The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 40 - Obama Says We're Handling Muslim Immigration. Um, No, You're Not.

00:00:00.000 It's a Monday, it's a brand new week, and we have so much to talk about, from President Obama's climate change agreement, to Donald Trump attacking Ted Cruz, plus a very special holiday edition of Things I Hate.

00:00:11.000 I'm Ben Shapiro, this is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:21.000 Alrighty, so here we are.

00:00:23.000 It is indeed a Monday, and it was a busy weekend for a lot of folks.

00:00:26.000 President Obama had himself a busy weekend.

00:00:29.000 Over the weekend, he signed an agreement that is best described as a America-gives-everybody-lots-of-free-crap-and-nobody-else-does-anything agreement, which is President Obama's favorite type of agreement.

00:00:40.000 He declared over the weekend that this was just the step necessary in order to save the planet.

00:00:45.000 He's like, 0.94

00:00:46.000 An incompetent bureaucratic superman.

00:00:48.000 He saves everyone from things that don't exist by giving away money that doesn't belong to him.

00:00:52.000 It's pretty spectacular.

00:00:53.000 Here's President Obama over the weekend explaining that what he just did, the agreement that he just signed to save the world, will indeed save the world, but only, only if you give him lots of money to give to other people.

00:01:06.000 The targets we've set are bold, and by empowering businesses, scientists, engineers, workers, and the private sector,

00:01:14.000 Investors to work together this agreement represents the best chance we've had to save the one planet that we've got He's gonna save the planet folks.

00:01:23.000 You got it.

00:01:24.000 So Isis Putin Global War thousands of people killed

00:01:31.000 Destroying the global economy, going back to a standard of living where only a billion people were on the planet as opposed to six billion people on the planet.

00:01:37.000 But we've saved the world.

00:01:39.000 And look at the glee in his eye.

00:01:41.000 He's so excited about all of this.

00:01:42.000 So what exactly is in this particular agreement?

00:01:45.000 Well, it turns out that what's in this agreement is that industrialized countries are supposed to transfer a hundred billion dollars every single year to less developed countries.

00:01:55.000 This money is supposed to rise.

00:01:57.000 NPR says the financial aid will keep ramping up over time.

00:02:01.000 It's supposed to be climate finance.

00:02:03.000 We're supposed to send money to poor countries that are supposed to be impacted by climate change, which I always thought was global, right?

00:02:08.000 I thought the idea was that climate change affected everyone more or less equally, but apparently it only hurts poor people.

00:02:15.000 The world has now become the fake New York Times headline.

00:02:18.000 You remember the old fake New York Times headline joke, right?

00:02:21.000 End of world coming, blacks and poor people hurt most. 1.00

00:02:25.000 This is basically how President Obama thinks of global warming, right?

00:02:28.000 Global warming coming. 0.97

00:02:29.000 Blacks and poor people hurt most. 1.00

00:02:31.000 Therefore, everybody in the industrialized world has to sign checks to everybody in the non-industrialized world. 0.99

00:02:36.000 This, of course, has worked out beautifully in terms of foreign aid because it's not like we've signed tremendous amounts of money over to foreign dictators who have then taken that money and used it to build palaces and buy guns for themselves and murder people.

00:02:47.000 They never do that.

00:02:48.000 They always use the money exactly for the things we want them to use it for.

00:02:52.000 What else is in here?

00:02:53.000 Well, apparently Secretary of State John Kerry was asked by Chuck Todd over the weekend about the lack of enforcement mechanisms.

00:02:59.000 There's no enforcement mechanisms for anything in the agreement.

00:03:02.000 Todd said there's a lot of pledges, a lot of promises.

00:03:04.000 There's no mechanisms for getting countries to comply, other than wagging your finger at them and shaming them.

00:03:10.000 And Kerry actually said, that's the most powerful weapon in many ways.

00:03:14.000 That's actually what he said.

00:03:16.000 He actually said that the only tool to stop him is finger wagging, and Kerry goes, yeah, that's the most powerful tool there is.

00:03:25.000 Which may be why we're losing to ISIS, gang.

00:03:27.000 That just may be why we're losing to ISIS.

00:03:30.000 The deal itself, the agreement, explicitly includes a provision that means that Obama can avoid Congress, because there's nothing in the agreement that says that Congress has to do anything to meet these goals.

00:03:41.000 It's sort of like a pledge that we're going to try and meet the goals.

00:03:44.000 So none of this has to come to fruition, but Obama presumably can misdirect resources from one thing to this particular agreement.

00:03:52.000 It's a terrible deal all the way around, but this is who President Obama is, and it is incredible.

00:03:57.000 By the way, the father of climate change activism, this guy who's been deemed the father of climate change awareness,

00:04:05.000 He is now calling this deal BS, and he's saying it's BS.

00:04:08.000 His name is James Hansen.

00:04:09.000 He's a former NASA scientist, and he testified to Congress in 1988 about greenhouse effect and global warming. 0.99

00:04:15.000 He says this is absolute crap. 0.90

00:04:17.000 He says this is nonsense because there is nothing here that actually forces any of these industrializing countries to cut down their carbon emissions, which is true. 0.98

00:04:24.000 So China and India and Russia will continue to emit.

00:04:27.000 We won't, and we will also sign them large checks so that they can continue to emit, which is just going to be awesome.

00:04:33.000 Meanwhile, over here in the real world, President Obama continues to be more scared of climate change than he is of terrorism.

00:04:41.000 There's an amazing story.

00:04:42.000 This is truly an amazing story.

00:04:43.000 You want to know what undergirds the rise of Trump in recent polls.

00:04:47.000 I've discussed at length why there's so much Republican enthusiasm for Donald Trump.

00:04:52.000 Recent poll today, Monmouth University poll comes out.

00:04:55.000 Trump 41% nationally.

00:04:57.000 41% nationally.

00:04:58.000 His next closest competitor, Ted Cruz, at 14%.

00:05:03.000 14 percent.

00:05:03.000 So Trump has now broken through what people thought was sort of his glass ceiling, like 30, 35 percent.

00:05:08.000 He's now up to 41 percent nationally in the primaries.

00:05:11.000 He's still losing to Cruz in Iowa, which is making him a little bit crazy, and we'll get to that in a little bit, but he is actually

00:05:18.000 I don't know.

00:05:34.000 There's another poll over the weekend showed that a plurality of Americans support a temporary ban on Muslim immigration and visas to the country until the government can get it worked out.

00:05:42.000 That's Trump's proposal that we discussed last week.

00:05:44.000 I explained why I think that that proposal is wrongheaded, but the reason people are getting behind Trump is not because they're bigots, as I said last week.

00:05:51.000 The reason they're getting behind Trump is because they don't trust the government to keep us safe.

00:05:55.000 Well...

00:05:56.000 Turns out, we shouldn't trust the government to keep us safe.

00:05:59.000 And I have, before me, in front of me, on this very computer, the reason why you should not trust the government to keep you safe.

00:06:06.000 Okay, you ready for this?

00:06:06.000 It's from the Daily Wire today.

00:06:08.000 Okay, here's what we know.

00:06:10.000 We know that Tashfeen Malik, who is the delightful female who came over from Saudi Arabia along with her husband, Syed Farooq, and then shot 14 people in San Bernardino, we know she was screened by DHS, that's the Department of Homeland Security Terror Squad, that she passed a criminal and national security background check using an FBI database, and now we know something else.

00:06:30.000 You ready for this?

00:06:30.000 Because this is truly a mind-blowing story, and I'm amazed it hasn't been more heavily covered.

00:06:35.000 It's a mind-blowing story.

00:06:37.000 You ready for this?

00:06:37.000 Okay.

00:06:38.000 Here we go.

00:06:39.000 The Obama administration actively prohibited its own DHS agents from screening social media messages of foreign citizens applying for visas to enter the country.

00:06:49.000 According to John Cohen, who's a former acting undersecretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis, quote, during that time period, immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process.

00:07:04.000 Are you getting all this?

00:07:05.000 Tashfeen Malik was online.

00:07:07.000 We know this.

00:07:07.000 She was posting messages about how much she loved ISIS and people in our government were forbidden by the Obama administration from checking what she was posting on Facebook.

00:07:16.000 Why?

00:07:17.000 According to John Cohen, quote, The primary concern, this is the key, the primary concern was that it would be viewed negatively if it was disclosed publicly and there were concerns it would be embarrassing.

00:07:46.000 He said it was primarily a question of optics.

00:07:48.000 Direct quote.

00:07:49.000 It was primarily a question of optics.

00:07:51.000 There were concerns, from a privacy and civil liberties perspective, that while this was not illegal, it would be viewed negatively if it was disclosed publicly.

00:08:00.000 You getting all this?

00:08:00.000 Okay.

00:08:01.000 For optics.

00:08:02.000 For optics.

00:08:03.000 For pure optics.

00:08:04.000 For pure PR.

00:08:06.000 President Obama shut down a program that would have looked at the Facebook messages of people entering the country, including a terrorist who shot 14 people.

00:08:13.000 So 14 Americans were shot to death because of President Obama's optics. 1.00

00:08:18.000 What an absolute jackass our President is. 0.99

00:08:21.000 And the President of the United States allowing Americans to die for optics. 1.00

00:08:25.000 That's an incredible thing.

00:08:25.000 But he's done this before.

00:08:27.000 What do you think Benghazi was?

00:08:29.000 Benghazi was Hillary Clinton allowing Americans to die for optics.

00:08:31.000 She didn't want people to notice that Benghazi had turned into a hellhole because she'd created it and so she didn't give security and so Americans had to die for that. 0.89

00:08:40.000 Americans have to die in the Middle East, in Israel, they have to be killed in Israel for optics because we can't acknowledge that Israel is in the same war as the United States.

00:08:49.000 Americans have to be killed in Paris because optics, we can't recognize that ISIS is a global threat. 0.99

00:08:55.000 Optics, optics. 0.98

00:08:56.000 That's all this Obama administration is.

00:08:57.000 It's optics.

00:08:58.000 And you want to know why Trump is rising?

00:08:59.000 Okay, I said last week that Trump is the right-wing version of Obama in the sense that he is a reality TV star elevated to political levels, but he's in direct response to the incompetence of Obama.

00:09:11.000 The more that you think the government is incompetent, the more you don't want the government doing anything.

00:09:15.000 Which, to my way of thinking, is actually probably right.

00:09:18.000 Why would you trust the government to be able to screen anyone if they're not even looking at the Facebook messages of people coming into the country?

00:09:25.000 Recognize something here, folks.

00:09:27.000 We just had a big, big controversy with Edward Snowden this year.

00:09:31.000 Because Edward Snowden revealed that the government was looking at our metadata, my metadata, your metadata, everybody's metadata, right?

00:09:36.000 That's all the kind of...

00:09:38.000 Generic information they can glean off of your Facebook posts and your phone calls without looking into the content.

00:09:43.000 But they had the capacity to look into the content of American citizens, and it was a big controversy at the time.

00:09:48.000 Right?

00:09:50.000 That was for American citizens.

00:09:51.000 Foreign citizens trying to get into the country, Obama says, no, we can't look at their stuff. 0.96

00:09:56.000 No, those people we have to leave alone.

00:09:58.000 So your metadata we'll look at.

00:09:59.000 We won't look at the public Facebook... Remember, not private messages.

00:10:03.000 Public Facebook posts.

00:10:05.000 Those we cannot look at.

00:10:07.000 We will bar people from looking at things they put in chat rooms. 0.92

00:10:10.000 Hey, how asinine is this? 0.97

00:10:12.000 How ridiculous? 1.00

00:10:12.000 How many Americans have to die for this crap? 1.00

00:10:14.000 I mean, honestly. 1.00

00:10:15.000 How many Americans have to die so that Democrats feel good about themselves and multicultural about themselves?

00:10:20.000 In Europe, they're starting to feel the brunt of this, by the way.

00:10:23.000 Angela Merkel, who is the chancellor of Germany,

00:10:27.000 She was the Time Magazine Person of the Year.

00:10:30.000 We talked about this a little bit last week.

00:10:32.000 She was the Time Magazine Person of the Year because she announced that she was going to allow a million Syrian Muslim refugees into the country.

00:10:38.000 Today, she came out and she said, by the way, we're going to have to go back on that a little bit because it turns out this isn't going all that well.

00:10:44.000 But she had to say it originally because she had to feel good about herself.

00:10:48.000 The Europeans had to feel good about themselves. 0.94

00:10:50.000 I was having this conversation over the weekend with the managing editor over at Daily Wire, Jeremy Boring, and Jeremy and I were talking about Fourth Amendment rights and security.

00:11:00.000 And he was saying that he's really uncomfortable with what a lot of what the French government is doing in France where they're knocking down doors of mosques.

00:11:06.000 And I said, well, it sort of depends on what's going on in the mosque.

00:11:09.000 I believe in reasonable search and seizure.

00:11:11.000 I don't believe in unreasonable search and seizure.

00:11:12.000 The problem is this.

00:11:14.000 When you have a multicultural society where you suggest that all cultures are equal and equally dangerous, 1.00

00:11:20.000 When you do that, and then when you say at the same time, we're going to keep you safe, then what ends up happening is in order to keep you safe, we have to look at some cultures and suggest, hey, maybe these mosques that are funded by Wahhabists all over the world and are linked to terrorism, maybe they're violating basic principles of Americanism, maybe we ought to take a look at them and their connection to terror. 0.81

00:11:40.000 But because it's multicultural, because we're all multicultural, we now have to make sure we're not singling out that group of people, and to make sure we're not singling out that group of people, now we have to violate everybody's rights.

00:11:50.000 So basically, the way that security used to work, is you looked at the description of the suspect, and then you targeted the suspect.

00:11:56.000 Now the way security works is, you look at the description of the suspect, if the suspect happens to be of minority persuasion, then you have to target everyone. 0.91

00:12:04.000 Or no one.

00:12:05.000 Everyone has to be targeted, or no one can be targeted.

00:12:08.000 And this is how civil liberties get violated across an entire nation, because, after all, we can't discriminate against this particular group, or this particular subgroup, or this particular set of potential terrorists. 0.83

00:12:18.000 No, we have to discriminate against everybody equally, which, of course, is idiocy, because the fact is, not everyone is equally likely to be a terrorist. 0.85

00:12:26.000 But here's what's amazing about this. 0.97

00:12:28.000 So, at the same time this report is coming out, the Obama administration is going around, the entire left is going around saying the real threat to the world right now, the real threat to the world is Donald Trump.

00:12:38.000 As I've mentioned, I'm not a Donald Trump fan.

00:12:40.000 I'll explain more on that in a little while because Donald Trump said a couple of things over the weekend that are just absurd.

00:12:45.000 But, the entire left has decided that the real threat to global peace is not radical Islam.

00:12:51.000 No, no, no, no, no.

00:12:52.000 It's Donald Trump. 1.00

00:12:53.000 So John Kerry, legitimately a moron. 1.00

00:12:56.000 Well, those people who know the United States well are quite shocked because they see it 0.99

00:13:18.000 As totally contrary to American values, as discriminatory, and frankly as potentially dangerous in that it seems like a person running for President of the United States who's doing well in the polls is prepared to take actions that would in fact ratify the notion that people are at war against Islam, not against Daesh.

00:13:44.000 And so I think that you've got to be very careful just by categorizing people by being Muslim.

00:13:50.000 That is discrimination.

00:13:52.000 And it is contrary, I think, to the fundamental values of our country.

00:13:55.000 We have plenty of ways to vet people.

00:13:59.000 We already do it.

00:14:00.000 We have a huge process of examining people for visas.

00:14:04.000 We know who's coming into our country for the most part. 1.00

00:14:07.000 We know who's coming into our country for the most part. 1.00

00:14:08.000 We have a huge process of vetting all of our visas.

00:14:12.000 Okay, except that the day after he says this, there's now a massive report that comes out from a member of the Obama administration saying we're not vetting anybody.

00:14:19.000 Right?

00:14:20.000 We're now finding out that we're not vetting anybody.

00:14:21.000 That, in fact, the people who were vetting were not even looking at their Facebook posts.

00:14:24.000 And if we had been looking at their Facebook posts, or if we had looked at the address of the lady who was coming in, or if we had been monitoring their activity after they came into the country, or if we hadn't intimidated neighbors into shutting up because they were afraid of being accused of racial profiling, then there wouldn't be 14 dead people in San Bernardino.

00:14:40.000 They'd be going about their business today.

00:14:43.000 And then he says it's discrimination to disagree with him, basically.

00:14:46.000 This is the absurdity here.

00:14:48.000 It really is absurd. 0.89

00:14:50.000 And so now what we're getting is we're getting people trotting out the... We're trotting out prominent American Muslims to explain that Donald Trump is really ISIS.

00:14:57.000 ISIS is Donald Trump.

00:14:58.000 By the way, there is nothing more demeaning to what ISIS actually is than comparing them to Donald Trump.

00:15:04.000 I mean, really.

00:15:04.000 Seriously.

00:15:05.000 Like, if you're comparing a guy saying stuff to people who are literally murdering the disabled... There's a report today that ISIS is going around murdering people with Down syndrome.

00:15:14.000 If you're really going to compare Donald Trump to those people, first of all, the only people I know in America who murder the mentally disabled are Planned Parenthood.

00:15:21.000 They're really into it. 0.97

00:15:22.000 I mean, if you're unborn and we know that you're Down syndrome, then they're totally into killing you. 0.97

00:15:25.000 But those are the only people in the United States I know of, any organized group, who's in favor of murdering the mentally disabled or people who have mental issues. 0.96

00:15:34.000 But they're now trotting out, the media are trotting out, prominent Muslims to explain that Trump really is ISIS. 0.61

00:15:39.000 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who's most famous for

00:15:42.000 For lagging it on defense, dogging it on defense when he's playing for the LA Lakers.

00:15:46.000 Terrific score, great skyhook, not a great defensive player.

00:15:49.000 Now he's a prominent Muslim spokesperson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbari says Donald Trump is doing ISIS's work.

00:15:55.000 Although Mr. Trump isn't committing the violence, when the violence happens, he exploits it.

00:16:00.000 Okay, so instead of offering practical and realistic solutions, he's exploiting people's fear and he's doing ISIS's work for them. 0.75

00:16:10.000 And that is something that we can't let him keep doing that.

00:16:15.000 We have to say something about it at least.

00:16:17.000 Now, you see, Donald Trump is doing ISIS's work for them.

00:16:20.000 Now, what's weird about this is I wasn't aware that it was ISIS's agenda to prevent Muslims from entering the United States.

00:16:26.000 I wasn't aware that was their agenda.

00:16:27.000 In fact, I thought probably that was the reverse of their agenda.

00:16:30.000 If they want to take over the United States, it's kind of hard to do that if there are no Muslims here. 1.00

00:16:34.000 I didn't realize that ISIS's main agenda was preventing the entry of Muslims into Western countries.

00:16:39.000 It seems like it's been a pretty successful tactic for ISIS and Al-Qaeda to have more Muslims in Western countries because you can create breeding grounds for terrorism. 0.99

00:16:47.000 There's a report over the weekend.

00:16:48.000 More British Muslims joined ISIS last year than joined the British military.

00:16:51.000 Okay, the idea that Muslims in the West are immediately brought into secular culture is just not true, statistically speaking.

00:17:00.000 But I love that there's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explaining that Donald Trump is doing ISIS's work.

00:17:04.000 Let's just flash back.

00:17:05.000 A couple of years.

00:17:06.000 Here's Donald Trump talking.

00:17:08.000 I mean, here's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talking about how he thinks law should happen.

00:17:13.000 This isn't even a couple of years ago, it's like several weeks ago.

00:17:15.000 Here's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talking about how it should work in Muslim states.

00:17:21.000 Well, Sharia law is for Muslims. 0.85

00:17:24.000 So if there's a Muslim-majority state, then it has to be run by Sharia law. 0.99

00:17:31.000 But I live in a very diverse country, and I have to respect everyone else's beliefs.

00:17:37.000 Okay, so who's doing ISIS's work here? 0.59

00:17:40.000 ISIS is literally called the Islamic State.

00:17:43.000 It's literally called the Islamic State.

00:17:45.000 And for folks who don't know ISIS's history, the reason Islamic State is different than Al-Qaeda is because ISIS wanted to craft its own Islamic utopia. 0.64

00:17:52.000 That's what it did differently.

00:17:53.000 Al-Qaeda didn't create its own state.

00:17:55.000 It was just an international terrorist group that had backing from states like the Taliban-run Afghanistan.

00:18:00.000 And ISIS actually wants to create its own state, its own Sharia law state. 0.94

00:18:05.000 There's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar saying not only that Islamic countries, many of them have Sharia law, but that if it's a majority Muslim country, it must have Sharia law.

00:18:13.000 Who's doing ISIS's work? 0.97

00:18:15.000 Is it Donald Trump saying less Muslims in the United States we haven't vetted?

00:18:18.000 Or is it Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, you know, L.A.

00:18:21.000 Laker great, saying that Muslim-majority countries must be ruled by Sharia law? 0.97

00:18:26.000 By the way, Sharia law means that it's a theocracy, folks. 0.94

00:18:29.000 I know the left wants to soft-pedal what Sharia law is.

00:18:32.000 Okay, there are two types of Sharia law. 0.91

00:18:34.000 There's Sharia law in the United States, which means that there are people who engage in, for example, contractual negotiations, Islamic contracts, and they want it to be bound by

00:18:43.000 Their own contract, and so those are enforced in American courts the same way that there are Jewish contracts that are enforced in American courts. 0.61

00:18:49.000 Nothing weird or strange about that.

00:18:51.000 Then, there's Islamic law, as in, like, the government is run by Islamic law.

00:18:54.000 If the government is run by Islamic law, we're talking about taking the hands off of people for thievery, we're talking about stonings for adultery, we're talking about killings and mutilations for homosexuality, we're talking about women not being able to vote, we're talking about a lot of things that are not so nice, okay? 1.00

00:19:08.000 Sharia law countries don't tend to work particularly well with Western values.

00:19:11.000 Who's doing

00:19:12.000 Who's doing ISIS's work? 0.97

00:19:14.000 Donald Trump or the left and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar here?

00:19:19.000 And it's all part of the same routine.

00:19:22.000 Barack Obama, he said the same thing over the weekend.

00:19:25.000 He says that he tries to equate bigotry against Muslims with what ISIS is doing.

00:19:29.000 He's trying to equate Trump and ISIS again.

00:19:31.000 This is the whole argument, right?

00:19:32.000 Trump and ISIS, they're two sides of the same coin.

00:19:34.000 To make this argument, you have to be so morally blind.

00:19:37.000 Whatever you think about Donald Trump, and I think that he's a bloviating blowhard, whatever you think about Donald Trump, that doesn't change that he is not ISIS. 0.91

00:19:44.000 Any comparison of a guy who says stuff about limiting immigration of a group you can't vet to people who legitimately carve the heads off of babies, which is what ISIS has been doing, it's really pretty disgusting.

00:19:56.000 Here's Barack Obama making that case, however.

00:19:59.000 Terrorists like ISIL are trying to divide us along lines of religion and background.

00:20:04.000 That's how they stoke fear.

00:20:05.000 That's how they recruit.

00:20:07.000 And just as Muslims around the world have to keep rejecting any twisted interpretation of Islam, all of us have to reject bigotry in all of its forms.

00:20:18.000 I'll say it again.

00:20:19.000 Prejudice and discrimination helps ISIL, and it undermines our national security.

00:20:25.000 Prejudice and discrimination, that's what's helping ISIL. 0.95

00:20:27.000 Not having more Muslims in the United States who haven't been vetted, that doesn't help ISIL. 0.88

00:20:31.000 What helps ISIL is discrimination. 0.81

00:20:33.000 What helps ISIL is people not liking Muslims.

00:20:36.000 Right, if we were just nicer, then things would go better.

00:20:39.000 Because it's not like the United States has been welcoming to Syed Farouk and his family.

00:20:42.000 It's not like France was welcoming to the families of the people who murdered 130 people in France.

00:20:47.000 It's not like Europe is being welcoming.

00:20:49.000 It's not like Sweden has been welcoming to Muslims, and they've taken over the entire city of Malmö, to the extent that Jews are now fleeing, like there are no Jews in Malmö, which was a Jewish center, because they're afraid of hate crimes against them by Muslims. 1.00

00:21:00.000 This whole thing is idiotic. 1.00

00:21:02.000 It's truly idiotic. 1.00

00:21:03.000 Nobody is suggesting that Muslims should be treated badly. 1.00

00:21:06.000 But if you're trying to equate, if you're trying to equate rational fear of Islamic infiltration, Islamist infiltration into the West, with ISIS killing people, Westerners, 0.98

00:21:20.000 Yeah, out of your mind. 0.88

00:21:21.000 It's just crazy talk altogether.

00:21:23.000 Now, on to Trump and Ted Cruz.

00:21:25.000 Over the weekend, news broke that Ted Cruz had secretly attacked Donald Trump.

00:21:30.000 There was some leaked audio of Ted Cruz attacking Donald Trump.

00:21:34.000 This is from a fundraiser, and it's pretty mild stuff, but it led to what is now being blown up into a major battle between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

00:21:42.000 Here is Ted Cruz, the tape that started it all.

00:21:45.000 Ted Cruz at a fundraiser talking about Donald Trump.

00:21:49.000 The final two candidates I'll discuss are Trump and Ben Carson.

00:21:54.000 Both of them I like and respect, both Donald and Ben.

00:21:58.000 I do not believe either one of them is going to be our nominee.

00:22:01.000 I don't believe either one of them is going to be our president.

00:22:03.000 I think both of them, their campaigns have a natural arc.

00:22:08.000 And with both of them, I think gravity is pulling them down.

00:22:14.000 We've seen that.

00:22:15.000 Carson is further in that descent.

00:22:18.000 But I think in both instances, in particular, you look at Paris, you look at San Bernardino.

00:22:23.000 It's given a seriousness to this race.

00:22:26.000 That people are looking for who is prepared to be a commander-in-chief, who understands the threats we face.

00:22:33.000 Who am I comfortable having their finger on the button?

00:22:38.000 Now that's a question of strength, but it's also a question of judgment.

00:22:44.000 And I think that is a question that is a challenging question for both

00:22:48.000 So my approach, much to the frustration of the media, has been to bear hug both of them and smother them with love.

00:22:57.000 This is basically the point that Ted Cruz is making here, and it's not a wrong point, which is that as people get more serious, they're moving away from Carson.

00:23:05.000 They're not moving away from Trump, by the way, because Trump has staked out the hardest core position, and when you stake out the hardest core position, you tend to attract people.

00:23:12.000 Strong language attracts people.

00:23:14.000 Weak language makes you feel weak.

00:23:16.000 Strong language makes you feel strong.

00:23:18.000 This is true in every social science study ever done.

00:23:20.000 If you use strong language and you're wrong, you're more likely to attract supporters than if you use weak language and you're right. 0.72

00:23:25.000 Well, that relatively mild attack on Trump, and Trump decided to go after Cruz, and I will say Trump has had success going after Ben Carson, some other members of the Republican race.

00:23:37.000 He has no success going after Cruz because his strongest line of attack is basically what the establishment says about Cruz.

00:23:43.000 Here's what Donald Trump

00:23:44.000 What do you think of Ted Cruz?

00:23:53.000 Well, he was... Do you notice he said it behind my back?

00:23:56.000 Somebody taped that conversation.

00:23:57.000 He said it behind my back.

00:23:59.000 And that's okay.

00:23:59.000 Look, I don't think he's qualified to be president.

00:24:01.000 Why not?

00:24:02.000 Because I don't think he has the right temperament.

00:24:05.000 I don't think he's got the right judgment.

00:24:08.000 What's wrong with his temperament?

00:24:09.000 Well, you look at the way he's dealt with the Senate. 0.96

00:24:12.000 Where he goes in there like a, you know, frankly, like a little bit of a maniac.

00:24:16.000 You're never going to get things done that way.

00:24:18.000 Look, I built a phenomenal business.

00:24:20.000 I'm worth many, many billions of dollars.

00:24:22.000 I have some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world.

00:24:25.000 You can't walk into the Senate and scream and call people liars and not be able to cajole and get along with people.

00:24:35.000 He'll never get anything done.

00:24:37.000 And that's the problem with Ted.

00:24:38.000 He'll never get anything done, and that's the problem with Ted from Donald Trump.

00:24:41.000 By the way, we did not colorize that video.

00:24:43.000 I mean, Donald Trump, for those who can't see, looks like he is gradually turning into an Oompa Loompa.

00:24:47.000 I mean, he is wildly orange in that particular clip.

00:24:51.000 By the way, it is worth noting, because we're talking about his general appearance, that he did release a letter today from his doctor about his health.

00:24:57.000 And this is so Trump.

00:24:59.000 It's so Trump.

00:24:59.000 He says,

00:25:00.000 To whom it may concern.

00:25:02.000 I guess his doctor's name is Harold Bernstein.

00:25:04.000 So to whom it may concern.

00:25:06.000 I have been the personal physician of Mr. Donald Trump since 1980.

00:25:09.000 His previous physician was my father, Dr. Jacob Borenstein.

00:25:12.000 Over the past 39 years, I am pleased to report Mr. Trump has had no significant medical problems.

00:25:17.000 Mr. Trump has had a recent complete medical examination that showed only positive results.

00:25:21.000 Actually, his blood pressure and laboratory test results were astonishingly excellent.

00:25:26.000 Over the past 12 months, he's lost at least 15 pounds.

00:25:29.000 His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary.

00:25:32.000 And then he says, if elected Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.

00:25:40.000 So it's not just that Trump is healthy, he's the healthiest person who ever lived.

00:25:44.000 You gotta love the Trump campaign.

00:25:45.000 That attack on Cruz is going nowhere, by the way, because Donald Trump calling Ted Cruz wild is like OJ Simpson saying to somebody that they mistreat their wife.

00:25:55.000 That is not going to carry a whole hell of a lot of water.

00:25:57.000 It's also not going to carry a lot of water because Trump versus Cruz is not just an exercise in temperament, it's also an exercise in conservatism.

00:26:05.000 One of the other things Trump said over the weekend, and this was actually more astonishing to me than his attack on Cruz, was Trump

00:26:11.000 Hitting Antonin Scalia.

00:26:13.000 We didn't really have a chance to discuss this last week, but Scalia was specifically asked, he's in the middle of a Supreme Court hearing, and it's about affirmative action.

00:26:22.000 And so Scalia said in the middle of that hearing, by the way, it's true that affirmative action doesn't really, there's some people who say affirmative action doesn't help black kids because they'd be better off going to schools they're qualified for, where they can do really well, as opposed to schools that are too hard for them, where they don't do as well.

00:26:37.000 There are statistics that bear this out.

00:26:38.000 People drop out at higher rates, they don't do as well in passing the bar, in terms of getting into law school through affirmative action, for example.

00:26:45.000 And everyone on the left said Scalia's a racist for even mentioning this.

00:26:49.000 Well, Donald Trump is asked about it, and here is Donald Trump hitting Antonin Scalia over absolutely nothing.

00:26:55.000 Justice Scalia raised the issue.

00:26:57.000 Well, I thought his remarks were very tough.

00:27:28.000 Well, I think they were very, very tough to a certain community.

00:27:32.000 To the African-American community.

00:27:33.000 I thought it was very tough to the African-American community, actually.

00:27:36.000 That sounds like you're not supporting what he said.

00:27:38.000 I don't like what he said.

00:27:40.000 I don't like what he said.

00:27:42.000 I heard him.

00:27:42.000 I was like, let me read it again.

00:27:44.000 Because I actually saw it in print.

00:27:46.000 And I'm going, I read a lot of stuff.

00:27:48.000 And I'm going, whoa!

00:27:49.000 So you still support affirmative action?

00:27:51.000 Look, I have great African-American friendships.

00:27:56.000 I have just amazing relationships.

00:27:59.000 And so many positive things have happened.

00:28:02.000 One thing I will say, and I will say this and I say it to everybody, Barack Obama has done very little for the African-American community.

00:28:08.000 Okay, we can stop it there.

00:28:09.000 The intellectual constipation on the part of Donald Trump there is truly amazing.

00:28:12.000 He's, like, pushing out a terrible intellectual bowel movement in the middle of that.

00:28:16.000 I mean, he's just, he's, he's... First of all, what Scalia said is absolutely true, but, you know, this is Trump.

00:28:22.000 I mean, Trump is reacting to it on the spot, and then I love, I love the little riff, oh, I read a lot of stuff, and there I am, I'm reading things, and then the things that I read, they go in my brain, and then I think about them, and then eventually I say something when you ask me a question about them, but they're tough.

00:28:34.000 Tough bad?

00:28:34.000 No, tough good.

00:28:36.000 Like a tough guy.

00:28:37.000 Like a tough guy movie.

00:28:38.000 Like a steak.

00:28:38.000 Like a good steak.

00:28:39.000 But it's a little too tough for me.

00:28:40.000 I like them tender.

00:28:41.000 I like them raw.

00:28:42.000 That's how Trump eats them.

00:28:43.000 What are you talking about?

00:28:47.000 This is the problem, Donald Trump.

00:28:49.000 And this is why I think that eventually Ted Cruz will end up doing better.

00:28:53.000 Although, as I said last week, I think the establishment ought to get on the Ted Cruz bandwagon if they want to stop Trump.

00:28:57.000 Okay.

00:28:58.000 Things that I hate.

00:28:59.000 As always, when it comes to stuff I hate, I'm going to mention something that I like up front.

00:29:04.000 People very often ask me about music that I like.

00:29:07.000 So I'll mention to you a classical piece that you probably haven't heard.

00:29:11.000 And it's called Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by a composer named Ralph Vaughan Williams.

00:29:16.000 He's a British composer from the early 20th century.

00:29:18.000 And it's a terrific piece.

00:29:21.000 When you listen to it, it's like sitting in an English cathedral.

00:29:24.000 It's like sitting in Westminster Abbey.

00:29:27.000 It's an amazing piece.

00:29:28.000 So Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.

00:29:30.000 Listen to it tonight.

00:29:31.000 It's very relaxing.

00:29:32.000 It's a wonderful piece of music.

00:29:34.000 And it's actually very spiritual.

00:29:35.000 It's like you can almost feel the sun streaming through the windows of the Abbey as you're listening to it.

00:29:40.000 It's really terrific.

00:29:41.000 Okay, on to more important things, like things that I hate.

00:29:44.000 Okay, so MSNBC, we've commented on Melissa Harris-Perry before.

00:29:47.000 She's the anchorette of MSNBC on the weekends, and she is the one who always hashtags Nerdland, which as I mention every time, I find deeply ironic, because to be a nerd, you have to be smart.

00:29:59.000 And Melissa Harris-Perry, clearly,

00:30:01.000 Is not.

00:30:02.000 And so, she started talking about Star Wars.

00:30:06.000 Now, I should mention, the original Star Wars movies, episodes 4, 5, and 6, big fan.

00:30:11.000 Like any other sentient human being, episodes 1, 2, and 3 are an absolute abomination.

00:30:15.000 They never happen.

00:30:16.000 They've been wiped from my memory. 0.98

00:30:18.000 Every bit of them should be taken out and burned. 0.97

00:30:20.000 They're awful in every way it's conceivable. 0.98

00:30:22.000 I mean, how you take Liam Neeson and turn a movie with Liam Neeson into just a garbage fest is beyond me, because I think Liam Neeson's a really good actor.

00:30:32.000 Those episodes are awful, but 4, 5, and 6 are terrific.

00:30:35.000 And 4, 5, and 6 are terrific mainly because the villain is awesome, right?

00:30:39.000 Darth Vader is a great villain.

00:30:40.000 He's a terrific villain.

00:30:41.000 Well, if you're on MSNBC, Darth Vader is... I'll just let Melissa Harris-Perry explain this because this is so beyond stupid. 1.00

00:30:51.000 It just shows you that when it comes to the culture, the left will leave nothing alone. 0.99

00:30:54.000 There is no stone that they will leave unturned.

00:30:56.000 There is no point at which they will not claim that culture is biased against them. 0.99

00:30:59.000 There is no point at which they will just let us enjoy a movie, for God's sake, without the infusion of leftist political crap. 0.99

00:31:07.000 And here you go. 0.99

00:31:08.000 You're about to hear why Star Wars is racist.

00:31:12.000 The part where he was totally a black guy whose name basically was James Earl Jones. 0.93

00:31:17.000 While he was black, he was terrible and bad and awful and used to cut off white men's hands and didn't, you know, actually claim his son. 0.98

00:31:24.000 But as soon as he claims his son and goes over to the good, he takes off his mask and he is white. 0.98

00:31:27.000 Oh yes, I have many, many feelings about that, but I will try to put them over here.

00:31:35.000 Okay, what?

00:31:37.000 Um, in case she wasn't aware, Darth Vader, right, Anakin Skywalker, is the father of Luke.

00:31:44.000 Luke is the whitest person who has ever walked the planet. 0.99

00:31:47.000 The only other person who is whiter than Luke is Leia, who's his twin sister.

00:31:52.000 Right?

00:31:52.000 So, what did she expect?

00:31:54.000 There was gonna be a black guy underneath? 0.99

00:31:56.000 That would've been weird. 0.88

00:31:57.000 Right? 0.68

00:31:58.000 I don't know how genetics works in this galaxy far, far away, but in the galaxy where we live, typically white kids are produced by white parents, and black kids are produced by black parents. 0.93

00:32:06.000 Or at the very least, black kids are produced by at least one black parent, and white kids are generally produced by two white parents. 0.91

00:32:11.000 Because if you have one white parent, one black parent, typically the kid tends to look mixed. 0.96

00:32:15.000 I mean, this is just the way that genetics works.

00:32:17.000 What did you expect was going to happen?

00:32:19.000 Take off the mask and all of a sudden it was going to be Shaq? 0.57

00:32:22.000 That would be a weird moment, wouldn't it?

00:32:25.000 And by the way, now we all care that James Earl Jones was the voice of Darth Vader, but back in the day when they made these movies, no one cared that James Earl Jones was the voice of Darth Vader.

00:32:35.000 If you just listen to the voice of Darth Vader, you don't go, oh, that's a brother.

00:32:38.000 Like, nobody does that!

00:32:40.000 It's just Darth Vader's voice!

00:32:41.000 What are you talking about?

00:32:42.000 But everything has to be infused with race. 0.81

00:32:44.000 By the way, if Star Wars is racist, why is the coolest figure in all of Star Wars Lando Calrissian?

00:32:49.000 Who's a true badass!

00:32:49.000 I mean, Lando's awesome!

00:32:51.000 Everybody loves Lando.

00:32:52.000 Like, Lando's unrepentant Han Solo.

00:32:55.000 I hate-

00:33:13.000 ...dated Ken, because he seemed kind of wack, so I used to always marry them off to Chewbacca.

00:33:18.000 And so given that you are... Wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:33:21.000 Yes, I've married all my black Barbies off to Chewbacca. 0.98

00:33:23.000 That was because he was tall and, you know, like... Hairy.

00:33:26.000 Hairy, kind of in control of the situation.

00:33:30.000 Yeah, and now that you're saying that this is... Yeah, I'm wondering about, about... I have concerns about my own childhood now.

00:33:36.000 What?

00:33:42.000 Words fail.

00:33:43.000 Words fail.

00:33:44.000 So, things I hate.

00:33:46.000 MSNBC infusing entertainment with values that actually are not there.

00:33:50.000 Like, there's enough leftism in movies.

00:33:52.000 You really don't have to search far to make up excuses for talking about leftism in movies.

00:33:56.000 For God's sake, the one that's gonna win all the Oscars this year is a movie about a guy who thinks he's a girl, but we're all gonna pretend that he's really a girl, right? 0.79

00:34:02.000 This Eddie Ren made in the Danish girl flick, which is gonna win all sorts of awards.

00:34:05.000 And if it's not that movie, then it'll be the lesbian flick with Cate Blanchett, right?

00:34:08.000 So, I mean, you don't have to go far in the entertainment field to find leftist content that you can absolutely adore.

00:34:14.000 But Melissa Harris Perry making, you know, basically, this is actually an intellectual step up for her from normally what she talks about.

00:34:21.000 This is a lady who's actually worn tampon earrings on air. 1.00

00:34:24.000 She actually, to protest abortion politics or some such nonsense.

00:34:29.000 Okay, we will conclude with this.

00:34:33.000 Saturday Night Live, I've always heard my entire life that there was a point when Saturday Night Live was good.

00:34:37.000 And no matter which generation you speak to, it was always the generation before theirs, right? 1.00

00:34:42.000 So when you talk to somebody who grew up in the 80s, they'll say, yeah, it wasn't that great then, but in the 70s it was awesome.

00:34:47.000 When you talk to someone who grew up in the 90s, it wasn't that great in the 90s, but in the 80s it was awesome.

00:34:52.000 And now it's like, no, it was never good.

00:34:54.000 I just don't, it was never good.

00:34:55.000 And so, on Saturday Night Live, they had Will Ferrell on to be George W. Bush, which, by the way, is the most overrated impression of all time.

00:35:02.000 This is such an overrated impersonation.

00:35:04.000 Will Ferrell does not do a good George W. Bush.

00:35:06.000 He looks significantly more like Jeb than George.

00:35:08.000 I mean, if you slap a pair of glasses on him, he looks exactly like Jeb, but he looks nothing like George.

00:35:13.000 And so, here he was on Saturday Night Live.

00:35:15.000 They are so desperate to avoid hitting President Obama.

00:35:18.000 For God's sake, President Obama

00:35:20.000 Let's take a look at some of the frontrunners.

00:35:21.000 Dr. Ben Carson.

00:35:48.000 I can barely hear him when he talks.

00:35:51.000 I'll tell you something, that's not going to work when you have to go to China or Azerbaijan, where you have to talk loudly so they will understand.

00:36:02.000 Not to mention, he's some kind of brain surgeon, and I got news for him.

00:36:12.000 Running the country is not brain surgery.

00:36:19.000 This is what they do and this goes all the way all the way all the way back I mean I'm not I think we have this clip of Chevy Chase doing Gerald Ford all the way back when I mean this is this is and this is how SNL has been going after Republicans for literally decades at this point they can never bring themselves to go after a Democrat in any real way here is Chevy Chase doing Gerald Ford if you go back 40 years they're doing this routine.

00:36:40.000 40 years.

00:36:54.000 My fellow Americans, ladies and gentlemen, members of the press, and my immediate family.

00:37:02.000 First, may I thank you all for being here.

00:37:05.000 And I am, and my immediate family.

00:37:08.000 First, may I thank you all for being here.

00:37:11.000 And I am, and my immediate family.

00:37:14.000 Thank you all for being here.

00:37:16.000 And I am truly honored to be asked by you to open the Saturday night show with Harvey Cosell.

00:37:30.000 I do have... I do have two major announcements to make.

00:37:37.000 Okay, so I think this is proof positive the show is never good.

00:37:41.000 Ever.

00:37:42.000 And all the lies about it once upon a time being good?

00:37:45.000 Lies. 0.99

00:37:46.000 It was never good.

00:37:47.000 I mean, if that's what they were doing 40 years ago... By the way, that impression of Gerald Ford probably lost Gerald Ford the 1976 election. 1.00

00:37:52.000 Dundering, blundering idiot. 1.00

00:37:54.000 He was constantly bumping into things. 1.00

00:37:55.000 Gerald Ford was the most athletic president we have ever had.

00:37:58.000 He was actually an All-American linebacker for Michigan, for University of Michigan. 1.00

00:38:01.000 So, but they played him like an idiot. 0.97

00:38:03.000 And so, Things I Hate, Saturday Night Live, Melissa Harris Perry, and the generalized attempt to read leftism into entertainment where it doesn't exist, and critique right-wing thought where it doesn't exist. 0.99

00:38:16.000 And then also to use the mechanisms of culture in order to rip on the right wing, which is all that Saturday Night Live. 1.00

00:38:22.000 Has become.

00:38:23.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - December 14, 2015

Ep. 40 - Obama Says We're Handling Muslim Immigration. Um, No, You're Not.

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