Ben Shapiro explains why Saturday Night Live has become the new SNL, and why the left is going nuts about it. Plus, why the Grammys are no longer as funny as they used to be and why Stephen Miller s bombshell debut on the Sunday shows is making the left go nuts. And why the Left is wrong about Donald Trump and why they should be mad at him for not tweeting about it! 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 radio show "The View" on SiriusXM Radio's Power 99.9 The Fan and hosts other conservative radio shows. His new book "Deconstructing Culture" is out now and it's available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. If you don't already own a Kindle, you can get a free eReader edition of the Kindle Fire, which is also available for Kindle, iBook, Paperback, Hardcover, and Hardcover. You can also get a copy of the book for free on amazon.com for 99.99 and Audible for $99.99. Thanks for listening and share the podcast with your fellow podulters! Subscribe, rate, and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and help spread the word to your friends about what you're listening to this podcast! The opinions expressed in this podcast are those of your podcast listening to us on your favorite podulars and social media platforms. Thank you for listening to Ben Shapiro and I hope you enjoy this podcast and share it with your friends and family! - Thank you so much for all the love, support us on all of your support and support us in any amount you can manage to find us on social media and share this podcast on your podcasting platforms. Thank you again and review us on Instapreneurship and reviews and reviews on your Instapaper, etc., etc. etc. - Ben Shapiro - thank you for being kind and review and review on your thoughts on this podcasting links on your social media links on the podcast and tips and tips on the internet, we really do appreciate it :) - The Ben Shapiro's review and reviews are really does mean so much more! -- Thank you, Rachel Crowell, and much more. -- CRYES
00:00:04.000According to the government website, a feminist government ensures that a gender equality perspective is brought into policymaking on a broad front, both nationally and internationally.
00:00:13.000Women and men must have the same power to shape society and their own lives, unquote.
00:00:17.000So, when that feminist government visited Iran, one might expect that the empowered women in this empowered government would be empowered enough to avoid donning the hijab, the Islamic female head covering.
00:00:28.000The meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
00:00:30.000The women universally put on headscarves.
00:00:32.000Apparently feminism only demonstrates its strength when dealing with Western men who are basically willing to work with feminists, not when dealing with patriarchal societies intent on the subjugation and repression of women.
00:00:42.000As UN Watch reports, quote, trade minister Anne Lind and other female members walked before Iranian President Rouhani on Saturday wearing hijabs, chadors, and long coats in deference to Iran's oppressive and unjust modesty laws which make the hijab compulsory.
00:00:56.000This is kind of indicative of the focus of Western feminists.
00:01:07.000With the vast majority of sexism wiped off the map in the West, women in the United States comprise a majority of college students and graduate students, and earn more than men in 147 out of 150 highly populated cities if they have no kids.
00:01:18.000Instead of turning internationally, the feminists left
00:01:21.000has found new windmills to pursue, forcing other people to pay for women's childrearing, fighting for the ability to kill babies in the womb at any stage of pregnancy.
00:01:29.000That means abandoning women living in actual patriarchal autocracies.
00:01:33.000So, why won't Western feminists fight for women living under tyranny?
00:01:36.000Because that would mean empowering men in their own countries to fight radical Islam.
00:01:41.000And that would undermine the pacifistic view of Western civilization that too many feminists think is a prereq for female equality.
00:01:48.000A muscular defense of Western civilization makes feminists uncomfortable.
00:01:51.000They see that as merely the flip side of the Islamist coin, which is why the only time they bother ripping radical Islam is when they're saying Donald Trump is a member of the Taliban.
00:01:59.000The result is that women who are actually oppressed have no feminist allies in the West.
00:02:04.000And that means they're on their own, as those same feminists kowtow to their would-be oppressors.
00:04:16.000And when you do that, again, you're letting them know that we sent you, which is, it helps us out so that they know that they ought to continue advertising with us, and it also means
00:04:46.000This is the first week in like five, six, eight, a thousand weeks Donald Trump has not tweeted about Saturday Night Live on Saturday night.
00:04:53.000And there's a reason for that, and that's because Saturday Night Live has basically turned into the Annoy Donald Trump show.
00:04:58.000Instead of them actually doing funny things, they've decided it's more important to do things that irritate Donald Trump.
00:05:04.000And there's always been this aspect to SNL.
00:05:06.000I mean, going all the way back to the 1970s when they did Chevy Chase's Gerald Ford, and he'd bump his head on things, and he was like a clumsy oaf, even though Gerald Ford was actually the most athletic president we ever had.
00:05:15.000He was an All-American linebacker at University of Michigan in football, Gerald Ford.
00:05:19.000But they portrayed him as a bumbling oaf, and it worked.
00:05:23.000The SNL has always been sort of gadflyish against Republican presidents.
00:05:27.000They don't care about Democrat presidents.
00:05:28.000They never made fun of Bill Clinton particularly much.
00:05:30.000They had Daryl Hammond, but it was kind of weak.
00:05:34.000I mean, Obama was just a worship choir for eight years.
00:05:37.000Well, now Trump is president, and that means that they are going to dedicate all of their strength and all of their minimal skill toward targeting President Trump.
00:05:55.000Everybody is sort of funny, but Trump takes it to a new level.
00:05:57.000His tweets are crazy sometimes, and whenever he talks, he talks with this rich self-assurance, even if he doesn't know what he's talking about, and he says things that are outrageous, and he has a sense of humor.
00:06:09.000There's a lot about Donald Trump that you can make fun of.
00:06:12.000And a lot of the people who surround him are funny.
00:06:13.000So, Sean Spicer, his press secretary, is a funny guy inherently because he's sort of this insecure guy who's playing macho on TV.
00:06:21.000And that's why when Melissa McCarthy last week did her impression of Sean Spicer, it was actually really funny.
00:06:27.000But now SNL has decided that they are going to go full scale, annoy Trump.
00:06:31.000So we're not going to try to be funny so much as just annoy Donald Trump a lot.
00:06:34.000So, it begins, SNL, on Saturday night with Leslie Jones.
00:06:38.000So Leslie Jones has become sort of this
00:07:34.000Like, why don't you bring this back three weeks from now?
00:07:36.000You gotta bring it back every single week.
00:07:38.000They're beating the dead horse and it's not, again, are these the end of the world?
00:07:41.000No, but the entire show is dedicated to Trump.
00:07:44.000This is only the second of four sketches that are dedicated to Donald Trump.
00:07:47.000Here's Alec Baldwin doing a People's Court parody of Donald Trump.
00:07:50.000Again, it's like all they have to do and they don't really care whether people think it's funny or not.
00:07:54.000They really only care whether Donald Trump gets annoyed enough to tweet about it.
00:07:58.000So I guess in that they failed because he didn't tweet about it.
00:08:00.000This is, I really am not, I'm not a fan of Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump, and I think the writing for it is really weak, so this was only the third of four, and finally we get to the one that's actually really bad.
00:08:10.000The one that was actually really, really bad was Kellyanne Conway.
00:08:12.000So they've been ripping on Kellyanne Conway for a while, which is fine with me, I'm not a big Kellyanne Conway fan, but the way that they ripped on her on Saturday night really was truly egregious.
00:08:21.000What they did is, they suggested that CNN wouldn't have her on because she was dishonest, because there was that story last week about this, and
00:08:28.000When they did the skit, instead of just doing it like a horror sketch, like she's haunting the, like she's haunting Jake Tapper at CNN, they tried to sexualize it, and it really is kind of insulting and gross.
00:08:42.000Again, this is actually, this is the worst of it.
00:08:44.000So they've gone so far off the rails, and now that Kellyanne Conway, who's married and has four children, they're trying to play her as though the reason that she's trying to get on TV is because of sex or something, and now she's trying to hit up Jake Tapper, by the way, also married, with two children.
00:08:58.000If they did this to somebody on the left, everybody would rightly cry sexism.
00:09:03.000It's sexist to take a woman who is on TV.
00:09:06.000You may not agree with her, you may think she's terrible, you may think she lies a lot, but the idea that she is some sort of sex fiend who's going over to people's apartments and sexing it up with random dudes on the news is really
00:09:19.000And this just demonstrates how far the left is willing to go in order to pillory the right.
00:09:23.000And what they're doing is they're actually undermining their own credibility.
00:09:25.000There are plenty of credibility issues with the Trump team, and we're going to get to some of those in a little bit.
00:09:29.000But the left's deep desire to override anything remotely resembling truth in favor of just the most absurd material possible, all it's really doing is it's off-putting half the United States.
00:09:41.000And yeah, SNL's ratings are good right now, but they're not doing themselves any favors.
00:09:45.000When they go so far over the top that they're actually insulting to the members of the Trump administration, not just kind of gentle mockery, or even harsh mockery, or even kind of cutting mockery, but turning Kellyanne Conway into a sex fiend, or suggesting that Donald Trump is legitimately too stupid to do anything.
00:10:04.000There are certain lines that you cross at a certain point that are not, you know, I'm not saying anybody should be shut down, but I am saying that it's counterproductive to what they're trying to do, and it's not funny.
00:10:12.000So that Kellyanne Conway thing is actually so far past the line it's not even funny.
00:10:15.000Like, you watch that, and I can see the humor in the Leslie Jones thing because half of it is about how she's an incompetent actress, but the Kellyanne Conway thing is so far over the top that it really is
00:10:24.000Is insulting to, I think, women generally, actually.
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00:11:57.000And then Obama invited him to the White House as some sort of brilliant commentator.
00:12:00.000And now he is saying that Donald Trump is crazy.
00:12:03.000Now some politicians fear Ben Lai, in fact almost all of them do to some extent, but they always do it in a way that pays some sort of deference to reality.
00:12:12.000And what we've discovered is that in the last three weeks, this president, rather like he did on the campaign trail,
00:12:55.000You're seeing all over the country with protests, and I've been at many of them, is nothing like what I went through in the 60s when I protested against the Vietnam War.
00:13:35.000Again, all of this does is really help Donald Trump.
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