It turns out, the San Bernardino shooting was NOT due to climate change or pro-life opinions, or any of the other narratives that the left wanted to push. We'll go through every last rake the left stepped on yesterday as these shootings unfolded, and then we will get to things that I hate, aside from the left, that steps on every rake when there is a shooting attack by Islamic terrorists. Ben Shapiro: This is a Thursday and we are approaching the weekend, and we have tons to talk about regarding the San Bernadino shooting, which it turns out was not due to Climate Change or Pro-Life Opinions or any other narratives the left tried to push yesterday. It was a random attack by crazed, crazed pro-lifers, and it has nothing to do with Planned Parenthood or climate change, and the next thing they tried to do is try to link it to the pro-Life movement. And it fell flat on its face. The left is mourning its dead narratives today, and mourning the people they don't care so much about. What are they mourning today? The victims of this shooting are not climate change deniers, it's crazed Pro-LIFE deniers. This is not what they need to be mourning today. Today's guest is Marcos Melitzus, who runs The Daily Kos and is a man who doesn't care about climate change and doesn't even care about the climate change. He's just wants to kill people who don't agree with him. He's not here for that climate change is not a problem, he's here to kill other people's babies. Ben, not to make him feel like he's a hypocrite, is here to make his point of view, and he doesn't give a damn about it. If you don't like it, then you should listen to this guy's point of views on it, not yours, not mine. You're not going to get any more information about it, so you're not listening to it, are you listening to the guy who doesn t care about it? . Thanks for listening, right? -Ben Shapiro - The Ben Shapiro Show is a podcast that's not a podcast. - Ben Shapiro's show is a show that does not care about anything that doesn't have a lot of facts, so he's going to be posting it on the internet, so why not listen to it?
00:00:00.000It is a Thursday, and we are approaching the weekend, and we have tons to talk about regarding the San Bernardino shooting, which it turns out was not due to climate change or pro-life opinions or any of the other narratives that the left wanted to push.
00:00:13.000We'll go through every last rake that the left stepped on yesterday as these shootings unfolded, and then we will get to things that I hate, aside from the left, that steps on every rake when there is a shooting attack by Islamic terrorists.
00:00:28.000I tend to demonize people who don't care about your feelings.
00:00:34.000Okay, so yesterday, as this shooting unfolded in San Bernardino, and we're about 45 minutes away from San Bernardino, maybe an hour away from San Bernardino, and everybody in the office was kind of watching as this unfolded, and there were two groups of people.
00:00:46.000There are the groups of people who are typically on the political right, who are saying, okay, let's wait to find out all the facts before we jump to any conclusions.
00:00:57.000And then there were the folks on the left.
00:00:59.000Who legitimately did not wait for five seconds in order to push their agenda.
00:01:05.000As this whole thing was unfolding, there are a bunch of narratives that unfolded in real time, and I think it's important to trace every narrative that the left pushed out there, because it's as though this shooting was specifically designed to destroy every leftist narrative that there is.
00:01:20.000I mean, the left is mourning its dead narratives today.
00:01:25.000The people they don't care so much about.
00:01:26.000The narratives they are very, very, very upset about.
00:01:28.000It started yesterday with the networks attempting, as the shooting unfolded,
00:02:01.000And to even travel in a car a mile and a half in Los Angeles takes you a very long time, because traffic is so bad.
00:02:06.000So they're standing a mile and a half away from the scene of the crime, and they're telling you that, oh, by the way, it's not, we thought it was gonna be Planned Parenthood, that this was just these crazy pro-lifers, and here they are, doing the routine, trying to link it to the pro-life movement again.
00:02:21.000Just one more minor detail, something that people might be concerned about following what happened in Colorado just a few days ago.
00:02:26.000We've received word that this shooting was not at a Planned Parenthood, so that's at least some perspective on where the shooting may be taking place, obviously with what happened in Colorado.
00:04:01.000And Marcos Melitzus tweeted out, in the middle of all of this, he tweeted out, you know, people in the GOP and the right should be ashamed because how can you say that you're for the safety of Americans when one of yours is doing this?
00:04:11.000To which people rightly asked, do you have any information that would suggest that one of ours is doing this?
00:04:15.000And he had no answer to that, but he said it anyway.
00:04:18.000And there are people all over the left who are saying this.
00:04:20.000This has to be some crazed right-winger based on no evidence whatsoever.
00:04:24.000And it demonstrates once again that for the left, the enemies that they wish they had are not the actual enemies Americans have.
00:04:30.000Crazed right-wingers are not out there shooting places up as a general rule.
00:04:33.000If they were, there'd be a lot more of them because there are lots of right-wingers in this country.
00:04:56.000President Obama blamed the lack of gun control again.
00:05:00.000Here's President Obama talking about, as the shooting is happening, he's asked by a reporter at CBS about what he thinks is going on, and he drops his famous phrase, it's all about the gun control, we need more gun control, we need more gun control.
00:05:15.000We have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world.
00:05:23.000And there are some steps we could take, not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings, but to improve the odds that they don't happen as frequently.
00:05:44.000Now, those of us who live in California understand that the gun laws here are actually pretty tough.
00:05:49.000Okay, California has actually the most restrictive gun regime in the United States.
00:05:53.000The Brady Center gives California an A for its gun laws.
00:05:57.000The Brady Center is, of course, a gun control propaganda outlet.
00:05:59.000And they are very much in favor of all of the restrictions that we have universal background checks, we have an assault weapons ban, you have to have a waiting period for handguns, you know, all of this is, all of these things.
00:06:12.000But President Obama, anyway, tried to suggest that there were common-sense gun safety reforms, and then he said that anybody on the no-fly list should be barred from purchasing firearms.
00:06:29.000There are literally hundreds of thousands of people on the no-fly list.
00:06:32.000So if they don't want you to have a gun, they just stick you on the no-fly list, and then all of a sudden you can't get a gun.
00:06:36.000So where I come from, in order for you to be deprived of a constitutional right, there first has to be some sort of due process that attaches, but not for Barack Obama.
00:06:46.000And by the way, France has pretty significant gun laws.
00:06:57.000Here's what Hillary Clinton's tweet looked like.
00:07:01.000She tweeted, quote, And one of the things I find so deeply obnoxious about Hillary Clinton and people who think like her is the unearned moral superiority that is just
00:08:05.000It's an immoral argument, it's a nasty argument, but it's something Hillary Clinton pushes because it makes all of her followers feel good about themselves.
00:08:11.000They don't actually have to do anything, but they feel really special now because they've stood up to those evil people who accept the normality of mass shootings.
00:08:21.000Bernie Sanders, the other Democratic candidate who's not going to win, the socialist loon bag from Vermont, he tweeted this out with regard to the attacks yesterday.
00:08:32.000He tweeted, First of all, what you'll notice is that the left routinely redefines what mass shootings constitute.
00:08:43.000Whenever you see people say there's a mass shooting every single day, what they mean is more than one person shot in a given confrontation.
00:08:50.000If you actually take the number of shootings where it's three or more people, that number drops precipitously.
00:09:00.000And Bernie Sanders, by the way, I think it's kind of just telling to put up what he tweeted in the aftermath of the Planned Parenthood attack.
00:09:07.000Here's what he did in the aftermath of the Planned Parenthood attack, Bernie Sanders.
00:09:10.000He tweeted, quote, So in other words, when there's a supposedly pro-life person who is actually a nutjob who shoots up
00:09:22.000Well, all of this, this gun control narrative, it started to fall apart pretty quickly because it turns out that the guns were actually obtained legally.
00:09:44.000Two of the guns were obtained legally, and there is no evidence that anything was obtained illegally, except for all of the other material they had with them.
00:10:07.000They dropped their Muslim married couple.
00:10:08.000They dropped their daughter off with grandma to take care of her for the day and presumably for the rest of her life because they were going to die that day.
00:10:16.000And those are things that you can't control with gun control.
00:10:20.000This brings up the left's major narrative of the day yesterday, and this was the major narrative that dominated most of the day yesterday.
00:10:26.000So we've already knocked down three, right?
00:10:28.000We've knocked down that it was pro-life people, we've knocked down that it was random people, and we've knocked down that gun control was the big issue here, because obviously California has massive gun control.
00:10:52.000If you tweeted out prayers for the people in San Bernardino, the left decided that you were evil.
00:10:58.000You were a bad person if you did that.
00:10:59.000So Chris Murphy, who is an actual sitting senator, a Democrat senator from Connecticut, this is what he tweeted out in the aftermath of the attacks.
00:11:09.000Your thoughts should be about steps to take to stop his carnage.
00:11:13.000Your prayers should be for forgiveness if you do nothing again.
00:11:16.000So you shouldn't say thoughts and prayers unless you agree with his gun control agenda because thoughts and prayers are meaningless and they do nothing.
00:11:24.000It's Scott Bixby over at the Huffington Post and Scott Bixby tweeted out a whole list
00:11:30.000Of all the Republicans tweeting out their thoughts and prayers to the people who are in San Bernardino.
00:11:34.000And then Scott Bixby of Huffington Post.
00:11:38.000He tweeted out that the official GOP position was praying, and God bless, and praying, and thoughts and prayers, and praying, and thoughts and prayers.
00:12:05.000You shouldn't offer thoughts and prayers.
00:12:07.000You need to take action, like banning all guns.
00:12:09.000And then you have Marcos Melitzus, the aforementioned moral cow pie, and he writes, Now it's worth mentioning, this morning, President Obama did a press conference, and at that press conference, President Obama specifically offered his thoughts and prayers.
00:14:06.000And Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham, thoughts and prayers.
00:14:08.000And then it says, it's an entirely black front page.
00:14:12.000And then in giant white letters it says, God isn't fixing this.
00:14:16.000And then beneath that it says, as latest batch of innocent Americans are left lying in pools of blood, cowards who could truly end a gun scourge continue to hide behind meaningless platitudes.
00:14:26.000Okay, first of all, nobody can end this.
00:14:37.000They misunderstand the role of... They don't understand God and they don't understand government, is really what it comes down to for the left.
00:14:42.000The reason the left is truly upset with people praying is because if we pray to God, then we are not praying to government.
00:14:48.000And they think we ought to be praying to government.
00:14:56.000Government is just a place you go to fix things.
00:14:58.000Government is a place that they're supposed to take care of you.
00:15:01.000This is why you're not supposed to own guns, folks.
00:15:03.000Because, after all, the government has guns.
00:15:06.000And sure, you know that they're not omnipotent, and they're not omniscient, and that if a mass shooter descends in the middle of a regional center and decides to kill people, there will be a four-minute response time, which there was in San Bernardino, as people were getting shot.
00:15:18.000That they'll only show up after 75-plus rounds have been fired into the bodies of human beings?
00:15:39.000So if you worship God, and that means that you are individually responsible, your life is between you and God, then that is a denial of the idea that the real God, government, can solve all of your problems.
00:15:49.000And so you have blasphemed, you're an idolater, and you must be called out as a blasphemer and an idolater.
00:15:55.000And then we get to it, and it's because this childish view of government extends to why these people are atheists, truly.
00:16:01.000Folks on the left, they're not all atheists, they're people who are supposedly religious on the left, although they're not biblically religious on the left, by any stretch of the imagination.
00:16:08.000Okay, you believe in gods, you believe in a god that's...
00:16:16.000No, because the Bible is not a left-wing document.
00:16:18.000But for a lot of these folks, leftism is based on a philosophy of atheism because leftism assumes, leftism is all about the material world.
00:16:27.000Leftism says all human unhappiness is caused by material inequality.
00:16:31.000It's not caused by you doing bad stuff, or you making bad choices, or you violating your covenant with God.
00:16:38.000All bad things in the universe are caused by you not having enough stuff, and if we just redistribute all the stuff, then everything is good.
00:16:44.000There's no such thing as the spiritual plane for the left, which is why they're constantly saying that terrorism is caused by poverty, as opposed to a moral shortcoming.
00:16:52.000It's not caused by a moral shortcoming, it's caused by poverty, because there's no such thing as moral, there's no such thing as spiritual.
00:16:57.000Leftism is based on this atheistic notion of the universe.
00:17:00.000It's why Karl Marx suggested that religion was the opium of the masses.
00:17:04.000It kept us all blind to the realities of what actually rules things.
00:17:27.000And you're supposed to take your nickel, and that's your prayer, and you put it in the gumball machine, and after you twist the little handle, the gumball comes out, right?
00:17:34.000You prayed to God for X, and God will give you X. This is how they think religious people think.
00:17:39.000Because this is how they think of God, they think this is how we, the religious, think of God.
00:17:43.000Now, there's not a single deeply religious person in the Judeo-Christian world who believes this, right?
00:17:48.000All Judeo-Christian people know God says no, right?
00:17:51.000Sometimes your agenda is not God's agenda.
00:18:00.000God doesn't decide on the spur of the moment, oh, well, you know, I wasn't going to give him this car, but now that he prayed for it, well, that changes everything.
00:18:20.000What prayer is designed to do, it's designed to remind you that you are subject to God's dictates, and it's supposed to remind you that God's plan for you may not be your plan for you, but you pray that you can understand God's plan for you the best that you possibly can, and that you act in accordance with His will, and that if you do that, you'll lead a happier life.
00:18:48.000Maimonides says explicitly, prayer is designed for man to recognize the primacy of God and bring you into consonance with his mission for you.
00:18:54.000Rabbi Jonathan Sacks says, prayer is the act of listening to God, listening to us.
00:19:18.000We live behind the shield of the word and then the shotgun that's next to us on our table, right?
00:19:23.000The fact is that religious people understand that we have
00:19:26.000Activity that we are agents in this world, that we have agency, we have free will, we have primacy in our own lives, but the primacy in the universe is God's, and unless we recognize his primacy, we're gonna live unhappy lives.
00:19:37.000The left doesn't understand prayer, and so they rip on prayer, because what they think prayer should be is what they think government should be.
00:19:43.000They think God and government should be the same.
00:19:45.000Government gives us everything we want, and so if we really wanted to stop mass shootings, we should stop praying to God, and we should start praying to Obama.
00:19:52.000We should start praying to President Obama.
00:19:55.000Today, President Obama and his White House said that they are planning to expand executive action to expand background checks for gun sales.
00:20:03.000California, again, already has universal background checks.
00:20:05.000These two people passed a California background check when they bought their guns.
00:20:10.000But President Obama, as the godlike initiator of all that is good and just in the universe, he is going to descend from on high, and he's going to fix everything, and he will keep you safe.
00:20:27.000That's not how God works, and it ain't how government works either.
00:20:30.000When it says, biblically, put not your faith in man, that's because man is not capable of giving you everything that you want or keeping you safe.
00:20:38.000And when it says put your faith in God, it doesn't mean that God is going to do everything that you want.
00:20:43.000He may do other things that you definitely don't want.
00:20:45.000But that has very little to do with what you ask him to do.
00:20:50.000You don't have any—this is my own view of prayer.
00:20:54.000God is not sitting there waiting for you to check a box before he gives you what he's going to give you anyway.
00:20:59.000He knows what you're going to do anyway, right?
00:21:00.000I mean, the idea that God is sitting there and that he's just responsive to your every whim and that he changes his mind based on your prayer is just—it's nonsense.
00:21:07.000You can't change God because God is unchanging and God is perfect.
00:21:10.000That is the notion of Judeo-Christian morality.
00:21:13.000Okay, so, they tried that narrative, they tried the anti-prayer narrative, it fell flat, people thought this was ridiculous, because it is ridiculous, and it is insulting.
00:21:20.000Next, so we've now gone through four narratives, right?
00:21:24.000This all happened in the course of about five hours yesterday.
00:21:26.000We've gone through four narratives, and all of them are just the left stepping on a rake, and boom, they handle hitting them right in the face, right?
00:21:32.000And then they get up from their bleeding faces on the ground, and they proceed to immediately jump with both feet on the next rake.
00:21:39.000So they started off, just to recap, with, it's right-wing terrorism.
00:21:42.000Then it turned into, well, it's just unspecified white people terrorism.
00:22:09.000The people who did this, they must be totally crazy.
00:22:12.000And to prove they're totally crazy, here is the brother-in-law of the guy, and he's at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which is, in fact, a terror-linked group.
00:22:20.000I mean, they were an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case.
00:22:24.000They have links to international terrorist groups.
00:22:27.000They held a press conference immediately, like spontaneously, spur of the moment, which is kind of weird.
00:22:32.000Unless they knew immediately that Islam had something to do with it, and radical Islam had something to do with it.
00:22:37.000And here they are talking about, well, we really don't know what drove these people.
00:23:46.000In order for you to be a crazy person, it's very hard to draft your wife into this, and it's particularly, I mean, anybody who's married, it's hard to draft your wife into anything.
00:23:53.000To draft your wife into, we're gonna go over to the local rec center, leave your six-month-old baby behind, by the way, and we're gonna go shoot a bunch of innocent people and then get shot.
00:25:00.000But President Obama says, no, our screening procedures are so good with thousands and thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees that none of them will be terrorists.
00:25:31.000If it's a white guy, then the narrative that comes out is, this is a reflection of right-wing ideology, this is a reflection of gun control needs.
00:25:38.000And then, if it's a Muslim, then we get the Islamophobia speech.
00:25:57.000If it's that hard for Muslims in the United States, there are like six to seven million of them here in the United States, why don't we see this all the time?
00:26:03.000If it's that hard for Muslims in the United States.
00:26:06.000And so they've been trying to push this.
00:26:08.000One NBC journalist got on TV and suggested it was workplace violence.
00:26:11.000President Obama also suggested it was workplace violence.
00:26:14.000Workplace violence is the euphemism that we use when Muslims shoot people up for Islamic reasons in a place where people work.
00:27:11.000I think a very important point about all of this, and that is that this drive, this anti-Islamophobia, we can't pay any attention to the Islamic wizard behind the curtain, don't pay attention to any of that, all of this gets people killed.
00:27:27.000It ends with dead people, and it happened in this particular case.
00:27:30.000Here's what CBS LA reported today, quote,
00:27:33.000A man who had been working in the area said he noticed a half dozen Middle Eastern men in the area in recent weeks, but decided not to report anything, since he did not wish to racially profile those people.
00:27:44.000So in other words, he saw a lot of suspicious activity with a bunch of Middle Eastern men, Muslims, and he did not call the cops because he didn't want to racially profile, and this is not the first time we've seen this.
00:27:53.000In 2006, there were a bunch of Muslims who were planning an attack on Fort Dix, and they went into a circuit city, and they handed the clerk behind the counter a tape, and the tape was of them shooting guns into the air, idiot terrorists, them shooting guns into the air and talking about jihad.
00:28:27.000Where a 14-year-old boy walks into school and he's got a device that looks exactly like a bomb because he had taken the back off a clock, stuck it in a pencil case, and then claimed that he had invented a clock, which is asinine.
00:28:52.000The police come in, they detain him, they release him.
00:28:55.000President Obama calls the police racist, calls the town racist, and invites the kid to the White House.
00:28:59.000What do you think a normal person is going to take away from that?
00:29:04.000Might a normal person take away that it's very risky to use your head?
00:29:09.000And it is called using your head, by the way.
00:29:11.000It is more suspicious if a group of Middle Eastern men from random places suddenly start showing up in the middle of the night at the apartment next door than it would be if a group of white guys started showing up next door.
00:29:20.000The white guys showing up next door might be there for a drug deal, but the Middle Eastern men probably are not.
00:29:25.000Okay, even if you're suspicious of both groups, there's higher suspicion in different groups, right?
00:29:29.000The fact is that there is such a thing as a risk profile, but we've now moved to the point where see something, say something has become see something, say something, unless it's the person you actually should probably be suspecting.
00:29:40.000If it's that person, definitely don't say anything, because then you might be a racist.
00:29:45.000All of this is going to lead to more dead people, and the left doesn't care, because this is their narrative.
00:29:50.000Their narrative has to be pushed, no matter what.
00:29:53.000The narrative must be prolonged, no matter what, and no matter how many dead bodies start to stack up.
00:29:58.000Okay, it's time for Things That I Hate.
00:30:01.000First, something that I really, really like.
00:30:03.000I've been trying to balance it out, and as always, we thank Lindsay for the idea for the Things That I Hate segment.
00:30:09.000And as always, I mention something that I like because I want to show that I don't hate everything in the universe.
00:30:14.000So there's this meme that's been going around that I happen to think, personally, is the funniest thing that has ever happened.
00:30:20.000It may be in the history of the world.
00:30:22.000It was sent to me originally by my younger sister.
00:30:24.000And for those who can't see, it's a picture of Demi Lovato.
00:32:59.000It looks like they're cramming every superhero they can find into this movie.
00:33:02.000I understand it's a Justice League movie.
00:33:04.000It's an introduction to the Justice League.
00:33:06.000But what they really should have done is used the inju- for comic book fans, they should have used the Injustice storyline from the comic books, in which
00:34:08.000We'll show you the preview clip and then I'll tell you the thing that I hate.
00:34:29.000For those who can't see, Batman is chained up with his hands over his head and Superman just kind of descended into whatever pit he's in and a bunch of people bow to Superman because he's God, right?
00:34:39.000And now Superman is reaching over, and he's grabbing Ben Affleck's bat mask, and he's pulling it off of him, and they're staring at each other in very angry fashion.
00:34:47.000They're obviously pissed at each other, right?
00:35:29.000But the guy who wrote this, Christian Zamo, who's the guy who wrote this, is apparently, according to his profile, he's a gay guy, and so apparently when he goes to Vons and he's in the checkout line, there's sexual tension with the male checker.
00:35:41.000But this is something that I truly despise about modern society, is that they've actually destroyed the notion of male friendship or even male conflict.
00:35:51.000The idea that two guys can just be friends, and this is true for women too, they've actually done it across the board.
00:35:56.000The idea that two women can be friends, they've done it actually in the comic books now.
00:35:59.000Catwoman can't just be a powerful woman, she has to be a bisexual.
00:36:11.000All the powerful women in my life that I know are absolutely straight.
00:36:16.000But the left has decided that in order to make everyone feel- everyone's just a little gay on the inside, right?
00:36:21.000In order to make everybody feel that way, they're now going to take pop-cultural moments and they're going to read sexual tension into them.
00:36:28.000So, it's not just that these are two guys who are fr- and by the way, Superman and Batman, spoiler alert, they will end up being friends, okay?
00:36:34.000Superman is not going to kill Batman, and Batman is not going to kill Superman.
00:36:37.000There are future sequels planned, okay?
00:36:39.000So, they will end up on the same side of the aisle, but they're not gonna end up on the same side of the bed, right?
00:36:43.000That's not- that's not the point of this thing, but the left is so desperate to see sexual tension everywhere, so that they can imply that everyone is just a little bit gay.
00:36:52.000See, not- not everyone is just a little bit straight.
00:36:53.000Gay people are totally gay, but all straight people are a little bit gay.
00:37:24.000Which is the most sexually confusing time of any boy's or girl's life is when you're a teenager and the hormones are first starting to hit and boys are basically willing to screw a tree.
00:37:33.000And this is when they decide that they're going to target these kids.
00:37:35.000So that's the thing I hate, is the left's perverse decision that they must read sexuality.
00:37:41.000Into everything, including things that have no sexual content to them at all.
00:37:45.000It's not just irritating, it's actually problematic, because you're teaching kids to see sex everywhere.
00:37:52.000You wonder why the society is over-sexualized, and you wonder why young boys have perverse views of women, and why they're trying to screw everything in sight.
00:37:59.000Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you're reading sex into everything to push your own sexual agenda.
00:38:03.000So that's the thing I hate for today, aside from Islamic terrorism and the failure of the left to recognize that it even exists.
00:38:10.000By the way, I should note that we haven't yet locked down the rationale for what just happened in San Bernardino, but it is important to mention we are experiencing here in California a historic drought.