The Democratic National Convention is off to a crap start, but at least it's not as bad as some people are making it out to be. Ben points out that Hillary Clinton has her priorities straight: Defeating ISIS isn't one of them, and the Democrats are busy cheering lustily for a 74-year-old lunatic preaching discredited evils responsible for the murder of 100 million people in the 20th century, to worry about another evil murderer in France, another evil murdering priests in Normandy, a fireworks attack in Nice, a gay nightclub goer in Orlando, and children in Jerusalem? Sure, it was just night one of the convention, but the disconnect on the issue says volumes about the priorities of the Democratic Party. Plus, Ben takes a look at why Bernie Sanders supporters are so ticked off at the DNC, and why they should be worried about what s happening in the world, not what s going on in their own heads. Ben also talks about why the DNC is a disaster area, and how to deal with it, and what to do if it s getting worse than it is already getting worse. And he also explains why you should just enjoy the circus while it s here, and not wait for it to get better, because it s not going to get any better after it s all over soon, at least we know it s going to be fun while it's here! Links From This Episode: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 21. 22. 23. 24. 26. 25. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. Intro Music: "Goodbye" by Ian Dorsch Music by Jeff McElroy Theme Song by Ian Somerhalder Intro and Outro Music by Haley Shaw (Blame It On You, My God" by Fountains Music by Myself (Isaac) by Jeff Perla (ft. & Other Things That We Know We'll Figure It Out (feat. ) Produced by Ian Macpherson (Recorded and Accompanied by Mitch Albom) Music Credit: Jeff Percord (Partially Explained)
00:00:00.000So, the Democrats obviously have their priorities straight.
00:00:03.000While Democrats spent the night jabbering about abortion and $15 minimum wage and climate change, jihadists stormed into a church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy, France, and proceeded to behead an 86-year-old priest while shouting, Jesus lives!
00:00:31.000That's right, 61 speakers, zero mentions for ISIS, but the Democrats did find time to put an illegal immigrant on stage, also an irritating comic actress who uses her spare time to auction sanitary napkins, Sarah Silverman.
00:00:42.000They also found time to take down offensive Mississippi state flags and wave Palestinian ones on the floor of the convention.
00:00:48.000They found time for another actress who claimed that the border crossed her family, and a video from J.J.
00:00:53.000Abrams about that queen of mystery and light, Hillary Clinton.
00:01:00.000They're too busy cheering lustily for a 74-year-old loonbag preaching discredited evils responsible for the murder of 100 million people in the 20th century to worry about another evil murdering priests in Normandy, fireworks, watchers in Nice, gay nightclub goers in Orlando, and children in Jerusalem.
00:01:16.000Sure, it was just night one of the convention, but the disconnect on the issue kind of says volumes.
00:01:21.000Republicans worry about terrorism and crime.
00:01:23.000Democrats worry about whether men who think they're ladies can go pee-pee next to the women.
00:01:28.000Last week, the media complained that Donald Trump's RNC convention speech was too, quote-unquote, dark.
00:01:33.000Perhaps it was dark because the Democrats have created a rather dark world for us to occupy, even as they blindly refuse to acknowledge it.
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00:06:32.000We're gonna nominate Hillary Clinton because if I don't come out here and nominate her I'll be found in Fort Marcy Park with a hole in my face.
00:06:38.000Okay so, little Vince Foster humor there for you.
00:06:43.000Okay, so then they gave the DNC invocation, and this is pretty funny.
00:06:49.000First of all, anytime God gets invoked at the DNC, everybody starts booing because this is a pagan club, so they're not gonna cheer for God, obviously.
00:06:57.000I was at the DNC in 2012 when they literally cheered God.
00:07:01.000They wanted to put God back into the platform, and the Democrats actually booed it.
00:07:06.000So now, the invocation gets booed through as soon as the Speaker mentions Hillary's name.
00:07:12.000We have an opportunity, oh God, to give undeniable evidence of our commitment to justice and equality by nominating Hillary Rodham Clinton as our candidate.
00:08:28.000It is in your mighty name that we pray.
00:08:30.000Okay, you guys threw God out of your party a long time ago.
00:08:33.000He has no interest in walking through that door.
00:08:35.000Okay, so that's not even how great it was.
00:08:38.000So the Bernie bros, so you remember after the Republican convention, the entire media were saying that it was just awful, just awful, that Republicans were chanting, lock her up about Hillary Clinton.
00:10:19.000And they're chanting, hell no DNC, we won't vote for Hillary, which is pretty spectacular.
00:10:23.000And by the way, the polls show that a lot of them won't vote for Hillary Clinton.
00:10:27.000At least 10% of the Democrats are talking about not voting for Hillary Clinton, and it might be more than that.
00:10:31.000Remember, 40% of Democrats voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries, and about 30% of those, 30% of those, right, so about 12% total of the Democratic Party, 12% is saying, yeah, we may not show up,
00:10:43.000And they haven't shown up in the past, because Bernie was bringing some new people to the polls.
00:10:47.000So, the Bernie Sanders supporters are actually a threat to Hillary Clinton.
00:10:51.000So, if you're not noticing the theme here, the theme is that the Democratic Party, for all the talk about how the Republican Party is divided, and it is, the Republican Party is significantly more united around Trump than the Democratic Party is around Hillary Clinton.
00:11:04.000I'm one of the people who's not united behind Trump.
00:11:06.000But I'm just telling you, the amount of pressure that's brought to bear on people like me by not only elites within the party, but elites in this business to back Trump is extraordinary.
00:11:16.000When it comes to Bernie Sanders, they're not getting the same kind of pressure.
00:11:19.000They're not getting the same kind of pressure.
00:11:20.000And so what you're getting instead is this vast gap in the Democratic Party.
00:11:25.000I mean, they can always just go home and smoke pot.
00:11:27.000And if Hillary Clinton ends up being the President of the United States, they don't lose that much because Hillary's going to be a leftist.
00:11:33.000And if Trump ends up being President of the United States, they don't lose that much because Trump ain't that far right.
00:11:53.000She's the Democratic DNC chairwoman who resigned, and then she had to negotiate a flight back to Florida because they said, well, you don't work for us anymore, so we're not going to pay for your flight.
00:14:42.000There's a lot of people who are working behind your local counter at the Starbucks who are very, very upset about Bernie going down in flames.
00:14:51.000Okay, so they're really, really upset about this.
00:14:58.000And everybody knows that he was cheated out of this.
00:15:00.000And so this whole thing is really delicious.
00:15:01.000The Democrats are trying to bring this whole thing together.
00:15:03.000Sarah Silverman, who as I mentioned before, one of the least funny people in the United States, all she does is do things in a cutesy voice and then talk about poop and pee and sex and vaginas.
00:15:13.000So, Sarah Silverman, she goes out there and she does a routine on stage.
00:15:17.000God, I can't even look at her, she's so charmless.
00:15:19.000And she says, she's a Bernie Sanders supporter, and she says the Bernie people are being crazy.
00:15:26.000So I tell you this, I will vote for Hillary with gusto.
00:15:35.000As I continue to be inspired and moved to action by the ideals set forth by Bernie, who will never stop fighting for us.
00:15:45.000I am proud to be a part of Bernie's movement, and a vital part of that movement is making absolutely sure that Hillary Clinton is our next President of the United States.
00:17:09.000She feels bad about herself that she's backing Hillary Clinton now.
00:17:11.000She feels like a sellout, and she feels like a traitor, and she should.
00:17:15.000And she feels that way, and she feels that she's betraying her principles by doing it, so she has to try and shame everybody on the Bernie side into getting behind Hillary.
00:17:23.000So all this is rolling out, and it's delicious.
00:17:26.000I want to talk about the media response to this, because this just tells you the whole story of where the media are, because it's truly amazing.
00:17:31.000And there will be Chris Matthews impersonations galore.
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00:18:36.000Okay, and then, here's how the media covered this thing.
00:18:39.000So I wish we had the cue from Peer Gynt by Grieg, with the nice music that you always see with the animated picture of the deer eating in a meadow, because that's what's going on in the media's head, right?
00:18:58.000Because that's what's going on in their heads right now.
00:19:00.000Okay, so NBC News, here is Andrea Mitchell,
00:19:24.000Moving some of his followers to tears.
00:19:27.000And while Sanders closed the night throwing his support to his former adversary, it was Michelle Obama who stole the show, taking veiled shots at Donald Trump without mentioning his name.
00:19:37.000But for all of the discord in the city of brotherly love, there was also plenty of celebration.
00:19:42.000From Paul Simon, to Philly favorites, Boyz II Men, and Eva Longoria.
00:19:53.000But it was first lady Michelle Obama who brought down the house.
00:19:56.000Okay, so if you didn't watch any of the convention... Reminding a divided... We can stop it there.
00:20:49.000I think the most important speech tonight was Bernie Sanders.
00:20:51.000I know there'll be more, there'll be the roll call, there'll be more rhetoric.
00:20:55.000But I have to tell you, I think the Democrats' first night may turn out to be more successful than the Republicans' last night.
00:21:04.000I thought it had a lot of charm and happiness.
00:21:07.000It had Al Franken's humor, perhaps a bit
00:21:10.000A bit too sophisticated for some people, but it was brilliant.
00:21:14.000And I just thought the whole night was a slugger's row of wonderful sentiments from the high esteem that the first ladies received, to the passionate of the progressives, to the, I have to say, good sportsmanship and better of Bernie Sanders.
00:22:02.000I mean, it's just so beautiful from beginning to end.
00:22:04.000I feel a thrill going up my leg, up the back of my thigh, up my buttocks, all the way up to the top of my shoulders, around the top of my head, back down again, through my nose, up my larynx, through my intestines, and out my butt.
00:23:55.000Jake, that was a powerful, powerful speech and introduction to the American people for him.
00:24:00.000He was on Hillary Clinton's shortlist to be VP, and I think even though he's not the keynote speaker of this convention, Elizabeth Warren is, that might as well have been the keynote address.
00:24:09.000That was a crowd-pleaser like no speech I have seen at a convention since a young state senator named Barack Obama in 2004.
00:24:18.000It was a long speech, delivered with a ton of energy, and that last page of it, that last five or six paragraphs, that was... What you call a wind-up.
00:24:48.000Okay, so the lesbian porn mention for people who are listening and not watching is because Bill Clinton suddenly appears on screen clapping.
00:24:54.000Okay, so the media, obviously, they turned this entire night, and we don't have to belabor the point, the media turned this entire night into, it's just a massive win.
00:25:09.000So, if you've noticed, the first 10 minutes of the show we played all the audio from what actually happened at the convention, and then you get the media, and the media, oh my god, what a beautiful event!
00:25:21.000So you watch the first part and it's Kosovo, and then the media come back and it's just, I mean, my goodness, it was like they were making beautiful love to one another on the convention floor.
00:26:21.000Point number two, you keep hearing from the media that the Republicans are just this extreme, terribly extreme party.
00:26:27.000My big problem with the Republican Party now is that the Republican Party is not conservative.
00:26:31.000I mean, Donald Trump is not conservative.
00:26:33.000They trotted out, I think there were zero mentions of abortion except for maybe Ted Cruz mentioning it once during his speech at the Republican National Convention.
00:26:41.000There was no talk about same-sex marriage.
00:26:43.000There was no talk about limited government or constitutional liberty.
00:26:47.000It was a big government convention for the Republicans.
00:26:50.000They trotted out Peter Thiel to say that the culture wars didn't matter at all.
00:26:55.000The extreme party in America right now is not the Republican Party.
00:26:58.000I mean, they're fighting just to remain conservative and relevant.
00:27:01.000The Democratic Party is wildly extreme.
00:27:14.000So Dinesh, whose new movie is Hillary's America, by the way, which you should go see, they printed the text of the Pledge of Allegiance, and they scrolled it above him, right?
00:27:25.000I mean, this is during the convention.
00:27:26.000I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, when they got to, under God,
00:27:35.000So a bunch of people just skipped under God in the Pledge of Allegiance, because this is how it works at the Democratic National Convention.
00:27:43.000Eva Longoria, who you saw mentioned, she speaks at like every DNC now, even though she hasn't been relevant since she was hot in Desperate Housewives, and now she's starting to look a little bit more dumpy.
00:27:50.000And Eva Longoria, she shows up, and she speaks, but she says she's a ninth generation American, but she's not really an American, she's really a Mexican, and here's what she says.
00:29:11.000And here she is talking about how she deserves to be here, even though she's here illegally.
00:29:16.000When I was four years old, my mother and I climbed into a raft, and we crossed the river to join my father in America in search of a better life.
00:29:32.000My dad worked as a landscaper, and my mom stayed at home with my brother and I. But while my friends did ordinary things, I couldn't, because my parents were afraid that someone might discover I was undocumented.
00:29:46.000My family believed so— Number one, she's standing on the stage at a Democratic National Convention.
00:29:53.000The president's wife is in the audience.
00:29:55.000Okay, is she really living in fear of being deported?
00:30:00.000And there is something mildly troubling about having somebody who's actually here in the country illegally speaking on the stage at a major convention.
00:30:40.000So before you talk about how extreme the Republicans are, start with the fact that the Democrats have an illegal immigrant on stage, have a speaker who gets up there and says that the border crossed us.
00:30:49.000And by the way, tonight, you know who's speaking?
00:31:02.000Michael Brown tried to take a gun and murder a cop, and he was shot.
00:31:06.000His mother is speaking at the Democratic National Convention.
00:31:10.000And we're having cops murdered all around the country right now, and the Democrats' first response to that is, let's have, to the convention, members of the Black Lives Matter movement who are responsible for at least incentivization of rioting, and we're going to have these mothers come in whose sons were involved in criminal activity like Michael Brown, and we're going to make them heroes.
00:31:51.000Okay, this is her speaking in 2008 when her hubby was running for president for the first time, and here's what she had to say about America back then.
00:32:27.000And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters and all our sons and daughters now take for granted that a woman can be President of the United States.
00:32:58.000Don't let anyone ever tell you that this country isn't great.
00:33:03.000That somehow we need to make it great again.
00:33:07.000Because this right now is the greatest country on earth.
00:33:13.000Oh, funny how she's brought that slogan back.
00:33:39.000Either she's the most self-centered person on earth, and what happens to her is how the country is, right?
00:33:44.000She gets to be first lady, so the country's great now.
00:33:46.000Or, alternatively, she's just out there defending her husband's record, and so they have to pretend the country is wonderful because Hubby runs it.
00:33:53.000Even though Hubby's done a terrible, terrible job, and President Obama's a garbage president.
00:33:59.000They said, oh, what a wonderful, uplifting, optimistic speech.
00:34:02.000It's not gonna help the Democrats, that speech.
00:34:04.000The reason it's not going to help the Democrats is because Americans are not in an optimistic mood.
00:34:09.000We're looking around the world, and again, this morning, an 86-year-old priest was beheaded, beheaded, in the middle of France, in Normandy.
00:34:16.000He was beheaded by a couple of ISIS guys.
00:34:20.000And that's the fifth terrorist attack in Europe in the last 11 days.
00:34:24.000And we're supposed to feel optimistic?
00:34:44.000America is the greatest country on the face of the earth in spite of the left's attempts to destroy it.
00:34:47.000It was her husband who was saying the country had to be fundamentally transformed.
00:34:51.000And what makes the country the greatest country on earth is the founding principles.
00:34:56.000Not Michelle Obama saying that Hillary Clinton's a woman and she can be president.
00:35:01.000America was the greatest country on the planet long before Hillary Clinton was born, and will be the greatest country on Earth if founding principles are restored long after Hillary Clinton is gone.
00:35:11.000But this is how Democrats operate, right?
00:35:26.000So she gives this speech and everybody's all happy about it, but that just demonstrates that for the Democrats, whether America's great or not is a matter of the moment.
00:35:33.000Whether America's great or not just depends on who's the president at the time.
00:35:48.000And she basically gets booed by the crowd because she was supposed to be the stalwart in favor of the socialist principles, right?
00:35:57.000She was supposed to be the person ripping on Hillary's corruption and her incestuous relationship with the big banks and Goldman Sachs, and instead she gets up there and now she's pumping Hillary pretty hard.
00:36:06.000So here is Elizabeth Warren pumping Hillary pretty hard.
00:36:10.000When we turn on each other, we can't unite to fight back against a rigged system
00:36:19.000Okay, she says, if we turn on each other, we can't fight back against a rigged system.
00:36:24.000The rigged system, she believes, is apparently the economy, right?
00:41:33.000It is not about all the things that the media spends so much time discussing.
00:41:53.000This election is about and must be about the needs of the American people and the kind of future we create for our children and our grandchildren.
00:42:13.000Okay, so that is the Democratic Convention in a nutshell.
00:42:15.000It's absolute chaos and punctuated by wild leftism.
00:42:19.000And tonight we can look forward to President Bill Clinton speaking where he will repudiate everything good he ever did during the 1990s at the behest of his wife.
00:42:39.000I haven't seen you in at least 37 years, but I love you nonetheless.
00:42:44.000So that'll be very inspiring, I'm sure, and it'll come right after the Mothers of the Movement.
00:42:50.000What a horror show this convention is.
00:42:52.000I'm not sure that Hillary gets a bump from this convention.
00:42:54.000The reason I say that is because in the end, it's going to come down to Hillary speaking on Thursday night, and she's the most charmless person.
00:43:02.000Most people in America haven't been watching this election cycle that closely.
00:43:05.000You and I have, because we're here every single day.
00:43:07.000But most people are just tuning in now.
00:43:09.000And the first they saw of Trump was Trump bellowing into a microphone for 75 minutes, but bellowing about issues that they actually care about.
00:43:16.000The first time they see Hillary is going to be on Thursday night.
00:43:19.000And it's not the first time they've seen her.
00:43:20.000They've seen her for 25, 30 years, right?
00:43:23.000And they're going to look at her and they're going to go, ugh, her again?
00:44:58.000I love Harrison Ford in some things, but he's not as good a Jack Ryan as Alec Baldwin.
00:45:05.000Because Alec Baldwin, it may be utterly untrue, but he can at least give the impression of intelligence on screen.
00:45:11.000Harrison Ford is too much fun to be Jack Ryan.
00:45:13.000Jack Ryan's supposed to be kind of a serious character with a little bit of a brooding dark side, and Alec Baldwin does that better because he's leaving terrible messages on his ex-wife's
00:46:34.000And they slaughter him literally on the altar.
00:46:36.000According to Sister Danielle de la Faust, she was able to escape the attack.
00:46:39.000Before she fled, she told the station she witnessed the perpetrators who were filming the attacks gather around the church altar and perform some sort of religious oration in Arabic before forcing Hamel to his knees and placing a knife to his neck.
00:46:51.000The congregants pled with the attackers to stop, she said.
00:46:54.000Okay, the police apparently had an electronic tag on the guy.
00:47:13.000If you know the city, the reason you know the city is because you know your World War II history.
00:47:16.000But the cathedral itself, the church in which it took place, a beautiful, beautiful place, and obviously the murder of the priest is pretty incredible.
00:47:26.000And I hope that it will jog the Europeans into further awareness that it is not a smart idea to bring in unvetted, unvetted Muslim immigrants to their continent, because it's going to continue to be a problem.
00:47:38.000Okay, final thing I want to discuss today.
00:47:42.000Has now decided that he has to sound off about the police and black people.
00:47:46.000So he released a statement to Michael Jordan.
00:47:48.000He's been kind of studiously nonpolitical for years.
00:47:51.000And there's this tendency in the, because the sports media tend to be left also, and are very strongly left, they're constantly trying to push athletes into making statements of conscience because they think that this makes a big deal.
00:48:02.000Here's what Michael Jordan just wrote.
00:48:30.000We need to find solutions that ensure people of color receive fair and equal treatment and that police officers who put their lives on the line every day to protect us all are respected and supported.
00:48:40.000And then he talks about the dedication of law enforcement officers, and he says he has respect for their sacrifice and service.
00:48:45.000And then he says, I also recognize for many people of color, their experiences with law enforcement have been different than mine.
00:48:50.000I've decided to speak out in the hope we can come together as Americans through peaceful dialogue and education to achieve constructive change.
00:48:57.000My problem is not, obviously, that he's praising the cops.
00:49:00.000My problem is that there is this false notion that every time you talk about the cops, you have to say, well, I've had good experiences with the police, but black people all over the United States are being targeted by the cops.
00:49:10.000Michael Jordan's father was killed by a couple of black guys.
00:49:13.000He was murdered by a couple of black guys.
00:49:15.000And their race is irrelevant except for the fact that the vast majority of black men who are killed in the United States are killed by other black people.
00:49:20.000The idea that the police are targeting black folks, Jordan could have done better than this.
00:49:24.000Jordan could have said, look, my experience with police has been fantastic.
00:49:28.000I think the police are doing a really hard job and I would call on more black Americans to think about how we lower the crime rate in our communities rather than suggesting that the cops are responsible for all of our problems.
00:49:40.000You know, this is really... I wish there weren't such pressure for so many people, you know, to hop on the moral equivalence bandwagon.
00:49:49.000The police shooting black people and people shooting the police.
00:50:47.000OK, folks, that brings us to the end of today's show.
00:50:49.000I'm sure there will be more fun and games at the DNC tonight, particularly when they decide to bring forth the Black Lives Matter movement, which is what the Democratic Party is going to do tonight.
00:50:59.000And then on Thursday, we'll be broadcasting from Washington, D.C., because I have to speak at a Young America's Foundation dinner over there.
00:51:05.000But we will be live nonetheless, and we will make sure that you are there to see it.