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00:00:40.000He tried to write a book about Hillary Clinton that was an anti-Hillary Clinton book.
00:00:45.000After it bombed, he realized that he'd make more money on the left.
00:00:48.000And David Brock also felt not accepted because he's a very gay guy, and so he felt not accepted by the Republican Party, and he is famous for his alleged severe drug habit.
00:00:58.000In any case, he is one of Hillary Clinton's closest confidants.
00:01:01.000She helped start Media Matters specifically as an organization to defend her.
00:01:06.000And I just have to start with this clip because this clip is so hysterically funny.
00:01:08.000Here's David Brock discussing Donald Trump, and we're now in day four of Schlongate.
00:01:15.000And as you recall, Donald Trump said that Barack Obama schlonged Hillary in 2008 and the entire world went insane because no schlong must ever come near to Hillary Clinton.
00:01:26.000And so David Brock has now come up with his deep analysis of schlongate 2015.
00:01:34.000We're going to see, and what we got a taste of last night, was the misogynistic attacks on Hillary Clinton, which also had a racial appeal as well.
00:01:42.000The idea of a black rapist basically using the schlong to defeat Hillary.
00:01:48.000I think that's what that really was about.
00:01:50.000You think that there is a deeply racial animus and violent subtext.
00:02:22.000But this is actually part of the left-wing pitch now.
00:02:24.000So the left-wing pitch was that we can't get Donald Trump on being a racist, because no one really thinks Donald Trump is that racist.
00:02:29.000They just kind of think that Donald Trump is a loudmouth.
00:02:32.000Because Donald Trump is kind of a loudmouth.
00:02:34.000So what the left instead has done is they have said that Donald Trump is, in fact, that his supporters are crazy white supremacist racists.
00:02:41.000So Lawrence O'Donnell, who, you want to know how left-wing Hollywood is, folks?
00:04:12.000Donald Trump is only supported by white supremacists.
00:04:14.000And of course, all of the all of the minorities in the party tend to support him.
00:04:20.000Also, actually, he has disproportionate shares of black support, does Donald Trump, and he has 39% of the votes.
00:04:26.000Unless you're gonna say that, I guess this is the point, that Republicans are all vicious racists who secretly burn crosses on people's lawns in the middle of the night and beat up Muslims and all this kind of stuff.
00:04:35.000This is what the left wants to portray Donald Trump and his supporters.
00:04:38.000Yes, and they've extended it out from Donald Trump.
00:04:40.000Chris Matthews, who, as I say every time I mention Chris Matthews, rolls out of bed and directly onto set.
00:04:46.000He actually has a cot that's just off set, and he sleeps in his suit, and he doesn't do his hair, and he just sort of rolls off the set, and rolls onto set, and he's not fully awake, so you can say,
00:05:00.000He says that Ted Cruz, too, is another one of these insane white supremacists, white people, Hispanic.
00:05:05.000And as you can see from the still of Chris Matthews, Chris Matthews apparently hit the scotch a little bit too hard the previous night.
00:05:39.000White people, if you will, working white people, whatever that category gets defined as, are so angry, especially the very religious people, that they're willing to put somebody in there who's a complete enemy of the state.
00:05:50.000He's an enemy of the state, he's a traitor.
00:06:12.000So the entire Republican base is just filled with white supremacists.
00:06:15.000It's amazing how this works, by the way.
00:06:17.000All of the black supremacists of Black Lives Matter, their slogan inherently is Black Supremacists, right?
00:06:22.000Only Black Lives Matter, not other lives.
00:06:25.000They are all wonderful, generous, diverse, multicultural people, but all of the white folks who support Ted Cruz and just want the government out of our business, they're all a bunch of racists.
00:06:34.000Now, all of this would not be noteworthy because it's coming from leftists, and this has been their constant refrain for as long as I've been alive, certainly.
00:06:41.000I think that it's probably been the refrain longer than that.
00:06:43.000If you go back to Goldwater vs. LBJ, they were doing the same routine.
00:06:46.000But, certainly since I've been alive, the refrain has been, Republicans are white, they're angry white men.
00:06:54.000For anybody who ever saw that movie with Michael Douglas, if you've ever seen this movie, pretty good movie, but the entire premise of the movie is that there are these angry white men who are the silent majority in America, and eventually are going to go off.
00:07:09.000Okay, the left has always seen us this way.
00:07:11.000This is why Barack Obama thinks every time there's a criticism of him, it is a criticism of him personally, it's because of the level of melanin in his skin, or because we don't think he's a citizen, or some such stupid crap like that.
00:07:23.000Okay, all of that would not be bothersome.
00:07:27.000Is that there are folks on the right now doing the same routine.
00:07:29.000And these folks on the right doing the same routine are people at the Wall Street Journal, and people at National Review, and a lot of these people I respect, and I think they're good thinkers.
00:07:37.000But there is an elitism that now dominates among some members of the Republican Party that I truly find off-putting.
00:07:44.000As a member of the elite, okay, by any standard I'm a member of the quote-unquote elite.
00:08:01.000By any measure, I am a member of the elite.
00:08:03.000I find this elitism off-putting because the fact is that
00:08:07.000For me, the purpose of government is to keep everyone else out of my business.
00:08:11.000And so I don't believe that there's this group of wise and prescient rulers who know better than we do.
00:08:16.000I remember when I was first at Harvard Law School, we met in this giant, it was Widener Hall, we met at this giant library.
00:08:24.000They had all of the first-year Harvard students meet here.
00:08:27.000It was 500 students, each Harvard class 500 students.
00:08:29.000And it looks like something out of Harry Potter.
00:08:31.000I mean, the hall is magnificent, and it's all mahogany and carvings and busts of people you've never heard of, and it really is quite grand.
00:08:37.000And you're sitting there, and Elena Kagan, now a justice on the Supreme Court, was the dean at the time, and she walks out in front of this whole crowd, and she says, don't worry, you've made it.
00:09:18.000I was the second youngest kid in the class.
00:09:21.000Pretty lofty stuff for a bunch of people who have no moral experience and no real life experience as a general rule.
00:09:27.000And by the way, lofty stuff for anybody, because nobody should have that kind of control.
00:09:30.000The whole idea of American Republicanism, small r, is the idea that the people should not be dominated by a group of upper-class elitists who think that they're a bunch of nudniks and idiots and fools.
00:09:41.000But there is this feeling that is now coming over the self-styled elite in the Republican Party, as well as the Democrat elite we've already known about.
00:10:03.000I think he's a talented guy, particularly on foreign policy.
00:10:05.000But he wrote one of the truly one of the worst columns that I have ever read.
00:10:09.000He came out a couple of days ago and it's worth going through at length because it is a window into the mind of so many people in the upper echelon Republican Party.
00:10:17.000I talked a few days ago on this broadcast about how Bill Kristol over at the Weekly Standard was already talking.
00:10:23.000If Trump gets the nomination, what do we call our new third party?
00:10:27.000And I was saying, this is amazing, because these are the same people saying Trump wouldn't take the allegiance pledge, the loyalty pledge, and so Trump has to be cast out, but now we won't do it, because we are the great ones.
00:10:39.000We are the ones who get to decide, and if it's not going to be us deciding, nobody decides.
00:10:43.000If somebody else is going to play with the football, we take the football, and we don't just take it home, we take a knife and we stab that football.
00:10:49.000We let all of the air out of it, right?
00:10:51.000That's basically how the establishment is now about the party.
00:10:54.000So Bret Stephens writes in the Wall Street Journal,
00:11:09.000Let us now pledge to elect Hillary Clinton as the 45th President of the United States.
00:11:14.000Let's skip the petty dramas of primaries and caucuses that abate histrionics, the sour spectacle of the convention in Cleveland.
00:11:21.000Let's fast forward past that sinking October feeling when we belatedly realize we're going to lose and lose badly.
00:11:27.000Let's do this because it's what we want.
00:11:29.000Maybe secretly, maybe unconsciously, but desperately.
00:11:32.000We want four and probably eight more years of cable news neuralgia.
00:11:36.000We want to drive ourselves to work as Mark Levin or Laura Ingram scratch our ideological itches until they bleed a little.
00:11:42.000We want the refiner's fire that is our righteous indignation at a country we claim no longer to recognize, ruled by imposters and overrun by foreigners.
00:11:52.000He's saying that everybody in the base who likes Trump or Cruz is somebody who wants to lose to Hillary Clinton, and not only that, we enjoy the masochism.
00:11:59.000We enjoy the masochism of having a Democrat as president and Democrats running the show.
00:12:13.000He is saying, and people in his party are saying, we're going to start our own third party if Trump is the nominee, and he's accusing the Trump supporters of wanting to get Hillary elected?
00:12:23.000Either you call for the party to unify around the nominee, or you're calling for Hillary to be elected.
00:12:28.000Right now, let's be fair about one other thing, which is that there are good reasons why you might have a higher priority than defeating Hillary Clinton at the ballot box.
00:12:35.000If, for example, you think the Republican Party has been so drilled through with corruption and nastiness that it has to be cleansed, there has to be a shift in the way the party is run,
00:12:46.000And so if it takes a loss to Hillary Clinton to purify the party so that in four years we can come back and have a legitimately conservative party, it's an argument I have some sympathy for, I ultimately disagree with it, but that's at least a rationale.
00:12:59.000But this idea that people are just stupidly throwing up their hands and saying, more Democrats, it's so nasty and untrue.
00:13:07.000And then he goes on to say, Bret Stephens does, that Ted Cruz is a part of this.
00:13:37.000They actually like Cruz less than they like Trump.
00:13:40.000The Wall Street Journal turned it down.
00:13:42.000Maybe they didn't want it because they disagreed with the premise.
00:13:44.000Maybe they didn't want it because it didn't fit their needs.
00:13:46.000Whatever it was, they then ran this piece by Bret Stephens about how Ted Cruz is, quote, happy to be on any side of an issue so long as he can paint himself as a real Republican.
00:13:56.000The implicit goal here being the automatic excommunication of anyone who disagrees with him.
00:14:02.000Okay, the stunning cynicism of this, this entire column says, if you agree with Cruz or Trump, then you're automatically excommunicated because you disagree with us, and then he's accusing Cruz of the same thing.
00:14:12.000Cruz is legitimately the most conservative candidate in this race, by any measure.
00:14:16.000By any measure, Ted Cruz is the most conservative candidate in this race, but that's not good enough for Bret Stephens.
00:14:22.000He says that if you vote for Cruz, it's because you want Hillary to win.
00:14:26.000And then they go even, this goes even further, and this is the craziness, okay?
00:14:29.000If you're a moderate in the Republican Party,
00:14:31.000It doesn't even matter what the question is, you already know the answer.
00:14:34.000The answer is going to be more moderation.
00:14:36.000John McCain wasn't moderate enough, that's why he lost.
00:14:38.000Mitt Romney wasn't moderate enough, that's why he lost.
00:14:48.000And the reason I said that is because I said no one whose chief accomplishment in office is Obamacare can run against a guy whose chief accomplishment in office is Obamacare.
00:15:19.000I think that he tried to paint Obama as incompetent rather than ill-intentioned.
00:15:23.000I think that he left Obama basically unscathed throughout the race and still it was a relatively close race.
00:15:28.000If he had really taken out the hatchet for Obama, I think things would have been different.
00:15:31.000In 2008, I know things would have been different if John McCain had hit President Obama with Jeremiah Wright one week out of the gate instead of waiting for one week before the election when it was too late to do anything.
00:15:41.000But here's what the establishment takes away from Mitt Romney's defeat.
00:15:46.000If the lesson of Mitt Romney's predictable loss in 2012 was that it's bad politics to tell America's fastest-growing ethnic group that some of their relatives should self-deport or to castigate 47% of the country as a bunch of moochers, well, so what?
00:15:59.000Abraham Lincoln once said, if you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
00:16:11.000He says Romney lost because of self-deportation and because of his 47% comments.
00:16:31.000Mitt Romney did not lose because of self-deportation.
00:16:34.000Mitt Romney would have had to win 73% of the Hispanic vote in order to beat Barack Obama in the 2012 election.
00:16:40.000He didn't lose because of self-deportation.
00:16:42.000He lost because blue-collar whites did not show up to vote for him, and because blacks showed up in mass numbers to vote for President Obama, far more than their demographic share of the United States population.
00:16:52.000As far as this castigating 47% of the country as a bunch of moochers, I remember when this happened, and the first thing I thought is, he should double down on it!
00:16:59.000Why in the world is he running from it?
00:17:01.000What Trump is showing people is you don't run even from your mistakes, but that wasn't even a mistake.
00:17:06.000The fact is, if you don't want to be counted among the people dependent on government, don't be dependent on government.
00:17:11.000If you don't want to be counted among people who vote for a bigger government for your own enrichment, then don't do it.
00:17:17.000The fact is a high percentage of Americans will vote for Hillary Clinton no matter how corrupt she is.
00:17:22.000Right now, polls show Bernie Sanders, a socialist, has 45% of the vote.
00:17:38.000It was Ronald Reagan who talked about welfare queens who were taking Americans' money and using it on their Cadillacs as opposed to being poor.
00:18:20.000He basically said Romney was the best of the worst, essentially.
00:18:24.000And by the way, when you quote Lincoln, and you quote Lincoln saying that if you would win a man to your cause first, convince him you're his sincere friend,
00:18:35.000Lincoln then won 39.8% of the vote in the 1816 election, and in 1864, half the country couldn't vote, because they were busy seceding.
00:18:44.000Talking about convincing people that you're on their side, and that you're his sincere friend, Lincoln was unsuccessful enough at that that half the country tried to kill the other half of the country.
00:19:39.000Does anyone really think that Marco Rubio is going to draw a significantly bigger chunk of the Hispanic population to the point where he wins the election based on that?
00:19:46.000Who are the blue-collar voters that Marco Rubio is going to drive to the polls?
00:19:51.000Everybody's looking at these polls right now and saying, well, Marco Rubio's running competitive with Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump is like, it's like 47-40 Hillary over Trump, and 45-44 Hillary over Rubio, or 44-44, they're tied.
00:20:03.000Okay, the reason for that, folks, is because the media... Have you seen anything about Trump on TV?
00:20:09.000The reason Trump's at 40 is because they've hit him with everything, including the kitchen sink.
00:20:12.000The reason that Marco Rubio's at 45 is because nobody knows who he is.
00:20:16.000He's the handsome guy with the funny haircut, who's well-spoken, but has a kind of fear behind his eyes.
00:20:22.000That's the guy who we're all talking about.
00:20:25.000But this is how the establishment feels about the base.
00:20:27.000The establishment feels that the base are the bad guys.
00:20:29.000The base are the people who are driving us to defeat.
00:20:32.000And it really is, it makes me a little sick to my stomach, because the fact is that the only way you're ever going to win elections in this country is to bridge that divide, and every time the base says, okay, well here's somebody we like, the establishment tries to clock them.
00:20:44.000By the way, the establishment tried to clock them over Marco Rubio.
00:20:47.000Everybody forgets about this, but Marco Rubio was a Tea Party guy.
00:22:05.000It's very upsetting, because these are the people who are supposed to be our great thought leaders, and then they walk around, oh, we're not elitists, we're not elitists.
00:22:11.000And people I like, people whose writing I think is great.
00:22:14.000Kevin Williamson in National Review, not just going after Trump, which is fair game, but saying that his supporters are basically a bunch of rubes who hate everything and are racist and hate women and children and small puppies.
00:22:29.000And they disagree- And again, I've been victimized by the Trumpsters, okay?
00:22:32.000I don't- For the 1000th time, I do not support Donald Trump in this primary race.
00:22:38.000And I've been hit my fair share by the Trumpsters, who, the people who are devotees of Donald Trump are some of the most annoying people on the planet.
00:22:44.000I'm not talking about people who support him, I'm talking about the people who are fully crazed on board with Trump.
00:22:50.000I'm talking about the people who, when I spoke at the Nixon Library after the last debate, and I was about to give Donald Trump an A in my debate grades, got up and started screaming at me, we don't want your opinion.
00:23:19.000If it really came down to it, if Ted Cruz were the nominee, I think there are members of the Establishment Republican Party who would significantly prefer to see Hillary win than Ted Cruz.
00:23:27.000And I don't think it's unique to Cruz.
00:23:29.000I think any significantly conservative candidate would face the same battles.
00:23:33.000Because, look, Rubio's not conservative.
00:23:37.000He's 94% conservative, according to the American Conservative Union.
00:23:40.000But when it comes to some of his key votes, he's been movable.
00:23:44.000And that's what the Establishment likes about Rubio.
00:23:49.000Remember, Rubio entered the Senate saying he understood that amnesty was a bad idea, and then immediately within six months, boom, he was pushing amnesty.
00:23:56.000They feel like they can push Marco Rubio around.
00:23:58.000They don't feel like they can push Ted Cruz around.
00:24:01.000They don't feel like they can push Trump around, even though they agree with Trump more than they agree with Ted Cruz.
00:24:06.000All right, well on the other side of the aisle, Hillary Clinton is doing the, oh poor me, routine.
00:24:12.000Hillary Clinton in 2008, when she started to lose, if you recall all the way back to 2008, it feels like forever ago, but when Hillary Clinton was running in 2008, she lost Iowa.
00:24:29.000How stupid American politics has become.
00:24:31.000In 1968, there was a guy named Edmund Muskie.
00:24:33.000He was the governor of Minnesota, and he was running for the nomination on the Democratic side.
00:24:37.000And Edmund Muskie was running in New Hampshire, and there was one point at which somebody insulted his wife, and he apparently teared up while he was on the campaign trail.
00:25:09.000So, clip 7, Hillary is now staging photo ops with little children.
00:25:14.000Yesterday we discussed, by the way, how Ted Cruz's kids are fair game, but when Hillary Clinton obviously stages photo ops like this, and you'll see, it's so obviously staged, then all of a sudden, it's not staged and not mock-worthy at all.
00:25:27.000Here's Hillary Clinton in Iowa Town Hall.
00:25:30.000What are we going to do about all this bullying?
00:25:33.000Not just because of just people who want to be mean, but mental and physical and diseases that people have that they're able to live with every day.
00:25:46.000Can you tell me a little bit more about why that's on your mind?
00:25:49.000I have asthma, and occasionally I've heard people talking behind my back about not wanting to be near me because I have asthma.
00:27:29.000Let's say that she's telling the truth here.
00:27:31.000Let's say that she's telling the truth, and this wasn't staged at all, that magically a nine-year-old girl gets the microphone to ask Hillary Clinton a question in the front row of her town hall.
00:27:37.000Let's pretend that none of this happened because it was planned.
00:27:43.000And then you get Hillary with her little hug there, and then saying, we need more love and kindness and apple pie and ice cream and motherhood.
00:27:50.000And then everybody starts, yeah, love, kindness, woo!
00:28:42.000It doesn't matter that Hillary Clinton is not just a liar, she's a damn liar.
00:28:45.000It doesn't matter that Hillary Clinton is one of the worst political bullies of my lifetime and has been for 20 years.
00:28:51.000She had basically a hit squad inside the Clinton White House to go after all of Bill's, it was the bimbo, the bimbo eruption unit, going after all of, all of the women that Bill was screwing, both legitimately and illegitimately.
00:29:02.000It's, for her to sit there and lecture us all on bullying, this is what the left does.
00:29:06.000What the left does is they say that there are individuals who do bad things, therefore government has to come in and do bad things to everyone.
00:30:19.000He had some rather tyrannical tendencies, but the film itself is great, and it has some important things to say about the nature of law, and what government can do, and what government cannot do, and God's law being higher than man's law.
00:30:31.000So it's a really good movie, and Paul Schofield gives a tremendous performance.
00:30:44.000The NBA plays about five games on Christmas because this is what we do.
00:30:48.000All of our holidays now center around these shared cultural moments and many of them are sports because you thought, as a sports fan, and I watch a lot of sports, as a sports fan, one of the things I hate is when politics now infects my sports.
00:31:01.000I don't want to hear your political point of view.
00:31:04.000I don't want to hear about Black Lives Matter.
00:31:06.000I don't want to hear Bob Costas jabbering about gun control.
00:31:08.000All I want to do is watch people hit each other over an oblong ball, or watch a couple of guys throw a ball through a hoop, or watch someone throw a spherical object past another guy swinging a wooden bat.
00:31:24.000So it turns out that Everytown for Gun Safety, which is an organization that was started up in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shootings, Everytown for Gun Safety, they have now cut a new public service announcement pushing for gun control, and they're using NBA stars.
00:31:37.000So the NBA stars that you're going to see here are Steph Curry, who is the best player in the league right now, and you're also going to see Joaquin Noah.
00:31:43.000It used to be good, but it's sort of a has-been for the Chicago Bulls.
00:31:46.000And you'll see Chris Paul, who is the point guard for the Los Angeles Clippers.
00:31:49.000And you'll see Carmelo Anthony, who's become kind of an afterthought on the horrible New York Knicks.
00:31:54.000So you'll see all of them appear in here talking about gun control.
00:31:57.000This is supposed to air consistently through all five games all over Christmas.
00:32:32.000WeCanEndGunViolence.org, and then underneath it says a message from the NBA and its players.
00:32:37.000Presumably not all of its players, because a lot of its players own guns.
00:32:40.000In fact, a couple of years ago, Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards was suspended for the league because he and a guy named Javaris Crittenden, I think, they got into almost a gunfight in the locker room.
00:32:49.000They both brought guns into the locker room.
00:32:54.000But the reason that I singled this out
00:33:15.000Sandy Hook is actually a relatively statistically rare occurrence.
00:33:18.000The vast majority of people who die in the United States from gun violence are killed by people that they know, people from their community.
00:33:24.000They're not killed in random acts of violence.
00:33:27.000They're killed because gun violence is just like every other type of violence, it is a crime.
00:33:39.000In the black community, according to the Centers for Disease Control, every other subgroup of the American population, the most common cause of death is car accident.
00:33:47.000Everyone dies the most of car accident until you get really old.
00:33:49.000So if you're a young person, your most likely cause of death is you're texting and driving and someone plows into you and you're dead.
00:33:54.000If you are black, if you are a young black man between the ages of 20 and 24, you are four times, not just more likely, four times more likely to die of gun homicide than you are to die in a car accident.
00:34:08.000According to Bloomberg, quote, a young black man is nearly five times more likely to be killed by a gun than a young white man.
00:34:15.000You have to read in between the words here.
00:34:37.000These numbers, dramatic as they are, actually understate the problem.
00:34:40.000If a black person is killed by a gun, it is judged a homicide 82% of the time.
00:34:44.000For the broad population, and this is also included in that statistic, most guns are ruled accidental or the result of suicide.
00:34:50.000Only 34% of gun deaths are attributed to murder.
00:34:53.000So when they say 88 people die every day from gun violence, they're including in that statistic somebody who shoots themselves in the head.
00:34:59.000Well, it turns out that if you want to commit suicide, you can, right?
00:35:02.000I mean, the gun is not the real instrument here.
00:35:05.000It isn't the gun, it's you putting the gun to the back of your head, or the side of your head, and shooting yourself, or in your mouth, or whatever.
00:35:10.000So, it's, but, wouldn't this be a great opportunity?
00:35:12.000So, young black men die in disproportionate numbers from gun violence.
00:35:16.000As it so happens, as it so happens, a vastly disproportionate share of the NBA-watching population are young black men.
00:35:23.000Okay, young black men watch an enormous amount of NBA.
00:35:27.000According to Nielsen, black viewers of the NBA have increased their watch time 63%, they've almost doubled it apparently, from 2003 to 2013.
00:35:34.000Black viewers spend an average, an average,
00:35:39.000Not not you know a not a maximum an average of 844 minutes every season compared to 290 minutes for white viewers and the NBA fan base is disproportionately young black viewers aged 18 to 34 this is the key statistic right young black men who are more likely to die in gun crimes averaged 884 minutes of NBA watching that season which is how many hours that would be
00:36:04.00013, 14, almost 15 hours of NBA every season.
00:36:07.000And probably on Christmas, there's a good shot a lot of people are going to be watching.
00:36:11.000Compared with only 392 minutes for white viewers of the same age group.
00:36:15.000So in other words, you have a disproportionate black audience watching black superstars talk about guns.
00:36:21.000Wouldn't this be a nice time to talk about maybe don't shoot each other?
00:36:24.000Wouldn't that be a better pitch than we need legislation to put background checks?
00:36:29.000But again, this is not about making anybody's life better.
00:36:32.000It's about feeling good about yourself.
00:36:35.000Political correctness gets people killed.
00:36:36.000This would be an opportunity to save some lives.
00:36:38.000One of the things that they could also push, for that matter, would be, hey, if you're a young black man watching this, if you're going to knock somebody up, marry the mother.
00:36:49.000And the reason that I say young black men is because young black men wildly disproportionately are not marrying the mothers of their children.
00:36:56.000And what's amazing about this particular ad and what it shows, it's kind of cool, actually.
00:36:59.000Steph Curry, right, the first guy in this ad, he grew up in a two-parent household.
00:37:03.000His father's name was Del, and Del Curry played in the NBA, and he grew up in pretty privileged circumstances.
00:37:08.000Joachim Noah, who's the guy who has the curly hair and kind of the scrawny beard for the Chicago Bulls.
00:37:13.000Joachim Noah, his father was a French tennis star, and his mother was Miss Sweden 1978.
00:37:18.000And he grew up in a home with both of his parents involved.
00:37:21.000And Chris Paul grew up in a home with both his parents involved, and he did, during summers, he would work for his granddad at a gas station.
00:37:30.000And all three of these guys are pros, and they're in the NBA.
00:37:32.000In fact, the only person there who didn't have this sort of family structure is Carmelo Anthony, who grew up in the Red Hook projects in New York City, and apparently saw dead bodies on a pretty regular basis.
00:37:42.000Wouldn't he be speaking up in favor of a less violent
00:38:27.000I can either tell them it's the fault of the system, lobby your legislator to give your parents more money, or I can say, make your way in the world, make good decisions, here are some good decisions you can make, and you won't be poor, your life is in your hands.
00:38:40.000Mine didn't go over as well because it ain't quite as friendly.
00:38:43.000And this is the problem with the political debate right now, is that the people on the left are willing to exploit people so long as it makes them feel good, and people on the right typically are not.
00:38:53.000Okay, I promised you a bit of a surprise at the end of this Ben Shapiro show, and so we'll fade out doing something that my family used to do as sort of a prank.
00:39:02.000As you can see, I'm not just Jewish, I am super Jew.
00:39:05.000And so my family, on Christmas Eve, when we go to people's houses, we would knock on the...
00:39:11.000We would knock on their door, my sister's friends, we would knock on their door, and my sisters and I, I have three younger sisters, and my sisters and I would sing Silent Night in four-part harmony.
00:39:20.000We'd actually carol all the other Jews in the neighborhood as sort of a joke, but obviously it's a joke in the sense that I don't believe in Jesus as Christ.
00:39:32.000As I explained yesterday, the Jewish vision of Jesus is not the Christian vision of Jesus, which is why I am a Jew, right?
00:39:37.000There are distinctions between religions that are important, but it is important
00:39:40.000Very, very important in the United States to be grateful for the American brand of Christianity, which has been a boon for the world and a boon for the Jews.
00:39:47.000And so we'll fade out as I sing Silent Night.
00:39:50.000My sister played an elf, I think, when she was in public school, actually, in the Christmas play.
00:39:53.000And I remember I was also in the Christmas play when we were allowed to have Christmas plays in public school.
00:39:58.000So I do know virtually all of the words to Silent Night.
00:40:01.000I brought them up in front of me so I don't have, like, a national anthem slip-up.
00:40:05.000But we'll at least sing the first verse.
00:40:08.000Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright, round yon virgin mother and child.