It's a Wednesday morning in America, and President Obama is in the middle of a press conference. He announced that he's accepting 10,000 Syrian Muslim refugees into the United States, and he's using the hashtag . What's the problem with this? Is it because he's a racist? Or is he a coward? Or because he doesn't want to admit Syrian Muslims into the U.S. as part of the Syrian refugee population? Or does he just want to keep them out of the fight against ISIS? And if you don't agree with him, do you side with ISIS? Or do you agree with them? Or are you just scared of what ISIS wants? Ben Shapiro explains why both of these narratives are wildly exaggerated, and why there's no reason to be worried about it at all, and how it's actually not even a big deal at all. He also points out that the real problem is not that people are panicking about it. It's that they're scared of widows and orphans, it's that the White House is worried about something called "widows and widows" and "orphans" coming into America as a result of their fear of something that doesn't seem to be going away. Ben Shapiro's full stack show on President Obama's Syrian Muslim refugee policy and how that's not even close to what ISIS is actually trying to get them in the fight in the first place. The president is a coward, and that's why he's really not worried about them except that they don't even care about them, and they're not even though he says they're just because they're "wanting us to help them. They're just a little bit, they just want us to take them in anyway. That doesn't sound like they're going to be scared of it? and they really don't care about it, do they care about the problem, they're worried about what we're not going to do anything at all? And they just don't have a problem with it, they care more about them? Ben explains why this is a good thing, and it's not a problem at all . the problem is that we should be worried that we're all scared of them, not about them coming into the country, not that they'll be left out of luck, they are going to get left behind, and we'll just be left with orphans? The problem is, they don t care.
00:00:20.000One day, folks, we will all remember where we were the moment that Barack Obama defeated ISIS by accepting 10,000 Syrian Muslim refugees into the United States.
00:01:14.000And then the other strain that we're hearing today is the strain that if you don't do what Barack Obama says, if you don't agree with Barack Obama, then you side with ISIS, right?
00:01:22.000If you ride with the opponents of Barack Obama, you ride with ISIS.
00:01:26.000This is literally what they are trotting out today.
00:01:28.000We've heard this over and over and over.
00:01:30.000This is the new narrative, and it's being repeated everywhere.
00:01:34.000I mean, just to give you a hint, high-ranking Democrats, including Hillary, say that if you call ISIS Muslim, that gives them exactly what they want.
00:01:41.000There's a headline at the Huffington Post today.
00:01:43.000It says, the West is giving ISIS exactly what it wants.
00:01:46.000Salon.com says, quote, the right's bloodlust plays into the terrorists' hands.
00:01:50.000Vox.com says, turning back Syrian refugees isn't just wrong, it's exactly what ISIS wants.
00:01:56.000Sally Cohen at CNN says, y'all realize ISIS wants to provoke a war, right?
00:02:00.000If we go to war, we're doing exactly what the terrorists want.
00:02:07.000If you don't agree with Barack Obama that we ought to basically leave ISIS alone in the Middle East and accept tons of Syrian Muslim refugees into the West, then you side with ISIS.
00:02:15.000Because apparently what ISIS desperately wants, what they desperately want more than anything, is for us to reject the Syrian Muslim refugee population
00:02:23.000They are currently infiltrating, and they really don't want us to avoid bombing them.
00:02:29.000They want us to bomb the living hell out of them.
00:02:30.000These are their two most expressed wishes.
00:02:32.000Okay, so these two competing narratives, and really they're not competing, they're both going out at the same time.
00:02:38.000Right-wingers are racist, right-wingers are panicking, they're overstating the threat of terrorism, and also
00:02:43.000They're doing exactly what ISIS wants, right?
00:02:45.000So their panic is not actually frightening ISIS.
00:02:48.000What they're doing instead is just driving ISIS to greater and greater success.
00:02:52.000And President Obama put out both of these narratives today and yesterday.
00:02:57.000So we'll start off with that first narrative, that this is all just exaggerated.
00:03:15.000These are the same folks oftentimes who suggest that they're so tough that just talking to Putin or staring down ISIL or using some additional rhetoric somehow is going to solve the problems out there.
00:03:27.000But apparently they're scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America as part of our tradition of compassion.
00:03:40.000At first they were worried about the press being too tough on them during debates.
00:03:44.000Now they're worried about three-year-old orphans.
00:04:31.000President Obama has a nasty habit of stepping directly onto the reality rake.
00:04:36.000He says things, and then two hours later, reality just hits him directly in the face.
00:04:40.000So last week, last Thursday, President Obama came out and said ISIS was contained.
00:04:45.00012 hours later, they were shooting up a nightclub in the middle of Paris.
00:04:48.000President Obama this morning says, last night, this morning, Turkey time, the President of the United States says that the Republicans clearly, they fear widows and orphans.
00:05:00.000There is this report out of France that a widow, well a woman, a female suicide bomber just blew herself up.
00:05:07.000Here's what it looked like from France.
00:05:10.000A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up in a standoff between police in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.
00:05:18.000She came close to the apartment police were targeting in a raid, hoping to find 27-year-old Abdelhamid Aboud, the alleged mastermind in Friday's attack.
00:05:28.000Investigators believe the Islamic militant is holed up inside of the apartment.
00:05:32.000Okay, so Obama says that, you know, the Republicans are chicken, they fear widows.
00:05:37.000First of all, Islamic terrorists who are female are known as black widows.
00:06:38.000Okay, first of all, he says we shouldn't be hysterical, we should be able to determine whether these people are threats to the United States.
00:06:50.000If you've been watching what's going on in Israel, there are legitimately women who have kids who are pulling knives out of purses and trying to stab Israeli soldiers.
00:06:57.000If you think this isn't coming to the West, gang, you're wrong.
00:06:59.000Everything that has ever happened to Israel ends up coming to the West sooner or later, and it's typically sooner.
00:07:04.000But again, the idea here is that Republicans, conservatives, they're exaggerating the whole threat, and all this really is, in the end, is just a way for Republicans to overreact.
00:07:24.000There's a column from Paul Krugman in the New York Times.
00:07:27.000Paul Krugman is an absolutely worthless thinker.
00:07:30.000But he's won a Pulitzer Prize, he did so, actually he won a Nobel Prize for Economics, but it had nothing to do with his political commentary, so naturally, the New York Times does what it always does, it takes somebody who's an expert in one field, or a supposed expert in one field, and then dumps them into the political realm.
00:07:44.000So Frank Rich, who used to be their foreign affairs commentator, Frank Rich was their theater commentator.
00:07:49.000And they decided, he's great at reviewing Tony-nominated musicals, clearly he'll know what to do about Russia.
00:07:54.000They do the same thing with Paul Krugman.
00:07:55.000Paul Krugman had a column yesterday called Fearing Fear Itself.
00:07:59.000And it's worth going through because, again, the contention on the left is that we really shouldn't worry too much about this whole terror thing.
00:08:05.000It's just Republicans are overreacting, and they're overreacting to the threat of Syrian Muslim refugees.
00:08:10.000Yesterday, I asked the question on the show, and I reiterate, how many Westerners will the left allow to die because of Syrian Muslim refugees?
00:08:18.000Because if the answer is zero, then you can't let anybody in, right?
00:08:21.000Because the vetting is just not that good.
00:08:22.000We've seen that refugees have bitten terrorists before.
00:08:25.000The Tarnium brothers in Boston got in originally on a refugee visa.
00:08:30.000That's originally how they got into the country.
00:08:32.000We've seen terrorists in the United States get in through student visa, through business visa, through tourist visa.
00:09:02.000But, according to the left, the real reason they don't care that much about this is because they don't think terrorism is that great a threat.
00:09:08.000Now, pause for a moment and take stock of the fact that every time there's a mass shooting in the United States, every single time, there's a call to confiscate 300 million guns from legitimate American gun owners.
00:09:39.000Okay, there is no right, there's no human right.
00:09:41.000In order to have a right to enter the United States, at the very least, you should agree with basic American philosophy, but there's no indicator that any of these folks do.
00:09:50.000But, you put that aside, that, you know, when a black shooter shoots, when a white shooter shoots up a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, we're supposed to have a mass debate over banning Confederate flags, but when a Muslim shoots up a Paris nightclub, we're supposed to have debates over Islamophobia.
00:10:06.000Focus in on the fact that for the pseudo-intellectuals on the left, they're very fond of saying things like, Well, you're more likely to die in a car accident than you are in a terrorist attack.
00:10:15.000You hear this actually on a fairly regular basis.
00:10:17.000You're more likely to die drowning than you are to die in a terrorist attack.
00:10:22.000That doesn't change the fact the government doesn't have an obligation to protect me from drowning.
00:10:25.000It does have an obligation to protect me from terrorist attack, right?
00:10:28.000That's the whole point of government, is to prevent humans hurting other humans.
00:10:32.000But the idea here is that we should worry about the things the left wants us to worry about, and they don't want us to worry about Islamic terror.
00:10:39.000So, Paul Krugman in the New York Times, he says, Like millions of people, I've been obsessively following the news from Paris, putting aside other things to focus on the horror.
00:11:12.000He says, finally, terrorism is just one of the many dangers in the world and shouldn't be allowed to divert our attention from other issues.
00:11:45.000All of this is just a distraction from the real issues, like income inequality.
00:11:49.000And this is what Bernie Sanders tried to do in the Democratic debate.
00:11:51.000He was asked about ISIS, and he immediately swiveled to campaign finance reform.
00:11:55.000For the left, all of this is inconvenient and a distraction from the real issues, because after all, if you rectified global income inequality, you wouldn't have to worry about these Islamic crazy people.
00:12:05.000By the way, if you extend this logic, if you extend the logic of the left, more people die in car accidents than died in X, then we would have had to ignore Pearl Harbor.
00:12:20.000We probably would have had to ignore the Revolutionary War.
00:12:23.000I mean, certainly the Revolutionary War we would have had to ignore, given that very few people died in the run-up to the Revolutionary War before we actually declared war on the British oppressors.
00:12:31.000So, what's amazing about all of this is that there are no principles for the left when it comes to fighting the principles of the right, such as keeping Americans safe.
00:12:40.000And this brings us to the second argument that the left has been using.
00:12:42.000So the first argument is, we're exaggerating, it's not that big of a deal, it's not that big of a threat.
00:12:47.000This ignores, by the way, the fact that even if Syrian Muslim refugees come here and don't become terrorists, if they don't adopt and assimilate into American culture,
00:12:55.000This is not something that's good for the United States, right?
00:12:58.000Mass immigration from various countries, illegal immigration from various countries without assimilation has dramatically increased crime rates in particular communities.
00:13:23.000If you side against President Obama, you're doing what ISIS wants you to do.
00:13:27.000Trevor Noah tried to play this card on Comedy Central, and Trevor Noah is getting more viewers from my podcast than he has gotten live on television ever.
00:13:35.000Um, but here's Trevor Noah, who is just awful at his job, going crazy over Republican comments on refugees.
00:13:41.000Just say something really bat-shit crazy.
00:13:45.000If we displace people who are used to a desert climate, living in the Middle East, speaking a language that is not common to America, and essentially living in a culture and amidst a religion that is not that common here, we really are creating a disruption.
00:14:00.000If we're serious about wanting to protect them, then let's do it in a climate with a language, with a culture, and with a religion they're more comfortable with.
00:14:08.000You know, Mike Huckabee makes a good point.
00:14:10.000Can you imagine if people started coming to America from all over the world, bringing their different languages, cultures, and religions, mixing and changing the culture that's already here until it becomes something totally new?
00:14:25.000But you know what, Mike Huckabee, I understand you.
00:14:28.000As someone whose family has been here for generations, as a... I guess a Native American, you can say, I can see why this idea would frighten you.
00:14:39.000Western culture doesn't matter at all to these people.
00:14:41.000Of course, the point that he's making is asinine, because the truth is, American culture has been changed over time in very negative ways over the last 50 or 60 years, because of an influx of people from other countries who don't have American values.
00:14:53.000It used to be that people came over, they dropped whatever value system they held, or they had left it behind where they were from, and then they bought into the basic American notion of values.
00:15:11.000There are really four particular things that ISIS wants, that conservatives are giving them, according to the left today.
00:15:16.000And this is the common argument that we keep hearing.
00:15:18.000So, number one, we keep hearing from the left that every time, every time Republicans talk about radical Islam, they're giving the terrorists what they want.
00:15:27.000They're giving the terrorists what they want.
00:15:28.000So, we've heard this actually from Hillary Clinton in the last debate, she said this.
00:15:34.000She said that every time you mention radical Islam, you're giving ISIS what they want in life.
00:16:53.000Okay, so the second thing that we do supposedly as conservatives to help ISIS, and this is the newfangled argument they're trotting out today, is we alienate moderate Muslims.
00:17:04.000Because when we use the language of ISIS is radical Islam,
00:17:08.000Then we get ourselves into all sorts of trouble with the people who could be on our side but might shift over to the other side because we alienate them.
00:17:15.000Daniel Morans, who's a reporter for the Huffington Post, I mean this is what the reporters write at the Huffington Post, quote,
00:17:29.000One of the goals of attacks like the one in Paris is to provoke an overreaction that will make some Muslims in the West feel that Islam is inherently irreconcilable with the culture of the countries they live in.
00:17:39.000In other words, ISIS is going to provoke us, and then we'll say that radical Islam is bad, and then we'll take measures against radical Islam, and the innocents will get caught in the center, and then they will turn to ISIS.
00:18:09.000We actually had internment camps for Germans.
00:18:12.000How many Germans went back to the fatherland and fought for Nazi Germany who weren't already going to do that specifically because America was mean to the Germans in the aftermath of the declaration of war by Hitler?
00:18:24.000The idea that people are existing on this kind of knife's edge, and if you just shove them a little bit, if you say things like radical Islam, that they are going to immediately then go join the radical Muslims, this is nuts.
00:18:35.000By the way, it's also worthwhile noting that people who are quote-unquote moderate Muslims, you know, even people who are radical Muslims, who consider themselves moderate Muslims, they'll find a reason not to be part of ISIS so they don't get killed.
00:19:01.000He said, no, I'm fighting for liberty now.
00:19:04.000He didn't turn around and say, oh, well, now that you've used the words fascist and dictator and tyrant, I guess I better resign that Hitler-Stalin pact and we better go back in on the side of the Nazis.
00:19:13.000He didn't do that because it wasn't in his interest.
00:19:20.000And the fact is that if you have an interest in not joining ISIS, you won't join ISIS no matter what I say.
00:19:25.000Third thing that the left keeps saying that we're helping ISIS with.
00:19:28.000Now they're arguing, they're arguing that if we ban Syrian Muslim refugees, that somehow this helps ISIS.
00:19:34.000This is the argument put forward by Ezra Klein's Vox.com.
00:19:38.000The columnist is Zach Beauchamp, and he says, quote, if refugees do make it out, ISIS wants them to be treated badly.
00:19:44.000The more the West treats them with suspicion and fear, the more it supports ISIS's narrative of a West that is hostile to Muslims and bolsters ISIS's efforts to recruit from migrant communities in Europe.
00:19:54.000In other words, if we're mean to Muslims in Europe or in the United States, it makes ISIS's recruitment efforts that much easier.
00:20:05.000Why do I care what ISIS thinks about what the West should do about its own security?
00:20:10.000If it's in my security interest, I don't care what ISIS thinks of that.
00:20:14.000I don't care if ISIS thinks... Let's say that they're a Muslim guy who parked himself on my front porch, and then he proceeded to not move ever, and I went out and I beat him bloody.
00:20:41.000The West is supposed to throw itself at the feet of unvetted Syrian Muslim refugees that may include terrorists and certainly include a lot of people who don't stand for Western values.
00:20:50.000We're supposed to throw ourselves at their feet because ISIS would otherwise use the propaganda to push itself?
00:21:11.000It also gave us the ability to defeat him.
00:21:13.000I'm much more interested in defeating the bad guys than their feelings about whether or not they're going to be defeated or whether it's a propaganda victory for them.
00:21:23.000Also, are we now suggesting that the brilliant geniuses over at ISIS are manipulating events specifically so that there aren't more Muslims in Europe, so that they can't take advantage of Muslim terror cells in Europe?
00:21:37.000So in other words, if there were less Muslims in Europe, would this make ISIS happier or less happy?
00:21:41.000Is there any doubt it would make ISIS much less happy if there were no Muslims in Europe?
00:21:46.000ISIS would be very sad if there were no Muslims in Europe.
00:21:48.000They wouldn't have terror hotbeds from which to recruit.
00:21:50.000They wouldn't have places from which to spring.
00:21:53.000If there were no Muslims in Paris, it would be a lot easier to identify Muslims like the ones that you saw there infiltrating Paris and then killing people.
00:22:00.000So the idea that it helps ISIS to bar more refugees is just, it's nonsense.
00:22:04.000And this is not a case that there shouldn't be any Muslim immigrants at all to the West, but this is a case that the idea that ISIS stands in favor of us banning Muslim immigrants is nonsensical.
00:22:13.000Finally, there's the Sally Cohn point, that we help ISIS if we declare war, right?
00:22:18.000If we go to war against ISIS, that's just what ISIS wants.
00:22:30.000What ISIS wants, what ISIS really wants, she's right, they do want a war.
00:22:33.000What they want is a war with President Obama.
00:22:35.000They want a war with President Obama because President Obama loses wars.
00:22:39.000Really, I mean, it's as simple as that.
00:22:41.000If this were somebody in office, Winston Churchill in office, and Winston Churchill said, the gloves are off, we are now going to bomb you forward into the Stone Age.
00:22:49.000If that were the case, they wouldn't want the war, but they're perfectly happy to have a war because they know Obama won't take the gloves off.
00:22:55.000They want a war because they know that every time Obama opens his fat yap, every single time, they end up winning.
00:23:01.000Now, President Obama made an unbelievable comment yesterday.
00:23:05.000He actually said he couldn't think of a, quote, more potent recruitment tool for ISIS than the GOP.
00:23:11.000He couldn't think of anything more potent for recruiting ISIS members than Republican rhetoric.
00:23:17.000So he's part of this whole, you're helping ISIS routine.
00:23:21.000I can think of a couple things that are more potent recruitment tools for ISIS than saying the words radical Islam and barring Syrian Muslim refugees out of concern that you can't vet them.
00:23:33.000It might be a potent recruitment tool for ISIS if, for example, you said, we will never allow Bashar Assad to use gas on his own citizens without there being significant repercussions.
00:23:41.000In fact, I'll draw a red line right here.
00:23:44.000And then Bashar Assad did that, and then you didn't do anything, and then ISIS came in and said, the West isn't protecting you, join us.
00:23:49.000That might be a good potent recruitment tool for ISIS.
00:23:53.000Another idea for a potent recruitment tool for ISIS.
00:23:56.000Let's say that you had a startup terrorist group, and there were a bunch of American troops just across the border, the most well-trained, well-armed military force on planet Earth.
00:24:20.000Wouldn't that be a pretty good recruitment tool?
00:24:21.000Because now you've beat the Americans and now they've run.
00:24:23.000Wouldn't that be a good recruitment tool?
00:24:25.000Maybe it would be a recruitment tool, a great recruitment tool for ISIS, a Sunni terrorist group.
00:24:30.000For the President of the United States, for example, to tell the Iranians that they can take over half of Iraq and that they can develop a nuclear weapon and use all resources we give to them through loosening their economy to pursue their Shia goals.
00:24:42.000Maybe that's a good way of recruiting to a Sunni terrorist group.
00:24:45.000That might be a potent tool for recruiting people to ISIS.
00:24:48.000So I can think of a few more potent recruitment tools for ISIS than me saying radical Islam and then saying that radical Muslims shouldn't get into the West.
00:24:55.000I can think of a few more potent recruitment tools.
00:24:59.000But none of these arguments make any sense, and this is where we come to the radical disconnect between reality and what's being pushed by the left.
00:25:07.000I said yesterday that the real question for the American voter, and it has been for probably a hundred years at this point, is who do you think is a greater threat to you?
00:25:16.000The American right, or something foreign?
00:25:20.000Now, when the Soviet Union was around, most people thought the Soviet Union was a greater threat, and so they elected people who were hardcore on foreign policy, except for Jimmy Carter, and then they quickly rectified that by electing Ronald Reagan.
00:25:31.000Right now in America, we've gotten so fat and happy that we've forgotten about 9-11, it didn't really happen, it was just something that we watch on TV now and then, and pretend to care, and then we go back to the let's cut the military budget routine, and let's sign Iranian nuclear deals, and let's elect Barack Obama on the basis of he'll give us free crap.
00:25:48.000And so we've bought into the idea that the left is, the right is the real threat to America.
00:25:53.000That's what Obama is saying in that clip, right?
00:25:55.000The right is the real threat to the United States.
00:25:59.000Because the right is even helping ISIS.
00:26:00.000And the right says, no, ISIS is the great threat.
00:26:02.000The American people are going to have to decide which of those two things is true.
00:26:06.000I would recommend, I would recommend that people on the right do something different from now on.
00:26:11.000And that is, they should not just say that ISIS is the greatest threat to the United States or Russia, which you remember Romney said that and Obama laughed it off.
00:27:20.000All you have to do is look at the world around you and realize that reality is going to set in sooner or later.
00:27:26.000The question is how many dead bodies will it take for the left
00:27:29.000And unfortunately, the answer may be an infinite number.
00:27:32.000Because for the left, they'll never let go of their utopias.
00:27:35.000They didn't let go of their utopias when it was the Soviet Union.
00:27:38.000They don't let go of their utopias when it is the American and European left, insisting that a multicultural society without absorption, without assimilation, and without a set of common values will continue to be powerful and not threatened by outside forces.
00:28:24.000He goes after a Democratic governor, a Democratic governor on the same exact issue.
00:28:29.000At some point, reality sets in, folks.
00:28:31.000This Democratic governor is, who is this Delaware governor, Jack Markle, who is saying that he wants to accept Syrian refugees.
00:28:38.000And here is Chris Matthews beating him about the ears.
00:28:42.000Suppose one of the people that come into your state under your support,
00:28:47.000Uh, does go terrorist, does become a recruit, becomes a cell member.
00:28:51.000Would you feel responsible for their actions?
00:28:55.000Well, I mean, I think we would all feel... No, you personally, would you personally be responsible as Chief Executive, having advocated the admission of these Syrian refugees into Delaware, would you personally accept responsibility for their behavior?
00:29:09.000Well, yes, and let's remember, this is a federal program.
00:29:14.000And so all these governors can pretend, can say... But you're advocating it.
00:29:20.000You're coming on TV to say it's a good thing.
00:29:24.000Because, look, these are people who are fleeing persecution.
00:29:27.000And, you know, I know that everybody likes to believe these are all able-bodied, able-minded men who are young and ready for... Who said that?
00:29:34.000I said the ones that aren't should be fighting.
00:29:37.000Yeah, and I'm not saying that you did, and I understand your point.
00:29:49.000And we keep saying here that all the people who are coming across that radical Islam is just a small minority, we really shouldn't worry about it.
00:29:57.000Over in Turkey, President Obama was just in Turkey and he talked about how the wonderful Turkish people are accepting Syrian Muslim refugees.
00:30:03.000And the Syrian people are accepting all of these refugees and it's just wonderful and it's just great.
00:30:07.000Can we grab the video of these Turkish Muslims?
00:30:11.000Mathis, the Turkish Muslims, what happened at the soccer match?