This week, Seth Meyers talks about fake news, and Reza Aslan tries to prove that he's not anti-Islam. Plus, we talk about who's winning the Celebrity Apprentice and who's losing it.
00:02:57.000We're always going to have awesome guests and segments, but it's a little bit shorter because we're doing it every day, Monday through Thursday now, and then starting in February.
00:03:04.000Not Gay, Jared, and Courtney and some others behind the scenes will have their own show.
00:04:07.000They seem to be coming on really strong.
00:04:08.000I think that's their new tact with Trump because repealing the Affordable Care Act, people actually want to.
00:04:14.000And so now they're like, oh gosh, hold on a second, actually a lot of people voted for him, and there are more people, even people who didn't vote for him, who like some of his policies.
00:04:21.000Let's say he's racist and Islam, and now they're like, ah, look, look, look, anti-Islam, Islam's peaceful, let's bring out Reza Aslan who claims he's not gay, but...
00:05:09.000Also, there's a bunch of stuff going on with Jeff Sessions as to whether he's a racist or not, but I'm sure you've heard about that everywhere else.
00:05:13.000We've written about it at livewithcredit.com, but that's actually pretty boring.
00:05:24.000I know it's going to be a Lifetime movie at some point.
00:05:28.000We'll catch the cliff note version on...
00:05:29.000Yeah, Jeff Sessions will be the racist in the South, and he'll be pushing his wife on a flight of stairs because that always happens in Lifetime movies.
00:05:37.000And you guys have enough information on that.
00:05:39.000What I do want to get to is Seth Meyers.
00:05:42.000We were all watching this when we were prepping for today's show.
00:06:03.000Last night, CNN published this bombshell report.
00:06:06.000Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him.
00:06:10.000But then today, NBC News contradicted that story, reporting that Donald Trump wasn't told about unverified Russian dossier.
00:06:16.000Now, BuzzFeed also reported on this story, but handled it very differently, publishing the 35-page dossier that detailed the unverified allegations.
00:06:26.000And it's worrisome to publish allegations like this without a shred of evidence.
00:06:30.000Look, nobody wants to believe that Trump paid Russian hookers to pee all over a bed more than I do, but there is zero proof that happened.
00:07:57.000They were all talking about fake news.
00:07:59.000And look, look at every single picture.
00:08:00.000And when they're talking about fake news, they show Republicans, they show conservatives, they show any kind of right-leaning website.
00:08:06.000That was the term fake news because they wanted to blame this election not on their shortcomings, not on the kind of debacles that you see right now with CNN and BuzzFeed.
00:08:14.000They wanted to blame it on fake news out there.
00:08:16.000Now, we've actively fought against clickbait for a long time.
00:08:20.000And on our website, we reference everything.
00:09:20.000The principled press, as Meryl Streep talked about it, the principled press, the ones who ran with this story, who Seth Meyers is now condemning and using as the fulcrum for saying, let's do away with fake news, they're the ones who created the colloquialism Buzzfeed?
00:10:50.000The intelligence community briefed both the president and the president-elect with allegations that the Russian government has compromising information.
00:11:50.000Employee of Donald Trump, will we say?
00:11:52.000He grilled a direct associate of Donald Trump repeatedly, repeatedly, and insinuated that she was lying in what now we know, it turns out to be an entirely vindicated stance.
00:14:35.000Reza Aslan, who's one of the biggest Islamic apologists you see out there on cable news, has somehow gotten a pass as though he's an intellectually honest or critical thinker who presents very compelling arguments for Islam.
00:14:51.000We've had so many people saying, why don't you have him on?
00:15:48.000First off, I don't know what kind of numbers you're using, because...
00:15:50.000Barack Obama's farewell address, he just said that there were no known terrorist attacks on American soil under his watch, that things were better, that global terrorism was down.
00:15:59.000I don't know, Fort Hood, Chattanooga, Boston bombers.
00:16:02.000So maybe those aren't being included where he's talking about the unlikelihood of a terrorist attack.
00:16:06.000Globally, they occur all the time, every day.
00:16:09.000People are killed in the name of Islam at very, very high record numbers consistently.
00:16:14.000So I don't know the numbers that he's using there, but...
00:16:17.000Let's remove that from the table, okay?
00:16:18.000I'm going to give him as much leeway as possible.
00:16:21.000A lazy boy, a piece of furniture is an inanimate object.
00:18:42.000Now, you should be happy about this, Reza Aslan.
00:18:44.000She's not saying all Muslims, hashtag not all Muslims.
00:18:46.000She's saying, as a general rule, in Islamic countries, do we acknowledge that maybe there's a systemic problem in their treatment of women, let alone gays, let alone people who aren't Muslim?
00:19:40.000These are statistics, verifiable statistics, across the Islamic world.
00:19:43.000Does that mean that there aren't variances between, say, Indonesia, where actually they might be pretty nice to women, but there's record church burnings as it occurs with Christians right now, but we don't talk about that?
00:19:53.000Of course, Pakistan's going to be worse, and Saudi Arabia may be worse with gay people, and the UAE may be worse with rape.
00:20:00.000We understand that there are variances across the Islamic world, but for her to ask the question as a general rule, hashtag not all Muslims, Are equal rights a problem in the Islamic world?
00:20:10.000And Reza Aslan wants you to believe that that is an unreasonable question that can be attributed to something that social justice warriors constantly accuse their opponents of.
00:21:02.000You'll find these numbers pretty consistent.
00:21:05.000At least 20-something percent of Muslims, if they, of course, aren't engaged in terrorism, but actively support terrorist organizations or believe that it's justified.
00:21:16.0001.2 billion Muslims who believe in some form of Sharia law or death for apostasy, right?
00:21:28.000Sharia law generally has some pillars that are pretty important, meaning debitude, subjugation of people who are non-Muslim, meaning women are treated differently from men under the law, meaning non-Muslims are treated differently under the law, meaning gay people tend to be stoned to death, meaning women need certain people for rape, meaning there is death for apostasy.
00:21:45.000I know there's different Sharia law, but if you look across the board as a general rule, hashtag not all Muslims, those tend to be included in Sharia law.
00:22:25.000Am I making a generalization with 500 million people?
00:22:28.000The Westboro Baptist Church, who are talked about every time they send out a press release, have about 16 members, and two of them have flippers.
00:23:36.000I know when I said Reza Aslan is a social justice warrior, a lot of people who are still in their conversion process from the Young Turks...
00:23:48.000He did the exact same thing every social justice leftist does.
00:23:52.000He said, I used to do it, but now I absolve myself of the requirement to make intellectual arguments because all of my opponents, anyone who disagrees with me, are bigoted.
00:24:06.000It was the same thing that the Obama supporters did with the Tea Partiers, the same thing that Hillary supporters and Bernie people did with Donald Trump supporters.
00:24:14.000The same thing the social justice warriors do online, which is if you disagree with me, you're racist.
00:24:19.000Reza Aslan, someone who has been held out as the pinnacle of intellectual discussion regarding Islamic apologetics, just said, I no longer need to argue my point because everyone who disagrees with me is a bigot.
00:24:36.000I could rest my case here, but let's go further.
00:24:39.000In this country, we went from overwhelming majorities who were against same-sex marriage to overwhelming majorities supporting same-sex marriage within the span of a couple of years.
00:24:52.000Right, okay, so when has that span of a couple years occurred anywhere in the Islamic world yet?
00:26:31.000And so for the last few years, I've decided that what I'm going to do is try to change people's minds through pop culture, through film and television.
00:26:43.000It also serves to debunk the idea that conservatives or anyone who's not a social justice warrior is some crazy conspiracy theorist when they believe that the entertainment industry and media are colluding against their values.
00:27:37.000He wants to use pop culture, media, news, to dismiss and brainwash everybody into believing that all these people are racist, and they're bigoted, and they're homophobic, and they're transphobic.
00:27:47.000So let's put more trannies in Superwoman.
00:27:49.000Let's put more gay people in, I don't know, any single show.
00:27:53.000Whatever it is, at every single turn, they have to put something in there to inject a social justice...
00:27:58.000We need more superheroes who are black.
00:28:00.000We need more female superheroes who have hijabs.
00:28:03.000We need to do that, because now pop culture.
00:28:04.000So they're framing you all as bigoted.
00:28:07.000This is Reza Aslan, the great intellectual Islamic thinker.
00:28:09.000People who disagree with me are bigoted.
00:28:14.000If they disagree with passages in the Quran that say, kill infidels wherever you find them, Surah 434, I could rattle off some verses for you.
00:28:24.000Let's say they don't even have an opinion, but they're a bit concerned that according to Hadith, Muhammad called for the deaths of Christians and Jews as his last words?
00:28:31.000Does it mean you're bigoted if Muhammad beat his six-year-old wife?
00:28:34.000Does it mean you're bigoted if Muhammad came out and said, you know what, I think I was wrestling with a demon, and his wife said, no, no, no, that was an angel, and that's how the religion started?
00:28:42.000Is it bigoted if Christians maybe go, listen, I think this is a perversion of the Christian faith, or even Jewish people who say, you know what, I think this is a perversion of the Old Testament, because they think that everything after Abraham's blessing was a lie?
00:28:51.000Is it bigoted for people to have any kind of apprehensions with Islam?
00:28:56.000Reza Aslan says, yes, that can be the only reason, and he is going to serve the rest of his life brainwashing the public to ensure that they agree with him.
00:33:10.000They gave women sweaty t-shirts for men who had worked out.
00:33:14.000And women innately preferred to sweat for various t-shirts.
00:33:19.000They preferred to sweat for men who had higher testosterone levels, who had better symmetry, which is a sign of good genetics.
00:33:25.000These are things that women are attracted to.
00:33:27.000Now, the reason women tend to not be attracted, non-Asian women tend to not be attracted to Asian men, Asians tend to be smaller than the general population, physically.
00:33:55.000These are signs of higher testosterone.
00:33:57.000Not signs that, as a general rule, I know someone will send me a picture of an Asian bodybuilder, a general rule that Asian men tend to have as attributes.
00:34:06.000On the flip side, women actually, they tended to, Milo Yiannopoulos talked about this on the show, a lot of them liked black men, these same women.
00:34:17.000Black men physically tend to have attributes that women find effectively attractive in a mate.
00:34:23.000On the flip side, men found Asian women to actually be pretty attractive.
00:34:27.000It doesn't say in the study if they found them more attractive than white women, but men on average who weren't black found black women less attractive.
00:34:34.000As a general rule, black women tend to be bigger.
00:34:39.000Black women, for a lot of men, men are looking for women who they believe will carry on their offspring most effectively, will be mothering, will be nurturing, look soft.
00:35:02.000But because liberals fact-checked the joke, we have to fact-check their fact-checking of a joke.
00:35:08.000And the joke was more accurate than the outrage.
00:35:12.000By the way, something that's ironic is women completely change their tune on Asian men when they notice that they have an average higher income.
00:35:47.000And restless sleep I toss alone On this old mattress made of stone Would prefer to sleep on Dormeo Nothing really rhymes with Dormeo But it's the best sleep That I've ever had So Scrooge a tad Make room for me
00:38:50.000Like Anivar is a steroid that they'll give to people, very common for wrestlers.
00:38:53.000They used to call it the wrestler's steroid because it wasn't like a bodybuilding steroid.
00:38:57.000It would lean people out and help them with strength, but it wouldn't add muscle.
00:39:01.000I don't know if it was created, but it still is prescribed to cancer patients and AIDS patients and burn victims because of what it does for...
00:40:22.000He's not looking at daily cuts of the show, giving notes on production.
00:40:25.000It was supposed to air in September, but I think they felt that given the political climate with Trump, With the election going on, that it was probably a more polarizing time.
00:40:56.000But at the same point, you figure at that point, it felt like once the election happened, people were the daily discussion of polarizing.
00:41:04.000I felt it actually was less polarizing.
00:41:06.000Once he was elected, a lot of people made their peace.
00:41:08.000There were still obviously people who felt this is the apocalypse personified.
00:41:13.000But with the show, you know, again, we felt like the show was still a separate entity and that, you know, Trump would be focused on being president, but then it came out he was going to keep his name on as an executive producer.
00:41:47.000Our first episode were up against The Bachelor and football, and it wasn't...
00:41:52.000The ratings weren't as good as I think they were hoping for.
00:41:55.000And so, shockingly, then, the man who's president-elect and who is the EP on the show then calls out our current boss, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
00:42:05.000And at that point, I was just like, this is above my pay grade.
00:42:08.000I'm just happy to be involved in the show.
00:42:10.000And honestly, you know, I think that I... Well, here's something, too.
00:42:15.000In your defense, it's not really fair.
00:42:18.000All shows were down by the same percentage point from the last time The Celebrity Apprentice premiered because of how many people have shifted to Hulu.
00:42:26.000So, for example, even if you look at The Bachelor, I don't have the actual numbers, but if it was 5 million, their premiere, like, last season or two seasons ago, now it would be about 4.6 or 4.4.
00:42:51.000When you look at, like you said, whether it's watching streaming or FX with their programming or HBO or Showtime, there's so many more choices.
00:42:58.000More people are consuming content, but they're just doing it in different ways.
00:44:20.000It's unfortunate that I think this show has become somewhat politicized because I think it's an entertaining show.
00:44:25.000At the end of the day, we're all on there.
00:44:28.000We're desperately looking for more attention.
00:44:31.000For people to learn us in a different capacity.
00:44:34.000But also, we do get to compete for charity.
00:44:36.000And for me, I have rheumatoid arthritis.
00:44:38.000I'm competing for the Arthritis Foundation.
00:44:40.000Last week, I got to be project manager and I won.
00:44:43.000And so I raised $50,000 for the charity.
00:44:45.000More importantly, you get to raise awareness for my story and for people to be aware of this charity.
00:44:51.000So in the end, I feel like I'm really proud to be a part of this show.
00:44:55.000And it's unfortunate that it has become politicized.
00:44:57.000Well, unfortunately, though, you have to do all this work for charity, and since you're a host for American Ninja Warrior, you're not making as much bank as some of the other people, so I hope they're tossing you on the side.
00:45:35.000I think our CEO is a hilarious guy, but I will say, like, being on the show, it really is one of the more stressful situations, certainly in Hollywood.
00:45:46.000It's been the hardest thing I've done since medical school, because you really are working on these tasks, and, you know, you're a competitor.
00:46:24.000The goal for me as an entertainer is I'm trying to reach as many people as possible, whether it's on American Ninja Warrior or Celebrity Apprentice or social media, and try to entertain them and hopefully do some good.
00:46:35.000So I think that, you know, I've seen on social media people saying they won't watch the show because of the association with the previous boss.
00:46:47.000And I don't know that they would watch the show.
00:46:49.000Have you had any people the other way saying they won't watch it because Donald Trump doesn't like you now?
00:47:36.000It was a very, I thought it was a very big logical leap because again- My mom watched the show and when you were project manager, she got a heart attack.
00:47:44.000And it literally, it was even before the show aired that someone just wrote to me as someone who has made, you know, who's only tried to draw attention to the Arthritis Foundation.
00:47:56.000And it was, so it was one of those emails you're like, okay, delete.
00:47:59.000Yeah, I'm not going to let it affect me.
00:48:27.000And it is kind of a surreal position as we see, you know, which I think has been going on for years, if not decades, just the merger between politics and entertainment and opinions all coming together.
00:49:37.000We did viral videos where we were playing football with Ricky Williams and Boy George and Carson Cressy, and I'm looking at myself going, I'm not in football safe right now.
00:49:48.000I need to get some squats going or something.
00:52:29.000And it allows us to not be beholden to Facebook or YouTube, to not have to do the clickbait, to not have to cater to their every whim in order to get their advertising dollars.
00:52:38.000Do we have the images, Jared, of who we...
00:52:40.000We don't have those images, but we have these images.
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00:52:51.000We're at about a threshold where if you guys join, you're going to have pretty much a full day of content there rounding out that clock.
00:53:57.000But if you want to get the best mattress money can buy, possibly, and I mean way better than the mattresses you hear on AM radio, it's a glorified inflatable bed with a thing that goes like this, so it's dual zone.
00:54:12.000If you want to get, you know exactly what I'm not, but I can't say that.
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00:54:20.000If you want the best mattress possible, instead of spending $2,500 getting fitted for one at a mall, I think it's $1,399 at sleepwithcreditor.com, and it is awesome if you're in the market for a mattress.
00:54:30.000If not, don't spend any more than you can afford.
00:58:10.000I feel like you're trolling at this point.
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01:03:16.000Like we said, listen, if only a couple percentage points of you people who've enjoyed the content for free want to help us fight back, we really appreciate it.
01:03:24.000We have about a dozen people who we've hired now and we're growing.
01:03:27.000We want to bring on some new people and fight back against the leftist media establishment.
01:04:10.000If there's a takeaway, you know, and I do these once a week.
01:04:13.000I don't do them every single day because it takes some time for these things to percolate.
01:04:17.000You see with the fake news, and you see Seth Meyers has reversed course on that now.
01:04:22.000You see with Reza Aslan dismissing all of his opponents as bigots.
01:04:27.000We've seen it with social justice leftists for a long time who dismiss everybody who disagree with them as racist.
01:04:32.000We see everyone telling you how outrageous it is for Steve Harvey to make a joke that was based on somewhat accurate statistics.
01:04:40.000It doesn't really matter because it's a joke.
01:04:42.000You do not need to let anybody out there tell you what should offend you, what causes you need to support, what opinions you need to hold, and you certainly don't need people who are beholden to you believing that they are real news telling you what fake news is.
01:05:27.000Because I don't need you to believe that I'm right all the time.
01:05:30.000We just want you to be able to go out and at least parse through, just cut through some of the BS. And I hope we've helped you with that.
01:05:40.000Because everybody else is telling you, whether it's MSNBC, CNN, or even Fox News, of course the Young Turks, Reza Aslan, whether it's HuffPo with Steve Harvey's joke, they're trying to tell you this is what you need to think, this is how you need to feel.
01:05:54.000We've talked about this on this show, okay?
01:05:57.000When we do this show, the best shows, and listen, there's a discrepancy, as there always is.
01:06:02.000Sometimes you have good days at work, sometimes you have off days.
01:06:04.000The best shows that we do here, everyone in this room, I know, we've agreed, is where we have done a ton of prep.
01:06:11.000And we know the statistics and we have the information at hand and we have it in our show rundown.
01:06:15.000That's actually when we're the loosest and we have the most fun in the room.
01:06:18.000Because we know what we're saying is airtight.
01:06:20.000When we have a guest drop out or we have to scramble at the end of the day where we don't feel quite as prepared, that's actually when it's most tense here.
01:06:27.000You would think it's the opposite, where if you prep too much you're kind of staccato.
01:06:31.000Let me tell you, and this is important for everyone, if you're going into college, if you're going into an industry where people tend to lean left, if you have to join a union...
01:06:38.000Card check where they want you to lean left.
01:06:41.000I don't want to ever tell you how to think, certainly not what to feel.
01:06:45.000Your B.S. meter should do any time someone says that.
01:06:50.000But you will find that you are most fluid in your critical thinking and your ability to articulate your points and your ability to convert other people to your way of thinking when you are so prepared and you have information from every source available.
01:07:05.000I encourage you to watch MSNBC. I even encourage you to listen to Reza Aslan or Seth Meyers who now want to tell you that they're not about fake news because they ran nothing but fake news.
01:07:13.000I encourage it, because when you hear what they have to say, and then you hear the other side, as you do when you watch this program, well, actually, you hear both sides in this program.
01:07:20.000We bring a lot of leftists, so we'll have our booker come in.
01:07:22.000It's been really hard to get them to come on this show.
01:07:26.000They see what happens, and a lot of them don't want to come back.
01:07:28.000But when you prepare yourself and you take advantage of all the information that you have available, you will find you are more fluid and you're looser in the shoulders on your punches in everyday life because you're confident in that you know what's going on.
01:07:42.000And so people who tell you, you need to think this, all of my opponents are bigots, you should be offended by this joke, that's a stiffness, right?
01:08:06.000The left doesn't have the information, as you see with BuzzFeed, as you see with CNN. And when you don't have the information, when you're not informed, when you're not educated, you tend to rely on one argument and you get really stressed and stiff.
01:08:17.000So what I want to see is the opposite from anyone who watches or listens to this program.
01:08:22.000I want you to saturate yourself with news.
01:08:27.000Theology, if you believe in God, whatever your religion is.
01:08:30.000I want you to saturate yourself with it so you know so much and you feel so confident in your ability to be informed that you don't have to rely on an argument like someone's racist and you certainly never have to tell somebody else exactly what they need to think or how they feel.
01:08:46.000Because that's not what we do and that's not what anyone should do who believes in their position.
01:08:53.000That's not what anyone should do who believes in their argument.
01:08:56.000Whenever someone sticks with one, whenever someone is stiff, whenever someone's not quite comfortable, and you see that with Reza Azalan, you see that with Seth Meyers, and they're going to stick, they're not prepared.
01:09:07.000So that's hopefully what we've helped with, hopefully what The Daily Show helps with.