On today's show, Ben Shapiro takes a look at the latest ISIS recruitment video and argues that Hillary Clinton and President Obama are making excuses for why ISIS is rising. He also points out that ISIS is not a threat to the United States in the same way that Ebola, climate change, and other non-existential threats are. And he points out why the media is blowing it all out of proportion and exaggerating the threat to make it seem like ISIS is a real threat. Plus, he talks about Hillary Clinton's schlonging of the pharmaceutical companies and why she should have been shamed for it in 2008. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative think tank, "Tribe to Demonize People Who Don't Care About Their Feelings" and founder of The Daily Wire. He's also a regular contributor to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and is a frequent contributor to CNN and the Weekly Standard, among other publications. He is the author of several books, including "The Devil Next Door" and "The Dark Side of Islam: A Guide to Understanding Islamic Extremism." He is also a frequent guest on CNN and NPR, and hosts a regular podcast called "The Jihadist's Guide to the Arab World" and hosts the radio show "The Arab Eye" on SiriusXM Radio's "The Situation Room" on Radio Row, where he hosts a weekly show on Islamic extremism. and is the founder of the podcast "The Middle East Report" on the podcast, The Arab Eye, hosted by The Middle East Project. He also hosts a podcast, "Islamic Extremism," which features an Arabic translation of the Quran and Islamic extremism, and the Quran, which he calls out the Islamic Republic. . He tweets about the Islamic State and its relationship with the Bible, and his thoughts on the Quran. , and he's a regular presence on social media, and much more! and other things, including his new book, "The Quran and its connection with the Torah, the Qur'an, and His relationship with Islam, and so much more. The Quran, The Torah, The Holy Qur'ans, The Quran and the Torah and the Holy Quran, and He's got it all, and he also writes about it, and does it, too, and it's all about the Quran's relationship with The Torah and His thoughts on The Torah. ...and so on, etc., etc., and so on...
00:00:25.000We will also get to ISIS recruitment videos, plus some things that I hate, including Hillary Clinton, who is apparently trying to schlong the pharmaceutical companies.
00:00:36.000I'm Ben Shapiro, this is Tend to Demonize People Who Don't Care About Your Feelings.
00:00:44.000Alrighty, so, here we are, and I want to start today's show by talking a little bit about something that the Democrats have been pushing, and that is this notion that Republicans, Donald Trump in particular, they are the people who are creating all of this impetus for recruitment to ISIS, that ISIS is using Donald Trump to recruit.
00:01:02.000Now you remember Hillary Clinton in Saturday night's debate, in that little watched, little seen, they tried to hide it like Gollum tried to hide the ring, that debate.
00:01:10.000But they hid that debate on a Saturday night.
00:01:12.000But still, Hillary Clinton did say in that debate that Donald Trump was ISIS's best recruiting tool ever.
00:01:18.000And she said that they were creating videos with Donald Trump in them.
00:01:22.000And then, Barack Obama, over the weekend, he did an interview with NPR.
00:01:26.000And in this interview with NPR, he says that the only reason people even fear ISIS or fear terrorism is because of media exaggeration.
00:01:32.000Here's President Obama blaming the media for ISIS's awareness and the fact that ISIS is rising.
00:01:39.000You know, ISIL combines viciousness with very savvy media operations.
00:01:46.000And as a consequence, if you've been watching television for the last month, all you've been seeing, all you've been hearing about is these guys with masks or black flags who are potentially coming to get you.
00:02:03.000And so I understand why people are concerned about it, and this is a serious situation.
00:02:11.000What is important is for people to recognize that the power, the strength of the United States and its allies are not threatened by an organization like this in the same way that
00:03:19.000In the entire history of the United States, the entire history of the country, there really have been only two existential threats.
00:03:25.000Three if you count the American Revolution and the War of 1812.
00:03:28.000The Civil War was an existential threat to the United States, although even then, not really, because the South didn't really want to take over the North.
00:03:34.000And then there was an existential threat with regard to the Soviet Union.
00:03:37.000But even the Nazis weren't really an existential threat to the United States, because the Nazis didn't have the capacity to come across the oceans.
00:04:00.000That if ISIS isn't an existential threat, if they just kill 14 people every couple of years in San Bernardino, or if they kill 130 people in Paris every so often, that's something we can live with.
00:04:33.000I don't think that most people think that ISIS is going to conquer the United States, but I think most people are concerned, rightly so, that somebody from ISIS could walk into a movie theater and shoot it up, or that somebody from ISIS could walk into a community center and shoot 31 people, including 14 dead.
00:04:48.000That is not an idle worry, and I think that the American people are right to be worried about that.
00:04:52.000But President Obama and Hillary Clinton, they make all of these excuses for why ISIS is rising.
00:04:57.000I think it is worthwhile going through exactly why ISIS is rising in their own words.
00:05:01.000So ISIS has released now, they did this last month, they released an English language recruitment video.
00:05:08.000And we're gonna go through it, and we're gonna pause it every so often so I can explain what they're saying, because some of the words are in Arabic.
00:05:13.000But, the recruitment video, the first thing that you'll notice, and folks, this is why you should subscribe, because the visuals are kind of important to this particular piece of audio.
00:05:21.000You can still hear what's going on, obviously, but the visuals make it much more striking.
00:05:25.000The visuals in this video are extraordinarily good.
00:05:31.000There's an actual production facility.
00:05:34.000Apparently, we know where it is, but they housed it in a civilian area, so we're not bombing it.
00:05:38.000But this is something I, Jeremy Boring, managing editor of Daily Wire, he does videos for a lot of various different enterprises, including Prager University, and he's done videos, obviously, for Daily Wire.
00:05:48.000We used to do videos for Truth Revolt.
00:05:50.000And I asked him, how much would a video like the one you're about to watch cost?
00:06:12.000In this ISIS recruitment video is that nothing the left says about why ISIS is doing what it is doing, nothing they say about why ISIS is doing what they are doing, has anything to do with what ISIS actually says about what it's doing.
00:06:24.000The left will say it's about climate change, or it's about the media, or it's about Donald Trump.
00:06:28.000ISIS is pretty clear that the reason that they are doing what they are doing is one, they're Muslim.
00:06:33.000Two, they think the West is a place of emptiness with no central value to it.
00:06:38.000And three, they've won a string of victories over leftist governments.
00:06:41.000This is really the theme of the video.
00:06:43.000And I think it's worthwhile watching because we need to hear the enemy in their own words.
00:06:49.000My little sister is writing a graphic novel right now.
00:06:52.000And in doing that graphic novel, she has to create a villain.
00:06:55.000And so one of the things she's doing for research on the villain is she's reading Hitler's Mein Kampf.
00:07:00.000And I told her it was a worthwhile endeavor to do that.
00:07:03.000She started reading it, and she turned to me and she said, this is actually creepy because you read it, and it's well written, and the beginning is moving, it's all about Hitler and his father, and it's not the rantings of a total nutjob.
00:07:16.000This is somebody who obviously was a rational human being with a deeply evil set of beliefs, and I said, right, that's sort of the point.
00:07:24.000If we're going to take ISIS seriously, we have to figure out what it is that they think.
00:07:27.000We'll take a look at this ISIS recruitment video and we'll break it down for you.
00:07:35.000This is our Khilafah, in all its glory, remaining and expanding.
00:07:42.000It was established in the year 1435 Hijri.
00:07:44.000Its leader, from the tribe of Quraysh, is Shaykh Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and its territory is already greater than Britain, 8 times the size of Belgium, and 30 times the size of Qatar.
00:07:57.000Okay, let's pause it there for a second.
00:07:58.000Okay, so, Khalifa is their Islamic state, the Islamic regime.
00:08:01.000So when they say our Khalifa is this size, that's what they mean.
00:08:05.000They're already promoting the idea that they've created a state, which is more than Al-Qaeda ever could say, right?
00:08:10.000This is why ISIS is different from Al-Qaeda, because ISIS actually tried to create an Islamic state, as opposed to Al-Qaeda, which said, we're going to live in Islamic states and then go target the West.
00:08:20.000Their territorial integrity is vital to their case.
00:08:26.000They say, we've taken over all this territory.
00:08:28.000Now, how could they have taken over all this territory?
00:08:31.000Hmm... Could it have had something to do with America pulling out all of its troops from Iraq and leaving the place wide open for 5,000 troops from ISIS to walk across the border?
00:08:41.0005,000 people basically took over half of Iraq.
00:08:50.000It's a state built on the prophetic methodology, striving to follow the Qur'an and Sunnah.
00:08:56.000Not a secular state built on man-made laws, whose soldiers fight for the interests of Tawhid legislators, liars, fornicators, corporations, and for the freedoms of Saudis.
00:09:08.000We are men, honored with Islam, who climbed its peaks to perform jihad, answering the call to unite under one flag.
00:09:58.000So Hillary says Donald Trump's in this video.
00:10:00.000Donald Trump is not in any of these videos.
00:10:01.000Bill Clinton is in these videos and he doesn't even merit the title of politician.
00:10:06.000He's called a fornicator by ISIS here.
00:10:08.000They also showed George W. Bush and they showed Barack Obama here.
00:10:13.000And what they say, basically, is that we live an empty lifestyle on behalf of corporations.
00:10:17.000Now, what's amazing, of course, is that there's one other group in American life that says that America is built for the sake of corporations.
00:10:27.000They're using the dominant themes of the American left in order to push their own routine, and you're going to see them do more of this.
00:10:32.000The pitch that ISIS makes is basically that conservative America is their enemy.
00:10:38.000Leftist America is their enemy because they fight for the freedom of sodomites, and sodomites, of course, are gay people, in their parlance.
00:10:44.000But what they are really saying here is they are saying that the real enemy are people who fight on behalf of corporations, which is the language of Bernie Sanders,
00:10:52.000So all these attempts to paint them as this radical right-wing group, they're not radically right-wing.
00:10:57.000In fact, they mirror a lot of the arguments of the left.
00:11:01.000Osama bin Laden liked to argue that climate change was a Western imperialist effort to defeat the third world, which is basically what the American left says.
00:11:09.000You wonder why the left sides with radical Muslims so often?
00:11:15.000ISIS, but certainly they've been very kind to radical Muslims in Hamas, and even with ISIS, the truth is that they're not siding with ISIS, but they're okay with the rise of ISIS.
00:11:25.000It bothers them significantly more if the U.S.
00:11:27.000were to get deeply invested in war with ISIS, or Al-Qaeda, or Saddam Hussein, or any other Muslim.
00:11:33.000But what's amazing about this is that their philosophy is a mash-up of radical Islam, and also they're taking tropes from the American left, which they realize are popular, in order to recruit people
00:11:42.000And so the question is, and this really is a question, where does ISIS draw its crowd?
00:12:27.000This is the source of our glory, our obedience to our Lord.
00:12:31.000We are uncompromising in our call to Tawhid.
00:12:34.000We only bow to Allah, unlike the countless deviant factions raising their false banners and changing with the winds of Jahili politics.
00:12:43.000Yes, we are the soldiers who stopped the idols of nationalism, demolished the shitty symbols of Palmyra and Nineveh, and destroyed the Sykes-Picot borders.
00:12:54.000We have to explain what he's talking about there.
00:12:56.000So Keanu Reeves, who's narrating this video, Islamic Keanu Reeves, he says that they have demolished the idolatry.
00:13:04.000The word that he's using in Arabic means idolatry.
00:13:09.000Uh, and, uh, and Palmyra, which are, which are these, these 3,000, 4,000-year-old statues, and ISIS went in and blew them up, because after all, the Qur'an says that you're not supposed to tolerate idolatry.
00:13:19.000So they went and they blew up these historic structures, these historic statues.
00:13:22.000The Sykes-Picot borders that they're talking about are borders that were set up after World War I by the British, that separated Iraq from Syria, and drew a bunch of arbitrary lines in the Middle East.
00:13:32.000Uh, and, and when they say that they're fighting the, uh, they're fighting the idol of nationalism, uh, again,
00:13:37.000I seem to remember just a few weeks ago, we were playing a song on this very program that talked about a world without borders, a world without nations, right?
00:13:55.000...no honor to be found in the remnants of shirk and nationalism, and no difference between an Arab and a non-Arab, or a black man and a white man, except through piety.
00:14:07.000This is the glory of faith that unites us.
00:14:10.000Justice is served with the establishment of the Islamic court... ...and pause it again.
00:14:14.000So basically, they're doing the same thing the Soviet Union did back during the Soviet Union's heyday.
00:14:19.000They're saying that America is bad because America is racist.
00:14:22.000Right, so now they're hijacking the Black Lives Matter language.
00:14:25.000There's no difference between black and white and anyone else, except in allegiance to Allah, meaning that if you have allegiance to Allah, then you are part of the group, and if you're not, then you're not.
00:14:34.000But there is no racial differentiation, and that's a slap at the supposed racism of the West.
00:14:38.000They're taking every criticism that the left has leveraged against the right in the West, and they are using it in order to promote their own agenda here.
00:14:45.000This is why everybody on the left is trying desperately to pretend that Donald Trump
00:14:57.000There are thousands of Masajid in schools for our Cubs and Pearls, where they prepare themselves to share in the great rewards of expanding this caliphate.
00:15:05.000America, you claim to have the greatest army history has known.
00:15:10.000You may have the numbers and weapons, but your soldiers lack the will and resolve.
00:15:15.000Still scarred from their defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq, they return dead, or suicidal, with over 6,500 of them killing themselves each year.
00:15:26.000So while you go around cooking the facts on the results of your military airstrikes, we continue to haunt the minds of your soldiers and sow fear into their hearts, with 18 of your soldiers committing suicide each day.
00:15:45.000How many movies have you seen just in the last few years about American soldiers coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan who are suicidal, and depressed, and suffer from PTSD, and can't handle themselves, and they can't handle what they've done, and they come home and they kill themselves or they alienate their families?
00:16:00.000This is how the media covers the military, because the left, in essence, really does not like the American military, which is why they're attempting to slash it.
00:16:07.000They see it as a tool of colonialism and imperialism and therefore they have to portray America.
00:16:11.000They can't say that American soldiers are bad.
00:16:41.000That includes anyone who has ever served in the military, and the majority of people who are killing themselves are people who are above the age of 50.
00:16:47.000So it's not people who are coming home and are young.
00:16:49.000There is an elevated suicide rate lately for members of the military who are younger, but it's not 18 suicides a day.
00:16:55.000Every year it's about 350 active duty service members who kill themselves, which is still a lot of people, but it isn't 6,500 people.
00:17:02.000Every single year, but the point that they're making is the same point the left is making, which is that our soldiers are crazy or mentally fragile, that they don't have the will to fight.
00:17:11.000Now, the truth is, the truth is our soldiers definitely have the will to fight.
00:17:14.000I mean, if you've ever talked to anybody in the military, they are ready to go over there and kick some ass right now.
00:17:18.000And the people who were pulled out from Iraq as a general rule were very much against the idea that we're going to hand over the country to a bunch of people who are going to give it away.
00:17:25.000They saw it as a betrayal of the sacrifices made by them and their friends, and they were right.
00:17:31.000This is why whenever people argue with me, I'm a young guy, and they say, well, why didn't you go into the military?
00:18:13.000Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton who created this policy are the problem and you'll see that is the theme of this video over and over and over again.
00:19:39.000But it, but, uh, but what they're talking about at the very end
00:19:43.000When they say that we're going to have wars in the hills of Dabiq, Dabiq is a place in northern Syria, and according to ISIS, according to their Islamic prophecy, no, not their Buddhist prophecy, their Islamic prophecy, there will be an Armageddon battle there between 80 nations, an alliance of Christians and the Muslims, and that will eventually usher in the Messianic Age for Muslims.
00:20:02.000So, notice also in that last portion there,
00:20:05.000There are a couple other elements of politics that were brought in by ISIS.
00:20:08.000One was, you guys can't afford to keep boots on the ground because you spend too much money on the wars.
00:20:19.000We spent so much money and now we can never put troops on the ground, no boots on the ground.
00:20:23.000And they're saying, well, okay, you know, you're going to proclaim that you're winning from the air, but you're not winning from the air because you're dropping these really, really expensive bombs on us and we're shooting bullets at your proxies and killing them.
00:21:48.000ISIS did not exist until 2011-2012, when it grew under President Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
00:21:56.000Now, meanwhile, I mean, it's amazing how the left has to create this massive disconnect with reality with regard to ISIS and Syrian refugees and the nature of radical Islam.
00:22:06.000There's another video that came out yesterday with a Syrian refugee talking about Islam and Islamic radicalism and talking specifically about what he thinks
00:22:15.000Muslims ought to do in Europe, and it is not what the left has been suggesting.
00:22:19.000It's not a bunch of people who are just desperate to leave, at least this guy says.
00:22:23.000It's not a bunch of people desperate to leave because they're just looking for a better life outside of the helter-skelter of Syrian war.
00:22:29.000Here is a Syrian Muslim refugee talking online about his reason for leaving Syria.
00:22:34.000I'll read you the subtitles because obviously if you aren't subscribing, again, you should, but if you aren't subscribing, then I'll read you the subtitles.
00:22:41.000He's speaking in, it looks like he's speaking in German.
00:22:45.000This is my main goal for leaving Syria is to lead people to the acceptance of Islam.
00:22:53.000If my wish comes true, I will gladly forego the whole world.
00:22:57.000For this purpose, I would not only sell Syria, but also my parents, who are more valuable to me than Syria.
00:23:06.000I swear by Allah, I only came here for this one goal.
00:23:11.000But this will be very demanding work for me.
00:23:14.000And for this reason, I've met with a few men and women who want to know more about Islam.
00:23:26.000I've observed that they are curious and willing to get to know Islam through us.
00:23:35.000So he's not coming to interpolate himself into Western culture.
00:23:38.000He's not coming to integrate himself into Western culture.
00:24:50.000Okay, schlong, for people who don't understand the reference, is a Yiddish term, and schlong is a penis.
00:24:55.000And apparently, there's another Yiddish term that is called schlogen, or schlagen, and so some people were suggesting that maybe he mixed it up.
00:26:03.000The only reason that white men are following Trump is because Trump is scaring them into following him with talk about those crazy Muslims.
00:26:13.000Because of the financial crisis, because of technology, because of globalization, the fact that wages and incomes have been flatlining for some time and that particularly
00:26:24.000Blue-collar men have had a lot of trouble in this new economy where they're no longer getting the same bargain that they got when they were going to a factory and able to support their families on a single paycheck.
00:26:40.000You combine those things and it means that there's going to be potential anger, frustration, fear.
00:26:49.000Some of it justified, but just misdirected.
00:26:53.000And I think somebody like Mr. Trump's taking advantage of that.
00:27:03.000It's the bitter clingers language all over again from 2008, right?
00:27:06.000Everybody who supports his opponent is somebody who's bitter, and they lost their job, and they're living in a Rust Belt town, and they're the father from Footloose, and they're all just these terrible downtrodden people
00:27:17.000Like Christian Balin out of the furnace and they're just being exploited by Donald Trump.
00:27:21.000And that's really what we should fear.
00:27:23.000We shouldn't fear the fact that President Obama has made ISIS an actual power in the region as well as a threat to people outside the region.
00:27:32.000That's something that we shouldn't fear.
00:27:34.000Again, if you are looking at the geopolitical situation right now and you're still thinking of voting Democrat, please slap yourself in the face repeatedly because it's just, it's absurd.
00:27:42.000Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is pushing her new routine.
00:28:05.000This is one of those things that sounds good even to Republicans.
00:28:07.000Oh, let's dump a bunch of money into research for Alzheimer's.
00:28:09.000Who could oppose money for research to Alzheimer's?
00:28:12.000I don't oppose money for research to Alzheimer's.
00:28:14.000There's only one problem with all of this, which is that Hillary Clinton, like all of the Democrats before her, is a snake oil salesperson.
00:28:37.000John Edwards, if you remember back to 2004, he actually said at a campaign rally that Christopher Reeves, the guy from Superman, he would get up and walk again if John Kerry was elected president in 2004.
00:28:49.000He said, we will fund all of this research into paralysis and we will cure paralysis if John Kerry is elected president.
00:28:55.000Joe Biden, just a few weeks ago, when he announced that he was not in the race any longer, Joe Biden said that he wanted a moonshot to cure cancer, as though the only thing that separates us from curing all of these terrible diseases is government intransigence.
00:29:09.000If it just weren't for all of these government actors standing in the way, we could just drop a bunch of money, and boom, cancer would be cured.
00:29:15.000There's only one problem with all of this, which is it's complete and utter hogwash.
00:29:19.000And I think it's important to explain this because there are too many people who buy into it.
00:29:23.000The vast, vast, vast, vast majority of all useful drugs in the world are created by private pharmaceutical companies.
00:29:30.000They are created by drug companies with a profit margin and a necessity for creating profitable products.
00:29:36.000And there's an old joke about the Greeks versus the Romans.
00:29:39.000The old joke about the Greeks versus the Romans, that the reason the Roman Empire defeated the Greeks and eventually ended up supplanting the Greeks is because while the Greeks were sitting around talking about the theory of building, the Romans were inventing cement.
00:29:50.000And the idea is that there is sort of a dichotomy between making products that work and the worries about theory.
00:29:55.000The theory of government-funded research is that government-funded research will create the underlying scientific theory, and then building on that scientific theory, drug companies will create the profitable drugs.
00:30:05.000There's only one problem, which is that that
00:30:07.000Actually, it's not typically the way things work when it comes to scientific development.
00:30:11.000It wasn't that somebody developed the theory of the lightbulb.
00:30:13.000It's that there were tons of people competing to develop the actual lightbulb.
00:30:17.000And then afterward, you figure out the theory of the lightbulb.
00:30:19.000The theory of the lightbulb actually didn't matter all that much.
00:30:21.000The mechanics of the lightbulb mattered a lot.
00:30:23.000Ask your plumber if he knows the theories of water pressure.
00:30:25.000Like, why does water pressure work the way it works?
00:30:29.000Your plumber probably doesn't know the answer, but he certainly knows how to fix your toilet.
00:30:32.000Well, the drug companies are in the business of fixing the human body.
00:30:36.000These government-funded agencies are in the business of basic science.
00:30:40.000This is not a case against all government funding of scientific research, but it is to say that Hillary Clinton said, in the first Democratic debate, she said it openly, Hillary Clinton said, who are your enemies?
00:30:50.000She said her enemies are the drug companies, so if you are going to say that you're defeating Alzheimer's, don't go after the only people who have any history of actually defeating Alzheimer's and actually fighting these things.
00:31:00.000Okay, it's all private companies that are doing that work.
00:31:03.000Okay, it's time for some things that I like and some things that I hate.
00:32:31.000Well, there's this guy in the Kia Soul and he's in front of me, and I noticed that as he's pulling onto the freeway over at Havenhurst, I think, he's pulling onto the freeway and down rolls the window and boom, littered right out the window.
00:32:56.000I bought this really crappy car that fits like a person and a half and gets a lot of miles per gallon because I can literally pick it up and fold it up and put it in my pocket when I'm done for the evening.
00:33:07.000And I've done enough for the environment today.
00:33:09.000I'm tossing this hamburger wrapper out the window.
00:33:11.000Well, the mother of all of these people is this woman apparently named Megan Kimball.
00:33:20.000She has written this book, and she wrote a column in the Washington Post called, quote, I ate only unprocessed foods for a year.
00:33:27.000Okay, and so, the idea is she ate only unprocessed foods for a year.
00:33:31.000I know people, by the way, who eat nothing but unprocessed foods their entire life.
00:33:35.000They're called poor people and they live in the third world and they die at age 30.
00:33:39.000The fact is that, the reality is that processed foods, for all of the crap that processed foods get, and there's a lot of bad stuff about processed foods, I tend to eat healthy, I like eating healthy, but the idea that processed foods are the worst threat to people, talk about first world problems, but there's a virtue that attaches to you if you say that you eat unprocessed foods.
00:33:56.000So only two groups of people, Adam Corolla does rich man, poor man, where he says there are certain things that only a rich guy can get away with and a poor guy can get away with,
00:34:03.000Right, and so he talks about, for example, if you have a car in your front yard, right, something only a rich guy can get away with and a poor guy can get away with, in one case it's like a beat-up old Chevy from 1956 with all the wheels missing, and in the other case it's a Rolls-Royce that you park on your front lawn to show how rich you are, and this is a rich man-poor man scenario.
00:34:20.000The people who eat unprocessed foods in the world are the people who literally have access only to unprocessed foods, and uber-wealthy people living in the first world who shop at Whole Foods, which is the most expensive store
00:34:42.000We live in an era of climate change, when natural resources are becoming scarce, and our food system is increasingly dependent on fossil fuels.
00:34:48.000Okay, first of all, let me just point out, there is no shortage of fossil fuels, okay?
00:36:39.000And then this thing goes on for like 3,000 words about how all she ate was unprocessed foods and how this makes her a better person.
00:36:47.000She says, she feels better, stronger, and fuller.
00:36:50.000I found a sense of community in the place I live.
00:36:52.000While it's true that dollars spent on local businesses are dollars withheld from unaccountable corporations, it's also true that spending money better can make a more lovely Sunday morning and a more delicious Sunday dinner.
00:37:08.000My great downfall as an eater is that I think vegetables were created by Satan.
00:37:12.000But this idea that you are a better person because you are eating
00:37:18.000Unprocessed food, as opposed to processed food.
00:37:22.000See, I consider you a better person based on what you do with your life.
00:37:25.000I consider you a better person based on how many people you help.
00:37:28.000And let's just make one thing clear about these corporations.
00:37:31.000These corporations employ a lot of people.
00:37:34.000And those unprocessed foods that everybody's whining about, one of the reasons that processed foods sell so well is because they last on the shelf forever.
00:37:52.000Because of freezing, because of processing, because we can now maintain foods for periods of years, lots of people aren't starving specifically because of that.
00:37:59.000When you go to your food drive and you figure, I'm going to ship this food to Africa, you know, a hundred years ago you couldn't ship that food to Africa because it would spoil halfway there.
00:38:06.000It would spoil halfway out of town actually.
00:38:09.000This is not a case that unprocessed foods are better than processed foods.