro explaining that Trump is a racist pig.

00:16:37.000 And this, of course, makes Democrats very happy to hear.

00:16:40.000 CNN has lost, honestly, they've lost the threat over at CNN.

00:16:43.000 Whatever they think they are, they're obviously just a wing of the Democratic Party.

00:16:47.000 I think they're more radical than MSNBC at this point, which is an amazing thing to say.

00:16:51.000 But this is what it is.

00:16:52.000 So Ana Navarro making the case that Trump is a racist pig, therefore vote for Democrats.

00:16:56.000 Sign me up in the category of the people who think he's racist.

00:16:59.000 He has said so many racist things.

00:17:02.000 When you don't want to talk policy, you call him a racist.

00:17:04.000 It's racist.

00:17:05.000 Scarlett Monaghan.

00:17:05.000 The Central Park Five.

00:17:07.000 We'll take it up again after the election.

00:17:08.000 The Central Park Five.

00:17:10.000 Mexicans are racists.

00:17:11.000 Criminals and rapists.

00:17:13.000 El Salvador and Haiti are shitholes.

00:17:15.000 He is a racist pig.

00:17:17.000 Okay, so he's a racist.

00:17:18.000 They're going to shout that on TV until they win.

00:17:21.000 They're not going to put any of those things in context or simply say, OK, fine.

00:17:24.000 So Trump says things that I think are racist.

00:17:26.000 Does that mean that I have to vote against the entire Republican Party?

00:17:29.000 Are all of those people, are all of those people the same as President Trump?

00:17:32.000 Of course not.

00:17:33.000 But here's the thing.

00:17:33.000 So Anna Navarro writes a piece over at CNN and it's telling.

00:17:37.000 My Florida absentee ballot had been sitting on my kitchen counter unopened for more than two weeks.

00:17:41.000 Every day I avoided it as if it was a Zika infected mosquito.

00:17:45.000 I finally filled it out and then I schlepped it in my bag for a few more days before putting it in the mail.

00:17:49.000 I was giving myself a chance to change my mind.

00:17:51.000 I wanted to delay the unavoidable.

00:17:53.000 I am a lifelong Republican.

00:17:54.000 Since I began voting I have always voted for Republicans running in state races in Florida.

00:17:58.000 This year I filled out my ballot for Democrat Andrew Gillum and on Thursday I put it in the mail.

00:18:02.000 Ron DeSantis, a Republican, ran a primary campaign in which he portrayed himself as Donald Trump's mini-me.

00:18:07.000 His signature issue during the primary was building a wall, which is weird because Florida is not a border state.

00:18:11.000 It's a peninsula surrounded by water on three sides.

00:18:14.000 I don't want a Trump echo chamber for governor in Florida.

00:18:16.000 I want a governor who puts the interest of the state above loyalty to a president of his party.

00:18:20.000 But I also didn't want to vote for Gillum.

00:18:21.000 I'm a centrist.

00:18:22.000 He's a progressive.

00:18:23.000 That word kind of scares me.

00:18:25.000 He wants to raise corporate taxes.

00:18:27.000 I'm against that.

00:18:27.000 I think it would impede Florida's economic growth.

00:18:29.000 There's an unresolved issue of an FBI investigation involving the city of Tallahassee while he was mayor.

00:18:35.000 Well, the unresolved issue is that he was likely involved in corruption and targeted by the FBI for that corruption in public-private projects.

00:18:41.000 He says,

00:18:45.000 But then he says, This is Ana Navarro.

00:18:46.000 And she says that simply because DeSantis is supportive of Trump, that means that she can't vote for DeSantis.

00:18:51.000 And then she cites Cesar Sayoc, who is that crazy person with the Trump ban, who is sending pipe bombs to people.

00:19:14.000 It's just, it's astonishing.

00:19:15.000 So her solution is, I'm now going to vote for, I'm now going to vote for Andrew Gillum.

00:19:22.000 His response to Charlottesville, she's talking about Trump, the Muslim ban, the national anthem controversy, the list is endless.

00:19:26.000 It disgusts me that not even a week after a madman who may have been triggered by the hysteria surrounding migrants killed 11 Jews in a house of worship in Pittsburgh, Trump is back to his old playbook of demonizing immigrants.

00:19:35.000 Gillum is out there, a happy warrior, campaigning on a positive message.

00:19:39.000 So in other words, you think that Trump

00:19:42.000 Is all of these bad things.

00:19:43.000 So you're gonna vote for Andrew Gillum, a radical leftist, who is a close associate of Dream Defenders, an intersectional racist group that is wildly anti-Israel, who's deeply involved in corruption in the city of Tallahassee, and you're gonna do all of this because Ron DeSantis is nice to Trump?

00:19:59.000 So your solution is to vote for a radical Democrat because you don't like Trump who, believe it or not, is not on the ballot tomorrow?

00:20:04.000 That's your solution?

00:20:06.000 This is why I have to say I think that all of this is just a lie.

00:20:09.000 I think the folks who are voting Democrat tomorrow, a lot of the folks who are voting Democrat who proclaim themselves moderates, are forcibly blinding themselves to what the Democratic Party is in order to reach that conclusion.

00:20:20.000 The racist charge against the Republicans is the strongest club in the Democrat bag, but they used it against Mitt Romney, they used it against George W. Bush, and they'll use it against Donald Trump, too.

00:20:29.000 Now, I think they're using it against Trump a little bit more justifiably in the sense that Trump says ridiculous things, but to use it against the entire Republican Party is completely unjustified.

00:20:39.000 Let's say I'm going to vote for a radical, intersectional, racist Democrat.

00:20:42.000 Because that is some sort of rebuke to Trump.

00:20:45.000 How that makes the country better is beyond me.

00:20:48.000 Now, in a second, I want to talk a little bit more about this.

00:20:49.000 We'll talk about what the actual Democrats are actually, what they could be running on.

00:20:53.000 If we actually took a look at what Democrats are seriously talking about in just a second.

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00:22:34.000 So the Democrats' final pitch, of course, of course, of course, is Trump's a racist.

00:22:37.000 Now, what that has to do with Marsha Blackburn, or what that has to do with Martha McSally, the combat vet, or what that has to do...

00:22:44.000 With the wide variety of Republicans running across the country is beyond me.

00:22:48.000 But I guess that if you're going to make a referendum on Trump being mean and Republicans being racist, we'll see how that goes for you.

00:22:53.000 Now, Tom Perez, the head of the DNC, tried to trot this out, too.

00:22:57.000 Again, the entire name of the game for Democrats is misdirect away from your own party, direct it toward President Trump.

00:23:02.000 This is why it would have been better if President Trump simply receded into the background over the past few months and had everybody talk about the economy and talk about Republican successes and point out the Democrats have lost their minds, which they have.

00:23:13.000 The Kavanaugh thing would have gone just as you would have expected it to go.

00:23:16.000 And that would have been the only headline left.

00:23:18.000 Now, obviously, the last two weeks leading up to the election have been about pipe bombs and shootings in Pittsburgh.

00:23:23.000 And that's allowed the Democrats to really ratchet up the rhetoric on Trump's supposed divisiveness.

00:23:28.000 Here is Tom Perez making that closing pitch.

00:23:31.000 And now what you see in the closing argument is dog whistle politics.

00:23:35.000 Appeals to racist, uh, just, the worst of America.

00:23:40.000 Yeah, this stuff I sort of hate.

00:23:41.000 This dog whistle politics routine?

00:23:43.000 Your dog whistle, because, what's the implication?

00:23:46.000 That I'm the dog.

00:23:47.000 That you're the dog.

00:23:48.000 That what Trump actually has to do to win an election is dog whistle to you.

00:23:51.000 You weren't going to vote for Republicans before, but now he has said something racially tinged and you went, oh, I hate those brown people.

00:23:57.000 And now you're going to go vote for President Trump and his party, even though he's not on the ballot.

00:24:03.000 The reason Democrats are so focused on talking about Trump is because they've got nothing.

00:24:08.000 The same party, the same party that is ripping Trump as an anti-Semite and ripping Republicans as racist, that same party is defending Keith Ellison, who is Tom Perez's number two over at the DNC.

00:24:19.000 Tom Perez went on national television and called his ex-girlfriend a liar.

00:24:22.000 I thought they were supposed to believe all women, but apparently not when it comes to Keith Ellison.

00:24:26.000 Do you think Keith Ellison's ex-girlfriend is lying then?

00:24:29.000 Is that what you're saying?

00:24:32.000 I think Keith Ellison's ex-girlfriend deserves to be heard, and deserves to be treated with dignity, and deserves to have a fair and full investigation, and that's exactly what has been done.

00:24:41.000 Okay, in other words, yes, I think that she is lying.

00:24:44.000 What do Democrats actually have to run on?

00:24:45.000 The answer is nothing.

00:24:46.000 They've got nothing to actually run on.

00:24:47.000 The record stinks.

00:24:49.000 The policies they want to push stink.

00:24:50.000 The economy is historically good.

00:24:53.000 America is in a better position on foreign policy than it was certainly three years ago.

00:24:57.000 In reality, the Democratic platform is far too radical for the American people.

00:25:01.000 And in the secrecy of their own little rallies, Democrats will tell you exactly what they want to do.

00:25:06.000 And it has nothing to do with Donald Trump.

00:25:08.000 What they actually want to do is take over the House, take over the Senate, kick him out of the presidency.

00:25:13.000 And you think at that point they're going to say, listen,

00:25:14.000 We've really, we've fought back against racism and sexism and bigotry and homophobia.

00:25:18.000 Now everything's cool.

00:25:20.000 Let's moderate.

00:25:20.000 Let's tack to the center.

00:25:21.000 Let's find unity.

00:25:22.000 Do you think that's what Democrats are going to do?

00:25:24.000 Or do you think they're going to pursue the most radical agenda they can?

00:25:28.000 It was really funny.

00:25:28.000 In 2008, there was a lot of talk about President Obama being a unifying figure.

00:25:32.000 That he was going to unify America after the divisive Bush years.

00:25:35.000 We're going to react by electing a man of true unity.

00:25:39.000 There was only one problem.

00:25:40.000 Barack Obama then immediately tacked as hard to the left as it is possible to go.

00:25:43.000 He did cash for clunkers.

00:25:44.000 He did stimulus.

00:25:45.000 He did bailouts.

00:25:46.000 He did TARP.

00:25:47.000 He did Obamacare.

00:25:49.000 He did all of those in the first year and a half of his administration because he said he won and he had the power.

00:25:54.000 Democrats are trying to do the same thing right now.

00:25:56.000 Don't fall for the scam.

00:25:57.000 Even if you're not a fan of President Trump's, you have to acknowledge there's another party in power

00:26:02.000 San Francisco values, that's what we're about.

00:26:03.000 The city of St.

00:26:04.000 Francis, the city whose anthem is the song of St.

00:26:07.000 Francis, make us an instrument of thy peace.

00:26:08.000 Darkness, light, despair, hope,

00:26:28.000 Patron of all of that.

00:26:30.000 That's who we are.

00:26:32.000 Our hearts are full of love for everyone in our country.

00:26:35.000 Colleagues have honored me with titles and this or that and I say to them I'm very honored.

00:26:40.000 But I had no bigger honor than to walk onto the floor of the House and speak for the people of San Francisco.

00:26:45.000 Okay, San Francisco is the most left-leaning city in the United States, and she is saying that our politics are the politics of San Francisco.

00:26:52.000 The politics of poop on every corner.

00:26:54.000 The politics of sanctuary cities.

00:26:56.000 The politics of extraordinarily high taxes and extraordinarily high real estate prices.

00:27:00.000 The politics of a city that used to be nice, now falling into ruin because of democratic policy.

00:27:06.000 That is the politics of Nancy Pelosi.

00:27:08.000 And if we got past Trump, we would recognize that if it were a referendum on democratic policy, people would react badly.

00:27:14.000 And it's not just Nancy Pelosi.

00:27:16.000 When Democrats are forced to embrace their own agenda, it's pretty obvious what they want here.

00:27:19.000 Democrats have not made an affirmative case why you should vote for them.

00:27:22.000 They make a case why you should not vote for President Trump.

00:27:24.000 They say he's divisive.

00:27:25.000 But they themselves are just as divisive or more divisive.

00:27:29.000 And not only that, their policies are significantly more radical.

00:27:33.000 Jake Tapper on CNN did a good job of pushing Stacey Abrams.

00:27:36.000 Stacey Abrams is the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Georgia.

00:27:39.000 She's running in a relatively close race.

00:27:42.000 She as a representative pushed a bill, pushed a bill for gun confiscation.

00:27:48.000 Here's Tapper pushing her on it.

00:27:50.000 Your co-sponsor told reporters the law, quote, would require gun owners of these particular models to turn their guns in.

00:27:57.000 And again, my point is this, the legislation introduced was the beginning of a conversation.

00:28:02.000 I am absolutely certain that were we to pass this in Georgia, we would have a conversation about grandfathering in, about whether or not people would turn their guns in, whether there would be buybacks.

00:28:12.000 Well just to be clear here, I'm just trying to understand, so you don't support the actual legislation, you just support having a conversation about it?

00:28:19.000 No, what I've said is, legislation in the state legislature is about starting the conversation.

00:28:25.000 Here's the deal.

00:28:26.000 Democrats don't have an agenda to run on.

00:28:27.000 The agenda they've been pushing is really just an agenda of Republicans are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.

00:28:32.000 The same agenda they've been pushing my entire lifetime, basically.

00:28:35.000 They're pushing that same agenda now.

00:28:37.000 And on top of that agenda will be a bunch of bad policy.

00:28:40.000 Because this is what they always do.

00:28:42.000 What they do is they say, OK, 2008 was a referendum on Republican leadership.

00:28:46.000 And then Barack Obama came in.

00:28:47.000 He said, no, what this really was a referendum on was nationalized health care, which it certainly was not.

00:28:52.000 The Democrats today and the Democrats in the media are lying.

00:28:54.000 And they are saying this election is about Medicare.

00:28:57.000 It's not about Medicare.

00:28:58.000 People are not voting based on Medicare.

00:28:59.000 They are voting based on whether they like Trump or not.

00:29:01.000 It's that simple.

00:29:02.000 This is a referendum on President Trump.

00:29:04.000 And the problem with referenda on particularly partisan political figures is that it ignores what's going to happen after the referendum.

00:29:12.000 Which means that there's going to be a policy shift.

00:29:15.000 And so Democrats, in the end, what are they really campaigning on?

00:29:17.000 Are they really campaigning on Stacey Abrams gun control?

00:29:20.000 Or on Medicare?

00:29:21.000 Or on Social Security?

00:29:23.000 Are they really campaigning on any of those things?

00:29:25.000 No.

00:29:25.000 What they are really campaigning on is we think that there is one side of the country that is hateful and terrible.

00:29:31.000 Vote for us.

00:29:32.000 How do we know this?

00:29:33.000 Because this is what they're campaigning on.

00:29:34.000 I mean, they're not hiding the ball here.

00:29:35.000 President Obama back on the stump and he is saying, President Trump is super duper duper corrupt.

00:29:40.000 I'm like, I'm like, I'm best.

00:29:42.000 He's standing there in front of Andrew Gillum.

00:29:44.000 He's in front of Andrew Gillum, a man actively under investigation by the FBI for corruption.

00:29:50.000 Andrew Gillum was handed Hamilton tickets by an undercover agent for the FBI in a sting operation designed to ferret out corruption in Tallahassee city government.

00:30:00.000 And Barack Obama is standing in front of him in a rally saying Republicans are corrupt.

00:30:04.000 Here's Barack Obama.

00:30:06.000 They promised to take on corruption.

00:30:10.000 Instead they have racked up enough indictments to field a football team.

00:30:15.000 I didn't have anybody in my administration get indicted.

00:30:20.000 I mean, I just thought that's how you're supposed to do things.

00:30:25.000 Well, right, what you thought is that your own Attorney General would be held in contempt by Congress, and then you'd assert executive privilege to shield him, and then you'd make sure that your DOJ didn't prosecute anybody.

00:30:34.000 The fact that there were no indictments during Obama's administration demonstrates the complete partisan hackery of his own DOJ.

00:30:41.000 The fact that there are indictments coming out of the Trump administration is actually better evidence that his DOJ is honest than that Obama's was.

00:30:47.000 Jeff Sessions is an honest man.

00:30:49.000 DOJ is doing a good job investigating and ferreting out corruption even inside the party that exists.

00:30:54.000 Barack Obama politicized his DOJ to the point that Lois Lorner actively cracked down on Republican 501c3s and his DOJ did nothing about it.

00:31:02.000 Nothing.

00:31:03.000 And that's evidence of his non-corruption?

00:31:06.000 I wrote an entire book called The People vs. Barack Obama.

00:31:08.000 It's 200 pages about why people inside the Obama administration should have been indicted.

00:31:14.000 And Obama's suggestion is that the other party is corrupt.

00:31:17.000 All they've got.

00:31:17.000 This is all they've got.

00:31:18.000 Now, maybe it's enough.

00:31:19.000 Maybe it's enough because Trump is such a polarizing figure, because Trump sucks up the publicity, because Trump sucks the oxygen out of the room.

00:31:25.000 Maybe it's enough.

00:31:26.000 But let's not fool ourselves.

00:31:27.000 There are consequences that come on the back of an election cycle like this.

00:31:31.000 Now, in just a second, I want to talk a little bit more about Democrat alarmism.

00:31:35.000 We've heard a lot about Republican alarmism about the caravan.

00:31:38.000 And I'll be frank with you.

00:31:39.000 I'm friendly to that argument.

00:31:40.000 I think Republicans have been alarmist about the caravan.

00:31:42.000 But Democrat alarmism is no better.

00:31:45.000 In fact, in many ways, it's significantly worse.

00:31:47.000 And then we'll talk about antisemitism.

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00:35:11.000 So as I say, Democrats left with no actual policy are left with the closing pitch of Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, and alarmism, alarmism.

00:35:18.000 Again, when the Democrats say Republicans are alarmist about the caravan,

00:35:22.000 Kinda.

00:35:22.000 Okay.

00:35:23.000 Fair.

00:35:24.000 Now, what Democrats also say is that illegal immigration is no problem, which is just idiotic.

00:35:29.000 And so now I have to choose between, should I be alarmist about the caravan and take illegal immigration seriously, or should I be not alarmist about the caravan and say that illegal immigration is totally fine and of net benefit to the United States?

00:35:40.000 If I have to make that choice, I'll go with choice number one, door number one, even though I don't like how the migrant caravan is being covered by the media.

00:35:48.000 But, to suggest that alarmism exists on only one side is the purest form of gaslighting.

00:35:52.000 Not only does it not only exist on one side, it is significantly stronger on the left than on the right.

00:35:57.000 It is the left that has been suggesting, since Trump won the election, that it was the end of the world.

00:36:01.000 That we were all going to die.

00:36:02.000 We were going to be killed by net neutrality.

00:36:04.000 We were going to be killed by the tax cuts.

00:36:05.000 We were going to be killed by the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords.

00:36:08.000 We were going to be killed by Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court.

00:36:11.000 We were going to be killed by every single thing Trump did on every other day.

00:36:15.000 President Trump was the destroyer of worlds, and they are still making that case.

00:36:20.000 So if alarmism is a problem, then you might want to think about which party's actually been more alarmist, okay, and which party's being more dishonest about that alarmism.

00:36:28.000 Like, look, here's Maxine Waters saying that President Trump is promoting violence.

00:36:31.000 Maxine freaking Waters!

00:36:34.000 Okay, she's out here in California.

00:36:36.000 I'm old enough to remember the L.A.

00:36:37.000 riots when she called it an L.A.

00:36:38.000 uprising and suggested it was fine for people to bust into other people's stores and loot things because of racial anger.

00:36:45.000 Specifically, I mean, it was actually racialized looting.

00:36:48.000 I mean, it was very heavy targeting of Korean shop owners in South Central Los Angeles.

00:36:54.000 And that was Maxine Waters giving it the okay.

00:36:56.000 It was Maxine Waters like three months ago saying that people should be confronted in public places over their politics.

00:37:00.000 And now she's saying Trump is promoting violence.

00:37:02.000 You think that alarmism doesn't exist on the left?

00:37:04.000 It is stronger on the left than it is on the right.

00:37:06.000 So before you give me this whole shtick about President Trump is alarmist on illegal immigration,

00:37:12.000 At least illegal immigration's an issue.

00:37:14.000 I'm not going to pretend that I think that President Trump is a grave threat to the entire republic.

00:37:17.000 I don't think that's the case.

00:37:19.000 And I think anybody who thinks that is way out over their skis.

00:37:21.000 But I think that Maxine Waters left her skis a long time ago.

00:37:24.000 She's tramping through the underbrush in basically those weird shoes that look like tennis rackets.

00:37:30.000 Here's Maxine Waters.

00:37:32.000 And he's promoting violence.

00:37:34.000 I'm accustomed to being threatened.

00:37:36.000 We have had at least one individual indicted who threatened to kill me.

00:37:40.000 I have many threats to kill me from different places in this country.

00:37:46.000 So I'm accustomed to being threatened.

00:37:49.000 OK, well, that's terrible.

00:37:51.000 No one should be accustomed to me as someone who's received many threats, as somebody who had security on Shabbat because of all the situations.

00:37:58.000 OK, I'm warm to that argument, but I'm not warm to it coming from Maxine Waters.

00:38:02.000 And Bill Maher goes on national TV on Friday night, and he says that if you're 18 and you live in the United States, thanks to the Republicans, you might not live in a democracy anymore.

00:38:12.000 Really?

00:38:13.000 You might not live in a democracy anymore?

00:38:15.000 It's amazing.

00:38:16.000 I made the argument in 2016 to Republicans and to everybody else that while the election was important,

00:38:22.000 There would be more elections.

00:38:23.000 The Republic would go on, whether it was Trump or Hillary.

00:38:26.000 There would be serious consequences, but there would be more elections.

00:38:29.000 And there are people who are alarmist saying, on both sides, no, no, no, there will be no more elections.

00:38:33.000 I hold to my original position.

00:38:35.000 Donald Trump is not going to end the Republic.

00:38:37.000 That's absurd.

00:38:37.000 But here's Bill Maher in front of an American flag explaining the Republic will end if Republicans win a midterm election.

00:38:44.000 If Trump wins, he will cast it as a complete endorsement of his most undemocratic behavior.

00:38:51.000 If you're 18 and that happens, you stand a very real chance of not living in a Western-style democracy for part or all of your life.

00:39:00.000 Yes, it can happen here.

00:39:03.000 Okay, let's be real about something.

00:39:05.000 If you're talking about parties being validated and most anti-democratic tendencies of those parties being validated, I'm much more afraid of that from the Democrats than I am from the Republicans.

00:39:13.000 I am.

00:39:14.000 Republican policy is about devolution of authority down to state and local levels.

00:39:18.000 It's about less federal interventionism, or at least it should be.

00:39:21.000 Democratic policy is about centralization of power.

00:39:24.000 Every time the Democrats have taken power, they've brought more power to the federal level and made government less democratic and less deference to the public.

00:39:35.000 So the Democrats' closing argument is alarmism.

00:39:38.000 And the final step in that alarmism is about anti-Semitism.

00:39:41.000 And here I feel like I have some special weight to talk about anti-Semitism.

00:39:45.000 So, Barry Weiss, who I'm friends with, was on Bill Maher's show.

00:39:49.000 And she said some good things about anti-Semitism, talking about what anti-Semitism is, what the theory of anti-Semitism is.

00:39:55.000 And then she said something with which I really disagree.

00:39:57.000 And Barry and I, you know, we're friends.

00:39:58.000 We talk pretty frequently.

00:40:00.000 She's a columnist over at the New York Times.

00:40:02.000 Here is Barry talking about American Jews and President Trump.

00:40:07.000 And I think that this is alarmist, and I don't think it's correct.

00:40:09.000 Here she is.

00:40:10.000 There are many Jews, including Jews that I know, who have liked many of Trump's policies regarding Israel and the Middle East.

00:40:18.000 They love the fact that the embassy was moved to Jerusalem, a move that I supported.

00:40:22.000 They like the scuttling of the Iran deal.

00:40:24.000 But I hope this week that American Jews have woken up to the price of that bargain.

00:40:28.000 Dignity for all human beings.

00:40:30.000 Equality under the law.

00:40:32.000 Respect for dissent.

00:40:34.000 Love of truth.

00:40:35.000 These are the things that we are losing under this president.

00:40:38.000 Okay, so let's stop that for a second.

00:40:40.000 Okay, so when she says the price of the bargain is that American Jews signed off on moving the embassy to Israel and therefore bargained away 11 Jews who got shot at a synagogue, I think it's a really, a really bad thing for Barry to say.

00:40:52.000 I do not think that that is right.

00:40:53.000 Maybe she didn't mean it that way.

00:40:54.000 I'll assume best of intentions that she phrased that badly because I don't think she meant it that way.

00:40:58.000 But that is an argument that was openly made by people like Julia Jaffe.

00:41:03.000 That President Trump, the bargain American Jews made was move embassy to Jerusalem in return for 11 Jews being shot to death.

00:41:10.000 That is not how anti-Semitism works, nor is it how Jewish policy works.

00:41:14.000 And when she talks about the fact that facts have become secondary and polarization is real, I agree.

00:41:21.000 I agree with a lot of that.

00:41:23.000 But guess what?

00:41:23.000 That is not relegated to one side.

00:41:25.000 And this isn't whataboutism.

00:41:26.000 This is a recognition of reality on the ground.

00:41:28.000 This is a recognition of reality on the ground.

00:41:30.000 Now let's talk about anti-Semitism for a second, because the closing argument that's being made by a lot of folks on the left, on the political left, and Barry's more in the center, but the argument is being made more openly by folks on the political left, that essentially Donald Trump forwarded and fomented anti-Semitism and therefore we have to punish the Republican Party.

00:41:51.000 Let's talk about anti-semitism broadly and in the United States.

00:41:54.000 There are three types of anti-semitism.

00:41:56.000 I spoke at Vancouver Hebrew Academy last week.

00:41:58.000 This is what I said.

00:41:59.000 There are three types of anti-semitism.

00:42:01.000 There's left-wing anti-semitism.

00:42:02.000 There's right-wing anti-semitism.

00:42:04.000 There's radical Muslim anti-semitism.

00:42:05.000 Those are the three major types of anti-semitism on planet Earth today.

00:42:09.000 Right-wing anti-Semitism.

00:42:10.000 This sort of white supremacist anti-Semitism.

00:42:12.000 This has existed for as long as I've been alive.

00:42:14.000 There have been major anti-Semitic incidents from white supremacists every single presidency of my lifetime.

00:42:19.000 There was one during Clinton, there's one during Bush, there's one during Obama, and then there was this one.

00:42:23.000 Okay, so that exists.

00:42:25.000 It will continue to exist.

00:42:26.000 And as I said before, when Trump winked and nodded at the alt-right in 2015 and 2016, there was literally no one on planet Earth more critical of that than I was.

00:42:34.000 Go back and listen to the show.

00:42:37.000 Now, there are two other types of anti-Semitism.

00:42:38.000 And if you want to talk about grave threats to the Jewish people all over the world, not just in the United States, the combination of left-wing anti-Semitism that has infused the Democratic Party and Muslim anti-Semitism that is being let in the back door of Europe by left-wing anti-Semites, that is much more of a threat to Jews all over the world.

00:42:55.000 And the left ignores this stuff, ignores it openly.

00:42:58.000 Hey, antisemitism is not on the ballot.

00:43:01.000 The reason it's not on the ballot is because the Democrats are not an answer to antisemitism.

00:43:05.000 Keith Ellison was almost the head of the DNC.

00:43:08.000 There are two separate candidates running in this election cycle who have openly, more than two actually, at least two, who have openly embraced boycott, divestment, and sanctions of the state of Israel.

00:43:19.000 Over the weekend, there were a bunch of kids in New York City who threw a pole through a window at a New York City show.

00:43:24.000 And I know we're not supposed to talk about anti-Semitism in New York City or the fact that hate crimes in New York City are largely perpetuated by members of minority communities who have a lot of loyalty to folks like Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan.

00:43:36.000 We're supposed to pretend it's all a bunch of white supremacists in New York City.

00:43:39.000 But anti-Semitism in New York City is not coming from white supremacists.

00:43:43.000 And this is not an excuse for white supremacists who should all be

00:43:46.000 Forcibly expelled from the United States, if that were possible.

00:43:49.000 Or if that weren't constitutionally illegal.

00:43:52.000 Their ideology is evil.

00:43:54.000 But to pretend that endorsement of the left is somehow fighting back against anti-Semitism is nuts.

00:43:59.000 It's just nuts.

00:44:00.000 And to pretend that the mainstream policy of both political parties is widely disparate is also nuts.

00:44:05.000 The Republican Party is far more philosomatic in policy and attitude than the Democratic Party is.

00:44:11.000 They are.

00:44:12.000 And I understand that there are folks on the left who want to suggest that anti-semitism is related, in essence, to Jewish left-wing politics, and that the real reason for anti-semitism is because Jews are left-wing.

00:44:25.000 That is not the real reason for anti-semitism.

00:44:27.000 The reason for anti-semitism is because of anti-semitism.

00:44:30.000 People hate right-wing Jews, they hate left-wing Jews, they hate Jews.

00:44:34.000 I want to discuss that a little more in just a second.

00:44:38.000 Let's talk about the policies, the varying policies with regard to Jews on both sides of the political aisle.

00:44:44.000 So first of all, Louis Farrakhan.

00:44:46.000 I know people pretend that Louis Farrakhan isn't a relevant part of America's public life.

00:44:49.000 That is a lie.

00:44:50.000 Louis Farrakhan is a relevant part of American public life.

00:44:53.000 It was Bill Clinton standing next to him at Aretha Franklin's funeral like a month ago.

00:44:57.000 Louis Farrakhan went over to Iran where he chanted death to the Jews in Persian.

00:45:12.000 Okay, so really good guy, Louis Farrakhan.

00:45:14.000 You still haven't heard from Linda Sarsour on this.

00:45:16.000 We still haven't heard from any of the Democratic Party higher-ups on all of this.

00:45:21.000 There's a woman named Ilhan Omar who is running for Keith Ellison's old seat.

00:45:25.000 She's probably going to win.

00:45:27.000 She has engaged in openly anti-Semitic rhetoric.

00:45:30.000 The Democratic Party embraces her and champions her as a part of their intersectional coalition.

00:45:36.000 Ilhan Omar,

00:45:38.000 Is as far left as humanly possible.

00:45:39.000 Here's what she tweeted in 2012, quote, Israel has hypnotized the world.

00:45:42.000 May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.

00:45:48.000 So she again, these folks are part of the Democratic Party base and not only part of the base, they are part of the actual Democratic Party.

00:45:55.000 Now, there are folks on the left who say, well, what about Steve King?

00:45:58.000 People like Steve King.

00:45:59.000 Steve King has flirted with white supremacist groups in recent months.

00:46:05.000 He flirted with a woman named Faith Goldie up in Toronto, who has a history of being involved with white supremacist causes.

00:46:10.000 He went over to Europe and hung out with the Freedom Party in Austria.

00:46:13.000 All of these are bad moves.

00:46:14.000 And you know what happened?

00:46:14.000 The NRCC condemned him.

00:46:16.000 When's the last time Ilhan Omar was condemned by anyone?

00:46:19.000 Or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, by the way, who's an ally of Linda Sarsour and Ilhan Omar.

00:46:24.000 Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is the same party that greenlit the Iran deal while claiming that Israel was to blame for all of the problems in the Middle East.

00:46:33.000 It was the Democratic Party that tried to cut off support for Israel in the middle of the Gaza War in 2014.

00:46:38.000 It was Barack Obama who lied, who let the Iranian regime slaughter people in the streets in 2009, then lied about their moderation in order to push forward his crappy Iran nuclear deal.

00:46:49.000 So to pretend that the only threat to Jews is white supremacists who are active on Reddit boards and therefore vote for Democrats?

00:46:56.000 It's like saying that there are right-wingers, right-wing anti-Semites in Britain who have been promoted by the Conservative Party or UKIP, therefore vote for Jeremy Corbyn in Labour.

00:47:08.000 No.

00:47:09.000 The Trump administration, by the way, is also fighting back against anti-Semites around the world.

00:47:13.000 Here's Mike Pompeo talking about new sanctions on Iran.

00:47:17.000 These sanctions apply to those who conduct sanctionable transactions.

00:47:21.000 The Treasury has a set of sanctions.

00:47:23.000 The State Department has its own set of sanctions.

00:47:27.000 And those will all come back into place on Monday of this week.

00:47:30.000 And they'll be the toughest sanctions ever placed against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

00:47:34.000 Now I know that we may be too stupid to hold two truths at once, but there are a couple of truths we need to hold at once.

00:47:38.000 One, Trump can say some bad stuff that I don't like.

00:47:41.000 Two, his policy can be extraordinarily pro-Jew and pro-Israel.

00:47:44.000 Both of those things are true.

00:47:45.000 And here's the truth about the Democrats.

00:47:47.000 A lot of Democrats say some pretty horrible things about Jews, and their policy is anti-Israel.

00:47:52.000 So there's that as well.

00:47:54.000 All of these things can be true at once.

00:47:56.000 It means that politics is complex and nuanced.

00:47:58.000 But the Democratic Party, like the reactionary nature of, I don't like Trump, therefore I'm going to vote for the party of Andrew Gillum and Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with the ideology of Jeremy Corbyn.

00:48:09.000 You explain how that's logical to me.

00:48:11.000 That makes perfect sense.

00:48:13.000 Only if you're, honestly, if you lost the thread.

00:48:16.000 Time for some things I like and some things that I hate.

00:48:18.000 So things that I like today.

00:48:19.000 First of all, since there is one more day, I felt it necessary to play the only other good number from Les Mis.

00:48:24.000 The first good number from Les Mis I've sung myself, Stars.

00:48:28.000 It's not a good performance, but if you want to actually go see a good performance, you can go see, I think it's, what's the name of the guy who plays it?

00:48:34.000 Philip Quast?

00:48:35.000 Quast?

00:48:36.000 He played the original Javert, who's the hero of Les Mis.

00:48:41.000 But here is the here is one day more, which is the the culminating number of the first act.

00:48:46.000 This musical is about three years long.

00:48:48.000 So the good news is when you hit the end of the first act, you're only, you know, a year and a half older.

00:48:52.000 Here is here is one day more from Les Mis, the best number in the in the show.

00:49:14.000 The time has come!

00:49:29.000 We will nip it in the bud.

00:49:31.000 I will join these little schoolboys.

00:49:33.000 They will wet themselves with mud.

00:49:36.000 Watch them run about.

00:49:36.000 Catch them as they fall.

00:49:38.000 Never know your luck when there's a free-for-all.

00:49:40.000 Hear a little dip.

00:49:41.000 Hear a little touch.

00:49:43.000 Faster than the bonus of my lovely smile.

00:49:51.000 Okay, so you don't have to play the whole thing, but I'm one of the few people who actually likes the movie of Les Mis better than I like the actual stage musical, because it's shorter.

00:50:00.000 Although, they made a huge mistake when they did the movie, which is, in the old days, when they did a musical, they actually got people who could sing.

00:50:06.000 Meaning they actually got people, and they would voice people over, right?

00:50:08.000 Natalie Wood is sung by Marnie Nixon in West Side Story.

00:50:11.000 Virtually everybody in West Side Story is voiced over.

00:50:14.000 Richard Boehmer is voiced over as Tony.

00:50:17.000 Pretty much everybody in that musical is voiced over.

00:50:20.000 In fact, so many people are voiced over in West Side Story that there's one point where Rita Moreno's character is voiced over by a woman named Betty Wan.

00:50:30.000 And she was absent one day, so Marnie Nixon had to voice her over.

00:50:32.000 So there's a point where Marnie Nixon is singing with Marnie Nixon in the soundtrack to West Side Story as two different characters.

00:50:38.000 But, you know, better that than to have Russell Crowe singing Javert.

00:50:42.000 Yeah, mistake.

00:50:43.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:50:44.000 So,

00:50:45.000 I know that a huge number of folks who listen to the show have no idea who PewDiePie is.

00:50:49.000 That's because there's an entire subculture on the internet you have no idea about.

00:50:52.000 PewDiePie has 69 million subscribers on YouTube.

00:50:56.000 And a couple of weeks ago, PewDiePie said in one of his videos that he had to have Miho something he called meme review, which is where he actually looked at various memes on the internet and then laughs at them.

00:51:06.000 And then we sort of got in connection and we actually did cut part of his meme review

00:51:12.000 And so we appeared in a PewDiePie video because this is our life now.

00:51:15.000 And it's pretty funny.

00:51:16.000 So here's some of that.

00:51:18.000 I have a super special intel scoop that if we all say, OK, this is epic, with enough passion to destroy Lintern, with enough courage to salvage their tears, we can summon Ben Shapiro to do

00:51:33.000 Bonus me.

00:51:34.000 This is for bonus me.

00:51:36.000 We can resurrect him from the dead, but only by the power of- Okay, this is so epic, Ben Shapiro memes.

00:51:44.000 Okay.

00:51:45.000 This is epic.

00:51:46.000 Okay.

00:51:47.000 Say it with me.

00:51:48.000 Okay.

00:51:55.000 Okay, Ben Shapiro, do we have time for bonus memes?

00:52:10.000 So PewDiePie asked me to review some memes.

00:52:13.000 Memes are this thing where people put funny stuff on my phone.

00:52:16.000 Here is one of these memes.

00:52:18.000 Let's take a look.

00:52:24.000 So it's really funny.

00:52:24.000 And again, this has like five million views.

00:52:27.000 The silliness is like five million views in two days over at PewDiePie.

00:52:30.000 So thanks to PewDiePie for making that happen.

00:52:32.000 And thanks to my staff for humoring all of us in doing that.

00:52:35.000 It's pretty funny.

00:52:35.000 So you can go check that out.

00:52:36.000 OK, time for some things that I hate.

00:52:41.000 The character attacks on Republicans are not restricted, of course, to President Trump.

00:52:45.000 Every Republican is evil in the view of a lot of Democrats.

00:52:47.000 Gloria Steinem, who knows as much about marriage as your average duck.

00:52:54.000 She suggested that Brett Kavanaugh, she hates Brett Kavanaugh.

00:52:58.000 Why does she hate Brett Kavanaugh?

00:52:59.000 Because something.

00:53:00.000 She says the only thing worse than Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court is being married to him because the woman who said that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle is an expert now on marital accord.

00:53:09.000 Here's Gloria Steinem.

00:53:11.000 Finally, the interviewer asked her a question, and he answered.

00:53:15.000 She opened her mouth, but nothing came out.

00:53:18.000 He moved right in.

00:53:19.000 That says it all.

00:53:21.000 The one thing worse than having him on the Supreme Court is to be married to him.

00:53:30.000 That's Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan.

00:53:34.000 If your closing pitch to the election is Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, who actually sided with the Viet Cong in the middle of a war, and Robin Morgan, a radical feminist, then good luck to you.

00:53:45.000 It's not just them.

00:53:45.000 I love that the Democrats are now opening all of the asylums and letting out the inmates.

00:53:49.000 Barbara Streisand has done some new music, and in this new music, she rips on President Trump.

00:53:54.000 So she showed up.

00:53:55.000 I don't know.

00:54:08.000 Being extraordinarily wealthy and being able to perform songs for a living, she can't sleep nights because Donald Trump is the President of the United States, and that means end of world for people like Barbra Streisand.

00:54:18.000 What I love about Barbra Streisand is every two years she says, if Republicans win, I'm going to move to Canada.

00:54:22.000 And then she looks at the tax rates in Canada and she's like, I'm going to stay here and fight for my country.

00:54:27.000 So here's Bill Maher with Barbra Streisand.

00:54:29.000 It's so on my mind, Trump is so on my mind, you channeled it into this album.

00:54:34.000 That's right, I couldn't sleep nights.

00:54:37.000 And so I was thinking, oh my God, now the photographs in my head, the pictures, you know, the children being ripped out of the arms of their parents.

00:54:47.000 OK, so yes, I'm sure that she was very deeply worried about the children being ripped out of the arms of their parents when it was Barack Obama doing it.

00:54:53.000 Now, of course, she can't sleep nights about it.

00:54:54.000 But it is true that folks in California who live in the richest areas, go to the finest restaurants, who sit there shipping $100 bottles of Chardonnay at lunchtime before going back to their offices where they do minimal work on the arts and then gaze at their Warhol paintings.

00:55:11.000 Those people are so upset about Trump because in the end, these elections are really about character.

00:55:15.000 And unfortunately,

00:55:17.000 No one has any, so that's what it's become.

00:55:18.000 It's become a referendum on character.

00:55:20.000 Everybody thinks the other side is evil, and nobody is able to make anything like a compelling political argument for their positions.

00:55:26.000 There's that.

00:55:26.000 A final thing that I hate today.

00:55:28.000 I do have to acknowledge the insane irony of this headline from the New York Times.

00:55:36.000 Here's the story.

00:55:37.000 For weeks, Brian Kemp, the Georgia Secretary of State and Republican candidate for governor, has faced accusations that he is trying to suppress the minority vote in his race against Stacey Abrams.

00:55:45.000 And just days ago, a federal judge ruled the state needed to adjust elements of its so-called exact match voting requirement, calling them needlessly burdensome.

00:55:53.000 Now, in what Democrats said was a desperate attempt to deflect attention just two days before a crucial midterm, Mr. Kemp used his official position Sunday to announce, with scant evidence, that the Democrats were under investigation for allegedly trying to hack the state's voter registration files.

00:56:08.000 Weird.

00:56:08.000 Let me just change a couple of words there, and then we'll re-read that again.

00:56:12.000 For weeks, Barack Obama, the President of the United States, and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, faced accusations that they were trying to suppress Republican votes in their race against Donald Trump.

00:56:24.000 And just days ago, a federal judge ruled that the federal government needed to adjust elements of its requirements, calling them needlessly burdensome.

00:56:30.000 Now, here's the part, now, in what Republicans said was a desperate attempt to deflect attention just two days before a presidential election,

00:56:38.000 Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama used their official position to announce with scant evidence that the Republicans were under investigation for allegedly trying to hack the election.

00:56:47.000 Weird how the New York Times is totally cool with all sorts of allegations without serious evidence that the Republicans were hacking the election, but as soon as it's a Georgia Republican investigating, then all of a sudden it's scant evidence, how dare he?

00:56:59.000 Weird how that works.

00:57:00.000 Very, very weird.

00:57:02.000 It's almost as though the media are biased.

00:57:04.000 Hmm.

00:57:05.000 OK, well, we'll be back here tomorrow with the final, final, final episode before the election results start to roll in.

00:57:12.000 Try to rest up because tomorrow is going to be a long day, particularly for me.

00:57:16.000 So I'll be there with you then.

00:57:18.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 05, 2018

One Day More | Ep. 653

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