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00:01:46.000With the update on the Alex Jones banning.
00:01:48.000So Alex Jones is, as I have said about 1 million times at this point, an insane person.
00:01:54.000Alex Jones is the guy who says that the government is attempting to turn the frogs gay.
00:01:58.000He is a person who believes that the Sandy Hook shooting was actually a false flag and that the dead kids were actually child actors, or at least that's something he expressed on his show.
00:02:06.000He has suggested the same thing about various other terrorist attacks.
00:02:10.000He suggested that the Syrian gas attack by the Syrian government was actually performed by the White Helmets.
00:02:16.000He says crazy, borderline libelous and slanderous things on a routine basis.
00:02:20.000He said a couple of weeks ago that Robert Mueller was forwarding child rape or some such, and that he wanted to get in a duel with Robert Mueller.
00:02:27.000Now, his supporters will say that all of this is just shock value entertainment kind of stuff.
00:02:32.000But does that mean that Facebook and YouTube and Apple and all of these various social media platforms ought to ban his material?
00:02:40.000Well, not really on the basis on which they are claiming.
00:02:42.000If they wanted to say, listen, we're going to ban slanderous material, libelous material, we're going to ban material that incites violence, then that at least is a workable standard.
00:02:50.000But instead, all of these social media groups said that they are going to use hate speech regulations, essentially, to ban Alex Jones.
00:02:57.000And as I said yesterday on the program, hate speech is a really, really vague term.
00:03:01.000When you say hate speech over and over and over, and then you apply it to a bunch of random people and topics that you just disagree with.
00:03:07.000So I, Ben Shapiro, am participating in hate speech when I refuse to use your preferred pronoun as a transgender person, and Alex Jones is engaged in hate speech when he says that
00:03:17.000Children who were murdered in a mass shooting attack were actually child actors in a false flag.
00:03:22.000If you're going to equate those two things, then hate speech has no actual meaning.
00:03:50.000They weren't actually American conservatives.
00:03:52.000There are a lot of folks who are anti-left who are not actually American conservatives.
00:03:56.000American conservatism is a very specific brand about limited government and God-given rights.
00:04:01.000With that said, Alex Jones is being targeted by the left because he doesn't like the left very much, even though he has some kind of common principles with them in terms of the size and scope of government.
00:04:10.000Well, the left is suggesting that social media ought to use Alex Jones to get a foot in the door.
00:04:15.000There's a CNN article today all about how CNN had basically pressured social media into banning Alex Jones.
00:04:22.000You remember just a couple of weeks ago, Facebook came out and they said, listen, we're not going to throw Alex Jones off the platform.
00:04:26.000And then just this week, they said, well, you know, maybe we'll do that after all.
00:04:30.000The problem is that once politicians and folks on the left get their foot in the door, once they feel that they have the leverage to knock out anybody they don't like under the rubric of hate speech, you can fairly well guarantee that that is exactly what they are going to do.
00:04:43.000Case in point, Chris Murphy, a senator from Connecticut.
00:05:00.000So this is Chris Murphy, an actual elected government official, who is now calling on private companies to crack down on speech that he does not like.
00:05:09.000He is not suggesting any sort of principle that has any limits to it.
00:05:13.000He is not suggesting slander and libel be the rules.
00:05:16.000He is not suggesting that violence be the rule.
00:05:18.000He is suggesting that anything he doesn't like
00:05:21.000You know, anybody who he labels lying should be banned by Facebook and YouTube.
00:05:24.000What's hilarious about this is that the entire left, which has suggested that President Trump is awful, awful, awful, awful for shouting fake news at CNN, these same people who shout fake news at any outlet they don't like, they say that they should be able to push private institutions into banning speech.
00:05:40.000So my question to Chris Murphy was, okay,
00:05:43.000Facebook's a private institution, it can do what it wants.
00:05:44.000YouTube is a private institution, it can do what it wants.
00:05:58.000You gonna try and regulate Facebook and YouTube?
00:06:00.000You gonna try and call them a monopoly and then break them up?
00:06:03.000You gonna try and nationalize social media sites because you actually, the government, wants to control what people can and cannot say?
00:06:10.000The fact is that even if the government owned a site like Facebook or YouTube, they would not be allowed to engage in any sort of content discrimination.
00:06:19.000Under the First Amendment, government sources are not allowed to engage in content-based discrimination and content-based bias.
00:06:26.000But the idea here really is that Democrats are going to punish all of these companies for not doing what they want.
00:06:32.000And that's the reason you've seen Facebook and YouTube respond in such over-the-top fashion to all of the Democratic complaints about fake news on their platforms.
00:06:41.000And we talked about this a few months ago when Mark Zuckerberg was called idiotically to the floor of the Senate to answer questions about Russian hacking and Russian interference in the election.
00:06:49.000Democrats had been saying, people like Dianne Feinstein had been saying, well, the Russians really affected the election with Facebook.
00:06:55.000Now, the evidence that the Russians affected the election with Facebook is extraordinarily minimal.
00:06:59.000I mean, I've seen the Senate documents on this sort of stuff, and what they basically show is a bunch of crappy Russian memes that are really poorly done and were seen by a minute number of people.
00:07:10.000We have one of the most active Facebook pages in America.
00:07:12.000The Ben Shapiro Facebook page is extraordinarily active.
00:07:14.000We have about 4 million followers and we generate legitimately hundreds of millions of clicks per year.
00:07:20.000But the Senate was suggesting that the entire election turn, the Democrats were suggesting the entire election turn on Russian fake news being distributed via Facebook.
00:07:28.000The reason they were making a big issue out of this is because they wanted to push Facebook into regulating stuff they don't like.
00:07:33.000And you're seeing Chris Murphy basically saying that openly.
00:07:36.000Now, again, Facebook and YouTube, they have the capacity and the power and the ability under the First Amendment to do whatever they want.
00:07:43.000But once you get government officials sounding off and suggesting that various sites should be shut down in order to, quote-unquote, save democracy, that's burning the village in order to save it.
00:07:53.000Once the government says you have to shut down outlets in order to save democracy, you have to start thinking about whether that is actually a destruction of democracy in order to, quote-unquote, save democracy.
00:08:01.000If you think that America hangs on a knife's edge because InfoWars is out there,
00:08:06.000Then I would suggest that perhaps you have the wrong idea of what a republic is.
00:08:10.000The whole basis of a republic is that the people are smart enough to see past the stupidity of places like Infowars.
00:08:17.000That the vast majority of people are not taken in by Alex Jones's shtick.
00:08:21.000And the fact is that if we're going to get into the business of banning companies that routinely engage in fake news, there are a bunch on the left who we ought to be looking at.
00:08:28.000But we shouldn't get into that business because it's a dangerous business.
00:08:32.000And this is why, if Facebook and YouTube want to go after Alex Jones on the grounds that he is committing certain acts that could theoretically violate legal lines, that is one thing.
00:08:41.000But if they want to set up this soft standard that can then be manipulated by the Democrats, that is completely another.
00:08:47.000And it is astonishing to me that folks on the left don't see how this could be turned on the other ear.
00:08:51.000The same people who are complaining that Trump calls the media fake news, these same people have no problem with Facebook and YouTube banning InfoWars.
00:08:57.000And again, I'm not saying that InfoWars and CNN are on the same level.
00:09:00.000I know that's an unpopular thing to say among conservatives, but CNN and InfoWars are not on the same level.
00:09:04.000CNN actually does report the news, and when they get things wrong, they get things wrong and apologize for it, generally speaking.
00:09:10.000They are biased in their approach to the news.
00:09:13.000But if you are just to look at the number of true things that CNN says on a daily basis versus the number of true things InfoWars says on a daily basis, there is no comparison.
00:09:21.000CNN is not promulgating the conspiracy theory that Pizzagate is real.
00:09:26.000I'm not going to pretend CNN and Alex Jones are exactly of the same ilk, because I don't think that they are.
00:09:32.000However, if we're going to get into the business of policing speech, it's hard to see where you draw that line and why you would draw that line in a way that doesn't include InfoWars, but does include CNN, or does include Daily Cause, but doesn't include InfoWars, or does include Huffington Post, but doesn't include Daily Wire.
00:09:47.000Very difficult to see limiting principles here.
00:09:49.000And limiting principles are the necessity of a legal system.
00:09:53.000If you're a lawyer, what you're looking for is a law that can be equally applied across the board.
00:09:57.000If the law is just a tool of the powerful, that's when you start to have problems.
00:10:01.000And right now, the law is becoming a tool of the powerful who are attempting to club companies like Facebook and YouTube into line.
00:10:06.000This is why even when conservatives say they want to regulate Facebook and YouTube, Steve Bannon has said this, I think, no, it's more dangerous than it's worth.
00:10:15.000And it violates First Amendment principles.
00:10:18.000You shouldn't be regulating private companies just because you don't like what the private companies are doing.
00:10:22.000There's a lot of talk today about, well, you can never launch a competitor to Facebook, you can never launch a competitor to YouTube.
00:10:28.000Facebook started as a competitor to MySpace.
00:10:30.000Are you saying that we can never create a competitor to a company that was founded in what, 2007?
00:10:35.000I'm old enough to remember when Yahoo was the dominant search engine and then Google took over.
00:10:39.000I'm old enough to remember when AltaVista was the dominant search engine before Yahoo.
00:10:43.000So, there's this weird idea that pervades America that companies that are very powerful today were always powerful and always will be powerful.
00:10:52.000The reality is that companies drop in and out of the stock market and off the top 100 on a regular basis.
00:10:57.000The number of really long-lasting companies in the United States without government subsidies is actually pretty low.
00:11:02.000There's pretty high turnover in business, which is to say, if Facebook continues to be bad at its business, there will be a competitor that is launched.
00:11:08.000If YouTube continues to ban ad revenue for a variety of various content creators, there will be alternative sources that are created that are not YouTube.
00:11:17.000So there is a solution to material you don't like on YouTube or Facebook, and that is don't watch it.
00:11:21.000It is not push Facebook and YouTube to ban all of that sort of material.
00:11:26.000Now to talk about another idiotic attempt to cram down government in just one second.
00:12:43.000Speaking of leftist attempts to involve government in areas where it shouldn't be involved, I have to bring up this tweet that was shown to me by our very own Senya.
00:12:51.000Full credit to Senya for spotting this idiocy.
00:12:53.000Dylan Matthews over at Vox.com, the font of much of America's stupidity.
00:12:59.000I would say that Vox has more impact on America's stupid than
00:13:52.000In the UK, they make about 86% of what they make in the United States.
00:13:55.000The pre-tax earnings net of expenses in the United States as of 2008 was about $186,000 for a doctor.
00:14:02.000Believe it or not, that's actually not a lot of money for a doctor.
00:14:04.000The reason that's not a lot of money for a doctor is number one, that is the average.
00:14:07.000There are a lot of doctors making below that and a lot of doctors making above it.
00:14:10.000If you're a dermatologist, you're probably making half a million dollars a year.
00:14:13.000If you are a primary care physician, there's a good shot that you're making less than $186,000 a year, depending on where exactly you are practicing.
00:14:20.000But if you lower the amount of money, forcibly lower the amount of money that doctors are making, do you think more or fewer doctors are going to go into the business of doctoring?
00:14:30.000My wife and I, you know, we paid our bills and we had to spend on her college and medical school education.
00:14:36.000We spent, let's see, four years of UCLA plus four more years of medical school.
00:14:42.000So that would be a grand total of somewhere in the neighborhood of
00:14:52.000And then she had a three-year residency, and in residency, residents are paid virtually nothing.
00:14:56.000They're paid basically less than minimum wage.
00:14:58.000If you actually average out the number of hours they work to the salary that they make, which is very often like 50 grand, then you're actually averaging out to below minimum wage numbers for people who have been trained to take care of you.
00:15:09.000If you start cutting the salaries and she's not going to get to work until she's 30, right?
00:15:12.000She's actually not her birthday is coming up.
00:15:21.000If she once she becomes a doctor, she will be in her 30s.
00:15:24.000And the fact is that she's already a doctor, but she won't be practicing doctor on her own until she's in her 30s.
00:15:29.000If you're going to make up for all that money, you actually are going to have to charge a lot of money in order to do it.
00:15:34.000If you want to lower the supply of doctors, all you have to do is forcibly lower the amount of money they can make.
00:15:39.000They'll live is not an answer to how you provide more supply of medical care.
00:15:43.000But this just shows the ignorance with which the left treats government intervention, whether it's with regard to Facebook or whether it is with regard to the medical system.
00:15:50.000Okay, meanwhile, the media have decided
00:15:55.000So the same people who say that they are the heroes for having Alex Jones banned from Facebook and YouTube and they think that bad media ought to be banned, they're very, very upset that the President of the United States has called them the enemy of the people and that he's mean to them and that he gives them the sads with a Z at the end of the word.
00:16:33.000Now, again, let me state for the 1,273,209th time that this is a bad thing.
00:16:35.000The President of the United States should not be calling Americans the enemy of the people unless they are legitimately engaged in attempted terrorist acts or have allied with a foreign power.
00:17:48.000And you'll see that there are members of the press who keep trying to suggest that President Trump is going to be responsible for the death of journalists.
00:17:54.000There's no evidence that has happened yet.
00:17:55.000There's a lot more evidence that Bernie Sanders is responsible for the near death of a bunch of Congress people than that Donald Trump is responsible for the death of journalists.
00:18:03.000And you have folks like Bret Stephens.
00:18:04.000Bret Stephens is a real never-Trumper.
00:18:05.000You know, there are people who use the term never-Trump to just mean somebody I don't like.
00:18:09.000Never-Trumpers are people who start saying silly things simply because they don't like Trump.
00:18:14.000I mean, people who are conservatives, or are conservatives, who say ridiculous things just because they don't like President Trump.
00:18:20.000So, Bret Stephens has become one of these people, even though I like a lot of what he has to say.
00:18:25.000We'll talk about him in just a second.
00:18:26.000Bret Stephens writes for the New York Times, and he says that if journalists are shot, there will be blood on President Trump's hands.
00:18:32.000I think we are marching towards the day when someone who thinks that he is taking directions from the president and acting in the best interest of the American people against those of us presumptive traitors around this table, someone like that is going to do that in a major American newsroom.
00:18:48.000When that happens, Mr. President, the blood will be on your hands.
00:18:51.000Okay, did anybody say this about the President of the United States before Donald Trump, who was ripping on the police day in and day out, and then there was a terrorist, essentially, who went and shot a bunch of police officers in Dallas?
00:19:00.000I specifically wrote a column saying Obama was not responsible for that.
00:19:04.000He was responsible for an uptick of anger against the police, but he was not responsible for somebody going and shooting members of the police force.
00:19:10.000And yet now we have this sort of language emanating from the media.
00:19:13.000I find it deeply depressing that there are so many members of the media who seem intent on treating the media as a separate class from the rest of Americans.
00:19:21.000And this is what Americans are responding to.
00:19:23.000The media don't seem to care when Americans are attacked on a regular basis by politicians or when media members attack regular Americans on a regular basis.
00:19:30.000I remember when Joe Wurzelbacher, who was a plumber in the 2008 election, questioned President Obama, he was then Senator Obama, about his plan to raise taxes.
00:19:40.000And Joe Wurzelbacher, the media dug through his entire life.
00:19:45.000The media have used inflammatory language about a variety of figures, both political and apolitical.
00:19:50.000And yet when it comes to the media being attacked, then all of a sudden the knives come out.
00:19:53.000Listen, again, I don't think the president should say this sort of stuff, but the media's defensiveness just demonstrates that their real interest lies in self-protection, not in standing up for the American people.
00:20:28.000This guy is in no means mentally stable enough to run this country, and he should be impeached, and every congressman who hasn't filed those articles should lose their job.
00:20:37.000Well, I'm so glad that we have Rosie O'Donnell to illuminate all of this for us.
00:20:40.000The media are just, they're the firefighters, they're the soldiers.
00:20:43.000Soldiers have on Rosie O'Donnell an actual crazy person to rant about the President of the United States.
00:21:25.000Movement watches are great and they are affordable as well.
00:21:28.000Movement has come pretty far from being a bunch of crowdfunded kids working out of a living room.
00:21:31.000In the past year, they've not only introduced a bunch of new watch collections for men and women, they've also expanded to sunglasses and fashion-forward bracelets.
00:21:38.000For her, I've got a pair of Movement sunglasses as well, so does my wife.
00:22:37.000The way that you can tell the real quote-unquote never-Trumpers from the people who just didn't vote for Trump in 2016, but
00:22:43.000Didn't say that it was bad to vote for Trump and who might vote for Trump in 2020.
00:22:46.000The way you can tell is whether they are saying to vote for Democrats in the 2018 elections.
00:22:50.000So Max Boot says you should vote for Democrats in the 2018 elections.
00:22:53.000I believe Bret Stephens said the same thing, if I'm not mistaken.
00:22:56.000I know that, I know George Will has said that as well.
00:22:59.000Well, Max Boot has an entire article out today in the Washington Post, of course, wearing his trademark journalist hat.
00:23:06.000In which she says, As the post noted, her tweets include,
00:23:28.000And the New York Times explanation that she had been countering the trolling she received from Racist Online doesn't make much sense.
00:23:34.000And he basically says that the right is correct about all of this.
00:23:38.000He says, And he's talking there about Quinn Norton, who actually long ago had been friendly with a tech writer who then turned into a Nazi and was fired by the New York Times for once having been friendly with that person.
00:23:56.000So, the right has a point about Zhang.
00:24:15.000According to Max Boot, it is the same thing to tweet, cancel white people, as it is to tweet that LeBron James was interviewed by a dumb guy, Don Lemon.
00:24:24.000You know how far afield you have to go to reach that conclusion?
00:24:27.000Now, I'm not one who has defended President Trump when I think that he has said racially charged things or even things that border on racism.
00:24:33.000When he was defending the Charlottesville marchers, I was first in line to condemn that because I thought that that was gross.
00:24:40.000But to suggest that this is racist, when he says about LeBron James that LeBron James is not smart or Don Lemon is not smart, is just ridiculous.
00:25:03.000Am I supposed to direct a certain percentage of my attacks against people of various races based on the population of the United States?
00:25:10.000So if 10% of my attacks on dumb people can be on black people, and then 70% have to be against white people, and some 15% have to be against Hispanic people, 50% have to be against women, 50% have to be against men.
00:25:24.000I'm supposed to think before calling anyone stupid, I'm supposed to think about the proportionality of the name calling to the population of the United States?
00:25:35.000What in the world is Max Boot even talking about?
00:25:37.000He says, the kind of prejudice Trump exhibits is far more toxic and dangerous than Jung's remarks in which he suggested that white people should basically all die.
00:26:06.000And while we have made real progress toward a more colorblind society, we are not there yet.
00:26:10.000And with Trump at the wheel, we are going in reverse.
00:26:11.000There are too many videos circulating online of police officers harassing, beating, even killing African Americans in situations where whites would have walked away unmolested.
00:26:19.000Again, he's going to have to show the proof that this is happening disproportionately to black folks as opposed to white folks based on race.
00:26:26.000There's a very famous case out here in California.
00:26:29.000People don't know it across the nation because he was a white homeless dude who was beat to death by a bunch of cops.
00:26:34.000This is far from sympathizing with the victims.
00:26:36.000Trump attacks the African-American NFL players who protest police brutality.
00:26:40.000Very clearly, Max Boot thinks that Trump is a worse guy than Sarah Jean.
00:26:44.000He says there's a double standard on racism in the country and liberals are guilty as charged, but conservatives are far worse in their hypocrisy and their actions are far more destructive.
00:26:52.000Anybody who believes that conservatives are far worse on racism
00:26:57.000There's an entire theory from the left that racism is okay, actually okay, based on the ethnic identity of the person who is spewing the racism.
00:27:06.000There's an entire school of thought on the left called intersectionality that suggests that we can judge how valuable your opinion is based on your membership in a variety of victim groups.
00:27:17.000That is an actual tenet of the Democratic Party.
00:27:19.000Now, I may not like how people have gone soft on President Trump's
00:27:26.000I may think that's terrible, but to pretend that that is endemic to the Republican Party in the same way that the intersectional identity politics is rooted in the Democratic Party is to ignore the reality of the situation.
00:27:36.000Donald Trump is a figure who I don't think has been good for racial tension in America.
00:27:41.000But if Donald Trump were to leave office tomorrow and Mike Pence were to take over, that would pretty much cure that particular problem.
00:27:49.000Hey, if a Democrat were to take over tomorrow, the problem would not only be cured, it would not only not be cured, it would be exacerbated in a pretty significant way.
00:27:56.000Because the Democratic Party has full-scale embraced the racist rhetoric of Sarah Jean.
00:28:01.000Remember, if a Republican were to be caught saying the same thing Sarah Jean were saying, that person would be finished.
00:28:09.000And the only person who's gotten away with anything that I would say even remotely resembles that stuff is Donald Trump, and his statements have not remotely resembled what Sarah Zhang actually said.
00:28:17.000If Sarah Zhang were a Republican, she'd be out of a job right now.
00:28:28.000The left will say that racism is prejudice plus power.
00:28:31.000Well, if you want to talk about prejudice plus power, you're going to have to talk about the left that combines its own prejudice against various groups of people with the belief that that power should be enforced on behalf of those prejudices.
00:28:42.000That's an actual, that's a bigger problem, it is.
00:28:45.000And the attempt to paint Donald Trump as a racist based on these comments about LeBron James, it's not even remotely accurate.
00:29:50.000Also, they let you cultivate various groups.
00:29:52.000So you can have collections like a hundred most popular and sectors like entertainment and social media curated categories like female CEOs.
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00:31:47.000Alrighty, so the left has decided that President Trump's comments about LeBron James are full-scale racism, while Sarah Zhang's comments about white people being canceled, that's not actually racist because she's Asian.
00:31:58.000Also, the left is really going to have to decide whether Asian Americans are privileged members of American society or whether they are discriminated victims in American society.
00:32:05.000Sarah Zhang went to Berkeley and she went to Harvard Law School.
00:32:07.000Asian Americans earn more on average than white Americans do by a pretty significant margin, and they are more highly educated on average than white Americans.
00:33:32.000All that said, saying that you don't like LeBron James does not mean that you are in fact a racist, but according to Representative Ryan, Donald Trump is a racist because of what he had to say about LeBron.
00:33:44.000He's always got to find a black person.
00:33:46.000He's always got to find a brown person that he's got to prop up and make fun of to try to stimulate a certain portion of constituents that he has, a certain following that he has.
00:33:58.000Okay, so I just want to point out, here's a list of the people that President Trump has called low IQ or dumb.
00:34:05.000Mika Brzezinski, quote-unquote, dumb as a rock.
00:34:06.000Dumb as a rock, by the way, is his favorite, it's his favorite description of somebody.
00:34:10.000He's used, I searched his tweets, he has used dumb as a rock about 1,000 times in his tweets.
00:34:15.000Here's just a partial listing of the people he has called stupid.
00:34:18.000Mika Brzezinski, dumb as a rock, white person.
00:34:20.000Katie Tour, incompetent, white person.
00:34:22.000Jeb Bush, dumb as a rock, just like Mika, white person.
00:34:24.000Lindsey Graham, dumb mouthpiece, white person.
00:35:28.000So they try to use all of them on Trump simultaneously.
00:35:31.000Not every comment Trump makes is racist.
00:35:33.000And when you say to people that Trump is a racist based on the LeBron James statement, all you're doing is actually undermining your own case.
00:35:39.000This is where the media really do themselves a disservice.
00:35:42.000These firefighters who rush to the fire.
00:35:44.000They spend as much effort on Donald Trump tweeting mean things about Don Lemon as they do when the President of the United States says something bad about Charlottesville.
00:35:58.000You shouldn't expend all of your energy in one place, particularly when that place happens to be stupid.
00:36:03.000And meanwhile, speaking of stupid, the West Hollywood City Council has now voted to recommend that Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame be removed.
00:36:12.000Now, there are a couple problems with this.
00:36:13.000First of all, his star on the Walk of Fame is not actually in West Hollywood, so this has the same relevance as Pyongyang deciding that the star on the Walk of Fame should actually be removed.
00:36:22.000We drove past the Star on the Walk of Fame the other day and people were crowded around it like it was the site of a killing.
00:36:45.000Okay, so I would just like to ask a question.
00:36:47.000And the question I would like to ask is whether, in fact, Hollywood is filled with people who abuse women, minorities, immigrants, and the disabled.
00:37:14.000If you're a woman in Hollywood and you have not been abused, you are in a minority.
00:37:17.000The number of women in Hollywood who have been abused by a powerful man is extraordinarily high because men in positions of power, particularly with women who would like to be a star, when those men say, get on that couch or I'm not hiring you, a lot of women will do that.
00:37:38.000Kevin Spacey still has his star on the Walk of Fame.
00:37:40.000The West Hollywood City Council doesn't care about that.
00:37:42.000They don't like Trump because if Trump were on the left, is there any doubt that they would be begging to put his star on the Walk of Fame?
00:37:48.000They're still looking for an excuse to put a Bill Clinton star on the Walk of Fame, even though he's never been in a movie.
00:37:52.000They're still looking for an excuse to put a Hillary Clinton star on the Walk of Fame.
00:37:56.000Being on the left or being on the right is the only thing that matters here.
00:37:59.000But the good news is, for the left, I guess, that according to Article 49 of the U.S.
00:38:04.000Constitution, once you remove Donald Trump's star from the Walk of Fame, he's no longer president of the United States.
00:38:35.000It may not be a good year for Republicans.
00:38:36.000But if you think that Democrats are going to win power on the basis of breaking Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame or shouting racist at Trump repeatedly, you haven't been watching politics for the past several years.
00:38:45.000OK, meanwhile, the Democrats are struggling for an alternative vision, and their alternative vision is basically Trump is a traitor and let's be socialists.
00:38:53.000And I'm not really joking or exaggerating about this.
00:38:56.000Cynthia Nixon is seen as one of these figures who is going to be the future of the Democratic Party, along with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
00:39:21.000I'm saying this only based on her public statements.
00:39:24.000I do not think that she's a good expositor of her viewpoint.
00:39:26.000There are many people on the left who agree with her, who I think are much better expositors of her particular viewpoint.
00:39:32.000I do not think that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is a wise spokeswoman.
00:39:35.000I think she's charismatic, but charisma and brains don't always come in the same package.
00:39:40.000And if you disagree with me, those of you on the left, think about what you think of President Trump.
00:39:43.000Okay, the fact is, charisma and brains, not exactly the same thing.
00:39:45.000In any case, she is considered the new face of the Republican Party, another person, or the Democratic Party, another person considered a rising star in the Democratic Party is Cynthia Nixon, who you remember for playing one of the... Miranda, is it?
00:40:11.000Well, she spoke at Nutroots Nation, which actually should be called Nutroots Nation.
00:40:15.000I mean, it's just where everybody goes to be an insane person.
00:40:17.000Cory Booker shows up and he does his weird jazz hands and talks about how socialism is the way and then holds up a sign saying America shouldn't have borders and Israel shouldn't have borders.
00:40:43.000I'm proud to be one of a small but growing number of candidates to identify as a democratic socialist.
00:40:51.000If being a democratic socialist means believing that health care and housing and education should be a human right, then I am a democratic socialist.
00:41:01.000Okay, and what she says is, if the Republicans are going to call us socialists anyway, maybe we should be socialists.
00:41:05.000First of all, if anybody ever uses the formulation, if being X means blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, they're lying to you.
00:41:12.000Okay, because usually what they're doing is they're saying, if, it's like, if being a communist means I just love puppies, then call me a communist!
00:41:22.000No, that's not what being a Democratic Socialist means.
00:41:25.000If you say that I think that Democratic Socialist means free healthcare, no, I think Democratic Socialist means you want to nationalize all major industries in the United States and abolish the profit margin, which is what the Democratic Socialist platform actually says.
00:41:37.000I think being a Democratic Socialist does not actually mean that you want to just add a bunch of redistributionist programs atop a capitalist edifice.
00:41:44.000That's not what your program actually says.
00:41:46.000Because it wouldn't be less popular if she went up there and she said,
00:42:02.000She can't say that, because that's actually what Democratic Socialist means.
00:42:05.000So instead, she gets up there and she starts shrieking about, If being a Democratic Socialist means that I like to kiss babies, then that's me!
00:42:18.000If that's her schtick, okay, I guess that's her schtick.
00:42:20.000But if the future of the Democratic Party is just declaring that you're a Democratic Socialist, which means unicorns and rainbow poop, then...
00:42:30.000And if anybody on the right has any capacity to debate, they should be able to knock the Democratic-Socialist arguments down with legitimately the push of a finger.
00:42:39.000The other program the Democrats are pushing, of course, is the idea that Trump is going to be removed from office via a deus ex machina that Robert Mueller will swoop in like a Valkyrie aboard his avenging horse, and then he will take out the President of the United States, a Democratic representative named Cicilline,
00:42:54.000It has come out now and says that David Cicilline from Rhode Island, he says that we can probably oust Trump based on the Trump-Russia stuff right now.
00:43:21.000's admissions of knowing the purpose of this meeting based on those emails, I think he definitely has liability.
00:43:26.000Okay, well let's find out whether that is true or not, but if you are placing all of your faith in democratic socialism and Donald Trump is a Russian agent, I would say the Democrats have to come up with something better in the near future.
00:43:35.000Maybe not for the congressional elections, but for 2020 for sure.
00:43:38.000Okay, so now it's time for some things I like and some things I hate, correct?
00:43:42.000Yes, we are at that point in the show.
00:43:45.000I've started watching Big Little Lies with Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley.
00:43:52.000And I have to admit that I was kind of off-put by the marketing campaign for this particular show because I felt like it was just going to be like a female gossip show, essentially not geared toward men at all.
00:44:01.000And it turns out that the show is actually extraordinarily funny and well-written and pretty great.
00:44:06.000Reese Witherspoon, particularly, is just awesome.
00:44:08.000And I've always underestimated Reese Witherspoon as an actress, honestly.
00:44:11.000I've always not been super impressed by her, but she really shows range here.
00:44:15.000Was she nominated for an Emmy for this?
00:46:12.000OK, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:46:19.000Okay, so, the Russian embassy tweeted out yesterday, yesterday was the anniversary, the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
00:46:26.000Okay, the bombing of Hiroshima was a horrific event.
00:46:28.000It was also generated by the fact that the Japanese would not surrender despite repeated attempts by the United States to get them to surrender.
00:46:34.000It was necessitated by the fact that a full-scale invasion of the Japanese islands would have required
00:46:39.000The death of probably a million people.
00:46:42.000It was necessitated by the fact that we asked them to surrender over and over.
00:46:46.000We leafleted the town beforehand, telling people to get out.
00:46:49.000And then we dropped the A-bomb and within days the war was over.
00:46:53.000Well, the Russian ministry, Russia is, the Russian government is just garbage.
00:46:57.000They're just, Putin is an evil piece of human debris and the people who work for him seem to be no better.
00:47:02.000Well, here is what they tweeted out yesterday.
00:47:26.000Says the country that was responsible for the gulags, the death of 20 million people, the Holodomor, which is the forced starvation of forced collectivization of Ukraine ending with the deaths of legitimately probably 3 million people minimum.
00:47:40.000The country responsible for the invasions and murder of people in Hungary, in Czechoslovakia, the building of the Berlin Wall, responsible for the backing of the Viet Cong in Vietnam, responsible for the backing of the Maoist regime that ended with the murder of 40 million people or so.
00:47:54.000Yeah, talk to us about using the A-bomb to end World War II.
00:47:58.000By the way, also necessary to remember that Russia was on the wrong side of this war originally.
00:48:02.000As you recall, they were responsible for the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which was the treaty signed in 1938 between the Russians and the Nazis that essentially led to World War II.
00:48:12.000If the Russians never signed that treaty, the chances that World War II breaks out are significantly lower.
00:48:16.000Then Russia switched sides and we're all supposed to pretend that Russia was grand in that war.
00:48:20.000Russia was fighting for survival because the Nazis turned on the Russians.
00:48:23.000It was not that the Russians decided to attack the Nazis.
00:48:28.000That's not to put down the sacrifice of the Russians when it came to fighting the Nazis, but it is to suggest that the Russian government run by Stalin was one of the most evil governments on the face of the earth and in human history.
00:48:37.000Probably the most evil government on the face of the earth in human history.
00:48:39.000The only one that could possibly challenge it, really.
00:50:11.000It says, I got my eyebrows threaded for the first time when I was 12 years old.
00:50:14.000As I walked out of the salon, admiring my new skinny brows, my mother stared at me.
00:50:18.000They gave you Chola brows, she gaffed, horrified before immediately making me swear to never thread them that thin again, because at the time, in the predominantly Mexican and Mexican-American city of Los Angeles, pencil-thin brows weren't seen as a fashion statement.
00:50:28.000They were seen as a gang affiliation, marking you as a Chola, a female gang member.
00:50:32.000Suddenly, I was the sixth grader with a hugely polarizing gang sign on her face, a sign I had been raised to furiously avoid and have avoided ever since.
00:50:42.000Like, this seems like the article's basically saying that the person writing it's the racist, because she's the one who's— her mom is the one saying, like, if you get your eyebrows threaded in a particular way, that it's because you're— I wouldn't even know how to— I don't know Spanish, so I assume that's some sort of slur.
00:51:33.000Okay, I'm just gonna put it out there.
00:51:35.000If being a democratic socialist means I think that society is too rich and we are in the late stage of capitalism, then perhaps I am a democratic socialist.
00:51:41.000Because if you have the money to sit around worrying about Rihanna's eyebrows on your day, like in the middle of a weekday, if you don't actually have a job requiring you to do more than worry about how many hairs, the hair count on Rihanna,
00:51:54.000I'm just going to suggest that you need to find something better to do with your life.
00:51:58.000Okay, finally, let's deconstruct culture for just a moment.
00:52:02.000So, there's a very controversial story out now about Evangeline Lilly.
00:52:07.000So, Evangeline Lilly is the star of Ant-Man and the Wasp.
00:52:09.000She became famous originally because she was in the show Lost, which was one of my favorite shows of all time, up to the point when they completely destroyed the show in the fifth and sixth seasons.
00:52:18.000Yeah, even through the fifth season, it was okay.
00:52:27.000In any case, one of the big problems, supposedly, that happened on the set is that Evangeline Lilly said in an interview that she was made to feel cornered on the show's set about doing partially nude scenes.
00:52:38.000Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Jack Bender, and Carlton Cuse issued a joint statement apology for the alleged problems on the show.
00:52:44.000They said, So, she claims that she was mortified and trembling after filming a specific loss scene.
00:53:01.000She said, in season three, I'd had a bad experience on set with basically being cornered into doing a scene partially naked, and I felt I had no choice in the matter.
00:53:07.000And I was mortified, and I was trembling.
00:53:09.000And when it finished, I was crying my eyes out, and I had to go on and do a very formidable, very strong scene thereafter.
00:53:13.000And then she says, in season four, another scene came up where Kate was undressing, and I fought very hard to have that scene be under my control, and I failed to control it again.
00:54:05.000Maybe Evangeline Lilly is one of the few infamous modest actresses in Hollywood.
00:54:11.000But Hollywood actresses typically go into these roles knowing that there is a chance that they are going to have to take their clothes off at a certain point.
00:54:17.000And on a network show, we're not even talking about like Evangeline Lilly
00:54:24.000It's actually against FCC standards for her to actually get fully... I mean, this is what I say, HBO's a pay cable channel, so they can get as nude as they want, but you don't actually see that on network television.
00:54:34.000By most standards, the stuff that she did for Lost is pretty mild for TV.
00:54:39.000Now, am I saying she's being dishonest here?
00:54:43.000I am saying that the idea that she was cornered into it, I'm going to need to see some more evidence of that before I jump to the conclusion that she was indeed cornered into it.
00:54:50.000And again, it would be good to have, listen, I hope all actresses hold by the standard that they don't want to get nude on film.
00:54:55.000I think that the country would be a better place if we had more of that.
00:54:59.000So good for her for saying she's not going to do it anymore.
00:55:02.000I just find it difficult to believe that a lot of Hollywood actresses actually feel that way.
00:55:05.000I don't think a lot of Hollywood... I mean, we live in an era when critics actually say that actresses are brave for getting naked on film.
00:55:29.000LeBron James is apparently now going to create a series called Shut Up and Dribble, in which he is going to take advantage of the fact that Laura Ingraham once said about him that he ought to shut up and dribble.
00:55:38.000He is going to do this show on Showtime, he's going to serve as an executive producer on a three-part documentary, and it's going to look at the changing role of athletes in our fraught cultural and political environment through the lens of the NBA.
00:55:49.000Do I think that we actually need more commentary from members of the NBA about politics?
00:55:56.000I mean, it's free country, say what you want, but I'm not going to give extra credibility to NBA players about matters political simply because they're good at a different skill set.
00:56:03.000I don't think that, for example, musicians have a skill set that involves politics.
00:56:07.000If I said, you know, first of all, there was this whole idea that came out when Laura Ingraham said, shut up and dribble, that she was being racist about LeBron James.