Kellyanne Conway accused of lacking respect after putting her feet on Oval Office couch. Twitter freaks out. Even the Washington Post calls it a tempest in a teapot and equates it to Bill Clinton s sexual activity in the Oval Office. But that s not quite the same thing as... Monica Lewinsky kneeling under the desk or having sex on top of President Clinton s desk, as Secret Service members reported. In other words, if the biggest problem the media have with Kellyanne Conner is where she puts her feet, they re just awful at their jobs. Ben Shapiro is on The Ben Shapiro Show to discuss this and much more on this episode of the Ben Shapiro show. Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's new show, "The Weekly Standard" wherever you get your shows, and don t forget to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, and subscribe to That s All I Really Know I'm Gonna Do, wherever you re listening. You can also become a supporter of the show by becoming a patron patron, and get 20% off the first month with discount code: PODCASTBUILDING2020 at ZipRecruiter.org/PODCASTREVIEW and save $5 and get 10% off your first month when you sign up for VIP access to the next month with promo code PODCOARDREVIEW. and receive a FREE stock like Apple Watch membership! and a FREE copy of the App Store or Google Play membership when you become a patron! You won t have to be a patron to receive the offer of $5 or more than $10, and receive $5,000 in total, and they'll get a discount of $10 or $20, and you'll get an ad-free version of the service, too get an additional $5 when they review the entire service, plus they'll receive 5,000, they'll have access to VIPREVIEW AND FREE VIPREPCRELLER gets an ad discount when they get the deal, too! they'll also get access to my entire service starts in the deal starts in 7 days, and I'll get my FREE PROMOTIONAL PRACTICING FREE, AND FREE PRACTICAL SUPPORTING THE PODCRIBERRYER WEEKLY AND VIP REVIEW AND PATREON AND VIPREZZER gets a FREE PRIVATE PRACTICE TO CHECK OUT THE PROOF AND PRIVACY AND PRIBER WITH VIPREPRURIER gets $10 OFF THE FIRST MONTH TO VIPRELLOR?
00:00:00.000In the latest evidence, the media have lost their minds over the election of President Trump.
00:00:04.000Outlets all over the country went nuts over Trump's senior advisor Kellyanne Conway putting her feet on a couch in the Oval Office while taking a photo of Trump with top officers at historically black colleges.
00:01:13.000Of course, Chilesa then goes on to get one thing wrong.
00:01:15.000He equates Conway's conduct with that of President Clinton in the Oval Office, which neglects a few facts.
00:01:19.000First, Kellyanne Conway is not the president.
00:01:22.000Second, Bill Clinton's intern performed oral sex on him in the Oval Office.
00:01:26.000Kellyanne Conway kneeling on a couch isn't quite the same thing as Monica Lewinsky kneeling under the desk.
00:01:30.000Or having sex on top of the Oval Office desk with Clinton, as Secret Service members reported.
00:01:35.000As for the generalized outrage over feet on the furniture in the Oval Office, President Obama routinely put his feet on the resolute desk, a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1890, but so did George W. Bush and Gerald Ford.
00:01:47.000In other words, everybody needs to calm down.
00:01:49.000If the biggest problem the media have with Kellyanne Conway is where she puts her feet in the Oval Office, they are just awful at their jobs.
00:03:44.000Obviously are overreaching right now and the biggest advantage that Donald Trump has in the political debate is clearly the insanity of the media because he goes out there and he bashes the media and everybody who is on the right side of the aisle implicitly loves this.
00:03:58.000We all love this because the media have it coming for 20 years, 20 long years, 30 years.
00:04:02.000I mean going all the way back to Ronald Reagan.
00:04:05.000Going back to Nixon, the media have been far to the left and they have unfairly targeted Republicans.
00:04:10.000Some targeting is fair, some is not, but the fact that Trump is striking back at the media, it works well for him.
00:04:16.000It works particularly well for him when the media continue to overreach and make themselves look insane.
00:04:20.000The left and the media have decided the only way the left is going to regain power is simply by attacking Trump, attacking Trump, attacking Trump.
00:04:28.000Because they think that they're going to do to Trump what they did to George W. Bush.
00:04:31.000They think that if they can just polarize Bush enough to get Nancy Pelosi and Obama in, they can polarize Trump enough to get Cory Booker or Elizabeth Warren in in four years.
00:05:27.000After the Iraq War, he was in the 60s.
00:05:29.000He basically spent most of his first term hovering around 55-56% and then it was only after his re-election when the Iraq war really started to go south before the surge that his approval ratings dumped and tanked for the last time and then there was a recession so he had the double whammy and he ended up in the 20s.
00:05:45.000Right now, Trump isn't involved in any long-standing war.
00:05:49.000You know, Afghanistan is still going on, but that's really not considered his war.
00:05:52.000He hasn't started a war that's going badly and the economy is doing pretty well.
00:05:55.000So long as those two things hold true, attacking Trump isn't going to do a lot for the media, but that's not stopping them.
00:06:00.000They think that if they just attack Trump, attack Trump, that will alleviate their responsibility to not suck at their jobs.
00:06:06.000And if the left keeps attacking Trump, they won't have to run Democrats who aren't insane.
00:06:10.000So, this is what you see from the media.
00:06:11.000So, Mika Brzezinski over at MSNBC, she says that Trump is clearly trying to create a dictatorship.
00:06:18.000Spicer defended the decision to limit the press.
00:06:21.000I think that we have shown an abundance of accessibility.
00:06:24.000We've brought more reporters into this process, and the idea that every time that every single person can't get their question answered or fit in a room, they're excluding people.
00:06:32.000We've actually gone above and beyond with making ourselves, our team, and our briefing room more accessible than probably any prior administration.
00:06:39.000So I think you can take that to the bank.
00:06:43.000So there's a different Spicer that we have for you.
00:07:41.000Are they trying to create a dictatorship?
00:07:42.000If they are, this is the worst dictatorship ever.
00:07:44.000Okay, honestly, like, I think people are right to be afraid of authoritarian presidents, but so far, everybody seems pretty able to criticize him.
00:07:52.000And dictatorships usually don't have Mika Brzezinski on there talking about how dictatorship is being created as a typical matter, and Brzezinski hasn't been banned from the air.
00:07:59.000But again, the media have to overreach because they think that if they destroy Trump,
00:08:03.000Then they are going to destroy the Republican Party.
00:08:04.000What they figure is that the Republican Party has seen a major upswing since 2010, thanks in large part to Barack Obama.
00:08:10.000They're dominant across the country, in localities, in states.
00:08:13.000They're dominant in the federal government.
00:08:15.000But now they've tethered their wagon to Donald Trump.
00:08:17.000So if they burn Donald Trump down, the wagon will burn too.
00:08:19.000So they're going to focus all their fire on Donald Trump.
00:08:21.000Chris Matthews is doing the same thing.
00:08:23.000He says, I don't understand, why would anybody believe Trump after years of... Chris Matthews, he's a saint!
00:08:27.000Get up, come out of the shoe, come in here, I'll wrinkle, don't even know what I'm doing, and then I just talk, I say things, and people watch it sometimes, but it's MSNBC, so not too many people.
00:09:10.000Why would they believe when they know he was wrong about the big thing he ran on for five years?
00:09:14.000Why would they believe he's got some new truth coming out of him?
00:09:17.000Well, the irony is that he has said- Except they hate Obama so much, they love to have him, you know, trashed by saying he's a snook in the country.
00:09:23.000That's right, it's confirmation bias that people believe what they want to believe.
00:09:28.000Are you listening lefties who are watching Chris Matthews over on MSNBC?
00:09:31.000It's confirmation bias, do you understand?
00:09:33.000That's right, you have a bias and everybody confirms the bias.
00:09:34.000Like if I sit here and I say that Donald Trump is the worst thing that ever was and people think it's news, maybe that's because they already thought he was the worst thing that ever was.
00:09:41.000That's confirmation bias, but it doesn't apply to me because I'm on the left.
00:09:58.000There was a poll yesterday from Wall Street Journal NBC News and what it found is that 52% of Americans think the media have gone overboard on Trump.
00:10:22.000Again, the strategy is, if you can polarize about Trump, maybe you take down the entire Republican Party because you figure that Trump is the figurehead for the Republican Party.
00:11:04.000That doesn't mean nobody's listening to cases that are being made in a very scientific, methodical way as to whether there are grounds for impeachment.
00:11:15.000But the fact is, is that many of, we're trying to unite the country.
00:11:20.000Many of the president's supporters are just not ready to accept the fact
00:11:24.000Oh yes, clearly Democrats are ready to unite the country around impeaching Trump.
00:11:37.000This is the same thing, look, Nancy Pelosi only has one speed, and that speed is impeach Bush, impeach Trump, wouldn't have mattered, could have been Rubio, could have been Romney, would have been exactly the same case made by the Democrats.
00:11:47.000Maxine Waters, another one of these radical Democrats from California,
00:11:51.000She says that Trump obviously colluded with Russia to steal the election.
00:11:54.000By the way, this is the same lady who said the LA riots were an LA uprising.
00:11:57.000So when people were burning down storefronts owned by Koreans in South Central Los Angeles, that was an uprising, according to Maxine Waters.
00:12:03.000She also says that Trump colluded with Russia here.
00:12:06.000Just say that my colleagues and the leadership would not like to hear me say the I word, but I say it over and over again, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.
00:12:20.000This president absolutely was in collusion with the Kremlin and Putin in Russia during the campaign.
00:12:43.000But in addition to that, the story that I'm trying to get out is the connection of all of those around him with Russia and with the Kremlin and the fact that they're going for the oil.
00:12:57.000That's why you hear a lot about lifting the sanctions.
00:13:14.000Whenever Maxine Waters appears on a show like this, I'm just waiting for Jerry Springer to pop out and say, we're gonna take a paternity test here on this particular show, Maxine Waters.
00:13:23.000The Democrats have decided that Donald Trump is impeachable, and again, this is part of a broader strategy.
00:13:30.000Now, Chuck Schumer has a bit of a different strategy, and I'll get to Chuck Schumer's strategy in a little bit, but first we have to say thank you to our advertisers over at Birch Gold.
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00:14:32.000The Democrats are turning Trump into the enemy.
00:14:34.000And this has been their strategy, not just with Trump or with Bush, but it's been going back for really the entirety of the time, pretty much the entire 20th century, the Democrats have made this case.
00:14:44.000The case they've made is that Democrats are fighting the enemy, and the enemy are these evil Republicans who want to stand in the way of progress, and they're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, and they're people who don't, they don't agree with the greatness of American government, and they're John Lithgow and Footloose, and they want to stop Kevin Bacon from dancing, and all the rest of it.
00:15:10.000The international communists were the greatest threat to American security.
00:15:14.000And most of the time, Americans looked at the Soviet Union, and they said, right, that's a bigger threat than the Republicans.
00:15:19.000And that's why you end up with President Eisenhower, and President Nixon, and President Reagan, because Americans generally believed the Republicans when they said, your enemy is the Russians, your enemy is the Soviets.
00:15:30.000They didn't believe Democrats as much when the Democrats said, your enemy is the Republicans.
00:17:21.000The media are, you know, in the public view, the media are not our friends, right?
00:17:25.000They are also our enemies in many ways, and this is why the media publicity, their sort of approval ratings are very low, actually much lower than President Trump's.
00:17:34.000Donald Trump says your enemies are the Democrats.
00:17:35.000The Democrats' approval ratings right now are far below those of President Trump.
00:17:51.000You said you personally get along with him.
00:17:53.000You guys were going at each other for three or four, maybe eight years.
00:17:57.000It turns out his organization seems to be doing a lot of the organizing to some of the protests that a lot of these Republicans are seeing around the country and against you.
00:18:06.000Do you believe President Obama is behind it?
00:18:08.000And if he is, is that a violation of the so-called unsaid president's code?
00:19:00.000These are enemies that most Americans are pretty much okay with.
00:19:02.000Americans are okay with Mexico, actually.
00:19:04.000Americans, I think we have a 62% approval rating of Mexico, but on China, Americans aren't real fond of China.
00:19:10.000In other words, Trump has his own series of enemies, and by attacking those enemies, he makes himself more popular.
00:19:14.000If Democrats keep attacking Trump, there's no guarantee that makes them more popular, or that it makes Trump any less popular, because Trump is a known quantity.
00:19:21.000The electorate is already so polarized.
00:19:23.000In an area where the electorate's not polarized, attacking Bush
00:19:27.000Works when Bush had a 40% approval rating from Democrats going in and that goes down to zero.
00:19:31.000But what happens when Trump's at 45% and his approval rating among Democrats is 3?
00:19:38.000There's no way to actually move that crowd.
00:19:40.000So I'm not sure that the actual best strategy for Democrats is attacking Trump as easy a target as he seems to be, and that's one of the secret strengths of Donald Trump.
00:19:47.000Meanwhile, the paranoid style of politics that Trump engages in, the sort of everybody is my enemy routine, there's something to that in that if everybody is your enemy, there's very likely to be crossover with the American public on their enemies.
00:19:59.000If you have lots of enemies, good shot that you and Donald Trump have some enemies in common, whether you're on the right or the left.
00:20:03.000If you're on the left, then you also believe that the globalists, right, the globalists are in charge of the world economy.
00:20:10.000Some of your enemies are Donald Trump's enemies.
00:20:12.000If you're on the right, Donald Trump attacking the bureaucracy.