Trump gets smacked by the media for saying that Muslims in the United States were celebrating 9/11. But there is no evidence that this is true. Plus, the Russians are now in a war with Turkey, and Bernie Sanders is getting a big, huge, enormous endorsement. Plus, of course, Donald Trump is on the ropes again thanks to the media, or is he? Ben Shapiro is back on The Ben Shapiro Show to talk about it all and much more! Subscribe to Ben Shapiro's new podcast, The Weekly Standard, wherever you get your shows, and don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe to our new podcast on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. Enjoy and spread the word to your friends about this podcast and other things going on in the world. Happy New Year and Happy Holidays! See you next Tuesday! - Ben Shapiro and the Shapiro's Weekly Standard - Subscribe, Like, Share, and Retweet! If you like what you hear, share it on your social media, and tell a friend about what you're listening to the Ben Shapiro show! or share it with a friend who needs it! and spread it around the world! Thanks for listening and share the love, Ben Shapiro and God bless! Timestamps: 5:00 - What's up? 6:30 - The Russians are in a War with Turkey? 7:15 - Bernie Sanders' endorsement? 8: What do you think of Bernie Sanders? 9: What are we to do about it? 11: Is he or not? 14: What does he have a problem? 16:40 - What do we need to do? 17:00 18:00 | What can we do about 9/10? 19:20 - What are you going to do now? 21:30 | What do I do with this? 22:15 | What s the worst thing I'm watching? 27: What s going to happen next? 26: Does he or am I want? 29:30 30:40 31:00 -- Is he a good guy? 32:30 -- What s he not a good thing? 35: What would you like to see me? 36:40 -- What are my answer? 37:40 | Is he good enough? 39:00 + 35:00 Is he better than that?
00:00:44.000The way that Trump does this is he says something that is factually untrue, but the underlying narrative of which is true.
00:00:51.000And the media, because they don't like Trump's narrative, they immediately say that not only is Trump's fact not true, his narrative is untrue.
00:00:59.000And that's when they step on the rake, because the truth is that when Trump, his story, his generalized story, his general view of the world in many of these cases is true, but he uses the wrong facts, the media can't help themselves.
00:01:10.000They're like Charlie Brown trying to go for the football.
00:01:12.000They just keep on attempting to smack Trump over his narrative when the narrative is the only part of what Trump says that's true.
00:01:18.000Everything else that Trump says is not true, but the narrative part of what Trump says actually is true.
00:01:22.000So to take a brief example, the controversy of the day for Donald Trump is that Donald Trump said at one of his rallies that he watched thousands of Muslims, American Muslims, celebrate 9-11.
00:01:33.000Here is the audio of Donald Trump doing it from a rally over the weekend.
00:02:14.000And it's always a nice reminder just to remember, these are the folks that
00:02:18.000President Obama wants to sign $400 million a year, too.
00:02:20.000If you remember all the way back to 9-11, this is what it looked like in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip on 9-11, thanks to our good friends, the Palestinians.
00:02:29.000The v-sign for victory being displayed in East Jerusalem today among jubilant Palestinians that the United States had been subject to this attack.
00:02:40.000What are we to make of that, Jennifer?
00:02:42.000Yasser Arafat may issue this condemnation.
00:03:50.000The Washington Post at the time reported this, quote, So Glenn Kessler works for the Washington Post.
00:03:54.000He says there are no reports of any American Muslims doing any of this.
00:03:56.000It turns out his own newspaper reported it.
00:04:17.000It was also reported in the New York Times.
00:04:19.000It was also reported in the San Francisco Chronicle.
00:04:22.000In fact, there were some people who were actually detained by the authorities because they were suspicious that they might have terror ties because they were celebrating 9-11 in the United States.
00:04:30.000So this is where the media stepped on the Trump rake, right?
00:04:32.000He says something that is not factually true.
00:04:34.000Thousands of people in the streets celebrating in Jersey City.
00:04:38.000But they go so far as to say no people were celebrating.
00:05:06.000And there are no radical Muslims here in the United States, which means we need to import thousands and thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees without reference to what exactly they believe, right?
00:05:17.000The problem is their narrative is false.
00:05:19.000So when they go so far as to try to discredit Trump's entire narrative by discrediting one of the things that he says, instead they end up stepping on the rake and looking like fools, and it hits them right between the eyes.
00:05:29.000And that's what we saw today with regard to the media.
00:05:50.000Ta-Nehisi Coates, who is the black, now he's a black spokesperson, he's considered this great black thinker, and he's been celebrated by the Atlantic and by the White House and by various other people who consider themselves real thinkers, real lefty thinkers, Ta-Nehisi Coates, he said that on 9-11 he sat on top of an apartment building and got high and watched as the towers fell and he felt nothing.
00:06:13.000I mean, he wasn't celebrating, but he felt nothing.
00:06:15.000I can think of somebody else who actually celebrated when the towers fell.
00:07:18.000All the days that Barack Obama was there, Jeremiah Wright was just doing, well, Lindsay is just informing our devotionals.
00:07:25.000But on the days that Barack Obama wasn't there, it sounded exactly like this.
00:07:29.000So the question for the American people, and this is why Trump is becoming more popular, the question for the American people is not,
00:07:35.000Was Donald Trump right about thousands of American Muslims celebrating?
00:07:38.000It's, who do you trust to keep you safe?
00:07:40.000The same people who said that Jeremiah Wright saying this kind of stuff didn't matter, and say that there's no such thing as a radical Muslim, or the guy who says, I'm deeply worried about radical Islam, and I believe that there are radical Muslims inside the United States.
00:07:53.000Which person is going to do a better job of keeping you safe?
00:07:56.000And we now have it on record because the fact is that Barack Obama, the guy who went to this guy's church, his State Department, after years of the President telling us that we'd won the War on Terror, we weren't even going to call it the War on Terror anymore, it was an overseas contingency operation, we weren't going to use the word terror, we weren't going to use the word Islam, yesterday the State Department issued a worldwide travel advisory to any American citizen.
00:08:17.000So if we go anywhere outside the United States now, we are targets because we're American citizens.
00:08:39.000If you don't want to go to France and get killed, then you can stay here and get killed.
00:08:41.000I mean, it's really a wonderful thing.
00:08:43.000And then people wonder why Donald Trump is gaining in terms of the polls.
00:08:47.000And he is polling not only high and continuing to lead in most of the swing states, although Ted Cruz is now in the margin of error in Iowa, Donald Trump, he does well against Hillary Clinton.
00:09:10.000I mean, it's almost as bad as Hillary Clinton saying yesterday, tweeting out yesterday that she thinks that all victims of sexual assault ought to be heard and believed and supported.
00:09:35.000The worst rake step of the day was the media, which climbed up onto a high board and then proceeded to jump off the high board, like at the pool, and land both feet on this rake, and it just hits them right between the eyes.
00:10:00.000Donald Trump is the kind of guy where if he were to get into office, random people would be killed.
00:10:04.000And remember, this has been the narrative for a couple of weeks now, ever since Paris.
00:10:07.000The narrative has been that the real danger to Western civilization is not radical Islam.
00:10:12.000The real danger to Western civilization is Westerners going crazy and randomly killing Muslims because at heart, we're all evil Islamophobes.
00:10:19.000Right, that's been the narrative for a long time here.
00:10:21.000Now they're just extending it to Donald Trump.
00:10:23.000And the idea here is that in a country where we actually believe, or some of us do, in principles of freedom of speech, in a country where we think that you should be able to say what you think on politics, there's only one sort of speech that has traditionally been held not to be within the realm of freedom of speech.
00:10:40.000And this would be the, quote-unquote, shouting fire in a crowded theater exception, right?
00:10:44.000The shouting fire in a crowded theater exception comes from a case from, like, 1919, and it was adjudicated by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
00:10:53.000But the idea was that you weren't supposed to be able to—it's not free speech if you go somewhere and you create a public panic based on false information.
00:11:00.000So what the left is trying to do now is they're trying to say that that's what Trump is doing.
00:11:03.000Trump, with all of his verbiage, he is threatening the safety of the American citizen, particularly the American Muslim.
00:11:09.000Van Jones, who actually is a communist, Van Jones is on CNN, and Van Jones was the former Obama green czar.
00:11:16.000By the way, the same guy who once told me in the green room at CNN that black folks think of cops the same way that Jews think of Nazis.
00:11:28.000Van Jones, that's not incendiary, but he says that Donald Trump must be shut up because if he's not shut up, then he's going to get American Muslims hurt.
00:12:04.000You have a political candidate, your candidate, you come on night after night and defend no matter what despicable, horrible, un-American, racist, inflammatory thing he says, you defend him.
00:12:17.000He said that there were thousands of Arabs out there and there's not one picture in a world of where you got cell phone cameras, you got video cameras from coast to coast.
00:13:05.000CNN itself reported just a couple of years ago, Anderson Cooper, on this network, was saying that there were American Muslims who celebrated 9-11.
00:13:11.000Here's Anderson Cooper saying just that in a special investigative report a couple of years ago.
00:13:15.000These men are radicals, but they are also Americans, believe it or not, who praise Osama bin Laden and celebrate the 9-11 attacks.
00:13:22.000So what's so extraordinary is that we found them out in broad daylight, out on the streets of New York, trying to spread their message just a few feet from a peaceful American mosque.
00:13:30.000Drew Griffin of CNN's Special Investigations Unit has this.
00:13:33.000I mean, so it's on CNN, but no, it never existed.
00:13:37.000And the idea here is that Trump is such a crazy, he's a Hitlerian character, and now we're seeing this bubble up to the surface in lots of media reports, right?
00:13:54.000He wants a database of American Muslims, which, again, was suggested openly by a member of the media to Trump.
00:13:59.000It was not Trump who suggested that idea of registering all American Muslims, and Trump doesn't back that idea of registering all American Muslims.
00:14:06.000There's no evidence that he does, but he has to be painted as a Hitlerian character, and he has to be painted as Hitlerian so that we can shut him up.
00:14:14.000There's a Democratic congressman yesterday who said exactly the same thing.
00:14:17.000Trump's rhetoric is going to lead to murder.
00:14:21.000He's whipping up hatred to scapegoat a minority religious group, which has some very dangerous historic precedents, as you might agree.
00:14:34.000I mean, it's the kind of behavior that is classic demagoguery.
00:14:39.000And, you know, he's going to get somebody hurt.
00:14:42.000I don't suppose he cares much, but it should be the kind of behavior that is roundly denounced.
00:14:50.000And the thing that scares me is that the more he says outrageous, inflammatory things, it seems like it doesn't seem to cost him in terms of support, which makes me a little bit worried about the people who support him.
00:15:03.000You just said he's going to get somebody hurt.
00:15:07.000What I mean is that when leaders who have a national platform whip up hate and hysteria against a particular group, particularly a religious group, a minority religious group, which is in, uh, that is not popular, uh, invariably, you know, the people who are mentally unstable or motivated by hate come out of the woodwork and you see
00:15:58.000It doesn't lead to violence when the President of the United States routinely labels police officers racist who are killing black people for no reason.
00:16:04.000And then there's a spate of shootings of members of the police.
00:16:07.000It's not labeling a minority religious group or even a majority religious group in the United States when you say that they are a bunch of bigots because they won't bake same-sex wedding cakes and then shine the homosexual flag on the White House.
00:16:18.000None of that is bigotry that incentivizes violence in any way, even though there have been cases, including Floyd Lee Corkins over at the Family Research Council, of people who are anti-Christian activists going in and trying to shoot Christian activists, family-oriented activists.
00:16:38.000Keith Ellison is a Democrat congressman from Minnesota who happens to be Muslim as well and has been connected with a couple of radical groups including CARE, the Council on American Islamic Relations.
00:16:51.000So the idea here is that Trump is so bad, he's so evil, he's so terrible, that he just has to be shut up.
00:16:55.000And there's long historical precedent for this among folks on the left.
00:16:59.000This is an argument that we've heard, we remember hearing.
00:17:02.000You remember hearing this with Jared Lee Loeffner?
00:17:04.000You remember when Gabby Giffords, the congresswoman from Arizona, was shot?
00:17:08.000And we heard that it was Sarah Palin's fault because Sarah Palin had a map of targeted districts
00:17:12.000On her, on her website that showed which districts she wanted to oust the Congress people in and Gabby Giffords was on that.
00:17:18.000There was no evidence that Jared Lee Loeffler even knew who Sarah Palin was, but it was Sarah Palin's fault.
00:17:22.000The left did the same thing when they were talking about JFK's assassination.
00:17:26.000They tried, LBJ said it was the climate of hate created by right-wing groups that led to JFK's assassination because as, as
00:17:35.000JFK's wife, as Jackie said, she was just very upset that it had to be some silly little communist.
00:17:40.000She said she was very upset it was a silly little communist who killed JFK, and he couldn't die for some grand, glorious goal like civil rights.
00:17:45.000Instead, he died for some nonsensical, silly thing like capitalism and defense against the Soviet Union.
00:17:55.000You'll notice that there's always... It's so funny.
00:17:57.000I remember... I'm old enough to remember the Bush administration, where I kept hearing from folks on the left that Bush wanted to shut down his opposition.
00:18:04.000Bush wants to— dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and Bush is a fascist, and Bush just wants to shut us up, and that's the only thing that's important to Bush.
00:18:12.000I don't remember any of these people being shut up.
00:18:13.000I don't remember any of them being shut up.
00:18:16.000But I'm seeing on a pretty frequent basis the President of the United States trying to shut people up.
00:18:21.000If you're a YouTube filmmaker, you go to jail and they blame you for Benghazi.
00:18:26.000If you're Dinesh D'Souza and you write anti-Obama books and do anti-Obama documentaries, somehow you'll find your way into a federal court on a charge that nobody gets charged with in the United States.
00:18:37.000If you're somebody who wants to bake cakes for the people you see fit, and you're Christian, you don't wanna bake for a homosexual wedding, then you might find yourself in front of an administrative law judge.
00:18:48.000The fact is that there's only one side of this debate that truly wants to shut down the political debate, and you're seeing that on campuses too.
00:18:53.000That's why I was at University of Missouri last week, because now you're seeing, as we talked about yesterday, 40%, 40% of young people, 18 to 34, say that they would curb the First Amendment so as not to be offensive to ethnic minority groups.
00:19:06.000Okay, what that means is Donald Trump, shut up, because we find what you're saying offensive.
00:19:10.000That gives all the power to the offended in our society.
00:19:13.000And that's, of course, what the left wants.
00:19:15.000Now, none of this is to say that Trump is some sort of angel when it comes to his rhetoric, because he isn't.
00:19:21.000Trump says certain things that just make you cringe.
00:19:24.000So, for example, there is a situation, this is typical media coverage, there's a situation at this, I think it was at this particular rally, where a Black Lives Matter protester showed up and started trying to disrupt and yelling and screaming.
00:19:35.000The Black Lives Matter protester, there's only, the only thing the tape shows is him on the floor and then the police picking him up and rushing him out.
00:19:42.000The Black Lives Matter protester claimed that he'd been assaulted by six men
00:19:46.000Six white men who were calling him the N-word and shouting at him.
00:19:49.000There's no evidence of this whatsoever.
00:19:51.000He didn't file a police report against the guys, so we still haven't had any arrests in that particular case.
00:19:56.000And Trump was on TV, and he was asked about this, and here's what Donald Trump had to say about this particular Black Lives Matter protester.
00:20:03.000Man that was, I don't know, you say roughed up.
00:21:08.000He says he's a modern-day Bull Connor.
00:21:09.000And for those who don't know, Bull Connor was the sheriff down in Birmingham, Alabama, when they were turning hoses and sicking dogs on black people, using the force of the law to do so.
00:21:20.000Here is this friend of the protester who was taken out of the Trump rally.
00:21:57.000If you want to criticize Trump for not allowing security time enough to get the guy,
00:22:03.000Or for saying that, I mean, because honestly, it really isn't his responsibility what his followers do in the audience when they're irritated by somebody.
00:22:09.000If you've ever been at a rally, this sort of thing is not actually particularly that uncommon.
00:22:13.000It does happen on a fairly regular basis.
00:22:14.000If you've ever been at a mass event, ranging from a concert where fights break out, to a baseball game where I've seen fights break out, to a political rally like this where fights break out.
00:22:23.000You cannot like Trump's language, but that's the point.
00:22:26.000For the left, it's not about Trump's language.
00:23:15.000The President of the United States is the guy who said at a rally of his constituents that if you are in a political fight, you should bring a gun to a knife fight.
00:23:23.000President Obama is the guy who said that he's going to put his boot on the throat of BP.
00:23:27.000I mean, he's used this sort of language routinely.
00:23:29.000I mean, this is the party that says Republicans are the enemy.
00:23:32.000President Obama has said Republicans are the enemy.
00:23:34.000But no, it's Donald Trump who's the real problem.
00:23:36.000And that, of course, is the double standard.
00:23:39.000Now, meanwhile, one more point on Trump.
00:23:43.000You want to know why Trump is popular?
00:23:44.000The reason Trump is popular is because he's saying a lot of things that people are thinking.
00:23:47.000So Donald Trump was asked about waterboarding and Donald Trump was at a rally and he spoke about waterboarding and here's what he had to say.
00:23:53.000This morning they asked me a question.
00:24:09.000And I said, well, let me ask you a question.
00:24:11.000On the other side, they chop off our young people's heads, and they put them on a stick.
00:24:20.000On the other side, they build these iron cages, and they'll put 20 people in them, and they drop them in the ocean for 15 minutes and pull them up 15 minutes later.
00:25:22.000Okay, that's why Trump is popular, folks.
00:25:24.000I mean, in a nutshell, that's why Trump is popular because, let's face it, who hasn't thought that?
00:25:28.000When you're watching a Jordanian pilot burn alive, who hasn't thought, okay, the people who did this, if we waterboard them and we don't get any information, are you gonna lose sleep over that?
00:25:36.000Is that something that you're deeply going to care about?
00:25:50.000Now, meanwhile, I do have to mention what's going on over in the Middle East with regard to Syria.
00:25:55.000So the Russians flew a plane over a one-mile area of Turkish territory and the Turks shot it down.
00:26:02.000Now, the reason this is important is because Turkey is a member of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
00:26:08.000And the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was originally created in order to be a counterweight to the Soviet Union.
00:26:13.000The idea was that any attack on a NATO member would count as an attack on all the NATO members, right?
00:26:19.000So if Russia were to attack Latvia, then all of the various members of NATO would join up and they would go fight the Soviet Union, they'd go fight Russia.
00:26:27.000If they attacked Poland, everybody would join together and they would go and they would attack the Soviet Union.
00:26:32.000And Russia, it was obviously created as this.
00:26:35.000One of the things that Russia has wanted to do for a long time is to break NATO.
00:26:39.000They want to destroy the North Atlantic Treaty Organization because they feel if they are able to destroy NATO, then they can take these countries one at a time, right?
00:26:47.000If they can attack Poland and not have to worry about what the United States is going to do or France, if they can just peel countries off one by one, then they can eat them up the same way they did before.
00:26:56.000And this is what they've done with Ukraine, because Ukraine isn't a NATO member.
00:28:13.000Syria doesn't want to get rid of ISIS because ISIS is taking out the Free Syrian Army.
00:28:17.000They want to keep ISIS there so that Bashar Assad looks good.
00:28:20.000The Iranians want to keep ISIS out of Iraq but in Syria because, again, it allows Bashar Assad to look good and it allows Iran to look good because they're fighting the worst people on planet Earth over in ISIS.
00:28:31.000Jordan and Egypt and Saudi Arabia, none of them like ISIS, but they're afraid because ISIS is making gains in all of their territories.
00:28:39.000And they also know that if they were to fight ISIS, it looks like they're now fighting on behalf of Shia
00:28:47.000Bashar Assad is Alawite, which is basically a form of Shia Islam.
00:28:51.000And so if they fight ISIS, which is Sunni, then they're now siding with the enemy.
00:28:56.000So nobody has the wherewithal or the compunction to go after ISIS full bore.
00:29:02.000Except for Putin, who's happy to go after ISIS full bore because he's doing the dirty work that the Iranians don't really want to do.
00:29:08.000He'll say, okay, I'm going to get rid of ISIS, and then I'm also going to get rid of the Free Syrian Army, and I just cleared the path for Iran.
00:29:16.000And meanwhile, if I can, into the bargain, also break NATO, then I've won a big victory.
00:29:21.000And President Obama is sitting by doing nothing as all of this happens, when the truth is that this is actually very much, it's actually very reminiscent of when Saddam Hussein went into Kuwait in 1991.
00:29:31.000Saddam Hussein was Sunni, right, and his
00:30:03.000We could theoretically go in and nail ISIS and then occupy ISIS areas, but President Obama doesn't want to do that.
00:30:09.000And he also doesn't have—and the problem is that there is no area in which we are safe from ISIS.
00:30:15.000So he could make a hard decision, which is we'll do whatever we have to do to destroy ISIS, and if that includes going in and occupying the area so that it doesn't become another Iranian pond, then we'll do it.
00:30:25.000But President Obama won't do that because he's a coward.
00:30:28.000And so what's destined to happen here is that ISIS will become a solid part of the Middle East.