During the Super Bowl, Lady Gaga shocked the world by not taking an enormous political dump all over the stage. She warbled her usual agglomeration of overproduced garbage, and she strutted around the stage like a maimed llama wearing Beyonc s old outfits. And she also appeared to commit suicide twice in the same... routine. But although Laura Ingraham and others on the left thought that she went political, she actually didn t. And although Lady Gaga did sing Born This Way, which has officially been named now the second worst song ever penned after John Lennon s Imagine, the halftime show was actually pretty free of politics, and this drove some people on the Left out of their minds. Plus, Donald Trump did an interview with Bill O'Reilly that was quite... insane. But we'll get to all of that in just one second, because there's a lot to get to, including: Lady Gaga's performance, Trump's comments about Russia, and Matt Ryan's attempt to be the unluckiest person in America. Plus, we'll talk about how to cook better than Matt Ryan, and why we're all better off now that Matt Ryan was on a plane for the entire Super Bowl weekend. Happy Super Bowl Sunday! Ben Shapiro Subscribe to The Ben Shapiro Show on iTunes and leave us a rating and review the show on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, review, and subscribe to our new podcast, and tell us what you think of the show and what you thought of it in the comments section below! Thanks for listening and share it with your friends and the rest of your thoughts on the podcast! Ben, Ben, you're a rockstar! Timestruck, Timestamps, too! Sarah, Sarah, you re rockin' at it, right? Sarah and Ben, too? Sarah's Got a Dank, Sarah's a Duckiest Person in America? . . . . Sarah s Got a question or suggestion for Ben Shapiro's Dank Girl? ? , Sarah s Dank Boy, I'm a Bad Girl, She's a Good Girl, Too Bad Girl's a Bad Boy, Too Suck It by Sarah s a Good One? , or a Bad One? , or a Girl's A Bad One by Ben Shapiro, Too Good By Me thinks So Good by Me's A Good One by Her Dad?
00:00:00.000During the Super Bowl, Lady Gaga shocked the world by not taking an enormous political dump all over the stage.
00:00:05.000She warbled her usual agglomeration of overproduced garbage, and she strutted around the stage like a maimed llama wearing Beyonce's old outfits, and she also appeared to commit suicide.
00:00:16.000But although Laura Ingraham thought that she went political, she actually didn't.
00:00:20.000Laura Ingraham originally tweeted Gaga had ignored the phrase under God in her recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, but Lady Gaga actually said it.
00:00:26.000And although Lady Gaga did sing Born This Way, which has officially been named now the second worst song ever penned after John Lennon's Imagine, the halftime show was actually pretty free of politics.
00:00:35.000And this drove some people on the left out of their minds.
00:00:38.000Here's Michael Wood of the Los Angeles Times, quote,
00:00:41.000Lady Gaga misses her Super Bowl moment to say something profound.
00:00:44.000Wood complained that 30-year-old singer offered up a disappointing 12-minute medley that lacked any edge or tension.
00:00:50.000You wish she'd taken in more of what was going on offstage.
00:00:53.000Here's Chris Richards at the Washington Post.
00:00:55.000Lady Gaga calls herself a rebel, but at the Super Bowl, she played it safe.
00:00:58.000He then complimented Beyonce's ridiculous pro-Black Panthers routine at the Super Bowl last year, and he wrote, quote, with forceful elegance, Beyonce had set a precedent for what could be done on this stage, musically and politically.
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00:04:41.000First of all, I do have to say that my favorite moment from the Super Bowl was the very beginning of her halftime show when it appeared that she'd actually finished her musical career.
00:05:22.000So she was she was saying beforehand that she was going to do all sorts of stuff about inclusion and equality.
00:05:29.000And instead, she basically went up there and she's saying, God bless America and this land is your land with a bunch of drones in the background.
00:05:35.000And then she danced, as I say, like like a crippled hyena while singing her her patented
00:05:44.000So that was not the actual political side of the of the Super Bowl and the game itself You don't need me to do the analysis of the game Although I did I will say I think I did have the most the most politically oriented tweet the most retweeted politically oriented tweet of the evening
00:05:59.000It's now been retweeted, I think, 27,000 times.
00:06:01.000So it just shows you that apparently I should go into sports commentator mode more often.
00:06:08.000I tweeted, I can't believe the guy with the foreign model life and a sketchy history with the rules just won after being written off.
00:06:22.000In any case, the real political side was the ads.
00:06:24.000So, here's something I've never understood about the advertising of the Super Bowl.
00:06:27.000First of all, you pay all this money, and then obviously you get a lot of earned media.
00:06:30.000So if you do an ad, people are talking about it, it gets replayed now online, it's worth the money.
00:06:34.000But why would you absolutely ignore half the audience?
00:06:37.000Why would you ignore half the audience?
00:06:39.000A lot of these ads were clearly geared, very clearly geared, toward the audience of the left, and not geared toward the audience of the right.
00:06:46.000And the NFL audience is going to tend to skew to the right, because a lot of the NFL audience exists between the coasts.
00:06:52.000And this is why it's always been weird to me that you have, like, Beyonce and Lady Gaga playing halftime.
00:06:56.000And my guess is that if you had Leonard Skinner playing halftime, you'd please more of the NFL audience than you would if you had Lady Gaga playing that halftime show.
00:07:03.000In any case, some of the ads were very political.
00:07:06.000And the one that got a lot of attention was Audi's Equal Pay ad.
00:07:09.000Here's what that sounded and looked like.
00:07:23.000Do I tell her that her grandpa's worth more than her grandma?
00:07:25.000I don't know, is grandma worth more than grandma?
00:07:30.000That her dad is worth more than her mom?
00:07:36.000Do I tell her that despite her education, her drive, her skills, her intelligence, she will automatically be valued as less than every man she ever meets?
00:07:56.000Or maybe... I'll be able to tell her something different.
00:08:09.000So what that has to do with Audi, I have no clue whatsoever.
00:08:13.000I'm just confused as to why Audi thinks that driving away in an Audi makes up for the fact that she's gonna be paid 71 cents on the dollar and have to bear children from her womb.
00:08:21.000But nonetheless, what was hilarious about this, Audi runs this ad, and so people immediately begin slapping Audi on Facebook and Twitter and saying, guys, you pay women less than you pay men.
00:08:33.000And so Audi immediately writes back, like within 20 minutes of this ad running, they immediately write back, well, if you take into account the different job positions and the number of hours worked, then actually we pay women and men the same.
00:08:48.000Like, if you can name the companies that are not doing that, then you're going to need to actually talk to federal investigators because that's a crime, right?
00:09:06.000And it just shows how ridiculous the pandering is.
00:09:08.000And when the left says fake news, that's fake news, right?
00:09:11.000I mean, this wage gap myth has been a myth for a long time.
00:09:14.000In 2010, in 147 out of the 150 biggest cities in America, women were paid more than men if they had the same number, if they had no children and they were fresh out of college with the same degree.
00:09:26.000Women were paid significantly more than men in many states, in many cities, they were actually paid
00:09:30.000Like double digits more than men in terms of percentage.
00:10:13.000But here is the ad, The Journey Begins, which was seen largely as a critique of Donald Trump's immigration policy, again, at the Super Bowl.
00:12:33.000You ran an ad on the Super Bowl about people traveling, and now Trump is no longer president, so congratulations to you.
00:12:39.000Okay, so here is the third ad that we'll play, and this is one that got a trend started on Twitter that said, but the Boycott Budweiser sign
00:12:50.000You don't look like you're from around here.
00:13:18.000Okay, so it's a dude traveling across the oceans.
00:13:20.000Presumably this is the ancestor of Bush.
00:13:23.000Okay, and his immigration passport is stamped.
00:13:30.000And now he's in and people are being mean to him.
00:14:35.000So that actually seems like a pretty good origin story for the US, right?
00:14:38.000A bunch of people come here, they brave the weather, they brave the people who are jerks, and then they make their way and it turns out they become some of the wealthiest people in the history of the country.
00:14:46.000So, that seems like a pretty pro-America ad.
00:14:48.000I don't understand why you'd boycott Budweiser over that.
00:14:50.000I mean, is the implication that all immigrants are bad?
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00:18:44.000And this is the politics of somebody who's watched politics for five minutes.
00:18:47.000And again, he may do policy that you like, but that does not justify him saying things that, if they came out of the mouth of Obama, you and all of your friends would be protesting in the streets, as would I. Okay?
00:18:56.000You're not supposed to say things like, America is as bad as Vladimir Putin and we're all killers.
00:19:02.000This is just a routine, as Jon Podhoretz pointed out.
00:19:04.000This is just a routine from Godfather.
00:19:05.000You remember when Michael is supposed to be this kind of sophisticated about politics and he's now become the Godfather?
00:19:11.000And she says, politicians don't have people murdered.
00:19:22.000First of all, is it true that the United States kills just like Russia?
00:19:25.000No, it's not true that the United States is just like Russia.
00:19:28.000No, it's not true in the Godfather that senators have people killed.
00:19:31.000If senators could have people killed, I've lived in California my entire life, I assure you, Barbara Boxer or Dianne Feinstein probably would have done it by now.
00:19:37.000Kamala Harris would have me on the hit list.
00:19:39.000But that's not how our politics works, thank God.
00:19:42.000That would be a corrupt oligarchy in which rights didn't matter.
00:19:50.000Lots and lots and lots of Vladimir Putin's enemies have died under mysterious circumstances, including people who have been poisoned in England by Russian agents.
00:19:58.000Okay, here's just a list of some of the political rivals and journalists who have died under Putin.
00:20:03.000Alexander Litvinenko, that's the guy who was poisoned, Anna Politskova,
00:20:07.000Okay, so those are just a few of the people who have been killed under Vladimir Putin.
00:20:23.000Not all of those is Putin responsible for.
00:20:25.000We can't say which ones of those he approved, but there's no question that to be a political dissident in Russia is a very, very dangerous business.
00:20:33.000Vladimir Putin acted as an agent of the Soviet KGB.
00:20:36.000He said that the fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century, a regime that was responsible for the murder of tens of millions of people and the oppression of hundreds of millions of people.
00:20:46.000He allegedly greenlit a bombing of apartment buildings in Moscow in 1999 that gave him an excuse to crack down on Chechen dissidents.
00:20:53.000He invaded Georgia in 2008 for no reason other than he wanted to grab the territory.
00:21:33.000We're gonna get to some of the things I like that Trump is doing in a second, but...
00:21:36.000It is intellectually dishonest to pretend that you would not be upset if the President of the United States had a D by his name and was saying that Vladimir Putin's Russia is no worse than Barack Obama's America or Donald Trump's America.
00:21:47.000Also, I fail to see how you can constantly say things like, if you criticize Trump, you don't like America, and in the same sentence say, America's just like Vladimir Putin's Russia.
00:22:36.000And he told the American people this in the campaign.
00:22:38.000He's absolutely determined to explore ways, particularly in confronting and destroying ISIS, to work with Russia.
00:22:46.000And that's the spirit of those comments.
00:22:57.000I simply don't accept that there was any moral equivalency in the President's comments.
00:23:01.000Do you think America is morally superior to Russia?
00:23:27.000I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.
00:23:36.000I was actually at Independence Hall yesterday, and I stood in the very room where the Constitution of the United States was crafted, the very building where the Declaration of Independence was held forth.
00:23:48.000Every American, including our President, represents it.
00:23:50.000We uphold the highest ideals of the world.
00:23:52.000Shouldn't we be able to just say yes to that question, though?
00:23:55.000I think it's without question, John, that American ideals are superior to countries all across the world.
00:24:29.000Now I'm gonna tell you what this exposes about some splits in the Republican Party in a second.
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