The Ben Shapiro Show - July 05, 2017


CNN Lights Itself On Fire For The Fourth Of July | Ep. 333

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Ben Shapiro
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Donald Trump Abraham Lincoln R. Donald George Washington Brian Stelter Howard Dean Frederick Douglass Mika Brzezinski Joe Scarborough Bernie Sanders Bleephole Solo Rebel Smuggler Andrew Jackson Kathy Griffin Mother Teresa Vince McMahon Bruce Wayne Willy Stark Paul Ryan Huey Long and 7 more
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On Sunday, President Trump tweeted a GIF of himself kicking CNN's Brian Stelter. CNN responded with its typical restraint and objectivity, declaring that Trump's tweet didn't merely represent an obvious breach of decency, it promoted violence, and Trump would have blood on his hands if some rogue follower picked up a gun and decided to come after Brian. Trump supporters responded to this outpouring of faux rage by CNN by shouting about Kathy Griffin carrying around a bloodied mock head of Trump, and Democrats from coast-to-coast have proclaimed that Trumpcare would end with grandma being shoved off a cliff by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. In this kabuki theater, both sides are right and wrong. The media are correct that the president is acting out in a fashion that makes my three-year-old s temper tantrum seem mature by comparison. But the question remains: Why does everyone treat this game as if it s being played for high stakes? Well, we know the match isn t real. It s a romance made in hell, but the ratings are stellar. So, why does everyone engage in this particular fake wrestling match at all? And why is it so entertaining? And what s the point of all of this? Well, let s be honest, it s entertaining, isn t it? The halo effect from Stopping the Joker, Hillary, never fades in the eyes of Trump supporters? Meanwhile, the press overlooks its own participation in the corrupted political entertainment complex in order to paint itself as thoroughly painstakingly objective in its work. And both sides must willingly blind themselves to the faults of their favorite characters, so they can paint themselves as warriors for truth in their work. The Fourth Estate never dies from the dark side of Trumpany Hall. This Manichaean dichotomy means that there is no longer any debate to emerge in the light. Instead, there is glee for Trump s base in the dark nook and cranny of the Fourth Estate. Instead, the halo from Trump s coverage . a gleeful glee in watching Trump's base bring justice to the streets of Gotham instead, a glee at the streets of Trump s batarangs of the streets . a real-life Trumpanyway . . . and a real life Trumpany hall the real life Donald Trump and the real Donald J. Trump s real life version of the Joker in Gotham.

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00:00:00.000 Just when you think things can't get any stupider, they do. 0.98
00:00:03.000 On Sunday, President Trump tweeted out a GIF of himself clotheslining someone, knocking him to the ground, and then pummeling him at an old WWE event. 0.95
00:00:09.000 In the GIF, the head of Trump's victim has been replaced with the CNN logo.
00:00:12.000 So Trump appears to be tackling then beating the hell out of the network he most despises, the one he has used as a foil in his rise to power.
00:00:19.000 Trump's CNN tweet followed on the heels of his tweets from last week, in which he attacked MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough in the most personal terms.
00:00:25.000 Trump supporters responded with unrestrained glee to much of this.
00:00:28.000 Trump was fighting back.
00:00:29.000 CNN, meanwhile, responded with its typical restraint and objectivity.
00:00:33.000 Reporter after reporter declared that Trump's tweet didn't merely represent an obvious breach of decency, an unpresidential and apparently pathological outburst of spontaneous rage, tweeting, it promoted violence, and Trump would have blood on his hands if some rogue follower picked up a gun and decided to come after Brian Stelter.
00:00:49.000 Trump supporters responded to this outpouring of faux rage by CNN by shouting about Kathy Griffin carrying around a bloodied mock head of Trump, Julius Caesar presented by Shakespeare in the Park as an assassination of Trump, and Democrats from coast to coast have proclaimed that Trumpcare would end with grandma being shoved off a cliff by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
00:01:06.000 In this kabuki theater, both sides are right and both sides are wrong.
00:01:08.000 The media are right that the president is acting out in a fashion that makes my three-year-old's temper tantrum seem mature by comparison.
00:01:14.000 Trump supporters are right that the media's coverage is so wildly corrupt and hysterical it makes Leo Blum and the producers look like Mother Teresa.
00:01:21.000 The media are wrong that their liberties are some sort of existential assault from the president who's merely mouthing off the way he has his entire career.
00:01:28.000 Trump supporters are wrong that all evils can be excused by simply pointing at the latest media bad actor and yelling WAR at the top of your lungs.
00:01:35.000 So, here we are. 0.97
00:01:36.000 A media nobody trusts, school-marming a president who's the class clown.
00:01:40.000 Nobody looks really good in this particular fake wrestling match.
00:01:42.000 The question is actually why anyone engages in it at all.
00:01:45.000 After all, we know the match isn't real.
00:01:47.000 Trump so adores the media attention that if CNN and the New York Times were to stop covering him, he'd quickly set himself on fire outside their studios for the cameras.
00:01:54.000 Likewise, if Trump were to stop tweeting, CNN would have to go back to covering missing Malaysian airliners.
00:01:59.000 It's a romance made in hell, but the ratings are absolutely stellar.
00:02:02.000 So, the question remains.
00:02:03.000 Why does everyone treat this game as if it's being played for high stakes?
00:02:07.000 Well, it's entertaining.
00:02:08.000 And entertaining conflicts must have clear good and evil combatants.
00:02:11.000 Because the media are corrupt and Trump is immature, both sides must willingly blind themselves to the faults of their favorite characters.
00:02:17.000 So, the right says that Trump is a virginal political victim, a neophyte, undeserving of his critics' vitriol.
00:02:23.000 Even better, he's held up as an unparalleled political genius, the voice of the people, the populist revolutionary in the guise of the prince of the city, a sort of Bruce Wayne who dons the cape of justice by night and tweets rage at the media by day while the music from The Dark Knight thunders dramatically in the background.
00:02:37.000 The halo effect from Stopping the Joker, Hillary, never fades in the eyes of Trump supporters.
00:02:41.000 Meanwhile, the press overlooks its own participation in the corrupted political entertainment complex in order to paint itself as thoroughly painstaking and objective in its work.
00:02:50.000 Journalists see themselves, and the left flatteringly sees the journalists, as warriors for truth, exposing the light in every dark nook and cranny of the Trump administration.
00:02:58.000 They imagine themselves in battered hats and trench coats, walking around in the rain, looking for all of the evidence of the dark deeds, uncovering the seedy side of Trumpany Hall.
00:03:07.000 The halo effect from opposing Trump never dies for the fourth estate.
00:03:11.000 This Manichaean dichotomy means that there is no way for any reasonable or tempered debate to emerge over proper behavior or coverage.
00:03:18.000 Instead, there is glee for Trump's base in watching Trump bring justice to the streets of Media Gotham, flinging batarangs of acerbic nastiness at Mika Brzezinski's bloody face.
00:03:26.000 And for the media, there is similar glee in proclaiming Trump an incipient Hitler, a Willy Stark who must be stopped before he can transform into real-life Huey Long.
00:03:34.000 All of this makes the political scene a lot more fun and entertaining, but it's not very useful.
00:03:39.000 While the drama of Trump vs. the media is amusing, it's not quite WWE quality, because most people actually think that it's real.
00:03:44.000 We can find the WWE entertaining and amusing because we know it's scripted, but if we actually thought it was real, and then all of a sudden we were rudely disabused of that notion, it would probably ruin the fun.
00:03:53.000 The same is true of our politics right now. 0.96
00:03:55.000 The realization that Trump vs. the media is just overblown stupidity half-scripted on both sides makes the conflict less compelling. 0.98
00:04:01.000 The comedy actually becomes kind of tragic. 0.98
00:04:03.000 After all, it's a lot easier to laugh at the antics of The Undertaker than to laugh as the office of George Washington and the industry of Ernie Pyle both become punchlines.
00:04:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:04:12.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:04:19.000 Okay, so CNN has completely lit itself on fire.
00:04:21.000 So yesterday was July 4th, and in honor of Independence Day, CNN held a fireworks celebration in its own pants.
00:04:27.000 It lit all of the TNT that it could find, and then proceeded to blow it up, absolutely destroying itself wholesale.
00:04:33.000 We will talk about all of it because it is really amusing.
00:04:35.000 I just said we shouldn't talk so much about the WWE stuff, but I'm going to because it's hilarious.
00:04:39.000 So we'll talk about all of that stuff in a second.
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00:05:56.000 It's astonishing how, basically, I tweeted last week that Trump destroyed CNN not by actually attacking them, but by trolling them so hard that they destroyed themselves.
00:06:06.000 He really gave them enough rope that they decided not just to hang themselves, but to hang themselves by the neck until they were nearly dead, then pull themselves up back onto the platform and jump repeatedly.
00:06:15.000 This is basically what CNN is doing now.
00:06:16.000 So, here's how this works out over the course of the weekend.
00:06:20.000 On Sunday, President Trump tweets something that I assume my three-and-a-half-year-old daughter has the good sense not to tweet, a WWE wrestling graphic of himself tackling a person with a CNN logo for a head, and then jumping on top of them and pummeling them.
00:06:36.000 This is the President of the United States.
00:06:37.000 Lest we forget, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln once sat
00:06:41.000 Well, George Washington didn't, but Abraham Lincoln once sat in the office where Donald Trump is tweeting in the middle of the night from the toilet, presumably, about rage tweets.
00:06:50.000 So he tweets this, and here's what it looks like.
00:06:52.000 Oh my god, what's gonna happen? 1.00
00:07:02.000 Oh, everything is so stupid. 1.00
00:07:03.000 Okay, so he tweets that. 1.00
00:07:05.000 And then he, on July 4th, it's Independence Day, he decides to double down on that.
00:07:09.000 He starts mocking the fake media, which is his favorite thing to do, right?
00:07:13.000 North Korea may be firing an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting Alaska, but he's gotta hit the fake media.
00:07:18.000 I mean, come on.
00:07:19.000 So it's Independence Day, and in the middle of his speech, he dumps out the, he starts ripping on the fake media.
00:07:24.000 All right.
00:07:25.000 The fake media is trying to silence us.
00:07:30.000 But we will not let them.
00:07:33.000 Because the people know the truth.
00:07:39.000 The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House, but I'm president and they're not.
00:07:47.000 Okay, so that's fair.
00:07:48.000 I mean, the media hated him.
00:07:49.000 They tried to stop him from going to the White House, and now they're trying to take him down.
00:07:52.000 All of that is fair.
00:07:52.000 They're not exactly silencing him.
00:07:54.000 He's pretty loud, it turns out, and he uses his Twitter a lot, so that really doesn't change anything.
00:07:58.000 But, yes, the media are bad.
00:08:00.000 Yes, the media are obviously trying to cover him in unfair fashion. 1.00
00:08:04.000 So, he tweets this stupid thing about wrestling. 1.00
00:08:07.000 The media has an obvious response. 1.00
00:08:09.000 They could say, Mr. President, that was a stupid thing to tweet. 1.00
00:08:12.000 Maybe you don't have a lot of self-control. 1.00
00:08:15.000 That would be true.
00:08:16.000 It would also be obvious, and it would be relatively objective.
00:08:19.000 Instead, they proceed to spend the next three days talking about how this means that Donald Trump wants to literally go and beat Brian Stelter's face in. 0.98
00:08:27.000 Really, he's a sick Nazi who wants to murder people, and that's why he's tweeting out wrestling tweets from the WWE. 0.98
00:08:34.000 First of all, it doesn't make any sense to me. 0.99
00:08:36.000 They used a CNN logo over Vince McMahon's face.
00:08:39.000 Is CNN's logo a person?
00:08:41.000 How can you even hit CNN's logo?
00:08:42.000 It's a logo.
00:08:43.000 It's not a person.
00:08:46.000 Unless Brian Stelter changed his face and had surgery, like in old Twilight Zone episodes, and now his face looks like the CNN logo.
00:08:52.000 I don't see how anyone would identify one with the other.
00:08:53.000 But in any case, the left went hysterical.
00:08:55.000 So Howard Dean says, it's just right-wingers and they want to shoot places up.
00:08:58.000 It's all because of Trump. 1.00
00:08:59.000 It's Trump and he's a Nazi. 0.99
00:09:01.000 So it's not enough for them just to say, 1.00
00:09:02.000 That Trump is ridiculous in how he uses Twitter, which is obviously true. 1.00
00:09:07.000 No, no, no, he's evil and he's a Nazi. 1.00
00:09:08.000 And then you'll see, they went even further because they're totally insane. 1.00
00:09:11.000 They've lost their minds. 0.99
00:09:11.000 Trump has trolled them so hard that they have actually become that which they fear. 0.99
00:09:15.000 So here is Howard Dean first saying that Trump is evil and violent. 0.96
00:09:19.000 A lot of the Trump voters are not the far right nutcases with guns who want to, you know, shoot up the place. 0.94
00:09:25.000 Most of the Trump voters are people- Well, I don't think anyone was defining them that way.
00:09:30.000 No, but there certainly are some of them.
00:09:32.000 And the NRA put an appalling ad out there, which really basically made the statement... Okay, so the left, Howard Dean, who's a complete moron, is talking about how the right is full of violent people. 1.00
00:09:42.000 Lest we forget, three weeks ago, a Trump-hating Bernie Sanders supporter tried to assassinate several dozen Republican Congress people, but we're the violent ones, right? 1.00
00:09:51.000 It's the Trump supporters who are the violent ones.
00:09:53.000 Those of us on the right who are the violent ones.
00:09:55.000 Okay, so.
00:09:56.000 Trump tweets out this WWE thing, and the media's first reaction is, Trump is violent.
00:10:00.000 And then, they get their second reaction. 0.92
00:10:02.000 So it's not enough for them to be clown themselves the first way, they have to be clown themselves every way. 0.88
00:10:06.000 They have to find new ways to be clown themselves every single day. 0.93
00:10:08.000 So... 0.90
00:10:10.000 What do they do?
00:10:10.000 CNN goes ahead and runs a story trying to find the source of the meme, right?
00:10:16.000 Because Trump didn't create this little video of himself tackling the CNN logo.
00:10:20.000 Somebody took the WWE video and pasted the CNN logo in there.
00:10:23.000 So where did he get it?
00:10:24.000 So he got it, supposedly, according to CNN, from some guy at Reddit.
00:10:27.000 For those who don't know, Reddit's sort of an underground political thread.
00:10:31.000 It's a very big website.
00:10:32.000 A lot of people visit it.
00:10:33.000 R the Donald.
00:10:34.000 is where all of these memes pop up.
00:10:36.000 And I sort of have a love-hate relationship with R. The Donald.
00:10:38.000 Sometimes they like me, sometimes they don't.
00:10:40.000 It's always an inverse relationship with how nice I'm being to Trump that day.
00:10:44.000 So, I'm sure they'll love this episode.
00:10:45.000 In any case, R. The Donald posts this meme.
00:10:48.000 There's a guy whose name is... I can't actually say it out loud because it's cursing.
00:10:53.000 It's Han Bleephole Solo.
00:10:55.000 Okay?
00:10:55.000 And this is now national media coverage.
00:10:57.000 We have to discuss these things because this is the news. 1.00
00:11:00.000 Everything is stupid. 0.99
00:11:01.000 So, he puts out this meme, right, Han Bleephole Solo puts out this meme, and CNN traces it back to him. 0.99
00:11:08.000 And then CNN goes and looks at all the other memes that he's put out, and it turns out he's put out a bunch of racist, anti-Semitic memes, because there are a lot of people on Reddit who do this.
00:11:14.000 I know, because I was the personal recipient of 40% of all anti-Semitic memes that were tweeted on the internet at Journalist last year.
00:11:21.000 I personally was the recipient of, so I'm well aware of this entire crowd.
00:11:25.000 I'm well aware of the bleep posters, as they call themselves.
00:11:27.000 In any case,
00:11:29.000 They decide to dig up all of this ancillary material and then pretend that Trump is somehow linked to that.
00:11:33.000 So first of all, this is bad journalism.
00:11:35.000 It's bad journalism because it would be one thing if Trump tweeted an anti-Semitic meme and then they said, okay, here is the world of anti-Semitic memes from which he is drawing.
00:11:42.000 That would be a legit story, right?
00:11:44.000 Or if they'd said, he keeps going over to Reddit and 4chan,
00:11:47.000 He has a long-standing relationship with Reddit and 4chan where he takes their memes.
00:11:50.000 Why is he so warm toward these people?
00:11:52.000 That's a fair story.
00:11:53.000 What is not a fair story is he picks up one piece of material from the rthedonald thread, and now we're gonna find the person who created that, who Trump has never met, probably never seen, and never, and none of this came, like Trump probably had no relationship with this person ever.
00:12:06.000 He doesn't know who they are from Adam, and then we're gonna find everything that guy ever did, and then we are going to link all the bad things that guy did with Trump.
00:12:13.000 So you can see how far they're stretching. 1.00
00:12:15.000 So already this is a stupid story. 1.00
00:12:16.000 Already this is an idiotic story. 1.00
00:12:18.000 Trump didn't tweet anything racist or anti-semitic, he tweeted something dumb. 1.00
00:12:21.000 And now they're trying to link him with racism and anti-semitism because the original creator of this wrestling gif was some schmuck who tweets out anti-semitic, racist stuff. 1.00
00:12:32.000 Okay, so that's dumb in and of itself. 1.00
00:12:33.000 But then, they go a level dumber. 1.00
00:12:35.000 Okay, I told you, things are just gonna get stupider from here on in. 0.99
00:12:38.000 Eventually, as I said last week, 1.00
00:12:40.000 America will disappear because we all go brain dead from loss of IQ points due to following politics too closely, because this is all so stupid. 1.00
00:12:46.000 So, it goes a level deeper in the stupidity. 1.00
00:12:48.000 So now, CNN doesn't just track down Han A-hole Solo's name, right? 0.99
00:12:53.000 They don't just track down who he is.
00:12:56.000 They don't just track down what else he's tweeted.
00:12:58.000 Now, they go to him, and they reach out to him, and he immediately sees what's happening.
00:13:02.000 He sees they're now going to target him.
00:13:04.000 And so what he decides to do is apologize, or he puts a big apology,
00:13:08.000 He takes down all of the terrible tweets, he takes down all of the terrible memes, and then CNN prints the story.
00:13:13.000 And here's what they print, okay, this is from the CNN story, direct quote, quote, CNN is not publishing Han A-hole Solo's name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again.
00:13:30.000 In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same.
00:13:34.000 CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.
00:13:40.000 Okay, so, for those of you who missed what just happened, that's called blackmail.
00:13:44.000 Right, what CNN is doing now is they are now saying, he took down all this stuff that we didn't like, he took the racist anti-male, also he took down the CNN stuff, but should he renege?
00:13:52.000 Should he become a recidivist?
00:13:53.000 A Reddit recidivist?
00:13:54.000 Should he become a meme recidivist?
00:13:56.000 Should he go out on the streets and threaten America again with other WWE-linked videos?
00:14:02.000 Then we will reveal his name to the public at large.
00:14:05.000 Right, CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.
00:14:11.000 What?
00:14:12.000 So now they have taken what was an obvious and clear win on Sunday, right? 1.00
00:14:15.000 Trump making fun of them with some stupid meme, and they could make fun of him back, and it's an obvious win. 0.99
00:14:19.000 And they have destroyed themselves three separate ways. 1.00
00:14:21.000 First, by claiming that Trump is violent, and this is promoting violence.
00:14:24.000 Second, by trying to track down everything possible about this meme guy.
00:14:28.000 And third, by then threatening the meme guy that if he doesn't back down from this, they are going to out him. 0.89
00:14:34.000 CNN has now blown all journalistic credibility out of some pathetic, sick attempt to get Donald Trump and anyone who is remotely linked with Donald Trump. 0.96
00:14:42.000 That's how insane all of this is. 0.99
00:14:44.000 I mean, it's totally crazy.
00:14:46.000 And this is what CNN is doing.
00:14:47.000 But wait, it gets even better!
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00:16:11.000 We're through three of the four steps in CNN's total self-beclowning.
00:16:13.000 I mean, at this point,
00:16:41.000 The only way to describe this is that they deliberately decided to kick themselves in the groin as hard as humanly possible, and now all of their appendages are out of order, because it just continues.
00:16:51.000 Okay, so here's where it goes from here.
00:16:53.000 Now, CNN defends itself from the blackmail accusations.
00:16:57.000 They say, no, no, no, we never blackmailed anyone.
00:16:59.000 They said, we decided not to publish the name of the Reddit user out of concern for his safety.
00:17:03.000 Here's the problem.
00:17:04.000 You also threatened to release his name if he changed his behavior.
00:17:07.000 So, where is the safety threat coming from now, CNN?
00:17:11.000 It's coming from you!
00:17:12.000 Because you're threatening to release his name if he doesn't obey you.
00:17:15.000 But, that's not the bad part, okay?
00:17:17.000 That's not the bad part.
00:17:18.000 Here's the worst part.
00:17:19.000 They got the wrong guy.
00:17:21.000 Okay, they got the wrong guy.
00:17:23.000 They tracked down Rebel Alliance hero Han A-hole Solo.
00:17:27.000 They tracked him down on planet Endor, and then they failed to get the right guy.
00:17:32.000 They got the wrong guy!
00:17:33.000 So BuzzFeed, here's BuzzFeed reporting on this.
00:17:35.000 You ready for this?
00:17:36.000 This is amazing.
00:17:37.000 According to BuzzFeed, quote, one user pointed out that what Trump tweeted wasn't actually Han A-hole Solo's GIF.
00:17:43.000 Trump's GIF included both video and audio, whereas the Rebel Smuggler wannabe's GIF did not include audio.
00:17:48.000 Furthermore, the original Han A-hole Solo GIF was shorter, had a different aspect ratio, and had a WWE logo in the corner.
00:17:55.000 Not even the colors are processed in the same manner.
00:17:58.000 Han A-hole Solo's GIF has an NTSC aspect ratio because it was cut directly from a taping of an analog WrestleMania footage.
00:18:06.000 Trump's video has an aspect ratio of 16 to 9.
00:18:09.000 And it continues.
00:18:09.000 Someone downloaded the GIF that Han A-hole Solo originally posted to Reddit.
00:18:13.000 The person cropped it to better fit a video player like Facebook or YouTube.
00:18:16.000 They went through the effort of syncing it back up with the audio from the original clip.
00:18:20.000 Then they put it where Trump or one of Trump's people could see it and download it.
00:18:23.000 So in other words, Trump didn't even get it from Reddit.
00:18:25.000 Okay, Trump got it from Facebook.
00:18:27.000 Trump got it from Facebook or from YouTube and then he put it up.
00:18:30.000 So they're trying to link this guy who made it on Reddit
00:18:34.000 Who's not linked to Trump in any way.
00:18:35.000 They're trying to link his ancillary stuff that Trump has never seen to Trump in order to call Trump a racist anti-Semite.
00:18:41.000 And then they got, and then they're threatening the guy and they got the wrong guy.
00:18:45.000 Trump had no... I mean, this is just, it's sheer incompetence of the highest order.
00:18:51.000 And all this does, of course, is it helps Trump, right?
00:18:53.000 I mean, Trump is just sitting there going, I've been calling them fake news all the time.
00:18:56.000 Sure, I say they're fake news, even when they're reporting real stuff, but now they're fake news all the time, right?
00:19:00.000 It's just like,
00:19:01.000 Could he have paid them?
00:19:02.000 Like Trump doesn't even have to buy them because he now owns them, right?
00:19:05.000 Or if he doesn't own them, they self-owned.
00:19:07.000 I mean it's just it's unbelievable.
00:19:09.000 It's just incredible.
00:19:11.000 And that wasn't, by the way, even that is not the end of the story because yesterday, CNN, two times, two times, apparently, had fake quotes.
00:19:19.000 One from Abraham Lincoln. 0.97
00:19:20.000 Do you know how dumb you have to be to run a story that has a fake quote from Abraham Lincoln? 0.99
00:19:24.000 It's not like he's making new stuff up every day, Abraham Lincoln. 0.99
00:19:27.000 It's not like he's coming out with new material that you have to vet.
00:19:29.000 He's been dead for 150 years.
00:19:32.000 I mean, President Trump may not know that.
00:19:33.000 He thinks Andrew Jackson's still alive, and so is Frederick Douglass.
00:19:35.000 But the fact is that Abraham Lincoln, I think Trump is aware that he's dead, and certainly CNN should be. 1.00
00:19:40.000 I mean, they're the ones saying Trump is so stupid. 1.00
00:19:42.000 Well, then don't quote Abraham Lincoln when he's not saying new stuff. 1.00
00:19:45.000 It's just, it's unbelievable.
00:19:47.000 And then everyone wonders why trust in the media may be declining.
00:19:51.000 I can't imagine why trust in the media is declining.
00:19:54.000 So, when we continue on the other side here, I want to talk about some Republican silliness that happened over the weekend also on the media, because we can't just have... Republicans have gone... We've gotten to the point where there can't just be partisan silliness, there has to be bipartisan silliness.
00:20:08.000 Like, everyone has to drink the cuckoo juice, and now everyone has lost their minds.
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