The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 167 - Category 5 Turd Tornado Warning

00:00:00.000 Serious acrimony has now broken out among conservatives about whether to vote for Donald Trump.

00:00:05.000 As I've made clear, as of now, I have no intention of voting for Trump.

00:00:08.000 He's personally unpalatable, of course. 0.97

00:00:09.000 He's a serial adulterer who brags about sleeping with married women and says he doesn't repent. 0.97

00:00:14.000 He's an extreme narcissist with delusion of grandeur. 0.97

00:00:16.000 He's not conservative.

00:00:17.000 He thinks Planned Parenthood does great work.

00:00:19.000 He doesn't have coherent foreign policy.

00:00:21.000 He wants to leave entitlement programs in place.

00:00:22.000 He supports tariffs and government subsidies.

00:00:24.000 He doesn't care if Republicans lose the Senate.

00:00:26.000 He has nothing to say about religious freedom for business owners.

00:00:29.000 And that's just the start.

00:00:30.000 He's volatile and he's nasty.

00:00:31.000 He's mocked prisoners of war and disabled journalists and compared his own sacrifices to those of Gold Star families and gone soft on the KKK. 0.51

00:00:38.000 He lies constantly about nearly everything.

00:00:40.000 Just as importantly, Trump is doing serious brand damage to conservatism.

00:00:44.000 He's poisoning the well of female voters. 0.81

00:00:45.000 Look at the polls, and minorities, and young people.

00:00:48.000 Many ardent conservatives have been co-opted into lying for him and perverting their own conservatism in order to stop Hillary Clinton.

00:00:54.000 If Trump wins, he'll turn conservatism into Trumpism.

00:00:57.000 If he loses and conservatives go along for the ride, he'll have sunk conservatism for an entire generation of voters.

00:01:03.000 Not supporting Trump is a perfectly defensible position, but, but, but, but, it is a tough call.

00:01:08.000 On the other hand, I totally understand and I fully sympathize with people who say they have to hold their nose and vote for Trump in order to stop Hillary.

00:01:15.000 She will be a full-scale disaster.

00:01:17.000 She'll appoint the Fifth Supreme Court Justice to gut the First and Second Amendments. 1.00

00:01:20.000 She will cripple our military. 1.00

00:01:21.000 She'll cram down tax increases. 1.00

00:01:23.000 She'll use the regulatory infrastructure to snap the knees of American industry and conduct, basically, raids against religious people. 1.00

00:01:29.000 Choosing Trump over Hillary is an absolutely

00:01:32.000 Perfectly defensible position.

00:01:34.000 But it is a tough call.

00:01:36.000 Every morning these days I really do, this is true, I ask myself the same question.

00:01:40.000 Which is more costly to America?

00:01:42.000 A possible loss of conservatism to Trumpism?

00:01:45.000 Or, or, another four years of Hillary Clinton?

00:01:49.000 Another four years of Hillary Clinton's radical destruction which could deal the death blow to America's freedoms? 1.00

00:01:54.000 It's a very serious question.

00:01:56.000 And good people are going to come down on both sides of it.

00:01:58.000 I myself have felt compelled to come down on both sides of it at one time or another.

00:02:01.000 But acknowledging that the choice isn't easy seems like a stretch for a lot of commentators.

00:02:06.000 Some people insist that if you forego the Trump train, that makes you a traitor.

00:02:10.000 In order to reach that conclusion, they either ignore Trump's foibles or they lie about what a wonderful guy, what a wonderful conservative he is.

00:02:16.000 Some people on the other side, they insist that if you jump on the Trump train, that makes you a traitor.

00:02:20.000 In order to reach that conclusion, some of them downplay Clinton's evils or exaggerate Trump's riskiness.

00:02:25.000 Here's what does make you a traitor to conservatism.

00:02:27.000 If you lie for Trump or you lie to your audience that he's a serious conservative.

00:02:32.000 Lying isn't just non-conservative, it's actually immoral.

00:02:34.000 But neither voting for Trump nor refusing to vote for Trump makes you a traitor to conservatism.

00:02:40.000 Nobody knows the answer to the hypothetical I pose to myself each morning because nobody has a crystal ball.

00:02:44.000 We don't know how bad things will be under Trump.

00:02:45.000 We don't know how bad things will be under Clinton.

00:02:47.000 We don't know what will happen to the future of the conservative movement.

00:02:50.000 But one thing is certain. 0.88

00:02:51.000 If we don't recognize that the choice is tough, thanks to Trump's utterly incomprehensible foolishness and vitriol, and Hillary Clinton's radical leftist corruption, we're not taking the question seriously enough.

00:03:02.000 More importantly, we're destined to go to war with our own ideological allies after the election is over, and there's no need for that war.

00:03:09.000 Our war should be on behalf of conservatism.

00:03:11.000 Trump has divided conservatives on the proper tactics in this election, but once November 9th hits, we're all on the same page again.

00:03:17.000 We either have to stop leftist policies from President Trump or from President Clinton.

00:03:21.000 We'll need to be allies.

00:03:22.000 The first step should be recognizing the goodwill of people who fight alongside us, even if we don't make the same risk calculations with regard to a conservative future.

00:03:31.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:03:38.000 Okay, so, it turns out there's been some news.

00:03:42.000 There are things to talk about today.

00:03:43.000 There's things to talk about today.

00:03:45.000 So we'll launch right off the bat, right off the bat, this today will be an epic episode of Good Trump, Bad Trump.

00:03:55.000 Good Trump, Bad Trump, which one will we get today?

00:04:01.000 All right, thank you to, of course, Brandon Snipes for providing us the theme for Good Trump, Bad Trump.

00:04:05.000 Which one will it be today?

00:04:06.000 Well, there is actually plenty of good Trump.

00:04:08.000 There actually is plenty of good Trump.

00:04:09.000 And I mean really good Trump.

00:04:10.000 He gave, I thought, the best speech of his entire career, the best speech of his political campaign last night.

00:04:15.000 I thought it was truly a stellar speech.

00:04:16.000 I'm not exaggerating.

00:04:17.000 I thought his speech last night was great.

00:04:19.000 I thought it was great, great, great.

00:04:21.000 I have to start, of course, we're on Facebook Live, so that means I have to front load the material that people are tuning in for today.

00:04:28.000 And that, of course, is the announcement that Trump is shaking up his campaign.

00:04:32.000 And here's where we get bad Trump.

00:04:34.000 Ooh, sad.

00:04:35.000 Okay, so, let's begin.

00:04:38.000 Let's begin with the campaign shakeup today.

00:04:41.000 So here's what we know about the campaign shakeup today.

00:04:43.000 Stephen K. Bannon, the former chairman of Breitbart News, and by former I mean like from 30 seconds ago, he is now going to be the new Trump campaign chairman.

00:04:54.000 The new Trump campaign manager is a gal named Kellyanne Conway.

00:04:56.000 Kellyanne Conway used to be the kind of the mouthpiece for the Mercer family. 1.00

00:05:02.000 The Mercer family are some of the bigger Republican donors in politics.

00:05:05.000 I think they were the single largest political donor in this election cycle.

00:05:08.000 They gave a bunch of money to Cruz, and now they're gonna give a bunch of money to Trump.

00:05:11.000 She used to be the mouthpiece for them, now she's moving over to the Trump campaign. 1.00

00:05:16.000 Here's what you need to know about all of this.

00:05:18.000 So first, I'm gonna try and remove myself, okay?

00:05:21.000 It's tough for me.

00:05:22.000 I'll admit it freely and openly.

00:05:23.000 I think that Steve Bannon is one of the worst people I know.

00:05:26.000 I think Steve Bannon is a bad guy. 0.98

00:05:27.000 I think he's vicious. 0.67

00:05:28.000 I think he's aggressive.

00:05:29.000 I think he's self-aggrandizing.

00:05:31.000 I think he has no interest in principle.

00:05:32.000 I think he has interest only in his personal power.

00:05:37.000 But I'm going to try and put that aside.

00:05:38.000 Is this a good pick for the Trump campaign?

00:05:40.000 If the last two days are an indicator of what Bannon can do, it's not just a good pick for Trump, it's actually a very good pick for Trump.

00:05:46.000 The last two days have been good, Trump.

00:05:48.000 The last two days are what people thought they were getting in the primaries with Donald Trump.

00:05:52.000 The last two days have been Trump speaking very, very well on ISIS, and then speaking very, very well on crime, and we'll get to all that in a minute.

00:05:58.000 It's also prevented Trump from making a lot of big boo-boos. 0.88

00:06:01.000 A lot of the big boo-boos that Trump usually makes—I mean, by this point, he usually has stuck his foot up his butt in some way or another. 0.88

00:06:09.000 He hasn't done that for 48 hours. 0.98

00:06:10.000 I know that our standards have lowered to the point where it's a big shock when a 70-year-old man doesn't step in a pile of crap for 48 hours, but that is where our standards are.

00:06:19.000 He hasn't for 48 hours, and he's given a couple of actually very good speeches.

00:06:22.000 He's actually done a couple of very good things.

00:06:24.000 Here's where Steve's skill set comes to bear with Trump.

00:06:28.000 So Steve is good at handling talent.

00:06:30.000 He's handled Sarah Palin before.

00:06:32.000 He's dealt with Michelle Bachman before.

00:06:34.000 He was friendly with Andrew Breitbart, of course.

00:06:37.000 What he does with talent is he tends to double them down.

00:06:39.000 He tries to tell talent that they need to be more them.

00:06:41.000 They need to be more authentically them.

00:06:43.000 With Trump, that's a better tactic than trying to reign him in and trying to turn him into Mitt Romney.

00:06:48.000 He's never going to be Mitt Romney, nor should he want to be Mitt Romney.

00:06:51.000 He's not capable of that.

00:06:52.000 So what Bannon will do is he'll double Trump down.

00:06:54.000 That has its good aspects, it also has its bad aspects.

00:06:56.000 The good aspects are, when Trump is on like he has been the last couple of days, it's quite good.

00:07:01.000 Even if I disagree with him on a lot of stuff. 0.85

00:07:03.000 The bad aspect is that Trump is, as I've said before, a Category 5 turd tornado. 0.79

00:07:07.000 Every so often, he's liable to just blow through town and wreck everything and leave dead people in his wake. 0.95

00:07:13.000 I mean, it's that bad.

00:07:15.000 I don't think that Steve is capable of stopping the turd tornado that is Trump.

00:07:19.000 But there are some ancillary points to be made here about conservative media and about the future of the conservative movement that I think are more important than Bannon's specific impact on the Trump campaign.

00:07:30.000 As I say, I think he could have maybe a beneficial impact on the Trump campaign.

00:07:33.000 So first, let me explain to you who Steve Bannon is and why I know Steve Bannon.

00:07:38.000 I've known Steve Bannon longer than I was actually at Breitbart, and Steve knows me longer than he was at Breitbart, actually.

00:07:44.000 So, Steve Bannon turned Breitbart News into Trump's personal Pravda.

00:07:50.000 To understand what this means, understand, I was friends with Andrew Breitbart since the time I was 17 years old.

00:07:54.000 I worked very, very closely with Andrew Breitbart on a number of different projects for many, many years before he hired me in 2012.

00:08:01.000 We were very friendly.

00:08:02.000 We used to IM and speak all the time.

00:08:04.000 He's been over at my parents' house for dinner.

00:08:06.000 I mean, Andrew and I, we're good friends.

00:08:08.000 Breitbart News was designed to be a fighting media site.

00:08:10.000 That's what it was designed to do.

00:08:11.000 It was designed to fight bullies.

00:08:13.000 And under the auspices of Steve Bannon, as he became more and more tied to Trump, it became simply a Trump-Pravda site.

00:08:20.000 You remember back in March, I quit Breitbart over the incident with Michelle Fields.

00:08:24.000 Now, a lot of people think that that incident was exaggerated, nothing really that bad happened, but that doesn't matter, okay?

00:08:28.000 The part of the story that actually matters is that Michelle Fields was indeed grabbed by Corey Lewandowski,

00:08:33.000 And Breitbart basically gaslit her.

00:08:35.000 Breitbart decided that they were going to come out in favor of Trump and say not that nothing bad had happened, but that she'd never even been grabbed, that she was basically making it up, it never happened, Corey Lewandowski hadn't grabbed her, and then you spread that rumor everywhere.

00:08:48.000 Undercut your own reporter, smear your own reporter is basically crazy in order to get in closer with Trump.

00:08:53.000 I quit over that and here is the statement that I issued.

00:08:55.000 What I said was, Andrew Breitbart built his life and career on one mission, fight the bullies.

00:09:00.000 But Andrew's life mission has been betrayed.

00:09:02.000 Indeed, Breitbart News, under the chairmanship of Steve Bannon, has put a stake through the heart of Andrew's legacy. 0.93

00:09:07.000 In my opinion, Steve Bannon is a bully, and has sold out Andrew's mission in order to back another bully, Donald Trump. 0.52

00:09:12.000 He has shaped the company into Trump's personal Pravda. 0.97

00:09:15.000 The facts are undeniable.

00:09:16.000 Breitbart News has become precisely the reverse of what Andrew would have wanted.

00:09:20.000 Steve Bannon and those who follow his lead should be ashamed of themselves.

00:09:23.000 Okay, that looks pretty good today because that's exactly what it was.

00:09:25.000 He turned it into Trump's personal Pravda.

00:09:28.000 They denied this at the time.

00:09:29.000 No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:09:30.000 They ran a whole big piece about how I was a traitor to the cause for leaving and for pointing out that it's bad when publications don't back their own reporters out of personal loyalty to a political candidate.

00:09:39.000 That makes them a propaganda outlet, not a news outlet.

00:09:42.000 Trump is not a conservative.

00:09:43.000 Andrew knew Trump was not a conservative.

00:09:45.000 He never would have provided the worshipful coverage of Donald Trump's nationalist populist agenda that Breitbart did.

00:09:50.000 Andrew didn't like bullies. 0.99

00:09:51.000 Trump is a bully. 0.99

00:09:53.000 But obviously Bannon is too, so it doesn't really matter. 0.99

00:09:55.000 Okay, so that's number one that you need to know about Bannon.

00:09:57.000 Second, if you think Bannon is in this for Trump, he's not in it for Trump.

00:10:00.000 He's in it for Bannon, okay?

00:10:01.000 The way that Steve works, and just look at his political career, he became prominent when he did a really crappy documentary called Generation Zero.

00:10:08.000 And it is.

00:10:08.000 I mean, it's an egregiously bad documentary.

00:10:10.000 It's the kind of documentary made by an amateur where you have a bunch of

00:10:14.000 Where you have a bunch of time-lapse photography to demonstrate drama, and you go black and white to demonstrate drama, and you have stock footage of clowns hitting each other.

00:10:21.000 Really, this is the kind of thing that was in his film.

00:10:23.000 He got some coverage for this.

00:10:25.000 He got on Fox News.

00:10:25.000 He was on Sean Hannity's Friends with Sean.

00:10:27.000 He began elevating his profile after he attached himself to Michelle Bachman with another documentary called Fire from the Heartland, and then he did another documentary after he insinuated himself in with Sarah Palin.

00:10:39.000 He made another crappy documentary called The Undefeated.

00:10:41.000 And again, it's a really, really crappy documentary.

00:10:44.000 But the point was, he was now associated with Sarah Palin.

00:10:46.000 And this was now his calling card.

00:10:48.000 Because Sarah Palin was a hot commodity in 2011, right?

00:10:50.000 She's fresh off of the 2008 race.

00:10:53.000 People were still big fans of Sarah Palin.

00:10:54.000 This is before she sort of became a parody of herself.

00:10:57.000 And Bannon attached himself to her and sort of rode her coattails and presumably kept telling her everything she was doing was wonderful until she became sort of the mockery that she's become.

00:11:06.000 And I don't think it's a coincidence that Palin was the first Tea Partier to really endorse Trump.

00:11:11.000 He began appearing on Fox News fairly regularly, and he met Andrew Breitbart.

00:11:14.000 He gave Andrew Breitbart some office space, and he lent Andrew Breitbart the office space, which Andrew was grateful for.

00:11:20.000 And then, after Andrew died, Larry Solove, who was Andrew Breitbart's partner, decided, okay, I'm gonna make Bannon the chairman of the company.

00:11:26.000 There were a lot of people inside the company who I think were not— I was one of them.

00:11:29.000 I was not happy that Bannon was made chairman of the company, because I'd had experiences with Bannon before.

00:11:33.000 But, in any case, he made him chairman of the company.

00:11:36.000 And things were fine for a while, because Steve was

00:11:40.000 Steve's a very smart guy.

00:11:42.000 He's a bright guy.

00:11:45.000 When the Trump campaign began, that's when things began to go sideways, because at that point it became clear that Steve, who was the guiding force of Breitbart now, had decided that it was very important that Trump be stumped for under virtually all circumstances.

00:11:57.000 So it turned into Trump-Pravda.

00:11:59.000 He denied that it was turning into Trump-Pravda, or if he didn't personally, I mean, he essentially did, but the website definitely tried to maintain this veneer of, we're not Trump-Pravda.

00:12:09.000 And now, of course, it's clear.

00:12:11.000 They were Trump-Pravda.

00:12:12.000 In fact, half the staff is now moving over there.

00:12:13.000 There's a report today that Matthew Boyle, their lead Washington reporter, is going to be working for Trump.

00:12:18.000 Joel Pollack, who was the in-house counsel and former editor-in-chief, he had been trying to get a speechwriting job with Trump.

00:12:24.000 Okay, so they're always very close.

00:12:26.000 And it was all for Steve's personal self-aggrandizement.

00:12:29.000 I also have some information from other sources.

00:12:32.000 This is not from me.

00:12:34.000 The chief investors in Breitbart News are people called the Mercers.

00:12:38.000 Robert Mercer is a hedge fund manager, and they gave an enormous amount of money to Ted Cruz.

00:12:42.000 They started a super PAC for Ted Cruz, gave a lot of money to the Ted Cruz super PAC.

00:12:46.000 They're also the lead investors in Breitbart News.

00:12:49.000 Well, as the campaign went on, other people who were spending money on the Cruz campaign went to the Mercer family, whose spokesperson was Kellyanne Conway, the new campaign manager for Trump, and they said to Kellyanne Conway and the Mercers, guys, what are you doing?

00:13:03.000 You're spending like tens of millions of dollars on Cruz, and you also spent money on Breitbart.

00:13:07.000 Why is your right hand fighting with your left hand?

00:13:09.000 Why is Breitbart trying to take out Cruz and push Trump?

00:13:12.000 And the Mercer family was telling people, no, no, no, Bannon isn't anti-Trump.

00:13:16.000 They were telling people, no, Breitbart News isn't anti-Trump.

00:13:18.000 Now, anyone who's watching Breitbart News knew, I mean, or anti-Cruz, everybody who's watching Breitbart News knew that it was a pro-Trump outlet at that point, but presumably, I mean, I can't imagine any other way the Mercers got this impression, presumably Bannon was telling them all the way through, it's not that we're pro-Trump, we're not, we're just, we're treating everybody equally.

00:13:37.000 That's kind of bad stuff.

00:13:39.000 Breitbart staff, as I mentioned, lusts after Trump involvement, which is important. 0.89

00:13:42.000 Under Bannon's leadership, Breitbart also transferred into, in following Trump, they transferred into the sort of Milo Yiannopoulos, white supremacist, alt-right garbage version of the right wing that has nothing to do with constitutional conservatism.

00:13:57.000 And that, I think, is a betrayal of Andrew's memory.

00:14:00.000 Also, it's worth noting, and here's where we get into the serious stuff.

00:14:03.000 You know, I've speculated that this could be, for Steve, what's Steve's play?

00:14:06.000 Well, I mean, play number one could be Trump wins, and now he's the chief of staff and I have to go into hiding.

00:14:11.000 That's play number one. 0.71

00:14:12.000 Play number two is Trump loses, and at that point, Steve uses Trump and all of his newfound media connections, who have become very loyal to Trump, and builds a new network, and builds a new network.

00:14:23.000 And that's speculation, but

00:14:25.000 Steve's a very smart guy, and I would imagine that he's thought along those lines, because he doesn't like to enter scenarios where it's a win-lose, where he can lose.

00:14:32.000 That's a no-lose scenario.

00:14:33.000 If he wins, then he's in the White House.

00:14:35.000 If he loses, then he gets to build this big new network and blame people like me for Trump losing, even though he was the one in charge of the failing Trump campaign.

00:14:42.000 Okay, so a couple of important points here.

00:14:46.000 And as I mentioned, I think that Bannon's a legitimately sinister figure.

00:14:49.000 But there are some more important points than just Trump hiring sinister figures.

00:14:52.000 He's hired sinister figures before.

00:14:53.000 For goodness sake, he's hired Paul Manafort, who may be on the Kremlin's payroll.

00:14:58.000 He's a very close relationship with Roger Stone, one of the sleaziest people in American politics.

00:15:03.000 This would be nothing new.

00:15:05.000 Here is where we get dicey.

00:15:07.000 Here is where we get dicey.

00:15:09.000 The place where we get dicey is the point that Trump tried to make the other day.

00:15:14.000 So here's Donald Trump talking about how he's sick of the media-donor political complex.

00:15:19.000 And he's talking about the left here.

00:15:23.000 Do we have this clip one?

00:15:27.000 Or some encrusted old politician says they oppose our campaign.

00:15:33.000 Or some big-time lobbyist says they oppose the campaign of Trump.

00:15:39.000 I wear their opposition as a badge of honor.

00:15:49.000 Because it means I'm fighting for real change, not just partisan change where everybody else gets rich but you.

00:15:59.000 A rigged, rigged system.

00:16:01.000 Remember it.

00:16:01.000 I said it first.

00:16:03.000 I'll probably be saying it for a long time.

00:16:05.000 But eventually, we're going to break that system.

00:16:08.000 Media donor political class, right?

00:16:10.000 He just hired the head of a major, major political website to run his campaign.

00:16:17.000 Breitbart has built itself on the back of Trump.

00:16:18.000 I mean, they went from like 30 million page views a month in 2012, 2013, to now 200 million page views, largely on the back of Trumpism.

00:16:27.000 Largely on the back of Trump.

00:16:29.000 And, you know, that's...

00:16:31.000 His prerogative, but it does give the lie to the idea that there's media corruption only on one side of the aisle.

00:16:36.000 Because the fact is this, the Trump campaign has been claiming that there's this whole vast swath of media on the left who refuse to acknowledge their own bias and then go out there and stump for Democrats.

00:16:46.000 That is 100% true.

00:16:48.000 That is also exactly what Breitbart is.

00:16:49.000 That's exactly what Breitbart has become.

00:16:51.000 Breitbart was a propaganda outlet for Donald Trump.

00:16:54.000 They refused to acknowledge it, and now they are part and parcel of the Trump campaign.

00:16:58.000 And it's really nasty.

00:16:59.000 It's really bad.

00:17:00.000 Andrew Breitbart wrote large segments in his book, Righteous Indignation, about the evils of what he called the Democrat media complex.

00:17:07.000 He said that was a really nasty thing to have these people working hand in glove.

00:17:11.000 The idea was not to build a Trump

00:17:15.000 Media complex.

00:17:15.000 That was not the idea, but that's exactly what Bannon has created here.

00:17:19.000 And again, it demonstrates the corruption within conservatism, the lust for power that allows people to sell out their principles, and it really is quite ugly.

00:17:27.000 Again, that may not be a bad move for Trump.

00:17:29.000 So, now that we've put all of that information aside, now that's all on the table, and I've tried to be objective as I can, and I'm admittedly not objective about this.

00:17:37.000 Now that we've put that aside, now that we've said, you know, maybe Trump is capable of, maybe this is a good move for Trump, now I want to talk about good Trump.

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00:18:17.000 All righty, so now it's time for some good Trump.

00:18:19.000 So I've told you everything you need to know about the Trump campaign apparatus.

00:18:23.000 Again, I think that Bannon will be kind of a yes man.

00:18:25.000 I think that he's going to tell Trump what he wants to hear because his relationship with Trump is significantly more important to him than Trump actually winning.

00:18:34.000 I don't think that he's going to be able to boost Trump to victory.

00:18:36.000 I think that he's going to push whatever the Breitbart line is.

00:18:38.000 Now, he may bring some discipline to Trump.

00:18:41.000 He may bring some discipline to Trump.

00:18:44.000 And the reason I say this is because last night, Donald Trump gave what is, by any measure, the best speech that Donald Trump has ever given.

00:18:50.000 It was a really, really good speech.

00:18:52.000 It was a 9 out of 10 speech.

00:18:53.000 In some areas, it was a 10 out of 10 speech.

00:18:55.000 This is his speech on race.

00:18:56.000 So he gave a speech that's about 40 miles outside of Milwaukee, with these riots going on that we've been talking about the past few days.

00:19:02.000 And he gives a speech on law and order and crime.

00:19:04.000 And suddenly Donald Trump is who people wanted him to be.

00:19:07.000 Suddenly Donald Trump is saying politically incorrect things that must be said.

00:19:10.000 What he's about to say here, what you're about to hear Donald Trump say is very, very good stuff.

00:19:15.000 Here is Donald Trump talking about law and order in front of the media.

00:19:20.000 And again, this is what people wanted Trump to be.

00:19:23.000 This is good.

00:19:24.000 This is good Trump.

00:19:26.000 The violence, riots, and destruction

00:19:29.000 that have taken place in Milwaukee is an assault on the right of all citizens to live in security and to live in peace.

00:19:42.000 Law and order must be restored.

00:19:51.000 It must be restored for the sake of all

00:19:55.000 But most especially for the sake of those living in the affected communities, of which there are many.

00:20:02.000 The main victims of these riots are law-abiding African American citizens living in these neighborhoods.

00:20:12.000 It's their job, it's their homes, it's their schools and communities which will suffer the most as a result.

00:20:21.000 There's no compassion in tolerating lawless conduct for anyone.

00:20:33.000 Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be accepted in a Trump administration.

00:20:42.000 Okay, so that's first rate.

00:20:43.000 That's first rate.

00:20:44.000 Crime and violence won't be accepted.

00:20:46.000 It's an attack on—exactly right. 0.94

00:20:48.000 Exactly right.

00:20:48.000 And then he goes on, and he says that Hillary Clinton's narrative is absolute nonsense and does damage to race relations in the country.

00:20:54.000 This is great stuff.

00:20:55.000 This is top-notch Trump stuff.

00:20:56.000 If the man had any sort of focus at all, if the man had any capacity to contain himself, this would be a very different race right now. 0.98

00:21:02.000 Maybe that's what Bannon will bring.

00:21:04.000 Maybe it will be.

00:21:04.000 And again, I'm trying to be as objective as I can be about a guy who I think, I was on CNN earlier today, and they asked me, you know, you're saying all these things about, about Bannon being vindictive and nasty and all this stuff.

00:21:14.000 Do you have any sour grapes?

00:21:15.000 And I said, well, sure. 1.00

00:21:16.000 I think he's a jerk. 1.00

00:21:17.000 But I'm trying to be objective about the impact on the Trump campaign, because I think that that matters more to people than the fact that Trump hires really nasty human beings around him, because I think we already know that. 1.00

00:21:26.000 So here is, here's Trump again, doing the right thing, going after Hillary Clinton.

00:21:31.000 The narrative has been pushed aggressively for years, and now, by our current administration, and pushed by my opponent, Hillary Clinton, you know, is a totally false one.

00:21:46.000 You know that.

00:21:48.000 The problem in our poorest communities is not that there are too many police.

00:21:54.000 The problem is that there are not enough police.

00:22:01.000 More law enforcement, more community engagement, more effective policing is what our country needs desperately.

00:22:10.000 Just like Hillary Clinton is against the minors, she is against the police. 0.99

00:22:16.000 Believe me.

00:22:20.000 You know it and I know it, and guess what?

00:22:23.000 She knows it.

00:22:26.000 Those peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society, a narrative supported with a nod by my opponent, shared directly in the responsibility for the unrest in Milwaukee and many other places within our country.

00:22:47.000 They have fostered the dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America.

00:22:53.000 Again, 100% true.

00:22:55.000 This is exactly right.

00:22:56.000 Good for him for saying this.

00:22:58.000 Good on him for saying this.

00:22:59.000 This is disciplined Trump.

00:23:00.000 And by the way, his delivery here is much better.

00:23:03.000 His delivery here is significantly better than it has been.

00:23:05.000 Because I think that he actually believes this stuff.

00:23:08.000 So, you know, I think that this is really, really solid material from Donald Trump.

00:23:14.000 And then he continues along these lines.

00:23:15.000 Again, this is his best speech.

00:23:16.000 He says, the war on the cops has to stop.

00:23:19.000 Every time we rush to judgment with false facts and narratives, whether in Ferguson or in Baltimore, and foment further unrest, we do a direct disservice to poor African-American residents who are hurt by the high crime in their community.

00:23:38.000 A big, big unfair problem.

00:23:44.000 During the last 72 hours, while protesters have raged against the police here in Milwaukee, another nine were killed in Chicago, and another 46 were wounded.

00:23:57.000 More than 2,600 people have been shot in Chicago since the beginning of the year, and almost 4,000 people killed

00:24:08.000 In President Obama's hometown area since his presidency began.

00:24:14.000 Not too good, that's for sure.

00:24:21.000 So how are we serving these American victims?

00:24:23.000 By attacking law enforcement officers.

00:24:26.000 The war on our police must end and it must end now.

00:24:48.000 Thank you.

00:24:51.000 The war on police is a war on all peaceful citizens who want to be able to work and live and send their kids to school in safety.

00:25:01.000 Okay, this is exactly right.

00:25:03.000 It's exactly right.

00:25:03.000 I mean, I've been saying this stuff for months.

00:25:05.000 I've been saying that Republicans should campaign on the rising crime rate.

00:25:08.000 I've been saying we need more cops, not fewer cops.

00:25:10.000 He's saying everything that I've been saying, and he's saying it well.

00:25:13.000 This is really well stated.

00:25:14.000 This is really good stuff.

00:25:15.000 If this is what Bannon brings to the table, good for Bannon.

00:25:17.000 Good for Bannon.

00:25:19.000 I think Bannon's a terrible person, but that doesn't really matter, you know?

00:25:23.000 I mean, in the end, all that matters is, does he help Trump?

00:25:26.000 Does he make Trump better?

00:25:27.000 Does he make Trump worse?

00:25:28.000 We'll find out.

00:25:29.000 We'll find out.

00:25:29.000 But if last night was an indicator, then he's making Trump better, because this is exactly right.

00:25:34.000 And then he goes even further, and again, I thought this was just a great speech.

00:25:37.000 I really did.

00:25:38.000 I mean, I'm raving about the speech, because I think it was really terrific.

00:25:40.000 Here's Donald Trump talking about the black vote.

00:25:46.000 The Hillary Clinton agenda hurts poor people by far the most.

00:25:52.000 There is no compassion in allowing drug dealers, gang members, and felons to prey on innocent people.

00:26:06.000 It is the first duty of government to keep the innocent safe.

00:26:11.000 And when I'm president, I will fight for the safety of every American, and especially those Americans who have not known safety for a very, very long time.

00:26:31.000 I'm asking

00:26:33.000 For the vote of every African-American citizen struggling in our country today who wants a different and much better future.

00:26:46.000 Good.

00:26:47.000 Honestly, this is good.

00:26:48.000 He should have been doing this weeks ago instead of attacking Gold Star families and making an ass of himself, but it's good that he's doing it now.

00:26:54.000 It's a little late.

00:26:55.000 We'll find out whether he's able to shift, whether the media will allow him to shift.

00:26:57.000 By the way, I do think that it was bad politicking to drop the Bannon news on the day after he gave such a good speech like this.

00:27:04.000 He could have just waited until the end of the week, done it Friday night,

00:27:06.000 It's like the guy doesn't know how a Friday News dump works.

00:27:08.000 Just say that you made the move on Friday night.

00:27:10.000 Do it quietly.

00:27:11.000 There'll be a poop storm a little bit over the weekend, but nobody will pay attention.

00:27:13.000 And by Monday, you're still campaigning.

00:27:15.000 Instead, it looks like chaos, when it really may not be.

00:27:18.000 But this is really, really good stuff.

00:27:21.000 It's really good stuff.

00:27:22.000 And then he says what is true. 0.73

00:27:24.000 He says the Democratic Party has failed black people.

00:27:25.000 And this, of course, is exactly right.

00:27:27.000 The Democratic Party has failed and betrayed the African-American community.

00:27:33.000 Democratic crime policies, education policies, and economic policies have produced only more crime, more broken homes, and more poverty.

00:27:44.000 That's 100% true.

00:27:45.000 Okay, so, here's the deal.

00:27:48.000 All of this is good.

00:27:49.000 Are we now going to get more concerted Trump?

00:27:52.000 Are we going to get better Trump?

00:27:53.000 Maybe we are.

00:27:54.000 Because if the last two days are any indicator, Trump has been better.

00:27:57.000 Trump has been better.

00:27:58.000 And we'll find out whether he can be contained.

00:28:00.000 Whether Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway are capable of containing Donald Trump.

00:28:07.000 And it'll be interesting to find out.

00:28:08.000 I'm interested to find out, aren't you?

00:28:10.000 Now, as far as, you know, if I'm going to vote for the guy, you know, I have no plans right now to vote at the top of the ticket, as I've said, but that shifts on a day-to-day basis.

00:28:17.000 You know, I don't know where I'm going to be in three months.

00:28:20.000 If Trump is good for three months, if this becomes real Trump, if I become convinced that Trump isn't lying to me, if I become convinced that Trump actually believes the things that he said and he's not just being coached to say them, if I believe that Trump has an ounce of stability and an iota of decency,

00:28:34.000 Then I could be convinced.

00:28:35.000 I mean, I've said this before.

00:28:36.000 Never Trump is a statement based on evidence that is available right now.

00:28:39.000 It is not a statement that if Donald Trump turns into a different candidate that things can't change, that things can't change.

00:28:45.000 But I thought that this speech was really first rate.

00:28:47.000 I do.

00:28:48.000 And I think that, you know, it's disturbing to me that some of the worst people I think in America are now surrounding Donald Trump.

00:28:54.000 That frightens me personally, because I know a lot of these people, and they're very vindictive, and I've spoken out against what I think is a vindictive, nasty ideology that they embrace, and that may have ramifications for me personally.

00:29:05.000 But that being said, that being said, I also understand that if it's a binary race between Trump and Hillary Clinton, and it comes down to, is Trump palatable,

00:29:16.000 And you think that Trump is becoming more palatable, he's beginning to actually represent an ideology that's not terrible, he's beginning to move on from the alt-right white nationalism of Breitbart News' current iteration, and he just starts talking about things that are true and real, that changes the nature of the ballgame.

00:29:32.000 Now we'll have to see if that's true, because obviously he just imported half of Breitbart, and those people have imported a new brand of alt-right white nationalism to Breitbart that didn't used to exist there, which obviously was very troubling to me.

00:29:44.000 So, okay.

00:29:46.000 Now it's time to look at some of the media reactions.

00:29:48.000 The media obviously hate Trump.

00:29:50.000 And again, it undercuts his the media hate me argument when he actually takes in a major site and makes it part of his campaign.

00:29:56.000 That said, the media clearly hate Trump.

00:29:59.000 What he said here was true, right?

00:30:01.000 What he said here was true. 0.78

00:30:03.000 And that's not going to, that's not going to

00:30:06.000 Carry any weight with the media because truth means nothing when it comes to the media.

00:30:10.000 There are a bunch of media outlets that immediately started tweeting that black folks don't believe anything that Trump is saying.

00:30:16.000 So here's a little bit of that.

00:30:18.000 So you have people saying Trump saw he was getting 1% from black people and said, too high!

00:30:23.000 Donald Trump is getting African American outreach wrong in the exact way the GOP has been getting it wrong my entire life.

00:30:28.000 Among other things, Trump has spoken all kinds of craziness about Obama. 0.95

00:30:31.000 Why would black folks vote for such a man? 1.00

00:30:33.000 We're 20 minutes into the speech in which Trump is making the pitch to African Americans and he hasn't said one thing that he'll do for them.

00:30:39.000 Trump went to Wisconsin to woo 1% of black voters that support him, which is weird because that 1% already works on his campaigns. 0.97

00:30:45.000 The media I've already jumped into, black people hate Trump. 0.99

00:30:48.000 They're not going to come behind him. 0.88

00:30:50.000 Now, I think that one of the reasons that he's had trouble with the black community is because of all of his various alliances with the alt-right.

00:30:58.000 I think that it didn't help him very much when he was going on national TV and refusing to denounce the KKK.

00:31:02.000 I think that sort of thing has play.

00:31:04.000 I think that that sort of thing doesn't work out well. 1.00

00:31:07.000 I don't think that it works out well for Donald Trump when he associates with the alt-right and uses terms, people who are closely associated with him use idiotic terms like cuck, which, for those who don't know, is an insult that means a man who likes to watch his wife have sex with black women, apparently. 0.99

00:31:24.000 I should know, I've been on enough, I've been on the receiving end of enough insults, cuck insults, to last me a lifetime during this campaign cycle. 0.99

00:31:31.000 But, that doesn't change the argument.

00:31:33.000 True is true.

00:31:35.000 True is true.

00:31:35.000 And I particularly like that tweet there that says, you know, Trump hasn't told black people what he'll do for them.

00:31:39.000 Yeah, he did.

00:31:40.000 He said, I'm gonna put more law enforcement in your community.

00:31:42.000 That's a big thing to do for black folks, because if the crime rate doesn't go down, there's gonna be no investment in those communities, no jobs in those communities, no decent schools in those communities.

00:31:51.000 If you don't get the crime rate down, you're not gonna have stable families, you're not gonna have stable jobs, you're not gonna have stable education.

00:31:58.000 But because he's not mirroring, I mean, what could he do other than go out there and mirror the left's welfare-first agenda?

00:32:04.000 Rip on the cops.

00:32:04.000 I mean, I'm sorry, but that doesn't wash.

00:32:07.000 I thought it was a great speech by Trump, and I think that that is what it is.

00:32:11.000 I think that that's a good move by Trump, and we'll see if he can put together a few days of this.

00:32:15.000 He's been 48 hours without a big boo-boo.

00:32:17.000 We'll see if that continues on.

00:32:19.000 Okay.

00:32:20.000 Now for some things I like and some things that I hate.

00:32:23.000 So, things I like.

00:32:24.000 So we've been doing true crime stories.

00:32:26.000 Good movie that came out, I think last year, with Steve Carell playing against type as DuPont, as this rich, this billionaire who wanted to coach wrestling and sponsor the Olympic wrestling team.

00:32:41.000 And he was responsible for the murder of this Olympic wrestler.

00:32:44.000 Here's the trailer for Foxcatcher.

00:32:46.000 Do you have any idea who I am?

00:32:49.000 Some rich guy calls you on the phone and wants to speak with you about what you hope to achieve.

00:32:55.000 What do you hope to achieve, Mark?

00:33:01.000 I want to be the best in the world.

00:33:05.000 Good.

00:33:11.000 There's a key for you.

00:33:12.000 Also, Big House is off limits.

00:33:15.000 Okay.

00:33:17.000 Coach DuPont has a vision.

00:33:19.000 He would like Foxcatcher to be the official training site for the national team.

00:33:24.000 What's he get out of all this?

00:33:26.000 What are you thinking?

00:33:27.000 This is it.

00:33:28.000 This is all that we've ever wanted.

00:33:31.000 Mark, you have been living in your brother's shadow your entire life.

00:33:35.000 It's your time now.

00:33:37.000 Promise you, I'll give you everything I have.

00:33:41.000 I am leading men.

00:33:43.000 And I am giving America hope.

00:33:46.000 I spent my lifetime looking for a father and I found one in John DuPont.

00:33:53.000 It doesn't matter.

00:33:55.000 The sport of wrestling is a low sport.

00:33:59.000 The movie itself is really good.

00:34:00.000 It's very gripping.

00:34:02.000 I liked it a lot.

00:34:02.000 I thought it was a very good movie.

00:34:03.000 Fox, Ketro, Steve Carell.

00:34:05.000 The best thing in it is Mark Ruffalo, who's a little bit mannered, but he plays the... He and Channing Tatum are both very good in it.

00:34:11.000 Very, very solid crime film.

00:34:13.000 Okay, other things that I like.

00:34:15.000 I have to admit, I laughed really hard when the left decided that they were going to go after Ellen DeGeneres.

00:34:19.000 So Ellen DeGeneres tweeted something out. 1.00

00:34:22.000 She thought it was going to be funny.

00:34:23.000 And it's a picture of her riding on Usain Bolt.

00:34:26.000 And it says, this is how I'm running errands from now on.

00:34:29.000 So it's a white woman gripping Usain Bolt's back as he runs. 0.85

00:34:33.000 Now, I don't see anything particularly racist about this.

00:34:36.000 Usain Bolt is the fastest man on earth.

00:34:37.000 That's obviously the joke. 0.89

00:34:38.000 It's not that he's a black man. 0.73

00:34:39.000 If he were a white man, presumably she'd do the same thing, right? 0.95

00:34:42.000 But the left loses their mind on her.

00:34:45.000 I mean, I'm talking about national political commentary.

00:34:48.000 Is it racist for her to tweet a photoshopped photo of herself riding Usain Bolt?

00:34:52.000 Is he her mule now? 0.98

00:34:54.000 I love it when the left eats the left.

00:34:55.000 I think it's hilarious.

00:34:56.000 Ellen DeGeneres is a beneficiary of politically correct standards when it comes to politics. 1.00

00:35:01.000 She's an enforcer of politically correct standards when it comes to politics. 1.00

00:35:04.000 Watching those standards turned against her, I just sort of like watching the left eat the left.

00:35:08.000 It's one of my favorite things.

00:35:09.000 Now, things that I hate.

00:35:10.000 Now, half the show today could have been called things that I hate, because, as I say, legitimately one of the worst people of whom I'm aware is now running the Trump campaign, and if he becomes chief of staff in the White House, then I'd best get my nail file ready, because I have a feeling that I will be behind bars.

00:35:27.000 But, here's some actual things I hate.

00:35:32.000 Rachel, one of the things that I hate, and this has been a problem for the Trump campaign, my biggest problem with the Trump campaign, is that they've made the arguments for the left themselves.

00:35:39.000 What I like about Trump's speech yesterday is that he actually made some good arguments.

00:35:42.000 What I dislike about the Trump campaign generally is they make the case for the left themselves.

00:35:46.000 So here is Rachel Maddow, last night on MSNBC, talking about the fact that Roger Ailes, who was just ousted from Fox News over dozens of allegations of sexual harassment, he's now going to be training Donald Trump for debate.

00:35:59.000 And here's Rachel Maddow.

00:36:00.000 He was just forced out of Fox News a few weeks ago because of multiple high-profile sexual harassment allegations from multiple female Fox News employees.

00:36:08.000 So it's a little odd, right, that the man at the center of the highest-profile sexual harassment scandal since Bill Cosby would be brought on board by a presidential campaign while that sexual harassment scandal was erupting.

00:36:23.000 That's the part of it that's odd, obviously.

00:36:27.000 Of course, what's expected about it is that, you know, if there's anybody who doesn't care about that kind of a scandal, it's probably Donald Trump.

00:36:34.000 Okay, so, you know, the problem here that you've got, the problem that you've got here is that it's true. 0.68

00:36:40.000 It's true.

00:36:42.000 He hires on Roger Ailes.

00:36:43.000 Roger Ailes, very famous political consultant, very good at what he does.

00:36:46.000 Roger Ailes is also under allegations, serious allegations of sexual harassment that span decades.

00:36:52.000 And Donald Trump hires him because obviously he doesn't care about the imagistics.

00:36:55.000 He doesn't care about how that plays out in the media.

00:36:58.000 It makes the left's argument so, so easy, and there's no reason to do that.

00:37:03.000 There's just no reason to do that.

00:37:05.000 But he did it anyway.

00:37:06.000 He did it anyway.

00:37:07.000 And there's no—again, he had the line of attack.

00:37:09.000 The line of attack is sexual assault and sexual harassment.

00:37:11.000 That's Bill Clinton.

00:37:13.000 Hillary justified it.

00:37:14.000 Now he's taking that line of attack away from himself by hiring Roger Ailes.

00:37:18.000 You see this kind of stuff with the Trump campaign all the time, just shooting themselves in the foot and destroying conservative arguments in the process, because everybody who's on the Trump train and thinks it's okay for him to hire Roger Ailes, now every time you say Hillary Clinton enables sexual assault and sexual harassment, they say, well, you enable sexual assault and sexual harassment because you back a guy who's willing to hire Roger Ailes to guide his campaign.

00:37:39.000 Sean Hannity did a bit of this same routine yesterday, and it's just, it's bad.

00:37:43.000 Here's Sean Hannity talking about CNN.

00:37:46.000 The media is so in the tank, so on board for Hillary, they're so abusively biased. 1.00

00:37:53.000 I literally watched this show on CNN over the weekend.

00:37:56.000 And you got this little pipsqueak named Brian Stelter, and he allowed this arrogant professor from the Kennedy School of Journalism to talk about Trump being a demagogue, and demagogues like Trump become dictators. 1.00

00:38:10.000 That's the type of coverage that CNN offers in this presidential race as they literally kiss Hillary Clinton's ass and Obama's ass every day. 1.00

00:38:19.000 Wait a minute. 1.00

00:38:21.000 Sean, I don't know if we're allowed to say that.

00:38:22.000 It's early. 1.00

00:38:23.000 Okay, so first of all, they literally kiss her ass. 1.00

00:38:26.000 No, they don't. 1.00

00:38:26.000 They figuratively kiss her ass. 1.00

00:38:29.000 But here's the problem. 1.00

00:38:31.000 Sean Hannity is right when he says that all of these outlets, they spin for Hillary unendingly and unceasingly.

00:38:37.000 That is 100% true.

00:38:39.000 It is 1000% true.

00:38:40.000 It could not be truer.

00:38:42.000 But Sean Hannity doesn't get to say that.

00:38:44.000 Okay, Sean Hannity doesn't get to talk about spinning for a candidate.

00:38:47.000 Sean Hannity has spent the last several months spinning for Donald Trump.

00:38:51.000 He's spinning so hard that he would make a dreidel look stagnant. 1.00

00:38:55.000 I mean, Donald Trump—there's a Jewish reference for you—for Donald Trump, 0.98

00:38:59.000 For Sean Hannity to complain about bias in the media is just beyond ridiculous. 0.93

00:39:05.000 I mean, he's destroyed his own credibility. 0.53

00:39:08.000 And now that you have him doing this routine, it kills the argument.

00:39:13.000 And the argument is still valid.

00:39:14.000 It's still relevant.

00:39:15.000 It's still a good argument.

00:39:16.000 But there's no way that you can have Sean Hannity

00:39:22.000 Making that argument.

00:39:23.000 Okay.

00:39:24.000 Final thing that I hate.

00:39:26.000 Roger Stone, another one of the world's worst human beings, is part of the Trump campaign.

00:39:29.000 And honestly, at this point, I think that Trump should just hire Alex Jones and be done with it.

00:39:33.000 He should just hire all of the people who love him ardently, but are unpalatable to mainstream conservatives.

00:39:39.000 Here's Roger Stone saying that Julian Assange has an October surprise planned.

00:39:43.000 I'm always wondering what's going on with Roger Stone.

00:39:46.000 Man leads an interesting life.

00:39:47.000 I mean, clearly he's doing this from, like, an old age home in Florida.

00:39:51.000 And here's Roger Stone talking to Dana Lash.

00:39:54.000 The left loved Julian Assange when he exposed the dark secrets of the Bushes.

00:39:59.000 And here he is exposing the dark secrets of the establishment.

00:40:05.000 I believe that Mr. Assange has all of the emails that Huma Abedin and Sheryl Mills, the two top Clinton aides, believe that they had destroyed.

00:40:18.000 So if that is true,

00:40:21.000 And he releases him through this election as he released strategically the DNC documents that showed that Hillary basically had to cheat to screw Bernie out of the Democratic nomination. 0.96

00:40:37.000 Assange is going to be very influential in this election because he's going to be educating the American people about the Clintons.

00:40:49.000 That those who destroyed the email records made the political calculation that they would take less heat for having an unsecured, secret, illegal server and erasing the stuff they thought was problematic than they would take by their being read?

00:41:06.000 That means whatever is in them must be political dynamite.

00:41:10.000 Okay, so what I love about this is that he says basically a little birdie told him that Julian Assange is going to release information.

00:41:17.000 How much would you like to bet that the little birdie resides in the Kremlin?

00:41:20.000 Any bets on that?

00:41:21.000 There's a report from AP today that Paul Manafort may be under investigation for his ties to Vladimir Putin.

00:41:27.000 There may or may not be illegality. 0.98

00:41:29.000 Again, handing arguments to the left is just dumb.

00:41:32.000 If Julian Assange is going to do it, just let Julian Assange do it.

00:41:35.000 If there's going to be bad material about Hillary, he can just release it. 0.96

00:41:38.000 But having Trump surrogates out there, Trump allies out there on the campaign trail basically spinning for Julian Assange, who is a bad, bad dude, it's just dumb all the way around. 0.83

00:41:46.000 Okay, on Wednesdays, we do our Bible verse study. 0.97

00:41:51.000 We do our Bible study.

00:41:52.000 Every week, as I mentioned, we talk about the latest Bible portion.

00:41:56.000 So in the Jewish community, as I explain every week, we read a different

00:42:01.000 portion of the Torah.

00:42:02.000 It's called the Torah portion, a parsha, and this week it is from Deuteronomy.

00:42:06.000 By the time we go through the whole year, we've gone through the entire five books of Moses.

00:42:09.000 This week it is from Deuteronomy 4.

00:42:10.000 So here are some Bible verses.

00:42:12.000 Deuteronomy 4 says,

00:42:31.000 This is a really tough one for a lot of religious people.

00:42:33.000 And it's a tough one for people on the left, too, by the way.

00:42:37.000 It's very easy in life to think that you can discern the motives behind the universe, and then that you can pass a bunch of laws or regulations that make that motive clear.

00:42:48.000 The Torah is filled with commandments.

00:42:49.000 Jews have 613 commandments. 0.98

00:42:51.000 According to Judaism, non-Jews have seven commandments that they have to keep, the seven commandments of Noah. 0.96

00:42:58.000 But it's imperative.

00:42:59.000 I mean, it's a very important thing that a lot of religious people forget.

00:43:02.000 It's not just, don't take away the law.

00:43:04.000 Don't just abrogate the law.

00:43:06.000 It's also, you don't get to add laws on top of the other laws to create some sort of giant bulwark of laws that you claim are in God's name.

00:43:13.000 You don't really get to do that.

00:43:15.000 God is clear about what he wants in the Torah, and he doesn't need your help.

00:43:18.000 He doesn't need you adding commandments to what he's doing.

00:43:21.000 And the same thing is true when it comes to the realm of government.

00:43:23.000 The easiest thing in the world, and it's a way of viewing things that the left has made very popular, is when the left talks about, you know, why should you be allowed to do something?

00:43:32.000 Why should you be allowed to do something?

00:43:34.000 What they're talking about is a regime where the government has all the power and you're only allowed to do things.

00:43:41.000 Right?

00:43:41.000 It's just an allowance from the government for you to be able to earn.

00:43:44.000 It's an allowance from the government for you to be able to conduct your religious life as you see fit.

00:43:48.000 That's precisely the reverse of what a good system does.

00:43:51.000 A good system says, here are the minimal numbers of rules that you need in order to be a good person.

00:43:57.000 And in order to ensure that you don't hurt anyone else, which is sort of the baseline definition of being a decent person.

00:44:01.000 And then we don't add rules on top of that.

00:44:03.000 And then it's your job to be a good person outside of that.

00:44:06.000 You know, in religious communities, and I'm talking as somebody who's an Orthodox Jew who follows, you know, as many of the 613 as I possibly can. 0.60

00:44:14.000 When I look at the bulwark of laws that Judaism represents, one of the beauties of it is that it takes very seriously the idea of what does God want me to do on a day-to-day, moment-to-moment level.

00:44:25.000 One of the things that drives people away, however, is when people assume that extra regulations, that extra laws, that extra rules are going to make people closer to God or closer to loyalty to the government or closer to each other.

00:44:37.000 It's just not the case.

00:44:38.000 It's just not the case.

00:44:39.000 There are certain rules that we all have to follow, but as God says, you don't add to the word which he commands, because God knows human nature better than you do.

00:44:47.000 And adding to those words just because you think you know better than God, and because you think that even in the interest of preserving what you think God wants you to do, is a very, very dicey and dangerous business indeed.

00:44:57.000 Okay, finally, some corrections.

00:44:59.000 So, a couple of days ago, I was talking about Bowling Branch.

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00:45:05.000 They have these great sheets that I've been sleeping on.

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00:45:13.000 And you get a 20% discount. 0.94

00:45:14.000 I talked about a $200 set of sheets, and like an idiot, I said 20% of $200 is $20. 0.97

00:45:20.000 It's not. 0.96

00:45:20.000 It's $40. 0.96

00:45:21.000 Thanks for the correction.

00:45:22.000 Other corrections.

00:45:23.000 I had said, I think on Monday, that the last Republican mayor of Milwaukee was 1960.

00:45:29.000 That was not true.

00:45:30.000 It was 1908.

00:45:30.000 I made the mistake of looking at the chart of various mayors from Milwaukee on Wikipedia, and I saw that the last red one

00:45:39.000 Was 1960.

00:45:39.000 I neglected to look that red in this various, in this particular chart said Democratic Socialist because I forgot that that's not even a thing, right?

00:45:46.000 But it was a thing.

00:45:47.000 The last time they've had a Republican mayor was 1908.

00:45:51.000 Finally, I said that the Guinness Book of World Records, this is true, so it's not a mistake, the Guinness Book of World Records said the fastest a woman had ever thrown a baseball was 69 miles an hour. 0.99

00:45:58.000 I got a bunch of tweets from very, very angry, angry feminists saying that's not true. 1.00

00:46:04.000 The fastest a woman has ever thrown a baseball is about 80 miles an hour. 1.00

00:46:08.000 Which does not change my point in the slightest.

00:46:10.000 80 miles an hour will maybe allow you to get on the back end of the pitching staff on a junior varsity high school baseball team.

00:46:17.000 Okay, and that was my rip on Fox's new series pitch.

00:46:20.000 Okay, so we've come to the end of today's show.

00:46:22.000 There's going to be much more tomorrow.

00:46:23.000 I know Donald Trump has a town hall tonight.

00:46:25.000 We'll see how his new campaign shakeup plays out, and we'll have more Inside Scoop for you here on The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:46:32.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

The Ben Shapiro Show - August 17, 2016

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