The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 192 - Can Conservatives Unite?

00:00:00.000 All black people are leftists. 1.00

00:00:01.000 Clarence Thomas is not a leftist. 0.95

00:00:03.000 Therefore, Clarence Thomas is not a black people.

00:00:05.000 So goes the logic at the New Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Museum.

00:00:11.000 According to the weekly standard, Clarence Thomas is nowhere to be found.

00:00:15.000 Only one of only two Supreme Court justices has been black in American history.

00:00:18.000 Perhaps the court's finest modern thinker.

00:00:20.000 Yes, I think even better than Justice Scalia, whose insistence on stare decisis marred the consistency of his originalism.

00:00:26.000 Thomas is a major judicial figure in the history of the United States.

00:00:30.000 There is only one reason he's missing.

00:00:32.000 He's conservative.

00:00:33.000 That's the reason HBO made a full-scale documentary about the discredited Anita Hill charges. 1.00

00:00:39.000 It's why the left gets to consistently insist that Thomas is some sort of idiot for not asking questions during oral argument, a useless procedure given that the justices have generally made up their minds already. 0.63

00:00:49.000 Even the museum includes items from the Anita 0.98

00:00:51.000 Hill debacle, according to the Weekly Standard.

00:01:12.000 This is the sick double standard of the left. 0.98

00:01:14.000 If you're a leftist black person, you can commit virtually any sin and withstand it. 0.99

00:01:17.000 If you're a prominent conservative black person, you must be memory-holed. 1.00

00:01:20.000 That's because the left identifies people by group characteristic and insists it is the greatest protector of victimized groups.

00:01:26.000 If certain members of those supposed victim groups refuse to see themselves as victims, and instead they insist on thinking along conservative lines, they must be cast out lest they represent

00:01:36.000 A living testament to the falsity of leftist thought.

00:01:39.000 And so Clarence Thomas disappears.

00:01:41.000 And the same Democratic Party that reams Donald Trump for doubting Barack Obama's point of origin has no problem disappearing Thomas.

00:01:47.000 After all, it's racist to pretend that President Obama isn't authentically African American.

00:01:52.000 But it's perfectly acceptable to do so to a man born in segregated Georgia on a farm, speaking Gullah as his native tongue, the descendant of American slaves, abandoned by his father, left homeless by a fire, raised by his maternal grandparents. 0.79

00:02:03.000 He doesn't think like Obama does, and so he must be excised.

00:02:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:03:38.000 We have a lot coming up today.

00:03:44.000 We're going to do Deconstructing the Culture.

00:03:50.000 We had to skip that earlier this week, so we'll do that today.

00:03:53.000 Thanks to one of our emailers who insisted that we do a heavy metal version of Deconstructing the Culture yesterday, we will do a Deconstructing the Culture of a Korn song today, and it's spelled with a K, which is weird because the word Korn isn't spelled with a K.

00:04:06.000 We will discuss corn and we'll deconstruct the culture in a little bit.

00:04:12.000 I do have an epic Things I Like today, actually, a really great Things I Like that is hilarious that you're going to want to stick around for.

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00:04:24.000 But we begin today with what

00:04:28.000 Donald Trump has to do in the debate in order to win.

00:04:31.000 So in order for Donald Trump to win in the debate on Sunday, he has to walk a very fine line.

00:04:35.000 On the one hand, he has to make the case that Hillary Clinton is utterly unfit for office. 0.78

00:04:42.000 He has to throw her off her game.

00:04:43.000 He has to be aggressive.

00:04:44.000 On the other hand, if he's too aggressive,

00:04:46.000 Then he looks crazy, and he looks like he's bullying her.

00:04:48.000 And that's a very fine line to walk for a guy who is a hammer, not a scalpel. 0.97

00:04:52.000 I've been saying this entire election cycle, Donald Trump is a hammer in search of a nail.

00:04:55.000 Sometimes he hits a nail.

00:04:56.000 Actually, much more often at the beginning of this election cycle, he hit a nail.

00:04:59.000 Now, he tends to hit babies and puppies.

00:05:01.000 But he actually needs to be a scalpel, not a sledgehammer.

00:05:05.000 Now, good news.

00:05:06.000 Hillary has provided all sorts of material for him to use in the debate on Sunday.

00:05:10.000 There is no shortage of material for Donald Trump to use in the debate on Sunday.

00:05:14.000 So, for example, according to the Wall Street Journal today, quote,

00:05:21.000 We're in close contact with Hillary Clinton's nascent presidential campaign in early 2015 about the potential fallout from revelations the former Secretary of State used a private email server.

00:05:30.000 In other words, the Obama White House was coordinating with Hillary about something that the Obama White House was supposed to be investigating.

00:05:36.000 The Obama DOJ was in the middle of a criminal investigation of Hillary's private email server, and the White House was working with Hillary Clinton and the State Department.

00:05:44.000 It's unbelievable.

00:05:45.000 The coordination

00:05:47.000 Second,

00:06:12.000 The FBI notes show that Hillary destroyed documents.

00:06:14.000 The FBI's report actually contains notes from a 2015 interview with an unnamed Office of Information Programs and Services employee.

00:06:22.000 According to those notes, Hillary's people told the IPS that she had 14 boxes of emails to turn over.

00:06:27.000 When the DOJ lawyers arrived to pick up these emails at Hillary's lawyers' offices, how many boxes were there?

00:06:33.000 There were 12.

00:06:34.000 So two questions.

00:06:34.000 One, why don't you just turn over the emails, you know?

00:06:37.000 Like, not the printed versions, like the actual emails?

00:06:40.000 When I, when somebody, if somebody asked me to forward an email, I wouldn't print it out and fax it to them.

00:06:44.000 I'd just forward it to them.

00:06:45.000 They destroyed all the records though, so they printed them all out and then apparently they burned two boxes of them.

00:06:49.000 So just wonderful.

00:06:50.000 By the way, the State Department also tried to convince the FBI to relabel documents less classified so that it wouldn't look like Hillary had passed really highly classified material across her server. 0.96

00:07:00.000 Third piece of news that Donald Trump should be using in the debate on Sunday.

00:07:04.000 Russia now wants to open bases in Vietnam and Cuba.

00:07:08.000 So, Hillary, who is supposed to have given the Russian reset button, she's going to be so tough on Russia. 0.99

00:07:12.000 Russia is currently on an expansionist tear.

00:07:15.000 And I mean a tear.

00:07:16.000 They want to reopen military bases in Cuba.

00:07:19.000 They want to reopen military bases in Vietnam.

00:07:22.000 And then beyond that, this is really the story of the day that's going to get no attention whatsoever.

00:07:27.000 Russia is now putting short-range missiles in certain areas that are right next to

00:07:35.000 Next to NATO allies.

00:07:36.000 So they've actually put what they call the Iskander missile system, I think I'm pronouncing that correctly, the Iskander missile system, a short-range missile system, in Kaliningrad, which is kind of this, it's a weird little territory that's Russian territory, but it's not actually contiguous with Russia.

00:07:49.000 It's not connected to Russia.

00:07:50.000 It sort of curls around, and Poland is to its south, and Latvia and Estonia are very close by, and Finland is just across, a body of water.

00:07:59.000 And the outgoing president of, the outgoing president

00:08:03.000 We're good to go.

00:08:25.000 They're now obviously moving in offensive directions because they feel like whoever wins this election, they're going to be able to achieve what they want to achieve.

00:08:33.000 They're feeling their oats.

00:08:34.000 They know that Obama's not going to stop them.

00:08:36.000 And so this is something that obviously Trump should hit with.

00:08:40.000 We'll see if that works or not.

00:08:43.000 Fourth, Aleppo is absolutely collapsing.

00:08:45.000 What is Aleppo?

00:08:46.000 Aleppo is a city in Syria, Gary Johnson.

00:08:48.000 Aleppo is a city in Syria that has been sort of a battleground between the resistance to Assad and Assad, and the Russian-Syrian forces are now pounding Aleppo.

00:08:56.000 376 people have been killed in the last couple of weeks.

00:08:58.000 One-third of those are children.

00:09:00.000 Kerry is doing nothing.

00:09:02.000 John Kerry is doing nothing.

00:09:03.000 He's threatening to stop speaking with the Russians, which I'm sure would be a great relief to them, because who wants to hear John Kerry speak to them? 1.00

00:09:10.000 He threatened to stop speaking.

00:09:11.000 He also said today that he wants a Human Rights Commission to investigate.

00:09:16.000 Yeah, I'm sure the U.N.

00:09:17.000 Security Council will get right on that.

00:09:19.000 You know who's on the U.N.

00:09:20.000 Security Council, gang?

00:09:21.000 Russia.

00:09:21.000 I'm sure Russia's gonna get right on investigating Russia.

00:09:24.000 I'm sure that's coming next.

00:09:25.000 Fifth story.

00:09:26.000 Terrible jobs numbers.

00:09:28.000 Labor Department released yet another weak jobs report.

00:09:30.000 156,000 jobs added in September.

00:09:32.000 That's really not a good number.

00:09:34.000 Payroll growth was revised lower by 7,000 jobs.

00:09:37.000 Unemployment rate goes up.

00:09:40.000 Underemployment rate is still 9.7%.

00:09:42.000 So he could mention all these things, and he should mention all of these things, right?

00:09:46.000 He should spend his time going after Hillary on all these things.

00:09:49.000 Of course, that would require him to know policy, so that's an uphill battle for Trump because he doesn't study, and he doesn't really pay attention to this.

00:09:55.000 Unfortunately, Donald Trump, just as of about 10 minutes ago, decided that he was going to revivify the case of the Central Park Jogger.

00:10:02.000 The Central Park Jogger, for people who don't know this case, a white woman was jogging in Central Park, I believe this is 1989, and she was assaulted, allegedly, by five people, six people, like a group of young guys who beat her up, left her in a coma for 12 days, and raped her.

00:10:16.000 And the original case, there were six people who were tried, five black, one Hispanic, if this is correct, I think it is.

00:10:23.000 All six of them confessed to being involved.

00:10:25.000 All six were convicted.

00:10:27.000 And then in 2002, a guy who was a life convict rapist

00:10:31.000 Came out and said he was the one who actually did it, and he did the rape alone.

00:10:34.000 So, and his bodily material matched up with the kit that was on file, and so these guys were released from prison.

00:10:41.000 Now, there still is, to be fair to Trump, there still is some controversy over whether the confessions were coerced, whether the confessions were real, whether there was some level of involvement by these guys.

00:10:50.000 But, in the end, there's a $41 million settlement with the Central Park Five, as they were called.

00:10:55.000 So it's five people.

00:10:56.000 Central Park Five, as they were called, and they were paid off by the city.

00:11:01.000 For some odd reason, Trump feels the need to revivify this.

00:11:04.000 Now, forget whether Trump is right or wrong for a second, because nobody really knows whether Trump is right or wrong.

00:11:10.000 We do know that the guy who was the actual rapist, or at least one of the rapists as far as we know, the only rapist as far as we know, that that guy's genetic material was on the woman and that there was no other genetic material connecting these other guys.

00:11:22.000 But, put the whole case aside for just a second.

00:11:25.000 Why is he bringing up an issue that's just going to be a hot button for Hillary to move him onto?

00:11:31.000 In Sunday night's debate.

00:11:32.000 Why is he opening the door?

00:11:33.000 Now you know what Hillary's going to do. 1.00

00:11:35.000 She's going to say, you know, five guys were exonerated.

00:11:37.000 Four black guys, one Hispanic.

00:11:38.000 They were exonerated.

00:11:39.000 They were paid off by the city.

00:11:40.000 And Donald Trump still thinks they're guilty.

00:11:42.000 And you're telling me there's no criminal justice system bias?

00:11:45.000 You're telling me that there's no racism in the criminal justice system?

00:11:47.000 These guys were exonerated.

00:11:49.000 They're innocent.

00:11:50.000 And Donald Trump is still out there pushing these cases from 1989. 1.00

00:11:52.000 It's just, it's stupid politics. 1.00

00:11:55.000 It's stupid politics. 1.00

00:11:55.000 There's so many great things to talk about. 1.00

00:11:57.000 It's just not particularly smart.

00:12:01.000 That's sort of the latest on the Donald Trump lead up to the debate.

00:12:04.000 And he has to win.

00:12:05.000 He has to win.

00:12:06.000 It's not enough for him to just do okay in this particular debate.

00:12:09.000 He has to walk away the clear victor.

00:12:11.000 It has to be a Mike Pence over Tim Kaine style victory.

00:12:13.000 He has to throw Hillary. 1.00

00:12:15.000 And we'll see if he's capable of doing that.

00:12:18.000 Trump, for some odd reason, I'm not sure what he's doing.

00:12:22.000 I mean, I could say that most of the time, but I'm really not sure what he's doing in the lead up to this debate.

00:12:26.000 Yesterday he was speaking, I think this is in Nevada, and here he is talking about how he doesn't like getting into the gutter with Hillary Clinton, which comes as a shock to everybody.

00:12:35.000 Yeah, I did hold back.

00:12:36.000 I thought it was just inappropriate to say what I was really thinking I would say.

00:12:41.000 And I held back, I think for good reason.

00:12:45.000 I'd much rather have it be on policy.

00:12:48.000 I didn't like getting into the gutter, and so I did hold back.

00:12:54.000 Okay, so he doesn't like getting into the gutter, and so he held back.

00:12:56.000 Is he going to hold back on Sunday night? 0.91

00:12:58.000 Well, the case that he should hold back is that he doesn't want to look like he's a crazy attack dog.

00:13:02.000 The case he shouldn't is he's got to say something to throw her off her game.

00:13:05.000 Trump also is sounding off about the media, of course, and he's right.

00:13:08.000 I mean, he says the media's out to get him.

00:13:09.000 By the way, this is in New Hampshire, not Nevada, of course.

00:13:11.000 Here's Trump talking about it.

00:13:12.000 John Harwood was the worst moderator out of all the debates we had.

00:13:16.000 How many did we have, 11 or 12?

00:13:19.000 He was so bad.

00:13:19.000 This guy knows nothing about me.

00:13:22.000 I was so happy.

00:13:23.000 And I saw today that somebody on CNN, the Clinton News Network, who knows nothing about us.

00:13:29.000 You know, they use John King, actually.

00:13:31.000 He's a nice guy.

00:13:32.000 I like him on the maps.

00:13:33.000 He does a good job with the maps.

00:13:34.000 I like him better now than I did a couple of months ago, because a couple of months ago, I had no chance.

00:13:38.000 Now, all of a sudden, that map is getting very red.

00:13:42.000 But John King said... You know, they always have a source.

00:13:48.000 They always have a source.

00:13:49.000 A source with a... Nobody talks to him.

00:13:52.000 Nobody talks to him because he's like the enemy.

00:13:53.000 He's like the enemy.

00:13:55.000 OK, so he's lashing out at the media.

00:13:57.000 Again, I don't know that that's the world's worst tactic.

00:14:00.000 I just don't know how it really helps him at this point.

00:14:02.000 And look, not every word that he says is going to be a helpful word.

00:14:04.000 I mean, he's talking at these town halls for an hour apiece.

00:14:07.000 But I'm not sure what his strategy is on Sunday.

00:14:09.000 I'm not sure he has one.

00:14:10.000 He said yesterday that his strategy is that he doesn't think Hillary Clinton is really doing debate prep.

00:14:15.000 I promise you, Hillary Clinton is doing serious debate prep. 0.99

00:14:18.000 He says he's not sure that he should do serious debate prep, because after all, you've got to go in and kind of wing it.

00:14:22.000 There was a rumor today that was confirmed that he's pulled out ad money from Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina.

00:14:28.000 Maybe he'll reinvest it.

00:14:29.000 We don't know yet, but that's a weird sign for sure.

00:14:32.000 Things are sort of in chaos.

00:14:33.000 He has one last chance to do something big, and that comes on Sunday.

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00:15:08.000 Okay, so meanwhile, Hillary Clinton, it's unbelievable that Donald Trump is losing to Hillary Clinton, and the polls right now are not good for Trump.

00:15:15.000 It is a crazy thing, a truly crazy thing that he's losing to a woman who's this bad at this, and she truly is.

00:15:21.000 Hillary Clinton, let me give you an example. 0.54

00:15:23.000 Hillary Clinton had a little girl ask her a question at one of her events.

00:15:26.000 Everything for Hillary has to be scripted. 0.91

00:15:28.000 It's mandatory that everything that Hillary does is scripted because she's incapable of sticking and moving. 1.00

00:15:33.000 She can't really do things on the run, which is her problem in this new town hall format.

00:15:39.000 Is she going to be good on her feet or is she going to collapse on her feet? 1.00

00:15:42.000 Here's a little girl asking her a question, then we'll explain something about the little girl.

00:15:47.000 At my school, body image is a really big issue for girls my age. 0.99

00:15:51.000 I see with my own eyes the damage Donald Trump does when he talks about women and how they look.

00:15:56.000 As the first female president, how would you undo some of that damage and help girls understand that they are so much more than just what they look like? 1.00

00:16:03.000 Oh, thank you!

00:16:04.000 Thank you!

00:16:09.000 Oh, spectacular question because it's not really a question.

00:16:12.000 It's really an attack by a little girl on Donald Trump.

00:16:14.000 I love it.

00:16:14.000 Thank you.

00:16:15.000 Thank you, the Queen of Hearts says.

00:16:18.000 And Elizabeth Banks sits there and cheers on because yay abortion. 1.00

00:16:21.000 Okay, so a couple of things to know.

00:16:24.000 So, her father, according to the New York Times, her father asked her,

00:16:30.000 I hope so.

00:16:50.000 Meanwhile, it turns out who's her daddy?

00:16:51.000 Her daddy is Democratic State Senator Daylen Leach.

00:16:54.000 He's the chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee.

00:16:57.000 Leach endorsed Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the primaries, saying, at a time when the Republican presidential candidate seemed to be stoking the flames of fear and anger, I have never been more proud to support Hillary Clinton for president.

00:17:05.000 Yeah, I'm sure that this was totally spontaneous.

00:17:08.000 Everything in the Hillary Clinton campaign has to be scripted, including her exchanges with Steve Harvey. 0.66

00:17:13.000 Every single element has to be scripted. 0.96

00:17:15.000 And so all her campaign now comes down to is scripted exchanges and people shouting about why vaginas make people better qualified to be president of the United States. 1.00

00:17:23.000 Although, let me just remind you, for all you leftists in the audience, for all you people who are watching on the left, let me remind you, not all women have vaginas. 0.98

00:17:30.000 Let's not be cisgender. 1.00

00:17:31.000 Dick Durbin makes the vagina case, the pro-vagina case, though.

00:17:34.000 He says Americans just don't want to—the reason that she's having trouble is because Americans just don't want a woman to be president, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois.

00:17:42.000 You also have the fact that it isn't articulated very often.

00:17:46.000 Here is a woman aspiring to the highest office of the land. 0.98

00:17:50.000 And there's some people who will never say the words, but they aren't buying it.

00:17:53.000 They can't swallow it.

00:17:55.000 It's something... Oh, there's definitely a latent sexism out there. 1.00

00:17:58.000 There's no question about it.

00:17:59.000 So you've got that.

00:17:59.000 That's an overlay that nobody would have guessed in this campaign.

00:18:03.000 No one would have guessed that overlay in this campaign.

00:18:05.000 No one would have guessed that.

00:18:06.000 No one in the world would have guessed that people would be talking about Hillary Clinton being the first major party female candidate.

00:18:13.000 No one ever would have... Okay, except for all of us who have been functioning as human beings for the last 20 years, no one knew that was going to happen.

00:18:21.000 What a surprise.

00:18:22.000 This is my surprised face.

00:18:25.000 Okay, so Hillary's got nothing, but Trump has less than nothing at this point.

00:18:29.000 He's got to dig himself out of a hole.

00:18:31.000 All of this sets the stage for some very bad stuff if Donald Trump loses.

00:18:37.000 Now, Donald Trump may not lose.

00:18:40.000 Maybe Donald Trump pulls a last rabbit out of that giant hat, and suddenly he does a great debate, he comes back and he wins.

00:18:47.000 But let's assume for a second that Donald Trump loses.

00:18:49.000 Over the last couple days, we talked yesterday about Sean Hannity going after Megyn Kelly, and Megyn Kelly saying that Sean Hannity was flacking for Trump, which clearly is true.

00:18:57.000 And today, Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity sort of made up, they tweeted out a picture of themselves together, saying, we're Irish, it's complicated, hashtag friends.

00:19:05.000 Good!

00:19:05.000 Good, okay, look, good.

00:19:07.000 For whatever it's worth, I'm glad that that's happening.

00:19:10.000 I think that it is better that we all get along, because after this election cycle, we're all going to have to get along.

00:19:14.000 Chuck Todd asks some questions.

00:19:15.000 He says, you know, if Trump has another bad debate, the GOP could publicly split.

00:19:19.000 There could be a bunch of people who sort of walk away from Donald Trump if he has another bad debate.

00:19:24.000 What do they feel like will change the dynamic of the race, especially if you're Donald Trump?

00:19:27.000 Well, I think if you're Donald Trump, just any normalized debate is going to at least stop Clinton's momentum a little bit.

00:19:35.000 But I think, listen to the subtle signals that congressional Republicans were sending yesterday.

00:19:42.000 A few blind quotes here or there, you heard.

00:19:45.000 If Donald Trump doesn't have a good night on Sunday, and if it's similar to the first debate,

00:19:53.000 Then you may start seeing the down-ballot exodus in some form.

00:19:58.000 Is it just candidates proactively running away?

00:20:02.000 Whatever it is, but you now have the sense that Trump's in, and we've been here before with him, but one of these do-or-die moments with the Republican Party, with McConnell, where if it's

00:20:16.000 If it's a debate performance like the first night, it may be unrecoverable and you may see the party publicly split.

00:20:23.000 Okay, well, I don't know if the party's going to publicly split.

00:20:25.000 I think they'll hold it together through the election.

00:20:27.000 But it does raise the question, what happens if Trump loses after all of this is over?

00:20:31.000 Now, this election has basically come down to, for people on the right, you know, this has come down to, and I discussed this at length yesterday on the podcast, but this has come down to, I think, in the end, a basic question.

00:20:43.000 Do you think this is the last election, or do you not think this is the last election?

00:20:47.000 Do you think that there's a possibility that Republicans come back and win in four years with someone who's better than Donald Trump, or do you sacrifice that possibility in favor of Trump is the best we can do and we better get it now because otherwise we're totally screwed?

00:20:58.000 Hillary's president and she ruins everything and there's no way Republicans ever get elected. 1.00

00:21:02.000 Again, Ann Coulter sort of articulates this perspective last night.

00:21:05.000 She says this election is the end of Western civilization if it goes the wrong way.

00:21:09.000 Well, I'm not really interested in day-to-day politics, but this is, as you say, bigger than day-to-day.

00:21:15.000 I've mostly written

00:21:16.000 You know, the truth about Joe McCarthy, the truth about Darwinism, that sort of thing, not particularly involved in elections, but this will determine the survival of Western civilization.

00:21:28.000 And it is because of cultures and demographics.

00:21:32.000 Well, those are people bringing particular cultures with them.

00:21:37.000 It's taken centuries to create the freest, most prosperous, fairest

00:21:46.000 Uh, societies in the world and there have been lots of studies about this.

00:21:51.000 Um, as you probably know, out of especially Samuel Huntington, um, some professors at Harvard, UCLA, you never hear about, about this.

00:21:59.000 Um, so that the left can go on, uh, persuading Americans

00:22:04.000 And I suppose Canadians and British and so on, that American culture is the worst culture in the world and the sooner we replace ourselves, the better off we are. 0.68

00:22:13.000 We are somehow oppressing, you know, these throngs of the third world that are now being brought in to replace us. 1.00

00:22:20.000 Okay, so I have sympathy for the argument that multiculturalism—not sympathy, I agree with the argument that multiculturalism is a blight on Western civilization, because if you have cultures that are post-Western civilization, that's not a good thing, that's a bad thing.

00:22:32.000 However, the idea that Hillary Clinton's election is going to end it all 1.00

00:22:36.000 That's really the, you know, that's really the break point.

00:22:39.000 And I understand both sides, I understand people who say that it's going to end it all, but I've heard that every four years my entire life, in four years we'll hear it again.

00:22:45.000 And all of the, I think a lot of the people who say that Western civilization is over, you might as well pack up shop and go home, America's done, it's not America anymore.

00:22:52.000 We have a lot of people I respect believe this.

00:22:54.000 None of them will be quitting their commentariat jobs on November 9th if Donald Trump loses.

00:22:58.000 They'll all stick around.

00:22:59.000 So even they don't believe this, deep down in their heart.

00:23:01.000 They believe that there's still a fighting chance and they have a chance to make a difference.

00:23:04.000 If they didn't believe that, I assume they would quit and go off to the mountains somewhere and prepare for the bunker mentality.

00:23:10.000 I don't think that's what's going to happen.

00:23:11.000 I think everyone really knows that November 9th, yes, things could be worse.

00:23:15.000 Things could always be worse. 0.99

00:23:16.000 Hillary Clinton could be an awful, awful president. 1.00

00:23:18.000 But that does not absolve us of our duty to fight back and it does not mean that we don't have a chance of winning if we do fight back.

00:23:25.000 And that is what I'm hoping for November 9th.

00:23:27.000 If things go downhill, if things go downhill, there's only one thing that's going to guarantee the dominance of the left four years from now.

00:23:34.000 Because let's face it, if Hillary Clinton's elected, she's going to be unpopular. 1.00

00:23:36.000 Nobody likes her now. 0.99

00:23:37.000 She stinks. 1.00

00:23:38.000 She's awful at everything she touches. 1.00

00:23:40.000 She's unpopular. 0.99

00:23:41.000 She's unlikable. 0.92

00:23:42.000 She's annoying. 1.00

00:23:43.000 She's corrupt. 1.00

00:23:43.000 She's greedy. 1.00

00:23:44.000 She's selfish. 1.00

00:23:45.000 She's nasty. 1.00

00:23:46.000 All these things are true. 0.97

00:23:47.000 The idea that she's going to be some sort of world-beating president with a Republican Congress, I just don't buy it.

00:23:51.000 I don't see it.

00:23:52.000 What I see is a woman who's going to be very deeply unpopular from the first day she steps into office, will remain unpopular, more likely just thanks to the vicissitudes of the economy, to undergo... 1.00

00:24:02.000 Some sort of brutal recession in the near future, because the cycle is usually, you know, every ten years there's a recession.

00:24:09.000 You know, there was one in 2000, there was one in 2008, there was one in 1991.

00:24:13.000 Every eight to ten years, there's a recession.

00:24:15.000 We're due.

00:24:16.000 So that means that if it hits during Hillary Clinton's cycle, while she's, you know, president, then that hurts her, too.

00:24:22.000 So, you know, I think that there's a lot to be optimistic about, even if Hillary Clinton is elected president.

00:24:27.000 But that's going to require us to do one thing.

00:24:29.000 And what that's going to require us to do is unify and stop blaming each other.

00:24:32.000 So I can already see everybody is getting set to blame each other after this election cycle.

00:24:36.000 And listen, I've been a part of it and I apologize for having been a part of it.

00:24:40.000 I think that everybody's been a part of the kind of blame each other for the Trump phenomenon. 0.99

00:24:44.000 Blaming people for voting stupidly in the primaries. 0.96

00:24:46.000 Look, I think people voted wrong in the primaries. 0.99

00:24:48.000 I'm not going to lie about that.

00:24:49.000 But I understand why people voted for Trump in the primaries.

00:24:52.000 They were angry.

00:24:52.000 Trump was the avatar of that anger.

00:24:54.000 Trump was the only person on stage who seemed to be reflecting that anger back at them.

00:24:57.000 He was the only one who seemed to be fighting the kind of political incorrectness that people see in the culture.

00:25:04.000 He seemed like the only one who was willing to say things that he ticked off the right people.

00:25:06.000 Like, I get the rationales.

00:25:08.000 I don't agree with them.

00:25:09.000 I think they're wrong.

00:25:10.000 I understand the rationales.

00:25:11.000 If we're going to move together forward after this election cycle, the people who didn't vote for Trump and the people who voted for Trump and the people who reluctantly voted for Trump

00:25:19.000 We're all going to have to stand together to oppose Hillary Clinton and hopefully come up with somebody who's better next time.

00:25:24.000 That first requires us to acknowledge that this is Donald Trump's fault.

00:25:28.000 We need someone better next time.

00:25:29.000 We can't have another Donald Trump.

00:25:31.000 This is on Trump.

00:25:32.000 If Trump loses to Hillary Clinton, a deeply flawed candidate, the most deeply flawed candidate of my lifetime, if Donald Trump loses to Hillary Clinton, that's not on me.

00:25:41.000 That's not on Sean Hannity.

00:25:43.000 That's not on the people who, it's not even on Laura Ingraham, who I think, you know, really pushed him in an unfair way.

00:25:47.000 It's not on any of those people.

00:25:49.000 In the end, it's only on one person, and that is Donald Trump, because it's the candidate's job to garner support.

00:25:54.000 We're good.

00:26:09.000 Everybody's going to have to look inside their own house.

00:26:11.000 Everybody's going to have to look back at themselves and say, what did we do to bring ourselves to this sort of impasse?

00:26:16.000 I think a lot of the Trump voters are going to have to look and say, did we make the most intelligent decision to channel our anger, our understandable anger at the status quo, a feeling that Congress doesn't do anything, that the Republicans sell out?

00:26:26.000 Did we do the best thing by pushing somebody who is a career Democrat, who doesn't know anything about policy and just says absurd things because he's famous?

00:26:35.000 Was that the wisest decision?

00:26:36.000 Conservatives.

00:26:37.000 I think so.

00:26:58.000 That doesn't mean that every single moment is the moment when America is over.

00:27:03.000 It isn't.

00:27:03.000 Okay?

00:27:04.000 America's getting worse.

00:27:05.000 We're on the wrong path.

00:27:06.000 And yes, we're headed toward a cliff.

00:27:07.000 And that cliff is coming.

00:27:08.000 But we're not quite over the cliff yet.

00:27:10.000 If we were over the cliff, there'd be no reason for me to do the podcast or for you to listen.

00:27:13.000 Okay?

00:27:13.000 That's what conservatives have to do.

00:27:15.000 We need to recognize that yes, our principles are right, but we don't have to suggest that every single hill is the hill where the republic dies.

00:27:22.000 We have to be willing to die on every hill, but we can't give up ground to the left.

00:27:25.000 But we have to stop at the crisis mentality that suggests that every single battle is the end of the republic, and so if we lose, we're all going to die, and let's just get the guy who can win, even if he doesn't represent us.

00:27:37.000 The establishment, which I think is largely responsible for the rise of Trump, by not listening to its own base, by scorning its own base, by presenting everything was hunky-dory, by caving to Democrats, by making deals, they're going to have to start listening to the outrage of the American public, and they're going to have to start recognizing that go-along-to-get-along, because things are basically okay, isn't accurate for the vast majority of Americans.

00:27:58.000 We don't think things are okay.

00:28:00.000 And conservatives don't think that, and Trump voters don't think that.

00:28:03.000 Nobody thinks that.

00:28:04.000 So that's all stuff that we have to do, all of us.

00:28:05.000 We all have to look into our own houses and figure and clean up our own houses.

00:28:09.000 But we also have to have sympathy for people who are trying to clean up their house.

00:28:12.000 And we all have to acknowledge that we're trying to move in the right direction.

00:28:15.000 We're going to need some unity after this election is over, no matter which way it goes.

00:28:19.000 But that's particularly true if Trump loses.

00:28:20.000 We're going to have to have a unified movement so we can come back in four years.

00:28:24.000 And we also have to recognize something.

00:28:26.000 If we just put it on the candidate, we're going to be better off.

00:28:29.000 John McCain lost in 2008 because he wasn't a good candidate.

00:28:32.000 In 2010, Republicans united and they elected a Republican Congress.

00:28:35.000 Now, the Republican Congress didn't do enough to do what we wanted them to do, but that was a victory.

00:28:40.000 In 2014, won a sweeping victory after recognizing Mitt Romney was not the right guy.

00:28:45.000 Mitt Romney did not do a good job as a candidate.

00:28:48.000 We can either sit around smacking each other and, you know, continue to waste our efforts in the House and the Senate in 2018 if Trump loses, or we can recognize that we're still in the fight of our lives here and that Donald Trump was not the right guy to lead us forward.

00:29:00.000 And the truth is, it's hard to find the right guy to lead us forward.

00:29:03.000 It's hard to find a leader because human beings are inherently flawed, all of them, including Ronald Reagan.

00:29:08.000 Everybody is flawed.

00:29:09.000 We tend to overlook their flaws if they win.

00:29:11.000 But it's harder to find the presidential candidate than it is to win Congress, or to unify around a Republican basic ideology ticket.

00:29:20.000 That's what we ought to be doing.

00:29:21.000 We ought to be unifying around the ideology, recognize our own flaws, try to fix those for the future, get rid of the crisis mentality for conservatives, or at least minimize it a little bit.

00:29:30.000 Recognize that there is a crisis if you're somebody in the establishment, and if you're a Trump supporter, if you're somebody who voted Trump to burn it all down, recognize that burn it all down is not a responsible response to the system.

00:29:41.000 The proper response to the system is to destroy the parts of it that are bad and maintain the parts of it that are good.

00:29:47.000 The guy who just pledges to go in there and break everything up with a hammer is probably the least likely guy to actually do it.

00:29:52.000 And by the way, if he does destroy everything with a hammer, then you're left with nothing, and no plan for building.

00:29:57.000 Okay.

00:29:59.000 All of that said, speaking of somebody who's absolutely destroying the country, President Obama is having himself a grand old time over at the White House. 0.80

00:30:05.000 People missed this because President Obama has basically turned the White House now into a gay and lesbian culture lecture hall from a college campus. 0.80

00:30:14.000 And so he had bisexual celebration day, this is I guess a week and a half ago or two, inside the White House because every sexual behavior must now be, every sexual drive must now be celebrated. 0.70

00:30:25.000 Today, we are here at the White House

00:30:55.000 And I call upon the ancestors to witness our presence and for the Great Spirit, Wangkangthangka, to guide our words and thoughts so that we can speak true and strong.

00:31:12.000 Okay, and he prays to the bisexual, and then he talks about how bisexuality in Native American culture is wonderful. 0.90

00:31:18.000 That wasn't even the most ridiculous moment. 0.97

00:31:20.000 The most ridiculous moment was this bisexual poet reading her poetry about bisexuality and capitalism, and this is happening at the White House. 0.98

00:31:29.000 At the White House. 0.98

00:31:30.000 This isn't happening at your local community college.

00:31:32.000 This isn't happening over at the local homeless shelter.

00:31:35.000 This is happening at the White House, hosted by President Obama.

00:31:38.000 Bag Lady Manifesto. 0.87

00:31:41.000 Hashtag, say her name.

00:31:44.000 Hashtag, Black Trans Lives Matter. 0.82

00:31:48.000 This is a transgender person, by the way.

00:31:49.000 A deepened understanding of race and culture requires the following, and then some.

00:31:58.000 Truth-telling for immortality, a recognition of historical trauma, an honest assessment of capitalism and its

00:32:09.000 Inherent violence.

00:32:11.000 Don't wall me in, Pilot said to the updated finger.

00:32:16.000 What?

00:32:17.000 They could perform all that jazz.

00:32:20.000 What? 0.75

00:32:21.000 Carmen said burning black arts is a sin. 1.00

00:32:26.000 We do what we do.

00:32:29.000 We do what they don't know.

00:32:32.000 We know what they don't know.

00:32:35.000 Wow.

00:32:36.000 Blocks of art, talks, art, walks, art, dances on needles all scratchy like a 78 wax recording of Bessie Smith.

00:32:48.000 Oh yeah.

00:32:50.000 Lions sleeping, dreadlocked hair with gray streaks of wisdom.

00:32:56.000 Preach it.

00:32:57.000 Quicken with the blues.

00:32:58.000 Brother.

00:33:00.000 Ah yes.

00:33:00.000 Sister.

00:33:00.000 Brother.

00:33:01.000 The blues.

00:33:01.000 Person.

00:33:02.000 Am I blue?

00:33:04.000 Hand over one eye.

00:33:06.000 The good one.

00:33:07.000 Okay, am I blue?

00:33:08.000 Am I green?

00:33:10.000 Am I the big purple green machine?

00:33:11.000 I mean, I don't know what this is.

00:33:13.000 I don't know why it's at the White House.

00:33:14.000 I'm just, I'm wildly confused by what this has to do with enriching the culture of the United States.

00:33:19.000 Capitalism and its inherent violence. 0.99

00:33:21.000 Okay, socialism is about the idea that the government gets to come with a gun and steal crap from you. 0.91

00:33:26.000 Capitalism and its inherent violence, and then we get this bizarre poem about fingers, and you don't know what I don't know, but no one knows what I know, and the no-no, and here's my nose. 0.93

00:33:36.000 I'm just, what?

00:33:37.000 Okay, all right.

00:33:39.000 Thank you, President Obama, for really enriching the country with this sort of culture.

00:33:43.000 Yesterday was National Poetry Day, so some of this has resurfaced.

00:33:47.000 It is sort of sad what's happened to poetry.

00:33:49.000 Andrew Klavan is a big devotee of poetry.

00:33:51.000 I'm not a poetry guy.

00:33:52.000 Klavan's the kind of guy who reads poems out loud on his podcast.

00:33:55.000 If that's your sort of thing, then make sure that you listen to his show.

00:33:57.000 But the poems that he reads are usually pretty good.

00:34:00.000 They're not this insane, babbling nonsense.

00:34:04.000 The poems he reads actually have meaning and words that are nice and not the stream-of-consciousness musings of crazy people.

00:34:16.000 Thank you, President Obama, for making America a great place.

00:34:18.000 Okay.

00:34:19.000 Time for some things I like, things I hate, and then we're going to deconstruct culture a little bit.

00:34:22.000 So, things I like.

00:34:23.000 So, I don't think I've done this one before.

00:34:25.000 There's a series called The Expanse Series.

00:34:28.000 It's on Sci-Fi Network now.

00:34:31.000 And the book is the first book in that series called Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey.

00:34:37.000 James S. A. Corey is actually two different dudes, and they write these books together.

00:34:41.000 And they're fun.

00:34:43.000 I mean, I won't say that they're masterful literature, because they're not, but they are fun reads.

00:34:48.000 They're interesting reads.

00:34:49.000 They hold your attention.

00:34:51.000 They have some kind of cool ideas.

00:34:53.000 The basic notion is that human beings have ranged off into space, and they've built

00:34:57.000 We're good to go.

00:35:17.000 Uh, and it is kind of like Game of Thrones in that there's sort of an existential threat that threatens all these people while they're at war with each other at the same time.

00:35:23.000 Um, but it's a whole series of books.

00:35:26.000 I'm not sure how many they're gonna go.

00:35:27.000 I know they've written five at this point.

00:35:29.000 Uh, I'm in the middle of three.

00:35:31.000 Uh, and they're definitely, they hold your attention.

00:35:34.000 Okay.

00:35:35.000 Other things that I like.

00:35:36.000 So, this one is going to be hard for you to understand if you're just listening to the podcast, which is why you really need to subscribe at dailywire.com, because this is a joke that you sort of need to see.

00:35:45.000 This is one of my favorite internet videos, and it was sent to me by the aforementioned poet Andrew Klavan, and it is Steve Harvey.

00:35:54.000 who is the host of Family Feud.

00:35:57.000 And you'll see all the people giving answers about sex and genitalia.

00:36:03.000 And all this video is is reaction shots of Steve Harvey and fitting music as he realizes that Western civilization is dead.

00:36:12.000 Welcome to Family Feud!

00:36:15.000 I'm your man, Steve Harvey.

00:36:16.000 We got a good one for you today.

00:36:22.000 Fart!

00:36:24.000 Flagellating.

00:36:27.000 Casting gas.

00:36:29.000 Fart!

00:36:30.000 Flagellating.

00:36:33.000 Fart!

00:36:38.000 Fart!

00:36:39.000 Nicky, name a kind of ball that doesn't bounce.

00:36:42.000 Well, I'm gonna go there and I'm gonna say maybe men's private party.

00:36:54.000 Folks, you have to see the look on his face in order for this joke to work.

00:36:58.000 Name something you like to watch your wife do. 1.00

00:37:02.000 Uh, me.

00:37:24.000 It's magnificent.

00:37:25.000 This whole video is magnificent.

00:37:26.000 It goes on for like four minutes like this is just...

00:37:38.000 We're good to go.

00:37:57.000 If you haven't been watching, there's this entire series of apparently scary clowns who are showing up all around the United States now because 2016 needed to get worse.

00:38:06.000 They're like, what can we do? 0.88

00:38:07.000 We already killed Harambe.

00:38:08.000 What can we do? 1.00

00:38:09.000 Let's get all the scary clowns from IT. 1.00

00:38:11.000 Let's make them prey on children. 1.00

00:38:13.000 I do love this.

00:38:15.000 This group in Arizona has decided that they're planning a peace walk, a Clown Lives Matter peace walk.

00:38:22.000 And in response to the social media frenzy about creepy clowns in Arizona, this woman said that she's getting all sorts of flack because she called it Clown Lives Matter.

00:38:31.000 The New York Times and CNN have been calling, she said, this is a peaceful walk to show clowns are not psycho killers.

00:38:35.000 We want the public to feel safe and not afraid.

00:38:37.000 So come out, bring the family, meet a clown, get a hug. 0.59

00:38:41.000 And participants were invited to dress up like clowns. 0.94

00:38:46.000 So clown lives matter. 0.52

00:38:48.000 I love it.

00:38:49.000 It's so spectacular.

00:38:50.000 Because who says clown lives don't matter? 0.87

00:38:52.000 I think that this is clownist. 0.93

00:38:55.000 It's clownist. 0.99

00:38:56.000 Was anyone suggesting it would be okay to go around killing clowns? 0.97

00:38:59.000 It's okay to go 0.99

00:39:01.000 No, it's not okay to go around killing clowns. 0.96

00:39:03.000 Who said that? 0.99

00:39:04.000 No, you can't go around killing clowns.

00:39:08.000 I do love that Stephen King tweeted out that people should stop being scared of clowns. 0.95

00:39:11.000 It's your fault we're all scared of clowns, Stephen King.

00:39:15.000 What did you do? 0.72

00:39:16.000 You wrote it, okay? 0.96

00:39:17.000 With the creepy clown that hangs out under the bridge and then murders children. 1.00

00:39:21.000 That's your fault, idiot. 1.00

00:39:23.000 Okay, there are some things that I like. 1.00

00:39:25.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:39:27.000 Let's do it.

00:39:32.000 All right, so Ben & Jerry's has now released a new statement.

00:39:35.000 Now, Ben & Jerry's is a real leftist company.

00:39:37.000 The two owners of it are socialists, which is hilarious because they're bajillionaires because they make ice cream.

00:39:42.000 And I do love the fact that Bernie Sanders in the primaries, he asked, why do we have to have 45 different types of deodorant?

00:39:48.000 I don't know.

00:39:48.000 Why does Ben & Jerry's have to have 50 different types of flavor?

00:39:51.000 And they supported Bernie Sanders in his debacle of a run.

00:39:55.000 And so Ben and Jerry's has now released a statement about Black Lives Matter, which makes perfect sense, because when you want to hear about Black Lives Matter, what you really want is two elderly white guys who live in legitimately the safest state in the union, Vermont. 0.89

00:40:08.000 By the way, there are like five black people in Vermont.

00:40:11.000 Vermont is one of the whitest states in the union. 0.97

00:40:13.000 Just to point out that Ben and Jerry are not seeing a lot of crime and run-ins with black criminals in Vermont.

00:40:21.000 Here's the statement they put out.

00:40:22.000 We believe that saying black lives matter is not to say that the lives of those who serve in law enforcement community don't.

00:40:27.000 We respect and value the commitment to our communities those in law enforcement make.

00:40:30.000 We respect the value of every one of their lives, but we do believe that, whether black, brown, white, or blue, our nation and our very way of life is dependent on the principle of all people being served equal justice under the law, and it's clear the effects of the criminal justice system are not colorblind. 0.99

00:40:43.000 Okay, the very last sentence here is so idiotic. 0.92

00:40:45.000 The effects of the criminal justice system are not colorblind? 0.99

00:40:48.000 The effects of the criminal justice system should not be colorblind.

00:40:51.000 The administration of the criminal justice system should be colorblind.

00:40:54.000 The effects should be color—the effects

00:40:57.000 The effects should just be what the effects are.

00:40:59.000 I mean, if the implication is that the effects should be colorblind, meaning an equal number of blacks proportionately are in prison compared to whites, that's not a criminal justice system.

00:41:08.000 That's a racial apportionment system.

00:41:10.000 You know, the fact is that the administration of the criminal justice system should be colorblind.

00:41:13.000 People who commit the same crime should go to jail for the same amount of time if they have the same criminal history.

00:41:18.000 But at the end of the day, the same number of people from different groups are not going to go to jail. 0.95

00:41:22.000 That's silly.

00:41:23.000 As I said to Sally Cohen, and she didn't have a good response for it, what percentage of people in prison are male? 0.95

00:41:28.000 It's like 95% of people.

00:41:29.000 Is that because the criminal justice system is sexist against men?

00:41:33.000 Are the effects of the criminal justice system reverse misogynist? 0.99

00:41:38.000 Just so silly. 0.99

00:41:39.000 Okay. 0.97

00:41:41.000 What was that?

00:41:56.000 All right, so, other things that I hate on today's show.

00:42:00.000 So, The Daily Show is making fun of Jesse Waters.

00:42:04.000 Jesse Waters did this ridiculous video, and it is, it's a ridiculous video, for Fox News, where he went around Chinatown and basically just did stereotypes about Asian people. 0.99

00:42:11.000 And it's not funny, and it's stupid, and it's borderline racist, for sure. 0.99

00:42:17.000 And The Daily Show had a correspondent, they sent a correspondent out there to mock this, and I'll explain why this is so dumb in a second. 0.99

00:42:25.000 So we sent waters down to New York's Chinatown to sample political opinion.

00:42:32.000 Okay, first of all, let me get this straight.

00:42:34.000 They say China in the debate, so you go to Chinatown?

00:42:38.000 In New York?

00:42:39.000 So when they mention Mexico, do you send someone to Taco Bell?

00:42:44.000 Chinatown is nothing like China. 0.82

00:42:46.000 They got nothing to do with each other.

00:42:47.000 That's like if they brought up women's rights, so I decided to go over to Fox News to get some opinions. 1.00

00:42:53.000 Now, as dumb as that premise is, it is nothing compared to the idiocy that followed. 0.99

00:42:59.000 And by the way, we haven't added anything to this. 1.00

00:43:02.000 This is the original footage from Fox News.

00:43:12.000 Am I supposed to bow to say hello?

00:43:17.000 I like these watches.

00:43:18.000 Are they hot?

00:43:19.000 Who are you going to vote for?

00:43:23.000 Clinton's wife has a name.

00:43:26.000 What is it?

00:43:26.000 Do you know karate?

00:43:29.000 Yeah, I know.

00:43:30.000 Hit my hand.

00:43:31.000 That's the spot.

00:43:41.000 Is it the year of the dragon?

00:43:46.000 Rabbit?

00:43:49.000 No, it's actually the year of go... yourself. 0.95

00:43:51.000 What the hell was that?

00:43:57.000 How was that on the news?

00:43:59.000 In fact, how is that even on TV?

00:44:01.000 Where the... did this come from?

00:44:03.000 I mean, everyone's been wondering who'd be the target of 2016's worst racism.

00:44:07.000 I didn't even know Asians were in the running. 1.00

00:44:10.000 Oh, and by the way, if you're gonna be racist, at least get your stereotypes right, you ignorant sack of shit. 1.00

00:44:15.000 Karate isn't Chinese, it's Japanese, and you're doing it in a Taekwondo studio, which is Korean. 1.00

00:44:20.000 If you wanna come at Chinese people, make fun of China's high pollution, or the fact that they censor most of the internet, which in this case might actually be a good thing, since no person from China will ever have to watch your garbage. 0.94

00:44:31.000 I actually don't disagree with a lot of what this guy is saying. 0.93

00:44:33.000 The part that I think is hilarious is that comedy, if Jesse Waters' routine had appeared on Comedy Central, everybody would just ignore it.

00:44:39.000 Right?

00:44:40.000 Because it would be on Comedy Central.

00:44:41.000 So, the problem with Comedy Central and what they've done with the news is they've merged comedy and the news and then they pretend that it's all one.

00:44:47.000 Jesse Watters' routine on Fox News is much closer to what they do on Comedy Central than it is to normal news.

00:44:53.000 And everybody who watches Jesse Watters' segment on O'Reilly knows this.

00:44:56.000 I mean, they know that Jesse Watters' routine on Bill O'Reilly's show is not meant to be Bret Baier.

00:45:00.000 It's not meant to be Brit Hume.

00:45:01.000 It's not meant to be Shep Smith, even.

00:45:03.000 Unless Shep Smith has some joking material of his own.

00:45:06.000 The fact is that

00:45:07.000 What Comedy Central has done is they've merged news and comedy in such a way that it's impossible to tell them apart.

00:45:14.000 Young people use Jon Stewart or used Jon Stewart as their source of news while he was still on the air.

00:45:19.000 They used Stephen Colbert as their source of news.

00:45:21.000 They merged comedy and news, and then they're objecting when somebody merges comedy and news.

00:45:25.000 Now, I'll be the first to say, I think that's really crappy comedy.

00:45:28.000 I think it's racial stereotypes up the wazoo. 0.98

00:45:30.000 I think it's ugly.

00:45:31.000 I don't like it. 1.00

00:45:31.000 I think it's stupid. 1.00

00:45:32.000 I think it's ignorant. 1.00

00:45:34.000 All the things that you can say about this segment, I think that's what it is. 0.91

00:45:37.000 That said, if it were on Comedy Central, this guy would probably be laughing at it because it was on Comedy Central.

00:45:41.000 And you can hear he kind of slides it in there.

00:45:43.000 He says, what's this even doing on a news channel?

00:45:45.000 Well, except that it was in a non-news segment.

00:45:47.000 I mean, anybody who thinks that Jesse Watters is like a news guy has not watched Jesse Watters ever.

00:45:51.000 Okay, so that's my critique of Comedy Central.

00:45:54.000 Yes, I don't like the Jesse Watters segment. 0.92

00:45:56.000 I think it's ridiculous.

00:45:57.000 That said, I think that Comedy Central criticizing it for merging news and opinion and

00:46:04.000 Okay, now let's do some deconstructing the culture. 0.75

00:46:18.000 All righty, so deconstructing the culture.

00:46:20.000 Normally we do this earlier in the week, but obviously it was Rosh Hashanah, and we were celebrating the New Year, and obviously the New Year has gotten off to a stellar start, gang.

00:46:28.000 Thanks so much to all of you.

00:46:30.000 But nonetheless, I had a request yesterday in the mail bag, would I please do deconstructing the culture of heavy metal.

00:46:40.000 Now, I will be the first to admit, heavy metal is not my forte.

00:46:42.000 Of course, pop music isn't my forte either, and neither is rap, and I do those every single week.

00:46:46.000 So, whatever.

00:46:47.000 I mean, that's the way it is.

00:46:49.000 If I have to ask about death metal, then Austin is always here to guide me in the right direction, because apparently he likes Rammstein.

00:46:55.000 We played a little bit of that earlier, and he was rocking out like the Aryan Brotherhood member he apparently is. 0.54

00:47:04.000 The one that we are choosing for today, I think it's number three on the heavy metal chart, is by Korn.

00:47:10.000 It's called Rotting in Vain.

00:47:12.000 Now, I want to just point out that

00:47:14.000 Every kind of genre has its own sin that it likes to bask in.

00:47:19.000 It has its own milieu it likes to bask in. 0.97

00:47:21.000 Pop is all about sex. 0.99

00:47:22.000 It's all about sex. 0.65

00:47:23.000 It's the only thing anybody cares about in pop is sex, and how to get over it, or how to get it, or why you're upset about it, or why it makes you happy.

00:47:29.000 The only thing that people care about in pop music anymore is sex.

00:47:32.000 Not love, not emotion, just sex.

00:47:34.000 Right?

00:47:34.000 That's all they care about.

00:47:35.000 And then you move over to rap, and all they care about is, is... 0.77

00:47:39.000 Violence and crime and sex and drugs.

00:47:42.000 Those are the things that they care about.

00:47:44.000 You go over to heavy metal and what they care about is pain and suffering and death.

00:47:47.000 All three of these genres are these things in the absence of God.

00:47:51.000 So pain and suffering and death become meaningful in the presence of a religious belief, right?

00:47:57.000 You believe that death has a meaning and life has a meaning if there's something beyond you and beyond this plane.

00:48:04.000 What Heavy Metal seems to suggest is that pain is something to revel in and suffer in and enjoy in and of itself.

00:48:11.000 It's sort of the mentality people have about Halloween, the people who are really into kind of the dark side of Halloween, where like, I don't have to be scared of death if I mock death and if I involve myself in death every day.

00:48:19.000 If I become a part of death, then death can't scare me.

00:48:22.000 Death scares you.

00:48:23.000 I mean, you're lying.

00:48:23.000 Anybody who says death isn't scary is lying to you.

00:48:25.000 Death, of course, is scary for religious people just like irreligious people. 1.00

00:48:28.000 But there's this notion that pain and death are worth wallowing, suffering is ennobling, but not ennobling because you're doing anything useful, just in and of itself, because you're going to live, it makes you deep to suffer, it makes you deep to be ensconced in the serious things.

00:48:44.000 We're not going to be frivolous, we're going to talk about death.

00:48:45.000 I don't know.

00:49:07.000 And rap is do whatever you want so long as it is opposed to the generalized perception of decent behavior and proclaim that it is empowering in some way.

00:49:17.000 So this is the problem with all modern music.

00:49:19.000 All modern music now does not uphold anything of value.

00:49:22.000 And that's an overgeneralization.

00:49:24.000 There are some songs, of course, that do not do this, but those are the general kind of

00:49:28.000 We're good to go.

00:49:58.000 Oh hey look, it's the guy from Braveheart.

00:50:01.000 And he's got a weird cocaine nail, okay.

00:50:06.000 It's Edgar Allan Poe with a guitar.

00:50:17.000 And he's looking all creepy.

00:50:18.000 And then he puts on an oxygen mask.

00:50:22.000 And then Korn suddenly appears in his apartment and is breathing really hard and things look terrible and there's a bathtub full of leaves and a guy in a bathtub full of leaves which is not going to clean him in any way.

00:50:39.000 And then they're rocking hard and suddenly busting through cement which honestly is not good for your elbows.

00:50:54.000 And then there's a snake.

00:50:59.000 And, uh, people being very upset about things.

00:51:04.000 But also, rough women being in a creaky, cramped, old apartment. 1.00

00:51:08.000 Apparently there's somewhere to go, I don't know.

00:51:10.000 And there's a bird.

00:51:12.000 And there's a giant clock.

00:51:15.000 And they have really weird hair that they need to wash more often, but it won't ever happen because they're bathing in a bathtub full of leaves.

00:51:21.000 So! 0.81

00:51:22.000 If you enjoy this sort of thing, if this is your sort of thing, if you think this is grand music- oh, look, a skull.

00:51:26.000 If you think this is grand musical content, then, you know, have at it.

00:51:30.000 But, here's what they're- here's the actual lyric.

00:51:32.000 I wouldn't be angry if you'd just effing cry.

00:51:34.000 Your tears would arouse me, refreshing my supply.

00:51:37.000 See, suffering

00:51:38.000 Makes you stronger.

00:51:39.000 And your suffering makes me stronger.

00:51:41.000 Suffering is something in which to revel, because suffering is what makes us deep and worthwhile.

00:51:47.000 The more we suffer, the more worthwhile we are, because we understand the existential angst of being out here, and things are brutal, and so I'm angry about it, and I live in a crappy apartment with pictures of old people on the walls.

00:51:59.000 Okay, it says that suffering is fading.

00:52:01.000 I scream into the sky.

00:52:03.000 Repulsion invades me.

00:52:04.000 I say goodbye.

00:52:06.000 And that makes you deep, because these are like,

00:52:08.000 The creepy goths in high school who would get a date by just sitting there and brooding. 1.00

00:52:13.000 And there'd be some chick who'd be like, he must be deep because he's brooding.

00:52:15.000 He's like, no, he's not deep because he's brooding, he needs to get a life and figure out some interests outside of drawing pictures of skulls.

00:52:23.000 The chorus is, digging deep inside of me, getting past this agony, I can't seem to get away, another day rotting in vain.

00:52:29.000 So, okay, if you're rotting in vain, if things aren't really that crappy, you might want to look for a solution.

00:52:34.000 You could do that.

00:52:34.000 You could look for a solution.

00:52:36.000 Or you could just revel in your own pain and suffering, because it makes you awesome!

00:52:43.000 There's part of this where it's just, I love this, in the lyrics it says, I can't take this.

00:52:47.000 And then it says scatting.

00:52:49.000 And I wondered when I read the lyrics originally, is it like Ella Fitzgerald suddenly appears and starts scatting?

00:52:53.000 Or is it just them going, oh, is that bad?

00:52:55.000 And then it says, I can't F this, I can't fake this.

00:52:58.000 Digging deep inside of me, getting past this agony.

00:53:00.000 It's all about you, right?

00:53:02.000 In the end, it's all about you and your suffering.

00:53:04.000 There's no element of what matters to other people.

00:53:06.000 In fact, their suffering makes you happier.

00:53:08.000 It makes you stronger.

00:53:09.000 If you would just effing cry, it would make me feel better!

00:53:13.000 I'd drink your tears! 1.00

00:53:17.000 First of all, every one of these singers sounds like Alex Jones is doing the vocals.

00:53:22.000 But it's this kind of horror show, and I understand that some of it is done half in jest.

00:53:28.000 Some of it is done, I assume, half in jest.

00:53:31.000 People don't take this fully seriously.

00:53:32.000 They just think it's kind of funny, and they think it's interesting, and it's Halloween-y, and there are people who are into this sort of thing.

00:53:36.000 But if this is what you ensconcered, there's no way to watch five of these videos in a row without walking out and being depressed.

00:53:42.000 I mean, there's just no way to do it.

00:53:43.000 It's depressing stuff.

00:53:45.000 And it's meant to be depressing because the more depressed you are, the more deep you are.

00:53:48.000 And the more you've found the meaning of life and at the center of life is a rootless nihilism.

00:53:54.000 It's just an empty bag and there's nothing in it.

00:53:57.000 No soul.

00:53:58.000 No meaning.

00:53:59.000 Nothing.

00:54:00.000 Just people in a crappy apartment breaking through cement floors and screaming at each other.

00:54:05.000 If that's what you think of life, then let me just suggest that you find a better way of life.

00:54:11.000 That's all.

00:54:11.000 Find a better way- and if you listen to pop music, don't listen to the lyrics.

00:54:14.000 Find a better way of life.

00:54:15.000 If you listen to rap music, don't listen to the lyrics.

00:54:17.000 Find a better way of life.

00:54:18.000 That is the- Find a better way of life is the theme of today's Deconstructing the Culture, because this is just not- does this look like a series of happy people to you?

00:54:25.000 Does anyone look at these people and say, God, I wish I was living like the people in this music video?

00:54:29.000 This looks great.

00:54:30.000 This just looks awesome.

00:54:31.000 And the only good thing about this music video, so far as I can tell, is that one of the crazy people from Braveheart is still alive and in it, so that's exciting.

00:54:41.000 Okay, isn't that guy in Braveheart the guy with the scar on his face?

00:54:45.000 Nobody else gets this?

00:54:46.000 Okay, he might also be in Michael Collins?

00:54:49.000 It doesn't matter.

00:54:50.000 Okay, so we finally have actually reached the end of the week.

00:54:53.000 The end of the week has been reached, obviously, because now I'm just speaking nonsense.

00:54:56.000 So that means that on Sunday, go to DailyWire.com for our live coverage of this final debate.

00:55:02.000 It's not the final debate.

00:55:04.000 There's one more after this.

00:55:05.000 But if Trump doesn't show up,

00:55:07.000 It's the end of this election cycle, so everything rides on this debate.

00:55:10.000 We will be live covering it.

00:55:11.000 We'll be live blogging about it.

00:55:12.000 It'll be all sorts of tons of fun, and so show up, be there at dailywire.com, become a subscriber at dailywire.com, and have yourself a merry little weekend.

00:55:20.000 We will see you on Monday, and we'll see you Sunday night at dailywire.com.

The Ben Shapiro Show - October 07, 2016

Ep. 192 - Can Conservatives Unite?

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