The Ben Shapiro Show - July 21, 2016


Ep. 153 - Media Hear True Things About Hillary, Lose Their Minds


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Length

50 minutes

Words per Minute

189.82143

Word Count

9,567

Sentence Count

742

Misogynist Sentences

41

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary

A splinter of the powerful Turkish military attempted a coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, and it failed. Some on the left question whether the coup was really a coup, and whether it was even a good one. Is it possible that it was just as bad as the coup against Hitler and Mussolini, and that the coup in Turkey was actually a set-up by the far-left to bring down the democratically elected government of an elected government? Ben Shapiro explains why the coup failed, and why it might have been a good thing. Plus, a new sponsor, Helix Sleep, gives you the most comfortable mattress you ve ever slept on, and then gives you a 30% discount on a mattress that allows you to sleep more comfortably. Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show to get 10% off your first purchase when you place an order through our discount code: CROWN10 at checkout. The show is now available in Kindle, iBook, Paperback, Hardcover, and Hardcover. Use the discount code CROWNEATERS at checkout to save 10% on all of your books, and receive a discount of up to $99.99 a year. You get 100% off the Kindle Fire and a free eReader copy of The New York Times best selling paperback edition of the book Good Mythology, Good Omens, Good Morning America. Good Luck! by clicking here. and Good Luck by Good Luck Good Luck, and Good Fortune, Good Fortune. by Kindle Fire by Mrs. Goodnight Good Fortune by Mr. Good Luck and Good Read, Good Read and Good Grammar by Ms. Martin Goodnight, Thanks, and Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, and Merry Morning, and Blessings, by Dr. Claus Goodnight Happy New Year! by . - Ben Shapiro by John Rocha Thank you for listening to the Ben Shapiro Podcast Subscribe and Share this and Good Night, and Happy New Moon Love & Blessings by You, The Best Regards, Timestar by Puff and Cheers, Sarah, Sarah -- Sarah, Ben & Cheers Tim, Jack, x by: Jacklyn And Good Morning, Rachel , Music by: Chacho, Jr.,


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00:00:00.000 So last Friday, a splinter of the powerful Turkish military attempted a coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who's an Islamist with a taste for the authoritarian.
00:00:09.000 Erdogan has spent the past decade purging the military of secularists, integrating his own brand of radical Islam into the government.
00:00:16.000 In the process, he's also made for himself a $182 million fortune, he's built himself three palaces, including a $650 million Saddam-esque monstrosity.
00:00:26.000 He's cracked down on journalists, he's gone soft on ISIS, and he's threatened to get rid of the Constitutional Court.
00:00:30.000 He is, in short, an aspiring dictator.
00:00:33.000 Sadly, as we all know, the coup failed.
00:00:36.000 Or maybe the coup was just a setup.
00:00:38.000 Erdogan has used the failure of the coup as an excuse to completely purge his enemies.
00:00:42.000 He's demanded the United States hand over a moderate cleric he sees as his enemy.
00:00:46.000 He's detained or suspended 20,000 police, civil service, judiciary, and army members.
00:00:51.000 He's called to reinstate the death penalty for anyone who attempted the coup.
00:00:56.000 1,500 finance ministry officials were thrown out, thousands of deans of colleges were, and 30 governors were fired as well.
00:01:02.000 So, in response, U.S.
00:01:04.000 Secretary of State John Kerry blustered through his crazy face, Given the Obama administration stood by and did nothing after Syrian dictator Bashar Assad used chemical weapons on his own citizens, Erdogan probably laughed out loud at this particular missive.
00:01:21.000 So, here's the question.
00:01:22.000 Was the coup moral?
00:01:24.000 Some on the left say no.
00:01:25.000 A columnist for The Guardian, a socialist named Owen Jones, tweeted, quote, Except, of course, that that's stupid.
00:01:35.000 An attempted coup against Adolf Hitler, who became Chancellor of Germany legitimately in 1932, or against Benito Mussolini, who became Prime Minister of Italy through democratic means in 1922, would have been justified.
00:01:48.000 Today, a coup against an elected government in Iran would be similarly decent as would a coup against the elected government in Hamas-controlled Gaza.
00:01:56.000 For well over a century, the left has mistaken the means of democracy for democratic values.
00:02:01.000 That confusion has converted republics into tyrannies.
00:02:04.000 Just because people elect their dictators doesn't make the dictators legit.
00:02:07.000 That's the whole point of the Constitution.
00:02:09.000 There are certain rights that are inviolable, even by a majority.
00:02:13.000 If a majority voted to enslave a minority, according to Jones's logic, a coup would be illegitimate.
00:02:18.000 After all, that'd be overturning the popular will.
00:02:21.000 Presumably, that's why he's a socialist.
00:02:23.000 For him, morality follows the majority.
00:02:24.000 You just vote other people's money to yourself.
00:02:27.000 But morality doesn't follow the majority.
00:02:29.000 Democracy and classical liberalism, they should go hand in hand, but they don't always.
00:02:33.000 A people trained in classical liberalism will vote for it.
00:02:35.000 A people trained in tyranny will vote for tyranny.
00:02:38.000 That's what's been happening in Turkey.
00:02:39.000 Increasingly, it's what's happening everywhere.
00:02:42.000 Values have to trump democracy if the two come into conflict.
00:02:44.000 They don't have to.
00:02:45.000 But it's our job to educate our kids and indeed populations around the world about what classical liberal values look like.
00:02:52.000 If we don't, people will choose their own chains.
00:02:54.000 And just because you choose your own chains doesn't mean those chains are somehow any less oppressive.
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00:04:38.000 So tons to get to.
00:04:39.000 Yesterday, Donald Trump clinches the Republican nomination.
00:04:43.000 And people like me, who think that Donald Trump is terrible, we were very sad about this, obviously.
00:04:48.000 Donald Trump, however, was very happy about all of this.
00:04:51.000 And look, we knew this was coming, right?
00:04:52.000 There's no great
00:04:53.000 We're good to go.
00:05:14.000 No, no harm, no foul.
00:05:15.000 Everybody's kind of doing what they do at these particular conventions.
00:05:19.000 Here's what Trump looked like when he celebrated clinching the nomination.
00:05:22.000 He appeared via video on the big TV at the convention, because I think he's planning to be on, I think, pretty much every night.
00:05:29.000 A little over one year ago, I announced my candidacy for president, and with your vote today, this stage of the presidential process has come to a close.
00:05:41.000 Together we've achieved historic results with the largest vote total in the history of the Republican Party.
00:05:49.000 This is a movement, but we have to go all the way.
00:05:54.000 I'm so proud to be your nominee for President of the United States.
00:05:59.000 I look forward to sharing my thoughts with you on Thursday night on how we build a brighter and more hopeful future for all Americans.
00:06:08.000 It's an honor to run on a ticket with Governor Mike Pence, who is an incredible man and who will make a great, great Vice President.
00:06:20.000 I'll be with him in Cleveland tomorrow night, and we'll be together again on Thursday night.
00:06:26.000 And by the way, we are going to win the state of Ohio.
00:06:31.000 And also, of course, we're going to win the presidency and bring real change and leadership back to Washington.
00:06:41.000 This is going to be a leadership, by the way, that puts the American people first.
00:06:49.000 We're going to bring back our jobs.
00:06:50.000 He's doing his shtick, and that's fine.
00:06:52.000 I mean, this is the shtick that he has to do.
00:06:53.000 There were some Trumpian touches to the convention yesterday.
00:06:56.000 Overall, day two, much better than day one.
00:06:57.000 We talked about all the foibles of day one, all the kind of flaws, the media nitpicking those flaws.
00:07:02.000 Day two was much smoother.
00:07:04.000 It ran a lot smoother.
00:07:05.000 There were a couple of Trumpian touches.
00:07:07.000 So, for example, the president of the UFC, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Dana White, he showed up to talk for Trump, and it got a little weird for a moment.
00:07:14.000 And in my opinion, you can really tell a person's true character when they're happy for somebody else's success.
00:07:21.000 Okay?
00:07:24.000 And I think that sense of loyalty and commitment will translate into how he will run this country.
00:07:30.000 And let's be honest, folks.
00:07:32.000 We need somebody who believes in this country, we need somebody who's proud of this country, and who will fight for this country.
00:07:43.000 Let me tell you something.
00:07:44.000 I've been in the fight business my whole life.
00:07:46.000 And then the shot cuts to a couple of Democrats who are Donald Trump's kids, and the octagon descends, and then Chris Christie fights Newt Gingrich for a hamburger.
00:07:54.000 So in any case, that was not the main import of last night.
00:07:57.000 The main import of last night, and you know it went better for Trump because this was the main import of last night.
00:08:01.000 The main import of last night was that the Republicans really went after Hillary hard, and there were no big distractions.
00:08:06.000 So the fact that they were going after Hillary hard made the media a little bit crazy.
00:08:11.000 This was the moment that drove the media out of its mind.
00:08:14.000 Chris Christie put down his shine box long enough to go and actually speak at the convention and make the case that he basically should have been the VP pick, because he's a really good attack dog.
00:08:24.000 And so he went there and he did his attack dog routine against Hillary, and it was very effective.
00:08:28.000 It was very good.
00:08:29.000 It was very prosecutorial.
00:08:31.000 He wants as backup to be the Attorney General of the United States.
00:08:34.000 If he can't be VP, then he'll be Attorney General.
00:08:36.000 And he makes a pretty good case for himself here.
00:08:37.000 So here is Chris Christie making the case for prosecuting Hillary Clinton.
00:08:41.000 So let's do something fun tonight.
00:08:44.000 Tonight, as a former federal prosecutor, I welcome the opportunity to hold Hillary Rodham Clinton accountable for her performance and her character.
00:08:53.000 Lock her up!
00:08:53.000 Lock her up!
00:09:05.000 Lock her up!
00:09:10.000 Lock her up!
00:09:10.000 Lock her up!
00:09:10.000 Lock her up!
00:09:11.000 Lock her up!
00:09:16.000 Right, and he's very happy, obviously.
00:09:19.000 So.
00:09:20.000 Okay, and it goes on like this, and then fine.
00:09:22.000 Okay, so everybody's chanting, lock her up, and Chris Christie is getting ready to actually dive into the crowd, and everybody below him is very, very frightened.
00:09:29.000 So, but what he's saying about Hillary, it's time to prosecute her, of course that's true, and when people chant, lock her up, that has a meaning, right?
00:09:36.000 I mean, the fact that they're saying, lock her up,
00:09:38.000 There's a reason for that.
00:09:39.000 Now, the media lost its collective mind over this.
00:09:41.000 They lost their poop over this.
00:09:42.000 So they didn't have a headline like Melania's plagiarism to talk about.
00:09:46.000 And so instead, they decided that it was worthwhile talking about this.
00:09:50.000 This was the end of the world.
00:09:51.000 You know, how dare he say that we're going to prosecute her and the crowd is going to chant, lock her up.
00:09:56.000 How dare they do all this?
00:09:57.000 Christy went on like this, by the way.
00:09:58.000 He did a whole routine where he kind of threw out a charge and then he said, is she guilty or is she not guilty?
00:10:04.000 So I'm going to ask you this.
00:10:06.000 Hillary Clinton as a failure for ruining Libya and creating a nest for terrorist activity by ISIS.
00:10:14.000 Answer me now, is she guilty or not guilty?
00:10:19.000 Hillary Clinton as an apologist for an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Nigeria resulting in the capture of innocent young women.
00:10:28.000 Is she guilty or not guilty?
00:10:31.000 He does this routine, it goes on like this, right?
00:10:34.000 So we don't need to play all of them, because there are a lot of guilty or not-guilties, and it was basically like the opening scene in Superman I, where you have General Zod in the dock, and all the disembodied heads going, GUILTY.
00:10:45.000 Right?
00:10:45.000 So it's, okay, this is good, this is good stuff, right?
00:10:48.000 I mean, this is...
00:10:49.000 The mistake is this wasn't in primetime.
00:10:50.000 It should have been in primetime.
00:10:52.000 Instead, we got the CEO of the Trump Winery, for some odd reason, talking.
00:10:55.000 I know, I was desperate to hear from the CEO of the Trump Winery.
00:10:58.000 But Chris Christie, you know, does a good job there.
00:11:00.000 So the media loses their poop.
00:11:01.000 I mean, just, they lose it.
00:11:03.000 They absolutely lose it.
00:11:04.000 So, ABC goes out of its mind, right?
00:11:09.000 MSNBC, we can start with MSNBC.
00:11:10.000 So this is MSNBC going absolutely bonkers.
00:11:14.000 Kelly O'Donnell
00:11:17.000 I do think the lock her up chant as it's received at home to about 32% of the electorate will decide the outcome.
00:11:29.000 It seems a little banana Republican to me.
00:11:32.000 It's something that you're not used to hearing in this country.
00:11:34.000 We don't lock up our political opponents.
00:11:37.000 The rule of law matters, and it matters to Republicans, and Republicans emphasize the importance of the rule of law.
00:11:43.000 We've just had an investigation of Hillary Clinton.
00:11:46.000 The FBI director made his recommendations to the Department of Justice, said she has been dishonest, she's not been truthful to the American people, but there was no cause for prosecution on that.
00:11:58.000 And so I think that the chant, lock her up, does not translate particularly well.
00:12:05.000 Okay, so this, by the way, is Steve Schmidt, who is an advisor to the McCain campaign.
00:12:09.000 So naturally, he doesn't like this because it's uncouth.
00:12:12.000 It's uncouth and it's Banana Republic.
00:12:14.000 Let me point something out.
00:12:15.000 What is Banana Republic is the FBI director who is appointed by the President of the United States and the Department of Justice, also appointed by the President of the United States, and they're all of the same party, right?
00:12:24.000 They all are of the same party as the candidate who used to be the Secretary of State, letting her off the hook for what is obviously criminal activity.
00:12:31.000 That's Banana Republic.
00:12:32.000 It's not Banana Republic for people to say, it's time to lock up the people who commit crimes.
00:12:36.000 It's Banana Republic to actually defend the people who commit crimes.
00:12:40.000 That's what a Banana Republic does.
00:12:41.000 So this is silly talk, but it was like this all over the media last night.
00:12:45.000 Clip six, right?
00:12:47.000 This is over on NBC and they do exactly the same thing.
00:12:50.000 Trump goes over the top.
00:12:52.000 Heavy on harsh rhetoric, much of it directed at Hillary Clinton.
00:12:55.000 Prosecuting the case, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
00:12:59.000 The charge of putting herself ahead of America.
00:13:02.000 Guilty or not guilty?
00:13:04.000 Guilty!
00:13:06.000 Delegates repeatedly calling for Clinton to be thrown in jail.
00:13:12.000 And it brought out a lot of the anger that we've been talking about over the course of this campaign that is in the electorate.
00:13:20.000 We heard it in their chants of lock her up and guilty.
00:13:24.000 Does that anger work at an event like this?
00:13:27.000 A lot of Republicans, even Trump supporters, didn't like the chant.
00:13:30.000 They thought that maybe went a little too far.
00:13:31.000 Does it go too far?
00:13:32.000 Does it overestimate how much people don't care for Hillary Clinton?
00:13:37.000 The chanting was bad, but I think it will be cancelled out next week by some equally uncomfortable moment for Democrats at their convention.
00:13:43.000 Okay, so the entire media say, oh my god, isn't it just so terrible?
00:13:46.000 They're chanting Lock her up.
00:13:47.000 It's just so terrible.
00:13:48.000 Hillary Clinton locked up a guy for making a YouTube video.
00:13:52.000 Hillary Clinton promised families of people who were murdered in Benghazi that a dude who made a YouTube video that had nothing to do with anything would go to jail.
00:14:00.000 The Obama administration has sought out and jailed, seriously, journalists more often than any administration since Woodrow Wilson.
00:14:08.000 This idea that they're not jailing—they jailed Dinesh D'Souza for a nonsense campaign finance violation.
00:14:12.000 I mean, this idea that they get to sit there and talk to us about rule of law is absurd.
00:14:17.000 Of course, of course Hillary Clinton should be behind bars.
00:14:19.000 And the reason people are ticked off, and the reason people are angry, is because they have every right to be angry.
00:14:23.000 Because Hillary Clinton is a criminal.
00:14:25.000 And she is getting away with it.
00:14:27.000 And she always gets away with it.
00:14:28.000 Because she's part of the Banana Republic inside team.
00:14:31.000 She's part of it.
00:14:33.000 So when the media sit there and they, oh, it's so terrible.
00:14:35.000 It's just so terrible.
00:14:36.000 And you can see they're really uncomfortable with this.
00:14:37.000 The Republicans are not supposed to say things like this.
00:14:39.000 I mean, come on.
00:14:40.000 The Republicans are supposed to say that whatever the FBI says is okay.
00:14:44.000 And they're supposed to be genteel.
00:14:45.000 It's supposed to be like Bob Dole.
00:14:47.000 This isn't supposed to be like an actual battle.
00:14:50.000 It's not supposed to be like that.
00:14:52.000 And Hillary Clinton, by the way, says that CEOs should have gone to prison over the financial collapse.
00:14:57.000 She can't even name the charge.
00:14:59.000 Right?
00:14:59.000 She's said that sort of stuff before.
00:15:00.000 Bernie Sanders certainly has said that sort of stuff before.
00:15:02.000 I didn't hear the media saying that.
00:15:04.000 I didn't hear them saying anything at that point about it.
00:15:06.000 Of course not.
00:15:07.000 Of course not.
00:15:07.000 CBS, same sort of deal.
00:15:09.000 They did the same routine.
00:15:10.000 They said it was big hate for Hillary.
00:15:12.000 Big hate for Hillary.
00:15:13.000 She's very vulnerable, especially after the Attorney General decided not to prosecute based on the FBI investigation, but there was enough in that for them to keep it up.
00:15:22.000 The fact is she's been around a long time, and in that crowd, even people who don't like Trump necessarily, they can work up a big hate for Hillary.
00:15:31.000 Okay, they can work up a big hate for Hillary.
00:15:33.000 It's all about the hatred.
00:15:34.000 Hillary Clinton labeled Republicans her enemies in an open debate.
00:15:38.000 She says the vast right-wing conspiracy is responsible for her husband accidentally putting his genitals in another person.
00:15:44.000 Okay, this is absolute, it's bunk, it's hogwash, it's garbage.
00:15:49.000 This is what the media are going to do.
00:15:50.000 Oh, they're so angry.
00:15:52.000 Here's the thing, it's not going to work.
00:15:53.000 Because people are angry.
00:15:54.000 People are upset.
00:15:55.000 There's a reason that Hillary Clinton is plummeting in polls.
00:15:57.000 Trump isn't moving in polls.
00:15:58.000 Trump, another poll out today.
00:16:00.000 Oh, he sliced her lead in half.
00:16:02.000 No, he's still at 36%.
00:16:03.000 She just went from 50 to 43.
00:16:03.000 So she's falling apart.
00:16:07.000 The anger is justified.
00:16:09.000 The anti-Hillary anger is totally, completely justified, and the media are part of it, because we look at you people in the media, in the mainstream left media, and we say, you've been lying to cover up for these people for years, for literally decades, for my entire lifetime, you've been lying to cover up for the Clintons.
00:16:23.000 When I was eight.
00:16:25.000 When Bill Clinton started running for office.
00:16:27.000 I was born in 84, so I was 8 when he ran for office.
00:16:30.000 Literally my entire life that I can remember, you guys were defending the Clintons' criminal activity.
00:16:34.000 And now you turn around and you say, why are you so angry?
00:16:36.000 That's why we're angry.
00:16:38.000 That's why we're angry.
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00:17:15.000 So to continue with the theme here, Chris Matthews also sounded off a lot about this.
00:17:24.000 Chris Matthews, he loves Hillary Clinton.
00:17:25.000 Hillary Clinton's the best.
00:17:27.000 I don't know why everybody's always ripping on Hillary Clinton.
00:17:29.000 She's so beautiful.
00:17:30.000 She's so romantic.
00:17:31.000 She doesn't make a throat go up my leg like Obama, but that's for different reasons.
00:17:34.000 That's for different reasons.
00:17:35.000 I mean, no one finds her sexually attractive.
00:17:36.000 Her husband doesn't even find her sexually attractive.
00:17:38.000 But I think that she's a wonderful, wonderful woman who must never be criticized in any way.
00:17:42.000 Any possible way.
00:17:43.000 Here's what the man's going to say.
00:17:45.000 First of all, an overall sort of aesthetic, historic assessment.
00:17:50.000 When Christie was up there with that very rough,
00:17:55.000 Justice, I'm going to put it, of Hillary Clinton.
00:17:58.000 And he kept saying, in each case, I'm going to ask you for your verdict.
00:18:00.000 It did remind me of them old Swords and Sandals movies with the Roman emperor going up or down.
00:18:07.000 And I get the feeling, if they had said,
00:18:10.000 It's bloodcurdling.
00:18:12.000 It reminded me of this one time when I was down in Venezuela and I saw a cockfight and I don't know why I was there or what I was doing, I was really drunk at the time, but I can explain to you that whenever the chicken was really wounded, I would just go up,
00:18:35.000 We're good to go.
00:18:54.000 I mean, yeah, the Republicans are all criminals and they should all go to jail and die, but the Democrats are blood—the Democrats, they don't deserve this treatment.
00:19:00.000 They're wonderful people.
00:19:01.000 They're great.
00:19:02.000 Hillary's wonderful.
00:19:03.000 She's great.
00:19:04.000 Not only that, they treat her like it was a witch hunt.
00:19:06.000 Like it was Salem.
00:19:07.000 Like it was a Salem witch hunt.
00:19:09.000 Like they're going to throw her in the lake and see if she floats or swims.
00:19:11.000 Ha!
00:19:13.000 And we're going to take her, we're going to throw her in the lake and see if she floats or swims.
00:19:16.000 And if she floats, that means she's a witch.
00:19:18.000 And if she sinks, that means she's innocent.
00:19:21.000 Ha!
00:19:22.000 Go Chris, go!
00:19:22.000 I mean I was thinking tonight, in this festival of hating Hilary tonight, there's
00:19:29.000 Brewing up almost a witch-like ritual tonight, I kept thinking, wait a minute, they already hate Hillary.
00:19:37.000 Yeah.
00:19:38.000 So what's the point?
00:19:39.000 And does this get to the middle-of-the-road voters saying, you know, I'm worried about my kids, but my kids and I have all kinds of issues, but none of them really relate to how much I hate Hillary.
00:19:49.000 They relate to other things.
00:19:49.000 I know these people are all imperfect.
00:19:51.000 I know Hillary's got this credibility problem, but I only got a choice here.
00:19:55.000 How does this make me like Trump anymore?
00:19:59.000 I understand she's got a discredibility, incredibility, discombobulility problem.
00:20:02.000 I get it.
00:20:03.000 I get it.
00:20:04.000 Okay, so the reason, Chris, let me explain to you why people are angry.
00:20:07.000 The reason people are angry is because people like you have been dismissing the fact that Hillary Clinton is deeply corrupt for as long as some of us have been alive.
00:20:16.000 Right?
00:20:17.000 For longer than you've had that current hairline.
00:20:19.000 You've been doing that.
00:20:20.000 And Chris Matthews, this is why.
00:20:22.000 You want to see why?
00:20:23.000 Here is why.
00:20:23.000 Here is Chris Matthews.
00:20:25.000 What is an easier thing for these delegates to do in the next three days?
00:20:29.000 To find evil in Hillary Clinton or good in Donald Trump?
00:20:34.000 It's far easier.
00:20:35.000 They go after everything.
00:20:38.000 Rudy Giuliani went way back, you know, to something to do with the listing posts in Eastern Europe, you know, our anti-ballistic missile systems that say that she's basically not to be trusted.
00:20:50.000 They reach for things about Hillary to say, oh, she let her emails get exposed to hacking, blah, blah, blah.
00:20:57.000 And then, of course, she was responsible for what happened in Benghazi because of Daryl Exaduti.
00:21:01.000 But try to get them to find the fervor, to find the good in Donald Trump.
00:21:05.000 It's much harder.
00:21:06.000 So they go to what they say is the evil in Hillary Clinton again and again tonight.
00:21:11.000 Okay, so it's blah blah blah, right?
00:21:13.000 That's the key point.
00:21:15.000 She exposed her emails to the foreign powers to see our national security secrets and put CIA agents at risk.
00:21:20.000 Yeah, blah blah blah blah blah.
00:21:22.000 Yeah, it's because you say blah blah blah that everybody reacts by saying put her in jail.
00:21:27.000 That's why.
00:21:28.000 That's why.
00:21:29.000 And the entire media have now surrounded the cause.
00:21:32.000 And this is why, forget just what I think about Trump.
00:21:36.000 Objectively speaking, the media are going to savage him.
00:21:38.000 All of the talk about how Trump knew how to handle the media early on in this election cycle, that applied during the primary.
00:21:43.000 It doesn't apply now that we're in a general.
00:21:45.000 As has been true with every Republican nominee in the last
00:21:49.000 Eight years, 12 years.
00:21:50.000 So, Jorge Ramos, who is of Univision, he has on the father of a kid.
00:21:57.000 This guy's kid was killed by an illegal immigrant.
00:21:59.000 And this just shows you how negative the media are toward anyone who disagrees with them.
00:22:05.000 First of all, notice in the bottom left, if you can't see this, folks, you should see on the bottom left of the screen, there's a logo.
00:22:11.000 It says, The Trump Show.
00:22:13.000 The Trump Show is over the, is a circus tent.
00:22:17.000 Next to the the are devil horns.
00:22:20.000 Right?
00:22:21.000 So that may give you a clue as to what Jorge Ramos thinks of Donald Trump.
00:22:24.000 And then he proceeds to basically grill this father, his son was murdered by an illegal immigrant, grill this father about illegal immigration.
00:22:31.000 But don't you think it would be a better idea, instead of doing that, that maybe the police wouldn't be able to apply that law correctly with many immigrants who are not criminals?
00:22:40.000 How about permanent immigration reform in which everyone would go through background checks?
00:22:47.000 Everybody?
00:22:47.000 Everybody.
00:22:48.000 The 11 million who are here.
00:22:50.000 Isn't that a better idea?
00:22:53.000 I mean, it could be if you're in the political part, but see, I'm thinking as a father who misses his son, whose son didn't do nothing.
00:23:01.000 All my son was doing was walking down the street, which is a freedom that he has.
00:23:05.000 He should be able to allow, he should be able to walk down the United States.
00:23:08.000 I agree, and we don't want that to happen again.
00:23:11.000 That's what you hear, that's what you just spoke.
00:23:13.000 Right, but I need more than, me personally, I need more than just
00:23:17.000 Reform, because I don't believe in that.
00:23:19.000 I want people to go after the gangbangers.
00:23:23.000 Crips, Bloods, whoever, I don't care.
00:23:24.000 But where I got into the fight is, my son was murdered by an 18th Street gangbanger, illegally in the country, from Mexico.
00:23:31.000 I mean, that's just what happened.
00:23:33.000 And Jorge Ramos can't accept that, right?
00:23:35.000 So this is how it's going to be all the way through to the end of the line.
00:23:39.000 And the media are going to continue being obsessed with every detail of the Trump campaign.
00:23:44.000 Chris Cuomo, who legitimately—Gaston, as we like to call him here on the program—he
00:23:51.000 Apparently when he was young, he had four dozen eggs every morning to help him get large.
00:23:55.000 But now that he's grown, he has five dozen eggs.
00:23:56.000 He's roughly the size of a barge.
00:23:58.000 In any case, Chris Cuomo, he grills Donald Trump's campaign manager over plagiarism.
00:24:03.000 He's very, very upset that Melania Trump had some paragraphs in her speech that
00:24:07.000 Well, Chris, I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder, because the pattern that I see is a pattern of the media
00:24:36.000 Not being prepared to look at what's really going on in America, not look at what's really happening in the Trump campaign, look at what really is being tapped into, and looking at why it's working.
00:24:46.000 Not why it's failing, why it's working.
00:24:47.000 Because, you know, over the last ten months as you all have been pointing out things which aren't true, to say that this is going to be a problem for the Trump campaign, you've been wrong.
00:24:56.000 Consistently.
00:24:57.000 The American people disagree with your perceptions of all the things you've just said.
00:25:00.000 No it isn't, it's the same thing.
00:25:02.000 Because you're looking at things that don't exist,
00:25:04.000 You're looking at things that don't exist, and you're not focusing on the broader message that does exist, and which the American people are responding to.
00:25:10.000 And last night, Donald Trump, contrary to everything you've said, was nominated President of the United States.
00:25:16.000 But that's untrue.
00:25:18.000 That's untrue.
00:25:18.000 And I don't know where you were at the beginning of this campaign, but I would love to talk to you then and say, do you think Donald Trump's going to be the nominee?
00:25:24.000 I don't think it makes you crazy or jaundiced to have been surprised by it.
00:25:28.000 There's also no question that you deserve a lot of credit for getting him where he was last night.
00:25:32.000 You know I've said that openly and often.
00:25:34.000 But I've got to go back to this other point, though, Paul.
00:25:37.000 I just have to.
00:25:38.000 The idea that we're ignoring something that doesn't matter flies in the face of what we're about.
00:25:44.000 This is about the truth.
00:25:45.000 It's about the truth, and that's all it's about.
00:25:47.000 Let's stop it there.
00:25:49.000 Okay, so it's all about the truth.
00:25:50.000 That's all the media are about.
00:25:51.000 They're all about the truth.
00:25:53.000 Blah, blah, blah, Hillary Clinton classified emails, blah, blah, blah.
00:25:55.000 We're all about the truth.
00:25:57.000 No, you're all about a political agenda.
00:26:00.000 You're all about a political agenda.
00:26:01.000 It doesn't mean that sometimes you don't tell the truth, but it means that you're always about pushing a particular political agenda that benefits the left.
00:26:07.000 I mean, another example last night, Ben Carson was speaking, and I'm not a huge fan of Ben Carson's speeches.
00:26:15.000 I don't find them particularly inspiring.
00:26:18.000 But, you know, there are some people who really do enjoy Ben Carson.
00:26:23.000 So here he is.
00:26:25.000 One of the things that
00:26:27.000 I have learned about Hillary Clinton is that one of her heroes, her mentors, was Saul Alinsky.
00:26:42.000 And her senior thesis was about Saul Alinsky.
00:26:46.000 This was someone that she greatly admired and that affected all of her philosophies subsequently.
00:26:54.000 Now, interestingly enough, let me tell you something about Saul Alinsky.
00:26:58.000 He wrote a book called Rules for Radicals.
00:27:01.000 On the dedication page, it acknowledges Lucifer, the original radical who gained his own kingdom.
00:27:11.000 Now think about that.
00:27:13.000 This is a nation where our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, talks about certain inalienable rights that come from our Creator.
00:27:22.000 This is a nation where our Pledge of Allegiance says we are one nation under God.
00:27:31.000 So the media, the media lose their mind over this.
00:27:34.000 The media lose their mind because he invoked Lucifer.
00:27:36.000 Okay, except that everything he said there is exactly true.
00:27:38.000 I've read Saul Alinsky's book.
00:27:39.000 He does dedicate it to Lucifer, and that does make a difference.
00:27:42.000 If I were a candidate, and my favorite book, and it was her favorite book, I mean, she wrote her thesis, her senior thesis at Wellesley, she wrote on Saul Alinsky.
00:27:50.000 She was regularly in contact with Saul Alinsky.
00:27:52.000 She brought him to Wellesley to speak to her college class.
00:27:56.000 That doesn't make a difference.
00:27:57.000 But the media loses their mind over this.
00:27:58.000 It's the end of the world.
00:28:00.000 And then they're going to sit there and say that they're all about the truth, that's all they care about is just the truth?
00:28:04.000 Give me a break.
00:28:05.000 And the problem is that what happens here is because the media are so corrupt, the media are so terrible, the media are so awful, it turns out that when somebody comes along in the Republican Party like Donald Trump, who lies on a routine basis, who doesn't tell the truth,
00:28:17.000 We're good to go.
00:28:48.000 Goldman Sachs.
00:28:49.000 Yes, you guessed it, Goldman Sachs.
00:28:50.000 He's also a fundraiser for Donald Trump, who used to be a fundraiser for, you guessed it, or a donor to, Hillary Clinton.
00:28:57.000 So, if he's really a break from everything that came before, not so much, not so much.
00:29:02.000 But, the bottom line is, that when somebody comes along and they just change what they're saying every five seconds, and the media call them on it, we're more likely to say to the media, screw you, we don't believe a word you have to say.
00:29:13.000 And that's actually a benefit for the Trump campaign.
00:29:15.000 It was in the primaries, and I think that it'll continue to be with a certain segment of the Republican base.
00:29:20.000 All I'm saying is you don't have to believe the media, but do your own research.
00:29:23.000 Figure out what's true and what's false.
00:29:24.000 The media have an agenda.
00:29:25.000 You don't have to react to the agenda of the media by saying that 100% of the things they say are false.
00:29:31.000 100% of the things they say are badly motivated, but that doesn't mean that 100% of the things that they say are false.
00:29:36.000 Okay, so, last night was all about attacking Hillary Clinton, and that's great, that's great.
00:29:41.000 It was worthwhile, it was useful, and then there was the other part of the convention.
00:29:46.000 The other part of the convention is this really kind of difficult attempt to unify the party.
00:29:51.000 Now, I'm going to reiterate, hopefully for the last time, my position on this thing.
00:29:56.000 My position on this thing has been clear for a long time.
00:29:58.000 You're big boys and big girls.
00:29:59.000 You're adults.
00:29:59.000 You can make your own decision about how you want to vote.
00:30:01.000 Your vote is your own.
00:30:02.000 To me, I'm going to say what I think is true, and I'm going to say what I think is false, and I'm going to critique the candidates as objectively as I can, given the fact that I have political biases in favor or not in favor of particular policies.
00:30:15.000 I'm in favor of principles.
00:30:16.000 I don't really care about candidates all that much.
00:30:19.000 My rationale why I have said that I will not vote for Donald Trump is not because I think anything except that Hillary Clinton is an evil heretic, which I do.
00:30:29.000 I think she's a terrible person.
00:30:30.000 The reason that I've said I won't vote for Donald Trump is because here's my calculus.
00:30:33.000 Either we back him and he loses, in which case we have embraced all of the terrible things that he said, all of the positional vacillations, all of the things that he has done that are not in line with conservatism.
00:30:44.000 We've handed over the party to national populace and lost.
00:30:47.000 And lost a generation of people who don't like the kind of stuff that Donald Trump says and find it vile.
00:30:52.000 And I'm talking not about his politically incorrect stuff.
00:30:54.000 I'm talking about his actual vile stuff.
00:30:56.000 The making fun of the disabled, the making fun of women, the suggestion that judges who are Mexican can't do their job because they're of Mexican ethnicity.
00:31:05.000 You know, all of that.
00:31:07.000 That stuff doesn't play well in the long term for Republicans.
00:31:09.000 So if we lose and we go down with that guy,
00:31:12.000 Bravely shouting, at least we didn't vote for Hillary.
00:31:14.000 I'm not sure that that helps us in the future.
00:31:16.000 Number two, if Trump wins, he becomes the face of conservatism in America.
00:31:19.000 And I think that to deny that is to deny reality.
00:31:21.000 He is the leader of the Republican Party.
00:31:23.000 Paul Manafort said it.
00:31:24.000 This is now the Trump National Party.
00:31:26.000 This is the Trump Party, not the Republican Party anymore.
00:31:29.000 That's going to have an impact on how people think about conservatives and conservatism, especially if you decide to hop on board that.
00:31:35.000 So that's my calculus.
00:31:36.000 You don't have to make that calculus.
00:31:37.000 I understand it's a balancing act.
00:31:39.000 If you hold your nose and vote for Trump because you want to stop Hillary, I hear you.
00:31:42.000 I get it.
00:31:43.000 I totally get it.
00:31:44.000 It's totally sympathetic.
00:31:46.000 I can't express my sympathy any more than that.
00:31:48.000 I hear you, for sure.
00:31:51.000 If you are not going to vote for Trump because you don't think that he should be the leader of conservatism in America, perverting it for the rest of our lives, then I get that, too.
00:31:59.000 But it's a balancing act, and to ignore the balancing act, I think, is foolhardy.
00:32:03.000 That said, there are serious divisions inside the Republican Party, and I don't think that those can be bridged over by a little bit of pat rhetoric.
00:32:08.000 Paul Ryan, I think, evidenced this yesterday, so Paul Ryan clearly
00:32:12.000 is uncomfortable with Donald Trump as the nominee.
00:32:14.000 I mean, he really does not like, I mean, he said three weeks ago that Donald Trump was engaging in, or maybe eight weeks ago, that Donald Trump was engaging in what he called textbook racism against that Mexican Judge Curiel.
00:32:24.000 Here is Paul Ryan now, you know, ripping into Hillary Clinton, saying that we've made our choices.
00:32:30.000 At a time when men and women in both parties so clearly, so undeniably, want a big change in direction for America.
00:32:39.000 A clean break from a failed system.
00:32:42.000 And what does the Democratic Party establishment offer?
00:32:45.000 What is their idea of a clean break?
00:32:49.000 They are offering a third Obama term brought to you by another Clinton.
00:32:55.000 Watch the Democratic Party convention next week.
00:32:59.000 That four-day infomercial of politically correct moralizing.
00:33:03.000 And let it be a reminder of all that is at stake in this election.
00:33:10.000 You can get through four days of it with a little help from the mute button.
00:33:15.000 But four more years of it?
00:33:18.000 Not a chance.
00:33:20.000 Not a chance.
00:33:22.000 The Obama years are almost over.
00:33:24.000 The Clinton years are way over.
00:33:27.000 2016 is the year America moves on.
00:33:30.000 Progressives deliver everything except progress.
00:33:35.000 Democracy is a series of choices.
00:33:40.000 We Republicans have made our choice.
00:33:44.000 Into the life everyone can find with opportunity and independence.
00:33:49.000 The happiness of using your gifts
00:33:53.000 And the dignity of having a job.
00:33:56.000 And you know what?
00:33:58.000 So only the last part of that speech where he starts talking about his program is where he gets enthusiastic.
00:34:02.000 The rest of the time he looks like he wants to put his face in the toilet and flush it himself.
00:34:06.000 He actually wants to bully himself in like a bathroom stall.
00:34:09.000 But in any case, you can see that there is a real rift in the party and it's not going to be healed anytime soon.
00:34:16.000 And all this talk about unity, it's not going to happen anytime soon because it's not a unity based on principle, it's a unity based on convenience.
00:34:23.000 And there's always some of that.
00:34:24.000 There's always some of that.
00:34:25.000 But the question is, how large is the rift?
00:34:28.000 And the rift is pretty large in a bunch of different directions.
00:34:30.000 Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, who has not done a particularly good job, and who sat out this election cycle basically on the presidential side because he hates Ted Cruz so much.
00:34:39.000 Watch what happens when Senator McConnell—remember, this is the Senate Majority Leader for the Republican Party.
00:34:43.000 This is the Republican National Convention.
00:34:44.000 Watch what happens when he walks on the stage.
00:34:46.000 They're booing him, in case you can't hear that.
00:34:49.000 Ladies and gentlemen,
00:35:05.000 It is now time for us to determine our nominee for the office of Vice President of the United States.
00:35:11.000 Okay, so that's all that's important.
00:35:12.000 So, McTurtle comes on out and everybody starts booing him.
00:35:17.000 These are real divisions.
00:35:18.000 They're not gonna go away anytime soon.
00:35:20.000 And they're real divisions because the future of conservatism is at stake.
00:35:23.000 It's not just the future of the Republican Party.
00:35:25.000 There are big decisions to be made on all sides.
00:35:27.000 I understand people who make different decisions.
00:35:29.000 I'm not insisting everybody make my decision.
00:35:31.000 I am insisting that you think about all of the various arguments on every side before you come to a sanguine conclusion.
00:35:38.000 I think people are making this very easy for themselves by simply refusing to acknowledge truths.
00:35:43.000 You know, the people on the never-Trump side are refusing to acknowledge how horrible Hillary is and how horrible she's gonna be, many of them.
00:35:48.000 And some people on the pro-Trump side are refusing to acknowledge the very real costs that attend to even supporting a man as bad and as leftist as Donald Trump.
00:35:57.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:36:00.000 So we've been doing kind of...
00:36:02.000 Scary movie villains.
00:36:03.000 This is a different kind of scary movie villain, uh, in this- this time.
00:36:06.000 The last couple have been just, like, really, really bad guys.
00:36:09.000 This one, uh, is a little bit different.
00:36:10.000 I don't know if you've ever seen the movie All About Eve.
00:36:12.000 This one, best picture, I think 1950...
00:36:16.000 Five maybe?
00:36:17.000 In any case, All About Eve is a great film.
00:36:20.000 It has one of the great scenes in movie history, near the very end with George Sanders, who you'll recognize mostly as the voice of Shere Khan from Jungle Book, but George Sanders was a very big actor in his day.
00:36:30.000 And George Sanders plays this kind of newspaper critic.
00:36:33.000 All About Eve is about Betty Davis, who's a fading actress, and this young girl basically insinuates herself into her life.
00:36:39.000 And starts trying to become her understudy, to become an actress, and then she's kind of edging her out of her own relationships.
00:36:46.000 Very creepy villainess in the film, and here's what it looks like.
00:36:49.000 Here's the trailer.
00:36:51.000 She's a girl of so many interests.
00:36:53.000 Pretty rare quality these days.
00:36:55.000 A girl of so many rare qualities.
00:36:57.000 So she seems.
00:36:59.000 Oh, you've pointed out so often.
00:37:01.000 So many qualities so often.
00:37:03.000 Her loyalty, efficiency, devotion, warmth, and affection, and so young.
00:37:07.000 So young and so fair.
00:37:10.000 He.
00:37:11.000 My understudy.
00:37:13.000 Didn't you know?
00:37:13.000 Of course I knew.
00:37:17.000 Just slipped your mind.
00:37:18.000 Find out.
00:37:19.000 Only thing.
00:37:21.000 What I go after, I want to go after.
00:37:24.000 I don't want it to come after me.
00:37:28.000 Don't get up.
00:37:30.000 And please stop acting as if I was a queen mother.
00:37:33.000 Is it?
00:37:34.000 We don't have to watch the whole show.
00:38:03.000 It's a terrific film, and it really holds up well.
00:38:06.000 It's a really good, tight script.
00:38:08.000 The young woman who you see there, she's the villainess, and she is creepy beyond belief.
00:38:13.000 Ann Baxter, very creepy in this film.
00:38:15.000 And the movie is great.
00:38:17.000 Betty Davis is terrific.
00:38:18.000 I think she won an Oscar for it.
00:38:19.000 Today is Wednesday, is it not?
00:38:23.000 Okay, good.
00:38:24.000 So this week is, in fact, moving forward, despite all indicators that time has stopped.
00:38:29.000 In fact, time continues to move forward.
00:38:31.000 So it's time for some Bible talk.
00:38:33.000 So a quick correction from yesterday.
00:38:35.000 So yesterday we did a commercial for Harrys.com.
00:38:38.000 Harrys.com, they sell these razors, and the razors are fantastic.
00:38:40.000 They sell you this deal.
00:38:42.000 It's like 15 bucks for the
00:38:45.000 Holder for the shaving handle, for three razors, and for the shaving cream.
00:38:50.000 And I said that it works really great, which is true.
00:38:52.000 And you go to Harrys.com for a $5 discount on that, Harrys.com, and you use the keyword Ben.
00:38:57.000 So I got some people who are Orthodox, some Orthodox Jews, who emailed me, listened to the show, and they said, wait, you're not allowed to shave using a straight edge.
00:39:03.000 This is true.
00:39:04.000 OK, so the way that this works is that you're not allowed, as an Orthodox Jew, because there's a portion of the Bible that says you're not allowed to cut the edges of your beard.
00:39:12.000 The idea is that you're not supposed to use a straight edge on your face.
00:39:15.000 So instead, we use electric razors.
00:39:16.000 So, just a quick correction for those who care, which is like, all two of you.
00:39:20.000 Okay, here's the deal, okay?
00:39:22.000 I use an electric razor on my face, and by the jawline, I also follow my monities underneath the jawline, and so when I say that the razors work, I mean that the straight edges work on my neck, which is the hardest part to shave.
00:39:31.000 You can't shave it with an electric razor.
00:39:33.000 That being said, Harrys.com does provide a great product, and for me, you know, this is always the hard part to shave, so that's Harrys.com, keyword Ben.
00:39:41.000 Alright, so, this week's Bible portion is one of the most puzzling Bible portions in all of the Bible.
00:39:46.000 This is the section with the talking donkey.
00:39:48.000 Alright, this is the section that all the people on the left make fun of, because hey, it's a talking donkey, right?
00:39:53.000 I mean, where have we seen that before?
00:39:54.000 Where have we seen a talking jackass?
00:39:56.000 Except for, like, every day on this show, every quote we play.
00:39:59.000 But, aside from that, where do we see a talking jackass?
00:40:03.000 So there's this whole section of the Bible where Billum is a prophet.
00:40:08.000 He's a non-Jewish prophet.
00:40:10.000 And he wants to curse the Jews.
00:40:11.000 And Balak is the king of a neighboring tribe.
00:40:15.000 He's the king of Midian.
00:40:15.000 And he comes to him and he says, we want you to curse the Jews.
00:40:18.000 And he says, well, I can't do that because God doesn't allow me to curse the Jews.
00:40:21.000 And then finally, he's incentivized with a lot of money to go curse the Jews.
00:40:24.000 And so this is a section from Numbers 22.
00:40:27.000 And it says he's riding his donkey.
00:40:29.000 The She-Donkey saw the angel of the Lord and it crouched down under Bilam.
00:40:33.000 Bilam's anger flared and he beat the She-Donkey with a stick.
00:40:35.000 The Lord opened the mouth of the She-Donkey and she said to Bilam, What have I done to you that you have struck me these three times?
00:40:41.000 Bilam said to the She-Donkey, For you have humiliated me.
00:40:44.000 If I had a sword in my hand I would kill you right now.
00:40:46.000 The She-Donkey said to Bilam, Am I not your She-Donkey on which you have ridden since you first started until now?
00:40:51.000 Have I been accustomed to do this?
00:40:52.000 He said, No.
00:40:53.000 Okay, so weird stuff, right?
00:40:53.000 Talkin' donkey.
00:41:18.000 Angel appearing magically, weird stuff.
00:41:20.000 So what's the point of this?
00:41:21.000 So, my belief is that some of the Bible is figurative.
00:41:25.000 So, the point of this particular section of the Bible is that we all, in our lives, take credit for qualities for which we are not responsible.
00:41:35.000 So you've heard me brag about the fact that I'm smart on the show.
00:41:38.000 It's just me being an ass.
00:41:40.000 Right, okay, so it's just me being a jackass, because the reality is that I'm not responsible for the level of my intelligence, right?
00:41:46.000 That's a genetic thing.
00:41:47.000 I'm responsible for cultivating that intelligence, but it's not... If I'm a smart person, that's probably due to the fact that both my parents are smart.
00:41:54.000 People take pride in the weirdest things, right?
00:41:56.000 We take pride in the fact that we're good-looking, or in the fact that we are tall, or in the fact that we're smart, the fact that we have certain skills that come naturally to us, that we're fast.
00:42:06.000 We take more pride in that than we do in our values.
00:42:09.000 Then we do in being a good person.
00:42:10.000 The point of this section is that God can give qualities to anybody.
00:42:15.000 God, if he wants, can make a donkey talk.
00:42:17.000 God can make a donkey prophesy.
00:42:19.000 Billum is not a special guy because God tapped him on the shoulder and decided to use him as the conduit for his word.
00:42:25.000 Right?
00:42:25.000 Bilaam is just another guy that God decided to use as the conduit, and Bilaam obviously took pride in that, and that's why he was willing to be paid, and he thought, okay, I can manipulate God, I'll go there, and I'll just do what I want to do.
00:42:34.000 That's not the way that any of this works.
00:42:36.000 The things you should take pride in are your cultivation of your own values.
00:42:39.000 The things you should take pride in are not the natural things that God gave you, because, hey, you're not responsible for those things.
00:42:45.000 That's not about you.
00:42:47.000 And by the way, that's also the reason why you shouldn't discriminate against people based on the things that are inherent to them, the things they can't change about themselves.
00:42:54.000 It's why racism is so stupid.
00:42:55.000 I mean, it's stupid for a variety of reasons, but one of the reasons racism is so stupid is because you don't make a decision as to what race you are, you make a decision as to how you act as a human being.
00:43:04.000 This is why, you know, the Black Lives Matter movement that suggests that you get to act differently if you're black than if you're white is so nasty.
00:43:10.000 The things that you're born with, those are not qualities that you get to take credit for.
00:43:13.000 Those are things that God can take credit or blame for.
00:43:16.000 So the whole point of this section is what God's really saying to Bilam here is, you're an idiot.
00:43:22.000 Like, you think that you're a really special guy.
00:43:24.000 I'll make your donkey talk to you, and your donkey will see more than you.
00:43:26.000 Right?
00:43:26.000 And then you'll try and beat the donkey, and I'll say, well, I'll kill you, not the donkey, because the donkey's more important than you.
00:43:31.000 That's the point of this particular section of the Bible.
00:43:34.000 So that's things I like.
00:43:35.000 Okay.
00:43:36.000 One more thing I like.
00:43:37.000 I have a soft spot, I have to admit, for Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.
00:43:40.000 And apparently Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was at the RNC and was on CNN.
00:43:44.000 I haven't watched this yet, so we'll see how funny it is.
00:43:46.000 But I just felt the need to put it on there because I want to watch it.
00:43:48.000 So here it is.
00:43:49.000 We are live from behind CNN!
00:43:53.000 This is Triumph Back to Back on Facebook Live.
00:44:00.000 There we are.
00:44:01.000 There's Anderson Cooper.
00:44:03.000 Anderson Cooper live on CNN.
00:44:06.000 Anderson, not so much excitement tonight.
00:44:09.000 Yeah, it emptied out early, didn't it?
00:44:11.000 Yeah, pretty much when Donald Trump Jr.
00:44:13.000 was on.
00:44:13.000 No, no.
00:44:14.000 People listened to it.
00:44:16.000 No, they did.
00:44:17.000 He's a cool guy, right?
00:44:19.000 I don't know him.
00:44:20.000 Oh, come on.
00:44:20.000 He's a lion hunter.
00:44:23.000 Actually, you know what's odd?
00:44:25.000 He actually doesn't... He actually was aiming for the natives.
00:44:28.000 He just has very bad aim.
00:44:32.000 Anderson Cooper, ladies and gentlemen!
00:44:37.000 Uh, not as a material.
00:44:38.000 That's too bad.
00:44:39.000 I was all excited for that.
00:44:40.000 And Anderson Cooper is so ripe for mockery.
00:44:43.000 And he has to go after Donald Trump Jr.?
00:44:45.000 That's stupid.
00:44:45.000 Okay, so that's a thing I hate.
00:44:46.000 We'll just reclassify that one.
00:44:48.000 Okay, so, other things that I hate.
00:44:50.000 The entire comic subset has descended on the RNC to mock the Republicans, because this is what they do.
00:44:55.000 So Keegan-Michael Key, I think Key and Peele can be hysterical.
00:44:59.000 Some of their sketches are just absurdly funny.
00:45:02.000 They did one about the TSA and terrorism that's extraordinarily funny.
00:45:05.000 They did one about a riot in the inner city that is just hysterically funny.
00:45:08.000 But a lot of their stuff is really funny.
00:45:10.000 Here's Keegan-Michael Key portraying Ohio's only black GOP delegate and it's just, this is just cheap crap, stupid nonsense.
00:45:17.000 So how does it feel being one of the few African-Americans there?
00:45:21.000 You know, it's incredible, Steven.
00:45:22.000 From the moment I got here, everyone has been so nice.
00:45:25.000 They gave me a hat.
00:45:26.000 They gave me a shirt.
00:45:28.000 They're always putting me on camera for some reason.
00:45:31.000 I mean, I've never been so popular in my life!
00:45:34.000 Well, that really seems nice.
00:45:36.000 Yeah!
00:45:37.000 Well, people keep coming up to me and saying, thank God you're here.
00:45:42.000 And they keep on saying, you're one of the good ones.
00:45:46.000 You're articulate.
00:45:48.000 You're bright.
00:45:49.000 I mean, the compliments just keep on rolling in, Steven.
00:45:52.000 Oh my gosh.
00:45:53.000 Jeepers.
00:45:53.000 And they even invited me to all these different parties.
00:45:56.000 They keep saying, we need you there.
00:46:00.000 It's amazing.
00:46:02.000 Well, you do.
00:46:03.000 You do.
00:46:04.000 Okay, so the idea, of course, is that Republicans are very enthusiastic about having a black guy there.
00:46:08.000 There is some truth to that, by the way, which is that Republicans are enthusiastic when somebody of minority status comes to the convention because they've been so ripped down by the press for so many years as racist and terrible people that when somebody shows up and doesn't believe that lie, then it's nice.
00:46:24.000 It's gratifying, right?
00:46:25.000 It's one of the reasons Ben Carson and Herman Cain were so popular.
00:46:28.000 You have to acknowledge the grain of truth.
00:46:30.000 That being said, the Democrats are significantly more exploitative of race than the Republicans.
00:46:34.000 I mean, here he's ripping on the Republicans.
00:46:36.000 Oh my god, everybody's so nice to me because they want their token black guy.
00:46:39.000 The Democrats are legitimately having the parents of people who assaulted and tried to murder police officers speak at their convention because they're trying to pander to black people.
00:46:46.000 That seems significantly worse to me than, here's a free hat, here's a free shirt.
00:46:50.000 Okay, final thing that I, that I dislike.
00:46:53.000 Okay, so Caitlyn Jenner is, uh, is at the, well, we'll do a couple more because why not?
00:46:57.000 Come on.
00:46:58.000 Caitlyn Jenner was at the RNC and, uh, and Caitlyn Jenner is, I don't know why Caitlyn Jenner is, is at the RNC, but apparently Caitlyn Jenner is at the RNC and talking about being a Republican and this got all sorts of press attention because, of course, as we all know, the real reason the media follow the Caitlyn Jenner saga is not out of some
00:47:15.000 Great sympathy for the transgender plight.
00:47:17.000 It's not because they actually want Caitlyn Jenner to have a better life.
00:47:19.000 It's because the media are a bunch of circus carnival barkers and they think that Caitlyn Jenner is a freak show and they can make ratings off of it.
00:47:26.000 That's the reality of why they do this.
00:47:28.000 It's why they put Caitlyn Jenner on the front of their magazines.
00:47:30.000 They think it'll move paper.
00:47:31.000 So in any case, Caitlyn Jenner shows up at the RNC and here's what it looks like.
00:47:34.000 You've gotten more sort of pushback and criticism from the media because you self-identify as a Republican.
00:47:41.000 Yes, oh yeah, honestly.
00:47:45.000 It was easy to come out as trans.
00:47:47.000 It was harder to come out as Republican.
00:47:49.000 Okay?
00:47:50.000 Okay, one of the problems that I have with the general treatment here is sort of the token treatment that I was talking about before.
00:47:56.000 It's one thing to say that we're grateful that black people are showing up because it shows that they're not buying into the Democratic lies about the Republican Party.
00:48:03.000 It's another thing to pretend that Caitlyn Jenner is actually a woman, to go along with it with the agenda here.
00:48:10.000 I don't
00:48:29.000 The transgender agenda.
00:48:31.000 I don't find that particularly noteworthy or important.
00:48:36.000 Whoopi Goldberg.
00:48:37.000 We'll finish with Whoopi Goldberg.
00:48:38.000 Whoopi Goldberg, who is legitimately a very stupid person.
00:48:40.000 I can't say that Whoopi is the stupidest person on The View because that title is in question every day.
00:48:45.000 I think that's probably why people watch.
00:48:47.000 They have floating rankings of stupidity on The View.
00:48:49.000 And then they just try to determine, based on each show, who moves up and who moves down.
00:48:53.000 Well, Whoopi Goldberg went after Rudy Giuliani on the worst show on television, The View, the other day.
00:48:58.000 Former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, did his best to pump up the crowd last night, promising them what he did for New York, Trump will do for America.
00:49:15.000 What'd you think of that?
00:49:17.000 I think he stole that speech from Mussolini.
00:49:22.000 But he also says, and this is my favorite, I took 600,000 people off welfare in New York.
00:49:32.000 Liar.
00:49:34.000 Wait, how's he a liar?
00:49:37.000 I mean, he helped get 600,000 people off welfare in New York.
00:49:41.000 And I like when they call him Mussolini because he likes the police.
00:49:44.000 That's Mussolini-esque.
00:49:45.000 It's not Mussolini-esque when the President of the United States whips crowds into furious fervors against the cops and then cops get shot.
00:49:51.000 That's not Mussolini-esque.
00:49:52.000 It's Mussolini-esque when you say law and order should be a priority and we should support our police officers.
00:49:57.000 Oh well.
00:49:57.000 Whoopi Goldberg.
00:49:58.000 What can you expect from a combined panel whose IQ totals less than my shoe size?
00:50:03.000 That's all we have for today.
00:50:04.000 Tomorrow is the mailbag, so you'll show up for that.
00:50:07.000 And there will be more Republican convention stuff, including Ted Cruz is speaking today.
00:50:10.000 So there's a lot of talk about what's he going to do.
00:50:12.000 Is he going to endorse Trump?
00:50:13.000 Is he not going to endorse Trump?
00:50:15.000 Is everyone going to spontaneously burst into flame?
00:50:17.000 What sort of biblical plagues will God visit on Cleveland?
00:50:20.000 I mean, there's going to be so much happening, and we'll be there to cover all of it.
00:50:23.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:50:23.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.