The Ben Shapiro Show - November 23, 2015


Ep. 29 - Why Obama Doesn't Want You To 'Overreact' to Islamic Terror

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It's Monday, and of course, President Obama continues to whine about overreactions by the West to radical Islamic terror, and now we have a whole narrative about how Republicans are deeply Islamophobic, and the chief offender is Donald Trump. We will also talk about President Obama's quest to keep us from overreacting to the threat of radical Islamic terrorism, and why that's not going to work. It's Monday and it's Monday! We'll talk about that, and we'll also discuss President Obama and his quest to make us overreactive to radical Islam, and how it's not even close to working in the short term. It's going to take a lot more than that to defeat radical Islamic terrorists, and that's what we're all going to have to do, right? Ben Shapiro is the host of the Daily Wire's "Your Day Off" podcast, and he's also a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, and other media outlets. He's a frequent contributor to The Weekly Standard and The Daily Caller. He's also the author of the book "Stop the Islamophobe" and "Stop Islamophobia: A Guide to Islamophobia in America." He can be found on all of the social medias, if you search for him online, and you'll find him. If you don't know who he is, then you'll know who you're listening to The Ben Shapiro Show. The Daily Wire is a must-listen to. You won't want to miss this one. - it's the best show on all things Islamophobic in America's favorite pastime. Enjoy! - Ben Shapiro's new book, "The Devil's Guide to Muslims and Islamophobia. Subscribe to his new novel, "Mizzou" is out now! The Dark Side of America's Most Influenced by the Dark Side Of Islamophobia, by Ben Shapiro, wherever he's on it's on the internet. Also, check out his newest novel "The Dark Side is the Best of Islamophobia and Islamicism, by clicking here. and you can get a copy of his book on Amazon Prime Video, wherever else he's listening to it, too! Subscribe on Audible or wherever else you get your own copy of The Daily Mail, or watch him on the airwaves, listen to him on Vimeo, and subscribe to his podcast, too, you won't be disappointed.

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00:00:00.000 So here we are.
00:00:00.000 We're back.
00:00:01.000 It's Monday.
00:00:02.000 I did survive Mizzou, clearly.
00:00:03.000 We'll talk about that.
00:00:04.000 We will also talk about President Obama and his quest to keep us from overreacting to the threat of radical Islamic terror. 0.98
00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:11.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:19.000 Alright, so here we are, it is Monday, and of course, President Obama continues to whine about overreactions by the West to radical Islamic terror.
00:00:28.000 And now we have this whole narrative about how Republicans are deeply Islamophobic.
00:00:32.000 We're all Islamophobic. 0.67
00:00:34.000 And of course, the chief offender is Donald Trump.
00:00:36.000 Last Friday, if you weren't around,
00:00:39.000 Donald Trump was asked by a reporter at NBC if he supported the idea of a Muslim registry or a Muslim database for people living inside the United States.
00:00:48.000 He apparently thought that they were talking about new people entering the United States.
00:00:51.000 Of course, we do have such databases.
00:00:53.000 They're called visa systems.
00:00:55.000 And he said, yeah, we should have such a database.
00:00:56.000 And everybody took it like he wanted to make Muslims wear crescents in the streets and such.
00:01:01.000 There was no evidence that he actually wanted to do any of this, but Trump didn't openly repudiate this, even though it wasn't his idea in the first place.
00:01:08.000 And so obviously he's an Islamophobe.
00:01:10.000 And this is the routine that the Democrats are now going to play.
00:01:14.000 The Democrats play this routine where they suggest that ISIS is basically weak, that it's on the edge, that we can destroy ISIS.
00:01:21.000 So what are you so worried about with all this Islamic stuff? 1.00
00:01:24.000 It really is just that you're a bunch of goobers. 1.00
00:01:26.000 You're really just a bunch of backward idiots from the sticks. 1.00
00:01:30.000 John Kerry, the Secretary of State, he's most famous for having a face that looks like lurch and an IQ that rivals some of the more upper echelon vegetables. 1.00
00:01:47.000 John Kerry, he said that ISIS will be defeated.
00:01:50.000 This comes shortly after last week's
00:01:52.000 John Kerry, the administration, they've realized that this is bad rhetoric.
00:01:54.000 So now they're saying ISIS will definitely be defeated.
00:01:55.000 Here is John Kerry, the Secretary of State.
00:02:10.000 I believe ISIS is going to be defeated.
00:02:12.000 ISIS is not 10 feet tall.
00:02:14.000 I have absolute confidence that as we increase what we are doing today, as there is more focus.
00:02:21.000 I'm just in Abu Dhabi now.
00:02:22.000 We've just had serious meetings here.
00:02:24.000 I'm about to meet with the Saudi Arabians.
00:02:28.000 There is a very clear focus by everybody.
00:02:33.000 There is a united front, and I am absolutely convinced that Daesh will be defeated, and there will be increased steps taken in order to do so.
00:02:43.000 Okay.
00:02:44.000 So John Kerry, first of all, just a quick note about John Kerry as a human.
00:02:48.000 Less and less of his face moves every time you see him.
00:02:51.000 It is actually incredible.
00:02:52.000 He started off looking more like Larch.
00:02:55.000 Now he actually just looks like the Easter Island heads.
00:02:58.000 He's just, he's got this stone face and for those who aren't watching his mouth moves and even less of his mouth moves every time so eventually he'll just be reduced to guttural grunt that emanate from his chest and throat.
00:03:09.000 But another note worth making here, when he says Daesh, he's talking about Daesh, okay?
00:03:14.000 Daesh is the is the Arabic name for ISIS. 0.98
00:03:16.000 What's so stupid about this is that he's saying Daesh supposedly so Muslims know what he's talking about. 0.98
00:03:22.000 He's speaking in English. 1.00
00:03:24.000 Right, so he drops an Arabic word in the middle of an English sentence, and suddenly this is supposed to make the Muslim population all over the Middle East understand him, because he's a very stupid man. 1.00
00:03:32.000 So he says, we're going to defeat them. 1.00
00:03:34.000 They're not 10 feet tall.
00:03:35.000 We can beat them.
00:03:36.000 This, of course, is a far cry from last week when President Obama said, we're overreacting.
00:03:39.000 It might take a little while to beat them. 0.74
00:03:41.000 Eventually, we'll destroy them, but it's not going to be done overnight. 0.92
00:03:45.000 So John Kerry is saying that.
00:03:46.000 President Obama is saying the same thing.
00:03:48.000 President Obama says, don't worry folks, ISIS will be destroyed.
00:03:51.000 And I love the passive language there.
00:03:53.000 It's not we will destroy ISIS.
00:03:55.000 It's ISIS will be destroyed, right?
00:03:57.000 It'll just magically, by happenstance, an asteroid will come from outer space, and it'll hit ISIS, and it'll miss the rest of Earth, and it'll totally take them out, but do no damage anywhere else. 0.93
00:04:05.000 Here's President Obama talking about how ISIS will be destroyed.
00:04:09.000 He gets out his soothsayer outfit and his crystal ball,
00:04:12.000 And then he proceeds to gaze into it like a swami.
00:04:15.000 Here is President Obama.
00:04:18.000 Destroying ISIL is not only a realistic goal, we're going to get it done and we're going to pursue it with every aspect of American power and with all the coalition partners that we've assembled.
00:04:32.000 It's going to get done.
00:04:34.000 It's gonna get done with all the coalition partners.
00:04:36.000 He's already ruled out heavy use of ground troops, of course, even though his own people say without ground troops nothing happens against ISIS.
00:04:43.000 Dianne Feinstein, who's an ally of President Obama's, senator from California, even she says our approach is insufficient.
00:04:49.000 Jimmy Carter!
00:04:51.000 Okay, Jimmy Carter came out and said President Obama had acted too late on ISIS.
00:04:55.000 When you're condemned as a pacifist by Jimmy Carter, you may have gone a little bit far in one direction.
00:05:00.000 Here's Dianne Feinstein, the senator from California, saying that our approach is insufficient with regard to ISIS.
00:05:06.000 I don't think the approach is sufficient to the job.
00:05:10.000 I think there are general principles, and there are general principles in terms of the administration strategy, too.
00:05:17.000 But I'm concerned that we don't have the time, and we don't have years.
00:05:23.000 We need to be aggressive now, because ISIL is a quasi-state.
00:05:29.000 ISIL has 30,000 fighters.
00:05:32.000 It's got a civil infrastructure.
00:05:34.000 It's got funding.
00:05:38.000 It's spreading in other countries.
00:05:40.000 And it's a big, big problem.
00:05:43.000 And now what you see, I think, in other places is a competition developing from other terrorist organizations.
00:05:53.000 But ISIL is something apart.
00:05:55.000 It's enormously strong, and it has to be dealt with.
00:05:59.000 Okay, so this is amazing.
00:06:02.000 Dianne Feinstein is on President Obama's side of the caucus.
00:06:05.000 She's a hardcore Democrat. 1.00
00:06:06.000 And here she is saying President Obama is too weak on ISIS.
00:06:10.000 When she says they have 30,000 fighters, you know how many fighters ISIS started off with?
00:06:13.000 How many fighters did they enter Iraq with ISIS?
00:06:15.000 Any ideas?
00:06:16.000 Any guesses?
00:06:17.000 How many fighters did they have?
00:06:18.000 They had 5,000 fighters when they entered Iraq in the first place, which is like one section of Dodger Stadium, right?
00:06:23.000 It's not even like half of Dodger Stadium or one of the decks.
00:06:26.000 It's like one section of Dodger Stadium is like 5,000 people.
00:06:28.000 So with that many people, they took over like half of Iraq. 0.99
00:06:32.000 Now they have 30,000, so they've multiplied times six.
00:06:35.000 They've multiplied 300% since all of this happened, or rather 500%, right? 600%.
00:06:42.000 Since all of this happened.
00:06:44.000 And the President of the United States, here's what President Obama says.
00:06:47.000 This is the fantasy land in which President Obama now lives.
00:06:50.000 There are people like Jimmy Carter and Dianne Feinstein saying that President Obama is too weak on ISIS.
00:06:56.000 And here's Obama's response.
00:06:57.000 He was speaking in Kuala Lumpur, which is in Malaysia.
00:07:01.000 And he said, we do not succumb to fear.
00:07:04.000 The most powerful tool we have to fight ISIL is to say that we're not afraid, to not elevate them, to somehow buy into their fantasy that they're doing something important.
00:07:12.000 He said, there are a bunch of killers with good social media, right?
00:07:16.000 And he said that they can't beat us on the battlefield, so they try to terrorize us into being afraid.
00:07:20.000 He says, I think it's absolutely vital for every country, every leader to send a signal, the viciousness of a handful of killers does not stop the world from doing vital business.
00:07:28.000 What was the vital business he was talking about?
00:07:30.000 He was talking about meeting about climate change in Paris.
00:07:33.000 So clearly what's going to defeat ISIS is if we get together and we talk about climate change in Paris.
00:07:39.000 So here he is saying it's really not a big threat at all.
00:07:41.000 Now, you wonder why it is that the President of the United States has to minimize the threat.
00:07:45.000 Why exactly does the President of the United States have to minimize the threat?
00:07:48.000 And all of his allies minimize the threat as well.
00:07:51.000 Eleanor Clift, who writes for Time Magazine, Eleanor Clift, she was minimizing it on the Sunday shows. 0.99
00:07:56.000 She says, we really shouldn't take ISIS that seriously.
00:07:58.000 After all, our real biggest foe isn't ISIS.
00:08:01.000 Our biggest foe is, you guessed it, climate change.
00:08:04.000 Here's Eleanor Clift. 0.90
00:08:06.000 Well, he's basically saying that the drought in Syria contributed to some of the rebellions there.
00:08:15.000 But I think his larger point is that the existential threat we face is not from terrorism, it's from climate change.
00:08:21.000 And he's right about that.
00:08:23.000 Okay, so this is the insane idea, right?
00:08:25.000 The insane idea is that terror is nothing to be feared.
00:08:27.000 First of all, when President Obama says our best weapon against ISIS is not fearing them, okay, this is like when, and then people on the left, they say, yeah, no, it's totally true.
00:08:36.000 It's like when FDR said that we have nothing to fear but fear itself.
00:08:39.000 Well, it turned out we also had to fear the arsenal of the Germans and the Japanese. 0.97
00:08:43.000 It turned out there were a few other things that we had to fear in the world.
00:08:45.000 It turns out our best tool against ISIL is not our capacity to light candles and stand in city streets,
00:08:52.000 Or go to rock concerts?
00:08:54.000 I honestly think George W. Bush did a real disservice after 9-11.
00:08:58.000 When people said, what can we do?
00:09:00.000 And President Bush said, all you have to do is just go about your daily lives.
00:09:03.000 The biggest thing you can do to say no to the terrorists is to go about your daily lives.
00:09:08.000 That was a mistake.
00:09:08.000 He should have said, OK, here are the sacrifices that we can make, because we were all itching to do it.
00:09:12.000 Here are the sacrifices that we can make in order to fight ISIS.
00:09:15.000 Right?
00:09:15.000 We're going to have to ramp up our military infrastructure.
00:09:18.000 So if we have to raise taxes to do that, then we're going to do that.
00:09:21.000 Or we're going to have to do X, Y, and Z.
00:09:25.000 to civil liberties in order to make this happen.
00:09:26.000 Make the case for what we have to do.
00:09:28.000 Instead, I think the reason Americans turned against the Bush administration is because they told us we didn't have to sacrifice anything, and it wasn't true.
00:09:35.000 Because, in the end, we did have to make certain sacrifices.
00:09:37.000 We did have to blow up the deficit. 1.00
00:09:39.000 We did have to allow these morons from Homeland Security to ransack our crap at the airport. 0.99
00:09:45.000 Which is useless, but President Obama, you know, he does sort of the same thing here, which is it's not a big threat. 0.99
00:09:51.000 And so the question is why they do this.
00:09:53.000 Why are they talking about climate change?
00:09:55.000 Why try to minimize the threat of ISIS?
00:09:57.000 Why try to minimize the threat of radical Islam? 1.00
00:09:59.000 And the answer is because, as I've said multiple times on the program already, when it comes to the left, their chief goal in politics is to ensure that you, the American people, we all think the biggest threat to the West is not ISIS, it's not China, it's not Russia, it's not anything foreign, it's the American right.
00:10:17.000 The American right is the biggest threat to America.
00:10:19.000 The American right is what can destroy America from within. 0.97
00:10:22.000 And so this is why you see Chuck Todd over on NBC, and he says that the GOP is the big threat to America because of their Islamophobia.
00:10:29.000 You know, only in a crazy world would you think that in the weeks after 129 people were murdered in Paris, and a bunch of people were murdered in Mali, and a bunch of people were murdered in Israel, have been murdered in Israel for weeks and weeks at a time, including three American citizens in the last five weeks, that the real threat to America is Islamophobia, is our great fear of Islam. 0.71
00:10:49.000 Here is Chuck Todd making exactly that case.
00:10:52.000 And while President Obama's response to the Paris attacks was roundly criticized for being a bit tone-deaf and dispassionate, the Republican presidential candidates have been playing on the politics of fear in an extraordinary way.
00:11:06.000 I'm playing on the politics of fear in an extraordinary way.
00:11:09.000 And specifically, he's not the only one saying this.
00:11:11.000 Charles Blow, who is a lying race baiter over at New York Times, and I say that because he once accused the police at his son's university of racially profiling his son. 0.96
00:11:20.000 Only one problem, the police officer turned out to be black. 0.98
00:11:23.000 Charles Blow wrote a column today that was called, Anti-Muslim is Anti-American. 0.99
00:11:27.000 Anti-Muslim is anti-American.
00:11:29.000 First of all, I don't know anyone, anyone, who actually believes that you should be discriminatory against individual westernized Muslims.
00:11:37.000 I think we all agree.
00:11:38.000 Everybody agrees.
00:11:39.000 Individual westernized Muslims, if you're anti those people, that's un-American.
00:11:43.000 I agree.
00:11:44.000 But, if you're anti the sorts of people who are shooting up theaters in Paris, that seems to me quite American.
00:11:49.000 If you are concerned that perhaps Islamic values are in conflict with Western values, that doesn't seem to me to be
00:11:56.000 Un-American?
00:11:57.000 That seems to me to be perfectly pro-American.
00:11:58.000 In fact, it's un-American to suggest that America doesn't have its own discrete set of values that can be in conflict with any other values.
00:12:05.000 Or the idea that America's values mean that we have to let in everybody of every other value system and treat it as though those value systems are equal.
00:12:13.000 That's un-American. 0.81
00:12:14.000 American exceptionalism is based on the idea there's something unique about the United States, there's something unique that the West has to offer for all of us, and that's going to exclude some people.
00:12:23.000 And it's going to exclude some ideologies.
00:12:25.000 That doesn't mean every Muslim has to be excluded.
00:12:27.000 It doesn't mean that we have to make practice of Islam illegal.
00:12:30.000 That would be un-American. 0.89
00:12:31.000 What it does mean is that there are certain things about radical Islam and certain aspects of radical Islam, which doesn't just mean terrorists.
00:12:40.000 That means an ideology that are profoundly un-American.
00:12:45.000 The basic idea of equality between the sexes, if Islam is in conflict with that, that's un-American. 0.80
00:12:50.000 I think even secularists would agree with me.
00:12:53.000 There are certain things about radical Islam that are not in consonance with basic American values, and that's okay. 1.00
00:13:01.000 That just means that you shouldn't be here.
00:13:03.000 I mean, the fact is that there are certain American values that come first, and there are people of every religion who can embrace these universal values.
00:13:09.000 You can fit your lifestyle and your religion within this broad rubric of American values, but if you can't,
00:13:15.000 If your religion doesn't allow you to do that, it's not Islamophobic to say, maybe your religion doesn't allow you to do that, if your religion doesn't allow you to do that.
00:13:22.000 And not all forms of Islam are created equal. 0.97
00:13:24.000 Not all Muslims are created equal. 1.00
00:13:26.000 What seems weird to me is that the left's insistence that all Muslims are the same, all forms of Islam are the same, all forms of religion are the same, all forms of ideology and philosophy are the same, that means that nothing has any meaning.
00:13:38.000 Nothing has any meaning, which is of course what the left truly believes.
00:13:40.000 They're nihilists.
00:13:42.000 And they believe the only thing that has meaning are the material circumstances in which you find yourself.
00:13:47.000 And President Obama is playing the same game.
00:13:49.000 He has to make it that the right in America is the true threat to America.
00:13:52.000 So President Obama says, we're not at war with Islam.
00:13:55.000 We're at war with the people who are at war with Islam. 1.00
00:13:57.000 Namely, we're at war with the Republicans, right?
00:13:59.000 Here's President Obama on this.
00:14:01.000 Their assertion, which is absolutely false,
00:14:05.000 That we must absolutely reject that we are somehow at war with an entire religion.
00:14:12.000 The United States could never be at war with any religion because America is made up of multiple religions. 1.00
00:14:18.000 That is the stupidest argument you could possibly make. 1.00
00:14:21.000 I mean, truly, in the pantheon of arguments, this is a whopper of stupidity. 1.00
00:14:24.000 I mean, for him to say we could never be at war with any religion, really? 1.00
00:14:27.000 Could we never be at war with any religion?
00:14:29.000 Because we sort of were with regard to, for example, Shintoism.
00:14:33.000 I mean, during World War II, the religion of Shinto declared the emperor the god.
00:14:38.000 He was the god-king, right, of Japan. 0.68
00:14:40.000 And we went to war with Shintoism. 0.96
00:14:42.000 Not only did we go to war with Shintoism, when we went to war with Shintoism, we disestablished the emperor. 0.73
00:14:46.000 When we came into Japan, MacArthur forced the emperor to get on the radio and disavow his presence as a god on Earth.
00:14:53.000 We have done this before.
00:14:55.000 Okay, the idea that we're never at war with religion?
00:14:58.000 It depends what the religion is and what the religion does.
00:15:00.000 And that's not to say we should be at war with all of Islam, but we are certainly at war with a great bulk of Muslims who believe in a version of Islam that is completely incompatible with Western values. 0.99
00:15:11.000 If you're not willing to even draw a distinction between certain philosophies, how do you expect to defend those philosophies?
00:15:16.000 And that, of course, is the point.
00:15:17.000 That, of course, is the point.
00:15:18.000 They don't want to defend these philosophies.
00:15:20.000 They don't want to defend these values.
00:15:22.000 They want to pretend that our values and our philosophies don't exist.
00:15:25.000 In fact, what they really want to just boil down Americanism to is we tolerate anything.
00:15:30.000 Anything except the right, of course, or Christianity. 1.00
00:15:33.000 Pretty much anything except for original values in the United States, the left is fine with.
00:15:37.000 Joe Biden said, what we really can't do here, what we have to be careful of, is that we can't undermine our values of openness and tolerance.
00:15:44.000 Here is Joe Biden, the vice president of the United States, sounding the same note that you've heard now from Barack Obama and John Kerry and the rest of the administration.
00:15:52.000 And the only thing ISIL can do
00:15:55.000 We're good.
00:16:15.000 By prioritizing our security, as we've been doing.
00:16:18.000 Refusing to compromise our fundamental American values.
00:16:23.000 Freedom.
00:16:24.000 Openness.
00:16:24.000 Tolerance.
00:16:26.000 That's who we are.
00:16:27.000 That's how we win.
00:16:30.000 Okay, the idea that we win by letting in vast swathes of Syrian refugees, which is what he's talking about here, without vetting them, that this is how we win, that what really pisses off ISIS, what means that ISIS will in the end be defeated, is if we're open and tolerant.
00:16:45.000 Even he doesn't believe this.
00:16:46.000 Okay, even he doesn't believe this.
00:16:48.000 The left doesn't believe this.
00:16:49.000 The left likes to preach about openness and tolerance, but the truth is, when you want to talk about people who are against American values, who are truly un-American, if you want to talk about people who are truly un-American, you have to look at the left.
00:17:02.000 As you know, folks, I spent last week flying to Mizzou.
00:17:04.000 That's why we didn't have a Thursday podcast, is because I was flying to University of Missouri to do a pretty well-received speech there.
00:17:11.000 There were 52,000 people watching it live.
00:17:12.000 It has nearly half a million views as of the time of this broadcast.
00:17:17.000 And I have to say that what I was fighting there were un-American values.
00:17:22.000 These are un-American values.
00:17:23.000 And they're in the news today, these un-American values.
00:17:26.000 There are a couple that I want to point out because these are the real values of America that Joe Biden is supposedly talking about.
00:17:33.000 When he says we can't compromise our openness and our tolerance, I don't know what he's saying.
00:17:36.000 No one wants to make Islam illegal.
00:17:39.000 No one is talking about throwing every Muslim out of the country.
00:17:41.000 Even Donald Trump wasn't talking about registering every domestic Muslim on the basis of religion.
00:17:46.000 But what he's really saying is openness and tolerance means you have to agree with us.
00:17:52.000 Here's what they actually want, okay?
00:17:54.000 And they're convincing young people of this.
00:17:56.000 If you truly want to worry about what, you know, first of all, I don't agree with this basic logic of we have to do whatever ISIS wouldn't want us to do, right?
00:18:04.000 ISIS, we're supposed to dictate our own action by trying to avoid what ISIS wants. 0.84
00:18:08.000 ISIS wants a lot of stuff.
00:18:10.000 Right, but one thing I can guarantee you ISIS doesn't want us to do is beat the living hell out of them and also prevent them from establishing enclaves in the West so that they can recruit people.
00:18:18.000 Because without Muslim enclaves in the West, they couldn't have done what they did in Paris, for example. 0.99
00:18:21.000 These people were hiding in a Muslim enclave in Paris.
00:18:24.000 Okay, the truth is that no one is calling for Muslims to be banned from Western civilization, but the idea that ISIS, what they desperately want is for Muslims to be banned from Western civilization is so nonsensical.
00:18:35.000 But to get back to Mizzou,
00:18:37.000 There are a couple of things that the folks on these campuses are really pushing for, and they truly are un-American.
00:18:43.000 One of them is something that Hillary Clinton pushed today. 0.98
00:18:45.000 So Hillary Clinton tweeted this out.
00:18:47.000 She tweeted out, quote, Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.
00:18:53.000 Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.
00:18:57.000 First of all, the utter irony of Hillary Clinton talking about hearing and believing and supporting survivors of sexual assault
00:19:06.000 I mean, that in and of itself, the irony is just stunning, right?
00:19:09.000 I mean, Juanita Broderick, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, Hillary Clinton personally targeted all of these women, right? 0.97
00:19:16.000 Hillary Clinton, we have her on tape laughing about the rape of a 12-year-old girl because she was defending the guy who was accused of the rape, and she laughed about it on tape, right?
00:19:25.000 Hillary Clinton did all of that. 1.00
00:19:27.000 But the point here is actually not that.
00:19:29.000 The point here is, she says, every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be believed.
00:19:33.000 How do I know that you're a survivor of sexual assault without evidence?
00:19:36.000 This is not to rip on people who have been raped, God forbid. 1.00
00:19:39.000 If there's evidence of rape, we should castrate the guy or kill him. 1.00
00:19:42.000 And you should have been able to carry a gun in the first place so you could shoot him. 1.00
00:19:45.000 But... 0.96
00:19:46.000 Two basic principles of American civilization, fundamental Western principles.
00:19:50.000 Innocence under law until there's actual proof, right?
00:19:54.000 In this one, Hillary Clinton is fighting. 1.00
00:19:56.000 There's certain crimes for which the left never has to prove the crime.
00:20:00.000 If they call you a racist without evidence, that's just a crime in and of itself, we should believe you.
00:20:05.000 When it comes to sexual assault, if you just make the accusation, we're supposed to believe you without evidence.
00:20:10.000 Okay, that's actually a fundamentally un-American idea.
00:20:12.000 We're supposed to believe you once you show us the evidence.
00:20:15.000 We're not supposed to just agree that what you say is true and then throw somebody in prison based on hearsay.
00:20:22.000 This is why rape cases are so hard to prosecute. 0.98
00:20:24.000 It's the tragedy of rape cases that they're so hard to prosecute in many cases because it turns into a he-said-she-said scenario sometimes.
00:20:32.000 But by the same standard, it would be a lot worse if anytime anybody accused anybody of anything, there were no evidence, we just tossed you into jail.
00:20:38.000 But Hillary Clinton is actually stumping for that because politically speaking, it is advantageous for her to suggest to women that they are being regularly raped and that there are people ignoring them on the basis of this. 0.99
00:20:49.000 And we know, we know that there have been an increasing number of high-profile fake rapes that have happened across the United States.
00:20:55.000 University of Virginia, there was an accusation by a girl in Rolling Stone front cover story that she had been gang raped at a frat house.
00:21:03.000 No evidence to back it up, didn't matter.
00:21:05.000 There was a massive scandal and it turned out that the frat was basically shut down for a long time.
00:21:11.000 Only later it turned out it was all nonsense. 0.95
00:21:12.000 Mattress Girl over at Columbia University, she was running around saying that she had been raped. 1.00
00:21:16.000 That was nonsense.
00:21:18.000 We know the Duke La Crosse case. 0.95
00:21:19.000 There was a woman claiming that she'd been raped.
00:21:20.000 Crystal Mangum turned out that she was lying.
00:21:23.000 Right?
00:21:23.000 So the point here is that when it comes to the left and un-American, you know, they can talk about undermining American ideals by not being welcoming of Syrian refugees, but the left is creating its own anti-America.
00:21:34.000 And its own anti-America is a place where anything they deem to be a crime, regardless of evidence,
00:21:39.000 is something that has to be punished by the authorities, which is the nature of fascism.
00:21:43.000 When there's no evidence that needs to be presented, that's the nature of fascism.
00:21:46.000 And you want to talk about more about the nature of fascism, listen to this poll.
00:21:50.000 This is a poll that came out from Pew Research today.
00:21:52.000 This is an amazing poll.
00:21:53.000 Okay?
00:21:54.000 Here's the poll.
00:21:57.000 40% of millennials okay with limiting speech offensive to minorities.
00:22:01.000 40% of people in the United States aged 18 to 34.
00:22:05.000 40% think government should be able to prevent people from saying things that are offensive to minority groups.
00:22:11.000 In other words, you should be prosecuted or you should be sued for saying things that are offensive to minority groups.
00:22:18.000 24% of baby boomers believe this.
00:22:20.000 12% of members of the so-called silent generation, those people 70 to 87, believe this.
00:22:26.000 35% of Democrats, 35%, right, more than one in three Democrats believe the government should prosecute you if you make statements offensive to minorities.
00:22:34.000 And this also breaks down along racial lines.
00:22:36.000 For non-whites in America, nearly 40% say you should be able to prosecute someone for saying something offensive to me.
00:22:44.000 And here's what's amazing about all of this, is that of all those subgroups, millennials win.
00:22:51.000 Ethnic minorities.
00:22:53.000 Men versus women. 0.99
00:22:54.000 When it comes to one subgroup, the highest percentage of whom think it's okay to prosecute folks, it's people 18 to 34.
00:23:00.000 People 18 to 34 think it is fully okay to prosecute people based on what they say.
00:23:05.000 Based on what they say.
00:23:06.000 Is that un-American?
00:23:07.000 That seems to me significantly more un-American than oppressive, than so-called non-openness and non-tolerance that are being preached by Joe Biden.
00:23:19.000 It's a stunning thing.
00:23:20.000 It truly is.
00:23:21.000 And that's how it is at these college campuses now, to the point where, there's an incredible story over at the university, which university is this?
00:23:28.000 It's the University of Ottawa in Canada.
00:23:30.000 University of Ottawa in Canada.
00:23:31.000 Everything that happens in Canada eventually comes here.
00:23:34.000 University of Ottawa in Canada.
00:23:36.000 has now banned yoga classes.
00:23:38.000 They banned yoga classes at University of Ottawa in Canada.
00:23:41.000 Why?
00:23:42.000 According to the UK Independent, yoga has become the latest victim of political correctness on university campuses after a free class was cancelled because of complaints that the lessons were an unacceptable quote-unquote cultural appropriation of a non-Western practice.
00:23:57.000 Jennifer Sharpe is the yoga practitioner.
00:23:59.000 She's been offering free weekly sessions to students.
00:24:01.000 She says she was shocked to receive an abrupt message telling her the classes were suspended.
00:24:05.000 She said, I've been in touch to prepare for the new semester's classes when out of nowhere I received an email telling me there were some issues in terms of a formal complaint.
00:24:14.000 The decision was made by the university's independent student body, the Ottawa Student Federation.
00:24:19.000 They said, while yoga is really a great idea and accessible and great for students, there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice.
00:24:26.000 Yoga has been under a lot of controversy lately due to how it is being practiced and which cultures those practices are being taken from.
00:24:33.000 In other words, it started off in Asian culture and Indian culture, yoga.
00:24:37.000 And therefore, people in Canada can't practice yoga.
00:24:39.000 It's cultural appropriation.
00:24:41.000 We will shut you down. 0.95
00:24:42.000 We will shut you down.
00:24:44.000 These seem to me greater assaults on freedom than me saying that we might want to check your background and your philosophy before you come into the country.
00:24:52.000 But again, if you don't believe free speech and innocence until guilt, until proof of guilt, if you don't believe these are Western values, then what do you care who enters the country?
00:25:00.000 What do you care who comes in?
00:25:01.000 What do you care what their values are?
00:25:03.000 By the way, if we're going to talk about cultural appropriation, let me just suggest that if this is the new standard, that anything that is quote-unquote culturally appropriated, that anytime there's cultural appropriation, we have to ban it.
00:25:13.000 So, okay, all you non-white folks out there, all you non-Jewish folks out there, I'd like for you to give up the polio vaccine, computers, your phones, electricity, 1.00
00:25:24.000 Running water, right? 0.95
00:25:25.000 All of these things were created by Europeans or Jews. 1.00
00:25:27.000 So I think that you should probably give up all those things as cultural appropriation.
00:25:31.000 They're very holy to us who actually like Western civilization.
00:25:34.000 And anytime you use them, you are stealing what was rightfully ours and pretending that you're us.
00:25:38.000 So I think that you should really go back to what you were doing before.
00:25:42.000 But this is the standard that the left is creating.
00:25:44.000 The reason is because in the end, the left wants to tear down the fundamental pillars of Western civilization, fundamental pillars including freedom of speech, fundamental pillars including innocence until proof of guilt.
00:25:54.000 And so, if openness and tolerance include people coming in who hate those other values, then openness and tolerance are not American values.
00:26:03.000 Openness and tolerance have their limits.
00:26:05.000 They do.
00:26:06.000 We wouldn't have tolerated Nazism in the United States in the middle of World War II, and we didn't. 0.88
00:26:11.000 We didn't tolerate communism as a general rule during the Cold War in the United States.
00:26:16.000 That's because there were values worth protecting.
00:26:19.000 The Obama administration believes there are no values worth protecting.
00:26:22.000 The only value worth protecting is their stranglehold on power to make a better world.
00:26:26.000 And so that's their goal here.
00:26:27.000 Their goal is to say that radical Islam... Radical Islam doesn't allow them to gain power.
00:26:31.000 Radical Islam takes power away from them by giving power to people who actually believe we have a civilization worth preserving and defending. 0.97
00:26:38.000 They believe there is no civilization worth preserving and defending.
00:26:42.000 There is just a civilization rooted in racism and xenophobia that has to be torn away so that we can have a more equal world.
00:26:49.000 And if you believe that, if you believe that, then why in the world would you be against ISIS?
00:26:53.000 That's ISIS's goal too. 0.99
00:26:55.000 ISIS shares this goal with the left, right?
00:26:57.000 I said last week, ISIS's goal is the left's goal. 0.93
00:26:59.000 Destroy Western civilization.
00:27:01.000 They wanna replace it with something different, but the left wants to destroy Western civilization and rip it out by the root in order so they can create this more equal world for themselves.
00:27:10.000 ISIS wants to take Western civilization, rip it out by the root because they consider it inherently immoral, and that's where they find common cause here. 0.59
00:27:16.000 So the left will misdirect us to climate change, and ISIS will misdirect us to Islamophobia, 0.56
00:27:22.000 And the fact is, there's only one set of values here worth defending, and it's not fighting climate change, and it certainly isn't radical Islam.
00:27:28.000 Okay, I want to conclude with this.
00:27:29.000 I don't know how many of you watch SNL.
00:27:31.000 SNL has just gotten worse and worse in pretty much every way.
00:27:34.000 SNL... People keep saying there was a time when SNL was funny.
00:27:38.000 It must have predated when I was alive, because...
00:27:41.000 As long as I can remember, SNL has been deeply unfunny.
00:27:44.000 And you would figure you have a full week to come up with these sketches, and you always hear how it's so difficult to come up with these sketches.
00:27:49.000 I suppose it is, if you steadfastly avoid any criticism of the left.
00:27:54.000 But I want to show you again how entertainment molds how we think, because SNL is a perfect example of this.
00:28:00.000 Saturday Night Live has become an absolute tool of the left.
00:28:03.000 It has been for years.
00:28:04.000 Going all the way back to Chevy Chase, who, you know, did this routine where he played off Gerald Ford, probably the most athletic president in American history, who's an All-American linebacker for Michigan. 0.99
00:28:13.000 They played him off as a dundering idiot who used to bump into things. 0.98
00:28:15.000 This was the idea of Gerald Ford. 1.00
00:28:17.000 And he may have lost the election because of it.
00:28:19.000 Well, the new SNL parody, they did a parody last night about Ben Carson. 1.00
00:28:23.000 And look how stupid they make Ben Carson look. 1.00
00:28:25.000 Now, think about this. 1.00
00:28:26.000 If they'd done this routine with regard to Barack Obama, trying to make him look this dumb, everybody would have said racist, but it's Ben Carson, so it's all right. 0.93
00:28:34.000 You've said we should carefully screen everyone coming into this country. 1.00
00:28:37.000 Do you have a plan that would separate Muslims from Christian refugees?
00:28:41.000 Well, we did not think Islamists would be simple. 1.00
00:28:44.000 First, we'd say, you can't come into this country until I see you eat bacon while singing a Christmas carol.
00:28:53.000 And first of all, it's a terrible impression.
00:28:54.000 First of all, Steven Crowder does a better impression of Ben Carson than this guy does.
00:28:58.000 It's just an awful impression.
00:28:59.000 But beyond that, the idea is to make it ridiculous, the idea that we can in any way screen people for philosophy or ideology.
00:29:08.000 I have an idea.
00:29:09.000 You don't get to study.
00:29:10.000 You come in and we give you a basic philosophical test.
00:29:13.000 We give you a basic philosophical test.
00:29:15.000 Things like, should the government execute or jail people for homosexuality?
00:29:20.000 We start with that one.
00:29:21.000 And then we move on to things like, should women be able to drive? 1.00
00:29:25.000 Right, we just test you right off the boat, fresh off the boat, we test you with this.
00:29:28.000 And if you fail this test, if you don't get a- and it's not- this is not a 90% test, this is a 100% test, right?
00:29:32.000 It's all very simple questions, and if you get any of the answers wrong, you don't get to come.
00:29:37.000 Because you don't share our ideology.
00:29:39.000 Right?
00:29:39.000 And you don't share a philosophy.
00:29:41.000 Wouldn't that be a good place to start?
00:29:43.000 Wouldn't that be a good place to start?
00:29:45.000 But this is, but of course not.
00:29:46.000 We have to make fun of all these folks.
00:29:48.000 And then what I thought was even worse about SNL, they did this Adele parody.
00:29:53.000 And as I've said last week, I think that Adele is wildly overrated.
00:29:56.000 I think Skyfall is a good song.
00:29:58.000 I think that she is famous because she is fat and she sings very close to the microphone. 0.83
00:30:02.000 And the way that it works in the pop world now is that you can be an iconic lady star if you're not too hot. 0.85
00:30:08.000 Beyonce gets away with it because she's a feminist, because she's a stripper feminist. 1.00
00:30:11.000 But Adele is a big icon now because she's slightly overweight. 1.00
00:30:15.000 I mean, she's not massive or anything.
00:30:16.000 She's slightly overweight. 0.98
00:30:18.000 And also because she sings incredibly close to the microphone and breathes heavily into it. 0.71
00:30:23.000 So you can hear every flaw in her voice, which for some reason is supposed to be cool or sexy or something.
00:30:27.000 As opposed to actually being a skilled singer with training, which would actually take skill and training.
00:30:32.000 Anyway, they did this parody with Adele. 0.74
00:30:34.000 And the important thing about this parody is not the Adele part.
00:30:36.000 It's everything that comes before.
00:30:38.000 Here is Saturday Night Live on Saturday night, obviously.
00:30:43.000 All right, guys.
00:30:44.000 Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
00:30:46.000 Happy Thanksgiving!
00:30:48.000 I am so thankful to have you all here today.
00:30:50.000 I am thankful that I only burned the turkey a little bit.
00:30:54.000 I'm sorry, gang.
00:30:55.000 You know, I am thankful that our governor is not going to let those refugees in here. 1.00
00:31:01.000 Oh, my.
00:31:02.000 You know, I heard the refugees are all ISIS in disguise. 1.00
00:31:08.000 Oh, yeah.
00:31:09.000 That's true.
00:31:10.000 I actually saw an ISIS in the A&P today when I was picking up the yams.
00:31:14.000 No, you didn't, Aunt Kathy.
00:31:15.000 That was an Asian woman. 1.00
00:31:17.000 You know what?
00:31:20.000 I have a question for you.
00:31:22.000 Why is it that your friends keep antagonizing the police?
00:31:26.000 Why would you ask my boyfriend that?
00:31:29.000 Hello?
00:31:46.000 Okay, so the deal is then they all start singing hello, right?
00:31:49.000 And this unifies them because they all love Adele, right?
00:31:52.000 So they all love Adele.
00:31:53.000 But the part before is the part I want to talk about, right?
00:31:55.000 Because the idea is, the whole thing is, oh, they're having this big fight over Thanksgiving.
00:32:00.000 Notice the depiction of the people who are supposed to be right-wing here versus the depiction of the people who are supposed to be left-wing here.
00:32:06.000 It's a relatively subtle thing, because you're just waiting for them to get to the punchline.
00:32:10.000 But there are internal punchlines there.
00:32:12.000 The internal punchlines are, you know, the guy saying that every member of the Syrian refugee community is ISIS, and then the crazy fat lady in the video saying that she saw ISIS in the grocery aisle, which is supposed to be mockery of anybody who has any fears about terrorism whatsoever.
00:32:28.000 Then you have the tolerant, wonderful liberal there,
00:32:30.000 No, oh my god, they want us to keep the refugees, oh my god. 1.00
00:32:34.000 And the black guy there, who's being victimized by the white woman, who's saying, why are all your people, right? 1.00
00:32:39.000 Everybody who's right-wing in this video is supposed to be a brutal, backward, redneck jackass, right? 1.00
00:32:46.000 And the two leftists, they're a charming interracial couple who just can't believe all this intolerance that's going around. 0.95
00:32:53.000 And then the idea is that Adele civilizes them. 0.65
00:32:55.000 First of all, there's so much wrong ideologically, even with the comedy, because there's supposed to be truth in comedy.
00:33:00.000 It's not funny if it's not true a little bit.
00:33:02.000 There's supposed to be truth in comedy, so the idea that Adele unifies any of us, that we all unify around the culture, is absolute horsepucky.
00:33:08.000 If that's all that's keeping us together as a country, if Adele is all that's keeping us together as a country, we're toast gang.
00:33:14.000 I mean, seriously, we are finished, turn out the lights, goodnight.
00:33:17.000 But again, it's the depiction of right versus left in that Thanksgiving fight.
00:33:22.000 This is how you can tell that all the writers' rooms are stacked with people who are radically left.
00:33:26.000 Because the premise was supposed to be people fighting— I'll bet— This is how it went down in the writers' room.
00:33:31.000 Right?
00:33:31.000 There was one guy, and he's like, okay, we're gonna do a bit on Adele.
00:33:33.000 Because Adele was the guest star.
00:33:34.000 We're gonna do a bit on Adele, and how Adele's a unifying force.
00:33:36.000 Somebody goes, you know what'll be awesome?
00:33:38.000 This is right before Thanksgiving.
00:33:39.000 We'll just have people fighting over food, and fighting about politics, and then Adele will come in, and everybody sings Adele.
00:33:45.000 Right?
00:33:45.000 That was the entire pitch.
00:33:46.000 That was the logline for this particular sketch.
00:33:48.000 But when they sat down to write it, it was actually impossible for them.
00:33:52.000 Philosophically impossible for them.
00:33:54.000 to in any way write a line that shows an actual political controversy from left to right.
00:34:01.000 They couldn't do it. 1.00
00:34:02.000 There could be no depiction as anything on the left being anything but saintly, and anything on the right being anything but absolute stupidity, ridiculousness. 1.00
00:34:10.000 This is how the leftists twist the culture. 0.99
00:34:13.000 And again, it really does come down to this.
00:34:15.000 The comedy, I guess that it is true because it's sad,
00:34:18.000 And that is, maybe this is all we have become now.
00:34:22.000 Maybe all we do have in common is Adele, or football, or the turkey.
00:34:27.000 I know that on my Thanksgiving, when we do Thanksgiving in my family, we have to invite extended family.
00:34:33.000 And when we invite extended family, a lot of them are leftists.
00:34:38.000 And so it always starts off with people, you know, kind of arguing about politics, and then somebody says, okay, let's talk football or sports or something.
00:34:46.000 If that's all that's holding the country together because we don't have any founding values in common, we're done.
00:34:51.000 Which brings us back to, you know, the main message that President Obama and his team are trying to push, which is, that is the only thing we have in common.
00:34:57.000 The only thing we have in common is that we like Adele, and that we watch football, and that we have these cultural touchstones that we share, but
00:35:04.000 Any attempt to discriminate between values is Islamophobia or bigotry.
00:35:09.000 If you believe that, you truly are an American.
00:35:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:35:12.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.