This episode is dedicated to all of the people affected by the devastating storm that has devastated the Houston area and the surrounding areas. We are working with a great organization, the Houston Food Bank, to provide food and shelter to those in need. If you or someone you know is in need, please reach out to the Food Bank.
00:00:03.000Listen, we don't want to be those entertainers who are self-important enough to make the entire show about this horrible disaster that occurred this week as though we're raising awareness because you already know what's happened with the storm, with Harvey, what's been going on in South Texas.
00:00:16.000But a lot of people out there have been doing whatever it is that they can.
00:00:33.000And you guys, the listeners and the viewers.
00:00:35.000So here is what we are going to be doing.
00:00:38.000This whole platform, Lotta with Crowder, the next two weeks.
00:00:42.000Every single mug club sign up in the next two weeks, we're going to give $30 directly to Harvey Relief, specifically to the Houston Food Bank.
00:00:51.000And that's because they're an organization where a huge portion of your money actually goes directly to those in need.
00:08:50.000Theresa May condemns North Korea in the strongest terms possible.
00:08:55.000Okay, so she said that that f***ing freaky little muppet can go f***ing himself upside down with a wire brush until he develops acle pops and cold rectal s*** because he's an absolute scourge on society as a piece of s***.
00:10:13.000You play amateur climatologist tonight, and I will play professional helper to those in need and continue in my job here as counselor to the president.
00:14:15.000Some songs, some films don't age well.
00:14:17.000The guy who rapped about being bulletproof, getting riddled with bullets, that would be in the category.
00:14:23.000All right, so a lot of people have been asking about this.
00:14:25.000Since there's not a whole lot in the news outside of, listen, help however you can with Houston...
00:14:29.000I wanted to dive into something because a few people have asked questions about this and they're at the forefront of some news stories right now.
00:14:36.000For those who don't know SPLC, you probably see it around quite a bit.
00:14:39.000Now, why is this something I wanted to dive into?
00:14:42.000Because YouTube is really using the Southern Poverty Law Center.
00:14:46.000They've talked about their hate speech guidelines now when they're combing through not only YouTube, but if you look at Google, you look at some of the third party unbiased resources, places like Facebook are using Snopes, PolitiFact, and you see how far left they lean.
00:14:58.000Well, the Southern Poverty Law Center has situated themselves where they have a lot more influence over the things that you see or read online than I think you necessarily know.
00:15:07.000So let's go through a history here and get to where they are today with YouTube.
00:15:25.000Even if you don't necessarily agree with their politics, you can understand, okay, a legal defense fund or a firm to fight against the death penalty, I get it.
00:16:08.000There's a torch and a bed sheet and a horse.
00:16:11.000So they started with a Klan's watch, but then it turned into a much, much broader hate watch, which is what we know today.
00:16:17.000And we'll get to that in a little bit.
00:16:19.000In 1986, the entire staff outside of the Founder left.
00:16:24.000The SPLC. And most of them said it was because the organization was shifting from fighting against death penalty, from fighting for social justice sort of landmark cases, to simply targeting conservatives and creating their right-wing hate watch.
00:16:39.000Is that pretty much because we decided that it was better for them to be able to pull themselves out of poverty instead of just being given free handouts?
00:16:45.000I mean, is that where that kind of comes from?
00:16:47.000Well, the Democrats, they're kind of going after conservatives because conservatives are saying, hey, we're going to help you get jobs.
00:16:51.000This is one thing where people have been saying, I was always a Democrat, and this is one thing that kind of bothers me.
00:16:55.000I was always a Democrat until it became so extreme.
00:16:57.000Now, this timeline shows you, if you look at the left-wing activism, accusing the right of being racist has always been one of their go-to playing cards.
00:17:04.000Yeah, but then backing it up by giving out the big social programs that we've got.
00:17:12.000It doesn't have anything to do with economics or death penalty anymore.
00:17:14.0001991, Southern Poverty Law Center, they launched the Teaching Tolerance Program to influence educators and instruct students on social justice and, quote, anti-bias.
00:18:04.000So this is what happened with Southern Poverty Law.
00:18:05.000I wanted to give you a timeline of where they started, what their purpose was.
00:18:08.000Law firm, fight these social justice causes, and then it came to, alright, everyone who's right-wing is horrible, and they started creating these maps, and Clans Watch became Hate Watch.
00:18:18.000The Southern Poverty Law Center today only serves as a propaganda wing of the left.
00:18:23.000So this hate watch, if you go and see it, it looks to discredit any conservatives by labeling them extremists and putting them on these watch lists.
00:18:36.000So they went from fighting the Klan to now fighting hate groups.
00:18:40.000And you see on this map, by the way, remember when people got mad about Sarah Palin with the targets on the map because of districts to vote them out?
00:18:47.000But they're actually putting targets on maps.
00:18:50.000And amongst these people on these maps or these groups are hate groups like the Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, hate speakers, Dr.
00:20:33.000Just don't punch people because of their points of view.
00:20:36.000So this is, when you paint everyone as extremists, and Southern Poverty Law Center has been doing this for a long, long time, I encourage you to go read the timeline on it.
00:20:43.000Don't take my word for it, like LeVar Burton.
00:20:45.000Find some six-year-old who can vouch for me.
00:20:48.000So it's troubling because YouTube is using them as one of their partners for, I have the term here, Hate News Index, the Documenting Hate Project.
00:20:55.000So yeah, groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center are relied upon as unbiased resources for YouTube to determine what is and isn't hate speech.
00:21:06.000Now they're using these for videos where they're saying they're not necessarily a violation like recruiting for ISIS or beheadings, but kind of in that veiled area of hate speech.
00:21:14.000Okay, so now we're using the SPLC. So is Ben Carson...
00:22:43.000YouTube is not only consulting with them, but they've invited staff members from the Southern Poverty Law Center to be a part of YouTube's trusted flagger program.
00:23:33.000But here's something that, knowing everything we know now, you're YouTube, you're Google, and you're saying, okay, we need to have some people who are going to check us here.
00:23:40.000We need to check our blind spots and make sure that we're considering all points of view and determining what is and isn't hate speech.
00:23:47.000And you go with the organization that classifies Ben Carson in the same breath as neo-Nazis?
00:23:55.000At a certain point, is it proactive propaganda, or is it just ignorance?
00:23:58.000The question is, does YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, do they not have access to Google?
00:24:04.000Look, whoever controls the information controls what people think.
00:24:15.000They started blaming the Jews for the problems that they were having.
00:24:18.000They started classifying these different groups together.
00:24:20.000And all of a sudden, you started to get it into the psyche, and people started to make the connection, our problems are because of these groups of people.
00:24:26.000I wish you hadn't used the Nazi example.
00:26:40.000Listen, if you find a motive for a murder, the reason you're looking for a motive is because you're looking to charge somebody with murder.
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00:32:25.000Before we get into the personal stuff, what is the most important news story you think of this week?
00:32:29.000Obviously outside of the hurricane, but the media seems to be making a thing out of all the things that aren't things, if I can articulate it so well, but I think you'll do it better.
00:32:40.000Well, I mean, aside from it being 106 degrees in our studio and having no air conditioning, I think the biggest story that affects me this week There are a bunch of stories that I think have been overlooked.
00:32:51.000I think the story about Comey apparently having a memo ready to exonerate Hillary before the evidence was even in, which is just breaking today, that's a fairly big story that a lot of people aren't covering.
00:33:01.000I think that President Trump pushing for tax reform obviously is a big story that hasn't gotten heavy coverage.
00:33:08.000Some of the Antifa coverage from Sunday was stunted, even though that was a huge story.
00:33:14.000I agree with your Game of Thrones movie.
00:33:45.000And we had people down at the ticket office today, and the people at the ticket office legitimately ran away from the people who were there to ask questions.
00:33:51.000Like, they got up and they just ran away, apparently.
00:33:53.000It was like in Jingle All the Way, where they hide behind the toy shelves.
00:33:57.000Like, oh no, it's a stampede of people!
00:34:21.000I mean, I don't know why President Trump decided to do that this week.
00:34:24.000There's also the announcement that he might revoke DACA. Again, I think right now, Trump has a winning news cycle for him, just from a political point of view.
00:34:30.000Put aside the human tragedy of all of this, but we're political analysts.
00:34:33.000That means we always look at sort of the political fallout of this stuff.
00:34:36.000And Trump has done, by pretty much any measure, a decent job with the hurricane.
00:34:42.000The administration did what they had to do.
00:34:44.000They coordinated with the people on the ground.
00:34:45.000There haven't been a lot of complaints about federal malfeasance.
00:34:48.000He did the obligatory, here I am to show that I care trip to Texas.
00:34:52.000I hate that kind of crap, by the way, because it seems to me that the president has a TV and it would be better if we used all the resources on the ground to actually help the people on the ground as opposed to prepping the ground for Trump to arrive.
00:37:18.000Yeah, I was like, yeah, because I really like the gas stations.
00:37:20.000I remember you being so pumped about the Karate Kid.
00:37:23.000I just remember you going out there and charging out in the middle of the street and doing the crane in the middle of the street for no reason.
00:38:18.000That's a big thing people need to know because the reason we're – this is a show, for example, when I was at Fox, I was always pushing for to do something like this.
00:38:24.000And so we were – Ben actually protected me in a lot of ways where I was always able to do what I wanted outside of wherever else I was working.
00:38:42.000For people who don't know, you had a show in Orlando on the weekends.
00:38:45.000And I used to do this show in Orlando, and we were the first, among the first contributors ever, it was before it was Breitbart, it was Big Hollywood, for people who don't know.
00:38:54.000There was you, I came in just because Andrew, long story anyways, it was you, Adam Baldwin, I know myself, John Nolte, there were only a handful who contributed from the beginning.
00:39:04.000And I don't know, does this mean anything to you?
00:39:06.000For people out there, this is not, Ben does not have any kind of talking points here.
00:39:09.000Does Crowder's Three Rings Circus ring a bell to you?
00:39:47.000In Orlando, you had your show Primetime – not show.
00:39:49.000You had your book, Primetime Propaganda, and this is before you really had – you were on – You came to the book party for that, and then you took the photos, and this is another one of our bad memories.
00:39:59.000Steve and I have a bunch of great memories and bad memories all wrapped together, so one of our bad memories is that you and Jordan did the photos for that, and then that was the only photo I had with Andrew Breitbart, and it is gone forever.
00:40:08.000I have no photos with Andrew anywhere.
00:40:16.000No, but it's one of those weird things.
00:40:19.000I'm sure that you and I probably have no photos together, even though we've seen each other a bunch of times and we're on your show together and my show together.
00:40:25.000Aside from split screens, when you're friends with somebody, how often do you actually say, let's snap a photo together, especially two guys.
00:40:41.000Then you take the picture when you really embarrass them, and then the only picture you have is like, Oh, it's my balls on my friend's face.
00:41:24.000I wouldn't choke you if I knew you had a hernia.
00:41:27.000And then I did this, and I don't know if you remember, it was one of those, it was a radio gig, like, news, it was like, and this is the news this morning, this happened, it couldn't be less me, and you risked your reputation and recommended me, and I knew as soon as it was done, I couldn't even look you in the eye, it was so bad.
00:42:26.000So, um, and then we, now, then we didn't, we weren't, a lot of people who came into this later, you and I didn't interact as much for a while.
00:42:34.000And I've talked about it on this show, but I think, you know, you were at Breitbart at this point, and they kind of did this...
00:42:39.000Someone there did kind of a hit piece on when I left Fox saying, oh, he was fired for not being funny.
00:42:45.000And I remember there was no byline in the article and no source.
00:42:50.000And all I knew was the producers who I spoke with at Fox were like, no, none of us ever said this.
00:42:56.000I was leery of anyone who was working there, and you were still there for a little bit.
00:43:01.000So I don't know, for people who don't know, kind of explain that time period, because you had your own stuff going on.
00:43:06.000Yeah, I mean, so this was late 2013, and Breitbart had come into conflict with a bunch of people who had worked with, came into conflict with you, came into conflict with Dana Lash.
00:43:14.000There were a lot of people who really disassociated sort of from anyone working with Breitbart for some reasons that I think are probably not bad reasons.
00:43:21.000And by late 2013, I had already started my own project on the side.
00:43:25.000I was already launching Truth Revolt, which was sort of the precursor site almost for Daily Wire with the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
00:43:31.000And so I was basically out of the editorial chain by the time that article was written.
00:43:35.000That article, Truth or Vote launched like October 7th, 2013.
00:43:39.000I think that article, you sent me the link today, I think the article was like a couple of weeks after that.
00:43:43.000So I was already sort of out of the loop as far as editorial because I was running my own site at that point.
00:43:48.000And then by January 2014, I was completely out of the editorial loop at Breitbart altogether.
00:43:52.000I was writing like one piece a day for them.
00:43:54.000But I wasn't intimately involved in editorial at all.
00:43:57.000But yeah, I mean, there was a point there where you and I didn't speak for...
00:44:00.000Yeah, they use you more as a figure at that point because you people at this point, you were developing reputation.
00:44:04.000You were getting more of a public, you know, I guess you were getting more public airplay.
00:44:08.000And so, like you said, you were doing one piece a day, but I was going, well, he's their main guy and there's this article.
00:44:13.000And I know that I know at least portions of it were flat out untrue.
00:44:17.000And so there was this miscommunication for a long time.
00:44:19.000I want to say at least a year, Ben and I, we weren't enemies ever, but we just didn't talk because it wasn't a risk I wanted to take.
00:45:03.000Yeah, Andrew was the glue that held the entire thing together, and then when he died and the site changed in a variety of ways, that definitely fractured a lot of relationships for sure.
00:45:11.000And then you texted me out of the blue, and you started asking about the article, and I didn't even remember the article.
00:45:16.000And we had a long text conversation, and finally I was like, well, I don't really remember that, but I'm sorry that happened, and obviously that's not what I think of you since...
00:45:26.000You know, I've been pushing your stuff on our sites for years.
00:45:55.000Yeah, that was the book party you came to.
00:45:57.000It was for primetime propaganda, which was sort of the underground Hollywood debunking all of their mythology about not being a political book.
00:46:03.000And by the way, thank you for the reference to the Tumblr.
00:46:53.000Funny enough, because I was actually shooting a pilot for an MMA show.
00:46:58.000which then got bought by the UFC, but they scrapped this, like Fuel TV said, "We will never do MMA!
00:47:02.000It'll be cars and extreme sports!" And I got, I remember when this happened, and I didn't make it to the funeral, but Adam Baldwin saying, "You know what, if you really, if you're, it's down to you and one guy and it's the screen test, Andrew would have wanted you to do it." And I was the only person, I think, who was invited there who never really worked for Andrew.
00:47:19.000I wrote consistently, I constantly, We were just friends.
00:48:35.000But Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro Show at Daily Wire.
00:48:37.000You can listen for free on iTunes and, of course, subscribe to get the video stuff so you can see his wonderful appointment and his Simon Cowell t-shirts.
00:53:02.000Listen, if there's people that are fans like that, bless them, and I'm very happy for that.
00:53:07.000Doing these Comic Cons and things like that that I'll do sometimes around the country or around the world, people will say very nice things.
00:53:18.000For a number of years, sometimes an impressionable youth, and they'll hang on to you forever, and I'm okay with that.
00:53:23.000It surprises me, though, because you're very outspoken politically.
00:53:26.000I mean, we've always talked about this.
00:53:28.000He doesn't hold back at all, which is surprising, because then when I see you on the Today Show and they're playing, is it rude or not rude?
00:54:49.000This summer I've been all over the world.
00:54:52.000So I was down in Australia, I was in Sydney, I was in Perth, I was in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Byron Bay, back over to Europe, London two or three times, back to Spain.
00:55:02.000I cannot tell you, well I can tell you it's probably in the dozens, the numbers of people who come up to me and go...
00:55:48.000If you haven't been following Jordan Peterson, though, too, the left absolutely despises him because he— I think that's a big thing with you is you disarm a lot of them.
00:55:56.000Now, I know—listen, you're a nice guy, and I appreciate the compliment, and I'm always surprised when people abroad, that's something new.
00:56:02.000There are far more conservatives across the world.
00:56:04.000They just didn't really know they were conservative.
00:56:06.000They thought Republican—no one's as right-wing as the United States.
00:56:08.000Then when they kind of started learning some ideas now with new media and YouTube exploding— They're open, yeah.
00:57:01.000When you look at Hebdo and it paints Houston as Nazis and you see the Tea Party or Don't Tread on Me, this other political thing they tweet out, you're a nice guy.
00:57:09.000But do you see in the entertainment industry in L.A. and in New York, you're doing the Today Show, you don't have to name names, the contempt for everyone outside of the coast?
00:57:18.000Because I think that's what's happening with new media.
00:58:23.000But what people are doing and the way they're coming together...
00:58:27.000You know, Texans, you guys are in Texas.
00:58:29.000Texans are unbelievable, and in a crisis, you want some Texans.
00:58:33.000I want Texans, I'll tell you that right now.
00:58:35.000It's not only a contempt for middle America, I think you seized ignorance to know Houston's a pretty diverse city, and Texas as a whole is not.
00:58:42.000Houston actually surprised people one year.
00:58:44.000I don't know if it was 2004 or if it was 2008.
00:58:47.000Someone can correct me on this because I don't want to make this claim, but someone can show me.
00:58:51.000There was one year where it surprised me.
00:58:52.000Austin went red and Houston went blue.
00:58:54.000And I don't think a lot of people realize that, that Houston is actually surprisingly metropolitan and surprisingly mixed and not super conservative.
00:59:03.000You think Joel Osteen, you think megachurches.
00:59:05.000So they're really mocking a lot of their own.
00:59:07.000In cultural diversity, there's a lot more cultural diversity in Texas than people think.
00:59:10.000It's not just a bunch of rednecks with Confederate flags running around here.
01:00:08.000Just drawing Muhammad, even in a flattering way, is considered far more offensive to Muslims than it is even to Texans to draw them drowning in a flood in a mocking way.
01:03:09.000And I feel like that's how most people are taking this right now.
01:03:12.000Most people, obviously, there's this unity outside of the D.C., New York, L.A., unholy alliance where they're, you know, Chris Cuomo tried to do the climate change thing with Kellyanne Conway, and she practically pegged him on TV. It was so embarrassing.
01:03:26.000She's like, okay, you play amateur climatologist.
01:03:30.000By the way, if you're in New York, if you see Chris Cuomo, I know you're polite, but just quote me directly and tell him that I think he's everything that's wrong with journalism and television.
01:03:40.000Can I get in a wrestling match with him then, too?
01:03:50.000People who haven't been watching the Today Show, I would love to see Dean, I'd love to see him there, get in there and mix some things up and hopefully they let you do a little more than BuzzFeed, rude or not rude.
01:03:59.000They let you go on the 7 and 8 o'clock hours.
01:04:02.000And next time you should write in some questions like, hey listen, let me give you some of these flashcards for rude or not rude, like drawing Muhammad and just see, watch everyone's face melt.
01:04:11.000You know, my answer would be Not rude.
01:04:27.000At RealDeanCain, for people who aren't following him, a great friend of the show, doing a lot of good work, and let today's show know that.
01:06:49.000But we've noticed a lot of people, too, have shut off news this week, because at a certain point, you do what you can, and then you have to move on.
01:07:17.000We're not here to hammer you over the head with red meat lines and do an ad that gets a three-second play on Facebook about how bad Barack Obama is, who also isn't president anymore.
01:07:26.000So if we're not entertaining you, we're not doing our job.
01:07:48.000So I was just thinking about this a lot.
01:07:50.000And there's so many people who want to help.
01:07:53.000And I think sometimes this Hurricane Harvey situation has provided a perfect parallel in that they want to help, and they help in all the wrong ways.
01:08:01.000They help in the ways that make them feel good about themselves.
01:08:03.000They help in the ways that make them feel like they're being helpful without not actually ever being helpful.
01:08:08.000And there's parallels there with that and liberalism where they...
01:08:11.000They think they're helping the black community.
01:08:12.000They think they're helping the LGBT community by doing this or that or supporting these causes or those causes.
01:08:17.000And they're really causing more harm than good.
01:08:47.000Well, that's what we call a hate group.
01:08:49.000I expect it to be in the Southern Poverty Law Center.
01:08:53.000So there was someone who gave it just to the LGBTQ Center.
01:08:55.000And I actually had our researcher, Reg.
01:08:58.000I said, hey, can we look into how much good these people...
01:08:59.000Because we never want to attack someone who's doing good even if we disagree with them.
01:09:02.000Can we look into how much of their funding this LGBTQ resource in Houston gives to the community, how much they would be...
01:09:08.000And he said, listen, we looked into their tax returns as a nonprofit.
01:09:11.000It's hard because they've never done any relief stuff.
01:09:13.000So we'd have to know after this year to then see if they've even contributed anything.
01:09:19.000So I wouldn't want to comment on this either way.
01:09:23.000And I appreciate that our research, one of our producers helped us with that.
01:09:26.000But on the flip side, the person who gave to this LGBTQ charity right now, they're so in a one-track mindset as far as the only way I can help is through this LGBTQ political activism.
01:10:10.000Those volunteers are going to get hurt.
01:10:11.000Yes, those volunteers are going to get hurt.
01:10:13.000So you need to look into what it is that they need, but people who don't just say, you know what, I'm just going to give it because it eases my guilt to give it to the LGBTQAAIP number two group.
01:10:22.000They can't even get beyond the idea that, you know what, listen, yeah, there are LGBTQ people in Houston who are suffering.
01:10:29.000Yeah, there are probably Black Lives Matter activists who are suffering.
01:11:53.000If someone were to hand you a million dollars right now and you would think about what car you buy, I don't want you having a million dollars.
01:12:01.000If someone were to give you a million dollars and you think, hey, what third lake house could I get?
01:12:06.000Bernie Sanders to have a million dollars.
01:12:08.000But I do want the people who say, you know what, with another million dollars, I bet you I could feed a lot of people.
01:12:13.000You know what, with another million dollars, I bet you that I could probably house some of these animals and hopefully reunite them with their owners.
01:12:18.000You know what, with another million dollars, I bet you I could at least help maybe turn on some electricity for some of these folks.
01:12:37.000And so the left, in vilifying the wealthy, you vilify the people who you need most in these times.
01:12:43.000And if you get in a one-track mind where the only way you can help is—it's got to be the oppression Olympics.
01:12:49.000Today it's the LGBTQ. It's mostly the T today, so we're going to side with them against the LG and the Q. You get to a point where you have no semblance of reality, and you don't know how to best help people.
01:13:01.000If you keep vilifying—this is something that is really important to me.
01:13:05.000I know when people say, well, you know what, I'm socially more— Conservative, but on moral issues, I'm more liberal.
01:13:22.000When you're talking about taxes and redistribution?
01:13:24.000No, money is almost always a moral issue.
01:13:27.000And at the very least, it amplifies the moral issue.
01:13:31.000And if you spend, as the left does, as Bernie Sanders does, and Cenk right now, Cenk Uygur went out and he said, you know, not a single dime goes to help any of these oil refineries.
01:14:27.000And the success of this show not only will be measured by how much we entertain you, but how many rich people we make because of this show.
01:14:34.000People who work with CRTV and Mug Club.
01:14:37.000That's a huge measurement of success because I know that I want people in this room to go out and I want money in their hand when a disaster like this strikes.
01:14:44.000Because they rallied together and said, how can we help these people?
01:14:47.000And within a matter of days, we got an entire website up with the bandwidth necessary to make sure that we are helping those in need.
01:14:55.000I don't just look at somebody with money like Cenk or Bernie Sanders and ironically judge them.
01:15:00.000Remember, you're not supposed to be prejudiced, but anyone who has a wallet fatter than yours, you're supposed to try and take what he has.
01:15:08.000I want to see Dean Cain on the Today Show for the same reason that I want to see the people who I know would do tremendous good with money to be billionaires.
01:15:19.000If you vilify everybody who's wealthy, if you vilify the mere idea of wealth, the only people who will become wealthy are those who don't care about being vilified.
01:15:28.000The only people who will be wealthy are the villains.
01:15:32.000So shut up with your self-righteousness.