After hijacking a memorial for police officers slain by an anti-white racist to push his race and gun agenda, President Obama held a meeting on the police and race relations at the White House with one of his most important guests, race rioter DeRay McKesson.
00:00:00.000After hijacking a memorial for police officers slain by an anti-white, anti-cop racist to push his race and gun agenda, all the while claiming to be a uniter, President Obama held a meeting on the police and race relations at the White House on Wednesday.
00:00:13.000One of his most important guests, race riot fan DeRay McKesson, who made a name for himself by stoking rage over the fully justified shooting of Michael Brown, then parlaying that into a career as a Black Lives Matter provocateur.
00:00:25.000McKesson has spoken about Black Lives Matter at Yale University,
00:00:28.000Where he approved of reading an article for the students titled, Which naturally means that he gets to come to the White House, directly after getting himself arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for the cameras.
00:00:39.000McKesson supposedly chastised Obama for not visiting Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Alton Sterling was killed by police last week, after allegedly grabbing for his gun.
00:00:48.000Or Falcon Heights, Minnesota, where circumstances surrounding the police killing of Philando Castile are still unknown.
00:00:55.000McKesson even told Obama he should visit Ferguson, the site of riots championed by McKesson over a false racial narrative.
00:01:22.000After the meeting with the race arsonist, Obama then appeared before the press and ripped into the cops, quote, He then predicted, is what he says, quote,
00:01:45.000I think it is fair to say we will see more tension between police and communities this month, next month, next year, for quite some time.
00:01:54.000It's sort of his job to help stop that sort of thing.
00:01:57.000But he won't, because President Obama is a racial divider, by both ideology and for political gain.
00:02:02.000More black people will die thanks to these divisions, as police pull out of high-crime minority communities to avoid the wrath of the left.
00:02:08.000And more cops will die too, as the anti-police sentiment metastasizes.
00:03:00.000Number one, this means that Chris Christie is sitting alone in a room somewhere, crying, eating Cheetos, and weeping to himself while singing, all by myself.
00:03:11.000We also know that Newt Gingrich is somewhere planning how to build a pirate ship to the moon.
00:03:40.000Number two, Mike Pence does not shore up the conservative base because Mike Pence in the last couple of years has embraced Common Core.
00:03:46.000Mike Pence in the last couple of years has caved on Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
00:03:50.000Remember, there was a big national controversy after Indiana passed a law basically saying if you're a Christian baker, you don't have to cater a gay wedding.
00:04:10.000They come back and, yay, we give them amnesty.
00:04:13.000He's also in favor of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
00:04:16.000He's in favor of TPP, the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty that Trump hates so much.
00:04:20.000So in a lot of ways, this pick doesn't make a lot of sense.
00:04:22.000There's only one way in which it makes some sense.
00:04:25.000The reason that it makes a little bit of sense is because
00:04:28.000There's this brewing rebellion over at the RNC, people trying to oust Trump, some of the Never Trump people, trying to unbind the delegates.
00:04:35.000And this is a way of sort of quieting them, saying, OK, well, I picked somebody who's steady.
00:04:41.000I guess that the closest thing you could come to is he's sort of
00:04:45.000He's sort of like Indiana's John Kasich, is where Mike Pence is, and so it makes people feel a little bit more steady with Trump if he picks somebody like that.
00:04:54.000Trump, by the way, continues to run even with Hillary in the polls.
00:04:57.000Another poll out today shows, is from CBS and New York Times, it shows that they are tied at 40%.
00:06:11.000Obviously not the real reason Sarah Palin is not coming to the convention.
00:06:15.000I'd go with the crazy hands, but you know, probably a smart idea not to have Sarah Palin at the convention, although maybe he'll reveal her tomorrow as the pick for VP and it's all just a misdirection.
00:06:27.000I mean, there's part of Trump that likes to surprise more than he cares about anything else, and I was hoping for an actual, as you know, rose ceremony at Trump Tower tomorrow, where Chris Christie is sitting there, like, with the puppy dog eyes, and Trump doesn't give him the rose.
00:06:40.000I was really hoping for a lot more dramatics with Chris Christie, I'll be honest with you.
00:06:43.000I was really hoping that tomorrow, Trump was supposed to announce the VP pick tomorrow, I was hoping that Trump would bring out Chris Christie and say, and now, the next, I want to introduce you to the next Vice President of the United States's introducer!
00:06:55.000And it would be Chris Christie, and then the door would open up underneath him and he would fall down, but there'd be a trampoline underneath and he'd just bounce up again.
00:08:02.000They say he's an actor and also a former underwear model.
00:08:05.000I haven't heard of him as an actor or as an underwear model, so it's weird.
00:08:09.000Also, honestly, if he was going to get an underwear model, wouldn't you have figured it would have been that crazy guy in New York who, like, climbed up to the top of the Broadway
00:08:17.000You know, there was the Broadway platform, like, naked, and started shouting about Trump.
00:08:21.000Okay, but there's no Tyson, there's no Don King, there's no Bobby Knight, there's no Tom Brady.
00:08:25.000So, it's—and Tim Tebow is the biggest name that he's got.
00:08:28.000And you have to think, Tim Tebow, not the smartest move, if you're looking at being a Republican officeholder, to come out at this particular convention, but okay, you know.
00:08:37.000So, he's got a little bit more glitz, a little bit more glamour, not as much as he wanted.
00:08:41.000Apparently, they asked if they could fire fireworks in the stadium, and people said, no, there's a roof here.
00:09:20.000And the lineup is... And then there are some people who really should speak.
00:09:23.000There's some time dedicated to Benghazi.
00:09:25.000There's some time dedicated to illegal immigration.
00:09:28.000Marcus Luttrell, who's the lone survivor, former Navy SEAL, he's gonna speak.
00:09:31.000So it's not a terrible convention schedule by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not exactly the kind of glitz and glamour that we were promised.
00:09:39.000So, all that said, if you're buying and selling political stock, as I've said to people, if there were such stocks,
00:09:44.000Right now is when you would buy Trump stock and you'd sell Trump stock immediately after the convention because everybody gets that little convention bump and so the polls for the next week and a half are going to be very positive to Donald Trump and then Hillary will have her convention and she'll probably open up a little lead because she'll get a bump and then the media are going to try and push her all the way to the convention and
00:10:02.000She's already hit her biggest obstacle, right?
00:10:04.000Her biggest obstacle was the email server scandal, and that's now in her rearview mirror, so the media will now start pushing her extraordinarily hard.
00:10:12.000Okay, so that's the update on the presidential race.
00:10:14.000Now I want to get to things that actually matter, because the truth is that obviously, obviously, the presidential race matters, but
00:10:21.000What matters more to me is the underlying societal conflict that's sort of tearing the country apart.
00:10:25.000When I say sort of, I mean absolutely tearing the country apart.
00:10:28.000And it's very frightening in a lot of ways.
00:10:29.000So, I want to talk about the continuation of the race issue, and the continuation of the rebellion against police, and the anger against police, and this talk that the police are systemically racist.
00:10:39.000And I want to talk about real concerns about the police, and then fake concerns about the police.
00:10:44.000Like, the delusional concerns about the police, and then things that actually matter.
00:10:47.000And then things that actually matter about the cops.
00:10:52.000I know some people were asking about commentary on the ESPYs last night.
00:10:58.000We will do the commentary on the ESPYs, but I'm saving that for stuff I hate at the end of the show.
00:11:02.000Because as you know, I hate the fact that my sporting time, when I watch TV, if I'm turning to ESPN, I don't want to be seeing President Obama.
00:11:11.000I don't want to be seeing rallies against the police.
00:11:15.000ESPN is so bad that ESPN is actually live broadcasting.
00:11:18.000Obama's doing a race town hall tonight on ABC.
00:11:34.000Hewley was on Fox News last night, and he's an actor, black actor, comedian, and he's talking, I think this is with Megyn Kelly, he's talking
00:11:48.000There's places where we can talk realistically about race and the police.
00:11:52.000Like, for example, it's true, it's probably true, so according to this new Harvard study, and as I said yesterday, I'm digging into the statistics now, so I'm trying to lock all of this down, but according to this Harvard study, what they say is that low-level uses of force on black people are more common, even if they're innocent, than low-level uses of force on white people.
00:12:10.000But when you get to the upper end, like shootings and beatings, it's actually more common with white people.
00:12:14.000So there are a couple theories as to why that happens.
00:12:19.000The second is the Larry Elder theory, which is that the reason you have less shootings of black people is because of that escalation of race at the very beginning, and that escalation of force at the very beginning.
00:12:28.000In other words, you never hit the point where you have to shoot somebody because somebody's grabbing you really tight at the beginning, and you know who the alpha dog is, so you don't get into it with them.
00:13:02.000So, all that said, those are real concerns about race that we'll get to in a second.
00:13:06.000But then there is the Black Lives Matter movement, and the Black Lives Matter movement is utterly delusional.
00:13:10.000So instead of saying, we have concerns that low-level interactions between the police and black people are poisoning relations between the two because of the low-level amounts of force that are being used,
00:13:20.000Instead, what they're saying is the cops are randomly shooting people, it's a genocide, they're killing people, the cops are all evil and racist.
00:15:14.000This is how the race debate is going, and that's why these racial conflagrations that President Obama is creating, they're not going to alleviate anytime soon.
00:15:25.000Unfortunately, there's tons more to get to, folks, and this is why you should go to dailywire.com right now and subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:15:51.000Okay, so, this, this is the delusional side of the race debate, and unfortunately this is what tends to take precedence, is the delusional side of the race debate.
00:15:58.000So, for example, another example, the editor of Ebony magazine, she's on TV, and says killing white people should not be considered a hate crime.
00:16:07.000How do you feel about the president defining this as a hate crime?
00:16:12.000You know, I have to say, I would not describe hate crime as the most comfortable word choice, considering these circumstances.
00:16:20.000There's so much that we do not know about what took place, what motivated this person.
00:16:25.000We only have the one account of law enforcement.
00:16:28.000We haven't had the opportunity to really look into his history in a meaningful way.
00:16:33.000When we use a phrase like hate crime, we're typically referring to crimes against people of color, people of various religious groups, LGBT people.
00:16:41.000People who have been historically attacked, abused, or disenfranchised on the basis of their identity to now extend that to the majority group and a group of people that has a history with African Americans that has been abusive and we can apply that to either police officers or to Caucasians.
00:16:59.000I think gets into very tricky territory.
00:17:02.000So I'd be curious to know if he was referring to this as a hate crime because he singled them out by race, or attempted to single them out by race, or because they were police officers.
00:17:10.000Okay, it's an amazing statement, right?
00:17:12.000There can't be a hate crime against anybody except black people.
00:17:14.000This is an extension of what we saw Marc Lamont Hill say a couple of days ago, black people are incapable of racism.
00:17:20.000You can't have a conversation with this.
00:18:10.000And you said that you viewed him as a martyr.
00:18:13.000So you've got to be able to understand why people are really angry at you, no?
00:18:21.000The word martyr is what the headlines said and what people have been holding on, and I understand that the use of that word really triggered people.
00:18:27.000Of course, you know, I was very emotional at the time, and I can't... I could have chosen a different word.
00:18:34.000I mean, that I definitely don't agree with, but you know, we're all human.
00:18:37.000I'm not perfect, and people say things and things are taken out of context all the time, so I keep explaining to people.
00:18:44.000That the word, um, I wish I had chosen another word.
00:18:48.000I just have to take responsibility for the word I used at that time.
00:18:51.000And I take responsibility for the use of that word.
00:18:53.000But the context in which I was thinking about martyr was for the definition.
00:18:57.000If you look it up, it says a person who dies for his belief.
00:19:00.000I keep telling people, Micah Johnson is not a hero.
00:19:05.000I don't believe in a cause that calls for the killing of individuals.
00:19:08.000So yeah, in hindsight, I look back and I could have used a different word, but I definitely didn't use that word to raise him up, glorify what he did, or condone any actions.
00:19:18.000Of course she meant to glorify and raise him up.
00:20:45.000And then afterward, he releases this ridiculous statement.
00:20:50.000Not only are there very real problems, but there are still deep divisions about how to solve these problems.
00:21:00.000There's no doubt that police departments still feel embattled and unjustly accused.
00:21:07.000And there is no doubt that minority communities, communities of color, still feel like it just takes too long to do what's right.
00:21:19.000And the pace of change is going to feel too fast for some and too slow for others.
00:21:29.000And sadly, because this is a huge country that is very diverse, and we have a lot of police departments, I think it is fair to say that we will see more tension in police, between police and communities,
00:22:14.000That's because he's going out there, and he's exacerbating tensions, suggesting that the police are out to get black kids, and that the police won't recognize the plight of black kids.
00:22:25.000Because he's creating this false perception, and he does it not just by saying the police need to stop hassling black kids so much when they see them on the street.
00:22:33.000You know, they could be nicer in their interactions.
00:22:36.000Not by saying that, which is at least arguable, but by saying the police are out there targeting and shooting black kids.
00:22:42.000You say that a group of people is out there to target and shoot you.
00:22:45.000Are you gonna be surprised when those people are out in the streets rioting and protesting?
00:24:03.000I missed the part where Alton Sterling wasn't resisting arrest and didn't have a gun in his pocket illegally and probably reached for the gun.
00:25:07.000So he's saying two false things instead of one thing that may be quasi-true.
00:25:11.000Here's the thing that's quasi-true, okay?
00:25:13.000Tim Scott, black senator from South Carolina, right?
00:25:16.000And he gave a speech on the floor of the Senate yesterday in which he talked about his experience with racial profiling, with what he thinks is racial profiling.
00:25:58.000I was pulled over for nothing more than driving a new car in the wrong neighborhood or some other reason just as trivial.
00:26:09.000Okay, and then he explains what those reasons are.
00:26:11.000So, there's a couple things to say here.
00:26:13.000Number one, you don't get to say, I like Tim Scott, but you don't get to say you were pulled over seven times and then say two of those were legit, right?
00:26:27.000I mean, for goodness sake, I've gotten more traffic tickets than anybody I know.
00:26:32.000It's been several years since I got a traffic ticket, because the last one that I got was I was caught going 113 on the I-5.
00:26:38.000They caught me at 113, which was good, because I was going 128 at one point.
00:26:41.000But in any case, that was the last time I sped, because I learned my lesson.
00:26:44.000But the point is that, number one, if he's going to say that he's being racially profiled, he acknowledges at least a couple of those times the pullover was legit.
00:26:52.000Then he talks about situations in which he was pulled over.
00:26:55.000He's a black guy driving a nice new car in a predominantly white community, and he was pulled over.
00:27:00.000Now, what he doesn't say is whether he was brutally assaulted in those circumstances.
00:27:30.000He doesn't explain what happened that was so terrible.
00:27:32.000He gives one example, I think, Tim Scott, of him coming to the Capitol building, and he has his Senator pin on, and the guard says, I want to see your ID.
00:27:51.000That seems, again, if you name the officer and you name what he did wrong, then we can actually fight officer racism.
00:27:58.000If you just name things where you are perceiving racism, where it may or may not exist, it makes it very difficult to fight it.
00:28:05.000Now, he could make a different argument.
00:28:06.000He could make the argument that was being made by this Harvard study, which is—I keep mentioning this Harvard study because I'm actually—I like statistics and I'm interested in actual academic studies.
00:28:15.000There's some flaws with this Harvard study.
00:28:16.000A lot of criminologists say that it's got some problems.
00:28:19.000The part of the study that's important to me, the part that I care about in this particular study,
00:28:47.000If they didn't do any of these things, then the study calls them perfectly compliant.
00:28:51.000And then they say, when we take perfectly compliant individuals and we control for civilian officer encounter and location variables, black civilians are 21.1% more likely to have any force used against them compared to white civilians with the same reported compliance behavior.
00:29:06.000It's going a little deeper than the headlines.
00:29:07.000So what that means is when the officer turns you around and puts his hands on you, he's more likely to do that with a perfectly compliant black civilian than he is with a similar perfectly compliant white civilian.
00:29:18.000Now, when you escalate the force, those percentages go down.
00:29:22.000Instead of it being 21% more likely that a black civilian is going to have the hands put on, now it's 20% more likely that you're going to be shot if you're white than if you're black.
00:29:30.000So the theory of the authors is that there's still this systemic discrimination and that as the punishment increases for systemic discrimination, right, like based on shootings, then people will discriminate less.
00:29:56.000Like, won't your department- And they said, yes, there's a full investigation anytime somebody makes a complaint of that sort.
00:30:02.000So, if you think something racist happened to you, number one, make a complaint.
00:30:07.000Number two, it's also possible that these are not the only variables as far as compliance, because there are lots of things that make you non-compliant, right?
00:30:15.000If you're not just talking back to a verbally threatening an officer, what if they talk back to the officer, not just threaten, but say F you to the officer, which is pretty common, people saying F you to the officer, right?
00:30:25.000Bottom line is, if you say things to an officer that are, you know,
00:30:29.000That rubbed the officer the wrong way, it's more likely the officer is going to grab you and push you or do something to you.
00:30:36.000The information here isn't specific enough for all of that.
00:30:39.000I talked with Heather McDonald, the author of The War on Cops, yesterday about this exact part of the study, and one of the things that we talked about was, how exact can you be with this sort of data?
00:30:56.000Let's assume that the reason that this is happening is because there's some sort of racial and behavioral profiling going on.
00:31:00.000Now we have to, as a society, make some decisions.
00:31:03.000Are we willing to... And these are real questions that require real answers.
00:31:08.000And you don't get to just end around it, right?
00:31:11.000Are we willing... It's the same question we ask about racial and ethnic profiling of people from the Middle East with regard to terrorism.
00:31:18.000Are you willing to sacrifice more lives and have more people die and have more crime committed because you don't want to be involved in so-called profiling?
00:31:26.000So, last night on CNN, there was one of these town hall events.
00:31:31.000And a former Chicago Police Department officer, who's black, got up and started talking.
00:31:36.000And it's really interesting because he's black, so he says he's experienced it on one end, but he's also experienced it from the other end.
00:31:41.000And I think this is the kind of conversation we need to be having.
00:31:57.000Because it's an effective policing tool.
00:31:59.000But me having an appreciation and an understanding, having been on the negative side of profiling, I understand the negative connotations that it can bring.
00:32:09.000But I also understood how effective it can be to protect those members of the community.
00:32:23.000There's community cultural differences and there are police cultural differences.
00:32:27.000And where we have a real opportunity here, Don, is to bridge that divide between the cultural differences.
00:32:32.000Because when you take a police officer out of the police academy and you give him some diversity, immersion, and effective training about the community that he is going to police in, he's going to handle those citizens much differently.
00:32:45.000Okay, so I think there's some truth to it, except I think when he talks about the diversity training and all that, that's been ineffective.
00:32:50.000In Baltimore, you have black cops policing black communities, and it hasn't changed the calculus.
00:32:54.000The only way you really change the calculus of excessive levels of low-level force being used disproportionately on black folks, for example, the only way you change that calculus is the same way that every other ethnic community in the United States has historically changed that calculus.
00:33:07.000And that is, you lower the crime rate.
00:33:09.000When Italians came to the United States and became Italian-Americans, their crime rate was really high.
00:33:15.000And it was really high because there was mafia involvement and because the police didn't go into those communities.
00:33:20.000And there were really, really bad relations.
00:34:04.000They won't say to people, you need to raise your kids better, you need to cooperate with the cops, you need to fight crime, you need to have a father for your kid when the kid is growing up in the house.
00:34:12.000We saw yesterday people saying that, Whoopi Goldberg saying it's racist for Rudy Giuliani to say that it's worthwhile to have a father in the home.
00:34:19.000Is it racist for that black Dallas police chief to say the same thing?
00:34:22.000That's what you need to do in order to quash the crime problem.
00:34:26.000And what's happening, because we can't discuss the first issue, which is the level of the culture that creates crime in inner-city black communities, because we can't discuss that, we have to move to the second issue, which is, what do we do with the police to help fix this?
00:34:40.000And then it turns out we don't like what the police are doing in order to fix this.
00:34:43.000If you won't solve the first problem, you end up with the second problem.
00:34:46.000Bill Maher, you know, said something that I think is worthwhile and worthy of exploration.
00:34:50.000Last night, same broadcast, he says, without cops, the country would look like the Purge.
00:36:12.000The proportions are not the same between civilians and terrorists, obviously, or civilians and criminals.
00:36:17.000But the mentality is very similar, and this is why we tend to lump in, in our own heads, police people and people who are members of the military.
00:36:23.000That requires a certain amount of putting your humanity to the side.
00:36:28.000And cops do their best, they really do, to not do that.
00:36:31.000And it's a very difficult job, the same way it is for the military.
00:36:41.000It's actually not true everywhere, right?
00:36:43.000There are places in Texas where, if there were no cops, the country still would not look like the Purge because people know their neighbors.
00:36:51.000Because people all have guns, so if there were somebody who were doing something bad, they would shoot them.
00:36:55.000I know that if you left my Jewish community to itself, just the Jewish community because it's the community I know, my religious community.
00:37:01.000If you left us to ourselves, it would not look like the Purge.
00:37:04.000Because there are common ties that we share.
00:37:06.000And that common tie includes being law-abiding and helping each other out.
00:37:11.000When you don't work on the social fabric, that's when you need the cops, and then you're upset because the cops come in, and the cops are not perfect, and the cops do bad things, and the cops can get overzealous, and the cops can be brutal to people.
00:37:24.000But we're not talking about solutions in this conversation.
00:37:26.000Instead, we're just blaming cops for things they don't do, suggesting that all cops are racist, and pretending that's the real problem.
00:37:32.000If you think that's the real problem, the solution is to get rid of the cops.
00:37:34.000But the problem right now is that Bill Maher is right.
00:37:36.000If you do get rid of the cops, in a lot of these communities, there is no social fabric, and so you will have mass killings.
00:37:41.000And that's exactly what's been happening throughout the United States in areas where the crime is rising, as the Ferguson effect takes place.
00:39:11.000Like, we here in this office know that because there are a bunch of people here who worked for the least secret secret organization in America, Friends of Abe, right?
00:39:19.000501c3, that was trying to get approved and failed, right?
00:39:22.000And failed because of Lois Lerner and the IRS.
00:39:31.000I don't think Trump cares about the Constitution.
00:39:33.000Yesterday, Donald Trump came out and he was asked, this is an amazing thing, Donald Trump was asked yesterday about, do you care if the Republicans lose the Senate?
00:39:40.000And his reply was, yeah, I would like to retain the Senate, but actually I don't really mind that much because it would be fun to be a free agent.
00:39:47.000Okay, for all you people who think Donald Trump cares about the Supreme Court, you be stupid, gang.
00:39:52.000Okay, the fact is, Donald Trump doesn't care about the Supreme Court.
00:39:55.000If there's a Republican Senate, maybe he's pressured into making a conservative Supreme Court pick, but that's the whole point.
00:40:00.000He doesn't care whether there's a Republican Senate because he doesn't care about that issue.
00:40:04.000The only real issue in America that requires the Supreme Court is the SCOTUS pick, is the Supreme Court pick, and he doesn't care about it, right?
00:40:24.000I mean, she would dip that Constitution in acid and then set it on fire, and then set it on fire again, and then put it out, and then dip it in acid again, and just continue doing that over and over.
00:40:34.000Every attack that she drops on him backfires on her.
00:40:39.000I mean, it's a third-grade election, right?
00:40:41.000No matter what you say, I'm rubber and you're glue.
00:40:44.000Everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you.
00:40:47.000And Trump should basically just say that.
00:41:40.000She's not saying anything about Trump that isn't true.
00:41:42.000But she just went on TV two days ago and said white Americans basically need to apologize to black Americans.
00:41:47.000Her top advisor, Sidney Blumenthal, has a son who says that Israel is a Nazi state.
00:41:52.000Hillary Clinton, everything that she's saying about disdain for women, my God, she attacks rape victims.
00:41:59.000This is why Hillary is failing, and no one trusts her, and the polls show that.
00:42:01.000So again, this isn't about Donald Trump getting stronger, it's about Hillary Clinton getting weaker.
00:42:06.000And, you know, she should continue to get weaker.
00:42:08.000I'm hoping that eventually, by the time of the election, only 2% of the American population votes, and the other 98% of us have moved somewhere else.
00:42:15.000You know, we've all moved to Texas, basically, and they're seceding, because that's the only solution here, because these two candidates are the worst, and Hillary is horrible.
00:44:39.000I know what's going through your mind right now.
00:44:57.000Shyamalan's films to put up here, and Sixth Sense wasn't even part of the equation.
00:45:01.000I also like The Village, which is actually a really underrated film.
00:45:05.000There's part of it that's dumb with Adrian Brody, but the rest of the movie is actually really good, and really interesting, and raises questions.
00:45:33.000But, yesterday I'm working out, and they're doing the run-up to the ESPYs, and I said to my trainer, I said, look, I know, I know, this is gonna be all Black Lives Matter all the time, because ESPN is trying to draw a black audience, and so the way they think they're gonna do that is by politically pandering.
00:45:48.000Naturally, that's exactly what happened.
00:45:49.000So it started off at the beginning of the ESPYs with, I think it's Dwayne Wade and Chris Paul and LeBron James.
00:45:55.000And I'm trying to remember who the fourth guy is.
00:45:58.000And they're all standing there talking about Black Lives Matter.
00:46:34.000The violence and the racial divide definitely is not new.
00:46:39.000But the urgency to create change is at an all-time high.
00:46:44.000We stand here tonight accepting our role in uniting communities to be the change we need to see.
00:46:51.000We stand before you as fathers, sons, husbands, brothers, uncles, and in my case, as an African-American man and the nephew of a police officer who is one of the hundreds of thousands of great officers serving this country.
00:47:51.000Okay, when he lists off those names, there's only one name there that we know for sure was a bad shoot, and that's Laquan McDonald.
00:47:57.000Every other name there is the very least controversial.
00:48:01.000Trayvon Martin punched George Zimmerman in the face and then pounded his head on the pavement and was found innocent by a jury, George Zimmerman.
00:48:36.000When you talk about Michael Brown, obviously that was a good shoot.
00:48:39.000When you're talking about Alton Sterling, Alton Sterling is very possibly a good shoot, and Philando Castile we don't even know anything about yet.
00:48:47.000But it doesn't matter, they go on national TV and they start promoting this propaganda.
00:48:50.000And then if that weren't enough, if that weren't enough, Obama has to make an appearance at the ESPYs.
00:48:54.000Because he has to be everywhere, Obama.
00:48:58.000Zavion gave his life to save someone else's.
00:51:39.000Dear Ben, my greatest fear is that the intolerance and thuggery of the left and their agenda will do far greater harm than just increasing our social divides and stymieing our economic growth.
00:51:48.000They are on a mission to pervert the Constitution and undermine the structure of the Union.
00:51:52.000Looking across the globe, do you think America is headed toward revolutionary fire?
00:51:56.000And what will fuel the fire or will be a simultaneous push from both forces that sever our Union?
00:52:03.000So I think the two forces he's talking about are the intolerance and thuggery of the left
00:52:08.000And then the other is the apparent, I guess, the mission to pervert the Constitution.
00:52:15.000I mean, it's all part of the same agenda.
00:52:17.000The bottom line is that what they're looking to do is destroy the state of the country so they can build a new country, and that means destroying the foundations of the country.
00:52:24.000Daniel writes, Ben, you dislike Pokemon Go.
00:53:16.000What do you think is the true endgame of the Black Lives Matter and civil rights movements, not to compare the two?
00:53:21.000Is the objective to desensitize the nation in terms of race, or is there intent to keep racial identity but simply be treated equally, or is there even an endgame?
00:53:28.000Well, the endgame is not to be treated equally.
00:53:30.000The endgame is that morality doesn't apply to you based on race, which is why BLM is racist.
00:53:35.000The whole idea, and I explained this the other day, the whole idea behind Black Lives Matter is that they are taking America, segmenting it off, creating conflict, and then saying that that conflict is inherent to the DNA of the system, as President Obama says, so we have to tear down the entire system.
00:53:50.000It's inherent in our property-based, capitalist, selfish society, and if we weren't so property-based and capitalistic and selfish, then we would just embrace a socialist identity under Bernie Sanders.
00:53:59.000See, the BLM people and Bernie Sanders have the same goals.
00:54:03.000The only difference is that Bernie Sanders thinks that that's a transracial goal, and the BLM people think that that's a black goal.
00:54:09.000There's a reason BLM does not include right-wing people, even though you would think, I mean, if you're anti-police, presumably there's a libertarian contingent, but there really isn't.
00:54:17.000Brett writes, if Hillary Clinton threw flaming kittens into a pagan altar as an animal sacrifice on live TV, would she still get votes?
00:54:40.000I mean, this is sacrifice on the altar of Molech, so I'm not, you know... None of that shocks me.
00:54:45.000Well, I mean, if it's a legit source, if I'm citing Bureau of Labor Statistics, for example, or if I'm citing DOJ and FBI statistics, and they say it's biased, the conversation's over.
00:55:02.000Because if you can't even agree on the sources for the facts or what is a fact, there's no conversation to be had.
00:55:07.000What I hate about the left is they think their opinions are facts, but facts are opinions.
00:55:12.000They think that if they have an opinion, like America is systemically racist, that's a fact.
00:55:17.000But if I say, here's all the reasons why that's not true, including profiling information, percentage of crime, what percentage of people resist police, percentage of murders, right?
00:55:33.000Your opinion can be racist, and we saw that a lot today.
00:55:37.000Andrew writes, hey Ben, I'm 18, I don't remember much about the Bush administration.
00:55:40.000I know the reasons libs hated Bush, but what did true conservatives not like about his two terms in office?
00:55:44.000Blowing out the spending, mishandling the beginning of the war in Iraq before fixing it with the surge, not really having a clear strategy in Afghanistan, the idea of democratization of regions that have had no history of democracy.
00:55:57.000And a non-interest in constitutional issues, including free speech, which is why he signed into law campaign finance reform.
00:56:04.000Those would be the big issues with George W. Bush.
00:56:15.000My sister's been wanting to get married for a few years, but now her boyfriend seems reluctant, mainly due to financial technicalities because he owns his own business.
00:56:24.000The reason he's reluctant to get married is because he doesn't want to get married.
00:56:26.000Okay, marriage is not a decision that you make because you're financially stable.
00:56:30.000The fact is that marriage is a decision you make because you have a moral compunction to make it.
00:56:34.000Because there's something inside you that says, I have to get married now.
00:56:38.000This is why, you know, old Harvard Law story, I was there and they had this Meaning of Life Dinner, what they called the Meaning of Life Dinner at the Harvard Hillel.
00:56:48.000And there's all these people sitting around being idiots and eating Chinese food.
00:57:29.000And I'm speaking as someone who remained a virgin until marriage, and my wife remained a virgin until marriage, so I speak from the experience of having done that.
00:57:35.000We've now been happily married for eight years.
01:00:14.000I don't know, maybe it tastes like garbage, but it's... Okay, so, final question.
01:00:19.000Gabriel writes, Dear Ben, I have a question regarding your views on abortion.
01:00:22.000I fully agree with you that toying with the definition of a human life at will is fundamentally evil.
01:00:26.000My question is whether you think that in the case of a rape of a small girl, ending the life of the fetus is still categorically immoral.
01:00:32.000If, heaven forbid, you had a daughter who was raped and conceived at 12 or 13, what would you do?
01:00:36.000I understand your argument human rights are absolute and should never be violated.
01:00:39.000In this instance, however, could the existence of the child be considered to be causing such great emotional trauma for the girl so as to be considered an externality from which the girl has the right to be defended?
01:00:49.000Okay, so as I've said, my view on abortion is pretty simple.
01:00:53.000It's when the mother's life is in danger, abortion is appropriate.
01:00:55.000So, one of the aspects of mother's life being in danger is if you have a 12-year-old, 13-year-old girl, and she's literally going to kill herself because she's now carrying a rapist's child, and I can certainly see that happening.
01:01:05.000That wouldn't be a referendum on her mental health or stability.
01:01:07.000I can see why any woman would be in that position if she were raped and now she's carrying a child.
01:02:07.000Bernie Sanders was beating Hillary in debate, Obama beat Hillary in debate, so it would be easier probably to defeat Hillary than Obama, but that's why I would probably pick Obama to debate, because I think it would be fun to actually ask him about some of the horrible and terrible things that he's done.
01:02:22.000Okay, so we've reached the end of the week.
01:02:24.000Over the weekend, if you could not ruin things.
01:02:27.000I know it's the Clavin-less weekend, and this is when things tend to get ruined, and if you don't listen to Clavin's show, you should go listen to it, because it's great.
01:02:32.000But please don't ruin things in my absence.
01:02:34.000It might not be Mike Pence, apparently.
01:02:36.000This is the breaking news that Donald Trump may be changing his mind.