The Ben Shapiro Show - A Big Leftist Myth Implodes On Taxes | Ep. 442

00:00:00.000 Fallout from tax reform continues.

00:00:02.000 Nikki Haley is my spirit animal at the UN.

00:00:05.000 Plus, Hollywood actually did something right.

00:00:08.000 Really.

00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:09.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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00:00:18.000 You know, at the end of the week, it's been a long week and it's only Thursday.

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00:00:23.000 So we're just sitting around the office making Star Wars jokes at this point.

00:00:26.000 I won't spoil Star Wars further with the joke that I just made that is spectacular and that I stole from Ben Dominich over at The Federalist.

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00:01:59.000 Okay, so we begin today.

00:02:02.000 I'll do taxes in a second.

00:02:03.000 You know, I'm gonna begin today instead with the UN.

00:02:07.000 So the UN right now as we speak is voting on whether to condemn the United States for moving its embassy to Jerusalem.

00:02:14.000 To which we should say...

00:02:16.000 F off! 1.00

00:02:17.000 Who cares what you have to say? 0.94

00:02:18.000 Why do I possibly care what Venezuela, where its citizens are eating dogs, have to say about where we put our embassy? 1.00

00:02:25.000 Why would I care about the organization of Islamic countries? 0.97

00:02:28.000 57 Islamic countries who hate Jews.

00:02:30.000 Why would I possibly care what they have to say about whether Jerusalem should be Jewish territory? 0.71

00:02:35.000 Why in the world would I have to care about that?

00:02:37.000 Yet somehow we're supposed to care about this.

00:02:39.000 We're supposed to care deeply that the UN, which is basically Mos Eisley, 0.99

00:02:44.000 You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than the United Nations General Assembly. 0.50

00:02:48.000 I hate the United Nations so much that while I'm against the use of eminent domain to hand over to private businesses, because I think that that's illegal, I would be willing to make an exception if President Trump wanted to use eminent domain to bulldoze the UN and build a Trump Tower on top of it, I'd be fine with that. 0.96

00:03:02.000 In fact, I think the best use of the UN would be to throw out all the diplomats and use it as an asylum housing project 1.00

00:03:09.000 For all of the people who have to run from the garbage countries that occupy the U.N. 1.00

00:03:13.000 The U.N. 0.99

00:03:13.000 is an awful institution. 0.99

00:03:14.000 It has done literally nothing good since basically inception except for voting for the establishment of the state of Israel.

00:03:20.000 Name the good things the U.N.

00:03:21.000 has done.

00:03:22.000 I'll wait.

00:03:23.000 Okay, then the U.N. 0.90

00:03:24.000 is a terrible organization and it is a wildly anti-Semitic organization.

00:03:27.000 Is it a shock?

00:03:28.000 They're trying to pass another assembly resolution against Israel?

00:03:32.000 Is that a shock?

00:03:32.000 Let me explain to you why this is not a particular shock.

00:03:37.000 I begin with a few statistics.

00:03:39.000 So, for all those people who are like, well, you know, the UN, the center of moral gravitas,

00:03:43.000 When they come after Israel, that really means something. 1.00

00:03:47.000 No, it doesn't mean anything.

00:03:49.000 It doesn't mean anything.

00:03:50.000 Here are some statistics for you.

00:03:52.000 How much does the United Nations hate Israel?

00:03:54.000 There are 193 countries in the UN.

00:03:56.000 More than a quarter of them are Muslim countries who hate Israel.

00:03:59.000 And then, you haven't even gotten started with the Europeans, okay? 0.95

00:04:01.000 Jews ain't exactly popular in Europe, as demonstrated by Exhibit A, the Holocaust.

00:04:06.000 So, things have not gone well for Jews in Europe historically.

00:04:09.000 Here's how the UN has voted with regard to Israel, a country full of Jews.

00:04:12.000 Okay, UN Human Rights Council, which is supposed to be there to, you know, promulgate human rights.

00:04:17.000 You might think that they would have some resolutions against China for being a repressive communist country that forces abortions on its citizens.

00:04:23.000 Or maybe against North Korea, a giant prison state, a giant gulag. 0.62

00:04:27.000 Or maybe against Venezuela, an oil-rich petrol oligarchy that has been using its oil to prop up its leadership while simultaneously forcing its citizens to shoot animals to eat in the streets. 0.62

00:04:37.000 You might think that the UN Human Rights Council might have some things to say about that.

00:04:40.000 Well, nah.

00:04:42.000 From its creation in June 2006 through June 2016, a full decade, the UN Human Rights Council has adopted 135 resolutions criticizing countries.

00:04:47.000 This is thanks to unwatch.org.

00:04:48.000 They've adopted 135 resolutions criticizing countries.

00:04:50.000 135.

00:04:50.000 How many of them were against Israel?

00:04:51.000 One country. 68.

00:05:00.000 68.

00:05:01.000 Literally half of all UN resolutions at the Human Rights Council criticizing a country have been directed not against North Korea, not against Iran, not against Saudi Arabia, not against Egypt, not against China, not against Venezuela, not against Cuba, against Israel, the only democratic free country in the Middle East.

00:05:19.000 Half of them.

00:05:20.000 The UN General Assembly. 1.00

00:05:22.000 As I say, the Star Wars cantina of garbage, of human debris. 0.94

00:05:28.000 From 2012 through 2015, the UN General Assembly has adopted 97 resolutions criticizing countries. 0.89

00:05:34.000 How many of those were against Israel?

00:05:36.000 Does anyone have a wild guess?

00:05:37.000 I'm taking guesses.

00:05:39.000 Jonathan, how many of the UNGA has adopted 97 resolutions criticizing countries?

00:05:45.000 How many of those have been against Israel specifically?

00:05:49.000 83 of the 97.

00:05:51.000 83 of 97 resolutions criticizing any country are directed against Israel.

00:05:55.000 How about the UNESCO?

00:05:56.000 The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization.

00:05:59.000 They're there for education and health.

00:06:02.000 They're there to inform people.

00:06:04.000 Did they have any resolutions criticizing Hamas for literally using UN schools as launching pads for rockets during the Gaza War?

00:06:11.000 No, but they do have 10 resolutions a year.

00:06:14.000 They adopt around 10 resolutions a year.

00:06:17.000 How many of those resolutions have been against Israel?

00:06:20.000 All of them.

00:06:22.000 Literally all.

00:06:23.000 There has been one, one resolution against another country, and that was against Syria in 2013.

00:06:29.000 Since then, Syria's been great, by the way.

00:06:30.000 Things have just been swimming in Syria.

00:06:32.000 I mean, UNESCO has had nothing to say about Syria while 500,000 Syrians were slaughtered.

00:06:36.000 But Israel, boy oh boy, that Israel.

00:06:39.000 The World Health Organization.

00:06:41.000 They don't even adopt resolutions against countries.

00:06:43.000 They adopt resolutions against Israel.

00:06:45.000 Literally, they adopt one resolution a year, singling out Israel for condemnation.

00:06:49.000 The International Labor Organization was established to improve conditions of labor, regulate work hours, and fight unemployment, and ensure adequate living wages.

00:06:56.000 Israel has the strongest economy in the Middle East, and it ain't close.

00:06:59.000 At its annual conference, the ILO only produces one country-specific report.

00:07:04.000 Guess the name of the country.

00:07:06.000 So, is it super shocking that the UN has decided to single out Israel and say that Jerusalem is not Jewish territory?

00:07:12.000 Is it super shocking that the Palestinian Authority, a terrorist group, has come out and said, how dare the United States try to blackmail us?

00:07:21.000 They're trying to blackmail us.

00:07:22.000 They're trying to say that if we oppose them, they'll cut off aid to the United States.

00:07:25.000 Okay, the Palestinians don't get to talk about blackmail, Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Islamic Jihad. 0.98

00:07:29.000 Their entire strategy is, if you don't give us what we want, we will come into your house and murder your children. 0.96

00:07:37.000 Extortion is their entire political strategy and has been for decades, but they're ripping the United States.

00:07:42.000 So, as I said earlier, Nikki Haley, the UN ambassador under President Trump, is my spirit animal.

00:07:47.000 President Trump let off this UN thing by saying himself, listen, if they want to oppose us at the UN,

00:07:55.000 We'll just cut their funding.

00:07:56.000 Take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us.

00:08:00.000 Well, we're watching those votes.

00:08:02.000 Let them vote against us.

00:08:03.000 We'll save a lot.

00:08:05.000 We don't care.

00:08:06.000 Love it!

00:08:07.000 Love it!

00:08:08.000 Yes!

00:08:09.000 Okay, this is the Trump who in 2011 I thought maybe he'd be a good president.

00:08:14.000 This is, okay, this is not just good Trump.

00:08:17.000 This is not just great Trump.

00:08:18.000 This is exhilarating Trump.

00:08:20.000 Okay, this is fantastic Trump.

00:08:22.000 The big F you to all these countries who take our money and then use it for terrorism. 0.72

00:08:27.000 And he says, fine, you want to vote against us?

00:08:28.000 We'll just cut off your money. 1.00

00:08:29.000 How's that?

00:08:29.000 How do you like that?

00:08:29.000 How do you like them apples?

00:08:31.000 Love it!

00:08:32.000 And then Nikki Haley goes full-bore Jean Kirkpatrick at the UN, and it is fantastic.

00:08:38.000 Nikki Haley, you can see the, you know, I don't know whether to say that I have Haley-esque rage or she has Shapiro-esque rage, but whatever it is, we have mind merged here.

00:08:49.000 Nikki Haley is now my, at the UN, not Nikki Haley all the time, but Nikki Haley at the UN, at the General Assembly, this is my spirit animal right here.

00:08:57.000 The United States will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation.

00:09:08.000 We will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world's largest contribution to the United Nations.

00:09:15.000 And we will remember it when so many countries come calling on us, as they so often do, to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit.

00:09:27.000 America will put our embassy in Jerusalem.

00:09:30.000 That is what the American people want us to do.

00:09:33.000 And it is the right thing to do.

00:09:36.000 Yes.

00:09:37.000 Yes!

00:09:39.000 Okay, this is correct. 0.99

00:09:41.000 Why we even spend a dime at this defunct, pathetic institution is beyond me. 1.00

00:09:45.000 We should just bulldoze the damn place and we should make all these jackasses pay their parking tickets. 1.00

00:09:50.000 We should make all these diplomats who have been out there raping people and they have diplomatic immunity, we should drag them into court. 1.00

00:09:56.000 Enough of this nonsense. 0.95

00:09:57.000 The U.N. 1.00

00:09:57.000 is a garbage institution. 1.00

00:09:58.000 It's been a garbage institution for quite a while. 1.00

00:10:00.000 Okay, in a second, I am going to discuss the Trump tax plan and the fallout. 0.99

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00:10:07.000 Very good week for Team Trump.

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00:11:51.000 Okay, so.

00:11:53.000 The Democrats have been struggling ardently to figure out exactly how to counter President Trump's tax reform bill.

00:12:00.000 What exactly do they do?

00:12:02.000 How exactly can they counter this?

00:12:04.000 And they've been having a really rough time of it.

00:12:06.000 Because it turns out that the tax bill actually gives a tax break to pretty much everybody.

00:12:10.000 The tax bill is going to be good for the economy, that it's not going to harm the economy.

00:12:14.000 The real only point of pushback on the tax bill comes from some conservatives who are deficit hawks like Kevin Williamson, who says, listen, at some point we're going to have to get our spending under control.

00:12:23.000 That's true, but that's not really a critique of the tax cut so much as it is a critique of our failure to cut our spending.

00:12:29.000 Even if there were no tax cut, we'd have a massive debt.

00:12:31.000 So we have to cut our spending, in other words, anyway.

00:12:34.000 But the tax cut itself is slated to help the economy, and this is what's scaring Democrats also.

00:12:40.000 The polling numbers have apparently started to turn around for the tax cut already.

00:12:43.000 As people begin to see that this tax cut is not some sort of boondoggle to help the rich, the Democrats are beginning to panic.

00:12:50.000 They're starting to freak out.

00:12:53.000 That's led by folks like Seth Meyers.

00:12:55.000 Seth Meyers, of course, the late night host.

00:12:56.000 And now we have to have all of the political thoughts of our late night hosts.

00:12:59.000 It's vital for me to hear what the guy who used to write for Comedy Central has to say.

00:13:02.000 A guy who used to write comedy lines for President Obama has to say about the tax cuts.

00:13:06.000 This seems like a real honest broker to me.

00:13:08.000 Here's Seth Meyers saying that the GOP tax bill is a brazen heist.

00:13:11.000 Brazen.

00:13:11.000 First of all, I do love when people use the word brazen, but really only when it's followed by hussy.

00:13:16.000 I think that brazen hussy is a great historic film phrase, but in any case, it's a brazen heist, according to Seth Meyers.

00:13:23.000 Here we go.

00:13:24.000 Okay, a brazen heist of the country?

00:13:26.000 Who stole the country?

00:13:38.000 It's like, where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

00:13:40.000 If you ever watched that show or played that game, it would be people stealing actual monuments.

00:13:44.000 It was like, Carmen Sandiego just stole the Washington Monument.

00:13:47.000 Where did the country go?

00:13:48.000 If it was heisted, why am I still here? 1.00

00:13:50.000 Or are we in a different zone?

00:13:53.000 What's happened?

00:13:54.000 First, I was killed, and then they stole my country. 1.00

00:13:56.000 It's so weird!

00:13:56.000 What's going on?

00:13:58.000 Why does everything seem exactly the same?

00:14:01.000 It was weird.

00:14:01.000 I woke up very early this morning, and I got in my car, and I looked around.

00:14:05.000 I saw there was no one on the roads, and I figured everyone had been killed by the tax bill.

00:14:09.000 But as it turns out, it was just 5.30 in the morning, and who the hell's on the road at 5.30 in the morning?

00:14:13.000 So that was the actual solution, because at 9 o'clock, everybody was out doing their normal stuff.

00:14:18.000 In any case, the Democrats are struggling to come up with the rationale for opposing this thing.

00:14:21.000 So they've tried the Seth Meyers, it's a brazen heist.

00:14:24.000 They've also tried the tax cuts just don't do anything.

00:14:27.000 So we've heard this from a couple of Democrats saying, well, you know, at the lower end of these tax cuts, some families are only getting back like $80 a month.

00:14:34.000 Is that really a lot of money?

00:14:35.000 Is that enough to do anything?

00:14:37.000 Does that even matter?

00:14:37.000 It matters to the person who's getting back $80 a month.

00:14:41.000 It's not nothing.

00:14:43.000 It's better than not having $80 a month.

00:14:44.000 Let's put it that way.

00:14:46.000 My favorite, though, my favorite defense of opposition to the tax cut comes courtesy of one of the worst representatives in Congress.

00:14:53.000 I've actually openly supported his opponent.

00:14:55.000 I generally don't support politicians and races, but I've openly supported his opponent in California.

00:14:59.000 This guy is Ted Lieu.

00:15:00.000 Ted Lieu is the congressperson from, he's somewhere in the city, in like La Brea area.

00:15:07.000 And Ted Lieu says that this bill will harm Americans.

00:15:10.000 Here was his initial statement on it yesterday.

00:15:12.000 Democrats are not opposed to tax reform.

00:15:16.000 We're opposed to harmful tax reform.

00:15:18.000 And this bill is going to harm America by exploding our deficit by $1.5 trillion.

00:15:24.000 It's then going to require automatic cuts of $25 billion to Medicare.

00:15:28.000 And most of the benefits of this tax bill go to the super wealthy. 0.56

00:15:32.000 Okay, so all of this is happy talk.

00:15:34.000 Then he got to his real point.

00:15:35.000 His real point he made on Twitter.

00:15:37.000 And it is demonstrative of how some people on the left think about the role of government and what it's supposed to do.

00:15:43.000 Here's what Ted Lieu tweeted.

00:15:50.000 If Sally gets a tax cut of $380, but others get $200,000, she will be upset. 0.99

00:15:55.000 And wait until Joe finds out he is getting a tax increase for residing in California.

00:15:59.000 That's why tax bill is so unpopular.

00:16:01.000 Human nature.

00:16:03.000 Mmm.

00:16:05.000 Deep thoughts there from Ted Lieu.

00:16:06.000 Human nature.

00:16:07.000 Now here's the thing.

00:16:08.000 I agree with Ted Lieu.

00:16:09.000 I agree. 0.99

00:16:10.000 Human nature is for us to be jealous jerks. 0.99

00:16:12.000 That is our nature. 0.96

00:16:13.000 Our nature is to see the guy next door with the Lamborghini and think,

00:16:16.000 But if I work harder, maybe I, too, will have a Lamborghini, which is totally acceptable.

00:16:20.000 But that guy has a Lamborghini.

00:16:22.000 I'm gonna go key it.

00:16:23.000 Or that guy has a Lamborghini.

00:16:25.000 What if I stole it?

00:16:27.000 That is human nature.

00:16:28.000 We are a jealous crew.

00:16:30.000 We are not kind.

00:16:31.000 The green-eyed monster of envy gets us all.

00:16:34.000 This is why there is an explicit commandment in the Ten that specifically deals with this. 1.00

00:16:38.000 That thou shalt not cover thy neighbor's ass, Al Franken. 0.98

00:16:41.000 That you shall not covet your neighbor's property. 0.99

00:16:44.000 That's the idea.

00:16:45.000 It's actually breaking a commandment to fall in with Ted Lieu's logic here.

00:16:49.000 This is why we have created institutions to prevent us from acting out on our jealousy.

00:16:53.000 The founders also believed that we were jealous and that we wanted each other's stuff.

00:16:57.000 And so instead what they said is, we will set up a system where you can't take each other's stuff.

00:17:01.000 There will be checks and balances.

00:17:02.000 There will be people who can vote against you.

00:17:04.000 There will be institutional barriers to you being able to do this.

00:17:07.000 Ted Lieu apparently believes that jealousy as a motivating factor should decide policy.

00:17:13.000 Right?

00:17:13.000 The jealousy should decide policy.

00:17:14.000 Now, how does he get from the is to the ought? 0.88

00:17:16.000 How does he make that jump from people are jealous to we should humor their jealousy by stealing some people's money and giving it to others?

00:17:21.000 How does he get from one to the other?

00:17:23.000 The answer is, of course, that Ted Lieu believes like so many Democrats believe.

00:17:27.000 That what you're jealous of is actually not that guy's property.

00:17:31.000 What you're jealous of is not jealousy.

00:17:33.000 It's rage at the injustice of a cruel universe that can be healed by an overarching government power.

00:17:39.000 You're not jealous of that guy's Lamborghini.

00:17:41.000 You're angry at the system that allows a douche like that guy with the Lamborghini to have a Lamborghini.

00:17:47.000 And it's the system that's responsible.

00:17:49.000 Your neighbor?

00:17:49.000 He's not responsible for the Lamborghini.

00:17:51.000 The system's responsible.

00:17:53.000 So if we just change the system, you two can have a Lamborghini.

00:17:55.000 Or even better, no one can have a Lamborghini ever.

00:17:59.000 This is the illogic here, which coincidentally violates at least two others of the Ten Commandments, right?

00:18:03.000 The commandment that says you're not allowed to steal.

00:18:06.000 It turns out that it is still theft if you vote for somebody to go steal something.

00:18:10.000 If Austin and Mathis both come into this room and they say, we just told to vote, there are three of us here, the two of us vote to take half your salary, this would be theft.

00:18:18.000 I would also fire them.

00:18:20.000 This would be theft. 1.00

00:18:21.000 The idea that it's not theft so long as you vote for the theft is really stupid. 0.99

00:18:25.000 So that violates another one of the Ten Commandments. 0.98

00:18:27.000 Then there's the third of the Ten Commandments it violates, which is the notion of a supreme arbiter of the universe, a God, who is just and good.

00:18:36.000 The idea that government can replace God and that government can provide to you all of the necessities that you seek.

00:18:43.000 That is what Democrats are basically saying.

00:18:45.000 That if a poor person exists and a rich person exists, government can come in and heal all woes.

00:18:49.000 So the Democrats are beginning to show their hand, and it's an ugly hand, it really is.

00:18:53.000 I mean, this is ugly stuff that you're hearing from the Democrats.

00:18:57.000 And this is why you have people like Bernie Sanders, whose entire raison d'etre is jealousy, right?

00:19:01.000 Everything Bernie Sanders is about is the idea that income inequality, this talking point, I've said it many, many times, I'll say it again, that income inequality is not an issue to me so long as my life is getting better.

00:19:10.000 If it's an issue to you, even though your life is getting better, it's because you're a bad person.

00:19:15.000 Really.

00:19:15.000 I think it's that simple.

00:19:16.000 If income inequality is an issue for you, if everyone's life is getting better, but income inequality is still an issue for you, it shows a moral shortcoming.

00:19:25.000 If you think income inequality is bad because it breaks social fabric, or you think income inequality is bad because it's a zero-sum game, I think you're wrong, but that's at least arguable.

00:19:35.000 But if you just think that income inequality is bad because you're jealous,

00:19:39.000 Or because you think the system is quote-unquote rigged, but you have no evidence the system is rigged?

00:19:43.000 If everyone's life is getting better, but you're angry that everyone's life is getting better, that everyone's life level is going up, but the people at the bottom, it's going up this much, and the people at the top, it's going up this much...

00:19:53.000 If you're angry about that, that makes you a bad person.

00:19:55.000 Because what you should really be focused on is are you rising or are you falling?

00:19:59.000 Is the society rising or is the society falling?

00:20:01.000 Bernie Sanders, of course, works from the zero-sum game philosophy of life in which no one can rise without someone else falling.

00:20:08.000 So, you know, somebody apparently in New Guinea had to pay for

00:20:14.000 Bernie Sanders' second lake house.

00:20:16.000 In any case, here is Bernie Sanders saying that the fact is that we need revenge.

00:20:21.000 I would like pudding.

00:20:22.000 I will stand on the barricades with my pudding.

00:20:25.000 I will stand there with my vanilla pudding.

00:20:27.000 That is the flavor that I prefer after a year of doing Bernie Sanders' impressions.

00:20:31.000 I can tell you vanilla pudding is my flavor.

00:20:33.000 I love vanilla. 0.99

00:20:34.000 I am lukewarm on chocolate and caramel tastes like dog crap. 0.94

00:20:37.000 But the pudding I enjoy is vanilla pudding. 0.98

00:20:40.000 I will stand upon the barricades like the people in Les Mis.

00:20:43.000 Which is, not coincidentally, also my favorite musical, except for the god parts.

00:20:49.000 And I will tell you that we need revenge.

00:20:52.000 Revenge on Trump.

00:20:53.000 And I will lead it. 0.95

00:20:55.000 I will use my walker, and I will walk over to the White House, and I will beat him with the tennis ball end of my walker.

00:21:00.000 Bernie Sanders, go.

00:21:03.000 This whole policy is based on the fraudulent theory of trickle-down economics.

00:21:09.000 And that is if you give huge tax breaks to large corporations and the wealthy, somehow the middle class and working families benefit.

00:21:16.000 Problem is, that theory has never worked.

00:21:19.000 It didn't work under Reagan.

00:21:21.000 It didn't work under George W. Bush.

00:21:23.000 It didn't work recently in the state of Kansas.

00:21:27.000 Tax cuts do work, and I will explain why in just a second. 0.97

00:21:31.000 And I will show you how the Democrats are making complete fools of themselves.

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00:23:01.000 Okay, so, the Democrats have been claiming, without any evidence to support it really, that somehow this is going to hurt the middle class, that corporations don't actually spend the money on people, that somehow the corporations just sock it away in their Scrooge McDuck money bins, and every evening they go swimming in the coins.

00:23:19.000 The physics of that I always found puzzling, by the way.

00:23:20.000 I'm not sure how Scrooge McDuck was actually able to penetrate the metal of the coins.

00:23:24.000 He was always able to sort of jump between the coins.

00:23:26.000 But I get the feeling that if you tried to jump into a pile of coins, you'd really hurt yourself in a severe way.

00:23:30.000 In any case, that's beside the point.

00:23:32.000 The actual point that I did want to make is that the Democrats are claiming that this tax cut will be wildly ineffective, that corporations have no intention of helping you.

00:23:39.000 They have no intention of helping you at all.

00:23:42.000 And leading the charge here is Chuck Schumer.

00:23:44.000 So Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader from New York,

00:23:49.000 Here's what he had to say about the tax breaks.

00:23:51.000 Now, there's great irony in this.

00:23:51.000 You're going to hear him rip one particular company here.

00:23:54.000 That company is AT&T.

00:23:55.000 I'll explain why this is so hilarious and ironic in one second, because he basically says something and it gets debunked as he is saying it.

00:24:04.000 It's pretty astonishing.

00:24:05.000 Well, if you believe trickle-down economics, he's right.

00:24:09.000 The trouble is, no one in America, not the American public, not the economists, believe that trickle-down works.

00:24:18.000 Corporations are flush with cash right now.

00:24:22.000 The stock market's booming.

00:24:24.000 Job creation isn't.

00:24:26.000 Look at all the companies that have already said they're going to use their tax break for stock buybacks,

00:24:33.000 For dividends that don't affect average Americans.

00:24:36.000 And I love the example of AT&T.

00:24:39.000 Over the last 10 years, AT&T has paid an average tax rate of 8% a year.

00:24:46.000 They have 80,000 fewer employees today than they had then.

00:24:51.000 Tax breaks don't lead to job creation.

00:24:54.000 They lead to big CEO salaries and money for the very, very wealthy.

00:25:00.000 Okay, so here's the part that's hilarious and ironic.

00:25:03.000 So as he's saying, AT&T, they didn't spend any money on their employees.

00:25:06.000 They've paid very little taxes and they're spending no money on their employees.

00:25:09.000 First of all, this is sort of reversing the polarity.

00:25:11.000 One of the reasons corporations pay less in tax is because they're making less money or they've had realizable losses in the last year, right?

00:25:17.000 I mean, it's not like they can just pay less taxes and get away with it.

00:25:20.000 In any case,

00:25:21.000 What did AT&T do?

00:25:23.000 As Chuck Schumer was speaking, in the same hour, the same hour, AT&T announced that once President Trump signed the bill into law, they would quote, Oops.

00:25:43.000 Oops! 0.78

00:25:44.000 Picked the wrong company to pick on that time, Chucky.

00:25:47.000 And it's not just AT&T saying this.

00:25:49.000 Boeing has announced $300 million of investment in corporate giving, in workforce development, in new facilities and infrastructure.

00:25:56.000 Fifth Third Bank Corp is a bank headquartered in Ohio.

00:26:00.000 They announced they would give a minimum hourly wage, raise it all the way to $15.

00:26:03.000 You remember the left was saying they wanted $15 minimum wage?

00:26:06.000 They got it approved by President Trump.

00:26:08.000 How?

00:26:09.000 Through economic growth.

00:26:10.000 They're also going to give a one-time bonus of $1,000 to more than 13,500 of their employees.

00:26:15.000 Wells Fargo, there's a lot more employees than that, announced they will increase their minimum hourly pay rate to $15, and they will aim for $400 million in philanthropic donations next year due to the newly passed GOP tax bill.

00:26:27.000 Ryan Saavedra writes about this over at Daily Wire.

00:26:29.000 Comcast has announced they're going to give $1,000 bonuses to over 100,000 eligible frontline and non-executive employees and invest $50 billion over the next five years in infrastructure based on the passage of tax reform.

00:26:41.000 FedEx announced that they will ramp up hiring in response to the bill.

00:26:44.000 They say they're going to see a $1.3 billion increase in annual profit, and they are promising extended hiring.

00:26:51.000 CVS announced last month that they would create 3,000 permanent new jobs if the tax bill passed.

00:26:56.000 So much for Chuck Schumer's talking point that businesses do not respond to economic incentives.

00:27:01.000 Of course they respond to economic incentives.

00:27:04.000 Of course they do.

00:27:06.000 And as I discussed yesterday, when Ireland lowered its corporate tax rate from 40% to 12.5%, they basically tripled their GDP growth.

00:27:14.000 When businesses have more money to spend, they either invest it, or they do stock buybacks, which raises stock prices, or they spend it on investment in employees and innovation.

00:27:24.000 It might as well just go nowhere, as opposed to when Democrats spend the money, when it legitimately goes almost nowhere.

00:27:30.000 So this is good stuff.

00:27:31.000 And I will say another thing here about a differentiation that I think is important.

00:27:36.000 So if you recall all the way back to the show last, it would have been December.

00:27:39.000 So last December, a year ago, President Trump announced that he and Mike Pence had basically cut a deal with Carrier to keep 500 jobs in the United States with Carrier.

00:27:47.000 And I said I didn't like this deal.

00:27:48.000 The reason I didn't like this deal is because it wasn't a broad-based tax cut.

00:27:51.000 It was a special giveaway to Carrier.

00:27:53.000 It was basically a subsidy to Carrier.

00:27:55.000 I don't like subsidies, and so when Carrier said they'd keep the jobs there, I said this is a cheap trick, it's a parlor trick, and I don't like it.

00:28:01.000 It looks a lot like corporatism.

00:28:02.000 This is not that.

00:28:04.000 When companies say a broad-based policy that affects millions of people across the United States is good for us or bad for us, that is necessary.

00:28:10.000 Companies should be doing that.

00:28:12.000 Corporate heads should routinely be speaking out about how public affairs impacts their company.

00:28:17.000 Why?

00:28:17.000 Because the government constantly does.

00:28:19.000 If you're a Democrat, you spend your entire life going around telling people, you know this government program that I love?

00:28:25.000 You love it too.

00:28:26.000 You know why?

00:28:26.000 Because it puts money in your pocket, right?

00:28:27.000 This is what Democrats do for a living. 0.96

00:28:29.000 For a living, Democrats go around telling people that food stamps are great, and the way you know it is because there's an EBT card in your pocket.

00:28:35.000 Welfare is great, and the way you know it is every week when you go to pick up your welfare check, it's a little bit more because of me.

00:28:41.000 The Democrats are constantly letting people know that they are dependent on government programs.

00:28:45.000 Capitalists don't tend to spend a lot of time letting people know that they are reliant on capitalism.

00:28:51.000 I don't run around the office telling people around the office, guys, you know what?

00:28:55.000 You are reliant on me for your hiring.

00:28:57.000 But not only that, you're reliant on the capitalist system.

00:29:00.000 You're reliant on free market enterprise for your continuation of your employment. 0.99

00:29:04.000 Because that'd make me a jerk. 0.98

00:29:06.000 Like, we're kind of polite. 0.98

00:29:06.000 We don't go around saying these sorts of things. 0.98

00:29:08.000 But they are true.

00:29:10.000 My employees will have a better year because there were corporate tax cuts.

00:29:13.000 Maybe not in California, but overall, there will be a better year for us as a company because of these corporate tax cuts.

00:29:20.000 The rate just went from 35% to 21%.

00:29:20.000 That's a massive decrease.

00:29:24.000 And people should be telling their employees this.

00:29:26.000 The reason they should be telling their employees this is because otherwise, the Democrats have a stake in basically suggesting that employees and employers are on two sides of the ledger.

00:29:35.000 They're not related.

00:29:36.000 That you can damage the employer without harming the employee.

00:29:39.000 That's not true.

00:29:40.000 When you raise taxes, it harms the employee.

00:29:42.000 And when you lower taxes, it helps the employee.

00:29:44.000 And this is what we've seen.

00:29:46.000 You know, President Trump deserves a moment in the sun to celebrate, and thus he did.

00:29:52.000 So he came out yesterday and he said, hey, it's a lot of fun when you win.

00:29:55.000 Can't argue with that.

00:29:56.000 Paul Ryan and Mitch, it was a little team.

00:29:59.000 We just got together and we would work very hard, didn't we, huh?

00:30:03.000 It seems like it was a lot of fun.

00:30:05.000 It's always a lot of fun when you win.

00:30:08.000 If you work hard and lose, that's not acceptable.

00:30:11.000 OK, and I do love the rabid laughter in the background from the vice president and from all of the assembled.

00:30:17.000 One of the things that I think Republicans have learned is sort of how to play with Trump.

00:30:20.000 And the way that you play with Trump is by basically laughing at all his jokes and telling him he's the best.

00:30:24.000 If that's what it takes to get some good policy, I can live with that.

00:30:27.000 Is it sycophantic? 0.95

00:30:28.000 Is it ridiculous the president is this way? 0.85

00:30:30.000 Yes, but hey, the policy over the last three weeks has been pretty, pretty, pretty good.

00:30:34.000 Okay, now, in a second I'm going to explain something that Trump said that is not true about this bill.

00:30:39.000 And then I want to get back to some of the Democratic reactions to all of this, because some of the Democratic reactions are truly astonishing.

00:30:46.000 So let's start with something President Trump said about Obamacare.

00:30:51.000 When it comes to this bill, one of the things the bill does is it repeals the individual mandate.

00:30:55.000 As I explained yesterday, the repeal of the individual mandate does not mean Obamacare has been repealed.

00:30:59.000 It has not.

00:31:00.000 You are not forced to buy an insurance program now, but insurance companies are still forced to cover pre-existing conditions.

00:31:06.000 There are still all sorts of costs.

00:31:08.000 The cost caps on what insurance companies can do.

00:31:11.000 There are still heavy regulations on insurance companies across the country, which is one of the reasons why cutting the insurance mandate, the individual mandate, may result in higher prices in the individual insurance market.

00:31:22.000 Because if you're forcing a bunch of healthy people, young healthy people to buy insurance in order to cover the cost for older non-healthy people, and then you take all the young people out of the system, 0.57

00:31:30.000 The costs rise for the insurance companies.

00:31:32.000 There are only two ways of filling that gap.

00:31:34.000 One is to remove the regulations.

00:31:35.000 That would be killing Obamacare. 1.00

00:31:37.000 It's killing the regulations.

00:31:38.000 And the other way to do it would be to backfill that gap by basically signing subsidies to the insurance companies with government cash.

00:31:44.000 Unfortunately, it looks like the Republicans have sided with the second way.

00:31:47.000 They're looking at the Alexander Murray bill to do exactly that.

00:31:50.000 That'd be Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray of the state of Washington, this bipartisan bill.

00:31:54.000 But Trump made an announcement that was somewhat disquieting here and should, I think, give people a little bit of pause going into next year because this has been a great last three weeks, okay?

00:32:03.000 I've said it, I said it yesterday, the last three weeks, the last month of policy from this administration has been the most conservative policy of any policy I have seen in my lifetime.

00:32:13.000 Now, granted, I don't remember the Reagan years particularly, but certainly in the last 33 years, I mean, as long as I've been alive, this is the most conservative policy that I've seen in the last three weeks ever, right?

00:32:26.000 Much more conservative than anything George W. Bush did.

00:32:29.000 But going into next year, the question is, are we going to keep up this?

00:32:32.000 Is this where we're going to go?

00:32:33.000 The indicators are maybe not.

00:32:35.000 The reason I say this is because here is President Trump talking about the repeal of the individual mandate and what comes next.

00:32:42.000 Here he explains.

00:32:43.000 The individual mandate is being repealed.

00:32:48.000 When the individual mandate is being repealed, that means Obamacare is being repealed, because they get their money from the individual mandate.

00:32:58.000 So the individual mandate is being repealed.

00:33:00.000 So in this bill, not only do we have massive tax cuts and tax reform,

00:33:07.000 We have essentially repealed Obamacare, and we'll come up with something that will be much better.

00:33:13.000 Okay, that is not true.

00:33:14.000 We have not essentially repealed Obamacare.

00:33:16.000 We repealed a funding mechanism for the insurance companies, but all the regulations are still in place.

00:33:20.000 Unless the Republicans remove those regulations, then they are basically enshrining a new government.

00:33:26.000 I mean, if they basically are just going to give giveaways to sick people who can't afford insurance, then that is a new government entitlement program.

00:33:32.000 The problem with that is that you're not always talking about sick old people. 0.56

00:33:35.000 Those people are covered by Medicare already.

00:33:36.000 You're really talking about young people who should have bought insurance and didn't.

00:33:40.000 If you want incentives for people to buy insurance, then there has to be a punishment, right?

00:33:44.000 An incentive system is based on reward and punishment.

00:33:46.000 There has to be some sort of punishment for not buying insurance when you could have when you were younger.

00:33:50.000 If you just pay for it, then there's no incentive.

00:33:52.000 It's a pathway to a government-sponsored program.

00:33:54.000 So I'm glad the individual mandate is gone, but it is not true that Obamacare itself has been taken apart.

00:33:59.000 Now, the same thing is true with regard to DACA.

00:34:02.000 Mitch McConnell is smartly saying that the Republicans should wait on pushing deferred action for childhood arrivals.

00:34:08.000 This would be the Obama executive amnesty that Trump revoked, but then asked Congress to pass again.

00:34:14.000 I guess the Republicans are going to put this off until next year.

00:34:16.000 One of the reasons for that is that they don't want to sort of blot the joy that so many conservatives feel over Republicans finally having a signature piece of legislation.

00:34:24.000 McConnell says they might do DACA next year.

00:34:27.000 Is DACA on the table?

00:34:28.000 Senator Schumer and I have already discussed this.

00:34:29.000 No, we'll not be doing DACA this week.

00:34:33.000 That's for a matter to be discussed next year.

00:34:35.000 The president's given us till March to address that issue.

00:34:39.000 We have plenty of time to do that.

00:34:42.000 So the point here is that what we could see next year is some programming that we don't like so much.

00:34:48.000 The last three weeks, it's all stuff I like.

00:34:50.000 We may see next year DACA.

00:34:52.000 We may see new subsidies to insurance companies.

00:34:55.000 We may see this giant infrastructure package that Trump apparently still likes talking about.

00:34:59.000 There are other priorities, right?

00:35:00.000 There's welfare reform.

00:35:01.000 That one's on the table.

00:35:02.000 That would be a good one.

00:35:02.000 I'd like to see President Trump pursue that.

00:35:04.000 He's talked about adding more work requirements for welfare.

00:35:07.000 This makes perfect sense to me.

00:35:08.000 He's also talked about maybe restructuring some forms of food stamps in some ways.

00:35:15.000 Again, entitlement programs need to be reformed.

00:35:18.000 The major reforms that need to take place are really the reforms that are happening in areas that he's not going to touch.

00:35:22.000 Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.

00:35:24.000 That's the vast majority of the American federal budget.

00:35:26.000 That's the stuff no one is willing to touch.

00:35:28.000 We'll see where the agenda goes from here.

00:35:30.000 But I was talking with a member of the Trump administration last night.

00:35:33.000 What I said is, I'm really hoping that this is the Trump administration turning the corner.

00:35:37.000 If not, if this is just a high point, I'll celebrate the high point.

00:35:40.000 But, you know, you sort of have to hold off the full-scale celebration until you know where things go next in terms of everything's hunky-dory from here on in, particularly with the approval rating so low.

00:35:49.000 I mean, the fact is that Trump's approval rating is still down in the 30s.

00:35:53.000 Not only has he not suffered any severe crises as president, the economy is doing really well and he just passed a tax reform package.

00:36:00.000 Really, his approval rating should be about 53%.

00:36:02.000 At the very least, it should be in the mid-40s.

00:36:04.000 This is why I say, you know, Mr. President, please, just sign off on Twitter.

00:36:08.000 Spend the next couple of weeks enjoying yourself.

00:36:10.000 Let the media fulminate over this.

00:36:11.000 Because the Democrats will raise your approval rating for you.

00:36:14.000 The Democrats will play your Hillary Clinton, right? 1.00

00:36:17.000 Donald Trump won because Hillary Clinton was a garbage candidate. 1.00

00:36:20.000 Republicans can win as long as Democrats continue to be insane. 0.99

00:36:23.000 So, speaking of insane, Nancy Pelosi has apparently been digging into one of her grandchildren's high school reading list because every reference she makes is now some sort of literary reference, but a bad literary reference.

00:36:33.000 Like a literary reference that makes no sense at all.

00:36:35.000 So, she made a literary reference yesterday to Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol because she can't come up with an actual victim of the tax bill since it's just people keeping their money.

00:36:45.000 But she can come up with a fictional reference, and that fictional reference comes courtesy of Charles Dickens circa 1843 in London.

00:36:53.000 Let me just suggest to Nancy Pelosi, if you have to go all the way back to a fictional child in London in 1843 to find a victim of the tax bill, you're not very good at this.

00:37:01.000 Here's Nancy Pelosi, those dentures a-slippin' and a-slidin', explaining that Tiny Tim will be unceremoniously sacrificed to the gods of capital. 1.00

00:37:09.000 Simon has a rare disease and cerebral palsy.

00:37:14.000 His mother spoke of how their family watches the Muppet version of A Christmas Carol and how Simon sees himself in Tiny Tim, another kind boy with braces on his legs.

00:37:24.000 Unfortunately, this story, as of today, does not have the same kind of happy ending as A Christmas Carol.

00:37:33.000 But this story is not over.

00:37:35.000 And like Tiny Tim, Simon and his family now find their future in danger because of the greed of those with power.

00:37:43.000 Tiny Tim!

00:37:45.000 Oh, they're gonna kill Tiny Tim.

00:37:46.000 By the way, she's not the only person making the Tiny Tim reference.

00:37:48.000 Jackie Speier, Democrat from California, she is also relying on the Tiny Tim reference.

00:37:53.000 I'm just very confused.

00:37:54.000 I understand that all these Democrats think that the Christmas Carol story is a Democrat story.

00:37:58.000 The story is about private charity based on religious observance.

00:38:02.000 If you missed that, it's because you didn't read the story. 0.92

00:38:04.000 It's because you're illiterate.

00:38:05.000 As maybe some of these people are.

00:38:07.000 A Christmas story is about a private guy giving charity after being shamed into it on Christmas, a day honoring the birth of Jesus.

00:38:15.000 Right?

00:38:16.000 If you're a Democrat, by the way, and you're citing Tiny Tim, let me just suggest that you probably lay off the abortion stuff, because Tiny Tim is a kid with apparently some sort of genetic condition, living in poverty.

00:38:26.000 So that would be like number one on your abortion target list.

00:38:29.000 If Nancy Pelosi is around in 1838, and Tiny Tim is in his mommy's tummy, and they know that Tiny Tim is gonna have some sort of condition, and they're living in poverty, she tells mommy to get an abortion, and both cratchits to go into nude body painting in France.

00:38:44.000 In any case, here is Jackie Speier in California, again, making a Tiny Tim reference.

00:38:48.000 You know, this is the ultimate bad Christmas Carol story.

00:38:54.000 This may be the most shameful day in the history of Congress.

00:39:00.000 Today, in the House, we are going to shake down hardworking Americans for a 1.3 or 2.3, depending on how you count it,

00:39:12.000 And at the same time, we're going to put 9 million kids in this country at risk.

00:39:24.000 And these 9 million kids aren't eligible for Medicaid, and their families can't afford the Affordable Care Act because they have to pay a certain amount, and the subsidized amount doesn't cover the cost.

00:39:41.000 Okay, she's just making things up now.

00:39:45.000 Okay, the Congress is about to pay for the Children's Health Insurance Program.

00:39:49.000 The vast, vast, vast majority of people who are going to be quote-unquote thrown off their insurance are opting not to be on insurance after the end of the individual mandate.

00:39:57.000 Again, the Tiny Tim references are just absurd.

00:40:00.000 I love when she says this is the worst bill in the history of Congress.

00:40:04.000 Do you even 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, bro?

00:40:06.000 I mean, like, really?

00:40:11.000 Do you have... How about prohibition?

00:40:15.000 Was that a really solid one?

00:40:16.000 How about the Alien Sedition Act, where we actually put a congressperson in prison?

00:40:20.000 How about the public act that allowed FDR to establish Japanese internment?

00:40:24.000 How about the Chinese Exclusion Act, which prevented Chinese people from becoming American citizens after immigrating to the United States?

00:40:29.000 Or the Indian Removal Act, which set the road for the Trail of Tears?

00:40:32.000 Or the War Powers Resolution? 0.82

00:40:34.000 It turns out that Congress has done a lot of super-duper crappy things.

00:40:38.000 This exaggeration is not helping.

00:40:40.000 I do love that Nancy Pelosi made a second literary reference, which she also botched.

00:40:44.000 She said that the tax bill is, quote, a Frankenstein, and anybody who's familiar with Frankenstein knows it was a creation, a monster that was created.

00:40:50.000 Well, no, again, Frankenstein's the name of the doctor. 1.00

00:40:53.000 The monster is not named Frankenstein, you moron. 0.99

00:40:56.000 And then she says, do you know the ending of Mary Shelley's story? 1.00

00:40:59.000 The monster comes back to destroy.

00:41:02.000 That's not the end of the story.

00:41:05.000 Does she know how to read?

00:41:07.000 The end of the story is that the monster, after Dr. Frankenstein's death, runs into the Arctic wilds, right?

00:41:14.000 Just runs off into the ice.

00:41:16.000 That's what happens at the end of the story.

00:41:17.000 So, I mean, if you're going to make a literary reference, at least get it right.

00:41:20.000 Nancy Pelosi literary reference is not, not solid, not solid at all.

00:41:24.000 But it just shows the desperation of the Democrats in attempting to

00:41:27.000 So with that, I'm going to ask Ben Carson, you can stay if you want to because you need the prayer more than I do, I think.

00:41:31.000 You may be the only ones.

00:41:32.000 Maybe a good solid prayer and they'll be honest.

00:41:55.000 Okay, I gotta love that because they have been deeply dishonest this week.

00:41:58.000 They have been deeply dishonest this week.

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00:42:05.000 So here's a little bit of breaking news.

00:42:07.000 The breaking news is that the UN General Assembly voted 128 to 9 to declare US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital null and void.

00:42:14.000 So breaking, UNGA votes against Israel.

00:42:17.000 To which I respond, breaking, who gives a flying bleep?

00:42:21.000 Who cares?

00:42:22.000 Breaking.

00:42:23.000 Not me. 1.00

00:42:25.000 Just stupid. 0.98

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00:44:10.000 Alrighty, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:44:12.000 So, let's begin with a couple of things I like.

00:44:14.000 So we've been doing some old westerns.

00:44:16.000 So yesterday we did Gunfight at the OK Corral, which is one that I really enjoy.

00:44:19.000 Today I'm going to do the original True Grit.

00:44:20.000 Not the new True Grit.

00:44:21.000 The new True Grit is not my favorite movie.

00:44:24.000 I don't know when Jeff Bridges decided that English was no longer his native tongue, but it's a

00:44:30.000 It's of great irritation to me that Jeff Bridges has decided to speak like Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady with a mouth full of marbles, because Jeff Bridges really is a good actor.

00:44:39.000 In Hell or High Water, he's terrific.

00:44:40.000 I think the True Grit remake is nothing special.

00:44:42.000 I think the original True Grit is a much better movie.

00:44:44.000 It has a much better score.

00:44:46.000 And it has, of course, the Oscar-winning performance from the late John Wayne in full John Wayne mode.

00:44:52.000 It's pretty great.

00:44:52.000 So here is the original True Grit.

00:44:56.000 Says Life Magazine.

00:44:58.000 True Grit is good enough for me.

00:45:00.000 It's good enough for you.

00:45:01.000 And if it isn't good enough for some movie company, then the free enterprise system is really going to hell.

00:45:08.000 Move along!

00:45:10.000 They tell me you're a man with true grit.

00:45:13.000 What do you want?

00:45:14.000 Speak up.

00:45:17.000 Boy, you wrinkled the paper.

00:45:18.000 It's pretty loose because your makings are too dry.

00:45:27.000 I'm looking for Tom Chaney.

00:45:29.000 Who's he?

00:45:31.000 He's the man that shot and killed my father, Frank Ross.

00:45:33.000 Says the New York Times, as touching as it is irreverently amusing.

00:45:38.000 Marshal Lester Cogburn and I are going after the murderer, Tom Chaney.

00:45:41.000 It also features the late Glenn Campbell, the singer, who cannot act his way out of a paper bag, but is charming enough in the part.

00:45:49.000 And it features also a great turn by Robert Duvall.

00:45:54.000 Robert Duvall is the villain in the movie, and creepy and interesting.

00:45:58.000 It's a really good movie, the original True Grit.

00:46:00.000 And of course it has some classic lines.

00:46:03.000 It has the very famous

00:46:05.000 Yes.

00:46:05.000 Really.

00:46:06.000 It's a thing.

00:46:21.000 A lot of things, actually, that Hollywood has been producing lately.

00:46:23.000 And I watched a couple of movies on the plane the other day that I liked, and so I had no internet access, which is as close to hell for me as possible.

00:46:30.000 But I watched a couple of movies.

00:46:32.000 This one is not one of them.

00:46:33.000 This is a trailer that has come out for a movie called Chappaquiddick.

00:46:37.000 Oh yes, you know what's coming.

00:46:39.000 This movie is actually about, you guessed it,

00:46:42.000 Ted Kennedy basically murdering a woman.

00:46:44.000 So the Chappaquiddick incident happened in 1969, July 18th, 1969.

00:46:49.000 So apparently, it only takes Hollywood 50 years to come around to actually making a movie about an obviously publicized event.

00:46:56.000 It took six months for them to come around to making a movie about Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, a nothing of a story that had made it for a crappy movie.

00:47:03.000 It takes them five seconds to make a movie about Sarah Palin, but it takes them 50 years

00:47:10.000 50 years to make a movie about a guy who probably would have been president except he left a woman at the bottom of a river and then swam to a house, went to sleep, woke up the next morning, and oops, she's dead.

00:47:20.000 Yeah, Ted, turns out that's what you happen when you leave a woman at the bottom of a river.

00:47:25.000 It was obviously manslaughter at best, murder at worst.

00:47:28.000 In any case, the new movie is Chappaquiddick, and here's a little bit of the preview.

00:47:33.000 My dad once said to me,

00:47:38.000 Tragedy has a way of defining people.

00:47:39.000 It cripples some people till they curl up into a ball.

00:47:53.000 Oh my God, what have I done?

00:47:58.000 Hello, Mr. Kennedy.

00:47:59.000 Mr. Kennedy.

00:48:00.000 Dad?

00:48:00.000 Is he still the man with all the influence?

00:48:03.000 What the hell happened, Teddy?

00:48:08.000 It was an accident.

00:48:12.000 I was driving.

00:48:15.000 A story like this could dominate the headlines for weeks.

00:48:19.000 Chief, we got a body.

00:48:21.000 A dead body holds a lot of secrets.

00:48:22.000 Those can be the difference between guilt and innocence.

00:48:25.000 So we need to be in control of them.

00:48:28.000 There's not a lot of senators that are charged with manslaughter that go on to become president.

00:48:34.000 OK, this was basically the thing that destroyed Teddy Kennedy's political aspirations for president.

00:48:39.000 He nearly won the nomination anyway in 1980, away from Jimmy Carter, which demonstrates the moral standards of the Democratic Party.

00:48:44.000 But finally, Hollywood has decided that it might be worthwhile making a movie about the most corrupt family in American history.

00:48:49.000 No, not the Bush family.

00:48:51.000 No, not the Clinton family.

00:48:51.000 The most corrupt family in American history, by a fairly long margin, is the Kennedy family.

00:48:56.000 The Kennedys were deeply corrupt. 0.98

00:48:58.000 The Kennedy men were particularly evil. 0.95

00:49:01.000 You leave a woman at the bottom of the river, you don't get to get away with the I'm a good guy routine. 1.00

00:49:05.000 Especially when you then spend the next several years of your career sexually assaulting and abusing women. 0.92

00:49:10.000 Which is apparently what Ted Kennedy did for decades. 0.68

00:49:12.000 You know, into his late old age.

00:49:15.000 There was a friend of mine who was working in Washington, D.C.

00:49:19.000 And an old man was hitting on her and she didn't realize who it was.

00:49:21.000 It was Teddy Kennedy.

00:49:22.000 She was like 17 at the time. 0.99

00:49:24.000 So Teddy Kennedy was a disgusting perv his entire life. 0.97

00:49:27.000 Just because he put his name on some important legislation means nothing. 0.95

00:49:31.000 But it's just, it is astonishing that it took Hollywood 50 years to come around to the idea that the Kennedy family might need a little bit of scrutiny.

00:49:39.000 Okay, time for a couple of quick things I hate.

00:49:42.000 So, thing that I hate, number one,

00:49:45.000 And Tom Hanks says that he doesn't want his movie The Post screened at the Trump White House.

00:49:48.000 First of all, I don't know why in the hell anyone at the Trump White House would want to screen this monstrosity.

00:49:51.000 I mean, this movie looks awful.

00:49:53.000 This movie where Tom Hanks looks at Meryl Streep and he says, you know, they really doubt that you can do this because you're a woman.

00:49:59.000 And she says, oh, thank you for telling me, Tom.

00:50:01.000 The smarm level is 1 million on a scale of 1 to 10.

00:50:06.000 Oh my god, the Washington Post was nearly shut down.

00:50:09.000 So here is Tom Hanks saying that he wouldn't want this shown at the White House because Trump is a dictator. 0.83

00:50:13.000 He's a dictator, don't you understand? 0.95

00:50:14.000 He's a dictator.

00:50:16.000 And on the subject of truth, the actor confesses to Galloway honestly that he would decline to screen the film at the White House if President Donald Trump asked him to.

00:50:24.000 Hanks explains, He continues, It's totally taken to the ramparts, by the way.

00:50:28.000 It is taken to the ramparts to make a movie about

00:50:46.000 Lionizing the press and then not going to the White House.

00:50:49.000 You're a real, real heroic activity, Tom.

00:50:53.000 Way to go.

00:50:54.000 Again, he's not even been asked to go to the White House.

00:50:55.000 It's not even like Trump was asked and then he refused.

00:50:58.000 He's just preemptively saying, I wouldn't go to the White House to meet Trump.

00:51:01.000 I wouldn't go to the White House to screen my movie.

00:51:03.000 Yeah, these are people of real high moral quality, real high moral standards, all of them defending Bill Clinton up to the last five minutes when it became inconvenient to defend an alleged rapist.

00:51:12.000 Okay, other things that I hate.

00:51:13.000 So, did I mention the cat person story yesterday on the air?

00:51:17.000 A little bit.

00:51:17.000 So I talked a little bit about this cat person story, this short story called Cat Person from The New Yorker, about this 20-year-old woman who has sex with a 34-year-old guy, and then she regrets it, and somehow she's the victim.

00:51:30.000 That woman who wrote that story is now going to receive a $1 million advance. 0.97

00:51:35.000 A $1 million advance for writing a story about awkward sex.

00:51:39.000 Welcome to America, where I guess that you telling your story and making yourself into a victim or creating a fictional character who's a victim, not because they're victimized, but because they made bad decisions, this makes you very, very wealthy.

00:51:50.000 I don't think it says a lot of good things about the country.

00:51:52.000 Okay.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 21, 2017

A Big Leftist Myth Implodes On Taxes | Ep. 442

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