The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 50 - Hillary Schlonged by Trump

00:00:00.000 And here we are.

00:00:01.000 It is Wednesday.

00:00:02.000 You've made it halfway through the first work week of 2016, and Hillary is working it with Chris Matthews.

00:00:08.000 His tangle has now extended all the way up his leg, past his thigh, and into regions that we can't discuss here.

00:00:15.000 We'll talk about all of that.

00:00:17.000 Plus, are you a doomsday conservative?

00:00:20.000 You might be, and you don't even know it.

00:00:21.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:22.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:30.000 So in the aftermath of President Obama's big weepy fest yesterday, there was a lot of commentary, we did some of it, about whether it was genuine or not.

00:00:38.000 The more I think about it, the less genuine it feels.

00:00:40.000 I just don't buy the idea of any major politician breaking down in tears at their first big press conference of the year.

00:00:48.000 He comes back, every camera's on him, it's going to be the most watched press conference probably he's had all year, or at least until some

00:00:55.000 Big world disaster happens that's his fault and he goes back on camera.

00:00:58.000 But he comes back and it's a planned routine and halfway through he breaks down.

00:01:03.000 And as we showed yesterday, he doesn't just break down.

00:01:05.000 He waits for the cameras to click for a solid five to ten seconds, and then he sort of wipes away the tears, brushes them away, and continues going.

00:01:14.000 This is an old actor trick.

00:01:15.000 This is nothing new, and forgive me for being a little bit cynical, but this is the way that the media play this game.

00:01:20.000 The way the media play this game is Obama, he says that he's gonna- he cries so that he can condemn you as callous, because you're not crying and he is.

00:01:27.000 That means he's more sensitive than you.

00:01:29.000 Right, he's playing the same trick that my wife sometimes plays when we're in a fight, which is, he starts to cry, and then, because he's crying, that means you lose the argument.

00:01:38.000 That's really President Obama's routine, because obviously he hurts more than you do, which means you're a worse person than he is.

00:01:44.000 And then, if you say, well, I don't really buy this whole routine, like, Captain, you know, Spock over here, Captain Logic, Captain Rational, No Drama Obama breaks down in tears at his first press conference, I don't buy it.

00:01:57.000 You say that?

00:01:57.000 And then the media says, well now you're for sure callous!

00:02:00.000 Because you don't even buy that people have feelings!

00:02:02.000 You don't even buy that he has feelings!

00:02:04.000 He has feelings!

00:02:06.000 Okay.

00:02:06.000 I know he has feelings.

00:02:08.000 I just don't think that those were the feelings, okay?

00:02:10.000 I think that he has feelings of hatred for Republicans, and I think that he is fighting mad over gun owners, but I don't think that President Obama walks around every day crying about the kids of Sandy Hook.

00:02:20.000 Forgive me, I don't think that's what he does, because if he did that, he would be in the throes of an actual clinical depression.

00:02:26.000 I don't think that people go about their business every day thinking about all the tragedies that happen all over the world and randomly break down in tears.

00:02:33.000 That's a sign of mental deterioration and non-health.

00:02:36.000 I don't think Obama is mentally unhealthy, at least in that way.

00:02:39.000 So, we'll start with that.

00:02:41.000 President Obama, yeah, he does his crying routine.

00:02:44.000 And then, just coincidentally,

00:02:46.000 He has a big town hall that is going to take place tomorrow on CNN, where he and Anderson Cooper will have a testosterone fest.

00:02:53.000 And they'll have a testosterone fest about gun control. 0.94

00:02:55.000 And then Hillary Clinton had her big interview with Chris Matthews.

00:02:59.000 Now, when Hillary Clinton wants to trot out any sort of real proposal, when she wants to boost her image among folks on the left, she goes over to Chris Matthews, MSNBC! 1.00

00:03:09.000 Chris Matthews, the guy who rolls out of bed and he's got his hair all askew and his suit is all must and there's sort of charm to that because he looks like a homeless guy from the 1950s, right?

00:03:18.000 Not a homeless guy now, like a homeless guy from the 50s when everyone tried to dress up and look cool.

00:03:22.000 He looks like a homeless guy who kind of rolled in off the wanted ads and they stuck him in the middle of the set and just said, okay, film is showing.

00:03:28.000 Okay, I'm here now!

00:03:29.000 There goes the alcohol.

00:03:31.000 Any alcohol at all?

00:03:33.000 Yeah.

00:03:33.000 I don't know.

00:03:53.000 The second is that Chris Matthews then forgives her for answering precisely zero of his questions.

00:03:59.000 He asks a question, she avoids the question, and they say, well I know why you're not answering the question!

00:04:03.000 You're not answering the question because you're too beautiful!

00:04:06.000 That's pretty much how the interview goes.

00:04:08.000 So here is

00:04:09.000 Chris Matthews asking Hillary Clinton to describe the difference between the Democratic Party and socialism.

00:04:16.000 Now, there is an answer to this, right?

00:04:18.000 There are two types of socialism in the world, really.

00:04:21.000 There's socialism as in, like, the pure Karl Marx version taken to its extreme.

00:04:26.000 We're good to go.

00:04:46.000 That's what Democrats in the United States are.

00:04:48.000 They are a European-style party, they are a Democratic-Socialist party, and they have been for 70 or 80 years.

00:04:53.000 Really, going all the way back to Woodrow Wilson, they've been that kind of party.

00:04:56.000 So, Hillary can't explain any of that because, after all, she doesn't want to alienate her far-left base, so Chris Matthews asks her, and Hillary Clinton just refuses to answer.

00:05:07.000 Here it is.

00:05:09.000 What's the difference between a Socialist and a Democrat?

00:05:11.000 Is that a question you want to answer or do you rather not?

00:05:14.000 Well, you know, you'd have to ask... Well, see, I'm asking you.

00:05:17.000 You're a Democrat, he's a Socialist.

00:05:19.000 Would you like somebody to call you a Socialist?

00:05:21.000 I wouldn't like somebody calling me a Socialist.

00:05:22.000 But I'm not one.

00:05:24.000 Okay, well what's the difference between a Socialist and a Democrat?

00:05:26.000 Well, I can tell you what I am.

00:05:28.000 I am a progressive Democrat.

00:05:29.000 I'm a progressive Democrat who likes to get things done and who believes that we are better off in this country when we're trying to solve problems together, getting people to work together.

00:05:41.000 There will always be strong feelings, and I respect that, from the far right, the far left, libertarians, whoever it might be.

00:05:48.000 We need to get people working together.

00:05:50.000 We've got to get the economy fixed.

00:05:52.000 Okay, there's nothing going on there in her head.

00:06:00.000 I mean, it's amazing.

00:06:02.000 He asks her that question.

00:06:03.000 She says, we have to work together.

00:06:04.000 And he's like, what are you talking about?

00:06:06.000 And then what's funny is the clip cuts off there, but then he explains what he thinks the difference is and why she won't answer the question.

00:06:11.000 So he both asks the question and then he also answers the question, which begs the question as to why Hillary even is there, right?

00:06:17.000 He might as well have a cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton.

00:06:19.000 But I think really the reason that she's there is to sit in front of a fire truck. 0.90

00:06:24.000 Maybe she likes fire trucks. 1.00

00:06:25.000 And also because, as Lindsay said, she's got the... Lindsay says that there's something about Mary Hare going in that particular clip.

00:06:33.000 And there'd be truth to that except that for Hillary Clinton that would probably be physically impossible. 1.00

00:06:37.000 So Hillary Clinton is sitting there with the crazy hair and the crazy expressions and the crazy eyes. 1.00

00:06:41.000 By the way, you remember how Democrats made a big deal out of Michelle Bachmann's eyes?

00:06:44.000 Remember Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin? 0.98

00:06:46.000 They had the crazy eyes. 0.77

00:06:47.000 You remember this? 0.71

00:06:49.000 I challenge you to watch any clip of Hillary Clinton longer than 15 seconds and not get the impression that she is high.

00:06:56.000 I mean, that's how it feels.

00:06:57.000 She's got the googly eyes going. 1.00

00:06:59.000 In any case, we don't have to rip on Hillary Clinton's physical appearance. 1.00

00:07:02.000 The camera does that all on its own.

00:07:03.000 But she continued to do this routine and she's got nothing. 0.92

00:07:07.000 This is really where Hillary is vulnerable. 1.00

00:07:09.000 She has nothing.

00:07:12.000 Nothing.

00:07:12.000 She is sort of the Republicans... She's the Democrats' Mitt Romney.

00:07:16.000 Romney was an empty suit that we figured we would run against Barack Obama, and then people hated Obama so much they would vote for Mitt Romney.

00:07:22.000 It didn't work because there's a subset of the population that desperately loves President Obama and wants to have his babies.

00:07:29.000 Hillary Clinton is sort of the Democrat version of Romney.

00:07:32.000 She's a suit, she's a hack, and she's really got nothing going for her. 1.00

00:07:36.000 Even Bill looks tired and terrible.

00:07:38.000 He was out there in New Hampshire

00:07:40.000 We're good to go.

00:08:05.000 I think?

00:08:27.000 crazy-haired interview about President Obama's executive action on guns, which, as we discussed yesterday, was really quite minor in scope, but President Obama blew it up into, I'm taking all of your guns, and I'm the greatest president who ever was, and so here is Hillary Clinton explaining her perspective.

00:08:45.000 If you can, again, folks, if you subscribe to the video, you can actually see the visuals, so you will know with what accuracy I speak, but you could actually see the crazy hair that Hillary Clinton is sporting

00:08:55.000 In this particular interview, as she sits in front of a fire truck, across from the rumpled guy who rolled out of his cot at 3 in the morning to do this interview.

00:09:03.000 Here we go.

00:09:04.000 I just can't remain silent, and I think we are at a turning point.

00:09:07.000 And what I said to the man here is, you know, there needs to be a rival organization to the NRA of responsible gun owners who... that they're hunting rights... Moms demand action! 0.62

00:09:19.000 They're collecting rights.

00:09:20.000 All of that is not going to be affected.

00:09:22.000 So I'm going to keep beating the drum, and I'm delighted that the president announced the actions he did today.

00:09:27.000 Boy, Hillary Clinton, again, when I say she's an empty suit, have you ever seen a major sports figure do a post-game interview? 1.00

00:09:34.000 Do you watch—Lindsey watches sports.

00:09:36.000 I know Jonathan is not as big a sports fan.

00:09:39.000 But if you watch the post-game interviews with sports stars, athletes, very often they give—they're asked a question like,

00:09:48.000 What did you think of the game today?

00:09:49.000 You know, do you wish you played better?

00:09:50.000 I'm just taking it one game at a time, man.

00:09:52.000 Just taking it one game at a time.

00:09:54.000 One play at a time.

00:09:55.000 Don't try to think about next week.

00:09:56.000 They'll say, which opponents do you prefer?

00:09:57.000 Well, you know, everybody's tough.

00:09:59.000 Everybody's out there trying their best.

00:10:00.000 Just gonna practice.

00:10:01.000 Stick to our game plan.

00:10:02.000 Everything's gonna be good.

00:10:04.000 Hillary Clinton is that, right?

00:10:05.000 Every question that she's asked is just a string of platitudes.

00:10:08.000 I'm just going to keep talking about gun control. 0.72

00:10:11.000 Well, that wasn't the question, and also whoop-dee-doo.

00:10:15.000 But she says that, and we're supposed to just, wow, what courage she has.

00:10:19.000 Also, when she calls for a rival organization to the National Rifle Association, it's called the federal government.

00:10:25.000 Right?

00:10:25.000 It's actually, it's called the Democratic Party.

00:10:27.000 There are rival organizations to the NRA, we just don't like them.

00:10:31.000 I mean, the best thing that ever happened to the NRA is Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

00:10:34.000 I know, I personally know at least half a dozen friends who have joined the NRA specifically because they fear Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

00:10:41.000 Finally, here's, and here's the proof that Hillary is just an empty suit, more than anything else. 1.00

00:10:46.000 Hillary, this happened a couple of days ago, she was asked in a different interview,

00:10:50.000 I'm interested in your response to the Donald's comment that you and President Obama created ISIS.

00:11:19.000 I've adopted a New Year's resolution.

00:11:27.000 I'm going to let him live in his alternative reality and I'm not going to respond.

00:11:34.000 And she opens her mouth and cackles. 0.97

00:11:36.000 By the way, she only wears colors that can be found in my child's crayon box.

00:11:41.000 That is her.

00:11:42.000 That is a rule.

00:11:44.000 By the way, Donald Trump is right.

00:11:45.000 She and Obama did create ISIS. 1.00

00:11:47.000 ISIS did not exist until Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton sprang onto the scene, and they certainly were not a power in the Middle East until Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton sprang onto the scene.

00:11:56.000 Well, the reason that Hillary is really taking this perspective, that she's not going to fight Donald Trump, is because she tried to, and Donald Trump clocked her.

00:12:03.000 Into next week.

00:12:05.000 Okay? 1.00

00:12:05.000 Figuratively speaking, for all of you idiot feminists out there who think I'm talking about hitting a woman, although I've never understood exactly why it is. 1.00

00:12:12.000 Feminists say that women and men are exactly the same. 0.99

00:12:15.000 I've never understood then why it's bad to hit a woman. 1.00

00:12:18.000 If women and men are exactly the same, 0.98

00:12:21.000 I think it's bad to hit a woman. 0.92

00:12:22.000 I think it's terrible to hit a woman.

00:12:23.000 I think that anybody who hits a woman should be severely punished and put in jail. 1.00

00:12:26.000 I think that rapists should be castrated. 0.89

00:12:28.000 I think that anybody who touches a woman in a way she doesn't want to be touched should be punished to the full extent of the law. 0.98

00:12:33.000 I don't think the same thing about men.

00:12:35.000 Feminists, for some reason, say that women and men are exactly the same, but if a man touches a woman then it's worse, which is a weird perspective. 1.00

00:12:41.000 In any case, Trump knocks Hillary into next week because Hillary, in the last debate, she called Trump a sexist. 0.98

00:12:45.000 And then Trump took out the kitchen sink and hit her with it. 1.00

00:12:48.000 I mean, Trump, it was like a Warner Brothers cartoon.

00:12:52.000 Hillary was walking down the street and then a piano just fell on her.

00:12:55.000 And it wasn't the Acme piano, it was the Trump piano.

00:12:57.000 It was like an Acme anvil, but it was a Trump piano.

00:13:00.000 And it squished her. 1.00

00:13:01.000 And what it was, was, your husband rapes people. 0.99

00:13:04.000 Basically is what Trump said. 1.00

00:13:06.000 You don't get to talk about sexism when your husband rapes people. 1.00

00:13:09.000 And Trump says that.

00:13:10.000 He says, you know, the reason that Hillary is ignoring me is because she doesn't want to fight with me. 0.99

00:13:14.000 And Trump is basically right.

00:13:16.000 He was asked about this on MSNBC by another person with crazy—two people with crazy hair, actually.

00:13:21.000 I mean, this looks like something—this show, by the way, is sponsored by the Hunger Games.

00:13:24.000 Apparently, everybody's got the Hunger Games hairdo.

00:13:27.000 But Joe Scarborough, who's gradually turning into John Kerry with glasses, and Mika Brzezinski, who's starting to look a lot like the hairdo lady from the Hunger Games.

00:13:38.000 Well, who plays that Elizabeth Banks? 1.00

00:13:40.000 She looks like Elizabeth Banks from the Hunger Games in this clip. 1.00

00:13:42.000 Effie Trinket. 1.00

00:13:43.000 Yeah, Effie Trinket, thank you.

00:13:44.000 And they're interviewing Donald Trump about Hillary Clinton and here is what it sounds like.

00:13:49.000 I was attacked nine times during the debate.

00:13:52.000 Hillary called me sexist.

00:13:55.000 That I had an inclination.

00:13:57.000 What does she know about me?

00:13:58.000 I had an inclination.

00:14:00.000 When she said that, I said, well, your husband's now campaigning.

00:14:04.000 It's open season.

00:14:05.000 Now, if he wasn't campaigning, maybe it would be different.

00:14:08.000 And if he weren't a past president, it would be totally different.

00:14:11.000 It would be, you know, I'd leave the spouse out of it.

00:14:13.000 But he's now campaigning for it.

00:14:15.000 So all I did was, you know, recite history.

00:14:18.000 Don't forget.

00:14:19.000 He lost his law license.

00:14:21.000 He wasn't allowed.

00:14:21.000 He was impeached.

00:14:22.000 He wasn't allowed to practice law.

00:14:24.000 He settled for a tremendous amount of money.

00:14:26.000 I mean, you know, there's a lot of things going on there.

00:14:29.000 And she calls me sexist.

00:14:30.000 But haven't they backed down?

00:14:33.000 Hillary won't even respond.

00:14:35.000 I don't call it that.

00:14:38.000 Because tomorrow they can start it up.

00:14:40.000 I'm just saying this.

00:14:41.000 It's fair game. 0.99

00:14:42.000 When they attack me, I'm going to attack them. 0.83

00:14:44.000 Now, if they don't, I would leave that off the table.

00:14:46.000 You're saying today you're only going to bring up Bill Clinton's past history as a possible sexual harasser if she accuses you

00:14:58.000 Of being sexist.

00:14:59.000 Sure, that's what it's all about.

00:15:00.000 That was what it was.

00:15:01.000 Right.

00:15:01.000 Had nothing to do with ISIS.

00:15:03.000 Now, with ISIS, she lied.

00:15:04.000 Because she said, ISIS did a video.

00:15:06.000 And that was a long time ago.

00:15:08.000 I just want to clear this up, because the press is having a field day here, and they're not getting it right.

00:15:11.000 I haven't noticed that.

00:15:12.000 So, if you... You're having a field day.

00:15:15.000 I haven't noticed that.

00:15:15.000 No, no, no.

00:15:16.000 In all fairness to the press, maybe the first time in my life...

00:15:20.000 So suddenly you like the press.

00:15:22.000 I don't understand that.

00:15:23.000 They're starting to like me.

00:15:24.000 They're starting to get it.

00:15:25.000 They're actually starting to get it.

00:15:26.000 So what I'm saying is, I just want to be very clear, and a lot of people want to hear this.

00:15:29.000 So if Hillary Clinton attacks you on economics, or on foreign policy, then Bill Clinton's not fair game in that realm.

00:15:37.000 It's only if she accuses you of being sexist. 0.98

00:15:39.000 Now, he would be fair game if he did something or said something having to do with foreign policy and other things that I would have disagreed with.

00:15:46.000 But you wouldn't attack him on personal grounds.

00:15:48.000 No, I wouldn't need to.

00:15:50.000 There's so many things I can attack them on.

00:15:52.000 Okay, and he's right.

00:15:53.000 There are so many things that he can attack them on.

00:15:55.000 Now, the truth is that I think that he should just make this his mantra.

00:15:58.000 I think it should be, Trump 2016, at least I don't rape people.

00:16:03.000 Right? 0.52

00:16:04.000 I think that'd be fine. 0.98

00:16:04.000 I mean, politics is blood sport, and if Hillary Clinton says that Donald Trump, he's mean to Mexicans, and he says, yeah, well, your husband rapes people, I'm fine with that. 0.98

00:16:13.000 I have no problem with that. 0.94

00:16:14.000 You know, the Democrats have been doing this for years.

00:16:17.000 In 2012, they ran a campaign ad accusing Mitt Romney of murdering a woman.

00:16:21.000 Literally murdering a woman, right?

00:16:22.000 The Soptic ad. 0.52

00:16:23.000 You remember this?

00:16:24.000 If you remember all the way back to 2012, there was a super PAC that worked with Barack Obama, and its aim was, it was Priorities USA, I believe, and they ran an ad that was specifically from a guy named Joe Soptic, who'd been picked out by the Obama campaign, and Joe Soptic said, I used to work for a company owned by Bain Capital, I was fired, I lost my health insurance, my wife died of cancer, that's Mitt Romney's fault.

00:16:45.000 Mitt Romney killed my wife of cancer using his magical Mormon underwear, right? 0.99

00:16:48.000 That was basically the commercial. 0.92

00:16:50.000 And 0.97

00:16:51.000 So, I don't care if Donald Trump hits Hillary with the rape thing. 1.00

00:16:53.000 In fact, I think Donald Trump should hit Hillary with the rape thing. 1.00

00:16:56.000 I think he should hit her with it as often as possible because it's true. 0.99

00:17:00.000 Because it's true and because she is an enabler.

00:17:02.000 And this isn't one of those things that gets left off the table.

00:17:05.000 There's been public knowledge for years.

00:17:06.000 And somehow, the Clintons have gotten away with it.

00:17:09.000 And good for Trump! 0.89

00:17:09.000 And by the way, Trump is... Trump's a fibber, right? 0.89

00:17:11.000 Because the truth is that Trump... What makes Trump a fun candidate to follow and what makes him dangerous to Hillary is, as I've said before, if you are in middle school, there's always the one guy you don't want to fight.

00:17:21.000 And the one guy you don't want to fight isn't necessarily the buffest guy in the class. 0.99

00:17:25.000 The one guy that you don't want to fight is the guy who is out of his damn mind. 0.96

00:17:28.000 Right, that guy is the one who you don't want to fight, because he might be the littlest guy in the class. 0.99

00:17:32.000 It's usually a little wiry guy, right, with ADD.

00:17:35.000 That's the guy in the class that you don't want to fight, because it's possible that he brought a pocket knife to school that day, and he's gonna stab you in the gut. 0.94

00:17:40.000 Well, that's Donald Trump, and you can see it.

00:17:42.000 Donald Trump, he was interviewed yesterday, and he was still on the Bill Clinton thing, and he says something that is exactly right.

00:17:50.000 Here's Donald Trump being exactly right.

00:17:52.000 I just wanted to ask you, you know the big headlines last week about Bill Cosby.

00:17:56.000 Is there a difference between Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton?

00:18:00.000 Well, the whole Cosby thing is a weird deal and he's got himself some big problems and you almost have to ask Bill Clinton that question.

00:18:10.000 It would be a very interesting question to somebody to ask him.

00:18:13.000 He certainly has a lot of very strong charges against him and that's pretty

00:18:18.000 Pretty bad stuff, and it only got brought up because she said I have sexist tendencies, and I respect women so much, and I'll protect women, and I'll protect them, and I'll protect the whole country.

00:18:29.000 And by the way, one of the things he does that's smart here is he says that everything he does is defensive, right?

00:18:35.000 He says, I didn't launch this attack, I was attacked, and then I responded in kind.

00:18:38.000 Well, you know, whether or not that's true, would he have brought this up sooner or later?

00:18:42.000 Probably.

00:18:43.000 But it's good stuff.

00:18:44.000 And by the way, he's right.

00:18:45.000 Bill Clinton and Bill Cosby are

00:18:48.000 The same.

00:18:48.000 They are the same.

00:18:49.000 Okay?

00:18:49.000 And I will prove to you that they are the same.

00:18:51.000 Here, by the way, is there some audio that just broke of Bill Clinton mocking Paula Jones, right?

00:18:56.000 Paula Jones, for those of you who don't remember, Paula Jones was sexually harassed by Bill Clinton. 0.99

00:19:00.000 Paula Jones was brought up to his office when he was the governor, and he took out his penis and said to her that he wanted her to kiss it. 0.98

00:19:07.000 And then he had his troopers basically escort her back to her job and then she got threats from her bosses that if she said anything about it, she would be fired. 0.99

00:19:15.000 That's the Paula Jones story. 0.61

00:19:16.000 And it was the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit against Bill Clinton that led to the discovery of the Monica Lewinsky material. 0.74

00:19:22.000 So everybody tried to turn that story into Monica Lewinsky. 1.00

00:19:25.000 Everyone forgets about the part.

00:19:26.000 And he said, in his view, political money had been going into it all along.

00:19:51.000 He said they had now changed Paulette Jones' hairstyle and made her look less like a floozy, and that she didn't seem to have any visible income but was always driving a new car.

00:20:03.000 He said, I didn't have anything to do with it.

00:20:07.000 I know nobody around had anything to do with her getting audited by the IRS, but he said independently it stands to some reason.

00:20:18.000 Since she doesn't have any visible means of support and is always traveling around and driving a new car, no job, and so forth. 1.00

00:20:27.000 And he said basically from her point of view, since there's no possibility that any lawyer, he said including these political lawyers, are going to tell her there's not much likelihood that she will get any money out of this.

00:20:43.000 That it's just about being somebody because if she settles the case,

00:20:47.000 Okay, so in case you couldn't hear that, basically what Bill Clinton is saying there is that they did up, he's talking about why the IRS audited Paula Jones in the middle of the sex scandal.

00:21:03.000 And the answer is they audited her in the middle of the sex scandal because they wanted to throw mud on her skirt. 0.99

00:21:07.000 That's the real reason.

00:21:08.000 What he says is, well, they were seeing her driving around in new cars and she didn't have any visible income.

00:21:13.000 The Clintons have not had any visible income for a very long time, and they haven't been audited by the IRS.

00:21:18.000 But Bill Clinton is saying that there was no likelihood she was going to prevail.

00:21:22.000 Okay, Bill Clinton paid her $850,000 to go away, lest people forget.

00:21:26.000 He paid her nearly a million dollars in not a sexual assault suit, in a sexual harassment suit.

00:21:30.000 That's a lot of money to settle to make somebody go away.

00:21:33.000 And here's the real proof, okay, that Bill Clinton and Bill Cosby are the same.

00:21:36.000 I'm going to read to you two quotes.

00:21:38.000 One from an alleged victim of Bill Clinton, and one from an alleged victim of Bill Cosby.

00:21:45.000 I'm not going to tell you which is which.

00:21:46.000 If you know the stories, you'll probably get it.

00:21:48.000 But you tell me which one of these is worse.

00:21:51.000 Here's one quote, and one of these was said on national television on 60 Minutes.

00:21:56.000 I was told there was going to be a dinner.

00:21:58.000 When I got there, no one ever arrived.

00:22:00.000 He asked me if I wanted a glass of wine.

00:22:02.000 I took a few sips.

00:22:03.000 It had a horrible taste.

00:22:04.000 And I started not feeling well.

00:22:06.000 He helped me up by my underarms with both hands.

00:22:08.000 He walked me into the next room where there was a mirror on the wall and he told me to look at myself.

00:22:12.000 Something was wrong with me.

00:22:14.000 And then he took my right hand and he put it behind my back. 0.56

00:22:16.000 I remember seeing semen on the floor and I felt some liquid on my hand. 0.64

00:22:19.000 That's when I knew something sexual was going on.

00:22:21.000 Okay, that is alleged victim number one.

00:22:24.000 Here's alleged victim number two.

00:22:26.000 Then he tries to kiss me, and the second time he tries to kiss me he starts biting my lip.

00:22:31.000 He starts to bite on my top lip, and I tried to pull away from him, and then he forces me down on the bed.

00:22:36.000 And I was just very frightened, and I tried to get away from him, and I told him no, that I didn't want this to happen, but he wouldn't listen to me.

00:22:43.000 It was a real panicky, panicky situation.

00:22:45.000 I was even to the point where I was getting very noisy, you know, yelling to please stop.

00:22:49.000 We're good to go.

00:23:04.000 Okay, which one of those is worse?

00:23:06.000 They're both really, really bad.

00:23:08.000 Which one of those is worse?

00:23:10.000 Unclear to me which one of those is worse. 0.99

00:23:11.000 In one case, you're actually drugging a woman to have sexual relations with her. 1.00

00:23:16.000 And in the other, you're taking a fully conscious woman and raping her. 1.00

00:23:19.000 Right? 1.00

00:23:19.000 That's the allegation. 1.00

00:23:20.000 One of those people was Juanita Broderick talking.

00:23:22.000 One was a victim of Bill Cosby.

00:23:23.000 You tell me.

00:23:25.000 That one of those people, the perpetrator, the alleged perpetrator, you tell me one of those people should be an icon in American politics, an admired man, and somebody whose wife should defend him on the campaign trail and pretend that she is a spokesperson for women everywhere. 1.00

00:23:40.000 Yeah, it's a bunch of crap. 1.00

00:23:41.000 It's a bunch of crap. 1.00

00:23:41.000 And so hitting Bill Clinton on this stuff is fair game. 1.00

00:23:44.000 Bill Clinton was asked yesterday, by the way, if his sex history was fair game, and he gave a very uncomfortable, awkward answer.

00:23:50.000 He sort of said yes, sort of said no.

00:23:52.000 There's no good answer for him.

00:23:53.000 Of course it's fair game.

00:23:54.000 Of course it's fair game.

00:23:56.000 Are you kidding?

00:23:57.000 If a Republican... Let's say, for example, Carly Fiorina's husband had gone around allegedly raping people, and Carly Fiorina had threatened those people.

00:24:05.000 How soon do you think she'd be out of the race? 0.90

00:24:07.000 Would it take 30 seconds?

00:24:08.000 10 seconds?

00:24:09.000 5 seconds?

00:24:10.000 Negative seconds? 0.96

00:24:12.000 It's ridiculous.

00:24:13.000 Anyway, so, that's one issue I wanted to talk about, is the Trump versus the Hillary issue, because one thing is clear to me, and that is that Hillary's vulnerability relies on nobody hitting her hard.

00:24:24.000 People tend to think that undefined candidates are strong.

00:24:26.000 People tend to think that the candidates where we, where they're milquetoast candidates, they're kind of, they're empty screen candidates upon which you can project an image that those are strong candidates.

00:24:36.000 Obama tried to portray himself that way in 2008, it wasn't true.

00:24:40.000 I think that they're weak candidates if you have somebody who's willing to go on the attack and at least you will say of Trump that Trump is willing to go on the attack and he's willing to play dirty and he's willing to say things that other people are not willing to say.

00:24:51.000 By the way, it isn't playing dirty to bring up Bill's sexual history.

00:24:54.000 That is absolutely fair game.

00:24:56.000 All right, the other thing that I want to talk about here is

00:24:59.000 This is Trump versus the rest of the GOP, or Trump and Cruz versus the rest of the GOP.

00:25:04.000 Right now in the polls, Trump and Cruz are leading by a wide margin.

00:25:07.000 Trump is attacking Cruz, saying that Cruz is not a natural-born citizen and may not be eligible for the presidency.

00:25:12.000 This is nonsense.

00:25:13.000 It's not true.

00:25:14.000 According to virtually all constitutional lawyers, Cruz is eligible for the presidency.

00:25:20.000 Basically, here's the way it works.

00:25:21.000 To be a natural-born citizen in the United States under the Constitution,

00:25:25.000 It has never been super clarified by the Supreme Court, but in 1790, there was a Natural Born Citizen Act, and it said, if you have a parent from the United States, if you have a parent who's an American, and that person has a kid abroad, the kid's a Natural Born Citizen, and that's the actual language that they used.

00:25:40.000 That's pretty much as close to the Constitution as you can get, because it was contemporaneous in time.

00:25:44.000 So it gives you an idea of what that phrase, Natural Born Citizen, means.

00:25:49.000 But essentially, Natural Born Citizen breaks down into two categories.

00:25:52.000 One is that you were born in the United States, and the other is that you have a parent who was a citizen, and Cruz, his mom is from Delaware, his dad's from Cuba, he was born in Calgary, he's a citizen.

00:26:02.000 Trump is going after him anyway, because Trump is a little bit fearful of him, but no matter, Trump and Cruz are clearly kind of separating from the rest of the field at this point, at least in the early polling.

00:26:13.000 And Donald Trump is summing up something, I think, that is the rationale for why Republicans and many conservatives are siding around either Trump or Cruz as opposed to any of the other candidates.

00:26:24.000 Here's Donald Trump explaining that the Republican Party hasn't done enough to stop President Obama.

00:26:30.000 He didn't have the authority or the power to do it, but he did it anyway.

00:26:33.000 The Republicans didn't stop him.

00:26:34.000 That's right.

00:26:35.000 Did that embolden him now to pretty much decide, write laws on his own through executive action, violating the Constitution and the rule of law?

00:26:43.000 Is that how you see it?

00:26:46.000 The Republicans did not stop him.

00:26:48.000 He's getting away with murder.

00:26:49.000 This recent budget situation, which basically gave Obama every single thing he wanted, having to do with the Syrian refugees coming into our country, having to do with borders and weak borders and all of the things that he wanted, he just got in this new budget.

00:27:05.000 I've never seen a budget pass so fast.

00:27:07.000 It looks like it got done in a day.

00:27:09.000 And I'm just saying, where is Ryan and where are all these people to, you know, to do something, to negotiate or to do something?

00:27:17.000 He got everything he wanted.

00:27:19.000 We got nothing.

00:27:20.000 I mean, we got nothing.

00:27:21.000 And all we're doing is increasing our budget now, our deficit.

00:27:25.000 You know, if you look, we're at $19 trillion.

00:27:27.000 Now we're going to be at about $21 trillion very soon.

00:27:31.000 Who's there to negotiate these budgets?

00:27:33.000 I've never seen anything get passed so quickly.

00:27:36.000 And the Democrats got everything they wanted.

00:27:39.000 Okay, so that's one take, right?

00:27:41.000 So Donald Trump is saying the Republican Party does nothing to stop Obama.

00:27:44.000 Here's Paul Ryan.

00:27:44.000 You hear him call out Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, by name.

00:27:47.000 Beardy McWisdom has lost the beard.

00:27:49.000 So he had been growing that beard for the last couple of weeks.

00:27:51.000 His beard is gone and he's back to looking like Eddie Munster.

00:27:54.000 And Paul Ryan, who is, I think, a conservative guy on some things and not a conservative on others.

00:28:00.000 I'm actually, the truth is, I'm really not that big a fan of saying that somebody is conservative.

00:28:05.000 I will say that somebody holds a conservative position.

00:28:07.000 Just as I'm not a huge fan of saying that somebody is either a good person or a bad person, I'm more fond of saying that they do a good thing or a bad thing.

00:28:13.000 But in any case, here is Paul Ryan talking about stopping President Obama's agenda.

00:28:20.000 You heard Trump saying that he's done nothing.

00:28:22.000 Here's Ryan responding.

00:28:24.000 Conservative as well.

00:28:25.000 So number one, I'm hitting the reset button.

00:28:27.000 We're going to do things differently around here in the house.

00:28:29.000 Number two, I'm decentralizing power.

00:28:31.000 So every conservative, every member of Congress has a greater ability to participate in the process so that we can really have this place work the way the founders intended it to work.

00:28:40.000 But number three,

00:28:41.000 We have to use every tool at our disposal to keep this executive branch honest.

00:28:47.000 To keep oversight over them.

00:28:49.000 So let's take the executive amnesty.

00:28:50.000 We went the court route and we've been successful.

00:28:53.000 We're going after the president in court on Obamacare issues as well.

00:28:56.000 We're succeeding in court there.

00:28:57.000 We've used the power of the purse with riders on a whole host of things.

00:29:01.000 Pro-life riders, Internal Revenue Service riders, EPA riders.

00:29:05.000 And at the end of the day, Sean, what really matters though

00:29:08.000 It's winning an election.

00:29:10.000 We have to have a conservative in the White House. 0.99

00:29:12.000 We have to have a conservative in the White House that isn't trashing the Constitution, that isn't going with the phone-in-the-pen routine.

00:29:17.000 And that is why, and the reason I took this job, the reason I took this job, and my colleagues know this, is we have to go on offense in 2016, and we have to offer a bold agenda to the country.

00:29:29.000 So that the people of this country who do not like the direction America is heading, which we don't, that we owe them an alternative.

00:29:36.000 We have to give them a bold conservative agenda so that the men and women in this country can decide which way the nation goes in 2016.

00:29:43.000 So that if we win that election, we want to mandate election.

00:29:46.000 If we win that election,

00:29:47.000 Then we have the mandate.

00:29:49.000 Then we have the wherewithal.

00:29:51.000 Then we have the Republican president and the Republican Congress with a conservative agenda to put in place in 2017.

00:29:56.000 That is why I'm doing this job in the first place.

00:29:59.000 Okay, what he's saying here, and this is a real divide among conservatives.

00:30:03.000 Trump is saying they're doing nothing.

00:30:04.000 They have the power of the purse and they've done nothing.

00:30:06.000 That's correct.

00:30:07.000 Paul Ryan is saying, well, we're, you know, trimming around the edges.

00:30:10.000 We've added some riders here.

00:30:11.000 We've added some riders there.

00:30:12.000 By the way, we haven't defunded Planned Parenthood.

00:30:13.000 By the way, we haven't stopped Obama's slashes to the military.

00:30:16.000 By the way, we haven't really done much of anything.

00:30:18.000 We've let him go through with his executive amnesty using the power of the purse.

00:30:21.000 We've filed some lawsuits, but pretty much, you know, individual Congress members can file a lawsuit.

00:30:26.000 Like, okay.

00:30:28.000 So Trump says we're not doing anything, and Paul Ryan says, well, we have to win elections.

00:30:33.000 So this is the great divide inside the Republican Party right now.

00:30:37.000 And it is a serious divide.

00:30:38.000 Jim Garrity, who's a good columnist for National Review, a guy whose writing I enjoy, he wrote a piece that's being widely praised by the establishment side of the party called The Rise of the Doomsday Conservatives.

00:30:48.000 And what he says is, quote, the American right is divided between those who think our country has serious problems

00:30:54.000 I think that's right.

00:31:03.000 I think there are people in the Republican Party who think we have problems, and then there are people who say, we're five minutes from the end, or at least fundamental transformation is taking place, and we've got to stop everything dead in its tracks.

00:31:17.000 I think that there's a crisis mentality for some, and there's a non-crisis mentality for others.

00:31:21.000 In fact, I think that

00:31:22.000 Andrew Klavan and I, who are good friends, you know, I think that we actually signify this debate.

00:31:26.000 I think that Andrew thinks things are basically going to be okay, that, you know, we'll be able to roll back some of this stuff.

00:31:32.000 It's not the end of the world.

00:31:33.000 The Paul Ryan omnibus isn't the end of the world.

00:31:35.000 And there's people like me who think, okay, well, it may not be the end of the world, but every step toward the end of the world is one step closer to the abyss, and the abyss is a lot closer than we think, right?

00:31:43.000 The world isn't going to end because of Paul Ryan, but every time Republicans, every time Republicans surrender to President Obama, an angel loses his wings, right?

00:31:52.000 So I think that the Republican Party, this is a serious problem because if there are people like me who really believe that we're, you know, this close to the edge, and then we look at other people who are saying, well, you know, you're saying we're this close to the edge, but really this close to the edge.

00:32:06.000 So if we give away this much, we're okay.

00:32:10.000 We look at them and we say, well, you're the ones who are going to push us over the edge, right?

00:32:14.000 You're the ones who are going to allow us to fly over the edge.

00:32:17.000 I think that the conservatives need to be a doomsday party because the truth is that

00:32:22.000 Every good conservative is a little bit of a doomsayer.

00:32:25.000 Every good conservative believes that liberty is at risk.

00:32:28.000 Every good conservative believes that freedom is on the edge.

00:32:31.000 And I'm not just talking about, you know, the people in the establishment are fond of trying to quote Ronald Reagan at the doomsday conservatives, but it was Ronald Reagan who said that freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.

00:32:41.000 Right?

00:32:41.000 How many establishment Republicans do you know who believe that freedom in the United States is one generation away from extinction?

00:32:48.000 Not very many, I would imagine.

00:32:50.000 Most people who are Bush fans, Jeb Bush fans, John Kasich fans, they think that freedom is maybe a hundred years away from extinction.

00:32:56.000 They don't think it's five, ten, twenty.

00:32:59.000 A generation's twenty years.

00:33:00.000 They don't think it's twenty years away from extinction.

00:33:02.000 If you don't think like that, even if you're wrong, if you don't think like that, you're not going to defend liberty with the sort of gut

00:33:09.000 We're good to go.

00:33:28.000 I'm one of them.

00:33:29.000 Do I think that's the only motivating feeling?

00:33:30.000 No, I think the anger has to turn into a focused determination.

00:33:34.000 I don't think that sort of vague anger at the world Donald Trump style is the best solution, but the anger is useful and it has to be channeled toward determination to do something now and to stop Obama in his tracks.

00:33:44.000 And until the Republican Party acknowledges that the doomsday conservatives, as Jim Garrity calls them, actually have a point,

00:33:51.000 Then we do have a problem, because we see them as people who are sticking their heads in the sand.

00:33:55.000 We see these people as the ostriches who brought us Bill Clinton, and told us Bill Clinton was fine, and then brought us Barack Obama, and have been saying, well, Obama's really, really, really bad, but he's not the end of the country or anything. 0.93

00:34:05.000 And they'll bring us Hillary Clinton. 0.58

00:34:07.000 These are the same people who are sanguine about Hillary Clinton.

00:34:10.000 She won't be as bad as Obama.

00:34:11.000 These are the same people who say that every surrender to Obama isn't the end of the world.

00:34:15.000 Look, nothing is the end of the world until it's the end of the world, and that's sort of the point.

00:34:19.000 And you don't know which straw is gonna break the camel's back, but if you don't treat any of the straws as capable of breaking the camel's back, that camel's gonna be carrying an awful lot of straw before long, and that's the problem inside the Republican Party.

00:34:30.000 Okay.

00:34:31.000 So, we're a little bit late, but we're going to talk things I like and things that I hate.

00:34:34.000 So, I have a lot of great things for the Things I Hate segment today, so I'm particularly excited about this.

00:34:39.000 But, things that I like, I don't think I've mentioned this book before, but there's a really great book that most people haven't heard of.

00:34:45.000 It's called Every Man Dies Alone.

00:34:46.000 We're good to go.

00:35:09.000 Contemporaneously with World War II.

00:35:11.000 I think he actually wrote part of this in jail.

00:35:13.000 And it's just a beautiful, beautiful book.

00:35:15.000 It really is.

00:35:16.000 Because it's all about how their relationship, which is fragmented, starts to come back together around resistance to Hitler.

00:35:23.000 And doing little things.

00:35:24.000 Not big things like organizing terrorist attacks or anything.

00:35:26.000 But little things.

00:35:27.000 It's really quite a beautiful book.

00:35:29.000 So check it out.

00:35:30.000 Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Falata.

00:35:31.000 They're making a movie out of it.

00:35:32.000 I think it comes out next year.

00:35:33.000 And it's supposed to... Hopefully they'll stay true to the book.

00:35:36.000 Now, the only thing Hollywood can do right these days is still call Nazis villains, although even that is on the line, right? 0.63

00:35:41.000 I mean, if you watch the first Captain America movie, even then, the Nazis couldn't even be the full bad guys. 0.78

00:35:45.000 They had to have a breakaway group from the Nazis, right? 0.66

00:35:47.000 Hitler wasn't bad enough. 0.99

00:35:48.000 Red Skull was a breakaway from the Nazis.

00:35:51.000 He was too extreme for Hitler. 0.93

00:35:52.000 That Hitler was immoderate. 0.92

00:35:54.000 So, okay. 0.87

00:35:54.000 Anyway, now to things I hate, which of course is the more amusing part of the show. 0.87

00:35:59.000 A couple of things that I hate.

00:36:00.000 Let's start with Jennifer Lawrence. 0.98

00:36:02.000 I'm not sure I can ever watch a Jennifer Lawrence film again.

00:36:05.000 Between Jennifer Lawrence doing her routine about how she is underpaid after making millions and millions and millions of dollars for crying in front of a camera.

00:36:13.000 Okay, that's bad enough.

00:36:14.000 But now, she has done an interview where she talks about how Planned Parenthood is the greatest thing that ever was.

00:36:19.000 Planned Parenthood made her the success that she is today.

00:36:22.000 And here is what she said.

00:36:24.000 She said, quote,

00:36:25.000 My mom was really religious with me when I was young.

00:36:28.000 She's not so much anymore.

00:36:30.000 And I wouldn't have been able to get birth control if it weren't for Planned Parenthood.

00:36:33.000 I wouldn't have been able to get condoms and birth control and all these things I needed as a normal teenager who was growing up in a Jesus house.

00:36:38.000 And now I am a successful woman who has not had a pregnancy.

00:36:42.000 So, it turns out the only way to prevent pregnancy is to go to Planned Parenthood, and avoid your Jesus-loving mom, and go to Planned Parenthood, and get some condoms.

00:36:52.000 That's the only way to avoid pregnancy, because who knows, you could be walking around, you might slip and fall on a penis, you need a condom available at all times, you need birth control available at all times, because obviously it's impossible for teenagers to exercise any form of self-control, or for that matter, to go down to the local pharmacy and buy a box of condoms for five bucks.

00:37:08.000 That's too much.

00:37:09.000 We're good to go.

00:37:25.000 What an end-of-the-world scenario that would have been for all of the rest of us, and I'm so happy for Jennifer Lawrence.

00:37:29.000 She never got pregnant because we all sponsored her birth control pills from Planned Parenthood. 0.98

00:37:34.000 Thank you, Planned Parenthood.

00:37:36.000 Without you, there would be no Winter's Bone.

00:37:38.000 Or there would be, but it just wouldn't have Jennifer Lawrence in it.

00:37:40.000 So, okay.

00:37:41.000 Hollywood actresses talking about... 1.00

00:37:44.000 How Jesus homes are creepy and terrible and all these religious parents with their crazy religious strictures and their whole don't have sex with people before you're married routine. 0.96

00:37:54.000 It's people like this who drive people to make decisions that actually end with pregnancy and end with non-marriage.

00:38:00.000 There's a great book by

00:38:02.000 By Charles Murray I was called coming apart and and the Charles Murray book is is all about he wrote one book about Differences in IQ between it was called the bell curve between various races and got himself in all sorts of trouble because facts are troublesome things and and he had social science research and

00:38:19.000 It didn't support liberal perceptions, and so this was obviously a problem.

00:38:22.000 So he said, the next time I do this, I'm not going to write about black people at all, I'm just going to write about white people.

00:38:27.000 So he wrote a book about the differences between upper-class white people and lower-class white people, and what he found is the messages being preached by upper-class white people were being imbibed by lower-class white people, but upper-class white people weren't living that way.

00:38:39.000 So people like Jennifer Lawrence, she's not going to have a baby before she gets married, and if she does, she has millions of dollars in the bank. 1.00

00:38:45.000 And she's probably, in all likelihood, just statistically speaking, people who make the kind of money Jennifer Lawrence makes, they get married. 0.79

00:38:52.000 People who are upper- even upper-class liberals tend to get married and have kids inside the confines of marriage still.

00:38:57.000 The vast, vast, vast majority.

00:38:59.000 Lower-class whites, they'll look at Jennifer Lawrence and they go, oh, well, let's act like her. 1.00

00:39:03.000 People who don't make as much money.

00:39:05.000 They tend to look at the celebrity culture and they think it's OK.

00:39:08.000 So Tina Fey has a couple of kids out of wedlock and they figure, OK, well, you know, I can do that, too.

00:39:13.000 Well, no, you can't.

00:39:13.000 Tina Fey makes millions of dollars and you're working down at the local Walmart.

00:39:16.000 So probably that's a bad idea.

00:39:18.000 But the Hollywood click.

00:39:21.000 We're good to go.

00:39:44.000 Girl in Oklahoma or Kansas or whatever a box of condoms. 1.00

00:39:47.000 I'm sure that you can make that happen.

00:39:49.000 It's not my responsibility Okay, that's one thing.

00:39:51.000 I hate here's another thing.

00:39:52.000 I hate even more so oh yeah by the way Cecile Richards tweeted out this this picture of Jennifer Lawrence Cecile Richards the head of Planned Parenthood tweeted this out with the the clapping hands emoticon and and the I love you gif of Jennifer Lawrence because they love her now they love her so much I love that by the way the Jennifer Lawrence

00:40:11.000 Completely ignores the fact that Planned Parenthood aborts hundreds of thousands of babies a year.

00:40:14.000 She just kind of skips right over that part.

00:40:16.000 And I like how she took the... What's really fascinating is even she knows it would be a step too far to say that she loves abortion.

00:40:25.000 Because she says in that interview, and here I am as a proud single woman who's never been pregnant,

00:40:30.000 Right?

00:40:30.000 She's not somebody who says, here I am as a proud single woman who's had three abortions from Planned Parenthood.

00:40:35.000 Because she knows that everybody would then look at her and go, no one's going to your movie ever again.

00:40:39.000 We find you despicable.

00:40:40.000 So that's it for Jennifer Lawrence.

00:40:42.000 Okay.

00:40:43.000 Shakespeare is one of my favorite things in life.

00:40:46.000 Shakespeare is beautiful.

00:40:48.000 Nobody needs to talk up Shakespeare.

00:40:49.000 No words are sufficient for describing the power of his language, the beauty of his language.

00:40:53.000 And by the way, the strength of his plots.

00:40:55.000 Everybody always focuses in

00:40:57.000 And Shakespeare having this wonderful command of language, which of course he does, and inventing characters, which he was probably the first person to ever invent the modern notion of the character.

00:41:07.000 But people forget about the fact that he's great at plot.

00:41:10.000 I mean, Hamlet has a fantastic plot.

00:41:12.000 Such a good plot that they hijacked it for The Lion King, right?

00:41:14.000 And used it for The Lion King.

00:41:16.000 But, I mean, how many Shakespeare plays have been hijacked for other purposes?

00:41:18.000 West Side Story is Romeo and Juliet.

00:41:20.000 The Lion King is Hamlet.

00:41:22.000 And his plays are being remade now.

00:41:25.000 You know, there's a movie which I really want to see with Michael Fassbender doing Macbeth now.

00:41:30.000 Okay, so Shakespeare wrote for the Globe Theatre, the old Globe Theatre in London.

00:41:35.000 And now, the Globe Theatre in London has a brand new director.

00:41:40.000 A brand new artistic director.

00:41:41.000 The first female artistic director.

00:41:44.000 Which is fine, right?

00:41:44.000 No, I don't care.

00:41:45.000 I mean, if she's good at it, she's good at it.

00:41:46.000 There's only one problem. 1.00

00:41:47.000 She's gonna suck at it. 1.00

00:41:48.000 Her name is Emma Rice. 0.99

00:41:50.000 And Emma Rice is the new Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre.

00:41:53.000 So, her inaugural season will see one play, Cymbeline, change title to Imogen, reclaiming the play for the central female character to put her center stage.

00:42:02.000 She's also going to do A Midsummer Night's Dream.

00:42:04.000 Here's the problem.

00:42:06.000 She was speaking at the 2016 Wonder Season at Shakespeare's Globe.

00:42:09.000 She said that she was keen to prove actresses' careers had just as much longevity as men's, even after children.

00:42:17.000 And so what is she going to do?

00:42:19.000 She wants to cast male characters as females now.

00:42:22.000 She wants to cast male characters as females.

00:42:24.000 And we have some past productions from the old globe that show this.

00:42:28.000 This is The Taming of the Shrew.

00:42:31.000 With the shrew on the left and the male character on the right.

00:42:35.000 By the way, another play that was remade is Kiss Me Kate, right?

00:42:37.000 As the Cole Porter musical.

00:42:38.000 Okay.

00:42:40.000 To make the taming of the shrew with two women completely defeats the purpose of the play. 0.99

00:42:44.000 Right? 0.93

00:42:44.000 The play is all about a man who's a chauvinist marrying a woman who's a shrew for her money. 0.93

00:42:50.000 Right?

00:42:50.000 That's what the play is about.

00:42:51.000 And he tames her and she simultaneously tames him.

00:42:53.000 That is the purpose of the taming of the shrew.

00:42:56.000 It's about the divide between the sexes. 1.00

00:42:58.000 It's not about a butch lesbian trying to turn another butch lesbian into a lipstick lesbian. 1.00

00:43:03.000 Right? 1.00

00:43:04.000 That is not what the play is about.

00:43:06.000 And it doesn't work if that's what the play is about because it's a bizarre setup in the first place.

00:43:09.000 And, and two, that's just not, it's not an important enough human relationship to write a full play about because the fact is that the battle between the sexes is the thing that has

00:43:19.000 animated human relations for all of human existence.

00:43:23.000 The battle between women and other women has not animated human existence. 0.99

00:43:27.000 It's the differences that divide us and bring us together, that define relationships between the two most important parts of human beings, the male and the female, and that produce the next generation of children.

00:43:37.000 I'm sorry, lesbian relationships are not as important to society as male-female relationships by virtually any standard, particularly to society, not to the individual.

00:43:46.000 The individual might be fine, great, whatever.

00:43:48.000 It's your life, your business.

00:43:50.000 But to society, not as important.

00:43:52.000 And when you're depicting something in art, there has to be a sense of importance to society in order for the art to be compelling.

00:43:58.000 This is not compelling in any way. 1.00

00:43:59.000 In fact, it's stupid. 0.99

00:44:00.000 And if I were to watch this, I would walk out because... 1.00

00:44:02.000 I'm not interested in watching a woman tame another woman. 1.00

00:44:05.000 It's ridiculous and it's stupid and it makes no sense. 1.00

00:44:07.000 They did this... It's bad with Taming of the Shrew, which is they play specifically, specifically about the differences between the sexes. 1.00

00:44:14.000 It doesn't make any sense to have her... to have this one being a promiscuous chauvinist, right? 0.99

00:44:19.000 Which is what the main character of Taming of the Shrew is, right?

00:44:24.000 And then to have the female just be like a normal... 1.00

00:44:29.000 It's not real-to-life.

00:44:30.000 Shakespeare was the first guy who tried to write characters real-to-life.

00:44:32.000 This is not real-to-life.

00:44:34.000 But it gets worse.

00:44:34.000 They're now trying to play plays like Richard III with female characters.

00:44:40.000 So this is, I believe, is this Richard III?

00:44:44.000 This is a picture from Richard II.

00:44:47.000 With Katherine Hunter, who you just saw playing, I think, the same actress, playing the female in Taming of the Shrew, right?

00:44:52.000 And now she is, or the wife in Taming of the Shrew, Katherine, in Taming of the Shrew, she's now playing King Richard II, or sorry, King Richard III.

00:45:01.000 So the hunchbacked king is now a little old lady. 0.99

00:45:05.000 Which makes, again, no sense, because Richard III's entire character is built around the fact that he has a thwarted masculinity.

00:45:12.000 That is his entire character.

00:45:13.000 The entire character of Richard III is that he is thwarted by his hunch from being able to seduce women.

00:45:19.000 And so he builds his entire regime around trying to bully a woman into loving him.

00:45:23.000 That is what Richard III is about.

00:45:25.000 It makes no sense with a female character like this. 1.00

00:45:27.000 It's just, it's idiotic, and it's ridiculous. 1.00

00:45:30.000 So... 1.00

00:45:31.000 So what's amazing about this lady who's doing all of this stuff now, and these are old productions so she's not responsible for these, but proving that feminism is out to ruin pretty much everything that there is in life. 1.00

00:45:41.000 Here is the lady who has now been chosen for her vast qualifications in Shakespeare.

00:45:48.000 She doesn't know Shakespeare.

00:45:49.000 Right?

00:45:50.000 She doesn't know Shakespeare at all.

00:45:52.000 She says, on the language of Shakespeare, Rice said she was, quote,

00:46:05.000 Okay, so she doesn't even know how to put up a Shakespeare play, and she doesn't even know what they say. 0.98

00:46:09.000 But don't worry!

00:46:10.000 She knows enough about them to know that you can interchangeably switch the characters.

00:46:13.000 Right?

00:46:13.000 You can have the Duke of Gloucester be a woman.

00:46:15.000 This is what she said.

00:46:16.000 She wants the Duke of Gloucester to be a woman in King Lear. 0.99

00:46:19.000 Right?

00:46:19.000 Why shouldn't it be Queen Lear?

00:46:20.000 Because it's idiotic. 1.00

00:46:21.000 That's why. 1.00

00:46:22.000 Because women are not as possessive in the same way that King Lear would be as a man. 0.99

00:46:25.000 There are differences between men and women, and pretending they are interchangeable is stupid and doesn't play an art. 0.99

00:46:30.000 No one is going to see these plays and think, wow, what a great perception of humanity. 0.99

00:46:35.000 And it undermines Shakespeare.

00:46:36.000 It's disrespectful to the author.

00:46:38.000 It's disrespectful to the author.

00:46:39.000 I mean, it's one thing that they've been doing these all-male plays, right, where they have males playing the female parts, because that's what Shakespeare apparently did.

00:46:46.000 Apparently there are some plays where they had males play the female parts.

00:46:49.000 It's one thing if you're trying to be historically accurate.

00:46:51.000 But for me, I would prefer, I think that Shakespeare would have preferred, if women were regularly on stage, that a woman play the woman's part.

00:46:56.000 Okay?

00:46:57.000 I don't think Shakespeare would have preferred that a woman play Richard III. 1.00

00:47:00.000 It's asinine. 0.93

00:47:01.000 And not only is it asinine, it's disrespectful to the author, and it's disrespectful to reality, but the left has to remake art as they wish reality to be in the hope that this will then convince people that art is reality as it is. 0.99

00:47:13.000 They take an image in their head, they project it onto art, and then they say to people, art is a reflection of real reality, not the reality in my head, and so you end up with stupidities like this. 0.98

00:47:21.000 And it just, to ruin Shakespeare is such a crime against humanity. 0.73

00:47:25.000 I mean, you really have to go out of your way to ruin Shakespeare, and that's what she's doing. 1.00

00:47:28.000 She's going out of her way to ruin Shakespeare, all in the name of female empowerment. 1.00

00:47:33.000 Because clearly in London, the chief threat to female empowerment is that you might have a Shakespeare play with a male in the male part, not the mass rape in Rotterdam of women by Muslim men. 0.83

00:47:42.000 Now that's not, which the authorities have been ignoring for years.

00:47:45.000 That's not a big deal.

00:47:46.000 That we should ignore.

00:47:47.000 We should ignore the fact that men are bullying their wives and daughters into wearing hijab all over the world. 0.89

00:47:52.000 That we should ignore, but what we should really focus on is the fact that Richard III has historically been played by a man.

00:47:57.000 That's really where it is. 0.97

00:47:59.000 Because if someone with a vagina can't play Richard III, we're not an equal society. 1.00

00:48:03.000 So, welcome to the world in which the left has completely... The left systematically goes through life and destroys every part of it. 0.99

00:48:09.000 Everything they can possibly destroy, they destroy.

00:48:11.000 They destroy sports, they destroy art, they destroy movies, they destroy literature, they destroy politics, they destroy freedom.

00:48:17.000 It's what they do, because they have to tear everything, everything has to be torn down to build their crystal castle in the sky.

00:48:24.000 Like Doctor Manhattan in Watchmen.

00:48:26.000 They have to go to a distant planet and build their crystal castles, but they don't merely do it on a distant planet, they have to do it right here.

00:48:32.000 And in order to do that, they first have to turn the Earth into Mars, meaning they have to level everything.

00:48:36.000 And then they can build their crystal cathedrals that are completely austere and empty and have no real reflection of nature.

The Ben Shapiro Show - January 06, 2016

Ep. 50 - Hillary Schlonged by Trump

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