Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, and the God King, Jeremy Boring, discuss the latest news and cultural events, all while enjoying some fine whiskey and cigars. Also, we have the lovely Elisha Krause with us via satellite.
00:01:42.840Well, hey there. Hi there. Ho there, folks.
00:01:59.620Very glad to be with you again, joining me to discuss all of the news of this week and more.
00:02:04.560Of course, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, and a special guest, our very own Matt Walsh.
00:02:09.620Matt, we're really glad to have you with us.
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00:03:33.820I'm glad to hear that Drew's still alive.
00:03:35.520I've been waiting out for, like, a sequel to Werewolf Cop, and I thought, I mean, if the guy's gone.
00:04:08.420If I were to say something like, I don't know if you guys heard, but Donald Trump caught the curtains on fire in the Oval Office while he was trying to put, I can't take this anywhere.
00:04:17.260Anyway, your job is just to say, ah, that's just part of his genius.
00:04:44.920But overall, what did you guys think of the orange?
00:04:47.040I thought to quote a great man, some weird, pretty weird.
00:04:52.200Listen, first of all, it's the first time in my lifetime where the Republicans put on a better show just in terms of sheer stagecraft than the Democrats.
00:05:03.580I think I did say last time we were together that I thought maybe it was an actual strategy on the part of the left.
00:05:09.340I couldn't figure out how they could be so bad at the optics of that convention unless they were doing it on purpose.
00:05:15.460If it was their way of saying we take COVID very, very seriously in sort of anticipation of the fact that the president would have a live audience at his event.
00:05:24.200Even if that's what they were going for, what a horrible miscalculation.
00:05:27.060And the president just looked like what he is.
00:05:30.400I mean, he's a he's a masterful showman.
00:05:33.440And he put on, for the most part, an entertaining show.
00:05:36.540You know, I thought that at least 40 minutes of his 70 minute speech were actually was actually pretty entertaining.
00:05:42.360If they if it was like nine hours long and if they had just cut out six of the hours, it would have been a really tight and excellent speech that really focused in on the contrast between the RNC and the DNC and the various visions of the country.
00:05:53.120And the fact that Democrats were outside burning stuff down, like literally right outside, just burning stuff down and punching old people in the head.
00:05:58.980But yeah, I mean, in the end, is that really I'm not sure it matters because the only thing anybody sees anyway are the clips.
00:06:03.900Right. I mean, you can you can go on for 70 minutes.
00:06:05.920The number of people who watch that thing beginning to end is very, very low.
00:06:09.240People listen to the clips on shows like the ones that we do.
00:06:11.660Right. And that's how they that's actually how they find out what Trump said.
00:06:15.620I mean, the speech, while a bit long and meandering, there were certainly some excellent aspects of the speech.
00:06:21.380You know, he he spoke in ways that he didn't speak in 2016 that actually appealed to me.
00:06:26.360I thought in 2016 the president wasn't a very good spokesperson for the sort of the ideology of conservatism, even the ideology of America, sort of creedal America.
00:06:35.860I thought in the speech last night he actually did a much better job at being the being the front man for the greatest country on Earth.
00:06:44.160Matt, what do you think of the speech?
00:06:45.040Yeah, I thought it was interesting in the middle when he read the entire script of Gone with the Wind as a as an attack on political correctness.
00:06:52.920I thought that was an interesting I mean, when it comes to when it comes down to it, I think that there's been maybe three political speeches in the history of the world that have actually mattered, maybe three to five.
00:07:02.620Maybe the rest of them, everyone forgets about five seconds later.
00:07:05.580So like Ben said, I think the takeaway from the RNC is not anything that anyone said.
00:07:10.640It's what was happening outside when they were leaving.
00:07:13.280And they literally got leftist flipping off old ladies as they're crossing the street.
00:07:16.960I think that's the number one, I guess we could say, positive that the RNC could take away because that's what people are going to remember more than any speech.
00:07:23.720I think it's also when we think back on party conventions, whether it's the Republicans or the Democrats, there are a few moments that come to mind.
00:07:31.040Reagan had a good line in 92 where he joked about how he knew Thomas Jefferson.
00:08:09.280You had two nights ago, you had Sister D.D. Byrne, who, you know, Sister Dr. Colonel D.D. Byrne, you know, gave this great speech on abortion.
00:08:16.820And then last night you had these moments and Dorn, you know, the will.
00:08:29.920I relive that horror in my mind every single day.
00:08:34.680My hope is that having you relive it with me now will help shake this country from this nightmare we are witnessing in our cities and bring about positive, peaceful change.
00:08:49.820In a time when police departments are short on resources and manpower, we need that help.
00:08:57.420We must heal before we can affect change, but we cannot heal amid devastation and chaos.
00:09:05.640President Trump knows we need more Davids in our communities, not fewer.
00:09:11.420We need more Davids in our communities, not fewer.
00:09:14.300You know, during the DNC, they brought out that young lady whose father had died of coronavirus.
00:09:20.820And she essentially blamed her father's death on her father for being a fool and on Donald Trump for giving, I guess, saying that we should drink fish tank cleaner or whatever her issue was.
00:09:33.000I thought that it was the worst moment of the DNC.
00:09:35.900I thought that it spoke ill of almost every person involved.
00:09:39.500Contrast that with this, which I think was the highlight of the RNC.
00:09:44.340Here's someone not putting the blame in the wrong place.
00:09:46.680Here's someone who has suffered a true tragedy, who has accurately identified what the source of that tragedy was, and who's telling the American people about it directly because the media just hasn't.
00:10:00.620Well, I mean, they've been doing this whole say their names, say her names, say his names stuff for a long time.
00:10:06.180And they never actually distinguish between any of the facts of the cases here, right?
00:10:08.940You're supposed to say Jacob Blake's name, despite the fact that he was a person with an open warrant for sexual assault and domestic abuse, who resisted arrest, apparently withstood two taser rounds, and then walked over to the other side of his car in defiance of police officers, reached into the car, which will get you shot under all circumstances.
00:10:25.960And also, there was a knife on the floorboards of the driver's seat of the car.
00:10:29.440I mean, this is like the definition of a justified shooting under all circumstances.
00:10:32.540A car full of kids and a weapon, right?
00:10:35.120You don't even forget there were kids.
00:10:36.320And you're going to let him drive away as he, the guy with the domestic abuse and the sexual assault convictions in an open warrant.
00:10:42.380You say his name in the same sentence that you say Ahmed Arbery, which is a completely different case.
00:10:46.480You say that in the same way that you say Breonna Taylor, which, by the way, is another case where the police officers, there is literally no path to inciting the police officers because the police officers did not violate the law.
00:10:54.700You may not like no-knock warrants, but there is no way you can incite the police officers in the Breonna Taylor case if you examine the facts of the case, period, end of story.
00:11:00.860Right. And it's all say their names. We all understand their names.
00:11:04.200I mean, we all name like we all know their names.
00:11:06.080But Michael Brown is treated exactly the same way as George Floyd is treated exactly the same way as Ahmed Arbery.
00:11:11.660The name that will never get said there is David Dorn.
00:11:15.060And this is why people got so angry inside the Democratic Party when was it Burgess Owens who said all black lives matter?
00:11:21.700And with Terry Crews, Terry Crews, Terry Crews, Terry Crews said all black lives matter.
00:11:26.480Yeah, they said Terry Crews said all black lives matter.
00:11:29.340And Don Lemon went insane because at the moment you mentioned the fact that all black lives matter, including people who are more likely to including cases that are far more indicative of a national trend like David Dorn's murder than than police officers randomly shooting black people.
00:11:42.460They get very upset because it misdirects away from the narrative they want to draw, a narrative that is completely at odds with the facts.
00:11:47.860And that leads to the sorts of rioting and looting that you're seeing in America's major cities.
00:11:51.340There is no way for Democrats to simultaneously make the case that America's systems are so rotted through, evil and terrible, that we need systemic fundamental change.
00:11:59.500All you have to do is stop the rioting and looting for five seconds to elect this octogenarian white guy who used to hang out with segregationists and Kamala Harris is calling him a racist.
00:12:09.860You can't argue the system needs to be torn down and simultaneously need to argue that the system needs to withstand outside forces.
00:12:16.680And by the way, that clip that we just saw of Ann Dorn, it doesn't even do justice.
00:12:21.360You've got to watch the whole speech because she's going through this very personal account of how when her husband would get a call in the middle of the night, he would usually wake her up.
00:12:30.000But because this was so dangerous, he didn't wake her up.
00:12:35.040There was not a dry eye in the house of anybody who was watching this.
00:12:38.460And I think this also was the key, not just to why Ann Dorn was so effective at communicating her message, why other people were so effective.
00:12:59.300Whereas with Trump, whether you like the guy or not, he told you exactly what he did, exactly what he was going to do.
00:13:04.800And the specific stories of people who have been affected by these left wing policies, I found it very effective.
00:13:10.520So speaking of names that will never be said by the left, Rand Paul leaving the White House last night after the conclusion of the president's speech, a sitting United States senator accosted and a police officer assaulted.
00:13:23.900Has anybody in the media mentioned this?
00:18:21.540When you when you see this kind of unbelievable hypocrisy, I know I know you were a Trump skeptic,
00:18:26.300as as were Ben and I, Drew's not here to say that I'm the only pro-Trump guy.
00:18:30.700You're pro-Trump, but you're not likely to tell me that it was an act of sheer genius when the president said that there were fine people on both sides.
00:19:24.620But if the Democrats and all these rioters, of course, are Democrats, if they realize what they're doing and say, hey, we're going to hold off now until the next Republican is president.
00:19:36.240I wonder if come Election Day, because it's a couple of months behind us, everyone's already forgotten about it.
00:19:42.880I kind of think in order for this to to matter, in order for riots to affect the way people vote, it needs to be happening like as they're voting.
00:19:51.620It needs to be that present in their mind.
00:19:54.940Can they put the genie back in the bottle?
00:19:56.820I mean, the cynical play by the left is to have unleashed these rioters, winked at these rioters, actually supported, openly supported, paid for their bail.
00:20:09.280When you play with fire, you might get burned.
00:20:11.700People sometimes say if we get into a war, here's what's going to happen.
00:20:15.080And then the first month it'll be this and six months later it'll be this.
00:20:17.340You can't once war starts, once once things spiral away from law and order, they get out of your control and you can't control them.
00:20:23.800And it's this this issue, you know, to this point about the alt right and Trump playing footsie with anybody.
00:20:29.400Donald Trump has been saying since the 90s, since the first time he thought about running for president, he said that David Duke is a Hitler lover.
00:20:35.820He's condemned these sorts of people and he's done it again and again and again, specifically on David Duke, such that in 2016 he actually said, how many times do I have to talk about David Duke?
00:20:49.480Just last week, Richard Spencer, the guy who was behind the Charlottesville rally, he's probably the most prominent white identitarian in the country.
00:20:57.200He endorsed Joe Biden and he said, I'm not doing this ironically.
00:20:59.760I think Biden is more competent than Trump.
00:23:21.060Not only does it allow me to keep track of what's going on outside my property, it also allows me to keep track of what's going on on my property.
00:23:26.940And since I have three children under the age of seven, and as you know, small children are suicide machines,
00:23:31.080it allows me to keep track of all of them when they are attempting to do harm to themselves or others because small children are basically small criminals.
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00:23:54.980I totally agree with Matt that I'm very, very concerned that the memory span of the American public is a guppy.
00:24:01.580And I am really worried because what the Democrats have basically realized in the last week is, hey, wait a second.
00:24:07.400For several months here running, we have basically not only ignored the violence in America's major cities,
00:24:12.220we have suggested that Donald Trump is a fascist, an outright fascist, for attempting to stop the violence in America's major cities.
00:24:18.180They have termed rioters and looters protesters for purposes of calling Trump a fascist for sending federal forces into places like Portland
00:24:24.480or for threatening to send federal forces into places like Seattle.
00:24:27.320Remember, Tom Cotton's op-ed calling for the use of the Insurrection Act to stop rioting and looting was seen as such a threat to quote-unquote protesters
00:24:34.720that they fired the op-ed editor of the New York Times for even running the thing.
00:24:37.960So they've been running this interference game where they conflate the rioters and the looters and the protesters for months.
00:24:42.820Okay, so they were able to get away with this and say that no violence was occurring, right?
00:24:46.060Last, like two days ago, the CNN chyron, while a guy was on screen talking about things on fire behind him,
00:24:52.620was fiery but mostly peaceful protests, which, as Bridget Phetasy said, is like the Titanic coverage saying,
00:27:02.400So the irony is that the thing that has helped Trump and that has made him sort of Teflon for the last three years may be turning against him.
00:27:09.500Because you think about all these scandals, whether real or imagined, that in the past would have just totally destroyed.
00:27:15.160I would start with the Access Hollywood tape, you know, just a couple of weeks before the election.
00:27:19.540I mean, you think back in history, it seems like that would have completely destroyed politicians.
00:27:23.940It didn't touch him, I think, and we assumed it's because of something particular about his character and who he is that these things don't stick.
00:27:31.880But I also think it's just that's the way in our media-saturated culture.
00:27:35.280And you think about, you know, impeachment.
00:27:38.060I mean, the Democrats didn't even talk about impeachment at their own convention, because even something like impeachment used to be a huge deal.
00:27:44.660It's only happened a few times in history.
00:27:46.140We've already, no one's talking about that anymore.
00:27:47.660We've already moved on from it, which for good reason.
00:27:49.820But so now I'm just wondering if this is flipped against Trump and the thing that should stick to the Democrats won't.
00:27:56.600We also need to make sure we don't let elected Democrats distance themselves from the rioters, which is what they're trying to do.
00:28:02.580We use all these terms, BLM, Antifa, rioters, protesters.
00:28:36.600These are some of the most prominent Democrats in the country.
00:28:39.200They told these rioters to go out and get violent.
00:28:42.360That's what they did, and we shouldn't let the elected Democrats get off the hook for what they're going to try to do for the next several weeks.
00:28:48.340Yeah, if only there was an organization devoted to reporting on the actual things that are said by politicians.
00:28:55.160You might actually have a prayer of some of this sticking.
00:28:57.140But, Matt, to your point, the news cycle moves so fast now, and Democrats have absolutely no incentive to put the focus anywhere except on orange man bad.
00:29:07.120And they basically want to destroy Donald Trump through a thousand paper cuts, right?
00:29:10.580They've realized no single scandal is going to bring him down.
00:29:14.000And so instead, it's sort of a shotgun approach where every single day they make you believe that Trump, here's the latest outrage, the latest outrage, the latest outrage from Donald Trump.
00:29:23.840A lot of our friends, listen, I didn't vote for the president in 2016.
00:29:27.740The only thing that kept me from being a prominent never-Trumper is that I'm not prominent.
00:29:30.760But it wasn't for lack of trying, you know, I famously wrote that I thought during the last Republican National Convention, I said that for conservatives, the election was already lost no matter what went on to happen in November.
00:29:46.640And even I can tell you that I've watched many of our peers who were in that never-Trump movement in 2016 actually fall for this sort of media approach wherein they are outraged by every outrage.
00:29:59.880And so they are in a constant state of being outraged, no matter what the actual thing is, no matter whether it's actually relevant, no matter whether it's actually true.
00:30:09.800All conspiracy theories basically thrive on the preponderance of false evidence.
00:30:15.100You know, somebody will say, well, if there's, if we really landed on the moon, then why are, you know, if there's only one source of light on the moon, why are there two shadows?
00:30:22.760You go, well, there's two, there's actually two sources of light.
00:30:24.580There's the sun and the moon and they'll go, which reflects so much light that you can read in the dark during a full moon on Earth, 200,000 miles away.
00:30:31.280They'll go, oh, but the flag, why did the flag wave if there's no air?
00:30:40.620They can just move right on to the next hour.
00:30:42.200And that's what the, that's the approach that the media has taken with the president.
00:30:45.180Although I will say, I think they thought, they thought they had a silver bullet because they did try that strategy for years on end.
00:30:50.020And I think they've had that, they thought they had the silver bullet in the coronavirus.
00:30:52.940And, and that's why they're really kind of two themes and, and they keep going back to it, right?
00:30:57.280You saw in the last couple of nights of the RNC, as it became absolutely clear that the Democrats completely blew it when it came to violence in the major cities, the entire media immediately swiveled to, ah, but look at how there's a crowd on the South Lawn.
00:31:21.140No, and this is how you know, you know, what insane hypocrites they are.
00:31:25.100Literally the next day, there are 50,000 people on the National Mall standing directly next to each other, most of them not wearing masks.
00:31:30.080And the media don't mention one time social distancing or mask wearing.
00:31:34.380I think that the Democrats thought that COVID was going to continue to be the chief issue in everybody's mind all the way up till November.
00:31:41.160I don't think they're right about this.
00:31:57.540Number one publisher in the world on Facebook in July.
00:31:59.500And in News Whip's coverage of this, they said one of the interesting things is all of the other people in the top category devoted all of their coverage, the majority of their coverage to coronavirus.
00:32:10.580And Daily Wire sort of uniquely devoted our coverage during the month of July to the burning down of major American cities.
00:32:16.520And they were sort of coming to the realization that, oh, the entire media is an echo chamber, and they don't talk about what people are interested in.
00:32:26.340They talk to try to astroturf interest into the people.
00:32:31.500We talk about what people were really interested in, and it shot us up to the very top of the charts.
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