The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 173 - Hillary Should Sit For The National Anthem, Too

00:00:00.000 Over the weekend, mediocre 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat during the national anthem.

00:00:05.000 Why?

00:00:05.000 Because he says he won't honor the American flag while it stands for institutional racism.

00:00:10.000 He said, I'm not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color, said the man with a 78.5 quarterback rating in 2015 and an average annual salary of $19 million.

00:00:22.000 He said, quote, to me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. 0.81

00:00:28.000 Let's leave aside the obvious hypocrisy of this BS.

00:00:38.000 Kaepernick is one of the most privileged people in America.

00:00:40.000 Let's leave aside the fact Kaepernick was adopted and raised by a white family.

00:00:44.000 Let's leave aside the fact that Kaepernick began styling himself as a civil rights hero 0.87

00:00:48.000 Right about the time he started absolutely sucking at his job and that he was fined for yelling the n-word at another player in 2014.

00:00:55.000 Leave aside the lies undergirding his perspective. 0.98

00:00:57.000 America happens to be the best place on earth for people of color to live, including black folks, and the notion that cops are broadly targeting black men for death is statistically false.

00:01:06.000 Let's focus instead on the NFL and the media.

00:01:08.000 The left media have been paying continuous homage to Kaepernick's courage, which is amazing considering, if you recall, how they ripped former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow up and down for the crucial sin of praying before games.

00:01:20.000 They say it's a wonderful exercise of First Amendment freedoms, and that anyone who criticizes Colin Kaepernick doesn't understand the First Amendment. 1.00

00:01:27.000 Which, of course, demonstrates absolute ignorance of the First Amendment, because no one argues Kaepernick isn't free to say what he wants, we just argue that what he's saying is disgusting and stupid. 0.96

00:01:35.000 But he'll be dubbed a civil rights figure just for saying things while pulling down one of America's biggest paychecks. 0.98

00:01:40.000 Meanwhile, the NFL itself has stood for St.

00:01:43.000 Louis Rams running out on the field in the hands-up-don't-shoot pose, you remember that was false, while refusing the Dallas Cowboys' request to pay homage to slain cops.

00:01:51.000 The NFL, much like the rest of the sports world, has now been hijacked by the left.

00:01:56.000 And so we'll see ESPN cover Kaepernick like a hero for taking action that demeans our veterans and our country.

00:02:01.000 And we'll see the NFL pretend that Kaepernick is taking a real stand, as opposed to the kind of stand that earns him plaudits from pundits and quiet pats on the head from the NFL hierarchy.

00:02:10.000 Perhaps the best response to Kaepernick's routine actually came via a Gold Star mom.

00:02:14.000 She wrote, quote,

00:02:15.000 Mr. Kaepernick, I'm sitting in my living room looking outside at my American flag flying at half-staff.

00:02:20.000 You see, my son's body lay in a street after an IED blew up the vehicle he was fighting in.

00:02:25.000 His blood stains the sands of Afghanistan.

00:02:27.000 He died protecting the ideals of the flag you refuse to respect. 0.99

00:02:31.000 He died so that ungrateful, privileged, arrogant men like you can be just that. 1.00

00:02:34.000 Ungrateful, privileged, and arrogant. 1.00

00:02:36.000 Shame on you for disrespecting my son and his life and his sacrifice. 0.96

00:02:40.000 By the way, if you want to give to Gold Star Children, go to Freedom Alliance, and you can donate in honor of true heroes, rather than the false sports heroes the media and the NFL promote to prominence in their plays.

00:02:51.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:02:52.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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00:04:32.000 So, okay, there's so much to talk about today.

00:04:36.000 We'll begin with the big news of the day.

00:04:38.000 The big news of the day is that Anthony Weiner is now the victim of separation from Huma Abedin.

00:04:45.000 And the media are treating Huma as though she's the world's greatest victim.

00:04:48.000 This is because Anthony Weiner

00:04:50.000 He sent pictures to some 40-year-old buxom brunette who was sending him pictures. 1.00

00:04:54.000 She basically—it looks like she catfished him. 0.94

00:04:56.000 Apparently, she's some anonymous Trump supporter, and she sent this information to the New York Post.

00:05:01.000 And so there are pictures that look like this of Anthony Weiner.

00:05:05.000 We have blurred out his aforementioned name.

00:05:11.000 And that, next to him, is his kid, his 4-year-old kid, who's sleeping there. 0.98

00:05:15.000 And Anthony is lonely, so Anthony is tweeting out pictures of his junk. 0.97

00:05:18.000 to this four-year-old brunette. 0.98

00:05:20.000 And he's very obviously proud of his physique.

00:05:22.000 I don't know why he thinks this is working for him, since he's now tried this several times in a row, and it's never worked out well. 0.77

00:05:27.000 But he was texting his junk to people, and so that's what ends up happening. 0.61

00:05:31.000 Huma Abedin, she immediately released a statement saying, we're done here. 0.96

00:05:36.000 I'm not with you anymore.

00:05:37.000 And people are celebrating her.

00:05:39.000 Oh, what a strong, wonderful woman for finally getting rid of him.

00:05:42.000 OK, I want to make a couple of points about this.

00:05:44.000 Number one,

00:05:45.000 All the people who are saying she's a strong, wonderful woman for dumping Anthony Weiner are the same people who say that Hillary Clinton is a paragon of strength for sticking with Bill Clinton, right?

00:05:53.000 I mean, all the same people. 0.88

00:05:54.000 It was about time she threw that dog out! 1.00

00:05:57.000 What Anthony Weiner did, just to point this out, what he actually did is have a funny name and text his junk at people. 1.00

00:06:03.000 That's a lot less bad than Eliot Spitzer actually hiring prostitutes. 0.99

00:06:06.000 It's a lot less bad than Bill Clinton actually raping people. 0.99

00:06:09.000 But they still worship at the altar of Bill Clinton. 0.99

00:06:11.000 He's a laughingstock because of his last name and because he's like an incompetent high school boy who thinks that if he text pics of his junk at girls that they're interested. 1.00

00:06:19.000 Note to dudes, no girl in the world is interested in pictures of your junk. 0.99

00:06:24.000 Girls, it turns out, are not guys. 0.99

00:06:25.000 They're not interested in pictures of guys' junk. 0.99

00:06:27.000 If that's your number one go-to mating move, you're gonna end up sad and alone like Anthony Weiner. 0.95

00:06:32.000 So that's point number one.

00:06:33.000 Point number two, the media have decided to make Huma the victim in all of this.

00:06:38.000 Okay, to a certain extent she's a victim.

00:06:40.000 She's a victim like Hillary was a victim of philandering in 1998. 0.99

00:06:43.000 This is the third time this has happened.

00:06:45.000 Okay, it's not like she didn't know that Anthony Weiner has this problem.

00:06:49.000 Everybody in the United States knew that Anthony Weiner had this problem.

00:06:52.000 And it's not like she then built her life to help out Anthony Weiner to help overcome this problem.

00:06:56.000 She's been on the campaign trail with Hillary Clinton and working with Hillary Clinton for the last few years, you know, to much rumored effect.

00:07:02.000 So everybody who's treating her like she's some sort of paragon of feminism and victimhood here, no, this is a business marriage to begin with. 0.99

00:07:08.000 I mean, let's just put it this way, just final note on this.

00:07:11.000 Any wedding officiated by Bill Clinton is not going to go well. 0.99

00:07:15.000 Their wedding was legitimately officiated by a guy who's an alleged rapist.

00:07:18.000 Okay, that's a pretty good indicator that the marriage is not going to go well from the beginning.

00:07:23.000 There are some other elements of the marriage that were kind of suspicious from the beginning.

00:07:25.000 I mean, there's a woman who's a very observant Muslim, apparently, and she married a Jewish guy, which is really rare.

00:07:31.000 But it's, in any case, the only person I'm really sad for here is the kid.

00:07:34.000 I'm not really that sad for her.

00:07:36.000 She knew what was going on. 0.98

00:07:37.000 I'm not sad for him because he's a scuzzbag. 0.92

00:07:39.000 I'm sad for the kid.

00:07:40.000 And they pop out this four-year-old kid, and now this kid has a divorced family, and that really is sad.

00:07:44.000 That's really sad.

00:07:46.000 So, that's the latest on the Wiener News.

00:07:48.000 What's amazing, by the way, the media are treating this as though the real story here is Donald Trump's reaction to it.

00:07:53.000 Donald Trump said to the New York Times that this is a security risk, because he could be blackmailed, and Huma is working for Hillary, one of the most powerful women in America.

00:08:02.000 And the media went nuts over this.

00:08:04.000 I don't see why Trump is wrong on that.

00:08:05.000 I don't.

00:08:06.000 I really don't see why Trump is wrong.

00:08:07.000 I mean, only—I guess that now Hillary is blackmail proof, since no one cares that she leads her own sexual lifestyle, presumably, and Bill is shtupping everything in a 300-mile radius, including tree stumps. 1.00

00:08:18.000 Nobody cares about that anymore.

00:08:20.000 But—so she's blackmail proof.

00:08:21.000 But Huma isn't, so I don't see why Trump's point is that bad.

00:08:25.000 Yeah, it's possible.

00:08:44.000 Next we move on to what I think is really the big story of the weekend and really the big story of the last couple of years.

00:08:50.000 And that is the resurgence of racial animus from the left.

00:08:53.000 We talked a lot about the alt-right last week, the kind of Trumpian alt-right or the Trump-friendly alt-right and what they stand for and this sort of white supremacist

00:09:02.000 Uh, racial consolidation.

00:09:05.000 And what I said is that it's a reaction.

00:09:06.000 And it is.

00:09:07.000 It's a reaction.

00:09:08.000 It's a reaction to the racial solidarity of the left and the racism of the left.

00:09:12.000 And the reason that that is so obvious is we'll start with Colin Kaepernick.

00:09:16.000 I mentioned him at the top of the show. 0.93

00:09:18.000 Here's Colin Kaepernick, that's 49ers quarterback, who really stinks.

00:09:21.000 And he's sitting on the bench here.

00:09:23.000 And he's sitting on the bench during the National Anthem.

00:09:25.000 Everybody else is standing.

00:09:26.000 This, of course, makes big news.

00:09:28.000 And then Colin Kaepernick explains himself in typical, typical articulate style.

00:09:33.000 I mean, ultimately it's to bring awareness and make people, you know, realize what's really going on in this country.

00:09:39.000 There are a lot of things that are going on that are unjust, people aren't being held accountable for, and that's something that needs to change.

00:09:47.000 That's something that, you know, this country stands for freedom, liberty, justice for all.

00:09:53.000 And it's not happening for all right now.

00:09:54.000 Is this something that's evolved as a philosophy in your mind, and how has this kind of progressed, that you make a stand like this?

00:10:03.000 It's something that I've seen, I've felt, wasn't quite sure how to deal with originally, and it is something that's evolved.

00:10:14.000 It's something as I've gained more knowledge about, you know, what's going on in this country in the past, what's going on currently.

00:10:21.000 These aren't new situations.

00:10:23.000 This isn't new ground.

00:10:25.000 It's things that have gone on in this country for years and years and have never been addressed, and they need to be.

00:10:31.000 Okay, what a hero.

00:10:32.000 What a hero.

00:10:32.000 And the media are treating him like a hero.

00:10:34.000 He's just a hero.

00:10:36.000 An unbelievable hero.

00:10:38.000 ABC News has a column today by Ian O'Connor.

00:10:41.000 This is from ESPN.

00:10:42.000 And ESPN, as I've said before many times, and as you know, folks, I'm always right, ESPN is just MSNBC with footballs.

00:10:49.000 And ESPN is praising him.

00:10:50.000 Colin Kaepernick stood tall while sitting down, which is not an easy thing to do.

00:10:54.000 In fact, what he did in benching himself for the National Anthem on Friday night was the hardest thing he could possibly do.

00:10:59.000 The easy thing?

00:10:59.000 That would be standing silently with his teammates on the San Francisco 49ers sideline, cutting against the grain of his conscience.

00:11:05.000 Nobody would have known the difference, but he planted himself among the Gatorade buckets, understanding that in an age of 24-7 surveillance, he would be outed.

00:11:12.000 Soon enough.

00:11:12.000 He didn't strike the kind of dramatic pose made by Tommy Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City, and that was okay.

00:11:20.000 He made a statement loudly and clearly, and he said, I'm not going to stand up and show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.

00:11:26.000 Right.

00:11:26.000 Black people and people of color, like Colin Kaepernick, who earns on average $19 million a year for being one of the crappier quarterbacks in the NFL.

00:11:34.000 Again, that wouldn't be the end of the issue.

00:11:36.000 I mean, there are plenty of people who have made lots of money.

00:11:39.000 There are plenty of black people who were making lots of money in 1950 when Jim Crow was still a thing, right? 0.80

00:11:42.000 Sammy Davis was making a lot of money in 1960 when Jim Crow was still a thing.

00:11:45.000 But right now, Jim Crow is not a thing.

00:11:48.000 And so now he's promulgating lies for the lapdog media.

00:11:51.000 And the media are just lapping it up. 0.88

00:11:53.000 They love this stuff.

00:11:54.000 They love it.

00:11:55.000 And there's somebody, I thought, who wrote an interesting column who said, you know, if you're booing him, you should really be booing Muhammad Ali, because Muhammad Ali did the same kind of stuff.

00:12:02.000 If you recall, Muhammad Ali did take boos at the time, and he rightly took boos at the time, because he said some pretty evil and egregious things.

00:12:07.000 I know we've made a hero out of Muhammad Ali now, because he became kind of this American spokesman later in his life, but early in his life, he was saying some pretty vile things about the United States and about the war in Vietnam.

00:12:20.000 But at least back when he was doing it, there was actual serious racial discrimination happening on a systemic level across the country.

00:12:27.000 That simply is not true.

00:12:28.000 It was bad when he said it, even then.

00:12:29.000 It's simply not true with Colin Kaepernick now, right?

00:12:32.000 I mean, this is all nonsense. 0.99

00:12:33.000 The idea that police are out there just murdering black people, that's all they care about. 1.00

00:12:38.000 They're out there killing black people and targeting black people. 1.00

00:12:40.000 The criminal justice system is full of racism. 0.99

00:12:43.000 All of this is a lie, and we've discussed this about a thousand times on the program, so no need to go through all the statistics again.

00:12:47.000 I have full videos on this talking about all of these statistical anomalies that the left likes to cite and explaining where they come from.

00:12:54.000 But Kaepernick, first of all, there's something cynical to this. 0.96

00:12:57.000 Kaepernick is five seconds away from being cut by the San Francisco 49ers for sucking at his job. 0.92

00:13:02.000 So he wanted to make this headline, and that way, if he gets cut, 0.99

00:13:06.000 He can turn around and say, the real reason they cut me was not because I'm a really crappy football player.

00:13:10.000 The real reason that they cut me is because I am such a standard bearer for Black Lives Matter.

00:13:17.000 That's worth noting.

00:13:18.000 But here's the thing about Kaepernick.

00:13:20.000 Kaepernick represents the mainstream left.

00:13:23.000 Him not standing up for the National Anthem is actually what the mainstream left now believes.

00:13:27.000 Isaiah Thomas, who was the GM of the New York Knicks, one of the worst GMs in NBA history, he said sort of the same thing over the weekend.

00:13:34.000 He said that white silence is violence.

00:13:36.000 This is his line.

00:13:38.000 I look at white silence in these issues as violence.

00:13:42.000 White silence is the equivalent to violence in these issues.

00:13:47.000 First of all, silence is not violence.

00:13:49.000 If silence were violence, then right now I'd be punching someone.

00:13:52.000 Okay, but silence is not violence, obviously.

00:13:55.000 But, again, look at the people surrounding him, right?

00:13:57.000 Max Kellerman is the guy who's sitting directly to Isaiah Thomas' left, the ex-Gribble Max Kellerman, the worst radio talk show host in America.

00:14:03.000 And he's sitting there just nodding along.

00:14:06.000 This is mainstream left thought.

00:14:08.000 And athletes get celebrated for this, and they get ripped if they don't do this, right?

00:14:11.000 If you sit there and you say something like, I don't think America's a very racist place.

00:14:15.000 I think America's a pretty great place.

00:14:16.000 Then you get ripped as a sellout.

00:14:18.000 You get ripped as an Uncle Tom.

00:14:19.000 If you do what Kaepernick did, you get praised by the media, sports and political both.

00:14:23.000 Whoa, what a courageous guy.

00:14:25.000 What a courageous guy.

00:14:26.000 Well, funny, it's only courageous when the guy is earning $19 million a year for throwing a football.

00:14:33.000 It's amazing.

00:14:34.000 Again, if you have the same guy making the same amount of money saying the reverse, which is actually true, that America is the least racist country in the history of the world, and that our cops are not out shooting black people, but are largely protecting black people,

00:14:46.000 Athletes must have enough courage to speak up.

00:14:47.000 You got enough dough, you got enough social currency.

00:14:50.000 Use your mouth to stand up for the very people who made it possible for you to become who you are.

00:15:13.000 The very people who made it possible for you to become who you are.

00:15:15.000 So number one, the people who made it possible for Colin Kaepernick to become who he is are his white parents who adopted him and raised him.

00:15:21.000 And the people who made it possible for him to become who he is are the people who let him into a college where he could play ball despite the fact that he probably didn't have stellar academic qualifications.

00:15:30.000 The people who made it possible for him to do what he's doing are a lot of the people who are going to these football games and paying his salary who are largely white fans.

00:15:37.000 The people who make it possible for him to be who he is are all the cops who are defending those games from terrorist attacks and criminals.

00:15:43.000 The first person that Colin Kaepernick is going to call when somebody tries to break into his house is the cops, just like every other person in the United States.

00:15:50.000 But again, this is now mainstream left thought, and this is the point that I'm building up to, is that this is all part of a broader left.

00:15:58.000 People talk about the alt-right.

00:15:59.000 The alt-left is the mainstream left.

00:16:01.000 There is no alt-left because there's no mainstream left anymore.

00:16:03.000 It's been totally hijacked by the Black Lives Matter racist movement.

00:16:07.000 And you can see it, right?

00:16:08.000 What Kaepernick says, the point I'm going to be making is that what Kaepernick does here is fully in line with the Democratic National Platform.

00:16:15.000 And I don't know if you had a chance to watch any of the Video Music Awards last night, but we'll talk about that in just a second.

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00:17:00.000 All right, so, Beyoncé at the Video Music Awards.

00:17:03.000 So nobody has actually seen the Video Music Awards.

00:17:05.000 They've just been rumored.

00:17:06.000 No one's actually seen them.

00:17:07.000 We all watch the clips the next morning after there's controversy, but they may be mythical.

00:17:11.000 We don't know the answer.

00:17:13.000 Nonetheless, Beyoncé decides that she has to make a stand.

00:17:16.000 See, it's imperative that all these black celebrities who have made all their money off white people, buying their albums and going to their football games, it's imperative that now they make a big stand about how America's a terribly racist place. 0.63

00:17:25.000 So Beyoncé shows up, and she knows she's gonna get plaudits from the media for doing this. 1.00

00:17:29.000 She shows up,

00:17:31.000 We're good to go.

00:17:45.000 The mothers of the movement include, right here it's mothers of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Oscar Grant.

00:17:51.000 Oscar Grant is the only legit victim in this particular group. 0.90

00:17:54.000 Mike Brown was a thug cop killer.

00:17:56.000 He tried to kill a cop and he was shot for his trouble. 0.98

00:17:58.000 Trayvon Martin got into an altercation in which he was pounding a man's head on the pavement when he was shot.

00:18:03.000 Eric Garner was resisting arrest and did not die because of the choke hold.

00:18:06.000 He died because he was dramatically overweight and had a heart attack thanks to a suppression hold.

00:18:11.000 Oscar Grant is the only one who was wrongly shot.

00:18:13.000 And by the way, the cop actually did jail time for shooting him accidentally.

00:18:16.000 He thought he was hitting him with a taser.

00:18:18.000 Instead, he was shooting him. 0.62

00:18:19.000 Right?

00:18:19.000 There's a movie called Fruitville Station about Oscar Grant.

00:18:24.000 So, she shows up, Beyonce shows up with the mothers of the movement.

00:18:28.000 I don't know why the mother of Michael Brown should be celebrated in any way, shape, or form.

00:18:33.000 She obviously did a terrible job with her son. 0.98

00:18:35.000 Just the effect, you know, maybe, unless he was a sociopath, if she had any, let's put it this way, if she had any hand in raising Michael Brown, she raised a bad kid, okay?

00:18:45.000 But she shows up anyway and Beyonce celebrates, but that's not all Beyonce did.

00:18:48.000 Beyonce also did this routine during the VMAs where she had her dancers dress as angels who were then shot down, okay?

00:18:55.000 And they're shot down, people thought that this was a reference to police violence against black folks.

00:19:00.000 ♪ I'm afraid you'll catch me listening ♪

00:19:06.000 We're good.

00:19:11.000 We're good to go.

00:19:36.000 She did that again last night. 0.99

00:19:38.000 At the very end of her routine, she had all of her dancers get together and form kind of a Busby Berkeley style female symbol, right? 1.00

00:19:45.000 The circle with the cross on the bottom.

00:19:47.000 And this was supposed to be standing up for feminism. 1.00

00:19:50.000 Really, Beyonce's brand of feminism is wearing a thong and shaking her rear. 1.00

00:19:54.000 Which, if that's feminism, guys are into it. 1.00

00:19:57.000 That was not the only thing at the VMAs.

00:19:58.000 Alicia Keys, who also was at the Democratic National Convention.

00:20:01.000 Again, you see the nexus here between the entertainment world and the Democrats.

00:20:05.000 Alicia Keys was there as well.

00:20:07.000 This was the 53rd anniversary this weekend of the March on Washington.

00:20:12.000 And so that's an excuse for every artist to try and grab a piece of the March on Washington.

00:20:15.000 Here's Alicia Keys. 1.00

00:20:17.000 If war is holy and sex is obscene, then we got it twisted in this lucid dream.

00:20:27.000 Oh, maybe we could love somebody.

00:20:31.000 Wait, what?

00:20:35.000 Maybe we could care a little more.

00:20:40.000 Okay.

00:20:41.000 Oh, happy day.

00:20:42.000 So this is, this is, these are the folks who are making our politics happen.

00:20:46.000 Okay, so the reason that this is all relevant, the reason this is all relevant is because, here's Hillary Clinton's statement.

00:20:52.000 Okay, about the 53rd anniversary of the March on Washington.

00:20:55.000 Quote,

00:21:14.000 Those brave men and women who marched and sat and bled for civil rights in America must not have done so in vain.

00:21:19.000 I was unaware that we were going back to the days of segregation.

00:21:21.000 I was unaware that we were re-litigating Jim Crow.

00:21:24.000 But according to the Democrats, we are. 0.82

00:21:25.000 According to the Democrats, we're on the verge of the police re-imposing Jim Crow because they're a bunch of racists.

00:21:30.000 This is the part that's troubling.

00:21:32.000 Kaepernick, Alicia Keys,

00:21:35.000 Beyonce, Hillary Clinton, they're all part of the same viewpoint.

00:21:38.000 And if Hillary had any stones at all, if she had any intestinal fortitude at all, Hillary would do what Kaepernick is doing, because clearly she believes the same thing.

00:21:45.000 She believes America is a deeply racist place, filled with institutional racism, and the flag represents that.

00:21:50.000 Right?

00:21:50.000 Kaepernick is just the extreme manifestation of what Beyonce believes.

00:21:54.000 I'm sure if you asked Beyonce today, she would say she agrees with Kaepernick.

00:21:57.000 If you asked Hillary today, she would say, I think we ought to stand for the national anthem, but I agree with his underlying concerns, right, because she's a political actor.

00:22:03.000 That's what she would say.

00:22:04.000 But the bottom line is that this is what they believe.

00:22:07.000 What they believe is that America is a deeply racist, nasty place that has to be punished, and the only way to punish it and bring it to heel is by giving more power to the same federal government that was responsible for a lot of that discrimination in the first place, or for overlooking it on the state level for a century. 0.93

00:22:21.000 The Democrats are part of this giant lie that's being told, that America's a deeply racist, awful place. 0.75

00:22:28.000 And they're pushing that.

00:22:29.000 So every time you see the left mention the alt-right, they're not wrong about the alt-right.

00:22:32.000 But understand, the left are the alt-right.

00:22:35.000 They're just on the other side of the racial equation. 0.85

00:22:37.000 They are the alt-right.

00:22:38.000 They're just in favor of racial solidarity for minorities, but not for white people.

00:22:42.000 I'm not for racial solidarity, period. 1.00

00:22:44.000 I think racial solidarity is stupid. 1.00

00:22:46.000 I don't think that you being born white, or being born a Jew for that matter, or being born black, I don't think any of this makes you a better person. 1.00

00:22:53.000 I don't think any of it makes you a better person.

00:22:55.000 But apparently, the left does.

00:22:57.000 And the left thinks that simply by dint of saying it, that America becomes a racist place.

00:23:02.000 America is, again, the greatest place for black people to live in the history of the planet.

00:23:06.000 I mean, honestly, look at any other place around the world and tell me where it's better for black people to live.

00:23:11.000 Where there's less racism than in the United States. 0.87

00:23:14.000 Whenever people say Europe, they're neglecting the fact that literally black people get called monkeys at soccer games in Europe.

00:23:20.000 Thierry Henry, this happened too routinely when he was playing soccer for the French national team.

00:23:25.000 Racism exists everywhere, but the level of racism in the United States is nearly negligible compared to that of other countries, and yet that's still no reason to stand up for the national anthem.

00:23:36.000 Again, there's also the idea of directionality here.

00:23:40.000 People on the left think that America is headed in the wrong direction racially.

00:23:44.000 For all their protestations about Jim Crow and how it's better than it was then, they think that there's no point at which America—the only way to declare America great is when America reaches utopia.

00:23:54.000 People on the right understand that America is a great place, was founded in great principles, and that we're constantly working to perfect ourselves.

00:23:59.000 Sometimes we do the wrong thing, sometimes we do the right thing.

00:24:02.000 But in the end, the flag represents that effort and represents those central principles which are correct.

00:24:07.000 The left doesn't believe that. 0.95

00:24:07.000 They think that those central principles were put in place by a bunch of racist old white men for their own political benefit. 0.95

00:24:14.000 Okay, meanwhile, Hillary Clinton's campaign is still floundering. 1.00

00:24:17.000 I mean, the polls are now tightening in a lot of the swing states.

00:24:20.000 It's tied in Ohio.

00:24:22.000 It's within three in Pennsylvania.

00:24:25.000 It's very close in Florida.

00:24:26.000 So the polls are beginning to tighten a lot.

00:24:28.000 That's not a real surprise.

00:24:29.000 It's mostly, again, people say it's Trump surging.

00:24:31.000 It's not Trump surging, it's Hillary falling.

00:24:33.000 Hillary keeps bouncing between 43 and 50, 43 and 50. 0.99

00:24:36.000 Trump is stuck at 40%.

00:24:37.000 He can't break it.

00:24:39.000 But everybody hates both these candidates.

00:24:41.000 Is still floundering, and she should be floundering. 0.98

00:24:43.000 Here's Hillary over the weekend attempting to defend the Clinton Foundation. 1.00

00:24:48.000 My work as Secretary of State was not influenced by any outside forces.

00:24:52.000 I made policy decisions based on what I thought was right.

00:24:56.000 Okay, so she says that she did all these policy decisions based on... She wasn't bribed at all.

00:25:00.000 There was no bribery whatsoever.

00:25:01.000 I mean, sure, there's email evidence of bribery, but there was no bribery whatsoever.

00:25:04.000 She says also she'll do her best to answer questions, which is why she hasn't had a press conference in about 37 years.

00:25:10.000 I understand that voters have questions.

00:25:12.000 I'm going to do my very best to answer those questions.

00:25:15.000 Yeah, I'm sure she's going to do her very best to answer those questions, including the question, did you steal that from an American girl doll, that particular jacket?

00:25:24.000 The Democrats are doing their best to spin this away.

00:25:26.000 Of course, Donna Brazile is the new head of the DNC, of the Democratic National Committee.

00:25:32.000 And listen to her try and spin all of this away.

00:25:34.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:25:37.000 We often criminalize behavior that is normal, and I don't see what the smoke is.

00:25:43.000 Okay, she says that we're criminalizing behavior that's normal.

00:25:46.000 And she says she doesn't know what the smoke is surrounding Hillary Clinton.

00:25:49.000 Quick point.

00:25:50.000 Hillary Clinton is the one who said there's a lot of smoke here but no fire.

00:25:54.000 So Hillary Clinton obviously sees the smoke. 0.94

00:25:56.000 We're not criminalizing behavior that's normal.

00:25:57.000 It turns out it's not normal to run your foundation as a slush fund so that you can hand out favors from the State Department.

00:26:03.000 Even Andrea Mitchell, who's a very big fan of the Clintons, she says that it's going to be tough for the Clinton Foundation to wind down.

00:26:08.000 This is a continuing problem.

00:26:10.000 Here's the pushback, and it's something that we really have to get on, because they say they're winding it down, but what I am told is, it is really hard to wind this down.

00:26:19.000 For one thing, Jo Scarborough asked her on Friday, why not just turn it over to the Gates Foundation?

00:26:24.000 The Gates Foundation does not, they do grants, they don't do operations on the ground.

00:26:29.000 The Clinton Foundation does do.

00:26:31.000 So maybe Robert Wood Johnson type of thing.

00:26:33.000 And so there are different types of foundations.

00:26:35.000 They have already accepted the whole health care component, which is one of the largest components.

00:26:41.000 That will not be wound down.

00:26:42.000 Chelsea Clinton is going to be on the board.

00:26:44.000 They've been saying this for quite a while.

00:26:45.000 That's not news.

00:26:47.000 But the fact is that she is still going to be on the board to help wind this down.

00:26:50.000 Let me just finish.

00:26:52.000 Bill Clinton just said to all of us in the press on Wednesday that they don't want anyone to be fired.

00:27:00.000 So it is going to be a slow wind down.

00:27:02.000 It's not going to be wound down by the time, if she's elected, she takes over. 1.00

00:27:06.000 Okay, so it's not going to be wound down.

00:27:07.000 Again, this corruption is going to continue.

00:27:08.000 If you think that Hillary is going to suddenly shape up if she's president, that's a lie. 0.99

00:27:12.000 Of course she's not going to shape up when she's president. 1.00

00:27:14.000 Okay, with that said, what's happening on the other side of the aisle?

00:27:16.000 Trump has had a couple of decent weeks.

00:27:18.000 He's had some boo-boos, right? 0.99

00:27:20.000 He had the whole Steve Bannon rollout, and Steve Bannon continues to be a walking trash heap of a human being.

00:27:24.000 But, Kellyanne Conway, who's his new campaign manager, she's not, she's good at what she does, and Trump has

00:27:30.000 Largely stayed on message, although he continues to shift on immigration.

00:27:33.000 Today there was a rumor that his campaign had to deny that he was now going to throw away the wall and go instead with a virtual wall, which would virtually be 10 feet higher and be virtually paid for by Mexico.

00:27:42.000 He then denied that, right?

00:27:43.000 He says that that's not true anymore.

00:27:45.000 No, the wall is going to be impenetrable.

00:27:47.000 It's going to be an absolute barrier, impenetrable by everything up to and including Anthony Weiner.

00:27:51.000 So that's exciting.

00:27:53.000 But it's time for a little bit of Good Trump, Bad Trump, starring our good friend Brandon Snipes.

00:27:57.000 Thank him again for the theme.

00:28:06.000 So today's a good day.

00:28:07.000 Lots of good Trump today.

00:28:08.000 Yay, actually.

00:28:09.000 Some good Trump today.

00:28:10.000 Okay, so we begin with Kellyanne Conway.

00:28:13.000 One of the things I like about what Trump is doing now is he's starting to go into the black community and he's speaking things that are true. 1.00

00:28:19.000 Now, granted, Donald Trump is the world's most terrible messenger. 0.99

00:28:22.000 Okay, Donald Trump is a really crappy messenger. 0.99

00:28:24.000 For everything. 0.99

00:28:25.000 Not just on race.

00:28:26.000 He's a bad messenger. 1.00

00:28:27.000 Because he says things that are stupid, and if you don't take away his Twitter account, he starts tweeting things out in all capital letters and spelling like a child. 1.00

00:28:34.000 You know, all these are bad things about Donald Trump. 1.00

00:28:36.000 But, he's doing something that Mitt Romney didn't.

00:28:39.000 He's doing something a lot of Republicans wouldn't.

00:28:41.000 He's supposed to now go into inner cities and start talking to the black community.

00:28:44.000 So here is Kellyanne Conway explaining why he's doing that.

00:28:47.000 But Chris, I'm new to this post, and he's going to take this case right to people where they live.

00:28:52.000 And that includes everyone.

00:28:53.000 We're vying for every vote, every ethnicity, both genders, every age group.

00:28:57.000 This is an American presidential election.

00:29:00.000 Okay, so Trump's going to take it to the people.

00:29:03.000 Here's Trump explaining it himself.

00:29:05.000 He's saying that he's going to do some black outreach.

00:29:07.000 Well, we're just talking about the fact that we have great relationships and the numbers are going up with the African-American community rapidly.

00:29:17.000 We've had, you know, and I've always had great relationships with the African-American community.

00:29:23.000 And now, you know, I've made it such a focal point, Mark,

00:29:28.000 You can't hear the audio that well, but Donald Trump is saying that he's going to be meeting

00:29:55.000 With lots of black voters going into the inner city.

00:29:57.000 I think that's a wonderful thing.

00:29:59.000 I think that that's what Republicans should have been doing and should be doing now.

00:30:03.000 They should also be going into the inner city and they should be setting up job banks.

00:30:06.000 They should be trying to create private alternatives to government. 0.79

00:30:08.000 I've said for a long time, if you go to the inner city where there's a poor black kid and you tell that poor black kid, okay, I'm going to take you on a drive now. 1.00

00:30:14.000 I'm going to take you from South Central LA to Beverly Hills. 0.78

00:30:16.000 We're going to drive past these $4 million mansions.

00:30:19.000 And you say to that black kid, that could be you one day. 0.99

00:30:21.000 The black kid will probably look at you like you're crazy because he's been living in poverty. 1.00

00:30:24.000 We're talking about an impoverished black kid. 0.99

00:30:26.000 For that matter, an impoverished kid of any race. 0.96

00:30:28.000 But particularly impoverished black kids who've been told by the media that America's a deeply racist place.

00:30:32.000 If you say that can be yours one day, and all the adults they know are still dependent on government welfare, it's difficult to make that case.

00:30:40.000 People are going to be in favor of the things upon which they are dependent.

00:30:44.000 They are.

00:30:45.000 And so if you are dependent on government, you're going to be in favor of bigger government.

00:30:48.000 If you are a member of a teacher's union and you're in favor of it, then you're going to vote Democrat, typically, because the government pays your salary.

00:30:54.000 The fact is that the vast majority of black people are not on welfare.

00:30:58.000 The vast majority of black people are not on food stamps.

00:31:00.000 The vast majority of black people are not impoverished, actually.

00:31:03.000 But the subset of black people who are, you know, they believe that the government is there for them and private industry is not. 0.59

00:31:12.000 One of the reasons for that is because of the high crime rates, so private industry doesn't go in and actually fix any of these things.

00:31:17.000 Also the government schools don't do anything to help people get out of these areas.

00:31:21.000 I think it's now incumbent on businesses, I've said this before, it's incumbent on private businesses to set up actual outreach efforts

00:31:27.000 In which we subsidize scholarships for black kids to go to school at private schools outside of their local community, get them out of that crappy public school system. 0.99

00:31:36.000 We go in there and we say to kids, look, if you get straight A's, we'll offer you an internship at this business that will pay you and will help subsidize your college education.

00:31:43.000 We have to do all of the things the government lies and says it will, but we have to do it right.

00:31:47.000 That would be, I think, a helpful outreach effort toward folks in the black community, particularly impoverished black areas.

00:31:53.000 But again, I'm glad that Trump is doing this sort of outreach.

00:31:55.000 So Chris Christie, he put down his shine box long enough to go on national television, and he says that you should vote for Donald Trump if you want a better life, and then he ate a donut.

00:32:03.000 I think what Donald is saying is that it's unacceptable to him that members of the African American community, and I'm sure he will say this about other communities as well, who live in violence, who are the subject of that, or who do not have the educational opportunities that every child in this country should have so they can reach their fullest potential, that that's unacceptable.

00:32:22.000 And what he's saying is that a Trump presidency will address those kind of things head on without caving into the special interests like the teachers union, which Mrs. Clinton has completely sold out to, reversed her position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run because she has sold out to the teachers union. 0.79

00:32:40.000 So you have no problem with Donald Trump's language on that?

00:32:47.000 Listen, my view on it is that you have to look at what the message is.

00:32:52.000 And the message is that if anybody lives in those circumstances in this country, that's something that the government should be working to try to change.

00:33:01.000 And Donald Trump is not going to give in to the special interests in this country like the teachers union who say that substandard education in our urban areas can only be fixed by giving it more money and that that's all they're going to do about it and not change the underlying problems that we have.

00:33:16.000 On violence, we need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country.

00:33:23.000 These are the things Donald Trump has talked about.

00:33:25.000 Okay, and of course, all of that is true.

00:33:28.000 Okay, so that is good Trump.

00:33:29.000 He's doing the right thing on that.

00:33:30.000 Now it's time for a little, unfortunately, of bad Trump.

00:33:33.000 No, no, Donald, don't do it.

00:33:35.000 Yes, Donald grabbed the Twitter and someone forgot to take it away from him.

00:33:39.000 So Donald Trump, you know, in his obvious attempt to do outreach to the black community, decided it would be worthwhile to tweet.

00:33:44.000 And this, of course, again, is it fair that the media are going to latch on to every bad thing that Trump does?

00:33:48.000 No, it's not fair.

00:33:49.000 It's also reality.

00:33:50.000 It's also reality.

00:33:51.000 Just let's face up to reality, folks.

00:33:53.000 Everything that Donald Trump says that is bad,

00:33:55.000 is an ad mixture that is going to taint the rest of his campaign.

00:33:59.000 And so here is Donald Trump tweeting about the cousin of Dwayne Wade.

00:34:03.000 Dwayne Wade is a basketball player for the Chicago Bulls.

00:34:05.000 His cousin was shot and killed walking in Chicago.

00:34:08.000 So he tweeted this, quote, Dwayne Wade's cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago.

00:34:14.000 Just what I have been saying.

00:34:15.000 African Americans will vote Trump. 0.96

00:34:17.000 All capital letters vote Trump.

00:34:19.000 So, this is rather gauche.

00:34:23.000 It would be possible for him to just cut this off after just what I have been saying, right?

00:34:28.000 Or, condolences, but this is why we need more law and order.

00:34:32.000 Or, we need to make the lives of African Americans living in inner cities safer.

00:34:36.000 There are a thousand ways to say this.

00:34:38.000 And Donald Trump picks the worst, because for Donald Trump, life is just a mirror that reflects his ambitions. 0.95

00:34:43.000 So, he says that Dwayne Wade's cousin gets shot, don't worry, black people will vote for me. 0.97

00:34:49.000 A few minutes later, somebody comes online and says, Donald, Donald, you need to do something that's not self-centered like that.

00:34:55.000 Can you tweet again?

00:34:55.000 So he tweets this.

00:34:57.000 My condolences to Dwayne Wade.

00:34:58.000 This is an hour later.

00:34:59.000 My condolences to Dwayne Wade and his family on the loss of Nikea Aldridge.

00:35:02.000 They're in my thoughts and prayers.

00:35:04.000 Wouldn't that have been a better first tweet?

00:35:05.000 Again, I don't think this is nitpicking because he's a presidential candidate and the man does have 11 million Twitter followers or something. 0.91

00:35:12.000 But nonetheless, this is what the media have seized on to say that this just shows that Donald Trump doesn't care about black people.

00:35:19.000 And you knew they were going to do this. 0.85

00:35:20.000 You knew that they were going to do this.

00:35:21.000 Al Sharpton did this routine. 0.98

00:35:23.000 Al Sharpton, who is the worst race baiter in modern American history, he says that Trump isn't talking to black people, he's just using them as props. 0.96

00:35:31.000 I don't think he's talking to black voters at all. 0.97

00:35:33.000 Why?

00:35:34.000 Because if he was, he'd be saying, this is what I'm going to propose to you.

00:35:39.000 To say to black voters, don't vote for the same thing, vote for something new, but never define what new is.

00:35:46.000 Means they're really not talking to you, because otherwise I'd be selling you on, this is my new plan on economy, this is my new plan on health care.

00:35:53.000 He's never, there's no blanks.

00:35:55.000 If you noticed yesterday, he met with some black Republican leaders, but he never walked out here and said, this is my blue plan for, blue print for black America.

00:36:03.000 Because I'm not talking to black America. 0.99

00:36:05.000 I'm using the optics to talk to whites that don't want to tell their friends they would vote for somebody that's polarizing, so I want to increase their comfort level. 0.73

00:36:13.000 So they become props to a larger narrative, and it's unfortunate and it's very cynical.

00:36:19.000 Okay, first of all, for Al Sharpton to talk about using black people as props is the height of irony.

00:36:24.000 That's all he's done for his entire career, is use black people as props, is treat the black community as a way for him to clear a lot of money and never pay the back taxes and never pay off all the lawsuits that he's lost and all the rest of it. 0.98

00:36:36.000 But it gives people the credibility to do that if Trump makes silly mistakes. 0.94

00:36:40.000 Again, I don't think it's fair to Trump, but it is the reality.

00:36:44.000 It does show the double standard, however.

00:36:45.000 I mean, black people use props all the time. 1.00

00:36:47.000 I mean, sorry, Democrats use black people as props all the time. 0.99

00:36:51.000 Hillary Clinton does it all the time. 1.00

00:36:52.000 This is why, I mean, this is why she uses people of color as props all the time. 1.00

00:36:57.000 It's why the father of the Orlando terrorist ends up in the background of one of her shots at one of her rallies because she was looking for, let's get some brown faces behind me so that I look more diverse.

00:37:07.000 Okay, all of that said, the media are totally unfair to Trump.

00:37:10.000 They are.

00:37:11.000 Joe Scarborough, who used to worship at the altar of Donald Trump, he has now decided that he's had it.

00:37:16.000 He's not going to worship at the altar of Donald Trump anymore.

00:37:19.000 Now it's important that he stands up to the great scourge that is Donald Trump, who he was licking his boots five seconds ago.

00:37:26.000 Amnesty Don.

00:37:26.000 And a lot of people are calling him Amnesty Don.

00:37:28.000 People are saying.

00:37:29.000 People are saying it.

00:37:30.000 People are saying it.

00:37:30.000 They're calling him Amnesty Don.

00:37:32.000 Amnesty Don, and that's what people are calling him.

00:37:34.000 So when you tweet, you do it for short.

00:37:35.000 Amnesty Don.

00:37:36.000 Hashtag Amnesty Don.

00:37:37.000 Am Don?

00:37:39.000 For 14 months, Amnesty Don has been putting illegal immigration at the center of Amnesty Don's campaign.

00:37:46.000 Right, John Heilman?

00:37:47.000 Oh yeah.

00:37:48.000 And yet, nobody in Amnesty Don's own campaign

00:37:53.000 I thought it was kidding.

00:37:55.000 Oh.

00:38:14.000 Right?

00:38:15.000 So now Amnesty Don, this weekend, even Amnesty Don's own people, surrogates, don't know what Amnesty Don's going to do on this.

00:38:23.000 What?

00:38:23.000 Or when?

00:38:24.000 Or when?

00:38:25.000 So sort through Amnesty Don's statements on immigration and tell us what you think Amnesty Don's going to do.

00:38:30.000 Okay, so Joe Scarborough obviously thinks that he's funny because he keeps saying Amnesty Don over and over while looking like Beepger from The Muppets.

00:38:36.000 But when he does this routine, look, Trump has flipped and he's flopped.

00:38:42.000 And I made fun of him last week for flipping and flopping and flopping and flipping.

00:38:46.000 He has more waffles than a pancake house.

00:38:49.000 That said, you know, this whole routine where he's now Amnesty Don, as opposed to Hillary Clinton, whose actual position is amnesty for everybody, plus let's let in five billion more people, it's worth pointing out the contrast.

00:39:02.000 That show has turned into—it's amazing how—they're kind of—

00:39:06.000 You know what they are, Joe and Mika?

00:39:07.000 They're the vindictive PTA couple.

00:39:09.000 There's always one couple in PTA where they got screwed one time because they got stuck with doing the bake sale, and now they're just pissed at the world and so they're gonna take it out on everybody. 0.94

00:39:17.000 So Joe and Mika were the biggest Trump boosters ever, and then Trump smacked them, and then he tweeted about how he knew about their sex life, basically. 0.70

00:39:24.000 I'm not saying you should talk to someone in the mental health community for a diagnosis on the air.

00:39:29.000 That is never what I meant when we had this conversation.

00:39:44.000 But I, at this point, I have been asked so many times that I think it's worth asking someone in the mental health community if this is someone you'd want to look, that this is, are these signs of something that perhaps could lead to a diagnosis.

00:39:58.000 I think, you know what, I think there's a way.

00:39:59.000 We've seen enough of him.

00:40:00.000 I think there's a way for us.

00:40:01.000 It's repetitive.

00:40:02.000 It's insistent.

00:40:03.000 I think there's a way for us to bring on mental health professionals, describe certain traits in people, and then have them talk about, like.

00:40:11.000 I think we're there.

00:40:12.000 Okay, we're there.

00:40:13.000 Okay, it's time for us to bring on psychiatrists to examine Donald Trump from afar.

00:40:17.000 I will just make one quick point here.

00:40:19.000 The Democrats, last I checked, were complaining incessantly about Sean Hannity bringing on medical professionals to speculate about Hillary Clinton's health. 0.88

00:40:27.000 For the past couple weeks, that's all we've been hearing.

00:40:29.000 How dare the right-wing media speculate about a little old lady who looks like she has to have a stool to get up into an SUV and wears muumuu's that are straight off the rack from the tent place down the street. 1.00

00:40:42.000 I mean, Hillary literally wears clothes that look like she went to Skid Row in Los Angeles, beat up a homeless person, took his tent, and recarved it. 1.00

00:40:49.000 That's what she looks like lately. 0.87

00:40:51.000 And she looks like she's been bloodied in that fight, like it didn't go that well for her.

00:40:54.000 And so if people speculate about her health, the media—oh, how dare you speculate about Hillary's health. 0.98

00:40:59.000 I think it's stupid to speculate about Hillary's health. 0.99

00:41:01.000 I also think it's worthless to speculate about Trump's mental health. 1.00

00:41:04.000 I mean, listen, I think Trump's a dumb-dumb, too. 0.99

00:41:06.000 I don't think he's a particularly stable dude, but the idea that they're gonna get a psychiatrist on to examine Donald Trump from afar, and that's okay, so you can insult his mental health, but you can't talk about the fact that Hillary Clinton looks like she's gonna fall over and croak any second. 1.00

00:41:19.000 You know, that's a big no-no.

00:41:21.000 You can't mention that at all.

00:41:23.000 I mean, after all, we saw her open a pickle jar, so that solves everything.

00:41:26.000 So the media have, now the media is out in full display.

00:41:29.000 They've decided that it's important that Donald Trump lose, which they already thought, but now they're going to sink their own credibility in ensuring that he loses.

00:41:38.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:41:41.000 It will be an epic things I hate edition, courtesy of someone in this room.

00:41:44.000 So, things I like.

00:41:46.000 Things I like.

00:42:03.000 And just put in like a real classical score.

00:42:05.000 It would be really great.

00:42:08.000 Not the guitar theme, that's mediocre, but all of the stuff where you've got the synthesizer playing underneath Prince Humperdinck's speeches.

00:42:16.000 The movie's fantastic.

00:42:17.000 It's a great, great movie.

00:42:18.000 But the score's awful.

00:42:19.000 But we'll play the trailer anyway.

00:42:20.000 This is of course a movie that if you haven't seen it, it's inconceivable.

00:42:24.000 Grandfather's here.

00:42:25.000 Mom, can't you tell Mom's sick?

00:42:29.000 He'll pinch my cheek.

00:42:30.000 I hate that.

00:42:32.000 Maybe he won't.

00:42:34.000 Hey, how was the city?

00:42:37.000 Huh?

00:42:38.000 I brought you a special present.

00:42:40.000 What is it?

00:42:42.000 It was the book my father used to read to me when I was sick and I used to read it to your father.

00:42:48.000 And today, I'm gonna read it to you.

00:42:50.000 It was a time when life didn't seem so complicated.

00:42:53.000 Marriage is what brings us together today.

00:42:59.000 What?

00:43:00.000 What?

00:43:01.000 I'm killing myself once we reach the honeymoon suite.

00:43:04.000 Won't that be nice?

00:43:06.000 A courtly age of gentle conversation.

00:43:11.000 I will always come for you.

00:43:13.000 But how can you be sure?

00:43:14.000 This is true love.

00:43:16.000 Oh, no.

00:43:17.000 Is this a kissing book?

00:43:19.000 No.

00:43:20.000 Actually, there was a lot of treachery, peril and revenge.

00:43:27.000 It's a great movie, but listen to the underscoring just for the trailer.

00:43:33.000 It's like Kenny G is in the background rocking out to Mandy Patinkin's hair.

00:43:39.000 They really should go back and redo the score.

00:43:40.000 It's really quite terrible.

00:43:41.000 So we'll do some more of those movies this week.

00:43:43.000 Great movies with really, really crappy scores.

00:43:46.000 Princess Bride is number one on my list.

00:43:49.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:43:51.000 Let's do it.

00:43:57.000 Intense.

00:43:58.000 Okay, so, a few things that I hate.

00:44:00.000 First of all, Kanye West is still taken seriously by people, and I don't know why.

00:44:04.000 I mean, after you marry Kim Kardashian, haven't you waived any claim to being taken seriously as a human being?

00:44:09.000 But nonetheless, he went out of his gourd again at the VMAs.

00:44:12.000 Again, I'm not sure who's even seen this.

00:44:14.000 I've heard it reported on, but I'm not sure that anybody's ever watched the VMAs or that it exists. 0.99

00:44:18.000 Here is Kanye West making an idiot of himself. 1.00

00:44:20.000 This, of course, is a fellow who is well-respected in the Democratic community because he's stupid. 1.00

00:44:27.000 Later tonight, Famous might lose to Beyonce, but I can't be mad. 0.99

00:44:32.000 I'm always wishing for Beyonce to win, so... You know, just to put... The audacity to put Anna Wintour right next to Donald Trump. 0.99

00:44:43.000 I mean, like, I put Ray J in it, bro.

00:44:46.000 Like... This is fame, bro.

00:44:55.000 Like...

00:44:56.000 We came over in the same boat, now we all in the same bed.

00:45:01.000 Well, maybe different boats, but, uh, you know.

00:45:05.000 But if you think about last week, it was 22 people murdered in Chicago.

00:45:11.000 You know when you're a senior and it's like the last month and you just don't feel like doing any more work?

00:45:17.000 If you feel like you're seeing people dying right next to you, you might feel like, what's the point?

00:45:22.000 You know, like, like life could be like,

00:45:25.000 Start to feel worthless in a way.

00:45:27.000 Like, I know times for me, I sit down and talk to, um, older, like, like, rich people, you know, aka white, you know.

00:45:44.000 My role models are artists, merchants.

00:45:48.000 There's less than 10 that I can name in history.

00:45:52.000 Truman, Ford,

00:45:55.000 Hughes, Disney, Jobs, West.

00:46:05.000 The words of Abraham Lincoln, everybody.

00:46:07.000 So Kanye West, considered a cultural figure, we deserve everything that we get.

00:46:13.000 Okay, other things.

00:46:15.000 This one I actually like.

00:46:16.000 I hate it, but I like it.

00:46:17.000 Jill Stein, who's the Green Party candidate, and legitimately the craziest person in this race. 1.00

00:46:21.000 I mean, I said a minute ago we shouldn't cast psychological aspersions at people running.

00:46:25.000 I make an exception for Jill Stein. 0.99

00:46:27.000 Actually, you know what?

00:46:28.000 I make an exception for all four of them.

00:46:29.000 Waive it. 1.00

00:46:29.000 They're all crazy. 1.00

00:46:30.000 So Jill Stein of the Green Party, she actually tweeted this over the weekend. 0.92

00:46:34.000 You ready for this?

00:46:34.000 This is amazing.

00:46:36.000 It's a picture of Harambe, the gorilla, right, that was killed three months ago.

00:46:41.000 And it says, the killing of Harambe three months ago today reminds us to be a voice for the voiceless.

00:46:51.000 Oh, it makes me want to vote for her so much.

00:46:53.000 It's so spectacular.

00:46:55.000 I don't even know what to say about that.

00:46:58.000 It's so great.

00:46:59.000 Okay, so a few things.

00:47:00.000 Number one, Harambe was a gorilla that dragged a three-year-old child across a pond.

00:47:06.000 Jill Stein wants to abort babies eight years after they're born. 0.97

00:47:10.000 She's willing to abort me now. 0.97

00:47:14.000 Voice for the voiceless.

00:47:15.000 Goodness gracious.

00:47:16.000 And also, using Harambe as your example of a voice for the voiceless.

00:47:19.000 There are actual innocent people being killed all over the world.

00:47:22.000 Using the gorilla from the Cincinnati Zoo as your case?

00:47:26.000 If that's not trolling, if that's serious, that is spectacular stuff.

00:47:30.000 I'm hoping—and she put out a full statement, so apparently it's serious, that she really thinks that the killing of this gorilla at a zoo is the epitome of human cruelty and violence.

00:47:39.000 Like, never mind the

00:47:40.000 Tens of thousands of people being murdered in Syria, being gassed to death, literally. 0.96

00:47:46.000 Never mind the women who are being forcibly raped by ISIS. 0.53

00:47:49.000 Harambee the gorilla was killed at the Cincinnati Zoo.

00:47:52.000 And listen, as a fan of Harambee the gorilla, I can't argue.

00:47:55.000 I think Harambee is in heaven fighting Cecil the Lion.

00:47:58.000 And I think that this is good for Jill Stein for really speaking truth to power.

00:48:04.000 Okay, other things that I hate.

00:48:09.000 Comedy Central did a roast of Rob Lowe.

00:48:11.000 Rob Lowe is reportedly kind of conservative.

00:48:14.000 For some reason, Ann Coulter shows up at this thing.

00:48:18.000 I've been friendly with Ann for years and years and years.

00:48:21.000 Ann just gets destroyed at this Comedy Central roast. 1.00

00:48:24.000 They say it turned into the

00:48:26.000 The Ann Coulter Roast with Rob Lowe.

00:48:28.000 And some of the jokes they told were really wild.

00:48:30.000 I mean, things that you would never be able to say about somebody on the left, if you're a woman.

00:48:35.000 But they said it all the time.

00:48:36.000 They say this stuff about Ann, and everybody's just like, oh, well, you know, they're allowed to say it.

00:48:39.000 So Peyton Manning says, I'm not the only athlete up here.

00:48:42.000 As you know, earlier this year, Ann Coulter won the Kentucky Derby.

00:48:45.000 Right?

00:48:46.000 Which is relatively weak tea.

00:48:48.000 But lots of jokes about her looks. 0.95

00:48:53.000 Rob Lowe said, after seeing your set tonight, we've seen the first bombing you can't blame on a Muslim. 1.00

00:48:57.000 Nikki Glaser, who's apparently a comedian, she said, the only person you will ever make happy is the Mexican who digs your grave.

00:49:03.000 Jewel, who last I checked was cutting like children's songs because no one remembers what she does anymore. 1.00

00:49:09.000 She says, I do want to say as a feminist, I can't support everything that's been said tonight, but as someone who hates Ann Coulter, I'm delighted.

00:49:15.000 And Ann Coulter emailed, she said, everybody has such thin skin, bless their hearts, they're trying to be funny.

00:49:21.000 Okay, so Ann, you know, does have a thick skin, so she can handle it. 1.00

00:49:24.000 But it is amazing that some of these jokes are things that, if they were said about a lefty woman, this would be considered sexism.

00:49:30.000 It's said about Ann Coulter, and because nobody likes Ann Coulter because of her position on immigration, and because she says offensive things, then that's perfectly acceptable according to the left.

00:49:39.000 The double standard is rather telling.

00:49:43.000 Okay, one more tape of a thing I hate.

00:49:46.000 So this is actually a thing I like.

00:49:48.000 There's a New Jersey transit cop, and he saved this guy.

00:49:54.000 And here's the tape of him saving this fellow.

00:50:01.000 So this guy wanted to kill himself, and he was on the railroad tracks, and he's trying to drag this guy off the tracks, and here comes the train, gang, so you better hurry it up.

00:50:11.000 You can see the guy trying to pull himself back onto the train tracks.

00:50:14.000 He pulls him off, and boom, there comes the train.

00:50:17.000 So, good job by the cop there.

00:50:20.000 The only reason that I'm playing this as a thing I hate rather than a thing I like is because I can't tell the race of the guy he's trying to pull off the tracks, but I'll bet you the cop didn't care.

00:50:28.000 The cop was apparently of Hispanic descent.

00:50:31.000 And that's what cops do. 0.80

00:50:33.000 Cops save people. 0.62

00:50:34.000 Cops are there to save you, whether you're black, you're white, you're green, it doesn't matter to them.

00:50:37.000 They're there to save people.

00:50:38.000 But don't worry, the cops are the bad guys.

00:50:40.000 The cops are the ones that we really should worry about.

00:50:42.000 He's the one who, by the way, is risking being pulled back onto the tracks by this guy.

00:50:45.000 I mean, look, the guy's trying to pull him back onto the tracks and kill him too.

00:50:48.000 And there he is, saving the guy from being hit by this oncoming train.

00:50:50.000 So, just remember, that's what cops actually do.

00:50:53.000 Okay, this also is a, this is actually just funny.

00:50:57.000 There's this guy who, there's this woman, this feminist woman, who got very upset with a Lyft driver.

00:51:03.000 Like Uber and Lyft.

00:51:04.000 This Lyft driver is a... It's pretty... Do we have the audio of this?

00:51:10.000 Yeah, we have it.

00:51:10.000 Okay, so there's this Lyft driver and this woman is very, very, very upset with the Lyft driver because the Lyft driver has one of those hula girls on the dashboard.

00:51:19.000 You know, that's not sexist because it's just a toy.

00:51:22.000 And this feminist gets very, very upset at the Lyft driver and things go wildly wrong. 1.00

00:51:28.000 You thought that was adorable.

00:51:30.000 You didn't think about the pillaging of the continent of Hawaii.

00:51:36.000 It's not a continent, gang!

00:51:38.000 Oh, you didn't?

00:51:39.000 Okay, so you won't get rid of the doll then.

00:51:43.000 Because that was a really cute thing that you found at Goodwill.

00:51:47.000 Um, no.

00:51:48.000 I'm not going to not get rid of it because of size.

00:51:51.000 I just don't realize it was a person anyway. 0.58

00:51:55.000 But so obviously like you as like a white male, you're like the least like... But now you're judging me or assuming where I'm from? 0.92

00:52:02.000 No, I'm not.

00:52:02.000 I'm not judging you.

00:52:03.000 I'm just saying like that perhaps like you might be the person who is least hurt in this situation.

00:52:10.000 I'm a passenger in your car.

00:52:12.000 Like that doll is offensive to me.

00:52:14.000 But you don't want to take it down because you like found it at Goodwill and it was such a good find.

00:52:23.000 We're good to go.

00:52:26.000 Yeah, no, I do want you to, because it's actually deeply offensive.

00:52:30.000 No, I do want you to take it down.

00:52:32.000 Okay, so it goes on like this for five minutes, and finally the guy, finally the guy just pulls over and says, get out.

00:52:38.000 I've had enough of you.

00:52:40.000 There's no amount of money in the world that you can pay me via Lyft that will justify this particular car trip.

00:52:48.000 It just demonstrates, I mean, seriously, if you get into a car and the first thing you think is, oh, that hula doll on the dashboard, that's cultural appropriation from the continent of Hawaii.

00:52:57.000 Then you deserve to be let off on the side of the road, and it doesn't matter where the road is.

00:53:02.000 It could be, like, in the middle of a dark forest, and you deserve to be let off on the side of the road.

00:53:06.000 Just awful.

00:53:06.000 And that's what a lot of these social justice warrior feminists are like.

00:53:11.000 Again, it's not her car, gang.

00:53:13.000 It's not her car.

00:53:13.000 Like, she says, I got in your car, and it's offending me.

00:53:15.000 OK, so get out of the car.

00:53:17.000 No one said you have to be here.

00:53:19.000 Like, he says at one point, well, fine, so you'll give me a one-star review, but, like, I'm not taking it down.

00:53:23.000 And she's like, no, I want you to take it down.

00:53:25.000 Like, I just think it's offensive.

00:53:27.000 Okay, then get out.

00:53:30.000 Everybody needs to calm down a little bit.

00:53:31.000 The hula girl on the dashboard is not offensive, and if you think it is, then you're the one with problems.

00:53:36.000 Okay, final note of the day, things that I hate, and I will make no additional reference here.

00:53:43.000 I think there's a basic reference to Huma and Anthony Weiner.

00:53:47.000 Folks, just general life rule, general life unsolicited advice.

00:53:51.000 After you break up with someone, do not be friends with your ex.

00:53:54.000 Do not be friends with your ex. 1.00

00:53:56.000 It's a waste of time and it's stupid. 1.00

00:53:58.000 It's really stupid, particularly for girls. 1.00

00:54:00.000 Because, ladies, I'm just going to give you a piece of advice from a guy. 0.99

00:54:03.000 The only reason that guys want to be friends with you after they break up with you is because they're thinking of you as the backup option.

00:54:10.000 That's just the reality.

00:54:12.000 It's not because they value you as a human being.

00:54:14.000 It's not because they love you.

00:54:15.000 If they loved you and valued you as a human being, they'd still be dating you.

00:54:18.000 Right?

00:54:19.000 It's because they want you there as a backup option in case things should go wildly wrong and there's nuclear war and you end up as the last two people on Earth.

00:54:26.000 That's why a man stays friends with his ex.

00:54:29.000 Guys, the girl is staying friends with you out of pity. 0.99

00:54:33.000 She's not doing it because she wants to be with you, she's doing it out of pure pity because she feels bad for you and she thinks you're a loser. 1.00

00:54:39.000 Okay, the fact is the world is full of wonderful people. 0.93

00:54:42.000 If you dated one of them, and now you want to go back to being friends, too late, you blew it.

00:54:46.000 You should have thought of that before you started dating the person.

00:54:48.000 I understand there are people who have lifelong friends like this.

00:54:51.000 I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying you've made terrible decisions with your life, that's all I'm saying.

00:54:54.000 So, okay, and one final note, as an extension of this rule,

00:55:00.000 In life, I think that you should make a clear distinction in your own mind between the people who you're actually close to and the people who you pretend you're close to.

00:55:06.000 Okay, for me, I'm close with my family, and I'm close with, like, a friend.

00:55:10.000 Okay, everybody else, most people, they say, oh, I'm friends with this person.

00:55:13.000 What they really mean is I'm friendly acquaintances with this person.

00:55:15.000 Okay, the person wouldn't help you move, the person wouldn't drive you to the airport, and the person wouldn't mourn for you if you died.

00:55:21.000 Or if you died tomorrow, the person would be like, oh God, that's terrible that Bob died.

00:55:24.000 That's just, that's so sad that Bob's dead.

00:55:26.000 I don't know what to do about that.

00:55:27.000 Well,

00:55:28.000 You guys have got to go to work.

00:55:29.000 Catch you later.

00:55:30.000 Right?

00:55:30.000 If your family dies, if an actual close friend dies, think about—this is kind of morbid, but, you know, screw it, we're at the end of the show.

00:55:39.000 Thinking about life in morbid ways is a good way of distinguishing what's real from what is fake.

00:55:42.000 So, if you think about somebody and you're actually—and the idea of them dying is actually horrendous to you and would break you up for a year, that person is actually your friend.

00:55:51.000 If it would break you up the rest of your life, that person is actually family.

00:55:53.000 If it would break you up, like, until you get lunch,

00:55:56.000 Then that person is just a friendly acquaintance.

00:55:58.000 And I only say this because there are a lot of people, particularly young people who are single, who take friendship as though this is, as though friendship is the be-all end-all.

00:56:05.000 Friendship is not the be-all end-all.

00:56:07.000 You see people say, well, I'm dating a girl and she doesn't like my friends.

00:56:09.000 I don't know what to do.

00:56:10.000 Well, it depends.

00:56:11.000 Do you want to marry the girl? 0.77

00:56:12.000 If you want to marry the girl, your friends are less important.

00:56:15.000 I think?

00:56:32.000 No.

00:56:32.000 Three minutes from now, you're never going to talk with this person again.

00:56:34.000 As soon as it hits summer, you're not going to remember their name.

00:56:37.000 It's going to be gone.

00:56:38.000 Find the people who you want to be close with.

00:56:40.000 Spend time in life with those people.

00:56:41.000 Don't waste time on the people who are friendly acquaintances beyond just what is fun for you.

00:56:47.000 But don't turn fake friendship into real friendship, and don't turn friendship into family, because they're not the same thing.

00:56:52.000 Okay, that's dark and morbid and horrible, but don't worry, there's more where that came from tomorrow.

00:56:56.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:56:57.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - August 29, 2016

Ep. 173 - Hillary Should Sit For The National Anthem, Too

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