The Ben Shapiro Show - October 17, 2017


The Great Hollywood Collapse | Ep. 396


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

205.78947

Word Count

10,557

Sentence Count

710

Misogynist Sentences

31

Hate Speech Sentences

9


Summary

Ben Shapiro is back! Yes indeed, indeed, we are back, and there is so much to talk about, from Harvey Weinstein, to a New York Times op-ed that targeted The Daily Wire last Thursday night, to Sgt. Bo Bergdahl's plea deal, and what that says about the Obama administration's honesty problems. Plus, I will be talking about some good moves President Trump made while I was away, plus I will definitely have some comments that I m going to begin with about a full-on NY Times Op-Ed that targeted me personally, as well as the Daily Wire, and also targeted The Weekly Standard's own Ben Shapiro. And, of course, Ben will talk about a new Ring Floodlight Cam that makes sure you know who you re talking to when things go bump in the night, and how you can keep your home safe even when you re not in your own home. Thanks to Ring for sponsoring The Ben Shapiro Show! Subscribe to the show to get 20% off your first month with discount code: CRIMINALS at checkout. Use the discount code CRIMES at checkout to save $150 and receive $150 off your entire month. The show is now available in Kindle, iBook, Paperback, Hardcover and Hardcover. All Audible, and Audible. If you don t have a Kindle device, you can get 10% off for a year with the Kindle Fire, and an Audible membership for the rest of the year, plus a free eReader edition of $99. and a lifetime membership when you sign up for the Kindle Firespace membership gets you an extra $99,99.99, plus an additional $99 gets you get an ad-free epsiobook and a copy of the Kindle Pro, and a Kindle Fire HD Pro! You get 4 months of the show gets you 5 GB of the Fireworks Pro and a second edition of the Final Draft, and I'll get $5,99 gets an extra 5 GB gets you a month for a chance to read the book, and watch the show, plus she gets an ad on the Final Cut Pro? The Final Cut is also gets $50,99, and they also gets an additional 4 GB of course gets free, plus they'll get all that for free, and she'll get the ad-only version of Final Cut and Final Cut, and all that gets you access to all that.


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00:00:00.000 We have returned.
00:00:01.000 Yes, indeed.
00:00:02.000 We are back.
00:00:02.000 And there is so much to talk about, from Harvey Weinstein to a New York Times op-ed that targeted The Daily Wire last Thursday night.
00:00:09.000 Plus, we will be talking about Sgt.
00:00:11.000 Bo Bergdahl, who just pleaded guilty to desertion, and what that says about the Obama administration's honesty problems.
00:00:17.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:18.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:25.000 So once again, there will be no Disneyland for anyone.
00:00:28.000 I came back, and things remain just as bad as when I left, and in some ways worse.
00:00:32.000 So thanks for that.
00:00:33.000 Appreciate it, everyone.
00:00:35.000 Well done.
00:00:35.000 We'll get to all of the news.
00:00:37.000 There's plenty to talk about, for sure, ranging from Harvey Weinstein.
00:00:41.000 I've not been able to give my
00:00:42.000 Breakdown on the Harvey Weinstein scandal because that actually broke after I left for vacation.
00:00:46.000 But I have a lot of thoughts on that that go to sort of what Hollywood is all about and what needs to happen if you don't want Harvey Weinstein's to be the future of the industry.
00:00:56.000 I also want to talk about some good moves that President Trump made while I was away.
00:01:00.000 Plus, I will definitely have some comments that I'm going to begin with about this New York Times op-ed that targeted me personally and also targeted The Daily Wire.
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00:02:37.000 Okay, so apparently all hell broke loose last week.
00:02:41.000 And I was off for the last three days of the week.
00:02:43.000 I want to start by responding to this op-ed because I've gotten a lot of mail about it.
00:02:47.000 While I was out, there was a full op-ed in the New York Times coming after me personally, as well as the Daily Wire, from a woman named Jane Coaston.
00:02:57.000 Obviously, I don't know her work very well, so I can't speak to the rest of her work, but basically, the idea was that I am somehow a guy who only panders to the right, and this is the hallmark of the right these days, is just pandering to the right.
00:03:11.000 What I do know from Jane Koston is that she is a lefty.
00:03:15.000 She's a liberal.
00:03:16.000 And Jane Koston has written pieces like this one from MTV News titled, quote, On the Punching of Nazis, subtitle, I Support It.
00:03:24.000 This is back in January.
00:03:25.000 She said, if a Nazi is in your presence, can you ever punch the Nazi in the goddang face?
00:03:29.000 The answer is simple.
00:03:30.000 Of course you can.
00:03:32.000 And then she says that, should you?
00:03:34.000 Yes.
00:03:34.000 Yes, you should.
00:03:35.000 You should punch Nazis in the goddang face.
00:03:36.000 You should do so repeatedly.
00:03:38.000 If you see more Nazis, you should punch them too.
00:03:39.000 So she sounds like a very tolerant and diverse individual, which is just wonderful.
00:03:44.000 And she titled her piece on me, The Hollow Bravery of Ben Shapiro.
00:03:48.000 So the first thing is that I would just like to note here, I have never called myself brave.
00:03:53.000 In fact, I don't really consider myself brave, because I reserve that title for law enforcement, you know, people who put themselves in harm's way to protect others.
00:04:01.000 I'm a guy who goes on campus, and I give talks, and I have security, and I'm probably the safest guy in the room, as I've said in a thousand interviews.
00:04:07.000 So, for me, my job is not about bravery.
00:04:09.000 My job is about saying things that I think are true, and then you take them, or you leave them.
00:04:14.000 The idea that I have ever proclaimed that I am the hallmark of bravery is just absurd.
00:04:20.000 But the piece itself is really designed to attack the entire conservative movement and me as sort of a supposed dot leader in it.
00:04:28.000 So here is what Jane Koston writes.
00:04:30.000 She writes, Ben Shapiro, the conservative writer, prides himself on speaking bold truths to liberal power.
00:04:35.000 His schtick goes something like this.
00:04:37.000 Set up a speech in a progressive bastion, ideally a college campus full of coastal elites who have never left their bubble.
00:04:42.000 Spar with snowflakes who are offended by something he says about race or gender, or perhaps even believe he never should have been invited in the first place.
00:04:48.000 Post the exchange on the internet and use it as proof that the cultural consensus is stacked dramatically against conservatives.
00:04:53.000 As Mr. Shapiro has put it, the left has run out of aggressors to target.
00:04:56.000 Instead, they've become the aggressor's self-righteous morality police dedicated to wiping out dissenting thought.
00:05:01.000 Well, the reason I say that is because Berkeley, like the University of California, run by Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, staffed entirely by Democrats at the highest level, decided that I needed 600 police officers in order to speak at Berkeley.
00:05:13.000 As I've said again 1,000 times the year before, I showed up with no security.
00:05:17.000 I had my security team, but there were no police officers necessary.
00:05:20.000 It's not me that's making this issue on campus.
00:05:23.000 It is not I. I am not the one who is designing these problems on college campuses, nor do I even like them.
00:05:29.000 I mean, you can talk to people from my team.
00:05:30.000 They will tell you, before we do every lecture, I say, I really hope this one is nice and calm.
00:05:35.000 And as far as the idea that I don't want to have people in the room with whom I can discuss, I've been debating people on the left for a long time here.
00:05:43.000 I mean, I debated Cenk Aygar, like,
00:05:46.000 Two, maybe three months ago, I debated a panel of people, including the NAACP president in Spokane, Washington, and Charles Mudedy from the Seattle Stranger when I was up in Seattle.
00:05:57.000 I debated Shama Sawant, who was the Socialist City Council member in Seattle.
00:06:03.000 I'm going to have a discussion with Sam Harris, with whom I strenuously disagree on religion.
00:06:08.000 I'm going to have a discussion with him up in San Francisco in December.
00:06:11.000 In fact, I'm hard-pressed to think of many people on the right who debate people on the left more than I do.
00:06:15.000 Like, high-ranking people on the left more than I do.
00:06:17.000 I debated Sally Cohn last year.
00:06:18.000 I debate people on the left all the time.
00:06:20.000 This idea that I'm out there looking for snowflakes to melt is just patently absurd.
00:06:25.000 In fact, I've said in my own lectures, I said in the Berkeley lecture, I believe, I said that the easiest thing in the world is to find some
00:06:32.000 College leftists to trigger, but that's not my job.
00:06:34.000 My job is to say things I think are true in front of audiences full of leftists and conservatives.
00:06:39.000 I wish more people who are on the left would show up.
00:06:41.000 I mean, I always, I have a standing rule.
00:06:43.000 Look at every one of my lectures for the last year and a half.
00:06:46.000 I have a standing rule.
00:06:47.000 If you disagree with me, raise your hand and go to the front of the line.
00:06:51.000 That is my standing rule.
00:06:53.000 The idea that I'm not out there trying to convert people, that I'm not out there trying to do outreach, that all I care about is the viral videos that come from these exchanges, it's just, there's no evidence to this whatsoever.
00:07:03.000 In any case, Jane Coaston says, quote, It's true that campuses tend to be hostile places to conservatives like Mr. Shapiro, Charles Murray, and Heather McDonald, but the notion that they are the cultural underdogs is bogus.
00:07:15.000 Really?
00:07:16.000 We're not the cultural underdogs?
00:07:18.000 Heather MacDonald and Charles Murray aren't the cultural underdogs?
00:07:20.000 When Charles Murray went to Middlebury College, a leftist professor I think broke her collarbone thanks to the students over there.
00:07:27.000 Charles Murray was just shut down again over the weekend.
00:07:30.000 We're not the cultural underdogs?
00:07:32.000 Have you seen the culture?
00:07:34.000 You might say we're not the political underdogs.
00:07:36.000 I think that's sort of true.
00:07:38.000 I mean, in Berkeley I am the political underdog, but across the country I don't think I am because I think that the vast majority of people agree with most of what I have to say, but...
00:07:46.000 The notion that we're not cultural underdogs is absurd.
00:07:48.000 She says, what Mr. Shapiro does on campus is shadowboxing, meant to pander to his conservative fans, whose values dominate mainstream American culture.
00:07:55.000 Okay, no evidence that conservative values dominate mainstream American culture.
00:07:59.000 In fact, virtually all of the evidence is on the other side, on all of the major social issues of the day without, perhaps aside from abortion, there's no question that there is a leftist-slash-liberal consensus on cultural issues.
00:08:10.000 She said, if he wants to be genuinely brave, he'd challenge some of the wrongheaded ideas
00:08:18.000 Okay, a couple of things here.
00:08:24.000 The idea that I don't challenge wrong-headed ideas held by some of my fans, again, you have to be ignorant of my work in order to say this.
00:08:30.000 Fully ignorant of my work in order to say this.
00:08:32.000 For the last two years, I've taken a very controversial position with regard to President Trump, who, lest Jane Coaston forget, is rather popular among people who support me.
00:08:42.000 I was the initiator of good Trump, bad Trump.
00:08:44.000 I created good Trump, bad Trump.
00:08:47.000 I'm the guy who had on my desk for months a shoe.
00:08:50.000 We called it the put it on the other foot shoe.
00:08:54.000 We actually took this shoe, and when Trump would do something, I would say put the shoe on the other foot, imagine Obama did it, and then let's try and see whether this is something that's good or not.
00:09:04.000 I've been very critical, not only of President Trump, but I wrote a piece this morning about why it's bad for a bunch of MAGA-hatted dummies to shut down a liberal speaker, a leftist speaker, Xavier Becerra, the Attorney General of California, over at Whittier College.
00:09:17.000 And the idea that I don't criticize people on the so-called right side of the aisle is patently absurd.
00:09:22.000 Again, I've criticized the alt-right incessantly, repeatedly.
00:09:25.000 When I left Breitbart, I criticized Steve Bannon.
00:09:28.000 I criticized Steve Bannon when he was appointed to the campaign.
00:09:32.000 I don't know where she's getting this, but all I will say is that it is utterly in disconnect with reality.
00:09:37.000 And anybody who watches this show knows that that is the case.
00:09:39.000 Anybody who listens to the show knows this is the case.
00:09:41.000 We try to be intellectually honest about our conservatism.
00:09:43.000 It seems to me that what Jane Coaston really wants is for me to be on the left.
00:09:47.000 This is the same critique that I heard from a lot of people on the left who didn't like the never-Trump Republicans, because they said, why don't you just vote for Hillary?
00:09:53.000 Because Hillary's awful.
00:09:54.000 Okay, Jane, just because I disagree with some people on the right about things doesn't mean I have to agree with your crappy point of view.
00:10:01.000 If your idea of dissent is that I have to agree with you, then I dissent from your dissent.
00:10:08.000 No.
00:10:08.000 I think you're wrong.
00:10:10.000 I think that most of the stuff that you write is wrong.
00:10:13.000 And guess what?
00:10:14.000 I can do that.
00:10:15.000 Maybe the reason I disagree with you is because I think you're wrong.
00:10:18.000 So what does she use as the example of us pandering?
00:10:20.000 So she picks one example, right?
00:10:22.000 This one example that has been used by the left over the last week when I was on vacation.
00:10:25.000 She says,
00:10:33.000 In one slide, the video lists Native American achievements as consisting of dreamcatchers, tomahawks, and cannibalism, while stating that Columbus's arrival in 1492 assured the arrival of math and the iPhone.
00:10:43.000 And then she says the animated video is actually the second one the Daily Wire posted this past weekend on the subject.
00:10:47.000 The other carried the subtle title, quote, Christopher Columbus actually was a great man.
00:10:51.000 So the second video I think is actually quite good.
00:10:53.000 The second video is from Michael Knowles, and it is a full breakdown of the entire history of Christopher Columbus.
00:10:58.000 It is full of information.
00:10:59.000 Kostin, of course, just takes it for granted that Christopher Columbus was a bad guy, so I'm sure she didn't even bother to watch the video, which is chock full of references to actual primary documentation.
00:11:09.000 You should go watch Knowles' video.
00:11:10.000 It has over a million hits.
00:11:11.000 It is quite good.
00:11:12.000 The other video, I didn't like.
00:11:13.000 It didn't meet editorial standards.
00:11:15.000 I was on vacation.
00:11:16.000 As soon as I found out about it, I wanted to pull it down.
00:11:18.000 It was a satire video.
00:11:20.000 So I wanted to, you know, I was conflicted in the sense that I don't like pulling down satire.
00:11:25.000 I think that satire, you get a broader range than just you would in a normal video.
00:11:29.000 And so I made the mistake of leaving it up for 24 hours.
00:11:32.000 Over that 24 hours, I became increasingly disconcerted with the video.
00:11:36.000 I really was not a fan of it at the beginning.
00:11:38.000 Over the next 24-25 hours, I really watched it a few more times and found that it crossed lines for me that I didn't want crossed.
00:11:46.000 And I took it down and I issued an apology personally for the video being on the site in the first place.
00:11:50.000 Which is, as far as I'm aware, what you are supposed to do when a bad video goes up on your site.
00:11:55.000 So... Okay, if I really wanted to not tick off my right-wing fans, I would have left the thing up, wouldn't I?
00:12:01.000 And then, Kostin spends the next, like, three paragraphs talking about not The Daily Wire, but The Federalist, the site run by a friend of mine, Ben Domenech.
00:12:10.000 And she talks about the Federalist pandering to the right, forgetting, of course, that the Federalist has run a number of pieces disagreeing on major issues with other members of the right, that the Federalist has a pretty wide variety of opinion.
00:12:23.000 Mary Catherine Hamm, who was a never-Trumper, is on that site.
00:12:26.000 So is Molly Hemingway, who was a very pro-Trump writer, is on that site.
00:12:29.000 And then what does she use as her example of real pandering?
00:12:32.000 She said that publication had a black crime tag on its website until two weeks ago, which included an article titled, If you don't want police to shoot you, don't resist arrest.
00:12:41.000 And so, a couple of things on that.
00:12:43.000 Number one, black crime tags.
00:12:45.000 Tags, you know, most of the editors at a site don't know that the tag is there, right?
00:12:49.000 A tag is an HTML thing.
00:12:50.000 It's not like every single story gets filed away as a black crime story.
00:12:54.000 There's a tag that somebody in the back end is hitting that puts the HTML in black crime for this site.
00:13:00.000 Now, I don't think there should be a black crime tag, neither did the Federalist, which is why they removed it.
00:13:04.000 Okay, but again, this whole idea here is that conservatives are just catering to their base.
00:13:08.000 Now what I love about this article is that Jane Coaston is catering to her leftist base in the New York Times.
00:13:13.000 So this entire article is not a rebuke to anyone on the left.
00:13:17.000 It's not her speaking truth to power on the left.
00:13:19.000 It's not her saying to the left that people like me should be able to speak at Berkeley.
00:13:23.000 No, instead it's Jane Coaston pandering to her own leftist readers and then accusing us of doing that to our right-wing readers.
00:13:31.000 And then what she's really upset, of course, about is that I am not on the left.
00:13:35.000 So she says that I believe that transgender people have a mental illness, and then she says that's just terrible.
00:13:41.000 Okay, have I been unclear about my perspective on this?
00:13:43.000 There's a video of me that's been seen 35 million times talking about this.
00:13:46.000 Like literally 35 million times.
00:13:48.000 So I've not been unclear about this.
00:13:51.000 And she finishes up by saying, I reached out to Mr. Shapiro to ask him about the Columbus Day video.
00:13:55.000 She did.
00:13:56.000 And I emailed her back the statement, which we had already put out, or were putting out at the time.
00:14:00.000 And then I added a one-line comment.
00:14:02.000 She said, he sent over a statement apologizing for it, saying it engaged in broad-based stereotyping, which she also posted on Twitter.
00:14:07.000 In the email, he added, quote, I think there's a lot of political ground to be gained in pandering to your own side and confirming their biases.
00:14:12.000 I strive not to do that.
00:14:13.000 And then she finishes, and yet he and vast swaths of the conservative right who decry groupthink still do.
00:14:18.000 To tell strident college students to examine their own politics and embrace real debate is brave.
00:14:22.000 To insist on the same from those on the right would be even more courageous.
00:14:26.000 Again, she has not watched a single speech I have ever done on the right.
00:14:29.000 Not one.
00:14:30.000 I guarantee you she has not watched a single speech I've done on campus.
00:14:33.000 If she has, then I don't know if she had the mute on, but that is patently crazy.
00:14:38.000 Okay, the idea that I have not told college students on the right to examine their own politics?
00:14:42.000 Half of my speech at Berkeley was devoted to why the alt-right is stupid, and why identity politics of the right is bad, and why if you think that Mexico and China are responsible for your lost job, you're probably wrong.
00:14:55.000 Okay, so again, all of this is just dumb.
00:14:57.000 All of this is just dumb, but it demonstrates something that I think is more important, and that is that the left is so concerned with finding enemies that they will find enemies everywhere.
00:15:07.000 And I want to expand on that and talk about who the real enemies to public discourse are, the people who are really pandering to the base in just a second.
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00:16:28.000 So, here's the point here.
00:16:30.000 People on the right should never expect that folks on the true left, people who are intellectually dishonest, are going to grant them credit for speaking truth to their own side, because it's not going to happen.
00:16:41.000 If you tick off the left enough, they are just going to accuse you of pandering to your own base.
00:16:45.000 That's all that's going to happen.
00:16:46.000 It doesn't matter what you actually say.
00:16:47.000 It doesn't matter what you actually do.
00:16:49.000 It doesn't matter whether you've gone out of your way to try and be intellectually honest about your own perspective, or whether you've criticized people on your supposed own side.
00:16:57.000 None of that matters to the left, because for the left, they must paint a picture of right-wingers as a bunch of red meat-eating zombies who simply want to consume information that they like.
00:17:08.000 You know, they don't worry about that on their own side, but they worry about that on the right.
00:17:11.000 Never mind the fact that most conservatives read things on the left.
00:17:15.000 Most conservatives, you know, are in a culture that is dominated by the left.
00:17:19.000 Despite Jane Koston's evidence-less propositions to the contrary, the fact is that the mainstream American media culture is dominated by the left.
00:17:27.000 It's not dominated by people like me.
00:17:28.000 Okay, Daily Wire has become a very big site, thank God, but it is not a big site in comparison to places like Huffington Post.
00:17:35.000 The fact is, the left still dominates the media conversation.
00:17:40.000 And for Jane Coaston to deny that, and for her to suggest that those of us on the right are merely in the pandering business, is to demonstrate her own ignorance.
00:17:48.000 You want to know who is in the pandering business?
00:17:51.000 Somebody who is hailed by the left as a moral hero.
00:17:54.000 is Jimmy Kimmel.
00:17:55.000 So Jimmy Kimmel was hailed for the past three, four, five weeks, ever really since the Obamacare attempts by the senator from, oh, what's the name of the senator who was on his show?
00:18:09.000 In any case, I can't remember the name of the senator, Bill Cassidy, Cassidy.
00:18:12.000 In any case, Jimmy Kimmel did a whole rant about Bill Cassidy and Obamacare, how terrible it would be if Obamacare were repealed.
00:18:19.000 It was evidence-less, it was fact-free.
00:18:21.000 I did an entire rebuttal of it here on the show that went viral.
00:18:24.000 And Jimmy Kimmel has been hailed as a moral leader because he spoke out on gun control and because he spoke out on healthcare.
00:18:30.000 And he accepted this mantle.
00:18:33.000 He obviously thinks that he has a voice in this.
00:18:35.000 He's not just a comedian, he has a voice in this.
00:18:37.000 And as a citizen, he feels the necessity to use his platform.
00:18:40.000 Now, he has every right to do that, right?
00:18:42.000 He has every right to do this whole thing.
00:18:44.000 What I said was, when Jimmy Kimmel did this routine, that he was the moral arbiter for the country.
00:18:51.000 And he posed himself as that, right?
00:18:53.000 He said things like, you are immoral if you disagree with me.
00:18:56.000 This was the implication of his Las Vegas rant.
00:18:59.000 That if you disagreed with him, you were immoral.
00:19:01.000 You want people to die because you're being paid off by the gun lobby.
00:19:04.000 We went through it in detail here on the show.
00:19:06.000 You know, you pose yourself as the moral voice of the country.
00:19:09.000 I said, who died and made Jimmy Kimmel the moral arbiter?
00:19:11.000 Well, because that went viral, Jimmy Kimmel, without responding to me by name, responded to me directly on one of the Sunday shows.
00:19:18.000 Here was Jimmy Kimmel responding, and I want you to note, who do you think is pandering here?
00:19:22.000 Who do you think is pandering?
00:19:24.000 Am I pandering for standing up for a perspective that I have held my entire political career, have spoken out for openly and honestly for 15, 16, 17 years, or I'm 33, so I've been doing this since I was 17, so 16 years.
00:19:37.000 Right?
00:19:37.000 Is it me?
00:19:38.000 Am I the one pandering when I say things that I think are true to the right and to the left?
00:19:43.000 Or is it Jimmy Kimmel?
00:19:43.000 Because I'm going to show you a clip of Jimmy Kimmel in which he openly acknowledges that he's basically pandering and he doesn't really care.
00:19:48.000 Here's Jimmy Kimmel.
00:19:50.000 You've heard there's one conservative commentator in particular who says, who made Jimmy Kimmel the moral arbiter?
00:19:57.000 I'm not.
00:19:57.000 I mean, yeah, I agree with him.
00:19:59.000 I'm nobody's moral arbiter.
00:20:00.000 I mean, you don't have to watch the show.
00:20:03.000 You don't have to listen to what I say.
00:20:05.000 Like three years ago, I was
00:20:07.000 So you don't mind if Republicans turn off your show?
00:20:10.000 They're not watching anymore?
00:20:25.000 I don't say it on my own mind.
00:20:26.000 I mean, I'd love for everyone, I want everyone with a television to watch the show.
00:20:30.000 But if they're so turned off by my opinion on health care and gun violence, then... I don't know.
00:20:40.000 I probably won't want to have a conversation with them anyway.
00:20:44.000 Okay, so it's that last part that's the telling part.
00:20:47.000 So number one, when he says he didn't appoint himself a moral arbiter, I'm glad.
00:20:51.000 I wish the media would stop appointing a moral arbiter then.
00:20:54.000 And I wish that he would stop talking in these passionate moral tones about everyone who disagrees with him being the Antichrist.
00:21:01.000 Like, that would be nice if he would cut that out then.
00:21:03.000 If he's not the moral arbiter, then he should stop posing as one.
00:21:06.000 And that final comment is the one where I say he's pandering.
00:21:09.000 That final one where he says, if people disagree with me so much on these topics that they just turn off the TV, then I wouldn't want to have a conversation with them anyway?
00:21:16.000 Well, if somebody said that to me, right?
00:21:18.000 If somebody said, there are a bunch of people who are turned off by your rhetoric, what do you say about that?
00:21:23.000 I would say some of the same things that Jimmy Kimmel said, right?
00:21:25.000 I would say, listen, they have a right to watch the show, they have a right not to watch the show.
00:21:28.000 What I would say is, maybe they should listen to my perspective, and I'll listen to theirs, and we can have a discussion.
00:21:32.000 I say this in every speech.
00:21:34.000 In every speech, I say this.
00:21:36.000 Okay?
00:21:36.000 I always say that I want the conversation to take place.
00:21:39.000 I want more people on the left to listen, and I want to hear their ideas, too, so we can go back and forth on this.
00:21:43.000 Okay?
00:21:44.000 It's Jimmy Kimmel saying, basically, if you don't want to watch the show, so long, see ya.
00:21:49.000 Right, that is not the voice of somebody who wants to convince.
00:21:52.000 That's the voice of somebody who wants to pander.
00:21:54.000 So if Jane Coaston wants to write a piece...
00:21:58.000 If Jimmy Kimmel really wants to debate these issues and have an honest conversation about them, I'm more than happy to come on his show and I'm more than happy to have him on mine.
00:22:06.000 I don't think that's going to happen.
00:22:27.000 Okay, so I want to talk about Harvey Weinstein because this has been the brewing scandal for a long time here.
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00:23:49.000 Okay, let's talk about Harvey Weinstein.
00:23:51.000 So, I've lived my entire life in Hollywood.
00:24:11.000 I grew up in Hollywood.
00:24:12.000 My mom works in Hollywood.
00:24:14.000 I have met Harvey Weinstein.
00:24:15.000 I met him one time.
00:24:16.000 I was at the Four Seasons having breakfast with a friend of mine named David Suiza, who's the editor over at the LA Jewish Journal, and David introduced me to Harvey Weinstein.
00:24:26.000 Weinstein was a jerk, but he did not sexually harass me, which apparently makes me the only person in a 300-mile radius he did not sexually harass.
00:24:32.000 Um, so, um, for what that is worth.
00:24:35.000 In any case, uh, Weinstein now, obviously, they're saying there are hundreds of cases in which he sexually assaulted, harassed, or raped people.
00:24:42.000 Uh, so, that is, uh, is shocking but not surprising.
00:24:45.000 The reason I say it's shocking but not surprising is that this has long been a part of Hollywood culture.
00:24:50.000 To pretend otherwise is just foolish.
00:24:52.000 And unlike in, for example, the Catholic Church, which is against these things,
00:24:56.000 This has always been a long, if not celebrated, then winked at, nodded at, grinned at, laughed at part of Hollywood culture.
00:25:05.000 It has been.
00:25:05.000 The casting couch has been part of Hollywood culture since the very beginning.
00:25:11.000 And to pretend otherwise is just to let Hollywood off the hook
00:25:16.000 for a certain perspective on human sexuality that is seriously perverse and leads to really dire consequences.
00:25:22.000 The reason the left wants to ignore this, of course, is because the Hollywood view of human sexuality that allowed for this sort of misbehavior and evil to accrue and occur for literally decades on end is something that the left sort of holds in high regard, and that is the transactional nature of sex.
00:25:40.000 So, let's talk a little bit about the casting couch for just a second.
00:25:44.000 So, first of all, here's a little bit of Hollywood history.
00:25:47.000 It was built on sexual peccadillos, and in particular on the casting couch.
00:25:51.000 Here is a long list of people who are involved in using the so-called casting couch.
00:25:54.000 For those who don't know the phrase, casting couch means that there's a director, he has to cast a part in his film, and so he'll go to a hot starlet, or upcoming starlet who has ambitions, and say to her, you want a shot at this role, you want a screen test, darling, get down on that couch.
00:26:09.000 That's what the casting couch meant.
00:26:11.000 Here are some of the people who engaged in it.
00:26:12.000 Louis B. Mayer, the founder of MGM.
00:26:15.000 Apparently, he sexually assaulted teenage Judy Garland.
00:26:18.000 There are stories about him with Judy Garland on his lap when she was 16 years old and him fondling her breasts.
00:26:24.000 This goes back a long time.
00:26:26.000 Arthur Freed, legendary producer, allegedly exposed himself to Shirley Temple when she was 11 years old.
00:26:32.000 She wrote that in her memoir.
00:26:34.000 Harry Cohn.
00:26:35.000 A guy so hated in Hollywood that there was an old joke that used to go around about Harry Cohn that his funeral would be the most well-attended event in the history of Hollywood, because everyone wanted to make sure he was dead.
00:26:46.000 But Harry Cohn had a long history of sexual abuse, apparently.
00:26:51.000 Daryl Zanuck reportedly solicited prospective starlets on a routine basis.
00:26:55.000 Howard Hughes not only slept with starlets consensually, but apparently had a casting couch himself.
00:27:00.000 And this was a running joke in Hollywood for years, okay?
00:27:02.000 It's part of the movies.
00:27:03.000 All About Eve won Best Picture in 1950.
00:27:05.000 It's a terrific film.
00:27:06.000 I've recommended it here on the actual show.
00:27:10.000 This joke involves Marilyn Monroe.
00:27:12.000 So you're going to see here a very, very young Marilyn Monroe.
00:27:15.000 This is one of Marilyn Monroe's first screen roles, in which she had a speaking role anyway.
00:27:20.000 And she plays an up-and-coming woman who's attempting to break into the theater.
00:27:26.000 She has a bit part.
00:27:27.000 George Sanders is playing a theater critic named Addison DeWitt, and he's been squiring Monroe's character around.
00:27:34.000 Basically, she's sleeping with him so that he will squire her around town, and then he passes her off to the producers, right?
00:27:40.000 The way that he's going to pass her off to the producers is have her essentially used as a sexual object by the producers in order to solicit a part.
00:27:47.000 This is an open part of the film, right?
00:27:49.000 I mean, this is part of the joke.
00:27:50.000 Here it is from the film.
00:27:52.000 Then you two must have a long talk.
00:27:54.000 I'm afraid Mr. DeWitt would find me boring before too long.
00:27:57.000 You won't bore him, honey.
00:27:58.000 You won't even get a chance to talk.
00:28:01.000 Claudia, come here.
00:28:05.000 You see that man?
00:28:06.000 That's Max Fabian, the producer.
00:28:08.000 Now go and do yourself some good.
00:28:10.000 Why do they always look like unhappy rabbits?
00:28:13.000 Because that's what they are.
00:28:14.000 Now go and make him happy.
00:28:19.000 All I want is a drink.
00:28:21.000 Leave it to me.
00:28:23.000 I'll get you one.
00:28:23.000 Thank you, Mr. KB.
00:28:26.000 Well done.
00:28:27.000 I can see your career rising in the East like the sun.
00:28:32.000 Okay, and then she ends up getting an audition, but not getting the part, and then she asks Addison DeWitt for his advice.
00:28:36.000 He says, go try the same thing in Hollywood.
00:28:38.000 Okay, this is in the New York theater circles.
00:28:40.000 This has always been a part of Hollywood.
00:28:42.000 It's always been a disgusting, horrible part of Hollywood.
00:28:45.000 To pretend otherwise is to ignore reality.
00:28:47.000 Okay, Harvey Weinstein is the worst example of what happens in Hollywood, but it is ridiculous to suggest he is the only example of this happening in Hollywood.
00:28:56.000 There are a number of starlets who have talked about this over time.
00:28:59.000 I'm talking about virtually all of the major ones have talked about it.
00:29:02.000 Joan Collins talked about it.
00:29:03.000 Marilyn Monroe described the town as being, she said that, this is from her autobiography, she said producers treated Hollywood, quote, like an overcrowded brothel.
00:29:14.000 A movie that many more people have seen than All About Eve, although All About Eve is a great movie.
00:29:18.000 The Godfather, this is part of the plot.
00:29:20.000 Don't you remember in The Godfather?
00:29:22.000 Right, Jack Woltz.
00:29:22.000 You remember the guy who ends up with a horse head in his bed?
00:29:24.000 Do you remember the conversation that leads to the horse head in his bed in The Godfather?
00:29:28.000 It's Jack Woltz, this famous Hollywood producer, who's sitting with Tom Hagen, and he says to him, and this is a direct quote, Johnny Fontaine never gets that part, right?
00:29:36.000 Johnny Fontaine ruined one of Woltz International's most valuable proteges.
00:29:39.000 I was gonna make her a big star.
00:29:41.000 And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I'm not a hard-hearted man.
00:29:43.000 That's not all dollars and cents.
00:29:45.000 She was beautiful.
00:29:45.000 She was young.
00:29:46.000 She was innocent.
00:29:46.000 She was the greatest piece of ass I've ever had.
00:29:49.000 That's in the Godfather.
00:29:51.000 Everyone knew in Hollywood about this for decades.
00:29:54.000 It's still going on in Hollywood right now.
00:29:57.000 It's still going on in Hollywood right now.
00:30:00.000 Power means that power combined with transactional sex leads to sexual abuse.
00:30:06.000 Power plus transactional sex leads to sexual abuse.
00:30:10.000 Not just for women who are openly raped and their consent violated, but for women who are essentially forced into the position of having to sleep with guys they don't want to sleep with in order to make their way to the top.
00:30:21.000 That system has been in place for a hundred years in Hollywood, and that's not a justification for the system, folks.
00:30:27.000 This is me ripping on Hollywood's morality.
00:30:29.000 This is me ripping on the transactional nature of sex and beauty in Hollywood.
00:30:32.000 This has been true forever.
00:30:36.000 Famous actresses, like Ellen Barkin, she comes out and she says that Harvey Weinstein's evils, that everyone knew about them for years.
00:30:42.000 But Rich, famous actors and actresses, said nothing.
00:30:44.000 Okay, where were you?
00:30:46.000 Once you became rich and famous, wasn't it incumbent on you to out these people?
00:30:49.000 If you actually want to change the system, you can't wait till Harvey Weinstein gets out and then you tell your horror story about Harvey Weinstein.
00:30:55.000 You want to talk about hollow bravery?
00:30:56.000 To me, that's hollow bravery.
00:30:58.000 Because now Harvey Weinstein's already outed.
00:31:00.000 You want actual bravery?
00:31:02.000 Tell us who the bad guys are so that we can root them out.
00:31:06.000 If you want to change the system, you have to get rid of the bad guys.
00:31:09.000 And the only people who are capable of making that move are people who are already the stars.
00:31:13.000 They're the people who are already the stars.
00:31:14.000 Because if you're up and coming, if you're 18, you're trying to get a job in Hollywood, you're trying to make your way,
00:31:20.000 It's sort of like the deal that a lot of baseball players made with steroids in the early 2000s.
00:31:24.000 Right?
00:31:24.000 You can either languish in AAA or you can take the steroids and go for the millions of dollars.
00:31:29.000 Is that an immoral decision?
00:31:30.000 Yeah, it's an immoral decision.
00:31:31.000 It's an understandable one.
00:31:32.000 It's also an understandable decision.
00:31:34.000 The same thing happens to be true with a lot of these young Hollywood actresses and actors who come to Hollywood looking for a career, and the difference between them being Tom Hanks and them being a guy working at the Coffee Bean is what they're willing to do in a bedroom with a producer.
00:31:46.000 The only way that that system gets broken is if the people who are already stars dedicate themselves to rooting this out, and that means naming names.
00:31:53.000 Because bad people will continue to do bad things so long as they have these jobs.
00:31:57.000 Names have to be named.
00:32:01.000 Back to the transactional sex point.
00:32:03.000 Again, men in power have always used sex for transactional purposes, and this doesn't just exist in Hollywood.
00:32:08.000 This has existed in public schools.
00:32:10.000 It exists in churches and synagogues.
00:32:11.000 It exists in politics.
00:32:14.000 Obviously, Bill Clinton comes to mind.
00:32:16.000 This is what Bill Clinton did to Kathleen Willey.
00:32:18.000 All of this has been happening for years.
00:32:21.000 But it only stops when the public shows that they are not willing to accept the transactional nature of sex.
00:32:25.000 That sex means more than just, I'm trading sex for a part.
00:32:29.000 I'm trading sex for a role.
00:32:30.000 I'm trading sex with power, for power.
00:32:33.000 There is a value to sex beyond the ever-present physical stimulus.
00:32:36.000 It is more than just shaking hands.
00:32:38.000 So long as society treats sex that way, it's going to be very difficult to curb these impulses.
00:32:43.000 It's gonna make it harder to curb these impulses.
00:32:45.000 Either sex means something or it doesn't.
00:32:47.000 If sex is just a handshake, well then, a handshake can close a business deal.
00:32:53.000 But if sex is more than that, then we ought to look askance at the casting couch, even if the women are consenting to be on it.
00:32:58.000 Because that sort of consent is not real consent, in my view.
00:33:02.000 That sort of consent is a power relationship.
00:33:05.000 You know, this is where I'm more feminist than a lot of people on both the right and the left.
00:33:08.000 That sort of power relationship is an exploitation of women.
00:33:12.000 And society needs to disapprove of this.
00:33:14.000 Can it be done?
00:33:15.000 Sure.
00:33:15.000 Society did in the past.
00:33:16.000 In fact, society so disapproved of the Hollywood treatment of sex in the 1920s that the Catholic Legion of Decency led a boycott against Hollywood, and that boycott led Hollywood to actually reflect the values of the time in its own films.
00:33:30.000 They had a voluntary thing called the Hays Code.
00:33:32.000 The Hays Code existed from the 1930s to the 1960s, and that's why you have all of these movies where every kiss is closed mouth,
00:33:40.000 Were there no sex scenes?
00:33:41.000 Why, from the 1930s to the 1960s, you don't see people in bed together?
00:33:45.000 Why men and women sleep in separate beds?
00:33:46.000 All of that is a reflection of the Hays Code.
00:33:49.000 Did the Hays Code go too far in some ways?
00:33:50.000 Yeah, I think it did, but was it a reflection of the fact that the American people were not willing to go along with Hollywood's view of sex?
00:33:56.000 Yes.
00:33:57.000 And the American people have to not be willing to go along with that view of sex, and they have to extend a better, a more sanctified view of sex into their own lives as well.
00:34:08.000 So I think that that's what I have to say about Harvey Weinstein.
00:34:10.000 I think also, by the way, that every community should look to its own here.
00:34:14.000 I do think that every community should look to its own issues with regard to sexual power dynamics and see whether they are upholding standards of their communities or whether they are undermining those standards.
00:34:26.000 This, again, I think is the difference between churches and synagogues in Hollywood.
00:34:29.000 I think, as I showed you in this movie, this has always been an openly accepted part of Hollywood culture.
00:34:33.000 It was never an openly accepted part of church culture, which is why it's so ridiculous that the media have decided to make, you know, every time there's a sexual scandal in the Catholic Church, the media decide that they're going to make this about priests being celibate.
00:34:46.000 But when there's a sexual scandal in Hollywood where sex scandals are the rule, not the exception, then it's, well, why are we making a big deal about Hollywood?
00:34:53.000 This happens everywhere.
00:34:55.000 Because in one area it's endemic to the culture and celebrated in the culture and in one it is abhorred.
00:34:59.000 Okay, I'm going to talk a little bit about Hillary Clinton's response to this in just a second, but first I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Skillshare.
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00:36:07.000 I think so.
00:36:29.000 Hillary Clinton, I think, is a perfect example of somebody who has accepted the leftist view of sex and power, and yet proclaims that she doesn't.
00:36:37.000 This is why you see people like me saying that Hollywood is full of hypocrisy.
00:36:41.000 By the way, this is not to let up on the hypocrisy of people who made light of Donald Trump's language with regard to this.
00:36:48.000 Was I surprised by Trump?
00:36:49.000 I was not surprised by Trump in the P-word grabbing video.
00:36:53.000 I was not surprised by that because I don't think Trump is conservative.
00:36:55.000 I think Trump is Hollywood.
00:36:57.000 I think Trump is New York and Hollywood, right?
00:36:59.000 Trump looks more at home in All About Eve than he does in The Bible Belt.
00:37:05.000 So his sort of ethics with regard to sex are obviously Hollywood ethics with regard to sex.
00:37:10.000 So I wasn't really surprised by that.
00:37:12.000 But people who excused it for Trump and then made excuse and then and then go after Weinstein or who made excuses for Weinstein for years and then went after Trump, they're all hypocrites.
00:37:21.000 Anyway, here's one of those hypocrites, Hillary Clinton, who is going after Trump while basically ignoring the fact that there is someone whose last name rhymes with Glinton, who she is married to, who engaged in precisely the same sorts of activities.
00:37:35.000 I did not know.
00:37:36.000 I mean, everyone knew rumors about him.
00:37:37.000 Not specific cases, but everyone knew that Harvey Weinstein, apparently, in his circle, was a little bit, you know,
00:37:45.000 Well, all I can tell you is that I did not hear those things.
00:37:47.000 Look, we just elected a person who admitted sexual assault to the presidency.
00:37:52.000 So there's a lot of other issues that are swirling around these kinds of behaviors that need to be addressed.
00:38:00.000 And I think it's important that we stay focused and shine a bright spotlight and try to get people to understand how damaging this is.
00:38:08.000 And the women coming forward is the only way that that story will be told.
00:38:12.000 Okay, the women coming forward is the only way that story is going to be told.
00:38:15.000 Hmm.
00:38:16.000 Juanita Broderick, Kathleen Willey, Monica Lewinsky, all bubbleheads, all liars, according to Hillary Clinton.
00:38:22.000 It's so funny, the left is very upset if you say this about Hillary Clinton, but Hillary does not have any credibility to speak on this issue whatsoever.
00:38:28.000 She did participate in covering up her husband's peccadillos, and to pretend otherwise is ignorant.
00:38:33.000 And then, of course, she blames sexism endemic to society.
00:38:36.000 Okay, if Hillary Clinton really cared about this stuff, she would have outed her husband long ago.
00:38:40.000 But she is a perfect example of somebody who married to power and overlooked this sort of behavior in order to get away with it.
00:38:48.000 You wonder why the right was willing to quote-unquote overlook Trump?
00:38:53.000 One of the reasons the right was willing to overlook Trump is because he was running against Hillary Clinton, who was part of the problem as well.
00:39:00.000 I think sexism and misogyny are endemic in our society and I do try to take readers on a journey with me and obviously I use Bill's story and Barack's story to tell how galvanizing
00:39:19.000 They were because people immediately saw this arc of, you know, from, you know, poverty in Hope, Arkansas, you know, from a biracial family in Hawaii, how really impressive and exciting their stories were.
00:39:36.000 I'm a middle-class girl from the middle of the country, and so I always struggled with, like, okay, so what's my story?
00:39:43.000 And it suddenly dawned on me that I was the beneficiary of these radical changes in, you know, women's rights and opportunities that... Hillary Clinton is the anti-feminist when it comes to this.
00:39:56.000 Understand something about feminism, okay?
00:39:58.000 Originally, feminism... I think you can stop it there.
00:40:00.000 Originally, feminism was designed against things like the casting couch.
00:40:04.000 Feminism was designed against the madmen theory that women had to go to bed with their bosses in order to progress in the company.
00:40:09.000 That's what feminism was founded upon.
00:40:11.000 Hillary Clinton made excuses for her husband, married into power, and then used that power for her own benefit.
00:40:17.000 This is part of the leftist culture.
00:40:18.000 Again, you can't proclaim that Harvey Weinstein is an absolute piece of crap under all circumstances.
00:40:24.000 There are no reservations about that.
00:40:25.000 But you cannot proclaim that the culture that created Harvey Weinstein has nothing to do with the promulgation of many more people like Harvey Weinstein in Hollywood.
00:40:32.000 I mean, look at Twitter right now, and what you're going to see is a bunch of Hollywood stars who condemned Harvey Weinstein, and then five seconds later there's some woman on Twitter who says, I was at a Golden Globes party five seconds ago, and Ben Affleck was grabbing my ass.
00:40:44.000 Like, really, this happened on Twitter.
00:40:46.000 This is all happening on Twitter in real time.
00:40:48.000 Because this is part of the culture out here.
00:40:50.000 It is.
00:40:51.000 And as part of a broader left-wing culture, that is a problem.
00:40:53.000 There are lots of problems in right-wing culture, too.
00:40:55.000 And I'm happy to talk about those when those arise.
00:40:58.000 The problems of sexual harassment at Fox News, I should have talked more about it at the time.
00:41:02.000 But the reality is that what we are watching right now is much more endemic to the culture of Hollywood than it is at Fox News.
00:41:09.000 It wasn't like Fox News, they were releasing shows making jokes about sexual assault.
00:41:14.000 Or if they were, I missed it.
00:41:15.000 In any case, I want to talk about some moves that President Trump made while I was out of town.
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00:43:27.000 Okay, now it's time for me to bust a few myths.
00:43:28.000 So, over the last week, President Trump has taken a bunch of actions that are actually quite good, or don't do much.
00:43:34.000 And the left is going nuts over them.
00:43:36.000 So let's start with this thing that President Trump is somehow going to cause the collapse of Obamacare because he's so evil and so terrible.
00:43:43.000 So, Chris Murphy...
00:43:45.000 From Connecticut.
00:43:47.000 Ever someone who is moderate and well-reasoned in his stances loses his mind, his head explodes, actually on television like the end of Kingsman.
00:43:57.000 And he explains that Trump is putting a gun to the head of constituents by defunding some of the Obamacare exchanges.
00:44:04.000 He is literally setting the entire healthcare system on fire just because the president is upset that the United States Congress won't pass a repeal bill.
00:44:12.000 Okay, we can stop it there.
00:44:12.000 First of all, he is not literally setting the entire healthcare system on fire.
00:44:15.000 The healthcare system is abstract.
00:44:17.000 It would be very difficult for him to do so unless he headed on over to Health and Human Services and started a fire in a broom closet somewhere.
00:44:23.000 You can't literally set things on fire that are not physical commodities.
00:44:26.000 So, in any case, let's talk about what President Trump actually did on healthcare.
00:44:31.000 Hey, Avik Roy is sort of the go-to expert with regard to healthcare regulations and law.
00:44:36.000 It's pretty complex, but I will use Avik Roy's framework here because I think this is exactly right.
00:44:40.000 So here is what he says.
00:44:41.000 He says,
00:44:49.000 Two, restoring the ability of individuals to buy short-term plans exempt from some Obamacare rules.
00:44:54.000 And three, examining ways to make employer-funded health savings accounts more flexible.
00:44:58.000 The left says that this is going to destroy the healthcare system.
00:45:01.000 And then he said that he was going to stop dispersing cost-sharing subsidies until Congress appropriates the funds for them.
00:45:07.000 Okay, the last one is the one that he's talking about, that no longer is the federal government just going to willy-nilly decide to fund Obamacare exchanges.
00:45:15.000 That is correct, because it is illegal.
00:45:18.000 When Obama did it, it was illegal.
00:45:19.000 Obama doing it was in violation of Obamacare law.
00:45:23.000 Obama decided he didn't care and did it anyway.
00:45:25.000 Trump threw it back to Congress.
00:45:26.000 If Congress wants to use the Obamacare subsidies as leverage to make changes to Obamacare, then they damn well should.
00:45:33.000 That would make a lot of sense.
00:45:34.000 Trump didn't do anything wrong there.
00:45:35.000 As far as these other changes, allowing small businesses to pool together to purchase health insurance
00:45:40.000 The idea here is that supposedly this will exclude certain small businesses, that basically the way it works right now is that you're not allowed to discriminate under Obamacare based on previous health history, at least with regard to large businesses.
00:45:55.000 So small businesses will be forced to, small businesses will be forced to
00:46:03.000 Um, be discriminated against.
00:46:04.000 Here's the way that Avik Roy puts it.
00:46:07.000 He basically says, the idea of association health plans has been around for a long time.
00:46:11.000 George W. Bush included them in his 2007 health reform proposal.
00:46:14.000 The idea is that individuals could get insurance from voluntary associations like the Sierra Club or a church group.
00:46:19.000 The Trump executive order claims to legalize association health plans, but actually it doesn't even do that.
00:46:24.000 It allows small businesses but not voluntary associations to pool together to buy insurance in bulk.
00:46:29.000 In fact, the order is even more modest than that.
00:46:31.000 Small businesses already have the ability to pool together.
00:46:33.000 Instead, the likely impact of this part of the executive order is minimal to zero.
00:46:40.000 So, basically, it has no impact.
00:46:42.000 Restoring the ability of individuals to buy short-term plans, again, that's good.
00:46:45.000 Examining ways to make employer-funded health savings accounts more flexible, that, too, is good.
00:46:50.000 But the left opposes all of these things because it wants to force people into health insurance through Obamacare.
00:46:56.000 Other things that Trump did that were good over the weekend or over the last week, he refused to recertify the Iran deal, but he did not withdraw from the Iran deal.
00:47:03.000 I think this is a mistake.
00:47:05.000 I think refusing to recertify the Iran deal is correct.
00:47:07.000 I think you should just withdraw from it.
00:47:09.000 So the idea was that he sort of split the baby.
00:47:11.000 There were three choices.
00:47:12.000 One was recertify the Iran deal.
00:47:14.000 Iran is in compliance with the Iran deal, because the Iran deal is specifically written so it's almost impossible for Iran not to be in compliance with the Iran deal.
00:47:21.000 That was why it was such a bad deal to begin with, which is why Trump should just get out of it.
00:47:26.000 Instead, Trump is saying, I'm not going to recertify because the deal is bad.
00:47:28.000 We're going to set some new conditions, and if Iran doesn't fulfill those conditions, then we'll impose sanctions.
00:47:33.000 Okay, better than nothing for sure.
00:47:36.000 It is splitting the baby a little bit, but Trump's statements on this were exactly correct.
00:47:39.000 Here is Trump talking about how Iran is a fanatical regime.
00:47:44.000 Today I am announcing our strategy, along with several major steps we are taking to confront the Iranian regime's hostile actions and to ensure that Iran never, and I mean never, acquires a nuclear weapon.
00:48:04.000 Our policy is based on a clear-eyed assessment
00:48:09.000 Okay, we can stop it there.
00:48:12.000 This was good stuff from Trump.
00:48:13.000 This is excellent Trump.
00:48:14.000 Other excellent Trump, he withdrew from UNESCO.
00:48:16.000 UNESCO is one of the world's most garbage organizations.
00:48:19.000 That is the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
00:48:23.000 It has never been educational, scientific, or cultural.
00:48:26.000 It's basically been an Israel-bashing seminar.
00:48:28.000 In 2011, they declared that the Church of the Nativity, or 2012, they declared the Church of the Nativity was a World Heritage Site in danger.
00:48:36.000 Which is not true.
00:48:37.000 And then, they claimed that the Western Wall was not a Jewish site, which is insane.
00:48:41.000 They referred to the Temple Mount as the Al-Aqsa Mosque Plaza.
00:48:44.000 They called the Wailing Wall the Barak Plaza, and they called Israel the occupying power in Jerusalem.
00:48:48.000 The United States basically said, we're done here, and they withdrew from UNESCO.
00:48:53.000 It is my view that we should withdraw entirely from the United Nations, which is a stupid organization, but that would require a little bit more time for me to explain.
00:49:00.000 Okay, so we really don't have much time for things I like and things I hate, so I'll skip things I like today, and we'll do just one thing that I hate today, and that is David Brooks from the New York Times.
00:49:09.000 So David Brooks from the New York Times is the so-called conservative at the New York Times.
00:49:12.000 He's not conservative.
00:49:14.000 He once said that he liked Barack Obama.
00:49:15.000 He infamously said that he liked Barack Obama because he could tell by the crease in his pants that he was his kind of guy.
00:49:21.000 Which I don't make a habit of staring at creases in other dudes pants, it's just weird.
00:49:26.000 But in any case, that was his take.
00:49:28.000 Here is David Brooks from the New York Times explaining that the real reason that Trump has been bad on Puerto Rico is because the Puerto Ricans are brown.
00:49:35.000 There's been a lack of, there was total graciousness toward Texas, and graciousness toward Florida, but he's incapable of showing any compassion and graciousness toward people who are just trying to find drinking water in Puerto Rico.
00:49:47.000 And so the lesson is the lesson that we're all going to draw from that, that the people in Puerto Rico don't look like a lot of the people in Texas.
00:49:55.000 And I think that's probably a pretty fair judgment.
00:49:59.000 Okay, so, um, you know, no.
00:50:01.000 And here's the proof that no.
00:50:03.000 Here's a Puerto Rican delegate yesterday saying, uh, Trump gave us everything we asked for.
00:50:06.000 Again, you sort of have to disconnect Trump being stupid on Twitter from what Trump has actually done in Puerto Rico.
00:50:11.000 Again, the evidence is at best mixed on Puerto Rico, but I see very little evidence that Trump was willfully withholding aid from Puerto Rico because they look more brown than people in Texas.
00:50:21.000 Especially because, by the way, Texas has a heavy Hispanic population.
00:50:24.000 It's, I believe by percentage, the second heaviest Hispanic population in the nation after California, I believe.
00:50:29.000 In any case, here is this Puerto Rican delegate explaining.
00:50:33.000 I will tell you that everything the president said that he was going to send to Ireland, it's getting there.
00:50:39.000 The resources are there.
00:50:41.000 The help is there.
00:50:42.000 He instructed all his cabinet members to treat Puerto Rico as a state in terms of this hurricane.
00:50:48.000 Bottom line is there's plenty of reasons to criticize President Trump, and I am more than willing to do so when he does something wrong.
00:50:54.000 But the jump to conclusions in order to target people?
00:50:56.000 It's gotta stop, okay guys?
00:50:58.000 Evidence, evidence, evidence, evidence.
00:50:59.000 That holds true for Jane Koston, and that should also hold true for David Brooks over at the New York Times, as it should hold true for me when I make a claim.
00:51:05.000 We should all have the same, you know, basis.
00:51:07.000 Evidence for the claims we make.
00:51:08.000 Okay, we will be back here tomorrow, because we're not on vacation anymore.
00:51:12.000 So, fear not, we'll be back here tomorrow to organize all of the day's myriad events.
00:51:17.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.