The left has hijacked the comic book industry. They rewrote the history of Superman, Batman, and Captain America, and now they re all about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. This is a sad sad time in American history, and it s no wonder that the comic books have been hijacked by the far-left. The only place left has a voice is in the movies and TV, but we don t have a voice anymore. We have no voice in our movies and our TV, and our entertainment is not only untouchable, but the left will never leave the other areas of our culture where we can still speak with each other. It used to be that if you disagreed about politics, you could at least talk about politics. But now, the left has taken over everything and polarized everything, so there s nothing for us to talk about together anymore. And this really irritates me because as a fan of comic books, these are some of the most iconic American characters in history. And they re not creating new ones, they re just taking the old ones and perverting them, which is a real disgrace to what comic books are, which are supposed to be a place where you can speak up and speak your mind and have a say in the conversation. - Robert Downey jr. The New York Times - and The New Republic - . The Weekly Standard - New York Magazine - This week's cover story was written by Brian Nazarello. Subscribe to the podcast! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcasts! Learn about our sponsorships and become a supporter of our new sponsor, too! Rate, review and subscribe to our new podcast, The R.I.P. - Rate and review our new ad-free version of The Ringer - we are giving away $5 and get 20% off your first month free on Audible starting July 1st, starting July 9th, only through the R. and we will get 10% off the first month of the new issue of the newest issue of JUICYPROMOutsourcing a new episode of JUPITER! Subscribe and review the entire ad-only version of the podcast goes live on Tuesday, July 10th, coming to J CREEPY, exclusively on J CREED, starting on the RING PRODUCER ONLY, only on The RING CRY!
00:00:00.000One of the most depressing features of being an American today lies in the fact that the left has declared total war on every facet of our shared culture.
00:00:08.000You know, when you went out with your friends, you went out with your family, it used to be that you could at least, if you disagreed about politics, you could at least talk movies or sports or something.
00:00:15.000But now, the left has taken over everything and they've polarized everything.
00:00:19.000There's nothing for us to talk about together anymore.
00:00:22.000It isn't enough for them to produce movies with Steve Carell and Julianne Moore and Ellen Page about lesbian
00:00:27.000Black house painters seeking legal protection for a conveyance of property.
00:00:31.000Now they've even taken over the comic books and they've hijacked them.
00:00:34.000And this really irritates me because as a fan of comic books, these are some of the most iconic characters in American history.
00:00:40.000They're not creating new ones, they're just taking the old ones and perverting them.
00:00:43.000Which is a real disgrace to what the comic books are.
00:00:46.000The latest run of Captain America is a great example.
00:00:48.000It features the newest Cap, Sam Wilson, taking on the Sons of the Serpent.
00:02:23.000In the latest run of Superman Action Comics 42, the temporarily powerless Man of Steel hands up on the wrong side of the police.
00:02:30.000The police are a group of faceless fascists looking to shut down any discussion.
00:02:33.000There's actually a scene in which one of the protesters, it's supposed to be like Ferguson, one of the protesters walks up to the police and says, we just want to talk.
00:02:40.000And the police threaten to hit them with a stun grenade, which is when Superman arrives to take on the riot squad.
00:02:45.000This follows on the incredibly overrated Grant Morrison, seriously overrated comic book writer, making Superman a black president of the United States back in Action Comics number 9 in 2012, just in time for the elections.
00:03:41.000Because Bruce Wayne was gentrifying the area.
00:03:43.000And as we all know, gentrification is the worst thing that can ever happen to black people.
00:03:47.000Better that their property should be worth nothing than that white people should come in and try and buy it up and actually give them property worth something.
00:03:55.000Writer Brian Nazarello, who is also overrated, he explains, this thing is such a ripple, the way lives are affected by gentrification.
00:04:01.000If you have no money, you have no voice.
00:04:04.000So Batman is now Bernie Sanders, and Superman is now Hillary Clinton, and Captain America is now Barack Obama and Julian Castro.
00:04:13.000Culture is one of the few areas of American life where we actually can speak with each other still.
00:04:18.000We don't have a lot in common, the left and the right, but we like our movies and our TV shows and our comic books.
00:04:22.000Entertainment's entertainment, but not for the left.
00:04:25.000The left will never leave a stone unturned when it comes to politicization, when it comes to polarization.
00:04:31.000When they finally figure out that they can break all the cultural ties, when we have nothing left to tie us together, that's when they call for growth of government.
00:04:39.000That's when they want more and more government.
00:04:41.000And in the process, going after comic books, they're indoctrinating yet another generation into leftist nonsense.
00:04:57.000So folks, Joe Biden is supposed to make his big decision today and maybe tomorrow as to whether he's going to run for president of the United States.
00:05:04.000Should he run, it's not really going to affect the race that much as it would have maybe a week ago.
00:05:08.000Biden takes votes away from Hillary Clinton.
00:05:10.000He takes no votes away from Bernie Sanders.
00:05:12.000Sanders has been gaining in the polls in New Hampshire and Iowa ever since the debate because Democrats, particularly young Democrats, are deeply in need
00:05:21.000Of a wacko socialist loon bag who's 97 years old.
00:05:41.000And it's not just for political reasons.
00:05:42.000I think I'm pretty sure what happened is that Hillary Clinton at one point actually just put him in the Oval Office and told him to pee in the corner.
00:05:48.000So he's been doing that for the last three years.
00:05:51.000And eventually he might figure out it's a prank and then run for president.
00:06:03.000Hillary will end up winning the nomination.
00:06:06.000I don't see Biden as a major threat to Hillary Clinton, especially given the media's complete faux interest in this email story.
00:06:13.000When you're seeing all of these questions being asked to Hillary Clinton about her emails and the corruption attendant to her emails, don't believe a word of it, folks.
00:06:23.000What the media do, they know their timing.
00:06:25.000It's a year and a half before the election.
00:06:26.000So what the media do is they do all this stuff now, and they get it out of the way, and then in six months, when these questions are asked again, when people are actually paying attention, as opposed to right now,
00:06:36.000Then they say, oh, well, we asked and answered.
00:06:49.000About the media's coverage and the Obama administration's response to what's happening in Israel, where Jews are being stabbed on a daily basis.
00:06:55.000There was an attack on a bus stop in Israel over the weekend, a gun attack on a bus stop in Israel, a Palestinian holding a gun attack, I should say, on a bus stop in Israel.
00:07:04.000One person killed, nine other people wounded.
00:07:06.000And the media headlines were exactly what you would think they were.
00:07:09.000We talked about this a little bit last week.
00:07:10.000The headlines coming from CNN were things like, violence escalates in Middle East, as though there's just some guy named violence and he's running around killing people.
00:07:19.000As opposed to their Palestinians burning crap and stabbing people and shooting people and trying to kill babies, which would make probably for a better headline, but wouldn't jive with what the media are trying to say about this particular conflict.
00:07:31.000All you have to know about what the media are trying to say about this particular conflict, look at MSNBC, which is a great example of a leftist news network.
00:07:38.000I was actually invited on Al Jazeera last week via Twitter and I
00:07:44.000I tweeted back that I'm not interested in appearing on a propaganda outlet, and then I really should have tweeted back, I've restricted myself to only two propaganda outlets for Hamas, MSNBC and CNN.
00:07:54.000But in any case, MSNBC is really a terrible news outlet.
00:07:57.000They have a reporter whose name is Ayman Moyeldin, and he's gotten himself in trouble before because he's so pro-Palestinian terrorist.
00:08:04.000Well, on MSNBC the other day, you're about to see a segment where Ayman Mohaldin got himself in serious trouble because, well... Maybe we should just watch it.
00:08:15.000It looked from where I was standing, at least, to be a young man.
00:08:18.000Did not look to be, you know, particularly armed.
00:08:22.000And again, that was confirmed by the fact that the police ultimately removed his clothes.
00:08:27.000They didn't find any explosive devices on him.
00:08:30.000I was trying to keep an eye to see if they were taking anything off of his body.
00:08:33.000Perhaps if they took a gun, if there was a gun that was visible.
00:08:53.000And this is important because, you know, you're covering this story live and you're seeing it once and you're actually witnessing it not knowing what you're seeing until you actually process it.
00:09:03.000But in the video that we have, that you have, that is, as you say, I mean I don't think anybody else has this video, we can clearly see the man in camouflage t-shirt and pants with what appears to be, at least in his right hand, a knife.
00:10:36.000It's all owned by the Arabs in 1946, right?
00:10:39.000And then it goes to UN Plan 1947, and suddenly half the land is carved away, and it's made yellow because it's been given to Israel, but Jerusalem is still solidly in green territory.
00:10:48.000And then you have 1949 to 1967, right?
00:10:52.000Which is after the Israeli War of Independence, after it was attacked by all of its neighbors, and now it looks like the land is shrinking,
00:10:59.000And presumably, if you would carry this graphic forward, you get to 1967, all of this would turn yellow, the Sinai would turn yellow.
00:11:04.000Okay, so there's a couple of problems with this particular map.
00:11:07.000First of all, this right here on the left-hand side, right, this map of Palestine in 1946 is completely inaccurate.
00:11:28.000The Jerusalem Post used to be called the Palestine Post because it was called Palestine when it was under Ottoman and British mandate rule ever since 70 CE.
00:11:37.000When the Romans decided that to shame the Jews, they would name the land after the Philistines, who were the Jews' historic enemies from Tanakh, which is from the Bible, from the Old Testament.
00:11:48.000And if you read the Prophets, you read Samuel, you remember that the Jews are constantly fighting with the Philistines, so the Romans as a way to slap at the Jews said, we're gonna take away the name of the land, we'll call it Palestine, after the Philistines, your historic enemies.
00:12:26.000Again, even if you believe that the Palestinian nation somehow exists even though they have no independent language, no independent culture, and no shared history beyond the last 50 years, even if you believe all that, this was not Palestinian land, this was British Mandate land.
00:12:38.000Right, then right here it says UN Plan 1947.
00:12:43.000Okay, before this, before this, the British Mandate,
00:12:48.000When they decided in 1921 that they were going to move ahead with the creation of a Jewish state in so-called Palestine, Palestine, people should understand, was not just Israel, it was also Jordan.
00:14:06.000Because if you're watching MSNBC, are you noticing propaganda from both sides, or are you noticing that there's a reporter on national television saying that a guy with a knife doesn't have a knife and is unarmed, and that there's a map that doesn't exist, but magically takes place in unicorn land of history?
00:14:22.000It is incredible, but they take their cues how they take their cues, and they're taking their cues at this point.
00:14:26.000I mean, I've seriously been thinking about this a lot lately, folks, and that is, okay, last year there was the Gaza War, and it was, the media coverage was truly awful.
00:14:54.000It's actually worse now, because what you're watching in Israel is Palestinians stabbing civilian Jews, running cars into crowds of civilian Jews, shooting civilian Jews for no reason at all.
00:15:05.000And the Jews, I mean there hasn't even been a military response.
00:15:08.000Israel has upped military presence in some Palestinian areas and they're building a fence in East Jerusalem now to stop Arabs from crossing over from East Jerusalem to West Jerusalem in the Old City to kill Jews.
00:15:20.000And the media is still covering this as though it's a cycle of violence.
00:15:23.000And the reason is because President Obama is now out of the closet.
00:15:26.000The Obama administration, they're out of the closet.
00:15:29.000Last year on Fox News, I said that this was a borderline anti-Semitic administration, a borderline Jew-hating administration.
00:15:34.000I think the borderline is pretty much gone at this point.
00:15:37.000When you're telling the Iranians they can have a nuclear weapon, and when you are trying to incentivize with $400 million Palestinian terrorism, I think that we can safely say this is no longer borderline.
00:16:02.000He came out several weeks ago, and he said that the Jews were going up on the Temple Mount, which, by the way, is the holiest site in Judaism.
00:16:09.000Yes, Jews are allowed to go on the Temple Mount.
00:16:11.000And he said they're making it filthy with their filthy feet.
00:16:15.000That was his quote, their filthy feet.
00:16:17.000And then he suggested that the Jews were going up there to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque, even though the only people on the Temple Mount destroying historic antiquities are the Palestinians, which they've been doing
00:16:25.000For literally decades, digging up areas of the Temple Mount and destroying the antiquities that are there in the first place to try and remove any trace of Jewish history from the area.
00:16:35.000So, Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas, they've been incentivizing this.
00:16:37.000In East Jerusalem, after a knife attack the other day, the East Jerusalem Arabs were handing out candies to their kids when a Jew was stabbed nearly to death in Jerusalem.
00:16:48.000Well, President Obama was asked about all of this, and here was President Obama's response.
00:16:56.000We also believe that it's important for both Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israeli elected officials and President Abbas and other people in positions of power to try to tamp down rhetoric that may feed violence or anger or misunderstanding and try to
00:17:26.000You know, get all people in Israel and in the West Bank to recognize that this kind of random violence isn't going to result in anything other than more hardship.
00:17:43.000What a deeply immoral, evil man the President of the United States is.
00:18:08.000And now, when Palestinians are killing Israeli civilians, that also is random.
00:18:13.000It's amazing how these random things just keep happening.
00:18:16.000And the victims all happen to be non-random.
00:18:18.000I mean, where I come from, the definition of the word random is that it's actually random.
00:18:23.000I don't know about you, but typically when something is random, that means if I were just to say random killings are happening, you would assume, okay, no correlation with race or religion or age, right?
00:18:32.000There wouldn't be any connecting threads.
00:18:40.000So one side says, literally, we played the tape of this last week, one side has preachers on their television stations holding up knives and saying, stab the Jews.
00:18:48.000And the other side says, we hope that you don't stab us and it would be really good if you would stop telling people to stab us.
00:18:55.000But the rhetoric should be tamped down from both sides.
00:18:57.000By the way, you want to know the difference between the two sides?
00:19:01.000About a week and a half ago, who stabbed some Palestinians.
00:19:04.000The Israeli government immediately launched into an investigation and is looking to arrest the Jew and put him in jail for the rest of his life.
00:19:11.000When Palestinians stab people, stab Jews, they're handing out candies in the streets and renaming streets after them.
00:19:16.000But both sides have to tamp down the rhetoric.
00:19:17.000And the reason I say that's evil, and I say the president is evil for saying this, is because when you draw no distinction between good and evil, when you treat them as moral equivalents, you are siding with evil.
00:19:27.000You're not siding with good, you're siding with evil.
00:19:29.000Indifference in the face of evil is, in effect, evil.
00:19:33.000And this is not coming from ignorance.
00:19:34.000The President of the United States knows better, but his worldview is so perverse that the Jews always have to be the bad guys and the Palestinians always have to be the good guys.
00:19:43.000Now, before we run out of time here, I do want to talk briefly about the firefight that has now broken out between Donald Trump and Jeb Bush in the Republican presidential race of 2016.
00:19:53.000Donald Trump is slapping at Bush for a good strategic reason, which is everybody dislikes Jeb Bush.
00:19:58.000I mean, seriously, Jeb Bush is such a sad sack, and nobody's into him, and he's got so much money, and no one cares, and he's still riding at 5-6% in the polls after all of this.
00:20:10.000So Donald Trump figures, okay, if I can attack any of the candidates, who's perceived as the establishment guy?
00:20:15.000Okay, I can attack him any which way I choose.
00:20:18.000Now look, I'm fine with you attacking Jeb Bush when it's fair, but I'm intellectually honest enough to recognize when it's not fair.
00:20:24.000Here is Donald Trump attacking Jeb Bush, really by attacking George W. Bush.
00:20:28.000Jeb has been saying, my brother kept the United States safe.
00:20:31.000Trump said, no, no, no, your brother was responsible for the collapse of the World Trade Centers in 2001.
00:20:36.000And this is really a kind of ludicrous attack,
00:20:42.000I've been sort of chortling and thrilled over the whole Trump phenomenon because I think that it's just funny and entertaining and, as I've mentioned, I've turned into the Joker and want to see piles of money burn and I want to run after cars and try and bite the fender even if I know I can't get anything out of it.
00:21:17.000Don't blame him or don't blame him, but he was president.
00:21:19.000The World Trade Center came down during his reign.
00:21:23.000Okay, this is so ridiculous on so many levels.
00:21:26.000First of all, if this is the new standard, that the President of the United States is responsible for everything in the world that happens under his tenure, then
00:21:34.000FDR is responsible for Pearl Harbor, and presumably Abraham Lincoln is responsible for the Civil War solely, because he was the President of the United States at that time.
00:21:44.000The fact is that you're gonna hear a lot of myths pushed out by the left about 9-11 and World Trade Center and what happened there.
00:21:49.000And one of the myths that you hear is that George W. Bush was given explicit notice that Al-Qaeda wanted to strike in the United States using airplanes.
00:22:22.000Jeb Bush is attacked by Donald Trump, and Jeb then responds, and he says that Trump is a loudmouth and that he has doubts about Trump being President of the United States.
00:22:33.000Meanwhile, the left is just sitting on the side, laughing its ass off over this whole thing, as they should be.
00:22:38.000Donald Trump—this is what's beginning to bother me about the Trump of it.
00:22:42.000I'm fine with Donald Trump attacking any of the candidates he wants to attack.
00:22:45.000But Donald Trump is now campaigning as Bernie Sanders.
00:22:48.000He's seriously campaigning as Bernie Sanders.
00:22:50.000These are talking points straight from the Bernie Sanders playbook.
00:22:53.000And not only is that one from the Bernie Sanders playbook, Donald Trump was asked about eminent domain.
00:22:58.000Eminent domain, for people who don't know, eminent domain is where the government seizes property for public use, right?
00:23:03.000They want to build a highway and they need your house to build that highway, they need to knock it down and build a highway, so they have to pay you.
00:23:08.000Under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, the government is not allowed to take private property for public use without just compensation.
00:23:16.000Now traditionally what that has meant is private property has to be taken but only for public use.
00:23:21.000Meaning that they can only do it, knock it down, build a park or a highway or some other sort of public thoroughfare.
00:23:26.000Not that the government can seize the property and sell it to your neighbor because your neighbor's richer and will pay more property tax.
00:23:32.000But that's been actually, the Supreme Court in the Kelo decision about 10 years ago, reinterpreted that provision to mean that the government can actually do that.
00:23:39.000The government can come to my house, seize it, pay me what it thinks is fair,
00:23:44.000And then turn around and hand that property to my next door neighbor so long as he uses it to build a hotel.
00:23:48.000Well, Donald Trump has made an enormous amount of money off this violation of rights in the United States.
00:23:53.000And here's Donald Trump being asked about eminent domain.
00:24:00.000You had your hotel, and you wanted to build a parking lot, and some woman had her house.
00:24:39.000Okay, first of all, Donald, if all she wanted was money, you have plenty of it.
00:24:43.000Presumably there was a price tag to the house, she just didn't want to give it to you.
00:24:47.000But the idea that you can knock down people's houses, and that she saved him a lot of money because the government took that, and then this is the guy who's saying that he's going to fight crony capitalism, that he's going to fight government insider nonsense, that he's going to fight against the corporatism of the left.
00:25:02.000He and Bernie Sanders are actually on the same page on a lot of this stuff.
00:25:06.000You know, I understand Trump fans, why you like Trump.
00:25:08.000You feel that he's honest, you feel that he's not full of it.
00:25:11.000Okay, but Donald Trump is not a solid conservative in any sense of the word.
00:25:15.000And I think that we have to at least be honest about who Donald Trump is going into this election cycle.
00:25:19.000And I would highly recommend that you take a look at some of the other candidates who are speaking truth to power, whether it's Ben Carson or Ted Cruz.
00:25:26.000You know, the ones who are not stumping in favor of the government seizing old ladies' properties so they can build a parking lot and then not even build the parking lot, which is exactly what he just said.