The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 22 - 'White Privilege' Means Getting Fired If You're White

00:00:00.000 It's a Monday.

00:00:00.000 We have tons to get to here on The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:03.000 University of Missouri just imploded over a non-scandal about race.

00:00:07.000 Ben Carson continues to be in the center of the site for the Democratic-led media.

00:00:13.000 Plus, Donald Trump on SNL.

00:00:15.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:15.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:23.000 Okay folks, well the insane story of the day.

00:00:25.000 Every day, I have to say, it's a good thing I do this podcast because every day you feel the sort of rage bubbling up inside you if you watch the news.

00:00:32.000 There's no way for the rage not to bubble up inside you watching the news. 0.98

00:00:35.000 Last week we found out that men are women, women are men, and young girls in locker rooms should be forced to look at dudes penises if the guys say that they are in fact women. 0.99

00:00:45.000 We also learned that Ben Carson is of no account when it comes to truth 0.93

00:00:49.000 When it comes to accusations against him, we'll get into that, because we didn't actually have time to explore that last week.

00:00:54.000 We didn't broadcast on Friday, and so we have to go through all the new accusations, which are all false against Dr. Ben Carson.

00:01:01.000 But the story of the day is this insane story that just makes you want to throw up and never stop throwing up, out of University of Missouri.

00:01:09.000 University of Missouri, here's what happened.

00:01:11.000 Okay, 30 black football players announced today they would not tackle one another over a piece of leather so long as the white president of the university remained in his job.

00:01:20.000 So they said they would not play football until the white president of the university was removed.

00:01:25.000 The coach of the team, whose name is Gary Pinkle, he's white, he makes $3.1 million per year in taxpayer funding.

00:01:31.000 At least part of that is taxpayer funding.

00:01:32.000 He joined these black players and said, we have to fight racism on the campus, the president has to go.

00:01:38.000 So, what exactly happened to force this president out?

00:01:41.000 The president resigned today.

00:01:42.000 What exactly happened that was so egregious that we had to have a hunger strike by one student, and students protesting, and boycotts, and the football team saying they wouldn't play?

00:01:52.000 Here's what happened.

00:01:53.000 Here's what happened.

00:01:55.000 Okay, so, the student body president said in September, the student body president is a black kid, by the way, and this is a university that's 8% black, so clearly there's such racism there that a black student became student body president.

00:02:07.000 The student government president said in September that somebody drove past him and yelled a slur at him.

00:02:13.000 That's it.

00:02:13.000 That's the whole thing.

00:02:15.000 That's what happened.

00:02:15.000 That's the entire thing.

00:02:16.000 And the president just resigned over this.

00:02:20.000 This student body president, student government president, was walking along and he says a white guy in the back of a truck yelled at him.

00:02:28.000 That's it.

00:02:28.000 That's the whole thing.

00:02:29.000 Also, apparently, at one point, some crazy student took his poop in a dormitory bathroom and scrawled a swastika on the wall, which isn't even an anti-black thing, usually. 0.97

00:02:39.000 It's usually an anti-Jewish thing, I should know. 0.96

00:02:42.000 But this is the entirety of it.

00:02:43.000 And there was also a group of black kids who said that one drunk frat boy yelled an ethnic slur at them, but they didn't know his name and he was never disciplined.

00:02:54.000 None of this has to do with the white president of the university.

00:02:56.000 None of it.

00:02:57.000 Zero of this.

00:02:58.000 Okay, this is the entirety of the story.

00:03:00.000 We're not talking about some vast system of racism was uncovered at the university.

00:03:06.000 We didn't discover a vast bulwark of discrimination happening at this university of thousands and thousands and thousands of students.

00:03:13.000 No.

00:03:14.000 One black guy had a slur allegedly—we still have no proof of this—had a slur allegedly yelled at him

00:03:19.000 And the reason I say allegedly is because we have had cases of people faking this sort of stuff.

00:03:24.000 It happens on campus on a pretty regular basis.

00:03:27.000 Now what's amazing about this, even assume that it's true.

00:03:29.000 Assume that somebody yelled a bad name at this kid.

00:03:31.000 A kid who was elected by his fellow students to be president of the student government.

00:03:35.000 So clearly there's so much racism there that, I mean, it's like Barack Obama claiming that America's racist against him after we elect him twice.

00:03:42.000 This kid gets elected and then he turns around and he says that someone called him a name.

00:03:45.000 The president of the university must go.

00:03:48.000 Must go.

00:03:49.000 How much pressure is there?

00:03:50.000 The governor of the state of Missouri comes out in favor of the student protesters.

00:03:55.000 The student protesters surrounded this guy's car on October 10th, and they started rocking it back and forth and yelling at him.

00:04:02.000 And when he, like a sane and rational human being, wouldn't get out of the car, they said that this was an example of white privilege, in effect.

00:04:10.000 Roy Blunt, who's a Republican senator, Republican senator, came out and said the University of Missouri really handled its business today.

00:04:17.000 And the president of the university released a statement saying that he took full responsibility for the situation.

00:04:23.000 He said, I take full responsibility for this frustration.

00:04:25.000 I take full responsibility for the inaction that occurred.

00:04:29.000 So the president of a major publicly funded university, University of Missouri, has resigned today basically because he's white.

00:04:37.000 That's what happened, because he's a leftist, this guy.

00:04:39.000 He's not even like a right-winger.

00:04:40.000 It's not even like they forced Antonin Scalia out of his job or something.

00:04:44.000 They forced somebody who's a left-wing white guy out of his job simply because a black kid had a random insult thrown at him by a random guy.

00:04:53.000 Now let me tell you something, folks.

00:04:54.000 Okay, I wear my yarmulke, as you can see, and I wear it everywhere.

00:04:57.000 And on Sabbath, I'm walking around my neighborhood, and this happens, and at least, I would say at least three or four times in my life, I've been walking to synagogue, and some crazy person has rolled down their window and yelled some anti-Jewish slur.

00:05:09.000 You know what?

00:05:09.000 You know how much difference that made to me in my life?

00:05:11.000 It made zero difference to me in my life.

00:05:13.000 Did I call for the mayor of Los Angeles to have to resign?

00:05:16.000 Did I call for the city council to investigate?

00:05:20.000 Or did I move on with my life because I'm a sane and normal human being?

00:05:24.000 But we've created such a society that even the subjective feeling that something is bad in society means that you have to lose your job.

00:05:31.000 And white supremacy means, the ultimate in white supremacy is that you now get fired for being white.

00:05:36.000 See, we have such, white people, we have such a tremendous advantage in America now that we can be fired simply because of the color of our skin. 0.92

00:05:42.000 It's amazing how white privilege works.

00:05:44.000 It's so frustrating and so upsetting.

00:05:46.000 Here's the list of demands that was put out by these students.

00:05:49.000 By the way, all of whom are having their tuition subsidized.

00:05:53.000 And the football players, the football players are the ones who led this.

00:05:56.000 Okay, these football players who have a combined IQ less than that of most vegetables.

00:06:01.000 Okay, the football players at major universities don't get in because they're smart.

00:06:05.000 They get in because they're big and they can hit people.

00:06:08.000 There's not a single major university football player who got in off of academics, certainly academics alone.

00:06:16.000 I mean, it's such a rarity to find a smart football player that Aaron Rodgers is the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers.

00:06:21.000 He's considered a genius in athletic circles.

00:06:23.000 Aaron Rodgers scored a 13-10 on his SATs.

00:06:25.000 It's a good score.

00:06:27.000 I scored a 14-20 on my SATs when I was 14 years old.

00:06:31.000 Okay, let's get over this whole, everybody's a genius in sports.

00:06:33.000 Okay, nobody's a genius in sports. 1.00

00:06:35.000 They're pretty much all stupid. 1.00

00:06:36.000 And if you're relatively smart compared to the other people, then you are Einstein. 1.00

00:06:40.000 Aaron Rodgers is Tesla compared to the rest of the people that he is playing with.

00:06:44.000 Okay, the people who are at University of Missouri and are going on full scholarship, mind you, they're going there for free on taxpayer dollars.

00:06:52.000 And they are saying they are the victims of white privilege.

00:06:55.000 They're the victims of white privilege.

00:06:57.000 First of all, we all know the only reason half of these football players are going to university in the first place is because the NFL doesn't draft players direct out of high school.

00:07:04.000 The fact is that college football in its entirety, taxpayer-funded college football, should go away, and it should go away immediately.

00:07:11.000 There's no reason that I or you should have to pay money so that a bunch of people can hit each other. 0.97

00:07:16.000 If I want to do that, I can buy a subscription to the NFL online, or I can go to an NFL game, but the fact that I'm being taxed so that a bunch of students who couldn't make the cut in terms of academics can get a full scholarship to hit each other so that a bunch of rich white people can pass money to the university is idiocy. 0.97

00:07:31.000 Okay, but here is what was actually demanded. 0.96

00:07:34.000 Here's what was actually demanded from the University of Missouri by this group.

00:07:41.000 They called themselves, I think, the Concerned 150 is what they called themselves.

00:07:44.000 They were concerned, deeply concerned, the Concerned 150.

00:07:47.000 So here's what they were concerned about.

00:07:49.000 Quote,

00:07:50.000 We demand that the University of Missouri System President Tim Wolf writes a handwritten apology to the concerned student 1950 demonstrators and holds a press conference in the Mizzou Student Center reading the letter.

00:08:03.000 It can't be typed.

00:08:04.000 It must be handwritten.

00:08:06.000 I understand it's very important that it be handwritten.

00:08:08.000 Most of these people can't write in cursive, but sure, it's important that he has to write it handwritten.

00:08:13.000 What is he supposed to apologize for?

00:08:15.000 Well, in the letter and at the press conference, Tim Wolf must acknowledge his white male privilege.

00:08:22.000 He's such a—his white male privilege is such that for the privilege of being white and male, he's now being forced to resign.

00:08:27.000 But his white male privilege, he must acknowledge it.

00:08:30.000 How does it materialize?

00:08:31.000 How does it—how does it—how's it shown?

00:08:32.000 How do we know that he has white male privilege?

00:08:34.000 Well, because he's white and male. 0.91

00:08:36.000 And how do we know that black students are victimized? 0.99

00:08:38.000 Well, because they're black. 1.00

00:08:39.000 Not because there is actual evidence of victimhood.

00:08:42.000 I mean, there is a basic affirmative action program, so I hear, at University of Missouri, which means that there are black people getting in who wouldn't otherwise get in under basic academic standards.

00:08:51.000 The same is true in California.

00:08:53.000 University of California has been routinely violating Prop 209, the anti-affirmative action proposition in the state of California, for my entire lifetime.

00:09:00.000 They've put in place all of these essays that are specifically designed so that you

00:09:05.000 You can't say on your application, I'm black so I get a few extra points, so you write in your essay about your victimized childhood.

00:09:11.000 So anyway, they say Tim Wolf must acknowledge his white male privilege.

00:09:15.000 Recognize that systems of oppression exist.

00:09:18.000 What in the F is that supposed to mean?

00:09:20.000 Recognize that systems of oppression exist?

00:09:23.000 I agree.

00:09:24.000 In Afghanistan.

00:09:26.000 Systems of oppression exist? 1.00

00:09:29.000 What kind of stupidity is this? 1.00

00:09:31.000 And provide a verbal commitment to fulfilling concerned student 1950 demands. 1.00

00:09:35.000 We want Tim Wolf to admit to his gross negligence, allowing his driver to hit one of the demonstrators, consenting to the physical violation of bystanders, and lastly, refusing to intervene when the Columbia Police Department used excessive force with demonstrators.

00:09:49.000 Is he a superhero?

00:09:50.000 Was he driving the car?

00:09:52.000 Was he supposed to get out there in his cape and tights and intervene with the Columbia Police Department?

00:09:56.000 By the way, there have been zero lawsuits filed against any of these folks, the driver included, because when you surround a car, you dolts, the car might move.

00:10:05.000 This idea that you have no obligations whatsoever in terms of public safety is insane.

00:10:09.000 If I walk out on the freeway and get hit by a car, yeah, I have the right-of-way. 1.00

00:10:12.000 I'm also a dumbass. 0.97

00:10:14.000 Okay, if I surround the university's president with a big group of people, a big throng of people, and the car starts to move, and somebody gets hit in the shin, guess what? 0.99

00:10:23.000 That's called life.

00:10:24.000 Okay, that's only demand number one, by the way.

00:10:27.000 Demand number two, we demand the immediate removal of Tim Wolf as UM system president.

00:10:32.000 Okay, so he's supposed to write this letter apologizing and acknowledging his white male privilege, and then they fire him.

00:10:39.000 That's a good incentive structure you've created there, folks.

00:10:41.000 It's not even like if you apologize, you get to keep his job.

00:10:44.000 No, he has to handwrite the letter, and then we fire you. 0.68

00:10:47.000 After his removal, a new amendment to the University of Missouri System policies must be established to have all future University of Missouri System president and chancellor positions be selected by a collective of students, staff, and faculty of diverse backgrounds.

00:11:03.000 You getting all this?

00:11:04.000 So there's no qualifications, it's a bunch of idiot students who don't know anything, a bunch of faculty who are looking for favors and tenure, and a bunch of staff people, but they have to have diverse backgrounds. 1.00

00:11:14.000 By diverse backgrounds, they mean you have to be black. 1.00

00:11:16.000 Because if you have a city full of black people, that's diversity. 0.96

00:11:19.000 If you have a city full of white people, then that is racism. 0.95

00:11:22.000 That's the way that this always works.

00:11:24.000 We demand the University of Missouri meet the Legion of Black Collegians demands that were presented in 1969 for the betterment of the black community.

00:11:33.000 Now this brings us to a point that I think is worthy of note, and this is I think the only point of humor in all of this, because you can hear I'm very frustrated with this because we're now creating a society in which the people who are least qualified to run the society are running the society, meaning the people who are most easily offended,

00:11:48.000 The people who believe in institutionalized racism rather than individual responsibility.

00:11:53.000 We're now caving to all of these people.

00:11:54.000 What's more, we're not just caving, we are generating new people like this at the university level each and every day.

00:11:59.000 The more offended you are, the more power you have.

00:12:02.000 All of this is offensive and terrible for the country, but here's the part that's a little bit funny, is that all of these people, the Tim Wolfs included, these professors, all these folks, these were the radicals in the 60s.

00:12:13.000 Right?

00:12:13.000 These were the people who took over all the university buildings in the 60s and threw tear gas at the cops and put flowers in the barrel of guns.

00:12:20.000 Right? 0.99

00:12:20.000 It was all these idiot hippies who took over the university system and turned it from a place where you were supposed to learn, you know, learn about your culture, learn about Western civilization, learn how to do your job, maybe. 0.99

00:12:31.000 And turned it into Hippie Central. 1.00

00:12:32.000 And so now their grandchildren are back and they're back for revenge.

00:12:35.000 There's something sort of ironically delicious in the whole thing as these people's ideological grandchildren eat them alive.

00:12:42.000 It's kind of funny.

00:12:44.000 They say that they demand the University of Missouri create and enforce comprehensive racial awareness and inclusion curricula.

00:12:50.000 They say curriculum because they don't know Latin, of course.

00:12:53.000 So they use the singular, curriculum.

00:12:56.000 Throughout all campus departments and units, mandatory for all students, faculty, staff, and administration, the curriculum must be vetted, maintained, and overseen by a board comprised of students, staff, and faculty of color.

00:13:07.000 So now we're going to have basically everybody has to learn whatever black people on the faculty want them to learn, but the black people can't be like Ben Carson or anything. 1.00

00:13:15.000 The black people have to be like Al Sharpton. 1.00

00:13:18.000 And this goes on and on and on.

00:13:20.000 I mean, they ask for the percentage of black faculty and staff campus-wide must be increased to 10% no matter the level of achievement.

00:13:27.000 So pure affirmative action in its purest form.

00:13:30.000 They said that they want a 10-year plan to increase retention rates for marginalized students.

00:13:36.000 Which means that if you suck at your studies and you're dropping out, we're supposed to figure out how to retain you even though we're already helping to pay for your education.

00:13:44.000 It's just, it's over the top and it's insane.

00:13:46.000 But this is the world the left has created.

00:13:48.000 This is the world the left has created.

00:13:49.000 And there are so many issues that are bound up here.

00:13:51.000 The white privilege issue is one that's just, it's frustrating beyond all belief because it's ghost hunting.

00:13:57.000 When somebody says, examine your white privilege, whose white privilege?

00:14:01.000 The poor white kid in Appalachia?

00:14:03.000 Who's white privilege?

00:14:04.000 The kid who's growing up in the sticks in Texas?

00:14:06.000 I promise you, there are more white people in America on welfare than minority people in America on welfare. 0.99

00:14:12.000 This idea that skin color is privilege in the United States is explicitly a creation of the left, and it's used to bash other people over the head, including people who are on their own political side, like Tim Wolf.

00:14:23.000 It's also worth noting, there is no slight to minor for the left to exploit it into a federal case.

00:14:29.000 Nothing is too minor.

00:14:30.000 Nothing.

00:14:31.000 Right?

00:14:31.000 You're called a bad name.

00:14:32.000 I've been called bad names since I was a kid.

00:14:34.000 I remember when I was five years old, some kid came up to me on the playground and called me a Christ killer.

00:14:38.000 And you know what?

00:14:39.000 It didn't matter.

00:14:40.000 I remember it happening.

00:14:42.000 Has it affected my life in any way?

00:14:44.000 No, it hasn't.

00:14:44.000 Because guess what?

00:14:45.000 This is called life, folks.

00:14:46.000 And there's gonna be conflict and people will call you names.

00:14:49.000 And if you don't grow a thick skin, you're bound to live a pretty miserable life. 0.84

00:14:51.000 And these are miserable people. 0.93

00:14:53.000 I mean, if you look at the folks who are leading these charges over at U of M, over at Mizzou, these are miserable human beings. 0.98

00:14:59.000 And they're never going to be satisfied. 0.72

00:15:00.000 There is no satisfaction.

00:15:02.000 The revolution must continue forever and always, generation to generation.

00:15:06.000 And one day, these people...

00:15:08.000 We're good to go. 1.00

00:15:29.000 What actually created this whole thing was the football team, which as I mentioned before, I keep coming back to the football team because I think college athletics is the height of stupidity. 0.98

00:15:37.000 Intramural sports are great, they're fun, I played them when I was in law school. 1.00

00:15:41.000 The idea that you're supposed to fund a bunch of morons to bash each other in the skull is beyond me. 0.95

00:15:46.000 And the fact that these people are now considered leaders, it demonstrates any institution in American life, any and every institution in American life that the left can capture, they will capture. 0.99

00:15:56.000 If they can capture Hollywood, they'll capture Hollywood.

00:15:59.000 If they can capture literature, they'll capture literature.

00:16:01.000 And they'll even capture sports.

00:16:02.000 And that's the new one, right?

00:16:03.000 Because sports is kind of the only thing we all share now.

00:16:06.000 It's the, like,

00:16:07.000 The right and the left, we don't agree on where the country should go.

00:16:09.000 We don't agree on what constitutes decency or happiness or family.

00:16:12.000 Basic terminology has been thrown out the window.

00:16:15.000 But at least we can just go to the game and enjoy the game, right?

00:16:17.000 Yeah, not anymore.

00:16:18.000 Not anymore.

00:16:19.000 Never politicize even that.

00:16:21.000 Now we're supposed to sit around and pretend like these kids are heroes.

00:16:23.000 When really they're just a bunch of spoiled brats in the sense that they're getting free education, free room and board, and then they'll go on to careers where they get to play a game for presumably millions of dollars. 0.81

00:16:32.000 And we're supposed to hear about how the society that created all of this for them is deeply racist and terrible.

00:16:38.000 It's just, it is amazing.

00:16:39.000 And it's demonstrative of the fact that the narrative in this country has been completely shifted.

00:16:44.000 It's been completely turned over.

00:16:46.000 And part of that narrative is, of course, the mainstream media, which brings us to Ben Carson.

00:16:51.000 Now, Dr. Carson has been under unending assault, unending assault over the last few days.

00:16:56.000 We'll get to Donald Trump on SNL, but I want to start with Ben Carson.

00:17:00.000 Ben Carson, a doctor, is leading in Iowa.

00:17:03.000 He's leading in some polls nationally.

00:17:04.000 He's trailing Trump in other polls nationally.

00:17:06.000 On Friday, we had a big story here over at The Daily Wire about the story at Politico.

00:17:12.000 Politico ran a story in which they said the headline of the piece was Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point scholarship.

00:17:18.000 That was the direct headline of the piece.

00:17:21.000 Now there's only one problem with it, which is that pretty much every word, all of the words, except for Ben Carson and West Point is not true.

00:17:27.000 He didn't admit, he didn't fabricate, and there was no scholarship to speak of.

00:17:31.000 So what exactly happened?

00:17:33.000 According to Politico, Ben Carson said that he was admitted to West Point and received a full scholarship but decided not to go.

00:17:40.000 That was a lie.

00:17:41.000 No it wasn't.

00:17:42.000 What actually happened is Ben Carson, when he was a kid, he was in ROTC, he was in the ROTC,

00:17:48.000 Which is the Reserve Officer Training Corps, and he was basically recruited by a bunch of higher-ups at West Point to come.

00:17:54.000 He never applied.

00:17:55.000 They told him if you come, then you'll go for free.

00:17:57.000 Now that's true for everybody, but if I were 17 and somebody said you come here, we'll get you in, and you go for free, I would say that's an offer for full scholarship.

00:18:04.000 That's what that means.

00:18:05.000 And in fact, on all of the advertising for West Point, it says full government scholarship.

00:18:11.000 But no, this is a lie according to Politico.

00:18:14.000 And they write this vicious piece trashing Ben Carson.

00:18:17.000 He admits he lied.

00:18:18.000 He admits there's no such thing as a scholarship.

00:18:20.000 He did nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort.

00:18:22.000 And it was a deliberate hit piece.

00:18:24.000 A deliberate hit piece.

00:18:25.000 People were playing this as if it was just a botched piece.

00:18:28.000 No.

00:18:28.000 I've botched pieces before.

00:18:30.000 Everybody does in this business.

00:18:31.000 This was not a botch.

00:18:33.000 This was a deliberate hit piece, because the headline was the editorial.

00:18:37.000 Now, I'm an editorial guy, right?

00:18:38.000 I write opinion journalism.

00:18:40.000 It's what I do.

00:18:41.000 OK, this was a Politico objective news story.

00:18:44.000 And this objective news story—nowhere did Ben Carson's team ever admit that he fabricated anything.

00:18:50.000 But they said that he had admitted fabricating all of this because he didn't say that he went to West Point or had applied to West Point, so he must have fabricated it.

00:18:58.000 Therefore, he admitted fabricating it.

00:19:00.000 So they used their own editorial spin as the headline, and then it fell apart on them.

00:19:05.000 And the media still will not let it go.

00:19:07.000 Today on Morning Joe, for example, Joe Scarborough and Nicole Wallace, all of them were saying that Carson has just spit out lie on lie on lie.

00:19:14.000 They just keep lying.

00:19:15.000 They're lying and lying. 0.86

00:19:16.000 The Carson people, they're all lying. 0.71

00:19:18.000 Rachel Maddow.

00:19:19.000 Rachel Maddow on Meet the Press yesterday. 0.99

00:19:22.000 She said that Ben Carson is a professional autobiographer and he's a fabulist, he's a liar. 0.96

00:19:27.000 Here is Rachel Maddow. 0.71

00:19:28.000 And notice, Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes are never in the same room at the same time.

00:19:33.000 I mean, he's sort of a, obviously he's a very distinguished retired surgeon.

00:19:37.000 Since retiring as a surgeon, he's basically a professional autobiographer.

00:19:41.000 And that's what he does.

00:19:43.000 He sells and sells and sells and sells his autobiography.

00:19:45.000 There are a lot of things, the most dramatic things in his autobiography, all of which are favorable to him, all of which have helped sell himself as this amazing person who ought to be president.

00:19:55.000 Okay, first of all, again, this is a lie that she's continuing to trot out that he had exaggerated the full scholarship offer to West Point, which is just, it's insane how nitpicky they're going to get.

00:20:12.000 This isn't even a matter of nitpicking.

00:20:13.000 This is a matter of deliberately misinterpreting in order to go after Ben Carson.

00:20:16.000 First of all, for Rachel Maddow to suggest that Ben Carson is a professional autobiographer,

00:20:22.000 Barack Obama wrote two autobiographies before the age of 45.

00:20:26.000 He wrote two of them before he was 45 years old.

00:20:30.000 Professional autobiographer Hillary Clinton has written, let's see, she wrote It Takes a Village, and then she wrote My Life, and then she wrote Living History, right?

00:20:37.000 And then she's got three autobiographies at this point?

00:20:39.000 Two or three?

00:20:40.000 So, when you're in politics, you write autobiographies, but the idea that he's a professional autobiographer, all of this is meant to diminish

00:20:48.000 Ben Carson is a human being. 1.00

00:20:49.000 It's meant to make him look weird and crazy and stupid. 1.00

00:20:52.000 There was a story today from the New York Post that Ben Carson has a picture in his house. 1.00

00:20:56.000 It's a painting that he hasn't explained where it came from, but he didn't paint it himself.

00:21:00.000 Presumably someone gave it to him.

00:21:01.000 It's a picture of him sitting there.

00:21:03.000 It's like a portrait of him and Jesus standing behind him with the hand on the shoulder.

00:21:07.000 Now, I'm not a Christian.

00:21:08.000 This is not my cup of tea.

00:21:10.000 You guys are Christians.

00:21:12.000 Is this, like, a big deal?

00:21:13.000 Is this supposed to be... Is this, like, a super weird thing?

00:21:15.000 It's a little weird, maybe?

00:21:17.000 Okay, so it's like... Okay, it's a little weird, but one of the things that you find out in these campaigns is that everyone has weird.

00:21:24.000 Everyone is weird.

00:21:25.000 Everyone has a weird thing.

00:21:27.000 So, Mitt Romney, who is the most uber-normal person who ever lived. 0.56

00:21:30.000 I mean, Mitt Romney is as vanilla and dull as it is possible for a human being to be. 0.97

00:21:37.000 Mitt Romney was turned into the guy who straps dogs to the top of his cars and forcibly cuts gay kids' hair in the 1950s. 0.99

00:21:42.000 Everyone is weird. 0.97

00:21:44.000 Mitt Romney's a guy who wears the funny Mormon underwear and all this nonsense, right? 1.00

00:21:48.000 He's weird, right? 0.90

00:21:49.000 Ben Carson is weird.

00:21:50.000 That's the goal here. 0.66

00:21:51.000 And the goal here is to make him weird.

00:21:53.000 And one of the reasons I'm frustrated with Donald Trump is because Trump is doing the same thing. 0.85

00:21:57.000 Trump, who's just an opportunist.

00:21:59.000 That's all he is.

00:22:00.000 He's an opportunist of the most efficient sort.

00:22:03.000 Anytime there's a line that goes out about one of his opponents, Donald Trump will repeat it, regardless of whether it is true or not.

00:22:10.000 Over the weekend, he was saying there's something strange about Ben Carson's biography and autobiography.

00:22:15.000 Donald Trump should talk.

00:22:16.000 I mean, seriously.

00:22:16.000 But here's Donald Trump going after Ben Carson.

00:22:19.000 Well, look, I hope it all works out for him. 0.82

00:22:21.000 It's a strange situation, though, when you talk about hitting your mother on the head with a hammer and hitting your friend in the face with a padlock.

00:22:30.000 When you talk about stabbing somebody, but the knife saved him, or you know, the belt buckle saved him.

00:22:36.000 I mean, it's a weird deal going on, and I hope it all works out, because I don't want to see Ben have problems over this stuff, and you know, it's a very strange situation.

00:22:46.000 I guess a book was written, I don't know where this all came from, but a book was written before he ran for politics, but he said he has pathological disease in the book.

00:22:54.000 When you have pathological disease, that's a very serious problem, because

00:22:58.000 That's not something that's cured.

00:23:03.000 There's some stuff that's good about Trump, and there's some stuff that's bad about Trump.

00:23:05.000 This is Trump at his worst.

00:23:07.000 This really is.

00:23:07.000 This is Trump at his worst.

00:23:09.000 And this is not because I'm a Ben Carson voter or anything like this, but I don't like unfair attacks.

00:23:14.000 I don't like attacks that are opportunistic.

00:23:16.000 I don't like Donald Trump providing to George Stephanopoulos just what he wants.

00:23:20.000 George Stephanopoulos, the former Hillary Clinton staffer, sitting there as an objective journalist, listening to Donald Trump trot out all of this nonsense.

00:23:28.000 And this is what the media do.

00:23:29.000 This is what the media do.

00:23:31.000 Right? 0.98

00:23:31.000 Well, the Washington Post, there's a guy named Michael Ignatius who writes for the Washington Post, and he was on one of the Sunday shows over the weekend, and he says, you know, the big problem with Ben Carson, it's not even that he's a liar, it's that he's a whiner. 0.98

00:23:42.000 No one wants a whiner for president. 1.00

00:23:43.000 Here's Michael Ignatius from the Washington Post talking about this.

00:23:49.000 The Republican debate may have been a disaster for the media asking the questions, but I didn't think the Republican candidates came out of it very well.

00:23:59.000 And all of the squabbling, unfair, the media is so mean, they're asking nasty questions.

00:24:06.000 I think that makes the Republican candidates, it diminishes them.

00:24:10.000 And if they stay on that, it may work with some Republican primary base voters, but I can't imagine that it's going to be effective.

00:24:17.000 Okay, let me explain something to you right now, Michael Ignatius. 0.96

00:24:20.000 Go to hell. 0.99

00:24:29.000 That's the entire explanation, seriously. 1.00

00:24:31.000 Because if this is the take now, that you guys get to lie about anybody that you choose to lie about, you get to make crap up, just make it up, wholesale, out of whole cloth. 0.65

00:24:42.000 You just get to make it up and spit it out there.

00:24:45.000 And the person who handles it the best is supposed to be president?

00:24:48.000 That puts you in the driver's seat, of course. 0.98

00:24:50.000 Then it just means that the candidate who's best at answering the question, when did you last rape your wife, 0.99

00:24:57.000 Right? 0.95

00:24:57.000 That candidate is going to be President of the United States. 0.95

00:25:00.000 Right?

00:25:00.000 Because if the media just gets to ask whatever questions it wants and it's up to the candidates to just deal with it, it's up to the candidate to deal with the questions asked by the media, then we don't have an honest political process at all.

00:25:12.000 And this is why I truly believe that the candidacy of Ben Carson could be significantly more important, a lot more important, than the 2016 campaign.

00:25:21.000 I would rather lose the 2016 presidential election and destroy the media than win the 2016 presidential election and leave them standing.

00:25:28.000 The media control everything.

00:25:31.000 Every narrative.

00:25:33.000 Everything that you see, everything that you hear.

00:25:34.000 Okay, when it comes to these sorts of narratives, there's no question that the media are the ones defining it.

00:25:40.000 In the University of Missouri case, just to give a quick example, University of Missouri case, what you're hearing today is that black students stood up against racism at the university and the president stepped down because he hadn't done enough admitting culpability.

00:25:54.000 You won't hear that nothing happened there, that what happened there was minor and random.

00:25:59.000 You won't hear that this was a bunch of bullies getting away with it.

00:26:02.000 No, what you'll hear is that this was a story of racial triumph.

00:26:06.000 And it was the same way about Ferguson, Missouri, where if you ask most Americans, was the cop at fault in any way, most Americans would probably say, yeah, there's probably some fault for the cop.

00:26:15.000 In Baltimore?

00:26:16.000 Where a trumped-up case has been brought against all of these officers.

00:26:19.000 If you ask most Americans right now what happened in Baltimore, they would tell you that the cops must have done something wrong to that poor guy, Freddie Gray, in the back of the truck.

00:26:27.000 If you ask most Americans, did the cops murder Eric Garner in New York, they would tell you yes.

00:26:32.000 The narrative is what the media tell you the narrative is over and over and over.

00:26:36.000 And so this is why I spend so much of my life trying to debunk these media narratives.

00:26:39.000 And good for Ben Carson, because Carson isn't just coming back.

00:26:42.000 There are people on the right today, and this really annoys me a lot, people on the right today saying, yes, this Politico attack on Ben Carson was wrong and faulty and factually erroneous, but

00:26:55.000 But it shows that Ben Carson isn't good at this.

00:26:59.000 I wasn't aware that being good at repelling lies was the number one qualification of the President of the United States.

00:27:05.000 I always thought that it was the job of the media not to lie.

00:27:08.000 But I guess that's just naive.

00:27:10.000 And this is what I love about Carson.

00:27:11.000 Carson, instead of coming out and saying, OK, now I'm going to give you all the details like Romney would have, all the details of my past, everything you want to know, I'm an open book.

00:27:18.000 Instead, Carson is hitting back.

00:27:20.000 And this is great.

00:27:21.000 He should be hitting back.

00:27:22.000 Ben Carson on Friday called a press conference.

00:27:24.000 He did tweet out our piece from the Daily Wire, did Dr. Carson.

00:27:27.000 And he held a press conference and he blasted the media as well he should.

00:27:31.000 He said, you know, you guys are coming after me.

00:27:33.000 I don't remember you going after President Obama this way because he's on the left.

00:27:36.000 Here's Dr. Carson.

00:27:38.000 I do not remember this level of scrutiny for one President, Barack Obama, when he was running.

00:27:44.000 In fact, I remember just the opposite.

00:27:47.000 I remember people just, oh, well, we won't really talk about that.

00:27:50.000 We won't talk about that relationship.

00:27:52.000 Well, Frank Marshall Davis, oh, we don't want to talk about that.

00:27:56.000 Bernardine Dorn, Bill Ayers, oh, yeah, he didn't really know him.

00:27:59.000 You know, all the things that Jeremiah Wright would say, oh, not a big problem.

00:28:04.000 Goes to Occidental College, doesn't do all that well, and somehow ends up at Columbia University.

00:28:11.000 Well, I don't know.

00:28:12.000 His records are sealed.

00:28:14.000 Why is his records sealed?

00:28:15.000 Why are you guys not interested in why his records are sealed?

00:28:18.000 Why are you not interested in that?

00:28:19.000 Let me ask that.

00:28:19.000 Can somebody tell me why?

00:28:20.000 Please.

00:28:22.000 I'm asking you why they're sealed.

00:28:26.000 I'm asking you, will someone tell me please why you have not investigated that?

00:28:35.000 I want to know.

00:28:36.000 Why?

00:28:37.000 Because I want to know.

00:28:39.000 You should want to know too.

00:28:41.000 Wait a minute.

00:28:42.000 Hold on one minute.

00:28:43.000 One second here.

00:28:45.000 Now you're saying that something that happened

00:28:49.000 With the words, a scholarship was offered is a big deal, but the President of the United States, his academic records being sealed is not.

00:28:59.000 Tell me how there's equivalency there.

00:29:03.000 It doesn't matter where it is. 0.98

00:29:05.000 That is a silly argument. 0.89

00:29:07.000 Tell me how there's equivalence there. 0.98

00:29:09.000 Tell me how there is equivalence there.

00:29:11.000 Tell me somebody, please.

00:29:13.000 Because you see, what you're not going to find with me is somebody who's just going to sit back and let you be completely unfair without letting the American people know what's going on.

00:29:23.000 And the American people are waking up to your games.

00:29:28.000 That is phenomenal.

00:29:30.000 And that's what every candidate should be doing.

00:29:32.000 Every single Republican candidate should be doing what Ben Carson just did.

00:29:35.000 Every one of them.

00:29:36.000 That is the war that needs to be fought.

00:29:38.000 Because here's the thing.

00:29:39.000 You can elect a Republican president, maybe, although we haven't really elected a Republican president by popular vote except for 2004, since 1992.

00:29:47.000 Okay, it's now been, it'll be 24 years and Republicans have won one popular election on the presidential cycle in the last seven.

00:29:56.000 And that's supposed to be enough for us.

00:29:58.000 This is supposed to be evidence that the media is unbiased.

00:30:02.000 If you have a Republican president, even, and the media are all to the left, playing this game, destroying Republican narratives and true narratives, forget Republican, true narratives, in favor of pushing bull,

00:30:15.000 Then it's not going to matter.

00:30:16.000 President Bush moved to the left in his second term because he could not get his narrative out.

00:30:20.000 The American people still think there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, despite the fact the New York Times reported last year that there were, in fact, chemical weapons in Iraq.

00:30:29.000 And then it damaged American troops there, members of the CIA.

00:30:33.000 All of this, the narrative is always what the left says it is.

00:30:36.000 So if this election becomes about nothing but destroying the media, I am fine with that.

00:30:41.000 I am fine with that.

00:30:42.000 And Ben Carson doing what he did right there is so great.

00:30:45.000 It's so wonderful.

00:30:45.000 And you can hear what's amazing about that clip.

00:30:47.000 Seriously, what's amazing is not even Carson.

00:30:49.000 What's amazing is the members of the media.

00:30:52.000 The members that he says to them, why aren't you guys interested in the college records?

00:30:56.000 And they say, well, what do the college records matter?

00:30:59.000 What do you think is in them?

00:31:01.000 What in the hell are you talking about?

00:31:03.000 He's asking you why you're not interested, and your answer is, I'm not interested? 1.00

00:31:07.000 Right, that's his point, you idiots. 1.00

00:31:09.000 He's saying you're not interested, and you go, well, why are you interested? 1.00

00:31:13.000 Oh, I don't know.

00:31:13.000 Maybe because that's your job.

00:31:16.000 Ben Carson, they'll dig up.

00:31:18.000 They'll dig up.

00:31:18.000 Okay, perfect case in point.

00:31:20.000 Ben Carson, right?

00:31:21.000 He's recruited by West Point and he wasn't offered a scholarship because there's no such thing as a full scholarship and he never applied.

00:31:26.000 Ooh, big story.

00:31:28.000 Led all the network news on Friday night.

00:31:30.000 Huge story, just ginormous story.

00:31:33.000 In 1975, Hillary Clinton moves to Arkansas to marry Bill.

00:31:37.000 She then says, multiple times over the course of her career, she tried to join the Marines.

00:31:43.000 Hillary Clinton claimed this.

00:31:45.000 Hillary Clinton claimed that just months before she married Bill Clinton, after moving to Arkansas to marry him, she tried to join the Marines. 0.96

00:31:51.000 And she said she was rejected because her Marine recruiter was a sexist.

00:31:56.000 Has anyone ever tried to dig that up?

00:31:58.000 Even Maureen Dowd, who was a leftist in 1994, reporting this said, there's no way this is true.

00:32:03.000 Hillary Clinton said, publicly, that she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia in 1996.

00:32:09.000 She landed on the tarmac in Bosnia with her daughter and was greeted by a bunch of children who handed her flowers.

00:32:16.000 Nothing.

00:32:17.000 Ben Carson's weird because he's got a picture with him and Jesus in his house.

00:32:20.000 Hillary Clinton held seances in the White House with the head of something called the Foundation for Mind Research, reported by Bob Woodward in his book, and confirmed by Bill Clinton, who says that Hillary Clinton communes with Eleanor Roosevelt.

00:32:34.000 Communes with her.

00:32:35.000 Has conversations with the dead former first lady.

00:32:39.000 By the way, little capstone on that particular story, Hillary Clinton was asked by the head of the Foundation for Mind Research, would you like to have a conversation with Jesus?

00:32:46.000 You know, would you like to, like, commune with Jesus?

00:32:48.000 Do a seance where you talk to Jesus?

00:32:49.000 She said, no, that'd be weird.

00:32:51.000 Seriously.

00:32:53.000 So talking with Eleanor Roosevelt, that was cool.

00:32:55.000 But hanging out with Jesus, that's where she really drew the line. 0.85

00:32:58.000 This is the same media that have said that George W. Bush was crazy, crazy, because he said he used to talk with God.

00:33:03.000 Just like every person who has ever prayed in the history of humanity feels that they have talked to God.

00:33:08.000 This is the media that we're fighting.

00:33:10.000 And it's this media that's pushing us ever further to the left.

00:33:13.000 The radicals replace the radicals in the media.

00:33:15.000 The radicals replace the radicals in the universities.

00:33:18.000 They infect every institution they can get their grubby hands on.

00:33:21.000 And what we're watching right now, the real battle, the battle underneath the battle, this is not a battle between Ben Carson and Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump and Ben Carson or any of the rest of this.

00:33:30.000 This is a battle of the truth against the gatekeepers for the left.

00:33:34.000 And the gatekeepers for the left are the same people who are attacking Ben Carson.

00:33:37.000 They're the same people who are attacking Donald Trump.

00:33:40.000 I mean, on SNL, we didn't have a chance to get to this today, but on Saturday Night Live, Larry David stood up and called Donald Trump a racist because he'd been told to do so, and he did it as a joke, but this is the idea. 0.94

00:33:50.000 This is that Donald Trump is a racist. 0.92

00:33:52.000 I saw a clip today. 0.99

00:33:53.000 These are the people who are telling you what's important and what's not.

00:33:55.000 These are the people who lie about what happens in girls' locker rooms, and lie about what happens at University of Missouri, and lie about what happens in riot-torn areas of the United States.

00:34:00.000 Is it any wonder Republicans have a tough time winning in the face of this sort of

00:34:22.000 Not willful indifference?

00:34:24.000 Malicious indifference?

00:34:26.000 But then when it comes to Republicans, out comes the hatchet?

00:34:29.000 Ben Carson, I may not vote for him for president, but this is a man with presidential steel in his spine if he is willing to take on the worst, most nefarious force in the country, and that is the mainstream media, who are hell-bent, hell-bent,

00:34:44.000 on destroying the country, transforming it in Barack Obama's direction, and they will blind you to all of the facts if they can get away with it.

00:34:51.000 That's why it's so important all of the Republicans should be taking a lesson from Ben Carson and Ted Cruz in the last debate, because the real battle is against these praetorian guards for the left.

00:35:02.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:35:02.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - November 09, 2015

Ep. 22 - 'White Privilege' Means Getting Fired If You're White

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