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00:00:00.000A college scam ensnares two famous actresses, corruption at the Obama Department of Justice rears its ugly head, and AOC battles for the commanding heights of the economy.
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00:01:58.000And then for law school, I went to Harvard Law School.
00:02:02.000So I know a fair bit about higher education since I've spent an awful lot of time there.
00:02:06.000Well, I will explain to you why it is that so much of college education is a scam.
00:02:11.000What college education is actually designed to do, why what colleges are designed to do, does not mesh with the proposals of the left for paying for tuition for everyone.
00:02:20.000And we can do all of this through the prism of what is a shocking and somewhat amusing story.
00:02:25.000This is a story about a bunch of rich people who apparently bribed their kids' way into top and also mid-tier colleges, according to the New York Times.
00:02:35.000A teenage girl who did not play soccer magically became a soccer star recruit at Yale.
00:02:43.000A high school boy eager to enroll at the University of Southern California was falsely deemed to have a learning disability so he could take his standardized test with a complicit proctor who would make sure he got the right score.
00:02:53.000Cost to his parents, at least $50,000.
00:02:56.000A student with no experience rowing won a spot on the USC crew team after a photograph of another person in a boat was submitted as evidence of her prowess.
00:03:04.000Her parents wired $200,000 into a special account.
00:03:07.000Now, okay, let's be straight about this for a second.
00:03:12.000I do not hear the $200,000 for admission to USC.
00:03:16.000I mean, that is really, really overpaying for that Happy Meal right there.
00:03:19.000In a major college admissions scandal that laid bare the elaborate lengths some wealthy parents will go to get their children into competitive American universities, federal prosecutors charged 50 people on Tuesday in a brazen scheme to buy spots in the freshman classes at Yale, Stanford, and other big-name schools.
00:03:36.00033 well-heeled parents were charged in the case, including Hollywood celebrities and prominent business leaders.
00:03:40.000Prosecutors said there could be additional indictments to come.
00:03:43.000Also implicated, top college athletic coaches, who were accused of accepting millions of dollars to help admit undeserving students to a wide variety of colleges, from the University of Texas at Austin to Wake Forest and Georgetown, by suggesting that they were top athletes.
00:03:58.000By the way, we should get rid of college athletics.
00:04:00.000A lot of folks love to watch their college athletics.
00:04:03.000Yeah, well, I like to watch Broadway theater.
00:04:05.000I don't think that schools should give scholarships based on your ability to do a play that the school raises money off of.
00:04:14.000If you want to go to school to learn about theater, that is one thing.
00:04:17.000But you don't go to school to learn about sports.
00:04:19.000You go to school, and you join an athletic team so that the school can make money off of you, which is why they should pay their student-athletes, or they should have associated teams that don't actually get college scholarships.
00:04:29.000The parents included the television star Lori Loughlin and her husband, the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, the actress Felicity Huffman, and William E. McGlasson Jr., a partner at a private equity firm TPG, according to officials.
00:04:41.000The scheme unveiled Tuesday was stunning in its breadth and audacity.
00:04:44.000It was the Justice Department's largest-ever college admissions prosecution.
00:04:48.000A sprawling investigation that involved 200 agents nationwide and resulted in charges against 50 people in six states.
00:04:56.000The charges also underscored how college admissions have become so cutthroat and competitive that some have sought to break the rules.
00:05:02.000The authorities say the parents of some of the nation's wealthiest and most privileged students sought to buy spots for their children at top universities, not only cheating the system, but potentially cheating other hardworking students out of a chance at a college education.
00:05:14.000The parents are the prime movers in this fraud, said Andrew Lelling, the U.S.
00:05:16.000Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
00:05:18.000He said those parents used their wealth to create a separate unfair admissions process for their children.
00:05:24.000That separate unfair admissions process for kids has existed in a couple of different ways in the United States for quite a while.
00:05:29.000Way number one is through legacy admissions.
00:05:31.000The idea, my dad went to a school, therefore I should get into the school.
00:05:35.000Or my parents gave a building to the school, therefore I should get into the school.
00:05:39.000In fact, this even comes up in the show The Sopranos.
00:05:42.000Where a meadow soprano gets into Columbia, and then her parents are hit up for a donation to the building.
00:05:47.000So this sort of stuff has been going on in American public life for a very long time.
00:05:51.000And then there's a second corrupt way that people get into schools, and that is the soft bigotry of low expectation way that we get people into schools through writing stories in their essays about how tough they have it in life, and then we allow people with lower scores and lower GPA to take the spots of people with higher scores and higher GPAs, predominantly Asian in the cases of places like Harvard.
00:06:11.000The real victims in this case, says Andrew Lelling, the U.S.
00:06:13.000attorney, were the hard-working students displaced in the admission process by far less qualified students and their families who simply bought their way in.
00:06:21.000At the center of the sweeping financial and fraud case was William Singer.
00:06:24.000He's the founder of a college prep business called the Edge College and Career Network, also known as The Key.
00:06:29.000Apparently, Mr. Singer used The Key and its nonprofit arm, Key Worldwide Foundation, based in Newport, California, to help students cheat on their standardized tests and to pay bribes to coaches who could get them into college with fake athletic credentials.
00:06:40.000Parents paid Mr. Singer about $25 million from 2011 until February 2019 to bribe coaches and university administrators to designate their kids as recruited athletes, which effectively ensured their admission, according to the indictment.
00:06:54.000Singer went to court on Thursday afternoon and described how he arranged for students S.A.T.
00:07:00.000results to be falsified by sending them to take the exams in Houston or L.A.
00:07:03.000where he'd bribed the test administrators.
00:07:05.000He described the students as believing they were taking the test legitimately, but he said the test proctor would correct their answers afterward.
00:07:10.000He said he would tell the proctor the exact score he wanted the student to get, and then that proctor was great at this and would achieve the score exactly.
00:07:18.000So there are a bunch of celebrities who have been caught up in the middle of this, obviously, and that is why it's drawing so much fire and so much media scrutiny at this point.
00:07:29.000Some of the celebrities who have been caught up in the middle of this, of course, Felicity Huffman of Desperate Housewives fame and Lori Loughlin of Full House.
00:07:36.000Loughlin and her husband have allegedly spent $500,000 in bribes to get their two daughters designated recruits for the USC crew team.
00:07:44.000The two daughters were then admitted on that basis.
00:07:46.000As I say, that's a lot of money to just get into USC.
00:07:49.000Huffman paid $15,000 as a faux charitable donation to the Key Worldwide Foundation so her daughter could be admitted to a top college.
00:07:56.000The money actually went toward paying a third party to correct her daughter's SAT scores, boosting it to a 1420 from the mid-1000s where she had been scoring on her practice SAT a year earlier.
00:08:07.000So we do have a rather hilarious bit of audio from Lori Loughlin's daughter.
00:08:14.000So her daughter is an Instagram model, Olivia Jade.
00:08:45.000Like my first week of school, I'm leaving to go to Fiji for work.
00:08:49.000And then I'll be in New York a bunch this year for work.
00:08:53.000And traveling to a different country because I'm creating something with this country and that's her work.
00:08:58.000So I don't know how much of school I'm gonna attend but I'm gonna go in and talk to my deans and everyone and hope that I can try and balance it all.
00:09:06.000But I do want the experience of like game days, partying.
00:09:24.000What I mean by that is that what people think college is for, what people think university is for, is not what college and universities are for.
00:09:30.000Whenever I speak at colleges and universities, and I speak at these universities regularly, I mean, I was at University of Michigan yesterday, I always say, There is a vast difference between people who are going to colleges and universities to learn a skill set and people who are going there to not learn a skill set.
00:09:46.000So in other words, the people who are generally in the humanities and the people who are generally in the sciences, if you want to put a label on it.
00:09:51.000At UCLA, that was the North Campus majors versus the South Campus majors.
00:09:55.000South Campus majors, that was all the pre-med folks.
00:09:58.000South Campus majors, We're all the engineering students, all the mathematics students, all the geology students, you know, people who are going to learn a skill set they were then going to apply in a job.
00:10:06.000All the North Campus majors were the political science majors, and the history majors, and the English majors, the people who are prepping for a career, maybe in academia or teaching.
00:10:16.000And possibly in going to law school, or business school, or in marketing, or something.
00:10:21.000All those North Campus majors were not there to learn a skill set.
00:10:24.000Because the reality is, the skill sets that you learn being a lawyer are not the same as the skill sets that you learn in a poli-sci class.
00:10:30.000You don't learn a skill set in a poli-sci class.
00:10:32.000If you don't know how to write by the time you get to college, very low chance you're actually going to learn to write once you do get to college.
00:10:38.000So then what exactly are colleges and universities about?
00:10:42.000And this answers a couple of other questions.
00:10:44.000The question I'm asking right now is about to answer a couple of other questions.
00:10:47.000So, to answer the question, what are colleges and universities about?
00:10:51.000We have to answer two other questions specific to this scandal.
00:10:53.000One, why are rich, famous parents shelling out legitimately millions of dollars to get their kids into these prestigious schools?
00:11:30.000If I got admitted to the MIT mathematics program on the basis of bad scores, I would fail out.
00:11:36.000But if I got into MIT on the basis of crew, being an MIT crew, and then I majored in history, there's a good shot that I would not fail out.
00:11:45.000Which says something about the quality of these universities and what they are intending to do.
00:11:49.000What these universities, particularly in the humanities, are designed to do.
00:11:52.000Because they are not career building exercises.
00:11:54.000They are not skill set building exercises.
00:11:56.000I'll explain in a second what people are getting wrong about college and why this scandal Could rip the lid off of what basically is a university scheme in just one second.
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00:13:32.000And what we have seen from many affirmative action programs all over the country is that when people who are not generally qualified to get into a university get into that university, dropout rates tend to be much higher than the general population.
00:14:31.000So let's discuss each of these in turn, because this really does have a pretty vast impact on American society and on the bifurcation of American society into these sort of Intellectual contingent, the white collar contingent and those dummies who didn't go to college.
00:14:45.000You know, that's the attitude of the intelligentsia.
00:15:05.000People don't take out their IQ scores or their SAT scores and hit each other with that, but they will take out their degree and do it all the time.
00:15:12.000In fact, when I was at Harvard Law, this was literally, we had a name for this, it was called dropping the H-bomb.
00:15:19.000In the middle of a conversation, you would say, you would drop the H-bomb.
00:15:21.000You'd say, oh yeah, I went to Harvard.
00:15:23.000Even today, when people ask where he went to law school, there's like a puff of pride and go, oh, I went to Harvard Law School.
00:15:27.000It's like, oh wow, he must be very smart.
00:15:40.000He runs a business that has a hundred employees.
00:15:43.000Well, just a few years ago, he was in a conversation with a very well-known right-wing figure who is not a good human being.
00:15:51.000And this well-known right-wing figure had never met Jeremy before, and they were in a bit of a conflict over an option for a film.
00:15:57.000And this right-wing figure called up Jeremy and started asking him about his background.
00:16:03.000And when Jeremy said he didn't go to college, this person, who is a jerk, who I know, this person said to Jeremy, You mean you didn't even go to effing college?
00:16:32.000We all do this on the basis of where people went to school.
00:16:34.000So if you meet two people, one went to Yale, the other went to junior college, you're immediately going to assume the person who went to Yale is smarter than the person who went to junior college, which in many cases is true because Yale does have high admission standards and junior college does not.
00:16:48.000It is not universally true, nor does it translate over into life success.
00:16:52.000Just as IQ is, in fact, an effective measurement of innate levels of intelligence in certain areas, but it does not necessarily translate over into a level of life success.
00:17:02.000I know this because I went to a highly gifted magnet school when I was in junior high, and you had to have the quote-unquote genius level IQ to get in.
00:17:53.000Most of the people at my office who hang out with each other in their spare time, their social connections, their social fabric is created by the fact that they work with others.
00:18:01.000But before that, predating that, going back to when they were a teenager, most people's social connections came from school or came from their church.
00:18:10.000Well, as churches declined and as schools became less and less of a binding commitment, particularly public schools, As parents became less and less involved, as the federal government became more and more involved, social fabric tended to disappear.
00:18:24.000And so, in essence, what has happened is that colleges have become a rebuilt social fabric.
00:18:30.000So, Tim Carney has a very good book called Alienated America that is out in the last couple of weeks, in which he specifically talks about how it is that there is strong social fabric in left-wing, white-collar, upper-class communities on the coasts, and that social institutional fabric is created in large part by colleges, people who went to college with each other, and they still go out for drinks, and they still get jobs from one another.
00:18:54.000He says that in many cases, College social fabric has become a substitute for church social fabric.
00:18:59.000In the rest of the country, we still connect with people we go to church with.
00:19:01.000The beautiful thing about going to church with people, or synagogue with people, is that there's no IQ requirement to get in, there's no testing requirement to get in, there's a values requirement to get in.
00:19:10.000And those connections seem to be far more durable and far more meaningful than simply, we have the same IQ level so we went to the same college.
00:19:17.000But, for a group of white-collar people, Who are not ensconced in other social institutions, your connections are created by the college that you went to.
00:19:27.000Vance, who went to Yale Law School, wrote a huge bestseller called Hillbilly Elegy about growing up in, in essence, sort of a broken Appalachian community in Kentucky.
00:19:37.000And he says that admission to Yale Law School granted him social capital.
00:19:40.000He said, quote, the networks of people and institutions around us have real economic value.
00:19:45.000They also have social value, obviously.
00:19:46.000We get jobs from friends or from friends of friends.
00:19:48.000The social circles in which we travel matter.
00:19:51.000That is true for people who are born rich as well as those born poor.
00:19:54.000In fact, if you look at the areas of the country suffering most, those tend to be the areas of the country where there are no effective social institutions, where the churches have fallen apart, where there are no PTA meetings, and where people are not going to the same college.
00:20:07.000Neither of these two things, credentialism Or social institutions.
00:20:11.000Neither of these two things, credentialism and social fabric, actually demands that universities teach anything.
00:20:17.000None of that has to do with actual education.
00:20:19.000The credentialism occurs the minute that you get in.
00:20:22.000And the social fabric is created simply by virtue of your presence at these universities.
00:20:26.000And that's why parents are willing to pay through the nose to get their kids in.
00:20:29.000Because Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin want to be able to say about their kids that they went to a prominent university and they want their kids to be able to call on the resources of the people they went to school with so that they can have friends later in life and social connections.
00:21:15.000This sort of credentialism is very important in American life.
00:21:19.000It is, however, not the role of a university.
00:21:22.000It's why universities are a giant, giant scam.
00:21:26.000In a second, I'm going to tell you a story about my first day at Harvard Law School that sort of underscores a lot of these points, and then we'll talk about what universities ought to be and what we ought to do to fight all of this, because this is indicative of a broader problem in the university system.
00:21:38.000First, let us talk about that watch you're wearing.
00:21:42.000Or, I know, you're wearing one of these watches that tells you not only the time but how many calories you've burned, and it tells you The angle of the moon at night and all the rest of this.
00:22:55.000As I say, colleges and universities no longer about teaching a skill set.
00:22:58.000They're about credentialism and about social fabric.
00:23:00.000The first day I went to Harvard Law School, I attended orientation.
00:23:04.000And listen, I loved my experience at Harvard Law School.
00:23:06.000I really did feel that the first year taught me a certain way of thinking about the world, a certain skill set in looking at the world through a legal lens.
00:23:13.000Harvard Law School is three years long.
00:23:15.000years are effectively a waste of time and a way to drive up a way to drive up the amount of student debt you are in so that you have to work for a big law firm in any case our very first day at harvard law school we were gathered in memorial hall in historic sanders theater so sanders theater is this beautiful hall all mahogany fits about a thousand people and each class at harvard is pretty big for law school about 500 person strong class
00:23:41.000So we were gathered in historic Sanders Theater, and Dean Elena Kagan, who is now Supreme Court Justice, she strides onto stage, and she tells us that the competition is over.
00:23:55.000She said, listen, you think this is going to be like the paper chase, very famous movie about Harvard Law School from the 1970s, where one Professor Kingsfield really harasses his students using the Socratic method and makes them feel terrible about themselves.
00:24:06.000And there's competition and people drop out and all the rest.
00:25:04.000It is also one of the reasons why the failures of the lower education system ought to loom larger than inability to get into a good school.
00:25:12.000Because if you failed in high school, the chances that you're going to get into this privileged estate are very, very low.
00:25:18.000This also has significant political ramifications for campus.
00:25:21.000It means that these places are cush places where students expect to be treated with kid gloves.
00:25:26.000Because after all, you're there, as Olivia Jade said, to party and have game night.
00:25:31.000You're not actually, you're there to build social fabric.
00:25:35.000Professor Harvey Mansfield at Harvard University He famously graded people as he thought they ought to be graded.
00:25:41.000So a lot of his students got C's, some of them got D's.
00:25:45.000And then he was chided by the administration and the students because he was told, you're ruining these kids' college experiences and you're driving kids from your classes by giving them legitimate grades.
00:25:53.000Instead, you should be participating in grade inflation so you don't harm these kids' future careers.
00:25:59.000And pressured by the administration, by the students, Mansfield started giving out two grades.
00:26:04.000One for merit, he would actually give kids their real grade, and then the one that he would send to the registrar, which was their fake grade, their ironic grade, is one of the things he called it.
00:26:12.000It also means politically, students expect not to be challenged.
00:26:15.000They expect to go to college campuses and be ensconced in a safe space, in a bubble, where they are never microaggressed and where everyone treats them well.
00:26:22.000Because after all, when you go to church, you don't expect to be microaggressed.
00:26:25.000When you go to a PTA meeting, you don't expect to be challenged with new ideas.
00:26:29.000You expect that it's all going to be very friendly and very nice.
00:26:31.000This is a social fabric building institution.
00:26:34.000What this means is that if somebody like me is brought to a campus like Berkeley, all hell may break loose because I have now threatened the social fabric.
00:26:41.000Discomfort, which used to be the hallmark of educational institutions.
00:26:45.000Discomfort because you didn't know things and you had to learn things.
00:26:57.000So what does this mean for the Bernie Sanders College for All routine?
00:27:02.000Well, it means that it's completely misguided.
00:27:04.000If college were really a place where you learned a skill set, then College for All would sound a lot better.
00:27:09.000If we're talking about stipends, frankly, for people who are going to a trade school, that would sound better than what Bernie Sanders is talking about.
00:27:17.000But if the idea is that we have to pay for everybody to get into They're local universities.
00:27:22.000They can major in women's studies and build a social fabric.
00:27:27.000Well, once you start admitting everyone's universities, then both of the things, both of the things that colleges actually do right now are undercut.
00:27:35.000Credentialism is undercut as soon as you have a broad admissions policy.
00:27:38.000Credentialism only works so long as there's exclusivity.
00:27:42.000If it's hard to get into a school, the credential still holds.
00:27:44.000If it's very easy to get into a school, if it's just your local community college, no one brags about going to JUCO.
00:27:50.000Okay, so credentialism doesn't work if everybody gets in.
00:27:53.000And when it comes to building the social fabric, the same thing holds true.
00:27:57.000If you, if everybody gets in, all that happens is that now you have new social cliques that are formed inside this broader pool.
00:28:05.000Basically, you turn college into high school.
00:28:06.000People don't build social fabric in high school.
00:28:08.000They do build social fabric in college because they are sort of lined up like with like, is the idea.
00:28:13.000So the College for All plan kind of withers under the scrutiny of why this sort of scandal would happen in the first place.
00:28:19.000But it does speak to what universities ought to be and how we ought to see them.
00:28:26.000We should have... Credentialism I don't think has to go away.
00:28:29.000I think credentialism is a somewhat useful phenomenon in the sense that is an intellectual shortcut for us to decide whether somebody has innate ability or not.
00:28:37.000Although it should not be used as the only indicator.
00:28:40.000But when it comes to building social fabric, our social fabric has to be built outside of colleges, and colleges should be places where we learn skill sets, and are educated, and are challenged, not places where we go for game nights and partying.
00:28:52.000The inconvenient thing about what Olivia Jade said there is that every word of it is true.
00:28:56.000People largely go to college, at least for North Campus majors, as I say, they largely go to college in order to party it up, build social fabric, and not learn anything.
00:29:05.000And in that way, colleges are succeeding at their task.
00:29:10.000So, you shouldn't be surprised when you see rich people doing this sort of thing.
00:29:16.000Even rich people doing this sort of thing to sort of buy their kids into the institutional social fabric and credentialism they feel their kids will need.
00:29:24.000Okay, in just a second, I'm gonna get to Tucker Carlson being beat over the head by Media Matters and why I now have proof positive that the people who are largely leading this drive against Tucker Carlson are massive hypocrites.
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00:32:36.000So let's talk for a second about the proof positive that this bad faith effort to get Tucker Carlson is just that, a bad faith effort to get Tucker Carlson.
00:32:45.000So, yesterday, there was an attempt to put together a protest over at the Fox News headquarters by Media Matters.
00:32:53.000They wanted people to show up at Fox News and protest outside the headquarters because Fox News is meeting with its advertisers in preparation for the ad buying for the next year.
00:33:02.000And they want to show with a crowd how much people hate Fox News.
00:33:04.000So a bunch of non-Fox News watchers will go tell advertisers how much they do not like to watch Fox News.
00:33:11.000And it's Media Matters putting this together.
00:33:12.000First of all, let's not pretend that Media Matters gives two craps about stuff that Tucker Carlson said 13 years ago.
00:33:43.000And so they see this as a convenient club to beat Tucker Carlson with.
00:33:46.000I am more offended by what Tucker Carlson said than they are.
00:33:49.000Because I've never been in favor of this stuff.
00:33:51.000I hate shock jock radio and I think it's yuck.
00:33:53.000So I'm more offended by it than Don Lemon and Tucker and Chris Cuomo.
00:33:59.000Nonetheless, you're seeing these mainstream news anchors saying that these old comments resurfaced by Media Matters specifically to destroy Tucker Carlson from 13 years ago.
00:34:08.000I thought the most humorous clip about this last night came courtesy of Anderson Cooper.
00:34:13.000Anderson Cooper, who, like, goes on every New Year's Eve on CNN and made, like, oral sex jokes with Kathy Griffin, was very deeply offended by Tucker Carlson being on a shock jock radio show, and he brought in Sam Donaldson, presumably from the crypt, To come and talk with him about how offended Sam Donaldson is about all of this.
00:34:33.000Can you think of Matt Lauer or any of the other people, Charlie Rose, saying, well, wait a moment.
00:35:02.000This is the kind of speech that, if left unchecked, will change this country forever.
00:35:08.000It's just as bad, and it should be punished in the way that the men were punished for what they did.
00:35:13.000So, he's saying that Tucker Carlson should be punished like Matt Lauer, who literally locked women in his office and then sexually abused them.
00:35:20.000And then he says that if speech like this is left unchecked, it's going to ruin the country.
00:35:24.000Dude, it was left unchecked for 13 years.
00:37:35.000Pod Save America, though, has activated in defense of media matters, trying to knock Tucker Carlson off the air for stuff that does not offend the Pod Save America bros in the slightest.
00:37:43.000They're having a protest outside of Fox News headquarters on Wednesday at 11 a.m.
00:37:47.000in New York, because Fox is having an emergency meeting with their advertisers.
00:37:51.000So if you want to send a message, and you want people to actually care there, let the advertisers know, because that's the only reason the Bill O'Reilly's and the Lor- like, the people actually- And the Glenn Beck's, too.
00:38:00.000Like, yours is the only thing that's worked.
00:38:02.000Tucker Carlson is their most popular host and their most popular time slot.
00:38:06.000Okay, so the Pod Save America bros, very happy with going after advertisers and secondary boycotts.
00:38:22.000Leading the charge on this is Media Matters ex-Gribble president Angelo Carasone.
00:38:26.000Angela Carusone has a long track record of saying nasty, terrible things on social media for years.
00:38:32.000For example, in November 2005, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation, he posted a lengthy diatribe on his website about a Bangladeshi man who was robbed by a gang of transvestites.
00:39:18.000Don't bring a group of transvestites back to your room, etc.
00:39:21.000The title of the post, Tranny Paradise.
00:39:25.000Also, there's another post in which he uses an ethnic slur for Japanese people and another post in which he suggested that his boyfriend, who is Jewish, he said, quote, despite his jewelry, you know, he's adorable.
00:39:38.000And he said that he would accept as a consequence.
00:39:40.000He said that he's come to accept the different politics of his boyfriend as a as a fact of life, as a consequence of his possession of several bags of Jewish gold.
00:39:52.000So, when does Angelo Carusone call for a boycott against Angelo Carusone?
00:39:56.000The answer is never, because this is all cynical nonsense.
00:40:14.000One of the beautiful things about AOC is that when Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York and fresh face of the Democratic Party, incredibly fresh, endlessly face, when she has her hearings on Capitol Hill, With full sincerity, she plays a lawyer half well on TV.
00:40:31.000She doesn't really know what she's talking about, and so she gets caught in these weird situations where she will ask a question, the person doesn't give an answer that she likes, and then she doesn't know what to say next.
00:40:41.000That happened in a long exchange with the CEO of Wells Fargo.
00:40:45.000She had called this guy on the carpet, presumably to grill him about all of these companies to which Wells Fargo has lent money in the past.
00:40:53.000The Wells Fargo CEO is named Timothy Sloan.
00:40:56.000There's a House Financial Services Committee hearing, and the hearing was titled, Holding Megabanks Accountable, An Examination of Wells Fargo's Pattern of Consumer Abuses.
00:41:06.000Sloan was the first Megabank chief executive Waters summoned to appear.
00:41:09.000By the way, it is insane, insane, that Maxine Waters presides over the House Financial Services Committee.
00:41:14.000She's one of the most corrupt members in the history of modern Congress.
00:41:18.000There's fairly solid evidence that she was, as a member of the House Financial Services Committee, that she was helping to direct money to a bank associated with her husband for years.
00:42:04.000I'm not familiar with the specific assertion that you're making, but we weren't directly involved in that.
00:42:10.000Okay, so these companies run private detention facilities run by ICE.
00:42:16.000Okay, so the case that she is making is that if a bank lends to a customer, and then that customer goes and does something bad with the money, the bank is now responsible for that.
00:42:30.000So in other words, if the bank gives you a car loan, and you go out and you buy a car, which has happened to Millions of people in the United States.
00:42:38.000You get some sort of loan from a bank, you go out and buy a car.
00:42:41.000Then you take that car, and you drive drunk and you crash it.
00:42:44.000That is the bank's fault, according to AOC.
00:42:47.000So, I guess that the people who manufactured the microphone into which AOC is speaking are responsible for her stupidity.
00:42:53.000I guess that's the way this works now.
00:42:55.000Anybody who is involved in the chain of events leading to a bad thing happening is now responsible for that bad thing happening because we all have magical godlike powers.
00:43:03.000She tried the same routine with regard to the Dakota Access Pipeline.
00:43:07.000She tried to ask the CEO of Wells Fargo if he is responsible for an oil spill by a pipeline.
00:43:14.000Wells Fargo was also an investor, a major investor in the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Keystone XL Pipelines.
00:43:21.000Should Wells Fargo be held responsible for the damages incurred by climate change due to the financing of fossil fuels and these projects?
00:43:29.000I don't know how you'd calculate that, Congresswoman.
00:43:31.000Say, from spills, or when we have to reinvest in infrastructure, building seawalls, from the erosion of infrastructure, or cleanups, wildfires, etc.?
00:43:44.000Why shouldn't Wells Fargo pay for the cleanup of it, since it paid for the construction of the pipeline itself?
00:43:49.000Because we don't operate the pipeline.
00:43:50.000Why did Wells Fargo finance this pipeline when it was widely seen to be environmentally unstable?
00:43:58.000Because our team reviewed the environmental impact and we concluded that it was a risk that we were willing to take.
00:44:06.000I mean, what I love about her case right here is that she is saying that Wells Fargo is responsible for every downstream effect of a business that it funds, including effects on climate change.
00:44:16.000Yet this is a lady who just said the other day that she is living in the world, so she is not responsible for using Uber and blowing carbon emissions into the atmosphere at an exorbitant rate.
00:44:25.000She's not responsible for that, which she does directly.
00:44:28.000But somehow Wells Fargo is responsible for doing something lesser.
00:44:56.000Because the only folks who never have to be responsible for anything are the folks in the federal government.
00:44:59.000The folks in the federal government never have to be responsible for anything.
00:45:02.000They can promote programs that destroy the social fabric of the country.
00:45:05.000They can promote programs that make people poorer, that destroy businesses.
00:45:08.000They can do all of those things and they will never be held to account because the government never goes bankrupt and because no individual is individually responsible for those evils.
00:45:21.000Quick update on the Bernie Sanders campaign.
00:45:23.000Remember that time that the entire Democratic Party decided to wink and nod at anti-Semitism?
00:45:28.000Well, it turns out that goes a little bit more than skin deep.
00:45:30.000Over at the Bernie Sanders campaign, an aide was forced to apologize today for questioning American Jews' dual allegiance to Israel.
00:45:37.000A spokeswoman for Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign apologized on Tuesday after questioning whether the American Jewish community has a dual allegiance to the state of Israel.
00:45:47.000In a conversation on Facebook, I used some language that I now see was insensitive.
00:45:50.000Issues of allegiance and loyalty to one's country come with painful histories, said Belen Sisa, Sanders' deputy national press secretary.
00:45:58.000At a time when so many communities in our country feel under attack by the president and his allies, I absolutely recognize we need to address these issues.
00:46:05.000Oh, oh, we don't feel under attack by you.
00:47:05.000It's incredibly stylish and sort of an old-school 1960s charade style.
00:47:12.000The acting is quite good across the board.
00:47:15.000It couldn't really decide whether it wants to be sort of an Agatha Christie murder mystery or whether it wanted to be a meditation on the nature of life and redemption.
00:48:06.000Okay, so all the performances are quite good.
00:48:09.000The performance that really stands out, just because I'd never seen her in anything before, I think it's her first major part, is Cynthia Erivo, who plays the black lady who is a singer.
00:50:04.000And to pretend that you don't really know when you're ready for marriage, it's like saying, do you know when you're ready to get a job?
00:50:09.000You're ready to get a job when it's time to get a job.
00:50:11.000You're ready to get married when it's time to get married.
00:50:13.000Are you ready at the end of college after your brain fully develops or maybe once you're financially stable and your fertility is starting to decrease at an alarming rate?
00:50:20.000No, it is when you are personally capable of having a fulfilling lifelong commitment.
00:50:25.000By default, this mentality also teaches you to assess every guy as a prospective spouse before seeing him as a person.
00:51:16.000Maybe we should sit down and talk about their values, their aspirations, goals, and dreams.
00:51:19.000Which one is more dehumanizing and commodifying?
00:51:22.000This lady says, it begins to seem like you're only as valuable as you are marriageable.
00:51:27.000Well, in the context of relationships, yes, that's exactly what it means.
00:51:31.000It means that maybe if you're not marriageable, you should start thinking about how to make yourself more marriageable.
00:51:36.000Because in order to be marriageable, that means that you have to be found worthwhile by another person voluntarily.
00:51:41.000Stop railing against reality and start thinking about how you improve your life.
00:51:45.000Anything that detracts from your marriage potential, like a quirky personality, thick thighs, or a too loud laugh, decreases your value as a person.
00:51:52.000No, it doesn't decrease your value as a person.
00:51:54.000It decreases your value as a marriage partner, but only to people who value those things.
00:51:58.000Because again, it's a voluntary, lifelong commitment.
00:52:02.000In the orbit of a church culture that highly prizes the nuclear family unit, I'm unable to fully participate or create that family structure for myself, despite my best efforts.
00:52:10.000Listen, I know it's hard to be single.
00:52:14.000But to substitute an ersatz relationship for something real and true, to stop seeking the good in favor of the mediocre to bad, is not only a waste of your time, it is a waste of your soul.
00:53:22.000And the reason she hadn't said I love you is because she knew that the minute that she said I love you, this is what was going to happen next, because it did.
00:54:32.000But that does not mean that you should lower your sights or settle for, well you know it'd be better if I just randomly had sex with people or I would just have a relationship where I know it's not going anywhere but better to be together than be alone.
00:54:43.000You're emptying your soul and depriving yourself of the possibility of something better.
00:54:48.000Okay, you know, we'll be back here a little bit later with two more hours of Ben Shapiro Show.