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00:00:00.000The worst anti-Semitic shooting in American history rocks the country, the left blames President Trump, and a populist wins a shock victory in Brazil.
00:00:14.000Well, obviously an awful morning to be doing a podcast, but here we are, and I have a lot of thoughts, obviously, on what happened over the weekend.
00:00:21.000The worst anti-Semitic shooting in American history taking place at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
00:00:34.000The short story here is that when the seams of Western civilization begin to come apart, anti-Semitism is what crawls through those gaps, and that's exactly what we've seen in the past few years.
00:00:44.000I'll talk more about that in just a second.
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00:03:09.000They don't keep full kosher, but they have certain respect for Torah laws.
00:03:12.000In any case, this conservative synagogue didn't have much security and an anti-Semitic white supremacist, but I repeat myself, walked into the synagogue armed with an AR-15 and proceeded to shoot up the bris milah.
00:03:24.000He was screaming at the time, all Jews must die.
00:03:31.000First of all, I think that we need to get something off the table right away.
00:03:34.000When an anti-Semitic attack occurs, you generally don't need to bother blaming particular politicians.
00:03:40.000Anti-Semitism is literally as old as the Jewish people.
00:03:43.000Literally as old as the Jewish people.
00:03:44.000Now, there are politicians in the past who have called for anti-Semitism.
00:03:47.000There are politicians in the past who have actively called for the murder of Jews.
00:03:51.000I'm not seeing a lot of those on today's American scene.
00:03:53.000There are a lot of politicians on today's American scene who hobnob with anti-Semites, who make common cause with anti-Semites.
00:03:59.000We'll get to all of that in just a second.
00:04:00.000But folks who are blaming the left or the right for the anti-Semitic shooting that happened yesterday, white supremacism and anti-Semitic attacks on Jews have existed for decades in this country, long before anything that is going on in today's politics.
00:04:13.000And that's not to downplay what's happening in today's politics.
00:04:15.000That's what the rest of the show is going to be about.
00:04:34.000America is the safest country in world history for Jews.
00:04:37.000America's an incredible place for Jews.
00:04:39.000But because the Jewish population is so small, and because so many Jews know each other, and because the Jews sort of consider themselves an extended family, just as Christians consider themselves an extended religious family, it's difficult not to feel it deeply, obviously, when an attack like this takes place.
00:04:56.000The history of the Jewish people is filled with fractious division, but history has treated the Jews as a closely bound unit.
00:05:03.000Jewish identity isn't really a choice, it's a reality.
00:05:06.000Modernity has obscured this for a lot of Jews, but the fact is that all Jews are in the same boat when it comes to anti-Semites, like this.
00:05:13.000And as I say, every Jew is one degree removed from some level of anti-Semitic violence.
00:06:57.000That was the last tweet that he sent before he went and murdered a bunch of Jews, most of them over the age of 50, including a Holocaust survivor.
00:07:03.000He also had a particular dislike for President Trump.
00:07:07.000He dismissed President Trump as a globalist rather than a nationalist.
00:07:10.000He said there is no MAGA as long as there is a kike infestation.
00:07:14.000I'm going to use the word here because I think it's imperative to know the language that these monsters use.
00:08:03.000He is not a member of the modern alt-right movement, which is disgusting and evil and anti-Semitic in and of itself.
00:08:08.000But he is a white supremacist with a longer standing past.
00:08:14.000Because this is a complex topic, I'm going to try to parse this.
00:08:16.000I'm going to try to parse this because a bunch of things can be true all at once.
00:08:19.000Number one, just as I said last week with regard to the attempted bombings against Democratic targets, just as I said then, you cannot connect a politician's rhetoric to a violent action unless the politician actually calls for the violent action.
00:08:32.000President Trump has engaged in nothing even remotely approaching incitement against Jews.
00:08:36.000No one can name a single comment that he has ever made that looks like incitement against Jews.
00:08:40.000In fact, this president of the United States has been extraordinarily pro-Israel and pro-Jewish.
00:08:45.000The President's comments in response to this particular anti-Semitic attack were far stronger than his predecessor's responses to similar anti-Semitic attacks.
00:08:52.000For example, here's what the President of the United States had to say in the after... This is clip 15.
00:08:57.000This is what the President had to say in the aftermath of the attack.
00:09:01.000The scourge of anti-Semitism cannot be ignored, cannot be tolerated, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
00:09:38.000And I want to show you the contrast between this because, again, if we're going to talk about standing with the Jews, then we have to talk about whose response to this attack was actually better.
00:09:46.000President Trump's was better than Obama's.
00:10:57.000From his unwillingness to condemn David Duke on CNN to his unwillingness to condemn alt-right attacks on Julia Jaffe, the GQ journalist we'll get to in a second.
00:11:06.000To bringing on Steve Bannon, who called himself the progenitor of a website that became a gathering place for the alt-right.
00:11:14.000President Trump went and nodded at this.
00:11:15.000I know this because I became the target of the alt-right.
00:11:18.000Trump's statements in the aftermath of Charlottesville provided aid and comfort to white supremacists.
00:11:46.000Those people were going to shoot Jews regardless of what anybody had to say because they have been shooting Jews since long before I was born.
00:11:53.000In 1999, as I mentioned, a white supremacist shot up our local JCC.
00:11:56.000That same year, six Orthodox Jews were shot in Chicago along with a black man and several Asians by a white supremacist.
00:12:01.000This sort of stuff has been happening for a very long time.
00:12:04.000It has nothing to do with President Trump.
00:12:07.000Third, President Trump has separated from the alt-right in dramatic ways.
00:12:11.000To say that President Trump is still associated with the alt-right is to be ignorant of President Trump's administration or what he has done.
00:12:40.000And if you fail to acknowledge it, you are lying by omission.
00:12:44.000Hey, in a second, I'm going to get to a few more points we have to keep in mind, then we'll get to the media's response, which, again, I think is simplistic, despicable, and partisan.
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00:13:54.000Okay, a few more points that we have to keep in mind with regard to the shooting in Pennsylvania and what it has to do with President Trump, which is to say very little.
00:14:21.000President Trump, as I say, has separated from the alt-right in dramatic ways.
00:14:23.000So the first three points that I've made here, President Trump did wink and nod at the alt-right for two years.
00:14:27.000Two, white supremacism not the same as alt-right MAGA.
00:14:30.000Three, President Trump has separated from the alt-right in dramatic ways and they are pissed at him over it.
00:14:34.000Okay, that is true of this shooter too, who is anti-Trump.
00:14:37.000Fourth, if we're going to talk about flirting with anti-Semites and anti-Semitic rhetoric, and this making things less safe for Jews, then let's actually talk about that.
00:14:46.000Who do you think has made the world less safe for Jews?
00:14:48.000President Trump and his winking and nodding at the alt-right?
00:14:52.000Or the left, which mainstreams Louis Farrakhan, which mainstreams Linda Sarsour, which mainstreams the BDS movement, which mainstreams wildly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic policies?
00:15:02.000Which one do you think is more damaging to Jews all across the world and in the United States?
00:15:07.000Which one do you think is leading to more mainstream antisemitism?
00:15:11.000Do you think it's the party that might have removed Jerusalem, tried to remove Jerusalem in 2012 from their platform?
00:15:16.000Or is it the party that moved the U.S.
00:15:19.000Do you think that it's the party standing up for religious freedom?
00:15:22.000Or do you think that it's the party looking to obliterate religious freedom in the name of so-called anti-discrimination?
00:15:27.000Do you think that it's the party that mainlines Keith Ellison and tries to make him head of the DNC after he refuses and spends years backing Louis Farrakhan?
00:15:36.000Or do you think that it might be the party that opposes that?
00:15:40.000Mainstream members of the Democratic Party routinely hobnob with anti-Semites.
00:15:44.000Not just hobnob with them, agree with them.
00:15:46.000This is true on the European left as well.
00:15:48.000Folks like Jeremy Corbyn in Britain expressing their sympathy for what happened in Pittsburgh.
00:15:53.000No one is interested in what a Hamas supporter has to say about Jews being shot in a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
00:16:00.000See, for the Jewish community, really, for Jews who really care about being Jewish, there is not a whit of difference between a Jew being murdered for being a Jew in Jerusalem, a Jew being murdered for being Jewish in France, or a Jew being murdered for being Jewish in Pittsburgh.
00:16:13.000And for folks on the left who suggest that the death of a Jew in Jerusalem is different than the death of a Jew in Pittsburgh for anti-Semitic reasons, those people are part of the problem.
00:16:21.000And so if we're going to talk about anti-Semitic rhetoric and who's to blame for a rise in Jewish deaths the world over, a rise in hate crimes the world over, then let's actually talk about it.
00:16:31.000I don't think the left wants to talk about that.
00:16:32.000I think what they want is partisan hackery.
00:16:34.000A little more on this in just a second.
00:16:41.000Tried to wink and nod at the alt-right.
00:16:43.000He was taking a fringe group, a fringe group that was non-associated with the conservative movement, and he was winking and nodding at them for political purposes, and then he tossed them out on their ear, which is why they're angry with him.
00:16:53.000The mainstream Democratic Party, the mainstream Democratic Party and the left in this country have decided that it is perfectly fine to hobnob with people who support anti-Semitic terrorism.
00:17:09.000But if we're going to talk about rhetoric and its impact on anti-Jewish sentiment the world over, I'm going to go with the folks who every time there's a war in the Gaza Strip suggest that Jews the world over are to blame.
00:17:17.000Or suggest that Israel is to blame for defending itself.
00:17:20.000Or suggest that when Jews are attacked at a kosher supermarket in France, that that's a random attack.
00:17:28.000If we're going to condemn rhetoric, let's condemn rhetoric.
00:17:30.000I'm happy to separate rhetoric from violence.
00:17:53.000I'm seeing a bunch of people who don't give a good damn when a Jew gets killed in Jerusalem
00:17:58.000Popping out of the woodwork to say that the right is responsible for what just happened in Pittsburgh, all the while championing an Iran deal that will lead to the annihilation of millions of people if the Iranians have their way.
00:18:25.000For the 1,000th time, when anti-Semitic rhetoric, or rhetoric that tut-tuts anti-Semitism, takes place, I will condemn it loudly and strongly as I have.
00:18:33.000You can go back and listen to the show.
00:18:35.000I've done it every step of the way against people on all sides.
00:18:45.000Okay, but now let's talk about policy and which policy is getting Jews killed.
00:18:49.000Okay, if you're gonna talk about policies that lead to Jews dying, it ain't President Trump's policy.
00:18:55.000The Obama administration lied to the American people and promoted an Iran deal that gave the Mullahs a clear pathway to a nuclear weapon.
00:19:03.000President Trump not only moved the embassy to Jerusalem, he also cut off aid to the anti-Semitic, openly anti-Semitic, terror-supporting Palestinian Authority.
00:19:10.000The Obama administration tried to make Israel make concessions to those terrorists.
00:19:15.000The Obama administration, in the middle of the Gaza War in 2014, threatened to cut off military supplies to the Israelis.
00:19:25.000was just blatantly, not only anti-Israel, not only blatantly anti-Israel, but promotional of a wing of progressive Jews for whom progressivism came first and Judaism came second.
00:19:37.000So if you're going to talk about policy that led to dead Jews, forget the location, then you actually have to talk about it.
00:19:46.000But we're not going to talk about any of that stuff, obviously.
00:19:48.000We're not going to talk about any of that stuff.
00:19:50.000So, now let's talk about how the media actually responded to this.
00:19:54.000Because it's, while, it's just tremendously dishonest.
00:19:56.000So let's start with a media story that came courtesy, I'm sorry, all this is deeply upsetting.
00:20:04.000It's deeply upsetting, because we should all be on the same side when it comes to anti-Semitism.
00:20:07.000I think that we probably all would be on the same side when it comes to anti-Semitism, but nobody is actually willing to call out anti-Semitism when and where it exists on any side, unless they are busy defending their own political side and their own political hide.
00:20:24.000Maggie Haberman, a reporter for whom I generally have respect at the New York Times, she tweeted out today a letter to President Trump from Pittsburgh Jewish leaders.
00:20:33.000And this is a headline that was repeated by a variety of media groups.
00:21:00.000I'm going to tell you the whole story in just one second.
00:21:03.000Because it turns out the media are lying to you.
00:21:06.000It turns out the media are lying to you because they're more interested in getting President Trump than in actually fighting anti-Semitism or unifying against anti-Semitism.
00:21:12.000It seems to me when the President of the United States comes out, openly condemns anti-Semitism, wants to visit Pittsburgh, is probably going to put in place new measures to fight anti-Semitism, maybe we all can be on the same side.
00:21:53.000You can print the postage directly out onto the envelope, onto a piece of paper that you taped to the envelope, onto a sticker, and you are good to go.
00:22:31.000Okay, so what are the media not telling you about the Jewish leaders who supposedly said that President Trump shouldn't show up?
00:22:37.000They're from a group called Bend the Arc.
00:22:39.000Okay, the Bend the Arc wrote a letter stating, For the past three years, your words and your policies have emboldened a growing white nationalist movement.
00:22:46.000You yourself call the murderer evil, but yesterday's violence is the direct culmination of your influence.
00:22:51.000President Trump, you are not welcome in Pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism.
00:22:55.000Our Jewish community is not the only group you have targeted.
00:22:57.000You have deliberately undermined the safety of people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities.
00:23:02.000Yesterday's massacre is not the first act of terror you incited.
00:23:07.000Okay, the group is a leftist political action group, self-stated, with a Jewish label.
00:23:13.000Their stated mission is, quote, rising up in solidarity with everyone threatened by the Trump agenda to fight for the soul of our nation.
00:23:19.000Their missions include the election of, quote, progressive champions and the implementation of progressive legislation and policies like criminal justice reform and economic equity.
00:23:33.000Politico noted Soros, who formed his own foundation in 2012 to promote social justice and human rights, has given $1.2 million to Democratic candidates and groups in the last three decades.
00:23:43.000This is a Democratic political action committee, and the press treated it as though it was a bunch of rabbis, well-respected in the Jewish community, who came out and told Trump not to show up in Pittsburgh.
00:24:17.000You know how I know it's an outright lie?
00:24:19.000Because here is a clip of the rabbi at the Tree of Life synagogue that was just shot up on national television being asked whether President Trump was welcome in Pittsburgh.
00:24:28.000President Trump has talked about coming to Pittsburgh and coming to your synagogue in the aftermath of this.
00:25:07.000And this, of course, prompted President Trump to get himself in trouble again because President Trump cannot help but step on a rake every five seconds.
00:25:13.000The president tweets out in response to the media stuff like this.
00:25:16.000There is great anger in our country caused in part by inaccurate and even fraudulent reporting of the news.
00:25:21.000The fake news media, the true enemy of the people, must stop the open and obvious hostility and report the news accurately and fairly.
00:25:27.000That will do much to put out the flame.
00:25:28.000I agree with President Trump that the media are doing a terrible job and they are lying about him and lying about the situation.
00:25:33.000But if he doesn't stop at this enemy of the people crap, he undermines everything that he is saying.
00:25:38.000The press are not the enemy of the people.
00:25:41.000The press are politically biased hacks.
00:25:44.000Calling on the enemy of the people only raises the temperature in a time when it doesn't need to be raised.
00:25:48.000But he's not wrong that the media are out to get him, and he is not wrong that the media have decided that no matter what the question was, the answer is, it's Trump's fault.
00:25:57.000It's so funny, on the left, it became a meme when President Obama was president, that when something went wrong, everybody would say, blame Obama.
00:27:54.000Except for the fact that this shooter specifically hated President Trump, and except for the fact that you don't get to blame Jews for how they vote on Jews getting killed.
00:28:11.000You don't get to blame people for the death of other people when they have no connection to the death of other people.
00:28:16.000But this is what the left has decided to do.
00:28:17.000They've decided that every bad thing that happens in the country from an evil person has to be the result of President Trump's rhetoric.
00:28:23.000Now, again, I condemned President Trump when it came to the alt-right stuff, but you can't show me the connection that is solid between what happened at the Pittsburgh synagogue and President Trump's alt-right stuff, number one.
00:28:35.000And number two, if we're going to talk about rhetoric that leads to violence against Jews, that's going to open a whole can of worms.
00:28:52.000Steve Scalise said, This morning's attack is a reminder that anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry still persist in our society and must be confronted and combated at every turn.
00:29:00.000Matt Iglesias tweeted, David Duke without the baggage.
00:29:03.000So now every Republican is responsible for a white nationalist shooting up a synagogue.
00:29:12.000I go to synagogue way more than any of the people who I've quoted so far in the show.
00:29:16.000And not only that, I'm seeing an argument being made, we'll get to this in a second, the gun control argument that is being made by folks on the left in response to all of this.
00:29:24.000You know what my response to all of this is?
00:29:26.000I'm going to start carrying a gun to shul.
00:29:41.000So that means I want more people at my shul armed.
00:29:43.000I want more security guards at my shul.
00:29:45.000We'll get to all of that in just a second.
00:29:48.000Sorry, it's an angry show today, but there's no way around it, really.
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00:32:22.000So as I say, members of the Democratic left have decided that when an anti-Semitic shooting takes place in Pittsburgh that has nothing to do with President Trump, it's obviously President Trump's fault, and they've continued with this narrative.
00:32:31.000Franklin Fuller, who's a columnist over at The Atlantic, he wrote a full column basically on this idea, that members of the Jewish community who support Republicans are responsible.
00:32:39.000He tweeted, So let me get this straight, being mean to Jared Kushner is now going to prevent shootings at synagogues?
00:32:51.000Being mean to Sheldon Adelson, one of the great supporters of Israel in the United States, and one of the great supporters of Jewish programs like Birthright in the United States, that is somehow going to make Jews safer in the United States.
00:33:02.000If you shun me, because according to Foer, I'm one of the enablers, if you shun me, you shun Dennis Prager, you shun any other Jew who happens to be on the right, this is protecting the security of the community.
00:33:14.000So if you elect Barack Obama, or if you elect Keith Ellison, or if you elect a bunch of Democrats who openly hobnob with Linda Sarsour, then that makes Jews safer.
00:33:25.000But if you shun the most pro-Israel president in American history, and any Jew who supports that president, even while condemning his rhetoric, then you are somehow making the Jewish community safer.
00:33:43.000He says, Again, this is just an extension of the argument made last week about the bombing attempts against Democratic members.
00:33:53.000That rhetoric is what causes violence.
00:33:57.000I don't remember any of these conversations happening on mainstream television after Bernie Sanders supporters shot up a bunch of Congress people on a congressional baseball field.
00:34:03.000I don't remember these conversations happening for longer than two days.
00:34:06.000It was out of the headlines immediately.
00:34:08.000Now we're going to get nothing but this for months.
00:34:11.000Because this was always... Let's be clear about something.
00:34:13.000This was always going to be the Democratic narrative.
00:34:15.000And it almost has nothing to do with President Trump.
00:34:17.000Now President Trump plays right into the heart of it because he can't shut his face.
00:34:43.000And you can separate out all these issues.
00:34:45.000You can condemn bad rhetoric when you see it on any side without doing this routine, this partisan hack job, where Adam Schiff is suddenly the great arbiter of decent rhetoric in the middle of a terrible political time.
00:34:56.000No one sets the tone more than President of the United States.
00:34:59.000And the tone that he sets is one of division, often one of hatred, sometimes one of incitement of violence against journalists.
00:35:34.000Ignore your own complicity in the breakdown of our political culture.
00:35:37.000But let's not pretend that the world started spinning when President Trump suddenly entered the political scene.
00:35:43.000And let's stop pretending that the Democratic Party has clean hands when it comes to association with anti-Semites.
00:35:49.000Now, one of the more scurrilous attacks on Trump and folks on the right is the suggestion that if you're critical of George Soros, you're somehow anti-Semitic.
00:35:57.000So there's been a big narrative put out by folks on the left that George Soros, who is a lead Democratic donor, that if you criticize George Soros by suggesting that he gives a lot of money to causes that are nefarious, then this means that you are somehow anti-Semitic.
00:36:10.000Now, you can attack George Soros in an anti-Semitic way.
00:36:13.000You can suggest that he is part of a Jewish cabal attempting to run the country.
00:36:16.000But it seems to me that the criticism of George Soros on the right, on the mainstream right, has been no more marked than the criticism of Sheldon Adelson on the left.
00:36:26.000It seems to me that the criticism of George Soros is very much akin to the criticism of the Koch brothers on the left.
00:36:32.000And yet, the idea now is that we're going to spin every critique of George Soros into this is all about George Soros' Jewish heritage, which is nonsense.
00:36:46.000I'm blaming them for putting that guest on the air and not, you know, correcting him in real time.
00:36:50.000And so far as I know, 12 hours later, doing nothing about it.
00:36:53.000And I'm blaming, honestly, at this level, after we have Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, and I've known all these people in the past on TV every night, I'm blaming the management of Fox and the investors in Fox.
00:37:03.000Okay, what he's talking about here is there was a Fox business guest who said that the caravan had something to do with the Soros-run State Department or something like that.
00:37:12.000No, it may be idiotic, but it's not anti-Semitic.
00:37:15.000George Soros doesn't run the State Department, but the idea that going after George Soros as a nefarious force in American politics is somehow inherently anti-Semitic is ridiculous in the same way as suggesting that going after Sheldon Adelson is inherently anti-Semitic when he's a major donor to the Republican Party.
00:37:31.000The Democrats are looking for a narrative.
00:38:43.000Within the last few hours, protesters interrupted a rally for Congresswoman Marsha Blackmon.
00:38:49.000She hosted Senator Lindsey Graham in West Nashville at Ray Stephens Cabaret.
00:38:53.000Our crew at the event saw four people taken out, and a police sergeant told us three of them will likely be charged with disorderly conduct.
00:39:14.000You take a look, if they had protection inside, the results would have been far better.
00:39:17.000This is a dispute that will always exist, I suspect, but if they had
00:39:43.000Some kind of a protection inside the temple.
00:39:47.000Maybe it could have been a very much different situation.
00:40:30.000When I pick a school for my children, a Jewish day school for my children, they have to fulfill certain philosophical commitments, obviously, but within that band, there are a bunch of schools in the area that do that.
00:40:39.000The very first thing that I look at, the first thing I ask about is the security consideration at those schools.
00:41:29.000Now, one of the reasons that I suspect there wasn't additional security at this conservative synagogue is because conservative and reform synagogues typically don't have quite the same security as orthodox synagogues.
00:41:40.000I don't really have an ideological reason or philosophical reason for that.
00:41:43.000All I can say is that if you go to Beth Jacob in Los Angeles, they actually check everybody's bag.
00:41:47.000If you bring your talis, your tefillin, which are the phylacteries or the prayer shawl, with you to shul, they legitimately have a security force out front that checks your bags like you're going to Disneyland or something.
00:41:56.000This has been part of Jewish reality for a very long time.
00:42:06.000America is the safest country in world history for Jews.
00:42:08.000But, if you actually want to protect Jews, the answer is not to take the guns out of the hands of people like me, or out of the hands of people at my synagogue who are carrying.
00:42:16.000The answer is for some of those people to be armed, so that if somebody likes this shows up, maybe it's not the solution, maybe it doesn't solve the problem, but you do have a better shot at defending yourself if there are guns in the place.
00:42:25.000So for folks who are using this as a gun control argument, I'm having a hard time seeing that.
00:42:31.000I mean, California is replete with gun control, and it doesn't actually stop shootings in California.
00:44:31.000Bolsonaro, he won Brazil's presidential election on Sunday.
00:44:34.000The reason that he won the election is because the communists have been running Brazil for the past 10, 15 years, and they are deeply corrupt.
00:44:39.000They kept getting thrown out of office over corruption.
00:44:41.000Brazil's economy has stagnated, and so Bolsonaro came in saying, I'm gonna deregulate the economy, I'm gonna fight crime, and they elected him over this, and people are panicking.
00:44:48.000Oh, it's the end of democracy in Brazil.
00:44:50.000Okay, we'll find out, but it seems like democracy in Brazil had some real problems with the communists in the very recent past.
00:44:57.000And not only that, if Brazil did not rapidly shift course on economics and on crime, the hope for the future in Brazil was not bright.
00:45:05.000It's so funny how folks on the left seem to ignore the fact that it was the left's malfeasance, corruption, and inability to run a country that led to Bolsonaro's win.
00:45:12.000And Bolsonaro said, we cannot continue flirting with communism.
00:45:14.000We're going to change the destiny of Brazil.
00:45:17.000He rejected the leftist PT that ran Brazil for 13 of the last 15 years.
00:45:21.000They were ousted two years ago in the midst of a deep recession and political graft scandal.
00:45:29.000That is a very, very broad victory in Brazil.
00:45:32.000Folks who are panicking in the United States are panicking for the same reason that they look at Europe and they see right parties in Europe panicking.
00:45:40.000Now, let's not pretend that the Brazilian far-right is the same thing as the American conservative movement.
00:45:45.000Very few things are the same as the limited government American conservative movement.
00:45:49.000Bolsonaro's view of economics is much more akin to a free market system of economics than anything the left was proposing, and that is one of the driving factors here.
00:45:57.000Brazil was misrun in a brutal fashion over the last 15 years.
00:46:01.000The old joke about Brazil that was always told is, Brazil is the country of the future and always will be.
00:46:06.000Well, maybe if they actually shifted economic policy, maybe if they started tamping down crime, then things would change.
00:46:11.000But Brazil has a number of its own issues that it has to deal with, and Bolsonaro is a symptom of those issues, not the cause of them, even though the press will cover it as though Bolsonaro is the cause of those issues.
00:46:19.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I like.
00:48:19.000So it's, you know, the whole thing is just awful and awful and awful.
00:48:24.000And if we're not all on the same side here, and if we aren't willing to call out anti-Semitic rhetoric wherever it exists, not for partisan political purposes, but wherever it exists, if we're not willing to stand up against anti-Semites of every brand, and I don't just mean white nationalists, I mean Hamas, I mean the Palestinian Authority, I mean anti-Semites who want to destroy the state of Israel, I mean anti-Semites who want to see the death of Jews everywhere, if you're not willing to do that, all you see is Trump, just in big, bright, flashing letters, when something like this happens, let me suggest you're not being honest.
00:48:50.000You're being dishonest and you're being spiritually dishonest as well.
00:48:53.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:48:59.000As we can see, the media narrative is set here, and it's being promulgated by folks, you know, who you would expect to promulgate this media narrative.
00:49:07.000Last week, the big story before the shooting, obviously, was this attempted bombing against a bunch of Democratic officials.
00:49:11.000Michael Moore decided to share footage of a mail bomber, of the mail bomber at a Trump rally, as though this proves that President Trump somehow deputized this guy.
00:49:20.000Again, the Bernie Sanders congressional shooting had nothing to do with Bernie Sanders.
00:49:24.000It had to do with an evil person doing an evil thing.
00:49:27.000And as a secondary note, should we all take down the rhetoric a pitch?
00:49:40.000He said that President Trump was partnering with the bomber.
00:49:43.000Mainstream media must clean up its act fast.
00:49:47.000That sounds like he's not condemning the bomber.
00:49:49.000It sounds to me like he's partnering with him.
00:49:52.000Okay, that is such a despicable statement, that when you criticize the media and say that they need to do a better job, that you're partnering with people who are sending bombs to the media.
00:50:00.000It's just, it's a blatantly insane statement.
00:50:02.000That's like saying that Bill Maher is accusing President Trump of partnering with a bomber, so if somebody shoots President Trump, because obviously he is now complicit in terror, right, he's basically a terrorist, then that's Bill Maher's fault.
00:50:57.000We should try to see it as though they're not bad people.
00:51:00.000There are evil people, and those evil people ought to be condemned.
00:51:03.000But the attempt to get people on the back of evil people doing things that have nothing to do with those third parties, it's just making the country a worse place.
00:51:11.000Well, we'll be back here tomorrow with much more.
00:51:12.000I'll be in Vancouver, so I'll be broadcasting from there.
00:51:15.000I'm speaking to a Jewish group up there.
00:51:16.000We also are visiting the University of Pittsburgh in the next few weeks.
00:51:20.000My heart goes out, my prayers go out to the folks in Pittsburgh.
00:51:22.000Just a devastating, devastating weekend again.
00:51:25.000And, you know, I hope that, folks, if we're not going to, we have to cling to the tree of life, those eternal values, but we also have to cling to each other.
00:51:33.000This is still a country that was built on those eternal values.
00:51:35.000If we're not going to cling to each other and see each other as friends, then we will surely see each other as enemies, and that the country cannot withstand.