The Ben Shapiro Show - September 12, 2016


Ep. 178 - Hillary Stars In 'The Walking Dead'


Episode Stats

Length

50 minutes

Words per Minute

203.35199

Word Count

10,293

Sentence Count

766

Misogynist Sentences

69

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

On Friday night, ailing Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at a fundraiser where she said, To be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the Deplorables right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it, there are people like that and he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to have only 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Hillary tried to walk back the slur afterward, saying, I was grossly generalizing, and that s never a good idea. I regret saying half that was wrong. Donald Trump immediately responded, correctly, Isn t it disgraceful that Hillary Clinton makes the worst mistake of the political season, and instead of owning up to this grotesque attack on American voters, she tries to turn it around with a pathetic rehash of the words and insults used in her campaign. That s because Hillary s a Democrat, which means she can rip Americans as closet bigots, and she can get away with it because she s running for president as a Democrat. That makes it okay for her to lie to get ahead because bad people deserve to be lied about, and also too. Democrats are all hard workers who never suffer from a victim mentality. Republicans, however, are all terribly evil. Hillary is simply saying what Democrats actually think about Americans who don t vote Democrat: We re morally inferior humans. The moment Americans realize the basket of deplorables is a giant, giant lie, Democrats can t win elections anymore, they can t do it anymore, and they can do it because they re all they want to do it right. Ben Shapiro: I m not a bad guy, I m a good guy, and I don t need to vote for someone who s not a racist, sexist or homophobic, racist, bigoted, bigot, misogynistic, sexist and bigoted or a bigot . - The Ben Shapiro Show is a podcast about politics and politics and everything in between. - Ben Shapiro Subscribe to the Ben Shapiro's new show on Podulterance and all that goes with it. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Subscribe on Podcharts and other cool stuff like that! Rate, review and subscribe to my podcast on iTunes


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00:00:00.000 On Friday night, ailing Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at a fundraiser where she said, quote, to be grossly generalistic, you can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables, right?
00:00:10.000 Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.
00:00:14.000 And unfortunately, there are people like that and he has lifted them up.
00:00:17.000 He has given voice to their websites that used to have only 11,000 people now have 11 million.
00:00:22.000 He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric.
00:00:25.000 Hillary tried to walk back the slur afterward.
00:00:27.000 She said, quote, last night I was grossly generalistic and that's never a good idea.
00:00:31.000 I regret saying half.
00:00:33.000 That was wrong.
00:00:34.000 Donald Trump immediately responded, correctly, quote, isn't it disgraceful that Hillary Clinton makes the worst mistake of the political season and instead of owning up to this grotesque attack on American voters, she tries to turn it around with a pathetic rehash of the words and insults used in her campaign.
00:00:48.000 For the first time in a long time, her true feelings came out, showing bigotry and hatred for millions of Americans.
00:00:54.000 The media have covered Hillary's comments with kid gloves they certainly never used with Mitt Romney, who infamously stated that there were 47% of people who are with Obama, dependent on government, believe they're victims, believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe they're entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.
00:01:09.000 That, of course, is because Hillary's a Democrat, which means she can rip Americans as closet bigots, and she can get away with it.
00:01:15.000 Democrats are all hard-working folks who never suffer from a victim mentality.
00:01:18.000 Republicans, however, are all terribly evil.
00:01:21.000 Hillary is simply saying what Democrats actually think about Americans who don't vote Democrat.
00:01:26.000 We're morally inferior humans.
00:01:28.000 The great surprise of Hillary's alt-right speech several weeks ago came when she specifically disassociated conservatives from the alt-right lunatics who rapidly support Trump.
00:01:37.000 It turns out that was a politically motivated lie.
00:01:39.000 It was a blackmail offer to slice off conservatives from the alt-right if they just dump Trump.
00:01:44.000 In reality, however, Hillary thinks anyone who votes for Trump, even as a mere instrument to stop her from gaining high office, is a racist, sexist, homophobic bigot.
00:01:53.000 That's how the left justifies its dishonesty and its nastiness, and the fact that it always routinely victimizes Americans in order to serve its own political purpose.
00:02:01.000 You are the bad guy.
00:02:03.000 Now, that's not to say the alt-right isn't terrible.
00:02:05.000 They are.
00:02:05.000 They're a fringe element, though, in Trump's support, even if they carry outsized weight in Trump's political calculation.
00:02:11.000 No more than 5% of Trump's base is actually alt-right, and that's a real upper-end estimate.
00:02:15.000 But for Hillary, everyone on the right is alt-right.
00:02:18.000 I'm alt-right, you're alt-right, we're all alt-right.
00:02:20.000 That's what makes it okay for her to lie to get ahead, because bad people deserve to be lied about, and also too.
00:02:26.000 Hillary can apologize for being generalistic, but her entire campaign is based on that generalization, just as the entire Democratic Party relies on that generalization.
00:02:35.000 The moment Americans realize the basket of deplorables is a giant, giant lie, Democrats can't win elections anymore.
00:02:41.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:02:48.000 Alrighty folks, so we're back.
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00:04:41.000 Obviously, big news over the weekend.
00:04:43.000 Big news over the weekend.
00:04:44.000 First of all, I just have to preface the big news over the weekend with the fact that Hillary Clinton has a problem.
00:04:50.000 And that is that one of her big spiels is that she is very strong.
00:04:53.000 It's not just that she claims that she's a normal woman.
00:04:56.000 She claims she's superhuman.
00:04:58.000 So, for example, Hillary Clinton just last week
00:05:01.000 Just last week, she said that Donald Trump projects phony strength.
00:05:04.000 Here's what she said.
00:05:07.000 Like and need the idea of a strong leader.
00:05:11.000 What do you say to the supporters of him who resonate with that message?
00:05:15.000 Well, there's phony strength and there's real strength.
00:05:17.000 And it's phony strength to not know what you're talking about and to make outrageous statements that will actually make our job harder, no matter how, in the moment, it sounds.
00:05:28.000 Real strength is leveling with the American people.
00:05:31.000 Oh!
00:05:31.000 And making it clear we will defeat ISIS.
00:05:33.000 Okay, let me stop there.
00:05:35.000 Real strength is not lying to people, and also not being a dead body on CNN.
00:05:40.000 So over the weekend, we actually did, we have exclusive footage.
00:05:43.000 You've seen a bunch of angles of Hillary Clinton falling over.
00:05:46.000 If you haven't seen that by now, we'll show you it in just a minute.
00:05:49.000 But we have exclusive footage of Hillary Clinton at the 9-11 memorial yesterday.
00:05:53.000 Here's what it looked like.
00:05:56.000 Hey, wait!
00:05:57.000 Wait up!
00:05:58.000 I want to talk!
00:06:00.000 You're fun.
00:06:01.000 Can I walk with you?
00:06:02.000 Brenda!
00:06:03.000 Brenda, get back here!
00:06:03.000 Don't pay any attention to him.
00:06:05.000 You're not going anywhere!
00:06:06.000 Oh, yeah?
00:06:06.000 Who says so?
00:06:07.000 I do!
00:06:10.000 What are you doing?
00:06:11.000 Stop it!
00:06:13.000 See, Arnold, he's not afraid of you.
00:06:14.000 Arnold, why do you have to hit everybody?
00:06:18.000 Who do you think you are?
00:06:19.000 You always have to beat everybody up!
00:06:20.000 Yeah, it went poorly.
00:06:21.000 So after that, they actually, they took Hillary, and they threw her into a van, and they drove her off, and then here's what happened next.
00:06:28.000 Something has happened to the president.
00:06:30.000 What about the vice president?
00:06:32.000 The vice president is mentally unbalanced.
00:06:34.000 Is this legal?
00:06:35.000 Oh, yeah.
00:06:37.000 Probably.
00:06:38.000 We think so.
00:06:39.000 Yes.
00:06:39.000 Suddenly, Dave has a great job.
00:06:42.000 I can't tell you the whole story.
00:06:43.000 It's kind of a national emergency kind of thing, but you gotta help me cut the budget a little.
00:06:47.000 You've gotta cut the budget.
00:06:49.000 Okay.
00:06:49.000 He has a great job.
00:06:50.000 So, and that's how Kate McKinnon ended up as president.
00:06:52.000 Basically,
00:06:53.000 Hillary Clinton apparently was taken away where she perished and the Democratic establishment desperately attempted to get Kate McKinnon on the phone so they could substitute her in to run for the rest of the primary.
00:07:04.000 Okay, so that's not actually—here's what actually happened.
00:07:07.000 Here's the tape of Hillary Clinton.
00:07:09.000 Yesterday.
00:07:10.000 So remember, the run-up to all of this is that Hillary went on a coughing jag like a week and a half ago.
00:07:15.000 We played it for four minutes, she's coughing.
00:07:17.000 By the way, my wife, who's a doctor, when she saw that she said, looks like pneumonia to me.
00:07:21.000 But Hillary Clinton said, nothing wrong with me, it's just allergies.
00:07:24.000 Then she goes on and she campaigns.
00:07:26.000 And remember, the media was saying anybody who has even mild questions about her health is a sexist.
00:07:32.000 Chris Chaliza of the Washington Post wrote a piece five days ago, five days ago, in which he said, you must stop asking questions about Hillary's health.
00:07:39.000 There's nothing there.
00:07:40.000 There's no reason to ask questions about Hillary Clinton's health.
00:07:44.000 And then this happened on Sunday.
00:07:46.000 This is at the 9-11 memorial.
00:07:47.000 It was 75 degrees and breezy outside.
00:07:56.000 She's not dancing, gang.
00:07:57.000 She's wobbling because she's falling over.
00:08:00.000 And down she goes.
00:08:02.000 And they take her, and they then proceed to shovel her in the van like Freddie Gray in the back of a Baltimore police van.
00:08:07.000 And then they speed off, and they leave the media behind.
00:08:10.000 And then after that, you know, so all that happens, and we'll add a closer angle.
00:08:17.000 This was slightly suspicious.
00:08:19.000 They say that this is glasses falling out of her pants, but look at her right leg.
00:08:23.000 Okay, look at her right leg in this particular video.
00:08:25.000 They slowed it down so you can see.
00:08:31.000 Okay, something fell out of her leg, pant leg right there, and you don't know what it is.
00:08:35.000 See?
00:08:36.000 Here we go.
00:08:38.000 And doink, something falls down.
00:08:40.000 People said it was her glasses.
00:08:41.000 Okay, maybe it's her glasses, maybe it's not.
00:08:43.000 Every conspiracy theory is now at least tenable because Hillary is lying about her health.
00:08:47.000 And we know she's lying about her health.
00:08:49.000 I mean, remember, just five minutes ago, Hillary had her coughing jag.
00:08:52.000 And if you don't recall this, this is gross, folks, so prepare yourself if you're eating breakfast or lunch.
00:08:56.000 This is what Hillary Clinton did just last week when she got into her coughing jag and took a glass of water.
00:09:05.000 That is some yucky stuff falling right in the glass from Hillary's face.
00:09:08.000 So, again, something is wrong with Hillary.
00:09:11.000 Hillary is sick.
00:09:12.000 Okay, she's sick.
00:09:14.000 So they drive her off.
00:09:15.000 And the media don't even cover this.
00:09:16.000 Only Fox News covers this, and the only reason they cover it is because one, they have a reporter on the ground, and two, these angles that we're seeing, they're not coming from members of the news media, they're coming from civilians.
00:09:26.000 So if this had not been caught on tape, you know Hillary would have lied about it.
00:09:30.000 You know that the Clinton campaign, that the media, they would have said, how dare you imply anything happened.
00:09:35.000 This is all just conspiracy theory nonsense.
00:09:37.000 No way any of this happened.
00:09:39.000 It just can't have happened.
00:09:40.000 You must be crazy.
00:09:41.000 They caught it on tape.
00:09:42.000 So they shove her in the van like a sack of old turnips, and then they drive off, and they leave her shoe behind.
00:09:47.000 She's like old, frail, dying Cinderella.
00:09:50.000 They leave her shoe behind, and the NYPD has to come back and grab it and take it to her later and fit it back on her foot.
00:09:56.000 So they take her away, and we don't know where she goes for like an hour.
00:09:59.000 We have no clue where she went.
00:10:01.000 And then they release a statement.
00:10:02.000 Don't worry.
00:10:03.000 She didn't go to the hospital.
00:10:04.000 She went to Chelsea Clinton's apartment.
00:10:07.000 Okay, now let me tell you something.
00:10:08.000 If my mom collapsed, my mom's 60, if she collapsed and they shoved her in a van, I hope they're going to the hospital.
00:10:14.000 Because that's a bad thing.
00:10:15.000 I wouldn't say take her to my house, I'd say take her to the hospital so she can get hydrated or something.
00:10:19.000 They take her to Chelsea Clinton's because they're trying to claim no big deal.
00:10:23.000 They say she overheated.
00:10:25.000 And then the media start claiming that this is, you know, Manila, that this is like, it's the hottest place on earth.
00:10:30.000 It's so humid, it's so hot, it's like the bowels of hell.
00:10:33.000 And it was the bowels of hell in New York City yesterday.
00:10:35.000 I know a bunch of people in New York City yesterday.
00:10:37.000 They were out having a good time, walking their dogs.
00:10:39.000 Apparently it was really nice yesterday.
00:10:40.000 It was like mid-70s, kind of 40% humidity.
00:10:44.000 It was actually the coolest day of the weekend.
00:10:46.000 And they were claiming that, no, no, no, Hillary, she was brave for even going out there.
00:10:49.000 Now, nobody bothers to ask.
00:10:50.000 So how many people?
00:10:51.000 Say, how many people?
00:10:53.000 Actually fainted like Hillary?
00:10:55.000 How many people just collapsed like Hillary?
00:10:56.000 They didn't bother asking that.
00:10:58.000 They also claimed that Hillary stumbled.
00:11:00.000 She didn't stumble.
00:11:01.000 When you look at the tape, she's wobbling, wobbling.
00:11:02.000 She's not moving.
00:11:03.000 Stumble implies I take a step forward and trip over somebody.
00:11:07.000 Unless she tripped over Harambe's ghost, she didn't trip over anybody.
00:11:10.000 Okay, she lost control over her legs, and she lost control over her consciousness, and she fell over.
00:11:15.000 So they take her away, and then we find out she's at Chelsea's.
00:11:17.000 And then, she emerges from Chelsea's.
00:11:20.000 She emerges from Chelsea's, and she comes out, and a little girl breaks through Secret Service and runs up to her for a hug.
00:11:26.000 Now let me tell you something about Secret Service.
00:11:28.000 You don't break through Secret Service.
00:11:29.000 Okay, this is what we call a pre-planned photo op.
00:11:31.000 So, she walks out, and this little girl breaks through and gives Hillary a big hug.
00:11:41.000 You're a member of the media.
00:11:43.000 Oh, for Christ's sake.
00:11:46.000 Because they know how ridiculous this is.
00:11:48.000 And the little girl comes out, and Hillary's waving to the crowd, and then she gets back in that van, she goes up to Chappaqua, she cancels her events for the next couple days.
00:11:55.000 So what happened?
00:11:55.000 Well, hours later, they say what actually happened is that she's been coughing because of allergies, but she was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday, but she's on antibiotics, and then she was overheated on Sunday.
00:12:08.000 None of this makes any sense.
00:12:09.000 That cough was not allergies.
00:12:12.000 The media were on top of her on Friday.
00:12:13.000 I'm not sure when she had time to go to the doctor to be diagnosed with pneumonia.
00:12:17.000 And then they came out with another story later in the day where they said there's this virulent contagious disease, basically.
00:12:23.000 This virus that has struck down half of Hillary's staff.
00:12:27.000 Let's do it.
00:12:40.000 Right?
00:12:40.000 I'm ill.
00:12:41.000 You know what I do when I'm ill?
00:12:42.000 I sleep in a different room than my wife, and I sleep in a different room than my kids, because I don't want them to get sick.
00:12:47.000 Hillary Clinton says, well, as long as I'm not going to suck out the soul of the child, I may as well get the kid sick with pneumonia.
00:12:53.000 Like, where are the parents?
00:12:54.000 You think the parents feel good about that?
00:12:56.000 Yeah, honey, go on.
00:12:57.000 Hug the old lady who's disease-ridden.
00:13:00.000 Great idea.
00:13:01.000 What a great idea.
00:13:02.000 So it's going to be, it is going to be the height of irony when our decisions about who to vote for
00:13:07.000 are completely decided by the fact that Hillary was, again, patient zero in some sort of tragic epidemic that wipes out three-quarters of the American population.
00:13:15.000 But what was amazing about that — there are a few things that are amazing about this.
00:13:18.000 One, Hillary is deeply dishonest.
00:13:20.000 She lies about everything.
00:13:21.000 So people were theorizing that she has Parkinson's disease.
00:13:24.000 People were theorizing that she's got the bubonic plague.
00:13:26.000 People were theorizing that she's got pneumonia as a secondary infection from something else, right?
00:13:32.000 People aren't theorizing all of this.
00:13:34.000 And before, that was all conspiracy theory crap.
00:13:37.000 Now, you can't believe anything Hillary says.
00:13:39.000 You can't believe a word that comes out of their mouth.
00:13:41.000 And she's still not releasing her full medical records.
00:13:44.000 So we're going to continue in just a second by explaining what the media did about that, because there are three big stories here.
00:13:50.000 One is Hillary's a giant liar, so you can't believe anything she says.
00:13:53.000 Two is, because she's a giant liar, she may in fact be a walking corpse.
00:13:56.000 Any minute, she may reanimate and start trying to eat people's brains.
00:14:00.000 It's possible.
00:14:01.000 And third,
00:14:02.000 The media are just, you can't believe anything the media tell you.
00:14:05.000 So this makes people crazy.
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00:16:10.000 Alrighty, so, as I say, there are three issues with Hillary Clinton.
00:16:13.000 One is, she's a pathological liar.
00:16:16.000 Even on things—imagine that six months ago, she'd come out and she'd said, you know what?
00:16:19.000 I'm suffering from some ill health.
00:16:21.000 Would that be a big deal?
00:16:23.000 Last week, I was out for three days, right?
00:16:25.000 Or two days, because—I guess yesterday, because we had Labor Day last week.
00:16:28.000 But two days, I was out last week.
00:16:30.000 And I said, I have laryngitis.
00:16:32.000 Today, I'm under the weather.
00:16:34.000 Right?
00:16:34.000 I'm fully transparent with you.
00:16:35.000 I do not have cancer, I have laryngitis, and I'm still finishing the after-effects of it, and I'm on an antibiotic.
00:16:41.000 See how easy that was?
00:16:42.000 But Hillary, because she is so paranoid, and she really is, she's like Nixonian paranoid, because she's so deeply paranoid, she has no capacity not to lie.
00:16:50.000 So in any situation where there's controversy, she feels the need to lie.
00:16:54.000 So that's story number one.
00:16:55.000 Because of that, we can't believe anything she says about her health.
00:16:58.000 So when she says, yeah, I'm fine, the rest of us look at her and go, well, then why do you look like you were just excavated from some sort of archaeological dig, and you're going to try and kill Brendan Fraser?
00:17:12.000 That's number two.
00:17:12.000 Number three is the media are just egregious on this.
00:17:15.000 So Brian Stelter over at CNN.
00:17:17.000 Watch what Brian Stelter had to say.
00:17:18.000 This is Sunday.
00:17:19.000 As this is unfolding, here's Brian Stelter.
00:17:21.000 Let's be honest, Jeff.
00:17:22.000 They had this horrible photo on the cover of that supermarket tabloid.
00:17:25.000 Clearly, Hillary was photoshopped in the picture.
00:17:27.000 I thought it was disgusting.
00:17:29.000 And yet, even though there's these conspiracy theories, which we should not give oxygen to, saying that she's secretly ill, suggesting she's on her deathbed, which we can see she's not, there are legitimate questions asked by reporters.
00:17:39.000 And I think that's the distinction here to make.
00:17:42.000 You can't ask questions.
00:17:45.000 Don't give oxygen to conspiracy theories.
00:17:48.000 And NBC's Alex Witt says the same thing, that Hillary has a traveling physician who travels with her everywhere, like she's a traveling potentate.
00:17:57.000 And she says, that's not a big deal.
00:17:58.000 That's just a precaution.
00:17:58.000 It's not because she's sick or anything.
00:18:00.000 It's just a precaution.
00:18:01.000 May I ask you, though, the extent to which Secretary Clinton travels with a physician.
00:18:06.000 There has been some hay made of that.
00:18:08.000 I will also say anecdotally, Kristen, that my father's a physician.
00:18:11.000 I've spoken with him and other family members and other physicians about the prospect of, if the Secretary travels with a physician, it is merely a precautionary measure.
00:18:21.000 When someone is taking blood thinners,
00:18:24.000 It is important to have sort of a protective layer there in case there were to be a fall.
00:18:31.000 It's not necessarily some emergency focus, but rather something that just in case it's a wise thing to do.
00:18:39.000 Okay, hold on.
00:18:40.000 How many people do you know who have a doctor who travels around with them on a daily basis because it's just a wise thing to do?
00:18:47.000 Anybody?
00:18:48.000 Like, my dad is on blood pressure medication.
00:18:49.000 He doesn't have a doctor who follows him around 24 hours a day.
00:18:52.000 If he has a problem, he goes to the doctor or calls the doctor.
00:18:54.000 Hillary's got a doctor on call for her 24 hours a day.
00:18:57.000 Does Trump?
00:18:58.000 I miss the part where Trump does.
00:18:59.000 So the media start covering this up.
00:19:01.000 And they, again, as I mentioned, the media start saying, oh, she stumbled.
00:19:03.000 She didn't stumble, okay?
00:19:05.000 They say that she had a little wobble.
00:19:07.000 She never wobbles.
00:19:08.000 She pitched face-first forward like a comedy drunk.
00:19:12.000 I mean, she goes face-first and they catch her and they dump her in, like, a sack into the van.
00:19:17.000 And then she pops out for 30 seconds and disappears again to Chappaqua and everything is fine.
00:19:21.000 We're supposed to believe everything is cool.
00:19:22.000 Again, none of this makes sense.
00:19:24.000 None of this makes sense.
00:19:25.000 Right?
00:19:26.000 They're saying that the cough was not the pneumonia, but she had pneumonia, but she wasn't contagious enough to give it to the little girl, but everybody on the team had a disease.
00:19:36.000 Okay, none of this makes any sense.
00:19:38.000 Their story has shifted about eight different times here.
00:19:40.000 The first rule to a good lie is that you stick with it.
00:19:43.000 You don't change your lie every single moment.
00:19:46.000 I mean, this is, seriously, I'm looking for the actual narrative over the last 24 hours from the Democrats was, quote, was, there were really six steps here.
00:19:58.000 She's fine.
00:19:59.000 She has allergies.
00:20:00.000 She's overheated.
00:20:02.000 She's fine.
00:20:02.000 See, she's hugging a child.
00:20:04.000 She has pneumonia.
00:20:05.000 Everybody has a terrible virus.
00:20:07.000 I'm not making that up.
00:20:09.000 That's their actual timeline here.
00:20:12.000 So next thing we know, it's going to be, she unleashed contagion.
00:20:16.000 We're all going to die.
00:20:18.000 Sorry to break it to you, but Hillary was fibbing the whole time.
00:20:21.000 Well now, now even the media
00:20:26.000 Yeah, I think I would.
00:20:48.000 Thank you.
00:21:07.000 Do routine EKG, check some basic lab values, and that's not, you know, in medicine you have your strong suspicions, and I think, again, the most common conclusion here is what we've been talking about.
00:21:19.000 Okay, so he says you should get checked out by a doctor, and that's exactly right.
00:21:22.000 Tom Brokaw says Hillary should have gone to a hospital to see a neurologist.
00:21:26.000 Just this morning, I had a rather detailed message from a Republican who was inside, and he was raising questions about
00:21:33.000 As well as saying, I don't know whether this is true, but here are the incidents that we're all watching.
00:21:37.000 So that's in play.
00:21:38.000 And we're already seeing today the social media activity that is going on.
00:21:43.000 I think that she should go to a hospital and see a neurologist and get a clean report if it's available to her.
00:21:50.000 This is not something that can be dealt with at her daughter's apartment in the context of where we are.
00:21:56.000 Okay, so she says she should go to the hospital.
00:21:58.000 And then you got Cokie Roberts saying maybe Hillary should step down.
00:22:02.000 Democrats were already saying that Hillary was the only candidate who could not beat Trump, and it's taking her off of the campaign trail, cancelling her trip to California today.
00:22:14.000 It has them very nervously beginning to whisper about having her step aside and finding another candidate.
00:22:23.000 That is no small thing.
00:22:24.000 Okay, quick point to make here, okay?
00:22:26.000 For all the people who are very- I don't understand people who are on the Trump side who are very upset about Hillary Clinton being very ill.
00:22:32.000 They should be happy, presumably, because she's supposed to ruin the world, right?
00:22:34.000 She's the most dangerous person in history.
00:22:37.000 What happens if she drops out?
00:22:38.000 Then, presumably, the most dangerous person in history isn't gonna run this thing anymore.
00:22:43.000 Basically, at this point, I'm almost to the point where I think that whoever pledges to get sick enough to resign from the presidency first
00:22:50.000 May get my vote, because I really don't like either one of these candidates very much, as you may have noticed.
00:22:56.000 But, obviously, you know, Hillary has problems, and even the media are beginning to take notice.
00:23:01.000 But they're undercutting their own case, because they spent months saying she's fine.
00:23:04.000 They spent months saying she's totally cool, everything is hunky-dory.
00:23:08.000 And then, and then, they turn around, they say, no, it turns out everything is not hunky-dory.
00:23:12.000 Meanwhile, by the way, okay, let's do some good Trump, bad Trump.
00:23:14.000 Today, a lot of good Trump.
00:23:16.000 So, thanks to Brandon Snipes for our theme song.
00:23:26.000 Actually, a lot of good Trump today.
00:23:27.000 A lot of good Trump today.
00:23:28.000 This is starting off to be a very good week for Donald Trump.
00:23:31.000 I mean, it's sad that a good week for Donald Trump has to start off with his opponent collapsing into the back of a van, but there you have it.
00:23:37.000 But Donald Trump actually maintained his non-total crazy.
00:23:41.000 So Donald Trump has been—well, we'll get to bad Trump, which is more kind of from late last week, because I didn't have a chance to talk about it, but good Trump is Donald Trump
00:23:51.000 Not saying stupid things.
00:23:52.000 That's the best you can hope for from Trump in this situation.
00:23:54.000 Don't be stupid, right?
00:23:55.000 Donald.
00:23:56.000 Somebody's in the back room saying to him, Donald, Hillary collapsed into a van.
00:24:00.000 And he says, well, that's great.
00:24:02.000 And they say, no, no, Donald, you can't say that publicly.
00:24:04.000 So here's what we're going to do.
00:24:05.000 We need you to go out there.
00:24:07.000 And we need you to say that you're sad that she feels bad.
00:24:10.000 That's what we need you to say.
00:24:10.000 And he's like, but I don't.
00:24:12.000 And they're like, no, no, but really, just tweet that you feel bad, that she's feeling bad.
00:24:16.000 And then they took him and they actually duct taped him to a wall for 12 hours.
00:24:20.000 And then finally, when they released him, here's what Donald Trump had to say on Fox and Friends this morning, and this is the right answer.
00:24:28.000 Was a week ago, so I assume that was pneumonia also.
00:24:31.000 I mean, I would think it would have been, so something's going on.
00:24:35.000 But I just hope she gets well and gets back on the trail.
00:24:39.000 And we'll be seeing her at the debate.
00:24:41.000 Okay, exactly the right answer.
00:24:43.000 I hope she gets well, and we'll see her on the trail, and we'll see her at the debates.
00:24:46.000 Right answer, Donald Trump.
00:24:47.000 Look at that.
00:24:47.000 Acting like a normal human being, this is the correct answer for a presidential candidate.
00:24:51.000 Then he does something smart.
00:24:53.000 He says, okay, she won't release any of her medical records.
00:24:55.000 I had a physical last week, and I will go on Dr. Oz's show, and I will release my physical records.
00:25:01.000 Here's Trump.
00:25:02.000 I think it's an issue.
00:25:03.000 In fact, this week I took, this last week I took a physical.
00:25:08.000 And I'll be releasing when the numbers come in.
00:25:11.000 Hopefully they're going to be good.
00:25:12.000 I think they're going to be good.
00:25:13.000 I feel great.
00:25:14.000 But when the numbers come in, I'll be releasing very, very specific numbers.
00:25:21.000 Okay, so smart, smart.
00:25:23.000 This is what he should be doing, right?
00:25:24.000 This is discipline Trump.
00:25:25.000 Discipline Trump is better Trump, right?
00:25:27.000 This is good Trump.
00:25:28.000 Discipline Trump is better Trump.
00:25:30.000 And then he says one more thing, and this last one is really not a big deal for Trump.
00:25:34.000 I don't think it's bad Trump.
00:25:36.000 I don't really think it fits into either good Trump or bad Trump.
00:25:38.000 It's just sort of Trumpy.
00:25:39.000 But Trump says something, and you'll see how corrupt the media is by how quickly they jump on this statement.
00:25:43.000 Here was Trump talking more at length about Hillary's health issues.
00:25:47.000 And, you know, it was interesting because they say pneumonia on Friday, but she was coughing very, very badly a week ago, and even before that, if you remember.
00:25:55.000 This wasn't the first time.
00:25:56.000 So, it's very interesting to see what is going on.
00:25:59.000 I want her to get better.
00:26:01.000 I want her to get out there.
00:26:02.000 I look forward to seeing her in the debate.
00:26:05.000 I will say this.
00:26:06.000 The scheduling, you know, if you look at my scheduling and compare it to anybody else's scheduling, it is not a contest.
00:26:13.000 Okay, so people are, you know, I would not be surprised if the media jumps on this and says, he's trying to overreach.
00:26:19.000 This is their favorite thing.
00:26:20.000 Whenever a Democrat has a scandal, the media cover the Republican overreach.
00:26:24.000 Whenever a Republican has a scandal, they cover the substance of the scandal.
00:26:27.000 Okay, so let's put all of this aside for a moment.
00:26:30.000 This wasn't the only bad thing Hillary did over the weekend.
00:26:32.000 So over the weekend, Hillary Clinton goes in front of her supporters and she says that the Trump people are what she calls a basket of deplorables.
00:26:38.000 We mentioned this up top at the front of the show.
00:26:40.000 Here's what she said.
00:26:42.000 Be grossly generalistic.
00:26:46.000 You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.
00:26:54.000 Right?
00:26:58.000 The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, you name it.
00:27:05.000 But that other basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down.
00:27:11.000 The economy has let them down.
00:27:14.000 Nobody cares about them.
00:27:17.000 Okay, so she takes half the Trump people and she says, basically they're the alt-right.
00:27:21.000 Okay, that's a wild exaggeration.
00:27:23.000 At best, 5% of the people who support Trump are actually alt-righters.
00:27:27.000 Most of the people who support Trump don't like her, or are not happy with what the government has done, or they think her vision for what the government should be is wrong.
00:27:34.000 There are a lot of different reasons to vote for Trump.
00:27:37.000 There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.
00:27:39.000 There are 47% who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe
00:28:19.000 Stop it there.
00:28:26.000 The point I want to make here is that he's sort of going after people on the left side of the aisle saying that there are people who believe in a victim mentality, there are people who believe that the government owes them something.
00:28:36.000 Okay, there is a percentage of Democrats who definitely believe that for sure.
00:28:39.000 Then there are a bunch of people who vote Democrat because they've been told that we're evil and nasty.
00:28:44.000 There's something important here that people are going to miss, and that is, notice the setting.
00:28:48.000 So in the Romney tape, Romney is saying this in a private setting, not in a microphone.
00:28:53.000 Hillary is on camera.
00:28:54.000 She knows she's on camera.
00:28:55.000 She's on mic.
00:28:56.000 She knows she's on mic.
00:28:57.000 Which means that for Democrats, this is not just a by-the-way sort of thing.
00:29:01.000 For Democrats, this is the root and branch of their entire philosophy.
00:29:07.000 Their entire philosophy rests on the idea that you are evil, that I am evil, that we are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.
00:29:13.000 When she said earlier in the campaign, we're not all alt-right, what she was trying to do was say to people like Shapiro, okay Shapiro, I know you're not alt-right, but if you really want to show you're not alt-right, you have to vote for me.
00:29:23.000 But if you vote for Trump, or if you say you're not going to vote for either, then that means that you must be a member of this alt-right.
00:29:28.000 It was really a blackmail attempt, not a true distinction between normal conservatives and the alt-right.
00:29:35.000 But the entire left philosophy rests on this notion that we're the bad guys.
00:29:39.000 We're just morally bad people.
00:29:40.000 That we're morally bad people.
00:29:42.000 And this is one of the problems that I have just generally with this election cycle.
00:29:47.000 One of the things that we keep hearing is what I'm about to show you from this Home Depot co-founder.
00:29:51.000 This is Bernie Marcus.
00:29:54.000 Well, you know, before I get to that, I want to make one more quick point about this.
00:29:58.000 I think the right can overplay this deplorables thing.
00:30:01.000 I know that my company that I work for, Salem Communications, they have what they're calling their deplorables tour.
00:30:06.000 Now, they've renamed it after what Hillary Clinton said.
00:30:09.000 And I think that's a mistake, too, because the truth is there are some deplorables inside the Trump camp, and by claiming that we're all deplorables, like taking Hillary's label and then sticking it on ourselves, we're actually sort of saying there's no such thing as deplorables, and there are such things as deplorables.
00:30:22.000 For example, here was a deplorables meme that was put out yesterday, and this was put out
00:30:29.000 I believe.
00:30:31.000 Was this David Duke, this one, or Roger Stone?
00:30:33.000 This one was Roger Stone.
00:30:35.000 And Roger Stone put it out with pictures of him, and it's the Expendables, for people who can't see, and Alex Jones, who's legitimately a nutcase, and Peppy the Frog, the meme, and Milo Yiannopoulos.
00:30:46.000 This wasn't even the worst one.
00:30:47.000 David Duke put one out that had himself in it, right?
00:30:49.000 The deplorables.
00:30:50.000 So the idea that there are no bad people in the Trump side of the aisle is not true.
00:30:54.000 If you just embrace Hillary's definition, yeah, we're all deplorables, and, you know, you're calling us all racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, that's a mistake, too.
00:31:01.000 OK, but the real point I want to make is back to this Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus.
00:31:05.000 So Bernie Marcus is a big Republican supporter, and from everything I've heard, a very good guy.
00:31:09.000 And Bernie Marcus was on TV making the case that if you're not actively supporting Trump, meaning if you're not just shilling for Trump, then you're supporting Hillary Clinton.
00:31:18.000 But his actions now just confuse me terribly.
00:31:23.000 And all of the Republicans out there who... I say the same thing.
00:31:27.000 I had dinner with somebody last week who, out of the Midwest, was a great supporter of the Republican Party for many, many years and said, I'm not voting.
00:31:37.000 I'm just not voting.
00:31:38.000 And that's the end of it.
00:31:39.000 I hate Donald Trump.
00:31:41.000 So I said, well, therefore, you're going to vote for Hillary Clinton.
00:31:44.000 He said, no, no, she's corrupt.
00:31:46.000 I can't vote for her.
00:31:47.000 I said, well, if you don't vote for her and you don't support Donald Trump, are you going to stay neutral?
00:31:53.000 You might as well vote for her because your lack of vote for Donald means that she's going to get elected anyway.
00:32:00.000 Some of them don't care, Bernie.
00:32:01.000 Some of them don't care.
00:32:01.000 They go so far as to say, all right, so be it.
00:32:03.000 I actually prefer her.
00:32:04.000 Hillary Clinton, you have Meg Whitman out in California doing that.
00:32:08.000 What do you think?
00:32:09.000 Okay, so we can stop it there.
00:32:10.000 But the math here is so wrong.
00:32:11.000 I mean, obviously, we've made this argument a thousand times.
00:32:13.000 I get this literally every five seconds on Twitter.
00:32:17.000 Almost literally every five seconds on Twitter.
00:32:18.000 This, if you don't support Trump strongly enough, then you're really supporting Hillary.
00:32:22.000 If you don't shill for him.
00:32:23.000 First of all, people who say this to me, my vote doesn't matter.
00:32:25.000 And they know my vote doesn't matter.
00:32:26.000 And if I said right now, today, I'm voting for Donald Trump, it wouldn't make any difference so long as I continue to criticize Donald Trump.
00:32:32.000 The reason that I oppose this lesser of two evils logic, the reason I oppose it is because it literally justifies any bad behavior because you just point to the other person.
00:32:41.000 You just point to the other person.
00:32:42.000 So for example, let's say that Donald Trump, and we've seen it throughout this election cycle, on both sides.
00:32:47.000 So Hillary Clinton won't reveal her medical records, right?
00:32:50.000 And we're mad about that.
00:32:51.000 She should, because it's not fair.
00:32:53.000 What if she gets elected and she dies three months in and the American people were never given the opportunity to vote on the actual person who was running for president, Tim Kaine?
00:33:01.000 Or Joe Biden, whoever substitutes for her, right?
00:33:04.000 What exactly is it?
00:33:06.000 Presumably Cain, if she's elected.
00:33:09.000 So what Democrats say, their response to that is, well, we just voted for her to stop Trump.
00:33:13.000 And Trump won't release his IRS returns anyway.
00:33:16.000 So why should she release her medical records?
00:33:18.000 He won't release his IRS returns.
00:33:20.000 And every time somebody says about Trump, why don't you release your IRS returns?
00:33:23.000 He says, well, you know, Hillary won't release her medical records.
00:33:26.000 She just won't do it.
00:33:27.000 Let's say that Donald Trump tomorrow, let's say that he hit a woman with his car and she died.
00:33:32.000 Let's say that happened.
00:33:33.000 Trump supporters could plausibly say, they could plausibly say, well, what do Democrats have to complain about?
00:33:38.000 They can't complain about this.
00:33:39.000 After all, they elevated Ted Kennedy, who drove a car off a bridge and drowned a woman, and then made him their Senate leader.
00:33:44.000 He was the lion of the Senate.
00:33:46.000 I did the same thing with Trump on the KKK.
00:33:48.000 When Trump went soft on the KKK several months ago, people said, well, yeah, but Robert Byrd.
00:33:53.000 And you see with Hillary Clinton, when Hillary Clinton lies about her private email server, her supporters just say, yeah, well, Donald Trump's corrupt, and he says he brags, and he brags about bribing people.
00:34:02.000 The problem with the lesser of two evils thinking is that if the other person is, everybody has done things that are wrong.
00:34:07.000 If the other side has done all the wrong things, no matter what wrong thing you do, you can always claim you're superior to them, which means you end up with the lowest common denominator.
00:34:17.000 So this week's example of that was Donald Trump on Vladimir Putin.
00:34:21.000 So Donald Trump, I didn't have a chance to comment on this last week, but I really think this is worthy of comment.
00:34:25.000 Because what I've always worried about with Trump, and the reason why I have said that I'm not voting for either of them, is because I'm concerned that conservatives are shifting the definition of conservatism to meet Donald Trump, and then they just point at Hillary and say, it's okay if we do that, because at least we're not as bad as Hillary.
00:34:40.000 We're watching it happen on Vladimir Putin, we're watching it happen on free trade.
00:34:44.000 People who were pro-free trade are now anti-free trade.
00:34:46.000 The polls show this.
00:34:48.000 Vladimir Putin is now viewed significantly more positively.
00:34:51.000 Inside the Republican Party, he's at a negative 27.
00:34:54.000 Two years ago, he was at a negative 66 with the Republican Party.
00:34:58.000 That's because of Donald Trump.
00:35:00.000 On free trade, we were net positive on free trade.
00:35:02.000 We're now 20 points underwater on free trade.
00:35:05.000 That's because of Donald Trump.
00:35:07.000 That's because people are willing to shift their definition of conservatives or be more enthusiastic about his definition than about real conservatism.
00:35:14.000 So here's Donald Trump on Vladimir Putin last week.
00:35:16.000 But the fact that you say you can get along with him... I think I'll be able to get along with him.
00:35:20.000 Do you think the day that you become President of the United States he's going to change his mind on some of these key issues?
00:35:25.000 Possibly.
00:35:26.000 It's possible.
00:35:27.000 I don't know, Matt.
00:35:27.000 It's possible.
00:35:28.000 And it's not going to have any impact.
00:35:29.000 If he says great things about me, I'm going to say great things about him.
00:35:32.000 I've already said.
00:35:33.000 He is really very much of a leader.
00:35:35.000 I mean, you can say, oh, isn't that a terrible thing he called?
00:35:37.000 I mean, the man has very strong control over a country.
00:35:40.000 Now, it's a very different system, and I don't happen to like the system.
00:35:43.000 But certainly in that system, he's been a leader far more than our president has been a leader.
00:35:47.000 We have a divided country.
00:35:50.000 OK, and he says he's been a Marvel leader more than Obama has been.
00:35:53.000 And then Lauer follows up with him and says, well, he's done all these bad things.
00:35:57.000 And Trump says, yeah, but Obama's done bad things, too.
00:35:59.000 That's nothing new.
00:36:00.000 He said this back in October, too, when an interviewer asked Trump, yeah, but he kills people, right?
00:36:06.000 He kills people legitimately.
00:36:08.000 And Trump said back in October, yeah, well, we kill people, too.
00:36:12.000 I mean, this is bad stuff.
00:36:13.000 It's bad stuff, okay?
00:36:14.000 Hugh Hewitt, who, again, I don't want to pick on Hugh, but Hugh's become a real cheerleader for Donald Trump throughout this campaign.
00:36:19.000 And Hugh, you know, he went out of his way on Twitter to go around basically backing up Donald Trump.
00:36:25.000 Yeah, Putin's a strong leader.
00:36:26.000 First of all, there are two definitions of a strong leader.
00:36:29.000 One is what Trump was saying, and one is what Trump was not saying, okay?
00:36:32.000 The idea that Putin's a strong leader, by definition, a dictator is a strong man.
00:36:37.000 It's a synonym.
00:36:38.000 Right?
00:36:38.000 If you control a country, then presumably you're a strong man.
00:36:41.000 But I don't hear him doing the same routine, for example, about the mullahs in Iran.
00:36:45.000 I don't hear him doing the same routine about Kim Jong-un in North Korea.
00:36:48.000 He only does it about Putin.
00:36:49.000 Because he's really talking about how he kind of likes the moral quality of Putin.
00:36:52.000 Putin's a guy who stands up for his country.
00:36:54.000 Stands up for his country's interests.
00:36:55.000 Hugh Hewitt was saying Mao was a strong leader, too.
00:36:58.000 He was a bad guy who killed 45 million people in four years during the Great Leap Forward.
00:37:02.000 But Mao was a strong guy, too.
00:37:04.000 But look at Trump's—but the key here is how Trump justifies himself, right?
00:37:08.000 The way that Trump justifies himself is he says, yeah, at least he's not Obama.
00:37:12.000 At least Putin's not Obama.
00:37:13.000 Or at least I'm not Obama.
00:37:16.000 Maybe I'm praising a bad guy, but at least I'm not Obama.
00:37:18.000 Newt Gingrich sort of did the same routine.
00:37:20.000 He was asked about, are you comfortable or uncomfortable with Donald Trump praising Vladimir Putin?
00:37:24.000 Here was Giuliani.
00:37:25.000 Or Gingrich.
00:37:26.000 But you can't be comfortable with this continued praise of Vladimir Putin?
00:37:30.000 I'm not comfortable or uncomfortable with it.
00:37:32.000 I think that Putin is a fact.
00:37:34.000 I don't think our effort to say bad things, it's been pathetic.
00:37:38.000 There was a red line on Syria, it didn't work.
00:37:40.000 There was a red line on Crimea, it didn't work.
00:37:42.000 I mean, at what point do we recognize that this guy exists and calling him names may not be the best strategy we have?
00:37:49.000 Insane.
00:37:50.000 This is insane what Newt Gingrich is saying.
00:37:52.000 I don't care, I'm not comfortable or uncomfortable with him saying wonderful things about a guy who's a thug who murders journalists and his political opponents.
00:37:59.000 Why?
00:38:00.000 Because, well, at least he hasn't been weak like Obama.
00:38:02.000 If that's how we're going to do elections from now on, folks, there will never be another candidate you like.
00:38:07.000 There won't.
00:38:08.000 Because we're just going to keep nominating the person who's the worst person, because the worst person is the person who's the most effective.
00:38:14.000 We're going to keep nominating the worst person, and then we're going to say, but at least they're better than X. At least they're better than X. You need to make an affirmative case to me for Donald Trump.
00:38:24.000 Not just a negative case about Hillary Clinton.
00:38:26.000 Because you can always tell me that Hillary Clinton is the worst person in the world, and I'll believe you.
00:38:31.000 But that doesn't make the affirmative case for Donald Trump.
00:38:33.000 And if we keep just saying, we have to avoid the worst thing, by picking the second worst thing, you're never gonna get an opportunity in the future to pick somebody who's not the second worst, but is actually affirmatively good.
00:38:43.000 Somebody who's affirmatively good.
00:38:45.000 And this is my problem with the whole binary thinking of, you gotta pick Trump or you gotta pick Clinton.
00:38:50.000 Right now, in California, we're about to have a Senate race.
00:38:52.000 The Senate race is Loretta Sanchez, who's a Democrat, against Kamala Harris, who's another Democrat.
00:38:58.000 Presumably Loretta Sanchez will be a little bit better than Kamala Harris.
00:39:01.000 But I have no intention on voting for either of them.
00:39:04.000 I'm not planning to vote for either of them because neither of them meet my minimum qualifications morally for me to vote for them.
00:39:10.000 Because I want the opportunity at some point to vote for somebody who's actually going to be good.
00:39:16.000 And at least in that case, they're both Democrats.
00:39:18.000 In this case, one of them's a Republican who I have other Republicans now defending bad behavior on the basis that at least he's not Hillary.
00:39:25.000 This is my objection.
00:39:26.000 This is my objection.
00:39:27.000 Now, you want to vote for Trump because you think he's the lesser of two evils.
00:39:30.000 Again, that's your logic.
00:39:32.000 It's tenable.
00:39:33.000 I don't buy it, but it's tenable.
00:39:35.000 But don't pretend that just because Hillary Clinton is the world's worst person, and she really is a terrible person, don't pretend that just because Hillary is super dangerous, that that's all you require to vote for the other guy.
00:39:46.000 Because if you do that, I promise you, we're just going to have a series of bad elections from here until the end of time.
00:39:51.000 At some point, again, any bad behavior can be justified by pointing to the other guy.
00:39:55.000 This is the danger of the misinterpreted phrase in the New Testament about not commenting on the speck in the other person's eye until you remove the moat from your own, the moat in the other person's eye until you remove the plank from your own.
00:40:07.000 It's misinterpreted.
00:40:08.000 The point there is not that you're not allowed to criticize sin.
00:40:12.000 The point is that you're not allowed to think that you're better than somebody else.
00:40:15.000 It's the reverse.
00:40:16.000 You're not allowed to think that you're better than somebody else because they sinned.
00:40:19.000 But we're actually doing the reverse now.
00:40:20.000 The reverse now is, well, I can't criticize the plank in my guy's eye because there's a moat in the other guy's eye.
00:40:26.000 Or I can't criticize the moat in my own eye because there's a plank in the other guy's eye.
00:40:30.000 We should be having candidates who are affirmatively good, who actually do good things.
00:40:34.000 And you can still back Donald Trump and still call him out when he does bad things.
00:40:37.000 And that's the other point here.
00:40:38.000 You don't actually have to turn into Sean Hannity.
00:40:40.000 Sean was on Twitter on Saturday night ripping on everybody, saying, if you don't back Trump strongly enough, you own Hillary.
00:40:48.000 No, I've said it's perfectly tenable to vote for Trump to stop Hillary.
00:40:51.000 But if you shill for Trump, if you lie about Trump, you better own that.
00:40:55.000 Because that's something you actually do have to own, is the moral content of the person that you vote for if you uphold their moral content.
00:41:01.000 If you say Trump's a crap show, I understand, Hillary's worse, got it.
00:41:04.000 But if you justify the crap show by claiming that Hillary is worse, you're now justifying a crap show.
00:41:09.000 And it doesn't matter why you do it, you're justifying a bad guy.
00:41:12.000 You don't have to do that to vote Trump.
00:41:13.000 You don't.
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00:42:53.000 Okay.
00:42:54.000 Time for things I like and then some quick things that I hate.
00:42:57.000 So, things I like.
00:42:59.000 Today's Things I Like, there's this book that's now at the top of the New York Times bestseller charts called Hillbilly Elegy by J.D.
00:43:05.000 Vance, and it's really, really a good book.
00:43:07.000 It's a very well-written book.
00:43:09.000 It's about a guy who grew up in Middletown, Ohio, and he comes from Kentucky originally, and it's sort of about hillbilly culture, and he ended up going to Yale Law School, so it's about how he sort of went
00:43:19.000 From being in this hillbilly household where his dad ran out on him, and his mom ran through a series of men, and his mom was a drug addict and an alcoholic and had mental illness, and his grandparents were taking care of him, and this really kind of terrible culture, how he got out of it.
00:43:35.000 And what's really fascinating is that the whole thing is a critique of individual decisions.
00:43:39.000 What he says is the way to escape kind of the hillbilly culture is to just not engage in bad decision-making.
00:43:45.000 There are good things about the hillbilly culture, like familial loyalty, but
00:43:48.000 There are bad things, too, and the government can't solve these bad things.
00:43:52.000 Now, one of the problems that I had with hillbilly elegy is not the message.
00:43:55.000 The message, I think, is totally right.
00:43:57.000 I think that there's a whole group of people, and it's across America, crosses racial boundaries, isn't just true for what he calls the hillbilly culture.
00:44:04.000 It's true virtually everywhere in America.
00:44:06.000 There are people who believe that all of the problems in their life are due to some outside force.
00:44:10.000 We're seeing that election happen right now.
00:44:12.000 Hillary says the outside force is evil American racism, and Trump says the outside force is China.
00:44:18.000 Right?
00:44:18.000 This is the routine.
00:44:19.000 Somebody outside you is hurting you.
00:44:21.000 J.D.
00:44:21.000 Vance says, no, really, I grew up in this.
00:44:24.000 The people who are hurting you are you.
00:44:26.000 If you make good decisions, there are enough resources for you to do well.
00:44:29.000 The only problem I have here is that there's this idea that if Trump says that to the black community, or if I say that to the black community or the white community, or if somebody black says that to a white guy who's growing up in Middletown, Ohio, that it has less relevance than if somebody from your own culture says it.
00:44:44.000 This identity politics.
00:44:45.000 I must have lived the experience in order to speak a basic truth.
00:44:49.000 This is what I object to.
00:44:51.000 And J.D.
00:44:52.000 Vance isn't doing that by any stretch of the imagination, but the reason the book's getting so much attention is because it's someone from inside the culture saying the culture has problems.
00:45:00.000 Well, something is either true or it's not.
00:45:03.000 Single motherhood is more damaging to children than being married and staying with the person you're married to while you have kids.
00:45:10.000 End of story.
00:45:11.000 There are always exceptions, but as a general rule, that is true.
00:45:14.000 And that's true regardless of your race, and it's true regardless of whether you've had the experience.
00:45:17.000 We need to read these books and take away the message, but we don't need to take away the idea that you must be an outgrowth of the bad culture in order to speak about bad culture.
00:45:25.000 I don't have to be a member of Middletown, Ohio culture to understand that it is very bad to get involved in drugs and alcohol and abandon your children.
00:45:35.000 And it's not me being racist or elitist to say so.
00:45:37.000 They're just things that are true and things that are not.
00:45:39.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:45:47.000 Alrighty, so, over the weekend, the NFL had a series of people who were sitting down for the national anthem and for the flag waving and all this stuff.
00:45:57.000 One of the people who was at one of the NFL games and was sitting was Chris Brown.
00:46:00.000 And we have some video, I believe, of Chris Brown sitting.
00:46:03.000 Look, I'd love it if everybody in this building could sing along with me.
00:46:08.000 Y'all ready?
00:46:10.000 Let's do it.
00:46:12.000 Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
00:46:30.000 Okay, so, there's some sort of, I don't know if it's a preseason NBA game, because the season hasn't started yet, but in any case, Chris Brown is sitting there.
00:46:37.000 Presumably because the national anthem represents American racism.
00:46:42.000 Chris Brown, dude, if we're going to talk about injustices in the racial criminal justice system, you beat the living crap out of Rihanna.
00:46:51.000 I mean, you put her head on, like, another planet than the rest of her body.
00:46:55.000 And you were in jail for five seconds.
00:46:57.000 You don't get to complain about the racism of the criminal justice system.
00:47:00.000 If the criminal justice system were racist, you'd still be rotting in prison for a long time.
00:47:04.000 And probably you should have done that even if the criminal justice system weren't racist.
00:47:07.000 But this is what's so ironic.
00:47:09.000 I really wonder how many of the members of the NFL who are sitting down here have had run-ins with the law before.
00:47:14.000 I would guess that some of them do, because there are a lot of players in the NFL who have.
00:47:17.000 Generally.
00:47:19.000 You know, I'll research it and get back to you, but the bottom line is that Chris Brown certainly does not get to complain about racism in the criminal justice system when the man is an absolute beneficiary of the preference for celebrity inside the criminal justice system.
00:47:33.000 OK, well, the other thing about this that I that I dislike is there are a couple of people who responded to the to the.
00:47:39.000 I think every American has the right to say and do whatever it is that freedom offers us.
00:47:52.000 However, during the National Anthem is not a time or a place to show that kind of thing.
00:47:59.000 I have no tolerance at all for it, and I support their right to say what they believe and how they believe it, but that's the wrong place and time.
00:48:20.000 What I hate about this is that it seems like this is largely breaking down along racial lines.
00:48:23.000 That's what I hate about this.
00:48:45.000 I don't understand.
00:48:46.000 I really don't understand the idea that the American flag stands for, for some people, I understand this is a leftist concept.
00:48:53.000 I wish that the white people on the left were honest enough to kneel.
00:48:56.000 And I wish that the black community were more divided on this.
00:48:59.000 And I think the black community is pretty divided on this, by the way.
00:49:01.000 I think that if you took a poll, I think you'd see a large percentage of black people don't want to sit down for the national anthem.
00:49:06.000 But all of that said, in public, this is breaking down into a black versus white issue, and it really shouldn't.
00:49:12.000 We're creating divisions where none exist.
00:49:14.000 Nobody wants to see police officers shoot innocent black people.
00:49:18.000 Nobody wants to see police officers shoot innocent white people.
00:49:21.000 Nobody wants to see police officers shoot innocent people.
00:49:24.000 Nobody wants to believe that the American flag stands for racism, because it doesn't.
00:49:28.000 The American flag has flown over racists and it's flown over non-racists, but it flew over the Union Army when hundreds of thousands of Americans sacrificed their lives to free slaves.
00:49:37.000 And it flew over the federal troops who went and occupied the South in the aftermath of Jim Crow in order to ensure that black kids could go to school in some areas.
00:49:45.000 So this whole motion that the American flag is inherently racist, why can't we just unite around the idea that the flag is supposed to represent our highest ideals?
00:49:53.000 We don't always hit those ideals, but that's what the flag represents.
00:49:56.000 And we're all fighting for the same thing.
00:49:57.000 Who exactly is fighting against innocent—who's fighting on behalf of innocent people getting shot by the cops?
00:50:04.000 I missed it.
00:50:05.000 I missed it.
00:50:06.000 So that's the thing that I hate for today, is this sort of false racial division that's taking place over things about which we all agree.
00:50:11.000 Okay, tomorrow we will find out whether Hillary Clinton is indeed alive.
00:50:15.000 Every day we're now on Hillary Clinton Death Watch 2016.
00:50:19.000 Hopefully she is healthy.
00:50:20.000 Hopefully she is doing well.
00:50:22.000 We don't want to see people with health problems, obviously.
00:50:26.000 Even if something bad were to happen to her, I guess they could just get Kate McKinnon and just lie about it for the next six months, because that's obviously well within the purview of rational conversation now.
00:50:36.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:50:36.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.