The Ben Shapiro Show

00:00:00.000 On Wednesday night, Donald Trump held one of his patented bizarro Superman press conferences in which he sounds it off on everything like a Breitbart commenter or a member of their editorial staff on speed.

00:00:10.000 During the course of that press conference, Donald Trump dropped one line that got the media's ire going.

00:00:15.000 He said, it would be interesting to see.

00:00:16.000 I will tell you this, Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.

00:00:22.000 This drove Democrats completely up a wall.

00:00:24.000 Hillary's foreign policy advisor, Jake Sullivan, he said, this has gone from being a matter of curiosity and a matter of politics to being a national security issue.

00:00:32.000 Former CIA Director Leon Panetta, who served under a president who promised Russia flexibility, you remember, complained, quote, it's inconceivable to me any presidential candidate would be this irresponsible.

00:00:42.000 Retired Rear Admiral John Hudson, he said this morning, Trump personally invited Russia to hack us.

00:00:47.000 That's not law and order.

00:00:48.000 That's criminal intent.

00:00:50.000 So I guess now he's doing TV show titles.

00:00:52.000 Well, this is kind of weird.

00:00:54.000 Kind of a surprising turn, it turns out, from the same Democrats who claimed just a few weeks ago that Hillary's deleted emails contained nothing classified or even important.

00:01:02.000 According to Hillary, remember those 30,000 deleted emails?

00:01:05.000 They were just about yoga and Chelsea's wedding dress.

00:01:08.000 So why would it be a national security threat if Vladimir Putin had them?

00:01:12.000 And if it is a national security threat for Putin to have Hillary's emails, why isn't Hillary being prosecuted for, as Panetta put it, being this irresponsible?

00:01:19.000 After all, she, not Donald Trump, created a private server

00:01:23.000 Vulnerable to foreign hack for the obvious and clear purpose of hiding information from the American public and transmitting classified info.

00:01:31.000 Sure, Trump's a clod for saying he hopes Putin has the information.

00:01:34.000 Presumably, Putin could have information that puts Americans in danger.

00:01:37.000 But Trump's cloddishness is nothing next to the fact of the thing.

00:01:41.000 Hillary Clinton took action that exposed America's national security to the tender mercies of thug Vladimir Putin.

00:01:47.000 Democrats are now stuck between a rock and a hard place.

00:01:49.000 Either what Hillary did wasn't a big deal,

00:01:51.000 In which case, their response to Trump should be, it wouldn't matter if Putin had her emails.

00:01:55.000 What's he gonna do with yoga RSVPs?

00:01:57.000 Or, what Hillary did was a really big deal.

00:01:59.000 In which case, Hillary should be the candidate on the chopping block.

00:02:02.000 Now look, I don't think Trump was playing 40 chess with his comments.

00:02:05.000 Mainly because I don't think that Trump knows that the horsey in chess jumps in an L formation.

00:02:09.000 But whether he did, or whether he did it on purpose or not, he did expose the Democrats for what they are.

00:02:14.000 Liars and opportunists with America's national security.

00:02:18.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:02:18.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:02:26.000 So we have tons to get to today.

00:02:28.000 If you're wondering why we're broadcasting from what appears to be a closet in Mogadishu, it's because we're broadcasting from a closet in Washington, D.C., which is sort of like Mogadishu.

00:02:37.000 And it's, you know, a lot to get to today.

00:02:39.000 We would have broadcast from the bathroom, as I said earlier, except Hillary's server, it turned out, was in there.

00:02:44.000 So tons to get to.

00:02:45.000 Last night at the convention, obviously, President Obama was the big headline.

00:02:49.000 President Obama was the one who ends up being the big headline coming out.

00:02:53.000 I mean, first off, I just want to lead off with this.

00:02:56.000 President Obama hugged Hillary Clinton last night, and it's really awkward.

00:02:59.000 It didn't make a lot of sense.

00:03:01.000 I don't think that Obama did Hillary Clinton a whole hell of a lot of good last night with his speech for a couple of reasons.

00:03:06.000 One, I don't think that Obama's popularity is transferable.

00:03:09.000 That's clear.

00:03:10.000 Democrats have lost 900 state legislature seats during his tenure.

00:03:13.000 They've lost 13 senators.

00:03:14.000 They've lost the House.

00:03:16.000 They've lost 12 governorships.

00:03:17.000 They've lost just an enormous number of seats.

00:03:20.000 And power and an enormous amount of power under President Obama because he's popular, but he can't transfer that popularity to anyone else.

00:03:26.000 And it's true for Hillary, too.

00:03:28.000 But there's something just objectively odd about President Obama, who's a young, good looking black guy, getting up there and saying the future of the country rests in the hands of.

00:03:39.000 And then he brings out this toddling old crone, Hillary Clinton, who's 15 years his senior and looks like Bilbo Baggins.

00:03:45.000 In fact, Hillary Clinton looked so awkward out there last night.

00:03:47.000 Obama gives her this big hug.

00:03:48.000 And she looked so awkward out there last night.

00:03:50.000 You could see in her eyes that she was about to transform from Bilbo Baggins, like good Bilbo Baggins, to bad Bilbo Baggins when he sees the ring.

00:03:57.000 It sort of looked like this.

00:04:20.000 Look, Obama's a good-looking young guy, first black president, and he's bringing out Hillary.

00:04:24.000 And we're supposed to believe that this is a transformative moment.

00:04:27.000 First of all, even women know.

00:04:28.000 Black people in America do not have the same history as women in America.

00:04:32.000 Women have been treated a lot better in American history than black people have.

00:04:35.000 So it's a step down in terms of the historicness of the moment, the historic importance of the moment.

00:04:42.000 And it was an awkward night until we got to President Obama himself.

00:04:45.000 Tim Kaine, who's the vice presidential candidate for Hillary Clinton, even broke out his Donald Trump impersonation, which was real weird.

00:04:51.000 Here's what that looked like.

00:04:53.000 You know who I don't trust?

00:04:57.000 Hmm, I wonder.

00:04:59.000 Donald Trump!

00:05:02.000 Donald Trump.

00:05:03.000 Trump is a guy who promises a lot,

00:05:07.000 But you might have noticed, he's got a way of saying the same two words every time he makes his biggest, hugest promises.

00:05:18.000 Believe me.

00:05:21.000 It's going to be great.

00:05:22.000 Believe me.

00:05:24.000 We're going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it.

00:05:27.000 Believe me.

00:05:29.000 We're going to destroy ISIS so fast.

00:05:31.000 Believe me.

00:05:33.000 There's nothing suspicious in my tax returns.

00:05:36.000 Believe me.

00:05:37.000 Okay, so he does the Trump impersonation.

00:05:42.000 You have to imagine that before this happened, he went to Obama and he's like, should I do my Trump impersonation?

00:05:47.000 I was like, nope, don't think that's a good idea.

00:05:49.000 And he goes to Hillary and she's like, no.

00:05:52.000 And then he goes to Bill and he's like, no, I don't think you should do that.

00:05:55.000 And then he gets to Joe Biden and Joe's like, that's a great idea.

00:05:58.000 And so he goes out there and he does his Trump impersonation, which isn't very good.

00:06:01.000 The big highlight of the night, however, was President Obama's speech.

00:06:05.000 And here's the thing.

00:06:06.000 President Obama's speech was almost entirely about President Obama.

00:06:09.000 Now, he did do something very clever in the speech that I want to talk about because I do think it has significant ramifications beyond this election.

00:06:15.000 It has ramifications for the Republican Party, and for Donald Trump, and conservatism, and I want to get to all of that.

00:06:21.000 But the reason that President Obama's speech didn't work for Hillary is because pretty much the whole thing was about him.

00:06:26.000 Pretty much the whole speech was about how he is awesome.

00:06:28.000 And he went out there, it was his valedictory,

00:06:30.000 I've never seen Obama so relaxed.

00:06:32.000 I've never seen him so happy.

00:06:33.000 I mean, really, the last time I saw him this relaxed and happy was after he won in 2012.

00:06:37.000 He went out there, and he's got a big, cheering throng of people, and that's gotta be like a boost to the ego for that egomaniac.

00:06:43.000 And he goes out there, and he talks up his own record, and that's really, you know, he mentioned his own name 119 times last night.

00:06:49.000 119 times he said, I, me, or Obama.

00:06:52.000 I mean, it's pretty amazing.

00:06:54.000 Here is President Obama talking up his record last night, which is really why he was there.

00:06:57.000 He doesn't care about Hillary.

00:06:59.000 A lot's happened.

00:07:02.000 Over the years.

00:07:04.000 And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession, and all manner of challenges, I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

00:07:36.000 How could I not be?

00:07:39.000 After all that we've achieved together.

00:07:41.000 I mean, hey, we've had a stagnant economy for eight years.

00:07:44.000 Hey, the world's on fire.

00:07:45.000 But hey, I'm still president.

00:07:47.000 So we've achieved a hell of a lot together, gang.

00:07:48.000 I mean, it's been fantastic.

00:07:50.000 We even put a gay flag up on the White House.

00:07:52.000 Isn't that important?

00:07:52.000 I think that's pretty important.

00:07:54.000 Come on.

00:07:55.000 We fundamentally transformed it.

00:07:57.000 So Obama's very pleased with himself, obviously.

00:07:59.000 And I've said this is sort of an obstacle for Hillary Clinton because she now has to run on President Obama's record.

00:08:05.000 The problem for her

00:08:06.000 is that most Americans are not particularly happy with the situation right now.

00:08:09.000 Most Americans feel uncomfortable.

00:08:12.000 70% of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction.

00:08:15.000 And again, his popularity is not transferable.

00:08:17.000 So the more he talks himself up, the less it matters for purposes of the election.

00:08:21.000 So he also tried to talk up Hillary.

00:08:22.000 To be fair, he tried to talk up Hillary, and it was an enormous failure, just a giant fail all the way from the beginning.

00:08:29.000 So here's President Obama attempting to talk Hillary Clinton up.

00:08:32.000 And there is only one candidate in this race who believes in that future, has devoted her life to that future, a mother and a grandmother who would do anything to help our children thrive, a leader with real plans to break down barriers and blast through glass ceilings and widen the circle of opportunity to every single American, the next president of the United States, Hillary Clinton.

00:09:02.000 And no, no.

00:09:03.000 I mean, mother, grandmother, she's a woman.

00:09:05.000 She blasts through glass ceilings.

00:09:06.000 There's nothing there.

00:09:07.000 There's nothing there.

00:09:07.000 I mean, Hillary is the least attractive candidate in America, and that includes Donald Trump.

00:09:12.000 She has somehow turned Donald Trump into an acceptable candidate because of how unacceptable she is as a candidate.

00:09:18.000 She's not likable.

00:09:18.000 She's not interesting.

00:09:19.000 And when he tries to play the human card, oh, she's a mother.

00:09:22.000 She's a grandmother.

00:09:23.000 Notice he doesn't say a wife because everybody knows what a joke that is, right?

00:09:26.000 He says she's a mother and she's a grandmother.

00:09:28.000 Uh-huh.

00:09:29.000 Yeah, most Americans don't buy that.

00:09:31.000 And he keeps trying to push her, and it's just a giant fail.

00:09:34.000 Every time he tries to push her, you just gotta scratch your head and say, really?

00:09:38.000 This is the best you can do?

00:09:39.000 He does it again right here.

00:09:41.000 And for four years, for four years, I had a front row seat to her intelligence, her judgment, and her discipline.

00:09:55.000 I came to realize that her unbelievable work ethic wasn't for praise.

00:10:00.000 It wasn't for attention.

00:10:02.000 That she was in this for everyone who needs a champion.

00:10:08.000 I understood that after all these years, she has never forgotten just who she's fighting for.

00:10:16.000 I love this line.

00:10:17.000 He says, I understood after all these years, she's never forgotten just who she's fighting for.

00:10:21.000 Right.

00:10:21.000 Hillary.

00:10:22.000 That's who she's fighting for.

00:10:23.000 Come on.

00:10:24.000 Everybody knows this.

00:10:25.000 And that's why none of this makes any sense.

00:10:28.000 He then goes on to say that nobody is more qualified than Hillary to serve as president of the United States in American history.

00:10:34.000 I mean, that includes presumably George H.W.

00:10:36.000 Bush, who headed the CIA and was a World War II veteran and was a congressperson and was a vice president.

00:10:40.000 That presumably includes Eisenhower, who ran World War II.

00:10:43.000 That presumably includes George Washington, who founded the country.

00:10:46.000 Yes, Hillary is so eminently qualified, so deeply qualified.

00:10:50.000 Horse crap.

00:10:51.000 Hillary is not qualified, and she's disqualified.

00:10:53.000 She's a felon.

00:10:55.000 But this is his routine.

00:10:56.000 Even when Obama tries to contrast

00:11:00.000 Hillary Clinton with Donald Trump, it fails because they're basically the same person.

00:11:06.000 I mean, they're both self-obsessed, corrupt, power-seeking people.

00:11:11.000 So, for example, when he says that Donald Trump is a guy who spent his 70 years on this earth showing no regard for working people, and he's going to be your champion, your voice, Hillary will be your champion and your voice.

00:11:21.000 She says, if you want someone with a lifelong track record of fighting for higher wages and better benefits and a fair tax code and a bigger voice,

00:11:28.000 And for workers and stronger regulations on Wall Street, you should vote for Hillary?

00:11:32.000 Like, really?

00:11:32.000 Does anyone believe that she's going to be the friend of the worker and the enemy of the folks on Wall Street?

00:11:37.000 There are pictures of her at the cornerstone laying for Goldman Sachs.

00:11:42.000 She still has not revealed, and she won't reveal, what she said to Goldman Sachs that they paid her $225,000 for in a speech.

00:11:49.000 Listen, I'm a pricey speaker, okay?

00:11:51.000 When I go and speak places, I charge people money.

00:11:53.000 I don't charge anything like that kind of money.

00:11:55.000 I mean, if I did, believe me, I wouldn't be doing a podcast anymore.

00:11:57.000 I'd be speaking full-time, raking it in, and I'd be living the high life alongside Hillary Clinton.

00:12:02.000 I mean, it's pretty amazing.

00:12:04.000 So every time Obama tries to pump up Hillary, it fails.

00:12:07.000 And this is why the speech was not effective for her last night.

00:12:10.000 It didn't accomplish anything.

00:12:12.000 She knows that sometimes during those 40 years, she's made mistakes, just like I have, just like we all do.

00:12:20.000 That's what happens when we try.

00:12:24.000 That's what happens when you're the kind of citizen Teddy Roosevelt once described.

00:12:30.000 Not the timid souls who criticize from the sidelines, but someone who is actually in the arena, who strives valiantly, who errs, but who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement.

00:12:49.000 Hillary Clinton is that woman in the arena.

00:12:54.000 She's been there for us, even if we haven't always noticed.

00:12:59.000 OK, this idea that Hillary has been there for us, even if we haven't always noticed, has Hillary spent one minuscule moment out of the spotlight?

00:13:07.000 And I love how he just classifies all of the things she did purposefully wrong as mistakes.

00:13:11.000 This is one of my favorite things about Democrats.

00:13:14.000 He says, sure, she's made mistakes.

00:13:15.000 Like, you know, you made a mistake the other day.

00:13:17.000 You left the milk out of the fridge and went sour.

00:13:19.000 She made a mistake.

00:13:20.000 She set up a private server to hide her emails, destroyed 30,000 of them, made them vulnerable to the Russian hack, and passed classified information just like you leaving out the milk.

00:13:28.000 That's what that was.

00:13:30.000 It was just like you leaving out the milk.

00:13:33.000 Full Blair Witch Project there.

00:13:34.000 So that's his case for her.

00:13:40.000 It doesn't work at all in any way, shape, or form.

00:13:44.000 So all of that is bad.

00:13:46.000 But then Obama gets to his real point.

00:13:49.000 And his real point is that Barack Obama is now going to attempt to create, and this was, I thought, a genius move.

00:13:54.000 He's actually going to attempt to create a new Democratic Party.

00:13:58.000 That's the goal, to create a new Democratic majority.

00:14:00.000 And the new Democratic majority is going to be based on the fundamental premise that Donald Trump is not a Republican and that Republicans ought to vote for Hillary Clinton.

00:14:09.000 So he's doing the same thing that Trump is doing.

00:14:11.000 Trump is trying to get the Bernie Sanders voters to move from Hillary to him.

00:14:15.000 Obama is trying to get the Hillary, he's trying to get the Trump voters or the Republican voters, the Cruz voters, to move from Trump to Hillary.

00:14:24.000 Now, there are a few never Trumpers, people who I think are making a foolish error in judgment, who say that they're not only not going to vote for Trump, they are going to actively vote for Hillary Clinton.

00:14:34.000 I think that this is a huge mistake.

00:14:35.000 I think it's just dumb, up to wazoo.

00:14:38.000 You can't morally vote for Hillary.

00:14:39.000 You can't morally vote for Trump, in my view.

00:14:41.000 If you want to vote for Trump, vote for Trump.

00:14:43.000 But you certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton, an actual felon.

00:14:46.000 But Obama's making that pitch anyway.

00:14:47.000 So here's the pitch Obama makes about two Republicans.

00:14:51.000 And this is an amazing thing because it demonstrates where we are in our political lifespan here.

00:14:57.000 So this is clip nine.

00:14:58.000 Here's President Obama taking out the suit that was mothballed by Ronald Reagan, putting it on and wearing it around a little bit.

00:15:05.000 Look, we Democrats have always had plenty of differences with the Republican Party.

00:15:10.000 And there's nothing wrong with that.

00:15:12.000 It's precisely this contest of idea that pushes our country forward.

00:15:23.000 But what we heard in Cleveland last week wasn't particularly Republican, and it sure wasn't conservative.

00:15:32.000 What we heard was a deeply pessimistic vision of a country where we turn against each other and turn away from the rest of the world.

00:15:42.000 There were no serious solutions to pressing problems.

00:15:46.000 Just the fanning of resentment, and blame, and anger, and hate.

00:15:54.000 And that is not the America I know.

00:15:59.000 The America I know is full of courage and optimism and ingenuity.

00:16:04.000 The America I know is decent and generous.

00:16:07.000 What Obama's doing there is what he's trying to do now.

00:16:10.000 Sounds like Marco Rubio, right?

00:16:11.000 He's basically making the conservative, compassionate conservative critique of Donald Trump.

00:16:15.000 He's saying that Trump represents something that's not Republican and not conservative.

00:16:19.000 Now, the first time you hear that, if you're an anti-Trump person like me, the first thing that you think is, well, I mean,

00:16:25.000 At least he gets that Trump isn't a Republican or a conservative.

00:16:28.000 Then you realize what he's actually doing.

00:16:29.000 What he's actually doing is he's trying to get people like me to vote for Hillary.

00:16:32.000 It ain't gonna happen.

00:16:33.000 It ain't gonna happen.

00:16:34.000 Because the solution to having a leftist in your own party is not to vote for the leftist in the other party.

00:16:39.000 Leftism winning anywhere is a bad idea.

00:16:41.000 But here's the problem.

00:16:43.000 Because Donald Trump is a statist, because Donald Trump feels that he alone can solve, because he believes that government is a solution and not the problem,

00:16:50.000 Because Donald Trump doesn't believe in constitutional checks and balances, because Donald Trump is a foreign policy isolationist, because he doesn't believe in social conservatism, he has left the field of conservatism wide open for this pitch.

00:17:03.000 So you've got the most demagogic leader in American history, or at least in modern American history, President Obama, going out there and saying that Trump is fanning resentment and blame and anger and hate.

00:17:13.000 President Obama does that on a regular basis.

00:17:15.000 He's a demagogue.

00:17:16.000 President Obama fans the flames of hatred against

00:17:19.000 Cops.

00:17:20.000 He flames the flame of hatred against the supposed evils of white America.

00:17:23.000 He fans the flames of hatred against the rich folks.

00:17:26.000 That's what Obama does.

00:17:27.000 But now he's with a certain level of accuracy saying that about Trump.

00:17:32.000 And it's actually a very smart political move.

00:17:33.000 It's not going to work, obviously, because I think that most people are too smart for this.

00:17:37.000 But what he's trying to do is he's trying to now create a unity party.

00:17:40.000 He's trying to say there's one party out here that's in favor of a brighter America that believes in constitutional principles.

00:17:46.000 And then there's Trump over there, who's a demagogue.

00:17:48.000 What's so galling about it?

00:17:49.000 What makes you sick to your stomach when you're watching it?

00:17:50.000 It really does.

00:17:51.000 It makes you just want to vomit.

00:17:54.000 When you watch it, is that you know that Obama is just that kind of demagogue.

00:17:58.000 And Obama just keeps pushing this message.

00:18:00.000 He keeps pushing this message that he's the new Reagan, and he's going to create the new Reagan coalition, except it's going to be Republicans turning Democrat instead of Democrats turning Republican.

00:18:09.000 President Obama going after Donald Trump for being weak on defense.

00:18:13.000 Again, the irony of a man who has slashed our military to its lowest working size in terms of the Navy since before World War II, and the lowest working size in terms of our army since before World War II.

00:18:24.000 That guy is ripping on Donald Trump for not being pro-military enough, because this is the political pitch.

00:18:29.000 It's triangulation.

00:18:30.000 Here's Obama doing that.

00:18:32.000 Meanwhile, Donald Trump calls our military a disaster.

00:18:39.000 Apparently, he doesn't know the men and women who make up the strongest fighting force the world has ever known.

00:18:51.000 He suggests America is weak.

00:18:54.000 He must not hear the billions of men and women and children, from the Baltics to Burma, who still look to America to be the light of freedom and dignity and human rights.

00:19:09.000 He cozies up to Putin, praises Saddam Hussein, tells our NATO allies that stood by our side after 9-11 that they have to pay up if they want our protection.

00:19:24.000 Why?

00:19:24.000 Well, America's promises do not come with a price tag.

00:19:28.000 We meet our commitments.

00:19:30.000 We bear our burdens.

00:19:33.000 I mean, this is unbelievable stuff, right?

00:19:34.000 Because this is the man, he's out there saying that our military is great.

00:19:37.000 This man mandated during sequestration, mandated that half the cuts come from the military.

00:19:44.000 Mandated it.

00:19:44.000 That was part of the deal.

00:19:45.000 Half the cuts had to come from the military.

00:19:47.000 He says that we have this great fighting force and everybody looks to us from the Baltics to Burma.

00:19:52.000 Ask the people in the Baltic states right now if they feel more or less secure since when George W. Bush left.

00:19:57.000 They feel more or less secure now that Obama allowed Putin to invade Ukraine.

00:20:01.000 They feel more or less secure now that Obama withdrew missile defense from Poland and the Czech Republic.

00:20:07.000 Ask them if they feel more or less secure.

00:20:09.000 Ask our allies if they feel more or less secure.

00:20:11.000 I love that he says, you know, Trump cozies up to Putin and praises Saddam Hussein and tells our NATO allies they have to pay up if they want our protection.

00:20:18.000 Obama's undermined NATO by not defending Ukraine.

00:20:20.000 Speaking of cozying up to Putin, Obama's the guy who sat next to Dmitry Medvedev, then the president of Russia, and said to him,

00:20:27.000 Tell Putin, tell Pooty Poot, that we're going to give him flexibility, right?

00:20:32.000 I just need, I need a little bit of flexibility until the election and then I can do anything you want.

00:20:36.000 I'll give you some flexibility after the election.

00:20:37.000 Just be nice to me.

00:20:39.000 And this is what he says.

00:20:39.000 He says that openly right before the 2012 election.

00:20:44.000 As far as praising Saddam Hussein, if Obama had his way, Saddam Hussein would still be in power in Iraq.

00:20:48.000 Those rape rooms would still be operational.

00:20:51.000 And Uday and Qusay would still be doing their routine in those rape rooms to various women.

00:20:56.000 But the hypocrisy doesn't matter.

00:20:58.000 It's the pitch that matters.

00:20:59.000 And what Obama realizes is that Trump being an isolationist, not being a constitutional conservative, it's opened up this argument.

00:21:05.000 It's opened up this argument.

00:21:06.000 So remember, this could have been our argument, folks.

00:21:09.000 This could have been the argument we made this year.

00:21:11.000 Everything he's saying right now, we could have been making these arguments against President Obama this year.

00:21:15.000 We can't, and we won't, because Donald Trump is the nominee.

00:21:18.000 And Obama knows that.

00:21:21.000 And so he's using that as a line of attack.

00:21:23.000 I will say it is pretty amazing.

00:21:24.000 The same room that's cheering Obama when he's praising the military, just a few minutes before that was booing Leon Panetta, Obama's former CIA director, for talking about killing members of ISIS and Al Qaeda.

00:21:35.000 Like clip 33, when Leon Panetta spoke, the Democrats actually were chanting, no more war, as Leon Panetta, the former Obama CIA head, was speaking about terrorism.

00:21:46.000 Donald Trump

00:21:48.000 Asks our troops to commit war crimes, endorses torture, spurns our allies from Europe to Asia, suggests that countries have nuclear weapons, and he praises dictators from Saddam Hussein to Vladimir Putin.

00:22:14.000 Today... Wow.

00:22:19.000 Okay, we can cut it off there.

00:22:20.000 That's all that it has.

00:22:21.000 So they're chanting no more war at Obama's former CIA director, and then two hours later, Obama's on stage, and they're all cheering, yay, the military!

00:22:28.000 Woo!

00:22:29.000 Because this is all BS.

00:22:31.000 It's all triangulation.

00:22:32.000 Obama doesn't believe in a strong military.

00:22:33.000 He doesn't believe in a small government.

00:22:36.000 But again, he's trying to take that argument away from Trump, because he knows it's an effective one.

00:22:41.000 He's stealing all of the traditional conservative rhetoric, and he's now using it against Trump.

00:22:45.000 So he did more of that.

00:22:46.000 Here's clip 11.

00:22:50.000 America is already great.

00:22:54.000 America is already strong.

00:22:59.000 And I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump.

00:23:09.000 In fact, it doesn't depend on any one person.

00:23:13.000 And that, in the end, may be the biggest difference in this election — the meaning of our democracy.

00:23:21.000 Ronald Reagan called America a shining city on a hill.

00:23:27.000 Donald Trump calls it a divided crime scene that only he can fix.

00:23:35.000 Okay, so there he is, hijacking Ronald Reagan's language to say we're a shining city on a hill.

00:23:39.000 I love this.

00:23:39.000 I love that he says that America doesn't depend on any one person.

00:23:43.000 I thought that if we elected him, the oceans were going to recede.

00:23:47.000 I thought if we elected him,

00:23:49.000 Then the world was going to change.

00:23:50.000 She was going to transform America.

00:23:52.000 It doesn't depend on any one person.

00:23:53.000 The entire basis of Democrat philosophy since the turn of the 20th century has been the idea that we need a great leader to lead us to glory, whether it's Woodrow Wilson or FDR or John F. Kennedy or Bill Clinton or now Barack Obama.

00:24:05.000 So for him to turn around and now say, no, we don't need one great leader.

00:24:09.000 I mean, who would say such a thing?

00:24:11.000 You!

00:24:12.000 You created this, right?

00:24:13.000 You wonder why Trump is making that pitch?

00:24:15.000 It's because you are a demagogue, and you made that pitch, and you won.

00:24:19.000 So a lot of Republicans said, OK, well, if their demagogue can do it, then we'll demagogue too.

00:24:23.000 But Obama continues to make this conservative pitch.

00:24:25.000 Again, what he's about to say in this particular paragraph, what you're about to hear right now, this clip 12.

00:24:29.000 What you're about to hear is something that if I were campaigning would come out of my mouth.

00:24:33.000 The difference is I'm not a congenital liar.

00:24:36.000 President Obama is.

00:24:37.000 Here's Obama mouthing the words of conservatives while being the most leftist president in the history of the United States.

00:24:43.000 We're not a fragile people.

00:24:45.000 We're not a frightful people.

00:24:49.000 Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way.

00:24:57.000 We don't look to be ruled.

00:25:04.000 Our power—our power comes from those immortal declarations first put to paper right here in Philadelphia all those years ago.

00:25:15.000 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that we, the people, can form a more perfect union.

00:25:26.000 That's who we are.

00:25:28.000 That's our birthright.

00:25:40.000 That's what drove patriots to choose revolution over tyranny, and our GIs to liberate a continent.

00:25:50.000 It's what gave women the courage to reach for the ballot.

00:26:03.000 It's amazing stuff, right?

00:26:04.000 I mean, what he's saying there and what he's pushing is this basic conservative notion, right?

00:26:09.000 It's a basic conservative notion.

00:26:10.000 We don't need a self-declared savior.

00:26:13.000 We don't need to be ruled.

00:26:14.000 But he is the self-declared savior.

00:26:15.000 He is the one who rules us.

00:26:17.000 He's the one who says that if we don't buy a kind of health insurance he likes, we go to jail, even if we're nuns.

00:26:23.000 He's the one who says that he'll use his pen and his phone and he will cram down on us his vision of the universe.

00:26:30.000 He's the one who says to Congress, if you don't pass a law that I like, well, I'll just do it myself.

00:26:34.000 He's that guy.

00:26:35.000 And then he's telling us that he's the one who's fighting against the idea of a ruler?

00:26:39.000 He's the one who stands for idea of a ruler.

00:26:43.000 That's what he is.

00:26:45.000 His most obvious line like this was the very end of the speech, the very, very end of the speech.

00:26:50.000 Barack Obama said this, he said,

00:26:52.000 America has changed over the years, and those values my grandparents taught me, they haven't gone anywhere.

00:26:57.000 They're still as strong as ever.

00:26:59.000 And he says, that's why anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end.

00:27:07.000 No, they won't.

00:27:09.000 No, they won't.

00:27:09.000 Because you're the homegrown demagogue, President Obama.

00:27:12.000 But the fact that he's hijacking conservative rhetoric is the more important point.

00:27:15.000 When conservatives abandon conservatism in favor

00:27:18.000 Of course.

00:27:43.000 Unity party.

00:27:44.000 But the fact is there is no unity party because he and Donald Trump are on the same side.

00:27:49.000 Conservatives are not on that side.

00:27:52.000 I'm on the side of small government.

00:27:54.000 I'm on the side of no savior.

00:27:55.000 I'm on the side of Donald Trump says he can fix it.

00:27:57.000 Hillary Clinton says she can fix it.

00:27:58.000 Only you can fix it.

00:28:00.000 Trump can't solve your problems.

00:28:01.000 Hillary can't solve your problems.

00:28:03.000 Solve your own damn problems.

00:28:05.000 That's what America is all about.

00:28:07.000 But Obama is now doing something very clever.

00:28:09.000 He's trying to pretend that

00:28:11.000 He's on the same side that I am, and Trump is the leftist.

00:28:13.000 No, Obama's the leftist and Trump is the leftist, and the rest of us are sitting out here in the cold trying to remember a country where our fate was in our own hands.

00:28:21.000 So very, very clever stuff from President Obama.

00:28:23.000 I believe at this point we have to let our Facebook Live audience go, correct Mathis?

00:28:27.000 Okay, so dailywire.com is where you go to subscribe to the rest of the show.

00:28:31.000 Also, it allows you eight bucks a month.

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00:28:37.000 We always love the mailbag, the vaunted Ben Shapiro Show mailbag.

00:28:39.000 Plus, we'll be talking

00:28:41.000 About some things I hate, and we have to talk about Trump and Russia.

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00:28:51.000 All right.

00:28:59.000 Okay, can we continue?

00:29:00.000 Are we ready?

00:29:03.000 Okay, we're back.

00:29:04.000 Okay, so now that we got rid of those Facebook hangers on, we can continue.

00:29:08.000 With the rest of the show.

00:29:09.000 Okay, so the media go nuts over all of this, naturally.

00:29:11.000 The media just love it.

00:29:13.000 The media are just in love.

00:29:15.000 So CBS's Scott Pelley, he comes out and he says, it was just, it was a chorus of amens.

00:29:19.000 It was the greatest thing.

00:29:20.000 Honest to God, Vaseline stores all over the city of Philadelphia must have sold out last night just to the left media.

00:29:26.000 So the left media was just beside itself.

00:29:30.000 Beside itself.

00:29:30.000 I mean, they were covering the entire convention wearing no pants.

00:29:33.000 Here was Scott Pelley making the, just weeping over himself.

00:29:37.000 Amazing.

00:29:49.000 Chorus of amens.

00:29:51.000 NBC's Lester Holt, he does the same thing.

00:29:52.000 What an amazing speech!

00:29:54.000 Amazing, amazing stuff!

00:29:57.000 The war is deafening here in this arena.

00:30:01.000 President Obama delivering a speech of powerful art, embracing hope and optimism, a passionate endorsement of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and at times an artful takedown of Donald Trump.

00:30:16.000 It was artful.

00:30:16.000 It was brilliant.

00:30:17.000 It was compassionate and hopeful.

00:30:18.000 OK, it was hopeful because he's been the president for eight years.

00:30:20.000 How would it sound if he came out last night and said, boy, things are crap.

00:30:25.000 Boy, things are just awful.

00:30:26.000 Even the president, dude, of course you're going to come out and praise your own work.

00:30:29.000 This is like that stupid exercise they used to do when you were in college where you graded, where some TAs would do this, where you grade your own work.

00:30:35.000 How do you think you did this semester?

00:30:37.000 Oh, I think I failed.

00:30:38.000 Right?

00:30:38.000 That was always the one where you had to tell people that you got a B plus, right?

00:30:41.000 Right into your T. I thought I did, I thought I did really well, but I could have tried harder.

00:30:44.000 I thought I could have done better on this.

00:30:46.000 Yeah.

00:30:46.000 Uh-huh.

00:30:47.000 Okay.

00:30:47.000 So he gives himself an A, shocker.

00:30:49.000 ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who was literally the chief of staff for Hillary and Bill Clinton.

00:30:54.000 He's now an objective journalist, and he too was basically rubbing his own back to try and release the knots of tension from the night.

00:31:02.000 12 years to the day he burst on the national scene.

00:31:07.000 Two-term President Barack Obama gives his political valedictory.

00:31:12.000 Grateful, emotional at the end.

00:31:15.000 Thanking the American people for picking him up when he was down.

00:31:18.000 Passing the baton, as he said, to Hillary Clinton.

00:31:22.000 Passing the baton.

00:31:23.000 Oh, my God.

00:31:23.000 It's just wonderful.

00:31:25.000 Of course, the person who is most over the top is Chris Matthews.

00:31:27.000 Let me say, unbelievable.

00:31:29.000 Hey, you see that president?

00:31:31.000 He used to give me a thrill up my leg.

00:31:32.000 Now, that thrill is moving all the way up my leg, up my thigh, into my crotch area.

00:31:36.000 And let me tell you, I'm just feeling it tonight.

00:31:38.000 It's just unbelievable.

00:31:39.000 Chris Matthews on Amazon.

00:31:40.000 You go.

00:31:41.000 Well, it's pretty well known I've always gone for this guy.

00:31:45.000 I've always liked the way he speaks about our country.

00:31:49.000 From the time I first heard him in 2004 up in Boston at the convention.

00:31:54.000 And he does speak wonderfully about our country.

00:31:56.000 But this guy tonight was something else.

00:31:59.000 Like he was when we... So I thought it was a farewell address, guys.

00:32:02.000 As well as an endorsement of Hillary Clinton.

00:32:04.000 A wonderful farewell address while everyone's paying attention.

00:32:07.000 And I think it was a wonderful bookend to his first speech in 2004 and to his wife's speech on Monday.

00:32:12.000 And Hillary Clinton is now going to have to play catch-up tomorrow night.

00:32:16.000 So it's an interesting night and a wonderful night, I think.

00:32:20.000 I gotta go home.

00:32:20.000 I gotta brush my hair with sugar.

00:32:21.000 I gotta come back here tomorrow night and watch that old crone talk.

00:32:24.000 I don't know what I'm going to do.

00:32:24.000 It's going to be terrible, but whatever.

00:32:26.000 You know, I guess that's the job.

00:32:27.000 I guess it's the job.

00:32:27.000 I just go over to a hotel.

00:32:28.000 I go to sleep.

00:32:29.000 I wake up in the morning.

00:32:30.000 I drink half a bottle of vodka.

00:32:31.000 I brush my hair with sugar.

00:32:33.000 I come here.

00:32:33.000 I watch Hillary Clinton, that old crone.

00:32:35.000 God, I love her still, but she's not Barack Obama.

00:32:37.000 I mean, she gives me a thrill, but it's not really my leg.

00:32:39.000 It's more like up the back of my leg.

00:32:40.000 I got, like, goosebumps, goose flesh, maybe, because I'm scared.

00:32:43.000 She's going to pop out of the closet and go, ah!

00:32:44.000 But it's OK.

00:32:46.000 Chris Matthews, MSNBC.

00:32:48.000 OK, so the media go nuts over all of this.

00:32:51.000 Meanwhile, so they're covering all this.

00:32:54.000 Meanwhile, outside the convention center, things are getting crazy.

00:32:57.000 So as we've been mentioning, the entire week, the Bernie Sanders people have been losing what is left of their adult brains.

00:33:02.000 So right outside the convention center, here is what the scene looked like.

00:33:34.000 In the prison episode of The Walking Dead, you got all the zombies outside trying to break down the barrier and there's Rick in there just being a wimp like he always is.

00:33:42.000 But there are the cops trying to hold off all of the Bernie Sanders supporters who are just a delight.

00:33:46.000 And that wasn't the end of it.

00:33:47.000 Here's a little bit of more chaos that the media decided was not important to cover because they were too busy worshipping at the altar of Barack Obama and bringing him burned incense.

00:34:21.000 SIT!

00:34:22.000 SIT!

00:34:23.000 SIT!

00:34:24.000 SIT!

00:34:25.000 SIT!

00:34:26.000 SIT!

00:34:27.000 SIT!

00:34:28.000 SIT!

00:34:29.000 SIT!

00:34:30.000 SIT!

00:34:31.000 SIT!

00:34:32.000 SIT

00:34:49.000 This one, the flag has its revenge, so I do like this one.

00:34:53.000 What are you doing?

00:34:54.000 What are you doing?

00:35:16.000 Set the flag on fire, then he tries to go in there and the flag attacks him.

00:35:19.000 So he's attacked by the flag and the flag wins.

00:35:24.000 By the way, if you want to tell what the Democrats are really about, the flags that they treat well versus the flags that they treat badly.

00:35:29.000 They burned the Israeli flag.

00:35:30.000 We showed that yesterday.

00:35:31.000 They burned the American flag.

00:35:32.000 We showed that today.

00:35:33.000 They took down the Mississippi state flag.

00:35:34.000 They do like a couple of other flags, though.

00:35:36.000 They like, for example, the Soviet flag.

00:35:37.000 They're big fans of this.

00:35:39.000 You can see this at the DNC flying.

00:35:41.000 And they like the North Korean flag as well.

00:35:44.000 So that's also exciting.

00:35:46.000 They like the Soviet flag and apparently the North Korean flag showed up as well.

00:35:50.000 So when Barack Obama says they're not looking for a dear leader, they actually technically are looking for a dear leader.

00:35:56.000 So there's all of that.

00:35:57.000 Okay.

00:35:57.000 Meanwhile, the media are still going nuts over Donald Trump.

00:36:00.000 They're still going crazy.

00:36:02.000 They're losing their minds over Donald Trump's comments.

00:36:05.000 So to flashback,

00:36:07.000 Yesterday, Donald Trump had this to say about Vladimir Putin hacking Hillary Clinton's emails.

00:36:12.000 By the way, if they hacked, they probably have her 33,000 emails.

00:36:16.000 I hope they do.

00:36:18.000 I hope they do.

00:36:19.000 I hope they have her emails, right?

00:36:20.000 And then he says today, well, you know, I was just being sarcastic.

00:36:25.000 Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails

00:36:32.000 That are missing.

00:36:33.000 Clinton campaign says this is a national security issue.

00:36:36.000 Now the idea that you've had any American calling for a foreign power to commit espionage in the U.S.

00:36:41.000 for the purpose of somehow changing an election, I think that we are now in a national security space.

00:36:46.000 Your reaction?

00:36:46.000 You have to be kidding.

00:36:48.000 His client, his person, deleted 33,000 emails illegally.

00:36:53.000 You look at that.

00:36:54.000 And when I'm being sarcastic with some of the- Well you're being sarcastic?

00:36:57.000 Of course I'm being sarcastic.

00:36:59.000 Okay, and everything that he's saying, I think that he probably was not being sarcastic.

00:37:03.000 He probably would like for those emails to be hacked and released, but who cares?

00:37:07.000 I mean, but the media loses, excuse me, the media absolutely loses.

00:37:10.000 They go bananas.

00:37:11.000 So the left goes bananas.

00:37:12.000 First, you got Leon Panetta ripping Trump.

00:37:13.000 Here's the former CIA director at the DNC ripping Donald Trump.

00:37:18.000 Donald Trump says he gets his foreign policy experience from watching TV and running the Miss Universe pageant.

00:37:29.000 Donald Trump asks our troops to commit war crimes, endorses torture, spurns our allies from Europe to Asia, suggests that countries have nuclear weapons, and he praises dictators from Saddam Hussein to Vladimir Putin.

00:37:54.000 Donald Trump

00:37:56.000 Today, once again, took Russia's side.

00:38:01.000 He asked the Russians to interfere in American politics.

00:38:06.000 Donald Trump, who wants to be President of the United States, is asking one of our adversaries to engage in hacking or intelligence efforts against the United States of America to affect an election.

00:38:21.000 For the future of my children and my grandchildren.

00:38:25.000 And then on the same stage, Rear Admiral John Hudson speaks also, and he makes the same case.

00:38:29.000 He says that Donald Trump is treasonous.

00:38:31.000 This was treasonous behavior.

00:38:33.000 This morning, this very morning, he personally invited Russia to hack us.

00:38:39.000 People are like, are we supposed to boo?

00:38:46.000 That's not law and order.

00:38:47.000 That's criminal intent.

00:38:53.000 OK, so he too is very hot and bothered.

00:38:56.000 And the media is very hot and bothered about all of this.

00:38:58.000 In fact, two of the least funny people in America, Stephen Colbert, who is nothing without his old Colbert Report personality.

00:39:04.000 He's just lost it.

00:39:05.000 Yesterday, here's Stephen Colbert ripping on Trump about all of this.

00:39:09.000 And no joke is complete from the left comedians without a little bit of going blue.

00:39:16.000 So here's Stephen Colbert going blue on Donald Trump.

00:39:18.000 Hi, college student.

00:39:31.000 Well, we're not broadcasting right now, so I'd say, what does Vladimir Putin's a** taste like?

00:39:36.000 Yeah!

00:39:42.000 Right there.

00:39:43.000 It's always fun that the Democrats get to make gay jokes when they want to.

00:39:47.000 So that's always exciting.

00:39:49.000 And Trevor Noah, who's legitimately the least funny man on earth, he did the same routine.

00:39:52.000 He's very, very, very troubled that Donald Trump has a relationship with Vladimir Putin.

00:39:57.000 Here's Trevor Noah being a deeply unfunny, ridiculous person.

00:40:02.000 This shit is getting scary, people, and I don't understand how some people say they can't see it.

00:40:06.000 You know, because Donald Trump is almost like global warming right now.

00:40:10.000 People are trying to deny that it's real.

00:40:13.000 Oh, they think it's something we can worry about later, but it is happening right now, and it also involves a lot of cow shits.

00:40:20.000 So, so again, again, there should be no contest.

00:40:25.000 Because, let's look at this, let's be honest, flat out, Republican or Democrat, let's look at the worst case scenarios on both sides.

00:40:29.000 With Hillary Clinton, worst case scenario, you have a bad president for four years, right?

00:40:34.000 And America's had bad presidents before, you'll get through it.

00:40:37.000 But America, you have never had a Donald Trump before.

00:40:41.000 A man who, claiming to be the leader of law and order and make America a safe candidate, that man who invites foreign hackers to steal files that he himself said contain American national security data, that man?

00:40:53.000 That's a leader you've never had.

00:40:55.000 A man who publicly admires and now very possibly colludes with Vladimir Putin?

00:40:59.000 A man who is lovingly endorsed by Kim Jong-un?

00:41:03.000 A man who praises and doubles down on praising Saddam Hussein?

00:41:07.000 These are his role models.

00:41:09.000 And these people, what you have to understand is, once they're in power... Trevor Noah is doing this whole routine.

00:41:12.000 Okay, they're a very deeply unfunny man.

00:41:14.000 Here's the problem, folks.

00:41:17.000 If those e-mails contain nothing but yoga, first of all, if there were 30,000 e-mails about yoga, then Hillary Clinton legitimately has a ratio of yoga e-mails to actual yoga sessions that approaches infinity, right?

00:41:28.000 It's actually approaching an imaginary number, because the denominator of their actual yoga sessions

00:41:32.000 Either zero or close to it.

00:41:34.000 You can't divide by zero, you create an imaginary number.

00:41:36.000 Basic math lesson on fractions.

00:41:37.000 Okay, so, bottom line is this.

00:41:39.000 The Democrats want to pretend that Trump is the bad guy here.

00:41:42.000 Hillary is the one who made this an issue.

00:41:44.000 Hillary is the one who made this an issue.

00:41:47.000 You can't claim that Trump is the bad guy for suggesting that Vladimir Putin should get the emails if there's nothing bad in the emails in the first place.

00:41:55.000 Okay, Trump may be stupid.

00:41:57.000 I think that he's not the brightest guy in the world either.

00:42:00.000 It's Hillary's fault this is even an issue in the first place.

00:42:02.000 You can't be deeply upset about Donald Trump and praising Hillary Clinton about Hillary Clinton's own emails.

00:42:07.000 That's her own fault.

00:42:08.000 Okay.

00:42:09.000 Time for Things I Like, Things I Hate in the Mailbag.

00:42:11.000 So, Things I Like.

00:42:12.000 We've been doing movies with Russian villains this week.

00:42:15.000 So, this is a good movie.

00:42:17.000 Not a great movie, but a good movie.

00:42:18.000 And it's an early Kevin Costner performance.

00:42:20.000 The movie is No Way Out.

00:42:22.000 Also stars Gene Hackman.

00:42:24.000 And it's definitely a fun movie.

00:42:26.000 So here's a little bit of the trailer.

00:42:28.000 The new boy, Feral.

00:42:30.000 So we can take the fall in case anything goes wrong.

00:42:33.000 I love you.

00:42:34.000 I promise I'll work everything out.

00:42:38.000 How did you actually meet the Secretary of Defense?

00:42:41.000 I need a car.

00:42:42.000 It's an emergency.

00:42:43.000 These people have already tried to kill one person who knew.

00:42:46.000 Bring this one down.

00:42:47.000 No, no, no.

00:42:47.000 You can't take that.

00:42:49.000 Behind the deceit.

00:42:50.000 If it were your intention to bring down David Price, then I'd have no choice but to make sure that you didn't get away with it.

00:42:56.000 They mean to kill me, Sam.

00:42:59.000 Because of the truth, there's no way out.

00:43:04.000 OK, so it's actually a pretty good movie.

00:43:06.000 I wanted a family, but it was the wrong time.

00:43:33.000 I made the decision that was best for me.

00:43:36.000 To have an abortion and get compassionate care at a clinic in my own community.

00:43:45.000 Yeah!

00:43:46.000 Abortion!

00:43:46.000 You made a great call to kill a baby!

00:43:48.000 Woo!

00:43:50.000 Yeah, these people celebrate abortion.

00:43:51.000 They love abortion.

00:43:53.000 It's a sacrament to them.

00:43:55.000 Here's the thing about abortion for the left.

00:43:57.000 Once a woman has had an abortion, the left understands.

00:43:59.000 I said this yesterday on the program.

00:44:01.000 The left understands that they have a woman for life once she's had an abortion, at least in most cases, because repenting for the idea that you killed your own child, I mean, it's almost unthinkable.

00:44:10.000 It's almost unthinkable.

00:44:11.000 The only way you can get through the day, I would imagine, is by saying it's not a child.

00:44:14.000 If you acknowledge that it is a baby and that you killed it, I mean, that's got to be something almost impossible to live with.

00:44:20.000 I can't even imagine.

00:44:21.000 So instead, the Democrats offer you absolution.

00:44:24.000 The absolution is,

00:44:26.000 It wasn't a baby.

00:44:27.000 After all, it doesn't really matter.

00:44:28.000 So if it wasn't a baby and it doesn't matter, then anybody who says it was a baby is your enemy.

00:44:31.000 So once a woman has an abortion, she becomes a Democrat for life.

00:44:35.000 And that's why Democrats love abortion so much.

00:44:37.000 They've always been friendly to abortion and the eugenics argument, but that's the reason why they cheer.

00:44:41.000 When a woman has an abortion, it's a sign of her bravery.

00:44:44.000 She's rejected society's evil, nasty standards.

00:44:47.000 OK, another thing that I hate from the convention, Ripley from Aliens said climate change is going to kill us all.

00:44:52.000 Sigourney Weaver

00:44:54.000 I offered up this weird video on climate change at the DNC.

00:44:57.000 Eventually Miami will be underwater.

00:44:59.000 It's just a matter of when.

00:45:00.000 The sea level is going to rise and Miami won't be here when it rises.

00:45:05.000 There is no doubt that climate change is a threat to our national security.

00:45:10.000 We all know that human activities are changing the atmosphere in unexpected and in unprecedented ways.

00:45:19.000 If I may use a strong word, I would say that we are at the limits of suicide.

00:45:24.000 This is the painful reality of a world radically altered by climate change.

00:45:30.000 It's not reality TV.

00:45:33.000 Make no mistake, Trump's reckless denial of climate change is dangerous.

00:45:40.000 A threat to your livelihood, your safety, your children, and the prosperity of this nation.

00:45:47.000 All of this with global warming and a lot of it's a hoax.

00:45:51.000 It's a hoax.

00:45:52.000 There's no doubt in my mind the damage from Sandy was worse because global warming caused the sea level to be higher.

00:45:58.000 I am not a believer.

00:46:00.000 The good news for Sigourney Weaver is that she has a giant robot suit so she can save us all in the end.

00:46:04.000 I do love that they have Jack Black leading that thing off.

00:46:07.000 Is this supposed to be a comedy video or a parody?

00:46:09.000 When does he play with Tenacious D?

00:46:11.000 So it's very, very weird stuff, but it demonstrates how deeply Hollywood is invested in this whole narrative, because here's the truth.

00:46:17.000 Hollywood could actually affect change in the world.

00:46:20.000 Hollywood could make a difference.

00:46:21.000 They choose not to make a difference because the kind of difference they wanna make is not the kind of difference that they should be making.

00:46:27.000 I mean, they could actually make the world better for people living in various places around the globe by stumping against tyranny.

00:46:32.000 Instead, they rail about the sun.

00:46:34.000 So that's all very exciting.

00:46:35.000 Okay, final thing I hate, then, some mailbag entries.

00:46:38.000 The World Health Organization is considering dropping transgenderism from their dictionary as a mental disorder.

00:46:44.000 This is based on no science whatsoever.

00:46:46.000 There's a new study out that purports to show transgenderism is not a mental illness.

00:46:50.000 It shows nothing of the sort.

00:46:51.000 They took a poll of transgender people and they said, what percentage of you have been mistreated?

00:46:55.000 And virtually all of them said yes.

00:46:57.000 And then they said, well, that's probably why you have a high suicide rate.

00:47:01.000 Nonsense.

00:47:02.000 Nonsense.

00:47:03.000 Okay.

00:47:03.000 As I've said before, there is no population in the history of man, as far as we know,

00:47:07.000 It has had a 40% suicide rate except for Jews living in Nazi Germany.

00:47:12.000 Except for Jews living in... So if you think transgenders are being treated like Jews living in Nazi Germany, then I guess the comparison holds.

00:47:18.000 Otherwise, this is nonsense.

00:47:19.000 And the reason that transgender folks are committing suicide is because they're suffering from something that's unbelievably painful and difficult to deal with.

00:47:27.000 And the fact that the scientific community is willing to bow to political correctness instead of focusing on science, it's going to cost lives.

00:47:32.000 It's going to ruin a lot of lives.

00:47:34.000 It's going to be telling parents that they ought to mutilate their children.

00:47:36.000 It's really cruel and terrible.

00:47:39.000 I'd say they should be pretty scared.

00:47:41.000 I mean, I don't think that it's a foregone conclusion that Trump wins.

00:47:44.000 I think he still has an uphill battle.

00:47:45.000 The heart part of me says Trump has a better chance to win than the head part of me.

00:47:48.000 The head part of me says that it's still 75-25 that Hillary walks away with the election.

00:48:06.000 She's really bad at this.

00:48:08.000 Really bad at this.

00:48:09.000 What should worry Democrats, what should keep them up at night, is the fact that Hillary Clinton is legitimately an awful candidate.

00:48:14.000 She somehow turned a race against Donald Trump, who is a reality TV show star who knows nothing about policy.

00:48:20.000 She's turned that race into a generic D versus generic R election cycle, which is almost amazing.

00:48:26.000 Josiah writes, Ben, what are your thoughts on Gary Johnson?

00:48:29.000 I will not be voting for Hillary or Trump, but what do you think about Johnson?

00:48:32.000 Okay, so a few problems with Johnson.

00:48:34.000 So number one, Johnson isn't really libertarian.

00:48:36.000 He's libertarian on pot.

00:48:37.000 He's not libertarian on the budget.

00:48:39.000 He nearly doubled it while he was governor of New Mexico.

00:48:41.000 He's not libertarian on religious freedom.

00:48:43.000 He wants the government to cram down his perception of what sort of clientele everybody must serve.

00:48:48.000 He's obviously not somebody who's particularly strong on national defense.

00:48:53.000 I have a lot of problems with Gary Johnson as a candidate.

00:48:55.000 Elliot writes, how do you think future generations 100 years from now will look at our decade?

00:48:59.000 What I mean by that is we're now at what they call an inflection point.

00:49:01.000 If we pick ourselves up off the mat, if we build a new conservative movement, if we're able to rectify the imbalances that have plagued the country, then this could be seen as sort of the dark period before the dawn.

00:49:10.000 It could be seen like the late 60s and 70s before Reagan.

00:49:28.000 Or it could be seen instead as the high point because things get worse and worse.

00:49:31.000 It could be seen as, you know, this was the early 60s and then things just got progressively worse because at least now the crime rate is low, at least now the economy is totally terrible.

00:49:40.000 It could get worse if the left continues to have its way.

00:49:43.000 Ella writes, I love you, Lindsay.

00:49:44.000 You are awesome and make the show so much brighter.

00:49:47.000 Oh, well, thanks for putting the entire show on Lindsay, guys.

00:49:52.000 It's OK.

00:49:52.000 Lindsay is the best.

00:49:53.000 And Lindsay's only out today because she's taking care of her mom.

00:49:57.000 Obviously, prayers for Lindsey and her mom.

00:49:58.000 It says, please look at Ben Shapiro, Thug Life, Bernie or Boo on YouTube.

00:50:02.000 You will find someone actually got a tattoo of Ben's face on their arm.

00:50:05.000 Please show Ben so he can have a laugh at the irony.

00:50:08.000 Yeah, I did see the tattoo.

00:50:09.000 And all I can say is, why would anyone do that?

00:50:15.000 I'm anti-tattoo generally, and I have this face on my own face.

00:50:18.000 Like, I don't think you should put this face anywhere else.

00:50:20.000 It's fine.

00:50:20.000 It's good right here.

00:50:21.000 It doesn't need to be on your leg.

00:50:23.000 And then the question is,

00:50:25.000 Almost no.

00:50:29.000 Almost no.

00:50:30.000 I think impeachment is largely off the table in the future.

00:50:33.000 I think it's very difficult to see a time when somebody actually gets impeached, unless it's a Republican.

00:50:38.000 It's possible a Republican could get impeached, but Republicans are too wimpy to impeach Democrats.

00:50:42.000 Obama has committed impeachable offense half a dozen times here.

00:50:50.000 My family is deliberating on the issue, since my friend's daughter developed a pretty severe form of autoimmune disease after the vaccination.

00:50:56.000 On the other hand, no school in California will accept your kid without immunization records.

00:51:00.000 Thank you so much for keeping your daily podcast interesting and entertaining.

00:51:03.000 God bless.

00:51:04.000 Okay, so my feeling, I'm a very, very, very strong proponent of vaccination.

00:51:08.000 Anecdotal evidence that suggests that people who get vaccinations get autism, there's no evidence on a statistical level to back any of that.

00:51:16.000 There's always anecdotal evidence to back everything,

00:51:18.000 Which is why you see people who still rely on holistic medicine, even though there's no scientific basis for it.

00:51:23.000 Try curing yourself with herbs, you'll probably die.

00:51:25.000 Try curing yourself with an antibiotic, you'll probably do a lot better.

00:51:29.000 Vaccinations are extraordinarily important, and it's actually a place where I do think the government has a role.

00:51:34.000 The reason government has a role is because government is there to tamp down what we call externalities, right?

00:51:39.000 I get to wave my hand around unless you're standing right here, and if I hit you in the face, I've done something wrong.

00:51:44.000 Your failure to get a vaccination means that my kid, who's too young to get a vaccination, can get your disease.

00:51:50.000 Or a pregnant woman who can't get vaccinated could get your disease.

00:51:52.000 Or somebody with cancer could get your disease.

00:51:54.000 You do have a responsibility to get a vaccination.

00:51:57.000 It's why herd immunity is important.

00:52:00.000 Jacob writes, Hi Ben.

00:52:01.000 As a Polish guy wildly in love with the ideas of American conservatism, how worried about a Trump presidency should I really be?

00:52:07.000 Is a Trump-led pivot to abandon Central and Eastern European allies at all possible?

00:52:11.000 Would the GOP try to counteract it in any way?

00:52:13.000 The missus and I are both great fans of yours and of Clavin's.

00:52:16.000 Well, you have great taste, at least half great taste.

00:52:19.000 Okay, so how would the GOP counteract Trump's foreign policy?

00:52:23.000 This is one of the areas that's a little scary about the presidency.

00:52:26.000 The commander in chief has ultimate power over foreign affairs.

00:52:29.000 The Congress has very little say over it.

00:52:31.000 And that's where Trump could do a lot of damage.

00:52:33.000 Hillary's already done an enormous amount of damage there.

00:52:35.000 So it's very difficult to stop a president hell bent on ruining our foreign policy as Congress has shown, right?

00:52:41.000 They couldn't even stop Obama's crappy Iran deal.

00:52:43.000 Andrew writes, do you have any upcoming debates scheduled?

00:52:46.000 I don't at the moment.

00:52:46.000 I know there's some people trying to book some.

00:52:48.000 Honestly, the biggest problem we have is finding leftists who are willing to debate me.

00:52:52.000 I'm willing to pretty much debate anybody.

00:52:54.000 The left always has problems debating me.

00:52:56.000 Maybe they watch the Thug Life videos and see that's probably not a good idea.

00:53:00.000 Simi writes, hi, Lindsay, you have the greatest laugh.

00:53:02.000 Also, you're an awesome mailbags creator.

00:53:04.000 OK, so I get the pattern.

00:53:05.000 So if you say something nice about Lindsay, you get in the mailbag, guys.

00:53:08.000 Hi, Ben, love the show.

00:53:09.000 Great coverage of the Freak Shows in Cleveland and Philly.

00:53:11.000 Can you please invite Sank Ugyar for a debate on the show?

00:53:14.000 He's disgusting and there needs to be a video of you owning him.

00:53:18.000 Well, I'm happy to host Sank Ugyar.

00:53:22.000 I don't pay a lot of attention to him because usually what I see is him screaming a lot of people and I don't find that.

00:53:28.000 But he's sort of like left-wing Alex Jones.

00:53:29.000 I don't see screaming at people as a real solution to the world's problems.

00:53:33.000 If you want to see something really funny, actually,

00:53:35.000 My friend Steven Crowder just made a video where he plays Sank Ungar, and it's really, really funny.

00:53:40.000 He had me call in for a bit, and it's pretty hilarious.

00:53:43.000 Joe writes, hey Ben, I have two questions for you.

00:53:45.000 If you could pick anyone to be president, who would you choose?

00:53:48.000 Second, my mom was telling me about an incident where air traffic controllers were on strike and President Reagan forced them to go back to war.

00:53:53.000 Could you explain what happened?

00:53:54.000 Okay, and the first one, if I could choose anyone to be president in the United States, I've said this before, I think Thomas Sowell would make a fantastic president.

00:54:01.000 He's considered, he's thoughtful, and he really knows policy and economics.

00:54:05.000 And he knows morality, too.

00:54:07.000 As far as air traffic controllers on strike, the basic history there is that very early in his presidency, the Air Traffic Controllers Union decided they weren't getting enough pay, so they decided to strike.

00:54:18.000 President Reagan, instead of shutting down all air traffic and caving to them, he fired all of them and brought in scabs.

00:54:23.000 And then they caved and then they came back.

00:54:24.000 That's the basic story there.

00:54:26.000 Jacob writes, liberals in the media often cite the 2008 recession as evidence of the failure of the free market.

00:54:30.000 To what extent was the 2008 recession a government failure?

00:54:33.000 To what extent was it a failure of the free market?

00:54:36.000 Okay, so my feeling is that it was entirely a failure of the government.

00:54:41.000 The free market plays a role because the way that the free market works is that it's profit-seeking.

00:54:45.000 Once government is involved at all, you've tainted the ad mixture.

00:54:49.000 Once you've dumped, I mean, it's basically, think of the economy like a soup.

00:54:53.000 Once you take a little bit of arsenic and pour it in the soup, the entire soup is poisoned.

00:54:56.000 That's true about government involvement in the economy.

00:54:58.000 Once you've got the government perverting the incentive structure, then what you're going to get is a lot of people competing for that government dollar.

00:55:04.000 That's what happened in the mortgage market.

00:55:06.000 The government basically said, we'll back lots of mortgages at very low rates, so long as you give them to black and Hispanic people, and you make sure that those people get the loans regardless of their credit histories and their ability to repay.

00:55:19.000 That's been a disaster, of course, because everybody basically defaulted.

00:55:22.000 And then the government steps in and says, ah, the free market failed.

00:55:25.000 This is my problem with the economic philosophy known as corporatism.

00:55:28.000 That philosophy says that the government has to be involved in greasing the wheels when it comes to the economy.

00:55:33.000 The government cannot do that.

00:55:34.000 All that the government is capable of doing is screwing things up, screwing up the incentive structure, making sure that dollars aren't spent where they're most efficient.

00:55:42.000 Instead, dollars are spent where the government thinks they ought to be spent.

00:55:45.000 And then you have a lot of people running after those dollars because everybody is self-interested.

00:55:49.000 Self-interest in capitalism, self-interest in free markets are not the same thing.

00:55:53.000 Free markets are markets in which there is no government intervention.

00:55:57.000 Okay, folks, well, that brings us to the end of the week.

00:55:59.000 Hillary Clinton is supposed to speak tonight, so make sure that you stock up on cotton for your ears and bleach for your eyes, because it will be a hell of a show.

00:56:06.000 We'll be back next week.

00:56:08.000 Don't ruin things while I'm gone.

00:56:09.000 I mean, you keep ruining it every weekend, but try not to ruin things while I'm gone.

00:56:12.000 We'll be back, and hopefully we'll talk a little bit about this lecture I'm giving in D.C.

00:56:16.000 at Young America's Foundation.

00:56:17.000 It's wonderful to see you guys, and we'll see y'all next week.

00:56:19.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:56:20.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Ep. 158 - Arrogant Obama Tries To Hand Off To Nasty Hillary

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