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.
00:00:42.000Breakdown on the Harvey Weinstein scandal because that actually broke after I left for vacation.
00:00:46.000But 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.
00:00:56.000I also want to talk about some good moves that President Trump made while I was away.
00:01:00.000Plus, 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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00:02:37.000Okay, so apparently all hell broke loose last week.
00:02:41.000And I was off for the last three days of the week.
00:02:43.000I want to start by responding to this op-ed because I've gotten a lot of mail about it.
00:02:47.000While 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.
00:02:57.000Obviously, 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.
00:03:11.000What I do know from Jane Koston is that she is a lefty.
00:03:38.000If you see more Nazis, you should punch them too.
00:03:39.000So she sounds like a very tolerant and diverse individual, which is just wonderful.
00:03:44.000And she titled her piece on me, The Hollow Bravery of Ben Shapiro.
00:03:48.000So the first thing is that I would just like to note here, I have never called myself brave.
00:03:53.000In 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.
00:04:01.000I'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.
00:04:07.000So, for me, my job is not about bravery.
00:04:09.000My job is about saying things that I think are true, and then you take them, or you leave them.
00:04:14.000The idea that I have ever proclaimed that I am the hallmark of bravery is just absurd.
00:04:20.000But the piece itself is really designed to attack the entire conservative movement and me as sort of a supposed dot leader in it.
00:04:37.000Set up a speech in a progressive bastion, ideally a college campus full of coastal elites who have never left their bubble.
00:04:42.000Spar 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.
00:04:48.000Post the exchange on the internet and use it as proof that the cultural consensus is stacked dramatically against conservatives.
00:04:53.000As Mr. Shapiro has put it, the left has run out of aggressors to target.
00:04:56.000Instead, they've become the aggressor's self-righteous morality police dedicated to wiping out dissenting thought.
00:05:01.000Well, 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.
00:05:13.000As I've said again 1,000 times the year before, I showed up with no security.
00:05:17.000I had my security team, but there were no police officers necessary.
00:05:20.000It's not me that's making this issue on campus.
00:05:23.000It is not I. I am not the one who is designing these problems on college campuses, nor do I even like them.
00:05:29.000I mean, you can talk to people from my team.
00:05:30.000They will tell you, before we do every lecture, I say, I really hope this one is nice and calm.
00:05:35.000And 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.
00:05:46.000Two, 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.
00:05:57.000I debated Shama Sawant, who was the Socialist City Council member in Seattle.
00:06:03.000I'm going to have a discussion with Sam Harris, with whom I strenuously disagree on religion.
00:06:08.000I'm going to have a discussion with him up in San Francisco in December.
00:06:11.000In fact, I'm hard-pressed to think of many people on the right who debate people on the left more than I do.
00:06:15.000Like, high-ranking people on the left more than I do.
00:06:18.000I debate people on the left all the time.
00:06:20.000This idea that I'm out there looking for snowflakes to melt is just patently absurd.
00:06:25.000In 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
00:06:32.000College leftists to trigger, but that's not my job.
00:06:34.000My job is to say things I think are true in front of audiences full of leftists and conservatives.
00:06:39.000I wish more people who are on the left would show up.
00:06:41.000I mean, I always, I have a standing rule.
00:06:43.000Look at every one of my lectures for the last year and a half.
00:06:53.000The 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.
00:07:03.000In 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.
00:07:38.000I 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...
00:07:46.000The notion that we're not cultural underdogs is absurd.
00:07:48.000She says, what Mr. Shapiro does on campus is shadowboxing, meant to pander to his conservative fans, whose values dominate mainstream American culture.
00:07:55.000Okay, no evidence that conservative values dominate mainstream American culture.
00:07:59.000In 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.
00:08:10.000She said, if he wants to be genuinely brave, he'd challenge some of the wrongheaded ideas
00:08:24.000The 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.
00:08:30.000Fully ignorant of my work in order to say this.
00:08:32.000For 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.
00:08:42.000I was the initiator of good Trump, bad Trump.
00:08:47.000I'm the guy who had on my desk for months a shoe.
00:08:50.000We called it the put it on the other foot shoe.
00:08:54.000We 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.
00:09:04.000I'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.
00:09:17.000And the idea that I don't criticize people on the so-called right side of the aisle is patently absurd.
00:09:22.000Again, I've criticized the alt-right incessantly, repeatedly.
00:09:25.000When I left Breitbart, I criticized Steve Bannon.
00:09:28.000I criticized Steve Bannon when he was appointed to the campaign.
00:09:32.000I don't know where she's getting this, but all I will say is that it is utterly in disconnect with reality.
00:09:37.000And anybody who watches this show knows that that is the case.
00:09:39.000Anybody who listens to the show knows this is the case.
00:09:41.000We try to be intellectually honest about our conservatism.
00:09:43.000It seems to me that what Jane Coaston really wants is for me to be on the left.
00:09:47.000This 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?
00:09:54.000Okay, 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.
00:10:01.000If your idea of dissent is that I have to agree with you, then I dissent from your dissent.
00:10:33.000In 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.
00:10:43.000And then she says the animated video is actually the second one the Daily Wire posted this past weekend on the subject.
00:10:47.000The other carried the subtle title, quote, Christopher Columbus actually was a great man.
00:10:51.000So the second video I think is actually quite good.
00:10:53.000The second video is from Michael Knowles, and it is a full breakdown of the entire history of Christopher Columbus.
00:10:59.000Kostin, 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.
00:11:20.000So I wanted to, you know, I was conflicted in the sense that I don't like pulling down satire.
00:11:25.000I think that satire, you get a broader range than just you would in a normal video.
00:11:29.000And so I made the mistake of leaving it up for 24 hours.
00:11:32.000Over that 24 hours, I became increasingly disconcerted with the video.
00:11:36.000I really was not a fan of it at the beginning.
00:11:38.000Over 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.
00:11:46.000And I took it down and I issued an apology personally for the video being on the site in the first place.
00:11:50.000Which is, as far as I'm aware, what you are supposed to do when a bad video goes up on your site.
00:11:55.000So... Okay, if I really wanted to not tick off my right-wing fans, I would have left the thing up, wouldn't I?
00:12:01.000And 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.
00:12:10.000And 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.
00:12:23.000Mary Catherine Hamm, who was a never-Trumper, is on that site.
00:12:26.000So is Molly Hemingway, who was a very pro-Trump writer, is on that site.
00:12:29.000And then what does she use as her example of real pandering?
00:12:32.000She 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.
00:14:02.000She said, he sent over a statement apologizing for it, saying it engaged in broad-based stereotyping, which she also posted on Twitter.
00:14:07.000In 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.
00:14:30.000I guarantee you she has not watched a single speech I've done on campus.
00:14:33.000If she has, then I don't know if she had the mute on, but that is patently crazy.
00:14:38.000Okay, the idea that I have not told college students on the right to examine their own politics?
00:14:42.000Half 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.
00:14:55.000Okay, so again, all of this is just dumb.
00:14:57.000All 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.
00:15:07.000And 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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00:16:30.000People 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.
00:16:41.000If you tick off the left enough, they are just going to accuse you of pandering to your own base.
00:16:46.000It doesn't matter what you actually say.
00:16:47.000It doesn't matter what you actually do.
00:16:49.000It 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.
00:16:57.000None 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.
00:17:08.000You know, they don't worry about that on their own side, but they worry about that on the right.
00:17:11.000Never mind the fact that most conservatives read things on the left.
00:17:15.000Most conservatives, you know, are in a culture that is dominated by the left.
00:17:19.000Despite Jane Koston's evidence-less propositions to the contrary, the fact is that the mainstream American media culture is dominated by the left.
00:17:28.000Okay, Daily Wire has become a very big site, thank God, but it is not a big site in comparison to places like Huffington Post.
00:17:35.000The fact is, the left still dominates the media conversation.
00:17:40.000And 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.
00:17:48.000You want to know who is in the pandering business?
00:17:51.000Somebody who is hailed by the left as a moral hero.
00:17:55.000So 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?
00:18:09.000In any case, I can't remember the name of the senator, Bill Cassidy, Cassidy.
00:18:12.000In any case, Jimmy Kimmel did a whole rant about Bill Cassidy and Obamacare, how terrible it would be if Obamacare were repealed.
00:18:19.000It was evidence-less, it was fact-free.
00:18:21.000I did an entire rebuttal of it here on the show that went viral.
00:18:24.000And Jimmy Kimmel has been hailed as a moral leader because he spoke out on gun control and because he spoke out on healthcare.
00:19:24.000Am 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.
00:19:43.000Because 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.
00:20:26.000I mean, I'd love for everyone, I want everyone with a television to watch the show.
00:20:30.000But if they're so turned off by my opinion on health care and gun violence, then... I don't know.
00:20:40.000I probably won't want to have a conversation with them anyway.
00:20:44.000Okay, so it's that last part that's the telling part.
00:20:47.000So number one, when he says he didn't appoint himself a moral arbiter, I'm glad.
00:20:51.000I wish the media would stop appointing a moral arbiter then.
00:20:54.000And I wish that he would stop talking in these passionate moral tones about everyone who disagrees with him being the Antichrist.
00:21:01.000Like, that would be nice if he would cut that out then.
00:21:03.000If he's not the moral arbiter, then he should stop posing as one.
00:21:06.000And that final comment is the one where I say he's pandering.
00:21:09.000That 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?
00:21:16.000Well, if somebody said that to me, right?
00:21:18.000If somebody said, there are a bunch of people who are turned off by your rhetoric, what do you say about that?
00:21:23.000I would say some of the same things that Jimmy Kimmel said, right?
00:21:25.000I would say, listen, they have a right to watch the show, they have a right not to watch the show.
00:21:28.000What I would say is, maybe they should listen to my perspective, and I'll listen to theirs, and we can have a discussion.
00:21:44.000It's Jimmy Kimmel saying, basically, if you don't want to watch the show, so long, see ya.
00:21:49.000Right, that is not the voice of somebody who wants to convince.
00:21:52.000That's the voice of somebody who wants to pander.
00:21:54.000So if Jane Coaston wants to write a piece...
00:21:58.000If 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.
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00:24:16.000I 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.
00:24:26.000Weinstein 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.
00:24:35.000In any case, uh, Weinstein now, obviously, they're saying there are hundreds of cases in which he sexually assaulted, harassed, or raped people.
00:24:42.000Uh, so, that is, uh, is shocking but not surprising.
00:24:45.000The reason I say it's shocking but not surprising is that this has long been a part of Hollywood culture.
00:25:05.000The casting couch has been part of Hollywood culture since the very beginning.
00:25:11.000And to pretend otherwise is just to let Hollywood off the hook
00:25:16.000for a certain perspective on human sexuality that is seriously perverse and leads to really dire consequences.
00:25:22.000The 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.
00:25:40.000So, let's talk a little bit about the casting couch for just a second.
00:25:44.000So, first of all, here's a little bit of Hollywood history.
00:25:47.000It was built on sexual peccadillos, and in particular on the casting couch.
00:25:51.000Here is a long list of people who are involved in using the so-called casting couch.
00:25:54.000For 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.
00:26:35.000A 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.
00:26:46.000But Harry Cohn had a long history of sexual abuse, apparently.
00:26:51.000Daryl Zanuck reportedly solicited prospective starlets on a routine basis.
00:26:55.000Howard Hughes not only slept with starlets consensually, but apparently had a casting couch himself.
00:27:00.000And this was a running joke in Hollywood for years, okay?
00:27:27.000George Sanders is playing a theater critic named Addison DeWitt, and he's been squiring Monroe's character around.
00:27:34.000Basically, she's sleeping with him so that he will squire her around town, and then he passes her off to the producers, right?
00:27:40.000The 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.
00:27:47.000This is an open part of the film, right?
00:28:27.000I can see your career rising in the East like the sun.
00:28:32.000Okay, and then she ends up getting an audition, but not getting the part, and then she asks Addison DeWitt for his advice.
00:28:36.000He says, go try the same thing in Hollywood.
00:28:38.000Okay, this is in the New York theater circles.
00:28:40.000This has always been a part of Hollywood.
00:28:42.000It's always been a disgusting, horrible part of Hollywood.
00:28:45.000To pretend otherwise is to ignore reality.
00:28:47.000Okay, 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.
00:28:56.000There are a number of starlets who have talked about this over time.
00:28:59.000I'm talking about virtually all of the major ones have talked about it.
00:29:03.000Marilyn Monroe described the town as being, she said that, this is from her autobiography, she said producers treated Hollywood, quote, like an overcrowded brothel.
00:29:14.000A movie that many more people have seen than All About Eve, although All About Eve is a great movie.
00:29:18.000The Godfather, this is part of the plot.
00:29:22.000You remember the guy who ends up with a horse head in his bed?
00:29:24.000Do you remember the conversation that leads to the horse head in his bed in The Godfather?
00:29:28.000It'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?
00:29:36.000Johnny Fontaine ruined one of Woltz International's most valuable proteges.
00:29:51.000Everyone knew in Hollywood about this for decades.
00:29:54.000It's still going on in Hollywood right now.
00:29:57.000It's still going on in Hollywood right now.
00:30:00.000Power means that power combined with transactional sex leads to sexual abuse.
00:30:06.000Power plus transactional sex leads to sexual abuse.
00:30:10.000Not 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.
00:30:21.000That system has been in place for a hundred years in Hollywood, and that's not a justification for the system, folks.
00:30:27.000This is me ripping on Hollywood's morality.
00:30:29.000This is me ripping on the transactional nature of sex and beauty in Hollywood.
00:30:46.000Once you became rich and famous, wasn't it incumbent on you to out these people?
00:30:49.000If 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.
00:30:55.000You want to talk about hollow bravery?
00:31:34.000The 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.
00:31:46.000The 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.
00:31:53.000Because bad people will continue to do bad things so long as they have these jobs.
00:33:16.000In 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.
00:33:30.000They had a voluntary thing called the Hays Code.
00:33:32.000The 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,
00:33:41.000Why, from the 1930s to the 1960s, you don't see people in bed together?
00:33:45.000Why men and women sleep in separate beds?
00:33:46.000All of that is a reflection of the Hays Code.
00:33:49.000Did the Hays Code go too far in some ways?
00:33:50.000Yeah, 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?
00:33:57.000And 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.
00:34:08.000So I think that that's what I have to say about Harvey Weinstein.
00:34:10.000I think also, by the way, that every community should look to its own here.
00:34:14.000I 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.
00:34:26.000This, again, I think is the difference between churches and synagogues in Hollywood.
00:34:29.000I think, as I showed you in this movie, this has always been an openly accepted part of Hollywood culture.
00:34:33.000It 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.
00:34:46.000But 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?
00:34:55.000Because in one area it's endemic to the culture and celebrated in the culture and in one it is abhorred.
00:34:59.000Okay, 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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00:36:29.000Hillary 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.
00:36:37.000This is why you see people like me saying that Hollywood is full of hypocrisy.
00:36:41.000By 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.
00:37:12.000But 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.
00:37:21.000Anyway, 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.
00:38:16.000Juanita Broderick, Kathleen Willey, Monica Lewinsky, all bubbleheads, all liars, according to Hillary Clinton.
00:38:22.000It'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.
00:38:28.000She did participate in covering up her husband's peccadillos, and to pretend otherwise is ignorant.
00:38:33.000And then, of course, she blames sexism endemic to society.
00:38:36.000Okay, if Hillary Clinton really cared about this stuff, she would have outed her husband long ago.
00:38:40.000But she is a perfect example of somebody who married to power and overlooked this sort of behavior in order to get away with it.
00:38:48.000You wonder why the right was willing to quote-unquote overlook Trump?
00:38:53.000One 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.
00:39:00.000I 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
00:39:19.000They 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.
00:39:36.000I'm a middle-class girl from the middle of the country, and so I always struggled with, like, okay, so what's my story?
00:39:43.000And 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.
00:39:56.000Understand something about feminism, okay?
00:39:58.000Originally, feminism... I think you can stop it there.
00:40:00.000Originally, feminism was designed against things like the casting couch.
00:40:04.000Feminism was designed against the madmen theory that women had to go to bed with their bosses in order to progress in the company.
00:40:09.000That's what feminism was founded upon.
00:40:11.000Hillary Clinton made excuses for her husband, married into power, and then used that power for her own benefit.
00:40:25.000But 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.
00:40:32.000I 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.
00:40:44.000Like, really, this happened on Twitter.
00:40:46.000This is all happening on Twitter in real time.
00:40:48.000Because this is part of the culture out here.
00:43:36.000So 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.
00:43:47.000Ever someone who is moderate and well-reasoned in his stances loses his mind, his head explodes, actually on television like the end of Kingsman.
00:43:57.000And he explains that Trump is putting a gun to the head of constituents by defunding some of the Obamacare exchanges.
00:44:04.000He 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.
00:44:17.000It 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.
00:44:23.000You can't literally set things on fire that are not physical commodities.
00:44:26.000So, in any case, let's talk about what President Trump actually did on healthcare.
00:44:31.000Hey, Avik Roy is sort of the go-to expert with regard to healthcare regulations and law.
00:44:36.000It's pretty complex, but I will use Avik Roy's framework here because I think this is exactly right.
00:44:49.000Two, restoring the ability of individuals to buy short-term plans exempt from some Obamacare rules.
00:44:54.000And three, examining ways to make employer-funded health savings accounts more flexible.
00:44:58.000The left says that this is going to destroy the healthcare system.
00:45:01.000And then he said that he was going to stop dispersing cost-sharing subsidies until Congress appropriates the funds for them.
00:45:07.000Okay, 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.
00:45:15.000That is correct, because it is illegal.
00:45:35.000As far as these other changes, allowing small businesses to pool together to purchase health insurance
00:45:40.000The 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.
00:45:55.000So small businesses will be forced to, small businesses will be forced to
00:46:42.000Restoring the ability of individuals to buy short-term plans, again, that's good.
00:46:45.000Examining ways to make employer-funded health savings accounts more flexible, that, too, is good.
00:46:50.000But the left opposes all of these things because it wants to force people into health insurance through Obamacare.
00:46:56.000Other 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.
00:47:14.000Iran 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.
00:47:21.000That was why it was such a bad deal to begin with, which is why Trump should just get out of it.
00:47:26.000Instead, Trump is saying, I'm not going to recertify because the deal is bad.
00:47:28.000We're going to set some new conditions, and if Iran doesn't fulfill those conditions, then we'll impose sanctions.
00:47:36.000It is splitting the baby a little bit, but Trump's statements on this were exactly correct.
00:47:39.000Here is Trump talking about how Iran is a fanatical regime.
00:47:44.000Today 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.
00:48:04.000Our policy is based on a clear-eyed assessment
00:48:14.000Other excellent Trump, he withdrew from UNESCO.
00:48:16.000UNESCO is one of the world's most garbage organizations.
00:48:19.000That is the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
00:48:23.000It has never been educational, scientific, or cultural.
00:48:26.000It's basically been an Israel-bashing seminar.
00:48:28.000In 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.
00:48:37.000And then, they claimed that the Western Wall was not a Jewish site, which is insane.
00:48:41.000They referred to the Temple Mount as the Al-Aqsa Mosque Plaza.
00:48:44.000They called the Wailing Wall the Barak Plaza, and they called Israel the occupying power in Jerusalem.
00:48:48.000The United States basically said, we're done here, and they withdrew from UNESCO.
00:48:53.000It 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.
00:49:00.000Okay, 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.
00:49:09.000So David Brooks from the New York Times is the so-called conservative at the New York Times.
00:49:28.000Here 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.
00:49:35.000There'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.
00:49:47.000And 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.
00:49:55.000And I think that's probably a pretty fair judgment.
00:50:03.000Here's a Puerto Rican delegate yesterday saying, uh, Trump gave us everything we asked for.
00:50:06.000Again, you sort of have to disconnect Trump being stupid on Twitter from what Trump has actually done in Puerto Rico.
00:50:11.000Again, 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.
00:50:21.000Especially because, by the way, Texas has a heavy Hispanic population.
00:50:24.000It's, I believe by percentage, the second heaviest Hispanic population in the nation after California, I believe.
00:50:29.000In any case, here is this Puerto Rican delegate explaining.
00:50:33.000I will tell you that everything the president said that he was going to send to Ireland, it's getting there.
00:50:59.000That 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.
00:51:05.000We should all have the same, you know, basis.