Today, Hillary Clinton is slated to slam the Trump campaign s association with the ex-global alt-right. She s released a brutal ad preparing the groundwork, and we ll show you that ad a little bit later. As one of the leading antagonists of the alt right, there s some accuracy to the ad. But we do have to ask, what s driving Hillary to even raise the profile of the Alt-right by attacking in a full speech, which she s supposed to do in a couple hours or so? And we ll begin with my good friend Adam Carolla, who stopped by on the Ben Shapiro Show yesterday to talk about a new movie that s coming out, and about what it s like to be a conservative in Hollywood. I m Ben Shapiro, and I don t think you re going to want to miss this! Ben Shapiro is a writer, comedian, and podcaster. His work has appeared on Comedy Central, HBO, and many other media outlets. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, The Huffington Post, and has been featured in the Hollywood Reporter, The Weekly Standard, and The Hollywood Reporter. He s a friend of mine and I think you should know who he is. He's one of my favorite human beings, and he's a very funny guy. He also writes a book, too, which you should check out on Amazon, which is a must-listen guy. He also has an excellent book, which I recommend you read, if you re looking for a good one. You can find him on Insta: if you don t miss it: . He's also on Instapaper, on the pod is great, too is on Instafeed, and he also does a good thing, too and so much more, too should you do it on Instacare, and you should listen to it on the or you should go listen to Instapare, too do it in the Insta-seriously, or else you should do it is a great thing, he does it on his podcast, too say it's great, he also is excellent, too of it's good, really should be good, and all of it is good, he's great at it's really good, you should be recommended it s good, right up on it's also good, good of it s really good and he s great, really good at it all of that s good stuff, really really good etc.
00:00:43.000But we do have to ask, what's driving Hillary to even raise the profile of the alt-right by attacking in a full speech, which she's supposed to do in a couple hours or so?
00:00:53.000After all, Joe Biden once said that Mitt Romney, the mildest man in the world, wanted to put black Americans back in chains.
00:00:59.000But it's a weird choice in an election that Hillary, by the polls, is winning handily.
00:01:03.000Unless, of course, it's a preliminary move toward what the alt-right likes to call no-platforming Trump.
00:01:09.000Hillary has been studiously avoiding a press conference for nearly a year now.
00:01:12.000She won't answer difficult questions, she's still leading by big margins in the key swing states, and everybody knows the only possible event that could change that math would be a series of really bad debates against Donald Trump.
00:01:23.000What if all of this is a precursor to her declaring she simply will not debate anyone associated with the alt-right?
00:01:30.000That it would be inappropriate to take seriously a guy whose campaign CEO has green-lit pieces praising the alt-right?
00:01:35.000The media would probably side with her.
00:01:37.000I mean, they always do, after whining about it for a little bit.
00:01:39.000Trump would fulminate that Hillary's afraid of him, and he'd be right.
00:01:42.000But he'd also look like a sore loser, a guy trailing and desperate.
00:01:45.000He'd become Ted Cruz in the last part of the primary campaign.
00:01:48.000You remember Ted Cruz in the last part of the primary campaign?
00:01:50.000He was trailing around Trump saying he won't debate me because he's afraid and he looked desperate?
00:01:54.000Well, that would be Trump now, furiously attempting to pin down Hillary so that he can fight her.
00:02:00.000Well, perhaps that's not the agenda at all.
00:02:02.000Maybe this is all just a cynical play by Hillary to link conservatives with the alt-right, crippling them down the road.
00:02:07.000But it's not implausible to think we may be watching the groundwork for an election gambit that actually could seriously finish Donald Trump's chances at the presidency.
00:03:58.000We talked to him about that and about some of his other films and about what it's like to be a conservative in Hollywood because he really is in Hollywood.
00:04:04.000Here's the interview that we did with Adam Carolla.
00:04:06.000Now joining us here on the Ben Shapiro Show is one of my favorite human beings and the funniest person that I've ever had the pleasure of sitting in a room with, Adam Carolla.
00:04:14.000Adam, of course, is the host of the world-famous Adam Carolla Show.
00:04:17.000The pirate ship is available at adamcarolla.com.
00:04:19.000Adam, thanks so much for joining the show.
00:04:41.000And I sort of wanted to ask you about how that's been received.
00:04:44.000Obviously, you are mostly seen as a guy in comedy, but has your audience received the fact that you're obviously more on sort of the conservative side of the aisle when it comes to personal responsibility?
00:04:57.000Well, it's weird because I've been preaching personal responsibility since I began Loveline in 1996 when you were a zygote.
00:05:12.000I'm an atheist who comes from the real world, and I grew up just real, not even blue-collar, sort of beneath blue-collar, and I just went to work.
00:08:07.000I don't know that it's an intentional hypocrisy with a lot of people that I know, that I'm friends with, that are very squarely Democratic.
00:09:15.000The Democrats have done a pretty wonderful campaign of convincing everybody that conservatives were bad people who hated minorities, who hated children, who wanted to see them go to bed hungry, who didn't care if they were fed or sheltered, who hated veterans, who hated the elderly, who hated anyone having access to both control or medicine.
00:09:40.000And one could argue, like, one of the best Madison Avenue-style pieces of advertising in terms of campaign, and the folks in Hollywood want to be on the happy side of the ad campaign.
00:12:28.000is my first movie i did um the hammer i did 10 years ago and the critics weren't really on to me and my crazy notions about people feeding their own kids breakfast
00:12:45.000This lunacy, this heresy that I speak of.
00:12:48.000So my first movie, which is another just nice romantic comedy, they were not really on to me.
00:12:56.000So you can see that there's not much of a gap between the people and the critic.
00:13:00.000Now you fast forward 10 years to the next movie and you'll see a larger gap.
00:13:08.000In your social circles, Adam, do you feel like, because obviously you still work in a lot of these social circles, do you feel like you've been ostracized by people?
00:13:15.000Do they look at you differently than they did ten years ago, or do they sort of just say, well, Adam was always Adam, he was always iconoclastic, and, you know, that's just Adam being Adam?
00:13:25.000The people who know me know who I am and how I've always been, and it's never been a mystery to them.
00:13:39.000I have spoken to people like Tom Arnold, who saw this Newman documentary and was incensed that it wasn't at Sundance, and I told him to look into it a little, and he basically said, you're on kind of a list, and that list is kind of a no-fly list when it comes to this sort of stuff.
00:14:00.000I mean, again, if you look at the movie,
00:14:07.000You can always go, well, it's subjective.
00:14:09.000But if you look at a movie and it's 100% with the top critics, 90% with the regular critics, and 95% with the people, and the subject is about the best friend of the guy who started Sundance, and you don't get accepted into Sundance, one thinks, well, maybe there's some powers at play.
00:14:33.000For me, the first movie I did, The Hammer, the guy who ran Sundance simply stated, I don't like Adam Carolla.
00:14:59.000One of his books is President Me, so he's started to forge into the political direction a little bit more openly than he used to.
00:15:07.000And I want to ask you your political advice from sort of a cultural side, Adam, because obviously I do political analysis for a living, but you're a cultural critic much more than I am because you live in that every day.
00:15:17.000And so I wanted to ask you, you know, you mentioned the Republican branding and how the Republican branding sucks and how they've done a really poor job and the Democrats have done a much better job.
00:15:25.000You're an atheist libertarian, essentially.
00:15:27.000Do you think that the Republican Party would do better if they got off the sort of religious aspect and started moving, not telling their religious base to sit down and shut up, but more just saying,
00:15:41.000Look, just get the government out of everything.
00:15:43.000One of the things that struck me about this election cycle is we basically have a Democrat running as a Democrat in Hillary, a Democrat running as a Republican in Trump, a Democrat running as a Libertarian in Gary Johnson, and a Democrat running as a Green Party member in Jill Stein.
00:15:54.000At some point, do you think that there's the future for a kind of conservative-slash-libertarian movement here?
00:16:00.000Because obviously you have a big crowd of people who agree with your basic premise, which is, as long as you're not hurting anybody else, leave me alone.
00:16:09.000Yeah, you know, I think the problem is the Democrats have figured out, as long as we say really nice things about
00:16:21.000This community and that community then will get their votes.
00:16:26.000And we won't do anything for those communities, and the reason we won't do anything for those communities is because they can't do anything for those communities.
00:16:47.000If it's broken, you know, I always look at it as this, because I was a former contractor.
00:16:54.000Here's what I believe the Democrats say they're going to do.
00:16:59.000If your basement is leaky and it's taken on water every time it rains, the only way to really fix that basement properly is to excavate all the way around the outside of it and waterproof it from the outside.
00:17:15.000To patch it from the inside out doesn't work.
00:17:21.000It works a little bit, it works temporarily, but it doesn't fix the problem.
00:17:27.000And saying, you know, more lunch programs, more computers for low-income, more late-night libraries are going to stay open later, more after-school programs, it's all very good, but it's still patching from the inside.
00:17:42.000You really want to stop the basement from leaking?
00:17:45.000You've got to go outside, and the outside's the family unit.
00:17:51.000That stops the water from coming in, only done from the outside.
00:17:55.000Everything else is temporary and a patch and doesn't really work.
00:17:59.000Everything the Democrats have been espousing for the last 50 years have just been inside patching.
00:18:08.000What the Republicans talk about is maybe we should talk about our inside patch job and try to win over more of these people who have three foot of water in their basement, but that's still more patching from the inside.
00:18:23.000Somebody, I don't know on what side, the Democrats shouldn't do it because they've already got it locked down, but some libertarian or somebody ought to just go, look, you want to fix the problem?
00:18:34.000We've got to excavate the outside of the house and we've got to... And people go, I don't want to hear that.
00:18:47.000Adam Carolla, not only the funniest guy in America, but also one of the most profound thinkers, which is amazing, because that's not what Adam thinks of himself as, I think, but that is what he is nonetheless, because sometimes simple truth is not so simple in today's political environment.
00:19:03.000The Adam Carolla Show, you can check it out at adamcarolla.com, and of course, his podcast is one of the most successful podcasts in American history, so check out the Adam Carolla Podcast.
00:20:32.000There's not a lot of people who consider themselves alt-right.
00:20:34.000But they have an outsized way, because they're very loud on social media.
00:20:37.000And a lot of people fall into the trap of thinking that they like the alt-right because they don't know everything there is to know about how they define themselves.
00:20:43.000So let me give you sort of a background on what the alt-right is and that'll allow you to understand why this is important and why Hillary Clinton is doing what she's doing and why it's a problem for Donald Trump.
00:20:55.000Many of the members of the so-called alt-right are leftovers from something called Gamergate.
00:20:59.000Gamergate is not something I covered in depth because I'm not a gamer, but it was an important movement that was an attempt to shut down the cultural censorship surrounding video games.
00:21:07.000Andrew Klavan's talked about this because he's a gamer.
00:21:09.000There are all these reviewers who decided that it was inappropriate and terrible for
00:21:14.000Anybody to make a video game that contained within it sexist tropes or right-wing tropes.
00:21:20.000And so they started giving bad reviews and trying to destroy all of these video games.
00:21:23.000Gamergate comes along and a bunch of people decide that they're going to fight back against this, which is good.
00:21:28.000One of the ways they decide to fight back against this is by posting deliberately offensive content to violate all of the left's taboos.
00:21:36.000And they want to, what they call, trigger the social justice warriors.
00:21:40.000Now this is not a tactic I think is particularly useful.
00:21:42.000I'm of the view that you speak the truth and if people are triggered by it, then they're triggered by it.
00:21:46.000But you don't go out of your way just to say things that are offensive because otherwise that just makes you a jerk.
00:22:21.000The largely linked with sort of the paleocons, Pat Buchanan, those people are very fond of Donald Trump's isolationist foreign policy and his anti-free trade positions.
00:22:32.000And these are many of these people are very attached to the idea that European civilization is not based on the idea of Western civilization.
00:22:39.000It's much more based on the ethnicity and the race of the people involved.
00:22:44.000And so this is sort of the intellectual foundation for the alt-right movement.
00:22:49.000It contains people ranging from Pat Buchanan, who is careful not to say things that are overtly racist most of the time, to people like Jared Taylor and David Duke and Richard Spencer.
00:23:00.000Richard Spencer is the kind of guy, Milo Yiannopoulos wrote a piece about the alt-right where he broke it down in Breitbart, he mentioned openly people like Richard Spencer, Richard Spencer
00:23:08.000is the sort of fellow who writes things like this quote our dream is a new society an ethno state that would be a gathering point for all europeans it would be a new society based on very different ideals than say the declaration of independence steve saylor another intellectual influence for these folks they say since jewish predilections play such a massive role in the media it's crucial to understand these biases and this sort of philosophy the sort of racist anti-semitic philosophy it runs
00:23:33.000Inside a movement that basically says the only way to preserve European Western civilization is to preserve European ethnicity It's not the creed that unites us.
00:23:42.000It's the race that unites us and they'll openly admit the members of the alt-right They're not conservative and they don't like conservatism They think conservatism has been a surrender that the conservatives surrendered long ago to the to the left This is why they call people who are conservative cuckservatives.
00:23:55.000They suggest that we are cuckolds and when they say cuckold They don't just mean somebody whose wife cheated on him.
00:24:00.000They mean somebody who enjoys watching his wife have sex
00:24:03.000Peculiarly enough with black men, is because they're racist, at least in large part, and they believe that, like, for me, if my wife were having sex with another dude, it wouldn't matter to me the color of the dude, I'd be pretty upset, generally.
00:24:15.000But for them, the worst thing would be if your wife is having sex with a black dude, and you approve, because that's just a metaphor for how you're allowing white society to be cucked, to be cuckolded by these minority groups.
00:24:26.000Vox Dei is one of these ex-Scribble people, really one of the worst people on the internet, and Vox Dei,
00:24:32.000I tend not to pay attention to because for the same reason that, you know, the best thing to do with the poop on your shoe is just to scrape it off and move on with your life.
00:24:38.000But, since we're talking alt-right, Vox Dei is one of the more eloquent expositors of the alt-right.
00:24:43.000He wrote a piece today, very angry at me for writing about the alt-right.
00:25:13.000And more importantly, it falls to us to do so because conservatives, cuckservatives, and non-Westerners, such as Ben, right, three parentheses, have been lying about Western civilization's foundational principles for over a hundred years.
00:25:24.000Well, first of all, I'm 32, so I can't really have been doing that, but nonetheless, this idea is that if you believe in the creed of the Declaration and the Constitution of the United States, then you've been lying about the foundational principles of Western civilization, which lie in racial tribalism and solidarity.
00:25:58.000I mean, the idea that a white person, because of the nature of the color of their skin, is more apt to be civilized than a black person is just pure racism.
00:26:05.000Finally, it says, then, the rule of law.
00:26:15.000He's simply following in the tradition of his tribal compatriots Emma Lazarus and Israel Zangwill in attempting to redefine the white Christian foundations of both America and the West on behalf of his own tribal interests.
00:26:25.000So, I guess it's just because I'm a Jew, I want a lot of Mexicans to immigrate, which makes perfect sense if you're a crazy person.
00:26:32.000He says, white tribalism in America is not only necessary, it is the inevitable consequence of the success two invading tribes had in overturning the immigration standards in 1965.
00:26:41.000So everybody's very upset about the Immigration Act of 1965.
00:26:44.000I agree, the Immigration Act of 1965 was crappy.
00:26:48.000But I'm not a good conservative because I'm a Jew, and Jews can't understand Western civilization because they're not Christians, and because they're not Europeans, and because they're not white.
00:26:55.000Alright, so this is sort of the philosophy of the alt-right.
00:26:58.000And they express it in sometimes odd ways.
00:27:01.000Here is an alt-right celebration video, I have to admit.
00:27:04.000The alt-right blows in a number of ways.
00:27:07.000They blow the saxophone and they also just blow.
00:27:08.000Here's a version of We Didn't Start the Fire by some alt-right kook.
00:27:12.000And it actually does a fairly decent job of summing up what the alt-right is all about.
00:28:37.000Share some policy prescriptions with the alt-right, such as he's very, or he used to be, we'll talk about this, he used to be very hardcore on illegal immigration, and he used to talk about the threat of non-white peoples, right, this is sort of what the alt-right enjoys about Donald Trump.
00:28:57.000They liked that he was not politically correct, by which they mean that he said deliberately offensive things about various groups of people, and they think that this is a strike back against the SJWs, the social justice warriors.
00:29:07.000They also like Trump because Trump winks at them.
00:29:10.000And because Trump winks at them, and I knew this was going to happen, because Trump winks at them,
00:29:15.000Some people have picked up on that, right?
00:29:17.000And so Hillary Clinton has now picked up on that.
00:29:19.000She's going to give a big speech about this today.
00:29:21.000Here is Hillary Clinton talking about her big speech that she's going to give today on the alt-right.
00:29:34.000Oh, Anderson, it reminds me of that great saying that Maya Angelou had, that when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
00:29:44.000And Donald Trump has shown us who he is, and we ought to believe him.
00:29:47.000He is taking a hate movement mainstream.
00:29:53.000He's bringing it to our communities and our countries.
00:29:56.000And, you know, someone questioned the citizenship of the first African-American president who has courted white supremacists, who's been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color.
00:31:03.000Right, standing in front of a Holocaust door.
00:31:05.000I mean, it looks like the door at Auschwitz with a button, and he's wearing a Nazi uniform, and behind it is Jeb Bush.
00:31:12.000But they have ones that are of me, right?
00:31:14.000Pictures of me inside the gas chamber.
00:31:15.000This has become one of their favorite memes.
00:31:17.000They also have tweets along these lines.
00:31:21.000There are multiple tweets along these lines, and there are ones, you know, calling me a cuck, and there's something they like called Peppy the Frog, which is kind of an old cartoon that they've now repurposed.
00:31:30.000They like the ones where they call me a Shekelmeister.
00:31:33.000Because I'm a Jew, that Vox Dei hates that Jews are part of the political discourse, because Jews, of course, don't have the interests of the United States at heart.
00:31:41.000So, this is what— So, Donald Trump has winged and nodded at these people, and I'll give you two specific examples where he's winged and nodded.
00:31:47.000So, the first was where I really broke with Donald Trump fully, and that's where Donald Trump went on national TV with Jake Tapper, and then he refused to condemn the KKK and David Duke.
00:31:57.000And people say, oh, well, you know, he did it all the other times.
00:32:01.000If someone says, is rape bad, and 99 times out of 100 you say, rape is terrible, and the 100th time someone says, is rape bad, and you go, well, rape, you know, maybe, I haven't heard that much about it, maybe it's, I don't know.
00:32:17.000People are rightly going to jump on you and say, uh, you're supposed to say rape is bad all the time.
00:32:24.000Then Donald Trump started getting all sorts of questions about all these alt-right people who have been tweeting at him that he's retweeting and alt-right people attacking Jewish journalists like Julia Jaffe.
00:32:33.000And he would say, well, I have nothing to say about their anti-Semitic attacks.
00:34:37.000When they drop the line where Trump says that he doesn't know anything about white supremacists or the KKK, and then you've got David Duke talking about how wonderful he is,
00:34:49.000In other times, we'd be able to say, this is a lie, it's terrible.
00:34:53.000Because Trump has flirted with these people, it makes it more difficult to say that.
00:34:56.000Now, I will say, it's disgusting that the left is trying to now paint the entire right with the brush of the alt-right.
00:35:01.000I'm about as right-wing as it is possible to be, and I'm probably the number one target on the alt-right list.
00:35:06.000If I'm not number one, I'm certainly in the top five.
00:35:08.000I mean, I'm no friend to the alt-right, and I have the very expensive security system and the extra shotgun shells to prove it.
00:35:14.000Which I purchased largely after I started receiving all sorts of death threats from the alt-right.
00:35:18.000So, I'm fully aware of the threats of the alt-right, but they're being mainstreamed by incompetent conservatives, and by the left that wants to see them lumped in with the rest of the conservatives.
00:35:28.000Doug McIlwaiy is a commentator on Fox News, and here, for example, is Doug McIlwaiy trying to pretend that the alt-right isn't that bad.
00:35:35.000So, how did they come up with these tactics?
00:35:48.000It's demonstrated in something that Mike Rowe, you might know him, the popular host of the Dirty Jobs show, something that he posted on Facebook recently.
00:35:56.000It's okay to poke fun at Trump supporters as uneducated white men, he says, but Rowe asks rhetorically, and I'm quoting here,
00:36:03.000If the media didn't care about the lack of college among black men supporting Obama, why do they care so much about the lack of college among white men supporting Trump?
00:36:12.000Moreover, when exactly are we dealing with a lack of education?
00:36:16.000Rose notes that tradesmen, mechanics, welders, carpenters make up a part of the Trump base and they are hardly without education.
00:36:38.000I think Hugh backed off that position after he was informed that he was wrong.
00:36:42.000The attempt to lump in all conservatives with the alt-right is really devastating.
00:36:46.000And the fact that you have people like Reince Priebus, who instead of just saying to Donald Trump, you need to disassociate from the alt-right, will presumably just sort of poo-poo Donald Trump.
00:36:58.000And then he'll wink and he'll nod at the alt-right.
00:36:59.000Because Donald Trump responds to applause.
00:37:01.000That's why Donald Trump has been soft on them.
00:37:03.000If Vladimir Putin pays him a compliment, he's a friend of Vladimir Putin.
00:37:06.000If the alt-right cheers him on and makes cuck memes about his enemies, then he's a friend of the alt-right.
00:37:10.000This is one of the reasons why I've been so staunchly against unifying with Donald Trump.
00:37:15.000It's one of the reasons why I won't get behind him.
00:37:16.000It's one of the reasons why I don't support him.
00:37:18.000It's one of the reasons why I have trouble voting for him, because I think that the attempt by the left to turn the right into the party of the alt-right, to hollow it out,
00:37:29.000It's actually happening on part of a lot of people on the alt-right.
00:37:32.000So, for example, Richard Spencer, who's an absolute open racist, he says, quote,
00:37:59.000And the alt-right wants the GOP to become the alt-right.
00:38:01.000I don't want the GOP to become the alt-right, and I don't want to humor the alt-right, and I don't want to humor people who humor the alt-right.
00:38:06.000So that's the, that's the sort of, that's what's going on with the alt-right speech.
00:38:10.000I also have, you know, a theory that Hillary Clinton may be attempting to paint Donald Trump as so dark and terrible that she won't even debate him.
00:38:17.000He's so alt-right, he's so scary, he's so demonic that I won't even debate him, I won't give him a platform, and then she'll just waltz to the election by denying him the ability to really hit her in open debate.
00:38:27.000Okay, so that was big piece of news number one today, and Hillary Clinton is supposed to be speaking in a few minutes on this topic, so I'm sure we'll find out more.
00:38:35.000Second big piece of news, Donald Trump flips on immigration.
00:38:38.000So Donald Trump went on Sean Hannity's show, and Sean Hannity basically walks him to Jeb Bush's position on illegal immigration.
00:41:34.000All of his talk about how he's going to build the wall and he's going to deport 12 million people, it's a lie.
00:41:39.000Here's Jeb Bush saying, look, he's lying to you, gang.
00:41:42.000Bush also dismissed Trump's proposals for a trade embargo with Mexico, a fence along the entire southern border, and his call to confiscate earnings sent from undocumented workers to their families back home.
00:42:44.000You know, when Donald talks about building a wall, when Donald talks about enforcing immigration laws, when Donald talks about, I guess, anything, that it's all an act and a show.
00:43:01.000I was saying at the time, I will be, I was conservative on immigration long before Trump was, I'll be conservative on immigration long after Trump is.
00:43:10.000So remember, Hannity during the primaries was excoriating Amnesty Rubio and Cruz for not being strong enough against the Gang of Eight bill and all this nonsense.
00:43:19.000Here was Donald Trump last night performing the full flip.
00:43:22.000And I have to say, the person who had the worst day in America yesterday was Ann Coulter, my friend Ann Coulter.
00:43:26.000Ann has a book out called In Trump We Trust, all about why you should trust Trump on immigration.
00:43:31.000She gave a launch party at the Breitbart headquarters last night as Donald Trump was saying this on Sean Hannity's program.
00:43:38.000Can we go through a process, or do you think they have to get out?
00:44:37.000Originally you had said they're all out and there was a big brouhaha, but you're saying that if somebody can prove that they've been here, proven to be a citizen, but here's the big question though.
00:46:04.000And she actually compares him to Kim Jong-un.
00:46:08.000And she says that she would walk over broken glass for him because he has said that, this is a direct quote, this is according to Joshua Greene, who I believe, where does Josh Greene write for?
00:46:18.000He writes for the Boston Globe, I believe.
00:46:21.000She says, quote, my worship for him is like the people of North Korea worship their dear leader, blind loyalty.
00:46:27.000Once he gave that Mexican rapist speech, I'll walk across glass for him.
00:46:40.000So Ann was very, very upset about all the things that Donald Trump was saying last night, and his people are trying desperately to spin it.
00:46:49.000I think that virtually all of his people will stand by him because he has the greatest campaign slogan ever, I'm not Hillary.
00:46:56.000Now given his record on his other promises, I would like to see Donald Trump's birth certificate, but assuming he's not Hillary, that's a pretty great slogan.
00:47:03.000But it is amusing to watch all of these people try to justify him.
00:47:06.000Katrina Pearson, who honest to God, I don't know how this woman has a job still.
00:47:12.000She was on CNN trying to explain the walk back by Trump.
00:47:15.000He hasn't changed his position on immigration.
00:47:17.000He's changed the words that he is saying.
00:47:25.000So I'm not saying Katrina Pearson is stupid.
00:47:27.000I'm just saying the words Katrina Pearson is stupid.
00:47:30.000Kellyanne Conway, who's much smarter than Katrina Pearson, she too struggles to explain why it is that Donald Trump's new position isn't actually Jeb Bush's old position.
00:47:39.000It is this week, but it's always been.
00:47:41.000No amnesty, no sanctuary city so that innocent victims like Kate Steinle who was murdered right in front of her father in San Francisco over a year ago, Chris, by a man who had been deported five times.
00:47:52.000That should outrage everyone in this country regardless of their political affiliation.
00:47:56.000Hillary Clinton is for sanctuary cities.
00:49:16.000I think there's some members of his base who are kind of pissed off, but I think that most of the people who are in his really ardent base are basically fine with Donald Trump making this swivel.
00:49:24.000But it is to point out that the swivel did happen, okay?
00:49:26.000I think it is important to point out that when people told you so, they were correct.
00:49:30.000And so when I tell you that Donald Trump is not going to appoint a conservative Supreme Court justice,
00:50:40.000She does treat black people as though they are a collective body of voters who are just aligned with her.
00:50:46.000And she doesn't talk about any of the real problems that are plaguing the black community or solutions that can make the black community better off.
00:52:02.000I think that Stephen Colbert is a—I hated him a lot more when he was on Comedy Central because he used to engage in something that I'd term political blackface.
00:52:09.000Blackface is evil, and it's when people would dress up as black people and then mock black people by pretending to be them.
00:52:15.000And Colbert would do that by pretending to be a conservative and then slander conservatives.
00:52:19.000And then if you'd call him on it, he would say, well, hey, man, I'm just being a funny man.
00:52:22.000I'm just, you know, I'm not a real conservative.
00:53:49.000Charles Blow is the worst columnist at the New York Times, which is saying a lot, because they're legitimately a huge crowd of people at the New York Times who are terrible columnists.
00:53:58.000Charles Blow is their racial columnist, and he's just dishonest up to wazoo.
00:54:01.000He was on CNN, and he was arguing with a black Trump supporter.
00:54:04.000And Charles Blow, it just demonstrates how incompetent the left is.
00:54:09.000He's asked by this black Trump supporter, you keep calling Trump a racist, can you give me some pieces of evidence that he's racist against black people?
00:54:16.000And Charles Blow has nothing, so instead he does this.
00:54:38.000Whether or not you want to be part of the bigotry that is Donald Trump.
00:54:42.000You have to decide whether you want to be part of the sexism and misogyny that is Donald Trump.
00:54:46.000You have to decide whether you want to be part of the bullying that would allow him to make fun of one of my disabled colleagues at the New York Times.
00:55:36.000The Trump supporter had asked him, can you name something racist that Trump has said?
00:55:40.000So, there are some actual examples of Trump saying some racist stuff, like the Mexican judge stuff, for example.
00:55:45.000Or if he wants proof that he's a bigot, the KKK thing would be a not terrible example, not a great example, but it's not a terrible example.
00:55:51.000Blo can't give one because he just assumes de facto all Republicans are racist.
00:55:55.000And then when he's asked the question, I don't want to talk to you, I don't want to have a conversation with you, I don't know who you are,
00:56:01.000I mean, like, you're there being paid, presumably, to sit there and talk with this guy, or even if you're not paid, you know that you're on with it.
00:56:08.000Like, when I'm on TV, I know who I'm on with.
00:56:10.000I don't have the right to just say, I don't know who you are.
00:56:54.000Does the rest of nature have any rights that the government should protect?
00:56:57.000Okay, so I'm torn on the national parks issue mainly because a lot of the nicer areas in the United States have been preserved by private landowners who also care about the environment.
00:57:07.000And the problem with the government just fencing off large swaths of territory is not, you know, the crown jewels of American environmentalism like Yosemite, which I really don't think anybody was going to move in and turn that into a thriving metropolis.
00:57:22.000The federal government owns like 80% of Nevada and has fenced it off in the name of the environment in favor of national parks, in favor of the EPA, in favor of preserved wetlands.
00:57:34.000Once you give the government the power to take land and just take it off limits like that, then what you're really doing is you're allowing them the power to control everybody's property rights.
00:57:41.000And that is a little bit frightening to me.
00:57:43.000So the idea of a park that's voted on by a community is one thing.
00:57:57.000If Congress votes that they want to declare a national park off-limits, I don't have a general problem with that.
00:58:03.000I do have a general problem with a bureaucratic structure just declaring huge swaths of lands under federal control.
00:58:10.000I also think that there's the possibility that private parks would do just as good a job.
00:58:14.000Okay, Matt writes, Dear Ben, my father-in-law works in administration for our local school district.
00:58:18.000He's been telling us how visibly disturbed everyone is with Title IX regulations and speech codes concerning the nature of students' gender identity and how they must all stay gender neutral in conversation.
00:58:28.000They know this is destructive and must comply.
00:58:30.000What can they or we as a community do about this, if anything?
00:58:32.000Well, I mean, the first thing that you could do, theoretically, is just continue to use normal language, and then if you're fired, you sue the district.
00:58:38.000Because it is absolutely not a violation of Title IX protocol to call students by their birth gender.
01:01:01.000I mean, honestly, of all the conservatives in America, the idea that I'm babying Donald Trump of all the conservatives in America seems a little bit of an exaggeration.
01:01:31.000I was not as important as New Hampshire.
01:01:33.000When you get to a general election, I think that, you know, having a more cosmopolitan candidate doesn't hurt so long as the cosmopolitan candidate is capable of speaking well to people in sort of swing states like New Hampshire,
01:01:46.000Uh, and, and also capable of speaking to people, uh, in Iowa.
01:01:49.000There are certain states that are sort of taken for granted.
01:01:51.000Most of the states that are on the fence have very heavy cosmopolitan populations, and it's in those counties, uh, and the, and the juxtaposing counties that these elections are decided.
01:01:59.000Uh, so it's, you know, that's, that's why I think it's important that you have somebody who can speak well, uh, which is not something that, um, which is, is certainly not something that, that Donald Trump is good at.
01:02:10.000I mean, as far as VP picks and all the rest of it, uh, that's, that's down the road.
01:03:35.000I think the sense of entitlement among young Americans comes from two things.
01:03:38.000One, we were born into extraordinary wealth in human history, extraordinary freedom in human history.
01:03:43.000Two, since World War II, parents have decided it is significantly more important to cultivate a sense of self-esteem in their children than a sense of responsibility in their children.
01:03:52.000Because of that, more people feel like they are entitled to things because they're entitled to feel good about themselves.
01:03:57.000The only way to feel good about yourself is to be given success if you won't earn it.
01:04:03.000There's been a sort of move toward self-esteem that is now filtered down over the course of three generations, and it's very dangerous.
01:04:10.000We obviously need to move back toward a more responsible America, where people take individual responsibility, because in the end, freedom relies on a belief in individual responsibility.
01:04:20.000Okay, folks, we've reached the weekend.
01:04:21.000We'll see what Hillary Clinton has to say about the alt-right, and we will carry on through the weekend, and then see you on Monday.