The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 134 - The Left Wants Your Guns Now, Dammit!

00:00:00.000 In the wake of the worst terrorist attack on American soil since 9-11, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have seen the enemy.

00:00:05.000 And the enemy is you.

00:00:08.000 It's us.

00:00:09.000 During the presumptive Democratic 2016 presidential nominee speech, she spent a lot of time calling on Americans to give up their guns in the name of stopping mass shootings like the Orlando radical Islamic terror attack.

00:00:21.000 She said, quote, I believe weapons of war have no place on our streets.

00:00:24.000 We may have our disagreements on gun safety regulations, but we should all be able to agree on a few things.

00:00:29.000 President Obama, by the way, said exactly the same thing.

00:00:32.000 His initial statement called on Americans to think about the risks we are willing to take by being so lax in how we make very powerful firearms available to people in this country.

00:00:41.000 We have to go after terrorist organizations and hit them hard, but we also have to make sure it's not easy for somebody who decides they want to harm people in this country to be able to obtain weapons to get at them.

00:00:52.000 I have a two-word response to President Obama and Hillary Clinton, and it rhymes with truck moo.

00:00:58.000 Here's why.

00:00:59.000 This was their responsibility, right?

00:01:01.000 This is on them.

00:01:01.000 As president and secretary of state, it's their job to protect Americans from the spread of terrorism in the country.

00:01:07.000 They have not.

00:01:08.000 They've turned ISIS from the JV team, those are Obama's words, into a major global terror threat.

00:01:13.000 Both Obama and Hillary simultaneously suggest that their government is omnipotent and powerful when it comes to screening terrorists and administering gun law, but they don't have enough tools at their disposal.

00:01:23.000 Obama's FBI investigated the Tarny brothers, the San Bernardino shooters, the Orlando terrorists.

00:01:28.000 They came up empty.

00:01:29.000 All three times.

00:01:31.000 They came up completely empty.

00:01:32.000 Yet we're supposed to believe that if we give them more power, and we give it to more of the federal government, the parts of the federal government less competent, by the way, than the FBI, somehow this is going to winnow out terrorists through thorough transparency, model efficiency, and pinpoint implementation if we give them a right to seize weapons from Americans or bar Americans who haven't been charged with a crime from exercising their rights.

00:01:54.000 In short, the incompetence of the federal government, at least in part,

00:01:57.000 Got 49 Americans killed in Orlando.

00:02:00.000 Their solution?

00:02:01.000 We should give them more power and limit our own ability to defend ourselves.

00:02:05.000 Not gonna happen.

00:02:07.000 See, here's the deal.

00:02:08.000 I live in California.

00:02:09.000 I live 40 minutes from the San Bernardino attack.

00:02:11.000 I lived in the same community as Yakov Aminov, the 46-year-old father who was murdered at LAX in 2002 by a radical Islamic terrorist at the LAX El Al counter.

00:02:20.000 I went to school next to the Simon Wiesenthal Center in LA.

00:02:23.000 That was the original target of white supremacist terrorist Buford Farrell,

00:02:27.000 I live within easy driving distance of the JCCC, the Jewish Community Center, that he ended up attacking.

00:02:32.000 In L.A., nobody gets a concealed carry permit.

00:02:35.000 Nobody.

00:02:36.000 Every time I walk to the synagogue, I have to make a risk assessment. 0.79

00:02:39.000 Is it worthwhile to illegally carry my Glock 9mm in case a terrorist should decide to shoot up some Jews today?

00:02:45.000 What's the bigger risk?

00:02:46.000 Getting shot in a synagogue or being arrested for illegally carrying because the government can't be there at once?

00:02:51.000 Well, for Obama and Hillary, there's no dilemma.

00:02:53.000 They lie, they pretend they can keep us safe,

00:02:56.000 Even as they fail to do so, and then they insist all we have to do is just disarm ourselves.

00:03:00.000 They're writing checks.

00:03:01.000 Victims are going to cash in blood. 0.93

00:03:04.000 Neither Obama nor Hillary can protect us. 0.99

00:03:06.000 If we delegate our complete self-protection to the same bunch of morons who fret over Donald Trump's rhetorical excesses more than the importation of Muslim extremists, who worry more about the ownership of an AR-15 by people like me than a radical Muslim gallivanting around with actual terrorists in Florida, nobody will be protected. 0.99

00:03:24.000 I do have things to protect, however, and so do you. 0.99

00:03:26.000 We all do.

00:03:27.000 Those things are too important to be left to the sniveling cowardice of the same exact administration that refuses to pronounce the words, radical Islam.

00:03:34.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:03:34.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:03:49.000 Blabbering about how radical Islam using the word was just useless. 0.96

00:03:52.000 It was pointless. 1.00

00:03:52.000 It was useless. 1.00

00:03:53.000 There was no reason to do it.

00:03:55.000 It was just a waste of his time. 0.89

00:03:57.000 And we discussed yesterday exactly why this is particularly dumb because we feel the reason that he's not using radical Islam is because he's sympathetic not to radical Islam per se, but he's sympathetic to the perspective that radical Islam doesn't really matter. 0.96

00:04:10.000 That radical Islam doesn't really matter. 1.00

00:04:11.000 That it's sort of an afterthought.

00:04:12.000 That if we just gave everybody enough money and a rich lifestyle and if life weren't so unfair,

00:04:18.000 Radical Islam would just sort of disappear into the woodwork. 1.00

00:04:21.000 We said that this is really, you know, this is an afterthought for the Obama administration.

00:04:28.000 And Obama said, no, it's not an afterthought.

00:04:29.000 I just don't want to say it.

00:04:30.000 I don't want to say it because it's useless. 0.82

00:04:32.000 And it's useless because it's counterproductive.

00:04:33.000 Okay, here's the proof that we're right and he's wrong.

00:04:36.000 So Jay Johnson, who is his Homeland Security Secretary, he's on TV and he explains what this threat really is in places like Orlando.

00:04:46.000 The president's number one priority, as is mine, is the protection of the homeland, protection of the American people.

00:04:51.000 As you know, we're doing a number of things to do that, both militarily through aggressive law enforcement and homeland security.

00:04:57.000 And we're going to continue and we're going to keep at this in this environment of homegrown, violent extremism.

00:05:03.000 And that's what Orlando is looking more and more like.

00:05:08.000 OK, he says it's homebound terrorism.

00:05:10.000 You shouldn't be that worried. 0.98

00:05:11.000 It's just silly. 0.97

00:05:13.000 It's just silly. 0.84

00:05:15.000 It's silly because the fact is that we know that we should worry about it because this terrorism is in some ways more likely to kill you than the sort of terrorism, the organized terrorism of 9-11.

00:05:23.000 It's happening all over the place, right?

00:05:25.000 We've got San Bernardino, we've got Texas, Fort Hood.

00:05:28.000 We had another one apparently in Armadillo.

00:05:31.000 Where is it?

00:05:32.000 In Texas.

00:05:34.000 Not Armadillo.

00:05:34.000 In Texas, in any case.

00:05:38.000 Amarillo, thank you.

00:05:38.000 My goodness.

00:05:39.000 It's like I'm from L.A.

00:05:40.000 or something.

00:05:41.000 Amarillo, Texas, there was apparently an attempted shooting.

00:05:44.000 We're still determining the motivation, but the guy who did it was apparently Muslim.

00:05:48.000 All over the United States, we've seen cases like this.

00:05:50.000 You're more likely to be killed in a movie theater by a terrorist than you are to be killed in a spectacular terrorist attack like 9-11.

00:05:56.000 So when he says you don't have to worry, these are just homegrown extremists.

00:05:59.000 I'm worried.

00:06:00.000 I'm worried.

00:06:01.000 And I'm worried because you imported their parents. 1.00

00:06:03.000 I'm worried because, as Donald Trump says, you imported their parents, and also you imported a lot of their spouses.

00:06:09.000 We're now learning that the mother, the wife in this particular case, that the wife, she was apparently somebody who knew that the husband was casing the joint.

00:06:18.000 So apparently Disney reported to the authorities that this guy was casing Disney World for an attack and the authorities did nothing because, hey, that's what the authorities do.

00:06:25.000 Right.

00:06:26.000 And now we know.

00:06:28.000 Not only that, we now know that the wife is talking.

00:06:31.000 To the FBI and she may be charged because she knew he was casing this particular gay bar. 0.89

00:06:35.000 He kept going there and taking her and she says, I tried to talk him out of it, but you know, oops, oops.

00:06:41.000 So Donald Trump comes down and he says, there have to be consequences for Muslims who don't report suspicious activities.

00:06:47.000 But it's so important that they, and they're tremendous people, it's so important that when they see trouble going on like they did in San Bernardino.

00:06:56.000 I mean, there were numerous people that saw bombs all over this apartment floor.

00:07:00.000 They knew something was going on.

00:07:01.000 They never reported him or her.

00:07:04.000 They never reported.

00:07:05.000 And then 14 people were killed, many, many people injured.

00:07:07.000 Same thing here.

00:07:08.000 You're going to find out with this savage that did this horrible thing over the weekend.

00:07:12.000 That many people said, Oh, I knew that was going to happen.

00:07:15.000 They've got to report them because the Muslims are the ones that see what's going on. 1.00

00:07:19.000 The Muslims are the ones that have to report them. 1.00

00:07:22.000 And if they don't report them, then there have to be consequences to them.

00:07:27.000 Okay.

00:07:27.000 So he says that if you don't report people, then that's, then the immediate result is going to be prosecution.

00:07:32.000 Most Americans will get this and go.

00:07:33.000 Yep.

00:07:34.000 Absolutely.

00:07:34.000 Right.

00:07:35.000 Donald Trump talking sense.

00:07:36.000 That's exactly right.

00:07:36.000 Especially when Barack Obama is doing this routine.

00:07:39.000 Yesterday, I mean, this was news that was completely ignored by everybody.

00:07:42.000 Yesterday, the Senate passed overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly, the Senate passed this law, the Senate bill, that was, it's not a law yet, a bill, that funds the Defense Department, right?

00:07:52.000 It funds the Defense Department.

00:07:54.000 Only one problem, only one problem.

00:07:56.000 President Obama threatens to veto it, right?

00:07:58.000 A couple of days after the largest terror attack in America since 9-11, President Obama threatens to veto the defense bill.

00:08:05.000 Why?

00:08:05.000 What happened?

00:08:06.000 Well, it turns out President Obama didn't like that,

00:08:09.000 He didn't like the defense bill.

00:08:09.000 Why?

00:08:10.000 Because it continued to fund Gitmo.

00:08:11.000 It continued to fund Guantanamo Bay.

00:08:13.000 So you have one party that's fundamentally unserious about terrorism, and even our most unserious person on the other side, even the right's most unserious person, if he is of the right, even the most unserious Republican in America, Donald Trump, he knows that you have to take terrorism seriously.

00:08:27.000 And the left isn't doing it.

00:08:28.000 The left isn't doing it.

00:08:29.000 Jeff Sessions, who's a surrogate for Donald Trump, he points out correctly, the Orlando attacker's father was an extremist.

00:08:36.000 But his father was clearly an extremist, a Taliban member, and properly done, he wouldn't have been admitted, I think.

00:08:47.000 So we can protect the United States in many ways by a much more aggressive enforcement.

00:08:55.000 Okay, so he says that his father was extreme too.

00:08:59.000 Again, true.

00:09:00.000 Again, true.

00:09:02.000 Look at Donald Trump, justify himself, and he looks serious.

00:09:06.000 Bill O'Reilly, who's an ally of Donald Trump's, granted, but Bill O'Reilly asks him, you know, Donald, President Obama keeps accusing you of contributing to the demonization of Muslims in the United States.

00:09:15.000 Here's Donald Trump's answer.

00:09:17.000 Do you believe that there is a danger now, that because of your hot rhetoric about the topic, and I agree with some of what you're saying, okay?

00:09:26.000 You gotta vet these people from overseas, you just can't let them waltz in. 1.00

00:09:30.000 I agree.

00:09:31.000 But do you see that you could be contributing to a demonization of all Muslims in general?

00:09:38.000 Is that possible?

00:09:40.000 No, just the opposite.

00:09:41.000 I really believe it's just the opposite.

00:09:43.000 I have many friends, you know that.

00:09:45.000 I've said it before.

00:09:46.000 I have many friends who are Muslim.

00:09:47.000 I get calls from many people thanking me, who are Muslim, thanking me.

00:09:51.000 I have some incredible friends, some wonderful friends.

00:09:53.000 Some are very successful, some aren't.

00:09:56.000 But I have many Muslim friends, and they're thanking me, many of them.

00:09:59.000 Not all of them, but many of them.

00:10:00.000 The fact is, she's allowing massive numbers of people to come in, and they're not all radicalized, and they're not all terrorists, but it doesn't take many, Bill.

00:10:10.000 If you take a look, this is one young man that did this damage.

00:10:16.000 50 people killed and probably a lot more to follow.

00:10:18.000 They're very, very gravely injured in hospitals right now.

00:10:21.000 They're wounded so badly.

00:10:23.000 So, this is one man.

00:10:24.000 So, it doesn't take very many, but we have many, in my opinion, you have many coming in, and they're smart and they're cunning, and they know how to get through the system, and by the way, they've stolen our passport machines, so they make passports better than we make passports.

00:10:39.000 We don't know who's coming in, and frankly, our president doesn't know what the hell he's doing.

00:10:45.000 Okay, so the president doesn't know what he's doing, and of course, Trump is exactly right, what he's saying here is right, you know, this talk about Muslim demonization, nobody is saying all Muslims 0.58

00:10:54.000 are responsible for this sort of stuff.

00:10:55.000 Nobody is saying that. 0.97

00:10:56.000 But radical Muslims are responsible for this sort of stuff because they're the ones doing it. 1.00

00:11:00.000 They're the ones doing it. 0.96

00:11:01.000 Now, here's where we go off the road.

00:11:04.000 Here's where we go off the road.

00:11:05.000 So, Donald Trump, over the weekend, and this preceded his speech, I talked about his speech yesterday, and I said I thought it was the best moment of his campaign.

00:11:13.000 I thought he said a lot of relevant and decent and good things.

00:11:16.000 Here's Donald Trump talking about President Obama.

00:11:19.000 This happened on Monday morning on Fox and Friends, and this is what the media is seizing on and jumping on.

00:11:26.000 We're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he's got something else in mind.

00:11:33.000 And the something else in mind, you know, people can't believe it.

00:11:37.000 People cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words radical Islamic terrorism.

00:11:47.000 There's something going on.

00:11:49.000 It's inconceivable.

00:11:51.000 Okay.

00:11:52.000 So he said, and then he continued along those lines.

00:11:54.000 Again, it's not the end of the quote.

00:11:55.000 He says it's inconceivable.

00:11:56.000 And what he continued by saying, and I'm gonna try and find the direct quote from Donald Trump because it's important.

00:12:01.000 What he actually said was, there's something else in mind.

00:12:03.000 He says, look, we're led by a man that is either not tough, not smart, or he's got something else in mind.

00:12:08.000 And the something else in mind, you know, people can't believe it.

00:12:11.000 People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts, and can't even mention the words radical Islamic terrorism.

00:12:17.000 Okay, so far so good.

00:12:18.000 There's something going on.

00:12:19.000 It's inconceivable.

00:12:20.000 There's something going on.

00:12:21.000 He doesn't get it, or he gets it better than anyone understands.

00:12:25.000 It's one or the other, and either one is unacceptable.

00:12:28.000 He gets it better than anyone understands.

00:12:29.000 So what does he get better than anybody else understands, right?

00:12:31.000 I mean, there's only one way, really, to interpret that.

00:12:34.000 And the idea there is that Obama totally understands radical Islam, and he's fine with it happening. 0.95

00:12:39.000 He's fine with them coming to the United States and engaging in terror. 0.67

00:12:42.000 And the only reason, presumably, he would do that is because he's a Muslim himself.

00:12:45.000 That's sort of the implication.

00:12:46.000 That's particularly implication coming from Trump in 2011, of course,

00:12:50.000 Trump suggested that Obama wasn't born in the United States, and he suggested that maybe his birth certificate said he was Muslim. 0.96

00:12:56.000 In 2012, Trump tweeted, quote, Okay, so, this is dumb stuff. 1.00

00:13:06.000 It's dumb. 1.00

00:13:06.000 Okay, it's really dumb. 1.00

00:13:08.000 And the reason it's dumb is because you don't have to be a Muslim in order to let radical Muslims get away with things, right? 1.00

00:13:12.000 The left does it routinely. 0.99

00:13:13.000 Hillary Clinton is not Muslim.

00:13:15.000 Obama's not Muslim either. 0.96

00:13:16.000 Obama is an atheist.

00:13:18.000 He doesn't believe in God.

00:13:20.000 If he's a Christian, it's in name only. 0.94

00:13:23.000 He's a Jeremiah Wright Christian, which is to say he believes in a Christ that reflects the leftist political priorities of Jeremiah Wright.

00:13:33.000 He's certainly not a devout Bible-believing Christian, clearly.

00:13:37.000 He's somebody who struggles to cite the Bible.

00:13:39.000 He's somebody who's not familiar with it.

00:13:41.000 He's somebody who believes more in his own atheistic agnostic version of the world than in the Bible.

00:13:46.000 That's fine, but what that means is that he believes, as we mentioned yesterday, that the world exists on a materialist Marxist plane.

00:13:53.000 The only reason that people do bad things is because they're poor, and the only reason they do bad things because they're poor is because the world is unfair, so if we just made the world more fair, then things would be all better.

00:14:02.000 Trump says this sort of thing, right?

00:14:04.000 He says that maybe Obama is a Muslim. 0.79

00:14:06.000 Maybe he's a covert Muslim. 1.00

00:14:09.000 This is really dumb stuff. 1.00

00:14:10.000 It's really dumb stuff. 1.00

00:14:11.000 And this is the problem with Trump. 0.99

00:14:13.000 What Trump giveth with one hand, he takes away with the other.

00:14:16.000 People are saying today, oh, Trump brought up issues that nobody else would have brought up in the aftermath of this attack.

00:14:20.000 That's not true.

00:14:21.000 Every Republican, every single Republican says the same sort of thing about radical Islam that Donald Trump says.

00:14:26.000 All of them, right?

00:14:28.000 They all say the same thing.

00:14:30.000 They all say the same thing.

00:14:31.000 The idea that Donald Trump brought something up, this is one of the great myths about Trump.

00:14:34.000 He raises issues no one else would raise.

00:14:36.000 No, the media pays attention to him raising issues that other people raise.

00:14:40.000 The media pay attention when Trump says illegal immigration is bad.

00:14:43.000 They don't care when other Republicans say it.

00:14:45.000 Republicans have been saying this since 9-11, right?

00:14:47.000 There's nothing new in what Trump said.

00:14:49.000 When Trump goes after Obama on the basis of he must be a covert Muslim or it's all undercover, this is the danger of Trump.

00:14:56.000 Trump can't handle it.

00:14:57.000 I've said before, if the man had any discipline, if he had any discipline at all, he'd be president easily.

00:15:02.000 He has no discipline and so he endangers that pretty much every day.

00:15:06.000 And so what happened is the Washington Post reported a headline

00:15:10.000 And the headline that they reported was something along the lines of, it was fascism, right?

00:15:16.000 That Donald Trump was calling for a, something that Donald Trump was saying that Obama was a Muslim.

00:15:24.000 And that was the implication there, but Donald Trump didn't like it.

00:15:27.000 So he said, based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record-setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post.

00:15:36.000 So Donald Trump doesn't like the Washington Post report,

00:15:38.000 The Washington Post is banned from his campaign.

00:15:41.000 So, you know, all of that.

00:15:43.000 This is this is all distraction from what should be the central issue, right?

00:15:46.000 The central issue should be the central issue should be radical Islam. 0.83

00:15:50.000 And why won't the left mention it?

00:15:51.000 Instead, the central issue is why is Donald Trump banning the Washington Post after quasi claiming that Obama is a covert Muslim?

00:15:57.000 Why?

00:15:58.000 What's the point?

00:15:59.000 The Post's original headline was Donald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting.

00:16:03.000 That's an unfair.

00:16:05.000 Headline.

00:16:05.000 It's also an unfair headline.

00:16:06.000 Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting.

00:16:09.000 All of that's unfair.

00:16:11.000 Granted, that's unfair.

00:16:12.000 Trump shouldn't have said it in the first place.

00:16:13.000 The Washington Post shouldn't have lied when they reported it.

00:16:15.000 Trump's within his rights to ban them.

00:16:17.000 It's not a smart move, but it's a move, I suppose.

00:16:20.000 The problem is it's all distraction.

00:16:21.000 It's all distraction from the one thing that he does right, right?

00:16:24.000 The one thing that he does right is name radical Islam. 1.00

00:16:27.000 This is just, it's just, it's just silly talk. 0.98

00:16:29.000 It's just silly talk. 0.96

00:16:30.000 And so Donald Trump does this and naturally the media are all over it. 0.88

00:16:34.000 Here's CNN.

00:16:35.000 There's a much larger point here, and I don't, I mean, I kind of hesitate when I thought about saying it, but I mean, this is fascism at its best.

00:16:43.000 I mean, you know, we've gone down the path of whether or not, you know, Donald Trump has said things that are racist or not racist.

00:16:49.000 I mean, we've gone down the path of whether or not he said things that are offensive or not offensive.

00:16:54.000 But this is fascism at its worst, to be completely honest with you.

00:16:57.000 I mean, banning the Washington Post, I mean, that's absurd.

00:17:01.000 I mean, just thinking about the fact that press, and professing your love for freedom, but not your love for the freedom of the press.

00:17:09.000 That's what happens when you get needled and you get thin-skinned.

00:17:11.000 I mean, Donald Trump even blocked me on Twitter.

00:17:13.000 This is somebody who is running for President of the United States.

00:17:16.000 And I just think that we need someone in this country who's built to lead.

00:17:20.000 And the last thing Donald Trump has built for is leadership.

00:17:23.000 Okay.

00:17:24.000 So Donald Trump is incapable of leading because he said all these things.

00:17:27.000 Here's the problem.

00:17:27.000 I think Donald Trump probably is incapable of leading.

00:17:30.000 Not probably.

00:17:30.000 I think he is incapable of leadership.

00:17:32.000 And when he says good things, they're immediately overshadowed by saying stupid things. 0.99

00:17:36.000 And if we had somebody who was on message, somebody who's willing to fight and on message, he'd be unstoppable. 1.00

00:17:41.000 I mean, this, this would be the time when he could make hay against Hillary Clinton, who is a coward and who is weak on terror and who is weak on radical Islam. 0.97

00:17:48.000 But instead we get caught up in all of this. 0.99

00:17:49.000 By the way, when CNN says it's fascist for Trump to ban the campaign,

00:17:53.000 It ain't good, but Hillary Clinton has done the same thing. 1.00

00:17:56.000 I agree.

00:17:56.000 You shouldn't ban the Washington Post or refuse to credential them.

00:18:00.000 I also think that Hillary Clinton shouldn't do the same thing and neither should Barack Obama.

00:18:03.000 You remember Obama refused to credential people to get on his campaign plane during 2008.

00:18:08.000 Okay, so the media have been responding.

00:18:10.000 And the media, this gives the lie, by the way, to the Obama line and the Hillary line.

00:18:15.000 Yeah, we talk about everything.

00:18:16.000 We talk about radical Islam and we talk about gun control. 0.57

00:18:19.000 We talk about radical Islam, and we talk about both of them.

00:18:23.000 Both of them we'll talk about, and we have to talk about both.

00:18:25.000 The reality is the left does not want to talk about radical Islam.

00:18:29.000 The left does not want to talk about how do you stop radicalization.

00:18:32.000 Hillary Clinton, by the way, in her speech on Monday, she said we have to stop the Saudis and Qatari government from funding mosques.

00:18:40.000 She took their money at the Clinton Foundation. 0.95

00:18:42.000 The whole thing's ridiculous. 0.95

00:18:43.000 If you want to know what the left actually believes, don't look at Hillary or Barack. 0.99

00:18:46.000 They're both politicians.

00:18:49.000 Look instead to the media.

00:18:50.000 So the media is fighting mad.

00:18:51.000 What's the media fighting mad about?

00:18:52.000 They're not mad about terrorism.

00:18:53.000 They don't care about terrorism.

00:18:55.000 Instead, they're fighting mad, of course, of course, of course, about guns.

00:18:59.000 Here's Stephen Colbert, leftist Stephen Colbert, the least funny man on television now.

00:19:06.000 He used to be at least somewhat amusing.

00:19:07.000 Now that he can't play Bill O'Reilly, he just has on Bill O'Reilly and is unfunny.

00:19:11.000 Bill O'Reilly's on to push his book, and Colbert goes after O'Reilly over the Orlando shooting.

00:19:15.000 The reason that we beat these British oppressors because everybody had a gun!

00:19:21.000 Everybody!

00:19:22.000 And all these redcoats were running around and bang! 1.00

00:19:25.000 That's what self-protection brings.

00:19:30.000 I just don't think our situation is comparable to Lexington and Concord.

00:19:33.000 A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state.

00:19:50.000 Not gonna be overturned.

00:19:51.000 You gotta deal with it.

00:19:52.000 I don't think it's gonna be overturned.

00:19:54.000 But that means there's no limits.

00:19:55.000 Let's not relitigate that.

00:19:56.000 Colbert, punish the people who abuse the guns.

00:19:59.000 Okay, fine. 0.99

00:20:00.000 Punish them! 0.99

00:20:01.000 But also restrict some guns.

00:20:02.000 You say it's possible.

00:20:03.000 Yes.

00:20:03.000 It's possible.

00:20:06.000 But also restrict some gun laws. 0.91

00:20:07.000 And Colbert can't deal with this argument that you need guns to protect yourself from an overarching government, which is just historically ignorant in every way, as I said to Piers Morgan. 0.78

00:20:15.000 Colbert is very angry, and his suggestion that you only get to carry a gun as part of a state-regulated militia is insane. 1.00

00:20:21.000 It's just stupid. 1.00

00:20:22.000 It's historically ignorant. 1.00

00:20:24.000 That's not how militias worked. 0.89

00:20:25.000 Militias drilled in absence of state authority, then they were called up by the state. 0.88

00:20:29.000 Okay, in any case, that's Stephen Colbert.

00:20:31.000 Meanwhile, Samantha Bee, who I thought at one point might have been funny, but now she's just terrible. 0.94

00:20:36.000 She does this show on TBS, and you knew it was gonna suck as soon as they called it Full Frontal. 1.00

00:20:40.000 You just knew it was gonna be a brutal, terrible show.

00:20:43.000 As soon as they called it Full Frontal, and then all of the critics started calling her important. 0.95

00:20:47.000 When critics call a comic important, that means the comic now sucks. 0.68

00:20:51.000 That's the translation. 0.97

00:20:53.000 Important equals suck in critic land. 0.80

00:20:55.000 So, they said that Sam Bee's important. 0.92

00:20:57.000 She's very upset because people say that they're going to pray for the victims in Orlando, and she's still on this bender that Obama was on months ago after the San Bernardino shooting.

00:21:08.000 Thoughts and prayers don't matter.

00:21:09.000 Here's Samantha Bee doing that routine. 1.00

00:21:11.000 You heard the man.

00:21:12.000 The biggest, most helpful thing you can do to ensure this never happens again is sit quietly in a room with your eyes closed, talking to nobody.

00:21:21.000 Wait a minute.

00:21:22.000 We pray after every mass shooting, and yet they keep happening.

00:21:25.000 Maybe we're not praying right.

00:21:27.000 Can we check the instruction manual?

00:21:30.000 Thus, also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

00:21:33.000 We were supposed to do something while we prayed?

00:21:42.000 Okay, and this is coming from someone who doesn't understand how prayer works. 1.00

00:21:46.000 This is really stupid stuff. 0.99

00:21:47.000 So prayer is not supposed to be the be-all end-all, obviously. 1.00

00:21:51.000 Prayer is supposed to inspire you to action, and it's supposed to make your connection with your creator closer, and it's supposed to express sympathy for people who have fallen, people who have died. 0.99

00:21:59.000 It doesn't mean that we have to embrace your stupid gun control agenda, Samantha Bee. 0.98

00:22:02.000 There's nothing in the Bible that says, take away the swords of the people who want to defend themselves. 1.00

00:22:07.000 What absolute assininity. 1.00

00:22:09.000 But anybody who says we're going to pray for people and then doesn't agree with Samantha Bee, she's fine with Hillary praying or Obama praying.

00:22:14.000 Hillary said in her speech, pray for the victims.

00:22:16.000 She's fine with that, but she's pissed if somebody like me says I'll pray for the victims because I disagree with her on policy.

00:22:22.000 Whoopi Goldberg, too.

00:22:23.000 Well, actually, let's go to Trevor Noah first.

00:22:24.000 So we're going through all the most unfunny people from Comedy Central.

00:22:27.000 You got Stephen Colbert, who used to be on Comedy Central and is no longer funny.

00:22:31.000 Samantha Bee, who was never very funny.

00:22:33.000 And Trevor Noah, who in the womb must have been just

00:22:36.000 Smacked with the unfunny jar.

00:22:38.000 Like God took down the various jars to make a human being and he took the humorlessness jar and he poured it all over Trevor Noah prenatally.

00:22:46.000 Here's Trevor Noah saying that he wants your gun.

00:22:49.000 He wants your gun right now.

00:22:51.000 And the saddest part is every time this happens, it feels like America has already decided.

00:22:56.000 This is exactly the kind of country it wants to be.

00:22:59.000 Because we know how this always plays out.

00:23:00.000 We're shocked, we mourn, we change our profile pics, and then we move on.

00:23:05.000 It's become normal.

00:23:06.000 But I'm sorry, maybe it's because I'm new, but it's not normal.

00:23:10.000 And it shouldn't be normal.

00:23:11.000 We shouldn't allow this to be normal.

00:23:14.000 It's not a normal thing.

00:23:15.000 It's like milk from almonds or sushi from Walgreens.

00:23:18.000 It's not normal, people.

00:23:21.000 What's also not normal is having the same thing happen to us over and over and over again and doing nothing to change it.

00:23:27.000 That's not normal.

00:23:29.000 Okay, it's not normal.

00:23:30.000 And he's gonna lecture us because he has a British accent.

00:23:32.000 That's how this works.

00:23:33.000 He comes over here and he's like Beers Morgan.

00:23:35.000 He comes over here and he lectures us about how he knows what's normal and what's not normal. 0.98

00:23:39.000 How about the rape of Europe by Muslim immigrants in terms of the crime rate? 1.00

00:23:43.000 How about that? 1.00

00:23:44.000 Is that normal?

00:23:45.000 Is that the new normal? 0.99

00:23:46.000 How about the destruction of the Middle East by radical Muslims? 1.00

00:23:48.000 Is that normal or you do not care about that? 0.99

00:23:50.000 How about the fact that the guy who just shot 49 people was a radical Muslim? 0.99

00:23:53.000 Do you not care about that or is that the new normal for you? 0.53

00:23:55.000 It seems like you want to import a lot of people who believe like this guy does.

00:23:58.000 Is that your new normal?

00:24:00.000 But apparently it's the new normal.

00:24:02.000 I'm not treating it as normal when someone gets shot.

00:24:04.000 That's why I'm angry at the government. 0.99

00:24:06.000 What I am saying is that it would be nice if somebody there had the capacity to put this bastard down. 0.99

00:24:11.000 That would be a good thing. 1.00

00:24:12.000 Your solution is disarm the gay guy and also the terrorist. 1.00

00:24:14.000 My solution is you're not going to be able to disarm the terrorist. 1.00

00:24:17.000 He's a terrorist.

00:24:18.000 Disarm 1.00

00:24:19.000 Anybody in this, disarm the gay guy in this situation and you basically guarantee that he's unarmed against somebody with a gun. 0.96

00:24:26.000 But I'm sick of hearing that the moral posturing from the left, but they all do this. 0.94

00:24:29.000 They all do this.

00:24:30.000 And this is, this is the universal appeal, but it's not going to work.

00:24:33.000 It's not going to work because Americans don't want to hear about how it was the gun's fault that a radical Muslim who had homosexual tendencies and went to this bar regularly, apparently attempting to pick up dudes, that this guy, he's the reason I can't have an AR-15.

00:24:45.000 Just like, just like, 0.56

00:24:49.000 Justin Bieber getting in car accidents is the reason I can't have a Lamborghini.

00:24:52.000 I'm sorry, it has nothing to do with me. 0.99

00:24:53.000 This is totally dumb. 0.97

00:24:55.000 Whoopi Goldberg does the same thing. 1.00

00:24:57.000 It's a universal wave from the left.

00:24:58.000 Whenever the left says they care about terrorism and also gun control, what they're really saying is we only care about gun control.

00:25:05.000 Please, maybe it's my age.

00:25:07.000 How come adults don't get it?

00:25:08.000 They do.

00:25:09.000 No, they don't get it.

00:25:11.000 It's about money.

00:25:12.000 It's about a lot of different things.

00:25:14.000 It's about an amendment in the Constitution that people misread.

00:25:18.000 The Constitution doesn't say you can carry hundreds of guns.

00:25:21.000 It says you can protect your home.

00:25:24.000 It says you can protect yourself.

00:25:25.000 It doesn't say get 55 guns.

00:25:27.000 It's military style.

00:25:30.000 Okay, she doesn't know anything about quote-unquote assault rifles.

00:25:43.000 People hunt with AR-15s all the time.

00:25:45.000 It's the most popular hunting rifle in the United States, in any case.

00:25:48.000 But, you know, don't expect IQ points from a show that has combined less IQ points than the number of fingers that I am currently holding up, right?

00:25:55.000 I mean, there's nobody on that show

00:25:57.000 With any semblance of IQ or decency.

00:25:59.000 And they all get it wrong. 1.00

00:26:00.000 I mean, they're all stupid. 1.00

00:26:01.000 Tom Brokaw, who used to be, as you remember, the chief anchor on NBC, right? 1.00

00:26:05.000 Tom Brokaw, he says, well, you know, this is all the AR-15.

00:26:09.000 Only one problem, gang.

00:26:10.000 It wasn't.

00:26:11.000 Here's Tom Brokaw.

00:26:12.000 Politicians will jump all over that and say we've got to do something about them.

00:26:16.000 But let's say it's a domestic shooting.

00:26:18.000 Okay, first of all, it wasn't an AR-14.

00:26:19.000 Second of all, it wasn't an AR-15, right?

00:26:20.000 It wasn't any of these things.

00:26:22.000 It was a completely different type of gun.

00:26:23.000 Doesn't matter.

00:26:24.000 Even if it were those types of guns,

00:26:44.000 The idea that the gun is responsible for the shooting is a way of saying that the human being is not responsible.

00:26:49.000 The human being is never responsible in the leftist view unless the people responsible are conservative Christians. 0.99

00:26:55.000 It always has to be conservative Christians. 0.96

00:26:57.000 Tomorrow we'll have to grab the audio of Anderson Cooper grilling Pam Bondi, this congresswoman from North Carolina, suggesting that, or from Florida actually, suggesting that she doesn't have a right to be upset that Muslims kill gay people because she opposes same-sex marriage. 0.89

00:27:10.000 For the left,

00:27:11.000 The struggle to turn this narrative into it was a conservative Christian, to turn this narrative into it was a white conservative Christian.

00:27:17.000 It's their fault.

00:27:18.000 It's the NRA's fault.

00:27:19.000 It's Christians fault. 1.00

00:27:21.000 The struggle is real, man.

00:27:22.000 They got to have it.

00:27:23.000 They got to have it.

00:27:23.000 It has to be their fault, no matter what.

00:27:26.000 And they're going to stay on this forever.

00:27:27.000 So Bernie Sanders, by the way, also wants automatic weapons ban.

00:27:31.000 But here, here's Bernie Sanders doing the same routine.

00:27:35.000 It's horrific, it's unthinkable, and our, you know, just hopes go out to all those who are shot that they can recover.

00:27:43.000 And I gotta tell you, you know, over 25 years ago, I believed that in this country we should not be selling automatic weapons which are designed to kill people.

00:27:51.000 And we have got to do everything that we can on top of that to make sure that guns do not fall into the hands of people who should not have them.

00:28:00.000 Criminals, the people who are mentally ill. 1.00

00:28:01.000 So that struggle continues.

00:28:04.000 That struggle continues that we have to take the guns out of these people's hands.

00:28:07.000 It's just, it's amazing, the myopia, right?

00:28:10.000 We have to, it's always that, it's always that.

00:28:13.000 It's always that, right?

00:28:13.000 It's always the same solution.

00:28:15.000 It's always the same solution. 0.95

00:28:16.000 And it must be white Christian people who are responsible for this. 1.00

00:28:19.000 A human rights leader, the leader of the Human Rights Council, he ripped into Donald Trump because he says that it's just terrible.

00:28:26.000 It's just terrible that Donald Trump would say he's a better friend to gays and women than Hillary Clinton.

00:28:31.000 Even though it's true, it's true. 0.93

00:28:32.000 Hillary Clinton, who wants to import radical Muslims to the United States and kowtow to radical Muslim states. 0.96

00:28:37.000 Yeah, that doesn't make you a friend of women or gays, but the Human Rights Council is very upset.

00:28:41.000 Here he says, here's him explaining it.

00:28:43.000 Well, at a time like this, no person in America, regardless of their political beliefs, should be using a tragic moment like this for their own personal ambition and their political desires.

00:28:58.000 And I and I think the broader community and Republicans and Democrats alike were disgusted by what we saw Donald Trump do today.

00:29:07.000 And I want to say two things about what he said.

00:29:09.000 First and foremost, he is no friend to the LGBT community.

00:29:14.000 He is no friend.

00:29:16.000 And at a moment like this, when a leader should put their personal ambitions and their partisan differences aside, or just shut up, but if they choose to speak out,

00:29:27.000 They should be speaking from a place of unity and a place of sympathy and talking about building bridges.

00:29:34.000 And I would tell you, Wolf, I bet there is not a single family member or friend or brother or sister or girlfriend or boyfriend that is suffering from this great loss that found any comfort in what Donald Trump had to say today.

00:29:49.000 Instead, he was up there bragging about the fact he claims he predicted this.

00:29:54.000 And let me say one other thing.

00:29:57.000 LGBTQ people, we are Muslims.

00:30:00.000 We are women. 0.94

00:30:01.000 We are Latinos.

00:30:04.000 We are as diverse as the fabric of this nation.

00:30:08.000 And Wolf, any attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

00:30:13.000 And it's shameful and disgusting what Donald Trump did today and what he said today.

00:30:18.000 And I hope he says not another word about it.

00:30:21.000 Okay, so he's talking about Trump's original tweet.

00:30:23.000 As I mentioned yesterday, Trump's original tweet was terrible.

00:30:25.000 The one where he said,

00:30:26.000 Thanks for the congrats because he had predicted this sort of thing happening in the past.

00:30:30.000 But you should be, it's not a matter of comforting the families.

00:30:33.000 These are two separate things.

00:30:33.000 You can say things to try and comfort the families or you can create policies that prevent future attacks from taking place.

00:30:40.000 And for him to sit there ripping into Trump while completely ignoring Obama and Hillary doing nothing and calling for gun control, it just demonstrates the left is so myopic in its view.

00:30:47.000 And so one of the questions that has to be asked is why are so many members of the gay community on the left when it comes to fighting radical Islam?

00:30:55.000 And the answer is because the leftism comes before the gay identity. 0.89

00:30:58.000 The leftism comes before the gay identity. 0.99

00:31:00.000 The idea that this white patriarchal Christian society is so responsible for all the unfairness in the world, we'll make common cause with other people who have been so-called victimized by this white patriarchal Christian society.

00:31:11.000 We will, we will go after them together.

00:31:14.000 And then after we've torn down the system, we'll fight with each other.

00:31:16.000 But, but first we have to focus on tearing down the system.

00:31:19.000 And that means we can't go at each other because we're all minorities.

00:31:22.000 And because we're all minorities, even if we're minorities who murder each other, 0.98

00:31:26.000 We have to sort of just let that go by the wayside.

00:31:28.000 It's short-sighted in the extreme.

00:31:30.000 It's short-sighted in the extreme, because the truth is, what gays across the world have found out is that it doesn't matter what you think the motivation of radical Muslims is, their motivation is radical Islam. 0.56

00:31:44.000 And you can tell this, okay? 0.98

00:31:45.000 There's a lot of attempt today to say that this guy murdered these 49 people because he was secretly gay and struggling with it, or because he's mentally ill. 0.99

00:31:54.000 The reality is he did it because he's a radical Muslim. 0.99

00:31:56.000 You know how you can tell? 0.91

00:31:57.000 There's another story today in Pakistan.

00:31:59.000 In Pakistan, there was a transgender woman, meaning a guy who transitioned into a female.

00:32:04.000 And he was walking down the street in Pakistan and a bunch of dudes started hitting on him.

00:32:08.000 Started soliciting him. 0.97

00:32:10.000 And when he refused to have sex with them, they immediately took out their guns and they all shot him. 0.89

00:32:15.000 This was not front page news everywhere. 0.93

00:32:16.000 This is anywhere.

00:32:17.000 This is the first time you're hearing of it, I'm sure.

00:32:19.000 Why?

00:32:20.000 Because it's a dog bites man story. 1.00

00:32:23.000 Radical Pakistani Muslims shoot to death a transgender guy? 1.00

00:32:26.000 Why is that shocking in any way? 0.99

00:32:28.000 Why is that shocking?

00:32:29.000 It's not shocking in any way, of course.

00:32:30.000 It's not shocking in the slightest.

00:32:33.000 It's totally not shocking because this is what radical Islamic ideology does. 0.98

00:32:37.000 The left refuses to acknowledge any ideology other than its own, and therefore it just pretends that none of this exists.

00:32:46.000 Meanwhile, members of the gay community continue to downplay radical Islam as an effect here.

00:32:52.000 Sally Cohn, she's tweeted out, this is what she tweeted. 1.00

00:33:03.000 If you're really equating me not wanting a man to go into my daughter's bathroom with me suggesting that that man can be shot to death by a radical Muslim, you're out of your damn mind. 1.00

00:33:13.000 You're out of your damn mind. 1.00

00:33:15.000 For you to suggest that Christianity's treatment of gays or Jewish treatment of gays 1.00

00:33:20.000 Is in any way similar to Muslim treatment of gays on a global scale is insane. 0.99

00:33:24.000 Fully crazy. 1.00

00:33:27.000 Fully crazy. 0.98

00:33:28.000 But this is what the left has to suggest, because again, they have to lump all religion together. 1.00

00:33:33.000 All religion is bad, but really religion is just for stupid people. 1.00

00:33:36.000 Right? 1.00

00:33:36.000 Religion is just for stupid people and for poor people. 1.00

00:33:39.000 And that's why if we can just cure them of their stupidity and their poverty, then everything will be all better. 1.00

00:33:43.000 Okay. 1.00

00:33:44.000 Time for a thing I like, then something that I hate.

00:33:46.000 Okay.

00:33:47.000 Things I like.

00:33:47.000 So I'm doing a little bit more, uh, more sports.

00:33:50.000 Books this week.

00:33:51.000 So sorry, ladies, if you're not into this sort of thing. 0.90

00:33:53.000 David Foster Wallace is an author who committed suicide.

00:33:57.000 But he's a really terrific writer.

00:33:58.000 I'd never read any of his stuff.

00:33:59.000 I was recommended this book, String Theory.

00:34:00.000 David Foster Wallace on tennis.

00:34:02.000 And he has some essays in there on Roger Federer and Andre Agassi.

00:34:06.000 And it's really a fun bathroom book to read.

00:34:10.000 The writing is really great.

00:34:11.000 David Foster Wallace on tennis.

00:34:12.000 The book is called String Theory.

00:34:13.000 OK, thing I hate.

00:34:15.000 The left simply cannot leave children alone.

00:34:17.000 The left does not want to leave

00:34:19.000 Children alone.

00:34:20.000 So, according to the UK Independent today, Finding Dory, which is the new Finding Nemo sequel, and this is upset to me because my daughter really is into Finding Nemo.

00:34:29.000 She has a bathing suit that looks like Nemo.

00:34:31.000 She's adorable.

00:34:32.000 She's the best.

00:34:33.000 Finding Dory will feature Disney's first transgender character, according to Ellen.

00:34:37.000 In the upcoming Finding Nemo sequel, they said there's a Stingray that becomes a Stingroda.

00:34:42.000 So there's a trans sting in the movie.

00:34:44.000 This is shortly after there was suggestion that there was a lesbian couple 0.98

00:34:49.000 In the middle of the movie, DeGeneres says, this is a great thing.

00:34:52.000 She says, I think everything we see in the media, whether it's television or film or anything you see should represent everything that's happening in the world. 0.95

00:34:58.000 So then why aren't you for presumably graphic descriptions of, of anal and oral sex in children's movies? 0.97

00:35:04.000 Because there are certain things that are not appropriate for children. 0.96

00:35:07.000 And the fact is that when you show supposedly lesbian couples in movies, the only reason to do that is because you're attempting to push a particular sexual agenda. 0.59

00:35:16.000 And the reason you show heterosexual parents in movies and heterosexual couples is because these generate children. 0.84

00:35:21.000 Okay.

00:35:23.000 This, this idea that you have to show a lesbian couple in a film just to show a lesbian couple to children.

00:35:29.000 It's, it's a normalization of behavior that a lot of parents might find sinful and may not want their children to engage in.

00:35:37.000 I love this.

00:35:37.000 She, she, so now I guess that there's a, it's just wonderful.

00:35:41.000 So now we get a trans sting, a trans sting. 1.00

00:35:46.000 Ridiculous. 1.00

00:35:47.000 Ridiculous all the way through. 1.00

00:35:48.000 Trans-sting. 1.00

00:35:50.000 You know, we got a trans-sting. 0.90

00:35:51.000 Trans-ray.

00:35:52.000 It's a ray and it's a rhoda.

00:35:55.000 Because we have to teach children that men are women and women are men and boys are girls and girls are boys. 0.76

00:35:59.000 Because nothing is less risky than messing with the psyche of a child.

00:36:03.000 Particularly on sexual issues.

00:36:05.000 Which is where adults are confused.

00:36:07.000 Makes perfect sense to me.

00:36:08.000 Well, that's the left.

00:36:09.000 Okay, well, we'll be back tomorrow with more Adventures in Sanity across the United States.

00:36:13.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:36:14.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - June 15, 2016

Ep. 134 - The Left Wants Your Guns Now, Dammit!

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