No, you shouldn t kill Baby Hitler, even if you have a time machine and a DeLorean. Here s why: 1. You re not God. 2. Hitler wasn t a sociopath. 3. He was a socialist. 4. He didn t invent anti-Semitism. 5. He wasn t the only one with anti-Semitic views. And if you re not busy killing Baby Hitler to make the world a less Jewating place, then you re too busy theorizing about killing Hitler to bother canceling your subscription to the New York Times Magazine, which backs all-encompassing coverage of all things Nazi. Ben Shapiro explains why you should just kill him as an unborn baby, and then you don t have to have to worry about it as an adult. If you want to know what you should do with Hitler, then go ahead and kill him now. But as long as he s not a baby anymore, you ll have to wait until he s a grown man, because he s probably not going to be much different than Hitler was when he was a kid, is he not? If he s still a baby, then why not kill him when he s an adult, right? Well, it s pretty obvious that Hitler s a bad dude, isn t it? If Hitler s parents were Jewish, then maybe you should put him in the care of a Jewish family, but if Hitler s Jewish family was not, then he ll have a chance to grow up to be a better version of himself. Hitler would have been a better than Hitler s father, but still be a good human being. Ben, not a bad guy but not a good guy. You ll just have to go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby if he s going to turn out to be like Hitler s dad, right or something like Stalin or Stalin or Yasser Arafat or Stalin and Stalin was a good kid at least not like Hitler was a decent human being, not like Stalin was . not the kind of guy, but a good kind of kid, right ? you know what I bet you ll be a little better than Stalin or Arafat, right, right?? a better human being than Stalin? - Ben Shapiro The Ben Shapiro Show is a brand new week means it s time for a new week of Hillary Clinton.
00:00:02.000If you have a flux capacitor and a DeLorean, you shouldn't go back in time and kill baby Hitler.
00:00:06.000The reason that we're even discussing baby Hitler, of course, is because last Friday, Twitter went up in flames after the New York Times Magazine posted the results of an online poll.
00:00:16.000It was, Dear Reader, could you kill a baby Hitler?
00:00:20.000The answers from the readers, 42% said yes, 30% said no, 28% said they were unsure.
00:00:26.000Note, I'm not sure who bothers to take the time to vote unsure in an internet poll.
00:00:30.000That's somebody with way too much time on their hands.
00:00:33.000This alternative history has been considered many times in fiction and it usually ends badly.
00:00:38.000So I figured that I would tell you there are two reasons you should not go back in time and kill baby Hitler if you actually end up with Doc Brown in the passenger seat.
00:00:49.000The fun of counterfactuals is this perfect hindsight of history.
00:00:51.000We all know that Hitler became an emissary of tremendous evil, and so we think that if we killed him when he was a baby, all of that would have been prevented.
00:00:59.000That, by the way, is exactly the logic behind the eugenic abortion movement backed by some leftist readers of the book Freakonomics.
00:01:06.000The babies are going to be criminals anyway, so you may as well just abort them before they're born.
00:01:10.000In fact, I really don't understand why only 42% of leftists would have killed baby Hitler.
00:01:14.000100% of them would have killed fetus Hitler.
00:01:19.000You just kill him as an unborn baby and then you really don't have to worry about it.
00:01:23.000Babies can actually be shaped and changed.
00:01:25.000If baby Hitler had been adopted by a Jewish family as a kid, does anyone really believe that his life would have turned out exactly the same way?
00:01:32.000Now, maybe if you think he was a sociopath, you think that he was, but there really isn't a lot of evidence that
00:01:38.000He was a utopian leftist with socially Darwinistic views on race, popular among a lot of other leftists of the time.
00:01:45.000Instead of going back in time and killing baby Hitler, how about taking him away from his family and placing him with a childless Jewish family?
00:01:51.000Or instead, just directing him to the literature of Adam Smith or Edmund Burke rather than Karl Marx?
00:02:00.000Hitler ably channeled German antisemitism toward building a powerful movement culminating in the Holocaust, but he certainly didn't invent German Jew-hatred.
00:02:09.000It's not as if Hitler had been hit in the head by a bullet in World War I. The Germans and the Jews would have gotten along famously forevermore.
00:02:15.000Germany was replete with Jew-hatred for decades, centuries before Hitler.
00:02:20.000His ideas found fertile ground not just in Germany, but in European countries that participated wholesale in the slaughter of the Jews.
00:02:27.000By the way, if you want to know about European anti-Semitism, just listen to Andrew Klavan's podcast a few days ago.
00:02:32.000Hitler boggles the mind because of the mechanization of the mass murder of the Jews, but people tend to forget millions of Jews, just as many Jews, were killed outside the killing center by what were called Einsatzgruppen, who are killing squads engaging in mass shootings.
00:02:47.000Foreigners often participated in the killings, including 100,000 Ukrainians who joined forces with the Nazis, for example.
00:03:07.000For that matter, go ahead and knock off Stalin and Mao and Yasser Arafat while you're at it.
00:03:11.000But as long as you're not busy killing baby Hitler, there are a few other things that you should do right now to make the world a less Jew-hating place.
00:03:19.000Unless, that is, you're too busy theorizing about killing Hitler to bother canceling your subscription to the New York Times Magazine, which backs all of Israel's genocidal enemies, the modern Nazis, to the hilt.
00:03:30.000I'm Ben Shapiro, and this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:03:38.000Well, folks, it is a brand new week, and that means it's time for a whole new week of Hillary Clinton lying about things.
00:03:44.000Every time her face opens, lies come out, and last week was no exception.
00:03:48.000We really didn't get a chance last week to talk about Hillary at the Benghazi hearings.
00:03:52.000We talked about it briefly last Thursday, but then, of course, we didn't have the show on Friday, and so here we are on Monday.
00:03:57.000We haven't had a full explanation of what Hillary did and what she lied about.
00:04:01.000She told a bunch of lies during the hearing.
00:04:02.000She said, for example, that she had been totally transparent with her emails.
00:04:07.000She blamed Chris Stevens for his own death.
00:04:09.000She suggested that he knew the risks and that he felt comfortable in Benghazi.
00:04:14.000If you feel comfortable somewhere, you don't send 600 messages to your superiors asking for more security.
00:04:20.000She also suggested that she was not using former Clinton hack
00:04:24.000Sidney Blumenthal as a sort of advisor, that wasn't true.
00:04:27.000She told lie after lie after lie, and of course the biggest lie is that she didn't know that a YouTube video wasn't involved with the Benghazi attacks.
00:04:34.000She knew that night, she emailed Chelsea Clinton that night, that the YouTube video had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks.
00:04:40.000She reiterated it to the authorities in Libya, as well as the Egyptian Prime Minister.
00:04:46.000That's not stopping any of the Democrats from defending her.
00:04:49.000Elijah Cummings, who is a representative from, I believe, Georgia, and he is a disaster area when it comes to pushing the leftist message.
00:04:59.000Elijah Cummings is the new kind of Hillary defender on this committee, and he was on some of the Sunday shows because people were still talking about this committee.
00:05:06.000And Elijah Cummings said that they were just there, the Democrats were just there, defending the truth.
00:05:16.000From the very beginning, Chuck, I said we were looking for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
00:05:22.000And in many instances, we found ourselves having to not defend Secretary Clinton, but to make sure that the record was complete.
00:05:33.000And I'm glad that the public had an opportunity to see all of that.
00:05:38.000And I mean, when you look at what we were asking about, they were the things that went to Benghazi, the things that we were supposed to be dealing with from the very beginning.
00:05:47.000And when the families came in, many of them with tears in their eyes, they asked us to only do three things.
00:05:54.000One, they asked us to make sure that we made sure that this did not happen again.
00:06:03.000They wanted us to look for the facts, more facts than we already had.
00:06:08.000And they asked us for one final thing.
00:06:10.000They asked us to make sure that we did not turn this into a political football.
00:06:32.000The Democrats didn't ask a single substantive question for 11 hours.
00:06:36.000It was 11 hours of saying that the whole thing was partisan and mean and nasty and Hillary Clinton was a victim.
00:06:42.000Now, if you watch Elijah Cummings, if you watch the Democrats, what you're consistently hearing from them with regard to Benghazi is, we take this seriously.
00:06:50.000Last Thursday, Hillary Clinton had her pre-planned righteous indignation moment in which she suggested, I've lost more sleep than any of you over Chris Stevens.
00:07:01.000Now, I'm going to play a clip here, and I want to ask you, does this sound like someone who lost sleep over the death of Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi?
00:07:10.000Does this sound like someone who deeply cared about the murdered Americans in Benghazi?
00:07:48.000Folks, the people in Benghazi were under actual direct murder assault for seven hours.
00:07:53.000Okay, if we're gonna talk a scale of human heroism and decency, I'm gonna go with seven hours under fire from terrorists over 11 hours of sitting on a flower-embroidered cushion in an air-conditioned room anytime.
00:08:06.000But here was Hillary Clinton's answer, and I think that it really does speak to who Hillary Clinton is and how much she cares about the people who are dead and the safety of our diplomats.
00:08:49.000And this is a woman who cares deeply, obviously, about what happened in Benghazi.
00:08:53.000This is someone who takes very seriously her obligations to come clean.
00:08:57.000So she lies repeatedly, and then she chortles on national TV about, yeah, she went and she ate Indian food, and she had wine, and she partied.
00:09:07.000And this is becoming a common theme with the Democrats.
00:09:10.000We talked briefly last week about the fact that Democrats, the same night that some of these Benghazi hearings were going on, Democrats had a party in the House, and they had a string quartet in to celebrate the Iran deal.
00:09:22.000These are supposed to be the people who take our national security so seriously.
00:09:59.000This is the woman who we are supposed to believe cared deeply.
00:10:02.000And the reason I'm focusing on this is because Republicans have this idiotic tendency to give Democrats the benefit of the doubt on this sort of stuff.
00:10:26.000I think that your action matters much more than your motive.
00:10:28.000But apparently the American people disagree with me because this is the only reason Barack Obama was elected.
00:10:33.000They feel that he had good motivations even though he stinks at his job.
00:10:36.000So if we're now in the business of assessing motives based on the only evidence in front of us,
00:10:41.000I submit that tape right there of Hillary Clinton and Rachel Maddow as Exhibit A in the case that Hillary Clinton does not give one good damn about what happened to Chris Stevens other than how it affected her political career.
00:10:55.000But, you know, the media will defend her, and they'll say that she still is somebody who we should respect and treat with utmost respect with regard to all of this.
00:11:03.000Now, speaking of Hillary Clinton not really caring, Hillary Clinton also made a boo-boo on the VA scandal.
00:11:09.000She was asked about the Veterans Administration scandal.
00:11:11.000The fact is that Veterans Affairs has been basically—the hospitals are poorly run, and that means that veterans are waiting for months at a time.
00:11:39.000Now nobody would believe that from the coverage that you see and the constant berating of the VA that comes from the Republicans in part in pursuit of this ideological agenda.
00:11:50.000But in part because there has been real scandal.
00:11:53.000But it's not been as widespread as it has been made out to be.
00:12:10.000The media have decided that Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States, as we knew they would.
00:12:15.000And thus, it doesn't matter what she says from here on in.
00:12:17.000She can lie in front of congressional committees.
00:12:19.000She can lie and then joke about how she has Indian food and wine with all of her buddies and plans the next steps in her political campaign.
00:12:26.000It will make no difference whatsoever.
00:12:29.000Now, meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, Donald Trump
00:12:33.000It's been an interesting weekend for Donald Trump because there are two things happening.
00:12:36.000One is that Donald Trump has successfully driven Jeb Bush out of the Republican race.
00:12:40.000Jeb hasn't dropped out yet, but it's a matter of time now.
00:12:42.000And on the other hand, he's actually having his milkshake drinking, drunk, by Ben Carson.
00:12:47.000Ben Carson is now ahead by double digits.
00:12:50.000In some of the polls in Iowa, latest poll today from Monmouth came out.
00:12:58.000Carson said something I want to analyze in a little while, and it's the reason why I think Carson is gaining in popularity.
00:13:03.000But first, I want to talk about Jeb Bush and his imploding candidacy for a second.
00:13:08.000If you look at the odds makers, when this Republican race first started,
00:13:12.000Jeb Bush was the guy who they said was going to be the nominee.
00:13:14.000This was the conventional establishment wisdom, is that Jeb Bush was going to be the nominee.
00:13:19.000And you can tell that Jeb Bush is about five seconds away from dropping out.
00:13:22.000Here is Jeb Bush over the weekend, suggesting that he has lots of better things to do than run for president.
00:13:27.000Seriously, here's Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida.
00:13:29.000This election is about how we're going to fight to get nothing done.
00:13:32.000I don't want anything, I don't want any part of it.
00:13:35.000I don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally are in decline in their lives.
00:13:44.000I got a lot of really cool things that I could do other than sit around being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them.
00:15:14.000And there's a reason for that, and it's because Ben Carson is speaking a language that people understand.
00:15:22.000Donald Trump is speaking two languages that people understand, but they're in conflict with each other.
00:15:26.000So Donald Trump says one thing, and then a minute later, he says something completely different.
00:15:29.000Carson is actually consistent, and he's using analogies and language that people understand, and he's saying controversial things that are absolutely supportable.
00:15:37.000I'm starting to fall in love with Ben Carson, not because I think that Ben Carson is going to be President of the United States or ought to get the nomination, but because Ben Carson says stuff like this.
00:15:47.000Ben Carson was asked over the weekend about his position on abortion, his pro-life position.
00:15:52.000And in the course of his answer, he started comparing the abolitionists of slavery to the pro-life movement.
00:16:00.000And the media is all over him for this today.
00:17:20.000That unborn child isn't a child because it's inconvenient for it to be a child.
00:17:24.000And Ben Carson, by the way, he doesn't give the historical context, but the truth is that what Ben Carson says, the sort of safe, legal, and rare position that he's critiquing right there, which is held by many of his fellow Republicans, that I personally am pro-life, but that doesn't mean that I would, for example, push for a constitutional amendment to protect life, leave it as a state's rights issue or a populist issue.
00:17:47.000That was the position of one of the major candidates
00:17:49.000During the Civil War, just prior to the Civil War, that was the Stephen A. Douglas position, right?
00:17:54.000The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates were not presidential debates, they were Senate debates.
00:17:58.000And one of the issues that they talked about specifically was, what would you do about the issue of slavery expanding across the United States?
00:18:05.000Lincoln's position was that the federal government should basically get rid of slavery.
00:18:09.000And the position of Douglas was that states should decide on their own whether slavery should be allowed or not.
00:18:16.000Now, Douglas was actually personally anti-slavery.
00:18:19.000But he argued for popular sovereignty.
00:18:43.000This is the way that our stupid politics works now.
00:18:46.000I can also make the same argument that Ben Carson has made, and I've made it before, but if you're a black guy and you say slavery, people take it more seriously, and you have the ability to ride out the storm.
00:18:55.000This is why Ben Carson is popular, because he says stuff like this, and he should be popular for saying stuff like this, because this is grand, and Americans should hear this on a regular basis, and I wish to God that some of the other Republican candidates would say similar stuff.
00:19:08.000Ben Carson is a more surrogate candidate than Hillary Clinton.
00:19:12.000Ben Carson was asked over the weekend about whether he would do Saturday Night Live.
00:19:16.000And Donald Trump is doing Saturday Night Live.
00:20:00.000I mean, this is why people are laughing at Hillary and Trump.
00:20:02.000Hillary is on Saturday Night Live and the President of the United States, the President of the United States, is taking pictures of himself with a selfie stick and doing interviews with the woman most famous for bathing in Froot Loops and milk in an actual bathtub.
00:20:15.000He did that with a YouTube star named GloZell.
00:20:19.000Ben Carson, what he says right there, would that all of our politicians had that sort of dignity?
00:20:24.000Would that all of our politicians said these sorts of things with this sort of strength and this sort of calm?
00:20:30.000I think Ben Carson is actually starting to look like a really formidable candidate.
00:20:34.000And I have disagreements with him on foreign policy, and I want to know more about his foreign policy.
00:20:38.000He's made some comments about foreign policy that concern me.
00:20:41.000He said in one of the debates that he wouldn't have invaded Afghanistan, and then he backed off of that.
00:20:45.000I still have concerns about his foreign policy, although I believe he is using John Bolton apparently as an advisor.
00:20:51.000If Ben Carson continues to say stuff like this, this is stuff that gets across to the American people.
00:20:57.000And I do think there's something to be said for the idea that there's a seriousness in politics that we all ought to take seriously rather than joking about Indian food.
00:21:07.000Or talking about Megyn Kelly's period.
00:21:10.000There are more important things in life than the next headline.
00:21:13.000And I think that Ben Carson understands that.
00:21:15.000And so, this is not an endorsement of Ben Carson.
00:21:17.000There are a lot of serious candidates in the race.
00:21:21.000For what it's worth, I think Marco Rubio is a half-serious candidate.
00:21:23.000I don't think he's a fully serious candidate.
00:21:25.000I think he's a half-serious candidate.
00:21:27.000But in order for the Republican Party to win, Ben Carson is going to get through to more people than a lot of the other Republican candidates.
00:21:33.000We need more Ben Carson in the party, and we need less Jeb Bush in the party.
00:21:36.000And I think that we're going to get it if we keep pushing for it.