The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 16 - Debate Preview and Obama's War on Police

00:00:00.000 Even as President Obama claims that his anti-police policies have not increased risk to police officer around the nation, new stats revealed yesterday show that's just not the case.

00:00:11.000 According to Obama's own Justice Department, his DOJ, quote, surprise assaults, that's what they're calling them, ambush assaults on police skyrocketed 25% in the period 2008 to 2013 over the 10-year period preceding Obama's administration.

00:00:27.000 Ronald Davis is the Director of Community-Oriented Policing at the Justice Department, and he told the LA Times, quote, Yeah, you would think.

00:00:34.000 And just yesterday, the head of the FBI admitted that cell phone footage targeting cops had created an upswing in violence against the cops.

00:00:50.000 The White House, of course, quickly said this wasn't the case because why would it make people attack cops if there are all sorts of videos that are targeting cops around?

00:00:57.000 I mean, it's not like other videos have ever caused violence, like YouTube videos causing terrorist attacks or anything.

00:01:03.000 The White House continues to push policies, meanwhile, that do nothing to reduce violence in communities or against police.

00:01:09.000 The Department of Justice study found that community policing accomplished little, actually almost nothing, in terms of reducing ambushes against police.

00:01:17.000 Actually, it slightly increased risk

00:01:19.000 To have more cops on the ground in areas with high crime, hanging out with the people, and living in the communities, this has always been the leftist ideal for policing.

00:01:26.000 They just have to be part of the community, they can't be outsiders.

00:01:29.000 Turns out, when they're not outsiders, they get shot more often.

00:01:32.000 Well, naturally, the DOJ immediately dismissed this finding, because when statistics show that your theory is stupid, you just get rid of the statistics.

00:01:40.000 So, here's what the DOJ actually wrote.

00:01:43.000 Quote,

00:01:44.000 It is not within the realm of any plausible theory that community-oriented policing is a contributing factor to violence against the police.

00:01:51.000 It's just not plausible.

00:01:52.000 It doesn't matter what the statistics say.

00:01:53.000 It doesn't matter what the data say.

00:01:54.000 It's just not—they can't even think how this could possibly be.

00:01:58.000 This is utter and total insanity.

00:02:01.000 According to Barack Obama and the rest of the left, the police cannot be trusted.

00:02:05.000 And they proclaim that, loudly and proudly, to criminals over and over and over.

00:02:09.000 We'll talk about that in just a little while.

00:02:11.000 Then, they're shocked that more police presence in crime-ridden communities ends up with more dead cops.

00:02:17.000 Just days ago, President Obama once again legitimized the racist, violence-defending Black Lives Matter movement.

00:02:22.000 He said, quote, This is true.

00:02:24.000 But then...

00:02:33.000 His face continued moving, and he said, quote, We, as a society, particularly given our history, have to take Black Lives Matter complaints seriously.

00:02:41.000 The African American community is not just making this up. 0.56

00:02:44.000 This, of course, being police racism and brutality.

00:02:48.000 But.

00:02:49.000 As we know, in Ferguson, Missouri, or Baltimore, Maryland, black leaders did make up evidence-less stories. 0.96

00:02:55.000 They did that with Sandra Bland in Texas, the lady who committed suicide.

00:02:58.000 They said it was murder.

00:02:59.000 Tamir Rice in Cleveland.

00:03:00.000 They said the police left this 12-year-old kid to bleed out on the street without emergency response.

00:03:05.000 That wasn't true.

00:03:05.000 They did it with Eric Garner in New York City, where they said that the police had choked him to death.

00:03:09.000 He died of a heart attack.

00:03:10.000 Or Ezell Ford in Los Angeles.

00:03:11.000 They said police shot a mentally ill man for no reason, even though tape showed that Ezell Ford went for the cop's gun.

00:03:18.000 Members of the black community sometimes do make stories up just like members of every other community. 0.99

00:03:22.000 Cops are often prosecuted based on those stories and then they're released when the stories turn out not to be true.

00:03:27.000 And then the President of the United States revives those false complaints without providing any solutions.

00:03:33.000 Is it any wonder more cops are getting shot these days?

00:03:36.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:03:37.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:03:44.000 So, folks, here we are.

00:03:45.000 It's the day of the Republican presidential debate, third Republican presidential debate.

00:03:49.000 I don't want to talk about it too much, because by the time you watch this, the debate may very well be going on, and Donald Trump may have set his hair on fire, or Ben Carson may have decided that he's just bored with all of this and started singing to himself, or John Kasich may have actually just eaten a landmine and gone up in a puff of glory.

00:04:08.000 I will briefly say that there are a few questions that do have to be answered in this third presidential debate.

00:04:13.000 And this will still be relevant tomorrow when you watch this, and you'll know whether or not these questions were answered.

00:04:18.000 I'll say that the big question going into the third presidential debate is, can Donald Trump rebound?

00:04:22.000 Because right now, Ben Carson is suddenly leading by double digits in Iowa.

00:04:26.000 Suddenly, Ben Carson in the CBS New York Times poll, at least, is leading by four over Donald Trump nationally.

00:04:32.000 That is within the margin of error, but he is leading.

00:04:35.000 And so,

00:04:36.000 It'll have to be answered whether Donald Trump is capable of winning a race that he's not winning the whole time.

00:04:41.000 Donald Trump is sort of the Charlie Sheen of politics.

00:04:43.000 He always has to be hashtag winning, and if he isn't hashtag winning, then he's hashtag losing.

00:04:48.000 And the question is, can he bounce back?

00:04:49.000 Bounce back is not Trump's big thing, right?

00:04:52.000 Being the frontrunner is Trump's big thing, and that's why he spent most of today leading up to the debate talking about how the debate was going to be unfair, and how it was going to be stacked against him, and how the polls weren't true, and all the rest of this sort of thing, because

00:05:04.000 If Donald Trump were to say, yeah, you know, the polls are what the polls are, and here are my policies, we'd actually have to listen to his policies.

00:05:10.000 The tacit promise of the Trump campaign is, I win at everything, make me president, and America will win at everything.

00:05:18.000 That only works so long as you're winning at everything.

00:05:20.000 The moment you start to trail in the polls, then the God bleeds, as we said yesterday, and you got a problem on your hands.

00:05:25.000 That's question number one that's going to be answered.

00:05:27.000 Can Trump bounce back?

00:05:28.000 In order to do that, Trump is actually going to have to

00:05:31.000 Sort of limit himself.

00:05:32.000 If he's too aggressive, then he's going to look as though he's getting desperate, which is the last thing that he wants because Trump desperate looks very much like Trump not desperate, but people will assume that he is desperate and only doing this because he's fallen behind.

00:05:48.000 In the debate, I would suggest that he's going to get hit with a lot of questions because suddenly he's the frontrunner.

00:05:54.000 Carson is not the most fluid guy on his feet, particularly on economic policy.

00:05:58.000 He'll stick to basics, I think.

00:05:59.000 He'll talk about flat tax, but when it comes to actual policy discussion, Ben Carson is not

00:06:06.000 The most fluid or fluent guy.

00:06:08.000 And will that have an impact as the debate moves forward?

00:06:11.000 It may have some.

00:06:12.000 I don't think it'll have a major impact.

00:06:13.000 People tend to like rough-hewn right now in politics.

00:06:15.000 They're sick of the prepared answers of somebody like a Carly Fiorina. 1.00

00:06:21.000 You could see Carson fade a little bit, which is why I'm suggesting that Trump sort of hold himself back.

00:06:25.000 Although self-control, subtlety in Donald Trump, these things have never met at any point.

00:06:30.000 Trump should attempt to get mildly acquainted.

00:06:33.000 The other question that has to be answered tonight is whether this is Marco Rubio's big chance.

00:06:37.000 I think that Rubio

00:06:38.000 is seen by most people as the presumptive frontrunner even though he is not letting single pole all the way through he's the most quote-unquote legit guy in the top four and that means that people are saying that if their Jeb Bush drops out Marco Rubio will take his place at the front of the polls

00:06:54.000 Tonight, I would assume that Rubio will get hit from a number of angles.

00:06:57.000 If that happens, he's a good counterpuncher.

00:06:59.000 The problem is Republicans don't need a counterpuncher in the general election.

00:07:03.000 They need a knockout artist. 1.00

00:07:04.000 For people who are fans of boxing, I'm a fan of boxing, there's a difference between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

00:07:09.000 Floyd Mayweather may beat Manny Pacquiao, but Floyd Mayweather can't beat Floyd Mayweather.

00:07:13.000 Floyd Mayweather's a defensive boxer.

00:07:15.000 It means that he never really gets hit hard.

00:07:17.000 That's Marco Rubio.

00:07:18.000 He's never going to be able to be hit hard because he's very smooth.

00:07:21.000 He sticks, he moves, but he also doesn't throw a real hard right.

00:07:24.000 And because Marco Rubio doesn't throw a hard right, it's going to be very difficult for him to defeat somebody like Hillary Clinton, who is by nature both aggressive and a counter puncher.

00:07:32.000 So you actually need somebody who will be aggressive with Hillary Clinton.

00:07:34.000 I'm not sure Rubio does that.

00:07:36.000 And then the question becomes, can Jeb Bush do anything tonight?

00:07:39.000 The answer is no, Jeb Bush is toast.

00:07:41.000 He's finished.

00:07:42.000 It doesn't matter what he does tonight.

00:07:43.000 Jeb Bush could go on stage tonight and he could rip a beer can open with his teeth

00:07:49.000 And he could shoot a shotgun in the air and everybody would still say he's a milquetoast who has no place in this race.

00:07:56.000 I think that one of the people most likely to get out is actually Carly Fiorina. 1.00

00:08:00.000 Fiorina has no place to go. 0.89

00:08:01.000 None.

00:08:02.000 She did as well as she could possibly do in debate number two.

00:08:05.000 She was at 15% for a day, and now she's back down at 4%.

00:08:08.000 Everybody expects her to be great at debate, and even if she is, she's not gonna gain anything.

00:08:12.000 That means she has no place to go but down. 0.56

00:08:14.000 So there's my quick debate preview for those of you who are watching this just before or as the debate's going on.

00:08:19.000 And as you know, tomorrow, obviously, we'll recapitulate what happened in the Republican debate.

00:08:25.000 Meanwhile, the President of the United States is taking care of really important business.

00:08:28.000 He did a couple of things yesterday that were noteworthy.

00:08:31.000 First thing he did is he had the U.S.

00:08:32.000 Women's National Soccer Team to the White House.

00:08:35.000 And I have to say, I'm not a soccer fan.

00:08:37.000 Soccer is not American. 0.78

00:08:39.000 Soccer is a silly game.

00:08:42.000 People call it poverty ball.

00:08:44.000 That's because it doesn't require any sort of

00:08:47.000 Equipment.

00:08:48.000 I mean, it's not hockey.

00:08:49.000 Hockey is for rich people.

00:08:50.000 Soccer is for poor people. 0.99

00:08:51.000 It's a, it's a, all you need is basically a ball that could be made out of anything, and a couple of old Coke cans, and you've got the goal.

00:08:56.000 So, it's, it's, it's a silly game.

00:08:59.000 It's, it's really dumb, and we all pretend to care about it, and then we double pretend to care about it when it's the women's national soccer team.

00:09:04.000 That's when we super pretend to care about it.

00:09:06.000 Like, we're into women's soccer for five seconds, and it's during the Women's World Cup, which we don't care about in any way, shape, or form, but Brandi Chastain, one time, she took off her shirt after she scored a girl, a goal, and everybody was like, woo! 0.94

00:09:18.000 And then everybody's into soccer, women's soccer every four years, and then they tried to start a women's soccer league, and that's been about as successful as the WNBA.

00:09:25.000 There just aren't enough lesbians in the United States to sustain interest in women's soccer. 1.00

00:09:30.000 There's a difference between girls' soccer, watching your daughter play soccer, and watching women's soccer. 1.00

00:09:33.000 I'll watch my daughter do just about anything. 0.98

00:09:35.000 She's awesome. 0.83

00:09:36.000 But I will not watch her when she's grown up if she's a professional soccer player. 0.99

00:09:39.000 She'll have to find an actual job. 1.00

00:09:41.000 So, Obama has the Women's National Soccer Team to the White House and we all pretend to care.

00:09:46.000 Yay, America, we're super patriotic.

00:09:48.000 I love when the left pretends that they care about America and they're patriotic.

00:09:51.000 Not true in war, but true during the Women's World Cup. 0.89

00:09:54.000 So Obama has the Women's National Soccer Team to the White House and here is President Obama gushing about the Women's National Soccer Team.

00:10:03.000 This team taught all America's children

00:10:06.000 That playing like a girl means you're a badass. 0.99

00:10:29.000 A girl, like with other girls. 0.98

00:10:30.000 They weren't playing the men's national soccer team.

00:10:32.000 It's kind of annoying.

00:10:33.000 I'm an ESPN watcher, which is becoming harder and harder these days.

00:10:37.000 ESPN has been dumping employees.

00:10:39.000 They've been losing ratings.

00:10:40.000 Part of that is they've become so wildly political.

00:10:42.000 Yesterday on the show, we played you Tony Kornheiser, who's on ESPN, saying that the Tea Party is like ISIS.

00:10:48.000 They've moved way to the left.

00:10:49.000 Well, one of the headlines yesterday is that Abby Wambach, who's a 0.53

00:10:53.000 And I thought to myself, whoa, hold on a second.

00:10:55.000 Okay, she was playing against women. 1.00

00:10:56.000 Okay, that's like saying that I am the leading scorer of all time in my Jewish basketball league.

00:11:20.000 Okay, like, it may very well be true, but then if you add in parentheses, in my Jewish Basketball League, and also any other league, that would sort of imply I'm better than LeBron James.

00:11:29.000 Okay, the Jewish Basketball League.

00:11:30.000 Turns out, not the NBA.

00:11:32.000 They're like, no Jew- I think there's one Jew in all of the NBA, and he's Israeli. 0.93

00:11:37.000 His name is Omri Cosby.

00:11:38.000 He plays for the Sacramento Kings.

00:11:40.000 The idiocy of girls are just as good as boys at sports. 1.00

00:11:46.000 Girls can be great at sports. 0.99

00:11:47.000 It's wonderful.

00:11:49.000 Honestly, I want my daughter to play sports.

00:11:50.000 This is all good.

00:11:51.000 But this idea that girls have to feel inferior if we tell them the truth, which is that girls, as a general matter, are not as good at sports as men because men have greater upper body strength and also greater lower body strength and also are stronger and made larger because of sexual dimorphism.

00:12:06.000 I mean, I'm sorry, but truth is truth, and you're just setting people up for a fall, because I promise you that when you tell your little girl you're just as good as the boys, and even if you're a great pitcher, like Monet Davis, right?

00:12:17.000 You played in the Little League World Series, and you're this girl, and I don't throw like a girl, I throw like a boy.

00:12:22.000 I throw like anybody else.

00:12:23.000 First of all, okay, study.

00:12:25.000 Time for some science, folks.

00:12:26.000 And I know science annoys people on the left, because science tends not to agree with them.

00:12:30.000 Here's a quick quiz question.

00:12:33.000 There's a woman, average woman, 1.00

00:12:35.000 And you can pick 1,000 men off the street.

00:12:38.000 1,000 men off the street.

00:12:39.000 This woman will throw slower than how many of those 1,000 men? 1.00

00:12:43.000 Any guesses?

00:12:44.000 This is an actual study.

00:12:46.000 Average woman versus 1,000 men.

00:12:48.000 How many of those men will throw slower than the woman? 1.00

00:12:51.000 Out of 1,000.

00:12:52.000 The answer is two.

00:12:54.000 Right?

00:12:54.000 And they both throw like Barack Obama.

00:12:55.000 Because Barack Obama, who says that girls play like badasses, and girls being great at athletics, shows you what it means to be a badass.

00:13:01.000 I assume that's why Barack Obama throws like a girl. 0.97

00:13:04.000 Because as you remember, in the All-Star Game, this is President Obama throwing out the first pitch.

00:13:09.000 Check out this motion.

00:13:13.000 Doink.

00:13:15.000 He short arms the throw.

00:13:16.000 He throws like my wife. 0.99

00:13:18.000 And the fact is that if you ever put that back-to-back with George W. Bush throwing a pitch, this is not a referendum on masculinity, although I have a feeling that George W. Bush is somewhat more masculine than Barack Obama in a variety of ways.

00:13:31.000 The fact that, you know, this is... I'm gonna hear from him about what it means to be an athletic badass.

00:13:37.000 I mean, the guy doinked the pitch.

00:13:38.000 He's not even throwing from the rubber.

00:13:40.000 He's throwing from the front of the mound, basically.

00:13:42.000 And he still doinks the pitch.

00:13:43.000 What was funny about that, Obama's so vain, people don't remember this.

00:13:46.000 During that All-Star game...

00:13:48.000 When Obama threw that pitch and it bounced in front of the plate.

00:13:51.000 If you remember, the camera angle on Obama was not the camera angle that we just showed, which shows the entire pitch.

00:13:58.000 It shows Obama winding up and throwing and doinking the pitch in front of the plate.

00:14:02.000 The camera angle was an upshot of Obama close up, right?

00:14:05.000 Like no pitch you've ever seen.

00:14:07.000 That's because the White House insisted

00:14:09.000 I don't know.

00:14:26.000 Women do not play like men. 0.99

00:14:29.000 Whenever you discuss these issues, people always say, oh, well, don't you remember Billie Jean King?

00:14:35.000 And she played against a guy named Riggs, Bobby Riggs.

00:14:38.000 And they had the battle of the sexes. 0.55

00:14:40.000 Right.

00:14:40.000 Bobby Riggs was 50 years old, and he threw the match.

00:14:42.000 And Billie Jean King was a Wimbledon winner.

00:14:44.000 And he still almost beat her.

00:14:46.000 And he was trying to lose.

00:14:47.000 So, I mean, come on.

00:14:49.000 Proof is in the pudding, okay?

00:14:50.000 Rene Richards was a non-ranked male player, had a sex change, and became a top 10 female player immediately.

00:14:57.000 There's a reason that Ronda Rousey, who's a terrific female fighter, will not fight Fallon Fox, who is a male-to-female transgender, because Fallon Fox is built and looks like a dude. 1.00

00:15:07.000 Every so often we have to have these sort of truth checks, and it's important to do these because the President of the United States participates in lies on a regular basis.

00:15:14.000 Now, to his more serious lies.

00:15:16.000 When he wasn't

00:15:17.000 Talking about how important women's national soccer was to all girls of all ages.

00:15:23.000 He was talking about how the cops are all terrible and horrible.

00:15:27.000 He can't understand, by the way, why people have bad feelings about cops.

00:15:29.000 It's just, it's unthinkable.

00:15:31.000 Why should people have bad feelings about police officers?

00:15:34.000 The president of the United States yesterday in Chicago, he said, we all believe that cops are great people who do great things.

00:15:41.000 But, now rule of thumb, just general rule of thumb for life.

00:15:46.000 If somebody ever says a sentence, and then they say, but, nothing they said before the but matters.

00:15:51.000 Nothing they said before the but matters.

00:15:53.000 The but is where the sentence begins.

00:15:55.000 Right?

00:15:55.000 So if you actually say, if I'm talking with my wife, and I said, sweetheart, I'm sorry, but, the I'm sorry is completely irrelevant.

00:16:03.000 Or no offense, but, I'm about to say something super offensive to you, and you're going to take offense.

00:16:09.000 Right, this is always true.

00:16:10.000 So President Obama basically says, the cops are great, but, and here's the big but, as President Obama has said about his wife, he says this about racial profiling.

00:16:26.000 I confessed, I told Chief Beck, most of the time I got a ticket, I deserved it.

00:16:32.000 I knew why I was pulled over.

00:16:37.000 There were times where I didn't.

00:16:39.000 Can you pause for one second?

00:16:40.000 We're going to talk about President Obama and him being racially profiled.

00:16:43.000 He's said this before, and it's so stupid.

00:16:46.000 He's said before that he's been pulled over driving while black.

00:16:49.000 Michelle Obama, if you remember, she actually said recently that she went out as First Lady into the world and she was walking around a store alone.

00:16:58.000 Okay, which doesn't happen.

00:16:59.000 If you're First Lady, you have security at all times.

00:17:01.000 And she said that a woman asked her to take something down from a shelf, because Michelle Obama is 8 feet tall.

00:17:05.000 And this lady asked her to take down something from the shelf. 0.99

00:17:08.000 And Michelle Obama actually, she actually later said that was evidence of racism, when she asked an 8 foot tall white woman to take something down off the shelf. 1.00

00:17:16.000 Which is a couple years earlier on Letterman.

00:17:18.000 She had talked about that exact same incident, but she had said it was charming the lady asked her to take something off the shelf because she didn't recognize her.

00:17:24.000 President Obama here, he says that he's been driving many times and he's been pulled over for no reason and it must be because he was black.

00:17:30.000 Okay, I'm gonna channel Adam Carolla here for a second.

00:17:33.000 It turns out sometimes cops are just jerks.

00:17:36.000 I've been pulled over probably more than most black people in the United States.

00:17:40.000 I have more traffic tickets than pretty much anyone.

00:17:42.000 The last couple of years I haven't had anybody because I got caught at 113.

00:17:47.000 Caught at 113.

00:17:47.000 I wasn't going 113.

00:17:50.000 Just before they caught me at 113, I was going 128 in a Honda Accord down the I-5 from Sacramento to Los Angeles.

00:17:57.000 I was doing NASCAR driving in a Honda Accord, which is ridiculous, because I own a Mustang GT convertible V8.

00:18:05.000 But if you're going to pick a car to speed in, I figured, OK, go for the Honda Accord, which makes no sense.

00:18:09.000 But after that, I decided, after I had to actually travel back up to the middle of nowhere to have a judge yell at me, I decided I didn't want any more traffic tickets.

00:18:18.000 But I've been pulled over an enormous number of times.

00:18:20.000 And sometimes it's justified, like that time.

00:18:22.000 And sometimes it's because I'm over here on Hazeltine, and I'm going 42 in a 35 zone, and the cops have a speed trap because they want to collect money.

00:18:30.000 It turns out that lots of people get pulled over for lots of reasons.

00:18:33.000 And this idea that racial profiling of black- every black man has expressed racial profiling, you can't say that that's not happened to every black- I can say it's not- it has not happened to every black man.

00:18:42.000 It may have happened to some black people.

00:18:44.000 It may have.

00:18:45.000 Although that would require a crystal ball and a fair bit of mind reading.

00:18:48.000 But I can guarantee you it has not happened to every black person.

00:18:51.000 I'm getting kind of sick and tired of this routine that every black person has been victimized by the police and they're the only people victimized by police are black folks.

00:18:59.000 It's just not true.

00:19:01.000 And the fact is that when the President of the United States suggests that every black person has been victimized by the police, is he then so surprised that black people might have nasty feelings about police officers?

00:19:12.000 By the way, New Jersey, the perfect example, New Jersey, they had a study.

00:19:16.000 And the study was that officers were pulling over black people more often than white people.

00:19:21.000 So they did a second study to measure how fast black drivers were going. 0.93

00:19:25.000 It turned out that on average black drivers were driving 10 miles an hour fast, faster than their white counterparts. 0.95

00:19:31.000 And they were actually being pulled over at less than that rate.

00:19:33.000 So in other words, black people weren't being pulled over enough. 0.74

00:19:36.000 So it depends on where you're talking about, it depends on what the purpose of the pullover is, and you always have to check to make sure that you're comparing apples to apples because it turns out in some areas black people might be pulled over more than white people because they drive faster than white people. 0.65

00:19:49.000 And that probably has, not probably, it certainly has nothing to do with race, but it probably has to do more with income.

00:19:54.000 People tend to drive faster if they're lower income.

00:19:57.000 And ethnicity, unfortunately, tends to correlate with high income versus low income in certain areas of American life.

00:20:02.000 We'll continue with President Obama's idiotic take on how he was a victim of racism in his native Hawaii.

00:20:08.000 In Hawaii?

00:20:10.000 When was this supposed to have happened?

00:20:12.000 He was in New York.

00:20:12.000 He probably didn't have a car in New York.

00:20:14.000 No one has a car in New York.

00:20:14.000 He was going to Columbia, right?

00:20:16.000 No one has a car at Columbia University.

00:20:17.000 At Harvard Law School, I promise you didn't have a car.

00:20:19.000 I was at Harvard Law School.

00:20:20.000 No one has a car at Harvard Law School.

00:20:22.000 In fact, the administration tells you not to buy a car at Harvard Law School.

00:20:26.000 So unless he was getting pulled over in the south side of Chicago for being black, which I significantly doubt, he's talking about his brutal childhood racist experiences in Hawaii, where there are 10 white people.

00:20:38.000 So here's the president of the United States continuing along these lines.

00:20:44.000 And as a report that came out just this week reminded us, there are a lot of African Americans, not just me, who have that same kind of story of being pulled over or frisked or something.

00:20:59.000 And the data shows that this is not an aberration.

00:21:09.000 It doesn't mean each case is a problem.

00:21:12.000 It means that when you aggregate all the cases and you look at it, you've got to say that there's some racial bias.

00:21:18.000 In the system.

00:21:19.000 Okay, let's pause it for one second.

00:21:20.000 So, what he just said at the very end is so intensely stupid, I can't even begin to describe it.

00:21:26.000 He says, not every case is racial profiling, but in the aggregate, there's racial profiling.

00:21:31.000 What do you expect people to take from that, Mr. President?

00:21:34.000 What do you expect people to take from that?

00:21:36.000 Because you just said, what he said is, individually, all black people have had this experience.

00:21:41.000 And then he said, but not every individual case is racism, but in the aggregate, it's racism.

00:21:46.000 That's utterly nonsensical.

00:21:48.000 If you just said, in the aggregate, there is some evidence of racial bias...

00:21:53.000 Okay, maybe, although it depends on the data set that you're looking at and it depends on how broad and deep the data are.

00:22:00.000 But if you preface that statement with a full explanation about how you personally were pulled over for driving while black, nobody's gonna hear that every incident isn't a driving while black incident.

00:22:11.000 And by the way, if you're not gonna cite statistics, then at least wouldn't it be good if the president said, okay, as a rule of thumb, 95% of pullovers are not racially biased and 5% are.

00:22:21.000 Wouldn't that be useful?

00:22:22.000 But the way that he says this, you would assume, because he just said it, that virtually all pullovers are racially biased, and the only ones that aren't are aberrations.

00:22:30.000 Right?

00:22:31.000 Those are the aberrations.

00:22:32.000 He said it's not an aberration to have a racially biased stop.

00:22:35.000 That's not an aberration.

00:22:37.000 Meaning that it is an aberration for the police officer to do his job without being a racist.

00:22:40.000 I can't imagine why black folks are getting a bad impression of police with leadership like this. 0.86

00:22:45.000 And then Obama continues jibber-jabbering with this mouth of his.

00:22:50.000 Now, problems of racial justice or injustice have been running themes throughout this country's history in every institution.

00:22:58.000 In every institution.

00:23:01.000 And, by the way, bias and stereotypes oftentimes go both ways.

00:23:09.000 So eliminating bias is not something that falls on the police alone.

00:23:16.000 The good news is our divides are not as deep as some would like to suggest.

00:23:20.000 Okay, cut off this idiot. 0.62

00:23:21.000 So he says there at the very end, it's so funny because what he'll do is he'll say something as egregious as basically all the police are racist and then he tries to buy it back because there's racism on both sides.

00:23:31.000 And he says that bias exists on both sides and there are things that we can do about it.

00:23:35.000 And then he proceeds to suggest zero things that can be done by black people about bias against, for example, white officers.

00:23:42.000 The rest of the speech is about how the police officers are terrible.

00:23:45.000 Okay, if we're going to talk about leading threats to young black men in America today, police officers are about number 97.

00:23:52.000 The number one threat to young black men growing up in America today is other young black men, statistically speaking. 1.00

00:23:58.000 Statistically speaking, the leading obstacle to a young black man growing up to be an old black man is another young black man killing that young black man. 0.66

00:24:06.000 It's sad, and it's tragic, and it has nothing to do with the police.

00:24:10.000 But the President of the United States has to push this racial narrative because he's a politician first and he's a leftist first.

00:24:16.000 And his leftism means that he will even allow and promulgate black suffering in order to push the idea that we have to overthrow law and order on behalf of a faux racial equality that 0.95

00:24:30.000 Already exists.

00:24:31.000 I mean, the fact is that we are already treated as equals before the law by every available statistic.

00:24:35.000 But the President of the United States wants to make it seem unequal so that he can be the leader against his own government.

00:24:40.000 And that's what's truly amazing.

00:24:42.000 He's the President of the United States.

00:24:44.000 The President of the United States.

00:24:45.000 It doesn't even matter that he's a black man.

00:24:47.000 He's the President of the United States and he's standing there talking about how corrupt the system is.

00:24:51.000 And his Department of Justice runs it.

00:24:52.000 And his Department of Justice is going after police departments.

00:24:56.000 It's just, it's nonsensical and demonstrates how cynical politics has become.

00:25:01.000 And that wasn't the only cynical thing President Obama said yesterday.

00:25:04.000 President Obama also decided to talk about guns.

00:25:07.000 So here's the thing about President Obama that's truly amazing.

00:25:10.000 When he entered office, I didn't think the country could spiral this quickly.

00:25:12.000 I'll be honest, I really did not think the country could spiral in this direction nearly this quickly.

00:25:17.000 When he entered office in 2008, I was, let's see,

00:25:21.000 24 years old.

00:25:23.000 I'm now 31 years old.

00:25:25.000 And I did not think in the course of seven years that the President of the United States could take the country down this dark a path this quickly.

00:25:32.000 And now he's accelerating.

00:25:33.000 Because in his second term... See, here's the thing about lame duck sessions, folks.

00:25:37.000 Dictators do not have lame duck sessions.

00:25:39.000 Right?

00:25:40.000 Dictators don't care. 1.00

00:25:41.000 And President Obama is basically an elected dictator.

00:25:43.000 So, he's been talking a lot about gun confiscation.

00:25:46.000 But President Obama does what leftists always do.

00:25:48.000 He lies about what his ultimate agenda is.

00:25:51.000 Because if leftists ever told you what their ultimate agenda was, everybody would shudder.

00:25:56.000 It's true of the police here, by the way.

00:25:57.000 If President Obama were ever to say, my ultimate agenda is to quash the capacity of the police to police crime in the name of racial equality, everybody would go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:26:06.000 We don't want more crime.

00:26:07.000 But the President of the United States plays it as though, no, no, no, we all love cops.

00:26:11.000 But...

00:26:13.000 But, when the President of the United States did the same thing with regard to guns yesterday, here is President Obama talking about firearms and it's all just, all this stuff about, all this stuff about people wanting to take away guns, just crazy talk.

00:26:26.000 It's just, it's all crazy.

00:26:26.000 It's just, you're all cuckoo in the head.

00:26:28.000 It's all nuts.

00:26:30.000 You know, if some of you, you know, are watching certain television stations or listening to certain radio programs, please do not believe this notion that somehow I'm out to take everybody's guns away

00:26:43.000 Every time a mass shooting happens, one of the saddest ironies is suddenly the purchase of firearms and ammunition jumps up because folks are scared into thinking that Obama's going to use this as an excuse to take away our Second Amendment rights.

00:27:00.000 Nobody's doing that.

00:27:02.000 We're talking about common sense measures to make sure criminals don't get them, to make sure background checks work.

00:27:10.000 President Obama, how do you know when President Obama is lying, his mouth is moving?

00:27:13.000 Okay, when the President of the United States says that we're all just crazy.

00:27:19.000 We're all just crazy for going out and stockpiling ammo and guns every time there's a mass shooting.

00:27:23.000 First of all, there are two reasons that people do this.

00:27:25.000 The first reason is the reason that I bought a handgun after the Charlie Hebdo shooting in France.

00:27:29.000 And that is, if somebody is to come after me, I would like the capacity to shoot them.

00:27:35.000 In Israel, by the way, they've seen a huge run on guns since knife attacks started on the Jews, and this is because people would like to actually have the capacity for self-defense.

00:27:43.000 But he's right.

00:27:44.000 One of the reasons the gun sales spike every time there's a mass shooting is because he won't shut his face.

00:27:48.000 Because President Obama, every time there's a mass shooting, he does exactly what politicians in Australia and Britain did, which is he says, we need to take all the guns.

00:27:57.000 You know, President Obama, he said, I just want common sense gun measures.

00:28:00.000 Really, Mr. President, what would those be?

00:28:03.000 What would the common-sense gun measures be that would stop mass shootings?

00:28:06.000 Whenever your leftist friends, and you shouldn't have leftist friends, folks, because they're bad people, but if you do have leftist friends, because you haven't taken my advice yet, please, next time your leftist friend says common-sense gun measures to stop mass shootings, ask them, what is the measure?

00:28:22.000 What is it?

00:28:23.000 And the answer is they don't have one.

00:28:24.000 Because the vast majority of gun measures that they want to take to stop mass shootings don't deal with handguns, right?

00:28:31.000 They always talk about assault weapons.

00:28:32.000 Assault weapons are rarely used in mass shootings.

00:28:35.000 They talk also about how they want to have background checks.

00:28:39.000 The case in multiple of these mass shootings has had nothing to do with a background check.

00:28:44.000 In many cases, the gun is acquired illegally.

00:28:46.000 What President Obama does want is gun confiscation, and he's just a liar, and he won't admit it.

00:28:51.000 Another rule of thumb.

00:28:52.000 Today is the day of rule of thumbs.

00:28:53.000 Here's another rule of thumb for you when dealing with the left.

00:28:56.000 So our first rule of thumb for the day here on The Ben Shapiro Show, lesson one was, if someone has a sentence with the word but in it, nothing preceding the but matters.

00:29:04.000 The second rule of the day here on The Ben Shapiro Show is that the left will never tell you their ultimate goal.

00:29:10.000 They will instead tell you that they just want small incremental change.

00:29:14.000 And you can see it in every issue, every area of American life.

00:29:17.000 The perfect example, of course, is same-sex marriage. 0.97

00:29:20.000 You remember back to a time, this is during my lifetime, when the homosexual community said, all we want is to be left alone.

00:29:26.000 All we want is to not be prosecuted for having sex with each other.

00:29:30.000 And everybody went, okay, sounds reasonable, that's fine.

00:29:32.000 We haven't been doing that for decades in the country, but sure, sounds good.

00:29:36.000 And they said, well, I promise you, that's all.

00:29:38.000 You know, we understand that the institution of Western civilization is built on the bedrock of male-female relationships. 0.88

00:29:45.000 We're not going to do anything crazy like claim that male-male relationships are equally as valuable.

00:29:50.000 And then, within five years, there was a call for civil unions.

00:29:53.000 Well, you see, it's unreasonable if there are two men who are living together that they shouldn't have the same legal benefits as a man and a woman living together. 0.56

00:29:59.000 I mean, after all, we could sign a document with each other.

00:30:02.000 It's called a will, or we could sign a living trust, and we could do all the documentation.

00:30:05.000 We shouldn't have to do that, because that's discrimination.

00:30:08.000 But don't worry.

00:30:09.000 We will never want marriage, because we'll have all the legal benefits.

00:30:11.000 But we understand that marriage is a bedrock institution upon which Western civilization is based.

00:30:16.000 And then they say, well, no, marriage?

00:30:18.000 It turns out we want marriage, too.

00:30:20.000 We'd like for that to happen.

00:30:22.000 Because it's discrimination.

00:30:23.000 Even though we can't have kids, and even though marriage is built upon the foundation of having children, even though that's true, it's just discrimination because there are alternative forms of family.

00:30:31.000 But don't worry.

00:30:32.000 Don't worry.

00:30:33.000 It will never affect your life.

00:30:35.000 Your marriage will never be affected.

00:30:36.000 Nothing in your life will ever be affected.

00:30:38.000 Once we have gay marriage, we'll leave you alone. 1.00

00:30:41.000 But, it would be good if you have a bakery, and you're religious.

00:30:47.000 If we could force you to cater our gay wedding. 1.00

00:30:49.000 That would be awesome, if we could force you to cater our gay wedding. 1.00

00:30:52.000 But I promise you, that if you don't cater the gay wedding, it's not like we'll ever call for prosecution and jailing of you. 0.99

00:30:59.000 Except if we decide that that's really discrimination under the Civil Rights Act and we call for criminal violations and then we pass some civil rights laws that require you to be thrown in jail if you don't, in fact, serve us as we demand to be served.

00:31:11.000 It's always an evolution for the left.

00:31:13.000 If the left had said in 1988, not just, we don't want to be prosecuted for having sex with members of the same sex, but we want to prosecute you for not giving us

00:31:23.000 Service not because we're gay but because for participating in our gay orgy over here or a gay wedding over here We want to sue you for that because you would participate in a straight orgy or a straight wedding So no discrimination if they'd said that back in 1987 1988 everybody would have gone what?

00:31:38.000 Well, the same thing is happening now on guns.

00:31:40.000 The left always has to approach these issues incrementally.

00:31:43.000 So, President Obama is lying.

00:31:46.000 And he is.

00:31:46.000 He's lying.

00:31:47.000 If you got President Obama, I promise you, among a group of his friends, and you said to him, would it be a better country if guns just disappeared?

00:31:54.000 There are no guns.

00:31:55.000 Wouldn't it be a better country?

00:31:56.000 He would say yes.

00:31:58.000 Just the same way that if you ask President Obama, wouldn't it be better as a world?

00:32:02.000 If there were no genocide, but Israel just didn't exist, if it just never existed, wouldn't the world be a better place? 0.99

00:32:07.000 As a thought experiment, right?

00:32:08.000 No genocide, no killing, no bloodshed, no guilt, no shame.

00:32:11.000 Israel just doesn't exist. 0.82

00:32:13.000 Would the world be better off?

00:32:15.000 Obama would tell you yes, because he thinks that Israel is an obstacle to peace.

00:32:20.000 And the left always has utopian ideals, they just won't tell them to you.

00:32:23.000 Because the left is basically engaged in a very rudimentary dating strategy.

00:32:27.000 When you first date somebody, you don't let all your crazy out at once, right?

00:32:31.000 You appear calm and collected and cool, and then over time, your spouse gets to know you, and they realize, oh boy, what did I get myself into?

00:32:38.000 And by then it's too late, because they're locked in.

00:32:40.000 That's pretty much leftism in America.

00:32:42.000 They're dating us, but we'll only know that we've been screwed after we've been screwed, unfortunately.

00:32:48.000 Okay, and now I want to close with this here at the end of the Ben Shapiro show.

00:32:53.000 A couple of updates.

00:32:54.000 Number one, we talked yesterday about the South Carolina situation in which we showed you the video of the police officer

00:33:02.000 Who was called into the classroom to take an unruly black student out of the classroom. 0.98

00:33:07.000 The entire class is black.

00:33:08.000 The teacher's black.

00:33:09.000 The teacher comes in, he overturns the desk, or the officer comes in, overturns the desk, and he's called racist for doing this.

00:33:16.000 There's a new video that shows that the girl in question threw a punch at him for what that's worth, but she knows she's an innocent in all of this.

00:33:23.000 Also, it turns out that this racist, deeply racist police officer

00:33:26.000 It turns out that he is, in fact, dating a black girl.

00:33:29.000 So he is a massive racist.

00:33:31.000 Another one of these massive racists. 0.85

00:33:33.000 Another update.

00:33:34.000 John Kasich is going to be part of the debate tonight.

00:33:36.000 And John Kasich is my least favorite candidate in all the Republican field.

00:33:40.000 He's worse than George Pataki.

00:33:41.000 He's more irrelevant than Jim Gilmore.

00:33:43.000 He's a really, really ticked-off troll.

00:33:46.000 And John Kasich yesterday had this to say about Donald Trump and Ben Carson, and I think it's worthwhile playing this because if you want to know

00:33:53.000 Do you know how crazy this election is?

00:33:58.000 Let me tell you something.

00:34:03.000 I'm a bot-hatted with these people.

00:34:10.000 And let me tell you why.

00:34:11.000 We got one candidate that says that we ought to abolish Medicaid and Medicare.

00:34:17.000 You ever heard of anything so crazy as that?

00:34:19.000 Telling our people in this country who are seniors or about to be seniors that we're going to abolish Medicaid and Medicare?

00:34:27.000 We got one person saying we ought to have a 10% flat tax that will drive up the deficit in this country by trillions of dollars that my daughters will spend the rest of their lives having to pay off. 1.00

00:34:37.000 You know what I say to them is, why don't we have no taxes?

00:34:39.000 Just get rid of them all, and then a chicken in every pot on top of it. 0.97

00:34:43.000 We got one guy that says we ought to take 10 or 11 million people and pick them up.

00:34:49.000 I don't know where we're going to go.

00:34:51.000 In their homes?

00:34:51.000 Their apartments?

00:34:53.000 We're going to pick him up and we're going to take him to the border and scream at him to get out of our country?

00:34:58.000 That's just crazy!

00:35:00.000 That is just crazy!

00:35:02.000 We've got people proposing... So, that is what Hillary Clinton looks like without the makeup. 1.00

00:35:09.000 John Kasich going off, of course, on Ben Carson and Donald Trump.

00:35:12.000 I have heard something crazier than all the things he mentioned there.

00:35:14.000 I have heard a politician actually say that the pathway to heaven is bigger government.

00:35:18.000 That politician was John Kasich.

00:35:19.000 And finally, we finish on this note.

00:35:21.000 Nancy Pelosi has finally announced who she will support for President of the United States, and the answer is

00:35:27.000 Everybody.

00:35:28.000 So here's Nancy Pelosi announcing that everybody is just fabulous.

00:35:33.000 And forgive the fact that it sounds like she is wearing dentures.

00:35:36.000 It's because she's wearing dentures and she needs a little squirt of Polident to really make this work. 1.00

00:35:40.000 But she didn't have some on hand.

00:35:41.000 Here is Nancy Pelosi, the oldest living woman, talking about who she will endorse for the next election.

00:35:47.000 It would be fabulous to have a woman president. 1.00

00:35:50.000 You can't ask somebody to vote for somebody because of their gender.

00:35:53.000 But I think this is a very qualified person.

00:35:57.000 Who happens to be a woman. 1.00

00:35:58.000 Now, I haven't endorsed in the race.

00:36:00.000 Bernie Sanders was my colleague in the House.

00:36:02.000 We voted, you know, against DOMA, you know, against all of those things that people are subjecting to scrutiny now.

00:36:12.000 He's fabulous.

00:36:13.000 And he is a very important tonic for the country and for the Democratic Party because he has ideas.

00:36:20.000 You know, it's not just, let me criticize immigrants or something. 0.94

00:36:22.000 It's, he has ideas.

00:36:25.000 He's a thoughtful person.

00:36:27.000 And he has done a terrific, terrific job of drawing people in, and hopefully they'll be out next.

00:36:36.000 He might win the nomination.

00:36:37.000 I don't know that, because in terms of the demographics, of how popular she is in the minority community... Do you think it's possible that Bernie Sanders could win the nomination?

00:36:45.000 Well, you never know.

00:36:47.000 And I'm a big fan of Martin O'Malley's as well.

00:36:49.000 I think he's just fabulous.

00:36:50.000 You don't really think Martin O'Malley could win the nomination?

00:36:53.000 Everybody's fabulous.

00:36:55.000 Everyone is fabulous, including, by the way, she mentions Bernie Sanders there.

00:36:58.000 Bernie Sanders, quote from 1985, for all you people who are real enthused about Bernie Sanders out there, quote from 1985, Bernie Sanders, in 1961, America invaded Cuba and everyone was totally convinced Castro was the worst guy in the world.

00:37:11.000 All the Cuban people were going to rise up in rebellion against Castro.

00:37:14.000 They forgot.

00:37:15.000 He educated their kids, gave their kids health care, totally transformed society.

00:37:20.000 That guy is fabulous, according to Nancy Pelosi.

00:37:22.000 But don't worry.

00:37:23.000 The Republicans, as John Kasich says, were the ones who are totally crazy.

00:37:27.000 Well, have a good time at the debate tonight.

00:37:28.000 We'll be live blogging it over at Daily Wire, so make sure that you head over to dailywire.com to check out the live blog.

00:37:34.000 And we'll be back here on The Ben Shapiro Show tomorrow to recap all of the fun, all of the action, if, in fact, I survive two hours of this debate.

00:37:43.000 Oh, the sacrifices I make for you people.

00:37:45.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:37:46.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - October 28, 2015

Ep. 16 - Debate Preview and Obama's War on Police

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