The Ben Shapiro Show - May 30, 2016


Ep. 125 - Captain America Is Gay And A Nazi!

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Hillary Clinton emails investigation workers party trade deficits and housing crisis
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Donald Trump He Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders Barack Obama Jimmy Kimmel Mitt Romney Bill Kristol Frozen Wolf Blitzer Andrea Mitchell Sherry Wilkins Jiminy Cricket Ilsa George R. R. Martin Anthony Bourdain Beardy McHipster Colin Powell Jon Snow Brevard Hydra and 25 more
Ep. 124 - Leftists Want Chaos And Riots -- How Do Americans Respond? Ep. 126 - America Breaks Into Insane Gorilla Warfare

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The left is out to kill Captain America, and he always was a bad guy. Donald Trump wants Bernie Sanders to debate him in California before the primary, and it's a good thing he's not running for president because he's going to get a good night's rest. Plus, a look at why CNN should give all of their profits to charity, and why it would be a good idea to give them a nice sum of money to do so. Plus, Captain America is now a leftist, and that's not a bad thing, because he was always a leftist all along, and now it's time to make clear that he was a leftist from the get-go, and has always been a villain all along. Plus: Captain America has been a good guy, but now he's turning into a leftist villain, because America is either converted to leftism, or we were always the villain. And that's how they play the game, and we're the bad guys. Plus: Trump wants to debate Bernie Sanders in California, and CNN is paying him a nice amount of money for it, so why not make him the first presidential candidate to debate Donald Trump in California? And why not give the rest of us a nice, nice sum for charity, too? Ben Shapiro breaks it all down in a new segment on his new show, The Ben Shapiro Show on The Daily Show with Brian Rocha, hosted by Brian and Sarah Downey, on ABC's "The View From The Hill" on the latest episode of his new podcast, "The Ringer." and more! Subscribe to The Ringer on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe and comment to stay up to date with the Ringer! and let us know what you thought of the latest viral video of the Roster? and what you think of it? Subscribe, rate, review and subscribe to our newest episode of The Roster of shows like it's the most influential podcast on social media? on your favorite podcast and more importantly, what do you're listening to in your thoughts on it? Subscribe to our new workplace podcast? of course you'll get a chance to be featured on The RING! in the RING OF THE RING? in next week's RINGEVERYTHING RUSS RATING AND MORE! is a review of the most important podcast on the world's most listened to by a professional RING AND SOCIAL MEDIA SUBSCRIBE?

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00:00:00.000 Well, the left is out to kill Captain America. 0.99
00:00:02.000 First, it was the internet campaign we talked about earlier this week to make Captain America gay. 1.00
00:00:07.000 A ridiculous, stupid, moronic hijacking of a popular American icon who was originally designed for children and teens in order to serve the left's pathetic agenda. 0.99
00:00:16.000 Now, the editors at Marvel themselves have announced that they're going to make clear that Captain America is a bad guy. 1.00
00:00:22.000 And he always was.
00:00:23.000 According to Time Magazine, Captain America, Steve Rogers, number one, will make clear that Captain America supports the Nazi-founded organization HYDRA and that he was always a double agent.
00:00:33.000 Marvel executive editor Tom Brevoort explained, quote,
00:00:49.000 So, what drove all of this?
00:00:51.000 According to Time, having Cap talk openly about the threat of Muslim immigration to Europe and illegal immigration to America's borders, that makes him ripe for Hydra.
00:01:00.000 Here's Brevart again.
00:01:01.000 He says, quote,
00:01:15.000 Brevard goes on to say that Captain America, the face of patriotism, is turning evil because, quote, we want to push that button.
00:01:21.000 He says, there should be a feeling of horror or unsettledness at the idea that somebody like this can secretly be part of this organization.
00:01:27.000 There are perfectly normal people in the world who you would interact with on a professional level or a personal level, and they seem like the salt of the earth.
00:01:34.000 But then it turns out they have some horrible secret, whether it's that they don't like a certain group of people or have bodies buried in the basement.
00:01:41.000 So, folks, this is what happens when the original values for which Captain America stood, American pride and patriotism, defense of constitutional liberty, become unpopular with the left.
00:01:50.000 They have to do one of two things. 0.75
00:01:52.000 Either they have to make Captain America a leftist, or gay, or make clear that he was a villain all along. 0.90
00:01:57.000 Because America must either be converted to leftism, or we were the villain all along. 0.93
00:02:01.000 As Brevard says, quote,
00:02:13.000 So, here's the problem.
00:02:14.000 The left can't play this game indefinitely.
00:02:16.000 Turns out most Americans don't like the idea of a patriotic Captain America as a Hydra villain.
00:02:21.000 They don't think America is historically evil.
00:02:23.000 They don't think patriotism is evil, or that pointing out threats of benighted Islamic cultures make you a Nazi.
00:02:29.000 And they're not going to keep patronizing movies or comics where the bad guy is America, or where traditional good guys become bad guys just because they stayed the same.
00:02:36.000 So,
00:02:37.000 Watch for Marvel to twist this storyline back into place and will make Cap the hero again, but not before he learns, of course, that he should be more of a leftist than the traditional right-winger he always was.
00:02:47.000 That's how they play the game.
00:02:48.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:02:48.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:02:57.000 Alrighty, so here we are.
00:02:58.000 Donald Trump is doing his campaign charm offensive, and it's working.
00:03:02.000 Donald Trump is really good at several things that have to do with campaigning.
00:03:07.000 Campaigning, since it basically is one-year-and-a-half, two-year-long reality show, benefits people who know how to work the camera.
00:03:13.000 Trump clearly knows how to do that.
00:03:14.000 So he's on Jimmy Kimmel last night, and he's very good at this.
00:03:18.000 He's very good at this.
00:03:19.000 So here's Donald Trump with Jimmy Kimmel on ABC, and Jimmy Kimmel asks him about debating Bernie Sanders.
00:03:26.000 Here's the question from Bernie.
00:03:28.000 He asked, Hillary Clinton backed out of an agreement to debate me in California before the June 7th primary.
00:03:35.000 Are you prepared to debate the major issues facing our largest state and the country before the California primary?
00:03:41.000 Yes or no?
00:03:42.000 He wants to know if you will debate him.
00:03:43.000 Yes, I am.
00:03:44.000 How much is he going to pay me?
00:03:47.000 You would do it for a price?
00:03:48.000 What would the price be?
00:03:48.000 Yeah, because if I debated him,
00:03:50.000 We would have such high ratings, and I think I should take that money and give it to some worthy charity, okay?
00:03:57.000 So if it was done for charity, you would agree to do that?
00:04:02.000 If he paid a nice sum toward a charity, I would love to do that.
00:04:05.000 Oh, interesting.
00:04:06.000 What if the network put up the money and then you guys came in?
00:04:08.000 That could happen also.
00:04:09.000 In fact, I've been saying that should happen anyway.
00:04:11.000 You know, when we did the Republican debates,
00:04:13.000 The Fox had 24 million people, the largest in the history of cable television.
00:04:18.000 CNN, three weeks later, had 23 million people, the largest in the history of CNN.
00:04:23.000 Think of it.
00:04:23.000 CNN, with all the wars and all the things they cover, it's the largest audience they've ever had.
00:04:30.000 The largest audience ever on cable was Fox a couple of weeks before.
00:04:33.000 And I must say, you know, I think I had a lot to do with that, okay?
00:04:36.000 But I said, why aren't we getting paid for this?
00:04:39.000 And give the money to charity.
00:04:40.000 And I actually, as you know, I've been saying this for a long time.
00:04:44.000 Get paid, give the money to charity, pick good charities, and give the money to charity.
00:04:48.000 Okay, so there he is. 0.98
00:04:50.000 It's just ridiculous.
00:04:51.000 And he's, you know, what he's saying here, that he'd debate Bernie Sanders if they give the money to charity.
00:04:57.000 First of all, Donald Trump just had to be shamed into giving money to charity from the event where he skipped the Fox News debate.
00:05:04.000 But this is good TV.
00:05:05.000 It's good TV, and he's very good at this.
00:05:06.000 Now, what's funny is that he says he'll debate Sanders.
00:05:08.000 Sanders immediately comes back and says, yes, I will for sure debate Donald Trump.
00:05:12.000 It's a win-win for both of them is the truth.
00:05:14.000 It's a win for Donald Trump to debate Bernie Sanders if he can even mildly hold his own.
00:05:18.000 Because Bernie Sanders isn't going to be the nominee.
00:05:20.000 So what exactly is the cost?
00:05:22.000 He elevates Bernie Sanders at Hillary's expense. 0.99
00:05:24.000 He makes Hillary look like a coward. 1.00
00:05:25.000 And then he goes out there and he invades against this 73-year-old socialist. 0.95
00:05:30.000 It's wildly entertaining.
00:05:31.000 Big ratings.
00:05:32.000 He doesn't look terrible to his own side.
00:05:34.000 Bernie Sanders looks good to his own side.
00:05:36.000 Trump maybe even wins over some Sanders voters.
00:05:38.000 It's a good move for Donald Trump to do this.
00:05:40.000 Naturally, within 24 hours, he's walking this back and now his campaign says, oh, it was all a joke from the beginning.
00:05:45.000 And so now we're hearing kind of conflicting rumors at this hour.
00:05:48.000 Was it a joke?
00:05:48.000 Was it not a joke?
00:05:50.000 I mean, it's pretty clear from that tape.
00:05:51.000 It's not a joke, but it doesn't matter.
00:05:52.000 This is Trump's charm offensive and it's working.
00:05:55.000 So, for example, and the charm offensive means that he's now pandering to all the people who watch ABC, which means he's pandering to the left.
00:06:02.000 So Donald Trump is good at this when it comes to TV.
00:06:05.000 He's also somebody who conservatives should know is not going to stand up for their values.
00:06:09.000 So here's Donald Trump asked by Jimmy Kimmel about the transgender bathroom issue.
00:06:13.000 A very easy moral issue. 0.76
00:06:15.000 Men should not be using women's restrooms. 1.00
00:06:16.000 Women should not be using men's restrooms. 1.00
00:06:18.000 And here's Donald Trump shying away from the controversy altogether.
00:06:21.000 Were you saying, though, if you were voting personally, you're a member in New York State, that you would vote for that right?
00:06:29.000 Well, the party generally believes that whatever you're born, that's the bathroom you use.
00:06:33.000 Well, what about you?
00:06:35.000 Me, I say let the states decide.
00:06:36.000 I just say let the states decide.
00:06:37.000 Do you personally support it?
00:06:39.000 I think you do.
00:06:40.000 What I support?
00:06:40.000 No, what I support is let the states decide.
00:06:42.000 And I think the states will do, hopefully, the right thing.
00:06:45.000 And what's the right thing?
00:06:46.000 I don't know yet.
00:06:47.000 I mean, I don't know.
00:06:48.000 Honestly, I don't know.
00:06:50.000 It's a very interesting subject. 1.00
00:06:52.000 It's the stupidest thing to be focused on. 1.00
00:06:54.000 Don't we have much bigger problems? 1.00
00:06:55.000 The world is blowing apart, and lots of bad things are happening.
00:06:59.000 But you know what?
00:07:00.000 Something has to be discussed.
00:07:01.000 But I say, let the states decide.
00:07:04.000 Okay, alright, alright.
00:07:05.000 I'll take it.
00:07:05.000 No, I'll give you an N.A.
00:07:08.000 on that one.
00:07:34.000 It's also true the media are treating him with kid gloves, and you can see that from Kimmel there.
00:07:37.000 See, I think you do, right?
00:07:37.000 I mean, he's actually feeding him the lines.
00:07:39.000 Kimmel's feeding him the lines.
00:07:40.000 So Kimmel's feeding him the lines from the left, Sean Hannity's feeding Trump the lines from the right.
00:07:44.000 It makes Trump a very powerful personality here.
00:07:47.000 And Trump is really good at this.
00:07:48.000 Again, here's Donald Trump talking about Hillary Clinton.
00:07:53.000 In 2008, I want to get this right, you said you thought Hillary would make an excellent president. 0.76
00:07:57.000 And as recently as 2012, you said you thought she was terrific.
00:08:01.000 What did she do? 0.80
00:08:01.000 What happened? 0.80
00:08:02.000 Let me just explain to you.
00:08:04.000 I will tell you.
00:08:05.000 When I'm a businessman, I had a beautiful story recently where they said Trump is a world-class businessman.
00:08:10.000 All over the world, we're doing jobs.
00:08:11.000 I speak well of everybody.
00:08:13.000 If people ask me about politicians, I speak well.
00:08:15.000 So when they ask me about Hillary, she's wonderful.
00:08:18.000 Everybody's wonderful.
00:08:19.000 And that's the way it is.
00:08:21.000 Including contributions.
00:08:22.000 They ask me for contributions, I give contributions. 0.98
00:08:24.000 So you were full of s*** when you said that. 0.92
00:08:30.000 And Trump goes right along with it because he's good at this. 0.99
00:08:33.000 Right?
00:08:33.000 And Kimmel hits him, but it's a soft hit.
00:08:35.000 So you were full of this when you said it.
00:08:36.000 And Trump goes, yeah, basically.
00:08:38.000 Yeah, basically.
00:08:39.000 This is the beauty of playing a role like Donald Trump does.
00:08:42.000 There's this beautiful symmetry to playing Donald Trump's role.
00:08:45.000 Donald Trump does the clown nose on, clown nose off routine that Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart did when they were on Comedy Central.
00:08:51.000 When they say something that's a lie or something that's untrue or something that's vicious, it's because they were joking or they just weren't being serious.
00:08:57.000 And when they say something that's serious, then 0.90
00:08:59.000 You have to take it seriously because the clown nose is off. 0.93
00:09:02.000 So, but they get to decide post-facto whether they were being a clown or whether they weren't being a clown. 0.96
00:09:06.000 Here Donald Trump says, now I'm not being a clown. 0.96
00:09:07.000 This moment I'm being serious. 0.94
00:09:09.000 But four years ago when I said all this about Hillary, then I was being a clown, right?
00:09:12.000 Then I was just, then I was just fibbing because that's what you have to do as a business person.
00:09:16.000 He does it some more right here.
00:09:17.000 Again, all of this is really good TV.
00:09:19.000 Trump is great at this.
00:09:20.000 He's great at this.
00:09:21.000 So, what it comes down to is do you trust Trump?
00:09:23.000 Really?
00:09:24.000 Because
00:09:24.000 In the end, if he's elected on the basis of this sort of campaigning, you have to trust that deep in his heart, he's a guy who's going to do stuff for you as opposed to being who he's always been, a guy who does stuff for Donald Trump.
00:09:35.000 Here is Trump talking about how he uses aliases.
00:09:37.000 And again, notice how he's able to get away with all of this easily, right?
00:09:40.000 Any other candidate gets smacked over this.
00:09:42.000 Trump is able to get away with it.
00:09:44.000 But to me, it sounded just like you.
00:09:45.000 Really?
00:09:46.000 Yeah.
00:09:46.000 30 years ago?
00:09:47.000 And if it was you, I think it was a very funny thing to do, to call a guy and take him through the ringer like that.
00:09:53.000 Well, you know, over the years, I've used alias.
00:09:55.000 And when I'm in real estate, and especially when I was out in Brooklyn with my father, and I'd want to buy something.
00:10:00.000 And honestly, nobody knew who Trump was at that time.
00:10:03.000 Nobody knew me.
00:10:03.000 So it wasn't so much so important.
00:10:05.000 But I would never want to use my name, because you had to pay more money for the land.
00:10:08.000 If you're trying to buy land, you use different names.
00:10:11.000 What names would you use?
00:10:12.000 I actually used the name Barron.
00:10:15.000 And I ended up using my son because I made a very good deal using that name.
00:10:18.000 I used an alias in terms of setting up a meeting with Mr. Donald Trump.
00:10:23.000 And many people in the real estate business do that.
00:10:26.000 You use alias.
00:10:27.000 And you have to, frankly.
00:10:29.000 Otherwise they find out it's you and they charge you more money.
00:10:31.000 And nobody wants to pay more money.
00:10:33.000 Okay, this is the Trump charm offensive.
00:10:34.000 Now notice, he basically just admitted, again, that he lied when he used the fake voice before, right?
00:10:38.000 He says, it wasn't me, I didn't use the fake voice.
00:10:40.000 And Kimmel goes, I think it was you, and I think it was really funny when you did it.
00:10:43.000 And Trump basically goes, yeah, I do that kind of stuff a lot.
00:10:46.000 And he just flips on it, because Kimmel likes him, but he's able to get away with it.
00:10:51.000 And all of this is good for any Republican candidate.
00:10:53.000 I mean, if Mitt Romney had been able to get away with this, he might be president now.
00:10:56.000 Trump is quality at this.
00:10:58.000 There's just no doubt about it.
00:10:59.000 He's really, really good at this in a way so many other people aren't.
00:11:02.000 He's funny.
00:11:03.000 He's amusing.
00:11:04.000 He's entertaining.
00:11:05.000 All of this is true.
00:11:06.000 All of this is true.
00:11:08.000 And it's, you know, all of that said, all of that said, you know, you really have to trust that he's going to be the guy who he pretends to be during this campaign.
00:11:17.000 Now, what's interesting is that Trump is, Trump's benefiting from two things.
00:11:22.000 One, he's charming and he's funny on TV and he gets away with all of that.
00:11:25.000 And on the other hand, he's running against a left so out of their minds that everything that he does is basically him just pushing buttons.
00:11:32.000 He's pushing buttons on the left by being funny and entertaining, and he's pushing buttons on the right just by pushing buttons.
00:11:38.000 He's doing it on the basis of contrast.
00:11:39.000 President Obama is abroad right now.
00:11:41.000 He's over in Japan.
00:11:42.000 And President Obama started, took the time to rip Donald Trump, say that Donald Trump was not interested in keeping America safe.
00:11:48.000 Here's President Obama.
00:11:51.000 They are paying very close attention to this election.
00:11:54.000 I think it's fair to say that they are surprised by the Republican nominee.
00:12:01.000 They are not sure how seriously to take some of his pronouncements.
00:12:08.000 But they're rattled by him.
00:12:11.000 And for good reason.
00:12:12.000 Because a lot of the proposals that he's made display either ignorance of world affairs, or a cavalier attitude, or an interest in getting tweets and headlines instead of actually thinking through what it is that
00:12:37.000 Okay, so what's interesting about what Trump, what Obama says, a couple things.
00:12:48.000 One, he's ripping Trump for being a reality star.
00:12:51.000 Obama is a reality star, right?
00:12:52.000 He's a guy who does interviews with people in bathtubs full of Froot Loops.
00:12:56.000 Like, he actually did that.
00:12:57.000 With the lady, the GloZell, the lady who bathed in Froot Loops. 0.97
00:13:00.000 He didn't interview with her.
00:13:01.000 He does this kind of stuff all the time.
00:13:02.000 He was just in Vietnam.
00:13:04.000 Where he did an episode of Anthony Bourdain eating $6 noodles with Anthony Bourdain.
00:13:08.000 He is a reality TV star, so it just doesn't wash.
00:13:10.000 But the second thing that's interesting there is the way that Obama talks about foreign affairs, he sounds like he's putting the rest of the world before America.
00:13:17.000 He talks about everybody else's reaction to the United States, and then he says Trump doesn't do what's necessary to keep America safe.
00:13:23.000 By the time he gets to that, it's an afterthought.
00:13:25.000 By the time he arrives at Trump isn't going to keep America safe, it's an afterthought.
00:13:29.000 He starts with all of these other people around the world don't like Trump and they're rattled by Trump.
00:13:34.000 And Trump came out today and he says, well, maybe it's good that they're rattled by me.
00:13:38.000 Maybe it's good.
00:13:39.000 So, you have on the one hand President Obama, and then on the other hand you have Trump, who's trying to create a sense of loyalty and trust in him.
00:13:46.000 And Obama and his ilk make it easier, because Obama is out there saying that all these other countries don't like Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is out there saying, well, I'm the ultimate patriot, and that's really why they don't like me.
00:13:56.000 So, watch how clever this is.
00:13:58.000 Donald Trump was at his rally last night, and at this rally last night, he's told that there was no time for the national anthem.
00:14:04.000 Watch how he responds.
00:14:05.000 This is so clever.
00:14:07.000 I got here, and they all said, we have a great crowd.
00:14:10.000 We don't have time for the National Anthem.
00:14:14.000 I said, yes, we do.
00:14:15.000 We have time for the National Anthem, right?
00:14:18.000 And we have a young lady that is going to sing.
00:14:21.000 And I said, what are you doing?
00:14:22.000 She said, well, I was supposed to sing, but they had time because of the television cameras.
00:14:26.000 They couldn't do it.
00:14:27.000 I said, guess what?
00:14:28.000 We're going to do the National Anthem, OK?
00:14:30.000 So Sherry Wilkins, come up. 1.00
00:14:33.000 Sherry, come on, Sherry. 1.00
00:14:35.000 Okay, and then they sing the national anthem, right?
00:14:36.000 This is great campaigning.
00:14:38.000 It's smart campaigning, and it's again drawing this natural distinction between people who believe America comes first and the people like Obama who don't believe America comes first.
00:14:47.000 Now the problem is that Donald Trump's brand of nationalism is utterly unmoored from the Constitution of the United States, and we'll get to that in a second.
00:14:54.000 But when he's running against a left that clearly doesn't care about America's future,
00:14:58.000 And he poses himself as the America first guy.
00:15:00.000 It's very, very smart.
00:15:01.000 This is all very smart campaigning by Donald Trump.
00:15:05.000 And meanwhile, Hillary Clinton continues to prove over and over again that she has no capacity to put America first. 1.00
00:15:10.000 She puts herself first and she does it very clearly.
00:15:12.000 I think Trump, by the way, puts himself first too, but he wraps himself in the flag while he does it.
00:15:16.000 So Donald Trump at his rally last night, he says, crazy Bernie is right.
00:15:19.000 Hillary Clinton is in trouble because of this new inspector general report, which I'll go over in just a second. 0.81
00:15:24.000 And we have a person
00:15:26.000 Running for office, who is not equipped to be president.
00:15:30.000 She doesn't have the temperament to be president. 1.00
00:15:33.000 She's got bad judgment.
00:15:35.000 She's got horribly bad judgment. 0.99
00:15:38.000 And that was stated by none other than crazy Bernie. 0.95
00:15:42.000 I mean, Bernie, Bernie said, Bernie said that Hillary Clinton has bad 0.93
00:15:51.000 Judgment.
00:15:52.000 Now, if you look at the war of Iraq, if you look at what she did with Libya, which is a total catastrophe, and by the way, and by the way, with Benghazi and with our ambassador, remember, that's all Hillary Clinton, folks.
00:16:10.000 Let me tell you something.
00:16:11.000 If she wins,
00:16:13.000 And I hope she doesn't.
00:16:15.000 But if she wins, you better get used to it, because you'll have nothing but turmoil, and you'll have nothing but four more years of Obama, and you can't take that.
00:16:25.000 Our system and our country can't take that.
00:16:27.000 Right.
00:16:27.000 Our system and our country can't take it.
00:16:29.000 America first.
00:16:30.000 These people are not pro-America.
00:16:31.000 Now, it's true, Hillary isn't, right?
00:16:32.000 Hillary is about Hillary first and foremost.
00:16:34.000 So, there's this new Inspector General report that's out from the State Department, and I went through it yesterday, it's about 83 pages long, and I went through it, and basically,
00:16:43.000 This report says that Hillary is a giant liar, that she created her private email server for her own personal protection, not for any other reason. 1.00
00:16:50.000 So, for example, the report says, in November 2010, Secretary Clinton and her Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations discussed the fact that Secretary Clinton's emails to department employees were not being received.
00:17:01.000 The Deputy Chief of Staff emailed the Secretary, quote, we should talk about putting you on state email or releasing your email address to the department.
00:17:08.000 In response, Hillary wrote,
00:17:24.000 Output.
00:17:25.000 By the way, the IG also reports that all emails from Hillary Clinton, all emails from Hillary Clinton between January 21st, 2009, when she became Secretary of State, and April 12th, 2009, have disappeared.
00:17:35.000 All of the ones that she sent in that initial three month period, they're gone.
00:17:39.000 Right?
00:17:39.000 They're just gone.
00:17:40.000 And she also claimed, by the way, that she used a BlackBerry for convenience.
00:17:44.000 She was told that she couldn't.
00:17:46.000 She continued to do it anyway. 0.68
00:17:47.000 She said she was cleared by the State Department to use this personal email server.
00:17:50.000 She was not.
00:17:51.000 The Office of Inspector General says openly the Secretary never requested or obtained guidance or approval to do any of this.
00:17:59.000 There are legal penalties to all of this, so this is all hurting Hillary Clinton, even among people on the left.
00:18:04.000 So Wolf Blitzer has on one of Hillary's spokespeople about her emails, and here is Hillary's spokesperson, who's trying to explain it away.
00:18:11.000 It looks as if she's got something to hide when she doesn't even want to answer questions from the Inspector General of the State Department.
00:18:19.000 No, Wolf.
00:18:19.000 Look, Wolf, if she had anything to hide, she wouldn't be volunteering since last August to go face questions from the Justice Department, where the stakes will be much higher than this State Department IG investigation.
00:18:31.000 And as I said, the appropriateness of the State Department IG's office conducting this review at the same time when the Justice Department was already looking to this same issue is an open question.
00:18:41.000 There were questions raised about this office during the course of its investigation.
00:18:46.000 There were reports about individuals in this office coming forward and suggesting that there were hints of an anti-Clinton bias inside that office.
00:18:55.000 All of that added up to... That's interesting.
00:18:57.000 Are you accusing the Inspector General of the State Department of having an anti-Clinton bias?
00:19:02.000 And once again, this Inspector General was named by President Obama.
00:19:06.000 Actually, Wolf, I think the report today backs up much of what we were saying and includes an appropriate amount of context about how widespread the use of personal email was.
00:19:14.000 Okay, this is nonsense.
00:19:15.000 The report really, really hurts her. 1.00
00:19:17.000 And it's clear that even her allies are beginning to look at her and realize that she's corrupt charlatan. 0.74
00:19:22.000 Here's the thing about people like me who are not Trump fans. 0.80
00:19:25.000 At least we can say we're principled.
00:19:26.000 Folks on the left who back Hillary, they're not principled.
00:19:29.000 And they're not principled at all.
00:19:30.000 When they look at people like me and they say, well, you know, your party selected Trump.
00:19:33.000 Yeah, but I didn't.
00:19:34.000 And you people are going to get behind Hillary. 1.00
00:19:36.000 Even Hillary's allies are beginning to look at Hillary as scant now. 0.96
00:19:39.000 Andrea Mitchell over on MSNBC is a huge Hillary fan. 1.00
00:19:42.000 She says that this report is devastating.
00:19:45.000 It was not allowed to not return those records before she left the State Department.
00:19:50.000 She violated the Official Records Act according to her own State Department IG appointed by President Obama.
00:19:59.000 What you have shown just now, Mika, is
00:20:01.000 Completely undercuts the argument she's been making for more than a year, just as she is trying to persuade voters that she's not untrustworthy. 0.67
00:20:08.000 I think that the most surprising and in some ways shocking thing is their reaction, claiming that this is the same as what former secretaries did.
00:20:16.000 The comparison they're making to Colin Powell.
00:20:18.000 The facts are that Colin Powell was the first Secretary of State to ever use email.
00:20:23.000 He used it specifically to try to launch the State Department into the new century and try to get people to communicate by email.
00:20:32.000 He was using it as an example.
00:20:33.000 He did use some personal emails.
00:20:35.000 He didn't always separate them.
00:20:39.000 But it was a completely above board.
00:20:41.000 Everybody in the State Department knew what he was doing.
00:20:44.000 It was not, in fact, violating a rule that was put in place under Clinton, not after she left.
00:20:49.000 I mean, this is what's amazing.
00:20:51.000 So Andrea Mitchell is ripping Hillary up and down. 1.00
00:20:54.000 This is a sight you never thought you would see, right?
00:20:55.000 Hillary is so corrupt that even Andrea Mitchell is ripping her up and down. 1.00
00:20:58.000 CNN's Dana Bash doing the exact same thing, saying this scandal really, really hurts Hillary Clinton.
00:21:03.000 This feeds directly into the narrative that her opponents, Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side and ultimately Republicans led by Donald Trump in a general election, will be hammering her on.
00:21:18.000 And in politics, it is the existing narrative and the ability by opponents to feed into that that is the most damaging.
00:21:27.000 Okay, and this is totally correct.
00:21:28.000 This is totally correct.
00:21:29.000 So, juxtapose these two things.
00:21:31.000 Hillary Clinton, bad on TV, not personable, not interesting, not funny, and totally self-absorbed.
00:21:39.000 With Donald Trump, who's going out there at the beginning of his giant rallies and saying that he wants to sing the national anthem even if there's no time, and he's going out on national TV and he's saying that we should give money to charity if you want to debate me, let's give money to the poor people.
00:21:51.000 It's a bad juxtaposition for Hillary Clinton, and the bad juxtaposition keeps getting worse because the protesters in favor of Hillary and Bernie Sanders keep doing things that make Trump look good.
00:22:01.000 So, I mean, for example, here's a piece of tape.
00:22:03.000 You're about to see an anti-Trump protester dump water on a Trump fan.
00:22:07.000 Only one, well, with two issues.
00:22:10.000 One, dumping water on it, and number two, this Trump fan happens to be in a wheelchair.
00:22:15.000 Our cameras caught someone throwing water at a Trump supporter passing by in a wheelchair.
00:22:20.000 A man shouted back, asking officers to help him out.
00:22:24.000 He gets assaulted on!
00:22:27.000 He gets assaulted on!
00:22:28.000 These people have no clue what really goes on, I guess.
00:22:32.000 They're even going to lie to themselves about what they just did to a handicapped person who has a right to rally for the other side.
00:22:39.000 And this is totally right.
00:22:40.000 This is totally right.
00:22:41.000 So, this is why Trump is doing well.
00:22:43.000 Now, all of that said, it's important to recognize that Trump's brand of nationalism, his brand of patriotism, is an empty vessel.
00:22:49.000 It's an empty vessel into which he can pour any policy he wants.
00:22:52.000 So long as he wraps himself in the flag, everybody says, well, at least he's wrapping himself in the flag, at least he likes the flag, as opposed to Hillary and her ilk.
00:23:00.000 We've now got politics for third graders, right?
00:23:02.000 It's two opposing parties, and you have to buy into one of them, otherwise you're a traitor to the cause.
00:23:08.000 There's only one problem, okay?
00:23:09.000 Donald Trump is, again, he's still unpalatable, and I don't... Listen, I don't want to hammer this home, but every day I'm gonna call it like I see it.
00:23:19.000 That's what you're gonna get here.
00:23:20.000 I'm gonna call it like I see it.
00:23:21.000 I was asked yesterday by somebody, why don't you just tone down the criticism of Trump now that it's a general election?
00:23:26.000 Don't you want Hillary to lose? 1.00
00:23:27.000 You hate Hillary.
00:23:28.000 I hate Hillary. 1.00
00:23:29.000 I also think that Trump is a bad guy. 0.98
00:23:31.000 And I'm going to call it like I see it.
00:23:32.000 That's my obligation here.
00:23:34.000 I actually will give you both sides.
00:23:36.000 You get to decide.
00:23:37.000 If you think that Trump is too bad to vote for, that's your decision.
00:23:40.000 That's been my decision, is that I don't want him becoming the leader of my ideological movement, which is his goal, as we'll talk about right now.
00:23:46.000 Donald Trump says, by the way, that he wants the GOP to look different now.
00:23:49.000 So what does he want the GOP to look like?
00:23:52.000 Quote, five, 10 years from now, different party.
00:23:54.000 You're going to have a workers party, a party of people that haven't had a real wage increase in 18 years that are angry.
00:24:01.000 Okay, a workers party.
00:24:03.000 I mean, not to put too fine a point on it, but perhaps the workers of the world should, I don't know, like unite.
00:24:09.000 And all they have to lose is their chains, right?
00:24:10.000 I mean, this is what I've heard.
00:24:12.000 Whenever people talk about a workers' party, typically what they mean is the government coming in and taking money away from some people and giving it to the workers, right?
00:24:19.000 The workers.
00:24:19.000 The idea being that if you're a speculator on Wall Street, if you're a hedge fund manager, if you're a business person, if you're somebody who makes money in finance, if you're a lawyer, if you're a doctor, if you're not a worker, right?
00:24:29.000 Then you have to be punished because you're not the guy in the Rust Belt.
00:24:32.000 That's what Donald Trump wants to build.
00:24:34.000 And this is what Donald Trump is going to fill this sort of empty patriotism he's got with.
00:24:38.000 And it's empty because my patriotism is based on the idea of American exceptionalism.
00:24:43.000 And America's not exceptional because we have different borders or because the land is so great.
00:24:47.000 America's exceptional because of the ideals upon which it was founded.
00:24:51.000 These basic conservative ideas about the nature of man and the nature of government.
00:24:55.000 That's why I'm patriotic.
00:24:56.000 I'm patriotic because I believe that America's founding ideals are the greatest founding ideals ever created for any country in the history of mankind.
00:25:03.000 And that's why I'm an American patriot.
00:25:05.000 Trump doesn't understand those ideals.
00:25:06.000 Trump is just for America because America is where he is.
00:25:09.000 What's funny is that Barack Obama once said that he believed in American patriotism in the same way that a Greek person probably believes in Greek patriotism or a British person believes in British patriotism.
00:25:19.000 Trump actually believes the same thing.
00:25:21.000 He just actually believes that, right?
00:25:22.000 Trump actually believes in the flag and motherhood and apple pie, but he doesn't understand why.
00:25:27.000 He doesn't understand why.
00:25:28.000 And so what that means is that he's taking the content out of conservatism and replacing it with just the image of the conservative.
00:25:34.000 He's the face of conservatism, but he's a facade.
00:25:37.000 So here's just some examples of that.
00:25:39.000 Yesterday's rally, he's speaking in Anaheim.
00:25:42.000 And after he does the National Anthem routine, which is fine.
00:25:44.000 Again, I like it.
00:25:44.000 I think it's a great piece of theater.
00:25:47.000 I think it's also a good thing to do.
00:25:48.000 You should start big rallies with the National Anthem.
00:25:51.000 That's wonderful.
00:25:52.000 And of course draws the natural juxtaposition to that famous picture of President Obama supposedly not putting his hand to his heart during the National Anthem in the 2008 race.
00:26:00.000 And President Obama's statement he doesn't want to wear a flag pin because he thinks that that's devaluing.
00:26:05.000 He draws that contrast.
00:26:06.000 But here's the real Trump.
00:26:07.000 The real Trump is the guy who says the Republican Party must be transformed into a workers party.
00:26:12.000 Not that we're going to use our ideas and appeal to working men and women who need jobs and can only be guaranteed those jobs by a free economy.
00:26:20.000 No, he's going to be the man who stands up for the working class.
00:26:23.000 He's going to make them promises that make your head swim.
00:26:25.000 So first,
00:26:26.000 More, more audio of Donald Trump.
00:26:29.000 We've done this before, but Donald Trump is the kind of guy who threatens protesters.
00:26:33.000 So he does that yesterday, but he does it in the way that he always does, the half-joking Donald Trump way.
00:26:39.000 Get him out of here! 0.95
00:26:40.000 Get him out! 0.98
00:26:41.000 Get him out! 0.98
00:26:44.000 Get him out! 0.98
00:26:48.000 Out! 0.58
00:26:49.000 Out! 0.58
00:26:49.000 Out! 0.58
00:26:50.000 Out! 0.58
00:26:59.000 Don't hurt him.
00:27:02.000 See what I say?
00:27:03.000 Don't hurt him.
00:27:05.000 I say that for the television cameras.
00:27:08.000 Do not hurt him, even though he's a bad person, folks.
00:27:13.000 Bad person.
00:27:15.000 Okay, that's your Donald Trump.
00:27:17.000 That's the guy.
00:27:18.000 Does that sound like basic founding principles of free speech to you?
00:27:22.000 I mean, the implication there is pretty clear, isn't it?
00:27:24.000 He's a bad person.
00:27:25.000 If the cameras weren't there, I might be saying something different, but since the cameras are there, I'll sort of say, okay, well, you know, you know, don't hurt him. 0.88
00:27:31.000 I'm saying that just because you guys are watching, but he's a bad person.
00:27:35.000 Okay, the idea, don't hurt him,
00:27:36.000 You're all here legally!
00:28:04.000 You have houses.
00:28:05.000 You have homes.
00:28:06.000 We're going to keep your houses and your homes. 1.00
00:28:08.000 You're going to have them forever.
00:28:10.000 And your jobs aren't going to be taken away by people that are just coming across the border. 0.95
00:28:15.000 You don't know where they're coming from.
00:28:17.000 And you don't know where.
00:28:19.000 Okay, and then he continues by saying, he says there, your homes aren't going to be taken away, everything's going to stay the same, your job isn't going to be taken away.
00:28:27.000 How can he guarantee that?
00:28:28.000 The fact is that these jobs are not being lost to illegal immigrants.
00:28:31.000 Okay, there's not an IT guy who's losing his job to an illegal immigrant. 1.00
00:28:34.000 These manufacturers in Ohio aren't losing their jobs to illegal immigrants, they're losing their jobs to global competition. 0.99
00:28:39.000 They're losing their jobs to the fact that you can buy the labor cheaper elsewhere, and half the time that labor is cheaper in America down south, right?
00:28:46.000 Not in Ohio.
00:28:47.000 A lot of the car manufacturing jobs aren't in Detroit anymore.
00:28:50.000 They're now in Mississippi and Alabama.
00:28:51.000 That's where these factories are now being built. 0.72
00:28:53.000 But there he is making promises he can't possibly keep.
00:28:55.000 You're gonna keep your house?
00:28:56.000 When was the last time an illegal alien went to somebody's house, threw them out of their own house, and then just sat there? 0.63
00:29:01.000 That's not the way that the economy, that's not the way anything works.
00:29:04.000 But he's making promises he can't possibly keep because he's founding the new Trump Workers' Party.
00:29:10.000 And then there's Donald Trump mocking Bill Kristol.
00:29:12.000 So Bill Kristol is the editor of the Weekly Standard.
00:29:14.000 Bill Kristol was famously a proponent of the Iraq War.
00:29:17.000 By the way, Donald Trump originally backed the Iraq War.
00:29:19.000 Bill Kristol has also said we need to take a harder line with Iran.
00:29:23.000 Donald Trump here is saying that anybody who is hawkish on foreign policy, all they really want to do is just kill people.
00:29:28.000 And the reason that Bill Kristol doesn't like him is because Donald Trump 0.96
00:29:31.000 He's a real lightweight.
00:29:32.000 His name is Bill Kristol.
00:29:37.000 From day one, this poor guy, this poor guy, I watch him.
00:29:42.000 But here's what I don't understand.
00:29:44.000 Why do you keep putting a guy on television that's been proven to be wrong for so many years?
00:29:48.000 First of all, he wants the war in Iraq.
00:29:51.000 He wants Iraq. 0.99
00:29:52.000 All the guy wants to do is kill people and go to war and kill people, even though he knows it's not working, although he doesn't know because he's not smart enough. 0.99
00:29:59.000 But it started. 0.99
00:30:01.000 And I was against the war in Iraq, let me tell you.
00:30:04.000 And I am a tough cookie, and we're gonna have the biggest, strongest, most powerful military, and nobody's gonna mess with us.
00:30:11.000 Nobody.
00:30:12.000 Nobody is gonna mess with us.
00:30:17.000 But I just happened to see this guy in one of the shows the other day, Bill Kristol, he's got some magazine, I don't even know what the hell it is, and he's saying,
00:30:26.000 We're looking for another candidate.
00:30:28.000 We're looking.
00:30:29.000 We're looking.
00:30:29.000 He's sweating.
00:30:30.000 He's sweating.
00:30:31.000 We're looking for another candidate.
00:30:33.000 Here's a guy that said Trump isn't going to run.
00:30:37.000 If he runs, he's not going to do well.
00:30:40.000 He's going to be out by September.
00:30:43.000 You know, he forgot one thing.
00:30:45.000 He forgot to ask my friends and he forgot to ask the people that know me.
00:30:49.000 Because those are the people that said we're going all the way.
00:30:55.000 Okay, so this is from- And I get it!
00:30:58.000 It's lies on top of lies here, in terms of the Iraq War.
00:31:01.000 He didn't oppose the Iraq War, certainly not in any loud fashion, before the Iraq War.
00:31:06.000 The idea that everybody who was in favor of the Iraq War just wants to see people killed, which is what he says about Crystal Nex.
00:31:10.000 He says, Crystal just wants to see people die. 0.95
00:31:12.000 That's really all he wants.
00:31:13.000 This is what you're signing up for.
00:31:15.000 You're signing up for this wrapped in the flag.
00:31:16.000 So I guess the idea is that wrapping yourself in the flag is a good thing, and that the flag is a good thing.
00:31:21.000 I agree, the flag is a good thing.
00:31:22.000 What isn't a good thing is bad ideas wrapping themselves in the flag.
00:31:25.000 And Donald Trump is a guy who is a bundle of bad ideas.
00:31:28.000 He's a bundle of bad ideas wrapped up in a veneer of patriotism. 0.85
00:31:33.000 And that to me is actually more troubling than even the anti-flag nonsense of Obama and Hillary.
00:31:39.000 Obama and Hillary don't like any of this stuff, right?
00:31:42.000 They're not America first people. 0.63
00:31:44.000 I don't think Trump is an America first person in any real sense either.
00:31:46.000 I think that he's an America first person in the sense that he thinks that what happens in the country matters more than what happens abroad, but I don't think that he's an American first person in that he believes in American principles.
00:31:56.000 I really don't think that that's true.
00:31:58.000 So, you know, that's the choice that's on people's hands.
00:32:01.000 And I understand, as I've said before, I understand, I get it.
00:32:04.000 If you say, every day I say this, this is now the official Ben Shapiro show disclaimer.
00:32:09.000 If you say that you're voting for Donald Trump because he's not Hillary Clinton, but you see what a bad guy he is, I'm okay with that.
00:32:15.000 I can deal with that.
00:32:16.000 You and I can be friends.
00:32:17.000 We can agree to disagree.
00:32:19.000 If you start talking about Trump as though he's somebody who's praiseworthy or trustworthy, or Donald Trump is going to be the savior of the country, or Donald Trump is going to come into office and he's not going to pervert conservatism in any way, and the thousands of people who show up to his rallies buying into this mumbo-jumbo, that those people are not going to see conservatism as something that it's not,
00:32:36.000 At least acknowledge the risks.
00:32:38.000 At least acknowledge the risks of what is happening here.
00:32:40.000 But, all of that said, Trump is very good at this, and if you have to handicap this race right now, you have to assume that if the race continues to go like this, then Hillary has a lot of problems. 0.66
00:32:48.000 One of those problems, by the way, is Hillary herself. 1.00
00:32:51.000 There was this meme, this web ad that was going around, and nobody seems to be able to identify the source of this web ad, but it's really...
00:32:59.000 It's this ad, and if you can't see this, folks, this is why you need to subscribe to Daily Wire.
00:33:03.000 So this is actually two separate ads.
00:33:04.000 Okay, the ad on the left is a stock photo of a guy who I'd like to describe as Beardy McHipster.
00:33:12.000 And Beardy McHipster over here is kind of smoldering into the camera.
00:33:15.000 He's got a big beard, and he looks like a lumbersexual, and he's got the sleeve tattoo.
00:33:19.000 And it says, I'm with her.
00:33:21.000 I am man enough to vote for a woman.
00:33:23.000 Are you?
00:33:24.000 Hashtag man enough for Hillary.
00:33:26.000 Right, this is what Hillary's campaign, and some people in Hillary's campaign apparently were tweeting this out.
00:33:31.000 We're still trying to verify where this originally came from.
00:33:34.000 Right, and a couple of problems with it.
00:33:36.000 Number one, this guy's a stock photo.
00:33:39.000 And because he's a stock photo, that means he's also appeared on a syphilis ad in Portland.
00:33:42.000 Which is real awkward.
00:33:43.000 So, Hillary and syphilis, the gift that keeps on giving.
00:33:47.000 But second of all, Hillary's so bad at this, she's alienating the very people that she's attempting to draw, right? 0.99
00:33:52.000 If you really want to draw men, the last thing you want to do is gelb them.
00:33:56.000 The last thing you want to do is make them feel emasculated.
00:33:58.000 There's not a man alive, not a man alive, who goes around saying, you know what I really want?
00:34:02.000 I want a woman to call me not enough of a man if I don't do what she says. 1.00
00:34:05.000 Right, that really makes me feel like a real man down deep, is when a woman orders me around and then if I refuse to obey, she says, well that's probably because you're a big pansy. 0.98
00:34:13.000 Yeah, that doesn't work.
00:34:14.000 So Hillary's really bad at this. 1.00
00:34:16.000 Trump could very easily win this race just because Hillary is so bad at this. 1.00
00:34:19.000 Now that said, the polls in the swing states don't particularly show this.
00:34:22.000 They don't show Trump making inroads in Ohio.
00:34:24.000 They don't show Trump making inroads in, for example, Wisconsin or Michigan or Pennsylvania, all areas where he's supposed to be doing well.
00:34:30.000 But he's running a much better campaign than she has just on any objective level at this point, even if I think that his fundamental principles are deeply flawed.
00:34:37.000 Okay, time for some things I like.
00:34:39.000 Well, one thing I like, one thing I hate, and then the mailbag.
00:34:41.000 So, we've been doing children's movies that I like.
00:34:44.000 And this one, we go all the way back to 1947, is Pinocchio, which is probably the greatest animated film ever made.
00:34:50.000 And the opening scene alone, the animation of the opening scene, because this is frame-by-frame animation.
00:34:54.000 This is when they were doing it frame-by-frame.
00:34:56.000 It's a beautifully animated film, obviously.
00:34:59.000 It is an intense film.
00:35:00.000 I mean, this is not for really little kids.
00:35:02.000 There's a lot there that's scary.
00:35:03.000 Lampwick turning into a donkey is kind of scary.
00:35:06.000 Stromboli is scary.
00:35:07.000 The whale is scary.
00:35:09.000 It's not for kids who are younger than seven.
00:35:11.000 But for kids who are older than seven, it's great.
00:35:14.000 And it shows you that back in the day, this was considered, you know, good children's entertainment.
00:35:18.000 It's a lot scarier than a lot of the stuff that kids would watch today.
00:35:21.000 It also has principles and morals.
00:35:23.000 So there is a song, and I've mentioned this to people in the office, so Lindsey's already nodding because she knows where I'm going with this.
00:35:28.000 There's a song in Pinocchio where Jiminy Cricket is singing to Pinocchio about the way you become a real boy.
00:35:34.000 The whole movie is about how you become a moral human being, right?
00:35:38.000 You want to be a real boy, you have to be responsible for yourself, and you have to make moral decisions.
00:35:43.000 And so Jiminy Cricket comes along, and the Blue Fairy says he's going to be Pinocchio's conscience. 0.86
00:35:48.000 And so here's the song he sings about what you have to do if you want to become a real boy, basically.
00:35:53.000 Now you see, the world is full of temptation.
00:35:57.000 Temptations?
00:35:58.000 Yep.
00:35:58.000 Temptations.
00:36:00.000 They're the wrong things that seem right at the time.
00:36:02.000 But, uh, even though the right things may seem wrong sometimes, sometimes the wrong things may be right at the wrong time, or, uh, vice versa.
00:36:16.000 Understand?
00:36:16.000 Uh-uh.
00:36:19.000 But I'm gonna do right.
00:36:21.000 Attaboy, Pinocchio, and I'm gonna help you.
00:36:25.000 And anytime you need me, you know, just whistle.
00:36:28.000 Like this.
00:36:29.000 Like this?
00:36:32.000 No, no.
00:36:33.000 Try it again, Minolta.
00:36:34.000 Like this?
00:36:37.000 No, son.
00:36:39.000 Now listen.
00:36:45.000 That's it!
00:36:45.000 Come on now, let's sing it!
00:36:50.000 When you get in trouble and you don't know right from wrong, give a little whistle.
00:36:55.000 Give a little whistle.
00:36:58.000 When you meet temptation and the urge is very strong, give a little whistle.
00:37:04.000 Give a little whistle.
00:37:06.000 Okay, so...
00:37:28.000 That's the morality of the United States when this movie comes out, right?
00:37:31.000 When this movie comes out, the morality of the United States is keep on the straight and narrow path, avoid temptation.
00:37:37.000 If temptation should strike, then always let your conscience be your guide.
00:37:41.000 Don't do what's always feeling good, right?
00:37:43.000 That's the morality that they're teaching to kids now.
00:37:45.000 Now, here's the most popular kids movie from today.
00:37:47.000 The most popular kids movie from today is Frozen.
00:37:50.000 And I hate Frozen.
00:37:52.000 I think Frozen is a bad... First of all, I think it's just a bad movie.
00:37:54.000 I mean, the animation's beautiful, but that's a given.
00:37:57.000 And the technology's good now.
00:37:58.000 I think it's a bad movie, I think the plot is bad, I think it doesn't make any sense, but beyond that, the morality that is promulgated in Frozen... The most popular song from this movie is Let It Go, right?
00:38:08.000 This is the one everybody sings.
00:38:09.000 Idina Menzel is singing this, or as John Travolta calls her, Adamakalifakaligaloo.
00:38:14.000 And...
00:38:15.000 She sings the part of Ilsa. 0.89
00:38:18.000 Now, of course, the gay left wants to make Ilsa a lesbian because it was funny. 1.00
00:38:22.000 When this movie came out, there were a few commentators who said that this whole movie was basically supposed to be a gay metaphor.
00:38:27.000 It was supposed to be... And there's... I don't think it's totally out of the realm of possibility, given the fact that the movie opens, basically, with this girl having issues, right, that are affecting her sister.
00:38:38.000 And the parents literally lock her in a closet for 16 years, right?
00:38:42.000 Literally!
00:38:43.000 And she stays in the closet for 16 years and then she comes out and she lets it go, right?
00:38:47.000 So here's it, but here's the morality.
00:38:49.000 Forget about whether it's that.
00:38:50.000 So now the left is saying, it's always funny, the left always says, no it's not about that!
00:38:54.000 What are you thinking? 1.00
00:38:55.000 You people are crazy! 1.00
00:38:56.000 Now they're saying they want to make her a lesbian, of course. 0.99
00:38:58.000 So, in any case, but this song in particular drives me up a wall.
00:39:02.000 And the reason it drives me up a wall is because of this particular lyric.
00:39:05.000 And we'll play the lyric and you'll see the difference between Pinocchio, and maybe I'll miss 1941 Pinocchio, between Pinocchio and Frozen.
00:39:15.000 It's time to see what I can do To test the limits and break the rule No right, no wrong, no rules for me I'm free
00:39:33.000 Let's go!
00:39:56.000 Okay, so the animation's beautiful and all that.
00:39:58.000 Okay, so there's that one line.
00:39:59.000 Okay, there's the line.
00:40:00.000 Did you hear it?
00:40:01.000 Because everybody skips right over it because it's just a lyric in a song, right?
00:40:04.000 No right, no wrong, no rules.
00:40:07.000 I'm free.
00:40:08.000 Right now, contrast that Pinocchio's 1940.
00:40:10.000 Contrast that with Pinocchio, which is now 76 years ago.
00:40:14.000 In 1940, kids in America were being taught, temptation is not what you should be going for.
00:40:18.000 You should be thinking about what's right.
00:40:20.000 You should be thinking about what your conscience would say.
00:40:23.000 Now it's, I'm free, I'm a better person, I'm strong, if I pay no attention to the rules.
00:40:29.000 No right, no wrong.
00:40:29.000 There's no such thing as right.
00:40:30.000 There's no such thing as wrong.
00:40:32.000 It's basic moral relativism.
00:40:33.000 Right?
00:40:35.000 Back in 1940, make sure that you do what's right, right?
00:40:38.000 Pinocchio says, I want to do what's right, and Jiminy Cricket says, that's the way, Pinok! 0.82
00:40:42.000 Now it's, there's no such thing as right.
00:40:44.000 Right doesn't exist.
00:40:44.000 Wrong doesn't exist.
00:40:45.000 All that, there's no rules.
00:40:46.000 It's just whatever makes me feel good about me.
00:40:49.000 This is why America's dying.
00:40:51.000 This right here is why America's dying, because these are both taught to kids.
00:40:54.000 These are both taught to kids.
00:40:55.000 But if you taught the messages of Pinocchio to kids today, that would be considered intolerant, and nasty, and close-minded, because who knows?
00:41:02.000 Maybe Pinocchio's idea of what's right is not your idea of what's right.
00:41:06.000 Instead, we should all just follow our instinct.
00:41:07.000 We should all just follow temptation, to wherever it leads, and then we'll all be happier.
00:41:12.000 We should never contain ourselves.
00:41:14.000 Now, there are people who would say about Frozen, okay, Ilsa ends up being basically wrong, and she has to learn to control her powers. 0.96
00:41:20.000 Okay, but that's not the point.
00:41:21.000 None of these kids are going to be singing those songs.
00:41:23.000 The only song the kids sing is this one.
00:41:25.000 Let It Go is the most popular song for kids in America, and it has the Lady Gaga message, right?
00:41:29.000 I was born this way.
00:41:31.000 I'm on the right track because I was born this way.
00:41:33.000 This is the new morality.
00:41:34.000 The new morality is my biology says do it.
00:41:36.000 Temptation says do it.
00:41:38.000 There's no such thing as right or wrong.
00:41:39.000 I feel free because I don't have to pay attention to those stodgy old rules that make sure that we can all operate with each other in a decent society.
00:41:46.000 Those stodgy old rules that make sure that we don't hurt each other or mistreat each other.
00:41:50.000 That's the thing I hate.
00:41:51.000 The thing I like Pinocchio, the thing I hate Frozen.
00:41:53.000 Okay, time for some entries from the mailbag.
00:41:56.000 And we do have a chock-full mailbag.
00:41:57.000 Reminder, if you subscribe through dailywire.com to this podcast, aside from seeing this beautiful face, you also get to email me and you get first priority in the mailbag.
00:42:06.000 So, Austin writes,
00:42:08.000 Hey Ben, I was reading your article. 0.85
00:42:10.000 It's textbook discrimination to force employers to violate their religious principles, hire the mentally ill. 1.00
00:42:15.000 I got to the part where you state it's downright fascistic.
00:42:18.000 I use the Mac OS X's dictionary to define fascistic.
00:42:21.000 It states having or relation to extreme right-wing authoritarian or intolerant views or practices.
00:42:26.000 What do companies like Apple have to gain from playing a word game being the most valuable brand in the world?
00:42:31.000 Well, I mean,
00:42:32.000 It's not that they have anything to gain, it's that Apple is staffed entirely by leftists and the way that they input the dictionary definition is a left way, right?
00:42:38.000 The typical leftist thought has been fascism is of the left.
00:42:42.000 Jonah Goldberg has a fabulous book called Liberal Fascism specifically about this.
00:42:45.000 Fascism is not a...
00:42:49.000 It's not an element that is restricted to the right.
00:42:53.000 Hitler was a socialist. 0.90
00:42:54.000 He's closer to Bernie Sanders than he is to Donald Trump.
00:42:58.000 Trump is closer to Bernie Sanders, by the way, than he is to Ted Cruz.
00:43:00.000 So fascism tends to be an element of the left, specifically because the right is defined.
00:43:05.000 At least conservatives.
00:43:06.000 Normal conservatives.
00:43:07.000 Not reactionary right.
00:43:08.000 I mean, there are a bunch of different variables here.
00:43:10.000 But when I say right, what I mean is traditional conservatism.
00:43:12.000 Traditional conservatism is defined by a small state.
00:43:15.000 It's defined by the idea that states should not intervene in things unless there are externalities, unless some third party is being impacted.
00:43:22.000 The state should basically stay out of it and social institutions should ensure that the social fabric remains rich and that we're tied together.
00:43:28.000 Ben writes, I was wondering two things.
00:43:30.000 First, do you do the show in one take and do you do it extemporaneously or do you write some of it out first?
00:43:34.000 Okay Ben, so here's the deal.
00:43:35.000 Yes, it's all one take.
00:43:37.000 And I do do it extemporaneously.
00:43:39.000 The only stuff that I ever write is the monologue at the very beginning, so that's written out usually, but most of the rest of the show is totally extemporaneous.
00:43:48.000 Luke writes,
00:43:52.000 I've watched a majority of your speeches and TV appearances on YouTube.
00:43:55.000 I've yet to read any of your books.
00:43:56.000 Which one would you recommend first?
00:43:57.000 Well, the first book I'd recommend you read of mine is Bullies.
00:44:00.000 That's the one that is the most popular anyway, and it sort of states my fundamental philosophy of politics, which is bullies need to be fought, and bullies are the people who call the guns when they don't get their political way.
00:44:10.000 Those are the bullies. 0.50
00:44:12.000 As far as my stance on minimum wage, no, you don't need a minimum wage.
00:44:15.000 All minimum wage is, it's a way for the government to prevent two consenting people from entering into a contract.
00:44:20.000 Understand, every job is me entering into a contract with somebody else.
00:44:24.000 And that person has to agree to enter into the contract with me.
00:44:26.000 I don't think any third party has the moral right to intervene in that deal.
00:44:31.000 Any more than I think that a third party has a moral right to establish a maximum wage.
00:44:35.000 I don't think the government should make a minimum wage or a maximum wage.
00:44:37.000 I think the government should stay out of it.
00:44:39.000 I get to sign a deal because I'm a free person, you're a free person, we get to do that together.
00:44:43.000 Anne writes, I feel a little clueless, Ben.
00:44:45.000 Can you explain what you mean specifically when you use the verb trolling?
00:44:49.000 I'm a new subscriber, love the podcast with a view.
00:44:51.000 Okay, Anne, when I use the word trolling, and I used it a couple of days ago, trolling is this phenomenon where you say something deliberately provocative just to elicit a response from the other side.
00:45:01.000 You do something a little bit crazy, a little bit out there, just to drive the other side nuts.
00:45:05.000 That's trolling.
00:45:06.000 So if you're a real troll, then you spend all your time kind of insulting people on Twitter, because you're hoping they're gonna respond, and this makes you feel good about yourself. 0.99
00:45:13.000 The entire alt-right is a bunch of trolls. 1.00
00:45:15.000 So these are people who just throw out anti-semitic, racist, stupidity, and then when you say, God, that's pretty terrible what you're saying, they go, ha ha ha, I've got you now! 1.00
00:45:24.000 This just proves that you think everybody's a racist or an anti-semite. 1.00
00:45:27.000 It just proves that you care about these things. 0.98
00:45:29.000 And the answer is, yes, and you're an a-hole, right? 0.99
00:45:33.000 Trolls are, that's what a troll is. 0.99
00:45:36.000 Okay. 0.97
00:45:36.000 Eric writes, 0.97
00:45:46.000 I read your article on why you wouldn't support a conservative third-party run, but I'm a huge fan of Romney.
00:45:51.000 Not only would he pull support from Hillary and Trump, he could win states like Utah, Idaho, and maybe a few others.
00:45:56.000 Do you see any scenario where conservatism is better off coalescing around Romney than waiting four years?
00:46:01.000 Okay, Eric, so I wrote a column and I talked about on the show all the various reasons why I don't think a third-party run would be useful.
00:46:08.000 Most of those reasons are tied to the fact that it wouldn't be successful.
00:46:10.000 So if Romney were to run third party, I would vote for him.
00:46:13.000 I would vote for him over both Hillary and over Trump, and it would be an easy call.
00:46:16.000 I would lose no sleep whatsoever over voting for Mitt Romney.
00:46:20.000 If Mitt Romney is the margin of loss for Donald Trump, however, you can guarantee that all of the people in the Republican Party are going to blame the conservatives for having thrown the election from Donald Trump to Mitt Romney, and therefore, they're going to insist that they come back around the next time around and browbeat everybody.
00:46:37.000 Again, if Romney were to decide to jump in, I wouldn't oppose it, for sure.
00:46:41.000 Do I think from scratch it's a great idea to run a third-party candidate?
00:46:44.000 I don't, because I think the opposition to Trump and the opposition to Hillary is stronger than any one candidate, and I think it's kind of difficult to coalesce around any one guy.
00:46:53.000 And this is certainly true of Romney.
00:46:56.000 I mean, listen, I didn't even support Romney in the primaries in 2012, right? 0.89
00:46:59.000 So I would back him against these other two, but as I've said before, in a different context, I would back a flaming bag of dog feces against either one of these two options.
00:47:08.000 By the way, that in and of itself is hilarious.
00:47:09.000 Why physics professors?
00:47:17.000 Should be facing pressure to be lefty is beyond me.
00:47:20.000 I don't understand why the speed of objects falling and rising, you know, why friction?
00:47:24.000 I don't understand why any of that has to do with politics, but the left, basically what you really mean is your sister is a professor, so she's getting pressure.
00:47:31.000 So she is so so despite being a moderate conservative, she's now voting for Bernie.
00:47:36.000 As much as I desperately want her to see reason, I'm worried I will beat her over the head with logic and facts instead of gently persuading her.
00:47:41.000 Is there a nice way to undo liberal brainwashing? 0.86
00:47:44.000 Also, it's nice to have your show to remind me I'm not crazy, it's everyone else that lost their mind.
00:47:47.000 Okay, so, thank you, I appreciate that.
00:47:51.000 The way to talk to family members, you have to talk to them on their own level.
00:47:54.000 Some people are open to talk, some people aren't.
00:47:56.000 If it's a waste of time to talk, don't bother.
00:47:58.000 You know, browbeating people doesn't help on a one-to-one level.
00:48:01.000 When it comes to talking with her, if you can't use facts and reason, then there's not really much to talk about.
00:48:07.000 This person is so emotionally tied into the system that you're gonna have a rough time of it.
00:48:12.000 The real way to argue with the Bernie Sanders crowd is to say what you are saying is fundamentally immoral.
00:48:16.000 You don't get to steal money from other people just because they have more of it than you do.
00:48:19.000 It's fundamentally immoral.
00:48:20.000 Bernie Sanders' view of life is immoral, it's cruel, it's evil.
00:48:23.000 And it requires vast government centralization and the use of the government gun in order to take things that aren't yours.
00:48:29.000 That's what Bernie Sanders is about.
00:48:31.000 I mean, that's the moral case.
00:48:32.000 That said, it's very difficult to talk with family members.
00:48:35.000 You sort of have to determine whether they're open to reason or whether they're not.
00:48:38.000 If they're not open to reason, don't waste your time.
00:48:40.000 Just go see a movie instead.
00:48:42.000 Aaron writes, do you watch Game of Thrones?
00:48:45.000 No, I started watching Game of Thrones and then it turns out that the pornography of it sort of alienated me.
00:48:50.000 I've read all the books.
00:48:53.000 The books are, the first three, well let's say this, one is good, one is very good, two is weak, three is good again, and then the rest of the series is just...
00:49:03.000 Awful.
00:49:03.000 Awful.
00:49:03.000 So I do follow the recaps of the shows online, mainly because I don't feel like waiting for the next 87 years for George R. R. Martin to bring out his next 800-page monstrosity.
00:49:13.000 So I read the recaps of the show because it's ahead of the books now.
00:49:16.000 But, you know, I find George R. R. Martin's universe really nihilistic.
00:49:22.000 I understand people die.
00:49:24.000 I understand good people get killed.
00:49:27.000 I totally get all of this.
00:49:29.000 I don't need it to...
00:49:30.000 The point of fiction is that I trust the creator of the fiction to bring me to a place I want to go.
00:49:35.000 Right?
00:49:35.000 This is the same reason that religious people are religious.
00:49:37.000 We trust that God eventually is going to bring us where we want to go, even if we can't see it right now.
00:49:42.000 If you're just going to tell me that life is empty and horrible and all the people that I like die, yeah, I know that already.
00:49:48.000 I don't need to spend time with the people just so that you can kill them off all the time. 0.99
00:49:52.000 Like, I'm fine with you want to kill... Like, when they killed off... In the first book, when they kill off Ned Stark, 0.76
00:49:58.000 I was like, okay, that's creative and interesting, because you never see a main character just get killed off like that.
00:50:02.000 When they killed Rob, I was out.
00:50:04.000 I was like, okay, I mean, I read it, but come on.
00:50:07.000 And then they killed Rob, and then they killed Jon Snow, but they brought Jon Snow back, and whatever.
00:50:14.000 I think that it started off with a great premise, and I understand the premise is anyone can die at any time.
00:50:19.000 That's all fun and games, unless you kill everyone worth rooting for, and I end up rooting for Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton in Game of Thrones.
00:50:26.000 It turns out the Lannisters against the Sands sisters is not a whole lot of fun.
00:50:33.000 I'm not that interested in that particular battle.
00:50:36.000 So, I'd much rather have a hero at some point in the story.
00:50:40.000 Tyler writes, at what point, if at all, should the right embrace protectionist foreign policy with entities like China?
00:50:44.000 Aren't trade deficits a bad thing?
00:50:46.000 How can the free market remedy this?
00:50:47.000 Okay, trade deficits are not a bad thing.
00:50:49.000 I have a trade deficit with my grocery store.
00:50:51.000 That doesn't mean it's bad.
00:50:52.000 All a trade deficit means, when you're talking about private parties, trade deficit, all that means is I'm buying stuff from people and they're selling me stuff.
00:50:59.000 That's what a trade deficit is.
00:51:00.000 It doesn't mean I'm poor, it doesn't mean they're rich.
00:51:02.000 The fact is that you can have a trade surplus and be wildly poor.
00:51:06.000 This happens all the time.
00:51:08.000 Most of Latin America had a trade surplus, but Venezuela has a trade surplus, last I checked, because they don't have the ability to buy anything.
00:51:16.000 Some of the richest times in American history, we've had a trade deficit.
00:51:19.000 Some of our poorest times, we've had a trade surplus.
00:51:22.000 As far as using protectionism as foreign policy, this is an actual argument.
00:51:26.000 Like, should we have tried to collapse the Chinese state back in the 1970s by jacking up the tariffs and crippling their economy?
00:51:31.000 There's a case to be made on a moral level for that, but certainly not on an economic level.
00:51:35.000 Okay, finally.
00:51:36.000 Okay, so I will admit, I don't know much about the Ellis Act.
00:51:38.000 So I'll just answer the general question, which is,
00:51:52.000 Potential solutions for the housing crisis.
00:51:54.000 Number one, there's no housing crisis in LA.
00:51:57.000 All that's happening is there's a shortage of supply and there's too much demand and there aren't enough jobs.
00:52:01.000 That's all that's happening right now.
00:52:02.000 The answer is that if you want housing, I assume you're saying you want housing prices to go down.
00:52:06.000 If you want housing prices to go down,
00:52:08.000 You have to get rid of whatever rent control restrictions there are in the city of Los Angeles.
00:52:12.000 You have to loosen some of the zoning restrictions.
00:52:14.000 You have to allow people to rent out their garages, for example, so that they can use that as a guest house.
00:52:19.000 And you also have to just get rid of building restrictions as a general matter.
00:52:22.000 You increase supply, in other words.
00:52:24.000 Make it easier for people to supply housing and the prices will fall.
00:52:27.000 Texas is not having a problem with massive real estate bubbles because everybody can just move to the middle of nowhere and build stuff.
00:52:33.000 So New York has a problem, LA has a problem, Chicago has a problem.
00:52:36.000 Get rid of the restrictions and you'll get rid of the housing crisis.
00:52:39.000 You also have to get rid of some of the business regulations so that people can actually work and be hired and make money.
00:52:44.000 So, all right, we've reached the end of another week.
00:52:47.000 Hope you have a wonderful weekend, and we will be back here on Monday for more celebration of the... Well, actually, sorry, no, no, no, Monday's a holiday.
00:52:54.000 Monday's a holiday.
00:52:54.000 So we'll be back here on Tuesday.
00:52:55.000 It's a long weekend, I know.
00:52:57.000 Don't worry, we'll be back here on Tuesday to make it up to you, because we love you.
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