The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 131 - One Big Reason Republicans Are Better People Than Democrats

00:00:00.000 Last week, President Obama became the target of mockery when he descended into porky pig protestations at the divisiveness of Republican nominee Donald Trump.

00:00:09.000 After tripping over his words while trying to gain his footing, Obama finally settled on a line of attack.

00:00:13.000 Here's what he said.

00:00:14.000 He said, quote,

00:00:25.000 Meanwhile, across the country, likely Obama supporters rioted at a Trump event in San Jose.

00:00:30.000 They waved Mexican flags and burned American ones.

00:00:33.000 They assaulted Trump supporters and they generally engaged in mayhem.

00:00:36.000 On the same day, Donald Trump labeled a judge presiding over his civil trial unfit for his job.

00:00:40.000 He said, I'm building a wall.

00:00:41.000 It's an inherent conflict of interest.

00:00:44.000 What, pray tell, was the inherent conflict of interest?

00:00:46.000 Trump said that the judge was one of them Mexicans.

00:00:49.000 Judge, by the way, was born in Indiana to Mexican parents.

00:00:52.000 Two days later, Trump told Fox News' Jeanine Pirro, Barack Obama has been a terrible president, but he's been a tremendous divider.

00:00:58.000 He has divided this country from rich and poor, black and white. 0.95

00:01:00.000 He has divided this country like no president in my opinion almost ever.

00:01:04.000 I will bring people together.

00:01:06.000 So, who's right?

00:01:07.000 They're both right.

00:01:08.000 Obama, like it or not, leads a coalition of tribes.

00:01:11.000 Trump, like it or not, leads another coalition of tribes.

00:01:14.000 The Founding Fathers weep in their graves.

00:01:16.000 The Founders were scholars of both Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.

00:01:19.000 Thomas Hobbes argued that the state of nature, primitive society, revolves around a war of, quote, every man against every man.

00:01:25.000 In such a state, life was awful.

00:01:27.000 He wrote, no arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

00:01:36.000 He learned all this in high school.

00:01:37.000 The solution to such chaos, said Thomas Hobbes, was the Leviathan, the state.

00:01:42.000 He said it was, quote, but an artificial man, though greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defense it was intended, and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul as giving life and motion to the whole body.

00:01:53.000 So basically, the state comes along and fixes the problem of tribes fighting each other because it's so big and so powerful.

00:01:58.000 Hobbesian theory has prevailed throughout human history.

00:02:01.000 Tribal societies either remain in a constant state of war with each other, or they're overthrown by a powerful government.

00:02:07.000 Jared Diamond, who's an anthropologist, he writes that, quote, My family may not be your family, but if we both believe in Jesus or if we both believe in the Bible, then, at the very least, we have some commonality.

00:02:15.000 The rise of powerful leadership leads to both tyranny and to peace.

00:02:33.000 The founders were scholars of Thomas Hobbes.

00:02:35.000 They were also scholars of John Locke.

00:02:37.000 But in Western societies, tyranny cannot last.

00:02:40.000 After generations of tyranny, after tribalism gives way to Judeo-Christian teachings enforced through government, religious tyranny, citizens begin to question why we even needed tyrants in the first place.

00:02:49.000 They begin to ask John Locke's question.

00:02:52.000 In a state of nature, we had rights from one another.

00:02:54.000 Why is a tyrant allowed to invade those rights?

00:02:56.000 Is prevention of violence a rationale for full government control?

00:03:00.000 Or were governments created to protect our rights?

00:03:02.000 Our founders came down on the side of Locke, not Hobbes.

00:03:04.000 They said in the Declaration of Independence that, quote,

00:03:13.000 But the founders still, they still fear tribalism, and that's what they call faction.

00:03:16.000 Whenever you hear them talk about faction in the Federalist Papers, they're truly worried about the seizure of government in order to benefit one tribe over another.

00:03:24.000 They may have agreed with Locke over Hobbes about the proper extent of government, but they never believed that tribalism had disappeared.

00:03:30.000 That's why they attempted to create a government that pit faction against faction, tribe against tribe, cutting the Gordian knot of tyranny and tribalism with checks and balances.

00:03:38.000 It's what James Madison wrote in Federalist 51.

00:03:41.000 He wrote, quote, If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

00:03:44.000 If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

00:03:49.000 In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this.

00:03:54.000 You must first enable the government to control the government, and govern, this is the tyranny, and the next place oblige it to control itself.

00:04:00.000 This is the Lockean rights argument.

00:04:02.000 A dependence on the people is no doubt the primary control on government, but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

00:04:10.000 This is what Madison said.

00:04:14.000 Sadly, it no longer does.

00:04:17.000 Tribalism has had its revenge. 0.90

00:04:18.000 It began with the decline of American religion in the 1950s.

00:04:21.000 As religion declined, Americans looked for new sources of community, new community ties.

00:04:26.000 And in the 1960s, the Marxist left provided Americans that meaning with ethnic and racial solidarity.

00:04:31.000 It wasn't that we were all Christian or all Jewish or all Judeo-Christian.

00:04:34.000 Instead, we were black and white.

00:04:36.000 We were Mexican, we were Jewish, even as America began to move beyond its historic racism.

00:04:41.000 The left hijacked the conversation around race and divvied up Americans into subgroups of ethnic haves and have-nots.

00:04:47.000 City governments became playgrounds for racial factions, racial tribes, taking control of government and expanding their power. 0.94

00:04:54.000 Student groups divided along racial and sexual lines.

00:04:56.000 The social fabric frayed.

00:04:58.000 The unrest of the 60s and 70s, that provoked a law and order backlash, a desire for a powerful government that would stop all the tribalism.

00:05:05.000 But, for three decades, Americans rejected tribalism as a mode of politics.

00:05:09.000 Ronald Reagan, for example, he wanted a stronger crackdown on tribalism.

00:05:13.000 He believed in universal human freedoms.

00:05:14.000 And Bill Clinton rejected sister soldiers race-baiting, if you recall.

00:05:19.000 Not surprisingly, the rejection of 1960s tribalism ushered in an era of smaller government dedicated to the proposition that constitutional checks and balances were the best protection against tyranny.

00:05:30.000 Then came Obama.

00:05:31.000 President Obama's tribal policies have crippled us.

00:05:35.000 Americans hoped that Obama, after campaigning on the notion he would provide a capstone to our non-tribalism, would heal our wounds, move our country beyond racial politics.

00:05:44.000 He was to be a racial unifier.

00:05:45.000 He represented the hope that America could finally reject tribalism in favor of American universalism.

00:05:51.000 Instead, Obama rejected checks and balances and has used tribalism to grow his tyranny.

00:05:56.000 By cobbling together a coalition of racial and ethnic interest groups, Obama knew he could maximize the power of the government to act on their behalf.

00:06:04.000 So his DOJ, his Department of Justice, cripple police departments based solely on the race of police officers.

00:06:09.000 He suggests America has an inborn, unfixable problem with racism.

00:06:13.000 He says that this is a rejection of the founding ideology.

00:06:16.000 Donald Trump is the counter reaction, but he's not like Reagan or even Bill Clinton.

00:06:19.000 He is also tribal.

00:06:21.000 His tribalism is the tribalism of Pat Buchanan.

00:06:23.000 Here's what Buchanan wrote in 2011, quote, So fight for the white minority.

00:06:27.000 He says,

00:06:45.000 He concluded white anger is a legitimate response to racial injustices done to white people. 0.54

00:06:50.000 Instead of attempting to set checks and balances to prevent faction, instead of trying to educate Americans in founding principles, this philosophy focused on tribalism of white folks, making the crucial error of linking skin color to culture.

00:07:02.000 So we've reached the end of the era of small government.

00:07:04.000 As tribalism rises, and as chaos ensues, Americans look again to the strongman.

00:07:10.000 We begin the cycle anew.

00:07:11.000 First, we feel the rage of riots in San Jose and Ferguson, and the spiteful glee of white nationalist alt-righters.

00:07:17.000 We watch contests between tribal figures like Hillary and Trump.

00:07:20.000 We wonder which tribe will win, even as America disintegrates right in front of us. 0.70

00:07:24.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:07:24.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:07:32.000 So yay! 0.98

00:07:33.000 Last night was a historic moment.

00:07:34.000 Yay! 0.99

00:07:35.000 Is everybody excited?

00:07:36.000 Woo! 0.99

00:07:38.000 Hillary Clinton is the first felon to be nominated for President of the United States. 1.00

00:07:43.000 No, no, everybody is very excited because Hillary Clinton has a vagina. 1.00

00:07:46.000 And this, of course, is the most important thing in the world, except for all of the other things in the world. 0.99

00:07:50.000 But this is the most important thing that has ever happened in the history of man.

00:07:53.000 The media could not be more excited, or at least they feign excitement.

00:07:56.000 They're not really excited.

00:07:57.000 The media's not really excited.

00:07:58.000 I'll give you why they're not really excited in a second, but they have to pretend they're excited.

00:08:02.000 So, here's a quick montage. 0.91

00:08:04.000 Cut by our own Mathis, of all of the members of the media who are just ecstatic over the moon that a woman who allegedly has a vagina is talking about how she has broken the glass ceiling and finally women can be anything! 0.97

00:08:17.000 Finally women can do anything! 1.00

00:08:19.000 Women! 1.00

00:08:20.000 Girls everywhere, you should know this. 1.00

00:08:22.000 If you, if you grow up rich, go to the best schools, marry a guy who becomes president, intimidate his rape victims, and then run on the basis of his success for president, you too can be president of the United States, girls. 0.77

00:08:34.000 Very exciting stuff.

00:08:35.000 So here's the media just over the moon about all of this.

00:08:38.000 Tonight, Hillary Clinton making history, a turning point in American politics, and a moment of reflection from Clinton herself.

00:08:47.000 This is an historic moment.

00:08:49.000 Eight years in the making.

00:08:50.000 Secretary Clinton becoming the first woman ever to clinch her party's nomination.

00:08:54.000 That's not true at all.

00:08:55.000 For the first time in the history of this country, frankly, this is really exciting to say, for the first time in the history of this country, we're going to have a female nominee of a major party.

00:09:03.000 I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat or Libertarian.

00:09:05.000 That's something this country should note and acknowledge.

00:09:07.000 Hillary Clinton making her mark on history.

00:09:11.000 According to the news, we are on the brink of a historic...

00:09:15.000 Historic, unprecedented moment.

00:09:19.000 We begin with that history in the making.

00:09:22.000 Hillary Clinton clinching the Democratic nomination for president.

00:09:25.000 The first woman to be a nominee for a major party.

00:09:28.000 So they all got to play this out. 1.00

00:09:29.000 They all got to play like they give a crap. 1.00

00:09:31.000 Okay, so there's a few reasons why this is completely valueless and stupid. 1.00

00:09:34.000 And the media is just, oh, oh, finally, the first female nominee. 0.99

00:09:38.000 First of all, okay, let's just point this out.

00:09:40.000 Margaret Thatcher was the prime minister of Britain 40 years ago, okay?

00:09:44.000 Golda Meir was the Prime Minister of Israel 50 years ago.

00:09:48.000 This idea that females have it rough in Western civilization. 1.00

00:09:50.000 Angela Merkel has been the head of Germany forever. 1.00

00:09:53.000 This is so stupid. 1.00

00:09:56.000 I have a young girl, okay? 1.00

00:09:57.000 My young girl could have run for president whether or not Hillary Clinton ran for president. 1.00

00:10:00.000 In fact, there's a worse shot she'll be president because Hillary's gonna give all women a bad name by being Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:10:06.000 Here are five reasons why this doesn't matter at all and why no one is excited about it.

00:10:10.000 They're all pretending they're excited.

00:10:11.000 Nobody's really excited. 1.00

00:10:12.000 They all know this is boring and it's stupid. 0.98

00:10:14.000 So number one, in order for something to be historic, you actually have to have overcome obstacles. 0.99

00:10:19.000 Or you actually have to have overcome obstacles.

00:10:21.000 So I didn't think it was that historic when Obama became the first black president, because I didn't think there were that many Americans who sat around tonight going, we have to stop the blacks from becoming president! 1.00

00:10:29.000 I think it's a small group of people.

00:10:31.000 So when he became president, I was like, okay, I knew a black guy could be president. 0.99

00:10:34.000 I just think he's a really bad guy to be president, and he happens to be black. 1.00

00:10:39.000 Okay, whatever. 0.98

00:10:40.000 And this is why I didn't fall into the Laura Ingraham trap of, oh, it's a historic moment for America. 1.00

00:10:44.000 No, it was a crappy moment, because Obama's a crappy president. 0.99

00:10:47.000 Nobody opposed Hillary because she's a woman. 1.00

00:10:50.000 There's no obstacle for her to overcome.

00:10:51.000 Everybody knew she was going to be president since she was in the womb. 1.00

00:10:54.000 Right before she was in the womb.

00:10:56.000 She's been running for president since she was born. 1.00

00:10:59.000 So this idea that she is some sort of standard-bearer for women is crap. 0.99

00:11:03.000 Second of all, women complaining that we finally have someone to represent us. 1.00

00:11:09.000 53% of all presidential votes in 2008 and 2012 were women.

00:11:14.000 Women are the majority of voters.

00:11:15.000 You don't get to complain about your being victimized in the electoral process when you're the majority of the people voting. 0.93

00:11:21.000 That's silly talk.

00:11:23.000 The electoral process isn't victimizing you if you're the majority.

00:11:27.000 You're real victims.

00:11:27.000 Yeah, you're real victims.

00:11:28.000 Okay, fine.

00:11:29.000 Also, it's a lot more historic that Hillary's under FBI investigation than that she's a woman.

00:11:33.000 Let's be real about this.

00:11:34.000 If this were Sarah Palin who'd won a presidential nomination, which given the way this has gone, it may yet happen.

00:11:40.000 You can guarantee the media wouldn't be going nuts over it in the same way the media didn't give a damn that Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were winning primaries and both of them were Hispanic.

00:11:48.000 They didn't care.

00:11:50.000 Okay, fourth reason.

00:11:51.000 Obama stole Hillary's thunder. 0.99

00:11:52.000 Like, eight years ago, people were really pumped about this.

00:11:56.000 Eight years ago, they were saying, oh, well, you know, it's either gonna be the first woman or the first black guy, and blacks outrank women on the leftist hierarchy of victimhood.

00:12:05.000 So, Obama came along and he stole all her thunder, and now nobody cares.

00:12:09.000 I mean, this is like, it's Transformers 2.

00:12:11.000 Nobody liked the first movie all that much, and the second movie no one needed. 0.70

00:12:15.000 It'll earn lots of money and may be successful at the box office, but it's gonna be a complete crap show and nobody wants to see it. 0.80

00:12:20.000 Finally, women generally are not victims of society. 0.99

00:12:23.000 The notion that Hillary Clinton has been victimized in any way because she's a woman is absolutely absurd.

00:12:28.000 It's absolutely absurd.

00:12:29.000 She's only become successful because she's a woman. 1.00

00:12:31.000 If she were a man, no one would give her a second look as a politician. 1.00

00:12:34.000 She's terrible on stage. 0.99

00:12:36.000 She's awful interpersonally. 1.00

00:12:38.000 She has no new ideas.

00:12:39.000 She's really boring. 1.00

00:12:40.000 She's deeply corrupt. 1.00

00:12:41.000 She's the worst presidential candidate in modern history. 1.00

00:12:45.000 I mean, she's really that bad. 1.00

00:12:47.000 So, this idea that she's been a victim and now she's overcome it is just crap. 0.98

00:12:49.000 Nonetheless, Hillary Clinton is out there and she's talking about how wonderful all of this is. 0.93

00:12:54.000 So, Hillary spoke last night and the media, I mean, I have to say the media, there are a lot of people buying into the idea that Trump was going to be president after he destroyed the media during his primary run.

00:13:06.000 I never fully bought into it specifically because I said that the media

00:13:11.000 The media was bound to open up their guns on Trump when we hit a general.

00:13:15.000 That's what's happened so far.

00:13:16.000 So the media criticized Hillary. 0.60

00:13:18.000 Oh, she's not fun. 1.00

00:13:19.000 Oh, she's not interesting. 1.00

00:13:20.000 Maybe Bernie Sanders is more interesting.

00:13:22.000 Now that they're in general election mode, they're now making Hillary into the great heroine. 0.99

00:13:26.000 She's the kindly-hearted grandmother who's just here to help us. 0.99

00:13:30.000 And so Hillary Clinton, she spoke last night about how her vagina qualified her for high office. 1.00

00:13:35.000 Here she is talking about how she's broken the glass ceiling with her cankles. 0.99

00:13:41.000 Clip one.

00:13:44.000 It is wonderful to be back in Brooklyn here in this beautiful building.

00:13:54.000 And it may be hard to see tonight, but we are all standing under a glass ceiling right now.

00:14:02.000 But don't worry.

00:14:10.000 We're not smashing this one.

00:14:14.000 Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone.

00:14:19.000 The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee. 1.00

00:14:32.000 Yay, women! 1.00

00:14:33.000 Yay! 0.99

00:14:34.000 Okay.

00:14:35.000 There's only one problem.

00:14:36.000 She's saying this in Brooklyn, New York.

00:14:37.000 Okay?

00:14:38.000 If she said she was a man in this speech and I called her a woman, they would find me in Brooklyn, New York. 0.56

00:14:42.000 So the left has this bizarre notion that men can be women and women can be men, except when it comes to Hillary, it's super important that she's a woman. 0.98

00:14:49.000 Deeply important that Hillary Clinton is an actual female.

00:14:52.000 Because females are different than men. 1.00

00:14:54.000 But if you say females are different than men, then you're a sexist, and you're against transgenders, and you have to be fined $250,000 by the people in New York.

00:15:03.000 So, very exciting.

00:15:04.000 The left has no idea what it's talking about.

00:15:05.000 All they know is that it's a milestone, a milestone moment for Hillary Clinton.

00:15:10.000 And then Hillary continued along these lines. 0.99

00:15:11.000 Hillary Clinton, she suggests that 0.87

00:15:15.000 This is where she makes her political case, and this is the thing. 0.87

00:15:17.000 She's the same old boring politician. 1.00

00:15:19.000 She's the same old boring Democrat politician with a vuhuhu. 0.99

00:15:23.000 That's her entire appeal.

00:15:24.000 Her entire appeal is, and when Trump says that all she has to play is the women's card, this is correct. 1.00

00:15:30.000 This is right.

00:15:32.000 Okay?

00:15:32.000 It's true.

00:15:33.000 All she has is this.

00:15:35.000 That's it.

00:15:35.000 So here is Hillary Clinton making her political case, and you'll see just how weak this is.

00:15:42.000 As we look ahead to the battle that awaits, let's remember all that unites us.

00:15:48.000 We all want an economy with more opportunity and less inequality, where Wall Street can never wreck Main Street again.

00:15:56.000 We all want a government that listens to the people, not the power brokers, which means getting unaccountable money out of politics.

00:16:06.000 And we all want a society

00:16:09.000 That is tolerant, inclusive, and fair.

00:16:12.000 Okay, this is so unbelievable that these things are leaving her mouth, right?

00:16:16.000 Okay, what did she just say?

00:16:17.000 Here's what she said right there.

00:16:18.000 She says a couple of things.

00:16:19.000 An economy with less inequality.

00:16:21.000 She's worth a hundred million dollars because she's charging people six figures to speak. 1.00

00:16:26.000 Right?

00:16:26.000 She lives in Chappaqua because she's a politician who made money off her politics.

00:16:30.000 She says Wall Street shouldn't be able to wreck Main Street again.

00:16:33.000 Hillary Clinton was literally the person who laid the ground stone for Goldman Sachs in New York City.

00:16:39.000 We have the pictures.

00:16:41.000 And then she says we want a government that listens to the people, not the power brokers.

00:16:44.000 What?! !

00:16:45.000 You ran the Clinton Foundation where you sold government favors on behalf of dictatorships.

00:16:51.000 And then she says she wants to get unaccountable money out of politics. 1.00

00:16:55.000 Really?

00:16:56.000 Really?

00:16:56.000 That's what you want to do?

00:16:57.000 And then she says she wants a society that's tolerant, inclusive, and fair, except for her Republican enemies and religious people who have to be shut up at the first available opportunity. 0.99

00:17:05.000 So all this is crap. 1.00

00:17:05.000 All this is crap. 1.00

00:17:06.000 But she's wearing a really expensive coat, and she has a vagina. 1.00

00:17:09.000 So that's all that matters. 0.99

00:17:11.000 You just take that old wine and pour it into a new bottle.

00:17:14.000 But it's a new, magically, genitally different bottle.

00:17:17.000 So that's all that matters here.

00:17:19.000 By the way, I'm not sure where she gets her clothing. 0.65

00:17:21.000 This one, I think she got from Christian Bale and Equilibrium.

00:17:23.000 But she continues along.

00:17:25.000 Then Hillary turns to her main opponent. 1.00

00:17:27.000 And politics is the art of opposition, and so here's where Hillary is going to be strongest. 1.00

00:17:31.000 This is where Hillary goes after Donald Trump. 0.99

00:17:33.000 But even here, Hillary is wildly incompetent. 1.00

00:17:35.000 What makes me so sad about this, folks? 0.97

00:17:37.000 Hillary does not deserve to be a major party nominee. 1.00

00:17:39.000 She doesn't deserve to be in politics. 1.00

00:17:41.000 She's a criminal. 1.00

00:17:42.000 She deserves to be in prison. 1.00

00:17:43.000 It shouldn't be hard to beat her in a general election.

00:17:45.000 But in a minute, we're going to get to the other side of the aisle, and you'll see why it's not going to be easy for Donald Trump to beat her in a general election.

00:17:51.000 Here's Hillary taking on Trump. 1.00

00:17:53.000 When he says, let's make America great again, that is code for, let's take America backwards.

00:18:08.000 Back to a time when opportunity and dignity were reserved for some, not all.

00:18:15.000 Promising his supporters an economy he cannot recreate.

00:18:21.000 We, however, we want to write the next chapter in American greatness.

00:18:28.000 with a 21st century prosperity that lifts everyone who's been left out and left behind, including those who may not vote for us but who deserve their chance to make a new beginning.

00:18:44.000 What was Obama's campaign slogan in 2012 again?

00:18:45.000 Oh yeah, that's right, it was forward.

00:18:59.000 Right, and he argued that Mitt Romney wanted to take us back to the 50s.

00:19:01.000 So she's running all the same playbook.

00:19:02.000 This is why she's easy to beat, gang. 1.00

00:19:04.000 She's running exactly the same playbook.

00:19:05.000 It's the only playbook she knows. 0.99

00:19:07.000 She's a by-the-book, rote, corrupt Democrat hack. 1.00

00:19:10.000 She always has been, but she's a woman, and so we're gonna all pretend that we're excited about this. 1.00

00:19:15.000 And then she attacks Trump, and here is where she actually has some material against Trump.

00:19:20.000 Here she goes after Trump for his racism. 0.98

00:19:23.000 When Donald Trump says a distinguished judge, born in Indiana, can't do his job because of his Mexican heritage, or he mocks a reporter with disabilities, or calls women pigs, 0.98

00:19:51.000 It goes against everything we stand for. 0.83

00:19:54.000 Okay, we'll stop it there.

00:19:56.000 So Hillary going after Trump here, there's no defense for Trump here. 1.00

00:19:58.000 He could go after her and say she does a lot of these same things, but she doesn't mock people with disabilities.

00:20:04.000 She's terrible to women. 1.00

00:20:05.000 But again, what would be nice is if we didn't have a candidate who is this vulnerable on all of these charges.

00:20:10.000 And this is what Hillary's gonna do, right?

00:20:12.000 So this is what Hillary's gonna do. 0.99

00:20:13.000 She's gonna knock Trump on all of this, and she's gonna campaign as kind of the typical Democrat, 1.00

00:20:17.000 Well, we believe we should lift each other up, not tear each other down. 1.00

00:20:19.000 Unless my husband raped you. 1.00

00:20:20.000 In that case, I'll tear you down, but sure. 0.99

00:20:47.000 We believe we need to give Americans a raise, not complain that hard-working people's wages are too high.

00:20:58.000 We believe we need to help young people struggling with student debt not pile more on our national debt with giveaways to the super wealthy.

00:21:11.000 We believe we need to make America the clean energy superpower of the 21st century.

00:21:21.000 I love when politicians nod to themselves.

00:21:23.000 Not insist that climate change is a hoax.

00:21:26.000 She's like, you go, Hillary. 0.86

00:21:27.000 So what she does is she takes a lot of these leftist tropes and she mixes them up with things that are not leftist.

00:21:33.000 So for example, she says, we can't pile more on our national debt with giveaways to the super wealthy, since one of Democrats cared about the national debt.

00:21:39.000 They blew it out.

00:21:41.000 Blew it out.

00:21:42.000 Her husband cut the national debt, but she hasn't.

00:21:45.000 When she says that she wants to make America the clean energy superpower, 0.87

00:21:49.000 For ignorant people, you can't make America a clean energy superpower without destroying all of the jobs that actually create the energy upon which you live.

00:21:57.000 But she says all these things and she sounds like a moderate. 0.97

00:21:59.000 She sounds like a moderate.

00:22:00.000 And then, listen, this one's amazing.

00:22:02.000 Here's where she goes full moderate, right?

00:22:04.000 Listen to her take a couple of leftists, like a drop of leftism, and mix it in with a bunch of right-wing rhetoric. 1.00

00:22:09.000 Here we go.

00:22:11.000 To be great, we can't be small.

00:22:16.000 We have to be as big as the values that define America.

00:22:21.000 And we are a big-hearted, fair-minded country.

00:22:26.000 We teach our children that this is one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

00:22:36.000 Okay, let me stop it right there.

00:22:37.000 She's nodding to herself.

00:22:38.000 She just nods to herself all the way through this horrific speech.

00:22:40.000 Okay, so, notice something.

00:22:42.000 The Democrats want to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance.

00:22:45.000 This has been a major issue, okay?

00:22:46.000 I was at the 2012 DNC, at the Democratic National Convention, when they literally booed God because God was in their platform and they wanted to remove it.

00:22:54.000 And here she is, preaching Republican stuff about

00:22:58.000 So, yes.

00:22:58.000 Yes.

00:23:24.000 There are still ceilings to break for women and men for all of us, but don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America.

00:23:36.000 Barriers can come down.

00:23:38.000 Justice and equality can win.

00:23:42.000 Our history has moved in that direction, slowly at times,

00:23:47.000 Okay, so she's just ripping off Obama's rhetoric. 1.00

00:23:53.000 And this is what Obama did all the way through 2008.

00:23:55.000 He said, barriers can come down.

00:23:56.000 I'm proof that barriers can come down.

00:23:58.000 Then he got into office and he said, oh look at that, all the barriers are still here.

00:24:01.000 And they're terrible, these barriers.

00:24:03.000 They're awful.

00:24:03.000 That's why you have to re-elect me, is to take those barriers down.

00:24:06.000 And now Hillary is saying, oh look at that. 1.00

00:24:08.000 The barriers are down because you're electing me.

00:24:10.000 And then as soon as she gets into office, it'll be, the barriers are still up.

00:24:13.000 Guess we need a bigger government.

00:24:14.000 See, for the left, the barriers never come down.

00:24:16.000 So this is all a ruse, okay?

00:24:17.000 All of this is lies. 0.98

00:24:18.000 All of this is typical Democratic nonsense. 1.00

00:24:20.000 All of this is garbage. 0.99

00:24:21.000 But the media have to be excited because if they can slap a new face on it, then it's just magical. 0.99

00:24:27.000 All this is is just...

00:24:29.000 You know, there are these series like Law & Order where they do Law & Order CSI or CSU or whatever.

00:24:33.000 They just have Special Victims Unit and then they have Law & Order Hawaiian Narcs and they have, you know, they have Law & Order and Thousand Spinoffs. 0.62

00:24:41.000 And eventually you just go, oh, okay, I get this.

00:24:43.000 This is the same show with the same formula.

00:24:45.000 You just put a couple of new leads in there.

00:24:47.000 Yeah, that's Hillary. 1.00

00:24:48.000 Hillary's the new lead, and we have to find an excuse to be excited about her, because we can't be excited about her, and we have to find an excuse to be excited about her ideas, but we can't be excited about her ideas, so instead we go to, well, you know, she's the first one doing it.

00:25:00.000 She's the first one.

00:25:01.000 Okay, so meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, Donald Trump... 1.00

00:25:04.000 He's desperately trying to tamp down the civil war that he has initiated with his own stupidity. 1.00

00:25:09.000 And so Donald Trump and yes, racism. 1.00

00:25:12.000 Donald Trump is now reading from a teleprompter.

00:25:15.000 So all of these Republicans are so desperate, desperate to get behind him.

00:25:18.000 They're desperate to get behind him.

00:25:20.000 They are looking for any excuse to back him.

00:25:22.000 So Trump tries to give them one last night.

00:25:24.000 He wins the primaries because there's nobody else running at this point.

00:25:27.000 And then he flanks himself with his wife who looks like his daughter.

00:25:30.000 And he proceeds to explain via teleprompter what he wants for America.

00:25:35.000 And they have to put him on teleprompter because if he's off teleprompter...

00:25:38.000 He's gonna call somebody the n-word or something.

00:25:40.000 You never know.

00:25:40.000 I mean, he's just gonna spill something out that's gonna be bad.

00:25:43.000 So here's Donald Trump going after, talking about how he's going to be unifying people.

00:25:48.000 He starts off with his victory speech.

00:25:52.000 He says, we're closing a chapter in history.

00:25:53.000 He says, Hillary's historic.

00:25:54.000 I'm historic too.

00:25:57.000 Now, recent polls have shown that I'm beating Hillary Clinton, and with all of her many problems and the tremendous mistakes that she's made, and she has made tremendous mistakes, we expect our lead to continue to grow and grow substantially.

00:26:20.000 To everyone who voted for me throughout this campaign, I want to thank you.

00:26:25.000 I want to thank you very, very much.

00:26:32.000 To those who voted for someone else in either party, I'll work hard to earn your support, and I will work very hard to earn that support.

00:26:41.000 To all of those Bernie Sanders voters who have been left out in the cold by a rigged system of superdelegates, we welcome you with open arms.

00:27:01.000 And by the way, the terrible trade deals that Bernie was so vehemently against, and he's right on that, will be taken care of far better than anyone ever thought possible.

00:27:13.000 And that's what I do.

00:27:15.000 We are going to have fantastic trade deals.

00:27:18.000 We're going to start making money and bringing in jobs.

00:27:21.000 Okay, so he's making promises he can't possibly keep, and then he's trying to draw in the Sanders supporters, but he's a great unifier.

00:27:26.000 Quick note, when he says we won so many votes, more votes than anybody in history, it's historic.

00:27:31.000 It is historic, he's the first orange man to ever be a presidential nominee for a major party.

00:27:35.000 But besides that, he, and the first Thrice Married guy, and the first reality TV star, so history is being made as we watch, folks.

00:27:42.000 It's also exciting between Hillary and Trump. 0.80

00:27:45.000 It's, I don't know which is more historic, the Hindenburg or the Titanic, but it's all very historic.

00:27:50.000 Quick note, when Trump says he won more votes than any Republican primary candidate in history, it is worth noting that Donald Trump also lost more primary votes than any candidate in history.

00:28:00.000 He won about 13.2 million votes.

00:28:02.000 He lost about 16 million votes.

00:28:05.000 So he won a lower percentage of the vote as the nominee than any candidate since Richard Nixon in 1968.

00:28:13.000 So, yeah.

00:28:15.000 Then he continues and he says he's gonna create peace.

00:28:18.000 He says he's a fighter but he wants to make peace.

00:28:22.000 Now I know some people say I'm too much of a fighter.

00:28:26.000 My preference is always peace, however.

00:28:30.000 And I've shown that.

00:28:31.000 I've shown that for a long time.

00:28:33.000 I've built an extraordinary business on relationships and deals that benefit all parties involved.

00:28:40.000 Always.

00:28:42.000 My goal is always, again, to bring people together.

00:28:47.000 But if I'm forced to fight for something I really care about, I will never, ever back down, and our country will never, ever back down.

00:29:01.000 Alright, so this is his stick.

00:29:02.000 He's gonna make peace.

00:29:03.000 And he's back on the teleprompter, and everybody's very excited.

00:29:05.000 Everybody's just, ooh, okay, very excited.

00:29:08.000 He's back on the teleprompter.

00:29:09.000 Clearly, Donald Trump, we've been waiting for good Trump, right?

00:29:12.000 We keep waiting for good Trump, and we're finally, we finally hit good Trump, right?

00:29:16.000 We've been waiting for the Trump who can control himself and be presidential, and who can take it to Hillary Clinton, and go right at Hillary Clinton, 0.77

00:29:23.000 And he does this, he says that he's gonna go right at Hillary Clinton, he says he's gonna give a big speech on Monday in which he goes after Hillary Clinton and he talks about the State Department being her hedge fund and all this stuff.

00:29:32.000 Fine.

00:29:33.000 Within 24 hours, here's Donald Trump on Twitter.

00:29:36.000 Within 24 hours.

00:29:37.000 So, here's Donald Trump on Twitter.

00:29:39.000 Quote.

00:29:40.000 Nobody is watching Morning Joe anymore.

00:29:41.000 Gone off the deep end.

00:29:43.000 Bad ratings.

00:29:43.000 You won't believe what I am watching now.

00:29:46.000 This is good, Trump.

00:29:47.000 Okay?

00:29:47.000 Retweeting.

00:29:48.000 Where is the reporting?

00:29:50.000 Most votes for president in history of USA.

00:29:52.000 All capital letters, right?

00:29:53.000 He's retweeting people now in praise of himself.

00:29:55.000 Great speech!

00:29:56.000 S-P-E-A-C-H. 1.00

00:29:59.000 Great speach! 0.99

00:30:00.000 Thanks!

00:30:01.000 And this is what he's retweeting.

00:30:08.000 So this is good Trump.

00:30:10.000 This is what good Trump looks like. 1.00

00:30:11.000 Good Trump looks like this idiot. 1.00

00:30:12.000 By the way, when he says, I'm not watching MSNBC, you'll never guess what I am watching. 1.00

00:30:16.000 You're right.

00:30:16.000 I don't know.

00:30:17.000 What is it?

00:30:17.000 Is it pornography?

00:30:18.000 Are you watching bikini videos of your daughter? 0.80

00:30:21.000 Are you watching the world burn?

00:30:22.000 I mean, it could be anything.

00:30:24.000 It could be anything.

00:30:24.000 I don't know.

00:30:25.000 He's such a mystery.

00:30:26.000 He's such a mystery.

00:30:27.000 This is good Trump. 1.00

00:30:28.000 And good Trump also says Republicans are just going to have to get over the fact that he says stupid things every so often. 0.99

00:30:33.000 Here is Donald Trump last night, after saying he's a great unifier, he glares into the camera and explains that everybody needs to hop on board the Trump train. 0.98

00:30:43.000 When you hear Republicans, I've watched Republicans attack you in the last 24 hours, and I'm thinking, I haven't heard some of these Republicans attack Barack Obama, who was able to pass his entire agenda because they wouldn't fight him as hard as they're fighting you.

00:30:58.000 Is that a feeling you have?

00:31:02.000 Well, it's sad.

00:31:03.000 I don't care where the judge comes from or where judges come from.

00:31:06.000 I just want to see, I want to get a fair shake.

00:31:08.000 And we've had some very unfair opinions coming down.

00:31:11.000 And you wonder what's going on.

00:31:13.000 And I will tell you, it's a little disappointing.

00:31:15.000 Some of the Republicans, and in all fairness, there's some of the people that I went through war with and I won.

00:31:22.000 And there's a lot of, there's a lot of anxiety there.

00:31:24.000 There's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of anger, I guess.

00:31:29.000 Anger.

00:31:29.000 They just can't come back.

00:31:30.000 They can't get over it.

00:31:31.000 So they have to get over it, ideally.

00:31:33.000 As to whether or not they endorse me, it's okay if they don't.

00:31:36.000 But they have to get over it.

00:31:37.000 They have to get over it.

00:31:37.000 Everybody has to get over it.

00:31:38.000 Okay, first of all, Sean Hannity, my God.

00:31:41.000 Okay, why haven't any of these people attacked Obama as harshly as they've attacked Trump?

00:31:45.000 I was here.

00:31:46.000 Okay, I was here.

00:31:47.000 I spent the last eight years ripping Obama a new one.

00:31:51.000 Most of the never-Trump people?

00:31:53.000 I'm not talking about some of the fair-weather never-Trumpers.

00:31:55.000 I'm not talking about the John Kasichs of the world.

00:31:57.000 I'm talking about the hardcore conservative never-Trumpers, the people at National Review, for example.

00:32:02.000 I'm talking about Eric Erickson.

00:32:03.000 You think these are people who are soft on Obama?

00:32:06.000 The question is why you're backing a guy who mirrors half of Obama's policies.

00:32:10.000 And mirrors half of his philosophy.

00:32:12.000 But in any case, Trump, that's good Trump.

00:32:15.000 So waiting for good Trump is like waiting for Godot, okay?

00:32:17.000 Godot's never showing up and neither is good Trump.

00:32:19.000 It's never gonna happen.

00:32:20.000 Meanwhile, but I will note this, and this is worth noting.

00:32:22.000 This is worth noting.

00:32:23.000 Okay, the difference between Republicans and Democrats is that when Republicans nominate somebody absolutely unfit, like Donald Trump,

00:32:29.000 There's a civil war inside the Republican Party.

00:32:32.000 When Democrats nominate somebody absolutely unfit like Hillary Clinton, they consolidate around her, the banner goes up, and they say that she's the greatest thing since sliced bread. 1.00

00:32:40.000 And that's what's been happening.

00:32:41.000 So, for example, here is Claire McCaskill, who is a Hillary ally. 0.99

00:32:46.000 She's asked directly about Hillary brokering deals for the Russians.

00:32:50.000 And there's a famous story in which Hillary Clinton at the State Department allowed the Russians to buy this uranium company in the United States.

00:32:59.000 And another point of attack for him is going to be the Clinton Global Initiative.

00:33:11.000 Whether it's why the tax returns were restated and what that means, what deals Bill Clinton was making with Russia and uranium, what kind of shady nations were able to give a lot of money to that foundation while Clinton was the Secretary of State.

00:33:25.000 These are real concerns.

00:33:26.000 Do you think that you have real answers?

00:33:29.000 Well, I think that the Clinton Foundation did a lot of good around the world.

00:33:33.000 And Hillary Clinton could have easily said, no, I don't want to be Secretary of State. 1.00

00:33:36.000 I want to go make more money.

00:33:38.000 At any juncture, Hillary Clinton could have made a choice in her life to make money. 1.00

00:33:43.000 She made a choice at every juncture in her life to serve the public.

00:33:47.000 Every scar she had came from public service.

00:33:51.000 And I think that's important to remember.

00:33:52.000 Okay, we need to stop it right there.

00:33:53.000 She made a choice at every point in her life to serve the public.

00:33:55.000 To serve a public, in Hillary Clinton's mind, is a cookbook. 1.00

00:33:58.000 Our fight is to transform this country and to understand

00:34:29.000 And to understand that we are in this together.

00:34:39.000 To understand that all of what we believe is what the majority of the American people believe.

00:34:54.000 And to understand that the struggle continues.

00:34:59.000 The struggle continues.

00:35:01.000 We shall overcome.

00:35:02.000 By the way, there actually is tape.

00:35:03.000 We'll have to grab it.

00:35:04.000 There is tape of Bernie Sanders actually singing We Shall Overcome from a CD that he cut when he was the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, because he did a nutcase.

00:35:11.000 Part of the amusement, by the way, of watching Bernie Sanders tape is that it always appears halfway through the sentence that he might lose his train of thought and just start talking about when he used to play stickball in the streets or something.

00:35:24.000 And then he sort of continues, so there's always this kind of awkward pause, and then you wait for him to just, like your grandfather, who's a little addled, you wait for him to continue on a completely different topic.

00:35:34.000 But Bernie Sanders, remember, he was the darling of the left, MSNBC loved him, now they're ready to consolidate around Hillary, and so Bernie Sanders, they have to dig a grave for him, and then they have to knock him in the face, like Joe Pesci at the end of Casino, and bury him in a cornfield somewhere.

00:35:45.000 So here's Rachel Maddow doing exactly that on MSNBC last night, or Chris Hayes, I can't really tell the difference.

00:35:51.000 According to this Politico piece tonight, it was Senator Sanders himself, quote, who personally rewrote his campaign manager's shorter statement after the chaos of that state party convention.

00:36:01.000 The statement that the Sanders campaign put out after Nevada basically said, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course Bernie Sanders is against violence, but...

00:36:09.000 This was caused by the convention.

00:36:10.000 They're blaming Senator Sanders for writing that himself.

00:36:13.000 Quote, he was the one who also made the choice to go after DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz after his wife read him a transcript of her blasting him on television.

00:36:22.000 It was Senator Sanders himself who chose, as Politico puts it, the knife fight over calling Hillary Clinton unqualified, which aids blame for pulling the bottom out of any hopes they had of winning in New York.

00:36:33.000 And when Jimmy Kimmel's producers asked the Sanders campaign for a question to ask Donald Trump, Sanders himself wrote the one challenging Donald Trump to a debate.

00:36:42.000 So blaming Bernie Sanders himself for all of those strategic decisions.

00:36:46.000 And the piece also says that Sanders is personally responsible for setting the basic tone of the campaign recently, which has been, and it's quoted as, screw me? 0.96

00:36:58.000 No, screw you. 0.98

00:36:59.000 Yes. 0.99

00:37:03.000 You know, you take these end of campaign stories, I do, with several grains of salt.

00:37:08.000 I mean, because you do have to look at the sourcing and you have to then try to figure out... And we don't know who on the Sanders campaign is.

00:37:15.000 Aides say Sanders thinks that progressives who picked Hillary Clinton over him are cynical, power-chasing chickens, like Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio.

00:37:26.000 One of Bernie Sanders' most consistent allies in the Senate before endorsing Clinton and campaigning hard for her ahead of the Ohio primary.

00:37:32.000 Sanders is so bitter about that that he would be ready to nix Sherrod Brown as an acceptable VP choice for Clinton if Clinton ever asked his advice on who would be a good progressive champion.

00:37:44.000 So, Matt, I was really upset about this.

00:37:47.000 She's very upset at Bernie Sanders.

00:37:49.000 Why doesn't he just go away?

00:37:50.000 Why doesn't he just leave us all alone?

00:37:52.000 So they romanced with Bernie Sanders.

00:37:53.000 Now they want to consolidate.

00:37:54.000 And so Sanders has to go away.

00:37:55.000 So the Democrats are rallying around their felon.

00:37:57.000 They're rallying around their historic felon.

00:37:59.000 Meanwhile, the Republicans are tearing each other apart.

00:38:01.000 And they're tearing each other apart because there are people in the Republican Party who look at Donald Trump and they say, what the living hell are you doing? 0.93

00:38:08.000 What the living hell are you doing?

00:38:10.000 And it's people who have heretofore been Trump supporters. 0.87

00:38:14.000 Even Trump's own supporters are now beginning to realize the awkwardness of supporting Trump.

00:38:18.000 One Trump supporter, Dan Coats of Indiana, apparently who was asked, what politically, what on policy makes Trump better than Hillary?

00:38:25.000 He paused for 11 seconds before he could come up with a response.

00:38:28.000 Mitch McConnell, who has come out in favor of Donald Trump, he was asked by Matt Lewis here, you know, what should Donald Trump do?

00:38:35.000 And here's Mitch McConnell.

00:38:38.000 I think a good place to start would be to apologize for the various totally inappropriate things he's said over the last couple of weeks.

00:38:48.000 Another thing I'd like to see him do is get on script.

00:38:52.000 I think it's time for him to look like a serious candidate for president, which means that you need to think before you speak, you need to apologize when you make a mistake, and get on script.

00:39:07.000 He's running for the most important job in the country, some would argue, in the world.

00:39:11.000 And I think there's a certain threshold of credibility that needs to be met.

00:39:15.000 I was with him in the green room when he went to the NRA convention in Louisville a couple of weeks ago.

00:39:21.000 And I said, hey, Donald, have you got a script?

00:39:25.000 Pulled it out of his pocket.

00:39:26.000 I said, are you going to use it?

00:39:28.000 He said, I hate the script.

00:39:30.000 It's boring.

00:39:31.000 I said, put me down if they were boring.

00:39:34.000 Okay, well it doesn't matter because he ain't gonna listen to you, gang.

00:39:38.000 Putting you down in favor of boring is not a surprise, but he ain't gonna listen to you.

00:39:41.000 Hugh Hewitt, who's been a real Republican Party loyalist.

00:39:43.000 I mean, Hugh is a guy who really believes in Republican Party unity.

00:39:47.000 This morning on his radio show, he said that they should try to take the nomination away from Trump at the convention, even after all the primaries have been ended.

00:39:54.000 Here's Hewitt.

00:39:55.000 It's like ignoring stage 4 cancer.

00:39:56.000 You can't do it.

00:39:57.000 You gotta go attack it.

00:39:58.000 And right now, the Republican Party is facing... the plane is headed towards the mountains.

00:40:04.000 After the last 72 hours.

00:40:05.000 And you have Mark Kirk on endorsement.

00:40:06.000 I'm not personally going to lose anyway.

00:40:07.000 I'm not a Mark Kirk fan.

00:40:09.000 I don't believe in casting aspersions on him.

00:40:12.000 He's not going to get re-elected.

00:40:14.000 Lindsey Graham is a very serious student of the world.

00:40:18.000 With whom I've disagreed often, but in the last two years on ISIS, he's absolutely right. 1.00

00:40:24.000 He speaks for a lot of people when he says he cannot vote for Donald Trump.

00:40:28.000 I'm disappointed to hear that.

00:40:29.000 I'll talk to Lindsey Graham about that.

00:40:30.000 You know, I want to support the nominee of the party, but I think the party ought to change the nominee, because we're going to get killed with this nominee.

00:40:36.000 And I have never said that.

00:40:38.000 I waited until after the primary was over.

00:40:40.000 I stayed Switzerland to the end, and the 72 hours dovetailed to that.

00:40:45.000 They ought to get together and let the convention decide.

00:40:47.000 If Donald Trump pulls over a makeover in the next four to five weeks, great!

00:40:52.000 They can keep him.

00:40:54.000 It would be better if he had done so five weeks ago.

00:40:57.000 Okay, it ain't gonna happen.

00:40:58.000 They're not gonna take the nomination away from Trump.

00:41:00.000 They're not gonna stop it, because if they do, 40% of the Republican base walks out on them, they lose the election anyway, and they're seen as people who rejected the popular will.

00:41:07.000 Okay, all this is to say, however, all this is to say that Trump, because he's basically indefensible, Republicans at least have the strength of principle to struggle with this.

00:41:18.000 At least they have the strength of principle to struggle with this.

00:41:20.000 I'm often asked about, on religious grounds, how do you know that you believe in God?

00:41:23.000 And the answer is, I struggle with God's justice, and that means I believe in him.

00:41:27.000 Okay?

00:41:28.000 Struggling with Donald Trump as the nominee means you actually have some principles.

00:41:31.000 Just jumping behind him demonstrates that you have no principles at all.

00:41:35.000 And the Republicans are struggling with this, and they ought to be struggling with this. 0.99

00:41:39.000 The Democrats don't struggle at all because they're all corrupt and terrible. 0.99

00:41:41.000 I mean, no matter what you say about Trump, Democrats are more corrupt and terrible than Republicans. 0.99

00:41:46.000 Not only are they in favor of mob rule, they're also in favor of a nominee who is an open felon. 0.99

00:41:51.000 An open felon.

00:41:52.000 Now, that said, the Wall Street Journal today is ripping on everybody who says that Paul Ryan shouldn't have endorsed Donald Trump.

00:41:58.000 There's an editorial in the Wall Street Journal that's just, it's legitimately one of the worst editorials I've ever read.

00:42:03.000 They basically blame people who are anti-Trump for Trump in the first place.

00:42:08.000 The Wall Street Journal is more responsible for Trump than people like me, okay?

00:42:11.000 The people at the Wall Street Journal ignoring illegal immigration, pretending that it's nothing bad, suggesting that Paul Ryan's immigration plan was some sort of boon, and then saying that the only two alternatives in life are Paul Ryan and Donald Trump, when Trump wins, that means that they have to side behind him.

00:42:26.000 I think there's a third way, and the third way is neither of those two, actual conservatism, but there is this tendency now that people have to be cudgeled into line

00:42:35.000 I don't think it's going to happen.

00:42:36.000 Okay.

00:42:36.000 Time for things that I like, and then a couple of things that I hate.

00:42:39.000 Okay, things that I like.

00:42:40.000 So, we're doing sports films and sports books this week.

00:42:44.000 So, in terms of sports films, this is the one that every man cries at.

00:42:48.000 Whenever you ask what movie makes a man cry, this is always the number one movie on everybody's list.

00:42:52.000 It's, of course, Field of Dreams, and here's a little bit of the trailer.

00:42:55.000 I have just created something totally illogical.

00:43:02.000 That's what I like about it.

00:43:20.000 You build what, who will come?

00:43:21.000 You didn't say.

00:43:23.000 I hate it when that happens.

00:43:25.000 Me too.

00:43:26.000 Who's hearing voices?

00:43:28.000 Ray is!

00:43:32.000 I think I know what if you build it, he will come means.

00:43:35.000 Ooh, why do I not think this is such a good thing?

00:43:39.000 Daddy, there's a man up there in your lawn.

00:43:42.000 Are you a ghost?

00:43:46.000 What do you think?

00:43:47.000 You look real to me.

00:43:54.000 This is really interesting.

00:43:58.000 You believed in the magic.

00:44:00.000 It happened.

00:44:00.000 Isn't that enough?

00:44:01.000 Annie, it's more than that.

00:44:03.000 I feel it as strongly as I've ever felt anything in my life.

00:44:05.000 There's a reason.

00:44:08.000 Okay, so it's a great movie.

00:44:09.000 It's a really, really good movie.

00:44:10.000 Burt Lancaster and James Earl Jones and it's a great cast.

00:44:13.000 Ray Liotta was really young and great in this film.

00:44:16.000 And, uh, there's one, you know, there's part of the movie that just doesn't fit.

00:44:19.000 There's part where they just start rambling about horrible right-wingers in Iowa that makes no sense. 0.95

00:44:24.000 About a ten-minute interlude in the middle of the film that's really dumb. 0.93

00:44:27.000 But the rest of the film is really, really good and truly American.

00:44:31.000 And the ending is, of course, fantastic.

00:44:34.000 For anybody who's close to their dad, the ending is great.

00:44:37.000 Uh, and, uh, and so that's, that's a, it's a, it's a very, it's, it's a, it's a fun movie to watch, and, and every guy cries at the end of that film.

00:44:44.000 Like, pretty much every guy cries at the end of that film.

00:44:46.000 Girls cry at the end of Shopaholic or something, but, but guys cry at the end of, cry at the end of Field of Dreams.

00:44:52.000 Um, I'll do, and I'll, I'll save, I have another baseball book, but I'll save it for, I'll save it for tomorrow.

00:44:56.000 Okay.

00:44:57.000 Things that I hate.

00:44:58.000 So.

00:44:59.000 There's a high school boy who has now won all state honors as a girl running track.

00:45:06.000 Here's what that looked like.

00:45:08.000 Yeah, we can play it.

00:45:10.000 The fastest 3A girls in the state crossed the finish line of the 100-meter run.

00:45:15.000 Haynes' Natafon Wengat is among them, but Wengat's story is different than any other runner at the state championships.

00:45:23.000 She was born a male.

00:45:25.000 Natafon and her coach declined to comment on this story, but outside the stadium, members of the Alaska Family Council gather to voice their opinion.

00:45:33.000 It is not fair and it is not right for our female athletes, and we have a responsibility to protect our girls that have worked really hard, that are working toward college scholarships.

00:45:43.000 Wengat was the third seed in the 100-meter race coming into the weekend, just missing the cut, Hutchison senior Saskia Harrison.

00:45:51.000 I'm glad that this person's comfortable with who they are and they're able to be happy who they are, but competitively I don't think it's completely 100% fair.

00:45:57.000 Well, I think that's an overgeneralization.

00:46:00.000 Alaska Schools Activities Association Executive Director Billy Strickland says the ASAA doesn't have a statewide policy for transgender athletes.

00:46:08.000 Set!

00:46:11.000 Okay, so we can stop here. 1.00

00:46:12.000 This is idiotic. 1.00

00:46:13.000 It's idiotic, okay? 1.00

00:46:14.000 If you're born a male, if you're a biological male, you shouldn't be competing against women. 1.00

00:46:18.000 Or, why don't we just get rid of- let's get rid of the categories entirely, and the only people who will be running are males. 0.82

00:46:23.000 Okay?

00:46:24.000 Because transgender males won't be able to compete with actual males who are not having hormone treatments. 0.96

00:46:28.000 Right?

00:46:28.000 Estrogen treatments.

00:46:29.000 So, this whole thing is incredibly dumb. 0.99

00:46:31.000 Okay. 0.98

00:46:31.000 Last thing that I hate today, and now I get to pick on our good friend Lindsay. 0.98

00:46:37.000 So Lindsay brought this up and she knew that she should not have done this.

00:46:40.000 It was a huge mistake because whenever she says stuff like this off the air, she knows that I'm immediately going to grab it and use it on the air.

00:46:46.000 What's the name of this guy?

00:46:49.000 Travis Barker.

00:46:50.000 Okay, Travis Barker is a rock musician and what group is he with?

00:46:57.000 Okay, he was with Blink-182, and for those who can't see this, for people who can't see this picture of Travis Barker, he's tattooed from neck on down.

00:47:05.000 I mean, he looks like the illustrated man from Ray Bradbury.

00:47:08.000 He's got tattoos everywhere, he's got some tattoos on his face, and he looks terrible.

00:47:13.000 And so, this is a meme of him.

00:47:16.000 Uh, you may think that he looks good, Lindsay, but that's, okay, that's, you're weird.

00:47:21.000 So, you have odd tastes.

00:47:23.000 There are homeless people who look better than this.

00:47:25.000 So Travis Barker is standing there and there's a meme of him and it says this, it says, quote, 1.00

00:47:38.000 This makes you a full-scale grade A moron. 0.98

00:47:42.000 Okay, this is the equivalent of some guys like, you know what? 0.99

00:47:44.000 I desperately want to play soccer, and I'm just to make sure I don't have a fallback position, I'm cutting off my arms. 0.53

00:47:50.000 I'm just gonna cut them off. 0.76

00:47:50.000 I don't need them. 0.76

00:47:51.000 You know, I need to play soccer.

00:47:52.000 I don't want any job.

00:47:53.000 You know, I may be tempted to jump to drop out of this whole soccer thing, and I don't want those arms there to remind me.

00:47:59.000 There'll be a constant reminder that I need to play soccer.

00:48:01.000 It's the only thing I can do.

00:48:02.000 All I have is legs now, right? 1.00

00:48:05.000 This is so stupid. 1.00

00:48:06.000 The reason this is stupid is because your tattoos do not guarantee you success in life. 1.00

00:48:10.000 They guarantee you won't be successful in one area, but they don't guarantee you will be successful in another area. 0.99

00:48:15.000 What made this guy presumably a successful drummer is that he can drum, not that he has tattoos.

00:48:21.000 Right, the idea, oh, I committed myself now, now I better learn how to drum. 0.86

00:48:25.000 Are you really that weak-minded?

00:48:26.000 You couldn't teach yourself to drum? 0.98

00:48:27.000 Like, you didn't realize that you had to learn how to drum to be a drummer until you slathered your body in terrible-looking tattoos?

00:48:33.000 Right, as you get older and those start to sag, you're just gonna start looking...

00:48:37.000 Like a graffiti cover bench in South Central LA? 0.99

00:48:40.000 It's so stupid, but this is what people do. 0.99

00:48:42.000 And I think writ large, this is actually a bigger message. 1.00

00:48:44.000 The bigger message is, don't set up obstacles for yourself in the opinion that this makes you more virtuous.

00:48:49.000 There are too many people in American society who do this.

00:48:53.000 Women who get pregnant out of wedlock, and then they go, oh well, you know, I did it, and look how courageous I am. 0.82

00:48:58.000 I overcame that to do X. You know it would have been better if you didn't do that.

00:49:02.000 You know what would've been better?

00:49:04.000 If he hadn't gotten the tattoos.

00:49:05.000 Because guess what? 1.00

00:49:05.000 You know what would've happened if this idiot had not been part of a successful man? 1.00

00:49:09.000 If he'd been like the other millions of people who played in a garage band and then fell apart and never made it big? 1.00

00:49:14.000 You know what would've happened?

00:49:15.000 I'd be paying for him!

00:49:17.000 Right?

00:49:17.000 He'd be on welfare.

00:49:17.000 He couldn't get a job.

00:49:18.000 That's his whole point.

00:49:19.000 His whole point is that he didn't want to get a normal job and live a normal life.

00:49:23.000 Right, so now your two options are you either make it big as a rockstar or I pay for you. 0.99

00:49:28.000 That's not my decision, that's your decision. 1.00

00:49:30.000 So you get to take away my money because you're stupid? 0.99

00:49:32.000 Okay, so I'm very glad that this guy made it big and so he's not relying on my money. 0.99

00:49:37.000 I'm very happy that he's not relying on my money.

00:49:39.000 But kids, take this as a lesson. 1.00

00:49:41.000 Don't be a moron. 1.00

00:49:42.000 Don't make irreversible decisions that create obstacles for yourself because, oh, I'm gonna make sure that I'm totally committed. 1.00

00:49:48.000 I'm totally committed into this career that I've chosen for myself.

00:49:51.000 I have to make sure that I'm committed.

00:49:53.000 Really?

00:49:53.000 Just tie like a string around your finger and remind yourself.

00:49:56.000 You really had to go and get under the needle for a thousand years.

00:50:00.000 I hate tattoos generally.

00:50:02.000 Lindsay knows this.

00:50:03.000 I mock her for her tattoo on a regular basis.

00:50:05.000 Lindsay has a tattoo on her wrist that says brave.

00:50:07.000 And as I've said, this is the difference between women and men, right? 0.99

00:50:10.000 You know who else has a brave tattoo, gang?

00:50:12.000 You know who else has a brave tattoo?

00:50:13.000 The Chewbacca lady.

00:50:15.000 She has a brave tattoo also.

00:50:16.000 Really, watch that tape.

00:50:18.000 She's sitting behind the Chewbacca mask.

00:50:19.000 She raises her arm at one point, and I mailed this to Lindsay.

00:50:21.000 I said, Lindsay, these are the kinds of people

00:50:24.000 She's so brave, she's so brave, because true bravery is not fighting in Normandy.

00:50:29.000 True bravery is sitting in a car with a Chewbacca mask and laughing hysterically while you video yourself.

00:50:34.000 That is true bravery, gang!

00:50:36.000 So, okay, so that's my little rant.

00:50:39.000 I love you.

00:51:06.000 What happens if you pre-commit yourself to a course?

00:51:08.000 You're 14 years old, I want to be an astronaut.

00:51:10.000 Because I want to be an astronaut, I'm going to ensure that I only live in this bubble for the next two years.

00:51:16.000 I'm just going to live in this bubble.

00:51:18.000 And then it turns out, well you know what, the whole astronaut thing didn't work out, but now I'm susceptible to every disease on the planet because I lived in a bubble. 1.00

00:51:24.000 Yeah, it's dumb, dumb, dumb stuff. 0.99

00:51:26.000 Like, think, think a little, think like the next step in your life, gang. 0.99

00:51:30.000 I think that there are a number of young people who got tattoos who are not thinking beyond, like, the next step, because if they thought 40 years down the line, particularly women, you'd realize how bad these tattoos are gonna look.

00:51:39.000 There's no such thing as a good-looking tattoo on a six-year-old woman. 1.00

00:51:43.000 Right?

00:51:43.000 It's all fun and games when you're 20 and hot.

00:51:45.000 It's a totally different thing when you're 70 and you look like you smoke six packs a day and you're sitting there without a larynx and you got a tattoo on your arm.

00:51:52.000 Okay, it looks totally different then.

00:51:53.000 So, let's just think a little bit down the road, gang.

00:51:57.000 And that's my message for the day.

00:52:00.000 Alright, we'll be back tomorrow with the Mailbag.

00:52:01.000 Subscribe at dailywire.com and you can be part of the Vaunted Ben Shapiro Show Mailbag and join the fun.

00:52:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:52:07.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - June 08, 2016

Ep. 131 - One Big Reason Republicans Are Better People Than Democrats

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