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00:00:01.000Here we are, it's a Monday morning, and President Obama has explained to us all how he's about to defeat ISIS.
00:00:06.000We'll go through all of that, plus a very special Christmas episode of Stuff I Hate.
00:00:11.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:14.000Okay, so President Obama is somebody who is questionable.
00:00:27.000There was a question that I had going in.
00:00:29.000About whether the President of the United States was going to announce that he was a dictator, whether he was going to announce that he was a lame duck.
00:00:36.000That was sort of the question going into President Obama's speech.
00:00:39.000And I had a conversation with Jeremy, who's the managing editor over at Daily Wire.
00:00:44.000President Obama had announced yesterday that he was going to do
00:00:47.000His speech and it was mainly going to concern gun control.
00:00:50.000CBS News billed it as an urgent appeal for gun control.
00:00:54.000And Jeremy and I were wondering just like everybody else, what exactly is this going to be?
00:00:57.000Is President Obama going to come out and announce some sort of broad executive action banning guns?
00:01:03.000Is he going to dare Congress to stop him?
00:01:05.000Is he going to dare Congress to impeach him or shut down the government?
00:01:08.000Is he going to dare the Supreme Court to stop him?
00:01:10.000Or is President Obama going to do something more moderate?
00:01:13.000And what's to stop him from doing something truly extreme?
00:01:16.000After all, the president has gone out of his way just through executive action to legitimize millions and millions of illegal immigrants.
00:01:22.000The president has gone out of his way with executive action to push forward an Iran nuclear deal that is the worst in American history.
00:01:29.000So what exactly would stop him from taking executive action on guns if that's what he wanted to do?
00:01:34.000And if he were really nefarious about it and wanted to grab guns, if he tried to grab guns and he sent federal agents in to grab guns, he would know that that would cause conflict at the state and local level, that there might be people who would resist in armed fashion.
00:01:46.000And if that happened, wouldn't the president take advantage of that and call for broader powers for himself?
00:01:51.000I mean, this is all dark, conspiratorial stuff, of course.
00:01:54.000This is what President Obama has sort of brought people to because he's gone so far in his exercises, his abuse, really, of executive authority.
00:02:02.000So, last night, we really didn't know what to expect.
00:02:04.000President Obama was supposed to break into Sunday Night Football.
00:02:07.000And give this speech about ISIS and terrorism in the aftermath of the San Bernardino terror attacks that happened last week.
00:02:14.000And we now know, of course, that these are terror attacks, that the two people who did this, Syed Farouk and Tashfeen Malik, this delightful married couple who we desperately needed in the United States, you know, to enrich our culture and make multiculturalism and diversity more of a rich and deep undertone to American life.
00:02:33.000These people went on a shooting spree.
00:02:59.000He decided that he was going to break into Sunday Night Football, which is of course sacred television time for the American people, to talk about what he was going to do with ISIS.
00:03:07.000And as I said, it was questionable as to whether he was going to push forward a very ambitious executive agenda, just say he was going to do stuff and then wait for the chips to fall where they may, or whether the President of the United States was going to mule and whine.
00:03:22.000And given the opportunity, the president muled and whined.
00:03:24.000And that was basically the short form of President Obama's speech.
00:03:27.000It broke down into three sections, and we'll go through all of this.
00:03:30.000It broke down into the, no really, I'm doing an awesome job, guys, segment.
00:03:33.000That was kind of part one of President Obama's speech.
00:03:36.000Don't worry, you shouldn't be too worried.
00:03:38.000I'm doing a great job, you're all safe.
00:03:40.000Don't look at the terrorism threat behind the curtain.
00:03:43.000And Obama's been doing this for years, going all the way back to 2011-2012, when, as we found out last week, President Obama was ignoring all intelligence about the rise of ISIS in order to achieve his magical end of being re-elected.
00:03:55.000So part one of his speech was, everything is fine.
00:03:58.000Part two of his speech was, if everything isn't fine, it's really because we need gun control.
00:04:05.000And then part three was, if everything still isn't fine, it's because you're all a bunch of Islamophobes.
00:04:09.000Those were the three parts of the speech.
00:04:13.000You suck, and it's because you hate Muslims.
00:04:15.000Those were really the three parts of the speech.
00:04:17.000And we'll go through all of it, because there actually were some weird moments in here, some telling moments, but what this really said to me, what this speech really said to me, is that Obama has finally acknowledged, even in his own head, that he's a lame duck.
00:04:29.000I mean, in that way, it's good for us because, again, the conspiratorially minded were saying, okay, President Obama's going to maximize his executive authority.
00:04:36.000He's going to dare people to remove him from office.
00:04:38.000I never thought that Obama would actually do that, but when Obama started to use executive authority in unprecedented ways,
00:04:45.000It had to at least cross your mind, right?
00:04:47.000And so yesterday we found out that Obama actually thinks he's a lame duck, and so instead of just declaring executive action on guns, he said he was going to push Congress, which of course will come to nothing.
00:04:56.000He's going to campaign on it, and he's going to push it, and he's going to let Hillary Clinton campaign on it, more importantly.
00:05:02.000So, let's start with the President of the United States, who's kind of a weird setup.
00:05:07.000And again, breaking into Sunday Night Football for no reason.
00:05:10.000If you're gonna break into Sunday Night Football, it better be for something good.
00:05:13.000He broke in and basically had nothing to say for 14 minutes, but he was standing in the Oval Office, which is rare.
00:05:18.000Typically, the Oval Office, you're sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office, that's what we're used to seeing.
00:05:23.000There were some, again, conspiracy theories that Obama wasn't even in the Oval Office, that it was actually just a green screen backdrop, because he had to get over to the Kennedy Center Honors Awards.
00:05:32.000But, assuming that he actually was in the Oval Office that has been
00:05:38.000Our military and counterterrorism professionals have relentlessly pursued terrorist networks overseas, disrupting safe havens in several different countries, killing Osama bin Laden, and decimating al Qaeda's leadership.
00:06:05.000The terrorist threat has evolved into a new phase.
00:06:09.000As we've become better at preventing complex, multifaceted attacks like 9-11, terrorists turn to less complicated acts of violence, like the mass shootings that are all too common in our society.
00:06:23.000It is this type of attack that we saw at Fort Hood in 2009, in Chattanooga earlier this year, and now in San Bernardino.
00:06:32.000And as groups like ISIL grew stronger amidst the chaos of war in Iraq and then Syria, and as the Internet erases the distance between countries, we see growing efforts by terrorists to poison the minds of people like the Boston Marathon bombers and the San Bernardino killers.
00:06:51.000Now, if you look closely at President Obama in this particular clip, what you can see is that he's really uneasy.
00:06:56.000This is not confident and full of himself President Obama.
00:07:00.000This is really uneasy President Obama.
00:07:02.000And that's because he's trying desperately to explain why it is we've seen this spate of terrorist attacks on American soil under his watch.
00:07:08.000I mean, this is the first time that he's openly admitted that what happened in Chattanooga was in fact a terrorist attack.
00:07:12.000This is the first time the President of the United States has openly admitted that what happened at Fort Hood was a terrorist attack.
00:08:02.000But President Obama is desperately trying to maintain the fiction that he did a great job in his first term on this.
00:08:07.000Then he says, well, you know, we really got rid of the complex terror attacks, but the kind of low level terror that we haven't been able to do anything about.
00:08:15.000Well, that's kind of amazing because it seems to me that President Bush sort of was, right?
00:08:20.000How many of these low-level terrorist attacks did we have in the United States when Bush was in office?
00:08:27.000There was the shooting at the El Al counter.
00:08:29.000There is the attempt to smuggle a bomb into Bomb LAX, but in terms of a soft target terror attack, this is really a phenomenon of the Obama administration.
00:08:38.000And it's not that those threats didn't exist before.
00:08:41.000It's not that Al-Qaeda hadn't discovered those threats.
00:08:42.000Al-Qaeda used to carry out attacks that were similar to what we've seen from ISIS on a fairly regular basis.
00:08:48.000What happened is that President Bush understood that the threat went pretty far beyond
00:08:51.000Just were gonna fly planes into buildings and went to soft targets as well.
00:08:55.000And then finally, President Obama basically says, don't blame me, blame radicalization.
00:11:31.000He says that we're going to win by being smart, and strong, and resilient, and relentless, and beautiful, and magnificent, like a silky pony flying in the wind.
00:11:42.000That's how we're going to win all of this.
00:11:45.000He says the threat is real, and we'll destroy them, but it won't be because of tough talk.
00:11:50.000Now what's amazing is that he then follows that up with two sentences of tough talk, right?
00:11:53.000We're not going to win because of tough talk, but also we're going to win because of tough talk.
00:11:56.000Then he says we're not going to win by abandoning our values.
00:11:58.000I don't know whose idea it was to abandon our values, but later he'll explain what he means by abandoning our values is believing that radical Islam is a threat.
00:12:06.000If you believe radical Islam is a threat, then you're the problem, right?
00:12:26.000He got down to a few specifics here, and the problem is, once he got past the thesaurus section, he got down to specifics, there's really nothing there.
00:12:33.000Hillary Clinton, infamously, had John Podesta, her campaign manager, tweet out, she did a couple weeks ago, a speech about how to defeat ISIS, this is after Paris, and he tweeted out, Hillary Clinton's strategy for defeating ISIS.
00:12:46.000And it was three points, and the first point was, defeat ISIS.
00:12:50.000And that's pretty much President Obama's plan here.
00:12:52.000Don't worry, we're going to defeat ISIS.
00:13:04.000So President Obama says that he breaks it down into three basic points, right?
00:13:10.000As any decent rhetorician would, he breaks it down into three points.
00:13:14.000He says, first, our military would continue to hunt down terrorist plotters in any country where it's necessary.
00:13:19.000Now, what's amazing, of course, is that he removed troops that allow us to do this, so we won't be hunting down terrorist plotters in Iraq, for example.
00:13:25.000Except for the 50 to 200 operatives he's put back in there.
00:13:29.000We won't really be doing it in Libya, where we've pretty much abandoned the fight.
00:13:32.000We're not going to allow Israel to do it in the Palestinian areas.
00:13:35.000We're not going to do it in a lot of places, but don't worry.
00:13:37.000We're going to hunt down terrorist plotters in all these countries.
00:13:41.000We'll have boots on the ground from other people doing it.
00:13:44.000Then, President Obama said that we are going to provide training and equipment to tens of thousands of Iraqi and Syrian forces.
00:13:51.000He sort of neglects to mention that the tens of thousands of Iraqi and Syrian forces fighting ISIL don't exist.
00:13:56.000And the fact is that ISIS, when they went into Iraq, defeated an army 10 times to 20 times their size because those people cut and ran.
00:14:05.000The forces, as I mentioned last week, I went through, the various players in the Middle East don't have much of an interest in getting rid of ISIS.
00:14:11.000In fact, they sort of have an interest in keeping ISIS there.
00:14:13.000ISIS is sort of good for Iran because it makes Iran look like a good guy.
00:14:16.000ISIS is good for Syrian dictator Bashar Assad because it makes him look like the good guy, right?
00:14:21.000Who are you going to choose, Bashar Assad or ISIS?
00:14:24.000Two years ago, we were talking about deposing Assad.
00:14:26.000That talk has gone completely away because of ISIS.
00:14:29.000So Obama says, we'll use boots on the ground.
00:14:31.000We won't use American boots on the ground.
00:14:32.000We'll use magical, phantom boots on the ground that don't really exist because Vladimir Putin and Bashar Assad have been bombing the Free Syrian Army out of existence.
00:14:41.000So there really are no boots on the ground.
00:14:42.000This is the great unspoken truth here.
00:14:45.000Is that every time Obama and company, they say they want boots on the ground, what they really mean is there are no boots on the ground, we're gonna bomb from the air.
00:14:51.000Now I read an analysis over the weekend by somebody who's on the ground saying that ISIS wants American troops there because they want to kill American troops.
00:14:59.000I'm sure that there's some truth to that.
00:15:00.000Terrorist groups want to kill American troops.
00:15:02.000What they don't want is enough American troops there to actually destroy them.
00:15:17.000Just because ISIS wants something doesn't mean they know what they're going to get.
00:15:20.000There are a lot of people who think they want to get into a fist fight, and then when they realize that you've had boxing lessons, then things radically change.
00:15:27.000And that's sort of the story with ISIS.
00:15:29.000Finally, President Obama says that we're working with friends and allies to stop ISIL's operation, and he says that we're cooperating with Muslim-majority countries.
00:15:37.000First of all, if he actually thinks that Saudi Arabia is combating the vicious ideology of ISIS with their skillful Facebook pages,
00:16:21.000They are certainly not moderate in any way, shape, or form.
00:16:24.000So this idea that you can just defeat ISIS by activating our Muslim allies, our grand Muslim allies, name a Muslim country that really promotes quote-unquote moderate Islam, you know, democracy-loving Islam.
00:16:35.000Not even our closest allies like Jordan are in favor of that because it's a monarchy, right?
00:16:39.000They're not in favor of women's rights and women's equality.
00:16:42.000They're not in favor of the vote, obviously, because Jordan is run by a monarchy.
00:16:46.000So this idea that there are all these regimes out there we're working with to combat ISIL's ideology, ISIS's ideology, it's just, it's not factually true.
00:17:16.000It is designed and supported by our military commanders and counterterrorism experts, together with 65 countries that have joined an American-led coalition.
00:17:26.000And we constantly examine our strategy to determine when additional steps are needed to get the job done.
00:17:32.000That's why I've ordered the Departments of State and Homeland Security to review the visa waiver program under which the female terrorist in San Bernardino originally came to this country.
00:17:43.000And that's why I will urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice.
00:18:27.000Our government is so good at vetting these people.
00:18:29.000That just a few tweaks here and there should basically fix this and we should be able to put in 25,000 more Syrian Muslim refugees into the country.
00:18:37.000It'll all work out just spectacularly.
00:18:39.000By the way, he did have a fourth point, actually.
00:18:41.000He said that in his ISIS plan, he says that he wants the international community
00:18:46.000to pursue a ceasefire in Syria, which of course is never going to happen because Bashar Assad is backed by Vladimir Putin.
00:18:52.000When Obama says that he is going to now instruct state and homeland security to fix everything, it is truly amazing that he thinks that we believe this.
00:19:00.000Does anyone feel more secure listening to this, by the way?
00:19:03.000Anybody feel more secure listening to this?
00:19:04.000Who feels more secure listening to this?
00:19:06.000Who feels like, okay, he broke into our Sunday night football to tell us we're all safe and now I'm ready to go out shopping?
00:19:13.000Last night was first night of Hanukkah and I turned to my wife and we thought to ourselves, you know, there's a big Hanukkah party that was happening and we were thinking of going to one of these parties with my baby out in public and my wife and I looked at each other and we actually had a serious conversation.
00:19:27.000Do we go out into a public area right now?
00:19:30.000And hang out in public because we don't feel safe, especially as Jews we don't feel safe.
00:19:34.000I wear my yarmulke on TV, I wear my yarmulke everywhere, but one of the things I've taken to doing more and more often is wearing a baseball cap over my yarmulke because I don't feel safe in the way that I used to in the United States.
00:19:44.000Not when President Obama is incapable of defending us, and not when he did what he did last night.
00:20:11.000And you, the American people, are terrible.
00:20:13.000So, one of the memes that was pushed out by folks on the left last week
00:20:17.000Was this meme that President Obama was pushing, and the New York Times was pushing, which is that Republicans want terrorists to have guns.
00:20:22.000They're so addicted to guns that they want terrorists to have guns.
00:20:38.000We still have due process of law in this country, and you can't just take people's rights away from them without any basis in evidence.
00:20:44.000It's amazing that President Obama is suggesting that, especially after saying that Republicans are the ones who want to violate civil liberties, but President Obama wants to do that.
00:20:51.000Then he got to his real point last night, and this was gun control.
00:20:58.000We also need to make it harder for people to buy powerful assault weapons, like the ones that were used in San Bernardino.
00:21:04.000I know there are some who reject any gun safety measures, but the fact is that our intelligence and law enforcement agencies, no matter how effective they are,
00:21:29.000And what he's saying right here is totally asinine.
00:21:31.000So, in other words, we can't track- he actually says in this quote, we can't track down every would-be terrorist, but we can track down all 300 million guns in America.
00:21:46.000We now found out, by the way, the San Bernardino shooters, they had four guns, two of them were bought legally, two of them they borrowed from a guy who lived next door, basically.
00:21:53.000Who has checked himself, apparently, according to the Associated Press, into a mental institution to avoid talking to the police.
00:21:59.000So President Obama, again, he has not suggested a single gun law that would prevent all of this, but taking my gun away from me makes me feel secure.
00:22:06.000Yeah, that's gonna make me feel more secure.
00:22:07.000So you can't stop these people from coming into the country.
00:22:09.000We now have a photo, a photo of this couple coming into the country in 2014.
00:22:14.000Looking for all the world, like, very, very religious Muslims.
00:22:17.000Okay, coming directly from Pakistan for her and Saudi Arabia for him.
00:22:30.000One, last time terrorists tried an attack in America, they tried it in Garland, Texas, and they tried to shoot up, if you recall, a Dramahamede festival.
00:22:39.000There's only one problem, it was in Texas.
00:22:40.000So they actually had security there, number one.
00:22:43.000And number two, everybody in the place had a gun.
00:22:45.000So things were a little bit different than San Bernardino, California.
00:22:48.000But I know at least a half dozen friends I talked to over the weekend in California who would probably consider carrying illegally at this point just because you can't get a concealed carry permit in the state of California and they would rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
00:23:25.000Today actually marks the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
00:23:29.000And FDR spoke on the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and FDR said, we all know what basically what kind of weasels did this.
00:23:36.000And then he proceeded to spend four years putting out anti-Japanese propaganda, anti-Japanese Imperial Army propaganda, anti-Nazi propaganda.
00:24:22.000They are thugs and killers, part of a cult of death.
00:24:27.000And they account for a tiny fraction of the more than a billion Muslims around the world, including millions of patriotic Muslim Americans who reject their hateful ideology.
00:24:39.000Moreover, the vast majority of terrorist victims around the world are Muslim.
00:24:44.000If we're to succeed in defeating terrorism, we must enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away through suspicion and hate.
00:24:56.000Okay, I don't know who's pushing Muslims away through suspicion and hate.
00:24:59.000Do you know anybody who's going down to the local mosque and swastika-ing it?
00:25:02.000Does anybody know of anybody who's going down to the local Muslim and beating him up?
00:25:06.000I mean, the FBI crime statistics don't show that there has been in the last five years a major upsurge in anti-Muslim violence across the United States due to the rise of ISIS.
00:25:16.000But there is this bizarre idea, and I have to just call it out here.
00:25:19.000When President Obama says that there are sort of moderate Muslims who are on the edge, and if we're mean to Muslims, they're magically going to join ISIS,
00:26:10.000According to President Obama, Caitlyn Jenner is a woman, because Caitlyn Jenner says he is a woman.
00:26:15.000But these people who say they're Muslim, they're not actually Muslim.
00:26:17.000And he can be the judge of that, because he is an expert on the nature of Islam.
00:26:22.000The idiocy of this is really beyond compare.
00:26:24.000Nobody is saying that all Muslims are bad, but to not recognize that there may be a flaw within the practice of Islam, and I don't care what's in people's head, I care what they do.
00:26:34.000There may be a flaw within the practice of Islam, you know, that is leading hundreds of millions of Muslims to believe bad things, and certainly millions of Muslims to pursue doing bad things.
00:26:44.000That's ridiculous in ignorance of the president, but it's not even ignorance, it's malicious.
00:26:48.000Because the idea here is that Muslims aren't the real problem, it's Americans who are the real problem.
00:27:40.000Because there are actual consequences for Americans who do the things he doesn't want them to do, but there are no consequences for the global Muslim community that refuses to condemn ISIS, refuses to fight the ideology of Iran, refuses to fight the ideology of the Palestinian Authority.
00:27:54.000There are no consequences for any of that.
00:32:14.000I thought that that was like all tied in together.
00:32:16.000I understand I'm Jewish, I'm ignorant on this stuff, but I thought Christmas had something to do with religiosity and God and spirituality and the birth of Christ and the saving of humanity and all of this, right?
00:32:26.000But for the left, Christmas is just another opportunity to pray to their actual god, government, to their idol.
00:32:48.000What they want for Christmas is a transformation of America away from a religious nation that actually cares about things like Christmas.
00:32:56.000What you really should have sung here is, what I want for Christmas is for Christmas not to exist.
00:33:00.000I want the government to give me everything and Christmas won't exist because you don't need God.
00:33:03.000You don't need Santa for any of these things.
00:33:05.000All you need is the power of a dictator to give you all of these things because they're not for free.
00:33:12.000Things have to be taken away from others to make these things happen.
00:33:16.000Listen, I'm not against the legalization of marijuana because I think the government sucks at everything.
00:33:20.000People who smoke pot annoy the living hell out of me, and if you smoke pot, I want to smack you in the head.
00:33:25.000I mean, you smell terrible, and you annoy everyone around you, and you're a loser.
00:33:28.000But aside from that, lots of people do that kind of stuff every day, and I don't think that it's illegal to be a smelly loser if it were Democrats who'd have to leave the country.
00:33:38.000When this is the sort of entertainment that's being produced, and it's produced for kids, right?
00:33:42.000For folks who can't see this, this was an animated video with kids singing in it, and it's oh so cutesy.
00:34:00.000We wrote all the Christmas music and gave you Jesus, so you can thank us now.
00:34:03.000But the fact is that when you have folks on the left who hijack conservative ideas, religious ideas like Christmas, and use them for the left, this is how they get their stuff done.