Former Defense Intelligence Agency head Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn says Obama ignored all the intelligence warning that ISIS was on the rise after the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. He says it was because it didn t match the White House's narrative and didn't match the narrative Obama was trying to sell to the American people. This is a stunning admission by a former administration official, and it's one of the most stunning admissions I've ever heard in my life. Ben Shapiro says it's time to wake up to the reality that President Obama knew about ISIS, but did nothing about it. He also points out that if George W. Bush missed the signs of 9/11 in 2001, what would the media be saying about him in 2004, when he was running for re-election? And what would they say about him after he was re-elected? And how would they treat it now that he's out of office and is no longer the president of the United States? Ben Shapiro explains why this is a massive mistake, and how it could have been done by a previous president. Ben Shapiro's full breakdown of what happened, and what it says about President Obama's failure to recognize the threat of terrorism, and the failure to act on the intelligence that was provided to him by his own intelligence chief, Michael Flynn's admission. He also explains why it's not a good thing, and why it matters more than it should. what happened and why we should have done anything at all, not just to make sure he doesn t get re- elected in 2020, but why he s going to be remembered as the next President of America s next President. The Ben Shapiro Show is a must-listen to this episode of the Ben Shapiro show! and much, much more! Ben's full of hot takes, and much more. Subscribe to the show Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices and other links to our new show recommendations. and other awesome stuff like that, too! Subscribe and review our new episodes on the show on the Podcasts on Podchaser Connect with us on social media! and become a supporter of The FiveThirtyEight Podcasts on the Four Corners Podcasts and other social media platforms to become a Friend of The Six Sigma Podcast Subscribe & Retweet Ben Shapiro is a Friend Of The Show? Thank you for listening to Ben Shapiro on Six Sigma
00:00:00.000It is Wednesday, and we have so much to get to.
00:00:03.000As always, Jerry Brown, the governor of California, is in Paris, and he says something intensely insulting.
00:00:09.000Plus, this is really some bombshell material out of the Obama administration about just what President Obama is willing to do to get elected.
00:00:27.000That tease was so hot that Jonathan, our producer, actually was asking me about it just a moment ago.
00:00:32.000But here is the deal with President Obama and what he's willing to do to get elected.
00:00:36.000So, it now turns out that President Obama knew that ISIS was rising almost as soon as America pulled out of Iraq.
00:00:42.000He knew that once we pulled 10,000 troops out, there was going to be a significant rise in terrorist activity.
00:00:47.000He knew that ISIS was already on the rise.
00:00:50.000President Obama's former Defense Intelligence Agency head is a guy named Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.
00:00:55.000He was on CNN with Jake Tapper, and he dropped this bombshell.
00:00:58.000And what's amazing about it is that this just went right over the heads of the folks on the left.
00:01:03.000They just acted like it never happened.
00:01:05.000But what he's about to say, what you're about to hear him say, is one of the most stunning admissions by a former administration official I have ever heard in my life.
00:01:21.000Did not meet a particular narrative that the White House needed, and I'll be very candid with you.
00:01:27.000I have said, and I believe, that the people that were around the president, his sort of inner circle that were advising him, I think advised him incorrectly.
00:01:50.000In the Al Qaeda, ISIS, AQI, Boko Haram, more leaders than we can say and they continue to just multiply.
00:01:58.000So we have to get more realistic on what it is that we're facing.
00:02:04.000This is a truly incredible thing, what he's just saying.
00:02:08.000And he's saying it in a soft-spoken manner, so it's easy to miss what he's saying.
00:02:11.000But what Lieutenant General Michael Flynn just said right there is that as President Obama was gearing up for his re-election, he was doing nothing about ISIS.
00:02:18.000He was ignoring all of the advice he was getting about ISIS.
00:02:21.000He was ignoring all the intelligence he was getting about ISIS.
00:02:23.000He was ignoring all of this stuff because it harmed his re-election efforts to recognize that terrorism was an actual threat.
00:02:30.000Right, he was saying that Al Qaeda was dead, it didn't match his narrative, and therefore he just ignored the intelligence.
00:02:36.000Now imagine for a second, if George W. Bush doesn't miss the signs of 9-11 in 2001-2000, imagine if George W. Bush
00:02:45.000Loses the trail of this, not when he's being elected president, but in 2004.
00:02:51.000Imagine that in 2004, George W. Bush is getting information that his foreign policy is going to cause a rash of terrorist attacks all over the world and the rise of a huge new terror power in the Middle East.
00:03:03.000And imagine that George W. Bush says, you know what?
00:03:04.000I'm not going to listen to any of that.
00:03:08.000And then imagine after his election that there are all sorts of terrorist attacks worldwide from the same terrorists that he just dismissed.
00:03:14.000How do you think the media would cover that?
00:03:16.000Would the media perhaps say, it appears that George W. Bush manipulated the information that we saw?
00:03:30.000This guy was Barack Obama's former head of intel.
00:03:34.000He was the guy giving Obama intelligence reports, and he was the one saying just now, you watched him say on live television, that Barack Obama ignored all of those reports,
00:03:44.000Specifically, so that he could tell the American people Al-Qaeda was dead, we didn't have to face the threat of terrorism anymore.
00:03:50.000That to pull out from Iraq was a wonderful, magnificent idea.
00:03:54.000And remember, in 2010, Joe Biden said that Iraq was going to be part of the bright spot in Obama's legacy, it would be part of his greatest achievements list, would be the stability of Iraq.
00:04:37.000And he'll do all of that to push his agenda.
00:04:39.000In 2010, 2011, 2012, his agenda was getting re-elected, and that meant that ISIS could rise, ISIS could turn into a regional power, ISIS could slaughter thousands of people, and he wasn't gonna do a damn thing about it.
00:04:50.000People had to die so Obama could get re-elected, and that was okay.
00:04:53.000And remember, this was the entire argument that was happening about Benghazi shortly before the election in 2012.
00:04:59.000People on the left were saying, why are you people on the right so exercised about YouTube video versus not YouTube video?
00:05:12.000What we said was the cause of the attacks in Benghazi.
00:05:15.000The point that the people on the right were making, and they were correct,
00:05:18.000is that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were lying about what happened in Benghazi, specifically so that they could win re-election, and that they had ignored the decay of Libya, specifically so that they never had to face up to the fact that they had destabilized a country and created a terrorist haven.
00:05:33.000A terrorist haven where, by the way, ISIS is now extraordinarily active.
00:05:36.000The Obama administration does all of its foreign policy for show so that they can gain domestic support for the things that they really care about.
00:05:44.000And those things do not include fighting radical Islam or protecting the American people.
00:05:48.000You know, Obama said very early in his presidency, he was speaking at a military base, and Obama said at the military base, he turns back to the soldiers, and he's on tape, he turns back to the soldiers and he says, you know, you guys make a great photo op.
00:06:00.000That's what the military has always been for Barack Obama.
00:06:03.000Foreign policy has always been a photo-op to President Obama.
00:06:06.000And it's almost hard to express how disgusting it is that a President of the United States would ignore intelligence not because the intelligence was just brushed over, but purposefully ignore it because it didn't match an election narrative?
00:06:20.000Because the American people couldn't know the truth?
00:06:26.000He was the man in charge of keeping America safe, and he was ignoring a rising threat, a threat that has now cost literally hundreds of lives in the West, and President Obama just ignored it.
00:06:36.000Didn't make any difference, because he had to be re-elected.
00:06:39.000It was important that he be re-elected.
00:06:41.000And Obama's doing the same routine now, because his successor must be re-elected.
00:06:44.000Yesterday, President Obama said in Paris, no, don't worry, a Democrat will succeed me.
00:06:48.000Well, in order to make that happen, he has to continue lying about what's going on on foreign policy.
00:06:53.000He has to continue ignoring intelligence reports.
00:06:56.000He has to continue ignoring the real threats that are out there, so that he can lie and tell us that everything is okay, and that his Secretary of State, who's responsible for the rise of many of these threats, that his Secretary of State is not responsible for any of this, because after all, everything is grand and glorious.
00:07:10.000Michael Flynn also, during the same interview, he said, you know, Obama's kind of downplaying the threat of terrorism, but
00:07:16.000It's only a matter of time before ISIS attacks us.
00:07:18.000So this threat that President Obama said didn't exist in the first place and ignored for his own re-election efforts, that threat, it's only a matter of time now before they kill Americans in America.
00:07:58.000I really do believe it's a matter of time.
00:08:01.000I believe that there's going to be, where our luck is going to run out and they're going to be able to achieve something along the lines of what we saw in Paris.
00:08:11.000ISIS did not exist when Barack Obama took office.
00:08:14.000It was a nothing when Barack Obama took office.
00:08:16.000By the time his first term ended, ISIS was already a rising threat and he ignored it so that he could be re-elected.
00:08:21.000That is how disgusting the politics of the left has become.
00:08:24.000They're willing to sacrifice American lives and allied lives.
00:08:27.000They're willing to do all of that just so that they can maintain their grip on power.
00:08:31.000And it's going to cost more American lives because ISIS was not a threat to the United States when George W. Bush left office.
00:08:38.000And by the way, Barack Obama, just three weeks ago, you remember the day before, we talked about it on the show, the day before the Paris attacks, you remember Barack Obama went on national television and he said that ISIS had been contained.
00:08:49.000Now, his Joint Chiefs Chair, his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, right, his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, again, a Barack Obama staffer is just pulling the carpet right out from under him.
00:09:00.000The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs actually came out and he said, no, absolutely, we have not contained ISIS.
00:10:25.000We've talked a little bit about this case in Chicago.
00:10:27.000This case where this 17 year old guy, I don't want to call him a kid because when you're 17, you're really not a kid anymore.
00:10:33.000By the time you're 17, actual responsibility is attached to you.
00:10:36.000He's a 17 year old guy, he was high on LSD and he was, or sorry, PCP apparently.
00:10:41.000And he was at a McDonald's making trouble, or Burger King making trouble, and someone called the cops on him, and he's walking away from the cops, and a white cop shoots this black guy, and the tape finally gets out, the dash cam video finally gets out, and it turns out that the mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, said on Wednesday that he won't step down, even though there are growing calls for his resignation.
00:10:59.000So according to The Hill, what was The Hill reporting today?
00:11:02.000In a visibly tense interview at a Politico Illinois event in Chicago, Emanuel, who served as Obama's chief of staff,
00:11:09.000Said he would be held accountable by the political process.
00:11:12.000He said we have a process called the election.
00:11:24.000He hid the tape so he could be re-elected.
00:11:26.000This is like Barack Obama saying, after he was re-elected, oh, don't worry, the voters will hold me accountable for what happened in Benghazi.
00:11:33.000No, they won't, because you lied to them at the time in order to achieve political victory.
00:11:37.000Democrats will lie, and they will cheat, and they will steal, and they will allow people to die, so long as it helps them achieve political victory, because the only thing Democrats want is power.
00:12:16.000They already re-elected me, and if they want to do something about it, the people can do something about it.
00:12:20.000People would rightly look at that and laugh.
00:12:22.000They would look at that and they would say, no, that's not how this process works.
00:12:25.000But for Democrats, that's exactly how this process works.
00:12:28.000You know what the Huffington Post headline said about the interview with Michael Flynn, the one that we played at the very top here?
00:12:35.000I was talking with Andrew Klavan outside here, and Andrew told me that the headline from the Huffington Post, the official Obama outlet on the internet left,
00:12:44.000The headline was, Lieutenant General Flynn
00:13:06.000By any news standard imaginable, that's the headline.
00:13:09.000Because when somebody from the president's side is ripping the president, that's much more of a headline than somebody on the president's side backing the president's play.
00:13:17.000But the media are so corrupt and so invested in Democrats winning that they're willing to lie, too.
00:13:24.000And that's the tragedy of all of this.
00:13:26.000There's a new poll out today about the new presidential election.
00:13:31.000And the poll is not pretty for Republicans.
00:14:00.000I said, I'll put up my $4,000 against your $1,000 that Hillary will win, not because I want Hillary to win.
00:14:05.000I want Hillary to go down in flaming defeat, but because Hillary has structural advantages and because the media are so powerful in driving narrative.
00:14:13.000Here are the poll results, Hillary versus the Republican field.
00:14:43.000One of the things I learned growing up, and it's a good life lesson, is one of the big mistakes people make is thinking the best of people.
00:14:49.000It's just, it's a mistake that people make.
00:14:51.000You know, you have to think the best of people biblically.
00:14:54.000You have to try and, you know, you're supposed to...
00:14:57.000You're supposed to try and think that the rationale behind what they're doing is not a nasty rationale.
00:15:02.000You're supposed to give them the benefit of the doubt.
00:15:04.000There's a whole phrase in Hebrew that's specifically designed to do this.
00:15:07.000You're supposed to try and see people for their best qualities.
00:15:25.000People are saying, well, you know, Trump will lose against Hillary.
00:15:27.000I think Rubio will do better against Hillary.
00:15:29.000The media haven't even begun to attack Rubio yet.
00:15:32.000Once he gets in their crosshairs, this is the same media that lied.
00:15:36.000It's the same media that generated Candy Crowley, who said in an open debate in the middle of a presidential election that Mitt Romney was lying about Barack Obama's take on Benghazi, when Barack Obama was lying about Barack Obama's take on Benghazi.
00:15:53.000And I'll continue to say that if I have a choice between winning this election and destroying the credibility of the mainstream media, I will destroy the credibility of the mainstream media every time.
00:16:01.000Because the mainstream media controls the outcome of these debates.
00:16:04.000Hillary Clinton has a 44% favorability rating.
00:16:39.000That agenda is to keep people like Rahm Emanuel in power so that they can continue hiding facts about shootings, keep Barack Obama in power so he can continue pretending ISIS isn't a threat.
00:16:51.000And all of this obviously has ramifications for the rest of the world because, well, the left, President Obama, the media create their own magical reality while they do all of this.
00:18:02.000What Chabad does every Hanukkah, and you can see it if you're out here in LA, you can go to Universal CityWalk, and they do this every year.
00:18:17.000They do it up in Sacramento with the governor.
00:18:19.000They have these public candle lightings for Hanukkah, right?
00:18:22.000It's like a Christmas tree, except it's a Hanukkah menorah.
00:18:25.000And in Paris, they've now been told by the police, don't do this.
00:18:28.000They've now been told by the police, don't do this.
00:18:29.000And one of the injunctions as a Jew, as an Orthodox Jew, one of the injunctions on Hanukkah is that when you light the candles, you are specifically supposed to put the candles in the window so that people can sort of see the light of God's miracle emanating from your window.
00:19:10.000There's a report today from an ISIS, this is an amazing report, there's an ISIS
00:19:16.000An ISIS manifesto, apparently, that has now been revealed.
00:19:20.000And the ISIS manifesto openly talks about partnering with left-wing and anti-Israel activists, according to this ISIS manifesto.
00:19:27.000According to the ISIS manifesto, they say that it's pretty clear, their passage is bragging, that some of those involved in the attacks on Paris were quick to take the opportunity of entering into the different countries of Europe.
00:19:39.000The manifesto touts operatives' training and ability to inflict damage.
00:19:43.000And it talks about how it's important to create Muslim no-go zones, which are these supposedly non-existent zones where the police don't police because they're dominated by Muslims.
00:19:52.000And here's the part that really is telling.
00:19:55.000If you have ever been at a pro-Palestine, anti-Israel protest, you will see many activists who are not even Muslims, who are supportive of what Muslims are calling for, the fall of Zionism.
00:20:04.000It is most likely here that connections between Muslims and left-wing activists will be made, and a portion from them will realize that protests are not effective, and that armed combat is the alternative.
00:20:13.000In other words, they're now recruiting from the left wing, ISIS is, and they're recruiting from them because they understand who their ideological allies are when it comes to the war against reality.
00:20:23.000Because the left wing would prefer not to see ISIS as the enemy, but they would prefer to see climate change as the enemy, even as we're in the run-up to a new world Kristallnacht.
00:20:32.000For those who don't know, Kristallnacht was the night of broken glass when the Nazis went around smashing all the Jewish stores, and it was sort of the open prelude to the Holocaust.
00:20:42.000Okay, well, speaking of things that don't actually matter, that we're focused on instead of terrorism,
00:20:47.000The left continues to focus in on climate change like a laser beam, like a laser beam.
00:20:51.000Jerry Brown, who's the governor of California, the octogenarian governor of California, who stumbles around eating pudding all day, and has said things in the past like global warming is going to mean that LAX is under four feet of water.
00:21:03.000He actually said this, that LAX will be under four feet of water thanks to global warming.
00:21:07.000The reason this is idiotic, in case you don't know, is that LAX is at an elevation of 108 feet above sea level.
00:21:19.000They're not gonna go 108 feet above sea level.
00:21:21.000Jerry Brown is also the idiot who wants to build a 100 billion dollar choo-choo train to mimic the path of the I-5, which is, by the way, completely empty between Southern California and Sacramento.
00:21:31.000If you've ever been on that I-5, nobody's on it.
00:21:33.000I mean, I got caught doing 113 on the I-5.
00:24:11.000Which, by the way, there's a very solid argument to make, that the atomic bomb is what has basically kept human beings on the planet.
00:24:17.000There's a very good argument for this, right?
00:24:18.000Without mutually assured destruction, World War I killed a lot of people, World War II killed a lot of people, every war since.
00:24:24.000Has killed people, but not nearly of that scope, because everyone is afraid that if you go too far and cross the line, somebody's gonna get nuked, and all of a sudden the entire planet is gone, right?
00:24:32.000That's why there hasn't been any sort of major war in which hundreds of thousands of people have died from Western countries, which was a regular thing apparently, you know, at the beginning of the 20th century.
00:24:40.000Every 30 years we were fighting wars where millions and millions and 20, 40, 50 million people were dying.
00:24:46.000But Jerry Brown, he's not even talking about the atomic bomb, right?
00:24:58.000A car, is it an absolutely devastating technology?
00:25:01.000Or is it a magical piece of technology created by the ingenuity of human beings that has made our lives immeasurably better, increased economic growth all around the world, and encouraged the cross-cultural exchange of ideas that has led to technological growth, an alleviation of poverty never before seen in human history, and an alleviation of world hunger?
00:25:20.000I mean, that's true of all carbon-based fuel energies.
00:25:23.000Carbon-based fuels, oil, is one of the... Look, in 1900, the life expectancy in the United States was 50 years.
00:25:30.000If you were lucky, you lived to be 50 years old in the United States.
00:25:32.000Today, the life expectancy for both men and women is above 80 years old.
00:25:36.000A large part of that is because of nutritional gains brought about by mechanized farming, which is brought about by carbon-based fuels.
00:25:43.000A lot of that is brought about by better health standards at hospitals, for example, which are powered by electricity, which are powered by power plants, which are powered by carbon-based fuels like coal.
00:25:53.000The fact is that energy underlies everything.
00:25:57.000Clavin made a great point on his podcast a few weeks ago.
00:25:59.000He was talking about Avatar, and he was saying, you know, you watch Avatar and it's all beautiful and nature-y and there's lights everywhere.
00:26:12.000All the things they're railing against, the unobtainium they're railing against, all of that is what makes modern life possible.
00:26:17.000The fact is, all of the technologies Jerry Brown hates, those are the same technologies that have decreased the poverty rate on planet Earth by 50% since 1990.
00:26:27.000There were 1.6 billion people on planet Earth who were living on less than $1.25 a day.
00:26:33.000They were living on less than that every single day.
00:26:37.000And that has now been decreased to 800 million people over the course of 25 years.
00:26:41.000Nothing in the course of human history could have ever predicted anything like this.
00:26:45.000That is thanks solely to technological and scientific advancement that the left hates.
00:26:57.000So the fact is that one of the beautiful things about being human is that we've been able to transcend our own physical limitations because of the power of our mind and the power to harness the wind, and not the wind, but harness those fossil fuels that, by the way, have existed for all of human history but meant nothing because they were underneath the Earth.
00:27:14.000We were the ones who took this goo and turned it into something so magical that it powers hospitals.
00:27:20.000That it gets kids to and from schools and powers the lights in the school.
00:27:23.000And we've been able to do all of these things and make life immeasurably better for bill- The planet could not sustain six billion people without fossil fuels.
00:27:32.000But according to Jerry Brown, all that's bad because humans are just like other animals and we should sort of take our place in the pantheon of other animals and we should be brought back down to Earth.
00:27:40.000There's a real anti-human strain to these environmentalists and it really is quite ugly and quite nasty.
00:27:46.000Okay, and now on to things that I hate.
00:27:49.000I'm going to mention something that I like.
00:27:51.000I always do this because, as I say every day at this time, I want to show that I don't hate everything on Earth.
00:27:56.000I hate most things, but there are certain things that I like.
00:27:58.000There's a great movie that you should see from last year.
00:29:12.000Every parent who had their child participate in this should be slapped as hard as humanly possible with a club.
00:29:18.000I mean, this is—this is just—to brutalize your children in this fashion, by having them get on camera and read this asinine letter clearly written by a PR specialist for the Hillary Clinton campaign, you know, it's—it's like, no nine-year-old girl is sitting at home, she's like, I'm gonna write the president, the future president of the United States.
00:29:34.000And by the way, could you have any more stupid—is Hillary gonna do any of these things?
00:29:37.000Is Hillary going to achieve world peace?
00:29:39.000I missed the part where she achieved world peace as Secretary of State, considering that terror deaths have risen 80% in the last year.
00:29:48.000I'm going to go no on saving the Earth, considering that she can't even read an email without having her aids printed out, according to her email exchanges.
00:29:56.000Is Hillary Clinton going to stop all deaths from guns?
00:30:00.000No, she's not going to do that either, considering that she was actually gunrunning guns into Syria via Libya, and half those guns ended up in the hands of ISIS.
00:30:06.000So I'm gonna go no on all of these things.
00:30:08.000But this idea that if you are teaching... The part of this that bugs me is not Hillary doing her thing, because Hillary has been doing this stupid crap for years.
00:30:43.000You want to replace him, go back in history, find a female to replace him, cool.
00:30:46.000But it turns out that I judge the presidents by their performance, not by their penis or vagina.
00:30:50.000But Hillary Clinton doesn't feel the same way, and so she's got all these girls out there preaching to the choir about how they feel like they can finally be president.
00:30:58.000First of all, if there's a girl alive right now in the United States who feels like she can't be president because she's a girl, there's seriously something wrong with the parent.
00:31:20.000But Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was a female.
00:31:24.000If you look at the Supreme Court, there are Supreme Court justices who are female.
00:31:27.000Women are making more than men in the major cities if they are of the same educational level and at the same level in their careers, and if they are single and don't have kids.
00:31:35.000So all of this is nonsense, but it's ingraining in these kids.
00:31:38.000These kids are going to go around the rest of their lives and think they're victims, victims of the patriarchy.
00:31:43.000Let me tell you a little something about the patriarchy, ladies.
00:31:45.000The patriarchy was what allowed you to vote.
00:31:48.000The patriarchy invented all the machines that allowed you to not have to use washing boards.
00:31:54.000If men were really as sexist as the feminist left makes them out to be, we have tremendous upper body strength and we own all the guns.
00:32:00.000Okay, the reality is that one of the grand things about Western civilization is that men in Western civilization realized it was nasty and horrible not to treat women equally and give them equal opportunities, and so they changed.
00:32:18.000Who spends an enormous amount of time with my baby so that my wife can study for tests because she is in medical school and will be a doctor.
00:32:24.000She's graduating from UCLA Medical School this year.
00:32:27.000I'm talking, I grew up in a house where my dad was home with me and my mom was working.
00:32:33.000Okay, so I fully understand and believe in the rights of women to work.
00:32:37.000I don't know a lot of men who don't, but this idea that men are the sort of grand speed bump on the road to female equality is absolute, utter tripe, it's utter nonsense, and it's really damaging to relations between the sexes as well as to political relations in the United States.
00:32:51.000Okay, final thing that I hate today, and I know we're a little long, but there's a lot of hate, you know?
00:33:21.000I don't know why you're celebrating it.
00:33:22.000But in any case, World AIDS Day is when we're all supposed to stop and we're supposed to recognize that AIDS is a tremendous threat to everyone equally.
00:33:52.000Here's sort of the problem with your whole fight discrimination thing, Hillary.
00:33:55.000The fight discrimination thing suggests that discrimination is what is leading to a rise in AIDS or leading to a continuation of people obtaining the HIV-AIDS virus.
00:34:05.000It turns out that the virus itself kind of discriminates.
00:34:08.000It turns out that this happens to be a virus that actually
00:34:12.000has a significant behavioral corollary.
00:34:15.000And one of the things that makes me totally nuts about the left and their supposed belief in science is that they totally don't believe in science.
00:34:21.000The manipulation of science for the basis of politics is so clear.
00:34:26.000Look at how the National Institute of Health actually prioritizes research.
00:34:30.000So I'm looking right now at the National Institute of Health funding for research on particular causes.
00:34:48.000On a relative basis, it doesn't kill tons and tons and tons of people.
00:34:51.000Right now, there are 1.2 million people in the United States living with HIV infection, and the number of people who die every year from HIV-AIDS is not even close to 1.2 million people.
00:35:02.000In 2014, there will be 1.6 million new cancer cases diagnosed.
00:35:06.000This is every year, and 600,000 people will die from cancer.
00:35:09.000When it comes to heart disease, heart disease deaths, let's look this up, heart disease deaths in the United States
00:35:15.000Okay, heart disease deaths in the United States.
00:35:18.000610,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every single year.
00:35:22.000One in every four deaths is heart disease in the United States.
00:35:25.000So, we said $3.1 billion for funding for AIDS research.
00:35:29.000How much is being spent on heart disease research?
00:36:20.000We spend nearly three times as much funding HIV-AIDS research as we do funding heart disease research, even though a significant component of heart disease is actually genetic and doesn't necessarily have to do with all the crap that you're eating.
00:36:47.000And we're funding AIDS to three times that extent.
00:36:50.000I want to show this one graphic to explain why this is so maddening, and why the left's goal, as I've said many, many, many times on this program, is to
00:36:58.000Relieve any connection between behavior and consequence.
00:37:02.000There must never be any connection between behavior and consequence.
00:37:05.000Everybody has to be equal, no matter what stupid behavior they engage in.
00:37:08.000Okay, it turns out, we'll just look at this chart here.
00:37:10.000Okay, heart disease, if you had to attribute heart disease to a cause, you'd probably say that a significant percentage is people eating fatty or not exercising, and a significant percentage is actual heart disease that runs in your family.
00:37:21.000Cancer, we still have no idea what causes most cancers, and hundreds of thousands of people die from cancer.
00:39:01.000And this doesn't mean we shouldn't fight the disease, it doesn't mean we shouldn't research the disease, but I don't see us spending an enormous amount of time and money on syphilis research.
00:39:10.000Because it turns out that there are ways to avoid it.
00:39:13.000I don't want to spend lots and lots of research money on ways to avoid you running out in front of a car.
00:39:18.000I would prefer to spend more and more research money on how to make cars themselves safer.
00:39:23.000This stupidity that we have, politically correct stupidity, it's actually caused a lot of gay people to die.
00:39:28.000Because if you tell people that they're equally likely to get HIV by having sex with a woman and by having sex with a man, then you're lying to them and you're going to get more of a certain type of activity.
00:39:38.000If people are not aware of the risk level, they tend to engage in riskier behavior.
00:39:42.000This is true by every available measure.
00:39:45.000World AIDS Day, glad that we pay attention to AIDS, glad that we spend money trying to come up with drugs to fight AIDS, glad that people live after having contracted AIDS now in ways they would have thought crazy 40 years ago.
00:39:57.000I want at least two-thirds of that money shifted over to heart disease research and cancer research.
00:40:03.000I think those are significantly bigger problems for the United States, and the fact that the President of the United States and Hillary Clinton focus so much more on AIDS than anything else is just more evidence that when it comes to the left,
00:40:13.000Behavior has to be excused no matter what the consequence, and that is top priority, not saving actual human lives.
00:40:19.000Once again, always as always, back to bringing it full circle, when it comes to the left, the narrative is more important than human life.