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00:00:00.000The VMAs feature Trump-bashing students at the University of North Carolina tear down a statue, and I have the two stupidest stories you have ever heard back-to-back.
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00:01:35.000Last night was the Video Music Awards, the most important of all award ceremonies.
00:01:39.000Because it is deeply important that we have award ceremonies that give awards to people who earn millions and millions of dollars for making crappy music that is popular.
00:01:46.000And I know, I know, you're going to tell me that I'm an elitist in my tastes.
00:01:55.000But the Avatar is an even better example.
00:01:58.000What is more telling about the VMAs than anything else is the amount of political posturing that happens at the VMAs.
00:02:03.000The reason the Democrats are having trouble in the middle of the country is because there's an elitist feel to the Democrats.
00:02:08.000The reason Donald Trump won is not because there are all these dispossessed people in the center of the country who felt economically left behind.
00:02:14.000The reason that Trump won is because Trump was a giant middle finger to a bunch of people in Hollywood and New York.
00:02:20.000What Trump was, was people getting sick of being told that they were racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, and Trump responding by basically flipping everybody off.
00:02:27.000And the Republican base cheering, yeah!
00:02:29.000Because we are so sick of hearing over and over and over that we are terrible people.
00:02:34.000And that was sort of reinforced all throughout the 2016 campaign.
00:02:38.000For example, Hillary Clinton bringing out ads with Lena Dunham, who
00:02:42.000May have molested her sister, but she was supposed to be this great Hollywood moral icon who is going to tell us all about how we ought to think about issues like abortion and the DNC replete with all sorts of stars and and people cutting versions of fight song with Elizabeth Banks and and the stars of the Pitch Perfect movies and Everybody in the middle country went really that's your pitch to me in Ohio is Lady Gaga.
00:03:23.000But he's the guy who's in touch with that blue-collar base in Ohio, right?
00:03:26.000He has to be elected in the same state that Trump won by something like eight points.
00:03:29.000Well, Sherrod Brown was on TV yesterday on the MSNBCs, and he said that Democrats aren't really showing that they're fighting for the little guy.
00:03:36.000Well, I think Democrats have not talked enough about fighting for the little guy.
00:03:39.000I mean, it really our party... Are they too enticed with too free trade?
00:03:42.000Well, the party has been too free trade, but the Republicans have been more free trade, but that's our problem, to show where we are and fight for workers.
00:03:50.000But I don't think the voters necessarily think what we should be thinking, and that is you fight for the little guy, whether she punches a clock, whether he works in a diner, whether she works construction, whether he works in manufacturing.
00:04:02.000Those people who are punching a clock, working in a diner, working in manufacturing, the people who are working on assembly lines, or who are going to a factory in the evenings, do they really want to hear from a bunch of pampered celebrities who earn millions of dollars to read lines written by others, or sing songs written by others, or warble off-key songs that are then later auto-tuned for millions of dollars?
00:04:21.000Do they want to hear from those people?
00:04:23.000about what America really constitutes?
00:04:25.000Is that really what's their cup of tea?
00:04:28.000And yet that's what Democrats continue to resonate to.
00:04:31.000The Democratic elite are wildly out of touch with all the people who are in the middle of the country, which is why they continue to cater to the folks over at the VMAs.
00:04:39.000So the VMAs, the Video Music Awards, it used to actually celebrate music of a sort.
00:04:44.000Now it's basically just a place for political posturing.
00:04:46.000Kevin Hart was hosting this thing with Tiffany Haddish.
00:05:04.000It's very reminiscent of Robert De Niro at the Emmy Awards, where he started shouting, F you Trump, and then raising his arms, raising his fist, because he had single-handedly deposed the President of the United States.
00:05:14.000Under Article 32 of the Constitution of the United States, if an actor who once played a boxer shouts, F you Trump, at the President, he's no longer the President.
00:05:22.000So naturally, Robert De Niro was very enthusiastic about this.
00:05:24.000He got a standing ovation for shouting F.U.
00:05:28.000So going to virtue signal in front of a bunch of people who totally agree with you at Rockefeller Center in the middle of New York City or in Los Angeles, this is the height of courage in the entertainment sphere.
00:05:47.000It makes them feel like they've done something virtuous and strong in a room full of people who agree with them and think that virtue and strength come from shouting at the President of the United States.
00:06:29.000Now he's just a short guy who yells at the president.
00:06:31.000And he's one of the few people in America that I'm allowed to call short because he's actually shorter than I am.
00:06:34.000But in any case, I'm going to at least take a moment to enjoy that.
00:06:37.000But Kevin Hart, doing this routine at the Video Music Awards broadcast across the nation, watched by seven people, but treasured by the celebrity culture in the Democratic Party.
00:06:47.000Is that sort of thing going to hurt Trump?
00:07:10.000He ran out while doing this song wearing a shirt that said, F the wall.
00:07:14.000And then he brought out a bunch of kids who are either illegal immigrants or children of activists, and they're all wearing shirts that say, we are all human beings.
00:07:51.000It's very easy to pick on celebrities this way because they live in a world that they don't actually inhabit.
00:07:56.000There's a great book by Charles Murray called Coming Apart.
00:07:58.000And what the book is really about is all of these people who are these kind of white upper crust elites who live on the coast.
00:08:03.000And they push a message of social liberalism.
00:08:06.000They push that single motherhood is totally wonderful.
00:08:08.000And they push that abortion is totally cool.
00:08:10.000And they push that not saving your money is fine.
00:08:13.000They push all of these socially liberal messages about big government and high taxes.
00:08:16.000And then they take all their money and they store it in offshore bank accounts and they get married and they have kids just like a normal family in 1955.
00:08:22.000But everybody in the middle of the country who listens to them follows this advice and then they live crappy lives.
00:08:27.000Well, that's exactly what happens when you see these celebrities talking about F the wall.
00:08:31.000You think these people are going to be affected by the lack of a wall on the southern border?
00:09:22.000They don't live in poorer neighborhoods where culture changes when thousands of people come across the border and they don't speak the native tongue and they bring customs from home.
00:09:32.000That doesn't actually make any difference to people who are living in gated communities and gated establishments.
00:09:37.000It doesn't make any difference to them because they are gated off from everyone else.
00:09:41.000And the only actual contact they have with illegal immigration
00:10:00.000Again, I'm so confused by rapper names, I can't even express it.
00:10:04.000But here is Logic performing one day in a shirt that reads, F the Wall.
00:10:20.000I really have to admit, it's almost impossible not to watch this particular number and just get flashes to Popstar with Andy Samberg, because it legitimately is one guy singing like, like, who is it, George Michael in it?
00:10:34.000With George Michael singing, and then some guy rapping about social justice in the background.
00:10:49.000They didn't just do that, they also cut a TV promo to get out the vote, which is really exciting.
00:10:53.000They had all of these celebrities who cut a TV promo trying to tell everybody it's important to rock the vote, because this is what we need, is celebrities telling people to vote.
00:11:00.000I would prefer, frankly, that fewer uninformed people vote, rather than everybody who watches the VMAs voting.
00:11:06.000Also, if people are voting because a celebrity told you to, then you probably shouldn't be voting in the first place.
00:11:10.000The final word on this comes courtesy of Michael Avenatti, who legitimately showed up at the VMAs.
00:12:18.000Again, filterbuy.com, and tell them that I sent you by telling them that you listen to The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:12:23.000Okay, so, the best part of this, and when I say that the Democrats and the VMAs are basically one thing, that the celebrity culture of the Democratic Party has basically eaten the Democratic Party,
00:12:36.000I don't mean that in any sort of vague sense.
00:12:38.000Barack Obama is sort of the celebrity to the celebrity culture, and the mutual backscratching of celebrity that went on during the Obama administration was pretty incredible.
00:12:50.000And Barack Obama wanted to hang out with the celebrities who thought that he was a celebrity.
00:12:53.000So the merger of celebrity and politics was already in place long before we elected a reality television star to the presidency of the United States.
00:13:01.000Barack Obama was actually the first reality TV star to be president of the United States.
00:13:30.000The only reason he is famous is because Stormy Daniels, during Shark Week, nailed the president and then went away for many years because the president paid her lots of money to go away, and then, in an act,
00:13:40.000Of brazen bravery decided to come out and tell her important story.
00:13:45.000She doesn't allege the president actually abused her in any way, right?
00:13:47.000She just wanted to come out and make some money off of this thing so she could strip for higher rates.
00:13:50.000But Michael Avenatti is her lawyer, and he's been out there saying that he is going to tear down the president.
00:13:56.000He's the lawyer who's finally going to bring down the president of the United States.
00:15:11.000If the Democrats disappoint in 2018, if they don't take back Congress in 2018, for example, you could see such a strong backlash, so much anger, that somebody like Avenatti could actually win some primaries based solely on, I'm the only guy in this room who's actually sued the President of the United States.
00:15:25.000I'm the only guy in this room who's willing to say basta.
00:15:28.000I'm the only one in this room who's aggressive enough to take on the president.
00:15:31.000That has some appeal to Democrats because the VMAs represent the id.
00:15:36.000And the Democrats have basically decided to cave to their id as opposed to following the sort of blue collar tactics that Sherrod Brown would prefer.
00:15:45.000Meanwhile, as I say, you know, the president of the United States, Trump, was elected.
00:16:22.000PETA, which has been protesting the use of animals in circuses for more than 30 years, wrote a letter to Mandalay in the spring of 2016 calling for a redesign.
00:16:30.000Given the egregious cruelty inherent in circuses that use animals, and the public's swelling opposition to the exploitation of animals used for entertainment,
00:16:38.000We urge Nabisco to update its packaging in order to show animals who are free to roam in their natural habitats, PETA said in its letter.
00:16:46.000Mondeley agreed and started working on a redesign.
00:16:48.000In the meantime, the Cracker's Namesake Circus, Ringling Brothers, and Barnum & Bailey folded for good.
00:16:53.000The 146-year-old circus had removed elephants from its shows in 2016 because of pressure from PETA.
00:16:57.000It closed down in May 2017 due to slow ticket sales.
00:17:00.000The redesign retains all of the coloring, but instead of showing the animals in cages, implying they are traveling in boxcars for the circus,
00:17:06.000The new boxes feature a zebra, elephant, lion, giraffe, and gorilla wandering side-by-side in a grassland.
00:17:13.000The outline of acacia trees can be seen in the distance.
00:18:28.000For the 1,000th time, my wife happens to be a doctor, which means she uses medical terminology.
00:18:32.000Even when I teach my children what genitalia are, my daughter is four and a half years old and knows the name of genitalia, and then she calls it her private zone.
00:19:16.000You know, like in every sexually dimorphic species, which is to say every animal species on planet Earth, the penis is a male part and the vagina is a female part because these still have biological meanings because we're not idiots.
00:19:30.000These guides often unnecessarily gender body parts as being male parts and female parts and refer to sex with women or sex with men, excluding those who identify as non-binary.
00:19:41.000You can't have sex with a non-binary body part.
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00:21:56.000By using the word parts to talk about genitals and using medical terms for anatomy without attaching a gender to it, we become much more able to effectively discuss safe sex in a way that's clear and inclusive.
00:22:10.000Okay, there's no way to pitch how good this is.
00:22:12.000For the purposes of this guide, we will refer to the vagina as the front hole instead of solely using the medical term vagina.
00:22:21.000This is gender-inclusive language that's considerate of the fact that some trans people don't identify with the labels the medical community attaches to their genitals.
00:23:12.000At least we're not going to have a Democratic debate.
00:23:13.000You're not going to see a Republican debate where they argue over the proper terminology for terms that have been settled by science for all of history.
00:23:37.000Meanwhile, in other ridiculous stories today, this is an amazing story.
00:23:40.000So we talked yesterday about Asia Argento.
00:23:42.000Asia Argento is one of the Me Too leaders.
00:23:45.000And she has said that we should believe all women, we should believe all victims, except for that 17-year-old boy that she apparently molested, right?
00:23:50.000Who apparently she paid $380,000 to silence.
00:24:03.000And she never had any sexual relationship with a man who has accused her of molesting him, which is weird since he actually forwarded a picture of her in bed with him at a hotel to the New York Times.
00:24:12.000She said Tuesday she'd never had any sexual relationship with a man who has accused her of molesting him when he was a minor, and that her former boyfriend, the late Anthony Bourdain, urged her to agree to a financial settlement to end the man's longstanding persecution of her.
00:24:40.000Again, what's amazing about this whole phenomenon with Eja Argento is to watch people give her the benefit of the doubt in an area they would not give anybody else the benefit of the doubt.
00:24:47.000You know, the Bible is very clear about judging.
00:24:50.000And what the Bible says, it's a very interesting verse, the Bible says,
00:24:53.000I rarely quote the Bible, but this is an actual moral rule.
00:24:55.000And the moral rule is when you judge, you're not supposed to judge in benefit of the rich or in benefit of the poor.
00:25:00.000Why would the Bible specify you're not supposed to judge in benefit of the poor?
00:25:03.000We all understand you don't, it would have to specify don't judge in favor of the rich because corruption tends to come from rich people who can pay off judges.
00:25:16.000There are a lot of folks on the left who are rushing to Asia Argento's defense and providing her with all sorts of credibility because they like Asia Argento.
00:25:24.000When President Trump is accused of sexual abuse, people who like Trump are like, ah, none of that's true.
00:25:28.000And then when Keith Ellison is accused of sexual abuse, people on the right are like, yeah, that's totally true.
00:25:32.000And exactly the reverse for Democrats.
00:25:34.000You got to have one standard of guilt or innocence, and you have to have one standard for the level of evidence necessary in order for us to determine whether somebody is actually responsible for behavior or not.
00:25:45.000The double standard is pretty telling, and that's a pretty shocking move by Asia Argento right there.
00:25:53.000OK, meanwhile, a big story that broke last night is that over at the University of North Carolina, protesters knocked over a pro-Confederate statue from 1913.
00:26:02.000Here's what it sounded like when a bunch of students decided to topple Silent Sam, which is a 1913 statue placed on campus in memoriam of the 300 alumni who served in the Confederate Army.
00:26:24.000So they're pulling down the statue and people are celebrating and cheering and kicking the statue and stomping on the statue as though they've just pulled down a statue of Stalin or a statue of Saddam Hussein in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union or the destruction of the Hussein regime.
00:26:39.000I think that there is a solid case that Tyler and Sam should not be on public property.
00:26:44.000I'm not a big fan of removing monuments.
00:26:46.000I tend to agree with Condoleezza Rice, who I think made this case very well.
00:26:49.000She says, I am a firm believer in keep your history before you and so I don't actually want to rename things that were named for slave owners.
00:26:55.000I want us to have to look at those names and recognize what they did and to be able to tell our kids what they did and for them to have a sense of their own history.
00:27:00.000When you start wiping out your history, sanitizing your history to make you feel better, it's a bad thing.
00:27:06.000I think that people should be forced to look at that statue and then cope with the legacy of slavery in the United States and the legacy of the Confederacy.
00:27:13.000It is not fair to say that this statue was merely a sort of Amidine tribute to people who died in a war, because when it was actually dedicated in 1913, it was pretty obviously a symbol of
00:27:39.000And then he gets to the truly horrible part.
00:27:42.000100 yards from where we stand, less than 90 days perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I horse-whipped a Negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village, she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady, and then rushed for protection to these university buildings where it was stationed a garrison of 100 federal soldiers.
00:27:59.000I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for 30 nights afterwards slept with a double-barrel shotgun under my head.
00:28:06.000So, yeah, the statue was pretty well connected with some awful, egregious, evil behavior, no question.
00:28:13.000But, does that mean that we should start tearing down statues?
00:28:15.000I don't think, number one, we should tear down statues.
00:28:17.000And, number two, I don't think that, well, I mean, I don't think statues should be removed, number one.
00:28:21.000Number two, I think that we are setting a really bad precedent when we are actually having mobs of people tear down statues.
00:28:30.000The main reason why it's really bad when people tear down statues, when mobs tear down statues, is that you understand why people did it in the former Soviet Union, or why people did it in the Hussein regime, because legitimately, a regime that was repressive had fallen.
00:28:41.000There was no government that had now taken control.
00:28:48.000And so the people, in a fit of wild enthusiasm, tore down these old symbols of tyranny.
00:28:54.000But we have a Democratic government in the United States.
00:28:55.000We have a Democratic Republic in the United States.
00:28:57.000The governor of North Carolina is a Democrat, who doesn't actually like this monument.
00:29:02.000If you're telling me that the people who run the University of North Carolina are people who are emissaries of white supremacy, you're out of your mind.
00:29:09.000I mean, the people who run that university are very much on the left.
00:29:12.000These are people who really oppose, I'm sure oppose that statue.
00:29:17.000The point is that in the United States where you actually have a redress of grievances available through the democratic process to use mob rule as an excuse to do this is really bad and it actually leads to some even worse stuff.
00:29:27.000So I got a letter from a student at UNC last night to tell me about this stuff.
00:29:32.000And here's what the student wrote, quote, By the way, it's worth noting that if you think that the system of white supremacy is still in the offing in the United States,
00:29:52.000In 1913, when an evil KKK member horse whipped a black woman for no apparent reason in front of a garrison of 100 federal officers who did nothing, the reverse happened last night.
00:30:03.000A bunch of police officers stood around while a bunch of students tore down a statue in honor of the Confederacy.
00:30:09.000I don't think the cops should have stood around for that.
00:30:11.000I think the law should be enforced, whatever the law is in a democratic republic.
00:30:25.000Let's also note that those same police officers are not exactly standing up for white supremacy when they stand around allowing people to tear down a confederate statute.
00:30:40.000Almost immediately, some of these protesters started coming at me yelling, get out of here, whitey, which I found ironic because they were holding a sign that said, from Durham to Charlottesville to the White House, tear down racism.
00:30:49.000Needless to say, I ran back to my dorm pretty darn fast.
00:30:51.000I was hearing from several students who had similar experiences at UNC.
00:30:55.000So it turns out that anti-racism only extends as far as battling the quote unquote superstructure of white supremacy.
00:31:01.000It doesn't actually extend to not yelling at people who happen to be white walking by this rally as it's happening.
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00:34:45.000The cover of New York Magazine, which is pretty incredible for a kid who is, I guess he's 18 now, he's 18.
00:34:50.000He just is about to graduate high school or he just graduated high school and he's extraordinarily politically active, which is fine.
00:34:57.000He says he wants to run for Congress and also he curses about Nancy Pelosi.
00:35:00.000We know that he's authentic because he says the F word a lot.
00:35:02.000He says, the reason Republicans are successful right now is because they're empowering young people.
00:35:06.000Pointing out that Paul Ryan was 45 when he became Speaker of the House, ignoring the fact the President of the United States is 1,272 years old.
00:35:13.000His older Democrats just won't move the F off the plate and let us take control.
00:35:28.000And he is championed as the face of the new movement on the cover of New York Magazine.
00:35:33.000It's actually a really weird article because it talks about him refusing to move to his hometown without his parents granting him concessions.
00:35:39.000He comes off as a bit of a prima donna in the New York Magazine article again.
00:35:42.000Just like anybody else has the right to participate in politics, but this idea that the youth are the people who ought to be trusted is really, really dumb.
00:35:50.000How about good ideas ought to be trusted?
00:35:53.000Speaking as somebody who was writing when they were 17, I can say that I was dumber when I was 17 than I am now.
00:36:01.000All of life is about getting better at what you do.
00:36:03.000And when you're 18 years old and you're getting coverage and the cover of the New York magazine,
00:36:07.000As the future of the Democratic Party, that's a bit of a problem.
00:36:10.000But maybe the future of the Democratic Party isn't, in fact, David Hogg.
00:36:13.000Maybe the future of the Democratic Party is Chelsea Clinton.
00:36:16.000So after years of people on the right warning that Chelsea Clinton would run for office, and her saying no, yesterday she came out and she said maybe.
00:36:25.000She says, if my city councilor were to retire, if my congresswoman were to retire, my senators, and I thought I could make a positive impact, I think I would really have to answer that, I would really have to ask my answer
00:37:13.000If we're going to have legacy politics all the way through, then we've got a real problem in the country.
00:37:18.000The reason Donald Trump became president is partially because he went around punching Jeb Bush, like they were in the back of the sixth grade class with the teacher, not watching.
00:37:25.000That's the feeling I think that is going to accrue thanks to the dominance of big names in politics, the Bushes and the Clintons and all the rest of it.
00:37:32.000There's a sort of pushback that's happening on a broad level.
00:38:15.000And he tweeted, So, the President of the United States, it's just important to note, when we say that we now live in a reality TV universe filled with stupidity,
00:39:32.000OK, I don't know why he would say the guy speaks perfect English.
00:39:36.000I mean, I guess he looked at me and said, Hispanic dude, I have to point out that he speaks perfect English because the president is, suffice it to say, sometimes thick.
00:39:45.000So that is not a great statement, but the media decided this is a deeply, deeply important scandal.
00:39:49.000It's indicative of something deep and horrifying about President Trump.
00:39:52.000Most of the country, though, is more focused on the fact that the Democrats are ripping on ICE generally than on the fact that the President says impolitic and dumb things about members of ICE.
00:40:02.000The President is actually honoring that guy.
00:40:06.000So while the President is honoring that guy in the dumbest possible way, the Democrats would actually disband ICE and get rid of the borders.
00:40:13.000Shirts that say F the wall at the VMAs.
00:40:15.000And then they're ripping on Trump for saying this guy speaks perfect English.
00:40:18.000Again, does that make the president brilliant?
00:40:21.000No, but if you contended that, I think that you are delusional.
00:40:24.000Does it mean that the president is a racist?
00:40:27.000I think it means the president is racially insensitive, but did we not know that before?
00:40:31.000But when it comes right down to it, if I have to choose between the racially insensitive guy who supports ICE and the person who is perfectly politically correct, who does not support ICE, most Americans are going to side with President Trump
00:40:42.000Meanwhile, members of the media are still pushing President Trump on the Mueller stuff, and Trump is responding.
00:40:47.000Here is Chris Cuomo, who is, again, in a running gun battle with his brother for stupidest Cuomo brother.
00:40:53.000And he starts ripping into Corey Lewandowski, who, again, is about as bright as a tomato.
00:40:58.000And Corey Lewandowski is a former campaign manager for President Trump, also an incredibly dumb man.
00:41:03.000And here is Cuomo actually being dumber than Lewandowski, which is a pretty astonishing feat.
00:41:08.000I mean, you really have to try to do that.
00:41:10.000If you've got nothing to hide, you talk!
00:41:12.000How many times has he said, I want to sit down with Mueller, I want to tell him?
00:41:18.000Hey, the president isn't talking to Robert Mueller, not because he's not man enough, but because if he does, he understands that any sort of misstatement will be used by Mueller to charge him with obstruction of justice or perjury.
00:41:56.000You can't tell the difference between their treatment of him saying, he speaks perfect English, and the president should talk with Robert Mueller, and the president just complimented Vladimir Putin and compared the United States to Russia.
00:42:06.000There's no difference in tone or tenor.
00:42:07.000It's exactly the same tone, exactly the same tenor.
00:42:10.000If the media actually cared about having an impact on politics, they might have some dynamic range.
00:42:36.000There is an HBO show that starts off kind of bizarre, like a mix between Billions and Arrested Development, and then it sort of morphs into a King Lear Shakespearean drama.
00:43:39.000It's obviously based on Rupert Murdoch.
00:43:41.000Whether it's an accurate take on Rupert Murdoch or not doesn't really matter, but it does actually highlight a serious problem for folks who tend to be powerful, which is that their kids very often are deeply, deeply screwed up.
00:43:51.000And that is because when you grant a sense of entitlement to your kids, it's difficult for them ever to recover from it.
00:43:56.000So that's a challenge that parents who are powerful or rich, wealthy, accomplished have to pass on to their kids.
00:44:03.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:44:09.000So Facebook has decided they are now going to rank users.
00:44:12.000Oh goody, how could this possibly go wrong?
00:44:14.000According to the UK Sun, Facebook is rating users based on how trustworthy it thinks they are.
00:44:20.000This won't, this won't, absolutely this will not result in people spamming other people's accounts to try and ding their trustworthiness rating.
00:44:28.000It's not like people have ever used social media to target others before.
00:44:31.000Users receive a score on a scale from 0 to 1 that determines if they have a good or bad reputation, but it's completely hidden, so you can't even check your own reputational score, which is just great.
00:44:39.000The rating system was revealed in a report by the Washington Post, which says it's in place to help identify malicious actors.
00:44:45.000Facebook tracks your behavior across its site and uses that info to assign you a rating.
00:44:48.000Tessa Lyons, who heads up Facebook's fight against fake news, said, quote, one of the signals we use is how people interact with articles.
00:44:54.000For example, if someone previously gave us feedback that an article was false and the article was confirmed false by a fact checker,
00:45:00.000That we might weight that person's future false news feedback more than someone who indiscriminately provides false news feedback on lots of articles, including ones that end up being rated as true.
00:45:07.000The problem with that, of course, is that a lot of the fact-checkers happen to be left-wing, and those fact-checkers are going to confirm the preconceived biases of a bunch of folks on the left.
00:45:16.000Facebook's tendency toward the left is going to be exacerbated by all this.
00:45:19.000This is why when Facebook says, oh, we just run algorithms, how you define the algorithm is exactly the issue.
00:45:38.000So Oprah Winfrey has now promoted the Shout Your Abortion movement.
00:45:42.000The July issue of O Magazine, according to LifeNews.com, featured Shout Your Abortion founder Amelia Bono in its inspiration section, because nothing is more inspirational than you talking about how you killed your baby.
00:45:51.000Bono, who began the campaign to urge women to brag about aborting their unborn babies, soon will be coming out with a new book by the same title, according to the report.
00:45:58.000I'm sure it will be a massive bestseller.
00:46:00.000Nothing says fun quite like having shout your abortion on your coffee table.
00:46:04.000She told the magazine how it all began in 2015.
00:46:05.000She says, when I found out the House of Representatives had voted to defund Planned Parenthood, I kind of unraveled.
00:46:10.000I opened Facebook and without thinking wrote, like a year ago I had an abortion at Planned Parenthood and I remember this experience with a nearly inexpressible level of gratitude.
00:46:17.000I hit post 153 words later and everything changed.
00:46:20.000And then her friends shared her post on Twitter with the hashtag shout your abortion.
00:46:24.000On some level I'd internalized the stigma.
00:46:26.000If I honestly wasn't ashamed, then why hide?
00:46:28.000It wasn't out of character for me to disclose something so personal online.
00:46:31.000What was out of character was my silence.
00:46:33.000Which is to say, you're an oversharer, but then she felt bad about this because you should actually feel bad, it turns out, about killing babies.
00:46:39.000It's probably not something you should shout.
00:46:41.000But now this is something that the left has... I'm old enough to remember when Bill Clinton said things like safe, legal, and rare.
00:46:46.000The idea being that abortion was a bad thing that was still necessary under certain circumstances.
00:46:51.000I think that's a bad argument, but it's at least closer to a moral argument than abortion is an unfettered good that you should brag about, and it's some sort of mark of maturity and womanhood.
00:47:00.000And yet that's what the left is pushing these days.
00:47:02.000A culture that does not have shame is a culture that is soon going to degrade into full government dependency.
00:47:07.000Seriously, shame culture, guilt, is a very good thing.
00:47:11.000I think there's a difference between a guilt culture and a shame culture.
00:47:13.000A shame culture is one where people are shamed in doing the right thing.
00:47:16.000A guilt culture is one where morality is inculcated in individual citizens so they feel bad about doing the wrong thing.
00:47:22.000Western civilization tends to be more of a guilt culture.
00:47:25.000Islamic civilization tends to be more of a shame culture.
00:47:28.000But, if there is neither shame nor guilt, then what you end up with is a culture where every sin is considered a positive, and we're all supposed to cover for you because after all, all behaviors are supposed to result in equal benefit to you.
00:47:42.000Whether you have an abortion or not, whether you're a single mom or not, it's all supposed to end up exactly the same way for everyone.
00:47:47.000This is how you end up with a society of people who are dependent on the largesse of others, who happen to be more responsible citizens anyway.
00:47:53.000It's just, it's bad stuff all the way through, but Oprah's always been a deeply socially liberal person, and this is why if she ever ran for president, I think a lot of her veneer would immediately come off.
00:48:03.000I think that she's got this cross-cultural appeal that comes out, that starts to be washed away the minute that she comes out as the partisan hack that she actually is.
00:48:11.000Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.
00:48:13.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
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