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00:03:55.000...claiming that President Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between members of the Trump campaign and a Russian-backed lawyer supposedly offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.
00:04:04.000You know there's been a lot of focus on this particular meeting, obviously, because in the run-up to the meeting, Donald Trump Jr.
00:04:09.000was emailing with an associate of his from Russia, who's basically saying that the Russian government wants to supply the Trump campaign with dirt on Hillary, so why don't you meet with this lawyer?
00:04:21.000Well, one of the big questions has been, did Trump know in advance about the meeting?
00:04:24.000Well, CNN reported July 26, 2018, claiming that Trump did know in advance about the meeting.
00:04:30.000Well, it turns out the person who supplied that information was Lanny Davis, who is the Clinton Associated Lawyer for Michael Cohen, who at the time was attempting to show the Mueller investigation that Michael Cohen had something valuable to offer.
00:04:42.000CNN says it stands by the story, but Davis told the Washington Post this week, quote, I should have been more clear, including with you, that I could not independently confirm what happened.
00:05:12.000It was echoed by NBC News and the Washington Post.
00:05:15.000According to BuzzFeed News, Davis was the confirming source for all of that.
00:05:19.000Those admissions follow another admission from Lanny Davis, Michael Cohen's lawyer, regarding a claim that President Trump knew beforehand about the hacking of Democratic emails by the Russians.
00:05:30.000There's a possibility that is the case, but I am not sure.
00:05:32.000So the source for half of the media's news regarding Russian collusion and Trump Tower and all the rest of it is Lanny Davis, the lawyer for Michael Cohen, who has now gone on record admitting that he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
00:05:45.000According to Buzzfeed News, quote, In other words, the story reports claim that Cohen had said he was willing to make, not the underlying truth of those claims.
00:05:52.000In other words, CNN says, listen, we didn't report that Cohen knew that Trump
00:06:06.000had known about the Trump Tower meeting in advance.
00:06:08.000No, the CNN story reported that Cohen was willing to tell prosecutors that he might have known about that stuff.
00:06:15.000The decision from CNN to continue to stand by the story suggests it believes the strength of its other sources outweighs any waffling from Davis, according to BuzzFeed, or that the network believes Davis was telling the truth then and not now.
00:06:26.000But Davis' new statement that he was the source for a story he now refutes raised questions about what action, if any, the network might take.
00:06:36.000Now, I have some personal experience with stories like this.
00:06:43.000I remember back in 2013, Chuck Hagel was nominated for Secretary of Defense by the Obama administration.
00:06:49.000Chuck Hagel was, in my opinion, radically anti-Israel.
00:07:08.000And we reported it on Breitbart News as a rumor.
00:07:10.000The actual title of the piece said, we called up the White House, the White House basically hung up on us.
00:07:15.000And the title of the piece was something like, White House spokesperson hangs up based on rumors of Friends of Hamas, something like that.
00:07:22.000It was pretty clear in the piece that it was a rumor.
00:07:24.000Now, that was a correctly reported rumor because it turns out that the rumor was not true.
00:07:27.000But, should we have reported it in the first place?
00:07:29.000The answer is no, and I've said this multiple times since.
00:07:31.000It was a mistake not to retract the story.
00:07:33.000It was a mistake to report the story in the first place.
00:07:35.000CNN basically did the same thing here, but they're not backing off the story.
00:07:39.000The same mainstream media that suggested that story was bad, and was largely right, is now suggesting that this story by CNN is kind of okay.
00:07:47.000And then President Trump complaining about fake news is labeled crazy.
00:07:49.000You have folks in the media claiming that the news media are the reliable sources in all of this.
00:07:55.000It's hard to give a lot of credibility to news sources that hold a double standard when it comes to people on the right.
00:08:01.000They would never hold for people on the left.
00:08:03.000And the levels to which the media will go in order to disparage and slander the Trump administration are pretty astonishing.
00:08:08.000It's mostly astonishing because if they would just be accurate about the Trump administration, it's not like they would have nothing to report.
00:08:13.000But the opinions of the left are so out of the realm of normalcy that it's almost impossible to defend.
00:08:20.000Take, for example, this column from Jill Filipovich.
00:08:39.000So Jill Filipovich writes a piece called Stormy Daniels' Feminist Hero.
00:08:43.000This is how far the left is willing to go.
00:08:45.000Stormy Daniels, a porn star who spends her entire career legitimately catering to the worst in men, is now a feminist hero for having sex with a married man once in order to get on The Apprentice, and then taking money to shut up about it, and then reneging on the taking of the money to shut up about it to make a big deal about it.
00:09:50.000So, yeah, I wouldn't go with feminist archetype there.
00:09:52.000Yet here she is, an imperfect, entirely self-possessed woman, telling her story with clarity and without shame.
00:09:59.000And here we are actually listening to her.
00:10:01.000And let's be clear, the only reason anybody's listening to her is because, one, prurient interest, and two, she's saying crap about a president that the left hates.
00:10:09.000This is why there's so much power in the fact that Ms.
00:10:11.000Daniels does not believe her job or her involvement with Mr. Trump or the payoff is her shame to carry.
00:10:15.000She wants him held accountable and the justice system is actually stepping in.
00:10:19.000She's refusing to slink away despite being paid to do exactly that in a pattern we've seen too many times from influential men seeking to maintain their dominance and avoid responsibility.
00:11:17.000In a second, we will talk about the feminist heroism of a woman who does girl-on-girl scenes for pay.
00:11:23.000But first, let's talk about life insurance.
00:11:26.000So if all of this makes you want to kill yourself, then probably you should get some life insurance because, well, life insurance isn't going to cover suicide.
00:11:47.000Maybe you've been holding off because you're procrastinating, but now is the time to get life insurance because the rates are the lowest they've been in 20 years.
00:12:32.000So, as Joe Filipovich says, the left is celebrating Stormy Daniels as a hero.
00:12:36.000And the reason that I cite this is because, while the opinion pages in the New York Times objective news pages are separate,
00:12:42.000The reality is that they're not quite all that separate.
00:12:46.000The same media sensibility that informs an editorial page that thinks Jill Filipovich has relevant things to say about Stormy Daniels being a feminist hero, they're the same folks who are pushing bad news over at CNN.
00:12:58.000The hard distinction between opinion and journalism doesn't really exist.
00:13:03.000It's why we over at The Daily Wire admit what our biases are.
00:13:05.000But the objective news media at places like CNN will not admit that bias.
00:13:08.000Instead, they claim they're objective truth-tellers, when in reality, most of them feel like Joe Filippovich does.
00:13:16.000Daniels' lack of shame about her line of work has led to a right-wing escalation, with conservative media outlets hounding her as a prostitute once they realized she would meet Pornstar with a shrug.
00:14:22.000She's a woman who voluntarily has sex for money.
00:14:25.000Again, none of this is to let President Trump off the hook for stooping women who have sex for money, which he does apparently on a fairly regular basis.
00:14:31.000But the left attempts to paint everyone who is anti-Trump as some sort of great hero in the struggle.
00:14:37.000I don't think it's going to redound to their benefit in the long run.
00:15:35.000We are very close to becoming another Poland or Hungary.
00:15:38.000He says, As of 2018, it hardly seems like a joke at all.
00:15:39.000What Freedom House calls illiberalism is on the rise across Eastern Europe.
00:15:56.000This includes Poland and Hungary, both still members of the EU, in which democracy as we normally understand it is already dead.
00:16:01.000In both countries, the ruling parties, Law and Justice in Poland, Fidesz in Hungary, have established regimes that maintain the forms of popular elections, but have destroyed the independence of the judiciary, suppressed freedom of the press, institutionalized large-scale corruption, and effectively delegitimized dissent.
00:16:16.000The result seems likely to be one-party rule for the foreseeable future.
00:16:21.000The situation in Hungary and Poland is not a good one.
00:16:24.000A lot of the moves toward liberalism in the aftermath of the communist collapse has been replaced by a move toward one-party rule in quasi-fascist mode.
00:16:32.000Jamie Kerchick has a great book on this called The End of Europe that I've recommended on the show before, and he talks specifically about the situations in places like Poland and Hungary.
00:17:03.000OK, this column is going to look really stupid when and if the Democrats win back the House in 2018, the Senate in 2020 and the presidency in 2020.
00:17:10.000This idea that one party rule is on the horizon here, that that's the next thing that's happening, is just utterly baseless.
00:17:16.000There is no evidence for it whatsoever.
00:17:21.000A few situations in which Republicans have moved to strip particular public officials of power.
00:17:28.000For example, North Carolina, where after a Democrat won the governorship, Republicans passed legislation stripping the governor's office of power.
00:17:34.000Okay, that's why they still have a legislature in North Carolina.
00:17:38.000He suggests that what's happened is that the Republicans have moved toward fascism.
00:17:43.000They've moved toward the Hungary-Poland model.
00:17:45.000Now, I will acknowledge that the populism of Donald Trump is a lot more akin to right-wing nationalist parties in Europe than it is to traditional Republican principles in many ways.
00:17:53.000In terms of his actual governance, however, his actual governance has been small government conservatism, except when it comes to a lot of spending proposals.
00:17:59.000So Trump talks like a right-wing European nationalist.
00:18:24.000One of those reasons is the politically correct attempt to rewrite history in certain ways that led to a severe backlash in a lot of these countries.
00:18:32.000And the second is a forcible attempt to impose bars on discussion about things like immigration.
00:18:37.000So one of the reasons that you've seen, for example, the Swedish Democrats, which is a more right-wing party in Sweden, start to gain all sorts of power is because there was a forcible attempt in Sweden to quash any serious discussion about the influx of immigrants from the Middle East into Sweden.
00:18:52.000That led to a serious backlash and small fringe parties suddenly gaining a lot of prominence.
00:18:56.000You've seen that happen across Europe.
00:18:58.000In other words, the left-wing attempt to stifle discussion has actually led
00:19:01.000to a move toward a more authoritarian form of government in various areas of Europe.
00:19:06.000And yet that's exactly what the left seeks to do on a routine basis here in the United States.
00:19:11.000Krugman says that all the principles of the Republican Party are gone, and it's just because they lost their principles.
00:19:17.000He says, why is America the birthplace of democracy so close to following the lead of other countries that have recently destroyed it?
00:19:24.000That's not what happened in Poland, which grew steadily through the financial crisis and its aftermath.
00:19:28.000And it's not what happened here in 2016.
00:19:30.000Study after study has found that racial resentment, not economic distress, drove Trump voters.
00:19:34.000No, what those studies actually found is that resentment at a left that castigated people on the right as cultural outsiders is what drove Trump to victory.
00:19:42.000This idea that it was purely issues of race is nonsense.
00:19:47.000Was cultural anxiety about a left that was championing the idea that America was changing for the better because all of the people in the middle of the country were being marginalized.
00:19:55.000The white blue collar workers in Ohio were being marginalized and the press was cheering that on as a grand victory of the leftist vision.
00:20:02.000That has driven a lot of people into the arms of a sort of toxic populism that is quite bad in rhetoric.
00:20:09.000But the United States is a lot more robust in its defenses against those sort of things than Europe is, number one.
00:20:14.000And number two, the left refuses to acknowledge its own culpability in helping to bring about the rise of exactly that sort of populism, which, by the way, is mirrored by a populism on the left from people like Bernie Sanders.
00:20:24.000I'll give you an example of the sort of political correctness that is taking over the left.
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00:22:08.000I'm talking about mainstream scientific investigation is being forcibly quashed by the forces of political correctness on the left.
00:22:15.000Today's example is particularly insane.
00:22:18.000It comes courtesy of Brown University.
00:22:20.000So Brown University has now pulled down a news story on a study conducted by one of its own researchers.
00:22:25.000The study focused on what it described as rapid-onset gender dysphoria.
00:22:29.000Gender dysphoria, gender identity disorder, transgenderism, that was not present in early youth.
00:22:34.000This wasn't a kid who was three and said, I'm a little boy when I was a little girl.
00:22:37.000Instead, it was gender dysphoria that manifested within days or weeks in teens and young adults.
00:22:41.000In other words, it's become trendy in some areas of the world.
00:22:44.000For people to declare themselves transgender.
00:22:46.000And you've seen this in the statistics.
00:22:48.000The number of people in Britain who have reported themselves to, basically, institutes that help deal with transgenderism has doubled in the course of one year.
00:22:56.000Don't tell me that evolution radically shifted in the course of one year, or that there were this many people who are transgender who just realized it in the last year.
00:23:04.000That they'd felt this way since they were three, but now that they watched it on TV, they finally, finally realized that this was happening.
00:23:09.000As I say, when it comes to human behavior, a large component of human behavior is indeed biological, and a huge component of human behavior is biological responses to environment.
00:23:19.000Environment does matter when it comes to all sorts of behavior.
00:23:22.000It's so funny, the left will acknowledge this when it comes to things like IQ.
00:23:26.000That IQ is indeed responsive, to a certain extent, to environment.
00:23:30.000They'll deny that IQ even exists with regard to biology, which is bizarre.
00:23:33.000Or at least they'll make the case that biological studies with regard to IQ should not be done, because we can't look at the biology of IQ, but we certainly should pretend that all sexual behavior is innately biological, and therefore, if you have a drive toward a sexual behavior, this means that you were born this way, right?
00:23:47.000This is the Lady Gaga case about biology.
00:23:50.000The reality is that human behavior is quite malleable, particularly in the sexual arena.
00:23:56.000And one of the things that has happened with regard to transgenderism is as it becomes more prominent in the media, there are more and more people who are being confused.
00:24:03.000There are more and more people who believe that because they feel like outsiders, this must mean that they actually are outsiders in their own body.
00:24:09.000And that's essentially what this study was positing.
00:24:12.000The study author is a woman named Lisa Littman.
00:24:15.000I assume that she's on the left because she works at Brown.
00:25:37.000Revelling, presumably, in transgender media coverage.
00:25:41.000The pattern of clusters of teens in friend groups becoming transgender-identified, the group dynamics of these friend groups, and the types of advice viewed online led Littman to the hypothesis that friends and online sources could spread certain beliefs, which is common sense, and which is something that folks on the right have been saying, that when you have a society that pushes certain messages about sexuality, it actually has an impact on how people behave sexually.
00:26:22.000I assume that there probably is, particularly in young kids.
00:26:25.000It's not, even assuming there's not a biological component to, it's certainly not assuming there's not a biological component to homosexuality.
00:26:31.000Particularly when it comes to twin studies, it shows there is a biological component, although the idea that it's completely biological is belied by the fact that even in twin studies, about 50% of twins are disparate, meaning if you have genetically identical twins, only about 50% of them are both gay.
00:26:47.000Right, if one's gay and the other one half the time is straight, which would suggest it's not completely biological since they have the same DNA.
00:26:52.000Examples, so what are these beliefs that are being promulgated by media?
00:26:55.000Examples include the belief that non-specific symptoms such as feeling uncomfortable in their own skins or feeling like they don't fit in
00:27:02.000Which could be part of normal puberty or associated with trauma should be perceived as gender dysphoria.
00:27:08.000In other words, the media and friends constantly saying you feel uncomfortable in your own skin or you are, God forbid, raped, something terrible happened to you, and now you feel uncomfortable sexually.
00:27:17.000Maybe it's because you're actually a member of the opposite gender.
00:27:21.000The belief that the only path to happiness is transition, which is something that the media push non-stop.
00:27:27.000Non-stop the media push this idea that if you are uncomfortable in your own skin, the only possible solution is hormone treatment and to mutilate your genitals.
00:27:33.000The belief that anyone who disagrees with the teen is transphobic and should be cut out of their life.
00:27:38.000This is another one of the areas that if you are a teen and you go to your parents and you say, Mom, I'm actually a boy and you're a girl.
00:27:45.000And your parents say, No, sweetheart, you know, I know that you're having a tough time right now.
00:27:55.000Of the parents who provided information about their child's friendship group, about a third responded and more than half of the kids in the friendship group became transgender identified.
00:28:03.000More than half the kids in a particular transgender group became transgender identified.
00:28:08.000In other words, there's a certain psychological contagion that pertains to sexual experimentation and gender experimentation.
00:28:15.000Which is exactly what you would figure, because cliques have existed in schools for a very long time.
00:28:21.000Any trend, any trend that exists in a public school, in any school setting, is going to bring people within that clique.
00:28:28.000Hey, how is it that you get kids to dress like idiot goths?
00:28:31.000All you have to do is get a couple of kids to dress like idiot goths and then all the friends dress like idiot goths.
00:28:35.000The same thing holds true when you have a media that is glorifying Caitlyn Jenner as Woman of the Year.
00:28:40.000A group with 50% of its members becoming transgender-identified represents a rate that is 70 times the expected prevalence for young adults.
00:28:50.000This is the Brown University researcher.
00:28:53.000Additionally, 62% of parents reported their teen or young adults had one or more diagnoses of a psychiatric disorder or neurodevelopmental disability before the onset of gender dysphoria.
00:29:03.000So in other words, we already know about comorbidity between depression and gender dysphoria.
00:29:07.000The idea here is that it's possible that other mental conditions are translating themselves over to gender dysphoria, thanks to peers in the group who are suggesting that this is probably the solution to whatever difficulty that you're having in life.
00:29:20.00048% reported their child had experienced a traumatic or stressful event prior to the onset of gender dysphoria, including being bullied, sexually assaulted, or having their parents get divorced.
00:29:28.000So, in other words, when you have troubled kids, they are more likely to experience what this researcher calls rapid-onset gender dysphoria.
00:29:35.000So what did the left do with this study?
00:29:36.000Did they say, okay, well let's look at the data, maybe we should drill down, maybe we should go ahead and do further research on this, maybe we should take a look at the fact that rates of gender dysphoria are rapidly multiplying across the West.
00:29:47.000Australia, Great Britain, Canada, the United States, it's happening everywhere.
00:31:04.000The university pulled down a news article about the study.
00:31:06.000Realistically, Brown and the journal in which the original comment was published, PLOS One, turned against the study because it offended politically correct sensibilities about transgenderism.
00:31:15.000Brown School of Public Health Dean Bess Marcus even issued a letter to the entire community.
00:31:21.000Independent of the university's removal of the article because of concerns about research methodology, the School of Public Health has heard from Brown community members expressing concerns that the conclusions of the study could be used to discredit efforts to support transgender youth and invalidate the perspectives of members of the transgender community.
00:31:41.000Brown University, a research university, pulled down one of its own studies because they said that it could hurt people they don't want to hurt.
00:31:53.000Okay, basically they're saying that science is now taking, they're openly saying this, right?
00:31:57.000They are saying that science is taking a backseat.
00:32:00.000That science is taking a backseat to the realities of political correctness.
00:32:05.000I'm gonna read that sentence again because this is insane.
00:32:07.000The School of Public Health has heard from the Brown community members expressing concerns that the conclusions of the study could be used to discredit efforts to support transgender youth and invalidate the perspectives of members of the transgender community.
00:32:20.000Could be used, not is being used, is not, is not,
00:32:35.000They say, The merits of all research should be debated vigorously because that is the process by which knowledge ultimately advances, often through tentative findings that are often overridden or corrected in subsequent higher quality research.
00:32:52.000We really, really hope this study isn't true.
00:32:54.000It would be really bad if this study were true.
00:32:56.000Because it might suggest that not everybody who identifies as transgender is suffering from a biological disorder like gender identity disorder.
00:33:03.000It's possible that they're just mistaking their own feelings.
00:33:19.000At the same time, we believe firmly it is incumbent on public health researchers to listen to multiple perspectives and to recognize and articulate the limitations of their work.
00:33:28.000And by the way, as I say, the author of the study specifically said this is a descriptive study requiring further research.
00:33:36.000This process includes acknowledging and considering the perspectives of those who criticize our research methods and conclusions and working to improve future research to address these limitations and better serve public health.
00:33:48.000There's an added obligation for vigilance in research design and analysis anytime there are implications for the health of the communities at the center of research and study.
00:33:57.000So in other words, we need to be rigorous, but we need to be super duper rigorous if we are talking about stuff the left doesn't like.
00:34:04.000Well, no, that's actually not the requirement of science.
00:34:06.000The requirement of science is that you are supposed to be super duper rigorous all the way through.
00:34:11.000The requirement of science is not dependent on whether the left likes the result.
00:34:14.000And then you wonder why folks on the right don't trust a lot of the scientific results that seem to be pushed by the left.
00:34:21.000Honestly, I think that global warming is taking place because the data suggests that global warming is taking place.
00:34:27.000I accept the reality that a certain percentage of that global warming is created by man-driven activities.
00:34:33.000But for folks on the right who look at the way that the left punishes people for straying from the established consensus,
00:34:40.000And sometimes, how left punishes people for straying from a consensus that is not even scientifically established, that is politically established.
00:34:46.000Do you wonder why folks on the right don't trust folks on the left when it comes to their scientific research?
00:34:51.000That's not an excuse for people ignoring science.
00:34:54.000And there are people on right and left who ignore science about vaccines, for example, because it benefits their own position.
00:35:11.000The commitment of the school to diversity and inclusion is central to our mission, says Brown, and we pride ourselves on building a community that fully recognizes and affirms the full diversity of gender and sexual identity in its members.
00:35:21.000These commitments are an unshakable part of our core values as a community.
00:35:27.000In an effort to support robust research and constructive dialogue on gender identity in adolescents and youth, the school will be organizing a panel of experts
00:35:37.000We can't actually just present the study and then have critiques of the methodology of the study.
00:35:41.000We will present a panel of experts, namely a bunch of people who agree with the prevailing politically correct view of gender identity disorder, and then we will silence everybody else and we will get Lisa Lippman, a non-tenured professor, fired.
00:35:52.000That's what's going to happen to her, okay?
00:35:53.000Lisa Lippman will never work again at a major research university.
00:35:56.000That's what's going to happen to Lisa Lippman.
00:35:58.000She's going to go exactly the same way as Brett Weinstein, who is a biologist over at a socialist over at Evergreen University.
00:36:43.000But that is what the left is dedicated to.
00:36:45.000Because the left is dedicated to one way of thinking, and it is the only way of thinking, and there will be no other ways of thinking.
00:36:51.000Speaking of which, the left is also cracking down on Catholic charity, so that's awesome.
00:36:56.000So it's not just important to screw up kids when it comes to issues like transgenderism by failing to acknowledge there is an environmental component to how kids feel about their own gender and sexuality, and instead pushing forward with a leftist social agenda.
00:37:08.000It's deeply, deeply important that they shut down Catholic charities that are involved in adoption.
00:37:13.000In the latest blow against religious Americans, the Catholic charities Buffalo were forced to shut down their adoption and foster services thanks to state rules that prohibit any adoption or foster agency from refusing to send kids to same-sex partners.
00:37:25.000So, let's say I'm a single mom and I give up my kid to a Catholic charity because I'm also Catholic and I'd like my kid to be raised Catholic.
00:37:32.000The state of New York says that that Catholic charity cannot participate in foster care or adoption services anymore.
00:37:38.000They have to shut down because the Catholic charity will not hand the kid over to a gay couple.
00:37:43.000Instead, they want to give preference to straight couples.
00:37:45.000Not allowed to do that under New York state law.
00:37:47.000And so Catholic Charities, instead, will send those kids, presumably, back into the state system.
00:37:53.000We'll make sure that those kids get stuck in some sort of foster home, as opposed to with straight parents, because we have to make sure that gay parents are privileged in the same way that straight parents are, even though a child needs a mother and a father.
00:38:04.000That's not a religious argument, by the way.
00:38:05.000That is a natural law, reason-based argument.
00:38:13.000And if you don't believe me, think about your own mommy and daddy, and ask which one of them you would replace with a member of the opposite sex, and how much that would change your life.
00:38:22.000The same left that talks about the value of diversity when it comes to race, and talks about the special value of women when it comes to feminism, and considers people like Stormy Daniels evidence of feminism, says that motherhood
00:38:48.000It also happened in Illinois in 2011, but it doesn't matter because the left gets what it wants, which is the ability to preside over a hard left move in all of social areas.
00:38:58.000Zach Ford, who's an exorable, exorable human being, over at ThinkProgress, he writes,
00:39:07.000The kids lost because these kids might have been able to get a home through a Catholic charity and be raised in the way that their parents wanted them to be raised.
00:39:12.000And instead, they're going to be shunted back into whatever state system the left wants them shunted into.
00:39:22.000The reason why people aren't dumping Trump is because the left is so insane.
00:39:25.000Because this is the agenda the left is pushing.
00:39:27.000The agenda the left is pushing is Stormy Daniels is a heroine, and Stormy Daniels is a hero, and sex work is exactly the same as a woman working as a partner at a law firm.
00:39:36.000Or that Stormy Daniels is equivalent, that talking badly about Stormy Daniels is equivalent to making her a rape victim.
00:39:43.000The left is suggesting that scientific research studies be shut down if they don't reach the proper conclusions.
00:39:48.000And they're suggesting that Catholic charities be shut down because we have to make sure that kids can be adopted by gay couples at the same rate as straight couples because mommies and daddies are unnecessary.
00:39:56.000You can have two mommies or two daddies.
00:39:59.000You think that this is just a case that I'm exaggerating here?
00:40:02.000Here's Nancy Pelosi, the once and probably future Speaker of the House of Representatives, saying that the 2018 campaign is going to be about fear.
00:40:12.000We're going to have so many women, and that's why Republicans are so afraid, and that's why President Trump is so afraid.
00:40:17.000He's afraid of all the women, people of color, LGBTQ numbers that will be added to the ranks.
00:40:24.000And the Democratic coalition is based on this, right?
00:40:34.000The Democratic coalition is not based on fundamental principles about freedom.
00:40:38.000It is based on which interest groups can we cater to and allow dominance in American politics to dominate other interest groups in American politics.
00:40:54.000They are the great moral arbiters of the planet, and therefore they get to determine what sort of science we pursue, what sort of adoption strategies are pursued by religious people, and by people of good faith around the country.
00:41:05.000They're the ones who get to determine our social lives, and then they turn around and suggest that we're the fascists.
00:41:10.000And then they wonder why people are resonating to a populist rhetoric that says that the left needs to be stopped.
00:41:14.000They're wondering why conservatives are moving anti-left.
00:41:17.000I don't think there's an excuse for conservatives to abandon their own fundamental principles about morality, decency, and limited government in order to slap the left.
00:41:23.000I don't think anti-left is the same thing as conservative.
00:41:26.000But to ignore the temptation that is being presented toward moving toward a populist right-wing anti-leftism because the left has decided that they want to challenge the
00:41:37.000Okay, time for some things that I like and then we'll do some things that I hate.
00:41:40.000So, this week I'm doing some Neil Simon stuff because Neil Simon passed away over the weekend.
00:41:54.000Neil Simon is an incredibly talented writer.
00:43:03.000The best part of this is that they do a production of Richard III, and the Richard III production is hysterically funny because the director of the production, being a leftist, suggests that Richard III should be played as a homosexual, that Richard III is latently homosexual, but he also insists that Richard Dreyfuss play it as openly
00:43:25.000As possible in the production is extraordinarily funny.
00:43:34.000So finally, President Trump came out and issued a statement about John McCain that was fitting and useful.
00:43:39.000It only took him a day and a bunch of pressure.
00:43:41.000He issued a statement saying, Despite our differences on policy and politics, I respect Senator John McCain's service to our country, and in his honor, I have signed a proclamation to fly the flag of the United States at half mast until the day of his internment, which is sort of normal policy.
00:43:54.000I have asked Vice President Pence to offer an address at the ceremony honoring Senator McCain at the U.S.
00:43:59.000At the request of the McCain family, I have also authorized military transportation of Senator McCain's remains from Arizona to Washington, D.C.
00:45:00.000There's no formal free trade deal between the U.S.
00:45:01.000and Mexico, only an agreement between the two countries on how to resolve key issues in their trade relationship as part of the NAFTA talks.
00:45:08.000But this led the president to triumphantly state that he had fixed all of our trade problems by scrapping NAFTA.
00:45:14.000Again, that may not be true, but it led to this kind of funny moment when he called up Enrique Peña Nieto, who's still the president of Mexico, and tried to use a speakerphone in a moment directly from Veep.
00:47:12.000I always say that because people take it, when I criticize a celebrity for speaking, they take it as though I'm criticizing the celebrity for speaking as opposed to what the celebrity is saying.
00:47:21.000Alyssa Milano did this little video for NowThis, which is just one of the dumbest sites on the internet, NowThis.
00:47:26.000They basically make these videos about fringe folks and then suggest they're mainstream.
00:47:30.000And she did a video about stopping Brett Kavanaugh, who's President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, who will be confirmed.
00:47:36.000And she decided that she was going to read out supposed accounts from supposed victims as though she was the victim.
00:48:22.000When Obama was president, I'd get overdramatic from time to time.
00:48:26.000But, you know, the level of panic about somebody like Brett Kavanaugh is pretty insipid, given the fact that it is the left that has used the court as a club against legislatures across the country.
00:48:35.000It is the left that has used the Constitution as a weapon to wield against traditional American values over and over and over again, from Roe v. Wade to Obergefell.
00:48:45.000And the idea that Brett Kavanaugh, for reading the Constitution in its properly appointed judicial role, that he's the threat.
00:48:58.000It's because they won't shut up about politics and just cover sports.
00:49:01.000So I can't get a damn baseball highlight on SportsCenter anymore, but I can certainly get half of the ESPN staff yelling at Tiger Woods, an actual black person, over his supposed racism for not ripping President Trump.
00:49:11.000We can have Max Kellerman, who's as white as I am, talking about the evils of Tiger Woods.
00:50:12.000Tiger Woods, that's the issue that the African-American community has always had because, obviously, from a historical perspective, you know, if one-third of you has a darker hue, a darker pigmentation, you know, the bottom line is you are black and it is that simple.
00:50:32.000Weird, because it seemed to me that the entire media was very focused on his color when he was winning majors because it was actually a breakthrough for black golfers.
00:50:39.000I mean, I was there for that entire time.
00:51:10.000Anyway, Michelle Beadle says that it is racist to ban Serena Williams' catsuit because of the new dress code.
00:51:17.000And so she explains that racism, racism, everywhere racism... It doesn't matter, by the way, that Serena Williams is by far the most praised female tennis player of all time.
00:51:26.000And the best female tennis player of all time.
00:51:29.000And that the last thing the French Open wants to do is offend Serena Williams.
00:51:32.000No, it must be racism, because everybody is a racist, racist, everybody racist.
00:51:36.000This is not a good look for the French Open, or the French, and specifically the gentleman who said you must respect the game.
00:51:42.000I think there's a racial card being played here, because it is Serena Williams, the bootylicious comment.
00:51:48.000He sounds like the beginning of the Outnight God, like he's just offended.
00:51:52.000There's no reason to ban the outfit, because you're right.
00:51:55.000There are many other uniforms that show so much skin, and that doesn't seem to be a problem whatsoever.
00:52:03.000Marks for this, and I think the entire thing is just a bad look for all of them.
00:52:07.000Okay, so one of the cases that's being made for this is that she needed help with her blood clots and this helped create circulation.
00:52:13.000But the French tennis federation president, Bernard Giudicelli, he said, I think sometimes we've gone too far.
00:52:20.000He said it will no longer be accepted.
00:52:22.000One must respect the game and the plays.
00:52:24.000Well, I mean, it is a skin-tight bodysuit, and let's remember that this is not the first time that a person has been banned from wearing a skin-tight bodysuit at a major.