Ben Shapiro reacts to Colin Kaepernick's decision to sit during the National Anthem and the response from the media, the NFL, and the Gold Star Mom who called him a "hypocrite" and a "ungrateful, privileged, and arrogant" man. He also points out that Kaepernick is one of the most privileged people in America, and was adopted and raised by a white family, and yet he is treated as a civil rights hero by the media and the rest of the sports establishment. Ben also notes that the NFL itself has stood for St. Louis Rams running out on the field in the hands-up-don't-shoot pose, while refusing to pay homage to slain cops. Ben concludes with a call-in question from a Gold Star Mother who calls Kaepernick a "liar" and says, "You see my son's body lay in a street after an IED lay in the street after a IED. His blood stains the sands of the ground. He died protecting the ideals of the flag you refuse to respect. You refuse to honor his ideals." He also says: "Shame on you for disrespecting my son, Mr. Kaepernick. I'm sitting in my living room looking outside at my American flag flying at halfstaff. You see, my American Flag flies in halfstaff in honor of a fallen soldier who died trying to protect us. You don't deserve to be treated like that. You're a thief, you're a leaker, you don't get to say what you want, and you don t get to decide what you should or don't have a say in what you like in your own country." He also notes: "This is bigger than football, and it's bigger than the NFL and the media's response to my son." He's not the only one with a $19 million a year in the NFL. He's a hypocrite, and that's why he's a better than most of us, and why he should be a better man than we should be paid for what he does in the first place. and why we should all give to Gold Star Children and Gold Star Kids, not the media should be better than the media is better than us, not better than we deserve. . If you want to learn more about gold and precious metals, then you should make sure to check out a 16-page guide on how to protect your savings account before you invest in gold and silver. They have a 5-star rating from the Better Business Bureau.
00:00:05.000Because he says he won't honor the American flag while it stands for institutional racism.
00:00:10.000He 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.
00:00:22.000He said, quote, to me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way.
00:00:28.000Let's leave aside the obvious hypocrisy of this BS.
00:00:38.000Kaepernick is one of the most privileged people in America.
00:00:40.000Let's leave aside the fact Kaepernick was adopted and raised by a white family.
00:00:44.000Let's leave aside the fact that Kaepernick began styling himself as a civil rights hero
00:00:48.000Right 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.
00:00:55.000Leave aside the lies undergirding his perspective.
00:00:57.000America 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.
00:01:06.000Let's focus instead on the NFL and the media.
00:01:08.000The 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.
00:01:20.000They say it's a wonderful exercise of First Amendment freedoms, and that anyone who criticizes Colin Kaepernick doesn't understand the First Amendment.
00:01:27.000Which, 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.
00:01:35.000But he'll be dubbed a civil rights figure just for saying things while pulling down one of America's biggest paychecks.
00:01:40.000Meanwhile, the NFL itself has stood for St.
00:01:43.000Louis 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.
00:01:51.000The NFL, much like the rest of the sports world, has now been hijacked by the left.
00:01:56.000And so we'll see ESPN cover Kaepernick like a hero for taking action that demeans our veterans and our country.
00:02:01.000And 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.
00:02:10.000Perhaps the best response to Kaepernick's routine actually came via a Gold Star mom.
00:02:36.000Shame on you for disrespecting my son and his life and his sacrifice.
00:02:40.000By 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.
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00:05:45.000All 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?
00:05:54.000It was about time she threw that dog out!
00:05:57.000What Anthony Weiner did, just to point this out, what he actually did is have a funny name and text his junk at people.
00:06:03.000That's a lot less bad than Eliot Spitzer actually hiring prostitutes.
00:06:06.000It's a lot less bad than Bill Clinton actually raping people.
00:06:09.000But they still worship at the altar of Bill Clinton.
00:06:11.000He'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.
00:06:19.000Note to dudes, no girl in the world is interested in pictures of your junk.
00:06:33.000Point number two, the media have decided to make Huma the victim in all of this.
00:06:38.000Okay, to a certain extent she's a victim.
00:06:40.000She's a victim like Hillary was a victim of philandering in 1998.
00:06:43.000This is the third time this has happened.
00:06:45.000Okay, it's not like she didn't know that Anthony Weiner has this problem.
00:06:49.000Everybody in the United States knew that Anthony Weiner had this problem.
00:06:52.000And it's not like she then built her life to help out Anthony Weiner to help overcome this problem.
00:06:56.000She'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.
00:07:02.000So 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.
00:07:08.000I mean, let's just put it this way, just final note on this.
00:07:11.000Any wedding officiated by Bill Clinton is not going to go well.
00:07:15.000Their wedding was legitimately officiated by a guy who's an alleged rapist.
00:07:18.000Okay, that's a pretty good indicator that the marriage is not going to go well from the beginning.
00:07:23.000There are some other elements of the marriage that were kind of suspicious from the beginning.
00:07:25.000I mean, there's a woman who's a very observant Muslim, apparently, and she married a Jewish guy, which is really rare.
00:07:31.000But it's, in any case, the only person I'm really sad for here is the kid.
00:07:46.000So, that's the latest on the Wiener News.
00:07:48.000What's amazing, by the way, the media are treating this as though the real story here is Donald Trump's reaction to it.
00:07:53.000Donald 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.
00:08:06.000I really don't see why Trump is wrong.
00:08:07.000I 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.
00:08:44.000Next 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.
00:08:50.000And that is the resurgence of racial animus from the left.
00:08:53.000We 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
00:09:28.000And then Colin Kaepernick explains himself in typical, typical articulate style.
00:09:33.000I mean, ultimately it's to bring awareness and make people, you know, realize what's really going on in this country.
00:09:39.000There 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.
00:09:47.000That's something that, you know, this country stands for freedom, liberty, justice for all.
00:09:53.000And it's not happening for all right now.
00:09:54.000Is 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?
00:10:03.000It'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.
00:10:14.000It'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.
00:10:59.000That would be standing silently with his teammates on the San Francisco 49ers sideline, cutting against the grain of his conscience.
00:11:05.000Nobody 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.
00:11:12.000He 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.
00:11:20.000He 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.
00:11:26.000Black 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.
00:11:34.000Again, that wouldn't be the end of the issue.
00:11:36.000I mean, there are plenty of people who have made lots of money.
00:11:39.000There are plenty of black people who were making lots of money in 1950 when Jim Crow was still a thing, right?
00:11:42.000Sammy Davis was making a lot of money in 1960 when Jim Crow was still a thing.
00:11:45.000But right now, Jim Crow is not a thing.
00:11:48.000And so now he's promulgating lies for the lapdog media.
00:11:55.000And 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.
00:12:02.000If 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.
00:12:07.000I 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.
00:12:20.000But at least back when he was doing it, there was actual serious racial discrimination happening on a systemic level across the country.
00:12:33.000The idea that police are out there just murdering black people, that's all they care about.
00:12:38.000They're out there killing black people and targeting black people.
00:12:40.000The criminal justice system is full of racism.
00:12:43.000All 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.
00:12:47.000I have full videos on this talking about all of these statistical anomalies that the left likes to cite and explaining where they come from.
00:12:54.000But Kaepernick, first of all, there's something cynical to this.
00:12:57.000Kaepernick is five seconds away from being cut by the San Francisco 49ers for sucking at his job.
00:13:02.000So he wanted to make this headline, and that way, if he gets cut,
00:13:06.000He can turn around and say, the real reason they cut me was not because I'm a really crappy football player.
00:13:10.000The real reason that they cut me is because I am such a standard bearer for Black Lives Matter.
00:13:18.000But here's the thing about Kaepernick.
00:13:20.000Kaepernick represents the mainstream left.
00:13:23.000Him not standing up for the National Anthem is actually what the mainstream left now believes.
00:13:27.000Isaiah 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.
00:13:34.000He said that white silence is violence.
00:13:38.000I look at white silence in these issues as violence.
00:13:42.000White silence is the equivalent to violence in these issues.
00:13:47.000First of all, silence is not violence.
00:13:49.000If silence were violence, then right now I'd be punching someone.
00:13:52.000Okay, but silence is not violence, obviously.
00:13:55.000But, again, look at the people surrounding him, right?
00:13:57.000Max 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.
00:14:03.000And he's sitting there just nodding along.
00:14:34.000Again, 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,
00:14:46.000Athletes must have enough courage to speak up.
00:14:47.000You got enough dough, you got enough social currency.
00:14:50.000Use your mouth to stand up for the very people who made it possible for you to become who you are.
00:15:13.000The very people who made it possible for you to become who you are.
00:15:15.000So 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.
00:15:21.000And 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.
00:15:30.000The 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.
00:15:37.000The 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.
00:15:43.000The 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.
00:15:50.000But 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.
00:16:08.000What 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.
00:16:15.000And 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.
00:16:22.000This is why you need to subscribe so that you can actually see it, because the imagery does matter.
00:17:16.000See, 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.
00:18:19.000There's a movie called Fruitville Station about Oscar Grant.
00:18:24.000So, she shows up, Beyonce shows up with the mothers of the movement.
00:18:28.000I don't know why the mother of Michael Brown should be celebrated in any way, shape, or form.
00:18:33.000She obviously did a terrible job with her son.
00:18:35.000Just 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?
00:18:45.000But she shows up anyway and Beyonce celebrates, but that's not all Beyonce did.
00:18:48.000Beyonce also did this routine during the VMAs where she had her dancers dress as angels who were then shot down, okay?
00:18:55.000And 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 ♪
00:21:35.000Beyonce, Hillary Clinton, they're all part of the same viewpoint.
00:21:38.000And 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.
00:21:45.000She believes America is a deeply racist place, filled with institutional racism, and the flag represents that.
00:21:50.000Kaepernick is just the extreme manifestation of what Beyonce believes.
00:21:54.000I'm sure if you asked Beyonce today, she would say she agrees with Kaepernick.
00:21:57.000If 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.
00:22:04.000But the bottom line is that this is what they believe.
00:22:07.000What 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.
00:22:21.000The Democrats are part of this giant lie that's being told, that America's a deeply racist, awful place.
00:22:46.000I 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.
00:22:53.000I don't think any of it makes you a better person.
00:22:57.000And the left thinks that simply by dint of saying it, that America becomes a racist place.
00:23:02.000America is, again, the greatest place for black people to live in the history of the planet.
00:23:06.000I mean, honestly, look at any other place around the world and tell me where it's better for black people to live.
00:23:11.000Where there's less racism than in the United States.
00:23:14.000Whenever people say Europe, they're neglecting the fact that literally black people get called monkeys at soccer games in Europe.
00:23:20.000Thierry Henry, this happened too routinely when he was playing soccer for the French national team.
00:23:25.000Racism 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.
00:23:36.000Again, there's also the idea of directionality here.
00:23:40.000People on the left think that America is headed in the wrong direction racially.
00:23:44.000For 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.
00:23:54.000People on the right understand that America is a great place, was founded in great principles, and that we're constantly working to perfect ourselves.
00:23:59.000Sometimes we do the wrong thing, sometimes we do the right thing.
00:24:02.000But in the end, the flag represents that effort and represents those central principles which are correct.
00:25:01.000I mean, sure, there's email evidence of bribery, but there was no bribery whatsoever.
00:25:04.000She says also she'll do her best to answer questions, which is why she hasn't had a press conference in about 37 years.
00:25:10.000I understand that voters have questions.
00:25:12.000I'm going to do my very best to answer those questions.
00:25:15.000Yeah, 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?
00:25:24.000The Democrats are doing their best to spin this away.
00:25:26.000Of course, Donna Brazile is the new head of the DNC, of the Democratic National Committee.
00:25:32.000And listen to her try and spin all of this away.
00:26:10.000Here'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.
00:26:19.000For one thing, Jo Scarborough asked her on Friday, why not just turn it over to the Gates Foundation?
00:26:24.000The Gates Foundation does not, they do grants, they don't do operations on the ground.
00:27:20.000He had the whole Steve Bannon rollout, and Steve Bannon continues to be a walking trash heap of a human being.
00:27:24.000But, Kellyanne Conway, who's his new campaign manager, she's not, she's good at what she does, and Trump has
00:27:30.000Largely stayed on message, although he continues to shift on immigration.
00:27:33.000Today 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.
00:28:10.000Okay, so we begin with Kellyanne Conway.
00:28:13.000One 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.
00:28:19.000Now, granted, Donald Trump is the world's most terrible messenger.
00:28:22.000Okay, Donald Trump is a really crappy messenger.
00:28:27.000Because 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.
00:28:34.000You know, all these are bad things about Donald Trump.
00:28:36.000But, he's doing something that Mitt Romney didn't.
00:28:39.000He's doing something a lot of Republicans wouldn't.
00:28:41.000He's supposed to now go into inner cities and start talking to the black community.
00:28:44.000So here is Kellyanne Conway explaining why he's doing that.
00:28:47.000But Chris, I'm new to this post, and he's going to take this case right to people where they live.
00:29:05.000He's saying that he's going to do some black outreach.
00:29:07.000Well, we're just talking about the fact that we have great relationships and the numbers are going up with the African-American community rapidly.
00:29:17.000We've had, you know, and I've always had great relationships with the African-American community.
00:29:23.000And now, you know, I've made it such a focal point, Mark,
00:29:28.000You can't hear the audio that well, but Donald Trump is saying that he's going to be meeting
00:29:55.000With lots of black voters going into the inner city.
00:29:59.000I think that that's what Republicans should have been doing and should be doing now.
00:30:03.000They should also be going into the inner city and they should be setting up job banks.
00:30:06.000They should be trying to create private alternatives to government.
00:30:08.000I'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.
00:30:14.000I'm going to take you from South Central LA to Beverly Hills.
00:30:16.000We're going to drive past these $4 million mansions.
00:30:19.000And you say to that black kid, that could be you one day.
00:30:21.000The black kid will probably look at you like you're crazy because he's been living in poverty.
00:30:24.000We're talking about an impoverished black kid.
00:30:26.000For that matter, an impoverished kid of any race.
00:30:28.000But particularly impoverished black kids who've been told by the media that America's a deeply racist place.
00:30:32.000If 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.
00:30:40.000People are going to be in favor of the things upon which they are dependent.
00:30:45.000And so if you are dependent on government, you're going to be in favor of bigger government.
00:30:48.000If 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.
00:30:54.000The fact is that the vast majority of black people are not on welfare.
00:30:58.000The vast majority of black people are not on food stamps.
00:31:00.000The vast majority of black people are not impoverished, actually.
00:31:03.000But the subset of black people who are, you know, they believe that the government is there for them and private industry is not.
00:31:12.000One 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.
00:31:17.000Also the government schools don't do anything to help people get out of these areas.
00:31:21.000I think it's now incumbent on businesses, I've said this before, it's incumbent on private businesses to set up actual outreach efforts
00:31:27.000In 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.
00:31:36.000We 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.
00:31:43.000We have to do all of the things the government lies and says it will, but we have to do it right.
00:31:47.000That would be, I think, a helpful outreach effort toward folks in the black community, particularly impoverished black areas.
00:31:53.000But again, I'm glad that Trump is doing this sort of outreach.
00:31:55.000So 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.
00:32:03.000I 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.
00:32:22.000And 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.
00:32:40.000So you have no problem with Donald Trump's language on that?
00:32:47.000Listen, my view on it is that you have to look at what the message is.
00:32:52.000And 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.
00:33:01.000And 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.
00:33:16.000On violence, we need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country.
00:33:23.000These are the things Donald Trump has talked about.
00:33:25.000Okay, and of course, all of that is true.
00:35:04.000Wouldn't that have been a better first tweet?
00:35:05.000Again, I don't think this is nitpicking because he's a presidential candidate and the man does have 11 million Twitter followers or something.
00:35:12.000But nonetheless, this is what the media have seized on to say that this just shows that Donald Trump doesn't care about black people.
00:35:19.000And you knew they were going to do this.
00:35:20.000You knew that they were going to do this.
00:35:23.000Al 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.
00:35:31.000I don't think he's talking to black voters at all.
00:35:34.000Because if he was, he'd be saying, this is what I'm going to propose to you.
00:35:39.000To say to black voters, don't vote for the same thing, vote for something new, but never define what new is.
00:35:46.000Means 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.
00:35:55.000If 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.
00:36:03.000Because I'm not talking to black America.
00:36:05.000I'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.
00:36:13.000So they become props to a larger narrative, and it's unfortunate and it's very cynical.
00:36:19.000Okay, first of all, for Al Sharpton to talk about using black people as props is the height of irony.
00:36:24.000That'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.
00:36:36.000But it gives people the credibility to do that if Trump makes silly mistakes.
00:36:40.000Again, I don't think it's fair to Trump, but it is the reality.
00:36:44.000It does show the double standard, however.
00:36:45.000I mean, black people use props all the time.
00:36:47.000I mean, sorry, Democrats use black people as props all the time.
00:36:52.000This is why, I mean, this is why she uses people of color as props all the time.
00:36:57.000It'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.
00:37:07.000Okay, all of that said, the media are totally unfair to Trump.
00:38:25.000So sort through Amnesty Don's statements on immigration and tell us what you think Amnesty Don's going to do.
00:38:30.000Okay, 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.
00:38:36.000But when he does this routine, look, Trump has flipped and he's flopped.
00:38:42.000And I made fun of him last week for flipping and flopping and flopping and flipping.
00:38:46.000He has more waffles than a pancake house.
00:38:49.000That 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.
00:39:02.000That show has turned into—it's amazing how—they're kind of—
00:39:09.000There'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.
00:39:17.000So 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.
00:39:24.000I'm not saying you should talk to someone in the mental health community for a diagnosis on the air.
00:39:29.000That is never what I meant when we had this conversation.
00:39:44.000But 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.
00:39:58.000I think, you know what, I think there's a way.
00:40:03.000I 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.
00:40:13.000Okay, it's time for us to bring on psychiatrists to examine Donald Trump from afar.
00:40:17.000I will just make one quick point here.
00:40:19.000The Democrats, last I checked, were complaining incessantly about Sean Hannity bringing on medical professionals to speculate about Hillary Clinton's health.
00:40:27.000For the past couple weeks, that's all we've been hearing.
00:40:29.000How 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.
00:40:42.000I 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.
00:40:51.000And she looks like she's been bloodied in that fight, like it didn't go that well for her.
00:40:54.000And so if people speculate about her health, the media—oh, how dare you speculate about Hillary's health.
00:40:59.000I think it's stupid to speculate about Hillary's health.
00:41:01.000I also think it's worthless to speculate about Trump's mental health.
00:41:04.000I mean, listen, I think Trump's a dumb-dumb, too.
00:41:06.000I 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.
00:41:23.000I mean, after all, we saw her open a pickle jar, so that solves everything.
00:41:26.000So the media have, now the media is out in full display.
00:41:29.000They'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.
00:41:38.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:41:41.000It will be an epic things I hate edition, courtesy of someone in this room.
00:42:08.000Not the guitar theme, that's mediocre, but all of the stuff where you've got the synthesizer playing underneath Prince Humperdinck's speeches.
00:47:16.000And also, using Harambe as your example of a voice for the voiceless.
00:47:19.000There are actual innocent people being killed all over the world.
00:47:22.000Using the gorilla from the Cincinnati Zoo as your case?
00:47:26.000If that's not trolling, if that's serious, that is spectacular stuff.
00:47:30.000I'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.
00:48:53.000Rob Lowe said, after seeing your set tonight, we've seen the first bombing you can't blame on a Muslim.
00:48:57.000Nikki Glaser, who's apparently a comedian, she said, the only person you will ever make happy is the Mexican who digs your grave.
00:49:03.000Jewel, who last I checked was cutting like children's songs because no one remembers what she does anymore.
00:49:09.000She 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.
00:49:15.000And Ann Coulter emailed, she said, everybody has such thin skin, bless their hearts, they're trying to be funny.
00:49:21.000Okay, so Ann, you know, does have a thick skin, so she can handle it.
00:49:24.000But it is amazing that some of these jokes are things that, if they were said about a lefty woman, this would be considered sexism.
00:49:30.000It'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.
00:49:39.000The double standard is rather telling.
00:49:43.000Okay, one more tape of a thing I hate.
00:49:48.000There's a New Jersey transit cop, and he saved this guy.
00:49:54.000And here's the tape of him saving this fellow.
00:50:01.000So 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.
00:50:11.000You can see the guy trying to pull himself back onto the train tracks.
00:50:14.000He pulls him off, and boom, there comes the train.
00:50:20.000The 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.
00:50:28.000The cop was apparently of Hispanic descent.
00:51:10.000Okay, 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.
00:51:19.000You know, that's not sexist because it's just a toy.
00:51:22.000And this feminist gets very, very upset at the Lyft driver and things go wildly wrong.
00:52:40.000There's no amount of money in the world that you can pay me via Lyft that will justify this particular car trip.
00:52:48.000It 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.
00:52:57.000Then you deserve to be let off on the side of the road, and it doesn't matter where the road is.
00:53:02.000It could be, like, in the middle of a dark forest, and you deserve to be let off on the side of the road.
00:53:58.000It's really stupid, particularly for girls.
00:54:00.000Because, ladies, I'm just going to give you a piece of advice from a guy.
00:54:03.000The 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.
00:54:19.000It'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.
00:54:26.000That's why a man stays friends with his ex.
00:54:29.000Guys, the girl is staying friends with you out of pity.
00:54:33.000She'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.
00:54:39.000Okay, the fact is the world is full of wonderful people.
00:54:42.000If you dated one of them, and now you want to go back to being friends, too late, you blew it.
00:54:46.000You should have thought of that before you started dating the person.
00:54:48.000I understand there are people who have lifelong friends like this.
00:54:51.000I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying you've made terrible decisions with your life, that's all I'm saying.
00:54:54.000So, okay, and one final note, as an extension of this rule,
00:55:00.000In 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.
00:55:06.000Okay, for me, I'm close with my family, and I'm close with, like, a friend.
00:55:10.000Okay, everybody else, most people, they say, oh, I'm friends with this person.
00:55:13.000What they really mean is I'm friendly acquaintances with this person.
00:55:15.000Okay, 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.
00:55:21.000Or if you died tomorrow, the person would be like, oh God, that's terrible that Bob died.
00:55:24.000That's just, that's so sad that Bob's dead.
00:55:30.000If 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.
00:55:39.000Thinking about life in morbid ways is a good way of distinguishing what's real from what is fake.
00:55:42.000So, 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.
00:55:51.000If it would break you up the rest of your life, that person is actually family.
00:55:53.000If it would break you up, like, until you get lunch,
00:55:56.000Then that person is just a friendly acquaintance.
00:55:58.000And 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.