The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 149 - Obama Speaks in Dallas, Is a Terrible Person

00:00:00.000 So, good news!

00:00:01.000 The left has hit on a hot new solution to supposed systemic racist brutality from American police departments.

00:00:07.000 Disband the police!

00:00:08.000 This interesting notion has picked up steam in recent weeks.

00:00:11.000 Leftists continue to label cops systemically racist, so Jessica D'Souz, a black activist, told Fox News' Megyn Kelly the other night, quote, we need to abolish the police, period.

00:00:21.000 When asked by Megyn Kelly, who would then protect black people, she answered, quote, we need to come up with community solutions.

00:00:27.000 The problem in high crime communities has been, historically, the lack of police.

00:00:31.000 And the community solution that usually rises in the wake of such a dearth of police is gangs murdering each other.

00:00:36.000 If people can't rely on the cops to keep the peace, they join a gang to ensure the threat of revenge if they're harmed.

00:00:41.000 Jo Levy of the LA Times has written in her book Ghettocide, quote, African Americans have suffered from just such a lack of criminal, effective criminal justice, and this, more than anything.

00:00:51.000 We're good.

00:01:08.000 Nonetheless, the hot new solution, according to the left, is to disband the only people who can ensure that the state's monopoly on violence means something. 0.99

00:01:15.000 Thus, we find idiot actors like Mark Ruffalo tweeting, quote, defund bad cops and police departments. 0.99

00:01:19.000 Tell Obama, we need an executive order. 1.00

00:01:22.000 Hashtag defund police.

00:01:23.000 What's the real agenda here?

00:01:24.000 Well, it's twofold.

00:01:26.000 First, if you believe that the cops are, as Professor Molina Abdullah has said, an occupying force, the only solution is to end the occupation.

00:01:33.000 Second, there's a deeper goal of removing the rule of law from the system because the system itself is supposedly corrupt.

00:01:39.000 If the police are the enforcement arm for America, and if America's racist, the only way to fight American racism is to disband the enforcement arm.

00:01:46.000 What will spring up in its wake?

00:01:47.000 Community solutions!

00:01:48.000 Yay! 0.99

00:01:49.000 A new society, flourishing in the absence of America's historic ills.

00:01:54.000 Only one problem.

00:01:55.000 What will actually flourish in the absence of the Americanism and law enforcement arm is chaos and murder.

00:02:00.000 There's a reason Rudy Giuliani, the guy that the Black Lives Matter folks now hate more than anybody else, he's responsible for saving thousands of black lives during his tenure.

00:02:07.000 America isn't racist.

00:02:08.000 It's law enforcement isn't the enforcer for a racist system.

00:02:12.000 Remove the cops, you get an uptick in crime that harms the communities lacking the cops.

00:02:16.000 Minority communities.

00:02:17.000 But if the left wants to build a brand new world, I guess a few thousand black lives are apparently worth the cost. 1.00

00:02:22.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:02:23.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:02:25.000 ...tend to demonize people who don't care about your feelings?

00:02:31.000 Okay, so we have a ton to get to today, and of course, welcome to Facebook Live, where we are operative, where our show is currently streaming, where all the wonders of the earth are available to you, if you just go there right now. 0.98

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00:02:52.000 In fact, I'm going to tweet it out right now.

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00:02:59.000 Okay, so, lots to get to today.

00:03:01.000 We'll start off with President Obama in Dallas. 0.93

00:03:03.000 It turns out the President of the United States is not just the world's crappiest president, he's also one of the world's crappiest humans. 0.98

00:03:09.000 So, five cops get murdered in Dallas by an anti-white racist who says he's there to kill cops, and President Obama pretends for days. 0.98

00:03:18.000 I don't know why this, why would this happen?

00:03:20.000 What are we even, how do I know?

00:03:22.000 It could've been anything.

00:03:23.000 Who knows?

00:03:23.000 Maybe he had bath soaps.

00:03:38.000 And then, President Obama cannot help himself in any way.

00:03:42.000 He's incapable.

00:03:43.000 He's incapable of helping himself. 0.99

00:03:44.000 He's a narcissist, and he's a racist, and because he's a narcissist racist, he feels the need to start running off the mouth about how cops are the real racists in American society. 0.99

00:03:54.000 Now remember, 1.00

00:03:55.000 Dead cops. 0.99

00:03:56.000 Shot by a racist. 0.84

00:03:57.000 But the real problem is the cops. 0.98

00:03:59.000 The real problem is America's racist society.

00:04:03.000 And this is pretty egregious stuff.

00:04:05.000 Here's President Obama.

00:04:06.000 He did a bunch of things in his speech that were really bad.

00:04:08.000 One of the things he did, and you'll see it in a second, is he equated the murder of the cops with the killing of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.

00:04:17.000 We still don't know any of the circumstances surrounding either of those killings.

00:04:21.000 We still don't know.

00:04:21.000 The one in Louisiana may have been a good shoot.

00:04:23.000 The one in Minnesota, we have no idea whether it was a good shoot or not.

00:04:26.000 We just don't know.

00:04:26.000 There's no information.

00:04:28.000 We certainly know what happened in Dallas, right? 0.99

00:04:30.000 We know that an anti-white racist decided to murder white cops. 0.99

00:04:33.000 We certainly know that's what happened. 0.99

00:04:35.000 But listen to him equate the two.

00:04:38.000 I see people who mourn for the five officers we lost, but also weep for the families of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

00:04:47.000 In this audience, I see what's possible.

00:04:49.000 Okay, and the cops behind him, you can see, are not cheering, right?

00:04:55.000 They're not clapping. 0.94

00:04:56.000 And the reason they're not clapping is because to equate those two things, to suggest that the police are targeting people like Philando Castile the same way that this guy, this piece of garbage targeted police officers, is evidence-free, it's gross, it's despicable, but that's what President Obama does. 0.90

00:05:11.000 And then he continues 0.95

00:05:12.000 We also know

00:05:41.000 That centuries of racial discrimination, of slavery and subjugation, and Jim Crow, they didn't simply vanish with the end of lawful segregation.

00:05:58.000 They didn't just stop when Dr. King made a speech or the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act were signed.

00:06:09.000 Race relations have improved dramatically in my lifetime.

00:06:15.000 Those who deny it are dishonoring the struggles that helped us achieve that progress.

00:06:25.000 But we know... But America, we know that bias remains.

00:06:39.000 We know it.

00:06:43.000 Whether you are black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or of Middle Eastern descent, we have all seen this bigotry in our own lives at some point.

00:06:54.000 We've heard it at times in our own homes.

00:07:00.000 If we're honest, perhaps we've heard prejudice in our own heads and felt it in our own hearts.

00:07:09.000 He's lecturing the cops about systemic racial bias in police departments at a funeral memorial for five cops who were shot by a racist.

00:07:20.000 I don't hear him talking about racism in the black community.

00:07:22.000 I don't hear him talking about anti-white racism in the black community, as I mentioned yesterday, by polling data, a plurality of blacks.

00:07:29.000 I don't know.

00:07:48.000 I'm still trying to peg down the rest of the data in this study.

00:07:50.000 The study itself is pretty massive.

00:07:53.000 I've been going through the data.

00:07:54.000 I'm actually emailing with the professor's research assistant on this particular study, because there's only one table in the study that really matters.

00:08:00.000 It's a long study, but the only thing that really matters is there's one statistic that says that, well, first of all, all the statistics you've heard from that study about how the police use force more often on black people and Hispanic people, the vast majority of those statistics

00:08:16.000 Do

00:08:35.000 I'm trying to nail down what's the source for that statistic because they're not being perfectly clear about what that means.

00:08:44.000 So as soon as I get you that information, I'm happy to bring that to you and we can discuss what the ramifications are of that.

00:08:49.000 Does that mean there's systemic bias and all the rest?

00:08:51.000 But first I want to nail that down because they're basing it on New York Stop and Frisk statistics that are, it's not clear where they're getting their full information or if they're reading too much into it.

00:08:59.000 So I'll get you that information, but it doesn't matter.

00:09:01.000 He's standing there at a funeral,

00:09:03.000 Four cops of whom there is no racist activity imputed.

00:09:06.000 And he's saying, America, we know there's bias.

00:09:09.000 We know there's bias.

00:09:10.000 We know it because I say it.

00:09:11.000 It's a tautology.

00:09:13.000 You've experienced it.

00:09:14.000 I've experienced it.

00:09:15.000 We've all experienced it. 1.00

00:09:16.000 These terrible white people. 1.00

00:09:18.000 Really? 1.00

00:09:19.000 Really?

00:09:20.000 This is egregious stuff.

00:09:21.000 Then he goes on, he reels off a bunch of meaningless statistics to incite the police.

00:09:25.000 And I'll go through the stats that he's mentioning because he's so full of it. 0.91

00:09:28.000 So if you're black, you're more likely to be pulled over or searched or arrested. 0.90

00:09:34.000 More likely to get longer sentences. 0.98

00:09:36.000 More likely to get the death penalty for the same crime.

00:09:39.000 Okay, so he says a few things there, and all of them are basically wrong.

00:09:43.000 So he says, let's see, you're more likely to be pulled over or searched or arrested.

00:09:48.000 You're more likely to be pulled over because you're more likely to be speeding.

00:09:51.000 You're more likely to be arrested because you're more likely to be committing a crime.

00:09:55.000 You're more likely to be searched because you're more likely to be committing a crime.

00:09:58.000 Not on an individual level, obviously, as we mentioned yesterday. 0.64

00:10:01.000 Just because you're black doesn't mean you're a criminal. 0.97

00:10:03.000 But the black population is responsible for a higher percentage of crime than would be suggested by the proportion of the population. 1.00

00:10:10.000 He says you're more likely to get longer sentences. 0.88

00:10:12.000 This statistic only works if you fail to recognize that black people coming into court and who get longer sentences are getting longer sentences because they have a prior criminal history.

00:10:22.000 That's the only way that stat works.

00:10:23.000 And he says, you're more likely to get the death penalty for the same crime. 0.96

00:10:26.000 Actually, murder is significantly under-prosecuted in the black community. 0.96

00:10:30.000 Significantly under-prosecuted in the black community, not over-prosecuted in the black community. 0.82

00:10:36.000 And when they give the death penalty, by the way, the death penalty is almost entirely based on other circumstances other than just the murder.

00:10:42.000 This is why there aren't thousands and thousands of people on death row around the United States, because in order to actually get the death penalty, there has to be something particularly egregious that you did connected with the murder, which naturally means that it's not the same circumstance, it's something different.

00:10:55.000 It's something different.

00:10:56.000 So Obama reels off all those statistics.

00:10:58.000 Remember, all of this is at a fu- I can't emphasize this enough. 0.98

00:11:01.000 All of this is at a funeral memorial for cops who were murdered by people who hate cops and hate white people. 0.98

00:11:07.000 And he's getting up there going, cops are terrible, and white people are responsible for systemic racism in the United States. 0.98

00:11:13.000 At that event. 1.00

00:11:14.000 Just disgusting.

00:11:16.000 And then he continues, and he starts defending the Black Lives Matter agenda. 0.81

00:11:21.000 When all this takes place more than 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, we cannot simply turn away and dismiss those in peaceful protest as troublemakers or paranoid.

00:11:46.000 We can't simply dismiss it as a symptom of political correctness.

00:11:51.000 Or reverse racism?

00:11:54.000 To have your experience denied like that?

00:11:58.000 Dismissed by those in authority?

00:12:02.000 Dismissed perhaps even by your white friends and co-workers and fellow church members?

00:12:07.000 Again and again and again?

00:12:10.000 It hurts.

00:12:14.000 Surely we can see that.

00:12:15.000 All of us.

00:12:17.000 It hurts, it hurts, it hurts.

00:12:18.000 You know what hurts?

00:12:19.000 Going to somebody's funeral and crapping all over their department.

00:12:23.000 That hurts.

00:12:23.000 Okay, and when he says that we can't just, we have to take seriously all experiences.

00:12:28.000 I love when he says things like this.

00:12:29.000 He says, we can't simply dismiss it as a symptom of political correctness or reverse racism.

00:12:34.000 To have your experience denied like that, dismissed by those in authority, dismissed by your white friends, it hurts.

00:12:39.000 Surely we can see that.

00:12:40.000 Okay.

00:12:41.000 I seem to remember a time when the President of the United States said that those of us who were protesting larger government in the Tea Party were a bunch of terrorists.

00:12:50.000 Did he dismiss our concerns?

00:12:51.000 Yeah.

00:12:52.000 Did he suggest that we were paranoid?

00:12:54.000 Yeah.

00:12:55.000 I'm old enough to remember when the President of the United States suggested that anybody who said that if you like your doctor, you can't keep your doctor, that you can keep your doctor, that anybody who said that was a lie.

00:13:04.000 I remember him saying, you're paranoid if you said that.

00:13:06.000 Just like he says that we're paranoid if we say that you're coming after our guns.

00:13:09.000 We're paranoid.

00:13:10.000 But it's not paranoia.

00:13:12.000 There's nothing wrong with just imputing to law enforcement across the country a broad bias because you had a run-in with a cop.

00:13:19.000 And you can't show the evidence of the run-in with the cop.

00:13:21.000 And you don't know that the run-in with the cop wouldn't have happened the same way if you were white. 0.97

00:13:24.000 I mean, this is really gross stuff. 0.95

00:13:27.000 But he didn't stop there.

00:13:27.000 He didn't stop there.

00:13:28.000 Again, this is at a funeral memorial.

00:13:30.000 This is so maddening to watch.

00:13:32.000 It makes you sick to your stomach.

00:13:34.000 When the President of the United States, the man who's the leader of the free world, is this bad of a human being, it really does make you sick in the pit of your stomach.

00:13:42.000 But President Obama didn't stop there.

00:13:45.000 Following the Rahm Emanuel directive, never let a good crisis go to waste, he uses this funeral now to push.

00:13:53.000 As a society, we choose to underinvest in decent schools.

00:14:00.000 We allow poverty to fester so that entire neighborhoods offer no prospect for gainful employment.

00:14:08.000 Okay, so he says that we have to spend more money on all sorts of things.

00:14:11.000 He's trying to mirror what the police chief in Dallas said the other day, where he said that we haven't invested in mental health, for example.

00:14:19.000 And you notice, Obama doesn't mirror exactly what the police chief said.

00:14:22.000 The police chief actually said, you're telling us that it's our job to fill the gap left by 70% single motherhood in the black community.

00:14:28.000 You notice Obama doesn't say that one.

00:14:30.000 Obama says, no, nothing about that.

00:14:32.000 He says, we underinvest in decent schools as though if we just tossed more money at the public schools this would be fixed.

00:14:37.000 And he says, we allow poverty to fester.

00:14:38.000 You know what allows poverty to fester?

00:14:40.000 You ripping on the cops so they can't provide law and order so no one is willing to invest in an area.

00:14:46.000 That's what causes poverty to fester. 0.80

00:14:49.000 And then Obama drops another whopper.

00:14:51.000 He talks about gun control.

00:14:54.000 We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book.

00:15:05.000 Okay, so it's easier to buy a Glock, get your hands on a Glock in the United States, than a book or a computer?

00:15:10.000 You have to have been dropped on your head as a baby to believe this. 1.00

00:15:13.000 You have to have serious mental deficiencies if you believe this kind of crap. 1.00

00:15:18.000 Okay, that is such not—and people clapping for this? 1.00

00:15:19.000 Like, how stupid are you? 1.00

00:15:20.000 Okay, I had to get a gun license in order to buy a gun in the state of California. 1.00

00:15:24.000 I had to go through a federal background check in order to purchase my handgun.

00:15:28.000 Okay, I buy books all the time.

00:15:30.000 His crappy book is available on Amazon for one cent with no background check.

00:15:34.000 Okay, so the idea that literally one cent for dreams for my father, a paperback, no background check. 0.99

00:15:40.000 The idea that it's easier to buy guns anywhere in the United States than a book or a computer is maybe the stupidest thing any president has ever said. 1.00

00:15:48.000 It's ridiculous. 1.00

00:15:49.000 And he's doing it again at a funeral, at a funeral memorial for cops. 0.99

00:15:54.000 But here's the thing.

00:15:55.000 There's one comment that he made, and this one has basically gone unrecognized.

00:15:58.000 And I think this is the key to everything about the Democrats.

00:16:01.000 I said this yesterday without even having seen the speech, just showing once again that I am always right.

00:16:05.000 But President Obama drops this amazing line, this amazing line.

00:16:09.000 In the end, it's not about finding policies that work.

00:16:14.000 It's about forging consensus and fighting cynicism and finding the will to make change.

00:16:25.000 I don't

00:16:40.000 It's about forging consensus and fighting cynicism and finding the will to make change.

00:16:45.000 It's all about feelings.

00:16:48.000 It's all about us getting in a room and then the chief psychiatrist, the commander in psychiatry in chief, he's going to heal our wounds like the god king that he is, the great god being who can save all of us.

00:16:59.000 He's going to get us in a room.

00:17:00.000 We're going to forge consensus.

00:17:02.000 We're going to spill out our feelings on the table.

00:17:04.000 I said yesterday, remember I said this about my wife, that we have a deal, which is you have to tell me before the conversation, do you want to just spill out your feelings or do you want me to solve the problem?

00:17:13.000 The job of the president is to help solve the problem.

00:17:15.000 He thinks the job of the president, and the Democrats say the job of their politics, is to find meaning and feelings and justify your feelings.

00:17:24.000 That's not what politics is for.

00:17:25.000 If that's what you think politics is for, no problem will ever be solved.

00:17:29.000 Particularly in this area.

00:17:30.000 We'll talk more about that, plus we gotta get to Trump, who's now doing better in the polls, and what that means.

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00:18:00.000 Okay, so, continuing along these lines, when they say, what's amazing about this particular line of thought, that feelings matter more than solutions.

00:18:09.000 Solutions don't matter, the only thing that matters is feelings, right?

00:18:14.000 When you say that, and if your feelings are not based in reality,

00:18:18.000 The feelings become an obstacle to the solution.

00:18:21.000 So, you've had an argument with your spouse, right?

00:18:23.000 And your spouse says, you're always doing something.

00:18:27.000 You're always mean about this.

00:18:29.000 And you say, wait, no I'm not. 0.98

00:18:30.000 Sometimes I'm a jerk, granted, but I'm not always mean about that. 0.98

00:18:34.000 But that's how I feel. 0.98

00:18:37.000 Okay, now we can't get to a solution, because you're arguing about the status of basic facts.

00:18:41.000 Like, if how you feel about the fact is more important than the fact itself, we have no common ground.

00:18:46.000 I can't make you feel differently.

00:18:47.000 If you say, I feel the police have been racist to me and my community, I can say, okay, show me the evidence of a police activity that's racist, we can condemn it together, and then the police person can be punished.

00:18:58.000 That's how I would solve that particular problem.

00:19:02.000 Or if you were going to say there are too many run-ins between cops and black people, I would say, okay, well, let's have some more cops, and let's have a feeling of law and order, and make sure that we enforce all of the rules on cops, obviously, but there's a greater comfort level between the cops and the community because they know they're not the only line of defense between themselves and civilization.

00:19:20.000 That would be a solution, right? 0.97

00:19:21.000 But if I say to you, if you say to me, the cops are racist and criminal and they're terrible and they're horrible and I feel that. 0.66

00:19:28.000 That's been my experience.

00:19:29.000 And I say, well, I need some evidence of that so we can do something about it.

00:19:32.000 And you say, no, no, no.

00:19:33.000 But you're invalidating my feelings.

00:19:35.000 You're invalidating my feelings.

00:19:38.000 Well, then we can't get to a solution, can we?

00:19:39.000 Because everything that I say from then on invalidates your feelings.

00:19:42.000 If I say we need more cops, you say, no, no, no, no.

00:19:44.000 My feeling is the cops are bad.

00:19:46.000 And if I say, well, but we need evidence of the cop being bad, you say, no, no, no, you're invalidating my experience.

00:19:51.000 What, you don't believe me?

00:19:53.000 It's the same thing that the left does with regard to some of these high-profile rape cases, like University of Virginia.

00:19:59.000 Somebody alleges rape, and we say, that's terrible.

00:20:01.000 That's a horrible thing.

00:20:03.000 Is there any corroboration or evidence?

00:20:04.000 And they go, oh, you must not take rape seriously.

00:20:07.000 You say, well, no, I take rape very seriously, so I want the person who did it to go to jail.

00:20:12.000 Like, that would be good.

00:20:14.000 Oh, but you're making my experience secondary.

00:20:19.000 I have to, because your experience can't be my experience, and it can't be the experience of anyone else.

00:20:23.000 It's your experience.

00:20:24.000 We need to get beyond your experience, and we need to get to what actually solves the problem.

00:20:28.000 But Obama doesn't want to solve the problem, you see?

00:20:30.000 Because if you stand there as a politician and say you feel somebody's pain, as Bill Clinton used to do, if you say, I feel your pain, much more

00:20:42.000 Beneficial.

00:20:43.000 Political angle.

00:20:44.000 I feel your pain, then.

00:20:45.000 Here's a solution that's going to hurt.

00:20:47.000 Right?

00:20:48.000 A lot easier to say, I feel your pain, then here's a solution that's going to hurt.

00:20:52.000 The speech was just egregious all the way through.

00:20:55.000 Obama finished basically by saying, you know, whites keep dismissing protesters as political correctness or reverse racism.

00:21:01.000 It's just... When study after study shows

00:21:09.000 We're good to go.

00:21:19.000 More likely to get longer sentences.

00:21:21.000 More likely to get the death penalty for the same crime.

00:21:24.000 We've played this already.

00:21:25.000 This sort of routine from President Obama, again, it just underscores the fact that he will never let a crisis go to waste or a tragedy go to waste.

00:21:33.000 He's a bad guy.

00:21:34.000 He's a bad guy. 0.99

00:21:34.000 And he lies for political gain. 0.99

00:21:36.000 And then he stands there and says he's trying to unify us. 1.00

00:21:38.000 And he's a liar. 1.00

00:21:39.000 He's just a liar. 1.00

00:21:40.000 And the media lap it up. 1.00

00:21:41.000 The media love this crap because it increases the ratings. 0.99

00:21:44.000 It gives them new things to cover. 0.99

00:21:46.000 When there's a riot, it makes for good TV.

00:21:48.000 And then we can just—and then there are all the leftist activists on TV who take it upon themselves to basically suggest that cops are the problem.

00:21:56.000 Again, to me, the big story last week was not the killing of Alton Sterling in Louisiana or even the killing of Philando Castile, even though that one looks worse in Minnesota.

00:22:05.000 Any objective person would say the big story last week was a guy took a sniper rifle and shot 11 police officers in the worst attack on police in the United States since 9-11.

00:22:15.000 But that's not what the media are focusing on.

00:22:16.000 So Don Lemon on CNN, he says, stop pretending racism doesn't exist.

00:22:20.000 By the way, no one is pretending racism doesn't exist.

00:22:22.000 All I'm saying is show me evidence so I can stand with you.

00:22:25.000 I can't do it based on you just saying racism exists.

00:22:27.000 What am I supposed to do about that?

00:22:29.000 What's the solution?

00:22:30.000 How does that help anyone?

00:22:31.000 How's any black person in the inner city better off if we all say racism exists, America's racist?

00:22:36.000 You explain to me that one and I'll join you.

00:22:39.000 Explain to me.

00:22:40.000 Because there's no correlation between saying America is racist and then the solutions you propose. 1.00

00:22:45.000 Your solutions are crap, okay? 0.99

00:22:47.000 Disbanding the police? 1.00

00:22:49.000 Having only black cops in black neighborhoods? 0.99

00:22:50.000 That didn't seem to help in Baltimore, by the way. 0.95

00:22:53.000 The bottom line is what they say is, well, if you can't just acknowledge our feelings, we can't even get started.

00:22:57.000 I don't have to acknowledge feelings to try and find a solution that works for everybody, and it turns out the solution generally has nothing to do with subjective feelings.

00:23:05.000 It generally has to do with what works and what doesn't.

00:23:07.000 Standards of evidence and truth exist regardless of your feelings.

00:23:11.000 If I allege something happened, and I say that it was really bad, I should have to show evidence of that for you to react and for you to side with me.

00:23:19.000 You can say you have sympathy for me.

00:23:20.000 I have sympathy for black people who feel like they're being victimized by the police, but I want to know how that solves anything.

00:23:27.000 And when you say society's racist, all you're really saying to young black people is no matter what you do, you're never getting out of here. 0.96

00:23:31.000 No matter what you do, you are stuck here forever, so you may as well just say screw it, and you may as well talk back to the police, and you may as well assume they're here to do harm, and you don't talk to them because snitches get stitches. 0.97

00:23:41.000 But Don Lemon thinks the most important thing is all the white people in America acknowledging American racism or some such nonsense.

00:23:48.000 It is time for us to stop pretending that we don't, that racism doesn't exist.

00:23:55.000 That bias doesn't exist in this culture.

00:23:57.000 And if you will allow me, I'm going to share a very personal story that happened this weekend as I was out with friends.

00:24:03.000 We were discussing the Dallas shooting at a bar slash restaurant.

00:24:09.000 And it was two African-Americans, me and someone else.

00:24:13.000 And there were other that were with us in the immediate vicinity and we were discussing it.

00:24:17.000 And as we were talking about it, my friend is talking about it, who is a black guy.

00:24:20.000 And the guy looked at him and said, talking about the Dallas shootings, he said, how does that make you feel?

00:24:28.000 And everybody just got quiet and looked like, is this 2016?

00:24:33.000 Is this actually happening?

00:24:34.000 I swear on a stack of Bibles.

00:24:36.000 Thank you.

00:24:58.000 Implicit bias.

00:24:59.000 People, you don't hear words and racism and prejudice sometimes in your own family or with people you love.

00:25:06.000 Did I miss the story?

00:25:08.000 What happened that was so bad?

00:25:09.000 Did I miss the story?

00:25:10.000 Like, maybe I missed it.

00:25:12.000 Seriously, what was the story?

00:25:15.000 Somebody, okay, so somebody got called the N-word, so it might have blocked out.

00:25:18.000 So he says that somebody got called the N-word.

00:25:20.000 Okay, if that guy got called out the N-word, you have a national TV show, Don Lemon, why not say his name?

00:25:25.000 Like, really.

00:25:26.000 Just say his name.

00:25:28.000 And then we can say, okay, that's a bad guy and we'll all condemn him and that'll be that.

00:25:31.000 Right?

00:25:32.000 But you're not doing it.

00:25:34.000 Is he saying racist?

00:25:35.000 Was that guy a cop?

00:25:36.000 Did he shoot somebody?

00:25:37.000 Or was he just some guy who was hanging around and you heard him say the N-word?

00:25:40.000 How do you know what he did?

00:25:41.000 I mean, this is the problem with all this kind of stuff.

00:25:44.000 Of course there are individual racists.

00:25:46.000 Of course there are individual racists.

00:25:48.000 But that doesn't mean that there's a systemic racism to American society.

00:25:51.000 It doesn't mean that American society is broadly racist.

00:25:54.000 If somebody says the N-word, that guy's a racist.

00:25:56.000 Okay.

00:25:57.000 So now what do we do about it?

00:25:58.000 So now what do we do about it?

00:25:59.000 Because I find that unpalatable.

00:26:02.000 For goodness sake, I've been spending most of this election cycle fighting people who think it's cool to throw racist memes on Twitter.

00:26:09.000 But, again, there's no solution here.

00:26:11.000 There's no solution here.

00:26:12.000 It's just you feel better by saying America's racist, and then a bunch of upper-crust white people think it makes them better people by saying America's racist, and I'm not them, so I'm not a racist.

00:26:21.000 I can prove I'm not a racist by saying America's racist.

00:26:24.000 And Jameel Hill and Michael Smith, both black folks on ESPN,

00:26:28.000 They're very upset.

00:26:29.000 We talked about this yesterday.

00:26:30.000 There's a WNBA game where some people wore Black Lives Matter t-shirts and the cops walked out. 1.00

00:26:35.000 And ESPN, which has become, as I've said many times, MSNBC with footballs.

00:26:38.000 It is a leftist network.

00:26:39.000 It is a leftist propaganda network.

00:26:41.000 They're actually broadcasting in real time on ESPN Obama's town hall.

00:26:45.000 It's supposed to take place tomorrow on race relations. 0.62

00:26:48.000 On ESPN.

00:26:49.000 I didn't realize that had to do with people kicking or throwing or catching balls.

00:26:53.000 I didn't realize that.

00:26:55.000 But here are these two commentators on ESPN.

00:26:58.000 Welcome to another serious topic for off-duty police officers in Minnesota.

00:27:03.000 Working Saturday's Minnesota Lynx game walked off the job after the team wore t-shirts with Black Lives Matter, the name of victims Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

00:27:14.000 Both who were killed by police and a Dallas Police Department emblem, of course, signifying that tragedy.

00:27:21.000 Castile was killed by an officer in nearby Falcon Heights, Minnesota.

00:27:25.000 Sterling killed in Baton Rouge.

00:27:27.000 Now Lieutenant Bob Crowell, the president of Minneapolis Police Union, their police union rather, commended the officers for their decision.

00:27:35.000 He also said the officers removed their names from a list to work future games and that others have said they will not work Lynx games.

00:27:45.000 If I'm the Minnesota Lynx, I say, good.

00:27:49.000 Good riddance.

00:27:50.000 Okay, so the good riddance, get out, fine.

00:27:53.000 So you say these cops who don't appreciate you wearing t-shirts with names of people where the circumstances aren't even known yet?

00:27:59.000 I mean, listen, just a couple of years ago, there were people who were wearing Michael Brown t-shirts and running out onto NFL fields doing hands up, don't shoot.

00:28:07.000 That turned out to be a lie.

00:28:09.000 But this is the way that the political game is played.

00:28:11.000 None of this gets to a solution.

00:28:12.000 But as Obama says, solutions don't matter.

00:28:14.000 Who cares about solutions?

00:28:15.000 Solutions are irrelevant.

00:28:16.000 Only justification of feelings.

00:28:18.000 Because here's the end goal. 0.64

00:28:19.000 The end goal is that he proclaims that everybody who disagrees with him therefore doesn't care about black folks. 0.76

00:28:26.000 That's the end goal here.

00:28:27.000 It's the Piers Morgan, you don't care about dead kids and Sandy Hook unless you agree with me.

00:28:30.000 That's Obama's routine.

00:28:32.000 If we can't agree on our feelings, then certainly we're never going to get to a solution.

00:28:36.000 He's going to use that logic in reverse.

00:28:37.000 He's going to propose solutions that are completely unpalatable, and then he's going to say, you won't even agree on the feelings, so how can we agree on the solutions?

00:28:44.000 That's where he's going here, and it's just gross.

00:28:46.000 It's really gross.

00:28:47.000 Meanwhile, actual racist shooting, or appears to at least be a racially-tinned shooting in Chicago, it's certainly a criminal shooting, Laquan McDonald, if you don't remember this particular case, there's a black guy who is making trouble, I guess at a McDonald's or something, and somebody called the cops, and he starts walking away from the cops, and the cops shoot him down.

00:29:06.000 And Rahm Emanuel, who's the mayor of the city, is up for re-election at the time, and he basically ensures that no tape comes out at all of this until after his re-election.

00:29:14.000 Jesse Jackson says that.

00:29:16.000 Rahm Emanuel says, no, of course I won't resign.

00:29:18.000 Have you heard any clamor about Rahm Emanuel lately on the whole Black Lives Matter thing?

00:29:23.000 Any clamor?

00:29:24.000 Or because he's a Democrat?

00:29:25.000 No, he's a Democrat, of course.

00:29:26.000 We never hear about that.

00:29:28.000 Black Lives Matter is only directed at cops. 0.99

00:29:30.000 It's never directed at the Democrats who instruct the cops to do bad things, like in the city of Chicago.

00:29:34.000 Now, one of the problems that I have in all of this is that Republicans have been caving in on this.

00:29:40.000 Republicans, I mentioned Newt Gingrich and Marco Rubio earlier this week.

00:29:44.000 Trump too.

00:29:45.000 So here's a quote from Donald Trump.

00:29:46.000 He was on Bill O'Reilly's show last night.

00:29:49.000 O'Reilly says, And Trump says,

00:30:07.000 In other words, now he's making the case that basically it's rigged against black people, too. 0.73

00:30:13.000 This is the routine. 0.85

00:30:15.000 Here's Donald Trump.

00:30:16.000 But as far as the police are concerned, you say, OK, these two individual things are bad.

00:30:24.000 But are they symptomatic, in your opinion, of a larger problem with American police?

00:30:29.000 That they fear blacks or that they act differently around African-Americans?

00:30:34.000 Do you believe that's in play?

00:30:37.000 Look, it could be.

00:30:38.000 You have to see it.

00:30:39.000 I mean, there are so many individual cases.

00:30:41.000 There are certain cases where this takes place, and it's horrible.

00:30:45.000 I mean, somebody will meet, they'll have a commission meet, and the commission may have an answer, but I almost don't care what the commission says, because I, you know, I see it with my eyes.

00:30:54.000 I hate what I saw, those two instances.

00:30:57.000 I hate what I saw when somebody guns down all of these policemen and kills five policemen. 0.93

00:31:03.000 I hate it. 0.96

00:31:04.000 Do you believe that there is a problem in American policing whereby blacks are treated differently than whites? 0.97

00:31:13.000 Do you believe that?

00:31:16.000 It could be.

00:31:17.000 It's possible.

00:31:19.000 As president, is there anything you can do about that?

00:31:22.000 It could be, it could be.

00:31:23.000 Thank you for that brilliant moral leadership and guidance, Donald Trump.

00:31:27.000 And how does that make the solution better?

00:31:29.000 So presumably the next solution is for President Obama to federalize the police forces, right?

00:31:32.000 Sending the DOJ to crack down on the local cops and suggest that they are better than anybody else, and making sure that black people aren't victimized by the local police, again, without evidence.

00:31:42.000 It's just...

00:31:44.000 You don't need to cave.

00:31:45.000 I mean, it's so funny.

00:31:46.000 People say that he's a warrior against political correctness.

00:31:48.000 This is not being a warrior against political incorrectness, against political correctness.

00:31:53.000 This is being a chicken. 0.75

00:31:54.000 He's being a chicken.

00:31:55.000 Okay, well, all of that said, all of that said, Donald Trump did get into it with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

00:32:02.000 And in other news, he got into it with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

00:32:05.000 I want to talk a minute about what's going to happen at the convention.

00:32:07.000 I don't think there's going to be

00:32:09.000 A full-scale revolt against Trump at the convention.

00:32:11.000 I specifically don't think that because the polls have really narrowed for Trump.

00:32:13.000 So there are a couple of different polls out today.

00:32:15.000 The Quinnipiac poll shows Trump up in Florida.

00:32:17.000 It shows Trump up in Pennsylvania.

00:32:18.000 It shows him tied in Ohio.

00:32:19.000 There's another poll today that shows Hillary up in Pennsylvania. 0.98

00:32:22.000 It shows her up in Florida.

00:32:23.000 It shows her basically tied in Ohio.

00:32:25.000 So it's very close, in other words, in all of these swing states.

00:32:28.000 I will point out something that I have been pointing out about these polls for weeks now.

00:32:33.000 In none of the polls, state, federal, any of the polls, is Donald Trump above 42%.

00:32:39.000 So all the polls where Donald Trump is running neck and neck with Hillary are polls where it shows Trump 41, Hillary 39, Trump 39, Hillary 41, Trump 39, Hillary 39.

00:32:47.000 Okay, that's not going to be the actual election result, just so folks know.

00:32:52.000 Okay, that's only 80% of the American population.

00:32:55.000 20% isn't just going to disappear off the face of the earth.

00:32:58.000 The volatility in the polls is all Hillary.

00:33:01.000 Trump is absolutely consistent.

00:33:02.000 He is always, in national and state polling, between 35 and 41 percent.

00:33:06.000 That is his range.

00:33:07.000 35 to 42 percent in all of these polls.

00:33:09.000 There hasn't been movement on that in eight weeks.

00:33:12.000 He's absolutely stagnant there.

00:33:13.000 Barring some sort of catastrophic change in Donald Trump, not in events, in Donald Trump, he's going to stay there.

00:33:19.000 So the real question becomes, how much do Americans hate Hillary Clinton?

00:33:22.000 How much do Americans hate Hillary? 1.00

00:33:24.000 If they hate Hillary enough, then Hillary will drop below Trump in the polls, but if those additional voters don't go to Trump, then she probably still wins. 1.00

00:33:33.000 So she's up and down and up and down and up and down.

00:33:35.000 She still has all the advantages despite the fact that she's the most corrupt candidate in American history. 1.00

00:33:40.000 So I just want to point that out because there are a lot of people you're going to hear today saying this means that Trump is surging.

00:33:44.000 Trump isn't surging.

00:33:45.000 Trump is exactly where he was before.

00:33:47.000 Hillary is collapsing. 1.00

00:33:49.000 There is a difference.

00:33:51.000 And believe me, I don't think that the media are going to let Hillary full scale collapse.

00:33:55.000 I think that right now is the dark time for Hillary. 1.00

00:33:57.000 I think in six weeks, they're going to turn this around after the convention, after she picks her VP, the media will go all in against Donald Trump and Donald Trump will start falling behind again.

00:34:07.000 But the Trump unification is indeed taking place.

00:34:11.000 And Paul Ryan is awkwardly defending Donald Trump.

00:34:16.000 And Tom Cotton, the senator from Arkansas, he's saying that he is going to speak at the RNC, which is true.

00:34:20.000 And Rudy Giuliani is going to speak at the RNC.

00:34:22.000 The VP pick is supposed to come by Friday.

00:34:24.000 Right now, today, I guess in Indiana, he's in there meeting with Mike Pence.

00:34:28.000 Gingrich has flown to Indiana.

00:34:29.000 Jeff Sessions is flying to Indiana.

00:34:31.000 Chris Christie, I think, is flying to Indiana.

00:34:33.000 So one of two things is, there have been a couple of theories as to what's going on with the VP pick.

00:34:37.000 Theory one is that

00:34:40.000 And this was put forward by somebody at the Weekly Standard.

00:34:44.000 The theory one is he's bringing all these people and he's actually going to announce a cabinet on Friday, which would be a good move.

00:34:49.000 I think that'd be really smart.

00:34:50.000 I think that if he comes out and he says, OK, Christie's my attorney general, and Gingrich is my chief of staff, and Mike Flynn, this general, this general is my new secretary of defense.

00:34:59.000 I don't think he'd be a good secretary of defense, but that's another question.

00:35:01.000 If he announced his whole cabinet,

00:35:03.000 That'd probably be smart.

00:35:04.000 It makes people feel more secure if they feel like there are decent people, or at least people who are plausible, around him.

00:35:10.000 That's theory number one.

00:35:11.000 Theory number two is that basically this is now a cage match and that, for ratings, Trump will actually put them in Thunderdome and let them battle to the death.

00:35:20.000 And theory number three is my own personal theory, which is that Donald Trump is going to line them up and then have a rose ceremony.

00:35:26.000 And like in The Bachelorette, which my wife will not stop watching, and it's making me crazy.

00:35:31.000 So we'll see what happens.

00:35:34.000 I don't think any of these picks change the game very much.

00:35:38.000 But this is the good time for Trump.

00:35:40.000 If you're on the Trump bandwagon, this week, next week, the next three weeks are the good time for Trump.

00:35:44.000 So if you're in the betting markets, now's the time when you buy Trump stock, and then you sell Trump stock like two days after the convention.

00:35:51.000 That's the best time to do it.

00:35:52.000 So just handicapping this thing.

00:35:54.000 Okay, another issue on which Trump has been in the news is that Donald Trump called for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to resign.

00:35:59.000 That's because Ruth Bader Ginsburg ripped into Donald Trump. 1.00

00:36:03.000 She suggested that the country couldn't afford Donald Trump.

00:36:06.000 She's sitting justice on the United States Supreme Court. 0.92

00:36:09.000 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a wild leftist. 1.00

00:36:12.000 And so Donald Trump tweets back at her, Justice Ginsburg of the US Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me. 1.00

00:36:19.000 Her mind is shot. 0.99

00:36:21.000 Resign.

00:36:23.000 And I gotta say, I love it.

00:36:25.000 I love it.

00:36:26.000 What's amazing though is that the left wing, this demonstrates what the Supreme Court is to the left.

00:36:31.000 The left wing media agree with Trump.

00:36:33.000 The New York Times has an editorial today where they say, Donald Trump is totally right.

00:36:37.000 He's totally right to rip Ginsburg.

00:36:39.000 Jonathan Turley on CNN, right?

00:36:41.000 He's a leftist, legal analyst for CNN.

00:36:43.000 He was actually on Fox News.

00:36:45.000 Here he is explaining that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it's entirely inappropriate what she said.

00:36:50.000 Trump on this issue, you tell me, he's entirely right.

00:36:54.000 She was out of line.

00:36:56.000 He is right.

00:36:57.000 And what she did is not just wrong ethically, it undermines the integrity of the Supreme Court.

00:37:03.000 It's a very serious blow to that court.

00:37:07.000 The Supreme Court has many flaws, but one of its great tenets is this impartiality and this separation from politics.

00:37:15.000 And what Justice Ginsburg did was undermine that tradition.

00:37:19.000 What was she doing?

00:37:20.000 Why?

00:37:21.000 Do you think people vote based on what Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinks?

00:37:24.000 Why would she do this?

00:37:25.000 Well, unfortunately, I think that many of these justices have become enthralled with what I call the age of the celebrity justice.

00:37:33.000 They're increasingly going to audiences.

00:37:35.000 They're enjoying this limelight.

00:37:38.000 And in my view, it's a terrible trend.

00:37:40.000 I prefer the old model, where justices spoke entirely through their opinions.

00:37:45.000 But I think you see this sort of corrosive effect on the judgment of justices in this interview.

00:37:51.000 But many of these justices have committed unethical acts in the past.

00:37:55.000 A majority of them have committed acts that would have been serious matters for lower just judges.

00:38:00.000 But they consider themselves beyond the rules of ethics in terms of enforceability.

00:38:06.000 Okay, so I will say this.

00:38:07.000 I actually like that Ruth Bader Ginsburg went after Trump.

00:38:10.000 Not because I dislike Trump.

00:38:11.000 I think Ginsburg is one of the world's least moral human beings.

00:38:14.000 I think that Ginsburg has been an awful justice.

00:38:16.000 She's a pro-abortion fanatic. 1.00

00:38:18.000 She hates the Constitution. 0.81

00:38:20.000 She said years ago that she would prefer the South African Constitution to the American Constitution because of obviously all the liberty and prosperity that's been had in South Africa in recent years since the advent of that Constitution.

00:38:31.000 The fact that she said this, the reason I like it is because I like when the mask comes off.

00:38:37.000 I like reality.

00:38:38.000 As I say, I root for reality.

00:38:39.000 And because I root for reality, I don't think that the court is an apolitical body.

00:38:43.000 I think they're a very political body.

00:38:45.000 And so I like when they go out there and undermine their own authority.

00:38:47.000 I like when they undermine their own credibility.

00:38:49.000 She has no credibility.

00:38:50.000 She's not an objective person.

00:38:52.000 She's not somebody who cares about the Constitution.

00:38:54.000 She's a politician. 1.00

00:38:55.000 You know she came from the National Organization for Women. 1.00

00:38:57.000 That's where Ruth Bader Ginsburg came from. 1.00

00:38:59.000 Just like Thurgood Marshall came from the NAACP, she came from the NOW.

00:39:04.000 The fact is that she is a deeply, deeply political woman.

00:39:08.000 And that's okay.

00:39:10.000 That's okay.

00:39:11.000 I have a solution.

00:39:13.000 Take away the power of judicial review from a political Supreme Court because we don't have a super legislature in this country and I don't need Democrats telling me what to do in the name of the Constitution.

00:39:21.000 So I like what Ruth Bader Ginsburg did.

00:39:23.000 I also note that the media are unbelievable on this stuff.

00:39:26.000 So the Associated Press ran a headline where they said something like, New York Times rips notorious RBG.

00:39:36.000 This is what they're calling her now, right?

00:39:37.000 This is a journalistic, this is a journalistic

00:39:42.000 Organization.

00:39:44.000 And supposedly, it is now okay to call a sitting United States Supreme Court Justice notorious RBG to make her cool. 1.00

00:39:49.000 I remember when they were calling him Clarence T. Remember that?

00:39:52.000 Like for Clarence Thomas?

00:39:54.000 Or they were calling Justice Scalia, Biggie Scalia?

00:39:57.000 I remember that. 1.00

00:39:58.000 No, I don't remember that because that's idiotic. 1.00

00:40:00.000 That's idiotic. 1.00

00:40:01.000 So, the media are totally on her side because that's what they do. 1.00

00:40:05.000 Because that's what the media do. 0.88

00:40:06.000 So, alright.

00:40:09.000 I think that we are now at the point, let's see, is it time for things that we like and things that we hate?

00:40:12.000 Yeah, let's do some things we like and things we hate, come on.

00:40:14.000 Okay, so, we're gonna start with, we've been doing surprise endings this week, and this is an oldie but goodie.

00:40:20.000 This particular surprise ending is a movie called Witness for the Prosecution.

00:40:23.000 If you've never seen it, it's a really good movie.

00:40:25.000 It's a really entertaining old movie.

00:40:27.000 Charles Lawton and Marlene Dietrich.

00:40:33.000 It's really fun, it's really well acted, and it's very clever.

00:40:38.000 If you don't know what's coming, it's got a really clever little ending.

00:40:40.000 So here's the trailer for Witness for the Prosecution.

00:40:43.000 This is, I think, late 40s.

00:40:49.000 Witness for the prosecution.

00:40:52.000 The most electrifying entertainment of our time.

00:40:56.000 The stunning climax to a half-century of motion picture suspense.

00:41:01.000 The setting is London.

00:41:03.000 The story, two people in love.

00:41:07.000 A murder and a trial climaxed by the ten most breath-stopping minutes you've ever lived.

00:41:13.000 The cast,

00:41:14.000 Tyrone Power, in love with a woman who holds his life in her beautiful hands.

00:41:20.000 Charles Lawton, in the most scintillating role of his brilliant career.

00:41:25.000 Marlena Dietrich, the woman of mystery, a fascinating question mark.

00:41:32.000 Okay, so it's directed by Billy Wilder.

00:41:34.000 He's a terrific director, all-time director.

00:41:36.000 It's a really good—and then it says at the very end of that preview, by the way, that notice to patrons, they're advised not to take their seats during the last few minutes, right, to preserve the secret of the surprise ending.

00:41:46.000 So this is a movie that's very famous for its surprise ending, and it is a good film.

00:41:50.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:41:52.000 So we're going to do Bible verses on Wednesday, I've decided, so we can do Mailbag on Thursday.

00:41:56.000 So let's do

00:41:58.000 Bible verses of the week.

00:41:59.000 So, the Parsha this week comes from Numbers. 0.73

00:42:02.000 The Parsha is, of course, the section of the Torah that Jews read.

00:42:05.000 We read a different section every week, all the way through the year.

00:42:08.000 So, by the end of the year, we've gone through the entire five books of Moses.

00:42:11.000 And we do this every year, which is why Orthodox Jews tend to know this stuff pretty well.

00:42:14.000 So, Numbers 27 through 12.

00:42:16.000 So, this is actually the critical moment in the Torah, where God tells Moses, basically, you're not going into the land.

00:42:24.000 Right?

00:42:24.000 You're going to die out here in the wilderness.

00:42:25.000 It's really a tragedy.

00:42:26.000 I mean, the tour is really a tragedy.

00:42:28.000 It's about Moses.

00:42:30.000 It's a tragic, tragic story, right?

00:42:32.000 I mean, he serves his entire life for these people who are ungrateful, and they're constantly ripping on him, and they're constantly being stiff-necked and terrible with God.

00:42:41.000 And then Moses takes them all the way to the brink, and then they don't go forward because they're, again, recalcitrant.

00:42:47.000 And then God says, sorry, you can't go into the land.

00:42:50.000 You're going to die here.

00:42:51.000 Right? 0.97

00:42:51.000 I mean, it's really terrible. 0.97

00:42:53.000 Here in Numbers 7 through 12, God speaks to Moses.

00:42:57.000 He says, take the staff.

00:42:58.000 The people are whining again about how they don't have water.

00:43:01.000 And so the Lord says to Moses, take your staff, assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aaron, speak to the rock in their presence, and it'll give forth its water.

00:43:08.000 Now, this is the second time we've had a rock

00:43:10.000 magic trick with God.

00:43:11.000 So back in Exodus, there's a rock magic trick where God actually tells Moses to hit the rock, and Moses hits the rock, and the water comes out.

00:43:17.000 This time, he says, speak to the rock, and Moses instead takes the staff, and Moses and Aaron assemble the congregation, and they say, now listen you rebels, can we draw water for you from this rock?

00:43:28.000 He hits the rock, the water comes forth, and then God says to Moses and Aaron, since you did not have faith in me to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, you shall not bring this assembly to the land which I have given them.

00:43:38.000 So that seems like a pretty harsh punishment, right?

00:43:40.000 I mean, it's pretty harsh. 0.97

00:43:42.000 God said, speak to the rock, he hits the rock, and God's like, okay, well, I guess you're gonna die now.

00:43:46.000 Like, that's pretty brutal on Moses.

00:43:49.000 Until what you realize is that every human being

00:43:52.000 has a designed role in the universe.

00:43:54.000 Every human being has a godly designed role in the universe.

00:43:57.000 Moses' role could not extend into the land.

00:44:00.000 The reason that Moses' role couldn't extend into the land is because Moses, as a conduit between the nation and God, was in danger of almost becoming an idol to the people.

00:44:09.000 And this is why, when God takes Moses, we still don't know where Moses is buried, because the idea was that God didn't want that to become kind of an idolatrous shrine to Moses.

00:44:19.000 Moses also was a national leader, but he wasn't a war leader.

00:44:23.000 And the person who takes Israel forth into the land is less a spiritual leader, Joshua, than he is a military leader.

00:44:29.000 And he just does everything God says.

00:44:31.000 The book of Joshua is about Joshua going around doing brutal things that God tells him to do, basically.

00:44:35.000 Moses is not that guy.

00:44:36.000 Moses is the guy who argues with God, who speaks face-to-face with God, as God says later in Deuteronomy.

00:44:41.000 He speaks face-to-face.

00:44:45.000 So what actually happened here?

00:44:46.000 What actually happened here is that Moses—you have to understand, in the preceding segments of the Bible, just before this, Aaron, who's Moses' brother and his spokesperson,

00:44:56.000 Aaron is getting really smacked around by life.

00:45:00.000 We've already had the golden calf.

00:45:01.000 Aaron's two sons die after they approach the altar and God consumes them.

00:45:05.000 They die because they bring unauthorized sacrifices and they die.

00:45:09.000 The people have now rebelled.

00:45:10.000 In last week's Parsha, Korach came and he rebelled.

00:45:15.000 against Moses and against Aaron.

00:45:17.000 And he says, we want to be the priests.

00:45:18.000 It shouldn't be your brother.

00:45:19.000 This is nepotism.

00:45:20.000 We're going to be the priests now, because we're all capable of being priests.

00:45:22.000 Why does it have to be your brother?

00:45:23.000 There's been this national rebellion against Moses and Aaron, and particularly against Aaron, because Moses always has God on his side.

00:45:29.000 But Aaron is, while he's a godly man, he doesn't get a lot of direct communication from God.

00:45:33.000 It's mostly through Moses in the Bible.

00:45:36.000 And so Moses here, what's happening is that people are angry, and they're angry at Moses and Aaron.

00:45:42.000 And Moses, in defense of his brother,

00:45:45.000 Sides with his own family, sides with his own brother, above the people and above God, more importantly.

00:45:51.000 Right?

00:45:51.000 He doesn't say, in the name of God, I'm bringing forth this water.

00:45:54.000 He says, can we draw water for you from this rock?

00:45:57.000 We, not being me and God, we being me and Aaron.

00:46:00.000 Can the two of us, can we draw the water forth from this rock?

00:46:05.000 My family is more important.

00:46:06.000 And it's a moment of passion for Moses, because he's angry.

00:46:09.000 But this is what we all do, right?

00:46:10.000 And this is the danger.

00:46:11.000 The danger in human life is siding with your tribe, siding with your family, siding with any institution over the will of God.

00:46:17.000 You do that, you're going to get yourself in a lot of hot water.

00:46:20.000 And that's exactly what happens with Moses here.

00:46:21.000 So Moses says, we'll do it for you, me and Aaron.

00:46:24.000 The next thing that happens, God says, you can't go in.

00:46:27.000 And Moses says, OK, well, who are you going to appoint the leader?

00:46:29.000 Can it be my son?

00:46:29.000 And God says, no.

00:46:31.000 God says it's going to be Joshua, right?

00:46:32.000 Now it's out of your family.

00:46:33.000 So I think it's worthwhile explaining what happened there because the idea here is, number one, you have a preordained role in life that it is your job to find and fulfill.

00:46:42.000 And we don't all get to see, we don't all get to enter the promised land, but it's our job to take

00:46:46.000 I'll take the world as far as we can.

00:46:48.000 But point number two is that the minute you begin valuing any institution over the will of God, which, by the way, I would include individual freedom and decency and morality, you get yourself in real hot water.

00:47:01.000 There's no comparison between Moses and, you know, the situation in Penn State, but this week there was a news item where it turned out that Joe Paterno knew from the 70s that his defense coach, Jerry Sandusky, was involved in basically molesting kids.

00:47:13.000 And everybody in the immediate vicinity apparently knew that this guy was involved.

00:47:18.000 And the allegiance to Penn State football was so great that nobody said anything and all these kids get molested.

00:47:23.000 This is true throughout human history.

00:47:24.000 You wonder how great brutality, great evil happens?

00:47:27.000 Great evil happens when people become fixed on the importance of any institution over the good.

00:47:35.000 Moses wasn't going to do anything like that, of course.

00:47:36.000 I mean, this is a momentary lapse, and that's what makes it so tragic.

00:47:39.000 Moses tries to repent, God says, sorry.

00:47:42.000 He holds Moses to a higher standard, because if you're speaking face-to-face with God, you don't get to make these kinds of mistakes, is sort of the idea.

00:47:47.000 But it's a lesson that we all should take from it, because we're all on a lower level than Moses.

00:47:52.000 We should take the more commonplace lesson.

00:47:54.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:47:56.000 So, first of all, Matt Damon just keeps saying things.

00:48:00.000 Matt Damon.

00:48:01.000 And Matt Damon, he's on all these posters for Jason Bourne holding a gun.

00:48:06.000 He's very anti-gun, but he makes lots of money off guns.

00:48:09.000 Now he says that he's frightened at the prospect of a Trump presidency, which is maybe the only reason I can think of to vote for Donald Trump.

00:48:16.000 You know, I'm really frightened at the prospect of a Trump presidency and what that would mean.

00:48:21.000 It's not even a Republican-Democrat issue.

00:48:24.000 I'm genuinely concerned about his temperament.

00:48:28.000 Somebody who's sending photos of their hands to people.

00:48:34.000 If it's that easy to get under your skin, you should not be able to wield that much power.

00:48:38.000 It's just too dangerous for the rest of us.

00:48:41.000 Didn't you say you would leave the country?

00:48:44.000 No, I think I'd try to work within the system to make it better, but I don't think I'd leave.

00:48:53.000 Okay, so, you know, unfortunately he won't leave if Trump wins.

00:48:56.000 That takes away my only reason to vote Trump.

00:48:57.000 So there it is. 0.99

00:48:59.000 Aside from Hillary being awful, awful, awful. 1.00

00:49:01.000 Okay, so, final thing that I hate. 0.98

00:49:02.000 Everybody's making this big deal out of this Pokemon Go thing.

00:49:06.000 I'm not a Pokemon person.

00:49:07.000 I don't...

00:49:10.000 I don't know what the deal is with the Pokemon thing or why it's there or why people care about it.

00:49:16.000 Apparently it just sort of pops up random places and you're supposed to sort of chase it around.

00:49:20.000 Apparently there's one on my desk right now.

00:49:29.000 But in any case, this Pokemon thing is just sitting around places and you're supposed to go around.

00:49:34.000 People are finding it in like Auschwitz.

00:49:36.000 And they said, please don't look for Pokemon Go in Auschwitz.

00:49:40.000 They found it at the US Holocaust Memorial.

00:49:41.000 And they're finding it at Arlington National Cemetery. 1.00

00:49:44.000 Idiots are like running around at Arlington National Cemetery for looking for this kind of stupid crap. 1.00

00:49:50.000 OK, number one, if you're not a 16-year-old girl, stop it. 1.00

00:49:53.000 Go get a life, go find people worth taking pictures with, as opposed to a digitally created thingamabobber that you can take a picture with on your phone.

00:50:01.000 It's not real, gang.

00:50:03.000 And if it were real, it might be a vicious small animal, you don't know.

00:50:06.000 So, this whole thing is, but this is what it takes to get adults out of the house.

00:50:10.000 Now, we're all 10 year old children.

00:50:12.000 We've turned into 10, I remember Pokemon was a thing when I was like 10.

00:50:15.000 I remember like all the girls were into Pokemon when I was 10.

00:50:17.000 I'm now 31, 32 now.

00:50:22.000 Um, it's time to get over it.

00:50:24.000 If you're an adult, start acting like it.

00:50:26.000 Yeah, go take a picture with your kid.

00:50:28.000 I understand that you think kids are dispensable and Pokemon is absolutely necessary to your life, but you might try to reverse that polarity a little bit.

00:50:35.000 It turns out that there are better things to do in life than chase around Pokemon. 0.99

00:50:38.000 Okay, it's a fun little thing, I understand, but whenever you see these kind of broad obsessions with stupid little things, and the only thing that can get you outside off your butt 0.95

00:50:46.000 Is to run around chasing a digital character on behalf of a major multinational corporation like Nintendo? 1.00

00:50:53.000 I would suggest that you, my friend, are a sucker. 0.98

00:50:55.000 And I would also suggest that you might need to get some new hobbies because, I mean, really. 0.99

00:50:59.000 It's one thing if I have kids and I'm running around with my kids doing it.

00:51:01.000 If I'm a 21 year old guy and I'm single and I'm just running around with my guy friends doing this?

00:51:08.000 Dude, find a girl. 1.00

00:51:10.000 I mean, like, really.

00:51:11.000 Get some semblance of a life.

00:51:13.000 And coming from me, that means something.

00:51:15.000 Okay, so there will be much more tomorrow.

00:51:18.000 We'll do the mailbag tomorrow.

00:51:19.000 You have to subscribe at Daily Wire if you want to be part of the mailbag, and then you can email me, and then I can make fun of you on air, or I can compliment you on air.

00:51:26.000 More likely the former than the latter, but take your shot.

00:51:29.000 So dailywire.com to subscribe and be part of the mailbag.

00:51:31.000 We will be back tomorrow.

00:51:32.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:51:33.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - July 13, 2016

Ep. 149 - Obama Speaks in Dallas, Is a Terrible Person

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