The Ben Shapiro Show - CARAVAN DOWN BY THE RIVER | Ep. 651

00:00:00.000 President Trump makes his closing argument, Democrats play the racism card, and we talk about Halloween costumes.

00:00:05.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:11.000 Uh, we draw ever nearer to the midterm elections.

00:00:14.000 Suffice it to say, right now, the House looking worse for Republicans, the Senate still looking decent for Republicans.

00:00:19.000 We'll break all of this down.

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00:01:29.000 All right, so as we approach the midterm elections, we are just days away at this point.

00:01:33.000 Republican spirits are low in the House and high in the Senate.

00:01:37.000 It looks like Republicans are going to retain the Senate.

00:01:39.000 They might even pick up a seat or two.

00:01:41.000 The polls from across the country in the House are not looking nearly as rosy for Republicans, particularly in places like Pennsylvania.

00:01:47.000 There are several districts in Pennsylvania where Republicans ought to be running well ahead.

00:01:50.000 They simply are not.

00:01:52.000 This suggests that a lot of the

00:01:54.000 And there are a couple of reasons for that.

00:02:00.000 One reason is because off-year elections typically cut against the president in power.

00:02:05.000 Reason number two is because Hillary Clinton isn't on the ballot to depress Democratic turnout. 1.00

00:02:08.000 So there's that as well.

00:02:10.000 That means that Republicans are not gonna turn out in quite as great numbers as they turned out in 2016, and Democrats are gonna turn out maybe in greater numbers than they turned out in 2016.

00:02:19.000 That may make all the difference.

00:02:20.000 While President Trump

00:02:21.000 is deciding on his closing argument.

00:02:23.000 And his closing argument is going to be the same as his argument was in 2016, and that is immigration and Democrats not taking the safety of the country seriously enough.

00:02:30.000 Now, there are a lot of folks on the left who are saying, well, why doesn't the president of the United States just focus on the economy?

00:02:35.000 Why doesn't he just point out that the economy is great?

00:02:38.000 And if you want the economy to keep being great, then you ought to vote for his party.

00:02:41.000 And the answer is because the dirty little secret of American politics is that people don't actually vote based on the economy unless there is a massive catastrophic downturn.

00:02:49.000 People instead vote on

00:02:51.000 Who they actually think is a good person.

00:02:53.000 What policies they like in terms of safety and security.

00:02:58.000 Economy, like healthcare, is not really an issue that drives voters to the polls.

00:03:01.000 The issues that drive voters to the polls are the ones that trigger the amygdala, that trigger the fear part of your brain.

00:03:07.000 The hope part of your brain is a secondary activation of the fear part of your brain when it comes to politics.

00:03:12.000 And President Trump knows that better than anybody.

00:03:14.000 So when people say that President Trump is engaged in the politics of fear, yes, so has every other politician in the history of mankind who has been even remotely successful.

00:03:23.000 That is just the way this works.

00:03:25.000 Even Ronald Reagan, a very optimistic politician, campaigned on the basis that Jimmy Carter was wrecking the country.

00:03:30.000 So, you do have to have an issue that is polarizing to drive your voters to the polls.

00:03:35.000 Well, President Trump has picked the caravan in immigration.

00:03:38.000 This has been a constant theme with President Trump.

00:03:40.000 Really, since 2015, 2016.

00:03:42.000 And folks who are moderate on immigration, libertarian on immigration, liberal on immigration, they don't seem to understand.

00:03:49.000 They don't seem to understand that they play into Trump's hands when they say there is no problem.

00:03:54.000 Because here's how this game works.

00:03:55.000 President Trump comes forward and he says, we have a serious problem with illegal immigration.

00:03:59.000 And folks say, well, is that really a serious problem with illegal immigration?

00:04:02.000 And he says, no, no, no, it's a serious problem.

00:04:05.000 And these folks say, no, there's no problem at all.

00:04:07.000 Everything's cool.

00:04:08.000 And Trump says, no, it's a crisis.

00:04:09.000 So now you have two choices.

00:04:10.000 Is illegal immigration a crisis or is it no problem at all?

00:04:13.000 And the problem is, for folks who say it's no problem at all, that it is somewhat of a problem.

00:04:18.000 The truth is, illegal immigration is not going to destroy the country.

00:04:20.000 Illegal immigration is not the end of the United States.

00:04:23.000 Illegal immigration is not flooding the country with criminals or any of this sort of thing.

00:04:27.000 But it is a problem.

00:04:29.000 It's an economic problem.

00:04:30.000 It's a cultural problem.

00:04:31.000 And in some cases, it's a criminal problem.

00:04:33.000 And if the two polls that Americans have to choose from are illegal immigration is a non-problem and illegal immigration is a crisis, people are automatically going to resonate to illegal immigration is a crisis because they can tell that it's not a non-problem.

00:04:47.000 If you have to pick between the two, and you know it's not a non-problem, that means there's only one option left on the ballot.

00:04:53.000 President Trump knows this, and the left makes a mistake when they downplay the problems with illegal immigration.

00:04:58.000 What they should do instead is they should say, yes, you're right, illegal immigration is a problem.

00:05:01.000 It's not a crisis.

00:05:02.000 Here's a proposal that we can put forward to help curb illegal immigration while ensuring human rights.

00:05:06.000 But the left doesn't want to do that.

00:05:08.000 The left doesn't want to do that because they believe that they can win this election based on a sort of opposite fear-mongering, where if you are anti-illegal immigration, this means that you are a racist, this means that you are a bigot, this means that you don't care about people who are in dire need of asylum.

00:05:22.000 So instead what you have is the two sides that sort of staked out their turf.

00:05:24.000 President Trump saying this whole thing is a crisis, and the left saying not only is it not a crisis, President Trump is only fear-mongering in order to achieve a certain desired political result on the back of brown people.

00:05:35.000 Those are the two positions that have now been staked out.

00:05:36.000 Now, is either of those positions really reflective of reality?

00:05:40.000 Not really.

00:05:41.000 Again, illegal immigration, a problem.

00:05:43.000 Is it a crisis?

00:05:44.000 No, it's not a crisis.

00:05:46.000 If it were a crisis, then how have we been dealing with it for the past several decades?

00:05:51.000 And as for the idea that it's not a problem at all, I live in the state of California.

00:05:54.000 Illegal immigration is a problem. 0.72

00:05:56.000 Illegal immigration is a problem for the economy of California. 1.00

00:05:59.000 It's a problem for the safety and security in the state of California.

00:06:02.000 It's a problem with the homelessness in California.

00:06:04.000 It is a problem.

00:06:05.000 It is a problem.

00:06:06.000 That is the actual middle ground.

00:06:07.000 And as I've said for my entire career, the actual solution on illegal immigration is actually fairly simple and everyone basically agrees on it.

00:06:14.000 The actual solution is you shut the border,

00:06:16.000 You make sure that people aren't illegally immigrating.

00:06:19.000 You ensure that people who would make good Americans can legally immigrate. 0.95

00:06:22.000 And then you go through on a one-to-one basis and you see whether illegal immigrants who are in the country, people who are in the country illegally, whether those people are of benefit or of detriment to the United States.

00:06:31.000 And if they are of benefit, then they go to the back of the immigration line.

00:06:34.000 And if they are a detriment to the United States, they are deported and they can't come back. 0.99

00:06:37.000 Right?

00:06:37.000 I think most people would agree on these basic principles of immigration.

00:06:41.000 Democrat and Republican.

00:06:42.000 But instead, we've decided to stake out opposite sides of the turf so that we can fearmonger.

00:06:46.000 Republicans, President Trump can claim it's a crisis.

00:06:49.000 Democrats don't care about that crisis. 1.00

00:06:50.000 Millions will die.

00:06:51.000 And then... 0.99

00:06:52.000 On the other side, you have folks saying, well, the Republicans are evil, terrible, horrible racists for even caring about this issue. 0.98

00:06:58.000 And obviously, we can't trust them with power. 0.96

00:07:00.000 So that's how this election has broken down.

00:07:02.000 President Trump has decided to make his closing pitch the caravan.

00:07:06.000 So the caravan, again, to just be straight about what the caravan is, this is

00:07:09.000 An annual thing, every year, there are thousands of migrants who go into Mexico from Central and Latin America, and they move up through Mexico toward the United States border.

00:07:18.000 In past years, they've approached generally ports of entry.

00:07:20.000 There are some of them, apparently, who have not approached ports of entry.

00:07:23.000 If they go to a port of entry and they claim asylum, well then, the United States processes them through normal means.

00:07:30.000 Now, herein lies a problem, and there's a problem with the United States and our immigration system.

00:07:35.000 We have a policy of catch and release, which suggests that we release a lot of folks on their own recognizance.

00:07:39.000 We say, OK, we caught you.

00:07:40.000 Now we're going to release you.

00:07:42.000 And you have a court date in three months.

00:07:44.000 How many people show up for the court date in three months?

00:07:46.000 Not all that many people show up for the court date in three months.

00:07:48.000 That's an actual systemic problem.

00:07:49.000 But is it an invasion?

00:07:51.000 Are migrants crossing the deserts in order to break down the barrier with the United States, rush in with guns and start shooting people? 0.62

00:07:57.000 No, of course not.

00:07:59.000 The vast majority of people in this caravan presumably are coming to the United States for economic opportunity, not political asylum.

00:08:05.000 And

00:08:06.000 That is what it is.

00:08:07.000 That doesn't mean we have to let them in, but it's also an exaggeration to suggest that it's a serious, serious border crisis when you're talking about people arriving at a port of entry.

00:08:17.000 If you need the military in order to ensure people are not breaking into the United States between ports of entry, that's fine.

00:08:23.000 But if the suggestion is that we need sort of a Berlin Wall on the southern border with regard to all of this because we have to shoot people who approach the border or something, I don't think anyone's suggesting that, nor should anybody suggest that.

00:08:34.000 In any case, President Trump,

00:08:36.000 He wants to portray the caravan as a serious threat to American security because it ties into his broader argument that illegal immigration must be checked and that folks on the other side are not taking this seriously.

00:08:45.000 So here's President Trump going off on the caravans.

00:08:48.000 We have to have a wall of people, very highly trained people, terrific, dedicated patriots, that's what they are.

00:08:55.000 You have caravans coming up that look a lot larger than it's reported, actually.

00:08:59.000 I mean, I'm pretty good at estimating crowd size, and I will tell you, they look a lot bigger than people would think.

00:09:06.000 Okay, well, the truth is the president, unfortunately, is not all that great at estimating crowd size by his record.

00:09:13.000 I mean, number one, we all remember the controversy over the inaugural crowd size.

00:09:17.000 He routinely tweets out crowd sizes that are not really in keeping with the actual crowd size.

00:09:21.000 But in any case, the problem with the president doing this, you know, just from an objective truth point of view, is that if you stick to the facts, you don't actually have to make overbroad

00:09:32.000 Inflammatory arguments, you can still win on the facts, but the president understands that people take him seriously, not literally.

00:09:39.000 And that means that they take his overall point, which is that a bunch of people are trying to come into the country illegally, and he's not in favor of that.

00:09:46.000 And then President Trump doubles down on another theory.

00:09:48.000 And this is where, again, I don't like the president's rhetoric on this.

00:09:52.000 I think that when the president suggests that

00:09:55.000 George Soros is behind the caravan without any evidence.

00:09:57.000 That's conspiratorial thinking and it's not pleasant and it's unnecessary and he shouldn't do it.

00:10:02.000 Here's the president doing it anyway.

00:10:07.000 I wouldn't be surprised.

00:10:09.000 I wouldn't be surprised.

00:10:11.000 I don't know who, but I wouldn't be surprised.

00:10:12.000 A lot of people say yes.

00:10:15.000 And now this trolls Democrats and the media into saying, well, the president is crazy on illegal immigration.

00:10:20.000 Again, the president's game here, if there's a strategy to it, then the president's game is to, as Scott Adams likes to say, sell beyond the sale.

00:10:28.000 So he will say, okay, George Soros is behind this.

00:10:30.000 And the Democrats will say, you have no evidence George Soros is behind it.

00:10:33.000 And the American public go, wait, is somebody behind the caravan?

00:10:36.000 Maybe somebody's behind the caravan.

00:10:38.000 Trump has now shifted the window of the conversation.

00:10:40.000 The same argument can be made about the caravan itself and the size of it when President Trump says, there are a bajillion people in the caravan, not 7,000, not 10,000, one bajillion people.

00:10:49.000 And then the media say, that's not true.

00:10:50.000 There aren't one bajillion people.

00:10:51.000 He said, then Americans say, well, but there are a lot of people in the caravan.

00:10:56.000 And that's not great.

00:10:58.000 So people are talking about the caravan now, right?

00:10:59.000 So that is the sort of strategery, if there is some, to what Trump is doing here.

00:11:04.000 I think mostly it's just President Trump speaking off the cuff.

00:11:07.000 And I don't think he has to do that in order to make a compelling argument about illegal immigration.

00:11:11.000 In a second, we're going to get to an ad that is very controversial.

00:11:14.000 And you'll see how, because both sides have broken down into their sort of partisan turf war,

00:11:19.000 One side saying illegal immigration is a massive crisis and the caravan is just another indicator of that crisis.

00:11:25.000 And the other side saying illegal immigration is not only a crisis, it's a wonderful thing and anybody who says differently is a racist.

00:11:30.000 We'll see how that breaks down in an ad that in many ways is sort of in the eyes of the beholder.

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00:12:44.000 Okay, so all of this debate culminates in President Trump

00:12:49.000 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please step out of the hallway.

00:13:18.000 So it's a picture of a guy named Luis Bracamontes. 0.98

00:13:21.000 And he says, I'm gonna break out soon, and I will kill more. 0.93

00:13:23.000 He killed two cops in 2014. 0.98

00:13:25.000 The text says, Democrats let him into our country.

00:13:29.000 He says he doesn't regret killing cops.

00:13:35.000 And says, Democrats let him stay.

00:13:39.000 And then there are pictures directly of the caravan, people breaking through the borders at the Mexican border, people walking through Mexico toward the United States.

00:13:46.000 And then it shows migrants attempting again to break through the borders, some wearing masks.

00:13:58.000 It says, who else would Democrats let in?

00:14:01.000 And then a picture again of Luis Bracamonte says, President Donald J. Trump and Republicans are making America safe again.

00:14:07.000 So it's a very inflammatory ad, obviously.

00:14:10.000 Inflammatory is also a quote for effective, okay?

00:14:13.000 Effective ads are hard-hitting, they are memorable, and they make you think about issues that you would normally be ignoring.

00:14:19.000 So a lot of folks are comparing this to the Willie Horton ad.

00:14:21.000 For folks who don't remember the Willie Horton ad, back in 1988, George H.W.

00:14:24.000 Bush was running against Michael Dukakis.

00:14:26.000 Michael Dukakis was a soft on-crime governor of the state of Massachusetts.

00:14:29.000 He was in favor of weekend furloughs for inmates.

00:14:32.000 So there was one inmate whose name was William Horton, and William Horton was a black man who was, I believe, in prison for rape. 0.94

00:14:39.000 He, on his weekend furlough, went out and raped and murdered somebody.

00:14:42.000 And George W. Bush's allies, I think it was Lee Atwater, released this ad.

00:14:47.000 Bush and Dukakis on crime.

00:14:49.000 Bush supports the death penalty for first-degree murderers.

00:14:52.000 Dukakis not only opposes the death penalty, he allowed first-degree murderers to have weekend passes from prison.

00:14:59.000 One was Willie Horton, who murdered a boy in a robbery, stabbing him 19 times.

00:15:03.000 Despite a life sentence, Horton received 10 weekend passes from prison. 0.65

00:15:08.000 Horton fled, kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man, and repeatedly raping his girlfriend.

00:15:13.000 Weekend prison passes.

00:15:15.000 Dukakis on crime. 0.94

00:15:16.000 Okay, so people went nuts in 1988 over this.

00:15:19.000 Oh, this is racially charged.

00:15:21.000 Okay, well, the way that you read that as racially charged is if you actually think that weekend furloughs are not bad, and if you think that Republicans are racist by necessity.

00:15:28.000 So people are using the same logic with regard to President Trump's ad.

00:15:32.000 And in just one second, we'll see how the media are treating this.

00:15:35.000 So CNN actually ran a story, and the story at CNN is Trump shocks with racist new ad days before midterm.

00:15:44.000 Okay, that's supposedly objective journalism from CNN.

00:15:47.000 They put that in their analysis section.

00:15:49.000 He shocks with racist new ad days before midterms.

00:15:52.000 Okay, and Chris Cuomo then goes on the network and he says this is Willie Horton Redux. 0.88

00:15:56.000 It's obviously ugly and it's racist as well.

00:15:59.000 Did you see the video the President of the United States just released? 0.92

00:16:02.000 This is no Halloween spoof.

00:16:05.000 What it is, is a Willie Horton redux.

00:16:08.000 In fact, much of the footage in this video that we're going to show you comes from Fox, the place started by the man who came up with the Willie Horton ad, Roger Ailes.

00:16:16.000 Both were grossly distortive, bigoted, but also effective.

00:16:22.000 Okay, bigoted and grossly distorted.

00:16:23.000 So let's talk about the Bracamontes ad in a little bit more specificity.

00:16:28.000 In order to suggest that the ad is racist, you have to suggest that the only common nexus between the story of Luis Bracamontes and the migrant caravan is ethnicity.

00:16:36.000 That basically what Trump is doing is he's saying, here's a dangerous Hispanic man, and here's a bunch of people you don't know who are Hispanic.

00:16:42.000 They must be dangerous. 0.98

00:16:43.000 Vote for me.

00:16:44.000 Right?

00:16:44.000 That is the way to interpret President Trump's ad in a racist way.

00:16:48.000 It's to say that you should be afraid of Hispanic people. 0.99

00:16:51.000 President Trump will protect you from these evil Hispanic people. 1.00

00:16:53.000 Look, here's a picture of an evil Hispanic person. 1.00

00:16:56.000 That's the way to read it in the racist way. 0.93

00:16:58.000 There's another way to read the ad, however, and the way to read that ad is that Trump is saying, here is an illegal immigrant who crossed the southern border illegally multiple times.

00:17:06.000 He then committed a murder on U.S.

00:17:08.000 soil of two police officers.

00:17:10.000 Here are a group of people we have not vetted.

00:17:12.000 Democrats are saying, let them into the country without vetting. 0.99

00:17:14.000 You don't know who is in that caravan.

00:17:16.000 Thus, you should elect me because I will protect you from people you don't know who may or may not end up being Luis Bracamontes.

00:17:23.000 And which one of those more closely hews to the content of the ad?

00:17:27.000 Well, just on the objective surface, I would say the second.

00:17:28.000 It's an ad about illegal immigration.

00:17:30.000 But for folks who assume that illegal immigration, number one, is not a problem at all, and number two, assume that President Trump is racist, and number three, assume that President Trump's supporters are racist,

00:17:39.000 Well, they're making the argument that this is a racist ad.

00:17:42.000 Now, here's the evidence that I think that this ad is really about illegal immigration.

00:17:45.000 I mean, first of all, it says that it is, but what is the evidence that this is really about illegal immigration?

00:17:50.000 Well, the reason that I think that is because back in 2014, the New York Times, the left-leaning New York Times, did a complete story on Braco Montes' case.

00:18:00.000 And the New York Times' story was actually titled, US Immigration Laws Face New Scrutiny After Killings.

00:18:08.000 Right, that was the title of the New York Times piece.

00:18:09.000 This is back in October of 2014.

00:18:11.000 It's by Jennifer Medina and Julia Preston.

00:18:14.000 In other words, Brockamontis' case had raised serious questions about the Obama administration's handling of immigration.

00:18:20.000 Here was their story.

00:18:21.000 It would seem to be a worst case that opponents of the Obama administration on immigration had long forecast.

00:18:26.000 An illegal immigrant, one who had been deported twice yet returned to the country each time, is accused of killing two Northern California sheriff's officers in a six-hour shooting rampage on Friday.

00:18:36.000 So, here's the question.

00:18:36.000 Is the New York Times racist?

00:18:37.000 They're talking about the problems with illegal immigration and they are linking the problems with illegal immigration over America's southern border with Luis Bracamontes.

00:18:44.000 So does Trump's ad.

00:18:45.000 Just because the images that the Trump ad uses are inflammatory and effective does not mean that they are necessarily racist.

00:18:53.000 Now, here is the case that Trump is exaggerating in the ad.

00:18:57.000 The case that Trump is exaggerating in the ad, because we want to be as straight about the facts as we possibly can,

00:19:02.000 is that when Trump's ad says the Democrats allowed Bracamontes into the country and they allowed him to stay, that's an exaggeration of the case.

00:19:09.000 Bracamontes entered the country illegally in the early to mid-1990s.

00:19:13.000 He was deported by the Clinton administration in 1997.

00:19:16.000 He re-entered.

00:19:17.000 He was then deported under President Bush in 2001.

00:19:19.000 He then re-entered again, and he remained in the country all the way until he committed murders despite committing 10 misdemeanor violations between 2003 and 2009.

00:19:27.000 So in reality, it is a bipartisan failure of immigration policy under both Democrat and Republican presidents that allowed Luis Bracamontes to stay in power, or at least to stay in the country.

00:19:38.000 But when President Trump draws the broader narrative, again, every ad is a blunderbuss, right?

00:19:42.000 60-second ads are a blunderbuss.

00:19:44.000 And the case that Trump is making is, I will protect you in a way that Democrats will not protect you on immigration.

00:19:49.000 And, you know, his policies are harsher on immigration than Democratic policies on immigration.

00:19:53.000 There's just no question about that.

00:19:56.000 So, President Trump, look, he knows what he's doing with the ad.

00:20:00.000 He's stoking the fear centers in the brain.

00:20:03.000 Is that completely justified?

00:20:04.000 I do not think so.

00:20:07.000 Do I think it's justified to say we're suffering from an illegal immigration crisis?

00:20:10.000 Again, no, I don't.

00:20:12.000 But do I think that the ad is racist?

00:20:14.000 That it's openly racist?

00:20:15.000 That it's a racial appeal?

00:20:17.000 I don't think that either.

00:20:18.000 I don't think that either, because I actually do think that illegal immigration is a problem, regardless of the source of that illegal immigration.

00:20:24.000 So in just a second, we're going to talk about the continuing hubbub over Pittsburgh, a kind of fascinating story in the New York Times about anti-Semitism, and all the rest of the news of the day.

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00:21:44.000 Okay, so...

00:21:46.000 In all the hubbub over President Trump and his divisiveness, there's a new poll out that's kind of telling about where Americans stand in the Trump-media divide.

00:21:54.000 So first of all, I'd like to note something.

00:21:56.000 I'm about to say a sentence that I have rarely said before.

00:21:59.000 Jon Stewart is exactly correct.

00:22:00.000 So Jon Stewart was speaking with members of the media on CNN about President Trump and how President Trump effectively baits the media.

00:22:10.000 He is pretty much correct about this.

00:22:12.000 Here is the comedian, the left-leaning comedian who hates President Trump, basically chiding the media for their willingness to jump in the kiddie pool with President Trump, which is exactly where he wants them to be.

00:22:21.000 Okay, that's interesting. 0.77

00:22:42.000 Not that his policies are silly or not working or any of those other things.

00:22:47.000 It's all about the fight.

00:22:49.000 He's able to tune out everything else and get people just focused on the fight.

00:22:53.000 He's going to win that fight.

00:22:54.000 Okay.

00:22:55.000 And Stuart is 100% right.

00:22:57.000 And you can see it reflected in the polls.

00:22:59.000 The media don't get it.

00:23:00.000 And so they're losing.

00:23:00.000 There's a new political morning consult poll.

00:23:03.000 It's been conducted over the past fractious violent week.

00:23:05.000 And what it shows is that a majority of voters think President Trump has done more to divide the country than unite it since he took office last year.

00:23:12.000 But the same poll finds that the national news media are even worse.

00:23:15.000 See, this is what folks fail to recognize about President Trump.

00:23:18.000 It was true when he was a candidate, and it's true in his everyday politics as well.

00:23:22.000 President Trump doesn't need to outrun the public relations bear.

00:23:26.000 He doesn't need to outrun the public opinion polling bear.

00:23:29.000 He needs to outrun you.

00:23:30.000 There's a famous joke, two guys in a forest.

00:23:33.000 And a bear is coming after them.

00:23:34.000 And one of them sits down and laces up his running shoes.

00:23:36.000 And the other guy says to him, listen, we're not gonna be able to outrun that bear.

00:23:38.000 What the hell are you doing?

00:23:39.000 The guy says, listen, I don't have to outrun the bear. 0.97

00:23:41.000 I just have to outrun you.

00:23:42.000 That's President Trump with the media right now.

00:23:44.000 All he has to do is outrun the media.

00:23:46.000 And by contrast, he will win.

00:23:48.000 Every race in America is binary.

00:23:50.000 President Trump understands that.

00:23:52.000 He understands Americans think that.

00:23:53.000 And therefore, he is more than happy to go to battle with the media every day, even though the media are out there screaming bloody murder every time he does it.

00:24:01.000 And President Trump, when he's in battle, man, that dude has no rules.

00:24:04.000 That is a dude who will bite and eye gouge. 0.96

00:24:06.000 That is a dude who will crotch punch. 0.99

00:24:08.000 I mean, there are no rules with President Trump.

00:24:10.000 So here's what the poll shows.

00:24:12.000 Just 3 in 10 voters, 30%, said Trump has done more to unite the country, compared to 56% who said he's done more to divide it.

00:24:19.000 Fair enough.

00:24:20.000 But even more voters, 64%, said the media have done more to divide the country.

00:24:25.000 Only 17% say they have done more to unite it.

00:24:28.000 So in other words, when President Trump says the media divide the country, and then the media say, how dare he say this?

00:24:33.000 It's so terrible. 0.93

00:24:33.000 He's the worst, most divisive president ever. 0.93

00:24:35.000 That guy's Hitler. 1.00

00:24:36.000 He's the worst. 1.00

00:24:37.000 We should burn him at the stake. 1.00

00:24:39.000 People go, 1.00

00:24:40.000 Okay, Trump's kind of right about you guys?

00:24:42.000 Like, you're kind of right about Trump, but he's kind of more right about you?

00:24:45.000 Because here's the thing.

00:24:46.000 People expect something different of the media than they expect of their politicians.

00:24:49.000 And this is where Stewart is exactly correct.

00:24:51.000 The media are not supposed to have a personal stake in the outcome of the ballgame.

00:24:56.000 The media are supposed to be objectively... I mean, this is what they pitched to us, was it not?

00:25:00.000 Now, there are those of us who say we have a personal stake in the outcome of all of these political fights.

00:25:05.000 I'm an opinion journalist.

00:25:06.000 That means that I give my opinion and you know where I stand on all of these issues.

00:25:10.000 But Jim Acosta is not.

00:25:11.000 But can you distinguish Jim Acosta's political activism from mine?

00:25:16.000 Except that mine is significantly more intelligent?

00:25:18.000 No, you can't.

00:25:19.000 Okay, Jim Acosta is an activist masquerading as an objective journalist.

00:25:22.000 And that means that a lot of voters are saying the media are dividing the country too.

00:25:26.000 Majorities of both Democrats and Independents say President Trump has done more to divide the country.

00:25:30.000 55% of Republicans say Trump has done more to unite the country, but

00:25:33.000 Nobody thinks the national news media have done anything to unite the country.

00:25:38.000 28% of Democrats think the media are working to unite the country.

00:25:42.000 9% of Republicans and 14% of Independents think the media have been working to unite the country.

00:25:47.000 You know why they say that?

00:25:48.000 Because it's true!

00:25:49.000 The media are not working to unite the country.

00:25:51.000 And that's why when President Trump says this stuff, people kind of nod along.

00:25:54.000 Here was President Trump yesterday, talking about the media coverage of his Pittsburgh visit.

00:25:58.000 And the media went nuts over this.

00:26:00.000 President Trump is correct, and everybody in America knows he's correct by polling data.

00:26:06.000 After this day of unity and togetherness, I came home and sadly turned on the news and watched as the far-left media once again used tragedy to sow anger and division.

00:26:23.000 And the media are like, ah, no, he's the one sowing anger and division. 0.97

00:26:26.000 That's what he does, because he's the worst, because white men are the threats. 0.91

00:26:29.000 Here's Don Lemon on CNN doubling down on his white men are the true threats in the United States routine last night, but he's uniting the country. 0.98

00:26:35.000 Remember, the media, according to the media, are great uniters.

00:26:38.000 Nobody believes this for half a second.

00:26:40.000 Their analysis shows that for every eight deadly attacks by right-wing extremists, there were one by left-wing extremists.

00:26:50.000 Those are the facts.

00:26:52.000 So people who were angered about what I said are missing the entire point.

00:26:57.000 We don't need to worry about people who are thousands of miles away.

00:27:00.000 The biggest threats are homegrown.

00:27:03.000 The facts prove that. 0.93

00:27:05.000 Okay, so he doubles down on his white men are the real threats in America. 0.93

00:27:09.000 You know, again, Don Lemon is not going to talk about the murder rate in the black community because he believes that it would be racist to do so, but he's happy to talk about the terrorism rate in the white community, which is significantly lower. 0.66

00:27:21.000 Again, I don't think that it is relevant to talk about the murder rates in any community other than to talk about the arrest rates in those communities.

00:27:28.000 But if we are going to start grouping people together, things get really ugly really quickly, and the media know that, but they don't care.

00:27:33.000 I mean, Alison Camerota on CNN, she suggested yesterday that President Trump uses the same language as the shooter used.

00:27:39.000 So therefore, he must be exactly like the shooter.

00:27:42.000 So he seems to be zeroing in on the two pillars of the media, continuing his vitriolic attacks against the media, and migrants continuing to, in fact, ratchet up the language about them. 0.92

00:27:57.000 And frankly, I mean, I have to say it, using some of the same language that the mass murderer at the synagogue used in terms of invaders and invasion.

00:28:06.000 So who is dividing the country?

00:28:08.000 Well, I have said many times, I don't think President Trump is doing a good job of uniting the country, but he's certainly uniting the country against the media.

00:28:14.000 That seems like the only thing where we all agree, and the media are doing a great job of smacking themselves in the face with a club every five seconds.

00:28:22.000 They're like Sideshow Bob with the rakes.

00:28:24.000 They're just walking into every rake in sight, and then they proclaim, well, there's no rake that's hit.

00:28:28.000 I haven't been hit by rakes as they walk around sporting a bevy of welts across their pate.

00:28:35.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:28:37.000 New York Times' Mara Gay goes on MSNBC.

00:28:39.000 She does the same thing.

00:28:40.000 She says that she doesn't just blame Trump.

00:28:41.000 She blames every Trump voter. 0.97

00:28:43.000 She says every Trump voter is a white nationalist, basically.

00:28:46.000 I can't disagree with that, unfortunately, sad as it is, but I'm not willing to let white voters off the hook. 0.71

00:28:52.000 I think that they, like the rest of us, should be treated as adults, and I think that there are a large number, I would say a majority, of white Americans in this country who are not just Democrats, but who are people of conscience, who are good Americans, and I believe that they need to move from saying, well, I don't like his tweets, but, you know, the economy's doing okay.

00:29:12.000 They need to move from there to reality.

00:29:15.000 And what's the reality?

00:29:16.000 That is the reality.

00:29:17.000 I don't like his tweets, but the economy is doing okay.

00:29:19.000 Like, that's true.

00:29:20.000 But then the idea is that if you vote for him or any Republican, then you are part of the dividing of America and the destruction of America.

00:29:26.000 We all have to unite by electing who?

00:29:28.000 The identity politicians on the other side of the aisle?

00:29:30.000 Like, that's a thing?

00:29:32.000 Pretty incredible.

00:29:33.000 So it's a constant source of astonishment that the media don't recognize the hole they're digging for themselves, but they continue to dig it deeper and deeper every single day.

00:29:42.000 Well, in just a second, I'm going to get to Hollywood's response to everything and how Hollywood continues to polarize the country and 0.94

00:29:50.000 Do it in the dumbest possible way.

00:29:51.000 Plus, we'll talk about Halloween and a fascinating study in the New York Times about the rise in anti-Semitic attacks in the city of New York. 0.99

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00:31:29.000 All right, so let's talk a little bit about how Hollywood is playing into all of this.

00:31:32.000 Again, you know, President Trump understands that the nature of politics right now is completely binary.

00:31:36.000 Hollywood does not seem to understand that.

00:31:38.000 They seem to believe that by clubbing President Trump over the head and clubbing everybody associated with President Trump over the head, that they're helping themselves in some way.

00:31:46.000 And by reading President Trump's comments in the worst possible light,

00:31:50.000 That this is somehow helping them.

00:31:52.000 That if they can demonize President Trump and everything that he stands for, and demonize his supporters, his people who are okay with all of that stuff, that somehow this is going to win them admirers.

00:32:00.000 Right?

00:32:00.000 That's sort of the logic with this immigration ad, for example.

00:32:03.000 So the idea is, the Democrats think that that ad is racist.

00:32:06.000 They think that ad is racist because they don't think illegal immigration is an actual serious issue.

00:32:10.000 They think Trump is just playing it up for racial purposes.

00:32:13.000 Most of the people watching that ad are not seeing that ad as having anything to do with race.

00:32:17.000 They're seeing it as having to do with illegal immigration.

00:32:20.000 But Democrats, by saying that the ad is racist, and then turning to a bunch of people who see the ad completely differently and saying, if you don't see the ad the same way that I do, i.e.

00:32:28.000 that it's racist, that means you're a racist too, you're alienating an awful lot of folks.

00:32:33.000 This is why when Democrats say things like, Trump is dog whistling to his crowd, the implication is that he's dog whistling, that anybody who resonates to Trump is listening to the dog whistle, right?

00:32:43.000 Because if he's dog whistling, then who are the dogs?

00:32:45.000 Presumably the dogs are his supporters.

00:32:47.000 This is the problem with dog whistle language.

00:32:49.000 If you want to say that you believe President Trump is a racist, and you believe that people are voting for President Trump in spite of that racism, that's one argument.

00:32:57.000 But that's not actually the argument a lot of folks on the left are making these days.

00:33:00.000 One of the arguments a lot of folks on the left are making is that Trump is dog whistling to his supporters, that he's sending coded language their way that is designed to elicit racist responses in them.

00:33:12.000 So the implication is that if you respond to Trump's illegal immigration ad by saying, yeah, illegal immigration is bad, we need someone who can protect our border, that means that you're actually a racist who's responding to his dog whistle.

00:33:23.000 Samantha Bee did this routine on her awful, unfunny, terrible, no good, very bad, non-comedic show on TBS. 0.98

00:33:32.000 I mean, I've said for a while that by a mile, Samantha Bee is the least funny person on planet Earth.

00:33:36.000 It used to be a running gun battle between like her and Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer and Trevor Noah.

00:33:40.000 And she is just, I mean, the woman's secretariat. 0.99

00:33:43.000 She has run out in front.

00:33:44.000 She's out by lengths. 1.00

00:33:45.000 Nobody else is in camera view.

00:33:47.000 She's just breaking away at the Kentucky Derby. 0.61

00:33:49.000 So here's Samantha Bee.

00:33:51.000 Doing something supposedly related to comedy, I guess, somehow?

00:33:56.000 Talking about all of the vague, coded language.

00:33:59.000 Vague, coded language that's being used by Trump that's anti-Semitic.

00:34:02.000 Because I need a lecture.

00:34:03.000 I, Ben Shapiro, need a lecture from Samantha Bee on anti-Semitism.

00:34:08.000 Clearly.

00:34:09.000 Okay, Samantha, tell me all about anti-Semitism, won't you?

00:34:13.000 Mainstream conservatives would never say anything negative about Jewish people outright, but there are other words they use, like coastal elites, globalists, Hollywood liberals, or John Leibowitz.

00:34:24.000 And currently, the biggest, loudest dog whistle is George Soros.

00:34:29.000 Okay, so let's go through those for just one second.

00:34:32.000 So, coastal elite is not a term for Jew.

00:34:36.000 Coastal elite is a term for Samantha Bee. 0.99

00:34:39.000 Who is a coastal elite.

00:34:40.000 How do I know that?

00:34:41.000 Because she's a coastal elite. 0.99

00:34:43.000 I live on the coasts.

00:34:44.000 The coastal elites, when people talk about them, are typically highfalutin Hollywood leftists.

00:34:51.000 Okay, and then she says, but I can't say Hollywood liberals, because that is a term for Jew.

00:34:55.000 Hollywood liberal is a term for Jew?

00:34:57.000 Is Samantha Bee Jewish?

00:34:59.000 I missed it.

00:34:59.000 When did she convert?

00:35:01.000 Is Oprah Jewish?

00:35:02.000 Is Jane Fonda Jewish?

00:35:04.000 Like, amazing.

00:35:06.000 I haven't seen them at my shul.

00:35:08.000 Anytime.

00:35:08.000 In fact, all of the Hollywood liberals who happen to be Jewish I've never seen at my shul because they don't go to shul because they don't actually have anything to do with Judaism.

00:35:14.000 So, there's that.

00:35:16.000 But it's pretty astonishing.

00:35:17.000 So, all of these terms, again, the implication is that

00:35:20.000 If anybody uses these terms, then this is somehow an indicator that you are secretly an anti-Semite who's resonating to secret anti-Semitic messages.

00:35:28.000 You've taken out your Red Rider decoder ring, and you're sitting there, and you're decoding all of President Trump's EU messages.

00:35:34.000 Okay, so, she's used coastal elites and Hollywood liberals. 1.00

00:35:37.000 Those were two.

00:35:38.000 And she said globalists.

00:35:39.000 Okay, so, the word globalist

00:35:42.000 It has a relatively checkered history.

00:35:43.000 So back in the 1920s and 1930s, there were anti-Semites who suggested that there was a global Zionist conspiracy.

00:35:49.000 And the global Zionist conspiracy was globalist, right? 0.66

00:35:52.000 That was a term that was used by anti-Semites.

00:35:54.000 However, the modern use of the word globalist really does not date back to the 1930s.

00:35:58.000 It dates back to the 1999 WTO, the World Trade Organization riots that happened in Seattle, when people were implying that if you were in favor of free trade, this made you a globalist.

00:36:08.000 That also happens to be precisely the same sort of terminology President Trump uses.

00:36:11.000 When President Trump says globalist, typically he's talking about people who are for open immigration and open trade.

00:36:17.000 That doesn't really have anything to do with Jews.

00:36:20.000 It really doesn't.

00:36:21.000 There was one speech President Trump gave where I thought that he used language that verged on the coded, right?

00:36:28.000 When he talked about the international bankers, right?

00:36:30.000 Then you start to get into dicey territory.

00:36:31.000 But I'm sorry, globalists is not by necessity an anti-Semitic term.

00:36:35.000 John Leibovitz, right?

00:36:36.000 Calling John Stewart John Leibovitz?

00:36:37.000 No, that's a way of mocking John Stewart.

00:36:39.000 In fact, if John Stewart is so concerned about anti-Semitism, maybe he should go back to using his original name, John Leibovitz.

00:36:46.000 It seems to me that it's sort of catering to antisemitism to change her name to Jon Stewart for screen purposes, I guess, right?

00:36:52.000 And then she says that the current biggest loud dog whistle is George Soros.

00:36:55.000 Really?

00:36:56.000 Is David Koch a dog whistle?

00:36:58.000 How about Sheldon Adelson?

00:36:59.000 How about Tom Steyer?

00:37:00.000 Are all of them dog whistles?

00:37:02.000 So, again, the implication is, and this is where the left loses it,

00:37:05.000 The implication is that it's not just that you support Trump because of his policies, even if you decry his rhetoric. 0.98

00:37:10.000 It's that he is dog whistling to you because you are a dog.

00:37:13.000 And as a dog, you respond to each and every one of his cues.

00:37:17.000 He feeds you a racist Scooby snack, and then you go out and you solve crimes.

00:37:23.000 That's what's polarized.

00:37:24.000 One of the things, one of the things, many things that it's polarizing the country right now.

00:37:28.000 Okay, now let's talk a little bit about anti-Semitic attacks.

00:37:31.000 So there's been a lot of talk in the media about where anti-Semitic attacks are coming from.

00:37:36.000 And the statement by Don Lemon is that anti-Semitism is largely coming from white supremacists across the country.

00:37:43.000 As somebody who speaks on campuses on a regular basis, and I speak with Jews a lot more frequently than Don Lemon does, then I can tell you that Jews on campus are not feeling the heat from white supremacists.

00:37:53.000 Jews on campus are feeling the heat from mainstream leftists and their allies in the Muslim Student Association, for example.

00:37:59.000 That's where they are actually feeling the heat.

00:38:01.000 And there's a fascinating report in the New York Times today that's actually rather telling.

00:38:07.000 It's called, Is it safe to be Jewish in New York?

00:38:09.000 New York, obviously, is very heavily Jewish, has over a million Jewish folks living there.

00:38:12.000 It's just past midnight on May 1st.

00:38:14.000 A young rabbinical student was walking home on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn when he thought he was being followed.

00:38:18.000 A moment after that intuition struck, two men grabbed him, threw him against a car and started punching him.

00:38:22.000 The victim had dropped a box containing 200 bucks meant for charity.

00:38:25.000 The money went untouched.

00:38:26.000 The student, it seemed, was attacked because he was overheard speaking Hebrew on his cell phone.

00:38:30.000 His two assailants were indicted on assault and hate crime charges.

00:38:33.000 No other American city is more closely associated with Jewish identity than New York.

00:38:37.000 And yet, at the same time, New York has become an increasingly unsettling place to be Jewish.

00:38:41.000 The first inkling of this emerged several days after the 2016 presidential election, when swastikas and the phrase, Go Trump, showed up on playground equipment in the Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn Heights.

00:38:51.000 But in fact, antisemitism was already quietly on the rise.

00:38:54.000 For several years now, expressions of anti-Jewish sentiments have made up the preponderance of hate crime complaints in the city.

00:39:00.000 And here's the interesting part, okay?

00:39:03.000 Contrary to what are surely the prevailing assumptions, anti-Semitic incidents have constituted half of all hate crimes in New York this year, according to the police department.

00:39:10.000 Jews have been targeted.

00:39:12.000 We are the leaders in hate crimes and Nobel Prizes.

00:39:14.000 That's our thing.

00:39:15.000 To put that figure in context, there have been four times as many crimes motivated by bias against Jews, 142 in all, as there have been against blacks.

00:39:22.000 Hate crimes against Jews have outnumbered hate crimes targeted at transgender people by a factor of 20.

00:39:27.000 A factor of 20, right? 0.62

00:39:27.000 This is all stuff that the leftists at the New York Times are only discovering now that Jews just got shot. 0.62

00:39:32.000 Those of us in the Jewish community have known this for a little while, but it was uncomfortable for the left to talk about anti-Semitism because Jews don't rank high enough on the intersectional hierarchy.

00:39:40.000 They're not victimized enough in the United States to be treated as actual victims.

00:39:45.000 But here's where it gets even more interesting.

00:39:49.000 If anti-Semitism bypasses consideration as a serious problem in New York, it is to some extent because it refuses to conform to an easy narrative with a single ideological enemy.

00:39:59.000 During the past 22 months, not one person, not one, caught or identified as the aggressor in an anti-Semitic hate crime has been associated with a far right-wing group.

00:40:09.000 Mark Molinari, commanding officer of the police department's hate crimes task force told me.

00:40:13.000 He says, I almost wish it was sometimes more clear cut.

00:40:16.000 It's every identity targeting every identity.

00:40:19.000 He says, of course not everyone is caught, and obviously white supremacists are driving anti-semitic rhetoric online, but it is the varied backgrounds of people who commit hate crimes in the city that make combating and talking about anti-semitism in New York much harder.

00:40:30.000 No, it's not that.

00:40:31.000 It's hard to talk about it.

00:40:32.000 It's not that it's hard to talk about.

00:40:33.000 It's that the New York Times doesn't have a solid anti-right-wing narrative that they can pin anti-semitism on, so they haven't been talking about hate crimes against Jews in their own city for years upon years.

00:40:42.000 And again, those of us who have deep friendships inside the New York Jewish community have known about this for years and years and years and years.

00:40:51.000 It was not all that long ago when Al Sharpton was involved in helping to incite riots against Orthodox Jews in Crown Heights.

00:40:57.000 Now he's a host on MSNBC.

00:40:59.000 The reason that folks don't want to talk about anti-Semitism until a white supremacist does it is because it doesn't fit the narrative.

00:41:04.000 A lot of anti-Semitic hate crimes are committed by people who are not right-wing, who are not even white supremacists, and are committed by people who are openly left-wing or are members of minority groups.

00:41:15.000 And nobody on the left wants to talk about that because it's uncomfortable.

00:41:18.000 So when folks on the left say, you know, President Trump won't talk about anti-Semitism, where was the New York Times for years reporting on this?

00:41:25.000 I love that they even make that, I mean, it's reported in the article.

00:41:29.000 They say if anti-Semitism bypasses consideration as a serious problem in New York, it is to some extent because it refuses to conform to an easy narrative.

00:41:37.000 That is the New York Times admitting to you that the narrative was more important than the reporting.

00:41:40.000 That is the New York Times admitting to you openly that the only thing that mattered to them was reporting on a particular kind of people attacking a particular kind of people.

00:41:50.000 I love this.

00:41:50.000 Sympathies are distributed unevenly.

00:41:52.000 Few are extended toward religious fundamentalists of any kind who reach the radar of the urbane Podsafe America class only when stories appear confirming existing impressions of backwardness.

00:42:01.000 The hordes of children delivered into the world whom families refuse to vaccinate and keep semi-literate. 0.62

00:42:05.000 The Anti-Defamation League maintains its own statistics.

00:42:08.000 And last year, it reported that nine of the 12 physical assaults against Jews categorized as hate crimes in New York State were committed in Brooklyn and involved victims who were easily marked as members of traditionally Orthodox communities.

00:42:19.000 So, in other words, Pod Save America crowd doesn't actually care about any of this stuff because it doesn't fit the narrative.

00:42:25.000 And that's the reality.

00:42:27.000 Only when it fits the narrative is anti-Semitism a thing. 0.78

00:42:30.000 And when it's a Muslim shooting up LAX at the El Al counter and killing a member of my community, then it's not a big thing. 0.90

00:42:36.000 When it's people being targeted for hate crimes by folks of minority bent, then it's not a big thing. 0.82

00:42:43.000 When it's a white supremacist, then it's a big thing because we can link that to Republicans and try and proclaim that this is the big problem across the country.

00:42:48.000 Now, again, I have never underestimated the impact of white supremacists to anti-Semitism. 0.80

00:42:52.000 It is a serious problem for Jews. 0.72

00:42:54.000 It is not the only serious problem for Jews or even the predominant problem for Jews in the country when it comes to anti-Semitism. 0.51

00:43:00.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I like and then a thing that I hate.

00:43:04.000 So, a couple of things that I like.

00:43:06.000 I've been doing Jewish nigunim, which are sort of prayer tunes.

00:43:11.000 Yesterday I did one for my friend Eitan Katz.

00:43:13.000 This is, in my opinion, the most beautiful of all Jewish prayer tunes.

00:43:16.000 This is from a prayer that we do on fast days and also on Yom Kippur and also the period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

00:43:24.000 The prayer is called the Binu Malkenu.

00:43:26.000 Which literally means my father, my king.

00:43:28.000 And it's a beautiful prayer, you know, begging God for particular things.

00:43:33.000 Here is a little bit of this tune that's sung in Shul on all the days that I just mentioned.

00:44:11.000 We're good.

00:44:27.000 Okay, so what that means is, our father, our king, favor us and answer us, for we have no accomplishments, deal with us charitably and kindly, deal with us charitably and kindly, and save us.

00:44:39.000 And that's the Hoshino is in Save Us. 0.99

00:44:42.000 So it's a beautiful tune.

00:44:44.000 We sing it, as I say, on all of those aforementioned days.

00:44:48.000 You know, somebody should actually put together a nice recording of all the different Negunim, because there really are a lot of beautiful Jewish tunes that nobody knows unless you go to Shul.

00:44:55.000 So, yeah, worth checking out.

00:44:57.000 Some of these things are available on YouTube to listen to.

00:45:00.000 Okay, let's do a thing that I hate.

00:45:06.000 So the thing that I hate today, so yesterday was Halloween.

00:45:08.000 I didn't dress up because I didn't want to culturally appropriate.

00:45:12.000 I was thinking of dressing up as Elizabeth Warren, but I didn't want to culturally appropriate her.

00:45:15.000 I'm just not white enough for that. 0.71

00:45:18.000 But there's a whole article, every Halloween, we now have a spate of articles about racist Halloween costumes.

00:45:24.000 Racist Halloween costumes!

00:45:26.000 There's one in the Atlantic saying, America can't seem to kick its racist costume habit.

00:45:30.000 Now,

00:45:31.000 I think that we ought to say that there are certain Halloween costumes that are racist.

00:45:35.000 If you are dressing up as a group member in order to mock the group,

00:45:40.000 Then this would be the definition of racism, right?

00:45:42.000 That's what blackface is. 0.99

00:45:43.000 When people, you know, don quote-unquote Asian eyes in order to mock Asian people, that's obviously racist.

00:45:49.000 But when somebody wears a funny Mexican hat because they're wearing a funny Mexican hat, and it's not designed to mock Mexican people, then I don't think that just a white person wearing a sombrero means that you're mocking Mexican people.

00:46:01.000 I don't think that that's the case.

00:46:03.000 I don't think that it's the case that if you were to dress up and wear a kippah because you're dressing up as me for

00:46:10.000 For Halloween.

00:46:11.000 There were people who dressed up as me for Halloween.

00:46:12.000 I don't know why in God's name you would do that, but there were some people who did that.

00:46:15.000 I don't think that that makes you an anti-Semite because you dressed up as me for Halloween and you put on a kippah because I wear a kippah every day, right?

00:46:21.000 But there's all this talk always about how many people are deeply worried about Halloween costumes.

00:46:27.000 Now, again, I'm not against people being offended by Halloween costumes that mock you, but it seems to me that people are always on edge.

00:46:33.000 The number of articles about this means that people are a lot more touchy about it than they used to be when I was a kid.

00:46:39.000 Maybe that's a good thing.

00:46:40.000 I think it's kind of a bad thing.

00:46:41.000 I think that mostly we should be attributing to people decent motivations. 1.00

00:46:44.000 I think most of us should be saying, well, maybe the guy's an idiot. 0.99

00:46:47.000 Maybe he was just dressing up because he thought the costume was funny, not because he means to mock my particular race. 1.00

00:46:53.000 65% according to Cato Institute.

00:46:55.000 65% of college students think they should be able to discuss offensive costumes without administrator involvement, though they were sharply divided when the data were broken down by race.

00:47:03.000 71% of white students said students should be allowed to discuss and resolve on their own.

00:47:06.000 56% of Latino students agreed.

00:47:08.000 43% of African American students responded in the same way.

00:47:12.000 The Atlantic says if student conversations alone could solve the issue, a fresh crop of offensive costumes would not likely make headlines every October.

00:47:19.000 Well, no. 0.99

00:47:21.000 I mean, I think that they would make headlines every October because the media has an interest in stupid topics. 0.98

00:47:26.000 This came up last night in my speech in University of British Columbia. 0.98

00:47:29.000 Somebody asked, you know, as a country, we seem to be focused on more and more minor issues.

00:47:33.000 And I said, right, because we're wealthy and bored.

00:47:35.000 And I think there's some truth to that.

00:47:37.000 I think that we are wealthy and bored.

00:47:39.000 And so we are willing to get upset about nearly anything.

00:47:44.000 Again, Megyn Kelly just lost her job based on a discussion of these issues, for which she apologized. 0.94

00:47:50.000 So, I'm annoyed with a culture that seems determined to reinforce all of our frailties as opposed to a culture that takes our complaints seriously and then also tries to think about whether we ought to get some thicker skin.

00:48:05.000 Okay, other things that I hate.

00:48:06.000 This is a pretty amazing tweet.

00:48:07.000 There's a guy named Scott Heshinger.

00:48:09.000 This is my friend flying to be with her family after synagogue killings gave this note to a man on her flight with a MAGA hat.

00:48:14.000 He read it all.

00:48:15.000 Okay, so apparently there's a guy on her flight who's wearing a MAGA hat.

00:48:19.000 And the note says, Dear Sir in the pretty red hat, my name is Marissa.

00:48:22.000 I'm sitting a few rows behind you.

00:48:23.000 I'm in Los Angeles because my family lives here.

00:48:25.000 We are Jewish.

00:48:25.000 We survived the Holocaust.

00:48:27.000 My family members were murdered in gas chambers, all of them except the five that lived.

00:48:30.000 So here I am on a plane with you.

00:48:31.000 As my father says, we were born with anguish.

00:48:33.000 I flew to Los Angeles because 11 Jews over 55 years old were shot and killed during prayer.

00:48:37.000 After they were shot, I couldn't stop crying.

00:48:38.000 I was afraid.

00:48:39.000 I didn't want to be alone.

00:48:40.000 Our president blamed Saturday's killing spree on the synagogue.

00:48:42.000 He said if they had an armed guard, it would have been fine.

00:48:44.000 Do you have an armed guard where you pray God should be safe to convene with you, right?

00:48:48.000 God should be safe to convene with, right?

00:48:49.000 A lot of people were upset, angry, and scared on the plane when they saw your hat.

00:48:53.000 For you, I want to assume it's about politics, economics, and support of a charismatic man.

00:48:56.000 I wonder if you mean to scare black people, Jews, and immigrants.

00:48:59.000 To us, your hat sanctions our death, our murder, our evisceration, because your hat supports a man who does little to help us and so much to fuel hatred, violence, and cruelty. 0.81

00:49:08.000 I love you.

00:49:09.000 I hope that your good America doesn't include flushing me and my people out.

00:49:14.000 The guy was just wearing a hat.

00:49:17.000 And I'm sorry, ma'am, this is a Wendy's. 0.96

00:49:20.000 Like, just because somebody's wearing a MAGA hat doesn't mean that they want to kill all the Jews. 0.97

00:49:25.000 That's absurd. 0.99

00:49:26.000 It's absurd.

00:49:28.000 But this is the media environment.

00:49:29.000 The media environment has really created this.

00:49:31.000 Trump doesn't help, but the media environment has certainly created this, and the American people know it.

00:49:35.000 And if Trump keeps picking fights with the media, he's going to keep winning so long as they continue to push this narrative.

00:49:39.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here tomorrow from our home studios in Los Angeles, and we'll be doing the mailbags.

00:49:44.000 So now's a good time to subscribe at dailywire.com.

00:49:46.000 Go check that out.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 01, 2018

CARAVAN DOWN BY THE RIVER | Ep. 651

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