The Ben Shapiro Show - August 16, 2016


Ep. 166 - Democrats Give Away Nuclear Secrets, Nobody Cares


Episode Stats

Length

58 minutes

Words per Minute

193.05013

Word Count

11,361

Sentence Count

884

Misogynist Sentences

50

Hate Speech Sentences

41


Summary

The left has created a catch 22 for itself. While rioters declare their intention to target white Milwaukee residents, and scream about Black Power, while burning down a gas station, the media maintain there s no racism here. But if black people are incapable of racism, what do leftist critics say about black police officers who they then say are actually racist? Ben Shapiro explains why the problem is not that cops are racist against blacks, but that they are part of a racist system that is corrupt and corrupting all of us. And that is why the racial conflicts between cops and Black rioters won t be calmed by more police training, but by stronger law enforcement cooperation with local communities and cooperation with the police department. And the only way such conflicts will be calmed is by stronger, more prominent law enforcement in local communities, and the left will never allow that until the racial conflagrations will continue. Ben Shapiro: Black Americans, of course, will be the ones who pay the price. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by Framebridge, a brand new company that specializes in custom frames for photos and posters. They take care of all your photo albums and keeps them in pristine condition so you won t miss out on any of your favorite photos or posters. Framebridge is making your photos and memorabilia for years to come! and they deliver them directly to your door so you can keep them on your shelves and keep them there forever. They won t charge you the price you pay for them. They ll even if you order them in a frame, and they lllllllll deliver them to you in the mail. You ll get a signed copy of the piece you order from Framebridge they ll . you ll have a chance to keep them in your local Framebridge catalog of the show. you can t miss it it s not only that you ll get it in your hands, they ll be there in a few days, and it s going to be there for you, you ll be able to keep it forever in the next 24 hours, and you ll llll ll be sure to have it on the next week, and then it s gonna be so you ll know you llll have it in a good chance to get a good, good chance of getting a copy of your photo album to keep the finished piece or it ll be it won t for free.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 In Milwaukee, a black police officer shot a black man who attempted to flee from him while carrying a stolen gun, and then turned on the officer.
00:00:07.000 Riots have ensued.
00:00:08.000 Meanwhile, in Baltimore, the Department of Justice has declared the city's police department, which is majority-minority with a heavy concentration of black officers, racist.
00:00:17.000 All of which raises a question.
00:00:18.000 The hell are police departments supposed to do?
00:00:21.000 The left has created a catch-22 for itself.
00:00:23.000 While rioters declare their intention to target white Milwaukee residents and scream about black power while burning down a gas station, the media maintain there's no racism here.
00:00:32.000 It's just a response to generalized police racism.
00:00:35.000 But if black people are incapable of racism, what do leftists say about black police officers who they then say are actually racist?
00:00:42.000 There are two possible reasons why the left can claim that black police officers are capable of racism, but black protesters and black rioters aren't.
00:00:49.000 First, leftists can claim that black police officers aren't really black.
00:00:52.000 They, like black Republicans, have been corrupted by the racist system.
00:00:56.000 German Lopez of Vox.com, he wrote this back in April.
00:01:00.000 He said, quote, racial bias isn't necessarily about how a person views himself in terms of race, but how he views others in terms of race.
00:01:06.000 Particularly in different roles throughout his everyday life.
00:01:09.000 And systemic racism, which has been part of the U.S.
00:01:11.000 since its founding, can corrupt anyone's view of minorities in America.
00:01:14.000 Policing tactics can also create and accentuate personal, subconscious bias.
00:01:19.000 By increasing the likelihood, officers will relate blackness with criminality or danger, leading to what psychologists call implicit bias against black Americans.
00:01:27.000 Combined, says Lopez, this means the system as a whole, as well as individual officers, even black officers.
00:01:33.000 By and large, act in ways that are deeply racially skewed and potentially racist.
00:01:37.000 Kind of convenient logic.
00:01:39.000 Police departments make black officers racist against blacks.
00:01:42.000 But what Sheriff David Clark terms the ghetto mentality doesn't generate black racism against whites.
00:01:47.000 Reversed racism, Lopez says, is impossible.
00:01:49.000 Then there's the second possibility.
00:01:51.000 Black police officers aren't turned into racists by police departments.
00:01:54.000 Police departments are actually just the enforcement mechanisms for a racist society.
00:01:58.000 That's the perspective of former Obama green job czar Van Jones.
00:02:02.000 He once told me in a CNN green room that black Americans jump to conclusions about cops because, quote, you're Jewish, right?
00:02:08.000 Wouldn't you jump to conclusions if you heard that the Nazis or Hamas had killed a Jew?
00:02:12.000 Really, he said this.
00:02:13.000 In this view, American society is irredeemably racist.
00:02:16.000 Those who wear police uniforms are just brown shirts out enforcing that racism.
00:02:21.000 All of this is super dangerous.
00:02:22.000 It would explain also, by the way, why looters and rioters attack shops owned by black Americans.
00:02:27.000 Those shops are just tools of the evil racist capitalist system holding down blacks.
00:02:31.000 If the entire system is corrupt, any instrument of the system must burn, from cops to gas stations.
00:02:37.000 One thing is certain.
00:02:38.000 The conflict between cops and black rioters, it won't be calmed by additional police training.
00:02:42.000 It certainly won't be calmed by politicians continuing to push the myth that police are racially targeting black men for no reason.
00:02:49.000 The only way such conflicts will be calmed is, ironically, the only way the left will never tolerate.
00:02:54.000 Stronger, more prominent law enforcement and cooperation with local communities.
00:02:58.000 And the left will never allow that until the racial conflagrations will continue.
00:03:01.000 Black Americans, of course, will be the ones who pay the price.
00:03:04.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:03:05.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
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00:04:59.000 We have a lot to get to today here on The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:05:02.000 In just a second, we're going to bring on Steven X. Crowder, Steven Xavier Crowder.
00:05:06.000 We'll be bringing him on momentarily.
00:05:07.000 You may know him from Louder with Crowder.
00:05:10.000 That's his website.
00:05:11.000 He has all these videos that are hysterically funny.
00:05:13.000 He's a comedian, but he's actually more than that.
00:05:14.000 He's a very good political commentator.
00:05:17.000 And so he'll be joining us momentarily.
00:05:19.000 We're also going to be talking about Trump's big foreign policy speech and a special episode.
00:05:23.000 We're going to bring it back.
00:05:24.000 We're going to start doing Deconstructing the Culture again.
00:05:27.000 Which is where we take a piece of top 40 music and we analyze it for all of its variances, vicissitudes, and volubility.
00:05:35.000 So we will do all of that coming up, but we're joined right now by Steven Xavier Crowder.
00:05:40.000 Steven, you there?
00:05:42.000 I am here.
00:05:42.000 I'm sorry, I look like a bum post-gym.
00:05:44.000 I was doing a callback to when I first had you on my show, and this was primetime propaganda.
00:05:50.000 I had just come back from the gym, and I got so many comments about it, I figured, let's go with it.
00:05:54.000 I mean, honestly, I wish I could tell the difference, but unfortunately, I am incapable of doing so.
00:05:58.000 That was a layup.
00:06:00.000 I knew it going into it.
00:06:02.000 Yeah, so we created the Citizens Coalition for Common Sense Gun Reform, CCCGSR for short, and we actually had to get permission from the mayor, we had to hire local police force, we had to get all kinds of permits to set up a tent with over a dozen firearms, actual firearms, unloaded on a table,
00:06:30.000 I don't
00:06:52.000 It's going to be a longer video, probably 15-20 minutes, because we wanted to jam-pack in there for the viewer all the things they may not know, like what a semi-automatic is, what an assault weapon is, what a clip is, versus, you know, the actual term of magazine.
00:07:06.000 So, little pop-ups, kind of like VH1, those shows they do, so people can get everything they need to know about the current gun debate.
00:07:13.000 Because, you know, as we go into a very likely Hillary Clinton presidency in Supreme Court, the language really matters.
00:07:19.000 Yeah, it absolutely does, and I'm glad that you're doing that.
00:07:21.000 Actually, Steven's videos that I like the best, folks, are the ones where they're heavily informational.
00:07:25.000 His Detroit video, if you've never seen his video where he goes to Detroit and just walks around the city and it looks like the zombie apocalypse, it's an amazing video.
00:07:32.000 And so, if you want to take a look at his video, that'll be out in a couple of days, and obviously we'll push it up on our page.
00:07:37.000 Well, you know what's funny about that video?
00:07:39.000 I don't know if you ever saw the follow-up video where my producer, NotGayJared, and I drove through Detroit.
00:07:44.000 I don't know if you ever saw that one.
00:07:45.000 No.
00:07:45.000 It wasn't as viewed because, well, because it's long and unedited.
00:07:48.000 But what happened was, the first video went up, and you know, Ben, they go, well, it's just selectively edited.
00:07:51.000 Well, anything you've ever watched ever is selectively edited.
00:07:54.000 If they uploaded a video, they selected a start and end point.
00:07:57.000 That's an edit.
00:07:57.000 That's a selection.
00:07:58.000 So, you know, the context of that selection matters.
00:08:01.000 They said that about Detroit.
00:08:02.000 They said, you're not showing the good areas.
00:08:04.000 So we followed up.
00:08:05.000 A lot of people didn't watch this video, where my producer and I went into Detroit, downtown.
00:08:10.000 Okay, we said Renaissance Center, Tiger Stadium, these are the big landmarks.
00:08:14.000 And we drove out in three directions.
00:08:16.000 Unedited, GoPros surrounding the car, we had a time clock and Google Maps to show you exactly how far we went, and we set the clock.
00:08:25.000 It didn't take more than a quarter mile or two minutes to get to certain deaths once you drove out of a hipster tourist destination.
00:08:31.000 And you still had people going, well, it's not really fair because Detroit sucks.
00:08:35.000 Well, that's not my point exactly.
00:08:38.000 Well, I mean, speaking of Detroit sucks, I mean, another city apparently that sucks is Milwaukee.
00:08:41.000 You've got the entire left basically ignoring what's going on in Milwaukee this week, even though Milwaukee has turned into a garbage heap, hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1908.
00:08:51.000 What do you make of the media's absolute willingness to ignore what's going on in Milwaukee right now?
00:08:56.000 I mean, it would be front page news.
00:08:57.000 If white mobs were chasing black people down in the streets in any city in America, obviously that would be front page news on every newspaper in America.
00:09:03.000 You literally have black mobs shouting, get the white guy, and nothing.
00:09:08.000 Well, it does happen with white mobs yelling angrily at black people.
00:09:11.000 It's called a Packers game, so that does happen.
00:09:14.000 Not in Milwaukee, a few miles down.
00:09:16.000 I always retweeted this, by the way, that we're up.
00:09:19.000 I completely forgot.
00:09:20.000 Listen, I was in Milwaukee for a wedding about, oh gosh, what was it, Nike Jared?
00:09:24.000 Three weeks ago?
00:09:24.000 Something like that.
00:09:25.000 Three, four weeks ago?
00:09:26.000 Yeah, something like that, maybe more.
00:09:27.000 About three, four weeks ago.
00:09:29.000 I remember, you know, it was exactly during the Dallas shooting because I was sitting in a Milwaukee hotel bar going, oh my God, I can't believe some people saying, man, if that happened in Milwaukee is just, this is a hair trigger here right now because it's Milwaukee, right?
00:09:41.000 One of those Midwestern towns, heavily black.
00:09:43.000 Yeah.
00:09:43.000 It's, it's, it's amazing.
00:09:44.000 And what's even funnier is that, well, I,
00:09:47.000 Yeah, it is funny.
00:09:47.000 I'll say it's funny.
00:09:48.000 That they don't want to send their journalists in.
00:09:50.000 Now they're pulling them out because they're getting attacked.
00:09:52.000 What would you expect?
00:09:53.000 And here's what's going to happen, right?
00:09:54.000 They're pulling them out because they're getting attacked.
00:09:56.000 Black people, they're the Black Lives Matter, who, by the way, don't represent all black people, but we're talking about Black Lives Matter in this context here.
00:10:02.000 Saying well, they're not they're not telling our story there They always tell the same thing white people and then what's going to happen is all the journalists are going to leave and it'll be Like that criminal in Cobra, you know pig bring the cameras in here because he wants to die in the spotlight And they'll be mad that no one's covering them and they'll say it's because we're black and no one's telling our story They came there to tell your story you shiv them.
00:10:20.000 Okay, you mugged them they left and then you're gonna bitch about that!
00:10:24.000 There's no way around it!
00:10:26.000 It is amazing.
00:10:26.000 Okay, so there's another topic I wanted to ask you about because you're in the world of comedy.
00:10:30.000 Steven does stand-up.
00:10:31.000 He actually does tours that people pay him for to do comedy, unlike most of the conservative comedians who are basically just people who once told a joke that wasn't very funny and people laughed because they went to church with them.
00:10:42.000 I have a joke about that.
00:10:43.000 Okay.
00:10:44.000 Do you want to hear the story first?
00:10:46.000 Can you hold that question in your head?
00:10:47.000 I can hold the question.
00:10:48.000 Yeah, go for it.
00:10:49.000 I don't want to say the joke because he'll know I'm talking about him.
00:11:10.000 Awful Hillary Clinton joke that basically was about the fact that she was fat and the callback was to Sir Mix-A-Lot.
00:11:16.000 And when I finally found out, I was like, why is this guy opening for me?
00:11:19.000 This is like comedy death.
00:11:21.000 And then they were like, well, he's great.
00:11:23.000 He pays his way.
00:11:24.000 And I was like, oh, OK, that makes sense.
00:11:25.000 So it is frustrating.
00:11:27.000 I've actually put all of it on the back burner until probably next year because we're building a new studio and set, but yes, my background is comedy.
00:11:35.000 Sorry, go ahead with your question.
00:11:36.000 Okay, so the question is, they just got rid of that fellow whose name I've already forgotten on Comedy Central.
00:11:42.000 Larry Wilmore.
00:11:43.000 Larry Wilmore.
00:11:44.000 Yeah, they just got rid of Larry Wilmore, who's legitimately comedy Ebola.
00:11:47.000 I mean, he just, every time he approaches comedy, he infects it, and the comedy just starts crapping out its bowels and bleeding from every orifice.
00:11:55.000 And they got rid of him on Comedy Central.
00:11:57.000 Orify.
00:11:58.000 Orify.
00:11:59.000 Orify.
00:11:59.000 Orify.
00:12:00.000 It's not spelled F-U-S, dude.
00:12:01.000 It's I-C-E.
00:12:03.000 No, it's not.
00:12:03.000 I know, I know.
00:12:04.000 In any case.
00:12:05.000 Don't correct the Harvard grad.
00:12:06.000 Stop it.
00:12:06.000 I won't correct, but I'm just saying, it doesn't sound right.
00:12:09.000 Okay, so in any case, his first claim is that even though he sliced the ratings for Comedy Central literally in half since he took over that show, this was just a way for Comedy Central to unblacken itself.
00:12:22.000 What do you make of the future of comedy?
00:12:24.000 Because I don't have a lot of hope here.
00:12:25.000 It's becoming so politicized that there's nothing that's funny anymore.
00:12:29.000 I don't even know if I would use the word future.
00:12:30.000 Also something I love for people listening right now or watching Ben Shapiro, he takes a point that someone would take which would be less intelligent because they would say he's literally comedy ebola and Ben just needs to change the word and say legitimately comedy ebola and it works and it's no longer inaccurate so please take note.
00:12:48.000 I didn't know he was doing the whole black thing.
00:12:50.000 I mean, listen, they have him, they have Trevor Noah, and then you have, you know, you have a TBS, you have Samantha Bee.
00:12:54.000 Here's the deal.
00:12:55.000 I've always said that Jon Stewart was funny.
00:12:57.000 I think Stephen Colbert can be funny.
00:12:59.000 I think Conan O'Brien is one of the best comedic writers in decades.
00:13:03.000 I think he's absolutely hysterical.
00:13:05.000 I really do, and I know he's far left.
00:13:07.000 I think Samantha Bee is so... I don't use the word offensive.
00:13:12.000 She is offensively unfunny.
00:13:14.000 She is aggressively unfunny.
00:13:16.000 Larry Wilmore was kind of inconsequential, so I don't even think about him enough to have an opinion on him.
00:13:20.000 That's probably why he was fired.
00:13:22.000 Here's the deal with comedy.
00:13:23.000 I was talking about this with Andrew Clavin.
00:13:26.000 A lot of the time you see this with reporters, even if you watch cable news, right?
00:13:29.000 They go on and, well, Hillary Clinton wants open borders.
00:13:32.000 Donald Trump wants a wall.
00:13:34.000 Which do you prefer?
00:13:34.000 They're just sort of taking people who are smart enough, I know this sounds conspiratorial, smart enough, good enough, but they can control.
00:13:41.000 You know this and I
00:13:42.000 I think so.
00:14:04.000 You don't need to kowtow to network executives and the people who are still right now.
00:14:08.000 It wasn't the case when Jon Stewart was there.
00:14:09.000 It wasn't the case when Bill Maher was there.
00:14:11.000 But now, the people who tend to be put in those positions aren't necessarily the best comedians.
00:14:16.000 They're the ones rolling the play ball.
00:14:17.000 Case in point, look at SNL.
00:14:19.000 You could fill those slots with people from YouTube or from the podcast world.
00:14:23.000 Now, there's a lot of hacks.
00:14:24.000 There's so much trash on the internet.
00:14:27.000 But you and I could probably, I mean, I certainly know I could go through and go, OK, here are 10 people who would be better to fill those spots on SNL, but they probably wouldn't want to do it.
00:14:36.000 Yeah, that's it.
00:14:36.000 That's exactly right.
00:14:37.000 Well, the website is Louder With Crowder.
00:14:39.000 Steven brings out fantastic material every single week.
00:14:42.000 He has his podcast, and his podcast is the second best podcast in the conservative sphere.
00:14:46.000 And it's very highly viewed.
00:14:48.000 Well, Cleveland won't be happy to hear that.
00:14:50.000 Well, I mean, Clavin knows what I think of him, and come on.
00:14:53.000 So, check out Louder With Crowder.
00:14:56.000 Great site, and Stephen's a real entrepreneur.
00:14:58.000 He's been doing this all himself, basically, on shoe gum and his talent, and there's not a lot to work with there.
00:15:04.000 So, obviously, check out louderwithcrowder.com.
00:15:06.000 That's the place you want to be.
00:15:07.000 Stephen, thanks so much for stopping by.
00:15:09.000 Thank you, sir.
00:15:09.000 Appreciate it.
00:15:11.000 Alrighty, so, onto the political sphere for just a moment before we have to cut off to Facebook Live.
00:15:16.000 So, I want to give you something that makes up for the fact you had to listen to Crowder for ten minutes.
00:15:21.000 So, we'll start with actual comedy.
00:15:23.000 We'll start with Joe Biden.
00:15:24.000 So, it must be beautiful to be a Democrat.
00:15:26.000 It must just be wonderful to be a Democrat, because you can get away with pretty much anything in the world.
00:15:31.000 And Joe Biden is proof of this.
00:15:33.000 So Joe Biden is Vice President of the United States, and unfortunately, everybody knows that Joe Biden is a dumb-dumb.
00:15:39.000 Everybody knows Joe Biden's a moron.
00:15:40.000 And so, Joe Biden is able to get away with anything, because no matter what he says, no matter how stupid, people just go, oh, that's Joe, that's Joe.
00:15:48.000 You know, that's just Joe being Joe.
00:15:51.000 Okay, yesterday, Joe Biden is campaigning with Hillary Clinton.
00:15:54.000 And Joe Biden, campaigning with Hillary Clinton, decides that it is worthwhile to attack Donald Trump for not being safe with our nuclear security.
00:16:02.000 And here's what he does.
00:16:04.000 Someone who lacks this judgment cannot be trusted.
00:16:08.000 There's a guy that follows me, right back here, has the nuclear codes.
00:16:13.000 So God forbid if anything happened to the president and I had to make a decision, the codes are with me.
00:16:18.000 He is not qualified to know the code!
00:16:23.000 They can't be trusted!
00:16:25.000 See if you can spot the problem here.
00:16:27.000 So Joe Biden says Donald Trump can't be trusted with the nuclear codes.
00:16:30.000 Also, right there is the guy with the nuclear football.
00:16:33.000 That guy.
00:16:34.000 So if you're going to attack somebody and take the nuclear- He's right there!
00:16:37.000 You see him?
00:16:37.000 He's got the blue eyes, the black hair.
00:16:39.000 You're not supposed to do that.
00:16:40.000 You're not supposed to identify the guy with the nuclear football, you idiot.
00:16:44.000 But Joe Biden does this all the time.
00:16:45.000 Back in 2011, if you recall, Joe Biden went out there and did an event with the media where he specifically named the Navy SEALs as the people behind the killing of bin Laden.
00:16:53.000 Navy SEALs immediately began pulling down their Facebook profiles because they figured now they'd be targeted.
00:16:58.000 And sure enough, a couple of weeks later, there was a
00:17:01.000 Look, folks.
00:17:01.000 These are not isolated examples.
00:17:31.000 He's even showered praise on Saddam Hussein, one of the vilest dictators of the 20th century, a man who repeatedly backed terror attacks against Israel because he was supposedly, the reason he admires him, he was a killer of terrorists.
00:17:45.000 That's why he likes Saddam.
00:17:47.000 He would have loved Stalin.
00:17:49.000 He would have loved Stalin.
00:17:52.000 Okay, he would have loved Stalin.
00:17:53.000 He would have loved Stalin.
00:17:54.000 A couple of things here.
00:17:56.000 One, Stalin, okay, the idea that Trump would have loved Stalin, I'd like to see the evidence of that.
00:18:01.000 Yeah, he likes Putin.
00:18:03.000 He said about Saddam Hussein that Saddam Hussein killed terrorists, which is not true.
00:18:07.000 But I'm pretty sure that's different than Stalin, who legitimately murdered tens of millions of his own people and put like 20 to 30 people, 20 to 30 million people in gulags.
00:18:17.000 Killed six million Ukrainians through starvation policies.
00:18:20.000 The idea that Trump would have been there cheerleading Stalin is ridiculous.
00:18:23.000 What's even more ridiculous, and this is actually kind of telling, what's even more ridiculous is that it's Joe Biden saying that Trump would have liked Stalin.
00:18:30.000 Let's go back in history for a second.
00:18:32.000 There was only one side of the political aisle that actually liked Joseph Stalin back in the 1930s.
00:18:36.000 There's only one side of the political aisle that thought that Joseph Stalin was a great leader back in the 1930s.
00:18:41.000 That was the political left.
00:18:43.000 That was the political left.
00:18:44.000 The political left thought Stalin was fantastic.
00:18:47.000 They thought Stalin was just great.
00:18:48.000 There was a journalist for the New York Times who won the Pulitzer Prize, Walter Duranty, for talking about how Stalin was just the greatest leader ever.
00:18:56.000 He'd seen that he went to the Soviet Union, they hid all of the starvation from him.
00:19:00.000 He said, I've seen the future and it works.
00:19:02.000 Meanwhile, Stalin was out there purging everybody who disagreed with him, bringing them out there and just literally shooting them or shipping them off to gulags.
00:19:08.000 They had a room in the Russian security center called the Lubyanka, where the floor was actually slanted downward.
00:19:14.000 It was slanted downward in the back, so when people were shot, the blood would run to the back of the room and they could clean the floor.
00:19:19.000 That's how many people were being shot.
00:19:20.000 People were routinely being brought in and murdered in the Soviet Union.
00:19:23.000 And the American left was playing nice with the Soviet Union.
00:19:26.000 The American left was playing ball with the Soviet Union.
00:19:28.000 The American left was saying Stalin was a new kind of leader, communism was a new kind of ideology, communism was something that was actually quite wonderful and warm.
00:19:36.000 So if we're going to talk about the idea that Stalin would be liked by any side of the political aisle, it would have been the left.
00:19:42.000 I mean, the left still goes soft on communism.
00:19:44.000 I mean, it was Barack Obama who just a few months ago decided it was imperative that we kowtow to Fidel Castro in Cuba.
00:19:50.000 Fidel Castro kills dissidents.
00:19:52.000 Fidel Castro imprisons dissidents.
00:19:54.000 But again, this is what happens, and it's really amazing how the left is capable of rewriting history.
00:19:59.000 Yes, a little bit with the help of the right.
00:20:01.000 So the left, what they'll do is they'll embrace literally the worst things in the world.
00:20:04.000 The worst things imaginable.
00:20:06.000 And then, after those things are discredited, they blame it on the right.
00:20:09.000 So the left embraced Hitler.
00:20:11.000 They thought that Hitler, at the very beginning, was a new kind of leader.
00:20:14.000 He was a fascist, new kind of leader, energetic, big government.
00:20:17.000 They really liked Hitler.
00:20:18.000 Read Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism for more on this topic, because it's true.
00:20:22.000 And then, as soon as Hitler turned out to be a genocidal maniac, then, all of a sudden, Hitler was a right-winger.
00:20:28.000 And who said that Hitler was a right-winger?
00:20:30.000 Many of the people who said it were communists, members of the Frankfurt School.
00:20:33.000 They decided to rewrite Hitler so he wasn't a National Socialist anymore.
00:20:36.000 Now he was a National Conservative.
00:20:38.000 Some sort of conservative figure was Hitler.
00:20:40.000 They did the same thing with Stalin, right?
00:20:41.000 Stalin was an actual communist who was backed by large segments of the American left.
00:20:45.000 And now, it's Donald Trump who would elect Stalin.
00:20:48.000 It's Donald Trump who would elect Stalin.
00:20:49.000 Not Obama.
00:20:50.000 Not Hillary.
00:20:51.000 Hillary, who got her training from Saul Alinsky, who was actually a communist.
00:20:55.000 Right?
00:20:55.000 Not any of the people on the left.
00:20:57.000 Suddenly, it's the fault of the people on the right.
00:20:59.000 We're watching it happen in real time, too, with regard to Donald Trump.
00:21:02.000 So Donald Trump, he's spending this entire campaign
00:21:05.000 Kind of playing halfsies.
00:21:06.000 So he spends half his time saying things like, the Iraq war was terrible and we murdered people for no reason.
00:21:12.000 And then he swivels and he says something that's quasi right-wing.
00:21:15.000 What the left is going to do is they're going to say Donald Trump was the standard bearer for the right when he was saying all these bad things.
00:21:20.000 And this is what the left does.
00:21:21.000 The left takes everything that it wants back.
00:21:23.000 Slavery, segregation, communism.
00:21:25.000 They take all of these things they want back and they blame them on the country at large or on Republicans specifically.
00:21:31.000 And it's a lie, and it's not true, and that's what Joe Biden does there, but he gets away with it.
00:21:34.000 And is he going to be asked that question?
00:21:36.000 And what would have happened if Donald Trump had gotten up there and said, you know, Hillary Clinton?
00:21:39.000 She would have supported Stalin.
00:21:41.000 She would have.
00:21:42.000 He just would have paid her, and she would have supported Stalin.
00:21:44.000 Media would have lost their mind.
00:21:46.000 Lost their mind.
00:21:46.000 But you can say anything you want about a Republican.
00:21:49.000 I don't know.
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00:22:42.000 Okay, so, Tim Kaine is the vice presidential pick for the Democrats.
00:22:46.000 Speaking of Democratic incompetence, Tim Kaine is the vice presidential pick for the Democrats, and he's supposed to be the down-home guy, right?
00:22:53.000 He's the guy who's going to remind you that these are human beings and not just robots.
00:22:57.000 Tim Kaine went out there and he was playing the harmonica.
00:23:00.000 Yes, the harmonica.
00:23:01.000 This chubby dude out there playing the harmonica.
00:23:04.000 Here we go.
00:23:13.000 All right, how about this for your future vice president?
00:23:26.000 Okay.
00:23:27.000 So there he is playing mouth organ, Tim Kaine.
00:23:30.000 And it's just, it's wonderful.
00:23:31.000 But Democrats, again, this will be, he'll be touted as just a God's gift, right?
00:23:35.000 He's God's gift to music now.
00:23:37.000 Meanwhile, it doesn't matter that Hillary Clinton, like, Hillary Clinton's doing things that are so unpalatable and insane that in any other election cycle,
00:23:45.000 The candidate could force this to be covered.
00:23:47.000 Donald Trump should be forcing the media to cover this.
00:23:49.000 Hillary Clinton, if you recall a few months back, we talked about it.
00:23:52.000 She tweeted out, quote, to every survivor of sexual assault, you have the right to be heard, you have the right to be believed, we are with you.
00:23:59.000 Right?
00:23:59.000 There's only one problem, of course.
00:24:01.000 Her husband makes a habit of sexually assaulting women.
00:24:03.000 So Juanita Broderick at the same time tweeted out, She tweeted that.
00:24:06.000 Well, now it turns out that Hillary Clinton has gone to her website and taken down the portion of her website where she says that you have the right to be heard if you're a sexual assault victim.
00:24:25.000 They actually took it down off the website, and they refused comment about it.
00:24:28.000 So they deleted the quote from the website because they know that if you say that you have to be believed if you allege sexual assault, that makes things awkward for Bill.
00:24:37.000 It's amazing.
00:24:37.000 Democrats get away with this.
00:24:38.000 Imagine if a Republican had said this.
00:24:40.000 Imagine if a Republican had done this.
00:24:41.000 Todd Akin was run out of a potential Senate seat because he made an idiotic comment about how if women were raped, their uteruses rejected the rape seed.
00:24:50.000 Right, and everybody went nuts, and the Republicans stopped backing him.
00:24:53.000 Hillary Clinton legitimately just took down a line about why sexual assault survivors deserve to be believed, and nobody is going to bat an eye.
00:25:00.000 Nobody's gonna bat an eye.
00:25:01.000 Look, Hillary's so unpopular.
00:25:02.000 In national polling right now, 11% of Americans, 11% say she's trustworthy.
00:25:07.000 Even her own supporters.
00:25:08.000 Can't say she's trustworthy.
00:25:10.000 For example, this woman is running against Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire for Senate.
00:25:13.000 She's the current governor of New Hampshire, and she's asked three times on CNN, is Hillary Clinton honest?
00:25:19.000 Watch the awkwardness that ensues.
00:25:21.000 Do you think that she's honest and trustworthy?
00:25:23.000 I support Hillary Clinton for the presidency because her experience and her record demonstrate that she's qualified to hold the job.
00:25:31.000 You think she's honest?
00:25:32.000 She has a critical
00:25:35.000 Don't!
00:25:35.000 So that's Maggie Hassan, New Hampshire Senate candidate.
00:25:39.000 So she's really, look, Hillary is super-duper vulnerable.
00:25:41.000 She's super-duper vulnerable.
00:25:41.000 And I've said, look, the polls today are just egregiously bad for Trump.
00:25:45.000 Awful, awful, awful for Trump.
00:26:05.000 New Virginia poll is out.
00:26:06.000 Shows not only is Trump losing by 14 points in the state of Virginia, which used to be reliably Republican, he's losing among military members in Virginia.
00:26:14.000 He's down 8 points among the military.
00:26:16.000 The military hate Hillary Clinton.
00:26:17.000 Military members despise her because she despises the military.
00:26:21.000 He's getting just destroyed.
00:26:22.000 In Texas, there's a new poll out of Texas.
00:26:24.000 He's up six points in Texas.
00:26:26.000 Six.
00:26:27.000 Romney won the state by 15 points.
00:26:29.000 Six points in Texas.
00:26:30.000 I mean, this is bad stuff.
00:26:31.000 So what can Trump do to recover?
00:26:33.000 Well, one of the things he could do is he could stay on message.
00:26:35.000 He could stay on message, and that message should be attacking Hillary Clinton.
00:26:38.000 I think that he's starting to do that a little bit, maybe.
00:26:41.000 We'll have to wait, because it's always a moment-to-moment business with Donald Trump.
00:26:45.000 He gave a speech yesterday about ISIS, and some segments of the speech were actually quite good.
00:26:49.000 There are a couple problems, of course, because it's Trump.
00:26:51.000 So, you know what?
00:26:52.000 Should we do—do we have the Good Trump, Bad Trump theme still?
00:26:55.000 Do we have that?
00:26:57.000 Okay, no Good Trump, Bad Trump.
00:26:58.000 So, screw it.
00:26:58.000 We're not going to do Good Trump, Bad Trump today.
00:27:00.000 We'll just do Trump's speech.
00:27:01.000 Okay, so it's Trump's speech today.
00:27:03.000 So, there's some good, there's some bad in Trump's speech today.
00:27:06.000 And to begin with, whenever Trump reads from teleprompters, he's got kind of a catch-22.
00:27:10.000 He's got the Sarah Palin catch-22.
00:27:13.000 What makes him popular is his stuff off the cuff.
00:27:15.000 What makes him popular is the fact he's spontaneous and says what he thinks.
00:27:19.000 And that's all wonderful, that's all great.
00:27:20.000 Except that he says dumb things when he does that.
00:27:22.000 So we say, okay, get on teleprompter.
00:27:24.000 The problem is, when he's on teleprompter, he's awful.
00:27:26.000 He's awful on teleprompter.
00:27:27.000 And you'll see that every time he speaks on teleprompter here, it's like a third grader called into the principal's office and told to be nice.
00:27:33.000 He's kind of like, he's kind of crossing his feet, and he's just awkward.
00:27:38.000 Trump has said before, he thinks being presidential means being boring.
00:27:41.000 And so every time he tries to be presidential, he just acts boring.
00:27:43.000 So, you know, put that aside.
00:27:45.000 Let's look at the content instead of the presentation.
00:27:48.000 But the presentation ain't that great.
00:27:50.000 But here's the content.
00:27:51.000 Here's Donald Trump talking in excellent terms about the threat of ISIS and Islamic terrorism.
00:27:57.000 We cannot let this evil continue.
00:28:15.000 Thank you.
00:28:18.000 Nor can we let the hateful ideology of radical Islam, its oppression of women, gays, children, and non-believers be allowed to reside or spread within our own countries.
00:28:38.000 We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism, just as we have defeated every threat we've faced at every age and before.
00:28:48.000 But we will not, we will not, remember this, defeat it with closed eyes or silenced voices.
00:28:56.000 We have a president that doesn't want to say the words.
00:29:00.000 Anyone who cannot name our enemy is not fit to lead our country.
00:29:06.000 Okay, 100% true.
00:29:07.000 All of this is absolutely true.
00:29:08.000 Again, the presentation, it's sort of like Donald Trump ate Ben Carson, but it's still good, what he's saying, right?
00:29:15.000 I mean, it subdued Trump, and subdued Trump is kind of like subdued Tigger.
00:29:19.000 You're waiting for him to bust loose and start jumping off trees, but still, what he's saying here, the content is good.
00:29:25.000 And he continues along these lines.
00:29:26.000 He talks about the rise of ISIS, and rightly, he blames it on Hillary and Barack Obama.
00:29:31.000 The rise of ISIS is the direct result of policy decisions made by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton.
00:29:43.000 Let's look back at the Middle East at the very beginning of 2009, before the Obama-Clinton administration took over.
00:29:52.000 Libya was stable.
00:29:55.000 Syria was under control.
00:29:57.000 Egypt was ruled by a secular president and an ally of the United States.
00:30:03.000 Iraq was experiencing a reduction in violence.
00:30:07.000 The group that would become what we now call ISIS was close to being extinguished.
00:30:15.000 Iran was being choked off by economic sanctions.
00:30:20.000 When he goes on like this, it's all right.
00:30:21.000 And then he attacks Hillary Clinton, which is great.
00:30:23.000 And this is, and this is good.
00:30:24.000 All of this is good stuff.
00:30:25.000 All of this is top 10 level stuff for Trump.
00:30:27.000 And I've said this before, when he gives the speeches, whoever's writing his speeches does a decent job with the speeches.
00:30:32.000 If he would stick to the speeches, run a normal campaign, and let Hillary blow herself up, and every so often point out how unpalatable she is, he'd be doing a lot better in the polls.
00:30:41.000 Again, what he's about to say about Hillary is totally correct.
00:30:44.000 Yet, as she threw the Middle East into violent turmoil, things turned out really to be not so hot for our world and our country.
00:30:58.000 The Middle East in particular.
00:31:00.000 That Clinton's made almost $60 million in gross income while she was Secretary of State.
00:31:11.000 It is unbelievable.
00:31:13.000 Incident after incident proves again and again Hillary Clinton lacks the judgment, as said by Bernie Sanders, stability.
00:31:25.000 All very, very true.
00:31:30.000 All run through with Trump's syntactical garbage.
00:31:36.000 Not very hot.
00:31:37.000 But whatever.
00:31:38.000 This is all good stuff.
00:31:39.000 He did drop a couple lines that I did find problematic.
00:31:42.000 There was one line in particular that I thought was problematic.
00:31:44.000 It is amazing to me how many Republicans have spent 10 years defending George W. Bush's war in Iraq on the grounds that it was a humanitarian move, on the grounds that everyone in the world thought that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, on the grounds that everyone knew that Saddam Hussein was supporting terrorism around the world, and we knew that it was, at the very least, it was a moral war.
00:32:04.000 It wasn't an immoral war.
00:32:06.000 Trump has basically channeled Michael Moore, and the Republicans are going along for the ride.
00:32:10.000 Here's Trump.
00:32:11.000 I mean, this is pure Michael Moore stuff, what he's about to say.
00:32:14.000 What was the purpose of this whole thing?
00:32:20.000 Hundreds and hundreds of young people killed.
00:32:23.000 And what about the people coming back with no arms and no legs?
00:32:29.000 Not to mention, in all fairness, the other side, the tremendous damage done.
00:32:36.000 All those Iraqi kids who've been blown to pieces.
00:32:40.000 And it turns out that all of the reasons
00:32:43.000 For the war, we're blatantly wrong.
00:32:47.000 All of this death and destruction for nothing.
00:32:53.000 Okay, I mean, I'm sorry, that's disgusting.
00:32:56.000 I'm sorry, that's disgusting.
00:32:57.000 Okay, it's not true that all of the reasons for the Iraq war were wrong.
00:33:00.000 There were multiple reasons given, from violation of UN Security Council resolutions to support for international terrorism to the threat that Saddam Hussein posed to his neighbors and had posed in the past to his neighbors.
00:33:13.000 When he says that American soldiers died and lost limbs for literally nothing in Iraq, it really is quite disgusting, and it's terrible to say that to American soldiers.
00:33:20.000 It really is.
00:33:20.000 And I remember a time when Republicans weren't afraid to say that.
00:33:23.000 But now that Trump is the nominee, I guess we're all supposed to just turn on a dime, and now Cindy Sheehan was right.
00:33:28.000 Everything she ever said was exactly right.
00:33:29.000 Bush lied.
00:33:29.000 People died.
00:33:30.000 It's really, it's egregious.
00:33:31.000 But that's not the point of the speech.
00:33:33.000 The point of the speech is what he gets to at the end, and this stuff, again, is very good.
00:33:37.000 This is my problem with Trump.
00:33:38.000 Everything is kind of a crap sandwich, but in this sandwich, there's less crap and more sandwich.
00:33:42.000 So,
00:33:42.000 Here's Donald Trump talking about screening immigrants, and this is fine.
00:33:46.000 The media is all over him about this.
00:33:47.000 What he says here, I am 100% on board with.
00:33:50.000 In addition to screening out all members of the sympathizers of terrorist groups, we must also screen out any who have hostile attitudes toward our country or its principles, or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law.
00:34:11.000 Those who do not believe in our Constitution or who support bigotry and hatred will not be admitted for immigration into our country.
00:34:23.000 Good stuff.
00:34:24.000 All good stuff.
00:34:26.000 Everything he says there is right and he concludes on this note that is exactly right where he says political correctness is hampering the war on terrorism.
00:34:33.000 These warning signs were ignored because political correctness has replaced common sense in our society.
00:34:57.000 Thank you.
00:34:59.000 That is why one of my first acts as president will be to establish a commission on radical Islam, which will include reformist voices in the Muslim community who will hopefully work with us.
00:35:15.000 We want to build bridges and erase divisions.
00:35:20.000 The goal of the commission will be to identify and explain to the American public the core convictions and beliefs of radical Islam, to identify the warning signs of radicalization, and to expose the networks in our society that support radicalization.
00:35:40.000 This commission will be used to develop new protocols for local police officers, federal investigators... Okay, all this is good.
00:35:47.000 All this is good.
00:35:48.000 Okay, so Trump gives a good speech yesterday, right?
00:35:50.000 It has its moments that are really bad.
00:35:51.000 He says that we should hand over foreign policy to Russia and Syria, which is exactly Barack Obama's foreign policy.
00:35:57.000 It has its bad moments when he's ripping on the Iraq war.
00:36:00.000 But overall, this, for Trump, is a 9 out of 10 speech.
00:36:02.000 I mean, overall, for everybody it's a 9 out of 10.
00:36:04.000 For Trump, it's a 9 out of 10 speech.
00:36:06.000 All he has to do is stay on message.
00:36:08.000 All he has to do is stay on message, which is why Rudy Giuliani promptly goes on television and blows it.
00:36:12.000 Here's Rudy Giuliani.
00:36:14.000 Under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn't have any successful
00:36:23.000 Radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States.
00:36:26.000 They all started when Clinton and Obama got into office.
00:36:31.000 Um, well, I mean, there was one.
00:36:33.000 You were there.
00:36:34.000 You sort of remember it.
00:36:35.000 This is, of course, the headline that everybody's taking away.
00:36:38.000 But it really isn't a big deal.
00:36:38.000 It's just the media making hay because they're looking for something they can glom onto in the middle of the Trump address.
00:36:44.000 So, if Trump actually provides them nothing to hold onto, if Trump attacks, then maybe the polls begin to shift.
00:36:49.000 He's gonna have to because he doesn't have any other choice.
00:36:51.000 Meanwhile, the latest news from Milwaukee.
00:36:53.000 So,
00:36:54.000 It is amazing.
00:36:56.000 The entire Milwaukee story has been buried by the media.
00:36:58.000 They're just not paying attention to it.
00:36:59.000 But things continue to suck over there.
00:37:01.000 There's video of a Metro PCS store being looted in the middle of Milwaukee.
00:37:04.000 Here's what that looked like.
00:37:08.000 You can see these black people, these young black men, running into a store and just taking things.
00:37:13.000 They're covering their faces so they're not arrested by police, I assume.
00:37:17.000 And they're literally just taking things and running out of there.
00:37:20.000 It's amazing.
00:37:21.000 It's amazing.
00:37:22.000 The cops are nowhere to be found, obviously.
00:37:25.000 Just taking things and leaving.
00:37:26.000 This is standing up to the white man, presumably.
00:37:28.000 This is standing up to the evil white culture that has kept them downtrodden.
00:37:32.000 The same culture, by the way, that's the American culture that produced the store and the phones that they want to steal so that they can use, I would assume.
00:37:39.000 You've got the person who was shot in Milwaukee, his sister, is now out there saying that they should burn down the suburbs, seriously.
00:37:47.000 Burning down ain't gonna help nothing.
00:37:49.000 Y'all burning down ain't what we need in our community.
00:37:53.000 Take that shit to the suburbs.
00:37:55.000 Burn that shit.
00:37:57.000 We need our shit.
00:37:58.000 We need our weed.
00:37:59.000 I don't wear it, but we need it.
00:38:02.000 Okay, so, I mean, this is amazing stuff.
00:38:04.000 She's the sister of the supposed victim, who is actually just a lifelong criminal who stole a gun and then tried to turn on the cops with it.
00:38:12.000 And she's saying, burn down the suburbs, right?
00:38:13.000 Don't burn down our community.
00:38:15.000 Don't burn down that stuff.
00:38:16.000 We need it.
00:38:16.000 Right?
00:38:17.000 We need our weave, is what she's saying, which is like hair extensions, I think.
00:38:21.000 And, you know, go to the suburbs and burn those down.
00:38:24.000 Lefty journalists are out there saying they have to flee from the city.
00:38:28.000 They have to actually legitimately flee from the city because they've been threatened by people in Milwaukee, black folks in Milwaukee.
00:38:33.000 This journalist, and I'm trying to remember his name, I think it's Tim Kast, or Tim Kant, he's a lefty.
00:38:40.000 Sorry, Tim Poole.
00:38:41.000 He's been covering the rioting and protests in Milwaukee, and he's a far leftist, this reporter.
00:38:46.000 I mean, he was a fan of Occupy Wall Street.
00:38:49.000 Listen, he says he had to flee the city, basically.
00:38:52.000 One of the first things we hear is the crowd getting angry and saying, you know, what are these white people doing here?
00:38:57.000 And you actually had a man very angrily, you know, yelling at the crowd saying that, you know, you've got to get the support from the communities outside of yours and that the anger towards the white people was a problem.
00:39:08.000 But things started to get really tense later in the night when people started screaming, white people, white people suck.
00:39:16.000 A reporter was grabbed by some locals and threatened and told to leave.
00:39:21.000 Another instance, a reporter was smacked upside the head by a local who then tried to rally people to come and attack us.
00:39:28.000 And things got to the point where I started to question whether or not I should be here when I saw an 18-year-old white kid holding his neck and the police wanted to extract him.
00:39:37.000 This is the person we believe to be the shooting victim from last night.
00:39:40.000 Locals told me that, you know, they heard a pop.
00:39:44.000 There was a, what they believed to be a gunshot, and saw this kid, you know, something was happening around the corner, and then he started holding his neck.
00:39:49.000 I saw, when I approached the street, someone lift that kid up, throw him over their shoulder, and rush them inside to try and help them.
00:39:55.000 And then, a few moments later, the police extracted that person.
00:39:58.000 There's enough people who are screaming things, uh, about white people, uh, and attacking, and, you know, and reporters being attacked, and then hearing that it was a white kid who got shot, that, I think,
00:40:10.000 You know, for those that are perceivably white, it is just not safe to be here, and that's why I'm deciding to leave, so... I mean, it's amazing, and the media are ignoring this.
00:40:21.000 This would be front-page news anywhere in America, as we let off the show with, but the media prefer to ignore it because it's ugly, and because it accomplishes what the left wants.
00:40:30.000 Which is, they get to claim now that these people are downtrodden, that they've been put under by the system, so the government needs more power to rectify the situation.
00:40:38.000 It's just awful.
00:40:39.000 And this is why Trump should be up by ten in the polls.
00:40:40.000 If he could focus on the issues...
00:40:42.000 And maybe he will start to focus on the issues, although it's a little bit late to redefine his character in this election cycle.
00:40:48.000 He should have done it right after the convention.
00:40:50.000 Instead, he decided that it would be more important to go after the Gold Star family.
00:40:54.000 If Trump had any discipline at all, he'd be up in this race.
00:40:56.000 And this is coming from someone who's not a fan of Donald Trump and thinks that he's actually not conservative.
00:41:03.000 This sort of activity is so devastating to the United States, and the fact that Republicans aren't highlighting this, that Republicans are instead being sucked into the media trap of responding to everything the media say, and the media are able to avoid talking about this.
00:41:16.000 That guy's a leftist journalist who just had to flee because he's perceptively white.
00:41:20.000 Okay, there's only one problem, by the way.
00:41:22.000 He's not even white.
00:41:22.000 He's half-white.
00:41:23.000 He's half-white, half-Korean.
00:41:24.000 But he's white enough that it doesn't matter.
00:41:26.000 He's still being targeted in a heavily black area of Milwaukee.
00:41:30.000 It really is awful.
00:41:31.000 Okay.
00:41:31.000 Time for some things I like, and then some things I hate, and then deconstructing the culture, because time has no meaning here.
00:41:36.000 So, alright.
00:41:37.000 Things I like.
00:41:38.000 So what we're doing this week, I've decided that since we did People vs. O.J.
00:41:41.000 Simpson yesterday, we're gonna do true crime stories that are worth reading or seeing.
00:41:45.000 So, there's a fantastic book.
00:41:47.000 Everybody should know this book.
00:41:48.000 They made a good movie out of it with Robert Wagner called In Cold Blood.
00:41:52.000 In Cold Blood is a classic of the genre.
00:41:54.000 It really is kind of the first true crime genre story.
00:41:57.000 It's kind of quasi-novelesque.
00:41:59.000 It's Truman Capote's best book.
00:42:01.000 It's a really, really good book.
00:42:02.000 They made a good movie called Capote about Capote writing this book also.
00:42:06.000 Capote was this, you know, effete gay New York leftist and he goes to research the murder of this family in the middle of like this rural family basically over no money essentially.
00:42:18.000 Okay, other things that I like.
00:42:38.000 He's not just stupid in some ways.
00:42:40.000 He's stupid in pretty much every way.
00:42:42.000 So here is Joe Biden getting handsy, believe it or not, with Hillary Clinton, which is just, oh my god.
00:42:47.000 Have you no standards?
00:42:48.000 Here's Joe Biden approaching Hillary Clinton and getting oddly handsy with her, and you'll see she is just trying to get out of there.
00:43:01.000 And then it just continues.
00:43:03.000 She's like, let me go, dude.
00:43:04.000 Let me go.
00:43:05.000 He's like, no.
00:43:06.000 I'll never let you go.
00:43:08.000 I'll never let you go.
00:43:09.000 She's like, Joe, really, I need to leave.
00:43:11.000 I'm pushing you off.
00:43:11.000 Can you get off?
00:43:12.000 And Joe's like, no.
00:43:14.000 No, I'm staying here forever.
00:43:15.000 Can I cop a feel?
00:43:17.000 It's just, aye, aye, aye, Joe Biden.
00:43:19.000 I mean, she looks like she wants out of there worse than anything.
00:43:23.000 I mean, she's looking for a lamp to throw at him at that point.
00:43:26.000 First of all, she's dressed again.
00:43:27.000 I don't know where she gets these pantsuits that look like she got them directly from Violet Beauregard in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
00:43:34.000 Joe Biden, man.
00:43:35.000 Hold it together, dude.
00:43:36.000 Just hold it together.
00:43:37.000 Okay.
00:43:38.000 Time for a couple of quick things that I hate.
00:43:41.000 Things I hate.
00:43:41.000 Let's do it.
00:43:41.000 Things I hate.
00:43:46.000 All righty.
00:43:46.000 Things I hate.
00:43:47.000 So, Secret Deodorant has been playing this commercial during the Olympics.
00:43:53.000 This is one of the more irritating commercials I have ever seen in my life.
00:43:56.000 We'll play it, and then I will make fun of it.
00:43:58.000 Mr. Kendall, I need to ask you a favor.
00:44:03.000 Not really, not really a favor, just like... Mr. Kendall, I worked on the Padstow team, actually, and we won the business.
00:44:12.000 I mean, just helped.
00:44:14.000 Okay, okay, Lucy.
00:44:15.000 Casual.
00:44:17.000 Bob.
00:44:18.000 Bobby!
00:44:19.000 How's it going?
00:44:21.000 You're looking great.
00:44:22.000 That tie is super sick.
00:44:24.000 You know, Todd makes more than I do, and he's only worked here for two years.
00:44:28.000 You know, I'm also a really great leader.
00:44:34.000 Really have things... I can do it.
00:44:47.000 And this is at 3 o'clock, Lucy does her part to close the wage gap.
00:44:57.000 That's a deodorant commercial.
00:44:59.000 I don't know what that has to do with deodorant, but sure.
00:45:01.000 Okay, so there are a couple things about this commercial.
00:45:03.000 You can't see it.
00:45:03.000 It's a woman standing in a bathroom trying to convince herself to go in and ask for a raise.
00:45:07.000 Okay, so a few things about this commercial.
00:45:09.000 First of all, there is no wage gap.
00:45:11.000 I've talked about this many times on the program before.
00:45:14.000 A woman who does the same amount of work, has the same work experience, doesn't have kids, has the same level of outside commitment, works the same number of hours as a man, is actually paid more than men in all of the top cities in the United States.
00:45:26.000 In the 50 top cities in the United States, women are paid 108% of what men are paid if they have exactly the same credentials and work the same amount of time.
00:45:33.000 That's number one.
00:45:34.000 Number two, did it ever occur to anybody that when they're casting this commercial,
00:45:37.000 One of the reasons that maybe this woman wouldn't get the raise after asking for it is because she isn't all the things she's claiming to be.
00:45:44.000 And she claims that she's a leader.
00:45:45.000 Does that look like a leader to you?
00:45:47.000 I mean, really, I'm just asking.
00:45:48.000 I'm looking at that commercial.
00:45:50.000 Her credentials are on the screen right there.
00:45:52.000 You're her boss.
00:45:53.000 She's coming in and she's saying, I'm kind of a leader, sort of.
00:45:55.000 I'm sort of a leader, kind of.
00:45:57.000 I was talking with my sister about this.
00:45:58.000 My sister works at a big company.
00:46:00.000 And she says that she thinks that women are looked kind of frowned upon if they're too strong.
00:46:05.000 People think that they're, for lack of a better word, witchy.
00:46:07.000 They think that they're witchy.
00:46:08.000 And I said, I think there's some truth to that.
00:46:10.000 I'm not going to pretend that there's no truth to that.
00:46:12.000 I think there is some truth to that, and that's a problem.
00:46:14.000 I will also say that that exists in converse for men.
00:46:17.000 Have you ever seen a weak man, like a really weak man, like a very shy, retiring man in a position of power?
00:46:23.000 Never happens ever.
00:46:25.000 Ever.
00:46:25.000 Because business favors the bold.
00:46:27.000 That's just the way that it works.
00:46:29.000 And that's true for men, it's also true for women.
00:46:31.000 We all have to work, we all have to kind of work particularly fine lines because of stereotypes, but the idea that there's a vast wage gap that has to be filled, and that women can only fill it by, you know, whining about it on commercials,
00:46:43.000 It's just silly.
00:46:44.000 It's just silly, okay?
00:46:45.000 The fact is, again, if a woman works the same number of hours as a man, and she works the same job as a man, and she has the same experience and does the same things, she will be paid probably more than a man, according to the same studies that I've talked about.
00:46:56.000 That was in Time Magazine, by the way.
00:46:58.000 That was reported in 2010.
00:47:00.000 I'm getting sick of all these companies using leftist social media talking points in order to push their product.
00:47:05.000 In order to push their product.
00:47:06.000 How about this?
00:47:06.000 How about secret deodorant should lower their deodorant prices to the same price as men's deodorant?
00:47:11.000 Because women's deodorant, I believe, is significantly more expensive than men's deodorant.
00:47:15.000 So, why don't you lower your prices?
00:47:16.000 Because it turns out I'm getting not as much deodorant.
00:47:19.000 It turns out that women are getting not as much deodorant for more expensive price secret deodorant.
00:47:24.000 Alright.
00:47:26.000 Final thing that I hate.
00:47:28.000 So...
00:47:30.000 Well, yeah, let's do the ESPN one.
00:47:32.000 So ESPN, Cam Newton is a quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, and he was in the Super Bowl last year.
00:47:40.000 A lot of people don't like Cam Newton because they think he's overrated.
00:47:42.000 I happen to be one of the people who thinks he's overrated.
00:47:44.000 I don't think that he can read a progression very well.
00:47:47.000 I think he's incredibly athletic, but he's not one of my favorite quarterbacks.
00:47:50.000 I'm also not a fan of athletes who make a huge deal every time they score a touchdown.
00:47:54.000 He, of course, is famous for doing the dab, right?
00:47:55.000 He does this kind of move every time he scores a touchdown.
00:47:58.000 I'm a fan of sort of the Barry Sanders style of scoring a touchdown.
00:48:01.000 You turn the ball over to the referee and act like you've been there before.
00:48:04.000 In any case, Cam Newton said before the Super Bowl last year, he thought the reason there was resistance to him is because he was a black quarterback.
00:48:10.000 Now Cam Newton has come out and he's said that he doesn't think that it's because he's a black quarterback.
00:48:15.000 He thinks that racism is pretty much done in American society.
00:48:18.000 And honestly, he's in a pretty good place to say so, considering that the man's worth probably a hundred million dollars and is one of the more prominent black men in America.
00:48:25.000 Naturally, this leads Bomani Jones, who again is a successful black man sitting on the set of a white-owned company in ESPN.
00:48:32.000 He's sitting there, you know, and he says, no, it's just terrible that Cam Newton would say something like this.
00:48:36.000 Do you think Cam Newton really believed that the extra criticism he received isn't racism?
00:48:42.000 I believe that Cam Newton doesn't see any value in saying that out loud at a position where it's safer to just not answer questions that are dangerous and inflammatory like this.
00:48:53.000 Without getting everybody really upset.
00:48:55.000 This is a GQ story, and keep in mind, the whole thing, once you read it, you realize Cam Newton wasn't much in the mood for this interview, didn't seem to trust the writer very much, certainly didn't seem to trust the writer with this particular topic.
00:49:07.000 Yeah, no, I don't believe that he thinks that the extra criticism he gets has nothing to do with racism.
00:49:12.000 Hell, Derek Anderson said it in the story, but like, Dan, I understand.
00:49:16.000 Cam can't necessarily say that.
00:49:17.000 Derek Anderson can say it, not so big a thing.
00:49:19.000 Cam says it, it goes all off the rails, and this isn't the best talking dude in the first place.
00:49:24.000 You ask him to talk about something sophisticated and with nuance.
00:49:27.000 Where he loses me, though, is he said, I think this country is past that.
00:49:31.000 A no comment is one thing.
00:49:32.000 That's a bald-headed lie, and you can't say stuff like that no matter whether you want to talk to the reporter or not.
00:49:38.000 Okay, you can't, you just can't say it.
00:49:39.000 You can't say that this country is past racism.
00:49:42.000 Can't you?
00:49:43.000 Like, really, can't you say that the country as a whole is past racism?
00:49:46.000 That America is the most post-racial society that has ever been created on planet Earth?
00:49:51.000 We're significantly less racist than Europe.
00:49:53.000 And that there are, of course, individual racists who say individual racist things, but America's past racism?
00:49:58.000 The kind of social stigma that attaches to black folks who say that America has moved beyond racism
00:50:04.000 Is incredible.
00:50:04.000 Because the pressure is always there from the left to suggest that racism is to blame for all of the problems in everybody's life.
00:50:10.000 Cam Newton doesn't have a lot of problems in his life.
00:50:12.000 And a lot of the problems he does have are of his own making.
00:50:14.000 You know, the fact is that Russell Wilson wasn't hit with the same sort of criticism as Cam Newton.
00:50:17.000 Russell Wilson's a black quarterback.
00:50:19.000 He wasn't hit with the same criticism as Cam Newton because Russell Wilson's not the same person as Cam Newton.
00:50:23.000 He's a different individual.
00:50:25.000 Alright, so we're bringing back Deconstructing the Culture, I've decided, because it's been long enough, there's a whole new slate of top 40 songs that we have to mock.
00:50:32.000 So, Fifth Harmony has a new song called Work From Home.
00:50:36.000 Fifth Harmony is this group of five girls, and they sing, or at least they call it singing, and they have a new song called Work From Home.
00:50:44.000 We'll listen to a little bit of it and watch the nearly X-rated video, which of course is why people subscribe, and then we will analyze.
00:51:00.000 We're good to go.
00:51:25.000 So, this is like a 1980s bad pornography.
00:51:29.000 These women dancing around in basically a construction site.
00:51:36.000 I don't know whose idea this was, but it wasn't a good one.
00:51:43.000 The sophistication of the lyrics is really what gets me.
00:52:03.000 Okay, so here's the actual lyric, in case you weren't paying attention because there were bodily parts being thrust in your face in the middle of this video.
00:52:10.000 The lyric was, I ain't worried bout nothin', I ain't wearin' na-nada, I'm sittin' pretty, impatient, but I know you gotta, put in them hours, I'ma make it hotter,
00:52:20.000 First of all, I'm going to.
00:52:22.000 I'ma make it hotter.
00:52:23.000 I'm sending pic after picture.
00:52:25.000 I'ma get you fired.
00:52:27.000 I know you're always on the night shift, but I can't stand these nights alone, and I don't need no explanation, because baby, you're the boss at home.
00:52:32.000 You don't gotta go to work, work, work, work, work, work, work.
00:52:36.000 You don't gotta put in work, work, work, work, work, work, work.
00:52:40.000 You don't gotta go to work, work, work, work, work, work, work.
00:52:44.000 Okay, Shakespearean.
00:52:45.000 So, a couple of quick social commentary pieces on this.
00:52:48.000 This group is considered feminist.
00:53:01.000 Why?
00:53:03.000 Why?
00:53:03.000 I thought that women were all about empowerment.
00:53:05.000 I thought... It's funny how empowerment went from... So here was the cycle.
00:53:09.000 The cycle went from, like, Mad Men, men could nail anybody in the office if she was a woman, right?
00:53:13.000 You could sexually harass women.
00:53:14.000 You could be terrible to women.
00:53:16.000 You could treat them completely like sex objects, not as individual human beings, right?
00:53:19.000 This is the feminist view of history.
00:53:21.000 That was how it used to be.
00:53:22.000 Then feminists came along and they said, well, men can be pigs.
00:53:25.000 Perhaps we should also be able to be pigs.
00:53:27.000 And then they also started acting badly.
00:53:29.000 And now we've come full circle to the point where women are liberated if they are submitting themselves to men.
00:53:34.000 Because that's what this song is.
00:53:35.000 It's all about submission.
00:53:36.000 Right?
00:53:37.000 It's all about, I need you home.
00:53:39.000 I need you here.
00:53:40.000 I'm gonna send you hot pictures of myself and you can do whatever you want to me.
00:53:43.000 Seems to me the guys from Mad Men would have been quite pleased with this situation.
00:53:47.000 We could have skipped the last 40 years of history.
00:53:49.000 I mean, she's at home and she's waiting for him to get home so he can nail her.
00:53:51.000 I mean, really?
00:53:52.000 Like, this... We could have just skipped this whole, like, last 40 years of sexual revolution stuff and just stuck around with 1950s.
00:53:57.000 And, ladies, by the way, then he would have married you.
00:54:00.000 Right?
00:54:01.000 In the 50s, he would have married you.
00:54:02.000 Now he doesn't even marry you.
00:54:03.000 Now he comes home, he stups you, and he finds some other lady the next night.
00:54:07.000 It is amazing, but this is considered feminist material, and if you say anything differently, if you say this isn't feminist, that makes you a sexist!
00:54:13.000 If you say that you don't think that it is empowering for women to dance around in scantily clad, in tiny little clothing, shaking their rears in sexual ways in front of a bunch of sweaty, muscly dudes on a construction site,
00:54:28.000 Then you're anti-feminist!
00:54:30.000 I'm old enough to remember when, five minutes ago, the definition of textbook sexism was a woman walking past a construction site and a man whistling at them.
00:54:37.000 You remember that?
00:54:38.000 Remember that?
00:54:39.000 This was always the example.
00:54:40.000 The example is a woman walked down the street and a man went, and a woman went, oh my god, how dare you?
00:54:46.000 It was the end of the world.
00:54:47.000 And number one, that was stupid.
00:54:48.000 Who cares?
00:54:48.000 But second of all, the second of all, these
00:54:52.000 Now they're actually seeking it!
00:54:54.000 But it's different because they want it.
00:54:56.000 So if they want it, then it's now a feminist thing.
00:54:58.000 There's only one thing feminists can't abide.
00:55:00.000 There's only one thing feminists can't abide.
00:55:01.000 That if women want it, they can't have it.
00:55:03.000 And that is if a woman wants to get married, have kids, and stay home.
00:55:05.000 If a woman wants to get married, have kids, and stay home, then that is not a feminist decision.
00:55:10.000 That is a sell-out decision.
00:55:11.000 That is her submitting to a man.
00:55:13.000 It's not submitting to a man... By the way, it just demonstrates how backwards modern feminism has become second, third-wave feminism.
00:55:20.000 It demonstrates how perverse it's become.
00:55:21.000 Original feminism was the idea women should work.
00:55:24.000 Got it.
00:55:24.000 Fine.
00:55:25.000 Then there was second wave feminism.
00:55:26.000 Men are pigs, women should act like pigs also.
00:55:28.000 Third wave feminism is men are pigs, women should act like pigs, but men should not be able to act like pigs anymore.
00:55:34.000 No one should act like a pig.
00:55:35.000 Like, we're the only ones who can act like pigs.
00:55:37.000 What's incredible about all of this, what's amazing about all of this, is that, is it really making women happier?
00:55:44.000 I mean, really, are women happier now?
00:55:45.000 By polling, the answer is no.
00:55:47.000 By polling, the answer is no.
00:55:48.000 Because nothing is expected of men.
00:55:50.000 The idea is that men shouldn't act like pigs, but really men can sort of act like pigs, because women aren't held to a standard, men aren't held to a standard, nobody has a standard anymore.
00:56:02.000 Final note on this, final note on this, because, I mean, it's just, it's amazing, it's amazing.
00:56:06.000 All the tropes of sexism have now been reversed, but they actually are just what they always were.
00:56:11.000 All the tropes of sexism have been reversed.
00:56:12.000 It's bad for a man to whistle at a woman in a construction yard, but if the woman shows up in a bikini and wants to nail the guy on the job, then that's totally harmless, and it's pro-female, it's pro-female.
00:56:23.000 And by the way, these sorts of videos won't cause men in construction yards to whistle at women.
00:56:28.000 Right, right.
00:56:29.000 Final note.
00:56:31.000 I don't like the perversion of language.
00:56:32.000 I'm just not a fan of it.
00:56:34.000 So one of the perversions of language that has come about in the last year, I didn't know this before, how long has work been a synonym for have sex?
00:56:42.000 This seems like a relatively recent development.
00:56:44.000 Yeah, it's like the last couple years, right?
00:56:46.000 It wasn't like, when they said that a woman would work it, it meant like she would dance, right?
00:56:50.000 But now it means like actually have sex with somebody.
00:56:52.000 Right, I'm gonna work, work, work.
00:56:53.000 You know, you got Rihanna, who's going to work, work, work, work, work with an E. I don't understand why it's spelled with an E. I mean, whatever.
00:57:02.000 But now it's... Okay, work is not sex, and sex is not work.
00:57:06.000 If sex is work to you, you're doing it wrong.
00:57:08.000 Okay, so there's this idea that work is now sex.
00:57:11.000 You gotta work it.
00:57:12.000 It is the devolution of sex into just another physical commodity.
00:57:17.000 Really, that's really what it is.
00:57:18.000 Andrew Klavan makes a great point.
00:57:20.000 He doesn't make many of them, but this is a great point.
00:57:22.000 You should check out Klavan's podcast, it's really good.
00:57:24.000 But he makes a great point.
00:57:26.000 about the difference between consensual sex and rape.
00:57:29.000 What he says is, the physical act in rape is exactly the same as that in consensual sex.
00:57:33.000 The difference is consent.
00:57:35.000 The difference is the woman's soul is being violated because she doesn't want it in one case, and in one case she's involved in the act.
00:57:41.000 Okay?
00:57:42.000 Sex used to be inherently connected to a certain level of love, tenderness, and spirituality.
00:57:48.000 Now it's become, in common parlance, work.
00:57:50.000 Right?
00:57:51.000 Just like going to the bathroom is work.
00:57:52.000 Just like eating is work.
00:57:55.000 It's not something pleasurable, it's now work.
00:57:57.000 It's gritty, it's grindy.
00:57:59.000 Okay, I understand that once you've violated every taboo, I guess sex becomes work.
00:58:03.000 But sex shouldn't be work.
00:58:04.000 Romance shouldn't be work.
00:58:06.000 But I guess that's what it's become in common parlance.
00:58:08.000 I'm looking forward to the point where they actually go all the way full circle, and they say that sex is slavery, but it's good slavery because you consented in it.
00:58:17.000 The left has no standards, and the left has no standards when it comes to language, or romance, or sex, or decency.
00:58:23.000 And what you end up with is this kind of stuff.
00:58:24.000 And this isn't even the most egregious kind of stuff.
00:58:26.000 It's just mostly silly.
00:58:27.000 It's just mostly silly.
00:58:28.000 But it is telling that this sort of thing is now considered feminist.
00:58:32.000 It's feminist when Beyoncé saunters onto stage
00:58:35.000 Shaking her booty.
00:58:36.000 It's not feminist when my wife has two children and is a doctor.
00:58:40.000 Right?
00:58:40.000 That's not feminist because she chose to have kids and get married before she did so.
00:58:43.000 Okay!
00:58:44.000 We will be back tomorrow with the latest cultural idiocies and more, I'm sure, from the presidential race.
00:58:49.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:58:50.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.