The Ben Shapiro Show


Ep. 161 - Hillary Short-Circuits, Trump Falls Apart


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Ben Shapiro explains why nobody is watching the Olympics, and why it s time to throw nationalism out the window when it comes to international competition. He also explains why the opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro looked like an art project and why we don t care about the Olympics anymore. Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator and host of the conservative radio show "The Ben Shapiro Show" on the Fox Business Network. He's also a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard and has written for The Daily Wire, and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, The Huffington Post, and Rolling Stone. His new book, "The Dark Side Of," is out now, and it's available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. Click here to buy a copy of the book for only $99.99. It's available in Kindle, iBook, Paperback, Hardcover, and Audio Book format. If you don't have a Kindle device, you can get a free eReader edition of The New Yorker article on Amazon starting at $9.99, and also get 20% off your first purchase when you sign up for an Audible membership trial, which includes unlimited eReader access and access to all other Audible memberships, including Audible, iTunes, and Audible. Subscribe to the Audible and Pocketcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Rate, review, and subscribe to our new episodes on Apple Podcasts, and become a supporter of our new podcast, The Ben Shapiro's new podcast wherever else you get your favorite podcast listening to podcasts and streaming services are listening to your content. You get 10% off the price of an ad-free version of the show, plus a 20% discount when you shop using Audible or subscribe to my service, and a free copy of my new book recommendation, too! Thanks for listening to my podcast, Rate, rate, and review, review and subscribe on iTunes, review my podcasting, and more! I'm listening to the show on Podcharts, and I'll be giving you reviews on iTunes and review on Audible? in the future posts on my social media platforms will get a chance to hear my thoughts on the podcast on the show recommendations, and reviews on the future of the podcast, and so much more. Thank you for supporting the show and review I'm looking out for your comments and reviews, and you can be notified when I review the show gets a review?


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00:00:00.000 So, nobody's watching the Olympics.
00:00:01.000 According to Nielsen, the Rio Olympics opening ceremony dropped 28% from the London Olympics ceremony in 2012, and that wasn't an aberration.
00:00:09.000 The kickoff of Olympic competition earned 19.5 million viewers between 8 p.m.
00:00:13.000 and 11 p.m., which was a 32% drop from the London Olympics.
00:00:17.000 There are a bunch of reasons why the Olympics seem less interesting every single cycle.
00:00:21.000 First,
00:00:22.000 Nobody ever talks about the home country.
00:00:24.000 It would actually be interesting and worthwhile to critique why exactly there have been so many problems in recent Olympics, like dogs being killed on the streets in Sochi, Russia, or massive pollution in China and Brazil.
00:00:36.000 It'd be kind of interesting to know why the opening ceremonies at the Olympics this year look like a dystopian future filmed in 1970s Technicolor, sort of like the gang meetup in The Warriors would look like.
00:00:46.000 There's a reason behind that.
00:00:47.000 These countries are run as massive government dictatorships.
00:00:50.000 Brazil is a corrupt petrol oligarchy and oil oligarchy, and it's run like that.
00:00:54.000 But we never hear about that.
00:00:56.000 All we hear about is that Olympic kayakers are reportedly running into couches in the middle of their races.
00:01:00.000 Really, in the middle of the river, thanks to a trash buildup.
00:01:02.000 That actually apparently happened, which is awesome.
00:01:05.000 This makes the Olympics themselves seem trashy, rather than just the home countries.
00:01:09.000 Second,
00:01:10.000 The Unity of Nations gobbledygook.
00:01:11.000 While the Lebanese national athletes refuse to sit on the same bus as the Jews, the Olympics keep marketing themselves as a one-world organization, something along the lines of Disneyland's It's a Small World.
00:01:22.000 Except that what made the Olympics interesting in years past was the international rivalry.
00:01:27.000 If you watch Miracle and imagine that the U.S.
00:01:29.000 hockey team just played Finland and then skipped right over the Soviet Union, there wouldn't be anything there worth filming.
00:01:34.000 In a games with no villains, there really can't be any heroes.
00:01:37.000 Third, the media are super annoying.
00:01:39.000 First of all, they talk too much.
00:01:40.000 Second, instead of just home-teaming it and rooting for the U.S., the media feel the need to play neutral at the Olympics, which is super annoying and irritating.
00:01:47.000 Nobody cares about the comedy of nations.
00:01:49.000 We need a rooting interest, that's all.
00:01:50.000 Pretending that we ought to simply shrug when dictatorial nations win medals and say, yay, great achievement, rather than getting annoyed by it, should kind of annoy us.
00:01:58.000 More than that, the media nod along with manufactured stories like an American fencer wearing a hijab.
00:02:02.000 Yay!
00:02:03.000 While ignoring legitimate stories like those Israelis feeling actual discrimination from Muslims at the Olympics.
00:02:08.000 We can't ever call out the bad guys.
00:02:10.000 Finally, we don't care about these sports.
00:02:12.000 There are only a few sports people care about anymore at the Summer Olympics, barring a huge star like Michael Phelps.
00:02:17.000 Gymnastics, some of the sprints, all the rest, crappy TV.
00:02:21.000 Nobody's all that concerned who wins the Women's Rugby Olympic medals.
00:02:24.000 Nobody.
00:02:25.000 There were 19 sports in the 1936 Olympics, for example.
00:02:27.000 There are now 28.
00:02:28.000 All of which means nobody's watching.
00:02:30.000 And nobody will continue to watch so long as we're asked to throw nationalism out the window when watching international competition.
00:02:36.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:02:37.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:02:45.000 So, I'm here, I'm alive, yay!
00:02:47.000 I didn't die, woo!
00:02:48.000 Yes, for not dying.
00:02:49.000 Alright, so that's very exciting.
00:02:51.000 I'm not dead.
00:02:52.000 Apparently the folks in Rio nearly died.
00:02:54.000 The viewers are dying of boredom.
00:02:56.000 I have to say that that opening ceremony, I wasn't here to comment on it, but the opening ceremony looked like garbage.
00:03:02.000 Did you guys see the opening ceremony?
00:03:03.000 First of all, this looks like somebody was, it's like an art project you did when you were seven.
00:03:09.000 Yeah.
00:03:27.000 Front like it's sort of like in the Matrix where all of the all of the screens are weirdly plugged in and on top of each other and it looked like some sort of crazy dystopian future and that's because Rio is a craziest dystopian future where people eat people and everything is soil and green because it's been run by the left for years and years but we're not allowed to comment on that what we are allowed to comment on is climate change in the middle of the Olympics
00:03:48.000 The opening ceremonies, they start commenting on climate change.
00:03:50.000 They said they don't want to talk about the fact that they're this, again, corrupt petro-oligarchy where the current president has been suspended from her duties for corruption and the prior president is under investigation for obstruction of justice.
00:04:01.000 They don't want to talk about any of that stuff.
00:04:02.000 They don't want to talk about the fact that they have massive tariffs and really bad taxes and really bad regulations and a lot of the country's living in poverty.
00:04:09.000 Now, they'd rather talk about how Al Gore, for some reason, like Al Gore showed up and started talking about the
00:04:15.000 Global warming and the earth warming.
00:04:17.000 And they showed some kid planting a tree or something.
00:04:19.000 And I was just going, wait, what?
00:04:21.000 What does that have to do with anything?
00:04:22.000 I like trees as much as the next fellow, but why does this have to do with people working out and then taking drugs so that they can do their sports really well?
00:04:31.000 I was informed.
00:04:32.000 I was informed that there would be international competition like Rocky IV, where people would actually dope in front of me and then would hit each other.
00:04:38.000 But apparently that didn't happen.
00:04:40.000 So that was disappointing.
00:04:41.000 OK, that is my informed take on the Olympics, which I feel
00:04:45.000 Are a complete waste of time, just like the World Cup, I think, is a waste of time.
00:04:47.000 It's when we pretend to like soccer for five minutes every four years.
00:04:51.000 And then we go back to hating soccer and realizing that it's really boring and that human beings were created with hands.
00:04:56.000 And so long as we have hands, we should actually use them in the sports in which we participate.
00:05:00.000 All right, now let's talk about some actual important things happening in the news.
00:05:05.000 Well, I want to start with a quick note.
00:05:08.000 Donald Trump is getting absolutely just destroyed in the polls.
00:05:12.000 I mean, just walloped in the polls.
00:05:14.000 Every time Trump says, I'm doing well in the polls, no, the answer is you're doing horribly in the polls.
00:05:18.000 Ever since the DNC, it's almost as though the media were waiting until the end of the DNC to hit Donald Trump with the kitchen sink, and Donald Trump handed them a kitchen sink so they could hit him with the kitchen sink.
00:05:30.000 Almost like that, because if you look at the polls, what you will see is that at the end of the RNC, this was basically a tie race in RealClearPolitics.
00:05:38.000 Today, Hillary Clinton has a 7 point lead on Donald Trump.
00:05:41.000 Today, there was a Monmouth poll that has Hillary Clinton up among likely voters 52.
00:05:47.000 37.
00:05:47.000 So she's up 13 points in the Monmouth poll.
00:05:49.000 That's not a real outlier.
00:05:51.000 ABC has Clinton up 8.
00:05:52.000 IBD has her up 4.
00:05:55.000 NBC has her up 9.
00:05:57.000 Of the last several polls, two of the last six polls, I think, have her up in double digits.
00:06:02.000 McClatchy has her up 14 points.
00:06:04.000 It's really ugly, and it's really bad for Trump.
00:06:06.000 Today he gave an economic speech.
00:06:07.000 He actually stayed on the teleprompter, which is what he needs to do if he's actually going to succeed here.
00:06:12.000 I think that the time for him succeeding has basically
00:06:15.000 Faded.
00:06:15.000 I think that it's very difficult for Trump to come back from a deficit this large.
00:06:20.000 We haven't had debates yet, so there could be debate, surprise, where Trump suddenly starts to come back and he hits her, or it could be just more disastrous Trump.
00:06:29.000 Right now, by the way, there's actually a shot that Hillary Clinton, there's another Georgia poll.
00:06:33.000 Hillary Clinton's now winning by seven in Georgia, which is insane.
00:06:36.000 Republicans haven't lost Georgia since 1992.
00:06:39.000 Right now, according to the 538 modeling, Hillary Clinton could win South Carolina.
00:06:44.000 South Carolina.
00:06:46.000 Okay?
00:06:47.000 It's a disaster.
00:06:47.000 I mean, it's a full-scale disaster.
00:06:49.000 And so, this leads me to a point.
00:06:51.000 And the point is not just that Trump is, in many ways, a disaster.
00:06:54.000 The point that I'm making is that if you are a Senate candidate, everybody's all over some of these Senate candidates for not endorsing Trump or not getting on the Trump train.
00:07:01.000 All the Trump people are saying, why aren't you backing our guy?
00:07:03.000 Why aren't you supporting our guy?
00:07:04.000 The answer is because this is now Dunkirk.
00:07:07.000 Okay?
00:07:08.000 This is now Dunkirk.
00:07:08.000 For people who don't know the World War II history, the Nazis overrun France.
00:07:12.000 The British have put a bunch of troops on the ground in France in order to try and stop the Nazis from overrunning France.
00:07:17.000 And so now, they're pushed all the way back up to the English Channel, and Churchill basically orders this emergency evacuation where people in fishing boats are going over and evacuating everybody over to the other side of the English Channel.
00:07:29.000 This is turning into Dunkirk for Republicans.
00:07:30.000 They're going to need to abandon Trump because Trump is so toxic to them.
00:07:34.000 And they're starting to do this.
00:07:35.000 They're going to need to start abandoning Trump in order to rectify their own possibility of retaining the Senate, in order to rectify their own possibility of retaining the House.
00:07:42.000 Because if he loses by 10, 13 points, we're talking historic level blowout.
00:07:46.000 John McCain got blown out by Barack Obama.
00:07:49.000 He lost by seven points.
00:07:50.000 Okay, if Trump is losing by ten, if Trump loses by more than ten, we're talking historic magnitude blowout.
00:07:56.000 And if that happens, there's significant problems for the down ballot.
00:07:59.000 So, it's time, you know, for those guys to treat this as Dunkirk.
00:08:02.000 By the way, I've been saying for a long time I think it's time for conservatives to treat this as Dunkirk.
00:08:05.000 The war's already been lost.
00:08:07.000 You need to save your troops for another day.
00:08:09.000 Conservatives need to consolidate and they need to come back stronger in four years because the chances that Trump wins this election, unfortunately, seem to be diminishing, not growing.
00:08:17.000 Now, again,
00:08:18.000 Could Trump turn it around?
00:08:20.000 Yes.
00:08:20.000 But Trump has a chance like Jim Carrey had a chance near the end of Dumb and Dumber.
00:08:25.000 We're saying there's a chance, but I wouldn't stake my house on it.
00:08:28.000 And for anybody who disagrees, I know this ticks off a lot of the Trump supporters, I'm sorry, but you yourself would not bet money on Donald Trump at this point.
00:08:34.000 So let's just be a little smart, okay?
00:08:36.000 Let's just be smart, put aside the political bias for a second.
00:08:38.000 He's not losing because of people like me, by the way.
00:08:40.000 He's losing because he's not a good candidate and he's making lots of mistakes.
00:08:43.000 Now all that said, what makes this so frustrating and disappointing and really upsetting in a major way, what makes this really upsetting is that Hillary Clinton is just a crap show of a human being.
00:08:52.000 Hillary Clinton is the worst.
00:08:53.000 So today in Hillary Clinton is the worst.
00:08:56.000 The story is this.
00:08:57.000 Hillary Clinton basically may have gotten this Iranian guy killed.
00:09:00.000 So there's no real proof that you got the Iranian guy killed, but here's what happened.
00:09:05.000 What happened is that there's this Iranian dude and he defected basically to the West in 2009 with a bunch of their nuclear secrets.
00:09:13.000 His name was Shahram Amiri.
00:09:16.000 That was his name.
00:09:17.000 He came over and he gave us a bunch of secrets.
00:09:18.000 We paid him like five million dollars.
00:09:20.000 And then in 2010, for no real reason, he ends up in Iran.
00:09:23.000 And everybody's like, why are you back in Iran?
00:09:24.000 What are you doing there?
00:09:25.000 You're going to die.
00:09:26.000 And they give him a big hero's welcome.
00:09:28.000 They say that he was kidnapped by the CIA.
00:09:30.000 They say that it was really all about Donald, that it was really all about, you know, the Americans had captured him and it was the end of the world.
00:09:37.000 What it really was, it turns out, is that they were probably threatening his family.
00:09:40.000 So he goes back, and they capture him, and they torture him, and then they hanged him.
00:09:44.000 Over the weekend, they hanged him.
00:09:45.000 Well, it turns out that his name appears...
00:09:48.000 In many of the, it turns out his name appears in some of Hillary Clinton's emails.
00:09:53.000 So, in some of her emails, according to the Associated Press, he was described as our friend.
00:09:58.000 Jake Sullivan, who's a national security staffer for Obama, referred to Emiri like this, quote, the gentleman has apparently gone to his country's interest section because he is unhappy with how much time it has taken to facilitate his departure.
00:10:09.000 So, talking openly in Hillary's unsecured email server about this guy as a friend about how we're going to help him.
00:10:15.000 There's a lot of speculation that perhaps the Iranians had hacked Hillary's server, and that's how they knew that he was a spy.
00:10:20.000 Now, again, not total evidence that that is what happened.
00:10:24.000 It's possible that he went back and they figured, okay, he's a spy, and they already knew he was a spy, and that's why they basically threatened his family so he'd come back in the first place.
00:10:32.000 But it doesn't really change the underlying story.
00:10:33.000 The underlying story is Hillary Clinton had an unsecured server.
00:10:36.000 She was mentioning stuff that was clearly classified and clearly detrimental to national security.
00:10:40.000 Now, I'm old enough to remember when the Democrats made a huge deal
00:10:44.000 A huge deal out of Scooter Libby supposedly outing Valerie Plame, the CIA agent, right?
00:10:49.000 She was a desk agent.
00:10:50.000 She wasn't out in the field in any way.
00:10:52.000 And they made a movie about it.
00:10:54.000 It was the end of the world.
00:10:55.000 It was so terrible.
00:10:56.000 She was in no danger at any point whatsoever, at any time.
00:10:58.000 She was not a field agent.
00:11:00.000 This guy actually ends up being hanged, and the media have nothing to say about it.
00:11:03.000 Oh, well, you know, there's no smoking gun.
00:11:05.000 There's no smoking gun.
00:11:06.000 Right.
00:11:06.000 There's no smoking gun because there never would be.
00:11:08.000 I mean, the only way to find a smoking gun here would be for us to hack the Iranians and found out that the Iranians hacked Hillary, but that's not happening.
00:11:14.000 So we don't know what happened here.
00:11:15.000 What we do know is that Hillary certainly didn't care enough about national security.
00:11:18.000 And this also raises another question, which is how many other operations have been destroyed thanks to Hillary Clinton's email server?
00:11:25.000 How many times were we staking somebody out and the Russians were hacking Hillary and they knew we were staking somebody out?
00:11:30.000 How many times was somebody who's an actual agent on the ground mentioned in Hillary's email server and we just never find out about the operations that get blown and the people who get killed or hurt because we would never find that out?
00:11:42.000 You never know about the opportunities that are missed.
00:11:44.000 How many operations were destroyed because of Hillary Clinton's email server?
00:11:47.000 We just don't know the answer.
00:11:48.000 We just don't know the answer.
00:11:49.000 Because we don't know the answer, Hillary's gonna get away with it.
00:11:52.000 And it's very irritating.
00:11:53.000 Tom Cotton, senator from Arkansas, he said this over the weekend.
00:11:56.000 You mentioned the Iranian scientist that was recently executed.
00:11:59.000 Now, of course, I'm not going to comment on what he may or may not have done for the United States government.
00:12:05.000 But, in the emails that were on Hillary Clinton's private server, there were conversations among her senior advisors about this gentleman.
00:12:13.000 That goes to show just how reckless and careless her decision was to put that kind of highly classified information on a private server.
00:12:20.000 I think her judgment is not suited to keep this country safe.
00:12:24.000 I mean, clearly that's true.
00:12:25.000 Clearly that's true.
00:12:26.000 But the media is going to continue covering for her no matter what, because that's the way this works.
00:12:29.000 The media must cover for Hillary under all circumstances.
00:12:33.000 Meanwhile, Hillary is still being asked about her email server.
00:12:36.000 She was asked this at a media event.
00:12:38.000 She wasn't—she was there—it's amazing.
00:12:40.000 I mean, she spoke in front of this journalistic event in Washington, D.C., and the journalists actually cheered for her.
00:12:45.000 So, I mean, at least their biases are out front.
00:12:47.000 I mean, they're literally sitting there clapping for her as she lies to them in front of their face, because this is how these things work.
00:12:52.000 So Hillary Clinton is asked about her email server.
00:12:54.000 I was pointing out on
00:13:03.000 In both of those instances, that Director Comey had said that my answers in my FBI interview were truthful.
00:13:12.000 That's really the bottom line here.
00:13:15.000 And I have said during the interview and in many other occasions over the past months that what I told the FBI, which he said was truthful,
00:13:27.000 is consistent with what I have said publicly.
00:13:29.000 So I may have short-circuited it, and for that I, you know, will try to clarify, because I think, you know, Chris Wallace and I were probably talking past each other, because, of course, he could only talk to what I had told the FBI, and I appreciated that.
00:13:46.000 Now, I have acknowledged repeatedly that using two email accounts was a mistake, and I take responsibility for that.
00:13:56.000 Okay, we can shut her up.
00:13:57.000 She's a liar and she's awful.
00:13:58.000 Of course, none of that is true.
00:13:59.000 The FBI never cleared her in any fashion about what she said publicly.
00:14:03.000 They didn't even comment on what she said publicly.
00:14:04.000 The Washington Post gave her four Pinocchios on this particular comment.
00:14:07.000 But the thing that drew everybody's attention, of course, is when she says that she short-circuited.
00:14:11.000 And the reason that people...
00:14:13.000 Your attention to this is because Hillary Clinton is, in fact, she won't just be our first female president.
00:14:17.000 I don't actually think she'll be our first female president.
00:14:19.000 I think that she will actually be our first artificial intelligence president.
00:14:22.000 She won't actually be, because I'm not sure that artificial intelligence can have a sex.
00:14:25.000 I mean, there's no biology.
00:14:26.000 So it's so she's, you know, presumably she's she's like the Terminator sent from the future to destroy Sarah Connor and also America's financial status.
00:14:35.000 I have good evidence, by the way, for the idea that Hillary Clinton is actually a robot.
00:14:38.000 For example, let's take a look at this one.
00:14:40.000 Here's Hillary.
00:14:42.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:14:44.000 She's a little bit robotic there.
00:14:46.000 We also have Hillary.
00:14:48.000 Somebody mistakenly input data and asked her to bark like a dog and it turned out like this.
00:14:54.000 Yeah, so there was that, which was unpleasant.
00:14:56.000 And then of course, there's Hillary rebooting, which I don't know if you've ever seen this.
00:15:06.000 There's artificial intelligence president Hillary Clinton.
00:15:10.000 And then, of course, this is what happens when electronic devices conflict with her signal.
00:15:19.000 And then if you mistakenly input the command to dance, then Hillary sort of looks like this.
00:15:27.000 And then there are just sort of errors that no one can really explain.
00:15:30.000 You notify Microsoft about them.
00:15:35.000 Sometimes, you know, sometimes the circuitry just ages.
00:15:45.000 And there are times, in fact, when her yes and no command circuitry gets compromised and things get confused.
00:15:50.000 Is it a yes?
00:15:51.000 Is it a no?
00:15:52.000 No one knows.
00:15:53.000 It's confusing.
00:15:56.000 On occasion, there are fatal errors.
00:16:01.000 And sometimes, in fact, you know, sometimes computers, here's the thing about computers, you know, computers and artificial intelligence, they don't have millions of years of human evolution, so that means that they're sort of rudimentary in how they handle things like falling objects.
00:16:17.000 So there is your first artificial intelligence president, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
00:16:23.000 If you're very excited about all of that, I suggest that you get your head checked because it's pretty horrifying.
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00:16:57.000 Cowabunga, dude.
00:16:58.000 And Trump responds to Hillary's failings by calling her mentally unstable.
00:17:02.000 So I have to say, I don't think this is Trump's most fruitful line of attack, calling Hillary Clinton mentally unstable.
00:17:09.000 Not because she is mentally stable, but because we have two crazy people from the asylum scene at the beginning of Amadeus running against each other.
00:17:15.000 Here is Donald Trump in New Hampshire ripping into Hillary Clinton.
00:17:19.000 Unstable.
00:17:21.000 Hillary Clinton, and you saw that.
00:17:24.000 Did you saw that where she basically short-circuited?
00:17:28.000 She said, she did.
00:17:30.000 It wasn't a press conference because that's around 250 days, but it was in front of some friendly reporters.
00:17:37.000 They asked her a very easy question and she short-circuited.
00:17:40.000 She used the term short-circuited.
00:17:43.000 She took a little short circuit in the brain.
00:17:48.000 And she's got problems.
00:17:49.000 I mean, if we had real people, this would be a real problem for her.
00:17:54.000 But I think that the people of this country don't want somebody that's going to short circuit up here.
00:18:03.000 Okay?
00:18:06.000 Not as your president.
00:18:09.000 Not as your president.
00:18:10.000 And then he, of course, turned into an infinite loop and just kept saying, not as your president for the rest of the two-hour speech.
00:18:17.000 So, you know, I was really sick last week, and that meant that I was doubly sick because I had to watch this election cycle.
00:18:25.000 And it was horrifying, continued to be horrifying.
00:18:27.000 Aside from Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton unstable, again, his most fruitful line of attack on Hillary is that she's out of touch, not that she's unstable.
00:18:34.000 And we can all see that this is a race between two deeply narcissistic people.
00:18:37.000 I had a conversation on the air this morning with a couple of naive people.
00:18:41.000 I do a morning show out here, and now we have a permanent pro-Trumper up through the election, who's a wonderful gal.
00:18:48.000 My name is Jen Horn, and she's there, and Alicia Krauss is there, and Brian Whitman is there, so now it's a cast of thousands.
00:18:54.000 And Brian Whitman and Jen Horn,
00:18:57.000 are going off about the motivations of these people to run for president.
00:19:00.000 I said it's very obvious what their motivations are.
00:19:02.000 Hillary Clinton has been running for president since utero.
00:19:04.000 And she's literally just been fertilized.
00:19:07.000 And for some reason, the eggs started playing Hail to the Chief.
00:19:10.000 And Donald Trump is running for president because the man literally has nothing better to do in his life.
00:19:14.000 He's, I've reached the pinnacle.
00:19:16.000 I've married as many models as I'm going to marry.
00:19:18.000 I've covered everything I possibly can in gold.
00:19:20.000 He's like King Midas, except it's not real gold.
00:19:23.000 It's like fake gold.
00:19:24.000 But I've covered my own food in gold.
00:19:26.000 I'm running out of edibles.
00:19:27.000 So what am I going to do?
00:19:28.000 I mean, like, I can't sit around all day painting gold leaf on this orange.
00:19:31.000 Like, I have to do something.
00:19:32.000 So he runs for president, too.
00:19:34.000 It's all a narcissism game for all these people.
00:19:37.000 Both the people who I was talking to said, no, no, they both want to make the country better.
00:19:40.000 And I thought to myself, boy,
00:19:42.000 Everybody in this country must have a screw loose.
00:19:44.000 I mean, goodness gracious.
00:19:45.000 Tim Kaine, who's Hillary Clinton's boring vice president.
00:19:47.000 That's his actual title.
00:19:49.000 He's not just the vice president.
00:19:51.000 In Clayton's show, he always talks about Hillary Clinton running for horrible president.
00:19:55.000 So Tim Kaine is running for boring vice president.
00:19:58.000 He's legitimately about as interesting as a blank piece of paper to eat.
00:20:04.000 I mean, that's not even just a blank piece of paper.
00:20:06.000 Like, if you pulp it in your mouth and just roll it around in there for a while, he's about as interesting as that.
00:20:12.000 Like, not even with the bleach, just like recycled paper.
00:20:15.000 Here's Tim Kaine talking about how he and Hillary Clinton are going to be absolutely transparent, which is laughable.
00:20:21.000 Are you guys going to be more transparent?
00:20:24.000 What does that mean?
00:20:25.000 It's the same thing that she has said.
00:20:27.000 Look, knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have done the private server in that way.
00:20:32.000 She said it was a mistake.
00:20:34.000 I am not presumptuous enough to start thinking about how I'm going to do things after November, but I know that this is something that she's learned from, and we're going to be real transparent, absolutely.
00:20:48.000 Well, they're going to be so transparent, it's going to make your head spin.
00:20:49.000 They're going to get tired of their transparency.
00:20:51.000 It's just going to be so transparent.
00:20:53.000 Every day, it's going to be a new level of transparency, and then you'll be able to see through him.
00:20:57.000 He's actually going to turn himself invisible, and you can see through him.
00:20:59.000 If you believe this crap, then you have to be either a Democrat or an idiot, but I guess that that's what we've got on our hands now.
00:21:06.000 The media, of course, are going out of their way to defend all of this.
00:21:09.000 And this is a problem.
00:21:11.000 Let's take an example.
00:21:12.000 Cokie Roberts.
00:21:13.000 I don't know why Cokie Roberts is a human, but Cokie Roberts is on ABC News, and Cokie Roberts is talking about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump calling her unhinged.
00:21:22.000 And here is Cokie Roberts' explanation for why Donald Trump would call Hillary Clinton unhinged.
00:21:26.000 And what about him tweeting about her short circuit and brainwashing?
00:21:29.000 Unhinged!
00:21:30.000 Unhinged, saying that she, uh, he questions her mental fitness.
00:21:35.000 Nobody in America questions her mental fitness.
00:21:37.000 Well, they question his!
00:21:39.000 Yeah, but they do question her honesty.
00:21:41.000 They question her honesty.
00:21:43.000 That's right.
00:21:43.000 This is about unhinged and she doesn't look presidential is totally code for we shouldn't elect a woman.
00:21:49.000 That is exactly what that is.
00:21:51.000 Well, I don't know if I agree entirely with that.
00:21:53.000 Because that's crazy.
00:21:54.000 That's why you wouldn't agree with that lady.
00:21:55.000 Because, you know, we call each other unhinged all the time.
00:21:58.000 So I don't understand.
00:21:59.000 When everyone calls Donald Trump unhinged, is it because they don't want to elect a woman?
00:22:03.000 That's the stupidest single argument I've heard in the last five minutes.
00:22:08.000 Cokie Roberts saying that if you call Hillary unhinged, then it's code for we shouldn't elect a woman.
00:22:14.000 But this is how it's going to be.
00:22:15.000 Just a quick note going forward, okay?
00:22:17.000 Barack Obama in 2008, we elected the black guy, and then the idea was supposed to be great!
00:22:21.000 Now we come together as a country over race, and Barack Obama instead used the club of his race to cudgel anyone who disagreed.
00:22:27.000 You got the entire media saying the reason you dislike Obamacare is because he's black.
00:22:31.000 Not because Republicans have opposed nationalized healthcare for the entire history of the Republican Party, but because Barack Obama's black.
00:22:36.000 If you think that electing a woman president is going to stop feminists from claiming that they're victimized at the hands of American society, think again.
00:22:43.000 It's going to get twice as bad.
00:22:45.000 Every time you criticize Hillary, it's not going to be you're criticizing her because she's a crap president.
00:22:49.000 It's going to be you're criticizing Hillary Clinton because you hate vaginas.
00:22:53.000 That's what it's going to be.
00:22:55.000 And I mean, personally, I have no problem with vaginas, so I'm confused by this particular line of argument.
00:23:01.000 But it's it's the line that the media are going to neck.
00:23:04.000 Now, here's the problem.
00:23:06.000 I know all of those of you in the media don't believe this, but you really don't treat us the same way.
00:23:24.000 The allegations by Mrs. Smith, a Gold Star mother, about Hillary Clinton lying to her got about one-tenth of the coverage that the Kahn situation got.
00:23:37.000 Hillary's situation in which the FBI, in an extraordinary memo, found her to be extremely careless in handling
00:23:46.000 Top security information?
00:23:48.000 My goodness, I wouldn't hire a person as an assistant U.S.
00:23:51.000 attorney if that was in their FBI background.
00:23:53.000 We're going to make a president of the United States?
00:23:55.000 Nobody raises that.
00:23:56.000 Nobody makes a very big deal about that.
00:23:59.000 That's not on the news for five days, six days.
00:24:03.000 So I think what Donald Trump is reflecting is
00:24:08.000 And I know the media always discounts this because you don't like to get criticized, but you don't treat us the same way that you treat Democrats.
00:24:16.000 Hillary, Bill, Obama, they get the benefit of the doubt.
00:24:22.000 That, of course, is 100% true.
00:24:23.000 It's 100% true.
00:24:24.000 The media, you'll see—I mean, remember, last week, the real story last week was not Donald Trump going after a baby, okay?
00:24:30.000 That was like a joke and it was funny and it was ridiculous and it was silly, but it had nothing to do with anything.
00:24:35.000 The real story last week is that Barack Obama shipped $400 million to the Iranians to free a bunch of hostages,
00:24:41.000 And by the way, they're taking more hostages now.
00:24:42.000 That's the real story.
00:24:43.000 But that wasn't the story this weekend.
00:24:45.000 The real story this weekend was, what about your gaffes for Donald Trump?
00:24:48.000 And Giuliani's right.
00:24:49.000 The media do have it out for Donald Trump.
00:24:51.000 And I've been saying, by the way, I said this for months.
00:24:53.000 I legitimately said this for months in the office.
00:24:55.000 I was saying it to people all the time.
00:24:56.000 There are a lot of people who bought into the myth of Donald Trump's media infallibility during the primaries.
00:25:01.000 Look at this.
00:25:01.000 He's saying things that would get any other candidate killed.
00:25:04.000 And I basically kept saying, right, because the media want a candidate they can destroy the minute this is over.
00:25:09.000 Boom.
00:25:10.000 The DNC happens, he's down 10.
00:25:12.000 He goes from tied to down 10 within a week.
00:25:14.000 Within a week.
00:25:15.000 Part of that is Trump.
00:25:15.000 Part of that's the media.
00:25:16.000 Gingrich is saying the same thing.
00:25:18.000 Gingrich is out there saying the elite media obviously hate Donald Trump.
00:25:22.000 You know, it is a period of turmoil.
00:25:24.000 A lot of Republicans get very scared.
00:25:26.000 The elite media is 95% against Trump.
00:25:31.000 And they're doing everything they can to fan the flames of a panic.
00:25:35.000 But the fact is that I think that this race is a long, long way from over.
00:25:41.000 And the truth is that Hillary Clinton is probably the most dishonest person ever to run for president, and certainly the most corrupt ever to be nominated for president.
00:25:51.000 Okay, all that's true.
00:25:53.000 All that's true.
00:25:53.000 Mike Huckabee makes the same claim.
00:25:55.000 He says that Trump is losing because of the media.
00:25:59.000 Keep in mind that the press has done everything they can to try to destroy Donald Trump's trustworthiness, even when he's telling the absolute truth and the so-called fact-checkers, which I think is a joke, even when they verify that what he said is the truth.
00:26:13.000 On the other hand, you've got Hillary.
00:26:15.000 who has been shielded and protected i mean the press has become her helicopter parents and so therefore they are always making sure that she's presented in the best light and that's one of the challenges donald trump faces going into these next few months is is recognizing as he wakes up everyday and looks in the mirror he's got to remind himself the press is not my friend
00:26:37.000 Okay, if he has to remind himself of that, he was never a Republican in the first place.
00:26:40.000 All Republicans know the press is not their friend.
00:26:42.000 Here's the problem here.
00:26:43.000 Here's the problem.
00:26:44.000 In 2012, the press absolutely savaged Mitt Romney.
00:26:47.000 Savaged him.
00:26:48.000 He was a racist, he was a sexist, he was gonna put y'all back in change, he had binders full of women.
00:26:53.000 He was just a terrible, terrible man.
00:26:54.000 Mitt Romney, who's probably the nicest person ever to run for President of the United States, certainly one of the classiest people ever to run for President of the United States,
00:27:01.000 Maybe one of the most boring people ever to run for president of the United States.
00:27:04.000 He runs, and the media just turned him into the devil.
00:27:07.000 He's the devil.
00:27:07.000 He's Darth Vader.
00:27:08.000 And everybody after that, they go, the media have no credibility.
00:27:11.000 Are you kidding me?
00:27:11.000 They're lying.
00:27:12.000 They're liars.
00:27:12.000 They're terrible people.
00:27:13.000 They're liars.
00:27:14.000 Then Trump comes along, and the media say, this guy is really a racist.
00:27:18.000 This guy is really bad.
00:27:19.000 He does a lot of bad things.
00:27:20.000 And everybody goes, well, you guys are liars.
00:27:21.000 We're not going to listen to you.
00:27:23.000 Why would we listen to you?
00:27:23.000 We're not going to listen to you.
00:27:25.000 And then it turns out that Donald Trump is kind of bad, right?
00:27:28.000 He says a lot of stupid, bad things.
00:27:30.000 And the media are right about him now.
00:27:31.000 So what Donald Trump has ended up doing is using this anti-media argument, which is a correct argument.
00:27:37.000 The media hate Republicans.
00:27:38.000 Using the anti-media argument to defend Trump when he does stupid things actually ends up discrediting the anti-media argument.
00:27:45.000 You understand what he ends up doing is it ends up saying, it makes it seem like the real reason Trump is losing right now is because Trump is doing a terrible job as a candidate.
00:27:53.000 Part of that is the media granting excessive coverage to that.
00:27:56.000 But when you say it's the media that's killing Trump, as opposed to Trump killing Trump, what you end up doing is you end up discrediting the argument that it's the media, because we can all look and see that Trump is not doing a wonderful job right now.
00:28:06.000 Maybe he'll recover.
00:28:07.000 This has nothing to do with where the race is going.
00:28:09.000 It has to do with the media.
00:28:10.000 So what's kind of happened, what's actually, the irony is, Trump was a product of our hatred for the media, because Trump was smacking the media every day and we loved it.
00:28:18.000 He's a product of our hatred for the media.
00:28:20.000 Trump is going to help revitalize the reputation of the media.
00:28:23.000 Because more and more Americans are going to start trusting the media when they talk about Trump, because Trump actually does dumb things that Romney never did.
00:28:30.000 Right?
00:28:30.000 There are some things where they hit him and it's totally unfair, like on the baby stuff, and Trump is right to complain about that.
00:28:35.000 And there are some things where they hit him where it's totally fair.
00:28:37.000 Like his initial response to the Khan family, or the KKK stuff, or the disabled reporter stuff, or the whole litany.
00:28:43.000 The POW stuff, I mean, it just goes on and on.
00:28:46.000 The problem with Trump is he, in his very personage, the way he argues, the way he speaks, what he says, these things end up discrediting all of the best Republican arguments.
00:28:56.000 So today he gives an economic speech.
00:28:58.000 And his economic speech is half conservative, half not.
00:29:01.000 He's good on taxes and he's bad on tariffs.
00:29:03.000 He's decent on regulations and he's bad on spending.
00:29:07.000 He says all this stuff, right?
00:29:09.000 And then what's going to happen is people are going to take away from that that Donald Trump's policy is conservative.
00:29:14.000 No, it's half-conservative.
00:29:15.000 Some of it's conservative, some of it's really not conservative.
00:29:17.000 But people are going to take away it's conservative, and then, and then, when Donald Trump's policies are implemented, people are going to say, oh, obviously, conservatism failed.
00:29:26.000 Obviously, conservatism failed.
00:29:27.000 And it's, it's, it's a problem.
00:29:29.000 And look, the electoral math is getting worse for Republicans.
00:29:31.000 It's not getting better for Republicans.
00:29:32.000 It isn't.
00:29:33.000 And I think that it's time that we face a few facts here, folks.
00:29:36.000 I mean, it's only August.
00:29:38.000 Things can change.
00:29:38.000 Again, I'll say it again.
00:29:39.000 Things can change.
00:29:40.000 But the chances of things changing this radically in a short period of time, in an election where Republicans have a systemic disadvantage, they're low.
00:29:47.000 They're really low.
00:29:49.000 That being the case, we have to plan for a movement for the future that's not just about what happens in the next three months.
00:29:54.000 We have to start thinking beyond the next three months.
00:29:56.000 How are we going to build a movement that is about truth?
00:29:59.000 How are we going to build a movement that is about telling people things that are true, as opposed to telling people things that they want to hear?
00:30:04.000 I was on Adam Carolla's podcast last night.
00:30:07.000 You should give it a listen.
00:30:07.000 It was fun.
00:30:08.000 And he and I were talking about this, and he was saying, why don't people speak the way you do in politics?
00:30:12.000 And I said, because they're afraid.
00:30:14.000 That wasn't the word I used, but I said, yeah, that people are afraid.
00:30:16.000 And they are.
00:30:18.000 And because people are afraid, they're not going to tell you the truth.
00:30:20.000 They're not going to say things that are true.
00:30:21.000 They're going to pander to particular audiences.
00:30:24.000 And so what ends up happening is that if everybody is pandered to, we end up separated from each other.
00:30:29.000 Because the only thing that can, in the end, unify us is truth.
00:30:31.000 If none of us can agree that 2 plus 2 is 4, then we're never going to be able to agree on anything.
00:30:36.000 And that's what's been happening politically.
00:30:37.000 We can say things that are eminently true, and there's no agreement because Trump is busy pandering to his people and he won't tell them the truth, and Hillary is busy pandering to her people and she won't tell them the truth, and so you're ending up with these very polarized parties that only stand for particular kinds of people rather than good ideas.
00:30:53.000 Rather than good ideas.
00:30:54.000 And it's a disaster area.
00:30:56.000 Now, maybe Trump recovers.
00:30:58.000 Maybe Trump recovers.
00:30:59.000 He gives this economic speech.
00:31:00.000 We'll go over it a little bit tomorrow and go through the audio and explain what exactly happened.
00:31:04.000 But I have a feeling that Trump, I'm not sure Trump has it in him personality-wise.
00:31:09.000 And I think the entire Republican Party, I have to say, I think the entire Republican Party has been infused with the spirit of, we're going to talk about people's feelings instead of talking about facts because they think that's how they're going to win.
00:31:19.000 And they don't understand that in the end, you can lie to the people and tell them about their feelings, but
00:31:25.000 If you disappoint them because you're telling them things that aren't true, then they're going to hold you responsible for that, too.
00:31:31.000 They're going to hold you responsible for that, too.
00:31:32.000 You can't make promises endlessly to people.
00:31:34.000 I guess unless you're a Democrat, maybe you can.
00:31:36.000 If you're a Democrat, maybe you can.
00:31:38.000 And if that's the case, then democracy really does not work.
00:31:40.000 If the case is that you can be lied to and you just keep voting for the wrong stuff, then democracy doesn't work.
00:31:44.000 But I have faith that if people are told the truth, that a certain number of people, I think a majority, will resonate to it.
00:31:51.000 But you have to stop the pandering.
00:31:53.000 You have to stop the foolishness.
00:31:55.000 And you really have to just go right at the issues.
00:31:58.000 And I don't think that either Trump or Hillary are going to do that.
00:32:01.000 That's why Hillary is still vulnerable.
00:32:02.000 The only reason Trump still has a chance is because Hillary is a terrible candidate.
00:32:05.000 OK, time for things I like and then an extra special version of things I hate.
00:32:09.000 Things I like.
00:32:10.000 So while I was sick, I decided that it was time to watch some sci-fi movies, because when you're sitting there going to the bathroom every 45 minutes, you need to do something during the gaps.
00:32:18.000 So one of the movies that I watched that I actually really enjoyed, I was surprised that I enjoyed it this much, was 10 Cloverfield Lane.
00:32:23.000 You guys seen 10 Cloverfield Lane?
00:32:24.000 It's good.
00:32:25.000 Good film.
00:32:26.000 It's really good.
00:32:27.000 The very end of it feels kind of tacked on, but
00:32:32.000 But the first, what it really is, I mean, honestly, what it really is, is a psychological thriller for the first hour and 25 minutes, and then the end is kind of like a 10-minute chase sequence that's kind of added on.
00:32:43.000 And that doesn't ruin the movie or anything, but everything, everything,
00:32:48.000 with John Goodman is spectacular.
00:32:50.000 John Goodman is spectacularly good and scary in this movie.
00:32:52.000 He's terrific in this film, especially because I know one person who I won't mention on air who is John Goodman in this film, and he's a very powerful guy.
00:33:01.000 And if I mentioned his name, you would know him, but he is John Goodman in this film.
00:33:05.000 Here's the preview for 10 Cloverfield Lane.
00:33:21.000 I don't know.
00:33:49.000 Basically what's happening, it looks like it's like a good family get-together drama, it isn't.
00:33:53.000 What's really happening is this girl at the very beginning, this isn't giving anything away, it's the first 30 seconds of the film, this girl is driving away from the city and she's hit by a car and the next thing she knows she wakes up basically in a bunker.
00:34:04.000 And John Goodman
00:34:22.000 And it's a really, really tight little... I like it.
00:34:25.000 It's a tight little film.
00:34:26.000 It's not a lot of wasted space.
00:34:28.000 I thought it was great.
00:34:28.000 I thought it was great.
00:34:29.000 I thought it was one of the better science fiction movies I've seen in recent years.
00:34:32.000 And there have been some very good science fiction movies in recent years, but why don't we do science fiction movies this week?
00:34:36.000 We'll do science fiction movies as things I like this week.
00:34:38.000 Okay, time for some things I hate.
00:34:40.000 So, Barack Obama wrote a piece, I hate this kind of pandering crap.
00:34:44.000 You know, I talked a minute ago about pandering crap, giving people what they want in terms of feelings without giving them the truth.
00:34:50.000 So, my wife and I have a rule, I think I've mentioned it on the program before.
00:34:53.000 We have a rule, when she comes home and she tells me about a problem in her life, and you should implement this in your relationship, it's a good rule.
00:34:59.000 She comes home and she tells me about a problem in her life.
00:35:01.000 I've learned, you know, we're married eight years, and I learned probably five years ago,
00:35:07.000 that I need to ask a question before we go any further in the conversation.
00:35:10.000 And the question is, do you want me to just let you talk?
00:35:14.000 Is this just a complaining conversation, or do you want me to solve the problem?
00:35:18.000 Because men tend to be fixers.
00:35:20.000 When you hear a problem, we immediately grab a hammer and a saw and we go to work trying to fix it.
00:35:24.000 And this is particularly true when your wife, your girlfriend, comes home and she says, I've got a problem.
00:35:29.000 You go, OK, well, let's fix it.
00:35:31.000 And she gets pissed, and guys don't understand why.
00:35:33.000 Guys are like, why are you angry at me?
00:35:36.000 You came with a problem, I solve things, I fix light bulbs, you know, like, tell me, what am I doing wrong?
00:35:40.000 And the girl's like, but you're not hearing me.
00:35:43.000 You're not hearing me.
00:35:44.000 And guys find this endlessly annoying, ladies.
00:35:46.000 I mean, just endlessly annoying.
00:35:47.000 If you tell a guy, here's my problem, then he says, well, I have a solution.
00:35:51.000 She's like, well, I don't want your solution!
00:35:53.000 Okay, I have solutions too, but that's not what I'm talking about now.
00:35:56.000 I just want you to hear what I'm saying.
00:35:57.000 So use this trick.
00:35:58.000 The reason I mention this,
00:36:00.000 Because in politics, people say they want solutions, and they're totally full of crap.
00:36:04.000 What people actually want is just to bitch.
00:36:06.000 All people really want is to complain about their problems.
00:36:08.000 And if you tell them the solution to their problems, they don't want to hear it.
00:36:11.000 So, when you have feminists, and they go around saying, you know, we have a problem, and it's that women are paid less than men.
00:36:17.000 And we say, well, I have a solution to that.
00:36:19.000 And the solution is, you have free choice.
00:36:21.000 If you want to make as much as a man, then don't have babies and don't get married.
00:36:25.000 Because it turns out then you'll make as much as a man, who basically operates like he's not married and has no kids, right?
00:36:29.000 I mean, that's the way that the statistics work in the 50 largest cities in the United States.
00:36:34.000 As of 2010, according to Time Magazine, women were paid 108% of what men were paid.
00:36:38.000 They were paid more, as if they had the same level of education and work experience and age and all this.
00:36:46.000 But feminists don't want to hear that.
00:36:48.000 What they actually just want to hear is you say, you know what, you're right.
00:36:50.000 Women have it so rough.
00:36:52.000 I can't even tell you how rough women have it.
00:36:53.000 And if a guy deigns to say anything other than that, it's, well, you're not a woman.
00:36:56.000 You don't understand.
00:36:59.000 You see Barack Obama do this on racial questions, too, right?
00:37:01.000 He'll say, well, black people all over the United States, they feel disadvantaged by the police.
00:37:07.000 They feel it.
00:37:08.000 They say, well, but there's no statistical proof that that's actually happening in terms of violent shootings, for example.
00:37:15.000 And if police are running into black people more often, that's probably because most of the high crime areas in the United States happen to be heavily black.
00:37:22.000 Why?
00:37:22.000 Why is that?
00:37:24.000 A controversial thing.
00:37:25.000 And if we want to solve the problem, what we really need to do is tamp down the crime rate in the black community because it turns out that every population, when they first come to the United States, has bad relations with the police until the crime rate goes down, in which case they have great relations with the police.
00:37:37.000 It happened with the Germans, it happened with the Irish, it happened with the Italians, it happened with the Jews, it's happening in Latino communities.
00:37:43.000 Like, what's the big... So let's just get the crime rate down, and how about this?
00:37:47.000 Like, here's a common standard.
00:37:48.000 Everybody act well.
00:37:49.000 Is that really tough?
00:37:50.000 And people get mad.
00:37:51.000 They get so mad if you say this.
00:37:53.000 You're taking away their sense of initiative.
00:37:55.000 You're taking away their feelings.
00:37:57.000 Their feelings are being... So, Barack Obama writes this ridiculous, stupid piece for Glamour magazine.
00:38:02.000 Because Barack Obama's not a president, he's a pretty boy.
00:38:04.000 That's all he does.
00:38:05.000 I mean, President Obama's a figurehead, and he just says pretty things, and everybody goes, oh, he just...
00:38:11.000 He has feelings.
00:38:12.000 He understands your feelings.
00:38:13.000 So here's what he wrote.
00:38:13.000 He wrote this piece called,
00:38:19.000 Which is not true.
00:38:19.000 A feminist typically looks like an overweight woman with blue hair and nose ring and all that.
00:38:24.000 Okay, I'm just joking.
00:38:27.000 There are lots of feminists who don't look like that.
00:38:29.000 There's real feminists and there's fake feminists.
00:38:31.000 My mom's a real feminist.
00:38:32.000 She actually worked and my dad stayed home and she took care of her family and she had kids and she made all the right decisions.
00:38:36.000 My wife is a feminist.
00:38:39.000 I consider feminism the notion that women can make any choice they want to make in life.
00:38:42.000 My wife is a feminist.
00:38:43.000 She's working as a doctor right now.
00:38:45.000 She's a doctor, she's more accomplished than any of these whiny feminist activists.
00:38:49.000 I'm a feminist because I enable my wife to go and make the choices she wants to make in her life and encourage her to do so.
00:38:55.000 And I'll do the same for my daughter and I've done the same for my sisters and my mom.
00:38:58.000 But Barack Obama says he's what a feminist looks like.
00:39:00.000 What feminists look like are people who allow feminists to whine as much as possible.
00:39:04.000 That's what feminists look like.
00:39:05.000 Here's what Obama writes, he writes,
00:39:29.000 And then he talks about it, and then he goes on and on and on and on, and finally gets to, In my lifetime, we've gone from a job market that basically confined women to a handful of often poorly paid positions to a moment when women not only make up roughly half the workforce, but are leading in every sector, from sports to space, from Hollywood to the Supreme Court.
00:39:46.000 So you'd think, okay, now it's celebration time.
00:39:47.000 Yay!
00:39:48.000 Good job, America!
00:39:49.000 Nope!
00:39:51.000 Nope.
00:39:52.000 In fact, he says, the most important change may be the toughest of all, and that's changing ourselves.
00:39:58.000 Okay, we're changing ourselves.
00:40:00.000 Barack Obama came along and his wife said, if you recall, his wife said he would change our souls.
00:40:06.000 He could heal our souls.
00:40:07.000 He could heal the soul of the nation.
00:40:09.000 I don't need anyone healing my soul.
00:40:12.000 It's what I got God for.
00:40:13.000 I don't need my soul healed.
00:40:15.000 In fact, my soul isn't the problem.
00:40:16.000 It's the rest of me that's the problem, right?
00:40:19.000 If you're a religious person, you tend to believe that the soul is straight from God.
00:40:22.000 It's not your soul that's broken, right?
00:40:24.000 It's the rest of you.
00:40:25.000 It's your conscience, maybe, that's broken.
00:40:26.000 But Barack Obama says, we have to change as people.
00:40:29.000 Marxists, which is what Obama is, they have a deep, abiding belief, a real deep belief, that people change, that people change on a root level, that if we just change the economic circumstances of human beings, then they change as people.
00:40:43.000 Like, their souls actually change.
00:40:45.000 Like, if people made more money, they'd become better people.
00:40:47.000 Which is ironic, because they consider the rich people in American society the worst.
00:40:51.000 Right?
00:40:51.000 So, they say, as you become more wealthy in American society, you become more corrupt, but if we made poor people more wealthy, they'd become better.
00:40:57.000 Which is weird.
00:40:58.000 He says, this is something I spoke about at length in June, in the first ever White House Summit on the United State of Women.
00:41:04.000 Which, by the way, would be just the most estrogen-filled country in the world, the United State of Women.
00:41:10.000 I mean, goodness, there wouldn't be any agreement on when to go to war.
00:41:15.000 Somebody would say to the women's army, go take that hill, and the women would go, why?
00:41:17.000 I don't want that hill.
00:41:18.000 That hill is nothing for me.
00:41:20.000 As far as we've come, all too often we are still boxed in by stereotypes about how men and women should behave.
00:41:26.000 No, actually, we're not boxed in enough by stereotypes about how men and women should behave, it turns out.
00:41:30.000 Men should behave like gentlemen, and women should behave like ladies.
00:41:33.000 I know, that's sexist and terrible.
00:41:34.000 All of that is really just shorthand for, everyone should behave like a human being, like a mensch.
00:41:39.000 Be a good person.
00:41:41.000 He says, one of my heroines is Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, who was the first African American to run for a major party's presidential nomination.
00:41:47.000 She once said, the emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, it's a girl.
00:41:54.000 No, that's inaccurate.
00:41:56.000 That's when we know she's a girl.
00:41:59.000 You know, if you're stereotyping, then don't do it, but I mean, like, really.
00:42:02.000 Now, the most important people in my life have always been women, says Barack Obama.
00:42:05.000 I was raised by a single mom who spent much of her career working to empower women in developing countries.
00:42:10.000 That is untrue.
00:42:10.000 Your mom took you to Indonesia, and then she basically abandoned you with your grandparents when you were like seven.
00:42:15.000 So that's not true.
00:42:16.000 This is, watch as my grandmother, who helped raise me, worked her way up at a bank, only to hit a glass ceiling.
00:42:20.000 Also untrue, his grandmother never hit a glass ceiling.
00:42:22.000 She was a vice president at a bank.
00:42:24.000 He said, I've seen how Michelle has balanced the demands of a busy career in raising a family.
00:42:27.000 Michelle certainly has never hit a glass ceiling.
00:42:29.000 Michelle went to Harvard Law School, got a job at a ritzy law firm in Chicago, and then got a job paying her $300,000 a year to do nothing for the University of Chicago Health System.
00:42:37.000 So that's nonsense.
00:42:38.000 And then he says,
00:42:39.000 I was often away from home, serving in the state legislature while juggling my teaching responsibilities as a law professor.
00:42:45.000 I can look back now and see that while I helped out, it was usually on my schedule and on my terms, the burden disproportionately and unfairly fell on Michelle.
00:42:52.000 Well then, buddy, that's your fault.
00:42:54.000 That's your fault.
00:42:55.000 And that, presumably, is a decision you made with your wife.
00:42:57.000 If your wife said no, I guess that you and she have to make a decision, don't you?
00:43:01.000 But I guess she's the victim.
00:43:02.000 She's always the victim.
00:43:02.000 And he says, I'd like to think I've been pretty aware of the unique challenges women face.
00:43:07.000 It's what has shaped my own feminism.
00:43:08.000 But I have to admit, when you're the father of two daughters, you become even more aware of how gender stereotypes pervade our society.
00:43:15.000 And then he talks about how he absorbs messages of masculinity from magazines, and then he realized his ideas about being a tough guy or a cool guy weren't just, weren't me.
00:43:24.000 And he said, we need to keep changing attitudes.
00:43:26.000 We need to change the attitude that raising our girls to be demure and our boys to be assertive that criticizes our daughters for speaking out and our sons for shedding a tear.
00:43:33.000 Okay.
00:43:34.000 Nobody's criticizing a girl for being assertive.
00:43:36.000 Go all the way back to Little Women and Joe March as being assertive.
00:43:39.000 Okay?
00:43:39.000 And that thing was written, like, 150 years ago.
00:43:42.000 So, no.
00:43:43.000 It turns out that men in Western civilization have been pretty okay with assertive women to the point of men voting to give women the vote.
00:43:49.000 Okay?
00:43:49.000 What were women who won some sort of war for the vote?
00:43:52.000 Men gave women the vote.
00:43:53.000 They did that because they were being gentlemen and decent human beings.
00:43:56.000 And then he says, Okay, this is one of the things that drives me absolutely nuts.
00:44:03.000 The idea that women ought to be rewarded for being promiscuous.
00:44:08.000 I don't think men should be rewarded for being promiscuous, but let's be real about something, okay?
00:44:12.000 The reason that biology makes men more promiscuous
00:44:15.000 In every species that we know about, men are more promiscuous than women, males are more promiscuous than females.
00:44:20.000 In virtually every species that we know about in the animal kingdom, males are more promiscuous.
00:44:25.000 Why?
00:44:26.000 Because they are spreading their seed.
00:44:27.000 Females are less promiscuous.
00:44:29.000 Why?
00:44:29.000 Because they have to be selective in their sexual partners.
00:44:31.000 This is not rare and it's not unique to human beings.
00:44:34.000 These are not gender stereotypes.
00:44:36.000 That is a fact.
00:44:37.000 That is a fact.
00:44:39.000 The fact is, nobody should be rewarded for their sexuality.
00:44:43.000 I mean, I don't understand why you should be rewarded for your sexuality.
00:44:46.000 Like, sexuality is something you do.
00:44:47.000 Are you rewarded for your eating?
00:44:49.000 Like, it's such a bizarre notion.
00:44:50.000 It says, we need to keep changing the attitude that permits the routine harassment of women, whether they're walking down the street or daring to go online.
00:44:56.000 Okay, first of all, you shouldn't harass women walking down the street, gang.
00:45:00.000 And daring to go online?
00:45:01.000 There's a nice thing about Twitter.
00:45:02.000 It's called a mute button.
00:45:04.000 If Lena Dunham doesn't like being quote-unquote harassed online, perhaps she shouldn't brag in her memoir about molesting her sister.
00:45:09.000 And perhaps she should use the mute button if she doesn't want to hear from people.
00:45:13.000 Turns out that we live in a society where anyone can say what they want.
00:45:16.000 He says we need to keep changing the attitude that teaches men to feel threatened by the presence and success of women.
00:45:21.000 I don't feel threatened by the presence and success of women.
00:45:23.000 I don't think most men do.
00:45:25.000 I think men don't like women who treat them badly, and they don't like men who treat them badly.
00:45:30.000 He says, we need to keep changing the attitude that congratulates men for changing a diaper, stigmatizes full-time dads, and penalizes working mothers.
00:45:37.000 Okay, first of all, let's, okay, again, it's real keeping time now, folks, and this is not me trying to soothe thy feelings, okay?
00:45:43.000 Because again, I don't care about them.
00:45:45.000 Here's the deal.
00:45:46.000 Women have a greater drive to take care of babies than men do.
00:45:49.000 They do.
00:45:49.000 Sorry, biology.
00:45:51.000 It just is.
00:45:52.000 If they didn't, they'd abandon the kids when the kids are born.
00:45:54.000 Women have a greater drive to take care of their children than men do.
00:45:57.000 It's why men routinely abandon their kids, and women almost never do.
00:46:00.000 And just factually speaking, in terms of crime rates, in terms of single parenthood, you never see the mother give birth, leave the kid, and then just give the kid to the dad and take off.
00:46:09.000 It's extraordinarily rare.
00:46:10.000 Why?
00:46:11.000 Because women have a natural bond to their child that men don't have, and a physical bond to their child that men don't have.
00:46:17.000 But, like, we're just going to pretend that men and women are exactly the same.
00:46:20.000 This is coming from a guy, by the way, who had a working mom and a full-time dad.
00:46:23.000 My dad stayed home and took care of us.
00:46:25.000 My mom worked.
00:46:26.000 He says, we need to keep changing the attitude that values being confident, competitive, and ambitious in the workplace, unless you're a woman.
00:46:32.000 No.
00:46:32.000 And he says, then you're being bossy, and suddenly the very qualities you thought were necessary for success end up holding you back.
00:46:37.000 Again, my mom runs a company.
00:46:39.000 People don't think she's bossy because she's not bossy.
00:46:42.000 If people are calling you bossy, lady, maybe it's because, not because you're a woman, maybe it's because you're actually bossy.
00:46:49.000 You know, men, we don't call them bossy, we just call them a-holes.
00:46:52.000 Right?
00:46:52.000 When men are bossy, like, I tend to be, I like to flatter myself that I'm a pretty good boss to the people that I work with.
00:46:58.000 If I were a real jerk to the people I work with, I assume they would call me a jerk, and that has nothing to do with sex, that has everything to do with being a jerk.
00:47:03.000 Again, this all comes down, this is Obama just soothing feelings.
00:47:06.000 Have you heard anything here that's actually practical?
00:47:09.000 Anything?
00:47:09.000 Anything that fixes anybody's problems?
00:47:11.000 Have you heard it?
00:47:12.000 I haven't.
00:47:12.000 I haven't heard anything.
00:47:13.000 All I've heard is, women, you're right to feel like men hate you.
00:47:17.000 But not me.
00:47:18.000 But not me.
00:47:20.000 I love you ladies.
00:47:21.000 You're just, you've had it so rough.
00:47:23.000 You've had such a tough life.
00:47:25.000 Everything is so wrong.
00:47:26.000 You know, you can say all those other men hate you and our sex, but I'm not.
00:47:29.000 I'm a feminist.
00:47:30.000 I'm really a feminist.
00:47:31.000 It's the same way that you have white kids in college, and they say, yeah, I understand my own white privilege.
00:47:36.000 It's like, oh, well, now you're off the hook scot-free.
00:47:38.000 You don't actually have to do anything.
00:47:40.000 Congratulations.
00:47:40.000 I guess Obama's the president.
00:47:42.000 He's not actually going to do anything to make women's lives better.
00:47:44.000 Like, for example, you know what would make women's lives better?
00:47:46.000 That Obama could do and it would actually have an impact?
00:47:49.000 How about Barack Obama did a speech?
00:47:50.000 Just one speech.
00:47:51.000 One.
00:47:52.000 That's all I'm asking.
00:47:52.000 And the entire content of the speech was, men, stay with the women you impregnate.
00:47:58.000 Marry them.
00:47:59.000 Marry those women before you impregnate them.
00:48:01.000 Get married before you knock some lady up.
00:48:04.000 What if he did that?
00:48:06.000 Would that be the end of the world?
00:48:07.000 But he couldn't do that because then he'd be judging the women who have had babies out of wedlock and the men who have abandoned those babies.
00:48:11.000 He wouldn't want to make anyone feel bad.
00:48:13.000 This whole long convoluted piece is just this whole routine about what a wonderful man is.
00:48:18.000 It's just a long virtue signaling.
00:48:20.000 It says it's absolutely men's responsibility to fight sexism as spouses, partners, and boyfriends.
00:48:25.000 We need to work hard and be deliberate about creating truly equal relationships.
00:48:29.000 Vote Hillary, yay!
00:48:47.000 That's really what this whole thing is supposed to be.
00:48:50.000 And then he says at the very end, he just says it right at the very end, he says, this fall we enter a historic election.
00:48:55.000 It's a historic moment for America.
00:48:57.000 No, it's really not.
00:48:59.000 It's not an important moment for America.
00:49:01.000 The only thing that's important is we're about to elect, of two crappy candidates, we're about to elect a crappy president, either the crappy woman or the crappy man.
00:49:07.000 It's just, it's silly.
00:49:08.000 But again,
00:49:10.000 All of this comes back to this feeling in politics that I hate more than pretty much anything.
00:49:16.000 That you are supposed to pander to people's feelings rather than telling them the facts.
00:49:20.000 There are sexists out there.
00:49:21.000 There are men who have said—I've seen it.
00:49:23.000 I saw it when I was working at a law firm in L.A.
00:49:27.000 There was a guy who ran the office, and he would routinely wait until a woman stepped off the office, if any other guy was in the elevator, and he would make some sort of derogatory sexual remark.
00:49:36.000 I know that there are men who do this sort of stuff.
00:49:38.000 I know there are men who are sexists.
00:49:40.000 If they're men who are sexist, and if they behave in a sexist fashion, then they should be punished by their companies.
00:49:44.000 Then they should be told no by the people who are in the elevator with them.
00:49:49.000 There should be social stigmas, not legal stigmas attached to speech.
00:49:52.000 There should be social stigmas and legal stigmas attached to behavior.
00:49:57.000 Beyond that, I need an actual wrong to right.
00:50:01.000 Don't just tell me sexism is out there somewhere in the ether.
00:50:03.000 I'm not gonna go ghost hunting with you.
00:50:04.000 I have no interest.
00:50:05.000 Ghostbusters sucked originally, and it sucks even more when we do the social justice warrior crap where we just put a bunch of women in there.
00:50:12.000 So, Barack Obama virtue signaling, that's the thing that I hate for today.
00:50:16.000 Okay, one correction.
00:50:18.000 For some reason, this Michael Jordan, his dad getting killed story, I keep screwing it up, like over and over.
00:50:23.000 So it turns out that the killers were not one white guy and one black guy.
00:50:26.000 It was one black guy and one Native American guy.
00:50:28.000 I've been assured this in very strong terms by one guy who keeps writing me over and over.
00:50:32.000 And for some reason, I don't know if he's trying to solve the mystery or what, but he keeps writing me about this particular thing.
00:50:38.000 Okay, fine.
00:50:39.000 So that's the correction segment.
00:50:40.000 I'm sure I got something wrong in today's show, and you can let me know tomorrow.
00:50:44.000 And we'll be back tomorrow.
00:50:45.000 We'll go over Donald Trump's economic speech, and we'll talk about the latest from the Olympics, and hopefully I'll have more information on that kayaker who hit a couch.
00:50:54.000 Supposedly, this actually happened.
00:50:55.000 There was a kayaker who was in the middle of the race, hit a couch, and capsized because things are so polluted there.
00:51:01.000 There's legitimately a couch floating just below the surface, and he hit the couch, and he capsized, which, come to think of it, is just a metaphor for the election, and the world, and the Olympics, and everything.
00:51:11.000 So, thank God I'm healthy.
00:51:13.000 And thank God the sun rose today.
00:51:15.000 Thank God for little things and big things.
00:51:17.000 I'll be back tomorrow with all the bad news.
00:51:19.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:51:20.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.