The Ben Shapiro Show - June 06, 2019


The YouTube Crackdown | Ep. 796


Episode Stats

Length

56 minutes

Words per Minute

205.08833

Word Count

11,608

Sentence Count

802

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

It's the 75th anniversary of D-Day, and Ben is here to talk about the heroism of the men and women who went to battle on the beaches of Normandy, France on June 6th, 1944. He talks to four members of the US military who served on that day, and talks about the sacrifices they made in order to defend our liberties and our freedom from tyranny. Plus, YouTube cracks down on Steven Crowder and other content creators, and Nancy Pelosi says she'd like to see President Trump in jail for his part in the latest scandal involving a woman and her husband. If you're a gun owner, you know that owning a gun is an awesome responsibility. Building rifles is no different. And that's why the folks at Bravo Company Manufacturing is not a sporting arms company, they design, engineer, and manufacture life-saving equipment. They believe it's their moral responsibility to give you a tool that will not fail the end user when it's not just a paper target, but somebody coming to do them harm. To learn more about Bravo Co. Manufacturing, head on over to BravoCo.MFG.co/BravoCoMFG and the awesome folks who make the products they make, go to Bravoco.USA for more information. You can discover more about their products, special offers, and upcoming news. That's BravoCo, USA for more than two decades ago, and a great product! Ben Shapiro's The Ben Shapiro Show is a show about the amazing people who make great stuff, and they do it the way you want to do it. and they make it so you can do it better than anyone else does it too. - Ben Shapiro, the host of the show you ve ever heard of that does it better. . . . and he's a gun guy who does it the right way. ...and he does it in the best way you ve got it right here on the show, and he also does it with his own thing the best, and does it on the podcast . And he's got it all on the internet, and you can watch it on YouTube, too. He's a little bit like that. , right here, right here and everywhere else, too, right on the social media, and it's a whole lot more, so you don't have to be that in this podcast, right there, right at home, right in your local coffee shop, too!


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00:00:00.000 It's the 75th anniversary of D-Day, YouTube cracks down on Steven Crowder and other content creators, and Nancy Pelosi says she'd like to see President Trump in jail.
00:00:08.000 Lock him up.
00:00:09.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:10.000 This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:11.000 We have a ton to get to today on the show, Before we get to any of it, first, when the founders crafted the Constitution, the first thing they did was make sacred the rights of the individual to share ideas without limitation by their government.
00:00:27.000 This is pretty important, as you'll see from today's show.
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00:01:41.000 Alrighty, so today marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, one of the great pieces of evidence that America is an incredible country, frankly.
00:01:50.000 D-Day, the heroism of young men, men who are now half my age, who walked onto beaches, who crawled onto beaches in order to fight off Nazis, in order to fight off fascism, people who disdained and abused human rights, people who wish to dominate a continent with an evil ideology.
00:02:12.000 The unbelievable bravery and sacrifice of these people.
00:02:15.000 That day they did more than I will do my entire life.
00:02:18.000 And I had the privilege of sitting down last Sunday with four members of the US military at the time of D-Day who talked about their experience as one of those men that we sat down with on our Sunday special.
00:02:30.000 You can listen to it over at YouTube or if you download the show.
00:02:33.000 The one of those men is the guy who you've seen on the news who's parachuting in at the age of 97, Tom Price.
00:02:40.000 Tom Rice, rather, really, really good guy, obviously.
00:02:43.000 Well, one of the other folks that sat down with us was a fellow named Jack Gutmann.
00:02:47.000 I want to play a little bit of the Sunday special because when you hear what these men went through in order to preserve our liberty, it should remind us how precious those liberties are and how heroic so many have been in defense of those liberties.
00:03:05.000 I saw bodies floating.
00:03:08.000 I saw bodies all on the beach.
00:03:14.000 Body parts all over.
00:03:15.000 And it was so tough to, I mean, be confronted.
00:03:23.000 I've seen blood and so forth and other things, but I tell people, have you seen Saving Private Ryan?
00:03:29.000 Well, I says, just kind of double that a little bit, because the one thing Private Ryan didn't show was all the body parts laying around.
00:03:38.000 And in my mind was flashing through, there's a son, a father, That we'll be coming home.
00:03:50.000 That was the sacrifice that was made on that day to preserve our freedoms.
00:03:54.000 That particular veteran, Jack Guttman, then went on to serve at the Battle of Okinawa as a medic.
00:03:58.000 I mean, just enormous heroism of this entire generation that went overseas to fight for America's constitutional liberties here at home.
00:04:06.000 I want to read you the order that General Dwight Eisenhower, who's the head of the Allied Forces, sent on the day of June 6th, 1944.
00:04:16.000 To give a little backstory for people who don't know why all this happened, France fell to the Nazis in 1940.
00:04:22.000 This is from archives.gov.
00:04:24.000 The Allies planned a cross-channel invasion on the German occupying forces, ultimately codenamed Operation Overlord.
00:04:30.000 By May 1944, almost 2.9 million Allied troops were amassed in southern England.
00:04:35.000 It was the largest armada in history, made up of more than 4,000 American, British, and Canadian ships.
00:04:39.000 And more than 1200 planes.
00:04:41.000 Against a tense backdrop of uncertain weather forecasts, disagreements in strategy, and related timing dilemmas, Eisenhower decided before dawn on June 5th to proceed with Operation Overlord.
00:04:49.000 Later that same afternoon, he scribbled a note intended for release, accepting responsibility for the decision to launch the invasion.
00:04:56.000 And full blame should the effort to create a beachhead on the Normandy coast fail.
00:04:59.000 This had not been the first attempted invasion of the coast of Normandy, actually.
00:05:05.000 There was something called the Battle of Dieppe that had happened a few months earlier, which was sort of an experimental attempt to see what would happen in case of an amphibious invasion.
00:05:12.000 It was deliberately designed not to become a beachhead.
00:05:14.000 It was deliberately designed to learn.
00:05:17.000 I mean, that in itself is worthy of an entire episode, the Battle of Dieppe.
00:05:21.000 Much more polished in his printed order of the day for June 6th, 1944 than his original order.
00:05:28.000 He originally scribbled a note intended for release, accepting that responsibility.
00:05:32.000 Here is what he wrote to all of the men who are about to invade the most heavily guarded area, basically, on planet Earth.
00:05:40.000 Here is what Dwight Eisenhower wrote.
00:05:42.000 He wrote, "Soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force.
00:05:45.000 You are about to embark upon a great crusade toward which we have striven these many months.
00:05:49.000 The eyes of the world are upon you.
00:05:51.000 The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.
00:05:54.000 In company with our brave allies and brothers in arms on other fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world.
00:06:04.000 Your task will not be an easy one.
00:06:05.000 Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped, and battle-hardened.
00:06:07.000 He will fight savagely.
00:06:09.000 But this is the year 1944.
00:06:10.000 Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940 and 1941.
00:06:14.000 The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats in open battle, man-to-man.
00:06:18.000 Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground.
00:06:23.000 Our homefronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men.
00:06:30.000 The tide has turned.
00:06:31.000 The free men of the world are marching together to victory.
00:06:34.000 I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty, and skill in battle.
00:06:37.000 We will accept nothing less than full victory.
00:06:40.000 Good luck, and let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
00:06:46.000 The battle itself was absolute carnage.
00:06:49.000 Absolute carnage.
00:06:50.000 The D-Day beach landings were chaotic and bloody.
00:06:52.000 If you ever watch Saving Private Ryan, or you watch a movie called The Longest Day, you can see what this was like, at least in mild effect.
00:07:00.000 The first wave of landing forces suffered terrible losses, particularly U.S.
00:07:03.000 troops at Omaha Beach and the Canadian divisions at Juno Beach, according to History.com.
00:07:07.000 Thanks to raw perseverance and grit, the Allies overcame these grave initial setbacks and took all five Normandy beaches by nightfall on June 6.
00:07:13.000 The Germans were so stunned by the attack that they had not fully mobilized to defend the coast.
00:07:18.000 They thought that it was actually a feint.
00:07:20.000 The first Allied cemetery in Europe was dedicated just two days after the D-Day invasion on June 8, 1944.
00:07:25.000 Again, I refer you to the Sunday special we just did last week, in which I interviewed one of the men who was in charge of graves.
00:07:32.000 It was his job to bury men and ship bodies back home.
00:07:36.000 Since that day, military officials and memorial organizations have tried to come up with a definitive count of Allied D-Day deaths in order to properly honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
00:07:45.000 According to the National D-Day Memorial Foundation, there are 4,414 names enshrined in bronze plaques representing every Allied soldier, sailor, airman, and Coast Guardsman who died on D-Day.
00:07:57.000 That figure was the result of years of exhaustive research.
00:08:00.000 John Long, who's the Director of Education, says when the memorial was first being planned in the late 1990s, there were wildly different estimates.
00:08:07.000 German casualties on D-Day were somewhere between 4,000 and 9,000 killed, wounded, or missing.
00:08:11.000 The Allies captured 200,000 German prisoners of war.
00:08:16.000 Thousands of troops perished during the initial phases of the months-long Normandy campaign.
00:08:21.000 Now, it's pretty astonishing today.
00:08:23.000 I mean, it just shows you where the head is at for the Russian government.
00:08:27.000 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Russian government put out a tweet saying that D-Day basically didn't matter.
00:08:32.000 That what actually mattered was the Eastern Front.
00:08:35.000 Well, the Eastern Front mattered an awful lot, obviously.
00:08:37.000 The Red Army holding back Hitler.
00:08:39.000 Was an enormous factor in Hitler's eventual loss, but let's recall that the Soviets were on the side of Hitler all the way up until the point that Hitler actually invaded the Soviet Union.
00:08:48.000 The Soviet Union was being held up by lend-lease materials provided by the United States.
00:08:53.000 The United States was fighting off Japan, which was at the other flank of the Soviet government.
00:08:58.000 So, when people discount the contribution of the United States in World War II, they're just being fully dishonest, as the Russian government is today, obviously.
00:09:06.000 The contributions of the United States to victory in Europe cannot be overstated.
00:09:10.000 The contributions of the British, and the Canadians, and the Australians, and all the Allied forces to the victory in Europe cannot be overstated.
00:09:18.000 And the contribution of folks who were not even accorded their full rights in the United States yet, and there are a lot of folks today who are rightly paying tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen.
00:09:28.000 Yashar Ali has a great thread over at Twitter talking about the Tuskegee Airmen who went off to fight the Nazis, even though they were still subjected to segregation and racism, because obviously segregation was still a part of American life in really deep and abiding ways.
00:09:41.000 And the reason that so many people went to fight the Nazis, even people who are marginalized in American society, is because they understood that the promise of America was great and important and worth fighting for, and that the rights of the Constitution And the dreams of the Declaration of Independence are good and true and eternal.
00:09:59.000 And those things had to stand up in the face of withering fire from evil regimes ranging from the Japanese Imperial Empire to Nazi Germany.
00:10:08.000 That's a heroism that obviously we need to always remember and continue celebrating, particularly as the greatest generation dies off.
00:10:15.000 I mean, unfortunately, it's hard to find World War II veterans these days because many of them are so old.
00:10:21.000 There are very few remaining survivors from the beaches.
00:10:24.000 of Normandy.
00:10:25.000 That's why it was such a privilege to speak with some of them on the Sunday special.
00:10:28.000 We should remember that.
00:10:29.000 We should also remember that there are people who are committing acts of great heroism today.
00:10:32.000 The members of the US military today are no different than the members of the US military back then.
00:10:38.000 When I talked with these veterans of Normandy about America and I said, what's your hope for America?
00:10:42.000 They always pointed to the members of the US military today who are volunteering in, who are doing something that I was not brave enough to do.
00:10:49.000 These are people who are doing something incredible every single day.
00:10:53.000 And we should take off our hats to those folks.
00:10:55.000 We should pay tribute to those folks, because they are standing in the tradition, the greatest tradition of America, which is standing for freedom, ready to answer freedom's call with their life, if need be.
00:11:06.000 America remains the great liberator.
00:11:09.000 America remains the great beacon of light.
00:11:11.000 D-Day is a reminder of that.
00:11:12.000 A democratic Germany is a reminder of that.
00:11:14.000 A France that doesn't speak German is a reminder of that.
00:11:18.000 The existence of a Jewish population on planet Earth is a reminder of that.
00:11:23.000 Anywhere that people live free, it's basically as an effect of the presence of the United States on this Earth.
00:11:30.000 D-Day is a reminder of that.
00:11:31.000 Thank God for the United States.
00:11:33.000 Thank God for the men and women of the United States who are brave enough to stand for values.
00:11:39.000 Thank God for a United States that continues to maintain the highest traditions of liberty.
00:11:45.000 We'll get to a little bit more of this, and then we'll get to the other news of the day.
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00:12:58.000 Okay, so President Trump was speaking in Normandy on D-Day, and he gave what I thought was a terrific speech in Normandy.
00:13:04.000 He's, again, media malfeasance is so ridiculous.
00:13:07.000 So the media tried to suggest today That President Trump was the reason that he was doing an interview on Fox.
00:13:13.000 And this was supposedly the reason why he, why the activities went off late, that the activities were supposed to go off at a particular time.
00:13:20.000 They did not go off at their proper time because supposedly Trump was delaying everything so he could do an interview on Fox.
00:13:26.000 And then later they mentioned, oh yeah, by the way, Trump finished that interview on Fox and Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, still had not arrived.
00:13:33.000 So it was really Macron who was late.
00:13:35.000 It was not Trump who was late.
00:13:37.000 The original tweet about this, that it was Trump who had delayed D-Day, the ceremony at D-Day, because I guess he doesn't care enough.
00:13:43.000 He's just in it for the Fox News and all this.
00:13:45.000 That stuff went viral.
00:13:46.000 Obviously, the follow-up clarifying that it was not Trump's fault that activities started late.
00:13:50.000 That didn't go nearly as viral.
00:13:51.000 Well done by our journalistic firefighters once again.
00:13:53.000 Anyway, President Trump gave what I thought was a very, very good speech on D-Day in Normandy, 75th anniversary.
00:13:59.000 Today, as we stand together upon this sacred earth, we pledge that our nation will forever be strong and united.
00:14:12.000 It's a good time.
00:14:14.000 We will forever be together.
00:14:19.000 Our people will forever be bold.
00:14:23.000 Our hearts will forever be loyal.
00:14:26.000 And our children and their children will forever and always be free.
00:14:32.000 Well, again, President Trump is right there.
00:14:35.000 Thank God, as always, for the United States of America.
00:14:39.000 Thank God for the United States of America.
00:14:40.000 D-Day is a great reminder of that.
00:14:42.000 It's a reminder that we ought to be the kind of Americans worthy of fighting for, that our rights are worth preserving, that the Constitution of the United States, which was the oath that Americans swore to uphold, that that That Constitution is worth protecting and defending, the rights in the Constitution ought to be viewed as sacrosanct, and that our era of grave sensitivity, I think, needs to be held up against the heroism of past generations and against the heroism of today's members of the military who are out there defending our rights to be idiots every single day.
00:15:11.000 Okay, meanwhile, in other news, speaking of the sort of era of sensitivity, YouTube is now cracking down on any creator who offends somebody.
00:15:19.000 This is basically what we have learned over the past 24 to 48 hours.
00:15:23.000 You don't have to violate YouTube's terms of service in order for them to penalize you if you whine enough.
00:15:27.000 So if you whine a lot, you can get YouTube to pull down creators' videos, thousands of creators' videos.
00:15:32.000 If you whine a lot and claim that you are a victim and suggest that you are being harassed, well then, you know, your whininess is bravery.
00:15:39.000 Your whininess is great.
00:15:41.000 This was pushed by a guy named Carlos Maza.
00:15:42.000 So Carlos Maza He used to work for Media Matters, which tells you exactly what he sees his job as being.
00:15:51.000 The fact that he is considered a journalist is ridiculous.
00:15:53.000 He is not a journalist.
00:15:54.000 He's an activist.
00:15:55.000 He's a pseudo-journalist.
00:15:56.000 And so he has been pushing this idea that Steven Crowder, a person with whom I am friends, he's a comedian.
00:16:02.000 I don't always love everything that he says in the pursuit of comedy, but he's a comedian.
00:16:07.000 And he has made fun of Carlos Maza by doing something that he does on a routine basis to many people.
00:16:13.000 Every time I'm on his show, he makes Jewish jokes.
00:16:15.000 He calls his lawyer half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond.
00:16:17.000 He talks about he had a producer named Jared.
00:16:19.000 He used to call him Not Gay Jared.
00:16:20.000 He has a producer who he calls Quarter Black.
00:16:23.000 I can't remember the name of his producer.
00:16:25.000 Like, this is just a running schtick on his show.
00:16:27.000 Well, he referred to Carlos Maza as a... as a...
00:16:32.000 Okay, so the reason that I'm saying the word is because I'm not sure exactly what the context is for when this is appropriate.
00:16:38.000 Like, Carlos Maza calls himself queer, but if Stephen Crowder says the word queer, then it's obviously some sort of insult according to Carlos Maza.
00:16:45.000 So, I'm not sure what the rules are, because the rules change every five seconds or so.
00:16:50.000 Suffice it to say, I would not say that about Carlos Maza, because that's not a word that I use, even if Carlos Maza uses the word about himself.
00:16:55.000 In any case, Carlos Maza cut together a bunch of clips of Stephen Crowder making fun of him, because Stephen Crowder makes fun of humans.
00:17:02.000 And Carlos Maza then complained that this amounted to harassment.
00:17:05.000 It does not.
00:17:06.000 If people making fun of you amounted to harassment, I would be deeply harassed every day.
00:17:10.000 I am not.
00:17:11.000 People are just basically making fun of me, and that's fine.
00:17:14.000 I mean, you want to make fun of me?
00:17:15.000 Enjoy.
00:17:16.000 I'm in the public square.
00:17:17.000 That's the price of being in the public square.
00:17:19.000 Get over it.
00:17:20.000 Girl with thicker skin.
00:17:21.000 So, Carlos Maza couldn't take it, so he started tweeting about how Steven Crowder was harassing him and how he should be ripped down off of YouTube.
00:17:29.000 And YouTube then replied, and they said, we take allegations of harassment seriously, and they said, our team spent the last few days conducting an in-depth review of the videos flagged to us, and while we found language that was clearly hurtful, the videos as posted don't violate our policies.
00:17:42.000 We've included more information below to explain this decision.
00:17:45.000 So, then they explain.
00:17:46.000 There was nothing harassing there.
00:17:49.000 Okay, and then Carlos Maza whined an awful lot, and a lot of his allies at Vox.
00:17:53.000 Those journalistic firefighters, so much journalism over at Vox.
00:17:56.000 They whined about it too.
00:17:57.000 The folks at the Daily Beast whined about it.
00:17:59.000 The Washington Post whined about it.
00:18:00.000 All these journalistic firefighters who say that President Trump is trying to crack down on the press.
00:18:04.000 Really weird.
00:18:05.000 Suddenly, their interest in the First Amendment went completely out the window.
00:18:08.000 Their interest in basic free speech principles went out the window.
00:18:11.000 Now, let me make a distinction, because folks don't.
00:18:14.000 YouTube is a private company.
00:18:15.000 The First Amendment does not apply to YouTube.
00:18:17.000 However, YouTube says that it is an open forum.
00:18:20.000 YouTube says, in its policies, that unless you are actually targeting someone for harassment, unless you are actually threatening somebody, they cannot ban your videos.
00:18:28.000 So YouTube held to its own standard originally, and then Carlos Maza went on a rant, and basically because he ranted and whined a lot, and suggested that YouTube was now anti-gay for allowing Steven Crowder to post on its forum, That this was an excuse to take down Stephen Crowder, and YouTube basically caved to all of this.
00:18:48.000 Now, I should point out again, Carlos Maza is not a well-intentioned person policing the public space.
00:18:53.000 Carlos Maza is one of the more vile practitioners of censorship.
00:18:58.000 So just about a month ago, not even a month ago, like three weeks ago, he tweeted out milkshake them all about anybody who disagrees with him.
00:19:06.000 Milkshake them all.
00:19:07.000 Humiliate them at every turn.
00:19:08.000 Make them dread public organizing.
00:19:11.000 Carlos Maza has also defended Antifa.
00:19:13.000 He has a video that has some 1.8 million views on YouTube all about how Antifa is totally fine.
00:19:20.000 Here he is talking about how we shouldn't worry about Antifa, a violent group that targets people for violence.
00:19:27.000 Antifa, short for anti-fascists.
00:19:29.000 It's an umbrella term for a group that shows up at protests to confront neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
00:19:34.000 They dress in all black, they wear masks, and they occasionally engage in violence.
00:19:38.000 Once again, Antifa members attack peaceful demonstrators.
00:19:42.000 The group's tactics and appearance have garnered them a lot of media attention over the past few months.
00:19:46.000 America is waking up to the menace of Antifa.
00:19:50.000 They're known as Antifa, and they're also known for being violent.
00:19:53.000 But for a group that's getting so much airtime for being violent and dangerous, they're not causing that much having.
00:19:58.000 Antifa look scary, but they make up a tiny part of the protests they show up at.
00:20:03.000 Oh, so they're nothing, right?
00:20:04.000 So this guy, who says that Steven Crowder has to be banned for making mean jokes about him that hurt his feelings and gave his feelings a boo-boo.
00:20:10.000 Steven Crowder and YouTube have to ban people now?
00:20:14.000 He's defending Antifa?
00:20:15.000 He's also tweeted out about religious people.
00:20:17.000 You know, he's not bigoted in any way, Carlos Maza.
00:20:19.000 He polices bigotry.
00:20:20.000 Except for when he's talking about religious people.
00:20:23.000 Then he tweets out things like this.
00:20:24.000 July 4th, 2015.
00:20:24.000 July 4th, 2015.
00:20:25.000 Quote, It's my religious beliefs is a really convenient way of saying you're not allowed to point out what an insane loathsome bigot I am.
00:20:32.000 So if you're religious and you disagree with Carlos Maza on social values, you're a loathsome bigot now.
00:20:36.000 I mean, the man really is a true delight.
00:20:40.000 And obviously, we should take very seriously his contentions that he is a victim, that he's a deep victim in America's public discourse.
00:20:47.000 So, there's only one problem with this Carlos Maza stuff, and that is that Crowder didn't actually violate any of YouTube's policies.
00:20:55.000 Like, any of YouTube's policies.
00:20:56.000 How do I know this?
00:20:57.000 Because YouTube says that he didn't violate any of YouTube's policies.
00:21:01.000 In fact, YouTube put out, like, a full statement explaining That they did not, that Crowder didn't do anything to violate their policy.
00:21:09.000 So here is what YouTube said about Crowder.
00:21:12.000 I said, quote, taking a harder look at harassment.
00:21:14.000 There have been a lot of questions over the last few days about our policies on harassment, particularly around two YouTube creators, Carlos Maza and Steven Crowder.
00:21:22.000 These are important issues, and we'd like to provide more details and context than is possible in any one string of tweets.
00:21:27.000 Now, the reason they had to put out this statement is because their original take on this was Crowder didn't violate policies, but also we are going to demonetize him, meaning that when you watch a YouTube video at the beginning of each video, there's usually an ad.
00:21:38.000 The creators get a portion of that ad money.
00:21:41.000 If you demonetize, then you take the money away from those YouTube creators.
00:21:44.000 They demonetized Crowder, and then they made some excuses about him selling some sort of offensive shirt, and this is why they're doing this.
00:21:50.000 And then they shifted again.
00:21:51.000 They said, well, it really wasn't about the offensive shirt.
00:21:53.000 It's about sort of the totality of everything that Crowder has done.
00:21:56.000 So this necessitated YouTube putting out a full statement.
00:21:59.000 You will see the Orwellian nature of this statement in just one second.
00:22:02.000 We'll talk about it in a second.
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00:23:12.000 Okay, so YouTube finally has to put together a comprehensive statement explaining why they have demonetized, why they have demonetized Steven Crowder.
00:23:21.000 And here is what they say.
00:23:22.000 They say, there have been a lot of questions over the last few days about our policies on harassment.
00:23:26.000 Since YouTube started 14 years ago, we have focused on providing a platform where anyone can broadcast themselves, connect with people, and share their voices and their experiences with the world.
00:23:35.000 This has brought a lot of good, like Julesy, who founded the hashtag Smart Brown Girl Movement to empower women of color, or MatPat, a gaming creator, who along with his fans and other creators, raised over $200,000 to combat mental illness.
00:23:47.000 But it has also created many challenges.
00:23:49.000 One of the most important issues we face is around harassment.
00:23:52.000 We enforce our policies here rigorously and regardless of the creator in question.
00:23:56.000 In the first quarter of 2019, we removed tens of thousands of videos and accounts for violation of our policies on cyberbullying and harassment.
00:24:03.000 We also removed hundreds of millions of comments, many of which were flagged and removed due to harassment.
00:24:08.000 That said, policies need to keep up with current problems.
00:24:11.000 So they're saying, you know, we've done a pretty good job of removing harassment, but the way we define harassment is somebody in targeted fashion is trying to harm somebody, not somebody made a joke about somebody.
00:24:20.000 Here's, and they continue by explaining.
00:24:22.000 That said, policies need to keep up with current problems.
00:24:25.000 One particular challenge we face more and more these days is creator-on-creator harassment.
00:24:29.000 It's an issue that Susan addressed in her latest creator letter.
00:24:32.000 We update our policies on an ongoing basis to make sure they're current.
00:24:35.000 Just today, we took another step in our fight against hate speech and our responsibility to reduce the spread of harmful, borderline content.
00:24:42.000 Now, we'll talk about this in a second.
00:24:44.000 YouTube's new policies are, of course, extraordinarily vague.
00:24:47.000 They do not make clear what their standard is.
00:24:49.000 I am fine with a transparent standard so we all know whether we wish to post on a forum that bans certain types of speech or not.
00:24:55.000 What I am not fine with is YouTube's fuzzy line, which is the same fuzzy line apparently held by both Facebook and Twitter as well.
00:25:01.000 You see, as mentioned, one of our upcoming projects will re-examine our harassment policy as well.
00:25:06.000 As an open platform, says YouTube, we sometimes host opinions and views that many, ourselves included, may find offensive.
00:25:12.000 These could include edgy stand-up comedy routines, a chart-topping song, or a charged political rant, and more.
00:25:17.000 Short moments from these videos, spliced together, paint a troubling picture.
00:25:20.000 But individually, they don't always cross the line.
00:25:22.000 So this sounds like this is going to be a defensive crowder, because what Maza did is he took a bunch of clips over the course of probably a year of Crowder's program, spliced them together in a minute 25, and then suggested that Crowder is attacking him every single day and targeting him for harassment, not just making jokes about videos that Maza has done himself.
00:25:40.000 And you can literally do this for anybody, right?
00:25:42.000 It is not difficult to go through any creator's or comedian's content and splice together some stuff that makes them look bad.
00:25:50.000 For example, it's not hard for me to make a bunch of comedians look bad for ripping President Trump in the most vile possible way.
00:25:57.000 Like, we could just do this, for example.
00:25:59.000 You talk like a sign language gorilla who got hit in the head.
00:26:02.000 In fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's c*** holster.
00:26:06.000 You know, Ivanka, that's a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad's immigration practices, you feckless c***.
00:26:18.000 And obviously, I hope India and Pakistan don't go to war.
00:26:20.000 But if they did go to war, it would probably be the most entertaining war of all time, yeah?
00:26:24.000 Because the Indian soldiers would run out on the battlefield, and they'd be like, time for you to die!
00:26:28.000 Okay, so you can do all that.
00:26:39.000 It's not hard to clip these things together, is all that I'm saying.
00:26:41.000 It's not hard to come up with clips from, like, Stephen Colbert's show, in which they make a joke about Dana Lash, my friend Dana Lash from the NRA, getting shot, right?
00:26:48.000 That's not hard to find.
00:26:49.000 The liberal media wants you to believe that the NRA doesn't deserve its non-profit status just because we make a profit.
00:27:00.000 But here's the thing.
00:27:02.000 If you take away our tax-exempt status, how would we continue our great charity work?
00:27:09.000 Arming stray cats who live on the mean streets.
00:27:13.000 Isn't that right, Cinnamon?
00:27:18.000 Now run along.
00:27:19.000 - You're safe now.
00:27:20.000 - Oh God!
00:27:23.000 Oh my God!
00:27:24.000 Who gave the cat a gun? - It's funny, see, 'cause she's getting shot by a cat.
00:27:29.000 That sort of stuff is fine.
00:27:30.000 Family Guy making gay jokes every five seconds, making ridiculous anti-Jewish jokes.
00:27:34.000 I mean, the kind of humor that is used on Family Guy with regard to Jews is about as close to the line of anti-Semitism as it is possible to be without being considered fully anti-Semitic.
00:27:43.000 All that stuff is fine on YouTube, but it's not hard to find this sort of content.
00:27:47.000 It's very easy to find this sort of content.
00:27:47.000 Ever.
00:27:49.000 And the answer to it, mostly, is get over it.
00:27:52.000 The answer to it, unless it is somebody who is publishing your home address, threatening you with death, is grow a thicker skin, pansies.
00:28:00.000 Get over it.
00:28:01.000 And that's true for everyone.
00:28:03.000 That is true for people on the right.
00:28:04.000 It is true for people on the left.
00:28:06.000 It doesn't matter.
00:28:06.000 This is not a specific reference to Carlos Maza.
00:28:08.000 It's true for everyone.
00:28:10.000 If you get hit and people are insulting you, and then you call for censorship, this is the problem.
00:28:13.000 Now, you can be offended.
00:28:15.000 You can get upset, that's understandable.
00:28:17.000 But you calling for censorship from a tech company, from a social media company, because you don't like that people are making fun of you?
00:28:24.000 So, YouTube basically acknowledges that they do not actually have a rationale for going after Crowder.
00:28:24.000 Yeah, stop whining.
00:28:33.000 Their statement continues.
00:28:34.000 There are two key policies at play here.
00:28:35.000 Harassment and hate speech.
00:28:37.000 For harassment, we look at whether the purpose of the video is to incite harassment, threaten, or humiliate an individual.
00:28:42.000 Or whether personal information is revealed.
00:28:44.000 We consider the entire video.
00:28:45.000 For example, is it a two-minute video dedicated to going after an individual?
00:28:48.000 A 30-minute video of political speech where different individuals are called out a handful of times?
00:28:53.000 Is it focused on a public or a private figure?
00:28:55.000 For hate speech, we look at whether the primary purpose of the video is to incite hatred toward or promote supremacism over a protected group, or whether it seeks to incite violence.
00:29:04.000 To be clear, using racial, homophobic, or sexist epithets on their own would not necessarily violate either of these policies.
00:29:10.000 For example, as noted above, lewd or offensive language is often used in songs and comedic routines.
00:29:15.000 It's when the primary purpose of the video is hate or harassment, and when videos violate these policies, we remove them.
00:29:21.000 Now, it is true that Steven Crowder did not engage in either harassment or hate speech by these standards.
00:29:27.000 He did not intend to incite harassment or threaten or humiliate an individual.
00:29:31.000 He made a couple of jokes over the course of a year, maybe seven or eight jokes over the course of a year, about Carlos Maza being gay and Latino.
00:29:39.000 That may not be funny to you.
00:29:40.000 You may not like those jokes.
00:29:41.000 You may find those jokes offensive.
00:29:43.000 That does not constitute harassment, and it certainly does not constitute hate speech.
00:29:47.000 The purpose of the video was not to incite violence toward or promote supremacism over Latinos or gay folks.
00:29:52.000 So YouTube basically acknowledges this.
00:29:54.000 They say, not everyone will agree with the calls we make.
00:29:56.000 Some will say we haven't done enough.
00:29:58.000 Others will say we've gone too far.
00:29:59.000 Sometimes a decision to leave an offensive video on the site will look like us defending people who have used their platforms and audiences to bully, demean, marginalize, or ignore others.
00:30:07.000 If we were to take all potentially offensive content down, we'd be losing valuable speech.
00:30:12.000 Speech that allows people everywhere to raise their voices, tell their stories, question those in power, and participate in the critical cultural and political conversations of our day.
00:30:20.000 And here's where you get to the crux of the matter, and this is so incredible.
00:30:23.000 It's so incredible because YouTube basically now goes full Orwell.
00:30:27.000 Now they just shift the meaning of words, they change the meaning of language, and they effectively admit they have no rationale for demonetizing Crowder or censoring people, and yet they're going to do it anyway if people yell at them loud enough.
00:30:40.000 That's not really an inaccurate synopsis of what they say in this following paragraph.
00:30:46.000 Quote, even if a creator's content doesn't violate our community guidelines, we will take a look at the broader context and impact, and if their behavior is egregious and harms the broader community, we may take action.
00:30:59.000 What do those words even mean?
00:31:01.000 Those are words that have no meaning.
00:31:03.000 If a creator's content doesn't violate our community guidelines, we will still take a look at the broader context and impact, What the hell does that mean?
00:31:10.000 OK, are you going to look at Bernie Sanders' video, take into account the fact that somebody who liked Bernie Sanders shot up a bunch of Congress people and go, well, you know, there's a broader context and impact.
00:31:19.000 I guess we've got to take down Bernie Sanders now.
00:31:21.000 In the case of Crowder's channel, says YouTube, a thorough review over the weekend found that individually, the flagged videos did not violate our community guidelines.
00:31:28.000 All right, so he should be done here, right?
00:31:30.000 No, wrong you are.
00:31:32.000 In a second, I will explain how YouTube then openly engages in the heckler's veto.
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00:37:23.000 All right, so back to YouTube's actual final word here.
00:37:34.000 So, they note, openly, that Crowder does not violate their community guidelines.
00:37:38.000 lines and then they get to the punchline.
00:37:40.000 Quote, however, in the subsequent days, we saw the widespread harm to the YouTube community resulting from the ongoing pattern of egregious behavior, took a deeper look and made the decision to suspend monetization.
00:37:52.000 In order to be considered for reinstatement, all relevant issues with the channel need to be addressed, including any videos that violate our policies, as well as things like offensive merchandise.
00:38:01.000 In the coming months, we'll be taking a hard look at our harassment policies with an aim to update them, just as we have to so many policies over the years, in consultation with experts, creators, journalists, and those who have themselves been victims of harassment.
00:38:12.000 We are determined to evolve our policies and continue to hold our creators and ourselves to a higher standard.
00:38:18.000 So in other words, Crowder didn't violate their standards, so we're going to create new standards.
00:38:22.000 And the new standards is if you bitch enough, then we'll change our rules.
00:38:25.000 If you whine enough, then we'll change our rules and we'll go specifically after creators you don't like.
00:38:30.000 The squeaky wheel gets the grease is the new YouTube rule on harassment.
00:38:33.000 So it doesn't matter if somebody was just making a joke about you.
00:38:35.000 If I do a Chris Matthews impersonation and he gets mad and then he whines about it to YouTube, presumably YouTube will then take a look at the widespread harm to the YouTube community resulting from the ongoing pattern of egregious behavior.
00:38:50.000 This is what they'll... Could it get any vaguer than that, by the way?
00:38:53.000 They can't explain why a single video violates the policy, but it's the widespread harm.
00:38:57.000 How did they measure the widespread harm?
00:38:59.000 Hmm?
00:39:00.000 How was that measured?
00:39:01.000 Because I don't see the metric.
00:39:03.000 When they say widespread harms, they mean we got a lot of phone calls?
00:39:06.000 Because if so, who cares?
00:39:08.000 Or lots of people tweeted things about us.
00:39:11.000 I'm sure they were all going to stop using YouTube.
00:39:13.000 I'm sure that there was going to be a massive revenue hit from creators who stopped using YouTube and started going to Vimeo from people who love Carlos Maza.
00:39:21.000 Yeah, I'm sure that was the big move.
00:39:22.000 What was the widespread harm?
00:39:24.000 Were there streets filled with pitchfork wielding anti-gay, anti-Latino protesters who are attempting to harm gay and Latino people across the land because Steven Crowder made a few jokes about Carlos Maza?
00:39:37.000 Where was the huge harm?
00:39:40.000 I mean, this is wimp crap.
00:39:41.000 It really is.
00:39:42.000 And not just on the part of Carlos Maza, but on the part of YouTube.
00:39:46.000 The YouTube creators.
00:39:48.000 I have very little faith in our social media tech overlords to do the right thing here if they're going to cave like this.
00:39:53.000 It's very reminiscent of what's been happening on college campuses, where college campuses just deny invites to people who are part of the mainstream discourse because a bunch of people whine about it and suggest that they're gonna get mad.
00:40:05.000 The whiniest people in America are now running the ship when it comes to big tech and social media.
00:40:10.000 And free marketeers like me, who are against censorship, not only on social media, but censorship of social media.
00:40:16.000 People who don't want to see government come in and regulate companies like YouTube or Facebook or Twitter.
00:40:21.000 I believe these are private companies.
00:40:23.000 People like me are going to be pushed into the hard position of having to decide whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act ought to be changed, or the Communications Act, whether that act ought to be changed specifically to make a harder distinction between publishers and platforms.
00:40:40.000 Whether or not, if YouTube is now going to be a publisher, meaning they are going to censor everything that goes up in the same way that I censor things that go up on my website, If this is their role, maybe they shouldn't be given the same sort of legal exemptions as an AT&T on a phone line.
00:40:55.000 Because we're now edging into territory where, without any clear standard, without any transparency, this sort of star chamber, as Ted Cruz has called it, of social media can decide On a backfilled rationale to simply demonetize things.
00:41:10.000 How unclear are these standards, by the way?
00:41:12.000 They're so unclear that a bunch of people who were reporting on white supremacy have now been banned from YouTube.
00:41:18.000 So one guy's name is Ford Fisher.
00:41:20.000 He's an independent journalist and co-founder of News2Share.com.
00:41:23.000 He covers fringe political events.
00:41:25.000 He is not engaged in white supremacy.
00:41:27.000 He reports on it.
00:41:28.000 His account was basically banned.
00:41:31.000 Okay, and then Carlos Maza whined about it.
00:41:32.000 Why can't YouTube just ban Crowder?
00:41:34.000 Why are they banning people I like too?
00:41:35.000 Well, maybe because once you call for censorship, that cat is out of the bag.
00:41:39.000 This one's on you, buddy.
00:41:42.000 It's amazing to watch as all of our journalistic firefighters rush to defend YouTube's action here.
00:41:47.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:41:49.000 And the journalistic firefighters are defending this sort of action.
00:41:53.000 BuzzFeed says YouTube has begun blocking discriminatory content just a day after saying it doesn't violate its policies.
00:42:02.000 Ryan Broderick, who is policing this thing all day.
00:42:04.000 One of the things you'll notice about a lot of the journalists, so-called journalists from BuzzFeed or Vox or any of these other supposed journalistic institutions, is what they do is they use journalism to hide their activism.
00:42:15.000 So, for example, anytime a show like Tucker Carlson's or Laura Ingram's or my show is attacked, one of the things that you will see is Huffington Post immediately go seeking comment from advertisers.
00:42:25.000 The reason they are doing this is not because they actually need a comment from advertisers.
00:42:30.000 The reason they are doing This is because they are deliberately trying to foster a story that advertisers support my speech or Tucker's speech or Laura's speech or Sean Hannity's speech or anybody else's speech.
00:42:40.000 They're trying to say that if an advertiser advertises on both this podcast and Pod Save America, it's not that they're trying to reach a diverse audience of people who disagree on a lot of issues.
00:42:49.000 No, it must be that they are specifically endorsing my positions on the issues.
00:42:53.000 That's a great lie.
00:42:54.000 It's a tremendous lie.
00:42:56.000 But the reason that Huffington Post will reach out to the advertisers is to say, do you really want to support that message?
00:43:01.000 Now, what advertisers should say, and many do, as they should, is we advertise on a wide range of programs.
00:43:07.000 We don't agree with everything Shapiro says, just as we don't agree with everything on Pod Save America.
00:43:11.000 We're a kibble brand, right?
00:43:12.000 We sell dog food.
00:43:13.000 All we want to do is reach customers.
00:43:16.000 But the purpose of these media hit artists is to go after the advertisers to destroy the very way that it's possible to bring these programs to you in the first place.
00:43:26.000 They've done this to talk radio routinely for years.
00:43:30.000 One of the so-called journalists doing this yesterday was Ryan Broderick, who was keeping a running tally of all the YouTube creators who had been blocked in quasi-celebratory fashion.
00:43:39.000 And then he writes this up for BuzzFeed News.
00:43:41.000 YouTube announced Wednesday it will prohibit videos that promote discrimination or segregation based on things like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation, and veteran status.
00:43:49.000 By the way, I have serious doubts that anti-Christian content on YouTube is going to suddenly be blocked or demonetized.
00:43:56.000 And YouTube has still not answered questions like, okay, if there's a pastor who talks about natural law and same-sex marriage, is that person going to be blocked?
00:44:04.000 Thank you.
00:44:06.000 But according to BuzzFeed News, the announcement comes just a day after the video platform was criticized for how it handles anti-gay content.
00:44:11.000 Thousands of channels are expected to be affected by the policy change shortly.
00:44:15.000 Note, one guy complained, thousands of creators will be affected now.
00:44:20.000 Perhaps we have gone too far in the direction of taking into account people's wheelings, people's feelings, We should have told these people to call the Wambulance.
00:44:29.000 Instead, we have our tech overlords catering to them.
00:44:31.000 It's pathetic.
00:44:33.000 The announcement identified several kinds of videos that will now be prohibited on the platform.
00:44:37.000 They say this would include, for example, videos that promote or glorify Nazi ideology, which is inherently discriminatory.
00:44:42.000 Finally, we will remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place, according to YouTube.
00:44:50.000 As the policy started to take effect on Wednesday, creators chaotically started tweeting screenshots of emails from YouTube, notifying them they were in violation of the new policy.
00:44:59.000 There's a bunch of folks who have been hit by this, including Jesse Lee Peterson, who is a conservative black minister.
00:45:06.000 Gavin McInnes had videos removed from his channel.
00:45:08.000 Count Dankula had videos removed from his channel.
00:45:12.000 YouTube is starting at the fringes, and then they are moving more into sort of the mainstream of views that they don't like.
00:45:17.000 So they start with the people who it's harder to defend, and then they move toward people whom it is easier to defend.
00:45:24.000 BuzzFeed reports, "The rollout of YouTube's new policy has been wildly confusing to say the least.
00:45:29.000 The Google-owned video platform first announced that it would be demonetizing Crowder's channel on Wednesday.
00:45:33.000 In a tweet, the platform said Crowder would no longer be able to run ads on his channel due to a pattern of egregious accounts that has harmed the broader community." YouTube later clarified that Crowder's channel would have the ad restrictions removed if he deleted a link to t-shirts he was selling that read "Socialism is for bleeps." Okay, bleeps is the f-word for gay people.
00:45:51.000 But, that's not what, the shirt doesn't actually say that.
00:45:53.000 It says, Socialism is for figs.
00:45:54.000 There's a picture of a fig in the middle of the word.
00:45:57.000 Just a day earlier, YouTube had said that Crowder's near-constant harassment of Maza did not violate its policy.
00:46:02.000 I love this, near-constant harassment.
00:46:03.000 Crowder puts out hours of content every day.
00:46:05.000 Over the course of a year, he mentioned Maza probably ten times.
00:46:08.000 You cut that together and it's now near-constant harassment.
00:46:11.000 And now, it's gonna get worse.
00:46:14.000 YouTube says in January, here's where all of this is going, okay?
00:46:18.000 And here's why the left cares about all of this.
00:46:20.000 They don't care about the supposed harassment of Carlos Maza.
00:46:23.000 They don't care about the supposed mean jokes that create an aura and an emanation from a penumbra of harm.
00:46:31.000 Here's what they really care about.
00:46:32.000 What they really care about is making YouTube into a functionary of the mainstream media.
00:46:37.000 This is what they actually want.
00:46:38.000 Here's what YouTube has says, quote, In January, we piloted an update of our systems in the United States to limit recommendations of borderline content and harmful misinformation, such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness or claiming the earth is flat.
00:46:53.000 We're looking to bring this updated system to more countries by the end of 2019.
00:46:57.000 And then they say that they are moving toward videos from authoritative sources using, YouTube says it also plans to make videos from authoritative sources appear higher up in its Watch Next panel.
00:47:09.000 So instead of their algorithm recommending videos that you might like, so if you watch a video of me, you might end up in a video of Jordan Peterson or vice versa.
00:47:16.000 Instead, they want videos from authoritative sources.
00:47:19.000 Which authoritative sources?
00:47:21.000 Hmm, let's think.
00:47:22.000 You think maybe YouTube is going to benefit, hmm, like, you know, some of the podcasts that it likes, like the Young Turks, or maybe they will benefit Vox, or maybe they will benefit BuzzFeed.
00:47:30.000 Maybe their authoritative sources will be, you know, the New York Times and CNN, but not anything from Fox News, of course.
00:47:36.000 Social media is being prepped for 2020.
00:47:39.000 In the end, that's what this is all about.
00:47:40.000 This is not about making a better public square.
00:47:43.000 This is not about cleansing the public square of things that make people feel icky.
00:47:47.000 This is simply about YouTube and Facebook and Twitter knowing that come 2020, the blowback from the Democrats is going to be extreme if people are allowed to express their views.
00:47:57.000 You've already seen it.
00:47:58.000 Nancy Pelosi has already blamed Facebook, said Facebook was a willing participant in Russian propaganda in 2016.
00:48:05.000 All the social media tech bros are coming together to put together a plan that basically says, if it's anywhere not to the left, it is no longer authoritative.
00:48:14.000 Watch for content to be downgraded.
00:48:16.000 We are watching a ground shift in the openness of social media platforms and the internet.
00:48:21.000 It is politically driven.
00:48:22.000 It is obvious that it is politically driven.
00:48:25.000 It is not an honest standard being applied.
00:48:27.000 It's not even transparent.
00:48:29.000 It's obvious what is happening right here.
00:48:31.000 And so the solution is going to be the building of alternatives.
00:48:34.000 And you subscribing at places like Daily Wire, outlets you actually care about.
00:48:38.000 Because pretty soon, these tech companies are going to knuckle under because, frankly, they agree with the political priorities of the people criticizing them.
00:48:45.000 So why would they stand up for the political priorities of people who don't, even if it violates their supposed free speech principles?
00:48:51.000 OK, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:48:54.000 So things that I like today.
00:48:57.000 So there is a great movie that I referenced a little bit earlier in the week called Sullivan's Travels, a Preston Sturgis movie.
00:49:04.000 Joel McRae and Veronica Lake, who's just charming in the extreme.
00:49:07.000 My wife and I have been on an old movies kick.
00:49:09.000 So last night we watched another old movie, Born Yesterday, which is just a terrific film.
00:49:13.000 Sullivan's Travels is really great.
00:49:15.000 The basic premise is that Joel McRae is a director who is sick of producing comedies that people like to watch, and now he wants to produce an important film.
00:49:22.000 And so he decides to go out into the country and do research for this very important film about income inequality and poverty, and what he realizes is that maybe he should stick to his lane, because his lane makes people happy, and there's nothing wrong with that.
00:49:33.000 Here's a little bit of the trailer.
00:49:36.000 I'm going to find out how it feels to be in trouble.
00:49:39.000 Without friends.
00:49:40.000 Without credit.
00:49:41.000 Without checkbook.
00:49:42.000 Without name.
00:49:44.000 Alone.
00:49:45.000 And I'll go with you.
00:49:46.000 How could I be alone if you're with me?
00:49:48.000 Sullivan's Travels.
00:49:50.000 The side-splitting story of a $4,000 a week big shot who turns hobo for experience and gets more than he bargained for.
00:49:57.000 You better drop me at the next corner and take this bus back where you stole it from.
00:50:00.000 Don't talk nonsense.
00:50:02.000 I left a note saying I was taking the car.
00:50:05.000 Or did I?
00:50:06.000 It would be nice if he could remember.
00:50:08.000 What do you suppose that is?
00:50:12.000 Well, whatever it is, there's absolutely nothing they can do.
00:50:16.000 Remember that.
00:50:17.000 The movie is really terrific.
00:50:19.000 It's well worth watching.
00:50:20.000 And again, it's a reminder that Hollywood used to be a little bit more self-aware.
00:50:24.000 Hollywood used to recognize that maybe the social justice warrior kind of stuff is not their mandate.
00:50:30.000 The movie is well worth watching.
00:50:31.000 Sullivan's Travels is also the source of the George Clooney-Cohen Brothers movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
00:50:36.000 That's the name of the movie that Joel McRae's director wants to create, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
00:50:40.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:50:47.000 So I'm not sure the last time that David Crosby was relevant.
00:50:50.000 Apparently he was a singer at one point.
00:50:52.000 A little bit old for me, I guess.
00:50:55.000 But in any case, he got a letter from a woman who said that her husband voted for Trump.
00:50:59.000 They've been married for like 40 years, so he recommended they get divorced.
00:51:02.000 Yeah, there's nothing wrong with the lefty brain at this point.
00:51:05.000 I cross.
00:51:06.000 I've been married to my husband for 40 years and I love him dearly.
00:51:08.000 He's a good man and a good husband.
00:51:10.000 My only problem is he's become a diehard Trump supporter.
00:51:16.000 He's driving me completely insane, naturally.
00:51:18.000 How can any otherwise rational man support that moron?
00:51:21.000 Would it be crazy to end my marriage over political differences?
00:51:24.000 I feel your pain.
00:51:25.000 The guy's a snake oil salesman.
00:51:27.000 It's a scam.
00:51:28.000 You have to be pretty stupid to buy it.
00:51:32.000 So I can't say any positive stuff about your husband.
00:51:34.000 You might want to be looking around for somebody else.
00:51:37.000 OK, maybe he's half joking.
00:51:39.000 Maybe he's not.
00:51:39.000 That's a ridiculous statement.
00:51:41.000 Now, I've always said that people should marry people who share values.
00:51:44.000 And very often, values means sharing politics.
00:51:46.000 But if you've been married 40 years and you probably have kids and grandkids together, the fact that your husband and you disagree about Donald Trump, I think it's a pretty bad excuse to break up a marriage.
00:51:54.000 OK, other things that I hate today.
00:51:55.000 So Nancy Pelosi told Democrats apparently behind closed doors That she wants to see President Trump in prison.
00:52:02.000 She says that she clashed apparently with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler.
00:52:07.000 She met with Nadler and several other top Democrats who are aggressively pursuing investigations.
00:52:11.000 Nadler pressed Pelosi to allow his committee to launch an impeachment inquiry against Trump.
00:52:15.000 She said no.
00:52:16.000 She said she's not open to the idea of impeaching Trump at this time.
00:52:19.000 She said, I don't want to see him impeached.
00:52:21.000 I want to see him in prison.
00:52:22.000 Which, of course, is somewhat mutually exclusive since he will not end up in prison at the hands of Democrats unless he actually ends up losing his job.
00:52:30.000 Instead of impeachment, Pelosi still prefers to see Trump defeated at the ballot box and then prosecuted for his alleged crimes.
00:52:36.000 I love how the Democrats have moved from, it is evil for the president of the United States, for a candidate for president, to say about another candidate, lock her up.
00:52:44.000 So terrible.
00:52:45.000 So evil.
00:52:46.000 So awful.
00:52:47.000 And there she is telling people that she wants to lock up Donald Trump.
00:52:50.000 What a delight she is.
00:52:51.000 I mean, she's just, she sounds like a charmer.
00:52:53.000 Okay, other things that I hate.
00:52:55.000 Final thing that I hate today, so...
00:52:57.000 I have a lot of respect for Tucker Carlson.
00:52:58.000 I think that Tucker Carlson is a smart guy.
00:53:00.000 I think that he's really, really talented.
00:53:03.000 He and I disagree in a very significant way about economics.
00:53:06.000 So a couple of days ago, maybe yesterday, we discussed Elizabeth Warren's economic plans.
00:53:10.000 And I talked about how dumb they were because essentially they call for higher tariffs, greater government expenditures, autarky, an attempt to bring manufacturing back to the country by taxing American citizens, subsidies, massive government intervention.
00:53:22.000 Here's where Tucker and I disagree.
00:53:23.000 Tucker thinks Elizabeth Warren is on the right track.
00:53:26.000 We can navigate the changes ahead if we embrace economic patriotism and make American workers our highest priority, rather than continuing to cater to the interests of companies and people with no allegiance to America.
00:53:38.000 The words you just heard are from, embrace yourself here, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
00:53:44.000 It's true.
00:53:45.000 Yesterday, Warren released what she called her plan for economic patriotism.
00:53:49.000 Amazingly, that's pretty much what it is.
00:53:51.000 Economic patriotism.
00:53:53.000 It's just pure, old-fashioned economics.
00:53:56.000 How to preserve good-paying American jobs.
00:53:59.000 She sounds like Donald Trump at his best.
00:54:01.000 Okay, so, uh, no.
00:54:03.000 No.
00:54:04.000 She does not sound like Donald Trump at his best.
00:54:05.000 She sounds like Donald Trump at his worst.
00:54:06.000 Because that's a bunch of pandering crap.
00:54:07.000 You're not going to make American industry great again through tariffs and subsidies.
00:54:12.000 And Tucker is a big government interventionist when it comes to certain political priorities.
00:54:17.000 And then he goes so far as to suggest that American Republicans are libertarians in government and sort of libertines when it comes to social policy.
00:54:25.000 I'm not seeing the evidence of that at all, considering that Republicans are spending like drunken sailors on shore leave.
00:54:30.000 I mean, the Republican Party are spending at exorbitant rates.
00:54:35.000 They are not scaling back regulation at nearly the pace that libertarians want.
00:54:38.000 If you think this Republican Party is libertarian, I would urge you to look at their actual record.
00:54:42.000 It has not been libertarian in the slightest.
00:54:45.000 If Tucker is agreeing with Elizabeth Warren, I think a good rule of thumb is if you agree with Elizabeth Warren, you're probably wrong.
00:54:51.000 So, again, I think this goes to Tucker's view of the economy.
00:54:54.000 If you're more interested in sort of that debate, Tucker and I had this very broad-ranging discussion on the Sunday special.
00:54:59.000 You can go back and listen to that episode because we covered some of the same topics.
00:55:02.000 Suffice it to say that while Tucker and I agree on the social dangers of the left, Alrighty.
00:55:06.000 We'll be back here a little bit later today with two additional hours.
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00:55:15.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:55:15.000 other folks is either good policy or in traditional classical liberal and classically American economic history.
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00:56:05.000 Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
00:56:08.000 D-Day was 75 years ago today, and for all the sentimental remembrances and heartfelt tributes, it's virtually impossible to recapture or convey the scale and scope of the heroism and sacrifice that was required to begin the rollback of the Nazi conquest.
00:56:24.000 You have to ask yourself, could we do it today?
00:56:26.000 Would we?
00:56:27.000 Why did they fight?
00:56:28.000 Why did they win?
00:56:29.000 And have we lost what it takes to pull off that kind of monumental triumph?
00:56:34.000 Talk about it on The Andrew Klavan Show.