A woman claims a flight attendant hit her with a stroller while trying to take it away from her and nearly hitting her kid. And now, a woman is suing the airline, American Airlines, for negligence. Ben Shapiro explains why this is a terrible thing to do, and why we should all sue the airline industry for this kind of thing. Plus, a guest who thinks that cultural appropriation is a thing. Ben Shapiro is on The Ben Shapiro Show, wherever you get your news and information, and wherever you listen to your favorite podcaster. You won't want to miss it! Subscribe to the show Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. If you like what you hear here, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and also, consider leaving us a five star rating and a review on Apple Podcasts! The average rating on iTunes is 5 stars, and a rating and review helps spread the word about the show. Thank you so much for all the support we've gotten so far. See all the amazing work you've done so far, and we're looking forward to seeing you in 2020. Stay tuned for our next episode next week, when we'll have a new episode featuring our first guest, a comedian who's going to be on the show! Timestamps: 4:00 - What would you like? 5:30 - What's your favorite part of the show? 6:40 - What are you'd like to complain about? 7:10 - How an airline acts like an airline? 11: What do you think an airline should do better? 13: Which airline is better than a little bit more? 16: What airline is the worst? 17:00 18:20 - How do you would like to see me complain about it? 19:00 -- Which airline should I complain about something better than that? 22:30 -- What airline does you want to be a better than me? 21:00 | What airline has the worst airline service? 27:30 26:40 -- What kind of airline is your biggest airline is a better company? 25:00 + + + 17:10 -- What do I want to complain? 24:40 35:00 & 27: Is this industry better than you're going to pay me a better airline than this? 30:00 // 27:10 32:00 Is this a problem?
00:00:00.000Two weeks ago, United Airlines got hit with a slew of horrible headlines after airline security forcibly removed a passenger from a flight after he was seated and refused to obey airline orders to vacate the plane.
00:00:10.000The man, Dr. David Dow, alleges that security broke his nose and knocked out his teeth, among other injuries.
00:00:15.000The story led to a bevy of narratives about supposed anti-Asian discrimination on airlines, as well as general anger at the airline industry.
00:00:22.000Well, on Monday, a lawyer named Tom Dimitrio announced on NBC's Today that a female passenger on American Airlines had contacted him about suing the airline.
00:00:31.000A video shows the woman crying and carrying her baby, as well as another passenger talking to a flight attendant.
00:00:35.000The woman claims a flight attendant hit her with a stroller while taking it away from her, nearly hitting her kid, too.
00:00:41.000American Airlines, seeing what had happened to United, immediately took action to suspend the flight attendant in question and apologized for, quote, the pain we have caused this passenger and her family and to any other customers affected by the incident.
00:00:52.000According to a Reddit commenter who says he saw the incident, quote,
00:00:55.000The Argentinian lady and her two children were in the mid to back of the plane.
00:00:59.000She was somehow able to get her stroller on board and back to near her seat.
00:01:02.000Since I was near the front, I cannot know what happened.
00:01:04.000If she tried to put the stroller in the overhead bin or what.
00:01:06.000The flight attendant told her she could not have the stroller on the plane and he needs to take it.
00:01:10.000She refused to let him take it and was to the near point of shouting.
00:01:12.000The flight attendant shouted up for security very soon on, escalating the situation more.
00:01:17.000The flight attendant and the woman started making their way to the front of the plane.
00:01:20.000I forgot who had the stroller at this point.
00:01:56.000What we now have is an attempt to target one of the most unpopular industries in the country.
00:02:00.000Everyone hates the airlines, the same way most Americans hate their insurance company.
00:02:04.000Sure, we need the airlines, but we despise them because they control how we fly, they charge us too much, they jack us around, they force us to pay for checked baggage and the like.
00:02:11.000We have to deal with pissy flight attendants and idiot TSA agents and airlines that don't seem to care very much about cancelling or delaying our flights.
00:02:17.000And so now, individuals see a ripe target.
00:02:28.000But as Mike Rowe rightly said, quote, I don't want to fly across the country in a steel tube filled with people who get to decide which rules they will follow and which they will ignore.
00:02:35.000I've been on too many flights with too many angry people to worry about the specific circumstances of their outrage or the details of why they took it upon themselves to ignore direct command.
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00:05:29.000Okay, so before we launch into the news of the day, I want to talk about a piece of news that's not of the day, it's of 102 years ago.
00:05:34.000I want to pay tribute to the Armenian Genocide.
00:05:36.000So the Armenian Genocide began 102 years ago, April 24th, 1915.
00:05:40.000People don't know that much about the Armenian Genocide because it hasn't had as much publicity as the Holocaust, because it wasn't as mechanized as the Holocaust.
00:05:46.000But up to 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by the Turkish Islamist regime.
00:05:52.000They took the place of the Ottoman Empire.
00:05:54.000They were supposed to be reasonable and nationalist, and instead it turned out that they were Islamic extremists, and they decided on the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who are Armenian in Turkey.
00:06:05.000And it was, I mean, the stories, the pictures are just horrific.
00:06:09.000I mean, you're talking about mass killings, you're talking about mass starvation, forced death marches.
00:06:15.000News coverage of them putting boats filled with women and children offshore into the sea and then just deliberately sinking them to kill everybody aboard.
00:06:24.000The excuse that was used by the regime at the time is that these terrible Armenians who are Christian were going to be allied against the central powers in World War I and they wanted to stop that.
00:06:33.000Still, today, the current Islamist dictator of Turkey refuses to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide.
00:06:38.000In 2010, Erdogan, who is that dictator, he openly warned he could throw 100,000 Armenian immigrants out of Turkey if they kept talking about the Armenian Genocide because they were undermining the legitimacy of Turkish rule.
00:06:50.000There was one guy who took the Armenian Genocide particularly seriously.
00:06:55.000In 1939, when he was dictator of Germany, obviously, he told Nazi officers right before they were about to invade Poland, quote, kill without mercy.
00:07:01.000He said, who after all speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?
00:07:05.000The Germans were obviously well aware of the annihilation of the Armenians because they were allied with the Turkish Empire, with the Ottoman Empire.
00:07:27.000The Germans were well aware of what had happened during the Armenian Genocide.
00:07:30.000Again, the bottom line is that most genocides are thrown off as some sort of political, just a political tool, and the world tends to ignore it.
00:07:37.000Most of the world ignored the Armenian Genocide.
00:07:39.000Most of the world still ignores the Armenian Genocide.
00:07:42.000You know, not only worthwhile to pay tribute to it, it's a reminder that when we watch genocides happening across the world against Christians, particularly in the Middle East today, the legacy of this is not over.
00:07:51.000When you ignore Islamic extremism, genocide becomes far easier, whether it's genocide against Yazidis in Iraq or whether it's genocide against Christians in Syria.
00:07:59.000Bottom line is that Christians are still under attack in the Middle East by the same people who were participating in this a century ago.
00:08:06.000Okay, so I now want to talk about Trump's first 100 days.
00:08:11.000Trump made a lot of promises about what he's going to do in his first 100 days.
00:08:13.000He had an entire program that he suggested was going to be his agreement with America.
00:08:19.000It was a 100-day plan to restore prosperity to our economy, security to our communities, and honesty to our government.
00:08:24.000You can see an image of what he had tweeted out.
00:08:44.000Using his first 100 days to cram through whatever he wanted.
00:08:46.000So when Trump says that it's silly, he's right.
00:08:48.000But it was Trump himself who decided to hold by this and make all these big promises.
00:08:52.000Because the big promise underlying everything Trump did in the election cycle was that Donald Trump was going to change the way government worked.
00:08:58.000He was going to come in, cut the Gordian Knot.
00:09:00.000Everything was going to be quick and easy and fast.
00:09:03.000And that's not the way that government works.
00:09:05.000Chuck Todd asked Reince Priebus about this because Trump had been asked about the 100 days thing.
00:09:09.000And Trump had said, well, I don't know who decided on this.
00:09:42.000And Prebis doesn't have a great answer for that.
00:09:43.000Jonathan Karl over at ABC News is, of course, jumping on the 100-day standard to say that Trump has fallen short.
00:09:48.000By the standards that he set for himself during the campaign, there is no question that he has fallen dramatically short in the first 100 days.
00:11:02.000This highlights the difference between where Trump has been effective and where he has not been effective.
00:11:06.000He has not been effective at changing how government works, and this is why he is not Reagan.
00:11:10.000So Reagan, in his first hundred days, pursued some executive actions, but Reagan's big contribution was to spend his first hundred days on the bully pulpit, ripping Democrats down.
00:11:19.000Remember, he had a Democratic majority in the House.
00:11:21.000Ripping Democrats down for their failure to pass some sort of tax reform, and he was successful in shifting the debate.
00:11:27.000Trump has not really shifted the debate on anything, which is why he's been wildly unsuccessful on the legislative front, even though, unlike Reagan, he actually has a Republican Congress and a Republican Senate.
00:11:37.000Here's where he has fulfilled his promises.
00:12:08.000A lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government, yes, but sort of undercut by the fact that Mike Flynn, who is his national security advisor, is now registered as a foreign agent.
00:12:18.000Sixth, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
00:12:22.000So that first section here, you can see it here on the left side of your screen, there are six promises that he made and he kept four of them.
00:13:44.000So there were five promises there, and he has kept four of them, essentially.
00:13:47.000So, in other words, everything that he said he could do that was kind of the smaller things through executive action, he's done all of that.
00:13:53.000When it comes to legislative efforts, he has not done that.
00:13:57.000The problem with that is that the big things that presidents do are all legislative.
00:14:02.000The president really does big things in a couple of ways.
00:14:05.000One is, he shifts the tone and tenor of the political debate.
00:14:08.000Barack Obama shifted the entire tone and tenor of the American political debate onto race, onto gender, onto polarization of the American system.
00:14:56.000Hopefully it goes better than repeal and replace.
00:14:58.000He had said he was going to do repeal and replace this week again.
00:15:01.000Doesn't look like that's going to happen.
00:15:02.000That'll probably get kicked down the road.
00:15:04.000Maybe Trump pulls out of this tailspin, but he has not used the bully pulpit in order to promulgate his agenda, and you can see that.
00:15:09.000So, for example, Donald Trump is still maintaining that Mexico is going to pay for the wall.
00:15:14.000There's no evidence that Mexico is going to pay for this wall.
00:15:17.000He said, eventually, but at a later date, so we can get started early, Mexico will be paying in some form for the badly needed border wall.
00:15:23.000So, bottom line, he hedges three times in one tweet about one of his key campaign promises.
00:15:29.000Eventually, but at a later date, in some form, right?
00:15:31.000So it's a lot of hedging about a key campaign promise.
00:15:35.000His homeland security chief, you know, Trump said, it's going to be so easy to stop terrorism.
00:16:56.000Bottom line is, mixed messages from Jeff Sessions.
00:16:59.000Again, this is stuff that should be solved on the legislative level, and Trump has not done what he needs to do on the legislative level yet.
00:17:05.000So on the executive level, I think Trump's done a lot of the right things in his first 100 days, but people who are declaring him a wild success after 100 days are not right, and people who are declaring him a wild failure after 100 days are not right.
00:17:15.000Bottom line is, I don't think that he has shifted the debate in the same way that Reagan did.
00:17:18.000He looks more like Clinton in his first
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00:19:16.000Okay, so the bottom line here is that the thing that Trump says that he is good at, the thing Trump thinks he is good at, which is the PR, is the thing that he's actually worst at.
00:19:24.000What he is best at is implementing a bunch of things that are inherent in the power of the presidency.
00:19:29.000He needs to get good at pushing his agenda.
00:19:39.000So, you know, Donald Trump said that, you know, Sean Spicer, who has not been a particularly great press secretary, he should stick around.
00:19:55.000Mr. President, it's time to get things done.
00:19:58.000Okay, well, as we continue here on the Ben Shapiro Show, we're going to be talking with a person who is a professor of law and anthropology at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and she has an AB from Harvard.
00:20:14.000She suggests that cultural appropriation is the worst thing in the world.
00:20:18.000So we're going to talk about cultural appropriation and why I think the entire terminology is really stupid in just a second.
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