Ben Shapiro talks about the Women's March, the 21-gun salute at the Inauguration, and why the left is so angry about Donald Trump being sworn in as president. Plus, why is it so hard for women to get maternity leave in Saudi Arabia? And why does the left care so much about women who live in other countries who don't have the same basic human rights as we do in the United States? Plus, a look at why Linda Sarsour has been demonized by President Obama for her anti-abortion stance. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Weekly Standard" and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" on Fox News Radio. He's also a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard and hosts the conservative newsletter "The Daily Caller" and hosts his own podcast, "The Right Turn" with his wife, Randi, and his son, Jack, who is a writer, comedian, and all-around excellent humanitarian. Subscribe to his new show on Podcoin and become a supporter of his efforts to make the world a better place for women and girls everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices, including how to get 10% off your first purchase of a Blue Apron box set! and how to save up to $10 a month on your first box set, including free shipping and free shipping on Blue Aprons! Subscribe and receive a discount code: BLUEAPRON. to help you save money on meals, snacks, gifts, and more! Thanks for supporting the show! and support the show, Ben Shapiro's vision for the future of the next great podcast, The Besties! You'll get a whole lot more than you can t live up to what you ve ever had before, and learn how good it feels good, and you won't have to work it! Thank you for listening to The Shapiro Show, right here, right there on The Ben Shapiro Podcast! - Thank you, Ben, Thank you Ben Shapiro, the host, Ben and Sarah, the creator of the show that makes it, and thanks for listening, Sarah, you'll get it all, and it's good stuff, too, too good to eat it, too great to be there, too much good to learn about it, it's that good to know it, good enough, and so much more, it'll make it so good to say it, you can do it, right?
00:00:00.000One of the four chief organizers for the massive Women's March that took place on Saturday is a, quote, Palestinian-American Muslim racial justice and civil rights activist named Linda Sarsour.
00:00:09.000Sarsour, who also served as a Democratic National Convention delegate, was honored by President Obama's administration as a champion of change.
00:00:17.000Fittingly, she also posed in Chicago with an alleged Hamas financier.
00:00:20.000Fitting, because Barack Obama used to give speeches in honor of Palestinian terror mouthpiece Rashid Khalidi.
00:00:25.000So, what exactly drove Sarsour's ire during the Women's March?
00:00:35.000Quote, If you wonder why hundreds of thousands of women declared themselves brave for marching in favor of taxpayer-funded condoms while doing nothing for women abroad who live in abysmal circumstances, this would be it.
00:00:50.000Maybe one reason Saudi Arabia is happy to pay for maternity leave is because they bribed their citizens not to rebel against the autocratic regime through massive welfare payments.
00:00:59.000Maybe another reason is because the government wants to encourage women to stay home rather than working.
00:01:03.000In Saudi Arabia, as The Week reports, women can't get a passport without the permission of a husband, father, or other male guardian.
00:01:21.000This is just another piece of evidence that a government big enough to give you goodies is big enough to take away your rights.
00:01:26.000And it turns out that people who think Saudi Arabia's maternity policies, rather than their restrictions on female driving, probably shouldn't be a guide to female freedom in the United States.
00:01:36.000But the left would prefer never to focus on such matters, since that would obligate them to favor westernism rather than multiculturalism abroad as well as at home.
00:01:55.000First, the left had a very strong reaction to Donald Trump being sworn in on Friday, and it was all available in this little nutshell video.
00:02:04.000I think this embodied the primal fear of so many folks on the left, the outrage, and also I couldn't stop laughing at this for several days.
00:02:14.000This is the presidential inauguration from NPR News, and you can hear the 21 gun salute.
00:02:20.000In the background, another signal that for all of that resistance, for all of that opposition, Donald J. Trump is now President of the United States.
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00:04:38.000Let's begin with the anti-Trump protests and the Women's March.
00:04:41.000So, the left can't deal with the fact that Trump was sworn in on Friday.
00:04:45.000And we'll get to Trump's inaugural speech in a second, because, as always, we like to be intellectually honest here at the Ben Shapiro Show.
00:04:53.000It's something that we actually care about, so we're going to tell you the truth, not a bunch of crap that you want to hear, because if we did that, then we might have double the ratings, but we'd also have half the moral value.
00:05:01.000So what we're interested in here at the Ben Shapiro Show is actually telling you the truth
00:05:05.000About what's happening in politics and in culture.
00:05:28.000It would have been beautifully ironic if the protesters burned Jesse Jackson's limo in protest of Trump, but that turned out, I guess, not to have been true.
00:05:36.000So they set this limo on fire, and look at how many members of the media there are.
00:05:41.000They're just itching to create this perception like the world is burning, like everybody's going nuts.
00:05:46.000The truth is, people are upset, but the world is not burning.
00:06:05.000So the left is burning things and if they think this is going to win allies, I don't know why they think it's going to win allies, but they did this and the media covered it up.
00:06:12.000The YZ would be like, one burning car, 200 members of the media.
00:06:17.000And you would see that, again, there were those burning trash cans.
00:06:21.000I guess there were 219 total people who were arrested during the inauguration.
00:06:25.000That's not a huge number of people arrested.
00:06:28.000It's some people arrested, but the way that the media were playing it, right and left, were that there were these massive riots taking place in Washington, D.C.
00:06:35.000It was a pretty minimal number of people who were very upset.
00:06:38.000Meanwhile, the media really played up this women's march.
00:06:41.000So the day after the inauguration, all across the land, women left their homes and went out to march in the streets for something that we don't know what it is.
00:06:51.000Honestly, I don't know why they were marching.
00:06:52.000They were just out there to signal that they don't like Donald Trump or something.
00:08:36.000It says, we stand up for our human rights, planet, dignity, bodies, diversity, health, social justice, equality, America, women, environment, integrity.
00:08:43.000That's a lot of things to stand up for.
00:09:26.000The word pussycat without the cat over and over and over.
00:09:29.000All that's going to happen is you desensitize people to the idea that it's kind of offensive to use that word publicly.
00:09:34.000All you end up doing is just like your vulgarity is making Trump's vulgarity more acceptable not less acceptable.
00:09:39.000But people in this women's march don't understand that or don't care.
00:09:43.000The women's march didn't accomplish anything other than to make people feel solidified I guess in their opposition to Trump.
00:09:49.000Apparently, Nate Silver did something I thought that was interesting.
00:09:52.000He looked at how many people actually marched in various areas of the country, and what he found was 80% of all the people marching were marching in areas Hillary won.
00:10:28.000And we'll get to the media bias in a second.
00:10:31.000First, we have to point out also that the celebrities got involved in this Women's March.
00:10:36.000Madonna said that she went to the Women's March and then she said she wanted to blow up the White House, which is acceptable language if you are a crazy old kook that has more Botox in her than Nancy Pelosi's entire warehouse of Botox that exists in San Francisco.
00:12:55.000The idea that he's in support of electrocuting gay kids.
00:12:58.000But she's saying all this stuff, and again, if they think that this is somehow going to win them converts, I don't know who the hell they're talking to.