James Comey gets his two hour special, President Trump attacks Syria, and the March for Science takes place, and no one showed up. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down and explains why this is a scam for the ages. He also explains why the media are biased in favor of James Comey and why he should have been fired years ago. And he explains why we should all be focused on leadership, not on other people. Plus, he talks about how James Comey should have written a book, and why you should write a book about how you can be useful to other people, especially people who don t have the same values as you do. All that and much more on this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show with your host, Ben Shapiro! Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's newest podcast, "The Weekly Standard" wherever you get your shows. Subscribe and comment to stay up to date with the latest news and discuss the happenings in the world of politics and culture. Enjoy & spread the word to your friends about what's going on in your world! -Ben Shapiro's Daily Mail - Subscribe to his new podcast, The Weekly Standard! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Like, comment and subscribe to his podcast on whatever you're listening to - Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform you're using - Subscribe for a chance to win a FREE summer reading of his newest book, "I'm a Millionaire's Journalist" coming out next week! If you're looking for a new book recommendation, hit me up on Amazon Prime Day! I'm listening to his latest episode of his new novel, "How I Learned How I'm I'm a Badass, I'm A Badass by Ben Shapiro? I'll Be Good at It's a Good Guy Too Good at That's Good At It, Too Bad at It, I'll See You, Too Good At That Too Good By Me? and I'll Tell Me How I Can Have It All, Too Much Good At At That, I Can't Say That, Too Nice By Me Too By Me And I'll Send Him That's A Good Thing by Me Too, Too Maybe I'll Say That by Me And More by Me by Meghan Or How I'll Hear That by Him By Meals, Too Fucking Well Done by Him Or Not By Me Can I Can Say That By Me By Me Or Not I'll Have It by Me Or I Can Do That By Someone Else?
00:00:31.000I took my kids to Disneyland yesterday.
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00:02:06.000The big news over the weekend is, well, twofold.
00:02:08.000Number one, there was an attack on Syria, which we'll discuss in a little bit.
00:02:11.000And second of all, James Comey sat down with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News.
00:02:15.000So, first of all, it is always obligatory, whenever I mention James Comey, whenever I mention George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, I must recall, he was the former chief of staff for the Clintons.
00:02:25.000So, this is a guy who is very tied into the Democratic network.
00:02:29.000I mentioned that not because I thought he did a particularly terrible job last night in the interview, but to point out that the media are wildly biased in favor of James Comey, who is playing one of the great scams of all time.
00:02:38.000I mean, the guy was largely responsible for Hillary Clinton losing the election, and now he's going to retire off of Democrats who are angry that Hillary Clinton lost the election.
00:03:31.000James Comey started out the interview by saying, quote, I was never going to write a book, but I decided I had to try to write this one to try and be useful.
00:03:37.000That was my goal after I was fired, to be useful.
00:03:39.000And it occurred to me maybe I can be useful by offering a view to people, especially to young people, of what leadership should look like and how it should be centered on values.
00:03:46.000In other words, maybe I should write a book talking about how awesome I am in order to inform all the young people about how awesome I am so they too can one day be awesome like I am.
00:03:54.000Or, alternative explanation, you're fired.
00:06:05.000I mean, that's really, if you were just like Jimmy Stewart, G-Man, and you were to give an interview about a president who you thought might be corrupt, the first thing you'd do is talk about the half moons under his eyes and the length of his tie.
00:06:16.000That really makes James Comey look real good here.
00:06:18.000I mean, this is obviously not somebody, he was writing a book about leadership, guys, a book about leadership for children.
00:06:28.000And then, of course, James Comey liked to drop a bunch of inflammatory lines in the middle of this interview because there really is nothing new in the book other than him whining about President Trump and talking about how President Trump is terrible.
00:06:37.000Now, whatever you think about Trump, they're two separate questions, right?
00:06:49.000What is not really a legit question is whether James Comey is a politically motivated actor.
00:06:52.000He's pretty clearly a politically motivated actor.
00:06:54.000That was pretty obvious when he admitted on camera that when he went to speak with President Trump, you recall, he went to speak with James Comey, former FBI director, when he was, when Trump first was about to take office, Comey went to brief him.
00:07:05.000He briefed him on the Russian dossier, the Steele dossier, which had been compiled by a British spy named Christopher Steele.
00:07:10.000It had been paid for by Fusion GPS, which was being paid for in turn by Hillary Clinton's law firm.
00:07:15.000And James Comey did not reveal to President Trump that this dossier had been gathered at the behest of Hillary Clinton's pay.
00:08:16.000Okay, so, at one point during the interview, Comey is asked specifically about the pee tape, and here's what he said.
00:08:22.000He said, and then Trump said to me, another reason you know it's not true is I'm a germaphobe.
00:08:26.000There's no way I'd let people pee on each other around me.
00:08:28.000And that caught me so much by surprise, I actually let out an audible laugh, and because it was just one of those, I was startled by it.
00:08:33.000And I remember thinking, well, should I say that?
00:08:35.000As I understand the activity, sir, it doesn't require an overnight stay, and given that it was allegedly the presidential suite at the Ritz-Carlton, I would imagine you could be at a safe distance from the activity.
00:08:43.000All these things are bouncing around my head, but instead of saying it, it just led me to think the world's gone crazy.
00:08:48.000But again, the goal here for James Comey is to sell as many books as humanly possible.
00:08:52.000There are really three scandals in which James Comey is involved, right?
00:08:56.000Scandal number one is the Hillary Clinton issue, right?
00:09:15.000So, here are several clips of him talking about how much he hates President Trump.
00:09:18.000Here's where he compares President Trump to a crime family.
00:09:21.000Again, I'm not sure why no political advisor sat Comey down and said, you know, James, it might be worthwhile for you to appear not to hate President Trump if you actually want to go after him, right?
00:09:30.000You might want to look as though you're disinterested rather than that you have a personal animus toward him.
00:09:34.000Apparently nobody bothered telling him, so instead he compares Trump to a crime family.
00:09:38.000I had a flashback to my days investigating the mafia, La Cosa Nostra.
00:09:44.000There's a distinction between a friend of yours and a friend of ours.
00:09:48.000I felt this effort to make us all, and maybe this wasn't their intention, but it's the way it felt to me, to make us all a Mika Nostra.
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00:14:08.000And so what he says about Hillary demonstrates what a political actor he is.
00:14:12.000So recall that back in July, it was James Comey who came out and made a long statement basically about why Hillary Clinton had violated the law but should not be indicted.
00:14:20.000Remember, he said that she had been extremely careless with her emails, which is the definition of gross negligence under the law.
00:14:26.000And then he says we won't indict her anyway.
00:14:28.000We shouldn't have indicted her anyway.
00:14:30.000So now he says he shouldn't have described how sloppy Clinton was with all of her email server stuff.
00:14:43.000Okay, he says what she did was really sloppy, but he says that he made a mistake describing how sloppy she was with her email scandal because in doing so it made it look like she had violated the law, when in his opinion she had not actually violated the law.
00:14:53.000Then later he says that the reason that he came forward with the letter, remember the letter right before the election in which he says that hundreds of thousands of her emails were found on Anthony Weiner's computer?
00:15:03.000And then he says that he released a letter a few days before the election.
00:15:06.000Now he says the reason that he did that is because the polling showed that Hillary was really far up in the polls.
00:15:10.000And if she won, he didn't want this cloud to be over her presidency.
00:15:14.000So he says, I came out with that letter just to be completely transparent.
00:15:16.000And he says that assuming Hillary would have won, probably influenced his decision making.
00:15:22.000I don't remember consciously thinking about that, but it must have been.
00:15:25.000Because I was operating in a world where Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump.
00:15:48.000You know, he wants to exonerate Hillary Clinton before the election, or at least he wants the American public to know about this stuff so that when she's elected, then she'll be clean.
00:15:55.000But don't worry, he's totally above the fray.
00:15:58.000You can see how upset he was that Trump was elected because he literally says in this interview, Oh my God, did we have some role in this?
00:16:05.000It is legitimately what Comey says in the middle of this interview.
00:16:08.000And what part of you is thinking, I helped elect Donald Trump?
00:16:12.000A whole lot of me was thinking, oh my god, did we have some role in this?
00:16:17.000Did we have some impact on the election?
00:16:19.000Okay, well, why would you be thinking that?
00:16:21.000Let's say that you actually were the typical G-man.
00:16:23.000Let's say that you were the honorable FBI guy, the loyal FBI guy that James Comey says he is.
00:17:11.000Maybe he's going to be blackmailed by the Russians.
00:17:13.000When there's no there there, all you have to do is dump out a bunch of inflammatory material and the media will pick it up and try and run with it.
00:17:19.000Okay, well now, in the meantime, President Trump is firing back, so President Trump takes to Twitter, and here are some of the things that President Trump has been tweeting about James Comey.
00:17:28.000Quote, Comey drafted the crooked Hillary exoneration long before he talked to her, lied in Congress to Senator G, then based his decision on her poll numbers, disgruntled he, McCabe, and the others, committed many crimes.
00:17:42.000I just don't know why President Trump feels the necessity to go out there and say it, because again, look, I know President Trump is a counterpuncher.
00:17:49.000I know that he doesn't like what Comey's saying about him, but this is not productive.
00:19:26.000When the president attacks Comey and Comey attacks the president, Trump is punching down and he's allowing Comey to go out there and respond to him.
00:19:33.000He's allowing Comey to go out there and tell his side of the story with broader public appeal.
00:19:37.000It's not smart of the president to punch back in this particular way, even though I think that Comey is exposing himself for what he is.
00:19:44.000And he concluded this Twitter thread Trump did by saying,
00:20:00.000Okay, so I guess we have Slippery James Comey and Slimeball James Comey.
00:20:04.000The president really going after it on Twitter, really enjoying himself.
00:20:07.000Yeah, again, he has the right to do whatever he wants.
00:20:15.000He's now got himself in hot water with Loretta Lynch, the former attorney general at the time.
00:20:20.000James Comey has accused Obama and Loretta Lynch of taking actions that jeopardized the DOJ's status in the middle of the Hillary Clinton email investigations.
00:20:27.000What he says is, when Loretta Lynch got on the plane with Bill Clinton, that necessitated the FBI stepping in and making some sort of argument as to why Hillary should or should not be indicted, because obviously now people are going to think the whole thing was corrupt.
00:20:40.000Well, now Loretta Lynch is firing back on Comey and suggesting that Comey is terrible.
00:21:01.000Through it all, I've never hesitated to make the hard decisions guided by the Department of Justice's core principles of integrity, independence, and above all, always doing the right thing.
00:21:08.000The Justice Department's handling of the Clinton email investigation under my leadership was no exception.
00:21:13.000Any suggestion I invoked this bedrock policy for any reason is simply false.
00:21:17.000Throughout the process, I did what I always do, rise above my politics and uphold the law.
00:21:21.000Does anyone really believe Loretta Lynch rose above her politics to uphold the law?
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00:23:52.000There's no such thing as a March for Science.
00:23:54.000Because everyone that I know is pro-science.
00:23:57.000Like if you want to say you're anti-flat earth, right?
00:23:59.000Like there's three people who still believe in the flat earth.
00:24:01.000Or let's say that you want to say you're going to march for cap and trade, right?
00:24:05.000That's an actual policy you're marching for.
00:24:07.000One of the things that drives me most crazy is when you name your march something that is universally applicable and then claim that anyone who opposes your march is against those things.
00:24:14.000When you say march for our lives, right?
00:24:54.000And the March for Science was way down in attendance.
00:24:58.000So last year, a bunch of people showed up to march because in 2017, you could get people to march for virtually anything because they were angry about Trump.
00:26:05.000Instead, they talked about racial diversity amongst scientists, quote,
00:26:09.000The challenges are real for underrepresented students in science, said Corey Welch, director of the STEM Scholars Program at Iowa State University.
00:26:15.000We have to overcome the reality that few or no faculty share our identities or fully understand our situation on campus, and now we have to relate back to our communities.
00:26:23.000The diversity research clearly demonstrates, bringing all people to the table, to the scientific table.
00:26:28.000I don't know what the scientific table is.
00:26:50.000Studies do not show, in fact, that racial diversity leads to better ideas, kinds of more ethical solutions, or a more informed public policy.
00:26:59.000Robert Putnam of Harvard University, who is a leftist, says, quote, So, if we're going to pretend that, like, because we have a couple of black scientists in the room, they have black answers to scientific questions, this sounds suspiciously like idiotic
00:27:17.000Eugenic policy in the early 20th century.
00:27:20.000Again, you want to talk about something that is wildly anti-scientific, it is the idea that racial diversity has anything to do with scientific discovery.
00:27:50.000And yet we are being told at the March for Science that one of their chief goals is to ensure that there are more black people in the sciences.
00:27:56.000What does that have to do with marching for science?
00:27:57.000If you want to say it's a march for affirmative action, fine.
00:28:06.000Nazi policy, by the way, is that there was such a thing as Jewish science.
00:28:09.000Jewish science was that weird Einsteinian stuff.
00:28:13.000You know, the stuff that actually led to the creation of the nuclear bomb that ended World War II?
00:28:17.000Honestly, if the Nazis had not been anti-Jewish, and they'd been able to harness the intellectual firepower of all the Jews living in their society, there's a good shot the Nazis would have had a nuclear weapon before the United States did, and all of world history would have changed.
00:28:29.000Thank God, they were a bunch of horrible, racist pieces of human filth, and therefore, they thought there was such a thing as Jewish science versus non-Jewish science, and they threw all the Jews out.
00:28:37.000It turns out there isn't such a thing as Jewish or non-Jewish science, there's just science.
00:29:14.000But science is not the same as science.
00:29:16.000Okay, so science is just like, you know, verifiable data, and you do experiments with hypotheses, and they're either shown to be correct, the hypotheses, or not.
00:29:24.000Science, however, is just a bunch of left-wing terminology, right?
00:29:27.000It's cap-and-trade, and racial diversity above all, and again, a bunch of assumptions you're making about policy that may or may not be true, but certainly are not verified by any sort of hard scientific research.
00:29:39.000If this idiot, Adam Best, can show me what a march for science has to do with creating a cell phone, then I'm happy to put down my cell phone.
00:30:04.000wrote a piece in the New York Magazine today asking why so many Republicans had not jumped to the Democratic Party after President Trump was elected.
00:30:11.000The piece was called, The GOP's Never Trumpers Are Really Just Never Democrats.
00:30:16.000And then he criticized David Brooks of the New York Times, who suggested that Democrats ought to reach out to Republicans, and Chait wrote instead, quote, So his take is that if you were really a good Republican, you'd be a Democrat.
00:30:24.000If you were really a good conservative who didn't like President Trump enough, you would just have voted for Hillary Clinton.
00:31:10.000I would never have voted for Hillary Clinton even though I did not vote for President Trump.
00:31:15.000I would never have voted for Hillary Clinton because Hillary Clinton is a wild leftist who not only disagrees with me on policy, she thinks I'm an deplorable human being for believing that babies before birth deserve a right to life and believing that my church or synagogue ought to be able to do whatever it damn well pleases.
00:31:29.000And she thinks I'm a bad person for thinking that.
00:31:30.000Why would I possibly vote for Hillary Clinton?
00:31:33.000I think her viewpoint is anti-American.
00:31:35.000Why would I possibly vote for her just because I didn't approve of President Trump's comments about grabbing women by the bleep?
00:31:50.000But in just a second, I'm going to explain a little bit more about this.
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00:33:11.000Looking around at what 16 months of President Trump has wrought, watching Fox & Friends, refreshing the news sites for the latest national security debacle, would you decide each morning to remain in the Republican Party?
00:33:20.000The absence of Republican moderates, among both elected officials and intellectuals associated with the party willing to openly join or work with the Democratic Party, suggests that the power of partisanship remains overwhelming, even among those Republicans who profess the strongest aversion to partisanship.
00:33:33.000Well, I am anti-partisan in the sense that I am not going to knee-jerk vote for a Republican just because they're a Republican.
00:34:12.000Folks on the left don't understand this.
00:34:13.000You know, there's this really interesting chart that's been done for years by Gallup, and it shows the overlap in ideas between the two parties.
00:34:21.000And what it looks like is basically two sort of mountains that overlap a little bit, right?
00:34:26.000So you'll have the one that's the Republican mountain, and then they'll have the Democratic mountain.
00:34:30.000And you see that the shape of the mountain changes a little bit over time, because it flattens out in certain places and it rises in certain places.
00:34:36.000The reason being that the views inside the parties change.
00:34:38.000Well, since 2010, the right has basically been stagnant.
00:34:42.000The right has had the same ideas now that it had in 2010.
00:34:44.000The left, however, has moved dramatically to the left.
00:34:57.000Not only that, Barack Obama never in 2010 would have talked about the idea of forcing churches to perform same-sex ceremonies or forcing bakers to cater same-sex weddings.
00:35:06.000Certainly Barack Obama probably would have used the language in abortion of safe, legal, and rare.
00:35:10.000The Democratic Party doesn't do any of these things.
00:35:12.000All pro-lifers have been forcibly excluded from the Democratic Party at this point.
00:35:16.000And then folks on the left are wondering why Republicans don't join them even if they don't like what Trump is doing.
00:35:21.000Because they still like what Trump is doing a hell of a lot better than what you're doing.
00:35:25.000Trump's still a lot closer to the values that I profess than Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden or Chuck Schumer or any of the rest of these wild leftists.
00:35:33.000If Democrats want to know why it is that President Trump can alienate so many members of his own party and still get away with it, one of the reasons is because the left has been so overtly nasty to people who are conservative.
00:35:44.000So overtly crappy to people of conservative bent.
00:35:47.000Again, why in the world would I pay attention to a party whose spokesman Joe Biden is saying that Republicans don't want black people voting?
00:35:53.000Hey, Joe Biden actually came out and said that over the weekend.
00:35:55.000He's going into the Wayback Machine all the way back to 2012 when he suggested that Mitt Romney could not be President of the United States because Republicans want to put y'all back in chains.
00:36:05.000Now Joe Biden is using that same exact sort of nasty language, and then you wonder why I'd never vote for Joe Biden?
00:36:10.000This is why I would never vote for Joe Biden, right here.
00:36:14.000You realize just this past year, in 24 states, the administration's allies have introduced 60 pieces of legislation, or maybe 70 pieces of legislation, to curtail the franchise.
00:36:30.000Look, that's what these guys are all about, man.
00:37:12.000Everybody on the right knows how Joe Biden feels about them.
00:37:14.000Everybody who's mildly right of center knows that Joe Biden thinks they're rubes.
00:37:19.000It's just, it's so, it's so gross that all these folks on the left, their suggestion is that the only way to forestall their anger, the only way to prove your moral mettle, is to join the party that espouses everything you disagree with.
00:37:33.000You don't see people on the right saying this, by the way.
00:37:35.000You never see people on the right saying things like, you know, you guys, you really didn't like Hillary Clinton.
00:37:38.000Why didn't you give President Trump a try?
00:37:40.000I mean, I assume that you didn't like Hillary Clinton because she was corrupt and because she was off-putting, but I don't assume that you agree with my principles.
00:37:48.000I mean, you've been voting Democrat your whole life.
00:37:51.000Folks on the left think that folks on the right only vote for the right because they are morally deficient.
00:37:56.000And they can't understand why, if there are people who didn't vote for Trump, which they think is morally praiseworthy, those people aren't automatically Democrats.
00:38:02.000They see every question of politics as a question of character.
00:38:55.000A former Pentagon official who's an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which is a Washington, D.C., think tank.
00:39:02.000Well, President Trump, for his part, was very excited about these strikes, which happened late Friday night after Shabbat was just beginning to start on the West Coast.
00:39:45.000And the reason people were upset with the mission accomplished is because, of course, George W. Bush's mission accomplished banner after the original Operation Iraqi Freedom, the original invasion, in three weeks toppled the Saddam Hussein regime, and he put mission accomplished, or his people did, on an aircraft carrier.
00:39:59.000Apparently it was members of the aircraft carrier who did it, and he was ripped for that for years.
00:40:04.000Now Trump is purposefully using that phrase.
00:40:06.000I don't think he did it because he's historically knowledgeable.
00:40:08.000I think he did it because he's historically ignorant, but honestly, who cares?
00:40:11.000The question is, was the mission accomplished?
00:40:36.000I don't actually buy the argument that's been pushed by some folks who are in favor of a larger Syrian intervention, that use of chemical weapons in Syria is somehow a threat to the United States because now it will be more commonly used on the United States.
00:40:57.000troops, we will go to war with you and we will finish you.
00:40:59.000Hey, if the United States wanted to take out Bashar Assad, like finish his regime, the United States, if we wanted to exert the full brunt of our military, the United States could take out Bashar Assad inside of a week.
00:41:14.000But the fact is that we're not sure that we want to, and we have this weird bipolar personality disorder when it comes to foreign policy.
00:41:21.000We don't care what happens in Syria until there's a picture on our TV of a kid choking to death, and then all of a sudden we care what happens in Syria.
00:41:28.000Well, we're going to have to figure out pretty quickly what it is that we think our role in the world is.
00:41:32.000If we want to stop chemical weapons usage, then probably this sort of strike is not going to do it.
00:41:36.000Probably going to need a larger effort to counter Russian and Iranian influence in the region.
00:41:41.000And there has to be the possibility of deposing Assad, or at least crippling his capacity to expand his growing dominance inside Syria.
00:41:48.000He's basically won the Syrian civil war.
00:41:50.000At this point, it was a mistake for us to pull out of Iraq in 2010, 2011.
00:42:01.000But the question as to where we go from here is a definitional one.
00:42:04.000What do we want America to do in the world?
00:42:06.000If the goal here is to stop him from using chemical weapons, the threat against him and Russia and Iran has to be great enough that he doesn't do it again.
00:42:12.000I'm not sure a couple of airstrikes are going to do it.
00:42:14.000And if we want to ensure that people aren't being gassed en masse, then we're going to actually have to solidify northern Syria, a place where certain progress actually has been made in the face of the Assad regime and despite the intervention of the Turks as well.
00:42:26.000So, it's important for us to define what exactly our mission is before we declare mission accomplished.
00:42:31.000Unfortunately, I don't think that the Trump administration has actually done that.
00:42:34.000I think they say mission accomplished every time they fire a missile.
00:42:36.000I think the left complaining about it is similarly ridiculous.
00:42:39.000They were the ones talking about pinprick strikes five seconds ago when Obama was president.
00:42:44.000Okay, time for some things that I like and then some things that I hate.
00:42:47.000So I have an awful lot of things that I hate today, but I have a couple of things that I like to start.
00:42:50.000So, first thing that I like, Jonah Goldberg's new book is going to be coming out very shortly.
00:42:54.000I believe it comes out later this week.
00:42:56.000It comes out April 24th, so it comes out a week from tomorrow.
00:43:03.000It's called Suicide of the West, How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy.
00:43:23.000Jonah Goldberg is defending Enlightenment philosophy.
00:43:25.000Jonah's book really is less about defense of the Enlightenment philosophy and more about what happens if we allow that Enlightenment philosophy to fall apart.
00:43:32.000Now, the quibbles that I have with Jonah, I'm going to say from my own book, which I'm in the middle of writing right now.
00:43:36.000I'm about two-thirds of the way through it.
00:43:37.000And it covers a little bit of the same ground, but mostly not the same ground as Jonah's.
00:43:41.000My big quibble with a lot of the Enlightenment thinking right now is that it seems to assume that history sort of started in 1750 for no reason, that suddenly
00:45:32.000There's no question that the dad knows.
00:45:35.000Okay, so the dad's getting a lot of flack today, actually, because the dad gave the pucks to the other two boys first before he gave to the girl.
00:45:45.000Maybe the dad there is grabbing the pucks and he's making sure that all three of his kids actually get pucks and he knows that while the little girl is really excited about it, in two years she's not going to care about hockey in all likelihood, but the boys will and it'll make their lives.
00:45:55.000So he's going to ensure they get pucks even though Connelly wants to get it to the little girl.
00:46:01.000He's a real gentleman and you like to see when people treat people well that way.
00:46:05.000Okay, time for some quick things that I hate.
00:46:11.000So, Bill Maher on HBO, he came out over the weekend and he said that if President Trump was president in 1938, he would have loved Hitler and Mussolini.
00:46:19.000And by the way, if this was 1938, what do you think Donald Trump, if Donald Trump is president in 1938, before we know about the death camps, okay, I'll give him that, what do you think he would have been saying about Hitler and Mussolini?
00:47:05.000Read Liberal Fascism by Goldberg, his other great book, and what you will see is that the left was very much ensconced with it.
00:47:11.000They loved the idea of a centralized power structure that was going to restructure all of civilization and therefore change the nature of man.
00:47:18.000Mussolini and Hitler were very, very, very popular with the American left.
00:47:23.000And there's a reason that Hitler was labeled Time's Man of the Year, I believe it was in 1938.
00:47:27.000So, again, this is a misread of history.
00:47:30.000Listen, I don't know what Trump would have thought about Mussolini and Hitler in 1938.
00:47:32.000There were a lot of decent people who thought Mussolini and Hitler weren't that bad in 1938 because they didn't know the first thing about politics, and they didn't care about fascism, and it was before the death camps.
00:47:42.000There's this revisionist history that reads back into history.
00:47:44.000The entire left hated Mussolini and Hitler.
00:47:46.000Stalin had a treaty with Hitler at this time in 1938.
00:47:49.000And Mussolini had a treaty with Hitler.
00:47:53.000All of these people were allied with one another.
00:48:12.000Over the weekend, there was a report that Colin Kaepernick, who is the former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, that he had not been offered, actually, the ability to try out for the Seattle Seahawks, and he had not been offered that ability because he still wants to kneel for the national anthem.
00:48:29.000It's also the choice of the Seattle Seahawks, whether they want to deal with the fallout from that this year, or whether they actually want fans in the stands to be able to come and cheer.
00:48:35.000Sunny Hostin, who's one of the hosts over at The View, she says that Kaepernick is the greatest of all time, and it's just great what he's doing.
00:48:42.000The most patriotic thing you can do is exercise your constitutional rights.
00:48:49.000Colin Kaepernick is the new Muhammad Ali.
00:48:56.000He has put everything on the line for what he believes in, and that's what a true American does.
00:49:00.000My feeling is that, and there's a lawsuit, let's remember, there's a lawsuit that Colin Kaepernick has filed with the assistance of my friend Mark Garagos, and he has filed a lawsuit saying that the NFL owners have colluded to keep him from playing, and that is exactly what they've done.
00:49:54.000Although I will point out, the man has worn socks depicting cops as pigs on them, and that's ignored by the entire left.
00:50:01.000But this idea that Colin Kaepernick is some sort of great civil rights hero because he was paid millions and millions and millions of dollars and then he decided that he was going to kneel when he became less popular, I just find that a little bit hard to believe.
00:50:15.000There is a — I mentioned last week that there was this girl, Lizzie Martinez, who was asked by a school official at Braden River High to cover her nipples with Band-Aids because she showed up to school wearing no bra.
00:50:24.000And I suggested, maybe if you're a 17-year-old girl and you show up to school wearing a loose shirt with no bra, and your nipples are showing through the shirt, then you might know exactly what you're doing with regard to dudes.
00:50:34.000That's not a justification of bad male behavior, but it is to suggest that we have dress codes in school for a reason.
00:50:39.000Well, now she's holding a bra cot with fellow students on Monday.
00:50:42.000Participating girls can forego their bras and participating boys could place bandages over their shirts.
00:50:47.000Apparently, this is now a civil rights issue.
00:50:48.000She said it's a form of silent protest that speaks not only to what happened at the school, but also what happens around the country.
00:50:53.000She says besides the incident on Monday, I think it's been an ongoing issue that women have these standards they have to supposedly live up to, even with the Women's Rights March, the Me Too movement.
00:51:07.000You went to school, dressed inappropriately, the administrators asked you not to dress inappropriately, end of story.
00:51:12.000That is perfectly within their rights.
00:51:13.000If you showed up wearing no shirt at all, and then the administrator said, you know what, that might be a problem, would that also be part of the MeToo movement?
00:51:24.000But of course, we have to be outraged about everything, including the dumbest things on planet Earth.
00:51:30.000If we're not outraged about things, then I guess that, you know, what else are we going to do with our lives if we're not outraged about dumb things like 17-year-old girls trying to not wear bras to school and then claiming they're victims when the teachers say, put a bra on?