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00:00:00.000The latest on Charlottesville, the latest on Antifa, the latest on the alt-right, and people tearing down Confederate memorials for no apparent reason.
00:00:06.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:15.000Another day, another world full of terribleness, and we will discuss all of it from left to right and right to left and all the things in between.
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00:01:50.000I just want to remind everyone of how terrible what happened in Charlottesville over the weekend was.
00:01:53.000There was some new footage that came out yesterday that we weren't able to show on the show because it came out later.
00:01:58.000Here is drone footage of what happened in Charlottesville when this 20-year-old piece of crap decided to drive his car into a crowd of anti-Neo-Nazi, anti-Neo-Confederate, anti-alt-right protesters.
00:02:39.000Okay, so, with that in the background, we're going to get to a lot today.
00:02:43.000I want to talk about President Trump's new response.
00:02:45.000Yesterday, he finally came out and gave a speech that he should have given on Saturday, and then his activities afterward, which were not helpful to him.
00:02:52.000We're going to talk about the left, which has lost its mind.
00:02:54.000So, the left always was going to turn this into a referendum on the entire right.
00:02:59.000The people like me have been the lead antagonist of the alt-right for well over a year.
00:03:03.000They were always going to turn this into some sort of club that they could wield against the entire right, and against the Trump administration in particular, claiming that everyone in the Trump administration must be smeared with this broad brush of alt-rightism and racism and bigotry.
00:03:16.000And that is really nasty, and actually it's exacerbating the problems.
00:03:19.000What you're seeing is two sides, as I spoke about yesterday.
00:03:22.000Antifa on the one side, and the alt-right on the other side, and the mainstream left
00:03:28.000Focus on the alt-right and willingness to adhere to Antifa and the mainstream right's willingness to ignore the alt-right and their willingness to go after Antifa alone means that both the alt-right and Antifa will grow.
00:03:40.000We're now in a self-perpetuating cycle where Antifa says we have to stop the fascists and then they act violently and the right says
00:03:46.000Well, we're going to side with anybody who acts violently the way these Antifa people are.
00:03:50.000Which, of course, leads the left to say, well, Antifa must not be that bad because the alt-right represents a broad swath of the right, and therefore we have to fight them tooth and nail because Hitler's around the corner.
00:03:59.000And they just keep re-enshrining the importance of one another.
00:04:04.000So the left's activities in the aftermath of Charlottesville have been absolutely egregious.
00:04:09.000Not just the stuff they're saying, the stuff that they're doing.
00:04:11.000We'll start with the stuff they're saying.
00:04:12.000Joy Reid over at MSNBC, she came out yesterday and she said white nationalists are everywhere, they're behind your bed, they're behind your curtains, they're inside your closet, and they're all over the White House.
00:05:05.000Hanging out with the far right in Hungary.
00:05:08.000There's some truth to him hanging out with the far right in Hungary But there's no evidence of his anti-semitism per se and and the attempts to to link the metal that he's been wearing around to Nazism are really overblown There was a whole article in the that debunked the debunked the article in the floor And I think it's from the Atlantic that debunked a lot of this stuff
00:05:27.000And Michael Anton, as much as I dislike Michael Anton's writing, and think his Flight 93 election essay was garbage, he is not a white nationalist.
00:05:35.000It just demonstrates how the left is tempted to use the alt-right brush to paint everyone.
00:05:39.000Rich Lowry, who's sitting there, actually went on to chide Joy Reid for doing exactly that.
00:05:44.000And it's just, it's just foolish of the left to do this.
00:05:47.000Because the more they do this, the more they push more people into the arms of the alt-right.
00:05:50.000A lot of people say, well, if the alt-right is people like Michael Anton and Sebastian Gorka, I guess maybe I'm alt-right.
00:05:54.000No, you're not, because those guys aren't really alt-right, okay?
00:05:57.000The alt-right is Richard Spencer, Jared Taylor, they're a bunch of popularizers who have tried to mainstream it by changing the definition, and the left is helping out in that quest.
00:06:05.000Meanwhile, you see the Black Lives Matter co-founder coming out and saying that hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment.
00:06:10.000This is an actual threat to the First Amendment of the United States.
00:06:13.000We saw yesterday, Texas A&M canceled some sort of rally, this white nationalist rally.
00:06:21.000It's not just scary because they're white supremacists, but it's scary because free speech is a right that all of us have, even the people who I think are garbage and have terrible, terrible views.
00:06:30.000Here's Black Lives Matter saying that if Tate's speech, then it's not protected by the First Amendment.
00:07:01.000Okay, hate speech is, of course, protected by the First Amendment.
00:07:04.000And when it comes to BLM trying to claim that only one side is promulgating hate speech, there are videos of people at BLM rallies shouting, pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon, talking about cops.
00:07:15.000You remember that it was a guy who was very sympathetic to the means and motives of BLM who shot a bunch of cops in Dallas a year and a half ago.
00:07:22.000I'm not saying BLM is to blame for that, I am saying that BLM's program is hardly
00:07:28.000It's- it's hardly just, we're trying to defend lives.
00:07:31.000They've been incredibly anti-cop, they've incentivized people in Ferguson and Baltimore to riot, uh, and- and yet they say that all of their enemies must be shut down.
00:07:39.000We're reaching the danger point where- where people on the left say that the alt-right has to be legitimately shut down, not for violence, but because of what they say, and people on the alt-right say that people on the left, like Antifa,
00:07:50.000Our representative of the entire left, okay?
00:07:52.000We're really at a Weimar Republic point where you're seeing battles in the streets and they've been going on for months and you're seeing the left exacerbate this.
00:07:58.000So I understand that the media's, all of their sympathy is with the left here because they think that Antifa is not that bad, many of them.
00:08:05.000They think Antifa is just anti-fascist.
00:08:08.000It's a communist anarchist group that has protested
00:08:11.000Normal conservatives, normal Republicans in Portland.
00:08:14.000Peter Beinart, who I usually despise, wrote a great piece over at the Atlantic talking about what Antifa has done in cities like Portland, where just a normal group of Republicans wanted to march in their Rose Parade, and the entire Rose Parade had to be cancelled because Antifa was threatening.
00:08:27.000Okay, so you've got a bunch of violent people in the streets from Antifa, and a bunch of violent people from the alt-right, sometimes in response, like in Sacramento, and sometimes, as in Charlottesville, it's unclear who's actually starting the violence, we just don't know yet, but it's not getting better when the left cheers on people who are moving outside the modes of law in order to enact their supposed agenda.
00:08:59.000They're toppling the monument, destroying the monument, and then cheering like they've done something grand and glorious, and then kicking the statue because, Ma, I broke my toe fighting racism.
00:10:12.000I don't see the case for destroying it.
00:10:13.000This looks like, you know, it's not like ISIS because these people aren't ISIS, but there's an attempt in the human soul to rip away history that you don't like.
00:10:23.000Supposedly because you're going to fix the future, but that's not the case.
00:10:26.000I mean, honestly, you know, I live as a Jew.
00:10:29.000I live in a world where Auschwitz still exists in Germany.
00:10:34.000I want people to know that the threat of Auschwitz is still a thing and that people should be aware of that.
00:10:40.000I fully understand why a lot of black folks and a lot of white folks would like to see Confederate monuments taken away because it's a reminder of an era when slavery was fought and defended.
00:10:51.000At the same time, you have to acknowledge that a lot of the people who had great-grandfathers who fought for the Confederacy were not fighting for slavery.
00:10:58.000There were a lot of Confederates who were fighting because they thought that the North was encroaching on southern states' rights.
00:11:04.000Okay, I understand that this is a historic, what I'm saying is historically accurate, but may not be popular.
00:11:10.000The fact is that the Civil War was over slavery, but it was also over states' rights.
00:11:13.000It was over both of those things, and to pretend that it was only over one of those things is to neglect the actual history of the situation, because the fact is that even when the North went into the Civil War,
00:11:41.000To pretend that people who have confederate ancestors, when they see a confederate monument, immediately think of enslaving black people is just not true and it's not accurate, at least for the vast majority of them.
00:12:04.000But I think this, what we're seeing here, is actually part of the same movement that wants to chip Woodrow Wilson's name off buildings at Princeton, and wants to tear down statues of Thomas Jefferson.
00:12:31.000This idea that you're going to go around tearing down monuments and that this is somehow similar to tearing down monuments of Saddam Hussein in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's fall is just inane.
00:12:41.000And all it's doing is emboldening the alt-right, which is going to a lot of people and saying, look at these vandals, these people who have no respect for America's history, because yes, the Confederacy was a dark part, but a part of America's history.
00:12:53.000And to pretend that it wasn't is historically ignorant.
00:12:55.000You're emboldening people on the alt-right.
00:12:57.000This sort of behavior is not purposeful.
00:13:18.000Yesterday, over in New York, a bunch of protesters protesting at Trump Tower because they didn't like Trump's statement over Charlottesville.
00:14:18.000Because I think that now the left is celebrating the punching of Nazis.
00:14:21.000Look at the coverage of Charlottesville.
00:14:24.000I pointed out yesterday, I opened with all of the video from Charlottesville, and I pointed out there were a lot of violent people on the left there.
00:14:29.000Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who was there from the New York Times, said as much.
00:14:32.000And now, what you're seeing is a whitewashing of Antifa in order to go after the alt-right.
00:14:36.000I don't see why you have to whitewash one in order to go after the other.
00:14:38.000I went after the alt-right pretty hard yesterday.
00:14:40.000I will continue to go after them hard.
00:14:41.000I think they're a disgusting movement, and I think that a lot of people have been seduced into believing they're not as disgusting as they are.
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00:16:29.000The President of the United States made a statement on Saturday in which he said that there was violence and bigotry on all sides, all sides.
00:16:37.000And he didn't specifically single out the alt-right.
00:16:46.000I think it was correct to have blowback.
00:16:48.000I think President Trump didn't do enough to disassociate himself
00:16:51.000From the alt-right, which he'd sort of been winking at.
00:16:52.000There was a report yesterday that Steve Bannon had been telling him over the weekend.
00:16:56.000Steve Bannon, who is his White House chief strategist, a guy I know well, former head of Breitbart, a man who said that he was happy that he had turned Breitbart into basically a forum for the alt-right.
00:17:06.000A guy who helps prop up figures like Milo, who are popularizing the alt-right.
00:17:13.000And apparently he was very angry that he had to go out and make a statement yesterday.
00:17:17.000So, let's reenact yesterday with President Trump.
00:17:20.000So, President Trump starts off the day by going after the head of Merck.
00:17:24.000So, Merck is a major pharmaceutical company.
00:17:28.000The CEO, a guy named Kenneth Frazier, he's the CEO of Merck and he was on President Trump's manufacturing board.
00:17:36.000After Trump didn't come out strongly enough in his opinion and condemn the alt-right and white nationalism and white supremacism, he quit the board.
00:18:30.000And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.
00:18:46.000We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal.
00:18:53.000We are equal in the eyes of our Creator.
00:19:28.000The long delay gave a lot of credence to a lot of the groups that were claiming that Trump was on their side.
00:19:33.000You remember I read yesterday the Nazi outlet, the Daily Stormer, coming out and praising Trump for not going too hard on the white nationalists.
00:20:07.000So, according to Olivia Nuzzi, who is a reporter, I believe, for Politico, she says, Richard Spencer doesn't think President Trump condemned his movement today.
00:20:14.000He called it kumbaya nonsense and said Trump didn't mean it.
00:20:20.000Trump does mean it, and it's great that Trump did it, and good.
00:20:23.000Okay, but then, five minutes after the speech, you know, a few minutes after the speech, Trump goes right back on Twitter, and is he going after the, is he going after the, um,
00:20:33.000Is he going after the alt-right on Twitter?
00:20:35.000Is he retweeting his own speech about racism?
00:20:38.000No, he's going back after the Merck guy.
00:20:40.000He decides that it is important that he must go after the Merck guy again.
00:20:43.000So he tweets again about the Merck guy, you know, going after him because he says he's a bad guy.
00:20:47.000Then he goes on Twitter after that and he decides that it is necessary to tweet about the media.
00:21:12.000What Trump sounds like he's saying here, okay, if I were just to read this as a layman, what it sounds like he's saying is that the reason that he made the remarks in the first place is because the fake news media were pushing him to do so and then they wouldn't accept him saying what he was saying.
00:21:26.000In other words, he was fine with not saying anything additional.
00:21:30.000This, of course, lends a lot of credence to the stuff that Spencer was saying, that really the only reason that Trump was doing this is because he was pressured, but deep down in the cockles of his heart, he really didn't want to condemn the alt-right, he really didn't want to condemn the white supremacists.
00:21:40.000You know, Mr. Trump, President Trump, I don't think that you're a racist.
00:21:44.000I don't think you're a white supremacist.
00:21:53.000This is so obvious and this is so easy.
00:21:55.000And when you blame the fake news media for being mean to you because you made a bad statement on Saturday.
00:21:59.000By the way, the reports are that there was a second statement that he had in front of him on Saturday that was exactly the same as the statement he made yesterday and he went off cuff because he didn't actually want to discuss the white supremacy on Saturday.
00:22:11.000There was that report that came out yesterday.
00:22:48.000And the meme says, fake news can't stop the Trump train.
00:22:51.000And then it's a picture of the Trump train hitting a reporter with the CNN logo over it.
00:22:55.000Now, we've already had Trump do this, right?
00:22:56.000I mean, Trump already did the thing with the, with him tackling the meme from the alt-right of him tackling the, the CNN logo head and the entire world going nuts.
00:23:04.000But this is three days after a car hit anti-alt-right protesters and now he's tweeting out a picture of a train hitting CNN.
00:23:31.000And Jack Posobiec was also a Pizzagate promulgator, and he tweeted something out about how there were 35 people who were shot in Chicago over the weekend.
00:23:38.000Why is no one paying attention to that?
00:23:41.000Now if Trump wants to say, listen, there's killings all over the country, there are a lot of things that we need to do to stop them, that's one thing.
00:23:47.000But retweeting people who are sort of part of the alt-right and alt-right friendly base,
00:23:52.000It does not help his case that he's trying to separate off from this group.
00:23:55.000And he should be separating off from this group, okay?
00:24:05.000But the alt-right has effectively used the internet to seize the high grounds of sort of meme territory, and then use it as a way to spread the word.
00:24:15.000I have a brief story about this that I think is worth telling.
00:24:17.000So I was speaking at a California college, which was last year, and this California college was, you know, a lot of the conservatives had decided to ask me there.
00:24:26.000And we go to dinner afterward, which is one of the things that I tend to do with the college Republican groups that I get invited by.
00:24:31.000So, we were sitting there having a good time, we're talking, and one of the guys pipes up and says that he's a fan of Milo, and I said, that's great, you know, whatever, you know, that's fine, and he is at the end of the dinner, he waits till the end of the dinner, and everybody is filing out the door, and this fellow turns to me, and he said, and he kind of winks at me quietly, he's wearing a MAGA hat, and he winks at me quietly, and he says, another showa.
00:24:58.000Okay, for people who don't know what that means, Anada Shoah is one of these alt-right anti-Semitic memes suggesting that all Jews do is talk about the Holocaust all day long.
00:25:06.000Right, that everything is Anada Shoah.
00:25:07.000Shoah is a word for Holocaust, and they don't say another, they say Anada.
00:25:12.000Right, Anada Shoah, because you're stupid, because you keep talking about the Holocaust, you terrible Jews.
00:25:16.000And the guy looked at me and said this, and he obviously meant it as like a wink wink nod nod joke, and I just thought to myself, why would you think that that's okay?
00:25:26.000Like, I'm not gonna, like, ruin your life over it, I don't think your life ought to be ruined over it, but why would you think that that's okay?
00:25:31.000Because the joke is not, you know, mocking anti-semitism, the joke is actually anti-semitic.
00:25:36.000The joke itself is actually anti-semitic.
00:25:38.000Like, I'm on Steven Crowder's show a lot, and Steven's a great guy, and Steven makes a lot of, you know, jokes about Jews, right?
00:25:44.000He'll talk about how he doesn't like the fact that we have this beautiful tumbler because he has his own mug club, and so he'll make a joke about how our tumbler stinks, but we filled it with Jew gold, right?
00:25:53.000The whole point of him doing that is not because he's actually anti-semitic, the point is he's mocking himself for pretending to be anti-semitic.
00:26:44.000This is how people get sucked into the maw of the alt-right.
00:26:47.000Not because they start off as white supremacists, but because they believe that anything that trolls the left must inherently be decent or good.
00:26:55.000Okay, and again, not everybody who loves memes is a member of the alt-right.
00:27:00.000The vast majority of people who like memes are not members of the alt-right.
00:27:03.000But this is how the alt-right recruits, this is how the alt-right seduces.
00:27:07.000They say we're just being dissidents and trolly, and we're tweeting out anti-semitic and racist memes, and it's because the left can't take a joke that they don't like your stuff.
00:27:15.000Not because they don't like racism or anti-semitism, but because they can't take a joke.
00:27:21.000Positive in any way and the right needs to excise that and President Trump, please for the love of God Stop associating with people from the alt-right and retweeting them.
00:27:28.000I understand you think they're a solid part of your base I understand maybe Steve Bannon has told you they're a part of your base.
00:27:33.000You can't afford to alienate You're the president of the United States for God's sake
00:27:54.000You didn't win because of the meme war.
00:27:55.000You won because Hillary Clinton was the worst candidate in the history of mankind.
00:27:59.000And I want to get to the media and how they've reacted to all of this and what I thought was an egregious segment on CNN yesterday.
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00:29:20.000The media have decided that the part of the problem here is the media likes the ratings that they get off of all this stuff.
00:29:25.000I mean, there is part of the media that is overjoyed when this sort of stuff happens because the controversy drives ratings.
00:29:30.000And the left is eager always to label everyone, as I say, a member of the alt-right no matter whether they're a member of the alt-right or not.
00:29:36.000And last night on CNN, this panel just devolved because there was a Trump
00:29:42.000fan named Paris Denard who was a Bush staffer and Keith Boykin who's a Democratic staffer and Boykin just goes directly after Denard and basically says he's not black.
00:29:55.000I'm offended that you continue to go there, Paris, but the reality is that President Trump has not done enough, and I'm ashamed that you as an African American, Paris, will not say that.
00:30:05.000Well, Keith, I don't need you to try to pull my black card.
00:30:08.000I am well aware of my blackness and don't need you to try to classify me as being one.
00:30:17.000I know what it means to be a black man in this country.
00:30:20.000I know, and I experience racism on a regular basis by being a Trump supporter and by being a proud American who happens to be a Republican.
00:30:28.000So that's the racism you experience by being a Trump supporter?
00:30:32.000I get racist comments about my family, about my mother, about my girlfriend, about my character, every single day, mostly coming from black people, Keith.
00:30:42.000If you really want to get down to it, I'm from, my family's from Georgia.
00:31:03.000I won't calm down because I will not be attacked by you about my blackness because I happen to be a Republican and I listened to our president.
00:31:15.000Okay, so the fact is that Paris Dunart has every reason to lash out at Keith Boykin for what Keith Boykin just said, but this is the sort of stuff the media loves to promulgate, and it's just pushing the conflict to a higher and higher pitch.
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00:32:55.000Okay, so, for things I like today, I want to do an oldie but a goodie, because it's, I think, almost indicative of where we've gone as a country, these two books that I'm about to talk about.
00:33:05.000So, Harper Lee wrote one of the great American classics, of course, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it is a phenomenal book.
00:33:39.000The whole book is really an ode to Scout is the main character, her father Atticus Finch.
00:33:45.000And Atticus Finch, of course, one of the great American literary heroes, is a lawyer who defends an innocent black man accused of a crime.
00:33:52.000Uh, and it's it's all about what it takes in what what heroism requires and sometimes it's quiet and sometimes it just requires standing up for the right things.
00:34:01.000But what I was going to say is that it demonstrates where we've gone as a country in the last couple of years in an attempt to make some profit.
00:34:06.000Uh, the there is another version of this book that Harper Lee wrote that was never published.
00:34:30.000To Kill a Mockingbird is about the American Dream, and how we need more Americans like Atticus Finch in order to achieve the American Dream.
00:34:35.000And Ghosts Out of Watchmen is about how the American Dream doesn't really exist, even the people who you think are heroes are actually villains.
00:34:40.000And we have to get away from Ghosts Out of Watchmen and back to To Kill a Mockingbird.
00:34:44.000We all need to be idolizing Atticus Finch.
00:34:46.000We all need to be moving in that direction.
00:34:47.000And we need to get away from the world where everyone's a villain, so if Atticus Finch is a villain, we all might as well be villains.
00:34:51.000You know, the sort of sullying of the Atticus Finch character in Ghosts Out of Watchmen is really one of the literary tragedies of the last ten years.
00:35:34.000They tried to suggest that Dennis was a racist, and a sexist, and a bigot, and a homophobe, and therefore he shouldn't be allowed to conduct the Santa Monica Symphony at Walt Disney Concert Hall, about 2,300 seats.
00:35:45.000And he was pushed not to conduct the Haydn Symphony No.
00:35:50.000There were two UCLA professors named Michael Chu and Andrew Apter.
00:35:54.000They're both violinists with the Santa Monica Symphony, and they wrote in an open letter, Dennis does not promote horribly bigoted positions, of course.
00:36:06.000It's just another demonstration that the left attempts to lump everyone in with the alt-right, and that's why it is so important both that the left stop doing that and that the right actively separate itself
00:36:17.000From the alt-right and from the racists who would hang around the fringes and pretend to be important members of the movement.
00:36:24.000This stuff is not justifiable and Dennis is one of the good guys.
00:36:28.000And the idea that Disney Hall should have been closed to Dennis just demonstrates the intolerance of the left.
00:36:38.000The New York Times wrote an article on the issue.
00:36:40.000The Hollywood Reporter wrote an article on the issue.
00:36:42.000And it just shows that when the right stands up and says we're not going to stand for being called racist, sexist, bigots, homophobes when we're not, then people back down.
00:36:50.000But, in order for that to work, you actually have to not associate with racist, sexist, bigots, and homophobes.
00:36:54.000Which, of course, the vast majority of people who are conservative don't.
00:36:56.000The alt-right is not a conservative movement.
00:37:07.000So, the Washington Post tried to hit the Trump campaign yesterday and it's just amazing the way that the Washington Post tries to get away with hitting Trump even when it's unjustified.
00:37:17.000So, the Washington Post had an article titled, Trump campaign emails show aides repeated efforts to set up Russia's meetings.
00:37:23.000Okay, from that headline, you would gather that someone in the Trump campaign was actively attempting to set up meetings with the Russians, with the oversight of the Trump campaign.
00:37:32.000But the article itself says, in paragraph 3, the proposal sent a ripple of concern through campaign headquarters in Trump Tower.
00:37:39.000Campaign co-chairman Sam Clovis wrote that he thought NATO allies should be consulted before any plans were made.
00:37:44.000Another Trump advisor cited legal concerns, including a possible violation of US sanctions.
00:38:24.000After a day of work at the Engineering Research Center at University of Arkansas...
00:38:29.000Kyle Quinn had a pleasant Friday night in Bentonville with his wife and a colleague.
00:38:33.000He explored an art exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and dined in an upscale restaurant.
00:38:38.000Then on Saturday, he discovered that social media sleuths had incorrectly identified him as a participant in a white nationalist rally some 1,100 miles away in Charlottesville.
00:38:47.000Overnight, thousands of strangers across the country have been working to share photographs of men bearing tiki torches on the University of Virginia campus.
00:38:54.000But, there was a guy at the rally who's photographed
00:38:58.000Wearing an Arkansas engineering shirt.
00:39:00.000And amateur investigators found a photo of Quinn that looked something similar.
00:39:06.000And that was enough to go after Quinn.
00:40:52.000Like, you wonder why there's an identity politics of the right?
00:40:54.000Maybe that is because there's an anti-white identity politics.
00:40:58.000You know, the white identity politics, a lot of that, the growth of that, is a direct response to the identity politics of the left, which suggests that the color of your skin makes you responsible for the sins of other white people.
00:41:07.000I am not responsible for a sin committed by a white person just because I am white.
00:41:12.000You are not responsible for the sin of a black person just because you are black.
00:41:15.000This insanity that suggests that race confers guilt or innocence upon you
00:41:19.000That ethnicity confers guilt or innocence upon you.
00:41:24.000And the virtue signaling by pop cultural figures who are attempting to make it clear to their audience just how woke they are.
00:41:30.000The Katy Perry looking like she came back from college as a lesbian dance theory major and sitting with DeRay McKesson cross-legged on a couch talking about her cultural responsibility.
00:41:39.000Look, if you didn't do anything wrong... We live in an individual culture, okay?
00:41:42.000I don't believe in social justice because I believe in individual justice.
00:41:45.000If you didn't do anything wrong, you are not guilty.
00:41:48.000If I didn't do anything wrong, I am not guilty.
00:41:49.000If you did do something wrong, you are guilty.
00:41:51.000And if I did something wrong, I am guilty.
00:41:52.000Otherwise, no guilt, no innocence, okay?
00:41:56.000Your moral status is neutral if you haven't done anything.
00:41:59.000You do have a duty to come out and condemn racism when you see it as a moral human being, but that does not make you complicit in racism if you do the right thing.
00:42:08.000Doing the right thing is you doing the right thing.
00:42:11.000I don't know why we have to do third grade morality for people again.
00:42:34.000I used to be a big fan of the show, but now it seems like it's just two lefties going back at each other on every topic under the sun, and that's really boring.
00:43:37.000I would, me personally, and I think you too, I would stand for the anthem.
00:43:40.000But if you don't, it's, it is not troublesome to me if you don't do this.
00:43:46.000Okay, why, okay, so it should be troublesome when people don't stand for our common anthem, because the one thing that you should hope is that the anthem comes to embody what you want it to embody.
00:43:54.000Okay, suggesting that America is thoroughgoing racist is nonsense.
00:43:58.000Of course, Kaepernick and everybody else who's kneeling for the anthem has the right to kneel for the anthem.
00:44:02.000It's America, you get to do what you want, but
00:44:04.000The idea that we should stop playing the anthem at all so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of people who don't like the flag?
00:44:13.000The other politicized topic of the week, it's all been Kaepernick all the time over at ESPN.
00:44:18.000I mean, it's amazing how many people seem to care deeply about a second string quarterback who absolutely blows at his job for the last two years.
00:44:25.000Stephen A. Smith says that Charlottesville should get Kaepernick a job.
00:44:28.000It's amazing how the outcome is always Kaepernick should have a job.
00:44:31.000There's a car crash in Louisiana, Kaepernick should get a job.
00:44:35.000Storm clouds roll over Texas, Kaepernick should get a job.
00:44:37.000Doesn't matter what A is, B is always Kaepernick should get a job.
00:44:40.000Here's Stephen A. Smith saying Charlottesville should be the reason Kaepernick gets a job or something for no reason, whatever.
00:44:45.000Now, in light of what occurred this weekend in Charlottesville, Stephen A., will this change opinions on Colin?
00:45:45.000We should have social fabric where we can come together.
00:45:47.000The National Anthem seems like one place we should be able to come together.
00:45:50.000Watching football games seems like another place we should come together.
00:45:53.000If even these last tiny and almost insignificant vestiges of commonality are ripped away from us, it's pretty clear that we are going to be irrevocably torn in the near future.
00:46:03.000Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with more updates on all the latest.