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00:00:00.000The media make me want to vomit and never stop vomiting.
00:00:04.000So you remember last week there was some weirdo and he's at a Donald Trump event and he asks Trump a question and he talks about how Muslims are the worst and in the process he says that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
00:00:13.000And Donald Trump of course doesn't correct the guy.
00:00:40.000And this isn't even the media's first dumb question of the week.
00:00:43.000You remember in the debate last week, the Republicans were all asked about this Texas Muslim kid who took the guts out of a clock and then brought it to school and then he got suspended because you're not allowed to bring things that look like bombs to school.
00:00:54.000But meanwhile, no more questions for Hillary about her emails, and no more questions for Obama about Syrian refugees, and no more questions about the Iran deal, no more questions about increasing poverty.
00:01:20.000So Carson gives a really dumb answer politically.
00:01:22.000The real answer is that values, which can be defined by religion but don't have to be, should determine whether somebody is a good candidate or not.
00:01:29.000But the question is way dumber than the answer and is way more insulting.
00:01:33.000It's designed to make Carson and all Republicans look like terrible bigots when the same media would destroy any candidate who based their understanding of gay marriage on Leviticus or, for example, thought that the world was created in six days with God resting on the seventh.
00:02:06.000This is my long-awaited return, and I promised it would be here, and thus, it has come.
00:02:10.000So much to talk about here on The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:02:13.000I want to get to in just a few minutes this terrible story The New York Times is reporting about how the United States military was actually covering up pederasty over in Afghanistan.
00:02:23.000We're actually raping small young boys, which I guess is a thing over there, and President Obama's military was actually threatening to discipline anybody who reported it, so we'll get to that in just a second.
00:02:32.000But we start today with Dr. Ben Carson, who is on one of the Sunday shows with Chuck Todd, and he was specifically asked about Donald Trump and about Islam and about whether a Muslim could be a candidate for President of the United States, whether he would vote for a Muslim for President of the United States, which is an unbelievably dumb question.
00:02:49.000It's an unbelievably dumb question because there are zero Muslims running for president of the United States.
00:02:53.000I mean, we might as well ask him whether he thinks that we should be voting for bisexual black midgets for president of the United States.
00:03:17.000Well, I guess it depends on what that faith is.
00:03:20.000If it's inconsistent with the values and principles of America, then of course... Okay, so first he starts and he's exactly right.
00:03:27.000Of course, what he's saying there is that faith should matter if it's in conflict with the values of the Constitution.
00:03:32.000Then Ben Carson shows that he's sort of an amateur.
00:03:34.000And the reason that we need to point this out is because the polling numbers right now for Ben Carson are pretty solid, but I think you're going to see him fade.
00:03:41.000I think you're going to start to see another amateur, somebody like Carly Fiorina,
00:05:15.000Now, that doesn't answer the question that he then goes ahead and answers, which is, can a Muslim be president?
00:05:20.000Because, let's be honest for a second, if you were to just read the Old Testament, without any reference to what Jews today think, if you were just to read the Old Testament,
00:05:30.000The Old Testament pretty much embraces monarchy, right?
00:05:32.000I mean, this is something that the Old Testament does.
00:05:35.000I mean, the idea of religion embracing governmental systems that are not pure democracies or constitutional democracies, that's nothing new.
00:05:42.000However, there is no question that the Judeo-Christian ethic
00:05:47.000is the soil in which American democracy, American small-r republicanism is rooted.
00:05:54.000So you could say Islam itself is not in consonance with the Constitution, but you could see a reinterpretation of Islam, or there are certain interpretations of Islam, or there may be a candidate who comes along who's Muslim who can interpret Islam in ways that would be conducive to belief in the United States Constitution.
00:06:10.000He could have done all of those things.
00:06:14.000Instead, he just says he doesn't think a Muslim should be president, and then he tries to buy it back, and you'll see Ben Carson try to buy it back right here.
00:06:20.000Again, not the smoothest guy on his feet, and that is a problem in a presidential race.
00:06:26.000I absolutely would not agree with that.
00:06:28.000And would you ever consider voting for a Muslim for Congress?
00:06:31.000Congress is a different story, but it depends on who that Muslim is and what their policies are, just as it depends on what anybody else is.
00:06:41.000And if there's somebody who's of any faith,
00:06:47.000But they say things and their life has been consistent with things that will elevate this nation and make it possible for everybody to succeed and bring peace and harmony, then I'm with them.
00:07:05.000That is not—in the end of the answer, what he says about Congress is what he should have said about presidents, obviously, but he didn't, and so he got himself in all sorts of trouble.
00:07:12.000This, of course, left the door open to some of the more pandering members of the Republican caucus, people like Lindsey Graham.
00:07:18.000Senator Graham, who is in desperate need of some sort of bump in the polls and will grasp attention any place that he possibly can.
00:07:24.000And who, by the way, looks more and more these days like a Star Wars character.
00:07:28.000You know, the one who's the interpreter for Jabba the Hutt, who's got the red eyes and the weird, like, tentacle that comes across his neck.
00:07:35.000But Lindsey Graham, he comes out and he blasts Ben Carson when asked about it.
00:07:40.000Here is Senator Lindsey Graham talking about Ben Carson, saying Carson should apologize.
00:07:45.000I think this shows that Dr. Carson's not ready to be Commander-in-Chief.
00:07:49.000He said that he didn't believe somebody of the Muslim faith could be loyal to the Constitution.
00:07:54.000My belief is that the 3,500, approximate 3,500, American Muslims wearing the uniform of the United States military are loyal to their country.
00:08:04.000They're fighting and dying for their nation.
00:08:07.000When I was Colonel Graham back in Afghanistan a couple of years ago, during the second election of Karzai, I had an opportunity to go to a polling station during the election with military members... Ah, here we go.
00:08:20.000We don't need to listen to him talk and translate Java.
00:08:23.000Obviously, what he's saying is true in the sense that there are many Muslim members of the United States military.
00:08:28.000Obviously, the rip on Carson is justified.
00:08:30.000It's also an opportunistic rip, and that's just who Lindsey Graham is, which is why he's not going to win any points with his audience.
00:08:35.000I'm not sure who he thinks he's talking to exactly, but this demonstrates, this whole conversation demonstrates what is truly an incredible thing, which the media is desperate to paint Republicans as xenophobes, people who hate Muslims, people who dislike people of other cultures, and it's
00:10:36.000Trump is popular because what he says there is absolutely true, and he's reframing the question.
00:10:40.000The way that Tapper asks the question originally, he says, what's the problem with Muslims?
00:10:45.000Because we have so many great Muslims.
00:10:46.000And Trump says, yeah, we have so many great Muslims, but that's not really who this guy is asking about.
00:10:50.000And what Trump is doing is he's focusing this guy's too broad criticism and his true broad and idiotic critique, and he's focusing it on what is the real problem.
00:10:58.000This is why Trump is popular, because he sort of naturally does that.
00:11:02.000And of course, Trump is exactly right.
00:11:03.000But the fact that everybody is now being asked about this, this is what's shocking.
00:11:09.000The juxtaposition between the odd idea that Republicans are the people who are anti-Muslim, and then the behavior of the Obama administration, which is anti-Muslim all over the world.
00:11:18.000More Muslims are suffering and dying and being raped because of President Obama and his weakness than anything the Republicans are saying about Islamic candidates for President of the United States or what they're saying at rallies.
00:11:30.000Here's the story that I referenced at the top of the show.
00:11:33.000There's a story from the New York Times today, quote,
00:11:37.000In his last phone call home, Lance Corporal Gregory Buckley Jr.
00:11:40.000told his father what was troubling him.
00:11:42.000From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.
00:11:50.000Quote, The Marine's father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012,
00:11:58.000He urged his son to tell his superiors, quote, my son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it's their culture.
00:12:05.000According to the New York Times, the American policy of non-intervention is intended to maintain good relations with the Afghan police and militia units the United States has trained to fight the Taliban.
00:12:15.000It also reflects a reluctance to impose cultural values in a country where pederasty is rife, particularly among powerful men for whom being surrounded by young teenagers can be the mark of social status.
00:12:28.000Again, what the media do here, what they do,
00:12:44.000They juxtapose the supposed xenophobia of Republicans with the supposed broad-mindedness of Democrats.
00:12:49.000Well, the broad-mindedness of Democrats includes the rape of Muslim boys by other Muslims in Afghanistan, and American troops are supposed to not just sit there, but forward this, ignore it, foster it.