It's a Tuesday morning on The Ben Shapiro Show, and we have a lot to get to here today. President Obama was on Broadway yesterday doing a fundraiser, and while he was there, he decided to rip on all the Republican candidates. Now, as we discussed yesterday, many Republican candidates were getting together to put together a letter of demand. They wanted to know what they wanted in a debate, who should be a moderator, what settings they wanted, and some settings they would like. For example, they wanted to make sure the temperature in the auditorium was always 67 degrees, which makes a lot of sense, because as somebody who's actually been under the giant lights of a TV studio, you start to sweat. And if you look sweaty on national TV, it doesn't help Scott Walker when he looked sweaty in the very first debate, and so the other candidates don't want to be hit with that. And then, they can't handle a bunch of CNBC moderators. Big claps, big cheering, big claps. And then he moves on to Putin. Well, if they can t handle the CNBC moderators, then how are they going to handle the real problems in the world? And meanwhile, China is making moves in the South China Sea. They're eating your lunch. And they're eating you lunch when it comes to environmental deals and economic deals. So maybe the only thing Obama can do is speak to CNBC commentators. And maybe that's not so bad after all. And we'll tell you why you should not vote for Chris Christie, John Kasich or Carly Fiorina, believe it or not, and why you don't need to vote for either of them, and you should vote for Carly Fiorina or Chris Christie or not! and we'll get to that in a second episode of the Ben Shapiro show on why you shouldn't vote for John Kasich and Carly Fiorina and why he should not be voting for either one of them. And why you're not going to get much of a chance to run for president in 2020. Ben Shapiro's take on the transphobic, transgenderist, bigotry-obsessed, bigoted, transgenderism, big headed, big guy, big ear Donald Trump, and a guy who thinks he's too sensitive to criticism from Bill O'Reilly, too sensitive about his big ears. You're not gonna believe it, you're gonna like it, right? You'll have to listen to this one to figure it out.
00:00:09.000We will also be getting to the fact that you should not vote for Chris Christie or John Kasich or Carly Fiorina, believe it or not, and we'll tell you why.
00:01:00.000If you're on stage and there's a lot of lights, you will start to sweat.
00:01:03.000And if you look sweaty on national TV, it doesn't redound to your benefit.
00:01:07.000It didn't help Scott Walker when he looked very sweaty in the very first debate, and so the other candidates don't want to be hit with that.
00:01:12.000They also wanted to ask for the bathroom to be placed close enough to the stage where they could get off and on the stage during the commercial breaks.
00:01:21.000The media is mocking this endlessly, and President Obama is mocking this.
00:01:24.000He's mocking the fact that the Republican candidates want to know who the moderators ought to be.
00:01:29.000Here's the President of the United States bashing Republicans, saying that if they can't handle moderators, how are they going to handle the real problems in the world?
00:01:38.000Have you noticed that every one of these candidates say, you know, Obama's weak,
00:03:02.000And in that time, Vladimir Putin has taken over Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin has taken over Syria, and Vladimir Putin is expanding his power to the South.
00:03:10.000He's trying to start making moves into Kazakhstan.
00:03:14.000And meanwhile, you mentioned China there.
00:03:16.000China is making moves in the South China Sea.
00:03:18.000They're eating your lunch when it comes to environmental deals and economic deals.
00:03:23.000So maybe the only thing Obama can do is speak to CNBC commentators.
00:03:26.000One thing he certainly can't do is deal with the actual media, because here's the truth.
00:03:30.000Obama has spent a huge percentage of his time as President of the United States bashing the media, bashing the press, as in over and over and over again.
00:03:40.000I can list you example after example where he did this.
00:03:45.000Barack Obama in 2006, Maureen Dowd, the non-funny columnist for the New York Times, she made fun of Barack Obama's ears and he actually said this.
00:03:53.000He said, quote, he said, talk about my ears.
00:03:57.000I'm very sensitive about what I told them.
00:03:59.000I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears.
00:04:02.000He complained to Maureen Dowd about her criticizing his big ears.
00:04:07.000And he's saying that Republicans are too sensitive to criticism.
00:04:09.000Presidents of the United States, if you recall, before the 2014 Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks, you remember the President was on with Bill O'Reilly, and there he said that Bill O'Reilly was unfair to him for asking him difficult questions.
00:04:22.000The President has complained about Fox News.
00:04:24.000The President, just four days ago, complained about the decentralization of media because it means we're all watching different outlets and he can't get his propaganda out there.
00:04:32.000And here he is complaining that Republicans
00:04:35.000are doing this routine with regard to the media.
00:04:37.000And this just shows you what my friend Bill Whittle likes to call... This is what Democrats do.
00:05:20.000Okay, no, it's because you're biased and ridiculous.
00:05:23.000It's because you're terrible at your job.
00:05:25.000And I said something along these lines yesterday, but I do want to reiterate.
00:05:30.000One of the things that frustrates me so much about all of this, and this is why I mentioned Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina and John Kasich up front,
00:05:38.000One of the things that annoys me about the Republican Party and the conservative movement in general is there are people who are free riders.
00:05:44.000There are people who sort of take advantage of the fact that there is a left media and they go and cater to the left media on a regular basis in order to make a buck.
00:05:53.000And I didn't think it was true of Carly Fiorina, but apparently it is.
00:05:56.000A lot of these Republicans were talking about sending a letter to the networks, and three candidates in particular.
00:06:01.000Donald Trump said he wouldn't sign the letter because Donald Trump has his own list of demands.
00:06:05.000Because as we've mentioned on the show, Donald Trump is a fat lion, and if you poke the fat lion, Donald Trump will eat your face.
00:06:10.000Well, Donald Trump has his own list of demands because he's the alpha male in the room.
00:06:51.000Whenever the left looks for a guest—this is something you should know when you watch TV, folks, because it really is important—whenever the left, MSNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC News, when they look for a Republican guest, when they have the Republican roundtable, more often than not—not always, but more often than not—the people who are regulars on these panels
00:07:11.000are people who are not hardcore conservatives, specifically because they allow the networks—this is the tacit deal—they allow the networks to get away with the false perception of neutrality.
00:07:21.000They allow the networks to get away with it.
00:07:29.000You never, ever hear him turn to Martha Raddatz or to any of the other ABC News anchors and say to them, you know, I don't even know what you're talking about.
00:07:39.000That's why you're asking this question.
00:07:40.000Which would be the first thing I would ask any of these people.
00:07:43.000I've been calling literally for years.
00:07:45.000You can find speeches of me online talking about this five, ten years ago, saying, why is it that Republicans, when they're sitting across from George Stephanopoulos, don't say to him, George, you're a Clinton hack, you were in the Bill Clinton war room, and now you're portraying yourself as an objective news reporter.
00:08:01.000Let's at least get this straight before we start.
00:08:02.000I'm a conservative, you're a leftist, and now we can have an honest conversation.
00:08:07.000It took this report about Stephanopoulos giving money to the Clinton Global Initiative, and then everybody feigns shock.
00:08:13.000We're all supposed to be super surprised that George Stephanopoulos, who was in the Clinton war room, making plans with the Clintons, that he was on the side of the Clintons.
00:08:23.000This is supposed to be a big surprise to anybody, and now he's been banned from moderating debates.
00:08:27.000Well, we knew all this back in 2012, when he completely threw up—destroyed the entire narrative.
00:08:33.000He destroyed the entire election narrative by asking Mitt Romney about whether he was going to ban condoms or some such nonsense.
00:08:40.000So there's this tacit deal that Republicans make.
00:08:42.000In order for me to get time on your network, I will pretend, for purposes of me making money and getting time, I will pretend that you're objective.
00:08:50.000And this is why I frequently get emails and tweets from people, why aren't you on TV more?
00:08:54.000This is the reason I'm not on TV more, gang, is because every time I'm on TV, my first task is to object to the person who's questioning me presenting themselves as a neutral arbiter.
00:09:04.000I'm not neutral, I'm conservative, and I'm open about it.
00:09:08.000I was at the Republican National Convention in 2012 in Tampa, and I was walking around Radio Row, and this is where all the radio hosts sit, and this is true for all of the mainstream media, not just talk radio.
00:09:19.000And I'm walking around, and there, I could spot him by his eyebrows a mile away.
00:09:24.000And it's rare for me to attack somebody for their eyebrows, but Sam Donaldson's got me dead to rights.
00:09:29.000And Sam Donaldson is standing there and he's questioning people.
00:09:33.000He now has Sam Donaldson, who used to be, if you recall, if you're old enough to recall this, this is actually before my time, but Sam Donaldson was the objective reporter.
00:09:40.000He was the objective reporter, I believe it was for NBC News.
00:09:44.000And Sam Donaldson, maybe it was ABC, I think it was ABC actually.
00:09:47.000And Sam Donaldson, he now has an opinion show.
00:09:51.000He has an opinion show, and he is always to the left.
00:09:53.000And so I went up to Sam Donaldson—we had it on tape, but the tape quality was really poor.
00:09:58.000I went up to Sam Donaldson, and I said, you know, Mr. Donaldson, I just want to ask you one question, which is, now you have an opinion show on the left.
00:10:04.000Did you hold these same views when you were a reporter?
00:10:06.000He said, yeah, I've always held these views.
00:10:08.000I said, so why did you lie to everybody?
00:10:10.000Why did you pretend that you were objective?
00:10:37.000Without the right granting to the left that patina of objectivity, they can't have it.
00:10:42.000If no Republican went on these programs without first pointing out, by the way, you guys are leftists, there would be no patina of objectivity.
00:10:50.000This is why I'm angry at Carly Fiorina and Chris Christie and John Kasich, because the longer this patina of objectivity goes on, the more damaging it is for Republicans.
00:10:59.000And you can see that the media are actually kind of scared of what the other candidates are doing.
00:11:44.000Chris Matthews, who apparently stumbled out of bed and onto a TV set.
00:11:50.000But what happens when you have only the voters you want voting, white, middle-aged, and minimally well-off, when you have debates run only by the party itself, all topics safely predictable, and even have the questions all coming from people guaranteed to have opinions on the outside rail of Republican thinking?
00:12:20.000As extreme in the same election where Bernie Sanders is driving Hillary Clinton to the left.
00:12:25.000They have an open Democratic Socialist who is now gaining upwards of 30% of the vote in primaries and a closeted Democratic Socialist in Hillary Clinton.
00:12:33.000But it's the right wing that's extreme because they refuse to accept the premise that people like Chris Matthews ought to decide the debates and who the moderators ought to be.
00:12:48.000Full disclosure, I'm on Megyn's show every so often.
00:12:52.000And Megyn was going after the GOP over their debate tactics.
00:12:55.000Here's Megyn Kelly on Fox News blasting away at the Republicans for this letter.
00:12:59.000So now they're banding together to try to get the networks to make sure... You tell the audience, Chris, how hot do they want it in the debate hall?
00:13:21.000The network should commit that they will not ask hand-raising questions, yes or no questions, allow candidate-to-candidate questions, and then maybe, like, a foot massage or, like, a little... I mean... No brown M&Ms.
00:13:35.000The idea that the Republicans are asking for anything absurd or out of the ordinary is not true.
00:13:40.000I mean, everything that she mentions there, again, is not absurd.
00:13:42.000Having the debate hall at a certain temperature is not absurd.
00:13:45.000Saying no yes or no questions is not absurd because in a political debate, it's very rare
00:13:50.000There is a question that can be answered simply with yes or no because then pretty much the entire basis of the answer is dependent on the phrasing of the question.
00:13:58.000I can phrase the same question two different ways and get a yes or a no depending on how I phrase the question.
00:14:03.000If I say to somebody, are you pro-choice?
00:14:08.000It depends on what kind of choice I'm talking about.
00:14:13.000The phrasing of the question becomes everything in yes or no questions, which is why when candidates are asked, they have to have the ability to disagree with the very premise of the question.
00:14:21.000When you have people on the left asking questions like, why does your tax plan benefit the rich?
00:14:25.000Or does your tax plan benefit the rich?
00:16:02.000Now, I will not, but I do want to point out, Carly, that the last time you were here, and you'll see B-Roll running, we welcomed you to our table.
00:16:34.000You have to know the difference between when somebody's coming for you and when somebody is paying you a compliment and when somebody is saying, here's my observation.
00:16:43.000If you can get that together, maybe you can be president.
00:16:45.000But how about this Republican candidate?
00:16:49.000No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:17:05.000Whoopi Goldberg continues to talk there and rant there.
00:17:08.000And Whoopi Goldberg, of course, neglects to mention the fact that she and her friends called Carly Fiorina's face demented two weeks after they ripped Donald Trump for making a joke over Carly Fiorina's face.
00:19:04.000And she should say it in pretty much those words, and then see what all these women have to say.
00:19:08.000But she won't do that, because again, the game in all of this is to be polite to the media, even when the media are the ones stabbing you in the back.
00:19:14.000This is why there was this constant, perpetual look of surprise on John McCain's face in the 2008 election cycle, because he was like,
00:19:22.000He was like the last person stabbed in a slasher flick.
00:19:26.000He just couldn't believe that it had finally come to him, right?
00:19:30.000Because he's always the guy who's friends with the media.
00:19:31.000He couldn't believe that they'd finally come around to him.
00:19:33.000And it ain't just the left-wing media, by the way.
00:19:36.000I'll give you an example of a person who is constantly on TV.
00:19:40.000I said earlier, if you're a conservative and you want to be on TV, you have to kiss the media's butt.
00:19:45.000You have to grant them their patina of legitimacy.
00:19:48.000The people they consider conservative on mainstream network television are not.
00:19:54.000Okay, David Brooks we've discussed on this program before.
00:19:57.000David Brooks is on, I believe, it's NBC News pretty much every weekend.
00:20:00.000And David Brooks is also the guy who once said about Barack Obama he would make a great president and he knew he'd make a great president because of the way he creased his pants.
00:20:09.000Seriously, this is something David Brooks said back in 2006, which begs the question as to why he was staring at the creases in Barack Obama's pants.
00:20:15.000But here is David Brooks talking about how, this is the conservative guy, the conservative guy on the panel, talking about what he's going to do if Donald Trump is the nominee.
00:20:31.000A major American party doesn't nominate Donald Trump.
00:20:35.000Excuse me, David, but major American parties are now about to nominate Hillary Clinton.
00:20:40.000They've nominated, and he's been president twice, Barack Obama, the guy you endorsed based on the size of his pants.
00:20:46.000Okay, and this is the guy who's the conservative.
00:20:48.000And you wonder why conservatives continue to lose the media battle.
00:20:52.000Well, meanwhile, I want to move off of the media for a while, because I could go on all day about them, as I have for two straight days, actually.
00:21:09.000Illinois' largest high school district violated federal law by barring a transgender student from using the girls' locker room, authorities concluded on Monday.
00:21:19.000Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights spent nearly two years investigating Palatine-based Township High School District 211 and found, quote, a preponderance of evidence that school officials did not comply with Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex.
00:21:37.000First of all, Title IX was specifically designed to prevent discrimination against women by men.
00:21:42.000It was designed to prevent open discrimination or covert discrimination against women by men or against men by women.
00:21:49.000In this particular case, here's what happened.
00:22:17.000And this is about a week after the infamous Zoey Tur run-in on Dr. Drew's show, which, if you're unaware of this, go Google it.
00:22:25.000Basically, there was a transgender dude who thinks he's a lady because he's mentally ill, who's on Dr. Drew's show with me, and I said, I don't understand why we're mainstreaming transgender delusion by pretending that men are women and women are men.
00:23:40.000has now decided, in this particular case, that the high school violated the student's rights.
00:23:47.000The student, who was identified as a girl for a number of years, filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights in late 2013 after she—I love the media—after she was denied unrestricted access to the girls' locker rooms.
00:23:58.000First of all, full biological boy, complete with twig and berries, okay?
00:24:03.000District and federal officials negotiated for months, and a solution appeared imminent as recently as last week, when the district put up privacy curtains in the locker room.
00:24:11.000So, the district complied, and they said, we'll allow this boy into the girl's locker room.
00:24:17.000One thing, we're gonna, you get naked in the locker room, we're gonna put up curtains so these girls aren't forced to gaze upon the male anatomy.
00:24:38.000If a boy were to, in his classroom, in his classroom, if a boy were to show a girl a picture of himself naked, or text a picture of himself naked to the girl, that violates two laws.
00:24:49.000One, child pornography laws, you're not allowed to convey that over any sort of communicative device.
00:24:54.000And two, it would be sexual harassment, right?
00:24:56.000It would be sexual harassment if a boy were to just unsolicited show his junk to a girl.
00:25:01.000However, if that boy pretends he's a girl or is mentally ill and thinks he's a girl and shows his junk, not only can he show his junk to the girl, the girl is obligated to be in a position to look at it.
00:25:11.000Obligated to be in a position to look at it.
00:25:13.000And it's discrimination if the girl says, I don't want to see that.
00:25:39.000If an adult were to touch a child sexually, I'm talking about like a 10, 11 year old child sexually, in a sexual manner, that would be pedophilia.
00:25:47.000We'd put him in jail for life as we should.
00:25:49.000And we should look to castration as a possible solution, because this is egregious stuff.
00:25:57.000Because children are not capable of consent, right?
00:25:59.000This is the basis of all pedophilia law.
00:26:01.000However, if that 10 or 11 year old says, I am a girl, and that 10 or 11 year old happens to be a biological boy, and you chop off that person's genitalia,
00:26:13.000Where you give that person hormone treatment to shrivel their genitalia and prevent hormonal development, then you're a hero.
00:26:20.000So in other words, if you're a doctor and you touch a kid's privates without any sort of consent, in a sexual manner, you go to jail.
00:26:27.000If you touch a kid's privates, give that kid a shot to prevent the development of the privates, and then prepare that kid to have the privates chopped off, you're a hero.
00:26:34.000This is the logic that has now been created.
00:26:36.000John Knight, who's the director of the LGBT and AIDS Project at the ACLU, which is a lot of letters in a row, he says, quote,
00:27:46.000I don't know how women buy into the idea that a man can magically become a woman.
00:27:50.000Okay, every woman who's actually lived life as a woman and lived through the experience of having her first period, for example, or having development, or growing up as a young girl, which is different than growing up as a young boy, knows that you can't magically become a woman at age 25 because it went through your head to become a woman.
00:28:13.000Ask any of your leftist friends, and again, you shouldn't have them, but if you have leftist acquaintances, any of your leftist acquaintances, if you have a leftist acquaintance who insists to you that Caitlyn Jenner, right, Bruce Jenner, who still has all of his male anatomy, Bruce Jenner is fully intact, right, all Bruce Jenner had was a boob job and some hormone treatment and an eight hour jaw surgery to look like a guy in drag.
00:28:45.000If they think that Bruce Jenner is a woman, that Caitlyn Jenner is a woman, ask them if they would ever date, ever date, a woman like that.
00:28:54.000Seriously, it's a very simple question.
00:28:56.000Any of your male friends who say this to you?
00:29:47.000We've reached beyond the point of madness.
00:29:49.000The entire society has become a gaslighting society.
00:29:51.000And when you call it out, then you're called crazy.
00:29:54.000Again, listening to the Corolla Dr. Drew interview was so fascinating because listening to Dr. Drew try to explain why it is that a man who is fully male in every possible way but calls himself a woman is actually a woman, him trying to explain this as a scientist, it's laugh-worthy.
00:30:13.000This is why whenever the left says, you know, we were ripping yesterday on Ben Carson, because Ben Carson doesn't believe in the atheistic notion of evolution.
00:31:24.000And there's one scene that is truly great, where the kid, who's played by Miles Teller, he's a drummer, and he's trying to become the world's greatest drummer, basically.
00:31:33.000And there's one point where he's at the dinner table with a bunch of other people, and he says, yeah, I'm playing in this music competition, and one of the people says, well, aren't those things judged really subjectively?
00:31:42.000Isn't it subjective, as to who's better and who's worse?
00:31:45.000And he just looks at them with scorn, and he says, no.
00:32:19.000It's a broader agenda to destroy the very notion of objective truth.
00:32:22.000And this is what happens when you have a country that has gotten away from the idea that there is such a thing as a God-given truth, that there is a nature from which we can derive anything.
00:32:31.000I have a theory that I've been developing, and I'll close with this.
00:33:08.000At the very end of the play, Oedipus finds out that these are his parents, and he gouges out his own eyes.
00:33:13.000Because his search for knowledge, and he's been told, don't look, don't dig too deep here, it's going to be a problem.
00:33:19.000And you see this kind of paradigm played out in everything from Oedipus to Planet of the Apes, where Dr. Zaeus says, don't dig, you're Charlton Heston, you never know what you might find.
00:33:30.000We've reached the point in Western civilization where we have dug so deep that we are now digging our own grave.
00:33:35.000What I mean by that is that we have decided that meaning is completely subjective because there's no such thing as objective truth.
00:33:41.000We killed God, so objective truth doesn't exist anymore, which of course means that anything that you claim, including claims of the left, are now non-objectively provable, so we can't have any sort of real conversation with each other.
00:33:54.000It means that science itself, which is based on logical processes generated by the human brain, if you believe that the human brain is basically just a bunch of fire rings of neurons, the very basis of science is undermined now because there's no such thing even as scientific truth.
00:34:07.000Scientific truth is bound to a narrative established by the left.
00:34:23.000And once people realize that everything's pre-programmed, there's no such thing as personal responsibility, and society decays.
00:34:29.000This is what happens when you destroy God.
00:34:31.000This is what happens when you destroy objective truth.
00:34:34.000And we've reached that point in American life, and it's visible everywhere from the arts, to the media, to boys now trying to share girls' locker rooms, and the federal government acting as the new God and telling us that what is false is true and what is true is false.