The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 205 - The Final Countdown

For all the talk about Donald Trump's weirdness in this particular election cycle, it turns out that Hillary Clinton and her team are way, way weirder. On Friday, WikiLeaks spilled an email showing that Clinton campaign chair John Podesta was invited to a spirit cooking ritual by Marina Abramovich, along with John's brother Tony. What's more, Hillary also likes to throw back the alcohol. So, Hillary isn t exactly the paragon of stoic sobriety. She's an odd lady, surrounded by odd people who will do odd and terrible things as president. Just don t expect the media to report it. Today's After Show Was Hosted By: Alex Blumberg Ben Shapiro John Avlon Jordan Peterson Michael Bloomberg Andrew Yang Julian Zelizer Patrick Buchanan Chad Perla Chris Stengel Matt Rhule Evan Vellian Rachel Maddow Jake Tapper Joe Scarborough Rick Sanders Adam Schiff Dan Quessenberry Al Franken Tom Connolly Tim Cook Brad Pitt Jon McCarthy Jack Ross Steve Chacosta And much more! Thank you for tuning in, Ben Bergman and your support, Ben Kacz & much, much more - The Daily Wire Thanks for checking us out! - Your support is much more than we can count on it, and we really appreciate it, Ben, too, and you're a good friend, and I'm going to give it a chance to make it better than that more than that than that's not enough than that, we'll give it more of it than that in a better than it's more of a chance than that? - Thank you, more than you're not enough of it, than you can say it's not much of it's than that it's better, than it gets it's less than it deserves it's a little more than it seems it's really than that -- it's just a lot of it really gets it than it does it's ... it's good than that... it's real, it's gonna be that it seems like it's actually that it actually does it, right, than they actually gets it like that, really it's that it really does that, they're not even it, they really does it than they're actually that, right?

00:00:00.000 So, for all the talk about Donald Trump's weirdness in this particular election cycle, it turns out that Hillary Clinton and her team are way, way weirder.

00:00:08.000 The media have simply chosen not to report it.

00:00:10.000 On Friday, WikiLeaks spilled an email showing that Clinton campaign chair John Podesta was invited to a spirit cooking.

00:00:17.000 Spirit Cooking, by Marina Abramovich, along with John's brother Tony.

00:00:21.000 As part of Stellar Reports, spirit cooking often incorporates human elements, particularly blood, breast, milk, urine, and sperm, in ritualistic cooking.

00:00:28.000 Its origins are found in cake of light, a supposedly spiritual food whose ingredients include honey, oil, menstrual blood, and sperm.

00:00:35.000 Like, this is really a real thing.

00:00:37.000 In a Reddit forum, Abramovich told users the context of the ritual depends heavily on intention.

00:00:42.000 Performing it in a gallery or a studio makes it art.

00:00:44.000 Performing it in the confines of one's home makes it more intimate and spiritual.

00:00:49.000 Abramovich also recommends eating the pain after cutting your middle finger, using fresh urine to wash away nightmare dreams, and mixing fresh breast milk with fresh sperm milk for earthquake nights.

00:00:59.000 This is real. 1.00

00:01:00.000 But Trump is the weirdo. 0.99

00:01:02.000 Hillary's oddities have gone unreported by the media for literally decades. 0.98

00:01:05.000 According to Bob Woodward, Hillary bought Gina Houston, co-director of the Foundation for Mind Research, to the White House when Hillary was first lady. 0.99

00:01:13.000 There, Hillary held seances with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi.

00:01:17.000 She said she thought it would be a step too far to talk to Jesus, though.

00:01:20.000 Hillary wrote that Eleanor, quote, usually responds by telling me to buck up, or at least to grow skin as thick as a rhinoceros. 1.00

00:01:26.000 Hillary, by the way, also likes to throw back the alcohol. 1.00

00:01:28.000 Her former campaign manager, current corrupt Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, he said, quote, So, Hillary isn't exactly the paragon of stoic sobriety. 1.00

00:01:35.000 She's an odd lady surrounded by odd people who will do odd and terrible things as president. 1.00

00:01:39.000 Just don't expect the media to report it.

00:01:41.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:01:42.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:01:59.000 Okay, lots to talk about today.

00:02:01.000 And I want to start by apologizing for some of the technical oddities on the show, obviously for watching this on Facebook Live, for watching it on Daily Wire.

00:02:08.000 That's just because I'm abroad, I'm over in Austin, and Austin, as a blue area, has decided that censorship is obviously the best possibility.

00:02:16.000 In any case, lots going on.

00:02:17.000 Let's start with this Podesta story, because everybody's covering this a little bit wrong.

00:02:22.000 Okay, there's no evidence that John Podesta is a Satanist.

00:02:25.000 Yeah, there's not. 0.96

00:02:26.000 There's evidence that Marina Abramovich is a weirdo, and that John Podesta's a weirdo, and that Tony Podesta, they're all weirdos.

00:02:31.000 There's no evidence that they go around worshipping the occult, worshipping Satan.

00:02:36.000 And honestly, having Alex Jones and company pushing theories about the occult and those being taken seriously, let's not go over the top.

00:02:42.000 They're weird, that should freak you out, but it's more about them being environmentalist, wild-left weirdos.

00:02:49.000 Then it has to do with them worshiping Satan.

00:02:52.000 I don't know any evidence that they worship Satan per se. 0.98

00:02:54.000 It seems bad enough to me that they're ingesting food made from other people's sperm.

00:02:59.000 By the way, has there ever been a Clinton scandal that doesn't involve sperm yet? 0.59

00:03:02.000 I think we're still searching for a Clinton scandal that doesn't involve sperm, I think.

00:03:07.000 But meanwhile, it's pretty clear that the left is freaking out.

00:03:11.000 Right now, here's where the polls are.

00:03:12.000 So according to the RealClearPolitics poll average, Hillary has moved to a little bit more of a lead than she had yesterday. 0.99

00:03:19.000 But in the state polling, here's where we are in the state polling.

00:03:21.000 Hillary with a 1.2 percentage point lead in Florida. 0.87

00:03:24.000 If she wins Florida, the election's over. 0.86

00:03:26.000 Trump with a 3.3 percentage lead in Ohio.

00:03:29.000 Clinton up 3 in Pennsylvania.

00:03:31.000 That's very narrow.

00:03:32.000 New Hampshire with Trump up 1.5.

00:03:34.000 Trump up 0.8 in North Carolina.

00:03:36.000 Clinton up 2.6 in Colorado.

00:03:38.000 Trump up 2 in Nevada.

00:03:41.000 And in Wisconsin, Hillary's up big. 1.00

00:03:43.000 Michigan, she's up big. 0.99

00:03:44.000 Maine, she's up big. 0.91

00:03:45.000 Virginia, she's up big. 1.00

00:03:46.000 Georgia, Trump is up.

00:03:47.000 Iowa, Trump is up.

00:03:48.000 So what does that mean?

00:03:49.000 What that means is that this entire election, as always, seems like it's going to come down to Florida if these polls are right.

00:03:55.000 Now, my own suspicion is that Trump's lack of a ground game means that he's going to underperform a lot of these polls.

00:04:00.000 But I will say that it's so volatile, there's really no way to tell at this point.

00:04:05.000 In the 538 calculation, they say that there's about a three-point lead for Hillary Clinton.

00:04:11.000 Their averages now make it about a three-point lead for Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:04:15.000 And so the Democrats are panicking. 0.99

00:04:16.000 And they're making asses of themselves. 0.99

00:04:18.000 As usual, except more than usual. 0.99

00:04:20.000 So, here is Barack Obama yesterday.

00:04:23.000 Very, very upset with Donald Trump.

00:04:24.000 He says that Donald Trump is bad because he only hangs out with celebrities.

00:04:28.000 He spends a lot of time with celebrities.

00:04:31.000 Spends a lot of time hanging out with the really wealthy folk.

00:04:35.000 But you don't see him hanging out with working people.

00:04:38.000 Unless they're cleaning his room.

00:04:41.000 Or mowing the fairways on his golf club.

00:04:48.000 You're going to make this guy your champion if you're a working person?

00:04:52.000 Come on! 0.61

00:04:54.000 Somebody who spent his life without ever showing any regard for working folks.

00:05:02.000 But he has insulted minorities, and immigrants, and Muslims, and Americans with disabilities.

00:05:08.000 That's the voice you want?

00:05:10.000 You want a voice who's bragging about how being famous lets you get away with what would qualify as sexual assault? 1.00

00:05:21.000 And calls women pigs and dogs and slobs. 0.99

00:05:24.000 Okay, we can stop it there. 0.99

00:05:25.000 So Barack Obama goes on, he says he only hangs out with celebrities, he doesn't care about working people in any real way.

00:05:31.000 Okay, really?

00:05:33.000 Really?

00:05:33.000 Okay, so he doesn't care about working people, but presumably Obama does.

00:05:37.000 Obama spends all his time, pretty much every single day, meeting with celebrities.

00:05:42.000 In fact, there's somebody online who's saying that President Ash Carter, the Defense Secretary, is actually the President of the United States.

00:05:49.000 Obama is just the celebrity-in-chief.

00:05:51.000 And it's pretty clear that that's how Obama sees the presidency.

00:05:54.000 One of the great ironies of this particular election cycle

00:05:57.000 Is that President Obama can't believe that a reality TV star like Donald Trump might take his place. 1.00

00:06:02.000 The great good God King Barack Obama might be replaced by this dumb, by this dumb ass. 1.00

00:06:09.000 Donald Trump. 1.00

00:06:09.000 But here's the reality of how people see Barack Obama. 1.00

00:06:12.000 They don't see Barack Obama as some great statesman.

00:06:15.000 They don't see Obama the same way Obama sees Obama.

00:06:18.000 Obama sees himself as a great world leader.

00:06:20.000 Obama sees himself as a great god genius.

00:06:23.000 Obama sees himself as this wonderful fellow who's gonna lead us from the darkness to the light.

00:06:27.000 Most Americans see Barack Obama the same way they see Lady Gaga, except he has more power and he doesn't do as many weird sexual things on tape.

00:06:35.000 Barack Obama's just a celebrity to them.

00:06:37.000 This is why celebrities worship Obama.

00:06:39.000 So, Obama ripping on Trump for meeting with celebrities.

00:06:41.000 I mean, the fact is that Trump's celebrity connections are so much less than Obama's celebrity connections would make your head swim.

00:06:48.000 I mean, Obama is constantly meeting at the White House with everybody from 9-11 Truth or Macklemore to Beyonce, who talks routinely about what she wants to do with her P-word in her songs, and that's no problem for Obama.

00:07:00.000 One of the big problems with American elections now is that it's impossible to make a credible charge against your opponent because everybody's in the gutter.

00:07:06.000 So Obama says that Trump is a celebrity.

00:07:09.000 That's true.

00:07:09.000 But Obama's a celebrity and he's the one who made it that way.

00:07:12.000 He's the one who solicited that.

00:07:14.000 He's the one who has sought celebrity status by going on Samantha Bee like three days ago.

00:07:18.000 So again, none of this washes. 0.93

00:07:20.000 Obama, by the way, acknowledges that Hillary Clinton is really a bad candidate.

00:07:24.000 I should have invested

00:07:27.000 In the clothespin industry before this election because there are so many people who are holding their noses in voting.

00:07:31.000 It's just absolutely insane.

00:07:33.000 Here is President Obama holding his nose about Hillary Clinton.

00:07:37.000 When I hear young people who tell me, well, you know, I'm not that interested, or I don't think my vote makes a difference, or even though Trump is terrible, but, you know, Hillary's not exciting me that much.

00:07:50.000 There's a trust issue that a lot of young voters have.

00:07:52.000 When I hear that stuff, I just have to say, the world's imperfect.

00:07:58.000 Politics is imperfect.

00:08:00.000 Candidates are imperfect.

00:08:01.000 I'm imperfect.

00:08:03.000 You make choices.

00:08:04.000 You decide on what is best in this particular situation.

00:08:10.000 And in this particular situation, it's not even close.

00:08:13.000 Hillary Clinton is somebody who's qualified to be president and cares about the issues that millennials care about and will maintain the progress that we've made over these last eight years. 1.00

00:08:27.000 I love it.

00:08:27.000 I mean, President Obama there basically praising himself to the sky.

00:08:30.000 I like the point where he says, I'm imperfect, and you can see that he thinks he's lying.

00:08:34.000 Deep down, President Obama's saying to himself, no, no, no, nobody's perfect except for me.

00:08:40.000 But he's basically admitting that Hillary's awful.

00:08:42.000 You just have to vote for Hillary to stop Trump.

00:08:44.000 On the other side, you have everybody saying the opposite.

00:08:46.000 You have everybody saying that you have to vote for Trump to stop Hillary.

00:08:49.000 Nobody likes Hillary. 1.00

00:08:50.000 Nobody likes Trump.

00:08:51.000 It's awful.

00:08:52.000 And you can see that the Democrats are freaking out about this, because if this election

00:08:55.000 There's a referendum on Hillary Clinton instead of Donald Trump. 0.79

00:08:58.000 Hillary loses.

00:08:59.000 That's the way this works.

00:09:00.000 When it was a referendum on Donald Trump, Hillary was winning because nobody wants to see Trump be president. 1.00

00:09:04.000 If, in the American mind, this election is now a referendum on Hillary Clinton, Hillary's in serious trouble because nobody likes her. 1.00

00:09:12.000 So it really is a mindset.

00:09:14.000 If the media covers Hillary more in the last week and a half leading up to the election, major advantage Trump. 0.99

00:09:18.000 If they cover Trump more over the weekend, major advantage to Hillary Clinton. 1.00

00:09:22.000 And that's why I see the Democrats in panic mode.

00:09:25.000 So Tim Kaine, the presidential candidate, he's whining now that Congress is saying they're going to investigate Hillary Clinton.

00:09:30.000 He's desperately trying to get the attention off of Hillary Clinton in the last days of this election cycle.

00:09:34.000 People are throwing the impeachment word around before the election has even taken place.

00:09:39.000 I mean, first, it kind of suggests a little bit of defeatism, like, well, we think we're probably going to lose.

00:09:43.000 Second, it also suggests a really bad view of what the role of a legislator is.

00:09:49.000 Same about this investigation stuff.

00:09:52.000 You know, I thought legislators were supposed to legislate.

00:09:54.000 I mean, investigations are part of it, but the real issue is legislation.

00:09:59.000 So I hope folks, voters, will hold them accountable.

00:10:02.000 Don't tell us just

00:10:03.000 What you're gonna block.

00:10:04.000 Tell us what it is that you want to do.

00:10:06.000 Yeah, it's supposedly about legislation.

00:10:07.000 That's the real problem here.

00:10:09.000 Is that the legislation has all broken down.

00:10:12.000 It's amazing how they're trying to shift blame.

00:10:15.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats are in complete disarray.

00:10:18.000 Bernie Sanders is out there campaigning for Hillary, and he's... At the same time, Barack Obama's trying to get out the vote on the basis that Barack Obama's the greatest president ever, and we have to continue this winning streak.

00:10:26.000 Bernie Sanders is out there saying, Oh, by the way, Barack Obama's not a very good president, and things are pretty crappy.

00:10:30.000 Here's Bernie Sanders.

00:10:31.000 Final note from socialist septuagenarian Bernie Sanders.

00:10:35.000 Real unemployment remains much too high.

00:10:38.000 If you add people who don't have any jobs, with people who are working part-time but they want to work full-time, knowing people working part-time but they want to work full-time, a lot of people out there, people who have given up looking for work in high unemployment areas,

00:10:55.000 Okay, so Bernie Sanders is very upset about the state of the economy.

00:10:59.000 Real unemployment is too high.

00:11:00.000 We need more socialism. 0.93

00:11:02.000 Except for the fact that you need more black voters to show up and vote, and you got a problem there, because black voters aren't interested in voting for Hillary Clinton.

00:11:09.000 Robbie Mook, who is Hillary's communications director, he's out there trying to get the focus off Hillary Clinton, saying, Hillary's been cleared and she'll be cleared again.

00:11:17.000 None of this is a big deal.

00:11:19.000 I am totally confident when the FBI says what they have, they get the information out there, there's going to be nothing new.

00:11:25.000 He said he didn't even know what the emails were.

00:11:26.000 We found out he didn't even have a warrant to look at them at the time he sent out the letter.

00:11:30.000 We're just saying, get the information out there on the table.

00:11:32.000 The voters are smart.

00:11:34.000 Hillary has been cleared on this.

00:11:35.000 She'll be cleared again.

00:11:36.000 And we'll move forward and focus on what we care about in this election, which is kids and families and how we're helping people afford education and health care, you know, and keeping our country safe.

00:11:46.000 And he gets a big round of applause, of course, from the audience of the view for that.

00:11:50.000 But the fact is that most people don't think that Hillary is necessarily going to be cleared unless something really, really corrupt happens.

00:11:56.000 Now, all of this would be good news for Donald Trump going into the final weekend, except for Christopher McChristie.

00:12:02.000 So you remember Chris Christie.

00:12:03.000 He's the fellow who's been destroying the Republican Party for the last eight years.

00:12:07.000 So Chris Christie, I've never seen any one person have this sort of impact.

00:12:12.000 on a presidential, on presidential races two times in a row.

00:12:15.000 If you remember back to 2012, Chris Christie spoke at the Republican National Convention.

00:12:19.000 He'd been vetted for vice president and rejected because Mitt Romney thought that he was kind of corrupt.

00:12:23.000 And Chris Christie still got the keynote at the RNC where he proceeded to spend the entire keynote talking about how wonderful he was instead of talking about Mitt Romney, his speech bombed.

00:12:32.000 Then you remember the week before the election, he hugged President Obama, talked in glowing terms,

00:12:37.000 About what a great guy President Obama was, how President Obama was this great fellow for coming down to New Jersey right after Hurricane Sandy, and they walked arm-in-arm down the Atlantic City boardwalk, and they made sweet love under the trees at midnight, and Barack Obama ends up winning the election, narrowly, in large part because of the backlash to Hurricane Sandy and the feeling that they needed to do a good job during Hurricane Sandy, and Chris Christie helped push that perception.

00:13:04.000 This year, Chris Christie was responsible for the murder-suicide that took out Marco Rubio, the guy who's most likely going to be the nominee if Chris Christie hadn't excoriated him in that New Hampshire debate, leading Donald Trump to quash Rubio's momentum in New Hampshire, and we get Trump as the nominee.

00:13:18.000 That's bad enough.

00:13:20.000 Two of Chris Christie's top aides have been convicted on all charges in Bridgegate.

00:13:23.000 That's going to be the news the media run with this weekend.

00:13:25.000 Chris Christie is the head of Donald Trump's transition team into the White House.

00:13:29.000 Obviously, the media are going to now attempt to shift their coverage away from Hillary's corruption to Chris Christie's corruption and therefore Trump corruption.

00:13:36.000 That's going to be the message.

00:13:37.000 So well done, Chris Christie. 0.87

00:13:38.000 You are absolutely, indisputably the absolute worst.

00:13:42.000 And meanwhile, the fact is that 0.51

00:13:44.000 You know, the Chrissy surrogates are doing, the Trump surrogates are doing him no great favors, obviously.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 07, 2016

Ep. 205 - The Final Countdown

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