As the nation reels from a spate of attempted mail bombings, Democrats and the media blame President Trump, President Trump blames the media, and the stock market tumbles, it's good times all around. But is this a false flag? Is this a deliberate act by the Democratic Party, or is it something else entirely? Ben Shapiro argues that we need to wait for more evidence before we can even begin to figure out who is actually responsible for these attacks. Today's show is a mashup of Ben Shapiro's thoughts on the latest in the mail bomb scare, and his thoughts on whether or not this is the work of the Democrats or the White House, or if it's a hoax by the media and the FBI, or something else that's been going on for a long time and that we're just waiting for more information to come to light. Subscribe to Ben Shapiro s new podcast, "The Ben Shapiro Show," wherever you get your shows. If you like what you get, please HIT SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss out on the next new episode! Subscribe, rate, and review! and tell a friend about what you think of the show! Ben Shapiro is a great guy to talk about all things financial matters, politics, pop culture, and pop culture! . Subscribe and review Ben Shapiro: The Weekly BONUS EPISODE Subscribe to his new show on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices and get 20% off your first month free trial when you shop at Caffiliate discount code SHOPEXCLUSIVE when you become a supporter of The Daily Mail? Subscribe for a year of The Ben Shapiro Podcast! Get exclusive ad-free 7-free shipping and unlimited access to his newest book deal! Learn more by becoming a supporter and get 7% off his next month's ad discount when he becomes a patron! Click here to receive $5/month, plus a FREE 7-day VIP trial when he starts shipping anywhere else gets an ad discount starts starting in January 1st, starting on 7/27th, only he gets 7 months get 7GB gets 7GB and gets 7 GBPROGRAM PRODUCREPCORMS PRICING AND VIP PRICON THE FIRST MONTH OFF FREE, FREE MONEY OFF THE FIRST CHALLENGE PRICED TO BUY 3 MONTH AND VIP PACKAGE BUILDSIPPED WORLD RODE FREE?
00:00:00.000As the nation reels from a spate of attempted mail bombings, Democrats and the media blame President Trump, President Trump blames the media, and the stock market tumbles.
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00:00:28.000We'll get to all of the latest in just one second.
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00:01:52.000Okay, so, the latest with regard to this spate of quote-unquote attempted mail bombings is that it is possible that the bombs themselves were not actually structured to detonate.
00:02:03.000So, Ala Pandit over at Hot Air writes, Judging by social media, some have glanced at an AP story and thought it was claimed that the explosive powder inside the bomb was harmless.
00:02:13.000A package sent to CNN contained a pipe bomb and an envelope with a mystery powder inside.
00:02:17.000It's a mystery powder that's harmless.
00:02:19.000The bombs themselves are supposedly workable and functional if crude, although there are other reports that suggest that the bombs lacked a detonator, and so this was either a test run or a hoax or something else like that.
00:02:30.000We're still awaiting more information, and that is the key today.
00:02:34.000It's not the end of the world to say that we need more information, and this holds true on every side.
00:02:38.000Yesterday, I said there were a bunch of folks who jumped to the false flag explanation.
00:02:43.000Now, I'm not claiming that you are not allowed to speculate inside your own head as to who you think did this, or that you're not allowed to wonder whether there's enough information to condemn one side or the other.
00:02:52.000What I am saying is if you are 100% sure this is a false flag, if you are 100% sure you went right there, like right away, you just went to, this is probably the Democrats hoaxing themselves,
00:03:11.000I mean, I remember with the Michael Brown case.
00:03:14.000Michael Brown, black guy, shot by a cop.
00:03:16.000And enormous swaths of the left, the entire left, basically said, this is a case of police racism and brutality in which a man was shot in the back because he was black.
00:03:25.000And I said, well, let's wait for more evidence.
00:03:27.000And then the evidence came out and it turns out that wasn't the story at all.
00:03:29.000Well, here, if you're jumping to either this is Democrats hoaxing themselves or this is Donald Trump planting bombs in the mailboxes over at CNN, let me suggest to you that you're totally full of crap.
00:03:46.000And anybody suggesting they know who did this or why it was done or what the connection is to any particular political party is lying to you.
00:04:00.000I mean, this person who should be put in jail forever, the person who is doing this, has now sent one of these packages to Robert De Niro, I guess, and sent one to Maxine Waters, and a picture of one of the bombs at the CNN bureau
00:05:17.000Because they're sending bombs to Robert De Niro.
00:05:19.000Robert De Niro, this is not somebody who smacks of, I'm a sophisticated domestic terrorist with a serious political agenda, deeply intertwined with the workings of modern politics.
00:05:31.000People who are immediately jumping to Trump's rhetoric caused this, or the media's rhetoric caused this, those people are undermining the First Amendment.
00:05:38.000Because the First Amendment's basic guarantee is that if I am not inciting you to violence, in my incitement to violence, I mean saying, go bomb someone.
00:05:47.000Then I am not responsible for your violent actions.
00:05:49.000You know who's responsible for the violent actions here?
00:05:51.000The guy who put together bombs and mailed them to people.
00:05:55.000Not President Trump, not CNN, not any of these folks.
00:05:58.000Just as Bernie Sanders was not responsible for a Bernie Sanders supporter going and attempting to shoot up a congressional baseball game, and just as Barack Obama was not responsible for a apparent fan of Barack Obama trying to shoot up police officers in Dallas,
00:06:10.000President Trump is not responsible for this.
00:06:12.000The media are not responsible for this.
00:06:13.000And I don't have to wait for the outcome to know that.
00:06:16.000Because the sort of rhetoric that President Trump has used, as much as I dislike it, as much as I have ripped it on this program for years, he has never once said, go mail bombs to my political opponents.
00:06:27.000And shouting, lock her up, is not the same thing as saying, mail her a bomb.
00:06:38.000But it is not, in fact, incitement to violence.
00:06:40.000The standard for incitement to violence is extraordinarily high under American law, as well it should be.
00:06:45.000Well, President Trump reacted to all of this yesterday, and his first statement was, we all have to unify.
00:06:50.000You know, these are trying times, but we all have to understand that violence is not appropriate.
00:06:55.000And I just want to tell you that in these times, we have to unify.
00:06:59.000We have to come together and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the United States of America.
00:07:14.000Okay, well, that seems about the right answer, doesn't it?
00:07:16.000That's the right answer, and what he really should add at the end of that is, listen, I use charged rhetoric, my opponents use charged rhetoric, maybe we all should take a step back and tone that down, but the reality is that nobody, not me, not my political opponents, nobody has actually incentivized this kind of violence in the United States.
00:07:33.000Nobody in the United States is inciting this kind of violence in mainstream political rhetoric, which is true, okay?
00:07:38.000If you actually want to see mainstream violence being pushed by political agitators, all you have to do is look at actual governments in Iran, where they literally chant death to America and call for violence against Jews.
00:07:49.000All you have to do is look at the government of the Palestinian Authority or Hamas, actual terrorist groups.
00:07:54.000All you have to do is look at governments around the world, repressive governments around the world that make clear they want violence done to their political opponents.
00:08:00.000Even President Trump's worst statements, where he's making jokes about Greg Gianforte, which we talked about last week, body slamming a reporter.
00:08:07.000There is an actual difference, it turns out, between body slamming a reporter and bombing someone.
00:08:11.000Now, if somebody went out and punched a reporter and said, I did it because President Trump was making this sort of remark about Greg Gianforte and making light of that,
00:08:20.000I would say, okay, there's at least some connection there, but I'm not going to say that there's a connection between people sending mail bombs to Maxine Waters and the President of the United States saying that Maxine Waters is a very low IQ individual.
00:08:31.000We say that kind of stuff about each other all the time in a free country.
00:08:34.000Maybe it's not the best thing to say, but that doesn't mean it's an incitement to violence.
00:09:38.000And we have an eye out for them, as well we should.
00:09:40.000But to pretend that the world began spinning with President Trump is just absurd, especially considering some of the rhetoric that is used on a fairly frequent basis by folks on the left about President Trump himself.
00:11:39.000The Secret Service agent stood before him, presenting his Glock butt first.
00:11:42.000Here, the agent said politely, use mine.
00:11:46.000And this was printed in the New York Times the same day that the media decided that President Trump was the one who was pursuing violent rhetoric and was the only one pursuing violent rhetoric.
00:12:07.000If you want to take the temperature down, you have to obey 1 and 2.
00:12:10.000If you want to take the temperature down, wait for evidence, and don't blame people for violent acts by third parties unless they are actively telling the third parties to commit the violent acts.
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00:13:47.000Okay, so the media have decided that President Trump is to blame, which was predictable.
00:13:52.000Again, I'm old enough to remember when I said, and many like me on the right said, Bernie Sanders is not to blame for the congressional baseball shooting.
00:14:13.000He says, allow me to suggest that blame is too narrow a way to make sense of a series of attempted bombings aimed at precisely the people Trump and other Republicans spend a huge amount of time vilifying.
00:14:22.000We don't have to look for clues about whether the person responsible has a MAGA hat or what their party registration is.
00:14:27.000We don't have to assign direct blame beyond a reasonable doubt.
00:14:30.000What we can say is this, given what Trump has done and said, this was absolutely predictable.
00:14:35.000In fact, it's a wonder it took this long.
00:14:37.000So, in other words, we don't need to wait for evidence, right?
00:14:39.000This is a guy who's overtly making the case in one of the nation's premier newspapers.
00:14:56.000It's not just that Trump advocates violence against his political opponents, though he does, it's that everything about his rhetoric pushes his supporters in that direction, even if the overwhelming majority will never quite get to the point where they'll actually commit this kind of act of terrorism.
00:15:10.000Well, there are those of us on the right who felt that President Obama verged pretty easily on promoting violence sometimes when he talked about what the police were, when he talked about how the police were
00:15:34.000So much so that when Bill de Blasio, after ripping the police for months, actually went to a policeman's funeral who was shot to death, members of the NYPD turned their back on him.
00:15:42.000Was Bill de Blasio responsible for the violence?
00:15:48.000You actually have to wait for evidence if you're going to even make that case, because that case is extraordinarily... The bar for evidence is extraordinarily high here.
00:15:55.000If you want to blame somebody for violence incitement, you actually have to have evidence.
00:15:59.000But the left doesn't care about evidence.
00:17:02.000Again, I do not understand why Jeff Zucker thinks that the President of the United States is responsible for a bomb being sent to CNN headquarters just because the President says that he doesn't like the press, or the press are the enemy of the people.
00:17:54.000Heated rhetoric and violent rhetoric are not the same thing.
00:17:58.000And to link the two means that eventually somebody's just going to say, let's censor all the rhetoric because otherwise it's going to lead to violence.
00:18:03.000Here is President Trump going after the media.
00:18:06.000Basically, the media and President Trump can't stop clobbering each other.
00:18:09.000And I think there's some truth on both sides and there's a lot of falsehood on both sides.
00:18:12.000Here's the president saying, stop with the media scares.
00:18:15.000The media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories.
00:18:44.000But, is there any question that President Trump is trolling them?
00:18:47.000Of course not, because President Trump has used similar rhetoric about the media.
00:18:50.000Basically, this is two folks slapping each other Napoleon Dynamite style in the face, and then blaming each other when a guy down the street decides he's gonna go bomb the local school.
00:18:59.000She tweeted out, Okay, that is correct.
00:19:14.000That is correct, and I don't understand why President Trump is getting bashed for saying the right thing at that rally, or at the White House, and then he is getting bashed on the other side when he goes after the media.
00:19:26.000Anyway, in any case, CNN demonstrating full-scale
00:19:30.000That they are going to go with this narrative, right?
00:19:32.000They never went with this narrative with regard to Bernie Sanders.
00:19:34.000They never went with this narrative with regard to the attempted attacks on Susan Collins.
00:19:39.000But they are going to go full scale with these attacks on President Trump.
00:19:42.000So here's CNN's Gloria Borger saying, you know, Trump's targets, is it a coincidence?
00:19:46.000President Trump attacks a bunch of people and then those people get mail bombs.
00:20:23.000We're going to conflate President Trump ripping Barack Obama with President Trump calling for violence against Barack Obama.
00:20:28.000If that's the case, then CNN calls for violence against Donald Trump every single day.
00:20:32.000Because CNN spends its days ripping on President Trump, and now we are conflating criticism of political figures with a call for violence against those political figures.
00:20:42.000You can condemn rhetoric you don't like without blaming it for violence, and yet, as we'll see, folks in the media and folks on the Democratic side of the aisle are more than happy to, you know, they like to use the word weaponize, to weaponize politics in particular in this fashion in order to try and
00:20:59.000Push for a ban, basically, on their opposition.
00:21:01.000We'll talk about all of that in just one second.
00:21:03.000But first, let's talk about emergencies.
00:21:05.000So emergencies are usually called emergencies because they strike without warning, because you don't know anything about them in advance.
00:21:11.000And that's why you should prep now in case there is some sort of emergency.
00:21:14.000You know, the government says that you really ought to have a supply of food and water in your home, and there's no question you should.
00:21:19.000Hurricane Michael hit with very little warning.
00:21:21.000With earthquakes, there is no warning.
00:21:22.000I live in California, where this sort of thing happens relatively frequently.
00:21:25.000When it's breaking news, it's too late to prepare.
00:22:27.000When I spoke at Berkeley, there were people outside chanting, speech is violence.
00:22:31.000That's basically the chant that's happening in CNN headquarters here.
00:22:34.000But it's completely hypocritical, by the way, also, because what the left and what the folks at CNN really mean is that speech is only violent if it is coming from the right.
00:22:55.000They're the victims of the bomber, but they are not necessarily the victims of President Trump.
00:22:58.000The media can stand on their own two feet, and they are fully capable of fighting back against the president, as they have been for the last three years.
00:23:05.000Here is Don Lemon saying, President Trump blamed the victim.
00:23:27.000President Trump was saying that the overheated rhetoric on the part of the media are contributing to a bad environment in the United States, and the response of the folks in the media is, let's overheat the rhetoric even more.
00:23:52.000You know, all these folks who are acting as though there's some sort of existential threat to the media in the United States, I'm sorry, no.
00:23:58.000There's no question it's a bad incident.
00:24:12.000The reason I have a little bit of lack of sympathy for this, we almost died here routine, is because this thing was stopped in the mail room with no detonator on it apparently.
00:24:21.000My Jewish high school used to be evacuated three times a year for bomb threats minimum.
00:24:50.000Don Lemon does not get to do this routine where the media are the victims at the same time that he is out there claiming that Antifa is wonderful.
00:25:30.000Get up in the morning, come out of the shoe, run on in here, get in this rolly chair, run around all crazy like, and I just talk about whatever pops in my brain.
00:25:45.000They say there is no connection between what Trump has said about Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, John Brennan, and CNN, and the thinking of the person who sent those pipe bombs is foolhardy.
00:26:02.000He doesn't know that because he doesn't know things.
00:26:05.000And yet everybody assumes the worst on behalf of everybody else.
00:26:08.000And instead of us saying there's a difference between heated political rhetoric and violent political rhetoric, we just jump in with both feet.
00:26:13.000The Democrats are even worse than the media on this because the Democrats are absolutely hypocritical and absurd.
00:26:18.000So Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer put out a statement
00:26:26.000This is Emily Zanotti reporting over at Daily Wire.
00:26:28.000She says, Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi lashed out at President Donald Trump in a statement released Wednesday afternoon.
00:26:37.000The pair jointly condemned a statement from the president issued earlier in the day expressing his concerns over a series of suspected explosive devices sent to prominent Democrats.
00:26:45.000They say, we listened with great interest to the president's remarks this afternoon.
00:26:48.000We all take an oath to support and defend the Constitution and protect the American people, and that is our first responsibility.
00:26:54.000However, President Trump's words ring hollow until he reverses his statements that condone acts of violence.
00:26:59.000Time and again, the President has condoned physical violence and divided Americans with his words and actions, expressing support for the congressman who bodyslammed a reporter, the neo-Nazis who killed a young woman in Charlottesville, his supporters at rallies who get violent with protesters, dictators around the world who murder their own citizens, and referring to the free press as the enemy of the people.
00:27:17.000Now, I think President Trump says a lot of bad stuff.
00:27:26.000I seem to remember somebody named Nancy Pelosi, just about a year and a half ago, who was asked about Steve Scalise nearly being shot to death.
00:27:37.000Here's Nancy Pelosi saying, how dare you blame us or Bernie Sanders for heated rhetoric that could have been connected with the guy going onto a baseball field and shouting as he gunned down members of Congress about health care.
00:29:02.000I worry about the direction of our country.
00:29:06.000I worry about what kind of world will be waiting for them when their
00:29:12.000Teenagers and young adults and beyond.
00:29:15.000Okay, and it wasn't just Hillary Clinton saying this.
00:29:17.000Her top aide, Philippe Rains, who is really one of the most vicious people in American politics, he was on MSNBC and he explicitly just blamed President Trump's rhetoric for all of this.
00:29:26.000This is someone who has weaponized Trump's Twitter feed and made it into a hit list.
00:29:33.000He is addicted to their response and they are addicted to his vitriol.
00:29:41.000Okay, so next time somebody who's a big Hillary Clinton fan decides to go and shoot up an office or invade a Fox News studio, then I guess we can blame Hillary Clinton.
00:29:48.000Because after all, I recall when a minute ago, one minute ago, Hillary Clinton was saying you cannot be civil with the other side.
00:29:56.000You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.
00:29:59.000That's why I believe if we are fortunate enough
00:30:17.000Okay, everybody is completely full of crap.
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00:32:11.000I remember when Bill de Blasio was saying that police officers were just shooting black people for no reason.
00:32:16.000And I remember when Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, said that everyone who disagrees with him on politics should get out of the state.
00:32:47.000And that also means that blaming the other side and suggesting that the other side is responsible for violence is leading to a worse country.
00:32:55.000Everybody thinks they're fighting violence when they suggest the other side is responsible for violence when they just use mainstream political rhetoric.
00:33:01.000You're actually increasing the chances of violence when you do that because you are heating everything up.
00:33:05.000You're suggesting the other side is so evil that the very utterance of their ideas is likely to lead to death, chaos, and destruction.
00:33:16.000Bernie Sanders can say whatever the hell he wants, no matter how wrong he is.
00:33:20.000And unless he is actively saying, go shoot people on a congressional baseball field, that is not his fault.
00:33:24.000And Donald Trump can say whatever he wants, and you don't have to like it.
00:33:28.000But whatever Donald Trump says, he has the right to say that so long as he is not saying, go beat up somebody right now, go bomb someplace right now.
00:33:37.000We'll get to more of this in just one second, plus a couple of other crazy stories that are worth noting.
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00:34:29.000If I sound weary of all of this, it's because I am weary of all of this, really.
00:34:32.000I mean, if we're going to have any sort of level-headed conversation, we're going to have to stop blaming each other for every crazy person who does a crazy thing.
00:34:46.000By the way, there's a lot more connection politically between a guy who is an actual Democratic staffer doxxing Republican members of Congress, like, two weeks ago, than there is relation between this person and Donald Trump or this person and CNN.
00:35:18.000So speaking of stupidity in politics, so Megyn Kelly, we talked about this at length yesterday, Megyn Kelly said on a show that she doesn't really understand why this woman who is in the Real Housewives of whatever, why this woman
00:35:30.000Was in trouble for dressing up as Diana Ross at a party because when she was a kid, people used to darken their skin for Halloween costumes and it wasn't a big deal.
00:35:37.000And a bunch of folks said, well, blackface has a long and inglorious history in the United States.
00:35:53.000Nobody actually believes that Megyn Kelly thinks black people are inferior genetically and that black people are worse, black people are morally culpable at a higher level than white people or any of that.
00:36:41.000NBC News is now saying they're going to air taped episodes of Meghan's show this week, and that they're going to seek to terminate her contract based on her saying that she didn't understand what the big deal was about somebody darkening their face for a Halloween costume.
00:36:56.000Now, does anyone really believe that the NBC brass is really upset about that?
00:37:47.000I mean, this really is a great media story of just how corrupt the media are.
00:37:52.000There's no question that NBC is just attempting to flame the- the- stoke the flames here in order so that they can make a move on Megyn Kelly that they wouldn't otherwise be able to make contractually.
00:38:00.000So well done over at NBC, making the country a worse place so you can save some money on a host that you yourselves boxed in the wrong way.
00:38:07.000Speaking of bad stories, so President Trump apparently has been exposing
00:38:14.000National security secret, supposedly, to outside prying eyes.
00:38:18.000Now, before you say anything, folks on the right, before all of my conservative friends say, Hillary Clinton!
00:38:44.000Whataboutism is strong in our country right now.
00:38:46.000Here is the story from the New York Times.
00:38:47.000When President Trump calls old friends on one of his iPhones to gossip, gripe, or solicit their latest take on how he is doing, American intelligence reports indicate Chinese spies are often listening and putting to use invaluable insights into how to best work the president and affect administration policy, current and former American officials said.
00:39:03.000Mr. Trump's aides have repeatedly warned him cell phone calls are not secure.
00:39:07.000They've told him Russian spies are routinely eavesdropping on the calls, but aides say that the president
00:39:11.000Who's been pressured into using his secure White House landline more often these days, has still refused to give up his iPhones.
00:39:17.000White House officials say they can only hope he refrains from discussing classified information when he is on them.
00:39:37.000And if we really believe that it's bad to expose America's national security secrets to prying eyes, then we probably shouldn't be doing it on our side either.
00:39:46.000The stock market has taken a massive hit this month.
00:39:49.000It is now at a full loss for the year.
00:39:51.000Remember, we're already in October, so that means that all the gains of the last 10 months were basically erased over the course of October.
00:39:58.000The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 608 points at 24,583 and erased all of its gains for 2018.
00:40:01.000The S&P 500 dropped 3.1% to 2,656 and turned negative for the year.
00:40:04.000So, a lot of the tech earnings are down and also,
00:40:16.000There are a lot of fears about the idea that the economy was overheated in advance of the tariffs that President Trump has put in place against China.
00:40:23.000So people basically stocked up on products before the tariffs were set to hit, and that means that there are a lot of forecasts that the economy is actually not going to grow as much next quarter.
00:40:31.000We have yet to see whether that is the case.
00:40:35.000There's a lot of uncertainty heading into the end of the year, according to J.J.
00:40:38.000Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade.
00:40:42.000It feels like people feel more comfortable spending short term rather than long term.
00:40:46.000Now, it is quite possible some of this has to do with the midterm elections.
00:40:50.000The feeling that Democrats could get into power and then start stymieing every possibility of deregulation.
00:40:56.000That they could be looking to raise taxes again.
00:40:59.000That they could look to cut a deal with President Trump to raise deficits and to blow out the spending.
00:41:04.000That's going to have some impact on the market as well.
00:41:07.000That's why it's imperative that if you like your economy, if you want to keep your economy, if you like your economy, you can keep your economy, but only if you keep electing the people who brought you that economy, namely the Republicans in Congress.
00:41:19.000The Republicans in Congress were responsible for President Obama not getting through his worst
00:41:24.000His worst legislative proposals, and they have been effectuating President Trump's economic policy for the last couple of years as well.
00:41:31.000Now, what are the chances that the Republicans retain the House?
00:41:33.000Well, they've been moving in the wrong direction in the House.
00:41:36.000There's, according to FiveThirtyEight, a five and six chance that Democrats win control of the House.
00:41:41.000The Senate, however, is a little bit different.
00:41:43.000So they are forecasting that the Senate is going to be held by the Republicans in all likelihood.
00:41:49.000And they say that right now the Senate is about 75% likely, that the Senate is, yeah, five in six chance Republicans keep control of the Senate, and they may gain up to two seats, two, three, four seats.
00:42:02.000They say that there is a 17.8% chance that everything remains solid.
00:42:08.000There is basically well within the bell curve that Republicans pick up anywhere from three to four seats, two to four seats.
00:42:16.000That seems the most likely outcome at this point.
00:42:18.000You know, all of that has led people on the right to suggest that maybe this latest bomb scare is some sort of democratic attempt to gin up voter rage just before the election.
00:42:30.000But again, in the absence of evidence, I am not going to go there and I don't think anybody else should go there either.
00:43:18.000If you really think watching Tom and Jerry clobber each other is what leads to people raping people or shooting people, you're out of your mind.
00:43:26.000My kids watch these cartoons, and you know what they don't do?
00:44:39.000There's a very famous one of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd doing a Wagner opera, which is pretty great.
00:44:47.000There's one of Bugs Bunny as Leopold Stokowski, the famous conductor.
00:44:52.000It used to be that people actually were cultured.
00:44:53.000You know, this is one of the great lies that was told in the 1950s about the United States is that America was hollowing out, our soul was gone, we were a bunch of consumerists.
00:45:01.000The fact is, more Americans attended classical concerts during like 1954 than attended baseball games.
00:45:07.000Americans were actually seeking to educate themselves in new and interesting ways, and the availability of new means of listening to music like this was one of the reasons for that.
00:45:31.000When I say they love science, I mean they really don't like science very much.
00:45:33.000What they like to do is speculate about science and then use the weakest possible scientific findings in order to push the idea that public policy should be shifted in their direction.
00:45:42.000The latest example is incredibly stupid.
00:45:45.000Okay, the latest example is from Vox.com, the great explaining website that explains nothing.
00:45:50.000The piece is by Dylan Matthews and Bird Pinkerton.
00:46:41.000Well, this one would fall under the category of correlation does not equal causation.
00:46:45.000Buried deep down in the article is this news.
00:46:47.000The size of the numbers that are being claimed should make you skeptical.
00:46:49.000There are huge, arguably implausibly huge, effects.
00:46:53.000The Open Philanthropy Project, which had previously been quite interested in new research on lithium, states on its website that the study makes us substantially less optimistic.
00:47:01.000A 2017 study that traced lithium really helps guard against suicide.
00:47:06.000Just this year, a study using healthcare claims data in the U.S.
00:47:08.000found greater amounts of trace lithium in the water didn't predict lower diagnoses of bipolar disorder or dementia.